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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to die as formerly to live." Planting increases much. Two sugar mills grinding canes, clearing cocoa walks, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… time, but sent to Barbadoes where it was put off for sugar. Arrival yesterday of the Marston Moor, Hector, and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in General Sedgwick. Has sent him a pot of their island sugar for his morning draughts. On same sheet.Cornelius …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Trade. 167475. Surinam.The Dutch agreement of making sugar; they offer 200 l. per annum to our English workmen which we have for 10 l. 15 s.; sugar-makers, &c. The French begin to learn that art. The … worth 20 l. 300 English, 1,100 or 1,200 Negroes. Have 20 sugar works; out of debt, generally because they have had no …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… has in them some wine and brandy and some small matter of sugar. The 29 we came before Pettit Guavus, but finding no …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the Caribbee Islands, and very productive in tobacco, sugar, indigo, and cotton. Great store of saltpetre; natural …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… tobacco is no commodity, and not being able to produce sugar, they are forced daily to desert the island. Beg his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… have laid before him an Act for the levy of 8 lbs. of sugar per acre, &c. for purchasing powder and arms, and … will amount in effect to near a million and a half of sugar ; whereas the Governor says 500,000 lbs. would serve. … on the fortification of the four seaports 300,000 lbs. of sugar as his Excellency shall appoint, and leave themselves …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Col. Wm. Willoughby, the treasurer, to pay 8,700 lbs. of sugar to Elizabeth Barnes, for the accommodations of her …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… received since leaving England has been 260,000 lbs. of sugar, which will amount to little more than a month's pay, …