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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… granted to every settler, paying a quit rent of 28 lb. of hemp fit for H.M. Navy, after the first 7 years etc. As the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… making of tar and what land there is proper for raising of hemp. Col. Philips proposes, in the 8th Article of his …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… The sd. Act has likewise taken off the duty from all hemp imported from H.M. Plantations. The people will require …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… if we would work it to serve the whole world. Iron and hemp also we bring from abroad, and yet are full of iron … exceeding good by report of those who have tryed it, and hemp the best in the universe, if we had anybody to raise it. … and a grant of land to make some improvements in raising hemp etc. Asks to be made H.M. Mineral Master or Ranger of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of swamps (of which Jersey has a great many) fit for hemp, and the bent of the people is now very much upon that … of those Colonies to turn their hands to the raising of hemp, they wou'd propose an Act to be past in their … bounty of 40 s. pr. ton payable to those who should export hemp for Great Britain, and this bounty be raised by a duty …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… advantage to the Crowne than 14 lb. weight of water-rotted hemp pr. annum for every 100 acres, to commence at the end of … and so to continue for ever at 42 lbs. of water-rotted hemp, which at the highest cannot be computed at more than … of opinion should be received there in good merchantable hemp fitte for the use of H.M. Navy; particularly for to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to be 18 weeks on his passage, so that I fear the hemp seed is come too late to sowe, but I hope we may get …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of the world and the land is well adopted for raising hemp and other naval stores for the better supplying this … May which was too late for sowing the seed that season and hemp seed is of that nature as not to grow if kept out of the … projecter, tho' am convinced from several small parcels of hemp sow'd here last year, in season, that great part of this …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Plantations, that the act for incouraging the raising of hemp and flax within this Province has hitherto had very … difficulty that I got the Assembly to give a bounty on hemp, of about fourteen pounds sterling a tun, (and which … hope their Lordships will recommend the sending the hemp seed to effect, yet should it not come, I humbly hope to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and swamps. The soil of all sorts is well adapted to hemp and flax, grass, Indian corn, barley and oats, not so …