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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Sunderland. The inclosed is a list of the disposall of the French prisoners on board ye severall ships bound for Europe … the division of the Island between H.M. subjects and the French has continually afforded opportunities of carrying on … asks to be authorised to treat with a subject of the French King for the purchase of all the lands and plantations …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to rescue us from the insults of our ill neighbours the French on that side, demands our most humble recognition, … without date, wherein an account of the damage done by the French privateers on the coast of Virginia and the want of a … might have been of strength sufficient to beat the French of Canada and North America, so H.M. had this year …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Trade of these Islands would be better secured, the French Islands reduced to some distresses by their privateers … middle of October to the latter end of April. For then the French fishermen are absent; and while they are there they … the confirmation of a grant of Olivies plantation in the French quarter of St. Kitts, made to him by Governor Parke in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for the same. Seven or eight of them deserted to the French and Indians: but upon paying a reward of 5 pr. man, they were all brought back by the French save two, and being tryd by a Court Martiall five of … at the Isle of May on April 24 by a ship belonging to a French squadron consisting of 7 men of war, which came from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… plunder. It proved to be the singular good fortune of the French that the great rain and tempestuousness of the weather … favour our landing; we were oblidged to go very near the French fleet at anchor and by their hurry and unreadiness to … Inclosed are two affidts. relateing to the designs of the French upon this country, which occasioned an embargo for two …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the truce she has thought fit to conclude with the French King, it is necessary I should acquaint you that it is … Douglas to the Council of Trade and Plantations. When the French returned from Montserratt to Guardaloupe they had a … flourishing Colonys will never fall a prey to a barbarous French piraticall warr, and carryed on by the charge of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to the English prisoners yet left in Quebeck, and the French King's orders for their delivery to such persons as … att Mr. Voderil hands yet remay[ n]ing in Queebek and the French settlements in Canada. The Eastern tribes of the … articles. I have sent away out of these Goverments, every French man prisoner, or others that were delayed upon the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… open infraction of the said pretended capitulations by the French." Refers to Col. Jury, the Agent, "being well assured … you with our calamitous sufferings occasioned by the French, to ye ruin of many of us and damage of all. Thrice of … (as we hear) had entered into a Treaty of peace wth. the French King, wch. if so lett ye world judge whether we have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… insolent and is commonly ye forerunner of mischief, and ye French will not fail of taking all opportunitys to infuse … means to make them break from ye English. Mr. Latour is a French Officer (I think) at Cape Bretton and came last winter … peace when they please it's feared they are animated by ye French at Cape Bretton an unhappy settlement, can't they be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… dated ye 24th of May in which he writes thus vizt. "The French here and at Mineis have built by report 40 or 50 … informed that they went to Cape Bretton, they carryed two French women with them that had their husbands there before … which it will be impossible to defeat the practise of the French Priests and Jesuits amongst our Indians, we have not …