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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1696 December 1696 Dec. 11. Plymouth. 492. The Mayor of Plymouth to William Popple. I have by this post sent to … forbid any planter to settle or build any house within six miles of any harbour or fishing place. But this they do, … to despatch a messenger with a belt of wampum to the Five Nations to let them know that I am personally here to assist …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Indies December 1696 December 1696 Dec. 21. 523. Journal of Council of Trade and Plantations. Petition from the agents … One French officer delivered one of the English to the Indians and looked on while they put fire to his feet and … taken St. John's and that they would require five, if not six, more ships. The question of soldiers raised the question …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… December 1697 December 1697 Dec. 1. Virginia. 79. Clerk of the House of Burgesses of Virginia to Council of Trade and … of Canada, they thereby shall be able to withhold their Indians under such a noted boundary from any further … country delivered up to the French, which those barbarous nations will rather interpret to be from want of power to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… one to meet Lord Bellomont. Dec. 17. A vote of the Representatives for allowing a rebate of duty, and … and surrendered himself for trial. The Assembly sent up six Acts to the Governor to be passed, of which he declined … as to the French was commonly gathered or shared by both nations, who kept up a friendly correspondence until 1666, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and Solicitor-General. I have acquainted the Council of Trade with Sir Thomas Trevor's explanation of the delay in … and commands such as were fit. Perhaps the different nations of the province were never more united nor had more … rebuilt half the barracks; made new carriages for thirty-six guns; made a house to protect the field pieces against …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 5. Jamaica. 1,028. Governor Sir William Beeston to Council of Trade and Plantations. Since mine of 13 October the Act … him of the menaces used by Mons. de Frontenac to the Five Nations; and for a letter to the New York Agent to ascertain … of Jamaica passed in 1695, of which five are expired, and six Acts of 1696, of which three are expired. We see no …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Indies December 1699 December 1699 Dec. 1. 1,028. Order of the House of Commons, that a copy of the Privy Seal and of the … on the expediency of promoting a new trade with some Indians on the back of Carolina mentioned in the letter Ap. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… R. Yard. Endorsed, Recd. Read Dec. 20, 1699. [ Board of Trade. Jamaica, 9. No. 3; and 56. p. 412.] Dec. 18. 1,066. … Mr. Gawin Corbin permitted to allow some Rappahanock Indians to live upon his land. Lt.-Col. William Bassett … other colonies, in extending a trade amongst many remote nations of Indians, which the French are daily endeavouring …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… December 1700 Dec. 11. See preceding abstract. [ Board of Trade. Virginia, 55. pp. 311316.] Dec. 11. Whitehall. 990. Council of Trade and Plantations to Governor Codrington. Whereas Co. … 29 last, vizt., an Act for the better securing the Five Nations in their fidelity to His Majesty; an Act for …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Indies December 1700 December 1700 Dec. 16. 1009. Minutes of Council of Virginia. Letter from the Council of Trade, Aug. 1, read … purchased considerable tracts of land of ye Narragansett Indians, who were then a very formidable and numerous people. …