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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the sloop has had no satisfaction for his loss of eight hundred pounds, but was sent back to the President of St. … (1.) About ten years ago a ketch of mine, with about one hundred negroes, was taken on the high seas and brought into … Company in Guinea. This ship had forty six guns and one hundred and twenty men, so they durst not attack her; but the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to the Sheriffs of London for the transportation of three hundred malefactors to St. Christophers, to be taken the good … Our friend Isaac Rush, the Secretary, and about two hundred of all sorts, are come hither, and the rest are sent … He says it is a just judgment on them, since four or five hundred of them have gone thence for New Mexico. Carolina and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… has been finished but the new magazine, where I have seven hundred barrels of powder, and fifteen hundred spare firearms. I do not wonder at Sir Richard … passing away the King's right to some land, for he lost a hundred pounds by it. But I hope the King will gain more than …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Yet, before I got this person, it was reported that twelve hundred of the pirates were settled ashore, and that four … they attacked and took the stockade, where they shared a hundred shares of about twenty-four ounces of gold-dust … for Samia, some seven leagues up the country, with two hundred men, took it, and shared about three hundred dollars …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… A year ago, too, some of the Senecas and Onandagas took a hundred beavers from a Frenchman at Oniagro who had no pass, … the French landed and marched up in that direction. Four hundred and fifty young warriors waited for the French army … or fifty per cent. profit, the merchants now asked one hundred and fifty to two hundred per cent., giving the tax as …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… exceeding seven miles square, at a rent of sixpence per hundred acres. So also in the 7th, 9th, 15th, 24th, 25th, … to surrender to us on pain of death. We hear that seven hundred, or as some say, two thousand Indians are up, and it … was met by the royal regiment of footguards, twelve hundred men, when the Governor, having received them, stopped …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… no pass I alarmed the city: and in half-an-hour about five hundred men came courageously to arms, though most of the … plenty of arms, ammunition and stores, or with the twelve hundred men arrived from St. Christophers provisions will run …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… parts, Captain Brockholes, Lieutenant Weems and two hundred soldiers. On the 18th of April, the people of Boston … their own houses. On Friday the 2nd August three or four hundred Indians came, caught one of the people in the woods … Towards eleven o'clock, there being no Christian within a hundred miles of the fort, relief being hopeless, and the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… garrison consisted at the beginning of the siege of four hundred and eighty men, of whom sixty were killed by our guns … I sent Sir Timothy Thornhill to St. Eustatia with three hundred and fifty men, who saved Captain Schorer, the former … securing of our conquest, and have to-day shipped off five hundred and fifty men besides women and children to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… The East India Company asked to send eight ships and eight hundred men on account of the competition of the Dutch. The African Company asked to send ten ships and four hundred and fifty men, two-thirds of them to be English. [ … Conastagione but could not do so for want of men, the two hundred men voted by the Assembly being 50 men short of their …