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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to keep a proportionate number of tenants to the acres of land they possess. It is with great pleasure we understand … application to the Crown for the obtaining a grant of the land lying between St. Croix and Kennebeck Rivers, represent that near a third part of the said land, viz. the tract lying between Penobscot and Kennebeck …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Lordship's do conjecture that a great number of acres of land here has been granted by the Crown to the inhabitantes … have since been made here, has been only of some waste land next the sea which people have inclosed or built upon … and have so much advantage in the extent and goodness of land, such an improvement upon it, will inable 'em to make so …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… consequence etc. Encloses accounts. The sale of rights for land comes to 300 last year, three times as much as before … by their Representatives) which by the Common Law of the land abstracted from all Acts of Parliaments and grants of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… well known neither of those two persons have a foot of land in that parrish tho they swore to itt. St. Peters writt … to Alexa. Graham that had but two and a half acres of land but Robert Harrison gave him an occasionall freehold. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… before the inhabitants can repay out of the produce of the land, as the Copartners have found by experience, they having … Laws Governor of Jamaica promising encouragement and land to those persons that will come and settle among them, … will observe by the many petitions for leave to take up land how much the frontiers of this country are likely to be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Lords Proprietors and the old inhabitants large tracts of land, the quantities and boundings of which he delivered a … to secure the frontiers, and that a sufficient quantity of land be assigned each officer and soldier on his arrival out of that large and uninhabited tract of good land at and near Alatamaha Fort etc., and that 12 months …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by help whereof any healthy man may plow two acres of land a day etc., but this also they take no notice off, … a tin mine he has discovered at Annopolis and a grant of land to make some improvements in raising hemp etc. Asks to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… other fund settled for the support of that Government, the land being so poor that it will not bear a tax. The …