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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… representations, could not be persuaded to pass it. As little could the Governor prevail with them, though for their … to the King on account of escheats. It was moved that a field officer should be appointed to be commander-in-chief of … was settled. I was, therefore, obliged to spend the little stock I had and to pledge my own credit to satisfy …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the Island were intended to be a prey to another nation. A little care with true loyalty would avert the danger, but …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… been mightily depopulated by distemper, so that we have little to encourage us but hope of relief from you. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… us to go and to get well aboard, leaving five out of field-pieces behind us, to our great dishonour. After … ships, about 2,000 men, four months' provisions, and little enough ammunition. We had no pilot for the river, of … and cable. We had several skirmishes while ashore, but little harm done. Prisoners tell us that if we had come four …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… lands, for often there may be a valuable house on lands of little worth. I suggested to Maryland that the King's customs …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… such a height that they have stirred up the inhabitants of Little Compton, a town lying next to Rhode Island, to a … I found the Treasury empty on my arrival, and there is little hope of recruiting it during the war, but I hope that …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to send a company to defend the Islands, there can be little profit from them owing to the increasing sterility of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… from the number of Quakers in North America, and the little help that they contribute towards defence. The draft … Holt's company as the fittest to be under the eye of a field officer. ( Letter ends.) Warrant for the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… corporals, two drummers and one hundred privates, besides field-officers and staff. The pay is the same as for the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… supplies. On your representation of the great expense and little use of the Richmond frigate, the King has directed her …