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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to entice and carry away handycraftmen, seamen and fishermen from Newfoundland to N. England; and being for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… houses and beaches belonging thereto were restored to the fishermen and planters, who have been obliged to leave, it … and disturb the Fishery at Placentia, by obliging the fishermen to pay him certain sums of money for the Beach they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for the encouragement of fishing and safeguard of fishermen, August, 1684, under the management of Mr. Thomas … A memorandum stating that the fort was built because fishermen refused to settle there without it, but that the fishing season was so bad that the fishermen would pay no tributes or dues, so that the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Fort James at Pemaquid, wrote to me of a report among the fishermen that Castine was come to Penobscot with a frigate, … ketch which had piloted him, and sent her, with ten French fishermen, who were weary of Cancer, to New England. One of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… but a French ship last summer warned off one of our fishermen, and in Sept. a French ship took two of our fishing … The Governor of St. John's has written forbidding our fishermen to take fish on the coasts or high seas in the … out Capt. Battes with a vessel in those parts to take our fishermen. Signed, Jno. Brown, Edw. Brattle, De Siuer. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Planters. These By-boat keepers are most of them able fishermen, and I don't heare that there is any Freshmen or … a quantity of rum. This rum the inhabitants sell to the fishermen, which encourages them to stay behind and leave … them in bondage for a whole year, and though as good fishermen as any in the land and may deserve 15 l. or 20 l. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… they would not be expos'd as they are now, because the fishermen in going with their shalops to sea, and in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of October to the latter end of April. For then the French fishermen are absent; and while they are there they can give …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that every fishing ship from Great Britain, or the fishermen thereof, that shall first enter any harbour or …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 6th Nov., 1722. 2 large pp. Enclosed, 254. i. Planters, Fishermen and masters of ships, concerned in the trade and …