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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1734, 1-15 April 1734, 1-15 [April 1.] 106. Representation of the state of Barbados and the Leeward Islands by the … the British trade and navigation, as with respect to the national advantages which on the other hand will accrue … will bring very considerable yearly additions to the national wealth: that the islands employ also annually many …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 1736 [April 6.] 282. Proposals for the beginning of a Civil Government in Nova Scotia. (v: April 14th). 1. That a certain number of gentlemen, merchants and others be incorporated Trustees … 2. That the Trustees or President or Deputy Governor of the Province, who shall be approved by H.M., and give …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1-15 April 1737, 1-15 April 1. 194 Francis Fane to Council of Trade and Plantations. By an Act passed in Carolina in the time of the Lords Proprietors relating to biennial and other … I observe that there is a power given to the assembly of this colony to meet without the consent of the Crown. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Jenys to Harman Verelst, enclosing three quarters accounts of the duty on rum granted for the benefit of Georgia to 1 March last. They are each of them signed by the treasurer, for which the Trustees have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Trustees for Georgia. I settled in this township upwards of two years ago by Mr Oglethorpe's permission before he went … made considerable improvements here which has cost upwards of 300 l sterling and that without a farthing expense to you. … (Georgia being at present more generally looked on as a national concern than it has been) and to the Trustees' …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… England cuts him off from reporting upon the peculiarities of the country. Although they arrived there late in the year, wholly through the fault of him who intends to accuse others, they have nevertheless … rare and singular commodities in the Queen's new kingdom of Virginia, as by the universal opinion of all the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Aug. 4. Rufford 20. The King to the Governor and Council of Virginia To endeavour to plant some staple commodities and … done in the Caribbee Islands, the excessive quantities of tobacco in Virginia, "the most ancient plantation of our English nation." To take effectual order that all …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… August 1661 August 1661 Aug. 1. Jamaica. 144. Proclamation of the Governor and Council of Jamaica. Granting permission to Captain Anthony Collier … with other wild horses for one month, with the assistance of the officers of Guinaboa, to whom half the wild horses are …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… West Indies August 1662 August 1662 Aug. 4. 341. Minutes of the Council for Foreign Plantations. Upon debate of Sir Wm. Berkeley's proposals for the improvement of the Colony of Virginia this Council was inclined to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… August 1663 August 1663 Aug. 1. Whitehall. 519. Petition of Samuel Mavericke [to the King]. Has lived many years in … for rectifying said abuses. With reference to the Council of Foreign Plantations. p. [ Dom. Entry Bk., Chas. II., Vol. … p. 335.] Aug. 3. 520. The King to the Governor and Council of Virginia. Recites the patent granted in the first year of …