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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Names marked * have against them the words put out or out. Towns to have liberty to choose Assembly-men. The … the peace continues, to protect Indians against Mohawks or other tribes. Indians not to leave English plantations … by new writs filled up. Nor will you permit either Mathews or Boone to sit as deputies, the one being not legally chosen …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Addenda
… Henry Jowles, Gilbert Clarke, John Addison, John Court, or any four of them with William Taylard, their clerk, to … I and my family moved to a general house of refuge about 4 or 5 miles from my own. The rumour was found to be false and … first disturbance. Furthermore a London merchant, Jarret Sly, has written to Kenelm Chesildyn of St. Mary's County …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… eight shot and two and twenty bombs, but killed only a dog or two one Christian man, three children and a negro, so that … Nathaniel Johnson's good affection to the new Government or zeal to protect the Islands against the French, he has … destroyed, and about three hundred Christians are killed or taken. In Maine Wells, Casco, Kittery, &c., some few …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… In the margin, The Committee of Plantations to be spoke or writ to about Syms's coming home. 1 p. Endorsed, Recd. 24 … and they should send up to the Crown not Magna Charta or Capital laws, but bylaws such as are necessary to make … in the government. If persons unskilled either in law or in the sword be employed, loyal persons will be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… obtained from prisoners from Canada, there were twelve or fourteen men-of-war arrived in Canada with design to … that the Council's opinion should be taken in the placing or displacing of judges or other officers. But the Council's opinion has not been …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be furnished from England; whether the trade has increased or decreased of late years, and the reasons for such increase or decrease; what are the methods for preventing illegal … is made in Long Island, and what improvements have been or might be made in any sort of fishery. We have received …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… brings the bad news that about a week before he left, 40 or 50 armed Frenchmen came over by land from Plascentia to … and surprized the inhabitants there, killing three or four, and took Mr. John Masters out of his bed, rifled his … to Martinico, and agreed accordingly with Mr. Gibbs for the sloop Olive to transport them at 20 s. per …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… entering upon the Government been so far from endeavouring or proposeing an accommodation, that he has only added warmth … could have prevailed with him to alter his measures, or if there were any prospect of his being made sensible of … of some parts thereof, on which without the least proof or any farther enquiry, they have come to several very …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… April 8 and 11, 1706) was signed by your Majesty and sent, or no, we forbear transacting with him till we receive your … of this Province, which enacts that upon the death or absence of the Lt. Governor, and in the absence of the … Act it is provided that no woman shall recover her dower or thirds of any lands or tenements, which have been sold, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and conditions of settlement in Georgia. I can procure 10 or 20 servants and wish for 1,000 acres of land. Signed. P.S. If you have plan, map or printed account of the place, please forward it to me. 2 … John Harvey, Thomas Gilbert, Joseph Darrell, George Gibbs, Henry Tucker, Peter Mallory, Richard Mathelin, James …