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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Messages from the Assembly to the Council, asking for a joint Committee to revise the laws of the island confirmed … for concurrence, which were agreed to; and agreed to raise a small levy to pay the public debts. The Assembly offered a … ten days' pursuit they were obliged by the violent cold, snow and rain to return, being unable to endure lying abroad …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be made to H.E. for leave for the House to adjourn till a convenient time after the General Court. And see preceding … to comply with H.M. Commands in contributing the 900 l. required for New York. [ C.O. 5, 1413. pp. 3543.] April 6. … for this service, and to send them down thither on the snow. p. The whole endorsed, Recd. Read April 7, 1703. [ C.O. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in by the petitioners against Col. Nicholson, in order to a just defence; and that a day may be assigned for that … 600 men in four parties and kept the forrest upon a 3 ft. snow in show shoes, carrying their provisions with them for … the Assembly at their last Session agreed to pay 100 l. per head for every Indian above ten years old brought in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… what is likely to come to pass by that pernicious law, a law that manifestly carries a legion of evils in the practice of it. Signed, E. Dummer. … war have taken since the last account I gave your Lops. a snow and 3 sloops, and one of our privateers has taken a …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… as we left it could never have been thus surprised unless a profound lethargy had seized on both officers and soldiers … You would have done well to have transmitted to us a copy of the Proclamation you issued for granting a pardon … herself; her Indian master runs to her as she sat upon the snow and gives her a blow with his hatchett and stunned her, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 14th Jan. last. Continues:My Lords Commissioners will in a short time return you their answer to your letters of 4th … March 1724 etc. We have had a verry moderate winter, no snow, and the swamps not frozen (this winter), so that there … no spoyle has been made this winter; (there hapning no snow) the trouble has not been so much as in other winters …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… far from it. The Spaniards remonstrated to me that keeping a garrison in that fort gave them a jealousy in respect to their navigation of the River St. … skeins of match and 10 reams of cartridge at a cost of 195 l. 2 s. 8 d. which is to be an article in the next estimate …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… improvements here which has cost upwards of 300 l sterling and that without a farthing expense to you. Since Gen Oglethorpe's last … guns; Triumph, 24 guns; Chata, 20 guns; Ceitan, 20 guns; a snow, 14 guns. Ships lost and condemned: Victoria Galera, 50 …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Povey to William Bridgeman. Requiring of the Admiralty a list showing the present distribution of ships at war, with … of 23 June. The Admiralty was desired to send at once a list of ships of war, with their present stations, and of … of his design); so loading up the ship with about 1,200 l. worth of indigo he sent it privately away, contrary to the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… mentioned, which you will here receive inclos'd, may be a means to lessen that great discount, as it will probably … care will be taken that this act may not administer a future occasion for destroying H.M. woods in New England. … assistance travell'd in a fortnight with sledges thro' the snow three foot deep, cold and hunger, join'd their friends …