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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Minutes of Council of New York. A Committee appointed to examine the accounts between Captain Hicks and Colonel Van … Order for part payment of the accounts brought forward by the representation of Albany. Order for the guns at … 420 soldiers for Bolton's regiment to be taken from the town of Portsmouth or elsewhere ? As to the 150 men sailing …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1692 October 1692 Oct. 1. Custom House. 2,532. John Knight to Lords of the Treasury. Of the 1,730 due from ships which … Order for the Receiver General to keep his office in town on Monday next. Charles Knight produced a bag of gold, … The Governor reported that he had visited the frontier by surprise to gain a truer knowledge of the real position; …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the shipping in Port Royal till the two frigates be ready to put to sea. Order for arrest of Redman McCragh for … Governor Codrington to Lords of Trade and Plantations. By my last of 3 July I sent duplicates of my letters of 10 … to the security of the Island, than wasting time in town at amending laws which, if our enemies get the better of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Minutes of Council of New York. The Governor's Commission to command the militia of Connecticut read. The Governor put … direct, or take Connecticut on his way. Advised that he go by way of Connecticut. A letter from Governor Hamilton read, reporting opposition met with in Elizabeth Town to the furnishing of a relief to the detachment on the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Transport Office. 1,363. Commissioners for Transportation to John Povey. We enclose copy of the charter-parties for … asked them that the guard at the forts should be furnished by his regiment and that his commission might be entered in … why the Courts and Assemblies should not be moved from the town. Answer of the Burgesses to the said petition setting …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1694 October 1694 Oct. 16. Bill for eighty men sent up by the Representatives, amended so as to raise the eighty men to one hundred and the pay from … of Wenham approved. Order for collection of arrears in the town of Dedham. Oct. 20. Abatement of 20, out of the tax …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Addenda
… from the previous day. Ordered that writs be issued to the sheriffs of Talbot and Somerset Counties for the … Oct. 8 Action taken upon several proposals submitted by the Governor and Council, as follows: (1) Resolved, with … be laid out, that the land adjacent be purchased for a town and that the island be set apart for public buildings. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… should be discharged from custody, and the pardon referred to the law-officers. The Governor submitted his prepared … any assistance; and the King's commands are thus defeated by the misrepresentations of those Agents. And now the enemy … Bill for an impost on liquors and for securing rights to town-land read a first time and returned, also the address to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Beeston's letter of 8 April read. Order for an answer to be drafted. Petition of Ralph Lane read. The … Oct. 2. The Jamaica merchants gave in certain depositions by persons wrongly impressed in Jamaica, and made further … trial of four Indians for murder of a man belonging to the town of Hadley. [ Board of Trade. New England, 49. pp. 5152.] …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Oct. 27. Whitehall. 1. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Lords Justices of England. In reply to Mr. Vernon's … to you on 26 July last the objections then made by certain persons against receiving convicts in the Colonies. The …