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March 3.
Whitehall. |
408. Same to Governor Hamilton. H.M. has been pleased
to approve the Acts of St. Christophers to prevent the danger that
may happen by fire and to impower the Surveyor etc., and an Act
of Antegoa for constituting a Court of Chancery etc. (v. 30th Jan.)
H.M. has thought fit to repeal an Act of Antegoa for establishing
a Court of King's Bench etc. for the reasons contained in the
Attorney-Genls. report (a copy whereof is here inclosed for your
information) and that you may endeavour to get another Act
passed if necessary, not liable to those objections. You will
receive from the Agents of each Isld. the orders for the confirmation of the Acts abovementioned. But I doubt they will not
pay the fees for the order of repeal; and therefore I send you
inclosed a copy of the same attested by the Clerk of the Council.
There is another Act passed at St. Christophers, 1712, for selling
estates etc. upon which H.M. Attorney Genl. had given his opinion
(v. C.S.P. 14th July, 1713) that it is not fit to be confirmed for
several reasons. But as their Lordps. believe there may have
been several transactions in pursuance of that Act, so that the
repealing of it immediately might occasion several difficulties
and disputes among the inhabitants of that Island, their Lordps.
chuse rather to let it lie dormant till the Assembly have had an
opportunity of passing a new Act not liable to the objections
contained in the Attorney Genls. report here inclosed. They
desire therefore this matter may be laid before the first Assembly
at St. Christophers that they may consider the same and pass a
new Act, otherways this will be repealed. Whereas it is necessary
for their Lordps. in considering the general state of the Trade
of this Kingdome to have accounts of the Trades of each particular
country; and as they have accounts of what goods are sent from
hence to the Maderas and Western Islands, so it is necessary their
Lordps. should be informed of what returns are made from thence.
But as the main of the exports from those Islands are to the
Plantations in America, their Lordps. can get here no account
of them, and tho' the naval Officers do sometimes give accts.
of the entries of ships inwards yet it is in such a confused
manner (sometimes expressing the quantities of goods in some
ships and oftner omitting it) that it is impracticable to make a
true state of that Trade. I am to desire you therefore to give
immediate directions to the proper Officer to make out an account
of the imports from the Maderas and Western Islands for 3 years
last past and to send the same by the first opportunity. And
for the future the Board desire you to take care to give them
annual accts. of the said imports. I am further to desire of you
a particular account of all grants of escheated estates made by
you since your Governmt. whither they be temporary or perpetual
specifying the no. of acres granted, what quit-rent, if any is
reserved upon them with the name of the grantee and the reasons
inducing you to make such grant. Their Lordps. lately writ
to you themselves for a particular account of the grants made
in the French part of St. Christophers. I am again to remind
you of what their Lordships writ you the 4th Oct. last and
what I repeated the 24th of the same month about transmitting
the accounts of the Revenue and of the annual expences of the
Islands under your Government, which you are required by your
Instructions to transmit, and which their Lordps. do insist on
having as soon as possible. I am likewise to remind you of what
I writ you 24th Oct., relating to a Collection of the Laws of each
Island, which is the more necessary at present, because their
Lordps. intend to have all the Laws of each Government that
are in force, printed. Their Lordps. being informed that the
settlement at Crabb Island increases more and more, have ordered
me to repeat to you the directions sent you 20th Jan., 1717/18, to
discourage that settlemt. as much as possible you can; but you
are to do this in such a manner as not to oblige those people to
retire to St. Thomas or any foreign Plantation and their Lordps.
expect from you a more particular account of the condition of
the settlement at Crabb Island and of the methods you may
think necessary to be taken for the suppressing it, in case these
used by yourself should not prove effectual. [C.O. 153, 13. pp.
233–237.] |
March 3.
Whitehall. |
409. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Earl of Sunderland. We beg leave to inform your Lordship, that it would be
of great convenience to the King's service, that some one of H.M.
Counsel learn'd in Law should be directed by particular appointment to attend the Law business relating to Trade and Plantations.
For altho' we are already impowerd by our Commission to send for
the Attorney or Solicitor General or any other of H.M. Counsel
learned in the Law, and to consult them as occassion shall require,
it has hitherto been ye custom to consult the Attorny and
Solicitor only, and tho' we do not find any instance where either
of them have neglected to give their attendance at this board,
when thereunto required, notwithstanding the great weight of
other business that must naturally lye upon them in the discharge
of their duty to the King and to their clients, yet we cannot help
thinking that our predecessors in regard to the value of these
Gentlemen's time, have been very tender of troubling them
except in matters of great importance, and indeed considering
how many laws we do annually receive from the severall Plantations, and how many doubts do daily arise in points of law
contained in the severall Memorials and Petitions referred to us,
were we to require the attendance either of H.M. Attorney or
Solicitor General, so often as occasion would seem to require it,
we should leave them but very little leizure to bestow upon any
other kind of business. We cannot therefore but believe, that
ye proposall we now take the liberty to make your Lordship,
would be equally for H.M. service, and for the ease of the Attorney
and Sollictor Genll. to whom, after the appointment of some
particular Counsel to attend our Board, we should have no
occasion to apply ourselves but in cases of great importance.
But there is still further reason for the proposall at this time and
that is, that we are now going to collect, revise and dispose into
proper order and methods the laws of the severall Plantations
that they may be printed, which will be a work of great advantage
to the publick, but will demand a good deal of applican. and require
almost the constant attendance, of some one of H.M. Counsel
learned in the Law. [C.O. 389, 37. pp. 145–147.] |
March 3.
Whitehall. |
410. Same to the King. Representation upon William Byrd's
petition, Feb. 2. Refer to correspondence on the question, the
Attorney-General's opinion (Dec. 24, 1717), and their letter
Jan. 29. Continue:—We are not yet inform'd whether the
Council will not acquiesce in the aforesaid opinion of the Attorny
General. We find that Mr. Byrd in his petition to your Majesty
does not question the power itself which is lodg'd in the Governor
by his Commission from your Majesty, as he had done in his
memorial to us, but only desires it may be restrain'd. Upon
which we must observe, that no complaint has been offer'd of
any abuse that has been made of the said power; that the Govr.
has always on such occasions chosen the majority of Judges out
of the Council adding others to them, tho' the petitioner seems
to insinuate as if the Counciler Judges of the General Court were
entirely excluded. We beg leave farther to observe that this
application does not come from, and in behalf of the people of
the Colony, who might be most aggriev'd by any such power as
Mr. Byrd wou'd represent this to be; But from those persons
who wou'd engross the privilege of being sole Judges in all
criminal causes, so that it seems rather a claim of power for themselves to the prejudice of your Majesty's prerogative. As there
may be great inconveniences in confining the power entirely to
the Council, and as the Governor will be answerable for any
abuse he might make of such a power. We humbly offer that
it may remain as it is at present by your Majts. Commissn. [C.O.
5, 1365. pp. 52–57.] |
March 3.
St. John's. |
411. Address of the Lt.-Governor, Council and Assembly
of Antigua to the King. It is with great concern that we have
seen a paragraph inserted in severall printed newspapers that
H. E. Walter Hamilton our present Generall is superseded and
it is with much greater astonishment that we are informed,
it is industriously reported to be for disaffection to your Majesties
Government etc. He has upon all occasions given undeniable
proofs of his zeal and loyalty etc. Signed, Edw. Byam, Jno.
Hamilton, Edward Warner, Natha. Crump, Jno. Frye, Archd.
Cochran, John Gamble, Ashton Warner, Speaker, Geo. Thomas,
John Lightfoot, Tho. Pigott, John King, Wm. Lavington,
Jacob Morgon, Joshua Jones, (?) Bap. Looby, Giles Watkins,
Richd. Cochran, Humphry Osborn, James Nisbitte, Isaac
Horseford, Tho. Freeman, Jno. Gunthorpe, James Weatherill.
Endorsed, In ye Lieut.-Governor's letter of March 3rd, 1717/18.
1 large p. [C.O. 152, 42. No. 111.] |
March 3.
Antigua. |
412. Same to the Council of Trade and Plantations.Urge
that Governor Hamilton may be continued in his government
etc. as preceding and 12th, March q.v. Signed as preceding.
Endorsed, Recd. 12th, Read 18th June, 1718. 2 pp. [C.O.
152, 12. Nos. 88; and (duplicate) 89; and 153, 13. pp. 310–311.] |
March 4.
Antigua. |
413. Merchants, Traders, Planters and Inhabitants of
Antigua to the Council of Trade and Plantations. During the
two years of his administration Governor Hamilton has demonstrated the utmost regard for the honour of H.M., the ease of
his people, the security of the colonys, and the prosperity of
trade, in which latter he has in a most particular manner distinguished himself by encouraging and making easy in all respects
the honest and fair Adventurer, and discountenancing all others
etc. as 12th March. Signed, Merchants and Traders:—Edwd.
Chester junr., Marmaduke Bacheler, Bartho. Sanderson, Wm.
Dunbar, Christopher Scandrett, Jacob Thibou, P. Stoodlie,
Jos. Adams, John Burke, Fran. Delap (?), John Boudinot,
Rich. Denbow, Michael Arnald, Wm. Harrox, Wm. Hamilton,
Tho. Turner, Jno. Otto Bayer, Bayer Otto Bayer, Hen. Osborn,
John Tomlinison, Cæsar Rodeney, Hopefor Bendall, Cha. Hedges.
Planters and Inhabitants:—Sa. Watkins, Geo. Lucas, John Eliot,
James Gamble, Samll. Parry, John Haddon, Th. Oesterman,
Geo. Forest, W. Hill, Edwd. Chester, Richard Oliver, John
Bradeson, Jonas Langford, Dan. Mackinen, Edward Morgon, Jno.
Booth, John Butler, John Langelier, Saml. Proctor, John Hoskins,
Pat. West, Philip Darby, John Gamble Junr. Endorsed, Recd.
12th, Read 18th June, 1718. 2½ pp. [C.O. 152, 12. Nos. 90;
and (duplicate, with a few additional signatures) 91; and 153, 13.
pp. 311–313.] |
March 3.
Whitehall. |
414. Mr. Popple to Mr. Burchett. Encloses following.
Continues:— The Council of Trade and Plantations have received
a very particular and distinct account of the illegal proceedings
of the New England men from Capt. Passenger, and are very
well pleased with his endeavours to prevent it; and therefore
they have added the last clause in these Instructions, and desire
that the Lords of the Admiralty will please to inforce it, as far
as it is practicable. Requests that Capt. Passenger may be put
in mind of his account of the Fishery for last year, not yet received.
Annexed, |
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414. i. Heads of Enquiry for the Commodore of the Newfoundland Convoy. As usual. Cf. C.S.P. 1705, No.
1032. i. |
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414. ii. Additional Instructions for Same. As May 9th, 1717,
with addition of No. 17:— You will observe by the 5th
and 6th Articles of these Additional Instructions the
irregularities committed by the New England men,
particularly their inticeing away great numbers of
seamen, fishermen and others, especially after the
departure of the convoys, which will more plainly
appear by Commodore Passengers letters annexed.
And therefore you are to endeavor as much as possible
to oblige all the New England ships to sail at the same
time, that you shall leave the land, and otherwise to
restrain them as much as possible you can from the
irregularities complained of by Capt. Passenger. [C.O.
195, 6. pp. 375–391.] |
March 4.
Whitehall. |
415. Mr. Popple to Governor Sir N. Lawes. Encloses Copy
of Mr. Wood's letter of 20th Feb. The Council of Trade and
Plantations desire that upon your arrival at Jamaica you'll
make particular enquiry into this matter and let their Lordships
have your thoughts thereupon as soon as may be. [C.O. 138, 16.
p. 95.] |
March 5.
Whitehall. |
416. Circular letter from the Council of Trade and Plantations
to the Governors on the Continent of America. The Commissioners of H.M. Customs have transmitted to us some complaints
made to them of the badness of pitch and tar from the
Plantations particularly that the tar is full of water and the
pitch mixt with sand, durt and other matter to make it weighty,
and upon enquiry, we find that there are several quantities of
those commodities, wch. have been found not merchantable,
and certificates for them have been refusd; we thought it necessary to send you this notice, that you may give the proper directions to all persons concernd in pitch and tar in your government,
that they take care for the future, in manufacturing these commoditys, and that you may, if necessary, endeavour to get an
act pass'd for that purpose. This abuse in the manufacture
will bring a disrepute upon American pitch and tar, and no
præmiums will be allowd for such as do not come over well
conditiond and merchantable. [C.O. 324, 10. pp. 195, 196.] |
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417. Lord Guilford to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Encloses following. Signed, Guilford. Endorsed, Recd. 7th,
Read 10th March, 1717/18. 1 p. Enclosed, |
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417. i. Governor Hart to Lord Guilford. Maryland, 26th
Oct., 1717. Acknowledges letter enclosing that of the
Board of Trade 10th July, 1717, relating to illegal trade.
Continues:—I immediately laid it before the Council,
and demanded if they knew or had heard of any trade
carryed on by the inhabitants of this Province, with the
French settlements in America. The Councill were
unanimous in saying, there was no such trade they
knew of carryed on from Maryland, and I can assure
yr. Lordship, I never heard of any etc. However I
made a further enquiry from the Collectors, Navall
Officers, and other Officers of the Customs etc., who
answered that they neither knew, nor had hitherto
suspected any such trade. The Councill agreed with
my proposal for the issue of the enclosed Proclamation
etc. Signed, Jo. Hart. 2 pp. |
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417. ii. Proclamation by the Governor of Maryland forbidding
illegal trade between Maryland and the French Settlements in America in accordance with the Treaty of
Peace and Neutrality etc. Annapolis, 13th Sept., 1717.
Copy. 2 pp. [C.O. 5, 717. Nos. 73, 73 i., ii.] |
March 6.
Whitehall. |
418. Mr. Popple to Mr. Cumming[s]. The Council of Trade
and Plantations have considered what you write, 17th Sept.,
1717, in relation to the wooll of New England, but at present
have nothing to add to Mr. Attorney Genls. opinion thereupon,
which you have already received; However upon this occasion
there Lordps. think it will be of use to have answers to the
following questions according to the best information you are
able to get (i.) What quantity of wooll there may be annually
produced in N. England (ii.) What quantity of it is exported,
unwrought and to what place, (iii.) What quantity of it is made
into manufactures in New England, what sorts of manufactures
they are, and were consumed. They further desire that you
would send them a sample of the wooll, and also of the different
species of manufactures that are made up in that country, with
the prices at which they are sold, I mean both the wool and the
several manufactures. They likewise desire you would let them
have your thoughts whether it would be worth while that the
wooll of New England should be brought to this Kingdom, and
in that case what incouragement would be either proper or
necessary to promote the doing of it. Their Lordps. are well
pleased with the account you have sent them of foreign goods
imported into New England for three years and a half, but they
wish you had specifyed the particular places from whence those
species came, and therefore they desire you will do it for the
future. [C.O. 5, 915. pp. 97, 98.] |
March 6.
Whitehall. |
419. Council of Trade and Plantations to Governor Shute.
Acknowledge letters of 23rd July and 9th Nov. Continue:—You refer us in your last letter to Mr. Blaithwayt's Office, for
an account of the Revenues in your Governments, which we had
writ to you for (4th Aug.); We desire you will take notice that
by H.M. Instructions, you are required to send constant and
regular accounts of the Revenue in your Governments to us, as
well as to the Auditor, and we shall expect them from you for
the future. We take notice that eight pirates have been tryed,
upon which we desire to know by virtue of what power those
tryals have been; also you will do well to send us copies of the
tryals as has been usually done. Repeat Instructions relating
to manufacture of pitch and tar (No. 416), and for returns of
imports from the Maderas and Western Islands (No. 408 etc.).
Continue:—We send you here inclosed, the copy of a
Meml. lately laid before us, concerning the progress the French
have made in finding out and securing a passage from
St. Lawrence on Canada River to their new settlement, called
Louisiana, and down the River Mississippi in the Bay of Mexico;
Whereupon we must desire you to inform yourself, as particularly
as you can of the facts therein mentioned, and to acquaint us
therewith as soon as possible and to give us your sentiments,
what methods may be most proper to be taken for preventing
the inconveniences to which H.M. Plantations on the Continent
of America, and the Trade of this Kingdom may be subject by
such a communication between the French settlements. [C.O.
5, 915. pp 99–102.] |
March 7.
Whitehall. |
420. Mr. Popple to Mr. Attorney General. Encloses deed
of surrender by the Lords Proprietors of the Bahama Islands to
be enrolled in Chancery etc. [C.O. 24, 1. p. 18.] |
March 7.
Portsmouth. |
421. Governor Sir N. Lawes to Mr. Popple. Acknowledges
letter of March 4th. Continues:—My greatest objection against
that Law is, that every body takes all opportunity to become
what they call Reformado Officers, and all wise men who have
been in any Office will make that Law a pretence, as I believe,
they have done to become idle, and useless to the publick, because
they get nothing by it, and thereby lay a great burthen, and much
trouble, and charge upon a few, besides makeing it very difficult
for a Governour to find proper persons quallified by this Law,
otherwise very loyall to serve the King and Country. I hear
by report, that several matters relating to the Government of
Jamaica has been, since I left London, under the consideration
of his Majtie in Council, and that 14 Acts of the Assembly were
some of them approved, and the rest rejected by the King. I
am also told, that 14 times £3 2s. 6d. is demanded at the Council
Office, for the fees of those 14 Laws, and that Mr. March has a
list of them given him not to do service, but to ruffle matters,
keep up divisions, and rail at the Ministers; as I hear he, Harris,
and others do for rejecting the Law that provides for the paying
peoples passages and setting them free at Jamaica. I confess
I could wish H.M. pleasure had been known at first, or that Law
had lain suspended during its temporary end, because abundance
of people have imbarked upon the faith of that Law and many
are now aboard several ships at this time in the Downs bound to
Jamaica, and if they must be sold for their passages when they
come there, they will be apt to say they were betrayed, and no
body hereafter will depend upon any such encouragement. It
would be a favour to me, to be informed of my duty in this case
what notice I am to take of those Laws passed, or rejected, without
any notification from the Secretary of State, or any proper Office,
or whether I am obliged to pay those fees for such Acts of State,
and Government as I was not concerned in otherwise than a
planter, or private man. I have been now confined more than
three weeks to this dismall expensive place by contrary winds,
and God knows how much longer I must be so, but I admire in
all this time I have received no Instruction about the pirates;
I am confident they will never be reduced by the same powers,
and directions that have suffered them to rove so long, but that
is what I am not answerable for, I wish no body had cause to
complain, and that proper measures may be taken to keep those
loose people in subjection, and obedience to the Law when they
are subdued; for my part I shall willingly commit them to
Providence; and never desire to be troubled with them in
Jamaica. I beg you to present my most obedient service to
their Lordships, and believe me, good Mr. Popple, for many
reasons, and obligations I shall ever be, Sir, Your most humble
servant etc. P.S. When you see my friend, and brother Governour
Rogers, pray give him my service, the same to Mr. Bampfield.
Signed, Nicholas Lawes. Addressed. 1½ pp. [C.O. 137, 12.
No. 124; and (without concluding sentences) 138, 16. pp. 98–102.] |
March 7.
Virginia. |
422. Lt.-Governor Spotswood to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. Abstract. In reply to letter of 30th Aug. gives an
account of H.M. Revenues and the manner of auditing them.
As to quit-rents, of 2s. sterl. reserved to the Crown upon every
100 acres granted by patent, that would yield nearly £3,000 a
year, but that the Crown having so far indulged the planters as
to accept tobacco at 1d. per lb. in lieu of money, it frequently
happens, when that commodity is low, that the same tobacco
paid to the King at 8s. 4d. a hundred yields no more than 3s. or
or half a crown; and what through the remissness of the people
in paying their rents, and the fraud or negligence of the officers
collecting them, many thousands of acres are held for which no
quit-rent at all is paid. There is also the 2lb. of tobacco
per acre payable on new grants of escheated lands. The actual
revenue from quit-rents might be considerably improved "if
it were possible to perswade people that there is as much justice
due to the King in the case of his quitt-rents, as every subject
expects to receive in his own particular case": or were it possible
for a Governor to obtain a due execution of any regulations he
might propose for obtaining a true rent-roll. But after having
struggled for seven years past to compass these ends, I have only
learned that all measures projected for the service of the Crown,
are against the grain, and serve to no other purpose than to gain
a Governor the ill will of the people, while those who are bound
to assist him in supporting the King's just rights, are more ready
to promote disobedience to his orders, for the sake of popularity,
than to merit the favour of their Sovereign, by doing their duty:
Thus the people have been taught by the example, and doctrine
of their superiors, not to discover the true quantity of the land
they hold, by showing their patents or deeds to the officer collecting
their rents: and notwithstanding the Act etc. which makes three
years non-payment of quitt-rents a forfeiture of the land, the
governing party of the Council, who are the judges of the General
Court, and the last resort in all cases under £300 value, after having
by their emissarys in Assembly tryed, in vain, to repeal that act,
have declared their opinion to be that it shal effect no lands
except such as have been granted since the passing thereof:
whereby that act is rendered useless, which was solely designed to
oblige the people to give up a just account of the lands they hold,
without any intention of divesting the subject of his freehold
for an inconsiderable penalty (as has been falsely suggested),
seeing the Governor has it in his power to grant the land de novo
to the person forfeiting the same. And so far are these Gentlemen from favouring the recovery of the King's rents, that in
their directions (last November) to the Sherifs for collecting the
arrears of quitt-rents, instead of ordering distress to be made,
as every landlord has power to do, for his rent, the Sherifs were
only enjoined to make a demand, and in case the tenant refused
to pay to return upon the rent-roll the reason given for that
refusal." Enumerates methods of improving the revenue without
making a new law, e.g., by compelling the payment of quit-rents
made in tobacco at certain fixed stations. But the present Council
would prevent any such improvement. Another improvement
would be to entrust the collection to permanent officers, instead
of to the annual Sheriffs as at present, who act by deputies often
of small means and indifferent characters. This method, however,
is disliked on two very extraordinary grounds, (i.) because it
would introduce a greater exactness than is consistent with the
popular notions of liberty, (ii.) because it would creat too great a
dependence of those officers on the Government, the power of
which the present sett of politicians here are resolved by all
means to lessen. The not keeping regular accounts of arrears
of the quitt-rents has also lessened the revenue; during the time
of the two late officers of the Revenue, such account has never
been demanded till this last year. If the proposals made above
were put in force, H.M. would rarely have less, and in general a
great deal more for his tobacco, than the penny per pound at
which it is paid by the people, and consequently would be no
loser by the favour he allows them of paying tobacco in lieu of
money. Enumerates the other branches of Revenue, the 2s. per
hhd., tunage, and duty on persons imported, 5s. per 50 acres
taken up etc. The improvement of this revenue must depend
very little on any means to be taken there, but upon the price
of tobacco as an inducement to planters. If H.M. would order
the present deficiency to be made good out of the quit-rents, the
Revenue would support all the charges of the Government hereafter, unless some such accident should again discourage planters
from making tobacco, as when, during the late war, the price
fell so low. To lessen the annual charges of the Revenue, proposes
that no further allowance be given to the Judges of the Courts
of Oyer and Terminer. It is to this mistaken generosity of the
Crown, that the Council's pretensions of being the sole Judges
in those Courts owe their birth, etc. Requests that the Instruction
allowing £100 for each Court be altered. Refers to enclosures.
Describes the reforms he has introduced in the method of keeping
and auditing the accounts. The new regulations he has made
with regard to the sale and accounts of Treasury rights (described),
are shown to be necessary, since, upon calling in the old Treasury
rights, some hundreds have been returned, more than have been
accounted for by the Receivers-General. My Byrd and his
father are the people concerned. Concludes:—"Tho' this method
of keeping and auditing the accots. in books, be new, and occasions
some more trouble to the Officers, I hope it will not be disapproved
by yor. Lordps., since it makes these officers a greater check on one
another, than they could possibly have been while one examined
all the receipts, and the other swore to the truth thereof without
being privy to such examination. P.S. April 26th. Having
writt thus far of my former date expecting to have been furnished
from the Receiver-Genll's. books with the state of the sevll.
branches of H.M. Revenues for three years past in order to a
medium computation of the income, I found there were no
distinct accompts entered there, till Oct. 1716 (after the late
Auditor's suspension) so that I was obliged to stop this letter
till now, that I might at least send your Lordps. the state thereof
for two years, wch. ends the 25th instant. As the first of these
years proved a short crop, and the last a pretty good one, your
Lordps. may from hence forme a judgment of what that Revenue
may bring in, taking one year with another." Set out, Spotswood
Papers II., 265. Signed, A. Spotswood. Endorsed, Recd. 8th
July, Read 6th Aug., 1718. 9 pp. Enclosed, |
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422. i. (a) Annual produce of the Quitt Rents in Virginia,
exclusive of the Northern Neck quitt rents, 1704–1717.
1704. 2,238, 143 acres=£1,841 1s. 6¾d. 1717. 2,216,881
acres =£2,240 16s. 7½d. |
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(b) Compositions for escheat land, 1716 =£14 15s. 2d.;
1717 =£8 18s. 9¼d. |
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(c) Established sallarys paid out of the Quitt Rents:—Bishop of London's Commissary, £100; AttorneyGeneral, additional sallary, £60; Coll. Blakiston, Agent
for Virginia, additional sallary, £200; Henry Rainsford,
an annuity for 31 years, £500. =£860. The whole
endorsed as covering letter. 2 pp. |
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422. ii. (a) Annual produce of H.M. Revenue for the support
of the Government of Virginia for two years ending 25th
April, 1718. (i.) April, 1716–1717. 2s. per hhd.,
£2,258 14s.; 15d. per tun on ships trading here,
£1,051 18s. 1½d.; 6d. per. poll on persons imported,
£15, 6s. 6d. (ii.) April, 1717–1718. £3,403;
£1,552 14s. 2d.; £38 6s. Total, after allowing 10 p.c.
on the 2s. p. hhd. to the masters of ships, and 10 p.c.
on the whole duties to the Collectors, and 5 p.c. to the
Auditor and Receiver-General on the sum paid them
by the Collectors, (£2, 038 18s. 9d.), £6,281 0s. 0½d.; |
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(b) Rights for land for the same time, £228 11s. 7¼d.;
fines and forfeitures, £26 13s. 8d. |
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(c) Established sallarys paid out of preceding. The
Governor, £2,000 per annum; The Council, £350;
Auditor-General of the Plantations, £100; Agent of
Virginia, £100; Attorney-Genll., £40; Clerk of the
Council (sallary and office books etc.), £100; Armourer,
£12; Gunner at James City, £10; Ministers attending
the Genll. Courts, £10. Casual Payments: The Courts
of Oyer and Terminer, held twice in a year, £200;
Ministers who preach before the Genll. Assembly
when call'd, £5; Contingent charges for expresses
about Indians, transport of stores etc., £100. Total,
£3,027. The whole endorsed as preceding. 2 pp.
[C.O. 5, 1318. Nos. 47, 47 i., ii.; and (without enclosures)
5, 1365. pp. 64–81.] |
March 8.
Carolina. |
423. Committee of the Assembly of Carolina to Mr. Boone.
We being by the House of Commons appointed a Committee
to write to you, and enclose an Address to H.M. for relieving this
poor Colony which at present seems to be in more danger by
reason of our enemy Indians, than it has been this war. We are
to acquaint you the reasons of our belief which are (i.) Some months
before Christmas last we send Colo. Hastens, Cap. Musgrove
and 8 persons more up to the Southern Indians then at war with
us with proposals of peace, after some time Musgrove came down
and brought a few of the Creek Indians to make peace with us,
in the mean time Hastens and three or four white men besides
women and children was left amongst the enemy Indians as a
pledge of the safe return of their people, and when Musgrove left
Hastens, he engaged if alive to write to ye Savana Town by
Christmas, but to this day no news from him. (ii.) We have advice
pr. Capt. Watson that came lately from Augustine and by another
vessel, that the enemy Indians brought the Spaniards word,
they had killed Hastens and nine white people more. (iii.) A
white man that came from Lavre de Cruiz gives us account that
several of our enemy Indians have been there and convey'd
from thence to the Vice-Roy of Mexico in order no doubt to
shew them their grandeur, that they may dispise us, they have
also been carry'd to the Havana, doubtless on the same account,
at both places treated at a very high rate. (iv.) We have had no
late news either from the Cherachees or Cuttabas which have
entred into articles of Peace with this Governmt. which induceth
us to believe, that the whole body of Indians all round us are
plotted against us encouraged by the French and Spaniards
which we have good reason to believe, having affidavits of several
persons that have been amongst our enemy Indians and had
account what encouragemt. the French and Spaniards gave them
still to continue the war. We refer you to those affidavits sent
to the Lords Proprietors by the late Governor Daniel and Council
etc. (v.) Several servants of the rebells are run from their
masters to Augustine and notwithstanding this Governmt. has
made a demand of them, the Governmt. of Augustine detains
them alledging they are turned Christians, and cannot deliver
them, without the King's order, they likewise receive all our
slaves they can get on any account, and refuse to deliver them
tho' demanded by this Government. We need not acquaint the
Government at home, how the French increase at Moble, and
now have built garrisons amongst our Creek Indians, by what is
now writ in haste you and all impartial men may judge of our
circumstance which we assure you most people here take to be
worse than ever and we are well assured as soon as the Governor
of Providence arrives to-his Governmt. many people will leave
this Governmt. and go there for Peace, and the saving of taxes,
for this handfull of people in this Governmt. is to pay in two days
time £47,000, for our keeping so many garrisons on our frontiers
will certainly ruin us if not quickly relieved. We are well assured
if our Gracious Sovereign had a true information what a miserable
condition his poor subjects are in in this Governmt. he would
relieve us immediately. We doubt not of your prudent management of this affair, etc. Signed, pr. order of the Assembly, Ja.
Cockran, Jonth. Drake. Endorsed, Recd., Read 6th May, 1718.
3½ pp. [C.O. 5, 1265. No. 99.] |
March 10.
Whitehall. |
424. Mr. Popple to Mr. Attorney General. Encloses copies
of the Memorial of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (v. 9th Feb.),
and of a lease and release from them to Sir R. Montgomery (v. 18th
and 19th June, 1717) and the Charter of Carolina, "which you will
find in ye inclosed book, which book and papers, I am to desire
you will return me with your opinion if there be anything contained in the said lease or release, that may be prejudicial to
the right of the Crown." [C.O. 5, 1293. p. 138.] |
March 10.
St.Christopher's |
425. Extract of letter from Mr. Burchal to Mr. Cunyngham.
The General went as far as Crab Island and gave Capt. Howel a
Commission to be Captain Commandant to protect the new
Settlement, which is since broke up by the Spaniards and many
of our people knocked on the head. We have not an exact no.
the survivors are made prisoners. Endorsed, Recd. 20th, Read
23rd May, 1718. ½ p. [C.O. 152, 12. No. 84; and 153, 13.
p. 295.] |
March 10.
Whitehall. |
426. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary
Addison. Enclose for his information copy of letter from Col.
Heywood, 21st Dec., 1717, relating to the increase of pirates.
Autograph signatures. 1 p. Enclosed, |
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426. i. Copy of No. 271. [C.O. 137, 46. Nos. 30, 34; and
(without enclosure) 138, 16. p. 97.] |
March 10.
Whitehall. |
427. Mr. Popple to Mr. Burchett. Encloses copy of letter
from Mr. Heywood (v. preceding). [C.O. 138, 16. p. 98.] |
| [March 11.] |
428. Mr. Dummer to the Council of Trade and Plantations.
I have by the last ships from New England receiv'd a complaint
from the Lieut. Governour, the Council and Representatives of
New Hampshire that Mr. Bridger at his arrival there has strictly
forbid all persons whatsoever to go into the woods, and to cut
any sort of timber thô it neither is, nor can be fit for H.M. service.
Whereupon the Assembly have desir'd me humbly to represent
the matter to your Lordpps. as a great grievance and damage to
all H.M. good subjects in that Province, and pray that your
Lordpps. will be pleas'd to redress the same. Signed, Jer.
Dummer. Endorsed, Recd. Read 11th March, 1717/18. Subscribed,
Jer. Dummer, Agent for N. Hampshire, appointed by Act
of Assembly. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 866. No. 142; and 5, 915. p. 104.] |
March 11.
Whitehall. |
429. Mr. Popple to Mr. Bridger. Reply to 30th Dec., 1717.
The Council of Trade and Plantations are very sorry for the
destruction which you mention to have been made in some
parts of H.M. woods, but hope those abuses may be prevented
for the future by your care and vigilance in the discharge of your
duty, wch. will always recommend you to the favour of the
Board. In relation to the Deputies you have appointed and the
allowance you desired for them. I am to observe to you that
you cannot but remember the difficulties which the settlement of
a salary for yourself met with; and therefore may judge how
little likelihood there is of obtaining any such allowance for these
Deptys. at present: When the survey you are upon is perfected,
and it may fully appear what service the said Deputies have done,
they may hope for rewards suitable to their services and expect
the proper recommendations from this Board in their behalf.
As soon as their Lordps. have notice from the Governor of New
Hampshire of the vacancies you say there are in the Council,
their Lordps. have agreed to recommend you for supplying one
of those vacancies. [C.O. 5, 915. pp. 102, 103.] |
March 11.
Whitehall. |
430. Mr. Popple to Mr. Burchett. Encloses extract from
Governor Hamilton's letter, 6th Jan., as to need of a larger man
of war etc., to be laid before the Lords Commrs. of the Admiralty.
[C.O. 153, 13. p. 250.] |
March 11.
Whitehall. |
431. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary
Addison. Enclose above extract to be laid before H.M. [C.O.
153, 13. p. 251.] |
March 12.
Whitehall. |
432. Same to Same. Refer to letter of Sept. 26, 1717, representing that in the grants of land petitioned for by Sir A. Cairnes etc.
the fishing on the seas within the district to be granted should be
left free to all H.M. subjects. Continue:—We are further confirmed
in the necessity of such a condition because we have good reason to
believe the seas on those coasts is more profitable for fishing than
in any other parts of H.M. American Dominions: But least a
pretence should be taken to restrain this liberty barely to ye
fishing on the seas, without allowing ye fishermen liberty of curing
their fish along the coast, we think it proper to observe that if
H.M. shall think fit to grant the land pray'd for, it will be necessary
there be a clause in the patent allowing to all H.M. subjects the
liberty of building stages and curing fish on the coast without
being liable to any impositions upon that account. Propose
that orders be given to H.M. Attorney or Solicitor-General to
attend the Board to receive such directions as may be thought
necessary before they prepare a bill for this grant etc. [C.O.
218, 1. pp. 340, 341.] |
| [March 12.] |
433. Copy of General Nicholson's Commission and Instrutions for the reduction of Port Royal, 18th March, 1710.
Endorsed, Recd., Read 12th March, 1717/18. 2¼ pp. [C.O. 217, 2.
Nos. 40–42.] |
| [March 12.] |
434. Copy of pass from M. Subercase to Major Richard
Mullins and Charles Brown etc. 23rd Oct., 1710. q.v. Endorsed,
Recd., Read 12th March, 1717/18. French. 1 p. [C.O. 217, 2.
No. 43.] |
| March 12. |
435. Mr. Attorney General to the Council of Trade and
Plantations. I have no objection to the Act of Antigua for
encouraging the importation of white servants (v. 10th Feb.) Signed,
Edw. Northey. Endorsed, Recd. 3rd April, Read 2nd May, 1718.
¾ p. [C.O. 152, 12. No. 79; and 153, 13. p. 286.] |
| March 12. |
436. Same to Same. Report upon Act of New York, 1710,
for the better settlement and assuring of lands etc. Provisions
quoted. Concludes:—It seems pritty extraordinary that the
Govr. of New York should now propose the repealing of that
bill which pass't in 1710 and in 1713 many titles of the possessors
were establish't thereby, and who may have sold to purchasers
under the security of that Act, by the repealing of which they
may now want the titles upon which they purchased. On which
I cannot but observe the great inconveniencys which may happen
by suffering the Plantation Laws to remain so long not confirmed
or repealed, and therefore it will be difficult to repeal this law
now, whereby so great a prejudice may ensue to such purchasers,
unless some provision be first made for them. As to the Bill I
think it is improper to put H.M. and his subjects in the same
condition as to their being barred by possession, but if H.M.
for the quiet of the publick be content with the same, I have no
objection to that part of the Bill. And as to the making copys
of deeds registred to be as good evidence, as the originals, it is
no more than what is in England, in case of bargains and sales
enrolled, and I have no objection agt. any other parts of the
said bill. Signed, Edw. Northey. Endorsed, Recd. 3rd, Read
9th April, 1718. 3 pp. [C.O. 5, 1051. No. 64; and 5, 1124.
pp. 16–19.] |
| March 12. |
437. Same to Same, I have no objection to either of the
Acts of Jamaica (v. Jan. 8th, 1718). Signed, Edw. Northey.
Endorsed, Recd. 3rd April, Read 21st May, 1718. ½ p. [C.O.
137, 13. No. 7; and 138, 16. p. 112.] |
March 12.
Nevis. |
438. Council and Assembly of Nevis to the Council of Trade
and Plantations. We have been greatly surprised to hear of a
paragraph inserted in some newspapers importing, that his
Majestie had been pleased to appoint Col. Purcell to be Chief
Governour of the Leeward Islands, in the room of Walter Hamilton Esq., and we are informed, that it has been industriously
spread abroad, that it was for disaffection to H.M. Government,
etc. Represent the falsity of this charge and their own apprehension at his recall. They have enjoyed much happiness and tranquility under his administration, and recall his brave and free
hazarding his life in defence of the Protestant cause, at the time
of the Revolution etc. Testify to his loyalty etc. His conduct
has been prudent, mild, impartial and just etc. His whole
administration has been universally pleasing to all unbiased,
unprejudiced, and honest men etc. Pray their Lordships to support
and continue him in the Government. Signed, Richd. Abbott,
John Pinney, Jas. Bevon, Aza. Pinney. John Richardson,
Robrt. Eleis, Michll. Smith, Jno. Choppin, Rog. Pemberton,
Speaker, Saml. Gardner, Ja. Symonds, Rich. Brodbelt, Joseph
Herbert, John Smith, John Woodley, Thos. Wallwin junr.,
Jeremiah Browne, Geo. Meriwether. Endorsed, Recd. Read 10th
June, 1718. 2 pp. [C.O. 152, 12. No. 85; and 153, 13. pp.
296, 297.] |
| March 12. |
439. Address of the President and Council, and Assembly of
Nevis to the King. In favour of Governor Walter Hamilton
as March 3rd. Signed, Richd. Abbott. Jas. Bevon, Aza. Pinney,
Robt. Eleis, John Richardson, Mich. Smith, Jno. Choppin,
John Pinney, Roger Pemberton, Speaker, Ja. Symonds, Richd.
Brodbelt, John Smith, John Woodley, Joseph Herbert, Samll.
Gardner, Geo. Meriwether, Jeremiah Browne, Carew Brodbelt,
Thos. Wallwin junr. 1 large p. [C.O. 152, 42. No. 112.] |
March 12.
Admty. Office. |
440. Mr. Burchett to Mr. Popple. The Heads of Enquiry etc.
(v. 3rd March) are sent to Capt. Scott etc. The last article of the
Instructions is particularly recommended to him. When Capt.
Passenger returns, he will doubtless send to the Lords Comnrs.
for Trade an account of the Fishery at Newfoundland. Signed,
J. Burchett. Endorsed, Recd. 12th, Read 13th March, 1717/18.
Addressed. 1 p. [C.O. 194, 6. No. 43; and 195, 6. p. 392.] |
March 15.
St. Christophers. |
441. Governor Hamilton to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Having been lately advised by my friends in England
that a petition and complaint has been exhibited against me
before your Lordships by one Christopher Stoddart representing
some hardships by me done to the petitioner in granting a plantation whereof he was possessed in the French part of the Island of
St. Christophers to Mr. Milliken and that I had caused him and
his family to be turned violently out of his possession and exposed
to great want I thought it my duty by the earliest oppertunity
I could to lay before your Lordships a true account and state of
the matter etc. The rule which I have set to myself etc. in discharging the trust reposed in me by H.M. of disposing of the
lands in the late French part of that Island till H.M. final pleasure
was known therein has been to grant the same to such people as
were best able to advance H.M. Revenue by making powerfull
and effectual settlements thereon, and had by their services
during the last war deserved best of their King and Country, not
without a due regard (I think) to the poorer sort whom I never
denied such tracts of land as they were able to manure in places
most convenient for them, which I have always thought to be
those nearest the sea; where being seated they are best able to
contribute most to the strength and safety of the Island as also
with more ease to succour and maintain their families by the
conveniency of fishing if they are minded and I never receiv'd any
consideration or made any advantage to myself from any persons
thereby etc. This plantation which I have granted to Mr.
Milliken contains about 200 acres of land and was in 1711 by
General Douglass granted to one Thomas Mitchell formerly a
Commander of one of H.M. ships of war and by him possessed
till his death in 1714. Captain Mitchell some little time before
his death entered into an agreement with this Stoddart to plant
the same in partnership with him as your Lordships will find
by the agreement (Copy enclosed) intended between them tho'
never executed, by which agreement your Lordships will observe
how little Mr. Stoddart was able to settle such a Plantation, the
whole number of negroes furnished by both of them being but
twenty and his part but ten. Capt. Mitchell dying some time in
1714, Stoddart remained in possession of the said plantation till
I arrived, but without any grant from Governour Smith who
commanded in chief when Mitchell died, or from Lt.-General
Mathew who succeeded him, tho I am informed he applied to
both of them for a grant and they both denied him. The said
plantation being undisposed of when I arrived I thought I might
grant the same to anybody without doing any injustice to Mr.
Stoddart who had not any pretence of title to it nor had he at
that time made anything of a settlement or much improvement
of his own thereon having not been concern'd with Capt. Mitchell
in improving the same above a year, and therefore I did upon the
application of Major James Milliken grant the same unto him,
but withall gave particular directions to him that he should suffer
Mr. Stoddart to reap the benefitt of his crop then in the ground
and of whatever improvements he had made which Mr. Stoddart
has done to the full. If he has suggested in his petition that I
by any arbitrary power of my own caused him to be turned out
of his possession, he has suggested to your Lordships what is not
true; for after I had given Major Milliken a grant for the said
plantation I concerned myself no further in it but left Major
Milliken (Mr. Stoddart forcibly continuing his possession notwithstanding my grant) to pursue his legal remedy; who thereupon brought an ejectment against him in the Courts of Common
Law here and recovered not the possession thereof till August last.
Refers to enclosure. Continues:— What improvements Mr. Stoddart has made upon this plantation which is but very small he
never having manured above 30 acres in the whole (but that in
the heart of the Plantation and the best part of the land, and
without which Major Milliken can't carry on his settlement
without great prejudice) he has made chiefly since my grant;
and therefore I would submit it to your Lordships whether a
man thus obstinately settling without any manner of title and in
open opposition to the power given by H.M. to his Chief
Governours here, has any colour to complain of any hardship
done him, if he were to loose the benefitt of it and receive no
further than what the Law allows him, but nevertheless I do
assure your Lordships that Major Milliken has not taken that
advantage but has upon my request been so very tender to him
as to let him receive the produce of whatever canes he has planted
even since my grant to him, and that Mr. Stoddart's wife is at
this time by his leave grinding of the canes for her own use, which
her husband planted long after my grant tho he has withstood
him as long as he could and put him to the trouble and expence
of a lawsuit etc. Had Mr. Stoddard applied to me to grant him
this plantation (which he did not) I think I could not in reason
have refused it to Mr. Milliken. Mr. Stoddart in the first place
has done nothing to deserve it but on the contrary during the
late war when he had the command of a Militia company and the
Island was invaded by the enemy, he shamefully deserted his
command and flew to the mountains, and there remained till the
enemy was gone on the other hand Major Milliken has always
during my knowledge of him behaved himself very well upon every
command and did voluntarily upon the breaking out of the late
war in 1702 leave his family and habitation in Nevis to come
down and assist in the taking of the French part of St. Christophers.
And besides Mr. Stoddart is a man of but mean circumstances
and not able to settle such a plantation as this, having but 10
negroes to bring upon it etc., Whereas Major Milliken is able to
settle it effectually and has brought on above 74 negroes, and
will thereby bring more advantage to H.M. Revenue besides
adding more strength to the Island by the number of his white
servants, and has not any other plantation in these Islands etc.
If Mr. Stoddart had applied to me for any vacant peice of land in
a proper part of the Island that was suitable to his condition I
should not have denied him, having always done whatever in
me lay to encourage the poorer sort to settle, knowing how much
they contribute to the strength of an Island, but this I thought
was a plantation too large for him to expect or me to grant him
etc. If there be any other charges in this petition not answered
herein, prays for a copy of it, etc. Signed, W. Hamilton. Endorsed,
Recd. 12th, Read 18th June, 1718. 3 large pp. Enclosed, |
|
441. i. Deposition of James Milliken. St. Christophers, 14th
March, 1718. By an agreement with Christopher
Stoddart, deponent received ⅓rd of the produce of the
canes planted by him on the plantation of 200 acres
granted to deponent 8th May, 1716, deponent finding
negroes and horses to cut and grind them. Thereafter however Stoddart left for England and his wife
refused to quit possession of said plantation, till compelled by process of law. Her obstruction caused
deponent to lose 20,000 lb. of sugar. He has notwithstanding permitted her to cut and grind the rattoones
springing from the canes Stoddart had cut last year
etc. Signed, James Milliken. Copy. 3 pp. |
|
441. ii. Agreement concluded between James Milliken and
Christopher Stoddard. St. Christophers, Dec.[? 1716].
v. preceding. Copy. ¾ p. |
|
441. iii. Agreement concluded between Christopher Stoddart
and Capt. Thomas Mitchell,. St. Christophers, Sept.,
1714. Deed of partnership for developing plantation
in Basse Terre. Each partner is to provide 10 negroes,
3 horses and 3 cart cattle etc. Copy. 1 p. [C.O.
152, 12. Nos. 86, 86 i.–iii.; and (without enclosures)
153, 13. pp. 298–305.] |
March 15.
St. Christophers. |
442. Governor Hamilton to the Council of Trade and Plantations. Begins with duplicate of 8th Feb. Continues:— I have
in obedience to H.M. commands and your Lordships' directions
(4th Oct., 1717), recommended to the Council and Assembly of
Antigua to prepare a particular account of all the charges of the
Government etc. A Committee of both houses is appointed for
stating the same, which is the usual practice of these H.M. Islands
for auditing all accounts. As soon as that is finished I shall strive
to have the same done in the other three Islands and then transmit them home by first opertunitys. I am now to acquaint your
Lordships that what I always dreaded is come to pass, for that
on the 10 of February last the Spaniards with one man of war
and six sloops came to Crabb Island, sent on shoar to demand them
to surrender the Island to the King of Spain, what answer Captain Howell (whom I formerly mentioned to your Lordships)
made I cannot inform you, he being carried away by them, but
they immediately after landed, have killed severalls of our men
and taken others with their wives and children with upwards
of 50 negroes and carried them all to Porto Rico, the rest saved
themselves by flight to the Windward part of the Island and were
taken off by small sloops that accidentally were coming down
there, and were carried to Anguilla and Spanish Town and it's
said they design to carry all they took to Mexico; They took
all the sloops they found upon that coast as well as they do
others in the open sea. I humbly beg your Lordships to lay this
before H.M. that I may have as soon as possible H.M. commands
and your Lordships' directions how to act in this affair; in the
mean time I design to make a demand of them, as well as of the
sloops and negroes by the Scarborough man of war on the
Barbados station, who has orders from the Admiralty Board to
go down there to make a demand for a ship seized in the time of
the cessation of armes, and shall inform your Lordships the
particulars from time to time as they occur to my knowledge.
The poor people of Anguilla, Spanish Town and Tortola are
still very pressing to remove to the Island of Santa Crois or St.
Cruis, but I have desired them to have patience till I shall receive
H.M. commands, and your Lordships directions, which I beg
may be soon for otherwise it will be impossible to keep those
poor people together, indeed they are almost famished for want
of food, for such a long spell of dry weather has not been known
in the memory of man. Had half the former French land in
St. Christophers been given gratis to those poor people I am very
well satisfied it would have in a few years turned to a greater
advantage in raising the Revenue of the Crown than now it will
by the sale, and would have been the strengthning of all the
Islands, but as they are now dispersed they are so many lost, but
I must submit all to your Lordships more discerning judgement.
I have so often troubled your Lordships with representing that the
man of war on this station was of little or no service whereupon
your Lordships letter to the Admiralty Board the Tryal sloop was
ordered for this station to reinforce the Seaford, which sloop did
not arrive from Jamaica to this Government till the 15th of last
month, and before she stirred out of the harbour of Antigua
she received orders for her returning forthwith for Great Brittain.
So that we are again as defenceless as before, should any pirates
infest this coast, which I must also leave to your Lordships'
consideration etc. Signed, W. Hamilton. Endorsed, Recd. 12th,
Read 18th June, 1718. 3 large pp. [C.O. 152, 12. No. 87; and
153, 13. pp. 305–308.] |
March 15/26
Essequebe, opt Huys Naby. |
443. Commandant Vanderheyden Rézen to the Directors of
the Dutch West India Company. Signed, Pr. Vanderheyden
Rézen. Endorsed, Read, 28th April, (N.S.) 1718.Dutch. 15½
pp. Enclosed, |
|
443. i. Lists of requirements, inventories of slaves and goods,
clearances of vessels. Dutch. [C.O. 116, 21. Nos.
156 ff.] |
March 15/26
Essequebe, opt Huys Naby. |
444. Same to Same. Signed, Pr. Van der Heyden Rézen.
Endorsed, Read 18th (N.S.) July, 1718. Dutch. 11½ pp. [C.O.
116, 21. No. 157.] |
