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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… They present the cruel severity of some masters and overseers towards their Christian servants by which some have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… have Justices of the Peace, Constables, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, and other local sworn officers as in … Judge in testamentary causes, and John Jourdain, the two overseers of the last will of Lieutenant-Colonel John Jarbee, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… or other artificer under five shillings a day, nor overseers under from 50 to 100 a year, which is treble the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of any inhuman severity which by ill Masters or Overseers may be used towards their Christian servants and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for the reparation of the Castle and building barracks, overseers of the Castle, Forts and Platforms were appointed. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… offices. Ordered that the County Courts order the several overseers of the highways to fell such trees as stand nigh …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… slaves is amended by a restraint being layd on masters and overseers that they shall not without the particular …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for the relief of Ideots etc., it is enacted that ye overseers of ye poor or select men of every town, shall be … but ye whole is left to the disposition of ye beforesd. overseers; wch. is a power perfectly unknown to ye laws of … method I think is preferrable to ye giveing a power to ye overseers of any town to lock up without any ceremony any …