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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Acts (1) to suspend the Ports Act (2) for marking Indians' hogs (3) to encourage erection of fulling mills (4) … the neighbouring Colonies. I have no account of French or Indians advancing on Albany, except what comes by uncertain … some redeemed captains that it is a great check on the Indians, and that my destruction of their corn last year put …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Minutes of Council of New York. On intelligence that the Indians threatened to attack the English to avenge the blood … can be found to prevent the Jerseys from trading with the Indians to our prejudice, except by annexing them to this … to the Counties for collection of taxes, and to the Indians to explain the Governor's absence, approved. [ Col. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the state of the frontier and the need for reassuring the Indians call for a greater rather than a less force than has … bade them bring a prisoner from Canada in his room. The Indians promised to prosecute the war. [ Board of Trade. New … assistance, and is consequently much impoverished. The Indians seem likely to infest and injure us more than …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… keep for defence of our own frontier, then invaded by the Indians. We conceive that it was intended for us to have an … for apprehension of two secret traders with the foreign Indians. [ Board of Trade. Maryland, 13. pp. 9192.] April 30. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… inconsiderable tanning and shoemaking. (15) As to the Indians in the province, there are on the eastern shore nine … in trade and friendship. (16) No endeavours to convert the Indians to Christianity have ever been heard of. (17) As to settlement of the Indians among the Colonists, most of the above natives live …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to write to the Admiralty about a passage for the two Indians to New York. April 9. The Duke of Shrewsbury's letter … from the Attorney-General. Mr. Nicoll presented the two Mohawk Indians to the Council. Order for a letter to be written to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… but have found ourselves in constant differences with the Indians. This last has been so fatal as to lay waste near … As Newfoundland is now in possession of the French, 400 Indians are as good as 800 men that we can transport thither. … tents through the woods, nor can they travel like the Indians, who will cover twenty or thirty miles a day in the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… he was detained at Barbados. On the 22nd of February the Indians surprised and killed five English at Andover, a … inhabitants were supinely secure, thinking that the Indians would observe the peace, or be kept still by the … the cold. They therefore neglected their watches, and the Indians took the advantage. I at once sent one hundred men …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… " Cayonges 300 " " 200 " " Senecas 1,300 " " 600 " " River Indians 250 " " 90 " Total Indians 2,800 " 1,320 1 p. Endorsed, Delivered me by Mr. … peace, to which he answered in substance that the French Indians were out a hunting in expectation of peace, that he …