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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… report to you a rising in Gloucester county, where twenty or more parties have forcibly cut up the tobacco plantations. … the companies should be continued at the Colony's expense or not. The House of Burgesses spent several days over this … about the matter, but this was not the Council, nor did I haul him before the Council as he falsely asserted. After …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… set me at liberty without giving any manner of security or laying me under any obligation. I arrived here on the … find a needle in a bottle of hay as a Record of eight or ten years standing. Twelve months time will not sett it to … with ym. the ships I sent for from Nevis. And this morning haul'd home foretopsail sheets, and sent my barge for the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the following rewards be offered to any that will take or kill those negroes, viz., for the negro Cophy 10, for five … and submissive that the King will not be offended at it, or I should not have suffered it to pass. Their importunity … Cardross and Mr. Dunlop for the defence of Stewart's town or some other town in Port Royal County, that frontier lying …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Penn that Col. Hamilton, appointed by him to be Deputy or Lieut.-Governor of Pennsylvania, may you're your Majesty's … in 2,000 l. sterl. at the least by the said William Penn or other persons for the said Hamilton's duly observing the … always that your Majesty's favour herein be not construed or extended in any manner to diminish or set aside your …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… wait yr. Grace's commands, before I proceed by memorial or otherwise. Signed, Ri, Coope. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 5.f. 93.] Nov. … and I don't hear that they had any particular invitation or made any agreement with anybody for that voyage, and they … timber themselves, but steal from neighbouring towns and haul the loggs to their own mills. Logs seized and for which …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… by what anthority we met there. He refused either to see or to hear it, and no sooner returned to court but a marshal … these half-witted philosophers turn out either atheists or seditious preachers. Signed, Edw. Cranfield. 1 pp. … the inhabitants with whom we trade, are such that no peace or correspondence could be continued with them without forts, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… he did, and that the prisoners will either be pardoned or executed, for they will own no crime, but persist that all … it to the Council whether he should go to Albany direct, or take Connecticut on his way. Advised that he go by way of … no ship can ride before the town but must have her stem or stern towards it. Our powder wastes apace, as we are …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to H.M. how uncapable so small a ship as the Seaford was (or indeed any ship of that force as this towitt the Rose is) … your Lordships would represent to H.M. that a fifth rate or at least a ship of 36 or 40 guns, might be appointed etc., to which your Lordships …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… If there is such a war as makes it impossible for anyone, or any letters, to pass from England to France without the … the Corunna packet-boat is not to sail this next ordinary, or till further order. P. . S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 1. … but it is stated whether they were signed by King William (or Queen Mary, who signed the letters for Bradshaw and Parker …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… 22 September last; also a note containing the names of two or three inhabitants of the town, and was a letter of news to … France. Sloops go and come from France almost daily, four or five a day in fair weather, bringing goods and letters, … fear greatly they may not reach her Majesty, as no convoy or safeguard is sent to us nor at Cookmeer, "though the …