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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Dunbar, empowering them, so soon as any quantity of wood land shall have been set out for the service of the Royal Navy by the Surveyor, to set out a like quantity of land not fit for that service, and to grant the same to such … for their report to H.M. in favour of a certain tract of land lying to the westward of the great mountains in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… it having been afterwards thought proper not to grant any land in Carolina, without a reservation of quit-rents to … in July, 1730, and being satisfyed that 12,000 acres of land were to be granted to him, clear of quit-rents; he with … to lend him mony upon the security of 12,000 acres of land free of quit rents, but that condition having been …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the acts, I found that the quantities of the acres of land, exchanged for the entailed lands in some of the acts, … its goodness, sometimes of more value than ten of barren land, no regard is to be had to the number of acres. He also … ye petitioner's grant does differ from other grants of land made by ye late Lords Proprietors. [ C.O. 5, 401. p. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Mr. De La Fontaine, but the words in the conveyances were, land not yet admeasured, taken up or run out etc. Mr. Thorpe … purchased from Thomas Lowndes differ from other grants of land made by the late Lords Proprietors. 1 p. [ C.O. 5, 362. … order to Mr. Eden, explains that, being a grant of so much land to any person settling there, it has always been held as …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… they cutt off any communication between that harbour by land. They have also attacked a place called the Breastwork …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… they cutt off any communication between that harbour by land. They have also attacked a place called the Breast Work … North East part of the Island were allowed fifty acres of land with utensils etc.; And whether they have shewn a proper … the shifts and evasions prevented, whereby large tracts of land have hitherto been left uncultivated and people have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fishing of any in the known parts of the world and the land is well adopted for raising hemp and other naval stores … have been well informed there are very large tracts of land lying waste and uncultivated for want of inhabitants in … free and common soccage for ever, one hundred acres of the land with the royalties thereunto belonging, and also that …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… on back frontiers of that Province. There is a tract of land in the country of Albany and New York of about six miles … Samuel Storke and Peter van Brugh Livingston for grant of land in the County of Albany with map. Copy. Recd, and read … quantitys not exceeding in the whole the quantity of land so formerly granted. But H.M. purchase of the Carolinas …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and friendship, freely affording them large tracts of land for their new Settlements. That soon after yt. seating … for small considerations, of severall tracts of their land, by which the Government of Connecticut now holds … large territories for their hunting and planting, and that land so rocky that they are not able to subsist upon it. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and ingratitude towards them" etc. The small quantity of land thus left them is not near sufficient for their tribes, … it, saying what should they return for, when all their land is taken from them. Many more have threatened to retire. … labour, at their own time rais'd on the little plotts of land allow'd them in each plantation. The silver coin among …