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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… William Edwards appointed Clerk of Assembly. Order for the appearance of certain witnesses in connection with … appoint substitutes if clerks be incapacitated. Order for enforcing the law as to delinquent soldiers, and for … Minutes of Council of New York. Order for impressment of seamen to make up the complement of the Archangel, and for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… sending down the accounts of the impost on liquors. Bill for a public levy read twice more and passed and sent to … 3. 235. Minutes of General Assembly of Virginia. Bill for a public levy received and passed. The Governor assented … the King's ships, and save the lives of many of the seamen. The resolutions of the Council of War, which I have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Lords of Trade and Plantations. Draft commission for Governor Kendall considered, and decision taken as to the … Lovell and others to Lords of Trade and Plantations for report. Signed. Wm. Bridgeman. p. Annexed, 279. I. … the charge for the ship should be 762. As no wages to seamen are mentioned in petitioner's account, we presume that …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 1694 April 1694 April 1. 997. Statement of the pay for five companies of the Barbados regiment, each company … of Trade. Barbados, 44. p. 89.] April 1. 998. Warrant for the establishment of four companies of foot for New York, … Advice has lain in Port Royal for months for want of seamen and I have not been able to man our two Island sloops …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… my soldiers as they want, but I fear they will hardly get seamen enough to man her. Seamen are much wanted in these parts, and but for the arrival of the Chester we durst not have let the … of February, they will find a fleet here ready to sail for England. This fleet would have been ready at that time, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in happy security. Only our sins can render the royal care for us ineffectual. The King desires nothing of us but what … will be more so unless proper encouragement be thought of for them, as in the Leeward Islands. The rate of labourers' … among the landmen only, except as to such number of seamen as the Colonel should at any time ask the Commodore to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… ordered to attend and shew his authority and instructions for doing the same. The report of the Trustees of the College … I have received yours of 24 September. I send by H.M.S. Greenwich the proceedings of the Council and Assembly, the … issued offering a reward for apprehension of several seamen, deserted from Admiral Nevill's ships. Order for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of 29 March and its enclosure read ( No. 872). Order for a copy of Mr. Davie's letter to be sent to the Admiralty, and directions given for a reply to Mr. Usticke. Letter to the Duke of Shrewsbury … account of military and naval services. Proclamation that seamen freely going on board the ships shall receive reward …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Council of Massachussetts. Advised that writs be issued for calling an Assembly for the last Wednesday in May. Bill for a general fast on 13 … once and committed. Order for the entertainment of sick seamen. Resolution of the Assembly for fitting out two ships …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Nevis. Messages from the Assembly to the Council, asking for a joint Committee to revise the laws of the island … of the Council the Assembly agreed to billet the soldiers for two months longer. The Assembly sent four bills to the … shall send the full proportion of victuals allowed to the seamen on the King's men-of-war at whole allowance for the …