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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to execute. It is a great diminution of the King's Government that the King should receive no rent for so … there were proposals for the purchase of Lord Culpeper's interest which came to no effect. The present heirs, having … repaired to the fort which was very strong, having a deep ditch and being well stockaded. We thus began our approaches …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 637. No. 51.] [Aug. 1.] 1,684. Major Peter Schuyler's Journal of his expedition to Canada. June 21 st. Set out … ten miles to N., and Fort La Prairie twenty six miles W.S.W. July 29 th. At ten a.m. we heard alarmguns at both … They forced us back 150 yards, where by chance there was a ditch which our men occupied. The French advancing in their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Order for a public thanksgiving for Admiral Russell's victory over the French fleet. Proclamation accordingly. [ … the King for military stores, also Colonel Nicholson's letter of 26 February ( see No. 2,075). Copy of the … the labour. The work was accordingly taken in hand, a dry ditch was dug and a parapet or banquette raised, which …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Assembly declined to relieve the men, saying that a night's ease would be more acceptable to them than provisions, and … for the purpose. The Governor complied with the Assembly's request for the appointment of a new collector of powder; … the town the windwardmost town in the Island. There is no ditch nor palisades about the fort, so that four men with …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1. Council adjourned till next day owing to the Governor's indisposition. [ Board of Trade. New York, 72. pp. 822, … of Council of Trade and Plantations. Mr. Solicitor General's reports upon several Acts of the General Assembly of New … repair to his Government in a very few days, His Majesty's letter relating to pirates, Oct. last, was delivered to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Newcastle acknowledging letter of 15 June enclosing HM's warrant for making reprisals on the Spaniards. They came to hand 27th instant by Capt Boscawen. HM's orders are published and we are putting ourselves in the … fortified towards the land with only an old wall and a dry ditch, that there is good landing about three miles to the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to be sent from England for the supply of your Majesty's Plantations, ought rather to be recommended to your … jealousies and occasion disturbances amongst your Majesty's subjects in those parts, which may be attended with very … is here a trench, as they called it, that is, a straight ditch, and the ditch on the wrong side; one wou'd think soe …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… ought not to be past if they had any regard to the Queen's interest, to that of the Country, to H.M. Instructions, or … to the Country. I beg'd them again to consider the Queen's Instructions and their oaths, and not proceed further with … and fill'd up with dirt, without any manner of ditch. The Fort has in it mounted upwards of 40 gunns: the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… or not, without a discovery thereof by some of the captor's crew, or unless some of the men belonging to the prize be … to Josiah Burchet. Encloses extract of Governor Handasyd's letter, Oct. 3, relating to French and Spanish ships at … of the enemy were entering the cover'd way, so into the ditch, (where they were under cover of our cannon) placeing …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the summons was found necessary to be introduced, as in S. Carolina in 1713 etc. About 1726, after the merchants had … under the Lords Proprietors, who, for their Governour's emolument, always permitted them to nominate the Provost … loose upon him, and he frequently wiped or drawn through a ditch, and all complaints upon this head are to no purpose, …