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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… uses for which it was raised, (such as building a Sessions House and prison, repair of fortifications etc.), except the payment of the Governor's salary. The house at present made use of for a prison is in a ruinous … the uses for which it was raised, and that a prison and a house for the publick meeting of the Sessions and Councill …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to my own improvements, having been obliged to build a house, there being none provided for a Governour in that … reward for the business done during the sitting of the House. I am much honoured with your Lordships approbation of … contempt immediately to be dissolved, the Speaker with the House did attend, so that after giving them a gentle reproof …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Council with a bill which had been twice read in their House ( v. enclosures). By which your Lordships may please to … this will be very expensive to me having not so much as a house provided for me in the Island, tho' indeed they have … the Gent. of H.M. Honble. Council and most of the Commons House know it, so that we often talk of that affair among our …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… least 200 acres, and none to be electors in the Town but house-holders, and none for the country but such who hold by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Lt. Governor and Council, Boston, 7th Dec., 1723. Halfway House on Kennebec River, June 14th, 1722. This night at ten a clock Alexander Hamilton was beset at his dwelling house by a great number of Indians, with divers canno's, who … meeting Bay, where were a great number of captives in the House of Capt. Robert Temple, they having robb'd sundry …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1724. On the 9th inst. 200 Creeke Indians surprised my house, firing two vollies and wounding me in the leg. They plundered my house and stripped me of all but a pair of breeches etc., … Directors of the South Sea Company to the King. South Sea House, 3rd Aug., 1724. Petition against Acts of Jamaica …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to mine, resolving he never would appear in the King's House, upon consideration, he thought proper to come himself … is at Mr. Barnard's and Mr. Laws's they being in the same house, or in the neighbourhood at one Mr. Henderson's (who … in form, were brought to me by the Speaker and the whole House (and that there might be no opportunity to undeceive …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the land at Niagara, consented to the French building a house there. But that the Sinnekes, to whom the land belongs, … approbation. Signed, Dad. Lloyd, Speaker, By Order of the House, this tenth day of the 10th Month, 1726. Endorsed, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… this occasion observe to your Lordships, that there is no house for the Governour of New Jersey to reside in, and that I have been obliged to purchase a house at Amboy to live in when I go thither, and to hire a house at Burlington as often as the Assembly meets there. So …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the laws etc. Request H.E. to order them to lay before the House a list of the fees by them taken etc., and to order a … trusts etc. You acquaint us that the meeting of the house of Burgesses is deferr'd, in hopes of receiving some … depend upon the humours of the prevailing party in that house. In short if they shall be allow'd to go on without …