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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that island might be reckoned the very key of the Gulph of Florida. He committed to prison one Captain Forbes, a pirate … beating the Spaniards from their batteries on the coast of Florida for guarding wrecks and was accessory to taking the … with another Spanish sloop, which he took on the coast of Florida. After he had fitted the said sloop at Providence, he …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fortified there, may in time of war command the Gulph of Florida, and from thence be capable to annoy or obstruct the … 1715, etc]. Continue: These Islands lying in the Gulf of Florida are so much in the way of all ships, that come from … the Bermudeans to that time att the wrecks on the coast of Florida, since which they have been there, and again …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… establish in a terrible condition against the Spaniards of Florida, which lye to the southward, yet the back exposition …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… packet from Sr. Thomas Fitzgerald to the Capn. General of Florida, and Governour of Augustine, desired I would send him … The river St. John's divides that Island from the Spanish Florida, it is there about two miles wide, and on the point … is return'd with the letters from the Capn. General of Florida, and Governour of Augustine, and I have sent copys of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Altamaha river and the northern boundary of Spanish Florida. [See Cal. S.P. Col. 173536, No. 484.] In answer to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… granting them the territory from the Arctic Circle to Florida, and from Newfoundland to the lake called the "fresh …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina and Florida into the said Bay. It is proposed that the King be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… But in regard the said Islands (lying in the Gulph of Florida and in the way of all ships from the Havana and Bay … harbour for distressed ships that come through the Gulf of Florida, or are beaten off the northern coast of America, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… forts and garrisons were placed on both sides the Gulph of Florida att Providence, att Port Royall and on the banks of the Isthmus of Florida towards Mobile on the borders of our frontiers, etc. … there it being on the eastermost side of the Gulf of Florida, and the like Settlement and garrison on Port Royall …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… mett with three periaugres bound for the Havana from Florida which they took. On the 23rd of Apr. arrived here …