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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the fall of the French in America. I hope, when our long expected fleet of merchantmen arrives, to receive the … [Dec. 16.] 1,245. Abstract of John Clapp's letter from Long Island of Nov. 7 ( see No. 1,170). Abstract of … head of about three hundred men, who, being asked by the Long Island men why he came on their lands, answered by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Block Island and plundered it, as also the eastern part of Long Island, likewise that they had landed on the Isle of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… only twenty-four hours distant. Moreover it often takes as long for a ship to beat to windward to Barbados as to sail to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to the King. For the grant, in lieu of a former grant of Long Island, of a tract of waste land bounded on the South by … after shipping arms and clothing at Portsmouth; to say how long the squadron for Jamaica shall remain in those parts and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… away, which is now much practised. The sailors go these long voyages to avoid being pressed into the King's service …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to lay before you our despairing condition. For a long time past we have languished under a wasting war, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… shirts and breeches; and it often falls out, by the long distance between this and England and the many … to the pay, which is much short of English and generally long in arrear. (4) Having no notice to prepare for the … and Council, which the people were unwilling to pay. In Long Island the people cried out much against the oppression …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… already lent, some more, some less; but the payment was long delayed in England and when made was in tallies and the … they could do about Petit Guavos, but, their passage being long, the French had intelligence, and sent all their force … acquainted with the Island's affairs, with which he has long been concerned. He can give you any information as to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… as I am at this present, blessed be God for it. Your long absence from me surprises me, especially I not having … and consequents prevented me. I hope they will "not lie long at Whitehall, and I shall take care that they have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… If my attendance be required I beg that it may not be long, since the settlement of my only son awaits my return. … a year ago, which the Council of Trade supposed had been long ago despatched to to the Governors of Colonies by the … Jacob, Edward Coates master, was come to the east end of Long Island. This ship (he continued) had been formerly the …