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Abercromby, James, Attorney General, Carolina South, appointment of, 488 p. 343.

Act of Parliament, for ascertaining the rates of foreign coins in H.M. Plantations, evasion of, in Rhode Island, 539 ii.
-, -, for better preservation of H.M. Woods in America, fine imposed under, method of payment for, 49 p. 38.
-, -,-, prosecutions under, 49.
-, -, for the further preventing robbery etc., and for the more effectual transportation of felons, 383.
-, -,-, violation of, 520 i.
-, -, Act (25th of Charles II), for the encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland trades etc, 382.
-, -, concerning Newfoundland fishery and trade, 9.
-, -,-, explanation desired, 422 ii (m) p. 280.
-, -, concerning Newfoundland fishing admirals, powers of, 331, 331 i.
-, -, permitting direct shipments to Portugal, 555.
-, -, to prevent laws in the Plantations affecting Trade and Navigation in Great Britain, proposed, 473 p. 322.
-, -,-, reasons against (Virginia), 473 pp. 322, 323.
-, -, regulating sugar trade in the Plantations, request for, 475, 494 p. 350.
-, -, concerning tobacco, 62, 86.

Adams, — Councillor, Nova Scotia, document signed by, 427 ii.

Admiralty, Courts in the Plantations, See under each Colony.
-, -, High Court of, case with appeal sent from Boston to, 566.
-, -, Lords Commissioners of, appeals in the Plantations, 551.
-, -,-, Colonel Dunbar's letters sent to, 49.
-, -,-, letters from, 69 i.
-, -,-, Newfoundland Convoy, Commodore of, Heads of Enquiry for, 160. 151.
-, -,-, order by, 69, 69 i.

Adventure, H.M.S., 25.
-, -, Genoesa treasure shipped on board of, 25, 25 i, 47, 116.

Africa, trade with, 386 p. 242.
-, -, trade with Jamaica, 383.
-, -, trade with New York, 464.

Akerman, Benjamin, 377 xi.

Alatamaha River, a boundary of Carolina, 568; and see under Carolina, South.

Albany. See under New York.
-, -, Indians, Colonel Spotswood's meeting with, 583 i.

Albemarle. See Carolina, North.

Alford, James, deposition of, 353 ix, x.

Alleganie (Alleganey), Indian settlements at, 478 v.

Allen, Andrew, letter from, 356 i.

Anderson, John, Councillor, New Jersey, document signed by, 310 i p. 195.

Andros, Sir Edmund, patent passed by (1688), 12 p. 6.

Angel, Samuel, Newfoundland, order concerning stage of, 422 ii (y).

Anne, Queen, letter from, 427 p. 289.

Antigua; and see Leeward Islands, 464.
-, -, Act, Chancery, confirmation of, objections to, 41.
-, -,-, memorial concerning, 40, 41, 42.
-, -,-, constituting a Court of Chancery (1715), referred, 56.
-, -,-, for amending the Chancery Act, petition concerning, 30, 31.
-, -,-, for cutting off the entail of lands formerly of John Bradshaw decd, etc., confirmation of, 5.
-, -,-, to enable Wm. Gregson, etc. (1726) referred, 207.
-, -,-, to enable Henry Lyons of Antigua, gent., to dispose of certain lands, etc., referred, 392.
-, -,-, to enable Robert Oliver to make good the title of certain lands by him sold to the Hon. Richard Byam, Lt. Gov. etc., opinion upon, 443.
-, -,-,-, referred, 329.
-, -,-, for the further continuance of John Yeamans, as Agent etc. referred, 318.
-, -,-, to supply the defects of the Act for constituting a Court of Chancery in the absence of the Commander in Chief from the Island, disallowance proposed, 200.
-, -,-,-, disallowed, 552 i.
-, -,-,-, objections to, 200, 365.
-, -,-,-, opinion upon, 200.
-, -,-,-, petition in favour of, 200.
-, -,-, to supply the defects of an act for constituting a Court of Chancery etc. (1728) referred, 56.
-, -,-,-, repeal of, 366.
-, -,-,-, representation upon, 200.
-, -, Acts of, confirmed, 385.
-, -,-, opinion upon, 76.
-, -, agent for. See Yeamans, John.
-, -, Assembly of, 560.
-, -,-, Speaker of. See Freeman, Tho.
-, -, Catherine sloop, case of, 69 i.
-, -, Council, Clerk of. See Crump, Nath.
-, -,-, persons proposed for, 546.
-, -,-, President to hold Chancery Courts, act proposing, 200.
-, -, Councillors. See Morris, John; By am, Wm.; Duer, John; Yeamans, John.
-, -, Courts, Chancery, in, 544.
-, -,-,-, Chancellor recommended to preside over, 200.
-, -,-,-, instructions concerning, 552 i.
-, -,-,-, officers to preside in, Act regulating, 200.
-, -, defence of, 393.
-, -, English Harbour, defence of, 325.
-, -,-, fort at, guns and stores of war for, 393, 574, 574 i.
-, -,-, storehouses built at, 393.
-, -, fort at, stores of war for, 325.
-, -, Governor of. See Cosby, Col.
-, -,-, powers of, 76.
-, -, inhabitants, decrease of, 494 p. 348.
-, -, Lieutenant Governor of. See Byam, Edw.
-, -,-, to act in absence of Captain and Lieut.–General, petition concerning, 183.
-, -,-, power to hold Chancery Courts, Act concerning, 200.
-, -,-, Council and Assembly, representation from, 494, 495 i, 509.
-, -, merchants and planters trading to, petition of, 30.
-, -,-,-, reply to, 31.
-, -, rum, sugar manufacture in, 494 p. 349.
-, -, situation of, importance of, 183.
-, -, stores of war for, 570, 574.
-, -, Sugar duties, 560, 561.
-, -, Sugar trade, representation upon, 560.
-, -, trade, 560, 561.

Arbuthnot, George, King's Remembrancer's office, document signed by, 452.

Arcedeckne, —, Jamaica, questions offered to Assembly by, 50, 50 i.

Armistead, Henry, Virginia, not appointed as Councillor, 199.
-, -,-, recommended for Council, 52, 567 p. 390.

Armstrong, Lawrence, Colonel, Lieut. Governor of Nova Scotia, to act as Governor, order to, 91, 91 i.
-, -,-, assumes Government in Governor's absence, 324.
-, -,-, letter from, 427, 493.
-, -,-, letter to, 91.
-, -,-, petition of dismissed, 82.
-, -,-, representation to, 427 ii.
-, -,-, salary of, 82.

Arnold, Rd., Secretary at War Office, letter from, 60.

Arrowsick Island, 217 p. 122.
-, -, Indians, peace with, ratified at, 353 xi.
-, -, inhabitants of, 353 xi, xii, xiii.
-, -, settlement on, 353 xi, xii, xiii.

Ascroft, — Jamaica, guide to party against Port Antonio negroes, 550 iii, iv.

Ashe, — Councillor, Carolina North, 404.

Ashley, John, Councillor, Barbados, 19, 20.
-, -,-, activities of, 106.
-, -,-, appointment of, 189.

Ashworth, Jasper, Major, J.P. and Chief Commissary at Port Antonio, Jamaica, letter from, 550, 550 ix.
-, -,-, letter to, 550 ix.

Aspenwald, Captain, document signed by, 212.

Assiento, the, contraot with, 383.

Atkinson, Theodore, Collector, New Hampshire, deposition of, 291 i, 302 i, 377 vi.
-, -,-, dispute with Governor Belcher, 374.
-, -,-, document signed by, 29 ii, 291 ii, 373 iii, 455 x.
-, -,-, proposed for Council, 499.
-, -,-,-, recommended for. Council, 291 p. 178, 462.

Atlas, a new general, (1721), maps in, by Senex, 89 i.
-, -,-,-, incorrect, 89 i.

Attorney General, the. See Yorke, P; Northey, Sir E.

Auchmuty, Robert, Advocate General, Massachusetts Bay, letter from, 6 ii, iii, 12, 12 iii.

Ayscough, John, Councillor and President of Council, Jamaica, absence of, 83 i.
-, -,-, letter from, 348.
-, -,-, letter to, 209.
-, -,-, petition of, 83, 83 i.
-, -,-, recommendation of, 104.
-, -,-, report from, 349.
-, -,-, restoration of, 145, 154, 165.
-, -,-,-, ordered, 204.
-, -,-,-, return of, 154.
-, -,-, superseded, 83 i, ii.