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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… voyage of the writers. Having been invited by the Raritane Indians to purchase their land, they went forth about 20 from … to depart, saying they should not purchase any land of the Indians, but if they would submit to their Government the … and not knowing who would bear them out if taken, for the Indians told their interpreter the Dutch persuaded them to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… made, and sundry persons were imprisoned by the Dutch. The Indians of whom they purchased the land still own the right … for want of supplies and being continually infested by the Indians, abetted by the French, who were said to go naked among them and paint themselves as the Indians do, the English were forced from the island in 1641 ; …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… who endeavoured to suppress them, supporting other Indians against the Narragansets. The Commissioners of the … country, pretending they had conquered it from the Pequid Indians ; but evidence being made that the Narragansett had … serve at their own charges. Here is the greatest number of Indians, yet they never had anything allowed towards …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… but deserted in consequence of the trouble given by the Indians ; in 1646 it was again settled "by myself and … planters. Grenada and St. Vincent's. Inhabited only by Indians. St. Lucia. Settled by the English about 1640, who were smoked out of their fortification by the Indians with dried red pepper ; since then part of it …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… great devastations and spoils of the Dutch, French, and Indians, it may well become their allegiance to let his … from said Letters Patents and is a general term including Florida and New England, and all the lands which abut upon … The current runs N.E., being forced through the Gulf of Florida, where is the Bahama sands. "This motion is …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Governor of Antigua, of 26th January 1661. Never any Indians or cannibals dwelt on said island. The colony … that the island was never before inhabited but by Indians. That Collins brought no more than eight persons to … they could. That Collins having been assaulted by some few Indians, as soon as they left, quitted the island ; and the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… about 1,200, the same of Martinique and Guadaloupe; the Indians inconsiderable, and when they break the Peace he will …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and return in about three months: this place has many more Indians than Spaniards, but most under the Spanish yoke, … Bello, very rich, and thinly inhabited, with many more Indians than Spaniards, and some towns of Indians that deny any subjection to the Spaniards. On this …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… his Governors to join for the destruction of the Caribbee Indians, or at least not to concern themselves with them, it … that Dominica should be neuter and remain free to the Indians. Are assured that no such articles were ever made … no way bound by said agreement. Finding likewise that the Indians of Dominica and also of St. Vincent and Santa Lucia …