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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… declined. The Governor and Council proposed to consider a means of defraying the expenses of Sir James Russell as … April 3. 1,201. Memorandum of Lord Howard of Effingham's proposal that power be given him to regulate the price of foreign coin in Virginia. Presented 3 April. p. Endorsed. Read at the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 2. 1,682. Minuites of Council of New York. Order for a proclamation for a day of thanksgiving for the Queen's being with child. Stephen Cortlandt sworn Deputy-Auditor of … Maryland. A letter of recommendation from Lord Baltimore in favour of Mr. Matthew Travers read; also a letter from him …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of them may be used to the disadvantage of this Country's interest at Court. You will be a better judge than I, so pray make your own use of them and withal do Mr. Livingston any kindness you can in his private affairs. Some or most sober persons have a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for audit of accounts for burial of Macgregor, slain in the King's service, and of all accounts before the Governor's arrival; … for payment of 20 to Joseph Dudley for his expenses at a late gaol-delivery held by him in Suffolk, and for arrest …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 17. 1,404. Minute of Lords of Trade and Plantations. That a copy of the address from Boston, referred by Order in Council of 9th inst., be sent to the Agents for New … Virginia. The Burgesses were summoned to hear Lord Howard's Commission and dismissed to elect their speaker. They …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Assembly. Order for the appearance of certain witnesses in connection with the case of the ship Society. Ordered that … Order for seizure and custody of goods salved from a ship foundering at sea by Captain John Purvis of the ship … from Scotland ( pp. 651654). Commodore Isaac Townsend's letter reporting his arrival read. Ordered that he be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 1. 232. Minutes of Council of Nevis. Walter Symonds's Commission as President of the Island read. [ Col. Entry … down the accounts of the impost on liquors. Bill for a public levy read twice more and passed and sent to Council. … charge against him when next we meet with him. Signed. L. Copley, Nea. Blakiston, Nicholas Greenberry, David Browne, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… taken as to the Admiralty clauses. Governor Russell's draft commission also read and, with a new clause as to martial law, approved. [ Board of Trade. … to the power to erect Admiralty Courts, which are inserted in Governor Kendall's and Governor Russell's Commissions, but …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the Barbados regiment, each company consisting of a captain, two lieutenants, three sergeants, three corporals, … nominate commanders of the militia; but Sir William Phips's commission appointed him commander-in-chief of the forces of both colonies, until in 1693 the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Governor Codrington writes me that he lately sent a flag of truce to Martinique concerning prisoners taken by … that the French have nineteen privateers, great and small, in these parts, besides their three men-of-war. I am trying … of Council of New York. A petition against Widow Pawling's patent for land was referred to a committee for report. …