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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and the reasons they assigne are, that there is noe King's Magazines here for them, as was in the time of the French … being intierly a rock covered over with moss. There's littell or noe timber there fitt for any manner of use, … spruce and low pine, being what itt mostly yelds. There's noe improvement made on the lands neither is itt …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… meets next spring. Will follow the Solicitor General's opinion concerning licenses for whale-fishing. Acknowledges … debts. Explains and defends said Act, and encloses Council's answer, and also Assembly's Address, upon Address of Grand … The people to the northward of St. Johns, after the codd fishing, follow the furring and seal oyl trades with …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Which being an act of great consequence to yor. Majesty's revenue, we thought proper before we represented our own … lay the same before we Lords Commissioners of your Majesty's Treasury etc. Quote their reply, v. 6th Oct. Continue: We … that double the number of sloops will be there both on the codd and whale fishery next year etc. Will transmit his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the 15th of the last moneth the honour of your Grace's letter of the 28th of March last, by the hands of my Lord … was in May. We have now agreed upon settling his Lordship's boundarys, pursuant to H.M. commands, and Commissioners … are in their merchant service. 166. iii. State of the codd fishery for the year 1735. Totals: No. of schooners, 58; …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… six sheep which were a remnant that lay on the importer's hands. There is no regular market at Providence, and every … keep a second day. Deponent never heard of the Governor's having any share in any trading vessel. The woollen goods … Read 13th Jan., 1736/7. p. Enclosed, 450. i. State of the Codd Fishery at Canso for 1736. Totals: 46 schooners …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… them. The Assembly presented its answers to the Governor's proposals. Oct. 2. The Assembly submitted the names of John … 1. 1884. Journal of Assembly of Barbados. The Assembly's reply to the Governor's proposals ( see No. 1880). 1. We … of Sarah Bland's appeal to be sent to Colonel St. Leger Codd. Letter of 17th June from Governor and Council of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Peter Schuyler in Albany, oct. 3, 1711. One Queen Anne's guinea in memory of H.M. One of ye Oxford Almanack's with ye cutt made upon their late sending the four … pork and a little beefe and biskett, they catch all their codd with hooks and line, but som of their baites with netts, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1712. 1 p. Enclosed, 100. i. Extract from Brigadier Hunter's letter to Alexander Strahan, Jan. 1, 1711/12. Urges him … The Governor being Col. needs no pay, the Major's pay is a trifle, and the rest of the staff we have … the ships that fish upon the banks, is taking of codd and salting of them, and carrying of them in bulk to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… October 1715, 1-13 October 1715, 1-13 Oct. 1. St. James's. 632. H.M. Commission to Thomas Caulfield to be Lt. … signatures. 1 p. Enclosed, 633. i. Copy of Governor Dudley's letter, July 31st, 1714, relating to Cape Breton and the … near 200 p.c. advantage, over the shoar fishery, for the codd are so glutted with bait in with the shoar,' that th you …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… reasonable, we must beg leave to submit to your Majesty's pleasure, whether the same may not be confirm'd. Concerning … did at first meet and now subsist only by your Majesty's Commission to the Governor and the powers therein granted, … or Long Island scituate and being towards the west of Cape Codd and the Narro Higansetts abutting upon the mainland …