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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… nothing on foot but privateering. We are promised a convoy for the coast as soon as the packet or any advice from … England arrives. Gandy and severall have bought negroes for the trade to help of the woollens which are now run downe … Captain the sole power of the ship, and restraining the seamen from having anything to do in the command thereof. You …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… H.M. Warrant to Geo. Lillington, Councillor of Barbados, for 20 months' leave of absence, etc. Countersigned. … or cowardice could have made the enemy possessors of it, for that place and garrison as we left it could never have … livers for to take an English prisoner. He is now att the Hospital att Quebec. etc. There never passes a summer but …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of 20 guns being designed convoy to Newfoundland, asks for "Instructions and Heads of Enquiry for the Commadore as usual." Signed, J. Burchett. Endorsed, … order to satisfy the said tavern-keepers: are not the poor seamen hereby tempted to spend the greatest part, or the full …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 3. Whitehall. 90. Mr. Popple to Mr. Lowndes. Applies for 50 copies of Act to permit the exportation of Irish … pp. 442, 443.] April 3. St. James's. 91. H.M. Commission for Hugh Drysdale to be Lt. Governor of Virginia in the room … traders continue to entice and carry away handycraftmen, seamen and fishermen from Newfoundland to N. England; and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… prepare draughts of a commission and Instructions for him, in order to their being laid before the king for … sixpence per month out of seamen's wages, for the use of Greenwich Hospital, to Mr. Popple. Enclose 20 of the printed …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… trade, what further encouragement they want, and methods for their relief. (1) In Barbados there are no regular … Nevis and Montserrat, and actually formed a scheme for making themselves masters of Barbados and Antigua, and … that the islands employ also annually many thousands of seamen and many hundreds of ships to the advancement not only …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 1. Palace Court. 195 Minutes of meeting of Trustees for Georgia. Received, receipt from the bank for 1000 l. paid in by Sir Jacob Des Bouverie at the last … Tartar stationed here, having applied to me for thirty seamen to enable him to go to Georgia for the defence of that …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… H.M.'s instruction relating to the form of prayer for the royal family which I have obeyed, and the papers … to that island, though he often freights here. I thank you for your protection to my son and implore the same for … and to that purpose sail tomorrow. The depositions of some seamen belonging to the vessel wherein Lyford was only …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 1739 121 April 1 Augusta Kennedy O'Brien to Trustees for Georgia. I settled in this township upwards of two years … ago by Mr Oglethorpe's permission before he went last for Britain and have made considerable improvements here … Assembly not having had it, I gave them leave to sit at Greenwich, a small village about two or three miles out of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… men-of-war at least may be appointed to guard that coast for his own safety and that of many thousands of British … [On 10th April 1628, a ship was at Pendennis bound for Newfoundland, to carry over Lord Baltimore. See DOMESTIC … there all the year, except the winter, to preserve the seamen, shipping, and goods; contributions for that purpose …