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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… treasure be plain; that those who have deserted the Island for the wreck or other causes may be recalled with … Loyal thanks for the appointment of Governor Kendall. The Island is much weakened by sickness and providing regiments … of the additional duty on sugar, and for a trade with Scotland for servants, to supply our militia and plantations. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… indeed are very numerous here and a great weakness to the Island, for they are wholly useless for its defence and yet … not one man in twenty can repair them, so that the whole Island is in poverty and misery. We strained ourselves to the … Cole, John Armstead, Richard Johnson, Edward Portue, Lewis Burwell, Matthew Page, Robert Carter, Dudley Diggs, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to you the unkindness of Lieutenant-General Hill to this Island. For two years past he has put a guard over the … for reimbursement of those who have lent money to the Island. [ Col. Entry Bk., Vol. XLVIII., p. 329.] July 5. … it, and I think that if they had any hopes of carrying the Island they would not be so barbarous, for they spare nothing …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Regiment of horse but to make him Major General of the Island, which has caused great dissatisfaction among the … besides the prizes. The flag of truce sailed all round the Island but saw no other vessels. After the expedition at … Admiralty Court desired to consult the other Judges of the Island, to which, though impracticable, I consented, to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… paid for by a tax of eighteen pence on all negroes in the Island. Order for payment for Captain Perry's house and land, … any settlement of the English there would wholly ruin this Island, where we have more land than we can or could manage … done all things hitherto for the Spaniard and not for this Island, and I fear it will be hard, after they have once been …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… nor who is the commander), that they took none of the Island people with them and that it is a month since they … here, but have no apprehension of them in respect of the Island, though I fear they may bomb and destroy Port Royal, … will not be able to prevail upon us in these parts of the Island, where what strength we have is near together; but if …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… represented to the Council the present state of the Island and required their advice thereon. The Council …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… By the muster rolls of August, 1695, there were men in the Island as follows: Regiment of St. Catherine's 523. There are … and seamen (who were a great guard and strength to the Island) have left us, and most of this has happened by the … Pennsylvania to check the illegal trade carried on with Scotland, the Dutch Colonies and other places. (3.) A …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… In the Acts transmitted for Jamaica the seal of the Island is so affixed that the string on which it hangs is apt … this province. I hear there is a sloop of thirty guns from Scotland arrived at Pennsylvania. We are under great hardship … of the London fleet, of considerable value, off this island. But three ships of this fleet have arrived, one at …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… salary been laid out yearly in the passages of men to this island, to strengthen us, it would have done great good, but … to fortify. I can give you no better answer concerning Mr. Lewis than that he still continues in his office and that his … of so doing. Tobacco, the exportation of which to Scotland or Holland is a chief matter of complaint, does not …