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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in several large bundles of parchment, it is difficult and tedious to come at what is immediately wanted." The … and felt secure in the great distance and the vast forests which separated them. For Massachusetts and New … cf. 284). Governor Shute and Elisha Cooke.; The King's Woods.; Dr. Cooke removed from Council.; Mr. Bridger …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… which the papers in this volume are concerned are the war and peace with Spain; the meeting in Paris of the … remain (505, 506, 534. i). Naval Stores and Bounties.; The Woods in New England. The Lords Commissioners of Trade … and invited Mr. Bridger, Surveyor General of the Woods in America, to send additional information as to …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… off New Providence, they found Governor Woodes Rogers and H.M.S. Flamborough ready to receive them. They made … "a by-place fit for roguery," and part of it hidden in the woods, the rest being sent to other New England ports (727 … timber. Quit rents and grants of Lands. Preservation of Woods. Abuses in connection with grants of land and the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Plantations announcing the death of Queen Anne and the appointment of Lords Justices, and enclosing a … in America (518, 574, 575). Surveyor General of H.M. Woods.; Need for a new Act. On the conclusion of the Peace, … of the Navy dismissed the Surveyor General of H.M. Woods in North America (336 i.). In applying to be …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Negotiations were there begun with the Regent Orleans, and were concluded in the following January by the signing of … steps for the encouragement of these industries. Waste of Woods. In the meantime, complaints continued as to the waste in H.M. woods in New England of masts fit for the Navy and their …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… after the murder of Governor Parke; Col. Cary's rebellion and the Indian rising in North Carolina; the deadlock created … Assembly to desist. Mr. Bridger, the Surveryor General of Woods, took up their cause, and an appeal was made to Lord Dartmouth (291, 291 i.iii.). Waste of woods.; New Acts of Parliament. Bridger found himself …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Utrecht.; Cape Breton. The announcement of the Truce, and, presently, of the Treaty of Utrecht and its terms was received in the Colonies with a chorus of … 1701 for various purposes; into the state of H.M. forces, woods, fisheries, settlements and into clandestine trade; and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… trembling before the eternal apparition of French warships and French bayonets, were striving to gain for themselves neutrality in case of war; and Bermuda was full of the unrest generated by a successful attack on the Somers Islands Company and by the prospect of a new government. In America all New …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… but half complete. Mr. Noel Sainsbury, under whose care and industry the previous volumes of this Series had been … hand, but unable to leave him the special knowledge and experience which he had gained by long progressive study of the Colonial Records, and had turned to such excellent account in his edition of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… volumes of this Calendar of Colonial State Papers, America and West Indies, the remainder of the abstracts being in continuation and completing this series down to the end of the year 1676. … "When the negroes found any English straggling in the woods they butchered them with lances," wrote ViceAdmiral …