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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Jamaica do forthwith issue a grant of the said 20 acres of land in Lynches Island, appropriating the sole use thereof to … according to the prayer of their Petition as a Charitable Society by the name of the Corporation for Establishing … the Dominion of the Crown and the dependance which every British Colony ought to have upon H.M. And for this purpose …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… causes, some were for supporting the garrison there by a land tax, others by impositions on the traders, others again … all in vain to perswade them to subsist that garrison by a land tax, or some other way, that might not only answer the … very distant views. They already encircle most part of the British Dominions in North America etc. When I reflect on the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of late coffee, and if the island were improved, there is land uncultivated sufficient to make sugar to serve all … white people and improving great part of our uncultivated land, (vi) The methods used to prevent illegal trade are by … very distant views. They already encircle most part of the British Dominions in North America. And there is no certainty …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to Col. Dunbar's new settlements, as the right to that land now lies before the Attorney and Solicitor General. As … and negligent, not only in granting exorbitant tracts of land without reserving proper quit-rents, or making any … in suffering many persons to possess much larger tracts of land than were in reality granted to them. Some frauds of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… third part of what they wear, but are mostly cloath'd with British manufactures. As to the Province of New Hampshire, … ship from Porto Rico came in Aug. 1730 with a design to land men to plunder these islands but was blown off the coast …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… imploys more than double the negros, more than double the land cultivated, and consequently double the labour and … Islands, but against the Northern Colonies. The export of British woollen manufactures to Barbados and the Leeward … the Sugar Islands and disable them from paying for their British manufactures. It would also greatly diminish the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… deriv'd from the Crown, and as to the quantity of land to be granted to each person who shall settle within the … carried on without it. Should the New England men entice British sailors by the cheapness of rum to winter among them … 3 pp. 584. iii. Scheme of the Fishery of Canso, 1731. British sack ships, 12, 1015 tons, 108 men; ships from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… having taken into consideration the declining state of the British sugar trade, think ourselves indispensably obliged in … their predecessours have been the chief promoters of the British sugar commerce, which has been and still may prove a … can't amount to less than ten millions (exclusive of the land) which is employed much more to the advantage of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… him and his sister Phanny in giving them some tracts of land etc. Set out, N.Y. Col. Doc. V. 942, and N. J. Archives, … the houses, warehouses, stages and flakes built by them on land belonging to them by regular grants from H.E. Have … and plant 1000 white mulberry trees per 100 acres of land so cleared. Not to enter into partnership for making …