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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… signify in his last that he had disposed of two tracts of land to two friends, Edward Hilton and Capt. Walter … the best infantry. The causes of weakness are : 1st, the land monopolised into so few hands. 2nd, factions amongst the … how ; for to compel men that have neither house, land, goods, wife, or children or pay to be sometimes four or …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… was pleased to deny petitioner liberty to dispose of the land to his great loss, so that the cattle and stock thereon … An Act for indemnity and for declaring all old titles to land void and lost by reason of the French King's conquest. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… De la Barre three days longer when he first demanded the land, De la Barre had delivered it him, and several gentlemen … produce of their labours, hoping that in a short time the land would be surrendered; but about two months ago the … time, and ordered all those that lived upon the King's land, as it was called, to carry off their provisions and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Recommend the making of a law that no man possessed of land in Barbadoes be capable of purchasing any more, which … servants, for every servant, to have 30 acres of land for ever, and at the end of said term, said servants to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in raising gentlemen's rents, which would facilitate his land tax. Complains of the manner in which English merchants … think of Antigua; 'tis as large as Barbadoes and the best land in the West Indies; Falmouth and English harbours, divided only by a neck of land, which may be cut through with inconsiderable charge, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… vanillas; and hopes to send his Majesty some off his own land, for he is sending a Jew to the inland provinces where … having been levied. 12. The boundaries and contents of land? The boundaries are the sea; the contents, by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… soldiers were, having a further design to agree for some land on the Windward side, very convenient to be fortified … English, they were very mean and lived much scattered; the land and harbour good but no part fortified. All the Leeward … the Leeward sides of these islands ships may ride so as to land their men in boats without much danger; the strand of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… end of Cuba, 70 leagues from Havana by sea and 140 by land, for repairs. An hour after came aboard a Spanish canoe … his estate beforehand, and purchases some small piece of land in Scotland (as they call it), which is appraised at …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to the Massachusetts power, to have free disposing of the land. Endorsed, Mr. Povey, 2 Dec. 1674. 3 pp. [ Col. Papers, … provisions, and granting them twice the usual quantity of land. There are also slight alterations in Art. 17, 18, and … to set them out by the head double the quantity of land allowed to other planters, and to take care that they be …