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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to be a frontier to them, others have large tracts of land to setle, and would have them abandon'd that they may … to work in makeing pitch and tarr nor to remain on the land they are settled upon for that purpose, but even by … for answer, that when the Surveyors came to lay out the land, the people called them out, told them 'twas worth …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… we may prevail with them at last to come and live in the land of their nativity. You are pleas'd to commend us for … widow, and Saml. Leonard, her son, for a small tract of land on ye West side of South River Bridge, on wch. he built … Peter Sonmans pretended he had a better title to ye sd. land then Mrs. Leonard and her son, did perswaid petitioner's …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Bartholom. There is not on either of them any quantity of land fitt for sugar canes, the greatest part being barren land, etc. The French had in peaceable tymes about 100 … the Fork of Potomac, but when he expected to have held his land there of H.M., he now finds claims made to it both by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… neither suffer by so long a journey as they must take by land nor destroy the people's catle as the others have done …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to Sept. 21st, 1713. As to Capt. Stephenson's grant of land in St. Kitts, we find it was made after the Peace was … the purchasers be obliged to keep for every 40 acres of land, one white servant within a year after the date of their … sort of inhabitants, may have some parcels of the worst land near the seaside, given them gratis, not above 10 acres …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… part of that Island contains above 20,000 acres of good land fit for sugar canes; besides the lands about the salt … humbly offer, that no person having already 300 acres of land in that Island be allow'd to purchase any of the French … method we humbly lay before your Majesty is, that the said land be granted in fee farms, at a yearly reserv'd rent of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… connivance of the Government settled on small tracts of land where neither the persons nor lands were of value to pay … of that Island tho now covered with the sea, the land being washed away. Some or at least one grant has been … wether they complyed wth. the Act in bringing over as many land men as required as alsoe to oblige them to carry the men …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in Chief of the Militia and of all the Forces by sea and land, within our Collonies of Rhode Island and Providence …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the Leeward Islands having made a grant of 500 acres of land lying in St. Christophers to Capt. Robert Clarke … case Rex v. Philip Ludwell in the matter of the Governor's land. Same endorsement. 4 pp. 171. iii. Report of the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… enable William Matthew, an infant, to convey a parcel of land called Brimstone Hill and to vest the inheritance …