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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… with his watch, warned them, and with his staff struck 3 or 5 times upon them, saying nothing to them, but calling on … Rawlins, gunner of the forts and platforms at Austin's Bay, for his salary for one year, also 3,000 lbs. to William … any notice of him. Designs to sail in August for the Bay of Bulls, there to make up the fleet, and to sail thence …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… not to be supposed his Majesty would trust either a coward or a fool, so it follows if Bacon's Commission were granted … thirteen guns, and twenty guns respectively. At Oyster Bay or Bridge Town are batteries of twenty-five guns, besides … of brick but most of stone, and handsome streets. Spikes Bay is the next considerable town ten miles to leeward. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… also a Bill to suppress seditious conventicles, may pass or be returned with amendments. Also that the Governor will … of Thomas Rawlins, chief gunner of the forts at Austin's Bay, 5,000 lbs. of Muscovado sugar, also 2,000 lbs. to John … for mounting the guns about the forts at Austin's Bay, granted. Committee appointed of the Council and Assembly …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Whitehall. 335. The King's Warrant to Sir John "Robinson, or in his absence to Captain Francis Rainsford at the Tower … reign created the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, a body corporate, to have power to purchase and dispose … by the name of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, with power to purchase and alien lands, to choose a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the planters are mean; of merchants there are not above 12 or 14 whose estates reach to 5,000 l., and not half of these … years lawfully seised of a small island in Narragansett Bay, anciently called Chissawanock, now Hog Island, lying … land in New England, bounded on the East by Narragansett Bay, with the adjoining Island; in 15 Charles II. John Clark, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… made to New Plymouth, within which none might purchase or in any way obtain lands but they and those whom they … d'Estrees to ask leave to wood and water at Blewfield's Bay, or Point Negril, one of the most leewardly ports of this … fleet. On 12th July, at 7 p.m., news came from Blewfield's Bay, to leeward, of eight French war-ships within the bay. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… blood, but hardly a week passes but some proud Frenchman or other comes by and will neither salute nor lower topsails until forced to it, or compelled to bear off by our guns, which is a great charge … of all English subjects; but she escaped me. At Yallagh's bay, some ten leagues to windward of this port, she had sent …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 15th June came to anchor off the fort and there rid four or five days in sight of all the Island till he had landed … sunset, about 80 negroes were landed in a sloop in Stanley Bay, where we attempted to seize them, but were prevented by … her husband Francis Mingham. That the said Francis Mingham or some other person on his behalf give security to the Board …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… deal with him and to free him from danger of being worsted or taken, I have put forty good men with commanders aboard of … sent before had not my late Secretary, Mr. Powell, mislaid or lost them. 1 pp. Signed. Endorsed. Recd. 1 Sept. [ Col. … work of the Nanticokes from the eastern shore across the bay. The inhabitants in their discontent irrationally …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Richard Dutton's good service. Petition of the Hudson's Bay Company read, praying for a Royal declaration of their … if any under my commission have acted with violence by sea or land towards any Spaniards except pirates and robbers … till he make good his accusations against the Government or make reparation for it. The report of the Commissioners …