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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… have my countrymen spoil a sheep for a halfpenny worth of tar. I am deeply concerned over the Indian insurrection to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 21st, at 10 a.m. we were about a league to leeward of a bay called Anse La Barque, our intended landing-place, … would be dangerous, thought it best to land in a little bay opposite to us, being of opinion that it was worth the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… gone on for years. Now every vessel runs into a different bay, so that it is endless work for a diligent officer to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… fourteen sail came in sight and came to an anchor in Cow Bay, seven leagues to windward of Port Royal. There they …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… on the 4th of May by two French privateers in Bantry Bay, at which time most of my documents were lost. I except … secure all the Indians on their side from Canada to the Bay of Mexico, for some of their people go frequently thither … Colony may yield great quantities of hemp, flax, pitch, tar, masts, yards, and all other materials for shipping. But …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the river Ohio or Spirito Santo which falls into the Bay of Campeachy, after a course supposed to be continued … Maryland, Virginia, Carolina and Florida into the said Bay. It is proposed that the King be advised to possess …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Copy. 1 p. 22. II. A second receipt for rosin, pitch, tar and ash-rafters received at the same time from the same … ships. The ashrafters for oars, the pitch, rosin and tar we think will be serviceable for the Navy, though the tar has been found of too hot a temper for the ropemakers. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… from their creditors in the lower counties in Deleware Bay and the Carolinas, and indeed the low prices paid by the … coves, but there is want of labourers and artificers, The tar made here is fitter for wood than cordage, but the … money. 13 th Query. We think the land at the head of the bay very proper for settlement and wish it were seated. 14 th …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and school-house at Severnon "on the sloop side of the bay," that the Lords Justices order the collection of the 40 … H.M.S. Bonadventure, which came with them to Trinity Bay, has put into Trinity Harbour to make good defects, and I … Several of the inhabitants have been to us from Conception Bay, Trinity Bay and Bonavista, but we hear of nothing but …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Vernon to Council of Trade and Plantations. The Hudson's Bay Company having applied to the King that the Governor whom … commands in your letter of 2 September. As to pitch and tar I have made enquiry of those who have most experience thereof, and I understand that the tar is much hotter and more burning than that of Sweden and …