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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in the Dictionary Archive, it was found being used to hold CRAB VERJUICE, apparently as a synonym for ALE BOTTLE. It …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to my letter of 20 February respecting the settlement of Crab Island, so refrained from encouraging that settlement. … are taken into their ports and sold. The ships taken at Crab Island were brought to Porto Rico and most of the people … but in force, as witness their attacks on Anguilla and Crab Island. The latter indeed was not under the King's …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Nevis enter into bond of 300 l. that he would not go to Crab Island to take off mules and other goods saved from … by the inhabitants of Anguilla to let them settle Crab Island, the next island to Porto Rico, with a good soil …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… persons calling themselves Brandenburghers are settling Crab Island, which is within Governor Codrington's …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Feb., 1688, Mr. Blathwayt's report, 6th July 1688, (that Crab Island is one of the Virgin Islands), Governor Sir N. … Britain, and that if the Danes had ever any settlemt. on Crab Island or any of the Islands adjacent besides St. … King William that some foreigners endeavoured to settle on Crab Island, H.M. was pleased to give Instructions 4th Dec., …