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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… President Sharpe to Lord Bolingbroke. Refers to letter of June 14. On the 17th June I review'd all the forces of the Island in two bodys; the eight following days I spent … and forces were in a miserable condition; particulars of which I will lay before your Lordship, as soon as the same …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 2. Jamaica. 496. Governor Lord A. Hamilton to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Refers to letter of 26th April. On the 3rd of the last month I receiv'd my new Commission, and am in …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 3. Virginia. 240. Lt. Governor Spotswood to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Abstract. Refers to enclosed affidavits relating to Bahamas. A nest of pirates are endeavouring to establish themselves at Providence and by the addition they expect of loose disorderly people from the Bay of Campeachy, Jamaica …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 17. St. James's. 652. Mr. Secretary Addison to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Refers following for their report. Signed, J. Addison. p. Annexed, 652. i. Petition of Lord Archibald Hamilton to the King. Petitioner was … to prevent negroes being evidence against the wife and sons of John Williams etc. Signed, Robert Hales. Endorsed, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1718, 1-10 July 1718, 1-10 July 1. Whitehall. 580. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary Craggs. We have … Bennet, dated 31st May last, relating to the increase of pirates in those parts and informing us that sevl. who had … were not impowerd to pardon them, and giving us an accot. of the weak condition of the Bermuda Islands. Tho' we are apt …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… July 11. New York. 613. Governor Hunter to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Refers to receipt of seal and asks for an alteration in the Council of New Jersey, supposing that the superseding of George …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in America, and particularly about the capitulation of Nevis and the sufferers at Mountserrat by the French … as soon as possible the most particular accompt you can of the said losses at Mountserrat, and of the capitulation at Nevis, in order to their preparing the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Indies July 1720 July 1720 July 1. Whitehall. 133. Council of Trade and Plantations to Governor Hamilton. Being informed … is a suit depending between Mr. Stephen Duport and his sons widdow for a plantation in St. Christophers, and that … with some delays, particularly in the issuing out a writ of rebellion against the said widow; we thought fit to give …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to Mr. Carkesse. Encloses papers relating to searching of merchants' ships at Jamaica to be laid before the Commissioners of Customs. The Council of Trade and Plantations desire to be informed how the law …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… that he may have the liberty to transport 15 or 20 brace of fallow deer for breed from South Carolina to Hog Island one of the Bahama Islands; and as he proposes to be at the charge … to ascertain property and quiet the possessions and minds of the dispairing people. Continues:Mr. Docminique assures me …