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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… an account of the affairs between the English and French in Hudson's Bay. 1682. The French took from us a factory in Port Nelson River, burnt it, and kept the men prisoners … took from us Hayes Fort, Rupert's Fort, and Albany Fort in the bottom of Hudson's Bay. 1688. They took and burnt …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… The Assembly proposed that a list of negroes be taken in order to the raising of a levy. The Council declared its … same, I deferred taking over the Government and left it in the hands of the President and Council, as is directed by my Commission in the absence of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. Mr. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… out of the 3 d. for arms. He will allow the balance to lie in Col. Blakiston's hands. Mr. George Tubman's appeal for … ordered to keep the judgment upon such bonds in force. To the complaint in the same letter that he had not … Treaty to the sole right of fishery upon the banks lying off the coast of Accadie and Eastern parts of New …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… upon a representation of Dec. 21, about irregularities in the government of Rhode Island and requiring drafts of a … being a Scotchman born, be qualified for that employment, in respect of the Act for preventing frauds and regulating abuses in the Plantation Trade or any other law of this realm. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… sending for pirates for trial here, signed. Representation in pursuance of Dr. Cox's letter, Jan. 9, signed. Jan. 12. … we offer that, the Isthmus of Darien is a tract of land lying between the Kingdoms of Peru and Mexico or New Spain, … logwood in the Bay of Campeche upon the Coast of Yucatan, lying upon the same tract of land, near unto which (at a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the number we have asked for and also to take care in selecting them. In case you decide to grant our proposal concerning Capt. … on your Majesty's Government of Barbados, as other islands lying to windward of Guardaloupe. And in order to the further …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 19th, with Mr. John Woollaston's petition, read. Memorial in favour of Capt. Bennet to be Governor of Bermuda read. … on the Crown; but after some little discourse promised in a short time to lay before their Lordships a full account of the state of those Provinces in writing. Lord Bellomont's letter, Oct. 20, considered. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… now to make another answer than that, the Master being in great haste to sail. Mr. Champant writes that Sir Charles … the Pharisee. He was given to drinking, to corruption and lying; but lying was his predominant vice, and some of his friends have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… been several times repealed here and as oft re-enacted in Maryland, there has by that means been above 30,000 l. … thereupon humbly report that the Country called Penobscot, lying South-west from the River Sta. Croix, (the ancient … to Francis Eyle. Enclosing copies of the complaints now lying before the Council of Trade and Plantations relating to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… West Indies January 1702 January 1702 Jan. 1. Newcastle in New Hampshire. 1. Mr.Sheafe to the Council of Trade and … I am wholly a stranger, therefore may appear as a medler in business or an insinuator, which may make my pretence … as good if not better than any other place, and also lying convenient for the Fishery. The Fort or Citadel is much …