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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… March 1709, 1-15 March 1709, 1-15 March 1. St. James's. 387. H.M. Instructions to Colonel Vetch. Whereas you have … so that the whole force will consist of 1500 effective[ s], which are to be disposed into four battallions, each … of opinion that the English settlemt. from Pemaquid to Delaware River, which never cost England above tenn thousand …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the like illegal practices for the future, your Majesty's pleasure be signifyed to the several Governors that, … we ever sufficiently express the obligations your Lordship's compassion and protection have drawn upon us in that … sloops for the same coast; they also threaten the River Delaware, and they will be on that coast from this month …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Governor of Pennsylvania and the Three Lower Counties upon Delaware River, shall not be construed to diminish the right … Lower Counties. Signed, Hannah Penn, in the presence of S. Clement and Will. Penn. Endorsed, Recd., Read 16th March, … of Committee of Privy Council, referring Governor Shute's Memorial (enclosed) to the Council of Trade and Plantations …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… still under their consideration the matter of the Govr.'s support and what they will finally do in it, I am not able … boundaries are nowhere fixed but on the East by the River Delaware. On the North there has never yet been any occasion … the patent to Lord Baltemore seems positively limited to Delaware Bay which ends somewhat to the southward of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Island of New Providence, showing the church, Governor's house, and Fort Nassau etc. 2 large folded pp. [ C.O. 23, … to your Lordshipps' commands signified to me by Mr. Popple's letter of the 11th of Feby. inclosing a copy of the … the Three Lower Countys of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on Delaware, which were granted by the Duke of York to my …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… it is the just right and inherent privilege of His Majesty's subjects in this island to have the benefits of the laws of … to, message of thanks from the Assembly for the Governor's ready consent to their Bills, and that they would proceed … is nothing so. Repeats Sir John King's opinion concerning Delaware, that it is not worth the Duke's while to pass a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Letters read from Capt. Butler from the Downs. A surgeon's chest and other supplies ordered in consequence, to be sent … Queen of Sweden, which with another vessel, was bound for Delaware Bay, where they pretend to make a plantation and plant tobacco as the Dutch have already done in Hudson's River. Thinks they should be removed and prevented from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… much wanted, and it being uncertain to whom Sir William's rights belong. A second commission of the same kind, given … that have been in the Colony, you may fill that Proprietor's deputation (of whose nomination the party so behaving was) … taken to uphold existing rights. As to the islands in the Delaware they would seem to be excluded from Mr. Penn's …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… under a show of public utility. Still, under Lord Culpeper's wise and prudent rule, we may promise ourselves calm and … Lovelace, and Sir Edmund Andros, when those same lands in Delaware were the Duke of York'. Besides, the whore kills ( … is passing to the Duke of York of the parts adjacent to Delaware Bay be delayed, till the King is satisfied as to the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Plantations. I beseech you to let me know the King's pleasure on the heads of the enclosed petition, that I may … Relation of Gerrit van Sweeringen of the settlement of the Delaware by the Swedes and Dutch. The Dutch came to the Delaware in 1648, and called the creek where they landed …