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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… are of no use to us, for our people are accustomed only to firelocks and cannot use them. As to the firelocks, the locks are very bad, the steel being so soft … are as likely to miss fire as not. Both matchlocks and firelocks are extraordinarily heavy, which is a great …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1,105. Certificate of articles wanting for 80 recruits. 80 firelocks, 80 cartridge boxes, 80 girdles and frogs, 80 …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… months after their arrival at Barbadoes ; and that 1,400 firelocks, 600 pikes, and 100 barrels of powder, with shot, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… sent ashore from the Vice-Admiral's ship, and for pikes, firelocks, and other necessaries for the fireships. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to whom his Excellency thinks fit for payment of 1,200 firelocks and 200 carbines, with cartouch boxes, belts, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… number of 24-pounders. Again the Governor asks for 500 firelocks and the Council for 1,000; as our stores will be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… we will take care to inform you. Refer to the exchange of firelocks for Nevis. Whilst we were thus far advanced in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… consisting of 4,971 men, there are wanting for them 500 firelocks, and for the whole, Horse, Dragoons and Foot, 5,000 … not fit for service, we are humbly of opinion, that 100 firelocks be sent by the first ships going thither, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Militia, the badness of the cannon, and a great want of firelocks, swords, and bayonets, and he particularly say'd … hundred peices of cannon, four thousand swords and as many firelocks with bayonets, which in the present ill condition …