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UNIVERSITY 

OF  PITTSBURGH 

LIBRARY 


THIS  BOOK  PRESENTED  RY  THE 
CHRISTINA  PUBLISHING  SOCIETY 
IN    MEMORY    OF    MARY  E.   RIECK 


6 


3  1735  060  215  872 


CALENDAR 

OF 

STATE    PAPERS, 

COLONIAL      SERIES, 

AMERICA     AND    WEST    INDIES, 

MARCH,  1720  to  DECEMBER,  1721. 

PRESERVED     IN     THE 

PUBLIC     RECORD     OFFICE. 


EDITED     BY 

CECIL     HEADLAM,     M.A. 


ISSUKD    BY    THK  AUTHORITY  OK  THE    LORDS   COMMISSIONERS  OF   HIS   MAJ EST V's  TREASURY 
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CONTENTS. 


Preface 
Corrigenda 
Calendar 
(iENERAL  Index 


PAGE 

i 
Ixiii 

1 
511 


PREFACE. 


Spanish 

Attack 

upon  the 

Bahamas. 


Spanish 

Privateers 

ignore 
cessation 
of  arms. 


MARCH  1720,  1721. 

§  I.     GENERAL. 

At  the  end  of  February,  1720,  the  Spaniards  from  Havana 
delivered  their  long  delayed  attack  upon  the  Bahama  Islands. 
But  when  they  appeared  off  New  Providence,  they  found 
Governor  Woodes  Rogers  and  H.M.S.  Flamborough  ready  to 
receive  them.  They  made  several  attempts  to  land,  but  were 
repulsed,  However,  they  were  expected  to  return  shortly  in 
greater  force,  and  in  response  to  an  appeal  for  assistance  from 
Rogers,  Commodore  Vernon  sailed  from  Jamaica  with  H.M.S. 
Mary  and  Ludlow  Castle,  intending  to  cruise  off  Havana  and 
prevent  the  Spanish  ships  from  coming  out.  He  refused  to 
go  to  Nassau  on  the  grounds  that  there  "  there's  no  water 
for  me."  Rogers,  undaunted  and  scenting  a  prize,  informed  the 
Commodore  that,  if  he  could  block  up  the  enemy,  he  would 
bring  some  men  and  ships  from  the  Bahamas,  and  join  in  an 
attack  upon  Havana  (35,  47,  47  i-iv).  It  had  been  expected 
that  the  Spanish  armadilla  would  proceed  to  Carolina  and  join 
with  a  force  from  St.  Augustine  in  an  attack  upon  that  Colony 
(47  i-iii,  v). 

In  spite  of  the  Cessation  of  Arms  (1720),  Spanish  privateers 
continued  to  wage  war  upon  British  shipping.  Carolina  suffered 
from  privateers  fitted  out  from  St.  Augustine,  Jamaica  from 
those  sailing  with  commissions  from  Trinidado  on  Cuba.  It 
was  all  one  to  them,  whether  it  were  peace  or  war,  it  was 
declared.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  in  bringing 
their  depredations  to  the  notice  of  the  Lords  Justices,  proposed 
that  urgent  representations  should  be  made  to  the  Court  of 
Madrid,  to  put  a  stop  to  such  conduct  (213,  283,  283  i,  284,  288, 
292,  340).  A  lively  engagement  between  British  and  Spanish 
privateers  is  described  (277  ii). 


VI 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Instructions        On  the  other  hand,   complaint  was  made   by  the  Spanish 
J*"",.        Minister   of  hostilities   committed   against  the   inhabitants   of 

restitution  ° 

on  conclusion  Florida  by  Indians  under  the  protection  of  the  Carolina  Govern- 
or peace. 

ment.     Whereupon   Lord    Carteret   directed   the    Governor   of 

Carolina  not  to  permit  any  hostile  acts  against  the  subjects 

of  Spain,  but  to  observe  the  recent  Conventions  (651).     When 

the  Treaty  of  Peace  was  signed  (June  1721),  instructions  were 

sent  to  all  Governors  to  see  to  the  restitution  of  captured  goods 

and  ships  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  Conventions  and 

Art.  Ill  of  the  Treaty  (663). 

liord  Carteret  had  succeeded  Craggs  as  Secretary  for  the  Southern 

succeeds  Mr.  Province  in  March,  1721.     Craggs  had  died  during  the  enquiry 

Secretary 

Craggs."  into  the  frauds  connected  with  the  South  Sea  Scheme,  in  which 
several  Ministers  were  impUcated.  His  father,  the  Postmaster 
General,  committed  suicide  and  the  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer 
was  sent  to  the  Tower.       (327,  395). 


South  Sea 

Company 's 

prujocts. 


The  South  Sea  Company  had  been  hoping  to  exploit  grants 
both  of  Nova  Scotia  and  of  the  part  of  St.  Kitts  lately  belonging 
to  the  French.  They  petitioned  for  grants  of  these  territories 
"  and  other  parts  of  America "  in  January,  1721  (350  i). 
Characteristic  of  the  Bubble  Age  is  the  application  of  a  sanguine 
Frenchman  to  the  Secretary  of  State  for  a  grant  from  the 
Treasury,  in  order  that  "  I  may  work  at  some  great  affair 
known  only  to  myself."  (546,  547). 

It  may  have  been  one  of  the  results  of  the  pricking  of  the 
South  Sea  Bubble  that  the  Board  of  Trade  was  obliged  to  appeal 
to  the  Treasury  for  the  settlement  of  arrears  due  to  the  Office, 
"  the  person  who  had  advanced  part  of  the  money  for  incidental 
expenses  having  been  forced  to  take  it  up  on  interest."  (494). 


Pirates. 


The  policy  of  offering  a  pardon  to  pirates  had  not  proved 
successful.  Many  surrendered,  indeed,  but  only  to  return  to 
their  old  trade  (251).  And  though  some  in  one  mood  might 
declare  that  they  would  seize  only  Spanish  or  Portuguese 
vessels  (251.  iii),  and  others  might  even  indulge  in  poetry  (251.  i), 
for  the  most  part  they  were  ready  to  plunder  where  they  could, 
to  threaten  vengeance  on  all  Creoles  and  those  who,  as  at  Nevis, 
had  hanged  their  comrades,  and  to  inspire  terror  or  extract 


PREFACE. 


Vll 


f'amous 

Pirates 

hanged   at 

Jamaica. 


treasure  by  practising  the  most  savage  cruelty.  They  made 
a  haul  off  Newfoundland  of  merchant  ships  ;  cut  out  and 
destroyed  others  in  the  Road  of  Basseterre,  and  a  whole  fleet 
of  French  sloops  from  Martinique  (28,  251  i-v,  463  iii,  501  iv, 
513).  One  of  the  most  powerful  and  also  most  brutal  of  these 
rogues  was  John  Roberts  of  Barbados.  Besides  committing 
depredations  on  the  British  and  French  islands,  and  all  along 
the  coast  of  the  Continent,  he  captured  a  French  man  of  war 
with  the  Governor  of  Martinique  on  board  and  hanged  him 
from  the  yard-arm  (463  iii).  The  cargo  of  a  Dutch  ship  seized 
by  him  was  said  to  have  been  brought  by  a  Rhode  Island 
skipper  to  Tarpaulin  Cove,  "  a  by-place  fit  for  roguery,"  and 
part  of  it^hidden  in  the  woods,  the  rest  being  sent  to  other  New 
England  ports  (727  i). 

But  though  many  of  the  pirate  ships  were  so  formidable  in 
men  and  guns  that  the  guard-ships  on  the  West  Indian  stations 
were  not  capable  of  tackling  them,  many  of  the  most  famous 
pirates  were  brought  to  account  at  this  time.  Six  of  the  crew 
of  the  Royal  Rover  were  hanged  at  Nevis  (28).  At  Jamaica, 
a  trading  sloop  "  well  manned  and  commanded  by  a  brisk 
fellow  one  Jonathan  Barnet,"  fell  in  with  Rackham,  and  cap- 
tured him.  He  was  tried  and  executed  with  ten  of  his  crew 
under  the  Commissions  recently  sent  out  (288,  340).  They 
were  soon  followed  to  the  gallows  by  the  notorious  Charles 
Vane  and  Warner  and  his  gang  (459,  463  iii.  v.  §  iii  Jamaica). 


Trial  of 
Pirates* 
goods. 


In  accordance  with  an  opinion  given  by  Mr.  West,  the  Board 
of  Trade  reported  against  the  request  of  the  Lords  of  the 
Admiralty  for  the  annulment  of  the  54th  Instruction  to 
Governors  relating  to  pirates'  goods  and  goods  piratically 
taken.  The  Admiralty  held  that  Governors  were  sufficiently 
instructed  by  their  Commissions  as  Vice-Admirals  to  try  such 
matters  in  the  Vice-Admiralty  Courts.  Mr.  West  argued  that 
pirates  in  the  West  Indies,  and  consequently  their  goods,  could 
not  be  condemned  before  the  Vice-Admiralty  Courts  as  such, 
but  only  through  the  special  Commissions  granted  to  Governors 
under  the  statute  of  11th  and  12th  William  III  (64, 117, 135, 136). 


Vlll 


COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


New 

Instructions, 

Custom 

House 

ofiBcers 

excused 

from  Juries 

and  Militia. 


Pai)cr 
Currency. 


Bibliop    of 

London's 

jurisdiction. 


Several  new  Instructions  for  Governors  were  issued.  When 
those  of  the  Governor  of  Barbados  were  being  prepared,  the 
Commissioners  of  Customs  requested  that  officers  employed  in 
that  service  should  not  be  interrupted  in  their  duties  by  being 
called  upon  to  serve  on  juries  or  the  Militia.  It  was  ordered 
that  they  should  be  excused  (528,  605,  605  i.). 

Governors  were  directed  not  to  give  their  consent  to  any 
act  for  issuing  paper  currency,  without  a  suspensory  clause 
delaying  its  effect  until  the  approbation  of  the  Crown  had  been 
received,  except  in  the  case  of  acts  for  raising  and  settling  a 
public  revenue  (186  i). 

An  alteration  was  made  in  the  Instructions  relating  to  the 
Bishop  of  London's  jurisdiction  in  the  matters  of  ecclesiastical 
benefices  and  licensing  of  schoolmasters.  Henceforth  no 
minister  was  to  be  appointed  to  an  ecclesiastical  benefice  without 
a  certificate,  and  no  schoolmaster  allowed  to  keep  school  without 
a  licence  from  the  Bishop  of  London.  But  the  restriction  as 
to  schoolmasters  did  not  apply  to  New  Jersey  (667,  696,  696  i, 
715,  716,  730-732,  735-737). 


Mr.  Geo 's  jt  is  worthy  of  remark  that  Mr.  Joshua  Gee,  in  the  course  of 

proposal 

as  to  Acts,  a  memorial  upon  the  trade  of  the  Plantations,  observed  that 
the  root  of  most  quarrels  between  Governors  and  Assemblies, 
and  the  occasion  of  many  laws  being  passed  to  the  prejudice 
both  of  the  Plantations  and  Great  Britain,  of  which  he  gave 
some  instances,  lay  in  the  payment  of  Governors  by  the 
Assemblies.  Governors  were  either  induced  to  pass  such 
acts  in  order  to  obtain  their  salaries,  or  gave  offence  if  they 
refused  their  consent.  He  therefore  proposed  that  all  Acts  of 
Assembly  should  be  submitted  to  the  approval  of  the  King 
before  being  passed  into  law  (698).  In  other  words  the  Colonies 
were  to  be  placed  on  the  same  footing  as  Ireland  was  by  the 
Poynings  Act. 

Trade  \vith        A  decree  by  the  French  Government  for  the  seizure  of  all 

Hantatrons.    foreign  vessels  trading  in  the  French  Colonies,   caused  some 

perturbation  (183  i,  ii,   184).     The  Board  of  Trade  consulted 

the  Rev.  W.  Gordon,  the  trading  parson  of  Barbados,  as  to 


PREFACE.  ix 


the  New  England  traffic  with  foreign  Plantations  (196).  He 
had  already  called  attention  to  the  large  re-exports  of  the 
produce  of  foreign  settlements  from  the  Colonies  to  foreign 
parts,  and  proposed  an  Act  to  limit  such  re-exportation  to 
Great  Britain  (44). 

Duty  jje  i^ow  suggested  that  a  duty  should  be  laid  on  all  produce 

proposed.  °  i     /-<    i       •        /  \ 

of  foreign  Colonies  imported  into  the  British  Colonies  (197). 

Replies  to         An  elaborate  questionnaire  as  to  the  trade,  resources,  popu- 
nairc.        lation,  and  defences  of    the  several    Colonies  (181  i),  ehcited 
replies  from  Maryland  (214),  Massachusetts  and  New  Hamp- 
shire (259  i,  447  i),  New  Jersey  and  New  York  (182,   187  i), 
Nova  Scotia  (203)  and  Pennsylvania  (309). 

Representa-        Information  thus  acquired,  added    to    the    replies    received 

tions  bv  the  r^    ^^ 

Board  of  in  this  and  the  preceding  year  from  Collectors  and  traders, 
American  ^nd  interviews  with  merchants,  equipped  the  Board  of  Trade 
*d?^NTvai  ^^^  ^^^  *^^^  ^^  composing  the  two  highly  important  representa- 
Stores.  tions  printed  at  the  end  of  this  volume.  Joshua  Gee,  in  par- 
ticular, added  a  memorial  to  his  preAaous  contributions  on  the 
subject  of  Plantation  Trade  in  the  British  Merchant  and  else- 
where. Arguing  from  the  importance  of  that  trade  to  British 
shipping,  and  the  success  of  the  bounties  on  Naval  Stores  in 
lowering  prices  and  breaking  the  monopoly  in  timber  of  the 
Eastland  Countries,  he  urged  that  encouragements  should  be 
given  to  the  Colonies  to  produce  all  such  commodities  as  Great 
Britain  had  to  buy  from  foreign  countries.  The  produce  and 
export  of  timber,  planks,  and  pig  iron,  flax,  silk  and  hemp 
should,  like  pitch  and  tar,  be  encouraged  by  bounties  and  the 
adjustment  of  duties.  The  Colonies  should  be  permitted  to 
export  direct  to  the  south  of  Europe  the  more  bulky  commodities 
which  would  not  bear  the  additional  expense  of  the  round- 
about voyage,  but  ships  that  sailed  on  such  direct  voyages 
must  be  obliged  to  return  to  the  Plantations  by  way  of  England. 
This  would  cripple  the  competition  of  New  England  ships, 
and  confine  them  to  the  coasting  trade  and  fishery.  Unhke 
the  West  Indian  planters.  Gee  saw  no  objection  to  allowing 
the  Northern  Plantations  to  continue  supplying  the  French 
Sugar  Islands  with  horses,  lumber,  and  provisions  ;    for  such 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

trade  tended  to  increase  British  shipping  and  help  it  to 
outstrip  the  Dutch  as  the  carriers  of  the  world.  The  paper 
is  of  importance  as  an  example  of  the  outlook  of  a  broad- 
minded  and  influential  observer  of  the  school  of  Whig  mercantile 
theory  (198).  Gee  subsequently  elaborated  the  arguments  which 
he  had  used  here  and  in  the  British  Merchant  in  a  pamphlet 
published  in  1729,  "  The  Trade  arid  Navigation  of  Great 
Britain    considered.^ ^ 


Plantation 
Trade. 


Frencli 
Encroach- 
ments. 


In  August  1721,  Lord  Townshend  called  for  reports  upon  the 
state  of  the  Colonies  on  the  American  Continent,  with  suggestions 
for  their  better  government  and  security,  and  upon  the  best 
means  for  encouraging  the  importation  of  timber,  Naval  Stores, 
and  mineral  ores  from  the  Plantations  (620).  The  Board  of 
Trade  responded  with  the  two  representations  mentioned.  In 
the  first  of  these  (656),  they  made  a  detailed  report  of  the 
boundaries,  commerce,  defences  and  governments  of  each  Colony. 
They  then  considered  the  importance  of  the  Plantation  trade 
to  Great  Britain,  estimating  it  as  amounting  to  £1,000,000 
sterling  per  annum,  of  which  one  half  was  with  Colonies  on  the 
Continent.  The  balance  of  trade  was  £200,000  in  favour  of 
the  Mother  Country,  which  also  derived  great  profit  from  the 
re-exportation  of  Plantation  goods  to  Europe,  whilst  over  one 
third  of  British  shipping  employed  in  foreign  trade  was  main- 
tained by  the  Plantation  trade  (pp.  428-434).  The  American 
Colonies  met  the  adverse  balance  by  their  trade  with  the  West 
India  Islands  and  with  Europe  in  non-enumerated  commodities. 

The  Board  then  passed  to  the  consideration  of  encroachments 
by  the  French,  which  had  already  been  indicated  in  the  reports 
on  the  several  Colonies,  and  the  danger  to  be  apprehended 
from  the  extension  of  their  settlements  along  the  Mississippi 
to  Quebec,  threatening  to  "set  a  girdle"  upon  the  British 
Colonies  and  cut  them  off  from  expansion  westwards.  (178, 
pp.  435-440).  The  forts  which  the  French  had  built  along 
this  route  and  the  endeavours  of  their  missionaries  to  bring  the 
Indian  tribes  over  to  their  interest  are  described,  with  acknow- 
ledgements of  the  information  contributed  by  Lieut.  Governor 
Keith  on  these   points   (v.   C.S.P.    1719-20,   pp.   iii-v).      The 


PREFACE.  xi 


remedy  seemed  to  be  to  fortify  the  inland  frontier  ;  to  "  make 
ourselves  considerable  at  the  two  heads  of  your  Majesties 
Colonies  north  and  south  "  ;  to  extend  settlements  beyond 
the  mountains  ;  and  to  secure  the  friendship  of  such  Indian 
nations  as  were  not  already  in  league  with  the  French.  With 
these  ends  in  view,  the  settlement  of  Nova  Scotia  should  be 
hurried  on,  and  a  stronger  garrison  stationed  there  and  in 
South  Carolina,  where  forts  should  also  be  built  on  the  principal 
rivers  (pp.  440-442). 

Indian  Trade  and  friendship  with  the  Indians  might  be  secured  by 

Trade.  ^  ■        r^ 

building  a  small  fort  upon  Lake  Erie,  and  prosecutmg  Governor 
Burnet's  plan  for  occupying  Niagara.  Inter-marriage  with 
the  Indians  should  be  encouraged,  after  the  French  model,  and 
presents  be  given  to  them  regularly,  and  missionary  enterprise 
stimulated.  There  should  be  no  monopoly  of  the  Indian  trade, 
but  careful  supervision  should  be  exercised  over  the  traders 
and  any  injustice  done  severely  punished.  In  making  treaties, 
as  in  conducting  trade,  the  Governors  of  the  several  Plantations 
should  endeavour  to  impress  the  Indians  with  their  unity  under 
the  Crown.  Finally,  they  might  be  impressed  by  bringing  home 
some  of  the  Indian  Chiefs,  as  the  French  had  done,  to  show 
them  "  the  splendour  and  glory  "  of  England  (pp.  442-444). 

Government        -phc  report  Concluded  with  suggestions  for  the  better  govern- 

of  the 

Colonies.  ment  of  the  Colonies.  The  first  step  must  be  to  secure  unity 
of  administration  and  defence,  and  the  absolute  observance  of 
the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Plantations  and  Governors'  Instructions, 
by  resuming  Proprietary  and  Chartered  Governments  to  the 
Crown.  Only  so  could  the  entire,  absolute  and  immediate 
dependency  of  the  Colonies  be  maintained,  which  it  was  the 
wisdom  of  Great  Britain,  as  of  all  other  States,  to  ensure. 
But  the  planters  must  be  regarded  as  British  subjects,  and 
encouraged  in  all  reasonable  things,  not  prejudicial  to  the 
interests  of  Great  Britain,  as  for  instance,  in  the  production  of 
naval  stores,  corn,  flax,  hemp,  and  timber. 

Quit  rents  Abuses  in  connection  with  grants  of  land  and  the  imposition 

^^f  Land^.^     and  collection  of  quit  rents  must  be  amended,  and  H.M.  Woods 
"LTwoodl?"  preserved  for  the  Royal  Navy. 


XII 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Patent  Patent  Officers   should  be  debarred  from  acting  bv  Deputies. 

Offices.  ^     -  ^ 

Unity  for  In  order  to  secure  unity  for  defence,  the  Board  then  proposed 

under  a      ^^at  the  several  Colonies  and  their  Governors  should  be  placed 

General       Under  a   Captain-General,   after  the   manner  of  the   Leeward 

Islands,  with  an  advisory  Council  consisting  of  two  Deputies 

from  each  Colony.     By  this  means  quotas  of  men  or  money 

according  to  the  capacity  of  each  Colony  could  be  requisitioned 

for  the  defence  of  the  whole.     In  pursuance  of  this  proposal, 

it  is  stated  by  Chalmers 'i'   that  the  Earl  of  Stair  was  offered 

the  Captain  Generalship  of  the  American  Colonies,  but  refused. 

The  Council        Finally,  the  Board  suggested  that  it  should  be  placed  on  the 

of  Trade 

and  Colonial  same  footing  as  the  Treasury  and  Admiralty,  and  its  President 
usiness.  entrusted  with  the  sole  charge  of  Colonial  business,  receiving 
immediate  orders  from  the  King.  Thus  would  be  avoided  the 
delay  and  confusion  at  present  arising  from  the  di^dsion  of 
authority  between  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  King  in  Council, 
and  the  Board,  As  a  result  of  this  threefold  method  of 
procedure,  "  no  one  office  is  thoroughly  informed  of  all  matters 
relating  to  the  Plantations,  and  sometimes  orders  are  obtained, 
by  surprise,  disadvantageous  to  your  Majesty's  service." 


Naval 
Stores. 


The  encouragement  of  the  production  of  Naval  Stores  from 
the  Plantations  was  part  of  a  clearly  defined  policy  on  the  part 
of  the  Board  of  Trade  and  mercantile  theorists.  It  had  for 
its  objects  the  diversion  of  the  planters  from  manufacturing 
goods  which  could  with  greater  advantage  be  made  in  Great 
Britain  ;  the  development  of  the  mercantile  marine,  and  the 
breaking  down  of  the  expensive  and  dangerous  monopoly  in 
materials  \dtal  to  the  Navy,  which  had  been  enjoyed  by  the 
Eastland  Countries.  In  the  second  of  the  two  representations 
under  review,  the  Board  referred  to  their  report  on  this  subject 
in  1718,  and  the  Bill  which  had  been  brought  into  Parliament 
but  dropped,  in  1719,  owing  to  the  opposition  to  the  manu- 
facture of  iron  ware  of  any  kind  in  the  Colonies.  The  Board 
now  proposed  the  passing  of  an  Act  in  which  the  duty  on  pig 
iron,  but  not  on  bar  iron,  from  the  Plantations  should  be  taken 
off  (657,  657  i,  ii). 

(1)  Chalmers,  G.  Introduction  to  the  History  of  the  Revolt  of  the  Ameiican  Colonies. 
II,  43. 


PREFACE. 


xui 


Carolina 
Rice  anrl  the 
Hatniakers' 

Petition. 


Sturgeon 
in  New 
England. 


Maps  of  the 
Colonies. 


New  rooms 

for  the  Board 

of  Trade. 


The  Board  was  of  opinion  that  direct  export  of  rice  from 
Carolina  to  Southern  Europe  might  be  permitted  (656).  But 
French  competition  in  the  "  mysterious  art  "  of  manufacturing 
beaver  hats,  and  the  large  exports  of  beaver  skins  direct  to 
Holland,  led  the  hatmakers  of  England  to  petition  for  a  readjust- 
ment of  the  import  duty  and  drawbacks  on  re-exports,  the  effect 
of  which  was  to  lay  a  tax  of  over  20  per  cent,  on  English  workmen. 
The  Board  reported  in  favour  of  abolishing  the  drawbacks, 
reducing  the  import  duty,  and  prevention  of  the  "  evil  practice 
of  carrying  beaver  skins  directly  from  the  British  Plantations  to 
foreign  parts."  (738,  738  i,  748). 

An  application  for  a  patent  for  catching  and  curing  sturgeon 
in  New  England  was  refused  (73,  84-86).  The  dazzling 
hope  of  a  monopoly  of  American  caviare  and  isinglass  was 
shattered.  For  though  the  Board  of  Trade  was  inclined  to 
favour  such  a  patent,  if  safeguards  could  be  introduced  to 
prevent  its  being  turned  into  a  stock-jobbing  scheme  (126), 
the  Law  Officers  of  the  Crown  pointed  out  that  it  was 
very  doubtful  whether  the  prerogatives  of  the  Crown  extended 
to  the  granting  of  monopolies  in  the  Plantations  (152).  Nor, 
indeed,  was  it  certain  that  the  sturgeon  produced  as  a 
specimen  was  really  caught  at  Boston.  There  is  a  hint  of 
"  salting  "  this  gold  mine  (84-86). 

The  Council  of  Trade  reminded  the  Lords  Justices  of  the 
value  of  "  exact  maps  of  all  the  several  Colonies."  The  French 
had  reaped  great  advantage  from  those  they  had  made 
for  themselves,  "  whilst  we  continue  in  the  dark."  (231). 
In  response  to  their  requests,  maps  of  Antigua  and  Connecticut 
were  sent  to  them.  (227  viii,  ix,  229). 

The  Board  renewed  their  application  for  the  addition  of  two 
new  rooms  to  their  office,  to  house  the  growing  mass  of  papers 
(165,  171,  172).  After  another  nine  month's  delay,  the  Lord 
Chamberlain  presently  issued  an  order  to  the  Treasury  for  the 
construction  of  four  new  rooms.  (468).  Still  nothing  was  done. 
Five  months  later,  the  Board  appealed  to  the  Treasury  to  give 
speedy  orders  for  repairing  the  Office  and  building  the  additional 
rooms,  for  "  the  rain  comes  in  so  very  much,  it  will  be  im- 


XIV 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


possible  in  a  short  time  to  sitt  in  the  office."  (697).  The  Board 
of  Works  was  then  instructed  to  make  an  estimate  for  the 
"  repairs  and  works  a})solutely  necessary  to  be  done."   (703). 


§  n. 

THE     AMERICAN     COLONIES. 

South  ijj  South  Carolina  the  imminent  danger  of  an  attack  bv  the 

Carolina.  °  •' 

Threatened  Spanish  Fleet  from  Havana  led  to  steps  being  taken  to  repair 
Spaniards,  the  fortifications  of  Charleston,  and  place  the  Colony  in  a  posture 
of  defence.  An  embargo  was  laid  upon  shipping  (8-10,  47  i,  ii), 
and  an  Act  for  suspending  the  sinking  fund  for  the  paper 
currency  was  passed  (113).  Fortunately  the  Spanish  expedition 
met  with  a  check  at  the  Bahamas  (v.  §  1),  and  with  the  arrival 
of  H.M.S.  Flamborough  and  Phoenix,  the  crisis  passed  (8-10, 
47  i,  ii).  But  whilst  St.  Augustine  remained  a  danger  and  a 
nest  of  pirates  and  privateers  at  the  door  of  the  Carolinians, 
Colonel  Rhett,  the  Surveyor  of  Customs,  and  Captain  Hildesley, 
of  the  Flamborough,  were  accused  of  trading  with  the  Spaniards 
there,  and  even  of  supplying  them  with  arms  and  ammunition, 
under  pretext  of  an  exchange  of  prisoners  (125,  283,  283  i). 
Colonel  Moore  and  his  Council  replied  to  Rhett's  charges  against 
the  people,  defending  their  revolt  against  the  Lords  Proprietors 
and  urging  the  removal  of  "  that  enemy  of  his  country,  and 
detested  re  viler  of  mankind  "  from  his  office.  Rhett  and  his 
brother-in-law,  the  late  Chief  Justice  Trott,  were  blamed  for 
most  of  the  ill  feeling  which  had  arisen  between  the  inhabitants 
and  Lords  Proprietors  (292,  292  i-iii,  363,  363  i). 


Act 
supporting 

present 

Government. 

Governor 

Johnson's 

attempt. 


In  spite  of  some  attempts  by  Colonel  Johnson  to  regain  the 
Government,  Colonel  Moore  and  his  Council,  under  the 
presidency  of  Sir  Hovenden  AValker,  remained  in  control  of 
affairs.  Representatives  met  in  General  Assembly  at  Charleston , 
and  passed  an  Act  for  supporting  the  present  government, 
and  confirming  the  acts  and  appointments  made  by  it,  and  the 
Convention  (195).  The  Captains  of  the  men  of  war,  however, 
had  declared  in  Johnson's  favour.  Whilst  the  latter  threatened 
to  bombard   Charleston,    Captain  Hildesley  and  he  plotted  for 


PREFACE. 


XV 


his  restoration.  There  was  indeed  nearly  a  clash  of  arms. 
Captain  Hildesley,  something  of  a  fire-eater,  was  not  content 
with  a  demonstration  with  the  Flamhorough' s  guns.  Johnson 
issued  a  commission  to  him  and  others,  and  together  they 
marched  at  the  head  of  a  troop  of  sailors  and  supporters,  and 
demanded  the  surrender  of  the  Government.  But  Moore  and 
his  Council  showed  no  sign  of  yielding,  and  after  drawing  the 
fire  of  the  fort,  Johnson  undertook  to  disband  his  men  and  make 
no  further  disturbance.  Captain  Pearse  of  H.M.S.  Phoenix 
acted  as  intermediary.  Captain  Hildesley,  less  amenable, 
was  placed  under  arrest  (372,  413,  484,  484  i,  ii). 


Negrn  plot 

and     Indian 

rising. 


The  country  was  disturbed,  too,  by  the  discovery  of  a  negro 
plot  to  destroy  all  white  men  and  seize  Charleston,  and  by  a 
rising  of  Vocama  Indians.  Both  were  suppressed,  and  negroes 
and  Indians  severely  punished  (125).  The  Indian  outbreaks 
were  attributed  to  the  want  of  the  Indian  Trading  Act  repealed 
by  the  Proprietors  (66). 


Petition  of 
Inhabitants. 


Protest 

against 

sale  by 

Lords 

Proprietors. 

Order  for 

resuming 

the 

Government 

to  the  Crown. 


Francis 

Nicholson's 

Commission 

as   Governor. 


A  petition  signed  by  238  inhabitants  under  arms  echoed  the 
request  of  the  Representatives  that  the  Colony  should  be  taken 
under  the  protection  of  the  Crown  (194,  347). 

When  it  was  learned  that  the  Lords  Proprietors  were 
endeavouring  to  sell  their  Charter  to  a  new  Company,  Moore's 
Council  entered  their  protest  (249). 

But  by  this  time  the  Lords  Justices  in  Council  had  ordered 
that  the  Government  should  be  "  forthwith  taken  provisionally 
into  the  hands  of  the  Crown,"  and  instructed  the  Board  of 
Trade  to  prepare  a  Commission  and  Instructions  for  a  Covernor 
to  be  appointed  by  the  King.  The  Attorney  General  was 
ordered  to  bring  in  a  scire  facias  for  the  resumption  of  the  Charter, 
and  the  Board  of  Trade  was  to  report  upon  the  measures  deemed 
necessary  to  secure  the  safety  of  the  Province  (185,  199,  248). 
The  Board  in  submitting  the  draft  of  a  Commission,  modelled 
upon  that  given  to  Colonel  Copley  when  Maryland  was  resumed 
to  the  Crown,  raised  the  question  whether  North  Carolina 
was  to  be  included.  It  was  decided  that  the  veteran  Francis 
Nicholson  should   be   appointed  Governor  of  South   Carolina 


XVI 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


only.  (Sept.  1720.  192,  192  i,  244-247).  In  making  proposals 
Measures  for  fop  the  Security  of  the  province,  the  Council  of  Trade  availed 
themselves  of  the  advice  of  Governor  Nicholson  and  Colonel 
Barnwell,  who  had  come  to  London  with  the  petition  of  the 
Convention.  They  recommended  that  a  fort  and  settlement 
should  be  made  upon  the  north  bank  of  the  Altamaha,  with 
a  frigate  as  guardship  in  the  river,  and  an  Independent 
Company  of  100  men  with  stores  as  garrison  under  Colonel 
Barnwell,  subject  to  Governor  Nicholson's  instructions. 


Indian 
Trade. 


Nicholson's 

arrival  and 

welcome. 


New 
Assembly. 


Presents  should  be  sent  to  the  Indians  and  measures  concerted 
between  the  governments  of  Carolina  and  Virginia  for  regulating 
trade  with  them  (217,  232  iii-xiii,  237,  275  i,  ii).  Stephen  Godin 
and  other  merchants  interested  in  the  Carolina  trade  also  gave 
their  advice  for  remedying  the  ills  which  beset  the  Province. 
They  were  chiefly  concerned  with  the  proper  treatment  of  the 
Indians  and  the  protection  of  British  merchants  from  laws  and 
measures,  especially  the  unlimited  issues  of  paper  currency, 
which  destroyed  the  confidence  of  traders  (274). 

Arriving  at  Charleston  in  June,  Nicholson  sent  Colonel 
Barnwell  to  take  possession  of  the  river  Altamaha  in  H.M. 
name,  and  build  a  small  fort  thereon,  whilst  he  himself  was 
occupied  in  settling  the  new  administration,  and  making  treaties 
with  the  Creeks  and  Cherokees  etc.  (572,  573  i,  ii,  577,  683). 
A  site  near  the  mouth  of  the  river  was  chosen  for  the  erection 
of  Fort  King  George.  Thus  a  first  step  was  taken  towards  the 
defence  of  the  extreme  southern  frontier,  which  the  Council  of 
Trade  had  advocated  in  their  general  report  (656).  Further 
accounts  of  proceedings  in  connection  with  the  settlement  of 
the  Government  and  building  of  the  fort  were  sent  home  by 
the  Agents,  Mr.  Lloyd  and  Young,  who  were  appointed  by  the 
General  Assembly  (372,  386,  683,  702,  714).  The  document 
dated  Feb.  17,  1721,  and  printed  under  that  date  (386)  should 
be  attributed  to  1722. 

The  new  Assembly  met  at  the  end  of  July.  They  and  the 
Council  expressed  in  addresses  their  gratitude  to  the  King  for 
taking  the  Colony  under  His  immediate  protection,  and  appoint- 
ing so  wise  and  experienced  a  Governor  (619,  702,  714,  760). 


PREFACE. 


xvii 


End  of 
drought. 


Exports 
and  Rice. 


Maryland . 


Replies  to 
Question- 
naire, 

And  from 
Massachu- 
setts Bav. 


Council  of 

Trade  on 

the 

Government 

of  the 

Province. 


Wt.  759S 


Even  the  weather  appeared  to  appreciate  the  change  from 
the  regime  of  the  Lords  Proprietors.  The  long  drought  which 
had  added  to  the  afflictions  of  the  country  broke  in  time  to 
save  the  prospects  of  the  rice  and  corn  crops.  "  Tis  generally 
observed,"  Nicholson  comments,  "  that  since  His  Majesty 
hath  taken  this  country  and  government  it  hath  been  very 
seasonable  weather."  The  Lords  Proprietors  were  evidently 
regarded  as  responsible  for  filling  "  the  butchers'  shops  with 
large  blue  flies  "  (156,  683).  The  Council  reported  that  a  great 
deal  of  time  had  been  devoted  to  disputes  over  the  jurisdiction 
of  Admiralty  Court  and  Customs  House  officers.  A  shortage 
of  clerks  and  paper  hindered  the  despatch  of  Journals  etc. 
(573,  702). 

Governor  Nicholson  sent  home  a  return  of  exports  from 
South  Carolina  to  Great  Britain  (577  i).  It  was  proposed  that 
rice  should  be  omitted  from  the  list  of  enumerated  commodities 
(656,  722). 

Captain  Charles  Calvert  having  found  the  sureties  required 
for  his  observance  of  the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation  and  the 
King's  Instructions,  his  appointment  as  Governor  of  Maryland 
was  approved,  whilst  his  predecessor,  John  Hart,  replied  to 
the  questionnaire  of  the  Board  of  Trade  (56,  77,  89,  124,  214). 

The  replies  from  Massachusetts  Bay  are  given  (259  i). 

In  that  part  of  their  general  report  which  concerned  the 
Province  (656),  the  Council  of  Trade  gave  plain  expression 
to  their  opinion  as  to  the  working  of  the  Massachusetts 
Constitution.  Although  the  Government,  they  observed,  was 
nominally  in  the  Crown,  yet,  too  great  power  having  been  lodged 
in  the  Assembly,  the  Province  was,  and  was  likely  to  continue, 
in  great  disorder.  Due  regard  was  not  paid  to  the  Royal 
Instructions,  suitable  provision  was  not  made  for  the  Governor, 
"  and  on  all  occasions  they  affect  too  great  an  independence  on 
their  Mother  Kingdom."  In  fact  the  present  Governor's  salary 
had  been  retrenched,  probably  because  he  had  done  his  duty 
to  the  Crown,  and  refused  to  disregard  his  Instructions  to  please 
the  Assembly.     It  was  generally  thought  that  the  Act  which 

C.P.  32— B 


XVUl 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


Policy  of 
the 

Assemlily. 


Governor's 
right  to 
negative 
choice  of 
Speaker. 


limited  the  representation  of  towns  or  boroughs  to  freeholders 
and  residents,  resulting  in  the  election  of  persons  "  of  small 
fortunes  and  mean  capacities,"  easily  led,  was  responsible  for 
the  present  state  of  affairs  (pp.  410-415,  No.  514).  This,  of 
course,  was  part  of  their  argument  for  a  resumption  of  all 
Charters.  This  attack  on  the  Chartered  and  Proprietary  Govern- 
ments was  answered  by  Jeremiah  Dummer,  Agent  for  Massachu- 
setts and  Connecticut,  in  a  masterly  pamphlet,  Defence  of  the 
New  England  Charters,  summarised  by  Professor  Osgood'^'. 
To  Governor  Shute,  the  Council  notified  their  surprise  at  the 
extraordinary  proceedings  of  the  Assembly  in  assuming  to 
themselves  executive  power  and  disregarding  H.M.  Instruc- 
tions (622). 

The  Assembly,  in  fact,  had  continued  its  campaign  of  en- 
croaching upon  the  Prerogatives  of  the  Crown,  and  acquiring 
control  of  the  Executive  by  keeping  Governors  and  officials 
dependent  for  their  salaries  on  their  favour.  As  in  New  Jersey, 
the  Secretary's  fees  were  reduced  (83).  For  the  most  part  the 
Governor  was  supported  by  the  Council  in  his  endeavours  to 
assert  the  Royal  Prerogative.  But  the  Assembly,  led  by  Elisha 
Cooke,  pursued  its  object  unremittingly  (514).  They  again 
joined  issue  over  the  Governor's  right  to  negative  their  choice 
of  a  Speaker.  For  Cooke,  dismissed  from  the  Council,  had 
been  returned  to  the  Assembly  and  there  elected  Speaker. 
Similarly  another  dismissed  Member  of  Council  was  returned 
to  the  Assembly  by  Boston.  These  gestures  afforded  a 
sufficiently  plain  indication  of  the  feeling  of  the  country. 
Governor  Shute  had  refused  to  accept  Cooke  as  Speaker  ;  the 
Assembly  adhered  to  their  choice.  The  right  of  a  Governor  to 
negative  the  choice  of  a  Speaker  had  been  questioned  in  Governor 
Dudley's  time,  and  decided  in  favour  of  the  Crown.  Shute 
dissolved  the  Assembly,  and  asked  for  instructions  on  this  point 
before  the  new  Assembly  should  meet  (93,  93  i-iv,  103).  The 
Attorney  General,  on  being  consulted,  gave  a  decided  opinion 
that  the  words  of  the  Charter  were  expressly  applicable  to  the 
election  of  a  Speaker.  Governor  Shute  was  so  informed  (349, 
893,  411).    This  did  not,  however,  put  an  end  to  the  controversy. 

(1)  American  Colonies  in  the  XVIIIth  Century ,   II,   294-299. 


PREFACE. 


XIX 


Tho  New 
Assenihlv. 


Bills  of 
Credit- 


Governor's 
Salary. 


Appoint- 
ment of 
Attorney- 
General. 


Question  of 
adjourn- 
ments. 


Censoi-sbip 
f>f  tho  Press. 


For  though  the  new  Assembly  chose  a  different  Speaker  (July 
20,  143),  they  presently  appointed  Cooke  to  act  as  temporary 
Speaker,  and  it  was  he  who  signed  the  Assembly's  reply  to  the 
Governor's  Speech  at  the  opening  of  their  session  (655).  Shute's 
hopes  of  a  smooth  passage  were,  in  fact,  quickly  dissipated  (143). 
The  majority  of  the  Representatives  he  describes  as  country 
folk,  better  fitted  to  manage  the  affairs  of  their  farms  than  those 
of  the  Province,  and  easily  led  by  a  few  designing  persons  who 
sought  popularity  as  the  only  true  patriots  in  attacking  the 
prerogatives  of  the  Crown  (514). 

The  new  Assembly  complained  (March  1721)  of  the  rejection 
of  the  bills  for  issuing  another  £100,000  of  bills  of  credit,  and 
altering  the  Act  of  Parliament  fixing  the  rates  of  foreign  currency. 
Shute  explained  to  the  Council  of  Trade  that  the  heavy  discount 
at  which  the  paper  currency  stood  was  due  to  the  adverse 
balance  of  trade,  the  low  prices  of  commodities,  and  the  already 
excessive  quantity  of  bills  of  credit  issued.  Though  the  people 
wished  to  add  to  it,  the  recent  Order  in  Council  had  checked  the 
evil  of  falling  credit  (514  i,  655).  The  Assembly  reduced  the 
vote  for  the  Governor's  salary,  and  made  so  small  a  grant  for 
the  Lieutenant  Governor  that  he  returned  it  in  disgust.  They 
also  refused  to  contribute  towards  a  present  for  the  Indians, 
though  war  was  threatening. 

As  Shute's  Instructions  empowered  him  to  appoint  the 
Attorney  General,  and  the  Assembly  claimed  that  right  both 
by  custom  and  the  opinion  of  Sir  Edward  Northey,  the  post 
remained  vacant  whilst  Shute  asked  for  a  ruling. 

The  Assembly  disputed  the  Governor's  right  to  adjourn  them 
from  place  to  place,  and  assumed  the  rights  of  adjourning 
themselves  and  appointing  Public  Fast  Days. 

The  Press  was  beginning  at  this  time  to  be  an  active  influence 
in  politics.  A  rain  of  pamphlets  poured  out  upon  the  currency 
question,  whilst  the  Newsletfer,  Gazette,  and  the  Courant  of  the 
brothers  Franklin  began  to  be  potent  instruments  in  the 
controversy  between  Governor  and  Assembly.  Censorship  of  the 
Press  was  vested  in  tho  Governor  by  the  Royal  Instructions,  but 


XX  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


hitherto  it  had  been  laxly  applied,  and  prosecution  for  offenders 
required  the  consent  of  the  Council.  Stung  by  the  virulence  of 
the  pamphleteers,  Shute  began  to  take  action.  Some  prosecutions 
were  set  on  foot,  but  failing  to  obtain  satisfaction,  Shute  pressed 
the  Assembly  to  pass  a  law  forbidding  any  book  or  paper  to  be 
printed  without  the  Governor's  licence.  The  Assembly,  how- 
ever, stood  firm  in  defence  of  the  liberty  of  the  Press.  They 
noticed  that  no  steps  had  been  taken  to  punish  the  "  inventor 
or  publisher  "  of  a  pamphlet  which  they  described  as  a  libel  upon 
themselves.  This,  an  answer  to  Cooke's  "  Vindication "  of 
their  own  transactions,  was  entitled  "  News  from  Robinson 
Crusoe's  Island."  Not  unnaturally  the  Assembly  inferred  that 
if  they  gave  the  Executive  further  powers  to  enforce  control 
of  the  Press,  it  would  be  used  in  a  one-sided  fashion  (514, 
514  i,  579,  579  i,  ii,  655). 

'^gTtaS'  I^   J"^^'    I'^^l'   *^^   House   of  Representatives   drew   up   a 

Shute  and     memorial  in  which  they  defended  their  actions  and  enumerated 

his  reply. 

their  grievances  against  the  Governor.  They  published  it 
without  his  knowledge.  Shute's  reply  upon  all  these  matters, 
as  well  as  Cooke's  campaign  against  the  Crown  woods,  is  given 
(579).  He  dissolved  the  Assembly  in  July,  after  they  had 
taken  upon  them  to  adjourn  themselves  for  nearly  a  week.  The 
new  Assembly  met  in  August,  and  was  moved  from  Boston  to 
Cambridge  on  account  of  an  epidemic  of  small-pox,  after  dis- 
puting the  Governor's  right  to  prorogue  it  from  place  to  place. 
On  all  these  points  the  Assembly  under  the  leadership  of  Cooke 
was  steadily  pursuing  its  campaign  for  obtaining  control  of  the 
Executive  and  encroaching  upon  the  prerogatives  of  the  Crown. 
Shute,  on  the  other  hand,  showed  little  capacity  for  managing 
the  Assembly  or  influencing  opinion,  whether  by  argument  or 
other  means  of  persuasion.  He  was  content  for  the  most  part 
with  representing  his  powerlessness  to  the  authorities  at  home, 
and  asking  for  support  and  decisions  upon  the  matters  in 
dispute. 

The  Indian  The  war  with  the  Abenaki  Indians,  which  was  now  imminent, 
gave  the  Assembly  a  further  opportunity  of  asserting  control 
both    over    expenditure  and  over  the  militia  (Mass.  Acts  and 


PREFACE. 


XXI 


Admiralty 
•Turisdiction. 


Resolutions  II.  219  j^).  For  a  series  of  outrages  by  the  Indians 
on  the  Eastern  frontier,  encouraged  by  the  government  of  Canada 
and  the  French  missionaries  La  Chasse  and  Sebastian  Rale, 
obliged  Shute  to  send  troops  to  defend  the  Eastern  settlements 
(261,  319,  514,  655,  743).  The  Assembly  seized  the  occasion 
to  vote  supplies  by  way  of  resolves,  and  to  ear-mark  the  sums 
voted  for  particular  purposes.  A  clause  was  added  providing 
that  they  should  be  used  for  no  other  ends.     (Nov,  1721). 

On  the  dispute  between  the  Provincial  and  Admiralty  Courts, 
which  had  been  submitted  in  the  preceding  year,  Mr.  West 
gave  his  opinion  strongly  in  favour  of  the  Provincial  Courts, 
so  far  as  the  right  to  grant  prohibitions  was  concerned.  But 
if,  under  cover  of  legal  procedure,  an  attempt  was  being  made 
to  throttle  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Admiralty  Courts  in  New 
England,  he  suggested  that  their  power  should  be  more  strictly 
defined  by  an  Act  of  Parliament.  The  Council  of  Trade  reported 
to  the  Lords  Justices  that  they  agreed  with  his  opinion  that  the 
condemnation  of  pirate  goods  and  goods  piratically  taken 
must  be  tried,  not  by  the  Admiralty  Courts  as  such,  but  by 
virtue  of  the  Commissions  granted  for  trying  pirates.  But  as 
to  encroachments  upon  the  powers  of  the  Admiralty  Courts  by 
the  Common  Law  Courts  in  the  Plantations,  redress  could  be 
obtained  by  appeal  to  the  Privy  Council  (117,  135,  136,  153, 
153  i,  699  i-iv). 

Prisoners  Orders  were  sent  from  the  French  Court  to  M.  de  Vaudreuil 

in  Canada  i       i       i        i?  i 

restored.      to  restore  the  New  England  prisoners,  whom  he  had  refused  to 
allow  to  return  from  Canada  (267,  267  i,  ii). 

cian(i<;stinc        A  bfisk  trade  with  the  French  at  Cape  Breton  was  carried  on 

trade  with  n  r^  ci 

Cape  Breton,  by  thc"  growing  New  England  fishing  fleet.  Governor  Shute 
repeatedly  urged  the  Assembly  to  pass  measures  to  stop  this 
clandestine  traffic,  but  without  avail.  A  bill  was  passed  by 
the  Council,  but  was  thrown  out  by  the  Assembly  on  the  grounds 
that  it  was  the  business  of  the  Customs  House  officers  (445). 

4cfc  An  Act  of  1718/0/-  regulating  the  culling  of  fish  was  repealed 

Su^g^     upon  the    petition    of  merchants,    who    represented   that    the 
fish  restrictions  imposed  by  it  were  pernicious  in  their  effects  and 


repealed. 


harmful  to  trade  (461,  471,  476). 


xxii  C'OLOXIAI.    PAPERS. 


Wooii.nand       Enquiries  prompted  bv  the  ever-present  fear  lest  planters 

linen  "... 

manufactures  should  turn  to  manufacturing,  elicited  some  interesting  replies, 
indr^pcnd-  Robert  Armstrong,  the  New  Hampshire  Collector,  reported 
^^^^-  that  large  flocks  of  sheep  were  being  raised  in  the  New  England 
Governments,  and  that  unless  the  power  of  the  Admiralty 
Courts  to  condemn  wool  transported  from  one  Colony  to  another 
were  upheld,  the  act  prohibiting  such  transportation  would 
become  a  dead  letter.  These  Colonies  were,  in  fact,  beginning 
to  emerge  from  the  purely  agricultural  into  the  industrial  and 
commercial  stage  of  development.  Armstrong,  recognising 
that  New  England  was  both  able  and  determined  to  produce 
its  own  manufactures,  deduced  that  "  in  a  few  years  they  Avill 
sett  up  for  themselves  independent  from  England  "  (153, 
699  iii).  Jekyll,  a  Boston  Collector,  noted  the  same  "  great 
love  of  independency,"  and  reported  that  recent  Irish  innni- 
grants  (mainly  Presbyterians  from  Ulster),  were  developing 
a  linen  industry.  But  though  homespun  woollens  and  linens 
were  worn  by  the  poor,  tradesmen  and  mechanics  were  inclined 
to  ape  the  richer  merchants  and  to  wear  only  clothing  manu- 
factured in  Europe  (190,  200,  699  iv.) 

Boundaries  Boundary  disputes  remained  acute.  The  Rhode  Islanders 
Connecticut,  ^^^^  ^  map  to  the  Board  of  Trade,  defining  their  boundaries  with 
Riiod_c  Island  Massachusetts  and   Connecticut,    surveyed  according  to   their 

and  New  '  •'  ° 

Hampshire.  Charter.  Complaining  of  encroachments  made  by  both  their 
neighbours,  they  laid  their  case  before  the  King  in  Council. 
Connecticut  likewise  submitted  a  map,  and  made  similar  com- 
plaints against  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island,  and  New  York. 
But  the  Narraganset  country  was  the  chief  bone  of  contention 
(109,  229).  New  Hampshire,  again,  furnished  its  Agent  with 
a  map,  and  asked  the  Board  of  Trade  for  a  settlement  of  the 
boundary  with  Massachusetts  Bay  (333),  which  disturbances 
along  the  border  rendered  increasingly  urgent.  Wentworth, 
New         the   Lieutenant   Governor  of  New   Hampshire,    described  the 

Hampshire 

and  latter   as    "  our   unkind    neighbour,"    and   complained   of  the 

setts  Bay.     taxation   of  their   coasting   vessels   and   merchandise    by  that 

province.'!'      He,  too,  says  that    "  they  are  and  desire  to  be 

strangers  to  all  kingly  power,"  in  contrast  to  the  loyal  colony 

(1)  Cf.  Provincial  Papers,     III  827,     IV  25. 


PREFACE. 


XXlll 


Tlie  Crown 
Woods. 


of  New  Hampshire,  and  instances  their  attitude  towards  the 
King's  Officers  and  the  Crown  woods  (333).  In  both  Colonics, 
however,  the  reservation  of  trees  suitable  for  masts  for  the 
Royal  Navy  was  being  combated  and  ignored.  If  in  Massachu- 
setts Cooke  and  his  followers  denied  the  King's  rights  to  the 
woods,  in  New  Hampshire  the  lumbermen  in  practice  disregarded 
it.  There  was  nothing  to  prevent  the  sawmills  being  fed  with 
young  trees  under  the  size  reserved  by  Act  of  Parliament,  and 
the  larger  were  being  ruthlessly  cut  up  into  logs,  partly  as  the 
result  of  Cooke's  campaign,  and  partly  under  cover  of  the  device 
by  which  townships  were  created  and  extended  so  as  to  bring 
them  within  the  exception  granted  by  that  act  (112,  352  ii, 
694). 


New  Act 
proposed. 


Mr.  Bridger,  therefore,  proposed  a  new  Act  for  the  Preserva- 
tion of  the  Woods  (39,  39  i-iii,  57).  Shute  supported  this 
proposal,  and  added  the  suggestion  that  the  new  Act  should 
contain  a  clause  to  prohibit  the  exportation  of  timber  to  Spain 
(319).  Bridger  made  some  seizures  of  trees  cut  without  licence 
from  him,  but  lost  his  case  through  inability  to  prove  that 
they  grew  in  unappropriated  land.  The  whole  country-side, 
in  fact,  was  leagued  against  the  reservation  of  the  Crown  Woods. 
So  long  as  the  "  owner's  probandi,"  as  Bridger  put  it,  lay  with 
the  Crown,  no  satisfactory  conviction  would  ever  be  obtained 
(57,  82,  118,  118  i-iii,  127,  127  i,  179  i,  352  ii).  The  Governor 
of  New  England,  and  the  Lieut.  Governor  of  New  Hampshire 
might  do  their  best  to  prohibit  wastage  of  the  woods  (82,  118, 
159  i,  352  i),  but  so  long  as  there  were  so  many  loop-holes  in 
the  Act,  and  Bridger's  successor,  Charles  Burniston,  remained 
snugly  at  home,  there  was  little  prospect  of  preserving  mast 
trees  for  the  Royal  Navy  or  preventing  them  from  being  shipped 
abroad  for  the  benefit  of  the  King's  enemies  (82,  159  i,  319,  333, 
656,  694).  A  proposal  that  the  Governor  of  New  England 
should  be  appointed  Controller  of  the  Woods  was  discoun- 
tenanced by  the  Board  of  Trade,  in  spite  of  the  favour  with 
which  it  had  been  received  at  Court  (201,  201  i).  Correspond- 
ence on  the  subject  was  ordered  to  be  laid  before  the  House 
of  Commons  (54,  54  i). 


XXIV 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Powder 

Duty  and 

Stores    of 

War. 


The  Mason-         In  New  Hampshire,  the  Mason-Allen  claim  might  be  dead, 

Allen 

Claim.  but  it  was  not  buried.  In  an  age  of  "  bubble  "  schemes,  it  is 
not  surprising  to  find  that  a  new  "  bubble  "  was  now  being 
promoted  by  speculators.  They  proposed  to  purchase  James 
Mason's  grant  for  £15,000,  from  the  widow  of  the  Allen  to  whom 
it  had  passed,  and  to  sell  it  in  2,500  shares  at  £30  a  piece.  Henry 
Newman,  the  Agent  for  New  Hampshire,  entered  a  warning 
against  the  scheme  (273). 

The  prospect  of  a  war  with  the  Eastern  Indians  and  the  danger 
to  be  apprehended  from  pirates  on  the  coast  prompted  New 
Hampshire  to  look  to  its  stores  of  war.  Since  the  Royal  In- 
struction of  1717  forbidding  the  collection  of  powder  duties 
from  British  ships.  New  Hampshire  had  suspended  the  act 
imposing  a  duty  of  a  pound  of  gunpowder  per  ton  upon  trading 
vessels  of  every  description,  although  it  had  been  confirmed 
by  the  Crown  in  1706.  The  Province  was  therefore  left  without 
any  supplies  of  ammunition.  Newman  was  instructed  to  apply 
"  to  the  proper  Board  in  order  to  obtain  the  Royal  bounty 
therein."  Meeting  with  no  success  at  the  Board  of  Ordnance, 
he  presented  a  petition  to  the  Board  of  Trade  for  either  a  free 
grant  of  ammunition  stores  or  permission  for  his  Government 
to  revise  the  Powder  Act.  On  hearing  that  the  Governor's 
Instruction  of  1717  had  only  been  intended  to  apply  to  future 
acts,  he  requested  the  Board  to  explain  the  matter  to  the 
Governor,  in  order  that  he  might  put  the  Powder  Act  into 
execution  (438,  447  i,  585.)  Popple,  thereupon  wrote  to 
Governor  Shute  asking  why  the  act  had  been  suspended  and 
informing  him  that  it  was  considered  to  be  in  force.  (618). 

Governor  Shute  had  been  delayed  in  visiting  the  Province 
by  the  longest  and  severest  winter  on  record.  But  after  he  had 
been  there  he  sent  replies  to  the  Board  of  Trade's  Queries  in 
June,  1720  (93,  94,  94  ii).  Further  information  was  supplied  by 
the  Agents  in  October  and  the  following  April  as  to  the  produce, 
trade,  condition  and  resources  of  the  P^o^'ince,  which  furnished 
the  Board  of  Trade  with  material  for  their  general  report  (656). 

Manufactures       Armstrong,  the  Collector,  reported  that  the  New  Hampshire 

and  Irish 

Immigrants,   coloiusts  were  mamly  concerned  with  lumber  or  naval  stores, 


Iteplies  to 
Question- 
■  naires. 


PREFACE. 


XXV 


Burnet, 
Oovoi-nor 

of  Now 
Jersey  and 
New  York. 


and  were  paying  little  attention  to  the  manufacture  of  woollens. 
But  since  the  recent  arrival  of  500  families  of  Irish  immigrants, 
they  were  beginning  to  manufacture  linen  cloth  (153,  699  iii). 
There  was  a  demand  for  hemp  seed,  and  he  recommended  the 
despatch  of  100  bushels  of  it,  in  order  to  employ  them  on  the 
production  of  hemp  fit  for  the  Royal  Navy,  and  divert  them 
from  engaging  in  woollen  manufactures  (466).  This  policy 
was  supported  by  Governor  Shute  and  Bridger,  and  the  Board 
of  Trade  in  their  general  report  (94  ii,  118,  656). 

In  April  1720,  William  Burnet,  son  of  the  famous  Bishop  of 
Salisbury,  was  appointed  to  succeed  Hunter  as  Governor  of 
New  York  and  New  Jersey  (46).  It  would'  appear  from  a 
subsequent  memorial  (CO.  5,  752.  /.  272)  that  he  had  been 
Controller  of  the  Customs,  but  had  been  involved  in  the  South 
Sea  Bubble  crash.  In  order  to  enable  him  to  recover  from  his 
debts,  "  His  Majesty  was  graciously  pleased  to  authorise  an 
exchange  of  employments"  between  him  and  Governor  Hunter. 
A  sound  Whig,  Burnet  set  himself  to  continue  the  policy  pursued 
so  successfully  by  his  clever  and  diplomatic  predecessor.  But 
though  well  intentioned  and  capable,  events  were  to  prove 
that  he  was  wanting  in  the  tact  and  skill  in  managing  men  which 
distinguished  Hunter.  Burnet's  Instructions  were  practically 
a  repetition  of  those  of  the  former  Governor  (90  i-iii,  106). 


Burnet  in 
New  Jersey. 


In  New  Jersey  Burnet  was  quickly  involved  in  conflict  with 
the  Assembly.  He  decided  to  continue  Hunter's  Assembly. 
The  House,  holding  that  a  new  Assembly  must  be  summoned 
on  the  arrival  of  a  new  governor,  at  first  refused  to  meet  (533). 
When  Burnet  had  persuaded  them  to  do  so,  he  found  himself 
involved  in  a  series  of  disputes  with  them  concerning  the 
granting  of  a  revenue,  the  currency,  the  qualifications  of 
members,  the  defence  of  the  frontier,  and  the  right  of  the  Council 
to  amend  money  bills.  After  "  four  months  patience"  and 
repeated  adjournments  of  the  House,  he  was  driven  to  dissolve 
them  in  May  1721  (533,  595,  595  i,  N.J.  Archives  XIV).  Burnet 
attributed  the  chief  cause  of  the  Assembly's  ill-humour  to 
George  Willocks.  This  "  professed  Jacobite  "  was  acting  in  the 
interests  of  a  group  of  Proprietors  who  aimed  at  securing  control 


XXVI 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


of  East  Jersey.  In  order  to  make  sure  of  a  more  amenable 
Assembly  at  the  coming  election,  Burnet  proposed  the  repeal 
of  two  acts  by  which  the  Secretary's  fees  had  been  reduced. 
Such  action  would  be  interpreted  as  a  check  to  the  Assembly 
in  their  attempts  to  starve  all  officers  not  appointed  by  them- 
selves. He  also  proposed  that  two  Representatives  should 
Huntinyrdon  be  assigned  to  the  new  County  of  Huntingdon  in  West  Jersey, 
which  could  be  trusted  to  elect  "  very  loyal  men,"  in  place  of 
the  two  members  who  had  been  allotted  to  the  little  fishing 
village  of  Salem,  and  who  had  proved  to  be  "  the  ringleaders 
in  the  opposition  to  the  Government."  (67,  407,  415,  595). 


Secretary's 
Fees. 


Representa- 
tion of 


Bxpoit  of 
Copper. 


New  York. 


The  Old 
Assembly- 
is    continued, 

and  settles 
the    revenue . 


Copper  ore  from  a  newly-discovered  mine  was  being  shipped 
to  Holland.  The  Council  of  Trade,  on  being  informed  of  it, 
suggested  that  the  export  of  ore  from  the  Plantations  should 
be  prohibited  by  Act  of  ParHament  (520  i,  537). 

In  New  York  Burnet  found  himself  more  at  ease.  "  We 
agree  very  well,"  he  wrote  of  the  Assembly  in  August  1721, 
"  and  this  Province  is  as  remarkably  quiet  and  happy  and 
affectionate  to  me  as  the  other  one  is  the  reverse  "  (595).  Before 
Burnet  sailed.  Hunter  had  represented  the  necessity  of  his 
obtaining  a  settlement  of  the  revenue,  the  act  for  which  would 
shortly  expire,  and  that  the  new  act  should  contain  a  provision 
for  the  necessary  expenses  of  the  Council  and  Assembly,  and 
so  put  an  end  to  the  payment  of  the  Assembly  by  a  Country 
Tax  (80).  Burnet  on  his  arrival  found  that,  in  Hunter's 
absence  and  under  Schuyler's  Presidency,  the  Opposition 
party  had  been  gaining  headway.  They  had  been  looking 
forward  to  an  election  on  the  assumption  that  a  new  Assembly 
must  be  called  after  a  change  of  Governors.  This  theory  was 
discountenanced  by  the  Chief  Justice  and  Attorney  General, 
and  Burnet  adduced  precedents  to  disprove  it.  He  assured 
the  Assembly  that  he  intended  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of 
his  "  incomparable  predecessor,"  in  whose  "  great  and  good 
measures"  they  had  taken  part.  The  Assembly  being  devoted 
to  the  late  Governor,  who  was  now  acting  as  Agent  for  New 
York,  and  anxious  to  be  continued,  readily  provided  for  the 
deficiencies  which  had  accrued,  and  passed  an  act  continuing 


PREFACE. 


XXVll 


the  revenue  for  five  years,  without  the  article  favouring  vessels 
belonging  to  the  Colony,  which  had  figured  in  the  act  passed 
in  Hunter's  time. 


OppDsitiitn 

of  the 

Council. 


Burnet's  difficulty  lay  with  the  Council.  The  President  and 
six  members  of  it  were  anxious  for  an  election  which,  they 
thought,  would  give  them  control  of  the  Assembly.  Frustrated 
in  their  design  to  hold  one  in  Hunter's  absence,  they  now 
adopted  the  view  held  by  the  New  Jersey  Assembly,  and  argued 
that  a  new  Assembly  must  be  chosen  after  a  change  of  adminis- 
tration. Burnet  answered  them  with  precedents  and  arguments. 
Having  forced  them  to  admit  doubts  on  the  point,  he  challenged 
them  to  consider  whether  scruples  of  which  they  did  not  pretend 
to  be  certain  could  justify  their  delaying  for  a  year  or  more 
the  grant  of  supplies,  the  repair  of  the  fortifications  and  im- 
mediate measures  for  counteracting  the  French  influence  with 
the  Indians.  He  further  hinted  at  charges  that  could  be 
brought  against  Schuyler  and  Philipse  for  irregularities  in  the 
granting  of  lands.  Thereupon  Schuyler  and  four  others  asked 
leave  to  retire  into  the  country,  and  Burnet  asked  that  Adolphus 
Philipse  and  Peter  Schuyler,  whom  he  represented  as  his  tool, 
should  be  dismissed  from  the  Council  and  replaced  by  Cad- 
wallader  Golden  and  James  Alexander  (239,  264  i-v,  303,  325.) 


Burnet 
supported, 
by  Board 
of  Trade. 


The  Council  of  Trade  confirmed  Burnet  in  his  continuance 
of  the  Assemblies,  which  they  found  to  be  in  conformity  with 
the  practice  in  Ireland  (341,  533).  They  also  obtained  the 
dismissal  of  Schuyler  and  Philipse  and  the  appointment  of 
those  whom  Burnet  had  recommended  (Feb.  10,  1721,  378, 
379.)  Professor  Osgood  (American  Colonies  in  the  XVIIIth 
century,  p.  47)  gives  the  impression  that  this  was  not  done 
until  March  in  the  following  year.  But  if  the  Editor  occasionally 
presumes  to  correct  a  detail  of  this  sort,  he  hopes  that  it  will 
not  be  interpreted  as  an  attempt  to  detract  from  that  accurate 
and  invaluable  work,  to  which  he  is  profoundly  indebted. 


Whale 
royalties 
remitted. 


Burnet  added  to  his  popularity  by  remitting  the  royalties 
upon  whales  to  which  he  was  entitled,  but  which  had  been  made 
a  grievance  (p.  205). 


XXVlll 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Btuncl  jind 
Indian 
policy. 


Burnet  also  obtained  from  the  Assembly  two  acts  which 
embodied  the  Indian  policy,  to  which  he  gave  great  attention. 
The  advance  of  the  French  along  the  Great  Lakes  and  the 
Mississippi  Valley,  accompanied  by  their  successful  intrigues 
with  the  Senecas  and  Indians  in  Nova  Scotia,  rendered 
counter  measures  imperative  (48,  144,  144  i,  206,  230,  303,  533, 
534). 


Fort  at 
Niagara. 


By  an  act  laying  a  duty  of  2  per  cent,  on  European  goods 
imported,  Burnet  hoped  to  obtain  funds  for  repairing  existing 
fortifications  and  building  new  forts  along  the  frontiers.  It 
was  provided  with  a  suspensory  clause,  in  case  exception  should 
be  taken  to  even  so  small  a  duty  upon  British  trade.  On 
learning  that  objection  was  being  made  to  it  by  the  merchants 
in  London,  Burnet  returned  to  his  defence  of  the  act  in  November 
1721  (303,  711).  The  new  forts  to  be  built  at  Niagara  and 
Onondaga  would  be  an  answer  to  the  French,  who  had  erected 
a  blockhouse  near  the  Falls,  and  were  thus  encroaching  upon 
territory  which  the  Senecas  had  granted  to  the  British  Crown. 
Burnet  intended  to  persuade  the  Indians  to  demolish  this 
French  blockhouse,  and  to  place  a  company  of  soldiers  as 
garrison  for  his  fort  at  Niagara.  His  objects  were  to  complete 
a  chain  of  forts  guarding  communications  from  Albany  to 
Niagara,  and  to  encourage  a  settlement  of  soldiers  and  Palatines 
there  and  above  the  Falls,  and  thus  to  open  up  trade  with  the 
Indians  and  all  the  Great  Lakes  (48,  144,  144  i,  206,  230,  239, 
263,  264  i,  303,  323,  533,  534). 


Independent 
Companies 
and  stores. 


For  garrisoning  his  projected  forts,  Burnet  made  a  request 
for  two  additional  Independent  Companies  and  further  supplies 
of  stores  of  war  (734).  When  the  Board  of  Ordnance  explained 
to  the  Lords  Justices  that  £10,000  worth  of  stores  had  been 
supplied  to  the  Province  and  never  been  repaid,  whilst  Parlia- 
ment refused  to  make  any  provision  for  such  services,  both 
Burnet  and  Hunter  represented  the  great  necessity  of  supplying 
them.  It  was  useless  to  expect  the  Assembly  to  contribute 
towards  the  efficiency  of  a  force  of  which  they  were  jealous  as 
adding  to  the  strength  of  the  Government  (134,  140). 


PREFACE. 


XXIX 


Act 

prohibiting 

trade  with 

French  in 

Indian  goods. 


Another  act,  passed  by  the  Assembly,  was  aimed  at  French 
influence  with  the  Five  Nations  and  Far  Indians.  It  prohibited 
trading  with  the  French  in  goods  intended  for  the  Indians. 
Hitherto  such  goods  had  been  sold  to  the  French  through 
Albany,  and  were  then  distributed  by  them  to  the  Indians, 
from  Montreal.  They  thus  gained  both  profit  and  influence 
from  an  Indian  trade,  which  this  act  sought  to  divert  to  Albany 
and  New  York  (206,  230,  303,  323). 


Robert 
Livingston. 


Conference 

with  the  Five 

Nations. 


Burnet  derived  his  knowledge  on  this  subject  from  the 
capable  Secretary  for  Indian  Affairs,  Robert  Livingston,  who 
was  also  Speaker  of  the  Assembly,  As  a  reward  for  his  services, 
the  Governor  successfully  supported  his  application  that  his 
son  should  be  appointed  to  succeed  him  (303,  303  i-v,  525,  556). 
He  and  the  Mayor  and  Magistrates  of  Albany  had  represented 
to  President  Schuyler  that  the  state  of  affairs  was  critical, 
and  indicated  their  views  as  to  the  policy  which  ought  to  be 
pursued.  The  danger  of  an  attack  by  the  Five  Nations  upon 
the  Southern  Settlements  could  not  be  ignored.  Livingston 
urged  that  they  should  be  handled  gently,  and  induced,  if 
possible,  to  renew  the  Covenant  Chain  with  Virginia,  and  bring 
the  Indians  in  allegiance  with  them  to  peace  (101,  188,  206, 
230).  After  consultation  with  Hunter,  the  Council  of  Trade 
advised  Burnet  and  Spotswood  in  the  same  sense.  They 
recommended  the  Lieut.  Governor  of  Virginia  to  waive  his 
objection  to  meeting  the  Five  Nations  at  Albany  instead  of 
their  attending  him  at  Williamsburgh,  and  to  obtain  the 
essential,  the  bringing  of  the  Indians  of  his  Government  into 
a  firm  and  lasting  peace  with  the  Five  Nations,  including  the 
Tuscaroras.  For  Spotswood  had  been  roused  by  their  hostilities 
on  the  Virginian  frontiers,  and  their  refusal  to  meet  him  in 
conference  except  at  Albany,  to  write  a  furious  letter  to 
Schuyler,  and  to  prepare  to  use  his  militia  against  the  Five 
Nations  (147)  d'.  Before  Burnet's  arrival,  President  Schuyler 
had  held  a  conference  with  the  Five  Nations  (101,  188,  263), 
but  it  was  sparsely  attended  (188,  263).  However,  he  renewed 
the  Covenant  with  them  in  the  name  of  all  the  Colonies,  including 


(1)  Cf.  Pennsylvania  Coh  Recorda  III. 


XXX 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Burnet's 

Conference 

with  Six 

Nations. 


Virginia  (188,  263).  Two  Commissioners  had  just  previously 
been  sent  from  Albany  to  warn  the  Senecas  against  permitting 
the  French  design  of  building  a  blockhouse  at  Niagara  (101). 
Afterwards  they  sent  their  interpreter  with  three  Sachems  to 
Niagara  to  protest  against  the  French  encroachments  (May 
1720).  There  they  found  the  trading  house  built  by  Joncaire. 
The  French  trader  in  possession  declared  that  the  young  Seneca 
warriors  had  given  permission  for  it  to  be  erected.  This  the 
Sachems  stoutly  denied,  and  subsequently  asked  the  British 
to  destroy  it  (144,  144  i).  It  was  after  this  that  Livingston 
and  the  magistrates  of  Albany  made  the  representation  (August 
and  September)  to  the  President  and  Council  at  New  York 
referred  to  above,  urging  the  building  of  forts,  in  order  to 
support  British  rights  and  prestige  against  the  encroachments 
of  the  French,  and  to  restore  the  waning  confidence  of  the  Five 
Nations  (206,  230).  Before  attempting  to  confer  with  the 
latter,  Burnet  awaited  the  arrival  of  presents  for  the  Indians 
and  stores  of  war  from  England,  for  which  he  repeatedly  applied. 
But  though  the  Council  of  Trade  repeatedly  recommended 
their  despatch,  he  was  at  length  obliged  to  go  without  them 
(303,  320,  596,  692).  In  the  meantime  he  had  written  to  the 
Governor  of  Canada  (M.  de  Vaudreuil),  protesting  against  his 
intrigues  with  the  Senecas,  as  being  contrary  to  the  Treaty  of 
Utrecht,  and  his  occupation  of  Niagara  before  the  boundaries 
had  been  settled  by  Commissioners  (533,  534,  692).  Vaudreuil 
replied  with  diplomatic  denials  and  a  general  claim  to  previous 
possession.  This  letter,  which  threw  over  his  agents,  Joncaire 
and  De  Longueil,  Burnet  produced  with  effect  when  he  met  the 
Five  Nations  in  conference  at  Albany  on  Sept.  1st,  1721  (692). 
The  result  of  the  Conference  and  his  Speech  to  the  Indians  was 
satisfactory.  The  Indians  agreed  that  they  had  been  misled 
by  the  French.  A  forward  policy  was  begun  for  capturing 
the  trade  with  the  Far  Indians.  Whilst  the  acts  referred  to 
above  deflected  trade  from  Canada  to  Albany,  Burnet  applied 
a  grant  of  £500  made  by  the  Assembly  to  establishing  a  trading 
post  "  at  Tirandaquet"  (Irondequoit)  on  Lake  Ontario  in 
co-operation  with  the  Senecas  and  under  the  command  of  Peter 
Schuyler's  son.  He  was  instructed  to  purchase  land  above 
the  Falls  from  the  Indians  (692,   692  i,   ii).     As  to  Virginia, 


PREFACE. 


XXXI 


Extravagant 

grants  of 

land  and 

Quit  rents. 


Burnet  placed  before  the  Sachems  Spotswood's  repeated  demands 
that  the  Five  Nations  and  the  Indians  of  Virginia  should  confine 
themselves  to  their  respective  sides  of  the  Potomac  and  moun- 
tains forming  the  western  boundaries  of  Virginia.  The  Sachems 
promised  to  do  their  best  to  secure  the  observance  of  this 
agreement. 

Burnet  withheld  his  assent  to  an  act  for  facilitating  the  par- 
tition of  lands  in  joint  tenancy,  upon  the  report  of  the  Surveyor 
General  that  it  would  prove  prejudicial  to  the  King's  rights 
and  Quit-rents.  In  a  further  report  Cadwallader  Colden 
reviewed  the  many  extravagant  grants  which  had  been  made  in 
former  times,  and  which  might  come  within  the  scope  of  this 
act.  It  throws  light  upon  the  frauds  practised  in  connection 
with  them  upon  the  Indians  and  the  Crown  alike.  He  cal- 
culated that  if  eight  only  of  the  patents  were  to  pay  half  a 
crown  per  hundred  acres,  the  quit-rents  accruing  would  amount 
to  £4176  instead  of  £17  17*.  Qd.  actually  being  paid.  He  drew 
the  moral  that  a  full  survey  of  the  Province  should  be  made, 
and  that  the  quit-rents  which  could  be  raised,  if  that  were 
done,  would  provide  a  sufficient  revenue  for  the  support  of  the 
Government,  without  doing  injustice  or  any  hardship  to 
anybody,  "but  a  great  deal  of  justice  to  the  King."  This 
method  of  raising  a  revenue  was  destined  to  be  often  mooted 
even  to  Shelburne's  days,  but  never  to  be  put  into  action 
(43,  729,  729  i-iii). 


Dispute  as  to 
auditing 
accounts. 


In  .June  1720,  Horace  Walpole,  as  Auditor  General  of  the 
Plantations,  made  complaint  that  the  Assembly  of  New  York 
refused  to  allow  his  Deputy,  George  Clarke,  to  audit  the 
Treasurer's  accounts.  He  represented  that  this  was  done  in 
order  to  retain  control  of  the  money  granted  by  them  for  the 
use  of  the  Government,  without  rendering  any  account  of  it 
to  His  Majesty  (129).  Soon  after  Lord  Carteret  took  office,  he 
sent  instructions  to  Burnet  to  see  to  it  that  in  accordance  with 
an  order  made  by  the  Treasury  August  17th,  1720,  no  innovation 
should  be  permitted  in  the  management  of  the  Revenue,  and 
that  the  Auditor  and  his  Deputy  should  be  allowed  to  collect 
his  ancient  and  usual  fees.     He  was  to  use  his  utmost  applica- 


xxxii  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


tion  and  address  in  setting  this  matter  right,  for  "  the  depend- 
ency of  the  Colony  upon  Great  Britain  depends  in  great  measure 
upon  your  executing  H.M.  legal  authority  upon  this  occasion  " 
(492).  In  a  lengthy  address  to  the  Governor,  the  Assembly 
replied  to  the  letter  from  the  Treasury.  They  regarded  it  as 
necessary  that  they  should  have  a  Treasurer  of  their  own  in 
order  to  prevent  the  squandering  of  public  money,  which  had 
prevailed  in  former  administrations.  One  such  extravagance 
had  been  the  allowing  a  fee  to  the  Auditor  General  of  5  p.c. 
upon  the  whole  of  the  revenue.  This,  they  argued,  was  not 
permitted  by  his  commission,  and  was  indeed  regarded  by  the 
Auditor  General  himself  as  excessive.  It  was  to  avoid  loading 
the  country  with  the  crushing  weight  of  that  5  p.c,  that 
the  Treasurer  refused  to  account  with  the  Deputy  Auditor. 
But  as  the  whole  amount  of  the  salary  at  stake  was  not 
more  than  £200,  their  plea  that  it  would  ruin  the  trade 
and  inhabitants  of  the  Province,  and  render  them  unable  to 
pay  the  salaries  of  the  officers  of  the  Government,  is  hardly 
convincing.  The  motive  was  evidently  to  obtain  control  of 
the  public  purse,  and  to  avoid  paying  officers  appointed  by 
the  Crown,  or  such  persons  as  were  deemed  fit  objects  for  the 
Royal  bounty  (534). 

Act  for  The  Act  of  1717  /or  paying  several  debts  was  confirmed,  in 

debts  and  Consideration  of  the  fact  that  the  bills  of  credit  authorised  by 
Currencv^  it  had  already  passed  into  circulation.  But  the  occasion  was 
taken  for  issuing  orders  to  Governors  as  to  the  passing  of  such 
acts  noted  in  §  1  (74).  The  paper  currency  of  New  York  being 
based  upon  a  secure  and  adequate  sinking  fund  punctually 
applied  had  proved  entirely  beneficial,  and  unlike  that  of 
Massachusetts,  had  never  been  at  a  discount.  It  was  used  as 
an  example  by  Sir  Henry  Mackworth  in  support  of  his  proposal 
for  a  similar  issue  in  Great  Britain.  Sir  Henry  stated  that  it 
was  the  outcome  of  a  scheme  advanced  by  himself  at  a  Parlia- 
mentary Committee  of  Ways  and  Means  about  the  year  1703 
(343).  The  incident  affords  an  interesting  example  of  the 
action  and  reaction  of  ideas  betw^een  the  Colonies  and  the 
Mother  Country. 


PREFACE.  xxxiii 


Protest  by         The  Palatine  Refugees,   who  had  quitted  the  Hudson  and 

the 

Palatines  settled  in  the  Schoharie  Valley  on  the  strength  of  a  grant  of 
lands  by  the  Mohawk  Indians,  had  done  so  without  Governor 
Hunter's  permission.  The  lands  in  question  had  formed  part 
of  the  "  extravagant  grants  "  made  in  Governor  Fleteher's  time, 
and  since  those  grants  had  been  annulled  and  broken  up,  had 
been  assigned  to  a  group  of  Albany  land  speculators.  The 
Palatines  clung  to  their  right  of  settlement  obtained  from  the 
Indians.  The  new  grantees  insisted  that  they  should  become 
their  tenants.  Governor  Hunter  ordered  them  to  accept  that 
position,  and  when  they  refused,  prohibited  further  cultivation 
of  the  land.  In  1718  they  determined  to  appeal  to  the  Crown. 
Johan  Conrad  Weiser,  who  had  been  their  leader  in  active 
resistance  to  the  demands  of  the  grantees,  and  Johan  Wilhelm 
Schef  (Schaff)  started  on  a  secret  mission  to  England.  After 
being  captured  by  pirates,  they  reached  London  penniless. 
There  they  were  detained  in  a  Debtors'  Prison,  until  funds  for 
their  redemption  arrived  from  Schoharie.  They  then  presented 
a  petition  for  a  grant  of  lands  from  the  Crown.  Their  case  was 
subjected  to  the  searching  and  hostile  criticism  of  Governor 
Hunter,  who  was  now  in  England  (155  i,  162-164,  282).  When 
offered  a  choice  of  lands  elsewhere,  Weiser  declared  that  they 
elected  to  remove  to  Schattery  (Chettery  or  Schattera).  But 
Schaff  held  out  for  Schoharie  (268,  272),  asking  for  a  grant  of 
lands  there  for  those  who  had  settled  at  the  place,  and  of  lands 
adjoining  it  for  500  families  then  scattered  about  New  York 

Burnet's  (263,  268,  272,  282).  The  case  was  referred  to  Governor  Burnet, 
and  the  Palatines  were  recommended  to  conform  themselves 
to  the  Governor's  orders  (305,  398,  399).  On  his  visit  to  Albany 
he  arranged  that  those  who  wished  to  remain  at  Schoharie 
should  take  leases  from  the  new  proprietors,  whilst  others  were 
granted  permission  to  purchase  lands  from  the  Mohawks  and 
to  settle  on  the  Mohawk  River,  above  Fort  Hunter,  a  solution 
of  their  difficulty  which  also  extended  and  held  the  frontier 
of  New  York  (692). 

New  York.  Huuter  returned  answers  to  the  Queries  relating  to  New  York, 
(187  i,  ii)  and  the  Board  of  Trade,  in  their  General  Report  (656) 
carefully    considered   the    condition    of  the    Province   and   its 

Wt.  7695  C.P.  32— C 


xxxiv 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Nova    Scotia 

and  the 

South  Sea 

Company. 


Representa 

tion  by 

Board  of 

Trade. 


problems  in  relation  to  the  Six  Nations  of  Indians  and  the 
French  (v.  §  i). 

The  petition  of  Colonel  Montgomerie  concerning  a  settlement 
of  salary  (No.  564),  is  an  undated  copy  of  that  of  Lord  Bel- 
haven  (v.  §  3).  It  is  bound  up,  in  the  contemporary  binding, 
with  that  document,  but  should  of  course  be  attributed  to  the 
date  of  Montgomerie's  appointment  in  1728. 

The  affairs  of  Nova  Scotia  continued  to  be  treated  with  a 
lamentable  indecision.  This  may  have  been  partly  due  to  a 
move  by  the  South  Sea  Company  which,  at  the  beginning  of 
1721,  petitioned  for  a  grant  both  of  Nova  Scotia  and  of  the  late 
French  part  of  St.  Kitts  (350  i).  Their  petition  roused  other 
claimants  and  petitioners  for  grants  of  lands.  Colonel  Vetch 
on  behalf  of  those  who  had  taken  part  in  the  expedition  against 
Port  Royal,  the  Earl  of  Sutherland  and  Sir  Alexander  Cairnes 
(353-356,  358,  360,  362).  The  Council  of  Trade,  however, 
did  not  neglect  to  lay  before  the  liords  Justices  the  "  very  ill 
state  of  this  Colony,"  as  shown  in  Governor  Philipps'  reports. 
They  recommended  that  a  survey  of  the  country  should  be 
completed  forthwith,  in  order  that  the  Governor  might  then 
be  at  liberty  to  make  grants  for  settlement,  that  three  more 
companies  of  his  regiment  should  be  removed  from  Placentia 
to  Annapolis  Royal,  and  that  the  Court  of  France  should  be 
invited  to  put  a  stop  to  encroachments  upon  the  fishery  at 
Canso  by  French  ships  from  Cape  Breton  (168),  Whilst  this 
representation  was  being  made,  in  the  summer  of  1720,  Philipps 
The  French  wrote  from  AnnapoHs  Royal  that  the  French  inhabitants  were 
in  a  state  of  indecision.  They  would,  he  believed,  prefer  to 
take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  His  Majesty  and  remain  in  Nova 
Scotia  in  enjoyment  of  their  possessions.  But  their  priests 
and  the  French  Governors  of  Canada  and  Cape  Breton  (with 
which  latter  place  they  carried  on  a  considerable  clandestine 
trade)  were  doing  their  utmost  to  induce  them  to  withdraw 
from  Nova  Scotia.  In  the  absence  of  any  vigorous  demon- 
stration of  enterprise  and  power  on  the  part  of  the  British, 
French  influence  remained  strong  over  both  the  inhabitants 
and  the  Indians  (177,  180  i,  241,  261,  298,  298  xx).  He  enclosed 
a  letter  from  the  Governor  of  Cape  Breton,  in  which  M.  de 


Inhabitants. 


PREFACE. 


XXX\' 


Broiiillan  attributed  the  failure  of  the  inhabitants  to  leave  the 
country  within  the  period  defined  by  the  treaty  to  their  lack  of 
transport  and  to  obstacles  placed  in  their  way  by  the  late 
Governor  Nicholson.  Justice,  he  declared,  demanded  an 
extension  of  the  time  fixed,  within  which  they  must  either  take 
the  oath  of  allegiance,  or  withdraw.  (177  i).  He  protested 
against  the  Proclamation  which  Philipps  had  issued  immediately 
upon  his  arrival  in  April,  granting  them  an  extension  of  four 
months  for  making  a  decision,  in  accordance  with  his  Instruc- 
tions (180  i,  ii,  xiii).  The  unfavourable  reception  of  this 
Proclamation,  and  the  activity  of  the  French  Missionaries, 
who  were  calculating  on  the  fall  of  the  Regent,  are  indicated  in 
180  i-xvii.  Philipps  ordered  the  River  settlers  to  stop  making 
a  road  through  the  woods  to  Minis  (Les  Mines)  (180  i-iv).  One 
of  the  reasons  advanced  for  their  refusal  to  take  the  oath  of 
allegiance  was  that  the  Indians  would  cut  their  throats  if  they 
did  (177,  180  i,  v.) 


Philipps' 

suggestions. 


Confronted  by  this  opposition,  and  having  neither  orders  nor 
power  to  drive  out  the  non-juring  French  inhabitants,  and 
aware  that  the  Indians  were  entirely  under  the  influence  of  the 
French,  Philipps,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  his  newly 
appointed  Council,  prolonged  the  time  fixed  for  evacuation, 
and  referred  to  the  Home  Government  for  instructions  how  to 
proceed  (180  i,  vi).  His  own  suggestions  were  that  a  modified 
form  of  the  oath  of  allegiance  should  be  devised  for  the  French 
inhabitants,  and  that  some  Mohawks  should  be  brought  in  to 
overawe  the  Indians,  whilst  he  asked  for  permission  to  arm  a 
sloop,  for  an  increase  of  the  garrison,  and  prompt  settlement 
of  the  Eastern  Coast  (177,  180  i,  241,  241  xvii,  xviii). 


Instructions 

hy  the 

Council  of 

Trade. 


On  receiving  this  letter,  the  Council  of  Trade  submitted  to 
Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  Philipps'  request  for  a  sloop  and  rein- 
forcements (322).  To  Governor  Philipps,  the  Board  wrote  that 
since  the  French  inhabitants  seemed  unlikely  ever  to  make  good 
British  subjects,  they  were  of  opinion  they  had  better  be  removed 
from  the  Province,  so  soon  as  the  reinforcements  now  proposed 
should  have  arrived.  But  he  was  not  to  take  action  without 
positive  orders  for  their  removal.     In  the  meantime  he  was  to 


XXXV. 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


French  and 
Indians 

plunder  the 

fishery  at 

Canso, 


And  at 
Les  Mines. 


Reinforce- 
ments 
requested , 


And     recom- 
mended 
by  Council 
of  Trade. 


"  pursue  the  same  prudent  and  cautious  conduct  towards  them," 
and  to  let  them  know  that,  if  they  were  permitted  to  remain, 
they  would  certainly  be  allowed  the  free  exercise  of  their 
religion  (342). 

Philipps'  expectation  of  hostile  co-operation  between  the 
French  and  Indians  was  quickly  realised.  Whilst  the  assign- 
ment of  the  French  ships  seized  at  Canso  in  1719  was  being 
reconsidered  (219,  226,  253),  a  combined  force  of  French  and 
Indians  from  Cape  Breton  made  reprisal  by  attacking  the 
English  fishery  there,  seizing  several  ships  and  much  plunder. 
The  fishermen  complained  to  the  Governor  of  Cape  Breton, 
who  protested  that  he  had  no  control  over  the  Indians,  though 
the  Indians  declared  that  they  were  acting  under  his  orders 
(241,  241  i-v,  261,  261  xviii,  298,  298  iv,  vi).  Thomas  Richards, 
however,  a  master  of  a  ship  riding  at  Canso,  went  in  pursuit  with 
a  couple  of  fishing  vessels,  and  recaptured  six  of  the  shallops 
with  some  of  the  plunder,  and  15  French  prisoners.  Meanwhile, 
application  for  help  had  been  made  to  Governor  Philipps,  who 
sent  some  soldiers  with  Major  Armstrong  from  Annapolis  Royal, 
and  a  letter  to  M.  de  Brouillan  demanding  restitution  (241, 
241  viii,  ix). 

Flushed  with  their  success  at  Canso,  some  of  the  Indians,  on 
their  return  to  Les  Mines,  plundered  there  a  New  England  sloop, 
claiming  the  country  for  themselves,  obviously  at  the  instigation 
of  the  Jesuit  priest  there.  Philipps,  aware  that  his  authority 
extended  no  further  than  cannon  shot  from  the  Fort  at  Anna- 
polis, was  obliged  to  content  himself  with  writing  a  letter  to 
the  French  inhabitants,  asking  why  they  had  made  no  attempt 
to  restrain  the  Indians  (241,  241  xii-xv). 

In  view  of  the  hostile  attitude  of  the  French  and  Indians,  the 
Governor,  Council  and  Officers  of  the  garrison  asked  for  im- 
mediate reinforcements  and  fortification  of  the  Colony  (241  xvii, 
xviii,  XX,  298).  Meanwhile  the  fishermen  and  settlers  at  Canso 
combined  to  build  some  lodgings  for  the  company  Philipps  had 
sent  to  secure  the  place  (298,  298  iii,  v,  614,  676).  On  hearing 
of  the  attack  upon  Canso  from  Mr.  Cumings,  the  Council  of 
Trade  hastened  to  recommend  that  compensation  for  the  French 


PREFACE. 


XXXVll 


French 
encroach- 
ments on  the 
Canso 
Fishery. 


Canso. 
French 
interpreta- 
tion    of     the 
maps  and 
Treaty. 

French  and 

British 

claims  to 

Canso 
Fishery. 


ships  seized  by  Capt.  Smart,  which  they  had  just  suggested 
(253),  should  be  withheld  until  redress  was  made  for  this  out- 
rage (261,  266).  They  also  reeommended  that  reinforcements 
should  be  sent  and  forts  erected  on  the  coast  to  protect  the 
Fishery  (266,  322,  342).  Capt.  Young,  H.M.S.  Rose,  had  also 
suggested  a  fort  on  Canso  Island,  and  a  guard-ship.  He 
emphasised  the  value  of  the  Canso  fishery.  When  he  had 
protested  to  the  Governor  of  Cape  Breton  against  the  encroach- 
ment by  the  French  there,  M.  de  Brouillan  had  admitted  that  it 
was  contrary  to  the  Treaty,  and  promised  to  put  a  stop  to  it  (269). 

Capt.  Young  brought  over  a  chart  of  Canso  (467,  481).     It 
was  badly  needed  (219,  223,  223  i,  ii,  231,  232  ii,  238).     For  the 
battle  of  the  islands  was  being  waged  in  Paris  by  the  Commis- 
saries for  settling  the  boundaries  under  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht. 
In  the  absence  of  correct  charts,  the  diplomatists  argued  wildly. 
The  British  claimed  the  sole  right  to  the  fishing  off  Cape  Canso, 
including  (since  they  did  not  quite  know  where  they  were)  the 
Islands  of  Canso.     They  founded  their  title  to  the  Fishery  on 
the  Treaty  of  Neutrahty  as  well  as  that  of  Utrecht.     The  former 
restrained  the  French  from  fishing  anywhere  on  British  coasts 
in  America,  and  the  latter  from  fishing  on  the  coast  of  Nova 
Scotia  within  thirty  leagues,  stretching  from  the  Island  of  Sable 
to  the  S.W.       The  British  title  to  the  Islands  of  Canso  was 
based  on  the  clause  in  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  which  conceded  to 
Great  Britain  Nova  Scotia  and  all  islands  belonging  to  it,  except 
Cape  Breton  and  the  islands  hdng  in  the  mouth  of  the  River 
of  St.  Lawrence  and  in  the  gulph  of  the  same  name.     The  islands 
of  Canso,  it  was  contended,  did  not  lie  in  the  mouth  of  the  River, 
nor  in  the  gulf,  but  closely  adjacent  to  the  coast  of  Nova  Scotia, 
and  almost  joining  the  Cape  of  Canso.     They  were  therefore 
not   excepted  from  the  general  cession  of  Nova  Scotia  and  all 
islands    belonging   to   it.     At    what    the    British    Ambassador 
describes  as   "  a  tumultuary  conference  "  in  Sept.   1720,   the 
French  Commissaries  laid  claim  to  the  Canso  Islands.     They 
produced  charts  which  located  the  islands  near  the  middle  of 
the  mouth  of  the  Gut  of  Canso.     Drawing  a  line  from  Sable 
Island  (placed  in  these  charts  where  it  suited  them  best),  to  the 
South  West  of  Cape  Canso,  they  deduced  a  claim  not  only  to 


xxxviii  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


the  fishery  about  the  Cape,  but  also  to  part  of  the  Cape  itself, 
which,  they  insinuated,  had  Ijeen  no  part  of  the  French  province 
of  Accadie,  ceded  by  the  Treaty.  When  forced  to  abandon 
this  position,  they  contended  that  since  all  the  islands  in  the 
mouths  of  the  Gulf  of  St.  Laurence,  together  with  Cape  Breton, 
were  reserved  to  them  by  the  Treaty,  the  Islands  of  Canso  were 
included  in  this  exception.  They  supported  this  contention 
by  quoting  the  French  version  of  the  Treaty,  which  differed, 
or  could  be  construed  to  differ,  from  the  Latin  version  to  which 
the  British  Commissaries  adhered.  The  difference  lay  between 
the  exception  in  favour  of  the  French  of  Cape  Breton  and  the 
other  islands  "  lying  in  the  mouth  of  the  River  St.  Laurence 
and  in  the  Gulf  of  the  same  name  "  (according  to  the  Latin), 
and  "  in  the  mouth  and  in  the  gulf  of  St.  Laurence  "  (according 
to  the  French).  Possibly,  as  Mr.  Pulteney  suggested,  the  words 
"du  fleuve"  had  somehow  been  omitted  after  "  I'embouchure  " 
in  the  French  version.  From  these  premises,  and  by  a  large 
interpretation  of  the  "  mouth  of  the  Gulf,"  the  French  Com- 
missaries maintained  their  right  to  the  Islands  of  Canso  as 
being  within  it.  The  British  Representatives  objected  to 
opening  the  jaws  of  the  Gulf  so  wide.  After  a  heated  discussion, 
Du  Bois  consented  to  submit  a  report  of  the  Conference  to  the 
Regent  for  his  immediate  decision,  while  Sir  Robert  Sutton 
insisted  that  any  further  objections  the  French  might  have  to 
offer  should  be  made  in  the  form  of  an  answer  to  the  Memorial 
he  had  put  in  (219,  223,  i,  ii,  231).  The  French  showed  no 
sign  of  yielding.  The  Regent  agreed  to  prohibit  French  subjects 
from  fishing  off  the  coast  of  Nova  Scotia  within  the  limits 
prescribed  by  the  Treaty.  But  the  Islands  of  Canso  he  insisted 
were  reserved  to  France  as  being  "  situated  in  the  mouth  and 
in  the  gulf  of  St.  Laurence,"  and  as  being  "  no  part  of  Nova 
Scotia,  from  which  they  are  separated  by  a  broad  and  deep  arm 
of  the  sea,  which  is  the  same  as  that  which  separates  the 
Peninsula,  where  Nova  Scotia  is,  from  the  Island  of  Cape 
Breton  "  (232  ii).  Pulteney  himself  was  left  guessing  as  to 
whether  the  islands  in  question  were  a  parcel  of  rocks  adjoining 
the  Cape,  or  separated  from  it  by  a  large  branch  of  the  sea,  as 
the  French  maintained  (223  i,  231,  238). 


PREFACE. 


XXXIX 


Boundaries 

of  Nova 

Scotia. 

A  French 

Map. 


The  reference  in  Du  Bois's  memorial  to  the  "  Peninsula, 
where  Nova  Scotia  is  "  (232  ii),  is  significant.  The  French 
Commissaries  intended,  when  they  came  to  treat  of  the  boun- 
daries of  Nova  Scotia,  to  limit  them  "  to  that  part  only  which 
makes  it  a  peninsula  "  (223  i).  The  French  theory  is  illustrated 
by  D'Anville's  map,  published  under  the  patronage  of  the 
Duke  of  Orleans,  in  which  the  boundary  of  Nova  Scotia  is 
defined  by  a  line  drawn  from  Lake  Ontario  to  the  bottom  of 
the  Bay  of  Fundy. 


Bolingbrokc 

and  Cape 

Breton. 


Pulteney  narrates  an  interesting  reminiscence  of  the  negotia- 
tions for  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  It  had  been  proposed  to  divide 
Cape  Breton  between  the  French  and  British.  When  the 
French  insisted  upon  the  whole,  Bolingbroke  remarked  that  it 
could  only  be  with  a  view  to  disturbing  our  settlements  of  Nova 
Scotia.  "  What,"  Pulteney  comments,  "  are  we  to  judge  of 
their  insisting  on  islands  which  lye  much  nearer  than  Cape 
Breton  to  Nova  Scotia,  and  even  claiming  part  of  Nova  Scotia?" 
(223  i).  As  it  was  reported  that  the  French  were  settling  on 
St.  John's  Island,  facing  Chignecto,  Lord  Townshend  enquired 
of  the  Council  of  Trade  how  that  matter  stood  (241,  241  xvii, 
xviii,  389,  389  i).  The  Board  had  to  admit  that  as  the  Island 
lies  in  the  Gulf  of  St.  Laurence,  the  French  title  was  probably 
good.  But  in  view  of  the  attitude  of  obstruction  and  encroach- 
ment taken  up  by  them,  they  thought  it  might  be  advisable  to 
claim  it  under  the  12th  Article  of  the  Treaty,  on  the  grounds 
that  it  lay  so  close  to  the  shores  that  it  might  be  said  to 
belong  to  Nova  Scotia  (405). 


Report  by 

Coimcil  of 

Trade. 


The  Council  of  Trade  had  received  reports  upon  the  Province 
in  reply  to  their  Queries  from  Major  Mascarene  and  Colonel 
Vetch  (203,  241  xx)  In  view  of  the  French  claims,  they  stated 
in  their  General  Representation  what  they  took  to  be  the  correct 
boundaries  (158,  177,  656),  and  to  counter  French  encroachments 
on  the  fishery,  recommended  that  the  coast  and  islands  should 
be  provisioned  and  fortified.  The  four  regiments  they  proposed 
to  be  sent  there  would  help  to  supply  the  place  of  the  French 
inhabitants.  These,  they  advised,  should  be  ordered  to  quit 
the  Province  ;   but  as  a  matter  of  grace  be  allowed  to  take  their 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Survey  of  moveable  property  with  them  (656).  They  recommended  the 
immediate  despatch  of  the  Surveyor  of  H.M.  Woods  to  mark  out 
200,000  acres  of  forest  lands  to  be  reserved  for  the  Navy,  in 
order  that  the  Governor  might  be  enabled  to  proceed  with  the 
granting  of  lands  to  settlers  as  he  continued  to  urge  (656,  676). 

The  value  of  the  Fishery,  upon  which  Philipps  continued  to 
insist,  was  fully  appreciated  by  the  New  Englanders  (177,  676, 
699  ii).  He  proposed  that  Canso  should  be  made  a  free  port 
(676). 

Coal  Mines.         Coal  mincs  were  already  being  worked.     (177). 


Canso 
Fishery. 


Lands 

between 

Nova  Scotia 

and  Maine. 


Pennsylvania 

The 
Delaware 
Islands. 


Colonel 
Hart's 
Report. 


The  Committee  of  the  Privy  Council  reported  upon  the  claims 
and  petitions  relating  to  the  lands  between  Nova  Scotia  and 
Maine.  They  proposed  that  the  tract  between  the  River 
Kennebec  and  St.  Croix  should  be  erected  into  a  separate 
Government ;  that  the  lands  between  the  Kennebec  and 
Penobscot  should  continue  to  be  enjoyed  by  the  present 
possessors,  whilst  any  part  not  yet  granted  should  be  at  the 
disposal  of  Massachusetts  to  grant  at  a  stated  quit  rent,  on 
condition  that  that  Colony  renounced  all  claim  to  lands  north 
of  Penobscot,  and  any  right  of  government  in  the  lands  east  of 
the  Kennebec.  The  right  of  the  Crown  to  the  lands  from  the 
north  of  the  Penobscot  to  the  St.  Croix  was  declared  to  be 
estabhshed  (324). 

Another  claim  was  decided  in  favour  of  the  Crown.  The 
Attorney  and  Solicitor  General  gave  their  opinion  that  no 
part  of  the  Delaware  River  or  the  islands  lying  therein  were 
comprised  in  the  charters  either  of  Pennsylvania  or  New  Jersey, 
but  that  the  right  to  them  remained  in  the  Crown  (552,  602). 
The  Council  of  Trade  thereupon  recommended  Capt.  Gookin's 
petition  for  a  grant  of  the  islands  (646). 

Colonel  Hart,  the  late  Governor  of  Maryland,  returned 
answers  as  to  the  conditions,  immigration,  and  resources  of  the 
Colony  (309).  The  Board  of  Trade  in  their  General  Report 
recommended  the  completion  of  the  purchase  of  the  Government 
from  the  Proprietor,  and  that  half  of  the  rents  and  profits 
arising  from  the   Three  Lower  Counties,  as  belonging  to  the 


PREFACE.  xli 

Crown,  should  be  accounted  as  part  payment  (306,  316,  566). 
In  noting  the  httle  care  taken  by  the  Quaker  Province  for  its 
defence,  the  Board  admitted  that  fair  and  just  deahngs  with 
the  Indians  had  so  far  rendered  it  unnecessary  (656). 

Virginia.  At  the  beginning  of  1720,  Spots  wood  was  still  at  feud  with 

the  Blair-Ludwell-Byrd  faction  in  the  Council  of  Virginia. 
Blair  was  active  in  rousing  opposition  to  the  ruling  on  the  right 
of  the  Crown  to  collation  to  benefices,  and  Ludwell  still  objected 
to  the  Governor's  nomination  of  judges  for  the  Courts  of  Oyer 

Lt.   Gov.      and  Terminer  (12,  147).     At  the  end  of  April,  however,  a  re- 

Spotswood 

reconciled  conciliation  was  suddenly  effected,  and  Spotswood  invited  the 
and       '  Board  of  Trade  to  disregard  his  former  complaints  against  the 

Assembly.  Councillors  (62,  63).  A  lively,  if  partisan,  account  of  Spots- 
wood's  motives  in  this  affair  is  given  by  one  of  his  critics  (679). 
So,  too,  with  the  Assembly.  Summoned  to  meet  after  an 
interval  of  two  years,  and  composed  largely  of  the  same  repre- 
sentatives as  before,  it  nevertheless  responded  to  Spotswood's 
advances  by  a  flattering  address  (Nov.  1720).  The  Governor, 
who  had  previously  been  denounced  as  an  oppressor  of  H.M. 
subjects  and  subvertor  of  the  Constitution,  was  now  found  to 
be  great  and  good,  just  and  wise  (359,  359  iii,  396,  679).  This 
Address  was  the  Assembly's  reply  to  Spotswood's  opening 
speech,  in  which  he  appealed  for  moderation  and  concord, 
and  pointed  to  his  own  commitments  in  the  Colony  as  sufficient 
proof  of  his  desire  for  its  welfare.  Like  Governor  Nicholson, 
he  insisted  that  the  prosperity  of  the  Plantations  went  hand  in 
hand  with  the  interest  of  Great  Britain.  "  I  look,"  he  said, 
"  upon  Virginia  as  a  rib  taken  from  Great  Britain's  side,  and 
believe  that  while  they  both  proceed  as  living  under  the  marriage 
compact,  this  Eve  might  thrive  so  long  as  her  Adam  flourishes, 
and  whatever  serpent  shall  tempt  her  to  go  astray  ....  will 
but  quicken  her  husband  to  rule  more  strictly  over  her."  The 
most  important  result  of  the  new  understanding  between 
Governor,  Council,  and  Assembly  was  the  passing  of  several 
measures  for  which  Spotswood  had  long  been  contending. 
Chief  among  these  was  the  Act  for  erecting  the  new  counties 
of  Brunswick  and  Spotsylvania.     In  his  opening  speech  Spots- 


xlii  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


wood  reminded  the  Assembly  of  the  need  of  measures  for 
defence,  the  division  of  over-large  counties  and  parishes,  and 
Policy  of  the  extension  of  settlements  up  to  the  Great  Mountains.  Acts 
Expansion,  were  accordingly  passed  for  dividing  counties  and  parishes 
(359  iii,  396),  and  by  the  passing  of  the  act  for  erecting  the  two 
new  counties  of  Spotsylvania  and  Brunswick,  the  Council  and 
Assembly  proclaimed  their  conversion  to  Spotswood's  policy 
of  westward  expansion,  in  order  to  safeguard  the  frontier  against 
the  advance  of  the  French  in  the  valley  of  the  Mississippi. 
The  object  of  this  act  was  to  secure  the  passes  through  the 
Blue  Ridge.  The  northern  pass  at  the  head  of  the  Rappa- 
hannock had  been  explored  by  Spotswood,  but  the  Southern 
pass,  at  the  head  of  the  Roanoke  River,  was  only  known  by 
hearsay  from  Indians  (359).  To  encourage  the  settlement  of 
these  new  counties,  settlers  were  exempted  from  taxation  for 
ten  years,  and  the  provision  of  a  church,  a  Court-house,  and 
arms  was  promised  them.  The  Council  and  Assembly  demon- 
strated their  sense  of  the  urgency  of  this  measure  by  petitioning 
the  King  not  only  for  the  remission  of  quit-rents,  etc.,  there  for 
ten  years,  but  also  for  the  erection  of  a  fort  at  each  of  the  two 
passes,  to  be  garrisoned  by  regular  troops.  This  in  a  people 
"  who  have  the  greatest  jealousy  of  and  aversion  to  a  military 
power,"  Spotswood  observes,  was  a  proof  of  their  "  thorough 
conviction  of  the  necessity  thereof."  (359,  359  i.,  679).  When 
his  address  was  referred  to  the  Board  of  Trade  (417,  417  i)  the 
Commissioners,  who  had  previously  recommended  that  part  of 
the  surplus  revenue  of  the  Province  should  be  applied  to  the 
extension  of  settlements  to  the  frontier  and  the  erection  of  forts 
(147),  now  reported  strongly  in  favour  of  granting  each  item 
of  the  Virginian  request. 

But  if  the  quit-rents  were  to  be  remitted  for  ten  years,  they 
recommended  that  care  should  be  taken  to  safeguard  the  quit- 
rents  of  lands  already  granted,  and  to  restrict  new  grants  of 
land  to  1000  acres  to  any  one  person  in  his  own  or  another 
name  (575).  This  wise  advice,  however,  did  not  prevent 
Spotswood  from  obtaining  possession  of  an  enormous  acreage 
in  the  frontier  counties  he  was  determined  to  develop  (679). 


PREFACE. 


xliii 


Otlier  Acts. 


Lightlu)use 

on    Cape 

Ilcnry. 


Objection 

to  the 
Assembly's 

Agent. 


Ship  taken 
by  Spanish 
privateers. 


In  this  he  was  helped  to  some  extent  by  a  new  Act  declaring 
what  shall  be  a  sufficient  seating  etc.  (359,  469,  679).  Spotswood 
argued  at  length  in  favour  of  another  act  foi'  the  better  discovery 
of  H.M.  Quit-rents  (359),  but  Mr.  West  gave  his  opinion  that  it 
was  a  manifest  encroachment  on  the  rights  of  the  Crown,  and 
would  tend  to  weaken  its  power  of  recovering  quit-rents  overdue 
(469).  Other  acts  were  passed  for  the  improvement  of  the 
tobacco  trade,  and  other  objects  of  local  interest.  It  was 
further  resolved  to  build  a  lighthouse  on  Cape  Henry  with  the 
co-operation  of  Maryland.  But  as  this  would  involve  a  duty 
on  British  shipping,  Spotswood  asked  for  instructions  before 
passing  an  act  for  that  purpose  (396).  To  one  act  of  some 
importance  he  refused  his  consent,  on  grounds  which  he  ex- 
plained to  the  Board  of  Trade.  This  was  an  act  for  regulating 
the  elections  of  Burgesses,  defining  their  privileges  and  ascertaining 
their  allowances.  In  order  to  avoid  disputes  on  that  subject, 
he  asked  that  the  privileges  and  powers  of  the  House  might  be 
defined.  He  took  exception  to  the  Assembly's  attempt  to 
appoint  an  Agent  on  their  own  account,  and  to  assert  control 
over  the  King's  oflficers  (396).  Two  letters  from  Spotswood, 
one  to  the  Board  of  Trade  and  the  other  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs, 
which  are  printed  in  the  Spotswood  Letters  II  (pp.  335-343), 
are  missing  from  the  Colonial  Records  in  London.  In  the 
first,  Spotswood  transmitted  answers  to  the  queries  of  the  Board 
(7th  Aug.  1719),  and  their  enquiries  as  to  boundaries  and  en- 
croachments by  foreign  powers.  He  announced  the  capture 
of  pirates  in  Captain  Knott's  vessel,  and  suggested  a  Royal 
Proclamation  for  encouraging  the  discovery  of  piratical  effects. 
In  the  second,  he  welcomed  the  announcement  of  the  accession 
of  Spain  to  the  Quadruple  Alliance,  gave  a  list  of  ships  previously 
captured  by  Spanish  privateers  from  St.  Augustine,  and  repeated 
the  gist  of  what  he  had  written  to  the  Council  of  Trade  as  to 
the  settlement  of  his  dispute  with  the  Council,  and  about 
pirates.  The  most  important  part  of  the  former  letter  is  that 
in  which  he  gives  his  opinion  on  the  subject  of  the  progress  and 
encroachments  of  foreign  powers  on  the  Continent.  In  May 
1721  he  reported  that  the  Spanish  privateers  were  still  seizing 
British  ships,  regardless  of  the  Cessation  of  Arms.  He  sent  a 
flag  of  truce  to  St.  Augustine  to  demand  restitution,  but  the 


xliv  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Spanish  Governor  gave  him  Httle  satisfaction.  Spotswood's 
comment  was  pointed  : — "  The  traders  in  these  parts  he  at  the 
mercy  of  the  Spaniards,  for  if  the  having  on  board  their  vessels 
any  commodity  of  the  hke  species  with  those  that  are  produced 
in  the  Spanish  Plantations,  nay  even  a  pistole  or  piece  of  eight, 
which  is  the  common  currency  of  these  Colonys,  be  (as  the 
Spaniards  pretend),  sufficient  ground  for  making  a  prize  .  .  . 
each  ship  trading  in  America  may  be  seized.  .  .  ."  (513). 

Depicfiations       "phc  depredations  by  pirates  and  the  dread  of  a  visit  from 

by  Pirates.  ^  -^     ^ 

Roberts,  the  pirate  who  had  recently  made  a  raid  on  ships  in 
Newfoundland,  occasioned  the  erection  of  batteries  to  defend 
the  mouths  of  the  rivers,  whilst  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Assembly 
made  request  for  larger  men  of  war  to  defend  their  coast  (513). 

The  Five  Tliough  the  need  of  coming  to  an  understanding  with  the 

Five  Nations  of  Indians  was  made  apparent  by  their  hostilities 
with  the  Catawbas  and  other  tribes  on  the  Virginian  frontier, 
and  was  recommended  by  the  Council  of  Trade,  the  Assembly 
refused  to  enter  into  a  Treaty  with  them  until  they  had  consented 
to  the  preliminaries  laid  down  by  them  in  1717,  Negotiations 
on  the  subject  are  described  above  (§  2.  New  York)  (396). 

A  flourishing       Several  accounts  show  the  flourishing  state  of  the  Virginian 
Revenue,      revenue  (513  i,  ii,  etc.) 


§  III. 
THE     WEST     INDIES. 

Bahama  This  period  opens  with  an  account  by  Governor  Rogers  of  the 

measures  he  had  taken  to  repel  an  attack  by  the  Spaniards  on  the 
Bahamas,  and  information  of  their  preparation  to  renew  it. 
Commodore  Vernon  had  sailed  from  Jamaica  with  two  men  of 
war,  but  had  arrived  too  late  to  intercept  them  (35,  47,  47  i-iv). 
Rogers  had  hoped  to  co-operate  with  Vernon  in  a  counter  attack 
upon  the  invaders,  and  thereby  both  to  teach  them  a  lesson  and 
obtain  some  means  of  support  for  himself  and  the  Colony.  For 
with  his  bills  of  exchange  unpaid,  and  no  instructions  received 
from  home,  he  was   finding   the   burden  of  providing  for  the 


PREFACE. 


xlv 


Rogers' 
Design 
against 
Mexico. 


Resumption 

of  Patent 
to  the  Crown. 


garrison  and  defence  of  his  government  intolerable.  Without  an 
Assembly,  he  could  raise  no  funds  in  the  islands,  He  applied 
for  leave  to  go  home,  "  to  settle  the  affairs  of  this  neglected 
Colony,"  and  to  answer  whatever  charges  were  being  laid 
against  him  (47,  167).  He  was  presently  in  conflict  with 
Captain  Gale,  Commander  of  the  guardship  Delicia,  whom  he 
arrested  for  mutinous  conduct  (167,  167  i-vii).  Reports  of 
the  progress  made  and  likely  to  be  made  by  the  French  against 
the  Spaniards  in  Mexico,  stirred  in  the  old  sea  Captain  memories 
of  his  voyage  in  the  South  Seas.  The  Indians  in  the  Spanish 
provinces  had  assured  him  that  if  the  English  or  French  would 
arm  and  support  them,  they  would  rise  and  free  themselves 
from  the  slavery  of  the  Spaniards.  The  time  seemed  to  him 
ripe  for  putting  such  a  design  into  practice  and  forestalling  the 
French.  In  November  1720  he  paid  a  visit  to  South  Carolina, 
hoping  to  obtain  supplies  from  Governor  Nicholson.  But 
Nicholson  had  not  arrived.  Presently  he  heard  to  his  consterna- 
tion of  the  sale  of  the  old  Bahama  Company  and  the  formation 
of  a  new  Co-partnership.  Concerning  this  transaction  and  all 
other  matters  affecting  his  Government  he  had  been  left  entirely 
in  the  dark.  He  heard,  too,  that  his  emissary,  Lt.  Beauchamp, 
had  played  him  false,  and  learned  of  the  vast  confusion  caused 
by  the  pricking  of  the  South  Sea  Bubble.  He  decided  therefore 
to  hasten  home  in  order  to  justify  himself  and  defend  his  rights, 
to  plead  the  cause  of  the  Colony,  and  to  lay  before  the  Secretary 
of  State  his  plan  for  a  secret  expedition  against  Mexico,  a  scheme 
suggested  and  supported  by  the  highly  interesting  experience 
of  Drs.  Sinclair  and  Rowan  as  Physicians  to  the  Viceroy  (47,  47 
iii,  v.,  302,  304  i,  326,  327,  327  i,  ii,  390). 

Meantime  an  attempt  had  been  made  on  behalf  of  Lord 
Craven  to  challenge  the  surrender  by  the  Proprietors  of  their 
Patent  during  his  infancy  (157,  157  i,  160).  The  Board  of 
Trade,  in  their  reply,  carried  the  war  into  the  enemy's  camp. 
Even  if  the  surrender  had  not  been  made,  the  Proprietors  by 
their  neglect  had  forfeited  their  right  of  government,  and  it 
might  be  proper  to  consider  whether  they  had  not  also  forfeited 
their  propriety  of  the  soil  (161,  161  i-iii).  Upon  this  report,  the 
Lords  Justices  ordered  the  Law  Officers  of  the  Crown  to  bring 


xlvi 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


The  Lessees 

appeal 

for  help. 


And  a 

Charter. 


a  Scire  facias  for  vacating  the  Letters  Patent  and  resuming 
the  Bahama  Islands  to  the  Crown  (170).  The  Board  of  Trade 
was  also  instructed  to  report  what  measures  were  necessary 
for  their  defence  (220).  The  Lessees  on  being  consulted  (221), 
gave  an  account  of  their  efforts  and  expenditure  to  secure  the 
Islands.  But,  threatened  with  a  combined  attack  by  the 
pirates  who  had  been  expelled,  they  were  obliged  to  appeal  for 
assistance  from  the  Government  in  the  shape  of  guns,  ammuni- 
tion, and  an  Independent  Company  (224).  The  Board  of  Trade 
recommended  the  despatch  of  the  stores  of  war  requested  (225). 
In  the  following  Spring,  the  Lessees  petitioned  for  a  Charter 
in  order  to  enable  them  to  carry  on  so  great  an  undertaking 
(455,  455  i).  They  explained  their  position  to  the  Board  of 
Trade  in  a  memorial  in  answer  to  its  enquiries,  stating  that  they 
had  spent  over  £100,000  on  the  recovery  and  defence  of  the 
islands  ;  disclaiming  any  intention  of  the  "  wicked  practice  " 
of  stock  jobbing  ;  and  making  certain  offers  (498,  506).  In 
their  report  upon  this  proposal,  the  Board  of  Trade  recom- 
mended that  the  request  for  a  second  Independent  Company 
should  be  granted,  and  that  the  Crown  should  pay  the  Governors' 
salary  until  the  Colony  was  able  to  pay  its  way.  They  offered 
no  objection  to  granting  the  Co-partners  a  Charter  of  Incor- 
poration, provided  that  proper  precautions  were  taken  to 
prevent  stock-jobbing,  and  other  inconveniences,  which  had 
arisen  in  connection  with  the  Incorporated  Companies.  Such 
precautions  had  been  readily  agreed  to.  Powers  of  Government 
were  to  remain  in  the  Crown  (555  i). 


Governor 

Phenney 

appointed. 


George  Phenney  had  already  been  appointed  to  succeed  Rogers 
as  Governor  (524,  536  i).  He  took  with  him  some  guns  and 
ammunition,  but  it  was  then  admitted  that  the  Fort  Nassau 
was  in  such  a  state  of  disrepair  that  it  required  to  be  rebuilt 
before  the  guns  could  be  mounted.  But  funds  for  that  purpose 
and  other  public  works  could  not  be  raised  except  through  an 
for  Assembly.  For  an  Assembly,  then,  the  Governor  and  Council 
petitioned  (726,  728).  James  Gohier,  one  of  the  Co-partners, 
who  was  acting  as  Agent  and  Factor  for  the  Company,  brought 
Charges       charges  against  William  Fairfax  whom  Rogers  had  appointed 

against  _  .  ^^  .  .  . 

Fairfax.       to  act  as  Licuteuant  Governor  (302,  390,  728  iv,  v). 


Request 
Assembly 


PREFACE. 


xlvii 


Barbados. 
Governor 
Lowther, 
recalled, 
suspends 
Sanixiel    Cox. 


Cox 

suspended . 

Col.  Frere 

President 

of  Connril. 


Act 
i<yr  better 
-preserving 
the  peace. 


Cox, 

restored, 
retaliates. 


Robert  Lowther,    Governor  of  Barbados,   having  been   re- 
called,  March   1720,   to  answer  the   charges   which  had  been 
preferred  against  him  (20,  20  i),  it  was  further  represented  that 
he  intended  to  suspend  Samuel  Cox,  the  eldest  Councillor,  in 
order  that  his  nephew,  Col.  John  Frere,  the  next  in  seniority, 
might  carry  on  the  administration  as  President  of  the  Council 
(21.  i).     Sir  Charles  Cox  petitioned  on  behalf  of  his  brother, 
and  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  at  once  wrote  to  remind  Lowther  of 
his  instructions  regarding  the  eldest  Councillor  (25,  30-32).     The 
Council  of  Trade,  however,  represented  that  Sir  Charles  Cox's 
petition  being  founded  merely  on  apprehension,  and  not  upon 
fact,  it  could  not  be  presumed  otherwise  than  that  Lowther 
would  act  according  to  his  instructions  (36).     But  the  appre- 
hension   was    quickly    justified    by    fact.     Charges    had    been 
brought  against  Cox  of  illegal  trading  and  illicit  proceedings 
when  Naval  Officer  (34),  and  though  Craggs  sent  Lowther  more 
explicit  orders  in  June,  bidding  him  follow  his  instructions  as 
to  leaving  the  government  in  the  hands  of  the  eldest  Councillor, 
and  on  no  pretence  whatsoever  to  exclude  Samuel  Cox  (105), 
a  month  later  Colonel  Frere  was  writing  from  Barbados  as 
President  of  the  Council  and  Commander  in  Chief  (145).  Lowther 
in  fact,  before  departing,  had  not  only  suspended  Cox,  but  also 
it  was  alleged,  having  put  all  offices,  civil  and  military,  in  the 
hands  of  such  persons  as  would  prevent  an  examination  into 
his  maladministration,  he  had  passed  an  act,  for  better  preserving 
the  peace  and  tranquillity  of  the  Island.     This  act  curtailed  the 
powers   of  the   President,    and   was   intended  to   prevent  the 
displacement  of  the  officers  Lowther  had  appointed,  by  making 
the  consent  of  seven  members  of  Council  necessary  for  that 
purpose  instead  of  five  and  the  Governor.     As  there  were  only 
eight  members  of  Council  in  the  island,  this  placed  the  negative 
in  the  power  of  two  of  them. 

The  Lords  Justices  thereupon  directed  that  Cox  should  be 
restored,  and  ordered  Frere  to  appear  before  the  King  in  Council 
to  answer  for  contempt  (317,  366  i).  Cox  promptly  availed 
himself  of  his  power  as  President  of  the  Council  to  retaliate. 
Ignoring  the  "  Tranquillity  Act,"  he  suspended  Colonel  Frere 
and  six  other  members  of  Council,  replacing  them  by  his  friends, 


xlviii 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Suspends 
Councillors 
and  quarrels 

with 
Assembly. 


A  Jacobite 
revolution. 


Cox 

suspended 
and 

Councillors 
restored. 


Appointment 

and  death 

of 

Lord    Irvine. 

Cox  and 

the  new 

Assembly. 


and  displacing  the  militia  officers  without  the  advice  or  consent 
of  the  Council.  (Jan.  1721,  Nos.  317,  364,  366,  366  i-v). 
He  was  expected  to  displace  the  judges,  and  then  to  dissolve 
the  Assembly  and,  with  the  aid  of  his  creatures,  to  summon  a 
new  one  to  divide  the  spoil  (364).  He  was  charged  outright 
with  being  interested  in  trade  vvith  Martinique.  The  facilities 
he  gave  to  the  French  traders  to  explore  the  island  and  its 
fortifications  produced  an  outburst  of  indignation  (364,  384). 

Frere,  relying  upon  Lowther's  influence  at  Court  to  reverse 
this  state  of  affairs,  organised  addresses  to  the  Crown,  both  in 
the  country  and  at  a  private  meeting  of  the  Assembly  after  it 
had  been  adjourned  by  Cox.  Over  this  Cox  fell  foul  first  with 
the  Speaker,  and  then  with  the  rest  of  the  Assembly  (366,  366 
i-v,  374,  384,  419  i,  421,  422  i,  ii,  423  i,  ii).  The  suspended 
Councillors,  in  a  petition  to  the  King,  and  the  Assembly  in 
their  address  made  it  plain  that  the  changes  made  by  Cox  were 
all  in  favour  of  the  Jacobite  and  Frenchified  party,  whose  hand 
had  been  shown  during  the  late  Mr.  Sharpe's  Presidency  (422  ii, 
423  ii).  The  blatancy  of  these  proceedings  prompted  the 
Council  of  Trade  to  recommend  that  Cox  should  be  suspended 
both  from  the  Presidentship  and  the  Council,  and  that  six  of 
the  seven  Councillors  he  had  suspended  should  be  restored  (the 
case  of  Colonel  Frere  lying  before  the  Lords  Justices).  Further 
proceedings,  they  hinted,  should  be  taken  against  Cox  for  his 
arbitrary  and  illegal  behaviour  (435  i). 

In  the  meantime  Viscount  Irwin  (Irvine)  had  been  appointed 
to  succeed  Governor  Lowther  (Jan.  1721,  367,  370).  But 
before  he  could  sail,  he  died  of  small-pox  (517),  In  the  absence 
of  a  Governor,  confusion  increased  in  Barbados.  Cox  went 
from  one  extreme  to  another.  Having  dissolved  the  Assembly 
he  called  another.  But  in  the  elections  for  the  parishes  his 
opponents  carried  four,  in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  the  Sheriffs, 
whom  Cox  had  put  in.  This  gave  eight  Lowtherites  against 
ten  Coxites.  But  the  parishes  of  St.  James  and  St.  Andrew^s 
were  not  represented,  writs  for  them  not  having  been  published. 
If  they  had  been,  it  was  thought.  Cox's  supporters  would  have 
been  in  a  minority.     When  thev  met  to  be  sworn,  an  endeavour 


PREFACE. 


xlix 


Arrest  of 

Cox 
ordered. 


Lord 
Belhaven 
appointed. 


Alterations 

in  Lord 

Belhaven's 

Instructions. 


Wt.  7m 


was  made,  by  locking  them  into  a  room,  to  compel  the  elected 
members  to  form  a  house.  But  the  eight  Lowtherite  members 
managed  to  escape,  and  refused  to  make  a  house  until  repre- 
sentatives had  been  returned  for  the  remaining  two  parishes 
(490,  490  i,  ii).  Cox  then  issued  new  writs  for  all  six  parishes, 
although  the  elected  members  were  alive  and  had  not  been 
expelled.  Elections  were  held  in  a  disorderly  fashion  described 
in  No.  517.  Protests  and  remonstrances  were  entered  (490  i,  ii, 
517,  517  i-iii). 

On  learning  of  these  proceedings,  the  Council  of  Trade  pro- 
posed that  Lord  Belhaven,  who  had  been  appointed  Governor 
in  April,  should  proceed  immediately  to  Barbados  and  send 
Cox  home  under  arrest,  to  answer  for  his  behaviour  (590). 
Orders  were  given  to  this  effect,  and  also  for  restoring  the  civil 
and  military  officers  displaced  by  Cox.  Lord  Belhaven  was 
to  enquire  into  and  report  upon  the  complaints  lodged  against 
him  by  the  Assembly  and  suspended  Councillors  (508-510). 
At  the  same  time  Lowther's  act  for  preserving  the  peace  etc., 
was  repealed  (511).  Belhaven  was  to  restore  Colonel  Frere 
if  he  thought  fit  (609),  but  Cox  was  retained  in  the  list  of 
Councillors,  until  he  had  been  heard  in  his  defence  (605,  630). 
Cox  having  restored  the  suspended  Councillors,  in  obedience  to 
these  orders  in  Council,  soon  took  occasion  to  complain  that 
they  were  heaping  insults  upon  him,  and  obstructing  the 
administration  by  quarrelling  with  the  Assembly  and  declaring 
the  Excise  Act  void  (621).  He  brought  some  charges  against 
Judge  Sutton,  whilst  asserting  his  own  innocence,  and  he 
presently  removed  him  (675,  675  i,  687,  687  i-v,  713,  753,  754). 
To  this  the  Council  of  Barbados  replied,  representing  his  be- 
haviour as  "  one  continued  series  of  tyranny  and  oppression  " 
(709,  710).  The  arrival  of  Lord  Belhaven  was  therefore 
anxiously  awaited.  The  Commission  and  Instructions  which 
had  been  prepared  for  Lord  Irvine  were  transferred  to  Lord 
Belhaven.  The  Instructions  varied  considerably  from  those 
which  had  been  given  to  Governor  Lowther.  In  the  first  place 
they  embodied  those  alterations  which  had  been  made  in  the 
Instructions  given  to  the  Governor  of  Jamaica  (Dec.  18,  1717), 
as  well  as  Additional  Instructions  since  ordered. 

C.P.  32— D 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Private  Acts. 


Customs 
House 
Officers. 


President 

of  the 
Council. 


In  the  next  place,  a  new  clause  was  inserted  to  prevent  private 
acts  from  coming  into  force  until  they  had  received  the  sanction 
of  the  Crown,  and  unless  public  notice  had  been  given  by  the 
parties  concerned  of  their  intention  to  apply  for  them.  A  new 
article  exempting  Customs  House  officers  from  serving  on  juries  or 
in  the  Militia  complied  with  a  request  from  the  Commissioners 
of  Customs.  In  view  of  the  dearth  of  white  people  in  Barbados, 
the  article  recommending  the  erection  of  work-houses  was 
omitted.  An  addition  to  the  Article  relating  to  the  President 
of  the  Council  was  designed  to  prevent  a  repetition  of  Cox's 
misbehaviour  (456,  458,  474,  478,  605,  605  i,  630). 


Presents  to 
Governors. 


Lord  Belhaven  had  requested  that  the  restriction  as  to 
presents  from  the  Assembly  might  be  removed,  since  it  had  not 
been  observed  in  the  past,  and  it  was  recognised  that  the 
Governor's  salary  was  insufficient.  The  Council  of  Trade 
reported  that  if  the  Instructions  had  been  ignored,  it  was  a 
pernicious  practice.  But  if  the  salary  was  inadequate,  they 
had  no  objection  to  the  Assembly  being  empowered  to  make, 
immediately  upon  his  arrival,  such  addition  as  it  thought  fit, 
to  the  Governor's  salary,  provided  that  it  was  a  settlement  for 
the  duration  of  his  Governorship.  This  was  sanctioned.  The 
addition  must  be  granted  by  the  first  Assembly  after  the 
Governor's  arrival  (550  i,  553  i,  563,  565,  605,  605  i). 


Tobago 
included  in 
Governor's 
Conimispion. 


Lord  Irvine,  shortly  before  his  death,  had  raised  the  point 
that  Tobago  was  not  mentioned  in  his  Commission  (377).  The 
Council  of  Trade  gave  their  opinion  that  there  was  no  reason 
why  it  should  not  be  (383,  456,  458,  474,  478).  Belhaven  asked 
leave  to  encourage  planting  there  and  permission  to  make  grants 
of  land  (659  i).  The  Council  of  Trade  thereupon  expressed 
their  agreement  in  general,  provided  it  was  done  by  the  advice 
of  the  Council  of  Barbados  and  in  such  a  way  as  not  to  interfere 
with  the  produce  of  the  other  Caribbee  Islands,  by  the  planting 
of  more  sugar  canes.  Attention  should  be  concentrated  on 
indigo,  anatto,  and  cocoa,  for  which  the  soil  was  fitted  ;  and 
which  the  other  Islands  did  not  produce.  Exemption  for  quit- 
rents  might  be  granted  for  three  years  to  the  new  planters,  and 
grants  limited  to  500  acres  to  any  one  person,  but  not  to  any 


PREFACE. 


resident  in  the  other  islands  (666).  When  Carteret  suggested 
that  it  would  be  better  to  reduce  the  limit  of  grants  (671),  the 
Board  revised  their  proposal,  suggesting  a  maximum  of  300 
acres  with  the  obligation  upon  each  patentee  to  cultivate  one 
in  fifty  every  year,  and  to  employ  white  servants  in  the  pro- 
portion proposed  by  them  for  settling  the  French  part  of  St. 
Christopher  (678).      An  Additional  Instruction  to    this  effect 

Death  of  was  then  drawn  up  (689,  693),  The  untimely  death  of  Lord 
Beihaven.      Belhaven,    drowned    on    the    outward    voyage,    prevented    his 

Worsiey  putting  these  plans  into  execution.  Henry  Worsley  was 
Governor,     appointed  to  succccd  him  (725,  733  i,  749,  752). 

Lowtiiei-  and  The  Rev.  William  Gordon,  the  trading  parson,  had  urged 
the  settlement  of  Tobago  and  described  its  possibilities  to 
Townshend  and  Carteret  (460,  460  i,  iii).  Governor  Lowther, 
in  replying  to  the  charges  brought  against  him  in  connection 
Avith  Mr.  Gordon,  reviewed  in  lively  terms  the  latter's  conduct, 
before  he  had  fled  from  the  Island  with  Blenman  and  Hope. 
Lowther  represented  that  he  had  circulated  "  a  large  cargo  of 
that  braded  stuff  call'd  The  Miserable  State  of  Barbados,'"  to 
which  he  had  replied  by  his  declaration  in  the  previous  year. 
Gordon's  answers  to  Lowther's  Declaration  having  been  voted 
by  the  Council  and  Assembly  to  be  false,  scandalous,  and 
seditious,  they  were  burned  by  the  common  hangman  before 
the  Customs  House  door,  and  his  character  having  been  shown 
by  many  depositions  to  be  worse  even  than  Lowther  had  repre- 
sented to  the  Bishop  of  London,  an  act  was  passed  to  deprive 
him  of  his  benefice  (29,  452).  So  Lowther.  But  his  accusations 
against  Gordon  were  found  by  the  Lords  Justices  to  be  altogether 
groundless,  a  verdict  somewhat  surprising  in  view  of  the  evidence 
Lowther  had  accumulated  against  him  (280).  Gordon  was 
therefore  encouraged  to  petition  against  the  act  dep^i^^ng  him 
of  his  benefice,  as  well  as  the  act  for  regulating  Vestries,  which 
was  also  directed  against  him,  and  the  Council  of  Trade  advised 
their  repeal  (280,  361  ii,  iii,  439,  616). 

Report  Several  acts  were  considered,  and  the  Council  of  Trade  in 

upon    c  s.     pgpQp^ijjg  upon  them  advised  that  thirty  three  of  them  should 

be  allowed  to  lie  by  probationary,  until  it  was  seen  what  their 


lii 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Sta.  Lucia. 

Reports  and 

Petitions. 


cot^nlung     ^^^^*  ^^^  (^^^'  ^^^'  ^^^'  ^®^»  ^^^  ^'  ^^^)-     '^^^  ^^*  empowering 
ponder    duty  ff^g  Govemov  to  commute  the  powder  duty  was  repealed  (114,  139, 

repealed. 

Act  /or       265,  290).     The  act  appointing  security  to  he  given    by  appellees 

8&CtiT  it  i/    l)ff  . 

appellees,  was  presented  for  confirmation  by  the  Council  of  Trade,  in  spite 
of  a  protest  from  a  patent  office  holder,  who  argued  that  it 
encroached  upon  his  perquisites  (462  i,  465,  576,  576  i,  588), 

Whilst  the  Commissaries  at  Paris  were  waiting  for  the  French 
to  substantiate  their  claim  to  Sta.  Lucia  (2),  William  Sharpe, 
formerly  President  of  the  Council  of  Barbados,  and  Mr.  Gordon 
made  reports  upon  its  history  and  resources  (6  i,  7,  148),  and 
Capt.  Evans  petitioned  for  a  grant  of  the  island  to  himself  and 
others  (87,  721).  The  Council  of  Trade  reported  that  they  had 
no  objection  to  his  being  awarded  a  portion  there  on  the  same 
conditions  as  they  had  laid  down  for  settling  Tobago  (724). 

In  returning  a  census  of  the  inhabitants  of  Bermuda,  Lt. 
Governor  Bennett  observed  that  one  third  of  the  white 
population  was  generally  at  sea  (463,  463  ii).  A  pirate  was 
executed  there  in  Aug.  1720  (277,  277  i).  Bennett  reported 
that  the  pirates  were  threatening  to  seize  the  island,  and  make 
the  place  "  a  new  Madagascar."  He  forwarded  accounts  of 
the  atrocities  by  John  Roberts  and  others  (463,  463  iii).  Bennett 
was  superseded  in  Aug.  1721,  John  Hope  being  appointed  in 
his  stead  (624).  His  Instructions  were  similar  to  those  given 
to  Lord  Belhaven  for  Barbados  (652,  680  i). 

From  Jamaica  the  Lieutenant  Governor,  Sir  Nicholas  Lawes, 
announced  that  the  Assembly  had  made  a  dutiful  address  in 
reply  to  his  Speech,  when  they  met  after  an  adjournment  in 
June,  1720.  He  was  in  hopes  that  they  would  comply  with 
their  engagements  (116).  In  November,  however,  he  had  to 
report  that  his  endeavours  to  induce  them  to  obey  the  King's 
orders  had  proved  ineffectual.  The  country  being  in  debt,  it 
was  impossible  to  pay  the  money  due  to  Lord  Archibald 
Hamilton  out  of  the  revenue,  and  the  Assembly  refused  to 
reimburse  the  Treasury  for  that  debt,  or  to  settle  a  revenue. 
Finding  them  in  this  mood,  Lawes  adjourned  them  till  the 
beginning  of  the  year,  after  they  had  passed  an  additional 
duty  bill  laying  a  tax  on  negroes  imported  and  exported,  with 


Bermuda 
Census. 


Pirates 
threaten. 


John  Hope 
succeeds 
Bennett. 


.Tarnaica. 

The 

Assembly 
recalcitrant. 


PREFACE.  liii 


an  exemption  in  favour  of  those  touching  only  for  refreshment, 

and  another  act  laying  £1000  tax  on  Jews,  to  provide  for  two 

country  sloops  to  guard  the  coast  against  pirates  and  privateers 

Depredations  from  Trinidado  (288,  288  i-iii).     In  what  Commodore  Vernon 

by  Spanish  i,- 

Privateers,  termed  a  lymg  preamble  to  the  latter  act,  the  Assembly  declared 
that  the  Naval  Squadron  failed  to  protect  their  coasts  and 
trade,  and  further  charged  the  men  of  war  with  carrying  on 
trade  to  the  detriment  of  the  merchants  (527  i-xxxv).  For 
Spanish  privateers  commissioned  and  protected,  particularly 
by  the  Governor  of  Trinidado  in  Cuba,  ignored  the  cessation  of 
arms,  and  continued  to  infest  the  island,  and  even  landed  and 
carried  off  negroes  from  the  Jamaica  plantations  (213,  28<S,  340, 
Tax  on  523,  527  i  jf,  634).  The  tax  thus  laid  upon  Jews,  however, 
was  thought  by  Lawes  to  be  excessive  (523).  They  were  already 
subject  to  several  disabilities,  and  as  loyal  subjects  of  the  King, 
they  resented  and  petitioned  against  being  excepted  from  the 
Act  for  encouraging  white  settlers  (720  i). 

Lawes  In  view  of  the  stubborn  attitude  of  the  Assembly,  Lawes 

^"  Act  of ^      suggested  that  pressure  should  now  be  applied  by  the  intro- 

foTseUiing    duction  of  a  bill  in  the  House  of  Commons  for  setthng  the 

the  Revenue,  revenue,   even  if  this  were  only  intended  as  a  gesture.     He 

and  dissolves 

the  proposed  that  such  an  Act  should  render  the  Government  in- 


Assembly. 


dependent  of  the  Assembly  by  doubling  the  quit  rents,  and 
adding  to  them  the  provisions  of  the  Additional  duty  bill  and 
revenue  act  (288,  288  i-iii,  459,  523,  634,  705).  At  the  end 
of  the  year  the  Council  of  Trade  wrote  expressing  their  anxiety 
for  the  passing  of  the  perpetual  revenue  act,  and  repeating 
assurances  to  the  Assembly  that  no  reasonable  privileges  would 
be  denied  H.M.  subjects  if  they  passed  it  (338).  But  the 
Assembly  was  not  to  be  cajoled.  "  Heats  and  animosities  and 
private  views  "  prevailed  when  the  House  met  again  in  January, 
until  Lawes  was  driven  to  dissolve  it  (459).  But  the  new 
Assembly  when  it  met  in  June,  1721,  proved  to  be  still  of  the 
same  mind,  and  under  the  influence  of  Peter  Beckford  and  his 
faction  (562).  The  majority  still  refused  to  make  good  the 
growing  deficit  of  the  Treasury,  or  to  comply  with  the  King's 
commands  for  the  payment  of  the  money  due  to  Lord  Archibald 
Hamilton,      Warrants    were    issued    for    the    arrest    of   those 


liv 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Members  who  recorded  their  reasons  for  dissenting  from  the 
resolution  of  the  House  on  this  subject  (380,  527  xxxv,  562, 
562  ii).  After  several  messages  had  passed  between  the 
Governor  and  the  House,  the  Assembly  drew  up  an  Address 
to  the  King  stating  their  reasons  for  not  complying  with  the 
Sign  Manual  (364,  364  i,  380). 


Acts    passed. 


Encourage- 
ment of 

Immigrants 

from  the 

Leeward 

Islands 

prohibited. 


Mosquito 
Indians 
brought  to 
suppress 
rebellious 
negroes. 


Commodore 

Vernon  and 

French 

indigo. 


When  the  House  met  after  a  prorogation,  and  again  took 
up  its  quarrel  with  the  Members  who  had  given  their  reasons 
for  dissenting  from  the  resolution  upon  Hamilton's  debt,  Lawes 
once  more  urged  the  intervention  of  Parliament.  (705,  705  i). 
He  had  given  his  assent  to  four  acts,  including  one  defining  the 
qualifications  of  members  of  Assembly,  and  another  for  settling 
the  North  East  part  of  the  Island,  on  which  he  commented  (634). 
The  Assembly  had  been  anxious  to  encourage  settlers  in  the 
Virgin  Islands  to  emigrate  to  Jamaica,  and  proposals  were 
sent  to  that  effect  (213,  213  vii,  288,  500,  562,  562  iii,  597).  But 
as  this  would  obviously  conflict  with  the  interests  of  the  Leeward 
Islands,  Lawes  was  instructed  not  to  countenance  any  such 
measure  (500,  640).  It  had  been  intended  to  settle  the  im- 
migrants in  the  Eastern  part  of  the  Island.  At  the  same  time 
a  party  of  Mosquito  Indians  was  brought  over  from  the  mainland 
to  track  down  and  suppress  the  rebellious  and  runaway  negroes, 
who  were  maintaining  themselves  in  the  woods  and  mountains 
(213,  213  viii,  288). 

Lawes  was  involved  in  a  violent  dispute  with  Capt.  Vernon, 
Commodore  of  the  Naval  Squadron.  The  Governor  ordered 
the  seizure  of  some  French  indigo  imported  from  Hispaniola. 
The  Commodore  intervened  to  prevent  the  search  of  the  vessels 
in  question,  since  they  had  already  received  their  clearances 
(340,  340  i-vi,  472  i-iv,  496  i,  ii,  527  iv  jf.)  In  response  to 
enquiries  by  the  Board  of  Trade  as  to  the  state  of  the  law  upon 
the  subject  (558),  it  did  not  appear  that  there  was  any  English 
law  to  prevent  the  importation  of  French  indigo  into  England. 
Nor,  on  the  other  hand,  did  the  clearing  of  a  ship  preclude  it 
from  subsequent  seizure,  should  it  afterwards  appear  liable 
to  forfeiture  for  breach  of  the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation 
(603).     Lawes,  however,  justified  his  action  by  a  clause  in  the 


PREFACE. 


Iv 


Revenue  Act  of  Jamaica,  which  referred  only  to  searchers  on 
land  for  goods  landed  without  paying  the  duties  imposed  by 
that  act.  There  was  no  proof  that  the  indigo  in  question  was 
French  or  had  been  landed  without  paying  duty  (608).  There 
was,  indeed,  a  Jamaica  act  to  prevent  fraudulent  trade  to  Hispaniola 
etc.,  by  which  masters  of  ships  bound  from  Jamaica  were  pro- 
hibited from  carrying  any  indigo  which  was  not  grown  in  that 
island.  This  act,  however,  was  repealed  after  Lawes  had  failed 
to  induce  the  Assembly  to  amend  it,  the  Board  of  Trade  finding 
that  it  encroached  on  the  Prerogative  (338,  459),  and  was  a 
restraint  of  trade  and  navigation  not  warranted  by  English 
law.  (338,  459,  607,  627).  The  importation  of  indigo,  whatever 
its  country  of  origin,  was  in  fact  recognised  as  legal  and  desir- 
able, and  the  French  indigo  which  Lawes  had  ordered  to  be 
seized  was  ordered  to  be  restored  (608,  628). 


Trial  and 

execution 

of     notorious 

pirates. 


More  dramatic  and  more  far-reaching  in  its  effect  was  the 
execution  in  Jamaica  of  some  of  the  most  notorious  pirates  of 
the  day.  First  a  trading  sloop  belonging  to  the  island,  and 
commanded  "  by  a  brisk  fellow,  one  Jonathan  Barnet  "  fell 
in  with  and  took  John  Rackham  and  his  crew  (288).  They 
were  tried  and  executed  at  St.  Jago  de  la  Vega  on  Nov.  16, 
1720  (340,  463  iii,  523,  523  i). 


Rackham, 

Vane, 

Anne 

Bonnay, 

and 

Mary  Reid. 


Shortly  afterwards  the  "  famous  fellow  "  Charles  Vane  and 
others  were  captured  and  followed  Rackham  to  the  gallows,  where 
they  "died  most  profligate  impudent  fellows"  (459,  463  iii). 
With  them  were  two  spinsters  of  Providence  Island,  who,  clad 
in  men's  clothes,  had  taken  active  parts  as  pirates.  The  pro- 
ceedings at  their  trials  were  published  (523  i,  634  iii).  Following 
upon  the  fate  of  Teach  and  others  in  Carolina,  the  Bahamas, 
Bermuda  and  the  Leeward  Islands,  the  execution  of  these  pirates 
had  a  strikingly  deterrent  effect  upon  the  profession,  which 
the  cessation  of  arms  and  calling  in  of  privateers  had  threatened 
to  overcrowd  (213,  523).  But  whilst  these  penalties  were  being 
inflicted  on  pirates,  Capt.  Vernon  wrote  curious  accounts  to  the 
Admiralty  of  the  protection  afforded  to  them  by  the  inhabitants 
of  Jamaica,  including  the  Attorney-General,  an  Irish  Papist 
and  one  of  the  Beckford-Totterdale  group  (527  iii,  iv) 


Ivi 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Duke  of 
Portland 
appointed 
Governor. 


It  was  evident  that  Lawes  was  not  capable  of  coping  with 
the  pohtical  situation.  Settlement  of  the  Revenue  had  become 
urgent.  Sir  Charles  Cox  petitioned  for  the  Government  as  a 
reward  for  his  good  behaviour  in  Parliament  and  a  means  of 
restoring  his  broken  fortunes.  He  was  willing  that  the 
Governor's  salary  should  be  assigned  to  some  other  person,  he 
himself  being  content  with  the  perquisites  (4).  But  it  was 
decided  that  the  situation  required  the  appointment  of  a  person 
of  distinction  and  address.  The  Duke  of  Portland  was  chosen, 
a  man  of  great  personal  charm,  who  added  to  the  prestige  of 
rank  a  record  of  capable  service  in  Parliament  (656,  664,  655, 
677).  His  Instructions  followed  the  lines  of  those  recently 
drawn  up  for  the  Governor  of  Barbados  (688,  744  i.) 


DroTight  in 

the    Leeward 

Islands. 


A  severe  drought  was  afflicting  the  Leeward  Islands,  ruining 
the  sugar  crop  and  causing  so  acute  a  dearth  of  provisions  that 
the  Governor  appealed  for  a  gift  from  the  Crown  (28,  204  i,  500). 
One  effect  of  the  drought  was  to  cause  settlers  to  quit  the 
islands,  especially  in  the  case  of  Anguilla.  But  Governor 
Hamilton  resented  the  invitation  extended  by  Jamaica  to  such 
as  wished  to  emigrate  to  that  island.  The  result,  he  represented, 
would  be  to  weaken  the  man-power  of  the  Leeward  Islands, 
and  also  to  encourage  debtors  to  abscond.  The  Governor  of 
Jamaica  was  thereupon  ordered  to  withhold  his  assent  to  any 
encouragement  of  the  sort  that  might  be  offered  (213,  213  vii, 
500,  640). 


Pirates. 


Dispute   over 
Admiralty 
perquisites. 


Guardships 
inadequate. 


The  activity  of  pirates  off  Barbados  and  Antigua  prompted 
Hamilton  to  send  the  guardship  to  meet  the  trade  fleet  expected 
from  Home  (28).  The  capture  of  the  pirate  ship,  Royal  Rover, 
led  to  a  dispute  between  the  Governor,  (who  by  virtue  of  his 
Vice-Admiralty  Commission  claimed  the  right  to  hold  pirates' 
effects  for  the  use  of  the  Crown  and  the  Lord  High  Admiral) 
and  the  local  deputy  of  the  Receiver  General  of  the  rights 
and  perquisites  of  Admiralty  (28).  The  guardships  appointed 
to  this  station  were,  Hamilton  reported,  not  capable  of  protecting 
the  island  against  pirates,  and  even  if  they  were,  their 
prolonged  absences  at  Boston  or  Barbados  left  it  at  the 
mercy   of  "  these  vermin."      For  there  was  no  harbour  where 


PREFACE. 


Ivii 


And  not 

subject  to 

Governor's 

orders. 


Col.  John 

Hart 
appointed 
Governor. 


Replies  to 
Queries. 


Antigua, 

Acts 
repealed. 


Map 
revised. 

Report. 


Montserrat 
Acts. 


a  ship  could  be  careened  and  refitted  (251).  Roberts, 
indeed,  in  the  Royal  Fortune,  actually  entered  Basseterre 
Road  in  broad  daylight,  cut  out  and  set  fire  to  some  ships, 
laughed  at  the  Fort  and  sent  an  insulting  letter  to  the 
Lt.  Governor  of  St.  Christopher  (251,  251  i-v).  Hamilton, 
in  forwarding  some  acts,  again  complained  of  the  delay  caused 
by  lack  of  means  of  communication  between  the  several  islands. 
The  Islands  refused  to  pay  the  cost  of  a  packet,  and  the  Captain 
of  the  guardship  held  himself  at  his  own  disposal,  and  refused 
to  take  the  Governor's  orders  when  there  was  a  chance  of 
intercepting  pirates  by  co-operating  with  the  French  at 
Martinique  (500,  500  i,  501,  501  i-xxix).  Once  more  it  was 
urged  that  the  Commanders  of  station  ships  should  be  placed 
under  the  orders  of  Governors.  When,  in  May  1721,  Hamilton 
was  superseded  by  Col.  John  Hart,  formerly  Lt.-Governor  of 
Maryland,  the  Board  of  Trade  in  submitting  his  Instructions, 
supported  this  proposal  (480,  654).  Hamilton  had  complained 
that  officers  in  the  Islands  were  ignorant  and  dilatory  in  making 
the  returns  required  to  enable  him  to  answer  his  Instructions 
(107).  But  in  July,  1720,  he  forwarded  some  full  accounts  of 
the  condition  and  products  of  the  several  Islands  (204,  204  i). 

Among  the  Acts  of  Antigua  mentioned  in  this  volume,  those 
for  declaring  the  qualification  of  voters,  and  for  establishing  a 
Court  of  King's  Bench  etc.,  were  repealed  for  reasons  given  by 
the  Board  of  Trade  (594,  610,  626). 

Objections  were  raised  to  and  defence  made  of  an  Act  imposing 
a  duty  on  sugar  and  other  produce  imported  from  the  French 
Islands  (557,  557  i,  iii,  iv,  617,  623,  623  i,  641  i).  An  act  was 
passed  for  encouraging  the  enterprise  of  Thomas  Santhill  in 
making  hanging  coppers,  horizontal  windmills,  a  new  form  of 
lime-kilns  and  an  engine  for  forcing  water  into  boiling  houses 
for  the  manufacture  of  sugar  (28  i).  A  map  of  the  island  was 
sent  and  returned  for  revision  (204  i,  227  viii,  ix).  A  report 
upon  this  and  the  other  islands  was  made  by  Governor  Hamilton 
(204  i).  He  forwarded  three  acts  of  Montserrat.  One  was 
for  reducing  interest  from  10  to  6  per  cent.,  and  another  exempt- 
ing Members  of  Council  and  Assembly  from  arrest  on  public 
days,  "  the  gentlemen,"  he  explained,  "  being  most  of  them  under 


Iviii 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Lt.  Governor 
absentee. 


Coui- 

ponsaiion 

for  tbe 

Raid. 


Nevis, 

Iberville's 

claims. 


Militia 
Act. 


some  encumbrances  and  apprehensions  of  being  taken  up" 
(28  i).  Talmash,  the  Lieutenant  Governor,  continued  to  enjoy 
leave  of  absence  (41,  700).  The  Act  which  had  granted  him 
the  excise  duties  for  salary  was  repealed  in  the  island.  As  all 
other  taxes  were  paid  in  produce,  and  the  cash  paid  for  excise 
duties  was  being  handed  to  the  Lt.  Governor,  it  was  found 
that  the  Treasury  was  left  short  of  ready  money  (633).  The 
impoverishment  of  the  island  caused  by  the  French  raid  in 
1712  had  caused  many  of  the  inhabitants  to  emigrate.  Others 
were  preparing  to  do  so.  To  encourage  them  to  remain  or 
return,  Col.  Hart,  the  new  Governor,  was  given  a  comforting 
message  assuring  the  inhabitants  that  pressure  was  about  to  be 
used  to  secure  the  compensation  for  their  losses  promised  in 
the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  (684).  Similar  assurances  of  succour 
and  protection  were  given  to  the  inhabitants  of  Nevis,  over 
whose  heads  still  hung  the  demands  based  on  Iber\dlle's  raid 
in  1706  (685).  A  further  exposition  of  their  ease  had  been 
forwarded  by  Hamilton  in  reply  to  the  memorial  of  M.  d' 
Iberville.  It  was  quite  beyond  the  resources  of  the  island  to 
satisfy  his  claim,  if  it  was  decided  to  be  valid  (28,  204).  The 
representation  of  the  Council  and  Assembly,  relating  to  the 
Capitulation  and  the  treatment  of  the  hostages,  was  supported 
by  a  batch  of  depositions  (28,  204  xix-xxxvii,  295  i).  The 
attack  by  pirates  on  their  neighbouring  island,  roused  the 
inhabitants  to  pass  a  Militia  act,  which  had  long  been  hanging 
fire  (512).  As  in  Antigua,  an  act  was  passed  to  encourage 
"  a  new  projection  of  making  a  mill  "  etc.  (500  i). 


St. 
Christopher. 

Former 

French 

part. 


Apart  from  the  attack  by  pirates  referred  to  above, 
little  of  importance  happened  in  St.  Christopher.  A  map 
of  the  island  was  ordered  to  be  made,  which  would 
include  a  survey  of  the  former  French  part  (204  i). 
There  was  a  good  deal  of  correspondence  relating  to  the  con- 
firmation of  grants  of  land  in  that  part  (307,  307  i  etc.),  and  the 
South  Sea  Company  petitioned  for  a  grant  of  the  whole  (350 
i.,  t;.  §  1).  The  new  Governor,  Hart,  before  setting  out,  made 
some  suggestions  for  the  disposal  of  these  lands  (548),  and  the 
Board    of   Trade,    reverting    to    their    former    representation, 


PREFACE. 


lix 


Newfouiid- 
laii'l  Fislicry. 


Saliuou 
Fisheiy. 


Petition  for 

resident 
authority. 


Board  of 
Trade's 
reply. 


suggested  that  some  of  the  lands  they  had  proposed  to  be  set 
aside  for  poor  people,  should  be  assigned  to  those  who  were 
anxious  to  quit  the  Virgin  Islands  (597). 

Replies  to  revised  Heads  of  Enquiry,  and  returns  of  the 
Fishery  were  sent  in  by  the  Commodore  of  the  Convoy  to  New- 
foundland (38  i,  260  i,  ii,  4-00  i).  Multitudes  of  French  ships 
were  reported  to  be  fishing  on  the  Banks  (243,  260  i),  and  illegal 
trade  was  rife  (699  v).  But  until  a  regular  Government  and 
Admiralty  Court  were  established,  it  seemed  useless  to  create 
Customs  House  Officers  there  (699).  Abuses  in  connection 
with  the  Fishery  and  infringements  of  the  regulations  continued 
as  of  yore,  together  with  the  ruinous  effect  of  rum.  They  are  fully 
reported  by  Conmiodore  Percy,  who  also  regarded  the  continuous 
importation  of  Irish  Roman  Catholic  servants  as  constituting 
a  danger  to  the  island.  The  Salmon  Fishery  claimed  by  George 
Skeffington,  which  the  Board  of  Trade  wished  to  encourage, 
made  some  progress  this  year,  and  was  not  molested  (40,  260  i). 
William  Keen,  however,  represented  that  the  salmon  fishery 
was  his  enterprise,  and  Skeffington  merely  his  factor  (335, 
335  i-vii). 

In  the  absence  of  any  resident  authority  during  the  winter, 
the  inhabitants  who  remained  after  the  departure  of  the  Convoy 
were  lawless  and  unrestrained  (260  i,  331).  When  a  murder 
was  committed  in  Petit  Harbour,  this  Keen  arrested  the 
murderer  and  sent  him  home  for  trial,  together  with  two 
witnesses.  But  he  represented  that  this  was  done  at  his  own 
expense  and  without  any  power  or  authority  on  his  part  for 
so  doing.  He  therefore,  together  with  the  inhabitants  of  Petit 
(Petty)  Harbour,  petitioned  for  the  appointment  of  a  resident 
authority  at  St.  John's  to  deal  with  cases  of  crime  during  the 
winter  (331,  331  i).  The  Board  of  Trade,  however,  adduced 
this  and  similar  outrages  as  a  further  argument  in  support 
of  their  contention  that  the  inhabitants  should  move  from 
Newfoundland  to  Nova  Scotia.  "For,"  they  added,  "such 
inhabitants  as  do  remain  in  Newfoundland  after  the  return  of 
the  Fishery  Fleet,  besides  their  disorderly  way  of  living  there, 
do  for  the  most  part  promote  the  trade  and  fishery  of  New 
England,  to  the  detriment  of  their  Mother  Country"  (441). 


Ix 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Fort  at 
Placentiii. 


Pirates 
raid  the 
Fishery. 


Correspondence  passed  as  to  the  site  and  materials  for  the 
new  Fort  at  Placentia  (11,  17,  18,  23,  442  i). 

The  Lt.  Governor  of  Placentia  was  reprimanded  for  delaying 
the  publication  of  the  Proclamation  inviting  the  inhabitants  to 
remove  to  Nova  Scotia  (279,    281  i). 

Lt.  Governor  Gledhill  remarked  that  if  the  Government 
intended  to  destroy  or  remove  the  Fishery  from  Newfoundland, 
the  pirates  were  helping  to  do  that  very  effectually.  In  the 
summer  of  1720  they  raided  the  Fishery  Fleet  at  Trepassy  and 
St.  Mary's,  capturing  or  destroying  150  boats  and  26  sloops. 
They  remained  there  for  a  fortnight  whilst  they  compelled  the 
crew  of  the  captured  ships  to  fit  out  one  of  the  ships  for  their 
use — the  Royal  Fortune.  These  pirates  were  the  remnant  of 
the  crew  of  the  Royal  Rover,  under  Bartholomew  Roberts. 
Roberts  was  a  savage  and  brutally  cruel  barbarian.  But  if 
Spots  wood's  account  is  correct,  and  he  sailed  into  Trepassy  in  a 
sloop  of  10  guns  and  with  only  60  men,  and  there  dominated 
in  this  way  the  confused  and  leaderless  Fishery  Fleet  with  1200 
men  and  40  pieces  of  cannon,  one  cannot  withhold  admiration 
for  his  bravery  and  daring  (200,  251  iii,  iv,  277  ii,  281  i,  325). 

A  letter  from  Lt.  John  Riggs — a  relative  of  Charles  Delafaye — 
to  General  Nicholson  contains  a  vivid  reminder  of  the  hardships 
of  a  march  from  Pemaquid  to  Norridgewack  against  the  French 
and  "  Indians,  about  30  years  agoe."  (263). 

The  Dodan  at  Nevis  is  again  mentioned  several  times  in 
connection  with  Iberville's  raid  (204  xxiv).  Ever  since  1699  it 
has  occurred  in  this  Calendar  as  the  name,  in  the  West  Indies, 
for  a  strong  place  of  retreat  among  the  mountains,  to  which 
inhabitants  could  retire  in  case  of  invasion.  Hitherto  I  had 
failed  to  discover  the  derivation  of  the  word.  I  am  now  con- 
fident that  it  must  have  been  dos  d'dne,  the  mountain  ridge, 
or  as  we  might  say,  the  "  hog's  back." 

In   former  volumes   we   have   had   several  indications    that 

garden  at      Qovcmors  paid  complimcuts  to  William  Popple,  the  Secretary 

of  the  Board  of  Trade,  by  sending  him  small  presents  of  Colonial 


Miscellanea. 


Dodan. 


Mr.    Popple's 

rden  at 
Hampstead. 


PREFACE. 


Ixi 


Feudal 

service  on 

Colonial 

frontier 

proposed. 


produce,  or,  more  particularly,  from  Virginia  and  elsewhere 
at  his  request,  plants  and  seeds  for  his  garden.  In  this  volume 
we  find  General  Nicholson  arranging  to  send  him  from  South 
Carolina  "some  flowers  and  plants  according  to  your  desire  .  .  . 
for  your  parradice  at  Hampstead."  Popple  was  evidently 
an  enthusiastic  gardener  as  well  as  a  highly  capable  Secretary. 
It  would  be  interesting  if  one  could  trace  any  of  these  early 
eighteenth-century  plants  and  flowers  from  America,  like  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh's  Catalpa  tree  in  Gray's  Inn.  But  I  have 
been  unable  to  discover  the  site  of  the  home  of  the  Popple 
dynasty  and  William's  "  parradice  "  at  Hampstead. 

An  instance  of  the  application  of  an  old  feudal  service  to 
Colonial  frontier  developments  is  to  be  found  in  the  recom- 
mendation by  the  Council  of  Trade  that  grants  of  land  bordering 
on  the  Altamaha  river  should  be  held  of  the  Crown  by  the 
tenure  of  Castle  Guard. 


CECIL  HEADLAM. 


Ixii 


The  documents  calendared  in  the  following  pages  are  included 
in  the  volumes  of  the  Colonial  Office  Records  preserved  at  the 
Public  Record  Office  and  listed  as  follows  :— 

5,  4  ;  5,  12  ;  5,  189  ;  5,  191  ;  5,  306  ;  5,  358  ;  5,  382 
5,  383  ;  5,  387  ;  5,  400  ;  5,  406  ;  5,  509  ;  5,  538  ;  5,  717 
5,  720  ;  5,  721  ;  5,  727  ;  5,  752  ;  5,  867  ;  5,  868  ;  5,  915 
5,  931 ;  5,  971  ;  5,  972  :  5,  980  ;  5,  996  ;  5, 1052  ;  5, 1053  ;  5,  1079 
5,  1085  ;  5,  1092  ;  5,  1124  ;  5,  1265  ;  5,  1266  ;  5,  1293 
5,  1318  ;  5,  1319  ;  5,  1365  ;  7,  1  ;  10,  4  ;  23,  1  ;  23,  12  ;  23,  13 
24,  1  ;  28,  14  ;  28,  15  ;  28,  17  ;  28,  39  ;  28,  44  ;  29,  14  ;  37,  10 
37,  24  ;  38,  7  ;  116,  22  ;  116,  23  ;  137,  13  ;  137,  14  ;  137,  42 
137,  51  ;  138,  16  ;  152,  13  ;  152,  14  ;  152,  42  ;  153,  13 
153,  14  ;  194,  6  ;  194,  7  ;  194,  23  ;  194,  24  ;  195,  7  ;  217,  3 
217,  4  ;  217,  5  ;  217,  30  ;  218,  1  ;  218,  2  ;  314,  1  ;  323,  1 
323,  4  ;  323,  8  ;  324,  10  ;  324,  33  ;  324,  34  ;  382,  28  ;  388,  22 
388,  23  ;    388,  77  ;    388,  78  ;    389,  37. 

Note.  etc.  printed  in  italics  in  the  course  of  the  text  indicates 
that  matter  merely  repeated  or  of  no  importance  is 
there  omitted.  Words  printed  in  italics  between  square 
brackets  [thus]  are  suggestions  by  the  Editor  where 
the  MS.  is  rubbed  or  torn. 

The  reference  "  A.P.C."  is  to  the  printed  Acts  of  the  Privy 
Council,  Colonial  Series. 


Ixiii 


CORRIGENDA. 

P.  41  line  7  for  Stanyon  read  Stanyan. 

P.  47  last  line  for  1726  read  1720. 

P.  48  line  24  for  great  in  read  in  great. 

P.  152  line  9 /or  Ar  read  Wr. 

P.  158  line  19  for  Ar  read  Wr. 

P.  187  line  12  for  private  read  pirate. 

P.  331  line  7  for  Scrutton  read  Sutton. 

P.  339  line  3  from  bottom  for  527  iv,  read  527  iv  (a). 

P.  495  line  12  from  bottom  for  likely  read  lately. 

P .  500  line  10  for  Burnet  read  Shute. 

P.  578  line  23  for  670  read  679. 


COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1720. 


March  i'^, 

Paris. 


March  2. 


1720. 
[Mar.  1.]  1.  Capt.  Evans,  R.N.,  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Estimates  his  expenditure  upon  the  lands 
granted  him  in  New  York  at  £3,350,  which  with  interest  since 
1695  amounts  to  £8,375.  The  improvements  made  by  him 
were  such  that  he  was  offered  £40,000  on  the  Exchange  of 
London  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  1st  March,  17A^.  1  v 
[CO.  5,  1052./.  5].  ^' 

2.  Mr.  Pulteney  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Acknowledges  letter  of  Feb.  22.  The  French  Commissioners 
have  not  yet  given  me  any  deduction  of  their  title  to  Sta.  Lucia  ; 
whenever  they  do  your  Lordships  may  be  assured  of  receiving 
a  copy  etc.  My  Lord  Stairs  frequently  sollicites  that  the  Con- 
ference should  be  renewed,  and  is  always  promised  that  they 
shall  etc.  Signed,  D.  Pulteney.  Endorsed,  Reed.  7th,  Read 
9th  March,  17it.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  78] 

3.  Mr.  West  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  The 
petition  of  George  Skeffington  (Oct.  23rd)  is  not  inconsistent 
with  the  Act  for  encouraging  the  trade  to  Newfoundland,  etc. 
Signed,  Richd.  West.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  10th  March, 
17 ^rf.     \  p.     Enclosed, 

3.i.  Duplicate  of  George  Skeffington's  petition,  23rd  Feb. 
[CO.  194,  6.     Nos.  77,  77.  i.]. 

March  2.       4.     Sir  Charles  Cox  to  [?  ].     My  good  Lord,  My 

Southwark.  wife  begs  leave  to  present  her  duty  to  yr.  Lordp.  humbley 
claiming  yr.  patronage  in  our  last  extremity  and  beseeches  yr. 
Lordp.  to  obtain  of  ye  King  ye  Governmt.  of  Jamaica,  which  I 
once  thought  myself  secure  of.  I  have  resided  in  the  Island 
and  have  the  concurrent  wishes  of  ye  planters  and  merchants. 
Now  is  ye  time  my  Lord,  the  Island  being  under  your  Lordship's 
directions.  If  it  be  consider'd  how  well  I  have  behav'd  during 
20  years  in  Parliamt.,  how  I  have  injured  my  fortune  by  that 
service,  and  how  I  suffer' d  by  a  calamitous  fire,  I  humbly  pre- 
sume I  have  ground  to  hope  for  compassion.  I  am  content 
that  any  part  or  all  ye  salary  be  reserv'd  to  some  other  person, 
who  has  well  deserved  of  H.M.  Without  this  grant  or  some- 
thing equivalent  at  home,  I  am  not  able  to  shew  my  head, 
which  I  would  sacrifice  in  yr.  Lordps.  quarrell.  Signed,  Charles 
Cox.     1  p.     Enclosed, 


Wt.  7595  H.K. 


C.P.  32—1. 


COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1720. 


March  3. 

Whiteliall. 


March  3. 

Clerges 


Street 


4.  i.  Memorial  by  Merchants  trading  to  and  Planters  of 
Jamaica.  Recommend  Sir  Charles  Cox  to  be  Governor 
of  Jamaica,  "  the  divisions  between  the  inhabitants 
and  the  Governor  being  grown  to  such  a  height  as 
may  occasion  an  application  for  a  change  of  Govern- 
ment "  etc.  41  Signatures.  Torn.  1  p.  [CO.  137, 
51.     Nos.  75,  75.  i.] 

5.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Hamilton. 
Altho'  we  have  several  of  yor.  letters  before  us,  we  cannot  at 
present  make  such  an  answer  as  they  may  require,  and  therefore 
we  only  take  this  opportunity  to  write  to  you  upon  the  Act 
to  indemnify  A.  Browne  etc.  There  have  been  several  objections 
made  on  the  part  of  the  parishioners  of  St.  Philips  against 
the  passing  of  the  sd.  Act ;  and  we  have  heard  them  ;  as  also 
Mr.  Nivine  who  appear'd  for  the  Act  by  their  Council.  But  as 
there  remain  several  difficulties  with  us,  we  must  desire  your 
particular  answers  to  the  following  questions  before  we  can  lay 
this  Act  before  H.M.  etc.,  and  therefore  we  expect  to  hear 
from  you  upon  this  subject  by  the  very  first  opportuliity. 
(i)  On  which  side  of  Willoughby  Bay  does  the  old  Church 
stand,  (ii)  In  what  part  of  Belfast  district  does  the  chappel 
of  ease  stand,  (iii)  In  what  place  does  the  new  Church  stand, 
that  is,  on  which  side  of  Ayres  Creek,  (iv)  Whether  does  the 
old  Church  or  chappel  at  ease  stand  nearer  to  the  new  Church, 
(v)  On  which  side  of  Ayres  Creek  do  the  majority  of  the  in- 
habitants of  the  parish  of  St.  Phillips  live,  (vi)  In  case  the 
Act  be  confirm'd  will  it  not  be  necessary  for  the  inhabitants 
that  there  be  a  chappel  of  ease  on  that  side  of  the  Creek  where 
the  Church  do's  not  stand,  (vii)  Whether  the  Gentlemen  of 
that  parish  have  made  any  voluntary  subscriptions  towards 
the  building  the  new  Church.  What  the  sum  is,  and  what 
remains  to  be  levied  on  the  parishioners,  (viii)  What  number 
of  the  parishioners  for  the  new  Church,  and  what  against  it. 
(ix)  And  that  we  may  understand  this  matter  still  more  per- 
fectly we  desire  you  would  send  us  a  correct  mapp  of  the  parish 
in  question.  P.S.  We  enclose  to  you  the  best  mapp  we  have 
here  of  Antego  in  which  if  you  have  none  better  with  you,  we 
desire  you  wou'd  cause  the  respective  parishes  in  that  Island 
to  be  mark'd  as  exactly  as  you  can  and  particularly  that  of 
St.  Phillips.     [CO.  153,  13.     pp.  453-455]. 

6.  William  Sharpe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Encloses  following.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  4th  March,  17^.     1  P-     Enclosed, 

6.  i.  Answers  to  Queries  relating  to  Sta.  Lucia.  {v.  15th 
Jan.)  (i)  I  have  always  heard  that  about  1665  Lord 
Willoughby  of  Parham  settled  that  Island  with  some 
of  the  inhabitants  of  Barbadoes,  who,  proving  sickly, 


1720. 


AMERICA     AND     WEST    INDIES. 


became  a  prey  to  the  native  Indians,  who  surpriz'd, 
and  destroyed  them  all.  (ii)  I  cou'd  never  find  that 
any  French  settled  there  in  those  years,  or  at  any 
other  time,  (iii)  I  never  heard  that  the  French 
Commissioners  referred  to  made  any  demand  about 
Sta.  Lucia,  (iv)  I  liv'd  at  Barbadoes,  and  was  a 
Member  of  the  Council  during  the  whole  time  men- 
tioned in  the  Treaties  of  Ryswick  and  Utrecht.  To 
the  best  of  my  knowledge,  there  was  not  one  single 
settlement  made  thereon  etc.  We  have,  in  all  times, 
had  people  there  cutting  timber,  and  dying  wood, 
who  built  some  small  hutts  to  defend  themselves 
against  the  weather,  till  they  cou'd  load  their  vessells, 
which  hutts  they  afterwards  left,  but  never  attempted 
to  clear  the  land,  or  break  the  ground,  or  do  anything 
that  look't  like  a  settlement ;  'Tis  probable  that  the 
French  might  privily,  and  by  stealth,  do  the  same. 
Refers  to  Col.  Stede's  Expedition  and  Lord  Grey's 
assertion  of  the  British  title  {v.  C.S.P.  1699.  No. 
939  i.),  and  his  own  similar  assertion,  to  which  the 
Governor  of  Martinique  "  never  thought  fitt  to 
make  any  reply.  He  pretended  no  more  than  that 
the  island  was  a  neutral  place.  If  the  French  be 
allowed  to  possess  St.  Lucia  and  Tobago  (to  which 
latter  the  French  Governor  in  his  letter  to  me  also 
pretends)  they  will  be  able  to  destroy  Barbadoes, 
when  they  please  ;  And  on  the  other  hand,  if  we  keep 
St.  Lucia  and  settle  it,  it  being  but  seven  leagues,  and 
that  to  windward  of  Martineco,  we  shall  be  able,  by 
keeping  a  few  men  of  war  there,  to  intercept  all  the 
French  ships  from  getting  to  Martineco,  and  thereby 
destroy  the  place,  when  we  please.  For  they  can't 
subsist,  or  carry  on  their  plantations,  but  by  con- 
tinual supplies,  both  of  manufactures,  and  provisions, 
from  France.  Santa  Lucia  would  be  of  further  service 
to  the  Crown,  as  it  is  a  proper  soil  for  cocoa  and  indigo, 
the  King  having  no  Plantation  for  the  former  in  his 
Dominions,  and  there  being  little  made  of  the  latter. 
If  therefore  it  was  restrained  to  these  two  commodities, 
it  would  bring  in  considerable  revenues  to  the  Crown, 
and  do  no  prejudice  to  any  of  the  Sugor  Islands 
already  settled.  But  this  will  require  the  utmost 
care  and  consideration.  I  conceive,  there  will  be  no 
difficulty  in  planting  and  setling  this  Island  as  the 
King  pleases,  because  I  brought  the  Chief  of  all  the 
Caribbee  Indians  to  acknowledge  an  absolute  sub- 
jection to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain,  in  consequence 
whereof,  they  afterwards  fought  under  the  King's 
colours,  as  I  am  inform'd  the  French  too  well  know, 


COLONIAL     PAPERS. 


1720. 


March  3. 


March  3. 

Charles 

Tovm, 
So.  Carolina. 


and  have  ever  since  continued  in  their  allegiance. 
The  acknowledgment  mentioned,  under  the  Broad 
Seal  of  the  Island  of  Barbadoes,  I  sent  home  to  the 
Board  etc.  Mem.  Sta.  Lucia  has  the  best  harbour  of 
any  of  the  Carribbee  Islds."  {v.  Journal  of  C.  of  T., 
4th  March).  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe.  Endorsed,  Reed., 
Read  4th  March,  17i^  2  pp.  [CO.  28,  15.  Nos.  76, 
76  1.] 

7.  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Reply  to  queries  touching  Sta.  Lucia  {v.  15th  Jan.).  I  was 
ashoar  on  that  Island  in  1703,  twice  in  1711,  and  after  the 
cessation  of  arms  before  the  Treaty  of  Utricht.  There  was  not, 
at  any  of  those  times,  any  manner  of  settlement,  either  of 
English  or  French  ;  no  part  of  the  land  manured,  nor  so  much 
as  one  single  house,  hutt,  or  habitation,  excepting  those  of  the 
Indians  and  negroes  which  have  run  away  from  Barbadoes. 
I  was  also  frequently  ashore  since  the  Treaty  of  Utricht,  and 
observ'd  that  the  French,  as  well  as  the  English,  sent  several 
small  sloops  to  catch  turtle  and  cut  timber  for  their  respective 
adjacent  Colonies,  and  that  the  wood-cutters,  and  fishermen, 
English  and  French,  made  small  hutts  for  their  own,  and  their 
negroes  shelter,  during  their  stay ;  But  I  never  heard  the 
French  pretend  to  make  any  settlement  upon  the  Island. 
Proposes  that  settlers  should  be  confined  to  planting  cocoa 
trees,  indigo,  cotton  and  ginger,  but  especially  cocoa  trees  ; 
for  the  soil  is  of  the  same  nature  with  Martinique,  and  might 
in  a  few  years  be  brought  to  produce  cocoa  enough  for  all  H.M. 
Dominions,  which  we  are  now  obliged  to  have  from  foreign 
nations,  and  of  which  there  is  consumed,  in  the  little  island  of 
Barbados  alone,  to  above  the  value  of  £6,000  a  year.  That 
prohibition  would  also  remove  the  objection  of  the  poor  decaying 
sugar  Colonys,  etc.  Signed,  W.  Gordon,  Endorsed,  Reed.  3rd., 
Read  4th  March,  17^^.     3  pp.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  77.] 

8.  Jonathan  Shrine  to  Saml.  Wrugg  or  Wragg,  Merchant 
in  London.  We  have  an  account  from  Providence  of  an 
invasion  design'd  pr.  ye  Spaniards  a  sloop  being  sent  on  purpose 
to  informe  us  of  the  same  and  that  they  are  coming  with  four 
sail  of  ships,  one  of  50  guns,  one  of  48,  one  30,  ye  other  24, 
and  six  sloops  :  1,200  men,  they  designe  to  land  at  St.  Augustine 
to  come  by  land.  We  are  very  much  unprovided  to  receive 
them  but  I  hope  before  they  come  we  shall  be  in  better  order, 
ye  originall  news  comes  from  the  Havana  by  a  boat  that  have 
made  their  escape  from  them  with  severall  letters  from  Mr. 
Parris  and  Mr.  Farrill  etc.  There  is  an  embargo  laid  on  all 
ships  except  Captn.  Webber  by  whom  this  comes  via  Bristoll  etc. 
Signed,  Jonathan  Shrine.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Boon) 
29th  April,  Read  7th  July,  1720.  Copy,  f  p.  [CO.  5,  1265. 
No.  146]. 


AMERICA    AND    WEST    INDIES. 


1720. 
March  4. 

Charles 

Town, 
So.  Carolina. 


March  4. 

South 
"Carolina. 


March  4. 

WhitehaU. 


March  5. 

Virginia. 


9.  Daniel  Bell  to  William  Wragg,  Merchant  in  London. 
Refers  to  above  news  received  from  the  Governor  of  Providence. 
Continues :  They  were  to  saile  from  the  Havana  15  days  agoe 
so  that  we  may  expect  them  every  hour.  Refers  to  embargo  on 
his  ship.  We  have  severall  very  good  ships  in  the  place  and 
between  4  and  500  sailers.  They  also  designe  to  fit  foure  of  the 
best  ships  in  a  posture  of  defence  etc.  The  people  seems  not 
to  feare  them  in  the  least,  but  our  fortifications  are  much  out 
of  repair  but  making  all  the  dispatch  they  can  to  fit  themselves 
for  defence  etc.  The  report  is  generally  believed  etc.,  because 
severall  men  in  this  place  have  received  letters  from  their 
friends  out  of  Havano  and  all  to  one  effect  etc.  Signed,  Daniel 
Bell.  Endorsed  as  preceding.   Copy.   Ip.  [CO.  5, 1265.  A^o.  147]. 

1 0.  Othniel  Beale  to  Saml.  Waldo,  Merchant  at  the  New 
England  Coffee  House,  London.  Repeats  part  of  preceding.  His 
ship,  16  guns,  has  been  impressed  with  three  others  of  18  guns,  to 
receive  the  enemy  soon  after  they  enter  the  harbour  (or  as  may  be 
thought  proper)  with  a  fireship,  as  also  two  small  vessels  to 
cruise  of  St.  Augustine  to  give  intelligence  of  their  approach. 
Continues  :  We  know  not  whether  they  designe  for  the  Bahamas 
or  this  place,  or  both,  but  we  hope  this  favourable  providence 
of  timely  notice  will  enable  us  so  to  prepare  for  them  as  to  give 
them  a  much  warmer  recepcon  (and  smarter  repulse)  then 
they  expect  since  we  have  reason  to  beleive  they  depend  on 
the  intelligence  they  reed,  from  one  Capt.  Loan  whom  they 
took  about  3  months  past  (and  soon  after  he  left  this  place) 
and  tho'  he  might  very  truly  say  that  this  place  was  then  in  a 
very  naked  neglected  posture  yet  circumstances  are  now  very 
different  and  we  are  advanced  very  considerably  in  repairing 
the  works  in  order  for  defence  so  that  at  present  we  are  under 
no  great  concerne.  I  shall  do  my  utmost  to  preserve  yr.  ship 
as  farr  as  the  nature  of  this  affaire  wil  admit  etc.  Signed,  Othl. 
Beale.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  1265.  No. 
148]. 

11 .  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Bell  Jones,  Secretary  to  the  Board  of 
Ordnance.  Enquires  whether  the  new  fort  at  Placentia  is  to 
be  built  upon  that  point  of  land  opposite  to  the  old  Fort ; 
whether  it  is  to  be  done  in  the  spring,  and  how  far  it  will  affect 
Col.  Moody's  lands  there,  etc.     [C  O.  195,  7.  p.  5]. 

12.  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Annomices  death  of  Col.  Smith  one  of  H.M. 
Council  here,  but  a  strenuous  adherent  of  that  Faction  I  have 
been  complaining  of  etc.  Recommends  John  Robinson  to  fill 
his  place,  being  a  man  of  distinguished  loyalty,  sound  principles, 
good  sense,  and  peaceable  disposition,  joined  with  the 
advantages   of  a   plentifuU  fortune  etc.     It  has  been  long  a 


1720. 


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surprize  to  me,  that  notwithstanding  H.M.  approbation  of  Mr. 
Digges  to  be  of  the  Council,  the  warrant  for  swearing  him, 
has  still  been  kept  back,  and  I  could  not  believe  but  that  some 
sinister  dealings  (which  yor.  Lordps.  were  strangers  to)  had 
been  used  to  obstruct  it.  At  last  the  mistery  is  discovered 
by  some  hints  which  Mr.  Byrd  has  dropd  in  conversation  (for 
I  have  not  yet  seen  him  since  his  arrival)  that  he  put  in  a 
Memorial  to  stop  the  King's  letter  in  favour  of  Mr.  Digges, 
under  pretence  that  Mr.  Porteous  being  called  to  the  Council 
by  me,  and  afterwards  left  out  in  the  King's  Instructions  to 
make  room  for  Mr.  Berkeley,  has  a  right  to  be  restored  on  the 
first  vaccancy  :  but  in  order  to  remove  this  objection,  I  must 
begg  leave  to  represent,  that  the  case  is  much  altered  in 
respect  to  Mr.  Porteous  since  I  first  called  him  to  the  Council  : 
he  then  lived  near  Williamsburgh  without  any  river  to  hinder 
his  attending  the  duty  of  his  place,  but  he  is  now  removed  to 
a  greater  distance  cross  one  of  our  largest  rivers  :  he  was  then 
looked  upon  as  a  settled  inhabitant  of  this  country,  but  he  has 
for  some  time  past  declared  his  resolution  of  leaving  it,  and 
settling  in  England,  and  about  a  fortnight  ago  actually 
published  his  intended  departure  (as  the  custom  is)  with  the 
return  of  the  first  ships  etc.  So  that  this  obstruction  seems 
to  be  entirely  owing  to  Mr.  Byrd  (without  any  warrant  from 
the  person  in  whose  behalf  he  appear'd)  and  design'd  to  affront 
a  gentleman  whom  he  knows  to  be  incapable  of  falling  into  the 
measures  of  his  faction.  Tho'  Mr.  Byrd  has  been  now  upwards 
of  a  month  in  the  country  he  has  not  thought  fitt  to  let  me 
know,  whether  he  has  obtain'd  H.M.  directions  for  his  con- 
tinuance in  the  Council,  without  which  he  cannot  but  know, 
his  long  absence  without  licence  has  excluded  him,  according 
to  the  express  words  of  H.M.  Instructions  :  neither  doth  it 
seem  probable  to  me  that  he  hath  any  such  order  from  H.M., 
seeing  he  publickly  talks  of  returning  to  England  in  two  or 
three  months  time.  Had  Mr.  Byrd  been  sworne  of  the  Council 
since  he  was  nominated  in  H.M.  Instructions,  I  should  have 
had  less  scruple  to  readmitt  him  to  his  place  :  but  as  he  went 
from  hence  without  any  other  licence  that  I  know  of,  but  only 
from  my  Lord  Oxford  (wch.  gave  him  leave  to  be  absent  from 
his  Office  of  Receiver  Genii,  only)  and  as  he  has  beene  absent 
beyond  the  time  in  which  H.M.  declares  (by  his  Instructions) 
that  his  place  in  the  Council  shall  be  void,  I  must  therefore 
pray  yor.  Lordps.  directions  how  I  am  to  act  in  this  case  etc. 
If  yor.  Lordps.  shal  think  fitt  to  renew  yor.  recommendation 
of  Mr.  Beverley  in  Mr.  Byrd's  stead,  there  will  then  be  an 
opportunity  to  fill  the  present  vaccancy  with  the  gentleman  I 
have  now  recommended  :  otherwise  Mr.  Beverley  being  first 
proposed,  I  pray  he  may  be  put  in  the  place  of  Mr.  Smith,  and 
Mr.  Robinson  reserved  for  the  next  vaccancy  :  unless  yor. 
Lordps.  shall  be  pleased  (according  to  what  My  Lord  Orkney 


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AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES. 


offerred  to  yor.  Lordsp.  sometime  ago)  to  make  room  for  both 
those  gentlemen,  by  the  removal  either  of  Mr.  Blair  or  Mr. 
Ludwell,  neither  of  whom  deserve  the  post  they  enjoy  unless 
a  continued  opposition  to  H.M.  interest  and  service,  and  a 
contempt  of  yor.  Lordps.  decisions  in  all  the  points  that  have 
been  controverted  between  that  Party  and  me,  be  the  merit 
they  have  to  plead  :  and  had  I  time  to  lay  open  some  late 
scenes  of  their  behaviour,  since  yor.  Lordps.  last  letters  to  me, 
I'm  confident  yor.  Lordps.  would  judge  them  fitter  for  the 
frowns  than  the  favours  of  the  Government,  for  the  first  of 
these  Gentlemen  Mr.  Blair  no  sooner  heard  yor  Lordps.  letter 
and  the  Sollicitor  Generals  opinion  concerning  the  King's  right 
of  collation  read  in  Council,  than  he  went  about  to  oppose  it ; 
and  having  soon  after  pack'd  a  majority  of  his  Vestry  per- 
swaded  them  to  draw  up  a  formal  presentation  of  him  to  be 
their  Minister,  wherin  they  stile  themselves  the  true  and 
undoubted  patrons  of  that  Church  ;  declaring  at  the  same  time 
that  he  should  not  have  desired  any  such  presentation  but 
only  to  assert  the  right  of  the  Vestry  against  the  Governor 
who  was  going  to  deprive  them  of  it  by  setting  up  the  King's  right 
of  collation,  and  Mr.  Blair  came  to  me  with  this  presentation 
and  demanded  induction.  How  consistent  this  is  with  the 
duty  of  a  Councelor  sworne  to  assist  H.M.  rights  and  preroga- 
tives I  leave  yor.  Lordps.  to  judge.  The  other  (Mr.  Ludwell) 
has  given  a  late  instance  (of  what  I  had  often  heard  reported) 
that  his  submission  to  yor.  Lordps.  determination  concerning 
the  Governors  right  to  nominate  the  judges  of  the  Oyer  and 
Terminer  Courts,  was  only  conditional  that  the  Council  alone 
should  be  named  in  those  Commissions  :  for  when  I  issued  a 
Commission  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  last  December,  and  joined 
with  the  Council  only  Mr.  Digges  and  Mr.  Beverley  (who  I  had 
reason  to  believe  were  then  constituted  of  the  Council  as  well 
as  the  rest)  Mr.  Ludwell  no  sooner  heard  the  Commission  read, 
than  he  objected  agt.  both  those  Gentn.,  and  immediately  he 
with  four  more  of  his  party  withdrew  off  the  Bench,  drew  up 
a  remonstrance  agt.  that  nomination,  and  took  occasion  to 
present  it  to  me  in  the  publick  Courthouse  and  entertaining 
me  with  a  long  discourse  on  that  subject  till  he  saw  a  consider- 
able mobb  of  people  round  us,  he  then  turning  to  the  multitude 
raised  his  voice  and  said,  that  the  Governor's  power  of  naming 
other  Judges  than  the  Council  in  cases  of  life  and  death  was  of 
dangerous  consequence  to  the  lives  and  libertys  of  H.M.  free 
subjects,  and  repeating  the  same  words  again  concluded  that 
for  that  reason  he  refused  to  sitt  in  the  Court  of  Oyer  and 
Terminer  with  the  gentlemen  I  had  appointed,  etc.  Signed, 
A.  Spotswood.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  31st  May,  1720. 
3f  pp.     [CO.  5,  1318.     No.  70]. 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 
March  10. 


March  13. 


March  14. 

Chancery 

Lane. 


March  le. 

Paris. 


March  16. 

Office  of 
Ordnance. 


13.  Generals  Erie,  Wills  and  Pepper  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Testimonial  in  favour  of  Capt.  Gookin. 
{v.  8th  Jan.).  Signed,  Tho.  Erie,  Cha.  Wills,  John  Pepper. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  10th  March,  17^',  Read  19th  May,  1721.  1  p. 
[CO.  5,  1266.  ff.  9,  10j7.]. 

14.  Col.  Moody  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following  etc. 
Signed,  J.  Moody.  Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read  18th  March, 
17^§.      1  p.     Enclosed, 

14.  i.  Opinion   of  Mr.   West  upon  Col.   Moody's   case   etc., 

10th  March,  1720.  v.  8th  Jan.     Signed,  Richd.  West. 
I  p.     [CO.  194,  6.     Nos.  78,  78  i.] 

15.  Mr.  Bampfeild  to  Mr.  Popple.  Prays  that  Act  of 
Barbados  for  docking  the  intail  of  a  certain  plantation  etc.  may 
be  laid  before  H.M.  for  confirmation  etc.  Signed,  Geo.  Bamp- 
feild. Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read  17th  March,  17i|.  1  p. 
[CO.  28,  15.     No.  79.] 


March  17. 

Whitehall. 


March  17. 

Whitehall. 


March  21. 

Whitehall. 


16.  Mr.  Pulteney  to  Mr.  Popple.  Acknowledges  letter  of 
10th  etc.  Signed,  D.  Pulteney.  Endorsed,  Reed.  21st  March, 
Read  13th  April,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  87.] 

17.  Board  of  Ordnance  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Reply  to  Mh  March.  The  point  of  land  where  we  are 
to  build  [the  new  fort  at  Placentia]  is  opposite  to  the  old,  and  if 
we  can  get  shiping  to  transport  the  remainder  of  the  materials 
to  Placentia  we  shall  begin  this  summer.  As  to  Col.  Moodies 
lands  we  are  not  able  to  say  etc.  Signed,  T.  White,  T.  Wheate, 
M.  Richards.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  18th  March,  17iR. 
1  p.     [CO.  194,  6.     No.  79.] 

18.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Jones.  Requests  answer  to  4th 
March,  as  several  ships  will  soon  be  going  for  Newfoundland 
etc.     [CO.  195,  7.    p.  6.] 

19.  Same  to  Mr.  West.  Encloses,  for  his  opinion  in  point 
of  law.  Act  of  Barbados  for  docking  the  intail  of  a  certain  plan- 
tation, etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     p.  68.] 

20.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  Governor  Lowther.  Appli- 
cation having  been  made  to  the  King  by  your  relations  here 
that  you  may  have  a  license  of  absence  from  your  Government, 
and  answer  in  person  to  such  things  as  have  been  charged  upon 
you  before  the  Privy  Council,  H.M.  has  been  pleased  to  grant 
their  request,  and  commanded  me  to  transmit  the  license 
enclosed.  I  have  lost  no  time  in  moving  H.M.  to  show  this 
favour  to  you,  and  as  I  do  not  doubt  but  you  will  be  able  to 
clear  yourself  of  the  matters  which  have  been  alledged  against 


AMERICA   AND  WEST  INDIES.  9 

1720.  ]     7 

you,  I  may  soon  hope  to  assure  you  on  this  side  that  I  am,  Sir, 
your  most  humble  Servt.     Signed,  J.  Craggs.     Annexed, 

20.  i.  H.M.  Hcence  of  leave  to  Governor  Lowther  to  be  absent 

from  his  command  for  six  months,  "  upon  account 
of  some  affairs  which  require  his  attendance  here." 
St.  James's,  21st  March,  17^^.  Countersigned,  J. 
Craggs.     [CO.   324,   33.     pp.   267,   268.] 

March  22.       21 .     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Referring  following  to  the 
St.  James's.  Couucil  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report.  Signed,  Temple 
Stanyan.     Endorsed,    Reed.    24th,    Read    25th    March,    17|^. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 

21.  i.  Petition  of  Sir  Charles  Cox  to  the  King.     Petitioner's 

brother,  Samuel  Cox  is  the  eldest  Councillor  of  Barba- 
dos, whereby  the  administration  of  the  Government 
pro  interim  in  case  of  a  vacancy  will  devolve  upon 
him.  Governor  Lowther  having  conceived  a  ground- 
less displeasure  against  him  and  frequently  vowed 
his  ruin,  has  left  no  stone  unturned  to  execute  his 
threats  not  only  on  himself  but  likewise  upon  two 
gent,  of  considerable  fortunes  in  that  Island  who 
married  his  daughters,  and  having  a  view  to  preferr 
his  nephew  John  Frere  the  next  in  seniority  in  the 
Councill,  has  applied  himself  to  find  out  plausible 
pretences  to  suspend  him.  Samuel  Cox  did,  as  his 
duty  obliged  him,  object  against  the  Governor's  per- 
mitting a  Spanish  vessell  to  trade  there  and  remon- 
strate to  him  that  it  was  an  evident  breach  of 
the  Acts  of  Trade  and  his  oath.  Thereupon  the 
Governour's  malice  and  resentment  was  wrought  up 
to  such  a  heigth  that  he  has  charged  petitioner's 
brother  with  endeavouring  to  raise  a  rebellion  in  her 
late  Majesty's  reign  when  the  Governour  was  com- 
manded immediately  to  deliver  up  the  Government 
to  Mr.  Sharpe.  The  only  crime  he  was  guilty  of  was, 
that  of  giving  his  opinion  as  a  Member  of  the  Councill 
that  obedience  ought  to  be  paid  to  H.M.  said  order. 
The  Governor  has  declared  his  fixed  resolution  to 
prosecute  Cox  and  two  other  gentlemen  who  were 
then  Members  of  the  Councill  at  the  Grand  Sessions 
8th  Dec.  last,  for  the  same,  and  that  he  himself  will 
sitt  Judge.  Prays  that  the  Governour  be  ordered  not 
to  suspend  Cox,  or  in  case  he  has  done  so,  to  restore 
him  until  his  reasons  and  H.M.  pleasure  are  known. 
Signed,  Charles  Cox.  li  pp.  [CO.  28,  15.  Nos. 
80,  80  i.] 

March  24.       22.     Mr.    Secretary   Craggs  to   the   Council   of  Trade   and 
St.  James's.  Plantations.     Referring    following    for    their    report.     Signed, 


10 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


March  25. 


March  25. 


March  25. 

Whitehall. 


March  26. 


March  28. 


J.  Craggs.     Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  March,  Read  3rd  May,  1720. 
Subscribed  under, 

22.  i.  Petition    of    Richard    Pearse    of    Marblehead,    N.E., 

mariner,  James  Pitts,  merchant,  George  Whitehorne 
and  PhilHp  Dumaresq,  marines,  Daniel  Johannot 
and  Andrew  Sigournay  distillers,  all  of  Boston,  to 
the  King.  A  tract  of  16,000  acres,  called  Greenland 
alias  Misconcus  by  the  English,  but  by  the  Indians 
Remobscoe,  was  sold  by  John  Summersett,  an  Indian 
Sagramore,  to  the  father  of  Richard  Pearse  in  1641. 
6,000  acres  have  been  sold  to  the  rest  of  the  petitioners 
by  Pearse,  and  they  propose  the  next  summer  to  settle 
the  said  lands  with  50  families  etc.  This  tract  is  not 
annext  to  any  particular  Province,  and  petitioners 
therefore  pray  for  H.M.  confirmation  of  the  Indians' 
grant  etc.  The  whole,  2  pp.  [CO.  5,  867.  Nos.  61, 
61.  i.] 

23.  Queries  [by  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations]  to  Col. 
Moody,  relating  to  some  lands  he  claims  at  Placentia.  (i) 
Whether  the  point  of  land  on  which  it  is  proposed  to  build  a 
fort  was  not  reserved  by  the  French  King  for  some  public  use  ? 
(ii)  Whether  it  was  ever  granted  to  any  of  the  French  King's 
Governors  ?  (iii)  Whether  the  title  of  the  person  of  whom 
Col.  Moody  bought  the  said  Point  can  be  made  appear  ?  (iv) 
What  proportion  of  the  purchase  money  was  paid  for  it  ? 
(v)  Its  present  value  ?   etc.     [CO.  195,  7.    p.  7.] 

24.  Office  accounts  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Dec.  25,  1719 — 
March  25,  1720.  v.  Journal  of  Council.  [CO.  388,  77.  Nos. 
77,  79,  81.] 

25.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  Governor  Lowther.  H.M. 
having  granted  you  a  licence  of  absence  etc.  (21st  March) 
you  are  exactly  to  follow  your  Instructions  in  leaving  the 
administration  of  the  Government  with  the  eldest  Councillor 
who  shall  be  at  the  time  of  your  absence  residing  in  the  Island. 
Encloses  duplicates  of  21st  March.  Signed,  J.  Craggs.  [CO. 
324,  33.     pp.  267,  268.] 

26.  Mr.  West  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Has  no  objection  to  Act  of  Barbados  for  docking  entail  of  a 
plantation  in  St.  Lucy^s  parish  etc.  Signed,  Richd.  West. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  March,  1720,  Read  25th  March,  1721. 
1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  49,  50.  v.] 

27.  Mr.  Cumings  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Proposes  certain  alterations  in  the  regulation  and  taxation  of 
the    Plantation    trade.     Signed,    Archd.    Cumings.     Endorsed, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  11 


1720. 


Reed.  28th  Mareh,  Read  1st  April,  1720.     1|  pp.     {CO.  323, 

8.     No.  1.] 


March  28.       28.     Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Nevis,        tations.      Refers  to  his    orders   to    Capt.    Rose,   v.   16th  Feb. 
Proving  calm  he  left    [the   pirate  ship]   at  an  anchor  at   St. 
Christopher's  and  came  up  himself  [to  me  at  Nevis].      She  was 
called  amongst  the  pirates  by  the  name  of  the  Royal  Rover, 
and  has  committed  a  great  many  depredations  upon  the  coast 
of  Guinea.     She  was  the  same  that  took  the  Portugueze  ship, 
and  I  find  the  crew  were  the  same  which  were  formerly  in  a 
ship  they  called  the  King  James  which  they  sunk  and  betook 
themselves  to  this.     She  is  a  ship  of  force  capable  of  mounting 
30  guns  and  had  once  near  200  men  (and  as  far  as  I  can  learn) 
was  in  the  service  of  His  Imperial  Majesty  when  she  was  taken 
but  she  is  now  much  out  of  order  for  which  reason  I  suppose 
they  quitted  her.     As  I  have  met  with  a  vast  deal  of  trouble 
and  opposition  from  some  persons  who  would  have  disputed 
with  me  the  power  I  had  of  seizing  her  I  think  it  my  duty  to 
lay  before  your  Lordships  a  distinct  account  of  the  manner 
in  which  the  ship  was  taken,  and  the  measures  that  were  took 
to  prevent  my  securing  of  her  either  for  H.M.  or  for  the  Right 
Honourable  the  Lord  High  Admiral  etc.     The  crew  that  be- 
longed to  her  came  to  a  separation  some  betook  themselves 
to  a  snow  and  some  to  the  sloop  mentioned  in  Mr.  Popple's 
letter  the  rest  (to  what  number  I  cannot  discover)  either  being 
weary  of  that  sort  of  life  or  thinking  they  had  got  booty  enough 
resolved  to  steal  ashore  in  such  places  as  they  thought  they 
were  most  likely  to  escape  undiscovered  in,   or  where  they 
might  pass  unquestioned  according  the  six  mentioned  {I6th 
Feb.)  were  landed  upon  Anguilla  pretending  to  be  shipwreckt 
but  being  detected  and  brought  up  here  have  since  been  tried, 
found  guilty  and  received  sentence  of  death,  the  residue  carried 
the  ship  down  to  St.  Thomas's  (an  Island  the  Danes  are  settled 
upon)  brought  her  to  an  anchor  there  out  of  the  reach  of  their 
cannon  and  went  themselves  on  shoar  and  passed  publickly 
(as  I  am  informed)  as  Pirates,  and  were  so  far  from  being 
questioned  for  it  that  the  Governor  himself  was  in  treaty  with 
them   for  the   ship,    as   the   persons   who   brought  her  away 
have  represented  to  me.      Major  Holmes  etc.  seized  her  as  a 
pirate,  what  men  were  then  in  her  quitting  her  and  making 
their  escape  on  shoar,  etc.  as  16th  Feb.     Continues:    [When 
Capt.  Rose  came  up  hither],  I  ordered  him  down  thither  [to  St. 
Christophers]  with  the  Seaford  to  bring  her  up  to  Nevis,  Mr. 
Ottley  and  the  other  gentlemen  pretended  then  to  claim  a 
right  to  her  as  captors  (though  they  had  no  commission)  and 
disputed  the  delivery  of  her,  and  returning  to  me  without  her 
I  sent  him  down  a  second  time  with  possitive  orders  to  bring 
her  up,  but  when  he  came  he  found  her  sails  unbent  and  carried 


12  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720.  ~~~~" 

ashoar  and  her  topmast  struck,  and  by  this  time  Mr.  Ottley 
had  obtained  a  deputation  from  one  Mr.  Hill  of  Antigua  (who 
claims  a  power  from  Mr.  Dod  Receiver  General  of  the  rights 
and  perquisites  of  Admiralty,  and  from  Mr.  Walters,  Sollicitor 
of  the  Admiralty)  to  receive  all  rights  and  perquisites  of 
Admiralty  in  the  Leeward  Islands,  and  by  vertue  of  that  power 
Mr.  Ottley  pretended  then  to  seize  her  for  the  Lord  High 
Admiral  so  that  Captain  Rose  returned  the  second  time  without 
her.  As  I  am  not  only  impowered  but  it  is  required  of  me 
as  a  duty  by  H.M.  Commission  under  the  Great  Seal  of  the 
Admiralty  constituting  me  Vice  Admiral  of  these  seas  to  seize 
and  take  into  my  possession  amongst  other  things  the  goods 
of  pirates  and  the  same  to  keep  to  the  use  of  H.M.  and  the 
Lord  High  Admiral  for  the  time  being,  I  thought  it  proper 
and  highly  necessary  (especially  as  I  had  an  account  of  some 
embezzlements  already  made  and  that  Mr.  Ottley  had  taken 
several  casks  of  powder  out  of  her)  to  send  Capt.  Rose  down  a 
third  time  with  stricter  orders  than  before  to  bring  up  this 
ship  to  Nevis,  and  if  the  sails  were  not  delivered  to  him,  to 
apply  to  a  Civil  Magistrate  for  a  warrant  to  search  for  them 
and  take  them  out  of  their  possession,  which  he  was  forced  to 
do  Mr.  Ottley  refusing  to  deliver  them,  and  upon  this  he  has 
brought  her  up  hither  where  she  has  been  proceeded  with  in 
the  Admiralty  Court  and  an  interlocutory  decree  pronounced 
adjudging  the  ship  and  lading  to  be  forfeited  as  the  good  of 
pirates  unless  any  owners  shall  come  in  a  twelvemonth  and  a 
day  and  make  their  proper  appearance,  and  an  inventory  has 
been  directed  by  the  Judge  to  be  taken  and  an  appraisement 
made  of  the  goods  in  her,  to  be  lodged  with  the  Register.  As 
the  custody  of  this  ship  and  goods  remain  at  present  with  me, 
if  no  owners  appear  within  the  time  I  shall  be  ready  to  deliver 
up  the  same,  submitting  to  the  Right  Honourable  the  Com- 
missioners for  executing  the  post  of  Lord  High  Admiral  of 
Great  Brittain  their  determination  whether  any  or  what  share 
thereof  does  belong  to  me  as  Vice  Admiral.  The  goods  of 
pirates  I  take  to  belong  originally  to  the  Crown,  and  if  the 
Lord  High  Admiral  or  Commissioners  for  executing  that  Office 
have  any  claim  to  them,  I  suppose  it  is  by  grant  from  H.M. 
and  as  I  am  in  the  dark  about  this  matter  I  humbly  pray 
your  Lordships  will  be  pleased  to  inform  me  thereui  as  also 
about  this  deputation  of  Mr.  Dod  and  Mr.  Walters,  whether 
it  was  intended  to  give  them  any  power  of  receiving  any  rights 
of  perquisites  of  Admiralty  in  these  Islands,  or  it  be  restrained 
to  Great  Brittain  only  for  I  humbly  apprehend  that  it  did 
not,  that  being  annexed  to  the  Vice  Admiral  and  by  H.M. 
Commission  expressly  enjoined  me,  and  I  am  the  rather  con- 
firmed in  this  opinion  because  I  have  received  no  directions 
from  the  Right  Honourable  the  Commissioners  for  executing 
the  Office  of  High  Admiral  to  take   notice  of  any  such  Officer 


13  AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 

1720. 

here,  which  if  their  Lordships  had  intended  to  supercede  my 
Commission  therein  I  may  beHeve  I  should  ;  your  Lordships 
will  be  pleased  therefore  to  signifie  to  me  whether  these  Officers 
are  to  seize  any  rights  or  perquisites  of  Admiralty  arising  here 
or  that  I  am  to  do  so,  and  when  I  have  done  so  whether  I 
shall  deliver  or  account  for  the  same  to  the  Crown,  to  them, 
or  to  the  Lord  High  Admiral  etc.  Howsoever  it  be,  I  hope  I 
shall  meet  with  your  Lordships'  approbation  in  what  I  have 
at  present  done,  I  not  knowing  how  to  regard  a  Commission 
from  a  private  Officer  when  I  had  one  from  H.M.  etc.  This 
last  week  one  Charles  Powell  born  at,  and  formerly  an  inhabitant 
of  St.  Christophers  for  [?  was]  arraigned  for  High  Treason, 
for  having  been  in  the  service  of  the  King  of  Spain  on  board 
the  privateer  sloop  mentioned  I6th  Feb.,  and  committed  a 
great  many  acts  of  cruelty  upon  and  against  H.M.  subjects, 
all  which  were  plainly  proved  against  him  upon  his  trial,  where- 
upon the  jury  found  him  guilty  and  sentence  of  death  was 
pronounced  against  him  as  is  usual  in  such  cases  and 
will  be  executed  accordingly  the  Judges  having  represented 
to  me  that  he  is  a  hardned  sinner.  I  have  an  account 
given  me  that  the  pirates  that  separated  and  are  now  in 
the  snow  and  sloop  before  mentioned  are  cruising  between 
Barbados  the  French  and  these  Islands,  that  they  took  a  ship 
lately  off  of  Barbados  and  afterwards  chased  a  vessell  into 
Antigua.  I  have  sent  Captain  Rose  in  the  Seaford  to  cruize 
to  the  windward  of  that  Island  to  strive  to  fall  in  with  our 
trading  ships,  that  are  daily  expected  from  Brittain  for  the 
several  Islands  of  this  Government,  and  if  possible  to  see  them 
safe  in.  Encloses  several  Acts  with  observations  thereon. 
Continues : — They  should  have  gone  sooner  but  this  being  the 
first  ship  that  has  gone  from  this  Island  since  my  arrival  here, 
the  letter  for  Mr.  Popple  [IQth  Feb.)  being  sent  by  way  of  St. 
Christopher's  ;  Indeed  I  thought  this  ship  would  have  sailed 
much  sooner,  but  God  Almighty  has  been  pleased  to  afflict 
us  with  such  excessive  dry  weather  insomuch  that  most  Planters 
can  hardly  make  any  sugar,  I  pray  the  Almighty  to  withdraw 
his  heavy  hand  from  us.  I  have  not  as  yet  been  able  to  bring 
the  Committee  of  Council  and  Assembly  to  finish  their  answer 
to  Monsieur  D'Iberville's  Memorial  nor  to  state  the  account 
of  what  charge  they  have  been  at  in  maintaining  the  hostages 
that  were  taken  off  and  carried  to  Martinique,  by  reason  (as  they 
alledge)  of  the  death  of  their  late  Treasurer  who  left  his  affairs 
in  great  confusion,  whenever  they  have  finished  them  I  shall 
transmit  them  to  your  Lordships,  but  people  in  general  in 
these  parts  are  very  delatory  about  publick  business,  especially 
those  of  this  Island,  which  formerly  was  lookt  upon  the  most 
exactive  and  regular  in  most  of  their  proceedings,  but  ever 
since  the  destruction  and  devastations  made  by  the  French, 
the  people  seem  to  be  dispirited  and  careless.     The  last  of  the 


14  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720.  ^ 

hostages  (Mr.  Charles  Earle)  died  about  six  or  seven  months 
ago  at  Martinique,  so  that  the  Island  is  now  at  no  further 
charge ;  I  shall  (God  willing)  next  week  embark  for  St. 
Christophers,  and  as  soon  as  I  have  dispatched  H.M.  affairs 
there,  call  at  Mountserratt  to  see  what  may  offer  there  for 
H.M.  service,  and  then  return  for  Antigua,  where  after  my 
arrival  I  shall  as  soon  as  possible  collect  and  send  your 
Lordships  what  is  required  from  etc.  Signed,  W.  Hamilton. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  16th  May,  1720,  Read  27th  June,  1721.  3|  pp. 
Enclosed, 

28.  i.  Acts  of  the  Leeward  Islands  (1719)  with  Governor 
Hamilton's  observations,  (a)  Act  of  Antigua,  for 
reinforcing  an  Act  for  repairing  the  fortifications  on 
Monk's  Hill  etc.  The  reason  of  this  Act  has  been 
often  laid  before  your  Lordships  etc.  (b)  Act  of 
Antigua,  for  encouraging  Thomas  Santhill  in  his  new 
projections  of  hanging  coppers  in  this  Island  for  boyling 
of  sugar  and  for  making  of  small  and  cheap  windmills 
for  the  more  easy  and  speedy  grinding  of  canes  ;  likewise 
for  building  of  horizontal  windmills  for  grinding  of 
canes,  and  likewise  an  engine  for  forcing  of  water  into 
boyling  houses  or  still  houses  from  any  depth  ;  and  for 
building  of  lime  kilns  to  burn  lime  after  a  more  easy 
and  expeditious  manner  than  hath  been  yet  found  out, 
with  brush,  field  trash,  or  any  sort  of  small  wood.  The 
inhabitants  have  already  found  great  benefit  by  this 
projection  of  Mr.  Thomas  Santhill  in  the  boyhng  of 
their  sugar  much  faster  and  with  much  less  fewell ; 
he  still  proposes  to  improve  the  same  to  a  far  greater 
degree  etc.  As  for  his  mills,  etc.,  I  have  not  heard 
of  any  that  have  yet  tried  the  experience. 

(c)  Act  of  Montserrat,  for  punishing  such  persons 
as  shall  detain  any  other  persons'  slaves  or  servants. 
The  preamble  I  hope  sets  forth  sufficiently  the  reason- 
ableness of  it.  (d)  Act  of  Montserrat  for  reducing 
of  interest  from  10  to  6  per  cent,  (e)  An  Act  of 
Montserrat  for  exempting  the  severall  Members  of  the 
Council  and  Assembly  and  other  persons  from  arrests 
on  publick  days.  The  Gentlemen  most  of  them  being 
under  some  incumbrances  and  apprehensions  of  being 
taken  up  as  is  set  forth  more  at  large  in  the  Preamble 
are  desirous  to  secure  themselves  for  that  time. 
Your  Lordships  will  observe  that  these  three  Acts 
from  Mountserratt  have  lain  a  considerable  time  before 
they  were  sent  to  me.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 
[CO.  152,  13.  ff  67-72  ;  and  {duplicates  endorsed) 
Reed,  from  Mr.  Tryon,  June  27th,  1720)  73,  74.-75i;., 
76i;.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  15 


1720. 
March  29.  29.  Governor  Lowther  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Barbado's,  tations.  Refers  to  letter  of  21st  Nov.,  and  repeats  part  of  it. 
Continues  :  Mr.  Blenman  entered  into  a  recognizance  of  £500, 
and  two  of  his  friends  in  £250  each  for  his  appearing  at,  and 
answering  this  crime  at  the  Grand  Sessions  :  a  bill  of  indict- 
ment was  found  against  him  ;  the  Court  ordered  the  sd.  recog- 
nizances to  be  estreated  for  his  non-appearance,  and  the  whole 
process  to  issue  against  him.  Now  had  he  not  been  an  accom- 
plice with  Mr.  Gordon  in  this  forgery,  it  can  hardly  be  imagined 
that  he  would  have  suffer'd  himself  to  have  been  committed 
and  indicted  for  such  a  crime,  or  that  he  would  have  forfeited 
his  recognizance,  quitted  his  business,  and  have  fled  from  the 
Island  (with  the  sd.  Gordon  and  one  Hope  an  Attorney)  in  the 
most  ignominious  and  clandestine  manner.  Refers  to  Minutes 
of  Council,  16th  Feb.  and  adds  : — One  of  the  pieces  annex'd 
to  the  Order  of  Council  of  12th  March,  1718,  is  in  French,  of 
a  different  kind  of  paper  from  all  the  other  annexes,  has  no 
impression  of  the  Seal  upon  it,  and  is  dated  eight  day's  after 
the  sd.  Order,  all  which  do  most  clearly  demonstrate  that  it 
was  criminally  annex'd  thereto  etc.  I  hope  you'l  permit  me 
to  trouble  you  with  a  further  representation  of  Mr.  Gordon's 
seditious  and  infamous  behaviour  during  the  three  months 
he  thought  fit  to  continue  here.  The  first  thing  he  did,  was 
the  disposing  of  a  large  cargo  of  that  braded  stuff  call'd  the 
Miserable  State  of  Barbado's  ;  after  this,  he  traversed  the 
whole  country,  broached  in  all  places  as  many  scandalous  lies  as 
he  could  invent,  and  did  his  utmost  to  imbroil  the  Island,  and 
to  spirit  up  a  faction  in  every  parish  in  order  to  pave  the  way 
for  a  general  disturbance.  Had  I  resented  this  licentious  and 
factious  behaviour  in  a  magisterial  way  and  punished  him  with 
the  utmost  severity  of  Law,  I  humbly  presume  your  Lord- 
shipes  would  not  have  censured  me  for  it  :  but  as  the  poison 
had  been  newly  administred,  and  as  it  caused  a  great  fermen- 
tation, I  thought  it  more  eligible  to  apply  an  antidote  of  another 
quality,  and  therefore  issued  the  Declaration  which  I  (some 
time  since)  directed  my  Correspondent  to  lay  before  you. 
{v.  Oct.  30,  1719).  As  this  undeceived  the  generallity  of  those 
Mr.  Gordon  had  imposed  upon,  so  it  not  only  disabled  him  from 
executing  a  wicked  design  he  had  projected  against  me,  but 
forced  him  (at  that  time)  to  content  himself  with  only  casting 
some  lewd  reflections  upon  me  in  an  impudent  paper  he  term'd 
an  Answer  to  so  much  of  my  Declaration  as  related  to  him. 
I  shall  not  trouble  your  Lordship's  with  a  relation  of  those 
factes  upon  which  two  indictments  were  found  against  him 
since  they  are  inserted  in  the  Records  of  the  Grand  Sessions 
that  are  enter'd  in  the  Minutes  of  Council  herewith  sent,  but  I 
think  it  necessary  to  informe  you,  that  soon  after  his  departure 
from  hence,  a  most  false  and  scandalous  letter  was  dispersed 
by  his  Agents  in  his  name  directed  to  the  gentlemen  of  Barbadoes 


16  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

and  particularly  to  the  parishioners  of  St.  Michaels  :  that  the 
General  Assembly  on  the  21st  Jan.  last  voted  it  to  be  a  most 
false,  wicked  and  seditious  libel  :  that  they  voted  the  Answer 
of  Will.  Gordon  Clerke  etc.  to  be  impudent,  false  and  scandalous  : 
that  they  voted  the  pamphlet  intituled  a  Representation  of 
the  Miserable  State  of  Barbado's  to  be  false,  scandalous  and 
seditious,  that  they  order'd  the  sd.  pamphlet,  answer  and 
letter  to  be  burnt  by  the  hands  of  the  common  hangman  :  that 
they  directed  Samuel  Adams  and  Rob,  Bishop  Esqrs.  two  of 
their  Members  to  lay  the  sd.  pamphlet,  answer  and  letter  before 
the  Council  with  a  copy  of  their  Minutes  relating  thereto  and 
the  resolves  thereupon  and  to  desire  the  Council  to  give  their 
concurrence  to  as  many  of  the  sd.  votes  or  resolves  as  they 
should  think  fit,  as  likewise  to  appoint  a  time  and  place  for 
the  burning  of  the  sd.  pamphlet,  answer  and  letter  etc.  The 
Council  agreed  to  all  the  Assembly's  sd.  resolves  and  directed 
the  common  hangman  to  burn  the  pamphlet  answer  and  letter 
before  the  Custom  House  door  on  18th  Feb.,  which  was  done 
accordingly,  etc.  Refers  to  Minutes  of  Council,  16th  Feb.,  for 
proceedings  and  depositions  taken  before  the  three  senior 
Judges  touching  Mr.  Gordon's  character  in  pursuance  of 
H.M.  Order,  25th  June,  1719.  His  character  is  proved  to  be 
much  worse  than  what  I  represented  to  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
London  by  above  40  depositions  of  gentlemen  of  great  fortune 
and  repute  :  What  I  said  of  him  was  taken  from  depositions 
and  other  authentick  papers  that  bore  date  a  very  considerable 
time  before  the  occasion  happen'd  which  laid  me  under  an 
absolute  necessity  of  characterising  him  to  the  Bishop  ;  as 
this  plainly  appears  from  the  sd.  original  depositions  and 
papers  exhibited  to  and  recognized  before  the  sd.  Judges, 
and  annexed  to  the  report  which  they  have  made  to  the  Lords 
of  the  Privy  Council  and  transmitted  by  this  opportunity,  so 
I  humbly  hope  your  Lordship's  will  be  of  opinion  that  my  sd. 
character  of  Mr.  Gordon  is  strictly  just  etc.  etc.  The  Council  and 
Assembly  perused  the  sd.  depositions  and  proceedings  and  a 
Law  has  past  upon  that  and  other  weighty  considerations  to 
deprive  him  of  his  benefice,  and  for  disabling  him  from 
exercising  or  enjoying  any  ecclesiastical  living  dignity  or 
ministry  within  this  Island  ;  which  I  humbly  hope  will  meet 
with  your  Lordshipes  approbation  and  the  Royal  assent.  My 
Lords,  I  have  already  trespassed  so  much  upon  your  time  that 
I  shall  not  trouble  you  with  what  might  be  offer'd  in  justification 
of  the  suspension  of  Messieurs  Cox  and  Salter  besides  the  reasons 
that  are  assigned  in  the  Minutes  of  the  Council  of  27th  Feb. 
Nor  shall  I  intrude  upon  your  patience  in  adding  such  reasons 
as  might  be  offer'd  to  support  the  committment  of  Thomas 
Worward  and  Thomas  Smart  (Commanders  of  H.M.  shipes  of 
war  the  Rye  galley  and  Squarrell)  besides  those  that  are  contained 
in  the  mittimus  depositions  etc.,  that  are  entered  in  the  Minutes 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


17 


1720. 

of  Council  of  16th  March,  1719.  I  also  for  the  same  reason 
forbear  to  make  any  remarkes  upon  the  state  of  the  publick 
accounts  as  adjusted  by  the  Committee  appointed  by  law  and 
enter'd  in  the  Minutes  of  Council  herewith  sent :  as  likewise 
any  animadversions  upon  the  several  laws  and  other  publick 
papers  now  transmitted  etc.  As  I  writ  to  my  friends  in  Nov. 
last  to  obtain  H.M.  Royal  licence  under  his  sign  manual  to 
return  to  England,  so  I  hope  it  will  not  be  long  before  I  have 
the  happiness  of  paying  my  duty  to  your  Lordshipes  and  of 
returning  you  my  unfeigned  thankes  for  the  many  civilitys 
and  favours  I've  received  from  you  etc.  Signed,  Rob.  Lowther. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  1st  June,  Read  5th  July,  1720.  Holograph. 
8  pp.     Enclosed, 

29.  i.  List  of  public  papers  enclosed  with  preceding.     2  pp. 
[CO.  28,  15.     Nos.  91,  91.  i.] 

March  29.  30.  [?  Sir  Charles  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.] Mr.  Lowther  having  laid  a  design  to  suspend  my 
brother  {v.  22nd  March)  prevaild  with  ye  Custom  house  Officers 
to  sign  a  memorial  against  him  for  no  other  pretence,  but  his 
having  been  evidence  in  a  cause  which  he  was  compelled  to  do 
by  legal  summons  {v.  Minutes  of  Council,  13th  and  14th  May, 
1718.)  Mr.  Lowther  finding  ye  matter  too  trifling,  to  found  a 
judgment  upon,  adjourned  ye  giving  any  opinion  from  time 
to  time,  to  17th  Feb.  17|ri,  at  which  time  he  declared  that  my 
brother  was  guilty  of  such  a  crime  as  deserved  suspension,  and 
that  he  would  suspend  him  next  Council  day,  notwithstanding 
which  he  hath  never  yet  attempted  it  etc.  Suggests  that  he 
keeps  it  under  his  thumb  to  suspend  him  ;  just  when  he  leaves 
the  Island,  that  so  he  may  leave  his  nephew  Fere  President, 
and  his  brother  lose  that  benefit  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  from 
Sr.  Charles  Cox,  29th,  Read  30th  March,  1720.  1  p.  [CO. 
28,  15.     No.  82.] 


March  29.  31.  Extract  of  letter  from  Samuel  Cox  of  Barbadoes  to 
Sr.  Charles  Cox,  April  13th,  1719.  Repeats  gist  of  preceding. 
Continues  :  on  17th  Feb.  the  Governor,  by  way  of  leading  the 
Council,  gave  his  opinion  first  that  the  representation  of  the 
Custom  House  Officers  was  fully  proved,  whereupon  his 
favourites,  Francis  Bond,  Wm.  Carter,  Guy  Ball  and  John 
Frere  came  full  up  to  H.E.  opinion.  But  Timothy  Salter 
and  Lt.  Gen.  Thos.  Maxwell  said  it  was  not  proved.  H.E. 
asked  the  Council  what  censure  they  should  pass,  and  when 
all  continued  mute,  to  give  them  a  lead,  he  said  "  If  I  was  guilty 
of  these  crimes  I  should  forfeit  my  Government  and  £1,000 
sterl.  and  rendered  incapable  of  any  other  command."  Then 
all  except  his  favourites  desired  to  be  excused  giving  any 
opinion.  H.E.  pressed  them  for  two  hours  without  success. 
H.E.  being  very  angry  said  they  were  no  Councillors  unless  they 

Wt.  7505  C.P.  32—2 


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1720. 

forthwith  gave  him  their  Council  and  that  he  would  have  their 
opinion,  (wch.  he  wanted  to  screen  himself  by,  yt.  wt.  he  acted 
was  by  advice  of  Councill).  Endorsed  as  j^^'^ceding.  Copy. 
21  pp.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  81.] 

March  29.  32.  Sir  C.  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Southvvark.  Sincc  Waiting  on  your  Lordships  this  morning,  I  have  seen  two 
gentlemen,  Mr.  Blenman  and  Mr.  Hope,  who  were  present  in 
Council  13th  and  14th  May,  and  have  prevailed  with  them  to 
attend  your  Lordships  etc.  Signed,  Charles  Cox.  Endorsed, 
Reed.,  Read  30th  March,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  83.] 

March  31.       33.     Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  Mr.  Popple,     ^e/er*  fo  triplicate 
Bermuda,     euclosurc  of  proceedings  of  Court  of  Admiralty  etc.     Signed, 

Ben.   Bennett.     Endorsed,   Reed.    10th   May,   Read   7th  July, 

1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

33.  i.  Bermuda.  May  31st,  1720.  A  Newspaper.  By  the 
master  of  a  sloop  that  arrived  here  21st  Jan.  from 
Virginia  I  am  informed,  that  about  the  middle  of  the 
same  month  on  {e)  Capt.  Knott  bound  to  that  place 
from  London  in  the  latitude  27  was  come  up  with 
and  taken  by  a  pirate  ship  of  36  guns  and  above  160 
men  who  took  w^hat  they  wanted  out  of  the  merchant- 
man and  gave  him  money  and  goods  of  a  very  con- 
siderable value  for  the  same  and  sent  him  about  his 
business  several  of  the  pirates  being  on  board  him, 
whom  when  the  ship  arrived  in  Virginia  dispersed 
themselves  but  being  discovered  were  taken  up, 
also  the  ship  seized,  and  the  Capt.  in  custody  ;  the 
pirate  came  last  from  Brazile  and  had  been  on  the 
coast  of  Guinea.  Feb.  8th.  By  advice  from  Antigua 
I  understand  that  the  man  of  war  there  was  sent  to 
cruce  to  windward  of  that  Island  in  quest  of  two 
Spanish  privateers,  one  of  them  took  a  sloop  at  the 
Salt  Ponds,  and  afterwards  cut  a  ship  out  of  Basseterre 
Rhoad  of  St.  Christopher's,  the  sloop's  men  rose  the 
next  night,  overcame  the  Spaniards,  and  brought  the 
sloop  back  to  St.  Christopher's,  the  ship  was  retaken 
by  a  New  York  privateer  off  of  the  Island  called 
Spanish  Tow^n  one  of  the  Virgin  Islands,  one  of  the 
Spanish  privateers  afterwards  w^as  cast  aw^ay  upon 
Berbuda  where  the  men  were  taken  and  are  now  in 
prison  at  Antigua ;  amongst  them  two  or  three 
Englishmen.  I  hear  of  several  British  and  French 
sloops  that  have  been  taken  to  windward  amongst 
the  French  and  the  Islands  inhabited  by  the  Indians, 
but  what  certainty  there  is-  in  it  I  know  not ;  but 
this  is  confirmed  [that]  a  pirate  ship  that  took  some 
time  since  a  Portugueze  ship  upon  the  coast  of  Brazile 


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1720. 


which  he  carried  to  Cayon  a  French  Island,  and  there 
pkmdered  her,  and  there  took  also  a  Rhode  Island 
sloop,  and  after  detaining  the  master  for  some  days, 
he  gave  him  the  Portugueze  ship  with  which  he  is 
arrived  at  Antigua,  the  pirate  went  afterwards  to  the 
windward  of  Barbadoes,  where  he  took  two  New  York 
snows,  the  one  he  plundered  and  afterwards  gave  the 
vessell  to  the  master  and  men  again,  the  other  they 
have  fitted  out  of  the  pirate  ship  she  being  a  much 
better  sailor,  and  are  gone  to  the  northward  with, 
and  gave  the  ship  to  the  master  of  the  snow  ;  his 
men  and  some  others  that  pretend  to  have  been 
forced,  of  which  they  landed  five  white  men  and  one 
black  upon  Anguilla,  of  which  number  there  are  now 
two  in  goal  at  Antigua  and  the  rest  are  sent  for  they 
say  the  Quartermaster  of  the  pirate  and  one  more 
were  on  board  the  said  ship,  from  whence,  and  their 
haveing  divided  their  plunder  to  the  windward  of 
Barbadoes  (as  these  men  say)  it  is  concluded  they 
have  broke  up  and  are  shifting  for  themselves  by 
dropping  some  in  one  place,  some  in  another,  for  they 
had  a  great  booty  in  the  Brazile  ship,  at  least  15,000 
moidores  besides  a  vast  quantity  of  dust  gold  they 
had  got  upon  the  coast  of  Guinea,  where  they  had 
taken  many  prizes.  Same  endorsement.  1|  pp. 
33.  ii.-vii.  Proceedings  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty,  Bermuda, 
Oct.-Nov.  1719  upon  the  trial  of  six  prizes  brought 
in  there.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  83  pp.  [CO. 
37,  10.     Nos.  16,  16.  i-vi, 

[Mar.  31.]  34.  Petition  of  John  Lenoir,  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  Court, 
and  Henry  Lascelles,  Collector,  Barbados,  to  Governor  Lowther. 
In  Nov.  1716  Lascelles  made  a  seizure  of  some  anotto  and 
indico  imported  without  a  warrant  and  presence  of  any  officer 
of  the  Customs  from  a  vessel  belonging  to  Samuel  Cox.  Henry 
Westlake,  then  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  Court,  dismissed  the 
case,  Feb.  1717,  though  no  proof  was  given  that  the  goods  were 
landed  with  a  warrant  and  presence  of  a  Custom  house  officer, 
as  the  law  requires.  He  continued  to  behave  himself  in  a  most 
scandalous  manner,  notoriously  receiving  bribes  and  perverting 
justice,  so  that  the  officers  of  H.M.  Customs  were  obliged  to 
make  a  representation  against  him  to  the  Governor,  and  against 
Samuel  Cox,  who  had  caused  application  to  be  made  to  Lascelles 
to  forgoe  H.M.  part  of  the  seizure  etc.  Whereupon  H.E.  and 
Council  suspended  Westlake  and  appointed  Lenoir  in  his  place 
etc.  On  31st  May  last  Lascelles  seized  the  sloop  Dove,  of  wch. 
Saml.  Cox  was  owner,  and  of  several  hogsheads  of  sugar  on 
board  ;  shipped  off  from  a  crane  of  which  Cox  was  keeper, 
without  warrant  or  presence   of  a   Custom  house  officer,  etc. 


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or  paying  the  4|  p.c.  duty.  The  sloop  and  sugar  were  con- 
demned by  Lenoir  and  Cox  fined  £100.  Cox  was  given  leave 
to  appeal,  but  has  never  applied  to  the  Register  for  the  appeal 
papers  etc.  The  fine  remained  to  be  collected,  when  Cox 
obtained  an  inhibition  from  the  High  Court  of  Admiralty  in 
Great  Britain,  27th  April  last,  staying  further  proceedings. 
In  the  said  inhibition,  Lenoir  is  stiled  only  "  the  pretended 
judge"  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty.  Lenoir  has  acted  by  virtue 
of  your  Excellency's  Commission  etc.  Desire  to  know  how  they 
are  to  act  with  regard  to  the  inhibition. 

Lascelles  adds  :  Cox  ever  since  his  being  outed  of  the  office 
of  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  Customs  in  this  Island,  on 
account  of  his  making  use  of  a  large  sum  of  money  due  to  the 
Crown,  has  been  zealous  to  hinder  all  prosecutions  in  favour  of 
the  Crown.  Mr.  Cox  was  Naval  Officer  1698-1714.  When  an 
order  came  from  the  Commissioners  of  Customs  to  put  in 
prosecution  the  plantation  bonds  here  that  were  not  legally 
discharged,  he  cancelled  hundreds  of  bonds  without  having 
certificates  returned  him  as  the  law  requires,  and  gave  in  170 
bonds  to  be  sued,  but  they  were  almost  all  the  bonds  of  persons 
insolvent  or  unknown,  and  the  Crown  was  put  to  about  £800 
charges  in  prosecuting  those  worthless  Ijonds,  while  Mr.  Cox 
got  perhaps  as  much.  This  practice  of  cancelling  bonds 
without  certificates  was  a  gainfull  one,  and  Cox  continued  it. 
Between  12th  July,  1712  and  12th  April,  1714  he  cancelled  bonds 
to  the  value  of  £70,000,  without  any  certificates  or  proofs  that 
the  conditions  of  the  bonds  were  comply'd  with  etc.  Signed, 
John  Lenoir,  Hen.  Lascelles.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr. 
Lascelles)  Read  31st  March,  1720.  4  pp.  [CO.  28,  15.  No. 
84.] 


March  31. 

Jamaica. 


35.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Refers  to  letter  of  Feb.  27fd  and  encloses,  by  this  first 
opportunity  since  that  time,  five  money  bills  which  considering 
the  present  posture  of  affairs  here  and  the  exigences  of  the 
Government  I  hope  will  sufiitiently  justifye  my  passing  those 
laws.  I  have  prepared  my  reasons  more  at  length  according 
to  your  Lordships  desire  which  comes  herewith  and  hope  the 
same  will  be  satisfactory.  As  to  the  Act  to  prevent  inticeing  of 
slaves  etc.  I  am  to  desire  your  Lordships  will  please  to  take 
it  into  your  consideration  and  lay  it  before  H.M.  for  his  Royall 
assent,  it  will  prove  a  beneficial  law  to  this  Country,  and  as  it 
is  in  all  respects  agreeable  to  H.M.  Instructions  so  I  hope  it 
will  meet  with  no  obstruction  etc.  Encloses  Minutes  of  Council 
to  29th  Jan.  Prays  for  directions  as  to  H.M,  share  of  seizures 
etc.  as  Sept.  1st  1718.  Sometime  ago  I  reed,  intelligence  of 
the  Spaniards  designs  from  the  Havannah  against  Providence 
or  Carolina  which  I  communicated  to  Capt.  Vernon  of  the 
Mary  who  desired  I  wou'd  assist  him  with  some  of  H.M.  soldiers 


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1720. 


April  1. 

Whitehall. 


April  4. 

Admiralty 

Office. 


April  6. 

WhitehaU. 


and  accordingly  I  have  supplyed  him  and  Capt.  Whitworth 
in  the  Ludlow  Castle  with  50  soldiers  and  they  are  both  sailed, 
since  which  time  I  have  reed,  an  acct.  from  the  Governor  of 
Providence  that  on  24th  Feb.  the  Spanish  armament  appeared 
off  of  that  Island  and  had  endeavoured  to  land  at  some  places 
but  were  as  often  repulsed  tho'  they  continued  still  hovering 
about  that  place,  when  the  Govr.  dispatch't  the  express  to  me 
which  he  sent  away  in  the  night  ten  days  after  the  Spaniards 
had  been  there  giving  an  acct.  of  the  strength  of  the  Spaniards 
wch.  consists  of  one  ship  of  40  gunns  one  of  26  one  of  22  a 
brigantine  of  12  and  eight  sloops  six  of  which  had  8  gunns 
apiece  and  two  of  4  gunns,  on  board  of  which  armament  there 
is  about  1,300  men  but  I  am  in  hopes  they  will  have  met  with 
little  success  being  informed  that  there  are  on  that  Island  540 
able  men  well  armed  and  4  months  provisions  and  as  the 
Govr.  has  upwards  of  60  gunns  mounted  so  they  will  be  able 
to  make  a  vigourous  defence,  etc.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  14th  June,  Read  2nd  Nov.  1720.  3f  pp. 
Enclosed, 

35.  i.  Governor  Sir  N.   Lawes'  reasons  for  passing  several 

laws    mentioned.     Same    endorsement.     7   pp.     [CO. 
137,  13.     Nos.  42,  42.  i.] 

36.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Reply 
to  22nd  March.  Sir  Charles  Cox's  petition  is  founded  upon 
apprehension  and  not  upon  certain  facts  etc.  As  the  Governor 
of  Barbados  by  your  Majesty's  Instructions  is  particularly 
directed  in  what  manner  he  is  to  conduct  himself  in  ye 
suspension  of  Councillors,  we  do  presume  he  will  not  take  upon 
him  to  suspend  Mr.  Cox  in  such  manner  as  may  not  be  justify'd 
by  the  said  Instructions  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.    pp.  70,  71.] 

37.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.  H.M.S.  St.  Albans, 
Capt.  Francis  Percy,  and  a  frigat  of  20  guns  being  designed 
convoy  to  Newfoundland,  asks  for  "  Instructions  and  Heads 
of  Enquiry  for  the  Commadore  as  usual."  Signed,  J.  Burchett. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  4th,  Read  5th  April,  1720.  Addressed.  1  p. 
[CO.  194,  6.     No.  82.] 

38.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchett.  Encloses  following 
"  usual  heads  of  enquiry  and  instructions,  with  some  variations 
and  additions." 

38.  i.  Heads  of  Enquiry  relating  to  the  Fishery  and  Trade 
of  Newfoundland  to  be  given  by  the  Lords  Commrs. 
of  the  Admiralty  as  Instructions  for  the  Commadore 
of  the  Newfoundland  Convoy.  1 — 18.  You  are  to 
carry  with  you  a  copy  of  the  Act  to  encourage  the  trade 
to  Newfoundland  for  your  own  use  and  Government, 
and  enquire   whether  the   several  rules,   enumerated, 


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1720. 


therein  contained  for  the  advantageous  management 
of  the  Fishery  are  duly  observed  etc.,  and  return 
accounts  accordingly.  You  are  particularly  to  inform 
yourself  (19)  In  what  manner  the  inhabitants  are 
subsisted,  whether  the  country  produces  such  pro- 
visions as  they  want,  whether  they  have  any  number 
of  cows,  sheep  and  swine,  or  whether  they  receive 
any  provisions  from  H.M.  Plants,  in  America,  of  what 
sorts  or  kind,  and  the  quantities  thereof.  (20)  Whether 
they  are  wholly  supply'd  with  sail  cloth  netts  and 
tackle  and  woollen  linnen  leather  etc.  from  this  King- 
dom, or  whether  they  are  furnished  with  any  of  the 
aforesaid  necessarys  from  the  Plantations,  or  from 
any  foreign  country.  (21)  What  wages  do  the  in- 
habitants allow  to  their  servants,  and  in  what  manner 
do  they  pay  them  ?  (22)  How  much  does  the  charge 
of  fitting  out  and  maintaining  one  of  their  fishing 
boats  for  the  whole  season  amount  to  ?  (23)  Whether 
the  inhabitants  have  any  other  employment  in  the 
fishing  season  for  their  servants  than  taking  and 
curing  of  fish,  whether  they  are  diligent  therein  ; 
How  many  men  they  allow  to  each  of  their  fishing 
boats,  whether  they  can  afford  their  fish  as  cheap  as 
the  fishing  ships  and  the  byboats,  or  what  difference 
is  made  between  the  price  of  the  one  and  the  other  ? 
(24)  In  what  manner  they  employ  themselves  and 
their  servants  after  the  fishing  season  is  over  and 
during  the  winter,  whether  they  are  industrious  in 
providing  and  making  necessarys  for  the  next  fishing 
season,  or  mispend  a  great  part  of  their  time  in 
debaucherys  and  excesses.  (25)  Whether  any  trade 
is  carried  on  for  beaver  and  other  furrs  by  the  inhabi- 
tants, or  by  any  others  who  remain  in  the  country  : 
what  quantities  they  have  taken  this  last  winter,  and 
whether  they  have  any  traffick  with  the  Indians. 
(26)  Whether  the  houses,  buildings  and  enclosures 
of  the  inhabitants  are  at  such  a  distance  from  the 
waterside  as  not  to  hinder  or  obstruct  ye  fisher- 
men in  making  their  flakes,  or  in  drying  and  curing 
their  fish.  (27)  Whether  the  inhabitants  claim  a 
right  to  all  such  stages  cookrooms  flakes  etc.,  as  they 
have  made  or  built  in  those  fishing  places  which  have 
not  been  possess'd  by  the  fishing  ships  since  1685, 
tho'  they  make  no  use  of  them,  or  whether  such 
fishing  places  and  conveniences  are  free  for  the  public 
use  of  the  fishing  ships  arriving  there,  and  nothing 
insisted  on  or  demanded  by  the  said  inhabitants  for 
their  use  or  hire.  (28)  How  many  flakes  are  allow'd 
to  each  fishing  boat  and  of  what  length,  whether  they 


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1720. 


are  extended  in  length  according  to  the  ancient  custom 
from  the  shoar  up  into  the  land,  or  whether  any  of 
the  inhabitants  or  fishermen  extend  their  flakes  along 
the  shoar,  or  possess  a  larger  front  to  the  waterside 
according  to  the  number  of  their  boats  than  was 
formerly  allowed.  (29)  Whether  it  was  ever  ascer- 
tain'd  and  determin'd  in  the  several,  or  in  any  of  the 
harbours  of  Newfoundland,  what  fishing  places  did 
belong  to  the  fishing  ships  before  1685,  and  whether 
any  account  is  kept  of  those  fishing  places,  which  they 
have  been  in  possession  of,  since  that  year,  in  order 
to  prevent  such  disputes  as  must  otherwise  very 
frequently  happen  between  the  masters  of  the  said 
ships  and  the  inhabitants.  (30)  Whether  the  fishing 
ships  that  proceed  directly  from  this  Kingdom  to 
Newfoundland  are  victualled  here,  and  provided  with 
all  other  necessarys  of  British  product  and  manu- 
facture for  ye  whole  voyage  ;  or  whether  the  masters 
or  freighters  do  not  furnish  themselves  with  pro- 
visions, that  are  brought  from  the  Plantats.  or  other 
parts  to  Newfoundland.  (31)  Whether  any  British 
ship  arriving  at  St.  Johns,  or  in  any  other  harbour  in 
Newfoundland,  from  France,  Spain  or  Portugal, 
before  any  ship,  that  was  clear'd  from  this  Kingdom, 
has  been  at  any  time  permitted  to  be  Admiral  of  the 
Harbour :  or  whether  according  to  the  custom  of  New- 
foundland, such  ships  only  as  are  cleared  from  Great 
Britain,  have  a  right  to  be  Admirall.  (32)  W^hether 
the  Admirals,  or  any  other  ships  who  arrive  early 
at  St.  Johns  or  in  the  other  Harbours,  do  put  their 
passengers,  or  any  of  them  into  possession  of  the 
most  convenient,  or  of  any  other  fishing  places, 
stages  etc.  upon  pretence  that  they  are  freighters  of 
their  ships,  before  the  arrival  of  the  other  fishing 
ships,  or  before  they  are  all  provided.  (33)  Whether 
any  of  the  byboat  keepers  who  remain  in  the  country 
during  the  winter,  and  that  are  not  inhabitants,  do 
retain  to  their  own  use,  or  for  the  use  of  themselves 
and  their  partners  who  are  expected  by  the  fishing 
ships  the  fishing  places,  stages,  beeches,  flakes  etc. 
which  they  possessed  the  preceding  year,  or  whether 
they  take  possession  of  any  others,  that  may  be  more 
convenient  for  them,  in  the  ensueing  fishing  season 
before  the  arrival  of  the  fishing  ships,  or  before  the 
said  ships  are  all  supplied.  (34)  Whether  any  of  the 
fishing  ships  pursue,  or  follow  the  old  laudable  custom, 
of  allowing  their  ships  companys,  shares  of  what  they 
make  in  the  voyage,  instead  of  wages,  and  in  such 
case,  how  much  doth  the  charges  of  fitting  out  and 


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1720. 


maintaining  a  ship  of  100  tunns,  with  50  men  and  10 
boats  amount  to  for  the  whole  voyage.  (35)  Whether 
any  commoditys  of  the  growth  production  or  manu- 
facture of  Europe,  that  are  not  bona  fide  and  without 
fraud  laden  and  shipped  in  this  Kingdom,  be  imported 
or  brought  into  Newfoundland  etc.  (36)  How  these 
commoditys  are  disposed  of,  whether  only  to  the 
Fishery,  or  by  selling  to  the  ships  belonging  to  New 
England,  and  other  Plantations,  in  order  to  supply 
the  sd.  Plantations  with  such  commodities  as  they 
ought  to  have  directly  from  Great  Britain,  and  not 
otherwise.  (37)  What  quantitys  of  rum  and  other 
Plantation  goods  are  brought  to  Newfoundland,  more 
especially  of  those  enumerated  in  former  Acts  of 
Parliament  etc.  ;  whether  any  of  these  commoditys 
are  sold  to  the  ships  bound  to  Spain  etc.,  so  as  to  make 
an  indirect  trade  to  those  countrys  in  goods  which 
ought  not  to  be  carried  thither  before  they  have  been 
first  landed  in  Great  Britain.  (38)  In  what  manner 
do  the  merchants  of  New  England  carry  on  their 
trade  at  Newfoundland,  what  quantities  of  rum, 
molosses,  wine,  sugar,  tobacco,  flower  and  other 
provisions  have  they  imported  this  year,  to  whom, 
at  what  prices  do  they  sell  their  said  goods,  are  they 
paid  in  fish,  or  in  bills  :  if  in  fish,  do  they  dispose  of  it 
again,  or  load  it  on  the  sack  ships  for  Europe,  and 
what  value  is  it  computed,  that  the  goods  sold  by 
them  may  annually  amount  to.  (39)  How  many 
taverns  or  public  houses  for  entertainment  in  New- 
foundland, or  at  least  in  the  Harbour  of  St.  Johns, 
are  they  kept  only  by  the  inhabitants,  or  by  the 
byboat  keepers,  and  the  people  of  New  England  also  ; 
do  they  trust  the  fishermen  upon  their  own  credit, 
or  do  the  masters  of  the  ships  and  of  the  byboats 
permit  them  to  trust  their  crews,  and  deduct  the  same 
out  of  their  respective  wages,  hire  or  shares,  in  order 
to  satisfy  the  said  tavern-keepers  :  are  not  the  poor 
seamen  hereby  tempted  to  spend  the  greatest  part, 
or  the  full  amounts  of  their  wages  and  frequently  to 
run  so  far  in  debt,  that  they  are  forced  to  remain  as 
servants  to  the  inhabitants,  and  at  last  constrained 
to  be  taken  themselves  to  New  England.  (40)  Whether 
the  inhabitants  do  not  usually  trust  their  own  servants 
with  rum  and  other  stores  to  a  greater  value,  than 
their  wages  amount  to  :  and  whether  they  are  not 
generally  paid  in  this  manner.  (41)  How  much  do 
the  byboatmen  and  the  inhabitants  allow  to  the 
masters  of  the  fishing  ships  for  the  passage  of  their 
servants,  both  out  and  home,  in  what  manner  do  the 


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1720. 


said  inhabitants  pay  the  masters  of  the  fishing  ships 
for  the  same,  and  for  the  several  necessarys  they 
supply  them  with  ;  and  whether  a  considerable  part 
of  these  debts  is  not  secur'd,  by  suffering  their  seamen 
to  run  in  debt  to  the  inhabitants.  (42)  Whether  this 
method  of  trusting  the  fishermen,  is  not  the  occasion 
of  many  thefts  and  disorders,  are  they  not  by  their 
debaucherys  often  withdrawn  from  and  rendered  unfit 
for  their  labours,  to  the  great  discouragment  and 
obstruction  of  the  Fishery.  (43)  Whether  the  masters 
of  the  fishing  ships  and  byboats  do  not  connive  at  or 
encourage  their  men  to  remain  in  the  land,  that  they 
may  save  the  charge  of  carrying  them  home  :  what 
number  of  men  do  stay  behind  yearly  and  particu- 
larly last  year.  (44)  Whether  the  New  England 
traders  do  still  continue  to  entice  and  carry  thither 
numbers  of  handycraft  men,  seamen  and  fishermen, 
and  whether  any  of  ye  inhabitants  do  favour  or  assist 
them  therein.  (45)  And  whereas  this  practice  must 
be  prevented  if  possible,  you  are  to  require  all  the 
masters  of  the  New  England  ships  and  vessels  who 
depart  from  Newfoundland  before  the  convoy 
respectively  to  enter  into  obligations  not  to  carry 
away  any  of  the  seamen  etc.  and  all  possible  care 
must  be  taken  to  have  those  obligations  so  witnessed, 
that  in  case  it  be  thought  proper  to  put  them  in 
execution,  they  may  not  be  invalidated  for  want  of 
evidence.  And  you  arc  likewise  to  be  as  strict  as  is 
practicable  to  oblige  all  such  New  England  ships,  as 
may  be  in  Newfoundland,  to  sail  from  thence  at  the 
same  time  you  shall  leave  the  land,  and  to  get  all  the 
proof  that  can  be  had  of  the  breach  of  any  obligations 
entered  into  as  aforesaid  and  to  transmit  an  account 
thereof  to  the  Lords  Commrs.  for  Trade  and  Plantations. 
(46)  And  whereas  H.M.  Consuls  and  the  merchants 
residing  in  Portugal,  Spain  and  Italy  unanimously 
complain  that  by  reason  of  the  ill  curing  of  the  fish  in 
Newfoundland,  for  some  years  past,  the  consumption 
thereof  is  considerably  lessn'd  and  that  the  trade  will  be 
lost  if  effectual  care  be  not  taken  to  reform  the  same, 
you  are  therefore  to  command  the  Admirals  of  the 
Harbours,  strictly  to  enjoin  the  masters  of  the  fishing 
ships,  the  byboat-keepers  and  inhabitants  to  take 
the  greatest  care  in  curing  their  fish  with  good  salt 
and  with  a  sufficient  quantity  and  in  preparing 
husbanding  and  ordering  the  same,  that  the  credit 
thereof  may  be  again  recovered,  and  that  it  may  be 
well  received  and  esteemed  in  the  several  places  to 
which  it  is  carried  for  sale,  and  as  the  said  Admirals 


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1720 


are  obliged  to  have  a  watchfull  eye  upon  such  as  are 
neghgent  herein,  so  they  are  to  return  to  you  the 
names  of  those  who  will  not  comply  with  this  admoni- 
tion. And  further,  you  are  upon  this  occasion  very 
particularly  to  enquire  into  their  manner  and  method 
of  taking  and  curing  their  fish,  what  quantity  of  salt 
they  allow  for  the  curing  every  100  quintals,  whether 
they  are  guilty  of  any  abuse  in  ye  ordering  thereof, 
whether  the  fish  taken  at  a  distance  from  the  land 
by  their  small  vessels  is  not  prejudiced  before  it  is 
brought  on  shoar,  whether  the  inhabitants  or  the 
fishing  ships,  or  the  byboats  keepers  are  most  to  be 
blamed,  and  in  short,  from  whence  these  complaints 
arise,  and  what  methods  are  to  be  taken  to  prevent 
or  rectify  whatsoever  is  amiss.  (47)  You  are  also 
to  inquire  into  the  present  state  of  the  French  Fishery 
in  Newfoundland,  on  the  Bank,  and  on  the  coasts  of 
Canada  and  Cape  Breton  ;  what  number  of  ships, 
boats  and  men  they  imploy  therein.  (48)  How  many 
of  the  French  inhabitants  remain  at  St.  Peters, 
Placentia  etc.  under  pretence  of  taking  the  oaths  and 
becoming  subjects  to  H.M.,  whether  they  do  strictly 
observe  the  Laws  in  force  for  the  regulation  of  the 
Newfoundland  Fishery,  or  whether  some  of  them  do 
not  annually  bring,  not  only  their  fishing  tackle,  but 
likewise  their  servants,  fishermen,  and  all  sorts  of 
goods  from  France  to  the  destruction  of  our  Trade, 
and  whether,  when  the  fishing  season  is  over,  they 
do  not  send  them  to  France  again.  And  whereas  this 
practice  is  not  warranted  by  the  late  Treatys  with 
France,  you  are  to  take  especial  care  to  prevent  it  by 
putting  in  execution  ye  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation 
and    that    relating    to    the    Newfoundland    Fishery. 

(49)  Whereas  likewise  by  the  said  Treatys  with 
France,  the  French  are  not  allowed  to  erect  any 
buildings,  besides  stages  and  hutts  necessary  for 
drying  of  fish,  nor  to  leave  their  boats  during  the 
winter  at  Petit  Nore,  you  are  therefore  to  inform 
yourself,  whether  the  St.  Malo  men  do  assume  this 
liberty,  and  whether  any  of  the  French  come  from 
Cape  Breton  or  elsewhere,  to  hunt  and  fur  in  the 
winter  at  Newfoundland,  for  your  better  Instruction 
in  this  particular  you  have  hereunto  annexed  copies 
of  the  Articles  of  the  said  Treaty  etc.,  and  you  will 
inform  yourself  whether  the  French  do  contain  them- 
selves  within  the   bounds   thereby   prescribed  them. 

(50)  You  are  further  to  inquire  whether  any  of  the 
Officers  of  the  Garrisons  at  Placentia  are  concern'd 
directly  or  indirectly  by  themselves  or  others  in  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  27 


1720 

Fishery,  or  whether  they  take  upon  them  to  dispose 

of  fishing  rooms,  beaches,  stages  etc.  to  any  persons 
whatsoever,  or  hire  out  the  soldiers  to  fish  ?  (51)  And 
whereas  we  are  informed  that  George  Skeffington  has 
lately  erected  a  Salmon  Fishery  in  Fresh  Water  Bay, 
Ragged  Harbour,  Gander  Bay,  and  Dog  Creek  between 
Cape  Bonavista  and  Cape  John,  which  may  prove  of 
advantage  to  Great  Britain  ;  it  will  be  necessary  that 
you  give  all  due  encouragement  and  protection  to 
that  undertaking,  whereof  you  will  inform  yourself, 
and  transmit  the  fullest  account  you  can  get  of  the 
same  to  the  Lords  Commrs.  for  Trade.  [CO.  195,  7. 
pp.  10-35.] 

April  8.       39.     Mr.  Bridger  to  Mr.  Popple.     The  interest  of  the  Crown 

is  grown  so  very  low,  and  the  Prerogative  trampled  on  to  that 

degree,  that  no  good  officer,  or  a  lover  of  his  King  and  country 

can  be  silent  etc.     The  clause  in  the  Charter  of  New  England 

saves  no  trees  but  24  in.  diameter  and  upward.     All  the  young 

trees  may  be  cut  at  the  pleasure  of  the  people  and  tis  at  their 

choice  whether  ever  they  let  a  tree  grow  to  be  24  in.,  wch. 

clause  is  the  distruction  rather  then  the  preservation  of  the 

woods,    there  is    an  Act   of  Parliament   and   an   Act   of  this 

Province  that  has  the  same  clause  in  them,  which  must  be 

repealed,  for  the  small  trees  being  in  demand  at  home  in  Great 

Britain,  the  people  cutts  all  these  trees  under  24  inches  diameter 

and  plead  the  Act  for  it,  and  I  am  obliged  to  be  silent,  the 

large  trees  they  cut  at  pleasure   without  regard  to  Acts  of 

Parliament  the  Royal  lycense  or  my  warrant  etc.     Quotes  case 

of  Mr.  Cooke  and  the  Agent  of  Mr.  John  Taylor,  who  bid  him 

defiance  etc.     v.  June  20.     Encloses  following  for  the  prevention 

of  all  these  evils  etc.     Signed,   J.   Bridger.     Endorsed,   Reed. 

17th  June,  1720.     Read  5th  Sept.,  1721.     8  pp.     Enclosed, 

39.  i.  Heads  of  a  Bill  proposed  for  the  better  preserving  H.M. 

just  rights  and  title  to  the  woods  and  H.M.  Prerogative 

in  the  Plantations  and  to  preserve  the  woods  from  the 

pretended    claims    of   the    people    etc.     v.   preceding. 

Copy.     4  pp. 

39.  ii.,  iii.  Copies  of  grants   of  land  made  to  John  Cotton, 

1641,  and  Governor  Leveret,  1671,  by  the  Council  of 

the  Massachusetts  Bay,  etc.,  and  orders  of  Council  and 

Assembly,  31st  Oct.  1710,  granting    petitions  of  Jno. 

Leveret  and  Elisha  Cooke  etc.  for  the  laying  out  of 

the  lands  so  granted  for  the  heirs  of  above.     Endorsed 

as  preceding.     3  pp.     [CO.   5,  868.    ff.  94-97^.,  98i;., 

lOO-lOli;.,   102i;.-104i;.] 

April  8        ^0.     Council   of  Trade   and   Plantations   to   Mr.   Secretary 

vvhitehau. '  Craggs.     Reply  to  2Srd  Feb.     The  places  where  the  petitioner, 

Skeffington,  has  begun  this  Fishery,  have  never  been  frequented 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


April  9. 

St.  James's. 


April  12. 

WhitehaU. 


April  12. 

Whitehall. 


April  13. 

London. 


by  any  lishing  ships  from  this  Kingdom.  And  as  he  is  the 
first  who  has  attempted  to  sett  up  a  salmon  fishery  there,  and 
as  the  prayer  of  his  petition  is  no  ways  inconsistant  with  the 
Act /or  encouraging  the  trade  to  Newfoundland,  we  humbly  offer 
that  H.M.  grant  him  for  21  years  the  sole  fishery  for  salmon 
in  Freshwater  Bay,  Ragged  Harbour,  Gander  Bay,  and  Dog 
Creek  between  Cape  Bonavista  and  Cape  John  etc.  and  have 
liberty  to  cut  timber  for  his  own  use  in  the  parts  adjacent  to 
those  rivers  or  creeks  for  the  said  fishery  only,  provided  it 
be  at  six  miles  distance  from  the  sea  shoar.  [CO.  195,  7. 
pp.  36-38.] 

41.  H.M.  licence  to  Lt.  Gov.  Talmash  to  be  absent  from 
Montserrat  for  a  further  year.  Countersigned,  J.  Craggs. 
[CO.  324,  34.     p.  1.] 

42.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Offer 
for  H.M.  confirmation  Act  of  Antego,  1717,  to  enable  Arthur 
Freeman  and  Dorothy  his  wife  to  sell  a  certain  plantation  etc. 
Quote  Mr.  West's  opinion  that  the  Act  has  all  the  saving  clauses 
requisite.  No  objection  has  been  made  by  any  of  the  parties 
concerned,  since  the  same  was  passed  and  transmitted  etc. 
[CO.  153,  13.  pp.  455,  456.] 

43.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Craggs.  Report  upon  petition  of  Capt.  Evans,  14th  Dec.  1719. 
Abstract.  Petitioner  being  employed  abroad  in  H.M.  service 
could  not  avail  himself  of  the  offer  of  a  reduction  in  his  grant 
of  lands  in  New  York,  when  the  Act  was  passed,  1708,  for  vacating 
extravagant  grants  etc.  In  consideration  of  his  great  services 
and  of  his  having  spent  £3,000  on  improving  the  said  lands, 
recommetid  him  for  H.M.  favour  and  an  equivalent  grant  in 
some  other  part  of  H.M.  Plantations.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs. 
V.  535.  [CO.  5,  1124.  j^P-  128-131  ;  and  {corrected  draft) 
5,  1079.     No.  114.] 

44.  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Upon  reading  the  votes  about  making  some  amendmt.  to  the 
Act  for  regulating  abuses  in  ye  Customs,  I  lay  the  following 
observation  before  your  Lordships  etc.  There  is  no  Law  now 
in  being  that  after  ye  importation  of  ye  produce  or  manufacture 
of  forreign  Colonies  into  our  Colonies  prevents  the  exportation 
to  them  to  forreign  ports  etc.  Instances,  many  hundred  hhds. 
of  French  sugars  imported  to  New  York,  Pensilvania  and  New 
England  etc.,  and  from  thence  exported  directly  to  Holland. 
Mr.  Worsam  now  in  Gerard  Street  shew'd  me  an  abstract  from 
ye  Custom  House  books  of  New  York,  of  as  much  sugar 
exported  to  Holland  in  one  yeare  as  would  have  paid  the  King 
above  £1,000  duty.     I  have  known  several  vessells  go  from 


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1720. 


Barbadoes  and  ye  Leewards  directly  to  Holland,  Genoa, 
Leghorn  and  Venice,  with  loads  of  sugar,  cocoa,  indigo, 
fustick,  lignum  vitae  etc.,  some  of  which  have  fitted  in  Holland 
for  Guinea,  and  'tis  to  be  fear'd  others  of  them  found  means 
to  remit  their  effects  in  European  commodities  directly  to  ye 
Colonies.  A  law  preventing  the  exportation  of  the  produce 
of  forreign  Colonies  after  importation  to  ours,  to  any  place  but 
Britain,  would  remedy  all  these  evils.  Signed,  W.  Gordon 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  13th  April,  1720 
[CO.  323,  8.     No.  2.] 


Addressed.     \\  pp. 


April  18 
and  23. 


April  19. 

Whitehall. 


45.  Mr.  Willard  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  Minutes  of 
Assembly  and  Acts  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  for  the  session 
of  Nov.  1719,  and  Minutes  of  Council  to  March  1st  1719,  and 
copies  of  private  Acts  1717-1718,  as  requested  by  the  Board 
etc.  Signed,  Josiah  Willard.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th  June, 
1720,  Read  8th  June,  1721.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

45.  i.  Receipt    for    above.     Boston,    April,    1720.     Signed, 
Thomas  Quin.     1  p.    [CO.   5,    868.  .//".   57-58,  59  i;.] 

46.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Commissions  and  Instructions  are  to  be  prepared 
for  Wm.  Burnet  Esq.  appointed  Governor  of  New  York  and 
New  Jersey.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  536.  Signed,  J. 
Craggs.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  19th  April,  1720.  f  p.  [CO. 
5,  1052.    ff.  6,7  v;    and  5,  1124.     p.  132.] 

April  20.  47.  Governor  Rogers  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Nassau  on  tations.  It's  about  21  months  since  my  arrival  here  etc.,  and 
Providence  I  havc  yet  no  account  from  home  what  is  or  will  be  done  for 
the  preservation  of  this  settlement.  The  ship  Samuel  who 
came  with  a  gentleman  as  Factotum  from  the  Copartners  to 
know  our  circumstances  and  left  us  about  ten  months  since 
wth.  repeated  full  account  of  our  miserable  state,  and  a 
duplicate  was  soon  after  forwarded  by  Capt.  Beauchamp,  all 
which  I  am  sorry  has  produced  nothing  for  our  relief.  H.M.S. 
the  Flamhorough  has  happen' d  to  be  here  during  the  late 
Spanish  invasion,  and  tho'  the  Captain  is  order'd  to  consult 
me  for  the  security  of  ys.  place  yet  notwithstanding  our  too 
evident  danger  'twas  with  great  difficulty  that  I  and  the  Council 
here  could  prevaile  with  the  Commander  to  stay  till  we  had 
news  from  the  Comadore  Vernon  from  Jamaica,  who  came  too 
late  to  prevent  their  first  attempt  on  us.  Refers  to  enclosure. 
But  I  hope  he  is  now  in  ye  way  to  stop  their  coming  again 
with  a  better  force.  Few  days  past  I  sent  a  sloop  to  acquaint 
Comadore  Vernon  of  the  state  of  this  settlemt.  and  that  if 
he  found  the  Spaniards  was  not  come  out  and  he  was  strong 
enough  to  block  them  up  I  wou'd  leave  this  place  as  secure 
as  I  could  and  wait  on  him  myself  with  about  300  men  in  some 


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1720.  ^ 

small  vessells  to  make  an  attempt  on  them,  which  if  it  succeeds 
will  deterr  them  from  molesting  us  for  some  time  and  be  a 
means  for  my  getting  wherwithall  to  supporting  self  and  this 
place,  for  having  no  news  of  my  bills  being  paid  at  home,  I 
am  forc'd  to  runn  too  much  in  debt  and  it's  with  great  difficulty 
that  I  have  hitherto  supported  myself  and  the  garrison,  so 
that  be  the  consequence  what  it  will  I  must  adventure  or  the 
people  that  are  about  me  will  leave  me  and  we  shall  starve  or 
be  a  sacrifice  to  the  Spaniards  soon  after  they  leave  me. 
Enclos'd  you  have  a  copcy  of  several  informations  that  I  have 
lately  had  of  the  progress  of  the  French  and  I  find  the  Spaniards 
are  too  weak  to  prevent  them  by  sea,  and  'tis  much  to  be 
doubted  they'll  allso  be  the  same  by  land,  for  the  French  are 
now  I  verily  believe  in  a  fair  way  of  possessing  the  wealth  of 
Mexico  except  they  are  by  some  means  or  other  soon  prevented, 
for  unless  we  at  home  endeavour'd  to  follow  the  measures  they 
do  to  share  the  Spanish  Dominions  in  these  parts,  the  Indians 
joyning  wholly  with  them  I  fear  will  in  less  time  then  we  are 
aware  enable  them  to  command  all  that's  most  valuable  in 
these  parts  of  the  world,  for  I  cannot  forgett  about  ten  years 
past  how  I  found  the  Indians  of  Chili,  Peru  and  Mexico  on  the 
coast  of  the  So.  Seas  universally  to  hate  the  Spaniards,  and 
some  hundreds  of  them  from  different  parts  of  the  severall 
Provinces  assur'd  us  that  could  they  be  supported  and  arm'd 
by  any  Europians  especially  English  or  French  they  could  soon 
free  themselves  from  ye  slavery  of  the  Spaniards  being  vastly 
superiour  in  number  and  now  knowing  the  kind  usuage  the 
English  and  French  gives  all  those  that  live  amongst  them, 
it's  highly  probable  a  designe  of  this  kind  wou'd  succeed,  for 
I  am  assur'd  here  the  French  will  not  find  them  of  a  different 
temper  in  these  parts,  A  Spanish  Father  that  I  have  now 
prisoner  who  seems  to  be  a  man  of  good  sense  and  came  the 
beginning  of  this  month  out  of  the  Havana  assures  me  that 
they  are  afraid  of  a  Revolution  in  Mexico  and  that  the  Vice 
Roy  will  not  be  able  to  stop  the  progress  of  the  French  unless 
they  have  a  Peace  with  France  very  soon.  I  have  been  at  a 
great  expence  to  support  the  people  here  under  arms  and  to 
supply  the  garrison  and  arm'd  vessells  wth.  proper  necessarys 
for  our  defence,  all  which  shall  be  transmitted  home  attested 
by  the  Council  as  soon  as  the  embargo  is  off  or  we  know  our- 
selves out  of  danger  of  the  enemy,  the  place  is  so  wretchedly 
poor  and  having  yet  no  assembly,  I  can  by  no  means  raise 
any  part  here  and  I  beg  your  Lordships'  intercession  that  the 
load  may  not  lye  on  me  who  have  sacrifis'd  all  I  can  raise  here 
wth.  all  the  pay  and  substance  of  the  Independant  Company 
or  this  place  had  never  held  till  now  in  honest  hands.  I  have 
wrote  the  Rt.  Honble.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  beg  his  inter- 
cession that  I  might  have  leave  to  go  home  to  settle  ye  affairs 
of  this  neglected  Colony  and  to  answer  whatever  can  be  laid 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  31 


1720. 


to  my  charge  for  it's  a  great  mortification  to  me  to  be  here  on 
this  foott  and  my  character  suffer  beyond  example  so  that 
unless  the  Colonys  around  us  find  me  support'd  I  shall  trifle 
away  my  life  here  to  no  purpose.     I  depend  my  appearing  at 
home  will  either  enable  me  to  returne  wth.  more  encouragemt. 
for  myself  and  the  Colony  or  if  it  must  after  all  that  I  have 
suffer'd  here  be  abandon'd,  I  may  quit  it  with  the  character 
of  an  honest  man  that  has  done  his  duty  which  I  am  under  no 
concern  of  making  appear  whenever  I  shall  have  the  pleasure 
of  waiting  on  your  Lordships,  and  therefore  I  humbly  request 
yr.  Lordships  interest  if  necessary,  for  my  absence  hence  that 
if  I  deserve  it  I  may  return  upon  termes  that  will  promote  the 
future  wellfare  of  this  place.     I  hope  the  charge  of  the  fortifi- 
cations and  guardship  will  not  be  thought  too  much,  since  by 
that  means  only  we  lately  sav'd  this  place  from  the  Enemy, 
and  had  they  enter'd  the  port  as  we  expect'd  we  was  in  a 
condition  to  give  good  account  of  them  but  it's  happy  for  us 
that  they  came  when  we  had  plenty  of  provisions  and  almost 
double  the  number  of  men  we  had  at  any  one  time  for  a  twelve 
month    before.      We   are   now   encreas'd   to   above   600   men 
and  shall  keep  an  embargo  and  all  ready  till  we  have  an  answer 
from  Comadore  Vernon  wch.  we  expect  in  about  eight  days. 
All  the  best  men  that  liv'd  at  Elutheria  and  Harbour   Island 
are  here  and  I  have  taken  the  guns  from  the  Fort  at  Harbour 
Island  and  we  resolve  to  defend  ourselves  here,  should  Comadore 
Vernon  unfortunately  not  see  the  Spaniards  in  their  passage 
hither  a  few  days  will  determine  whether  they  come  or  not. 
Oh  would  all  this  danger,  troubles  and  fateagues  [?  but  give  ?] 
me  hope  of  a  future  reward  here  I  should  despise  it  but  I  must 
confesse  I  am  throughly  weary  of  living  at  the  rate  I  have 
hitherto.     But  if  I  survive  it  I  beg  your  Lordships'  compassion, 
till  I  can  wait  on  you  etc.     Signed,  Woodes  Rogers.     Endorsed, 
Reed.  17th  June,  Read  7th  July,  1720.     3|  pp.     Enclosed, 
47.  i.  Governor  Rogers  to  ['^Governor  of  Carolina.]  Nassau. 
April    18,    1720.      Encloses    copies    of  following    etc. 
Concludes : — A    privateer  has  lately  brought  in  two 
Fathers,   the   eldest   of  which   is   chief  priest   of  St. 
Augustine  and  he  assures  me  the  Spanish  armamt. 
next  designed  is  most  likely  to  come  agt.  you  because 
the    Govr.    of    St.    Augustine    has    encouraged    the 
Governour  of  the  Havana  to  beleive  the  Indians  may 
be  engaged  on  their  side,  so  that  I  heartily  wish  you 
may  not  be  deceived  by  some  of  those  you  now  depend 
upon.     Signed,    Woodes    Rogers.     Endorsed    as    pre- 
ceding.    Copy.     1  p. 
47.  ii.  Capt.  Hilderley  to[?  the  Governor  of  Carolina,]  Hambro' 
at  Providence.     Ap.  19,  1720.     We  have  had  advice 
of  the   Enemies   designe  to  come  a  second  time  to 
attack  this  place  from  the  Havana,  which  has  been 


32  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

the  reason  of  my  stay  here.  I  have  sent  a  sloop  to 
Capt.  Vernon  in  the  Mary  a  ship  of  60  guns  and  with 
him  another  of  40  now  cruising  off  the  Havana  to 
know  of  him  if  its  his  opinion  he  can  prevent  the 
enemies  ships  coming  out  or  if  there  is  any  reason  to 
expect  them  if  his  answer  is  agreable  I  shall  not  stay 
longer  here  etc.  Signed,  J.  Hilderley.  Same  endorse- 
ment. Copy.  1  p. 
47.  iii.  (a)  Richard  Farrill  and  Wargent  Nicholson  to 
Governor  Rogers.  Moore  Castle,  Havana,  4th  Aprill, 
1720.  Refer  to  letters  sent  on  9th  February,  "  wch. 
we  have  the  satisfaction  to  hear  came  early  enough 
to  enable  you  to  provide  for  the  arrivall  of  your  enemy 
which  sailed  with  an  Armadilla  from  this  place  21st 
Feb.  but  did  not  continue  their  resolucon  of  bringing 
their  large  ships  because  of  the  many  hands  they 
would  require  to  guard  them  so  that  must  very  much 
lessen  their  intended  compliment  to  land  which  their 
small  number  would  not  admit  of  etc.  By  a  hard 
north  wind  so  soon  as  they  had  entered  the  Gulph 
three  small  sloops  were  driven  back  to  the  Metanies. 
Per  dayly  advises  for  this  week  past  we  have  the 
pleasure  to  know  their  absolute  separation  which  they 
represent  to  have  happen'd  by  a  storm  2  hours  after 
their  coming  to  anchor  on  your  coast  and  that  the 
3  ships  lost  their  anchors  so  that  they  were  necessitated 
to  bear  away  nor  have  they  yet  any  newse  of  the  two 
bigest  ships,  vizt.  the  S.  Joseph  the  Commadore,  and 
the  S.  Christopher,  for  wch.  reason  the  slops  and 
brigantines  have  all  returned,  whether  it  was  distress 
of  weather  or  fear  (wch.  we  are  more  apt  to  believe) 
etc.  About  10  days  past  arrived  here  the  Campanella 
which  we  formerly  advised  was  concluded  lost  but  it 
seems  she  has  got  into  Campahy.  She  and  another 
vessell  brings  the  said  Lewis  men  which  was  wracked 
near  Campahy  and  likewise  the  mony  which  the  Vice 
King  ship'd  for  the  raising  the  expedicon  for  Pansecola 
all  thoughts  of  which  being  absolutely  given  over 
they'l  both  be  at  ye  Gover.'s  pleasure  to  employ.  Now 
as  here  3  or  4  ships  of  war  new  fitted  in  and  all  the 
small  craft  of  the  expedition  as  well  as  men  return'd, 
so  by  the  influence  of  the  money  the  Governour  will 
be  able  to  frame  a  far  more  formidable  force  than  the 
former  and  as  the  men  of  war  hath  of  sailing  in  a 
few  days  for  the  coast  of  Carrucas  yet  we  are  privately 
advised  they  are  forming  a  second  expedition  against 
yr.  Governmt.,  and  we  observe  that  one  of  the  sloops 
that  are  returned  from  ye  coast  have  so  much  as 
unbent  their  sails  etc.     About  14  days  since  arrived 


1720. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  33 


news  of  the  fall  0/ Alberoni  etc.  This  change  of  Ministr}^ 
greatly  affects  our  Governor  who  too  justly  apprehends 
the  same  fate  unless  he  can  do  some  distinguishing 
action  to  reinstate  himself  with  the  new  Ministry  before 
the  Peace  comes  wch.  confirms  our  apprehention  of 
his  invadeing  you  which  shou'd  it  happen  we  expect 
'twill  be  under  the  conduct  of  one  Capt.  Wahup 
(=  ?  Wauchope  Ed.)  a  Scotch  gentleman  yt.  went  over 
with  King  James  at  his  abdicacon.  The  Campanella 
will  be  obliged  to  be  largely  refitted,  so  that  she  may 
spare  great  part  of  her  men,  and  they'l  be  able  to  make 
up  near  2,000  men  for  the  whole  function.  Had  any 
of  our  cruisers  but  been  on  this  coast  they  would  have 
been  able  to  have  pickt.  up  the  best  part  of  these 
vessels  that  returned  they  have  dropt  in  by  one  and 
two  at  a  time.  It  seems  one  of  them  comanded  by 
Diego  Philippe  carried  out  Napping  who  was  taken 
with  Capt.  Bowling  and  put  him  ashore  on  St.  Andrews 
Island,  sending  him  off  with  his  gunner  and  two 
negroes  arm'd,  and  one  of  the  three  then  shot  Napping, 
the  fire  of  the  pistol  being  plainly  seen  by  many  of 
the  sloop's  company,  but  you'l  judge  the  truth  of 
this  barbarity  from  his  absence  or  arrival  at  Provi- 
dence. We  very  much  wonder  none  of  our  men  of 
warr  from  Jamaica  or  England  cruize  on  this  harbour 
but  hope  now  the  season  is  becoming  mild  they  won't 
omitt  such  advantage  to  both  themselves  and  the 
Nation.  Two  fifty  gun  ships  would  be  able  at  once 
to  destroy  all  the  force  they  are  able  to  make  from 
hence  and  suffer  no  traders  to  pass  them  etc.  If  the 
Governor  of  Jamaica  could  spare  you  two  such 
ships  'twould  infallibly  secure  your  Governmt.,  the 
passing  of  the  Jamaica  fleet  for  Europe  and  be  a 
great  annoyance  to  enemys  as  well  as  profitable  to 
the  Commanders.  The  Spaniards  have  no  other  ships 
of  force  then  what  advised  in  our  last  so  that  they 
would  be  unable  to  receive  such  waite  of  mettall. 
Whether  they  go  or  not  go  agt.  yor.  Governmt.  they'll 
certainly  lay  waite  for  sd.  Jamaica  fleet  etc.  As  am 
writing  this  here's  notice  of  an  express  from  the 
Metanees  with  accot.  that  the  aforesd.  ships  are  both 
arrived  in  sd.  port  which  if  so  the  same  Comadore 
will  have  the  command  of  the  Expedition  on  foot  and 
here  just  now  a  Spanish  vessell  making  for  the  port, 
either  the  St.  Juan  before  concluded  to  be  lost,  or 
some  other  man  of  warr  from  La  Vera  Cruze  to 
supply  her  place.  You'll  please  to  participate  this 
to  the  Governour  of  Carolina  etc.  Signed,  Richd. 
Farrill,  Wargent  Nicholson. 

Wt.  7595  C.P.  32-3 


^34.  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


47.  iii.  (b)  Notes  on  preceding,  by  Governor  Rogers.  Nassau, 
18th  April,  1720.  Napping  was  murder'd,  for  his 
skull  is  brought  hither  and  his  bones  buri'd  by  the 
Englishmen  yt.  was  left  on  Andrew's  Island,  The 
Englishmen  yt.  escaped  with  this  letter  from  the 
Havana  in  a  canoa  pass'd  by  the  sd.  two  ships 
menconed  by  Mr.  Farrill  where  they  lay  sunk  etc. 
so  that  he  is  misadvis'd.  The  ship  he  took  to  be  a 
man  of  warr  prov'd  a  large  merchants  ship  from  the 
Gulph  of  Malleek  and  Campechy  and  the  St.  Juan 
man  of  warr  was  also  lost  etc.  Signed,  Woodes 
Rogers.  The  whole  endorsed,  Reed.  17th  June,  Read 
7th  July,  1720.     4|  pp. 

47.  iv.  Capt.  Vernon  to  Governor  Rogers.  Mary  off  of 
Cape  Corientes  on  Cuba.  March  24th,  17^^.  Sends 
this  by  Capt.  White,  a  Bahama  privateer  etc.  Con- 
tinues : — I  am  in  my  way  to  lye  about  12  leagues  to 
the  northward  off  of  the  Havana  to  prevent  the 
enemy  coming  out  etc.  I  have  left  orders  with  Capt. 
Whitworth  in  a  ship  of  40  guns  to  follow  me  as  soon 
as  possible  etc.  If  the  [Spanish  squadron]  should  be 
already  got  out,  I  shall  endeavour  to  take  what  further 
measures  are  in  my  power  for  yr.  security,  which  you 
know  coming  to  your  Island  is  not,  seeing  ther's  no 
draught  of  water  for  me,  etc.  Signed,  Edwd.  Vernon. 
Same  endorsement.     Copy.     1  p. 

47.  V.  (a)  Deposition  of  Thomas  Messurer,  of  Guernsey. 
Nassau,  15th  Feb.  1720.  Taken  prisoner  with  Capt. 
Hichinbottom  of  Jamaica,  about  20  months  ago,  he 
was  carried  prisoner  to  Cartagena  and  the  Havana 
etc.  Reports  on  Spanish  preparations  to  retake 
Pensecola  etc.  The  French  are  preparing  to  march 
on  the  City  of  Mexico  etc.  the  Indians  supporting  them. 
The  Governor  of  Havana  has  detained  a  French  flag 
of  truce  in  order  to  prevent  notice  of  the  armament 
being  prepared  against  Providence  and  Carolina  etc. 
Signed,  Thomas  Messurer.  (b)  Deposition  of  Ben- 
jamin Johnson.  10th  March,  1720.  Partly  confirms 
preceding. 

(c)  (d)  Information  given  to  Governor  Rogers  by 
Capt.  John  Cockrem,  Samuel  Vincent,  Fra.  Antonio 
de  Escobar  and  Fra.  Antonio  Toledo,  and  Capt. 
William  Williams,  that  the  French  design  for  the 
Bay  of  Mexico  with  10,000  Indians,  and  the  Spaniards 
had  not  force  enough  to  prevent  them  etc.  Signed, 
Woodes  Rogers.  The  whole  endorsed  as  preceding. 
Si  pp.     [CO.  23,  1.     A^05.  23,  23.  i.— v.] 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


35 


1720. 
April  27. 

In  New 

York. 


48.  Col.  Schuyler  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Abstract.  Has  obeyed  H.M.  Order  forbidding  alterations  in 
the  magistracy  and  dissolution  of  Assembly,  and  has  admitted 
Francis  Harrison  to  Council  and  Cadwallader  Colden  as  Sur- 
veyor of  lands.  The  Assembly  is  adjourned  till  June.  Asserts 
that  he  took  care  to  avoid  making  alterations  in  the  officers  ; 
those  few  that  were  made,  he  explained,  {v.  end.  i.)  Reminds 
the  Board  that  the  Mayors  of  New  York  and  Albany  are  annually 
appointed  on  29th  Sept.  by  the  Governor  or  Commander  in 
Chief.  Continues:  The  Commissioners  for  Indian  Affairs  at 
Albany  did  lately  send  an  account  that  one  Joncure  a  French 
Interpreter  and  four  or  five  more  of  that  Nation  had  not  onely 
been  among  the  five  Nations  most  part  of  the  winter  but  had 
also  found  means  to  appointe  some  Sachins  that  favoured  the 
French  interest,  and  that  he  was  gone  from  thence  to  divert 
or  obstruct  the  farr  Nations  from  coming  to  trade  at  Albany. 
As  the  consequences  hereof  are  of  the  highest  importance  to 
H.M.  interest  among  the  five  Nations,  and  our  commerce  with 
the  other  Indians,  I  have  ordered  two  of  the  said  Commissioners 
thither  with  propper  presents  attendance  and  instructions  for 
setting  the  Indians  right  and  rectifying  those  incroachments. 
etc.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  537.  Signed,  Pr.  Schuyler. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  14th  June,  1720,  Read  18th  Jan.,  172^.  Torn. 
2  pp.     Enclosed, 

48.  1.  Extract  of  letter  from  Col.  Schuyler  to  Governor 
Hunter.  31st  Oct.,  1719.  As  Dr.  Johnson's  private 
affairs  and  the  sickness  of  Madam  Wollocks,  and  other 
of  his  friends  in  the  Jerseys  frequently  called  him 
thither  he  could  not  well  attend  the  Mayoralty  of 
this  Citty,  for  which  reason  I  appointed  Coll.  Cortlandt 
in  his  stead,  and  continued  Collo.  Farmer  in  his  post 
of  Sherriff,  and  as  Mr.  Livingston  of  Albany  desired 
to  be  excused  from  continuing  longer  Mayor  of  that 
Corporation,  I  appointed  Major  Myndert  Schuyler 
to  succeed  him,  and  at  the  request  of  the  magistrates 
there,  made  Mr.  Gerret  van  Schaick  Sherriff  of  that 
city  and  county,  this  being  all  the  alterations  made 
by  me.  Same  endorsement.  |  p.  [CO.  5,  1052. 
ff.  116,  116i;.,  1171^.-1181;.] 


April  27.  49.  Mr.  Hales  to  Mr.  Popple.  The  Lords  of  the  Committee 
Counciii  meet  to-morrow  to  consider  the  petition  of  some  officers  for  a 
Office,  grant  of  lands  between  Nova  Scotia  and  New  England.  Asks 
that  papers  in  the  office  requisite  for  proving  the  Crown's  title 
thereto  may  be  ready  in  case  they  are  required.  Signed,  Robert 
Hales.  Endorsed,  Reed.  27th,  Read  28th  April,  1720.  f  p. 
[C.  O.  5,  867.     No.  60.] 


36 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 
April  28.  50.  Proclamation  by  Lt.  Governor  William  Dummer. 
Boston.  £100  reward  for  the  diseovery  of  the  author  of  a  "  scandalous 
and  seditious  paper  entituled  An  Order  of  Our  Sovereign  Lord 
the  People  "  ;  In  which  the  Regal  style  and  Prerogative  is  in 
high  contempt  of  His  Majesty,  and  with  an  unparalleled  bold- 
ness and  presumption  assumed  by  a  private  person,  the  Judges 
and  Justices  of  this  Province  treated  as  servants  and  creatures 
of  the  populace,  their  just  enquiries  into  the  offences  against 
the  public  peace  aspersed  and  vilified,  and  they  menaced  in 
the  execution  of  their  office,  etc.  Signed,  W.  Dummer.  A 
cutting  from  [?  The  Boston  News  Letter].  Printed.  [CO.  5, 
868.    /.  247.] 

April  28.       51 .     Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.     Presses  for  Representation 
Admiralty     upou   Admiralty   Memorials   {v.    6th   Feb.,    1719).     Signed,   J. 

Burchett.     Endorsed,  Reed.  29th  April,  Read  3rd  May,  1720. 

1  p.     [CO.  323,  8.     No.  4]. 


Office. 


April  28. 

Custom  ho. 
London. 


April  29. 

Whitehall. 

April  29. 

Whitehall. 


52.     Mr.  Carkesse    to    Mr.  Popple.     The  Commrs.  of  H.M. 
Customs  desire  a  copy  of  report  of  8th  Nov.,  1676,  or  any  other 

Signed,  Cha. 
April,    1720. 


papers  relatmg  to  the  farming  the  4^  p.c.  etc. 
Carkesse.     Endorsed,     Reed.     28th,    Read    29th 
Addressed.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  88.] 


53.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.  Encloses  paper  desired 
in  preceding.     [C.O.  29,  14.     pp.  73,  74.] 

54.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  The  Representations  referred  to  in  following  are  to 
be  laid  before  the  House  of  Commons  etc.  Signed,  J.  Craggs. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  29th  April,  1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

54.  i.  Address  of  the  House  of  Commons  to  the  King  praying 
that  the  Representations  made  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  relating  to  waste  of  trees  proper  for 
masts  in  any  of  H.M.  Plantations  in  America,  since 
H.M.  happy  accession  to  the  Throne,  may  be  laid 
before  the  House.  26th  April,  1720.  I  p.  [CO. 
323,  8.     Nos.  3,  3.  i.] 


April  30.  55.  Thomas  Tickell  to  Mr.  Popple.  Desires  duplicate  of 
Ap.  12th.  Signed,  Tho.  Tickell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  30th  April, 
Read  3rd  May,  1720.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  1052.    ff  8,  9v.] 

[?  May]  56.  Francis  Lord  Guilford,  guardian  of  Lord  Baltimore, 
to  the  King.  Requests  H.M.  approbation  of  Capt.  Charles 
Calvert,  H.M.  1st  Regiment  of  Foot  Guards,  as  Lt.  Governor 
of  Maryland  in  place  of  Lt.  Govr.  Hart.  Signed,  Guilford,  pro 
Baltimore.  |  p.  (v.  19th  May).  [CO.  5,  721.  No.  16  ; 
and  5,  720.     No.  27.] 


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1720. 

May  1.  57.     Mr.  Bridger  to  [?  Mr.  Popple].     In  my  last  I  laid  before 

Portsmo.  their  Lordships  that  I  had  seized  16  trees  cut  in  H.M.  woods 
without  the  Royal  licence,  under  these  pretences.  Timothy 
Gerrish,  Paul  Gerrish,  and  Thomas  Hanson  agreeing  with  David 
Jefferies  Agent  to  Mr.  Taylor  Contractor  for  masts  etc.,  to  get 
so  many  masts  in  H.M.  woods.  I  told  them  publickly  that  if 
they  cut  any  trees  in  H.M.  woods  without  leave  I  would  certainly 
prosecute  them,  having  two  laws,  and  the  Royal  licence  and 
my  Instructions  on  my  side  etc.  On  appearing  before  Lt. 
Governor  Wentworth,  they  said  they  cut  these  trees  by  a 
licence  they  had  from  me  in  1718  saying  they  had  not 
fulfilled  that  agreement  (for  136  trees).  They  refused  to  say 
how  many  they  had  cut  then,  or  when  the  Governor  came  etc. 
These  people  will  only  be  governed  by  a  severe  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment wth.  a  good  penalty  fixed.  Urges  that  the  Board  should 
represent  to  the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty  the  necessity  of  con- 
firming his  seizure,  otherwise  no  trees  will  be  left  in  a  few  years. 
Repeats  former  letters  etc.  Signed,  J.  Bridger.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  18th  July,  1720,  Read  5th  July,  1722.  3  pp.  [CO. 
5,  868.    ff.  248-2491?.] 

May  2.        58.     Mr,    Secretary    Craggs    to    Governor    Philips.       Mr. 
WhitehaU.  Harrison  Chaplain  to  the  Garrison  at  Annapolis  is  to  have  a 
license  of  absence  for  one  year,  for  the  recovery  of  his  health. 
Signed,  J.  Craggs.     [  C.  O.  324,  34.     p.  2.] 


May  3. 

London. 


59.  Earl  of  Orkney  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Recommends  Mr.  Peter  Beverley  for  the  Council  of  Virginia, 
in  accordance  with  Col.  Spotswood's  last  letters,  etc.  Signed, 
Orkney.  Endorsed,  Reed.  3rd,  Read  31st  May,  1720.  Holograph. 
1  p.     [CO.  5,  1318.     No.  71.] 


May  4.       60- 

Whitehall.    CraggS. 

60.  i. 


Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Enclose  following  for  H.M.  signature.  Annexed, 
Draught  of  Commission  for  William  Burnett,  to  be 
Governor  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey.  In  the 
usual  form.  Signed,  24  June,  1720.  Set  out,  N.  J.  Arch- 
ives, 1st  Ser.  IV  447  ;  and  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V  538.  [CO. 
5,  996.  pp.  1—25  ;  and  5,  1124.  pp.  133-158  ;  and 
5,  1079.     No.  115.] 

May  4.       61 .     Extracts    from    Governor   Burnet's    Commissions    and 
Instructions.     Of  later  date.     14^1  pp.     [CO.  5,  1085.     iVo.  38.] 


May  5.       62.     Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 

Virginia.  Plantations.     I    have    the    happy    occasion    to    informe    yor. 

Lordps.   of  a  new  revolution  in  the  management  of  publick 

affairs    here,    and   that   in   a   late   Council  when   nothing   but 


38 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

accusations  and  answers  were  forming  for  your  Lordps.  deter- 
mination all  of  a  sudden  a  resolution  was  taken  up,  to  lay  aside 
all  manner  of  complainings  charges  and  vindications,  and  the 
whole  Council  and  I  have  agreed  to  pass  over  and  bury  in 
oblivion  whatever  contests  have  heretofore  happen'd  between 
us,  and  engaged  to  act  for  the  future  as  cordial  friends  in  the 
administration  of  the  Government  :  so  that  I  am  perswaded 
yor.  Lordps.  will  by  this  reconciliation  have  fewer  matters 
from  Virginia  to  trouble  yor.  Board,  and  I  shal  henceforward 
find  a  more  governable  people.  I  cannot  but  joine  with  the 
Gentlemen  of  the  Council  to  make  an  humble  request  to  yor. 
Lordps.  that  no  further  notice  may  be  taken  of  any  repre- 
sentations etc.  to  the  disadvantage  of  one  or  other,  that  have 
been  made  before  the  29th  of  last  month,  which  was  the  happy 
day  of  our  pacification  etc.  Signed,  A.  Spotswood.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  June,  1720.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  1318. 
No.  75.] 

May  5.  63.  Council  of  Virginia  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Virginia,  tations.  To  same  effect  as  preceding.  All  our  differences  are 
now  fully  compromised  and  adjusted,  to  the  universal  joy  etc. 
To  prevent  any  differences  for  the  future,  the  expedient  we 
have  fallen  upon  is,  that  no  more  separate  complaints  of  either 
Governor  or  Council,  be  transmitted,  but  if  any  difference  in 
the  administration  of  Government  happens,  that  we  will 
amicably  state  it  on  both  sides,  and  jointly  lay  it  before  yor. 
Lordps.  etc.  Signed,  E.  Jenings,  Robert  Carter,  James  Blair, 
Phill.  Ludwell,  John  Lewis,  W.  Byrd,  Wm.  Bassett,  Wm. 
Cocke,  Nathll.  Harrison,  Mann  Page.  Endorsed  as  preceding. 
2  pp.     [CO.  5,  1318.     No.  76.] 


May  5. 

WhitehaU. 


May  6. 

Treasury 
Chambers. 


64.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.  Encloses  memorials  from  the 
Admiralty  {v.  6th  Feb.  1719)  and  presses  for  reply  how  far 
their  request  may  be  comply'd  with,  in  respect  to  the  Common 
and  Statute  Law  of  this  Realm,  etc.  Misdated,  1722.  [CO. 
324,  10.     pp.  276,  277.] 

65.  Mr.  Stanhope  to  Mr.  Popple.  The  Lords  Commissioners 
of  H.M.  Treasury  are  desirous  to  know  whether  the  Lords 
Commrs.  for  Trade  have  had  occasion  to  apply  to  H.M.  Attorney 
or  Solicitor  General  for  their  opinion  since  H.M.  appointed 
Mr.  West  to  be  Councill  to  that  Board  at  £300  per  annum  salary 
etc.  Signed,  C.  Stanhope.  Endorsed,  Reed.  7th,  Read  10th 
May,  1720.  Addressed.  f  p.  [CO.  388,  77.  No.  75  ;  and 
389,  37.     p.  176]. 


May  6. 


66.  Address  of  the  Representatives  of  S.  Carolina  to  [?  Mr. 
Moore.]  It  is  the  humble  opinion  of  this  House  that  it  may  be 
propper  by  the  next  opportunity  of  writing  for  England  to 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


39 


1720. 


[May  6.] 


give  Mr.  Joseph  Boone  our  Agent  there  an  account  that  the 
Indians  to  the  northward  of  this  settlement  have  again  broke 
out  war  against  the  inhabitants  setled  in  those  parts,  and  that 
the  Indians  to  the  southward  of  this  Colony  also  have  lately 
made  incursions  and  depredations  on  our  settlements  there 
by  killing  some  people  and  carrying  away  diverse  slaves.  All 
which  might  probably  have  been  prevented  had  the  Indian 
Trading  Act  continued  in  force  wherebv  that  trade  was 
managed  for  the  safety  of  the  publick  and  which  Act  the  Lords 
Proprietors  by  an  instrument  under  their  hands  and  seals 
pretended  to  repeal.  And  we  desire  you  will  please  to  repre- 
sent that  affair  so  to  our  Agent  that  he  may  there  make  the 
best  use  of  it  for  the  future  safety  and  wellfare  of  this  Colony. 
Signed,  Tho.  Hepworth,  Speaker.  True  Copy  from  the  Journals 
of  the  House  of  Commons  of  the  6th  May,  1720.  Attested  pr 
Tho.  Moore  Ck.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  358.    /.  4.] 

67.  James  Smith  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Appointed  Secretary  of  New  Jersey  by  H.M.  Letters  Patent, 
1715,  Memorialist  upon  his  arrival  there  found  that  by  some 
late  Acts  of  Assembly  his  fees  were  so  reduced  that  it  was  not 
possible  for  anyone  to  subsist  on  them,  and  that  those  Acts 
had  been  made  only  for  the  punishment  of  Jeremiah  Bass  at 
that  time  Secretary  and  guilty  of  many  ill  practises.  Refers  to 
his  application  in  1719  and  the  Board's  letter  to  the  Governor 
advising  the  Assembly  to  repeal  those  Acts  etc.  The  Governor 
is  now  in  England,  and  there  is  no  hope  that  the  Assembly  will 
repeal  them.  Prays  for  the  Board's  representation  to  H.M. 
that  the  said  Acts  be  disallowed  etc.  Signed,  James  Smith. 
Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  6th  May,  1720.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  971 
No.  81.] 

68.  Mr.  Popple  to  Charles  Stanhope.  Reply  to  6th  May. 
Encloses  list  of  references  required.  Concludes  :  The  Attorney 
General  never  made  answer  to  any  of  the  matters  referred  to 
him,  tho'  the  late  Sollr.  did  in  some  cases  etc.  But  for  the  most 
part  their  Lordships  did  depend  upon  Mr.  West's  opinion 
singly,  without  whose  assistance  the  business  of  their  Office 
would  have  been  greatly  delayed.     Annexed, 

68.  i.  List  of  references  by  the  Board  of  Trade  to  the  Attorney 
and  Solicitor  General  and  of  answers  thereto,  July 
23,  1718— Feb.  5,  1720.  [CO.  389,  37.  pp.  177- 
180.] 

May  12.       69.     Mr.   Popple  to  James  Smith.     The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall,  and  Plantations  desire  to  know  to-morrow  morning  what  the 

Secretary's  fees  in  New  Jersey  were  before  the  Acts  complained 

of  May  6  etc.     [CO.  5,  996.     p.  26.] 


May  10. 

Whitehall, 


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1720. 

May  14.       70.     H.M.  Warrant  for  appointing  Cole  Diggs  to  the  Council 
St.  James's,  of  Virginia.   Countersigned,  J.  Craggs.  Copy.  [CO.  324,  34.  p.  2]. 


May  16.  71 .  Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.  Enquires  whether  the 
Custom  bo.,  Act  of  Barbados  for  regulating  the  gage  of  sugar  casks,  in  folio 
118  of  the  Laws  of  Barbados  printed  in  London  in  1699,  is  in 
force.  An  Act  with  the  same  title  is  noted  in  folio  147  in  the 
margin  as  expired.  Asks  whether  sugar  casks  are  ascertained 
by  any  other  Acts  etc.  Subscribed,  The  first  Act  is  perpetual, 
and  now  reprinted  as  a  standing  law.  The  Act  in  folio  147 
altered  the  dimensions  of  sugar  casks  but  was  made  to  continue 
two  years,  and  no  longer.  (?  by  Mr.  Popple).  Signed,  Cha. 
Carkesse.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Read  17th  May,  1720. 
Addressed.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  14.     No.  89.] 

May  17.       72.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.     Reply  to  preceding.     All 
WhitehaU.  the    Barbados    laws    are    now    with    the    King's    Printer     etc. 

Replies  from  memory  but  will  give  a  clear  answer  when  they 

are  printed  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  74,  75.] 

May  18.        73.     Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
st.  James's,  tations.     H.M.   refers  following  to  the  Council   of  Trade  and 
Plantations  for  their  report  etc.     Signed,   J.   Craggs.     Super- 
scribed, 

73.  i.  Petition  of  John  Plowman  of  London,  fishmonger, 
and  Robt.  Shard  of  London,  merchant,  to  the  King. 
Pray  to  be  granted  a  patent  for  monopoly  in  curing 
sturgeon  in  America,  making  caviare  and  isingglass 
etc.  The  whole  endorsed.  Reed.  18th,  Read  20th 
May,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  323,  8.     No.  5.] 

May  19.  74.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Confirming  Act  of  New 
York,  1717 ,  for  paying  several  debts  etc.,  "  in  regard  the  bills  of 
credit  having  been  made  out  pursuant  to  the  said  Act  which 
have  come  into  the  hands  of  divers  of  H.M.  subjects  for  valuable 
considerations  "  ;  but  directing  that  circular  letters  be  sent  to 
the  Governors  of  all  H.M.  Plantations  in  America  that  for  the 
future  they  do  not  pass  any  law  whereby  bills  of  credit  may 
be  struck  or  issued  ;  or  any  law  for  payment  of  moneys  to  the 
Governor  or  any  of  the  Councill  or  Assembly  of  their  respective 
Provinces,  or  other  person  whatever  without  a  clause  inserted 
therein,  declaring  that  such  Acts  shall  not  be  in  force  untill 
they  be  approved  and  confirmed  by  H.M.  excepting  laws  for 
raising  and  setling  a  publick  revenue  for  defraying  the  necessary 
charge  of  the  Government  of  the  said  Provinces  according  to 
the  Instructions  given  to  the  respective  Governors  etc.  Signed, 
Robert  Hales.  Endorsed,  Reed.  30th  June,  Read  1st  July, 
1720.  2  JJP-  [C  O.  5,  1052.  ff  18,  18i;.,  19i;.  ;  and  (abstract) 
5,  1124.  p.  232  ;  and  (signed  Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  11th  Jan.  172  f,  5,  1052.    ff.  101,  lOli;.,  102z;.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  41 


1720. 
May  19.       75.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Confirming  Act  of  Antegoa 
St.  James's,  to    enable    Arthur    Freeman    etc.     Signed,    Edward    Southwell. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  11th  Jan.,  172;.      1^  pp.      [CO.    152, 
13.    ff.  36,  mv,  37i;.] 

May  19.       76.     Order   of   King   in    Council.     Approving    draughts    of 

St.  .Tames's.  Commissions    for    Governor    Burnet    {v.    4th    May).     Signed, 

Temple  Stanyon.     1  p.     [C.  O.  5,  189.     p.  462  (a) ;  and  {signed 

Edward   Southwell,    endorsed    Reed.    Read     11th   Jan.    172^), 

5,  1052.    ff.  103,  104z;.] 

May  19.  77.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Approving  Capt.  Charles 
St.  James's.  Calvert  as  Lt.  Governor  of  Maryland,  provided  he  qualifys 
himself  as  the  Law  directs.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations to  take  care  that  he  gives  good  and  sufficient  security 
for  observing  the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation  and  H.M. 
Instructions.  Signed,  Temple  Stanyan.  Endorsed,  Reed.  25th, 
Read  27th  May,  1720.     1^  pp.     [CO.  5,  717.     No.  80.] 

May  20.       78.     Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Virginia.   Plantations.      See    Preface    and    Spotswood    Papers    II,    pp. 
335-340. 

May  20  79.  (i.)  Extract  of  letter  from  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood 
to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs.  I  beg  leave  to  recommend  to  your 
favour  Capt.  Thomas  Kennedy  of  the  Calabar  Mercht.  etc. 
{v.  22nd  March).  Continues  : — It  is  a  common  practice  with 
those  Rovers  upon  the  pillageing  of  a  ship  to  make  presents 
of  other  commoditys  to  such  masters  as  they  take  a  fancy  to 
in  lieu  of  that  they  have  plundered  them  off.  I  am  humbly 
of  opinion  that  it  would  very  much  conduce  to  H.M.  service, 
if  as  an  encouragement  to  such  masters  of  ships  to  deliver  up 
what  piratical  effects  shall  be  thus  given  them,  they  should 
be  promised  satisfaction  for  their  own  perticular  losses,  and 
even  a  further  reward  proportionable  to  the  value  of  the  effects 
delivered  and  there  seems  to  be  a  great  deal  of  justice  to  plead 
for  allowing  them  such  a  recompence,  for  in  the  case  of  Capt. 
Knott  the  pyrates  finding  him  have  guineas  and  English  silver 
out  of  a  mear  caprice  took  that  away  and  gave  him  above 
the  value  in  moiders,  and  yet  it  was  a  doubt  whether  he  could 
keep  those  moiders  because  the  pirates  could  transfer  no 
property  in  them  and  accordingly  Capt.  Knott  delivered  them 
up  as  well  as  the  other  effects  putt  into  his  hands  this  being 
a  case  which  may  frequently  happen  whilst  so  many  pirates 
are  roving  on  the  seas  and  wherein  the  common  interest  of 
H.M.  trading  subjects  is  concerned,  e^c,  asks  for  H.M.  directions 
therein.  Set  out,  Spotswood  Papers  II,  jdjj.  340-343.  Endorsed, 
Reed,  (from  Mr.  Stevens)  Read  28th  March,  1721.  Copy. 
f  p.     [CO.   5,   1319.     No.  5.] 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

[May  20.] 


May  21. 

St.  James's. 


May  22. 

Province  of 

New 
Hampshire. 


80.  Brigadier  Hunter  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. The  Revenue  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey  will 
expire  in  12  months.  Proposes  that  the  Governor  be  directed 
to  recommend  to  the  Legislatures  the  settlement  of  a  Revenue 
for  the  support  of  H.M.  Government  etc.,  "  in  which  due  care 
to  be  taken  for  the  necessary  expences  of  the  Council  and 
Assembly,  which  thing  necessary  of  itself  by  reason  of  the 
great  expences  of  the  Councillors  who  do  not  live  in  the  Citys 
will  be  otherwise  of  great  use  in  putting  an  end  to  that  unhappy 
law  in  New  York  which  was  approv'd  by  ye  Crown  by  which 
the  members  of  the  Assembly  are  paid  by  a  Country  tax  and 
being  sure  of  payment  that  way  for  their  own  trouble  and 
attendance  they  are  careless  and  indifferent  as  to  the  settle- 
ment for  the  necessary  support  of  the  Government,  for  the 
longer  that  is  delay'd  the  more  Sessions  they  have,  and  such 
as  have  little  in  view  besides  their  own  profit  will  probably 
be  for  delaying  it  longei"  than  is  safe  or  convenient,  as  has 
been  formerly  experienced,  and  if  once  the  Assembly-men  are 
paid  in  the  same  manner  with  the  Officers  of  the  Government 
the  Counties  being  eas'd  of  that  tax  will  instruct  or  oblige  the 
Representatives  to  repeal  the  law  which  subjected  them  to 
it ;  And  this  is  known  to  be  the  general  inclination  of  the 
inhabitants,  and  this  very  thing  is  already  directed  in  the 
Instructions  for  New  Jersey."  etc.  Signed,  Ro.  Hunter. 
Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  20th  May,  1720.  If  pp.  [C.  O.  5, 
1052.    ff.  10,  lOi;.,  111;.] 


81 .  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  the  Governor  of  the  Leeward 
Islands.  John  Spooner  and  Robert  Howard  are  to  remain  in 
possession  of  the  lands  granted  to  them  by  the  Governor  in 
the  late  French  part  of  St.  Christophers,  till  H.M.  shall  think 
fit  how  to  dispose  of  that  part  etc.  Signed,  J.  Craggs.  \C.O. 
324,  34.     p.  3.] 

82.  Lt.  Governor  Wentworth  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Refers  to  several  complaints  laid  before  him  by 
Mr.  Bridger  of  the  destruction  of  H.M.  woods.  "  I  can't  but 
impute  a  great  deal  of  it  to  the  new  officer's  not  comeing  on  the 
spot."  Refers  to  "the  unwarrantable  proceedings  of  many  of 
our  people  this  last  winter  past,  notwithstanding  an  Act  of 
Parliament  and  a  law  of  this  province  "  in  felling  mast  trees 
without  the  Surveyor's  warrant  etc.  Continues : — The  Sur- 
veyor did  on  the  6th  currt.  apply  himself  to  me  for  a  guard 
which  I  emediatly  granted  and  on  the  9th  the  Surveyor  with 
the  Sherrif  under  guard  did  go  into  the  country  and  seized 
16  trees  cut  without  the  Royall  licence  or  Surveyor's  warrant 
etc.  I  am  humbly  of  opinion  there  should  be  an  example  made 
on  some,  otherwise  H.M.  interest  will  yet  suffer  in  regard  to 
the  Mast  trees  etc.     I  have  done  my  utmost  endeavours  to 


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1720. 

support  the  King's  Officer  and  in  deterring  the  country  people 
from  makeing  waste  in  the  woods  etc.  Signed,  Jno.  Wentworth. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  8th  Aug.  1720,  Read  5th  July,  1722.  2  pp. 
[CO.  5,  868.    ff.  237,  237i;.  238i;.] 

[May  26]  83.  Petition  of  Daniel  Allen  and  Joseph  Lowe,  of  London, 
Merchants,  on  behalf  of  Josiah  Willard,  Secretary  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay.  He  was  appointed  by  H.M.,  and  his 
fees  settled  by  an  Act  of  Assembly  in  the  4th  year  of  Wm.  and 
Mary,  amounting  to  so  small  a  sum  that  it  is  hardly  worth  any 
person's  attendance.  An  Act  of  29th  May,  1717,  has  so  reduced 
the  fees  of  that  office  that  it  would  not  support  any  person  for 
his  attendance  etc.  Pray  for  its  repeal.  Signed,  Dan.  Allen, 
Joseph  Lowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th  May,  1720,  Read  5th 
July,  1722.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

83.  i.  Acts  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  for  regulating  fees,  in 
addition  to  the  Act  for  regulating  fees,  and  in  explana- 
tion of  the  two  Acts  for  regulating  fees.  2\  pp.  [C.O. 
5,  868.    ff.  282,  283-284,  285i;.] 

May  26.  84.  Deposition  of  John  Plowman.  The  sturgeon  now 
produced  was  taken  and  cured  at  Boston  by  his  agent,  etc. 
cf.  May  18.  Signed,  John  Plowman.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
26th  May,  1720.     1  p.     [C.O.  323,  8.     No.  6.] 

May  26.  85.  Deposition  of  Robert  Shard.  On  24th  inst.  Mr.  Bore- 
land  admitted  to  him  that  he  did  not  know  how  to  cure  sturgeon 
etc.  Signed,  Robt.  Shard.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p. 
[C.O.  323,  8.     No.  7.] 

May  27.  86.  Mr.  Borland  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  have  resolved  to 
joine  with  Mr.  Shard  and  Plowman  to  take  out  the  pattent 
jointly  etc.  Cf.  preceding.  Signed,  John  Borland.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  May  31st,  Read  June  3rd,  1720.  Addressed.  \  p. 
[C.O.  323,  8.     No.  8]. 

[May  27].  87.  Petition  of  Capt.  Evans  to  the  King.  Refers  to 
petition,  Dec.  1719,  and  report,  12th  April,  1720.  Sta.  Lucia 
is  almost  intirely  uninhabited.  Prays  for  a  grant  there  in 
compensation  for  his  losses  and  services.  He  will  undertake 
to  settle  it  etc.     Subscribed, 

87.  i.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  St.  James's.  27th  May,  1720.  Refers 
preceding  for  their  report  thereon.  Signed,  J.  Craggs. 
\\  pp.  Enclosed, 
87.  ii.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Craggs.  Copy  of  12th  April.  The  whole  endorsed. 
Reed.  27th  May,  Read  3rd  June,  1720.  [C.O.  5, 
1052.    ff.  12-14,  15t;.] 


44 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

May  27.       88.     H.M.  licence  of  absence  for  one  year  to  William  Byrd, 

St.  James's,  he  being  advised  to  come  over  to  England  to  drink  the  Bath 

waters.     In  the  mean  time  he  is  to  be  continued  as  one  of  the 

Council    of   Virginia    etc.      Countersigned,    J.    Craggs.      Copy. 

[CO.  324,  34.     p.  4.] 

May  30.  89.  Lord  Guilford  and  Lord  Baltemore  to  the  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations.  Propose  two  sureties  for  Lt.  Governor 
Calvert,  v.  19th  May.  Signed,  Guilford,  Baltemore.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  31st  May,  Read  3rd  June,  1720.  Addressed. 
1  p.     [CO.  5,  717.     No.  82.] 

May  31.       90.     Council   of  Trade   and   Plantations   to   Mr.    Secretary 

Whitehall.  Craggs.      Enclosc    following  to  be  laid  before  H.M.       Set  out, 

N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V  541  ;    N.  J.  Archives,  1st  Ser.  V  1.    Annexed, 

90.  i.  Same    to    the    King.     Submit    following    Instructions 

"  which  are  to  the  same  purpose  as  the  last  Governor 

had  ;  except   that   there    being  two  vacancies  in  the 

Council  of  New  York,  we  have  added  the  names  of 

John  Johnston  and  Francis   Harrison   to   the  list  of 

Counsellors  for  that  Province,  and  three  vacancies  in 

ye  Council  of  New  Jersey,  we  have  added  the  names 

of  John  Johnson    Jr.    for   the  Eastern  Division  and 

John    Reading    and    Peter    Baird    for    ye    Western 

Division."    etc. 

90.  ii.  Draught  of  Instructions  for  William  Burnet,  Governor 

of  New  York.     St.  James's,  3rd   June,    1720. 
90  iii.  Draught  of  Instructions  for  W.  Burnet,   Governor  of 
N.Jersey.     [CO.  5,  1124.     j9p.  158-231  ;    and  {without 
end.  ii.)  5, 1079.    Nos.  116, 117  ;  and  5,  996.     pp.  27-98.] 

May  31.       91 .     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     Recom- 
WhitehaU.  mend  Peter  Beverley  for  the  Council  of  Virginia  in  the  room 
of  John  Smith  deed.     [CO.  5,  1365.     pp.  210,  211.] 

May  31.       92.     Mr.   Secretary   Craggs  to  the   Governor  of  Placentia. 

Whitehall.  The  Principal  Officers  of  the  Ordnance  having  represented  to 
H.M.  that  they  have  with  much  difficulty  and  expense  sent 
over  the  greatest  part  of  the  materials  for  the  new  redoubt 
order'd  to  be  built  at  Placentia,  and  proper  officers  for  carrying 
on  those  works,  etc.  you  are  to  assist  and  furnish  the  Engineer 
etc.  with  such  a  number  of  soldiers  as  shall  be  necessary,  at 
the  rate  of  sixpence  a  day  each  man,  pursuant  to  former  orders 
in  the  like  case,  or  at  such  allowances  as  the  Engineer  or  Director 
shall  think  reasonable  to  make  for  work  done  by  contract  or 
task.     Signed,  J.  Craggs.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  5]. 

June  1.       93.     Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 

Boston.    tions.     Refers  to  replies  sent  17th  Feb.  and  to  enclosed  replies 

relating  to  New  Hampshire.     Continues :    H.  M.  Prerogative 


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1720. 


being  concerned  in  what  has  lately  happened  in  the  Province 
of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  I  think  it  my  duty  to  give  your 
Lordships  the  following  account.  One  the  25th  of  May  the 
Assembly  met,  and  thought  fit  to  choose  Elisha  Cooke  Esq. 
for  their  Speaker,  upon  which  I  sent  a  message  down  to  the 
House  that  I  would  not  accept  of  him.  This  is  the  gentleman 
I  removed  out  of  the  Council  for  invading  H.M.  rights  in  the 
woods  of  Main,  for  which  I  had  your  Lordsps.'  thanks  ;  and 
has  also  illtreated  me  for  which  he  was  censured  by  the  Council, 
and  remains  upon  record  in  the  Council  Books.  The  House 
upon  my  refusing  of  him  sent  me  word  that  they  would  not 
proceed  to  the  choise  of  another  ;  whereupon  I  continued  the 
House  sitting  for  five  days  to  see  if  they  could  be  brought  to 
another  choise,  but  finding  they  could  not  be  prevailed  upon 
I  disolved  them  on  the  30th  of  May.  Upon  searching  the 
Records  I  found  my  predecessor  late  Govr.  Dudley  had 
negatived  a  Speaker  ;  The  House  insisted  upon  having  him  ; 
and  the  Govr.  and  Council  being  in  some  doubt  whether  the 
Governour  had  such  a  power  invested  in  him  or  no,  did  permit 
that  Speaker  to  continue,  with  the  saving  of  H.M.  Prerogative  ; 
and  sent  home  to  the  then  Lords  of  Trade  to  have  that  clause 
in  their  Charter  relating  to  elections  explained  and  their 
Lordsps.  sent  him  enclosed  explanation.  Refers  to  enclosures. 
Continues : — I  had  the  King's  Attorney  Genii's,  opinion,  and 
all  the  able  lawyers  in  this  affair  etc.  Asks  for  Instructions 
as  soon  as  possible.  Continues :  I  did  imediately  upon  the 
disolution  issue  out  fresh  writs,  and  know  not  whether  the  new 
Assembly  will  not  choose  the  same  person,  which  if  they  do  I 
shall  still  continue  to  negative  him  untill  I  shall  hear  from  the 
Honble.  Board  etc.  The  common  people  of  this  Province  are 
so  perverse,  that  when  I  remove  any  person  from  the  Council, 
for  not  behaving  himself  with  duty  towards  H.M.  or  His  orders, 
or  for  treating  me  H.M.  Govr.  ill,  that  he  becomes  their 
favourite,  and  is  chose  a  Representative,  where  he  acts  as  much 
as  in  his  power,  the  same  part  that  he  did  when  in  Council ;  of 
which  Mr.  Cooke  is  an  instance,  who  strenuously  opposed  the 
King's  Order  in  relation  to  the  Impost  Bill,  in  the  House  of 
Representatives.  These  proceedings  very  much  clogg  H.M. 
interest,  as  well  as  the  interest  and  welfare  of  this  Province, 
which  I  hope  your  Lordsps.  will  be  pleased  to  take  into  your 
consideration.  The  Indians  in  this  country  at  present  continue 
quiet  and  easy.  Signed,  Samll.  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th 
July,  Read  3rd  Aug.,  1720.     3|  pp.     Enclosed, 

93.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions to  Govr.  Dudley,  4th  Feb.,  170^.  We  approve 
of  your  conduct  in  relation  to  the  Speaker  etc.  1  p. 
93.  ii.  Governor  Shute's  Speech  to  the  Assembly  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay,  28th  May,  1720,  advising  election 
of  another  Speaker,  etc.     Copy.     1  p. 


46                                                   COLONIAL   PAPERS. 
1720.  


93.  iii.  Governor    Shute's    Speech  to  the    Assembly,    upon 
dissolving  the  same,  30th  May,  1720.     Copy,     f  p. 

93.  iv.  Clause  in  the  Charter  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  that 

the  Governor  shall  have  the  negative  voice  in  all 
orders,  laws,  elections  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th 
July.  Read  3rd  Aug.,  1720.  Copy,  f  p.  [CO.  5,  867. 
Nos.  67,  67.  i.-iv.] 

June  1.  94.  Governor  Shute  to  Mr.  Popple.  Refers  to  letters  of 
Boston,  17th  Feb.  etc.  and  encloses  following,  "  which  had  been  sent 
ngan  .  go^j^gj.  jf  j^  j^g^j  j^^^  1^^^^.^  jp^j.  ^^^q  longest  and  severest  winter 
that  has  been  known  in  these  parts,  which  prevented  me  going 
into  that  Province  so  soon  as  I  intended.  I  have  the  map  of 
New  Hampshire  by  me  which  I  will  send  by  Capt.  Chadder 
who  will  sail  in  about  14  days  which  I  take  to  be  the  safest 
conveyance  this  ship  only  touching  at  Cow's  in  its  way  to 
Holland,"  etc.  Signed,  Samll.  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  "l5th 
July,  Read  4th  Aug.,  1720.  Addressed.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

94.  i.  Copy  of  Queries,  June  4th,  1719,  No.  iii. 

94.  ii.  Governor  Shute's  Answers  to  Queries  relating  to  New 
Hampshire  (4th  June,  1719).  (i)  The  number  of 
people  in  this  Province  were  upon  my  first  arrival 
about  9000  of  which,  men  1500.  White  servants, 
very  few,  Blacks  150.  The  increase  about  500  in  the 
four  last  years,  (ii)  The  trade  is  principally  lumber 
and  fish,  which  is  exported,  the  lumber  to  the  neigh- 
bouring Governments  to  the  West  Indies  and  Western 
Islands,  from  whence  our  wines  are  imported,  and 
very  lately  some  to  Great  Britain  as  also  some  tar 
and  turpentine,  from  whence  the  whole  supply  of  all 
linnen  and  woolen  manufactures  is  imported  except 
some  quantity  from  Ireland  either  directly  or  by  way 
of  other  Plantations  in  exchange  for  our  timber,  mer- 
chantable and  refuse  fish.  The  merchantable  fish  is 
exported  now  wholly  to  Portugal  and  Italy,  the  pro- 
ceeds of  it  allways  remitted  to  Britain,  except  what  is 
return'd  in  salt  for  the  fishery,  (iii)  The  trade  in  fishery 
is  much  increased  since  the  peace  with  France,  but  the 
trade  of  lumber  decreased,  by  reason  of  the  low  price 
it  bears  in  the  West  Indies  and  little  incouragement 
to  send  it  to  Britain,  because  of  the  great  duty  of  it 
there,  (iv)  The  methods  used  to  prevent  illegal 
trade  is  the  due  observation  of  the  Laws  now  in  force 
relating  to  the  Trade  of  the  Plantations  which  I 
indeavour  strictly  to  put  in  execution  and  do  also  take 
all  imaginable  care  that  the  King's  ofiicers  are  pro- 
tected in  the  execution  of  their  places.  I  am  also  of 
opinion  that  further  to  prevent  illegal  trade,  that  the 


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47 


1720. 


Government  of  New  Hampshire  should  have  another 
Custom  House  Officer  appointed,  there  being  many 
creeks  and  coves  to  run  prohibited  goods,  (v)  The 
ships  that  trade  to  foreign  parts  are  now  very  few, 
not  above  20  belonging  to  the  Province,  but  of  fishing 
vessels  100  all  built  in  this  Province,  of  seafaring  men 
and  fishermen  about  400,  but  many  of  them  transient 
that  are  not  inhabitants  here.  There  are  no  settled 
manufactures  in  the  Province,  (vi)  Lumber  fish 
and  masts  for  the  Royal  Navy  with  a  small  matter 
of  turpentine  are  the  only  produce  of  this  Province  ; 
we  build  some  ships  but  that  is  much  abated  since 
the  last  warr.  Here  is  some  quantities  of  iron  mines 
which  makes  very  good  iron  tho'  but  little  of  it  forged 
as  yet  ;  for  an  experiment  there  is  two  mills  now 
erecting  and  great  quantities  of  stone,  in  which  we 
are  of  opinion  there  may  be  silver,  of  which  stone  a 
ship  load  was  sent  to  London  for  a  tryal  but  what  it 
produces  there  is  yet  no  account,  (vii)  The  annual 
produce  of  these  commodities  is  very  uncertain,  the 
price  falling  and  rising  according  to  the  demand, 
seldom  exceeding  £50,000  per  annum  of  New  England 
money.  This  Province  would  produce  quantities 
of  hemp  and  flax,  if  any  incouragement  could  be 
obtained  for  it,  but  the  people  want  seed  for  the  first 
sowing  of  hemp  and  flax.  (viii)  There  is  but  one 
fortification.  Castle  William  and  Mary  at  the  mouth 
of  the  harbour  and  is  in  a  tolerable  state  of  defence 
on   which   there   is   mounted   42   guns.     Endorsed  as 


letter.     2^  pp. 


[CO.  5,  867.     Nos.  72,  72.  i.,  ii.] 


[June  3.]  95.  Col.  Vetch,  John  Borland  and  James  Douglas  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  In  1709  Don  Carolos  Marquis 
de  Sucre,  going  Governor  to  Carthagena  under  his  father  the 
Marquis  de  Preuse,  was  taken  prisoner  by  H.M.S.  Enterprize 
and  brought  to  Boston.  After  several  months,  at  his  instance, 
a  flag  of  truce,  the  Providence  brigantine,  was  fitted  out  by  under- 
signed, loaden  only  with  provisions,  and  sent  to  Carthagena 
with  the  Governor's  passport,  to  arrange  an  exchange  with 
several  British  subjects  who  had  been  taken  in  the  Bays  of 
Campeachy  and  Honduras.  Under  stress  of  weather  etc.  they 
asked  leave  to  wood  and  water  etc  at  Porto  Bello,  which  was 
granted,  but  the  vessel  and  cargo  were  seized  and  sold,  and  the 
master  and  men  put  on  board  a  sloop  for  Jamaica  etc.  Pray 
that  the  Court  of  Spain  may  be  pressed  to  make  redress  etc. 
Signed,  Saml.  Vetch,  John  Borland,  James  Douglas.  Endorsed, 
Reed.     Read  3rd  June,  1726.     l^pp.     [CO.  388,  22.     No.  256.] 


48 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 
June  3. 

Whitehall. 


June  3. 

St.  James's. 


June  3. 

St.  James's. 


June  7. 

St.  James's. 


June  7. 

St.  James's. 


June  9. 

New  York. 


June  10. 

St.  James's. 


June  11. 

Boston. 


96.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Lowndes.  The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  having  approved  the  sureties  for  Lt.  Govr.  Calvert 
etc.  enclose  draft  of  a  bond  to  be  taken  at  the  Exchequer  etc. 
{cf.  17th  May,  1715).     [CO.  5,  727.     pp.  492,  493.] 

97.  H.M.  Instructions  for  William  Burnet,  Governor  of 
New  York,  with  Instructions  relating  to  the  Acts  of  Trade  and 
Navigation,     v.  31st  May.     [CO.  5,  189.     pp.  486-544.] 

98.  H.M.  Instructions  for  William  Burnet,  Governor  of 
New  Jersey,  with  Instructions  relating  to  the  Acts  of  Trade 
and  Navigation.     [CO.  5,  189.     pp.  545-591.] 

99.  H.M.  Commissions  to  William  Burnet  to  be  Governor 
of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  and  revoking  that  of  Robert 
Hunter,  v.  31st  May.  Countersigned,  J.  Craggs.  [CO.  5, 
189.     pp.   462-485.] 

100.  H.M.  Warrant  granting  the  reversion  of  the  offices 
of  Chief  Clerk  and  Register  in  Chancery  and  Clerk  of  the  Crown 
and  Clerk  of  the  Peace  in  Barbados  to  Nicholas  Paxton,  upon 
the  death,  surrender  or  forfeiture  of  Anthony  Cracherode 
who  now  holds  them,  and  to  Barnabas  Legard,  after  the  deaths, 
surrenders  or  forfeitures  of  Cracherode  and  Paxton  etc.  Counter- 
signed, J.  Craggs.     Copy,     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  5-7.] 

101 .  Col.  Schuyler  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Abstract.  The  Commissioners  for  Indian  Affairs  are  returned 
and  have  great  in  measure  obtained  the  ends  for  which  they 
were  sent  {v.  27th  April).  Transmits  their  Journal  in  Minutes 
of  Council,  and  recommends  it  to  the  Board's  consideration, 
"  least  the  French  settle  and  secure  those  passes  through  which 
the  five  nations  usually  goe  to  hunt,  and  the  Farr  Indians  come 
to  trade  at  Albany,  and  I  am  of  opinion  we  may  justly  prevent 
these  mischiefs,  since  those  very  lands  have  been  given  in  a 
public  and  solemn  manner  by  the  Five  Nations  to  the  Crown  of 
Great  Britain  many  years  agoe  "  etc. 

Encloses  lists  of  vessels  entered  inwards  and  outwards,  29th 
Sept.  1719— 25th  March,  1720.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs,  V.  541. 
Signed,  Pr.  Schuyler.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th  June,  1720, 
Read  18th  Jan.  172*;.  If  pp.  [CO.  5,  1052.  ff.  119,  119i;., 
120i;.] 

102.  H.M.  Warrant  appointing  Governor  Burnet  Captain 
of  an  Independent  Company  at  New  York,  etc.  Countersigned, 
J.  Craggs.     Copy,^[CO.  324,  34.     pp.  8,  9.] 

103.  Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Refers  to  letters  of  1st  June,  sent  by  vessel  en  route  for 
Holland  and  encloses  map  of  New  Hampshire.     P.S.  Since  this 


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1720. 

was  written  there  has  been  a  new  election  for  the  town  of  Boston 
where  they  have  chosen  Mr.  Clarke  an  appothecary  whom  I  had 
removed  from  the  Council  for  having  strenuously  opposed  H.M. 
order  in  relation  to  the  Impost  bill  and  other  misdemeanours. 
Signed,  Samll.  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th  July,  1720. 
Read  7th  March,  172?.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  1,  2v.] 

June  11.  104.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Appointing  John  Johnston 
St.  James's,  g^^^  Fraucis  Harrison  Councillors  for  New  York,  and  John 
Johnson,  junr,  for  the  Eastern  Division,  and  John  Reading  and 
Peter  Baird  for  the  Western  Division  of  New  Jersey.  Signed, 
Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  11th  Jan.  172;. 
1  p.     [CO.  5,   1052.    ff.  105,  106t;.] 

June  11.  105.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  Governor  Lowther.  I  am 
Whitehall,  commanded  by  H.M.  to  repeat  to  you  the  signification  of  his 
pleasure  communicated  in  my  letter  of  ye  5th  of  March  last, 
that  you  exactly  follow  your  Instructions  in  leaving  the  adminis- 
tration of  ye  government  of  Barbados  with  the  eldest  Counsellor 
who  shall  be  at  the  time  of  your  absence  residing  in 
the  Island.  To  which  I  am  now  ordered  to  add  by  way  of 
explanation  that  you  do  on  no  pretence  whatsoever  exclude 
Samuel  Cox  Esq.  from  ye  said  administration,  to  wch.  he  hath 
an  undoubted  right  as  eldest  Counsellor.  Memdm.  This  Ir. 
was  sent  from  ye  Secy.'s  Office  under  a  flying  seal  for  conveyance. 
Signed,  James  Craggs.  Endorsed,  Reed.  24th.  Read  27th  June, 
■    1720.     Coptj.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  90  ;   and  324,  34.  p.  8.] 

June  11.       106.     Order  of  King  in   Council.     Approving  draughts   of 
St.  James's.  Instructions  for  Governor  Burnett,  v.  31st  May.    Signed,  Temple 
Stanyan.     11  pp.     [CO.  5,  189.    pp.  486,  a.,  b.] 

June  14.  107.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Encloses  Minutes  of  Council  and  Assembly  of 
Antigua,  and  an  Act  for  raising  a  tax  in  St.  Christopher's  etc. 
Continues  :  Upon  my  return  from  the  other  Islands,  and  perusal 
of  the  papers  your  Lordships  directed  me  to  send,  I  find  they 
are  so  deficient  that  I  cannot  presume  to  send  them  in  the 
manner  they  now  are  but  shall  take  care  by  the  next  safe 
conveyance  to  transmit  them  to  your  Lordships.  Your  Lords- 
ships  can  scarce  conceive  the  trouble  and  pain  I  have  taken  in 
this  affair,  and  can  assure  you  there  has  been  no  neglect  in  me  ; 
the  Islands  being  seperated  and  several  of  the  Officers  with 
whom  I  have  to  do  in  each  of  them,  being  ignorant  and  the  best 
dilatory,  have  occasioned  this  delay.  It  has  been  so  excessive 
dry  for  these  five  months  past  in  these  Islands  and  particularly 
in  Anguilla  that  several  of  the  inhabitants  have  deserted  that 
Island,  and  more  will  follow.     And  I  am    apprehensive    that 

Wt.  75f  5  C.P.  32—4 


50 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


(unless  some  provision  is  made  for  them)  they  will  seperate 
and  settle  in  some  of  the  Dutch  Islands.  They  have  applyed 
to  me  for  patents  for  land  in  Tortola  which  I  did  not  give  but 
have  given  grants  for  land  untill  H.M.  pleasure  shall  be  known 
therein,  being  convinced  'twill  be  very  much  for  H.M.  service 
and  the  good  of  these  His  Colonys  to  keep  them,  if  possible, 
from  seperating  and  setling  among  other  Nations,  the  Island 
of  Anguilla  not  affording  sufficient  to  support  themselves  and 
familys.  Signed,  W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  8th  Aug. 
1720.     Read  27th  June,  1721.     3  pp.     Enclosed, 


June  14. 

Colony  of 

Rhoad  Island 

etc., 

Newport. 


108.  List  of  enclosures ;  Minutes  of  Council  of  Antigua, 
5th  Jan.  1718 — 7th  Dec.  1719  ;  Minutes  of  Assembly,  5th  Jan. 
1718 — 24th  March,  1720.  Act  of  St.  Christopher  for  raising 
a  poll-tax  on  slaves  and  £500  etc.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 
[CO.  152,  13.    ff.  77-78,  80-81,  82i;.] 

109.  Governor  Cranston  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  In  obedience  to  your  Lordships'  commands, 
Aug.  7th,  wee  have  hearwith  sent  a  chart  or  map  of  this  H.M. 
Colony  and  should  have  sent  it  sooner,  But  your  commands 
not  coming  to  our  hands  untill  the  beginning  of  Nov.  last,  the 
winters  season  would  not  admit  us  to  make  an  exact  sirvey,  so 
that  wee  was  forst  to  suspend  it  untill  the  weather  was  moderate, 
and  the  country  passable.  The  extent  of  the  mape  is  drawn 
according  to  the  bounds  set  forth  by  our  Royal  Charter  etc. 
There  having  been  a  long  controversy  between  this  Goverment 
and  the  Goverment  of  the  Masacusets  and  Coneeticut  (our 
bordering  neighbours)  about  the  bounds  of  our  Colony  ;  they 
have  (as  we  presume)  unjustly  withheld  from  us  considerable 
part  of  our  Colony  within  the  abovesaid  bounds  or  limits,  the 
which  your  Lordships  will  perceive  by  the  green  lines  (the  which 
describe  what  wee  are  at  present  possest  of)  and  how  much 
of  our  jurisdiction  is  forcably  detained  from  us.  Tho  for  the 
sake  of  peace,  and  for  maintaining  a  friendly  correspondence 
with  the  Goverment  of  Coneeticut.  In  the  year  1703,  by 
Commissioners  chosen  and  commissionated  by  each  Goverment 
a  line  was  agreed  upon  between  the  two  Coloneys,  tho'  to  our 
considerable  loss  and  damage  (occationed  by  the  ignorance  of 
our  Commissioners,  of  the  situation  of  the  countrey)  wee  were 
content  to  abide  by  it,  and  to  confirme  the  said  agreement. 
But  the  Goverment  of  Coneeticut,  tho  often  requested  to 
joyn  with  us  in  running  and  stating  the  said  line  (tho  much  to 
their  advantage)  hath  not  joyn'd  with  us  therein,  but  hold  us 
in  suspence,  daley  making  incroachments  upon  our  jurisdiction 
and  propertys,  the  which  unjust  proceeding  hath  caused  us  to 
remonstrate  and  explaine  the  whole  cause  to  our  Agent,  in 
order  to  be  laid  before  H.M.  in  Councill,  as  we  have  done  that 
on  the  other  side  relating  what  (we  presume)  is  withheld  from 


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1720. 


us  by  the  Goverment  of  the  Masstusets  Bay  etc.  No  in- 
croachments  have  been  made  by  the  subjects  of  any  forreigne 
Prince  on  said  Coloney,  but  what  ineroachments  wee  have 
suffered  hath  been  made  by  our  neibours  as  aforesaid.  This 
Colony  in  comparison  of  the  other  Provinces  and  Coloneys  on 
this  Continent  is  very  small  at  ye  extent  etc.,  if  our  neibours 
should  be  countenanced,  it  would  be  redused  to  a  small  morsel 
etc.  Rely  upon  wisdom  and  justice  and  H.M.  and  his  Council  etc. 
Signed,  Saml.  Cranston.  Efidorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Partridge) 
29th  Aug.,  Read  1st  Sept.,  1720.  2^  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1265. 
No.  151.] 

June  14.  110.  Messrs.  Plowman,  Borland,  and  Shard  to  Mr.  Popple. 
Apply  for  joint  patent  for  curing  sturgeon  etc.  cf.  May  27. 
Signed,  John  Plowman,  John  Borland,  Robt.  Shard.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  14th.  Read  15th  June,  1720.  Addressed.  |  p.  \C.O. 
323,  8.     No.  9]. 

June  15.  111.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lt.  Governor 
Whitehall.  Spotswood  and  the  Council  of  Virginia.  Acknowledge  letters  of 
May  5th.  Continue  :  We  hope  your  reconciliation  is  establish'd 
upon  such  a  foot  as  may  prove  to  H.M.  honour  and  service, 
and  that  the  same  may  be  lasting,  wherein  no  doubt  every 
good  subject  in  Virginia  must  find  his  satisfaction  and  advan- 
tage.    [C.O.  5,  1365.     p.  214.] 

June  16.  112.  A  true  state  of  the  Case  between  the  inhabitants  of 
South  Carolina  and  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  that  Province  ; 
containing  an  account  of  the  Grievances  under  which  they 
labour.  An  abstract  of  Srd  Feb.  q.v.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr. 
Boon).  Read  16th  June,  1720.  Printed.  4  pp.  [C.O.  5, 
1265.     No.  145.] 

June  18.  113.  Act  of  South  Carolina /or  the  better  supporting  of  the 
publick  creditt  etc.  In  view  of  the  expence  of  preparations 
for  defence  against  the  Spaniards  and  the  incursions  and 
depredations  by  the  Indians,  and  the  scarcity  of  money, 
£10,000,  appropriated  by  the  Act  of  1719  entitled  An  additional 
Act  to  an  Act  for  raising  of  £70,000  etc.  towards  sinking 
of  so  many  bills  of  credit  this  present  year,  is  appropriated  for 
discounting  of  all  such  orders  and  accounts  as  are  due  from  the 
publick,  and  extending  the  period  for  sinking  the  same  till 
March  1723  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed,  from  Mr.  Boon.  Read  16th 
Aug.,  1720.     2f  pp.     [C.O.  5,  358.    ff  8,  Qv.] 

June  18.  114.  Mr.  West  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Report  upon  Acts  of  Barbados.  (i)  Act  to  impower  Governor 
and  Council  to  commute  the  value  of  powder  etc.  found  wanting 
in  the  accounts  of  storekeepers  etc.     Refers  to  enclosed  arguments 


52  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

for  and  against  it.  Continues : — That  part  which  relates  to 
the  proceedings  against  Mr.  Peers  late  one  of  the  storekeepers 
is  the  subject  of  a  petition  by  him  now  depending  before  the 
Privy  Council.  But  another  part  which  confirms  the  process 
executed  by  the  Marshall  of  the  Committee  of  accounts,  I  am 
of  opinion  is  contrary  to  the  King's  Prerogative,  inasmuch  as 
the  Committee  do  thereby  pretend  to  establish  a  new  officer 
of  Justice,  and  such  an  officer  as  no  Committee  of  our  House 
of  Commons  at  home,  ever  yet  pretended  to  appoint,  (ii)  An 
Act  for  the  better  ordering  and  regulating  the  proceedings  of  H.M. 
Court  of  Common  Pleas.  Refers  to  enclosed  reasons  for  and 
objections  to  it.  Continues : — As  to  the  subject  matter,  it  is 
not  proper  to  be  pass'd,  tho'  the  intention  is  very  reasonable 
and  very  fitt  to  be  pass'd  when  drawn  into  proper  form.  For  if 
a  speciall  verdict  bee  not  found,  in  any  cause  where  either  party 
thinks  himself  aggriev'd  by  the  judgment,  it  is  exceeding  difficult 
if  not  impossible  to  have  a  remedy  by  appeal  to  the  Council!  at 
home,  since  without  a  speciall  verdict  the  whole  of  the  case  can 
never  fully  appear.  If  therefore  they  had  confin'd  the  obliga- 
tion, they  putt  their  judges  under  of  directing  a  speciall  verdict 
when  desir'd,  to  such  causes  only  where  the  value  of  the  thing 
in  question  was  equall  to  what  by  H.M.  Instructions  they  are 
at  liberty  to  appeal  home  for,  I  should  have  thought  the  Act 
well  calculated  to  render  the  remedy  the  subject  there  has 
against  any  erroneous  judgement  by  appealing  to  the  Privy 
Council  more  easy  and  practicable  and  also  to  make  the  depend- 
ence of  those  people  still  closer  to  our  Government  at  home. 
But  the  obliging  all  Judges  to  direct  a  speciall  verdict  without 
any  reason  assign'd,  upon  the  bare  request  of  the  party,  and 
that  in  causes  of  never  so  small  a  value,  is  certainly  putting  it 
in  the  power  of  the  debtor  most  unreasonably  to  delay  his 
creditor  in  the  recovery  of  just  debts.  But  the  penalty  inflicted 
upon  Judges  who  deny  or  neglect  to  direct  a  speciall  verdict 
when  desir'd,  by  making  them,  besides  an  incapacity  lyable 
to  the  damages  sustain'd  by  the  party,  and  those  to  bee 
recovered  before  any  Justice  of  the  Peace  as  in  case  of  servants 
wages  is  so  absurd  that  I  beleive  your  Lordships  will  not  think 
it  proper  to  bee  pass'd  into  law.  Quotes  5  other  Acts  to  which 
there  is  no  objection.  Signed,  Richard  West.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
21st  June.     Read  5th  July,  1720.     7  pp.     Enclosed, 

114.  i.,  ii.  Arguments  for  and  against  the  Acts  of  Barbados 
to  empower  the  Governor  and  Council  to  commute  the 
value  of  powder  etc.  6  pp. 
114.  iii.  Reasons  for  repeal  of  Acts  of  Barbados  (i)  for  the 
better  ordering  the  proceedings  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  and  (ii)  for  abrogating  the  oath  appointed  to  be 
taken  by  attornies  employed  to  draw  up  special  verdicts 
and  appointing  another  oath  etc.  Endorsed  as  report. 
H  PP'     [C-0.  28,  15.     Nos.  93,  93.  i.-iii.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


53 


1720. 

June  18. 

Whitfhall. 


115.  Order  of  Committee  of  Council.  Referring  petition 
of  Sir  A.  Cairnes  and  the  reports  of  the  Board  of  Trade  thereon 
to  the  Treasury  and  Admiralty  for  their  opinions.  [Cf.  July  21, 
1718  and  A.P.C.  II.  No.  1299].  Signed,  Edward  Southwell. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  11th  Jan.  17|i'.  Torn.  1^  pp. 
[CO.  217,  3.     No.  17  ;    a7id  218,.  1.     pp.  498,  499.] 


June  20.  116.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Jamaica.  Plantations.  I  have  not  been  honoured  with  any  of  your 
Lordships'  commands  since  my  last  letter  of  31st  March.  Our 
Assembly  met  the  15th  instant  according  to  adjournment,  and 
I  recommended  to  them  sevll.  matters  of  importance  for  H.M. 
service  and  the  good  and  prosperity  of  this  Island.  Refers 
to  enclosed  Speech,  to  which  they  returned  a  very  dutifull 
Address  etc.  They  have  as  yet  been  but  a  short  time  together 
since  their  last  meeting,  so  that  I  cannot  make  9,ny  certain 
judgement  whether  they  really  intend  to  comply  with  their 
engagements,  but  I  hope  they  will ;  Nothing  shall  be  wanting 
in  me  to  invite  them  to  it  and  I  should  be  extreamly  glad  they'd 
lay  aside  all  animositys  and  disputes,  and  seriously  pursue  the 
true  interest  of  their  King  and  Country,  etc.  Signed,  N.  Lawes. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  24th  Aug.,  Read  2nd  Nov.,  1720.  1|  pp. 
Enclosed, 

116.  i.  Speech  of  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Assembly 

of  Jamaica,  June  16,  1720.     Printed  by  R.  Baldwin. 

Price  2  ryals.     Same  endorsement.     5  pp. 
116.  ii.  Address    of   the    Assembly    in   reply    to    preceding. 

17th  June,   1720.     Signed,  Edmund  Kelly,   Speaker. 

Same  endorsement.     1  p.      [CO.    137,    13.     Nos.   43, 

43.  i.,  ii.] 

June  20.  117.  Mr.  West  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Report  ujjon  the  Admiralty  Jurisdiction  and  Piracies  in  the 
Plantations.  {Cf.  May  5th).  The  54th  Instruction  to 
Governours,  which  the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty  desire  may  be 
annulled,  on  the  supposition  that  the  Governors  are  sufficiently 
instructed  by  their  patents  issuing  out  of  the  High  Court  of 
Admiralty,  relate  to  two  things,  the  goods  of  pirates  and  goods 
piratically  taken.  The  Common  Law  of  England  is  the  Common 
Law  of  the  Plantations,  and  all  Statutes  in  affirmance  of  the 
Common  Law  pass'd  in  England  antecedent  to  the  settlement 
of  any  Colony  are  in  force  in  that  Colony  unlesse  there  is  some 
private  Act  to  the  contrary,  tho'  no  Statutes  made  since  those 
settlements  are  there  in  force  unlesse  the  Colonies  are  parti- 
cularly mention'd.  Piracy  is  Felony  (that  is  a  capital  crime) 
only  by  the  Civill  Law  as  that  Law  is  the  rule  of  proceeding 
in  our  Admiralty  Courts,  nor  was  it  at  all  cognizable  by  the 
Common  Law.  But  the  Admiralty  Jurisdiction  was  by  ex- 
perience found  not  to  bee  a  remedy  adequate  to  the  mischief 


54  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

since  by  their  law  no  man  can  bee  condemned  to  death  unlesse 
he  either  confesses  his  crime  or  bee  convicted  by  witnesses, 
who  saw  him  committ  the  fact,  by  which  means  many  offenders 
escap'd  punishment.  To  remedy  this  mischief  it  was  enacted 
28th,  Hen.  viii.  ch.  xv.,  that  all  murthers  robberies  etc.  com- 
mitted by  pirates  on  the  High  Seas  or  where  the  Admirall 
pretends  jurisdiction  shall  be  try'd  in  such  counties  within  the 
Realm  as  shall  be  limitted  by  the  King's  Commission,  in  like 
manner  as  if  such  offences  were  done  at  land.  And  that  such 
Commissions  shall  be  directed  to  the  Lord  Admirall  etc.,  and 
such  as  shall  bee  convict,  suffer  death  without  benefitt  of  clergy, 
and  forfeit  lands  and  goods,  as  in  cases  of  felonies,  and  murthers 
done  at  land.  Ever  since,  no  pirate  has  been  condemned  by 
a  Court  of  Admiralty  qua  such,  but  all  tryals  for  piracy  have 
been  by  speciall  commission  grounded  upon  the  Statute.  Now 
if  this  Statute  was  of  force  in  the  West  Indies  no  person  cou'd 
bee  convicted  there  without  a  speciall  Commission,  and  if  it 
was  not  the  proceedings  must  have  been  altogether  at  the  Civil 
Law  as  receiv'd  in  the  Admiralty  Courts  unaided  by  any  Statute 
and  consequently  scarce  any  person  wou'd  have  been  convicted 
at  all,  for  doubtlesse  the  inconveniencies  wou'd  bee  as  bad  there 
if  not  worse  than  they  were  at  home  before  the  making  of  that 
Statute.  By  the  preamble  to  the  Statute  of  11th  and  12th 
William  III  ch.  vii  it  not  only  appears  that  ever  since  the  statute 
of  Hen.  VIII,  the  tryall  of  pirates  etc.  before  the  Admirall  etc. 
singly  by  the  Civill  Law  had  been  altogether  disus'd  and  laid 
aside,  But  also  that  the  statute  of  Hen.  VIII  did  not  extend  to 
the  West  Indies,  and  therefore  it  is  enacted  "  that  all  piracies 
felonies  and  robberies  committed  upon  the  sea  etc.  where  the 
Admirall  has  jurisdiction  may  bee  try'd  at  sea  or  upon  the  land  in 
any  of  H.M.  Plantations  by  Commission  under  the  Great  Seal 
of  England  or  Admiralty  Seal."  Which  Commissioners  tho' 
they  are  directed  to  proceed  according  to  the  course  of  the 
Admiralty  doe  not  yet  derive  any  part  of  their  authority  from 
our  High  Court  of  Admiralty,  but  only  from  their  speciall 
Commissions  issu'd  for  that  purpose.  Argues  that  therefore 
pirates  in  the  West  Indies,  and  consequently  their  goods  cannot 
be  condemned  before  the  Admiralty  Courts  as  such,  but  only 
through  the  special  Commissions  granted  to  Governors  founded 
upon  the  Statute  of  Wm.  HI.  As  presidents  of  such  courts  of 
judicature,  qua  special  Commissioners  not  qua  Vice-Admirals' 
a  Governor  must  take  care  of  the  person  to  whose  custody  such 
goods  are  committed.  The  Instructions  is  therefore  very 
properly  given. 

The  second  Memorial  (Feb.  6th,  1719)  is  occasioned  upon 
the  letters  of  Mr.  Smith,  Advocate  for  the  Court  of  Admiralty  in 
New  England  and  Mr.  Menzies,  Judge  of  Admiralty  in  the 
Massachusetts  Bay,  and  is  founded  on  nothing  but  the  desire 
which  the  Admiralty  Judges  have  of  extending  their  jurisdiction 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  55 


1720. 


m  the  West  Indies.     Mr.  Menzies  complains  not  that  prohibitions 

have  been  directed  to  their  Admu-alty  Courts  in  cases  in  which 

by  law  they  ought  not  to  have  been  granted,  but  that  any 

prohibitions  were  granted  at  all,  etc.    Argues  that  it  is  impossible 

a  power  of  granting  prohibitions  should  not  be  wherever  the 

Common  Law  is  extended.     For  should  the  Court  of  Admiralty 

in  New  England  take  upon  them  to  hold  plea  of  freehold  or 

to    take  cognizance  of  Acts  of  debt  etc.  what  remedy  has  the 

subject  to  vindicate  that  right  to  that  inheritance  which  he 

has  in  being  judg'd  by  the  Common  Law.     If  there  is  no  power 

of  granting  prohibitions,  remedy  he  has  none,  and  the  benefit 

of  the  Common  Law  must  in  the  Colonies  bee  enjoy'd  by  none 

but  those  who  have  wealth  sufficient  to  support  frequent  appeals 

to  Great  Britain  etc.  etc.     Concludes :  But  as  to  Mr.  Smith  and 

Mr.  Menzies  being  disturb'd  in  the  exercise  of  the  Admiralty 

jurisdiction  in  the  adjudication  of  what  is  or  is  not  prize,  they 

certainly  are  in  the  right  to  eomplam,  and  it  is  the  duty  of  the 

Governors  to  support  them  in  it,  and  if  they  are  negligent  in 

so  doing,  H.M.  order  for  that  purpose  wou'd  undoubtedly  make 

them  carefull  to   doe  it  etc.     The  Lords  of  the  Admiralty  pray 

H.M.  to  order  the  Governor  to  restrain  the  Provinciall  Judges 

from  interrupting  the  proceedings  of  the  Courts  of  Admiralty. 

But  if  prohibitions  are  legally  granted,  no  order  can  authorize 

him  to  hinder  them,  and  if  they  are  not,  the  proper  remedy  is 

by    appeal.      But    if   your    Lordships    should    find    as    in    all 

probability  the  fact  as  to  New  England  is,  that  the  people 

there,   doe  under  a  pretence  of  law  attempt  to  disturb  and 

perhaps  to  banish  from  that  Province,  the  due  exercise  of  an 

Admiralty   Jurisdiction    deriv'd    more   immediately   from   the 

Crown  than  that  of  their  own    Courts,  the  properest  remedy 

the  Admiralty  can  apply  for,  is  that  a  bill  may  bee  brought  into 

Parliament  next  Sessions,   by  which  the    manner    of    trying 

piracies,  and  the  exercise  of  the  Admiralty  Jurisdiction  may  be 

established  etc.    Signed,  Richd.  West.     Endorsed,  Reed.     Read 

21st  June,   1720.     2S\  pp.     [CO.  323,   8.     No.   10.] 

June  20.  ^^^-  ^r.  Bridger  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  have  pro[se]cuted 
Portsmo.  Tiniothy  Gerrish,  Paul  Gerrish  and  Thos.  Hanson  for  cutting 
6  pine  trees  without  licence  etc.  They  act  under  an  agreement 
with  David  Jefferys,  an  agent  of  Mr.  Taylor's  etc.  If  such  an 
agreement  is  approved  of,  a  Surveyor  is  of  no  more  use  than  if 
he  were  in  China  etc.  It  is  impossible  to  get  witnesses.  The 
owners  {sic)  probandi  must  be  upon  the  cutters.  Mr.  Cooke's 
oppinion  has  prevailed  so  far  that  the  King  nor  his  officer  has 
anything  to  do  in  the  woods  etc.  Your  Lordships  may  expect 
a  cloud  of  witness's  affidavits  against  me  for  defending  H.M. 
rights  etc.  There  is  not  one  person  in  these  parts,  that  will 
support  H.M.  just  rights,  prorogative  etc.,  but  the  Lt.  Governour, 
Jno.  Wentworth,  who  has  not  failed  me  upon  my  application, 


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1720. 

on  all  occasions.     Thomas  Westbrook,   one  of  H.M.   Council, 
has  taken  the  same  liberty  with  those  criminal  offenders,  and 
agreed  with  Mr.  Jefferies  to  get  so  many  trees,  and  employed 
many  men  in  this  province  to  cut  them,  more  in  the  province  of 
Main  and  all  without  licence,  etc.     When  recommended  to  your 
Lordships   he  had  then  a  good  repute  and  favour  wth.   the 
people  but  within  2  years  is  gott  violently  into  the  faction  of 
Cooke  wch.  is  against  King  and  Govert.  etc.     It  is  more  than  a 
year  since  I  have  had  the  favour  of  a  line  from  their  Lordships  ; 
and  two  years  without  any  salary,  nor  any  person  to  supperseed 
me  here.     Prays  for  Instructions  etc.     Here  is  in  this  province 
sown  a  good  quantity  of  hemp  seed,  and  I  am  well  assured 
by  the  late  Act  of  this  province  it  will  be  encouraged  and  the 
people  find  their  intrest  answered  thereby.     The  tryal  being 
over  this  judgment  was  given  :   (because  I  could  not  prove  that 
the  trees  was  cut   on  unapropriated   land).     That  the  6  trees 
should  be  delivered  to  defendants'  they  giving  bonds  of  £600 
to  deliver  them  to  H.M.  yards  and  produce  a  certificate  thereof  in 
18  months,  and  that  they  pay  the  officers  fees.     They  answered 
the  3  Justices  that  they  would  not  pay  any  fees.     Refers  to 
enclosures  etc.    Signed,  J.  Bridger.     Endorsed,  Reed.  17th  Aug. 
1720.     Read  22nd  Aug.,  1721.     Holograph.      4^  pp.     Enclosed, 
118.  i.  Mr.  Bridger  to  Saml.  Penhallow,  Richd.  Wibird,  Thos. 
Packer,   the   three   Justices   referred  to   in  preceding. 
Portsmouth,    June    11,    1720.     Concludes:         Those 
trees  being  under  seizure  before  the  trial  commenced, 
it  was  not  cognizable  before  you,  either  to  take  bonds 
or  deliver  a  tree  of  them  6,  but  to  enquire  where  they 
were  cut  and  nothing  else,  for  these  trees  must  be 
found  to  answer  the  judgment  given  thereon.     Same 
endorsement.     1  p. 
118.  ii.  Copy    of   Mr.    Taylor's    contract    with    H.M.    Com- 
missioners   of    the    Navy    for   the    delivery   of  two 
ship    loads    of    masts    yearly    etc.     2nd   May,    1715. 
With  Mr.  Bridger's  comments  :    His  agent  cuts  what 
number  of  trees  he  pleases    without  my  licence  etc. 
Same  endorsement.     1  p. 
118.  iii.  Benjamin  Wentworth  to  Mr.  Bridger.     Paul  Gerrish 
etc,  have  got  130  trees  this  winter  besides  the  16  seized 
etc.     Signed,  Benja.  Wentworth.    Note  by  Mr.  Bridger : 
The  secret  agreement  was  but  for  119  etc.     Same  en- 
dorsement.     Addressed.      1    p.      \C.O.     5,     868.     ff 
71-72i;.,  73i'.,  74,  75-76iy.] 

June  21.        119,     Certificate  that  Lt.  Governor  Calvert  has  put  in  the 

^^Remem"^'   security  required,  v.  19th  May.     Signed,  James  Pearse.     En- 
Trlncer.    dorscd,   Rccd.     Read   24th   June,    1720.     i  p.     [CO.    5,   111. 
No.  81.] 


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1720. 
June  22. 


June  23. 


120.  Copy  of  Governor  Shute's  Commission  to  Henry 
Newman  to  be  agent  in  England  for  N.  Hampshire,  as  voted  by 
the  Assembly,  April  20,  1720.  Signed,  Samuell  Shute,  Richd. 
Waldron,  Cler.  Con.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Newman) 
30th  Sept.,  1720.  Read  10th  Nov.,  1721.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  868. 
ff.  149,  149i;.] 

1 21 .  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Supports  suggestion  for  an  instruction  relating  to 
Revenue  of  New  York,  similar  to  that  given  for  New  Jersey  etc. 
(v.  20th  May).  Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd. 
Read  24th  June,  1720.  1|  pp.  [CO.  5,  1052.  ff.  16,  16t;, 
171;.] 


June  24.       122.     Office  accounts  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  March  25 — 
'  June  24th,  1720.     v.  Journal  of  Council.     [CO.  388,  77.     Nos. 
78,  80,  82,  83.] 

June  24.  1 23.  Memorandum  of  Commission  appointing  Edward 
Ashe  Esqr.  a  Lord  Commissioner  of  Trade  in  the  room  of  John 
Molesworth.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  2nd  July,  1720.  Slip. 
[CO.  388,  77.     No.  76.] 


June  24. 

Whitehall. 


June  24. 

Carolina. 


1 24.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
Lt.  Governor  Calvert  having  given  the  usual  security,  enclose, 
for  their  Excellencies'  signature,  draft  of  the  usual  Instructions 
to  the  Lord  Guilford,  guardian  to  the  Lord  Baltemore,  relating 
to  the  Acts  of  Trade  etc.     [CO.  5,  727.    pp.  493,  494.] 

125.  [?]  to  Mr.  Boone.  Refers  to  former  letters.  Continues: 
Very  lately  we  have  had  a  very  wicked  and  barbarous  plott 
of  the  designe  of  the  negroes  rising  with  a  designe  to  destroy 
all  the  white  people  in  the  country  and  then  to  take  the  towne 
in  a  full  body  but  it  pleased  God  it  was  discovered  and  many 
of  them  taken  prisoners  and  some  burnt  some  hang'd  and  some 
banish'd.  I  think  it  propper  for  you  to  tell  Mr.  Percivall  at 
home  that  his  slaves  was  the  principall  rogues  etc.  14  of  them  are 
now  at  the  Savanna  Towne  and  will  be  executed  etc.  The  Savanna 
garrison  tooke  the  negroes  up  half  starved  and  the  Creeke 
Indians  would  not  join  them  or  be  their  pylots.  The  war 
continues  still  between  the  Creeks  and  the  Charaches  which  I 
take  to  be  good  news  for  us  the  Creeks  was  lately  coming 
down  to  assure  us  of  their  friendship  but  advice  was  brought 
them  that  the  Yamasees  was  foule  of  their  towns  and  had 
killed  7  warriors  and  many  others  and  taken  many  prisoners  etc. 
I  gave  you  an  account  formerly  that  there  was  a  tanner  and  his 
white  sert.  killed  by  the  Indians  to  the  Southward  and  12  negroe 
men  carryed  them  to  Augustine  which  has  I  imagine  given 
them    incouragemt.  to    come   again  a  plundering  for  we  have 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


now  advice  that  seaven  perioguas  are  coming  from  the  Yamasees 
to  the  southard  a  plundering  at  least  but  if  they  can  by 
treachery  take  Port  Royall  Garrison  doubt  not  but  they  will 
doe  it.  I  suppose  some  Spands.  is  with  them.  At  the  same 
tyme  the  negroes  was  playing  the  rogue  we  had  a  small  war 
with  the  Vocamas  a  nation  on  Winea  River  not  above  100  men 
but  the  Gentlemen  have  paid  for  it  for  there  is  60  men  women 
and  children  of  them  taken  and  killed  and  we  have  not  lost  one 
white  man  only  a  Winea  Indian  killed  and  now  they  petition 
for  peace  which  will  be  granted  them.  We  increase  dayly  in 
slaves  but  decrease  in  white  men  a  body  of  white  people  we 
expect  from  Philadelphia  but  they  are  at  a  loss  how  to  gett 
lands  they  have  sent  already  to  view  Cape  Feare  and  like  it 
pretty  well  there  is  lately  a  periagua  full  of  white  men  gon  from 
Charles  Towne  which  is  supposed  design  to  turn  pyrates.  From 
Augustine  is  lately  fitted  out  nine  privateers  which  have 
taken  many  vessells  on  this  coast  the  man  of  warr  that  is  now 
here  have  retaken  one  that  was  chartered  here  on  Govr.  Johnson 
and  Capt.  Marshall  from  Providence  retook  a  ship  that  the 
Spands.  had  taken  off  Virginia  with  a  good  cargoe  of  dry  goods 
the  ship  came  from  White  Haven  as  I  take  it  Govr.  Moore's 
bro.  was  taken  also  by  the  Spaniards  going  to  North  Carolina 
to  see  his  bro.  and  is  now  at  Augustine  poore  Mr.  Geo.  Livingson's 
eldest  son  was  also  on  board  the  same  vessell  and  we  doubt  is 
lost  for  the  privateer  put  on  board  a  long  boat  off  Cape  Hateras 
12  leagues  50  soules  in  one  boat  and  his  son  we  heare  was  one 
so  that  we  are  afraid  they  are  all  drowned.  If  H.M.  will  be 
pleased  to  take  us  under  his  imediate  care  it  will  putt  some  life 
in  us  but  if  not  many  of  the  best  and  richest  inhabitants  will 
leave  the  country.  I  hope  if  it  please  God  you  gett  the 
Governmt.  in  the  hands  of  the  Crowne  you  will  endeavor  that 
we  have  good  officers  sent  of  all  sorts  then  doubtless  Carolina 
will  thrive  again.  I  expect  we  shall  now  have  more  pyrates 
then  ever  therefore  the  more  occasion  of  an  imediate  protection 
from  the  best  of  Princes  King  George  (whom  God  preserve). 
Endorsed,  Reed,  from  Mr.  Boon.    Read  16th  Aug.,  1720.    Copy. 


2f  pp. 


[CO.  5,  358.    ff.  6,  7v.] 


June  24.       1 26.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.     Encloses  petition  of  Messrs. 

WhitehaU.  Plowman  etc  {v.  14th  June).  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions judging  that  undertaking  fit  to  be  encouraged,  and 
being  desirous  to  have  the  same  effectually  carryed  on  without 
being  made  a  stock- jobbing  business,  I  am  to  desire  your 
opinion  in  what  manner  a  patent  may  be  granted  them  to  answer 
what  their  Lordships  propose.     [CO.  324,  10.    pp.  278,  279.] 


June  25. 

Portsmouth. 


127.  Mr.  Bridger  to  Mr.  Popple.  Inclosed  is  the  trial  I 
had  this  11th  of  June  and  was  cast  etc.  Since  my  last  I  have 
demanded  of  Thomas  Westbrooke  Esqr.  to  let  me  see  agreement 


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1720. 


June  26. 


2  pp. 
127 


betwixt  him  and  Mr.  David  Jefferies  for  cutting  mast  trees 
but  he  refuses,  nor  will  he  tell  me  how  many  trees  he  has  cut  etc. 
Complains  that  he  has  been  2  years  and  4  days  without  any 
support  and  is  in  great  straits  etc.  Signed,  J.  Bridger.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  8th  Aug.,  1720.  Read  5th  July,  1722.  Addressed. 
Enclosed, 
i    Copy  of  trial  of  J.  Bridger  v.  Timothy  and  Paul  Gerish 

and  Thomas  Hanson  for  cutting  6  trees  without  licence 

etc.,  referred  to  1st  May,  20th  June,  and  in  preceding. 

Portsmouth,  9th  May,  ff.,    1720.     Same  endorsement. 

23  pp.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  250,  250i;,  251i;-263y.] 

128.  Petition  of  Stephen  Duport  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Prays  for  a  letter  to  Governor  Hamilton  to 
aid  his  attorneys  (instead  of  delaying  their  proceedings  to  eject 
his  son's  widow,  Ester  Duport  out  of  his  plantation  in  St. 
Christophers  etc.),  as  also  in  getting  the  charges  he  was  at  in 
procuring  the  stores  for  all  the  Leeward  Islands.  Mr.  Tryon 
has  been  paid  the  freight  long  since,  which  'twas  agreed  should 
be  paid  at  the  same  time  etc.  Signed,  Ste.  Duport.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  26th.     Read  29th  June,  1720.     |  p.     Enclosed, 

128.  i.  [?  Mr.  Duporfs  Attorney  to  Mr.  Duport.]  Nevis,  30th 
April,  1720.  Complains  of  Governor  Hamilton's  con- 
tinual delays  in  signing  a  writ  of  rebellion  against  the 
widow  (v.  preceding.)  Copy.  ^  p.  [CO.  152,  13. 
ff  16,  17,  19t;.] 


June  28.  129.  Horace  Walpole,  Auditor  General  of  the  Plantations, 
to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Complains  that  the 
Assembly  of  New  York  have  refused  to  allow  his  Deputy  there 
to  audit  the  Treasurer's  accounts,  with  a  view  to  keeping  the 
money  given  for  the  use  of  the  Civill  Government  intirely  in 
their  own  power  without  rendering  any  accot.  of  the  application 
of  it  to  H.M.  etc.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  545.  Signed, 
H.  Walpole.  Endorsed,  Reed.  12th.  Read  15th  Aug.,  1720. 
6|  pp.     [CO.  5,  1052.    ff  28-31t;.] 

130.  Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.  Approving  of 
Instructions  for  Lt.  Govr.  Calvert  {v.  24th  June).  Signed, 
Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  11th  Jan.,  17|^. 
1  p.     [CO.  5,  717.     No.  85.] 

Note. — After  the  entry  of  a  Memorandum  of  above  document  in  CO.  5,  727,  p. 
495,  the  volume  concludes  with  the  note :  The  subsequent  papers  relating  to  this 
Province  are  entered  in  Proprieties. 

June  28.       131.     Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.     Appointing  Peter 
Whitehall.  Bcvcrlcy  to  the   Council   of  Virginia,   v.   31st   May.     Signed, 

Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.     Read  11th  Jan.   17.!i. 

1  p.     [CO.  5,  1319.     No.  1]. 


June  28. 

Whitehall. 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


July  1. 

Whitehall. 


1720. 
June  30.       132.     H.M.  Instructions  (by  the  Lords  Justices)  to  Francis 
Whitehall.  Lord  Guilford,  for  and  on  behalf  of  Charles  Lord  Baltimore,  a 
minor.  Proprietor  and  Governor  of  Maryland,  relating  to  the 
Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation.     [CO.  5,  189.     pp.  592-613.] 

133.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Hamil- 
ton. Being  informed  that  there  is  a  suit  depending  between 
Mr.  Stephen  Duport  and  his  sons  widdow  for  a  plantation  in 
St.  Christophers,  and  that  his  attorneys  have  met  with  some 
delays,  particularly  in  the  issuing  out  a  writ  of  rebellion 
against  the  said  widow  ;  we  thought  fit  to  give  you  this  notice 
thereof,  and  to  desire  you  will  examine  whether  any  unjust 
delays  have  happen'd  in  this  or  any  other  case  in  the  adminis- 
tration of  justice  within  your  Government,  and  take  effectual 
care  to  remedy  the  same,  that  Mr.  Duport  or  other  H.M.  subjects 
may  not  suffer  thereby,  but  have  speedy  Justice.  And  whereas 
Mr.  Duport  has  represented  to  us  that  he  has  been  at  consider- 
able expence  in  procuring  ye  stores  of  war  some  time  ago  sent 
to  the  Leeward  Islands,  and  for  the  incident  charges  in  shipping 
them  off,  which  he  has  not  yet  been  reimbursed  ;  we  recom- 
mend it  to  you  that  the  just  expences  for  the  publick  service 
be  punctually  repaid.     [CO.  153,  13.    pp.  457,  458.] 

July  1.  134.  Board  of  Ordnance  to  the  Lords  Justices.  Enclose 
Office  of  as  directed  estimate  for  bedding  and  stores  demanded  by 
Governor  Burnet  for  H.M.  garrisons  in  the  Province  of  New 
York  etc.  Parliament  has  never  made  any  provision  for  those 
services,  alledging  they  were  able  and  ought  to  supply  them- 
selves, nor  have  we  any  officer  there.  Upon  extraordinary 
emergencies  this  Board  has  by  warrant  from  her  late  Majesty, 
supplyed  them  several  times  with  stores  to  the  amount  of 
£10,000  never  yet  repaid,  wch.  has  reduced  the  state  of  stores 
here  and  occasioned  a  debt  upon  the  Office.  We  therefore 
humbly  hope  your  Excellencys  will  give  directions  for  supplying 
the  said  garrisons  some  other  way.  Signed,  T.  White,  Cha. 
Wills,  M.  Richards.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  ye  Secrys'  Office 
by  Mr.  Delafaye)  11th.  Read  12th  Jan.  172|.  Copy.  2  pp. 
Enclosed, 

134.  i.  Estimate  of  stores  designed  for  H.M.   Garrisons  of 

New    York.     Total:      £1090     4s.     4d.     Copy.     1    p. 
[CO.  5,  1053.    ff.  18-19,  21i;.] 


July  2. 
WhitehaU. 


135.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
Enclose  Mr.  West's  opinion,  June  20th.  Continue :  We  beg 
leave  to  represent  that  it  would  not  be  for  H.M.  service  to  annul 
the  54th  Instruction  to  Governors,  in  as  much  as  the  same  is 
perfectly  agreeable  to  the  Laws  of  this  Realm,  neither  can  the 
second  memorial  be  comply'd  with  without  taking  from  the 
Provincial   Courts  in  the   Plantations  the   power  of  granting 


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1720. 


July  2. 

Whiteluill. 


July  3. 

Placentia . 


July  4. 

Pyrmont. 


prohibitions,  which  would  be  giving  up  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Common  Law ;  but  in  case  the  Provincial  which  are  the  Common 
Law  Courts  in  the  Plantations,  should  incroach  in  any  particular 
instance  upon  ye  just  rights  of  the  Admiralty  Courts  there, 
it  is  not  to  be  doubted  but  that  they  will  obtain  redress  upon 
application  to  H.M.  in  Council  here.  [CO.  324,  10.  pp.  280, 
281.] 

136.  Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.  Referring  pre- 
ceding representation  of  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations 
to  the  Lords  Commrs.  of  the  Admiralty  for  their  further  opinion 
thereon.  Signed,  Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
11th  Jan.,  17M.     f  p.     [CO.  323,  8.     No.  17.] 

137.  Lt.  Governor  Gledhill  to  Mr.  Secretary  [Craggs  ?]. 
Original  of  Nov.  1st.  No.  i.  Signed,  S.  Gledhill.  Endorsed, 
R.  29  Oct.     7  pp.     [CO.  194,  24.     No.  13.] 

138.  H.M.  licence  of  absence  for  six  months  to  Governor 
Shute  to  come  to  Great  Britain  to  settle  some  private  affairs  of 
his  own.  He  is  to  take  effectual  care  to  leave  things  in  such  a 
condition  that  H.M.  service  and  the  welfare  of  those  Provinces 
may  suffer  no  prejudice  by  his  absence,  and  that  the  Govern- 
ment be  administered  as  is  appointed  by  his  Commission  and 
Instructions.  Countersigned,  Stanhope.  Endorsed,  Reed.  19th. 
Read  21st  March,  172f.  I  p.  [CO.  5,  868.  ff.S4>2,S4Sv;  and 
324,  34.     p.  11.] 


July  7. 


July  8. 


139.  Mr.  Tryon  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  received  your  letter  last 
night  etc.  The  gentlemen  opposed  to  the  commuting  Act 
ask  permission  to  wait  on  the  Board  next  week  etc.  Signed, 
Thos.  Tryon.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  7th  July,  1720.  1  p. 
[CO.   28,   15.     No.  94.] 

140.  Governor  Burnet  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  Upon  your  telling 
me  that  the  Lords  Justices  did  expect  that  the  Province  of 
New  York  should  provide  for  the  repayment  of  what  money 
the  stores  sent  to  that  province  formerly  had  amounted  to, 
and  that  the  stores  now  desired  will  amount  to,  I  have  informed 
myself  from  Brigadier  Hunter,  if  such  a  provision  could  be 
expected  from  the  Assembly  of  New  York,  and  he  is  of  opinion 
they  will  never  contribute  to  anything  that  relates  to  the 
regular  forces  ;  which  add  a  strength  to  the  Government  of 
which  the  Assembly  are  jealous  being  desirous  of  being  as 
independant  as  they  can.  This  makes  it  seem  the  more  necessary 
to  have  the  troops  and  stores  in  good  order  not  only  in  case  of 
an  enemy,  but  likewise  to  prevent  disorder  in  the  province. 
Such  have  happened  already  in  the  case  of  the  Palatines,  who 
once  took  up  arms   and  refused  to  obey  the  Government,  but 


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1720. 

were  dispersed  on  the  troops  advancing.  In  like  cases  if  the 
troops  are  unprovided  the  Government  there  would  be  in 
danger  of  the  greatest  confusion,  all  which  makes  me  humbly 
hope  their  Excellencys  will  order  the  said  stores  to  be  provided 
as  formerly.    S igned,  W.  Burnet.    2  pp.    [CO.  5, 1085.     A^o.  28.] 

July  11.       141.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.     Encloses  seven  Acts  passed 
Whitehall,  in  Barbados  1719,  1720,  for  his  opinion  thereon  in  point  of  law. 
[CO.  29,  14.     pp.  78,  79.] 

July  12.  '    142.     Warrant    of    the    Lords    Justices    appointing    Peter 
Whitehall.  Bcvcrly    to    the    Council  of    Virginia.     Cojjy.     Countersigned, 
Cha.  Delafaye.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  9.] 

July  13.  143.  Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Boston,  tions.  The  new  chosen  Assembly  mett  on  this  day,  and  have 
N.  England,  ^hoscn  another  Speaker  in  the  roome  of  Mr.  Cooke ;  so  that  I 
hope  the  affairs  of  the  Province  will  now  go  smoothly  on,  and 
H.M.  just  Prerogative  be  asserted  which  I  shall  allways  sted- 
fastly  adhere  to.  Signed,  Samll.  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  17th 
Aug.,  1720.  Read  7th  March,  172 i'.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  868. 
//.  3,  ^v.] 

July  13.  1^^-  Col.  Schuyler  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
New  York.  Abstract.  Encloses  Journal  of  Indian  Interpreter  sent  to  the 
place  where  the  French  have  erected  their  house.  Recommends 
that  regard  be  had  to  it  both  for  settling  the  boundaries  between 
the  two  Colonies  and  that  the  Court  of  France  may  enjoin  the 
Governor  of  Canada  to  demolish  the  building  and  not  to  make 
such  attempts  for  the  future,  for  though  they  call  it  a  trading 
house,  it  is  evident  they  must  have  a  farther  view,  it  being  a 
pass  through  which  the  five  Nations  generally  go  to  hunt  and 
the  Far  Indians  come  to  trade  at  Albany.  If  they  should  be 
permitted  to  get  footing  there,  it  might  prove  of  fatal  con- 
sequence to  H.M.  settlements.  Repeats  9th  June.  Will 
write  to  the  Governor  of  Canada,  but  is  doubtful  of  success. 
Will  study  to  preserve  the  Province  in  the  perfect  peace  and 
tranquility  in  which  it  is  etc.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  549. 
Signed,  Pr.  Schuyler.  Endorsed,  Reed.  9th  Sept.  1720. 
Read  18th  Jan.,  172^.     If  pp.     Enclosed, 

144.  i.  Journal  of  Lawrence  Clawsen,  Interpreter  from  the 
Sinnekies  Country,  22nd  May,  1720.  On  24th  [April] 
I  set  out  with  3  Sachims  of  the  Sinnekies  in  order  to 
go  to  Octjagara  where  we  arrived  on  the  30th.  I  in 
behalf  of  the  Sachims  told  a  French  merchant  who  was 
there  in  a  house  of  40  ft.  long  and  30  wide  with  two 
other  French,  that  the  five  Nations  have  heard  you 
are  building  a  house  at  Octjagara,  and  having  con- 
sidered how  prejudiciall  a  French  settlement  on  their 


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1720. 


land  must  prove  to  them  and  their  posterity,  have 
sent  me  and  the  Sachims  to  acquaint  you  with  their 
resolution  that  it  is  much  against  their  inclination 
that  any  buildings  should  be  made  here  and  that 
they  desire  you  to  desist  further  building  and  to  leave 
and  demolish  what  you  have  made.  The  French 
merchant  answered  that  he  had  leave  from  the  young 
fighting  men  of  the  Sinnekies  to  erect  a  house  at 
Octjara,  and  would  not  demolish  it  before  he  did 
write  to  the  Governour  of  Canada  who  had  posted 
him  there  to  trade  for  him  etc.  The  Sachims  say'd 
they  never  heard  that  any  of  their  young  men  had 
given  such  leave.  On  7th  May  I  returned  to  Tjeronde- 
quatt  where  I  met  a  French  Smith  sent  by  the  Gover- 
nour of  Canada  to  work  for  the  Sinnekies  gratis  he 
having  compassion  on  them  as  a  Father  on  his  children 
knowing  they  wanted  a  smith  since  they  have  layed 
out  a  new  castle,  and  that  three  French  cannoes  loaded 
with  goods  went  up  to  the  tradeing  house  at  Octjagara. 
The  same  day  I  went  to  the  Sinnekies  Castle  and 
repeated  to  the  Sachims  and  young  Captains  (in 
the  presence  of  Jean  Coeur  the  French  interpreter) 
what  I  told  the  French  merchant  at  Octjagara  and  his 
answer,  on  which  the  Sachims  and  young  Captains 
sayd  that  the  French  had  built  the  house  without 
askeing  any  of  them  leave,  and  desired  that  their 
brother  Corlaer  might  do  his  endeavour  to  have  said 
house  demolished  that  they  may  preserve  their  lands 
and  hunting  etc.  Jean  Coeur  interrupted  me  when  I 
repeated  the  above  speech  to  the  Sachims  and  young 
Captains  and  sayd  "  You  endeavour  to  have  the  house 
demolished  only  because  you  are  afraid  that  you  will 
not  get  any  trade  of  this  Nation  and  the  farr  Indians 
for  when  wee  have  and  keep  a  house  and  people  there 
we  can  stop  all  the  Sinnekies  and  farr  Indians  but 
not  that  you  are  afraid  that  wee  shall  keep  the  land 
from  this  Nation."  Whereon  I  made  answer  that  the 
French  make  the  settlement  at  Octjagara  to  incroach 
on  the  five  Nations  to  hinder  them  of  their  hunting 
and  debar  them  of  the  advantage  they  should  reape 
by  a  free  passage  of  the  Farr  Indians  through  their 
castles,  and  in  hopes  to  impose  on  the  said  Nations 
by  selling  them  goods  at  an  extravagant  rate  as  for 
a  blanket  of  strowds  for  8  beavers  a  white  blanket 
6  and  other  goods  proportionally.  Whereas  they  may 
have  them  at  Albany  for  half  which  the  said  Indians 
affirmed  to  be  true.  Copy.  3  pp.  [CO.  5,  1052. 
ff.  123-125,  126i'.] 


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July  13. 

London. 


July  13. 

Whitehall. 


1720. 
July  13.  145.  John  Frere,  Commander  in  Chief,  Barbados,  to  the 
Barbadoes.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  The  Government  of  this 
place  being  devolved  on  me  by  the  absence  of  Mr.  Lowther, 
I  thought  it  my  duty  herewith  to  transmitt  to  your  Lordships 
the  Minutes  of  Councill  on  the  day  of  H.E.'s  departure,  etc. 
The  inhabitants  are  very  easy  and  quiett ;  I  shall  make  it  my 
study  and  care  to  keep  them  so  etc.  Signed,  Jno.  Frere.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  7th  Sept.,  1720.  Read  18th  May,  1721.  1  p. 
With  memorandum  of  Minutes  of  Council,  30th  June,  1720. 
1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  86,  87i;.,  88.] 

146.  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. I  humbly  beg  leave  to  be  heard  in  behalf  of  the  Gentle- 
men of  Barbadoes  against  confirming  a  law  lately  made  for 
regulating  the  Court  of  Exchequer.  Signed,  W.  Gordon.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  13th  July,  1720.  Addressed.  1  p.  [CO.  28, 15. 
No.  95.] 

147.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lt.  Governor 
Spotswood.  Acknowledge  letters  of  26th  May,  11th  Aug.  1719, 
1st  Feb.,  and  5th  May,  1720,  the  last  of  which  we  have  answer'd 
by  a  ship  that  was  just  sailing  when  we  receiv'd  it,  being  un- 
willing to  loose  that  opportunity  of  congratulating  you  and  the 
Council  upon  your  reconciliation.  The  abovementioned  letters 
will  not  require  much  to  be  said  to  them,  the  greatest  part  of 
them  being  upon  matters  which  are  now  to  be  forgot.  However 
we  must  acknowledge  your  care  in  transmitting  to  us  the  several 
Journals,  accounts  and  other  publiek  papers  etc.  We  observe 
what  you  write,  26th  May,  in  relation  to  the  discontinuing  the 
salary  to  the  Judges  of  the  Courts  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  and 
making  an  establishment  for  the  Judges  for  the  tryal  of  pirates, 
but  since  you  and  the  Council  are  now  likely  to  live  upon  good 
terms  together  you  may  reconsider  that  part  of  your  letter  and 
let  us  have  your  second  thoughts  thereupon  ;  In  the  mean 
time  we  presume  the  expence  for  trying  of  pirates  will  not  be 
very  great,  the  Courts  for  those  tryals  being  only  accidental 
and  for  that  reason  less  proper  to  be  look'd  upon  as  establish'd 
Courts.  We  also  take  notice  of  what  you  write  in  the  same 
letter  in  relation  to  the  effects  of  Thaeh  the  pirate,  But  upon 
this  occasion  we  think  you  ought  rather  to  have  govern'd  your- 
self by  the  56th  Article  of  your  Instructions,  and  kept  the 
produce  of  those  effects  in  your  hands  till  H.M.  pleasure  had 
been  known,  and  you  would  have  done  well  if  you  had  inform'd 
us  into  whose  hands  you  had  remitted  that  produce.  It  would 
seem  to  us  that  you  have  done  your  duty  in  suppressing  the 
pirates  on  the  coast  of  North  Carolina  and  no  complaint  has 
hitherto  been  offer'd  to  us  against  you  upon  that  account ; 
but  in  case  any  should  come  before  us  what  you  have  written 
upon  this  subject  may  then  be  of  use.  We  shall  be  very  glad 
to  receive  your  answer  to  the  queries  we  sent  you,  26th  June, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  65 

1720. 

1719,  with  all  convenient  speed,  and  desire  that  you  will  be 
very  particular  therein.  We  return  you  our  thanks  for  the 
acct.  you  give  us  of  St.  Augustine,  1st  Feb.  last,  but  the  general 
Peace  leaves  no  room  for  executing  your  proposal  on  that  head  ; 
However  since  there  is  so  large  a  ballance  upon  the  acct.  of  the 
duty  on  liquors  and  slaves,  we  think  it  would  be  a  very  consider- 
able service  if  that  part  of  money  (supposing  the  same  not  to 
be  particularly  appropriated)  were  apply'd  to  the  extending 
your  frontiers  towards  the  mountains,  and  building  forts  at 
the  heads  of  the  rivers  to  protect  the  inhabitants  ;  As  we  are 
very  little  appriz'd  of  the  state  of  your  out-settlements,  you 
the  Council  and  Assembly  of  Virginia  will  be  best  able  to  take 
the  proper  measures  for  your  own  security  upon  this  occasion, 
wherein  notwithstanding  you  will  avoid  giving  any  just  cause 
of  offence  to  your  European  neighbours,  but  as  there  are  several 
considerable  rivers  that  come  from  the  mountains  we  desire 
you  would  let  us  know  as  soon  as  may  be  what  forts  or  forti- 
fications there  are  already  built,  if  any  upon  those  rivers  to 
secure  the  British  Colonies  from  the  insults  of  the  bordering 
Indians,  or  from  the  encroachments  of  your  other  neighbours. 
We  have  consider'd  your  letter  to  Colo.  Schuyler  and  have 
given  a  copy  of  it  to  Mr.  Burnett  now  going  over  to  New  York, 
and  discours'd  with  Brigdr.  Hunter  thereupon  who  is  of  opinion 
(and  we  agree  with  him)  that  the  five  Nations  of  Indians  should 
not  be  govern'd  with  a  high  hand,  but  led  by  gentle  means 
and  fair  usage,  considering  the  increase  of  the  French  power 
in  North  America,  and  how  they  make  it  their  business  to 
court  the  natives  there,  and  Albany  therefore  having  generally 
been  the  place  appointed  for  treating  with  the  five  Nations 
where  the  Lord  Howard  and  several  others  succeeding  Governors 
of  Virginia  have  met  them  for  that  purpose,  we  would  recom- 
mend to  you  to  wave  the  ceremonial  provided  the  essential 
part  of  it  can  be  obtained.  In  order  to  this  end  we  are  of 
opinion  that  after  Mr.  Burnet's  arrival  a  time  of  meeting  should 
be  appointed,  that  you  should  send  Commissioners  from 
Virginia  to  treat  with  the  five  Nations  at  Albany  and  that  these 
Commissioners  should  take  along  with  them  one  or  more 
Deputies  with  the  belts  of  Wampum  from  each  of  the  Indian 
Nations  in  your  Govt,  in  order  to  make  a  firm  and  lasting  peace 
with  the  said  five  Nations,  and  that  this  be  done  in  the  most 
solemn  manner ;  That  these  Indian  Deputies  should  describe 
their  situation  and  abode  as  particularly  as  may  be,  that  the 
New  York  Indians  may  avoid  giving  them  disturbance  upon 
any  occasion  whatever  ;  If  the  Tuscaruros  have  been  protected 
by  the  five  Nations  as  you  suggest,  it  will  be  reasonable  that  in 
the  propos'd  Treaty  the  said  five  Nations  should  be  engaged  to 
procure  a  peace  between  the  said  Tuscaruro  Indians  and  all 
H.M.  subjects  on  the  Continent  of  America.  We  shall  only 
observe  that  this  method  of  treating  with  the  Indians  is  more 

Wt.  7595  C.P.  32—5 


66  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

agreeable  to  your  own  sentiments  in  your  letters  of  the  11th 
Aug.  to  us  than  to  what  you  write  in  your  letter  to  Colo.  Schuyler. 
etc.  Enclose  Mr.  West's  report  upon  the  two  Acts  mention'd 
26th  June,  etc.     [CO.  5,  1365.     pp.  216-221.] 

July  14.  148.  Mr.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
London.  Jn  obediencc  to  their  Lordships,  states  the  advantages  and  dis- 
advantages that  would  arise  from  the  settlement  of  Sta.  Lucia. 
Advantages: — (1)  It  would  be  an  addition  of  strength  to  the 
English,  etc.  (2)  It  has  good  ports,  capable  of  containing  a 
fleet  of  men  of  war  and  where  they  may  be  careened  etc.  (3)  The 
soil  is  of  the  same  nature  as  Martinique,  and  very  proper  for 
producing  cocoa  ;  a  species  of  merchandize  which  the  English 
have  never  yet  produced,  and  which  they  consume  great 
quantitys  of,  especially  in  our  Colonies,  where  every  mechanic 
drinks  chocolate  for  breakfast  and  supper,  etc.  (5)  Colonies 
in  the  West  Indies  are  more  beneficial  to  Britain  than  in  North 
America  ;  Dr.  Davenant  on  the  Plantation  Trade  ingeniously 
calculates,  every  English  subject  in  the  West  Indies  adds  to 
the  wealth  of  Britain  7s.  6d.  per  ann.  for  every  2s.  6d.  that  a 
subject  in  North  America  adds.  (6)  By  its  scituation,  Sta. 
Lucia  could  very  much  annoy  Martinique,  etc.  Disadvantages. 
(i)  It  would  encrease  the  sugar  trade,  of  which  there  is  already 
more  produced  than  the  markets  of  Europe  can  well  consume  ; 
and  by  consequence  damage  already  settled  Colonys.  Suggests 
that  the  grantees  be  restrained  from  planting  sugar  canes, 
which  involve  a  capital  of  several  thousands  of  pounds,  whereas 
all  the  utensils  requisite  for  curing  of  cocoa  are  not  worth  £20. 
(ii)  The  soil  is  so  rich,  that  the  inhabitants  of  Barbados, 
especially  the  poorer  sort,  would  be  tempted  to  forsake  their 
habitations  in  Barbados  which  are  now  worn  out,  and  settle 
there  etc.  The  poor  immigrants  from  Barbados  to  Antigua, 
tempted  there  by  Col.  Codrington's  offer,  when  Governor  of 
Antigua,  of  10  acres  of  land  gratis,  were  no  loss  to  Barbados. 
Many  hundred  families  have  gone  from  Barbados  to  Carolina 
and  Pensilvania  ;  But  they  were  such  for  the  most  part  who  had 
run  themselves  more  in  debt  than  they  were  worth  in  Barbados, 
and  could  have  been  no  longer  useful  in  that  Island,  and  yet 
are  now  some  of  the  toppmgest  mhabitants  where  they  are,  and 
many  of  them  have  paid  their  old  debts  etc.  Barbados  will 
benefit  by  the  hard  timber  which  must  be  cut  down  to  clear 
the  ground  in  a  new  Colony,  which  they  now  annually  pay  the 
Dutch  of  Surinam  and  Isacape  great  sums  for  etc.  It  would  be 
a  very  necessary  addition  to  the  English  strength  forthwith  to 
settle  St.  Vincents  and  Tobago  both,  now,  whilst  we  are  in  a 
condition  of  doing  it.  Signed,  W.  Gordon.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
14th  July,  1720.  Read  18th  May,  1721.  4|-  jn^-  [C-O.  28, 
17.    ff.  97-991'.] 


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1720. 

July  15.  149.  Mr.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
London.  Objections  to  the  Act  of  Barbados  for  regulating  the  Court  of 
Exchequer,  (i)  The  Act  deprives  every  person  from  suing  in 
that  Court  but  such  as  are  officers  of  the  Court  or  Crown  and 
debtors  and  accomptants  to  H.M.  etc.,  and  directs  all  others  to 
make  their  recoverys  in  the  Common  Pleas  Courts,  which  do 
not  sit  in  that  Island  from  the  latter  end  of  Sept.  to  the  begin- 
ning of  Feb.  etc.  Whereby  those  who  sue  in  the  Exchequer 
may  have  a  speedier  way  of  recovering  debts  and  may  obtain 
satisfaction  in  full  whilst  leaving  nothing  for  equally  just  claims 
upon  an  estate  etc.  Examples  given,  (ii.)  The  Act  is  calculated 
purely  for  preventing  the  speedy  recovery  of  debt  etc.  (iii.)  It 
makes  being  a  Baron  or  Officer  of  Exchequer  of  so  great  con- 
sequence, that  all  the  greatest  merchants  in  the  Island,  who  never 
used  formerly  to  concern  themselves  with  being  judges  of  the 
Courts  of  Law,  do  now  use  their  utmost  endeavours  to  obtain 
that  office,  and,  as  'tis  said,  at  some  expence,  so  much  to  the 
prejudice  of  other  merchants  that  they  are  grown  very  cautious 
how  they  trust  shopkeepers  with  merchandize  who  deal  with 
the  officers  of  the  Exchequer  etc.  P.S.  I  should  have  offer'd 
reasons  against  an  Act  to  prevent  H.M.  subjects  within  Barbados 
from  having  any  trade  or  commerce  with,  or  giving  any  protection 
etc.  to  any  rebellious  subjects  of  His  most  Christian  Majesty,  hut  as 
that  law  was  only  temporary,  I  shall  only  observe  that,  notwith- 
standing the  specious  title,  it  was  one  of  the  most  pernicious 
laws  that  ever  was  made,  ruin'd  above  an  hundred  poor  familys 
who  were  thereby  deprived  of  their  usual  subsistence  by  going 
to  Tobago,  St.  Vincents,  Sta.  Lucia  for  wood  and  turtle,  and 
vested  such  an  unlimited  power  in  the  Governour  and  Council, 
to  punish  only  for  going  to  our  own  Colonys,  and  that  too  by  a 
sort  of  Popish  Inquisition,  as  never  was  heard  of  in  that  Island 
before.  Signed,  W.  Gordon.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th  July,  1720. 
Read  18th  May,  1721.     4  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  106-107u.] 

July  15.       1  50.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Whitehall.  The   Lords  Justices   desire  your  attendance  on  Tuesday  etc. 
Signed,    Ch.    Delafaye.     Endorsed,    Reed.    16th,      Read    19th 
July,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  323,  8.     No.  11.] 

July  18.       151.     H.M.  Warrant  granting  the  office  of  Clerk  and  Re- 

Herenhausen  mcmbraucer  of  thc  Court  of  Exchequer  in  Barbadoes  to  Charles 

Huggins,  to  hold,  by  himself  or  sufficient  deputy,  for  life.     He 

is  to  reside  within  the  Island,  and  not  to  be  absent  without 

H.M.  leave.     Countersigned,  Stanhope.     [CO.  324,  34.  p.  10.] 


July  18.  1  52.  Mr.  Attorney  and  Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Reply  to  24th  June.  If  such  a 
patent  as  is  prayed  by  Mr.  Shard  (June  14)  might  be  granted 
by  law,  the  makeing  it  a  stock  jobbing  business  may  be  prevented 


68  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1720. 

by  ir\serting  a  clause  therein  for  that  purpose.  But  upon  the 
case  as  stated  to  us  we  apprehend  that  the  art  pretended  to 
by  the  petitioners  does  not  appear  to  be  a  new  invention  of 
which  the  sole  use  is  grantable.  Besides  that  we  are  very 
doubtful!  upon  consideration  of  the  Statute  of  21  Jac.  i.e. 3 
whether  the  Prerogative  of  the  Crown  for  makeing  grants  of 
this  nature  exclusive  of  other  persons  extends  to  the  Planta- 
tions. Signed,  Rob.  Raymond,  Phi.  Yorke.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
22nd  July,  1720.  Read  25th  May,  1722.  f  p.  [CO.  323,  8. 
No.  30.] 

July  19.  1 53.  Mr.  Armstrong  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
NewHamps.,  Reply  to  their  enquiry  through  H.M.  Commissioners  of  Customs, 
NewEngiand.  Qct.  31st  last,  recd.  8th  inst.,  as  to  what  manufactures  of  woollen 
and  linnen  are  carried  on  in  his  district.  As  to  New  Hampshire 
they  have  made  but  little  improvement  in  their  woollens.  By 
reason  for  many  years  past  they  have  altogether  gone  upon 
lumber  and  navall  stores  etc.,  within  this  three  years  past 
there  is  about  500  Irish  familys  come  over,  who  has  put  ye 
inhabitants  upon  improving  and  making  linnen  cloth  fitt  for 
their  shirting  and  sheeting,  and  will  doe  ye  same  where  they 
settle  etc.  Refers  to  previous  communications,  1709,  etc.  and 
proposals  for  Naval  Stores  from  N.  England  by  Sr.  Matthew 
Dudley  and  others.  Continues :  But  since  that  matter  mett 
with  such  various  sorts  of  obstructions  at  home  etc.,  had  that 
matter  been  then  obtain'd  it  would  timely  prevented  them 
from  raising  and  improveing  their  woolen  manafacty.  which 
they  have  now  brought  to  great  perfection  both  as  to  goodnes 
and  quantity,  sevcrall  thousand  pounds  worth  of  stuffs  and 
druggetts  made  in  ye  severall  Colonys,  are  sold  in  the  shop  at 
Boston.  Since  New  England  is  capable  of  produceing  their 
own  manufactures  as  woollen,  linnen,  iron,  copper  and  raising 
of  Navall  Stores,  and  they  are  now  fully  bent  that  nothing  shall 
divert  them  from  it,  I  presume  in  a  few  years  they  will  sett 
up  for  themselves  independent  from  England.  In  1717  I  made 
a  seizure  of  a  sloop  load  of  wool  imported  from  one  Plantation 
to  another  contrary  to  the  Act  of  the  10th  and  11th  of  K.  Wm. 
and  the  same  was  adjuged  a  lawfull  seizure,  and  ye  wool  and 
vessell  condemnd  according  to  Law,  and  a  decree  for  sale  of 
ye  same.  Upon  which  the  Courts  of  Common  Law  here  entred 
a  prohibition  agt.  the  Judge  of  Admiralty,  not  to  enter  such 
actions,  as  not  being  cognizable  in  his  Court,  so  by  this  means 
all  our  suites  will  be  stopped  if  these  prohibitions  be  allowed, 
for  its  only  from  the  jurisdiction  and  authority  of  that  Court 
ye  officers  can  be  supported  for  H.M.  service  etc.  I  am  humbly 
of  opinion  that  there  is  an  absolute  necessity  to  have  that  Act 
more  fully  explained  at  home,  and  that  it  may  be  in  the  power 
of  the  Courts  of  Admiralty  in  the  Plantations  fully  to  determine 
that  matter.     Otherwise  the  seizing  of  wool  here  will  be  to  no 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES, 


69 


1720. 


effect  and  they  will  still  be  encouraged  to  transport  wooll  from 
one  Collony  or  Plantation  to  another,  which  will  unavoidably 
enable  them  to  make  greater  quantitys  of  their  woollen  manu- 
facturies. 

P.S. — Ye  greatest  stocks  of  sheep  are  raisd  to  the  southward 
vizt.  in  the  Massachusetts  Goverment,  Rhoad  Island  and 
Connecticut  and  I  am  credibly  informd  there  is  upon  three  or 
four  Islands  belonging  to  these  Governments  above  30,000  sheep 
besides  ye  vast  quantitys  upon  ye  main,  and  yt.  ye  wool  from 
the  Islands  is  yearly  transported  to  ye  severall  Colonys  to  be 
manufactured  to  ye  great  disadvantage  of  Great  Britain. 
Signed,  Rot.  Armstrong.  Endorsed,  Reed.  14th  Sept.,  1720. 
Read  5th  July,  1722.     2\  pp.     Enclosed, 

153.  i.  James  Menzies,  Judge  of  Admiralty  in  New  England, 
to  H.M.  Commissioners  of  Customs.  Boston,  25th 
July,  1717.  Refers  to  Memorial  submitted  by  him  to- 
the  Lords  Commrs.  of  the  Admiralty,  10th  Aug.  last, 
relating  to  case  referred  to  in  preceding.  Continues  : 
I  am  humbly  of  opinion  that  ye  jurisdiction  and  Courts 
of  Admiralty  in  New  England  were  mightily  encroached 
upon  by  the  Judges  of  Common  Law  etc.,  and  thereby 
the  contrabeiners  of  the  Acts  of  Trade  encouraged, 
from  which  illegal  invasions  unless  I  were  releived  it 
would  be  impossible  for  me  to  prevent  ye  incon- 
veniencys  and  damage  that  would  inevitably  follow 
to  the  trade  and  manufacterys  of  Great  Britain  and 
in  particular  to  the  woolen  manufacture  thereof 
etc.,  etc.  Signed,  James  Menzies.  Copy.  2  pp.  [CO. 
5,  868.    ff.  274-275,  276,  276i;,  277i;.] 


July  20.       1  54.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Com- 

whitehau.  missioucrs   of  the    Treasury.      Enclose   Office    accounts    from 

Midsummer,    1719    to    Midsummer,    1720.     There    was    then 

6  months  salary  due  to  the  Secretary  and  other  Officers,  etc. 

Accounts  annexed.     [CO.  389,  37.    pp.  182-184.] 


July  20.       155.     Mr.  Delafaye,  Secretary  to  the  Lords  Justices  to  the 
vvhitehaU.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.     Encloses  following  for  their 
report  thereon.     Signed,  Ch.  Delafaye.     Endorsed,  Reed.  20th. 
Read  21st  July,  1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

155.  i.  Petition  of  John  Conrad  Weiser  and  John  William 
Schef  to  the  Lords  Justices.  In  behalf  of  themselves 
and  3000  German  Refugees  in  New  York,  pray  that 
instructions  may  be  given  to  the  new  Governor  for 
their  speedy  settlement  on  land  still  in  the  disposal 
of  the  Crown  etc.  Signed,  Johan  Conrad  Weiser, 
Johan  Wilm.  Schef.  f  p.  [CO.  5,  1052.  ff.  20, 
21,  22r;,  23i;.] 


70  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1720. 

July  20.  1 56.  Richard  Piatt  to  Samuel  Barons.  Sr.  we  have 
Charles  a  Tcport  hcpc  by  way  of  N.  England  of  a  warr  wth.  France 
Town.  ^ch.  God  forbid,  and  if  so  this  Country  will  soon  be  lost,  we 
are  in  a  very  great  confusion  concerning  the  affaire  of  this 
Governmt,  most  of  the  cheif  men  are  resolved  not  to  be  under 
the  Governmt.  of  ye  Proprietors,  wch.  if  they  find  renewed 
they  are  resolved  to  quit  the  country,  wch.  will  be  of  the  utmost 
evill  consequence  ;  some  are  already  going  off  and  many  other 
of  our  princepall  inhabitants  are  impatient  for  advises  from 
England  if  H.M.  will  take  care  of  this  country  or  not,  and  if 
speedy  care  be  not  taken  I  see  nothing  but  desolution  and 
destruction  must  be  the  consequence.  Wee  have  had  such  a 
prodigious  dry  time  as  never  was  known  before  by  any  living, 
not  a  drop  of  rain  has  scarce  fell  in  most  parts  of  ye  country 
for  five  months,  so  that  people  have  planted  over  again  several 
times  and  now  allmost  dispaire  of  makeing  anything,  there  is 
abundance  of  corn  and  provisions  already  everywhere  irre- 
coverably lost,  droves  of  cattle  etc.  too  and  again  the  country 
dye  for  want  of  water,  our  rivers  being  salt,  that  corn  and 
provissions  is  become  already  so  scarce,  that  corn  is  sold  for 
505.  pr.  bushl.  and  small  rice  wch.  used  to  be  of  little  value  for 
50*.  pr.c.  and  hardly  any  to  be  had,  abundance  of  people  are 
oblig'ed  to  kill  their  cattle  and  smoke  dry  it,  to  feed  their 
negroes,  all  wch.  and  other  matters  and  the  planters  being  much 
indebted  I  dread  what  the  consequences  of  all  things  may  be 
that  for  my  part  I  wish  I  could  get  farely  out  of  the  country. 
Signed,  Richd.  Splatt  &  Co.  N.B.  said  Mr.  Splatt  is  ye  most 
considerable  mt.  in  Carolina  to  his  unkle  the  sd.  Mr.  Barons  in 
London  also  ye  most  considerable  trader  to  Carolina.  Addressed. 
Copy.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  382.     Nos.  21,  and  (duplicate)  22.] 

July  20.  1  57.  Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
whitehaU.  Encloscs  following :  You  are  to  inform  the  Lords  Justices  of 
the  state  of  that  affair  before  Tuesday  next,  which  they  have 
appointed  for  the  consideration  of  that  matter  etc.  Signed,  Ch. 
Delafaye.  Endorsed,  Reed.  20th,  Read  21st  July,  1720. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 

157.  i.  Petition  of  Wm.  Lord  Craven  an  Infant  by  Sir  Fullwar 
Skip  with  to  the  Lords  Justices.  Prays  to  be  heard 
touching  his  title  to  the  Bahama  Islands,  surrendered 
to  H.M.  by  several  persons  during  his  infancy.  28th 
Oct.,  1717.  etc.  Signed,  Craven,  Fulwar  Skipwith. 
Copy.     2  pp.     [CO.  23,  1.     Nos.  24,  24.  i.] 

July  21.       158.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  PhOipps. 

WhitehaU.  Acknowledge  letters  of  3rd  Nov.  1719,  and  3rd  Jan.  and  26th 

Feb.  1720.     We  are  very  sory  to  perceive,  that  you  have  been 

detained  so  long  in  New  England,  because  we  are  perswaded 

your  presence  at  Annapolis  would  have  put  things  on  a  better 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  71 


1720, 

foot,  particularly  with  relation  to  the  French  at  Cape  Breton  and 
their  fishing  at  Can9eau,  tho'  we  hope  there  is  no  foundation 
for  ye  report  of  their  threatning  to  seize  any  of  ye  King's  ships, 
that  shall  be  on  that  station.  However  we  shall  lay  before 
the  Lords  Justices  the  account  you  give  us  of  their  fishery  at 
Can^eau,  and  the  behaviour  of  the  French  inhabitants  at 
Minis  and  Shekenecto  for  their  directions  therein.  As  also 
what  you  write  in  relation  to  your  not  making  grants  of  land 
before  a  survey  be  made  of  the  country,  and  shall  propose  that 
a  Surveyor  be  immediately  sent  to  you  for  that  purpose,  and 
shall  not  fail  to  give  you  timely  notice  when  their  Excellencies 
pleasure  shall  be  declared  therein.  In  ye  meanwhile  it  will  be 
proper  for  them  to  adhere  very  closely  to  your  Instructions  on 
this  as  well  as  all  other  heads.  We  shall  in  like  manner  repre- 
sent your  proposal  for  removing  three  companies  from  Placentia 
to  Annapolis  Royal,  with  our  opinion  of  the  expediency  of  it, 
as  also  the  necessity  of  raising  a  small  fort  at  Minas  to  keep 
the  French  in  awe,  in  case  it  should  be  thought  expedient  to 
let  them  continue  there.  We  hear  the  Lords  of  ye  Admiralty 
have  ordered  a  sloop,  which  we  hope  will  answer  what  Col. 
Doucet  desires.  And  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury  have,  as  we 
are  informed,  given  directions  concerning  presents  for  the 
Indians.  We  observe  what  you  write  in  relation  to  the  old 
patents  granted  for  land  between  New  England  and  Nova 
Scotia  ;  But  as  those  lands  are  not  within  the  bounds  of  your 
Government ;  we  need  say  nothing  to  you  thereupon  ;  but  in 
case  you  should  find  any  grants  or  patents  for  land  in  Nova 
Scotia,  you  are  to  give  us  a  particular  account  of  them  but  not 
to  confirm  ye  same,  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known.  And  this  will 
serve  for  an  answer  to  what  you  write  on  the  representn.  of 
the  inhabitants  of  Mary  Town.  The  boundaries  between  your 
Governmt.  and  the  French  are  not  yet  settled  with  the  Court 
of  France.  But  we  understand  them  to  be  as  follows.  All 
the  lands  and  islands  lying  within  the  limits  following  vizt. 
From  the  mouth  of  the  river  St.  Croix  (in  or  near  the  Bay  of 
Fundy)  up  that  river  northward,  and  from  thence  by  land  to 
the  head  of  ye  river  Moy  (that  runs  into  ye  great  River  St. 
Lawrence)  thence  down  the  said  Rivers  of  Moy  and  St.  Lawrence 
to  Cape  Roas,  and  thence  southwardly  thro'  the  Gut  of  Cango, 
and  from  thence  southwesterly  to  Cape  Sables,  and  from  thence 
up  to  the  sd.  River  of  St.  Croix.     [CO.  218,  l.pp.  464-467.] 

July  22.       159.     Mr.    Burchett    to    Mr.    Popple.     Encloses    following 
Admiralty  for  the  information  of  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Office.     Signed,   J.   Burchett.     Endorsed,   Reed.   25th   July,  Read   4th 
Aug.  1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

159.  i.  Lieut.  Governor  Wentworth  to  Mr.  Burchett.  New 
Hampshire,  30th  May,  1720.  Mr.  Bridger  has  laid 
several  complaints  before  me  this  winter,  in  relation 


72  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

to  the  destruction  of  H.M.  woods,  notwithstanding 
the  care  taken,  not  only  by  him,  but  also  by  this 
Government,  indeed  I  must  impute  a  great  deal  of 
it  to  the  new  officer's  not  coming  etc.  In  spite  of  the 
Surveyor  General's  forbidding  men's  going  into  the 
woods  to  cut  trees  without  his  warrants,  many  have 
adventured  to  do  it  etc.  On  6th  inst.  he  apply'd  to 
me  for  a  guard,  which  I  immediately  granted.  He 
wth.  the  Sheriffe  under  that  guard  went  into  the 
countrey,  and  there  did  secure  16  masts,  which  he 
assures  me  were  cut  without  the  Royal  licence,  or  the 
Surveyour's  warrant.  I  am  humbly  of  opinion  that 
there  should  be  an  example  made  etc.  Signed,  Jno. 
Wentworth.  Copy.  2  pp. 
159.  ii,  Mr.  Bridger  to  Mr.  Burchett.  Portsmouth,  May  1st, 
1720.  The  persons  who  cut  the  trees  I  siezed 
(v.  preceding)  made  complaint  to  Governor  Shute, 
who  ordered  Lt.  Governor  Wentworth  to  hear  them. 
They  answered  by  a  former  warrant  of  1718,  for  136 
trees,  which  by  the  express  words  of  my  warrant  were 
to  be  cut  down  that  season  etc.  Prays  fo?'  consideration 
of  his  services  and  sufferings  etc.  Signed,  J.  Bridger. 
Copy.     3f  pp.     [CO.  5,  867.     Nos.  70,  70.  i.,  ii.] 

July  22.       160.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

WhitchaU.  The  Lords  Justices  direct  that  you  send  to  Mr.  Attorney  and 

Sollicitor  General  as  soon  as  possible  information  relating  to 

Lord  Craven's  claim  etc.    Signed,  Ch.  Delafaye.    Endorsed,  Reed. 

23rd.     Read  25th  July,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  23,  1.     No.  25.] 

July  25.  161.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords 
WhitehaU.  Justices.  Representation  upon  Lord  Craven's  petition, 
20th  July.  Refer  to  grant  of  the  Bahama  Islands,  1670,  and 
address  of  the  House  of  Lords,  March  1705,  for  resuming 
them  to  the  Crown,  and  Representations  thereon  etc. 
(v.  C.S.P.  1706,  Nos.  327,  328,  336.  i.,  ii.,  362,  375,  993.  i.)  The 
latter  representation,  June  17,  1708,  was  by  H.M.  Order  in 
Council  referred  to  Mr,  Sollicitor  General  for  his  opinion,  but 
his  report  being  to  H.M.  in  Council,  we  do  not  find  any  entry 
of  it  in  our  Books,  nor  do  we  know  what  further  proceedings 
were  had  in  Council  or  elsewhere  upon  this  subject ;  However 
we  have  been  informed  that  Holden  did  not  go  Governor 
(v.  C.S.P.  1708.  No.  993.  i.).  Refer  to  proceedings  in  1709,  and 
"  nothing  having  been  done  thereupon,"  to  Representations  of 
14th  Dec,  1715  and  10th  March,  1716.  q.v.  Since  which  time 
nothing  has  been  transacted  at  our  Board  till  28th  Oct.,  1717, 
when  four  of  the  Proprietors  surrender'd  their  rights.  Quote 
Attorney  General's  opinion  upon  that  transaction,  v.  10th  Dec. 
1717  etc.     Upon  which  we  take  leave  to  observe  that  it  is  very 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  73 

1720.  "^ 

clear  from  the  reports  of  former  Attorneys  and  Sollicitors 
General  that  had  not  this  surrender  been  made  the  Proprietors 
by  their  long  neglect  in  providing  for  the  security  of  the  said 
Islands  and  H.M.  subjects  inhabiting  there  had  forfeited  their 
right  of  Governmt.  and  that  H.M.  might  legally  provide  both 
for  the  civil  and  military  Govt,  of  those  Islands,  and  we  would 
submit  to  your  Excellencies  whether  it  may  not  be  proper  for 
H.M.  Attorney  and  Sollr.  to  consider  how  far  this  forfeiture 
may  likewise  have  affected  the  propriety  of  the  soil.  As  to  the 
Lord  Craven's  allegation  that  the  legal  right  in  and  to  all  the 
powers  and  priviledges  under  the  Letters  Patents  did  legally 
vest  in  and  come  to  the  late  Earl  of  Craven  from  and  under 
whom  the  petitioners  late  father  was,  and  the  petitioner  now 
is  well  entitul'd.  This  being  a  matter  of  law  we  shall 
only  observe  upon  the  two  abovementioned  Memorials,  that 
the  first  was  sign'd  by  the  late  Lord  Craven  in  conjunction 
with  the  rest  of  the  Proprietors,  and  that  the  last  was  sign'd 
also  in  conjunction  with  the  rest  by  Sr.  Fulwar  Skip  with  as 
guardian  to  the  present  Lord  etc.  We  enclose  three  extracts 
from  our  books  of  transactions  wherein  the  Lord  Craven's 
ancestors  under  whom  he  claims,  have  acted  in  conjunction 
with  the  other  Lords  Proprietors  of  the  Bahama  Islands. 
Aiinexed, 

161.  i.  Extract  from  Commission  by  the  Lords  Proprietors 

of   the    Bahama  Islands  to  Governor    Webb.      12th 

Nov.,  1696. 
161.  ii.  Representation    by    the    Lords    Proprietors    of   the 

Bahama  Islands,   C.S.P.   1700.     No.  308.  ii. 
161.  iii.  Extract  from  Commission  by  the  Lords  Proprietors 

of  the  Bahama  Islands  to  Governor  Birch.     C.S.P. 

1702.     No.  614.     [CO.  24,  1.     pp.  36-47.] 

July  25.       162.     Mr.  Popple  to  Brigadier  Hunter.     Desires  his  opinion 
Whitehall.  ypQj^  ^Yie  petition  of  John  Weisser  etc.     v.  No.  155.  i.     [CO.  5, 
1124.     p.  233  ;    and  5,  1079.     No.  119.] 

July  26  163.  Brigadier  Hunter  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
London.  tious.  In  reply  to  preceding,  repeats  former  accounts  of 
settlement  of  Palatines  etc.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  552  ; 
Doc.  Hist.  N.Y.  III.  422.  Signed,  Ro.  Hunter.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  26th  July.  Read  2nd  Aug.,  1720.  2i  pp.  [CO.  5, 
1052.    ff.  26-27r;.] 

[July  28.]  164.  Case  of  the  Germans  in  New  York.  Petition  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  a  favourable  report 
{v.  20th  July).  Recount  events  since  1709.  Many  of  the  state- 
ments are  marked  "  not  true,"  "  utterly  false  "  etc.  (?  by 
Brigadier  Hunter).  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  553.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  28th  July.  Read  2nd  Aug.,  1720.  2|  pp.  [CO.  5 
1052.    ff.  24-251;.] 


74 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 
July  28. 

Whitohall. 


July  28. 

Whitehall. 


July  28. 

Nassau  on 
Providence. 


1 65.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
Refer  to  their  application  to  the  Lord  Chamberlain  for  two 
additional  rooms  {v.  C.S.P.  Jan.  9th,  1718).  Continue :  But 
nothing  having  hitherto  been  done  thereupon,  and  the  incon- 
venience dayly  encreasing  with  the  number  of  our  papers,  we 
would  intreat  your  Excellencys  to  give  the  necessary  orders 
for  the  said  additionall  building  to  be  made  whilst  the  season 
is  so  proper  for  that  purpose.     [CO.  389,  37.     pp.  185,  186.] 

166.  Warrant  granted  by  the  Lords  Justices  granting  leave 
of  absence  for  a  further  two  years,  to  John  Cornelius,  Naval 
Officer  in  Barbados.  Signed,  Ch.  Delafaye.  Cojjy.  [CO.  324, 
34.   pp.  12,  13.] 

167.  Governor  Rogers  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Having  none  of  your  Lordships  commands  nor  no  news 
from  home  for  above  this  twelve  month  past  save  reports  from 
the  Colonys  around  us  not  to  be  rely'd  on  and  being  as  I  fully 
acquainted  your  Lordships  in  my  last  and  to  the  Right  Honble. 
Mr.  Secry.  Craggs  extreamly  reduced  and  unable  to  support 
myself  and  garrison,  I  did  not  designe  to  trouble  your  bord 
farther  till  we  knew  our  fate  had  not  an  unpresidented  passage 
happened  on  the  10th  inst.  at  night  from  Capt.  Wingate  Gale 
the  Commander  to  our  guardship  who  has  the  garrison's  magazine 
abord  etc.  He  then  disobey'd  my  commands  and  stood  in 
opposition  to  my  officers  yt.  I  sent  for  him,  till  I  was  driven 
to  apprehend  him  myself  by  force  to  prevent  the  mischevious 
consequence  of  his  ill  example,  or  his  raising  a  mutiny  agt.  me 
wch.  I  had  then  too  many  reasons  to  apprehend  because  he 
had  abettors.  I  ordered  him  all  night  into  close  confinemt. 
and  the  next  morning  called  a  Council  and  on  his  giveing  security 
for  his  future  good  behaviour  I  discharg'd  him  out  of  custody 
and  from  his  farther  attendance  at  the  Council  without  entring 
into  any  debate  here  according  to  the  10th  Article  of  the  Govr. 
of  Jamaica's  Instructions  to  wch.  on  this  occation  I  am  referr'd. 
I  did  this  to  prevent  any  partys  or  misunderstandings  wth. 
one  or  two  of  the  Council  who  was  his  abettors  and  might  have 
fomented  further  differences  he  had  often  before  this  been 
too  backward  in  his  duty  etc.  and  too  dilatory  and  slighting  to 
my  order  for  H.M.  service.  Refers  to  affidavits  sent  to  Mr. 
Geo.  Bamfield,  etc.  Continues :  I  hope  that  I  have  leave  of 
absence  and  a  supply  very  near  us  wch.  is  all  that  we  have  to 
rely  on  for  we  want  provisions  and  cloathing  and  I  cannot 
purchase  it  here  till  we  hear  farther  from  home  and  unless  we 
have  good  recruits  wth.  a  ship  of  war  station'd  here  on  purpose 
or  a  larger  garrison  and  better  supplied  wth.  orders  to  fit  out 
after  any  pirates  yt.  may  shelter  in  these  parts  we  may  expect 
as  it's  peace  there  will  be  more  then  ever  the  vast  detriment 
if  not  distruction  of  ye  American  trade.  I  have  divided  and 
distributed  all  ye  loose  people  wee  had  here  amongst  ye  vessels 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  75 


1720 


yt  left  us  after  the  embargoe  to  make  them  honest  if  possible 
but  Capts.  Porter  and  Fox  has  left  us  since  wth.  about  60  men 
and  I  hear  are  gone  under  a  coppy  of  a  New  York  Commission 
from  Govr.  Hunter  because  I  was  resolv'd  to  give  no  more  till 
I  was  better  satisfied  whether  'twas  war  or  peace  ;  I  wish  they 
may  do  no  mischief  for  they  began  very  suspiciously  by  lying 
near  us  and  stealing  as  many  men  as  they  could  from  the  shore 
yt.  were  not  permitted  to  depart  these  Islands.  Though  I  have 
had  ye  loosest  people  in  America  to  deal  wth.  all  during  ye  war 
yet  I  hope  your  Lordships  will  have  as  good  accot.  of  our 
transactions  as  any  of  our  neighbours,  for  I  have  not  yet  heard 
of  any  complaint  agt.  all  that  I  have  commission'd  etc.  Signed, 
Woodes  Rogers.  Endorsed,  Reed.  13th  Oct.  1720.  Read 
27th  June,  1721.     4  pp.     Enclosed, 

167.  i.  Deposition  of  Lt.  Ockold,  in  the  Independant  Company 
in  Fort  Nassau,  19th  July,  1720.  On  10th  July  about 
9  at  night  the  centinel  at  the  eastermost  bastion 
challenged  a  boat  going  from  the  shore  at  least  fifteen 
times,  who  returning  no  answer,  the  Governor  ordered 
him  to  fire,  which  he  did  twice  before  they  answered 
the  Delicia.  Refusing  the  Governor's  orders  to  come 
ashore,  they  hastened  on  board  the  Delicia.  The 
Governor  summoned  Capt.  Gale  to  come  ashore,  but  he 
refused  to  do  so,  or  to  submit  to  the  Marshall's  warrant. 
At  length  the  Governor  went  aboard  with  12  soldiers 
and  brought  him  off,  etc.  Signed,  Thos.  Ockold.  1  p. 
167.  ii.  Deposition  of  Lt.  Robinson,  19th  July,  1720.  Con- 
firms preceding  and  adds  that  Capt.  Gale  armed  his 
men  to  resist  the  soldiers  coming  on  board,  and  when 
the  Governor  arrived  presented  a  pistol  at  him,  but 
was  disarmed  and  taken  by  force  etc.  Signed,  Thos. 
Robinson,  f  p. 
167.  iii.  Deposition  of  Edward  Fenner  and  six  others  of  the 
crew  of  the  Delicia  denying  that  the  crew  or  Capt. 
Gale  were  in  arms  as  stated  in  preceding.  27th  July, 
1720.  Signed,  Edward  Fenner  and  six  others,  f  p. 
167.  iv.  Deposition  of  Edward  Fenner  and  Isaac  Wright 
that  Capt.  Gale  offered  no  resistance  until  Governor 
Rogers  called  him  a  rascal  and  struck  him  with  his 
pistoll  upon  the  head,  when  he  seized  a  pistol  etc. 
22nd  July,  1720.  Signed,  Edward  Fenner,  Isaac 
Wright.  1  p. 
167.  V.  Copy  of  Governor  Rogers'  warrant  to  John  Bossard, 
Marshal,  for  the  arrest  of  Capt.  Gale.  10th  July, 
1720.  1  p. 
167.  vi.  vii.  Examinations  and  depositions  of  Edward  Knight 
and  15  other  soldiers,  generally  denying  Nos,  iii.  and 
iv.  27th  and  28th  July,  1715.  Signed,  Edward 
Knight  and  15  others.     4  pp. 


76  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

167.  viii.  Copy  of  Governor  Rogers'  commitment  of  Capt. 
Gale  for  conduct  tending  to  mutiny,  etc.  10th  July, 
1720.  1  p. 
167.  ix.  Deposition  of  Lt.  John  Howell  as  to  Capt.  Gale's 
refusing  to  obey  the  warrant  No.  v.,  and  his  scuffle 
with  the  Governor  etc.  19th  July,  1720.  Signed, 
John  Howell.  1  p.  The  whole  endorsed.  Reed.  13th 
Oct.  1720.  Read  27th  June,  1721.  [CO.  23,  1. 
Nos.  34,  34.  i.-ix.] 

July  29.  168.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
Whitehall  Upon  Govemor  Philipps'  letter  of  Jan.  3rd,  recommend  that 
orders  be  given  to  H.M.  Surveyor  in  those  parts  forthwith  to 
make  a  full  and  perfect  survey  of  Nova  Scotia,  or  at  least  to 
mark  out  and  set  apart  large  tracts  of  land  in  proper  places 
there,  adjacent  to  the  sea  or  to  the  banks  of  navigable  rivers, 
to  be  reserved  for  the  preservation  of  timber  for  the  use  of  the 
Royal  Navy.  After  which  the  Govr.  will  be  at  liberty  according 
to  the  tenor  of  his  present  Instructions  to  make  grants  of  small 
parcels  of  land  etc.,  which  we  conceive  would  be  the  most  speedy, 
effectual  and  advantageous  way  to  people  that  Colony.  We 
are  the  rather  induced  to  offer  this  matter  at  present  to  your 
Excellency's  consideration,  because  of  ye  very  bad  state  Nova 
Scotia  is  in,  where  there  are  very  few  or  no  inhabitants  except 
the  garrison  of  Annapolis  to  be  depended,  and  that  but  a  very 
weak  one  :  For  the  French  who  were  permitted  to  stay  there 
under  certain  conditions  by  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  being  in- 
fluenced by  their  priests  are  far  from  submitting  to  H.M. 
Governmt.  and  according  to  our  last  letters  from  those  parts 
have  hitherto  refused  to  take  the  oaths  of  allegiance  to  H.M., 
still  reputing  themselves  subjects  of  France,  carrying  on  a 
trade  with  the  French  destructive  to  the  British  intrest.  Col. 
Philips  likewise  complains  that  contrary  to  the  Treaty  of 
Utrecht,  the  French  at  Cape  Breton  protected  by  soldiers 
continue  their  fishery  at  Can90,  the  best  place  for  catching  fish 
in  all  H.M.  Dominions,  which  being  an  infraction  of  the  said 
Treaty  we  humbly  offer  that  your  Excellency's  pleasure  may  be 
signify'd  to  H.M.  Minister  at  the  Court  of  France  and  to  Mr. 
Pulteney  one  of  H.M.  Commissaries  there,  that  they  endeavor 
to  get  an  order  from  that  Court,  requiring  their  subjects  in 
the  strictest  manner  at  Cape  Breton  to  confine  themselves  in 
their  fishery  to  ye  limits  mentioned  in  the  said  Treaty.  Con- 
sidering therefore  the  very  ill  state  of  this  Colony  we  cannot 
but  agree  with  Col.  Philips'  request  in  proposing  to  your 
Excellencies,  that  three  more  companies  of  his  regiment  now 
quartered  at  Placentia  may  be  removed  without  loss  of  time 
to  Annapolis,  after  which  there  will  still  remain  two  companies 
at  Placentia,  which  we  conceive  may  be  sufficient  for  that 
Garrison  in  time  of  peace.     \C.O.  218,  1.     pp.  467-476.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  77 


1720. 

Aug.  2.  169.  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Suffoik  tions.  At  ye  last  Court  of  Grand  Sessions  in  Barbadoes  there 
^<^reet.  ^gj.g  ^gj.y  extraordinary  proceedings  against  me  and  my  friends, 
in  our  absence,  and  several  bills  of  indictment  prefer'd  and  found. 
Application  was  made  in  our  behalf  to  ye  Clerc  of  ye  Crown  for 
copies  of  all  ye  proceedings,  wch.  being  matters  of  record  he 
could  not  justify  ye  refusal  of,  but  he  did  the  same  in  effect,  by 
demanding  £157/.  IO5.  Od  as  fees  for  ye  copies, wch.  my  Attorneys 
there  did  not  think  proper  to  give  etc.  Prays  to  be  allowed  to 
take  copies  from  the  copy  transmitted  to  the  Board,  in  order  to 
apply  to  H.M.  for  redress.  Signed,  W.  Gordon.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  2nd  Aug.,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  96.] 

Aug.  2.  170.  Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.  Upon  hearing 
counciii  the  claim  of  William  Lord  Craven  (v.  July  20)  and  Mr.  Attorney 
wwteh'oTi!  General  on  behalf  of  the  Crown,  ordered  that  Sir  Robt.  Raymond 
H.M.  Attorney  General  do  forthwith  bring  a  scire  facias  for  the 
vacating  the  Letters  Patents  made  by  King  Cha,rles  II  to  the 
Proprietors  of  the  Bahama  Islands,  and  for  resuming  the  same 
into  the  Crown,  pursuant  to  the  Address  of  the  House  of  Peers 
in  1705.  Signed,  Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
11th  Jan.,  17^?.     2  pp.     [CO.  23,  1.     No.  28.] 

Aug.  2.       171 .     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Whitehall.  The  Lords  Justices  remind  you  of  the  state  of  H.M.  Plantations, 
which,  when  you  attended  their  Excys.  19th  July,  you  were 
directed  to  lay  before  them.  Their  Excys.  upon  your  Rep- 
resentation praying  for  an  additional  two  rooms,  etc.  etc. 
{v.  28th  July)  direct  that  you  should  apply  to  my  Lord  Chamber- 
lain that  he  may  write  to  my  Lord  Stanhope  for  H.M.  Orders. 
etc.  They  command  me  to  write  to  Sr.  Robert  Sutton  and  to 
Mr.  Pulteney  to  solicit  the  French  Court  for  an  order  to  their 
subjects  to  confine  their  Fishery  to  the  limits  prescribed  by 
the  Treaty  at  Utrecht  :  and  also  to  signify  their  Excys.  pleasure 
to  the  Secretary  at  War  that  he  take  care  of  dispatching  the 
proper  orders  for  removing  three  Companys  of  Col.  Philips' 
Regiment  from  Placentia  to  Annapolis  Royal.  Signed,  Ch. 
Delafaye.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug.  3rd,  1720.  1|  pp. 
[CO.  323,  8.     No.  12.] 

Aug.  4.  1 72.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Duke  of 
Whitehall.  Newcastle.  Refer  to  their  application  to  the  Lords  Justices 
28th  July.  Continue : — We  have  received  their  Excellencies 
orders  to  apply  to  your  Grace,  that  you  may  write  to  my  Lord 
Stanhope  and  desire  him  to  obtain  H.M.  orders  for  building 
two  additional  rooms  to  our  Office  etc.  v.  C.S.P.  9th  Jan., 
1718.     [CO.  389,  37.     pp.  186,  187.] 


78 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

Aug.  4.  173.  Mr.  Stanhope  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  Mr.  Walpole,  the 
Treasury  Auditor  of  the  Plantacons,  having  represented  to  my  Lords 
lam  .  ^^  ^^^  Treasury  the  arbitrary  proceedings  of  the  Assembly  of 
New  York  in  taking  into  their  owne  hands  the  sole  management 
of  the  Revenues  raysed  for  the  support  of  H.M.  Civil  Govern- 
ment and  entirely  excluding  the  Officers  of  the  Crown  from  any 
concerne  therein  contrary  to  antient  practise  and  in  defiance 
of  H.M.  prerogative  their  Lordships  desire  the  said  Representa- 
tion to  be  laid  before  the  Lords  Justices  for  their  orders  etc. 
Signed,  C.  Stanhope.   Addressed.    Ip.    [CO.  5, 1085.   A^o.  29.] 

Aug.  4.       1 74.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 

Whitehall.  Govcmor  Shutc  having  informed  us  (v.  9th  Sept.,  17th  Dec. 
1719)  that  Monsr.  Vaudrevil  Governor  of  Canada  has  refused 
to  restore  several  of  our  captives  etc.,  we  humbly  offer  that 
H.M.  Ministers  at  the  Court  of  France  be  directed  to  complain 
of  this  infraction  of  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  and  to  require  an 
order  for  their  immediate  releasement.     [CO.  5,  915.     p.  313.] 


Aug.  4. 

Whitehall. 


175.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Delafaye. 
Reply  to  Aug.  2.  We  have  made  some  progress  in  the  draft  of 
a  Representation,  etc.  By  reason  of  the  multiplicity  of  books 
and  papers  the  same  is  drawn  from,  it  will  necessarily  take  some 
time  etc.     [CO.  324,  10.     p.  282.] 

Aug.  6.       176.     Governor     Philipps    to     Mr.     Popple.     Acknowledges 

Annapolis  letter  of  26th  Aug.  last,  "with  instructions  for  raiseing  hemp 

Royal.      Q^j^^  makeing  tarr  etc.,  which  I  shall  take  care  to  promote  when 

the  circumstances  of  this  Province  will  admit  thereof."     Signed, 

R.  Phillips.     Endorsed,  Reed.  26th  Nov.  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  217, 

3.     No.  14  ;    and  218,  1.     p.  486.] 


[?Aug.6.] 

Annapolis 
Royal. 


177.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. As  there  are  not  frequent  oppertunities  of  corres- 
pondence between  this  place  and  Great  Brittain,  I  am  carefull 
to  make  use  of  such  as  offer  to  acquaint  your  Lordships  with 
the  posture  of  affaires  in  this  Province.  Matters  continue  here 
in  the  same  situation,  in  regard  to  the  French  inhabitants, 
who  seem  yet  undetermined  which  party  to  choose,  tho'  if 
left  to  themselves  would  certainly  embrace  that  of  enjoyeing 
their  possessions,  by  beeomming  subjects  to  Great  Brittain, 
but  the  neighbouring  French  Governors,  finding  that  these 
people  will  no  longer  be  serviceable  to  their  interest  after 
sweareing  allegiance  ;  and  judging  (too  well)  of  the  consequence 
of  wanting  such  a  number  of  hands,  to  strengthen  and  improve 
their  Collonys  are  makeing  use  of  all  stratagems  to  draw  them 
to  their  party,  to  this  end  the  priests  are  all  assembled  at  Minas 
to  be  nearer  to  Cape  Breton,  where  their  great  Council  is  held, 
between  which  places  they  are  continually  passing  and  repassing. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  79 


1720. 


from  whence  they  disperse  false  pacquetts,  and  insinuations 
among  the  people,  as  fast  as  they  can  be  coyn'd.  Among  other 
things  they  are  told  that  the  promise  made  them  of  injoying 
their  religion  is  but  a  chimera,  and  what  they  must  not  depend 
on,  for  they  will  quickly  be  reduced  to  the  same  state  with  H.M. 
Popish  subjects  in  Ireland  and  their  priests  denyed  them  ;  I 
indeavour  all  I  can  to  undeceive  them,  but  scarce  hope  to  find 
more  credit  with  them  than  their  priests.  If  these  prevaile,  here 
will  be  a  great  many  fine  possessions  become  vacant.  I  beleive 
it  would  not  be  difficult  to  draw  as  many  people  almost  from  New 
England,  as  would  supply  their  room,  if  it  wear  not  robbing  a 
neighbouring  Collony,  and  perhaps  not  gaining  much  by  the 
exchange,  therefore  hope  there  are  schemes  forming  at  home 
to  settle  this  Colony  with  British  subjects  in  the  spring,  before 
which  time  these  inhabitants  do  not  think  of  moveing,  haveing 
the  benefit  of  the  inlargement  of  time  I  granted  untill  such  time 
I  shall  receive  your  Lordships  farther  commands  :  What  is 
to  be  apprehended  in  the  resetling  these  farms  is  disturbance 
from  the  Indians  who  do  not  like  to  hear  of  the  French  goeing 
off  and  will  not  want  prompting  unto  mischief.  Encloses 
following.  The  convention  therein  mentioned,  was  an  affair 
transacted  by  General  Nicholson,  who  can  give  the  best  account 
thereof ;  and  how  far  H.M.  stands  obliged  to  make  good  at 
this  time  of  day,  what  should  have  been  executed  seven  yeares 
agoe  according  to  that  Treaty.  The  want  of  the  presents 
which  I  have  expected  for  the  Indians,  has  made  me  delay 
speaking  with  them  hitherto,  but  finding  it  no  longer  adviseable 
to  deferr  that  matter  (upon  information  that  the  discontented 
French  are  daily  practising  to  possess  them  with  notions  of 
some  ill  designs  formed  by  the  Government  against  them)  have 
sent  an  express  over  the  Bay  (where  the  most  considerable  of 
them  keep)  to  assemble  their  Chiefs  with  whom  I  shall  indeavour 
to  settle  a  peaceable,  and  friendly  corrispondence,  but  I  am 
sorry  to  find  the  French  have  so  well  made  their  advantage  of 
our  neglect  of  this  countrey,  that  their  Government  prevailes 
both  among  the  inhabitants  and  natives,  and  the  Kings 
authority  (which  is  confined  within  this  fort,  for  want  of  meanes 
to  extend,  and  diffuse  it's  influence  over  the  several  inhabited 
parts)  is  in  a  manner  despised,  and  ridiculed  ;  This  I  have  the 
mortification  to  experience  almost  every  day  in  many  respects, 
perticularly  by  letters  that  have  fallen  into  my  hands  from 
some  principall  officers  of  Cape  Bretton,  wherein  the  people 
addressed  to,  are  told,  that  they  may  for  forme  sake,  apply  to 
me,  but  in  case  I  do  not  grant  their  request,  they  may  follow 
their  own  inclination.  These  things  (with  submission)  require 
speedy  and  effectuall  redress,  that  H.M.  authority  may  be  better 
maintained  and  supported  within  this  Province.  Nothing 
shall  be  wanting  on  my  part  towards  doeing  my  duty,  but  whilst 
I  am  shut  up  within  this  garrison,  without  the  necessary  con- 


80  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

veniency  of  lookeing  abroad,  the  people  of  Minas  and  Chignecto 
know  very  well  they  are  out  of  my  power  and  in  spite  of  anything 
I  can  doe  to  obstruct  carry  on  a  clandestine  trade  with  Cape 
Breton,  which  they  supply  yearly  with  corn  and  cattle  in 
exchange  for  the  woollen  and  linnen  manufactures  of  France. 
These  practices  may  in  a  great  measure  be  prevented  and  the 
people  kept  in  better  obedience,  if  I  might  be  permitted  to  hire 
and  arm  a  sloop,  with  some  troops  of  the  Garrison,  when  occasion 
requires  to  visit  the  settlements,  and  observe  their  actions  the 
charge  of  which  will  be  inconsiderable  compared  with  that  of  a 
station  ship  which  will  cost  the  Government  three  or  four 
thousand  pounds  pr.  annum,  and  this  not  more  than  £400,  one 
year  with  another,  and  that  service  every  [?way]  answered  ; 
And  if  I  durst  propose  what  I  think  farther  necessary  towards 
the  retrieving  the  affaires  of  this  Province  and  settling  it  with 
safety,  it  would  be  the  addition  of  100  men,  this  Garrison  being 
too  small  to  supply  all  dutys,  that  may  be  required  in  the 
several  services  of  this  Goverment  in  its  present  scittuation. 
I  have  wrote  to  the  Governor  of  Quebec  (according  to  my 
instructions)  to  propose  his  sending  Commissioners  in  con- 
junction with  those  who  shall  be  appointed  on  the  part  of  H.M. 
for  settling  the  boundaryes  of  the  Province,  but  have  not  yet 
received  his  answer.  As  to  the  trade  of  this  country  (to  which 
I  have  not  yett  had  time  to  speake)  it  is  intirely  hitherto  in 
favour  of  Boston,  consisting  in  fish,  furrs,  feathers  and  oyle  ; 
Of  the  first  there  is  not  less  than  80  or  100,000  quintalls  catched 
a  season  by  the  vessells  of  New  England,  which  they  carry  to 
all  the  markets  of  Portugal  the  Mediterranean  and  West  Indies  ; 
the  furr  trade  is  carryed  on  by  four  or  five  sloops  who  make 
three  voyages  in  the  yeare,  bringing  with  mostly  West 
Indie  commodityes,  and  provissions  of  New  England  with 
some  European  goods,  all  which  they  put  off  here 
sometimes  at  4  or  500  pr.  cent,  and  carry  away  by 
computation  9  or  £10,000  worth  of  furrs  yearly,  without 
paying  the  least  duty  or  import  towards  the  support 
of  this  Goverment,  which  is  without  any  settled  fund,  to  bear 
the  necessary  contingencys  thereof,  which  must  fall  a  charge 
upon  the  Goverment  at  home,  while  those  people  reap  all  the 
proffit ;  there  is  likewise  in  the  upper  part  of  the  Bay  a  very 
good  coal  mine,  which  the  people  of  Boston  fetch  at  their 
pleasure  not  only  without  paying  any  acknowledgement  to 
the  Lord  of  the  Mannor  (His  Majesty)  but  without  the  good 
manners  to  ask  his  leave.  By  the  next  I  shall  have  the  honour 
to  transmit  the  Minutes  of  Council  with  the  several  orders 
thereupon,  which  hitherto  have  not  been  very  materiall.  If 
I  am  too  circumstantiall  in  my  account  of  matters,  it  is  from  a 
desire  of  informing  your  Lordships  of  the  true  state  of  this  H.M. 
Province,  that  proper  measures  may  be  taken  in  every  case 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  81 

1720. 

toward  settling  and  secureing  this  countrey  under  H.M.  obedi- 
ence. R.  Philipps.  Endorsed,  Reed.  20th  Nov.,  Read  1st  Dec. 
1720.     Undated.     lOf  pp.     Enclosed, 

177.  i.  Governor  St.  Ovide  de  Brouillan  to  Governor  Phihpps. 
Louisbourg,  8th  June  (N.S.),  1720.  I  profit  by  the 
return  of  Father  Justinien  to  congratulate  you  on  your 
safe  arrival  and  to  thank  you  for  your  letter  and  good 
faith  etc.  I  shall  give  all  my  care  to  maintain  with  you 
the  union  of  the  two  Nations  etc.  As  to  the  savages, 
I  have  always  inclined  them  to  peace  and  quiet ;  I 
do  not  know  up  to  the  present  that  they  have  contra- 
vened it  etc.  Father  Justinien  informs  me  of  the 
precise  orders  which  you  have  given  to  the  inhabitants 
of  Nova  Scotia  to  take  the  oath  or  withdraw,  that  is 
apparently  those  whom  you  mean  by  the  natives  of  the 
country  of  whom  you  speak  to  me  in  your  letter  ; 
I  have  tried  no  less  when  occasion  served  to  inspire 
in  them  a  spirit  of  tranquility  to  the  best  of  my  power, 
but.  Sir,  however  just  may  be  the  resolution  you  have 
taken  to  determine  them  in  consequence  of  the  express 
orders  of  the  King  your  Master,  you  will  allow  me  to 
represent  to  you  that  the  inaction  in  which  these 
people  have  remained  up  to  the  present,  neither  can 
nor  ought  to  be  imputed  as  a  crime  to  them,  both  on 
account  of  the  lack  of  the  essential  aid  for  their 
transmigration  and  on  account  of  the  obstacles  put 
in  their  way  by  the  Governors  who  have  preceded  you. 
I  cannot  refrain,  Sir,  from  declaring  to  you  that  the 
two  clauses  of  your  Proclamation  which  relate  to 
the  term  and  the  circumstances  of  their  evacuation 
appear  to  me  to  be  scarcely  in  accordance  with  the 
assurances  of  good  will  which  they  had  from  the  Court 
of  England  above  all  after  a  Treaty  and  a  Convention 
of  good  faith  between  the  late  Queen  and  King  Louis 
XIV,  a  Treaty  which  has  been  executed  in  its  entirety 
by  France  and  in  part  by  England.  You  are  aware 
Sir,  that  by  this  Convention  the  fate  of  the  inhabitants 
of  Nova  Scotia  was  and  should  be  the  same  as  that 
of  the  inhabitants  of  Placentia,  nothing  could  exceed 
the  graciousness  and  good  faith  with  which  that 
evacuation  was  carried  out,  and  I  shall  have  the  honour 
to  represent  to  you  that  nothing  could  be  harder  than 
the  extremity  or  rather  the  impossibility  to  which 
these  poor  people  would  be  redviced  if  you  refused  to 
relax  in  any  degree  the  limit  of  time  you  have  allowed 
them  and  the  manner  of  their  departure  which  you 
exact,  etc.  Signed,  St.  Ovide  de  Brouillan.  Endorsed, 
Reed.    26th    Nov.     Read    1st    Dec.    1720.     French. 

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82  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

3|  pp.  [CO.  217,  3.  Nos.  15,  15.i.  ;  and  {zvithout 
enclosure)  218,  1.  pp.  486-493  ;  and  {abstract  of 
letter)  217,  30.     pp.  10,  11.] 

Aug.  8.  1 78.  Lt.  Governor  Hart  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Lf)ncion.  tions.  Your  letters  of  7th  and  26th  Aug.,  1719  did  not  come 
to  my  hands  untill  28th  April,  which  I  instantly  communicated 
to  the  Council.  Refers  to  their  proceedings  thereon  (No.  i). 
As  to  the  Boundaries  of  Maryland,  his  account  must  be  imperfect, 
being  done  at  a  great  distance  from  the  place  etc.  Continues  : 
There  yet  remains  of  that  Province  uncultivated  a  vast  tract 
of  land,  from  the  falls  of  Pattowmeck,  to  the  first  fountains  of 
that  river  (which  was  never  yet  discover'd)  to  the  40th  degree 
of  Northern  Latitude,  the  limitts  prescrib'd  by  the  Lord  Balte- 
more's  Charter.  This  tract,  by  the  report  of  the  Indn.  traders, 
and  of  the  natives  who  dwell  on  it,  is  of  much  greater  extent, 
and  a  more  promising  soil,  than  what  is  now  inhabitted  in  Mary- 
land ;  tho'  for  rich  and  fruitful  Ip.nd,  fine  prospects,  stately  and 
useful  trees,  and  numbers  of  capacious,  safe  and  beautiful 
rivers,  it  yields  to  none  in  North  America.  I  have,  during  my 
Government  always  preserv'd  a  good  understanding  with  the 
neighbor  Indians  :  and  it  is  principally  from  their  intelligence, 
I  have  the  information  I  now  offer  etc.  About  30  miles  from 
the  falls  of  Pattowmeck,  is  a  remarkable  high  mountain,  from  its 
figure  called  the  Sugar  Loaf,  which  is  part  of  that  ridge  of  moun- 
tain that  rises  to  the  southward  of  Carolina,  and  extends  to  the 
River  St.  Lawrence  in  Canada,  on  the  back  of  all,  and  in  many 
places  approaches  very  near  the  British  Plantations.  The 
River  Pattowmeck,  which  is  200  miles  navigable  for  the  Royal 
Navy,  runs  from  the  South,  and  has  its  course  most  North, 
within  a  few  miles  of  the  Sugar-loaf  Mountain  ;  near  which  is 
another  large  River,  whose  course  is  directly  south,  and  is  said 
to  be  a  considerable  branch  of  the  Missisipi :  Now  it  is  observ'd 
both  by  the  traders  and  Indians,  that  all  the  rivers,  branches 
and  springs,  on  the  confines  of  Virginia  and  Maryland,  whose 
current  tends  nor'ward  fall  into  Pattowmeck  :  on  the  other  side 
all  rivers  etc.  that  tend  southward  empty  themselves  into 
Missisipi.  On  my  enquiring  of  the  Indians,  how  far  it  was  to 
the  great  River  (for  they  know  Missisipi  by  no  other  name)  from 
the  falls  of  Pattowmeck,  they  answered,  six  suns,  that  is,  six 
days  march  which  computed  at  30  miles  in  a  day,  makes  180. 
Again  I  demanded  how  far  it  was  from  the  falls  to  the  great 
northern  lakes  ;  they  reply'd  eight  s[uns],  that  is  240  miles. 
These  Lakes  are  the  known  [^fountains]  of  the  Missisipi  to  the 
southward,  and  of  St.  Lialwrence]  to  the  nor'ward.  This 
account  of  the  Indians,  I  find  agreeable  to  the  dis[lcription] 
given  me  by  those  who  trade  with  them  from  [Mother]  parts  of 
ye  Plantations  ;  and  has  a  better  con^Tm[atio7i]  from  what 
Colonel  Spotswood,  H.M.  Lt,  Governor  of  Virginia,  imparted 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  83 


1720. 


to  me  in  March  past,  that  the  French  traders  had  advanced  so 
far  from  [their]  new  settlements  on  Missisipi,  as  to  attempt  the 
ca.rr[ying]  over  to  their  interest,  several  Indian  Nations  in 
[dalliance]  with  Virginia  ;  But  that  those  Nations  had  rejected 
[their]  offers,  and  given  him  assurance,  they  wou'd  not 
Te\in[quish]  their  antient  friendship  with  the  English.  Your 
Lordsps.  may  please  to  observe  that  Maryland  [is  in]  the  center 
of  the  Plantations,  and  that  Virginia  [is]  only  next  door  to  it. 
The  French  never  make  settlements  abroad,  but  [they] 
immediately  erect  forts  for  their  security  (the  wa.[nt]  of  which 
in  my  humble  opinion,  is  a  great  defect  in  our  Colonies)  and  it 
is  reported  on  all  hands  they  [have]  strongly  fortified  themselves, 
at  convenient  distan[ce*]  both  on  Missisipi,  and  on  the  Lakes,  to 
preserve  communication  with  Quebec.  By  this  inteTcou[rse] 
from  the  northern  to  the  southern  seas,  the  French  will  engross 
the  valuable  inland  trade  of  furrs  and  [  ]  also  place 

a  girdle  on  all  the  British  C[olonies]  which  how  heavy  hereafter 
it  may  sit  on  [their]  loins,  is  submitted  to  your  Lordsps.  great 
wisdom  and  penetration  by  etc.  Signed,  Jol!  Il[art].  Endorsed, 
Reed.     Read  9th  Aug.,  1720.     3  pp.     Enclosed, 

178.  i.  Copy  of  Minutes   of  Council  of  Maryland,   showing 

their  proceedings  in  obedience  to  instructions  of  7th 
and  26th  Aug.,  1719,  for  the  furthering  of  the  making 
of  pitch  and  tar  etc.  and  of  a  proclamation,  29th  April 
1720,  advertising  the  clause  in  the  Act  against  the 
clandestine  running  of  uncustomed  goods  and  requiring  a 
more  strict  examination  thereof  etc.  Annapolis,  28th 
April,  1720.  Same  endorsement,  llf  pp.  [CO.  5, 
717.     Nos.  83,  83.i.] 

Aug.  9.       179.     Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.     My  Lords  Commrs.  of 

^<i°^ra'ty  the  Admty.  desire  you  will  lay  the  enclosed  before  the  Lords 

'"''•     Commrs.  for  Trade  etc.      Signed,  J.  Burchett.     Endorsed,  Reed. 

11th    Aug.     1720.     Read    5th    July,    1722.     Addressed.     1   p. 

Enclosed, 

179.  i.  Mr.  Bridger  to  Mr.  Burchett.  Portsmouth,  25th  June, 

1720.  More  than  400  pine  trees  have  been  cut  here 
without  licence,  upon  unappropriated  lands  etc.  The 
Agent  to  Mr.  Taylor  agreed  with  people  here  to  cut 
mast  trees  to  load  6  ships,  without  giving  me  notice. 
I  have  the  contract,  and  there  are  but  2  ships'  loadings 
contracted  for  these  years  etc.  Last  week  I  prosecuted 
three  persons  (v.  25th  June  supra)  etc.  ;  and  notwith- 
standing they  confessed  themselves  to  be  the  cutter^, 
yet  because  I  could  not  prove  that  those  trees  were 
cut  upon  unappropriated  land,  I  was  cast  etc.  So 
long  as  the  owners  probandi  must  lye  upon  the  King, 


84  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

no  officer  will  ever  be  able  to  prove  a  tree's  being  ciitt, 
for  the  people  are  all  of  a  party  against  the  King  etc. 
as  25th  June  supra.  Signed,  J.  Bridger.  Copy,  ll  pp. 
[CO.  5,  868.    //.  270,  271,  271i;,  273?;.] 

Aug.  9.  1 80.  Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Couneil  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Whitehall.  Encloses  following  papers,  which  may  be  of  use  in  relation  to 
the  general  state  which  you  are  directed  to  prepare  of  H.M. 
Plantations  in  America.  The  Lords  Justices  direct  that  if  you 
observe  anything  in  them  that  may  require  immediate  orders 
to  be  given,  you  should  forthwith  represent  the  same  to  them. 
I  am  also  ordered  to  transmit  to  your  Lordships  for  your  con- 
sideration the  enclosed  copy  of  a  memorial  from  Mr.  Horace 
Walpole  Auditor  of  ye  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Commissioners 
of  the  Treasury.  Remainder  of  letter  refers  to  the  French  and 
English  in  Africa  etc.  Signed,  Ch.  Delafaye.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
12th,     Read  15th  Aug.,  1720.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

180.  i.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Lords  Justices.  Annapolis 
Royall,  May  26th,  1720.  I  arrived  the  middle  of 
Aprill  being  the  earliest  season  that  sloops  come  upon 
this  coast,  etc.  At  my  landing,  I  made  a  review  of 
the  garrison,  and  fortifications  ;  the  first  of  which 
I  found  compleat,  and  in  very  good  condition,  except- 
ing a  few  old  men,  but  the  place  in  as  bad  state  as  is 
possible  to  describe,  both  within,  and  without  with 
severall  practicable  breaches,  so  wide,  that  tenn  men 
might  enter  a  breast,  which  considering  our  present 
scittuation,  with  the  French  inhabitants,  and  Indians 
has  obliged  me  contrary  to  the  resolutions  of  the 
board  of  Ordnance,  to  direct  the  Engineer  to  make 
some  necessary  repairs  on  the  works.  The  third  day 
after  my  arrival  here  I  was  visited  by  the  Priest  of  this 
district  of  Annapolis,  at  the  head  of  50  lusty  young  men, 
as  if  he  meant  to  appear  formidable,  whom  I  recieved 
as  civilly  as  possible,  and  after  giving  them  assurances 
of  H.M.  favour,  and  protection,  caused  the  priest  to 
read  to  them  one  of  the  Proclamations  I  had  prepared, 
according  to  my  Instructions,  and  will  (I  hope)  be 
found  exactly  conformable  thereto  {v.  No.  ii).  I 
asked  him  afterward  if  he  did  not  allow  that  H.M. 
condescention  therein  expressed  did  not  exceed  even 
the  people's  expectation,  he  answered  that  H.M.  was 
very  gracious,  but  that  the  people  were  not  at  liberty 
to  swear  allegiance,  because  in  Generall  Nicholson's 
time,  they  had  sett  their  hands  unanimously  to  an 
obligation  of  continuing  subjects  of  France,  and 
retiring  to  Cape  Breton,  and  that  for  another  reason 
that  they  were  sure  of  having  their  throats  eutt  by 
the    Indians,    whenever   they    became    English    men. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  85 


1720. 


he  was  answered  to  both  very  fully,   and  the  true 
interest  of  the  people  demonstrated  but  arguments 
prevaile  little,  without  a  power  of  enforcing,  for  the 
case  is  that  they  find  themselves  for  severall  years 
the  only  inhabitants  of  a  large  country  except  the  small 
garrison  of  this  place,  which  having  been  so  much 
neglected  they  make  noe  account  of,  and  began  to 
think  they  had  as  much  right  as  any  other.     They 
were  indeed  very  much  surprised,  at  the  arrival  of 
a  Chiefe  Governour  which  they  never  expected,  often 
saying  that  person  was  not  born,  and  therefore  are 
getting  out  of  his  way  as  fast  as  they  can,  as  you  will 
find  by  the  sequel,  that  so  being  once  joined  in  a  body, 
with  the  help  of  the  Indians  to  favour  their  retreat, 
they  can  march  off  at  their  leisure,  by  the  way  of  the 
Bay   of  Vert,   with  their  effects,   and   destroy   what 
they  leave  behind,  without  the  danger  of  being  molested 
by  this  Garrison,  which  scarce  suffices  to  secure    the 
Fort    in    its    present    condition.     To    return    to    my 
Journal,  the  next  day  I  sent  a  proclamation  up  the 
River  with  a  letter  to  the  Priest  to  require    him    to 
assemble  all  his  people,  and  to  read  it  to  them  againe, 
and  when  they  had  considered  well  of  it,  to  send  me 
their  answer,   which  they  did  much  sooner  than   I 
expected  (being  I  suppose  determined,  before  hand) 
{v.  No.    iii).     Whilst   these    matters    passed    I    made 
choice  of  the  King's  Councill  {v.  No.  iv),    and  after 
duly  qualifying  ourselves,  according  to  law,  by  taking 
and   subscribing  the   oaths  required,   and  my   Com- 
mission read,   I   acquainted  them  with  what  passed 
in  relation  to  the  French  inhabitants  of  this  River, 
and  who  expected  my  reply  to  their  paper,  upon  which 
it  was  agreed,  that  a  letter  be  wrote  to  order  them  to 
send  six  Deputys  to  represent  the  whole,  with  whom 
I  would  conferr  {v.  No.  v).     I  allso  acquainted  the 
Councill  that  I  intended  the  next  day  to  send  some  of 
the  Proclamations  to  the  chiefe  settlements,  at  Minas, 
and  Chignecto,  with  a  letter  to  each,  which  had  their 
approbation  {No.  vi).     I  had  at  this  time  information 
that  the  Priest  of  this  River,  absented  himself  the  same 
night  he  sent  me  his  letter,  but    supposing  him  not 
farr  off,  I  wrote  to  him  very  civilly  {v.  No.  vii.)     I  am 
told  since  he  is  gone  to  Menis  to  consult  with  his 
bretheren  there   (of  mischief  no   doubt)   as   may  be 
gathered  from  his  letter.     The  Deputys  of  this  River 
now  presented  themselves  as  required,  and  the  Councill 
assembled,  but  two  of  the  six  being  found  improper 
persons  to  manage  the  intrest  of  the  people,  as  having 
no  possessions,  or  effects  to  loose,  they  were  returned, 


86  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


with  a  second  letter  to  the  inhabitants  to  choose  two 
of  the  most  substantial  persons  in  their  stead.  Tho' 
I  had  reason  to  expect  nothing  less  from  this  procedure 
than  a  thankfull  complyance,  with  what  was  de- 
manded for  their  own  good,  instead  thereof  they  tooke 
this  occasion  of  shewing  their  contempt  of  H.M. 
Government  by  refusing  to  alter  their  first  choice 
{v.  No.  ix),  however  I  granted  their  request  to  send 
two  persons  to  Cape  Breton  for  advice  in  the  measures 
they  should  take,  being  glad  to  make  use  of  that 
opportunity  of  writing  to  the  Governor  {v.  No.  x). 
During  these  transactions  they  have  on  all  sides  been 
practising  with  the  Indians  who  are  intirely  in  their 
interest,  to  gett  them  to  play  their  part,  and  to  assert 
their  native  right  to  this  country,  in  opposition  to 
that  of  H.M. ,  for  which  end  I  am  told  they  are  assemb- 
ling. The  Chiefe  of  this  River  Indians,  who  are  but 
few  and  inconsiderable  amongst  the  rest,  has  been  with 
me  accompanied  with  half  a  score  others,  and  desired 
me  to  resolve  him  if  the  French  were  to  leave  the 
country  whether  the  two  Crownes,  were  in  allyance, 
whether  I  intended  to  debarr  them  of  their  Religion, 
or  disturb  them  in  their  trafifick,  to  all  which  querys, 
I  answered  to  sattisfaction,  and  sent  them  away  in 
good  humour,  promising  they  would  be  very  peaceable 
while  the  Union  lasted  between  the  two  Crownes  ; 
I  must  observe  here  that  I  have  hitherto  deferr'd 
sending  for  the  Chiefs  of  the  other  Indians  expecting 
every  day  the  arrival  of  the  presents  I  applyed  for, 
and  were  preparing  to  be  sent  before  I  came  from 
home,  and  can  never  be  more  serviceable  then  at  this 
juncture.  In  the  mean  time  have  signified  my  in- 
tentions to  them.  This  morning  I  had  intelligence 
that  the  inhabitants  of  this  River  are  hard  at  worke 
in  opening  a  communication  through  the  woods, 
to  Minas  (which  was  formerly  a  road)  in  order  to 
retire  thither  with  their  cattle,  and  effects,  and  had 
sent  to  Minas  that  those  people  might  doe  the  same 
on  theire  side,  upon  which  (with  the  advice  of  the 
Councill)  I  dispatched  an  order  to  both  places  to  stop 
them  {No.  x).  At  the  same  time  arrived  the  Deputys 
from  Minas,  and  a  letter  from  theire  body,  with  another 
from  one  of  the  King's  Councill,  by  whom  I  had  sent 
up  the  Proclamations,  and  was  directed  to  make  his 
best  observations,  of  their  behaviour  and  designes, 
which  being  read  before  the  Councill  the  whole  pro- 
ceedings was  then  taken  into  consideration  and  it 
was  agreed,  that  whereas  my  Instructions  direct  me 
to  acquaint  you  with  the  effect  of  the  Proclamation 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  87 


1720. 


and  that  I  have  neither  order  nor  power  sufficient  to 
drive  these  people  out,  nor  prevent  their  doing  what 
damages  they  please  to  their  houses  and  possessions, 
and  likewise  for  the  sake  of  gaining  time  and  keeping 
all  things  quiet  till  I  shall  have  the  honour  of  your 
farther  commands  in  what  manner  to  act,  that  it  is 
most  for  H.M.  service,  to  send  home  the  deputys,  with 
smooth  words,  and  promise  of  enlargement  of  time, 
whilst  I  transmitt  their  case  home  and  receive  H.M. 
farther  direction  therein.  Thus  stands  the  present 
posture  of  affaires  here  in  the  course  of  which  I  hope 
my  conduct  may  have  the  honour  of  your  approbation, 
at  least  so  farr,  as  I  have  not  err'd  from  my  Instruc- 
tions, except  in  enlarging  the  time  of  evacuation, 
which  was  by  advice  of  the  King's  Councill.  I 
account  it  a  misfortune  that  the  beginning  of  my 
Government  has  afforded  matter  of  trouble,  and 
difficulty.  It  is  a  hard,  and  uneasy  task  (in  my 
circumstances)  to  manage  a  people,  who  will  neither 
believe  nor  hearken  to  reason  (unless  it  comes  out  of 
the  mouth  of  their  priests),  and  at  the  same  time  to 
keep  up  the  honour  and  dignity  of  Government.  If 
they  are  permitted  to  remaine  upon  the  footing  they 
propose,  it  is  very  probable,  they  will  be  obedient  to 
Government  as  long  as  the  two  Crownes  continue  in 
allyance,  but  in  case  of  a  rupture,  will  be  so  many 
enemys  in  our  bosom  and  I  cannot  see  any  hopes,  or 
likelyhood,  of  making  them  English,  unless  it  was 
possible  to  procure  these  priests  to  be  recalled,  who 
are  tooth  and  naile  against  the  Regent,  not  sticking 
to  say  openly  that  it  is  his  day  now,  but  will  be  theirs 
anon,  and  having  others  sent  in  their  stead,  which 
(if  any  thing)  may  contribute  in  a  little  time  to  make 
some  change  in  their  sentiments,  and  give  them 
opportunity  of  opening  their  eyes,  which  hitherto, 
are  shutt  even  to  their  own  interest ;  Like  care  must 
be  taken  to  prevent  the  Governour  of  Cape  Bretons 
carrying  on  his  secret  correspondence  with  them, 
and  our  Indians,  to  whom  he  yearly  makes  presents, 
to  secure  them  in  the  French  interest.  As  to  the 
Indians  all  mischief  that  they  are  capable  of  acting 
is  to  be  expected  from  them  whenever  the  inhabitants 
are  obliged  to  retire,  many  of  whom  will  joyne  them  in 
disguise  to  disturb  us  in  the  building  any  fortifications, 
and  as  they  are  not  a  people  that  can  be  mett  with  in 
open  field,  I  can  advise  no  better  expedient,  than  that 
the  Government  be  at  the  charge,  of  taking  200  of 
the  Mohoc  Indians  from  New  Yorke  side  into  the 
service,  which  will  be  no  great  expence,  who  being 


88  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


a  terror  to  these,  and  allways  faithfull  to  the  EngHsh, 
will  in  my  humble  opinion  be  of  very  good  consequence, 
toward  the  settling  this  country.  But  all  this  I 
submitt  to  your  better  judgment.  You  will  be 
pleased  to  observe  that  the  lands  at  Minas,  which 
afford  great  quantitys  of  wheat  yearly,  and  the  best 
farms  as  yett  in  the  country,  are  liable  to  be  all  drowned 
by  cutting  a  dike,  which  the  inhabitants  at  going  off, 
will  not  want  ill  nature  to  doe.  It  would  be  great 
pitty  those  farmes  should  want  inhabitants  when 
vacated  by  the  French,  and  great  inconveniency  to 
the  Garrison  which  they  supply  with  plenty  of  fresh 
provision  ;  I  have  sent  a  paper  to  Newfoundland  to 
be  communicated  to  the  people  there  to  acquaint  them 
with  H.M.  desire  of  their  removing  to  this  country 
by  a  sloop  I  sent  express  with  some  provisions  for 
the  Garrison  of  Placentia,  being  accidentally  informed 
that  no  store  ship  was  arrived  there  in  the  Fall,  and 
that  they  were  in  apprehenson  of  want,  and  made  use 
of  the  same  opportunity  for  drawing  one  company 
from  thence,  as  a  small  remforcement  to  this  place, 
which  I  hope  will  meet  with  approbation.  Whilst 
I  am  writmg  this,  Deputy's  from  the  inhabitants  of 
this  river,  who  had  disobeyed  command  in  the  choice 
of  their  representatives,  and  were  cuttmg  the  com- 
munication to  Minas,  are  come  with  a  submission, 
signed  by  the  body  (enclosed),  so  that  I  am  not  out 
of  hopes,  by  keeping  up  the  authority  of  Governmt. 
amongst  them  to  brmg  them  to  obedience,  they  say 
they  will  oblige  themselves  to  be  good  subjects  in 
every  respect,  excepting  that  of  taking  up  amies 
against  the  King  of  France,  and  I  would  humbly 
propose  that  if  an  oath  were  formed,  for  them  to  take, 
whereby  they  should  oblige  themselves,  to  take  up 
amies,  against  the  Indians  if  required,  to  live  quietly 
and  peacably  in  their  houses,  not  to  harbour  nor  give 
any  manner  of  assistance  to  any  of  the  King's  enemys, 
to  acknowledge  H.M.  right  to  these  countrys,  and  pay 
obedience,  to  his  Government,  and  to  hold  their  lands 
of  the  King  by  a  new  tenure,  instead  of  holding  them 
as  at  present  from  the  Lords  of  Mannors,  who  are  now 
at  Cape  Breton,  where  at  this  day  they  pay  their  rent : 
How  farr  this  may  be  thought  sufficient  to  qualifie 
them  as  subjects  to  the  Crowne  of  Great  Brittan. 
I  have  but  one  thing  more  to  offer,  which  is,  that 
schemes  might  be  sett  on  foot  at  home  for  settling 
the  Eastern  coast,  which  would  soon  putt  this  country 
in  a  condition  of  being  (instead  of  a  charge  as  it  is 
now)  the   most   beneficiall   Collony  to   Great  Brittan 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  89 


1720. 


of  any  in  America,  etc.  Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  12th.  Read  19th  Aug.,  1720.  10  pp.  Enclosed, 

180.  ii.  Proclamation  by  Governor  PhiUpps.  Annapolis 
Royal,  10th  April,  1720.  Although  the  French  in- 
habitants of  Nova  Scotia  have,  by  their  obstinacy  and 
neglect,  allowed  the  time  stipulated  in  the  Treaty  of 
Utrecht  for  their  taking  an  oath  of  allegiance  to  H.M. 
or  withdrawing  from  the  country  with  their  effects, 
H.M.  in  his  great  indulgence  and  favour  grants  them 
an  extension  of  four  months  from  this  date  to  take 
the  said  oath,  promising,  to  all  those  who  shall  conform 
thereto,  the  free  exercise  of  their  religion  and  that 
they  shall  enjoy  civil  rights  and  privileges  as  if  they 
were  English,  so  long  as  they  shall  behave  like  good 
and  faithful  subjects  of  H.M.,  and  that  their  goods 
and  possessions  shall  descend  to  their  heirs.  But  it 
is  positively  forbidden  to  those  who  shall  choose  to 
leave  the  country  to  do  any  kind  of  damage  to  their 
houses  or  possessions,  or  to  alienate,  dispose  of  or 
carry  away  with  them  any  of  their  effects,  etc.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  12th,  Read  15th  Aug.,  1720.  Copy. 
French.     1  p. 

180.  iii.  Governor  Philipps  to  Revd.  Father  JustinienDurand, 
Recollet.  Annapolis  Royal,  30th  April,  1720.  I 
command  you  to  read  preceding  in  full  Assembly  and 
thereafter  to  display  it  on  the  door  of  the  Chapel  etc. 
If  you  have  anything  to  offer  me  on  your  part,  I  shall 
be  very  ready  to  agree  to  any  reasonable  demands  etc. 
Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy. 
French.     1  p. 

180.  iv.  Father  Justinien  Durand  to  Governor  Philipps. 
I  assembled  the  inhabitants  and  read  them  the  Pro- 
clamation {No.  ii.)  etc.  Encloses  their  reply.  I  left 
them  entirely  at  liberty  to  take  whichever  course  they 
thought  the  most  advantageous.  If  your  Excellency 
does  not  think  fit  to  grant  what  they  ask  of  you,  I 
beg  you  to  permit  me  to  withdraw  to  Isle  Royale, 
in  order  that  the  troubles  that  may  arise  may  not  be 
imputed  to  me.  I  am  and  shall  be  very  far  from 
fomenting  trouble  etc.  In  a  country  like  this,  open 
to  all  who  wish  to  plunder  and  maltreat  them,  the 
shortest  way  is  to  leave  it  at  once  when  one  has  no 
longer  any  claim  there,  etc.  Signed,  Justinien  Durand, 
Recollet  indigne.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     French. 

180.  v.  French  Inhabitants  of  the  River  to  Governor  Philipps. 
We  have  assembled  to  reply  to  your  Proclamation 
{No.  ii).  It  is  notorious  that  we  cannot  take  the 
oath  to  his  Britannic  Majesty  without  running  a  very 


90  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

certain  risk  of  being  slaughtered  in  our  houses  by  the 
savages  who  threaten  us  every  day.  This,  Sir,  is  why 
we  cannot  make  any  other  oath  than  this,  namely, 
to  be  faithful  to  King  George,  without  being  obliged 
to  take  arms  against  anyone.  This  w^e  very  humbly 
entreat  you  to  be  willing  to  accept,  promising  to  keep 
it  faithfully.  Your  Excellency  will  see  plainly  that 
it  is  the  savages  whom  we  fear,  inasmuch  as  we  are 
all  ready  to  abandon  all  our  wealth  to  save  our  lives, 
and  if  your  Excellency  cannot  allow  us  to  remain 
here  upon  this  oath,  we  humbly  beg  you  to  allow  a 
little  more  time  to  withdraw,  it  being  almost  impossible 
in  so  short  a  time,  the  country  being  bare  of  provisions 
by  the  sowing  recently  made  etc.,  and  therefore  we 
pray  you  to  grant  us  the  favour  of  carrying  away  the 
effects  we  have  to  support  our  lives,  hoping  that  your 
Excellency  will  allow  us  to  go  to  Isle  Royal  to  ask  for 
aid  in  withdrawmg,  it  being  impossible  for  us  to 
withdraw  by  ourselves  in  so  short  a  time,  the  greater 
part  of  us  having  no  carts,  we  hope  you  will  graciously 
allow  those  of  us  who  have  carts  to  withdraw  with  them, 
or  to  hire  or  buy  them  etc.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lavigne 
and  135  other  French  inhabitants.  Same  endorsement. 
Copy.     French.     1|  pp. 

180.  vi.  Names  and  qualifications  of  H.M.  Councill  for  Nova 
Scotia,  (i)  John  Doucett,  Lt.  Governor,  and  a  person 
of  great  worth,  and  honour.  (ii)  Lawrence  Armstrong 
Major  to  the  Regiment,  and  long  acquainted  with  the 
affaires  of  this  country,  (iii)  Paul  Mascaransq,  Chief 
Enginier,  and  a  person  of  great  prudence,  and  capacity, 
(iv)  John  Harrison,  Chaplaine  to  the  Garrison,  of 
long  standing,  (v).  Cyprian  Southeck,  a  very  honest 
man,  often  employ'd  in  the  service  of  these  countrys 
and  of  great  benefittt  to  the  Publick  by  his  mapps, 
and  draughts,  (vi)  Hibert  Newton,  Collector  of 
H.M.  Customes  an  honest  person,  (vii)  Aurthur 
Savage,  merchant,  removed  from  Boston  to  settle 
here,  (viii)  John  Adams,  merchant,  an  inhabitant  of 
long  standing  in  this  place  and  a  man  of  sense, 
(ix)  William  Skeen,  Surgeon  to  the  Garrison,  a  gentle- 
man of  learning,  and  read  in  the  Civil  Law.  (x)  Peter 
Boudre,  an  English  man,  and  inhabitant  of  this  place 
reputed  an  honest  man.  (xi)  William  Sheriff,  Com- 
missary of  the  Musters,  (xii)  Guilliam  Philipps,  son 
to  an  eminent  merchant  of  Boston.  Same  endorse- 
ment.    1  p. 

180.  vii.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  French  inhabitants  of 
the  River  of  Annapolis  Royal  and  neighbourhood. 
Annapolis  Royal,  30th  April,  1720.     Commands  them 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  91 


1720. 


to  send  six  representatives  with  full  powers  to  treat 
with  him  on  4th  May,  concerning  the  Proclamation 
etc.  {No.  ii).  Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Same  endorsement. 
Copy.  1  p. 
180.  viii.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Inhabitants  of  Minas. 
Annapolis  Royal,  April  28,  1720.  {a)  Encloses  Pro- 
clamation and  invites  them  to  take  the  oath  to  H.M. 
Concludes :  I  await  your  reply  by  Father  Felix  and 
four  deputies  chosen  by  you  etc.  (b)  Same  to  the 
Inhabitants  of  Chignecto.  As  preceding,  but  conclud- 
ing : — As  a  token  of  my  readiness  to  be  of  service  to 
you,  I  have  granted  permission  to  the  bearers  of  this 
letter  to  embark  from  Mines  50  barrels  of  grain  to  be 
sold  amongst  you  for  your  subsistance,  without  being 
obliged  to  return  first  with  it  to  this  port,  and  according 
to  your  merits  you  will  have  other  proofs  of  my  good 
will.  Signed,  H.Fhilipps.  Same  endorsement.  French. 
Copy.     2  pp. 

180.  ix.  Governor  Philipps  to  Father  Durand.  Annapolis 
Royal,  2nd  May,  1720.  I  was  very  much  surprised  to 
learn  that  you  had  absented  yourself  from  the  head  of 
the  River  without  my  leave.  My  design  is  to  treat 
both  you  and  the  inhabitants  with  all  kindness  you 
could  wish  etc.  Notwithstanding  this  proceeding  on 
your  part,  I  have  a  true  esteem  for  your  person  and 
character,  and  you  can  have  free  access  to  me  without 
fear,  as  I  am  ready  to  satisfy  all  reasonable  demands, 
etc.  Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Same  endorsement.  Copy. 
French.     If   pp. 

180.  X.  Same  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  River  of  Annapolis 
Royal  and  neighbourhood.  Annapolis  Royal,  7th 
May,  1720.  Order  to  elect  two  deputies  of  standing 
and  estate  in  place  of  two  of  the  six  chosen  but  lacking 
in  such  qualifications.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
Copy.     French.     1  p. 

180.  xi.  Inhabitants  of  Annapolis  Royal  to  Governor  Philipps. 
14th  May  {N.S.),  1720.  We  have  chosen  six  deputies 
to  represent  and  act  for  us  etc.  Signed,  J.  Duan  and 
103  others.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     French.     1  p. 

180.  xii.  Same  to  Same.  Annapolis  Royal,  20th  May,  (N.S.) 
1720.  Reply  to  No.  x.  We  cannot  comply,  since  these 
are  the  most  suitable  deputies  we  can  find  etc.  Ask 
for  permission  for  two  or  three  representatives  to  go 
to  Isle  Royale  in  order  to  consult  the  Governor  there, 
etc.  We  cannot  take  the  oath  required,  and  must 
withdraw  and  send  at  once  for  carts  etc.  Signed,  J. 
Duon  and  109  others.  Same  endorsement.  Copy. 
French.     3  pp. 


92  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

180.  xiii.  [?  Governor  Philipps  to  ?  Governor  St.  Ovide  de 
Brouillan.]  Refers  to  previous  letter  and  encloses  copy 
of  Proclamation.  (A^o.  ii.)  Continues:  As  one  could 
not  reasonably  expect  anything  but  a  peaceable  sub- 
mission to  the  forms  prescribed,  founded  as  they  were 
on  the  Treaty  etc.,  so  H.M.  cannot  but  be  surprised 
to  learn  that,  instead,  they  are  now  endeavouring  to 
disturb  the  peace  of  this  Government  by  intriguing 
with  the  savages  to  assemble  on  this  occasion  to  uphold 
their  birthright  to  this  country,  and  I  am  informed 
that  they  may  do  it  in  tumultuous  fashion,  the 
fatal  consequences  of  which  in  case  any  act  of 
hostility  is  committed  must  inevitably  tend  to  the 
confusion  of  those  who  are  the  promoters  thereof : 
and  it  is  very  evident  that  the  French  inhabitants  are 
these  same  persons,  both  by  some  expressions  which 
they  have  let  fall  on  this  head,  as  that  they  hoped 
that  we  should  separate  good  friends  etc.,  and  by  some 
signs  of  contempt  they  have  recently  shown  to  my 
authority,  and  what  gives  me  the  more  reason  to 
suspect  that  there  is  some  evil  and  rash  design  on  foot, 
is  the  sudden  departure  of  Father  Justinien  who  never 
absented  himself  before  without  the  knowledge  and 
consent  of  the  Governor.  I  have  given  them  all  the 
proofs  of  my  good  will  and  the  mildness  of  my  Govern- 
ment possible  in  the  short  time  I  have  been  amongst 
them.  But  as  their  priests  have  always  taught  them 
to  regard  themselves  as  subjects  of  France,  and  to 
observe  the  counsel  and  direction  of  the  Governor  of 
Isle  Royale,  they  have  now  asked  my  permission  to 
send  deputies  for  your  advice  in  this  affair,  to  which  I 
have  the  more  readily  assented  because  I  do  not  doubt 
that  you  are  fully  informed  of  the  intention  of  His 
Most  Christian  Majesty  to  maintain  a  close  and  in- 
violable alliance  between  the  two  Crowns,  and  that 
therefore  you  will  not  make  any  other  use  of  the  power 
and  influence  you  have  over  this  people  than  to  per- 
suade them  to  take  the  measures  which  will  lead  to 
their  own  good,  and  at  the  same  time  to  preserve  the 
peace  and  tranquility  of  these  countries,  and  I  cannot 
but  think  that  whatever  happens  in  this  matter, 
whether  good  or  ill,  it  will  naturally  be  construed  as 
the  effect  and  consequence  of  your  counsel,  etc.  Same 
endorsement.  Copy.  French.  2  pp. 
180.  xiv.  Proclamation  by  Governor  Philipps.  Annapolis 
Royal,  18th  May,  1720.  Notwithstanding  the  favours 
and  intentions  of  kindness  of  H.M.  towards  the  French 
inhabitants  of  this  Province  which  I  have  published 
in  a  Proclamation  etc.  {No.  ii),  and  that  I  have   since 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  93 

1720. 

put  into  practice  all  possible  measures  for  their  welfare 
and  interest,  the  said  inhabitants  have  hitherto  only- 
replied    to    these     demonstrations    of    goodwill     by 
ingratitude,  and  above  all  by  their  extreme  contempt 
and   disobedience  to  what  I   had  required   of  them, 
which  was  only  for  their  own  good  present  and  future, 
as  also  by  the  enterprise  which  I  am  informed  the 
inhabitants  of  this  River  have  undertaken  of  cutting 
a    communication    across    the  woods  to  Les  Mines, 
and  sending  to  ask  the  inhabitants  of  the  latter  place 
to  help  by  cutting  their  part,  without  asking  my  leave 
or  even  informing  me  thereof :    which  rash  proceeding 
gives  me  good  reason  to  believe  that  they  have  some 
evil  designs  on  foot ;   either  to  bring  by  this  communi- 
cation a  number  of  people  to  molest  this  H.M.  garrison, 
or  to    carry   off  their  effects  and  cattle  from  hence, 
and  to  set  up  a  General  Assembly   at   Les   Mines,  or 
Chinecqto,   to   keep   themselves  independent  of  H.M. 
and   the    Government.     I   therefore   positively   order 
and  strictly  command  all  persons  whatsoever  to  desist 
at  once  from  such  enterprise,  and  if  they  disobey,  I 
shall  be  obliged  to  regard  this  proceeding  as  an  act 
of  defiance  to  the  authority  of  the  King,  and  take  such 
measures  as  I  shall  deem  fit  to  preserve  this  H.M. 
Government  and  Province,  and  I  order  that  no  person 
leave  his  place  of  residence  secretly  and  without  my 
permission.     French.     1  p. 
180.  XV.  French  inhabitants  of  Miniss  to  Governor  Philipps. 
We   have   received   your   Excellency's   orders,   which 
were  read  to  us  in  Assembly,  and  which  we  cannot 
accept  for  several  reasons.     You  demand  an  oath  of 
us,  which  would  expose  us  and  our  families  to  the 
fury    of   the    savages,    who    daily    threaten    us    and 
watch   all   our  actions  and  steps  to  see  if  we  do  any- 
thing contrary  to  the   oath  taken  in  the  presence  of 
General  Nicholson   and  two   officers   of  Isle   Royale, 
an  oath  which  has  been  communicated  to  the  Court 
of  England  as  well  as  that  of  France,  and  from  which 
it  is  difficult  to  free  ourselves,  and  if  we  did  not  keep 
our  word  to  our  invincible  Monarch,  we  could  only 
expect   punishment   at   the   menacing   hands    of  the 
savages.     However,    Sir,     we     engage    ourselves     to 
keep  the  same  faith  as  we   have   hitherto   done,    and 
will  do  no  act  of  hostility  against  any  right  of  H.M.  so 
long  as  we  shall  be  on  his  territory.     You  tax  us  with 
having  remained  upon  our  property  more  than  the 
year  stipulated  by  the  articles  of  peace.     It  has  been 
impossible  to  do  otherwise  for  several  reasons,   and 
since  we  have  been  allowed  to  sell  our  property  and 


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moveables,  we  have  not  been  able  to  find  any  merehant 
to  buy  them.  So  that  the  privilege  granted  to  us  has 
proved  useless.  So  too  with  that  which  was  granted 
by  a  letter  of  Her  late  Majesty,  Queen  Anne,  the 
appraisement  of  our  property  by  Commissioners,  and 
payment  of  the  amount,  as  was  done  at  the  evacuation 
of  Placentia,  and  other  places  etc.  Signed,  Claude 
Codrot,  and  178  others.  Same  endorsement.  Copy. 
French.  2  pp. 
180.  xvi.  John  Adams  to  Governor  Philipps.  Grand  Prez, 
Minis,  14th  May,  1720.  Your  Excellency's  Procla- 
mation sent  pr.  Mr.  Blin  was  published  here  etc.  The 
people  in  general  here  seem  to  be  much  concerned, 
loath  to  leave  their  habitations,  and  estates  their 
ancestors  left  them,  and  afraid  to  stay  and  possess 
them  under  the  nomination  of  English,  to  have  their 
throats  cutt  by  the  Indians,  most  of  them  notwith- 
standing flatter  themselves  whith  hopes  that  your 
Excellency  will  please  to  extend  your  pitty,  and 
compasion  to  them,  their  wives,  and  little  ones  and  not 
force  them  away  they  know  not  where,  because  they 
dare  not  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  etc.  as  preceding. 
They  say  they  were  in  hopes  to  reap  some  benefitt 
from  H.M.  letter  whereby  they  had  leave  to  sell  their 
moveables,  and  imoveables,  if  they  went  off,  which 
they  are  forbid  to  doe  by  H.E.'s  Proclamation.  Severall 
desired  me  to  represent  these  their  grievances  to  you 
etc.  The  Father  Justinien  staid  a  few  days  here  and 
went  to  Checunectook  in  order  to  goe  to  Cape  Breton, 
in  some  discourse  I  had  with  Father  Felix  yesterday 
he  excused  himself  that  he  could  not  waite  on  the 
General,  at  this  time,  there  was  a  sick  person,  of  whom 
he  must  recieve  confession,  and  that  part  of  his  parish 
at  Pigigit  had  not  fait  leurs  Pasque,  but  the  Father 
Justinien  would  bring  an  officer  of  distinction  with 
him  from  Cape  Bretton,  who  would  assemble  all  the 
inhabitants  here,  and  goe  with  them,  and  he  would 
take  that  opportunity  to  waite  on  the  Generall  with 
them,  he  praised  the  constancy  of  the  inhabitants,  who 
(as  he  said)  declared  when  they  were  assembled  they 
would  doe  no  other  wise,  than  what  they  did,  when 
the  two  French  Officers,  were  here  in  General  Nichol- 
son's time,  that  he  and  they  would  all  goe  away  to- 
gether, to  the  Island  St.  John's,  under  the  French 
King's  Dominions,  he  found  great  fault  with  the 
Proclamation,  that  the  word  Public  was  not  inserted 
to  exercise  of  religion,  that  by  that  was  meant  only 
in  their  owne  houses  as  in  England  and  Ireland  and 
that  clause  only  put  there  to  amuse  the  people.     The 


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1720. 


Indians  also,  are  very  busiy  on  this  occasion  going 
from  place  to  place,  to  inform  one  another,  they  have 
robed  a  challop  at  Cobagit  of  30  or  £40  worth  of  goods 
that  four  French  men  had  bought  of  Mr.  Blin,  and 
carried  there  to  trade.  I  hear  it  whispered  among  the 
French  that  all  the  Indians,  farr,  and  near  are  expected 
here  in  a  month's  time,  and  by  the  hints  they  gave 
you  may  have  an  army  of  French  this  summer  at 
Annapolis,  whether  in  a  hostile  manner  or  noe  I  know 
not.  I  met  with  the  Chiefe  of  the  Indians  at  Checu- 
nectook  here  with  severall  others  his  followers,  to 
whom  I  delivered  the  message  your  Excellency  was 
pleased  to  charge  me  with,  he  seemed  well  pleased, 
but  said  the  English  were  very  dilatory,  in  settling 
affaires  with  them  but  they  were  ready  to  come  to  a 
good  agreement,  whith  the  English,  when  you  pleased 
to  appoint  them  to  come,  etc.  It  is  my  humble  opinion 
it  would  be  for  H.M.  service,  and  the  more  speedy 
settlement  of  this  Collony,  if  the  French  inhabitants 
might  be  permitted  to  stay  on  such  conditions,  as 
your  Excellency  might  think  expedient,  that  strict 
regard  be  had  to  H.M.  letter  containing  them,  and  that 
a  speedy  accommodation,  be  made  with  the  Indians 
etc.  Subscribed,  H.  E.  reed,  this  18th  and  read  in 
Council  19th  May.  Signed,  J.  Adams.  Same  endorse- 
ment.    Copy.     3^  pp. 

180.  xvii.  French  inhabitants  of  Annapolis  River  to  Gover- 
nor Philipps.  Pray  H.E.'s  forgiveness  in  the 
matter  of  electing  deputies  {No.  xii)  and  the  com- 
munication road  to  Les  Mines  {No.  xiv)  etc.  "We 
had  no  evil  intention,  but  merely  to  make  this,  the 
only  road,  in  case  we  had  to  evacuate  the  country 
without  carts  etc.  We  hope  our  future  behaviour  will 
prove  our  good  faith"  etc.  Present  two  new  deputies, 
Abrant  (=  Abraham)  Bourg  and  Jairmaint  Savoy, 
chosen  in  place  of  the  two  rejected  {No.  x.)  33 
signatures  and  67  marks.  Same  endorsement.  French. 
3  pp. 

180.  xviii.  Giles  Hall,  John  Henshaw  etc.  to  Governor 
Philipps.  The  interest  we  have  engaged  in  the  Fishery 
for  these  three  years  past,  on  the  Island  called  Cape 
Cansor,  within  the  limits  of  your  Excellency's  Govern- 
ment, makes  us  presume  to  congratulate  your  Ex- 
cellency upon  your  safe  arrival  etc.  We  humbly  lay 
before  your  Excellency  the  disturbence,  and  trouble 
we  have  from  time  to  time,  been  oppressed  with, 
from  the  French  in  the  carrying  on  of  our  Fishery 
on  the  Island  aforesaid  etc.,  but  more  especially  this 
last  summer,  the  French  King's  subjects  in  a  hostile 


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1720. 

and  warlike  manner  landed,  kept  guards,  and  insult- 
ingly, carried  off  and  damaged  great  quantitys  of  our 
fish,  but  not  being  in  a  condition  for  defence,  we  made 
the  wrong  done  us  to  M.  St.  Ovid  etc.  Pray  for  pro- 
tection the  next  season  etc.  Signed,  Giles  Hall,  John 
Henshaw,  Jose  Appleton,  John  Henshaw  for  James 
Bodoine,  John  Marshall.  Same  endorsement.  Copy. 
1|  pp.  [CO.  217,  3.  Nos.  6,  6  i-xviii ;  and 
(without  enclosures)  218,  1.    pp.  471,  472.) 

Aug.  10.       1 81 .     Mr.  Popple  to  the  Agents  etc.  for  the  Governments  on 

Whitehall.  ^]^g    Continent    of   America.     Encloses  following.     Concludes  : 

The    Council   of  Trade   and   Plantations   desire   as   particular 

answers  as  you  can  make,  and  that  they  may  receive  the  same 

with  all  convenient  speed.     Subjoined, 

181.  i.  Queries  sent  to  Col.  Vetch,  for  Nova  Scotia,  Jere. 
Dummer  for  Massachusets  Bay  and  New  Hampshire, 
Brigr.  Hunter  for  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  Joshua 
Gee,  for  Pensylvania,  Col.  Hart  for  Maryland,  Col. 
Blakiston  for  Virginia,  Jos.  Boone  for  Carolina,  (i) 
What  is  the  situation  of  ye  pr°'°i°^e  under  your 
Government  ?  the  nature  of  the  country,  its  longitude', 
latitude  etc.  (ii)  What  are  the  reputed  boundaries 
thereof  ?  (iii)  What  is  the  Constitution  of  the 
Govermts  ?  (iv)  What  is  the  trade  of  the  Colony, 
the  number  of  shipping,  their  tonnage,  and  the 
number  of  seafaring  men,  with  their  respective  increase 
or  diminution  ?  (v)  What  quantity  and  sorts  of 
British  manufactures  do  the  inhabitants  annually 
take  from  hence  ?  (vi)  What  trade  has  the  Colony 
with  any  foreign  Plantations  or  any  part  of  Europe 
besides  Great  Britain  ?  How  is  that  trade  carried 
on  ?  What  commodities  do  the  people  send  to,  or 
receive  from  foreign  Plantations  ?  (vii)  What 
methods  are  there  used  to  prevent  illegal  trade,  and 
are  the  same  effectual  ?  (viii)  What  is  the  natural 
produce  of  the  country,  staple  commodities  and 
manufactures  ?  (ix)  What  mines  are  there  ?  (x) 
What  may  be  the  annual  produce  of  the  commodities 
of  this  Colony  ?  (xi)  What  is  the  number  of  in- 
habitants whites  and  blacks  ?  (xii)  Are  the  in- 
habitants increased  or  decreased  of  late,  and  for  what 
reasons  ?  (xiii)  What  is  the  number  of  the  Militia  ? 
(xiv)  What  forts  and  places  of  defence  are  there 
within  your  Government  ?  and  in  what  condition  ? 
(xv)  What  number  of  Indians  have  you,  and  how 
are  they  inclined  ?  (xvi)  What  is  the  strength  of 
yr.  neighbouring  Indians  ?  (xvii)  What  is  the 
strength    of   your    neighbouring    Europeans  ?     (xviii) 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


97 


1720. 

What  effect  have  the  French  Settlements  on  the 
Continent  of  America  upon  H.M.  Plantations  ? 
(xix)  What  is  the  revenue  arising  within  your  Govern- 
mt.,  and  how  is  it  appropriated  ?  (xx)  What  are 
the  ordinary  and  extraordinary  expences  of  your 
Government  ?  (xxi)  What  are  the  establishments, 
civil  and  military  within  your  Governmts.,  and  what 
officers  hold  by  Patent  immediately  from  the  Crown  ? 
[CO.  323,  4.     pp.  282-286.] 

[Aug.  11.]  182.  Governor  Hunter's  Answers  to  preceding  Queries, 
relating  to  New  Jersey.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  555  ;  and 
N.  J.  Archives,  1st  Ser.  IV.  449.  Endorsed,  Reed.  11th  Aug. 
Read  6th  Dec.  1720.     4|  pp.     [CO.  5,  971.     No.  85]. 


Aug.  11. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  11. 


Aug.  11. 

Whitehall. 


183.  Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Transmits  enclosed  for  their  consideration.  Signed,  Ch.  Dela- 
faye. Endorsed,  Reed.  12th.  Read  18th  Aug.,  1720.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

183.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  my  Lord  Ambassador  Sutton. 
Paris,  15th  Aug.  1720.  Encloses  following.  Con- 
cludes :  In  the  manner  it  is  couched,  without  any 
apparent  regard  to  the  Treaty  of  1686,  it  may  become 
very  pernicious  to  our  Navigation  in  the  West  Indies, 
and  consequently  seems  to  deserve  to  be  considered. 

188.  ii.  A  regulation  by  the  French  King,  23rd  July  (N.S.) 
1720,  relating  to  the  Trade  of  foreigners  with  the  French 
Colonies  in  America.  (1)  All  vessels  engaged  in 
foreign  trade  with  the  French  Colonies  are  to  be  seized 
and  tried  etc.  Copy.  French.  3f  pp.  [CO.  323, 
8.     Nos.  13,  13  i.,  ii.] 


184.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Pulteney.  The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  having  observed  in  the  Daily  Courant  of  the 
6th  of  this  month  a  regulation  said  to  be  published  at  Paris 
concerning  the  commerce  of  foreigners  in  the  French  Colonies, 
and  two  ordinances  of  1681  and  1698  being  referred  to  therein, 
they  desire  you  will  procure  them  copies  etc.  {v.  Aug.  23). 
[CO.  324,  10.      pp.  288,  289.] 

185.  Order  of  the  Lords  Justices  in  Council.  Their  Ex- 
cellencys  in  Councill  this  day  taking  into  consideration  the  great 
importance  of  the  Province  of  Carolina,  both  with  regard  to 
its  own  product,  and  as  it  is  a  frontier  to  H.M.  Provinces  in  the 
Continent  of  America,  and  the  eminent  danger  of  its  being  lost 
in  this  criticall  juncture  by  the  confused  state  of  its  present 
Government,  are  pleased  to  order  and  it  is  hereby  ordered, 
that  the  Governmt.  of  the  said  Province  be  forthwith  taken 


Wt.  7595 


C.f*.  32- 


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1720.  " 

provisionally  into  the  hands  of  the  Crown,  and  that  the  Lords 
Commissioners  of  Trade  and  Plantations  do  prepare  a  Com- 
mission and  Instructions  for  a  Governor  to  be  appointed  by  His 
Majesty,  and  that  they  likewise  propose  to  their  Excellencys 
what  they  judge  further  necessary  to  be  done  for  the  safety  of 
the  said  Province.  Signed,  Temple  Stanyan.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
12th.     Read  15th  Aug.,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  358.    Jf.  1,  2v.] 

Aug.  11.       1 86.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
Whitehall.  In  obedience  to  Order  in  Council,  19th  May  last,  enclose  following 
for  their  approbation.     Annexed, 

186.  i.  Additional   Instructions    by   the    Lords   Justices    to 

Governors  of  Plantations  (Col.  Shute,  Mr.  Burnet, 
Earl  of  Orkney,  Sir  Nich.  Laws,  Genl.  Hamilton,  Saml. 
Cox,  Col.  Bennet).  Whitehal,  Sept.  17,  1720.  Whereas 
Acts  have  been  pass'd  in  some  of  H.M.  Plantations 
in  America  for  striking  bills  of  credit  and  issuing  out 
the  same  in  lieu  of  mony,  in  order  to  discharge  their 
publick  debts,  and  for  other  purposes,  from  whence 
several  inconveniencies  have  arose.  It  is  therefore 
H.M.  will  and  pleasure  that  for  the  future  you  do  not 

give  your  assent  to  or  pass  any  act  in  H.M. under 

your  Government,  whereby  bills  of  credit  may  be 
struck  or  issued  in  lieu  of  mony  or  for  paymt.  of  mony 
either  to  you  the  Governor  or  to  the  Commander  in 
Chief,  or  to  any  of  the  members  of  H.M.  Council  or 

of  the   Assembly   of  the   said of or 

to  any  other  person  whatsoever,  without  a  clause  be 
inserted  in  such  Act  declaring  that  the  same  shall  not 
take  effect  till  the  said  Act  shall  have  been  approved 
and  confirmed  by  H.M.,  excepting  Acts  for  raising 
and   settling   a   publick    Revenue    for   defraying   the 

necessary  charge  of  the  Governmt.  of  the   said 

of according    to    the    Instructions    already 

given  you.  [CO.  324,  10.  pp.  286-288  ;  and  324, 
34.     pp.  13-15.] 

Aug.  11.       187.     Brigadier  Hunter  to  Mr.  Popple.     Encloses   following. 
London.    Signed,   Ro.   Hunter.     Endorsed,   Reed.   11th  Aug.,   Read  6th 
Dec,  1720.     Holograph.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

187.  i.,    ii.     Brigadier    Hunter's    Replies    to   Queries,    10th 

Aug.,  relating  to  New  York.  The  most  important 
are : — (v)  Trade,  shipping  and  mariners  are  con- 
siderably increased.  Exports  chiefly  furs,  tar  and 
pitch,  whale  oil  and  bones  for  England  ;  flour, 
pork  and  other  provisions  to  the  Southern 
Islands  ;  horses  to  Surinam,  Curagoa  and  St.  Thomas. 
Returns  from  latter  in  gold  and  silver,  so  far  as 
avowed.      (vii)  The  methods  to  prevent  illegal  trade 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


99 


1720. 


are  seizures  and  confiscations  upon  discovery,  but  the 
officers  being  frighted  with  appeals  to  the  Admiralty 
here,  under  which  they  have  been  great  sufferers,  I 
doubt  will  not  be  so  exact  in  the  future,  (viii) 
Produce  of  the  country  is  corn,  flour,  tar,  whale  oil, 
pork.  No  sort  of  manufacture  that  deserves  mention, 
(xii)  Inhabitants  increase  daily,  chiefly  from  New 
England,  and  of  late  from  the  North  of  Ireland, 
(xiii)  Militia,  about  6000.  (xv)  Five  Nations  very 
well  inclined,  but  number  only  about  2000,  besides 
the  River  Indians  who  are  under  their  command, 
(xiii)  The  neigbouring  Indians  are  more  numerous 
but  less  considerable  than  ours,  (xviii)  The  effect 
of  the  French  settlements  upon  the  Plantations  is  a 
general  dread  of  the  consequences,  but  no  other  effect 
as  yet  etc.  The  whole  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  555  ; 
N.J.  Archives,  1st  Ser.  IV.  449.  4>  pp.  [CO.  5, 
1052.    ff.  85,  86-87U.,  88i;.] 


Aug.  11. 

N<^w  York. 


188.  Col.  Schuyler  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Abstract.  Is  embarking  for  Albany  to  meet  the  Sachims  of  the 
Five  Nations  there  on  the  16th  and  renew  the  Covenant  with 
them,  the  Council  agreeing  that  this  is  necessary,  in  order  to 
steady  them  in  H.M.  interest  and  if  possible  to  induce  them  to 
remove  the  encroachments  of  the  French.  Is  taking  with  him 
such  presents  as  the  Council  judged  proper,  and  will  write  to 
the  Governor  of  Canada  after  he  has  treated  with  the  Indians, 
when  he  hopes  to  be  able  to  do  so  in  more  pressing  terms.  The 
Province  is  perfectly  tranquil.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  558. 
Signed,  Pr.  Schuyler.  Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  Sept.,  1720.  Read 
18th  Jan.,  172°.     1^  pp.     [CO.  5,  1052.     ff.  \'2.1,  121v.,  \2Sv.] 


Aug.  15. 

Barbados. 


189.  Mr.  Frere  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Having  on  the  2nd  of  this  instant  recieved  by  the  hands  of 
Mr.  Samll.  Cox,  a  letter  from  the  Right  Honble.  Mr.  Secretary 
Craggs  etc  [v.  11th  June),  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  consider  and 
answer  the  same  in  Council,  but  only  four  Members  attending 
that  day,  and  the  rest  (some  of  whom  were  very  ill)  having  sent 
their  excuses,  I  adjourned  the  Council  by  the  advice  of  the 
attending  Members  to  Fryday  following  being  the  5th  instant, 
and  ordered  letters  to  issue  to  the  absent  Members  to  require 
their  attendance  that  day  ;  The  whole  Councill  accordingly 
mett  on  the  5  instant,  and  in  the  presence  of  Mr.  Cox  I  lay'd 
the  said  letter  before  them,  and  demanded  their  advice  and 
opinions  upon  it.  Encloses  copies  of  proceedings.  I  perswade 
myself  that  what  has  been  done  in  this  affair  is  agreeable  to  the 
Instructions  given  Mr.  Lowther  by  H.M.  Commission,  which  I 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


Aug.  16. 

Custoine 

House, 

Boston  in 

N.  England. 


Aug.  16. 
WhitehaU. 


Aug.  16. 

Whitehall. 


take  it  to  be  my  duty,  as  I  am  intrusted  with  the  administra- 
tion of  the  Government,  to  observe.  Signed,  Jno.  Frere. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  7th  Oct.,  1720.  Read  18th  May,  1721.  1  p. 
[CO.  28,  17.    ff.  89,  90t;.] 

190.  John  Jekyll,  Collector,  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Reply  to  their  enquiry  through  H.M.  Commissioners 
of  Customs,  Oct.  30th,  as  to  the  progress  of  woollen  and  linnen 
manufactures  in  New  England,  and  how  the  same  are  en- 
couraged. As  for  ye  woollens  ye  country  in  general  make  it 
for  their  own  use  and  weave  it  commonly  themselves.  There 
are  some  fulling  mills,  and  not  farr  from  this  place  they  make 
very  good  druggetts,  camblets  and  serges  which  are  sold  daily 
to  ye  shops  in  this  town,  and  wore  by  ye  meanest  sort  of  people, 
as  for  ye  tradsmen  and  mechanical  part  they  are  very  ambitious 
of  appearing  above  themselves  and  will  not  be  seen  in  anything 
beneath  ye  merchant  or  more  substantial  wch.  is  in  ye  produce 
of  Europe.  As  for  ye  linnen  manufacture  ye  Peasantry  wear 
wt.  they  call  homespun  which  is  made  of  cotten  and  linnen  tho' 
wee  have  had  lately  some  hundreds  of  Irish  families  setled  at 
ye  Eastward  wch.  make  as  good  linnens  and  diapers  as  in 
Ireland  itself.  Now  as  for  ye  encouragment  thereto  your 
Lordships  well  know  this  is  a  Charter  Govemmt.  and  except 
H.E.  our  Governor  everyman  of  the  Councill  (who  are  ellected 
by  ye  People)  are  New  England  men  and  as  far  as  I  can  guess 
have  their  dear  Idol  ye  Charter  much  at  heart  and  a  great  love 
for  independendcy  in  genrl.  etc.  Signed,  John  Jekyll.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  23rd  Sept.,  1720.  Read  5th  July,  1722.  If  pp. 
[CO.  5,  868.    ff.  278,  278i;,  279i;.] 

1 91 .  Mr.  Popple  to  Brigadier  Hunter.  Desires  him  to  attend 
the  Board  upon  Mr.  Walpole's  Memorial  28th  June,  and  to  give 
them  the  best  light  he  can  into  the  course  of  receipts  and  pay- 
ments of  the  public  money  in  New  York  and  the  method  of 
auditing  their  accounts.  [CO.  5,  1124.  pp.  234,  235  ;  and 
(corrected  draft)  5,  1079.     No.  118]. 

1 92.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
In  obedience  to  your  Excellency's  Order  the  11th  instant,  we 
have  prepared  the  draught  of  a  Commission  etc.,  wherein  we 
have  followed  as  near  as  might  be  the  copy  of  a  Commission 
formerly  granted  by  his  late  Majesty  King  William  the  3rd  of 
ever  glorious  memory  to  Col.  Copley  for  the  Province  of  Mary- 
land when  it  was  thought  necessary  for  the  service  of  the  Crown 
to  resume  the  Government  of  that  Province  from  the  Proprietors. 
We  shall  likewise  take  care,  in  obedience  to  your  Excellencies 
Orders  to  prepare  a  draught  of  proper  Instructions  etc.,  where- 
with we  shall  likewise  offer  to  your  Excellencies,  what  we 
conceive  further  necessary  to  be  done  for  the  safety  of  the  said 


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1720. 


Province ;  But  that  no  time  might  be  lost  in  so  important  an 
affair,  we  thought  it  our  duty  to  laj-  the  inclos'd  draught  of  a 
Commission  before  your  Excellencies  by  the  first  opportunity. 
We  think  it  necessary  upon  this  occasion,  to  inform  your 
Excellencies,  that  altho'  Carolina  was  originally  granted  intire 
to  the  Lords  Proprietors  and  their  boundaries  afterwards 
inlarged,  as  we  have  been  inform'd,  by  a  subsequent 
Charter,  whereby  a  part  of  the  land  formerly  reputed  Virginia 
was  added  to  the  former  grant,  yet  they  found  it  convenient 
to  divide  the  same  into  distinct  Provinces,  by  the  names  of 
North  and  South  Carolina,  which  have  had  different  Govrs. 
Assemblies  and  Courts  of  Justice,  But  we  have  been  mform'd 
that  the  Governor  of  South  Carolina  has  sometimes  been  like- 
wise Governor  of  North  Carolina  and  vested  with  a  power  of 
appointing  a  Deputy  there.  The  draught  of  the  Commissn. 
which  we  have  prepar'd,  is  for  Carolina  in  general,  and  we  submit 
it  to  your  Excellencies,  whether  the  person  to  be  appointed 
Governor  by  H.M.  shou'd  be  impower'd  by  his  Instructions  to 
nominate  a  Lieut,  or  Deputy  Governor  for  North  Carolma,  or 
whether  such  Lieut.  Governor  shou'd  not  rather  be  appointed 
immediately  by  H.M.,  as  is  practis'd  in  the  Leeward  Islands, 
where  each  Island  has  a  Lieut.  Govr.  with  a  distinct  Council 
and  Assembly  ;  all  of  them  nevertheless  subject  to  such  orders 
as  they  shall  receive  from  a  Captain  General  of  the  said  Islands. 
Annexed, 

192.  i.  H.M.  Commission  for  the  Governor  of  Carolina. 
With  marginal  notes  of  subsequent  amendments.  After- 
wards filled  infer  Francis  Nicholson  Esq.,  to  he  Governor 
of  South  Carolina.  The  preamble  runs  as  follows : 
Whereas  by  great  miscarriages  and  neglects  in  the 
Governmt.  of  our  Province  and  Territory  of  South 
Carolina  in  America,  the  same  is  fall'n  into  such 
disorder  and  confusion,  yt  the  publick  peace  and 
administration  of  Justice  (whereby  the  properties 
of  our  subjects  shou'd  be  preserv'd  there)  is  broken 
and  violated  and  the  said  Province  become  wholly  void 
of  defence  against  any  foreign  enemy,  or  even  against 
the  incursions  of  the  barbarous  Indians,  whereby  the 
Southern  frontier  to  our  Plantations  on  the  Continent 
of  America,  and  one  of  the  most  fruitfull  of  our 
Colonies,  is  in  great  danger  of  being  depopulated,  and 
the  trade  and  advantages  thereof  forever  lost  from 
the  Crown  of  Great  Britain.  And  whereas  Our  said 
Province  of  South  Carolina  and  our  [good]  subjects 
the  inhabitants  thereof,  cannot  be  defended  and  secur'd 
by  any  other  means,  than  by  our  takmg  provisionally 
the  Government  into  Our  own  hands  and  immediate 
care  ;  We  therefore  reposmg  especial  trust  and  con- 
fidence in  the  prudence,  courage,  and  loyalty  of  you 


102  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720.  ~ 

the  said  Francis  Nicholson  etc,  appoint  you  our  Capt. 
General  and  Governor  in  Chief  in  and  over  our  Province 
of  South  Carohna  etc.  Words  in  italics  were  sub- 
sequently inserted  and  word  in  brackets  omitted.  The 
Commission  proper  follows.     [CO.  5,  400.     pp.  1-2Q.] 

Aug.  16.  193.  Letter  of  Attorney  from  several  Palatines  at  New 
York  empowering  John  Conrad  Weiser,  William  Schef  and 
Gerard  Walract  to  represent  their  grievances  to  the  King. 
Signed  in  the  autumn  of  1719.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr. 
Long),  16th  Aug.  1720.  Copy,  l^  pp.  [CO.  5,  1052.  ff.  77, 
77z;.,  78i;.] 

Aug.  16.  1 94.  The  humble  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  settle- 
ment of  South  Carolina  now  under  arms  to  the  King,  sheweth 
that  your  petitioners  for  the  preservation  of  this  Colony  and 
your  Majesty's  subjects  here  setled  found  themselves  under  an 
absolute  necessity  to  elect  the  Honble.  James  Moore  Esq.  to 
be  Governour  of  this  settlement  on  behalf  of  your  Majesty, 
since  which  we  have  been  again  alarum'd  with  an  intended 
invasion  of  the  Spaniards  from  the  Havanah  and  by  a  scout- 
boat  lately  arriv'd  we  are  informed  that  the  Spanish  fleet  is  now 
actually  at  St.  Augustine  from  whence  we  hourly  expect  to 
be  attack'd  both  by  sea  and  land.  That  your  petitioners  have 
putt  themselves  into  the  best  posture  of  defence  they  could 
but  they  have  so  long  laboured  under  an  heavy  Indian  war 
perpetual  alarms  both  from  our  sd.  enemy  and  Indians  and 
pyrates  that  they  are  now  reduced  to  the  lowest  ebb  of  fortune 
and  cannot  expect  to  be  able  to  subsist  or  any  time  longer  to 
defend  this  settlemt.  unless  we  are  imediately  taken  into  yor. 
Majesties  royall  protection  and  assistance.  Wherefore  yor. 
petitioners  in  the  most  humble  manner  supplicate  yor.  Royall 
Majesty  as  our  Representatives  have  already  done  to  receive 
this  settlemt.  into  yor.  most  gracious  favour  and  imediate 
protection  and  suffer  us  no  longer  to  be  under  the  authority 
of  any  Lords  Proprietors  whose  indigency  or  neglect  hath  hitherto 
been  the  chief  occasion  of  all  the  miserable  calamities  we  now 
labour  under.  Signed  by  238  of  the  inhabitants.  Endorsed, 
Reed,  from  Mr.  Boon,  Read  16th  Augt.,  1720.  Copy.  1  p. 
[CO.  5,  358.    ff.  3  and  lOi;.] 

[Aug.  16.1  195.  An  Act  for  supporting  the  present  Government  under 
the  administracon  of  the  Honble.  James  Moore  Esq.  or  any 
succeeding  Governor  {of  South  Carolina).  Whereas  by  reason  of 
the  ill  Governmt.  and  male  administracon  of  the  proprietors 
of  this  settlement  and  their  officers  more  at  large  set  forth  in 
the  general  representacon  of  the  grievances  of  the  inhabitants 
etc.  {v.  Feb.  supra),  and  by  reason  of  the  inability  and  incapacity 
of  the   said  Proprietors  to  protect  or  defend  this  Collony  from 


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1720. 


the  continuall  massacres  and  insults  of  our  enemy  Indians  or 
the  invasion  of  foreign  enemies  they  the  said  inhabitants  have 
been  driven  to  so  great  extremities  that  no  ordinary  meanes 
could  be  were  or  can  be  sufficient  to  extricate  themselves  from 
the  evills  aforesaid.  Wherefore  the  said  inhabitants  taking 
into  their  consideracon  their  calumitous  circumstances  and  for 
the  preservation  of  their  lives  and  estates  according  to  the 
supreme  Law  of  Nature  and  the  duty  they  owe  under  the  said 
Soveraigne  Lord  the  King  to  prevent  the  desertions  of  the 
people  and  to  save  so  noble  a  Collony  from  falling  into  the  hands 
of  H.M.  enemies  did  with  one  heart  and  voice  renounce  the  said 
proprietors  and  every  of  them  their  heires  and  successors  and 
did  unanimously  elect  the  Honble.  James  Moore  Esqr.  to  be 
Governor  of  this  Settlement  for  and  on  H.M.  behalfe.  And 
whereas  the  said  James  Moore  as  Governor,  and  for  the  due  and 
regular  Governmt.  of  the  said  Settlemt.  and  the  preservation 
of  H.M.  peace  and  the  better  to  oppose  and  withstand  our  said 
enemies  did  constitute  and  appoint  divers  officers  both  civil 
and  military  untill  H.M.  pleasure  should  be  known  in  this 
behalfe,  we  therefore  humbly  pray  his  most  sacred  Majestye 
that  it  may  be  enacted  and  be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  said 
Honble.  James  Moore  Esqr.  Governor  for  and  in  H.M.  name 
and  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Representatives 
of  the  said  inhabitants  of  the  said  Settlemt.  now  mett  at 
Charles  Town  that  as  well  he  the  said  James  Moore  Govr.  as 
also  all  persons  acting  in  this  present  Generall  Assembly  and 
other  officers  and  ministers  civill  and  military  whatsoever  created 
or  to  be  created  by  him  the  said  James  Moor  and  acting  under 
his  authority  or  made  created  or  continued  by  a  General  Con- 
vention of  the  said  inhabitants  or  made  created  or  continued 
by  the  present  Generall  Assembly  or  by  the  now  common  House 
of  Assembly  by  force  or  virtue  of  any  law  or  custom  of  this 
Province  at  any  time  in  forme  before  the  said  late  revolution 
of  the  Settlement  bee  and  are  hereby  confirmed  in  their  respective 
offices  untill  H.M.  or  the  Governor  shall  see  fitt  to  remove 
them  etc.  All  acts  by  the  said  Convention  Governor  or  Assembly 
or  any  officer  under  them  hereby  declared  good  and  valid  etc. 
unless  H.M.  or  the  Parliament  of  Great  Britain  or  the  General 
Assembly  of  this  Settlement  shall  repeal  the  same  etc.,  and  all 
parties  concerned  in  the  late  Revolution  or  in  the  said  Governmt. 
of  affaires  are  hereby  justified  and  indemnified.  All  actions 
brought  against  such  officers  on  account  of  the  premisses  etc. 
shall  be  deemed  null  and  void  etc.  2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  358.  ff. 
5,  5v.] 

Aug.  16.       1 96.     Mr.  Popple  to  Rev.  Mr.  Gordon.     Asks  for  information 

WhitehaU.  in  writing  of  the  trade  carried   on   between  New  England  and 

any  foreign  Plantations,  particularly  to  the  French  and  Dutch 

settlements  in  horses  ;  and  what  returns  they  receive  for  them, 

and  what  is  the  consequence  of  such  trade.     [C.O.  5,  915.  p.  315.] 


104 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 
Aug.  17. 

Suffolk 
Street. 


1 97.  Mr.  Gordon  to  Mr.  Popple.  Reply  to  preceding.  The 
Dutch  Sugar  Colony  of  Surinam  lyes  so  low,  and  is  so  woody 
that  they  don't  build  any  windmills  there  for  want  of  wind,  and 
(except  upon  the  banks  of  their  river,  where  they  have  water- 
mills)  all  their  sugar  is  made  with  mills  turn'd  round  with 
horses,  of  which  they  do  not  breed  any  themselves,  but  are 
altogether  supply'd  from  New  England  and  Rhode  Island  in 
English  bottoms  which  carry  thither  salt  fish  also,  and  hogshead 
staves,  and  for  returns  export  chiefly  molasses,  which  the  Dutch 
sell  much  cheaper  than  the  English  can  afford  it,  and  with  that 
molasses  they  make  rum,  with  which  the  Colonys  about  New 
England  are  above  half  supply'd.  I  have  also  known  several 
vessels  come  from  Surinam  to  Barbados  with  hard  timber  and 
molasses,  which  they  have  sold,  even  there,  to  good  profit. 
From  New  England  and  Rhode  Island  they  carry  horses, 
boards,  staves,  fish  and  all  sorts  of  deal  timber  to  Martinique, 
Guardaloop,  French  Hispaniola  and  Cheyanne,  a  flourishing 
French  Colony  etc.  From  all  these  places  they  have  great 
quantitys  of  sugar  and  molasses  ;  and,  from  Martinique,  all 
their  cocoa  and  indigo.  From  New  York  the  French  colonys 
are  chiefly  supply'd  with  flower,  bacon,  and  some  horses,  in 
return  for  which  they  export  great  quantitys  of  sugar  and  cocoa, 
and  ship  it  directly  to  Holland.  In  my  humble  opinion  this 
trade  tends  to  the  encrease  and  improvements  of  foreign  sugar 
Colonys,  and  the  decrease  of  our  own,  and  is,  at  present,  very 
prejudicial  to  H.M.  Revenue  ;  for,  without  this  trade,  the  sugar, 
rum  and  molasses  consumed  in  the  Northern  Colonys  would  be 
exported  from  the  English  sugar  Colonys,  and  pay  H.M.  not 
only  a  duty  of  4^  p.c,  but  also  the  enumerated  duty  as  we  call 
it,  for  all  sugars  exported  to  our  Colonys.  The  quantity  of 
sugars  imported  to  our  Colonys  from  the  French  and  Dutch 
is  so  great  that  they  send  a  great  deal  of  it  even  to  England 
as  the  produce  of  our  own  Colonys  ;  by  which  means  H.M.  is 
not  only  defrauded  of  the  double  duty,  but  also  of  the  enumer- 
ated duty  supposed  to  have  been  paid  upon  their  first  exporta- 
tion from  the  Colony  where  they  were  made.  If  a  moderate 
duty  were  laid  upon  the  produce  of  all  foreign  Colonys  when 
imported  into  English  Colonys  ;  and  if  it  were  made  equally 
penal  to  export  the  produce  of  any  foreign  Colonys  after  they 
are  once  imported  to  an  English  Colony,  to  any  place  but  Great 
Britain,  as  it  is  to  export  their  own  produce,  such  a  Law  would, 
in  a  great  measure,  prevent  many  of  the  frauds,  and  very  much 
improve  the  Revenue.  Mr.  Worsam  etc.,  when  about  4  years 
agoe  he  liv'd  at  New  York,  sent  over  to  Barbados  a  calculate  of 
the  French  sugar  imported  there,  the  very  4|  p.c.  duty  of  which 
amounted  I  think  to  above  £1500  per  ann.  etc.  Signed,  W. 
Gordon.  Endorsed,  Reed.  17th,  Read  18th  Augt.,  1720. 
3  pp.     [CO.  5,  867.     No.  73.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


105 


Aug.  18. 

WhitehaU. 


1720. 

Aug.  17.       198.     Mr.    Tilson   to   Mr.    Popple.     When    Mr.    West   was 

Treasury    appointed  etc.  {v.  6th  May),  it  was  intended  that  the  standing 

Chambers.  ^^^  ^^  £-j^qq  guineas  pF.  annum  apeice  to  the  Attorney  and 

SoHicitor  General  and  10  guineas  pr.  annum  to  each  of  their 

Clerks  should  cease,  and  that  the  Board  of  Trade  should  (as 

often  as  they  might  have  occasion  to  apply  for  the   opinion  of 

either  of  them)  give  the  usual  fee  for  such  their  opinion,  and  bring 

the  expence  thereof  into  the   Contingent  bill  of  their  Office. 

The    Lords    Commrs.    of    H.M.     Treasury    desire    that    their 

Lordships  may  take   their  measures  accordingly  etc.     Signed, 

Chris.  Tilson.      Endorsed,  Reed.  25th,  Read  26th  Aug.   1720. 

Addressed.     1  p.     [CO.  388,  77.     No.  84  ;    and  389,  37.     pp. 

188,  189.] 

199.  Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Upon  your  representation  of  16th  inst.  etc.,  the  Lords  Justices 
direct  that  you  give  all  possible  dispatch  to  the  report  you  are 
to  lay  before  them  of  what  is  further  necessary  to  be  done  for 
the  safety  of  Carolina,  etc.  Signed,  Ch.  Delafaye.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  19th  Aug.,  1720.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  358.  ff.  11, 
12i;.] 

200.  Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Encloses  following.  I  shall  by  the  next  ship  send  an 
account  of  the  stores  of  New  Hampshu'e.  Since  I  sent  an 
answer  to  the  Query  relating  to  the  manufactures  of  this  country 
I  have  been  informed  that  there  are  some  camblets  and  druggets 
made  in  the  country  and  sent  to  some  of  the  shops  in  Boston, 
but  I  don't  observe  that  they  are  worn  by  any  but  the  ordinary 
people.  I  hope  I  shall  quickly  receive  some  answer  relating 
to  the  affair  of  the  Speaker  mentioned  1st  June  etc.  For  tho' 
in  the  next  Assembly  they  chose  another  Speaker,  I  find  they 
still  persist  in  the  opinion  that  the  King's  Govr.  has  no  negative 
upon  the  Speaker.  Capt.  Carey  who  left  London  29th  May  was 
taken  by  a  pirate  ship  of  26  guns  and  a  sloop  of  10  near  the  banks 
of  Newfoundland  who  took  and  destroyed  so  much  of  his  cargo 
as  amounts  to  about  £8000  sterling  ;  and  also  reports  that 
they  had  fallen  upon  and  destroy'd  the  fishery  of  Newfoundland. 
Signed,  Samll.  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  27th  Sept.  1720, 
Read  7th  March,  17  n^.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

200.  i,  ii.  Accounts  of  the  stores  of  war  expended  and  re- 
maining at  H.M.  Castle  William,  Boston,  June  24.th, 
1720.  Sighed,  Zee.  Tuthill,  Lt.  Endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding. 2  pp.  [CO.  5,  868.  ff.  5-6,  7v.-9  {with 
abstract).] 

Aug.  20.       201 .     Mr.   Secretary  Craggs  to  the   Council  of  Trade  and 

WhitehaU.  Plantations.      Enclosed  I   transmit  a  Memorial  setting  forth 

the  reasons  why  a  Comptroller  should  be  appointed  over  the 

King's  Woods  in  New  England,  and  as  H.M.  is  inclined  to  confer 


Aug.  19. 

Boston, 
N.  England. 


lOG 


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1720. 


that  place  on  the  present  Governour  there  if  it  be  found  proper 
to  erect  such  an  office,  you  are  to  report  your  opinion  thereon 
etc.  Signed,  J.  Craggs.  Endorsed,  Reed.  20th  Augt.,  Read 
1st  Sept.,  1720.     1  y.     Enclosed, 

201.  i.  Memorial  to  the  King.  Proposing  the  appointment 
of  the  Governor  of  New  England  as  Comptroller  of 
H.M.  Woods.  No  date  or  signature.  2\  pp.  [CO. 
5,    867.  Nos.  74,  74.  i.] 


Aug.  20. 

Salem  in 
N.  England. 


Aug.  21, 

London. 


202.  Charles  Blechynden  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Reply  to  queries  as  to  woollen  and  linnen  manu- 
factures. Duplicate  of  16th  Aug.  Signed,  Chas.  Blechynden. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd  Sept.,  1720.,  Read  5th  July,  1722. 
pp.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  280,  280t;.,  281i;.] 


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203.  Col.  Vetch  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Reply  to  Queries  of  10th  Aug.,  relating  to  Nova  Scotia,  (i)  Its 
situation  is  from  the  River  St.  Croy  in  the  43rd  degree  of  North 
Latitude  along  the  coast,  N.E.,  as  farr  as  the  Gutt  or  passage  of 
Cansoe,  which  about  160  leagues,  to  the  46  degree,  its  longtitude. 
The  country  partly  mountanous  full  of  timber  of  allmost  all 
sorts  that  Europe  produces,  besides  others  etc.  The  soyle  is 
generaly  very  fertile,  (ii)  Its  reputed  boundaries,  upon  the 
seaboard  side,  are  from  the  River  St.  Croy,  to  the  passage  of 
Cansoe.  And  on  the  side  of  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence  and  bay 
Vert  (as  the  limits,  of  that  Government,  was  reputed,  when 
possess'd  by  the  French)  reached  as  farr  as  Cape  Gaspee  : 
including  the  islands  of  St.  John,  St.  Peters,  Magdalen,  Bona- 
venture,  St.  Pauls,  Persee,  and  many  others  of  lesser  note.  As 
to  its  limits  into  the  country  north,  north  west,  and  westerly, 
they  have  never  as  yet  been  adjusted,  the  country  not  being 
setled,  and  being  all  formerly  in  the  possession,  of  the  French, 
(iii)  As  to  the  form  of  Government  there,  it  hath  been  hitherto, 
intirely  military  ;  the  Crown,  of  Great  Brittan,  never  having 
established,  any  sort  of  civil  Government  there,  since  its  reduc- 
tion, save  what  they  may  have  empowered  Col.  Philipps  to 
doe  etc.  (iv)  As  to  the  trade  of  that  place,  it  is  as  yet,  not  at 
all  considerable,  and  consists  cheifly,  in  furrs,  and  peltry  of 
all  sorts  ;  cod  fishing,  some  small  matter,  of  naval  stores,  as 
pitch,  tarr,  masts,  lumber  etc.  Their  shipping  consists  only 
in  sloops  and  small  boats  from  50  tunns  and  under,  they  are 
most  employed  in  the  fishery,  or  transporting  their  grain, 
catle  etc.  to  Cape  Brettoun  or  Canada,  which  are  the  only  places, 
almost  they  tT[ade  to  ?],  save  one  vessell  came  from  thence 
directly  to  England,  and  another  to  Jamaica.  They  are 
navigated  generaly  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  country,  who  are 
almost  all  of  them,  used  to  the  [?5ea]  etc.  :  they  doe  not  encrease. 
New  England  Cape  Bre[^o/z  a7id  Cajnada  drawing  them  from 
thence,  for  want  of  encouragement  at  home.      (v)  As    to    the 


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1720. 


Brittish  manufactories,  what  they  use,  they  have  by  way,  of 
Boston  att  verry  \^.high  prices^  but  is  not  verry  considerable, 
having  Utle  to  purchase  the  same,  the  furr  and  petty  trade 
(which  is  considerable)  [6^]ing  mostly  to  ['iCape  Breton]  and 
Canada,  from  whence  they  are  supplyd  with  what  they 
n.[eed],  tho  att  verry  high  prices  ;  Any  of  our  Brittish  manu- 
factorys  consum'd  there,  are,  course  woolings,  cutlery,  nails, 
cordage,  tools,  etc.  (vi)  They  have  no  trade  to  any  forreign 
place  save  Canada  and  Cape  Brittoun,  only  one  sloop  came  there 
from  Martinico,  with  rumm  and  malasses,  to  truck  for  fish,  but 
was  seised  as  ane  ilegal  trader,  (vii)  To  prevent  illegal  trade, 
there  is  a  Colector  there  (one  Mr.  Newton)  who  is  as  yet  a  need- 
less expense  to  the  Crown.  (viii)  See  No,  iv.  As  to  manu- 
factories, they  have  none  as  yet.  The  country  produces  catle, 
sheep,  and  hogs  in  great  aboundance,  which  they  export  to 
Cape  Britton,  for  stocking  of  that  place,  (ix)  As  to  mines, 
the  French,  while  posessed  of  that  country  never  made  any 
improvement,  of  any  of  them,  tho  they  had  tryed  for  them, 
tho  they  found  stone  for  iron,  in  aboundance,  copper,  and  lead 
oar,  verry  promising  in  severall  parts,  of  the  country,  (x)  As 
to  the  anuall  produce  of  the  commoditys  of  this  country,  it  is 
almost  impossible,  to  make  any  computation,  of  them,  the 
most  valueable  being  caryed  away  to  the  French  Colonys  as 
abovesd.  M.  Subercass,  the  French  Govr.  (whom  I  succeeded) 
told  me  that  the  year  before  wee  took  the  place,  which  was  1709, 
he  sent  home  for  the  Canada  Company  above  40,000  bea[vers'] 
skins,  besides  a  vast  many  martins,  minks,  otters,  foxes,  cats, 
rakoons  etc.,  which  amounted,  to  above  double,  the  value,  of  the 
beaver,  all  which  is  now  almost  wholly  lost,  to  Great  Brittan,  by 
reason,  that  the  Indians  who  kill  those  creatures  being  intirely 
in  the  French  interest ;  for  want  of  executing  that  Article  in  the 
Treaty  of  Utrecht,  for  appointing  Commssrs.  to  determine,  to 
which  of  the  kingdoms,  the  severall  cantons  of  Indians,  togither 
with  their  trade  belongs,  by  which  the  Crown,  of  Great  Brittan 
hath  lost  yearly  at  least,  four,  or  five  thousand  pounds,  which  the 
dutys  of  those  furrs  would  have  amounted  to  :  besides  four 
times  that  loss  in  trade  to  the  merchants  etc.  (xi)  As  to  the 
number  of  inhabitants  :  I  take  the  French  there  not  to  exceed 
1200  families  at  most,  the  Indians  in  all  the  severall  districts 
not  to  exceed  500  families,  or  as  many  fighting  men.  The  Brittish 
including  the  Garison,  as  it  now  is,  not  above  300.  (xii)  Tho' 
the  French  inhabitants  of  Nova  Scotia  are  verry  prolifick,  yet 
I  belive  the  country  rather  decreases  then  increases  for  the 
reasons  mentioned  before  etc.  (xiii)  As  to  the  Militia,  they 
have  never  he[en  any']]  since  the  reduction  of  that  place  etc. 
(xiv)  As  to  forts,  and  places  of  defence,  there  are  none  save  att, 
Annapolis  royall,  which  is  but  in  a  verry  sorry  condition,  a 
particular  accot.  of  which,  your  Lops,  may  have  from  the  Board 
of  Ordinance.      (xv)  See  No.  xi.      (xvi,  xvii)    Cannot  answer. 


108  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

(xviii)  To  answer  this  quoere  relating  to  what  effect  the  French 
settlements  upon  the  Continent  have  upon  those  of  Great 
Brittan  would  require  a  small  volume,  only  in  generall,  as  the 
French  from  Canada,  quite  to  Missasippi,  have  by  small  forts, 
and  trading  houses,  at  verry  considerable  distances  one  from 
another,  togither,  with  their  friendship,  with  the  natives, 
given  themselves  a  title,  to  all  that  vast  tract  of  land,  which 
lys  quite  behind  all  our  Brittish  dominions,  there  :  and  hemms 
them  in  betAvixt  the  French  and  the  sea  all  the  way  from  the 
eastermost  part  of  Nova  Scotia  to  the  westermost  part  of  South 
Carolina  :  so  they  have  not  only  robbed  them,  of  all  the  trade 
with  the  natives  adjoyning  to  and  belonging  to  our  severall 
Colonys  of  verry  great  value  and  consequence  :  But  may,  as 
their  Colonys  grow  numerous  by  the  assistance  of  the  Indians 
(their  being  no  limits  setled  betwixt  any  of  our  Colonys  and  theirs 
backwards)  not  only  confine  our  Brittish  Colonys  to  a  verry 
narrow  bounds  along  the  sea  coast  which  they  now  possess  ; 
but  at  last  even  force  them  from  the  same  by  the  aide  and  pre- 
tended title  the  natives  will  give  them  to  all  the  country  :  so 
that  it  is  certainly  of  the  last  consequence  to  all  the  Brittish 
Colonys  upon  the  Continent  of  North  America  to  have  their 
limits  adjusted  with  the  French  in  as  solemn,  and  publick  a 
manner  as  can  be  :  and  the  severall  nations  of  Indians  depending 
upon  the  respective  Brittish  Colonys  with  all  possible  formality 
in  presence  of  the  Indian  Cheifs  and  french  missonarys  as  well 
as  their  Commissioners  for  that  end  appointed  declared  to  belong 
to  and  depend  upon  the  Crown,  of  Geat  Brittan :  as  proposed 
by  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  etc.  (xix)  As  to  revenues,  there  are 
as  yet  none  att  all  setled  etc.  (xx)  The  ordinary  expences, 
of  that  Government  are  no  more  then  what  the  establishment 
of  that  Garison  here  :  (to  be  seen  at  the  Warr  Office)  provides 
for  :  excepting  the  Colector  etc.  ;  the  extraordinary  expense  is 
casual,  repairs  of  the  fort  and  presents  to  Indians  etc.  (xxi) 
Civill  establishment  I  know  of  none,  nor  is  there  any  office 
held  there  by  patent  save  that  of  the  Governour.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  21st  Aug.,  Read  6th  Dec.  1720.  Worn.  3^  pp.  [CO. 
217,  3.     No.  16.] 

Aug.  22.  204.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Acknowledges  letter  of  29th  Sept.  last,  with  the 
Memorial  of  M.  D'Iberville.  Continues  :  To  answer  which  I 
herewith  send  the  most  distinct  account,  that  I  could  possibly 
procure  etc.  I  can  with  great  truth  from  my  own  knowledge 
affirm  to  your  Lordships,  that  the  several  allegations  contained 
in  the  Representation  to  me  from  the  Council  and  Assembly 
are  fact  so  far  as  they  relate  to  the  assistances  that  have  from 
time  to  time  {v.  Nov.  21st)  been  given  by  that  Island  [Nevis] 
to  the  others  therein  mentioned  ;  And  I  do  further  assure 
your  Lordships  that  the  forces  therein  mentioned  have  been 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  109 


1720. 


actually  sent  on  the  services  and  expedition  therein  specifyed 
etc.,  as  also  that  the  inhabitants  did  relieve  and  support  the 
subjects  of  the  United  Provinces,  as  well  as  those  of  our  own 
Nation  for  the  time  therein  set  forth,  all  which  put  that  now 
distressed  Colony  to  a  very  great  charge  and  expence  both  of 
men  and  mony,  which,  by  the  devastations  committed  on  them 
by  the  enemy,  and  the  misfortunes  that  have  since  at  several 
times  befallen  them  by  storms  and  severe  droughts  have  reduced 
that  once  flourishing  Island  to  a  very  deplorable  condition. 
Your  Lordships  will  find  that  the  number  of  the  present  in- 
habitants is  inconsiderable  and  if  they  become  apprehensive 
of  their  being  made  lyable  to  answer  the  demands  of  Monsr. 
D 'Iberville  'tis  to  be  feared  that  they  will  remove  their  effects, 
and  totally  desert  that  Island,  so  that  I  cannot  but  earnestly 
beg  that  your  Lordships  will  be  pleased  to  recommend  them  to 
H.M.  as  proper  objects  of  His  Royal  compassion,  it  being  im- 
possible for  them  to  make  satisfaction  for  the  sum  stipulated 
(in  case  the  convention  should  be  adjudged  good)  without 
stripping  them  of  their  all,  and  thereby  reducing  them  to  the 
utmost  poverty  and  want,  which  I  am  persuaded  your  Lordships 
goodness  will  endeavour  to  prevent.  I  remark  what  your 
Lordships  have  directed  your  Secretary  to  signify  to  me  in 
relation  to  Colo.  Bramble  etc. ;  and  the  nomination  of  Councellors 
which  I  shall  punctually  obey,  and  indeed  is  what  I  have 
hitherto  duely  performed.  I  also  observe  your  Lordships 
opinion  as  to  the  suspension  of  Officers  in  case  they  shall  neglect 
or  refuse  to  perform  their  duty,  which  is  very  satisfactory  to 
me,  and  I  am  in  hopes  I  shall  by  this  means  be  able  to  compell 
them  to  furnish  me  with  the  several  papers  which  I  am  enjoined 
by  my  Instructions  to  transmit  etc.  I  have  not  been  able  to 
get  any  further  accounts  of  the  settlements  in  these  parts  belong- 
ing to  foreigners  etc.,  but  shall  endeavour  it  etc.  In  order  to 
comply  with  your  [Lordships  remarks]  on  my  answer  to  the  7th 
Article  I  now  send  an  account  of  the  number  of  sailors  and 
vessels  properly  belonging  to  this  place,  and  as  soon  as  I  can  get 
those  of  the  other  Islands  I  shall  duely  forward  the  same  etc. 
Refers  to  other  enclosures  ;  and,  in  answer  to  their  enquiry  about 
the  Act  of  Montserrat  {29th  Sept.),  to  his  letter  of  9th  April  etc. 
Continues  :  which  I  hope  will  convince  your  Lordships  that 
I  am  sincerely  desirous  of  persuing  my  Instructions  in  every 
particular,  and  indeed  could  I  have  got  the  papers  sooner  your 
Lordships  should  have  had  them  long  ere  this,  however  I  hope 
they  will  now  get  safe  to  hand  and  prove  satisfactory.  Acknow- 
ledges letter  of  3rd  March  with  queries  in  relation  to  the  Act 
for  indemnifying  Anthony  Brown  etc.  Continues :  I  have 
caused  the  inhabitants  of  [St.  Philips]  parish  to  appear  before 
two  magistrates  to  hear  what  the  several  parties  had  to  offer 
for  and  against  the  new  Church  etc.  Each  side  have  delivered 
their  answer  in  writing  but  those  given  to  the  6th  and  7th 


no  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Queries  are  so  very  contradictory  that  I  must  own  I  am  a  little 
at  a  stop  what  judgement  to  make  on  the  same  especially  as  to 
the  6th  Querie,  and  therefore  I  intend  at  the  next  meeting  to 
take  the  opinion  of  the  Council  in  that  particular  they  being 
better  acquainted  and  consequently  more  proper  judges  than  I 
can  pretend  to  be  ;  as  soon  as  I  have  done  that,  and  made  myself 
master  of  the  truth  of  the  facts  alledged  in  answer  to  the  7th 
Querie  I  shall  transmit  the  whole  to  your  Lordships  and  hope 
it  will  be  sufficient  to  put  an  end  to  this  long  and  troublesome 
affair.  Encloses  licences  of  absence  to  Lt.  Colo.  Morris,  Colo. 
Warner  and  John  Yeamans  Esqr  etc.,  the  former  is  now  in 
England,  the  other  in  Barbados  and  the  latter  in  New  England. 
Azariah  Pinner  Esq.  one  of  the  Council  of  Nevis  is  some  time 
past  dead  in  England  and  John  Dale  Esq.  one  of  the  Council 
of  Mountserrat  by  reason  of  his  great  age  has  resigned  etc.,  in 
whose  places  I  beg  leave  to  recommend  Roger  Pemberton  Esq. 
for  Nevis  and  Anthony  Hodges  Esq.  for  Mountserrat,  both  which 
persons  are  zealously  affected  to  H.M.  and  the  Protestant 
Succession  etc.  They  have  both  very  good  estates  in  those 
Islands  etc.  Mr.  Hodges  his  father  was  formerly  Lt.  Governor 
of  Mountserrat.  Signed,  W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  20th 
Oct.,  1720,  Read  27th  June,  1721.     4>  pp.     Enclosed, 

204.  i.  Governor  Hamilton  to  Mr.  Popple,  Antigua,  28th  July, 
1720.  Encloses  returns  in  answer  to  his  Instructions,  as 
desired  24th  April  and  29th  Sept.,  1719.  In  compliance 
with  Instruction  22,  encloses  Acts  of  St.  Christophers,  (a) 
for  raising  an  impost  on  liquors  imported,  {b)for  laying  a 
tax  on  vintners  and  on  retailers  of  strong  liquors  and  for 
lessening  the  number  of  distillers  etc.  {c)  for  settling  a 
salary  on  William  Nevine  Esq.,  Agent  for  the  Island  etc. 
Refers  to  letter  of  3rd  Nov.  Continues : — Notwithstand- 
ing what  I  then  wrote,  the  said  Acts  were  not  returned 
unto  me  untill  about  six  days  ago  and  even  yet  I  have 
not  received  the  duplicates  {v.  end.  Hi).  By  which  their 
Lordships  will  see  how  difficult  it  is  to  get  the  business 
duely  dispatched  in  these  Islands  ;  however  to  prevent 
delay  of  this  nature  I  am  determined  to  pass  no  Act 
but  what  shall  come  accompanied  with  a  duplicate,  to 
the  end  I  may  send  them  to  their  Lordships  whilst  the 
originals  are  publishing  and  recording  etc.  (d)  Act 
of  Antigua,  to  impower  the  Treasurer  to  collect  arrears 
due  etc.,  and  for  allowing  interest  to  those  whom  the 
publick  is  indebted  to  and  charging  interest  on  the  debtors 
of  the  publick.  (e)  for  reinforcing  an  Act  for  repairing 
the  fortifications  etc.  Instruction  23.  The  reasons 
for  each  of  the  five  bills  now  sent  will  appear  upon 
perusal  of  them  etc.  'Tis  necessary  they  should  be 
speedily  considered  etc.  Instruction  24.  I  have 
already   transmitted   a   book   containing  a   collection 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  Ill 


1720. 


of  the  Laws  of  Nevis,  in  which  was  included  all  the 
general  Acts,  etc.,  but  since  their  Lordships  direct 
that  the  said  General  Acts  be  sent  them  distinctly, 
I  have  ordered  the  Secretary  of  Antigua  to  make  out 
a  Collection  thereof,  as  well  as  a  copy  of  the  particular 
Acts  of  this  Island  in  distinct  books.  If  another 
collection  of  the  particular  Acts  of  Nevis  is  required 
etc.  I  will  again  give  Instructions  to  the  Secretary. 
I  cannot  affirm  that  any  allowance  will  be  made  to 
him,  in  regard  it  is  alledged  that  as  he  is  a  Patent 
Officer  it  is  his  duty  to  supply  the  Governour  gratis 
with  all  papers  that  H.M.  shall  require,  the  perquisites 
and  fees  that  he  gets  otherwise  by  his  Office  being  a 
sufficient  recompense.  The  Laws  of  St.  Christophers 
were  sent  21st  March,  1718.  The  Secretary  of  Mount- 
serrat  was  by  me  ordered  to  make  out  a  collection  of 
the  laws  of  that  Island  in  a  bound  book,  but  has 
transmitted  them  on  paper  (enclosed).  I  shall  direct 
him  again  to  transcribe  them  in  a  bound  book  etc. 
The  Secretary  of  Antigua  is  now  making  a  collection 
of  all  the  particular  Acts  of  that  Island,  as  well  as  the 
General  Laws  etc.  Encloses  lists  thereof.  Instruction 
34.  Encloses  accompts  of  the  Treasurer  of  Antigua  in 
two  books,  the  first  ending  6th  Feb.,  1718,  the  second 
10th  March,  1720,  and  of  the  Treasurer  of  St.  Chris- 
tophers 27th  Nov.,  1716-25th  Jan.,  1718.  Since  when 
there  hath  been  few  or  no  taxes  raised  in  that  Island, 
till  three  or  four  months  past.  I  shall  order  him 
speedily  to  remit  me  his  accompts  since  etc.  Encloses 
accounts  of  the  Treasurer  of  Mountserrat  to  10th 
Nov.,  "  Since  when  I  do  not  know  of  any  taxes  raised 
in  that  Island  "  etc.  Mr.  Meriwether  the  late  Treasurer 
of  Nevis  died  10  months  ago.  I  can't  get  any  accounts 
of  publick  moneys  durmg  his  time,  his  books  which 
are  in  the  utmost  confusion  not  being  settled,  though 
several  Committees  have  been  appointed  for  that 
purpose.  Encloses  accounts  from  1st  May,  1713  to 
15th  Jan.  1716,  with  some  estimates  by  the  Assembly 
of  public  moneys  raised  up  to  Jan.  1st,  1717,  since 
which  there  has  been  no  tax  raised  till  16th  March 
1719,  etc.  Instructions  41  and  42.  Refers  to  previous 
dispatch  of  Minutes  of  Councils  and  Assemblies 
and  to  those  enclosed,  and  to  imports  from  Madera 
sent  24th  April,  1719,  and  now  repeated.  Instruction 
51.  I  have  given  express  orders  to  the  severall  Officers 
publickly  to  hang  up  in  their  Offices  a  table  of  all  fees, 
and  to  send  me  copies  thereof.  Encloses  the  few  he 
has  received.  Continues:  By  which  their  Lordships 
will  see  that  the  trouble    I   am  obliged  to  be  at   in 


112  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


endeavouring  to  get  the  respective  officers  to  perform 
their  duty,  is  more  than  a  little.  I  shall  repeat  my 
orders  to  the  delinquents,  and  in  case  of  further 
neglect  suspend  them  etc.  I  shall  take  all  possible 
care  to  prevent  extortion  etc.  Instruction  59.  I  have 
at  last  with  great  difficulty  got  a  list  of  inhabitants, 
enclosed.  I  shall  take  care  to  send  yearly  an  account 
etc.  Instruction  60.  I  have  given  express  directions 
for  keeping  the  said  accounts  and  furnishing  me  yearly 
with  abstracts  etc.  Instructions  69  and  70.  Encloses 
accounts  of  stores  of  war.  I  have  given  directions  to 
the  officers  to  furnish  me  with  an  inventory  every  half 
year.  Instruction  72.  Encloses  account  of  the  forts 
and  fortifications  at  Antigua  etc.  By  which  their 
Lordships  will  perceive  that  they  are  much  out  of 
repair,  many  of  the  guns  being  dismounted,  and  unfit 
for  service,  all  the  carriages  that  H.M.  was  pleased 
to  send  over  are  rotten  and  decayed,  and  at  present 
it  is  not  in  the  power  of  the  inhabitants  to  raise  a 
levy  to  make  new  carriages  or  indeed  to  do  several 
other  things  that  are  necessary  for  putting  the  Island 
into  a  posture  of  defence,  we  having  for  these  many 
months  past  been  so  severely  afflicted  with  dry  weather 
that  in  many  parts  of  the  country  the  poor  people 
are  really  in  want  of  common  necessaries  ;  and  'tis 
to  be  doubted  that  the  calamity  will  rather  increase 
than  diminish,  in  regard  the  season  of  the  year  is 
already  so  far  advanced,  that  it  is  impossible  for  the 
poorer  sort  to  raise  sufficient  either  this  year  or  the 
next  to  purchase  provisions  for  themselves  or  their 
families  ;  and  indeed  it  will  hardly  be  in  the  power 
of  the  more  wealthy  to  assist  them,  the  weather 
having  been  so  severe  that  it  has  not  only  disappointed 
them  in  their  present  crops,  but  will  also  prevent 
their  making  much  the  next  year.  Nay  'tis  to 
be  feared  that  many  of  good  condition  wont  make  as 
much  as  will  buy  necessaries  for  themselves  and 
families,  from  whence  I  cannot  but  beg  leave  humbly 
to  recommend  their  distress'd  condition  to  their 
Lordships,  and  to  pray  that  they  will  represent  it  to 
his  most  Gracious  Majesty  in  hopes  that  he  will  be 
pleased  to  order  some  salt  provisions  and  bread  kind 
to  be  sent  over,  not  only  for  the  relief  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  this  but  also  of  the  other  Islands,  who  have 
likewise  very  sensibly  felt  the  severity  of  the  weather 
and  must,  if  not  by  some  means  or  other  speedily 
relieved,  desert,  as  some  have  already  done  etc.  I 
am  of  opinion  it  will  be  for  H.M.  service  and  the 
protection  of  the  trade  of  this  Island  in  time  of  war, 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  113 


1720. 


to  build  a  platform  of  7  or  8  guns  at  Cripplegate  near 
St.  Johns  harbour ;  with  a  battery  of  five  guns  at 
Chalk  hill  near  Willoughby  bay  harbour ;  as  also 
another  at  high  Point  near  Parham  harbour :  but 
I  dare  not  think  of  proposing  these  matters  at 
present  to  the  inhabitants  whose  calamity  renders 
them  altogether  unable  to  begin  any  new  works  of 
that  nature.  Encloses  accounts  of  forts  and  platforms 
in  Mountserratt.  The  carriages  sent  thither  by  H.M. 
are  likewise  decayed  and  the  inhabitants  are  unable 
to  repair  them  for  the  reasons  before  mentioned. 
Accounts  of  the  forts  and  platforms  in  Nevis  and  St. 
Christophers  are  not  yet  returned  etc.  I  shall  again 
give  orders  to  the  proper  Officers,  but  as  what  they 
do  in  this  matter  is  without  fee  or  reward  and  their 
offices  of  no  profit  to  them  on  any  other  occasion, 
there  is  no  possibility  of  compelling  them  to  do  it 
so  soon  as  if  they  were  officers  in  pay  etc.  Instruction 
74.  I  have  given  directions  to  the  Surveyor  to  draw 
a  map  of  St.  Christophers  and  in  order  thereto  he  is 
now  running  out  the  French  part  etc.  The  Surveyor 
likewise  has  my  orders  for  making  out  a  map  of 
Antigua,  but  I  doubt  he  will  rather  quit  his  employ 
than  undertake  such  a  task  without  knowing  how  to 
be  paid  for  it,  and  I  am  fearfull  the  Assembly  will 
scarce  agree  to  bear  the  charges  thereof  etc.  There  is 
no  person  in  either  Nevis  or  Mountserratt  capable  of 
making  a  survey  thereof  etc.  When  I  can  find  anyone 
that  is  qualified  and  will  undertake  the  trouble,  I 
will  readily  grant  him  a  commission  for  making  him  a 
Surveyor.  Instruction  40.  I  shall  strictly  observe.  I 
never  yet  remitted  any  fine  or  forfeiture  etc.  Encloses 
list  of  escheats  granted  by  former  Governors  and 
confirmed  by  him  etc.  Instruction  76.  In  order  to 
comply  with  this  Instruction,  I  have  given  repeated 
directions  to  the  Naval  Officer  for  supplying  me  with 
quarterly  accounts  of  the  imports  and  exports,  but  I 
cannot  yet  get  them  for  the  whole  Islands,  the  officers 
whereof  do  very  little  heed  the  orders  that  are  given 
them,  in  regard  the  places  are  executed  by  Deputies, 
who  conclude  they  shall  be  countenanced  by  the 
Patentee  in  case  of  a  suspension ;  and  indeed  'tis  more 
than  probable  upon  any  such  occasion  he  would  be 
apt  not  only  to  espouse  the  part  of  the  Deputy,  but 
also  become  an  enemy  to  any  Governor  that  should 
displace  the  person  he  appomts,  which  I  must  observe 
to  their  Lordships  makes  it  very  difficult  for  the 
Commander  in  Chief  to  comply  with  his  Instructions 
etc.     I  am  so  sensible  of  the  delays  that  do  happen 

Wt.  7595  ^•^-  3-""^ 


114  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720, 

from  the  neglect  of  Deputies,  that  I  cannot  but  say 
the  absence  of  the  Patentees  in  general  is  a  misfortune 
to  all  Governors  and  tends  greatly  to  the  obstruction 
of  publick  affairs,  in  regard  some  Deputies  do  not 
consider  or  indeed  value  how  far  their  transactions 
may  subject  their  Principal  to  a  forfeiture  of  his  office  ; 
and  besides  a  Chief  Governor  of  these  Islands  by  the 
absence  of  the  Patentee  is  made  very  uneasy  in  regard 
he  is  obliged  to  be  at  the  trouble  of  issuing  as  many 
distinct  orders  as  there  are  Deputies,  whereas  were 
the  Patentees  on  the  spot  one  order  would  do  for  the 
whole,  and  the  Deputies  would  be  more  observant 
to  them  than  to  a  Governor,  well  knowing  that  the 
bringing  them  to  punishment  is  attended  with  much 
difficulty  in  these  Islands,  especially  if  he  should  be 
at  an  Island  where  the  Governor  does  not  happen  to 
be  present ;  however  as  their  Lordships  do  require 
that  I  should  be  very  punctuall  in  performing  this  as 
well  as  the  other  paragraphs  of  my  Instructions  I 
shall  be  sure  to  repeat  my  orders  to  each  of  the 
Deputies,  and  in  case  of  neglect  or  refusal  will  proceed 
to  suspend  them,  and  use  the  best  methods  I  can  to 
bring  them  to  punishment  etc.  Encloses  list  of 
imports  and  exports  of  Antigua.  25th  March,  1719- 
1720  etc.     Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.     9f  pp. 

204.  ii.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  President  of  the  Council 
of  St.  Christophers.  Antigua,  3rd  Nov.,  1719.  Returns 
3  Acts  assented  to,  to  be  published  and  recorded,  and 
returned  to  him  with  duplicates.  Duplicates  are  to 
be  sent  with  the  originals  in  future  etc.  Signed  and 
endorsed  as  preceding.     Copy.     1  p. 

204.  iii.  Lt.  General  Mathew  to  Governor  Hamilton.  19th 
July,  1720.  Encloses  three  Acts  (of  St.  Christophers) 
for  H.M.  approbation.  The  want  of  two  of  them  is  a 
daily  loss  to  the  Island  etc.  Will  forward  duplicates 
by  the  next,  having  left  them  by  mistake  with  the 
Secretary   etc.     Endorsed  as  preceding.     Copy.     |  p. 

204.  iv.  Copy  of  all  the  Acts  in  force  in  Mountserrat,  1719. 
Same  endorsement.     7  pp. 

204.  V.  List  of  the  General  Acts  of  the  Leeward  Islands,  in 
force  Aug.  1720.     Same  endorsement.     3  pp. 

204.  vi.  List  of  the  Acts  of  Antigua,  in  force  Aug.  1720. 
Same  endorsement.     5|  pp. 

204.  vii.  Accounts  of  John  Cochrane,  the  Treasurer  of 
Montserrat,  £325  7s.  5d.  due  to  Treasurer.  Signed, 
John  Molineaux  Spkr.,  Richd.  Cooke,  John  Boynon, 
Thos.  Caines,  William  Frye,  William  White,  Antho. 
Fox,  Edward  Parson,     Same  endorsement.     6|  pp. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


115 


1720. 


204.  viii.  Accounts  of  the  Publick  of  Nevis,  1st  May,  1713- 
1st  Jan.  1716.  Receipts,  £11870  6*.  3fd.  Expen- 
diture, £11255  165.  l\d.  Includes  item  for  relief  of 
Prisoners  called  Hostages  at  Martinique,  £1424  45.  3j<i. 
V.  End.  i.     Same  endorsement.     2  pp. 

204.  ix.  Accounts  of  the  Publick  of  Nevis  1st  Jan.  1716-1717, 
Receipts,  £1238  \2s.  5\d.  Expenditure,  £1460  2*.  2\d. 
Includes  item,  For  the  relief  of  the  Prisoner  called  a 
hostage  at  Martinique,  £201  16*.  Od.  Same  endorse- 
ment.    2  pp. 

204.  X.  Account  of  ships  and  imports  from  Madera  or  the 
Western  Islands  to  Antigua,  3rd  March,  1715-1718. 
33  vessels,  of  which  18  from  London,  bringing  Madera 
wine.  Signed,  Jno.  Booth,  Naval  Officer.  Same 
endorsement.     1  p. 

204.  xi.  Account  of  ships  and  imports  from  Madera  and  the 
Western  Islands  to  Nevis,  3rd  March  1715-1718. 
12  vessels  bringing  676  pipes  of  Madera  wine.  Signed, 
Rob.  Lorey,  Depty.  Naval  Officer.     1  p. 

204.  xii.  Account  of  ships  and  imports  from  Madera  and  the 
Western  Islands  to  St.  Christophers.  3rd  March 
1715-1718.  16  vessels  bringing  Madera  wine.  Signed, 
Drewry  Ottley,  D.N.  Officer.     1  p. 

204.  xiii.  Similar  account  of  4  ships  importing  Madera  to 
Montserrat.  Signed,  Natho.  Webb  pr.  Naval  Officer. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  20th  Oct.  1720,  Read  27th  June, 
1721.     1  p. 

204.  xiv.  List  of  Civil  Officers  in  the  Leeward  Islands.  28th 
July,  1720.     Same  endorsement.     2|  pp. 

204.  XV.  Docquets  of  Officers  Fees  in  the  Leeward  Islands. 
Same  endorsement.     23  pp. 

204.  xvi.  List  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Leeward  Islands, 
18th  July,  1720. 


Free  Persons. 

Servants  Free  and  Unlree. 

Fit  to 

bear 

Armes. 

Men. 

Women. 

Boys. 

GirlB. 

Men.  Women.  Boys. 

Girls. 

Negroes 

St.  Christophers 

645 

694 

626 

575 

163      54 

28 

15 

755 

7321 

Nevis 

331 

426 

206 

312 

33      18 

13 

4 

378 

5689 

Monntserratt 

486 

492 

295 

320 

64 

10 

9 

12 

444 

3772 

Antigua 

739 

819 

744 

652 

471 

140 

45 

42 

1109 

19186 

Anguilla 

133 

164 

112 

139 

121 

879 

Spanish  Town 

92 

86 

90 

103 

88 

364 

Tortola 

39 

48 

61 

55 

53 

266 

Total 

2467 

2729 

2134 

2156 

731 

222 

95 

73 

2948 

37477 

Same  endorsement.     1  p. 

204.  xvii.  Christenings  and  Burials  in  the  Leeward  Islands 
6th  Feb.  1716-18th  July,  1720. 


116  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


Christenings. 

Burials. 

Males. 

Females. 

Males.    Females. 

St.  Christophers    115 

49 

85               15 

Nevis                ...       91 

82 

53                59 

Mountserratt  ...       18 

28 

8                  9 

Antigua           . . .     230 

223 

311              124 

Total        ...     454 

382 

457              207 

Same  endorsement.     1  p. 

204.  xviii.  Petitions  for  and  grants  of  lands,  Antigua,  during 
Governor  Hamilton's  Government.  Same  endorse- 
ment.    33  pp. 

204.  xix.  Representation  of  Council  and  Assembly  of  Nevis 
to  Governor  Hamilton.  Charles  Towne,  11th  July, 
1720.  Reply  to  the  Memorial  of  Monsr.  D 'Iberville 
concerning  the  capitulation  of  Nevis,  1706.  The 
French  first  broke  the  Capitulation.  M.  D'Iberville 
put  it  out  of  the  inhabitants  power  to  execute  the  7th 
Article.  They  performed  their  parts  to  the  utmost 
of  their  power.  The  second  Treaty,  forced  upon 
them  contrary  to  the  Law  of  Nations,  was  broken  by 
the  French  as  soon  as  signed  etc.  Analyse  misrepre- 
sentations in  the  French  Envoy's  account  of  trans- 
actions, of.  C.S.P.  1706  ff.  and  following  depositions. 
Conclude :  As  to  the  charge  that  they  did  not  furnish 
the  hostages  with  necessaries,  "  those  four  hostages 
having  spent  more  than  20,000  livres  of  the  fund  of 
the  Armament  for  their  entertainment  at  Martinique 
etc.  it  must  be  confessed  that  they  being  left  by  the 
enemy  in  the  most  miserable  and  distrest  condition 
they  could  not  presently  raise  mony  for  the  main- 
tenance of  those  hostages  unjustly  taken  from  them, 
but  as  soon  as  they  were  able  they  remitted  to 
Martinique  sums  sufficient  for  their  subsistance  unless 
they  were  mostly  unjustly  and  exorbitantly  imposed 
on  by  the  French  which  is  very  probable,  if  the  sume 
of  20,000  livres  were  truely  disbursed  by  the  Armament 
in  their  entertainment,  but  as  that  sume  otherwise 
exceeds  the  bounds  of  all  credibility,  so  it  is  proved 
by  the  deposition  of  Mr.  Philip  Dewitt,  the  only 
surviveing  person  of  those  hostages,  that  besides  one 
suit  of  cloaths  and  two  or  three  shirts  aps.  once  given 
them  dureing  their  whole  stay  there  was  only  4  livres 
pr.  diem  for  each  hostage  paid  by  the  Commissary 
of  the  Armament,  dureing  the  exact  space  of  9  months 
and  no  more,  which  amounts  but  to  4384  livres  etc. 
After  this  they  were  thrown  into  the  dungeon  with 
condemned  criminals  for  10  days  being  allowed  no 
other  sustenance  than  stinking  herrings  and  farine, 
for  five  months  following  they  were  allowed  at  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  117 


1720. 


King's  charge,  2  livres  pr.  diem  each,  after  that,  at 
particular  times  dureing  five  years,  when  they  had 
not  money  of  their  own  they  were  allowed  one  pound 
of  salt  beefe,  and  one  pint  of  farine  pr.  diem  each  out 
of  the  King's  stores,  which  last  casual  allowance  seems 
fully  answered  by  the  wine,  beefe  and  other  goods 
sent  from  this  Island  for  the  hostages,  but  stoped  by 
the  Intendant  for  the  King's  use  ;  besides  this  those 
hostages  never  received  anything  either  from  the 
armament  or  from  the  King.  Wherefore  the  whole 
which  they  ever  received  can  scarce  exceed  one  fourth 
part  of  the  said  sume  of  20,000  livres.  Mr.  Dewitt 
together  with  Mr.  Joseph  Stanley  another  of  the 
hostages,  since  deceased,  made  their  escape  from 
Martinique  in  Nov.  1714,  at  which  time  there  had  been 
remitted  to  Martinique  from  the  Treasury  of  this 
Island  £2176  Is.  6fc?.,  besides  what  was  sent  by  the 
friends  and  relations  of  those  unfortunate  Gentlemen, 
and  since  that  time  there  has  been  remitted  for  the 
use  of  the  two  remaining  hostages  (one  whereof  dyed 
in  1716,  and  the  other  in  1719)  £999  2s.  lid.  [v.  end.) 
It  must  therefore  appear  perfectly  incredible  that  so 
great  a  summe  could  have  been  expended  by  the 
French  in  the  entertainment  of  those  hostages,  but 
if  it  were  so  as  those  gentlemen  were  carried  away 
by  virtue  of  a  capitulation  broken  by  the  French 
and  of  a  convention  null  and  void  in  the  beginning 
and  allso  broken,  their  taking  and  detention  was 
unjust,  therefore  the  French  ought  not  only  to  bear 
the  whole  charge  of  keeping  them,  but  allso  to  repair 
the  injurys  thereby  done  to  them,  their  familys  and 
to  this  Island.  The  demand  of  140,000  piasters,  in 
lieu  of  the  1400  negroes,  with  interest  being  grounded 
only  on  the  aforesaid  void  and  broken  convention 
must  also  fall  with  that.  Lastly  the  demand  of  170,000 
livres  for  the  prisoners  not  restored,  no  ways  concerns 
this  Island  as  it  was  in  the  sole  power  of  her  late 
Majestye  to  comply  with  that  Article  or  not  it  must 
be  supposed  that  her  reason  for  not  restoreing  an  equal 
number  of  prisoners  (which  whither  done  or  not 
before  the  Treaty  of  Peace  does  not  appear)  was  because 
she  was  convinced  that  the  French  had  on  their  parts 
broke  yt.  Capitulation.  Quote  Sir  C.  Hedges'  letter 
Aug.  1st,  1706.     V.  C.S.P.  1706.     No.  455. 

(6)  Same  to  Same.  We  hope  what  we  have  here 
set  forth  will  enable  your  Excellency  to  return  a  satis- 
factory answer  to  the  Board  of  Trade  etc.  W^e  beg 
your  recommendation  of  the  inhabitants  of  this  Island 
as  proper  objects  of  H.M.  Royal  compassion  and  their 


118  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


Lordships'  care  ;  since  the  many  assistances  both  of 
men  and  money  given  by  this  to  the  other  Islands 
and  particularly  to  St.  Christophers  render'd  this 
Island  too  weak  to  defend  itself  against  Monsieur 
D'Iberville,  there  being  then  on  it  not  400  inhabitants 
capable  to  bear  arms,  and  it  never  received  the  least 
help  from  any  other  Island  etc.  In  1689  this  Island 
sent  near  100  men  to  St.  Christophers  to  assist  the 
English  inhabitants  against  the  French,  who,  being 
joined  by  the  Irish  rebels  of  that  Island,  drove  the 
English  intirely  off  of  that  Island,  and  those  English 
to  the  number  of  1100  were  billetted  on  and  subsisted 
by  the  inhabitants  of  Nevis  during  eight  months.  Five 
hundred  Dutch  inhabitants  of  Eustatia  having  been 
the  same  year  driven  off  of  that  Island  were  also 
subsisted  by  the  inhabitants  of  Nevis,  during  the 
space  of  15  months.  In  the  year  following  this 
Island  assisted  the  people  of  St.  Christophers  to 
recover  that  Island  with  two  Regiments  of  inhabi- 
tants commanded  by  Collo.  Pym  and  Collo.  Earle 
amounting  to  between  7  or  800  men.  Immediately 
after  the  reconquering  of  St.  Christophers,  this  Island 
sent  three  companies  of  it's  inhabitants  to  assist 
in  the  Expedition  against  Guardaloupe,  and  in  1693, 
three  or  four  companies  to  assist  in  the  expedition 
against  Martinique.  In  1702  five  companies  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Nevis,  besides  gentlemen  volunteers, 
assisted  the  English  inhabitants  of  St.  Christophers 
to  conquer  the  French  part  of  that  Island  ;  and  in 
1703  tliree  companies  were  again  sent  by  this  Island 
in  the  second  expedition  made  to  Guardaloupe.  The 
whole  charge  of  transporting  the  men  sent  on  those 
several  occasions  was  defrayed  by  the  inhabitants  of 
this  Island  and  many  of  the  men  never  returning  again 
was  the  occasion  of  the  so  great  dispeopling  and  weak- 
ning  thereof.  Yet  this  Island  having  never  received 
any  help  from  its  neighbours  in  the  time  of  its  distress, 
labours  under  the  additional  misfortune  of  being 
supposed  liable  to  the  unjust  demands  of  the  French 
left  undetermined  at  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht.  We  beg 
your  Excellencies  favourable  recommendation  of  us 
etc.  Signed,  Richd.  Abbott,  Jas.  Bevon,  Lawce. 
Brodbelt,  Mich.  Smith,  John  Richardson,  Jno.  Choppin, 
Cha.  Bridgwater,  John  Pinney.  Joseph  Symonds, 
Speaker,  Jeremiah  Browne,  Jos.  Hobson,  Richd. 
Brodbelt,  William  Pym  Burt,  Pecok(?)  Walker,  John 
Dasent,  Carew  Brodbelt,  Robt.  Pemberton,  Michael 
William,  George  Webbe.     10  large  pp. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  119 

1720. 

204.  XX.  Deposition  of  Richard  Abbott,  President  of  H.M. 
Council  of  Nevis.  81st  May,  1720.  To  the  Uh  Article 
of  the  French  Envoy,  saith  that  no  officer  in  the  Mihtia, 
but  deponent  was  permitted  to  march  out  of  the 
Dodan  with  any  arms  whatsoever.  He  himself  rode 
from  thence  to  town  on  the  25th  March,  1706,  with 
his  sword  only,  and  from  that  time  remained  a  prisoner 
of  war,  with  other  inhabitants  under  a  strict  guard 
until  the  day  the  French  Fleet  departed.  To  the 
5th  Article.  The  dwelling  house  and  other  buildmgs 
of  deponent  and  several  other  houses  in  the  country 
part  were  burnt  about  the  29th  March,  by  the  French. 
About  the  same  time  the  women  and  children  were 
separated  from  the  men,  and  the  men  hurried  away 
to  the  Church  in  Charlestown,  and  there  kept  prisoners 
under  a  strict  guard,  until  that  Church  was  in  danger 
of  being  burnt,  in  which  exigency  some  were  let  out 
but  others  forced  their  enlargement  from  thence  and 
other  places  in  Charlestown  where  they  had  been 
close  confined.  On  4th  April  near  half  of  the  principal 
part  of  the  town  was  laid  in  ashes,  amongst  which  the 
house  allotted  to  deponent  was  one,  so  that  he  was 
obliged  to  retire  to  a  small  out-house  above  the  town 
etc.  To  the  7th  Article.  The  greatest  part  of  the 
negroes  either  surrendered  themselves  or  were  taken 
by  the  French  (excepting  such  as  fled  to  the  mountains 
and  were  in  an  actual  revolt  bidding  defiance  to  their 
masters  as  well  as  ye  enemie)  and  the  French  had 
wholly  put  it  out  of  the  inhabitants  power  to  bring 
them  in,  they  being  kept  close  prisoners  and  disarmed. 
Neither  deponent  nor  any  other  Officer  of  the  Militia 
ever  received  their  respective  number  of  negroes 
capitulated  to  be  delivered  to  them  etc.,  but  Deponent 
was  denyed  the  same  by  M.  D'Iberville  who  replyed 
that  there  were  several  negroes  left  behind  in  the 
Island  and  that  the  officers  must  catch  them.  No 
care  was  taken  by  the  French  in  preserving  the  Publick 
Records  of  this  Island,  merchants  books  or  any  other 
private  papers,  but  that  several  were  destroyed  by 
them  to  the  great  prejudice  of  the  inhabitants  as  well 
as  the  traders  to  this  Island,  nor  hath  deponent  ever 
heard  of  any  such  books  or  papers  that  were  restored 
by  the  French.  To  the  lOth  Article.  A  list  was 
delivered  to  M.  D'Iberville  of  all  the  inhabitants  and 
nothing  refused  him  that  was  in  their  power  to  do. 
To  the  nth  Article.  M.  D'Iberville  did  not  leave  the 
choice  of  the  4  gentlemen  hostages  (for  surety  of  the 
exchange  of  prisoners)  to  the  option  of  deponent  and 
other  principal  inhabitants    but  took  such  persons  as 


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1720. 

he  and  his  officers  thought  fit :  they  were  carried  to 
Martinique  and  there  kept  prisoners  and  were,  at 
sundry  times,  most  barbarously  treated  by  the 
French.  They  were  very  considerably  furnished, 
from  time  to  time,  with  money  and  other  necessarys 
both  from  the  publick  and  their  particular  friends, 
as  can  be  made  appear  by  receipts  ready  to  be  pro- 
duced. On  6th  April  1706,  an  order  was  given  out, 
by  M,  D'Ibervulle,  to  summons  all  the  inhabitants 
about  Charlestown  and  in  the  country  to  appear 
before  him  at  his  headquarters,  and  after  some  dis- 
course with  him  he  told  deponent  and  several  other 
the  principal  inhabitants  then  before  him  that  they 
had  not  performed  the  articles  and  conditions  agreed 
on,  in  not  delivering  up  all  the  negroes  in  the  Island. 
Whereupon  deponent  and  several  others  of  the  prin- 
cipal inhabitants  were  put  on  board  their  man  of 
war  threatning  to  send  them  to  St.  Domingo  :  On  April 
8th  Articles  were  proposed  to  them  by  a  Jew 
D'Iberville  sent  off,  purporting  the  demand  the  French 
made  of  1400  negroes  to  be  sent  to  Martinique  or  the 
sum  of  £42,000  as  equivalent,  and  that  if  deponent 
and  said  inhabitants  would  agree  to  the  same,  they 
might  come  on  shore  and  prepare  writings  accordingly  ; 
and  about  12  of  the  clock  the  same  day  they  were 
brought  on  shore  and  guarded  to  M.  D'Iberville's 
quarters  where  in  the  afternoon  certain  articles  were 
tendered  them  to  be  signed,  which  some  time  after 
deponent  and  some  others  of  the  principal  inhabitants 
did  signe  :  and  those  who  refused  were  immediately 
sent  again  on  board  and  the  next  day  after  were 
brought  on  shore  and  were  also  forced  to  sign  the  said 
Articles.  In  some  few  hours  after  signing  D'Iberville 
shipt  off  several  negroes  belonging  to  Mr.  Thomas 
Cole  merchant  in  Bristol  and  three  or  four  belonging 
to  Mr.  Francis  Franklyn,  which  deponent  acquainted 
M.  D'Iberville  with,  being  informed  of  the  same  by 
Capt.  Thomas  Bridgwater  who  was  present  etc. 
Signed,  Richd.  Abbott.     2  pp. 

204.  xxi.  Deposition  of  Richard  Abbott.  2nd  July,  1720. 
From  the  time  Mr.  Thomas  Abbott  was  taken  an 
hostage  to  Martinique,  1706,  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
1716,  deponent  did  at  sundry  times  remitt  for  his 
use  in  money  and  goods  £648  185.  lOd.  currant  money 
out  of  deponent's  and  Thomas  Abbott's  estate,  besides 
what  was  remitted  out  of  the  Treasury  etc.  Signed, 
Richd.  Abbott,     f  p. 

204.  xxii.  Deposition  of  James  Bevon,  Member  of  Council 
of  Nevis.   31st  May,  1720.    Confirms  No.  xx.  as  to  the 


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1729. 


breaking  of  the  4th  and  5th  Articles  by  the  French. 
24  hours  after  the  Island  was  surrendered  Sir  William 
Stapleton's  windmill  was  burned  ;  deponent's  house 
mill  and  boiling  house  were  burned  to  the  ground  as 
also  those  of  Walter  Tobin.  Deponent  saw  large 
bodies  of  French  officers  and  soldiers  out  after  the 
negroes  burning  and  plundermg  etc.  From  26th 
March  (O.S.)  till  Friday,  6  days  before  the  French 
left  he  never  heard  that  M.  D'Iberville  required  the 
inhabitants  to  get  in  the  negroes  themselves,  it  being 
indeed  impossible  for  them  to  do,  being  unarmed, 
but  many  parties  of  French  soldiers  were  continually 
out  for  that  purpose,  and  could  have  easily  got  in 
all  the  negroes  remaining  in  the  mountain,  but  M. 
D'Iberville  having  received  advice  of  a  fleet  off 
Martinique,  thought  it  more  for  his  advantage  to  send 
for  the  inhabitants  and  extort  from  them  the  second 
agreement  etc.  as  No.  xx.  Deponent  at  first  refused 
to  sign,  but  was  at  length  forced  to  do  so  or  else  be 
carried  to  leeward  among  the  Spaniards.  On  the  day 
the  French  departed  deponent  saw  a  canoa-load  of 
negroes  carried  off  on  board  the  French  sloops,  upon 
which  he  told  M.  D'Iberville  that  he  could  not  expect 
to  be  paid  if  he  suffered  the  negroes  to  be  carried  off. 
Whereupon  he  said  some  words  angrily  in  French  and 
stampt  on  the  floor  etc.     Signed,  Jas.  Bevon.     l^  pp. 

204.  xxiii.  Deposition  of  James  Bevon.  2nd  July,  1720. 
From  the  time  Philip  Dewitt  was  taken  as  a  hostage 
to  Martinique,  untill  he  made  his  escape  in  Nov.  1714, 
deponent  did  at  sundry  times  remitt  to  him,  for  his 
use,  in  money  and  goods  £922  2s.  2d.  currant  money 
out  of  his  own  and  Dewitt's  estate,  besides  what  was 
remitted  out  of  H.M.  Treasury.  Signed,  Jas.  Bevon. 
f  P- 

204.  xxiv.  Deposition  of  James  Milliken.  18th  May,  1720. 
After  the  surrender  of  the  Dodan,  M.  D'Iberville 
refused  to  allow  deponent,  a  Captain  in  the  Militia, 
to  retain  his  sword.  His  house  etc.  were  burned  etc. 
At  the  time  of  capitulating  at  the  Dodan,  a  French 
Officer  (who  bore  the  character  of  a  Major)  was  sent 
by  the  French  into  the  Dodan  with  articles  and  an 
Interpreter.  Deponent  and  all  others  present  objected 
against  the  7th  Article,  that  it  was  not  in  our  power 
to  deliver  our  negroes  (who  being  then  in  the  woods 
and  mountain  were  their  own  masters).  It  was 
answered  from  the  Major  by  the  Interpreter,  that  M. 
D'Iberville  expected  nothing  from  us  but  what  was 
in  our  power  :  Upon  which  David  Dunbarr,  a  Captain 
in  H.M.  regular  troops,  took  a  pen  and  wrote  in  the 


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1720.  ~ 

margent  over  against  the  said  Article,  these  words 
(So  far  as  in  our  power).     All  the  negroes  were  taken 
by  or  delivered  to  the  French  (except  those  who  made 
their  escape   and   threatned   to   kill   any   of  the   in- 
habitants who  should  approach  them,  insomuch  that 
M.  D'Iberville  left  arms  for  the  inhabitants  to  defend 
themselves  from  the  insolency  of  the  negroes.)     Article 
ix.     All  our  papers  were  destroyed.     Deponent  saw 
several  large  books  made  use  of  by  the  French  common 
soldiers,  as  saddles.    The  Publick  Records  were  tossed 
about   and   defaced,   to   the   great   detriment   of  the 
Island.     Deponent  never  heard  nor  doth  beleive  that 
any  of  the  inhabitants  took  refuge  in  the  Dodan,  and 
that    D'Iberville    ever    put  himself  in  a  condition  to 
force  them  a  second  time  in  the  Dodan,  nor  that  ever  ye 
principal  officers  or  inhabitants  proposed  a  new  treaty 
to  him,  but  on  ye  contrary  that  about  ten  days  after 
the  surrender  of  the  Dodan  the  several  inhabitants 
were  sent  for  to  M.  D'Iberville's  which  this  deponent 
was  told  that  he  and  several  others  were  then  to  have 
the  negroes  that  were  promised  (at  the  making  the 
Treaty)  as  Officers  ;   but  to  our  great  surprise,  as  soon 
as  a  number  of  us  were  there,  he  demanded  all  the 
negroes   that   were    out   in   the   mountains   and   was 
answered  that  it  was  not  in  our  power  to  deliver  him 
more  than  what  he  had  :    Upon  which  we  were  all 
ordered  prisoners   into  the   Church,   where   we   were 
kept  so  close,  that  we  were  not  permitted  to  ease 
Nature  but  in  the  Church  itself  etc  as  Nos.  ii.  and  iv. 
Those  who  at  first  refused  to  sign  the  second  Articles 
were  sent  back  as  prisoners  on  board  M.  D'Iberville's 
ship  and  left  in  the  night  to  lie  in  the  open  air  upon 
the  deck.      Which  usage  made  us  sign  the  Articles, 
which  we  thought  ourselves  no  ways  obliged  to,  but 
meerly  forced  etc.     Signed,  James  Milliken.     2  pp. 
204.  XXV.  Deposition   of  Robert   Eleis,    Member  of  Council 
of    Nevis.     31st    May,     1720.      Confirms    preceding. 
Signed,  Robert  Eleis.     1  p. 
204.  xxvi.  Deposition  of  John  Choppin,  Member  of  Council 
of  Nevis.     31st  May,  1720.     Confirms  preceding  replies 
concerning    the    4th,    5th,    and    7th    Articles.     The 
Officers  had  not  liberty  to  march  out  of  the  Dodan 
with  their  arms  :   deponent's  boiling  house  and  negroe- 
houses  were  burnt  by  a  French  Officer  and  three  men 
the  very  day  M.  D'Iberville  compelled  the  inhabitants 
the  second  agreement,  and,  the  day  after,  the  dwelling 
house  of  Capt.  John  Dasent  was  burnt  by  the  enemy. 
The  inhabitants,  being  kept  close  prisoners  and  dis- 
armed,   were    prevented    by   the    French   themselves 


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1720. 


from  compelling  the  negroes  to  come  in  etc.  Signed, 
Jno.  Choppin.     f  p. 

204.  xxvii.  Deposition  of  Lt.  Col.  Thomas  Butler.  20th 
May,  1720.  Corroborates  No.  xxiv.  Signed,  Thomas 
Butler.     1\  pp. 

204.  xxviii.  Deposition  of  Nicholas  Burroughs.  31st  May, 
1720.  Corroborates  No.  xxiv.  Signed,  Nicho. 
Burroughs.     1^  pp. 

204.  xxix.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Bridgwater.  31st  May, 
1720.  Corroborates  No.  xxiv.  Signed,  Thos.  Bridg- 
water.    11  pp. 

204.  XXX.  Deposition  of  Jacob  Williams,  Planter,  21st  May, 
1720.  Corroborates  No.  xxiv.  Signed,  Jacob  Williams. 
I  P- 

204.  xxxi.  Deposition  of  James  Evans,  Merchant,  10th 
Feb.  1719-20.  Corroborates  No.  xxiv.  The  negroes 
fled  to  the  mountains  of  their  own  accord,  soon  after 
the  French  landed  etc.     Signed,  James  Evans.      l^  pp. 

204.  xxxii.  Deposition  of  Walter  Tobin,  Planter.  31st  May, 
1720.  Corroborates  No.  xxiv.  as  to  5th,  6th  and  7th 
and  9th  Article.  About  200  inhabitants  were  con- 
fined 4  days  in  the  Church,  and  had  neither  victuals 
nor  water  provided  for  them  ;  there  was  not  room  for 
a  man  to  lie  down.  The  French  soldiers  killed  several 
beasts  and  left  their  intrails  stinking  about  the  Church 
etc.     Signed,  Walter  Tobin.     |  p. 

204.  xxxiii.  Deposition  of  Daniel  Stephens,  Planter.  31st 
May,  1720.  Confirms  No.  xxxii.  Signed,  Daniel 
Stephens,  his  mark.     1  p. 

204.  xxxiv.  Deposition  of  John  Faucett,  Planter.  31st 
May,  1720.  Deponent,  contrary  to  the  2nd  Article, 
was  stripped  of  all  his  wearing  apparel  to  his  shirt 
shoes  and  stockings,  some  days  after  the  surrender 
of  the  Dodan.  Some  few  days  before  the  departure 
of  the  French  deponent's  house  boiling  house  etc. 
were  burned  by  the  French  etc.  They  burned  the 
boiling  houses  of  John  Choppin  and  Isaac  Evans  after 
the  surrender  of  the  Dodan  etc.    Signed,  John  Faucett. 

f  P- 

204.  XXXV.  Deposition  of  Philip  Dewitt.  25th  June,  1720. 
Describes  his  treatment  as  a  hostage  at  Martinique 
as  quoted  in  No.  xix  {a).  About  1708  or  1709  4  pipes 
of  wine  and  16  barrels  of  beef  etc.  sent  them  from 
Nevis  were  stopt  by  the  Intendant  and  put  into  the 
King's  store.  Though  deponent  was  then  barefoot 
he  could  not  so  much  as  obtain  a  pair  of  shpes  out  of 
the  things  then  sent  etc.     Signed,  Philip  Dewitt.      1  p. 

204.  xxxvi.  An  accompt  of  what  money  have  been  remitted 
to  the  hostages  at  Martinique  by  the  Island  of  Nevis, 


124  COLONIAL   PAPERS 

1720. 

1707-1719.  Yearly  remittances,  with  dates,  amounting 
in  all  to  £3175  105.  5fd.  Signed  and  sworn  to  by, 
Solomon  Israel,  late  Treasurer.     1  p. 

204.  xxxvii.  Copy  of  Articles  of  Surrender  granted  by  M. 
D'Iberville  to  Col.  Abbott  etc.  v.  C.S.P.  1706.  Nos. 
357.  iii.,  v.,  vi.,  vii.,  ix.  Endorsed  as  covering  letter. 
2  large  pp. 

204.  xxxviii.  List  of  ships  etc.  and  their  crews  belonging  to 
Antigua,  8th  Aug.  1718— 8th  May,  1720.  3  ships,  2 
brigantines,  29  sloops  etc.  Signed  Jno.  Booth,  D.  Naval 
Officer.     Endorsed,  Reed.  20th  Oct.,  1720.     1  large  p. 

204.  xxxix.  Account  of  the  growth  and  produce  of  Antigua, 
25th  June,  1719-1720.  Lime  juice,  1425  galls.  Sugar, 
11943772  lb.  Cotton,  262710  lb.  Ginger,  85980  lb. 
Lignum  vitae,  4710  lb.  Fustick,  12000  lb.  Rum, 
243964  galls.     Melasses,  140656  galls.     1  p. 

204.  xl.  Account  of  growi;h  and  produce  of  St.  Christophers, 
25th  June,  1719-1720.  Sugar,  8239138  lb.  Cotton, 
25901  lb.   Melasses,  14491  galls.     1  p. 

204.  xli.  Account  of  the  growth  and  produce  of  Nevis,  June 
25th,  1719-1720.  Sugar,  5305086  lb.  Cotton,  2045  lb. 
Rum,  794  galls.     Melasses,  25954  galls.     1  p. 

204.  xlii.  Account  of  the  growth  and  produce  of  Montserrat, 
25th  June,  1719-1720.  Sugar,  2846356  lb.  Indigo, 
14069  lb.  Cotton,  11789  lb.  Pemento,  690  lb.  Rum, 
5735  galls.  Melasses,  64956  galls.  Endorsed  as 
covering  letter.     1  p. 

204.  xliii.  Governor  Hamilton's  licence  of  leave  to  John 
Yeatmans,  member  of  Council,  to  be  absent  for  a 
further  six  months  from  Antigua.  20th  Aug.  1720. 
Signed,  W.  Hamilton.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.  1  p. 

204.  xliv.  Similar  licence  for  a  further  12  months  to  Vallen- 
tine  Morris.  29th  Feb.  1720.  Signed  and  endorsed 
as  preceding.     Copy.     1  p. 

204.  xlv.  Similar  licence  for  six  months  to  Edward  Warner. 
10th  June,  1720.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
Copy.  1  p.  [CO.  152,  13.  ff.  83-84i;.,  86-90t;.,  91y., 
92,  93,  94,  95i;.,  97-105,  107r.-110,  llli;.,  112,  113, 
114,  115,  116,  117,  117l'.,  121i;.-124i;.,  125u.,  126i;.- 
127i;.,  128i;.-136,  137-138,  139,  140,  141,  142-143, 
144,  145,  146,  148,  149,  150,  151,  152,  153,  154,  155, 
156,  157,  158-1601;.,  164-179,  183z;.,  184,  185,  186, 
187,  188,  189,  190,  191,  192,  193,  194-195,  196-197, 
198-199,  200,  201-204,  205-206,  207,  208,  209,  210, 
211,  212-218,  219r;.-220i;.,   221i;.,  222,  223.] 

Auff  22  205.  Accounts  of  Treasurer  of  Antigua,  Nov.  1716-lOth 
March,  1720.  Enclosed  in  Governor  Hamilton's  letter  preceding. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  20th  Oct.,  1720.  69  large  pp.  bound  in  volume. 
[CO.  10,  4.] 


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1720. 

Aug.  23.  206.  Robert  Livingston,  Secretary  of  the  Indian  Affairs, 
Albany,  to  President  Schuyler.  Abstract.  Has  never  known  "  our 
condition  attended  with  more  melancholy  circumstances." 
Both  our  own  people  and  the  Indians  say  that  we  ourselves 
are  the  occasion  of  it.  If  not  remedied,  this  province  and  all  our 
neighbours  will  be  involved  in  incredible  destruction.  The 
danger  consists  chiefly  in  (i)  The  Five  Nations  infesting  H.M. 
subjects  to  the  southward,  which  I  perceive  by  their  letter 
cannot  longer  be  endured,  (ii)  the  French  settling  Onjagoro, 
(iii)  the  furnishing  the  French  and  their  Indians  of  Canada 
with  goods  from  hence,  whereby  they  not  only  supply  the 
Indians  and  engross  that  trade  to  themselves,  who  otherwise 
must  come  here  to  buy  them,  and  by  that  means  secure  them 
to  their  interest  etc.  Proposes  that  the  Five  Nations  be  pre- 
vailed upon  to  desist  from  making  war  that  way,  or  going  within 
the  high  mountains  that  cover  Virginia,  and  to  go  in  a 
friendly  way  to  the  Government  of  Virginia  and  make  a 
firm  peace  with  all  the  Indians  in  allegiance  with  the 
Indians,  and  renew  the  Covenant  chain  with  that  Govern- 
ment at  Williamsburgh,  where  they  treated  with  the  Governor 
last  winter  etc.  Secondly,  that  the  Sachims  be  prevailed  upon 
to  engage  their  people  to  demolish  Onjagoro  and  prevent 
any  future  settlements  there  by  the  French,  and  that  a 
good  gratuity  be  promised  to  those  that  perform  this  service. 
"  We  cannot  be  ignorant  of  the  great  settlements  they  have 
made  already  round  about  us  higher  up,  and  what  a  noyse 
ye  Missisippi  Comp.  makes  in  ye  world,  who  will  undoubtedly 
encourage  and  assist  our  rivals  of  Canada  and  this  being  so 
near  bloks  us  up  intirely  "  etc.  Thirdly,  a  stop  be  put  for  three 
months  for  all  Indian  goods  going  to  Canada  etc.,  but  encourage- 
ment given  to  those  that  will  go  to  the  Sennekes  country  and 
Onjagoro  to  sell  what  Indian  goods  they  please  to  the  Five 
Nations  or  Far  Indians,  and  that  some  person  that  has  influence 
among  the  Indians  be  sent  with  a  considerable  company  to 
the  Sennekes  country  to  keep  them  steady  to  the  British  in- 
terest, and  defeat  the  subtle  artifices  of  the  French.  Finally, 
whatever  we  do  with  the  Indians  must  be  in  a  friendly  way, 
since  all  our  forts  are  quite  rotten  and  fallen  down,  and  if  a  war 
with  the  Five  Nations  break  out,  the  best  part  of  the  Province 
will  certainly  be  ruined  and  we  on  the  frontiers  are  absolutely 
undone  etc.  But  the  Indians  must  not  be  allowed  to  perceive  our 
apprehension  etc.  The  matter  is  come  to  a  crisis ;  we  must  do  or 
die.  It  is  alleged  some  are  gone  and  others  of  the  Five  Nations 
are  going  out  against  the  Southern  English  settlements  and  if  the 
blow  be  once  struck  it  will  be  a  hard  matter  to  heal  the  breach  etc. 
Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  559.    S^  pp.  [CO.  5,  1092.    No.  12]. 

[Aug.  23.]       207.     Answers  by  Mr.  Boone  and  Col.  Barnwell  to  queries 
relating  to  Carolina,     cf.  Jan.  12th  and  29th.     Signed,  Joseph 


126  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720.  " 

Boone,    Agent,    Jno.    Barnwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.     Read  23rd 
Aug.,  1720.     9  pp.     [CO.  5,  538.    ff.  13-18i;] 

[Aug.  23.]  208.  An  aecount  by  Mr.  Boone  and  Col.  Barnwell  of  places 
proper  for  garrisons  in  Carolina,  which  must  be  done  speedily 
etc.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.  3  pp.  [CO.  5,  538. 
//.  19,  20i;.] 

[Aug.  28.]  209.  An  account  of  distances  between  and  communications 
of  several  settlements  and  rivers  in  S.  Carolina.  Endorsed, 
Reed.,  from  Mr.  Boone  and  Col.  Barnwell,  Read  23rd  Aug.,  1720. 
1  p.     [CO.  5,  538.    ff.  21,  22i;.] 

[Aug.  23.]       210.     Mr.   Popple  to  Sr.   R.   Raymond,  Attorney  General. 
Whitehall.  Encloses  papers  relating  to  the  proceedings  against  the  Charter 
of  the  Proprietors  of  Carolina,  "  which  have  been  lodged  in 
this  office  etc.''     List  annexed.     [CO.  5,  400.     pp.  27-29.] 

Aug.  23.  211.  Mr.  AVorsam  to  Mr.  Gordon.  Encloses  accounts  of 
the  trade  between  H.M.  and  the  foreign  Plantations,  1715, 
"  when  that  trade  was  in  its  infancy  and  when  it  was  belivd 
illegall  but  since  they  had  Sr.  Edward  Northey's  opinion  they 
have  especially  in  sugar  rum  and  molassoes  traded  for  above 
3  times  as  much  every  year  "  etc.  Signed,  R.  Worsam.  Mem. 
The  accts.  abovemention'd  were  return'd  to  Mr.  Gordon. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug.  23,  1720.  1  p.  [CO.  323,  8. 
No.  14.] 

Aug  23.  212.  Mr.  Pulteney  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  copies  of 
Sept.  3.  Ordinances  relating  to  trade  of  forreigners  with  the  French 
Paris.  Colonies  1681  and  Aug.  1698  etc.  Continues  : — This  Ordinance 
is  in  English  in  a  Treatise  of  the  Dominion  and  Laws  of  the  Sea, 
which  I  think  is  in  your  office  etc.  Requests  copy  of  Board's 
report  on  this  subject.  Signed,  D.  Pulteney.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  5th  Sept.  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  323,  8.     No.  15.] 

Aug.  24.  213.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Jamaica.  Plantations.  Since  I  had  last  the  honour  to  write,  we  have  had 
a  short  Sessions  of  Assembly.  I  found  that  after  they  had  come 
to  several  resolutions  on  the  public  affairs,  especially  with  respect 
to  the  better  peopleing  the  Island,  a  recess  would  be  agreeable 
to  them,  which  I  was  willing  to  gratifye  them  in.  I  therefore 
with  the  advice  of  the  Council  adjourned  the  Assembly  till  the 
4th  Oct.,  the  Minutes  of  the  last  Sessions  and  also  that  of  the 
Council  your  Lordships  will  receive  herewith.  The  most 
materiall  matters  in  them  is  an  agreemt.  I  have  made  with 
an  Indian  King,  for  a  number  of  his  people  to  come  and  scour 
our  woods  from  the  rebellious  and  runaway  negroes,  who  are 
often  very  troublesome  to  us,  and  as  this  has  been  judged  both 
by  the  Council  and  Assembly  a  better  and  cheaper  expedient 
than  the  sending  out  of  parties  to  suppress  them  so  I  hope  it 
will  have  the  desired  effect.     I  have  likewise  with  the  advice 


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1720. 


of  the  Council  and  Assembly  sent  proposalls  to  the  people 
inhabiting  Anguilla  and  the  rest  of  the  Virgin  Islands  to  move 
with  their  negroes  and  effects  and  come  and  fix  in  this  Island 
where  they  can  have  much  better  land  and  a  greater  quantity 
and  likewise  much  securer  from  an  enemy  than  where  they  are 
now  settled  ;  if  they  agree  to  the  proposalls  I  have  sent  them, 
'twill  prove  of  great  service  to  this  country  in  generall,  but  more 
particularly  to  the  strength  and  security  of  the  eastermost  part 
of  it,  where  I  intend  to  settle  them,  beleiveing  there  may  be  found 
there  a  convenient  tract  of  land  remaining  in  the  gift  of  the 
Crown  to  grant  them,  and  I  make  no  doubt  but  your  Lordships 
will  approve  of  my  proceeding  and  conduct  in  this  affair  as  well 
as  in  that  of  the  Musquito  Indians.  About  a  month  agoe  the 
Adventure  man  of  warr  arrived  here,  and  as  she  left  England 
after  the  publication  of  the  Cessation  of  Arms  with  Spain  I  was 
in  hopes  to  have  reed,  by  her  some  directions  from  your  Lordships 
or  from  the  Secry.  of  State  in  relation  thereto  ;  but  as  I  have  not 
hitherto  reed,  any  commands  concerning  the  publication  thereof, 
it  put  me  for  some  time  under  a  dilemma  in  what  method  to 
proceed.  Comadore  Vernon  sent  me  one  of  H.M.  Proclamation 
and  acquainted  me  he  had  directions  from  the  Admiralty  to 
observe  the  same,  this  I  communicated  to  the  Council  and  they 
were  of  opinion  that  I  should  cause  the  said  Proclamation  to  be 
published  here,  which  was  accordingly  done  on  the  26th  of  last 
month,  and  I  have  taken  all  proper  steps  for  the  calling  in  of 
our  privateers,  and  have  acquainted  the  Spanish  Governors  in 
these  parts  with  it.  But  tho'  I  have  allready  given  most  of 
them  notice  of  the  suspension  of  arms  and  that  a  Peace  was 
speedily  to  ensue  ;  yet  the  Spaniards  continue  dayly  to  molest 
our  coast  and  commit  depradations  by  robbing  severall  of  our 
remote  settlements,  and  this  is  cheifly  done  by  vessells  fitted 
out  from  Trinidado  on  Cuba,  and  I  am  credibly  informed  all 
the  time  of  last  Peace  the  Alcades  or  Magistrates  of  that  place 
paid  no  regard  to  the  Treaty,  and  that  vessells  with  pretended 
commissions  were  fitted  out  from  thence  who  constantly  were 
a  robbing  and  plundering  our  remote  Plantations  and  takeing 
all  our  ships  and  vessells  they  could  make  themselves  masters 
of,  and  that  restitution  had  been  severall  times  demanded  in 
due  form  but  to  no  effect,  so  that  it  was  computed  this  Island 
had  suffer'd  more  in  time  of  peace  than  dureing  the  whole  course 
of  the  late  warr,  and  now  the  people  of  Trinidado  are  beginning 
their  old  course  of  life,  for  notwithstanding  I  sent  them  timely 
notice  of  the  suspension  of  arms,  it  was  but  the  other  day  they 
carried  off  from  our  Plantations  a  considerable  number  of 
negroes,  and  they  give  out  in  speeches,  that  this  is  the  time  of 
their  harvest ;  I  beg  your  Lordships  will  lay  this  matter  before 
H.M.  for  we  lay  under  the  greatest  hardships  imaginable  if  our 
hands  are  tyed  up  and  not  allowed  to  make  reprizals,  and  they 
suffer'd   to   go  on  in  their  evil  courses.      Repeats  reasons   for 


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1720.  ~ 


insisting  upon  right  of  cutting  logwood  in  the  Bay  of  Campeachy 
etc.  Continues :  Since  the  calling  in  of  our  privateers,  I  find 
already  a  considerable  number  of  seafareing  men  at  the  Towns 
of  Port  Royall  and  Kingston  that  can't  find  employment,  who 
I  am  very  apprehensive,  for  want  of  occupation  in  their  way, 
may  in  a  short  time  desert  us  and  turn  pyrates.  So  that  I 
impatiently  wait  your  Lordships'  answer  etc.  By  the  last 
accts.  I  had  from  Providence  the  Governor  there  was  much 
under  the  same  apprehensions  of  most  the  inhabitants  there 
turning  pyrates,  so  that  there  is  a  dismall  prospect  of  the  trade 
in  these  parts,  if  some  method  is  not  found  out  to  employ  our 
seafareing  people,  and  I  know  of  none  so  good  or  woud  be  more 
agreeable  to  them  than  that  of  the  Bay  of  Campeche.  Refers  to 
enclosures.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes.  Endorsed,  Reed.  31st 
Oct.,     Read  2nd  Nov.,  1720.     4f  pp.     Enclosed, 

213.  i.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes.     Speech  to  the  Assembly  of 
Jamaica,  June  24,  1720.     Same  endorsement.     Printed. 
1  p. 
213.  ii.  Address  of  the  Assembly  in  reply  to  preceding.     Same 

endorsement.     Printed.     1  p. 
213.  iii.  Governor  Sir  N.   Lawes  Speech  to  the  Assembly, 
June  28,  1720.         Same  endorsement.     Printed.     1  p. 
213.  iv.  Address    of  the   Assembly   in   reply   to   preceding. 

Same  endorsement.     Printed.     1  p. 
213.  V.  Governor  Sir  N.   Lawes'   Speech  to  the   Assembly, 

July  8,  1720.     Same  endorsement.     Printed.     1  p. 
213.  vi.  Address    of  the    Assembly   in   reply   to   preceding. 

July  9,  1720.  Same  endorsement.  Printed.  1  p. 
213.  vii.  Copy  of  proposals  sent  by  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes 
to  the  inhabitants  of  Anguilla  for  settling  in  Jamaica, 
where  they  will  be  allotted  10  acres  of  good  land  for 
each  in  family ;  sent  through  Capt.  Robert  Jones. 
See  covering  letter.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes.  Same 
endorsement.  1|  pp. 
213.  viii.  Articles  of  agreement  made  25th  June,  1720  between 
Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  and  Jeremy,  King  of  the 
Musquito  Indians  on  the  mainland.  Jeremy  under- 
takes to  bring  50  Indians  for  six  months  to  pursue 
rebellious  negroes  in  the  woods  and  mountains.  The 
men  to  be  paid  8  pieces  of  eight  or  40*.  current  money 
per  head  etc.  etc.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes,  Jeremy, 
King  of  the  Musquitos.  Totem  mark.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 3  pp. 
213.  ix.  Accounts  of  H.M.  Fortifications  at  Jamaica,  March 
25,  1720.  Signed,  Richd.  Mill,  Recr.  Genl.  Same 
endorsement.  2  pp. 
213.  X.  Account  of  H.M.  Revenue  Receiver  General,  25th 
March,  1720.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
6  pp.     [CO.  137,  13.     Nos.  44,  44.  i-x.] 


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1720. 
Aug.  25.  214.  Lt.  Governor  Hart  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
London.  Plantations.  Replies  to  Queries  proposed  to  him  by  the  Board 
10th  Augt.  (i)  Maryland  is  situated  in  the  center  of  the  British 
Plantations.  The  climate  is  unhealthy,  especially  to  strangers, 
occasion'd  by  the  excessive  heat  in  summer,  and  extream  cold 
in  winter ;  the  vernal  and  autumnal  quarters  are  attended 
with  fevers,  plurisies,  etc.  The  inhabitants  are  generally  a  well 
natur'd  and  most  hospitable  people  ;  and  much  the  greater 
part,  zealously  affected  to  H.M.  Government  and  the  Pro- 
testant interest.  The  soil  is  of  different  kinds,  but  most  of  it 
sandy  and  of  various  colours  :  which  when  cultivated  with 
little  labour  gives  a  vast  increase,  and  produces  all  things 
necessary  for  life,  that  Great  Britain  affords  ;  with  which  the 
inhabitants  plentifully  provide  for  their  subsistence,  and  might 
have  sufficient  to  vend  at  foreign  marketts  but  that  the  making 
of  tobacco  imploys  all  their  time  and  care.  This  Province  has 
many  great  and  navigable  rivers  etc.  Forest  trees  are  large 
and  tall,  as  in  any  part  of  the  Continent,  etc.  (ii)  Maryland  is 
bounded  by  Pensylvania,  the  river  Pattowmeck,  Delaware  Bay 
and  the  main  ocean,  and,  on  the  west  by  the  meridian  line  of  the 
first  fountains  of  the  River  Pattowmeck — which  has  not  yet 
been  discovered,  (iii)  The  Lord  Baltemore  is  hereditary 
Governor,  etc.  (iv)  From  the  time  H.M.  has  been  pleas'd 
to  restore  the  Lord  Baltemore  to  his  Government,  it  is  adminis- 
tered in  the  same  manner,  as  when  I  had  formerly  the  honour 
to  be  Governor  by  commission  immediately  from  the  Crown, 
save  that  in  the  enacting  of  laws,  holding  of  Courts,  issueing 
of  process,  and  granting  Commissions,  the  Lord  Proprietor's 
name  is  solely  made  use  of :  as  was  always  done  by  his  Lord- 
sp's.  noble  ancestors  :  the  Crown  having  made  no  reservation 
in  the  grant  of  that  Province  ;  the  faith  and  allegiance  of 
the  people,  and  sovereign  dominion  thereof  excepted,  (iv) 
Tobacco  is  ye  principal  trade  of  the  Province,  thence  exported 
to  Great  Britain ;  and  some  to  the  Plantations ;  as  also  grain, 
beef,  pork,  and  lumber  ;  for  which  they  have  in  return  rum  and 
sugar.  To  Madeira  with  corn,  for  wine  ;  But  this  article  is 
for  ye  most  part  purchased  by  bills  of  exchange.  The  number 
of  shipping  is  uncertain,  that  depending  on  the  quantity  of 
tobacco  made  in  the  country.  But  for  some  years  past,  there 
has  been  about  100  sail  of  ships  from  G.  Britain  ;  which  com- 
puted at  130  tons  each,  makes  13000  tons  :  and  allowing  16 
men  to  each  ship,  is  1600  seafaring  men.  The  Province  have 
only  4  small  brigantines  owned  in  the  country,  and  not  more 
than  20  sloops  from  the  sea  :  The  inhabitants  are  not  inclin'd 
to  navigation,  but  depend  on  British  bottoms,  for  export  and 
importation  of  the  bulk  of  their  trade,  (v)  They  wear  the 
like  clothing  and  have  the  same  furniture  for  their  houses  with 
those  in  G.  Britain  :  The  slaves  are  cloathed  with  cottens, 
kerseys,  flannel  and  coarse  linnens  all  imported  ;  and  by  the 

Wt,  7595  C.P.  32—9 


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1720. 

best  computation  I  coud  make  there  is  consumed  of  British 
manufactures  about  £20,000  pr.  ann.  (vi)  This  Province 
trades  with  no  foreign  Plantation  besides  Madeira  for  wine  ; 
nor  to  any  part  of  Europe  but  Great  Britain,  except  Lisbon 
when  corn  is  scarce,  for  which  they  have  returns  in  money, 
(vii)  Besides  the  Instructions  given  the  Governor  by  the 
Crown,  H.M.  has  Collectors  of  the  Customs,  Surveyors  and 
riding  officers  to  prevent  illegal  trade  :  and  I  do  beleive  the 
same  to  be  effectual,  (viii)  Tobacco  is  the  staple  commodity, 
which  is  exported  to  Great  Britain  to  the  number  of  30  to  35,000 
hhds.  per  ann.  Whilst  tobacco  answers  in  its  price  the  planters' 
labour,  all  manufactures,  or  trade  that  may  arise  from  the 
produce  of  the  country  are  laid  aside  as  it  is  at  this  time,  (ix) 
No  mines  are  yet  discover'd,  except  iron  of  which  there  is 
great  quantity  of  oar,  but  none  worked,  for  want  of  persons 
with  a  sufficient  stock  and  skill  to  undertake  it.  (x)  The 
annual  produce  of  the  commodities  of  this  Province  is  com- 
puted at  £150,000  in  their  favour,  free  of  all  charges,  (xi)  Number 
of  white  inhabitants,  1719,  55,000  ;  of  blacks,  25,000.  (xii) 
The  inhabitants  are  much  increased  of  late  years  ;  by  those 
born  in  the  country ;  by  the  rebels  imported  from  Preston ; 
by  the  great  number  of  convicts  ;  by  the  purchase  of  slaves 
and  by  many  poor  families,  who  transport  themselves  from 
Ireland,  (xiii)  Militia,  about  8,000  well  arm'd  and  excellent 
marksmen,  (xiv)  There  are  no  forts  nor  places  of  defence  : 
But  I  have,  at  the  publick  charge,  lately  built  a  large  magazeen 
at  Annapolis,  which  is  well  provided  with  spare  arms  for  1200 
foot  and  600  horse,  with  great  quantity  of  ammunition  ;  to 
maintain  which  and  to  make  a  further  provision  of  arms  etc. 
there  is  a  duty  of  3d.  per  hhd.  laid  by  Act  of  Assembly  on  all 
tobacco  exported,  (xv)  The  Indians  who  dwell  within  the 
inhabitants  do  not  exceed  500,  with  whom  I  have  always  liv'd 
peaceably  ;  nor  cou'd  I  learn  they  ever  offer'd  any  injury  to 
the  English,  unless  first  provoked  ;  then  their  revenge  is  secret 
and  bloody,  (xvi)  What  the  number  of  the  neighbouring 
Indians  are  is  not  certainly  known  ;  but  reported  to  be  many 
formidable  nations.  Maryland  has  little  commerce  with  the 
Indus.,  being  a  Peninsula,  so  I  was  only  careful  to  make  those 
on  the  frontiers  my  freinds,  by  which  the  Province  enjoy 'd  a 
perfect  tranquility  during  my  Government,  (xvii)  There  are 
no  Europeans  nearer  than  the  Spaniards  at  St.  Augustines  ;  and 
the  French  on  Missisippi  to  the  Southward  ;  and  on  the  Lakes, 
and  at  Canada,  to  the  nor'ward.  (xviii)  I  have  not  heard  of 
any  ill  effects  the  French  settlements  on  the  Continent  to  the 
Southward,  has,  as  yet,  on  H.M.  Plantations  ;  save  that  the 
French  use  all  imaginable  arts  to  engage  the  Indians  in  their 
interest ;  the  consequence  of  which  is  too  obvious,  to  admit 
of  a  comment  to  your  Lordsps.  (xix)  There  is  no  Revenue 
arising  to  the  Crown,  all  royalties  being  in  the  Lord  Baltemore, 


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1720. 

to  whom  the  profits  are  appropriated,  (xx)  The  provision 
for  the  support  of  a  Governor  is  by  a  duty  of  12d.  per  hhd.  on 
all  tobacco  exported,  and  3d.  per  ton.  on  all  ships  and  vessells 
entring  ;  both  these  duties  are  by  Act  of  Assembly.  The  other 
extraordinary  charges  of  the  Government  are  provided  for  by 
ye  Assembly,  (xxi)  The  establishment  both  civil  and  military 
within  that  Government,  are  under  the  same  regulation,  as 
when  the  respective  Governors  held  their  Commissions,  and  had 
their  Instruction  immediately  from  the  Crown  :  save,  that  all 
commissions  are  now  given  by,  and  in  the  Lord  Proprietaries 
name.  There  are  no  patent  officers  who  hold  immediately 
from  the  Crown.  Signed,  Jo.  Hart.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th 
Aug.,  Read  30th  Nov.  1720.     6f  pp.     Enclosed, 

214.  i.  21  Queries  from  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations 
to  Lt.  Governor  Hart  relating  to  Maryland,  answered 
in  preceding.     3|  pp.     [CO.  5,  717.     Nos.  84,  84.i.] 

Aug.  30.  215.  Mr.  Bampfeild  to  Mr.  Popple.  Prays  that  Act  of 
Barbados  to  confirm  certain  deeds  of  lease  and  release  between 
Robert  Lowther  and  Lady  Lonsdale  etc.,  may  be  laid  before  H.M. 
for  confirmation  as  soon  as  may  be.  Signed,  Geo.  Bampfeild. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  6th  Sept.,  1720.  Addressed.  Ip. 
[CO.  28,  15.     No.  97.] 

216.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.  Asks  for  copies  of  Naval 
Officers  accounts  of  entries  and  clearances,  Carolina,  for  past 
three  years  etc.     [CO.  5,  400.     30.] 

21 7.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
Representation  enclosing  following  and  proposing  measures 
necessary  for  the  defence  of  Carolina.  Set  out,  N.C.  Col.  Rec. 
II.  393.     Enclosed, 

217.  i.  Draft  of  Instructions  for  a  Governor  of  Carolina. 
217.  ii.  Instructions  for  same  relating  to  Acts  of  Trade  and 
Navigation.     [CO.   5,   400.    pp.   31-125.] 

Aug.  30.  218.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Tilson.  Reply  to  17th  Aug.  As 
Whitehall,  the  Lords  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations  are  not 
acquainted  with  what  are  the  proper  fees  for  the  Attorney  and 
Sollicitor  Genl.  in  matters  relating  to  the  Crown,  they  are  of 
opinion  it  would  be  more  for  the  publick  service  if  the  Sollicitor 
of  the  Treasury  should  have  their  Lordships'  directions  to 
attend  the  Attorney  or  Sollicitor  Genii,  with  such  references  as 
the  Board  shall  have  occasion  to  make  to  them.  Ask  that 
directions  be  given  accordingly.     [CO.  389,  37.     pp.  189,  190.] 

Aug.  30.       219.     Mr.  Pulteney  to  Mr.  Popple.     I  had  this  afternoon  a 

Paris       Conference   at  the   Archbishop   of  Cambray   about  the   affair 

Wh  N  s    ^^  Canceaux  etc.     Refers  to  letter  to  Mr.  Delafaye  {v.  Sept.  8th.) 

Desires  to  be  informed,  whether  ye  French  fish[ery]   at  Cape 


Aug.  30. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  30. 

Whitehall. 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

Canceau,  and  if  they  have  their  huts  or  settlements  there  for 
curcing  their  fish,  or  if  this  is  done  at  the  small  islands  of  Canceau 
which  lye  at  some  distance  ;  I  am  apt  to  believe  the  first ;  the 
extract  Mr.  Delafaye  sent  me  of  the  board's  representation 
saying  the  French  fishery  at  Canco  ;  but  under  an  uncertainty 
I  thought  it  best  to  insist  on  the  excluding  them  even  from  the 
little  Islands  ;  it  would  likewise  be  of  use  to  me  to  know  as 
exactly  as  possible  the  situation  of  the  Island  of  Sable  with 
respect  to  Cape  Breton  and  to  Nova  Scotia,  the  situation  of 
those  Islands  of  Canceau  in  the  same  respects,  and  if  what  we 
call  Cape  Canceau,  is  really  an  Island  detached  from  the  main- 
land of  Nova  Scotia,  as  I  fancy  the  french  will  pretend  ; 
Captain  Smart  who  was  employed  last  year  in  disturbing  the 
French  fishery  and  settlements  at  Canceau  may,  if  he  is  in 
England,  give  you  the  most  perfect  accounts  of  this  matter. 
Acknowledges  letter  of  25th.  No  signature.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  5th  Sept.,  1720.    Holograph,    l^pp.    [CO.  217,  3.    A^o.  7.] 

Sept.  1.       220.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

wiiitehaii.  I  havc  laid  before  the  Lords  Justices  your  representation  of  the 
proper  measures  to  be  taken  for  the  security  of  Carolina  and 
Nova  Scotia.  Their  Excys.  judging  that  care  should  likewise 
be  taken  at  this  time  to  preserve  our  Settlement  upon  the  Island 
of  Providence,  direct  that  you  report  the  state  of  it,  and  what 
immediate  supplies  they  may  stand  in  need  of  etc.  Signed, 
Ch.  Delafaye.  E7idorsed,  Reed.  2nd.  Read  5th  Sept.,  1720. 
Ip.     [CO.  23,  1.     A^o.  26.] 

Sept.  5.       221.     Mr.  Popple  to  Samuel  Buck.     The  Board  desires  to 
Whitehall,  speak   with   the   Lessees   of  the   Bahamas,    etc.     v.    1st   Sept. 
[CO.  24,  1.     p.  48.] 

Sept.  7.  222.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.  Encloses  for  his  opinion 
Whitehall,  i^  poiut  of  law  Act  passcd  in  Barbados  1716,  to  confirm  and  make 
more  effectual  certain  deeds  or  indentures  of  lease  and  release 
hearing  date  1st  and  2nd  of  March,  1707,  and  made  or  mentioned 
to  be  made  between  Robt.  Lowther  and  Joan  his  wife  of  the  one 
part,  and  the  Rt.  Honble.  Kath.  Viscountess  Lonsdale  etc.  of  the 
other,  and  to  confirm  an  indenture,  1714,  made  between  the 
Honble.  John  Frere  and  Robt.  Lowther  and  his  wife,  widow  of 
Robert  Carleton  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.    pp.  80,  81.] 


Sept.  8.       223.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Whitehall.  Refers   to   enclosures.     Continues :     The   Lords   Justices   direct 

that   you    endeavour   to    procure    the  chart  and  informations 

desired,    etc.     Signed,    Ch.    Delafaye.     Endorsed,    Reed.    8th. 

Read  13th  Sept.,  1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

223.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Mr.  Pulteney  to  Mr.  Delafaye. 
Paris,  Sept.  10th  (N.S.)  1720.     I  was  this  afternoon 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  133 


1720. 


with  Sir  Robt.  Sutton  at  a  Conference  in  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Cambray's  apartment,  upon  the  affair  of 
Canceaux.  The  Archbishop  had  with  him  Monsr. 
Peque  his  first  Commis,  Monsr.  Rodeau  the  Commis 
of  the  Marechal  d'Etrees,  and  a  captain  or  master 
of  a  ship  who  has  been  in  those  parts  of  America. 
We  founded  our  right  to  the  Islands  of  Canceaux  on 
the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  which  gives  Nova  Scotia,  and 
all  Islands  belonging  to  it,  to  the  Crown  of  Great 
Britain  for  ever,  except  Cape  Breton  and  the  Islands 
lying  in  the  mouth  of  the  River  of  St.  Laurentz  and 
in  the  Gulph  of  the  same  name  ;  we  said,  the  Islands 
of  Canceaux  were  comprehended  in  the  general  cession 
of  Nova  Scotia  as  depending  on  it,  and  were  not 
excepted  with  Cape  Breton,  as  not  being  situated 
in  the  mouth  of  the  River,  nor  in  the  Gulph  of  St. 
Laurentz,  but  lying  very  near  the  coast  of  Nova  Scotia, 
and  joyning  almost  to  the  Cape  of  Canceaux  ;  our 
demand  for  excluding  the  French  from  the  fishery 
there  was  founded  on  the  Treaty  of  Neutrality  in 
America  as  well  as  on  that  of  Utrecht,  the  first  declares 
that  they  are  not  to  fish  anywhere  on  our  coasts,  the 
latter  expressly  restrains  them  from  fishing  on  the 
coast  of  Nova  Scotia  within  30  leagues  beginning  from 
the  island  of  Sable  inclusive  and  stretching  to  the 
South  West.  The  Archbishop's  assistants  claimed  a 
right  to  the  Islands  of  Canceaux  because  they  are  not 
named  in  the  cession  of  Nova  Scotia,  whereas  in  the 
cession  of  Newfoundland  it  is  said  we  are  to  have  all 
the  Islands  adjacent  to  it,  but  we  shewed  in  the 
Article  of  Nova  Scotia,  that  we  are  to  have  tout  ce  qui 
depend  des  dites  terres  et  isles  de  ce  pais  Id  ;  they  then 
endeavoured  to  include  those  islands  in  the  exception 
with  Cape  Breton,  as  being  dans  V emboucheure  du 
Golf  de  St.  Lawrentz  ;  the  Latin  Treaty  says — insula 
vero  Cape  Breton  dicta  et  aliae  qucevis  tarn  in  ostio 
fluvii  Sti.  Laurentis  quam  in  sinu  ejusdem  nominis — 
The  French  runs — %Iais  VIsle  dite  Cape  Breton  et 
toutes  les  autres  quelconques  situees  dans  V emboucheure 
et  dans  le  Golf  de  St.  Laurent.  They  would  have  the 
emboucheure  relate  to  the  Gulf  and  not  to  the  River 
as  in  Latin,  and  Monsr.  Rodeau  to  support  this,  said, 
that  the  mouth  of  the  River  and  the  Gulf  were  the 
same  thing,  and  therefore  emboucheure  must  necessarily 
relate  to  the  Gulph  ;  they  pretended  too  that  the 
French  Treaty  is  the  original,  and  the  only  rule  to 
proceed  by,  tho'  they  were  told  that  the  Latin  must 
certainly  be  our  rule,  and  ought  to  be  theirs  in  this 
case,  being  clear  and  plain,  whereas  the  French  could 


134  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


not  properly  bear  the  sense  they  put  upon  it,  but  that 
there  seemed  to  be  an  omission,  perhaps  in  the  trans- 
cribing, of  the  words  du  flenve  after  Vemhoucheure  ; 
however  allowing  the  French  in  their  sense  we  said 
the  Islands  of  Canceaux  which  lye  without  the  Gut 
of  Canceaux,  cannot  be  reckoned  dans  Vemhoucheure 
du  Golf,  the  emboucheure  being  properly  between  Cape 
Breton  and  Newfoundland  the  great  passage  to  Canada. 
Monsr.  Rodeau  would  have  it  that  there  are  three 
emboucheures  to  the  Golf,  and  the  Gut  of  Canco  is 
one  ;  the  Captain  pretended  that  the  whole  space 
between  Cape  Canco  and  the  extremity  of  Labroder, 
in  which  space  lye  the  Islands  of  Cape  Breton  New- 
foundland and  others,  was  properly  the  emboucheure 
du  Golf;  Monsr.  Peque  went  further  and  maintained 
that  Cape  Breton  and  the  Islands  of  Canco  (which 
by  their  accounts  are  four  leagues,  and  by  ours  7 
leagues  distant  from  it)  are  in  the  Gulf  itself,  from 
these  words  Vlsle  de  Cape  Breton  et  toutes  les  autres 
quelconques  situees  dans  Vemhoucheure  et  dans  le  Golf  de 
St.  Laurentz  ;  but  tho'  this  was  merely  a  quirk  on 
the  word  autres  and  might  as  well  serve  to  place  them 
in  the  mouth  of  the  River  ;  the  Archbishop  himself 
seemed  to  think  this  observation  was  very  material. 
As  to  the  fishery  they  acknowledged  the  exclusion  of 
30  leagues  from  the  Island  of  Sables  but  were  for 
placing  this  Island  where  it  might  best  answer  their 
purpose  and  instead  of  drawing  the  line  from  thence 
to  the  South  West,  had  drawn  one,  in  a  map  they 
shewed  us,  to  the  South  East,  and  another  towards 
the  West  directly  to  the  coast  of  Nova  Scotia,  so  as 
to  cutt  off  a  considerable  part  of  that  coast  near  Cape 
Canco,  and  they  pretended  a  right  of  fishing  any  where 
even  at  Cape  Canco  without  and  to  the  northward 
of  that  line.  They  would  not  allow  that  by  the  Treaty 
of  Neutrality  or  by  that  of  Utrecht  they  are  excluded 
from  fishing  on  our  coast,  tho'  in  forming  the  Article 
of  that  of  Utrecht  relating  to  the  Fishery,  the  French 
themselves  had  proposed  these  words — Regis  Chris- 
tianissimo  subditis  in  posterum  prohibitum  sit,  in 
dictis,  insulis,  maribus,  sinubus  aliisve  locis  ad  littus 
Novae  Scotiae  sive  Acadiae  spectantibus,  piscaturam 
exercere — and  our  Ministers  added  the  clause  about 
the  30  leagues.  They  plainly  told  us,  that  when  they 
came  to  treat  of  the  limits  of  Nova  Scotia,  they  will 
insist  on  having  that  part  of  the  land  which  is  south- 
ward of  their  line,  they  said  too  that  they  had  formerly 
Governors  at  Cape  Canceaux,  which  they  make  a  cut 
of  Island  independent  of  the   Governor    of    Acadia, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  135 


1720. 


and  they  give  us  likewise  to  understand  that  they  will 
pretend  to  confine  our  limits  of  Nova  Scotia  to  that 
part   only   which   makes   a   Peninsula.     We   did   not 
thmk  it  proper  at  this  time  to  enter  into  any  dispute 
on  this  subject.     I  need  not  trouble  you  with  all  the 
answers  we  gave  to  their  several  pretensions  about 
Canceaux  and  the  fishery  ;    we  insisted  on  the  Islands 
of  Canco  because  it  removes  the  French  still  further 
from  our  coasts  tho'  I  fancy  the  complaint  against 
them  is  for  fishing  at  Cape  Canco  itself,  but  as  this  was 
not  plainly  distinguished  in  the  papers  sent    to    me, 
which  said  only  Canco  in  general,  we  thought  it  safest 
to  demand  the  most,  especially  since  the  Islands  are 
not    far    distant    from    the    Cape.     The    Archbishop 
seemed  to  sit  by  as  an  Arbitrator,  but  whenever  he 
put  in  his  word  did  not  do  it  as  an  impartial  one. 
He  proposed  at  last  to  put  something  in  writing  as  the 
resultat,    of   this   conference  and  as  taking  it  to  be 
on  the  foot  of  the  Commission,  but  we  said  we  had 
particular    orders  on  this  subject  and  were  to  desire 
an  immediate  resolution  from  the  Regent    to    whom 
the  Archbishop  was  to  report  what  had  been  said  on 
both  sides  ;    we  expect  an  answer  in  writing  to  the 
Memorial  Sr.   Robert  Sutton  gave  in,   and  we  shall 
make  a  reply.     It  had  been  proposed  at  the  Treaty  of 
Utrecht  to  divide  Cape  Breton,  the  South  part  for  us, 
the  North  part  for  the  French,  and  I  remember  in  a 
letter  of  Lord  Bolingbroke's  on  this  subject  that  he 
says,  that  if  the  French  insist  upon  the  whole  Island 
it  must  be  with  a  view  to  disturb  our  settlements  of 
Nova  Scotia  ;    what  are  we  to  judge  of  their  insisting 
on  Islands  which  lye  much  nearer  than  Cape  Breton 
does  to  Nova  Scotia,  and  even  claiming  part  of  the 
Continent  of  Nova  Scotia.     Same  endorsement.     5\  pp. 
223.  ii.  Extract   of  letter  from   Sr.   Robert   Sutton  to   Mr. 
Secretary    Craggs.     Paris,    Sept.    16th    (N.S.),    1720. 
Describes  conference  as  above,  writing  Peque',  Pecquet, 
and  Rodeau,  Renaudot.     Continues :    We   had  a  sort 
of   tumultuary    conference,    the    design    whereof   we 
clearly  perceived  to  be  no  other  than  to  justify  the 
French  fishery,  and  maintain  their  claim  to  the  said 
Islands,  in  order  to  wch.  they  had  framed  false  charts, 
in  which  they  had  placed  the  Islands  near  the  middle 
of  the  mouth  of  the  Gut  between  Acadia  and  Cape 
Breton,  and  drawn  a  line  from  the  Island  of  Sable 
N.W^.   according  to  their  compass  cutting  the  coast 
of  Acadia  a  good  way  to  the  S.W.  of  Cape  Can9eaux, 
by  which  means  they  endeavour  to  shew  that  the 
fishery  about  the  Cape  belong'd  to  them,  and  some 


136  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


of  them  went  so  far  as  to  insinuate,  that  a  district  of 
ground  at  the  Cape,  where  they  said  about  40  French 
familys  were  settled,  is  not  part  of  Acadia,  because 
there  has  been  a  separate  French  Govr.  of  Can9eaux, 
Cape  Breton  and  the  other  Islands  of  the  Golph  of 
St.  Lawrence.  After  we  had  detected  and  expos'd 
these  fallacies,  they  contended,  that  all  the  Islands  in 
the  mouths  of  the  said  Golph  were  left  to  them  by 
the  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  for  proof  whereof  they  alledg'd 
the  words  of  the  13th  (v.  preceding).  When  we  had 
beaten  them  out  of  this  retrenchment,  they  were 
reduc'd  to  the  necessity  of  maintaining,  that  the 
Islands  in  question  are  in  the  Golph  of  St.  Lawrence, 
and  are  consequently  to  remain  to  France,  reckoning 
the  said  Golph  to  be  all  the  sea  and  streights  contain'd 
within  lines  drawn  from  one  of  the  outmost  Capes 
to  another,  by  wch.  rule  indeed  according  to  their 
mapps,  the  said  Islands  are  situated  in  the  Golph. 
We  used  all  the  arguments  we  could  to  disprove  this 
assertion,  and  their  way  of  opening  so  wide  the  jaws 
of  the  Gulph  of  St.  Lawrence  :  We  told  them  we  had 
always  understood,  that  a  sinus  or  Golph  is  a  space 
or  extent  of  sea  incompass'd  by  land,  the  mouth  where- 
of is  formed  by  the  two  opposite  points  of  land,  wch. 
advance  into  the  sea  nearest  to  one  another.  That 
besides  the  Islands  of  Can9eaux  were  manifestly  ceded 
to  Great  Britain  with  Acadia,  to  wch.  they  had  always 
belong'd,  being  close  to  the  coast  of  that  country. 
The  Archbishop  of  Cambray  said,  that  a  report  of  the 
Conference  shou'd  be  made  to  the  Duke  Regent  to 
the  end  that  he  might  take  his  resolution  thereupon. 
But  we  insisted,  that  if  they  still  had  anything  to 
object  agst.  the  reasons  we  had  alledg'd  to  prove  our 
right  to  the  Islands,  it  shou'd  be  done  by  way  of 
answer  to  the  Meml.,  wch.  I  had  presented  upon  that 
subject,  reserving  the  liberty  to  reply  to  their  answer. 
We  took  our  leave  with  telling  them,  that  we  hoped 
they  were  convinc'd  of  the  King's  right  to  the  Islands 
of  Canceaux,  and  that  we  insisted  on  the  same  for 
the  reasons  wch.  we  had  given,  reserving  to  ourselves 
to  produce  such  other  proofs,  as  we  may  be  supplied 
with  from  England,  to  set  the  matter  in  a  clearer 
light,  etc.  We  shou'd  have  been  better  enabled  to 
make  our  rights  clearly  out,  if  we  had  been  provided 
of  a  true  chart  with  a  compass  and  scale  shewing  exactly 
the  situation  of  the  Islands  of  Cangeaux,  and  the  true 
distances  of  the  several  islands,  capes  and  countrys, 
wch.  fall  under  our  view  and  consideration.  I  cannot 
say,  we  find  the  French  much  dispos'd  to  give  up  their 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  137 


1720. 

unreasonable  and  groundless  pretension.  But  if  it 
be  of  importance  to  Great  Britain  to  use  the  means 
necessary  to  exclude  the  subjects  of  France  from 
fishing  at  the  Islands  of  Canceaux,  and  you  judge  it 
requisite  for  that  purpose  to  demonstrate  our  right 
more  fully  and  plainly  than  we  have  hitherto  done 
we  shall  enforce  our  proofs  with  such  further  argu- 
ments, as  you  shall  please  to  furnish  us,  Scmie  endorse- 
ment. 4  pp.  [CO.  217,  3.  Nos.  8,  8.  i.,  ii.  ;  and 
{without  enclosures)  218,  1.     p.  473.] 

Sept.  8.  224.  Mr.  Buck  and  the  Copartners  for  settling  the  Bahama 
Islands  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Describes 
expence  they  have  been  at  in  clearing  the  Islands  of  pirates 
and  preparing  defences  against  the  Spaniards,  who  lately 
attacked  the  Island  of  Providence  with  5  men  of  war,  3  brigan- 
tines  and  11  sloops  with  1400  regular  troops  of  wch.  design  ye 
Governour  haveing  had  timely  notice  he  had  given  out  armes 
and  amuunition  to  above  700  men  of  ye  inhabitants,  who  drove 
off  ye  Spaniards  that  landed  and  forced  them  to  cutt  and  put 
to  sea.  They  still  threaten  the  Island.  It  is  necessary  to  have 
a  fort  of  about  12  large  cannon  built  upon  Hogg  Island, 
for  the  security  of  the  harbour,  and  to  add  a  line  of  12  large 
cannon  to  the  fort  already  built  on  Providence.  The  inhabi- 
tants have  been  often  in  armes,  and  upon  this  late  occation 
kept  under  Martiall  Law  above  two  months,  wch.  has  expended 
most  of  the  amunition  and  provisions,  the  Lessees  did  about 
two  months  agoe  send  out  a  supply  of  provisions  for  the  garrison 
inhabitants  and  above  70  Spanish  prisoners  of  warr  with  some 
powder  in  ye  shipps  Providence  and  Samuel  with  40  recruits 
and  other  passengers  about  100  in  number.  The  Lessees 
have  great  reason  to  apprehend  that  the  pirates  they  have  routed 
out,  whoe  are  now  groun  strong  in  those  parts,  intend  to  collect 
their  whole  strength  in  order  to  give  them  what  disturbance 
they  can  and  they  cannot  defend  themselves  against  so  powerful 
an  attempt  without  the  assistance  of  the  Government  haveing 
already  expended  much  greater  sums  then  have  ever  yett  been 
layd  out  by  any  private  Adventurers  upon  so  small  incourage- 
ment  etc.  Pray  for  the  despatch  of  an  Independant  Company, 
24  pieces  of  cannon,  2  ten  inch  mortars,  500  barrels  of  powder 
and  ammimition  etc.  Signed  for  ye  rest  of  ye  Lessees  and  selfe, 
Sam.  Buck.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  8th  Sept.,  1720.  1|  pp. 
[CO.  23,  1.     No.  27.] 

Sept.  9.       225.     Council  of    Trade    and    Plantations    to    the    Lords 
whitehau.  Justiccs.     Quote    from    precedmg    Memorial,    and    recommend 

despatch    of   stores    of   war   requested   therein.     [CO.    24,    1. 

pp.  49-53.] 


138  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

Sept.  13.       226.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Whitehall.  Eficloses  following.  Concludes : — The  Lords  Justices  direct 
that  you  enquire  into  this  matter  and  report  the  state  of  it 
with  your  opinion  what  is  proper  to  be  done  therein.  Signed, 
Ch.  Delafaye.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th.  Read  20th  Sept.,  1720. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 

226.  i.  Order  of  King  in  Council,  9th  May,  1719.     Ordered 

that  the  French  vessels  seized  by  Capt.  Smart  at 
Canso  but  detained  by  the  Governor  of  New  England, 
although  condemned,  be  restored  to  Capt.  Smart  to 
dispose  of  them  and  their  cargo  and  the  produce  to  be 
divided  among  the  officers  and  company  of  H.M.S. 
Squirrel.  Set  out,  A.P.C.  II.  No.  1314.  Signed, 
Robert  Hales.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  3|  pp. 
[CO.  217,  3.  Nos.  10,  10.  i.  ;  and  {without  enclosure) 
218,  i.     pp.  477,  478.] 

Sept.  13.  227.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Refers  to  letter  etc.  of  22nd  Aug.  etc.,  duplicates 
whereof  I  have  directed  to  be  made  out  in  order  to  be  sent  by 
some  other  conveyance.  Sends  answers  to  queries  relating  to 
St.  Philips'  parish  etc.  I  have  had  an  account  of  the  death  of 
Antony  Fox,  a  Member  of  the  Council  of  Montserrat  etc. 
Recommends  Nathaniel  Webb,  Collector  of  the  said  Island,  to 
succeed  him,  being  well  affected  to  H.M.  etc.  Signed,  W. 
Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  Dec,  1720.  Read  6th  July, 
1721.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

227.  i.  List  of  papers  following.     Same  endorsement.     1  p. 
227.  ii.  Minutes   of  Council  and  Assembly  of  Antigua,  for- 
warding following  replies.     20th  July,  1720.     3  pp. 

227.  iii.  Replies  of  the  Parishioners  of  St.  Philips  to  (a)  who 
are  for,  (6)  who  are  opposed  to  the  building  of  a  new 
parish  Church.     Endorsed  as  covering  letter,     3J  pp. 

227.  iv.  List  of  parishioners  for  and  against  building  the  new 
Church,  with  the  number  of  acres  and  slaves  they 
own.  53  against,  18  for.  Acreage  and  slaves  nearly 
equal.     22nd  Aug.,  1720.     2  pp. 

227.  V.  Representation  of  several  parishioners  of  St.  Philips 
to  Governor  Hamilton  in  favour  of  the  new  Church. 
Same  endorsement.     15  Signatures.     3  pp. 

227.  vi.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Antigua,  23rd  Aug.  1720. 
Upon  reviewing  above  replies,  the  Council  were  of 
opinion  that  the  answers  of  those  in  favour  of  the 
Church  were  true,  whilst  some  of  those  by  opponents 
were  false  and  malicious.  Particularly  the  town  of 
Willoughby  Bay  is  not  a  place  of  trade  as  therein 
set  forth,  but  decayed  and  inconsiderable  etc.  Same 
endorsement.     1  p. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  139 


1720. 

227.  vii.  Plat  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Phihps,  Antigua.  Same 
endorsement.     2  pp. 

227.  viii.  "  A  large  Chart  of  the  Island  of  Antigua,"  received 
from  the  Council  of  Trade  and  returned  back  by 
Governor  Hamilton  with  corrections  and  explanations. 
Same  endorsement.     1  large  p. 

227.  ix.  Corrections  of  above  Chart.  Signed,  John  Teatt, 
Surveyor  Genl.  Same  endorsement.  1  p.  [C.O.  152, 
13.  ff.  231,  231,  232r;.,  233,  234r;.,  235,  236,  237,  238, 
239,  240,   241-244,  245i;.-246i;,  247i;.-250u.] 

Sept.  13.       228.     Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.     Referring  draft 

WhitehaU.    of  Commission  and  Instructions  for  the  Governor  of  Carolina  to 

the  Attorney  and  Solicitor  General  for  their  opinion  on  Thursday 

next.    Signed,  Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  11th 

Jan.,  172 'j'.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  358.    ff.  61,  62i;.] 

Sept.  14.  229.  The  Governor  and  Company  of  H.M.  English  Colony 
New  Haven,  of  Connecticut  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  In 
obedience  to  your  Lordships  commands  which  I  communicated 
to  the  General  Assembly,  it  was  ordered  that  a  map  of  the 
Colony,  should  be  drawn  and  transmitted  to  your  Lordship  ; 
Which  map  is  herewth.  humbly  offered ;  and  should  have  been 
sooner,  but  that  it  required  a  considerable  time  to  take  an  exact 
surveigh  of  the  Eastern  and  Southern  bounds,  so  far  as  we  have 
been  able  to  proceed.  Your  Lordships  will  observe  that  the 
lines  on  the  North,  and  on  the  West,  don't  agree  with  the  bounds 
in  our  Charter.  On  the  North,  the  Province  of  Massachusetts, 
come  within  the  true  line  of  division  between  them  and  us  ;  and 
take  out  of  this  Government,  the  towns  of  Woodstock,  Enfield 
and  Suffield  with  some  part  of  Springfield  and  Westfield,  which 
are  therefore  noted  with  red  Imes  in  this  Chart.  On  the  West, 
the  Province  of  New  York  have  carried  their  claime  and  Govern- 
ment quite  thorow  this  Colony  from  South  to  North,  and  cutt 
us  asunder  20  miles  East  of  Hudsons  River,  which  is  therefore 
noted  by  a  red  line  parallel  to  that  River,  and  at  20  miles 
distance  from  it.  The  Colony  of  Rhode  Island,  has  for  several 
years,  claimed  the  Narrogansett  Country,  which  lies  in  the 
Eastern  part  of  this  Colony.  And  we  have  been  obliged  to 
content  ourselves  with  what  is  left  us,  tho'  but  a  small  part  of 
what  is  comprised  in  our  Charter.  But  in  that  small  part, 
we  are  free  from  the  intrusions  of  any  forreigners.  Our  regard 
to  peace,  and  desire  to  live  in  a  good  understanding  with  our 
neighbours,  has  prevail'd  with  us  to  content  ourselves,  under 
what  is  claimed  and  held  by  the  Provinces  of  Massachusett 
Bay  and  New  York  ;  But,  as  to  Narroganset  which  is  claim'd 
by  Rhode  Island,  if  we  should  loose  that  country,  which  was 
setled  by  orders  and  grants  from  the  Government  of  this  Colony, 
in  many  parts  of  it,  many  years  since,  it  would   be  a  great 


140  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

prejudice  to  the  Colony.  Which  we  humbly  beg  yr.  Lordships 
leave  to  suggest,  because,  (as  we  understand)  the  Government 
of  Rhode  Island  is  making  application  to  H.M.,  that  they  may 
be  allowed  in  their  pretensions  to  ye  Narrogansett  Country. 
If  they  should  proceed  in  that  application,  as  your  Lordships 
will  have  consideration  of  it,  so,  we  make  no  doubt,  but  that  we 
shall  be  able  to  give  your  Lordships  entire  satisfaction  that  the 
whole  Narrogansett  country  belongs  to  this  Colony,  as  is  shewn 
in  the  map  etc.  That  the  boundaries  on  the  North,  and  on  the 
West,  do  at  all  vary  from  those  fixed  in  our  Charter,  is  purely 
from  our  submission  to  considerable  loss,  rather  than  live  in 
contention  with  the  adjoyning  Provinces,  of  Massachusett 
and  New  York,  whom  we  could  not  prevail  with  to  settle  the 
dividend  lines  between  them,  and  us,  without  such  compliance 
on  our  part.  Signed,  Gordon  Saltonstall.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
7th,  Read  14th  Feb.  172y.  For  map  enclosed  vide  Book  of 
Maps.     2  pp.     [CO.  5,  1266.    ff.  3,  ^v.,  4i;.] 

Sept.  14.  230.  The  Mayor,  Recorder,  Aldermen,  Commissioner  for 
Albany.  Indian  Affairs  and  Justices,  on  behalf  of  the  Inhabitants  of 
Albany,  to  the  President  and  Council  of  New  York.  Represent 
the  deplorable  condition  of  the  Frontiers.  The  Five  Nations 
are  in  a  stagering  condition,  the  French  partly  by  threats  and 
partly  by  presents  and  fair  means  having  obtained  such  an 
awe  and  influence  over  them  that  the  principal  Sachims  of  one 
of  the  Sinneke  Castles  called  Ounahee  have  given  a  large  belt 
of  wampum  to  the  Governor  of  Canada  to  pitch  out  a  place  for 
them  near  him  when  they  shall  go,  setle  and  remove,  which 
the  said  Governr.  has  already  laid  out  between  Lapreerie  and 
Chambly  near  Montreal  some  Sachims  and  Indians  of  that 
Castle  are  already  gon  in  order  to  setle  there,  and  in  short  many 
shall  follow  their  example  if  not  speedily  prevented.  Tho' 
the  other  Indians  of  the  Five  Nations  are  wel  enough  inclined 
to  the  British  interest  they  dare  not  oppose  the  French 
in  any  of  their  designs  as  is  manifest  by  thier  suffering  the 
French  to  setle  above  the  carrying  place  of  lagara  at  Ochsweegee 
and  also  to  suffer  them  to  make  another  setlement  below  the 
great  Falls  of  lagara  this  summer  the  only  passage  the  Five 
Nations  must  unavoidably  use  when  they  go  and  come  from 
hunting  and  that  all  the  Far  Indians  must  use  in  carrying  on 
the  trade  so  advantagous  to  H.M.  interest  and  his  subjects 
in  these  parts  etc.  This  place  has  been  setled  above  100  years 
meerly  upon  account  of  trade  with  the  Indians  etc.,  all  which 
is  wholy  cut  off  at  once  by  the  French  setling  there.  It  is 
not  without  great  grief  and  anxiety  that  we  must  represent  the 
reproach  we  daily  have  from  the  French  and  their  and  our 
Indians  that  our  fortifications  are  quit  out  of  repair  they  were 
but  stockados  at  first  and  are  now  all  roten  and  fallen  down 
whereas  our  neighbours  of  Canada  have  not  only  ever  since  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


141 


1720. 


Peace  been  strengthening  themselves  with  stone  forts  for  the 
Indians  that  are  under  their  protection  which  are  all  garrisoned 
with  proper  officers  and  soldiers  which  know  to  keep  the  Indians 
firm  to  their  interest  and  that  at  Chambly  where  there  are  not 
above  five  or  six  families,  there  is  a  stone  fort  made  almost 
impregnable,  the  Government  of  France  sparing  no  cost  and 
charge  in  fortifying  all  places  of  their  frontiers  that  are  contiguous 
to  this  Colony  and  by  this  very  means  draw  many  of  our  Indians 
to  them  alleging  they  have  a  country  wel  fortified  where  they 
can  live  secure.  The  French  for  many  years  past  have  had 
and  stil  have  the  liberty  to  go  and  stay  among  the  Five  Nations 
especially  among  the  Sinnekes  whose  number  consists  above 
1000  men  to  debauch  them  from  their  fidelity  to  H.M.  which 
Nations  have  an  awe  on  many  Far  Nations  which  are  tributary 
to  them  etc.  The  Five  Nations  are  the  balance  of  the  Continent 
of  America  who  if  the  French  bring  over  to  their  interest  will 
prove  the  ruin  of  many  thousand  families  etc.  If  these  matters 
be  not  remedied  and  a  war  break  out,  the  inhabitants  will  be 
necessitated  to  remove  their  families  and  effects  for  their  better 
security  and  think  he  that  got  away  first  was  the  happiest  man 
etc.  Propose  that  the  French  be  removed  from  their  settle- 
ments on  land  resign'd  by  the  Five  Nations  to  H.M.  ;  a  fort 
built  in  Covenant  Place  and  Tierondequat  about  10  leagues  from 
the  Sinnekes'  Castle  and  one  at  Ochjagara  and  a  sufficient 
number  of  brisk  young  men  posted  there  with  proper  officers 
and  an  intelligent  sensible  man  reside  there  to  defeat  the  in- 
treagues  of  the  French  etc.  And  to  prevent  all  inconveniencies 
that  may  happen  by  peoples  trading  at  their  Plantations  with 
the  Indians  it  may  be  so  ordered  that  the  Indian  trade  be  wholly 
and  solely  confin'd  within  the  walls  of  the  City  of  Albany  pur- 
suant to  the  Charter  of  this  City  and  that  all  persons  be  admitted 
to  trade  within  the  City  and  nowhere  else  and  that  a  law  be 
made  to  inflict  severe  penalties  on  those  that  shall  transgress. 
Lastly,  that  his  Most  Gracious  Majestic  would  be  pleased  to 
order  there  be  stone  walls  made  at  Albany  and  Schinectady 
and  such  other  places  on  the  frontiers  as  H.M.  shall  think  fit, 
and  so  large  that  the  women  and  children  may  be  secur'd  in 
time  of  extremity  etc.  Signed,  John  Riggs,  Evert  Banker, 
Wessel  Ten  Broeck,  Hend.  v.  Renselaer,  Myndt.  Schuyler,  Johs. 
Cuyler,  Hend.  Hansen,  Abraham  Cuyler,  Johs.  Pruyn,  Harmanus 
Wendel.  Endorsed,  14th  Nov.,  1720.  3  pp.  [CO.  5,  1092. 
No.  15.] 


Sept.  15.       231 .     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 

Whitehall.  Reply  to  8th  Sept.  We  have  endeavor'd  to  get  further  in- 
formation etc.  Upon  which  occasion  having  discoursed  with 
Col.  Nicholson,  Col.  Vetch  and  Mr.  Capon,  they  all  agree  that 
ye  Can90  Islands  are  not  in  the  mouth  of  ye  River  of  St. 
Lawrence  nor  in  ye  Gulph  of  that  name,  particularly  the  two 


142 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1720. 

last  who  have  often  been  there  ;  but  they  could  give  us  no  other 
lights  into  this  matter  than  what  we  have  already  sent  to  Mr. 
Pulteney.  As  we  have  not  in  our  Office  any  maps  of  this 
country  that  may  be  entirely  depended  on,  we  sent  to  the  Lords 
of  the  Admiralty  to  know,  if  they  could  furnish  us  with  any, 
but  received  for  answer  that  they  had  none,  nor  was  Cap. 
Smart,  who  seized  the  French  ships  there  yet  returned,  whose 
information  might  have  been  of  great  service  upon  this  occasion. 
This  gives  us  an  opportunity  of  laying  before  your  Excellys.  what 
we  have  formerly  represented,  the  necessity  of  sending  an  able 
person  from  hence  to  take  a  survey,  and  make  exact  maps  of  all 
the  several  Colonies  from  North  to  South,  which  the  French 
have  done  for  themselves,  from  whence  they  reap  great  advan- 
tages whilst  we  continue  in  the  dark.  As  Mr.  Capon  has  lived 
many  years  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  been  many  times  upon  the  Cape 
and  Islands  of  Cango,  we  submit  it  to  your  Excellys.  whether 
it  may  not  be  proper  to  send  him  over  to  Paris  to  Mr.  Pulteney, 
while  this  dispute  lasts,  that  he  may  be  ready  to  give  the 
necessary  informations  upon  this  subject  to  H.M.  Ambassador 
and  Commissary  there.     [CO.  218,  1.     pp.  474-476.] 

Sept.  15.  232.  Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Whitehall.  The  Lords  Justices  send  you  the  enclosed  Memorial  from  the 
Archbishop  of  Cambray,  etc.,  that  if  your  Lordps.  have  any- 
thmg  to  offer,  in  answer  to  the  allegations  in  it,  you  may  send 
it  to  Sir  Robert  Sutton  and  Mr.  Pulteney,  for  the  better  enabling 
them  to  make  a  reply.  They  also  send,  for  your  consideration, 
the  enclosed  papers  offered  by  Colo.  Nicholson  appointed 
Govr.  of  Carolina,  desiring  your  opinion  what  is  necessary  to 
be  done  in  the  sevl.  particulars  he  mentions,  and  that  you  may 
report  the  same  as  soon  as  possible,  in  regard  that  no  time  should 
be  lost  in  dispatching  him  to  his  Government.  Signed,  Ch. 
Delafaye.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  16th  Sept.  1720.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

232.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Sir  Robert  Sutton  to  Mr. 
Secretary  Craggs.  Paris,  Sept.  21st  (M.S.],  1720. 
Encloses  following  .  Continues  :  We  shall  defer  making 
a  reply,  till  we  receive  further  instructions  from  you 
etc.  I  p. 
232.  ii.  Reply  of  the  Archbishop  of  Cambrai  to  the  Memorial 
of  Sir  R.  Sutton,  Aug.  23,  (N.S.),  1720.  Paris,  Sept. 
12th.  (N.S.)  1720.  Refers  to  Sir  R.  Sutton's  Memorial. 
Continues :  His  Royal  Highness  has  caused  to  be 
explained  to  Sir  R.  Sutton  and  Mr.  Pulteney  the 
reasons  for  the  claim  that  the  islands  of  Can9eau  are 
no  part  of  Nova  Scotia,  from  which  they  are  separated 
by  a  broad  and  deep  arm  of  the  sea,  which  is  the  same 
as  that  which  separates  the  Peninsula,  where  Nova 
Scotia  is,  from  the  Island  of  Cape  Breton,  and  that 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  143 

1720.  ~ 

not  only  have  they  not  been  ceded  to  Great  Britain, 
but  they  have  been  reserved  to  France  by  Article  13 
of  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  with  all  the  other  islands 
situated  in  the  mouth  and  in  the  gulph  of  St.  Lawrence. 
These  reasons  appear  so  evident  and  so  decisive,  that 
H.R.H.  hopes  that  when  they  are  reported  to  the  King 
of  Great  Britain,  he  will  fully  recognise  their  justice, 
and  give  orders  to  prevent  the  subjects  of  the  King 
of  Isle  Royale  being  disturbed  in  their  fishing  about 
the  Islands  of  Canceau,  or  in  the  stay  they  make 
there  to  cure  their  fish.  With  regard  to  the  limits 
prescribed  for  fishing  on  the  coast  to  the  S.E.  of  Nova 
Scotia,  H.R.H.  has  had  it  explained  to  Sir  R.  Sutton 
and  Mr.  Pulteney  that  he  would  issue  instructions 
in  conformity  with  the  12th  Article  of  the  Treaty  of 
Utrecht,  to  restrain  under  severe  penalties  the  subjects 
of  the  King  from  fishing  within  the  space  of  30  leagues 
from  all  the  S.E.  coast  of  Nova  Scotia,  beginning  from 
Sable  Island  inclusively,  and  running  S.W.  Copy. 
French.  2|  pp. 
232.  iii.  Governor  Nicholson  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  Encloses 
following  for  the  Lords  Justices'  directions  thereupon 
etc.  The  account  of  the  necessarys  and  Indian  trade 
and  presents  etc.  I  had  from  Collo.  Barnwell  and  I 
hope  he  may  be  despatched  to  goe  with  us  etc.  Signed, 
Fr.  Nicholson.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  16th  Sept., 
1720.  1  p.  Enclosed, 
232.  iv.  Comments   and   queries   upon   following   proposals. 

No  signature  or  date.     3  pp. 
232.  V.  Col.    Barnwell    to    ['iGovernor    Nicholson].     Encloses 
following,     etc.     Signed,     Jno.     Barnwell.     Tracts     of 
land  should  be  secured  to  the  garrisons  etc.      Sept.  8, 
1720.     f  p. 
232.  vi.  Proposed  Instructions  for  the   Commander  of  the 
Independent  Company  designed  to  erect  a  garrison 
at  the  mouth  of  the  River  St.   George  alias  Alata- 
maha.     f  p. 
232.  vii.  A  list  of  presents  proposed  for  Governor  Nicholson 
to  carry  to  the  Indians    etc.      Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson, 
Joseph  Boone,  Jno.  Barnwell,     f  p. 
232.  viii.  Invoice  of  a  cargo  of  Indian  trading  goods  of  about 

£1000  sterl.  value.  1  p. 
232.  ix.  An  account  of  the  necessaries  to  be  provided  for  the 
use  of  the  100  men  now  bound  for  S.  Carolina.  10th 
Sept.  1720.  Signed,  Jno.  Barnwell.  1  p. 
232.  X.  Memorandum  (?  By  Governor  Nicholson).  Proposes 
that  the  Governor  of  Carolina  should  meet  the  Governor 
of  Virginia  on  his  way  thither  and  settle  the  questions 
of  the  Indian  trade  and  the  securing  of  the  frontiers 


144  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

etc.,  and  also  the  Governor  of  Providence,  in  order 
to  arranging  for  mutual  support  etc.  The  Governor 
of  Virginia  to  be  instructed  to  recommend  to  the 
Assembly  not  to  dispose  of  the  sum  (£10,000)  they 
have  in  bank  until  H.M.  pleasure  be  further  known. 
One  chief  reason  for  the  late  differences  between  the 
Governor  and  Assembly  {of  Virginia)  is  supposed  to 
have  been  the  manner  of  disposing  off  the  said  money, 
the  Governor  seeming  to  expect  about  half  that  money 
the  sum  of  the  miles  travelled  being  drawn  out  to  about 
5000  etc.  Without  such  order,  the  money  may  not 
be  used  for  defence  of  the  frontiers  etc.     If  pp. 

232.  xi.  Memorandum  [?  by  Governor  Nicholson].  Proposes 
that  when  forts  shall  be  built  either  in  Nova  Scotia, 
Virginia,  Carolina  or  the  Bahama  Islands,  the  land 
adjacent  thereto  be  appropriated  for  the  use  of  the 
Garrison  etc.     1  p. 

232.  xii.  Memorandum  [?  by  Governor  Nicholson].  Proposals 
for  orders  as  to  building  the  forts,  etc.,  Indian  trade  and 
presents  for  Indians.  The  latter  to  include  prints 
of  His  Majesty  and  the  Royal  Family,  and  some  new 
guineas  etc.  for  the  chiefs  to  wear  on  red  ribbons.  The 
King's  picture  at  length  and  H.M.  Arms  large  for 
publick  buildings  with  plate  and  other  furniture  for 
H.M.  chapel  etc.  A  chaplain  to  be  appointed,  etc. 
A  frigate  of  the  same  rate  as  that  attending  Virginia 
to  be  ordered.     A  commission  for  trying  pirates.     1  p. 

232.  xiii.  An  account  of  stores  of  war  sent  to  Carolina.  |  p. 
The  whole  endorsed.  Reed,  with  Mr.  Delafaye's  letter 
etc.,  Read  Sept.  16th,  1720.  [CO.  217,  3.^  Nos.  9, 
9.  i.,  ii.  {covering  letter  and  enclosures  i.,  ii.  only)  ; 
and  {without  enclosures)  218,  i.  pp.  476,  477 ;  and 
{enclosures  iii.-xiii.  only)  5,  358.  ff.  25,  26-27,  28,  29, 
30,  31,  32,  3.3-34,  35,  39,  41^;.] 

Sept.  20.       233.     Order    of    Lords     Justices     in     Council.     Approving 

Whitehall.    Instructions    {v.    11th    Aug.),    which    are    to    be    signed    and 

transmitted   to   the    several    Go^^ernors    etc.     Signed,    Edward 

Southwell.     Endorsed,     Reed.     Read     11th     Jan.,     17|'/.     ^p. 

[CO.  323,  8.     No.  18.] 

Sept.  20.       234.     Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.     A  warrant  for 

Whitehall,    passing  a  Commission  for  trying  pirates  in  South  Carolina  is 

to    be    prepared    etc.     Signed,    Edward    Southwell.     Endorsed, 

Reed.,  Read    11th   Jan.,    172y.     f  p.     [CO.    5,    358.    ff.    63, 

64i;.] 

Sept.  20.       235.     Order    of    Lords    Justices    in    Council.     Approving 
Whitehall,    drafts  of  Commissions  and  Instructions  for  the  Governor  of  S, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  145 


1720. 

Carolina,  with  amendments  proposed  by  Attorney  and  Solicitor 
General.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.  1|  pp.  [CO.  5, 
358.    ff.  65,  66v.] 

Sept.  20.       236.     Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.     Nev/  Seal  for  S. 
Whitehall.    Carolina    to    be     prepared.      Set    out,    A.P.C.    II.     p.    779. 

Signed    and    endorsed    as    preceding.     1|  pp.     [CO.    5,    358. 

//.  67-681;.] 

Sept.  23.       237.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 

Whitehall.  In  obcdiencc  to  your  Excells.'  commands  (15th  instant),  we 
have  considered  the  several  papers  therein  transmitted  etc. 
Continue  :  In  our  opinion  it  is  highly  necessary  no  time  should 
be  lost  in  erecting  the  fort  proposed,  wch.  according  to  the  best 
information  we  can  get  wou'd  be  much  better  placed  upon  the 
Continent  on  the  North  Banks  of  the  Alatamaha  River,  than  in 
the  Isld.  of  St.  Simon,  the  sd.  Isld.  lying  at  too  great  a  distance 
from  the  shore  to  command  the  entrance  of  the  sd.  River,  tho' 
it  may  likewise  be  very  necessary  whenever  H.M.  shall  think 
fit  to  send  a  larger  force  to  Carolina  to  take  possession  of  the 
sd.  Island  and  erect  a  fort  or  forts  in  proper  places  there  also. 
We  do  likewise  agree,  that  it  may  be  very  convenient  for  H.M. 
service  that  a  certain  extent  of  ground  adjoining  to  the  place 
where  the  new  Fort  shall  be  erected,  should  be  marked  out, 
and  set  apart  in  equal  lots  not  exceeding  half  an  acre  in  each 
lot  nor  100  acres  in  the  whole  to  build  a  town  upon  in  time  to 
come  in  case  this  settlement  should  prosper,  as  'tis  hop'd  it 
will.  And  further  that  a  reservation  should  likewise  be  made 
of  600  acres  circumjacent  to  the  sd.  projected  town  for  common 
of  pasturage  for  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  town  when  built. 
And  as  nothing  can  so  effectually  conduce  to  the  settlemt.  of 
this  frontier  as  the  giving  proper  encouragemt.  to  such  persons 
as  shall  be  disposed  to  inhabit  the  new  projected  town,  it  will 
be  further  necessary,  that  a  very  large  tract  of  land  should  be 
set  apart  to  be  granted  in  separate  parcels  not  exceeding  200 
acres  to  any  one  person,  who  shall  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  sd. 
town,  the  sd.  lands  to  be  held  of  H.M.  by  the  tenure  of  Castle 
Guard,  and  the  particular  services  to  be  perform'd  to  be  specify'd 
in  the  respective  grants.  But  we  are  of  opinion,  that  it  may 
be  very  difficult  if  not  impossible  to  execute  this  important 
design  without  the  assistance  of  a  small  frigate  to  remain  in 
the  River  as  a  guard  ship  till  ye  new  intended  fort  shall  be  in  a 
sufficient  posture  of  defence,  and  therefore  we  do  earnestly 
recommend  this  particular  to  your  Excellencies  consideration. 
But  if  H.M.  affairs  will  not  admit  of  the  sending  a  small  man  of 
war  expressly  on  this  service,  we  humbly  propose  that  the  Goyr. 
be  impower'd  and  have  directions  to  hire  a  sloop  or  brigantine 
for  this  purpose  upon  his  arrival  in  Carolina.  Amongst  the 
papers  referred  to  us,  there  is  one    entituled  An  account    of 

Wt.  7595  C.P.  32-10 


146  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

necessaries  for  100  men  now  bound  to  S.  Carolina,  which  we 
have  perused  ;  and  altho'  there  may  be  some  particulars  therein 
that  might  possibly  i)e  spared,  yet  considering  that  this  is 
calculated  for  the  making  of  a  new  settlement  and  recommended 
by  Col.  Barnwell  who  seems  to  be  a  very  intelligent  person  in 
these  matters,  so  far  as  the  sd.  necessaries  do  relate  to  the  sd. 
new  settlement  only,  exclusive  of  the  Articles  relating  to  Charles 
Town,  which  may  be  considered  on  another  occasion  ;  we 
conceive  it  may  be  for  H.M.  service  that  the  same  should  be 
forthwith  provided,  and  we  would  submit  to  your  Excellencies, 
wliether  orders  should  not  be  given  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance 
for  that  purpose.  But  we  presume  that  such  part  of  these 
stores  as  shall  be  deliver'd  to  the  men  for  their  own  wearing 
apparel  will  be  deducted  as  hath  been  usual  out  of  their  off 
reckonings.  We  have  likewise  considered  the  Instructions  for 
the  Commander  of  the  garrison  etc.  But  having  discoursed 
with  Col.  Nicholson  and  finding  that  he  designs  to  execute  this 
important  service  himself  in  person,  we  believe  the  method  of 
doing  it  may  be  left  to  his  direction  and  so  much  the  rather 
because  as  he  is  Govr.  in  chief  of  Carolina  he  will  have  full 
powers  in  any  part  of  that  Province  to  give  such  orders  as  he 
shall  think  may  most  conduce  to  H.M.  service  in  this  particular  ; 
and  when  the  sd.  Fort  shall  be  erected  he  will  leave  such  In- 
structions in  writing  with  the  Officer  commanding  in  chief 
there  in  his  absence  as  may  be  necessary  ;  But  we  shall  give 
Genl.  Nicholson  a  copy  of  the  sd.  paper  of  Instructions  which 
may  be  of  use  to  him  in  the  execution  of  this  design.  We 
presume  the  Board  of  Ordnance  have  already  your  Excells.' 
orders  for  providing  great  guns  with  carriages,  stores  and 
ammunition  of  all  kinds  necessary  for  the  making  of  this  Settle- 
ment. And  we  would  likewise  recommend  to  your  Excellencies 
to  give  orders  for  sending  an  able  Ingineer  upon  this  Expedition 
as  is  proposed  by  Genl.  Nicholson  together  with  a  proportion- 
able number  of  gunners  and  matrosses.  As  the  most  material 
informations  which  we  have  had  upon  this  subject  have  come 
from  Col.  Barnwell  who  has  long  been  an  inhabitant  of  Caro- 
lina where  he  has  passed  thro'  all  the  publick  Offices  except  that 
of  Governor.  And  in  as  much  as  the  sd.  Col.  Barnwell  at  the 
request  of  Genl.  Nicholson  is  willing  to  accompany  the  sd. 
General  upon  this  Expedition,  we  should  humbly  conceive  it 
might  be  for  H.M.  service  that  General  Nicholson  should  be 
directed  after  that  new  intended  Fort  shall  be  built  to  put  the 
same  together  with  ye  garrison  thereof  under  the  care  and 
government  of  the  sd.  Col.  Barnwell  whose  knowledge  of  the 
country  and  experience  in  matters  of  this  nature  will  highly 
conduce  to  the  promoting  a  settlement  on  this  frontier.  In  the 
mean  while  we  do  agree  with  Genl.  Nicholson,  that  it  may  be  very 
necessary  to  take  the  proper  measures  for  promoting  settling  ; 
and  inlarging  the  Indian  Trade,   and  that  the  Governors  of 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  147 


1720. 


Carolina  and  Virginia  should  be  instructed  to  conferr  upon  this 
subject,  and  to  settle  matters  upon  such  a  foot,  that  neither  of 
these  Colonies  should  have  reason  to  complain  of  the  other 
It  will  likewise  be  for  H.M.  service  that  the  Govr,  of  the  Bahama 
Islands  for  the  time  being  should  keep  a  constant  correspond- 
ence with  the  Govr.  of  Carolina,  that  thev  may  be  aiding  and 
assisting  to  each  other  as  occasion  may  require.  We  are  of 
opinion  that  it  may  be  necessary  upon  this  occasion  to  distribute 
some  presents  among  the  Indians  to  gain  their  friendship  to 
this  new  settlement,  and  if  your  Excellencies  shall  think  fit  to 
give  your  du-ections  to  the  Lords  of  the  Treasurv  for  that  purpose 
General  Nicholson  and  Col.  Barnwell  may  attend  their  Lordships 
with  a  list  of  particulars  presented  to  us  to  which  we  have  no 
objection.     [CO.  5,  400.     pp.  126-133.] 

Sept.  24.       238.     Mr.  Pulteney  to  Mr.  Popple.     Acknowledges  letter  and 
Oct.  5.      enclosures  of  12th.     Continues  :~I  had  allready  Mr.  Vaughan's 
Paris.        and  Mr.  Capon's  Memorial  which  makes  the  Islands  of  Canco 
to  be  a  parcel  of  rocks  joining  almost  to  the  Cape,  but  the  French 
you  will  find,  say  a  large  branch  of  the  sea  runs  betM-een  these 
Islands  and  the  Cape  ;    some  other  accounts  of  our  people  seem 
rather  to  agree  with  the  French  in  this  point,  and  as  the  Board 
have  not  given  their  opinion  in  this  matter,  I  think  it  best  for 
us  to  insist  in  general  that  these  Islands  are  not  in  the  mouth 
of  St.  Laurents  nor  in  the  Gulf  of  that  name,  and  consequently 
do  not  belong  to  the  French,  without  examining  very  nicely 
whether  they  are  more  or  less  distant  from  the  Continent  of 
Nova  Scotia  ;  because  if  we  should  go  upon  Mr.  Capon's  account, 
and  the  French  should  produce  better  or  more  plausible  proofs 
for  their  assertion,  than  we  can  for  ours,  this  would  give  them 
an  advantage  as  to  the  main  dispute,  besides  though  our  proofs 
were  never  so  clear  and  strong  they  would  not  be  convinced  by 
them.     I   observe   by  the   last   Representation   of  the   Board 
(15th  Sept.)  that  they  still  mention  only  in  general  the  fishery 
at  Canyo,  without  determining  whether  it  be  at  the  Cape,  or 
at  the  Islands  ;    this  makes  it  necessary  for  us  here  to  insist 
likewise  in  -general  against  the   fishery  even  at  the   Islands, 
though  our  arguments  would  be  much  stronger,  even  by  what 
the  French  have  acknowledged,  if  we  were  only  to  insist  against 
the  fishery  at  the  Cape.     P.S.— This  letter  comes  out  of  date, 
but  It  waited  to  go  by  a  messenger,  and  I  have  ye  oppertunity 
of  adding  ye  inclosed  arret.     Signed,  D.  Pulteney.      Endorsed 
Reed.    7th,     Read    11th    Oct.,    1720.     If  pp.      [C.O.    217,    3' 
No.  11  ;   and  218,  1.     pp.  482,  483.] 

Sept.  24.       239.     Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 

New  York,  tions.     Abstract.     Has  published  his  Commission  in  New  York 

and  New  Jersey.     The  party  which  always  opposed  Governor 

Hunter,  has  got  ahead  during  his  absence  and  been  preparing 


148  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1720. 

for  a  new  Assembly  quite  different  from  that  which  granted  him 
the  revenue.  It  has  therefore  been  thought  advisable  for  the 
old  Assembly  to  meet  immediately,  precedents  for  which  will 
be  sent  in  his  next  dispatches.  This  Assembly  will  be  more 
tractable  than  ever  in  order  to  be  continued.  Provision  will  be 
made  for  deficiencies  in  the  revenue,  which  will  amount  to  £3000 
this  country  money  (which  is  at  the  rate  of  eighteenpence  to  one 
shilling  sterling)  when  revenue  expires  in  June,  and  for  a  revenue 
thereafter.  Hopes  that  measures  may  be  taken  too  for  fortify- 
ing the  frontier  against  the  French  "  who  are  more  industrious 
than  ever  in  seducing  our  Indians  and  have  built  trading  houses 
in  then*  country  lately,  and  engaged  great  numbers  of  them  to 
live  in  the  French  country  near  Quebec.  If  the  Assembly  can 
be  brought  to  some  immediate  provision  for  this  service,  there 
may  be  forts  built  next  year,  and  other  m^easures  taken  to  stop 
these  designs  of  the  French  :  which  they  carry  on  with  great 
application."  A  sudden  remedy  from  home  is  needed  as  well 
as  utmost  diligence  here.  Asks  for  the  Board's  protection  and 
the  dispatch  of  the  usual  presents  to  the  Indians,  which  the  Lords 
Justices  du'ccted  the  Treasury  to  provide  ;  also  of  the  stores 
wanting  for  the  garrisons,  of  which  he  gave  an  account  to  the 
Lords  Justices  and  for  which  the  Board  of  Ordnance  prepared 
an  estiinate,  but  no  order  given  by  the  Lords  Justices  etc.  Has 
had  no  opportunity  of  informing  himself  as  to  the  state  of  affairs 
in  the  Jerseys.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Does.  V.  572.  Signed,  W. 
Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th  Nov.,  Read  1st  Dec,  1720. 
Holograph.  4  pp.  [CO.  5,  1052.  ff.  82-83i;.,  84i;.  ;  and 
{extract)/.  81  ;   and  5,  1092.     No.  114.] 

Sept.  24.  240.  Same  to  [?J/r.  Delafaye].  Repeats  substance  of  pre- 
XewYoi-k.  ceding  and  encloses  letter  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  and  copy  of 
preceding  etc.  Concludes :  Mr.  Bamfeild  will  make  propper 
application  in  my  name  for  despatch  in  those  things  I  have 
depending  before  the  Lords  Justices  etc.  Endorsed,  R.  26  pr. 
Board  of  Trade.     [CO.  5,  1092.     No.  13.] 

Sept.  27.  241 .  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Annapoiis  tious.  RefcTS  to  former  letters.  Continues  : — What  hath  hapned 
Royal.  since  at  Cansoe  and  the  dammage  done  there  to  the  fishery,  by 
way  of  reprisall  (as  the  savages  gives  out)  for  what  was  taken 
from  the  French  by  Capt.  Smart,  is  an  unhappy  confirmation 
that  I  have  not  been  mistaken.  For  nothing  is  so  evident,  as 
that  our  French  inhabitants,  and  the  neighbouring  French 
Governments  are  equally  secrett  enemys  to  the  Brittish  interest 
in  this  Province  and  consult  together  how  they  may  disturb 
and  obstruct  its  being  setled,  especially  at  this  juncture  they 
are  more  buisy  than  ornary  (seeing  their  hopes  of  this  countreys 
falling  into  their  hands  again  is  like  to  be  at  an  end)  and  that 
the  savages  are  the  tooles  in  their  hands,  with  which  they  work 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   ESJDIES.  liO 


1720. 


the  mischeifs  which  themselves  dare  not  appearc  in.  Refers  to 
enclosures.  The  fishermen  being  drove  off,  from  their  stages, 
into  their  boates,  by  the  savages,  who  surprised  them  in  the 
dead  of  the  night,  and  their  fish  and  merchandize  left  to  the 
pillage  of  the  French,  who  lay  ready  for  that  end,  they  had  a 
consultation  the  next  morning,  and  concluded  to  send  a  sloop 
to  Cape  Breton,  to  seek  for  redress  ;  but  not  finding  to  their 
satisfaction  :  they  sent  to  me,  by  one  Mr.  Henchaw  for  relief : 
whom  I  dispatch'd  with  arms,  amunition,  and  provisions,  and 
would  have  given  him  an  officer,  with  a  detachment  of  tlie 
garrison,  but  he  thought  there  would  be  no  occasion.  This 
person  brought  me  five  French  prisoners,  taken  in  severall 
shallops  loaden  with  the  English  fish,  and  merchandize.  Refers 
to  enclosures.  By  which  your  Lordshipps  will  see  how  farr  the 
Counsells  of  Cape  Breton,  may  have  been  concerned,  in  contrive- 
ing  and  abetting  this  mischeif.  I  also  sent  my  Major  on  board 
him  to  Cape  Breton  with  copys  of  those  examinations  to  demand 
restitution  of  the  fish  and  goods.  And  satisfaction  for  the  loss 
of  H.M.  subjects  :  three  haveing  been  kill'd  on  that  occasion. 
Refers  to  enclosures.  As  to  the  Indians  I  have  the  honour  to 
assure  your  Lordships,  and  everybody  here  will  bear  me  witness, 
that  I  have  taken  particular  care,  to  treat  them  in  the  civillest 
manner,  that  ever  any  Governor  yet  has  done  ;  there  has  scarce 
past  a  week,  since  I  am  here  but  some  of  them  have  been  with 
me  whom  I  never  failed  to  assure  of  H.M.  good  will  and  pro- 
tection and  required  them  to  acquaint  all  their  Nation  there- 
with, and  that  I  expected  considerable  presents  for  them  from 
the  King,  in  token  of  his  affection.  At  the  same  time  I  never 
dismist  them  without  presents  (which  they  alwayes  expected) 
for  which  I  am  out  of  pocket  above  £150.  But  I  am  convinc'd 
that  a  hundred  thousa,nd  will  not  buy  them,  from  the  French 
interest  while  the  priests  are  among  them  who  haveing  gott 
in  with  them,  by  the  way  of  Religion,  and  brought  them  to 
regular  confessions  twice  a  year  :  they  assemble  punctually 
at  those  times  and  receive  their  absolution  conditionally  that 
they  be  alwayes  enemys  to  the  English.  I  had  the  honour  to 
acquaint  you  that  I  had  by  the  advice  of  Council  sent  express 
for  the  Chiefs  of  those  who  are  called  the  St.  John  River  Indians, 
and  are  represented  to  be  the  most  considerable.  They  came 
according  to  the  invitation  I  sent  them.  Refers  to  enclosure. 
In  my  humble  opinion  the  man  of  warr  upon  the  station  of 
New  England,  should  have  attended  the  fishery  at  Cansoe  in 
the  season  according  to  the  orders  that  were  sent  upon  my 
application  when  at  London,  but  why  she  has  layn  all  this 
summer  in  Boston  harbour,  I  can't  guess  unless  she  has  waited 
for  the  rcliefe  that  is  said  to  be  comeing.  It  is  certain  that  had 
she  been  at  Cansoe,  that  loss  had  not  hapned  to  H.M.  subjects. 
Some  of  the  Indian  robbers,  who  return'd  from  Cansoe  to  Minas, 
to  the  number  of  eleven  finding  a  New  England  tradeing  sloop 


150  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

there  belonging  to  Mr.  John  Alden,  and  being  flushed  with 
there  former  success,  and  aplaudcd  by  the  priests,  they  phinder'd 
her  also  at  the  very  door  of  the  inhabitants  who  look'd  on, 
without  restraining  those  wretches,  under  the  sham  pretence 
of  being  afraid  of  provokeing  them.  I  have  wrote  to  them  to 
demand  a  better  reason  of  such  their  behaviour,  which  is  all  I 
can  do  in  my  present  circumstances,  but  hope  it  will  not  be  long 
thus.  This  being  the  last  oppertunity  (probably)  this  season 
that  I  may  have  the  honour  of  writeing  to  your  Lordshipps, 
do  therefore  think  it  my  duty  (with  submission)  to  tell  you 
plainely  that  I  find  this  countrey  in  no  likelyhood  of  being  setled 
under  the  King's  obedience  upon  the  footing  it  is,  and  therefore 
it  is  necessary  that  the  Government  at  home  exert  itself  a  little 
and  be  at  some  extraordinary  expence,  for  this  has  been  hitherto 
no  more  than  a  mock  Government.  Its  authority  haveing 
never  yet  extended  beyond  cannon  reach  of  this  Fort.  I  was 
in  hopes  (and  signifyed  as  much  in  the  last  letters  I  had  the 
honour  to  write  to  your  Lordshipps)  the  addition  of  100  men 
more,  with  what  I  could  draw  from  the  Garrison  of  Placentia 
might  suffice  for  this  work,  but  am  now  convinc'd  it  will  require 
a  greater  number.  And  because  I  might  not  be  thought  to 
impose  my  own  opinion  in  a  matter  of  such  consequence. 
I  have  called  a  Council  of  the  Cheife  Officers  (some  of  which  are 
of  the  Kings  CouneU)  to  consider  of  and  propose  the  most 
reasonable  and  least  expensive  scheme  for  establishing  the 
Kings  authority  in  such  manner  and  in  such  parts  of  this 
Province  as  may  render  it  communicative  over  the  whole. 
Refers  to  enclosure.  I  heartily  wish  that  this  expence  was  not 
absolutely  necessary ;  but  as  the  case  stands  it  would  be 
more  for  the  honour  of  the  Crowne  and  proffit  also,  to  give  back 
the  country  to  the  French,  than  be  contented  with  the  name 
only  of  Goverment,  and  the  charge  that  attends  it,  whilst  they 
beare  the  rule  and  make  it  subservient  to  the  support  of  their 
settlement  at  Cape  Breton,  which  could  ill  subsist  without  the 
graine  and  the  cattle  they  fetch  from  Manis.  The  inhabitants 
seem  determined  not  to  sware  allegiance,  and  at  the  same  time 
I  observe  them  to  be  goeing  on  with  their  tillage  and  building 
as  if  they  had  no  thoughts  of  leaveing  their  habitations.  It  is 
likely  they  flatter  themselves  that  the  Kings  affaires  here  will 
alwayes  continue  in  the  same  feeble  state.  I  am  certain  nothing 
but  a  demonstration  will  convince  them  to  the  contrary.  The 
number  of  those  people  and  how  scituated,  with  a  description  of 
their  particular  settlements  and  countrey  in  general  is  herewith 
presented  to  your  Lordshipps,  being  the  most  exact  and  perfect 
account  that  has  yet  been  given  of  this  Province.  Refers  to 
enclosed  reply  from  the  Governor  of  Canada,  and  Minutes  of 
Council.  I  am  certain  there  is  not  a  paper  of  any  consequence 
transacted  by  me,  which  I  have  not  done  myself  the  honour 
of  laying  before  your  Lordshipps.     If  anything  be  found  amiss. 


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1720. 


I  must  own  it  is  from  want  of  judgment ;  for  I  do  my  best  for 
H.M.  service,  and  therefore  am  not  without  hopes  of  pardon. 
The  method  by  which  the  French  have  made  all  their  settlements 
in  America,  has  been  the  undertakings  of  particular  Societys  or 
Companys,  whereby  the  Crowne  has  been  at  little  more  expense 
then  fortifications  and  a  few  troops  to  garrison  them,  with  the 
charge  of  Governors,  Intendants  and  other  necessary  Officers. 
The  Isle  of  St.  Johns  scituated  in  the  river  of  St.  Lawrence  and 
opposite  to  our  french  settlements  of  Chignecto  and  within 
three  leagues  of  the  Continent  is  now  setling  in  the  same  manner  ; 
by  which  the  English  Colonies  will  be  environed  from  Misisippi 
to  Cape  Breton.  If  therefore  such  undertakeings  were  sett  on 
foot  at  home,  I  am  certain  the  Adventurers  would  soon  find 
their  accots.  to  answer  abundantly  beyond  any  of  the  French 
projections  ;  the  one  being  a  demonstrable  prospect  of  very 
great  advantage,  the  other  but  chimeracal  etc.  I  shall  waite 
H.M.  commands,  for  my  further  conduct  etc.  P.S.  Sept.  27th. 
Before  I  could  dispatch  my  letter  the  answer  from  the  in- 
habitants of  Manis  is  come  to  my  hands  etc.  v.  enclosure.  Your 
Lordshipps  may  please  to  observe  by  this  deportmt.  of  the 
Deputies  excuseing  their  appearance,  a  confirmation  of  the 
little  regard  they  pay  to  any  orders  of  the  Goverment,  and 
how  the  Indians  (whom  they  have  sett  on  worke)  are  made  the 
skreene  for  all  their  actions.  The  Jesuitical  frame  of  the  letter 
plainly  discovers  it  to  be  of  the  priests  composure  ;  there  not 
being  one  inhabitant  in  the  country  capable  of  such  a  per- 
formance. What  is  therein  mentioned  of  Mr.  Broadstreet  is 
literally  thus.  This  gentleman  was  sent  with  a  deputation 
from  the  Collector  (and  with  my  approbation)  to  reside  at  Manis, 
as  a  preventing  officer,  to  observe  the  trade,  and  correspondance 
those  people  carry  on  with  Cape  Breton,  and  to  give  an  accompt 
thereof,  from  time  to  time.  This  office  not  suiting  with  their 
interest,  they  told  him  that  he  could  not  be  protected  there, 
and  therefore  it  was  necessary  for  his  safety  to  return,  upon  which 
he  desired  them  to  furnish  him  with  a  guide  to  direct  him  the 
safest  way  back  thro'  the  woods,  which  not  being  able  to  obtaine, 
he  ventur'd  alone,  but  first  wrote  the  enclosed  letter  to  the 
Deputy  he  had  apply'd  to  for  the  guide.  This  is  their  method 
of  excuseing  their  behavior  by  turning  it  into  a  grievance  on 
their  side.  Your  Lordspps.  will  please  to  observe  likewise 
that  they  pass  over  that  part  of  my  letter,  wherein  I  reminded 
them  of  the  testimony  of  my  good  will  towards  them  in  pre- 
sumeing  contrary  to  my  Orders,  to  prolong  the  time  for  their 
evacuation,  which  they  do  not  think  fitt  to  acknowledge  ; 
since  they  have  prevailed  with  the  Indians  to  sett  up  their 
native  right  and  title  to  the  eountrey,  as  you  will  see  by  their 
answers  or  rather  the  priest  for  them.  These  are  the  effects 
the  Proclamation  has  produced,  and  their  grounds  for  laying 
the  blame,  and  makeing  me  the  cause  of  this  trouble,  because 


152  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

the  honour  of  publishmg  those  H.M.  Orders  has  fallen  to  my 
lot,  for  they  will  not  be  perswaded  but  that  I  have  done  it  of 
my  own  head.  'Tis  what  they  should  have  been  told  eight 
yeares  sooner.  But  it  is  not  yett  too  late.  And  I  hope  this 
will  serve  as  a  lueky  occasion  to  hasten  the  securcing  the 
countrey  under  the  King's  Dominion,  which  is  a  worke  that 
must  be  done  first  or  last,  and  the  longer  it  is  delay'd  the  more 
difficult  it  will  be.  Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Copy  sent  by  way  of 
Boston.  Signed,  Ar.  Savage,  Secy.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd, 
Read  1  ith  Feb.,  11  V{.     18  pp.     Enclosed, 

24-1.  i.  Memorial  of  John  Henshaw,  William  Taylor  and 
Richard  Pieke  of  Cansoe,  in  behalf  of  the  rest  of  the 
inhabitants,  to  Governor  Philipps.  On  8th  Aug. 
1720  we  were  surprised  in  the  night  by  the  French  and 
Indians,  who  stript  and  robb'd  us  of  all  to  the  value 
of  £18,000.  They  fired  several  small  arms  upon  us 
and  killed  two  of  us,  as  we  were  getting  of  in  our  boats 
and  drove  several  of  us  into  the  sea  so  that  one  of  us 
were  drown'd  in  hast  of  getting  off.  At  two  a  clock 
in  the  afternoon  Mr.  John  Henshaw,  Wm.  Taylor, 
Jethro  Furber  and  Nathl.  Shannon  sailed  in  a  small 
vessell  to  Louisbourg  and  presented  our  grievances 
to  the  Governor.  He  made  light  of  it  and  answer'd 
if  any  french  men  were  taken  in  the  fact  they  should 
make  satisfaction,  but  as  for  the  Indians  he  had  noth- 
ing to  do  with  them.  Thomas  Richards,  master  of 
a  ship  rideing  in  the  harbour  of  Cansoe,  fitted  out  two 
small  vessells  in  pursuit  of  those  robbers,  and  took 
six  challops  with  part  of  the  plunder  on  board,  vizt. 
European  goods  and  fish,  which  they  brought  into 
sd.  harbour  ;  with  15  frenchmen  on  board,  well.  sd. 
frenchmen  had  taken  off  from  sd.  place  in  their  boates. 
At  our  arrival  at  sd.  harbour  with  the  shallops  afore- 
said, some  of  our  men  had  taken  two  of  the  Indians 
robbers,  prisioners,  which  sd.  Indians  confessed  they 
were  incouraged  and  had  orders  to  robb  us  from  the 
Governor  of  Cape  Britton.  Pray  H.E.  to  supply 
them  with  men,  arms  and  ammunition  to  enable  them 
to  defend  the  rights  of  the  Crowne  of  England  etc. 
Signed,  John  Henshaw,  William  Taylor,  Richard 
Pieke.  Read  in  Council,  29th  Aug.  1720.  Copy. 
2\  pp. 
241.  ii.  English  merchants  and  residents  at  Port  Canso  to 
Governor  St.  Ovide  de  Bruillan.  Louisbourg,  Aug. 
10,  1720.  Complain  of  attack  by  sundry  French 
and  Indians,  inhabitants  of  Cape  Britton.  Continue  : 
On  8th  Aug.,  about  one  or  two  in  the  morning,  we 
were  attackt  by  a  body  of  Indians  joyned  with  some 
french  about  50  or  60,  who  did  take  us  out  of  our  beds 


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1720. 


and  carry  us  prisoners  from  house  to  house,  until 
they  had  made  themselves  masters  of  the  place, 
then  confmeing  us  in  sundry  houses,  pillaged  our  goods, 
weareing  apparell,  bedding  and  things  of  value  they 
took  out  of  our  pockets,  and  carryed  away  the  same 
in  canoes,  shallops  etc.,  makeing  the  Island  of  Capt. 
Richards  there  place  of  randevous  at  their  with- 
drawing where  they  began  there  onsett  and  had  about 
16  of  his  men  prisoners.  By  this  time  our  fishing 
vessells  haveing  assembled  themselves  together,  they 
manned  one  of  them,  to  save  Capt.  Richards'  ship 
which  we  feared  they  would  burn  and  likewise  to 
drive  them  from  the  said  Island.  At  the  approach  of 
the  said  vessel,  they  began  to  discharge  their  firelocks 
upon  the  English,  whereupon  we  return'd  the  same 
specie,  but  when  we  found  nothing  could  be  done  by 
fireing  we  ceased,  and  the  vessel  came  to  sail  in  order 
to  leave  them,  but  they  continued  their  fire,  killed 
one  of  our  men  ;  some  time  after  they  put  up  a  flagg 
of  truce,  when  we  had  a  parly  etc.  We  notifye  your 
Excellency  as  soon  as  possible,  they  having  professed 
themselves  (to  us)  to  be  subjects  of  France.  The 
names  of  the  greater  part  we  shall  furnish  your  Ex- 
cellency withall  :  some  are,  Renold  Le  Boue  a  french- 
man, Estienne  an  Indian  partly  french,  his  son  and 
son-in-law  etc.  Pray  for  H.E.'s  speedy  answer  and 
punishment  of  the  guilty  etc.  Signed,  John  Furber, 
John  Henshaw,  William  Taylor,  Nathl.  Shannon, 
in  behalf  of  the  rest.  Co2Jy.  3|  pp. 
241.  iii.,  iv.  Depositions  of  French  prisoners  captured  at 
Canso,  taken  before  the  Governor  and  Council  of 
Nova  Scotia,  Annapohs  Royal,  29th  Aug.,  1720.  In 
robbing  the  English  at  Canso,  they  did  as  their  captains 
commanded  them.  The  captains  of  their  ships, 
Phihsbert  d'Habilene  and  Massy,  supplied  the  savages 
with  guns  and  ammunition  to  attack  the  English, 
and  received  from  them  in  return  fish  taken  from  the 
English  etc.  Copy.  French.  6^  pp. 
241.  V.  Deposition  of  Fran9ois  Pitrelle,  French  prisoner 
captured  at  Canso.  Taken  as  preceding.  Deponent 
was  engaged  in  the  cod  fishery  about  Canso  and  Isle 
Madame  etc.  For  3  months  past  there  had  been  a 
rumour  that  the  savages  were  to  attack  the  English 
of  Canso  and  avenge  the  wrong  the  French  had  suffered 
from  Capt.  Smart.  Those  who  had  lost  through  that 
seizure,  counted  on  reimbursing  themselves  by  the 
attack  of  the  savages.  M.  Renaud  made  a  voyage  to 
Artigonesh  in  order  to  incite  the  savages  to  this  act, 
and  to  take  them  powder  and  ball  for  that  end,  as 


154  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1720. 

deponent  heard  Renaud  say  himself  etc.  Confirms 
preceding.  Deponent's  master,  Jean  Harenbourgh  and 
Capt.  Massy  said  several  times  that  there  was  nothing 
to  fear  for  carrying  off  and  plundering  the  English 
fish,  and  spoke  in  sueh  a  way  as  to  make  it  appear 
that  they  had  authority  for  what  they  did.  French. 
Copy.     2 1  pp. 

241.  vi  Deposition  of  Prudent  Robicheau,  French  inhabitant 
of  Annapolis  Royal.  24th  Aug.  1720.  Confirms 
first  part  of  preceding.  The  Indians  who  had  robbed 
the  English  made  presents  out  of  their  plunder 
to  Father  Vincent,  Priest  of  Chignecto,  on  board  a 
shallop  from  St.  Peters,  who  publickly  approved  of 
what  they  had  done  to  the  English.  The  Indians  said 
in  a  short  time  they  intended  to  make  a  visit  to 
Annapolis  Royall,  etc.  Signed,  Prudent  Robicheau, 
his  mark.     Copy.     3  pp. 

241.  vii.  Deposition  of  Michael  Richards,  French  inhabitant 
of  Annapolis  Royal,  24th  Aug.  1720.  Confirms  pre- 
ceding. At  St.  Peter's  deponent  saw  Lassonde  a 
frenchman  there  who  was  pilot  on  board  a  sloop  from 
New  England  loaden  with  cattle  and  sheep,  bound 
from  thence  to  Louisbourg  for  sale  etc.  Signed^ 
Michael  Richards,  his  mark.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd, 
Read  14th  Feb.  171 V-     Copy.  3  pp. 

241.  viii.  Governor  Philipps' Instructions  for  Major  Lawrence 
Armstrong,  first  of  the  Council.  You  are  to  goe 
directly  to  Cansoe,  to  informe  yourself  of  the  posture 
of  affah'cs  there  etc.,  and  give  sueh  direction  therein 
as  you  shall  judg  most  for  H.M.  service  and  security 
of  his  subjects  there.  You  are  afterwards  to  proceed 
to  Cape  Breton,  deliver  my  papers  to  the  Governor 
and  represent  to  him  the  abuses  they  have  received 
from  the  French  etc.,  to  demand  full  restitution,  and 
that  the  Governor  do  arrest  the  persons  with  their 
ships  and  effects  who  are  mentioned  in  the  depositions 
to  have  been  principal  actors  in  the  robbery,  untill 
the  pleasure  of  both  Crownes  be  knowne  as  to  what 
satisfaction  shall  be  made  for  the  loss  of  the  King's 
subjects  who  have  been  kill'd  on  this  occasion,  etc. 
Annapolis  Royal,  Aug.  29th,  1720.  Signed,  R. 
Philipps.     Copy.     2^  pp. 

241.  ix.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Governor  of  Cape  Breton, 
Annapolis  Royal,  29th  Aug.,  1720.  I  have  received 
your  letter  etc.  Refers  to  his  reply  to  Capt.  Henshaw, 
No.  1  supra.  Encloses  depositions  of  freneh  prisoners, 
supra,  showing  that  the  Freneh  were  the  promoters 
of  the  attack  upon  Cansoe.  All  the  savages  who  took 
part  in  it,  save  four,  came  from  Cape  Breton,  where 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  155 

1 720 . 

the  affair  had  been  spoken  of  for  3  months.     I  cannot 
beheve  the  evidence  of  two  savage  prisoners,  that  it 
was  M.   de  St.   Ovide  who  caused  them  to  act  etc. 
Demands  full  satisfaction  etc.  as  jjreceding.     I  am  not 
altogether  ignorant  of  the  extraordinary  movements 
of  the  priests  this  summer  between  this  Government 
and  yours,  particularly  Fathers  Vincent  and  Justinien, 
which  is  of  no  little  weight  as  confirmation  that  this 
evil  design  was  then  afoot.     Same  endorsement.  French. 
Copy.     3  jjjy. 
241.  X.    Conference  of  Governor  Philipps  with  the  Indians 
of  St.  John's  River.     Speech  of  the  Indians  : —    We 
obey  your  summons  and  are   delighted  to  see  you. 
Since  the  English  have  been  masters  of  this  country, 
the  Governors  and  merchants  thereof  have  failed  m 
their    written   obligation   to   supply   us   with   all   we 
needed  in  return  for  our  money.     W^e  have  therefore 
been  obliged  to  trade  with  others  or  starve.     Can  only 
answer  for  the  Indians  of  this  River  etc.      Pray  H.  E. 
to  treat  all  the  other  inhabitants  as  if  they  were  their 
brothers   etc.     Signed,   Francis   Sales,    his   mark,   and 
six  others.     Read  in  Council,  26th  July,  1720.     French. 
Copy.     If  pp. 
241.  xi.  Governor   Philipps'    Reply   to   the    Indians    of   St. 
John's  River.     Declares  H.M.  good  will,  and  his  desire 
to  live  in  peace  and  amity  with  them.     There  is  a 
firm    friendship    and    alliance    established    between 
England  and  France.     Regrets  that  they  have  been 
disappointed  as  preceding.     This  was  caused  by  the 
impossibility   of  furnishing   the   necessaries   they   re- 
quired.    Care  will  be  taken  to  supply  them  in  future 
at  a  reasonable  price.     Wishes  all  the  Indians  to  enjoy 
the  benefit  of  this  agreement  etc.     Continues :    I  will 
treat  you  as  a  father  his  children,  and  as  to  the  French 
inhabitants,  so  long  as  they  behave  faithfully  towards 
King  George  and  become  his  subjects,  they  will  enjoy 
their    own    religion    and    possessions    and    the    same 
privileges  as  H.M.  natural  subjects  etc.     But  if  they 
refuse    their    allegiance    to    the    King    and    continue 
by   theu'    false     and     odious     representations   of  the 
English,  to  alienate  the  affections  and  duty  of  good 
savages  from  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain,  "^the  King 
will  no  longer  allow  them  to  remain  etc.     If  you  hear 
of  any   evil   practices   or   conspiracies   against   H.M. 
subjects,  I  expect  you  to  warn  me,  and  I  shall  do  the 
same  by  you  etc.     Inform  your  neighbours  of  Passa- 
maquaddy  that  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  receive  two  or 
three  of  their  Chiefs  here  and  give  them  the  same 
assurances  etc.     I  am  sorry  to  ha^•e  no  better  presents 


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1 720 .  - 

for  you,  but  expect  the  King's  presents  by  the  next 
ship.  The  boat  is  ready  for  your  return  and  I  have 
ordered  provisions,  wine  and  brandy  to  be  put  on  board. 
AnnapoHs  Royal.  27th  July,  1720.  Signed,  R. 
Philipps.     Sa7ne  endorsement.     French.     Copy.    3f  pp. 

241.  xii.  Deposition  of  John  Alden,  Master  of  the  sloop  Two 
Brothers.  Annapolis  Royal.  14th  Sept.,  1720.  At 
Menis,  on  22nd  Aug.,  11  Indians  with  Peter  Nun- 
quadden  their  Chief,  demand  50  livers  of  him  for  liberty 
to  trade,  saying  this  countrey  was  theires,  and  every 
English  trader  should  pay  tribute,  to  which  payment 
Deponent  agreed  being  under  necessity.  A  few  days 
after  the  Chief  told  him  that  if  any  person  came  there 
with  any  orders  from  General  Philipps  he  would  make 
him  prissonner  and  distroy  what  he  had,  neither  should 
any  orders  of  that  Government  be  observed  there. 
On  27th  the  same  Indians  and  two  more  from  Cobequet 
came  on  board  in  a  hostile  manner  and  drove  him 
and  his  crew  on  shoare,  and  plundered  his  sloop's 
cargo  to  the  value  of  £260,  without  any  provocation. 
Signed,  Jno.  KXden.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.  l\pp. 

241.  xiii.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  four  Deputies  of  Les 
Mines.  Annapolis  Royal,  9th  Sept.,  1720.  Recounts 
his  acts  of  favour  and  goodwill  to  the  French  in- 
habitants and  expresses  surprise  at  the  robbing  of 
Alden's  sloop  preceding,  of  which  they  were  spectators 
and  which  they  could  easily  have  prevented  etc. 
Invites  them  to  give  a  better  reason  for  it  than  the 
ridiculous  pretence  of  fear  of  a  handful  of  savages. 
Orders  them  to  assemble  the  savages  that  are  amongst 
them,  to  demand  in  his  name  reasons  for  so  acting 
and  to  bring  their  reply  to  him  in  person  etc.  Signed, 
R.  Philipps.  Same  endorsement.  French.  Copy. 
2  pp. 

241.  xiv.  Indians  of  Les  Mines  to  Governor  Philipps.  Les 
Mines,  2nd  Oct.  {N.S.]  1720.  Reply  to  preceding. 
We  have  assembled  to  tell  you  that  this  land  which 
God  has  given  us  and  to  which  we  belong  cannot 
be  claimed  by  anyone  else.  We  observe  your 
threats  to  reduce  us  to  your  servitude,  which  you 
must  not  expect,  We  are  masters,  independent  of 
everyone,  and  desire  to  have  our  country  free  etc. 
If  we  wished  to  go  and  dwell  in  England,  what  would 
you  do  but  order  us  to  retire  ;  and  for  the  same 
reason  we  do  not  wish  the  English  to  inhabit  our 
country,  which  we  hold  only  from  God,  and  which 
we  will  dispute  with  any  men  who  wish  to  inhabit  it 
without  our  consent.  The  reason  why  we  have  taken 
those  of  your  nation  is,  that  you  have  taken  Canso  etc. 


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1720. 


Before  you  came  to  our  country,  all  was  at  peace  there, 
but  as  soon  as  you  came  there,  all  is  at  war  by  your 
threats  to  deprive  us  of  the  heritage  our  fathers  have 
left  us.  We  do  not  know  that  any  of  your  nation 
have  ever  had  any  part  with  us  to  suffer  them  to  be 
free  in  our  country,  as  you  desire.  Signed,  Antoine 
Coaurct,  (mark),  Piere  Couaret  (mark).  Same  endorse- 
ment.    French.     Copy.     2  pp. 

241.  XV.  French  inhabitants  of  Les  Mines  to  Governor 
Philipps.  Les  Mines,  3rd  Oct.  (A^.^".),  1720.  Eeply  to 
No.  xii  171  the  absence  of  the  deputies.  We  have  no  other 
explanation  to  give  than  that  we  sent  by  Mr.  Alden. 
We  have  taken  an  oath  that  we  had  no  share  in  the 
Indians'  attack  etc.  We  are  very  poor  and  cannot  afford 
the  expense  of  the  deputies'  journeys.  Besides,  the 
savages  threaten  to  kill  our  cattle,  and  will  not  allow  us 
to  go  to  Port  Royal.  Mr.  Bradestrick  (=  Broadstreet), 
when  he  came  here,  threatened  to  burn  down  our  houses, 
without  knowing  how  matters  stood.  Eleven  savages 
would  have  been  no  great  matter,  if  there  had  not  been 
others  to  fear,  but  they  come  daily,  and  we  do  not 
know  when  the  end  will  be  reached.  We  are  the 
trembling  spectators  of  an  assembly  which  may 
become  deadly  to  us  by  eating  our  beasts  etc.  To 
ask  us  to  oppose  them,  would  be  to  expose  us  to  their 
fury  and  loss  of  our  property  and  lives.  We  cannot 
remain  on  our  lands  if  we  are  to  be  held  responsible 
for  the  outrages  of  the  savages.  Enclose  preceding 
reply  by  the  savages,  dictated  by  themselves.  They 
absolutely  forbid,  under  great  menaces,  our  letter  or 
theirs  to  he  presented  to  you  by  any  one  of  us,  but  have 
ordered  the  bearer  of  them  to  deliver  them  to  one  of  the 
deputies  of  Port  Royal  and  to  return  immediately  etc. 
iSi^werf,  Les  Bourg  and  27  others.    French.   Copy.   ^pp. 

241.  xvi.  Governor  the  Marquis  de  Vaudreuil  to  Governor 
Philipps.  Montreal,  July  9th  (A^.^S*.),  1720.  I  have  just 
received  your  letter  of  3rd  June,  etc.  I  am  charmed 
that  you  open  a  correspondence  from  which  I  foresee 
that  I  can  only  derive  much  pleasure  etc.  I  have 
no  orders  to  appoint  boundary  Commissioners  at 
present,  doubtless  they  will  come  by  the  King's  ship 
which  will  only  arrive  at  Quebec  at  the  end  of  August, 
etc.  Nothing  will  be  done  in  the  mean  time  on  my 
part  to  disturb  the  union  of  our  royal  Masters.  I 
hope  that,  until  the  boundaries  are  fixed,  you  will  not 
allow  any  innovation  in  the  places  which  the  English 
did  not  occupy  at  the  time  the  Peace  was  made,  etc. 
Signed,  Vaudreuil.  Same  endorsement.  French. 
Copy.     2  pp. 


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1720. 

241.  xvii.  Representation  of  the  Governor  and  Council  of 
Nova  Scotia.  Annapolis  Royal,  27th  Sept.  1720. 
Repeat  following  with  slight  variations.  Add :  From 
Chignecto  the  trade  is  clandestinely  carried  to  Cape 
Breton  by  meanes  of  the  small  trajet  from  the  Bay  of 
Fundy  into  the  Gulph  of  St.  Lawrence.  The  French 
have  sent  this  summer  four  shipps,  two  of  which  are 
actually  arrived  at  Island  St.  John's,  not  above  6 
leagues  from  Chignecto,  where  they  intend  to  have 
a  very  considerable  fort  and  settlement,  and  by  means 
of  it  will  be  able  to  command  the  trade  as  well  as  the 
French  inhabitants  in  these  parts  etc.  Besides  a  ship 
of  warr  which  ought  to  countenance  these  several 
projects  two  sloops  of  about  50  tonus  each  are  necessary 
which  may  be  mann'd  out  of  the  garrisons,  and  serve 
as  guard  vessels  as  well  as  packetts  and  transports 
to  the  places,  which  do  not  admit  of  the  man  of  warr. 
Signed,  R.  Philipps,  John  Doucett,  P.  Mascarenc, 
Ar.  Savage,  J.  Adams,  Hibbert  Newton,  William  Skene, 
Wm.   Shirreff.     Same  endorsement.     5  pp. 

241,  xviii.  Representation  of  the  Governor  and  Officers  of 
the  Garrison  of  Annapolis  Royal.  (i)  The  French 
inhabitants  unanimously  refuse  to  sweare  allegiance 
to  the  Crowne  of  Great  Britain,  and  do  look  upon 
themselves  to  be  the  indispensable  subjects  of  France, 
by  an  obligation  under  their  hands  from  which  the 
priests  tell  them  they  cannot  be  absolved.  (ii)  Not- 
withstanding this,  they  do  not  seem  to  entertain  much 
thoughts  of  quitting  their  habitations  which  (we  have 
reason  to  beleive)  proceeds  from  a  contempt  of  this 
garrison,  and  confidence  in  their  owne  numbers, 
together  with  the  assistance  of  the  Indians,  w  ith  whom 
they  are  link'd  by  commerce,  long  acquaintance, 
consanguinity,  and  religion,  and  are  as  one  people, 
(iii)  Both  the  inhabitants  and  Indians  are  so  in- 
fluenced by  the  Government  of  Cape  Breton  and  the 
priests  resideing  among  them  that  whatsoever  tends 
to  favour  and  advance  the  British  intrest  in  this 
countrey,  does  alwayes  meet  with  obstructions  either 
private  or  publick,  for  which  last  the  Indians  are 
ever  ready  to  be  imploy'd,  witness  the  late  mischief 
at  Cansoe  and  Menis  etc  {No.  xii).  (iv)  Wee  are  very 
sensible  by  dayly  experience  that  these  people  dis- 
claime  all  reguard  and  obedience  to  the  Kings 
authority  and  that  the  orders  of  Goverment  are 
rejected  and  loose  their  force,  at  the  distance  of  gun 
shot  from  this  fort.  This  being  the  state  of  affaires, 
we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  a  sufficient  force  is 
absolutely  necesssary  to  be  sent  from  Great  Brittain  to 


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curb  the  insolence  of  the  present  inhabitants,  in  case 
they  be  permitted  to  remaine,  or  to  obhge  them  to  retire 
in  the  manner  prescribed  them,  and  at  the  same  time 
to  protect  such  of  H.M.  subjects,  as  shall  come  to  settle 
in  this  countrey,  against  the  insults  of  the  Indians, 
otherwise  we  see  no  likelyhood  of  its  being  setled,  and 
consequently  will  be   of  no  benefit  or  advantage  to 
Great    Britain.     The    number    of    troops    necessary 
ought  to  be  600  men,  besides  the    six    companys  of 
H.E.'s   Regiment  now  in  garrison  here  ;     (i)  200   to 
be  landed  at  Cansoe,  there  to  erect  a  fort  to  guard 
that    fishery,    the    garrison    of   which    when    built   to 
consist  of  100  men  ;    (ii)  400  to  be  order'd  directly  for 
this  place,  to  take  pilots,  with  an  Enginier,  to  proceed 
to  Menis,  there  also  to  build  another  fort,  in  a  proper 
scituation   to   command   the   place,    and   particularly 
the   ground,    called   the    Grand   Pre,  which   produces 
great  cropps  of  wheat,  and  other  graine,  and  is  the 
treasure   of  that   settlement,    which   w^hen   put   in   a 
posture  of  defence  should  be  garrison'd  with  no  less 
then    150    men.     (iii)  The   remainder   to    proceed    to 
Chignecto,    where    a   fort   is   necessary    to    stop    the 
clandestine  trade  carry'd  on  with  Cape  Britton,  and  to 
face  the  Isle  of  St.  John's  where  the  French  hare  this 
year  begun  and  intend  to  make  a  very  considerable 
settlement.     This  fort  to  be  garrison'd  with  150  men. 
(iv)  The  remaineing  100  men  with  the  100  to  be  drawn 
from   Cansoe   (when  that  fort   shall   be   built)   to   be 
disposed  off  on  some  part  of  the  Eastern  coast  (in  case 
it  shall  be  thought  fitt  to  remove  the  seat  of  Govern- 
ment  thither)   for   which.    Port   Rosway,    Lahave   or 
Morligashe  are  recommended  as  proper  places.     It   is 
also  our  humble  opinion  that  these  projections  be  putt 
in  execution  early  in  the  Spring  ;    and  that  the  troops 
arrive  here    in    Aprill   or    May  at  the  farthest  with 
provision  for  12  months,  and  stores  of  ordanance,  and 
tooles  to  raise  redoubts    etc    to    secure  the  garrisons 
against  winter  'till  such  time,  as  they  can  be  perfected, 
by  reason  that  the    shortness  of  our  summers  afford 
little  time  for  work  of  that  kind.    Some  small  peices  of 
cannon    will   be    likewise    necessary    for    these   forts. 
Signed,    R.    Philipps,    John    Doucett,    L.    Govr.,    P. 
Mascarenc,    Chris.    Aldridge,     Jos.     Bennett.      Same 
endorsement.     4  pp. 

241.  xix.  Copy  of  Mmutes  of  Council  of  Nova  Scotia,  25th 
April, — 5th  Sept.  1720.  Same  endorsement.  Copy. 
24  pp. 

241.  XX.  Description  of  Nova  Scotia  by  Major  Paul  Mas- 
carenc.   Describes  climate,  soil  and  resources.     "There 


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1720. 


are  four  considerable  settlements  on  the  South  side 
of  the  Bay  of  Fundy,  Annapolis  Royal,  Manis,  Chig- 
necto,  and  Cobcquid.  Several  families  are  scattered 
along  the  Eastern  coast.  The  inhabitants  of  these 
are  still  French  and  Indians."  Discusses  status  of 
former.  There  are  only  two  reasons  for  keeping  them, 
the  use  that  may  be  made  of  them  for  erecting  forti- 
fications, and  keeping  the  stock  of  cattle  and  .lands 
tilled  for  English  settlements,  and  the  addition  of 
their  strength  might  render  the  French  too  powerful 
neighbours.  They  would  destroy  their  saw-mills 
on  going.  The  free  exercise  of  their  religion,  as 
promised  to  them,  implies  their  having  Romish 
missionaries  amongst  them  etc.  Urges  that  they 
should  not  be  tolerated  in  their  non-allegiance  any 
longer  ;  a  force  of  600  men  is  needed  to  compel  them 
to  comply  with  the  terms  prescribed  to  them  etc. 
Situation  of  Annapolis  Royal  described.  Two  leagues 
above  Goat  Island  is  the  Fort ;  seated  on  a  riseing 
sandy  ground  on  the  south  side  of  the  river  on  a  point 
form'd  by  the  Brittish  river  and  another  small  one 
called  Jenny  river.  The  lower  town  lyes  along  the 
first  and  is  commanded  by  the  Fort.  The  upper 
towne  stretches  in  scattering  houses  a  mile  and  a  half ; 
S.E.  from  the  Fort  on  the  riseing  ground  betwixt  the 
two  rivers.  From  this  riseing  ground  to  the  banks 
of  each  river,  and  on  the  other  side  of  the  less  one, 
lyes  large  plots  of  meadow  which  formerly  were 
damned  in,  and  produced  good  grain  and  sweet  grass  ; 
but  the  dikes  being  broake  down,  are  overflow'd  at 
every  spring  tide.  From  Goat  Island  five  leagues 
above  the  Fort,  on  both  sides  of  the  Brittish  river, 
are  a  great  many  fine  farms  inhabited  by  about  200 
familyes.  The  river  is  not  navigable  above  two 
leagues  above  the  fort,  by  other  than  small  boates. 
The  banks  of  this  river  is  very  pleasant  and  fruitful 
etc.  The  chief  imployment  of  the  French  inhabitants 
now  is  farming,  and  the  time  they  have  to  spare  they 
employ  in  hunting,  and  ketching  of  sable  martins. 
Their  young  men  who  have  not  much  work  at  farming 
begett  themselves  to  fishing  in  the  summer.  The 
Fort  is  almost  a  regular  square  has  four  bastions,  and 
on  the  side  fronting  the  point,  which  is  formed  by  the 
junction  of  the  two  rivers,  it  has  a  ravelin  and  a  battery 
of  large  gunns,  on  the  counter-scarpe  of  the  ravelin  ; 
which  last  with  the  battery  have  been  entirely 
neglected,  since  the  English  had  possession,  and  are 
entirely  ruined.  The  works  are  raised  with  a  sandy 
earth,  and  were  faced  with  sodds,  which  being  cut  out 


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of  a  sandy  soil  (the  whole  neck  betwixt  the  two  rivers 
being  nothing  else)  soon  monlder'd  away.  The 
French  repaired  part  of  the  courtin  with  timber. 
The  English  revested  the  fort  all  round  with  pieces 
of  round  timber,  of  6  or  7  inches  diameter,  to  the  height 
of  the  cordon,  and  raised  a  parapet  of  sod  work  ; 
but  whither  by  neglect  of  the  workmen,  or  some  other 
reasons,  they  put  the  Government  to  a  prodigious 
deal  of  charge,  and  gave  an  entire  disgust  for  any 
manner  of  repaires.  Proposal  for-  repairing  it  next 
summer  so  as  to  be  capable  of  resistance  until  materials 
for  a  stone  redoubt  can  be  sent  etc.  Manis  (called  by 
the  French  Les  Mines)  has  its  name  from  the  copper 
mines  which  are  said  to  be  about  it  especially  at  one 
of  the  Capes,  which  divides  the  Bay  of  Fundy,  and  is 
called  Cap  des  Mines  or  Cape  Dore.  This  towne  Xyes 
30  leagues  by  sea  and  about  22  by  land,  E.N.E,  from 
Annapolis  Royal.  The  harbour  is  very  wild  and 
unsecure  etc.  This  place  might  be  made  the  granarie 
not  only  of  this  Province,  but  also  of  the  neighbouring 
Goverments.  There  is  a  platt  of  meadow,  which 
stretches  along  for  near  four  leagues  ;  part  of  which  is 
damn'd  in  from  ye  tide,  and  produces  very  good 
wheat  and  pease  etc.  The  houses  which  compose  a 
kind  of  scattering  town,  lyes  on  a  riseing  ground 
along  two  cricks,  which  runns  betwixt  it,  and  the 
meadow,  and  makes  of  this  last  a  kind  of  peninsula 
this  place  has  great  store  of  cattle,  and  other  con- 
veniencys  of  life,  and  in  the  road  they  catch  white 
porpasses,  a  kind  of  fish,  the  plubber  of  which  turnd 
into  oyl,  yeilds  a  good  proffit.  The  inhabitants  of 
this  place  and  round  about  it  are  more  numerous 
than  those  of  the  Brittish  river,  besides  the  Indians 
which  often  resort  here.  And  as  they  never  had  any 
force  near  them  to  bridle  them,  are  less  tractable. 
All  the  orders  sent  to  them  if  not  suiting  their  humours, 
are  scoff' d,  and  laught  at,  and  they  put  themselves 
upon  the  footing  of  obeying  no  Government.  It 
will  not  be  an  easy  matter  to  oblige  these  inhabitants 
to  submitt  to  any  terms  which  do  not  entirely  square 
to  their  humours,  unless  a  good  force  be  landed  there, 
and  a  fort  or  redoubt  of  earth  be  thrown  up,  well 
ditch'd,  freez'd  and  pallissaded,  till  a  more  durable  may 
be  built,  this  redoubt  must  have  four  peices  of  cannon 
(sakers)  and  command  the  meadow,  which  is  their 
treasure.  The  force  sent  must  be  3  or  400  men  etc. 
Cobequid  lyes  about  12  leagues  N.W.  of  Manis,  at  the 
upper  end  of  the  eastermost  branch  of  the  Bay  of 
Fundy.     There  are  about  50  French  familys  settled  in 

Wt.  7695  C.P.  32—11 


162  COLONIAL   TAPERS. 

1720.  ^ 


this  place.  The  soil  produces  good  grain,  and 
abounds  in  cattle  etc.  By  a  river  the  inhabitants  have 
communication  with  Chibucto  a  harbour  on  the 
Eastern  coast  and  by  a  road  across  the  woods  at  the 
distance  of  about  20  leagues  they  fall  into  the  Bay  of 
Vert,  by  which  they  drive  a  trade  to  Cape  Breton. 
The  Indians  resort  much  to  this  place.  Chignecto 
is  seated  upon  the  westernmost  branch  of  the  Bay  of 
Fundy  almost  at  the  upper  end  of  it.  The  inhabitants 
are  numerous,  haveing  much  encreas'd  of  late  yeares, 
and  are  about  70  or  80  familys.  This  place  is  about 
12  leagues  distant  from  Manis  haveing  a  communica- 
tion by  a  river,  which  discharges  itself  into  Manis 
Road.  It  produces  good  store  of  grain  and  abounds 
in  cattle  more  than  any  other.  Within  7  leagues  of 
Cape  Chignecto  are  very  good  coal  mines.  Near  the 
town  is  a  small  island  which  has  a  good  quarry  of  soft 
stone  etc.  The  inhabitants  are  more  given  to  hunting 
and  tradeing  than  those  of  the  other  settlements. 
etc.  By  the  Guiph  of  St.  Lawrence  they  have  a  con- 
tinual intercourse  with  Cape  Breton  carrying  most 
of  their  furrs  that  way,  and  supplying  it  with  pro- 
visions of  grain,  cattle  etc.,  and  bringing  for  returns, 
linnens,  and  other  goods,  to  the  prejudice  of  the 
Brittish  trade  and  manufactories.  To  put  a  stop 
to  this,  and  to  bring  the  inhabitants  under  obedience, 
who  are  the  least  subject  to  the  English  Government 
of  any  other  here.  It  will  be  necessary,  that  a  small 
fort  be  built  in  some  convenient  place  on  this  Neck  ; 
capable  of  containing  150  men  etc.  ut  supra  No.  xviii. 
Cansoe  is  an  island  with  several  other  less  ones  ad- 
joy  ning,  lyeing  at  a  small  distance  from  the  main  etc. 
Describes  attack  hy  Indians  and  robbery  by  French. 
Whilst  the  Indians,  incited  by  the  French  to  surprise 
the  English,  were  plundering  the  dry  goods,  the  French 
were  robbing  the  fish  etc.  Had  it  not  been  for  this 
iruption  20,000  quintalls  of  dry  codd  fish  this  season 
would  have  been  exported  out  of  this  place  etc.  This 
shews  the  need  of  a  ship  to  countenance  British  subjects 
there  in  the  summer,  and  a  fort  and  garrison  in  the 
winter.  This  if  incouraged  is  very  likely  to  be  the 
chief  place  for  trade,  tho  not  so  conveniently  scituated 
for  the  chief  seat  of  Goverment,  as  Port  Rosway, 
La  Have,  Marligash,  Chiboucto,  or  any  other  harbour 
scituate  on  the  Eastern  coast  of  this  Goverment, 
but  these  have  not  yet  been  narrowly  surveyed,  etc. 
Signed,  P.  Mascarenc,  Engeneer.  Carefully  examined 
and  found  to  be  exact.  Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Same 
endorsement.     20  pp. 


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1720. 

241.  xxi.  Duplicate  of  No.  i. 

241.  xxii.  Duplicate  of  A^o.  ii.  [CO.  217,  3.  Nos.  18,  18.  i.- 
xxii  ;  and  (without  enclosures)  218,  1.  pp.  500-512  ; 
and  (abstract  of  letter)  217,  30.     pp.  11-13.] 

Sept.  27.  242.  Govr.  Nicholson  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  Refers  to  interview 
with  Board  of  Trade.  Continues :  I  believe  this  day  their 
Lordps.  report  will  be  layd  before  their  Excellcys.  Encloses 
proposalls  for  presents  to  the  Indians.  Continues  : — I  find  by 
the  Boston  News  Papers  that  there  are  severall  piratts  on  those 
coasts  that  have  done  a  great  deal  of  mischief  etc.  Recommends 
that  handgranades  be  supplied  to  the  Company  as  being  very 
useful  in  case  of  a  close  fight  and  also  at  the  Fort  etc.  A  dozen 
of  brass  cohorn  mortars  etc.  may  be  of  great  use  on  board  our 
transports  etc.  Recommends  provision  of  harquebusses  and 
blunderbusses  etc.  Concludes  : — The  Commissioners  of  Trans- 
ports have  agreed  wth.  ye  2  ships  and  they  are  to  be  ready  (God 
willing)  to  sail  from  hence  for  Portsmouth  and  Plymouth  bj^  ye 
7th  of  the  next  month,  and  ye  3  months  provisions  wch.  is 
humbly  proposed  to  be  sent  may  be  putt  on  board  them, 
because  there  is  an  accot.  from  Carolina  of  a  great  drought  and 
scarcity  of  provisions  etc.  Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson.  Addressed. 
H  PP-     [C'O.  5,  387.     No.  10.] 

Sept.  27.  243.  Lt.  Governor  Gledhill  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Piacentia.  Plantations.  By  some  experiments  I've  made,  hemp  may  be 
bro't  to  a  considerable  perfection  in  this  part  of  Newfoundland 
etc.  P.S. — We  have  multitudes  of  French  ships  that  frequently 
fish  upon  our  Banks.  One  is  stranded  in  the  next  harbour  etc. 
She  has  aboard  36  hgd.  wine,  400  hgd.  salt,  6000  of  bread. 
Asks  for  directions  in  such  cases.  Signed,  S.  Gledhill.  Endorsed, 
Reed.,  Read  15th  Nov.,  1720.     1^  pp.     [CO.  194,  6.     No.  84.] 

[Sept.  27.]  244.  H.M.  Commission  to  Francis  Nicholson  to  be  Captain 
General  and  Governor  in  Chief  of  Carolina.  Preamble  :  Whereas 
by  great  miscarriages  and  neglects  in  the  Government  of  our 
Province,  and  Territory  of  Carolina  in  America,  the  same  is 
fallen  into  such  disorder,  and  confusion,  that  the  publick  peace, 
and  administration  of  Justice  (whereby  the  properties  of  our 
subjects  should  be  preserved  there)  is  broken,  and  violated, 
and  the  said  Province  is  become  wholly  void  of  defence  against 
any  foreign  enemy,  or  even  against  the  incursions  of  the 
barbarous  Indians  ;  Whereby  the  southern  frontier  to  our 
Plantations  on  the  Continent  of  America,  and  one  of  the  most 
fruitfull  of  our  Colonys  is  in  great  danger  of  being  depopulated, 
and  the  trade,  and  advantages  thereof  forever  lost  from  the 
Crown  of  Great  Britain.  And  whereas  our  said  Province  of 
Carolina,  and  our  good  subjects  the  inhabitants  thereof,  cannot 


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1720. 

l)e  defended,  and  secured  by  any  other  means  than  our  taking 
provisionally  the  Government  into  our  own  hands  and  immediate 
care,  We  therefore  appoint  you  etc.  [CO.  5,  189.  pp.  614- 
629.] 

Sept.  27.       245.     H.M.  Instructions  (by  the  Lords  Justices)  to  Same. 

wiiitoh.iii.  You  are  to  choose  and  appoint  12  Councillors  vmtil  H.M.  further 
pleasure  be  known  and  transmit  their  names  and  qualifications 
etc.     Countersigned,  Ch.  Delafaye.     [CO.  5,  189.     jjp.  630-661.] 

Sept.  27.       246.     H.M.   Instructions  to  Same  relating  to  the  Acts  of 
\vhi<.'h„ii.    Trade  and  Navigation.     [CO.  5,  189.     pjJ.  662-674.] 

Sept.  27.       247.     Minute     of    Lords   Justices    in    Council.      Governor 
\\ iiiti'.iaii.    Xicholson  this  day  took  the  oath  etc.    Signed,  Edward  Southwell. 

Endorsed,  Reed.,'  Read  Jan.  11th,  172",'.      |  jJ-     [CO.  5,  358. 

//.  69,  70i;.] 

Sept.  27.       248.     Order   of   Lords    Justices  in  Council.     The  Attorney 
\\  iiit.'iiaii.    General  is  to  bring  a  scire  facias  for  resuming  the  Charter  of 
Carolina,  etc.     v.  A.P.C.  II.     p.  780.     Signed  and  endorsed  as 
preceding.     2  j^P-     [CO.  5,  358.    ff.  71,  71z;.,  72v.] 

Sept.  29.  249.  [?Council  of]  Carolina,  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs.  By 
Charles  the  last  accouut  we  are  given  to  understand  that  after  our 
/^"y"'  repeated  applications  to  H.M.,  the  old  Proprietors  have  assigned 
over  their  Charter  to  new  Proprs.,  which  in  our  humble  opinion 
is  done  to  elude  that  Justice  we  might  reasonably  hope  from 
H.M.  etc.  Refer  to  their  last  Petition.  Continue: — The  new 
steps  taken  by  the  Proprs.  have  not  altered  our  former  senti- 
ments, and  v/e  are  very  unwilling  to  enter  upon  any  measures 
with  the  new  Proprs.  till  our  affairs  shall  be  taken  into  H.M. 
consideration  etc.  If  H.M.  shall  think  fit  to  confirme  their 
purchase  or  grant  them  a  new  Charter  (neither  of  which  do 
we  hope  for),  then  we  are  desirous  that  for  the  peace  and  wellfare 
of  this  Colony  a  consideration  may  be  had  of  these  Articles  sent 
home  to  our  Agent  in  a  letter  of  the  same  date  herewith.  Repeat 
complaint  against  Spanish  privateers  and  the  refusal  of  the 
Governor  of  St.  Augustine  to  restore  vessels  taken  by  them 
since  the  cessation  etc.  Conclude  :  The  sixth  of  this  instant 
they  took  a  ship  and  a  sloop  off  of  the  Capes  of  Virginia,  as  will 
appear  by  affidavits  sent  to  the  Lords  Commissioners  of  the 
Admiralty.  Signed,  Richard  Allein,  Benja.  Schensking, 
Richd.  Beresford,  Sam.  Eveleigh,  Jos.  Morton,  Tho.  Smith, 
Sam.  Prolean  {sic).  Mem.  Mr.  Boone  aquainted  the  Board, 
Dec.  22,  that  the  Articles  and  Affidavits  abovementioned  are 
not  come  to  his  hands.  Endorsed,  Reed,  from  Mr.  Boone, 
Read  22nd  Dec.,  1720.  Copij.  2  pp.  [CO.  5,  358.  ff. 
59,  59i;.,  60i;.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


105 


1720. 


Sept.  29.  250.  Office  accounts  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  June  24- 
Sept.  29,  1720.  v.  Journal  of  Council.  [CO.  388,  77.  Nos. 
94,  96,  98.] 

Oct.  3.  251.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Refers  to  enclosures.  Continues :  By  which  you 
will  perceive  that  these  seas  are  again  infested  with  pirates  of 
considerable  force  etc.,  who  on  the  27th  and  28th  of  the  last 
month  openly  and  in  the  daytime  burnt  and  destroyed  our 
vessels  in  the  Road  of  Basseterre,  and  had  the  audaciousness 
to  insult  H.M.  Fort  etc.  {v.  end.  i.)  Continues :  The  Rose 
man  of  war  and  Sharke  sloop  arrived  here  some  time  in  June 
last,  but  so  much  shattered  with  beating  the  seas,  that  the  Capt. 
told  me  soon  after  his  arrival  that  the  ship  was  almost  unfit  for 
service  very  foul,  and  her  upper  works  so  tender  that  he  durst 
not  heave  her  down  :  and  there  being  no  place  of  hauling  her 
ashore  here,  nor  conveniencies  to  refit  her,  and  the  hurricane 
time  coming  on  I  thought  it  necessary  and  for  H.M.  service  to 
condescend  to  the  Captain's  request  which  was  to  let  him  go 
to  the  Northward  to  refit  upon  promise  that  he  would  return 
about  the  middle  of  this  month.  I  hear  by  a  ship  arrived  from 
Boston  that  she  is  safe  arrived  there  but  that  he  cannot  be  with 
me  till  the  latter  end  of  November  next  and  indeed  had  he  been 
here  'tis  much  to  be  feared  he  would  not  have  been  able  to  have 
coped  with  them,  tho'  on  my  part  he  should  have  had  all  the 
assistance  possible.  In  my  letters  of  the  15th  March  1717  the 
6th  of  Jan.  17{  I  and  the  19th  Dec.  following  I  humbly  desired 
your  Lordships  to  represent  to  H.M.  how  uncapable  so  small  a 
ship  as  the  Seaford  was  (or  indeed  any  ship  of  that  force  as  this 
towitt  the  Rose  is)  was  to  protect  the  Trade  from  the  insults  of 
these  vermine,  and  that  such  ship  would  be  in  danger  of  being 
overpowered  even  when  she  went  out  to  cruise  on  them  and  at 
the  same  time  I  desired  that  your  Lordships  would  represent 
to  H.M.  that  a  fifth  rate  or  at  least  a  ship  of  36  or  40  guns, 
might  be  appointed  etc.,  to  which  your  Lordships  were  pleased 
to  answer  that  you  had  been  informed  several  of  the  pirates 
had  surrendered  etc.,  and  that  you  hoped  the  rest  would 
follow  etc.  upon  H.M.  Proclamation  of  pardon,  but  your  Lords- 
ships  may  now  plainly  perceive  how  little  Acts  of  Grace  and 
Mercy  work  on  these  vermine  (several  of  these  present  pirates 
have,  as  I  have  been  informed,  surrendered  more  than  once 
upon  H.M.  said  Proclamation)  and  that  nothing  but  force  will 
subdue  them  ;  and  I  daresay  had  we  a  ship  of  that  force  we 
should  not  only  drive  them  out  of  these  seas,  but  in  some 
measure  prevent  their  doing  further  mischief,  for  they  come 
among  these  Islands  not  so  much  for  gain,  but  to  pick  up 
straglers,  and  victual  their  ships  for  other  enterprises.  I  come 
now    once    more    as    it    is    my    duty    to    lay    these    matters 


166  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

^^^^ 

before  your  Lordships,  and  humbly  hope  you  will  agree 
with  me  in  opinion  how  necessary  it  will  be  for  H.M.  service, 
and  the  protection  of  our  Trade  that  such  a  ship  as  I  before 
mentioned  should  be  sent  on  this  station,  and  that  your  Lord- 
ships will  represent  this  matter  to  H.M.  and  use  your  good  offices 
towards  procuring  such  a  one  etc.  We  are  small  Colonies  and 
subsist  chiefly  on  trade  ;  if  our  homeward  bound  vessels  are 
taken  and  plundered  and  our  provision  ships  intercepted,  what 
have  we  that  lyes  not  at  the  mercy  of  these  villains  ?  Signed, 
W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  9th  Dec,  1720. 
2^  pp.     Enclosed, 

251.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Lt.  General  Mathew  to  Governor 
Hamilton,  29th  Sept.  1720.  [St.  Christophers].  Upon 
the  information  of  James  Dennison  (end.  ii),  I  had  the 
sloop  referred  to  examined,  an  inventory  made,  and 
refer  Mr.  Thomas  Otley's  claim  to  the  goods  to  your 
Excellency  etc.  Continues :  Tuesday  about  one  of 
the  clock  Lt.  Isaac  Thomas  sent  me  an  express  with 
notice  that  these  pirates  were  actually  coming  into 
Basse  Terre  Road.  I  immediately  ordered  Lt. 
McKenzie  to  Charles  Fort  and  put  a  subaltern  and  30 
of  the  Militia  therein.  Ordered  Lt.  Coll.  Payne  to 
get  the  two  companys  under  arms  at  Sandy  Point 
Town,  Capt.  Nat.  Paine  to  do  the  like  at  Old  Road, 
Major  Willet  at  Palmeto  Point,  with  orders  to  the 
gunners  at  these  four  places  to  be  in  readiness,  and  then 
rode  to  Basse  Terre.  I  gat  there  by  two  found  the 
pirates  ship  and  sloop  with  black  flaggs  etc,  had  cut 
out  one  ship  that  was  under  sail  actually  then,  and 
had  set  two  more  on  fire,  and  our  Battery  without 
powder  or  ball  rammer  or  gun  (except  two)  fit  for  any 
service,  and  everything  in  confusion.  I  took  from 
Mr.  Hare's  store  by  force  7|  barrels  of  powder,  Mr. 
Parsons  furnished  a  half  barril  pickt  up  about  town, 
some  shot  big  and  little  got  four  small  three  pounders 
from  Mr.  Peter  Thomas  mounted  on  the  beach  with 
some  shot  for  them,  and  two  more  of  the  guns  on  the 
battery  in  order,  and  we  had  then  a  small  cannonading 
for  about  an  hour,  but  what  with  bad  gunners  unsizable 
shot  etc.  we  did  them  no  hurt  and  they  went  out  of 
reach  for  that  afternoon  and  night,  this  gave  me  some 
time  to  remedy  our  confusons  etc.  The  ship  they  had 
taken  belonged  to  one  Fowls  consigned  to  Mr. 
Parsons.  Fowls  with  two  of  his  men  goes  off  to  them 
just  before  I  gat  to  town,  and  was  kept  on  board. 
One  Hinkston  (whose  behaviour  savored  much  of 
knave  or  coward)  had  a  ship  in  the  Road  which  they 
set  on  fire,  tho'  there  were  500  barrils  of  beef  in,  he 
had  it  seems  sent  his  boat  on  board  them   of  his  own 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  167 


1720. 


accord,  which  with  his  men  they  also  detained,  as 
they  went  out  of  the  Road  I  perceived  she  burned  but 
slowly  etc.  With  the  aid  of  William  Panton  gets 
her  ashore  and  puts  out  fire.  Continues :  By  the  time 
the  night  was  closed  and  every  man  had  got  his  post 
along  the  Bay  etc.  Capt.  Hinkston's  men  came  on 
shoar  from  the  Pirate,  and  brought  me  the  letters 
{enclosed)  etc.  In  the  morning  [the  pirates  still]  lay 
off  Basse  Terre,  waiting  for  these  sheep.  We  got  by 
this  time  13  great  guns  in  good  order  among  them  a 
24  pounder,  and  had  got  shot  from  Palmeto  Point 
and  cartridge  paper  from  Old  Road,  about  9  the 
pirate  sloop  stood  directly  in,  and  just  about  gun  shot 
off  a  boat  put  off  from  her,  and  she  stood  out  again, 
the  boat  brought  on  shore  Capt.  Fowles  and  one  of 
his  men  and  another  man  whom  they  would  have 
forced,  but  his  unwillingness  and  being  troubled  with 
fits  made  them  put  him  on  shore,  this  man  is  under  a 
guard,  and  I  wait  the  Sollicitor  General's  opinion  about 
him  having  sent  to  him  to  examine  him  close.  About 
11  the  sloop  stood  in  again  for  these  sheep  etc.  (for 
Capt.  Fowl's  forsooth  could  hardly  be  kept  from  going 
to  them  again  hoping  to  have  his  ship  etc.)  The  sloop 
came  close  in  almost  among  our  sloops,  and  we  had 
time  to  give  her  two  rounds  of  all  our  guns  of  which 
7  hit  her  tore  her  gibb  setled  her  made  [=  ?  maiii]  sail 
by  cutting  the  hallyards  'tis  supposed,  and  we  believe 
one  of  the  24  pd.  ball,  took  her  in  the  bow.  She  made 
no  return  but  got  out  as  well  as  she  could  and  shee 
and  the  ship  ran  into  the  Grand  Golett  and  there 
turned  Fowls  ship  adrift.  I  wish  they  may  not  have 
got  some  of  your  Excellency's  mutton  for  their  boat 
went  on  shoar  etc.  They  stretched  for  Nevis,  could 
not  fetch  hardly  Morton's  Bay  ;  so  stood  away  west- 
ward along  shore.  We  brought  Fowls'  ship  in  again 
and  found  this  fine  distich  in  chalk  on  the  companion 

For  our  words  sake  we  let  thee  go 

But  to  Creoles  we  are  a  foe — 
or  something  of  remembering  Creoles  as  a  foe,  and  a 
Death's   head  and  arm  with  a  Cutlace,  and  on  board 
Hinkston  they  had  versifyed  in  chalk 
In  thee  I  find 
Content  of  mind. 
They  standing  along  shore  I  got  on  horseback  leaving 
the  care  of  all  at  Basse  Terre  to  Col.  McDowal,  and 
with  about  70  horse  and  dragoons  waited  on  them  as 
far  as  Old  Road,  etc.     This  morning  at  10  they  were 
seen  for  the  last  time  to  the  N.  ward  and  E.  of  St. 
Bartholomews    etc.     Col.    McDowal,    Major    Milliken, 


168  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

Mr.  Spooner,  Mr.  Hunt  and  Mr.  Thos.  Otley  gave  me 
all  imaginable  assistance  etc.  Recommends  Peter 
Thomas  to  command  the  troop  of  horse  of  Basse  Terre. 
Continues  :  These  villains  are  certainly  going  to  wind- 
ward of  Antego  and  Barbados  etc.  They  want  bread 
and  will  wait  some  New  England  vessels  coming. 
They  offer  any  price  for  Mr.  Pinney,  Spooner  and 
Brown  for  condemning  their  comrades  at  Nevis, 
threaten  and  bluster  much  and  have  intelligences 
off  this  island  in  particular  that  I  am  surprised  at. 
Same  endorsement.     Copy.     3|  pj). 

251.  ii.  Deposition  of  James  Dennison,  gunner  of  Fort 
Hamilton,  St.  Christophers,  25th  Sept.  1720.  Depon- 
ent arrested  Robert  Dunn  {v.  following)  whom  he 
found  landing  goods  out  of  a  canoe.  Dunn  endeavoured 
to  prevent  him  from  examining  the  sloop  etc.  Signed, 
James   Dennison.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     2  pp. 

251.  iii.  Deposition  of  Robert  Dunn,  Master  of  the  Sloop 
Relief,  Jeremiah  Burroughs  owner,  of  Bermuda. 
Turtling  in  the  harbour  of  Curriwaccoo  on  4th  Sept., 
he  was  seized  by  a  pirate  ship  and  sloop,  commanded 
by  one  Roberts,  of  Barbados,  about  130  men  all  told. 
The  remnant  of  the  Royal  Rover's  crew  are  in  this 
gang.  The  ship  they  took  on  the  banks  of  Newfound- 
land, French-built,  and  one  of  21  they  took  there  etc. 
The  pirates  dismissed  deponent  after  putting  on 
board  his  sloop  some  bundles  of  old  rigging  and  cloth 
etc.  in  return  for  his  tending  them  with  turtles  etc. 
which  they  made  him  do.  They  said  they  intended  to 
take  Marygalante.  They  intend  to  take  their  revenge 
off  Antego  and  Barbados  and  then  go  on  the  coast 
of  Brazil  or  the  East  Indies.  They  would  blow  up 
rather  than  be  taken.  Every  man  double  armed, 
and  mostly  Englishmen.  Say  they  will  when  they 
leave  these  coasts  take  none  but  Spanish  and  Portu- 
guese etc.  Signed,  Robert  Dunn.  Dated  and  endorsed 
as  preceding.     Copy.     2  pp. 

251.  iv.  Deposition  of  Moyse  Renos,  (Moses  Renolds,  or 
Renault,)  of  Dartmouth,  Mariner.  St.  Christophers, 
26th  Sept.,  1720.  Was  taken  by  a  pirate  sloop 
when  on  a  fishing  voyage  on  the  Banks  of  New- 
foundland in  a  pink  belonging  to  William  Cane 
of  St.  Johns.  Within  five  or  six  days  they  took 
four  or  five  prizes  amongst  them  a  vessell  of  BristoU 
one  Thomas  Commander  who  formerly  used  to  trade 
to  Barbados  they  intended  to  use  him  ill  but  he 
giving  them  an  account  that  a  ship  and  sloop 
was  fitted  out  of  Barbados  to  pursue  them  (for 
they   had    been    in   the    Royall   Rover   in   these    seas) 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  169 


1720. 


and  that  it  was  reported  at  Barbados  they  had  sunk 
the  said  pyrates,  they  in  their  merriments  hereon 
returned  him  his  ship  and  dismissed  him  but  took 
two  or  three  of  his  men  by  force  who  made  their  escape 
afterwards.  Thence  they  went  to  Trepassi,  and  found 
in  the  harbour  22  sail  of  Enghsh  bankers  and  fishers, 
of  these  they  took  one  and  in  10  days  fitted  her  out 
with  18  guns  for  their  own  use  obUdgeing  the  crews 
of  all  the  ships  to  work  and  of  the  severall  crews  five 
or  six  took  on  willingly  with  them  etc.  They  forced 
three  or  four  more  but  only  took  provisions  and  left  all 
the  rest  of  the  vessells  there  except  one  they  burnt  etc. 
They  next  took  5  or  6  sail  of  French  bankers,  among 
them  the  ship  they  are  now  in,  putting  the  French- 
men on  board  the  ship  they  took  at  Trepassi,  for  they 
would  not  force  or  permit  any  of  any  nation  to  be  with 
them  only  English  etc.  Corroborates  preceding.  Signed, 
Moysc  Renos.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy.  2\  jjp. 
251.  V.  Inventory  of  goods  taken  on  board  the  sloop  Relief, 
{v.  Nos.  i.  and  iii.)     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     2  pp. 

{a)  Bartholomew  Roberts,  the  Pirate,  to  Lt.  General 
Mathew.  Roijall  Fortune,  Sept.  27th,  1720.  This 
comes  expressly  from  me  to  lett  you  know  that  had 
you  come  off  as.  you  ought  to  a  done  and  drank  a 
glass  of  wine  with  me  and  my  company  I  should  not 
harmed  the  least  vessell  in  your  harbour.  Farther 
it  is  not  your  gunns  you  fired  yt.  affrighted  me  or 
hindred  our  coming  on  shore  but  the  wind  not  proving 
to  our  expectation  that  hindred  it.  The  Royall  Rover 
you  have  already  burnt  and  barbarously  used  some  of 
our  men  but  we  have  now  a  ship  as  good  as  her  and 
for  revenge  you  may  assure  yourselves  here  and  here- 
after not  to  expect  anything  from  our  hands  but  what 
belongs  to  a  pirate  as  farther  Gentlemen  that  poor 
fellow  you  now  have  in  prison  at  Sandy  point  is 
entirely  ignorant  and  what  he  hath  was  gave  him 
and  so  pray  make  conscience  for  once  let  me  begg  you 
and  use  that  man  as  an  honest  man  and  not  as  a  C 
if  we  hear  any  otherwise  you  may  expect  not  to  have 
quarters  to  any  of  your  Island  yours,  Signed,  Bathll. 
Roberts.     Copy.     |  p. 

{b)  Henry  Fowle  to  James  Parsons.  Sept.  27,  1720. 
Requests  him  to  send  in  the  morning  some  sheep  goats 
etc.  in  a  boat  to  the  pirates.  "  I  am  treated  very 
civilly  and  promised  to  have  my  ship  and  cargo  again 
and  desire  Capt.  Henksone  to  send  his  wheel  that 
he  stears  his  ship  with,  or  it  may  be  the  worse  for 
him "  etc.  Signed,  Henry  Fowle.  Copy.  |  p.  The 
whole  endorsed  as  preceding.  [CO.  152,  13.  ff.  20-2 15^., 
23-2-ii\,  25sy.-26i;.,  27i;.-28i^.,  29i;.-32i^.,  33i;.,  34,  35v.] 


170 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

Oct.  C,       252.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Governors  of  Plantations.     En- 
Whitehaii.  eloscs  Additional  Instruction  relating  to  Money  Bills,     v.  Aug. 
11th.     Signed,  Ch.  Delafaye.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  15,  16.] 


Oct.  6. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  6. 


Oct.  6. 


253.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
Representation  on  petition  of  M.  Hiriberry  (13th  Sept.).  Refer 
to  representation  of  5th  June,  1719,  upon  which  the  late  Lords 
Justices  did  send  orders  to  the  (iovr.  of  New  England  according- 
ly. But  the  letter  from  Mr.  Delafaye  upon  the  first  memorials 
from  the  sd.  Hiriberry  and  upon  which  our  foresd.  Representa- 
tn.  was  made  was  dated  the  28th  May,  1719,  and  we  now  find 
that  H.M.  was  pleased  about  a  fortnight  before  to  grant  the 
said  two  vessels  etc.  to  Capt.  Smart  (v.  Sept.  13th).  This  being 
the  state  of  M.  Hiriberry's  case,  we  cannot  see  which  way  the 
late  Lords  Justices  gracious  intentions  towards  him  can  be 
made  effectual  without  breaking  in  upon  H.M.  previous  grant 
to  Capt.  Smart  and  his  crew  unless  your  Excellencies  should 
be  disposed  to  give  the  said  Hiriberry  a  sum  of  mony  in  com- 
pensation for  his  losses.     [CO.  218,  i.     pp.  479-481.] 

254.  Governor  Nicholson  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Their  Excellencies  the  Lords  Justices  having 
been  pleas'd  on  your  Lordships'  Representation  of  30th  Aug., 
to  direct  a  Commission  to  pass  the  Great  Seal  for  trying  pirates 
in  South  Carolina,  but  as  the  same  cannot  be  dispatch'd  till 
proper  persons  are  nam'd  etc.,  prays  them  to  lay  before 
their  Excellencies  the  names  of  fit  persons  etc.  Suggests  a  new 
Commission  for  Virginia,  Maryland  and  North  Carolina.  Signed, 
Fr.  Nicholson.  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th.,  Read  11th,  1720.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

254.  i.    List    of   persons    proposed    by    Governor   Nicholson 

to  be  of  the  Commission  for  trying  pirates  in  S. 
Carolina.  Signed,  F.  Nicholson.  1  jj.  [CO.  5,  358. 
ff.  42-45r.] 

255.  Governor  Nicholson  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  Their  Excys. 
the  Lords  Justices  having  been  pleased  to  signe  an  establishmt. 
for  the  Independent  Company  designed  for  South  Carolina, 
but  none  for  me  as  Governour,  nor  any  other  Millitary  Officers, 
encloses  copy  of  an  establishmt.  for  Govr.  Philipps,  "  which 
I  had  from  ye  Warr  Office  and  I  hope  the  Parliament  will  allow 
the  like  for  South  Carolina  which  place  in  its  present  confusion 
and  unhappy  circumstances  can  make  no  better  allowance 
than  Nova  Scotia  etc.  You  will  please  observe  to  their  Exeelleys. 
that  the  difference  between  Collo.  Phillips's  pay  as  Collo.  and 
mme  as  Capt.  is  14*.  a  day,  besides,  he  remained  a  long  time 
here  with  his  pay  as  Govr.  and  had  a  great  many  advantages 
of  his  officers  and  the  clothing  of  his  Regiment,  none  of  wch. 
I  have  or  am  like  to  have.     Therefore  I  humbly  hope  that  some 


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allowance  will  be  made  me  for  the  great  expence  1  have  and 
shall  be  at  in  providing  equipage,  neeessarys  for  my  voyage, 
paying  my  passage  and  passing  my  Comieons  ;  that  for  Captain 
bearing  date  ye  24th  of  ye  last  month  and  that  for  Govr.  the 
26th  so  that  my  allowance  as  such  can  be  but  from  those  days. 
I  have  got  from  the  Offices,  the  payments  and  an  accot.  of 
ye  summs  unissued  on  accot.  of  ye  Garrison  of  Placentia  by 
which  it  will  appear  what  savings  there  are  particularly  of  the 
pay  of  the  Governour  which  was  promised  to  me  either  as  being 
Govcrnour  or  as  being  Genii,  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the 
forces  in  Nova  Scotia  and  Newfoundland  for  which  I  had  no 
pay  therefore  I  humbly  hope  I  have  an  equitable  pretence  to 
the  said  pay,  but  if  their  Excellcys.  will  be  pleased  to  order  me 
the  said  savings  it  shall  be  very  gratefully  acknoM'ledged  by 
me  not  only  as  a  full  sattisfaetion  on  that  accot.  but  likewise 
for  my  aforementioned  expences."  Has  neglected  his  private 
affairs  in  order  to  proceed  on  his  voyage  with  all  expedition  etc. 
Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson,     li  jjp.     Enclosed, 

255.  i.  Payments  by  Mr.  Howe  on  account  for  the  Garrison 

of   Placentia.     April    1713-Dec.    1714.     Total,    £7447 

12*.  Id.     2  pp. 

255.  ii.  Account  of  sums  unissued  by  the  Rt.  Hon.  Robt. 

Walpole  and  the  Earl  of  Lincoln  for  the  Garrison  of 
Placentia,     1713-1717.      Total     remaining    unissued, 
£1482    12*.    lid.     Total    amount    of   the    Governor's 
pay  25th  April,  1713-24th  Aug.,  1717.     £1240  19*   Id 
3pp.     [CO.  5,  387.     Nos.  11,  11.  i.,  ii.] 

Oct.  7.       256.     Governor    Nicholson    to Wase    Esq.     Prays 

him  to  discourse  Mr.  Delafay  about  his  establishment  a? 
Governor  etc.  Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson.  Endorsed,  No  order 
Addressed:     f  p.     Enclosed, 

256.  i.  Copy   of  Governor  Phillips'  Establishment  : — 

(i.)  Collo.  Phillips  as  Collo.  and  Capt.    ...       £14     0 
(ii.)     Do.  as  Governor  of  Annapolis  and 

Placentia 
Lt.  Governor  of  Annapolis  Royal 
(iii.)  Secretary  to  the  Governor  of  Anna- 
polis Royal  and  Placentia  ... 
Fort  Major  or  Adjutant 
Chaplain 

Commissary  of  the  stores  and  provisions 
Comissary  of  the  Musters  and  Judge 

Advocate     ... 
Fire  and  Candle 
^p.     [CO.  5,  387.     Nos.  12,  12.  i.] 

Oct.   11.       257.     List  of  12  persons  proposed  to  be  of  the  Commission 
for  trying  pirates  in  S.  Carolina.     Signed,  Joseph  Boone,  Jno. 


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1720. 

Burnvvell.     Endorsed,    Reed.,    Read    11th    Oct.,    1720.     f   p. 
[CO.  5,  358.    ff.  46,  47t;.] 

Oct.   11.       258.     Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.     The  Lords  Com- 

whitchaii.  missioucrs  of  Trade  are  forthwith  to  present  the    names    of 

persons  proper  for  executing  the  Commission  for  trying  pirates 

in  S.  CaroHna  etc.     Signed,  Temple  Stanyan.    Endorsed,  Reed., 

Read  13th  Oct.,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  358.    .//.  48,  49v.] 

Oct.  11.  259.  Mr.  Dummer  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following. 
Some  of  the  queries  are  not  to  be  answered  but  on  the  spot  or 
from  the  Custom  house  books  etc.  Concludes  :  I  am  going  to 
the  Old  Bailey  to  prosecute  a  gang  of  rogues  who  have  bin 
counterfeiting  our  Province  bills.  I  have  seiz'd  900  of  ye  false 
bills  with  all  the  copper  plates.  Signed,  Jer.  Dummer.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  11th  Oct.,    Read  6th  Dec,  1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

259.  i.  Mr.  Dummer's  answers  to  21  Queries  from  the  Council 

of  Trade  and  Plantations  relating  to  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  and  New  Hampshire.  4|  pp.  [CO.  5,  867. 
Nos.  77,  77.  i.] 

Oct.   13.       260.     Commodore  Percy  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
^7.  Album,  tions.     Eucloscs  following.     Signed,  F.  Percy.     Endorsed,  Reed, 
at  sea.      23rd.     Read  28th  Jan.  175'/.     Addressed.     I  p.     Enclosed, 

260.  i.  Answers  to  Heads  of  Enquiry  relating  to  Trade  and 

Fishery  of  Newfoundland,  {v.  April  6th)  (i)  Com- 
plaints of  irregularities  are  not  without  just  cause, 
(ii)  The  rules  of  the  Act  are  trifled  with  by  most 
persons,  the  Admirals  have  little  regard  to  anything 
but  their  own  interests.  (iii)  Too  common,  unless 
prevented  by  us.  (iv)  After  the  departure  of  the 
convoy,  it  is  customary  for  the  ships  remaining  behind, 
and  the  inhabitants  resideing  the  winter  ;  not  only 
to  distroy  the  stages,  flakes  and  cookrooms,  but  even 
the  fishing  shallops  etc.  Nor  is  that  care  taken  by 
the  masters  of  the  fishing  ships  to  repair  the  stages, 
cook  roomes  etc.  properly  belonging  to  them  ;  because 
they  sent  their  ships  out  of  the  Banks,  having  left 
off  fishing  near  the  shore,  hire  the  inhabitants  stages, 
store-houses  etc.  cheaper  then  they  can  repair  those 
that  belongs  to  them  ;  which  has  been  a  means  of 
several  encroachments,  and  if  some  method  be  not 
taken  to  prevent  such  practices,  here  will  be  no  roome 
left  for  the  fishing  ships  to  cure  the  fish,  they  bring 
from  the  Banks ;  There  has  not  all  this  summer, 
neither  is  there  in  all  this  harbour,  one  stage  standing 
belonging  to  the  fishing  ships,  (v)  There  are  in  this 
harbour  {i.e.  St.  Johns)  many  fishing  ships  roomes 
unoccupied,  it  being  chargable  to  build  the  flakes,  etc. 


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1720. 


Differences  relating  to  them  are  generally  decided  by 
the  Admirals  etc.  (vi)  Notwithstanding  orders  by 
former  Commanders,  to  several  persons  to  relinquish 
such  stages,  room's,  storehouses  etc.  as  have  been  by 
them  condemn'd  as  ships  roomes,  they  have  not 
so  done  ;  particularly  in  St.  Johns  several  persons 
have  engros'd  on  the  Admiral's  and  Vice-Admirals 
rooms,  by  building  of  dwelling  and  storehouses  on 
the  same.  8  names  given  including  that  of  Governor 
Collins.  The  Admirals  and  masters  of  fishing  ships 
bring  goods  to  trade  with  the  planters  which  is  the 
reason  they  connive  at  these  encroachments,  (vii)  They 
continue  to  encroach  on  the  fishing  ships  rooms  ; 
because  the  masters  don't  keep  up  their  stages,  nor 
imploy  any  shollops,  but  send  their  ships  out  on  the 
Banks  to  fish,  (viii)  The  Byboatkeepers  don't  meddle 
with  ships'  rooms,  but  hire  from  the  inhabitants,  (ix) 
They  don't  comply  with  the  Act  in  bringing  over  green 
freshmen  etc.  No  return  is  made  by  the  Admirals, 
(x)  The  inhabitants  can't  so  well  comply  with  the 
Act,  as  to  the  number  of  green  men,  having  no  other 
opportunity  of  procuring  servants,  then  shiping  such 
as  are  free  from  the  former  masters,  or  passengers 
directly  from  England.  But  the  inhabitants  of  St. 
Johns  have  intirely  left  off  keeping  of  boats  and 
servants  for  fishing,  the  voyages  has  prov'd  so  bad  for 
several  years  past,  that  has  impoverish'd  the  planters 
very  much,  and  made  them  uncapable  of  prosecuting 
the  fishery.  They  live  by  letting  out  their  stages, 
flakes  etc.  and  keeping  publick  houses,  to  the  great 
detriment  of  the  fishing  trade,  there  being  this  year 
only  two  boat  keept  by  the  inhabitants  of  St.  Johns, 
(xi)  There  are  a  great  number  of  boats,  trainfatts  etc. 
unoccupied,  (xii)  They  do  not  rind  more  trees  then 
is  made  use  off  to  cover  the  houses,  and  stages  etc., 
nor  do  distroy  timber  otherwise,  then  for  building  and 
fireing.  (xiii)  No  complaint,  (xiv)  No.  (xv)  They 
are  not  so  ready  to  do  justice  to  the  several  complaints, 
which  occasions  abundance  of  trouble  to  us,  to  whom 
all  trivial  complaints  are  made,  as  well  as  all  appeals 
from  other  harbours,  (xvi)  There  being  no  parson, 
the  chaplain  of  my  ship  did  duty  etc.  (xvii)  There 
has  not  been  of  late  years,  any  aliens,  or  strangers, 
that  has  presum'd  to  fish  in  any  of  the  parts  of  New- 
foundland, from  Cape  Bonavista  to  Saint  Peters, 
(xix)  The  inhabitants  are  supply'd  with  great  quantities 
of  rum,  moloss's,  flower,  pork,  sugar,  tobacco,  black 
cattle,  sheep  etc.  from  the  American  sloops,  and  New 
England  factors  to  the  yearly  value  of  £10,000  sterl., 


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1720. 


the  produce  of  which  is  sent  to  Great  Britain  by  bills 
of  exchange,  and  returned  to  America  in  Unncn,  and 
woolen  manufactorys.  (xx)  The  inhabitants  and 
byboatkeepers  are  furnish'd  with  all  their  sail  cloaths, 
and  furniture  for  the  fishery,  from  England  only, 
(xxi,  xxii)  The  scarcity  of  men  very  much  enhances 
the  wages,  insoemuch  that  a  boats  wages  for  five 
men  during  the  fishing  season,  will  amount  to  £70, 
the  charge  of  the  boat,  craft,  salt,  and  provisions  for 
curing  200  quintles  amounts  to  £60  more,  all  which 
charge  is  to  be  paid  out  of  the  fish  that  shall  be  taken 
by  three  men  in  one  shollop,  the  other  two  being  left 
on  shore  for  curing  the  fish.  For  several  years  last 
past,  very  few,  if  any  of  the  inhabitants  has  taken  so 
much  fish  as  would  alone  pay  men's  wages,  and  charges 
of  the  boats,  allowing  the  provisions  intirely  lost, 
(xxiii)  The  fish  taken  by  planters,  byboats  etc.  is 
alwayes  at  one,  or  the  same  price,  and  no  manner  of 
difference  in  the  charge  of  fishing,  excepting  the 
mentaining  winter  servants,  which  the  planters  are 
often  necessitated  to  do,  or  want  them  the  next  season, 
(xxiv)  At  Saint  Johns,  they  drink  and  debauch 
themselves  all  the  winter,  and  their  servants  in  cutting 
firewood  etc.  In  the  other  Southern  parts  they  do 
repair  their  houses,  stages,  flakes,  and  build  boats 
against  the  spring.  But  to  the  N,  of  Bay  Verds  the 
planters  and  servants  are  imployed  in  seal  fishing. 
Last  winter  was  taken  in  Trinity  and  Bonavist 
260  tons  of  oyle  efc.  (xxv)  The  furr  taken  at  Bonavist 
amounts  to  £2000,  which  with  the  oyle  was  sent  to 
England.  They  have  no  commerce  with  the  Indians, 
who  are  a  savage  people,  not  as  yet  acquainted  with 
the  use  of  guns.  In  the  summer  season  they  come 
to  the  southward,  have  been  seen  near  Bonavist. 
In  the  winter  they  go  further  northward  in  canoose, 
made  of  birchin  rinds,  which  they  sowe  together  with 
the  sinnews  of  bucks,  and  pay  the  seams  with  frankin- 
cence.  (xxvi)  The  inhabitants'  houses  are  generally 
built  above  the  flakes,  and  those  near  the  shoare  side, 
are  where  no  stages,  or  flakes  can  be,  which  is  no 
hindrance  to  the  fishery.  But  there  are  a  great  many 
publick  hous's,  and  storehous's  built  near  the  water- 
side, which  are  encroachments  on  the  fishing  rooms, 
and  very  prejudicial  to  them,  (xxvii)  All  rooms  cut 
out  by  the  inhabitants,  that  did  not  belong  to  the 
fishing  ships,  since  1685,  are  still  theres,  tho'  not 
occupied  by  them,  but  let  out  to  hire  to  the  fishing 
ships,  and  by  boatkeepers,  the  rent  of  one  boatsroom 
being  valued  in  peace  at  6  or  £7,  and  in  warr  10  or  12, 


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1720. 


(xxviii)  5  flakes  of  100  x  46  ft.  are  esteemed  to  be  a 
boatsroom  and  generally  built  according  to  the  ancient 
custome,  from  the  water  side  upwards,  (xxix)  There 
has  not  been  any  records  left  of  what  room  properly 
belong  to  the  fishing  ships,  which  has  been  the  occasion 
of  many  disputes,  and  a  means  that  the  greatest  part 
of  the  ships-room  is  built  upon,  and  possest  by  the 
inhabitants  of  St.  Johns.  (xxx)  The  fishing  ships, 
and  by  boatkeepers  furnish  themselves  with  provisions 
and  craft  from  Great  Brittain  and  Ireland,  (xxxi) 
No  ship,  that  has  not  clear'd  from  Great  Brittain  on 
a  fishing  voyage,  that  does  not  bring  a  certificate  of 
his  quallification  pursuant  to  the  Act,  is  allowed  to  be 
Admiral  :  But  ships  that  are  so  quallified,  notwith- 
standing they  touch  in  Ireland  for  provisions,  France 
or  Portugal  for  salt,  are  allowed  the  same  liberty, 
as  if  directlye  from  England,  (xxxii)  The  putting 
of  passengers  into  possession  of  ships  rooms,  was 
formerly  practiced,  but  not  lately,  (xxxiii)  The  by 
boatkeepers  alwayes  hire  their  stages,  boatrooms  etc. 
from  the  inhabitants.  They  are  the  only  support  of 
the  fishery  in  this  country,  ought  greatly  to  be  en- 
courag'd  for  their  indefaticable  industry,  and  hard 
labour,  (xxxiv)  Some  few  fishing  ships  still  follow 
the  custome  of  sharing  the  fish  to  the  several  persons 
concern'd  ;  the  by  boat  keepers  are  generally  three 
of  them  partners  in  one  boat,  with  only  two  servants, 
and  'tis  very  remarkable,  that  they  take  every  year 
100  quintles  of  fish  more  then  the  inhabitants  ever 
do,  who  hire  servants  to  fish  for  them,  whilst  they  live  on 
the  shoare,  follow  suttling,  and  pedling  :  which  ruinated 
many  of  them.  The  ships  which  goes  on  the  Banks, 
the  master  or  merchant  is  at  the  charge  of  the  ships 
provisions,  craft,  etc.  for  the  voyage.  They  often  take 
the  poorer  sort  of  inhabitants  with  them,  who  are 
allow'd  one  third  of  all  such  fish  as  they  shall  respec- 
tively take,  deliver'd  to  them  cured  and  fitt  for  market. 
This  way  is  very  good  for  certainly  every  man  then 
will  be  industrious  etc.  The  charge  of  fitting  a  ship 
from  the  builder,  of  100  tons,  with  50  men  and  10 
boats,  will  amount  too  for  the  whole  season,  allowing 
£600  for  the  ship  fitted,  £1540.  (xxxv)  The  British 
ships  do  frequently  import  from  France,  Spain  and 
Portugal  brandy,  wine  and  oyle,  which  they  bring  in 
their  salt  directly  from  thence  seldom  less  then  30  sail, 
every  year  uses  that  trade  openly.  I  have  taken 
cognizance  of  the  masters  of  those  ships,  as  has  done 
it  this  year,  in  this  port,  which  I  leave  to  your  Lord- 
ships determination.     Three  names  given,     (xxxvi)  It 


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is  sold  to  the  inhabitants  of  Saint  Johns,  who  all  keep 
taverns,  and  suttling  houses,  and  drank  here.  It 
cannot  be  exported  to  New  England  etc.,  because  great 
care  is  taken  by  the  Custom  house  Officers  in  America, 
it  being  prohiljited,  both  ship  and  goods  forfeited, 
(xxxvii)  Great  quantities  of  rum  is  yearly  imported 
from  New  England  etc.  seldom  less  then  600  hhds. 
(to  the  ruin  and  distruction  of  the  people  and  country) 
together  with  a  considerable  quantity  of  moloss's, 
tobacco  and  sugar,  all  which  is  expend'd  in  this  land  ; 
but  no  cotton  wool,  dying  wood,  ginger  or  fustick, 
has  lately  been  brought  here  ;  nor  any  carried  to 
Spain,  Portugal,  or  any  other  parts,  by  any  indirect 
trade.  (xxxviii)  'Tis  uncertain  what  quantitys  of 
goods  in  general  are  imported  in  all  Newfoundland,  but 
this  year  by  the  nearest  estimate  has  been  brought  into 
this  harbour,  in  bread,  flower,  pork,  rum,  moloss's, 
tobacco,  black  cattle  and  sheep,  from  the  American 
Islands,  and  New  England,  to  the  value  of  £6000  sterl., 
all  which  is  sold  for  fish,  and  laded  on  board  the  sack 
ships,  excepting  some  small  quantities  of  refuse  fish 
sent  in  sloops  to  the  Maderas,  and  American  Planta- 
tions in  the  West  Indies,  (xxxix)  The  inhabitants  of 
Saint  Johns  keep  taverns,  and  eating  houses  for  the 
masters  of  ships,  and  factors.  Others  suttle  ;  but  all 
in  general  sell  liquor  to  the  fishermen,  and  seamen 
belonging  to  the  ships.  Here  are  a  nest  of  litle 
pcdlers,  who  goes  under  the  denomination  of  merchant 
factors,  have  small  storehouses,  sell  rum,  wine, 
tobacco,  and  sugar  by  retail.  Inhabit  amongst  the 
planters  all  the  winter,  and  involve  them  over  head  and 
ears  in  debt,  which  after  the  fishing  season,  causes  so 
much  villany,  and  knavery,  as  cannot  be  parraleld. 
A  planter  by  them,  is  often  reduced  to  a  servant, 
and  soon  after  to  slavery  for  life  ;  unless  he  transplants 
himself  to  New  England,  leaving  them  in  the  lurch. 
There  is  no  limitting  the  publick  houses  by  licence, 
for  after  we  saile  there  is  neither  law  nor  reason  amongst 
them,  not  so  much  as  self  preservative  community, 
(xl)  The  inhabitants  and  by  boatkeepers  do  frequently 
trust  their  servants  with  liquor,  and  tobacco  to  the 
full  of  their  wages.  That  at  the  end  of  the  fishery, 
they  have  not  where withall  to  buy  themselves  bread. 
Are  necessitated  to  transplant  themselves  to  New 
England,  or  starve  in  the  winter,  (xli)  The  passage 
of  a  servant  from  England  is  505. ,  to  £3,  and  back  30*., 
which  is  paid  in  fish  to  the  masters  of  the  ships  in  the 
Land,  (xlii)  It  is  certain  that  trusting  the  fishing  ships' 
crew  is  very  prejudicial  to  the  masters  concern'd  in 


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1720. 

the  fishery.  The  people  naturally  love  strong  liquor, 
and  are  too  often  in  such  a  condition  as  make  them 
uncapable  of  performing  their  duty.  (xliii)  The 
masters  of  fishing  ships,  and  by  boat  keepers  contrive 
to  leave  their  servants  behind,  by  giving  them  too 
great  credit,  or  cheating  of  them  ;  for  open  knavery 
is  here  lookt  upon  no  other,  then  close  dealing.  Last 
year  Capt.  Ogle  oblidg'd  all  the  American  sloops  and 
brigantins  to  sail  out  of  this  harbour  with  him  ;  but 
they  had  no  sooner  parted  company,  then  those  very 
vessells  returnd  back  againe  to  Saint  Johns,  for  all 
such  men  as  would  go  with  them  to  New  England, 
which  they  were  fully  freighted  with  etc.  (xliv)  The 
New  England  masters  do  still  continue  to  carry  away 
great  numbers  of  fishermen,  and  others  ;  notwith- 
standing that  due  care  is  taken  to  prevent  it.  The 
Admirals  of  the  several  ports,  were  H.M.  ships  does  not 
reside,  never  trouble  their  heads  about  preventing 
that  pernicious  practice.  (xlv)  In  this  port,  no  one 
has,  or  shall  depart  without  entring  into  such  bonds, 
and  attested  in  such  manner,  as  the  same  may  be 
prov'd  in  England  ;  and  unless  some  of  the  forfeited 
bonds  be  put  in  execution,  it  will  be  imposible  to 
prevent  them.  John  Miller,  master  of  the  Nassau 
sloop  off  Charles  Town  in  New  England  carryed  off 
Roger  Parker  from  Renoose  on  purpose  to  cheat  all 
his  servants,  as  may  be  proved  by  5  names  given. 
(xlvi)  I  have  represented  to  the  respective  Admirals, 
the  loss  of  credit  the  Newfoundland  fish  has  in  foreigne 
markets  etc.,  and  find  it  chiefly  oweing  to  the  fishing 
ships,  who  have  left  off  keeping  of  shallops,  and  fishing 
near  the  shoar  ;  but  send  their  ships,  and  vessells  on 
the  Banks  for  a  month,  or  five  weaks,  then  bring  the 
fish  into  the  land  to  cure  ;  such  fish  as  are  caught 
at  the  begining  of  the  season,  are  good  ;  if  rightly 
salted  ;  but  in  the  height  of  summer,  and  latter  end 
of  the  year,  very  bad.  The  by  boat  keepers  and 
planters  are  greatly  to  blame  in  not  giving  the  fish 
due  time  to  cure  on  the  flakes  etc.  If  the  ships  con- 
tinue goeing  on  the  Banks,  will  in  a  few  years  ruinate 
this  trade,  and  country  ;  tho'  the  rum  has  struck 
a  great  stroke  towards  it  already,  (xlvii)  Great 
numbers  of  French  fishing  ships  use  the  Banks  on  the 
coast  of  Canada,  and  Cape  Breton,  (xlviii)  There 
are  not  above  10  French  residents  in  St.  Peters,  St. 
Lawrences,  and  in  Placentia  ;  who  conforme  to  the 
Treaty,  and  are  supply'd  with  craft  and  servants  from 
England  ;  but  here  are  brought  over  every  year  by 
the    Bristol,    Biddiford    and    Bastable     ships     great 

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1720.  ~ 

numbers  of  Irish  roman  Catholick  servants,  who  all 
settle  to  the  southward  in  our  Plantations  ;  which  if 
a  warr  with  France  etc.  would  be  a  direct  means  of 
loosing  this  country,  who  would  joyne  with  any 
enemy,  if  some  care  be  not  taken  to  suppress  the  same, 
it  may  not  be  improbable  that  these  very  fellowes 
may  turn  pyrotts  in  a  little  time,  especially,  after  a  bad 
fishing  voyage,  (xlix)  The  French  fish  in  the  northern 
parts  of  this  land,  but  don't  reside  there  all  the  winter, 
nor  build  houses,  neither  do  they  come  from  any  other 
parts  to  hunt  for  furr,  but  there  are  a  sort  of  French 
Indians  who  take  a  considerable  quantity  of  furr  in 
the  winter  and  sell  to  our  tradeing  people.  (1)  The 
officers  don't  concern  themselves  with  the  fishery  in 
Placentia,  which  place  is  of  the  least  consequence  to 
the  fishery  of  this  land,  it  lying  farr  out  of  the  way  in 
a  deap  bay  ;  where  very  little  fish  is  caught.  It  was 
of  great  service  to  the  French  in  time  of  warr,  where 
there  So.  Sea  West  India  and  Banck  ships  joyned  the 
convoy,  which  every  fall  lyes  ready  for  them  there, 
as  well  as  annoying  our  trade  here,  and  along  the 
American  coast,  (li)  George  Skeffington  has  met  with 
no  molestation  this  summer.  Has  imployed  30  men 
servants  in  the  salmon  fishery,  20  of  which  were  raw, 
green  men.  Has  taken  530  tirces  of  salmon,  330  of 
which  was  sent  to  Italy  and  200  to  Bilboa,  price 
£l  155.  pr.  tirce.  There  was  taken  last  winter  £2000 
in  furr,  and  £4000  in  sceal  oyle,  which  sceal  fishery 
in  a  little  time  will  be  of  great  advantage,  in  and 
about  Bonavista.  H.M.S.  St.  Albans.  St.  Johns,  8th 
Oct.,  1720.    Signed  and  endorsed  as  j)receding.    1\\  pp. 

260.  ii.  Scheme  of  the  Fishery  at  Newfoundland,  1720. 
Totals:  Fishing  ships,  sack  ships  and  ships  from 
America,  101  ;  Burthen,  12,210  tons  ;  men  belonging 
thereto,  2,240  ;  passengers  on  the  fishing  ships,  1,206  ; 
number  of  boats  kept,  617  ;  by  boatsmen,  713  ; 
quintals  of  fish  made,  80,220  ;  carried  to  foreign 
markets,  94,030  ;  tram  oyl,  590 1  tons  ;  price,  28 
ryals  pr.  quintal  of  fish  ;  £16  pr.  ton  of  oyl  ;  stages, 
276  ;  train  fatts,  138  ;  inhabitants,  2,320,^  of  which 
2,057  remained  in  the  country  last  winter.  Details 
of  ports,  etc.  given.  Signed,  dated  and  endorsed  as 
preceding.     2  pp. 

260.  iii-vii.  Five  bonds  in  £500  each  given  by  the  Masters 
of  New  England  ships,  only  to  depart  with  such  men 
as  really  belong  to  their  ships  etc.  H.M.S.  St.  Albans. 
5th  Aug.-27th  Sept.,  1720.  Endorsed  as  preceding, 
5  pp.  [CO.  194,  7.  ff.  \v.,  3,  5-12r.,  13-17i'., 
ISi;.] 


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1720. 
Oct.  14. 

London. 


261 .  Mr.  Cumings  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Having  received  a  letter  from  Boston  dated  2nd  Sept.  in  which 
I  have  the  following  paragraph,  "  This  morning  arrived  att 
Boston  from  Canso  Mr.  Henshaw  son  in  a  sloop  who  brings  the 
bad  news  of  the  French  setting  the  Indians  upon  the  English 
fishery  there  the  15th  Aug.  with  French  amongst  them  and 
seized  to  the  value  of  £10,000  sterl.  in  fish  and  merchandize 
and  carried  it  over  to  Cape  Bretton  and  killed  three  English 
men  the  English  have  taken  severall  of  the  French  that  were 
in  the  action  and  have  sent  them  prisoners  to  Govr.  Philips  att 
Annapolis  Royall."  The  above  coming  from  a  gentleman  of 
credite  I  thought  itt  my  duty  to  lay  itt  before  your  Lordships 
as  also  that  by  the  printed  news  from  Boston  of  29th  Aug.  the 
Indians  in  the  eastern  settlements  of  New  England  by  instigation 
of  the  French  missionaries  insult  the  English  by  killing  their 
catle  and  robbing  ther  houses  which  has  obleidged  the  people 
to  leave  ther  habitations  and  goe  into  garrisons  as  farr  as  York 
in  the  province  of  Maine.  My  Lords,  I  am  most  humbly  of 
opinion  that  unless  the  eastern  parts  of  New  England  and  the 
coast  of  Nova  Scotia  be  protected  by  the  Crown  the  setlements 
cannot  be  carried  on  in  safety  nor  the  fishery  to  advantage 
which  is  capable  of  great  improvements  and  if  the  french 
missionaries  amongst  the  Indians  in  the  Brittish  Dominions 
be  not  obleidged  to  retire  the  inhabitants  will  not  be  able  to  live 
in  peace  and  tranquillity  while  they  remain.  Signed,  Archd. 
Cumings.  Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read  18th  Oct.,  1720. 
Addressed.     1  p.     [CO.  217,  3.     No.  12.] 


Oct.  14.       262.     6'ame  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs.     Duplicate  of  preceding. 
London.    Addressed.     1  p.     [CO.  194,  23.     No.  32.] 

Oct.  16.  263.  Extract  of  letter  from  Mr.  John  Riggs  to  Genl.  Nichol- 
Aibany.  sou.  The  hammocks  you  are  pleased  to  say,  you  left  at  Fort 
Nicholson,  I  never  heard  of  them  before,  nor  Sr.  do  you  name  with 
whom  you  left  them.  Lt.  John  Scott  has,  for  these  several  years, 
been  posted  at  Fort  Hunter  with  twenty  sentinels,  a  sergeant, 
corporal  and  drum,  as  is  still  Capt.  Schuyler  at  Schonnectady 
with  the  like  complement.  Mr.  Andrews,  as  to  the  progress 
he  made  with  ye  Indians,  there  is  very  little  if  any  appaarence 
of  it,  for  they  soon  return'd  to  their  primitive  state  again.  The 
French  at  Canada  are  still  very  busy  with  our  Five  Nations,  and 
take  much  inore  pains  to  gain  them  than  we  do  to  keep  them  ; 
I  think  we  are  much  in  the  wrong  to  suffer  the  French  to  come 
daily  to  Albany  to  buy  what  goods  they  want,  with  which 
they  supply  our  Indians  and  the  foreign  Nations,  and  have  got 
leave  of  the  Senecaes  to  build  a  fort  at  Orijagray,  the  place  at 
which  the  foreign  Nations  must  pass  over  to  come  to  us,  with 
two  or  three  forts  more  up  towards  the  Lake  Erie.  Sr.  you 
must  believe  the  French  have  a  great  interest  wth.  our  Indians, 


180  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

when  they  can  or  dare  do  this,  pray  God  send,  we  do  not  lose 
them.  Sr.,  you  know  the  consequence  and  what  must  follow. 
In  the  beginning  of  Sept.  our  Precedent  Queeder  came  up  here 
to  renew  our  Covenant  and  secure  the  Chaine,  but  half  the 
number  did  not  come  as  usual,  so  that  the  Chaine  was  not  well 
secured  in  my  thoughts.  As  for  the  clothing  of  yours  to  be 
given  to  the  Indians,  you  mention,  I  never  heard  of  any  given 
or  to  be  given  to  them.  As  for  the  plate  belonging  to  Fort 
Hunter  in  ye  Mohacks  Country,  it  was  left  with  Lt,  Scott,  who 
commands  there,  by  Mr.  Andrews  when  he  went  away.  As  for 
the  plate  and  furniture  for  ye  Anendagoes  Fort,  Mr.  Bartlett  our 
Priest  tells  me  Colo.  Hunter  still  has  it,  for  there  never  was  any 
Fort  erected  there  as  yet,  nor  Minister  appointed.  Our  good 
priests  were  never  cut  out  for  hard  labour,  nor  will  they  work 
miracles  in  Religion  till  they  can  ly  on  ye  ground.  Sir,  as  we 
have  done  for  months  together,  and  be  very  glad  when  they 
can  meet  with  a  piece  of  bear  otherwise  called  an  Oghquary, 
or  of  a  fox  or  racune  without  either  bread  or  salt  to  it.  I  beg 
your  Hours,  pardon  for  naming  a  small  march  we  had  to  Norridge 
Walk  from  Pemequid  against  ye  French  and  Indians  about 
30  years  ago.  The  fellow  to  this  march  would  qualify  one  of 
our  Priests  or  Ministers,  as  they  must  be  called,  for  a  missionary 
abroad.  Sir  you  remember  I  was  one  of  ye  officers  commanded 
on  that  service,  and  we  performed  it,  burnt  their  fort  to  ye 
ground ;  on  that  service  officers  and  soldiers  carryed  their  own 
provision  in  a  leather  knapsack  ;  a  few  pease,  a  few  bisketts 
and  a  piece  of  salt  pork  were  our  provision  and  store  ;  marched 
out  250  miles  upon  the  snow  four  or  five  foot  deep  under  us, 
our  drink  was  snow  melted  in  our  mouths,  never  saw  one  house, 
at  night  cut  down  some  spruce  boughs  to  lye  upon,  and  if  it 
chanc'd  to  snow  we  lay  the  warmer  under  it,  while  the  fort  was 
burning  down  I  was  warm,  and  having  an  inclination  to  clean 
linnen,  I  went  to  turn  my  shirt  but  found  nothing  except  the 
neck  of  it,  nor  did  I  know  when  it  went  away.  As  to  the 
Palatines  there  are  still  some  at  Mr.  Levingston's  Plantation, 
and  a  pretty  many  at  Scoherye,  but  I  never  was  among  them  ; 
some  are  gone  to  the  Garsees  [?  =  Jerseys,  Ed.]  and  some  to 
Philadelphia  Governmt.  where  they  think  to  fare  the  best. 
Few  or  none  of  our  Indians  coming  here  this  season,  I  could 
not  procure  you  those  things  they  used  to  bring.  2|  pjJ. 
[CO.  5,  387.     No.  13]. 

Oct.  17        264.     Governor  Burnet  to  Mr.  Popple.     Encloses  following 
New  York,  ^tc-      Signed,   W.    Burnet.     Endorsed,    Reed.    5th,    Read    27th 
Dec.  1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

264.  i.  Speech  of  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Assembly  of  New 
York,  13th  Oct.,  1720.  Refers  to  his  "  incomparable 
predecessor  "  and  the  flourishing  state  of  the  Province 
as  left  by  him  "  who  is  still  ready  to  take  care  of  its 


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1720. 

interests,  which  H.M.  favour,  and  the  general  regard 
shown  him  at  home  will  give  him  great  opportunity 
of  doing  etc.  I  meet  a  Council  and  Assembly  who 
assisted  him  in  those  great  and  good  measures,  that 
are  now  completely  confirmed  by  H.M."  Urges 
provision  for  the  great  deficiency  of  the  present 
Revenue,  and  defence  of  the  frontiers  against  the 
intrigues  of  the  French  with  the  Five  Nations  and  other 
Indians  and  their  advance  "  every  day  farther  into 
our  country,  building  trading  houses  in  the  main 
passes  belonging  to  it "  etc.  Same  endorsement. 
Printed.     2|  pp. 

264.  ii.  Opinion  of  the  Chief  Justice  of  New  York.  The 
opinion  that  an  Assembly  is  ipso  facto  dissolved  by 
the  publication  of  a  new  Governor's  commission  is 
but  of  late  date  and  without  any  foundation  in  law  etc. 
Argued.  Signed,  Lewis  Morris.  Same  endorsement. 
6|  pp. 

264.  iii.  Similar  opinion  of  the  Attorney  General.  New 
York,  24th  Sept.  1720.  Signed,  David  Jamisson. 
2f  pp. 

264.  iv.  A.  Hamilton  to  Dr.  Johnson.  Philadelphia,  27th 
Sept.,  1720.  The  men  of  the  best  judgment  here 
agree  with  preceding  etc.     3^  pp. 

264.  V.  Copy  of  writ  for  choosing  Representatives  of  the 
present  Assembly  of  New  York.  Endorsed  as  covering 
letter.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  1052.    ff.  90i;.-100i;.] 

Oct.  18.       265.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 

Wbiiehaii.  Representation  upon  Act  of  Barbados,  1719,  to  impower  the 
Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  and  Council  to  commute  the 
value  of  powder,  armes  and  ammunition  or  other  stores,  that  are 
or  shall  be  found  wanting  in  the  account  of  store  keepers  of  the 
Magazines,  and  to  reduce  the  same  into  money.  The  magazine 
in  Barbados  is  supply'd  by  a  duty  laid  of  so  much  powder 
pr.  ton  on  all  vessels  trading  thither,  which  is  to  be  paid  in 
specie  and  not  in  money  least  otherwayes  there  might  not  be 
a  sufficient  quantity  of  powder  to  be  purchas'd  in  the  Island 
upon  an  emergency,  which,  in  time  of  war,  has  sometimes 
happen'd.  But  this  law  impowers  the  Governor  and  Council 
to  receive  money  from  a  storekeeper  upon  the  making  up  of  his 
accounts  in  lieu  of  such  stores  as  he  cannot  account  for  which 
cannot  answer  the  end  for  which  ye  powder  duty  was  given, 
and  may  prove  of  dangerous  consequence  to  the  Island.  One 
of  the  pretences  for  the  passing  of  this  law  is  the  making  the 
storekeeper  accountable  which  seems  to  us  unnecessary  in  as 
much  as  the  storekeeper  upon  the  entering  upon  his  office  is 
already  oblig'd  to  give  security  in  ye  sum  of  £10,000  that  Island 


IH2  COLONIAL    l^VPEllS. 

1720. 

money  and  to  take  an  oath  for  ye  faithfull  discharge  of  his  duty. 
Upon  the  whole,  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  this  Act  is  not 
fit  to  receive  H.M.  Royal  approbation.  [CO.  29,  14.  pp. 
82-84.] 

Oct.  18.  266.  Same  to  Same.  Enclose  copy  of  Mr.  Cuming's 
Whitehall,  letter  Oct.  14  supra.  Upon  this  occasion  we  humbly  represent 
to  your  Excellencies  our  opinion  that  restitution  be  made  to 
H.M.  subjects,  who  have  had  their  fish  and  effects  thus  seized 
before  any  satisfaction  be  given  to  Mr.  Hiriberry  as  was  pro- 
posed by  our  former  representations  of  5th  June,  1719  and  6th 
instant.  And  so  much  the  rather  because  this  seizure  seems 
plainly  to  be  intended  as  a  reprizal  for  that  particular  case. 
What  we  have  further  to  observe  upon  this  head  is,  that  our 
possession  of  Nova  Scotia,  and  the  fishery  on  that  coast  is  very 
likely  to  be  very  precarious  till  that  Province  shall  be  better 
settled,  a  sufficient  force  sent  thither  and  some  small  forts 
erected  in  proper  places  for  the  protection  of  the  British  vessels 
fishing  on  that  coast  but  more  especially  in  the  harbour  of 
Can90.     [CO.  218,  1.     pp.  484,  485.] 

Oct.  18.  267.  Mr.  Delafaye  to  Governor  Shute.  The  Lords  Justices 
Whitehall,  send  you  enclosed  Order  that  you  may  take  care  to  have  it 
safely  convey'd  to  the  French  Govr.,  and  may  obtain  the 
release  of  those  prisoners  pursuant  to  the  Law  of  Nations  and 
the  Treaty  of  Peace  between  the  two  Crowns,  etc.  Signed, 
Ch.  Delafaye.  Endorsed,  Reed.  20th,  Read  21st  Oct.,  1720. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 

267.  i.  Order  by  the  Regent  of  France  to  M.  le  Marquis  le 
Vaudreuil.  M.  Sutton  complains  that  you  keep  in 
captivity  several  English  prisoners.  The  Council  can 
hardly  believe  it,  for  in  that  case  you  have  not  per- 
formed the  orders  given  to  you  28th  June,  1713.  In 
case  you  still  have  any  English  prisoners,  you  are  to 
give  them  full  liberty  to  return  home,  or  remain  in 
the  Colony,  if  they  choose.  Signed,  L.  A.  de  Bourbon, 
f  p.  French.  Copy.  Encloses  following. 
267.  ii.  Sir  Robert  Sutton  to  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  Regent 
of  France.  Paris,  19th  Sept.  {N.S.)  1720.  The 
Governor  of  Canada  has  refused  to  give  back  several 
English  prisoners  taken  during  the  last  war,  although 
the  Governor  of  New  England  has  often  claimed  them 
by  virtue  of  the  23rd  Article  of  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht. 
Requests  H.R.H.  to  despatch  orders  for  their  release  etc. 
Signed,  Rob.  Sutton.  Copy.  French,  f  p.  [CO. 
5,  867.     Nos.  76,  76.,  i.,  ii ;    and  324,  34.     pp.  16-18.] 

[Oct.  20.]       268.     [?Jo/<«  Co/?ra(ZW^mer]  to  the  Lords  Justices  ("the  Lords 
honourable  to  Deputies  in  the  Regency  ").     On  behalf  of  the 


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1720. 

Palatinates  in  New  York  returns  thanks  for  permission  "  to 
choise  us  a  land  fit  for  us  farmers  and  grasicrs  of  cattel."  They 
unanimously  ordered  us  to  desire  a  grant  of  the  land  called 
Sehettery,  the  most  fruitful  and  convenient  for  the  purpose  in 
the  whole  country  etc.  No  signature,  v.  25th  Oct.  Endorsed, 
20th  Oct.,  1720,  Read  18th  May,  1722.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  1053. 
//.  52,  53d.] 

[Oct.  21.]  269.  Capt.  Benjamin  Young  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Describes  coast,  fishery  and  harbours  of  Nova 
Scotia.  Continues  : — But  what  excells  them  all  is  Canso,  which 
is  invaluable  for  its  fishery.  Tis  here  such  great  quantitys 
of  codd  herring  and  macrell  swarm  amongst  the  Islands  that 
when  I  was  there  in  H.M.S.  Rose  there  was  then  96  sail  of 
English  and  200  French  makeing  their  voyages,  the  English 
vessells  from  50  to  70  tonus  the  French  small  shallops  and  when 
fish  is  scarce  at  other  places  here  they  are  always  plenty  for 
on  letting  the  line  down  they  draw  up  two  and  two  as  fast  as 
they  can  pull  it.  Upon  my  arrivall  at  Canso  haveing  observ'd 
the  French  was  come  over  with  a  design  to  fish  I  order'd  them 
away  to  there  own  coast  and  after  went  with  H.M.  ship  to  Lewis- 
bourgh  were  Monsieur  St.  Ovid  Brouillard  the  then  governor 
assur'd  me  he  knew  nothing  of  those  fishermen  goeing  over  for 
that  'twas  contrary  to  the  Treaty  of  Peace  and  that  he  should 
take  caution  to  prevent  their  doeing  the  like  for  the  future. 
I  say  led  again  to  Canso  were  our  vessells  were  all  soon  laden. 
When  a  ship  of  warr  is  not  there  or  any  thing  to  hinder  the 
French  fishing  amongst  us  then  our  fishing  vessells  cannot 
take  4  fish  when  they  will  take  tenn.  They  fish  with  fresh 
and  we  with  salt  bait  we  come  180  leagues  they  but  7  :  they 
in  small  boats  we  in  large  sloops  all  which  for  want  of  a  garrison 
or  a  protection  of  our  people  from  the  Indians  who  the  French 
sett  on  to  our  ruin  in  those  parts.  If  a  fort  were  to  be  built 
King  Georges  Island  formerly  call'd  Canso  Island  would  be 
the  best  place  which  fortification  would  command  the  harbour 
and  beaches  etc.,  and  prevent  the  French  or  Indians  from  dis- 
turbing us.  A  ship  of  warr  must  attend  the  work  till  its  com- 
pleated,  which  whenever  they  appear  in  the  Plantations  carrys 
awe  to  the  French,  and  dread  to  the  Indians.  I  must  humbly 
beg  your  Lordshipps'  favour  if  there  is  a  small  ship  sent  there 
for  myself,  who  have  served  the  Crown  24  years  etc.,  there  being 
no  officer  in  England  m  ho  knows  the  coast  or  place  but  myself. 
Signed,  B.  Young.  Endorsed,  Reed.  21st,  Read  27th  Oct., 
1720.     Addressed.     2  pp.     [CO.  217,  3.     No.  13.] 

Oct.  22.       270.     Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 

Virginia.    Plantations.     I  have  commissioned  Col.  Jenings  Secretary  of 

this  Colony  in  place  of  Dr.  Cocke  deed.  etc.     Recommends  John 

Robinson  to  succeed  him  in  the  Council  etc.     Set  out,  Spotswood 


184  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

Papers.     II.     343.     Signed,    A.    Spotswood.     Endorsed,  Reed. 
30th    Nov.,    Read    2nd    Dee.,    1720.     If   pj).     [CO.    5,    1318. 

No.  78.] 

Oct.  24.  271.  Governor  Burnet  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  duplicates 
by  way  of  Philadelphia  of  what  sent  by  way  of  Boston,  17th 
Oct.  etc.  Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed.  1st,  Read 
14th  Feb.,    172 1'.     Holograph.     1  p.     [CO.   5,    1052.    ff.   149, 

150^;.] 

Oct.  25.  272.  John  William  Schaff  to  the  [Wouncil  of  Trade  and 
Plantations].  After  the  government  put  to  our  choice  whether 
we  would  rather  stay  in  Schuchary  or  go  to  another  place,  I 
choose  in  the  name  of  our  people  the  above  sayd  Schuchary, 
which  was  cultivated  by  us  with  great  pains  and  where  we  have 
built  houses  etc.,  the  leaving  of  which  would  be  very  hard  and 
which  we  can  never  resolve  to  do  except  a  full  satisfaction 
would  be  made  to  us  etc.  I  protest  against  the  acceptation 
of  the  land  called  Schattera,  for  which  my  comrade  John  Wiser 
is,  because  there  is  never  a  city  nor  any  strong  place  for  our 
defence,  so  that  we  would  be  a  prey  to  our  enemies,  for  every 
minute  {v.  Oct.  20th).  Signed,  John  William  Schaff.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  25th  Oct.,  1720.  Read  18th  May,  1722.  f  p.  [CO. 
5,  1053.    ff.  54,  55t'.] 

Oct.  25.  273.  Henry  Newman  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  Honoured  Sr., 
I  have  made  a  new  enquiry  into  the  progress  of  the  New 
Bubble,  I  had  the  honour  to  mention  to  you  t'other  day, 
for  sale  of  H.M.  subjects  and  the  lands  they  have  improv'd 
in  the  whole  Province  of  N.  Hampshire  and  about  30 
towns  and  villages  in  the  northern  part  of  the  Province  of 
Massachusetts  Bay,  and  am  inform'd  from  good  hands  that 
the  affair  still  goes  on.  Mrs.  Jane  Allen  of  Highgate  widow,  is 
selling  her  pretended  right  and  that  of  her  children  to  a  grant 
formerly  made  to  James  Mason  Esq.  in  that  part  of  America 
for  £15,000  to  Capt.  Ben.  Young,  Mr.  Cummins  and  Mr.  Campbell 
and  others  who  propose  to  divide  it  into  2500  shares  and  to  sell 
each  share  at  30/.  and  that  each  proprietor  shall  advance  10/. 
towards  the  purchase  and  6  months  after  10/.  more,  and  the 
remaining  10/.  as  there  may  be  occasion,  making  in  all  75,000/. 
under  a  pretence  of  more  effectually  carrying  on  a  fishery  and 
the  raising  of  Naval  Stores  in  those  parts.  In  order  to  which 
they  are  now  attending  my  Lord  Chancellor  to  get  the  will  of 
Mr.  Allen  deceased  proved  in  Chancery  and  his  Lordships 
approbation  of  guardians  for  the  children  impower'd  to  sell 
the  same  for  payment  of  debts  and  raising  fortunes  to  the 
children  out  of  the  effects  that  shall  remain.  If  you  think  fit 
to  let  His  Excellency  know  of  this,  I  am  sure  whatever  decree 
His  Lordship  may  grant  in  their  favour  he  will  never  encourage 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  185 


1720. 

the  real  design  of  the  purchasers,  much  less  enable  them  to 
disturb  the  present  possessors  of  those  lands  who  have  defended 
them  above  70  years  past  from  the  French  and  Indians  at  the 
expence  of  a  river  of  blood,  and  an  immense  treasure  under 
which  they  groan  to  this  day.  Signed,  Henry  Newman. 
[CO,  5,  931.     No.  12.] 

[Oct.  27.]  274.  Memorial  from  several  merchants  trading  to  Carolina. 
What  may  be  done  to  retrieve  the  desolation  of  Carolina  etc. 
To  recover  the  friendship  of  the  Indians,  by  encouraging  trade 
under  proper  restrictions,  such  as  prohibiting  selling  to  them 
upon  trust,  which  was  the  chief  occasion  of  the  last  warr,  being 
drove  thereto  by  despair  ;  prohibiting  upon  yet  greater  penalties 
the  selling  as  a  slave  any  person  of  the  Nations  in  amity  with 
us.  To  prevent  abuse  therein,  none  but  deputies  from  the 
publick  should  have  power  to  buy  Indian  slaves  from  those 
Indians  in  alliance  with  us  as  taken  in  warr,  to  be  transported 
to  the  Islands  etc.  To  discourage  the  sale  of  strong  liquors 
to  them  etc.  A  law,  that  nobody  may  have  more  than  10 
negroes  to  a  white  man  etc.  No  law  that  may  regard  directly 
or  indirectly  the  subjects  of  Great  Britain  (other  than  those 
residing  actually  in  Carolina)  ought  to  have  force  against  them 
untill  ratified  in  England.  No  law  to  be  enacted  in  Carolina 
repugnant  to  the  laws  of  England.  No  law  for  the  future  to 
oblige  anybody  to  take  paper  in  payment  of  debts  which  hath 
been  the  mainspring  of  the  ruin  of  that  province  and  of  the 
honestest  part  of  France.  A  due  execution  of  the  laws  ratified 
in  England,  and  no  protection  for  those  that  bids  defyance  to 
them  etc.  Merchants  will  then  adventure  their  estates  to  help 
them,  when  no  more  at  the  discretion  of  designing  men,  who 
under  spetious  pretences  have  introduced  paper  money  that 
they  might  under  the  shelter  of  a  law  pay  their  debts,  at  the 
rates  of  2/6  per  pound.  Unless  the  paper  can  be  sunck  and  their 
money  be  reduced  to  the  old  standard  according  to  H.M. 
proclamation,  there  will  be  no  safety  for  honest  men  to  adven- 
ture thither.  Signed,  Steph.  Godin  and  15  others.  Endorsed, 
Reed.,  Read  27th  Oct.,  1720.  2  pp.  [CO.  5,  358.  ff.  50, 
50i^.,  5\v.] 

Oct.  27.  275.  Governor  Nicholson  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  I  find  there  is 
a  difficulty  concerning  agreeing  with  ye  Masters  of  ye  two 
transports  bound  to  Carolina,  about  ye  freight  of  the  stores 
from  ye  Tower,  therefore  humbly  begg  their  Excellcys.  will 
please  to  give  directions  to  the  Comrs.  of  Transports  to  agree 
about  them  etc.,  and  of  the  freight  of  the  presents  for  the  Indians 
concerning  which  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury  will  this  day  give 
directions  ;  and  the  freight  of  3  months  subsistence  for  the 
Company  etc.  Refers  to  enclosures,  and  proposes  that  600  gallons 
of  Geneva   in   lieu  of  beer  be  sent  from   Portsmouth   where  I 


186 


COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1720. 


hear  is  the  best  and  cheapest  it  is  a  drink  I  find  the  soldiers 
much  use  and  that  taking  a  dram  moderately  is  very  wholsom 
etc.  So  soon  as  directions  are  given  concerning  these  things 
I  hope  the  ships  will  sail  round  for  Portsmouth  and  Plymouth 
in  order  to  take  the  men  on  board  etc.  Signed,  Ft.  Nicholson. 
Marked  in  margin,  alld.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

275.  i.  Same  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Victualling  Board. 
20th  Oct.,  1720.  I  was  very  much  concerned  to  find 
that  the  Honble.  Commrs.  had  made  any  scruple 
about  ye  beer  wch.  is  one  of  the  principall  species  of 
provisions  necessary  for  the  men  bound  to  Carolina 
considering  that  part  of  it  which  we  are  designed  for 
is  very  nigh  200  miles  from  any  town.  We  are  to 
lye  in  tents  or  hutts  and  not  certain  whither  we  shall 
find  good  water  soon  etc.  Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson. 
Copy.  1  jD. 
275,  ii.  Secretary  of  the  Victualling  Office  to  Governor 
Nicholson.  Victualling  Office.  21st  Oct.,  1720.  The 
Commissioners  having  already  furnished  the  usuall 
species  of  provisions  for  men  going  to  Carolina,  cannot 
do  anything  more  therein  without  further  directions 
etc.  Signed,  Sprig  Manesty.  Copy.  \  p.  [CO.  5, 
387.     Nos.   14,    14.     i.,   ii.J 


Oct.  27.       276.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices. 
whitehaU.  In  reply  to  11th  inst.,  present  names  of  persons    proper    for 

executing  commission  for  trying  pirates  in  S.  Carolina.     \C.O. 

5,  400.     pp.  135,  136.] 


Oct.  31.  277.  Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Bermuda.  Plantations.  A  vessell  touching  here  from  South  Carolina 
gives  me  this  opportunity  etc.  On  17th  Aug.  last  was  held  a 
Court  of  Admiralty  for  the  trial  of  two  persons  accused  of 
piracy,  one  whereof  was  acquitted,  the  other  pleading  guilty 
sentence  of  death  passed  against  him,  and  was  accordingly 
executed  :  the  proceedings  of  the  Court  are  herewith  sent. 
Refers  to  letter  etc.  of  24th  Dec,  and  encloses  Minutes  of  Council, 
7th  June,  1708-7th  June,  1720  etc.  Signed,  Ben.  Bennett. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  20th  March,  172';,  Read  13th  June,  1722. 
Enclosed, 
277.  i.  Proceedings  of  Court  of  Admiralty,  Bermuda  as  above. 
Aaron  Gibbens  found  not  guilty,  William  Bournal 
guilty  etc.  Same  endorsement.  10  pp. 
277.  ii.  News,  1720.  Bermuda.  On  6th  July  Capt.  Francis 
Landy,  Commander  of  the  privateer  sloop  Devonshire 
fitted  out  by  the  inhabitants  returned  from  his  cruse 
on  the  Spanish  coast.  Reports  that  on  11th  May  off 
of  Cape  Rose  on  Hispaniola  he  discovered  two  Spanish 
privateers    standing    without    him.     Having    a    small 


H  pp 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  187 


1720. 

privateer  in  company  which  he  had  taken  some  time 
before,  he  quitted  her  for  a  decoy,  which  one  of  them 
gave  chase  to,  the  other  makeing  for  him.  He 
engaged  for  six  hours,  boarding  the  enemy  thrice, 
and  after  an  obstmate  defence  carried  him,  then  came 
up  the  other  Spanish  privateer,  but  upon  giveing  her 
two  broadsides  she  made  for  the  shoar  and  there  set 
her  afire.  The  sloop  taken  had  8  great  guns  and  85 
men,  25  whereof  were  killed  in  the  fight  and  6  wounded. 
Capt.  Landy  had  14  guns  and  75  men,  4  of  whom 
were  killed  and  19  wounded.  St.  Christophers.  Two 
private  vessells,  one  a  ship  of  34  guns,  the  other  a 
sloop  of  6  guns,  haveing  on  board  them  both  130  men 
cut  out  of  Bassetere  road  a  loaded  ship  and  burnt 
another  that  had  begun  to  take  in  sugar,  that  cut  out 
they  kept  two  days  and  then  gave  her  to  the  Capt. 
without  doeing  much  damage  :  these  pirates  have 
been  at  Newfoundland  and  had  burnt,  sunk  and  taken 
above  20  sail  etc.  Same  endorsement.  1  p.  [CO. 
37,  10.     Nos.  25,  25.  i.,  ii.] 

Oct.  31.  278.  Mr.  Frere  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Barbados.  Eucloscs  Miuutes  of  Couucil,  30th  June — Oct.  25th,  and  of 
General  Assembly,  30th  June — Oct.  18th,  and  Naval  Office, 
25th  June-25th  Sept.  I  shall  send  duplicates  etc.  Signed,  Jno. 
Frere.  Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd  Dec,  1720,  Read  18th  May, 
1721.      1   p.     Enclosed, 

278.  i.  List  of  papers  enclosed,  as  above.     Same  endorsement, 
^p.     [CO.    28,    17.    ff.  91,  92i;.,  93,  94d.] 

Nov.  1.       279.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  Col.  Gledhill,  Lt.  Govr.  of  Placentia. 

Whitehall.  Your  letter  of  3rd.  July  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  being  laid 
before  the  Lds.  Justices,  their  Excys.  commend  your  diligence 
in  sending  him  an  account  of  what  occurs  in  your  parts,  and  your 
observations  and  opinion  of  the  state  of  the  garrison  under 
your  command,  and  of  the  Colony  and  the  Trade  there  ;  but 
they  can  by  no  means  approve  your  backwardness  to  obey 
the  orders  of  Col.  Philips  your  superiour  officer,  as  being  a 
proceeding  contrary  to  all  manner  of  discipline,  and  of  which 
they  hope  you  will  never  again  be  guilty  ;  but  that  if  you  have 
any  objection  to  such  orders  you  will  in  the  first  place  represent 
it  to  him.  V.  No.  281,  i.  Signed,  Ch.  Delafaye.    [CO.  324,  34.  p.  18.] 

Nov.  1.  280.  Memorial  of  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  The  order  of  the  Lords  Justices  in  Council 
of  5th  Oct.  last,  wherein  they  declare  the  accusations  of  Robert 
Lowther,  Governor  of  Barbados,  against  me  altogether  ground- 
less, and  that  I  have  made  good  all  the  material  allegations  of 
my  petition,  will  shew  your  Lordships  how  void  of  the  least 


188 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


foundation  that  Act  was  for  depriving  William  Gordon,  Clerc, 
commonly  called  Rector  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Michael  of  his  benefice, 
etc.  :  Wherefore  I  humbly  hope  your  Lordships  will  not  think 
a  law  for  disseising  me  of  my  freehold  and  living  past  behind 
my  back  tit  for  H.M.  Royal  approbation.  Offers  reasons  against 
Act /or  the  better  regulating  the  power  of  vestry  s  in  the  giving  away 
parochial  mony  to  Clergymen  officiating  as  rectors  and  curates. 
(i)  This  Act  is  purely  calculated  to  injure  me  alone  in  case  the 
former  should  miscarry.  There  is  no  parish  in  Barbados  that 
ever  did  or  does  give  above  £70  over  and  above  the  £150  settled 
by  law,  but  mine  ;  nor  any  Minister  that  keeps  a  Curate.  I 
allow  my  Curate  £200  per  annum  ;  and  I  give  £60  for  a  house  ; 
so  that  if  this  law  were  to  be  in  force,  there  would  not  be  one 
shilling  left  to  myself,  (ii)  The  allowance  of  £50  to  a  curate 
in  that  country  mony  is  not  more  than  sufficient  to  procure  his 
diet  in  the  meanest  and  poorest  family  there,  without  lodging 
which  is  also  very  dear,  (iii)  Because  I  and  my  curates  do 
the  office  of  Lecturer  as  well  as  Rector,  (iv)  The  pretended 
reason  is  altogether  groundless,  for  at  the  time  of  the  last 
election  of  Vestry  men  which  gave  occasion  to  this  law,  I  was  in 
England,  and  consequently  could  not  be  any  busy  intermeddler 
etc.  Signed,  W.  Gordon.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  2nd  Nov., 
1720.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  98.] 


Nov.  1.       281.     Mr.  Delafaye  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Whitehall.  Encloscs  fallowing.     The  Lords  Justices  direct  that  you  report 

your  opinion  what  orders  are  proper  to  be  given  therein.    Signed, 

Ch.  Delafaye.     Endorsed,  Reed.   2nd,  Read    3rd    Nov.,   1720. 

1  p.     Enclosed, 

281.  i.  Lt.  Governor  Gledhill  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs. 
Placentia,  July  3,  1720.  The  3rd  of  last  month  arrived 
here  a  sloop  from  Genl.  Phillips  with  his  commands 
to  me  to  transport  this  garrison  to  An.  Royal  saving 
40  men,  and  to  disperse  a  quantity  of  Proclamations 
etc.  I  shipped  what  men  the  vessel  could  carry  which 
I  fear  is  fallen  into  the  pirates'  hands  etc.  Gives  his 
reasons  for  not  being  so  passive  and  swift  in  dispersing 
the  Proclamations.  There  has  not  been  any  hint 
about  them  from  the  Secretary  of  State  and  they 
clash  with  the  Preamble  to  the  Act  to  encourage  the 
fishery  etc.  Insists  on  the  value  of  the  island.  £370,000 
was  return'd  last  year  from  it  to  Great  Britain.  In 
hunting  for  provisions  last  winter  for  this  Garrison, 
in  one  private  bay,  now  called  Craggs'  Bay,  4  familys 
killed  such  a  number  of  scales  as  has  produced  370 
tunns  of  oyle,  etc.  If  what  these  proclamations 
suggests  that  H.M.  mtentions  are  to  destroy  or  remove 
the  fishery,  the  pyrates  are  doing  it  effectually.  There 
are  many  ships  drove  in  here  by  the  pyrates  who  infest 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  189 


1720. 

our  coast  etc.  Refers  to  his  scheme  for  making  roads 
etc.  V.  1st  Oct.  1719.  Continues : — These  pyrates 
have  now  destroyed  near  150  boats  and  26  ships  at 
Trepassy  and  St.  Maryes,  wch.  if  a  communication 
had  been  cut  o're  land,  had  not  been  above  two  days 
march  to  have  rescued  those  harbours  where  the 
pyrates  have  been  repairing  their  ships  for  14  days 
past.  Asks  for  particular  instructions  on  these 
points  etc.  Signed,  S.  Gledhill.  Copy.  3|  pp. 
[CO.  194.,  6.     Nos.  83,  83.i.] 

[Nov.  1.]  282.  Petition  of  William  Schef  (Schiiff)  to  the  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations.  There  are  160  families  of  Palatines 
setled  in  Schorie,  New  York,  where  they  have  built  houses  and 
mills,  improved  the  ground,  and  cleared  a  way  to  Albany,  24 
miles.  There  are  500  German  families  (3000  souls)  dwelling 
in  dispersed  habitations  in  New  York.  Prays  for  H.M.  grant 
of  the  said  valley  of  Schorie  to  the  former,  and,  to  the  latter, 
of  land  about  it  formerly  in  the  possession  of  Godfrey  Dellius, 
or  in  Mackworth  land.  Prays  that  the  petition  of  John 
Conrad  Weiser,  for  a  tract  of  land  called  Chettery,  may  be 
dismissed,  as  being  utterly  contrary  to  their  instructions  and 
the  inclinations  of  their  people,  who  earnestly  desire  to  live  a 
quiet  and  peaceable  life,  and  are  utterly  averse  to  another 
transportation  by  water,  remembering  the  loss  of  most  of  their 
young  children,  at  their  going  from  hence  to  America.  If 
they  must  be  removed,  prays  that  they  may  be  compensated 
first.  The  grant  of  the  valley  of  Schorie  to  some  gentlemen  of 
Albany,  being  made  some  time  after  they  had  seated  themselves 
therein,  at  first  to  one,  and  then  to  two  other  persons,  was 
against  the  Plantation  Laws.  Prays  for  a  copy  of  Col.  Hunter's 
Memorial,  etc.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  574.  Signed,  Johan 
Wilm.  Schef.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  1st  Nov.  1720.  2  pp. 
[CO.  5,  1052.    ff.  79,  79i\,  80i;.] 

Nov.  3.  283.  Mr.  Boone  and  Col.  Barnwell  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Enclose  following.  Pray  that  Col.  Nicholson 
may  have  instructions  relating  to  the  affair  of  the  Spaniards 
at  St.  Augustine  etc.  Represent  how  injurious  it  is  to  the  trade 
and  safety  of  H.M.  subjects  tradmg  to  Carolina,  that  any  of 
H.M.  subjects  should  furnish  the  Spaniards  there  with  arms, 
whereby  they  may  be  better  enabled  to  fit  out  their  privateers 
etc.  The  behaviour  of  Capt.  Hildersley,  H.M.S.  Flamhorough 
{v.  end.  No.  i)  in  concert  with  Col.  Rhett  {v.  end.  No.  i),  is 
very  surprizeing.  Propose,  that  such  Custom  House  Officers 
be  placed  att  the  several  ports  in  the  Plantations,  who  are  noe 
ways  either  directly  or  indirectly  concearned  in  forraign  trade 
or  are  owners  of  ships  or  other  trading  vessdls.  Signed,  Joseph 
Boone,  Jno.  Barnwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  3rd.,  Read  4th 
Nov.,  1720.     1  p.     Enclosed, 


190  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

283.  i.  William  Dry  to  Coll.  Barnwell.  Carolina,  19th  Aug. 
1720.  Some  short  time  after  yo.  imbarked,  a  body  of 
Indians  with  some  Spaniards  from  St.  Augustine 
made  a  desen:^  on  St.  Helena  killed  one  man,  and 
took  Inns  ye  tanner  wth.  severall  slaves  prisoners 
amongst  whom  yo.  had  three  or  four  {v.  June  24). 
Inns  wth,  about  50  other  white  prisners  are  return'd 
in  a  flagg  of  truce  sent  there  by  this  Governmt.  for 
yt.  purpose.  We  must  never  expect  to  live  peaceably 
here  whilst  ye  Spaniards  are  in  possession  of  St. 
Augustine,  it  is  equal  1  to  them  whether  it  is  peace  or 
warr,  that  place]  is  become  a  nest  of  pirates  and 
privateers,  they  have  lately  taken  between  us  and  New 
York  50  or  60  sail,  and  are  now  fitting  out  several 
cruisers  who  disregarding  ye  cessation  make  prizes 
of  all  yt.  come  in  their  way,  some  have  gone  from  hence 
to  demand  their  vessells  taken  since  ye  cessation, 
but  to  no  purpose  so  yt.  we  are  in  a  much  worse  con- 
dition than  if  wee  had  actual  warr.  We  have  had  two 
or  three  horse  drivers  deserted  from  us  to  ye  French, 
who  left  some  of  the  Creek  traders,  and  the  French 
who  serve  us  but  in  kind,  protect  them,  dreadfull 
will  be  ye  consequence  of  those  back  settlemts.  to 
this  province  upon  a  warr  wth.  France  in  case  ye  King 
does  not  take  care  of  us.  It  was  Rhett  sloop  manned 
with  50  of  Hildersley's  men  and  victualled  by  ye 
Country  who  alsoe  gave  Rhett  £100  for  ye  run  of  his 
sloop  to  carry  there  abt.  ye  like  number  of  Spanish 
prisners  as  she  brought  back  English.  It  was  ye 
prospect  of  makeing  a  voyage  yt.  they  had  in  view,  when 
the  thing  was  first  proposed,  and  indeed  what  they  did 
carry  they  sold  mostly  very  well,  particularly  two  chests 
of  arms,  gt.  gunns,  swords,  pistolls  etc.,  and  four  great 
gunns,  this  thing  has  made  a  mighty  clamour  abt. 
but  Rhett  throws  it  all  on  Hildersly,  and  pleads 
yt.  it  was  both  contrary  to  his  orders  and  knowledge 
yt.  such  things  were  carryed  and  to  justify  his  inno- 
cence produces  a  copy  of  a  letter  he  writt  Hildersly, 
for  yt.  as  soon  as  his  sloop  returned  he  hawlled  her 
aboard  his  ship,  and  there  discharged  without  ever 
making  any  report  to  ye  Custom  house  officers  (by 
wch.  means  she  is  forfeited  to  ye  King).  Signed, 
Wm.  Dry,  one  of  the  Commissioners  appointed  to 
correspond  with  the  Agents  in  Great  Britain.  Copy. 
1  p.     [CO.  5,  358.    ff.  52,  53t'.,  54,  54i;.] 

Nov.  3.       284.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Justices, 

Whitehall.  Enclose  cxtracts  of  letter  from  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes,  24th 
Aug.,  complaining  of  depredations  by  the  Spaniards,  and  offer- 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  19] 


1720. 

ing  reasons  for  insisting  on  the  right  of  H.M.  subjects  to  cut 
logwood  in  the  Bay  of  Campeachy,  etc.,  "  which  being  of  great 
importance  we  thought  it  our  duty  to  take  the  first  opportunity 
of  laying  before  your  Excellencies,"  etc.  [CO.  138,  16.  pp. 
270,  271.] 

Nov.  3.  285.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  Mr.  Cox,  President  of  the 
Whitehall.  Council  in  Barbados.  Mr.  Whitworth  Secretary  of  Barbadoes 
being  apprehensive  that  his  Deputy  may  have  render'd  himself 
disagreeable  by  executing  some  commands  of  Mr.  Lowther  in 
the  capacity  of  Secretary  to  him  :  and  it  being  Mr.  Whitworth's 
desire  that  his  Deputy  as  such,  should  not  interfere  in  any  dis- 
putes wherein  Mr.  Lowther  is  concern'd,  I  therefore  at  Mr. 
Whitworth's  request,  desire  that  you  will  allow  his  Deputy  to 
act  in  that  employment  and  countenance  him  in  the  due 
execution  of  his  ofRce.  Signed,  J.  Craggs.  [CO.  324,  34. 
p.  19.] 

Nov.  10.       286.     Mr.    Popple   to   Charles   Stanhope,    Secretary  to   the 
Whitohaii.  Lords  of  the  Treasury.     Encloses  extract  from  letter  of  Governor 

Sir  N.  Lawes,  31st  March,  desiring  directions  concerning  H.M. 

proportion   of  seizures.     Refers   to   letter   of  8th   July,    1719. 

The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  desire  you  will  let  them 

know  what  directions  are  proper  to  send  him.     [CO.  138,  16. 

2)p.  271,  272.] 

Nov.  11.  287.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Acknowledges  letter  of  1st  July  concerning  Mr. 
Duport's  complaint  etc.  Continues : — I  am  persuaded  that 
I  have  never  given  occasion  to  your  Lordships  to  suspect  that 
I  have  acted  in  the  affairs  of  Judicature  with  a  byassed  mind, 
and  I  hope  when  your  Lordships  shall  be  rightly  informed  of 
the  truth  of  this  case  you  will  show  to  Mr.  Duport  your 
displeasure  for  casting  an  imputation  so  foul  upon  me  etc. 
The  defendant  after  the  bill  was  filed  appeared  upon  the 
service  of  the  subpoena,  but  not  answering  the  pltf.  moved 
for  an  attachment  and  obtained  it.  Mr.  Duport  the  pltf. 
nephew  afterwards  came  to  me  at  my  house  when  I  was  at  Nevis 
and  would  have  had  me  sealed  a  commission  of  rebellion.  I 
told  him  that  I  was  going  to  St.  Christophers,  and  in  a  few  days 
would  set  in  Chancery  there,  and  bid  him  give  notice  to  the 
other  side,  and  move  for  it  by  Councel  for  that  the  defendant 
had  moved  me  to  refer  the  bill  for  scandal  and  impertinence, 
and  to  discharge  the  attachment.  No  rule  to  answer  was  given 
nor  entered  with  the  Register,  wherefore  I  ordered  them  to 
move  it  again  when  I  came  down  to  St.  Christophers,  where 
when  I  arrived  the  same  Mr.  Duport  came  to  me,  and  desired 


192  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

that  I  would  seal  the  writt  upon  his  application,  he  having  no 
Councel  to  move  it,  alledging  that  his  Councel  was  then  at  Nevis 
which  I  thought  pretty  odd,  however  acquainted  him  that  I 
had  upon  the  defendts.  motion  referred  the  bill.  My  Lords 
the  defendants  Councel  convinced  me,  that  I  ought  not  to  deny 
their  motion  nor  to  issue  the  writt  the  Plantiff  required.  Not 
to  issue  the  writt.  First  because  no  attachment  had  issued 
with  proclamation  before  which  a  commission  with  rebellion 
could  not  go,  and  next  because  it  appeared  the  attachment  had 
been  executed  and  bail  given  so  they  ought  to  have  prosecuted 
the  bail  bond,  and  no  further  process  out  of  this  Court.  And  as 
to  the  defendants  motion  as  the  attachment  appeared  to  have 
issued  irregularly  I  thought  it  ought  to  be  discharged,  and  that 
to  refer  the  bill  and  stay  all  process  till  the  report,  was  a  matter 
of  course.  The  steps  that  had  been  taken  in  this  cause  was 
what  I  did  not  retain  when  I  received  your  Lordships  letter,  and 
therefore  that  the  plaintiff  might  not  be  delayed  in  any  process 
he  was  intituled  unto  I  immediately  sent  down  such  a  writt 
(as  he  complained  to  your  Lordships  I  had  denied)  to  Lt. 
General  Mathew,  and  ordered  him  to  examine  how  the  delay 
had  happened,  and  if  he  found  it  ought  to  be  so,  to  deliver  the 
writt  to  the  Provost  Marshall  to  execute.  Mr.  Mathew  did 
examine  the  matter  accordingly  in  Council  and  returned  me  a 
copy  of  their  Minutes  etc.  And  upon  further  enquiry  into  the 
matter  etc.  I  find  it  to  stand  exactly  as  I  have  related.  My 
Lords  how  the  parties  came  to  sleep  so  long  upon  the  order  or 
the  report  to  be  so  long  delayed  I  know  not  nor  answer,  for  I 
find  no  motion  has  been  made  to  the  Court  in  it  since  April 
last,  but  they  have  stirred  in  it  since  your  Lordships'  letter, 
and  the  Master  has  reported  the  bill  to  be  scandalous,  and  there 
the  cause  now  rests.  I  have  my  Lords  to  the  best  of  my  judge- 
ment acted  conformably  to  the  rules  of  the  Court  of  Chancery 
established  here  in  the  orders  I  have  made  in  this  cause,  and  I 
assure  your  Lordships  that  I  have  not  as  Mr.  Duport  would 
insinuate  any  consideration  to  the  parties  concerned  in  any  cause 
depending  before  me,  nor  to  anything  but  the  rule  of  Justice, 
which  I  am  bound  by  an  oath,  and  all  the  tyes  of  conscience  to 
observe,  and  for  a  further  satisfaction  to  your  Lordships  of  my 
conduct  in  the  Courts  of  Chancery,  I  send  your  Lordships  a 
certificate  from  all  the  Practitioners  in  this  Island.  As  to  the 
representation  of  Mr.  Duport  about  his  expense  in  procuring 
the  stores  of  war,  I  have  represented  that  matter  to  the  Lt. 
General  and  Council,  of  St.  Christophers,  and  believe  they  have 
satisfyed  him  etc.  Signed,  W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
12th,  Read  27th  June,  1721.     3  pp.     Enclosed, 

287.  i.  Certificate  by  the  Practitioners  at  the  Bar  of  the 
Court  of  Chancery  at  St.  Xtophers.  H.E.  adminis- 
tration as  Chancellor  has  been  always  speedy  and 
impartial    etc.     15th    Dec.     1720.       Signed,     Ashton 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  103 


1720. 

Warner,  Tho.  Freeman,  Mich.  Arnald,  Wm.  Hinde, 
William  Yeamans,  H.  Pember.  Same  endorsement. 
1  p. 
287.  ii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  St.  Christophers,  25th  Oct., 
4th  Nov.  1720.  Referred  to  in  letter  above.  Same 
endorsement.  Copy.  7|  pp.  [CO.  152,  13.  ff.  224- 
226,  226(a)t;.-230i;.] 

Nov.  13,  288.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Jamaica.  Plantations,  Refers  to  enclosures,  from  which  it  will  plainly 
appear  that  I  have  done  everything  in  my  power  to  perswade 
the  Assembly  to  do  that  which  is  so  essentially  necessary  for  their 
own  good,  the  supporting  the  honour  and  dignity  of  the  Govern- 
ment and  paying  due  obedience  to  H.M.  just  commands,  but 
it  is  really  with  concern  my  Lords  that  I  find  my  unwearyed 
endeavours  for  their  interest  and  security  has  hitherto  in  great 
measure  proved  ineffectual.  Sometime  ago  I  reed.  H.M. 
commands  for  the  payment  of  the  Lord  A.  Hamilton  etc., 
whereupon  I  did  with  the  advice  of  the  Council  issue  an  order 
in  form  as  the  Law  du'ects  on  the  Receiver  Generall  for  the 
payment  thereof,  but  the  Revenue  being  considerably  in  debt 
and  the  income  thereof  being  farr  short  of  the  annual  charge 
of  the  Government  it  has  not  hitherto  been  able  to  discharge 
that  debt.  I  did  therefore  with  great  earnestness  recommend 
to  the  Assembly  {v.  Speech  enclosed)  their  reimburseing  the 
Treasury  that  I  might  be  able  to  comply  with  H.M.  just  com- 
mands therein,  but  notwithstanding  all  the  perswasions  and 
arguments  I  have  used  they  continue  still  obstinate  in  their 
resolutions  on  this  head  {copy  enclosed).  I  am  realy  at  a  loss 
what  further  to  say  on  this  subject  for  should  they  continue 
in  the  temper  they  seem  to  be  in  at  present  I  am  apprehensive 
it  may  be  a  work  of  time  before  they  enable  the  Treasury  to 
discharge  that  debt,  and  your  Lordships  cannot  be  unsensible 
that  unless  the  Assembly  reimburse  the  Treasury  it  is  not  in 
my  power  to  do  more  than  I  have  allready  done  for  his  Lord- 
ship's service  in  obedience  to  H.M.  commands.  Since  my  last 
letter  the  Assembly  have  only  passed  two  Bills  which  I  have 
given  my  consent  to  vizt.  the  Additionall  duty  Bill  which  differs 
little  from  the  former  excepting  they  lay  a  duty  of  10*.  a  head 
on  all  negroes  imported  and  20*.  a  head  on  all  negroes  exported 
by  way  of  merchandize.  Those  that  only  touch  here  for  refresh- 
ment are  exempted  from  duty  pursuant  to  H.M.  Instructions 
in  favour  of  the  South  Sea  Company,  and  a  tax  of  £1000  is  laid 
upon  the  Jews.  The  mony  ariseing  by  virtue  of  this  Law  they 
have  by  another  Bill  appropriated  for  the  fitting  out  two  sloops 
or  other  vessells  for  guarding  the  coasts  from  pirates  and  other 
vessells  from  Trinidado  who  frequently  commit  depradations 
and  acts  of  hostility  both  by  sea  and  land  upon  us.  The 
Assembly  had  severall  other  bills  on  foot  but  I  found  many  of  the 

Wt.  7595  ^■^-  32—13 


19^  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720.  . 

members  absented  themselves  from  the  services  of  the  House  out 
of  pretence  of  looking  after  their  own  private  concerns  and  that 
others  were  for  obstructing  the  publick  service  and  that  it 
was  often  difficult  to  get  a  sufficient  number  together  to  make 
a  House,  I  thought  it  therefore  proper  with  the  advice  of  the 
Council  to  give  them  a  recess  by  adjourning  them  to  the  19th 
Jan.  next,  they  haveing  first  resolved  to  subsist  H.M.  soldiers 
for  12  months  longer,  and  have  passed  a  vote  of  credit  on  the 
Receiver  Generall  to  subsist  them  till  they  can  be  provided  for 
by  a  Deficiency  Law  which  they  have  resolved  to  pass  at  their 
next  meeting.  The  revenue  being  farr  short  of  the  annuall 
charge  of  the  Government  and  the  Assembly  being  so  backward 
in  granting  supplys  puts  the  Governmt.  here  under  innumerable 
difficulties,  and  I  realy  cannot  flatter  myself  any  longer  that 
they  will  settle  such  a  revenue  as  is  requisite  for  the  honour 
and  support  of  the  Government,  or  that  they  will  sufficiently 
reimburse  the  Treasury  to  discharge  all  the  demands  that  are 
upon  it ;  and  I  am  at  a  loss,  what  method  to  propose  to  your 
Lordships  for  remedy  thereof.  I  am  unwilling  to  propose 
anything  which  may  look  harsh  in  takeing  away  any  point  of 
freedom  from  the  inhabitants  and  on  the  other  hand  it  is 
absolutely  necessary  that  H.M.  Government  here  shou'd  be 
supported,  and  I'm  afraid  unless  the  Assembly  meet  in  a  better 
temper  that  cannot  effectually  be  done.  I  fancy  it  wou'd 
alarm  them  and  incite  them  more  to  their  duty  if  a  bill  were 
ordered  to  be  brought  in  the  House  of  Commons  (tho'  never 
passed)  to  settle  a  revenue  adequat  to  the  charge  of  the  Govern- 
ment, if  your  Lordships  shou'd  approve  of  any  such  thing,  I 
woud  propose  doubling  the  quit  rents  and  adding  the  Additional 
Duty  bill  to  the  Revenue  Act  and  pass  them  for  such  a  number 
of  years  as  shall  be  thought  proper  which  together  would  raise 
a  considerable  sum  of  mony  with  ease  to  the  inhabitants  and 
render  the  Government  in  a  great  measure  independant  on  the 
Assembly  for  support ;  such  a  step  as  this  perhaps  might  awaken 
them  and  be  a  means  of  bringing  them  back  to  their  duty  etc. 
I  have  not  hitherto  reed,  any  manner  of  commands  concerning 
the  cessation  of  arms  tho'  on  our  parts  'tis  most  punctually 
observed,  I  wish  I  cou'd  say  the  like  of  the  Spaniards  they 
continue  dayly  to  molest  our  coast  and  the  pirates  are  swarming 
round  us  in  great  numbers.  About  a  fortnight  ago  a  trading 
sloop  belonging  to  the  Island  being  well  manned  and  commanded 
by  a  brisk  fellow  one  Jonathan  Barnet  did  us  a  very  good  peice 
of  service  he  was  met  by  a  pirate  vessel  at  the  Leward  part 
of  this  Island  commanded  by  one  Rackum  in  which  were  18 
pirates  more  whom  he  took  and  are  now  in  goal,  this  week  I 
intent  to  have  them  tryed  by  a  Commission  which  was  sent  me 
some  time  agoe  grounded  on  the  Statute  of  the  11th  and  12th 
of  King  William  which  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  passed  the  last 
Sessions  I  find  is  made  perpetuall.     The  Indian  King  has  been 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


195 


1720. 


Nov.  15. 

St.  James's. 


very  punctuall  in  sending  hither  the  number  of  Indians  I  agreed 
with  him  for  to  scour  our  woods  from  the  rebelHous  negroes, 
they  are  allready  fitted  with  everything  necessary  and  are  gone 
into  the  woods  in  pursuit  of  them,  and  I  hope  they  will  answer 
our  expectations  in  the  service  we  propose  from  them.  I  have 
not  hitherto  had  any  accot.  from  the  Virgin  Islands  in  relation 
to  the  proposalls  I  sent  to  the  inhabitants  there  which  makes 
me  begin  to  doubt  that  they  will  not  accept  of  the  offers  I  made 
them.  I  shall  by  the  next  opportunity  transmit  the  Acts  and 
Minutes  etc.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Jan. 
17th,  Read  March  21st,  1721.     5  pp.     Enclosed, 

288,  i.  Speech  of  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  and 
Assembly  of  Jamaica,  Oct.   4,   1720.     Same  endorse- 
me7it.     Printed.     2  pp. 
288.  ii.  Speech  of  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Assembly  of 

Jamaica.  Oct.  25,  1720.  Printed.  1  p. 
288.  iii.  Copy  of  Resolution  of  the  Assembly  of  Jamaica, 
Oct.  6th,  1720.  They  cannot  in  justice  to  the  country 
and  themselves  reimburse  the  Treasury  for  the  pre- 
tended debt  to  Lord  Hamilton  and  the  Council,  in 
case  the  Receiver  General  pay  the  same  it  being  no 
contingency  of  the  Government  within  the  intent  and 
meaning  of  the  Revenue  Act.  Same  endorsement. 
[CO.  137,  13.     Nos.  45,  45.  i-iii.] 


I  p. 


289.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  A  warrant  to  be  prepared 
for  a  Commission  for  trying  pirates  in  S.  Carolina  as  proposed 
by  the  Council  of  Trade.  The  expenses  of  passing  said  Com- 
mission to  be  allowed  by  the  Treasury  etc.  Signed,  Edward 
Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  11th  Jan.,  172t. 
[CO.  5,  358.    ff.  73,  7Sv.,  74v.] 


11  pp. 


Nov.  15.       290.     Order  of  King  in  Council.    Repealing  Act  of  Barbados 
St.  Jamos's.  for    Commuting    the    stores    etc.     Signed,    Edward    Southwell. 

'Endorsed,    Reed.     Read    11th    Jan.,    172\'.     2   pp.     [CO.    28, 

17.    //.  1,  li;.,  2v.] 

Nov.  15.       291 .     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.    Encloses  12  Acts  of  Barbados, 

Whitehall,  passcd  in  May,  1720,  for  his  opinion  thereon  in  point  of  law. 

Asks  for  reply  to  letter  of  11th  inst.,  relating  to  the    Act    of 

Henry  VI  which  prohibits  Officers  of  the  Customs  being  traders 

etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  84-87.] 


Nov.  17.  292.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Whitehall.  Craggs.  Enclosc  copies  of  memorial  and  letters  relating  to 
the  behaviour  of  the  Spaniards  at  St.  Augustine  and  to  Capt. 
Hildersly  and  Col.  Rhett,  "  which  you  will  please  to  lay  before 
H.M.,  with  our  humble  opinion,  that  H.M.  Minister  at  Madrid 
shou'd  have  directions,  to  make  the  most  pressing  instances 


196 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


at  that  Court,  that  immediate  and  effective  orders  be  sent  to 
the  Spanish  Governor  at  St.  Augustine,  to  avoid  such  proceed- 
ings for  the  future.  As  to  Capt.  Hildersley  and  Colo.  Rhett 
you  will  be  plea,s'd  to  observe,  what  is  hinted  by  the  Agents, 
relating  to  Custom  House  Officers,  to  which  we  take  leave  to 
add,  that  by  the  Statute  of  20th  of  K.  Henry  VI  Cap.  5th, 
which  we  presume  is  still  in  force.  No  Customer,  Comptroller, 
Searcher,  Surveyor  of  Searchers,  or  their  Clerks,  Deputies, 
Ministers,  Factors  or  Servants  shall  have  any  ship  of  their  own, 
use  merchandize,  keep  a  wharf,  inn  or  tavern,  or  be  a  factor, 
attorney  or  host  to  a  mereht.  on  pain  of  £40  etc.  We  have  sent 
an  extract  to  the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty  of  such  part  of  this 
letter  etc.  as  relates  to  Capt.  Hildersley."  Autograph  signatures. 
2  pp.     Enclosed, 

i.  Extracts  of  letter  from  Col.  Moore,  Sept.  6th,  1720, 

and  the  Commissioners  of  Correspondence  in  Carolina. 

1|  pp. 
ii.  Copy  of  letter  from  Joseph  Boon  and  John  Barnwell 

to  the  Council  of  Trade,     [v.  No.  283).     If  pp. 
iii.  Extract  of  letter  from  William  Dry,   Carolina,   to 

Col.     Barnw^ell,     No.    288.     i.       2i     pp.      [CO.     5, 

382.     Nos.    23,    23.    i.-iii.  ;     and   {without   enclosures), 

5,400.     pp.  137,  138.] 


292. 


292. 


292. 


Nov.  17.       293.     Mr.    Popple   to   Mr.    Burchett.     Encloses  extracts   of 
Whitehall,  papers  relating  to  Capt.   Hildersley  etc.     v.  preceding.     [C.O. 
5,  400.     p.  139.] 

Nov.  17.        294.     Same  to  Mr.  Carkesse.     Encloses  extract  of  memorial 
\.vi,i((haii.  relating  to  Col.  Rhett  trading  with  the  Spaniards  etc.  v. preceding. 
Quotes  Statute  of  20th.  Hen.  VI.  forbidding  trading  by  Customs 
Officers  etc.     [C.O.  5,  400.     pp.  139,  140.] 


Nov.  21.       295.     Mr.   Secretary  Craggs  to  the   Council  of  Trade  and 
wiiifohaii.  Plantations.      Refers     following     for     their     report     thereon. 

Signed,   J.   Craggs.     Endorsed,   Reed.   22d    Nov.,    1720,    Read 

28th  Jan.,  172 j'.    1  p.     Enclosed, 

295.  i.  Address  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  Nevis  to 
the  King.  Charles  Town,  11th  July,  1720.  Implore 
H.M.  most  royal,  gracious,  and  powerful  protection 
against  the  most  unjust  demands  comprised  in  the 
Memorial  presented  to  H.M.  Ministers  in  1717  by 
Monsieur  D'Iberville.  Continue : — We  have  pre- 
sented to  Governor  Hamilton  to  be  transmitted  to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  a  full  answer 
to  that  Memorial  etc.  proved  by  depositions  etc., 
whereby  it  will  appear,  that  the  Convention  whereon 
the  demands  of  the  French  are  founded,  was  extorted 
from  the  inhabitants  contrary  to  the  Law  of  Nations, 


AMKUICA   AxND    WEST    INDIES.  197 

1720. 

and  was  c\cn  broken  by  the  French  themselves  as 
soon  as  signed  by  them.  Hope  that  H.M.  will  secure 
them  from  those  extravagant  demands,  as  Queen 
Anne,  by  Mr.  Secretary  Hedges  assured  them  that 
she  had  it  in  her  thoughts  to  do  etc.  This  once 
flourishing  and  populous  Island  was  reduced  to  the 
great  weakness  of  not  being  able  to  defend  itself 
(having  at  the  time  of  the  French  invasion  not  400 
men  able  to  bear  arms)  occasioned  by  the  frequent 
assistances  both  of  men  and  mony,  which  it  gave  in 
the  two  late  French  wars  to  the  other  Islands,  and  in 
particular  St.  Christophers  which  was  twice  recon- 
quered from  the  French  by  the  help  of  the  inhabitants 
of  Nevis,  who  yet  in  the  time  of  their  distress  never 
reed,  the  least  assistance  from  any  other  Island  etc. 
Signed,  Richd.  Abbot,  James  Bevon,  Law.  Brodbelt, 
Mich.  Smith,  Robt.  Eleis,  Jno.  Richardson,  Jno. 
Choppine,  Na.  Bridgv/ater,  Jno.  Pinney,  Joseph 
Symonds,  Speaker  ;  John  Dasent,  William  Pymshirt, 
Richd.  Brodbelt,  Pecoq  W^alker,  Carew  Brodbelt, 
Jeremiah  Browne,  Robt.  Pemberton,  George  Webb, 
Jos.  Hobson,  Michael  Williams.  3  pp.  [CO.  152, 
13.    ff.  44,  35-46,  475^.] 

Nov.  21.       296.     Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  the  Governor  of  New  York. 
Whitehall.  By  the  enclosed  etc.  you  will  see  what  is  alledged  against  Capt. 
Crawcraft  etc.     It  is  H.M.  pleasure,  that,  if  the  sd.  allegations 
are  found  to  be  true,  the  sd.  Crawcraft  be  prosecuted  with  the 
utmost  rigour  of  the  Law,  so  that  not  only  the  Petr.  may  have 
your  utmost  assistance  in  recovering  his  rights,  but  that  the 
criminal  be  punished  in  such  a  mannner  as  his  unparalel'd  in- 
justice and  cruelty  deserve.    Countersigned,  J.  Craggs.    Annexed, 
296.  i.  Fran9ois  Jean  du  Clos  of  St.  Malo  to  M.  de  Chammorel. 
tV    Nov.     1720.       Memorialist    is    freighter    of    the 
yi/m^ie  of  Dunkirk,  Bertrand  Virmontois,  master.     The 
ship  carried  a  cargo  from  the  Canary  Islands  to  Curasao, 
and  having  discharged  it  took  on  board  a  cargo  for 
Amsterdam    partly    on   account   of   memorialist    and 
partly   of  some   Dutch   merchants.     On    her   voyage 
she  was  seized  by  a  New  York  privateer,  the  Three 
Brothers,  Capt.  John  Craucraft,  to  whom  Memorialist 
and    Virmontois     showed    their    French    Admiralty 
passeport  and  papers.     He   however  seized  the  ship, 
and  plundered  her,  having  first  transferred  her  crew 
on  board  his  own  vessel.     He  applied  torture  to  several 
of  them,  to  whom  he  presented  certain  papers  filled 
with   lies,    demanding   their   signatures.     When   they 
refused  to  sign,  he  had  them  stripped  and  tied  to  the 
tiller  in  the  shape  of  a  cross,  till  they  were  ready  to 


198  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720.  "^ 

die.  After  they  had  spent  the  night  in  this  wretched 
condition  without  consenting  to  do  what  he  desired, 
he  caused  them  to  be  suspended  by  the  arms  to  the 
rigging  of  the  ship,  and  himself  and  his  crew  cruelly 
scourged  them  till  blood  was  drawn.  All  this  time 
the  Captain  and  Memorialist  were  confined  like 
criminals.  Having  at  last  extracted  some  words 
from  these  poor  wretches  by  dint  of  torture,  he  brought 
the  ship  to  Bermuda,  27th  Sept.,  intending  to  get  her 
condemned  there.  But  the  above  facts  having  been 
sworn  to,  the  Court  of  Admiralty  there,  27th  Nov. 
1719,  ordered  restitution  of  the  ship  and  cargo  to  be 
made,  Memorialist  being  obliged  to  pay  costs.  The 
Court  of  Admiralty  not  being  able  to  take  cognizance 
of  damages.  Memorialist  was  advised  to  proceed  against 
Craucraft  in  the  Chancery  Court.  But  as  soon  as 
Craucraft  heard  of  it,  without  the  knowledge  and 
contrary  to  the  orders  of  the  Governor,  he  slipped  away 
in  the  night,  having  found  with  the  aid  of  some  fisher- 
men a  passage  hitherto  believed  to  be  impracticable. 
He  has  returned  to  New  York,  where  he  has  given 
good  security  for  his  conduct,  thus  forfeited.  Prays 
that  instructions  may  be  given  to  the  Governor  of 
New  York  to  assist  him  to  recover  damages  etc. 
Signed,  Du  Clos,  Jean.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  19-22.] 

Nov.  23.  297.  J.  Boone  and  Col.  Barnwell  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  In  reply  to  summons  to  attend  the  Board 
in  relation  to  the  bounds  of  North  Carolina,  state  what  they 
know  of  that  matter.  Signed,  Joseph  Boone,  Jno.  Barnwell. 
Set  out,  N.C.  Col.  Rec  II.  394.  Endorsed,  Reed,  23rd,  Read 
24th  Nov.,  1720.  2  closely  written  j)p.  [CO.  5,  358.  ff.  57, 
573^.,  58i;.] 

Nov.  24.  298.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Aniiapoiis  tatious.  Refers  to  letter  of  Sept.  2Qth  and  encloses  duplicates,  etc. 
Royal.  Continues : — I  have  sent  a  company  to  Cansoe,  to  remaine 
there  all  winter,  for  the  security  of  the  stages  and  other  con- 
veniencys,  till  the  returne  of  the  fishermen  in  the  spring,  accord- 
ing to  their  petition  inclosed.  Encloses  some  late  letters  from 
the  Indians,  which  shew  the  natural  inclination  of  those  people, 
to  live  in  peace  and  friendship,  with  H.M.  subjects,  if  the  priests 
would  let  them.  The  duplicates  and  copys  of  what  was  sent, 
containe  the  true  state  and  condition  of  this  Government  and 
country,  with  methods  proposed  for  establishing  the  Kings 
authority  therein,  and  bringing  it  under  obedience  to  the 
Crowne  of  Great  Brittain  (which  at  present  it  is  farr  from  being) 
which  will  be  both  an  incouragement  and  help  towards  its 
settlement.     So  that  there  remains  little  to  be  said  farther  than 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  I'JU 


1720. 


that  I  see  every  day,  more  than  other,  the  necessity  for  takeing 
such  measures,  as  may  convince  the  inhabitants,  that  this  is 
an  Enghsh  Province,  till  which  time  they  neither  will  swear 
allegiance  or  quitt  their  footing.  The  plan  of  the  forts 
projected  with  the  estimate  of  the  charge  of  each,  are 
transmitted  by  the  Engineer  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance  ;  by 
which  it  will  appeare  that  the  whole  projection  of  fortifications 
for  the  security  of  this  country,  will  not  exceed  £3000,  excepting 
what  may  be  allowed  for  the  seat  of  Government,  when  the 
scituation  thereof  shall  be  agreed  on.  I  now  most  humbly 
take  leave  for  this  winter,  hopeing  your  Lordshipps  will  be  so 
good  to  overlook  the  infirmitys  which  are  to  be  found  in  my 
letters,  etc.,  and  that  I  may  be  furnished  in  the  spring  with 
such  Instructions,  and  supplys  as  shall  be  thought  necessary 
(from  the  representations  that  have  been  made)  to  retrieve  the 
affaires  of  this  country.  Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
2nd,  Read  14th  Feb.,  17iY-     4  pjJ.     Enclosed, 

298.  i.  Indian  Chiefs  of  Passamaquadde  to  Governor  Philipps. 
Return  thanks  for  his  letter,  read   to    them  by    Mr. 
Gourdeaux,  and  H.M.  promise  of  favour  and  protection  ; 
and  his  instructions  to  his  Governors  to  show  them  all 
civility  and  kindness  so  long  as  they  behave  peacefully. 
"  We  desire  to  do  so,  for  so  long  as  our  great  King  Louis 
of  P'rance  shall  be  at  peace,  we  shall  be  so  too,  being 
assured  of  his  favour  and  protection.     W^e  can  only 
obey   his   commands,  he  being   our  ally   and   having 
always  protected  us.     You  do  us  the  honour  of  inviting 
us  to  visit  you  in  the  spring,  which  we  hope  to  do  etc. 
We  have  kept  the  peace  and  had  no  share  in  what  the 
Micquemac  did  at  Canso  and  Les  Mines.     We  knew 
nothing  of  it  till  it  was  done  and  do  not  approve 
of  it."     Pray  that  M.  Gourdeaux  may  be  sent  in  the 
Spring  to  Passamaquadde  with  a  conveyance  for  them 
to   go   and    see   the    Governor   etc.     Passamaquadde, 
23rd     Nov.     (N.S.),     1720.      Signed,    Pierbec     Roy, 
Jouagate,    Spuganti,    nephew    of   Jouagate.       I'oteni 
marks.     French.     Copy.     2    pp. 
298.  ii.  Fran9ois  de  Salle  to  Governor  Philipps.     On  behalf 
of   the    Indians    of   St.    Johns    River.      The    trouble 
caused  at  Cansoe  and  Les  Mines  by  the  Micmac  Indians, 
has  prevented  us  from  hunting,  thinking  that  war  was 
declared  by  them.     We  are  your  friends,  and  hope 
you  are  ours.     If  any  trouble  occurs  elsewhere,   we 
pray  you  not  to  impute  it  to  us,  as  we  always  desire 
luiion    and    peace.     Reminds    him    of    his    promised 
present     etc.     St.    John's    River,    Nov.    10th    (N.S.), 
1720.     Signed,  Francois  De  Salle,  his  mark.     French. 
Copy.      Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  14th  Feb.   17H?. 
If  pp. 


200  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1720. 

298,  iii.  John  Callcy  lo  Goxxrnor  Philipps.  Caiisoe,  Oct. 
1st,  1720.  Returns  thanks  for  sending  "  so  good  a 
gentleman  as  Major  Lawncc.  Armstrong  to  espouse 
our  grievances  and  settle  affaires  among  us,  which  he 
has  done  to  and  for  the  good  of  his  crowne  and  country, 
the  honr.  of  this  Goverment  and  to  the  intire  satis- 
faction of  all  the  present  inhabitants  of  Canso.  And 
for  proof  of  our  hearty  desire  for  the  good  and  settle- 
ment of  this  place  notwithstanding  our  great  losses 
and  misfortunes  have  voluntarily  and  freely  combined 
ourselves  to  a  subscription  for  conveniences  as  much 
as  we  are  able  to  shelter  this  winter  70  or  80  men  for 
the  preservation  of  this  H.M.  Plantation  and  the 
security  of  H.M.  subjects  which  we  hope  yr.  Excellcy. 
will  dispatch  with  all  convenient  speed  possible,  it 
being  so  fine  a  place  for  fishery,  that  it  cannot  be 
parrelized  no  not  in  all  America,"  etc.  Asks  for  in- 
structions, and  proposes  to  return  from  New  England 
in  the  spring  with  a  considerable  number  of  vessels 
if  the  place  be  settled  this  winter  etc.  Signed,  John 
Calley.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     3  pp. 

298.  iv.  Receipt  for  five  French  prisoners,  brought  to 
Governor  Philipps  from  Canso,  to  be  returned  thither 
and  set  at  liberty.  Signed,  Richard  Pick.  Nov.  21st, 
1720.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     1  p. 

298.  V.  Commanders  of  ships,  inhabitants  and  people 
interested  in  the  Fishery  at  Cansoe  to  Governor 
Philipps.  Fray  H.  E.  to  represent  the  case  of  their 
being  plundered  by  the  French  and  Indians  home  to 
Great  Brittain.  "  Notwithstanding  these  misfortunes 
we  arc  still  endeavouring  to  defend  H.M.  land,  and 
are  building  a  lodgment  for  military  men,  which  will 
be  finished  by  1st  Nov.,  which  shall  be  a  tight  and  warm 
lodging  and  defensable  enough  for  this  winter.  We 
humbly  hope  by  the  return  of  these  vessells  that 
military  forces  will  come.  But  if  unfortunately  they 
do  not,  we  shall  be  forced  to  leave  this  place  to  be 
destroyed  which  it  certainly  will  be  this  winter  if 
troops  come  not,  and  then  must  bid  this  place  farewell." 
Signed,  John  Calley  and  32  others.     Copy.     2  pp. 

298.  vi.  Account  of  fish,  tackle  and  goods  belonging  to  H.M. 
subjects  plundered  and  destroyed  at  Canso,  7th-14th 
Aug.  by  Filibert  de  Arquibel,  Massy,  Harrembourg, 
La  Boue,  and  many  other  French  subjects  assisted 
by  Indians  etc.  28  owners.  Total  losses,  £9086  14*. 
Endorsed  as  letter.  Copy.  llpp.  [CO.  217,  3.  Nos. 
19,  19.  i.-vi.  ;  and  {zvithout  enclosures),  218,  1.  pp. 
512-514  ;   and  {abstract  of  letter),  217,  30.     p.  13.] 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  201 


1720. 
Nov.  26.  .     299.     H.M.  Additional  Instruclions  to  Governor  Nicholson. 
St.  James's.  Relating  to  the  passing  of  money  bills.     Same  as  27th  Sept., 
q.  V.     Signed,  G.  R.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  23,  24.] 

Nov.  26.       300.     H.M.  Warrant  for  a  Commission  to  Governor  Nicholson 
wt.  James's,  etc.   for  trying  pirates   in   South   Carolma.     Countersigned,   J. 
Craggs.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  24-26.] 

Nov.  26.  301 .  H.M.  Commission  for  trying  pu'ates  to  Governor 
Nicholson,  the  Council  and  other  officers  of  South  Carolina. 
Copy.     11  pp.     [CO.  5,  387.     A^o.  15.] 

Nov.  26.       302.     Governor  and  Council  of  the  Bahama  Islands  to  Mr. 
^-  Secretary    Craggs.     Governor    Rogers    having   no    letter   from 

you  dated  since  July  1719,  and  none  from  the  Board  of  Trade 
since  his  arrival,  gives  him  and  us  great  uneasiness  lest  this 
poor  Colony  should  be  no  more  accounted  as  part  of  his  Britan- 
nick  Majesty's  Dominions  :  Indeed  we  have  various  accounts 
from  other  Colonys  that  there  is  an  intended  care  for  us  in 
England,  but  if  another  war  should  suddenly  happen  between 
Great  Brittain  and  Spam,  we  should  be  the  first  people  the 
numerous  Spaniards  from  Cuba  and  other  parts  would  attempt 
to  dislodge,  then  all  the  good  designs  at  home  would  come  too 
late  ;  And  it  may  be  presum'd  if  the  Spaniard  should  overcome 
us,  no  sett  of  people  under  the  Brittish  Government  after  so 
many  discouragements  would  adventure  to  resettle  these 
Islands,  if  they  are  not  preserv'd  now  when  they  may  be  done 
with  so  little  charge.  The  Governour['s]  bills  being  yet  refus'd 
everywhere,  he  has  been  oblig'd  to  sacrifice  his  utmost  fortune 
and  credit  to  maintain  the  garrison,  and  knows  not  when,  and 
how  this  difficulty  will  end  ;  for  Captain  Beauchamp  who  sayld 
in  July  last  from  England  bound  hither  with  recruits  is  not  yet 
arriv'd,  which  makes  us  doubt  his  safety,  and  the  trouble 
which  our  hardships  has  given  Governour  Rogers,  has  occasioned 
in  him  a  great  decay  of  health,  which  has  induc'd  him  to  go  for 
So.  Carolina  wth  hopes  to  recover  himself,  and  in  his  absence 
has  appointed  Mr.  Fairfax  Depty.  Governour,  with  whom  is  left 
all  H.*M.  powers  and  Instructions  etc.  As  the  Governor 
designs  to  write  you  himself  from  So.  Carolina  to  enclose  this, 
we  shall  only  add  our  humblest  supplications  for  your  con- 
tinued care  of  us,  and  if  it  is  our  hard  fortune  that  sufficient 
succour  should  not  be  departed  from  England  before  this 
reaches  your  hands,  that  you'l  be  pleased  to  use  your  interest 
for  our  preservation  by  dispatching  what  force  shall  be  appointed 
for  us  without  farther  loss  of  time  etc.  Signed,  Woodes  Rogers, 
W.  Fairfax,  Richard  Thomson,  Na.ell.  Taylor,  Andrew  Rowan, 
William  Spatchey,  Tho.  Barnet,  Saml.  Watkins,  Peter  Current. 
2  pp.     Enclosed, 

302.  i.  Minutes   of  Council   of  Bahama   Islands    8th   Feb.- 
Nov.  21st,  1720.     46  pp.     [CO.  23,  13.    ff.  55-80.] 


202  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

Nov.  2(5.  303.  Ciovernor  liuriiet  to  the  Council  oi"  Trade,  and  Plan- 
tations. Abstract.  The  session  of  Assembly,  ended  19th  inst., 
has  fully  answered  his  expectations,  and  provided  as  completely 
for  the  support  of  government  as  ever  was  done  in  Brigadier 
Hunter's  time.  This  was  owing  first  to  the  good  impressions 
Governor  Hunter  made  on  them,  and  next  to  their  desire  to  be 
continued  etc.  Explains  his  reasons  for  not  summoning  a 
new  Assembly  {cf.  Sept.  24),  which  could  not  have  met  till  the 
spring  and  there  woidd  have  been  no  money  to  defray  the 
charges  of  government.  The  deficiencies  are  now  provided  for, 
and  the  revenue  continued  for  five  years  longer,  till  July,  1726. 
This  is  the  main  act  passed  this  Session  and  is  exactly  in  the 
form  of  that  passed  by  Hunter.  "  The  next  in  importance  is 
to  enable  me  to  repair  the  fortifications  and  build  new  ones, 
and  for  other  incident  charges  of  government.  This  they  could 
not  be  brought  to  find  any  expedient  for,  but  laying  a  duty  of 
2  per  cent,  on  European  goods  imported  "  etc.  It  has  a  sus- 
pensory clause,  till  confirmed  by  H.M.  The  former  act  laying 
the  same  duty  for  the  same  purpose  has  expired.  It  is  hoped 
that  the  urgency  of  the  service  provided  for  will  be  thought 
sufficient  reason  to  confirm  this  act  without  delay  that  he  may 
receive  it  back  next  spring  and  set  to  work  to  renew  the  fortifi- 
cations which  are  quite  decayed  at  Albany,  Schenectady  and  Fort 
Hunter,  which  are  only  wooden  forts,  whereas  the  French  have 
several  stone  forts  in  their  country  in  very  good  repair.  He 
intends  to  build  a  new  fort  at  Niagara  and  a  small  one  at 
Onondaga.  A  third  act  is  to  prohibit  all  trading  with  the 
French  for  Indian  goods,  which  the  French  sell  again  to  the 
Indians  and  thereby  have  the  supplying  all  the  far  Indians  with 
our  goods,  who  would  otherwise  come  to  us  for  them,  and  hence 
our  own  Indians  justly  say,  the  French  build  forts  with  our 
goods.  This  trade  was  so  much  practised  by  the  leading  men 
here,  that  the  Assembly  could  never  be  brought  to  prohibit  it 
till  now,  but  finding  the  use  the  French  made  of  our  easiness 
to  them,  they  have  made  a  severe  law  against  it  etc.  The 
French  will  now  have  to  get  such  goods  as  strowds,  derfles  etc. 
from  Boston  or  Europe  at  a  great  disadvantage  in  the  price 
and  with  the  risque  of  going  up  the  river  of  Canada  to  Quebec, 
which  is  above  100  leagues  further  from  our  Indians  than 
Monreal  etc.,  and  Monreal  will  sink  to  nothing  which  now 
flourishes  by  its  trade  with  Albany  etc.  Will  send  these  and 
several  other  acts  of  this  session.  From  these  two  last  acts  he 
expects  no  less  than  restoring  our  influence  over  the  Five 
Nations  and  drawing  new  nations  of  Indians  through  their 
means  to  trade  with  and  depend  on  us.  "  For  this  reason  I 
will  do  my  endeavour  in  the  spring  without  committing  any 
hostility  to  get  our  Indians  to  demolish  a  trading  house  or 
block  house  that  is  made  musket  proof  with  port  holes  for  firing 
with  small  arm,  which  the   french  have  set  up  near  the  fall  of 


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Niagara  in  the  Sciuiekecs  country.     Tliis  is  in  open  deliance 
of  the  King's  right,  the  Sennekees  having  granted  that  land  to 
the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  before  the  French  had  ever  been 
there.     This   place   is   of  great  consequence   for  two  reasons. 
First   because   it   keeps   the    communication   between    Canada 
and  Micessipi  by  the  River  Ohio  open  which  else  our  Indians 
would  be  able  to  intercept  at  pleasure,  and  secondly,  if  it  should 
be  made  a  fort  with  souldicrs  enough  in  it,  it  will  keep  our  Indians 
from  going  over  the  narrow  part  of  the  lake  Ontario  by  this 
only  pass  for  the  Indians,   without  leave  of  the  french.     So 
that  if  it  were  demolished,  the  far  Indians  w^ould  depend  on  us 
by  means  of  the  goods  which  they  want  of  us,  and  which  the 
french  cannot  afford  to  supply  them  with,  unless  they  get  them 
from  this  province,     I  value  this  act  the  more  for  breaking  the 
neck  of  this  trade  now,  because  I  observe  in  the  last  mapp 
published  at  Paris  with  privilege  du  Roy  jjar  Mr.  de  Lisle  in  1718 
of  Louisiana  and  part  of  Canada,  that  they  are  making  new 
encroachments    on   the    King['6']    territories,    from    what   they 
pretended  to  in  a  former  map,  published  by  the  same  author 
in  1703  of  North  America,  particularly  all  Carolina  is  in  this 
new  map  taken  into  the  french  country,  and  in  words  there 
said  to  belong  to  them,  and  about  50  leagues  all  along  the  edge 
of  Pensilvania  and  this  province  taken  into  Canada  more  than 
ever  was  in  their  former  map,  whereas  really  the  nation  called 
Sonnontonors  in  that  map  and  marked  near  the  fall  of  Niagara, 
is  no  other  than  the  Sinnekees,  one  of  our  five  nations  etc.,  and 
the    other    nations  there  named  the  Goyogouen,   Onontaque, 
Oneit  and  Amniez,  are  the  Cayouges,  Onondages,  Oneides  and 
Mohocks,  who  are  the  other  four  nations,  who  have  long  since 
submitted  to  the  King's    Government  "  etc.      Calls    attention 
to  the  dispatch  and  unanimity  with  which  matters  of  such 
importance  have  been  carried  in  one  month.     Every  member 
of  the  House  concurred  in  the  address  to  him  and  in  every  part 
of  the   public  business,   except    one,   absent    from    infirmity, 
and  another  whom    they  expelled  for  affronting  the  House. 
This  has  been  the  effect  of  adhering  firmly  to  Brigadier  Hunter's 
friends,  and  not  giving  way  to  a  party  that  has  gathered  strength 
by  his  absence,  and  may  be  quite  silenced  by  what  he  now 
proposes.     "  The  Assembly  being  hearty  and  zealous,  my  whole 
difficulty  lay  with  the  Council,  and  there  I  found  the  President, 
and  six  more  firmly  combined  together  to  have  a  new  assembly, 
which  design  having  been  frustrated  by  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs 
letter  before  my  arrival,  they  thought  now  there  was  a  necessity 
for  its  taking  place,  and  then  they  were  secure  of  a  majority 
depending  on  themselves.     This  made  them  own  to  me  in  a 
free   conversation,   not  at  the   board,  that  tho'   I  had  shewn 
them  the  arguments  and  precedents,  which  I  have  sent  to  your 
Lordships  and  hope  you  have  received,  yet  they  could  not  con- 
sent to  act  with  this  assembly.     I  told  them  at  that  meeting. 


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1720. 

after  I   liad   heard  all  their  sentiments  except  one   who   was 
absent,  that  they  would  do  well  to  consider  whether  scruples 
in   which  they  did  not  pretend  to  be  certain  justified  their 
stopping  the  ordinary  maintenance  of  the  officers  of  the  Govern- 
ment who  could  not  otherwise  expect  a  shilling,  for  nine  months 
to  come,   their  neglecting  an  immediate  remedy  to  the   dis- 
affection of  the  Indians    occasioned    by    the  practises  of  the 
French,    and   their  preventing   a   provision   for  repairing  the 
fortifications  which  unless  now  made,  the  work  could  not    be 
done  next  year.     So  that  by  their  means  we  should  be  two  years 
in  a  defensless  state.     This  could  be  prevented  by  concurring 
with  the  present  assembly,  and  could  not  be  done  any  other 
way,  they  knowing  that  the  season  would  not  permit  calling  a 
new  assembly,  which  if  it  had  I  saw  no  reason  to  part  with  so 
faithfull  and  loyall  an  assembly  as  this  had  been  ever  since  the 
Kings  accession  on  which  they  were  chosen.      I  further  told 
them  they  knew  what  unwarrantable  proceedings  I  could  charge 
some  of  them  with  in  defiance  of  H.M.  instructions,  and  that 
they   might  depend  on  it,  the  Kings  business  should  not  suffer 
through  neglect  of  any  powers  lodged  with  me  to  that  end. 
This  had  the  effect  to  make  the  President  and  four  more  desire 
leave  to  go  into  the  country,  which  I  granted  them  and   which 
they  asked  that  they  might  reserve  themselves,  to  oppose  me 
on  other  occasions.     I  have  therefore  brought  matters  to  bear 
without  any  violent  measures,  but  must  earnestly  recommend 
to  your  Lordships  for  the  quiet  of  the  province  and  the  effectual 
discouragement  of  such  attempts  in  another  interval  of  like 
kind  to  dismiss  two  persons  from    H.M.    Council    viz  :    Peter 
Schuyler  and  Adolphus   Philips   etc.  ;     first   because   Schuyler 
being  eldest  Couneellour  and  President,  did  immediately  after 
Brigadier  Hunter's  departure  make  several  alterations  in  the 
officers  of  the  government  and  threaten  a  dissolution  of  the 
assembly,  for  which  he  was  reproved  and  forbid  to  proceed  by 
a  letter  from  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs,  and  all  this  he  did  by  the 
advice  of  Adolphus  Philips  who  is  known  to  govern  him,  and 
with  whom  it  is  here  notorious  that  he  trusted  the  keeping  of 
the  great  seal  during  the  time  of  his  administration.     2ndly, 
Because  Schuyler  with  the  advice  of  Philips  did  grant  away 
several  tracts  of  land  contrary  to  the  King's  instructions  No. 
101  by  affixing  the  great  seal  to  patents  before  the  land  had  been 
set  out  by  at  least  three  of  four  officers  named  in  H.M.  instruct- 
tions  etc.,  whereas  he  granted  land  under  the  great  seal,  without 
any  person  having  signed  the  eertifieate  of  setting  it  out  but 
himself,  and  then  affixed  this  certificate  to  the  patent  in  one 
label,  by  which  means  the  Great  Seal  w^as  affixed  to  a  blank, 
it   being   mentioned   in   the   certificate   that   the   four  before - 
mentioned  officers   have   certified  the  setting   out   of  the  said 
land,  and  there  being  but  one  subscriber  to  it,  and  one  of  these 


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1720. 


patents  is  now  in  my  possession.  3dly.  Because  the  said 
President  Peter  Schuyler  did  with  the  assistance  and  concurrence 
of  the  said  PhiHps,  after  having  received  the  Secretary's  letter, 
continue  to  alienate  the  minds  of  the  people  from  Brigadier 
Hunters  administration  and  discountenance  his  friends  in  a 
publick  manner,  and  it  is  well  known  here  that  the  enemy's 
to  King  George,  have  been  the  Brigadeers  greatest  enemys. 
4thly.  Because  if  I  should  dye  or  be  removed,  the  province 
would  again  come  under  the  same  administration,  and  be  in 
the  utmost  confusion.  The  President  being  a  weak  ignorant 
man  but  easily  prompted  to  do  wrong  things  by  Philips,  who 
has  been  always  an  indefatigable  enemy  to  Brigadier  Hunter, 
and  has  capacity  sufficient  to  bring  about  his  purposes  which 
have  always  tended  to  sour  the  minds  of  the  people  against  a 
support  of  Government."  Proposes  in  their  stead  Cadwallader 
Golden,  and  James  Alexander,  the  first  of  which  H.M.  has  lately 
appointed  Surveyor  General,  and  the  latter  a  gentleman  of 
good  estate  in  the  province,  and  who  has  served  two  years  as 
deputy  Secretary  with  great  approbation  from  Brigadier 
Hunter.  Continues : — Tho  by  the  12th  Instruction  I  could 
have  suspended  these  Councellours,  yet  I  am  glad  that  I 
have  time  to  have  it  done  directly  from  home,  for  I  shall  always 
be  tender  of  using  power  farther  than  is  absolutely  necessary. 
This  alteration  will  secure  a  number  of  well  affected  persons 
and  who  are  always  at  hand  to  attend  in  Council.  Of  those 
that  have  opposed  me,  one  is  come  over  to  me,  and  the  other 
are  less  stirring  and  conspicuous  so  that  I  would  not  desire  a 
further  alteration  than  is  just  necessary  to  keep  matters  easy 
on  the  happy  foot  they  now  stand,  for  as  this  assembly  is  now 
gone  in  the  best  temper  ever  an  Assembly  were  known  in,  I 
hope  to  meet  them  in  the  same  in  the  spring,  and  if  the  country 
finds  I  am  encouraged  and  supported  from  home,  they  will 
loose  all  thoughts  of  a  new  election,  all  our  heats  will  be  quite 
buried,  I  have  remitted  the  five  per  cent,  on  whale  fishing 
during  my  time,  but  require  licences  during  pleasure  to  be  taken, 
which  is  asserting  the  Kings  right  tho'  I  neglect  my  own  profit, 
for  the  encouragement  of  that  trade,  and  this  has  had  a  very 
good  effect  in  the  country  etc.  I  cannot  forbear  laying  before 
your  Lordships  a  favourite  project  of  my  own  which  if  approved, 
I  have  no  great  doubt  of  accomplishing.  When  I  get  the  Kings 
presents  to  the  Indians  which  I  hope  wUl  be  dispatched,  I 
propose  to  go  into  the  Indian  country  through  the  five  nations, 
and  give  them  these  presents  at  their  own  homes,  when  I  come 
among  the  Sinnekees,  I  will  propose  to  them  my  design  to  build 
a  fort  at  Niagera,  and  I  leave  a  whole  company  of  souldiers  to 
guard  it,  and  be  a  defence  to  the  Indians  against  the  french, 
and  to  make  this  succeed  the  better  I  intend  to  give  land  to  the 
officers  and  souldiers  and  to  the  palatines  and  all  others  that  will 
settle  there.     By  this  means  in  a  year  or  two  the  country  which 


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1720.  ~~ 


is  very  fruitfull  will  maintain  it  self  and  be  the  finest  settlement 
in  the  province  because  it  is  seated  in  the  pass  where  all  the 
Indians  in  our  dependance  go  over  to  hunt  and  trade  with  the 
far  Indians,  it  will  likewise  make  it  practicable  to  have  another 
settlement  above  the  fall  of  Niagera  where  vessels  may  be  built 
to  trade  into  all  the  great  lakes  of  North  America  with  all  the 
Indians  bordering  on  them,  with  whom  we  may  have  an  im- 
mense trade  never  yet  attempted  by  us,  and  now  carryed  on  by 
the  french  with  goods  bought  from  this  province.     The  map  will 
show  the  vast  extent  of  this  trade  if  once  settled  and  the  fort 
at  Niagera  will  secure  us  from  being  interrupted  by  the  french 
in  it.     What  makes  this  project  most  feasable  is  that  this  land 
about  Niagera  was   solemnly  given  to  this   province   by  the 
Natives,  but  as  we  have  made  no  use  of  it,  the  french  have  often 
molested  the  Indians  there  and  kept  them  in  awe.     It  will  also 
be  necessary  to  have  a  small  fort  at  Onondaga,  which  is  half 
way  between  Albany  and  Niagera  to  secure  the  communication 
between    them.      There   occurs   no   objection   to   me    against 
carrying  on  this  undertaking,  but  that  it  may  disoblige  the  french, 
but  I  think  that  is  answered  when  I  consider  how  they  are 
always  attempting  to  draw  away  our  Indians  from  us,  and  even 
to  set  their  own  Indians  on  destroying  our  plantations,  as  I 
suppose  your  Lordships  have  had  a  late  account  from  Governour 
Philips  of  their  contriving  the  disaster  of  Carso  in  Nova  Scotia. 
This  has  no  remedy  but  being  as  active  as  they  in  drawing 
Indians  into  our  interest,  which  our  ability  to  furnish  them 
with  European  goods  is  alone  sufficient  to  do,  if  we  can  but  come 
at  them,  and  prevent  the  french  from  interrupting  us.     Besides 
the  greatest  part  of  these  Indians  are  either  yet  unknown  or  at 
least  independent  and  too  distant  to  be  treated  by  them  or  us 
any  other  ways  than  upon  the  square  by  a  fair  trade  for  their 
furrs  in  exchange   for  our  woollen  goods."      Urges    for    this 
purpose,   confirmation   of  the   Act   for  repairing   and   making- 
fortifications,  etc.     Asks  for  a  sign  manual  "  for  Philip  Leving- 
ston  Esq.  to  be  Secretiary  of  the  Indian  Affairs  for  the  reasons 
assigned  in  the   inclosed  memorial,   from   Robert  Levingston 
his  father,  who  has  enjoyed  that  office  under  King  William  and 
Queen  Anne,  by  virtue  of  their  sign  manual,  etc.,  and  this  I  am 
the  more  earnest  in,  because  Robert  Levingston  is  Speaker  of 
the  Assembly,  and  has  been  always  serviceable  to  Brigadier 
Hunter,  and  has  now  been  of  the  greatest  use  to  me,  both  in  the 
assembly,  and  in  laying  open  the  true  state  of  affairs  with  the 
Indians  which  others  endeavoured  to  conceal  from  me,  that 
they  might  continue  the  profit  they  make  by  this  pernicious 
trade,  so  that  this  act  prohibiting  it  is  cheifly  owing  to  the 
Speaker."     Urges  dispatch  of  presents  to  the  Indians,  stores 
to  the  forts  and  the  instruction  he  desired,  which  will  make  any 
assembly  tractable.     P.S.  Nov.  27.     Since  I  finished  my  letter 
the  Secretary  brought  me  the  Act  to  lay  a  duty  of  tzvo  pounds  on 


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1720. 

every  hundred  pounds  value  prime  cost  of  all  European  goods 
imported  into  this  Colony  etc.  The  duty  there  laid  of  2  per  cent, 
on  European  goods  was  the  main  support  etc.  Refers  to  Acts 
of  1691,  1692,  1693,  1699  and  1702,  which  continued  the  duty 
till  170t),  Continues  :  I  know  of  no  reason  why  this  Act  has 
not  been  continued  since,  but  that  my  Lord  Clarendon  made  so 
ill  a  use  of  the  publick  money  by  misaplying  it  and  squandering 
it  away  that  the  Assembly  would  not  repose  that  trust  and 
confidence  longer  in  a  govcrnour,  and  indeed  would  not  give 
any  revenue  for  four  years  after  Brigadier  Hunter  arrived,  and 
then  but  a  scanty  one.  Whereas  now  his  prudent  and  just 
administration  has  brought  the  Assembly  which  he  left  into  a 
better  temper,  etc.  Hopes  no  objection  will  lie  against  it,  it 
being  an  easy  trifling  duty  on  the  importer  and  of  the  greatest 
service  to  the  province.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  576.  Signed, 
W.  Burnet,  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Read  18th  Jan.,  172^ 
Holograph.     15  pp.     Enclosed, 

303.  i.  Petition  of  Robert  Livingston  to  Governor  Burnet. 
New  York,  17th  Nov.  1720.  Appointed  Secretary 
of  the  Indian  affairs  and  town  clerk  and  clerk  of  the 
peace  and  common  pleas  in  Albany  in  1695,  petitioner 
has  only  received  two  years  salary  since  the  death  of 
King  William.  Prays  that  his  son  who  has  acted  as  his 
deputy  to  the  general  satisfaction  for  14  years,  may  be 
granted  H.M.  commission  for  those  employments  with 
the  allowance  of  £100  out  of  H.M.  quit  rents  etc. 
Signed,  Rt.  Livingston.  1  p. 
303.  ii,  iii.  Patents    of   Robert   Livingston  as  in   preceding, 

1696,  1705.  Copy.  2^  pp. 
303.  iv.  Lords  Commissioners  of  the  Treasury  to  the  King. 
Recommend  R.  Livingston  for  a  salary  of  £100  as 
above.  2nd  Jan.  1696.  Copy.  1  ]j. 
303.  V.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  i6th  Jan.,  1696.  Grant- 
ing £100  salary  to  Mr.  Livingston.  Copy.  1  ]).  The 
whole  endorsed.  Reed.  16th,  Read  18th  Jan,  1720. 
[CO.  5,  1052.  ff.  129-137,  138-139  ;  140,  141,  142i;.  ; 
and  (extract  from  letter)  5,  1092,     No.  16.] 

Nov.  28.  304.  Col.  Hart  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Encloses  following,  lately  received  from  Maryland.  Signed, 
Jo.  Hart,  Endorsed,  Reed,  28th,  Read  29th  Nov.,  1720.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

304.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Mr.  Dixon,  Collector  of 
Customs  for  the  district  of  Potomack  in  Maryland, 
28th  Aug.  1720.  The  affidavits  taken  by  ye  Govr. 
of  Providence  concerning  ye  French's  having  made 
themselves  masters  of  some  of  the  silver  mines  near 
Mexico,  and  of  their  being  so  formidable  in  those  parts 
by  the  accession  of  great  numbers  of  the  Indian  Nations 


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1720.  '■ 

as  to  put  the  Spaniards  upon  their  guard  to  defend 
that  metropoHs.  'Tis  even  said  that  they  frequently 
pass  and  return  to  and  from  their  settlements  to  the 
northward.  If  they  do  get  a  footing  so  near  the  foun- 
tain head  of  New  Spain,  'twill  turn  to  much  better 
account  than  planting  tobacco  in  the  Missisippi 
Country  ;  but  if  any  such  thing  is  to  be  apprehended 
our  Ministers  at  ye  Congress  'tis  to  be  hoped  will 
forbid  ye  bands,     f  p.     [CO.  323,  8.     Nos.  16,  16.  i.] 

Nov.  29.  305.  Mr.  Popple  to  Governor  Burnet.  Encloses  copies  of 
wiiitehaii.  petitions  of  Palatines  (20th  and  28th  .July)  and  Brigadier  Hunter's 
letter  thereupon  (26th  July).  Continues :  The  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations  desire  you  will  acquaint  them  with  ye 
true  state  of  the  several  settlements  of  the  Palatines  in  your 
governrnxcnt,  and  endeavour  to  settle  those  among  them  who 
behave  themselves  with  dutiful  submission  to  H.M.  authority, 
and  are  destitute  of  means  of  subsistance,  upon  such  convenient 
lands  as  are  not  already  disposed  of.  Encloses  copies  of 
Governor  Spotswood's  letter  to  Col.  Schuyler  relating  to  the 
behaviour  of  the  Five  Nations  and  the  answer  of  the  Council 
of  Trade,  14th  July.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  581  ;  [CO. 
5,  1124.     P2J.  241,  242  ;  and  [corrected  draft)  5,  1079.    No.  120.] 

[Nov.  29]  306.  The  Case  of  William  Penn  Esq  ;  Proprietary  Governor 
of  Pensilvania,  and  of  Joshua  Gee,  Henry  Gouldney,  Silvanus 
Grove,  John  Woods,  and  others,  Mortgagees  under  the  said 
William  Penn.  In  1708,  to  clear  a  debt  which  he  contracted 
for  the  settling  and  improving  the  lands  granted  to  him 
(described)  Penn  borrowed  of  said  mortgagees  £6600.  For  the 
securing  whereof,  with  interest,  he  mortgaged  the  said  Countries, 
and  ail  his  powers  of  Government,  to  them  :  And  the  principal 
money,  and  some  interest,  is  still  unpaid.  Refer  to  negotiations 
for  purchase  of  his  Governments  by  the  Crown,  he  demanding 
£20,000.  The  report  of  the  Lords  Commissioners  for  Trade 
was  referred  to  the  Lords  Commissioners  of  H.M.  Treasury, 
and  soon  after  an  agreement  was  made  with  him,  for  an  allow- 
ance of  £12,000,  to  be  paid  him  at  several  payments  (v/hereof 
£1000  was  paid)  in  consideration  of  a  surrender  of  his  Govern- 
ments ;  and  a  draft  of  such  surrender,  and  of  an  instrument  of 
H.M.  acceptance  of  it,  was,  by  Her  Majesty's  Order,  prepared 
by  Her- then,  and  now  Attorney  General.  But  before  those 
instruments  were  executed,  the  said  William  Penn  being  seized 
wdth  an  apoplexy,  w^hich  disabled  him  to  perfect  the  same, 
H.M.,  in  Council,  order'd  the  said  agreement  to  be  compleated 
by  Act  of  Parliament.  Note  in  M.S.  :— The  £1000  was  paid 
by  warrt.  9th  Sept.  1712  which  is  entred  at  the  treasury 
Chambers.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  29th  Nov,  1720.  Printed, 
1  p.     [CO.  5,  1265.     No.  152.] 


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1720. 
Nov.  30.  307.  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs  to  the  Governor  of  the  Leeward 
^\hitehall.  Islands.  Complaint  having  been  made  to  H.M.  that  not- 
withstanding the  signification  of  his  pleasure  to  you,  31st  Dec. 
1718,  you  have  granted  to  James  Ward  30  acres  of  a  plantation 
in  the  possession  of  John  Douglas  Esqr.  or  trustees  for  him 
etc.  encloses  jjetition  and  order  of  SI st  Dec.  1718,  that  it  may 
be  effectually  obeyed  ;  and  it  is  H.M.  pleasure,  in  case  you  have 
not  complied  therewith,  that  you  give  me  your  reasons,  why 
you  have  forborn  to  put  the  same  in  execution.  H.M.  likewise 
is  pleased  to  order,  that  you  give  an  account,  whether  you 
have  granted  to  others  than  the  actual  possessors,  part  of  a 
small  piece  of  land  in  the  town  of  Basseterre,  mentioned  in 
the  petition,  and  if  you  have,  for  what  reasons  you  have  made 
such  a  grant.     Signed,  J.  Craggs.     Annexed, 

307.  i.  Petition  of  John  Douglass  to  the  King.     Petitioner 
having  the  whole  substance  of  his  family  advanced 
in  the  settlement  of  a  plantation,  which  he  has  legally 
possessed  since  1711  in  the  late  French  part  of  St. 
Christophers  etc.,  James  Ward    endeavoured  to  dis- 
turb him  in  the  enjoyment  of  30  acres  thereof,  against 
whom   petitioner  obtained   a   judgment.      But    upon 
Ward's  petition  to  reverse,  the  Governor  ordered  John 
Davis  the  President  of  St.  Kitts  to  give  him  possession ; 
which  order  Col.  Davis  did  not  think  proper  to  comply 
with,  as  judging  it  contrary  to  law.     Petitioner  was 
soon  after  favoured  with  H.M.  order,  June  25,  1718, 
to  quiet  him  in  the  injoyment  of  his  lands,  yet  is  still 
deprived  of  the  benefit  thereof,  the  GoveruOT  having 
given  a  grant  for  the   abovementioned   30  acres  to 
Ward,  altho'  he  had  received  H.M.  positive  order  to 
the  contrary.     This  proceeding  gave  Ward  a  handle 
to  renew  his  suit  at  Common  Law,  and  the  Judges 
being  uncertain  by  what    authority  they  are  to  take 
cognizance  of  matters  in  controversy  relating  to  the 
late  French  part   of  St.  Christophers,  tho't  it  most 
advisable  not  to  contradict  the  Genl.'s  grant  and  gave 
Ward  possession  of  the  30  acres  etc.     There  is  also  a 
small  piece  of  land  in  the  toNvn  of  Basseterre,  formerly 
granted  in  petitioner's  younger  brother's  name,  Mr. 
George  Douglass,  very  necessary  for  a  storehouse  for 
petitioner's  plantation,  which  tho'  there  was  a  general 
Order  not  to  dispossess  any  present  possessors,  the 
General  gave  grants  for  great  part  of  to  others.     Prays 
for  redress  etc.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  26-29.] 

Nov.  30.       308.     Mr.  Heathcote  to  Lord  Parker.     Refers  to  enclosures 

New  York.  "  of     the     greatest     moment     and     importance."     [Wossibly 

memorials   of  23rd  Aug.  and  lUh  Sept.      Ed.]     Concludes  :    I 

should  conclude  my  self  guilty  of  the  highest  ingratitude  and 

Wt,  7r><.)5  C.P.  32— U 


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1720. 

disloyalty  to  my  Royal  Master  as  well  as  injustice  to  my  country 
to  be  silent  when  all  H.M.  Plantations  in  America  are  at  stake 
which  without  a  vcr}^  speedy  remedy  I  dare  venture  to  say  on 
the  first  irruption  with  France  will  be  most  certainly  ruined  and 
destroyed  etc.  Signed,  Caleb  Heathcote.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1092. 
No.  17.] 

Nov,  30.  309.  Col.  Hart's  replies  to  the  Queries  propos'd  by  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  in  relation  to  Pensylvania. 
(i)  Pensylvania  is  situated  on  the  western  side  of  the  River 
Delaware  etc.  The  soil  is  various,  towards  the  river  it  is  of  a 
light,  and  seemingly  barren  sand,  but  valuably  improvd  by  the 
industry  of  the  inhabitants  :  Further  from  ye  water  the  richer 
the  soil,  of  a  deep  black  mould,  and  produces  by  nature  what 
the  most  fruitful  parts  of  that  continent  does  ;  and  by  art 
whatever  is  necessary  for  life,  Delaware  River  is  one  continued 
harbour  and  very  commodious  for  navigation,  the  months  of 
Dec,  and  Jan.  excepted,  being  then  frozen  up — other  rivers 
there  are  none  of  consequence  to  trade.  The  climate  is  more 
agreeable  to  Brittish  constitutions,  than  ye  Southern  colonies. 
Longitude,  Latitude  from  40  to  43  northern.  (ii)  Quotes 
boundaries  by  Charter,  (iii)  The  Constitution,  Cf.  Charter, 
Adds.  The  greater  part  of  the  inhabitants  being  Quakers,  some 
of  their  judges,  and  most  of  their  Council,  Burgesses,  Justices 
of  the  Peace  and  other  officers  are  of  that  people,  (iii)  The 
trade  which  centers  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  grows  consider- 
ably. The  bulk  of  their  commerce  is  to  the  West  Indies  and 
Madera,  with  lumber,  beef,  pork,  wheat  and  flower  :  and  have 
in  return  from  ye  West  Indies  rum,  sugar,  mollosses,  cotton  and 
Spanish  money  :  and  from  Madera  wine  and  bills  of  excha., 
which  last  are  sent  to  London.  They  likewise  build  many 
brigantines  and  sloops  on  purpose  for  sale  to  the  West  Indies  etc. 
(v)  The  inhabitants  wear  the  same  cloathing,  and  have  the 
same  utensills  in  their  houses,  as  is  in  use  in  Great  Britain  from 
whence  they  have  them  ;  and  it  is  computed  the  annual  con- 
sumption of  British  manufactures  is  from  50  to  £60,000.  (vi)  I 
know  of  no  trade  carry'd  on  to  foreign  Plantations  except  the 
Maderas.  In  Europe  they  trade  to  Lisbon,  Cadiz  and  Alicant, 
where  they  send  pipe  staves,  plank,  timber,  wheat,  and  fish 
purchased  from  New  England  :  At  Lisbon  they  frequently 
dispose  of  their  shipps  with  the  cargoe,  and  have  their  returns 
by  the  way  of  London  or  Bristol.  Some  return  to  the  Isle  of 
May  and  load  salt,  others  to  the  Madera's  for  wine  wch.  they 
dispose  of  in  the  west  Indies.  (vii)  Besides  the  Royal  Instruc- 
tions given  to  the  Lieut.  Governor,  H.M.  has  three  Collectors 
of  the  Customs  in  that  Province  to  prevent  illegal  trade  ;  and 
I  do  beleive  the  same  is  effectual,  (viii)  Their  staple  com- 
modities are  wheat,  beef,  pork  and  lumber.  Manufactures 
none,     (ix)  Iron  in  abundance,  but  no  other  mines  that  I  have 


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1720. 


heard  of.  (x)  The  annual  produce  of  the  commodities,  including 
the  whole  trade  of  the  Province,  is  computed  at  more  than 
£100,000.  (xi)  The  number  of  the  whites  are  said  to  be  60,000  ; 
black  about  5000.  (xii)  The  inhabitants  are  greatly  increased 
of  late.  By  importation  of  great  numbers  of  Palatines  ;  By 
many  families  from  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  by  servants  and 
artificers  from  Great  Britain,  (xiii)  The  inhabitants  being 
eight  in  ten  Quakers,  the  doctrine  of  non-resistance  has  too  much 
prevail'd  where  they  have  had  the  power,  as  in  effect  that  has 
been  from  ye  first  settlement  of  the  Province,  so  that  if  there  is 
any  Militia,  it  is  a  late  establishment,  (xiv)  There  is  an  old 
ruin'd  Fort  at  New  Castle  with  6  useless  iron  gunns  near  it ; 
If  this  Fort  (which  I  am  informed  was  made  by  the  Dutch)  were 
put  into  good  condition,  it  would  effectually  secure  the  naviga- 
tion of  Delaware,  the  channel  of  that  river  lying  within  musket 
shot  of  ye  Fort — other  forts  none,  (xv  and  xvi)  The  number  of 
Indians  cannot  be  certainly  known,  for  that  they  live  remote  in 
ye  woods ;  But  I  have  been  inform'd  by  the  freind  Indians  of 
Maryland  ;  that  there  are  many  great  Nations  beyond  the  river 
Susquehanagh,  which  are  the  neighbouring  Indians  of  Pensyl- 
vania  :  If  their  strength  be  known  it  is  to  the  Indian  traders,  who 
out  of  a  covetous  disposition,  generally  conceal  what  discoverys 
they  make.  Onestogo  is  the  principal  Indn.  towne  and  fort 
on  Susquehanagh,  where  the  Governor  of  Pensylvania,  usually 
goes  onct  in  the  year  to  renew  ye  Peace  with  the  Indians.  The 
Indians  during  my  residence  in  Maryland  seemd  to  be  very 
well  inclind  to  the  English  ;  But  I  am  inform'd  they  begin  to 
threaten  war  with  Pensylvania  ;  and  as  these  menaces  do  not 
affect  that  Province  alone,  it  is  the  general  opinion  in  the 
Plantations,  it  is  done  at  the  instigation  of  the  French  :  and  I 
am  pers waded  the  conjecture  is  founded  on  good  reason  ;  For 
the  Indus,  towards  the  Lakes,  have  a  constant  correspondence 
with  the  French  traders,  nor  woud  they  quarrel  with  ye 
English  but  on  ye  prospect  of  greater  profit  from  the  French 
now  those  savages  have  no  sense  of  gratitude,  and  tho'  they 
may  have  receiv'd  the  kindest  treatment  from  the  English, 
yet  if  the  French  can  pers  wade  ym,  it  is  their  interest  to  destroy 
our  Plantations  they  will  endeavour  to  effect  it.  (xvii,  xviii) 
The  French  settlements  have,  as  yet,  no  other  effect,  on  H.M. 
Plantations,  then  '  by  debauching  the  Indians  in  freindship 
with  us  to  their  interest :  By  which  they  will  always  have  it  in 
their  power  to  disturb  our  outward  settlemts.  and  so  put  the 
several  colonies  to  an  excessive  charge  to  guard  their  frontiers. 
By  this  unfair  method  (during  the  Peace)  the  French  will  carry 
on,  their  so  long  projected  scheme,  without  inteniption,  of 
securing  an  intercourse  on  the  back  of  our  Plantations  from 
Canada  to  Mississipi.  And  if  the  accounts  I  have  be  true,  that 
the  French  have  actually  possessed  themselves  of  some  of  the 
silver  mines  near  Mexico,  and  that  their  veiws  are  a  conquest 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 


Nov.  30. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  30. 


of  New  Spain. — In  such  a  case,  I  am  humbly  of  opinion,  the 
acquisitions  of  the  French  in  America  would  have  the  same 
effect  on  H.M.  Plantations  there  that  their  conquest  of  Flanders 
and  Holland,  would  have  on  Great  Britain  in  Europe,  (xix) 
The  Revenue  arising  in  that  Government  is  by  an  excise  on  beer, 
ale  and  other  liquors  made  in  the  country,  by  a  duty  on  rum 
from  ye  West  Indies,  and  on  wines  of  European  growth.  By 
the  fees  of  the  Seals  of  the  Province.  By  a  duty,  instead  of 
tonnage,  called  a  let-pass  ;  all  which  are  apply'd  for  ye  support 
of  the  Governor  ;  and  other  exigencies  of  Governmt.  (xx)  The 
ordinary  expences  of  the  Governmt.  are  very  frugally  managed, 
and  amount  to  an  inconsiderable  sume.  The  expences  extra- 
ordinary I  take  to  be  to  the  Governour,  which  as  Mr.  Keith  has 
inform'd  me,  do  not  amount  to  more  than  £1200  current  money 
of  ye  Province,  which  makes  about  £800  sterling,  (xxi)  The 
establishment  for  ye  civil  affairs  of  ye  Governmt.,  are,  besides 
the  Governor  and  Council,  for  ye  administration  of  justice,  the 
six  Cheif  Justices,  who  hold  their  Courts  four  times  in  the  year 
at  Philadelphia,  which  Courts  discharge  the  dutys  of  ye  Kings 
Bench,  Common  Pleas  and  Exchequer,  and  I  am  lately  informd 
the  Governor  has  erected  a  Court  of  Chancery  there.  Each 
separate  County  has  their  Quarter  Sessions  held  by  ye  Justices 
of  the  Peace,  and  have  Sheriffes  and  conestables  as  in  England. 
The  city  of  Philadelphia  is  govern'd  by  a  Mayor  and  Aldermen, 
who  hold  their  own  Courts  to  datermin  affairs  within  their  own 
jurisdiction.  Military  establishments  none.  I  know  of  no 
officers  that  hold  bv  patent  from  ye  Crown.  Signed,  Jo.  Hart. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  30th  Nov.,  1720.  Read  7th  Sept.,  1721.  1\  pp. 
[CO.  5,  1266.    ff.  17-20,  22i'.] 

310.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Craggs.  Enclose  extract  of  letter  from  Maryland  {v.  28th  Nov.), 
relating  to  the  attempts  and  strength  of  the  French  in  America 
etc.     [CO.  324,  10.     pp.  290,  291.] 


311.  Mr.   Popple  to  Horatio  Walpole,   Auditr.   General  of 
Whitehall.  H.M.  Plantations.     Encloses,  as  requested,  H.M.  Instructions 

to  the  Govr.  of  New  York  relating  to  the  Revenue  and  grants 
of  land,  and  extracts  of  letters  from  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood 
relating  to  some  pirates'  effects  (22nd  Dec.  1718,  26th  May 
1719).      [CO.  324,   10.     p.   291.]    • 

312.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Re- 
commend John  Robinson  for  the  Council  of  Virginia  in  the  room 
of  Wm.  Cocke,  deed.     [CO.  5,  1365.     pp.  222,  223.] 

313.  Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.  In  reply  to  30th  Aug., 
encloses  list  of  ships  entered  and  cleared  in  S.  Carolina  for  three 
years  ending  Christmas  last.  Signed,  Cha.  Carkesse.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  3rd  Dec,  1720,  Read  26th  June,  1722.  Addressed. 
f  p.     [CO.  5,  358.    ff.  143,   144i>.] 


Dec.  2, 

Whitehall 


Dec.  3. 

Custom  ho. 
Ix)ndon. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  213 

1720. 

Dec.  3.       314.     Horatio  Walpole  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 

Dover  street,  tions.     Asks  foF  claims  made  upon  piratical  effects  imported 

into  Barbados  and  submitted  by  Mr.  Lowther  etc.     Signed,  H. 

Walpole.     Endorsed,  Reed.  3rd,    Read    14th  Dec.  1720.     1  p. 

Enclosed, 

314.  i.  List  of  14  ships  that  imported  piratical  effects  into 
Barbados  according  to  the  account  giv^en  into  the  Treasury 
by  Mr.  Lowther.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     Nos.  100,  100.  i.] 

Dec.  6.  3**  5'  M^-  Willard  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  Minutes  and 
Secretaries  Acts  of  Assembly  for  sessions  of  May  25  and  July  15,  1720  and 

Office,  Minutes  of  Council  to  end  of  Aug.  1720  etc.  Signed.  Josiah 
Boston.  willard.  Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  Jan.  17HV,  Read  8th  June, 
1721.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  60,  61t;.] 

Dec.  7.  316.  Copy  of  H.M.  waiTant  for  £1000  to  be  advanced  to 
William  Penn  in  part  payment  of  £12,000,  to  be  paid  when  the 
deeds  of  surrender  and  conveyance  of  his  powers  of  Government 
of  Pennsylvania  and  other  places  in  those  parts  are  perfected. 
Windsor.  9th  Sept.  1712.  {v.  29th  Nov.)  Signed,  Oxford. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  7th  Dec.  1720.  Copy.  2  pp.  [CO. 
5,  1265.     No.  153.] 

Dec.  7.  317.  Memorial  of  some  Gentlemen  of  Barbados  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Robert  Lowther  before 
leaving  the  Island,  having  put  all  the  offices  civil  and  military 
into  the  hands  of  such  persons  as  he  hoped  would  prevent  an 
examination  into  his  male  administration,  arbitrarily  and 
illegally,  and  without  any  just  grounds,  removed  Samuel  Cox 
from  the  Council,  thereby  to  prevent  his  being  President,  and 
left  the  Government  in  the  hands  of  John  Frere,  as  has  been 
fully  proved  before  their  Excellencys  the  Lords  Justices  in 
Council.  The  Governor  well  knowing  that  the  suspension  of 
Cox  could  never  bear  examination,  passed  an  Act /or  the  better 
preserving  the  peace  and  tranquility  of  the  Island,  thereby  re- 
voking and  annulling  the  powers  granted  by  H.M.  Commission 
to  Presidents  and  Commanders  in  Chief,  and  altering  the  very 
constitution  of  the  Island,  and  making  the  consent  of  7  Members 
of  Council  necessary  to  the  placing  or  displacing  any  civil  or 
military  officer,  whereas  five  with  the  Governor  or  Com- 
mander in  Chief  have  always  been  a  Quorum  etc.  There  are 
at  present  but  eight  Members  of  Council  in  the  Island  ;  so  that 
by  the  law  aforesd.  any  two  Members  have  a  negative  etc.  The 
Lords  Justices  have  restored  Cox,  who  will  probably  ignore 
the  said  law  etc.  Pray  for  the  Board's  report  upon  it.  Signed, 
Robert  Havers,  Abel  Alleyne,  J.  Walter,  Wm.  Walker,  Timothy 
Salter,  Tho.  Pindar,  J.  Blenman,  William  Savage.  Endorsed, 
Reed.     Read  7th  Dec,  1720.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  15.     No.  99.] 


214 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1720. 

Dec.  9.       318.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.   Secretary 

Whitehall.  Craggs.     Enclose  extract  of  letter  from  Governor  Hamilton,  3rd 

Oct.,  giving  an  account  of  the  increase  of  pirates  etc.,  to  be  laid 

before    H.M.    for    his    directions    thereupon.     [CO.    153,    13. 

pp.  459,  460.] 

Dec.  12.  319.  Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Boston.  tions.  I  did  myself  the  honour  to  write  in  June,  July  and 
August  but  have  not  as  yet  had  the  favour  of  any  answer.  I 
have  made  it  my  utmost  indeavours  according  to  the  fresh 
Instructions  I  received  in  October  last  was  twelve  months  to 
preserve  the  timber  in  H.M.  woods  in  these  Provinces,  and  have 
given  out  the  strictest  orders  to  the  Custom  House  Officers  to 
prevent  the  exportation  of  timber  to  Spain,  and  have  also  issued 
out  proclamations  to  prevent  any  further  stroy  in  the  Royal 
woods,  which  has  in  some  measure  had  its  desired  effect,  but  the 
most  eff ectuall  way  to  prevent  these  ill  practices  will  be  to  procure 
an  Act  of  Parliament  to  prevent  the  exportation  of  timber  to 
Spain,  from  the  American  Plantations,  and  also  that  in  thatAct 
a  clause  may  be  incerted  whereby  any  person  felling  any  timber 
in  these  Provinces  fitt  for  masts  shall  be  obliged  to  prove  either 
to  the  Conmiander  in  Chief  or  the  Surveyor  Genii,  or  his  Depty. 
that  these  masts  were  not  cut  down  in  the  Royal  woods  etc.  The 
Indians  have  of  late  killed  many  of  the  cattle  and  insulted 
H.M.  subjects  in  the  Eastern  settlemts.  So  soon  as  I  had 
received  certain  information  of  these  insolences  I  sent  down 
250  men  with  a  sutable  number  of  officers  to  put  a  stop  to  these 
violences  and  have  obliged  them  to  promise  to  make  satisfaction 
for  the  damage  that  they  have  done  and  to  send  some  of  their 
chiefs  hostages  to  Boston  there  to  remain  untill  they  have 
performed  the  same  ;  and  have  also  obliged  them  to  continue 
with  me  for  the  further  security  of  those  Eastern  Settlements. 
Signed,  Samll.  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  1st  Feb ;  Read  7th 
March,  17i'i'.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

319.  i.  Accounts  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay, 
30th  May,  1719-1720.  Receipts,  £46,710  155.  9d. 
Passed  by  the  Assembly  13th  July,  1720.  Signed, 
Jer.      Allen.      Same    endorsement.      Copy.     28|     pp. 

319.  ii.  Accounts  of  the  Treasurer  of  New  Hampshire,  1718, 
1719.  Expenditure,  £1140  0*.  lid.  Balance,  £197 
16*.  Id.  Passed  by  the  Assembly,  28th  May,  1720. 
Signed,  Saml.  Penhallow.     Same  endorsement.     3  pp. 

319.  iii.-v.  Accounts  of  stores  of  war  expended  and  remaining 
at  Fort  William  and  Mary  at  New  Castle,  New  Hamp- 
shire, Oct.  1717-27th  May,  1720.  Signed,  Robert 
Coates,  gunner,  and  J.  Wentworth.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 3pp.  [CO.  5,  868.  ff.  10,  lOy,  lit',  12,  13-19, 
20-27,  29-321).] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  215 


1720. 
Dec.  14.  320.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Whitehall.  Craggs.  Enclose  extracts  of  letter  from  Governor  Burnet 
relating  to  French  intrigues,  presents  to  the  Five  Nations, 
and  ordnance  stores  needed  (24th  Sept.),  "  which  we  desire 
you  will  lay  before  H.M.  with  our  humble  opinion,  that  it  is 
of  great  importance  to  H.M.  service  that  the  usual  presents  to 
the  5  Nations  of  Indians  who  are  our  greatest  security  against 
the  French  and  their  Indians  be  continued,  and  that  the 
necessary  stores  be  sent  for  the  defence  of  the  Province,  with 
directions  to  H.M.  said  Governor  to  require  the  Assembly  to 
provide  for  the  reimbursement  of  the  charge  thereof."  [CO. 
5,  1124.     pp.  243,  244.] 

Dec.  14.       321 .     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Appointing  John  Robinson 
Whitehall,  to  the  Council  of  Virginia,  v.  2nd  Dec.     Signed,  Robert  Hales. 

Endorsed,    Reed.     Read    11th    Jan.    \l^.     li   pp.     [C.O.    5, 

1319.     No.  2.] 

Dec.  14.  322.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Craggs.  Enclose  copy  of  Governor  Philipps'  letter  (Aug.  6th). 
Continue :  We  shall  only  observe  the  necessity  of  sending 
such  a  force  to  this  Province  as  may  balance  the  loss  of  the 
French  inhabits,  and  make  H.M.  authority  more  revered  in 
those  parts  pursuant  to  our  report  of  Aug.  30th  etc.,  to  which 
we  would  beg  leave  to  add  that  in  our  opinion  it  is  highly 
necessary  for  H.M.  Service,  that  either  a  small  man  of  war 
should  be  appointed  to  attend  on  this  Colony  or  that  the  Govr. 
should  be  allow'd  according  to  his  own  proposal  to  hire  a  sloop 
for  the  defence  of  that  coast  and  the  preventing  of  illegal  trade 
there.     [C.O.  218,  1.     p.  494.] 

Dec.  14.  323.  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
NewYork.  tious.  Begins  with  duplicate  of  26th  Nov.  Encloses  acts 
passed  that  session,  and  urges  speedy  confirmation  of  act  laying 
a  duty  of  2  p.c.  on  European  goods  etc.  Describes  act /or  a  five 
years  support  of  government.  There  is  an  alteration  made  from 
that  passed  by  Brigadier  Hunter  m  the  article  by  which  peculiar 
favour  was  given  to  vessels  belonging  to  the  colony.  He  has 
got  the  words  added,  or  of  Great  Britain.  The  act  prohibiting 
trade  with  the  French  in  Indian  goods  does  not  prohibit  trade 
in  goods  consumed  by  Christians,  because  the  Assembly  thought 
the  country  gained  by  that  trade,  since  they  take  no  corn  or 
absolute  necessaries  of  life  from  us,  but  only  such  things  as 
promote  luxury  among  them.  This  occasioned  their  restraining 
the  penalty  to  goods  which  the  French  can  sell  again  to  the 
Indians  etc.  Enumerates  six  other  acts,  and  encloses  Minutes 
of  Council  17th  June-28th  Nov.,  1720,  and  list  of  ships  entered 
and  cleared  for  last  two  quarters.     Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs. 


216  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1720. 

\^  582.  Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed.  24th,  Read 
28th  Jan.,  172','.  New  matter  in  his  own  hand.  11|  pp.  [CO. 
5,  1052.    ff.  143-1481;.] 

Dec.  17.  324.  Report  of  Committee  of  Privy  Coimeil  upon  a  petition 
Whitehall,  of  WilUam  West,  Peter  Longueville  and  others,  praying  to  be 
heard  upon  a  report  from  the  Lords  Commissioners  of  Trade 
upon  a  former  petition  of  theirs  {v.  C.S.P.  21st  May,  1718)  to 
make  a  settlement  between  Nova  Scotia  and  Maine  etc.  Having 
heard  petitioners  by  their  Council,  and  the  Duke  of  Hamilton 
and  Mr.  Dummer,  Agent  for  the  Massaehusets  Bay,  in  opposi- 
tion to  them,  and  likewise  examined  General  Nicholson,  who 
'  recovered  the  said  lands  from  the  French  in  1710,  and  likewise 
perused  several  drafts  and  maps  etc.,  report  their  opinion  that, 
"  the  whole  tract  of  land  and  islands  between  the  Province  of 
Main  at  the  River  of  Sagadehock  als.  Kennebeek,  and  St.  Croix, 
may  be  erected  by  your  Majesty  into  a  Government  under  such 
Governour  as  your  Majesty  shall  think  fitt  to  appoint.  That 
the  lands  lying  within  the  said  tract  from  the  River  of  Kennebeek 
to  the  banks  of  the  River  of  Penobscoott  shall  be  enjoyed  by  the 
present  Proprietors  and  possessors  according  to  their  several 
rights  and  titles,  and  that  so  much  of  it  as  has  not  been  granted 
to  any  purchaser  or  person,  the  same  shall  be  at  the  disposal 
of  the  Colony  of  the  Massaehusets  Bay,  paying  such  quit-rent 
as  your  Majesty  shall  think  fit,  upon  condition  that  the  said 
Colony  do  renounce  and  give  up  to  H.M.  all  right,  title  or  claim 
of  theirs  to  any  of  the  lands  to  the  North  of  the  River  Penobscot, 
either  in  the  Province  of  Main  or  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  all 
claim  to  the  right  of  Government  in  any  of  the  lands  to  the  East 
of  the  River  of  Kennebeek  on  condition  that  they  mark  out  the 
said  lands  in  one  year  after  the  grant  shall  be  made,  and  settle 
the  same  in  two  years  afterwards.  That  as  to  the  lands  to  the 
north  of  the  River  Penobscot  unto  the  river  of  St.  Croix,  the 
petitioners  have  made  out  your  Majesty's  right  to  grant  the 
said  lands  to  such  persons,  and  under  such  quit  rent  and  reserva- 
tion as  your  Majesty  shall  think  fit."  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read 
25th  Nov.,  1729.  Communicated  from  the  Council  Office. 
25th  Nov.  1729.     3  pp.     [CO.  217,  5.    ff.  125-126i;.] 

Dec.  17.  325.  Lt.  Governor  Gledhill  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
piacentia.  Plantations.  The  severity  of  last  winter  occasioned  great 
success  in  destroying  of  swayles  insomuch  that  in  our  next  Bay 
they  kill'd  such  numbers  as  produced  upwds.  of  170  tunn  of 
oyle.  The  entry  of  our  fishery  look'd  very  promiseing  but 
much  incomoded  wth.  pyrates  etc.  The  late  storms  have  done 
much  damage  to  the  small  fishing  boats  as  well  as  the  intire 
loss  of  the  Hercules,  250  tunns,  and  3  other  ships,  includiiig  the 
Betty  gaily  laden  with  provisions  and  eloathing  for  ye  garrison, 
nothing  saved   but  the  men  etc.     There  was  two  open  boats 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


217 


1720. 


Dec.  20. 

South 
Caiolina. 


Dec.  21. 

South 
Carohna 


full  of  Indians  seen  from  St.  Peters  but  suppos'd  to  be  only  a 
party  a  hunting  from  the  Main  etc.  for  they  have  done  no  damage. 
Since  yor.  Ldps.  thinks  opening  a  passage  by  land  (to  St.  Johns, 
Bay  Bulls,  Trepassy,  St.  Marys  etc.)  impracticable,  I  humbly 
propos'd  to  yor.  Ldps.  That  a  post  be  fixed  to  goe  evry  14  days 
to  each  pt.  of  this  land  wch.  may  be  done  with  only  the  Govts, 
licing  att  ye  expence  of  4  small  boats  to  transpt.  the  post  over 
the  Bays  of  Trinity  St.  Maryes  etc.  such  correspondence  wo'd 
Ijc  mighty  usefull  not  only  in  case  of  such  accidents  as  have 
occurr'd  last  year  but  in  point  of  trade  etc.  Signed,  S.  Gledhill. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  7th  Aug.,  1721,  Read  5th  July,  1722.  Holo- 
graph.    3  pj}.     [CO.  194,  7.     ff.  64-65i^.] 

326.  Governor  Rogers  to  [?  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs].  This 
day  fortnight  I  arrived  here.  The  sea  air  in  comeing  and  the 
cold  weather  here  has  made  me  much  better  then  when  I  left 
Providence.  The  vessell  that  brought  me  returnes  in  a  day  or 
two  wth.  what  supplys  I  can  gett.  Wee  have  a  report  that  there 
is  a  new  coepartnership  for  improveing  the  Bahama  Islands 
who  are  sending  out  two  ships  with  recruites  and  stores  butt  as 
I  have  no  letter  I  cannott  tell  what  to  expect.  Itts  verry 
surprising  that  I  can  have  no  answer  from  home.  I  am  sure 
nott  deserved  such  treatment  from  the  gentlemn.  conserned. 
I  humbly  intreate  you'll  procure  H.M.  leave  for  my  absence. 
If  nott  already  come  I  depend  to  meete  itt  att  Providence  and 
that  Generll.  Nicholson  will  arrive  timely  enough  for  my  seeing 
him.  before  I  leave  this  place  wch.  I  hope  I  shall  be  able  to  doe 
in  a  small  vessell  in  about  fourteene  days.  This  comes  by  Mr. 
Ockold  a  Lieutent.  of  the  Garrison  that  has  my  leave  to  return 
home  for  his  health.  I  doubt  Lieutent.  Beauchamp^  that  the 
necessity  of  my  affaires  obliged  me  to  recommend  to  you  etc. 
has  behaved  verry  dishonourably  tov/ards  me  for  I  have  nott 
had  a  line  from  him  all  the  time  he  was  in  England  and  I  heare 
he  has  acted  to  my  disadvantage.  I  pray  God  forgive  him  for 
I  believe  I  shall  never  see  him  more.  If  what  I  heare  is  true 
he  is  a  most  ungratefull  man.  I  shall  trouble  you  farther  hence 
and  I  expect  itt  will  be  by  this  conveyance  be  pleased  to  excuse 
any  omission  and  allow  me  to  have  an  opportunity  as  soone  as 
possible  to  wait  on  you  that  I  may  justifye  my  owne  conduct 
demonstrate  my  duty  to  my  King  and  Country  etc.  Signed, 
Woodes  Rogers.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

326.  i.  Minutes  of  Council  of  the  Bahama  Islands,  8th  Feb.- 

26th  Nov.,  1720.     46  pp.     [CO.  23,  13.    ^.55-80.] 

327.  Governor  Rogers  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs.  Refers 
to  enclosure.  Continues  : — Having  no  manner  of  intelligence 
from  home,  of  my  affairs,  and  to  my  great  concerne  hearing 
the  vast  confusion  ye  fall  of  stocks  has  made  etc.,  I  have  resolved 
to  delay  what  I  designed  to  have  proposed  by  Drs.  Rowan  and 


218  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

Sinclair  {v.  enclosed),  till  I  can  get  home  myself,  that  what  I 
shall   lay  down,   may   not  at  this  juncture  put  ye  Govermt. 
on  a  rash  attempt,  and  to  emply  such  as  will  inevitably  dis- 
apoint  so  glorious   an    undertaking,    that  if  rightly  executed 
can't  in  all  humane  probability  fayl  of  successe,  to  yc  vast 
advantage  of  our  dear  Country,  and  disapointment  of  all  sorts 
of  its  enemies  and  competitors  ;    for  wch.  reason  I  am  resolved 
to  wait  on  you  myselfe,  everything  that  I  have  been  able  to 
propose  having  hitherto  been  stifled  or  a  wrong  use  made  of  it 
since  I  left  London,  and  to  prevent  ye  like  for  ye  purpose  and 
yt.  ye  bearer  may  not  be  misled  as  Luet.  Beachamp  and  others 
has  been  to  my  prejudice,  I  have  not  let  him  know  the  contents 
of  what  he  brmgs  you  etc.     Pray  sir  rely  and  beleive  I  have 
something  to  impart  that  is  of  more  consequence  than  you  can 
at  this  distance  almost  imagine  or  beleive,  and  unless  I  have 
vastly  more  encouragemt.  to  stay  then  I  have  hopes  to  expect 
by   ye   ships  yt.     I    hear  on  their  departure  from  Londn.,  to 
Providence,  I  shall  on  my  returne  thither  hold  myselfe  in  ready- 
nesse  as  soon  as  I  can  put  my  affairs  in  order,  and  wait  no 
longer  then  till  the  beginning  of  April  when,  whether  I  have 
leave  or  not,  I  shall  return  hither  and  visit  Governr.  Nicholson, 
and  ad  what  information  I  may  meet   here,  and  then  set  out 
for  London.     I  beg  Sir,  you'l  be  pleased  with  out  losse  of  time 
to  honor  me  with  a  few  lines,  and  ye  bearer  has  orders  how  to 
dispatch  it  hither  yt.  I  may  meet  his  Majesty's  leave  of  absence, 
if  not  obtained  before,  though  if  it  is  not  here  in  time,  I  shall  not 
wait  depending  it  is  granted  or  will  be  by  that  time.     I  intend 
to  send  Doctr.  Rowan  on  pretence  tis  on  trade  to  ye  Havana 
where  he  will  be  well  received  and  from  thence  I  beleive  he  must 
go  to  Movill  and  Pansecola,  unlesse  I  can  get  intelligence  by 
some  other  good  hands.     Pray  God,  France,  and  Spain,  don't 
joyne  abroad,  the  French  now  most  certamly  drives  at  it,  and 
I  am  sorry  to  find  so  great  a  prospect  of  effecting  it ;  But  yet 
I  beleive,  good  Sir,  yt.  nothing  this  way  may  be  sett  on  foot,  to 
prevent  it,  without  proper  measures  are  first  very  well  concerted, 
for  if  you  employ  an  Expedition  in  these  parts  as  accustomary 
it  will  most  certainly  miscarry  and  it  is  time  enough  and  will 
be  so  after  my  arrival,  and  ye  consequence  of  a  miscarriage  may 
be   pernicious,   and   disapoint   anything   of  consequence   after 
my  arrival ;   Indeed  Sir  I  am  as  sure  as  it  is  possible  a  man  can 
be  before  he  has  been  employed,  yt.  what  I  shall  advance  may 
be  executed  before  its  known  in  Europe,  and  if  begun  with  a 
noyse  or  even  discover'd  by  either  France  or  Spain  too  early 
at  home  in  Europe  ye  whole  may  be  desapointed,  wh.  can't 
if  prudently  undertaken.      I  long  to  demonstrate  what  I  here 
do  but  hint  at.     I  have  now  wrot  Governr.   Pitt  and  Paul 
Docminique  Esq.   each  a  long  letter  yt.  they  may  apear  my 
Patrons  to  ye  rest  of  ye  concerned  if  in  earnest  to  improve  ye 
Bahama  Islands  etc.     P.S.  Ye  letter  of  18th  July,  1719,  is  ye 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  219 

17-20. 

last  I  am  honored  wth.  from  you.     Signed,  Woodes  Rogers. 

Endorsed,  ^.Ms.vch.  22,11  Tj'i.     Addressed.     Sealed.     Holograph. 

3  pp.     Enclosed, 

327.  i.  Undertaking  upon  oath  to  keep  the  following 
information  secret.  N.  Providence,  25th  Nov.,  1720. 
This  information  corroborates  former  observations 
made  by  Governor  Rogers  and  approved  by  sundry 
eminent  merchants  and  gentlemen  of  experience ; 
and  since  by  several  English  and  French  who  have 
toucht  here  in  their  passage  to  and  from  Mexico  etc. 
Signed,  Woodes  Rogers,  W.  Fairfax,  Andrew  Rowan, 
Geo.  Sinclair.  1  p. 
327.  ii.  Deposition  of  George  Sinclair,  native  of  No.  Brittain. 
Deponent  sayld  from  Jamaica  in  the  Johnson  frigat 
Capt.  Winter  Commander,  and  arriv'd  in  the  Bay  of 
Campeachy  on  or  about  1st  Aug.  1714  in  order  to 
cut  logwood,  sd.  Sinclair  having  about  20  servants 
and  slaves,  where  they  were  employed  about  12  months, 
when  the  Bay  was  attackt  and  taken  by  the  Spaniards, 
who  made  sd.  Sinclair  a  prisoner  carrying  him  to 
Tobasco,  where  the  Governour  lying  dangerously  ill 
of  the  dropsy,  some  of  the  English  prisoners  inform' d 
sd.  Governour,  that  Sinclair  was  a  physician  etc.,  who 
undertaking  the  cure  in  little  time  performd  it  etc. 
He  was  sent  to  Cuidad  Royal  to  cure  the  Bishop  who 
lay  ill  of  the  gravel,  also  several  other  Fathers  of  the 
Convents,  all  which  were  cured.  After  which  was 
sent  for  to  Oahocea  and  thence  to  Mexico,  on  the 
request  of  the  principal  ecclesiasticks  there,  where, 
after  two  years  travel  in  the  country  he  was  taken  into 
the  palace  to  attend  the  V.  Roy  as  physician,  and 
remained  three  years,  when  his  mony  and  effects 
amounting  to  40,000  dollars  in  value  was  taken  from 
him  by  the  K.  of  Spain's  order,  wch.  came  after  the 
effects  of  the  Assiento  Company  had  been  seized 
throughout  the  Spanish  Dominions  :  Then  the  envy 
and  jealousie  of  the  other  Spanish  physicians  invented 
a  forg'd  story  to  be  told  of  Sinclair  to  the  V.  Roy, 
who  sent  him  prisoner  to  the  Havana,  thence  to  be 
sliipt  for  Old  Spain,  where  the  V.  Roy  said,  if  Sinclair 
could  recover  his  money,  he  would  there  have  liberty 
to  try  for  it.  By  his  practising  of  physick  and 
travel  throughout  the  chief  parts  of  the  Kingdom  of 
Mexico,  and  the  new  Kingdom  of  Leon,  he  gained  a 
perfect  knowledge  of  the  Spanish  language,  whereby 
he  was  admitted  into  a  great  freedom  of  converse 
both  with  the  Spaniards,  and  the  Cossaicks  or  Chiefs 
of  the  Indians.  The  latter  of  which  seem'd  more 
particularly  to  desire  a  friendship  with  him,  and  would 


220  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 


constantly  repeat  the  hardships  and  slavery  they  were 
under,  and  with  a  promising  joy  would  as  often  wish 
they  had  other  masters  than  the  Spaniards.  They 
exprest  in  general  that  they  esteemd  the  French,  but 
had  a  better  opinion  of  the  lenity  of  the  English  Govern- 
ment. The  Indians  seem'd  everywhere  so  opprest 
by  the  heavy  taxes  impos'd  on  them,  that  no  numbers 
would  be  wanting  to  joyn  a  few  troops  or  men  that 
would  free  them  from  the  tyrannical  Spaniard. 
Sinclair  observ'd  that  the  priests  were  obnoxious  to 
most  of  the  Spaniards  as  well  as  the  whole  Indians, 
for  by  their  dissolute  way  of  living,  by  the  extravagant 
taxation  of  bulls,  indulgencies,  and  other  Church 
artillery  too  scandalous  to  be  continued  in  Europe, 
are  here  improvd  to  that  degree  that  no  person  was 
assurd  of  his  own  weldoing,  but  when  bought  and 
pronounct  so  from  the  mouth  of  the  Priest.  The 
City  of  Mexico  which  lyes  about  80  leag.  N.E.E.  from 
La  Vera  Cruz  is  seated  in  a  fine  open  country  in  the 
midst  of  a  lake  unguarded  on  all  sides,  insomuch  that 
before  the  late  cessation  of  arms  the  V.  Roy  had  great 
apprehensions  from  the  French  encroachments,  who 
had  taken  three  mines  by  the  assistance  of  the  Indians, 
only  led  by  one  Frenchman  who  had  made  his  escape 
out  of  the  City  of  Mexico  with  about  20  ordinary 
fellows  who  had  been  prisoners,  at  which  time  Sinclair 
perceiv'd  that  the  V.  Roy.  was  extreamly  uneasy, 
especially  after  the  V.  Roy  had  detacht.  about  500 
horse  and  500  foot  to  break  and  stop  the  first  motion 
of  the  French  and  Indians,  which  horse  and  foot  were 
totally  cut  to  pieces,  as  a  second  detachment  had 
found  on  the  spot  mangled,  and  then  thro'  fear 
return'd  to  give  that  sad  account  to  the  V.  Roy,  on 
which  he  releas'd  about  40,000  of  the  most  sencible 
Indians  who  inhabit  round  the  City  of  Mexico  of  half 
their  accustomd  taxes  ;  And  if  the  war  had  been 
prolongd  the  sd.  Sinclair  judges  the  V.  Roy  would 
have  taken  of  the  whole  impost  to  gain  the  lost  affect- 
tions  of  those  Indians  ;  for  on  the  first  account  of 
the  cessation  of  arms  the  V.  Roy  orderd.  the  bells  to 
ring,  bonefires  and  all  other  tokens  of  joy,  at  the  same 
time  printing  the  D.  of  Orleans  order  for  the  French 
to  stop  their  progress,  without  which  there  was  another 
strong  body  of  French  and  Indians  which  design'd  to 
joyn  the  aforesd.  body,  which  in  all  probability  would 
have  taken  the  City  of  Mexico,  and  then  easily  have  con- 
quer'd  the  whole  Spanish  Dominions  thereabouts.  All 
these  things  occurring  to  sd.  Sinclair's  knowledge  being 
seven  months  afterwards  in  the  Palace,  and  acquainted 


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1720. 

with  everything  worth  notice  in  the  Court  till  the  latter 
end  of  August  last  when  he  was  sent  to  La  Vera  Cruz 
etc.  ut  supra.,  for  till  that  time  he  kept  his  coaches 
and  was  csteem'd  the  V,  Roy's  chief  favourite.  During 
which,  he  casually  saw  and  read  a  letter  from  the  K.  of 
Spain,  which  lay  forgot  on  the  V.  Roy's  table,  wherein 
he  exprest  a  great  want  of  mony  in  Madrid  for  the 
designs  he  had  on  foot,  for  which  purpose  he  had 
order'd  two  men  of  war  with  other  galleons  to  fetch 
such  bullion  or  bars  of  silver  as  could  be  got  ready, 
for  said  the  K.  of  Spain,  other  Nations  recoyn  my 
mony,  and  by  putting  in  allay  make  great  advantage 
of  the  recoynage,  therefore  am  resolv'd  to  improve 
that  myself,  for  which  purpose  would  have  all  the 
mint  houses  forbid  coining  any  more  money  than 
what  is  to  serve  the  currency  of  my  Dominions  abroad. 
Dr.  Sinclair  having  been  imprison'd  in  the  Inquisition 
before  he  was  known  to  the  V.  Roy,  was  judg'd  by 
all  the  Spaniards  to  be  so  intelligent  in  the  customs 
and  manners  of  the  IMexicans,  that  he  believes  that 
to  be  one  of  the  chief  reasons  of  his  being  ordered 
prisoner  to  Old  Spain  to  conceal  him  from  the 
conversation  of  the  world  etc.  As  he  has  by  some 
friends  in  the  Havana  made  his  escape,  he  hopes  in 
few  months  to  wait  in  person  with  Governour  Rogers 
on  the  Lord  Townshend  and  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs, 
to  whom  he  will  make  an  ample  discovery  of  the 
strength  pollicys  and  designs  of  the  Mexican  Spaniards 
and  Indians  etc.  Signed,  Geo.  Sinclair.  3^  pp. 
[CO.  5,  387.     Nos.  16,  16.  i.,  ii.] 

Dec.  22.       328.     Mr.  Popple  to  Horatio  Walpole,  Auditor  General  of 
Whitehall,  the  Plantations.     Reply  to  3rd  Dec.     Encloses  papers  relating 
to  Mr.  Sitwell's  claim,  and  refers  to  the  Treasury  and  Minutes  of 
Council  of  Barbados  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  88,  89.] 

Dec.  24.       329.     William    Hammerton   to    Lord    Carteret.     Prays   for 

So.  Carolina,  his  protection  and  support  in  the  Commission  he  holds,  against 

the  intrigues  of  Mr.  Trott,  who  is  making  interest  with  the  Lords 

Proprietors  for  a  young  fellow  of  this  place  etc.     Signed,  William 

Hammerton.    Addressed.    Sealed.    1  p.    [CO.  5,  387.     No.  17.] 

Dec.  24.       330.     H.M.  Warrant  appointing   Thomas  Tickell,  Secretary 
St.  Jamos.  of  Virginia  in  the  room  of  William  Cock,  deed.     Countersigned, 
J.  Craggs.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  33.] 

Dec.  24.       331.     Mr.    Keen   to    Mr.    Popple.     Since   the    departure    of 

St.  Johns.    H.M.   ships   has   been   committed  a   wilfull  murder  at   Petty 

Harbour  uppon  one  Thomas  Foard  one  of  the  greatest  imployers 

in  the  fishery  in  Newiland.   the  persons  supposd  guilty  of  the 


222  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

^^20  -  - 

fact,  I  have  apprehended  and  kep  at  my  own  charge  together 
with  two  person  as  evidence  and  now  send  them  in  my  sloop 
to  have  their  tryall.  As  here  is  neither  power  or  authority 
left  with  any  persons  to  prevent  the  man}^  evills  and  outrages 
dayly  committed  in  this  place  and  places  adjacent  after  the 
departure  of  H.M.  ships,  wee  that  reside  here  are  in  danger  of 
being  murtherd  and  obleadged  to  suffer  the  insults  of  a  lawless 
people  and  unless  care  be  taken  to  appoint  some  persons  with 
authority  to  reside  here  the  winter  wee  shall  not  be  able  to 
follow  our  lawfull  ocasions  but  must  leave  our  estates  to  the 
mercy  of  wicked  and  desperate  men.  Their  Lps.  will  be  pleasd 
to  observe  that  I  am  at  all  the  charge  of  apprehending  men- 
taining  and  sending  home  prisoners  and  witnesses  nor  have  I 
any  power  or  authority  for  so  doeing  unless  being  one  in  Com- 
mission for  the  tryall  of  pyracy  robery  and  murther  committed 
at  sea.  It's  greatly  hop'd  their  Ldpps.  will  consider  of  some 
means  to  prevent  the  growing  evills  amongst  us  and  procure 
for  us  such  power  and  instructions  as  may  keep  us  from  being 
destroy 'd  etc.  Signed,  W.  Keen.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  1st 
April,   1721.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

331.  i.  Petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  Petty  harbour  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Pray  that  justice 
may  be  done  to  the  offenders  above,  and  encouragement 
given  to  such  usefull  and  able  men  as  Mr.  Keen  etc. 
They  labour  under  severe  difficulties  for  want  of  a 
resident  authority  at  St.  John's  and  are  in  danger 
of  their  lives  from  their  servants  etc.  Signed,  Edwd. 
Andrews  and  9  others.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 
[CO.  194,  7.    //".  21-22z;,  237'.] 

Dec.  25.  332.  Office  accounts  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Sept.  29-Dec. 
25,  1720.  V.  Journal  of  Council.  [CO.  388,  77.  Nos.  95,  97, 
99.] 

Province  of  ^^^"  ^*'  Governor  Wentworth  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
New         Plantations.     I  was  willing  to  take  hold  of  so  fair  an  opertunity 

Hampshire,  by  Mr.  Bridgcr  to  tender  my  dutifull  respects,  etc.  Mr.  Arm- 
strong was  sworen  25th  Nov.  etc.  How  far  it's  consistant  with 
H.M.  intrest,  that  the  power  of  the  woods  and  the  port  should 
be  in  the  hands  of  one  and  the  same  officer,  your  Lordships  are 
the  best  judges.  Mr.  Armstrong  is  a  good  Collector,  but  for 
his  knowledge  of  the  woods,  he  will  confess  himselfe  a  stranger 
etc.  H.M.  woods  will  not  be  so  well  managed  by  a  deputy  as 
by  a  Generall  Surveyor,  whose  name  carries  a  greater  sound  of 
power  etc.  Refers  to  Mr.  Bridgcr  for  an  account  of  the  woods. 
Continues  : — He  is  an  honest  gentleman,  and  what  has  been 
wrote  home  against  him,  by  way  of  complaint,  has  been  cheifely 
for  his  asserting  H.M.  right  to  the  woods  etc.,  and  those  that  were 
the  greatest  complainers  were  our  unkind  neighbours  of  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


223 


1720. 

Massechiisets  who  are  and  desier  to  be  strangers  to  all  Kingly- 
power.  Their  actions  make  it  manifest,  by  the  carrage 
to  the  King's  Officer  more  especially  those  yt  are  more 
emediatly  from  the  Crown.  They  lay  very  heavvey  burthens 
upon  us  too  heavey  for  us  to  bear,  notwithstanding  wee  are 
under  one  and  the  same  Govermt.  yet  they  take  opertunities 
to  pass  such  acts  as  oppresess  us  very  greately  ;  They  lay  a 
tunnage  of  2*.  pr.  tun  on  all  our  coasting  vessills,  they  make  us 
pay  duble  light  money,  just  duble  what  there  one  vessil  pay, 
they  impose  on  us  duble  dutyes  on  all  merchandize,  if  they  pay 
20s.  for  a  hhd.  of  wine  we  pay  forty,  and  so  on,  we  have  suffred 
it  for  some  time  past,  but  we  hope  to  bring  our  Assembly  in  to 
make  reprizall  on  them.  They  have  had  the  greatest  part  of 
there  lumber  from  this  Govermt.  for  many  years.  We  are 
in  great  hopes  your  Lordships  will  make  a  setlemnt.  of  the  lyne 
between  the  Province  of  New  Hampshier  and  Masethusets,  its 
a  great  pitty,  ye  Rivers  were  not  the  boundiares,  that  is  from 
Merrimack  to  Piscataqua  River  and  so  West  into  the  country, 
from  Merrimack  sea  and  North  up  Pisckataqua  River.  That 
Avould  enlarge  our  little  Provence.  We  have  furnished  our 
Agent  Mr.  Newman  with  the  best  draft  and  light  we  can  give 
him  into  our  bounds,  indeed  we  can't  claime  much  more  then 
we  a  posesion.  I  shall  do  everything  lyes  in  my  power  to  assist 
Mr.  Armstrong  in  the  execution  of  his  office.  Signed,  Jno. 
Wentworth.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Bridger)  8th  Feb. 
irr;.     Read  5th  July,  1722.    3  jjp-    [CO.  5,  868.   ff.239-24.0v.] 

Dec.  26.       334.     H.M.    Warrant    granting    to    Thomas    Betts,    Naval 
St.  James's.  Officer    in    Jamaica,    further    leave    of  absence  for  one  year. 
Countersigned,  J.  Craggs.    Cojnj.    [CO.  324,  34.    pp.  30-32.] 


Dec.  26. 

St.  Johns, 
Nfland. 


335.  Mr.  Keen  to  Mr.  Popple.  Refers  to  enclosed  papers 
relating  to  a  grant  of  a  salmon  fishery  undertaken  by  him  and 
George  Skeffington  to  the  north  of  Cape  Frills.  "  The  whole 
charges  of  the  undertaking  were  advanced  by  myself,  but  did 
not  answer  the  expectation  nor  pay  the  outsett  by  £120  sterl." 
etc.  Refers  to  an  order  he  obtained  from  Capt.  Scott  to  protect 
them  against  molestation  by  persons  Skeffington  complained 
of,  "  in  well.  I  only  had  Skeffington's  name  incerted,  he  being 
upon  the  spot  "  etc.  Signed,  W.  Keen.  Endorsed,  Reed.  12th 
April,  1721,  Read  12th  April,  1722.     2|  pp.     Enclosed, 

335.  i.-v.  George  Skeffington  to  William  Keen,  Bona  vista, 
1718,  1719.  Letters  relating  to  the  salmon  fishery 
above,  with  accounts.  7|  pp. 
335.  vi.  Deposition  of  Isaac  Bonovrier,  8th  Aug.,  1720,  the 
salmon  fishery  above.  Now  that  there  is  a  prospect 
of  recovering  the  loss  sustained  at  first  by  W.  Keen, 
Skeffington  is  endeavouring  to  engross  the  above 
salmon  fishery,  after  acting  as  a  paid  servant  at  the 
beginning  etc.     Signed,  Isaac  Bonovrier.     1  p. 


224 


Cr  LONIAL   PAPERS. 


Dec.  26. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  27. 

VVliitehall. 


1720. 

335.  vii.  Copy  of  agreement  between  George  Skeffington  and 

William  Keen.     8th  Sept.,  1718.     1  p.     [CO.  194,  7. 
ff.  53-55,  56-57,  58-59,  60-62,  63,  63t;.] 

336.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.  Encloses  six  Acts  of  Jamaica, 
1719-1720,  for  his  opinion  in  point  of  law  thereon. 
[CO.  138,  16.     pp.  272,  273.] 

337.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Craggs.  Quote  Sir  N.  Lawes'  requests  for  guns  etc.  for  Jamaica, 
6th  Dec,  1719,  2nd  Feb.  1720.  Continue  :  we  take  the  liberty 
to  offer  our  opinion  which  you  will  please  to  lay  before  H.M. 
that  in  case  the  publick  service  will  admit  of  such  a  number 
of  great  guns  and  other  stores  being  sent  from  hence  for  furnish- 
ing the  Hanover  Line  at  Jamaica,  which  H.M.  Governor 
recommends  with  importunity  as  being  of  the  utmost  conse- 
quence to  the  security  of  the  sd.  Island,  the  Office  of  Ordnance 
may  be  directed  to  supply  them.     [CO.  138,  16.     pp.  274,  275.] 

Dec.  27.  338.  Same  to  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes.  Acknowledge  letters 
Whitehall',  of  30th  July,  6th  Dec,  1719,  2nd  Feb,  31st  March,  20th  June 
and  24th  Aug.  1720,  all  which  we  have  had  under  consideration 
with  the  several  papers  therein  referr'd  to,  and  shall  expect  you 
will  continue  to  send  us  in  due  time  the  several  accounts  required 
by  your  Instructions,  particularly  that  which  you  promise  us 
of  the  inhabitants  of  the  Island  under  your  Government  that  we 
may  be  the  better  able  to  judge  what  is  proper  to  be  done  for 
the  greater  security  of  the  Island.  We  cannot  but  approve 
the  prudent  care  you  took  for  the  preservation  of  the  Island, 
whilst  you  had  so  just  apprehensions  of  danger,  and  are  very 
glad  to  find  so  good  use  was  made  of  that  opportunity  to  erect 
and  compleat  the  new  line,  and  repair  your  fortifications.  As 
to  the  guns  which  you  desire  etc.  refer  to  preceding,  and  shall 
on  all  occasions  shew  our  readiness  to  promote  the  interest 
of  Jamaica,  not  doubting  but  the  Assembly  may  be  induc'd 
to  make  a  suitable  return  for  their  own  preservation  and  H.M. 
service  ;  But  as  to  your  being  provided  with  stores  from  hence, 
we  do  not  see  how  it  can  be  done  without  application  to  Parlia- 
ment, all  supplies  for  the  Ordnance  being  appropriated,  it  is 
therefore  to  be  wished  that  the  fund  in  Jamaica  for  the  forti- 
fications might  with  due  care  be  so  managed  as  to  answer  all 
demands  of  that  kind.  We  must  now  take  notice  to  you,  and 
cannot  but  express  our  concern  to  hear  that  the  King's  Orders 
in  favour  of  the  Lord  A.  Hamilton  and  the  former  Council  for 
subsisting  the  troops  imploy'd  for  the  Island's  defence,  have  not 
yet  been  comply'd  with.  We  did  expect  before  this  to  have 
received  another  Act  from  you  concerning  the  Trade  to 
Hispaniola,  conformable  to  our  former  letter,  9th  July.  We  will 
still  hope  that  the  present  Assembly  may  do  what  we  expect 
in  this  particular,  so  we  shall  yet  defer  for  a  while  representing 
our  reasons  to  the  King  in  Council  for  the  repeal  of  the  said  Act, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  225 


1720. 

What  you  write  concerning  H.M.  subjects  cutting  logwood  in 
the  Bay  of  Campeachy  is  agreeable  to  what  we  have  some  time 
since  represented  to  H.M.,  not  only  with  regard  to  the  advantage 
and  expediency  of  H.M.  subjects  having  a  liberty  to  cut  logwood 
in  the  Bay  of  Campeachy,  but  of  the  right  we  have  thereto, 
and  H.M.  Minister  in  Spain  has  such  orders  on  those  heads,  as 
we  hope  may  have  the  desired  effect  :  in  addition  to  our  former 
Representation,  we  have  laid  before  their  Excellencies  the  late 
Lords  Justices  what  you  wrote  to  us,  24th  Aug.  etc.  {v.  Nov.  3). 
By  your  letter  of  2nd  Feb.,  you  seem'd  to  intimate  as  if  the 
Assembly  by  Committees  during  their  recess  were  preparing 
among  other  business  for  the  passing  a  perpetual  Revenue 
Bill,  etc.  But  as  your  subsequent  letters  mention  nothing  of 
such  a  bill,  we  need  only  at  present  acquaint  you  that  you  shall 
have  our  opinion  of  the  said  bill  as  soon  as  may  be  after  the 
receipt  of  it,  tho'  H.M.  subjects  of  Jamaica  may  be  assur'd 
that  upon  their  dutifull  behaviour  no  reasonable  priviledge 
will  be  deny'd  them.  The  Acts  which  you  passed  in  Nov.  1719 
and  Jan.  17 ',o  being  with  Mr.  West  {v.  26th  Dec),  we  shall 
report  thereupon  to  H.M.  with  all  convenient  speed  after  the 
same  are  returned  to  us.  In  relation  to  H.M.  proportion  of 
seizures  upon  breaches  of  the  Acts  of  Trade,  we  have  again  writ 
to  the  Treasury,  but  not  yet  received  any  account  what  direc- 
tions are  given  in  that  matter.  The  two  last  Acts  pass'd  in 
Jamaica  to  oblige  the  inhabitants  to  provide  themselves  zvith  a 
sufficient  number  of  white  people  being  pass'd  for  so  short  a  time 
have  their  effect  before  the  same  can  be  consider'd,  and  the 
signification  of  H.M.  pleasure  concerning  them  reach  that 
Island  ;  But  we  send  you  here  inclos'd  copy  of  a  former  report 
of  Mr.  West's  (v.  July  8,  1719),  relating  to  one  of  the  sd.  Acts, 
whereupon  we  cannot  but  concur  with  him  in  the  objections  he 
has  made,  and  must  desire  that  no  future  Act  may  be  liable 
thereto.     [CO.  138,  16.     pp.  276-280.] 

Dec.  28.       339.     Governor  Sir  N.   Lawes  to  Mr.  Delafaye.     Acknow- 
Jamaica.     ledgcs  letter  of  6th  Oct.  with  Instruction  as  to  Acts  for  strikeing 

bills    of  credit,    etc.     Signed,    Nicholas   Lawes.     Endorsed,    R. 

March  17.     1  p.     [CO.  137,  51.     No.  74.] 

Dec.  28.       340.     Same    to    the    Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations. 

Jamaica.  Encloscs  two  Acts  passcd  last  Sessions  and  Minutes  of  Council 
and  Assembly  till  29th  Nov.  There  has  little  thing  of  moment 
occurr'd  since  my  last  only  the  Commission  I  mentioned  in  my 
former  for  the  trying  of  pirates  has  since  been  published  and 
Rackum  the  Pirate  and  ten  more  have  been  tryed  and  executed 
which  I  hope  in  time  will  have  a  good  effect  tho'  we  are  dayly 
robb'd  and  plunderd  by  vessells  fitted  out  from  Trinidado  on 
Cuba.  Repeats  request  for  guns  for  Port  Royal  etc.  Continues  : 
There  has  of  late  some  differences  happened  between  Commodore 
Vernon  and  me  in  relation  to  a  seizure  made  by  the  Port  Officer. 

Wt.  7595  CP-  32-10 


226  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1720. 

About  the  beginning  of  Nov.  I  had  information  brought  me  of  a 
considerable  quantity  of  French  indigo  which  had  been  clandes- 
tinely imported  from  Hispaniola  and  in  like  manner  shipt  on 
board  the  John  gaily  and  other  ships  then  bound  for  Great 
Brittain   whereupon   considering  that   trade   to   be   very   des- 
tructive to  this  country  and  of  prejudice  to  the  fair  trader  I 
issued  an  order  to  the  commanding  officer  at  Port  Royall  to  be 
aiding  and  assisting  to  the  Port  Officers  in  the  discharge  of 
their  duty  and  ordered  the  said  ships  to  be  searched  but  while 
those  officers  were  discharging  their  duty  they  were  opposed 
by  Capt.  Vernon.    Refers  to  enclosures.    I  confess  I  am  a  stranger 
to  any  authority  Capt.  Vernon  can  have  to  interfere  with  any 
matters  of  this  kind  which  is  properly  within  the  jurisdiction 
of  my  Government  or  can  I  conceive  what  cou'd  induce  him 
to  obstruct  this  peice  of  service,  it  is  to  be  hoped  hee'll  justify 
himself  to  the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty,  in  the  meantime  I  thought 
it  my  duty  to  lay  the  whole  matter  before  your  Lordships  that 
if  you  think  proper  I  may  have  H.M.  directions  how  to  behave 
in  like  cases  for  the  future,  but  this  I  must  observe  to  your 
Lordships  that  you  have  now  a  plain  instance  of  the  ill  con- 
sequence that  attends  H.M.  service  of  the  men  of  warr  not  being 
under  the  direction  of  the  Governor.     Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  17th,  Read  21st  March,  172 , .     3  pp.     Enclosed, 
340.  i.  Order  by  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to   Capt.   Thomas 
Brooke,  Commander  of  Port  Royal,  to  aid  the  Port 
Officers  in  their  duty  ut  supra.     1st  Nov.  1720.   Signed 
and  endorsed  as  preceding.     Copy.     \  p. 
340.  ii.  Deposition    of  Capt.    Brooke.     In   accordance    with 
preceding,  deponent  ordered  24  men  to  assist  Robert 
Hall,  but  Capt.  Vernon,  H.M.S.  Mary,  by  opposing 
the  King's  forces  with  a  superiour  strength  hindered 
him  from  bringing  from  aboard  the  ships  then  bound 
to  London  and  Bristoll  above  100,000  lb.  of  indico. 
26th  Sept.  1720.     Signed,  Tho.  Brooke,     f  p. 
340.  iii-vi.  Depositions   of  Col.   Joseph  Delauny  and   Capt. 
Tho.    Brooke,    Daniel    Williams,    Thomas    Rightious, 
Robert  Hall,  corroborating  preceding.     5|   pp.     [CO. 
137,  13.     Nos.  46,  46.  i.-vi.] 

Dec  28        ^^^ '     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Burnet. 

Whitehall.  ^^  Congratulate  you  on  your  safe  arrival  etc.,  and  we  shall  be 
glad  to  hear  of  your  good  success  with  the  Assembly.  We  have 
consider'd  the  reasons  transmitted  17th  Oct.  etc.  for  your 
continuing  the  same  Assembly  which  was  call'd  by  your  Pre- 
decessor, and  have  nothing  to  object  thereto,  the  practice  being 
exactly  conformable  to  that  in  Ireland  where  one  Parliament 
has  subsisted  under  different  Governors  since  H.M.  accession 
to  the  Throne.  We  have  laid  before  H.M.  what  you  desired  etc. 
{v.  Dec.  14)  ;    And  you  may  always  depend  on  our  assistance  and 


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1720. 

endeavours  to  procure  for  you  whatever  shall  be  judg'd  expedient 
for  the  service  and  good  government  of  you{r)  Province.  Set 
out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  583.  [CO.  5,  1124.  pp.  245,  246; 
and  {corrected  draft)  5,  1079.         No.  121.] 

Dec.  28.  342.  Same  to  Governor  Philipps.  Refer  to  letter  of  23rd 
Whitehall.  Sept.  and  representation  of  14th  Dec.  "  upon  which  we  hope 
H.M.  directions  will  soon  be  transmitted  to  you."  In  the  mean 
time  as  your  being  so  particular  in  the  accounts  you  give  of  the 
affairs  of  your  Governmt.  is  very  acceptabe  and  answers  the 
intent  of  H.M.  Instructions  to  you  in  that  respect,  we  must 
recommend  to  you  to  continue  the  giving  us  the  fullest  informa- 
tions you  can  by  each  opportunity  with  regard  to  the  Province 
itself  and  its  neighbours,  whether  foreigners,  Indians  or  H.M. 
subjects.  As  to  the  French  inhabitants  of  Nova  Scotia,  who 
appear  so  wavering  in  their  inclinations,  we  are  apprehensive 
they  will  never  become  good  subjects  to  H.M.  whilst  ye  French 
Governors  and  their  priests  retain  so  great  an  influence  over 
them  :  For  which  reason  we  are  of  opinion  they  ought  to  be 
removed  so  soon  as  the  forces  which  we  have  proposed  to  be 
sent  to  you  shall  arrive  in  Nova  Scotia  for  the  protection  of 
and  better  settlement  of  your  Province,  but  as  you  are  not  to 
attempt  their  removal  without  H.M.  possitive  orders  for  that 
purpose,  you  will  do  well  in  the  mean  while  to  continue  the  same 
prudent  and  cautious  conduct  towards  them,  to  endeavour  to 
undeceive  them  concerning  the  exercise  of  their  religion  which 
will  doubtless  be  allowed  them  if  it  should  be  thought  proper 
to  let  them  stay  where  they  are.  The  presents  for  the  Indians 
we  hear  have  been  ordered  some  while  since,  of  which  your 
agent  will  give  you  the  necessary  advices.  We  thank  you  for 
the  relation  you  send  us  of  the  trade  carry'd  on  with  the  Pro- 
vince under  your  Government,  but  as  it  cannot  be  put  under 
proper  regulations  till  you  have  a  better  force  and  some  extended 
settlements,  we  shall  reconsider  the  same  at  a  proper  oppor- 
tunity with  what  further  informations  we  shall  receive  from 
you  on  that  subject.  And  we  depend  upon  it  your  utmost  care 
will  not  be  wanting  to  prevent  illegal  trade  when  you  shall  be 
enabled  to  do  it.  At  present  we  have  only  to  add,  that  we  shall 
expect  the  Minutes  and  publick  papers  you  promise  us.  So  we 
bid  you  heartily  farewel,  and  are  Your  very  loving  friends  and 
humble  servts.  etc.     [CO.  218,  1.     pp.  495-497.] 

343.  Sir  H.  Mackworth's  Proposal  in  Miniature,  as  it  has 
been  put  in  practice  in  New-York,  in  America.  Begins  :  The 
Government  of  New-York  was  indebted  in  the  sum  of  00,000/. 
The  funds,  or  revenue  appropriated  for  payment,  were  4,000/. 
The  Governor  being  inform'd  of  a  proposal  made  by  Sir  Humphry 
Mackworth,  about  sixteen  or  seventeen  years  ago,  at  a  Com- 
mittee of  Ways  and  Means,  for  establishing  a  Parliamentary 


228 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


]  720 

temporary  specie  of  money,  on  security  of  the  land-tax,  resolv'd 
to  make  use  of  the  same  method  for  payment  of  the  said  debt, 
and  thereupon  a  new  specie  of  money  was  estabUsh'd  on  the 
said  fund  of  4000/.  per  annum,  of  a  certain  vahie  current  in  all 
payments,  to  the  amount  of  the  said  debt  of  60,000L  And  the 
Governor  and  Assembly  meet  every  year,  and  cause  4000Z. 
received  for  taxes  in  the  said  new  specie,  to  be  burnt.  By  this 
expedient  the  debt  was  forthwith  discharg'd  ;  the  People, 
who  wanted  money  to  carry  on  trade  were  supply'd  ;  and  the 
specie  itself  being  almost  all  bunit  by  the  said  sinking  fund  of 
4000/.  per  annum,  the  inhabitants  are  ready  to  petition  for  more, 
for  which  they  will  be  willing  to  pay  the  Government  any 
moderate  interest.  This  is  the  same  scheme  which  Sir  H. 
Mackworth  now  proposes  to  be  put  in  practice  in  Great 
Britain  etc.  Argued.  Concludes  :  N.B. — That  in  New-England 
there  are  bills  issued  forth  call'd  Province-Bills,  which  are  in 
the  nature  of  Exchequer  Bills  here,  and  have  been  sometimes 
a.t  a  discount  for  want  of  an  establish'd  currency,  and  a  secure 
fund  to  sink  them  :  But  in  New  York  the  bills  are  establish'd 
on  a  secure  fund,  and  of  a  certain  fixed  value,  and  made  current 
in  all  payments  whatsoever,  as  much  as  any  other  the  current 
coin  of  the  Kingdom  ;  and  never  were  at  any  discount  at  all  etc. 
Note. — That  the  want  of  silver  and  gold  was  the  occasion  of 
their  using  these  bills  and  species  ;  and  that  want  was  occasion'd 
because  they  are  confin'd  in  their  trade,  chiefly  to  Old  England, 
where  the  ballance  of  trade  being  against  them,  they  ha^  e  been 
forc'd  to  send  almost  all  their  silver  and  gold.  London.  Printed 
for  W.  Boreham,  at  the  Angel  in  Pater-noster  Row.  1720. 
Pamphlet.     18  pp.  with  paper  cover.     [CO.  5,  1085.     A^o.  30.] 

344.  Abstracts  of  letters  from  Governors  of  Jamaica  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  Feb.  2,  1720— 10th  Dec. 
1736.  105  pp.  With  marginal  notes  as  to  replies.  1  vol. 
[CO.  137,  42.] 

[?1720]  345.  An  accompt  of  the  severall  ports  belonging  to  the 
Spaniards  in  America,  which  John  Fenngass  has  been  in  a 
trading,  with  a  discription  of  their  fortifications  to  the  best  of 
his  knowledge.     10|  pp.     [CO.  5,  12.    ff.  3-8.] 

[?1720]  346.  Petition  of  James  Smith  to  the  King.  Asks  for  leave 
of  absence  from  his  office  of  Secretary  of  New  Jersey  for  twelve 
months  "  to  come  over  to  England  to  use  ye  Bathwaters." 
f  p.     [CO.  5,  980.     No.  41.] 

[June  16]  347.  A  true  state  of  the  Case  between  the  Inhabitants  of 
South  Carolina,  and  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  that  Province  ; 
containing  an  account  of  the  Grievances  under  which  they  labour. 
Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Boon),  Read  16th  June,  1720. 
Printed.     4  pp.     [CO.  5,  1265.     No.  145.] 


[1720- 
1736. 


COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1721, 


Jan.  2.  348.     Horatio  Walpole  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 

tions. The  Act  of  Barbadoes  to  oblige  the  casual  Receivers  of 
Barbadoes  to  pay  lOOl.  towards  defraying  the  charges  of  the  Grand 
Sessions  to  he  held  twice  a  year  is  by  no  means  agreable  to  the 
43rd  Article  of  the  Governor's  Instructions  {quoted).  Instead 
of  answering  the  expence  of  the  two  Courts  out  of  the  publick 
Treasury  as  thereby  directed  the  Assembly  would  lay  it  upon 
H.M.  casual  revenue,  wch.  is  already  in  so  low  a  state  as  not  to 
be  able  to  answer  ye  charges  of  ye  recovery  and  receipt  of  it. 
etc.  This  heavy  charge  would  defeat  endeavours  that  might  be 
undertaken  to  recover  it  from  its  present  confusion  and  make  it 
a  considerable  revenue  to  ye  Crown  as  it  formerly  was.  Signed, 
H.  Walpole.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  19th  Jan.,  172;. 
11  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff  3,  3i'.,  4i'.] 


Jan.  3. 

Whitehall. 


349.  Mr.  Popple  to  Sir  Robert  Raymond,  Attorney  General. 
Encloses  extracts  of  letter  from  Govr.  Shute,  1st  June,  and  of 
the  Charter  relating  to  the  negative  voice,  for  his  opinion  to 
what  particular  elections  the  negative  reserved  in  the  Charter 
extends.     [CO.  5,  915.     pp.  316,  317.] 

Jan.  3.       350.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Referring  following  to  the 
St.  James's.  Council   of  Trade   and    Plantations   for  their   report   thereon. 
Signed,    Robert    Hales.     Endorsed,    Reed.    12th.     Read    13th 
Jan.,  172';.     ^  p.     Enclosed, 

350.  i.  Petition  of  the   Corporation  of  the   Governour  and 

Company  of  Merchts.  of  Great  Britain  trading  to  the 
South  Seas,  and  other  parts  of  America,  and  for 
encouraging  the  Fishery,  in  General  Court  assembled, 
to  the  King.  Petitioners  have  for  a  long  time  in- 
tended to  carry  on  a  considerable  trade  in  America, 
especially  on  the  passing  the  last  Act  of  Parliament  for 
taking  in  the  publick  incumbrances,  when  they  hoped 
by  your  Majesty's  most  gracious  favour,  to  have  had 
that  part  of  the  Island  of  St.  Christophers  which 
formerly  belonged  to  the  French,  Nova  Scotia,  and 
other  parts  of  America,  belonging  to  your  Majesty, 
granted  to  them  : — That  by  such  a  grant  the  said 
Corporation    would    be    entitled   to   people,    cultivate 

22y 


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1721.  ^~ 

and  improve  the  same,  so  as  to  bring  in  to  this  Kingdom 
Navall  Stores,  and  other  eomoditys,  now  brought  in 
from  forreign  parts,  whieh  would  be  a  great  encourag- 
ment  to  Trade  and  Navigation,  an  improvement,  and 
increase  of  yor.  Majtys.  Revenue,  and  inlarge  and  secure 
your  Majtys.  dominions  in  those  parts.  Your 
Petitioners  therefore  inost  humbly  pray  that  the  said 
part  of  St.  Christophers  and  also  Nova  Scotia,  and  such 
other  places  in  America  may  (for  the  service  of  the 
Publick,  and  of  this  Corporation)  be  granted  to  them, 
under  such  limitations  and  restrictions,  and  in  such 
manner  as  Yor.  Majesty  in  your  great  wisdom  shall 
think  fitt.  And  yor.  Petitioners  (as  in  duty  bound) 
shall  ever  pray  etc.  By  Order  of  a  General  Court,  the 
2nd  January,  1720.  Signed,  Jno.  Fellowes,  Sub.- 
Govr.,  Charles  Joye,  Dep.  Govr.  Copy.  If  pp. 
[CO.  152,  13.    ff.  38,  39,  39i),  41i;.] 

Jan.  5.  351.  Mr.  Buck  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  We  have  reed,  letters 
London.  from  our  factors  at  Providence  and  Carolina  complaining  of 
[1722] .  the  great  hardship  put  upon  them  by  Governor  Niccolson  etc. 
In  June  1721  the  sloop  Duck  Harr}^  White  master  from  Provid- 
ence belonging  to  ye  Bahamas  Society  and  loaden  with  a  cargoe 
of  their  goods  bound  on  a  voyage  to  Hispaniola  for  which  she 
was  furnished  with  propper  clearances  from  the  Customhouse 
oflicers  at  Providence  was  seized  by  ye  Governour  and  brought 
up  to  Charlestown  where  all  the  trunks  chests  bales  etc.  belong- 
ing to  the  cargoe  were  broke  open  although  ye  vessell  was  not 
to  trade  or  deliver  any  goods  in  that  port  and  only  went  in  to 
desire  leave  of  the  Governour  to  take  in  20  barrells  of  that 
countrey  beef.  In  Oct.  last  Capt.  Tho.  Walker  our  Factor  at 
Providence  sent  a  sloope  from  thence  in  ballast  to  Carolina  to 
take  in  there  a  loading  of  deale  bords  in  order  to  make  proper 
conveniency  to  receive  ye  new  Governor  and  recruits  sent  with 
him  that  they  might  not  suffer  as  those  wch.  went  with  Gov. 
Rogers  did  for  want  of  such  conveniencies  wch.  occationed  ye 
death  of  almost  one  halfe  of  them,  the  26th  day  of  Oct.  ye  sloope 
was  loaden  and  ready  to  sayle  but  Governor  Niccolson  detained 
ye  master  from  time  to  time  with  a  pretence  that  he  had  letters 
to  send  by  him  to  Providence,  when  ye  Master  went  agen  to 
wait  upon  him  for  his  letters  he  took  a  bible  and  made  him  swear 
to  all  questions  he  putt  to  him  and  amongst  others  asked  him 
if  he  had  any  pitch  or  tarr  on  board,  to  wch.  ye  master  made 
answer  that  he  had  4  barrells  of  pitch  and  2  of  tarr  and  2  of 
rice  as  stores  and  for  wch.  the  Custom  House  Officers  had  given 
him  a  permitt  as  is  usually  done  to  all  vessells  tradeing  from  ye 
West  Indies  to  the  Continent  of  America.  Upon  this  con- 
fession ye  Governor  went  in  person  and  seized  ye  sloope  and 
has   since  eondem'd  her  in  a  pretended  Court  of  Admiralty. 


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1721. 

Pray  caution  the  Governor  against  committing  such  acts  of 
violence  and  oppression  and  you'l  obhge  the  Bahama  Society 
and  in  perticular,  Signed,  Sam.  Buck.  Addressed.  2  pp. 
[CO.  5,  4.     No.  22.] 

Jan.  10.  352.  Mr.  Burniston  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following. 
Signed,  Cha.  Burniston.  Endorsed,  Reed.  10th  Jan.,  Read 
5th  Sept.  1721.     Addressed.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

352.  i.  Proclamation  by  Governor  Shute  to  prevent  the 
destruction  of  H.M.  Woods  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay, 
more  especially  in  the  County  of  York,  formerly  the 
Province  of  Maine,  which  has  been  made  contrary 
to  the  Charter  and  Act  of  Parliament,  9th.  of  Queen 
Anne,  etc.  Boston,  1st  Nov.  1720.  Signed,  S.  Shute. 
Printed.     1  p. 

352.  ii.  Robert  Armstrong,  Deputy  Surveyor,  to  Charles 
Burniston,  Surveyor  General  of  H.M.  Woods.  New 
Hampshire,  Nov.  20,  1720.  By  virtue  of  the  saving 
clause  in  the  Act  of  9th  of  Q.  Anne,  "  not  being  the 
property  of  any  private  person,"  the  people  of  this 
Province  elude  the  same.  They  have  taken  in 
thousands  of  acres  wherein  the  best  timber  grows, 
and  form  the  same  into  their  townships,  tho'  the 
thousandth  part  thereof  is  not  under  any  inmiediate 
improvement  etc.,  and  think  that  each  inhabitant 
thereof  may  fell  all  trees  at  will.  This  must  be 
corrected  by  our  explanatory  Act,  etc.  The  King  is 
under  great  disadvantage  as  to  proof  against  those 
that  destroy  the  mast  trees,  the  onus  probandi  being 
on  the  King,  which  seldom  can  be  made  out,  such  is 
the  behaviour  of  the  people  here  etc.  The  inhabitants 
have  utterly  destroyed  by  sawing  into  boards  etc. 
thousands  of  masts  fit  for  the  Royal  Navy  etc.  I  have 
prest  at  home  this  several  years  for  an  Act  of  Par- 
liamt,  to  prevent  the  export  of  ship  timber  to  foreign 
states,  etc.  Refers  to  Lord  Bellomont's  letter,  C.P.S., 
1700,  23rd  April.  Signed,  Robt.  Armstrong.  Copy. 
5  pp.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  77,  78,  79,  81,  83,  83i;.] 

[Jan.  12]  353.  Mr.  Perry  and  others  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Pray  to  be  heard  upon  the  petition  of  the  South 
Sea  Co.  for  the  French  lands  of  St.  Kitts.  etc.  Signed,  Micajah 
Perry  and  five  others.  Endorsed,  Reed.  12th  Jan.,  1720  Y,  Read 
5th  July,  1722.     1  p.     [CO.  152,  14.    ff.  142,  143y.] 

[Jan.  12.]  354.  Stephen  Duport  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Prays  that  his  former  petitions  for  lands  in  St.  Kitts, 
which    with   the    Board's   favourable   report   upon  them  were 


232  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1 72 1 . 

mialaid  at  the  Treasury,  may  be  recommended  to  H.M.  now  that 
the  South  Sea  Co.'s  petition  {v.  preceding)  is  before  the  Board, 
etc.  Signed,  Ste.  Duport.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p. 
[CO.  152,  14.    ff.  144,  145i;.] 

[Jan.  12.]  355.  Memorial  by  Col.  Samuell  Vetch,  Richard  Mullins, 
Charles  Davison,  David  Pigeon,  Cha.  Brown,  James  Aber- 
crombye,  Cutts  Hassan,  Alexr.  Willson,  Francis  Sullivan,  George 
Lee,  Peter  Capon,  Cha.  Bruce,  Wm.  Cook,  John  Woodin,  John 
Cocksidge,  Scare  Matthews  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. In  behalf  of  themselves  and  others  who  were  in  the 
actuall  service  in  the  late  expedition  by  which  Port  Royall  and 
Nova  Scotia  were  reduced  etc.,  refer  to  petition  and  reference  of 
21st  July,  1719,  {q.v.)  upon  which  they  have  not  yet  obtained 
the  Board's  report.  They  are  informed  that  the  Governor  and 
Company  of  Merchants  trading  to  the  South  Seas  have  lately 
petitioned  H.M.  for  a  grant  of  Nova  Scotia  etc.  {v.  3rd  Jan.) 
Pray  for  a  report  upon  their  petition  and  that  no  report  be  made 
in  favour  of  the  South  Sea  Company  until  their  case  be  heard, 
memorialists  conceiving  that  they  are  entituled  to  a  grant  of 
said  land  preferrable  to  all  others.  Signed  as  above.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  12th  Jan.,  172?.  Read  3rd  Sept.,  1724.  2  j^P-  [C.O. 
217,  4.    ff.  263,  263i;.,  264i;.] 

Jan.  13.       356.     Mr.    Popple    to   Daniel   Wescomb,   Secretary  to   the 

\\  hitehaii.  i^Qutli  Sea  Company.     The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations 

desire  to  speak  on  Thursday  morning  next  with  some  of  the 

Directors  upon  the  petition  of  the  Company  {v.  3rd  Jan.).     [CO. 

153,  13.     p.  461.] 

Jan.  14.  357.  Mr.  Stanyan  {Secretary  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs)  to 
wiiitohaii.  (2o\.  Nicholson.  I  have  received  all  your  letters  to  that  of  the 
10th  inst.  relating  to  the  difficulties  you  have  met  with  about 
the  man  of  war  being  obliged  to  touch  at  the  Maderas,  and  the 
transports  to  pursue  their  voyage  directly  to  Carolina.  I 
thought  when  you  applied  for  H.M.  Orders  for  the  man  of  war 
to  take  you  with  the  transports  under  convoy,  you  had  got  that 
point  so  thoroughly  settled,  as  to  admit  of  no  dispute  or  delay 
in  pursuing  your  voyage,  and  that  your  contract  with  the 
owners  of  the  transports  had  been  made  accordingly  ;  but  I 
find  you  did  not  understand  one  another  rightly  ;  however  by  the 
enquiry  I  have  made  at  the  Admiralty,  I  hope  the  chief  objection 
is  now  removed,  orders  being  sent  from  thence  to  the  Captain 
of  the  man  of  war,  not  to  call  at  the  Maderas,  so  that  now  the 
transports  will  be  at  liberty  to  pursue  their  voyage  directly 
under  that  convoy.  All  the  difficulty  remaining  is,  that  the 
transports  lie  ready  to  sail  and  pretend  to  be  at  demurrage, 
whereas  it  will  be  some  time  yet  before  the  man  of  war  will  be 
ready,  however  I  hope  it  will  be  but  a  few  days  longer,  and  as 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  238 


1721. 

for  the  soldiers  on  board  the  transports,  you  know  they  may 
easily  be  supplied  with  more  provisions  by  the  Victualling  Officer 
at  Plymouth  ;  so  that  all  that  seems  further  necessary  is  to 
prevail  with  the  Masters  of  the  transports  to  stay  till  the  convoy 
is  ready.  The  dangers  and  inconveniences  you  represent,  if 
the  transports  were  to  sail  without  convoy,  are  so  many,  that 
Mr.  Secretary  does  not  think  it  adviseable  for  you  to  go  without 
the  man  of  war,  at  least  unless  there  were  an  absolute  necessity, 
in  which  case  you  will  do  well  to  write  to  him  first,  etc.  Signed, 
Temple  Stanyan.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  34,  35.] 

Jan.  16.  358.  Earl  of  Sutherland  to  Earl  of  Westmorland  {a  Lord 
Commissioner  of  Trade  and  Plantations)  "  Ther  being  a  petition 
presented  to  the  King  in  Councill  on  behalf  of  the  South  Sea 
Company  to  have  a  grant  of  the  French  lands  in  St.  Christophers 
Nova  Scotia  "  etc.,  desires  to  be  heard  upon  his  pretentions  etc. 
{v.  Jan.  3rd).  Signed,  Sutherland.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
17th  Jan.,  172\'.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  1266.    ff.  1,  2  v.] 

Jan.  16.  359.  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Virginia.  Plantations.  Having  lately  held  a  Generall  Assembly  here, 
wherein  more  business  has  been  done  than  in  all  the  Sessions 
since  1714,  I  would  not  let  this  opportunity  pass  without 
communicating  the  most  material  transactions,  tho'  the  short- 
ness of  the  time  since  the  prorogation  (23rd  Dee.)  doth  not 
permitt  my  sending  the  Journals  etc.  As  I  have  on  former 
occasions  represented  to  your  Lordps.  the  importance  of 
gaining  possession  of  the  passes  of  the  Great  Mountains  which 
lye  to  the  westward  of  the  inhabited  part  of  this  Colony,  So 
your  Lordsps.  have  now  the  sentiments  of  the  Council  and 
Burgesses  of  the  great  consequence  it  is  to  these  Plantations 
that  those  passes  be  speedily  secured  :  the  growing  power  of 
the  French  on  the  Mississippi  and  the  dangers  to  which  this  and 
the  neighbouring  Plantations  would  be  exposed  should  that 
Nation  possess  themselves  of  these  Mountains,  have  justly 
alarm'd  the  Assembly,  and  stirr'd  in  them  an  uncommon  concern 
to  be  beforehand  in  securing  that  barrier  :  To  this  purpose  they 
have  taken  measures  for  encouraging  people  to  extend  their 
settlements  up  to  those  passes,  and  by  an  Address  to  H.M. 
{enclosed)  etc.  Refers  to  their  ijetition  for  remission  of  quit- 
rents  for  10  years  ivithin  the  two  countys  they  have  now  erected. 
Continues  :  Tho'  there  be  within  the  bounds  of  those  countys 
many  tracts  of  very  good  land,  yet  there  are  much  more  which 
are  barren  and  mountainous,  and  which  in  all  probability  will 
ly  many  years  both  unprofitable  to  H.M.,  and  useless  to  the 
subject  without  such  an  encouragement  as  is  now  propos'd  : 
and  besides,  the  Northern  Indians  continually  traversing  the 
Great  Mountains  through  those  passes,  unless  these  be  secur'd, 
few  people  will  be  tempted  by  any  prospect  of  advantage  to 


234  COLONIAL    FAFERS. 

1721. 

seat  upon  lands  where  they  must  be  exposed  to  their  insults  etc. 
Whereas  the  exemptions  and  privileges  proposed  will  so  far 
encourage  people  to  settle,  that  I  have  not  the  least  doubt  but 
that  all  the  lands  in  those  precincts  will  be  seated  in  ten  years 
time.  And  H.M.  will  then  find  so  considerable  an  increase  of 
his  quitt  rents  as  will  abundantly  compensate  for  the  preceding 
years.  But  what  is  still  more  to  be  regarded  is  the  increase 
of  the  trade  of  Great  Britain  which  will  accrue  from  the  cultiva- 
tion of  this  new  territory  inasmuch  as  new  ground  yields  a 
much  greater  produce  than  that  which  hath  been  long  used 
and  worn  out.  And  therefore  I  hope  your  Lordsps.  will  assist 
with  a  favourable  representation  of  the  applications  of  the 
General  Assembly  in  this  particular.  The  other  petitions  in 
this  Address  are,  that  H.M.  will  erect  forts  at  those  two 
passes  and  send  two  companys  of  soldiers  for  garrisoning 
them  etc.  The  expence  of  building  these  forts  for  the  present 
need  not  be  very  great,  there  being  plenty  of  stone  upon  the 
spott,  and  it  being  impracticable  for  any  enemy  from  the  other 
side  of  the  mountains  to  bring  canon  against  them  :  if  twenty 
years  service  in  the  wars,  and  the  part  I  had  in  the  most  con- 
siderable projects  of  the  last  war  in  Flanders  as  Lt.  Qr.  Master 
Genii,  under  the  Duke  of  Marlborough  can  gain  credit  with 
your  Lordsps.  etc.,  I  can  assure  your  Lordsps.  that  were  I  of 
the  French  side,  I  could  with  one  company  of  soldiers  in  a 
month's  time  cast  up  such  a  work  on  that  pass  which  I  have 
vievv  ed,  that  all  the  power  of  Virginia  could  not  be  able  to  dis- 
lodge me  ;  and  how  much  more  difficult  it  will  be  for  the  French 
who  are  much  more  remote  etc.  Recommends  the  establishment 
of  a  garrison  etc.  Refers  to  the  three  Acts  herewith  sent  ;  {i)for 
erecting  the  countys  of  Spotsylvania  and  Brunswick  etc.  Spot- 
sylvania is  bounded  according  to  my  observations  when  I 
view'd  the  Northern  Pass  over  the  Great  IMountains  at  the  head 
of  Rappahannock  River,  there  being  little  more  of  it  known 
than  what  I  discovered  in  that  march  :  But  the  bounds  of 
Brunswick  which  includes  the  Southern  Pass  at  the  head  of 
Roanoak  River,  are  so  little  known,  that  the  Assembly  was 
oblig'd  to  leave  the  same  to  be  ascertain'd  afterwards  when  a 
further  discovery  shall  be  made  ;  for  tho'  we  are  assured  by 
the  Indians  and  some  traders,  that  there  is  a  pass  through  the 
Mountains  at  the  head  of  that  River,  and  no  other  from  thence 
to  that  at  the  head  of  Rappahannock,  yet  we  are  still  in  the  dark 
as  to  the  distance  it  is  from  our  inhabitants,  or  how  near  these 
two  passes  are  to  one  another  ;  and  I  believe  I  shall  be  obliged 
to  make  another  journey  thither  before  the  bounds  of  that 
county  can  be  fix'd  or  the  intended  fort  erected.  There  is  one 
clause  in  this  Act,  exempting  forreign  Protestants  coming  to 
inhabite  those  countys  from  contributing  to  the  support  of  the 
established  Ministers,  so  long  as  they  keep  a  Minister  of  their 
own.     This   was  put  in,   upon  the   observation   of  the   incon- 


AMERICA   AND    WEST    INDIES.  235 


1721. 


venieiicy  of  erecting  distinct  parishes  for  forreigners  :  The  French 
Refugees  sent  in  here  by  King  Wilhani,  l^ringing  a  Minister 
with  them  had  their  settlement  erected  into  a  distinct  parish, 
but   being  unable   to   afford   a   comfortable   subsistance   to   a 
Minister,  they  have  continued  a  great  many  years  without  one, 
and  trusting  to  contributions  from  their  countrymen  in  England 
to  supply  that  want,  have  to  this  day  never  applyed  themselves 
to  learn  the  English  language,  by  which  they  might  have  been 
enabled  to  join  in  the  publick  worship  with  their  neighbouring 
inhabitants,  tho'  they  make  no  scruple  to  conform  to  the  cere- 
monys  of  our  Church,  the  Ministers  they  have  had  being  of 
that  Communion.     The  other  parts  of  this  Act  are  only  for  the 
better    administration    of   Justice    untill    those     countys    are 
sufficiently  peopled  to  have  Courts  of  their  own  etc.     (ii)  An 
Act  for  the  bette7'  discovery  and  securing  of  H.M.  Quiit    Rents. 
The  chief  occasion  of  making  this  Law,  was  to  free  the  people 
from  the  penalty  of  forfieting  their  lands  for  three  years  non- 
payment of  quitt  rents,  as  had  been  enacted  1710  and  1713  ; 
but  as  those  two  laws  had  been  under  your  Lordsps.  consideration 
and  approved  of,  I  did  not  think  (itt  to  con[sent]  to  any  altera- 
tion therein  by  this  Act,  without  a  clause  suspending  the  force 
thereof  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known,  etc.     There  is  another  part 
of  this  Act  on  which  I  likewise  thought  fitt  to  wait  H.M.  pleasure 
which  is  that  of  changing  the  payment  of  the  quitt  rents  into 
currant  money  :    This  at  first  sight  may  seem  to  be  disadvan- 
tageous to  H.M.,  because  of  the  difference  between  the  currency 
of  this  country  and  the  value  of  sterling  money.     But  as  I  have 
taken  notice  that  the  principal  reason  why  the  greatest  part 
of  the  King's  quitt  rents  has  been  paid  in  tobacco,  was  the 
difficulty  of  the  people's  procuring  English  money,   and  the 
almost  impossibility  of  obtaining  bills  of  exchange.     I   have 
long  been  of  opinion  that  H.M.  allowing  the  quitt  rents  to  be 
received  in  the  common  currency  of  the  country  v/ould  be  the 
only  way  of  lessning  the   tobacco  payments  and  consequently 
of  encreasing  the  value  of  the  qt.  rents  :    for  as  the  qt.  rent 
tobacco    in    divers  countys  have  been  sold  heretofore  for  35. 
a  hundred  and  sometimes  for  half  a  crown,  and  that  many  of 
those  who  paid  that  tobacco  would  have  been  contented  to 
discharge  their  quitt  rents  in  money,  if  it  had  been  allowed 
them  to  pay  it  in  the  common  currency,  I  think  it  is  thence 
demonstrable  that  the  Crown  has  lost  considerably  by  insisting 
too  strictly  on  sterling  money  etc.     Refers  to  letter  of  K.  Charles 
II  mentioned  in  the  preamble  to  this  Act  etc.     It  was  by  that 
letter  directed  that  a  proclamation  should  be  published  notify- 
ing the  allowance  of  that  manner  of  payment,  how  that  pro- 
clamation came  to  be  neglected  I  have  not  been  able  to  learn  etc. 
By  this  Act  in  order  to  the  encouraging  the  payment  of  the 
quitt  rents  in  money,  the  people  arc  now  obliged,  if  they  will 
pay   tobacco    to   deliver   it   at   certain   i:>laces  in  their  severall 


236  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

countys,  instead  of  the  Sherifs  recieving  it  at  every  particular 
plantation  as  the  manner  of  collection  now  is.  By  this  means 
the  planters  will  be  engaged  rather  to  procure  money,  than  carry 
their  tobacco  such  a  distance  as  this  Act  enjoins  etc.  Other 
beneficial  clauses  in  this  bill  may  be  reckoned  an  equivalent 
for  the  forfieture  imposed  by  the  former  laws  :  such  as  the 
method  of  selling  the  goods  distrained  for  the  quitt  rents, 
which  is  different  from  the  common  practice  established  by 
law  in  the  case  of  private  debts  ;  for  by  the  laws  now  in  force 
such  goods  are  to  be  valued  by  appraisers  chosen  by  the  party 
and  the  Sherif,  and  at  whatever  value  these  put  on  the  goods, 
the  Reciever  General  is  obliged  to  take  them,  and  to  return  the 
overplus  in  money  to  the  debtor  :  so  that  where  the  valuation 
is  made  by  corrupt  appraisers,  as  is  too  often  the  case,  the  debtor 
is  favoured  beyond  reason.  And  it  has  been  known  that  the 
Receiver  General  for  a  debt  of  the  King's  has  had  an  old  saddle 
not  worth  406'.  valued  to  him  at  £25  sterl.  But  by  this  Act 
the  person  who  makes  distress  for  the  King's  debt  is  answerable 
for  no  more  than  what  it  will  sell  for  by  publick  auction.  The 
penalty  of  paying  double  quitt  rents  for  all  lands  wilfully 
conceald,  and  making  the  lands  of  persons  living  out  of  the 
country  liable  to  all  arrears  of  quitt  rents  whenever  they  come 
to  be  afterwards  possess'd,  will  also  prove  of  great  benefite  to 
the  Crown,  by  obliging  the  people  to  discover  the  true  quantity 
they  hold,  and  those  who  live  out  of  the  Colony  to  be  more 
exact  in  the  payment  of  their  quitt  rents,  it  being  well  known 
that  a  great  deal  of  land  is  held  by  persons  out  of  the  country 
which  have  nothing  on  them  to  distrain.  Neither  could  these 
lands  by  the  former  laws  become  forfieted  for  non-payment  of 
quitt  rents,  because  process  could  not  be  served  on  the  owners 
to  compell  their  appearance  to  defend  their  titles.  These  are 
the  remarkable  parts  of  this  Act,  and  I  hope  will  be  reckoned 
a  compensation  for  the  latter  clause  which  enacts  that  no  lands 
shall  here  after  become  forfieted  for  non-payment  of  quitt  rents, 
the  preamble  of  which  clause  doth  truly  set  forth  divers  prac- 
tices very  inconvenient  to  the  subject  which  have  been  set  on 
foot  under  pretence  of  that  forfieture,  which  never  were  designed 
by  the  laws  wherein  the  said  forfieture  is  given,  and  I  must 
acknowledge  that  such  a  penalty  was  severe  enough  of  itself 
without  making  it  a  handle  for  cutting  off  entails,  or  giving 
occasion  to  ill  disposed  persons  to  acquire  unjust  titles  to  other 
men's  estates  ;  but  in  excuse  for  making  that  forfeiture  it 
may  be  truly  said  that  if  such  a  penalty  had  not  been  imposed 
nor  the  other  inconveniencys  dis[covered],  this  law  now  before 
yor.  Lordsps.  had  never  had  its  birth.  And  since  the  laws 
which  create  the  forfieture  for  non-payment  of  quitt  rents 
have  now  had  their  effect  by  obtaining  a  juster  method  of  pay- 
ment of  the  quitt  rents,  I  hope  H.M.  will  be  pleased  to  accept 
of  this  Act  as  an  equivalent  for  that  forfieture  ;    and  that  you 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  237 


1721. 


will  be  pleased  to  expedite  H.M.  approbation  that  it  may  be 
put  in  execution  if  possible  against  the  time  of  the  next  years 
payment  of  the  quitt  rents.  The  Act/or  explaining  and  declaring 
what  shall  he  a  sufficient  sealing  to  save  lands  from  lapsing  etc. 
is  intended  to  supply  some  omissions  in  the  Act  passed  in  1713 
etc.  ;  for  as  to  the  first  clause  which  allows  the  clearing  and 
fencing  of  pasture  grounds  to  be  a  sufficient  cultivation,  it  must 
be  granted  that  clearing  and  fencing  of  such  grounds  is  as  much 
labour  and  cost,  as  if  the  same  were  actually  planted  with 
grain,  and  no  man  will  be  at  the  pains  to  make  such  a  pasture 
unless  he  has  likewise  a  plantation  at  the  same  place.  The 
2d  clause  is  that  where  people  lay  out  their  money  in  buildings, 
or  other  valuable  improvements,  every  £10  so  expended  shall 
save  50  acres  of  the  tract  on  which  these  buildings  and  im- 
provements are  made.  This  will  seem  the  more  reasonable, 
if  it  be  compared  with  the  other  methods  of  cultivation 
prescribed  in  the  former  law  :  for  if  the  tending  three  acres  of 
corn  ground  which  doth  not  cost  40^.  expence  shall  according 
to  the  first  law  save  50  acres,  the  laying  out  £10  in  building 
houses  which  are  absolutely  necessary  for  a  man's  habitation 
or  in  planting  fruit  trees  which  are  of  a  more  valuable  produce, 
and  the  other  improvements  thereinmentioned  which  are  of 
greater  expence  ought  to  give  him  at  least  as  great  a  benefite 
in  saving  his  tract  ;  and  as  £10  for  100  acres  of  the  outlands 
is  now  the  common  price  where  there  are  no  houses  or  improve- 
ments your  Lordsps.  will  not  think  it  an  unreasonable  concession 
that  the  people  are  by  this  law  allowed  to  save  100  acres  at  the 
expence  of  double  the  value  of  it,  etc.  That  part  which  allows 
the  surplus  improvements  on  lands  already  patented,  to  save 
proportionably  any  contiguous  tract  hereafter  taken  up  and 
joined  together  in  one  patent,  will  prove  an  advantage  to  the 
Crown,  because  in  the  taking  up  of  lands  since  the  late  law 
directing  the  manner  of  cultivation,  people  have  confined 
themselves  to  such  small  tracts  as  they  found  themselves  of 
ability  to  improve,  and  have  carefully  avoided  taking  up  much 
of  what  is  accounted  barren.  So  that  abundance  of  such 
lands  ly  wast  between  the  tracts  of  different  patentees,  which 
neither  have  cared  to  meddle  with.  Now  liberty  being  given 
to  join  those  contiguous  barren  grounds  to  the  other  more 
profitable  tracts  etc.,  those  who  have  the  contiguous  lands  will 
gladly  take  in  these  barrens,  seeing  tho'  they  are  unfitt  for 
cultivation  they  may  nevertheless  be  very  usefull  for 
furnishing  their  plantations  with  wood  etc.  Here  is  likewise 
provision  made  for  recovering  lands  lapsed  from  persons  living 
out  of  the  country  who  by  the  former  laws  could  not  be  come  at 
unless  the  process  of  the  General  Court  was  actually  served 
on  them,  but  now  the  lands  of  such  persons  (if  they  do  not 
appear  and  prove  a  seating  after  the  severall  publications 
directed  by  this  Act)  may  be  declared  lapsed,  and  regranted 


238  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

to  any  that  petition  for  it.     This  Act  altering  nothing  material 
in  the  former  laws  for  seating  and  cultivation,  but  only  serving 
as  an  explication  thereof,  I  did  not  take  it  to  come  under  the 
distinction  of  laws  of  an  extraordinary  nature,  and  therefore 
gave  my  assent  to  it,  and  hope  it  will  also  deserve  your  Lordsp's. 
approbation.     Refers  to  enclosed  public  papers.     Continues  :■ — 
Notwithstanding  this  House  of  Burgesses  had  in  it  a  great 
many  of  the  same  members  who  composed  the  last,  their  present 
Address  to  me  was  unanimous  ;    and  I  hope  yor.  Lordsps.  will 
believe    that    a    Governor    who    is    now    treated     with     the 
appellations  of  good  and  just,  could  scarce  deserve  the  character 
given  him  two  years  ago,  of  an  oppressor  of  H.M.  subjects, 
and  a  subverter  of  the  Constitution,  and  it  was  more  humour 
than  reason  that  prevailed  on  the  then  House  of  Burgesses  to 
frame   such  a  complaint  against  me.     I   shall  conclude  with 
repeating  my  request  that  yor.  Lordsps.  will  be  pleased  to  for- 
ward as  much  as  possible  H.M.  resohitions   upon  what  is  con- 
tained in  the  Assembly's  Address.     I  have  sent  the  original 
to  my  Lord  Orkney,  who  I  question  not  will  take  the  first 
opportunity  to  present  it  ;   and  as  I  know  it  will  be  referred  for 
yor.    Lordps.'    report   thereon   I    am  the  more  earnest  in  be- 
speaking yor.  Lordsps.  dispatch  thereof,  because  it  has  been 
represented  here,  as  if  nothing  would  ever  be  obtain'd  at  Court 
without  an  Agent    from  hence    to  sollicite  in    behalf  of    the 
Country,  and  the  truth  is,  the  Burgesses  nominating  Mr.  Byrd 
to  be  their  Agent  on  this  occasion,  is  the  only  matter  in  which 
we  have  differed  this  Session  ;    tho'  it  will  not  appear  to  be 
much  the  inclination  of  the  people,  when  it  is  considered  that 
this  resolution  was  barely  carryed  by  the  Speakers  casting  vote  : 
and  if  H.M.  shall  grant  the  As^sembly's  request  before  Mr.  Byrd 
gets  home,  it  will  be  a  means  to  convince  the  country  that  H.M. 
Ministers  are  not  (as  has  been  represented)  so  regardless  of  the 
Plantations  as  to  need  the  sollicitations  of  particular  agents  to 
prompt  them  to  the  doing  what  the  interest  and  safety  of 
H.M.    American    subjects    require.     And    hereupon    I    cannot 
forbear  this  one  observation,  that  the  application  for  soldiers 
to   garrison   the   passes   of  the   mountains   can   proceed  from 
nothing  less  than  a  thorough  conviction  of  the  necessity  thereof, 
when  a  people  who  have  the  greatest  jealousy  of  and  aversion 
to  a  Military  power,  so  earnestly  press  for  such  a  guard  to  their 
frontiers.      I  received  yor.  Lordps'  letter  of  the  14th  of  July, 
just  before  the  meeting  of  the  Assembly,  and  havmg  laid  before 
them  some  paragraphs  of  that  letter,  it  will  be  most  properly 
answered  when  I  transmitt  the  journals  etc.     Signed,  A.  Spots- 
wood.     Endorsed,     Reed.     20th,     Read     22nd     March,     171','. 
10  pp.     Enclosed, 

359.  i.  Address  of  the  Council  and  Burgesses  of  Virginia  to 
the  King.  Dec,  1720.  Having  with  great  attention 
deliberated  etc.  as  well  how  to  extend  your  Empire 


AMERICA   AND    WEST    INDIES.  239 

1721. 

in  these  parts  as  to  secure  our  present  settlements 
from  the  incursions  of  the  savage  Indians  and  from 
the  more  dangerous  incroachments  of  the  neighbouring 
French,  we  beg  to  lay  before  your  Majesty  the  present 
scituation  etc.  Describe  chain  of  exceeding  high 
mountains  westward  of  Virginia  about  40  miles 
distant  from  their  remotest  settlements  "  which 
extend  all  along  on  the  back  of  this  and  the  next 
province  Carolina,  and  must  prove  an  extraordinary 
safeguard  to  these  Colonys,  whenever  our  plantations 
shall  reach  so  far  as  to  get  possession  of  the  two  passes 
thro'  that  ridge,"  etc.  In  case  the  French  should  be 
beforehand,  they  would  not  only  secure  their  com- 
munications betwixt  the  St.  Lawrence  and  Mississipi 
but  would  be  in  condition  by  keeping  the  key  of  this 
barrier  to  annoy  your  Majesty's  subjects  etc.  To 
encourage  the  speedy  seating  that  tract  which  lies 
untaken  up  between  our  present  settlements  and  those 
two  passes  etc.,  we  have  now  erected  two  new  countys, 
the  one  in  Rappahanock  River  leading  up  to  the 
Northern  pass,  and  the  other  on  Roanoake  leading  to 
that  on  the  South  etc.  We  have  exempted  the  in- 
habitants thereof  from  publick  taxes  for  ten  years. 
We  have  agreed  to  build  them  churches  and  Court- 
houses and  to  furnish  them  with  armes  and  ammunition 
at  the  publick  charge.  But  what  we  humbly  presume 
would  still  be  a  greater  inducement  to  many  to  go  up 
and  settle  this  new  frontier,  would  be  your  Royal 
favour  of  remitting  all  the  quit  rents  of  these  two 
counties  for  ten  years  and  exempting  the  takers  up 
of  land  from  the  5*.  which  they  are  by  the  order  of 
this  Government  obliged  to  pay  for  every  50  acres 
that  they  enter  for  etc.  Beg  H.M.  to  give  directions 
for  building  a  fort  at  each  of  the  passes  out  of  the 
quit  rents  etc.,  and  for  sending  over  two  company s 
of  men  in  H.M.  pay  50  men  each  to  serve  as  a  garison 
for  these  forts  etc.  Pray  Lt.  Govr.  Spotswood  to 
interceed  with  H.M.  in  their  favour,  "  who  has  spared 
no  fatigue  or  expense  to  visit  our  mountains  in  person, 
and  to  inform  himself  of  the  exceeding  importance 
of  them  "  etc.  Signed,  by  the  Council  (10)  and  Bur- 
gesses (42).  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy.  3  pp. 
359.  ii.  (a)  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood's  Charge  to  the  Grand  Jury 
^  of  Virginia,  Oct.  19,  1720.  Reminds  them  of  the 
law  against  false  and  scandalous  reports  to  defame 
the  chief  rulers  etc. 

(b)  Address  of  the  Grand  Jury  to  Lt.  Governor 
Spotswood.  19th  Oct.,  1720.  We  comfort  ourselves 
that  a  Governor  so  faithfull  to  H.M.,  and  so  tender 


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1721.     .  '- 

of  the  people's  libertys,  will  ever  be  of  great  estimation 
in  the  opinions  of  good  men,  etc.  Signed,  Aug.  Moore, 
foreman,  and  20  others.  The  whole  endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding. Copy.  3|  pp. 
359.  iii.  (a)  Speech  of  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council 
and  Assembly  of  Virginia,  Nov.  3,  1720.  Urges 
moderation  and  concord.  "  To  consider  the  state  I 
have  among  you,  and  the  free  choice  I've  made  to 
fix  it  under  this  Government,  you  have  not  surely 
any  grounds  to  suspect  me  of  injurious  designs  against 
the  welfare  of  this  Colony  ;  for  if  a  conscientious 
discharge  of  our  duty  engages  us  Governors  to  be 
specially  mindfull  of  Great  Britain's  interest,  yet  I 
cannot  see  why  that  may  not  go  hand  in  hand  with 
the  prosperity  of  these  plantations  etc.  I  look  upon 
Virginia  as  a  rib  taken  from  Britain's  side,  and  beleive 
that  v/hile  they  both  proceed  as  living  under  the 
marriage-compact  this  Eve  might  thrive  so  long  as 
her  Adam  flourishes ;  and  whatever  serpent  shall 
tempt  her  to  go  astray  etc.,  will  but  quicken  her 
husband  to  rule  more  strictly  over  her  etc.  Reminds 
them  of  the  naked  state  both  of  the  harbours  and 
frontiers,  the  disarmed  condition  of  the  Militia,  the 
inconvenient  length  of  many  counties,  and  leaves  to 
their  consideration  whether  the  giving  encouragement 
for  extending  their  "  out  settlements  to  the  high  ridge 
of  mountains,  will  not  be  laying  hold  of  the  best 
barrier,  that  nature  could  form,  to  secure  this  Colony 
from  the  incursions  of  the  Indians,  and  more  dangerous 
incroachments  of  the  French  "  etc. 

(b)  Address  of  the  Council  of  Virginia  to  Lt.  Govr. 
Spotswood.  Reply  to  2)receding.  Nov.  5,  1720.  We 
account  ourselves  very  fortunate  in  having  frequent 
occasions  of  being  prompted  by  your  great  talents  to 
promote  H.M.  service,  and  the  general  advantage  of 
this  Dominion  etc.  Our  near  relation  to  Great 
Britain,  we  esteem  our  chief  felicity  :  And  as  this 
Colony  has  in  the  most  rebellious  times  signalized 
her  loyalt)^,  so  we  question  not  but  she  will  continue 
to  give  proofs  of  unshaken  duty  to  her  Sovereign, 
and  of  entire  fidelity  and  affection  to  her  mother 
country,  etc.  Agree  to  consider  the  properest  ex- 
pedients for  guarding  the  frontiers  etc. 

(c)  Address  of  the  Burgesses  of  Virginia  to  Lt. 
Governor  Spotswood.  Nov.  5,  1720.  Reply  to  {a). 
'Tis  with  joy  not  to  be  expressed  that  we  see  a  late 
unhappy  division  so  unexpectedly  united,  which 
(next  under  God)  we  must  ascribe  to  your  peaceable 
disposition,  and  shall  most  heartily  agree,  after  the 


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2H 


1721. 

example  of  our  Governor,  to  banish  all  contentions 
out  of  our  counsels  and  debates,  and  set  ourselves 
earnestly  and  sincerely  to  consult,  the  united  interest 
of  our  Royal  Soverain,  and  this  Dominion  whose 
felicity  it  is  to  be  joyned  in  interest  with  the  Kingdom 
of  Great  Britain  etc.  We  must  joyfully  acknowledge 
the  satisfaction  we  have,  to  see  our  country  in  so 
prosperous  and  flourishing  a  condition  as  to  want  no 
supplies  from  us,  as  well  as  to  be  under  the  adminis- 
tration of  so  just  a  Governor  etc.  The  whole  endorsed 
as  preceding.  Copy.  4  pp.  [CO.  5,  1319.  Nos. 
3,  3.  i.-iii.] 

Jan.  17.       360.     Mr.    Wescomb   to    Mr.    Popple.     Reply   to    13th.     All 

South  Sea  ^}^g  Directors  being  then  to  attend  the  House  of  Lords,  they 

cannot  possibly  wait  on  yor.  Board  at  that  time  etc.     Signed, 

D.    Wescomb.      Endorsed,     Reed.      Read    18th    Jan.      172','. 

Addressed.     1  p.     [CO.  152,  13.    ff.  42,  43t;.] 

Jan.  19.  361.  Mr.  West  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Report  upon  several  Acts  of  Barbados,  passed  in  1719,  1720. 
Signed,  Richd.  West.  Endorsed,  Reed.  19th  Jan.,  Read 
17th  Feb.  172'/.     8i  pp.     Enclosed, 

361.  i.  Petition  of  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  the  Lords  Justices. 

Dec.  2,  1720.  Signed,  W.  Gordon.  Copy.  6  pp. 
361.  ii.  Order  of  Lords  Justices  in  Council.  Oct.  5,  1720. 
Confirming  Report  of  Committee  of  Council,  that  the 
charges  of  the  Governor  and  Agents  of  Barbados 
against  Mr.  Gordon  are  altogether  groundless  and  ought 
to  be  dismist. 
361.  Hi.  Memorial  of  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Nov.  1,  1720.  Copy.  [CO.  28, 
17.    ff.  13-17,  19-21i;.,  23-26t;.] 


Jan.  19.  362.  Sir  A.  Cairnes  and  Mr.  Douglas  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Pray  to  be  heard  before  report  is  made  upon 
the  petition  of  the  South  Sea  Company  (v.  3rd  and  12th  Jan.). 
Signed,  Alex  Cairnes,  James  Douglas.  Endorsed,  Reed.  19th 
Jan.,  172t  Read  3rd  Sept.,  1724.  i  p.  [CO.  217,  4.  Jf. 
265,  266i;.] 

363.  Col.  Moore  and  his  Council  to  Mr.  Boone.  By  yours 
of  8th  Oct.  wee  are  informed  that  wee  may  expect  H.E.  this 
month,  which  administers  great  joy  to  the  whole  Province  and 
makes  us  have  the  best  conceptions  of  your  successful  sollicita- 
tions.  Continue  wee  beg  of  you  to  follow  the  Proprietors  in 
every  step  they  take  to  the  disadvantage  of  Carolina  etc.  Enclose 
reply  to  Rhett's  "  vile  and  scandalous  letter  "  to  be  laid  before 
the  Secretaryes  of  State,  Lords  of  the  Treasury,  Lords  of  Trade 

Wt,  75i)5  ('.p.  32—16 


Jan.  19. 

So.  Carolina. 


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1721. 

and  Commrs.  of  Cristoms  etc.  We  desire  you  to  use  the  most 
pressing  instances  to  get  that  enemy  to  his  country  and  detested 
reviler  of  mankind  removed  from  his  office  of  Surveyor  and 
Comptroller  of  H.M.  Customes  etc.  The  Assembly  meets  in 
about  three  weeks,  and  if  the  new  Governour  doth  not  arrive 
before  that  you  may  expect  a  generall  representation  of  his 
character  etc.  etc.  Signed,  Ja.  Moore,  Jo.  Chicken,  Saml. 
Prioleau,  Jno.  Lloyd,  Thos.  Smith,  Benj.  Schenckingh,  Richd. 
Berisford.     1|  pp.     Enclosed, 

363.  i.  Reply  of  Col.  Moore  and  his  Council  to  Col.  Rhett's 
letter  to  the  Commissioners  of  Customs,  21st  Dec, 
1719.  (i)  That  the  people  of  S.  Carolina  had  run 
into  open  rebellion  and  proclaimed  Col.  Moore  for 
their  Governor  in  order  to  take  the  Lords  Proprietors' 
Charter  from  them  and  to  bring  the  Province  under 
the  King's  immediate  Government.  This  is  fully 
falsifyed  by  Govr.  Johnson's  letter,  27th  Dec,  1719, 
and  the  General  Representation  sent  home  at  that 
time,  (ii)  That  he,  Rhett,  had  had  25  years  experience 
among  the  people  of  Carolina,  and  that  they  were  ever 
raising  mutinies  and  commotions,  and  that  it  was 
not  only  the  Lords  Proprietors'  authority  they 
trampled  on,  but  not  long  since  they  raised  a  rebellion 
against  H.M.  by  calling  together  70  or  80  men  in  amies 
to  fire  on  the  Shoreharn  man  of  war  and  Custom  house 
Officers,  at  which  time  he  was  shot  through  the  body, 
and  this  done  in  the  execution  of  their  duty  for  seizing 
pyratical  goods  etc.  Reply.  Assert  the  peaceable 
behaviour  of  the  inhabitants.  Col.  Daniel,  Depty. 
Governor,  ordered  some  piratical  goods  brought  into 
Charles  Town  by  a  privateer  to  be  secured  until  the 
law  had  determined  whose  property  they  were.  Col. 
Rhett  endeavouring  by  violence  to  get  said  goods  into 
his  possession  before  they  were  condemned  Col. 
Daniel  did  make  use  of  his  authority  to  prevent  him, 
but  the  people  were  not  other  ways  concerned  than  in 
getting  under  arms  in  obedience  to  the  Governor's 
lawful  commands,  (iii)  Several  of  the  leading  men 
have  been  concerned  in  a  notorious  clandestine  trade, 
particularly  Samuel  Eveleigh,  who  is  now  one  of  their 
Council,  and  now  they  think  they  will  have  protection 
etc.  He  hopes  Lord  Carteret  will  procure  such  a  power 
from  H.M.  as  will  soon  subdue  these  factious  people, 
for  if  they  are  not  cropt  in  the  bud,  and  an  example 
made  of  some  of  them,  they  will  sett  up  for  themselves 
against  H.M.  Reply.  There  has  been  less  clandestine 
trade  in  this  Province  than  in  any  part  of  the  King's 
Colonies  etc.,  tho'  the  Custom  house  yatch  has  lain 
rotteing  in  a  creek  for  four  years.     Mr.  Eveleigh  had 


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1721. 

been  a  Deputy  or  Counsellor  to  the  Lords  Proprietors 
for  10  years.  As  for  the  people  setting  up  for  them- 
selves, he  is  a  villainous  wicked  wretch  for  suggesting 
what  he  knows  to  be  false  with  a  design  to  prejudice 
the  whole  Province  in  the  King's  opinion  who  are  so 
remarkable  in  shewing  their  loyalty  and  zeal  to  H.M. 
(iv)  They  are  in  debt  to  the  Lords  Proprietors  for 
arrears  of  rent  a  great  many  thousand  pounds  and 
have  taken  this  rebellious  method  to  pay  off  their 
old  scores.  Reply.  There  are  arrears,  but  it  is  cheifly 
occasioned  by  Mr.  Rhett  not  taking  care  to  collect 
them,  tho'  there  past  a  law  the  better  to  enable  the 
Receiver  to  collect  the  rents,  wch.  their  Ldps.  did  not 
think  fitt  to  confirme.  (v)  That  he  hath  thought  it 
his  duty  in  behalf  of  H.M.  Revenue  and  security  of 
fair  traders  to  apprize  their  Honours  that  some  remedy 
may  be  applied  etc.  Reply.  He  is  owner  of  several 
vessels  that  trade  from  this  place,  is  a  trader  himself 
and  his  wife  keeps  a  shop  in  Charles  Town.  He 
traded  to  Augustine  with  great  guns  and  powder 
immediately  upon  the  cessation  of  arms,  since  which 
time  the  privateers  of  Augustine  have  taken  several 
British  ships  upon  this  coast  etc.  Most  of  the  differ- 
ences between  the  people  and  the  late  Lords  Pro- 
prietors have  been  occasioned  by  Mr.  Rhett  and  his 
brother  in  law  the  late  Judge  Trott  misrepresenting 
them  to  their  Lordships  with  a  view  to  their  own  private 
interest  etc.  Signed  as  preceding.  2  large  pp.  \C.O. 
28,  39.     Nos.  18,  19  ;    and  5,  538.    ff.  81-83t;.] 

Jan.  23.  334.  Edmund  Sutton  to  Coll.  Martyn  Bladen,  one  of  the 
Hatbados.  Lq^^j^.  Commissioners  for  Trade  etc.  As  I  shall  be  a  sharer  of 
ye  misfortunes  yt.  doth  attend  this  place  having  an  interest 
in  ye  same,  I  have  taken  ye  liberty  to  remind  you  of  our 
acquaintance  at  St.  John  College  in  Cambridge  etc.  Ye 
calamitous  circumstance  of  this  Island  compells  me  to  address 
you  as  a  friend  to  mankind  etc.  Ye  5  of  Decemr.  last  Mr.  Saml. 
Cox  came  to  ye  Presidentship  of  this  place,  ye  second  setting 
of  ye  Council  he  suspended  Col.  John  Frere,  a  gentleman  of  ye 
best  fortune  in  this  Island,  and  of  unspotted  reputation,  con- 
trary to  ye  advice  of  ye  Council,  and  then  he  proceded  to  breake 
all  ye  military  officers  notwithstanding  there  is  a  late  law  of  this 
Island  yt.  restraines  a  President  power  without  ye  consent  of 
Council.  Ye  17th  of  this  instant  he  suspended  six  more  of 
ye  Members  of  H.M.  Council  and  ye  same  day  swore  four  of  his 
creatures  into  their  places  and  nominated  a  fifth  whose  in- 
disposition prevented  his  being  sworn  ;  ye  next  place  we  expect 
he  will  displace  ye  Judges  and  then  dissolve  this  assembly  who 
are  not  very  gratious  with  him  for  addressing  H.M.  against  him 


244  COLONIAI>   PAPERS. 

1721. 

and  hath  endeavoured  to  prevent  all  he  can  their  proceeding 
on  business  by  his  adjournments  tho'  ye  Island  never  wanted 
ye  setting  of  an  Assembly  more  than  it  doth  at  this  juncture 
to  remonstrate  ye  grievances  of  ye  place,  yt.  they  may  be  re- 
dressed at  home,  for  we  can  hope  for  none  here.  As  soon  as 
ye  Judges  are  displaced  and  some  of  his  instruments  do  take 
their  places  and  there  is  a  dissolution  of  this  Assembly  that  will 
not  fall  into  his  vile  measures,  he  will  labour  to  have  such 
returned  by  Sheriffs  of  his  own  nomination  for  assembly  men 
as  are  prepared  for  his  model  of  Government  wch.  is  to  fill  his 
empty  coffers  with  ye  public  money  etc.  The  French  from 
Martineco  hath  more  indulgence  shown  ym.  by  ye  President 
then  they  have  in  their  own  Island,  they  have  ingress  and  egress 
into  all  ye  forts  and  fortifications  and  ye  full  range  of  ye  Island 
and  have  an  open  access  to  ye  President  who  gave  leave  to  a 
French  sloap  to  anchor  in  Carlisle  Bay  and  remain  in  ye  harbour 
for  four  days  and  after  a  universal  clamour  of  ye  Island  he  issued 
out  a  Proclamation  for  ye  French  men  departure  yet  takes  care 
underhand  to  prevent  ye  executing  of  ye  same.  He  hath  given 
letters  for  ye  General  of  Martineco  to  several  persons  who  under 
yt.  pretence  carry  on  ye  sugar  trade  wch.  is  very  destructive 
to  this  Colony  and  it  may  be  made  appear  yt.  he  hath  a  share 
in  ye  sd.  trade,  and  it  is  very  notorious  his  incouraging  some 
persons  yt.  are  Knights  of  ye  Post  by  putting  ym.  into  places 
of  trust  and  profit  for  taking  false  oaths  against  several  gentle- 
men of  this  Island  and  displacing  others  etc.  Signed,  Edmund 
Sutton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  22nd  March,  172 1'.  Seal. 
2  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  29,  291^.,  30y.] 

Jan.  23.  365.  Mr.  Sutton  to  George  Bamfeild  and  Alexander 
Bari.adof;.  Stcvensou,  Agcuts  for  Barbados.  There  is  no  order  past  for 
yr.  sallarys  and  since  Mr.  Cox  accession  to  ye  Presidentship  I 
have  good  reason  to  believe  you  will  have  none,  ye  said  President 
being  incensed  against  all  persons  that  Mr.  Lowther  imployed 
or  made  use  of,  it  therefore  behoves  you  when  a  Governour  is 
appointed  to  make  an  interest  with  him  etc.  Our  President 
hath  turned  our  Govermt.  topsy  turvy  etc.  as  preceding. 
Signed,  Edmund  Sutton.  Endorsed,  Reed,  Read  25th  March, 
1721.      1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  47,  48r.] 

Jan.  23.  366.  Samuel  Cox,  President  of  the  Council  of  Barbados, 
Barbados,  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Returns  thanks  for 
the  Board's  reports  and  relief  "  against  the  unparallel'd 
tyranny  of  our  late  Governor  "  etc.  Will  endeavour  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  Island  and  give  an  account  of  his  actions  etc. 
Continues  : — Upon  my  demanding  from  the  publick  Secretary 
copies  of  the  Minutes  of  Council  from  the  time  they  were  last 
transmitted,  he  sent  me  the  enclosed  answer  etc.  By  this  meanes 
it  happens,  that  I  have  been  able  to  transmitt  to  your  Lordships 


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1721. 


no  more  then  such  as  relate  to  transactions  since  my  entering 
on  the  Government  etc.  The  particular  reason  for  my  per- 
mitting Mr.  Frcre  (altho'  under  contempt)  to  be  sworn  at  my 
first  sitting  in  Council  was  that  I  expected  he  would  have 
withdrawn  from  the  Board  upon  the  reading  the  Lord  Justices 
Order,  and  my  requireing  him  to  pay  obedience  to  the  same, 
and  upon  his  neglecting  so  to  do,  I  did  not  apprehend  myself 
capable  of  exerciseing  any  act  of  Government  nor  consequently 
of  excluding  him,  until  I  was  assisted  by  a  Council  ;  which  I 
conceived  could  not  be  till  they  were  sworn  ;  and  he  being  the 
eldest  Member  thereof  must  regularly  be  first  sworn  etc.  On 
my  sitting  in  Council,  the  17th  instant  I  suspended  Mr.  Maxwell, 
Mr.  Maycock,  Mr.  Ball,  Mr.  Blackman,  Mr.  Carter  and  Mr. 
Bond.  Refers  to  enclosure  and  hopes  for  their  Lordships''  appro- 
bation. It  was  with  the  greatest  reluctance  and  from  an  absolute 
necessity  that  I  was  compell'd  to  that  exercise  of  my  authority. 
Having  (in  vain)  allow'd  them  so  long  an  interval,  as  from  the 
8th  Dec.  to  17th  Jan.  for  their  returning  to  the  sense  of  their 
duty.  Which  they  abused,  by  paying  their  publick  regards 
to  Mr.  Frere  ;  Holding  cabals  with  him,  and  the  rest  of  their 
accomplices,  and  an  utter  contempt  of  me  etc.  The  motion 
made  by  the  suspended  Members,  at  the  Board  the  17th  instant, 
they  aver  that  the  reason  why  they  made  use  of  the  word  con- 
tempt, in  their  answer  on  8th  Dec,  was  because  the  Lords 
Justices  made  use  of  that  word,  12th  Oct.  The  plain  meaneing 
whereof  I  conceive  is,  that  altho  they  did  say  in  their  said  answer. 
That  Mr.  Frere  is  in  contempt,  yet  (indeed)  they  do  not  believe 
him  to  be  so  (whatever  the  Lords  Justices  may  adjudge)  but 
were  unwarily  drawn  in,  to  make  use  of  that  word,  in  complais- 
ance to  their  Excellencys,  who  had  thought  fitt  to  use  it. 
Altho'  I  expressed  no  other  reason  in  Council  for  my  suspending 
Mr.  Frere,  "  Besides  his  contempt  of  H.M.  Order  of  11th  June." 
Yet  it  appears  that  he  was  equally  guilty,  of  most  of  the  other 
Acts  of  disobedience  and  contempt  which  I  have  charged  against 
the  other  suspended  Members.  For  that  he  gave  his  assent 
to  the  Tranquillity  Law,  on  7th  June  ;  and  disobey'd  H.M. 
Order  comunicated  to  the  Board  by  Mr.  Lowther  30th  June, 
asserted  his  right  to  the  Presidentship,  after  the  publication 
of  the  Lords  Justices  Order  of  12th  Oct.,  and  before  his  sus- 
pension, as  well  as  his  right  of  sitting  as  a  Member  of  Council 
after  his  suspension  ;  And  lastly  urged  the  Tranquillity  Act 
against  my  power  of  suspending  him,  8th  Dec.  And  I  hope 
therefore  his  suspension  (as  well  as  that  of  the  others)  will  be 
approved  of  by  your  Lordships  as  just  and  necessary  etc.  By 
the  suspension  of  the  aforesaid  Members,  there  became  a  vacancy 
of  five,  to  make  up  the  number  of  seven  in  the  said  Council  ; 
which  I  have  supply'd  by  chuseing,  and  appointing  Reynold 
Alleyne,  Henry  Peers,  John  Sandford,  Othniel  Haggatt,  and 
John  Rous  Esqre.  to  be  of  the  said  Council,  till  H.M.  further 


246  '  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

3  721. 

pleasure  shall  be  known.  All  which  Gentlemen  are  of  un- 
doubted characters,  as  to  their  probity,  understandings,  estates, 
and  affections  to  the  Government.  I  earnestly  request  your 
Lordships  to  report  their  fitness  to  H.M.  etc.  As  to  what 
relates  to  the  Assembly,  they  were  chosen  by  virtue  of  writts 
issued  from  Mr.  Frere  and  chiefly  by  his  influence,  after  his 
haveing  been  served  with  H.M.  Order  of  11th  June.  Refers  to 
their  Minutes  enclosed,'"''  which  Minutes  are  all  that  I  could 
obtain  from  their  Clerk  ;  notwithstanding  I  have  frequently 
demanded  from  him,  all  that  have  passed  since  the  last  time, 
that  any  of  them  were  transmitted."  Refers  to  enclosure  Hi  etc. 
Signed,  Saml.  Cox.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  23rd  March,  172','. 
3  large  pp.     Enclosed, 

366.  i.  Mr.  Cox's  Representation  of  the  present  state  of 
Barbadoes  and  the  conduct  of  those  persons  left  in 
power  by  Mr.  Lowther.  Jan.  20, 1720-1.  Mr.  Lowther 
being  determined  at  all  adventures  to  exclude  me 
from  the  administration  in  favour  of  his  nephew 
Mr.  Frere,  not  only  contemned  Mr.  Craggs'  letter 
but  by  way  of  prevention  in  case  H.M.  should  be 
graciously  pleased  to  repeat  it,  pass'd  a  law  under  the 
specious  pretence  of  preserving  the  peace  and  tran- 
quility of  the  Island  whereby  he  would  have  vacated 
the  very  Letters  Patents  by  which  alone  the  power 
of  making  laws  at  all  here  is  created.  This  pretended 
Law  of  his  changing  the  fundamental  constitution  in 
direct  opposition  to  the  Letters  patents,  making  the 
consent  of  7  Members  of  Council  in  Council  necessarily 
requisite  in  the  alteration  of  any  officers  civil  or 
military,  altho'  by  the  Letters  Patents  5  Members 
are  constituted  a  quorum,  and  the  Govr.  with  the 
majority  required  and  impowered  to  execute  all 
the  powers.  Mr.  Lowther  displaced  most  of  the  old 
officers  civil  and  military  and  supplied  their  places 
with  persons  of  meaner  fortunes  and  understandings 
who  were  creatures  of  his  own,  and  had  been  the 
instruments  of  all  his  arbitrary  conduct.  All  the 
Members  of  Council  who  were  not  suspended  except 
Mr.  Lightfoot  owed  their  seats  at  that  Board  to  his 
recommendation  and  had  so  blindly  and  universally 
concurred  with  him  in  everything  that  for  their  own 
sakes  they  would  be  sure  to  prevent  any  alteration  that 
might  leave  room  for  a  fair  enquiry  into  their  and  his 
unjustifiable  behaviour,  and  to  engage  them  the  firmer 
therein,  he  had  prevailed  with  them  to  involve  them- 
selves in  this  guilt  by  approving  of  such  his  disobedi- 
ence in  Council.  H.M.  was  further  graciously  pleased 
to  explain  ye  significacon  of  his  Royal  pleasure 
expressly  in  my  favour  by  another  letter  of  the  11th 


AMERICA   AND   WEST    INDIES.  247 


1721. 


June,  which  Mr.  Frere  then  exercising  the  Govr.  with 
the  concurrence  of  all  the  Council  except  Mr.  Lightfoot 
following  Mr.  Lowther's  example  took  upon  him  to 
contemn.  The  Lords  Justices  for  such  his  contempt 
required  him  forthwith  and  without  delay  to  appear 
before  H.M.  at  the  Council  Board,  and  directed  me 
to  take  the  administration  of  the  Governmt.  upon 
myself,  when  this  order  arrived  to  remove  any  appre- 
hensions that  I  retain'd  any  resentmt.  of  any  former 
ill  treatment  of  me,  I  made  a  solemn  declaration  on 
5th  Dec.  last,  that  all  things  past  should  be  buried 
in  oblivion,  and  that  I  would  study  to  promote  peace, 
unanimity  and  reconciliation  among  all  H.M.  subjects 
and  caused  the  same  to  be  entred  in  the  Council  Book 
and  made  publicly  known.  The  time  for  holding  a 
Grand  Sessions  being  then  near  and  by  law  all  jurors 
being  returned  by  writs  issued  by  the  Conmiander 
in  Cheif  etc.,  and  the  Lords  Justices  having  declared 
Mr.  Frere's  holding  the  Governmt.  to  be  illegal  and 
a  disobedience  and  contempt  of  the  Royal  commands 
etc.,  I  therefore  asked  the  opinion  of  the  Council  whether 
I  could  issue  commissions  for  holding  the  Court,  the 
writs  for  the  return  of  Jurors  having  been  issued  by 
Mr.  Frere,  they  desired  time  to  consider  which  I  readily 
granted  them  to  Thursday  the  eighth  when  they  gave 
in  their  opinion  that  the  writs  tho'  issued  by  Mr. 
Frere  were  legal.  In  that  interval  I  had  certain 
accounts  of  a  cabal  of  those  Gentlemen,  who  thro' 
Mr.  Lowther's  influence  were  of  the  Council  and 
Assembly  and  possessed  of  the  civil  and  military 
offices  who  gave  out  that  they  had  received  letters 
from  Britain  giving  them  an  account  that  the  order 
of  the  Lords  Justices  was  obtained  thro'  the  influence 
of  some  noble  Lords,  that  when  H.M.  returned  Mr. 
Lowther  would  have  all  reversed  and  Mr.  Frer  re- 
instated (in  hopes  of  which  he  has  now  stayed  above 
two  months  in  this  Island,  and  determin'd  to  waite 
for  more  ships  from  London)  That  the  Tranquility 
but  made  me  a  cypher,  any  two  of  them  had  a  negative 
upon  me,  and  that  they  had  nothing  to  do  but  to 
stand  by  one  another  and  defy  me.  In  pursuance  of 
those  measures  Mr.  Frere  had  the  confidence  tho'  in 
contempt  of  his  Majesty  instead  of  repairing  home  to 
come  and  offer  to  sit  and  act  as  a  Counciller,  and  in- 
sisted upon  doing  so,  and  when  I  told  him  the  duty 
I  ow'd  H.M.  would  not  permit  me  to  indulge  him  in 
that,  and  ask'd  the  opinion  of  the  Council  thereon, 
they  refused  to  give  me  any  positive  opinion  but  all 
of  them   insisted   on  the   pretended   Tranquility   but 


248  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721.  ~~' 


altho'  it  plainly  appeared  to  be  repugnant  to  and 
inconsistent  with  H.M.  Comission  and  Instructions, 
and  that  the  very  attempting  to  enforce  such  an 
Act  was  such  a  heinous  violation  of  and  so  great  an 
incroachment  upon  the  Royal  Prerogative  as  I  could 
never  suffer  without  the  highest  and  unanswerable 
breach  of  the  trust  reposed  in  me,  however  to  avoid 
all  misunderstandings  and  that  my  lenity  and  indul- 
gence to  them,  might  prevail  with  them  to  act  in 
concert  with  me  for  H.M.  service  I  adjourn'd  the 
Council  for  a  month,  in  which  time  I  enquired  into  the 
state  and  condition  of  the  forts  magazine  and  militia. 
I  am  sorry  I  am  forced  to  represent  the  miserable 
decayed  and  confused  posture  of  everything,  the  forts 
are  wholly  out  of  repair,  the  stores  which  ought  to  be 
in  the  magazine  embezled  the  militia  have  forgot  all 
discipline  and  most  of  the  Regmts.  want  subaltern 
officers.  Whilst  I  was  preparing  to  fall  upon  measures 
first  of  all  for  the  redressing  these  errors,  Mr.  Frere  went 
about  the  country  endeavouring  to  perswade  people 
to  sign  Addresses  in  his  and  Mr.  Lowther's  favour, 
and  the  Assembly  who  were  mostofthemreturndtosit 
thro'  his  contrivance  met  privately  on  5th  Jan.  at  a 
Plantation  in  the  country  contrary  to  my  order  and 
in  contempt  of  H.M.  Prerogative,  and  there  had  the 
assurance  notwithstanding  of  the  judgment  given  agt. 
Mr.  Lowther  by  the  Lords  Justices  to  pass  an  Address 
to  H.M.  in  substance  as  I  am  informed  complaining 
of  the  removal  of  Mr.  Frere,  commending  Mr.  Lowther's 
administracon  and  complaining  of  mine  before  I  had 
an  opportunity  of  doing  anything  at  all.  I  was 
amazed  at  so  much  insolence,  but  before  I  should 
proceed  to  advert  thereon  I  sent  to  the  Speaker  Mr. 
Sutton  for  a  copy  of  the  Address  which  he  not  only 
refused  to  send  till  he  should  have  the  consent  of  the 
House,  but  had  the  assurance  to  direct  me  not  to 
send  him  any  more  verbal  messages.  I  thereupon 
called  the  Assembly  the  13th  Janry.  and  acquainted 
them  with  their  Speaker's  treatment  of  me,  their 
contempt  in  acting  when  ordered  to  adjourn,  that  I 
was  obliged  by  my  Instructions  to  transmit  to  the 
Ministry  all  the  Journals  and  transactions  of  that 
House  and  therefore  demanded  a  copy  of  the  Address 
mentioned  in  their  Minutes,  whereupon  they  went 
to  their  House,  voted  my  demanding  from  their 
Speaker  an  infringement  of  their  rights  and  privileges, 
gave  thanks  to  their  Speaker  for  denying  it  me,  and 
resolved  that  I  should  have  no  copy  of  their  Address. 
I  have  had  the  honour  of  being  a  Councillor  above 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  2M) 


1721. 


20  years  and  never  knew  such  an  encroaehnit.  on  the 
prerogative  ever  attempted  in  the  Island  before,  but 
what  made  it  the  more  surprizing  to  me  was  that  the  ' 
Members  of  Council  abetted  and  commended  it,  de- 
pending upon  the  Tranquillity  Act  for  protection 
in  any  affront  they  should  think  fit  to  give  me  or  the 
authority  vested  in  me,  this  reduced  me  to  the  un- 
happy necessity  of  sitting  tamely  still  and  seeing  H.M. 
authority  trampled  upon  and  his  prerogative  invaded 
or  of  removing  those  Members  of  Council  who  had 
voted  for  the  giving  of  the  Prerogative  up,  which  I 
thought  myself  in  duty  bound  to  do,  and  to  that 
purpose  summon'd  a  Council  on  the  17th  when  all 
the  Members  except  Mr.  Lightfoot  as  soon  as  they 
came  to  the  Board  insisted  upon  having  it  minuted 
that  in  the  opinion  they  delivered  the  preceding 
Council  day,  they  made  use  of  the  word  contempt 
with  relation  to  Mr.  Frere's  conduct  only  because  the 
Lords  Justices  had  made  use  of  it,  thereby  insolently 
intimating,  that  they  did  not  acknowledge  that  Mr. 
Frere  had  been  guilty  of  any  contempt.  I  thereupon 
thought  myself  in  duty  bound  for  the  preservation  of 
H.M.  authority  and  prerogative  and  the  vindication 
of  the  justice  of  their  Excellencies  the  Lords  Justices 
and  the  Members  of  H.M.  most  honble.  privy  Council, 
to  suspend  those  Members  for  such  their  undutiful 
and  treacherous  behaviour  to  H.M.,  and  to  make  the 
number  of  seven  etc.,  etc.  Hopes  for  H.M.  approbation. 
Signed,  Saml.  Cox.     Same  endorsement.     2|  pp. 

366.  ii.  Copy  of  Mr.  Cox's  Speech  to  the  Assembly.  Bar- 
bados, 13th  Jan.,  1720(1).  Demands  copy  of  their 
Address  to  the  King  etc.  Signed,  Saml.  Cox,  Same 
endorsemen t.     1 1  pp. 

366.  iii.  List  of  Councillors  suspended  and  appointed,  as  in 
covering  letter.  List  of  Gentlemen  recommended 
for  the  Council  by  Mr.  Cox  ;  —  Rev.  Charles  Irvine, 
Alexander  Walker,  Edward  W' arner,  James  Aynsw^orth, 
Thomas  Beckles,  George  Walker,  Samuel  Osborne, 
Daniel  Hooper,  James  Elliott,  George  Grame,  Henry 
Evans,  George  Forster.  Signed,  Saml.  Cox.  Same 
endorsement.     1  p. 

366.  iv.  Transactions  relating  to  the  Address  to  the  King 
by  the  Assembly  of  Barbados.  10th,  11th  Jan. 
1720(1).     Same  endorsement.     3^  pp. 

366.  V.  Minutes  of  Assembly  of  Barbados,  5th  and  13th 
Jan.  1720(1).  Same  endorsement.  5|  pp.  [CO.  28, 
17.    ff.  31-351^  36'c;.-A0,  4-1-421?.] 


250  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1721. 

Jan.  26.       367.     Mr.    Secrclary   Craggs   to   the   Council   of  Trade   and 

Whitehall.  Plantations.     Commission  and  Instructions  are  to  be  prepared 

for  Rich.  Viscount  Irwin,  appointed  Governor  of  Barbadoes. 

Signed,   J.    Craggs.     Endorsed,   Reed.     Read   26th   Jan.    172','. 

f  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  5,  6d.] 

Jan.  26.       368.     H.M.  Warrant  for  admitting  John  Robinson  to  the 
St.  James's.  Council  of  Virginia  in  the  room  of  William  Cock,  deed.     Counter- 
signed, J.  Craggs.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  36.] 

Jan.  28.       369.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.     Enclosing  for  his  opinion 
A\hiteiiaii.  in  point  of  law,  Act  of  New  York  appointing  the  value  of  lyon 
dollars.     [CO.  5,  1124.     p.  250.] 

Feb.  1.       370.     Council   of  Trade  and   Plantations   to   Mr.   Secretary 

Whitehall.  Craggs,     Enclosc   draught  of  Commission  for  Governor  Lord 

Irwin,  in  the  same  terms  as  that  afterwards  prepared  for  Lord 

Belhaven    (Tobago    excepted)    and   Mr.    Worsley   v.    Dec.    21. 

[CO.  29,  14.     pp.  90,  91.] 

Feb.  2.  371 .  Bishop  of  Salisbury  to  Mr.  Popple.  Desires  to  be 
Golden  heard  on  behalf  of  his  kinsman,  Francis  Yonge,  Surveyor 
Square.     General  of  Carolina  and  Bahama  Islands,  in  case  any  person 

shall  endeavour  to  get  into  his  employments  etc.     Signed,  W. 

Sarum.      Endorsed,  Reed.,    Read  3rd   Feb.,  172','.     Addressed. 

1  p.     [CO.  5,  358.    ff.  76,  77iJ.,  78i;.] 

Feb.  2.  372.  John  Lloyd  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs.  Complains 
Charles  of  the  behaviour  of  Capt.  Hildesley,  H.M.S.  Flamborough. 
Upon  his  arrival,  he  behaved  civilly  to  James  Moore,  Governor 
Elect,  etc.,  but  afterwards  "  entred  into  such  measures,  as  to 
revile  ye  Governmt,  and  rail  publickly  against  ye  measures 
that  had  been  taken,  and  to  encourage  Governor  Johnson  to 
resume  his  Governmt.,  offering  him  his  assistance.  This  and 
a  quarrel  between  him  and  Col.  Rhett  occasioned  some  repre- 
sentation to  be  made  from  hence  to  the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty 
before  my  return.  Upon  my  landing  a  month  agoe,  I  waited 
upon  Capt.  Hildesley,  who  received  me  with  a  great  deal  of 
civility,  and  we  both  appointed  to  meet  over  a  bottle  at  night, 
when  our  conversation  turned  upon  the  affairs  of  this  Colony, 
certain  advices  being  then  come  of  Mr.  Nicholson's  being 
appointed  "  etc.,  where  he  telling  me  what  he  could  have  done 
or  might  still  doe  to  restore  Mr.  Johnson,  I  replyed  that  Mr. 
Johnson  till  some  time  after  his  arrival!,  had  acted  very  wisely, 
in  not  attempting  to  make  any  division  or  disturbance  among 
ye  people  but  patiently  waiting  ye  answer  from  England  etc., 
and  that  the  King  would  not  approve  of  anybody,  that  should 
disturb  the  peace  of  his  subjects  etc.  We  parted  very  friendly 
yet  we  never  conversed  together,  but  Governor  Johnson  and 


TOWTI 

So.  Carolina. 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  '251 


1721. 


he  dining  together  last  Saturda,y  was  fortnight,  the  Flamboro' 
tired  15  guns  and  it  was  given  out  it  was  for  news  being  come 
that  a  stop  was  put  to  Governor  Nicholson,  this  with  some 
other  declarations  made  by  that  Company  that  very  day,  to 
amuse  and  devide  people,  made  it  necessary  for  ye  Governmt. 
to  issue  out  a  Proclamation  and  to  annex  to  it  ye  decretall 
order  of  ye  Regency  and  ye  London  Gazet,  wherein  Mr.  Nichol- 
sons being  appointed  Governor  and  sworne  before  ye  Regency 
was  published.  On  fryday  last  he  order'd  his  Lieut.  Mr. 
Haycock  on  board  ye  Samuel,  John  Jones  Master,  bound  and 
clear' d  for  London  and  to  take  his  cheife  mate  on  board  ye 
Flamborough  where  he  received  24  severe  lashes  on  his  bare 
back,  and  was  afterwards  put  on  shoar  where  shewing  how  he 
had  been  used,  there  gather'd  together  a  great  number  of  sailors 
belonging  to  ships  in  harbour,  and  I  happening  to  goe  by  at 
that  instant,  got  them  dispersed  immediately.  The  same  day 
the  mate  gave  an  information  upon  oath,  how  he  had  been 
served  by  ye  Lieut. 's  order,  and  demanded  a  warrant  against 
him,  which  was  granted,  but  ye  Justices  first  writ  to  him  to 
acquaint  him  of  ye  information  that  was  made,  and  that  ye 
warrant  would  be  served  upon  him  if  he  did  not  goe  before  a 
magistrate  and  enter  his  recognizance,  which  he  answering  with 
an  unmannerly  letter,  the  warrant  was  served  upon  him  on 
shoar,  and  he  is  now  in  the  Martial's  custody  having  refused  to 
enter  into  a  recognizance.  The  same  day  Capt.  Hildesley  made 
a  signall  for  ye  mars,  of  ships  to  come  on  board,  where  a  very 
few  went,  to  whome  he  rayl'd  against  ye  countrey  saying  there 
was  neither  Governmt.  nor  Justice  in  it,  and  abundance  of 
stuff  to  this  purpose.  On  Sunday  last  he  made  a  Speech  on 
ye  Bay  here,  to  the  Mars,  of  shipps,  saying  that  he  was  Govnr. 
and  that  he  would  whip  any  mar.  of  a  ship  that  used  his  men 
ill,  by  which  he  exposed  himself  so  much  that  one  of  them  asked 
him  why  he  did  not  discharge  his  Lieut,  out  of  his  custody,  if 
he  was  Governr.,  and  then  ye  rest  laugh'd  much.  Just  after 
this  I  met  him  upon  ye  Bay,  where  among  other  things  he  told 
me  he  would  take  it  as  a  piece  of  friendship  if  I  used  my  interest 
to  get  his  Lieut,  discharg'd.  I  answered  that  could  not  be 
done,  without  his  making  it  up  with  the  mate  or  entring  into  a 
recognizance.  I  told  him  I  would  speake  to  the  owner  to  make 
it  up  with  the  mate,  which  he  offered  to  do  upon  a  small  con- 
cession from  the  Lieutenant,  which  however  the  Captain  did 
not  think  fit  he  should  make  etc.  These  proceedings  of  a  Captain 
of  a  King's  shipp,  in  a  Govermt.  so  unestablished  as  this  is  at 
present,  might  have  had  a  mischevious  consequence,  were 
not  the  people  almost  unanimous  ;  they  have  however  occasion'd 
more  disturbances  and  commotions  than  anything  that  has 
happen'd  from  ye  beginning  of  ye  Revolution  etc.  We  expect 
General  Nicholson  here  dayly,  where  he  is  very  much  long'd 
for,  and  it  is  impossible  to  express  the  due  sence  the  inhabitants 


252  COLONIAL    1»APERS. 

]  72 1 . 

have  of  ye  King's  goodiioss,  in  taking  them  under  his  protection 
etc.  P.S. — Governor  Rogers  of  Providenee  was  here  for  about 
six  weekes  and  fought  a  duel  with  Capt,  Hildesley  upon  some 
disputes  they  had  at  Providence,  they  were  both  shghtly 
wounded.  The  former  is  returned  to  his  Goverment.  Signed, 
John  Lloyd.     4  pp.     [CO.  5,  387.     No.  20.] 

Feb.  4.         373.     H.M.    Warrant  appointing  Anthony   Corbiere   Naval 
St.  James's.  Officer  in  Jamaica,  and  revoking  the  patent  of  Thomas  Betts. 
Countersigned,  J.  Craggs.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.    pp.  36,  37.] 

Feb.  4.       374.     Samuel  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Barbados.  Eucloses  duplicates  of  dispatch  by  way  of  Bristol.  Continues  : — 
Mr.  Frere's  Speech  att  his  first  sitting  in  Council  June  30th, 
1720,  now  transmitted,  (though  I  can  not  gett  the  same  under 
the  Seal)  hath  been  kept  as  a  secrett  from  me,  and  though  I 
sent  the  Minutes  of  that  Council  with  my  former  Address  both 
to  your  Lordships  and  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs,  in  those  of  the 
fifth  of  August,  yet  it  will  be  found  that  there  is  no  mention 
made  of  it  therein, — which  shews  first,  how  I  am  served  by  the 
Secry.  here,  and  what  just  ground  I  had  to  complain,  for  want 
of  the  Minutes  and  other  proceedings.  Then  (with  humble 
submission)  I  think  it  shew's  very  plainly,  a  settled  resolution 
taken  to  keep  this  poor  Island  in  slavery,  the  suspended  Members 
do  appear  all  very  heartily  to  have  therein  joined,  by  the 
approbation  they  give  thereof  in  returning  thanks  for  the  same. 
I  think  I  need  not  further  trouble  your  Lordships  on  that  head, 
who  have  seen  that  modell  of  government  so  fully  exposed, 
only  submitt  it  for  your  Lordships  to  make  such  use  thereof  to 
his  most  sacred  Majesty,  as  shall  be  meet  etc.  I  have  lately 
received  intelligence  upon  oath  from  severalls,  and  an  express 
from  the  Generall  of  the  French  Islands,  giving  an  account  of 
a  pyrate  in  that  neighbourhood,  who  is  become  very  formidable 
by  the  addition  of  severall  vessells  and  great  numbers  of  men, 
exercising  thereabouts  the  vilest  cruelties  on  the  subjects  of 
all  Nations,  and  very  earnestly  solliciting  me  "  to  send  what 
force  I  can  to  join  with  such  as  he  can  raise,"  in  order  to  ex- 
terminate that  race  of  robbers.  Common  humanity  would 
determine  what  should  be  done  in  such  an  exigence,  but  we 
had  this  consideration  to  add,  that  we  may  soon  expect  him  to 
windward  of  this  Island,  which  might  be  attended  with  fatall 
consequences.  And  the  Seahorse  frigate,  commanded  by  Capt. 
Thomas  Durell,  happening  to  be  here,  in  order  to  convoy  the 
New  England  vessells  to  Tortuga  for  salt,  and  the  Rose  and 
Sharke,  having  been  gone  from  hence  but  a  few  dayes,  I  im- 
mediately called  a  Council,  we  advised  with  Mr.  Durell,  of  whose 
zeal  for  such  a  necessary  service,  I  hold  myself  obliged  to  give 
the  most  ample  account  to  your  Lordships  and  Mr.  Secretary 
Craggs,  but  he  proposed  my  assistance  of  some  more  force,  as 


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1721. 


well  as  of  men  and  arms.  All  which  the  Members  of  the  Council 
unanimously  agreed  to.  But  (alas)  we  found  ourselves  altogether 
unable  to  propose  any  means  of  doing  it.  Our  Treasury  empty, 
our  funds  all  anticipated,  the  Island  itself  impoverished,  by 
Mr.  Lowther's  rapines  and  exactions,  so  that  I  could  not  propose 
the  raising  any  further  force,  especially  considering  that  they 
who  armed  some  vessells  last  year,  on  the  like  account,  were 
frustrated  of  the  rewards  and  encouragements  promised,  by 
which  the  publick  faith  is  entirely  forfeited.  Yet,  that  we 
might  do  something,  the  Gentlemen  now  in  the  Councill  have 
generously  advised,  and  we  have  engaged  our  own  creditt,  for  tlie 
victualling,  paying,  and  other  expences  for  some  supernumerary 
men,  whom  I  provided  with  arms  from  our  own  magazine,  and 
issued  out  press  warrants  for  making  up  such  a  complement 
as  he  required,  and  have  dispatched  the  said  frigate,  and  sent 
to  Mr.  Whittney  also  to  rendesvouz  att  Fort  Royall,  to  join 
such  forces  as  Mr.  De  Feuquieres  can  raise  of  his  most  Christian 
Majesty's  for  that  intent.  I  most  humbly  apply  to  your  Lord- 
ships, and  beg  your  Lordships  good  offices  for  proper  orders, 
that  the  victualling,  paying,  and  other  charges  of  this  Expedition, 
may  be  defrayed  by  his  Majesty  ;  it  being  entirely  for  H.M. 
service,  and  so  much  tending  to  the  publick  good,  etc.  Signed, 
Saml.  Cox.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  30th  March,  1721.  2f  »». 
[CO.  28,  17.    ff.  69-70^.] 

Feb.  5.       375.     Mr.   Popple  to  Mr.  West.     Encloses  for  his  opinion 
Whitehall,  in  point  of  law  Act  of  Bermuda  to  supply  the  deficiency  of  several 
funds,  etc.     [CO.  38,  7.     p.  459.] 

Feb.  7.  376.  Petition  of  Capt.  Pechell  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Being  informed  that  the  South  Sea  Company 
has  petitioned  H.M.  for  the  French  lands  in  St.  Kitts,  petitioner, 
on  behalf  of  Capt.  Andrew  Thannet  of  St.  Christophers,  planter, 
repeats  application  for  confirmation  of  a  grant  of  lands  {v. 
C.S.P.  20th  Dec.  1716.)  Endorsed,  Reed.  7th  Feb.,  172V. 
Read  14th  Sept.,  1724.     1  p.     [CO.  152,  14.    ff  296,  297t;.] 

Feb.  7.  377.  Governor  Lord  Irwin  to  Mr.  Popple.  I've  this  morn- 
Arlington  ing  a  litle  return  of  my  distemper  etc.  Pray  acquaint  their 
street.  Lor^ps.  that  in  my  Commission  the  Island  of  Tobago  is  not 
mention'd,  tho'  pertieularly  so  in  ye  106  instruction  ;  several 
gentlemen  of  ye  Island  of  Barbados  has  desired  me  to  speak 
of  it  etc.  Signed,  Irwin.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  7th  Feb., 
172V.     Holograph.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff  7,  8^.] 

Feb.  10.       378.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     Re- 

whitehaii.  commend  dismissal  of  Peter  Schuyler   and   Adolphus   Philips 

from  the  Council  of  New  York,  and  appointment  of  Cadwalader 


254 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

Colden  and  James  Alexander  in  their  stead,  as  proposed  hv 
Governor  Burnet.  If  pp.  [CO.  5,  1079.  No.  122  ;  and  5,  1124. 
pp.  251,  252.] 

Feb,  10.       379.     Order    of    King    in    Council.      Approving    preceding, 
St.  James's,  and   ordering  accordingly.     Signed,   Robert   Hales.     Endorsed, 

Reed.  2nd.,    Read  8th  June,  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  1052.    jj. 

157,  158^;.] 


Feb.  14.  380.  The  King  to  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes.  Whereas  you 
Sfc,  James's,  having  represented  unto  us  in  Council  that  some  persons  of 
Our  Island  of  Jamaica,  are  inclined  to  interprett  Our  last  letter 
of  15th  Jan.,  17^-i  for  paying  £2706  6*.  Sd.  and  £938  175.  6rf. 
to  Lord  A.  Hamilton,  late  Governor,  and  others  out  of  the  first 
and  readiest  of  Our  Revenues  there,  to  be  a  suspension  or 
revocation  of  our  Instructions  to  you,  for  taking  your  salary 
as  Our  Governour,  as  if  all  demands  were  to  be  postponed  till 
the  said  money  slid,  be  paid  ;  and  therefore  praying  that  you 
may  receive  your  salary  as  usual ;  And  whereas  Lord  A. 
Hamilton  hath  also  represented  unto  us  in  Council,  that  the 
first  of  the  summs  above-mentioned  was  expended  by  him  when 
Our  Governour  of  Jamaica,  and  by  the  Council  there,  for  the 
support  of  the  soldiers  of  that  Island,  at  a  time  when  the 
Assembly  was  not  sitting,  and  when  the  Act  for  subsisting  them 
was  expiring  ;  without  which  supply  they  must  inevitably  have 
starved,  and  the  said  Island  been  without  defence  ;  and  that 
the  other  sum  is  due  to  him  for  the  like  service,  and  for  his 
salary  etc.  Refers  to  previous  Orders  on  the  subject  and  that  of 
Jan.  15,  1720.  Continues  :  And  the  Lords  of  the  Committee 
of  Our  Privy  Council  for  hearing  appeals  etc.  from  the  Planta- 
tions etc.  having  heard  him  as  well  as  your  Agent  thereupon, 
have  reported  their  opinion,  that  the  debt  due  to  Lord  A. 
Hamilton,  being  prior  to  all  others,  ought  to  be  discharged  before 
any  other  demands,  and  without  further  delay,  and  that  Our 
aforementioned  letter  for  pajang  the  same,  out  of  the  first  and 
readiest  of  Our  Revenues  of  Jamaica  should  be  confirmed,  and 
that  We  should  please  to  signifie  Our  pleasure  to  you,  that  you 
do  in  the  strongest  terms,  recommend  to  the  Assembly  the 
making  good  the  deficiencies  that  may  be  occasioned  by  the 
payment  of  the  debts  aforementioned,  as  having  been  contracted 
for  their  own  security,  etc.,  orders  accordingly.  Countersigned, 
Townshend.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  38-41.] 

Feb.  14.       381 .     Lord  Townshend  to  the  Council  of  Trade  ^nd  Planta- 

whitehaii.  tious.     Encloscs  following  for  their  report.     Signed,  Townshend. 

Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  Feb.  172','.     I  p.     Enclosed, 

381.  i.   Petition  of  some  proprietors  of  Barbados  to  the  King. 

The   omission  of  Tobago  from  the  Governors  Letters 

Patents  may   give   pretence   to  foreign  powers  to  lay 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  255 


1721 

claim  thereto  etc.  {v.  7th  Feb.).  Signed,  Robert  Davers, 
J.  Walters,  Wm.  Walker,  Timothy  Salter,  Abel  Alleyne. 
1|  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  9,  10,'^10i;.,  12i;.] 

Feb.  15.  382.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Com- 
whitehaii.  missioners  of  the  Treasury.  Enclose  Office  accounts  from 
Midsummer  to  Christmas,  1720.  There  was  then  three  months 
salary  due  to  the  Secretary  and  other  officers,  and  three  quarters 
due  to  this  Commission  etc.  Accounts  annexed.  [CO.  389, 
37.    pp.  203-205.] 

Feb.  15.       383.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Townshend. 
Whitehall,  j^gj^i^^  f^  ^^jj^  ^^^j^      ^g  ^^  j^^^  ^^^^  Tobago  was  ever  inserted 

by  name,  in  any  Commn.  to  a  Governor  of  Barbados.  King 
Charles  II  in  1664  made  a  grant  of  that  Island  to  the  Duke  of 
Courland,  upon  certain  conditions,  which  the  said  Duke  not 
having  perform'd,  it  was  declar'd  in  Council  in  1686,  that  he  had 
forfeited  all  right  and  title  to  the  said  grant.  The  Commns. 
issued  since  yt.  time  ha\ing  been  drawn  according  to  former 
precedents,  Tobago  has  not  been  inserted  by  name  notwith- 
standing the  aforesaid  Declaration  in  Council,  but  has  been 
understood  to  be  included  in  ye  general  words  of  ye  Commission, 
and  was  inserted  by  name  in  ye  Instruction  ;  however  as  H.M. 
right  and  title  to  the  said  Island  is  unquestionable,  we  have  no 
objection  why  Tobago  should  not  be  inserted  by  name,  in  my 
Lord  Irwin's  Commissn,  as  desir'd  by  the  Petrs.  [CO.  29,  14. 
pp.  92,  93.] 

Feb.  16.  384.  Address  of  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  the  King.  Cf. 
March  25.  Your  Majesty's  fatherly  love  of  all  your  people, 
your  great  goodness  to  hear,  and  readiness  to  redress  their 
grievances,  embolden  us  to  approach  your  Royal  Throne,  humbly 
to  represent  the  present  state  of  this  your  Majesty's  (once 
flourishing)  Collony,  under  the  administration  of  the  Honble. 
Saml.  Cox  Esq.  etc.  That  Gentleman,  at  the  time  of  the 
devolution  of  the  Government  upon  him,  found  the  offices  civil 
and  military,  filled  Avith  persons  of  fair  fortunes,  and  characters, 
and  distinguish't  by  their  attachment  to  your  Majesty's  in- 
terest, and  the  people  of  the  Island  in  general  well  satisfied, 
and  united  more  than  ever,  and  matters  might  well  have  con- 
tinued in  that  happy  situation,  had  it  pleased  the  President. 
But  the  peace  and  tranquillity  of  the  Island  is  broken  etc.,  by 
the  conduct  of  the  said  President,  who  hath  already  suspended 
seven  members  of  H.M.  Council,  turned  out  seven  of  the  eight 
Colonels  of  the  Regiments,  the  Masters  in  Chancery,  and  all  the 
Judges  of  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas,  c[/?]anged  the  Com- 
mission of  the  Peace,  and  threatens  daily  to  dissolve  the 
Assembly.     We  cannot  express  the  discontents  occasioned  by 


256  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

those  changes,  which  tend  apparently  to  revive  and  support 
an  expiring  faction  among  us,  who  are  known  enemies  to  the 
peace  of  their  countrey,  and  have  been  always  suspected  of 
disaffection  to  your  Majesty,  and  your  Royal  House.  Wc  beg 
leave  to  further  to  represent  to  your  Majesty  that  an  illegal 
trade,  between  this  and  the  French  islands,  is  now  openly 
carried  on,  French  goods  are  daily  in  great  quantitys  imported 
here,  from  Martinique,  and  our  money,  and  even  the  provissions 
necessary  for  our  support,  are  sent  thither  in  return,  to  the 
enriching  a  few  self-interested  men,  and  impoverishing  of  the 
rest  of  the  inhabitants,  and  by  means  of  this  fatal  trade,  the 
French  not  only  grow  acquainted  with  our  landing  places,  bays 
and  harbours,  but  visit  and  learn  the  condition  of  our  lines, 
forts,  and  batterys.  These  mischiefs,  we  cannot  hope  to  have 
redrest  by  the  Legislature  here,  nor  have  we  an  oppertunity  as 
an  Assembly,  to  lay  our  just  complaints  before  your  Majesty, 
since  it  hath  pleased  the  President,  ever  since  his  coming  to 
the  Presidentship,  to  command  the  Assembly  to  adjourn  from 
time  to  time,  without  presuming  to  go  on  any  business  ;  We 
therefore  humbly  cast  ourselves  at  your  Majesty's  feet, 
beseeching  your  Majesty  to  consider  the  premisses,  and  to  make 
such  an  order  therein  as  your  Majesty  in  your  great  wisdom 
shall  see  fitting  etc.  Signed,  Edmund  Sutton,  Speaker,  and  19 
others.     Copy.     3  pp.     [CO.  28,  44.    ff.  l-2i;.] 

Feb.  16.  385.  Petition  of  Col.  Vetch  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  On  behalf  of  his  father-in-law,  Robert  Livingston, 
senr.,  prays  that  his  son,  Philip  Livingston,  may  have  a  Com- 
mission to  succeed  him  in  his  places  as  Secretary  to  the  Indian 
Affairs,  Town  Clerk,  Clerk  of  the  Peace  and  Common  Pleas  in 
Albany,  which  he  desires  to  resign  by  reason  of  old  age.  Whilst 
he  has  been  Speaker  of  the  Assembly,  the  said  places  have  been 
wholly  executed  by  his  son  etc.  Signed,  Sam.  Vetch.  Endorsed, 
Reed."  12th  May,  Read  8th  June,  1721.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  1052. 
ff.  161,  162t;.] 

Feb.  17.  386.  Governor  Nicholson  to  Lord  Townshend.  The  As- 
South  sembly  mett  the  25th  of  the  last  month  and  it  is  proposed  they 
will  break  up  next  Satterday  there  being  several  things  of  moment 
before  them.  The  Committee  of  Correspondence  by  order  of 
the  Assembly  now  write  to  John  Lloyd  Esq.  our  Agent  and  send 
him  several  papers  etc.  and  he  is  to  wait  upon  your  Lordps. 
concerning  them  and  give  your  Lordps.  an  accot.  why  Francis 
Yonge,  Esq.  could  not  come  by  this  opportunity  but  I  hope  in 
God  he  will  depart  hence  in  about  three  weeks  by  him  will  be 
transmitted  a  full  accot.  of  all  our  affairs,  of  which  he  will  fully 
inform  vour  Lordp.  etc.  Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson.  1  p.  [CO. 
5,  .387.  ^  No.  21.] 


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1721. 

Feb.  18.       387.     H.M.  Warrant  for  admitting  Cadwalader  Golden  and 

St.  James's.  James  Alexander  to  the  Council  of  New  York  and  discharging 

Peter  Schuyler  and  Adolphus  Philips.     Countersigned,  Towns- 

hend.     Endorsed,    Reed.    25th   Feb.,    Read   8th   March,    172  y. 

1|  pp.     [CO.  5,  1052.    ff.  153,  154i;.  ;  and  324,  34.     pp.  41,  42.] 

Feb.  20.  388.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.  H.M.S.  the  Winchester, 
Admiralty  commanded  by  Captain  James  Stuart,  and  a  frigate  of  30  guns 
being  design'd  convoy  to  Newfoundland  this  year,  and  Captain 
Stuart  being  the  Commadore,  asks  for  such  Instructions  and 
Heads  of  Enquiry,  as  the  Council  of  Trade  may  think  necessary 
etc.  Signed,  J.  Burchett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  21st,  Read  24th 
Feb.,  172?.     Addressed,     f  p.     [CO.  194,  7.    ff.  19,  20v.] 

Feb.  24.  389.  Lord  Townshend  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Whitehaii.  tions.  Encloses  following.  Concludes : — I  must  desire  your 
Lordps.  will  give  me  the  state  of  that  matter,  and  furnish  me 
with  proper  arguments  to  be  used  in  a  representation  to  the 
French  Court  against  such  encroachments.  Signed,  Townshend. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  27th  Feb.,  Read  March  1st,  17|\'.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

389.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Capt.  Purvis,  H.M.S.  Dursley 
galley,  to  Mr.  Burchett.  23rd  Feb.,  1721.  The  master 
of  the  Canseux  ship  that  I  spoke  with  at  Lisbon,  gave 
me  an  account,  that  the  French  are  now  settling  on 
an  Island  on  the  coast  of  Nova  Scotia  called  St.  Jean, 
which  will  be  a  very  great  prejudice  to  the  English 
fishery   etc.     |  p.     [CO.  217,  3.     Nos.  20,  20.  i.] 

Feb.  25.  390.  Governor  Rogers  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Not  having  been  honoured  with  any  of  your  Lordships 
commands,  I  write  this  only  to  accompany  the  Minutes  of  the 
Council's  proceedings  commencing  where  the  last  I  had  the 
honour  to  send  you  left  off,  vizt.,  8th  Feb.  1717  etc.  It  will  be 
a  great  satisfaction  to  me  that  they  may  meet  wth.  your  Lord- 
ship's approbations,  which  has  been  my  earnest  endeavours  ; 
tho'  I  must  informe  yr.  Lordships  that  it  is  impossible  I  can 
subsist  here  any  longer  on  the  foot  I  have  been  left  ever  since 
my  arrivall.  I  have  perpetually  transmitted  advices  of  the 
difficultys  I  laboured  under,  being  first  left  in  the  utmost  distress 
by  H.M.  ships  after  just  seeing  me  landed,  wth.  a  few  sick  men, 
to  encounter  near  500  of  the  pirates,  and  ever  since  have  not 
been  able  (notwithstanding  the  many  letters  I  have  writt)  to 
prevaile  on  any  of  them  to  come  near  me,  except  the  Flamboro\ 
Nor  have  I  had  any  recruits  worth  mentioning,  either  of  men 
or  cloths,  since  I  first  raised  and  cloathed  the  Company,  three 
years  agoe,  so  that  I  have  been  forced  to  buy  clothing  at  very 

Wt.7495  C.P.  32— 17 


258  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

extravagant  rates  here  in  America  as  well  as  provisions,  not 
only  for  the  garrison,  but  four  times  that  number  of  the  in- 
habitants and  saviors,  on  many  occasions,  but  especially  for 
about  three  months  that  the  embargo  was  laid  on  ye  shipping, 
wee  expecting  to  be  attackt  by  the  Spaniards  every  day,  to 
procure  these  things  I  haA'e  been  at  great  expences,  in  freighting, 
fitting  out,  and  maning  sevcrall  vcssells,  as  well  for  fetching 
them,  as  for  following  and  suppressing  the  pirates,  and  all  this 
without  the  least  support,  from  England,  or  any  possibility 
of  raising  one  penny  here  (had  the  people  been  able  to  have 
contributed  towards  deffraying  these  expences)  for  want  of 
power  to  call  an  Assembly,  wch.  I  have  continually  wrote  for, 
without  a  sillable  of  answer  from  any  one.  By  doing  all  this 
I  have  contracted  great  debts,  and  the  bills  I  drew,  to  defray 
sevcrall  of  these  expences,  wch.  ought  to  have  been  immediately 
paid  have  been  protested,  so  that  now  I  have  no  other  sattis- 
factions  left  me  in  this  abandon'd  place  and  condition,  but  that 
of  haveing  done  my  duty  to  His  Majestic  and  my  Country,  tho' 
at  the  hazard  of  my  own  intire  ruin.  Yett  tho'  I  have  wanted 
all  manner  of  encouragemt.,  I  have  so  done  my  duty,  that  I 
can  assure  you,  I  do  not  hear  of  a  pirate  near  these  Islands,  and 
have  put  the  place  in  such  a  posture,  that  if  it  be  supported 
from  home,  and  with  small  expence  more  to  ye  Crown,  wch.  I 
hope  to  have  the  honour  of  proposeing  to  yr  Lordships  when  I 
come  home.  This  island  (to  confirm  what  I  have  often  \\Tote 
you)  ma}^  be  made  ye  most  convenient  magazine  for  trade  for 
all  this  part  of  the  world,  and  secured  from  the  attacks  of  any 
of  its  enemy's,  and  in  time  of  warr,  may  distress  them 
by  its  scituation,  so  near  the  chief  of  both  the  French  and 
Spanish  settlements.  This  place  so  secured  by  my  industry, 
indefatigable  pain,  and  the  forfeiture  of  my  health,  has 
since  been  sold  for  fourty  thousand  pounds  and  myself  by 
a  manager  at  home,  and  Copartner's  Factotum  here,  thought 
not  to  diserve  any  share  of  it.  But  on  the  contrar}^  all  the 
unworthy  usage  a  man  can  have,  has  been  given  me,  and  all  ye 
expency's  designed  to  be  thrown  on  me,  but  that  I  have  an  intire 
relyance  on  the  honour  and  justice  of  my  Lord  Londonderry^ 
Mr.  Wm.  Chetwind,  and  Mr.  Docminicque,  the  only  surviving 
of  the  Co-partners  worth  mentioning.  I  depend  I  have  H.M. 
leave  to  go  home,  having  Avritten  for  it,  above  a  yeare  since. 
I  shall  therefore  (tho'  no  such  leave  is  arrived)  proceed  to  do 
so,  by  the  way  of  Can-olina,  the  next  month,  and  leave  the 
Governmt.  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Fairfax,  a  kinsman  of  Coll. 
Bladens,  but  without  some  care  taken  to  support  the  place  from 
home,  I  cannot  expect  he  will  be  able  to  hold  it  long  after  my 
departure,  tho'  I  shall  put  him  in  the  best  posture  I  can,  wth. 
provissions  and  every  thing  else  I  shall  paun  myself  further  for, 
at  Carrolina,  for  the  Guarison's  maintenance  and  I  perswade 
myself,  I  shall  not  want  your  Lordships  good  offices  to  have  me 


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259 


1721, 


excused  by  H.M.  for  thus  leaving  my  Government,  since  without 
going  my  selfe  it  can  no  longer  be  supported  etc.  Signed, 
Woodes  Rogers.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  27th  June,  1721. 
H  PP-     [CO.  23,  1.     No.  35.] 


Feb.  20. 

Whitehall. 


391 .  Lord  Townshend  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Encloses  letters  and  papers  from  Governor  Philipps  to 
the  late  Mr.  Secy.  Craggs,  "  which  you  will  please  to  peruse  and 
to  make  a  representation  of  such  matters  you  shall  judge  proper  " 
etc.  Signed.  Townshend.  Endorsed,  Reed.  27th  Feb.,  17|t, 
Read  23rd  May,  1722.     I  p.     Enclosed, 

391.  i.  Governor  Philipps  to  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs,  Annapolis 
Royal,  27th  Sept.,  1720.  Endorsed,  R.  24th  Feb. 
Duplicate  of  C.S.P.  Sept.  26th,  1720. 
391.  ii.  Same  to  Same.  24th  Nov.,  1720.  Duplicate  of 
C.S.P.  24th  Nov.,  1720.  [CO.  217,  4.  ff.  49,  50i;.-60, 
61,  61i;.,  62i;.] 


Feb.  26.       392.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Approving  of  draught  of 

St.  James's.  Commission  for  the  Lord  Viscount  Irwin  to  be  Governor  of 

Barbados.     Signed,  Robert  Hales.     Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read 

8th  June,  1721.     f  p.    [CO.  28,  1 7.   ff.  122,  123i;. :  and  {duplicate 

signed.  Temple  Stanyan),  5,  191.     p.  la.] 


Feb.  27.  393.  Mr.  Attorney  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Reply  to  3rd  Jan.  I  apprehend  the  principal 
question  intended  by  your  Lopps.  related  to  the  negative  given 
by  the  Governor  to  the  election  of  the  Speaker  for  the  Assembly. 
And  as  to  that  I  am  of  opinion  the  Governor  has  a  negative 
voice,  the  words  of  the  Charter  [of  the  Massachusetts  Bay] 
being  very  general  and  expressly  applicable  to  the  case  vizt. 
that  in  all  elections  and  acts  of  Government  whatsoever  to  be 
made  or  done  by  the  Generall  Court  or  Assembly  the  Governour 
shall  have  a  negative  voice  etc.  And  as  the  words  extend  to 
this  case  the  account  given  by  the  Governour  how  that  clause 
came  to  be  inserted  in  the  Charter  strongly  fortifys  this  con- 
struccon  etc.  I  think  the  negative  voice  of  the  Governour  will 
extend  to  all  elections  which  can  be  comprized  within  the  words 
of  yt.  clause  in  the  Charter  which  are  very  generall  and  seem 
to  me  to  extend  to  all  elections  originally  made  by  the  Assembly. 
I  insert  the  latter  words  to  exclude  any  construction  as  if  I  meant 
any  elections  of  members  of  the  Assembly.  Signed,  Rob. 
Raymond.  Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  Feb.,  Read  7th  March,  172';. 
pp.     Enclosed, 

393.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Governor  Shute,  1st  June, 
1720. 

393.  ii.  Extract  of  Charter  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
[CO.  5,  868.     /y.  33-35,  38t;.] 


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1721. 
March  G.       394.     H.M.   Warrant  granting  leave  of  absence  to  Charles 
St.  James's.  Huggins,  Clerk  of  tiie  Exchequer  in  Barbados,  for  12  months. 
Countersigned,  Carteret.     Copy.     \C.O.  324,  34.     pp.  46,  47.] 


March  6. 

Whitehall. 


March  6. 

Virginia. 


395.  Circular  letter  from  Lord  Carteret  to  Governors  and 
Proprietors  of  Plaiitations.  His  Majty.  having,  upon  the  death 
of  Mr.  Craggs,  been  pleased  to  honour  me  with  the  Seals,  and  to 
assign  to  my  care  the  affairs  of  the  Southern  Province,  I  take 
the  first  opportunity  of  giving  you  notice  thereof  etc.  Signed, 
Carteret.     [CO.  32i,  34.     pp.  47,  48.] 

396,  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Refers  to  letter  of  16th  Jan.  etc.  and  transmits 
remaining  laws  and  Journals  of  last  Session  of  Assembly. 
Continues  : — The  inconvenient  length  of  many  of  the  county s 
formerly  erected,  occasioned  by  the  peoples  taking  up  and 
seating  new  lands  on  the  frontiers,  obliges  me  to  recommend 
to  the  Assembly  the  easing  those  inhabitants  from  the  excessive 
fatigue  of  travelling  so  great  a  distance  to  their  monthly  Courts. 
And  in  order  to  remedy  that  inconvenience,  here  are  (besides 
the  County  of  Brunswick  and  Spotsylvania  mentioned  in  my 
former  letter)  two  new  countys  erected,  one  by  the  Act  for 
dividing  New  Kent  County,  and  the  other  by  the  Act  for  dividing 
Richmond  County,  the  preambles  of  which  Acts  sufficiently 
setting  forth  the  reason  thereof,  need  no  further  comment. 
The  same  inconveniency  has  occasion'd  the  passing  the  three 
following  laws  \'iz.,  for  dividing  St.  John's  parish,  etc.,  (ii)  for 
dividing  the  parish  of  Henrico,  and  (iii)  the  parishes  of  Westover 
and  Wyanoak,  etc.  To  v>^hich  may  be  added  the  Act /or  enlarging 
Charles  City  Council,  and  consolidating  the  parishes  of  Westover 
and  Wyanoak  with  Wallingford  parish.  Upon  these  I  shall  only 
trouble  your  Lordships  with  this  observation,  that  at  the  first 
securing  of  this  country,  the  people  being  in  fear  of  the  Indians 
fixd  themselves  along  the  banks  of  the  rivers,  not  daring  to 
venture  out  into  the  woods,  and  when  a  competent  number 
of  inhabitants  were  thus  seated,  they  divided  their  parishes 
by  such  a  distance  along  the  River  and  built  their  churches,  to 
suit  the  conveniency  of  the  then  inhabitants,  but  as  the  Indians 
decreased  and  the  English  grew  more  numerous  these  parishes 
have  been  enlarged  to  an  unreasonable  length  by  the  yearly 
addition  of  new  inhabitants  backwards  into  the  woods,  and  so 
they  have  continued  to  this  time  that  it  has  been  found 
absolutely  necessary  to  erect  new  parishes  and  to  new  modell 
some  others  so  as  to  render  it  more  easy  both  for  the  Ministers 
to  do  their  duty  and  for  the  people  to  attend  the  publick 
worship :  and  this  being  the  true  motive  for  making  the  Laws 
abovementioned  I  doubt  not  they  will  meet  with  your  Lordsps. 
approbation.  The  Act/or  the  more  effectual  preventing  the  tending 
of  seconds,  is  very  necessary  to  restrain  a  dangerous  abuse,  which 


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1721. 


has  proved  extremely  prejudicial  to  the  tobacco  trade.     What 
is  here  called  seconds,  is  the  scions  or  suckers  wch.  sprout  out 
from  the  stalk  of  tobacco  after  the  plant  is  cut  off,  and  being 
tended  and  cultivated  in  the  same  manner  as  the  first  plant, 
grow  up  to  a  leaf  almost  as  large  as  the  other,  tho'  far  inferiour 
in  goodness  and  scent,  but  some  of  the  planters  finding  they 
could  pass  this  kind  of  tobacco,  have  applyed  themselves  to 
the  making  thereof,  tho'  it  has  been  prohibited  by  divers  laws, 
and  has  not  a  little  contributed  to  the  lessning  the  value  of  the 
good   tobacco.     And   therefore   this   law   is   enacted   laying   a 
severer  penalty  upon  that  offence,  which  'tis  hoped  may   be   a 
means  of  keeping  up  the  reputation  and  value  of  that  commodity 
by  which  alone  this  country  subsists.     I  need  not  trouble  your 
Lordsps.  with  any  remarks  on  the  Act /or  explaining  and  amend- 
ing an  Act  for  appointing  fowling  houses  and  publick  landings 
and  ascertaining  the  prices  of  storage   seeing  the  whole  scope  of 
that  law  is  to  render  such  rowling  houses  (which  are  appointed 
for  receiving  tobacco  and  other  merchandize)  more  convenient 
for  trade.     The  Act  for  supply  of  certain  defects  found  in  an  Act 
prescribing  the  method  for  appointing  Sherifs  has  been  formerly 
under  your  Lordsps.'   consideration  in  an  Act  passed  of  the 
same  title  in  1710,  which  being  a  temporary  Act  was  since  twice 
re-enacted :       and    therefore    I    should    according    to    H.M. 
Instructions  have  refused  this  Act  as  being  again  made  tem- 
porary, had  not  there  been  a  material  alteration  therein  in  the 
penalty  on  such  as  refuse  that  Office,  which  before  was  5000 
pounds  of  tobacco  and  is  now  reduced  to  three  :    and  besides 
I  was  unwilling  to  have  any  difference  with  the  Assembly  on 
this  point,  because  there  is  a  necessity  for  obliging  persons  to 
accept  those  offices,    without   which  there   would  be  a  failure 
of  justice  in  many  parts  of  the  Colony.     The  Act /or  settling  new 
ferrys  over  Pamunkey  Mattapony  and  Potomack  Rivers,  and  for 
ascertaining  the  rates  of  ferriage  for  wheel  carriages,  being  only 
designed  for  the  greater  ease  and  conveniency  as  well  of  trade 
as  of  travelling,  has  nothing  in  it  which  I  can  apprehend  will  be 
disagreeable  to  your  Lordships.     An  Act  having  been  passed 
some  years  ago  for  lessning  the  reward  for  killing  of  wolves, 
experience  has  shewn  how  much  the  Assembly  was  then  mis- 
taken :   for  since  then,  many  who  imploy'd  themselves  in  killing 
of  wolves  upon  the  former  encouragement  not  finding  it  worth 
their  while,  those  noxious  animals  have  proved  very  destructive 
to  the  peoples  stocks,  especially  on  the  frontiers  :   and  therefore 
it  was,  that  this  Assembly  have  now  pass'd  an  Act  giving  a 
reward  for  killing  of  woolves  and  repealing  all  other  Acts  relating 
thereto,  by  which  the  ancient  encouragements  are  restored,  and 
'tis  hoped,  will  have  the  desired  effect.     Here  is  also  an  Act 
passed  to  impower  Henry   Cary  gent,  to  finish  the  house  of  the 
Governor  of  the  Colony  and  Dominion  of  Virginia  :   This  Act  was 
pass'd  at  my  desire  and  because  I  would  leave  no  ground  for 


262  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

any  future  disputes  with  the  Assembly  about  the  power  they 
had  given  me  by  law  for  finishing  that  building.  I  shall  only 
further  observe  that  notwithstanding  the  House  of  Burgesses 
in  1718,  made  it  one  Article  of  their  charge  against  me,  that  I 
had  squandered  away  the  Countrey's  money  in  building  that 
House,  this  last  House  of  Burgesses  have  without  the  least 
hesitation  pass'd  all  my  accounts  and  by  this  Act  appropriated 
a  further  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds,  which  they  found  still 
necessary  towards  the  finishing  that  building.  The  Act  for 
raising  a  publick  levy  being  what  passes  of  course  in  every 
Session,  needs  no  other  remark  than  this,  that  it  will  appear 
the  publick  taxes  of  this  countrey  are  moderate  enough  when 
the  levy  for  two  years  and  an  half  past  appears  to  be  no  more 
than  5 1  pounds  of  tobacco  per  poll.  The  last  is  a  private  Act 
to  enable  Abraham  Cocke  to  sell  certain  entailed  lands  etc.  The 
general  proviso  directed  by  H.M.  Instructions  in  bills  of  the 
like  nature  being  inserted  herein  I  know  of  no  exception  to 
this  Act.  And  having  given  notice  to  the  partys  concerned 
to  appoint  some  persons  to  attend  your  Lordsps.  to  answer  any 
doubts  which  may  arise  relating  thereto,  I  doubt  not  they  will 
therein  conform  to  your  Lordsps.'  directions.  There  were  two 
other  bills  prepared  and  passed  the  Council  and  Burgesses  this 
Session  to  which  I  did  not  think  proper  to  give  my  assent,  the 
one  entituled  an  Act  for  building  a  Church  in  the  parish  of 
Accomack,  and  the  other  entituled  an  Act  to  explain  and  amend 
part  of  an  Act  for  regulating  the  election  of  Burgesses  and  for 
settling  their  priviledges,  and  for  ascertaining  their  allowances. 
As  to  the  first  of  these,  it  was  grounded  upon  a  private  petition 
from  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  parish,  without  allowing 
the  persons  likely  to  be  aggrieved  an  opportunity  to  be  heard  ; 
for  that  part  of  the  Colony  being  separated  from  the  rest  by 
the  great  Bay  of  Chesapeak  and  the  people  there  knowing 
nothing  of  what  was  transacting  in  the  Assembly,  I  thought  it 
just  they  should  not  be  concluded  by  an  Act  of  Assembly 
without  an  enquiry  into  the  merits  of  the  case.  And  so  that 
bill  stands,  as  it  were  referr'd  till  another  Session  with  which 
all  partys  are  well  enough  contented.  As  to  the  other  bill  I 
judge  it  of  so  much  consequence  that  I  herewith  transmitt  to 
your  Lordsps.  a  copy  thereof.  My  exceptions  thereto  are 
chiefly  these.  That  seeing  by  this  Act  the  Electors  are  to  make 
oath  to  their  freehold  if  required  at  taking  the  poll,  and  such  as 
take  a  false  oath  are  made  liable  to  a  penalty,  it  is  unreasonable 
that  those  who  have  then  qualifyed  themselves  should  have 
their  votes  questioned  before  the  House  of  Burgesses  upon  any 
disputed  election,  at  least  untill  they  are  convicted  by  due  course 
of  Law,  of  having  voted  when  they  held  no  right ;  but  it  being 
proposed  to  add  such  a  restrictive  clause  to  this  bill,  it  was 
rejected,  because  it  was  said  that  the  Burgesses  were  not  to  be 
directed  by  law  in  determining  the  election  of  their  own  Members, 


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1721. 


a  doctrine  1  can  by  no  means  approve  of,  since  I  have  this 
very  session  seen  a  flagrant  instance  of  the  abuse  of  their  power 
in  the  case  of  a  disputed  election,  where  divers  freeholders  were 
compelled  to  produce  the  deeds  and  evidences  by  which  they 
held  their  lands,  and  thereupon  declared  to  have  no  right  to 
give  a  vote  in  the  election  of  Burgesses.  This,  I  argued,  was 
exercising  a  power  which  that  House  had  no  authority  to  do, 
it  being  in  effect,  forcing  a  man  to  accuse  himself  of  a  crime  for 
wch.  he  is  punishable  by  law,  and  a  taking  upon  themselves  a 
power  of  judicature  in  matters  of  freehold  which  are  only 
cognizable  in  the  established  Courts  of  Justice  :  And  seeing  I 
percieved  by  their  rejecting  this  clause  of  the  bill,  the  Assembly 
were  inclined  to  leave  themselves  at  large  in  what  they  should 
think  fitt  to  call  their  priviledges,  and  that  on  this  occasion 
it  was  asserted  that  the  priviledges  of  the  House  were  not  to  be 
limited  nor  defined,  I  did  not  think  fitt  to  assent  to  this  bill, 
without  some  provision  to  secure  the  rights  and  libertys  of  ye 
people.  As  this  matter  of  the  priviledges  of  the  House  of  Bur- 
gesses may  often  administer  occasion  of  disputes  between  them 
and  a  Governor,  whenever  designing  men  find  it  for  their  pur- 
pose to  inspire  them  with  thoughts  of  enlarging  their  power,  I 
could  wish  your  Lordsps.  would  be  pleased  to  move  H.M.  to 
ascertain  what  rights  and  priviledges  are  to  be  allowed  in  that 
House,  that  a  Governor  may  not  transgress  in  abridging  what  is 
really  their  due,  nor  they  assume  what  they  ought  not  to  exercise. 
And  here  I  must  further  take  notice  to  your  Lordsps.  of  another 
extraordinary  proceeding  of  the  last  House  of  Burgesses,  of 
which  there  are  two  instances  to  be  found  in  their  Journal,  one 
on  the  8th  of  November,  in  the  case  of  a  petition  of  John 
Boiling  complaining  of  the  undue  election  of  Thos.  Randolph, 
where  the  Speaker  of  the  House  is  desired  to  issue  his  warrant, 
and  he  of  his  own  head  issued  this  warrant,  commanding  the 
Sherif  of  the  County  to  execute  that  order.  In  the  same  days 
Journal,  the  Committee  of  Elections  propose  his  issuing  his 
warrant  to  the  Sherifs  of  three  Countys  to  summon  witnesses 
to  give  evidence  before  Commissioners  appointed  in  the  country  : 
and  another  instance  of  the  like  nature  is  in  the  Journal  of  the 
11th  of  the  same  month  on  a  petition  of  Charles  Grymes  com- 
plaining of  an  undue  election  in  Richmond  County.  This  is 
a  practice  entirely  new,  the  Messenger  of  the  House  being  the 
proper  officer  to  execute  their  orders  ;  and  I  am  humbly  of 
opinion  that  the  allowing  the  Burgesses  to  order  and  direct 
any  of  the  King's  Officers  to  do  what  they  are  not  bound  to  by 
law  may  prove  of  dangerous  consequence,  since  by  the  same 
rule  that  they  have  now  directed  the  Sherifs  to  summon  wit- 
nesses and  the  Justices  to  take  depositions,  they  may  of  their 
own  authority  command  the  Sherifs  to  raise  the  posse,  or  assume 
a  power  over  the  Militia.  There  is  no  doubt  the  House  of 
Commons  in  England  may  call  before  them  the  Generall  of 


261  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

H.M.  armys,  but  I  cannot  think  they  would  take  upon  them  to 
order  him  to  march  the  army  :  And  tho'  I  do  allow  that  the 
House  of  Burgesses  as  tlie  Representatives  of  the  people  here 
have  power  to  call  before  them  such  persons  as  they  think  fitt, 
yet  I  cannot  admitt  there  having  any  such  authority  as  to  direct 
anyone  in  the  execution  of  his  Office.  This  I  urged  to  most  of 
the  Members  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  who  did  not  then  pre- 
tend to  justify  the  practice,  tho'  I  am  apt  to  think  they  will 
make  the  proceedings  of  this  House  a  precedent  hereafter,  seeing 
in  the  determination  of  one  of  these  disputed  elections,  they 
had  the  same  regard  to  the  depositions  taken  in  this  irregular 
manner,  as  if  the  persons  had  been  duly  examined  before  their 
Committee.  And  therefore  I  am  the  more  desirous  of  having  your 
Lordsps.'  opinion  hereon,  that  I  may  govern  myself  thereby, 
if  the  like  attempt  should  be  made  in  future  Assemblys,  having 
at  this  time  pass'd  it  over  without  any  publick  opposition, 
because  I  would  avoid  all  controversy,  tho'  I  could  not  but  be 
concern'd  to  see  so  much  trouble  given  both  to  the  officers  and 
the  people  by  obliging  some  of  them  to  travell  upwds.  of  100 
mile  without  any  recompence,  when  in  two  of  the  above- 
mentioned  cases  the  petitions  were  judged  vexatious  and 
scandalous,  and  in  the  other  the  Justices  were  obliged  to  sitt 
from  the  16th  to  the  23rd  of  November  to  take  the  examinations 
of  upwards  of  50  witnesses,  many  of  whom  ought  not  to  have 
been  sworn  at  all,  being  the  sitting  Member's  own  domesticks, 
and  the  points  on  which  they  were  examined  touching  his  private 
conversation  with  his  friends  and  in  his  own  family.  Your 
Lordsps.  will  find  in  the  Journals  of  the  21st  of  December  a 
resolve  pass'd  the  Council  and  Burgesses  for  lodging  a  sum  out 
of  the  publick  money  in  the  hands  of  the  Speaker  for  payment 
of  the  Burgesses's  salarys.  To  which  I  refused  my  assent, 
because  by  my  Instructions  I  am  directed  not  to  suffer  any 
publick  money  to  be  issued  out  but  by  warrant  under  my  hand, 
and  here  the  particular  sum  to  be  paid  was  not  ascertained  but 
left  to  the  discretion  of  the  Speaker  what  he  thought  fitt  to 
demand  under  two  thousand  pounds  ;  and  because  many  of 
the  Members  of  that  House  apprehensive  of  his  partiality 
to  those  who  opposed  his  measures  were  very  earnest  with  me 
not  to  leave  it  in  his  power  to  postpone  the  payment  of  their 
sallarys  :  And  I  have  according  to  the  first  vote  of  the  House 
on  the  12th  of  November,  now  issued  warrants  for  the  payment 
of  every  particular  Burgess  according  to  their  attendance,  the 
whole  charge  amounting  to  £1905  11,9.  This  manner  of  paying 
the  Burgesses  allowances  out  of  the  publick  treasure  of  the 
countrey,  when  the  same  ought  by  law  to  be  paid  by  the  countys 
for  which  they  serve,  is  new,  and  such  as  I  should  not  have 
agreed  to,  had  I  not  resolved  to  avoid  anything  that  was  likely 
to  chagrine  them,  it  being  what  the  greater  part  of  the  House 
had  very  much  set  their  heart  on,  and  I  perceived  too  that  it  was 


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1721. 


acceptable  to  the  people  as  easing  them  of  some  of  their  levys. 
The  advantages  of  a  lighthouse  on  Cape  Henry  for  the  benefite  of 
the  trade  to  this  and  the  neighbouring  Province  of  Maryland, 
are  so  obvious,  that  I  have  often  wondered  why  so  usefuU  a 
work  has  not  been  undertaken  long  ere  now  ;  and  having  had 
occasion  to  discourse  the  matter  with  some  Gentlemen  of  note 
in  Maryland,  and  finding  that  Province  would  be  willing  to 
contribute  to  the  charge,  I  communicated  the  same  by  a  message 
to  the  House  of  Burgesses  on  the  24th  of  November  and  on  the 
7th  Dec.  reed,  their  answer,  wherein  acknowledging  the  usefid- 
ness  of  such  a  lighthouse,  they  have  resolved  that  one  be  built 
at  the  expense  of  this  Colony,  provided  the  Province  of  Maryland 
will  contribute  £150  towards  the  building  and  £80  sterling  for 
ever  hereafter  towards  defraying  the  charge  of  maintaining 
and  keeping  it  in  repair,  and  I  have  since  at  their  desire  trans- 
mitted their  resolutions  to  the  Governor  of  Maryland,  but 
because  the  charge  of  such  a  lighthouse  must  be  defrayed  by  a 
duty  on  shiping  and  consequently  must  more  immediately 
affect  the  trade  and  shipping  of  Great  Britain,  I  therefore  pray 
your  Lordsps.'  directions  therein,  seeing  I  am  by  my  Instructions 
restrained  from  passing  any  law  of  this  nature  without  H.M. 
leave  ;  and  I  am  informed  likewise  that  such  lighthouses  are 
not  erected  without  the  approbation  of  the  Members  of  the 
Trinity  house.  If  your  Lordsps.  therefore  think  fitt  to  enquire 
into  the  expediency  of  this  work  I  believe  there  are  few  masters 
of  ships  using  this  trade,  but  what  will  readily  agree  that  such 
a  lighthouse  will  prove  of  extraordinary  benefite  to  the  Trade  ; 
and  I  shall  only  add  what  I  have  been  told  here,  that  divers 
ships  coming  in  soundings  upon  this  coast  in  the  night  or  in 
hazie  weather,  tho'  they  had  then  a  fair  wind  have  been  afraid 
to  venture  in  where  they  could  see  no  landmark  and  by  the 
sudden  change  of  the  wind,  have  been  drove  off  to  sea,  and  kept 
o\it  2  or  3  months,  whereas  if  such  a  lighthouse  were  built  ships 
might  then  boldly  venture  there  being  water  enough  and  a  good 
channell  within  little  more  than  musquett  shott  of  the  place 
where  this  lighthouse  may  be  placed.  I  shall  pass  over  without 
any  reflection,  sundry  extraordinary  proceedings,  which  may 
be  found  upon  the  Burgesses  Journal  this  Assembly  such  as  the 
voting  of  one  thing  one  day  and  altering  it  3  days  afterward 
by  another  resolve  as  may  be  observed  in  the  Journal  of  the 
17th  and  20th  of  December  in  the  case  of  a  reward  given  to 
Capl.  Martin  and  the  persons  that  accompanyed  him  to  St. 
Augustiu  ;  the  desiring  the  Council  to  join  with  them  in  prepar- 
ing their  bills  and  in  fraiming  their  Addresses  to  H.M.,  and  some 
other  lesser  irregularitys  in  their  proceeding's  which  your 
Lordsps.  will  easily  observe  by  perusing  the  Journal.  Having 
in  my  last  informed  your  Lordsps.  of  some  difference  between 
me  and  the  Assembly  about  their  appointment  of  an  Agent, 
I  beg  leave  to  refer  your  Lordships  to  the  proceedings  of  the 


266  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

14th  of  December  for  the  manner  of  introducing  that  resolve 
of  theirs,  and  the  division  of  the  House  thereupon,  by  wch. 
it  will  appear  that  it  pass'd  with  more  opposition  than  any  other 
matter  this  session  :  and  when  your  Lordsps.  are  inform'd 
that  this  resolve  was  brought  in  and  voted  in  the  absence  of 
divers  members  of  the  House  who  would  have  opposed  it,  and 
consider  likewise  what  I  laid  before  the  House  of  Burgesses  the 
23rd  of  December  on  that  head,  I  hope  your  Lordsps.  will  be 
of  opinion  that  I  had  no  great  inducement  to  assent  to  a  matter 
which  was  contrary  to  the  sentiments  of  the  majority  of  the 
House,  as  well  as  contradictory  to  the  repeated  declarations  of 
the  Crown  in  relation  to  the  appointment  of  part[icMZ«r?] 
Agents  by  the  Generall  Assemblys  of  these  Plantations  :  and 
indeed  when  [I]  found  Mr.  Byrd  positively  deny  so  much  as 
to  give  me  his  bond  (which  [?/]  purposed  to  keep  secret)  that 
he  would  solicit  nothing  but  what  should  [be]  handed  to  him 
by  the  mutual  consent  of  the  Governor  Council  and  Burgesses, 
I  thought  I  had  reason  to  apprehend  he  was  not  so  desirous  of 
this  publick  character  for  the  service  and  interest  of  his  country 
as  for  some  other  private  views  which  perhaps  neither  of  the 
partys  from  whom  he  derived  his  [office  ?]  would  be  willing  to 
come  into  :  and  I'm  sure  I  shall  always  [have  such  ?]  regard  for 
your  Lordsps.'  ease  as  not  to  encrease  your  trouble  by  the 
un[?necessary]  memorials  of  private  Agents,  when  I  am  very 
sensible  that  the  representations  of  the  affairs  of  this  Govern- 
ment which  I  am  obliged  to  make  to  your  Lordsps.  must  imploy 
a  good  deal  of  your  time,  and  I  am  confident  will  always  have 
their  due  weight  if  judg'd  to  be  for  H.M.  service  and  the  publick 
welfare  of  this  Colony  :  and  if  they  are  not  I  can  see  no  reason 
why  your  Lordsps.  should  be  vex'd  with  impertinent  solicita- 
tions about  them.  Having  at  the  opening  of  this  Session  laid 
before  the  Assembly  that  part  of  your  Lordsps.  letter  of  the 
14th  of  June  which  relates  to  renewing  the  Covenant  Chain 
with  the  Indians  of  the  Five  Nations,  your  Lordships  will  find 
in  the  Burgesses  Journal  of  the  21st  of  December  the  sentiments 
of  the  Council  and  Burgesses,  that  no  such  Treaty  should  be 
moved  untill  those  Nations  or  the  Government  of  New  York 
in  their  behalf  have  agreed  to  the  preliminarys  offered  to  them 
in  the  year  1717,  and  I  have  transmitted  to  Mr.  Burnett  a  copy 
of  the  Assembly's  Address  and  expect  his  answer  thereto  in  a 
short  time,  and  I  hope  the  publick  declaration  which  the 
Assembly  has  now  made  with  respect  to  those  Indians  will  serve 
to  reconcile  my  letter  to  your  Lordsps.  of  the  16th  of  August, 
1718,  with  that  to  Collo."  Schuyler  the  25th  of  January  1719. 
In  the  first  I  spoke  my  own  sentiments,  and  what  I  wish'd  to 
have  done,  and  in  the  last  what  I  knew  to  be  the  general  humour 
of  the  people  here,  who  will  never  be  persuaded  that  it's  worth 
while  to  be  at  the  expence  of  treating  with  these  Indians  without 
some  better  security  than  the  bare  promises  of  some  of  their 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES. 


267 


March  7. 


March  8. 

Whitehall. 


1721. 

Sachims.     Signed,  A.  Spotswood.     Endorsed,  Reed.  8th  May 
1721,  Read  12th  June,  1722.     10  pp.     Enclosed, 

396.  i.  Bill,  passed  by  the  Council  and  Assembly,  but  not 
assented  to  by  the  Lt.  Governor,  Dec.  1720,"  to  explain 
and  amend  part  of  an  Act  for  regulating  the  election  of 
Burgesses  and  for  settling  their  priviledges  and  for 
ascertaining  their  allowances.  Endorsed  as  preceding. 
Copy.     Spp.     [CO.  5,  1319.     Nos.  14,  14.  i.] 

397.  Petition  of  Johan  Schef  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Petitioner  designing  by  the  first  ship  to  return 
into  New  York,  prays  for  copy  of  order  of  the  Board  upon  his 
petition  in  Nov.  last  etc.  Signed,  Johan  Wilm.  Schef.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  7th  March,  1721.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  1052 
ff  151,  152i;.] 

398.  Mr.  Popple  to  WiUiam  Scheef.  I  am  commanded 
by  the  Lords  Commissioners  to  send  you  the  enclosed  letter  to 
Governor  Burnet,  which  is  to  desire  his  answer  to  a  letter  I 
wrote  to  him  29th  Nov.  last  (quoted).  Concludes  :  As  it  is  upon 
these  terms  [of  conforming  themselves  to  the  Governor's  orders] 
that  the  Palatines  at  New  York  (whose  cause  you  have 
been  solliciting  here)  will  be  entituled  to  H.M.  favour,  you  will 
do  well  to  acquaint  them  therewith  etc.  [CO.  5,  1124.  pp 
252,  253.] 

399.  Mr.  Popple  to  Governor  Burnet.  The  Lords  Com- 
missioners remind  you  of  my  letter  of  29th  Nov.  etc.  It  is  not 
that  they  think  you  could  have  made  a  return  by  this  time  ; 
but  as  William  Scheef,  one  of  the  Palatines,  is  now  returning 
to  New  York  their  Lordships  thought  fit  to  direct  me  to  repeat 
their  desire  of  having  those  poor  people  settled  as  soon  as 
conveniently  you  can.     [CO.  5,  1124.     pp.  254,  255.] 

March  9.       400.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchett.     In  reply  to  Feb.  20th, 
WhitehaU.    encloses  following. 

400.  i.  Heads  of  Enquiry  and  Scheme  of  Fishery  for  the 

Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Newfoundland  Convoy. 
Same  as  April  6th,  1720  q.v.  [CO.  195,  7.  pp.  40-75, 
94.] 


March  8. 

Whitehall. 


March  9. 

Burlington. 


401 .  (xovernor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Announces  death  of  Caleb  Heathcote,  Surveyor  General 
of  the  Customs  etc.,  on  27th  Feb.,  and  recommends  Lewis  Morris 
junr.,  to  fill  his  room  in  the  Council  etc.  P.S. — I  have  just 
received  news  from  Albany  that  the  trade  with  the  French  is 
quite  broke,  and  that  as  the  severity  of  the  act  quite  discourages 
the  traders  from  attemting  it,  they  are  willing  at  their  own  charge 
to  begin  a  trade  tlii-ough  our  5  nations  means  with  the   far 


268 


COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1721. 


March  10. 

Whitehall. 


March  10. 

London. 


Lidians,  and  are  going  to  be  at  charge  and  risk  for  that  purpose, 
even  before  a  regular  settlement  is  made  as  proposed,  which 
news  gives  me  great  satisfaction,  and  is  a  beginning  to  a  better 
fase  of  affairs  that  way  that  has  ever  yet  been  known,  and  of  the 
greatest  consequence  to  the  welfare  and  prosperitye  at  all  the 
British  plantations  the  suddenness  of  the  opportunity  hinders 
my  being  so  full  as  I  should  be  etc.  Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Holo- 
graph. Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  2nd  May,  1721.  3  pp.  [CO. 
5,  1052.    ff.  155-156t).] 

402.  Mr.  Popple  to  Robert  Lowther.  The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations,  having  under  consideration  several  Acts  of 
Barbados,  desire  you  will  let  them  have  in  writing  as  soon  as 
conveniently  you  can,  what  occasion  there  was,  and  what 
reasons  you  had  for  passing  the  Act /or  the  better  ordering  ojH.M. 
Courts  of  Common  Pleas  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     p.  94.] 

403.  Mr.  Bridger  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Describes  his  services,  as  late  Surveyor,  the  daily  destruction 
of  H.M.  woods  in  America,  and  the  need  of  measures  to  prevent 
it,  etc.  A  mast  tree  of  37  in.  diameter  costs  H.M.  £150  etc. 
Applies  for  2^  years  salary  for  duty  done  before  any  appeared  to 
supersede  him  etc.     Signed,  J.  Bridger.     Endorsed,  Reed.  10th 


March  13. 

Whitehall. 


March  14. 

Whitehall. " 


March,  Read  5th  Sept.  1721.    7|  pp. 
llOy.] 


[CO.  5,  868.   ff.  106-109i;. 


404.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Propose 
Archibald  Mackphedris,  Nicholas  Gillman  and  Peter  Ware  for 
the  Council  of  New  Hampshire  as  suggested  by  Gov.  Shute, 
etc.  19th  Aug.,  1719.     [CO.  5,  915.     p.  319.] 

405.  Same  to  Lord  Townshend.  Reply  to  April  24th, 
enclosing  extract  of  letter  from  Capt.  Purvis  relating  to  French 
settlement  upon  the  Island  of  St.  Jean  etc.  We  have  discoursed 
with  Capt.  Purvis  thereupon.  We  have  likewise  confirmation 
of  this  advice  in  some  letters  lately  received  from  Governor 
Philipps  ;  And  we  are  of  opinion  that  the  growing  strength  of 
the  French  settlements  in  those  parts  may  prove  of  dangerous 
consequence  upon  any  rupture  more  especially  considering  the 
very  weak  state  of  that  Colony,  the  disposition  of  the  French 
inhabitants  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  the  influence  their  prie(5)ts 
have  over  the  native  Indians  there  ;  which  has  lately  appear'd 
in  a  very  flagrant  instance  upon  the  plundering  of  H.M.  subjects 
at  Cango,  for  which  reason  we  would  humbly  submit  to  H.M. 
consideration  the  urgent  necessity  of  sending  a  force  to  those 
parts  sufficient  to  protect  his  subjects  there  etc.  Refer  to 
Representations  of  30th  Aug.  and  14th  Dec.  past.  Continue: 
But  as  to  the  Island  in  question,  we  really  apprehend  that 
according  to  the  letter  and  meaning  of  the  13th  Article  of  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


269 


1721. 

Treaty  ol"  Utrecht,  the  same  does  belong  to  the  French  being  one 
of  the  Islands  lying  in  the  Gulf  of  St,  Lawrence.  But  on  the 
other  hand,  considering  the  difficulty  the  French  have  hitherto 
made  of  setling  boundaries  in  those  parts,  and  the  frivolous 
pretensions  they  are  e\'ery  day  starting  to  deprive  H.M.  of 
those  lands  and  islands  part  of  Nova  Scotia,  which  do  plainly 
and  evidently  belong  to  H.M.,  we  submit  to  your  Lordp.  how 
far  it  may  be  adviseable  to  dispute  this  settlement  with  the 
French  on  the  general  words  in  the  12th  Article  of  the  Treaty 
of  Utrecht,  whereby  all  lands  and  islands  depending  upon  Nova 
Scotia  are  yeilded  up  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  for  altho' 
Cape  Breton  and  all  Islands  lying  in  the  mouth  of  the  River 
of  St.  Lawrence  or  in  ye  Gulf  of  the  same  name  are  reserv'd 
to  the  French  by  ye  13th  Article  of  the  said  Treaty  yet  this 
Island  of  St.  Jean's  by  reason  of  its  lying  so  near  to  the  shore 
might  still  be  sayd  to  belong  to  Nova  Scotia,  and  there  is  no 
doubt  but  the  French  upon  a  weaker  pretence  would  insist 
upon  their  right  to  this  or  any  other  Island.  [CO.  218,  2. 
pp.  1-4.] 

March  14.       406.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.     Encloses  Act  of  Barbados, 
Whitehall.     1718,  granting  liberty  to  load  and  unload  to  and  from  any  the 
bays  creeks  and  harbours,  and  enquires  whether  the  Commissioners 
of  Customs  have  any  objection  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     p.  95.] 

[March  16]  407.  James  Smith  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
States  his  case  against  the  Acts  of  New  Jersey  complained  of 
6th  May  q.v.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  16th  March,  171*}.  2  pp. 
[CO.  5,  971.     No.  88.] 


March  16. 

South 
Corolina. 


408.  Charles  Hart  to  [tLord  Carteret\.  Congratidations 
upon  his  return  to  England  etc.  after  having  finished  his  Embassy 
(to  Sweden).  Prays  him,  as  Lord  Palatine,  to  put  an  end  to 
the  confusion  in  Carolina,  and  obtain  him  a  post  in  some  part 
of  the  world,  etc.  Continues  :  We  are  told  that  by  the  interest 
of  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs,  one  Mr.  Lloyde  Postmaster  of  this 
district,  and  one  of  Col.  Moor's  Councill  is  to  succeed  me  as 
Secretary  "  etc.  I  humbly  beg  to  know  what  I  must  do  with 
the  records  etc.  My  wants  are  very  pressing,  having  been  kept 
above  a  year  out  of  the  profitts  of  my  place  etc.  Signed,  Charles 
Hart.     3  pp.     [CO.  5,  387.     No.  22.] 


March  16. 

Whitehall. 


409.  Lord  Carteret  to  Samuel  Cox.  Nothing  contained 
in  H.M.  letter  of  license  to  Mr.  Huggins  {v.  March  6th)  is  to  be 
interpreted  to  the  prejudice  of  Mr.  Whitworth  in  the  contest 
at  law  depending  between  them  as  to  the  right  to  the  office  of 
Naval  Officer  of  Barbados  etc.  Signed,  Carteret.  [CO.  324, 
34.     pp.  49,  50.] 


270  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 
March  16.       410.     Governor  Lowther  to  Mr.  Popple.     Asks  for  copy  of 
Act  /or  better  ordering  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  etc.     (v.  15th 
iiist.)     Signed,    Rob.    Lowther.     Endorsed,   Reed.     Read   16th 
March,  172'/.     Holograph.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  27,  28t;.] 

March  17.  411.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Shute. 
Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letters  from  19th  Aug.,  1719,  and  refer  to  their  own 
of  4th  June,  1719.  Continue  :  We  are  glad  to  hear  that  the 
Indians  are  quiet,  and  we  do  not  doubt  but  that  you  will  con- 
tinue your  utmost  care  and  diligence  to  preserve  a  friendship 
with  the  native  Indians,  and  the  best  way  of  doing  this  is  to 
keep  a  good  correspondence  with  the  neighbouring  Governors 
and  to  make  the  said  Indians  on  all  occasions  comprehend  that 
altho'  H.M.  has  different  Govts,  on  the  Continent  yet  all  the 
inhabitants  are  his  subjects  united  in  one  common  interest,  nor 
will  you  forget  to  prevent  as  much  as  possible  their  being  in- 
fluenced by  the  French  Missionarys.  We  represented  what  you 
formerly  wrote  in  relation  to  the  British  captives  at  Canada 
and  as  we  are  inform' d  upon  application  to  the  French  Court 
thereupon  orders  were  sent  to  the  Governor  of  Canada  for  their 
release.  As  to  what  you  write  26th  Oct.  1719,  we  know  nothing 
of  what  has  pass'd  between  the  Lords  Justices  and  Mr.  Dummer 
upon  any  matters  relating  to  the  Act  of  impost,  nor  do  we 
remember  to  have  discours'd  with  Mr.  Dummer  thereupon.  You 
say  that  you  have  sent  all  the  papers  relating  to  the  dispute  at 
Canso  to  Mr.  Dummer,  those  papers  never  came  to  our  hands  and 
we  must  desire  that  for  the  future  all  papers  which  you  design 
for  our  information  may  be  sent  directly  to  us.  You  say,  7th 
Dec.  1719,  that  "  the  Paper  bills  daily  sink  in  their  value  "  etc., 
which  we  desire  you  will  explain  in  your  next  and  hope  to  hear 
from  you  at  the  same  time  what  remedies  you  wou'd  propose 
for  the  mischief  occasion'd  by  the  discredit  on  the  said  bills. 
We  commend  your  diligence  in  relation  to  Capt.  Scots  bond, 
we  doubt  not  but  all  offences  of  the  same  nature  will  be  prose- 
cuted by  you  in  the  most  effectual  manner  and  that  you  will 
take  particular  care  to  be  informed  by  the  proper  officers  of  the 
numbers  of  Englishmen  that  come  yearly  from  Newfoundland 
to  New  England  and  in  what  ships  that  you  may  send  us  an 
account  thereof  by  the  first  opportunity,  this  being  a  practice 
very  disadvantageous  to  Great  Britain.  We  approve  of  what 
you  have  done  in  putting  a  negative  upon  Elisha  Cook  chosen 
Speaker  by  your  Assembly,  and  for  your  information  herein  we 
send  you  inclosed  the  opinion  of  Sr.  Robt.  Raymond  H.M. 
Attorney  Generall  which  will  be  a  guide  to  you  in  all  future 
cases  of  the  like  nature,  and  which  you  are  to  signify  to  the 
Council  and  Assembly.  We  shall  send  you  our  opinion  by 
another  opportunity  concerning  what  you  write,  17th  Feb., 
1720,    in   relation   to    your   73rd   Instruction   about   printing. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


27] 


1721, 


March  18. 

Whitehall. 


March  21. 

Charles 
Town. 


Your  care  and  diUgence  in  endeavouring  to  preserve  H.M.  woods 
is  \'ery  commendable,  and  what  you  write  about  the  exportation 
of  timber  to  Spain  will  be  taken  into  due  consideration.  [CO. 
5,  915.     pp.  320-322.] 

41 2.  Mr.  Popple  to  Governor  Shute.  The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  have  considered  what  you  write,  19th  Aug. 
1719,  in  relation  to  the  vacancies  in  the  Council  of  New  Hamp- 
shire ;  you  say  there  are  four  vacancies  but  do  not  acquaint 
their  Lordships  by  whose  death  or  absence  the  fourth  vacancy 
is  occasion'd,  so  that  they  can  only  at  present  recommend  three, 
but  upon  this  occasion  I  am  to  acquaint  you  that  unless  there 
be  some  person  or  persons  appointed  to  pay  the  fees  in  the 
Council  and  Secretarys  Offices  (and  I  know  of  none  such)  it 
cannot  be  expected  that  the  proper  warrants  for  the  admission 
of  any  person  will  be  sent  over  to  you  that  you  may  know  how 
the  Councillors  stand  in  our  books  I  send  you  the  inclos'd  list. 
P.S. — Since  the  writing  of  this  theirLordships  have  recommended 
as  March  13th.     [CO.  5,  915.     p.  323.] 

413.  Mr.  Moore  to  [?Mr.  Secretary  Cra.ggs].  The  dayly 
expectation  we  are  in  of  the  arrivall  of  Governor  Nicholson 
prevents  all  publick  business.  Capt.  Hildesley  {v.  2nd  Feb.) 
has  beene  very  neare  occasioning  a  gieat  deale  of  bloodshed 
he  has  taken  Commission  from  Col.  Johnson  to  be  Col.  of  the 
Regiment  in  Berkeley  County.  They  are  continually  contriving 
and  plotting  of  mischeif  Hildesley  especially  but  thank  God 
it  never  comes  to  anything.  I  am  quite  tired  of  publick 
business.  The  Govrs.  speedy  arrivall  is  prayed  for  by  the 
whole  Province.     Signed,  Ja.  Moore.     Subjoined, 

413.  i.  Return  of  Inhabitants  who  pay  tax  in  South  Carolina, 

14th    March,    1720. 

By  parishes.      Totals  : — Acres,    1,163,2391.      Inhabi- 
tants,   1305.     Slaves,    11,828. 
413.  ii.  Exports  from  Charles  Town,  1st  Jan. — 2nd  May,  1721. 

Rice,  to  Great  Britain,  13,479  lb.  ;   to  the  Plantations, 
2733  lb. 

Pitch,  to  Great  Britain,  6,747  lb.  ;    to  the  Plantations, 
1,450  lb. 

Tar,  to  Great  Britain,  4,269  lb.  ;    to  the  Plantations, 
1,292  lb. 

The  whole,  1  p.     [CO.  5,  387.     No.  23.] 


March  21.       414.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     Re- 
Whitehaii.     commend  Anthony  Swymmer  for  the  Council  of  Jamaica  in 
place  of  Francis  Rose  deed.     [CO.  138,  16.     pp.  282,  283.] 


March  21. 

Whitehall. 


41 5.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Burnet. 
Enclose  memorials  from  James  Smith,  Secretary,  who  has  been 


272 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Ohamber5=. 


1721. 

a  great  sufferer  by  some  acts  passed  in  New  Jersey,  and  desire 
him  to  move  the  Assembly  to  re-establish  the  fees  of  his  offices, 
or  to  find  out  some  equivalent  to  prevent  his  suffering  for  the 
faults  of  his  predecessor.  "  For  we  are  inform'd  by  Brigadr. 
Hunter  that  these  laws  were  design'd  as  a  punishment  to  the 
then  Secretary,  who  had  been  guilty  of  notorious  crimes,  and 
that  the  Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  had  represented  to  him 
that  the  Act  for  shortning  law  stiits  etc.  was  entirely  destructive 
to  their  jurisdiction  "  etc.  If  the  Assembly  do  not  comply, 
desire  a  state  of  the  case  and  account  of  the  fees,  that  proper 
measures  for  his  relief  may  be  taken  here.  Set  out,  N,  J. 
Archives  1st  Ser.     V.  4.     [CO.  5,  996.     pj).  102-104.] 

March  22.       416.     Mr.    Stanhope,    Secretary    to    the    Treasury,    to    Mr. 
Treasury       Popple.     Eiicloses  following,  for  the  opinion  of  the  Council  of 

Trade    and     Plantations    thereupon.     Signed,     C.     Stanhope. 

Endorsed,    Reed.    23rd,    Read   28th   March,  1721.     Addressed. 

1  p.     Enclosed, 

416.  i.  Case  of  Owners  of  the  Calabar -Merchant,  of  Bristol. 
Bound  from  Bristol  to  Guinea  to  purchase  negroes 
and  transport  them  to  Virginia,  this  ship  was  plundered 
by  pirates  under  one  England,  near  old  Calabar  on  11th 
Dec,  1719.  After  beating  and  abusing  the  master  and 
his  men,  and  keeping  them  prisoners  for  9  weeks,  the 
pirates  gave  them  back  their  ship  with  21  negroes  as  a 
satisfaction  for  the  damage  done,  amounting  to  at  least 
£1200.  On  arriving  at  Virginia,  the  Master,  Kennedy, 
acquainted  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  thereof,  who 
seized  the  negroes  for  H.M.  use,  and  only  allowed 
£126  for  the  same,  which  is  not  one  fourth  of  the 
value  etc.     Copy.     If  pp. 

416.  ii.  Petition  of  Same  to  the  Lords  Commrs.  of  the 
Treasurj^  Pray  for  an  order  to  Lt.  Governor  Spots- 
wood  to  deliver  them  the  negroes,  or  satisfaction  for 
them  etc.  Signed,  Fra.  Stevens,  Abell  Grant,  Tho. 
Melton,  Sam.  Allen,  Sam.  Fry.  Copy,  f  p.  [CO. 
5,  1319.     Nos.  4,  4.  i,  ii.] 

41 7.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Encloses  following  for  their  report  thereupon.  Signed,  Carteret. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  22nd  March,  Read  4th  May,  172?.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

417.  i.  Address  of  the  Council  and  Burgesses  of  Virginia 
to  the  King.  Having  deliberated  how  to  extend  your 
Empire  in  these  parts  and  secure  our  present  settle- 
ments from  the  incursions  of  the  savage  Indians  and 
from  the  more  dangerous  encroachments  of  the  neigh- 
bouring French,  we  beg  leave  to  lay  before  your 
Majestic  the  present  situation  of  this  Colony  etc.     To 


March  22. 

WhitehaU. 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  273 


1721. 


the  westward  of  Virginia  about  forty  miles  distant 
from  some  of  our  remotest  settlements  there  runs  a 
ridge  of  exceeding  high  mountains  which  extend  all 
along  the  back  of  this  and    the    next    Province    of 
Carolina  and  must  certainly  prove  an  extraordinary 
safeguai'd  to  these  Colonys,  whenever  our  plantations 
shall  reach  so  far  as  to  get  possession  of  the  passes, 
which  appear  to  be  no  more  than  two.     On  the  other 
hand  in  case  the  French  who  are  carrying  on  dangerous 
projects  not  very  far  beyond  these  mountains,  should 
be  beforehand  with  your  Majestie's  subjects  and  possess 
these  passes,  that  Nation  would  then  not  only  secure 
their  communication  betwixt  the  Rivers  St.  Lawrence 
and  Mississipi,  but  would  be  in  a  condition  by  keeping 
the  key  of  this  barrier  to  annoy  your  Majesties  subjects 
on  this  side  whenever  they  think  fit.     This  apprehen- 
sion awakens  us  to  give  all  encouragement  suitable  to 
our  poor  abilities,  for  the  speedy  seating  that  tract 
of  land  M^hich  lies  untaken  up  between  our  present 
settlements  and  those  two  passes.     For  that  end  we 
have  now  created  two  new  countys,  the  one  on  Rappa- 
hanock   River   leading  up  to  the  Northern  pass,  and 
the  other  on  Roanoake  leading  to  that  on  the  South. 
To  encourage   people  to  go   up  and  seat  these  two 
counties  we  have  exempted  the  inhabitants  thereof 
from  publick  taxes  for  the  space  of  ten  yeares.     We 
have  agreed  to  build  them  Churches  and  Court-houses 
and  to  furnish  them  with  amies   and  ammunition  at 
the  publick  charge.     But  what  would  be  a  greater 
inducement  etc.  would  be  your  Royal  favour  of  re- 
mitting all  the  quitt-rents  of  those  two  counties  for 
ten  yeares  and  exempting  the  takers  up  of  land  from 
the  five  shillings  which  they  are  by  the  Order  of  this 
Government  obliged  to  pay  for  every  fifty  acres  of 
land  that  they  enter  for ;  And  this  bounty  we  are  the 
more  encouraged  to  beg  because  we  are  fully  perswaded 
that  in  a  few  yeares  it  will  prove  a  considerable  aug- 
mentation of  your  Majesty's  Revenue  here.     And  to 
render  the  proposed  barrier  more  defensible  etc.   we 
humbly  beg  your  Majestic  will  be  graciously  pleased 
to  give  directions  for  building  a  fort  at  each  of  the 
passes  out  of  your  revenue  of  quitt  rents  etc.  and  for 
sending  over  two  companys  of  50  men  each  in  your 
Majesties  pay  to  serve  as  a  garison  for  those  forts  etc. 
under  the  orders  of  your  Majesties  Governour  and 
Council  here  etc.     Our  Lt.  Governour  Col.  Spotswood 
will  be  pleased  to  intercede  in  our  favour,  who  has 
spar'd  no  fatigue  or  expense  to  visit  our  mountains 
in   person,   and  to  inform   himself  of  the   exceeding 

Wt.  7496  (J.l'.  32—18 


274 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 


March  22. 

Whitehall. 


March  23. 


importance  of  them,  both  for  your  Majesties  service 
and  for     the  defence  and  security  of  this  Dominion. 

1720.  Signed,    by   the    Council    (10)    and   Assembly 
(42).     1  large  p.     [CO.  5,  1319.     Nos.  10,  10.  i.] 

418.  Mr.   Popple  to  Mr.  West.     Encloses,  for  his  opinion 

in  point  of  law,  Acts  of  Virginia  (i)  For  erecting  the  Counties  of 
Spotsylvania  and  Brunswick,  and  granting  certain  exemptions  and 
benefits  to  the  inhabitants  thereof,  (ii)  For  the  better  discovery 
and  securing  of  H.]\i.  quitrents.  (iii)  Explaining  what  shall  be 
accounted  a  sufficient  seating  of  lands,  and  for  the  better  recovery 
of  lands  lapsed  from  persons  living  out  of  the  country  etc.  [CO. 
5,   1305.     p.   225.] 

419.  Mr.  Whitworth  to  Mr.  Chetwynd.  Encloses  following 
and  complains  of  ?vlr.  Cox's  infringements  upon  his  Offices  of 
Secretary  of  Barbados,  Secretary  to  the  Governor,  Secretary 
to  the  Governor  and  Council  or  Council  in  absence  of  Governor, 
granted  to  him  by  letters  patent,  11th  March,  1719.  "  Mr. 
Cox  demands  all  the  profits  and  lays  the  whole  charge  and 
trouble  on  my  office.  I  pray  you  will  be  so  good  to  move 
their  Lordships  to  interpose  "  etc.  Signed,  Fra.  Whitworth. 
Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Chetwynd  by  Mr.  Ashe).  Read 
2 8th  March,  1721.     3 1  pp.     Eyiclosed, 

419.  i.  Extracts  of  letters  from  John  Lenoir,  Depty.  Secretary 
of  Barbados,  to  Fra.  Whitworth.     15th  and  24th  Jan. 

1721.  (a)  The  Council  being  adjourned  to  the  8th 
instant,  came  in  a  sloop  from  London  with  several 
determinations  of  the  Lords  Justices  in  favour  of 
the  complainants  against  Mr.  Lowther,  which  orders 
were  all  read  in  Council  and  copies  ordered  to  be  pub- 
lished in  all  the  parish  churches,  and  the  next  step  was 
suspending  Mr.  Frere  (w^ho  he  admitted  to  be  sworn 
of  H.M.  Council  at  his  first  sitting)  contrary  to  the 
opinion  of  all  the  Council,  and  contrary  to  the  Act 
for  preserving  the  peace  and  tranquillity  of  this  Island, 
and  in  less  than  a  month  all  the  officers  of  the  Militia 
were  displaced  except  Coll.  Yeamans.  The  Assembly 
are  not  yet  dissolved  but  interest  is  making  by  the 
Court  parties  for  votes,  and  its  thought  they  are  only 
continued  till  an  affair  of  Coll.  Peers's  now  before  the 
Committee  of  publick  accounts  is  determined,  because 
were  they  dissolved  there  could  not  be  a  Committee  etc. 
(b)  The  17th  the  Council  sat,  and  the  President 
suspended  six  Councillors  {v.  25th  March.)  Continues  : 
It  is  remarkable  that  altho'  Mr.  Colliton,  and  Mr. 
Lightfoot  were  both  of  the  same  opinion  with  the 
Gentlemen  suspended  that  Mr.  Frere  should  take 
upon  him  the  administration  of  this  Government  in 


AMERICA   AND   WEST  INDIES.  275 


1721. 

Mr.  Lowther's  absence,  and  Mr.  CoUiton  on  5th  Aug. 
was  fully  of  opinion  that  he  could  not  then  resign  it 
to  Mr.  Cox  yet  they  are  both  continued  in  their  places 
at  the  Board.  I  was  turned  out  of  the  Masters  in 
Chancery's  place  the  18th  inst.  only  because  the 
President  did  not  think  fit  to  let  me  remain  in  it, 
and  without  any  fault  laid  to  my  charge.  The 
President  employs  one  Mr.  Palmer  as  his  private 
Secretary,  and  14th  Jan.  himself  told  me  that  he  should 
insist  upon  having  the  fees  for  the  (ireat  Seal,  and  for 
his  Seal  at  armes,  as  allso  for  all  deeds  and  powers 
of  Attorneys  proved  before  him,  and  for  all  Registers. 
I  have  cautioned  Mr.  Palmer  not  to  receive  any  fees 
as  private  Secretary  for  that  the  President  has  no 
right  to  give  away  any  fees  that  I  know  of  etc.  he  said 
if  any  gentleman  gave  him  money  he  should  not 
refuse  it,  by  this  I  suppose  he  means  what  may  be 
given  to  him  for  the  Commissions  for  the  Militia  they 
having  been  deliver' d  by  him  (as  I  am  told)  tho'  the 
trouble  and  charge  of  writing  them  has  lain  upon  us, 
having  been  expressly  commanded  to  prepare  them 
by  the  President  etc.  3^  pp.  [CO.  28,  17.  ff. 
63,  Q4>v.,  65v.] 

March  25.  420.  Office  expenses  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Dec.  25th,  1720 
—March  25,  1721.  v.  Journal  of  Council.  [CO.  388,  77. 
Nos.  100-102.] 

[Marchi25]  421.  Merchants  and  planters  concerned  in  Barbados  to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Pray  to  be  heard  on 
behalf  of  the  7  suspended  Councillors  of  Barbados,  and  to  have 
a  copy  of  Mr.  Cox's  reasons  etc.  Signed,  Joseph  Eyles,  John 
Royle,  E.  Newport,  Edward  Byam,  C.  Lascelles,  Jno.  Cotton. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  25th  March,  1721.  1  p.  [CO.  28, 
17.    ff.  45,  46i;.] 

March  25.       422.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Whitehall.     The  iuclos'd  petitions  having  been  presented  to  the  King  etc., 

you  are  to  report  your  opinion  what  H.M.  may  most  fitly  do 

thereupon.     Signed,    Carteret.     Endorsed,    Reed.  27th,    Read 

28th  March,  1721.     ^  p.     Enclosed, 

422.  i.  Petition  of  Thos.  Maxwell,  Thos.  Maycock,  Guy  Ball, 
John  Lucy  Blackman,  William  Carter,  Francis  Bond, 
and  John  Colleton,  members  of  Council  in  Barbados,  to 
the  King.  The  Honble  Saml.  Cox,  President  of  the 
Councill,  hath  conceived  a  displeasure  against  peti- 
tioners and  intends  to  suspend  them  etc.  He  has  already 
suspended  John  Frere,  contrary  to  the  advice  and 
without  the  consent  of  the  Board,  and  hath    tum'd 


270  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ' 

out  eight  of  the  nine  Collonels  of  the  Regiments  in 
this  Island  without  the  advice  of  ye  Councill,  and  hath 
refused  contrary  to  ye  advice  of  ye  Councill  (wch.  he 
thought  fit  to  demand)  to  issue  the  Commissions 
necessary  for  holding  the  Court  of  Grand  Sessions 
(which  ought  to  have  been  held  on  the  second  Tuesday 
of  this  instant  December)  whereby  great  numbers  of 
prisoners,  and  some  of  them  accused  of  capitall  crimes, 
remain  uutryed ;  and  the  said  President  threatens 
to  turn  out  all  the  judges  of  the  several  Courts  of 
Justice  and  to  make  a  generall  change  of  all  the  offices 
civill  and  military  etc.  The  said  proceedings  tend  to 
the  great  disturbance  of  the  peace  and  tranquility 
of  this  Collony.  Pray  H.M.  to  direct  that  they  be  not 
suspended  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known  etc.  Signed 
by  above.     Dec.  30th,  1720.     1  p. 

422.  ii.  Petition  of  Thomas  Maxwell,  Thomas  Maycock,  Guy 

Ball,  John  Lucie  Blackman,  William  Carter,  and  Francis 
Bond  to  the  King.  As  apprehended  in  preceding,  the 
President  on  the  17th  inst.  suspended  petitioners  from 
the  Council  upon  several  pretences,  and  has  already 
made  many  changes  of  the  officers  civil  and  military 
etc.  These  changes  have  notoriously  been  in  favour 
of  certain  persons  ever  justly  suspected  of  disaffection 
to  your  Majtyes  person  and  Government  and  to  ye 
succession  of  your  Royal  house  and  who  sufficiently 
discovered  that  disaffection  during  the  short  president- 
shipp  of  Mr.  Sharpe  in  the  late  reign  etc.  We  cannot 
express  the  discontents  occasioned  by  those  changes. 
Pray  for  H.M.  orders  etc.  Signed  as  above.  Jan.  20th, 
1720  (1).     1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  51-52t;.,  53-55,  5Qv.] 

March  25.       423.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

WhitehaU.     Encloscs    following    for   their    opinion    etc.     Signed,    Carteret. 

Endorsed,  Reed.  25th,  Read  28th  March,  1721.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

423.  i.  Merchants    trading    to     Barbados     to     Lord   Irwin, 

Governor  of  Barbados.  March  23,  1720  (1).  Request 
him  to  present  following  to  the  King.  Signed, 
Michajah  Perry,  Rob.  Heysham  and  20  others.  1  p. 
4>2ii.  ii.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  the  King. 
Congratulate  H.M.'s  safe  and  honourable  return  to 
Great  Britain  etc.  Continue :  From  a  Government 
of  the  greatest  tranquillity  and  satisfaction  to  the 
subjects  (except  to  a  restless  few  whose  greatest 
ambition  is  change)  we  are  become  the  most  uneasy, 
and,  (without  the  Royall  interposition)  the  most 
unhappy  of  your  Majties.  subjects  etc.  The  causes 
of  our  misfortunes  may  be  all  reduced  to  one,  the 
changes   made,   and   threaten'd  to  be   made  by  our 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES.  277 


1721. 


President,  Samuell  Cox,  whose  attachment  to  a  few 
threatens  our  mine— a  few,  who  in  all  the  Governments 
since  the  late  happy  Revolution  were  and  still  are 
reputed  a  seditious  restless  party,  and  as  such  were 
censured  in  the  respective  Governments  (except  that 
of  Sir  Bevill  Granville,  and  the  late  short  President- 
ship of  Mr.  Sharp)  as  enemy's  to  our  happy  Constitu- 
tion, and  disturbers  of  the  peace  and  tranquillity  of 
our  countn,'.  Planters  fear  the  peace  and  Iiappi'ness 
they  have  enjoyed  is  at  an  end  when  they  see  persons 
who  lately  were  of  no  other  distinction  among  us  than 
that  of  the  French  traders,  now  put  into  offices  and 
places  of  trust,  those  of  the  best  fortunes  and  remark- 
ably distinguisht  for  their  zeal  to  the  Hanover  suc- 
cession and  Protestant  interest  displaced;  and  a 
gentleman  of  the  best  fortune  and  unspotted  reputation 
suspended  the  Councill  etc.  as  preceding.  Passed  the 
Assembly  nem.  con.  5th  Jan.,  1720  (1).  Signed,  Robt. 
Warren.  Clerk  of  the  Assembly.  2  pp.  [C.O  28 
17.    ff.  57,  58,  59,  59v.,  62v.] 

March  25.       424.     Mr.    Popple  to   Mr.    Carkesse.     Presses   for  reply   to 
WhitehaU.     March  14th.     [C.O.  29,  14.     pjj.  98,  99.] 

March  25.       425.     M.  de  Hiriberry  to  Lord  Carteret.     In  pursuance  of 

London.       the  Order  of  Council,  Capt.  Smart  has  disposed  of  the  two  ships 

and  their  cargoes  etc.     (v.  No.  ii.)     Petitions  for  compensation 

from  the  Crown  etc.     Signed,  Joannis  de  Hiriberry.     French. 

1  p.     Enclosed, 

425.  i.  Deposition  by  Joseph  Hiller,  Notary  Public,  Boston, 
21st  June,  1720.     Capt.  Smart  informed  me  that  he 
had  already  disposed   of  the  two    vessels    and  their 
cargoes  in   pursuance  of  an   Order  by  the   King  in 
Council,  which  was  of  a  nature  quite  contrary  to  that 
of   the    Lords    Justices    and    of   an    earlier  date  etc. 
Signed,  Jos.  Hiller.     French.     2  pp. 
425.  ii.  Order  of  King  in  Council.     St.  James's.     May  9th, 
1719.     The  two  vessels  and  their  cargoes  taken  by 
Capt.  Smart,  H.M.S.  Squirrel,  and  condemned  in  the 
Court  of  Admiralty,  New  England,  are  to  be  restored 
to  Capt.  Smart,  who  is  to  dispose  of  them  and  divide 
the   proceeds   amongst  his  officers  and  crew  etc.     v. 
C.S.P.  1719.     Signed,  Robert  Hales.     Copy  in  French. 
2i  pp.         [C.O.  5,  752.     Nos.  14,  15,  16.] 

March  27.       426.     Lt.     Governor    Bennett    to    Mr.     Popple.     Encloses 

Bermuda,     duplicate  of  letter  of  31st  Oct.     Continues  /—By  several  accounts 

lately  from  Barbados  and  Leeward  Islands  I  am  advised,  that 


278 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 


the  pirates  begin  to  be  troublesome  again  haveing  taken  several 
English  and  French  vessels  etc.  Signed,  B.  Bennett,  Endorsed, 
Reed.  30th  April,  1721.  Read  13th  June,  1722.  Holograph. 
1  p.     [CO.  37,  10.     No.  26.] 


March  27.  427.  R.  Lowther  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Answers  to  several  reasons  against  an  Act  of  Barbados,  1720, 
for  the  better  regulating  the  proceedings  ofH.M.  Courts  of  Common 
Pleas,  sent  to  him  by  Mr.  Popple.  Signed,  Rob.  Lowther. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  March,  Read  18th  May,  1721.  3|  pp. 
[CO.  28,  17.    ff.  109-1101;.,  llli;.] 


March  27.  428.  Duplicate  of  preceding,  with  note  endorsed  ;  Ld.  C.  J. 
King  yet  thinks  the  reason  against  the  Act  of  much  more  w^eight 
than  those  for,  and  to  the  most  materiall  objection  (which  he 
allows  to  be  a  very  matteriall  one)  viz.  the  strikeing  the  jurys 
by  the  Marshall,  he  thinks,  'twould  be  convenientt  to  putt  the 
Marshall  in  place  of  a  Sheriffe,  and  to  act  in  that  matter  as  ours 
do,  and  which  will  not  make  so  greatt  an  alteration  in  the  Genii. 
Common  Law.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  112-116,  117i;.] 


March  28. 

Whitehall. 


429.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Encloses  following,  for  their  report  upon  the  case  of  the  Calabar 
Merchant  [v.  22nd  March.)  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  28th  March,  1721.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

429.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to 
Mr.  Secretary  Craggs,  20th  May,  1720.  I  p.  [CO. 
5,  1319.     Nos.  8,  8.  i.] 


[Mar.  28.]  430.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Kennedy,  Master  of  the  Calabar 
Merchant.  Bristol.  14th  Nov.  1720.  To  same  effect  as  March 
22.  end.  i.  Signed,  Tho.  Kenniday.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read 
28th  March,  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  1319.     No.  6.] 


[Mar.  28.]  431.  Deposition  of  Alexander  Bradford,  Chief  Mate  of  the 
Calabar  Merchant.  24th  March,  1720  (1)  Confirms  preceding. 
Signed,  Alexr.  Bradford.  Same  endorsement.  Ij  pp.  [CO. 
5,  1319.     No.  7.] 


March  29. 

Custom  ho., 
London. 


432.  Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.  Reply  to  14th  and  25th 
March.  Encloses  following.  The  Commissioners  of  Customs 
have  no  objection  to  the  Act  of  Barbados  granting  liberty  to 
the  inhabitants  to  load  or  unload  at  any  bay,  creek  or  harbour,  etc., 
if  a  proviso  be  added  for  masters  of  sloops  so  loading  or  unloading 
to  give  bond  as  proposed  in  following.  Signed,  Cha.  Carkesse. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  30th  March,  Read  18th  May,  1721.  Addressed. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


270 


1721. 


432.  i.  Mr.  Lascelles,    Collector 
H.M.  Commissioners  of  Customs, 
upon  Act  of  Barbados  referred  to  him 
Henry  Lascelles.     Copy.     1^  VP 
lOlz;.,  lOSy.l. 


of   Customs,    Barbados,    to 

28th  March,  1721.     Report 

V.  preceding.     Signed, 

[CO.  28,   17.    ff.   100,  101, 


March  29. 

Whitehall. 


March  30. 

Sfiuthwark. 


433.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations 
luicloses  followmg  for  their  report..  Signed,  Carteret.  3Iem 
(in  red  mk).  This  is  answer'd  by  ye  57th  article  of  ve  Instruc- 
tions to  ye  Lord  Belhaven.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  31st 
March,  1721.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

433.  i.  Memorial   of  Francis   Whitworth   to   Lord   Carteret. 
Complains  of  Mr.  Cox's  infringements  upon  his  office,' 
{v.  23rd  March),  and  prays  for  interposition  etc.     29th 
March,    1721.     Signed,    Eras.    Whitworth.     3    vv 
[CO.  28,  17.    ff.  71,  72-63,  74i;.] 

434.  Sir  Charles  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. The  Assembly  of  Barbadoes  took  upon  them  to  passe  an 
Addresse  m  a  very  unjustifiable  manner,  and  contrary'  to  their 
duty  and  H.M.  expresse  Instructions  denied  a  copy  of  it  to 
my  Brother  the  President,  with  some  very  extraordinary  cir- 
cumstances. Asks  for  a  copy  of  it  etc.  Signed,  Charles  Cox. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  30th  March,  1721.  Addressed,  i  v 
[CO.  28,  17.    ff  67,  68v.]  '  ^  ' 

Whitehall      r  '     ^ouncil  of  Tradc  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 

In  rephj  to  25th  March,  enclose  following,  "  which  we  desire  your 
Lordship  will  please  to  lay  before  H.M.  as  soon  as  conveniently 
may  be  for  his  pleasure  thereupon."     Annexed, 

435.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     Re- 
presentation upon  complaints  against  Mr.  Cox,  President 
of  Council  of  Barbados.     It  very  evidently  appears 
to  us,  not  only  from  the  complaints  of  the  petitioners 
but  even  from  a  letter  which  we  have  lately  receiv'd 
from  Mr.  Cox  himself,  and  from  the  Minutes  of  Council 
therewith  transmitted  containing  the  reasons  of  his 
proceedings,  etc.,  that  Mr.  Cox  hath  suspended  Thos. 
Maxwell,  Thos.  Maycock,  Guy  Ball,  Jno.  Lucy  Black- 
man,  Wm.  Carter,  and  Francis  Bond,  Esqrs.  du-ectly 
contrary  to  your  Majesty's  Instructions  and  in  breach 
of  a  law  pass'd  in  Barbados  in  1720,  for  the  better 
preserving   the  peace  and  tranquillity   of  this   Island, 
which  law  we  have  not  hitherto  laid  before  your  Majesty 
either  for  your  Royal   approbation   or   disallowance 
because   altho'   we   do   entirely   approve  the  subject 
matter  of  it,  we  are  yet  doubtfull  whether  the  intention 
thereof  might  not  be  more  properly  provided  for  by 
an    Instruction    from    your    Majesty    etc.     We    have 


280  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ~~  " 

received  great  complaints  from  many  other  persons 
of  the  said  Mr.  Cox's  behaviour  which  we  believe  has 
given  great  uneasiness  to  your  Majesty's  good  subjects 
and  put  that  Island  into  the  utmost  confusion.  Where- 
fore we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  the  said  Mr.  Cox 
should  be  forthwith  removed  from  his  office  of  President 
and  Councillor  and  that  your  Majesty  may  be  graciously 
pleas 'd  to  grant  your  Orders  in  Council  for  restoring 
the  said  six  Councillors  to  their  places,  and  that  the 
eldest  Councillor  so  restor'd  do  take  upon  him  the 
administration  of  the  Govt,  there  in  the  stead  of  the 
said  Mr.  Cox,  untill  the  arrival  of  the  Lord  Irwin  or 
the  further  signification  of  your  Majesty's  pleasure 
etc.  It  doth  not  appear  to  us  that  Jno.  Frere  Esq. 
was  legally  suspended  by  Mr.  Cox,  but  forasmuch  as 
the  said  Jno.  Frere  doth  at  present  lye  under  your 
Majesty's  displeasure  and  is  commanded  by  the  late 
Lords  Justices's  Order  in  Council,  12th  Oct.,  last,  to 
come  to  England  to  answer  certain  matters  therein 
objected  to  him,  we  shall  not  take  upon  us  to  offer 
anything  to  your  Majesty  concerning  him.  Your 
Majesty  will  best  judge  what  further  proceedings 
should  be  had  against  Mr.  Cox  for  his  behaviour,  which 
we  conceive  to  have  been  both  arbitrary  and  illegal. 
Annex  copies  of  Instruction  and  Act  of  Assembly. 
[CO.  29,  14.     pp.  100-105.] 

March  30.       436.     Order    of    King    in    Council.     Appointing    Anthony 
St.  James's.  Swymmer  to  the  Council  of  Jamaica.     Signed,  Robert  Hales. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  8th  June,  1721.     |  p.     [CO.  138, 
16.     No.  50.] 

March  30.       437.     Order    of    King    in    Council.     Appointing    Archibald 

St.  James's.  Mack-Phcdris,  Nicholas  Gillman,  and  Peter  Ware  to  the  Council 

of  New  Hampshire  {cf.  13th   March).     Signed,  Robert  Hales. 

Endorsed,  Reed.     2nd,  Read  8th  June,  1721.     f  p.     [CO.  5, 

868.    //;   45,  4Qv.] 

March  31.  438.  Petition  of  Henry  Newman,  Agent  of  New  Hampshire, 
to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  In  obedience  to 
H.M.  commands  the  Government  of  New  Hampshire  have 
discontinued  the  impost  of  a  pound  of  gunpowder  pr.  ton  upon 
all  ships  trading  thither,  towards  supplymg  Fort  William  and 
Mary.  One  year  with  another  they  only  gained  about  1 1  barrels 
pr.  ann.  more  than  their  expence.  The  Province  is  the  frontier 
against  the  French  and  Indians  and  Fort  William  and  Mary 
the  key  to  it  by  sea,  and  absolutely  necessar^^  for  securing  in 
the  River  Piscataqua  H.M.  Naval  Stores  etc.  The  Province 
being  small  and  very  much  impoverished  by  the  late  warrs  is 


AMERICA  AND    WEST   INDIES. 


281 


1721. 


March  31, 


not  in  a  condition  to  supply  the  stores  necessary  for  defending 
a  Fort  mounted  with  40  pieces  of  ordnance.  It  will  soon  be 
liable  to  the  insults  of  every  common  pirate  etc.  Pray  that  H.M. 
may  send  a  supply  of  amnmnition  stores  or  permit  the  Govern- 
ment to  revive  the  Powder  Act,  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  31st 
March,  Read  3rd  May,  1721.  2  pp.  [CO.  5,  868.  ff  43 
43i;,  44z;.]  .u-        > 

439.  Mr.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Presses  for  report  upon  his  memorial,  delivered  5  months  ago, 
against  two  Acts  of  Barbados,  concerning  vestries,  and  depriving 
him  of  his  benefice.  ""  -  — 
Read  4th  April,  1721 


Signed,   W,    Gordon.     Endorsed,   Reed. 
1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  75,  76v.] 


March  31. 

Whitehall. 


440.  Mr.  Popple  to  Charles  Stanhope.  Reply  to  22nd. 
My  Lords  Commrs.  have  no  objection  to  the  owners  of  the 
Calabar  Merchant  being  relieved  as  desired  by  them,  provided 
they  give  sufficient  security  to  answer  any  legal  claim  which 
may  hereafter  be  made  to  the  said  negroes  by  persons  who  shall 
make  it  appear  they  were  robbed  of  them  by  the  said  pirates 
[CO.  5,  1365.     pp.  227,  228.] 

April  1.       441.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 

Whitehau.  Enclose  letter  from  Mr.  Keen,  and  Memorial  of  inhabitants  of 
Petty  Harbour,  24th  Dec,  1720,  "  relating  to  a  wilfull  murder 
committed  there,  that  orders  may  be  given  for  the  prosecution 
of  the  malefactor  who  is  now  in  Exeter  gaol,  and  the  Capt.  who 
brought  him  over  may  be  heard  of  at  the  New  England 
coffee-house  near  the  Royal  Exchange.  The  great  disorders 
complain'd  of  in  the  annexed  memorial  are  a  further  reason 
with  us  for  the  giving  all  possible  encouragement  to  engage  the 
inhabitants  of  Newfoundland  to  remove  to  Nova  Scotia  or  to 
some  other  of  H.M.  Colonies  on  the  Continent  of  America, 
according  to  the  opinion  of  this  Board  19th  Dec,  1718,  and 
agreeable  to  the  Instructions  given  by  H.M.  to  His  Governor 
of  Nova  Scotia  for  that  purpose  ;  for  such  inhabitants  as  do 
remain  in  Newfoundland  after  the  return  of  the  Fishery  Fleet 
besides  their  disorderly  way  of  livmg  there  do  for  the  most  part 
promote  the  trade  and  fishery  of  New  England  to  the  detriment 
of  their  Mother  Kingdom."     [CO.  195,  7.     pp.  76-78.] 

April  3.       442.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Lt.  Governor  of  Placentia.    You  are 
Whitehall,  to  comply  with  the  terms  of  the  enclosed  Representation,  in  order 
to  the  putting  a  speedy  and  effectual  end  to  the  works  of  the 
new  fort  etc.     Signed,  Carteret.     Annexed, 

442.  i.  Board  of  Ordnance  to  the  Master  General  [the  Duke 
of  Marlborough]  Feb.  24,  172','.  After  se\eral  years 
sollicitations  of  the  merchants  loading  to  Newfound- 
land,    to     have     forts     erected    for     their     defence. 


282  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ~~~ 

particularly  at  Placentia,  promising  to  transport  the 
materials  thither  for  building  at  very  easy  rates,  we 
did  make  an  estimate  for  building  a  fort  at  that  place, 
at  £2500,  which  was  granted  by  Parliament  in  1718. 
But  the  fishing  ships  and   traders  instead  of  taking 
in  these  materials  as  ballast  at  3  or  4  shillings  per  tun 
(as  we  had  hopes  given  us)  would  scarcely  be  prevailed 
upon  to  take  any,  and  those,  that  they  did,  cost  us 
from  12  to  45s.  pr.  tun,  insomuch  that  it  was  full  two 
years  before  we  could  get  a  sufficient  quantity  trans- 
ported, and  send  the  artificers  with  necessary  orders 
for  going  to  work.     Accordingly  the  work  is  begun, 
and  altho'  it  appears  upon  making  up  the  last  year's 
account,  that  we  have  already  exceeded    by    £1400 
what  was  granted  by  Parliament,  yet  the  materials 
and  artificers,  who  are  in  constant  pay,  whilst  there, 
being  upon  the  spot,  we  think  it   will  be  a  saving  as 
well  as  an  advantage  to  the  publick  to  continue  that 
work,  and  get  the  exceedings  hereafter  from  Parlia- 
ment,   which   will   not   be   much   more,    than   what's 
already     abovementioned.      As     this     place     affords 
neither   materials,    artificers    nor   labourers,    and   the 
working  season  very  short,  yr.  Grace  will  easily  con- 
ceive the  necessity  of  being  effectually  assisted  by 
the  Governor  with  soldiers  for  labourers  at  the  usual 
rate  paid  by  the  Crown,  who  without  his  care  and 
diligence   to   prevent  it,   will   hire  themselves   to   be 
employed  in  the  Fishery  preferable  to  this  service. 
This  small  affair  having  already  proved  tedious  and 
vexatious,  as  well  as  expensive,  it  will  be  necessary, 
the   Commanding  Officer  should  be  strictly  ordered 
not  to  employ  or  dispose  of  any  part  of  the  materials 
of  the  old  Forts,  it  being  intended  they  should  be  made 
use  of  in  building  the  new  one,  and  upon  no  account  to 
employ  any  of  the  boats,  nor  suffer  any  of  the  soldiers 
to  be  employed  but  in  this  service  directly,  and  it  is 
to  be  wished  that  the  settlers  there  may  be  kept  in 
better  order,  for  want  of  which  our  artificers  etc.  are 
spoiled  with  drink  to  the  destruction  of  the  service. 
If  these  articles  are  effectually  complied  with,  we  may 
soon  expect  to  see  this  small  work  finished,  otherwise 
it  will  be  endless.     Signed,  T.  White,  John  Armstrong, 
T.    Wheate,    Cha.  Wills,  M.  Richards.     Copy.      [CO. 
324,  34.     pp.  50-53.] 

April  4.       443.     H.M.   Warrant  for  admitting  Anthony  Swymmer  to 
.St.  James's,  the  Couucil  of  Jamaica,   in  the  room  of  Francis  Rose  deed. 
Countersigned,  Carteret.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  42,  43.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  283 


1721. 

April  4.  444.  Earl  of  Harboroiigh  to  [?the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations]. Recommends  James  Lawes  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  Council 
of  Jamaica.  Signed,  Harborough.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  4th 
April,  1721.     I  p.     [CO.  137,  13.     No.  47.] 

April  5.  445.  Charles  Blechynden  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Salem  in  New  Plantations.  Refers  to  letter  of  20th  Aug.  last.  Continues: 
ngan  .  rpj^^  clandestine  trade  carried  on  in  this  countrey  to  Cape 
Breton  with  lumber,  provisions,  tobacco  etc.  brings  from  thence 
wine,  brandy,  linnens,  silks,  etc.  not  only  of  the  growth  and 
production  of  France  but  of  Spain  too.  I  have  sevl.  times  laid 
these  matters  before  our  Surveyor  Genl.  as  also  Governor  Shute 
who  has  for  several  sessions  endeavoured  to  bring  in  a  bill 
for  prohibiting  of  trade  to  Cape  Breton  and  which  had  twice 
the  concurrence  of  H.M.  Counsil :  But  was  thrown  out  by  the 
Representatives  with  this  reason  that  here  is  Officers  of  H.M. 
Custom's  and  let  them  look  to  that  affair.  How  impossible 
it  is  to  prevent  these  illegal  practices  your  Lordships  may 
perceive  by  the  following  etc.  These  vessels  that  trades  to 
Cape  Breton  goes  under  a  pretence  of  fishing,  and  soe  wee  have 
no  opportunity  of  meeting  with  them  ;  for  wee  have  above 
400  vessels  belonging  to  the  Fishery  and  if  we  had  500  officers 
it  would  not  prevent  this  trade  ;  by  reason  of  the  largement  of 
the  country  and  the  many  harbours  and  creeks  belonging  to 
the  same.  If  we  had  an  Act  of  Parliament  to  oblidge  the  owners 
wth.  the  masters  of  every  fishing  vessel  to  give  security,  only 
to  proceed  upon  their  fishing  voyage  as  also  not  to  take  in  any 
prohibited  goods  at  sea,  or  any  place  whatsomever  it  would  be 
of  great  service  etc.  Signed,  Chas.  Blechynden,  Collr.  Surveyer 
and  Navl.  Officer.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  8th  June,  1721. 
Addressed.     Postmark.     2  pp.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  49,  49t;.,  50u.] 

April  6.       446.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.     Encloses    Instructions 
Whitehall,  for   Govcrnor   Lord   Irwin,    and   enquires    whether   the    Com- 
missioners  of   Customs   think   any   alterations   necessary   etc. 
[CO.  29,  14.     pp.  106,  107.] 

April  12.       447.     Mr.    Newman    to    Mr.    Popple.     Encloses    following. 
Middle        Signed,  Henry  Newman.     Endorsed,   Reed.   13th  April,    Read 
Temple.  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^21.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

447.  i.  Answers  to  Queries  relating  to  New  Hampshire. 
(i)  The  situation  of  the  Province  is  between  the 
Massachusetts  Bay  and  Province  of  Main  etc.  (ii)  The 
N.  bounds  is  Piscataqua  River  to  the  head  of  it  at 
Quamphegon  Falls  and  from  thence  a  North  line 
westwardly  into  the  Main,  the  S.  bounds  is  3  miles 
N.  of  Merrimack  River  at  the  Atlantick  Ocean  from 
thence  a  West  line  into  the  Mahi  parallel  with  the 
Massachusetts     line.      (iii)     Constitution     described. 


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1721. 


(iv)  The  trade  is  wholly  lumber,  fish  and  masts  for 
the  Royal  Navy,  the  shipping  about  20  sail  of  50  to 
100  tons  besides  fishing  vessels  etc.  The  trade  is  much 
decreased  of  late  by  reason  of  the  poor  price  lumber 
bears  in  the  West  Indies,  and  little  encouragement 
to  send  it  to  Great  Britain,  by  reason  of  the  high  duty 
on  it  there,  (v)  The  inhabitants  depend  wholly  on 
Great  Britain  for  woolens  and  linnens  cordage  canvas 
iron  etc.  to  the  value  of  about  £40,000  pr.  ann. 
(vi)  Lumber  and  refuse  fish  are  sent  to  the  West  Indies 
from  whence  for  returns  comes  sugar,  molasses,  cotton 
wool,  and  iTim,  without  some  remittances  for  Great 
Britain.  The  merchantable  fish  is  sent  to  Portugal 
and  Spain,  from  whence  comes  nothing  but  salt  for 
the  Fishery  the  greatest  part  of  the  produce  being 
remitted  for  payment  of  the  British  commodities, 
(vii)  The  method  to  prevent  illegal  trade  is  a  prevent- 
ing officer  call'd  a  Collector  whose  care  and  vigilance 
has  hitherto  proved  effectual,  (viii)  Lumber  fish 
and  masts  with  a  small  matter  of  tar  and  turpentine 
are  the  only  produce  and  manufacture  of  this  Province, 
tho'  the  soil  is  capable  of  bearing  very  good  hemp  and 
flax  and  making  great  quantities  of  tar  and  turpentine 
but  seed  is  wanting  for  the  first  and  men  and  skill  for 
ye  latter,  (ix)  There  are  no  mines  yet  discovered 
except  a  small  matter  of  iron  which  does  not  prove 
rich,  (x)  The  annual  produce  of  fish,  lumber  etc. 
is  about  £40,000.  (xi)  The  number  of  inhabitants, 
about  9,000,  of  which  150  blacks,  (xii)  The  number 
of  inhabitants  increases,  (xiii)  Militia,  about  1500. 
(xiv)  There  is  only  one  Fort,  which  mounts  42  great 
guns  and  that  much  out  of  repair,  and  poorly  provided 
with  stores  especially  powder  of  which  not  above 
20  barrels  in  stock.  It  is  on  New  Castle  Island  at  the 
entrance  of  Piscataqua  River  where  is  a  very  good 
harbour  capable  of  receiving  a  great  number  of  ships 
of  the  greatest  burthen,  (xv)  There  are  no  Indian 
Settlements  within  this  Province,  (xvi)  The  nearest 
Indian  Settlements  are  Nurridgwock  and  Penobscot, 
the  one  about  130  and  the  other  about  150  miles  from 
hence,  whose  strength  is  between  5  and  600  men. 
(xvii)  The  French  Plantations  in  our  neighbourhood 
are  the  country  of  Canada,  and  the  late  Settlement  of 
Cape  Breton  etc.  In  all  which  vast  country  they  have 
not  above  1500  effective  men  and  about  5000  souls. 
They  have  30  companies  as  they  love  to  reckon,  but 
they  don't  make  12  nicu,  one  company  with  another, 
(xviii)  The  French  Settlements  have  a  very  ill  effect 
on    these    Provinces    by    conthmally    instigating    the 


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285 


1721. 

Indians  who  are  vcrv'  numerous  about  Qucbeck  against 
the  Enghsh.  (xix)  The  Revenue  is  about  £100  per 
annum,  and  that  from  time  to  time  appropriated  by 
the  General  Assembly  towards  support  of  government. 
(xx)  The  ordinary  expenses  of  this  Government  is 
about  £1000  pr.  annum  in  time  of  peace  ;  in  time  of 
warr  £2000  and  more  in  case  of  expeditions  which  is 
rais'd  by  assessments  on  heads  and  estates,  (xxi) 
There  are  neither  civil  nor  military  establishments. 
The  General  Assembly  annually  presents  the  Governour 
with  about  £200  who  with  the  Lieutenant  Governour 
are  the  only  Patent  Officers  in  the  Government. 
5|  pp.     \C.O.  5,  868.    ff.  Ill,  112-1141;.,  116i;.] 

April  12.       448.     Mr.    Burchett  to   Mr.    Popple.      H.M.S.    Flambrough 

Admty.       be,ing  under  orders  to  return  home  from  Carolina,  asks  for  any 

Office,  proofs  of  the  charges  against  the  Captain,     (v.  3rd  and  17th 

Nov.  1720).     Signed,  J.  Burchett.     Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read 

18th  April,  1721.     Addressed.     1  p.     \C.O.  5,  358.    ff.  79,  80i;.] 


April  12.  449.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Encloses  following,  "  believing  at  this  juncture 
it  will  be  of  service  to  your  Lordships  "  etc.  There  are  several 
Acts  and  other  papers  which  now  lye  before  me  to  be  transmitted 
to  your  Lordships,  but  the  notice  given  me  of  this  oppertunity 
from  St.  Christophers  was  too  short  for  me  to  dispatch  them  etc. 
Signed,  W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th  June,  Read  6th 
July,  1721.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

449.  i.  List  of  present  possessors  of  the  late  French  lands  in 
the  Basse  Terre  quarter  of  St.  Christophers,  with 
acreage.  3|  pp.  Signed,  Antho.  Ravell.  Endorsed, 
as  preceding.  3|  pp.  [CO.  152,  13.  ff.  251,  251i;., 
252t;.-255,  256,  256i;.] 


April  13. 

Admiralty 
Office. 


450.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following, 
transmitted  to  the  Lords  Conimrs.  of  the  Admiralty  by  Mr. 
Burniston.  Signed,  J.  Burchett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  17th  April, 
Read,  5th  Sept.,  1721.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

450.  i.  Mr.  Armstrong  to  Mr.  Burniston.  Duplicate  of  Jan. 
10.     No.  1.  q.v.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  84-87,  88,  92i;.] 

April  14.  451.  Order  of  Council.  Referring  to  Committee  of  Council 
Representation  of  Board  of  Trade,  30th  March,  relating  to  the 
suspension  of  several  Members  of  Council  of  Barbados.  Signed, 
Robert  Hales.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  8th  June,  1721.  1  p. 
[CO.  28,  17.    //■.  124,  125y.] 


WhitehaU. 


April  15. 

Leicester 
Fields. 


452.  Robert  Lowther  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Reply  to  Mr.  Gordon's  Memorial  {v.  31st  March).  The 
Act  depriving  him  of  his  benefice  was  passed  in  conformity 


28G 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1T21. 

with  my  Instructions  etc.  As  to  his  character,  there  is  the 
cloud  of  depositions  by  persons  of  the  best  distinction  in  the 
Island,  entred  in  the  Minutes  of  Council,  16th  Feb.,  1720. 
None  of  the  facts  contahied  in  the  said  affidavits  were  contro- 
verted before  the  Lords  of  the  Committee,  or  their  Excellencys, 
nor  none  of  the  said  depositions  admitted  to  be  read  from  the 
opposition  made  there  l)y  his  Council  etc.,  and  he  has  offered 
nothing  in  confutation  thereof.  He  served  me  with  the  Order  of 
Council  of  25th  June,  1719,  on  the  29th  Sept.  and  stayed  till  12th 
Dec,  but  although  he  was  told  by  the  Judges  that  they  would 
proceed  upon  said  order  and  take  depositions  etc.,  he  never 
proceeded  thereupon  but  privately  imbarked  for  England  etc., 
and  gave  out  that  I  contemned  the  Order  etc.  By  these  and 
other  artifices  he  obtained  a  report  in  his  favour.  As  to  his 
commitment,  it  was  grounded  on  an  oath  made  by  the  Chief 
Collector  of  Customs  for  defamation,  {v.  Minutes  of  Council, 
17th  Feb.,  1720).  The  pious  divine  in  order  to  gratify  his 
revenge  dos  not  scruple  to  own  his  trading  which  is  forbid  by 
the  Statute  of  the  21st  of  Hen.  viii.  ch.  13th,  nor  of  corrupting 
the  Custom-house  officers,  which  is  against  ye  statute  of  13th 
and  14th  Cha.  II.,  ch,  II.,  and  which  I  communicated  to  H.M. 
Commissioners  of  Customs  here.  Yr.  Lordships  will  also  per- 
ceive by  Mr.  Meins  deposition  yt.  treachery  and  false  accusation 
are  some  of  the  ingredients  in  the  case.  As  to  the  reflection 
he  attempts  to  throw  upon  m.e  by  saying  that  he  was  com- 
mitted by  my  private  Secretary,  Mr.  Lenoir  did  not  committ 
him  as  my  private  Secretar}^  but  as  a  Justice  of  Peace  ;  he  is 
deputed  by  a  gentleman  in  England  etc.  The  Act  regulating 
the  power  of  vestries  was  not  made  against  him  alone  but 
against  all  that  are  wedded  to  human  prospects,  or  should  aim 
at  pompe,  power  affluence  of  fortune  etc.  As  to  the  assertion 
that  no  Minister  keeps  a  curate  but  himself,  Mr.  Irvine  has 
one  etc.  If  it  be  true  that  he  allows  £200  to  his  curate,  it  is 
very  extraordinary,  but  even  so,  he  will  then  have  £540  a  year 
left  for  himself,  instead  of  not  one  shilling,  as  he  says,  for  his 
perquisites  alone  were  always  esteemed  at  £500  a  year  etc. 
Other  objections  answered.  Quotes  a  complaint  lodged  in  the 
Council  Office  against  him  for  passing  these  and  other  laws 
by  Sir  Robert  Davers,  John  Walter,  Abell  Alleyne,  Thomas 
Pinder,  William  Walker  and  George  Strode.  Signed,  Robt. 
Lowther.  Endorsed,  Reed.  20th,  Read  21st  April,  1721. 
2^  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  79-8I1;.] 

April  18.       453.     Mr.    Popple   to   Mr.    Boon.     Asks  for   proofs    of  his 
Whitehall,    complaint  against  Capt.  Hildersley  {v.  Nov.  17),  he  being  under 
orders  to  return  home  etc.     [CO.  5,  400.     p.  143.] 

April  18.       454.     Same  to  Mr.  Burchett.     In  reply  to  12th  inst.  refers 
Whitehall,    to  preceding.     [CO.  5,  400.     p.  142.] 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  287 


1721. 
April  19,       455.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Whiteiiaii.         Kncloscs  following  for  their  report  with  all  convenient  speed. 

Signed,   Carteret.     Endorsed,   Reed.     Read   28th   April,    1721. 

I  p.     Enclosed, 

455.  i.  Petition  of  the  Co-partners  for  settling  and  improving 
the  Bahama  Islands  to  the  King.  Petitioners  have 
expended  considerable  sums  in  fortifying  and  defend- 
ing said  Islands,  but  further  powers  to  act  as  a  corporate 
power  are  absolutely  requisite  towards  carrsnng  on 
so  great  an  undertaking,  as  likewise  a  power  over 
persons  employed  by  them,  etc.  especially  in  regard 
Governor  Rogers  has  signify'd  his  intention  to  leave 
Providence  in  April,  which  may  be  attended  with 
very  fatal  consequences,  by  leaving  the  Islands  ex- 
posed to  the  Spanyards  or  Pyrates  etc.  unless  timely 
prevented  by  an  immediate  assistance  from  hence. 
Pray  that  H.M.  will  grant  them  a  Charter  or  Letters 
of  Incorporation,  etc.  IJ  pp.  [CO.  23,  1.  Nos. 
30,  30.  i.] 

April  19.       456.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Whitehall.  H.M.  having  been  pleased  to  appoint  John  Lord  Belhaven  to 
be  Governor  of  Barbadoes,  draughts  of  his  Commission  and  In- 
structions are  to  be  prepared  etc.  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed, 
Received  19th,  Read  20th  April,  1721.  |  p.  [CO.  28,  17. 
ff-  77,  78i;.] 

April  20.       457.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchett.    Mr.  Boon  has  attended 
Whitehall,    tile    Board   of  Trade,    [v.  18th  April)  and  declared   that    he 

has    no   other    proofs  than  those  I   sent  you  17th  Nov.  etc. 

[CO.    5,    400.  p.  144.] 

April  20.       458.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 

WhitehaU.  Enclose  draft  of  Commission  for  Governor  Lord  Belhaven 
"  in  the  usual  form  except  that  we  have  added  by  name  the 
Island  of  Tobago  "  cf.  15th  Feb.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  107,  108.] 

April  20.  459.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Jamaica.  Plantations.  I  have  lately  reced.  the  honour  of  your  Lordships 
letter  of  27th  Dec.  last,  and  return  your  Lordships  my  sincere 
acknowledgments  for  the  approbation  which  you  are  pleased 
so  affectionately  to  express  of  my  conduct  whilst  we  were 
under  just  apprehensions  of  danger  from  the  Spaniards  etc. 
I  have  hitherto  used  all  possible  means  in  my  power  to  send 
your  Lordships  punctually  the  severall  accots.  required  by  my 
Instructions.  As  to  lists  of  inhabitants,  refers  to  copy  oj 
Order  sent  6th  Dec.  1719.  Continues : — Some  of  the  officers 
did  return  me  their  lists,  others  acquainted  me  that  it  was 
impossible  for  them  to  do  it,  no  Register  being  kept  in  most 


288  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 


of  the  remote  parishes  but  in  my  letter  {6th  Dec.  1719)  I  informed 
your  Lordships  that  by  the  nearest  computation  I  cou'd  make 
the  number  of  effective  men  fit  to  bear  arms  in  the  scverall 
parishes  were  then  near  3000,  and  1  am  of  opinion  at  this  time 
we  are  much  about  the  same  number.  I  am  in  great  hopes 
from  your  Lordships  recommendations  H.M.  will  be  induced 
to  order  us  giuins  for  the  defence  of  the  new  line  at  Port  Royall, 
your  Lordships  are  not  insensible  that  the  fund  for  the  forti- 
fycations  is  no  more  than  £1250  pr.  annum  w^hich  is  but  just 
sufficient  to  keep  them  in  repair,  and  the  Crown  has  hitherto 
allways  been  pleased  to  send  us  such  supplys  of  stores  from  the 
Ordnance  as  our  necessity  have  required,  and  which  I  suppose 
the  Board  of  Ordnance  in  accots.  laid  before  the  Parliament 
has  been  stated  as  an  extra  charge  and  allowed  of  as  such  by 
the  House  of  Commons  etc.  Hopes  the  rejwesentation  of  the  Board 
about  logwood  and  the  Bay  of  Campeche  wnll  have  the  desired 
effect  etc.  And  I  hope  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury  wall  have 
come  to  a  determination  on  w^hat  you  have  been  pleased  to 
represent  to  them  concerning  H.M.  proportion  of  seizures  upon 
breaches  of  the  Acts  of  Trade  being  applyed  to  the  support  of 
the  Government  here.  I  laid  before  the  late  Assembly  what 
your  Lordships  wrote,  9th  July,  concerning  the  Act  relateing 
to  the  trade  to  Hispaniola  and  I  find  by  their  Minutes  a  Bill 
was  ordered  to  be  brought  in  on  that  head  ;  but  like  most 
other  of  their  proceedings  it  came  to  nothing,  so  that  I  cannot 
really  desire  your  Lordships  to  defer  any  longer  laying  your 
reasons  before  H.M.  for  the  rej^eal  of  that  Act,  if  the  next 
Assembly  (to  w^hom  I  shall  recommend  it)  thinks  proper  to  pass 
another  law  net  liable  to  your  Lordships  objections  I  shall  lose 
no  time  in  transmitting  the  same  to  you.  In  severall  of  my 
former  letters  I  acquainted  your  Lordships  I  had  recommended 
to  the  late  Assembly  a  due  compliance  to  the  King's  just  com- 
mands, in  favour  of  Lord  Archibald  Hamilton  and  the  former 
Council  and  likewise  sent  you  the  resolutions  the  House  had  come 
to  on  that  head,  from  which,  notwithstanding  all  the  perswasions 
I  have  used,  could  not  get  them  to  recced,  as  for  my  part  I  can 
do  no  more  than  pay  due  obedience  to  H.M.  commands  in 
ordering  the  mony  to  be  paid  out  of  his  Revenue  here  which 
is  at  this  time  greatly  in  debt,  and  hardh^  able  to  pay  my  salary 
and  other  necessary  contingencys,  without  which  the  Govern- 
ment here  cannot  subsist,  and  as  the  late  Assembly  came  to  a 
resolution  that  if  the  Receiver  Generall  discharged  that  debt 
of  Lord  Hamilton's  theyd  not  reimburse  the  Treasury,  I  know 
not  what  farther  steps  to  take  for  his  Lordships  service  unless  the 
next  Assembly  can  be  prevailed  upon  to  whom  I  shall  earnestly 
recommend  it.  I  have  reed.  Mr.  West's  report  relateing  to 
two  Acts,  and  shall  endeavour  all  I  can  that  no  future  law  pass'd 
here  shall  be  liable^ to  the  same  objections,  etc.  Encloses 
Minutes  of  Council  and   Assembly.     On   19th  Jan.   the   [late] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  289 

1721. 

Assembly  met  according  to  adjournment  etc.  Refers  to  his 
Speech,  "  to  which  they  returned  Address  of  thanks."  Con- 
tinues : — Haveing  soon  after  reed,  some  letters  and  other 
certain  information  of  the  good  disposition  the  inhabitants  of 
the  Windward  Virgin  Islands  were  in  to  remove  from  thence 
and  come  and  settle  here,  occasioned  my  sending  on  25th 
Jan.  a  message  to  the  House  acquainting  them  therewith. 
The  r[es]olutions  they  came  to  on  my  speech  and  the  said 
message  gave  me  great  hopes  that  they'd  have  pass'd  into  laws 
those  severall  resolutions,  but  to  my  great  concern  the  next 
day  severall  of  the  members  did  not  attend  the  service  of  the 
House  whereby  they  could  not  make  sufficient  number  (fixt 
by  their  rules)  to  meet  and  adjourn,  which  laid  a  necessity  on 
me  to  prorogue  them  by  Proclamation,  which  I  accordingly 
did  till  the  31st  Jan.,  and  then  I  renewed  what  I  had  recom- 
mended to  them  some  days  before.  On  4th  Feb.  the  Council 
and  Assembly  haveing  pass'd  two  bills,  I  gave  my  consent  to 
them  and  are  herewith  transmitted  vizt.  :  An  Act  to  oblidge  the 
inhabitants  of  this  Island  to  provide  themselves  with  a  sufficient 
number  of  white  people  etc.,  and  An  Act  for  the  releif  of  such 
persons  as  have  suffered  by  piracy  and  roberys  at  sea  or  on  shore 
by  any  of  H.M.  subjects  of  this  Island.  The  first  is  much  of 
the  same  nature  with  former  Bills  etc.,  and  the  usual  provision 
is  therein  made  for  H.M.  Independant  Companys  for  twelve 
months  longer ;  and  I  perswade  myself  your  Lordships  will 
think  the  latter  a  good  law  Mr.  Bonfils  and  others  haveing  liberty 
to  prosecute  their  severall  claims.  I  therefore  recommend  it 
to  your  Lordships  to  be  laid  before  H.M.  for  his  Royall  assent. 
After  my  assenting  to  the  two  above-mentioned  Acts,  I 
earnestly  recommended  to  them  the  passing  a  law  to  invest  in 
the  Crown  without  any  exceptions  whatever,  that  whole  tract 
of  land  from  Pero  Plantation  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Thomas  in 
the  East  to  the  River  Grandy  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Georges  which 
said  tract  contains  about  80,000  acres  and  whereon  there  is  not 
one  settlement  made,  and  tho'  all  or  most  of  that  land  has  been 
patented  upwards  of  forty  years,  yet  till  very  lately  no  quit 
rents  have  been  paid  for  any  part  of  it.  However  when  the 
House  came  to  consider  of  such  a  bill  I  found  private  views  and 
interest  govem'd  the  majority,  and  tho'  the  Council  and 
Assembly  pass'd  a  bill  with  a  plausible  title  I  soon  perceived 
upon  my  peruseing  it  that  it  would  in  no  ways  answer  the  end 
proposed,  so  many  exceptions  being  made  in  it  that  I  judged 
little  more  land  thereby  was  put  in  the  power  of  the  Crown  to 
dispose  of,  than  what  the  King  cou'd  claim  by  virtue  of  severall 
laws  of  this  country  in  force  before  their  passing  that  bill  vizt.  : 
eitherby  escheat  or  for  non-payment  of  the  quit  rents.  How- 
ever I  had  resolved  to  give  my  consent  to  it  had  they  given  me 
an  opportunity  for  so  doing,  this  Bill  pass'd  the  Council  on 
Sat.   25th  Feb.  and  the  Assembly  standing  adjourned  to  the 

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1721.  ~ 

Monday  following,  1  design'd  then  to  have  pass'd  it ;    but  the 
same  accident  happen'd  as  in    page  20  of  the   Members  not 
attending   the    scrN-ice   of  the    House,    which   oblidged   me   to 
prorogue  them  by  Proclamation  to  23rd  March,  at  which  time 
they  met  again  etc.     Refers  to  his  speech  to  them.     Continues  : 
But  I  soon  found  they  were  come  together  with  a  disposition 
to  make  little  or  no  alterations  in  the  Bill,  that  heats  and 
animositys  together  with  private  views  had  too   great  a  sway 
over  their  reasons,  so  that  I  saw  it  was  in  vain  to  expect  more 
good  from  this  Assembly.     I  did  therefore  with  the  advice  of 
the  Council  dissolve  them,  and  writts  are  now  issued  out  for 
calling  a  new  Assembly  to  meet  on  20th  June.     I  cannot  better 
express  to  your  Lordships  the  great  advantage  'twould  be  to 
this  country  to  have  those  people  fixt  among  us  and  of  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Assembly  and  the  cause  of  disolving  them,  than 
in  the  reasons  set  forth  in   the   Proclamation  incerted  in   the 
Minutes  of  Council  etc.     By  my  letter  of  13th  Nov.  last  you 
will  have  observed  that  I  had  then  little  hopes  of  the  Assemblys 
reimbursing  the  Treasury,  or  supporting  the  honour  and  dignity 
of  the  Government  witli  that  duty  they  ought  to  pay  to  ILM. 
recommendation.     I    therefore   hinted   to   your   Lordships   an 
expedient  which  would  entirely  put  the  Government  here  out 
of  the  dependance  on  Assemblys  for  supplys,  and  that  was  by 
an  Act  of  Parliament  to  establish  a  Revenue  equall  to  the  annuall 
charge   of  the   Government,  which  might  be   done  by   duely 
collecting  of  H.M.  quit  rents  and  adding  the  additionall  duty 
bill  to  the   Revenue  Act,   which  together  wou'd  raise  mony 
sufficient  to  defray  all  the  extraordinary  charges  of  the  Govern- 
ment with  the  most  ease  I  can  think  of  to  the  inhabitants.     I 
am  perswaded  from  a  view  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Assembly 
since  that  time  your  Lordships  will  be  of  opinion  that  this 
proposition  is  now  become  the  more  necessary  to  be  put  in 
practice,  and  should  H.M.  consent  to  this  method,  his  subjects 
here  have  no  reason  to  complain,  they  have  only  themselves  to 
thank  for  it,   since   neither  admonition  nor  recommendation 
cou'd  prevail  on  them  to  support  the  Government.     Encloses 
Receiver  General's  accots.  to  29th  Sept.  last.     The  last  half 
years  have  not  yet  been  sworn  to  before  me  in  Council,  they  shall 
therefore  be  transmitted  by  the  next  opportunity,  etc.     I  find 
often  great  difficulty  in  getting  a  corum  of  the  Council  together, 
which  in  some  measure  proceeds  from  the  great  distance  those 
Gentlemen  live  at  from  this  town,  and  of  others  being  indulged 
to   stay   in   England   while   the   King's   service   requires   their 
attendance  here.     Collonel  Rose  is  lately  dead,  John  Ascough, 
and  John  Moore  are  now  in  England,  and  Mr.  Samuell  Moore 
goes  in  the  next  ships  with  a  design  never  to  return,  so  that  there 
will    be    four    vacancys.     I    formerly    recommended    William 
Nedham  and  Thomas  Rose  Esqrs.  to  whom  I  must  now  add 
Richard  Elliston  (who  was  formerly  of  the  Council)  and  my  son 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  291 


1721. 


James  Lawes  to  fill  the  four  vacaiicys  etc.  They  all  live  near 
at  hand  etc.  Since  my  last  severall  pirates  have  been  taken, 
tryed  and  executed,  particularly  the  famous  fellow  name  Vane, 
and  I  am  told  our  adjacent  Spanish  Governors  are  grown  more 
cautious  in  granting  commissions  to  guard  de  la  coasts  especially 
since  the  countr»y^  sloops  have  been  cruiseing  round  about  the 
Island.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes.  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read 
28th  July,  1721.     10  pjj.     Enclosed, 

459.  i.  Accounts  of  H.M.  Revenue  of  Jamaica,  March-Sept., 
1720-1721.  Expenditure,  £6237  145.  Ifd.  Receipts, 
£10,246  7s.  2d.  {including  £8191  brought  forward). 
Debts,  £6855  2^?.  7fd.  Signed,  Richd.  Mill,  Receiver 
Genii.  Deane  Poyntz,  Depty.  Auditor.  Same 
endorsemejit.  6  pp. 
459.  ii.  Accounts  of  H.M.  Fortifications  to  29th  Sept.,  1720. 
Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.  2  pp.  [CO.  137, 
13.     Nos.  53,  53.  i,  ii.] 


April  23.  460.  Rev.  William  Gordon  to  Lord  Carteret.  Encloses 
London,  following  copics  of  papers  which  he  had  prepared  and  sent  to 
Lord  Townshend  at  his  request  about  a  month  ago  etc.  Signed, 
W.  Gordon.     Holograph.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

460.  i.  Some  thoughts  concerning  the  Charibbee  Islands, 
humbly  offered  to  Lord  Townshend  etc.  March  14, 
1721.  Insists  upon  the  great  importance  of  settling 
them.  "  In  July  last  at  the  desire  of  the  Board  of 
Trade,  I  wrote  their  Lordps.  a  letter  and  stated  the 
advantages  and  disadvantages  of  settling  Sta.  Lucia, 
and,  about  the  same  time,  with  Mr,  Popple,  but  without 
mentioning  my  own  name,  gave  reasons  to  my  Lord 
Sunderland  for  setling  Tobago "  etc.  Submits  pro- 
posals for  that  purpose.     Signed,  W.  Gordon.     2\  pp. 

460.  ii.  Copy  of  letter  from  Rev.  W.  Gordon  to  B.  of  T.  about 
settling  Sta.  Lucia.     July,  1720. 

460.  iii.  Reasons  offered  [by  Rev.  W.  Gordon]  to  Lord  Sunder- 
land for  settling  Tobago,  (i)  It  will  strengthen  the 
British  Colonys  in  the  Charibee  islands,  which  are  at 
present  very  much  inferior  to  the  French,  which  grow 
daily  incredibly  in  wealth  and  power  etc.  (ii)  The 
soil  is  very  proper  for  producing  cocoa,  arnatto  and 
indigo.  The  British  Colonys  produce  none  of  the  two 
first  commoditys,  and  but  little  of  the  last  etc.  (iii)  By 
reason  of  its  near  neighbourhood  to  Venezuela  or 
Peru,  it  will  make  us  much  more  considerable  in  the 
eye  of  the  Spaniard,  and  make  it  less  advisable  for 
them  to  come  too  slightly  into  any  rupture  with 
Britain  etc.  Copy.  1  p.  [CO.  152,  40.  Nos.  2, 
2.  i-iii.] 


292  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1721. 
[April  25.]  461.  Petition  of  sundry  merchants  trading  to  New  England 
to  the  Couneil  of  Triulc  and  Plantations,  Petitioners  generally 
load  their  ships  with  cod-fish  in  return  of  their  effects  sent  to 
N.E.  But  by  a  pernicious  Act  (for  the  better  regulating  the 
culling  offish)  passed  in  the  Assembly  there  in  May,  1718,  very 
prejudicial  to  trade  in  general  etc.,  masters  of  our  ships  and  our 
factors  in  that  countrey  are  entirely  deprived  of  chusing  such 
fish  as  arc  fit  for  their  purpose,  being  imposed  upon  by  the 
cullers  appointed  there,  who  oblige  them  to  take  such  fish  as 
they  think  fit  etc.  Tt  has  been  the  practice  in  Newfoundland 
time  out  of  mind,  for  the  purchaser  to  cull  his  own  fish.  Pray 
that  the  Act  may  be  repealed  etc.  Signed,  Andrew  Faneuil, 
and  22  others.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  25th  April,  1721.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

461.  i.  Abstract    of   Act    referred   to    in    preceding.       f   p. 

[CO.  5,  868.    Jf.  41,  i2v.] 

April  25.       462.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
8t.  James's.  H.M.  refers  following  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations 

for  their  report.     Signed,   Carteret.      Endorsed,    Reed.    26th, 

Read  27th  April,  1721.     Subscribed  under, 

462.  i.  Petition    of   Anthony   Cracherode  to  the  King.     By 

H.M.  Letters  Patent,  10th  March,  1715,  petitioner  was 
appointed  Chief  Clerk,  Register  etc.  in  Chancery, 
Barbados.  Appeals  are  frequently  brought  from 
judgments  and  decrees  obtained  in  the  Courts  of  Law 
and  Chancery  there  to  your  Majesty  and  Council  here, 
and  to  prevent  the  respondent's  wasting  the  estate 
of  the  appellant  recovered  by  such  judgment  or  decree, 
pending  such  appeal,  an  Act  of  the  Island  was  lately 
passed,  appointing  security  to  be  given  by  appellees, 
staying  execution  imtil  the  appeal  be  finally  determined, 
unless  the  party  obtaining  such  judgment  or  decree 
should  give  bond  with  sufficient  security  in  the  Secre- 
tary's office  in  double  the  summe  for  which  such 
judgment  or  decree  should  be  had  etc.  Prays  that 
this  Act  may  not  be  confirmed,  since  the  enacting  this 
security  bond  to  be  given  in  the  Secretary's  Office 
is  a  diminution  of  the  benefits  granted  to  petitioner, 
and  is  dilatory  and  expensive  to  the  inhabitants  etc. 
Signed,  A.  Cracherode.  1|  j^P-  Ericlosed, 
462.  ii.  Reasons  in  support  of  preceding  petition.  Signed 
as  preceding.     3  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  82-84,  85i;.] 

April  25.       463.     Lt.   Governor  Bennett  to  the  Couneil  of  Trade  and 

Bermuda.     Plantations.     On  the  16th  and  26th  Oct.,  1718  I  transmitted 

to  your  Lordships  the  same    as   is    now    inclosed   relateing  to 

the   Council   here,   and   did  pray  that  H.M.   pleasure  therein 

might  as  soon  as  conveniently  it  could,  be  known,  for  that  three 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  293 


1721. 


of  the  eight  surviveing  members  were  Judges  of  Assise,  who 
could  not  sit  in  the  Court  of  Chancery  on  any  appeal  from  the 
Common  Law,  and  that  there  was  but  five  remained  which  with 
myself  just  made  the  mnnber  appointed  to  hold  a  Chancery 
Court,  and  if  any  one  of  them  should  be  absent  a  delay  must 
follow,  which  has  too  often  happen'd  to  the  great  grief  of  the 
country^  :  and  I  now  again  for  the  reasons  afore,  presume  to 
intreat  your  Lordships,  to  forward  the  list  herein  sent  ( con  elude - 
ing  the  former  has  been  intercepted  or  otherwise  miscarried) 
that  H.M.  Council  here  may  be  filled  up.  Refers  to  enclosure  ii. 
Continues : — It's  computed  one  third  of  the  white  men 
are  generally  at  sea,  soe  what  number  of  men  capeable  to  bare 
arms  on  occasion  may  easily  be  known  ;  as  for  the  negroes  they 
can  be  of  noe  use  till  we  come  to  close  not  haveing  firearms  but 
lances  about  six  foot  and  a  half  long,  which  would  be  of  service 
if  it  were  to  be  depended  on  that  the  fellows  would  not  give 
way  till  we  came  to  club  musket.  The  inclosed  News  paper  I 
believe  may  be  depended  on  having  had  repeated  accounts  to 
the  same  purpose,  and  I  am  further  informed  that  the  pirates 
used  frequently  to  say  in  the  hearing  of  their  prisoners,  that 
when  they  had  doubled  their  complement  of  men  they  then 
had  they  knew  where  to  goe  ;  whether  they  had  this  country 
in  their  thoughts  it's  impossible  for  me  to  say,  but  formerly 
they  sent  me  word  by  masters  of  vessells  and  others  w^hom  they 
have  taken,  that  they  would  come  hither  and  make  this  place 
a  new  Madagasca  :  I  wish  what  I  some  time  since  humbly 
proposed  of  augmenting  the  number  of  men  in  the  King's 
company  here  to  100,  and  another  Independant  Company  of 
the  like  complement  to  be  sent,  had  been  adhered  to,  then  this 
Island  might  reasonably  have  been  said  to  be  in  security  ;  and 
as  for  the  consequence  if  this  place  were  it  in  the  hands  of  any 
sort  of  enemy  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain,  I  have  often  ex- 
plain'd.  If  their  intentions  is  hither,  all  necessary  care  and 
precautions  are  taken  to  prevent  their  design's,  and  hope  we  shall 
behave  ourselves  as  becomes  us  on  occasion  etc.  Signed,  Ben. 
Bennett,  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read  7th  June,  1721.  1^  jjp. 
Enclosed, 

463.  i.  List  of  Council  of  Bermuda  :  Capt.  John  Tucker, 
discharged  by  his  request  July,  1713,  Major  Michael 
Burrows,  deceased  Jan.,  1718,  Capt.  Benjamin  Hinson, 
deceased,  July,  1715,  Capt.  Thomas  Brooke,  Colo.  John 
Trimingham,  Samuel  Sherlock,  Lt.  Col.  Samuel  Smith, 
Lt.  Col.  William  Outerbridge,  Capt.  John  Peasley, 
deceased,  Oct.  1715,  Capt.  Leonard  White,  Major 
Henry  Tucker,  Colo.  W'illiam  Tucker.  Recommended 
to  supply  vacancies  : — Capt.  Henry  Tucker,  of  Port 
Royal  parrish,  of  a  very  good  character,  and  has  one 
of  the  best  estates  in  the  countr}'.  Capt.  John  Jeimings 
of  the  same  parrish  has  for  several  years  been  a  J.P. 


294  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

and  of  the  Quorum,  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  and  has 
a  very  good  estate.  Capt.  Richard  Jennings  of 
Harris's  Bay  parrish,  has  been  a  J.  P.  and  of  the  Quorum 
for  many  years  Chairman  of  the  Quarter  Sessions 
always  behaved  himself  as  became  him  and  has  a 
good  estate.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Andrew  Auchinleck, 
Minister  of  St.  George's  parrish,  a  very  good  man  in 
his  ministerial  offices,  of  exemplary  life  and  conversa- 
tion and  very  well  beloved.  Signed,  Ben.  Bennett. 
Same  endorsement.     1  p. 

463.  ii.  Number  of  Inhabitants  of  the  Bermuda  Islands, 
17th  April,  1721.  Totals  /—Men  on  the  Muster  roll, 
1078 ;  men  otherwise,  91  ;  Women,  1596 ;  boys, 
1072  ;  girls,  1013.  Blacks  ;  Men,  817,  women  965  ; 
boys  880  ;  girls,  852.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding,    1  p. 

463.  iii.  News  from  Barbadoes,  Antigua  and  Jamaica. 
Bermuda.  Feb.  18,  1721,  a  pirate  ship  of  32  guns, 
comanded  by  one  Jon.  Roberts,  and  a  brigantine  of 
18  with  350  men  in  both,  had  lately  come  up  with  a 
Dutch  interloper  of  30  guns  and  about  90  men  as  she 
lay  at  an  anchor  with  her  yards  and  top-masts  down 
at  Sta.  Lucea.  The  pirates  at  first  endeavoured  to 
board  her  but  she  running  out  her  booms  or  fenders 
prevented  them,  and  then  began  to  engage,  the  inter- 
loper mentaining  an  obstinate  defence  for  four  hours 
and  killed  a  great  many  of  the  pirates,  but  being 
overpower' d  was  forced  to  submit  and  what  men  the 
pirates  found  alive  on  board  they  put  to  death  after 
several  cruel  methods.  The  Dutch  interloper  has 
the  character  of  a  handsome  warlike  vessell  and  was 
extraordinary  well  fitted  in  every  respect,  in  which 
the  pirates  have  now  36  guns  mounted  :  When  the 
pirates  had  refitted  after  the  battle,  they  w^ent  wdth 
their  prize  under  Dutch  colours  close  along  the  har- 
bor's mouths  on  Martinique  shoar,  and  made  the  usual 
signals  that  the  Dutch  interlopers  were  accustomed  to 
doe  to  give  notice  to  the  inhabitants  when  they  came 
off  from  the  coast  of  Guiny  wdth  negroes,  and  then 
went  again  to  Sta.  Lucea  the  place  for  tradeing  on 
such  occasions  with  the  interlopers.  In  two  or  three 
days  several  sloops  were  fitted  out  of  Martinique  and 
went  down  in  order  to  purchase  slaves  which  vessells 
the  pirates  secur'd  as  they  came  up  and  made  them 
anchor  by  the  ships  as  if  they  were  actually  tradeing  ; 
soe  those  that  came  latest  in  knew  not  the  others 
were  taken  till  they  were  sensible  of  their  own  mis- 
fortune, and  by  this  way  of  manageing  they  took  14 
sail  of  French  sloops,  in  each  of  which  was  a  consider- 


1721. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  295 


able  summe  of  money  for  that  trade.  The  men  they 
took  they  barbarously  abused  some  they  almost  whip't 
to  death  others  had  their  ears  cut  off  others  they  fixed 
to  the  yard  arms  and  fired  at  them  as  a  mark  and 
all  their  actions  look'd  like  practiceing  of  cruelty, 
and  at  last  they  sunk  and  burnt  13  of  the  14  sail  and 
let  the  other  return  with  the  poor  tormented  men  to 
Martinique  to  tell  the  storie.  After  this  tragical 
scene  was  over  they  (the  pirates)  stretched  along 
amongst  the  French  Islands  and  passing  by  Guarda- 
lupa  they  saw  a  large  ship  at  an  anchor  in  the  Road, 
which  they  cut  out  haveing  600  hogsheads  of  sugar 
on  board,  from  thence  they  went  to  Domonico  where 
they  intended  to  carein  as  is  supposed  and  what's 
further  come  of  them  is  not  known.  From  Jamaica 
March  ^\st.  Several  pirates  have  been  lately  taken 
and  brought  in  here  and  on  trial  most  of  them  found 
gTiilty  and  executed,  among  them  Char.  Vaine  and 
one  Racum,  two  notorious  Comanders  of  pirate  vessells 
suffered  and  died  most  profligate  impudent  villains. 
One  Warner  and  his  gang  has  been  also  tried  and 
condemned  but  not  yet  executed.  Leeward  Islands, 
April  23rd.  On  26th  March  Capt.  Kingston  Com- 
mander of  a  ship  belonging  to  London  in  her  way  to 
Jamaica  was  taken  about  4  leagues  S.  of  Antigua  by 
John  Roberts  Commander  of  a  pirate  ship  of  42  guns 
and  a  briganteen  of  18  wdth  262  w^hite  men  and  50 
negroes  in  both  carryed  to  Burbuda,  and  there  kept 
5  or  6  days  having  in  that  time  thrown  over  severall 
stills  coppers  saddles  bails  of  dry  goods  etc.  and  stript 
their  masts  of  some  running  rigging  and  sails  and  took 
forceably  12  of  his  sailors  and  then  discharged  him 
wdth  his  ship  ;  The  pirate  ship  had  been  a  French  man 
of  war  some  small  time  before  taken  by  Roberts  in  her 
way  from  Martinique  to  France  with  the  Governor 
of  Martinique  on  board  who  the  pirates  hanged  at  the 
yard  arm  etc.  The  pirate  run  on  board  the  French 
ship  in  the  night.  On  2nd  Aprill  Kingston  was  again 
taken  by  a  French  pirate  (one  Nicholaus)  Commander 
of  a  sloop  of  6  gun  and  63  men,  three  or  four  leagues 
to  windward  of  Spanish  Town,  and  the  same  day  took 
a  sloop  belonging  to  Antigua  and  barbarously  used 
the  people  on  board  her  by  cutting  them  with  cutlasses 
and  using  severall  other  inhumanities,  and  having 
taken  away  the  said  sloops  mamsail  put  the  said 
Kingston  and  sloop's  company  with  two  boys  on  board 
her  and  dismissed  them.  Nicholaus  belonged  to  Mar- 
tinique from  whence  he  nm  with  the  sloop  some  small 
time  before.     A  sloop  with   50  negroes   commanded 


296 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

by  a  white  person  was  lately  run  away  with  from 
Martinique  on  the  pirating  account  as  is  supposed. 
A  boat  from  St.  Christopher's  was  also  lately  run  away 
having  on  board  8  or  10  people  who  went  to  St.  de 
Crux  and  there  took  a  sloop  with  which  they  went  to 
St,  Thomas's  under  pretence  of  want  of  provision, 
and  on  the  pretended  master's  shewing  his  clearings 
(which  was  the  sloop's)  the  Govemour  asking  his  name 
found  it  disagreeable  to  the  clearings  and  secured  him 
which  the  people  that  remained  on  board  understand- 
ing cut  the  cables  and  run  away.  Same  endorsement. 
2  pp.     [CO.  37,  10.     Nos.  17,  17.  i-iii.] 

April  27.  464.  Governor  Hamilton  to  Mr.  Delafaye.  Immediately 
Antigua.  On  receipt  of  your  letter  of  16  Aug.  I  offered  Mr.  Hill,  upon  his 
producing  his  power  for  the  receiving  pirate's  goods,  all  assist- 
ance in  my  power,  but  have  not  heard  from  him  since.  Your 
letter  of  Oct.  6th  came  to  my  hand  23rd  March,  etc.,  I 
immediately  communicated  to  H.M.  Council  of  Antigua  their 
Excellencies'  Instruction  relating  to  money  bills.  Signed,  W. 
Hamilton.  Endorsed,  R.  23rd  July.  2  pp.  [CO.  152,  42. 
No.  114.] 

April  28.  465.  Francis  Whitworth,  Secretary  of  Barbados,  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  With  reference  to  Anthony 
Cracherode's  petition  {v.  25th  April),  memorialist  apprehends 
the  method  prescribed  for  appellees  to  give  security  is  by  the 
said  Act  well  and  properly  directed  to  be  in  the  Secretary's 
Office  etc.  Signed,  Eras.  Whitworth.  Endorsed,  Reed.  28th 
April,  Read  22nd  June,  1721.    1  p.    [CO.  28,  17.   ff.  146,  147i;.] 


[April  28.1  466.  Mr.  Armstrong  to  Mr.  Bumiston.  Duplicate  of  letter, 
Jan.  10.  No.  1,  but  with  addition  of  paragraph  to  the  effect 
that  New  Hampshire  has  been  found  by  experience  capable  of 
raising  hemp  fit  for  H.M.  Navy.  "  To  encourage  its  production 
the  Government  some  years  ago  passed  an  Act  of  Assembly, 
that  all  merchantable  hemp,  the  produce  of  this  Province, 
brought  into  the  Treasury  should  receive  12rf.  per  lb.  The 
inhabitants  are  stopped  for  lack  of  hemp  seed,  and  about  200 
have  applied  to  me  to  lay  their  case  before  the  Governmt.  at 
home  to  supply  them  with  about  100  bushels  of  seed  by  the  first 
ship  in  the  spring.  This  will  divert  them  from  going  upon 
woollen  manufactories  "  etc.  Signed,  Robt.  Armstrong.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  28tli  April,  Read  5th  Sept.,  1721.  Copy,  i  pp. 
[CO.  5,  868.    ff.  89-90z;.,  91 1'.] 

April  29.       467.     Mr.  Young  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

London.     Refers  to  his  chart  and  account  of  Canso  etc.     Prays  to  be 

recommended  for  the  command  of  "  one  of  the  small  vessells 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  297 


1721. 


now  building  to  intercept  the  smugglers  "  etc.  Signed,  B.  Young. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  4th  May,  1721.  Addressed.  1  p 
[CO.  217,  3.     No.  21.] 

May  2.  468.  Warrant  of  the  Lord  Chamberlain  to  the  Lords  Com- 
Cockpit.  missioners  of  the  Treasury.  The  Lords  Commissioners  of 
Trade  and  Plantations  having  represented  that  they  are  very 
much  streighten'd  in  their  Office  for  want  of  rooms  for  their 
books  ;  H.M.  has  commanded  me  to  signify  his  pleasure  that 
you  give  orders  for  building  four  new  rooms  to  inlarge  their 
Office.  Signed,  Holies  Newcastle.  Copy.  1  p.  [CO.  388,  78. 
/.  1.] 

May  3.  469.  Mr.  West  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Report  upon  3  Acts  of  Virginia,  (i)  By  the  Law  of  Virginia 
all  lands  were  forfeited  for  three  years  non-payment  of  quitt- 
rents,  but  by  the  Act  for  the  better  discovering  and  securing  of 
H.M.  quitt  rents,  1720,  it  is  enacted  that  no  lands  shall  in  any 
such  case  be  forfeited  and  therefore  the  Crown  has  no  other 
remedy  left  for  the  recovery  of  its  quitt  rents,  but  what  is 
provided  for  this  Act,  that  every  person  who  shall  conceal  the 
true  quantity  of  his  patent  lands  shall  pay  double  quitt  rents 
etc.,  of  which  one  half  shall  go  to  the  informer,  so  that  the  Crown 
in  all  events  is  entituled  only  to  the  single  quitt  rents  due  by 
law,  whereas  the  forfeiture  was  for  non-payment  generally  etc. 
As  this  tends  to  the  manifest  diminution  of  the  King's  right  as 
to  forfeitures  and  to  weaken  the  process  of  the  Crown  in  the 
recovery  of  it's  quit  rents,  I  am  of  opinion  it  is  not  proper  to  be 
confirm'd.  Has  no  objection  to  the  Act  (ii)  for  erecting  the 
countys  of  Spotsylvania  and  Brunswick  and  granting  certain 
exemptions  and  benefits  to  the  inhabitants  thereof  or  the  Act 
(iii)  explaining  and  further  declaring  what  shall  be  accounted  a 
sufficient  seating  and  improvement  to  save  lands  from  lapsing  etc. 
Signed,  Richd.  West.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  4th  May,  1721. 
3  pp.     [CO.  5,  1319.     No.  9.] 

May  4.       470.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     Recom- 
WhitehaU.  mend  Lewis  Morris  jr.  for  the  Council  of  New  York,  in  place  of 

Caleb  Heathcote,  deed.,  as  proposed  by  Governor  Buniet.     1  p. 

[CO.  5,  1079.     No.  123  ;   and  5,  1124.     p.  256.] 

May  4.  471 .  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Report 
Whitehall,  upoii  Act  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  1718,  for  the  better  regulating 
the  culling  of  fish,  "  whereby  a  suitable  number  of  persons  are 
appointed  to  be  annually  chosen  in  every  seaport  town  or  place 
within  that  Province  where  fish  is  made  and  cured,  and  a  penalty 
laid  on  all  persons  who  shall  presume  to  cull  fish  there  without 
being  chosen  and  sworn  according  to  the  said  Act,  as  likewise 
a  penalty  on  such  as  shall  presume  to  ship  off  any  merchantable 


298  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

fish  whatsoever  without  being  first  surveyed  or  cull'd  by  a  sworn 
culler  or  such  person  as  shall  be  agreed  upon  by  the  buyer  and 
seller  of  fish  under  the  like  oath  and  restrictions  in  that  case 
only  where  the  said  sworn  cullers  cannot  be  obtain'd."  Quote 
objections  of  merchants  trading  to  New  England  v.  25th  April. 
Continue : — Petitioners  having  farther  produced  to  us  letters 
from  their  correspondents  att  Oporto  and  Alicant  complaining 
of  the  badness  of  fish  sent  thither  from  New  England  since  the 
passing  the  said  Act ;  And  being  farther  inform' d  by  merchants 
tradeing  to  New  England  and  others  who  attended  us  that  before 
the  passing  of  this  Act  it  was  the  practice  for  the  buyer  and  seller 
of  fish  to  choose  each  of  them  a  culler,  we  are  of  opinion  the 
said  practice  is  not  liable  to  any  objection,  and  therefore  humbly 
offer  that  your  Majesty  be  graciously  pleased  to  signify  your 
disapprobation  and  disallowance  of  the  said  Act.  [C.O.  5, 
915.     pp.  324,  325.] 

May    4.  472.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 

Whitebaii.  tious.  Eucloses  following  for  their  report.  Signed,  Carteret. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read  17th  May,  1721.  1  p.  Enclosed, 
472.  i.  Petition  of  merchants  trading  to  Jamaica  to  the 
King.  Complain  that  several  ships  at  Jamaica  were 
searched,  and  part  of  their  lading  taken  out  of  them, 
and  others  attempted  to  be  searched  by  Capt.  Thomas 
Brooke  and  others  belonging  to  H.M.  Fort  in  Port 
Royal,  under  pretence  of  their  having  French  indigo, 
and  by  virtue  of  a  dormant  warrant  from  Sir  N. 
Lawes,  after  they  had  received  the  said  Governor's 
let-pass  and  were  cleared  as  well  by  the  Collector  and 
and  Naval  Officer  as  by  the  Captain  of  the  Fort,  and  out 
of  the  harbour  and  at  a  great  distance  from  the  guns 
of  H.M.  fortifycations  and  under  the  sailing  orders 
of  H.M.  ships  of  war  etc.  Suh^nit  that  the  said 
Governor's  warrant  and  the  committing  of  the 
execution  of  it  to  the  military  power  without  any 
regard  had  to  the  officers  of  the  Customs  as  well  as 
the  searching  of  the  ships  and  taking  goods  out  of 
them  after  they  were  cleared,  are  transactions  un- 
warrantable and  destructive  of  trade  etc.  Petitioners 
believe  that  the  ships  had  been  all  searched  and  their 
cargoes  taken  out  and  confiscated,  had  it  not  been 
for  the  just  interposition  of  Capt.  Edward  Vernon, 
Commander  in  Chief  of  H.M,  ships  of  war  at  that 
Island,  who  has  been  very  active  and  diligent  in 
protecting  trade  from  pirates  etc.  Pray  for  H.M. 
Order  to  the  Governor  to  restore  the  goods  taken  out 
of  said  ships  and  to  give  satisfaction  for  damages, 
and  not  to  make  any  seizure  of  vessels  under  any  such 
pretext.    Signed,  V.MiilQV  and 'IQ  others.    Copy.    ^Ipp. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  299 

1721. 

472.  ii.  Extract  of  letter  from  Commodore  Edward  Vernon 
to  the  Rt.  Hon.  James  Vernon.  Nov.  13,  1720. 
H.M.S.  Happy  snow.  Describes  proceedings  of  Capt. 
Brooke  {v.  preceding),  "  our  late  neighbour  the 
broken  Vintner,  exalted  to  a  post  he  is  no  way  fit 
for, "  etc.  To  repair  his  broken  fortunes  he  has  surprised 
the  old  Governor  into  granting  him  a  dormant  warrant 
etc.  as  preceding.  Continues  .•-Upon  the  merchants 
and  masters  of  ships  complaining  to  me  that  the  soldiers 
were  robbing  their  ships,  Capt.  Brooke  refusing  to 
comply  with  my  request  to  take  his  soldiers  ashore,  etc., 
I  went  on  board  the  ship  where  the  soldiers  were,  and 
placed  under  arrest  an  officer  [Robert  Hall]  who 
produced  for  his  orders  a  warrant  from  the  Receiver 
General  to  act  as  Deputy  Waiter  for  3  months  etc. 
Signed,  E.  Vernon.  Copy.  3  pp. 
472.  iii.  Deposition  of  James  Pearce,  master  of  the  John 
frigate,  16th  March,  1720(1).  Describes  how  Lt. 
Rookwood,  an  officer  under  Capt.  Thomas  Brooke  and 
Robert  Hall  (v.  preceding)  searched  his  ship  for  French 
indigo  efc.     Signed,  J  as.  Fearce.     Copy.  2^  pp. 

472.  iv.  Depositions  by  William  Hosey  and  others,  crew  of 

John  frigate,  22nd  March,  1720(1),  corroborating 
preceding.  Signed,  Wm.  Hosey,  Wm.  Collins,  John 
Baker,  and  Edward  Marson,  his  mark.  Copy.  1  p. 
[CO.  137,  13.     Nos.  48,  48.  i-iv.] 

May  5.  473.  Lord  Carteret  to  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood.  Encloses 
WhitehaU.  petition  of  N.  Mills.  Concludes: — As  the  circumstances  of 
his  long  imprisonment  etc.  seems  to  be  particularly  severe  and 
unjust,  I  am  to  recommend  it  to  you  to  give  all  due  protection 
to  him  in  his  endeavours  to  obtain  justice  etc.,  especially  with 
regard  to  the  obligations  the  persons  mentioned  entered  into 
with  the  said  Mills,  when  he  became  a  ransom  of  [?or]  hostage 
for  the  said  ship.     Signed,  Carteret.     Annexed. 

473.  i.  Petition  of  Nehemiah  Mills,  Mate  of  the  Flying  Fame 

of  Elizabeth  town  in  Virginia,  to  Lord  Carteret,  4th 
April,  1721.  In  Sept.  1709,  petitioner,  at  the  request 
of  Samuel  Bush,  Richd.  Furlong,  and  Bryant  Tregency, 
owners  of  the  Flying  Fame,  which  was  then  commanded 
by  Capt.  Lorance,  became  ransomer  or  hostage  for  the 
said  vessel,  and  as  such  continued  a  prisoner  at  Brest  11| 
years  under  the  greatest  hardship,  with  no  more  than 
the  bare  prison  allowance  of  bread  and  water,  until 
discharged  by  order  of  the  French  Ciovernment.  This 
hardship  arose  })y  the  injustice  of  the  said  owners, 
who  gave  petitioner  an  obligation  to  pay  him  £300 
sterling  for  going  a  ransomer  as  above  and  engaged 
to  pay  him  £3  106'.  pr.  month  from  10th  Sept.,  1709, 


300 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

until  his  arrival  in  Old  England,  but  afterwards  took 
no  manner  of  care  of  his  enlargement.  Prays  that  the 
Governor  may  be  instructed  to  see  justice  done  etc. 
Signed,  Nehemiah  Mills.    Copy.    [CO.  324,  34.    pp.  53, 

54.] 

May    7.       474.     Order   of   King   in    Council.     Approving    draught   of 

St.  James's.  Commission  for  liord  Belhaven  to  be  Governor  of  Barbados 

etc.     Signed,  Robert  Hales.     Endorsed,  Reed.   2nd,   Read  8th 

June,  1721.    1  p.    [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  126,  127^.  ;   and  {duplicate 

signed.  Temple  Stan  van.)  5,  191.     j).  13a.] 

May    7.       475.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Appointing  Lewis  Morris 
St.  James's,  juur.,   to  the   Council  of  New  York.     Signed,   Robert  Hales. 
Endorsed,  Reed.   2nd,   Read  8th  June,   1721.     1  p.     [CO.   5, 
1052.    ff.  159,  imv.] 

May    7.       476.     Order  of  King  in   Council.      Repealing  Act    of    the 

St.  James's.  Massachusetts  Bay  for  the  better  regulating  the  culling  of  fish 

{v.  25th  April).     Signed,  Robert  Hales.     Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd, 

Read  8th  June,  1721.     1^  pp.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff  47,  47r.,  48t'.] 


[May  9.]  477.  Lord  Cadogan  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Recommends  petition  of  Capt.  Charles  Gookin  {v.  8th 
Jan.,  4  and  10th  March,  1720).  Signed,  Cadogan.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  9th.,  Read  19th  May,  1721.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  1266.  ff. 
11,  12t'.] 

May  9.  478.  H.M.  Commission  to  Governor  Lord  Belhaven.  Same 
as  that  prepared  for  Lord  Irwun,  but  includes  Tobago.  [CO. 
5,  191.     pp.  1-14.] 


May  9. 

Whitehall. 


479.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.  The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  remind  you  of  their  desire,  that  you  would  prepare 
the  draught  of  a  clause  to  be  inserted  in  all  private  Acts  in  the 
Plantations,  according  to  what  they  said  to  you,  15th  March 
last.     [CO.  324,  10.     p.  293.] 


May  9.  480.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Whitehall.  H.M.  having  been  pleased  to  appoint  John  Hart  Esq.  to  be 
Governor  of  the  Leeward  Islands,  I  desire  that  you  will  please 
to  direct  the  draughts  of  his  Commission  and  Instructions  to 
be  prepared  etc.  for  H.M.  approbation.  Signed,  Carteret. 
Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  10th  May,  1721.  i  p.  [CO.  152,  13. 
//.   48,   49r.] 

May  10.       481 .     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchet.    The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.  Plantations  recommend  Lt.  Benjamin  Young  for  a  command 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  301 


1721. 

against  the  smugglers  (v.  P'eb.  12,  April  29th,  1721),  he  having 
some  time  ago  lav'd  before  them  a  draught  of  the  eoast  of  Nova 
Seotia  and  Gutt  of  Can 90  etc.     f CO.  218,  2.     p.  5.] 

May  10.       482.     H.M.   Warrant  for  admitting  Lewis   Morris,    jr.,    to 
St.  James's,  the  Couneil  of  New  York  in  the  room  of  Caleb  Heathcote,  deed. 
Countersigned,  Carteret.     Copy.     \C.O.  324f,  34.    j).  55.] 

May  10.  483.  An  account  of  wood  and  coalcs  lay'd  in  by  Sam. 
Clarke  for  the  Board  of  Trade.  Endorsed,  Read  March  8th, 
172f.     1  p.     V.  B.T.  Journal.     [CO.  388,  78.    ff.  21,  22r.] 

May  11.  484.  Col.  James  Moore  to  Joseph  Boone.  Sr.,  I  am  obliged 
to  informe  you  of  an  extraordinary  event  that  happened  amongst 
us  on  the  9th  of  this  instant  as  well  to  make  you  acquainted 
with  the  resolution  and  unanimity  of  our  inhabitants  as  the 
success  wee  have  had  against  our  enemys.  Collo.  Johnson  in 
the  morning  called  together  all  his  Councill  and  proposed 
to  them  means  for  his  restoration  to  the-  Governt.  being 
prompted  thereto  as  we  are  informed  by  Capt.  Hildesley  who 
last  October  reced.  a  common,  from  Johnson  to  be  Collo.  of 
the  troop,  they  had  been  concerting  proper  measures  long  before 
to  bring  this  about  and  Mr.  Johnson  gave  out  some  commons, 
to  some  insignifycant  persons  who  had  not  interest  at  last  to 
procure  any  men  but  however  they  resolved  to  make  a  push 
for  it  and  accordingly  made  up  about  120  men  in  all,  80  whereof 
were  sailors  belonging  to  the  Flambrough.  Headed  by  Collo. 
Johnson  and  Capt.  Hildesley  when  they  had  got  imder  armes, 
and  upon  their  march  they  detach'd  two  gentn.  of  their  Councill 
with  the  inclosed  letter  from  Collo.  Johnson,  which  made  us 
put  ourselves  in  the  best  posture  of  defence  we  could  to  receive 
them,  and  then  returned  them  the  inclosed  answer,  they  soon 
after  appeared  before  the  town  which  obliged  the  forts  to  fire 
three  guns  at  them,  which  proved  so  prevailing  an  argumt. 
that  they  procured  Capt.  Pearse  of  H.M.S.  Phenix  to  be  a 
mediator  between  us,  who  came  with  one  of  their  Councill 
to  propose  measures  of  accommodation  they  were  made  to 
understand  that  no  termes  could  induce  us  to  part  with  the 
Governmt.  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known  they  returned  and  soon 
after  Capt.  Pearse  came  back  againe  and  informed  us  that  Collo. 
Johnson  was  desiious  to  see  the  order  of  the  Regency,  and  some 
letters  from  you  and  Mr.  Barnewell,  and  that  they  may  be 
sent  by  some  Gent,  from  us.  Accordingly,  three  gentn.  were 
sent  with  those  papers  and  it  produced  this  effect  that  Collo. 
Johnson  promised  and  gave  his  honour  that  he  never  would 
trouble  his  head  any  more  with  the  present  Governmt.  and 
imediately  order'd  all  his  men  to  be  disbanded  and  sent  abt. 
their  business  so  that  now  I  beleive  we  are  free  from  all  dis- 
turbances of  that  kind  the  consequences,  that  would  have 
ensued  had  they  obtained  their  ends  would  have  been  very 


302  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721.  - 

mischivious  as  wee  are  certainely  informed  the  sailors  haveing 
had  promises  of  plundering  the  town.  We  impatiently  expect 
the  arrivall  of  General!  Nicholson  to  make  us  all  happy.  Capt. 
Hildesley  and  others  notwithstanding  the  concessions  they 
made  did  the  next  momeing  so  insult  the  Captaine  of  the  maine 
Guard  that  it  inraged  the  inhabitants  to  such  a  degree  that  wee 
were  obliged  to  put  him  under  arrest  at  his  lodgeings  to  prevent 
the  rage  and  resentment  of  the  people  falling  upon  him,  and 
upon  applycation  made  afterwards  by  Capt.  Pearse  for  his 
inlargemt.  and  upon  his  promise  for  the  good  behaviour  of 
Capt.  Hildesley  his  officers  and  ships  company  we  ordered  a 
good  number  of  armed  men  to  guard  him  to  Capt.  Pearse's  boat 
in  order  to  his  going  on  board  the  Phenix  etc.  You  may  com- 
municate this  with  the  inclosed  to  the  Boards  of  Admiralty 
and  Trade  etc.     Signed,  Ja.  Moore.     Annexed, 

484.  i.  Col.  Johnson  to  [Col.  Moore].  May  9th,  1721.  Two 
of  H.M.  ships  of  warr  as  being  now  in  harbour  and  the 
Commanders  sensible  of  the  diffeculties  I  have  laboured 
under  as  well  as  the  whole  country  by  your  unjust 
usurpation  of  the  Govenimt.  have  therefore  resolved 
to  assist  me  wth.  all  their  force  to  reassume  the  same. 
I  have  therefore  with  the  advice  of  my  Councill  sent 
to  you  this  letter  to  desire  you  would  peaceably  admitt 
me  into  the  Governmt.  my  just  right  that  thereby  any 
misfortunes  that  may  happen  on  your  refusall  may 
entirely  lye  at  your  doore  and  you  thereby  become 
lyable  to  answer  for  the  same,  and  I  hope  this  my 
way  of  proceedings  will  not  be  thought  pusillanimous 
sence  the  intent  of  it  alsoe  is  to  assure  you  as  well  as 
the  people  of  this  Province  that  for  anything  that  has 
been  hitherto  transacted  of  what  kind  soever  it  shall 
lye  dormant  till  the  arrivall  of  Collo.  Nicholson  or  a 
Governor  appointed  by  H.M.  if  any  such  there  be,  when 
I  will  as  chearfully  as  anyone  deliver  the  Governmt. 
to  him  the  same  assurances  I  take  upon  me  to  make 
you  on  the  part  of  both  the  Comanders  of  H.M.  ships 
that  ever^^body  shall  be  entirely  easey  in  their  persons 
and  estates  and  all  misunderstandings  referred  to 
H.M.  Govemour  etc.  Signed,  Robt.  Johnson.  Copy. 
484.  ii.  Col.  Moore  to  Messrs  Izard  and  Younge.  May  9th, 
1721.  You  may  acquaint  Collo.  Johnson  in  answer 
to  his  messuage  that  I  with  the  advice  of  my  Councill 
am  determined  to  keep  the  Governmt.  of  this  Province 
for  H.M.  King  George  untill  his  pleasure  is  signified 
relateing  thereunto  and  it  is  a  pleasure  to  us  to  find 
ourselves  in  a  good  posture  for  that  purpose.  Signed, 
Ja.  Moore.  Copy.  The  whole,  2|  pp.  [CO.  5,  383. 
No.  5  ;  and  {endorsed.  Reed.  18th,  Read  28th  July, 
1721)  5,  358.    ff.  85,  85t;.,  86i;.,  87,  88i;.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


303 


1721. 

May  11.       485.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  T.(jrd  Carteret. 
wiiitehaii.  Knclose  following. 

485.  i.  H.M.  Commission,  in  the  usual  form,  for  Col.  John 
Hart  to  be  Governor  of  the  Leeward  Islands.  General 
Hamilton's  Commission  is  revoked.  [CO.  153,  13. 
pp.  463-486.] 

Mav  12.        486.     Order    of    Council.     Approving    of    Commission    for 
Whitehall.  Govcmor  Hart.     Signed,  Robert  Hales.     Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd, 
Read  8th  June,  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  152,  13.    ff.  50,  51r. ;   and 
(duplicate,  signed,  Temple  Stanyan)  5,  191.     jj.  100a.] 

May  12.       487.     Mr.   Popple   to   Mr.    Carkesse.     Presses   for  replv  to 
Whitehall.  April  6th.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  109,  110.] 

May  12.  488.  Reasons  offered  on  behalf  of  Mary  Williams,  Spinster 
and  Elizabeth  Williams,  infant,  of  Barbados,  co-heirs  of  Jno. 
Williams  deed.,  for  the  speedy  repealing  of  an  Act  to  render 
more  effectual  certain  legacys  bequeathed  by  Capt.  John 
Williams  to  the  Parish  of  Christ  Church,  Barbados.  The  Act 
is  made  to  strengthen  an  illegal  exectition  of  a  decree  on  the 
lands  of  Mar^^  and  Elizabeth  Williams  etc.  A  similar  law,  9  or 
10  years  ago,  was  repealed  upon  Sir  E.  Northey's  report.  This 
law  is  in  direct  breach  of  the  14th  and  26th  Instructions  of  the 
Governor  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  12th,  Read  24th  Mev,  1721. 
2  j)p.     [CO.  28,  17.    .//.  120,  120i;.,  121i'.] 

May  13.       489.     H.M.  Commission  to  Governor  Hart  (v.  11th  May). 
St.  James's.  Countersigned,  Carteret.     [CO.  5,  191.    pp.  101-117.] 


May  13. 

Barbados, 


490.  Judge  Sutton  to  Col.  Frere.  Last  Mimday  came  on 
the  elections  for  ye  parishes  wch.  had  wTittes  for  chusing  of 
Assemblymen,  published  in  their  churches,  but  never  had  any 
people  more  difficultys  and  baser  treatments  than  our  friends 
had  from  the  Sheriffs  and  ye  adverse  party,  we  have  had  ye 
good  fortune  to  cany  four  parishes,  St.  Thomas,  St.  Lucie,  St. 
John,  St.  Philips,  and  last  Thursday  they  were  sworn  etc.  The 
Assemblymen  were  confined  for  above  an  hour,  ye  doois  lockt 
and  bolted  and  two  of  ye  Provost  IMarshal  men  guarded  ye 
doors,  and  ye  stratagem  was  laid  yt.  ye  Council  should  sett 
above  stairs  in  order  to  trapan  our  Jfriends  to  make  house,  but 
as  it  happened,  many  of  us  were  in  ye  same  room  confined 
and  made  so  great  noise  about  our  imprisonmt.  yt.  ye  President 
at  last  ordered  ye  doors  to  be  opened  to  let  out  all  persons  except 
ye  Assembly  men,  our  friends  took  ye  opportunity  and  came 
out  wth.  us  to  ye  great  mortification  of  ye  President  who  sighth 
at  ye  news  yt.  ye  birds  were  flown  and  sayd  yt.  he  had  done  wt. 
he  could  and  could  not  help  it,  he  is  very  much  dejected  at  this 
glorious  retreat  of  our  eight  Patriots  who  are  determined  not 


304  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

to  make  a  house  till  there  be  a  return  of  Representatives  for 
yc  parish  of  St.  James  and  St.  Andrew  wch.  is  a  plain  manifesta- 
tion to  ye  world  yt.  if  ye  writtcs  had  not  been  stiffled  in  those 
two  parishes  we  should  have  cariicd  a  majority  notwithstanding 
ye  ^  illany  and  fowl  play  yt.  our  adversarys  hath  made  use  of. 
It  hath  been  no  small  satisfaction  to  us  all  here  yt.  our  friends 
hath  playd  so  good  an  after  game  by  weh.  ye  adverse  ten 
Assembly  men  are  become  useless.  Ye  Attorney  General  was 
consulted  three  times  yesterday  upon  this  occasion  but  I  believe 
he  hath  given  no  great  incouragement.  Ye  2d.  of  this  month  I 
carried  a  petition  from  ye  freeholders  of  St.  James  to  ye  President 
in  company  wth.  Judge  Dotin  who  presented  St.  Andrews  and 
we  had  for  answer  yt.  he  would  take  time  to  consider  ym.  and 
he  hath  kept  his  word  for  he  hath  not  yet  issued  any  writtes  for 
those  two  parishes  nor  hath  he  taken  any  notice  thereof  to  his 
Council  who  sett  on  Thursday  last,  a  copy  of  St.  James  petition 
I  have  inclosed.  Major  Evans  hath  broke  his  promise  to  you 
in  observing  and  keeping  a  neutrality,  he  hath  been  ver\^  violent 
and  hath  voted  in  every  parish  yt.  he  had  a  freehold  against 
yr.  friends  bv  wch.  you  may  know  the  man.  Capt.  Terrell  is 
vcr}^  hearty  wth.  us.  The  President  plays  all  ye  little  and  vile 
arts  to  subsist  by  he  permitts  Capts.  to  stay  ten  or  fifteen  days 
and  then  discharges  ym.  of  ye  powder  duty  taking  a  barrel  of 
tongues  furkin  of  butter  and  box  of  candles  for  ye  same.  Capt. 
Tulton  of  Leverpool  is  an  instance,  by  wch.  means  our  country 
is  cheated  of  its  powder,  wch.  would  prove  of  ill  consequence 
to  this  Island  if  he  was  to  remain  President  a  few  months 
longer  etc.  We  think  it  very^  tedious  till  his  Lo/dships  arrival 
etc.  Our  friends  have  been  ver\^  steddy  condedering  what 
attacks  they  have  mett  wth.  from  a  sett  of  wicked  men  >i:.  sick 
at  no  villany,  to  bring  about  their  designs  ;  we  have  been  six 
months  in  a  storme  and  I  hope  we  are  near  a  safe  port  etc. 
P.S.  I  and  my  wafe  presents  our  respects  to  you  and  yr.  Lady, 
Mr.  Lowther  and  Lady,  Mrs.  Titus  and  all  your  family  wth. 
MaMahon.  Signed,  Edmund  Sutton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
July  27,  1721.  Extract  sent  to  Ld.  Carteret,  28th  July.  1|  pp. 
Enclosed, 

490.  i.  Remonstrance  of  Representatives  of  four  parishes 
of  Barbados  to  Samuel  Cox,  President  of  the  Council. 
16th  May,  1721.  On  11th  May  we  appeared  as 
members  of  the  General  Assembly,  but  to  our  in- 
expressable  concern  found  that  the  body  of  this  Island 
was  then  intended  to  be  represented  by  18  members 
only,  chosen  out  of  9  parishes,  though  by  the  estab- 
lished laws  there  ought  to  be  22  representatives  for 
the  11  parishes  etc.  We  humbly  pray  that  before 
your  honour  requires  of  us  to  enter  upon  any  business, 
you'll  be  pleased  to  issue  out  ^mtts  for  the  electing 
of  members  to  sen'c  for  the  parishes  of  St.  James  and 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  305 


1721. 

St.  Andrews  etc.  We  begg  leave  to  assure  your  honr. 
that,  as  before,  so  now,  nothing  can  give  us  greater 
regrett  or  concenie  than  the  little  provision  wch.  has 
been  made  for  the  reception  of  Lord  Viscount  Irwine, 
of  whome  we  have  the  greatest  esteem  etc.  Signed, 
Wm.  Leslie,  Saml,  Fort,  Wm.  Ramsay,  Ralph  Weeks, 
John  Carter,  Tho.  Spencer,  Wm.  Sandiford,  Douden 
Thornhill.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy.  If  pp. 
490.  ii.  William  Terrill  to  J.  F.  (?  Col  Frere).  Barbados, 
12th  May,  1721.  Dear  Brother,  I  hope  these  will  find 
you  and  family  safe  arrived  etc.  The  day  you  left 
us  Benja.  Alleyne  was  seized  wth.  a  feavour  and  dyed 
fryday  following.  The  next  Thursday  after  you  left 
us  writts  for  electing  Representatives  were  sent 
forward  to  all  ye  parrishes  (as  they  say)  but  St.  James 
and  St.  Andrews  were  not  published,  ye  first  being 
directed  to  Judge  Alle\Tie  the  other  to  his  son  Mr.  John 
Allen  and  inclosed  in  his  father's  who  saith  he  did 
nott  receive  them  till  Sunday  five  of  ye  clock  in  the 
afternoon  and  then  were  brought  to  him  by  a  negro 
could  scarce  speak  English,  so  Judge  Alleyne  sent 
them  back  to  ye  President  again.  I  beleive  it's  the 
first  instance  that  ever  such  a  vile  bare  faced  trick 
was  played  and  ye  libertys  of  H.M.  loyall  subjects  so 
publickly  struck  att.  The  Freeholders  of  those  two 
parrishes  preferred  two  petitions  to  ye  President 
(desiring  writts  to  issue  for  their  parrishes)  wch.  were 
presented  by  Judge  Sutton  and  Judge  Dottin  but  all 
the  releif  they  could  gett  was  he  told  them  he  would 
consider  of  them.  On  Monday  1st  inst.  we  had  an 
earthquake  through  ye  Island  etc.  On  the  8th  yet 
other  nine  parrishes  proceeding  on  their  elections, 
five  they  arbitrarily  carryed  vizt.  Christ  Church, 
St.  Michaels,  St.  Georges,  St.  Josephs,  and  St.  Peters. 
Christ  Church  they  carryed  by  20  votes  ha^•ing  made 
35  new  freeholders  and  their  Sherriff  Elliott  permitting 
severall  persons  to  vote  without  giving  them  their 
oaths  altho  demanded  etc.  Ten  of  ye  new  freeholders 
are  made  out  of  Bishops  Estate  by  Collo.  Sandiford, 
who  ye  President  hath  put  in  possession  on  his  petition 
without  any  due  course  of  law.  St.  Josephs  they 
carryed  but  by  one  vote  their  Sherrif  Lightfoot  suffering 
Phillip  Bishop  and  Henry  Mills  to  vote  without  shewing 
any  deed  and  itts  well  known  neither  of  those  two 
persons  have  a  foot  of  land  in  that  parrish  tho  they 
swore  to  itt.  St.  Peters  writt  was  published  att  ye 
Parrish  Church  and  yett  their  Sherrif  Walker  would 
take  ye  poll  att  the  Chappell  so  old  Collo.  Maycock 
protested  against  the  election  ye  poll  not  being  opened 

VVt.  7495  C.P.  32—20 


306  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

att  ye  Parrish  Church  according  to  ye  writt  so  our 
freinds  went  away.  Wee  have  gott  St.  Lucys,  St. 
Thomas,  St.  Johns  and  St.  PhilHpps  (altho'  damned 
corruption  and  violence  used,  by  Sandford).  Wee 
making  no  opposition  in  St.  Peters  I  had  a  better 
oppertunity  to  stand  by  my  friends  and  relations  in 
St.  lAicys  where  wee  carryed  itt  by  a  majority  of  25. 
Our  writt  of  St.  Lucys  was  directed  to  Robert  Douglas 
a  native  of  Scotland  (who  himself  hath  reported  he 
had  two  brothers  condemned  for  being  in  the  late 
rebellion  and  had  like  to  have  been  taken  himself)  and 
a  professed  Jacobite,  but  he  bearing  ye  charater  of  a 
Gentleman  I  waited  on  him  and  asked  him  if  he  would 
take  ye  writts,  he  told  me  no  for  he  would  nott  take 
the  oaths  and  had  told  President  Cox  as  much  not- 
withstanding Avhich  Mr.  Cox  would  direct  the  writts 
to  him  and  in  his  absence  to  Alexa.  Graham  that  had 
but  two  and  a  half  acres  of  land  but  Robert  Harrison 
gave  him  an  occasionall  freehold.  Describes  the  locking 
in  of  the  Representatives,  with  a  view  to  compelling  them 
to  make  a  House,  v.  covering  letter,  and  their  escape. 
Mr.  Maxwell  is  cleared  of  William  King's  scandalous 
complaint  against  him  and  King  committed  for  perjury, 
who  hath  since  declared  Cox  putt  him  upon  itt.  The 
old  fashion  Howard  A.  Lillington,  Mr.  Young  forced 
to  fly  by  witness  encouraged  and  trumpt  against  him. 
Mr.  Coxes  party  offer  to  lay  their  estates  that  my  Lord 
Inline  will  embrace  them  but  I  hope  he  is  a  man  of 
more  honour.  I  pray  God  be  mercifull  to  us.  I 
thank  God  I  have  an  estate  in  England  to  retire  to, 
but  I  have  a  great  many  friends  and  relations  here 
that  I  should  be  troubled  to  hear  they  suffered  under 
such  a  vile  sett  of  people  upheld  by  Walker,  Alleyne, 
Peers,  Orsborne  and  others  as  bad  as  themselves. 
Their  first  of  Aprill  snow  is  here  yett  and  won't  saile 
till  June.  P.S. — My  love  and  respects  to  Madame 
Titus  and  sister  and  ye  rest  of  all  your  family — and 
honest  Mack — if  you  think  fitt  communicate  this  to 
our  friends.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  2f  pp.  [CO. 
28,  17.     ff.  155-1581;.,  159i;.,    160t;.] 

May  16.  491.  J.  Bridger  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following,  m  rejAy 
to  command  of  the  Board  to  lay  before  them  information  as 
to  H.M.  woods  in  New  England  etc.  Learns  that  the  Deputy 
Suneyor  of  the  woods  has  suffered  many  good  trees  to  be  cut 
to  the  value  of  £1000  etc.  Signed.  J.  Bridger.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
18th  May,  1721,  Read  5th  July,  1722.  Addressed.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  307 


1721. 

491.  i.  Certificate  that  Mr.  Bridger,  late  Surveyor  General 
of  H.M.  woods,  was  voted  thanks  by  the  General 
Assembly  cf  New  Hampshire  for  promoting  two  Acts 
for  the  encouragement  of  Naval  Stores.  Testify  to 
his  integrity  and  vigour  in  prosecuting  offenders  etc. 
Dec.  26,  ^1720.  Signed,  Saml.  Penhallow,  Mark 
Hunking,  Geo.  Gaffrey,  Ric.  Wibird,  Tho.  Packer, 
Members  of  Council.     Copy.     1  y. 

491.  ii.  Certificate  by  Governor  Shute  of  Mr.  Bridger's 
diligent  and  faithful  performance  of  his  duty  etc. 
Boston,  5th  Dec,  1720.  Signed,  Saml.  Shute.  Copy. 
f  p.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  264,  265,  266,  267t;.] 

May  16.       492.     Lord    Carteret    to    Governor    Burnet.     It    is    H.M. 

Whitehall,  pleasure,  that  the  money  raised  for  the  support  of  the  Civil 
Government  in  the  Province  of  which  you  are  Governor,  shall 
pass  thro'  the  hands  of  H.IM.  proper  Officers,  according  to  the 
ancient  custom  ;  to  the  end  that  the  accounts  of  the  manage- 
ment and  disposition  of  the  sd.  money  may  be  regularly  laid 
before  H.M.  and  the  Lds,  Commrs.  of  the  Treasury  here.  And 
you  are  hereby  required  to  oppose  and  remove  all  innovations 
that  have  already  been  made,  or  shall  be  attempted  to  be  made 
upon  this  head,  in  relation  to  the  management  of  H.M.  Revenue 
raised,  or  to  be  raised  in  those  Provinces,  according  to  H.M. 
intention  already  signified  by  the  Lds.  Commrs.  of  the  Treasury, 
Aug.  17th,  1720,  to  which  you  will  conform  yourself ;  and 
you  are  to  take  all  legal  methods  for  bringing  about  so  necessary 
a  compliance  from  the  Assembly  and  country.  You  are  to 
take  care,  that  the  ancient  and  usual  fees  be  allowed  to  the 
Auditor  of  H.M,  Revenue,  or  to  his  Deputy  for  auditing  the 
sd.  accounts.  Whereas  H.M.  has  been  informed,  that  the  sd. 
Deputy  is  a  diligent  person  in  his  duty,  and  against  whom 
there  has  never  been  any  complaint  transmitted,  it  is  H.M. 
pleasure,  that  you  do  give  him  all  the  assistance  and  encourage- 
mt.  that  you  can  in  the  execution  of  his  trust,  and  that  you 
take  care  that  his  office  be  not  dismembered  by  taking  from  it 
any  of  it's  branches  or  perquisites.  As  the  dependency  of  the 
Colony  upon  Gt.  Britain  depends  in  great  measure  upon  your 
exerting  H.M.  legal  authority  upon  this  occasion,  pursuant  to 
the  above  letter  of  the  Lds.  Commrs.  of  the  Treasuiy,  you  will 
use  your  utmost  application  and  address  in  seeing  this  matter 
set  right  to  H.M.  satisfaction. 

After  having  thus  signified  to  you  H.M.  commands,  I  shall 
only  add,  that  I  shall  look  upon  it  as  a  favour  done  to  me,  if 
you  will  restore  Mr.  Clerke,  the  Deputy  Auditor,  to  the  Office 
of  Clerk  of  the  Circuits,  or  make  him  some  recompense,  as 
opportunity  may  offer,  being  persuaded  that  a  good  under- 
standing between  you  and  that  Gentleman  may  be  for  H.M. 
service  in  that  Government.     H.M.  has  been  pleased  to  appoint 


308 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 


Lewis  Morris  jr.  Esqr.  to  be  of  the  Council  as  you  desired.  Signed, 
Carteret.  [CO.  324,  34.  pp.  56,  57 ;  and  (^  p.,  omitting  last 
paragraph)  5,  1085.     No.  37]. 


May  17. 

Whitehall. 


May  18. 

Whitehall. 


May  18. 

WhitehaU. 


493.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchctt.  ,  Enquires  if  the  Lords 
of  the  Admiralty  have  any  information  as  to  searching  of  ships 
at  Jamaica  as  complained  of  bv  Merchants'  memorial,  {v. 
4th  May).     [CO.  138,  16.     p.  284.] 

494.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Com- 
missioners of  the  Treasury.  Enclose  incidental  charges  of  the 
office  from  Midsummer,  1720  to  Lady  day,  1721  "  for  the  pay- 
ment whereof  we  pray  your  Lordships'  favourable  orders.  By 
reason  that  the  person  who  has  advanced  part  of  this  money 
has  been  forced  to  take  it  up  upon  interest.  There  was  at  Lady 
day  six  months  salary  due  to  our  Secretar}^  and  other  officers, 
and  an  arrear  of  12  months  to  this  Commission  "  etc.  Accounts 
annexed.     [CO.  389,  37.     pp.  206-208.] 

495.  Mr.  Popple  to  David  Humphreys,  Secretary  to  Society 
for  Propagation  of  the  Gospel.  Refers  to  correspondence  of 
2nd  and  21st  Jan.,  1718,  and  asks  for  the  objections  of  the 
Society,  in  writing,  to  Act  of  Barbados  granting  free  liberty 
to  load  and  unload  in  the  bays  etc.  about  this  Island.  [CO. 
29,  14.     pp.  112,   113.] 

May  18.       496.     Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.     In  reply  to  17th  May, 
Admiralty  encloses    following.     Signed,    J.    Burchett.     Endorsed,    Reed. 
18th,  Read  24th  May,  1721.     Addressed.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

496.  i.  Commodore  Vernon  to  Mr.  Burchett.  Describes 
incident  of  searching  ships  at  Jamaica  as  4th  May, 
q.v.     Signed,  E.  Vernon.     Copy.     3  pp. 

ii.  Petition  of  merchants,  freighters  and  masters  of 
ships  at  Port  Royal  to  Commodore  Vernon.  An 
officer  and  50  or  60  soldiers  are  now  on  board  said 
ships,  robbing  them,  and  have  hoisted  out  several 
casks  for  which  the  masters  have  signed  bills  of  lading. 
In  regard  that  the  masters  have  received  sailing  orders 
from  Capt.  Charles  Chamberlayne,  H.M.  sloop  Happy, 
petitioners  believe  said  ships  are  actually  under 
protection  of  said  convoy,  having  cleared  at  all  the 
Port  Offices  ashoar  and  received  the  Governor's  lett 
pass.     Pray  for  his  protection  etc.     Copy.     1  p. 

iii.  (a)  Copy  of  warrant  from  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to 
Capt.  Thomas  Brooke,  to  aid  Robert  Hall  or  any  other 
port  officers  to  search  all  ships  now  bound  to  London 
or  Bristol  and  seize  any  French  indigo  found  on  board 
upon  which  the  duty  has  not  been  paid  etc.  St.  Jago, 
1st  Nov.,  1720.     Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes, 


Office. 


496. 


496. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  309 


1721. 

(b)  Copy  of  warrant  from  Richard  Mill,  Receiver 
General,  Jamaica,  appointing  Robert  Hall,  Assistant 
Waiter  for  3  months,  to  seize  contraband  goods  etc. 
25th  Aug.,  1720.  Signed,  Richard  Mill,  Receiver 
General.  The  whole,  1  p.  [CO.  137,  13.  Nos.  49, 
49.  i-iii.] 

May  19.  497.  Mr.  Gordon  to  Mr.  Popple.  Mr.  Gibbons  has  returned 
to  Barbados  etc.  Offers  his  services  etc.  Signed,  W.  Gordon. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  19th,  Read  24th  May,  1721.  1  p.  \C.O.  28, 
17.    ff.  118,  119t;.] 

[May  19.]  498.  Co-partners  for  settling  Bahama  Islands  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Replies  to  queries  by  the  Board 
{cf.  April  21st).  In  April,  1716,  Sam.  Buck  sent  out  2  ships  for 
Providence  and  other  the  Bahama  Islands  to  view  the  state  of 
that  place  etc.,  vizt.  the  Samuel  Capt.  Edwd.  Hampton,  and 
Sarah,  Capt.  Wm.  Taylor,  ships  and  cargoes  cost  £5398  15*.  4d. 
Upon  the  return  of  one  of  the  ships,  the  other  being  taken  by 
the  Pirates  Buck  and  others  entered  into  co-partnership  for 
settling  the  Islands,  and  applied  to  the  Crown  for  a  Governor, 
and  H.M.  appointed  Capt.  Woodes  Rogers  etc.  In  Oct.  1717 
the  said  Copartners  bought  and  fitted  out  four  ships  with 
cargoes,  at  a  cost  of  £11,000.  vizt.  the  Delitia  460  tuns,  30 
guns  and  90  men  ;  the  Willing  Mind  300  tuns,  20  guns,  and  22 
men  ;  Samuel,  135  tuns,  6  guns  and  26  men  ;  Buck  sloop,  75 
tuns,  6  guns,  and  12  men.  They  entertained  and  sent  artificers 
passengers  and  soldiers  upon  this  expedition  in  April  1718,  with 
provisions  for  14  months  and  material  for  building  forts  etc., 
under  convoy  of  three  of  H.M.  shipps  of  warr  etc.  They  found 
in  the  harbour  of  Nassau  about  40  sail  that  had  been  carried 
in  by  the  pirates  either  burnt  or  sunk.  The  Governor  found 
about  700  pirates  in  Providence,  most  part  of  which  he  forced 
to  submitt,  the  others  made  their  escape  with  Vane  etc. 
{v.  C.S.P.  Oct.  31,  1718)  who  continued  cruizing  amongst  those 
Islands  for  about  8  months,  destroying  all  vessells  bound  to 
or  from  Providence,  in  number  about  38  sail,  by  which  means 
and  the  mortallity  amongst  the  cattle,  all  ye  Copartners' 
victualls  and  stores  were  consumed  for  maintaining  the  garrison, 
old  inhabitants,  and  those  passengers  they  sent  over.  At  the 
Copartners'  expence  of  above  £900,  three  armed  sloops  were 
fitted  out  who  took  and  destroy'd  above  100  of  the  said  pirates  etc. 
They  have  been  obliged  ever  since  to  keep  the  said  sloops  for 
advice  boats  and  defence  of  the  outsettlemts.  against  pirates 
and  Spaniards.  After  the  fort  was  put  into  a  condition  of 
defence,  the  Governor  permitted  the  two  smallest  ships  to  depart, 
one  of  which  was  taken  by  the  pirates.  The  Willing  Mind  was 
lost  in  the  Bahamas  and  the  Delitia  the  Governor  has  kept  ever 
since  for  a  guardship  at  the  expence  of  the  Copartners  both  for 


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1721.  ~~     ~     ~  ~~~ 

victualls  and  wages,  wch.  will  amount  to  a  great  many  thousand 
pounds  etc.  The  Copartners  have  also  paid  great  part  of  the 
bounty  money  to  the  men  employed  in  that  Expedition  due  to 
them  according  to  H.M.  Proclamation  for  taking  of  pirates,  an 
account  whereof  lyes  before  the  Treasury,  and  for  which  they 
have  yet  received  no  manner  of  satisfaction,  nor  for  maintaining 
above  80  Spaniards  prisoners  of  war  that  they  were  compelled 
by  ye  Governor  to  keep  until  he  could  receive  orders  from  the 
Secretary  of  State  what  to  do  with  them  etc.  In  Jan.,  1719  and 
July  1720  they  sent  out  the  ship  Samuel  v>ith  provision  and 
recruits  and  the  ship  Providence  with  a  necessary  cargo  of  English 
manufactory,  and  46  recruits  for  the  garrison  raised  at  the 
expenee  of  the  Copartners,  and  provided  with  beds  and  cloths, 
and  in  Dec.  following  the  ship  Bahama  Gaily  with  a  proper 
cargo  etc.  The  ship  Althea  burthen  400  tuns,  30  guns  and  60 
men  is  now  at  Gravesend  ready  to  depart  with  a  very  rich  cargo 
of  woollen  goods  etc.  As  most  of  the  present  Copartners  have 
for  many  years  past  been  considerable  traders  to  the  West 
Indies,  Virginia  etc.,  they  willingly  came  in  to  give  their  labour, 
and  advance  their  money  without  any  stock-jobbing  advantage, 
well  knowing  of  what  great  importance  ye  Bahama  Islands 
were  to  ye  Brittish  Nation  as  well  in  peace  as  in  warr,  for  defence 
and  offence  if  well  settled,  and  that  if  they  were  again  deserted 
would  become  a  sanctuary  for  pirates  etc.  The  number  of 
people  they  have  sent  out  amount  to  580,  besides  those  now 
going  in  the  Althea.  In  March,  1720  when  the  Spaniards  came 
to  attack  Providence,  the  Copartners'  Agent  delivered  out  of 
their  stores  musketts,  swords  etc.,  to  above  700  men,  and  found 
their  provisions  most  part  of  the  time.  By  the  last  accounts, 
Fort  William  at  Nassau  had  66  guns  mounted,  and  at  Walkers 
Point  and  another  battery  on  the  said  Island  16  guns  more,  and 
on  Harbour  Island  a  fort  of  12  guns,  all  which  have  been  rebuilt 
and  provided  at  the  charge  of  the  said  partners  etc.,  and  the 
inhabitants  had  built  above  100  houses  in  the  town  of  Nassau, 
besides  many  outsettlements.  There  had  been  expended  upon 
building  Fort  William  only  between  25th  July,  1718  and  25th 
May,  1719,  as  pr.  accot.  signed  pr.  Governor  Rogers  and  Coun- 
cell  £11344,  besides  the  assistance  of  the  inhabitants  v/ho  were 
furnished  with  provisions.  The  money  already  actually  paid  for 
carrying  on  this  settlement  amots.  to  £90,000.  Wages  due  to 
seamen  and  servants  cannot  be  certainly  known  till  the  arrival 
of  the  next  ships  from  thence  but  is  computed  at  £10,108.  The 
charges  of  86  men  on  board  the  Delitia  at  £4  10*.  pr.  month  pr. 
man  is  £387  pr.  month  for  two  years  to  27th  May,  1721. 

In  respect  of  their  factors  and  agents,  the  Copartners  con- 
ceive themselves  under  insuperable  difficultys,  since  any  of 
them  who  are  accountable  to  ye  Copartnership  may  take 
collusive  discharges  from  some  of  the  partners,  wch.  they 
apprehend  will  be  a  good  and  suffitient  barr  against  any  claim 


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1721. 


from  the  rest  of  the  partners,  or  at  least  in^•olve  them  in  un- 
speakable trouble  to  come  at  their  right.     And  in  regard  their 
dealings  are  proposed  to  be  very  extensive,  they  apprehend  it 
very  precarious  to  trust  to  the  bare  vertue  of  their  agents, 
factors  and  partners,  when  they  have  such  a  temptation  before 
them,  well  knowing  the  Copartners  can't  call  'em  to  an  accot. 
unless  incorporated  by  Charter  eic.     They  conceive  they  cannot 
in  their  present  capacity  call  in  any  monc}'  from  their  partners, 
or  accept   or  transfeiT  shares   without   subjecting  themselves 
to  the  penaltys  in  the  late  Act  of  Parliament.     Without  endless 
expence,  and  uncertainty,  they  cannot  now  either  implead,  or 
be  impleaded,  but  each  acting  member  in  his  private  capacity 
is  lyable  to  many  vexatious  law  suits,  etc.     Merchants  will  enter 
more  freely  into  engagements  with  a  Corporation  etc.      In  regard 
to  tlie  settlement  of  new  country,  it's  impossible  to  be  done  in 
any  other  manner  then  by  giving  large  creditt  to  newcomers 
for  tools,  stores,  negroes  and  other  necessarys  to  carry  on  their 
plantations,  wch.  it  will  be  many  years  before  the  inhabitants 
can  repay  out  of  the  produce  of  the  land,    as   the  Copartners 
have   found  by  experience,   they  having  lent  at   least   three 
pounds  sterling  pr.  head  for  7  years  to  each  person  at  their  first 
going  on  board  in  England,  and  have  been  obliged  to  supply 
them  ever  since  with  provision,  tools,  cloaths,  etc.,  all  which 
charge  can  no  otherwise  be  supported  but  by  a  Corporation, 
wth.  a  large  joint  stock  etc.     Offer  to  advance  a  sufficient  sum 
for  the  settlement  of  the  Island  in  five  years  after  they  shall 
be  incorporated,  and  to  carry  out  50  or  100  tons  of  stores  for  the 
Government  annually  gratis  etc.,  and  to  forfeit  their  Charter 
when  they  cease  to  send  out  annually  for  3  years  1000  tuns  of 
shipping.     Their  object  being  to  trade  and  clear  the  Islands  of 
pirates,  and  not  stock  jobbing  (they  hope  the  bill  depending  in 
Parliament  will  destroy  that  wicked  practice),  they  are  willing 
that  none  of  their  Adventurers  may  be  permitted  to  transferr 
any  shares  unless  they  have  been  six  months  in  his  own  name  in 
the  Company s  books  etc.,  etc.      Propose  that  all  privileges  and 
advantages    formerly   granted   by    King   Charles   II    may   be 
confirmed  in  this  present  Charter  and  all  wrecks  l>dng  within 
latitudes  of  22  to  27  degrees  North.    As  the  Governor  is  appoint- 
ed by  the  Crown,  we  can  not  doubt  but  H.M.  will  supply  all 
things  needfull  for  the  support  and  defence  of  a  place  of  such 
consequence  to  the  trade  of  Great  Britain,  for  when  the  Spaniards 
lately  attack't  them,  about  20  sail  of  shipps  of  severall  nations 
took  sanctuary  in  the  Harbour  of  Providence  etc.     The  said 
Islands  extending  from  the  Gulf  of  Florida  to  the  Windward 
Passage,  through  one  of  which  all  shipps  bound  to  Europe  from 
Carthagena,  Portabello,  Campeachy,  La  Vera  Crux,  Jamaica, 
Hispaniola  or  Havanna     must  pass,  if  Turks  Islands  and  the 
Caucasses  at  this  time  uninhabited,  and  under  no  English  Govern- 
ment were  putt  into  their  Charter,  it  would  be  impossible  for 


312  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

any  pirates  to  harbour  there  in  time  of  peace,  or  shipps  to  pass 
in  time  of  warr  without  their  knowledge,  and  enable  the  Com- 
pany effectually  to  supply  New  England,  Newfoundland,  and 
all  the  Northern  CoUonies  with  salt,  and  might  open  a  trade 
for  Brittish  woollen  and  other  manufactures  etc.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  19th  May,  1721.     7|  pj9.     [CO.  23,  1,     No.  31.] 

[May  19.]  499.  Petition  of  Samuel  Bernard  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Prays  for  a  copy  of  complaints  laid  against 
Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes,  in  order  to  send  the  same  for  his  answer 
etc.  Signed,  Saml.  Bernard.  Endorsed,  Reed.  19th  May,  Read 
27th  June,  1721.     f  p.     [CO.  137,  13.     No.  52.] 

May  19.  500.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  I  herewith  transmit  several  Acts  passed  in 
Antigua,  Nevis  and  St.  Christophers  with  my  reasons  for  passing 
them  which  I  hope  will  meet  with  your  Lordships'  approbation. 
Your  Lordships  will  perceive  that  one  of  them  vide  the  Brimstone 
Hill  Act  was  passed  in  August  last.  Its  lying  so  long  is  not 
occasioned  by  any  remisness  of  mine  but  owing  to  the  delays 
that  unavoidably  happen  to  such  Acts  as  are  past  in  the  other 
Islands  of  my  Government ;  for  every  Act  so  past  is  transmitted 
backwards  and  forwards  three  times  before  it  can  be  compleated, 
and  as  the  Captain  of  the  man  of  war  attending  this  Station 
thinks  himself  at  his  own  disposal  as  I  have  wrote  your  Lordships 
at  large,  and  the  Governmt.  will  not  be  at  the  charge  of  keeping 
a  vessel  to  be  continually  employ' d  as  a  packet  in  running  up 
and  down  among  the  Islands,  but  chiefly  wait  for  such  opper- 
tunitys  as  offer,  your  Lordships  may  easily  imagine  the  diffi- 
culties and  delays  I  meet  with  upon  this  occasion,  besides  the 
Act  bears  date  when  passed  in  the  Council  and  Assembly  and 
not  the  day  when  tis  assented  to  by  me.  Some  of  the  other 
Acts  were  past  in  November  following  and  I  assure  your  Lord- 
ships have  lain  here  purely  for  want  of  an  oppertunity  for 
England  for  since  the  beginning  of  October  last  we  have  not 
been  able  to  load  one  ship  for  London  occasioned  by  the  severity 
of  the  times  and  the  excessive  drought.  'Tis  true  indeed  a  ship 
went  from  St.  Christophers  by  which  I  then  wrote  etc.,  but  the 
notice  given  me  of  her  sailing  was  too  short  etc.  [v.  April  12th). 
Refers  to  death  of  Azariah  Pinney.  Continues  :  Since  which 
John  Pinney  and  James  Bevon  Esqrs.  two  of  the  Members  of 
the  Council  [of  Nevis^  are  likewise  dead,  and  Robert  Elleis  and 
John  Choppin  Esqrs.  have  desired  leave  to  resign  their  places 
at  that  board.  Upon  the  Presidents  writing  me  of  these  Gentle- 
men's death  etc.,  and  that  H.M.  affairs  would  greatly  suffer 
for  want  of  a  due  number  of  Councillors  (there  being  but  four 
upon  the  Island  of  Nevis)  I  immediately  directed  the  President 
to  cause  Roger  Pemberton,  James  Symonds  and  William  Pym 
Burt  Esqrs.  to  be  sworne  as  members  of  H.M.  Council  in  which 


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1721. 


I  have  punctually  complyed  with  my  Instructions,  there  being 
now  but  seven  upon  the  Island.  These  Gentlemen,  I  can  assure 
your  Lordships,  are  well  affected  to  H.M.  and  the  Protestant 
Succession  in  the  Illustrious  House  of  Hanover,  arc  well  qualifyed 
for  that  trust  and  men  of  interest  in  the  Island,  so  hope  your 
Lordships  will  approve  of  them.  I  shall  not  trouble  your 
Lordships  with  the  duplicates  of  the  papers  sent  by  Capt.  Smith 
the  22nd  August  last,  because  I  have  an  account  of  his  arrival, 
but  shall  defer  it  till  I  have  your  Lordships'  approbation  of  them, 
or  that  you  will  please  to  direct  how  they  should  be  drawn  for 
the  future.  Your  Lordships  have  not  been  pleased  to  favour 
me  with  an  answer  to  what  I  have  wrote  some  time  past 
concerning  the  Danes  setling  on  St.  John's  etc.,  so  am  at  a  loss 
how  to  govern  myself  in  that  affair.  The  said  danes  as  I 
am  informed  have  found  out  a  silver  mine  in  one  of  the 
little  Virgin  Islands,  but  have  not  been  able  rightly  to  inform 
my  self  by  reason  of  the  Captain  of  the  man  of  war  attending 
this  Station  his  pretending  to  an  independent  command  etc. 
I  wait  to  know  your  Lordships'  opinion  etc.  Some  time  past  a 
letter  has  been  handed  about  in  a  clandestine  manner  in  all 
parts  of  my  Government  said  to  be  wrote  by  Sir  Nicholas  Laws 
Governor  of  Jamaica  promising  encouragement  and  land  to 
those  persons  that  will  come  and  settle  among  them,  but  not- 
withstanding my  endeavours  I  could  never  get  a  sight  of  it  nor 
discover  the  publisher.  I  cannot  pretend  to  charge  Sir  Nicholas 
Laws  directly  as  the  author  because  I  could  never  examine  into 
the  fact  but  if  I  may  judge  by  the  consequence  it  must  be  him 
or  some  other  by  his  authority,  for  the  Governour  of  St.  Thomas 
wrote  me  a  letter  was  published  there  in  his  name,  and 
to  the  same  effect,  and  a  sloop  that  went  from  hence  and 
several  persons  down  upon  that  account  is  again  returned,  the 
master  of  which  informs  me  that  those  persons  have  or  are  to 
have  such  encouragement,  and  that  the  said  Governour  is 
endeavouring  to  get  a  Law  past  to  vest  certain  lands  in  the 
Crown,  which  had  been  formerly  granted  away,  but  never  setled 
and  that  too  for  the  purpose  afoiesaid.  I  think  it  my  duty  to 
represent  this  clandestine  way  of  proceeding  to  your  Lordships 
as  a  thing  very  prejudicial  to  these  H.M.  Colonies,  and  may 
prove  their  ruin  in  time  of  war  or  invasion,  those  people  being 
our  chiefest  support  at  that  time,  and  may  be  a  manifest  injury 
to  the  trader,  to  whom  some  of  these  people  are  indebted,  who 
upon  this  encouragement  will  be  induced  to  run  off  with  their 
negroes  and  effects  (as  I  am  informed  some  have  done)  and 
thereby  defraud  them  of  their  just  dues.  P.S.— A  snow  arrived 
yesterday  which  has  been  taken  by  the  pirates.  Encloses 
depositions,  etc.  Signed,  W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  24th, 
Read  25th  July,  1721.     4  jip.     Enclosed, 

500.  i.  List  of  Acts  enclosed  etc.     (i)  Acts  of  St.  Christophers 
(i)  for  giving  titles  to  inhabitants  building  houses  upon 


314  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

Brimstone  Hill.  30th  Aug.  1720.  My  reasons  for 
passing  this  Act  are  to  encourage  the  inhabitants  to 
build  houses  in  time  of  peace  to  protect  their  famihes 
and  effects  in  time  of  war  etc.  In  1706,  for  want  of 
such  a  place  of  security  they  were  obliged  to  build 
thatched  houses  in  Fort.  Brimstone  Hill  with  little 
pains  might  be  made  inaccessible  etc.  (ii)  For  employ- 
ing negroes  on  the  fortifications  and  for  explaining  an 
Act  for  raising  a  tax  by  poll  on  all  slaves  etc.  and  for 
raising  £500  on  the  inland  trade,  4th  Oct.,  1720.  Acts 
of  Antigua  (i)  for  laying  a  duty  of  one  pound  of  pistol 
powder,  or  3.9.  jjer  ton  on  all  vessels  tradiyig  to  and  from 
this  Island.  3rd  Nov.,  1720.  Refers  to  enclosed 
Address,  "  the  purport  of  which  I  assure  your  Lordships 
is  fact,  and  our  being  at  that  time  engaged  in  a  war 
with  Spain,"  as  sufficient  reason  for  his  assenting  to 
it.  Earnestly  desires  H.M.  approbation  of  it.  (ii)  Act 
for  reinforcing  an  Act  for  repairing  the  fortifications 
of  Monks  Hill  and  mounting  guns  thereon  etc.  3rd 
Nov.,  1720.  (iii)  An  Act  for  adding  one  negro  out  of 
every  200  to  the  present  number  employed  on  the  fortifica- 
tions 19th  Dec.  1720.  (iv)  An  Act /or  raising  an  impost 
on  strong  liquors  imported.  20th  Dec,  1720.  Acts 
of  Nevis  (i)  An  Act  for  raising  a  poll-tax  on  negroes, 
and  other  slaves  belonging  to  the  plantations  and  in- 
habitants, and  on  the  freeholders,  householders  and 
traders  of  the  towns.  15th  April,  1721.  The  utility 
of  these  3  Acts  sufficiently  appears,  (ii)  for  encourag- 
ing John  Slapp  in  his  new  projection  of  making  a  mill 
for  the  more  easy  and  speedy  grinding  of  canes  and  like- 
wise when  the  wind  does  not  serve  to  go  with  horses. 
30th  March,  1721.  Refers  to  preamble.  Slapp  is  an 
industrious  man  and  deserves  encouragement,  (iii)  for 
selling  flower  corn  and  bisquit  by  weight.  11th  April, 
1721.  The  great  abuses  committed  by  persons  trading 
from  North  America  to  this  Island  in  flower  corn 
and  biscuit  sold  in  cask  is  the  reason  of  passing 
this  Act.  A  barrel  of  flower  formerly  contained  220  lb. 
By  their  lessening  the  cask  and  light  packidge  it 
contains  now  but  140lb.  Flower  so  packt  also  soon 
grows  unfit  for  use  etc.  (iv)  for  raising  a  tax  for  jjaying 
publick  debts  and  charges,  and  particularly  applying 
the  said  tax  and  what  shall  be  raised  by  the  perpetual 
Liquor  Act.  11th  April,  1720.  Signed  and  endorsed 
as  preceding.  3  pp. 
500.  ii.  Address  of  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua 
to  Governor  Hamilton.  Urge  his  assent  to  the  Powder 
Act,  without  the  clause  for  suspending  its  execution 
until  confirmed  by  H.M.     By  the  expiration  of  the 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  315 


1721. 

last  Powder  Act,  there  is  scarce  powder  sufficient 
remaining  to  protect  us  against  the  insults  of  the 
Pirates,  much  less  against  any  sudden  invasion  etc. 
Signed,  Gilbert  Fleming  D.  CI.  Councill.  Same  en- 
dorsement. 1  large  p. 
500.  iii.  Deposition  of  Christian  Mortensen.  Antigua,  18th 
May,  1721.  Was  taken  in  April  on  a  Dutch  ship 
by  a  pirate  ship  the  Royal  Fortune  {described)  com- 
manded by  one  Roberts  etc.  A  briganteen,  the  Sea 
King,  accompanied  her,  and  having  taken  a  snow 
commanded  by  Nicholas  Hendrick,  put  deponent  on 
hoard,  etc.  Same  endorsement.  ^\pjp.  [CO.  152,  13, 
ff.  276-277r.,  278i;.-282z;.,  283z;.] ' 

May  19.  501.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Refers  to  enclosures,  relating  to  the  misconduct 
of  Capt.  Thomas  Whitney,  H.M.S.  Rose  etc.  Continues  :  Which 
ship  and  the  Shark  snow  were  ordered  about  three  years  ago, 
but  did  not  arrive  here  till  June  last,  and  then  the  said  Whitney 
acquainted  me  that  both  vessels  were  so  much  out  of  repair 
that  it  was  impossible  for  them  to  be  refitted  here,  and  there- 
upon in  the  beginning  of  July  sailed  for  New  England  and  did 
not  return  till  in  December  altho  he  had  faithfully  promised 
me  that  he  would  be  back  at  farthest  by  the  20th  October  at 
which  time  I  told  him  I  did  intend  to  visit  the  other  Islands  of 
my  Government  but  have  been  wholy  disappointed  by  the 
disobedience  of  the  said  Capt.  Whitney  in  complying  with  my 
orders.  The  pretence  for  his  so  doing  is  grounded  upon  an 
opinion,  that  his  own  Instructions  from  the  Right  Honorable 
the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty  are  independent  of  those  given  me, 
but  how  he  could  entertain  this  conceit,  after  I  had  shown  him 
my  Instructions  from  H.M.  is  to  me  unaccountable  unless  it 
was  out  of  an  extraordinary  love  of  power,  however  because  I 
am  sensible  H.M.  service  has  suffered  too  often  by  contests 
about  power  I  was  willing  for  the  prevention  of  any  such  con- 
sequence to  use  the  mildest  methods  imaginable,  and  accord- 
ingly I  told  him  that  if  he  would  shew  me  any  authority  from  the 
Lords  of  the  Admiralty  either  superiour  or  contradictory  to 
mine  I  would  give  up  the  dispute  for  the  present  and  make 
every  thing  easy,  that  H.M.  service  might  not  suffer,  but  till 
then  I  should  continue  to  give  him  written  orders,  and  he  might 
obey  or  disobey  them  at  his  peril ;  notwithstanding  this  pre- 
monition he  has  continued  in  his  disobedience  by  departing 
this  Island  and  sailing  for  St.  Kitts  without  so  much  as  consult- 
ing me,  nevertheless  I  still  persevered  in  my  duty,  and  repeated 
my  orders  to  him  in  a  letter  at  St.  Kitts  which  I  enclosed  in 
one  to  the  Lieut.  General  for  surer  conveyance  and  Captain 
Whitney's  answer  to'  that  letter  was  "  that  he  should  take  no 
notice  of  it."     Refers  to  enclosures.     Continues  : — I  doubt  not 


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1721. 

but  your  Lordships  will  for  the  service  of  H.M.  and  the  preserva- 
tion of  these  Colonies  make  such  a  representation  to  H.M.  as 
that  the  transgressor  may  be  taken  notice  of,  for  if  Captains 
attending  this  Station  are  at  their  own  disposal,  and  not  under 
the  command  of  the  Govcrnour  in  Chief  for  the  time  being  it  is 
not  in  the  power  of  the  best  Govcrnour  to  perform  his  duty, 
these  Islands  lying  so  far  asunder  that  in  case  they  should  in 
time  of  peace  be  insulted  by  pirates,  or  in  time  of  war  be  attack'd 
by  the  enemy  it  would  be  wholy  out  of  the  power  of  any 
Govcrnour  to  succour  or  relieve  them,  except  he  has  the  com- 
mand of  the  vessels,  at  least  those  that  attend  the  Station,  and 
it  would  be  I  humbly  presume  for  H.M.  service,  that  all  men  of 
war  should  be,  whilst  within  the  Government,  for  had  that 
been  in  the  year  1712  when  Monsr.  Cassar  was  at  Mountserrat, 
and  several  of  our  men  of  war  then  actually  here  it  might  have 
prevented  ye  total  destruction  of  that  H.M.  Island  or  at  least 
preserved  the  sovereignity  of  it,  but  the  Captains  differing  (as 
I  am  informed,  for  I  was  then  in  Britain)  was  the  reason  they 
did  not  go  down  to  it's  relief.  Amongst  other  things  contained 
in  Captain  Whitney's  letters  your  Lordships  will  see  much  ill 
manners,  and  what  is  worse  malitious  imputation  upon  my 
loyalty,  but  I  hope  my  character  in  that  point  is  too  well  estab- 
lished, both  in  the  opinion  of  your  Lordships  as  well  as  all  other 
persons  who  have  the  inspection  of  my  conduct  to  admit  the 
least  blast  from  the  breath  of  such  low  calumny  ;  If  I  were 
deficient  in  this  point  the  people  I  have  the  honour  to  govern 
have  at  least  as  much  sagacity  as  Capt.  Whitney  to  discern 
and  loyalty  to  prompt  them  to  a  representation  of  it  etc.  When 
I  had  an  account  by  affidavits  of  some  persons  that  had  been 
taken  and  kept  for  some  time  on  board  the  pirate  Roberts, 
as  also  from  the  General  of  the  French  Islands,  that  the  pirates 
were  hovering  about  these  Islands,  and  had  done  a  great  deal 
of  damage  as  well  to  several  of  H.M.  subjects,  as  to  the  subjects 
of  the  French  King,  and  that  the  French  General  sent  one 
Monsr.  de  Malherbe,  with  proposals  and  credentials  farther  to 
agree  upon  any  method  that  should  be  taken  to  go  in  quest  of 
the  said  pirates,  I  immediately  acquainted  Capt.  Whitney,  to 
witt  on  Saturday  the  19  of  february  with  what  I  had  received, 
and  that  I  had  ordered  the  Council  to  meet  me  on  munday, 
and  desired  him  to  be  present,  in  order  that  we  might  consult 
and  take  such  measures  as  might  best  tend  for  the  King's 
honour  and  service,  as  well  as  the  protecting  the  trade  of  these 
H.M.  Colonies,  The  said  Whitney  was  so  far  from  complying 
with  this  that  the  Council  sate  till  twelve  of  the  clock  in  ex- 
pectation of  his  coming,  and  then  upon  enquiry  found  that  he 
was  on  board  his  ship,  whereupon  I  ordered  the  Secretary  as 
Clerk  of  the  Council  to  write  him  a  letter  to  let  him  know  my  self 
and  Council  had  waited  for  hini  all  that  forenoon  in  answer  to 
wch.  he  wrote  a  short  letter,  that  it  was  not  for  want  of  respect 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  317 


1721. 


that  he  did  not  wait  on  mc,  but  that  his  accounts  were  so  in- 
tangled,  tho'  small  that  he  had  been  forced  to  sit  at  his  table 
all  the  morning,  and  that  I  knew  better  than  he  could  inform 
me  how  far  he  could  join  the  French,  and  that  he  would  give 
them  signals  that  they  might  not  mistake  each  other  and  was 
willing  to  sail  in  company  if  I  would  inform  him  where  the  pirates 
were,  at  the  same  time  sent  me  another  short  letter  letting  me 
know  that  his  water  was  almost  expended,  and  was  ready  for 
sea  and  thought  he  should  water  the  ship  at  St.  Kitts  etc.  Refers 
to  Minutes  of  Council  enclosed.  Continues : — I  leave  your  Lord- 
ships to  judge  how  far  that  Gentleman  has  H.M.  interest,  and 
the  preservation  of  His  subjects  at  heart,  however  upon  the 
order  I  sent  upon  this  occasion  he  required  some  of  H.M.  troops, 
with  which  I  immediately  complyed,  and  ordered  the  number 
he  desired,  and  their  charges  of  victuals  to  be  paid  for  by  the 
publick  of  this  Island  he  informing  me  that  he  could  not  answer 
the  victualling  any  extraordinarys  after  which  he  vouchsafed 
to  proceed  to  Martinique,  and  wrote  the  short  letter  you  have 
herewith,  a  copy  attested  by  me  to  the  French  General,  who 
received  it  as  it  deserved,  and  called  it  in  his  letter  to  me  "an 
impertinent  billet  "  ;  had  Capt.  Whitney  after  this  followed 
the  remaining  part  of  the  orders  then  sent  him  (which  Avas  in 
case  he  did  not  get  intelligences  of  the  pirates  there)  to  cruise 
for  some  days  to  the  windward  of  this  Island,  he  might  in  all 
probability  have  prevented  their  taking  of  a  ship  after  that 
bound  for  Jamaica  which  was  taken,  within  two  or  three  leagues 
of  this  Island,  which  they  carried  to  the  Island  of  Barbouda, 
and  there  kept  her  for  several  days,  plundered  her  for  part  of 
her  cargoe,  and  then  let  her  go  after  having  forced  twelve  of 
her  men  to  go  with  them,  which  ship  was  after  that  taken  again 
by  a  pirate  sloop,  that  run  away  some  time  since  (as  I  have 
been  informed)  from  Martinique,  just  to  the  windward  of 
Spanish  Town,  one  of  the  Virgin  Islands.  And  about  the  middle 
of  March  last  I  acquainted  Capt.  Whitney,  that  we  expected 
daily  some  London  ships,  by  whom  in  all  probability  I  should 
receive  letters  from  your  Lordships  and  the  Right  Honble. 
the  Secretary  of  State  with  some  orders  for  H.M.  service,  which 
might  require  my  immediate  going  to  some  of  the  other  Islands 
of  my  Government,  and  desired  he  would  be  in  a  readiness  to 
carry  me  down,  that  I  should  be  ready  at  farthest  in  five  or  six 
days  after  their  arrival,  but  he  thought  proper  to  sail  the  ver}^ 
day  the  London  ship  arrived  for  St.  Christophers,  and  returned 
not  till  the  26  April,  and  then  would  not  come  into  the  Road 
or  Harbour  of  Saint  Johns  as  usual,  but  anchored  in  a  more 
remote  place  from  thence  he  sent  me  a  letter  by  Capt.  Pomcroy 
with  an  information  that  he  believed  the  Great  Pirate  Roberts 
was  cruising  off  Desseada  and  that  so  soon  as  the  Shark  joyned 
him  he  would  cruise  in  quest  of  said  Roberts  in  the  tract  of 
Barbados  where  afterwards  he  would  victual  and  desired  to 


318  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

know  if  I  had  any  commands  that  way  whereupon  I  sent  him  a 
letter  by  Captain  Pomeroy  with  information  that  several  ships 
were  daily  expected  to  these  Islands,  and  therefore  I  had  sent 
him  written  orders  to  cruise  to  windward  of  Desseada  between 
that  Island  and  Barbouda  that  being  the  most  likely  place  to 
meet  pirates  and  to  protect  the  trade  from  their  insults.  I  also 
ordered  him  not  to  go  to  Barbados  unless  necessity  required 
but  to  return  to  this  Island  in  order  to  carry  me  to  leeward,  but 
what  regard  that  Gentleman  will  have  to  these  orders  time  only 
can  determine.  Thus  your  Lordships  may  perceive  that  I  am 
confined  by  Captain  Whitneys  capricious  temper,  and  am  dis- 
abled from  visiting  the  other  Islands  tho'  H.M.  aif  airs  and  service 
require  my  presence  never  so  much  there.  Signed,  W.  Hamilton. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  July,  Read  14th  Sept.,  1721.  5^  pp. 
Enclosed, 

501.  i.  Remonstrance  of  the  Lt.  Govemour  and  Council  of 
Antigua  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Capt.  Whitney  {v.  preceding)  upon  a  motion  from  H.E. 
for  his  going  in  quest  of  some  pirates  peremptorily 
declared  to  H.E.  that  he  had  no  power  to  give  him 
orders  altho'  he  then  saw  H.M.  Instructions  to  H.E. 
impowering  him  so  to  do  etc.  During  Capt.  Whitney's 
absence  in  North  America  {v.  preceding),  the  Islands 
were  insulted  by  pirates,  vessels  taken,  others  cut  out 
of  the  Roads  and  trade  greatly  discouraged  by  that 
hazard  attending  it.  Refer  to  enclosures.  It  may  be 
of  very  fata,ll  consequence  should  succeeding  Capts. 
govern  themselves  with  the  like  independency  etc. 
There  is  not  the  least  room  for  him  to  suspect  H.E.'s 
loyalty,  who  hath  on  all  occasions  given  the  m^ost 
convincing  evidences  of  his  zeal  for  the  sendee  of  H.M. 
etc.  Signed,  Edw.  Byam,  Jno.  Hamilton,  Thomas 
Morris,  Will.  Byam,  John  Gamble,  Natha.  Crump, 
Jno.  Frye,  Archd.  Cochran.  Endorsed  as  preceding. 
1  large  p. 
501.  ii.  Remonstrance  of  the  Assembly  of  Antigua  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  St,  John's,  May 
4th,  1721.  'Tis  absolutely  necessar^^  the  Chief 
Govemour  should  have  the  direction  of  H.M.  ships  upon 
this  Station,  as  well  to  transport  himself  to  the  several 
parts  of  his  Government,  as  to  order  them  to  such  a 
part  of  it  as  most  requires  their  protection  etc.  Upon 
these  considerations  H.M.  has  granted  the  Commission 
of  Vice- Admiral  to  the  Govemour  ;  notwithstanding 
which  authority,  Capt.  Whitney  has  absolutely 
refused  obedience  to  his  orders  etc.  as  preceding. 
Concludes  :  Our  Chief  Govemour's  great  zeal  for  H.M. 
etc.  is  as  conspicuous  in  all  his  actions,  as  his  endeavours 
are    assiduous  to    promote   the    happyness    of   these 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  319 

1721. 

Colonys.  Capt.  Whitney's  misconduct  further  appears 
by  impressing  men  from  on  board  merchant  ships 
in  contempt  of  a  statute  of  Great  Brittain  and  to  the 
great  injury  of  trade,  without  any  authority  from  the 
Commander-in-Chief  of  these  Islands,  etc.  Signed, 
Ashton  W'arner,  Speaker,  and  17  others.  Same 
endorsement.     1  large  p. 

501.  iii.  (a)  Deposition  of  James  HalUday.  St.  Christophers, 
18th  March,  1721.  Owner  of  the  sloop  Endeavour 
he  was  yesterday,  in  his  way  from  Spanish  Town, 
seized  by  a  pirate  under  Spanish  colours  from  St. 
Augustine  etc.  The  Captain  spoke  to  him  through  a 
negro  interpreter,  but  the  voice  that  first  hailed  him 
seemed  not  to  be  the  voice  of  a  negroe  but  of  an 
English  man.  Signed,  James  Halliday.  iii.  (b)  De- 
position of  Robert  Clark,  mariner.  St.  Christopher, 
18th  March,  1721.  This  morning  he  sighted  a  ship 
N.  of  St.  Eustatia  etc.  Signed,  Robert  Clark.  The 
whole  endorsed  as  covering  letter.     3  pp. 

501.  iv.  List  of  following  25  papers.    Same  endorsement.    1  p. 

501.  iv  (a).  Deposition  of  Richard  Simes,  Master  of  the  Sloop 
Fisher  of  Barbados.  Antigua,  21st  Jan.,  1721.  On 
Jan.  13th  lying  at  an  anchor  in  Sta.  Lucia  near  Pidgeon 
Island,  deponent's  sloop  and  Capt.  Norton's  brigantine 
belonging  to  Rhode  Island,  were  seized  by  the  Pirate 
Roberts  etc.,  who  afterwards  sailed  for  the  windward 
of  Barbados,  to  cruise  for  provisions  of  which  they 
seemed  to  be  in  great  want.  They  took  4  French 
sloops,  three  of  which  they  sunk,  and  the  other  they 
gave  to  deponent.  They  forced  Capt.  Norton  and  all 
his  men  to  remain  with  them,  using  his  mate  very 
barbarously.  John  Smith,  an  Irishman,  went  volun- 
tarily. Described.  Signed,  Richard  Simes.  Same 
endorsement.     1^  pp. 

501.  V.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Bennett.  Antigua,  24th  Jan., 
1721.  Owner  of  the  brigantine  Thomas,  on  31st 
Oct.  last,  he  was  seized  by  the  Pirate  Roberts  30 
leagues  E.  of  Bermudas.  They  went  from  Surinam 
to  Tobago  to  water  and  thence  stood  for  Sta.  Lucia. 
Corroborates  preceding.  Names  and  description  of 
8  sailors  still  detained  by  the  pirates  against  their  will. 
Signed,  Thomsis  Bennett.     Same  endorsement.     2\pp. 

501.  vi.  Governor  of  the  French  Leeward  Islands  to  Governor 
Hamilton.  Fort  Royal,  Martinique.  8th  Feb.,  1721 
(N.S.)  Alludes  to  depredations  of  the  pirate  Roberts  off 
Sta.  Lucia  25th  and  26th  Oet.etc,  who  gave  to  the  master 
of  a  Barbados  brigantine  the  vessel  of  a  poor  inhabitant 
of  Martinique  the  bearer  of  this  letter,  M.  Pomier, 
which  he  had  seized.     This  vessel  has  Ibeen  brought 


320  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

into  Antigua.  Asks  that  it  may  be  restored.  Between 
28th  and  31st  of  Oct.  these  pirates  seized,  burned  or 
sank  15  French  and  English  vessels  and  one  Dutch 
interloper  of  42  guns  at  Dominica.  The  pirate  has 
the  latter  vessel  with  him,  besides  his  own,  taken  at 
Tortola,  a  brigantine  of  22  guns  and  two  boats.  This 
squadron  of  pirates  has  sailed  for  St.  Evistatia  in  order 
to  seize  another  interloper  there.  Having  no  man  of  war 
now  at  his  disposal,  M.  de  Feuquieres  wrote  to  Mr.  Cox 
begging  him  to  send  Mr.  Whitney  who  had  recently 
passed  Martinique,  to  return  thither,  when  he  would 
help  him  with  two  good  vessels  and  all  his  forces  to 
seek  out  the  pirates  etc.  Signed,  De  Pas  Feuquieres. 
Benard.     Same  endorsement.     French.     2  pp. 

501.  vii.  Same  to  Same.  Fort  Royal,  Martinique.  21st 
Feb.,  1721.  N.S.  Sends  French  Artillery  officer,  M. 
le  Malherbe,  to  concert  measures  against  the  pirates. 
Signed  and  endorsed  as  precedi^ig.     French.     1\  pp. 

501.  viii.  General  Feuquieres'  Credentials  to  M.  le  Malherbe 
[preceding).  Signed,  dated  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
French.     1  p. 

501.  ix,  X.  Proposals  sent  by  M.  de  Pas  de  Feuquieres 
[No.  vii)  for  an  Agreement  made  between  the  Governor 
of  the  French  Leeward  Islands  and  Governor  Hamilton 
concerning  forces  to  be  sent  by  the  two  Nations  against 
the  pirates  cruising  off  their  coasts  etc.  15  Articles. 
French  and  English  versions.  Same  endorsement. 
8 1  pp. 

501.  xi.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Antigua,  20th  Feb.,  1721. 
Correspondence  between  H.E.  and  Council  and  Capt. 
Whitney,  referred  to  supra.     Same  endorsement.     3  pp. 

501.  xii.  Capt.  Whitney  to  Governor  Hamilton.  H.M.S. 
Rose.  St.  John's  Road,  Antegoa,  Feb.  20,  172^.  It  is 
equal  to  me  whether  I  water  at  St.  Christophers  or 
Guardeloupe,  all  that  I  expect  is  that  you'l  please  to 
let  me  know  where  the  pirates  are,  that  I  may  make  a 
demand  from  you  of  assistance  from  the  Regiment  etc. 
I'm  willing  to  make  any  honourable  return  to  the 
French  Settlements  for  their  generous  offer  etc.  Signed, 
Thomas  Whitney.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     1  p. 

501.  xiii.  M.  de  Malherbe  to  Governor  Hamilton.  2nd  March, 
1721.  Encloses  translation  of  agreement  5Wj9ra.  Signed, 
De  Malherbe.    Same  endorsement.    French.   Copy.    Ip. 

501.  xiv.  Yi Governor  Hamilton]  to  Capt.  Whitney.  Antigua, 
21st  Feb.  1720(1721).  Encloses  orders  to  him  to  proceed 
with  H.M.S.  Rose  and  a  letter  to  the  French  Governor, 
M.  de  Pas  de  Feuquieres,  to  consult  with  him  as  to  going 
in  quest  of  the  pirates  etc.  No  signature.  Same 
endorsement.     Copy.     1  p. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  321 

1721.  ^ 

501.  XV.  Governor  Hamilton's  Order  to  Capt.   Whitney  to 
go  to  Martinique  as  preceding.     21st  Feb.  172 '/.   Signed 
W.  Hamilton.     Same  endorsement.     Copy      2  pp 
501.  xvi.  Capt.    Whitney    to    the    Governor   of   Marthiique 
March  1st,  172;.     The  inclosed  is  a  letter  from  General 
Hamilton  which  I  have  taken  care  of.     There  is  an 
information  of  pirates  on  this  coast    which  I  must 
desire    your    information    where    thev    are.     Signed 
Thomas    Whitney.     Same   endorsement.     Copy.     \    p 
501.  xvii.  Governor  of  IMartinique  to  Ca])t.  AVhitney.     Fort 
Royal,     Martinique,     13th    March,     1721.      Reply    to 
preceding.      The   pirates   have   left  the    coast   of  St. 
Dommgo.     I   have  explained  to   the   gentlemen   you 
sent,  why  I  have  stopped  the  preparation  of  the  force 
I  had  begun  to  raise.     Offers  aid  in  case  pirates  return 
to  the  windward  of  Martinique  etc.      Signed,  De  Pas 
Feuquieres.     Same  endorsement.     French.     Copy.    1  p. 
501.  xviii.  Same  to  Governor  Hamilton.     Dated  as  jjreceding. 
One  of  our  ships,  formerly  captured  by  the  pirates, 
has    arrived    from   St.  Domingo,  and  I  do  not  think 
they  are  any  longer  likely  to  injure  you  or  us.     Two 
frigates  have  been  sent  from  France  to  cruise  off  St. 
Domingo.      I    have   therefore   discharged  the  forces 
I    was    preparing   etc.     Acknowledges   his    zealous  co- 
operation   and    encloses    copies    of    Capt.    Whitney's 
impertinent    letter    and    his    reply.      Nos.  xvi,  xvii. 
"  Now  that  these  Islands  begin  to  be  supplied  with 
necessaries,   I   shall   have   great   pleasure   in   sending 
you   anything   you   may   desire,"    etc.     Sends   him    2 
barrels  of  red  wine.      Thanks  for  releasing  the  two 
French  ships  of  Pomier  and  Domaine  as  requested. 
Invites  him  to  send  information  as  to  pirates,  so  that 
he  may  instruct  the  French  frigates  etc.     Signed  and 
endorsed  as  preceding.     French.     Copy.     3  pp. 
501.  xix.  Capt.    Whitney   to    Governor   Hamilton.     H.M.S. 
Rose  in  St.  John's  Road,  Antegoa,  March  1st,  172^. 
Encloses  preceding.     I  was  very  much  surprised  after 
so  much  noise  of  pirates  and  armaments  to  join  their 
forces  with  ours  (as  they  called  it)  their  Governor  knew 
nothing  of  the  matter  nor  had  not  heard  of  any  pirates 
these  two  months,  but  that  they  were  gone  to  Rattan 
of  which  I  acquainted  the   Lords   of  the  Admiralty 
some  time  ago  ;    so  conclude  this  last  expedition  was 
contrived  by  the  smugglers  on  each  side,  and  don't 
doubt  there  will  be  information  of  pirates  in  two  days, 
there  being  now  at  Martinico  five  sloops  fitting  "^to 
come  over  among  these  Islands  to  buv  provisions  which 
consequently  will  destroy  the  poor  of  these  Colonies. 
Enquires  as  to  payment  for  soldiers'   provisions  etc. 


Wt.  7405 


C.P.  32—21 


322  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721, 

The  smugglers  who  are  most  of  them  my  country 
Jacobites  being  very  angry  my  seizing  the  sloops, 
but  hope  to  be  up  with  some  of  them  etc.  Signed, 
Thomas  Whitney.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     l^pp. 

501.  XX.  Same  to  Same.  H.M.S.  Rose,  St.  John's  Road, 
Antegoa.  March  22,  172\'.  I'm  going  to  St.  Chris- 
tophers to  water  etc.  I  have  made  the  signal  for  the 
trade  if  any  here,  that  want  convoy,  but  sorry  I  am  I 
have  so  little  opportunities  of  making  such  signals 
from  this  Island.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  jjreceding. 
Copy.     1  p. 

501.  xxi.  Governor  Hamilton  to  Captain  Whitney.  By  a 
deposition  (enclosed)  taken  before  Lt.  General  Mathew 
a  certain  ship  has  invaded  our  vessells  and  intends 
further  mischief.  You  are  to  proceed  to  St.  Chris- 
tophers and  consult  with  the  Lt.  General  and  take 
such  measures  as  shall  be  judged  for  H.M.  service  etc. 
You  are  not  to  exceed  the  limits  of  my  Government, 
but  to  return  with  all  dispatch  as  I  expect  orders  from 
home  by  ships  now  reported  etc.  Antigua,  22nd 
March,  172  y.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     1  p. 

501,  xxii.  Capt.  Whitney  to  Governor  Hamilton.  H.M.S. 
Rose.  St.  John's  Road,  Antegoa.  March  23rd,  172','. 
I  am  sorry  the  French  affidavits  should  have  so  much 
influence  ;  you  know.  Sir,  you  have  no  power  to  give 
me  orders,  but  I  will  concert  any  affairs  that  shall  be 
for  my  King's  service,  and  am  sorry  I  am  forc't  to 
say  I  wish  you'de  do  the  same.  Signed,  Thomas 
Whitney.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     \  p. 

501.  xxiii.  Governor  Hamilton  to  Capt.  Whitney.  Antigua, 
March  23rd,  172'/.  Encloses  copies  of  letter  and  list 
of  stores  sent  for  H.M.  ships  from  the  Navy  Office. 
In  reply  to  precedhig  says  we  cannot  afford  to  slight 
any  information  about  pirates,  and  communicates 
H.M.  Instructions  which  impower  him  to  suspend 
Commanders  of  H.M.  Ships  who  neglect  their  duties 
etc.  I  presume  you  will  think  I  am  sufficiently  im- 
powered  to  give  orders.  I  shall  continue  to  give  you 
written  orders,  and  you  may  disobey  at  your  pcrill " 
etc.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     2\  pp. 

501.  xxiv.  Capt.  Whitney  to  Governor  Hamilton.  St. 
Xphers.  Rose.  March  31st.  I  shall  take  no 
notice  of  preceding.  Capt.  Pomeroy  has  seized  two 
French  sloops  of  some  valew.  We  believe  there's 
proof  enough  to  make  them  prizes,  if  thears  fear  play 
done  us  etc.  If  they  be  condemned,  you  shall  find 
(notwithstanding  what  sicophants  may  say  to  you) 
we  shall  behave  in  that  case  very  justly  in  wha,t  shall 
relate  to  you.     I  sho'd  gone  to  Windward  ere  this  but 


1721. 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  323 


expected  advice  of  that  Spaniard  which  I  judge  by 
enquiry  from  Hoi laday  to  be  a  Guard  d'Costa.     Signed, 
Thomas   Whitney.     Sa?ne  endorsement.     Copy.     1  p. 
501.  XXV.  Sa7ne  to  Same.     II.M.S.   Rose  in  Old   Road,   St. 
Xphers.     April   6,    1721.     I  design  to  sail  this  night 
on  an    information    deposed    l)y   John    Lamb    before 
Lt.  Genii.  Mathew  that  there  are  pirates  at  the  Rocas. 
I  have  requested  15  men  of  the  King's  troops  to  assist 
me  (which  he  has  agreed  to)  I  have  ordered  the  Shark 
to  proceed  to  Antigua  to  consult  with  you  what  shall 
be  necessary  etc.     Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
Copy.     1  p. 
501.  xxvi.  Copy  of  H.M.  Instructions  to  Governor  Hamilton, 
article  66,  empowering  him  to  suspend  Naval  Captains 
etc.     Same  endorsement.     1  jJ- 
501.  xxvii.  Capt.  Whitney  to  Governor  Hamilton.     H.M.S. 
Rose.     Five    Islands    April    26,    1721.     I    have    been 
cruising  among  the  Virgin  Islands  in  quest  of  a  French 
pirate  that  had  taken  a  ship  bound  to  Jamaica,  who 
was  so  unlucky  to  be  taken  just  before  by  Roberts  in 
sight  of  this  Island,  and  carried  to  Barbuda  where  he 
staid  five  days.     I   put  the   master  on  shoar  at  St. 
Xphers    and    by    his     information     believe    Roberts 
to  be  cruising  off  Desiado.      I  design  when  the  Shark 
joins  me  to  go  in  quest  of  him,  and  cruise  in  the  tract 
of  Barbados  where  I  design  to  victual.     I  should  be 
glad  to  know  if  your  Excellency  has  any  commands 
that  way.     Signed,  Thomas  Whitney.     Same  endorse- 
me?it.     Copy,     f  p. 
501.  xxviii.  Governor  Hamilton  to  Capt.  Whitney.     Antigua, 
April   26th,   1721.     Reply  to  preceding.     If  you   had 
followed  my  orders  at  your  return  from  Martinique 
to  cruize  for  some  days  to  windward  of  these  Islands, 
you  might  in  all  probability  have  come  up  with  the 
pirate  Roberts  and  prevented  the  misfortune  to  the 
ship  bound  to  Jamaica.     Encloses  following  order  and 
requests  him  to  return  after  his  cruise  to  carry  him 
to  Leeward  to  visit  the  other  Islands  of  his  Govern- 
ment etc.     Signed,  W.  Hamilton.     Same  endorsement, 
li  pp. 
501.  xxix.     Same  to  Same.     Same  date.     Orders  to   cruise 
between  Desciada  and  Barbuda  for  10  or  12  days  in 
search  of  pirates  and  then  return  to  Antigua,  etc.,  as 
preceding.     Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.     1  large 
p.     [CO.    152,    14.    ff.    23-25f,    26i;.-31t'.,    32i;.-33r., 
34t'.-37?;.,  38t;.-41,  42r.-45i'.,    46t;.-48u.,    50-51,    52t'., 
53,    54tJ.,    55,    56t;.-57r.,    58-60i;.,    61r.-64i;.,    65t'.-68, 
69v.,  70,  71^.-74,   75t;.,   76,   77i\,   78,   70t'.-80r.,   81t;., 
82,  83i'.-84i;.,  85i;.,  86-87i?.] 


324 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 
May  20.        502.     Mr.  Popple  to  Joshua  Gee.     The  Council  of  Trade  and 

whit«iiaii.  Plantations  have  appointed  Friday  morning  for  hearing  Capt. 
Gookin's  Council  on  his  petition  {v.  8th  Jan.  17'r|).  I  am  to 
acquaint  you  therewith,  that  you  may  also  come  with  your 
Council,  if  you  have  anything  to  object  etc.  Mem.  A  like 
letter  was  writ  to  Mr.  Richier,  N.  Jersev.  [CO.  5,  1293.  pp. 
236,  237.] 

May  20.  503.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.  The  new  impression  of 
Whitehall,  the  Barbados  Lawes  being  lately  finished  ;  I  can  now  inform 
you,  that  the  new  law  mentioned  in  your  letter  16th  May,  1720, 
for  regulating  the  guage  of  sugar  casks  1675,  is  a  perpetueJ  law, 
and  in  full  force,  the  Act  of  1682,  making  some  alterations 
therein  is  expired  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  115,  116.] 

May  26.        504.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.     Encloses,  for  his  opinion, 
Whitehall,   ^^t  of  Barbados  to  render  more  effectual  certain  legacies  by  Capt. 

John   Williams  to  the  Parish  of  Christ  Church.     [CO.  29,  14. 

pp.  116,  117.] 


May  26. 

Whitehall. 


505.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Representation  upon  Lord  A.  Hamilton's  Memorial  as  to  his 
share  in  sloop  Bennett,  prize  of  a  privateer  of  which  he  was 
part  owner  etc.  His  Lordship  deposited  his  share  in  the  hands 
of  the  Provost  Marshal  upon  the  application  of  a  Spanish*  Agent 
who  pretended  that  he  would  appeal,  but  has  not  done  so  etc. 
Continue : — His  Lordship,  attending  the  Board,  informed  us 
that  there  has  been  an  attempt  made  in  the  Assembly  to  take 
this  deposit  money  out  of  the  Provost  Marshal's  hands  by  an 
Act.  We  have  no  objection  to  the  Prayer  of  his  Lordship's 
Memorial,  provided  security  be  gi^  en  for  making  good  the  said 
deposit  to  any  person  that  may  hereafter  appear  to  be  legally 
intitul'd  thereto  in  such  manner  as  shall  be  advised  by  H.M. 
Council  learned  in  the  Law.  We  are  likewise  of  opinion  that 
all  the  other  owners  concerned  with  his  Lordship  in  the  ship 
Bennet  should  give  the  same  security  in  Jamaica  to  be  answer- 
able for  their  respective  shares  as  shall  be  given  bv  his  Lordship 
here.     [CO.  138,  16.     pp.  285-289.] 


[May  26].  506.  Copartners  for  settling  the  Bahama  Islands  to  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Proposals  supplementary^  to  those 
of  19th  May.  H.M.  to  appoint  and  pay  Governor  and  Council. 
To  form  a  Government  according  to  that  of  Jamaica.  To  send 
another  Independant  Company  at  the  charge  of  the  Crown. 
The  Capital  Stock  to  be  £500,000,  or  20  pr.  ct.  upon  the  originall 
subscription,  and  no  more  to  be  raised  but  by  leave  of  the  Crown. 
Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Saml.  Buck)  26th  Mav,  Read  22nd 
June,  1721.     \p.     [CO.  23,  1.     iVo.  33.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


325 


1721. 

May  28.        507.     Richard   Waddon   to    ['iLord   Carteret].     Thro'    your 
South         favour,  I  am  now  Lieut,   of  II. M.S.  Enterprize.     We  sail  to 

Virginia  the   first  fair  wind  etc.     Compliments.     Signed,    Rd. 

Waddon.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  387.     No.  24]. 


Carolina. 


May  28.  508.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Approving  report  of  the 
St.  James's.  Lords  of  the  Committee  for  hearing  appeales,  complaints  etc. 
from  the  Plantations,  upon  several  petitions  etc.  from  Barbados, 
relating  to  Mr.  Cox  and  the  suspension  of  Councillors  etc.,  that 
several  of  the  matters  therein  contained  cannot  from  the  nature 
of  them,  be  so  properly  examined  into  or  determined  here  as 
in  the  said  Island,  etc.,  and  ordering  that  the  said  petitions 
and  addresses  (petitions  of  Sir  Robert  Davers,  Alexander 
Walker,  Robert  Heysham,  Sir  Charles  Cox,  representation  of 
Council  of  Trade  on  an  Address  from  the  Assembly,  and  an 
address  of  the  Assembly  against  Mr.  Cox  for  removing  officers 
etc)  be  delivered  to  the  Rt.  Honble.  the  Lord  Belhaven,  Governor, 
to  examine  into  the  same,  and  to  give  such  orders  as  he  shall 
think  proper  for  the  present  peace  and  good  Government  of  the 
said  Island,  and  to  return  an  account  to  this  Board  of  his 
proceedings  herein,  together  with  what  his  Lordship  shall 
conceive  further  necessary  to  be  done  for  H.M.  service,  and  the 
good  of  the  said  Island.     Signed,  Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed, 


Reed.   4th,   Read  8th  Aug.,  1721. 
168-lC9t;.] 


31  pp.     [CO.  28,   17.    //. 


May  28. 

St.  James's. 


May  28. 

St.  Jam.es's. 


509.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Upon  the  several  petitions 
etc.  relating  to  Mr.  Cox  having  suspended  Thos.  Maycock,  Thos. 
Maxwell,  Guy  Ball,  John  Lucy  Blackman,  William  Carter  and 
Francis  Bond,  ordered,  that  they  be  restored  to  their  places 
in  the  Council  of  Barbados,  Mr.  Cox  having  acted  contrary  to 
the  ixth  Article  of  his  Instructions  etc.  Signed  and  endorsed 
as  preceding,  ll  pp.  [CO.  28,  17.  ff.  170,  170t;.,  171i;.  ;  and 
{Signed,  Robert  Hales,  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  8th  June, 
1721.)     28,  17.    ff.  128,  128t;.,  129i;.] 

510.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Approving  report  of  Com- 
mittee for  hearing  appeals  etc.,  upon  petitions  touching  Mr.  Cox 
having  removed  severall  persons  from  their  places  in  Barbados, 
that  it  appears  by  an  Address  of  the  General  Assembly  that  Mr. 
Cox  hath  turned  out  seven  of  the  eight  Collonells  of  the  Regi- 
ments in  that  Island,  the  masters  in  Chancery  and  all  the  Judges 
of  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas,  and  likewise  changed  the  Com- 
mission of  the  Peace,  whereby  the  said  Island  is  in  great  disorder, 
and  the  said  Mr.  Cox  not  having  transmitted  his  reasons  for  so 
doing  and  ordering  that  all  officers  both  civil  and  military' 
(except  John  Frere  Esq.)  be  forthwith  restored  to  their  respec- 
tive commissions  offices   and  employments,   etc.      Signed  and 


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COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1721 


May  28. 

.St.  James's. 


May  30. 

Antigua. 


May  31. 

Virginia. 


endorsed  as  preceding.  2  jop.  {CO.  28,  17.  ff.  172, 172i;.,  173i;.  ; 
and  {signed,  Robert  Hales,  endorsed  Reed.  5tli,  Read  8th  June, 
1721)    ff.  130,  131t;.] 

511.  Order  of  King  ill  Council.  Approving  report  of  Com- 
mittee for  hearing  appeals  etc.,  that,  in  the  course  of  their 
examination  into  the  matters  between  Mr.  Cox  and  the  suspended 
Councillors,  there  did  appear  to  have  been  passed  in  Barbados, 
in  1720,  an  Act  /or  the  better  preserving  the  peace  and  tranquility 
of  the  Island,  which  they  conceive  to  be  highly  injurious  to  II. M. 
Prerogative  in  several  particulars,  and  repealing  said  Act. 
Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.  \\  pp.  \C.O.  28,  17.  ff. 
174,  174.1;.,  175^;.  ;  and  {Signed,  Robert  Hales,  Endorsed,  Reed. 
5th,  Read  8th  June,  1721)    ff  132,  133i;.] 

512.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  I  herewith  transmit  an  Act  past  in  Nevis  for 
establishing,  regulating  and  disciplining  the  Militia  forces,  which 
has  been  preparing  for  these  four  years  past,  and  'twas  with 
some  difficulty  that  I  got  them  to  set  about  this  Act  so  necessaiy 
for  their  preservation,  but  their  remisness  was  so  great  that  I 
believe  they  would  have  still  put  it  off  by  delays  had  not  the 
pirates  awakened  'em  by  attacking  Basse  Terre  in  St.  Chris- 
tophers. I  made  some  amendments  to  the  said  Act  but  was 
unwilling  to  venture  too  far,  least  it  should  give  a  handle  to 
them  to  make  objections  thereto,  and  by  that  means  not  pass 
it,  and  indeed  I  was  not  mistaken  in  my  conjectures,  for  the 
President  upon  return  of  the  Act  with  amendmts.  writes  me 
'twas  done  again  with  no  small  reiuctancy  of  some,  who  would 
rather  have  it  postponed  for  further  alteration,  and  perhaps 
would  never  after  have  consented  to  it.  Upon  this  considera- 
tion I  have  consented  to  the  Bill  as  it  is  being  truely  sensible  of 
the  necessity  of  such  an  Act  etc.  Refers  to  Preamble.  Signed, 
W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th,  Read  27th  July,  1721. 
1  p.     [CO.  152,  13.    ff.  284,  285t;.] 

513.  Lt.  Governor  Spotswood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations,  Abstract.  Last  September  the  coast  was  greatly 
infested  by  Spanish  privateers  from  St.  Augustin.  One  came 
within  the  capes  and  made  several  prizes,  one  of  which  was 
retaken  by  the  Lieutenant  of  the  guardship.  On  board  there 
were  ten  Spaniards,  who  had  with  them  the  copy  of  a  com- 
mission granted  in  August  by  the  Governor  of  St.  Augustin  to 
the  Captain  of  that  privateer,  although  upon  examination  of 
these  prisoners  it  appeared  that  the  cessation  of  arms  had  been 
notified  to  the  Governor  by  the  Governor  of  S.  Carolina  before 
that  privateer  sailed  :  but  that  the  Spaniards  resolved  not  to 
regard  it  upon  pretence  that  it  had  not  been  notified  to  them 
from  their  Court.     Spotswood  thereupon  sent  a  flag  of  truce 


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1721. 


demanding  restitution  of  the  vessels  etc.  taken  during  the  cessa- 
tion, and  at  the  same  time  sent  the  Spanish  prisoners.  The 
flag  of  truce  found  the  said  privateer  and  several  of  her  prizes 
at  St.  Augustin.  Others  had  been  sent  to  Havana  and  others 
lost.  The  Governor  disowned  having  given  commissions  for 
cruising  on  the  coast  of  Virginia,  and  made  a  show  of  trying 
and  condemning  the  Captain  of  the  privateer  and  directed  a 
London  ship,  Recovery,  and  Philadelphia  sloop,  Mary,  to  be 
delivered  up.  But  he  would  not  part  with  a  London  sloop  with 
negroes  on  board,  which  had  been  taken  on  her  voyage  to 
Virginia,  which  was  more  valuable  than  both  the  others,  alleging 
that  she  was  lawful  prize  for  having  red  wood  on  board,  which 
he  said  was  the  growth  of  the  Spanish  Plantations,  though  it 
was  evident  it  was  brought  from  Africa.  The  loading  of  the 
Philadelphia  sloop  he  pretended  to  purchase  for  the  use  of  his 
garrison,  and  accordingly  took  out  the  bread  and  flour,  "  but 
tendered  no  other  payment  than  a  note  under  his  hand  for 
2098  pieces  of  eight  which  is  of  no  value  to  the  owners,  seeing 
they  dare  not  send  to  demand  it  at  a  place  where  their  vessells 
are  liable  to  be  seized  upon  the  most  trifling  pretences."  No 
reparation  could  be  obtained  for  the  prizes  sent  to  other  ports 
or  lost.  None  of  the  Spanish  privateers  has  since  molested 
their  trade,  but  it  is  necessary  that  more  effectual  care  be  taken 
to  preserve  the  freedom  of  navigation  to  and  from  the  West 
Indies,  "  and  especially  from  the  insults  of  those  of  St.  Augustin, 
which  seems  to  be  rather  a  resort  of  banditts  than  deserving 
the  name  of  a  Government  "  etc.  Quotes  cases  of  captain  of 
Prince  of  Orange,  sent  from  Philadelphia  with  a  flag  of  truce  to 
exchange  some  prisoners,  whom  the  Governor  arrested  on  a 
false  charge  of  landing  European  goods  without  his  permission  ; 
and  of  a  Boston  brigantine  coming  from  Jamaica,  captured, 
Feb.  last,  in  the  Gulf  of  Florida  by  a  Spanish  frigat,  and  carried 
into  St.  Augustin.  Though  his  cocquets  showed  that  his  whole 
lading  was  taken  in  at  Jamaica,  yet  because  he  had  braziletto 
on  board  which  the  Spaniards  pretended  was  the  product  of 
their  Plantations,  they  condemned  both  vessel  and  cargo, 
"  and  the  poor  man  (who  had  a  great  part  of  his  substance  in 
that  brigantine)  is  come  hither  a  fatal  instance  of  the  effects 
of  violence  and  oppression  having  together  with  his  goods 
entirely  lost  his  senses  "  etc.  These  instances  will  show  how 
traders  in  these  parts  lie  at  the  mercy  of  the  Spaniards,  "  for 
if  the  having  on  board  their  vessells  any  commoditys  of  the  like 
species  with  those  are  produced  in  the  Spanish  Plantations,  nay 
even  a  pistoll  or  ps.  of  «  which  is  the  common  currency  of  these 
Colonys  be  (as  the  Spaniards  pretend)  sufficient  ground  for 
making  prize  etc.,  each  ship  and  vessell  trading  in  America  may 
be  seized,  and  considering  the  charge  and  difficulty  of  private 
persons  solliciting  redress  at  the  Court  of  Madrid,  the  remedy 
seems  as  intolerable  as  the  disease  "  etc.     Hopes,  whilst  a  new 


328  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

^^^^ 

Treaty  is  on  foot,  the  Board  will  so  represent  this  growing  evil 
as  that  it  may  be  restrained  etc.  The  depredations  committed 
by  the  Spaniards  on  this  coast  has  cost  the  Government  nearly 
£1000  etc.  A  ship,  lately  arrived  here  from  the  Isle  of  May, 
was  taken  in  her  passage  by  Roberts  a  pirate  (50  guns,  240  men) 
who  said  he  expected  to  be  joined  by  another  ship  and  would 
then  visit  Virginia,  and  avenge  the  pirates  who  have  been 
executed  here.  "  Considering  the  boldness  of  this  fellow,  who  last 
year  with  no  more  than  a  sloop  of  10  guns  and  60  men,  ventured 
into  Trepassy  in  Newfoundland  where  there  were  a  great 
number  of  merchant  ships,  upwards  of  1200  men  and  40  ps. 
of  cannon,  and  yet  for  want  of  courage  in  this  headless  multitude, 
plundered  and  burnt  divers  ships  there,  and  made  such  as  he 
pleased  prisoners,  I  thought  it  prudence  to  make  use  of  this 
opportunity  to  put  the  countrey  in  a  better  posture  of  defence 
and  have  got  the  Council  unanimously  to  consent  to  the  erecting 
of  batterys  at  the  mouth  of  James  River,  York  and  Rappa- 
hanock  where  I  shall  in  a  few  days  have  54  pieces  of  canon 
mounted  and  hope  when  these  batterys  are  finished  according 
to  the  plan  I  have  laid,  the  country  will  have  no  occasion  to 
be  under  any  alarm  at  what  the  pyrates  may  be  able  to  do,  and 
the  ships  in  our  rivers  may  ly  in  safety,  but  in  order  to  prevent 
the  danger  to  the  trade  of  these  Plantations,  I  am  humbly  of 
opinion  that  ships  of  greater  force  than  those  now  stationed  here, 
are  necessary  to  be  sent  to  guard  the  coasts  ;  for  there  is  not 
one  of  the  guardships  on  this  coast  fitt  to  encounter  such  a  one 
as  this  Roberts  has  now  under  his  command,  and  tis  no  easy 
matter  for  two  or  more  of  the  men  of  war  to  joine  of  a  sudden 
so  remote  as  their  stations  are  from  one  another  for  suppressing 
any  great  force  of  the  pyrates  appearing  on  these  coasts.  Cer- 
tainly a  40  or  50  gun  ship  is  absolutely  necessary  to  convoy  our 
merchant  ships  out  to  sea,  and  a  smaller  vessell  such  as  a  sloop 
or  brigantine  to  pursue  little  pickeroons  in  shoal  water,  where 
a  great  ship  cannot  come  at  them,  would  be  very  serviceable 
towards  the  security  of  our  trade,  and  driving  the  pyrates  from 
this  coast,  where  they  frequently  resort  to  furnish  themselves 
with  provisions,  as  well  as  to  wait  for  good  ships  when  their 
own  are  grown  out  of  repair,  and  if  last  year  there  had  been  two 
men  of  war  here,  the  one  to  have  cruised  while  the  other  cleaned, 
the  great  loss  this  Colony  and  the  trade  of  Great  Britain  in 
generall  suffered  here  from  the  Spanish  privateers  had  been 
prevented."  Encloses  accounts  of  Revenue  and  Journals  of 
Council  etc.  Continues : — Your  Lordships  will  observe  by  the 
many  petitions  for  leave  to  take  up  land  how  much  the  frontiers 
of  this  country  are  likely  to  be  extended,  and  principally  upon 
the  hopes  of  H.M.  gracious  approbation  of  the  Act  pass'd  this 
last  Session,  and  the  Address  of  the  Assembly  for  encouraging 
the  possessing  the  passes  of  the  Great  Mountains,  both  which  I 
hope   by   your  Lordsps.  favourable  interposition   are   by  this 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  32 


1721. 

time  obtained.  Set  out,  Va.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.,  Spots  wood 
Papers,  II.  34G.  Signed,  A.  Spotswood.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th 
Oct.  1721,  Read  12th  June,  1722.     6  pp.     Enclosed, 

513.  i.  Aeeount  of  H.M.  Revenue  of  Quit-Rents  in  Virginia, 
25th  April,  1720-1721.  Totals:  Receipts  (including 
£7971  5s.  Q\d.  brought  forward)  £10,021  5^.  ^\d.) 
Expenditure,  £2724  66.  3irf.  Signed,  Wm.  Cole,  D.  Rr. 
Genl.  Audited  by  John  Gr}^mes,  Depty.  Audr.  Endorsed 
as  preceding.  4  pp. 
513.  ii.  Account  of  H.M.  Revenue  of  25.  pr.  hogshead  etc. 
in  Virginia,  25th  Oct.,  1720-25th  April,  1721.  Total, 
Receipts,  (including  £2991  0*.  2d.  brought  forward) 
£3889  Qs.  d^d.  Exp>enditure,  £2038  8s.  Q\d.  Signed, 
audited  and  endorsed  as  preceding,  2  pp.  \C.O.  5, 
1319.     Nos.  15,  15.  i.,  ii.] 

June  1.  514.  Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Boston.  tions.  The  packet  I  have  by  this  ship  sent  to  the  Secretary 
would  have  been  sooner  dispatched  had  not  there  been  one 
Assembly  more  this  year  than  usual ;  at  all  which  Assemblys 
the  Secretary  of  the  Province  is  obliged  constantly  to  attend 
which  has  prevented  him  from  finishing  these  Minutes  so  soon 
as  I  could  have  wished  etc.  The  House  of  Representatives 
in  the  two  last  Sessions  have  in  many  of  their  proceedings  not 
paid  their  just  duty  to  the  King's  Royal  Prerogative,  but  have 
endeavoured  to  exceed  the  bounds,  granted  to  them  in  the 
Royal  Charter ;  neither  have  they  had  a  just  regard  to  H.M. 
Instructions  given  to  me  their  Governour,  which  I  have  often 
communicated  to  them  etc.  I  have  always  strenuously  en- 
deavoured to  ascert  the  Royal  Prerogative  (for  which  I  have  not 
a  little  suffered  as  to  my  own  private  interest)  and  cannot  but  say 
H.M.  Council  have  in  a  great  measure  assisted  me  in  it.  I  shall 
not  enter  into  the  particular  points  etc.,  because  the  Minutes 
and  papers  herewith  transmitted  will  give  your  Lordps.  a  full 
and  perfect  accompt  etc.  Refers  to  his  Speech  at  the  dissolution 
of  the  late  Assembly  etc.  Continues : — The  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives generally  consist  of  persons  (better  adapted  to  their 
farming  affairs  than  to  be  Representatives  of  the  Province) 
who  are  drawn  into  any  measures  by  the  craft  and  subtilty 
of  a  few  designing  persons  who  when  they  are  indeavouring  to 
invade  the  Royal  Prerogative  make  the  unthinking  part  of  the 
Assembly  believe,  that  they  only  are  asserting  the  just  priviledges 
of  the  people,  and  by  this  false  guise  these  men  become  the 
favourites  of  the  Populace  who  believe  them  to  be  the  only 
patriots  of  their  country.  At  the  head  of  this  party  precides 
one  Elisha  Cooke  Esq.,  who  was  removed  out  of  the  Council 
for  denying  H.M.  title  to  the  woods  in  the  Province  of  Main, 
notwithstanding  the  Acts  of  Parliament  made  in  that  case, 
and  in  the  last  Sessions  of  Assembly  continues  to  persue  the 


330  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

same  measures  to  the  great  prejudice  of  the  Crown  of  Great 
Brittain  which  will  more  fully  appear  by  the  papers  I  have 
now  transmitted.  I  think  the  Indians  in  these  parts  are  at 
present  brought  into  a  very  good  temper  by  the  forces  I  have 
sent  and  measures  I  have  taken  and  I  shall  use  my  best 
indeavours  to  keep  them  so,  tho'  I  must  own  they  are  very 
uncertain  in  their  tempers,  and  will  maintain  a  good  corres- 
pondence with  these  Provinces  no  longer  than  when  their  Priest 
tells  them  twill  be  eonsistant  with  their  interest  to  do  etc.  Signed, 
Samuel  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd.  Read  9th  Aug.,  1721. 
3  pp.     Enclosed, 

514..  i.  Answer  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  to  Governor  Shute's  Speech.  March  21, 
1720  (i)  Complain  that  their  bill  for  emitting  £100,000  in 
publick  bills  of  credit  was  rejected  by  the  Council  last 
sessions.  A  further  medium  of  trade  is  needed.  To 
prevent  a  further  emission  of  bills  depreciating  those 
already  outstanding,  they  passed  a  bill  last  sessions  and 
again  this  to  prevent  exchanging  silver  at  higher  rates 
than  stated  by  Act  of  Parliament.  Had  such  an 
Act  been  made  at  the  first  issueing  out  the  Paper  Bills 
they  had  to  this  day  Ijeen  in  equal  value  to  silver 
money  etc.  The  reason  why  the  bill  to  prevent  trading 
with  the  French  at  Cape  Briton  did  not  pass  the 
House  last  sessions  was  because  such  an  Act  could 
add  no  power  to  the  Treaty  of  Neutrality.  If  any 
do  so  trade  there,  (and  they  know  of  none  such) 
"  those  Gentlemen  commissioned  from  home  to  inspect 
those  matters  doubtless  have  and  will  discharge  their 
duty."  Had  proper  methods  been  taken  to  discover 
and  punish  the  inventor  or  publisher  of  a  libell  called 
News  from  Robinson  Cruso's  Island  reflecting  upon 
the  Representatives  last  session,  few  would  have 
dared  to  publish  any  others  of  that  nature.  Should 
an  Act  be  made  to  prevent  the  printing  any  book  or 
paper  without  licence  first  obtained  from  the  Govemour 
no  one  can  foresee  the  innumberable  inconveniencies 
and  dangerous  circumstances  this  people  might  labour 
under  in  a  little  time.  For  this  Court  to  send  a  present 
to  the  Five  Indian  Nations  in  conjunction  with  some 
of  our  neighbours  we  cannot  think  adviseable  at  this 
time  for  as  we  know  not  what  number  of  families 
those  Nations  consist  of  neither  are  we  apprized  what 
our  neighbours  intend  to  send  them  etc.  We  still 
apprehend  the  allowances  of  this  year  to  your  Ex- 
cellency is  as  much  as  the  honour  and  service  of  this 
Government  call  for  etc.  Signed,  Timo.  Lindall, 
Speaker.  Same  endorsement.  3  pp.  [CO.  5,  868. 
Jf.  66-67,  68i;.-70i;.] 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


331 


1721. 

June  7.        515.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclosc   copy   of  Lt.    Governor   Bennett's   letter,    21st   April, 
relating  to  pirates.     [CO.  38,  7.     p.  367.] 

June  7.        516.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchett.     As  preceding,  for  the 
Whitehall,  information  of  the  Lords  Commrs.   of  the  Admiralty.     [CO. 

38,  7.     p.  368.] 

June  7.  517.  Judge  Scnitton  to  J.  F.  [Col.  Frere].  After  ye  8 
Barbados,  members  of  ye  Assembly  made  yt.  glorious  retreat  President 
Cox  convened  ym.  for  ye  Tuesday  following  to  make  provision 
for  ye  reception  of  ye  Lord  Irwin,  Col.  Ramsay  by  appointment 
of  his  bretheren  waited  on  ye  President  wh.  ye  Remonstrance  etc. 
{v.  13th  May).  When  he  found  yt.  speceous  pretence  would 
not  decoy  our  friends  into  a  snare  he  putt  several  queres  to  ye 
Attorney  General  in  writing  which  were  answered  but  not 
agreeable  to  his  designs  notwithstanding  ye  opinion  of  ye 
Attorney  General  yt.  ye  President  could  not  issue  new  writtes 
for  ye  eight  members  whout.  ye  whole  yet  he  hath  attempted 
to  issue  writtes  for  ye  sd.  four  Parishes  wh.  writtes  for  St.  James 
and  St.  Andrews  where  ye  writtes  were  stiffled,  as  for  ye  two  last 
parishes  we  are  very  secure  by  wch.  you  may  see  what  was  ye 
occasion  of  those  two  writtes  were  suprest.  St.  Phillips  and  St. 
Thomas  are  in  great  danger  our  adversarys  having  made  in 
ye  first  forty  eight  or  fifty  new  votes  and  in  ye  latter  twenty- 
eight,  Mr.  Harper  hath  made  thirteen  out  of  his  ov/n  estate  yt. 
doth  not  consist  above  150  acres.  Encloses  Representation 
signed  by  eleven  parishes  etc.  Continues  :  We  had  on  Munday 
last  a  Corke  man  yt.  brought  ye  unfortunate  news,  (if  it  be  true) 
of  ye  death  of  ye  Lord  Irwin  who  departed  this  life  ye  10th  of 
April  last  of  ye  small-pox.  This  acct.  hath  wonderfully  damped 
ye  sperits  of  our  friends  and  not  a  little  invigorated  our  enemys 
etc.  You  and  our  friends  at  home  must  secure  his  successor  etc. 
If  [Mr.  Cox's]  government  remains  six  months  without  some 
check  we  shall  be  obliged  to  quitt  and  go  off,  etc.  5th  of  this 
instant  came  on  ye  Election  for  ye  six  parishes,  St.  James  had 
no  opposition,  St.  John,  St.  Lucie  and  St.  Andrews  we  carried 
wth.  great  majority,  St.  Philips  was  carried  by  near  twenty. 
Judge  Sanford  had  putt  up  John  Sanford  instead  of  Thomas 
and  there  were  near  thirty  votes  upon  ye  poll  before  ye  mistake 
was  discovered  wch.  he  immediately  rectified  by  scraching 
John  out  and  putting  in  Thomas,  this  is  a  step  very  extraordinary 
but  we  are  become  so  accustomed  to  ym.  of  late,  yt.  we  cannot 
think  anything  strange  and  illegal.  St.  Thomas  election  we 
should  have  carried  but  our  adversarys  perceiveing  themselves 
outdone  fell  to  quarrelling  and  in  ye  hurly  burly  broke  up  ye 
poll,  they  riding  ye  fore  horse  at  yt.  juncture.  I  do  not  doubt 
but  Mr.  Prideaux  will  make  a  return  in  favour  of  Messrs.  Downes 


332  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721 . 

and  Harper.  Ye  Representatives  of  ye  four  parishes  yt  were 
expelled  by  ye  President  entered  a  protest  to  ye  Sheriff  of  each 
parish  (enclosed).  Th(e)  Bristol  snow  yt.  ye  President  was 
willing  to  eompliment  you  wh.  passage  in  sailed  hence  but  fryday 
last.  Signed,  Edmund  Sutton.  Endorsed,  Reed,  from  Colo. 
Frere.  Read  27th  July,  1721.  Extract  sent  to  Lord  Carteret. 
28th  July.     11  pp.     Enclosed, 

517.  i.  Protest  by  Messrs.  Carter  &  Spencer  to  the  Sherrif  of 
St.  Thomas.  Barbados,  5th  June,  1721.  Protest 
against  the  holding  of  a  new  election,  they  having 
been  duly  elected  on  April  18th  last,  and  there  having 
been  no  dissolution  of  the  Assembly  since,  "  nor  have 
we  been  expelled  the  house,  or  our  election  declared 
void  where  elections  are  properly  determinable,"  etc. 
Signed,  John  Carter,  Thos.  Spencer.  Endorsed  as 
preceding.  1  p. 
517.  ii.  Representation  and  petition  of  Freeholders  of  the 
parish  of  St.  James  to  Samuel  Cox,  President  of  the 
Council.  By  the  Act  to  preserve  the  freedom,  of  elections, 
it  is  enacted  that  all  writs  for  electing  the  Representa- 
tives shall  be  published  in  the  several  churches  the 
three  next  succeeding  Sundays  following  the  date 
thereof  by  the  minister  of  the  parish  and  that  upon 
calling  of  an  Assembly  all  elections  throughout  the 
Island  shall  begin  in  one  day.  In  spite  of  petitions  from 
the  parishes  of  St.  James  and  St.  Andrews  over  hills, 
preferred  to  your  Excellency  after  writs  had  been 
published  twice  out  of  the  necessary  three  times  in  the 
other  nine  parishes,  elections  for  the  said  nine  parishes 
were  permitted  to  be  made  before  any  publication  of 
writts  in  said  two  parishes.  Refer  to  Remonstrance 
of  the  eight  members  (May  13.  No.  i).  Continue: — 
Within  three  days  after  sd.  Remonstrance  was  laid 
before  your  honour,  writts  issued  for  choosing  repre- 
sentatives for  St.  Philips,  St.  Johns,  St.  Thomas  and 
St.  Lucys,  as  also  for  St.  James  and  St.  Andrews.  The 
eight  members  for  the  four  former  parishes  are  in  full  life 
and  resident  in  the  Island,  and  have  not  been  expelled 
from  the  Assembly  of  which  they  were  elected,  re- 
turned and  sworn  Members,  nor  has  the  Assembly 
been  dissolved.  Only  in  such  cases  can  new  writs 
be  issued  according  to  above  Law.  They  are  ready 
to  do  their  duty  as  Members  of  Assembly,  as  soon  as 
an  oppertunity  shall  be  given  for  the  whole  body  of 
the  Island  to  be  represented  according  to  the  law 
aforesaid  etc.  Pray  H.E.  to  abide  by  the  law  and 
approved  precedents  of  long  standing  etc.  Same 
endorsement.     Copy.     2f  pp. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  333 


1721. 

517.  iii.  Petition  of  the  Freeholders  of  St.  James'  parish  to 
Mr.  Cox.  Writs  having  been  issued  for  electing 
representatives  and  published  for  the  first  and  second 
time  in  all  the  Churches  excepting  those  of  St.  James 
and  St.  Andrews,  jway  H.E.  to  order  that  all  elections 
may  begin  in  one  day  etc.  according  to  the  law,  and 
that  enquiry  be  made  how  and  by  what  meanes  the 
writ  lately  issued  for  the  parish  of  St.  James  was  not 
published  at  the  same  time  as  the  writs  for  the  other 
parishes  etc.  Signed,  Edmund  Sutton,  Robt.  Ycamons 
and  30  others.  Same  endorsement.  1  p.  [CO.  28, 
17.    ff.  161-162,  168-1641'.,  165u.,  166i;.-1675y.] 

Junes.       518.     Governor  Shute  to  Mr.  Delafaye.     Acknowledges  XoXtev 

Boston,  New  of  6th  Oct.,  with  orders  relating  to  striking  bills   of  credit  etc. 

England,      u  ^j^ich  came  not  to  my  hands  untill  the  8d.  of  June."     Signed, 

Samll.   Shute.     Endorsed,  R.   Aug.  2nd.     1  p.     [CO.   5,   898. 

No.  80.] 

June  9.       519.     Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    to    the    King. 

wiiitehaii.  Recommcnd  Capt.  Henry  Tucker,  Capts.  John  and  Richard 
Jennings  to  fill  vacancies  in  the  Council  of  Bermuda,  as  proposed 
by  Lt.  Gov.  Bennett.     [CO.  38,  7.     p.  369.] 


June  10.       520.     Mr.    Carkesse    to    Mr.    Popple.     Encloses    following. 

Custom  ho.,  Signed,  Cha.  Carkesse.     Endorsed,  Reed.  12th,  Read  14th  June, 
Londo.      j^2i.     Addressed.     Ip.     Enclosed, 

520.  i.  Francis  Harrison,  Surveyor  of  Customs,  New  York, 
to  the  Commissioners  of  Customs.  New  York,  April 
17th,  1721.  Having  signified  that  I  was  apprehensive 
that  the  copper  oare  which  now  rises  very  rich  in  a 
new  discover'd  mine  of  one  Mr.  Schuyler  in  New  Jersey 
would  soon  be  carried  into  the  channell  of  our  trade 
to  Holland  etc.,  there  is  now  shipt  on  board  the  snow 
Unity,  Robert  Leonard  Master,  for  Holland,  110  casks 
of  said  oare,  which  we  have  not  any  law  at  present  to 
prevent  etc.  Signed,  Francis  Harrison.  Copy,  f  p. 
[CO.  5,  971.     Nos.  90,  90.  i.] 

June  11.       521.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Appointing  Capt.  Henry 

St.  James's*.  Tuckcr,  Capt.  John  Jennings,  and  Capt.  Richard  Jennings  to 

the  Council  of  Bermuda,   as  recommended  9th  June.     Signed, 

Robert  Hales.     Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Read  20th  June,  1721. 

1  p.     [CO.  87,  10.     No.  18.] 

June  12.       522.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.     Acknowledges  letter  of 
Whitehall.  10th  June  and  presses  for  reply  to  April  6th.     [CO.  29,  14. 
pp.  118,   119.] 


334  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1721. 
June  12.       523.     Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Jamaica.     Plantations.     Since  my  last  letter  (20th  April),  I  have  not  been 
honoured  with  any  of  your  commands  and  tho'  nothing  material} 
has  occurred  yet  I  could  not  let  slip  so  good  an  opportvmity 
by  the  return  of   H.M.S.  Mary  etc.      Our  new  Assembly  is  to 
meet  on    the    20th   instant.     I  heartily  wish  they   may   come 
together  with  a  disposition  to  serve  their  King  and  Country  but 
I  must  freely  own  to  your  Lordships  that  I  cannot  any  longer 
undertake  for  them  haveing  in  the  last  Assembly's  proceedings 
seen  so  much  stupidity  ignorance  and  want  of  duty  to  the  best 
of  Sovereigns  that  I  am  allmost  fully  convinced  the  best  way 
of  bringing  these  people  to  a  temper  and  render  the  King's 
Government  here  easy  will  be  by  settleing   H.M.  Revenue  at 
home  by  Act  of  Parliament  etc.     Refers  to  'proposal  in  letter  of 
20th    April.     Continues : — But  one    thing   I    had    omitted    to 
acquaint  your  Lordships  and  that  is  in  the  last  additional  duty 
bill  there  is  a  tax  laid  on  the  Jews  of  £1000  which  considereing 
their  present  circumstances  I  think  too  heavy  for  them  annually 
to  bear.     I  am  therefore  of  opinion  that  clause  should  be  left 
out  and  leave  it  wdth  the  Governor  and  Council  to  tax  the  Jews 
more  or  less  as  they  shall  find  their  number  encrease  or  decrease 
and  their  circumstances  able  to  [be]  bear  it.     I  perswade  myself 
your  Lordships  will  concurr  in  opinion  with  me  that  some  such 
expedient  as  I  have  proposed  is  become  now  absolutely  necessary 
to  be  put  in  practise  in  order  to  keep  up  the  honour  and  dignity 
of  H.M.  Government  here  and  I  must  freely  own  that  publick 
credit  is  become  so  bad  that  I  can  get  neither  tradesmen  or  any 
other  person  to  trust  the  publick  for  a  farthing.     Haveing  thus 
discharged  my  duty  in  representing  the  true  state  and  condition 
of  our  present  circumstances  I  hope  your  Lordships  will  from 
thence  judge  it  necessary  to  lay  the  same  before  H.M.  for  his 
directions    therein.     I    beg    your    Lordships    will    pardon    my 
importunity  in  so  often  repeating  the  absolute  necessity  we 
lye  under  of  gunns  for  the  new  erected  line  at  Port  Royall 
without  which  'twill  be  of  no  manner  of  use  and  the  country  is 
not  in  a  condition  to  bear  such  an  expence  etc.  repeats  20th  April. 
Encloses  "  tr^-all  of  the  Pirates  who  have  been  executed  here 
which  has  had  good  effect  these  seas  haveing  been  more  free 
of  late  from  such  villains  than  for  some  time  before  "  etc.     The 
country  in  general!  is  very  healthy  but  we  have  had  of  late 
dryer  weather  than  usuall.     The  Spaniards  are  very  strickt 
in  guarding  their  coast  from  all  manner  of  trade  with  them 
they  seize  and  condemn  every  vessell  they  can  make  themselves 
masters  of  which  makes  trade  dull  and  mony  scarce.     Signed, 
Nicholas  Lawes.     Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read  17th  Aug.  1721. 
3f  pp.     Enclosed, 

523.  i.  Printed  copy  of  the  Tryals  of  Captain  John  Rackham 
and  10  other  pirates  {named),  who  were  all  condemn'd 
for  piracy  at  the  town  of  St.  Jago  de  la  Vega,  in  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  335 


1721. 

Island  of  Jamaica,  on  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth 
days  of  November  1720.  As  also,  The  Tryals  of  Mary 
Read  and  Anne  Bonnay  etc.  and  [of  Charles  Vane  and] 
others,  who  were  also  condemned  for  piracy.  Also,  a 
true  Copy  of  the  Act  of  Parliament  made  for  the  more 
effectual  suppression  of  piracy.  Jamaica  :  Printed  by 
Robert  Baldwin,  in  the  year  1721.  The  women, 
spinsters  of  Providence  Island,  were  proved  to  have  taken 
an  active  part  in  piracies,  wearing  men\s  clothes  and 
armed  etc.  Being  quick  with  child,  their  sentence  was 
suspended.  Same  endorsement.  44  printed  pp.  \C.O. 
137,   14.    ff.  Q-lv.,  8i;.-30t;.,  31i;.] 

June  12.  524.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
whitehaii.  tions.  H.M.  having  been  pleased  to  appoint  George  Phenney 
Esqr.  to  be  Governor  of  the  Bahama  Islands,  in  the  room  of 
Woodes  Rogers  Esqr.,  I  desire  that  you  will  please  to  direct 
the  draughts  of  his  Commission  and  Instructions  to  be 
prepared  etc.  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  14th 
June,  1721.     |  p.     [CO.  23,  1.     No.  32.] 

June  13.       525.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclose  following,  to  be  laid  before  H.M.      Annexed, 

525.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King. 
Recommend  Philip  Livingston  for  H.M.  Commission 
for  the  places  his  father  desires  to  resign,  as  proposed 
by  Governor  Burnet.  4i  pp.  [CO.  5,  1079.  Nos. 
124,  125  ;   and  5,  1124.     pp.  256-261.] 

June   13.       526.     Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations     to    the    King. 
Whitehall.  Recommend  Andrew  Auchenleck  for  the  Council  of  Bermuda, 
etc.     [CO.  38,  7.     pp.  460,  461.] 

June   13.       527.     Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.     Encloses  following  for 
Admiralty    their  Lordships'  information.     Signed,  J.  Burchett.     Endorsed, 
^^'''-       Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  June,  1721.     Ip.     Enclosed, 

527.  i.  Capt.  Vernon,  Commander  in  Chief  of  H.M.  ships  at 
Jamaica,  to  Mr.  Burchett.  8th  March,  1720.  (i) 
Replies  to  complaint  as  to  taking  etc.  of  the  Spanish 
privateer  sloop  Revenge,  "  commanded  by  Simon 
Mascarino  a  Portuguese  and  noted  villain  in  these 
parts  where  he  has  been  privatier  and  pirate  above 
20  years."  By  his  Instructions,  {enclosed)  dated  at 
St.  Jago  it  fully  appears  he  was  fitted  out  with  a  fresh 
Commission  to  take  English  ships  and  vessels,  and  to 
pillage  the  coasts  of  this  Island.  The  very  day  I 
took  him  he  had  taken  a  Jamaica  Scooner,  the  cargo 
of  which  I  found  in  his  sloop  etc.  Which  made  him 
a   good    prize   notwithstanding   the    cessation    and    I 


336  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 


beleive  no  one  can  doubt  the  legality  of  his  condemna- 
tion which  was  likewise  the  day  before  the  Proclama- 
tion for  the  cessation  of  arms  came  to  my  hands  which 
I  have  strictly  conformed  to  ever  since.  Rejjlies  to 
Spanish  Consul's  representation.  He  was  going  to 
St.  Domingo  to  complete  his  crew,  not  for  trading, 
but  ])rivateering  off  the  coast  of  Jamaica.  His  crew 
was  made  up  of  all  nations  and  colours.  Seven  or 
eight  French  I  sent  up  to  the  French  Governor  of  St. 
Domingo,  and  they  were  executed  as  traytors,  as  three 
of  H.M.  subjects  taken  in  her  have  been  here  ;  and 
the  Spaniards  having  dealt  very  cruelly  with  H.M. 
subjects  taken  this  war  to  my  knowledge,  some  English 
prisoners  escaped  on  board  me  off  the  Havanna,  and 
by  the  relation  of  Mr.  Farrell  was  an  eye  witness  of  it, 
and  without  whose  charitable  releif  they  would  have 
perished  being  worked  worse  than  slaves  in  carrying 
stones  to  repair  the  fortifications,  and  not  allow'd 
wherewith  to  subsist  them,  a  barbarity  I  beleeve  never 
practiced  before  ;  and  these  being  the  most  profligate 
of  their  own  nation  a  mungrell  breed  of  all  colours, 
such  as  were  negroes  and  malatoes  and  could  not 
produce  a  testimonial  of  their  freedom  (which  some 
did  and  were  clear' d)  were  sold  at  publick  outcry  as 
is  usual  for  other  slaves,  which  number  was  not  above 
eight,  the  form  of  the  testimonials  was  a  copy  of  the 
registry  of  their  freedom  attested  by  a  notary  publick, 
and  had  any  of  those  sold  been  so  that  evidence  would 
have  been  sent  to  the  Governor  here  before  now  there 
having  been  two  or  three  sloops  here  since  from  St. 
lago,  etc.,  and  they  would  have  been  released,  the 
buyers  taking  them  at  that  risk  etc.  The  Governor  of 
the  Havana  has  given  much  greater  cause  of  complaint, 
for  of  all  free  negroes  and  malatoes  that  they  took  of 
ours  upon  the  wrecks  they  have  never  cleared  any 
tho'  the  testimonials  of  their  freedom  have  been  sent 
to  him  attested  by  the  Governors.  As  to  an  Ensign 
of  Foot,  that  is  the  first  allegation  of  that  kind  that 
ever  I  heard  of  etc.  I  can't  but  think  they  are  attempt- 
ing at  quibbling,  to  prove  him  an  Ensign  of  Foot 
by  his  garments  not  containing  the  dimensions  of  a 
foot  of  an  Ensign,  etc.  As  to  the  deponents  I  suppose 
they  are  part  of  the  crew  that  were  carried  home  in 
merchant  ships  by  the  Governor  sending  the  Marshall 
to  the  masters  to  offer  them  to  those  that  would  take 
them  as  a  service  to  the  country  to  give  such  profligate 
vilains  a  march.  And  the  Spaniards  forced  even 
the  men  taken  in  our  merchant  ships  to  sail  on  board 
their  galleons  both  in  the  country  and  to  carry  them 


AMERICA   AND    WP:ST   INDIES.  337 


1721. 

home  to  Spain  etc.  This  very  sloop  the  Revenge  was 
taken  from  us  by  one  of  their  pretended  guarda 
de  costa's  on  the  South  side  of  this  Island  before  the 
Declaration  of  the  late  war.  Signed,  E.  Vernon. 
5  pp. 

527.  ii.  {a)  Extract  of  letter  from  Capt.  Vernon  to  the 
Lords  Commissioners  of  the  Admiralty,  June,  1720, 
relating  to  capture  of  the  Revenge,  and  {h)  Extract 
from  Capt.  Mascarino's  Instructions  to  cruize  as 
privateer  against  the  English  and  to  land  and  pillage 
the  coast  of  Jamaica.     Dated,  3rd  June,  1720.     3|  pp. 

527.  iii.  Extract  of  letter  from  Capt.  Vernon  to  Mr.  Burchett, 
7th  Nov.  1720.  Refers  to  letter  1st  Oct.,  informing 
their  Lordships  of  the  many  invasions  that  have  been 
artfully  contrived,  for  shelt'ring  many  villains  and 
traytors  etc.  One  of  the  three  of  H.M.  subjects  I 
took  in  arms  in  the  Spanish  privatier  was  tryed  at 
the  Grand  Court  and  executed,  and  the  other  two 
remaining  on  board  were  appointed  to  be  tryed  by  a 
Commission  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  issued  by  the 
Governor  for  trying  them,  and  about  a  dozen  more 
that  are  in  the  gaols,  which  method  of  proceeding 
was  entirely  knocked  on  the  head,  by  the  Judge  of 
the  Admiralty  throwing  up  his  Commission,  assigning 
for  his  reasons,  that  he  found  he  disobliged  his  friends 
by  it.  This  gentleman  whose  name  is  Savile  came 
from  Ireland,  and  has  not  been  long  in  this  Island, 
and  is  well  known  to  have  but  two  who  are  remarkably 
his  friends,  Peter  Beckford  and  Edmond  Kelly,  the 
Attorney  General,  who  I  have  heard  it  said,  has  given 
it  his  opinion  to  Mr.  Savile  under  his  hand,  before  he 
threw  up  his  commission,  that  he  might  legally  do  so 
alledging  Sir  Mathew  Hales  for  a  president  etc.  This 
case  is  direct  contumacy,  and  the  Attorney  General 
has  the  Governour's  orders  for  prosecuting  him,  for 
the  said  contumacy,  which  he  seems  very  averse  to 
execute.  But  there  has  been  a  remarkable  instance 
of  partiality  in  his  favour,  on  his  being  committed  by 
the  Governour's  warrant  for  the  said  contumacy,  he 
was  immediately  released  without  any  bail  being 
demanded.  No  one  doubts  but  it  was  done  at  the 
instigation  of  these  two  Gentlemen  etc.  I  believe  the 
Attorney's  reasons  is,  that  the  two  persons  I  have 
on  board  my  ship,  being  both  Papists,  the  private 
directors  of  his  conscience  have  influenced  him  to 
shelter  them  from  justice.  He  came  into  this  country 
under  the  patronage  of  Mr.  Totterdale.  Major 
Howard  of  Brigadier's  Regiment ;  was  warned  against 
him  by  a  friend  in  Ireland  as  a  concealed  Papist  etc. 

Wt.  7105  C.P.  32—22 


838  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 


Quotes  other  evidence.  Refers  to  Governor's  Speech 
to  the  Assembly,  4th  Oct.,  and  their  proceedings  of 
6th  Oct.,  "  full  of  insolence  to  the  King  "and  his  own 
comments  thereon,  as  also  upon  "  another  scheme, 
which  is  called  Mr.  Beckford's,  for  to  have  leave  to  raise 
600  men  in  England,  and  so  to  have  them  regimented 
here,  under  the  command  of  the  Militia  Officers  of  this 
Island  "  etc.  The  Attorney  General,  fearing  I  should 
complain  against  him,  for  conniving  at  the  informations 
that  had  been  for  some  time  lodged  with  him  against 
one  Dunks  a  tavern  keeper  of  Port  Royal,  for  supplying 
men  and  provisions  to  Miller  the  pirate,  and  against 
Capt.  Dennis  and  his  quarter-master,  for  permitting 
Brown  to  escape  after  he  had  taken  him  ;  he  came 
down  to  Port  Royal  and  imposed  on  me  hi  that  affair 
by  a  grimace  of  carr\ang  on  a  prosecution  against  them 
for  it,  which  I  find  since  was  only  to  amuse  me  for  that 
time,  for  having  order'd  Capt.  Chamberlayne  to  enquire 
of  the  Marshall  at  Port  Royall,  what  became  of  those 
prisoners,  he  return' d  me  an  account  etc.,  by  which 
it  appears,  he  clear' d  those  people,  the  very  night  after 
he  had  committed  them,  John  Dunks  on  his  own  bail, 
and  the  others  without  any  bail  at  all.  The  Attorney 
General,  in  a  Speech  he  made  to  the  Assembly,  above 
a  twelvemonth  ago  to  spirit  them  up  to  oppose  the 
payment  of  Lord  Hamilton's  arrears,  he  said,  that  one 
King  had  lost  his  head,  and  another  had  been  abdicated, 
for  less  crimes  than  Lord  Hamilton.  I  am  sure  it  is 
my  opinion,  that  their  leaders  are  artfully  conducting 
them  into  measures  of  insulting  the  Government,  in 
order  afterwards  to  argue  the  necessity  of  sheltering 
themselves  under  a  foreign  Government  to  protect 
them  from  being  punished  for  their  insolence  to  their 
OAvn.  And  when  it  is  consider'd,  that  the  concealed 
Papist  has  filled  most  of  the  posts  of  the  Government 
here,  with  native  Irish,  whose  religion  and  loyalty 
to  this  Government  is  very  much  suspected,  and  who 
are  absolute  creatures  and  dependants  of  his,  perhaps 
I  may  not  be  thought  to  be  ver\'  wide  from  the  truth 
etc.  I  verily  belicAe,  if  some  care  be  not  taken  at 
home,  to  raise  a  revenue  here,  sufficient  to  support 
the  necessary  exigencies  of  the  Government,  that  it 
will  be  found,  they  are  only  weakning  it  here  in  order 
to  betray  it.  There  are  200  English  at  Trinidado, 
besides  French,  Dutch  and  Spaniards,  that  follow 
this  pirating  trade,  and  1  fear,  if  there  be  not  orders 
for  reprizals  to  be  made  on  the  Spaniards,  and  so 
oblige  them  to  dislodge  these  rogues  which  they  now 
shelter  for  the  profit  they  receive  by  them,  that  will  grow 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  339 

1721. 

a  general  receptacle  for  such  banditti,  and  very  much 
impoverish  this  Island  by  their  frequent  excursions  in 
perriago's  and  launches,  which  can't  be  prevented  by  the 
Navy  of  England,  if  they  were  here,  for  the  daily  intelli- 
gence they  have  from  thence,  will  caution  them,  to  keep 
out  of  the  way  of  our  ships,  who,  if  they  should  see 
them,  would,  unless  by  a  favourable  accident,  have  no 
better  chance  than  a  cow  after  a  hare.     Encloses  copy 
of  the  Assembly's  lying  preamble  to  their  Bill  for  fitting 
out  two  sloops  etc.,   with    his    notes    upon    it.      The 
Govemour  has  adjourned  the  Assembly  to  the  19th 
Jan.,  tho'  they  have  not  yet  reimbursed  the  revenue, 
nor   provided    for   subsisting   the    soldiers,    otherwise 
than  by  a  note  of  credit,  which  I  believe  their  daily 
incroachments    on    the     prerogative     of    the     Crown 
has  made  him  judge  it  necessar}^     14-  pjj. 
527.  iv.  Extract  of  letter  from  Capt.  Vernon  to  Mr.  Burchett. 
Cape  Dona  Maria,  27th  Jan.,  172y.     I  can't  find  by 
any  intelligence  I   can  get  that  the  Pyrats  are  any 
where  out  in  sloops  in  these  parts,  but  only  in  pen-iagoes 
etc.  with  which,  since    my    sailing    from  Port  Royall 
they    have  taken  two  Jamaica  sloops,  and  robbed  a 
Plantation    of    20   negroes,  notwithstanding  the  two 
country  sloops  were  both  out  at  sea  to  protect  the 
coast,  which  they  will  have  enough  to  doe,  if  some 
measures  are  not  taken  to  prevent  the  Spaniards  from 
sheltering    the    pyrats    at    Trinidado,  which  they  do 
now  in  a  more  open  manner  than  CAcr  the  Go^'ernours 
of  Jamaica  formerly  shelter' d    them    there,  and  this 
Island  is  like  to  smart  for  a  practice  of  their  own 
bringing  up,  if  care  be  not  taken  to  have  it  redressed 
by  orders  from  the  Court  of  Spain.     I  have  met  with 
a  small  Spanish  sloop  in  my  cruize  bound  to  Legane 
the  master  of  Avhich  told  me  several  of  the  Alcades 
and  particularly  that  of  Trinidado  were  lately  brought 
prisoners  to  the  Havana,  and  that  it  was  beleived 
some  of  them  would  be  hanged  for  sheltering  the  pyrats 
particularly  a  notorious  one  of  Trinidado  etc.     I  hear 
there  is  another  gang  of  about  100  that  harbour  on 
the  north  side  of  Hispaniola,  which  are  likewise  in 
periagos  and  rob  only  in  that  neighbourhood,  and  I 
hear  several  of  them  say  they  are  too  wise  to  ^-enture 
in  sloops,  for  they  know  nothing  but  the  gallows  will 
attend  that,  and  this  I  fear  is  not  to  be  suppressed 
if  the  Spanish  Go^  ernours  are  allowed  to  countenance 
them  etc. 
527.  iv.  Extract  of  letter  from  Capt.  Vernon  to  Mr.  Burchett, 
7th  March,  172','.     Refers  to  correspondence  with  the 
Governor   and    depositions   relating   to    searching    of 


340  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

ships  etc.  {v.  28th  Dec.  1720  etc.)  Robert  Hall  was  no 
Port  Officer,  as  the  Goveniour  suggests,  but  a  Gunner 
of  the  Fort,  with  a  warrant  from  the  Receiver  General 
etc.  7  pp.  Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  June, 
1721. 

527.  V.  Capt.  Vernon  to  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes,  11th  Feb., 
172';.  So  soon  as  the  Adventure  can  be  compleated 
for  the  sea,  she  will  cruize  to  windward  for  the  pro- 
tection of  the  outward  bound  trade  from  Great  Britain 
etc.  Asks  for  information  of  pirates,  and  for  copies 
of  depositions  which  H.E.  has  sent  home  etc.  Signed, 
E.  Vernon.     Copy.     l^pp. 

527.  vi.  Same  to  Same.  15th  Feb.,  172\'.  Relating  to 
depositions  etc.     Copy.      3  pp. 

527.  vii.  Same  to  Same.  Relating  to  depositions  etc.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  June,  1721.     Copy.     1  p. 

527.  viii.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  Capt.  Vernon,  14th 
Feb.,  172i.  Encloses  copies  of  depositions  "  in 
relation  to  your  proceedings  in  preventing  the  Port 
Officers  from  doing  their  duty  on  board  the  John 
galley  "  etc.     Copy.     2  pp. 

527.  ix.  Same  to  Same.  22nd  Feb.,  172 ';.  As  to  Mr.  Mills 
not  being  a  Port  Officer,  tho'  the  Receiver  General  and 
his  deputies  are  not  mentioned  in  the  Acts  of  Parlia- 
ment as  Port  Officers,  yet  by  several  laws  in  this 
country,  confirmed  by  H.M.,  he  is  named  as  such, 
particularly  in  the  Act  of  Revenue  which  lays  a  duty 
of  18d.  a  pound  on  foreign  indigo  etc.  I  observe  by 
your  letter  of  the  18th  that  Mr.  Lawes,  Lieutenant  of 
the  Happy,  has  been  denied  restitution  from  the  Alcades 
of  Trinidado  for  the  late  depredations  committed  on 
H.M.  subjects  of  this  Island  by  the  Spaniards  of  that 
place,  and  that  you  have  taken  the  opportunity  by 
Mr.  Farrel  of  writing  to  the  Goveniour  of  the  Havanna 
demanding  restitution  etc.  I  hope  your  letter  may 
have  more  weight  with  that  gentleman,  than  several 
of  mine  on  that  subject  have  had  etc.  I  hope  the 
late  restitution  made  here  to  the  Spaniards  pursuant 
to  the  King's  Proclamation  for  the  cessation  of  arms, 
will  be  an  inducement  to  them  to  do  us  the  like  justice 
etc.  I  have  no  directions  whatever  to  make  reprizals 
etc.     Copy.     Same  endorsement.     3|  pp. 

527.  X.  Same  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Extract,  v.  C.S.P.  28th  Dec.,  1720.  Same  endorse- 
ment.    1^  pp. 

527.  xi.  Copy  of  clause  in  Revenue  Act  of  Jamaica  as  to  the 
power  of  the  Receiver  General  or  his  deputies  for 
seizing  goods  etc.     Same  endorsement.     2\  pp. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  341 


1721. 

527.  xii.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Jamaica  to  Governor 
Sir  N.  Lawes.     Express  concern  at  that  part  of  H.E.'s 
answer  to  their  Address  "  which  seems  to  charge  us 
with  having  dechned,  or  delayed  the  doing  of  anything 
incumbent  upon  us  to  do  for  the  supporting  of  H.M. 
Government  "  etc.     We  are  assured  that  the  provision 
made  by  this  Assembly  (notwithstanding  the  present 
deplorable  poverty  of  the  Island)  have  far  exceeded 
the  demands  of  other  Govemours  in  the  time  of  its 
utmost    prosperity   etc.     We    are    confident    that  the 
provision  we  have  made  had  (if  duly  collected  and 
applied)    been    more   than    sufficient   to    answer   any 
exigencies  of  this  Government,  and  as  the  collecting 
of  those  supplies  is  intrusted  to  other  persons,  whose 
default  (if  any)  cannot  in  any  reason  be  charged  upon 
this   house,   so  we  are   very  confident  that  such  an 
imputation  upon  us  could  not  [hmje]  proceeded  from 
your  Excellency  without  the  artifice  and  insinuation 
of  such  persons,   as  have  private  views  to  serve  by 
endeavouring   to   misrepresent   us    at   home,    and   to 
lessen  the  people  of  this  Island  in  H.M.  esteem  and 
good  opinion,  than  which  there  can  be  nothing  more 
dear  to  us.     It  is  far  from  our  thoughts  to  aim  at  any 
power  of  dispensing  with  any  known  law  or  treaty 
by  any  vote  of  our  house  etc.     The  ascertaining  of 
those   immunities   of  persons   of  our   own   members 
which  are  essential  to  the  very  being  of  Assemblies 
we  take  to  be  our  duty  and  hope  )t.  Excellcy.  will 
not  take  offence  thereat  or  at  our  just  concern  for  the 
liberty  of  the  subject.     The  frequent  expressions  of 
good  will  to  this  Island  which  your  Excy.  has  been 
pleased  to  declare  unto  us,  and  the  resentment  of  the 
many  injuries  we  have  received  from  the  Spaniards 
expressed  in  one  of  your    letters    gave    us    a    great 
encouragement  in  the   presenting  our  late   Address, 
and  leave  us  no  room  to  doubt,  but  that  your  Excy. 
will  still  prefer  our  humble  desires  in  the  behalf  of 
the  suffering  inhabitants  of  this  Island  to  the  demands 
of  a  people  whose  Governour  has  denied  any  restitution 
to  the  subjects  of  H.M.  and  who  violate  all  laws  and 
treatys    by    encouraging    and    protecting    banditti, 
notorious  robbers  and  traitors  to  the  infesting  of  this 
Island  and  the  ruin  of  its  trade  and  people.     As  we 
are  humbly  of  opinion,  that  no  restitution  of  a  lawfull 
capture  ought  to  be  awarded  to  any  claimer  unless 
he  has  made  out  his  claim  thereunto  in  a  legal  course, 
either  in  a  Court  of    x\dmiralty  or  Delegates,    from 
whence    all    parties    concerned    may    prosecute    their 
appeal,  so  there  having  not  for  some  time  past  been 


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1721. 


any  such  Court  in  this  Island,  we  cannot  but  be  sur- 
prized to  hear  of  an  order  for  restitution,  which  in 
its  self  must  appear  to  be  extra-judicial  and  void. 
As  H.M.  ships  of  war  on  this  station  are  sent  hither 
for  H.M.  service  and  the  good  and  wellfare  of  the 
inhabitants,  we  doubt  not  but  (on  proper  application) 
they  would  have  demanded  satisfaction  of  the 
Spaniards  without  putting  the  Treasury  to  expence 
or  the  suffering  subjects  to  charge,  who  at  present 
labour      under      misfortunes.       Same      endorsement. 

H  PP- 

527.  xiii.  Copy  of  Receiver  General's  warrant  to  Robert 
Hall.  Duplicate  of  18th  May  No.  iii  (b).  Same 
endorsement.     -|  p. 

527.  xiv.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  Capt.  Thomas  Brooke. 
Duphcate  of  28th  Dec.  1720.  No.  (i).  Same  endorse- 
ment.    1^  pp. 

527.  XV.  Copy  of  Act  of  Jamaica  for  fitting  out  sloops  for 
guarding  the  coasts  etc.  The  "  lying  preamble  "  re- 
ferred to  above,  runs  : — Whereas  [to]  the  great  damage 
and  impoverishment  of  H.M.  subjects,  as  well  as  to 
the  discouragement  of  his  merchants  and  others 
trading  hither,  it  hath  been  found  by  too  sad  experience 
that  H.M.  ships  of  war  ordered  here  for  the  encourage- 
ment of  trade  and  defence  of  this  Island  have  not  so 
effectually  answered  the  end  for  which  they  were 
sent  hither  as  might  have  been  expected  more  especialy 
guarding  the  sea  coast  and  out  parts  thereof,  whereby 
a  great  many  ships  sloops  and  other  vessels  as  well 
belonging  to  this  his  said  Island  as  coming  and  trading 
thereto  from  other  parts  of  H.M.  Dominions  have  been 
taken  in  sight  thereof  by  pirates  and  vessels  fitted  out 
and  commissioned  by  the  subjects  of  the  King  of 
Spain  under  pretence  of  guarding  their  own  coast 
to  the  great  dishonour  of  H.M.  as  well  as  irreparable 
loss  and  detriment  of  his  true  and  faithfull  subjects  etc. 
Same  endorsement.     Copy,     l^  pp. 

527.  xvi.  Deposition  of  James  Clarke,  27th  Feb.,  1721, 
Port  Royal,  as  to  Capt.  Vernon's  stopping  the  seizure 
of  outward-bound  vessels  etc.  {v.  28th  Dec.  1720  etc.) 
Signed,  Jas.  Clarke.     3|  pp. 

527.  xvii.  Depositions  of  John  Lewis,  Wm.  Haj^man  and  John 
Cavelier,  as  to  the  same.  1st  March,  1721.  Copies. 
The  whole.     3|  pp. 

527.  xviii.  Deposition  of  Lieut.  William  Swale,  H.M.S. 
Mary,  as  to  the  same,  loth  Feb.,  1721.  Copy. 
3  pp. 

527.  xix.  Deposition  of  Capt.  Brooke  and  Lt.  Col.  Delaunay. 
Duplicates  of  28th  Dec.  1720.     No.  iii. 


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1721. 

527.  XX.  Deposition  of  Leopold  de  Stapleton,  as  to  same. 
24th  Feb.,  1721.  Nos:  xvi-xx.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
14th,  Read  15th  June,  1721.     ^  pp. 

527.  xxi.  Deposition  of  Robert  Hall.  Duplicate  of  28th 
Dee.  1720.     No.  vi. 

527.  xxii.  Deposition  of  Daniel  Williams.  Duplicate  of 
28th  Dec.  1720.     No.  iv. 

527.  xxiii.  Deposition  of  Lt.  Joseph  Lawes,  H.M.S.  Happy, 
as  to  same.  4th  March,  1721.  Signed,  Jos.  Lawes. 
2  pp. 

527.  xxiv.  Deposition  of  John  Pooge  and  Philip  Tuck, 
H.M.S.  Ilapjyy,  as  to  same.  1st  March,  1721.  Signed, 
John  Pooge,  Philip  Tuck,  his  mark.     1  p. 

527.  XXV,  Deposition  of  Thomas  Righteous,  serjeant.  Dupli- 
cate of  28th  Dec.  1720.  No.  V.  Nos.  xxi-xxv 
endorsed.     Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  June,  1721. 

527.  xxvi.  Deposition  of  Edwin  Sandys  junr.,  as  to  same. 
27th  Feb.,  1721.     ^pp. 

527.  xxvii.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Righteous,  serjeant,  as 
to  same.     2nd  March,  172 V.     1  p. 

527.  xxviii.,  xxix.  Depositions  of  Richard  Basnett  of 
Kingston,  merchant,  as  to  same.  1st  March,  172y. 
^pp. 

527.  XXX.  Deposition  of  Capt.  Brooke.  Duplicate  of  28th 
Dec,  1720.  No.  ii.  Nos.  xxvi-xxx.  endorsed.  Reed. 
14th,  Read  15  June,  1721. 

527.  xxxi.  Advertisement  by  Capt.  Thomas  Brooke,  offering 
reward  of  5  pistoles  for  the  arrest  of  Daniel  Williams, 
late  gunner  of  H.M.  Fort  on  Port  Royal,  for  forging 
his  name  and  absconding  etc.  Same  endorsement. 
Copy.     1  p. 

527.  xxxii.  Capt.  Vernon's  Orders  to  Capt.  Daver  ,  H.M.S. 
Adventure  to  go  a  cruizing.  14th  Feb.  172?.  Signed, 
E.  Vernon.     Saine  endorsement.     Copy.     2|  pp. 

527.  xxxiii.  Capt.  Vernon  to  the  Governor  of  St.  lago  on 
Cuba,  18th  Jmie,  1720.  Sends  several  Spanish  prisoners 
taken  by  him  off  the  Bahama  Banks,  and  demands 
release  of  H.M.  subjects  prisoners  in  that  port,  taken 
by  Spanish  privateers  etc.  Has  taken  a  privateer  with 
a  fresh  commission  from  his  Excellency  about  three 
weeks  ago,  which  has  been  condemned  etc.  "  I  find 
you  have  other  privateers  still  out.  I  have  since  my 
arrival  here  and  this  condemnation  received  H.M. 
Proclamation  for  ceasing  all  hostilities  "  etc.  Desires 
to  know  whether  he  has  received  similar  instructions, 
or  will  accept  this  intimation.  Signed,  E.  Vernon. 
Copy.     2  pp. 

527.  xxxiv.  {a)  Capt.  Vernon  to  the  Marquis  de  Serel, 
Governor  of  St.   Domingo  and  Liggan.     18th  June, 


3U  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721.  ~ 

1720.  Sends  7  French  prisoners,  who  were  taken 
in  a  canoe  as  they  were  deserting  from  that  Govern- 
ment to  the  Spaniards  at  Cuba,  and  7  taken  in  a 
Spanish  privateer  etc.  Urges  "  a  seasonable  severity," 
and  requests  that  deserters  of  ours  be  sent  down  here 
etc.     Signed,  E.  Vernon.     Copy.     1|  pp. 

{b)  Governor  the  Marquis  de  Serel  to  Capt.  Vernon. 
16th  Sept.,  1720.  Thanks  for  7  deserters  and  4  pirates 
received,  whose  prosecution  he  has  ordered,  and  will 
send  British  deserters  etc.     Copy.     French.     1|  pp. 

(c)  Capt.  Vernon  to  Governor  the  Marquis  de  Serel. 
29th  Aug.,  1720.  Having  sent  Capt.  Chamberlayne 
in  quest  of  two  pirates  harbouring  about  Crooked 
Island,  who  have  plundered  a  New  York  sloop  bound 
to  this  Port  and  are  robbing  the  plantations  of  your 
Government,  I  advise  your  Excellency  thereof  etc. 
Their  names  are  Porter  and  Fox,  who  were  formerly 
pirates  that  surrendered  themselves  at  Providence 
and  took  the  benefit  of  the  King's  last  pardon  but  are 
now  returnd  to  their  old  courses,  and  I  verily  believe 
such  rogues  are  never  to  be  reclaimed  but  by  a  halter. 
Requests  co-operation  etc.  Reports  "  another  pirate  of 
our  Nation,"  commanded  by  one  Miller  who  has  been 
proclaimed  a  pirate  at  New  York  these  six  months, 
who  came  from  Providence  to  get  supphes  of  men 
and  provisions  at  Jamaica,  but  was  chased  away  by 
one  of  H.M.  ships  etc.  Believes  he  has  gone  to  join 
Porter  and  Fox  etc.  Signed,  E.  Vernon.  Copy. 
2 1  pp. 

(d)  Capt.  Chamberlayne,  H.M.  Sloop  Happy,  to 
Capt.  Vernon.  11th  Oct.,  1720.  I  put  into  Lugan  and 
delivered  your  letter  to  the  Marquis  de  Serel  who  will 
be  very  glad  to  concert  measures  with  you  etc.  Signed, 
Cha.  Chamberlayne.     Copy.     1  p. 

(e)  Lt.  Lawes  of  the  Happy  sloop  to  Capt.  Vernon. 
20th  Oct.,  1720.  Nine  days  since  one  White  came 
here  from  Providence  etc.  14  days  afterwards  one 
Rackun  run  away  with  a  sloop  and  took  two  more 
of  that  place  etc.     Signed,  Jos.  Lawes.     Copy.     \  p. 

(/)  Capt.  Chamberlayne  to  Capt.  Vernon.  27th 
Oct.,  1720.  Dunks,  that  was  taken  up  for  supplying 
the  pirates,  was  set  at  liberty  the  same  day  only 
giving  his  own  bond  for  £100  etc.  Signed,  Cha. 
Chamberlayne.  Copy.  \  p.  Nos.  xxxiii,  and  xxxxiv. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  June,  1721. 
527.  XXXV.  H.M.  Warrant  to  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  for  the 
payment  of  the  debt  due  to  Lord  Archibald  Hamilton. 
15th  Jan.  1720.     Copy.     3i  pp. 


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172]. 

527.  xxxvi.  {a)  Speech  of  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the 
Assembly  of  Jamaica,  4th  Oct.,  1720.  Recommends 
renewal  and  enlargement  of  Additional  Duty  Bill,  the 
average  yearly  disbursements  of  8  to  £9,750  exceeding 
the  income  of  the  standing  revenue  by  3  to  £4,000. 
Has  issued  an  order  in  accordance  with  H.M.  warrant 
preceding,  to  the  Receiver  General ;  "  And  I  will  not 
question  but  you  will  find  yourselves  obliged  in  duty 
to  H.M.  to  enable  the  Treasury  effectually  to  discharge 
that  debt,  which  must  first  take  place,  and  postpone 
all  other  payments  till  that  be  done  "  etc.  etc.  Copy. 
7  pp. 

(b)  (c)  Resolutions  of  the  Assembly  28th  Jan.  1720. 
Adhere  to  resolution  not  to  pay  "  unjust  demands  "  to 
Lord  Hamilton,  and  the  then  Council,  and,  6th  Oct. 
1720,  if  this  pretended  debt  be  paid  by  the  Receiver 
General,  not  to  reimburse  the  Treasury  etc.  Copy. 
1  p. 

(d)  Minutes  of  Assembly  of  Jamaica,  8th  Oct.,  1720. 
The  want  of  employment  for  seafaring  people  has 
proceeded  from  the  decay  of  trade,  which  has  been 
chiefly  carried  on  by  the  men  of  war  etc.  31st  Oct. 
It  was  resolved  to  fit  out  two  sloops  for  the  protection 
of  the  coast ;  Capt.  Vernon's  offer  to  man  and  victual 
them  was  refused.     Copy.     3  pp. 

(e)  Governor  N.  Lawes'  Speech  to  the  Assembly, 
25th  Oct.  1720.  Copy.  3|  pp.  Nos.  xxxv,  xxxvi. 
endorsed.  Reed.  14th.  Read  15th  June,  1721.  [CO, 
137,  13.     Nos.  51,  51.  i.-xxxvi.] 

June  14.        528.     Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.     In  reply  to  6th  April. 

Custom  ho.,  Encloses  following  observations  by  the  Commissioners  of 
Customs  upon  the  Instructions  to  the  Governor  of  Barbados. 
The  1st  3rd  4th  5th  and  7th  observations  on  the  Instructions 
to  Sir  N.  Laws,  enclosed  30th  July,  1717,  they  have  made  the 
like  obser%'ations  on  the  present  draft  etc.  Repeats  complaint, 
30th  July,  1717,  from  Surveyor  General  and  other  officers  of 
the  Customs  on  the  Continent  and  in  the  Islands  that  they  are 
frequently  obliged  to  serve  on  juries,  and  personally  to  appear 
in  arms  whenever  the  Militia  is  drawn  out,  and  thereby  are 
A'cry  much  hindered  in  the  execution  of  their  duty  etc.  The 
Commissioners  desire  the  Council  of  Trade  that  all  Governors 
may  have  Instructions  to  excuse  Officers  of  the  Customs  from 
appearing  in  arms  or  serving  on  juries  or  any  parochial  offices 
which  may  hinder  them  in  the  execution  of  their  duties,  unless 
in  case  of  absolute  necessity,  in  like  manner  as  they  are  exempted 
here.  Signed,  Cha.  Carkesse.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read  20th 
June,  1721.     Addressed.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 


34G 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1721, 


June  14. 


June  15. 

South 
Carolina. 


June  15. 

London. 


June  17. 

St.  James's. 


June  18. 

New  York. 


528.  i.  Observations  by  the  Commissioners  of  Customs  upon 

the  Instructions  of  the  Governor  of  Barbados,  referred 
to  in  preceding,     ll  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  134-135i;., 

\mv.] 

529.  Mr.  Humphreys,  Secretary  to  the  Society  for  the 
Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  to  Mr.  Popple. 
Encloses  following.  Concludes :  The  Society  have  appointed 
some  of  their  members  Gentlemen  of  that  Island  to  explain 
further  the  said  reasons  whenever  their  Lordships  shall  please 
etc.  Signed,  David  Humphreys,  Secretary.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
16th,  Read  20th  June,  1721.     f  p.     Enclosed, 

529.  i.  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  foreign 

parts  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  In 
reply  to  18th  May,  state  their  objections  to  Act  of 
Barbados,  1718,  granting  liberty  to  the  inhabitants  to 
load  and  unload  from  any  bay  or  harbour  etc.  The 
Society  is  seized  in  fee  of  a  considerable  plantation 
in  the  parish  of  St.  John  called  Consets  devised  to  it 
by  the  General  Codrington.  Conset  Bay  has  never 
been  a  common  bay  or  creek,  but  by  this  law  every 
inhabitant  being  intituled  to  have  laid  out  for  him  a 
new  way  to  any  bay  or  creek,  the  Society's  estate  will 
be  exposed  to  continual  injury  and  expense  etc. 
Signed  as  preceding.  21  pp.  [CO.  28,  17.  ff.  138, 
139-140,  141i;.]. 

530.  William  Hammerton  to  [Lord  Carteret]  General 
Nicholson  hath  given  me  a  Commission  for  Naval  Officer  etc. 
Compliments  etc.     Signed,  Wi\\ia,mlia,minertoii.    2  pp.    [CO.  5, 

387.     No.  25]. 

531 .  Mr.  Gordon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Presses  for  report  upon  the  two  Acts  of  Barbados  concerning 
him,  he  being  anxious  to  return  thither  and  the  merchant  ship 
for  that  Island  sailing  this  week  etc.  Signed,  W.  Gordon. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read  21st  June,  1721.  2  pp.  [CO.  28, 
17.    ff.  142,  142t;.,  143u.] 

532.  H.M.  Warrant  for  admitting  Henry  Tucker,  John 
Jennings  and  Richard  Jennings  to  the  Council  of  Bermuda  in 
the  room  of  Michael  Burrows,  Benjamin  Hinson  and  John 
Peasley,  deed.  Countersigned,  Carteret.  Copy.  [CO.  324,  34. 
p.  58.] 

533.  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Acknowledges  letter  of  28th  Dec.  Continues :  I  was 
very  glad  to  have  your  Lordships'  approbation  of  my  continuing 
the  same  Assembly  of  New  York.  I  have  found  the  good  effects 
of  it,  of  which  I  have  given  particular  accounts  formerly  and 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  347 

1721. 

as  they  are  now  sitting  I  hope  I  shall  find  them  in  the  same 
dispositions,  of  which  I  have  no  doubt,  I  wish  I  could  say  the 
same  thing  of  the  Assembly  of  New  Jersey  who  have  sat  about 
four  months  to  no  manner  of  purpose  they  began  with  refusing 
to  sit  at  all  and  desired  to  be  desolved  for  that  they  were  not 
a  legal  Assembly  I  at  last  perswaded  them  to  meet  but  to  no 
effect,  but  to  shew  that  they  would  not  serve  either  the  Govern- 
ment or  the  country  which  after  four  months  patience  obliged 
me  to  desolve  them  etc.  I  will  send  your  Lordships,  the 
printed  Speeches  etc.  during  that  sitting  which  contain  the  full 
History  of  it  {v.  Aug.  1st.)  and  make  some  proposals  concerning 
them  etc.  I  will  make  it  my  business  to  inform  myself  as 
directed  by  your  Lordships  concerning  the  state  of  the  Palatines 
and  that  I  shall  do  best  when  I  go  up  to  Albany  near  to  which 
they  are  settled  and  this  I  propose  to  do  in  the  fall  of  the  year 
etc.  I  have  received  no  commands  from  your  Lordships  since 
Dec.  last,  the  Greyhound  man  of  war  being  not  arrived.  P.S. — 
Tho'  I  have  not  yet  a  perfect  account  of  the  methods  lately 
tryed  to  seduce  the  Sinnekees  into  the  french  interest,  I  am 
certainly  inform'd  that  they  have  agreed  to  recieve  Priests 
among  them  from  the  French  which  I  look  upon  as  a  new  cause 
of  complaint  against  them  and  a  breach  of  Treaty  whereby 
they  are  required  (Treaty  of  Utrecht  Art.  15)  not  to  molest  the 
five  Nations  this  besides  their  continuing  to  fortify  at  Niagara 
shew  how  much  they  take  advantage  of  the  unsettled  state  of  the 
limits  between  the  Crowns.  Encloses  Naval  officer's  accounts 
etc.  Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed.  1st,  Read  2nd  Aug. 
1721.  3f  pp.  {Dujjlicate,  of  which  the  original  never  came  to 
hand).     [CO.  5,  1052.    ff.  164,  165-1 66i;.,  169?;.  {with  abstract)  ]. 

June  18.  534.  Governor  Burnet  to  Lord  Townshend.  I  reckon  it  a 
New  York,  grgat  happincss  to  depend  so  much  on  your  Lordship,  from  whom 
I  have  received  great  favours  so  many  years  ago  and  by  whose 
encouragement,  I  first  tum'd  my  thoughts  from  the  Church 
to  publick  business.  I  shall  never  forget  the  pleasure  I  had  at 
the  Hague,  in  being  admitted  so  often  to  wait  on  your  Lordship 
and  with  so  much  freedom.  It  has  given  me  great  un- 
easiness that  I  had  not  always  the  same  opportunitys  in 
England  etc.  etc.  Asks  for  his  assistance  in  obtaining  H.M. 
approbation  in  Council  of  Act  of  New  York,  "  by  which  a  duty 
is  raised  of  2  p.c.  on  European  goods  imported  here  in  order 
to  fortify  the  frontier,  which  is  very  naked,  and  would  be  of  no 
security  in  case  of  a  rupture  with  the  french.  They  are  indeed 
here  and  all  over  the  Continent  undermining  us  all  they  can 
by  instigating  their  Indians  to  spoil  our  out-plantations  and 
lately  by  sending  priests  among  our  Indians  of  the  five  Nations 
to  draw  them  from  us  etc.  :  they  are  too  at  this  time  fortifying 
at  Niagara,  which  has  been  long  ago  deemed  to  belong  to 
our  Indians  and  included  in  their  submission  of  their  whole 


348 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721 


June  19, 

Anapolis 
Royal  1. 


country  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain.  While  the  Hmits  are 
unsettled  the  French  loose  no  time  to  make  all  possible  encroach- 
ments, and  I  hope  your  Lordship  approves  my  earnestness  to 
prevent  them,  for  which  end  I  did  upon  my  first  arrival 
obtain  the  Act  I  have  recommended  to  be  confirmed  etc. 
Signed,  W.  Burnet.  A  duplicate,  sent  on  28th  June.  2|  pp. 
[CO.  5,  1092.     No.  18.] 

535.     Governor  Philips  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions.    It  being  a  misfortune  allmost  inseperable  from  men  in 
stations  to  be  exposed  to  the  detraction    of  the   wicked  and 
malitious,   be  theire  actions  never  so  just  and  unblameable, 
I   have  (within  few  days   past)   discover' d  this  to  have   been 
my  fate,  by  haveing  had  recourse  to  a  letter  booke    of    one 
Washington  Lieutenant  to  the  Ordnance,  (the  most  scandalous 
wretch  upon  the  earth)  who  has  (from  time  to  time)  entertain'd 
that  Board  at  mine  and  the  Officers  expence  of  this  Garrison  in 
a  most  false,  insolent  and  infamous  manner.     Encloses  following 
and  asks  for  their  Lordships'  protection.      Signed,  R.  Philipps. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  8th,  Read  13th  Sept.,  1721.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 
535.  i.  {a)  John    Washington    to    Thomas    Tickell,    Deputy 
Secretary  of  State.     Annapolis  Royall,  Oct.  22,  1719. 
Encloses  following  correspondence  for  his  consideration. 
(b)  Same  to   Michael   Richards,   Surveyor   General, 
and   the   Board   of  Ordnance,    and   Major   Lawrence 
Armstrong  at   Canso.     Oct.   22,   1719— May  9,   1721. 
Complains  that  the    officers   of  the  Garrison    are    all 
linked  together  to  oppress  the  persons  belonging  to  the 
Office  of  Ordnance  and  to  reduce  the  Train  to  the 
reglement  of  the  Regiment  etc.     They  are  all  merchants, 
from  the  highest  to  the  lowest  and  pay  their  people  in 
rum,  molasses  and  tobacco  at  their  own  prices  etc. 
Details  of   Ordnance    stores    accounts.     Endorsed   as 
preceding.     14|  pp. 
535.  ii.     Governor     Philipps     to    the    Board    of   Ordnance. 
Annapolis  Royall,  18th  June,  1721.     Replies  to  pre- 
ceding.     Signed,    R.    Philipps.      Same     endorsement. 
10|  pp. 
535.  iii.  Lt.   Governor    Doucett    and    the    Officers    of    the 
Garrison  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance.     Reply  to  the  false, 
malitious  and  incoherent  charges  "  of  No.  i.     Signed, 
John    Doucett    and    10    others.      Annapolis    Royal, 
13th  June,  1721.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     20^  pp. 
535.  iv.  Address   of  Council   of  Nova   Scotia   to   Governor 
Philipps.     Express    horror    and    amazement    at    Lt. 
Washington's  charges.     Washington  is  known  to  be 
a  most  notorious  lyar,  and  so  abominably  obsceen  and 
profane  in  his  ordinary  conversation  that  he  is  unfit 
for  humane  society,  his  word  and  honour  no  one  can 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  349 


1721. 

rely  on,  spending  most  of  his  time  in  sutling  houses, 
continually  drunk  etc.  Praise  the  Governor's  un- 
wearied zeal  in  promoting  everything  that  might  tend 
to  the  honour  and  interest  of  H.M.  and  the  Brittish 
Nation  and  to  the  settlement  of  this  Province.  His 
justice  and  moderation  have  been  conspicuous,  par- 
ticularly to  the  French  inhabitants,  in  whose  favour 
he  has  ventured  to  exceed  your  Instructions,  but 
always  acted  with  the  advice  of  the  Council,  with  the 
greatest  circumspection  and  caution,  etc.  Signed, 
by  all  the  members  of  H.M.  Council.  Endorsed  as 
preceding.     Copy.     3  pp. 

535.  V.  Affidavits  by   Lt.    Martin  Groundman,   Capt.   John 

Blower,  Serjant  Alexander  Watts,  Lt.  Governor 
Doucett,  Christopher  Aldridge,  Capt.  Joseph  Bennett, 
Charles  Toole,  Joseph  Toule,  William  Parr,  Benjamin 
Weston,  Griffeth  Jones,  Thomas  Dobbin,  William 
Johnson,  John  Bradstreet,  William  W^inniett,  as  to 
Mr.  Washington's  letter-book,  and  in  reply  to  his 
charges.  June,  1721.  Same  endorsement.  6f  pp. 
[CO.  217,  4.  ff.  2,  2v.,  3v.,  4,  5-12,  14-20,  21-31, 
32-34,  35-38.] 

June  20        ^36.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
WhitehaU.  Enclosc  following. 

536.  i.  Draught   of   H.M.    Commission   to   George  Phenney 

to  be  Captain  General  and  Governor  in  Chief  of  the 
Bahama  Islands,  and  revoking  that  of  Woodes  Rogers. 
Draft  of  Instructions  to  same.  The  same  verbatim 
as  those  of  Governor  Rogers,  Nov.  21,  1717.  [CO. 
24,  1.     pp.  55,  56.] 

June  20.  537.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Lowndes.  Encloses  Mr.  Harrison's 
Whit^^haii.  letter  {v.  June  10th)  to  be  laid  before  the  Lords  Commrs.  of  the 
Treasury.  Concludes  :  As  there  is  no  law  to  prevent  the  carr}^- 
ing  of  oar  from  the  Plantations,  the  Lords  Commrs.  of  Trade 
think  that  this  practice  may  be  of  such  consequence  to  H.M. 
Revenue,  that  it  do's  deserve  to  be  consider'd  in  Parliament, 
in  order  to  be  prevented  by  some  Act  to  be  pass'd  for  that 
purpose.     [CO.  5,  996.     pp.  105,  106.] 

June  21.        538.     Bryan  Wheelock,  Acting  Secretary  to  the  Council  of 

Whitehall.  Trade  and  Plantations,  to  David  Humphreys.     Reply  to  14th 

June.     Friday  at  10  of  the  clock  is  appointed  for  reconsidering 

the  Act  of  Barbados  referred  to  and  hearing  the  S.P.G.     [CO. 

29,  14.     pp.  120,  121.] 

June  21.       539.     Extent  and  Inquisition  taken  thereupon,  for  a  debt 
of  £700  sterl.   due  from  some   merchants  in  Antigua  to  Mr. 


.^50 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

Benja.  Blundell,  junr.,  late  Receiver  General  for  Leicestershire. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  11th  July,  1721.  Copy.  Latin. 
1  large  p.     [CO.  152,  13.    ff.  257,  257i;.] 

June  21.  540.  Similar  extent  and  inquisition  for  a  debt  of  £250  due 
from  a  merchant  in  S.  Carolina.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy. 
Latin.     1  large  p.     [CO.  5,  358.    ff.  84,  84v.] 


June  21. 


June  21. 


June  21. 

Custom  ho., 
London. 


541.  Copy  of  the  extent  and  inquisition  taken  thereupon 
for  a  debt  of  £1925  sterling  due  from  Messrs.  Palmer  and  Balston, 
merchants  in  New  England,  to  Benja.  Blundell  jr.,  etc.  Signed, 
Geo.  Wilson,  Soil,  to  the  Commrs.  for  Taxes.  E^idorsed,  Reed, 
(from  the  Agents  for  Taxes)  5th,  Read  11th  July,  1721.  1  large 
p.     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  62,  62?;.] 

542.  Extent  and  inquisition  taken  thereupon,  for  a  debt 
of  £500  due  from  some  merchants  in  Barbados  to  Benjamin 
Blundell,  jr.,  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  11th  July,  1721. 
Latin.     Copy.     1  large  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff  154,  154z;.] 

543.  Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.  Desires  copies  of  pro- 
ceedings at  Barbados  relating  to  a  ship  which  lately  put  in 
there,  bound  from  the  East  Indies  to  Ostend.  Signed,  Cha. 
Carkesse.     Endorsed,    Reed.    21st,    Read    22nd    June,    1721. 


Addressed. 


iP- 


[CO.  28,  17.    ff.  144,  145i;.] 


June  22.        544.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.     Reply  to  preceding.     No 

Whitehall,  account   has   been  received  of  any   proceedings   at  Barbados 

relating  to  such  ship  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  121,  122.] 


June  22. 


545.  Petition  of  Lewis  Piers  and  Cecilia  his  wife  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Prays  for  report  upon 
petition  referred  to  them  about  3  years  ago  for  confirmation 
of  certain  premisses  in  Montserratt.  Petitioners  are  reduced 
to  great  poverty  etc.  Signed,  I^ew.  Piers,  Cecilia  Piers.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  22nd  June,  1721.  |  p.  [CO.  152,  13. 
ff.  52,  53i;.] 


June  23. 


[June  23.] 


546.  Mr.  Bobin  to  ["ILord  Carteret].  I  pray  your  honour 
to  send  my  request  to  the  Treasury,  according  to  your  promise, 
in  order  that,  having  received  some  money,  I  may  be  able  to 
work  at  some  great  affair  known  only  by  myself.  Signed, 
Isaac  Bobin.     French.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  387.     No^.  26.] 

547.  Advis  Important  [Wy  Isaac  Bobin].  Important 
Notice.  Unless  the  South  Sea  Company  take  care  to  manage 
the  trade  to  New  Spain  as  it  ought  to  be,  it  will  be  their  utter 
ruin  etc.  I  will  explain  myself  and  bring  proof  for  the  same. 
By  a  Frenchman  and  in  same  hand  as  preceding.  ^  p.  [CO. 
5,'  387.     No.  27.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


351 


1721. 
June  23.        548.     Governor  Hart  to  Lord  Carteret.     I  have  endeavour'd 

London,  to  get  the  best  information  I  coii'd,  how  the  French  part  of 
St.  Christophers,  may  be  made  most  valuable  to  the  Crown, 
and  advantagious  to  Great  Britain,  and  be  most  speedily  and 
effectually  peopled,  so  as  to  be  an  additional  security,  not  only 
to  that,  but  to  the  other  Leeward  Islands,  and  in  obedience 
to  yor.  Lordships  commands  etc  suggests  (i)  An  exact 
survey  and  estimate  of  value  of  said  lands  to  be  made 
immediately,  since  the  present  possessors  pay  no  acknowledg- 
ment to  the  Crown  and  hold  by  no  other  title  than  that  of  a 
letter  from  the  Secretary  of  State  that  they  should  not  be 
disturbed  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known.  Continues :  As  they 
hold  these  lands  by  so  precarious  a  foot,  they  make  the  most  of 
it  for  the  present,  tho'  they  thereby  very  much  impoverish  the 
soil,  which  in  a  little  time  will  greatly  diminish  the  value  thereof ; 
and  are  so  far  from  making  improvements,  as  would  fix  and 
establish  them  there,  they  are  now  on  the  wing,  and  always 
will  be,  till  they  have  a  certain  estate  in  the  lands.  It  is  agreed 
by  all  persons  whom  I  have  discours'd,  that  it  will  be  hardly 
possible  to  find  purchasers  for  these  lands,  there  being  little 
money  in  the  Islands,  and  few  of  the  inhabitants  have  any 
considerable  funds  here.  Proposes  grants  of  leases,  with  a 
preference  to  present  possessors  etc.  Continues  :  The  number 
of  the  inhabitants  of  these  Islands  are  much  decreased,  and 
the  number  of  the  French  in  the  neighbouring  Islands  are  vastly 
increased  etc.    Signed,  Jo.  Hart.    3  pp.    [CO.  152,  42.    No.  115]. 

June  24.  549.  Petty  Expenses,  and  Stationer's  and  Postage  Account 
of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Lady  Day  to  Midsummer,  1721.  (v. 
B.T.  Journal).     [CO.  388,  78.    //".  4,  5,  10,  11,  18.] 

June  24.  550.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Whitehall.  Encloscs  following  for  their  report.  Signed,  Carteret. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  27th  June,  1721.  f  p.  Enclosed, 
550.  i.  Memorial  of  Governor  John  Lord  Belhaven  to  the 
King.  The  appointments  for  the  Governor  of  Bar- 
bados have  not  been  equall  to  the  expences.  There- 
fore the  Assembly  have  made  frequent  presents  to 
their  Governors  who  have  been  obliged  to  accept  the 
same,  tho'  contrary  to  their  Instructions.  Memoralist 
determineing  strictly  to  observe  your  Majesty's  Royall 
orders,  and  to  accept  of  no  such  presents,  yet  being 
desireous  to  maintain  a  port  suitable  to  the  employ 
and  the  inhabitants  being  the  only  judges  what  shall 
be  necessary  for  that  purpose  etc.  Prays  H.M.  to 
insert  it  in  his  Instructions  that  the  Assembly  may  be 
permitted  by  an  Act  or  Acts  to  settle  on  him  what 
they  shall  judge  proper  in  lieu  of  presents  for  supporting 
the  dignity  of  said  Governor  during  his  continuance  etc. 
f  p.     [CO,  28,  17.    ff.  148,  149,  151i;.] 


352  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


1721. 

June  28.        551.     Governor     Burnet     to     [^Charles    Delafaye].      Your 

New  York.  Brother  Riggs  was  speakeing  to  me(n)  very  earnestly  about 

bedding  for  the  men,  it  being  necessary  to  preserve  them  from 

starving  of  cold  etc.     Signed,  W.  Buniet.     Endorsed,  R.  Aug. 

Holograph.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  1092.     No.  19.] 

June  30.  552.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Attorney  and  Solicitor  General. 
Whitehall.  Asks  for  opinion  whether  Delaware  River  or  any  part  thereof, 
or  the  Islands  therein  lying  are  by  the  {enclosed)  clauses  in  their 
Charters  conveyed  to  either  New  Jersey  or  Pennsylvania,  "  or 
whether  the  right  thereunto  doth  still  remain  in  the  Crown." 
[CO.  5,  1293.     p.  237.] 

June  30.        553.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M.     Autograph  signatures. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 

553.  i.  Same  to  the  King.  Representation  upon  Memorial 
of  Governor  Lord  Belhaven  upon  presents  from  the 
Assembly  {v.  24th  June).  Quote  Representation  of 
1701.  V.  C.S.P.  1701.  No.  383,  "  which  report  was 
read  in  Council  but  nothing  ordered  thereupon.  But 
upon  a  further  Representation  {v.  C.S.P.  1702.  No. 
349),  Her  late  Majesty  was  pleased  to  make  additions 
to  the  salarys  of  several  Governors  and  expressly 
to  forbid  their  receiving  of  any  presents  whatever. 
The  addition  made  upon  that  occasion  to  the  salary 
of  the  Govr.  of  Barbados  was  £800  pr.  annum  to  make 
the  said  salary  of  the  Govr.  of  Barbados  was  £800  pr. 
annum  to  make  the  said  salary  £2000,  as  is  particularly 
recited  by  110th  and  111th  Instructions,  whereby  the 
Governors  of  Barbados  are  at  present  debar' d  from 
receiving  any  presents  except  only  for  a  house  or 
rent  for  the  same  not  exceeding  £300  pr.  annum 
sterling  to  be  settled  at  the  first  session  of  Assembly, 
after  such  Governor's  arrival,  and  so  to  continue 
during  the  whole  time  of  his  Government ;  we  must 
thereon  observe  that  notwithstanding  the  aforesaid 
Instructions  the  Assemblys  of  Barbados  and  of  some 
other  Plantations  have  made  presents  to  their 
Governors,  which  is  certainly  a  pernicious  practice,  and 
ought  upon  all  occasions  to  be  discountenanced  how 
true  soever  the  usual  pretence  for  such  presents  may 
have  been,  that  the  particular  salarys  of  some  Govrs. 
have  not  been  suflficient  for  their  support.  But  if  the 
present  salary  of  the  Governor  of  Barbados  should 
not  be  thought  adequate  to  his  necessary  expences, 
and  sufficient  to  support  the  dignity  of  his  office,  as 
the  chief  intention  of  the  aforemention'd  Instructions 
has  been  to  prevent  Governors  from  being  dependent 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  353 


1721. 


upon  the  Assemblys,  we  have  no  objection  to  any 
addition,  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  may  make  to 
my  Lord  Belhaven's  salary  upon  his  arrival  there, 
provided  the  same  be  settled  upon  his  Lordship  for 
the  whole  time  of  his  continuance  there  as  Governor 
in  such  manner  as  particularly  provided  in  the  case 
of  house  rent  M^hich  stands  at  present  excepted  out 
of  his  Instructions.  And  we  are  of  opinion  it  would 
be  greatly  for  your  Majesty's  ser\ice  that  the  said 
additional  salary  should  be  likewise  settled  upon  all 
succeeding  Governors  of  Barbados,  provided  the  same 
can  be  obtain'd."  Autograph  signatures.  4f  pp. 
[CO.  28,  39.     Nos.  8,  8  i.  ;    and  29,  14.     pp.  123-128.]' 

June  30.        554.     Address  of  Assembly  of  New  York  to  Governor  Burnet. 
It  is  with  some  concern  w^e  appear  before  you  on  an  affair  which 
we  flattered  ourselves  had  long  since  been  set  in  so  just  a  light 
before  her  late  Majestic  and  Ministers  by  former  Assemblies 
of  this  Province  as  would  render  any  attempt  fruitless  to  relay 
that  burthen  on  this    Colony    which    we    thought   had  been 
effectually  removed  by  the  direction  of  our  superiors  and  which 
even  the  person  himself  who  was  said  to  have  been  most  con- 
cerned in  the  profit,  thought  too  heavy  and  unreasonable  to 
impose.     We  find  by  a  letter  from  the  Rt.  Hon.  the  Commrs. 
of  H.M.  Treasury  to  the  Treasurer  of  this  Colony,  that  those 
right  Honourable  persons  are  of  opinion  that  the  neglecting, 
or  refusing  to  account  with  the  Auditor  General  will  be  looked 
upon  as  a  contempt  of  H.INL  authority.     How  farr  artfull  repre- 
sentations from  hence  have  prevailed,  we  have  from  this  but 
too  much  reason  to  suspect,  but  we  humbly  hope  when  their 
Lordps.  are  truly  informed  how  that  matter  stands  they  will 
abate  of  the  severity  of  their  sentiments  and  give  such  directions 
as  are  suitable  to  H.M.  goodness    and,  we  hope,  favourable 
inclinations  to  a  people,  who  by  repeated  instances  have  shewn 
they  have  nothing  more  at  heart  than  to  approve  themselves  his 
faithfull  subjects.     We  are  so  farr  from  desiring  that  H.M.  or 
his   Ministers  should    be    unacquainted  with  the  state  of  his 
Revenue  here  that  we  think  no  one  thing  would  be  of  greater 
service  to  this  Province  than  H.M.  being  truly  and  thoroughly 
informed  of  the  dispositions  of  every  penny  of  it.     Had  that 
been  justly  done  by  all  the  Governors   of  "this   Province,   we 
have  great  reason  to  beleive  we  should  not  have  laboured  under 
that  great  load  of  debt  which  was  too  manifestly  owing  to  the 
extraordinary  misapplication  and  squandering  of  the  publick 
money,  and  we  are  bold  to  say  her  late  Majesty's  indulgence  in 
adrnitting  us  a  Treasurer  of  our  own,  made  it  practicable  to 
retrieve  the  publick  credit,  which  must  otherwise  have  been 
dispaired  of,  unless  the  Crown  by  an  excess  of  Royal  munifi- 
cence had  replenished  a  Treasury  imprudently  emptyed  by  those 

Wt.  7593  C.P.  32—23 


354  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721. 

iiistnicted  here  with  the  management  of  it.  Among  the  many 
extravaganeys  of  those  times  one  was  the  allowing  a  fee  or 
salary  to  the  Auditor  General  of  5  p.c.  upon  the  whole  amount 
of  H.M.  Revenue  in  this  Province.  We  venture  to  call  this 
extravagant,  first,  because  such  a  salary  in  this  Province  was 
not  allowed  him  by  H.M.  Commission,  secondly,  because  he 
himself  disapproved  of  it ;  that  such  a  salary  never  was  allowed 
or  intended  by  LLM.  to  be  allowed  him  out  of  his  Revenue  in 
this  Province,  we  humbly  conceive,  appears  by  the  Commission 
itself,  for,  by  that,  there  is  only  the  salary  of  £500  yearly  given 
as  a  reward  for  the  auditing  all  H.M.  Plantations  in  America, 
which  salar}^  is  appointed  to  be  paid  out  of  H.M.  revenues  in 
Virginia,  Bcrbados,  Leeward  Islands  and  Jamaica  etc.  (quoted), 
and  not  one  word  of  any  allowance  made  him  out  of  H.M. 
revenue  in  New  York,  and  by  what  authority  he  could  take  to 
himself  a  twentieth  part  of  H.M.  Revenue  here,  when  H.M. 
had  given  no  such  direction,  we  are  yet  to  seek.  We  have 
indeed  heard  it  was  taken  as  a  quantum  meruit  but  that  could 
not  be  ;  for  the  £500  was  what  the  Crown  thought  to  be  a 
sufficient  reward,  and  we  do  not  find,  by  that  Commission,  any 
authority  given  to  that  officer  to  proportion  what  part  of  H.M. 
revenue  shall  be  paid  himself  out  of  the  revenue  arising  in  the 
several  Plantations,  not  named  in  that  Commission,  that  being, 
in  our  humble  opinion,  a  power  lodged  solely  in  the  Crown 
a.nd  not  to  be  done  by  any  subject  whatsoever  without  express 
and  particular  directions  under  the  great  Seal.  It  is  true  the 
disposition  of  the  publick  mony  here  as  we  suppose  in  other 
places  was  in  the  Governor  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Council,  and  some  of  those  Governors  here  depending 
more  on  the  favour  and  interest  of  the  then  Auditor  General, 
than  on  their  own  good  behaviour,  for  their  continuance,  might 
prevail  upon  a  timed  and  pusillanimous  Council  to  consent  to 
such  a  lavish  disposition  of  the  publick  mony.  This  we  suppose 
gave  rise  to  the  demanding  of  it  as  a  fee  or  perquisite,  tho'  we 
do  not  find  it  ever  was  allowed  by  the  Treasury,  and  whether 
ever  it  was  received  by  himself,  there  is  some  reason  to  doubt, 
for  in  the  observation  made  (as  we  suppose  by  the  then  Auditor) 
on  the  accompts  of  New  York  1703  and  1704,  among  many 
extravagant  charges  taken  notice  of  in  those  accounts,  this  of 
the  5  p.c.  is  one,  and  'tis  noted  by  way  of  memorandum  that 
Mr.  Blathwayt  conceiving  his  salary  as  Auditor  and  Surveyor 
General  too  large  at  5  p.c.  upon  the  ordinary  and  extraordinary 
levyes,  he  is  contented  with  the  sum  of  £150  sterling  pr.  annum 
and  the  allowance  to  him  and  his  deputy  to  be  stated  with  an 
advance  of  current  money  accordingly.  It  is  confessed  by  Mr. 
Blathwayt' s  own  observation  on  the  accounts  of  this  Province 
that  there  was  a  charge  of  5  p.c.  on  the  extraordinary  levys. 
It  is  evident  that  this  was  an  extraordinar\^  imposition,  not 
within  the  meaning  of  the  Commission,  or  nature  of  the  thing 


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1721. 


to  be  accounted  with  the  Auditor  General,  and  was  a  mistake, 
so  obvious,  that  the  Lord  Treasurer  could  not  fail  of  observing 
if  the  accounts  were  shewn  him  in  a  time  light.  There  had  been 
from  1691  to  1703  inclusive  extraordinary  levys  to  the  value 
of  £22,698,  over  and  above  the  common  annual  revenue,  this 
at  5  p.c.  to  the  Auditor  is  almost  £100  pr.  annum  for  which  he 
had  no  manner  of  right  or  pretence  but  things  of  this  kind  were 
easily  complyed  with  here  by  Receivers  of  tlie  Re  veil  ue  intirely 
at  the  Governour's  disposal,  and  it  is  not  unworthy  observation 
that  the  Receiver  General's  salary  for  recei^■ing  and  paying  all 
this  money  came  to  about  £260  pr.  annum  and  the  Auditor 
for  looking  over  the  accounts  received  a  salary  not  much  short 
if  not  in  some  years  exceeding.  If  that  officer  had  received 
that  salary  from  the  date  of  his  Commission  till  that  time,  or 
for  any  years  before  1703,  (as  there  is  no  great  doubt  of  its  being 
charged  in  the  former  accompts  of  this  Province),  he  must 
have  known  it  to  have  been  too  large  before  that  time,  all  this 
renders  it  suspected  either  that  the  accounts  were  not 
transmittted  to  him  with  that  article  and  then  it  was  pocketted 
here,  or  that  he  did  not  shew  them  to  the  Lord  Treasurer,  as 
fearing  his  disallowance,  it  being  an  act  of  uncommon  generosity 
for  a  man  to  lessen  his  own  yearly  salary  when  he  might  have 
kept  it.  How  that  matter  was  we  don't  presume  to  determine, 
but  we  cannot  yet  be  persuaded  to  believe,  that  when  the 
King  thinks  £150  sterl.  a  sufficient  proportion  to  be  paid  to 
the  Auditor  General  out  of  his  revenues  in  Berbados,  which  we 
are  told  amount  to  16  to  £18,000  yearly,  that  the  Ld.  Treasurer 
will  be  of  opinion,  that  either  5  p.c,  which  has  amounted  to 
betwixt  2  or  £300  a  year  (and  if  extraordinary  levys  were  to  be 
accompted  for  some  years  past  would  amount  to  more  than 
£600)  or  £150  sterl.  per  annum  is  a  reasonable  proportion  to  be 
deducted  out  of  the  Revenue  of  this  Province,  which  by  all  the 
methods  wee  have  been  yet  able  to  take  has  not  come  to  above 
£4000  pr.  annum  one  year  with  another,  which  makes  our 
quota  to  the  Auditor  under  £40  pr.  annum.  We  are  humbly  of 
opinion,  that  the  Treasurer's  refusing  to  account  with  the 
Auditor  General  (if  so  he  did)  could  not  proceed  from  any 
intention  of  the  Treasurer  to  hinder  H.M.,  or  his  Ministers  from 
a  knowledge  of  the  disposal  of  his  Revenue  here,  he  being  of 
the  Council  could  not  be  ignorant  that  no  Act  could  be  passed 
here  for  raising  or  levying  of  any  money  whereby  the 
same  should  not  be  made  lyable  to  be  accounted  for  to 
H.M.  or  his  Ministers.  And  by  your  Excellencys  Instructions 
and  those  given  to  Brigadier  Hunter  fair  books  of  accounts 
being  to  be  kept  of  all  receits  and  payments  and  these  trans- 
mitted to  the  Commrs.  of  the  Treasury  or  the  Lord  High 
Treasurer,  or  board  of  Trade,  and  the  Treasurer  having  been 
always  ready  and  willing  to  account  with  the  Govemour  when 
and  as  often  as  he  pleased,  those  accounts  if  sent  home  by  the 


35G  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ' 

Governour  according  to  the  directions  given  him,  neither  H.M. 
or  his  Ministers  could  be  ignorant  of  the  state  of  the  Revenue 
here,  but  as  certainly  informed  of  it,  as  if  those  accounts 
were  transmitted  by  the  Auditor  General  and  layd  before  the 
Comnirs.  of  the  Treasury  etc.  It  was  before  the  Treasurer 
received  their  Lordps.'  order  to  account  that  he  refused 
(if  so  he  did)  with  the  Deputy  Auditor,  and  as  soon  as 
their  Lordps.  signifyed  their  pleasure,  he  readily  promised 
to  pay  an  obedience  to  their  commands,  but  we  humbly 
hope  such  accounting  (whenever  it  is)  will  not  load  H.M. 
revenue  here,  with  a  debt  of  5  p.c.  or  £150  pr.  annum, 
when  it  appears,  by  the  Auditor's  Commission,  there  is  no 
foundation  for  the  demands  of  a  sum  so  disproportionable  to 
our  circumstances.  It  is  equal  to  the  Treasurer  with  whom  he 
accounts,  and  his  duty  to  account  with  such  person  as  H.M. 
will  please  to  authorize  for  that  purpose,  and  his  declining  to 
account  with  the  Deputy  Auditor  was  because  he  was  appre- 
hensive of  a  charge  of  five  per  cent  upon  the  whole  amount  of 
the  Revenue,  and  perhaps  upon  the  extraordinary  levyes,  which 
would  have  risen  to  so  great  a  sum  as  he  thought  would  not 
have  been  justifyable  for  him  to  pay  without  particular  direc- 
tions from  his  superiors,  who  he  believed  was  not  informed  of 
that  matter,  and  we  humbly  hope  the  Rt.  Hon.  the  Commrs. 
of  the  Treasury  will  no  longer  look  upon  that  as  a  contempt 
of  H.M.  authority,  which  was  purely  done  to  prevent  what, 
we  hope,  those  right  Honourable  persons  will  think  too  great  a 
deduction  from  his  revenue.  How  hearty  and  ready  this 
Assembly  has  been  to  support  H.M.  Government  is  not  unknown 
to  your  Excellency,  nor  with  what  difficultys  funds  are  found 
out  for  that  purpose.  There  are  few  branches  of  our  imports, 
except  European  goods,  but  what  are  loaded  as  much  as  the 
trade  will  bear,  and  notwithstanding  all  the  precautions  we 
have  been  capable  of  using  to  prevent  a  debt,  the  revenue  is 
as  yet  insufficient  to  pay  officers  and  discharge  the  necessary 
incidents  of  the  Government.  What  then  must  be  the  con- 
sequence if  the  deadweight  of  5  per  cent  on  the  whole  revenue 
for  several  years  passed  be  added.  We  could  heartily  wish  it 
was  in  our  power  without  ruining  the  trade  and  inhabitants 
of  this  Province,  to  make  H.M.  revenue  ample  enough  not  only 
for  the  handsom  support  of  his  Government  here,  but  to  enable 
him  to  extend  his  Royal  bounty  to  such  persons  as  he  thought 
fit  objects  of  it,  but  how  unable  we  are  to  do  this,  your  Ex- 
cellency too  well  knows,  as  we  beleive  you  do,  that  if  5  p.c.  or 
£150  stcrl.  yearly  arrearages,  or  even  yearly  salary  for  the  time 
to  come,  be  paid  that  it  will  be  impossible  to  pay  the  officers 
of  the  Government  their  salarys,  which  we  hope  will  be  sufficient 
reason  to  prevail  upon  the  Rt.  Hon.  the  Lord  Treasurer  to 
disallow  such  demand.  Signed,  Rt.  Livingston.  Speaker.  Copy 
uf  later  date,  cf.  April  26,  1722.     G  pp.     [CO.  5,  1085.     No.  39.'j 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  357 


1721. 
June  30.       555.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enelose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M. 

555.  i.  Same  to  the  King.     Representation  upon  Memorial 
(quoted)    of  the  Copartners  for  settling  the  Bahama 
Islands  [v.  19th  April,  1721).     This  Board  has  upon 
many  occasions  represented  to  your  Majesty  as  well 
as  to  your    Royal    predecessors  the  great  importance 
of  these  Islands,  and  how  highly  necessary  it  was  to 
the  trade  of  these  Kingdoms,  that  the  same  should 
be  effectually  settled,   their  situation   being  such  as 
makes  them  capable  of  protecting  the  ships  of  your 
Majty's    subjects,    and  of  intercepting  those  of  their 
West  Indian  neighbours  in  case  of  a  rupture.     The 
expence  the   petitioners   have   already  been  at,   etc., 
amounts  to  upwards  of  £100,000  {v.  \Qth  April),  and 
tho'  they  have  been  once    formerly    attack'd  by  an 
invasion  from  New  Spain,  and  at  other  times  by  great 
numbers   of  pirates   whom   upon   their   arrival   they 
dislodg'd   from   thence,    they   have   hitherto   made   a 
shift  to  maintain  your  Majty's   dominion    there,  and 
they  humbly  hope  they  shall  be  able  to  do  so  for  the 
future  provided  your  Majesty  be  graciously  inclin'd 
to  grant  them  such  further  assistance  as  may  encourage 
planters  to  settle  there  ;    Wherefore  we  humbly  take 
leave  conformable  to  several  former  reports  to  move 
your  Majesty  that  you  would  be  pleas'd  to  allow  them 
another    Independant    Company    of    100    men    with 
proper  officers  to  be  maintain'd  there  at  your  IMajesty's 
charge  upon  the  same  foot  with  the  other  company 
already  in  garrison  etc.  ;    and  for  some  few  years  to 
allow  such  a  salary  for  the  Governor  there  as  to  your 
Majesty   shall   seem   most   convenient,   till   this   new 
Settlement  shall  be  in  condition,  as  in  all  probability 
it  shortly  will  if  duly  encouraged,  to  bear  its  own 
expences.     For  this  end  the   Copartners  are   desirous 
your  Majesty  should  grant  them  your  Royal  Charter 
of  Incorporation   without   which  they   apprehend   it 
will  be  impossible  for  them  to  proceed  etc.     Reasons 
given  {v.  19th  April).     Continue  :    To  which  we  shall 
have  no  objection,  provided  the  same  be  sufficiently 
guarded  and  secur'd  from  stock  jobbing ;    and  those 
other    inconveniencies    which    have    too    frequently 
taken  rise  from  the  misapplication  of  several  former 
Charters  of  Incorporation  to  other  Companies.     Having 
therefore  further  discours'd  with  the  Copartners  upon 
this  subject,  we  find  that  they  will  verj'  readily  submit 
to  the  proper  restrictions  for  this  purpose.     They  are 
willing  that  their  capital  stock  shall  not  at  any  time 
exceed  £500,000,  and  that  no  other  dividends  shall  be 


^58  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1721.  ~~~  ~~ 

made  to  the  Proprietors  but  such  as  do  really  and  bona 
fide  arise  from  the  profits  of  the  Company,  excepting 
dividends  in  land  only  for  Plantations,  according  to 
the  powers  gi\'en  them  by  the  I^ords  Proprietors  of 
those  Islands,  That  no  transfers  shall  be  made  of 
their  stock  for  the  first  twelve  months  after  the  date 
of  their  Charter,  nor  any  afterwards  by  any  person 
whatsoever  that  shall  not  have  Ixicn  six  months  in 
possession  of  their  stock.  That  their  Charter  be 
confin'd  to  the  term  of  30  years  ;  that  none  of  your 
Majesty's  subjects  be  excluded  from  trading  to  the 
Bahama  Islands  during  that  time  ;  that  during  the 
continuance  of  the  said  term  they  shall  oblige  them- 
selves communibus  annis  to  imploy  1000  ton  of 
shipping.  Upon  which  conditions  and  restrictions 
we  are  humbly  of  opinion  it  may  be  for  your  Majesty's 
service  if  you  are  so  pleas 'd  to  grant  the  said  Co- 
partners a  Charter,  provided  that  no  powers  of  Govt, 
relating  to  the  said  Islands  be  thereby  given  them, 
but  that  the  entire  dominion  of  the  said  Islands  do 
in  all  respects  absolutely  remain  in  your  Majesty  and 
your  Royal  Successors.  \C.O.  24,  1.  ipp.  58-64  ;  and 
23,   12.    ^  No.  79.] 

June  30.  556.  H.M.  Warrant  appointing  Philip  Livingston  Town 
St.  James's.  Clcrk,  Clerk  of  the  Peace  and  Clerk  of  the  Common  Pleas  in 
the  county  and  city  of  Albany,  and  Secretary  or  Agent  for  the 
Government  of  New  York  to  the  Indians,  with  a  salary  of  £100 
sterling  to  be  paid  out  of  H.M.  Revenue  of  New  York.  Counter- 
signed, Carteret.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  71,  72.] 

June  30.  557.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua,  Plantations.  Encloses  Act  to  impose  a  duty  on  sugar,  mollasses, 
rum,  cotton,  and  ginger  of  the  produce  or  manufacture  of  the 
French  King's  Colonies  imported  into  this  Island,  etc.  The 
Surveyor  General  of  H.M.  Customs  has  laid  before  myself 
and  Council  a  Memorial  against  passing  the  said  bill  into  a  law, 
which  has  been  considered  of  and  answered  by  the  Council  etc. 
Refers  to  enclosures.  Besides  the  reasons  contained  in  the  said 
answer  and  the  preamble  etc.,  I  crave  leave  to  inform  your 
Lordships  how  and  in  what  manner  this  clandestine  trade  is 
carried  on,  how  the  King  is  defrauded  of  His  customs,  and  the 
impossibility  of  preventing  of  it  unless  this  law  meets  with  the 
Royal  sanction.  Your  Lordships  upon  observing  the  map  of 
Antigua  will  see  how  many  creeks,  bays  and  roads  there  are, 
several  of  which  are  distant  from  any  settlements,  by  reason 
the  barrenness  of  the  soil  will  not  allow  of  them,  and  'tis  in 
these  remote  places  they  carry  on  this  trade.  Upon  their 
coming  to  anchor  here,  and  notice  given  to  their  correspondents, 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  yS'J 


1721, 


they  immediately  hire   the  sugar  drogiiig  vessels,   these  they 
employ  to  unload  their  sloops,  and  shift  the  sugar  into  English 
cask,  bring  them  into  harbour,  as  if  thev  brought  them  from 
other  ports  of  the  Island,  and  take  out  cockets  for  them  at  the 
Custom  House,  and  ship  them  as  our  own  produce  for  Great 
Britain,  'tis  true  they  pay  the  4|  p.c.  here,  but  then  H.M.  is 
defrauded  of  the  alien  duty  at  home  and  of  a  great  part  of  the 
enumarated  duty  upon  sugars  shipt  to  North  America,  which  is 
a  manifest  fraud,  and  a  deminution  of  the  Revenue.     I  cannot 
pretend  to  lay  any  charge  against  the  Custom  House  Officers  for 
neglect  of  their  duty,  because  I  am  convinced  as  this  fraud  is 
carried  on  'tis  impossible  they  can  come  up  with  them  without 
it  be  by  meer  accident,  several  instances  of  which  I  ha^'e  known, 
when  informations    have  been    given,  but  all  have  proved  in- 
effectual, for,  the  Custom  house  boat  can  no  sooner  put  to  sea 
but  they  ha\'e  notice  from  their  friends,  and  thereupon  they 
immediately  weigh  and  to  sea  and  keep  out  till  some  signals 
are  made  that  all  is  secure,  by  which  your  Lordships  may  per- 
ceive that  'tis  impossible  to  prevent  this  pernicious  trade,  unless 
it  be  by  such  an  Act  as  this  now  sent,  or  by  allowing  the  Custom 
House  a  sloop  or  two  to  clear  our  coasts.     I  shall  not  say  anv- 
thing  of  the  hardships  the  industrious  planter  suffers  by  this 
trade,  because  the  Council  in  their  answer  have  set  that  matter 
forth  fully,  but  assure  your  Lordships  that  I  am  very  appre- 
hensive that  unless  there  is  a  speedy  stop  put  to  it,  that  in  t  he 
end  it  may  prove  our  ruin.     The  French  as  I  am  very  well 
informed,   particularly  at  Guardeloupe,  an  Island  in  sight  of 
this,  and  which  you  may  fetch  over  upon  a  stretch,  are  daily 
carrying   on   new   settlements   and   greatly   encrease   in   their 
number  of  inhabitants.     Your  Lordships  'must  be  sensible  of 
the  difficulties  in  carrying  on  new  settlements,  especially  when 
a  great  tract  of  land  is  to  be  setled,  and  that  that  cannot  be 
done  without  supplies,  and  these  supplies  as  negroes,  provisions, 
horses,  and  all  manner  of  lumber,  (and  without  which  they 
could  not  carry  on  their  settlements)  this  trade  gives  them,  (it 
being  usual  for  the  vessels  that  carry  these  things  to  the  french 
to  clear  for  Barbados  and  the  Leeward  Islands)  the  natural 
consequence  of  this  trade  is,  and  the  inconvenience  of  which 
we  may  find  when  'tis  too  late,  in  case  a  war  should  break  out, 
that  we  have  enabled  a  neighbouring  Island  to  go  on  with  their 
settlements  who  in  retalliation  will  endeavour  to  take  ours  from 
us.     Another  great  inconvenience  is,  that  the  French  (those 
that  use  the  trade)  are  as  good  pilots  as  our  selves,  and  can  run 
into  the  most  difficult  places  at  any  time  of  the  night,  so  'tis 
easy    to    imagine,    what    the    consequence    of    making    them 
acquainted  with  our  coasts  will  be,  in  case  they  have  the  first 
newes  of  a  war  etc.     By  this  Act,  the  Custom^  House  Officers 
are  required  to  take  an  oath  for  the  due  execution  of  the  said 
law,  which  the  Surveyor  General  has  refused,  as  you  will  per- 


360  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

ceive  by  the  inclosed  minute,  to  which  I  refer  and  hope  your 
Lordships  will  favour  me  with  an  answer  whether  the  I^egislative 
authority  has  not  a  power  to  impose  such  an  oath.  Signed, 
W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read  16th  Aug.  1721. 
3  pp.     Enclosed, 

557.  i.  Memorial    of    Charles    Dunbar,    Surveyor    of    H.M. 
Customs   of  Barbados   and   the   Leeward   Islands,   to 
the  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua.     Protests  against 
against  the  bill  proposed  for  laying  such  heavy  im- 
posts upon  produce  of  the  French  Islands  as  prejudicial 
to  trade,  being  in  effect  prohibition,  and  to  the  naviga- 
tion of  the  Island  and  of  Great  Britain,  and  reducing 
the  Revenue  by  reducing  the  amount  imported  into 
England.     A  fifth  part  of  the  duties  now  proposed 
might  p^o^'e  bcnelieial  etc.     Copy.     3  pp. 
557.  ii.  H.M.    Commissioners    of   Customs    to    Mr.    Dunbar. 
Custom  House,  London.     16th  March,  1719.     If  any 
new  commoditys  shall  be  raised  or  manufactures  begun 
within  any  of  the  Islands  in  your  district,  or  if  any  Acts 
are  passed,   which  relate  to  trade   or  navigation,  or 
which  you  apprehend  are  prejudiciall  thereto,  or  to 
the  Revenue  etc.,  you  are  to  give  us  notice  etc.      Signed, 
M.  Dudley,  and  three  others.     Copy.     1  p. 
557.  iii.  .Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua  to  Charles  Dunbar. 
26th  June,  1721.     Reply  to  No.  1.     Goods  have  been 
rendered  scarce  and  prices  high  t>y  this  exportation 
to  the  French  Islands.     This  trade  strengthens  the 
French  and  thereby  exposes  the  \aluable  Colony  of 
Antigua  to  the  utmost  danger  in  case  of  war.     The 
importation  of  French  goods  has  lessened  the  value 
of  ours  and  caused  many  of  the  inhabitants  to  desert 
the  Island.     Often  when  the  poor  have  been  almost 
starving  a  monopolizing  French  trader  has  engrossed 
a  whole   cargo  of  provision  and  transported   it   in  a 
clandestine   manner  to   Martinique   etc.     The   British 
market  by  being  glutted  with  French  sugars  has  kept 
ours  at  so  low  an  ebb  that  the  planters  can  hardly 
support  themselves.     It  will  be  more  prejudicial    to 
the  Revenue  if  this  Colony  sinks  etc.     We  think  it 
absolutely  necessary-  to  pass  the  Act  etc.     Signed,  by 
command  of  the  Council,   Gilbt.   Fleming,   D.   Clerk 
Councill,      Copy.      2|    j^P-      -^o*-    i.-iii.    endorsed    as 
covering  letter. 
obi.  iv.  Minutes  of  Council  and  Asseml)iy  of  Antigua,  26th 
June,   1721.     Mr.  Dunbar,  on  behalf  of  the  Officers 
of  the  Customs,  being    called  upon  to  take  the  oath 
prescribed  by  the  Act  laying  a  duty  on  French  sugars 
imported,  the  time  for  which  had  expired,  desired  to 
be   excused   from   taking   any   oaths   having   relation 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  361 

to  their  offices  or  to  observe  any  instructions  but  such 
as  they  shall  receive  from  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury 
and  Commissioners  of  the  Customs.  Signed  and 
endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy.  1  p.  [CO.  152,  14. 
ff.  7-13,  l^v,  15,  \Qv.] 

July  1.  558.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.  Encloses  papers  relating 
Whitehall,  to  searching  of  merchants'  ships  at  Jamaica  to  be  laid  before 
the  Commissioners  of  Customs.  The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  desire  to  be  informed  how  the  law  stands  with  respect 
to  French  indigo  from  the  Plantations  as  likewise  in  regard  to 
seizures  in  general  how  farr  Sr.  Nicholas  Lawes's  warrant  to 
Capt.  Brooke  may  be  authentick  to  Robert  Hall  who  appears 
to  have  had  a  temporary  power  to  be  assistant-waiter  and  to 
seize  contraband  goods,  and  particularly  whether  a  ship  being 
once  cleared  makes  any  difference  as  to  her  being  searched. 
Being  informed  that  there  is  on  board  ship  Pompey,  Capt. 
Peniston,  lately  arrived  at  Woolwich  from  Jamaica  a  small 
box  directed  to  the  Lords  Commrs.  for  Trade  containing  sevl. 
letters,  acts  and  other  publick  papers  of  that  Island,  but  the 
officers  on  board  will  not  permit  the  Captain  to  deliver  the  sd. 
box  to  their  Lordships  unless  it  be  first  opened  on  board  in 
their  presence,  I  am  to  desire  that  the  said  officers  may  be 
directed  to  permit  the  Captain  to  send  the  said  box  to  their 
Lordships  there  being  several  things  expected  to  be  in  it  which 
may  be  of  use  for  their  Lordships'  information.  [CO.  138,  16. 
pp.  294-296.] 

July  1.        559.     Mr.  Savage  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Jioston.  Refers  to  the  ridiculous,  false  and  malicious  letters  of  Lt. 
Washington  {v.  19th  June).  Concludes: — He  accuses  me  of 
having  exacted  of  the  French  inhabitants  {of  Nova  Scotia) 
such  high  fees,  in  my  office  as  Secretary,  that  hath  obliged  them 
to  leave  the  Province  etc.  I  solemnly  declare  that  the  fees  etc. 
I  have  received  for  the  whole  year  from  them  has  not  amounted 
to  £3  sterling  etc.  Signed,  Wr.  Savage.  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th, 
Read  13th  Sept.,  1721.     3  pp.     [CO.  217,  4.    //".  40-41^.] 

July  4.  •  560.  Agents  for  taxes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Office  for  tions,  Enclosc  copies  of  extents  and  inquisitions  upon  debts 
Taxes.  ^^^  -^^  ^j^^  Plantations  to  Benjamin  Blundell  Receiver  General 
for  Leicestershire  he  having  failed  in  his  credit,  to  be  transmitted 
to  Governors  of  the  several  Plantations,  "  having  good  reason 
to  believe  that  the  sd.  extents  will  be  of  no  force  in  the  Planta- 
tions without  your  aid  "  etc.  Signed,  John  Williams  and  three 
others.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  11th  Julv,  1721.  Addressed. 
1  p.     [CO.  323,  1.     No.  19]     Enclosed, 


362  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721. 

561.  i.  Extent  and  inquisition  for  £900  due  from  some 
merchants  in  New  York  to  Mr.  Blundell  etc.  v.  preceding. 
21st  June,  1721.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Latin. 
1  large  p.     [CO.  5,  1052.    ff.  163,  163i;.] 

July  4.  562.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawcs  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Jamaica.  Plantations.  Since  I  wrote  (12th  June),  our  new  Assembly 
have  met  etc.  Refers  to  his  Speech  to  them  enclosed.  Continues  : 
The  day  after  their  meeting  I  had  deliver'd  to  me  H.M.  royall 
commands  for  the  payment  of  Lord  Archibald  Hamilton  out 
of  his  Revenue  here  prefferable  to  all  other  demands  which 
I  communicated  to  the  Assembly  but  what  effect  that  had  upon 
the  majority  of  them  your  Lordships  will  please  to  observe 
from  a  copy  of  the  resolutions  of  the  House  on  my  Speech  and 
Message  on  that  subject  (enclosed).  I  am  alltogether  at  a  loss 
what  farther  to  say  or  excuse  to  make  for  those  people  who  in 
their  proceedings  have  shown  so  little  regard  to  H.M.  just  com- 
mands and  I  shou'd  have  parted  with  them  upon  such  an 
undutiful  behaviour  were  it  not  for  some  hopes  they  give  in  their 
resolutions  of  passing  a  bill  for  the  settleing  the  windward  part 
of  the  Island  by  encourageing  people  from  the  Virgin  Islands 
to  become  settlers  here  and  considering  such  a  law  if  obtained 
to  be  of  the  utmost  consequence  and  advantage  to  this  Colony 
has  induced  me  to  have  patience  and  forbearance  longer  than 
otherwise  I  should  have  had  with  them,  a  few  days  now  will 
shew  whether  they  have  a  reall  intent  or  not  to  pass  this  bill 
shou'd  they  not  agree  in  a  thing  so  apparently  beneficiall  for 
the  whole  country  I  can  expect  little  other  good  from  them 
and  therefore  what  I  have  hinted  in  my  former  letters  of  settleing 
H.M.  Revenue  and  makeing  his  Government  here  easy  will 
become  the  more  necessary  to  be  taken  under  H.M.  speedy 
consideration  etc.  Repeats  part  of  April  20th.  P.S.  July  5th. 
Severall  of  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Assembly  haveing  dissented 
from,  the  resolution  of  the  House  on  H.M.  Privy  Seal  for  the 
payment  of  the  Lord  Archibald  Hamilton  have  thought  proper 
to  assign  their  reasons  for  so  doing  a  coppy  whereof  comes 
herewith  this  it  seems  has  given  offence  to  those  Gentlemen 
who  were  of  a  different  opinion  and  I  am  told  the  Speaker's 
warrant  is  issued  for  the  takeing  those  Members  who  have 
signed  it  into  custody  of  their  Messenger.  I  cannot  inform 
your  Lordships  by  the  present  opportunity  how  such  proceedings 
will  end  but  in  duty  to  H.M.  I  must  acquaint  your  Lordships 
that  Mr.  Peter  Beckford  has  all  along  been  the  cheif  contriver 
and  promoter  of  faction  and  discord  and  has  constantly  opposed 
not  only  in  my  (Government  but  in  my  predecessors  whatever 
has  been  recommended  for  the  King's  service  and  I  may  truely 
say  he  is  the  cheif  instrument  of  all  our  misfortunes  he  boasts 
himself  in  his  riches  by  means  of  which  he  has  many  dependants, 
which  gives  him  such  a  sway  in  Assembly's,  he  enjoys  no  place 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


363 


1721. 


of  proffit  honour  or  trust  by  my  appointment  but  has  a  Com- 
mission from  the  Commissioners  of  H.M.  Customs  at  home  to 
be  Comptroller  of  the  Customs  here  and  tho'  that  post  be  of 
no  great  proffit  yet  it  serves  him  in  some  measure  as  a  cloak  to 
do  mischeif.  I  therefore  hope  your  Lordships  will  endeavour 
to  get  him  removed  from  that  post.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes. 
Eiidorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Read  26th  Sept.,  1721.  3^  pp. 
Enclosed, 

562.  i.  Copy  of  the  Weekly  Jamaica  Courant,  with  news 
foreign  a,nd  domestick.  Publish' d  by  Authority. 
Wednesday,  June  28,  1721.  Numb,  clxii.  Includes 
the  Governor's  Speech  to  the  Council  and  Assembly, 
St.  Jago  de  la  Vega,  June  24,  1721  ;  list  of  ships  sailing  ; 
and  H.M.  Patent  to  the  several  Gentlemen  Adven- 
turers in  the  Royal  Mines  of  this  Island  etc.  Same 
endorsement.  Printed.  4  pp.  quarto. 
562.  ii.  Resolutions  of  Assembly  of  Jamaica  that  the  Revenue 
is  not  anyways  chargeable  with  the  Lord  Hamilton's 
supposed  debt  nor  ought  the  same  to  be  allowed  of 
in  the  Receiver  Generall's  accot.,  and  that  the  payment 
thereof  will  tend  to  the  entire  subversion  of  the  nature 
of  Assemblys  who  would  by  such  proceedings  be 
deprived  of  the  most  essential  1  part  of  their  being 
(which  is  the  raiseing  and  applying  of  the  mony)  etc. 
Reasons  offered  by  nine  Gentlemen  who  disagreed 
with  above.  Copy.  2\  pp. 
562.  iii.  Resolutions  of  the  Assembly  for  encouraging  settlers 
from  the  Windward  Virgin  Islands  etc.  23rd  June, 
1721.  Copy.  2f  pp.  Nos.  ii.  &:  iii.  endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding. [CO.  137,  14.  ff.  34-36,  37-38i'.,  40-41,  42-43i;.] 


Julv  5.        563.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
WhitehaU.  You  are  to  prepare  an  Instruction  to  Gov^ernor  Lord  Belhaven 

conformable  to  your  report,  (30th  June)  etc.    Signed,  Carteret. 

Endorsed,  Recd.'sth,  Read  11th  July,  1721.     I  p.     [CO.  28,  17. 

ff.  152,  153i; ;    and  5,  1092.     No.  23.] 

[July  5.]  564.  Petition  of  Col,  John  Montgomerie  to  the  King.  On 
being  appointed  Governor  of  New  York,  begs  permission  for 
the  Assembly  to  settle  upon  him  what  they  shall  judge  proper 
for  supporting  the  dignity  of  the  Governor  etc.  Copy.  1  p. 
[CO.  5,  1092.     No.  21.] 


[July  5.]        565.     Governor   Lord   Belhaven   to   the   King.     Similar  to 
preceding.     Copy.     \\  pp.     [CO.  5,  1092.     No.  22.] 


July  7.        566.     Mr.    Popple    to    Mr.    Carkesse.     Encloses    extract    of 

Whitehall,  letter  from  Governor  Hamilton,  (20th  July,  1719)  relating  to 

a  vessel  seized  for  importing  at  Antigua  some  tallow  directly 


864 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

from  Ireland.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  desire 
the  opinion  of  H.M.  Commissioners  of  Customs  thereupon. 
[CO.  153,  13.     J).  498.] 

July  7.        567.     Same  to  Mr.  West.     Encloses,  for  his  opinion  thereon, 

Whitehall,  j^^jj^^g    ^g,.g    passed   in    Antigua,    1718-1720,    St.    Christophers 

(1718,   1719)  and  Montserrat  (1719).     [CO.  153,  13.     pp.  499- 

502.] 


July  9.       568.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Referring  Representation 
St.  James's,  of  30th  June  concerning  the  Bahama  Islands  to  a  Committee 
of    Council.     Signed,     Edward     Southwell.     Endorsed,     Reed. 
4th,  Read  8th  Aug.,  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  23,  1.     No.  36.] 


July  9.        569.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Referring  Conmiission  and 
St.  James's.  Instructions  for  Governor  Phenney  to  a  Committee  of  Council. 
Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding,     j  p.     [CO.  23,  1.     A'^o.  37]. 

July  12.  570.  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
New  York,  tions.  Encloses  a  translation  of  a  Journal  of  all  the  French 
proceedings  for  this  year  past,  as  it  was  given  me  by  the  author 
a  French  Recollet  Proiest  who  is  come  to  us  from  Canada  and 
is  desirous  to  go  to  England  {i.e.,  Monsr.  Durand.  Ed.)  He 
is  as  he  says  of  a  Hugenot  family,  and  has  long  been  desirous 
to  leave  his  order,  and  change  his  way  of  religion.  I  may  now 
brag  to  your  Lordships  that  our  law  against  trade  with  Canada 
has  brought  an  immense  number  of  Indians  of  far  Nations  to 
flock  together  to  Albany  the  French  being  now  unable  to 
supply  them  with  goods  this  I  hope  is  a  beginning  of  a  new 
interest  in  the  Indians  which  will  at  the  same  time  occasion 
great  jealousy  from  the  French  against  whom  it  is  extremely 
necessary  to  be  prepar'd  in  all  events,  which  I  hope  we  shall 
be  prepar'd  for,  when  that  Act  which  waits  for  approbation 
from  home,  comes  back  confirmed.  I  have  received  your 
Lordships'  orders  of  21st  of  March  with  Mr.  Smith,  who  arrived 
last  week  in  the  Grayhound  man  of  war  and  will  do  what  I  can 
possibly  to  serve  him,  tho'  when  I  send  your  Lordships  all  the 
transactions  of  the  Assembly  of  that  Province,  you  will  see  in 
how  unlikely  a  temper  they  are  to  do  anything  right.  I  hope 
soon  to  send  the  Minutes  of  Council  of  that  Province  which 
with  the  printed  speeches  and  bill  for  the  Revenue  which  give 
their  full  history,  will  I  hope  be  ready  to  go  by  the  return  of  the 
man  of  war  from  hence.  I  shall  be  glad  if  the  enclosed  Memorial 
meets  with  your  Lordships'  approbation.  I  believe  it  very  just 
and  perfectly  agreeing  with  the  account  our  people  give  of  the 
transactions,  between  the  French  and  Indians  of  the  5  Nations 
only  that  here  some  of  Councels  are  explain 'd  of  matters  whereof 
we  had  heard  only  the  results  the  last  part  agrees  too  with  our 
Interpreters  report  who  says  that  the  Seneca's  were  grown  colder 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES,  365 


1721. 

to  the  French  and  did  not  now  care  to  receive  either  priests 
or  a  smith  from  them,  tho'  they  had  agreed  to  it  last  year.  I 
am  going  to  Albany  in  August  at  which  time  I  shall  enquire 
into  the  case  of  the  Palatines  more  particularly  and  how  they 
may  be  settled,  according  to  your  Lordships  commands  of  29th 
Nov.  and  your  letter  which  I  received  renewing  them  by  Sheef 
one  of  the  Palatines  who  came  by  the  Grayhound  and  which 
was  dated  March  8th,  1720.  I  have  not  yet  received  any  account 
of  the  presents  to  be  sent  to  the  Indians  or  of  the  stores  so  much 
wanted  by  the  troops  here.  I  hope  your  Lordships  just 
representations  in  the  behalf  of  this  Province  on  these  heads 
will  have  their  full  weight  with  H.M.  as  they  lay  a  great  obliga- 
tion on  this  people  etc.  P.S. — 20th  July.  I  take  the  liberty 
to  recommend  the  author  of  the  within  Memorial  to  your 
Lordships  for  your  favour.  He  is  capable  of  giving  j^ou  the 
best  account  of  the  present  state  of  Canada  and  deserves  in 
my  humble  opinion  some  reward  for  his  information.  I  hope 
your  Lordships  will  not  think  this  an  improper  request.  I 
have  made  him  the  bearer  of  this  letter,  that  it  may  introduce 
him  to  your  Lordships.  Signed,  W,  Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
14th,  Read  15th  Nov.,    1721.  4pj9.   [CO.  5,  1053.   ff.  \-2v.,  3t'.] 

Julv  12.  571.  Same  to  Same.  Duplicate  of  preceding,  without 
postscript.  Endorsed,  Reed.  25th,  Read  29th  Aug.,  1721. 
Holograph.     2f  pp.     Enclosed, 

571.  i.  Memorial  of  what  passed  concerning  the  establishment 
of  a  post  which  the  French  have  built  at  Niagara 
for  the  trade  of  pelletrie.  1st  July,  1721.  Signed, 
John  Durant,  late  Chaplain  to  the  Fort  of  Cataracouy. 
Endorsed  as  preceding.     7h  pp. 

Set    out,    N.Y.    Docs.    V.     pp.    588-591.     [CO.    5, 
1052.    ff.  169-1751;.,  176i;.,  {with  abstract)]. 

July  13.  572.  Governor  Nicholson  to  the  Lord  President  of  the 
Charles  Council.  Refers  to  following  :  "  account  of  our  not  landing  at 
Port  Royal  as  also  concerning  Col.  Barnwell's  going  to  build  a 
small  fort  at  the  River  Alatamaha  "  etc.  We  have  no  account 
of  the  French  or  Spaniards  being  there  or  of  their  designe  to 
settle  it  etc.  There  being  so  very  much  business  here  for  me  to 
do  in  setling  of  the  Governmt.  and  treating  with  the  Indians 
I  found  it  absolutely  necessary  for  H.M.  interest  and  service 
for  my  staying  here  and  not  going  at  present  to  the  Alatamaha 
River.  I  hope  that  Col.  Barnwell  will  be  able  to  accomplish 
that  affair  of  ye  small  fort  in  order  to  his  being  here  at  the 
Assembly  to  whom  I  shall  according  to  my  duty  recommend 
the  securing  the  frontiers  in  general  and  that  place  in  particular. 
And  I  shall  likewise  use  all  the  interest  I  have  for  accomplishing 
that  most  necessary  affair  of  the  frontiers  and  likewise  in  adjust- 


Town. 


366  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1721. 

ing  all  things  concerning  the  Indians  in  doing  of  which  we  have 
already  made  some  progress  etc.  Signed,  Fr,  Nicholson. 
2  pp.     [CO.  5,  387.     No.  28.] 

July  13.  573.  (iovernor  and  Council  of  South  Carolina  to  the  Council 
'^c'aruUna.  "^  Trade  and  Plantations.  Enclose  Minutes  of  Council  by 
H.M.S.  Flamborough  etc.  Owing  to  the  great  hurry  of  business 
have  not  yet  been  able  to  answer  H.M.  Instructions.  The 
whole  frame  of  (Government  being  altered  and  now  happily 
settled  in  H.M.  has  made  it  necessary  to  prepare  new  lists  of 
officers  civil  and  military  etc.,  and  since  that  sending  for  the 
Indians  of  the  severall  Nations  and  settleing  treaties  with  them, 
which  wee  have  in  some  measure  effected  with  the  two  chief 
Nations  the  Creeks  and  Cherakees  etc.  has  taken  up  a  great 
deal  of  time  etc.  Besides  which  several  of  those  Instructions 
relate  to  the  Assembly,  who  are  to  meet  on  27th  inst.  etc.  Refer 
to  Minutes.  The  Countrey  is  very  c^uiet  and  everything  seems 
to  be  settled  in  as  good  a  manner  as  can  be  expected  in  so  short 
a  time  etc.  P.S.  Please  to  excuse  the  badness  of  the  paper  the 
Minutes  are  transcribed  on,  it  being  leaves  torn  out  of  a  book 
here  being  no  paper  to  be  bought  fitt  for  that  use.  Signed, 
Fr.  Nicholson  and,  for  the  Council,  Char.  Hart,  Secry.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  21st  Aug.",  1721,  Read  17th  April,  1722.  2|  pp. 
Enclosed, 

blii.  i.  Minutes  of  Council  of  S.  Carolina.  Charles  Town, 
8th  July,  1721.  H.M.  Instructions  cannot  be  answered 
till  after  the  Assembly  meets  etc.  v.  preceding.  Same 
endorsement.  Copy.  \\  pp. 
57 S.  ii.  (a)  Correspondence  relating  to  the  landing  of  the 
Independant  Company  at  ('harles  Town,  and  not 
proceeding  to  Port  Royal,  the  soldiers  being  ill  with 
scurvy,  provisions  very  short,  and  pilots  lacking. 
2  pp. 

(b)  June  3,  1721.  Col.  Barnwell  to  Governor 
Nicholson.  In  response  to  H.E.'s  order  in  Council, 
asking  for  his  report  upon  the  methods  proposed  for 
building  a  fort  on  the  Alatamaha  River,  reminds 
H.E.  that  though  orders  w^ere  given  by  the  Lords 
Justices  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance  on  12th  Oct.  to 
provide  an  engineer,  artificers  and  tools  for  that 
purpose,  they  have  been  sent  without  an  engineer  or 
tradesmen  and  only  100  Invalids,  who  are  for  the  most 
part  unable  to  perform  any  labour,  and  whom  the 
least  hardship  will  destroy  etc.  Proposes  that  the 
Council  and  Assembly  be  consulted  how  far  the 
Province  may  supply  the  necessary  labour  etc.,  and 
that  in  the  mean  time  30  of  the  Scout  men  now  in  the 
country's  pay  about  Port  Royal  be  ordered  to  secure 
possession  of  the  place  by  a  small  palisado  fort  and 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  367 


1721. 


a  sloop  to  attend  them  and  sonnd  the  bar  &c.  Ojfers 
to  assist  in  sounding  bar  and  making  plan  of  river 
and  harbour.  "  But  if  it  be  expected  of  me  by  reason 
of  the  command  I  have  of  the  Scouts,  that  I  shall 
attend  that  service,  it  would  be  the  greatest  hardship, 
for  the  pay  allowed  me  by  the  publick  is  less  than 
2*.  sterl.  a  day,  and  the  very  trades  men  who  must 
be  hired  will  not  expect  less  than  6  or  8  "  etc.  Explains 
that  he  had  expected  the  Lieutenancy  of  the  proposed 
fort  and  settlement  upon  the  same  footing  as  Annapolis 
Royal  or  Placentia,  but  as  nothing  of  that  appears, 
he  asks  for  some  respite  to  provide  for  his  private 
affairs  etc.     Copy. 

(c)  Col.  Barnwell's  Commission  to  command  the 
Militia,  Scout  boats,  etc.  of  the  Southern  forces,  8th 
June,  1721.     Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson.     Copy, 

(d)  Col.  Barnwell's  Instructions,  8th  June,  1721. 
You  are  to  take  sufficient  scouts  and  scout-boats  etc. 
from  Port  Royal  and  take  possession  of  the  River 
Alatamaha  in  H.M.  name,  and  build  a  small  fort  thereon 
and  leave  it  under  the  command  of  such  a  trusty  person 
as  you  shall  approve  of  etc.  You  are  to  hire  the  trades- 
men necessary,  and  a  sloop  and  make  a  plan  of  the 
river,  and  to  keep  a  journal  of  expfences  etc.  Signed, 
Fr,  Nicholson.     Copy. 

(e)  Blank  Commission  for  a  Commander  of  a  Garrison 
to  Southward.     Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson.     Copy. 

(/)  Contract  between  Col.  Barnwell  and  Jonathan 
Collings  for  the  sloop  Jonathan  and  Sarah  for  H.M. 
service  etc.     9th  June,  1721.     Copy. 

(g)  Warrant  to  Lt.  Joseph  Lambert  of  the  Independ- 
ant  Company  at  Port  Royal  to  deliver  stores  required 
by  Col.  Barnwell.  Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson.  9th  June, 
1721.     Copy. 

(h)  Warrant  to  Col.  Brewton  to  deliver  powder  to 
Col.  Barnwell.     Same  date  and  signature.     Copy. 

(i)  Warrant  to  Thomas  Lloyd  to  deliver  4  field 
pieces  to  Col.  Barnwell.  Same  date  and  signature. 
Copy. 

(j)  Col.  Barnwell  to  Governor  Nicholson.  Beaufort, 
3rd  July,  1721.  Acknowledges  letter  of  23rd  June, 
received  on  his  way  to  Edisto.  Thanks  for  justice 
done  him.  Sends  accounts  of  provisions  etc.  Con- 
tinues :  This  day  I  am  promised  the  assistance  of 
some  of  the  soldiers  to  gett  the  timber  together  that 
is  to  build  their  barracks.  It  proves  very  sickly 
among  my  scout  men,  etc.,  for  we  had  scarce  a  dry 
day  since  I  came  up.  The  woods  are  full  of  water, 
and  the  men  goeing  backward  and  forward  and  killing 


368  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721. 

beef  and  out  day  and  night,  as  well  as  they  are 
season'd  can't  bear  so  much  wett  etc.  Mr.  Collins 
in  the  pilate  beat  arrived  28th  June  and  I  have  the 
promise  of  6  Creek  Indians  to  go  wth.  mee  and  hunt 
etc.  I  have  been  very  badd  of  the  flux,  but  thank 
God  I  am  now  in  health  etc.  I  shall  sett  out  in  a  day 
or  two  etc.  Copy.  The  whole  endorsed.  Reed.  21st 
Aug.,  1721.  Read  17th  April,  1722.  16  pp.  [CO. 
5,  358.  ff.  91-1051'.;  and  {notes  for  reply)  5,  406. 
p.  1.] 

[July  13.]  574.  William  Nivine  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Prays  for  a  report  upon  several  Acts  of  St.  Christophers 
which  have  been  for  several  years  depending  with  their 
Lordships.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  13th  July,  1721.  h  p. 
[CO.  152,  13.   ff.  258,  261t;.l 

July  17.        575.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 

Whitehall.  Reply  to  22nd  March.     Abstract  Address  of  Council  and  Assembly 
of  Virginia.     Represent,    that    if    these    passes    are    not  soon 
secur'd  they  may  fall  into  the  hands  of  the  French  who  are 
already  situated  nearer  to  them  than  H.M.  subjects  are  by  their 
lodgments  upon  the  great  Lakes  which  continue  their  com- 
munication from  the  River  of  St.  Lawrence  to  that  of  3Iississippi, 
and  it  is  very  obvious  of  what  fatal  consequence  such  a  neglect 
on    our  part  must  certainly  prove  to  the  British  Plantations 
which  would  be  thereby  perpetually  exposed  to  the  incursions 
of  the  French  and  of  the  Indian  Nations  in  their  interest  ;    we 
cannot  therefore  but  be  of  opinion  that  all  possible  encourage- 
ment should  be  given  for  the  enlarging  and  extending  of  the 
British  Settlements  towards  the  said  Mountains,  as  one  of  the 
most  effectual  means  to  prevent  the  growing  power  and  further 
encroachments  of  the  French  in  those  parts.     But  as  it  is  not 
likely  that  any  number  of  inhabitants  wall  be  induc'd  to  settle 
near  those  Mountains,  unlesse  they  are  sure  of  protection  there, 
we  cannot  but  highly  approve  of  the  proposal  for  erecting  of 
Forts  to  secure  the  passes  and  placing  garrisons  in  them  for  so 
necessary  a  purpose  ;    it  were  indeed  to  be  wished  that  the 
charge  thereof  might  be  defrayed  by  the  Province  of  Virginia, 
but  rather  than  so  useful  a  design  shou'd  be  dropt  we  shall 
humbly  submit  to  H.M.,  whether  it  may  not  be  proper  to  defray 
or  at  least  to  contribute  to  the  charge  of  building  these  two 
forts  even  out  of  H.M.  own  quit  rents,  arising  in  that  Province 
as  is  desir'd  by  their  Address.     In  case  H.M.  should  be  dispos'd 
to  grant  their  request  in  this  particular,  it  would  however  be 
necessary  the  Lt.  Governor  of  Virginia  should  first  remit  hither 
a  plan  and  estimate  of  the  work  to  be  laid  before  H.M.  and  in 
the  meanwhile  two  stockaded  forts  may  be  built  at  a  small 
expence  by  the  people  of  Virginia  to  secure  the  possession  till 


amp:rica  and  west  indies.  sgo 

1721.  '  ' 

more  regular  fortifications  shall  be  erected.  As  to  what  relates 
to  the  two  Companies  dcsir'd  by  the  aforesaid  Address,  we  are 
of  opinion  and  have  long  been  so  that  it  will  l)e  impossible  to 
improve  or  even  to  preser\c  H.M.  Empire  in  America  without 
sending  a  military  force  thither,  'tis  what  this  Board  has 
frequently  propos'd,  and  we  do  conceive  that  two  Companies 
cannot  be  imploy'd  upon  a  more  important  service  than  this. 
It  will  appear  to  H.M.  by  the  Act  to  which  the  Address  refers 
that  the  Assembly  of  Virginia  have  made  considerable  advances 
at  their  own  expence  towards  the  carrying  on  this  project,  for 
which  reason  we  are  the  rather  inclin'd  to  think  they  may 
deserve  H.M.  countenance  and  encouragement,  that  their 
example  may  induce  the  neighbouring  Colonies  likewise  to 
turn  their  thoughts  toAvards  designs  of  the  same  nature,  and 
for  the  same  reason  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  it  may  be 
for  H.M.  service  to  remit  the  quitrents  of  the  aforesaid  two  new 
Counties,  and  the  fine  of  5.9.  upon  each  50  acres  to  such  persons 
as  shall  take  up  land  there  for  10  years  to  come,  more  especially 
since  H.M.  Revenue  will  in  all  probability  be  increas'd  thereby 
at  the  expiration  of  the  said  term  of  10  years,  and  a  good  barrier 
will  be  form'd  to  the  British  Plantations  on  this  side  by  a  new 
Colony  which  cannot  be  supported  without  some  advantages 
at  their  first  planting.  There  are  however  two  particulars  that 
should  especially  be  guarded  against  if  H.M.  should  be  graciously 
dispos'd  to  remit  his  quit  rents  for  the  time  propos'd  by  the 
Address,  that  no  person  already  possess'd  of  lands  in  any  other 
part  of  Virginia  held  by  quit  rent  from  the  Crown  be  admitted 
to  take  up  lands  in  these  new  Counties  without  giving  sufficient 
security  for  continuing  the  payment  of  the  quitrents  for  the 
lands  by  him  already  possess'd  notwithstanding  his  removal  to 
one  of  these  new  Counties  ;  and  that  no  person  whatever  be 
allow'd  to  take  up  more  than  1000  acres  in  his  own  or  any  other 
name  in  trust  for  him  in  either  of  the  said  new  Counties.  These 
regulations  together  with  any  others  which  shall  be  thought 
proper  in  the  laying  out  of  those  lands  may  be  made  by  Instruc- 
tions to  the  Governor  of  Virginia  if  H.M.  shall  be  pleased  to 
approve  of  what  is  humbly  propos'd  for  encouraging  and 
securing  this  new  Settlement'^    [CO.  5,  1365.     pp.  229-236.] 

July  17.        576.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  I>ord  Carteret. 

AVhitehaii.  Reply  to  25th  April.  Representation  upon  Anthony 
Cracherodc's  petition  against  Act  of  Barbados,  1720,  appointing 
security  to  be  given  by  appellees.  We  have  heard  Petitioner  and 
the  Secretary  of  that  Island  by  their  Counsel  etc.  By  the 
Govr's  Instructions  the  cause  of  action  in  all  appeals,  that  are 
made  from  the  Court  of  Chancery  there  to  H.M.  in  Council 
here  is  to  exceed  £500  sterl.  in  value,  and  good  security  is  to 
be  given  by  the  appellant  that  he  will  effectually  prosecute 
the  same,  and  answer  the  condemnation,  as  also  pay  such  costs 

Wt.  7495  C.P.  32—24 


370 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1721, 


and  damages  as  shall  be  awarded,  in  case  the  sentence  from 
which  he  appeals  shall  be  affirm'd.  It  is  further  provided, 
that  execution  shall  not  be  suspended  by  reason  of  such  appeal. 
But  it  having  been  found  by  experience,  that  some  appellees 
taking  advantage  of  the  aforesaid  Instruction  had  after  execution 
obtained  in  their  favour,  transported  themselves  and  their 
effects  off  the  Island,  and  others  had  become  insolvent  before 
the  determination  of  ye  appeal  to  H.M.,  whereby  the  appellants 
upon  reversal  of  judgement  have  been  intirely  disappointed  of 
all  redress  ;  it  was  thought  reasonable  that  the  execution  of 
the  judgement  should  be  stopp'd,  or  that  the  appellee  should 
give  bond  with  sufficient  securities  in  the  Secretary's  Office  of 
that  Island,  in  double  the  value  of  the  sum  to  be  appeal'd  for, 
to  make  restitution  to  the  appellant  of  all  that  the  appellant 
shall  have  lost  by  occasion  of  such  judgement  or  decree,  in  case 
upon  the  determination  of  such  appeal,  such  judgement  or 
decree  shall  be  revers'd  and  restitution  awarded  to  ye  appellant, 
such  bond  to  be  taken  in  ye  name  of  the  Govr.  or  Commander 
in  Chief  of  that  Island  for  the  time  being  ;  and  the  said  security 
to  be  allowed  and  approA'd  of  by  the  Court,  from  whose  judge- 
ment or  decree  such  appeal  shall  be  made.  And  as  the  subject 
matter  of  this  Act  as  well  as  the  fee  thereby  establish'd  is 
intirely  new  ;  we  do  conceive  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  might 
annex  the  same  to  such  office  as  they  thought  most  convenient 
for  that  purpose  and  that  H.M.  grant  of  the  Register's  Office 
in  Chancery  to  Mr.  Cracherode  is  not  prejudiced  thereby,  and 
consequently  that  no  just  objection  can  arise  from  thence  to 
ye  confirming  ye  said  Act,  which  we  humbly  offer  to  H.M.  for 
his  approbation  in  representation  annexed. 

576.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Re- 
present above  Act  for  H.M.  approbation,  as  reasonable  and 
just  etc.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  129-134.] 


July  19. 

Charle  ^ 

Town, 
South 
Carolina. 


577.  Governor  Nicholson  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Refers  to  and  repeats  part  o/" letters  of  13th  instant. 
Hopes  that  an  Engineer  will  be  sent  in  place  of  the  one  who  left 
them  at  Plymouth,  and  that  "  Col.  Barnwell  will  accomplish 
that  affair  of  the  small  fort  at  the  mouth  of  the  River  Alatamaha 
in  order  to  his  being  at  the  Assembly  "  etc.  Signed,  Fr.  Nichol- 
son. Endorsed,  Reed.  16th  Sept.,  1721,  Read  17th  April,  1722. 
1|  pp.     Enclosed, 

577.  i.  Exports  from  South  Carolina  to  Great  Britain,  25th 
Dec.  25th,  1720— 18th  July,  1721.  Rice,  17,739  barrels  ;  pitch, 
9,860  ;  tar,  6599  ;  53  chests  deer  skins.  To  the  Plantations, 
Rice,  3,658  barrels  ;  pitch,  1682  ;  tar,  1858  ;  and  deer  skins, 
beef,  pork,  candles,  tallow,  peese,  corne,  staves,  masts,  yards, 
bowsprits,  shingles,  leather,  Cyprus  and  cedar  plank.  Signed, 
Tho.  Broughton,  Collector.  Same  endorsement.  1  p.  \C.O, 
5,  358.    //:  106,  106i;.,  107i?.-108t;.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  371 


1721. 
July  19.        578.     Abstract  of  preceding,  with  note  for  reply.     [CO.  5, 
406.     p.  1.] 

July  19.  579.  Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Boston.  tions.  Refers  to  letter  of  1st  June,  and  enclosure  No.  1,  "  which 
never  came  to  my  hands,  but  as  I  now  take  the  liberty  to  send 
it  to  your  Lordships,  in  print."  Quotes  Order  for  drawing  up 
this  Memorial  from  printed  Journal  of  Representatives,  19th 
June,  1721.  C onti7iues :  —Yout  Lordships  will  find  that  the 
House  have  charg'd  me,  in  the  inclos'd  Mcmoriall,  with  down- 
right false  insinuations,  unjust  unreasonable  remarks  and 
animadversions  upon  the  behaviour  and  transactions  of  the 
last  Assembly.  They  tell  the  people  (to  whom  ibis  Mcmoriall 
seems  to  be  address'd)  that  it  would  be  a  great  grief  to  every 
good  man  if  in  any  one  instance  it  could  appear  that  the  last 
house  of  Representatives  or  any  other,  had  slighted  H.M. 
Instructions.  If  your  I^ordships  have  perus'd  the  scverall 
papers  I  sent  in  my  last  pacquett  I  make  no  question  but  it 
appears  plainly,  that  they  have  been  very  far  from  paying  that 
just  regard  they  ought  to  have  done  to  severall  of  H.IVI.  Instruc- 
tions, well.  I  have  communicated  to  them.  How  they  have 
observ'd  my  29th  Instruction  relating  to  the  woods  your  Lord- 
ships will  see  by  an  abstract  of  their  proceedings  in  the  before 
mention'd  printed  messages  between  the  Councill  and  the 
House.  For  my  73  Instruction  I  must  take  leave  to  refer 
your  Lordships  to  the  2d  page  of  the  Printed  Journal  of  the 
last  House  of  Representatives  ;  I  tell  them  there  the  King  my 
Master  has  positively  commanded  me,  that  no  book  or  paper 
shall  be  printed,  without  my  license  first  obtain'd.  My  power 
being  much  too  weak  to  put  this  H.M.  Instruction  in  execution, 
I  recommended  it  to  the  Generall  Court  to  make  a  law  con- 
formable thereunto.  The  answer  of  the  House  of  Represen- 
tatives, your  liOrdships  will  find  in  p.  11  of  the  Printed  Journall, 
which  runs  thus  "Should  an  Act  be  made  to  prevent  the 
printing  any  book  or  paper,  without  license  first  obtaind  from 
the  Govr.  for  the  time  being  no  one  can  foresee,  the  innumerable 
inconveniencys  and  dangerous  circumstances  this  People  may 
labour  under  in  a  little  time."  So  cautious  are  they  of  putting 
the  least  power  into  the  hands  of  a  Govr.,  tho'  'tis  of  such 
consequence  to  the  Peace,  safety,  and  hour,  of  the  Government. 
What  the  enclos'd  Mcmoriall  says  afterwards,  that  when  any 
persons  have  been  so  malicious  as  to  print  libells  reflecting  on 
the  Government  they  have  been  punish'd  according  to  the 
nature  of  their  offence,  is  so  notoriously  otherwise  that  tho' 
both  Printers  and  Publishers  of  such  libells  have  been  taken  up, 
and  have  own'd  the  fact,  and  I  have  done  my  utmost  endeavour 
to  bring  them  to  Justice,  I  never  once  yet  found  it  possible  for 
me  to  effect  it.  Your  Lordships  will  see  page  3  of  the  Printed 
Journall,  that  according  to  my  Instinictions  I  have  press'd  the 


372  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

House  to  settle  such  a  salary  upou  me,  as  is  suitable  to  the  dignity 
of  my  post.  Their  answer  is  in  p.  11  of  the  said  Journall, 
wherein  they  still  insist  that  £1000  per.  ann.  in  Province  hills, 
wch.  as  the  course  of  Excha.  runs  makes  about  £435  sterl.  is 
such  a  salary  as  is  sufficient  to  demonstrate  to  H.M.  that  they 
are  dutifull  and  loyall  subjects  ;  and  the  objection  they  make 
to  a  settled  salary  is,  that  'tis  contrary  to  their  custom  and 
practise.  The  Memoriall  alledges  in  their  justification  the  low 
circumstances  of  the  Province  for  want  of  a  medium  of  trade, 
and  allowances  granted  to  former  Ciovernours.  As  to  the  first 
'tis  obvious  that  they  have  as  great  a  medium  of  trade  as  ever 
they  had,  and  that  the  Province  since  my  arrivall  is  very  much 
increas'd,  and  is  as  a  Community  not  in  debt  as  I  am  inform'd 
above  £30,000  sterl.  and  nothwithstanding  their  pretended 
poverty,  this  present  Sessions  of  the  Genl.  Court  has  cost  the 
country  £1400  only  in  unnecessary  debates  and  wranglings 
against  the  Prerogative.  As  to  the  second  allegation,  I  find 
the  Genii.  Court  allow'd  the  Earl  of  Bellamont  £2000  in  silver 
money  for  less  than  a  year's  service,  wch.  is  very  near  as  much 
as  they  have  granted  me  in  four  years,  considering  the  present 
low  credit  of  the  Province  Bills.  Upon  this  head,  I  must  beg 
leave  to  acquaint  your  Lordships,  that  the  present  House  of 
Representatives  have  begun  a  most  unreasonable  dispute  with 
me  by  entering  into  a  resolve,  that  they  would  not  go  upon 
my  allowance  till  I  had  set  my  hand  to  everything  that  remain'd 
for  me  to  sign.  I  have  already  given  my  assent  to  severall  of 
their  Acts  ;  but  that  does  not  satisfie  them.  1  therefore  sent 
the  Secretary  down  Avith  a  message  to  acquaint  them  at  the  last 
Sessions  but  one  I  signed  no  Act  till  they  had  voted  my  salary, 
and  that  so  soon  as  the  house  had  gone  through,  what  was 
before  them,  I  should  leave  nothing  unfinish'd  that  depended 
upon  me.  As  the  Charter  leaves  this  matter  entirely  at  my 
discretion  I  resolve  not  to  give  it  up,  and  I  hope  I  shall  have 
your  Lordships  approbation  therein.  I  can't  help  complaining 
here,  how  unavoidable  a  necessity  a  Governour  of  this  Province 
is  sometimes  under,  either  of  agreing  to  what  may  not  be  for 
H.M.  interest,  or  of  incurring  the  displeasure  of  the  House  to 
the  risk  of  his  support.  The  memoriall  goes  on  to  acquaint 
the  world,  with  a  very  unaccountable  air  of  superiority  and 
greatness,  "  That  it  has  not  been  the  usage  and  practise  to  have 
nonconcurr'd  bills  sent  to  the  Board  of  Trade,  and  that  'tis 
what  they  can  see  no  reason  for,  and  that  this  Government  is 
no  ways  answerable  to  that  Honble.  Board  for  any  matter  or 
thing  done  here  relating  to  Acts  of  Government."  I  need  not 
make  any  remark  upon  this  paragraph  to  your  Lordships.  But 
I  shall  endeavour  to  convince  the  People  how  vastly  the  House 
of  Representatives,  especially  in  this  particular,  have  been 
wanting  in  their  duty  and  the  interest  of  their  Coimtry.  What 
is   mention'd   in   the   two  next   paragraphs   of  the   Memoriall 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  873 


1721. 


concerning  the  Riot  and  Pamphlet  Bills  I  think  is  well  answer'd 
in  the  printed  Reasons  of  the  Councill  for  passing  those  bills, 
to  which  I  take  the  liberty  to  referr  your  Lordships.  I  would 
also  intreat  the  Rt.  Honble.  Board  to  peruse  the  printed  votes 
orders  and  messages  relating  to  logs  cut  in  the  Province  lands 
in  the  County  of  York.  I  have  pursuant  to  my  29th  Instruction 
issued  out  many  proclamations  to  prevent  the  stroy  and  spoil 
of  H.M.  woods  in  both  Provinces,  and  have  given  the  strictest 
charge  to  H.M.  Surveyor  Genii,  and  his  Deputies  not  to  fail 
in  the  execution  of  their  office  as  they  will  answer  the  strongest 
complaints  I  shall  be  able  to  make  against  them.  I  have 
labour'd  to  convince  the  Members  of  the  House  of  Represen- 
tatives, that  the  House  (and  more  especially  taking  upon  them 
as  they  have  done  to  act  separately  from  the  Councill.  contrary 
to  their  Charter)  have  nothing  to  do  with  trees  fit  for  masting 
H.M.  Royal  Navy.  That  if  the  trees  belong  to  H.M.  while  they 
are  standing,  the  property  rests  in  H.M.  tho'  they  should  be 
cut  into  logs.  That  to  seize  those  logs  for  the  use  of  the 
Province  would  be  so  far  from  being  a  discouragement  to  the 
cutting  down  mast  trees,  that  it  wd.  rather  give  the  Government 
at  home  reason  to  suspect  that  persons  were  employ'd  to  cut 
them  down  in  order  to  have  them  afterwards  converted  to  the 
use  of  the  Province.  And  indeed  I  am  of  opinion  that  the 
drift  of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  this  affair  is  to  persuade 
the  People  that  H.M.  has  no  right  to  the  woods  in  the  Province 
of  Main.  I  mention  this  the  rather  because  Mr.  Cooke  who  is 
at  the  head  of  all  Committees  to  manage  this  matter  has  more 
than  once  pubUcly  declar'd  it  as  his  opinion.  I  sent  your  Lord- 
ships the  29  Sept.  1718  two  affidavits  to  this  purpose.  I  after- 
wards receiv'd  your  approbation  for  not  allowing  that  gentleman 
to  sit  any  longer  at  the  Councill  Board.  By  the  last  paragraph 
of  the  memoriall  your  Lordships  may  possibly  explain  the  reason 
why  the  House  of  Representatives  in  March  last  would  not  pass 
the  Riot  Bill.  It  appears  that  some  imaginary  ill  advisers  are 
to  be  given  up  to  the  resentments  of  the  People.  I  can't  tell 
who  they  point  at  unless  it  be  those,  that  have  in  any  degree 
asserted  H.M.  rights  and  prerogative.  I  must  freely  declare 
that  the  King's  Councill  being  annually  chosen  by  the  Genii. 
Assembly  arc  afraid  in  many  cases  to  speak  their  minds,  so 
that  I  am  often  left  to  fight  it  out  alone.  I  shall  only  observe 
one  thing  more  to  your  Lordships  with  relation  to  the  behaviour 
of  the  last  House  of  Representatives,  that  they  endeavour'd  to 
wrest  H.M.  Prerogative  out  of  my  hands  by  takmg  upon  them 
the  appointment  of  a  Publick  fast,  which  is  ye  undoubted  right 
of  the  Crown  and  what  has  never  been  disputed  since  the  Charter 
was  granted.  The  reason  they  give  for  it  is  contain' d  in  the  6th 
page  of  the  Printed  Journall,  and  carries  a  great  contempt  for 
H.M.  authority,  vizt.  "  That  if  the  appointment  of  such  days 
has  not  the  sanction  of  the  whole  General  Court,  persons   are 


374  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721. 

not  liable  to  be  punish'd  if  they  work  or  travell  thereon."  Upon 
the  whole  then  I  must  submit  it  to  your  Lordships  whether  the 
management  of  the  last  House  of  Representatives  has  been 
misrepresented  to  me,  whether  that  House  or  the  Memorialists 
have  acted  with  a  calm,  moderate,  loyall.  and  peaceable 
behaviour,  without  misunderstandings  and  animosities,  and 
with  due  regard  to  IL^L  Instructio)is  or  Prerogative,  or  whether 
I  have  deserved  so  rude,  undutifull,  and  unpresidented  a  repre- 
sentation of  my  Speech  to  an  Assembly  which  was  dissolv'd ; 
whether  I  have  been  treated  and  supported  according  to  the 
dignity  of  my  post.  I  hope  your  liOrdships  will  rather  think 
I  have  deserv'd  your  protection  and  support  by  using  my 
best  endeavours  to  maintain  the  character  H.M.  has  been 
pleas'd  to  conferr  upon  me,  and  to  keep  close  to  my  Instructions 
when  it  has  been  so  prejudiciall  to  my  own  private  interest. 
And  now,  my  Lords,  I  shall  have  done  with  the  Memoriall,  but 
think  it  my  duty  to  acquaint  your  Lordships  that  the  present 
house  of  Representatives  without  my  knowledge  or  consent 
adjourned  themselves  from  Wednesday  July  12  to  Tuesday 
July  18.  Assoon  as  I  heard  it  I  sent  the  Sheriff  to  the  severall 
places,  where  the  Members  were  retired  to  command  them  to 
attend  me  in  the  Council  Chamber  where  I  spoke  to  them  to 
this  purpose.  Gent :  I  have  affairs  of  great  consequence  to  lay 
before  the  Genl.  Court,  and  therefore  think  it  for  H.M.  and  the 
Countries  service  to  adjourn  you  only  till  Friday  next.  The 
Members  upon  their  appearance  told  me  they  attended  the  Board 
only  as  private  persons,  and  not  a  house  of  Representatives. 
Accordingly  on  Friday  when  I  met  the  Councill  I  found  onl}^ 
33  of  the  House  ready  to  act  upon  my  adjournment.  I  must 
here  observe  to  your  Lordships  that  no  number  less  than  40 
constitutes  a  house.  I  therefore  adjourn'd  the  Generall  Court 
again  from  Friday  July  14  to  Wednesday  July  19.  If  they  don't 
make  use  of  the  opportunity  I  have  given  them  to  acknowledge 
their  errors  and  to  ask  pardon  (which  I  find  was  done  in  the  same 
case  during  Sir  W^illiam  Phipps's  Government)  I  shall  dissolve 
this  Generall  Court.  I  have  only  this  to  add,  that  a  great  part 
of  House  of  Representatives  are  very  ignorant,  and  are  misled 
into  such  proceedings  not  weighing  the  consequences  that  attend 
them  ;  and  that  it  is  the  unanimous  opinion  of  H.M.  Councill, 
that  this  behaviour  of  the  House  of  Representatives  is  directly 
contrary  to  the  Charter  which  vests  in  the  Governors  of  this 
Province  the  absolute  power  of  adjourning,  proroguing,  and 
dissolving  all  Generall  Assemblys  when  he  shall  think  fit. 
Signed,  Samuel  Shute.  Endorsed,  Reed.  1st  Sept.,  Read  Nov. 
7th,  1721.     101  PI).     Enclosed, 

579.  i.  Votes  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay,  June  22,  1721,  referred  to  in 
preceding.     Same    endorsement.     Printed.     4    pp. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  375 


1721. 

579.  ii.  Governor  Shute's   Speech  to  the   Assembly  of  the 
•  Massachusetts  Bay,  March,   1721.     Referred  to  in  pre- 
ceding.    Same  endorsement.     Copy.     IJ  pp.     \C.O.  5, 
868.    .//.   117-124t'.,  125r.-126r.,  127^.] 

July  20.        580.     Governor  Nicholson  to  Mr.  Popple.     Refers  to  letters 

ciijiries       io  tJip  Board  etc.     Continues  :   I  hope  in  God  when  the  Assembly 

South"'       meets  before  they  break  up  all  affairs  both  ecclesiastical,  civill 

Carolina,  and  miJlitary  will  be  settled  etc.     I  am  dayly  in  hopes  of  receiving 

their  Lordps'   commands  etc.      P.S.    I    have    already    agreed 

with  a  gardner  to  gett  me  some  flowers  plants  etc.  and  according 

to  your  desire  some  shall  be  sent  for  your  parradice  at  Hamp- 

stead.     Signed,    Fr.    Nicholson.     Endorsed,    Reed.    16th   Sept. 

1721,  Read  22nd  June,  1722.     IJ  pp.     [CO.  5,  358.    ff.  137, 

138z;.]. 

July  20.       581.     Council    of   Trade    and    Plantations    to    Mr.    Nivine. 
Whitehall.  Some  queries  arising  out  of  objections  urged  against  the  Act  of 
Antigua  for  establishing  a  Court  of  King's  Bench  etc.,   1719. 
[CO.  153,  13.     pp.  503,  504.] 

July  23.       582.     Order   of   King   in  Council.     Approving  draughts  of 

St.  James's.  Commission  and  Instructions  for  Govcmor  Phcuncy  gfc.     Signed, 

Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.  4th,  Read  8th  Aug.,  1721. 

1  p.       [CO.  23,  1.     No.  38  ;    and  5,  191.     p.  117«.] 

July  25.       583.     H.M.    Commission   to    Governor   Phenney.     Counter- 
st.  James's,  gigned^  Carteret.     [CO.  5,  191.     pip-  119-122.] 

July  26.       584.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 

Whitehall.  Enclosc  copics  of  representation,  July  1st,  1718,  relating  to  the 
Danes  having  taken  possession  of  St.  Johns.  H.M.  pleasure 
not  having  been  signifyed  thereupon,  enclose  extract  of  letter 
from  General  Hamilton,  19th  May,  1721.     Autograph  signatures. 

2  pp.     Enclosed, 

584.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Governor  Hamilton,  19th  May, 

1721. 
584.  ii.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 

Craggs.     V.  C.S.P.  1st  July,  1718. 
584.  iii.  Same  to  the  King.     v.  C.S.P.  9th  Aug.,  1717. 
584.  iv.  Copy  of  Governor  Hamilton's  Instructions  relating 

to  the  Virgin  Islands.     [CO.  314,  1.     Nos.  4,  4,  i.-iv.  ; 

and  {without  enclosures)  153,  13.     pp.  505,  506.] 

July  27.       585.     Henry  Newman  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 

Middie        tions.     The  occasion  of  my  memorial  relating  to  the  powder 

Temple,      jj^post  in  New  Hampshire  {v.  March  31st)  was  an  Instruction  I 

received  from  a  Committee  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of 

that   Province   22nd  July,    1720,   "  Whereas   H.M.   has  lately 


876 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1721. 


July  28. 

\\hitehall. 


July  28. 

Whitehall. 


July  28. 

St.  James's. 


July  28. 

St.  James's. 


July  28. 

Whitehall. 


prohibited  any  imposition  of  impost  or  powder  money  on  the 
merchants  ships  here  ])clonging  to  Great  Britain  etc.  you  are 
to  lay  that  matter  before  the  proper  Board  in  order  to  obtain 
the  Royal  bounty  herein."  Describes  his  failure  at  the  Board 
of  Ordnanee  etc.  and  (iovernor  Shute's  directions  to  him  there- 
upon Dec.  12,  1720,  to  adopt  some  other  measures,  etc.  Con- 
chides  :  The  last  Powder  Act  recei\'ed  the  Royal  approbation 
in  Nov.  1706.  I  don't  Find  that  there  has  been  any  formal  Act 
of  repeal,  but  there  is  reason  to  believe  the  execution  of  it 
is  suspended,  if  l)y  a  misconstruction  of  your  Lordships'  com- 
mands, jyvays  them  to  explain  it  to  that  Government  etc.  Signed, 
Henry  Newman.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  3rd  Aug.,  1721. 
1    /;."    [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  63,  64i'.] 

586.  Mr.  Popple  to  John  Marsh.  The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  are  ready  to  hear  what  you  have  to  offer  in 
relation  to  an  Act  of  Antegoa  to  indemnify  Ant.  Brown  etc. 
[CO.  153,  13.     p.  507.] 

587.  Same  to  Mr.  West.  Encloses,  for  his  opinion  there- 
upon. Acts  passed  at  Antegoa,  St.  Christophers  and  Nevis, 
1720,  1721.  Requests  reports  upon  other  Leeward  Islands  Acts 
now  in  his  hands.  Col.  Hart  being  upon  his  departure  thither. 
List  of  Acts  annexed.     [CO.  153,  13.     pp.  507-510.] 

588.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Referring  representations 
of  17th  inst.,  upon  an  Act  of  Barbados  appoiiiting  security  to  he 
given  by  appellees,  to  the  Committee  for  hearing  appeals  etc. 
Signed,  Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  4th,  Read  8th 
Aug.,  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    jf.  176,  lllv.] 

589.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Referring  Representation 
of  July  17th,  concerning  the  Virghiia  passes,  to  Committee  of 
Council  for  their  report.  Signed,  Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed, 
Reed.,  Read  8th  Aug.,  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  1319.     No.  11.] 

590.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Refer  to  Representation  of  30th  March,  recommending  removal 
of  Mr.  Cox,  President  of  Barbados,  and  that  proceedings  should 
be  taken  against  him.  Continue  :  We  have  since  that  receiv'd 
frequent  complaints  against  him  and  some  of  a  very  high  natiu'c 
relating  to  extraordinary  and  illegal  innovations  made  by  him 
in  the  election  of  a  new  Assembly  and  of  ye  treatment  of  the 
said  Assembly  when  elected  {copies  enclosed).  If  the  facts 
contain'd  in  these  papers  should  !)e  veryfy'd,  and  Mr.  Cox 
should  not  be  able  to  give  a  sufficient  answer  thereunto,  they 
will  certainly  demand  ye  severest  sensure  and  punishment  as 
tending  to  the  entire  subversion  of  ye  liberty  and  constitution 
of    that    Island.     Considering    therefore    ye    great    confusion 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


377 


1721. 

Barbados  is  now  in,  and  that  we  have  not  receiv'd  from  Mr.  Cox 
any  acco.unt  of  his  proceedings  since  4th  Feb.,  tho'  several 
ships  are  come  from  thence  since  ye  matters  complain'd  of  were 
transacted ;  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  it  is  highly  necessary  for 
H.M.  service,  and  the  peace  and  quiet  of  that  Island,  that  the 
Lord  Belhaven  appointed  H.M.  Governor  there  should  forthwith 
repair  to  his  Government ;  and  that  immediately  upon  his 
arrival,  he  should  put  the  said  Mr.  Cox  under  arrest  that  he 
may  be  sent  over  to  Great  Britain  by  the  first  ship  that  shall 
come  from  thence  to  answer  to  those  and  such  other  complaints 
as  shall  be  made  agt.  him  by  the  people  of  Barbados  for  his 
evil  administration.     [CO.  29,  14.     pjj.  135-137.] 

July  29.       591.     Mr.  Popple  to  John  Ayscough.     Upon  Sir  N.  Lawes' 
WhitohaU.  complaiut  of  difficulty  in  procuring  a  quorum  in  Council  of 

Jamaica,  enquires  whether  he  designs  to  return,   and  when. 

Similar  letter  to  John  Moore.     [CO.  138,  16.     pp.  297,  298.] 

July  29.       592.     H.M.  Warrant  granting  further  leave  of  absence  to 
St.  James's.  John  Ayscough  from  the  Council  of  Jamaica  for  a  year.    Counter- 
signed, Carteret.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  59.] 


July  31. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  1. 


Aug.  1. 

New  York. 


593.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.  Encloses  Acts  of  Jamaica, 
1721  (i)  to  oblige  the  inhabitants  to  provide  themselves  with  a 
sufficient  number  of  white  people,  etc.,  and  [ii)  for  the  relief  of 
persons  who  have  suffered  from  piracies  and  robberies  at  sea  or  on 
shore  by  any  of  H.M.  subjects  of  this  Island,  for  his  opinion 
thereon  in  point  of  law.     [CO.  138,  16.     pp.  298,  299.] 

594.  Mr.  Nivine  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Replies  to  some  queries  from  your  Secretary  relating  to  an  Act 
of  Antegoa/br  establishing  a  Court  of  King's  Bench  etc.  (i)  The 
Freeholders  have  been  exempted  from  arrests  by  four  several 
Acts  for  establishing  Courts,  1698,  1703,  1716  and  this.  The 
Act  past  in  1698  is  the  only  Act  for  establishing  Courts  in  that 
Island  that  has  been  confirmed,  so  that  when  any  of  the  sub- 
sequent Acts  of  Courts  have  been  disallowed  by  the  Crown  that 
Act  has  been  revived  and  in  force  by  vertue  of  such  disallowance 
etc.  Signed,  Will.  Nivine.  Endorsed,  Reed.  1st,  Read  9th  Aug. 
1721.     2  pp.     [CO.  152,  14.    ff  1,  Ir.,  2v.] 

595.  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Abstract.  Refers  to  enclosures.  The  Board's  letter  of  13th  Nov. 
1711,  on  amendments  by  a  Council  to  money  bills  will  serve  as  a 
just  censure  on  that  part  of  the  Assembly's  conduct.  He  has 
printed,  at  his  own  expense,  the  Act  (encl.  i)  for  the  support  of 
Government,  with  the  Council's  amendments  which  the  Assembly 
[of  New  Jersey]  not  only  rejected,  but  ordered  the  Coimcil 
not  to  amend  the  bill,  which  is  a  new  wa}'  of  treating  the  Council 


378  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ~      ~~~~~ 

and  of  a  piece  with  their  behaviour  to  him.  Thinks  this  pubHca- 
tion  will  have  a  good  effect  in  a  new  election.  Encloses  Minutes 
of  Council.  Proper  measures  taken  on  this  occasion  may  be 
of  lasting  use.  As  this  province  has  always  been  full  of  restless 
unreasonable  men,  who  gave  the  Board  much  uneasiness  in 
Brigadier  Hunter's  time,  hopes  they  will  take  effectual  methods 
to  shew  them  that  they  are  dependant  on  the  Government  at 
home,  and  that  he  will  be  supported  when  they  shew  their 
disregard  to  his  Instructions,  and  he  refuses  a  revenue  at  the 
expense  of  breaking  them.  The  Minutes  of  Council  show  that 
the  chief  instrument  of  their  ill-humour  was  a  professed  Jacobite, 
George  Willocks,  to  whom  he  tendered  the  oaths,  and  on  his 
refusing  them  took  security  for  his  good  behaA'iour.  He  mo\ed 
the  sessions  from  Bridlington  to  Perth  Amboy  on  the  advice 
of  the  Council,  so  that  he  might  try  them  a  little  longer  and 
being  nearer  to  New  York  divide  his  time  between  the  two 
Assemblies.  But  this  was  of  no  effect,  so  he  dissolved  them. 
"  Of  24  Members  I  had  9  firm  to  my  interest,  and  13  determined 
by  mutual  promise,  to  stand  out  against  me,  and  two  wavering, 
so  that  with  some  management  I  do  not  despair  of  working  a 
change."  Suggests  easy  remedies  to  discourage  this  turbulent 
spirit  and  procure  a  good  choice  of  a  new  Assembly.  First, 
the  disallowance  of  the  two  acts  prejudicial  to  the  Secretar\^'s 
office.  This  the}^  would  take  as  a  check  to  them  for  flying  in 
the  face  of  the  Government,  and  an  instance  of  the  care  taken 
at  home  of  the  officers,  when  they  are  doing  all  their  endeavours 
to  starve  them.  They  will  never  repeal  these  laws  themselves, 
for  they  would  be  glad  to  have  no  officers  in  the  province  nor  a 
Governor  neither,  unless  he  were  of  their  own  appointing,  tho' 
their  own  feuds  made  them  weary  of  such  a  one  formerly,  and 
would  do  so  again.  Secondly,  a  small  alteration  in  the  16th 
Instruction  relating  to  the  choice  of  an  Assembly,  which  would 
also  be  but  an  act  of  justice.  Proposes  that  the  new  county  of 
Hunterdon,  formed  by  Governor  Hunter,  which  is  now  as  large 
and  populous  as  any  of  the  rest,  but  has  no  members  to  represent 
it,  the  inhabitants  continuing  to  vote  in  Bridlington  county, 
should  have  two  members.  Thus  each  of  the  (now)  five  counties 
in  West  Jersey  would  choose  two  members,  as  the  five  in  East 
Jersey  do.  "  As  the  town  of  Salem  obtained  members  mainly 
for  no  other  reason  than  because  there  was  one  county  less  in 
West  than  in  New  Jersey,  so  now  that  reason  ceasing,  it  seems 
unreasonable  that  they  should  any  longer  have  so  great  a 
priviledge  above  their  neighbours,  for  this  town  of  Salem  is 
a  very  poor  fishing  village  of  about  twenty  houses  and  not 
above  7  or  8  voters  "  etc.  Its  members  have  been  the  ring- 
leaders in  the  opposition  to  the  Government,  and  are  the  more 
insolent  because  they  are  sure  of  being  re-elected  etc.,  whilst 
on  the  other  side  the  county  of  Hunterdon  would  send  very 
loyal  men  etc.     Till  this  or  some  other  measure  be  taken,  he 


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379 


1721. 


Aug.  2. 

VVhitehaU. 


Aug.  2. 

Whitehall. 


cannot  expect  a  good  election,  which  makes  the  support  of 
government  stand  entirely  i^till  in  that  province  etc.  An  act 
passed  in  Lord  Lovelace's  time,  in  pursuance  of  the  instruction 
now  in  force,  may  be  urged  against  it.  But  this  act  is  now 
only  to  be  found  in  print,  the  original  not  being  on  record  in 
Jersey  or  New  York,  and  is  supposed  to  be  carried  among  Lord 
Lovelace's  papers.  Nor  was  a  duplicate  ever  sent  home  for 
approbation.  This  is  so  well  known  to  be  the  case  of  several 
other  acts  that  in  Brigadier  Hunter's  time,  a  bill  was  brought 
into  the  Assembly  to  enact  all  those  printed  acts,  whose  originals 
were  lost,  but  this  bill  was  rejected  as  irregular  in  its  nature. 
Refers  to  end.  i.  to  show  that,  even  if  it  were  upon  record,  the 
act  would  be  void  because  contrary  to  the  Instruction  etc. 
Concludes : —  The  Assembly  \of  New  York]  is  just  now  broke 
up,  after  passing  several  acts.  We  agree  very  well  and  this 
province  is  as  remarkably  quiet  and  happy  and  affectionate  to 
me  as  the  other  is  the  reverse.  I  am  very  impatient  for  your 
Lordships'  commands  in  answer  to  my  account  of  the  former 
session  of  this  Assembly  and  shall  transmit  the  minutes  and 
acts  of  this  session  as  soon  as  they  can  be  got  ready.  Set  out, 
N.J.  Archives,  1st  Ser.  V.  10.  Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  20th  Sept.,  1721,  Read  9th  Jan.,  172|.  Holograph. 
10  pp.     Enclosed, 

595.  i.  Speeches    by    Governor    Burnet    and    Addresses    of 

Assembly  during  the  session  begun  at  Bridlington, 
28th  Feb.,  1721,  together  with  letter  from  the  Board  of 
Trade,  13th  Nov.,  1711,  and  an  Act /or  the  support  of 
Government  etc.  The  whole.  Printed.  Endorsed  as 
preceding.     30  pp.     [CO.  5,  972.    ff  19— 40i'.,   Uv.] 

596.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
We  have  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Burnet  etc.  (18th  June) 
relating  to  the  application  of  the  French  to  fortify  themselves 
at  Niagara,  and  to  seduce  the  Sinnekees  one  of  the  Five  Indian 
Nations  in  those  parts  contrary  to  the  15th  Article  of  the 
Treaty  of  Utrecht,  which,  if  effected,  will  prove  of  dangerous 
consequence  to  our  Settlements  there.  Wherefore  we  are  of 
opinion  that  no  further  time  shou'd  be  lost  in  sending  the  usual 
presents  to  the  Five  Nations  of  Indians,  and  the  necessary 
stores  of  war  for  ye  garrisons  of  New  York  and  Albany,  accord- 
ing to  what  we  propos'd  to  the  late  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs,  14th 
Dec.  last,  and  v/e  desire  you'l  be  pleas'd  to  receive  H.M. 
directions  thereupon.     [CO.  5,  1124.     p.  262.] 

597.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Lowndes.  Encloses  extract  of 
Governor  Hamilton's  letter,  19th  May,  complaining  of  Governor 
Sir  N.  Lawes'  letter,  etc.  to  be  laid  before  the  Lords  of  H.M. 
Treasury.  Continues :  Sir  Nicholas  Lawes  has  signified  to 
my  Lords  Commissioners  for  Trade,  that  he  had  with  the  advice 


880 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  Jamaica  sent  proposals  to  the 
people  inhabiting  the  Virgin  Islands  to  move  to  Jamaica  etc., 
tho'  we  find  by  the  same  letter  that  the  Assembly  had  hitherto 
not  agreed  to  the  necessary  measures  proposed  for  this  purpose 
etc.  My  Lords  Commissioners  for  Trade  having  proposed 
(7th  Aug.  and  16th  Oct.  1717)  that  out  of  the  French  part  of 
St.  Christophers  there  should  be  reserved  a  certain  quantity 
(of  land)  not  exceeding  3000  acres  lying  most  contiguous  to 
the  sea-coast  which  should  be  given  gratis  in  small  plantations 
to  poor  families  etc.,  and  having  represented,  16th  Oct. ,1717, 
that  their  Lops,  conceived  it  highly  necessary  for  H.M.  service 
that  the  Governor  of  the  Leeward  Islands  should  have  orders 
without  loss  of  time  to  assure  not  only  the  inhabitants  of 
Anguilla  but  all  the  other  poor  planters  in  like  circumstances 
there  in  H.M.  name  that  they  should  be  allowed  to  settle  in 
St.  Christophers  etc.,  my  Lords  Commissrs.  continue  of  opinion 
that  it  will  be  for  H.M.  service  in  the  better  securing  and  im- 
proving the  Island  of  St.  Christophers,  that  directions  should 
immediately  be  given  for  settling  the  poor  inhabitants  of  the 
Virgin  and  other  adjacent  Islands,  in  the  manner  before  men- 
tion'd  at  St.  Christophers,  where  they  may  be  more  usefull  and 
necessary  than  at  Jamaica,  supposing  the  design  for  settling 
them  there  could  take  effect,  which  however  appears  to  be  so 
very  doubtfull  that  there  is  more  reason  to  apprehend  these 
poor  people  may  at  last  be  engaged  absolutely  to  quit  H.M. 
Dominions  and  settle  in  some  French  or  Dutch  Plantations  ; 
the  consequence  whereof  would,  be  very  bad  to  the  Leeward 
Islands  which  are  in  great  want  of  white  inhabitants.  [CO. 
153,  14.     pp.  1-4.] 

Aug.  3,       598.     John  Ascough  to  Mr.  Popple.     Has    obtained    H.M. 
leave  of  absence  for  another  twelvemonth,  awaiting  determina- 
tion of  a  suit  in  Chancery  etc.      Signed,  J.  Ascough.      Endorsed, 
Reed.  4th,  Read  9th  Aug.  1721.     Addressed.     1  }}.     Enclosed, 
598.  i.  Duplicate  of  leave  of  absence,  July  29th.     [CO.  137, 
14.    //:  3,  4,  5v.] 

Aug.  3.  599.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  West.  Encloses  Acts  of  Jamaica, 
Whitehall.  1720,  {\)  for  fitting  out  sloops  for  the  guarding  the  coast,  etc.  and 
(ii)  to  impose  duties  to  defray  the  extraordinary  charges  of  the 
Government  for  his  opinion  thereupon  in  point  of  law.  Presses 
for  report  upon  Acts  sent  him  26th  Dec.  [CO.  138,  16.  pp. 
299,  300.] 

600.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
You  are  to  prepare  an  Instruction  for  John  Hart,  Esq.,  Govr. 
of  the  Leeward  Islands,  agreeable  to  that  which  you  have  been 
directed  to  prepare  for  the  Lord  Belhaven  by  my  letter  of  the 
5th  past.  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  9th 
Aug.,    1721.     1   p.     [CO.    152,    14.    //.    3,    -iv.] 


Aug.  4. 

WhitehaU. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


381 


1721. 

Aug.  4.         601 .     Mr.  Marsh   to    Mr.  Popple.     Desires,  in  behalf  of  Dr. 

Haberdash-  Wickham,  eopies  of  proceedings  at  Antigua  relating  to  the 
Act  for  building  a  parish  Church  etc.  {v.  28th  July).  Signed, 
Jno.  Marsh.  Endorsed,  Reed.  4th,  Read  9th  Aug.,  1721. 
Addressed.     1  jo.     [CO.  152,  14.    ff.  5,  6v.] 


ws'  Hall. 


Aug-  5.  go2.  Mr.  Attorney  and  Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Reply  to  June  30//?.  We  have  been 
attended  by  the  Agents  of  the  parties  who  claim  the  Province 
of  Pensilvania  etc.  and  heard  what  hath  been  alleadged  on 
both  sides,  and  are  of  opinion  that  no  part  of  Delaware  River 
or  the  Islands  lying  therein  are  compriz'd  within  the  granting 
words  of  the  Letters  Patents  granting  the  Province  of  Pensil- 
vania or  of  the  grant  of  New  Jersey  ;  but  we  conceive  that  the 
right  to  the  same  still  remaines  in  the  Crown.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  9th  Aug.,  1721.     1|  pp.     Enclosed, 

602.  i.     Extract   of  grant   of  New  Jersey,    1664.       2|  j?p. 
[CO.  5,  971.     Nos.  91,  91.  i.] 


Aug.  7. 

Custom- 
house, 
London. 


603.  Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.  Reply  to  1st  July.  Their 
is  no  law  of  this  Kingdom  that  prohibits  the  importing  indigo 
from  the  French  Plantation  to  any  of  H.M.  Plantations  or  from 
being  brought  thence  to  great  Brittain  neither  is  there  any  law 
that  prohibits  the  importation  of  indigo  of  the  produce  of  the 
French  or  any  other  forreigne  Plantations  from  being  brought 
directly  to  Great  Brittain  only  on  the  importation  thereof  here 
the  same  is  subjected  to  a  much  higher  duty  than  indigo  of  the 
produce  of  H.M.  Plantations.  As  to  seizures  on  the  Acts  of 
Trade  and  Navigation,  it  is  the  opinion  of  the  Sollicitor  of  the 
Customs  that  not  only  the  officers  of  the  Customs  but  also  the 
Governour  and  Navall  Officer  have  power  to  seize  either  ships 
and  goods  for  the  breach  of  any  of  those  Acts  and  that  the 
clearing  any  ship  and  cargoe  by  one  officer  will  not  prevent 
the  same  from  being  seized  by  him  or  any  other  officer  in  case 
it  shall  afterwards  appear  to  be  liable  to  forfieture  by  any  of 
the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation.  But  as  to  the  present  case 
the  indigo  in  question  being  seized  on  a  law  passed  by  the 
Assembly  of  Jamaica  the  Commissioners  presume  the  Lords  of 
Trade  can  better  judge  etc.  Signed,  Cha.  Carkesse.  Endorsed, 
Reed.,  Read  8th  Aug.,  1721.  Addressed.  2  pp.  [CO.  137, 
14.    ff.  1,  li;.,  2v.] 


Aug.  8.       604.     Mr.    Popple   to   Horatio   Walpole.     Desires   to   know 

Whitehall,  whether  the  Lords  of  the  Treasury  have  any  objections  to  Mr. 

Berwick  being  reinstated  in  the  Council  of  Barbados,  he  having 

been  suspended  upon  complaints  made  to  them  by  Mr.  Walpole. 

[CO.  29,  14.     p.  138.] 


382  COLONIAT.   PAPERS. 


1721. 

Aug.  9.         605.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 

Whitehall.  Euclose  draughts  of  Instructions  for  Governor  Lord  Belhavcn. 
Continue  :  We  have  inserted  Tobago  by  name  in  the  titles  of 
these  draughts,  having  done  the  same  in  his  Commission  which 
H.M.  has  been  already  pleas'd  to  approve.  The  2nd  Article 
contains  the  names  of  the  Councillors  which  are  the  same  who 
have  for  some  time  served  in  that  imployment,  except  only 
Mr.  Cox,  whom  we  have  left  out  for  the  reasons  mentioned  in 
our  letters  of  30th  March  and  28th  July,  and  have  inserted  in 
his  stead  Colo.  Brome,  who  has  been  recommended  to  us  as  a 
person  very  well  qualify'd  to  serve  H.M.  in  that  station.  We 
have  left  in  the  names  of  Mr.  Frere  and  Mr.  Berwick,  altho' 
they  are  both  under  a  suspension,  the  former  by  order  of  Mr. 
Cox  and  the  latter  by  an  order  of  Mr.  Lowther  upon  a  complaint 
from  the  Auditor  of  the  Plans,  because  it  has  been  usual  to  lay 
before  H.M.  with  the  Instructions  for  a  Govr.  the  full  number 
of  the  Council,  and  we  wou'd  not  take  upon  us  to  put  any  other 
persons  in  the  stead  of  the  abovemention'd  gentlemen,  till 
H.M.  shall  have  declair'd  His  pleasure  concerning  them.  The 
Articles  in  ye  draught  of  General  Instructions,  which  are 
number'd  3,  9,  10,  11,  16,  17,  19,  21,  23,  24,  29,  31,  34,  35,  37, 
55,  57,  60,  63,  67,  74,  and  82  are  somewhat  varied  from  the 
Instructions  given  to  Mr.  Lowther,  conformable  to  the  In- 
structions to  Sir  Nicholas  Lawes  approved  18th  Dec,  1717, 
and  the  98th  Article  is  now  but  conformable  to  H.M.  said 
Instructions  to  Sir  N.  Lawes.  To  the  18th  Article,  relating  to 
the  passing  of  private  Acts,  we  have  added  ;  That  the  Governor 
take  care  that  in  all  such  private  Acts  there  be  a  clause  inserted 
to  prevent  their  being  in  force,  till  they  shall  have  receiv'd 
H.M.  Royal  approbation,  and  that  publick  notification  be  made 
of  the  parties  intention  to  apply  for  such  act  in  the  several 
parish  churches  where  the  premisses  in  question  lye,  before  the 
same  be  brought  into  the  Asseml)ly,  which  addition  we  most 
humbly  submit  to  H.M.,  altho'  we  were  indue 'd  to  make  the 
same,  by  observing  the  great  negligence  and  informality  in  the 
passing  of  such  laws,  which  however  are  immediately  in  force 
in  the  respective  Plantations  after  they  are  pass'd  whereby 
divers  persons  have  been  concluded  in  their  titles  and  properties  ; 
and  those  in  whose  behalf  such  Acts  have  been  pass'd,  have 
sold  the  estates  convey'd  to  them,  and  gone  off  the  Island  with 
their  effects,  whereby  the  persons  aggriev'd  have  been  left 
without  remedy.  The  20th  Article  against  ye  passing  laws 
whereby  bills  of  credit  may  be  struck,  or  mony  paid  to  the  Govr., 
or  any  of  the  Council  or  Assembly  without  a  clause  declaring 
such  Acts  not  to  be  in  force,  till  approv'd  of  by  H.M.,  is  agreeable 
to  the  Additional  Instruction  which  we  laid  before  their  Ex- 
cellencies the  late  Lords  Justices,  11th  Aug.,  1720,  pursuant 
to  H.M.  Order  in  Council  of  19th  May  foregoing.  And  in 
obedience  to  H.M.  particular  commands,  5th  July  last,  we  have 


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1721 


prepared  the  26th  Article  relating  to  the  Lord  Belhaven's 
appointments  and  H.M.  permission  to  him  to  receive  such 
addition  as  the  Assembly  shall  think  fit  to  his  salary  etc.,  whereby 
the  112th  Instruction  to  the  late  Governor  is  become  unnecessary, 
and  therefore  omitted.  The  latter  part  of  the  29th  Article, 
after  the  yvords,  particular  order  for  that  purpose  {v.  infra,  art.  30), 
is  intirely  new  and  design' d  to  prevent  for  the  future  the  same 
inconveniences  and  disturbances,  which  have  lately  happen'd 
in  that  Government,  from  ye  present  President's  having  taken 
upon  him  to  exercise  a  very  unusual  liberty  of  making  as  many 
changes  in  all  offices  there  both  civil  and  military,  as  the  Govr. 
himself  directly  appointed  by  H.M.,  might  have  done.  After 
the  words,  under  his  sign  manual,  dated  the  IQth  of  March,  170i, 
in  the  42nd  Article,  we  have  added  the  words.  Whereof  a  copy 
will  be  herewith  delivered  to  you,  and  have  annex'd  to  this 
draught  of  Instructions  a  copy  of  a  letter  of  His  late  Majesty 
King  William,  as  necessary  for  the  Lord  Belhaven's  information. 
We  have  omitted  the  conclusion  of  the  50th  Article  of  the  In- 
structions to  Mr.  Lowther,  as  being  provided  for  in  the  57th 
clause  of  these  Instructions.  The  59th  Article  is  new,  and  was 
prepar'd  at  the  request  of  the  Commrs.  of  the  Customs,  upon 
complaint  from  their  officers  in  the  Plantations,  that  they  are 
frequently  oblig'd  to  serve  on  juries  and  to  appear  in  arms, 
to  the  hindrance  of  the  execution  of  their  employments.  A 
Court  of  Exchequer  having  been  establish'd  in  Barbados,  and 
the  intent  of  the  58th  Article  of  the  Instructions  to  the  late 
Govr.  being  thereby  answer'd,  we  have  omitted  that  Article. 
The  76th  Article  is  likewise  omitted,  as  being  provided  for  by 
the  particular  Instructions  likewise  herewith  transmitted  in 
pursuance  of  the  several  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation.  In 
Articles  90,  91  and  92  relating  to  the  particular  incouragement 
to  be  given  to  the  Royal  African  Company,  we  conceiv'd  it 
necessary  to  include  others  H.M.  subjects  trading  to  Africa. 
The  100th  Article  of  Mr.  Lowther's  Instructions,  which  recom- 
mended the  raising  of  publick  work-houses  ;  we  are  humbly 
of  opinion,  is  unnecessary  in  Barbados,  where  there  is  a  great 
want  of  white  people.     Annexed, 

605.  i.  Draught  of  H.M.  Instructions  to  John  Lord  Belhaven, 
our  Captain  General  and  Governor  in  Chief  in  and 
over  our  Islands  of  Barbados,  Sta.  Lucia,  Dominico, 
St.  Vincents,  Tobago  and  the  rest  of  our  Charibbee 
Islands  lying  to  windward  of  Guardaloupe  in  America. 
V  preceding.  Articles  26,  29,  59,  run  as  follows  : — 
Art.  26.  iVnd  Avhereas  the  salary  of  £1200  sterl.  pr. 
annum,  formerly  assign'd  out  of  the  duty  of  4|  pr.  cent, 
arising  in  our  Island  of  Barbados  for  ye  Governor  in 
Chief  of  that  Island  was  not  thought  sufficient  for  his 
support,  it  was  thought  fit  to  add  £800  sterl.  pr.  ann. 
out   of  the    said    duty    etc.,     But    as    it     has    been 


384  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1721. 


represented  to  us,  that  £2000  sterl.  pr,  annum  is  not  at 
present  sufficient  for  the  support  of  our  Governour 
there,  and  the  dignity  of  that  our  (iovernment,  we 
are  graciously  pleas'd  to  permit  and  allow  that  the 
Assembly  of  our  said  Island  of  Barbados  may,  by 
any  Act  or  Acts,  settle  upon  you  such  sum  or  sums  in 
addition  to  your  salary  as  they  shall  think  proper, 
and  you  are  hereby  allow'd  to  give  your  assent  to 
any  act  or  acts  of  Assembly  for  that  purpose,  provided 
such  sum  or  sums  be  settled  on  you  and  your  successors 
in  that  Governmt.  or  at  least  on  you,  during  the  whole 
time  of  your  Government  there  ;  and  provided  the 
same  be  done  by  the  first  Assembly  after  your  arrival 
in  that  Island. 

Art.  30  directs  the  eldest  Councillor  whose  name 
is  first  placed  in  H.M.  Instructions  to  the  Governor, 
to  take  upon  him  the  administration  of  the  Govern- 
ment in  case  of  the  death  or  absence  of  the  Governor, 
if  there  be  no  Lt,  Governor  commissioned  or  ap- 
pointed by  H.M.,  but  in  such  case  "  it  is  nevertheless 
Our  express  will  and  pleasure  that  the  said  President, 
shall  forbear  to  pass  any  acts  but  what  are  immediately 
necessary  for  the  peace  and  welfare  of  the  said  Island, 
without  Our  particular  order  for  that  purpose,  and 
that  he  shall  not  take  upon  him  to  dissolve  the 
Assembly  then  in  being  but  do  allow  them  to  sit  till 
the  term  of  their  sitting  be  expired  according  to  an 
Act  passed  in  Our  said  Island  the  6th  of  August  1660, 
entituled  an  Act /or  limiting  the  Assembly'' s  continuance. 
It  is  likewise  Our  will  and  pleasure,  that  the  said 
President  do  not  remove  or  suspend  any  of  the  members 
of  Our  said  Council,  nor  any  Judges,  Justices  of  the 
Peace  or  other  officers,  civil  or  military,  without  the 
advice  or  consent  of  at  least  seven  of  the  Council, 
nor  even  then  without  good  and  sufficient  reasons 
for  the  same,  which  the  said  President  is  to  transmit 
over  signed  by  himself  and  the  Council  to  Us  and  to 
Our  Comrs.  for  Trade  and  Plantations  by  the  first 
opportunity." 

Art.  59.  "  And  whereas  several  complaints  have 
been  made  by  the  Surveyors  General  and  other 
Officers  of  Our  Crown  in  Our  Plantations  in  America, 
that  they  are  frequently  oblig'd  to  serve  on  juries  and 
personally  to  appear  in  arms  whenever  the  Militia 
is  drawn  out,  and  thereby  are  much  hinder' d  in  the 
execution  of  their  employmts..  Our  will  and  pleasure 
is  that  you  take  effectual  care  and  give  ye  necessary 
directions,  that  the  sevl.  officers  of  Our  Customs  be 
excus'd  and  exempted  from  serving  on  any  juries  or 


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1721. 

personally  appearing  in  arms  in  the  Militia,  unless  in 
cases  of  absolute  necessity,  or  serving  any  parochial 
offices  which  may  hinder  them  in  the  execution  of 
their   duties.     [CO.    29,    14.     pp.    140-221.] 

Aug.  9.  606.  H.  Walpole  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Reply  to  8th  Aug.  The  Lords  Commissioners  of  H.M.  Treasury 
had  adjourned  themselves  till  Monday  sevennight  before  I  was 
favoured  with  your  letter  etc.,  so  that  I  cannot  at  present  send 
you  precisely  their  sentiments  etc.  But  as  you  seem  to  desire 
an  immediate  answer  I  beg  leave  to  observe  that  as  Mr.  Berwick 
was  suspended  upon  my  complaints  for  his  not  having  given 
in  a  sufficient  account  of  H.M,  casual  revenue  in  Barbados  for 
wch.  he  has  acted  as  Receiver  ever  since  1706,  the  accots.  he 
has  since  rendered  of  his  rects.  and  issues  are  as  irregular  and 
confused  as  ever,  and  therefore  the  reasons  for  his  being  removed 
subsist  as  strongly  in  my  opinion  against  his  being  restored 
to  the  Council.  Signed,  H.  Walpole.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
10th  Aug.,  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    /.  178,  178t;.] 

Aug.   9.       607.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     An 
Whitehall.  Act  having  been  pass'd  in  Jamaica,  Jan.,  1716,  to  prevent  all 
fraudulent  trade  to  Hispaniola  and  other  foreign  parts,  by  which 
act  every  master  or  owner  of  a  vessel  lading  in  that  Island, 
before  he  be  clear'd  from  thence,  is  obliged  to  declare  on  oath 
the  quantity  of  indigo  on  board  his  vessel,  that  the  same  is 
of  the  growth  and  produce  of  Jamaica,  and  that  he  will    not 
in  the  course  of  his  voyage  homewards  take  in  any  other  indigo, 
under  the  forfeiture  of  £500,  one  half  thereof  for  the  support  of 
the  Government  of  that  Island,  and  the  other  half  to  the  in- 
former ;    this  being  a  restraint  on  the  Trade  and  Navigation  of 
your  Majesty's  subjects  of  this   Kingdom,  not  warranted  by 
any  of  the  Laws  of  the  same,  and  as  the  Act  is  besides  prejudicial 
to  your  Majesty's  Royal  Prerogative,  we  should  have  laid  the 
same  before  your  Majesty  for  your  disallowance  soon  after  it 
was  transmitted  to  us,  if  Sir  N.  Lawes,  believing  some  parts  of 
this  Act  to  be  at  that  time  usefull  and  necessary  to  that  Island, 
had   not   desired   in  the   most  earnest  manner  that  it   might 
continue  in  force,  till  he  could  get  another  Act  pass'd  which 
might  not  be  liable  to  the  same  objections  ;   But  as  the  Governor 
has  lately  informed  us,  that  his  endeavours  for  this  purpose 
have  hitherto  been  and  still  are  likely  to  be  ineffectual,  not- 
withstanding our  objections  to  this  Act  had  been  laid  before 
the   Assembly,   wc   humbly   offer  that  your  Majesty  may   be 
graciously  pleased  to  declare  your  disapprobation  of  the  said 
Act.     [CO.   138,   16.     pp.   301,  302.] 

Wt.  75  95  C.P.  82—25 


386 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1721. 
Aug.   9,       608.     Same    to    Lord    Carteret.     Eephj    to    4th    May.     We 

Whitehall,  havo  heard  petitioners  and  several  merchants  trading  to 
Jamaica  etc.  relating  to  searching  of  ships  there,  {quoted).  Con- 
tinue : — The  seizure  complain'd  of  was  certainly  made  as 
appears  not  only  by  affidavits  but  likewise  by  the  acknowledg- 
ment of  Sr.  Nics.  Lawes  who  justifys  the  same,  as  being  done  by 
virtue  of  a  clause  in  the  Revenue  Act  of  that  Island  (quoted). 
But  as  this  clause  relates  to  searches  to  be  made  at  land  only 
for  such  goods  as  are  landed  and  supposed  to  have  been  landed 
Avithout  paying  the  duties  mention'd  in  that  Act,  we  do  not 
conceive  that  the  seizure  complain'd  of  can  be  justify'd  thereby. 
It  does  not  appear  to  us  that  there  was  any  proof  made  that  the 
indigo  so  seiz'd  was  French  or  that  it  had  been  landed  at 
Jamaica  without  paying  the  duties,  in  which  case  only  indigo 
and  other  goods  by  the  foremention'd  Revenue  Act  are  seizable 
even  at  land  there,  but  the  importing  of  all  indigo  into  this 
Kingdom  is  lawfull  and  ought  to  be  encouraged.  For  which 
reason  we  humbly  offer  that  H.M.  pleasure  be  signify 'd  to  the 
Governor  of  Jamaica,  that  the  said  indigo  and  other  goods  so 
seiz'd  as  aforesaid  or  the  value  thereof  be  immediately  restored 
to  the  owners.     [CO.  138,  16.     pp.  303-307.] 

Aug.  10.  609.  Order  of  King  in  Council,  impowering  Governor  Lord 
St.  James's.  Belhavcu,  if  he  thinks  it  expedient,  to  restore  John  P'rere  to 
his  place  in  the  Council  of  Barbados,  upon  the  report  of  the 
Lords  of  the  Committee,  upon  the  petition  of  Frere,  setting 
forth  his  having  repair' d  into  England  in  obedience  to  the  order 
of  the  Lords  Justices,  to  answer  a  complaint  of  his  not  complying 
with  the  late  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs's  letter  of  11th  June,  1720, 
as  also  the  petition  of  Sr.  Charles  Cox,  on  behalf  of  his  brother 
Samuel  Cox,  President  of  Barbados ;  Their  Lordships  having 
heard  the  same  by  Councill  learned,  and  what  Mr.  Frere  had 
to  offer  in  answer  to  the  charge  of  a  contempt  for  not  paying 
due  obedience  to  H.M.  pleasure  signifyed  as  aforesaid  by  letter 
from  Mr.  Secretary  Craggs,  are  of  opinion  that  he  was  disobedient 
to  H.M.  commands,  but  the  same  might  proceed  from  a  mistake 
in  the  said  Frere,  and  not  from  any  wilfuU  disobedience  etc. 
Signed,  E.  Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  17th,  Read  18th  Dec, 
1723.     11  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  578,  578t^  579r.] 

Aug.  10.  610.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Repre- 
WhitphaU.  seutation  upon  Acts  of  Antegoa  (i)  for  declaring  the  qualification 
of  voters  etc.,  by  which  Act  it  is  declared  that  no  person  shall  be 
capable  of  being  chosen  an  Assembly  man  who  is  not  seized  in 
his  own  right  of  £300  pr.  annum  in  lands,  and  that  no  person 
shall  vote  in  elections  that  has  not  a  freehold  of  10  acres  of  land 
or  a  house  valued  at  £20  pr.  annum  in  the  town  or  division 
where  the  election  is  to  be,  besides  this  the  Assembly  of  Antigoa 
do  not  only  claim  and  enact  for  themselves  by  this  Act  all  such 


AMERICA   AND   WEST  INDIES.  387 


1721. 


pri\'iledges  as  are  enjoyed  by  the  House  of  Commons  of  Great 
Britain,  but  do  even  attempt  to  grasp  at  more  power  than  any 
House  of  Commons  ever  yet  exercised,  which  has  hitherto 
never  been  allowed  to  Assemblys  in  the  Plantations,  and  we 
humbly  presume  will  not  now  be  thought  proper  or  necessary. 
For  these  reasons  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  this  Act  ought  to 
be  repealed,  (ii)  To  the  Act  for  establishing  a  Court  of  King's 
Bench,  Common  Pleas  etc.,  there  are  ye  following  objections, 
(a)  It  exempts  all  freeholders  from  arrest,  which  besides  the 
prejudice  it  may  be  to  private  persons,  does  not  so  much  as 
except  such  cases  in  which  it  may  be  necessary  for  the  Governor 
by  law  to  arrest  even  criminals  of  State.  (6)  It  enacts  that  all 
tryals  shall  be  by  Jury  of  12  men,  whose  only  qualification 
required  is,  that  they  be  Protestants,  and  tho'  they  have  repeal'd 
in  another  clause  of  this  Act,  all  laws  relating  to  legall  pro- 
ceedings there  is  no  oath  either  prescribed  by  this  Act,  or  to  be 
taken  by  jurors,  neither  is  there  any  remedy  provided  against 
jurors  corruptly  giving  a  false  verdict,  (c)  Upon  days  of  tryals 
it  is  in  the  power  of  either  party  upon  application  to  the  Court 
to  put  off  the  tryal  upon  payment  of  costs  not  exceeding  £5, 
which  is  unreasonable  since  the  full  costs  of  the  day  ought  to 
be  tax'd  to  the  party  aggreived.  {d)  In  case  of  execution 
upon  lands  or  tenements  the  oath  of  the  Agent  or  Attorney  of 
the  Defendants  that  the  defendant  hath  not  concealed  or 
made  away  any  part  of  his  effects  is  admitted  to  prevent  execu- 
tion being  actually  levied  upon  them,  which  is  not  only  unjust 
as  to  the  Plaintiff,  the  personal  oaths  of  the  defendant  being  in 
reason  only  to  be  taken,  but  also  opens  too  large  a  field  to 
perjury,  [e)  It  is  enacted  that  when  any  negroes  cattle,  etc.,  are 
taken  in  execution  they  shall  be  delivered  back  to  the  defendant 
upon  his  giving  bond  to  the  ^larshall  of  double  the  value  for 
the  redelivery  of  them  within  60  days  ;  which  is  unreasonable, 
since,  where  the  effects  of  the  defendants  are  not  worth  more, 
than  the  debt  and  charges  amount  unto,  such  bond  of  the 
defendant  is  no  security  to  the  plaintiff,  that  the  effects  will 
not  be  concealed,  and  made  away  in  order  to  defraud  him  of 
his  judgement  and  execution.  (/ j  It  is  enacted  that  the  Provost 
Marshall  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  £20  for  acting  in  the 
execulion  of  his  office  in  any  wise  contrarj^  to  this  Act,  in 
which  case  the  oath  of  only  one  witness  is  required,  nor  is 
there  to  be  any  tryal  by  jury  to  pro\-e  him  guilty  of  what 
is  laid  to  his  charge,  {g)  The  Officers  of  Courts  have  an  attach- 
ment granted  them  immediately  for  the  recovery  of  their  fees 
without  being  oblig'd  to  prove  their  demands  by  jury  or  other- 
wise, {h)  The  Justices  of  the  Peace  are  constituted  the  standing 
Judges  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  whereas  special  Commissionrs. 
ought  to  issue  for  that  purpose.  This  is  contrary  to  your 
Majties.  Royal  Prerogative  as  well  as  to  your  Instructions  to 
the  Governor,  and  may  in  many  cases  be  prejudicial  to  your 


388 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 


Aug.  14. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  15. 

St.  Jiiiiies's. 


Majty's.  service,  (i)  No  execution  is  to  be  issued  out  on  any 
judgement  for  debt  contracted  before  the  Act,  unless  the 
Plaintiff  will  forbear  to  levy  the  execution  for  two  years  after 
the  date  of  this  Act.  Upon  the  whole,  altho'  there  are  several 
things  in  this  Act  proper  for  the  regulation  of  the  Courts 
established  by  it,  and  it  hath  corrected  several  of  those  errors 
and  mistakes  which  were  in  a  former  Act,  for  which  that  Act 
was  repealed,  yet  for  the  objections  above-mentioned,  we  are 
humbly  of  opinion,  that  your  Majty.  be  pleased  to  signifie 
your  disapprobation  of  this  Act.     [C.O.  153,  14.     pp.  4-9.] 

611.  Mr.  Popple  to  John  Moore.  Refers  to  letter  of  29th 
July.  Concludes  : — Unless  their  Lordships  receive  your  answer 
very  soon  they  will  recommend  some  fit  person  to  supply  your 
place  etc.     [C^O.  138,  16.     p.  308.] 

612.  H.M.  Warrant  for  appointing  Thomas  Walker  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Bahama  Islands  and  discharging  Christopher 
Gale.     Countersigned,  Carteret.     Copy.     [C.O.  324,  34.     pp.  60, 

61.1 


Aug.  16. 


Aug.  16. 

Annapolis 
Rovall. 


613.  Governor  Hart  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  have  arranged  with 
Col.  Smith  in  relation  to  supplying  the  vacancies  in  the  Council 
of  Nevis,  etc.  Recommends  as  per  enclosure.  Signed,  Jo. 
Hart.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Read  25th  Augt.,  1721.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

613.  i.  Col.  Smith  to  Governor  Hart.  Battersea,  Aug.  8th, 
1721.  Encloses  following  etc.  Signed,  Dan,  Smith. 
Enclosed, 

613.  ii.    Councillors    for  Nevis,  proposed    by    Col.  Smith : — 

James  Symonds,  Jos.  Symonds,  Roger  Pemberton, 
Mich.  Williams,  James  Browne.  Small  slip.  [C.O. 
152,   14.    ff.  17,   18,   19,  201.'.] 

614.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Acknowledges  letter  of  23rd  Sept.  last,  and  duplicate  of 
21st  July,  1720,  with  thanks  for  their  replies  to  every  particular 
matter  mentioned  in  his  letters  up  to  that  date.  Continues : — 
The  affaires  of  this  Province  continue  without  alteration,  all 
sides  waiteing  the  result  of  the  Councills  of  Great  Brittainc. 
In  the  meantime  I  have  information  from  Boston  that  the 
Governor  has  lately  received  a  ^•e^y  insolent  letter  from  the 
Indians  of  that  quarter  assembled  with  their  priest  to  celebrate 
some  festival,  upon  which  it  has  been  thought  adviseable  to 
arm.  If  a  rupture  ensues,  we  shall  not  long  be  quiet  here,  it 
being  said,  some  of  our  Chiefs  are  gone  thither,  but  it  may  be 
no  more  then  a  drunken  inspiration,  and  when  they  hear  of 
troops  marching,  end  in  a  peccavi,  etc.  The  vessell  which  has 
been  building  at  Boston  for  the  survey  and  other  service  of  the 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  389 

1721. 

Province  (then  which  nothing  was  more  wanted  and  the  obtain- 
ing thereof  cheifly  oweing  to  your  Lordshipps)  arriv' 'd  here  but 
three  dayes  since,  and  two  months  later  than  I  hop'd  for,  so 
that  Httle  progress  ('tis  fear'd)  can  be  made  this  season  in  the 
survey  of  the  coast,  however  your  Lordshipps  cannot  be  at  a 
loss  in  forming  measures  for  the  security  of  this  countrey  against 
next  spring  from  the  representations  already  made,  and  which 
lye  before  you.  And  as  Cansoe  is  the  first  place  proposed  to  be 
fortifyed,  I  am  now  bound  thither  with  the  Engineer  to  prepare 
a  plann  thereof  to  be  transmitted  in  the  fall.  It  is  possible  we 
may  have  time  also  to  survey  the  harbour  of  Lehave  and 
Chibucto,  but  I  shall  be  under  the  necessity  of  hireing  a  vessell 
to  bring  the  remainder  of  three  companys  from  Placentia  to 
this  garrison  with  all  their  provissions,  which  requires  a  much 
larger  hold  than  this  small  Province  sloop  is  furnish' d  with  :  and 
were  she  capable  to  performe  that  service  (as  she  is  not).  It  is 
my  humble  opinion  that  the  loss  of  time  is  of  more  consequence 
in  the  settling  of  this  country,  than  the  expence  thirty  pounds 
sterling  and  in  this  respect  I  pray  your  Lordshipps  to  be  judges 
of  the  difficultys  I  labour  under  beyond  any  other  of  H.M. 
Governors  inasmuch  as  no  contingencys  being  allowed  nor  tax 
or  dutys  any  ways  ariseing  to  defray  the  necessary  charges  ;  it 
lyes  wholly  upon  me  to  supply  the  meanes  ;  at  the  same  time 
have  only  the  justice  of  the  Goverment  to  trust  to  in  passing 
my  accounts.  I  hope  your  Lordshipps  will  be  so  good  to 
procure  a  remedy  for  this  evil,  it  being  impossible  for  me  to 
beare  the  weight.  The  Kings  presents  for  the  Indians  are 
arrived  by  this  oppertunity  ;  having  layn  all  the  winter  at 
Boston,  and  it  being  my  intention  to  assemble  their  Chiefs 
and  deliver  them  in  a  formall  maniier,  under  obligations  for 
their  peaceable  and  friendly  behaviour  to  H.M.  subjects  ;  I 
must  deferr  it  till  my  returne,  by  which  time  their  temper  will 
be  better  knowne,  and  by  the  issue  of  their  meeting 
beforementioned  may  judge  if  they  deserve  the  favour  etc. 
I  shall  transmitt  from  Cansoe  the  account  of  this  yeares  fishery, 
which  I  am  infomi'd  is  abundantly  great,  and  will  I  hope 
contribute  much  towards  the  settlement  of  this  Province. 
Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read  7th  Nov., 
1721.  4  pp.  [CO.  217,  4.  jy.  42-43i).  ;  and  (abstract,  with 
marginal  notes  for  reply),  217,  30.     p.  14.] 

Aug.  17.       615.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclose  draught  of  Instructions  relating  to  the  Acts  for  Trade 

and   Navigation   for   Governor   Phenney,   in   the   usual   form. 

[CO.  24,  1.     p.  66.] 

Aug.  17.       616.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     Repres- 

Whitehaii.  entation  upon  Acts    of    Barbados,  1714-1720.     These  are  laid 

before  H.M.   in  three   classes   (a)  Those  that  are   expired  or 


390  COLOMAL   PAPP:RS. 

1721.  ~~ 

temporary  and  require  nothing  further  to  be  done  upon  them. 
(b)  Acts  recommended  for  H.M.  approval.  Two  private  acts 
for  docking  entail  of  estates  relating  to  Jesunim  and  John  Jones, 
and  Elisha  Gouldmg,  respectively,  are  reported  as  wanting 
the  general  saving  clauses  required  by  H.M.  Instructions. 
"  But  as  several  private  Acts  have  formerly  been  allowed 
without  the  like  clauses,  and  as  v/e  have  hitherto  receiv'd  no 
complaint  concerning  these,"  submit  them  for  confirmation, 
"  but  we  hope  that  more  caution  will  be  had  for  the  future  in 
the  passing  Acts  of  this  nature  conformable  to  your  Majesty's 
usual  Instructions  in  this  particular  and  to  such  further  restric- 
tions as  we  have  taken  the  liberty  to  propose"  in  Lord  Belhaven's 
Instructions  etc.  (c)  33  "  Acts  concerning  the  usefulness  and 
effect  whereof  we  are  hitherto  doubtful,  and  therefore  humbly 
propose  that  they  may  lye  by  probationary  till  further  experi- 
ence thereof  shall  incline  your  Majesty  to  confirm  or  repeal 
them."  (d)  Acts  offered  for  H.M.  disallowance,  (e)  An  Act 
for  depriving  William-  Gordo?!,  Clerk,  of  his  benefice,  and  disabling 
him  from  enjoying  any  ecclesiastical  living  etc.  in  this  Island,  etc. 
Which  act  sets  forth  that  the  said  Gordon,  Rector  of  St.  Michael, 
then  did  and  for  several  years  past  had  led  a  very  loose  vagrant 
and  wicked  life,  and  is  a  person  ver^'  much  given  to  lying  and 
slandering,  a  common  incendiary  and  disturber  of  the  public 
peace,  etc.,  with  several  other  allega-tions  therein  enumerated  : 
But  as  those  assertions  do  not  appear  to  us  to  have  gone  through 
the  ordinary  methods  of  proof,  the  said  Act  being  pass'd  during 
Mr.  Gordon's  absence  from  Barbados,  whereby  he  was  deprived 
of  all  opportunities  of  making  his  defence  there  ;  and  the  sub- 
stance of  the  said  allegations  having  been  reported  by  a  Com- 
mittee of  your  Majesty's  Most  honble.  Privy  Council  to  be 
altogether  groundless,  which  order  was  confirm' d  by  order  of 
the  Lords  Justices,  5th  Oct.,  1720,  we  humbly  offer  that  your 
Majesty  may  be  pleas'd  to  repeal  the  same.  (2)  Act  for  the 
better  regulating  the  power  of  vestries  etc.  Altho'  this  Act  by 
its  title  and  preamble  seems  to  be  general  yet  upon  enquiry 
we  find  Mr.  Gordon  is  the  only  person  affected  thereby,  and  that 
the  same  would  deprive  him  of  an  annual  income  which  he  has 
legally  injoyed  for  many  years  past ;  by  the  free  will  of  his 
parishioners,  without  complaint  from  any  of  them  that  they 
have  been  overburthened  thereby,  for  which  reason  we  humbly 
propose  this  Act  to  be  repealed.     [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  222-243.]  ^ 

Aug.  17.  617.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Carkesse.  Encloses  copies  of  Act 
Whitehall,  of  Antigua  to  impose  a  duty  on  sugar,  molosses,  rum,  cotton  and 
ginger  of  the  produce  or  manufacture  of  the  French  King^s  Colonies 
imported  into  this  Island,  and  of  Governor  Hamilton's  letter, 
30th  June,  and  papers  relating  thereto,  to  be  laid  before  the 
Commissioners  of  Customs.     In   consideration  that   Col.   Hart 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  39I 


I'-l-  is  upon  his  departure,  and  that  it  will  be  necessary  H.M. 
pleasure  be  declared  upon  the  said  Act  before-  he  go,  "  desires 
speedy  reply  etc.     [CO.  153,  14.     pp.  11,  12.1 


Aug.  18.  61 8.  Same  to  Governor  Shute.  Encloses  copy  of  Mr.  Newman's 
Whitehall.  Memorial,  27th  July,  and  enquires  reason  for  suspending  Act 
[of  New  Hampshire]  about  powder  money,  1702,  "  which  was 
confirmed  by  Her  late  Majesty  in  Council  19th  Nov.,  1706, 
and  is  looked  upon  to  be  in  force."  V.^.—Encloses  duplicates 
of  March  17  and  18  and  acknowledges  letter  etc.  of  1st  June, 
"  which  the  Lords  Commrs.  have  under  consideration."  [C  O  5 
915.    p.  328.] 

Aug.  18.  619.  Address  of  the  Commons  House  of  Assembly  of  South 
Carolina  to  the  King.  Our  true  and  grateful  sense  of  your 
Royal  goodness  in  taking  this  Colony  under  your  own  immediate 
protection,  and  Government,  is  not  to  be  sufficiently  exprest, 
and  this  your  Majesties  necessary  care  and  tenderness  for  your 
subjects  at  so  remote  a  distance  from  your  Royal  Person  "with 
other  innumerable  obligations,  will  naturally  bind  them  and 
their  posterity  to  be  for  ever  most  firmly  and  affectionately 
attach'd  to  your  Majesty  and  your  successors.  The  mild  and 
wise  administration  of  H.  E.  Francis  Nicholson  Esqr.  etc.  is 
a  very  sufficient  proof  to  us  of  your  Majesties  great  wisdom  and 
care  for  your  remote  subjects,  and  we  are  fully  convinced  how 
much  your  Majesty  has  at  heart  the  interest  of  our  established 
Church,  tlie  liberty  of  conscience  allovr'd  to  such  as  are  soe 
unhappy  as  to  dissent  from  it,  and  the  general  good  of  the  whole 
community  etc.  Ends  as  No.  760.  Signed,  Ja.  Moore  Speaker. 
Presented  in  Council  Aug.  18,  1721.  Endorsed,  Inserted  in 
ye  Gazette  of  Jan.  27th,  172A.  l  large  p.  [CO.  5,  382. 
No.  25.] 

Aug.  21.  620.  Lord  Townshend  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Whitehaii.  tions.  His  Majesty  has  commanded  me  to  signify  to  you  his 
pleasure,  that  you  lay  before  him  a  representation  of  the  state 
and  condition  of  H.M.  Colonys  on  the  Continent  in  America, 
with  your  opinion  what  methods  may  be  taken  for  the  better 
Government  and  security  of  the  said  Colonies  ;  your  Lordships 
having  received  the  like  direction  last  year  from  the  Lords 
Justices,  H.M.  does  not  doubt  but  you  have  made  such  a 
progress  in  this  affair,  that  you  will  very  soon  be  ready  to  make 
your  report  thereupon  ;  I  have  likewise  received  H.M.  orders 
to  signify  to  you  his  pleasure  that  you  lay  before  him,  in  a 
Representation,  your  thoughts  as  to  the  most  proper  methods 
for  encouraging  the  importation  of  timber,  naval  stores  and 
mineral  oars  from  H.M.   Plantations  in  America;    and  H.M. 


392  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ■ 

hopes  you  will  lose  no  time  in  preparing  and  laying  before  him 
the  said  Representations,  Signed,  Townshend.  Endorsed, 
Reed.   21st,   Read  22nd  Aug.,   1721.     l^   j)p-      [(^O.    323,    8. 

No.  20.] 

Aug.  23.  621 .  Samuel  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Barbados.  Tra7ismits  Minutes  of  Couneil,  25th  Jan. -6th  April,  1720  (1721), 
in  which  your  Lordships  will  see  the  reasons  I  had  for  displaceing 
the  Judges  of  H.M.  Courts  of  Common  Pleas,  But  through 
the  neglect  or  design  of  Mr.  Lenoir  the  Depty.  Secry.  here,  I 
could  not  transmitt  them  sooner  etc.  Refers  to  enclosure  i.  I 
have  lately  reced.  two  Orders  of  H.M.  Couneil,  28th  May  {for 
restoring  suspended  Councillors  and  civil  and  military  officers)  ; 
to  both  which  I  have  paid  a  ready  and  chearfull  obedience. 
I  am  sorry  to  be  forced  to  acquaint  your  Lordships  that  the 
restored  Members  of  Council  have  ever  since  they  were  restored, 
don  all  in  their  power  not  only  to  insult  and  chagreen  me,  but 
have  also  endeavour' d  to  obstruct  the  very  administration  by 
quarrelling  with  the  Assembly  ;  and  endeavouring  to  destroy 
the  Excise  Duty,  which  is  the  only  tax  whereby  the  Governmt. 
is  supported.  About  a  month  ago  upon  some  private  notice 
given  me,  that  there  were  some  French  traders  on  the  coast, 
I  issued  an  order  to  Capt.  Brown,  Commander  of  H.M.S. 
Feversham,  to  impress  boats  to  assist  him,  to  goe  and  seize 
them,  which  he  accordingly  did  and  brought  in  ten  saile  of 
sloops  and  shallops  into  this  road,  and  after  they  had  been  here 
in  custody  some  days,  and  lybell'd  in  the  Court  of  Admiralty 
six  of  those  sloops  were  by  the  restor'd  gunners  [of  the  forts.  Ed.] 
permitted  to  steal  out  of  the  road  in  the  night,  the  rest  are 
secur'd,  and  will  be  condemn'd,  and  disposed  of  as  the  Acts 
of  Parliament  directs,  and  I  intend  to  make  a  strict  enquiry, 
how  farr  ye  gunners  etc.  are  concern' d  in  those  sloops,  that  gott 
away.  Encloses  lists  of  ships  entered  and  cleared,  25th  Sept. 
1720-25th  June,  1721.  Refers  to  enclosed  address  by  some 
pirates.  Signed,  Saml.  Cox.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Read 
17th  Oct.,  1721.     Addressed.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

621.  i.  Deposition  of  William  Crookshanks,  formerly  clerk 
in  the  Secretary's  Office,  Barbados,  13th  May,  1721. 
As  to  delay  made  by  John  Lenoir,  Deputy  Secretary, 
in  delivering  copies  of  minutes  of  Council  from  24th 
Jan.  to  be  sent  to  England  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Crook- 
shanks.  1|  pp. 
621.  ii.  Deposition  of  Herman  von  Lengerken,  formerly 
Clerk  in  the  Secretary's  Office,  13th  May,  1721.  Con- 
firms preceding.  *S'^^nec^,  Herman  von  Lengerken.  Ijj. 
621.  iii.  Deposition  of  Edward  Freeman,  Clerk  in  the  Secre- 
tary's Office,  13th  May,  1721.  Corroborates  No.  i. 
Signed,  Edward  Freeman,     1  p. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


393 


1721, 


Aug.  28. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  23. 

Custom- 
house, 
London. 


621.  iv.  Deposition  of  Richard  Trant,  Clerk  in  the  Secretary's 
Office,  13th  May,  1721.  Signed,  Richd.  Tmnt.  1^  pp. 
Nos.  i-iv  endorsed  as  covering  letter. 

621.  V.  Petition  of  John  Massey  and  George  Lowther  to 
the  King.  Having  run  away  with  the  ship  Delivery 
ahas  Bumper  belonging  to  the  African  Co.,  from  Gambia, 
owing  to  the  intolerable  conditions  there,  petitioners 
pray  for  H.M.  pardon  for  themselves  and  100  others 
artificers  and  soldiers  who  escaped  with  them  etc. 
Signed,  Jno.  Massey,  George  Lowther.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 3  large  pp.  [CO.  28,  17.  Jf.  187,  187t;.,  I881;.- 
190,  191,  192,  192?7.,  196i;.,  197,  198,  199,  199i;.J 

622.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Shute. 
Repeat  postscript  of  Aug.  18th.  Continue  : — We  cannot  but 
be  surprized  at  the  extraordinary  proceedings  of  the  lower 
House  of  the  late  Assembly  [of  the  Massachusetts  Bay]  in  assuming 
to  themselves  an  executive  power,  and  shewing  so  great  a 
disregard  to  H.M.  Instructions;  And  as  we  shall  soon  lay  these 
proceedings  before  H.M.,  we  shall  not  omit  at  the  same  time 
to  represent  your  care  of  His  Majesty's  and  the  publick  interest, 
and  the  assistance  you  had  from  the  Council  therein.  In 
relation  to  the  Indians  in  your  neighbourhood,  we  are  glad 
to  hear  of  your  success  in  bringing  them  to  good  temper,  and 
doubt  not  but  your  continued  endeavours  will  be  effectual  in 
keeping  them  so.  We  shall  only  add  that  so  soon  as  H.M. 
pleasure  shall  be  declared  upon  what  we  represent  concerning 
the  state  of  the  said  Province,  the  same  shall  be  signifyed  to 
you  by  the  first  opportunity.     [CO.  5,  915.     pp.  329,  330.] 

623.  Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.  Reply  to  Aug.  17th. 
Encloses  following.  Continues  :  The  duties  laid  on  the  goods 
mention'd  in  the  said  Act  of  Antigua  will  in  the  opinion  of 
the  Commissioners  of  Customs  amount  to  a  prohibition,  in 
which  case  it  is  reasonable  to  apprehend  that  the  merchts.  will 
carry  those  goods,  as  by  law  they  may,  directly  to  foreign  parts 
without  landing  the  same  in  the  British  Plantations  and  bringing 
them  from  thence  to  this  Kingdom.  And  the  Commrs.  observe 
that  this  Act  is  perpetual  whereas  it  has  been  usual  in  cases 
of  this  nature  to  make  them  temporary  for  3  or  5  years  that 
it  may  be  seen  by  experience  whether  the  same  are  for  the 
benefit  of  Trade  or  the  Revenue  etc.  Signed,  Cha.  Carkesse. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd  Aug.  1721,  Read  25th  April,  1722. 
Addressed.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

623.  i.  Charles  Dunbar  to  the  Commissioners  of  Customs, 
30th  June,  1721.  Replies  to  answer  of  the  Lt. 
Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua  to  his  objections 
to  the  Act /or  laying  a  duty  on  French  sugar  etc.  Copy. 
7f  pp.     [CO.  152,  14.    ff  104-108U.,  109i;.] 


391 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 
Aug.  23. 

Whitehall. 


624.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
H.M.  having  been  pleased  to  appoint  John  Hope  Esq.  to  be 
Governor  of  Bermuda,  in  the  room  of  Benjamin  Bennet  Esqr., 
draughts  of  his  Commission  and  Instructions  are  to  be  prepared 
etc.  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed,  Reed.  24th,  Read  25th  Aug. 
1721.     f  p.     [CO.  37,  10.     No.  19.] 


Aug.  24.       625.     H.M.  Commission  to  George  Doidge  to  be  Commissary 
Kensington,  of  the   Musters   of  the  Garrison  at  Placentia.     Countersigned, 
Carteret.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  63.] 


Aug.  24. 

St.  James's. 


626.  Order  of  Kmg  in  Council.  Repealing  2  Acts  of 
Antigua,  1719,  (i)  for  declaring  the  qualifications  of  those  who 
shall  vote  for  Assembly  or  Vestrymen  or  serve  as  such,  and  for 
ascertoAning  the  rules,  rights  and  priviledges  of  Assembly,  (ii) /or 
establishing  a  Court  of  King's  Bench,  Common  Pleas  and  Errors, 
etc.  Signed,  Robert  Hales.  Endorsed,  Reed.  18th,  Read  24th 
April,  1722.     2  pp.     [CO.  152,  14.    ff  100,  lOOt;.,  lOli;.] 


Aug.  24.       627.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Repealing  Act  of  Jamaica 

Kensington,  to  prevent  all  fraudulent  trade  to  Hispaniola  and  other  foreign 

parts.     Signed,    Edward    Southwell.     Endorsed,    Reed.     23rd, 

Read  24th  April,  1722.     2  pp.     [CO.   137,   14.     ff.   127,  127i', 

128i;.] 

Aug.  24.       628.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Approving  representation 

Kensington,  of  9th  instant,  and  ordering  that  the  indigo  and  other  goods 

seized  by  the  Governor  of  Jamaica,  or  the  value  thereof,  be 

immediately  restored  to  the  owners  etc.     Signed   and  endorsed 

as  preceding.     1^  pp.     [CO.  137,  14.    ff.  129,  129u.,  130u.] 

Aug.  24.       629.     Order   of   King   in    Council.     Approving    draught    of 

Kensington.  Instructions  for  Governor  Phenney  relating  to  Acts  of  Trade 

and  Navigation.     Signed,  Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed. 

23rd,    Read  24th  April,   1722.     1  p.     [CO.   23,   1.     No.   39  ; 

and  {duplicate,  signed.  Temple  Stanyan)     5,  191.     _p.  122a.] 


Aug.  24.  630.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Approving  draft  of  In- 
Kensington.  structions  for  Governor  Lord  Belhaven  {v.  9th  Aug.)  "  excepting 
in  the  2nd  Article  relating  to  the  lists  of  Councillors,  as  to  which 
H.M.  is  pleased  to  order,  that  Samuel  Cox  Esqr.  now^  President 
of  the  Couneill  be  inserted  therein,  he  not  being  under  any 
suspension,  nor  having  yett  been  heard  as  to  the  late  complaint 
against  him  ;  and  that  John  Frere  Esq.  be  left  out  of  the  said 
list,  he  being  under  a  suspension,  and  the  Lord  Belhaven  being 
impowered  by  an  Order  of  Council  of  the  10th  mstant  to  restore 
him  in  case  he  judges  it  expedient  etc.  And  H.M.  is  further 
pleased  to  order  that  the  name  of  Samuel  Berwick  Esq.  who  is 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  395 


1721. 

under  a  suspentioii,  be  left  out  ol"  the  said  list,  as  likewise  that 
of  Samuel  Brown  Esq."  etc.  Signed,  Edward  Southwell. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd,  Read  24th  April,  1722.  2|  pp.  [CO. 
28,  17.    fj.  258-2591'.] 

Aug.  24.       631.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Referring  Representation 

Kensington,  of  17th  Aug.  Upon  Acts  of  Barbados  1714-1720,  to  the  Lords 

of  the   Committee  of  H.M.    Privy  Councill   for  their  opinion 

thereupon.     Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.     1  p.     \C.O.  28, 

17.    ff.  260,  261r.] 

Aug.  25.  632.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclosc  following  Instructions,  "  in  the  usual  form  with  some 
alterations,  conformable  as  near  as  may  be,  to  the  draught  of 
Instructions  for  the  Lord  Belhaven,  Governor  of  Barbados 
etc.  {v.  Sept.  8th).  And  whereas  there  are  at  present  five 
vacancies  in  H.M.  Council  of  Nevis  and  two  in  Montserrat,  we 
have  inserted  the  names  of  James  Symonds,  Joseph  Symonds, 
Roger  Pemberton,  Michael  Williams  and  James  Brown  for 
Nevis,  and  those  of  Anthony  Hodges,  and  Nathaniel  Webb 
for  Montserrat  "  etc.  Annexed, 

632.  i.  H.M.  Instructions  for  John  Hart  Esq.,  Captain 
General  and  Governor  in  Chief  in  and  over  Our  Islands 
of  Nevis,  St.  Christophers,  Montserrat,  Antegoa, 
Barbouda,  Anguilla  and  the  rest  of  Our  Carribbee 
Islands  in  America  lying  to  Leeward  from  Guarda- 
loupe  to  the  Island  of  St.  John  de  Porto  Rico  [v.  8th 
Sept.].     [CO.    153,    14.     pp.    15-75.] 

Aug.  28.  633.  Governor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  Encloses  Acts  of  Montserrat  (13th  June,  1721) 
(i)  repealing  Act  granting  excise  duties  to  Thomas  Tahnash  etc., 
and  (ii)  for  raising  a  levy  or  poll  tax  etc.  to  pay  off  the  publick 
debts ;  and  an  Act  of  Antigua,  29th  July,  1721,  for  rein- 
forcing the  Act  for  repairing  the  fortifications  on  Monks  Hill  etc. 
I  have  not  any  observations  to  make  on  these  Acts,  only  that 
the  Act  which  settles  the  liquor  duty  on  Lt.  Governour  Talmash 
hath  been  found  prejudicial  to  the  interest  of  that  Island,  for 
that  tax  was  always  paid  in  cash,  and  appropriated  to  pay 
contingencies,  whereas  since  the  passing  the  aforesaid  Act  to 
Lt.  (iovernour  Talmash  during  the  time  that  Lt.  General  Mathew 
commanded  in  chief,  it  has  been  wholy  applyed  to  the  use  of 
the  said  Lt.  Governour,  by  means  whereof,  and  by  reason  the 
other  taxes  are  paid  in  the  produce  of  the  Island,  the  want  of 
ready  money  in  the  Treasury  has  been  very  much  felt  etc.  Your 
Lordships  will  perceive  the  difference  of  the  dates  in  the  Mont- 
serrat Acts  occasioned  by  delays  that  happen  in  transmitting 


396  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

them  backwards  and  forwards  etc.  Edward  Parson  one  of  the 
Council  of  Mountserrat  is  dead,  etc.  Refers  to  enclosure. 
Signed,  W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed,  Reed.  30th  Oct.,  1721,  Read 
13th  June,  1722.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

633.  i.    Duplicate  of  Aug.  31st,    No.  iii.     [CO.    152,    14.     ff. 
116,  II61;.,  117i;.,  118,  119r.] 

Aug.  28.       634.     Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
amaica.    plantations.     Encloses    duplicate     of    5th    July.     Continues : 
Since  which  time  I  have  given  my  consent  to  four  Acts  etc. 
vizt.  : — (1)  To  encourage  the  settleing  the  North  East  part  of  this 
Island.     This   is   the   Act   which   1   mentioned   in  my   former 
letters  I  had  so  much  at  heart  and  which  if  framed  in  the  manner 
I  proposed  woud  have  conduced  very  much  to  the  adv  antage 
strength  and  security  of  this  country  but  in  the  manner  it  now 
is  I  am  afraid  it  will  not  answer  the  end  proposed  which  was  to 
invest  the  whole  tract  without  any  exception  in  the  Crown  and 
to  be  granted  to  newcomers  in  the  same  quantities  for  each 
white  person  in  family  and  negroes  and  under  the  same  con- 
ditions and  restriction  as  it  now  is  which  if  they  had  thought 
fit  to  have  vested  the  whole  tract    without    exception  in  the 
Crown  the  grants  might  have  immediately  passed  without  so 
long  a  delay  of  time  as  a  general  survey  of  that  land  must  now 
take  before  any  grant  can  be  made  besides  the  great   charge 
the  countr\^  will  be  at  in  such  survey  and  the  vast  expense  in 
purchaseing   the   severall   parcells   of  land   mention' d   in   this 
bill  which  will  lay  such  a  load  of  debt  upon  the  country  that 
future  Assemblys  in  all  likelyhood  will  think  to  hard  for  the 
inhabitants  to  bear  for  tho'  the  severall  parcells  of  land  men- 
tiond    to  be  purchased  in  this  bill  were  before  the  passing  it 
of  no  great  value  yet  now  the  Proprietors  thereof  (as  I  am  in- 
formed) demands  large  sums  for  the  same  and  as  time  is  given 
in  this  bill  for  the  paying  arrearages  of  quit  rents  so  I  have 
reason  to  beleive  most  of  the  owners  or  Proprietors  of  such  land 
have  allready  or  will  within  the  time  limitted  discharge  all 
their  arrearages  of  quit  rents  so  that  excepting  the  severall 
parcells  mentiond  to  be  purchased  by  the  country  little  more 
land  will  be  in  the  power  of  the  Crown  to  dispose  of  to  new- 
comers than  what  the  King  might  have  claimed  by  other  laws 
now  in  force.     However  this  bill  carrying  so  plausible  a  title 
and  the  Council  and  Assembly  being  fond  of  it  induced  me  to 
give  my   consent  to  it  but  my  duty  oblidges  me  to  mention  to 
your  Lordships  the  objections  I  made  to  it  tho'  I  could  not 
prevail  with  them  to  comply  with  my  desire,     (ii)  An  Act  for 
qualifying  members  to  sit  in  Assemblys  and  to  regulate  electiojis. 
This  Act  in  all  respects  I  think  a  good  law  and  I  have  no  manner 
of  objections  to  it  and  therefore  I  recommend  it  to  your  Lord- 
ships speedy  consideration  in  order  to  be  laid  before  H.M.  for 
his  royall  assent,     (iii)  An  Act  for  vesting  certain  lands  in  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  397 


1721. 


parish  of  St.  Thomas  in  the  Vale  in  trustees  for  the  use  of  George 
Reid  Esq.  and  his  heirs  and  (iv)  An  Act  to  enable  certain  trustees 
to  sell  the  estates  and  interest  of  William  Bowles  and  Charles 
Bowles  his  son  an  infant  for  the  discharge  and  payment  of  debts 
and  purchaseing  lands  in  the  Kingdom  of  Great  Briitain  to  certain 
uses.     These  two  last  mention'd  being  primate  (  =;jni;<7te.  Ed.) 
bills  and  petitions  haveing  been  presented  to  the  Council  and 
Assembly  and  the  allegations  thereof  being  by  them  found 
to  be  true  and  that  the  partys  concerned  were  only  properly 
releiveable  in  this  manner  and  no  objection  appearing  to  me 
anyways  detrimentall  to  H.M.  Prerogative  I  gave  my  consent 
to  them,  the  severall  partys  concerned  will  attend  your  Lordships 
etc.     Those  are  all  the  Acts  that  I  have  past  this  Sessions  which 
I  consented  to  on  the  22nd  of  last  month  and  afterwards  I  told 
the  Assembly  they  might  either  sit  and  go  on  with  further 
business  or  have  a  recess  as  they  pleased  and  on  the  26th  they 
sent  me  a  message  desireing  a  recess  which  I  granted  by  prorogue- 
ing  them  to  the  31st  and  afterwards  with  the  advice  of  the 
Council  to  the  17th  day  of  Oct.  next,  the  Additional  Duty  Bill 
out  of  which  the  soldiers  are  subsisted  expireing  the   1st  of 
November  there  will  be  a  necessity  for  their  meeting  at  that 
time.     I  must  observe  to  your  Lordships  that  this  Assembly 
notwithstanding  H.M.   recommendations   and  their  own   pro- 
fessions of  duty  and  loyalty  have  not  thought  fit  to  put  any 
mony  into  the  Treasury  tho'  it  is  actually  found  to  be  £15000  in 
debt  on  the  contrary  they  have  drawn  up  a  long    Address  and 
representation   to   H.M.    and   have   ordered   their   Speaker  to 
transmit  it  setting  forth    reasons,  as  they    call  'em,    for    not 
obeying  the   King's   commands  in  favour  of  Lord  Archibald 
Hamilton.     By  their  Minutes  of  the  13th  of  July  I  obser\  e  they 
ordered  their  Speaker  to  transmit  this   Address   before  they 
made  any  applycation  to  me  for  doing  it  being  conscious,  as  I 
suppose,  to  themselves  that  I  would  not  give  any  countenance 
or  trouble  H.M.  any  further  with  a  matter  which  has  allready 
had  so  full  a  hearing  and  received  H.M.  possitive  determination, 
and  as  to  the    slur  which  they  woud  seemingly  cast  upon  my 
administration  as  if  the  charge  of  the  Government  was  con- 
siderably augmented  under  my  management  I  have  endeavoured 
to  clear  myself   (and  I  hope  to  your  Lordships  satisfaction)  in 
severall  messages  to  them  on  that  subject  wherein  I  plainly 
show  the  falacy  of  their  reasoning  and  have  ordered  their  Address 
and    the    most    material  messages  that  have  passed  between 
us  to  be  printed  which  if  your  Lordships  thinks  worthy  of  your 
notice  the  same  may  the  more  clearly  appear  to  your  view 
{enclosed).     Shou'd  the  Assembly  at  their  next  meeting  still 
insist  in  haveing  the  Members  who  signed  the  papers  mentioned 
in  my  last  taken  into  custody  I  shall  expect  little  good  from 
them  and  therefore  I  heartily  wish  your  Lordships  wou'd  be 
pleased  to  lay  before  H.M.  a  true  state  of  the  present  condition 


398  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

of  this  his  Island  and  of  our  likclyhood  speedily  to  be  in  a  much 
worse  unless  H.M.  will  be  graciously  pleased  to  interpose  his 
authority  and  take  such  measures  as  may  render  his  Government 
here  independant  on  tlie  humours  of  an  obstinate  People  for 
supplys.  In  severall  of  my  former  letters  I  have  hinted  to 
your  Lordships  in  what  manner  this  might  be  effected,  if  your 
Lordships  are  pleased  to  approve  thereof  I  am  fully  perswaded 
from  a  view  of  our  present  state  and  condition  you'll  think  it 
necessary  Avithout  delay  to  be  put  in  practice  or  if  your  Lordships 
can  propose  any  other  expedient  to  H.M.  for  the  support  of  his 
Government  here  with  more  ease  to  the  inhabitants  etc.  I  shall 
with  great  chearfullness  concurr  etc.  By  the  Mmutes  of  the 
Council  {enclosed)  your  Lordships  may  please  to  observe  severall 
petitions  presented  to  me  in  Council  by  Spaniards  who  had  the 
misfortune  to  be  taken  by  some  of  H.M.  ships  of  warr  and  our 
privateers  just  at  the  commencement  of  the  cessation  of  arms 
etc.,  some  of  which  were  condemned  as  prize  before  we  had  any 
notice  of  the  said  suspension  of  arms  and  an  interlockatery 
sentence  passed  upon  others  and  bond  was  giAcn  to  make 
restitution  to  any  lawfull  claimers  some  of  those  Spaniards 
have  received  ample  restitution  the  rest  are  now  prosecuting 
their  claims  etc.  in  the  Court  of  Admiralty  and  all  of  them  may 
expect  to  receive  justice  in  like  manner,  I  heartily  wish  I 
cou'd  say  the  Spaniards  had  been  as  ready  in  doing  justice  to 
H.M.  subjects  in  these  parts  who  have  suffer'd  very  considerably 
by  them  since  the  cessation  of  arms.  By  late  advices  from 
Carthagena  we  have  an  accot.  that  the  Galeons  from  Old  Spain 
were  arrived  there  and  that  there  were  upwards  of  20  sail  of 
large  French  ships  full  of  merchandise  in  the  South  Seas  but 
that  the  Spaniards  were  stricktly  commanded  by  the  Vice  Roy 
not  to  trade  with  them  and  the  little  trade  we  formerly  had  with 
Carthagena  and  Portobello  is  now  allmost  at  a  stand  the 
Spaniards  are  so  strickt  in  guarding  their  coasts  that  makes  it 
very  difficult  and  hazardous  to  land  any  goods,  this  makes 
trade  dull  here  and  mony  scarce.  I  wait  with  impatience  to 
receive  your  Lordships  commands,  the  last  I  was  honoured 
with  was  that  of  the  27th  Dec.  etc.  P.S.  In  the  first  clause  of 
the  Act  to  encourage  the  settleing  the  N.E.  part  of  this  Island  a 
doubt  arises  v/ith  me  whether  it  is  intended  that  the  forfeiture 
for  non-payment  of  the  quitt  rents  extends  to  all  the  lands  in 
generall  therein  mention'd  or  only  to  such  lands  as  belong  to 
absentee's  who  have  no  effects  in  this  Island.  I  therefore  beg 
your  Lordships  to  send  me  Mr.  West's  or  the  Attorney 
Generall's  opinion  thereon.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  13th  Dec,  1721,  Read  15th  Feb.,  172^.  6^ pp. 
Enclosed, 

634.  i.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Jamaica  to  the  King. 
With  His  Excellency's  Answer  and  Messages  to  the 
House  in  relation  thereto.     July  14.     The  Assembly 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  399 


1721. 


desired   H.E.   to  transmit   the   following   Address   to 
H.M.  .  There  is  not  in  any  part  of  your  Dominions 
a   body   of  people   more   zealously   affected   to   your 
Majesty's  person  or  more  averse  to  Poper}',  etc.    Private 
interest  and  love  of  too  much  power  have  engaged 
some    to    misrepresent    us    etc.     Although    Lord    A. 
Hamilton's  memorial  sets  forth  as  if  some  considerable 
part  of  the  money  claimed  by  him  were  due  for  salary. 
His  whole   salary  excepting  for  ten   days  was   duly 
paid  to  him  about  the  time  of  his  departure,  and  the 
Receiver-General    hath    always    been    ready    to    pay 
the  balance  when  demanded  etc.     Recount  subsista,nce 
granted    to    H.M.    Regiments,    on    several    repeated 
assurances  from  H.M.,  that  they  should  be  eased  of 
that   burthen,    which   they   hoped   would   have   been 
at  the  conclusion  of  the  last  Peace  ;    but  the  Lord 
Hamilton  not  being  willing  to  part  with  the  advan- 
tages  that    accrewed    to    him    from    them,    renewed 
his  instances  for  the  soldiers  continuing  here  longer  ; 
to  bridle,  as  he  was  pleased  to  term  it,  the  inhabitants, 
and  root  out  the  seeds  of  rebellion,  brought  over  by 
the  first  inhabitants  etc.     The  Regiment    being  after- 
wards reduced  to  two  Independant  Companies,  one 
was  granted  to  Lord  Hamilton,  and  the  other  to  Col. 
Robert    Rookwood.     The    Assembly   have    for   many 
years  provided  a  subsistance  of  20*.  per  week  for  each 
officer  and   5*.    for  each   common   soldier,   over  and 
above  their  English  pay  ;  and  although  it  was  notorious 
that  the  allowances  so  provided  was  for  the  most  part 
diverted  into  other  pockets,  the  listed  men  being  usually 
dispersed  about  the  country  upon  furlows,  for  which 
they  have  often  given  prasmiums, besides  the  assignment 
of  their  allowance  yet  the  Assemblies  continued  their 
allowances  till  1st  May,  1714,  from  which  time  they 
were  interrupted  by  hasty  and  unusual  prorogations 
and   dissolutions   etc.     Describe  occasion   of  Lord   A. 
Hamilton     and    the    Council    advancing    money    for 
the    soldiers    whilst    the  Assembly  was  adjourned  or 
prorogued.     When   the   new   Assembly   met   in    Oct. 
1715,  they  taking  notice  of  the  great  misapplications 
that  had  been  made  of  the  money  provided  for  the 
soldiers    appointed    Commissioners    to    deliver    them 
weekly    provisions    etc.,    but    the    common    soldiers 
refused  to  accept  their  allowance  in  any  other  kind 
but  money  and  were  hardly  held  from  plundering  the 
Town  of  Port  Royal,  and  destroyed  great  numbers 
of  the   inhabitants'   cattle  etc.,   in   which  they   were 
privately  encouraged  by  some  whose  duty  it  was  to 
have  suppressed  them.  etc.     "  Should  we  yeild  to  the 


400  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

reimbursement  of  the  money  now  demanded,  it  wou'd 
be  such  a  president  as  might  hereafter  be  made  use 
of  to  subject  the  estates  of  us  and  our  posterity  to  the 
arbitrary  taxation  of  a  Governor,  and  render  Assemblies 
useless  "  etc.  "  It  is  evident  from  the  state  of  the 
Revenue  and  Contingencies  in  Sir  William  Beeston's 
time,  and  that  of  the  present,  that  your  subjects  here 
have  never  been  wanting  to  support  the  honour  and 
dignity  of  the  Crown,  the  whole  exigencies  of  the 
Government  not  amounting  to  more  than  about 
£5000  per  annum  in  that  time,  tho'  a  war  was  then 
in  being  ;  whereas  at  present,  and  for  some  years 
last  past,  the  same  have  been  swelled  up  to  no  less 
than  to  about  £10,700  per  annum,  by  such  means  as 
we  are  loath  to  trouble  your  Majesty  with  etc., 
although  the  sinking  condition  and  poverty  of  the 
Island  very  ill  bears  such  an  aggravation  of  expence 
etc.     July  13,  1721.     Signed,  George  Modd,  Speaker. 

(b)  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes'  reply  to  preceding. 
You  cannot  expect  that  I  should  transmit  this  Address, 
upon  transactions  which  have  already  been  considered 
by  H.M.  in  Council  etc.  Quotes  Receiver  General's 
accounts  to  show  that  "  all  the  Orders  of  Council 
issued  last  year  on  the  Revenue,  for  the  support  of 
the  Government,  comes  to  little  more  than  £4000, 
whilst  the  charge  of  the  Government  for  five  years 
before  my  arrival  amounted  to  about  £8750." 

(c)  Other  messages  to  and  from  the  Governor  and 
Assembly.  The  whole,  Printed  by  commmid  of  His 
Excellency.     Endorsed  as  preceding.     7|  pp. 

634.  ii.  Act  of  Jamaica  to  enable  trustees  of  William  and 
Charles  Bowles  etc.  v.  covering  letter.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  13th  Dec,  1721,  Read  15th  Feb.  172i.  Re- 
ported to  be  confinned,  11th  Dec,  1723.     2\  large  pp. 

634.  iii.  Trval  of  Capt,  John  Rackham  etc.  Duplicate  of 
June  12,  1721,  q.v.  [CO.  137,  14.  ff.  61-65,  66-70, 
71,  72-94t;.,  95t'.] 

Aug.  29.       635.     100th  Article  of  Governor  Lord  Belhaven's  Instruc- 
tions, relating  to  piratical  goods.     Copy.     \  p.     [CO.  28,  44. 

/•  5.] 

Aug.  29.       636.     H.M.  Instructions  to  Governor  Lord  Belhaven,  with 
Kensington.  Instructions  relating  to  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  cf.  25th 
Aug.     [CO.  5,  191.     pp.  14-74,  75-97.] 

Aug.   29.       637.     H.M.    Instructions   to   Governor   Phenney.     [CO.    5, 

Kensington.    ^(^^       ^^     ^^S,    125.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


401 


1721.  

Aug.  29.  638.  Mr.  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Barbados.  Refers  to  letter  of  Aug.  23rd,  and  repeats  part  of  it.  Encloses 
Minutes  of  Council  12th  April-9th  Aug.,  1721,  '"'  wherein  your 
Lordships  I  humbly  hope  will  find  I  have  paid  a  ready  obedience 
to  the  Orders  of  H.M.  in  Council,  28th  May  last  "  etc.  Encloses 
Minutes  of  Assembly,  7th  June-22nd  Aug.  Signed,  Saml. 
Cox.  Endorsed,  Reed.  24th  Oct.,  1721,  Read  11th  Jan.,  172*. 
Addressed.     2  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff  210,  2\Qv,  211i;.] 


Aug.  29. 

Treasury 
Chambers. 


Aug.  30. 

Wliitehall. 


639.  Mr.  Lowndes  to  Mr.  Popple.  The  Lords  Commrs.  of 
H.M.  Treasury  desire  etc.  copies  of  all  such  articles  and  instruc- 
tions as  have,  at  any  time,  been  signed  by  H.M.  so  far  as  they 
relate  to  all  or  any  part  of  H.M.  Revenues  in  the  Plantations 
or  to  the  effects  taken  from  pyrates  etc.     Signed,  W.  Lowndes. 


Endorsed,    Reed.  Read  30th  Aug.,  1721. 

No.  21.] 


p.     [CO.  323,  8. 


640.  Lord  Carteret  to  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes.  It  having 
been  represented  to  H.M.  that  a  good  number  of  inhabitants 
in  the  Leeward  Islands  have  lately  deserted  the  said  Islands, 
upon  the  encouragement  which  has  been  given  them  to  repair  to 
Jamaica,  and  settle  there,  and  there  being  reason  to  apprehend, 
that  others  may  be  tempted  to  follow  their  example,  H.M.' 
considering  how  far  such  a  proceeding  may,  in  process  of  time, 
tend  to  the  impoverishing  and  dispeopling  the  said  Islands' 
has  commanded  me  to  signify  his  pleasure  to  you,  that  you  do 
not,  under  a  pretence  of  peopling  Jamaica,  give  any  countenance 
or  encouragement  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  Leeward  Islands 
to  desert  those  Colonies.  Signed,  Carteret.  [CO.  324  34 
p.  62.] 


Aug.  30         641.     Mr.     Carkesse    to     Mr.  Popple.     Encloses     following 
^"Lomio^°"    ^^^^^^^^  *his  day,  as  a  supplement  to  Aug.  23.     Signed,  Cha. 
Carkesse.     Endorsed,  Reed.  31st  Aug.,  1721,  Read  26th  April, 
1722.     Addressed.     -|-  p.     Enclosed, 

641.  i.  Extract   of    letter  from    Mr.    Dunbar   to   the    Com- 

missioners of  Customs.  12th  July,  1721.  Further 
objections  to  the  Act  of  Antigua.  Copy,  li  pp. 
[CO.  152,  14.     ff  110,  111,  llli;.,  l\Sv.] 

Aug.  30.       642.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclose  following  {v.  23rd  Aug.).     Annexed, 

642.  i.  Draught   of   Commission   to   John   Hope   to    be    Lt. 

Governor  and  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Bermuda 
or  Summer  Islands,  and  revoking  that  of  Col.  Bennett. 
This  Commission  was  signed  11th  Oct.,  1721.  [CO. 
38,   7.     pp.  370-389.] 


Wt.  7595 


C.F.  32—26 


402 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 
Aug.  30. 

Kensington. 

Aug.  31. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  31. 

Antigua. 


643.  H.M.  Commission  to  Lt.  Governor  Hope.  Counter- 
signed, Carteret.     [CO.  5,  191.     pp.  300-307.] 

644.  Lord  Carteret  to  Governors  of  Barbados,  New  England, 
New  York,  Leeward  Islands  and  South  Carolina.  Mr.  Benjamin 
Blundell  junr.,  has  several  large  debts  owing  to  him,  to  which 
H.M.  now  stands  entituled.  You  are  to  instruct  the  Attorney 
General  to  sue  his  debtors  living  under  your  Government  at 
the  King's  suit  etc.     Signed,  Carteret.     Enclosed, 

64  k  i.  List  of  debts  due  in  the  West  Indies  to  Mr.  Blundell, 
Receiver  General  of  taxes  etc.  in  Leicestershire,  who 
lately  went  off  with  about  £18,000  of  that  publick 
money. 

644.  ii.  Copy  of  opinion  of  Mr.  West  that  the  King  is  entitled 

to    above    17th    July,    1721.     Signed,    Richd.    West. 
[CO.   324,  34.     pp.  73-75.] 

645.  Go\'ernor  Hamilton  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  The  inclosed  is  an  Act  for  raising  a  tax  for  paying 
the  publick  debt  due  to  me  etc.  Upon  notice  here  that  H.M. 
was  graciously  pleased  to  honour  Colonel  Hart  with  the  Govern- 
ment of  these  Islands,  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  this  Island 
desired  I  would  permit  them  to  meet,  and  in  justice  to  me,  and 
in  consideration  of  my  forbearance  during  the  time  they  suffered 
by  the  extream  drowth  to  receive  what  was  due  to  me  from  the 
Publick  by  virtue  of  an  Act  for  settling  £1000  per  annum  on 
me  for  house  rent  which  H.M.  was  graciously  pleasd  to  allow 
during  his  pleasure,  unanimously  agreed  to  raise  a  tax  and 
prepare  a  bill  for  what  remain'd  due  on  their  account,  and 
accordingly  the  bill  was  prepared  and  past  into  a  Law  etc. 
Refers  to  enclosed  Minutes.  Contimies  :  This  was  their  volun- 
tary act  and  request  without  my  privity  or  knowledge  and  I 
cannot  believe  but  your  Lordships  would  think  me  unjust  to 
myself  and  family  had  I  refused  passing  this  Act  etc.,  besides 
the  major  part  of  this  summe  is  due  to  the  merchants  of  the 
Islands  for  goods  bought  of  them  to  defray  the  necessary  ex- 
pences  of  my  Government  etc.  Prays  for  their  favourable  report 
upon  it.  Refers  to  enclosure.  Signed,  W.  Hamilton.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  20th  Nov.,  1721,  Read  16th  Jan.  172,^     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

645.  i.  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua  to  the  Assembly. 

Propose  bill  for  paying  Governor  Hamilton  what  is  due 

to  him.     The  Assembly  agree  etc.     Same  endorsement. 

Copy.     If  pp. 
645.  ii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Antigua  relating  to  above  Act, 

24th  July,  1721.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     2  pjJ. 
645.  iii.  Governor    Hamilton's    licence  of  absence  to  John 

Yeamans     for    six    months    etc.      22nd    Aug.     1721. 

Signed,W.  Hamiiton.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.     Ip. 

[CO.  152,  14.    ff.  88,  89-94,  95i;]. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


403 


1721. 

Sept.  1.       646.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.     Recom- 
Whitehau.  mend  Capt.  Gookin's  petition,     {v.  8th  Jan.,  1720)  for  a  grant 
of    islands    in    Delaware,  with    certain  reservations.     Set  out, 
N.  J.  Archives,  1st  Ser.  V.  18.     [CO.  5,  1293.     pp.  238-241.] 

[Sept.  1]  647.  William  Nivine  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Prays  for  a  report  upon  several  Acts  of  Antigua  now  depending 
with  their  Lordships.  Signed,  Will.  Nivine.  Endorsed, 
Reed.    1st    Sept.,    1721.     1  p.     [C.O.   152,  13.     ff.  259,  260i;.] 


Sept.  2. 

Whitehall. 


Sept.  5. 

Whitehall. 


648.  Mr.  Wheelock  to  Mr.  West.  In  the  absence  of  Mr. 
Popple,  encloses,  for  his  opinion  in  point  of  law,  acts  of  New 
York  of  1719,  and  1720  {enumerated).  Those  that  have  expired 
are  included,  in  order  that,  if  there  should  appear  any  objection 
to  them,  the  Governor  may  be  advised  thereof,  for  his  guidance 
in  passing  Acts  of  the  like  nature  for  the  future.  [C.O. 
5,   1124.     pp.  263-269.] 

649.  Order  of  Council.  Referring  back  to  the  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations  draught  of  Instructions  for  Governor 
Hart,  who  are  to  specify  the  proposed  alterations  and  their 
reasons  for  the  same.  v.  Acts  of  Privy  Council,  Colonial  Series. 
Vol.  III.  No.  19.  Signed,  Robert  Hales.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  6th  Sept.,  1721.     1  p.     [C.O.  152,  14.    ff.  21,  22z;.] 

Sept.    5.       650.     Order   of   Council.     Approving   Commission    for   Lt. 
Whitehall.  Governor  Hope   {v.   30th   Aug.).     Signed,   Edward   Southwell. 

Endorsed,   Reed.   23rd,   Read  24th,   April,   1722.     1  p.     [C.O. 

37,   10.     No.  22  ;    and  {duplicate  signed.  Temple  Stanyan)  5, 

191.     p.  299a.] 


Sept.  6, 

Whitehall, 


651.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Governor  of  Carolina.  Encloses 
copy  of  letter  from  Marquis  de  Pozobueno,  Spanish  Minister, 
30th  April,  complaining  of  hostilities  committed  against  the 
inhabitants  of  Florida  }:)y  the  Indians,  who  are  under  the  pro- 
tection of  H.M.  Governmt.  in  Carolina,  that  they  could  not  stir 
out  of  their  houses  to  cultivate  their  lands,  nor  turn  out  their 
cattle  without  apparent  danger  from  the  sd.  Indians,  whereupon 
they  had  requested  His  Catholic  IMajesty  to  give  them  leave 
to  retire  into  some  other  Province  etc.  It  is  H.M.  pleasure 
that  you  take  the  most  effectual  care,  that  neither  H.M.  subjects 
in  Carolina,  nor  the  Indians  under  the  protection  of  His  Govern- 
ment there,  be  suffered  to  commit  any  manner  of  violence  agt. 
the  inhabitants  of  Florida,  but  on  the  contrary  that  you  use 
your  best  endeavours  to  preserve  a  good  correspondence  with 
the  sd.  subjects  of  Spain,  it  being  H.M.  intention  that  the 
Conventions  made  between  him  and  His  Catholic  Majty.  be 
strictly  observed  on  the  part  of  his  subjects.  Signed,  Carteret. 
[CO.  324,  34.     p.  02.] 


404  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

Sept.  6.       662.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Whittiiaii.  You  are    to    prepare  an  Instruction  for  Lt.   Governor  Hope 

agreable  to  those   whicli   you  ha^•e  already  prepared  for  the 

present    Ciovernors  of  Barbados  and  the  Leeward  Islands  {v. 

5th  July,  and  4th  Aug.).     Signed,  Carteret.     Endorsed,  Reed. 

7th,  Read  13th  Sept.  1721.     1  p.     [CO.  37,  10.     No.  20.] 

Sept.  8.       653.     Mr.    Popple   to    Mr.    Lowndes.     Encloses    Governors' 
Whitehall.  Insti-uctions  as  requested  29th  Aug.  [CO.  324,  10.     pp.  294, 

205.] 

Sept.  8.  654.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  Reply 
Whitehall,  to  Order  in  Council,  Sept.  5th.  When  Sir  Nicholas  Laws  was 
appointed  Governor  of  Jamaica,  we  did  then  propose,  11th  Oct., 
1717,  several  alterations  in  the  Instructions  for  the  said  Governor, 
and  gave  our  reasons  for  the  same,  which  your  Majesty  being 
pleased  to  approve,  we  thought  ourselves  obliged  in  all  the 
Instructions  that  we  have  prepared  since  that  time  to  inset 
the  said  alterations  without  troubling  your  Majesty  with  the 
repetition  of  our  reasons  for  so  doing  etc.  The  alterations  in 
Col.  Hart's  Instructions  are  conformable  to  those  of  Sir  N. 
Lawes  and  of  the  Lord  Belhaven.  Whereas  by  the  13th 
Instruction  the  Governor  was  restrained  from  suspending  any 
of  the  Council  without  the  consent  of  the  majority,  which  in 
some  cases  might  prove  of  ill  consequence,  we  have  added  at 
the  end  of  that  Article,  "  Nevertheless  if  it  should  happen  that 
you  should  have  reasons  for  suspending  of  any  of  the  said 
persons,  not  fit  to  be  communicated  to  the  respective  Council 
to  wl>ich  he  belonged,  you  may  in  such  case  suspend  such  person 
without  the  consent  of  that  Council ;  But  you  are  thereupon 
immediately  to  send  to  us  by  one  of  our  Principall  Secrys.  of 
State  and  to  our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations  an 
account  thereof  with  your  reasons  for  such  suspension  as  also 
for  not  communicating  the  same  to  the  Council,  and  duplicates 
thereof  by  the  next  conveyance."  In  the  24th  Article  forbidding 
the  Governor  to  pass  bills  of  an  extraordinary  and  unusual 
nature  etc.,  we  added  the  words,  Or  that  might  anyways  affect 
the  trade  or  shipping  of  this  Kingdom,  pursuant  to  your  Majesty's 
directions  in  that  behalf ;  and  after  the  words,  deferring  the 
execution  thereof  until  our  pleasure  shall  be  known  concerning 
the  same,  we  have  also  added  which  you  are  likewise  to  observe 
ill  the  passing  of  all  Acts  that  shall  repeal  any  Act  or  Acts  that 
have  had  the  Roy  all  Assent.  We  made  some  small  alterations 
ill  the  21st  and  22nd  Articles  only  to  inforce  them  and  to 
prevent  their  being  liable  to  be  in  any  manner  misunderstood. 
By  the  56th  Article  the  Governor  was  required  upon  the 
suspension  of  any  Patent  Officer  or  his  Deputy  to  take  care 
that  the  person  appointed  to  execute  the  place  during  such 
suspension  should  give  sufficient  security  to  the  person  suspended 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  405 


1721. 


to  be  answerable  to  him  for  the  prolits  accruing  during  his 
suspension  in  case  he  should  be  restored  ;  But  as  this  might 
in  some  cases  prove  a  very  great  hardship  to  the  person  appointed 
to  officiate  during  the  suspension,  we  added  the  following 
words.  It  is  nevertheless  Our  will  and  pleasure  that  the  jjerson 
executing  the  place  during  such  suspension,  shall  for  his  encourage- 
ment receive  the  same  profits  as  the  person  suspended  {if  a  Deputy) 
did,  or  a  moiety  of  the  profits  in  case  of  suspension  of  the  Patentee. 
Whereas  in  the  former  Instructions  it  used  to  be  said  that  with 
other  powers  of  Vice-Admiralty  the  Governor  was  to  receive 
from  the  Commissioners  for  executing  the  Office  of  High 
Admirall  of  Great  Britain,  authority  to  suspend  any  Captain 
or  Commander  of  any  ships  of  war  for  refusing  or  neglecting  to 
obey  such  written  orders  as  should  be  given  hirn  by  the  said 
Governor  for  your  Majesties  serxice  etc.  But  the  Lords  of  the 
Admiralty  not  having  thought  fit  to  add  to  the  Commission  of 
Vice  Admiralt}',  which  they  have  given  Col.  Hart,  any  such 
power,  we  altered  the  clause  in  the  manner  it  now  stands  in 
the  73rd  Article,  However  as  it  may  be  of  great  consequence 
to  the  service  of  the  Plantations  that  such  ships  of  war  as  shall 
be  sent  to  protect  the  said  Plantations  and  the  trade  thereof 
respectively  shou'd  be  during  their  stay  there,  under  the 
direction  of  the  Governor  more  particularly  with  relation  to 
convoys  and  sailing  orders  ;  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  it 
will  be  for  the  publick  service  that  all  the  Governors  in  the 
Plantations  should  be  impowered  and  authorized  accordingly. 
In  the  62nd  Article,  after  the  words,  You  are  not  to  prefer  any 
Minister  to  any  ecclesiastical  benefice  without  a  certificate  from 
the  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  we  added  or  some  other  Bishop,  as 
believing  the  certificate  of  one  Bishop  in  such  case  (relati^•e 
only  to  the  life  and  conversation  of  the  person)  equal  to  that 
of  any  other  Prelate ;  besides  it  has  been  represented  that  it 
would  be  expensi^'e  and  inconvenient  to  Clergymen  to  be  obliged 
to  travel  to  London  purely  to  obtain  a  certificate  when  a  more 
convenient  place  of  embarkation  might  offer  for  them  at  some 
other  port.  After  the  words,  said  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  in 
the  66th  Article  we  thought  it  necessary  to  add  the  following 
words,  but  when  such  persons  so  qualified  as  above  shall  be  wanting 
for  the  promotion  of  learning  and  good  education  you  may  yourself 
licence  such  other  persons  as  you  shall  think  qualified  for  such 
employment.  At  the  end  of  the  52nd  Article  which  seems 
calculated  to  discourage  vexatious  appeals  to  your  Majesties 
Council  in  England,  we  added  the  following  words,  In  any  case 
where  a  judgement  first  given  by  an  Inferior  Court  in  any  of  our 
said  Islands  shall  have  been  confirmed  by  the  Governor  and  Council 
there  ;  as  behig  desirous  to  follow  the  original  design  of  the 
Instructions  so  far  forth  as  the  same  may  be  agreeable  to  the 
practice  in  the  Courts  of  Judicature  in  England,  where  every 
appeal  to  a  Superior  Court  stops  the  execution  from  the  Inferior, 


Rx;  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

reserving  out  of  tlutt  general  rule  sueh  cases  only  tis  carry  in 
the  very  face  of  them  an  appearance  of  being  vexatious.  [C.O. 
153,  14.     pp.  75-81.] 

[Sept.  8]  655.  Governor  Shute  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. It  was  with  great  satisfaction  that  I  received  the  honour 
of  your  Lordships'  letter  of  the  17th  of  March,  1720/21,  since 
you  are  pleased  therein  to  approve  of  those  parts  of  my  conduct 
which  have  given  the  greatest  umbrage  to  the  people  of  this 
Province.  Your  Lordships  are  desirous  to  know  how  it  comes 
to  pass  that  the  Paper  Bills  daily  sink  in  credit.  When  [/] 
first  arrived,  which  is  about  five  years  since  I  could  for  £16[0] 
in  Paper  Bills  have  had  £100  sterling  in  London.  But  now  I 
can't  have  the  same  sum  under  £230  or  £235.  Our  import  is 
much  greater  than  our  export,  and  from  hence  in  my  humble 
opinion  this  high  discount  upon  the  Bills  proceeds  in  a  great 
measure  ;  and  from  the  \o\y  prices  of  all  the  commodities  of 
this  Country  in  the  Port  of  London,  as  [well]  as  from  the  great 
quantity  of  Paper  Bills  we  have  been  obliged  [to]  make  having 
no  other  medium  of  trade,  which  the  People  were  grown  so 
fond  of,  that  if  I  had  not  received  an  Order  from  their 
Excellency's  the  Lords  Justices  to  restrain  my  power,  [?and] 
theirs  in  that  point  it's  hard  to  say  where  they  would  ha\e 
st[opped].  Another  reason  of  the  low  credit  of  the  [Fbills]  is, 
that  we  have  many  merchants  come  from  London,  who  [?when] 
they  have  traded  here  for  two  or  three  years  are  willing  to  get 
ho[m^]  again  and  give  any  price  for  silver  which  is  now  sold 
for  12  and  13s.  pr.  ounce  and  proportionably  for  gold,  and 
indeed  these  are  the  best  returns  that  can  be  made  from  hence. 
Thus  our  gold  and  silver  is  drain'd  out  of  the  Country.  If 
neither  of  these  can  be  procured  they  give  any  rate  for  Bills 
of  Exchange.  I  have  desired  some  of  the  most  eminent 
merchants  to  imploy  their  thoughts  in  finding  out  a  remedy 
in  a  matter  of  so  great  consequence.  When  I  meet  with  any 
plausible  scheme  I  shall  transmit  it  to  your  Lordships.  For 
the  present  the  order  from  the  Lords  Justices  I  have  mentioned 
before,  will  keep  the  Bills  from  sinking  any  lower  :  And  as 
they  are  drawn  into  the  Treasury  the  value  of  the  outstanding 
Bills  will  be  raised.  I  have  herewith  sent  your  Lordships  the 
answer  of  the  House  of  Representatives  now  sitting  at  Boston 
to  my  Speech  at  the  disolution  of  the  last  General  Court,  and 
my  reply  to  it  annexed,  my  Speech  to  the  present  General 
Court,  the  answer  of  the  House  of  Representatives  to  it,  and 
my  reply  to  it  annexed  together  with  a  message  referred  to  in 
my  Speech.  By  the  first  of  these  papers  your  Lordships  will 
perceive  how  little  effect  anything  I  have  said  has  upon  the 
proceedings  of  the  House  of  Representatives.     [  ]     I'm 

sorry  it  may  be  observed  from  the  other,  that  your  Lordships 


AxMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  407 


1721. 


and  Mr.  Attorney  Generals  joynt  opinion  has  been  very  far 
from  decideing  the  controversy  with  respect  to  the  election  oi  a 
Speaker.  You  may  please  to  take  notice  that  the  answer  to 
my  speech  to  the  present  General  Court  is  signed  Elisha  Cooke, 
pro  tempore.  It  seems  very  strange  that  the  Representatives 
should  take  the  oppertunity  of  their  Speakers  absence  (who 
left  the  Chair  under  some  pretext)  to  put  Mr.  Cooke  into  his 
place,  while  the  paragraph  of  your  Lordships  letter  signifying 
your  approbation  of  my  not  accepting  that  person  as  Speaker 
in  1720  was  lying  before  them  on  their  table.  This  was  appar- 
ently done  to  elude  the  force  of  your  Lordships'  Instruction, 
But  upon  my  motion  to  the  Council  of  tins  slight  put  upon 
your  Lordships  and  myself,  they  told  me  that  it  was  usual  with 
the  House  to  appoint  a  temporary  Speaker  and  that  the 
Governours  for  the  time  being  ha,d  never  interpos'd.  I  hope 
the  reply s  I  have  made  to  the  two  several  answers  before 
mentioned  may  most  conduce  to  H.M.  service,  as  they  recom- 
mend the  matters  in  dispute  to  a  determination  at  home. 
The  General  Court  this  present  Session  have  disputed  my 
power  of  adjourning  them  from  place  to  place.  I  have  sent 
your  Lordships  the  opinion  of  an  eminent  lawyer  in  this  place 
together  with  the  Act  which  has  induced  them  to  dispute  this 
matter  with  me.  By  my  40th  Instruction  I  am  required  to 
appoint  and  settle  an  Attorney  General  for  this  Province.  I 
find  that  the  General  Court  have  constantly  nominated  that 
Officer,  and  they  have  the  opinion  of  Sr.  Edward  Northey 
whilst  Attorney  General  of  England  that  it  is  their  right  so  to 
do.  I  should  be  glad  to  receive  your  Lordships  positive  com- 
mands herein,  the  General  Court  ha\'ing  deferr'd  their  annual 
choice  of  this  Officer  and  suffered  the  Province  to  be  without 
one  since  the  May  Sessions.  The  Indians  have  broken  the 
Treaty  concluded  at  Arowsick  by  marching  200  into  one  of  our 
towns  in  a  hostile  manner  under  French  colours  and  sending 
me  a  letter  in  the  most  haughty  and  menacing  terms.  It 
appears  to  me  to  be  penn'd  by  Monsr.  Ralle  the  Jesuit  who 
constantly  attends  them  with  two  other  Frenchmen  and  has 
taken  this  opertunity  to  divert  the  Eastern  tribe  from  falling 
upon  the  French  [  ]  I  am  informed.     I  shall  indeavour 

if  possible  to  bring  them  to  obedience  without  a  war,  tho'  they 
have  already  refused  to  see  the  Commissioners  I  sent  to  demand 
the  reasons  of  their  breach  of  the  late  Treaty.  There's  [a] 
sufficient  number  of  men  gone  down  to  the  Frontiers  in  order 
to  cover  our  harvest,  which  is  the  only  time  they  can  do  us  any 
great  damage.  I  shall  only  observe  one  thing  more  that  the 
printing  presses  are  continually  imploy'd  in  the  service  of 
scandalous  libelers  to  the  great  dishonour  of  H.M.  Government ; 
and  it  is  not  in  my  power  to  give  a  cheque  to  this  practice, 
they  having  no  regard  in  this  matter  to  H.M,  Instructions. 


408  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

Signed,  Samuel  Shutc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read  10th  No^ ., 
1721.  Edges  rubbed.  2|  pp.  {Without  date,  but  the  date  is 
fixed  by  letter.    Dec.  13).     [CO.  5,  868.    ff.  128-129^;.] 

Sept.  8.  656.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  King.  In 
WhitehaU.  obedience  to  your  Majesty's  commands,  we  have  prepared  the 
following  state  of  your  Majesty's  Plantations  on  the  Continent 
of  America  ;  wherein  we  have  distinguished  their  respective 
situations,  Governments,  strengths  and  trade,  and  have  observed 
of  what  importance  their  commerce  is  to  Great  Britain,  where- 
unto  having  added  an  account  of  the  French  settlements,  and 
of  the  encroachments  they  have  made  in  your  Majesty's  colonies 
in  those  parts  ;  we  have  humbly  proposed  such  methods,  as 
may  best  prevent  the  increase  of  an  evil,  which,  if  not  timely 
prevented,  may  prove  destructive  to  your  Majesty's  interest ; 
and  have  likewise  offered  such  considerations,  as,  in  our  opinion, 
may  contribute  to  the  improvmg  and  enlarging  your  Majesty's 
dominions  in  America  etc.  Have  not  included  Newfoundland 
and  Hudson's  Bay,  neither  of  them  being  a  Colony  with  a  civil 
Government,  though  both  are  parts  of  H.M.  territories  in  North 
America,  etc.  Continue  :  Nova  Scotia,  as  appears  by  the  patent 
granted  etc.  by  K.  James  I.  to  Sir  William  Alexander,  (afterwards 
created  Earl  of  Stirling)  etc.,  1621,  contains  all  the  lands  and 
islands,  lying  within  the  promontory,  commonly  called  Cape 
Sables,  being  in  forty  three  degrees  of  North  latitude,  or  there- 
abouts, thence  westerly  to  the  Bay  commonly  called  St.  Mary's 
Bay,  and  from  thence  northerly  in  a  strait  line  by  the  mouth  of 
that  great  bay  (which  runs  easterly  up  the  country  and  divides 
the  two  nations  called  Suriquois  and  Etechimenes)  to  the  river 
St.  Croix,  thence  westerly  to  the  head  of  that  river,  thence 
northerly  to  the  next  bay,  which  discharges  itself  in  the  river 
St.  Lawrence  ;  thence  easterly  along  the  coast  to  the  Bay  of 
Gaspe,  thence  south  easterly  to  the  Bacalio  Islands,  or  Cape 
Breton,  and  leaving  that  island  on  the  right,  and  the  Gulph 
of  St.  Lawrence  and  Newfundland  and  the  islands  thereto 
belonging  on  the  left,  thence  to  Cape  Breton,  in  the  latitude 
of  45  degrees  or  thereabouts,  thence  south-west  to  Cape  Sables 
again.  We  have  made  use  of  this  ancient  Charter  fixing  the 
boundaries  of  Nova  Scotia,  because  the  French  are  daily  setting 
up  new  pretensions  to  a  very  great  part  of  this  Province  altho' 
the  12th  Article  of  the  Treaty  concluded  at  Utrecht,  expressly 
provides,  that  Nova  Scotia  shall  be  given  up  with  its  ancient 
boundaries,  and  nothing  is  excepted  out  of  this  cession  but 
Cape  Breton,  and  the  other  islands  lying  in  the  mouth  of  the 
river  of  Saint  Lawrence  and  Gulf  of  the  same  name.  The 
government  of  this  province,  both  civil  and  military,  is  entirely 
in  your  Majesty  ;  but  as  there  are  hitherto  only  two  or  three 
English  families  settled  here,  besides  the  garrison  of  Annapolis, 
there  is  very  little  room  for  the  exercise  of  eivii  go\"erniiient  ; 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  409 


1721. 


neither  has  your  Majesty  any  revenue  in  this  country,  the  lands 
not  being  yet  peopled,  and  granted  out  upon  qviit  rents  as  in 
the  other  Colonies.  There  are  two  towns  in  this  Province, 
besides  Annapolis  ;  Minas  and  Scheganektoo,  both  settled  by 
french  inhabitants,  about  2500  persons  in  number,  who  have 
remained  there  ever  since  the  cession  of  this  country  etc.,  but 
are  entirely  in  the  French  intrest  and  by  their  communication 
and  intermarriage  with  the  neighbouring  Indians,  liave  gained 
them  to  their  party,  vvhereby  they  are  enabled  upon  any 
occasion  to  engage  the  said  Indians  in  a  war  against  your 
Majesty's  subjects  ;  and  by  some  late  accounts  from  Nova 
Scotia,  there  is  too  nmch  reason  to  believe,  that  they  do  at 
this  present  juncture  use  their  endeavours  to  instigate  the  said 
Indians  against  the  garrison  of  Annapolis  and  others  your 
?vlajesty's  subjects  fishing  at  Can90,  and  upon  the  coast  of  Nova 
Scotia.  The  little  trade  driven  in  this  country  at  present  is 
intirely  in  the  hands  of  these  French  inhabitants  ;  it  consists 
chiefly  in  lish,  which  is  more  plentiful  here,  than  on  any  other 
coast  of  America  ;  they  have  likewise  some  furrs  and  cattle, 
but  whatever  products  or  merchandize  the  French  inhabitants 
have  to  dispose  of,  is  transported  by  them  either  to  Cape  Breton, 
Quebeck,  or  directly  to  France,  which  is  to  the  prejudice  of 
Great  Britain  :  For  which  reason,  as  well  as  many  others,  it 
is  absolutely  necessary  for  your  Majesty's  service,  that  these 
French  inhabitants  should  be  removed,  for  it  is  not  to  be  ex- 
pected that  they  will  ever  become  good  subjects  to  your  Majesty, 
and  there  is  all  the  reason  in  the  world  to  apprehend  that  upon 
any  rupture  between  the  two  Crowns,  they  may  openly  declare 
in  favour  of  France.  It  was  provided  by  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht 
that  the  French  inhabitants  of  Nova  Scotia  should  have  a  year 
allowed  them  to  remove  from  thence  with  their  effects  ;  but 
they  have  long  since  lapsed  that  time,  and  such  as  remained  be- 
yond it,  were  by  the  said  Treaty  to  become  subjects  to  Her  late 
Majesty  ;  but  these  people  being  influenced  by  their  priests 
have  hitherto  unanimously  refused  to  take  the  oaths  of  allegiance 
to  your  Majesty  unless  they  may  be  allowed  an  exception  in 
favour  of  France,  which  would  render  their  engagements  to 
your  Majesty  intirely  ineffectual.  But  as  we  foresaw  that 
difficulties  were  likely  to  arise  upon  this  subject,  so  in  the 
Instructions  which  we  prepared  for  Col,  Philipps,  your  Majesty's 
Governor,  a  provision  was  made  for  this  case,  and  he  is  enjoyned 
to  prohibit  the  sd.  French  inhabitants  refusing  to  take  ye  oaths, 
the  liberty  of  fishing  on  the  coast,  and  to  pre\'ent  their  removing 
their  effects  till  your  Majesty's  further  pleasure  shall  be  known  ; 
and  considering  their  behaviour,  we  are  of  opinion  it  will  be  for 
your  Majesty's  service  that  they  should  be  ordered  to  quit 
the  Province.  But  as  to  their  effects,  in  regard  of  the  friendship 
subsisting  between  the  two  nations,  provided  the  said  French 
inhabitants  do  leave  their  immo\'cable  effects,  such  as  barnes 


410  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 


and  dwelling  houses,  in  good  condition  ;    we  should  humbly 
conceive  they  might  by  your  Majesty's  special  grace  and  favour 
be  allowed  to  carry  off  to  such  place  as  they  shall  think  most 
convenient,    all    their    moveables.     Upon    their    removal    this 
Province  will  become  almost  intirely  unpeopled  ;    and  as  it  is 
the  Northern  frontier  to  your  Majesty's  Colonies,  we  think  it  is 
of  the  highest  consequence  that  the  same  should  be  settled  as 
soon  as  possible  ;    for  v/hich  reason  we  would  humbly  propose 
to  your  Majesty  the  sending  four  regiments  thither  ;   and  altho' 
wc  are  sensible  of  the  expence  this  would  occasion  for  some  time 
to  Great  Britain,  yet  we  believe  the  same  will  not  be  thought 
unreasonable,    considering    the    inclination    the    French    have 
shewn  to  incroach  upon  your  Majesty's  frontiers  in  these  parts, 
the  great  strength  they  have  at  Cape  Breton  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  this  Province,  which  will  be  increased  by  the  removal 
of  the  French  inhabitants  from  Nova  Scotia  (altho'  that  will 
be  a  much  less  evil  than  suffering  them  to  remain  where  they 
are)  and  that  no  other  way  so  speedy  as  this  can  be  proposed 
for  peopling  of  Nova  Scotia.     We  are  likewise  of  opinion  that 
all  due  encouragement  should  be  given  to  such  of  your  Majesty's 
subjects  as  shall  be  willing  to  settle  in  this  Province,  and  that 
your   Majesty's    Governour   may   be   enabled   to   preserve   his 
Instructions  upon  this  head,  we  take  the  liberty  to  lay  before 
your  Majesty  the  necessity  there  is  that  your  Majesty's  Surveyor 
General  of  the  Woods  should  be  forthwith  ordered  to  repair 
to  Nova  Scotia  there  to  set  apart  200,000  acres  in  certain  tracts 
of  lands  contiguous  to  the  sea-coast  or  navigable  rivers  proper 
for  producing  of  masts  and  other  timber  for  the  service  of  your 
Majesty's  Royal  Navy  ;    for  after  this  shall  be  done  and  not 
before,  the  said  Govr.  is  empower'd  by  his  Instructions  to  make 
grants  of  land  etc.     Continue  : — If  this  country  was  well  settled 
it  would  be  capable  of  a  very  extensive  trade.     There  are  to 
be  had  as  good  masts  as  any  in  all  America,  in  great  plenty  ; 
pitch,  tar,  rozin  and  turpentine  may  be  made  in  all  parts  of 
the  country,  and  hemp  and  flax  might  be  raised  there  without 
great  expence  :    To  which  in  our  opinion  all  due  encouragement 
should  be  given  that  Great  Britain  may  in  time  become  in- 
dependant  of  her  Northern  neighbours  for  naval  stores.  But 
the  branch  of  trade  in  this  country,  which  seems  most  capable 
of  immediate  improvement,  is  that  of  the  Fishery  upon  the  coast 
from  Cape  Sables  to  the  Gut  of  Can9o  ;    which  is  perhaps  more 
valuable  than  in  any  other  in  America :    But  for  want  of  protec- 
tion  against   the   Indians    inhabiting    Nova   Scotia,    who  are 
intirely  in  the  French  intrest,  few  British  vessels  dare  venture 
to  cure  their  fish  there,   and  the   French  from   Cape   Breton 
contrary  to  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht   (by  which  they  are  expressly 
excluded  from  all  kind  of  fishing  on  the  coasts  which  lye  towards 
the  East,  beginning  from  the  island  commonly  called  Sables 
inclusively,    and   thence    stretching   along   towards   the    south 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  All 


1721. 


west)  iiigross  almost  ye  iiitirc  benefit  of  this  valuable  trade,  to 
wch.  they  have  set  up  an  unreasonable  pretence,  as  appears 
by  ye  daily  disputes  v/e  have  with  them  concerning  ye  fishery 
at  Can9o  :  For  which  reasons  it  wou'd  be  for  your  Majesty's 
service  that  some  small  forts  might  be  built  without  loss  of 
time  in  proper  places  upon  the  coast  and  islands  from  Cape 
Sables  to  ye  Gut  of  Canr/o  for  the  security  of  this  trade,  and 
particularly  on  St.  George's  Island,  which  is  one  of  those  that 
form  the  Cape  of  Canyo  and  has  the  greatest  command  of  yc 
little  bay  there  ;  which  will  be  the  more  necessary  in  regard 
that  there  are  no  forts  or  fortifications  in  this  Province  but  one 
at  Annapolis  Royal  etc.,  with  a  garrison  of  5  companies  of 
about  40  men  each  ;  whereas  the  French  at  Cape  Breton  are 
very  strong,  having  built  2  considerable  forts  there,  give  all 
manner  of  encouragemt.  to  such  people  as  are  willing  to  settle 
with  them,  and  are  directly  settling  some  other  islands  on  ye 
coast  of  Nova  Scotia.  It  will  likewise  be  of  great  importance 
that  a  small  man  of  war  should  be  constantly  employ 'd  to 
attend  this  Colony,  which  has  at  present  so  many  difficulties 
to  struggle  with. 

New  Hampshire.  The  soil  belongs  to  a  Proprietor  but  the 
Government  is  in  your  Majesty  etc.  Sketch  situation,  boundaries 
and  history.  Continue :  The  number  of  people  etc.  in  1716, 
was  computed  at  about  9000  of  which  there  were  1500  men, 
very  few  white  servants,  and  150  blacks  ;  the  increase  during 
the  last  four  years  was  about  500.  The  Indians  that  border 
upon  this  Province  are  those  which  are  called  the  Eastern 
Indians,  intirely  in  ye  French  intrest.  Lumber,  fish,  masts 
for  the  royal  navy,  and  turpentine  are  the  chief  produce  ; 
they  build  some  ships,  but  not  so  many  since  the  last  war,  as 
before  ;  they  have  some  mines  which  produce  very  good  ire  n, 
tho'  but  little  of  it  hath  been  hitherto  forged  ;  There  are  like- 
wise great  quantities  of  stone  in  which  'tis  believed  there  may 
be  silver.  The  annual  produce  of  these  commodities  is  very 
uncertain,  the  price  falling  and  rising  according  to  the  demand, 
seldom  exceeding  £50,000  per  ann.  of  New  England  mony. 
This  Province  would  produce  hemp  and  flax,  if  proper  incourage- 
mt.  were  given  for  it  ;  and  the  people  had  good  seed  for  the 
first  sowing.  They  export  their  lumber  and  some  part  of  their 
fish  to  the  neighbouring  Governments  of  the  West  Indies,  and 
to  the  Western  Islands  (from  whence  they  get  their  wines)  ; 
they  likewise  have  sent  some  lumber,  tar  and  turpentine,  of  late, 
to  this  Kingdom  in  exchange  for  linnen  and  woollen  manufac- 
tures ;  but  they  have  some  supplies  of  this  kind  from  Ireland 
also,  either  directly  or  by  way  of  other  Plantations  ;  their  best 
and  most  merchantable  fish  is  exported  to  Portugal  and  Italy 
and  the  produce  of  it  generally  remitted  to  this  Kingdom, 
except  what  is  returned  in  salt  for  the  fishery.  Their  fishery 
is  much  increased  since  the  peace  with  France,    but  the  lumber 


412  COLONIAL   PAPERS 

1721.  ~~~ 

trade  decreased  by  reason  oi  the  low  price  it  bears  in  the  West 
Indies,  and  the  Httle  encouragement  there  is  to  send  it  to  this 
kingdom,  because  of  the  duties  on  that  commodity  here.  The 
ships  trading  directly  from  this  Province  to  foreign  parts,  are 
now  very  few,  not  exceeding  20  in  number.  But  they  have 
about  100  fishing  vessels,  and  the  number  of  seafaring  men  are 
near  400,  tho'  many  of  them  not  settled  inhabitants  there,  and 
there  are  no  manufactures  carry'd  on  in  this  Province.  There 
is  but  one  fortification,  etc.,  Castle  William,  etc.,  and  it  is  in  a 
tolerable  state  of  repair.  The  constitution  is  the  same  with 
all  others  immediately  under  your  Majesty's  Government  in 
America  ;  they  have  a  Govr.  Council  and  Assembly  etc.  The 
Assembly  are  elected  by  the  people  and  consists  of  fifteen.  But 
the  revenue  of  this  Province  is  hitherto  very  insignificant. 

The  Province  of  ye  Massachusets  Bay  was  by  Letters  Patents 
from  King  James  I  etc.  granted  to  the    Council  established  at 
Plymouth,  and  the  said  Council  did  etc.  in  the  reign  of  King 
Charles   I.   grant  all   the   lands   mentioned  therein  to   certain 
persons  etc.,  which  was  confirmed  by  the  said  King  Charles  etc. 
However    in    1684    a    judgment    being  given    in  the  Court  of 
Chancery  upon  a  Scire  facias,  the  said  patent  was  vacated  by 
King  Charles  the  Second.     But  upon  a  petition  of  the  Agents 
of  that  Colony  to  their  late  Majesties  King  William  and  Queen 
Mary,   praying  to   be  re-incorporated  as  formerly,   their  said 
Majesties  were  graciously  pleased  to  grant  a  Charter  to  the 
inhabitants    of  the    Colony   etc.     Quote   boundaries   defined  in 
Charter.     Continue : — But   we   beg   leave   to   observe   to   your 
Majesty  that  altho'  Nova  Scotia  is  expressly  included  in  this 
Charter,  yet  the  same  being  at  the  time  the  Charter  was  granted 
in  possession  of  the  French  by  virtue  of  the  Treaty  of  Breda, 
this  part  of  the  grant  has  always  been  esteemed  of  no  effect, 
and  the  people  of  New  England  do  not  pretend  any  right  there- 
unto.   The  Governmt.  consists  of  a  Govr.  Council  and  Assembly  ; 
the  Govr.  is  appointed  by  your  Majesty,  the  Council  consists 
of  28  persons,  who  are  annually  chosen  by  the  Assembly  ;    the 
Governor  has  a  negative  voice  upon  the  nomination  of  any  of 
them,  and  also  upon  all  elections  of  officers  in  that  Province. 
The  Assembly  are  chosen  by  the  People  and  consist  of  98.     There 
is  a  Secretry.  appointed    by  your    Majesty  and  paid    by  ye 
Assembly.     Thus   altho'   the    Governmt.    of  this   Province   be 
nominally  in   the    Crown   and   the  Govr.    appointed   by   your 
Majesty,  yet  the  unequal  ballance  of  their  Constitution  having 
lodged  too  great  a  power  in  the  Assembly,  this  Province  is, 
and  is  always  likely  to  continue,  in  great  disorder.     They  do 
not  pay  a  due  regard  to  your  Majesty's  Instructions.     They 
do  not  make  a  suitable  provision  for  the  maintenance  of  their 
Govr.  and  on  all  occasions  they  affect  too  great  an  independance 
on   their   Mother   Kingdom.     It   has   generally   been   thought, 
that  an  Act  of  Assembly  passed  in  this  Province  in  the  5th 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  413 


1721. 


year  of  His  late  Majty.  King  William  (which  by  virtue  of  a 
clause  ill  their  Charter  not  having  been  repealed  within  three 
years  stands  as  absolutely  confirmed  as  if  the  same  had  received 
the  Royal  Approbation)  has  not  a  little  contributed  to  the 
present  disorders  there,  in  as  much  as  by  the  said  Act  it  is 
provided  that  no  person  shall  be  capable  of  representing  any 
town  or  Borrough  where  such  person  is  not  a  Freeholder  and 
settled  inhabitant ;  from  whence  it  happens  that  the  Assembly 
is  generally  filled  with  people  of  small  fortunes  and  mean 
capacities,  who  are  easily  led  into  any  measures  that  seem  to 
enlarge  their  liberties  and  privileges,  how  detrimental  soever 
the  same  may  be  to  Great  Britain  or  to  your  Majesty's  Royal 
Prerogative.  The  inhabitants  are  very  numerous  and  daily 
increase,  and  are  computed  to  be  at  present  about  94,000  souls. 
The  Militia  of  this  Province  consists  of  sixteen  Regiments  of 
Foot  and  fifteen  Troops  of  Horse,  in  which  were  mustred 

Anno.  1702.     Men,     9,642    besides  500  in  Ser\dce. 
1710.       „        10,917         „        300  Officers. 
1718.       ,,        14,925         „        800  Exempts. 


1600 


By  this  account  it  appears  that  the  Militia  is  encreased  above 
one  third  in  16  years,  and  if  the  said  Militia  be  supposed  to  bear 
only  the  proportion  of  one  sixth  to  all  the  rest  of  the  inhabitants 
including  old  men,  women  and  children,  it  will  naturally  follow 
that  upon  a  proportional  increase,  there  must  be  at  present 
above  30,000  more  inhabits,  in  New  England  than  there  were 
there  in  1702.  There  are  also  in  this  Province  several  families 
of  the  Native  Indians  who  have  been  civilized  by  degrees  ; 
these  make  some  profession  of  the  Christian  Religion,  improve 
their  own  lands,  and  dwell  in  perfect  friendship  with  your 
Majesty's  subjects  ;  their  number  (including  women  and 
children)  amounts  to  about  1200.  The  products  of  this 
country  proper  for  the  consumption  of  this  Kingdom,  are  timber, 
turpentine,  tar  and  pitch,  masts,  pipe  and  hogshead  staves, 
whalefins  and  oyle  and  some  furs  ;  they  supply  Spain,  Portugal 
and  the  West  Indies  with  considerable  quantities  of  fish  and 
lumber.  We  are  likewise  informed  that  they  have  mines  of 
several  kinds  which  might  be  wrought  upon  proper  incourage- 
ment.  Their  trade  to  the  Foreign  Plantations  in  America, 
consists  chiefly  in  the  exportation  of  horses  to  Surinam,  and 
(as  we  are  informed)  to  Martinico,  and  the  other  French  Islands, 
which  is  a  very  great  discouragement  to  the  Sugar  planters  in 
the  British  Islands  ;  for  without  these  supplies  neither  the 
French  nor  the  Dutch  could  carry  on  their  sugar  works  to 
any  great  degree  ;  and  in  return  for  their  horses  they  receive 
sugar,    molasses    and   rum.       In    this    Province    there    are  all 


414  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 


sorts  of  common  manufactures ;  the  inhabitants  have  always 
worked  up  their  own  wool  into  coarse  cloths,  drugts.  and 
serges  ;  but  these  as  well  as  their  home  spun  linnen,  which 
is  generally  half  cotton,  serve  only  for  the  use  of  the  meanest 
sort  of  people  ;  a  great  part  of  the  leather  used  in  the  country 
is  also  manufactured  among  themselves  ;  Some  natives  have 
lately  set  up  their  trade  in  the  principal  towns,  and  several 
Irish  families  not  long  since  arrived  and  settled  to  the  Eastward, 
make  good  linnen  and  diapers  ;  However  ye  excessive  price 
of  labour  enhances  the  value  of  all  their  manufactures.  It 
is  therefore  to  be  presumed  that  necessity  and  not  choice,  has 
put  them  upon  erecting  manufactures,  not  having  sufficient 
commodities  of  their  own  to  give  in  exchange  for  those  they 
do  receive  already  from  Great  Britain  :  and  the  most  natural 
method  of  curing  this  evil  would  be  to  allow  them  all  proper 
encouragement  for  ye  importation  of  Naval  Stores  and  Minerals 
of  all  kinds. 

The  branch  of  trade  which  is  of  the  greatest  importance  to 
them,  and  which  they  are  best  enabled  to  carry  on,  is  the  building 
of  ships,  sloops,  etc.  ;    and  according  to  our  advices  from  thence 
they  have  annually  launched  from   140  to  160  vessels,  of  all 
sorts,  which  at  40  tons  one  with  another  amount  to  6000  tons  ; 
and  altho    the  greatest    part  are    built  for  account  of  or  sold 
to  the  merchants  of  this   Kingdom,   and  in  the  Plantations, 
nevertheless    there    belongs   to    this   Province    about    190    sail 
vv^hich  may  contain  8000  tons  and  are  navigated  with  about 
1100  men,  besides  150  boats,  with  600  men,  employ'd  in  the 
fisheries  on  their  own  coast.     Their  iron  works,   which  were 
erected  many  years  past,  furnish  them  with  small  quantities 
of  iron  for  common   use  ;     but  the   iron  imported  from  this 
Kingdom,  being  esteemed  much  better,  it  is  generally  used  in 
their  shipping  etc.     Fortifications  and  cost  of  garrison  described. 
Continue  : — In  the  neighbourhood  of  this  Province,  there  are 
but  few  Indians  well  affected  to  us,  except  the  Five  Nations 
near  New  York,  Avho  are  in  Alliance  and  Friendship  with  that 
Government,  and  maintain  for  the  most  part  Neutrality  with 
the    French   Indians.     To    the    Eastward   there    are    but   two 
Tribes  of  note,  the  Kennebeck  and  Penobscot  Indians,  whose 
number    doth    not    exceed    500    fighting  men ;    the  best  are 
scattered  up  and  down  in  small  parties  ;    they  are  generally 
inclined  to  the  French,  whose  missionaries  always  reside  among 
them   and   seduce   them   to    their  interest,   but    the    Canada 
Indians  viz.  the  Hurons,   Illinois,   and  other  nations  who  are 
intirely  directed  by  the  French  are  numerous,  and  in  the  late 
long  wars,  being  assisted  by  them,  often  fell  upon  our  Western 
Settlemts.    ravaging    and    destroying    all    before    them,    and 
barbarously    murthering    many    of   the    inhabitants,    whereby 
this   Province   was  involved  in   the   great  debt  they  are   still 
labouring  under,   and  having  no  money,   nor  any  Provincial 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  415 


1721 


product,  such  as  tobacco  in  Virginia,  or  sugar  in  the  Islands, 
they  have  been  constrained  ever  since  to  support  their  credit 
by  publick  bills,  which  are  current  in  payment,  but  they  have 
till  very  lately  raised  mony  every  year  for  sinking  them  by 
degrees,  and  according  to  the  Treasurer's  accounts,  they  burnt 
as  many  of  their  old  bills  as  amounted  to  £21,792  Is.  8d.  in 
1718,  and  £22,244  IBs.  5d.  in  1719,  and  issued  new  Bills  to  the 
amount  of  £15,000.  But  amongst  many  other  irregular  and 
unaccountable  proceedings  of  the  last  Session  of  Assembly 
there,  we  find  thev  have  passed  an  Act  for  emitting  new  Bills 
of  Credit  to  the  amount  of  £50,000,  in  direct  opposition  to  your 
Majesty's  Instructions  upon  that  subject.  The  total  expence 
of  this"^  Province  in  time  of  war  with  France  was  generally 
computed  at  £35,000,  and  since  the  Peace  at  £17,000  per  annum. 
In  the  year  ending  in  May  1719,  the  land  Poll  Tax  was  given 
for  £8250  Os.  Od.  ;  the  Excise  with  some  arrears  produced 
£2858  lis.  7d.  ;  the  impost  on  wine  and  other  goods,  £5119  9s.  ; 
the  tonnage  on  shipping,  £622  7s.  Id.  ;  the  lighthouse  account 
and  fines,  £98  lis.  5d.  ;  in  all,  £16,948  19s.  Id.  ;  but  deducting 
what  is  apply'd  for  discharging  their  former  debts,  the  certain 
annual  charge  of  the  Governmt.  is  about  £11,000. 

The  publick  accounts  are  all  annually  examined  and  audited 
by  the  General  Assembly,  and  no  payment  is  made  before  it  is 
voted  and  ordered  by  the  said  Assembly  ;  which  method  as 
far  as  it  relates  to  the  Govrs.  and  some  other  officers'  salaries, 
we  humbly  conceive  may  be  one  time  or  other  prejudicial  to 
your  Majesty's  service  ; "  and  it  is  certain  the  last  Assembly 
have  retrenched  the  Governor's  salary^  there  very  considerably, 
probably  because  he  hath  done  his  duty  to  your  Majty.  and 
refused  to  comply  with  their  inclination  in  methods  contrary 
to    your    Majesty's    Instructions. 

Rhode  I  stand  has  usually  been  reputed  a  part  of  New  England — 
lying  in  the  Narranganset  Bay  etc.  Limits  described.  Continue  : 
This  is  a  Charter  Government  granted  by  King  Charles  the 
Second  in  the  15th  year  of  his  reign,  and  consists  of  a  Governor, 
Council  and  Assembly.  The  King  appointed  the  first  Deputy 
Governor  etc.,  but  they  have  since  been  annually  chosen  among 
themselves  ;  by  which  means  they  evade  the  Act  of  the  7th  and 
8th  of  King  William  whereby  it  is  enacted  that  all  propriety 
Governors  shall  be  allowed  and  approved  of  by  your  Majesty 
before  they  enter  upon  the  Government.  But  by  choosing  their 
Governor  annually,  tho'  'tis  generally  the  same  person,  his  terrn 
is  expired  before  any  such  approbation  can  be  had,  if  they  did 
apply  for  it,  pursuant  to  the  above-said  Act,  which  hitherto  they 
never  have  done.  Quote  instruction  to  Lord  Bellomont  {v.  C.S.P. 
1697),  that  the  Governors  of  Connecticut  and  Rhode  Island  be 
required  to  give  security  for  observing  any  instructions  sent 
to  them  from  H.M.,  or  any  acting  under  his  authority,  pursuant 
to   the   several   acts   of  Trade  etc.     Continue :— But  the   said 


416  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ~ 

Instruction  having  not  been  continued  to  the  succeeding 
Governors  :  we  conceive  it  necessary  that  it  should  be  repeated. 
As  to  the  number  of  inhabitants  in  this  Colony,  their  trade  and 
state  of  their  Government,  we  have  but  veiy  imperfect  accounts  ; 
and  indeed  the  misfeazancies  of  this  and  most  of  the  other 
Proprietory  governments  are  so  numerous  that  we  shall  not 
trouble  your  Majesty  with  them  in  this  place  but  will  take  leave 
to  give  our  humble  opinion  concerning  them  in  the  concluding 
part  of  this  representation. 

Connecticut.  Describe  boundaries.  Continue : — This 
Govemment  is  upjn  ye  same  foot  as  Rhode  Island,  under  the 
same  regulations  of  government,  and  lyable  to  the  same  in- 
conveniencies. 

The  GoAcrnment  of  New  York.  Describe  boundaries  and  form 
of  Government.  Continue  :  The  Governor  in  this,  as  in  all  other 
Provinces  under  your  Majesty's  immediate  government,  has 
a  negative  in  passing  laws.  His  salary  is  £1200  per  annum, 
payable  out  of  the  revenue  of  the  Province.  Heie  is  no  fixt 
revenue  belonging  to  the  Crown  besides  the  Quit  Rents,  wh. 
have  been  established  only  since  the  year  1702,  by  an  Instruction 
from  Her  late  Majesty  to  the  Lord  Cornbury,  then  Govr.  of 
that  Province,  at  the  rate  of  2/6  on  every  100  acres  of  land  to  be 
granted  from  that  time,  and  are  to  be  accounted  for  here  in 
this  Kingdom.  These  Quit  Rents  have  not  hitherto  amounted 
to  much  more  than  £400  a  year  ;  but  having  been  put  under 
a  better  regulation  by  Brigr.  Hunter  the  late  Govr.  it  is  expected 
they  may  amount  in  some  time  to  more  than  double  that  sum 
every  year.  The  Revenue  raised  by  ye  Assembly  for  the 
support  of  the  Government  has  never  been  granted  for  any 
term  exceeding  five  years.  The  last  grant  of  it  was  to  expire 
this  year.  But  Mr.  Burnet  the  present  Governor  has  got  it 
prolonged  for  five  years  more.  The  natural  produce  of  this 
country  consists  in  provisions  which  are  sent  to  the  British 
Islands  in  the  West  Indies,  in  horses  sent  to  Surinam,  Curagoa 
and  St.  Thomas  ;  and  in  whale  oyle  and  peltry  to  this 
Kingdom  ;  besides  some  naval  stores,  which  this  country  is 
capable  of  producing  in  very  great  quantities,  if  proper  measures 
were  taken  for  this  purpose. 

Recount  history  of  Palatine  settlement  for  making  tar  there. 
{v.  C.S.P.  1709  et  seq.),  and  their  claim,  which  has  been  referred 
to  Governor  Burnet  for  his  report.  Continue : — This  province 
could  likewise  furnish  iron  in  great  quantities  ;  it  has  some 
copper  and  lead,  but  at  a  great  distance  from  the  British  and 
among  the  Indian  settlements.  There  are  coal  mines  in  Long 
Island,  which  have  not  yet  been  wrought.  The  se^'eral  com- 
modities exported  from  this  Kingdom  to  New  York  have,  at 
a  medium  of  three  years,  comm.only  amounted  to  about  £50,000 
a  year.  The  imports  from  thence,  ha^'e  not,  upon  the  same 
medium,  risen  higher  than  £16,000  a  year,  so  that  the  ballance 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  417 


1721. 

in  fa\'our  of  this  Kingdom,  as  far  as  can  be  judged  of  it  by  the 
Custom  House  Accounts,  has  been  upwards  of  £25,000  a  year. 
The  vessels  belonging  to  this  Province  are  small  and  not  con- 
siderable in  number,  being  employ'd  only  in  carrying  provisns. 
to  the  Southern  Islands,  and  in  ye  coasting  trade  to  the  neigh- 
bouring Colonies  on  ye  Continent.  The  number  of  the  inhabi- 
tants in  this  Province  encreases  daily,  chiefly  from  New  England 
and  from  the  North  of  Ireland,  the  Militia  consists  of  6000 
men.  Here  are  four  Independant  Companies  maintained  at 
the  expence  of  the  Crown,  and  employ'd  to  garrison  several 
forts  ;  one  whereof  is  at  New  York,  another  at  Albany,  and  a 
3d.  at  Shenectady.  There  is  likewise  a  small  fort  in  ye  country 
of  the  Mohack  Indians.  The  fort  at  N.  York  has  4  regular 
bastions,  faced  with  stone  and  mounted  with  50  guns,  but  has 
neither  ditch  or  outworks  ;  The  other  3  forts  have  only 
palisadoes.  This  Province,  by  reason  of  its  situation,  being 
almost  in  the  middle  of  ye  British  Colonies  on  ye  Continent, 
and  the  nearest  of  any  to  ye  French  Settlemts.  on  the  River 
Canada,  and  to  their  Indians,  as  well  as  for  the  immediate 
influence  or  command  it  has  over  the  5  nations  of  Indians, 
might  most  properly  be  made  ye  seat  of  Governmt.  for  a  Capn. 
General  if  your  Majesty  shall  think  fit  to  appoint  one,  and  a 
barrier  to  ye  neighbouring  Colonies  ;  for  this  reason  particular 
care  should  be  taken  to  put  ye  forts  already  built  in  ye  best 
condition  they  are  capable  of,  and  to  build  others  in  such  places 
where  they  may  best  serve  to  secure  and  enlarge  our  trade  and 
interest  with  ye  Indians,  and  break  the  designs  of  ye  French 
in  these  parts  ;  for  this  purpose  it  would  be  of  great  advantage 
to  build  a  fort  in  ye  country  of  ye  Seneca  Indians  near  the  Lake 
Ontario,  wch.  might  perhaps  be  done  with  their  consent  by 
ye  means  of  presents,  and  it  shou'd  the  rather  be  attempted 
without  loss  of  time,  to  prevent  ye  French  from  succeeding 
in  ye  same  design  wch.  they  are  now  actually  endeavouring 
at.  We  should  here  give  a  particular  account  of  the  above- 
mentioned  five  nations  of  Indians,  if  we  had  not  occasion  to  do 
it  in  another  part  of  this  representation,  relating  to  the  con- 
sequence of  the  communication  between  ye  French  Settlemt. 
at  Canada  and  Mississippi,  and  to  wch.  we  therefore  beg  leave 
to  refer. 

New  Jersey.  Boundaries  and  government  described.  Con- 
tinue : — The  greatest  number  of  the  inhabitants  are  Quakers, 
of  which  ye  Council  and  Assembly  chiefly  consist.  This 
Province  raiseth  by  their  Assembly  about  £1300  p.  annum, 
for  the  support  of  their  Government ;  but  they  think  it  a  hard- 
ship to  pay  a  salary  to  a  Governor  who  resides  in  another 
Pro^•ince,  and  wou'd  be  willing  to  raise  still  a  further  sum  for 
the  maintenance  of  a  Govr.,  who  could  reside  amongst  them 
wch.  they  conceive  wou'd  greatly  advance  the  trade  and  welfare 
of  this  country.     This  pro\ince  produces  all  sorts  of  grain  or 

Wt.  7696  C.P   32-27 


418  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

com  ;  the  inhabitants  Ukewise  breed  all  sorts  of  cattle  in  great 
quantities  with  which  they  supply  the  merchants  of  New  York 
and  Philadelphia,  to  carry  on  their  trade  to  all  the  American 
Islands  ;  but  were  they  a  distinct  Governmt.  (having  very 
good  harbours)  merchants  would  be  encouraged  to  settle 
amongst  them  and  they  might  become  a  considerable  trading 
people  ;  whereas  at  present  they  have  few  or  no  ships  but 
coasting  vessels,  and  they  are  supply'd  from  New  York  and 
Philadelphia  with  English  manufactures,  having  none  of  their 
own.  The  inhabitants  daily  increase  in  great  numbers  from 
New  England  and  Ireland,  and  before  this  increase  the  Militia 
consisted  of  al)out  3000  men.  There  are  but  few  Indians  in 
this  Government  and  they  very  innocent  and  friendly  to  the 
inhaliitants,  being  under  the  command  of  the  5  nations  of 
Iroquois,  and  this  Plantation  not  lying  exposed,  as  some  other 
British  Colonies  do,  they  have  hitherto  built  no  forts.  There 
is  great  quantity  of  iron  ore  and  some  copper  in  this  Province. 
They  have  only  two  Patent  Officers  vizt.  an  Attorny  General 
and  a  Secretary  ;  and  as  all  Patent  Officers  appointed  in  Great 
Britain  are  generally  unwelcome  to  the  Plantations,  so  by 
several  Acts  of  Assembly  their  fees  are  so  reduced  (especially 
the  Secretary's)  that  they  are  not  sufficient  for  his  subsistance. 
PennsylVxVNia.  This  Province  is  a  Proprietary  Governmt. 
granted  by  Charter  of  King  Cha  :  the  2nd  to  Wm.  Penn  Esqr. 
in  the  year  1680.  Its  boundaries,  agreeable  to  the  sd.  Charter, 
are  new  Castle  County  on  ye  South  the  River  Delaware  on 
the  East  unto  43  degrees  of  Northern  latitude,  and  from  thence 
a  Meridian  line  run  westward,  which  is  to  extend  5  degrees  in 
longitude.  There  are  likewise  certain  lands  lying  upon  Delaware 
Bay,  commonly  called  the  Three  Lower  Counties  which  are 
reputed  part  of  Pennsylvania,  and  are  now  actua,lly  under  the 
same  Governmt.  These  lands  were  granted  to  the  said  Wm. 
Penn  in  the  year  1682  by  King  James  the  2d.  then  Duke  of 
York.  But  as  ye  validity  of  that  grant  has  been  more  than 
once  question'd,  particularly  in  ye  year  1717,  upon  the  Petition 
of  ye  Earl  of  Sutherland  praying  a  Charter  from  your  Majesty 
of  the  sd.  lands,  ye  same  was  referred  to  ye  then  Attorney 
and  Solr.  General,  who  made  a  report,  dated  21st  Octor.  1717. 
But  there  having  been  no  further  proceedings  on  that  petition, 
we  need  only  mention,  that  it  appears  from  the  said  report,  that 
your  Majty.  is  at  least  entituled  to  a  moiety  of  the  rents,  issues 
and  proffits  which  shall  arise  on  the  said  lands  contain'd  in 
the  said  grant  of  the  Duke  of  York  made  in  the  year  1681, 
altho'  the  same  shou'd  be  valid  in  law.  And  we  the  rather 
take  notice  of  this,  because  we  find  that  in  ye  reign  of  the  late 
Queen  Ann,  about  the  year  1712,  an  agreement  was  made  by 
the  then  Treasury  with  Wm.  Penn  Esqr.  for  the  purchase  of 
his  Government  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  Three  Lower  Counties 
for  the  sum  of  £12,000,  one  thousand  pounds  of  which  was 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  419 


1721, 


paid  by  Warrant  of  Her  late  Majesty  bearing  date  9th  Sept. 
1712,  and  as  we  think  it  our  duty  on  all  occasions  to  represent 
the  advantages  that  wou'd  accrue  to  your  Majesty  and  the 
Publick,  by  taking  Proprietary  Governmts.  into  your  own 
hands  where  it  may  be  done  agreeable  to  law  and  justice,  we 
now  beg  leave  to  offer  our  opinion,  that  it  would  be  for  your 
Majesty's  service  to  have  the  said  agreement  compleated  by 
payment  of  the  remaining  £11,000,  and  whether  the  rents, 
issues  and  proffits  before  mentioned,  ought  not  to  be  accounted 
for  and  made  part  of  the  said  payments  is  humbly  submitted. 
This  Province  being  a  Proprietary  Governmt,  as  hath  been 
before  mention'd  the  Proprietor  thereof  has  the  appointment 
of  a  Govr.,  who  nevertheless  must  be  first  approved  of  by  your 
Majesty  ;  he  likewise  nominates  the  Council  ;  and  the  Assembly 
are  elected  by  the  freeholders.  There  is  one  circumstance 
very  particular  in  this  Charter  vizt.,  that  the  Proprietor  hath 
five  years  allowed  him  to  transmit  his  Laws  for  ye  Royal 
approbation,  but  the  Crown  hath  but  six  months  for  the  re- 
pealing them,  within  which  time  if  they  are  not  repealed,  they 
are  to  be  reputed  Laws  to  all  intents  and  purposes  whatsoever  ; 
from  whence  it  frequently  happens  that  several  laws  unfit  for 
the  Royal  Assent  continue  in  force  for  5  years,  and  after  having 
been  disallowed  by  the  Crown  are  enacted  again,  and  by  this 
practise  become  in  a  manner  perpetual ;  and  this  in  our  humble 
opinion  is  a  further  reason  why  the  aforementioned  purchase 
and  agreement  should  be  made  and  compleated.  The  soil  of 
this  country  is  various,  light  and  sandy  near  the  rivers,  but 
rich  and  of  a  deep  black  mould  further  from  the  water  ;  being 
well  cultivated  by  the  industry  of  the  inhabitants  ;  it  produceth 
whatsoever  is  necessary  for  life.  The  River  Delaware  (the 
only  one  of  consequence  to  trade  in  this  whole  country)  is 
exceeding  commodious  for  navigation,  except  in  the  two  months 
of  Deer,  and  Janry.,  v*'hcn  it  is  usually  frozen  up.  The  natural 
produce  of  this  country  is  wheat,  beef,  pork  and  lumber ; 
their  trade  consequently  consists  chiefly  in  ye  exportation  of 
these  to  the  several  parts  of  the  West  Indies  and  Maderas, 
from  whence  in  return  they  take  rum,  sugar,  cotton,  Spanish 
mony  and  wine  ;  they  likewise  build  many  brigantines  and 
sloops  for  sale  :  but  having  few  or  no  manufactures  of  their 
own,  they  are  supply' d  therewith  from  G.  Britain  to  the  yearly 
value  of  about  £20,000.  And  as  this  Province  does  greatly 
abound  in  iron,  so  we  have  good  grounds  to  believe,  that  if 
proper  encouragement  was  given  in  G.  Britain  to  take  off  that, 
and  their  timber,  the  people  would  thereby  be  diverted  from  the 
thoughts  of  setting  up  any  manufactures  of  their  own,  and 
consequently  the  consumption  of  those  of  Gr.  Britain  con- 
siderably advanced.  For  it  must  be  observed  that  this  Planta- 
tion is  in  a  very  flourishing  condition,  greatly  increased  in  its 
inhabitants  ;    and  althougli  the  informations  we  have  received 


420  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

touching  their  numbers  differ  extreanily,  some  computing 
them  at  about  60,000  whites  and  5,000  blacks,  and  others  not 
above  half  that  numbr.  yet  they  all  agree  in  their  opinion 
concerning  the  flourishing  state  of  this  Colony,  and  that  the 
produce  of  their  commodities  may  well  be  reckon'd  at  £100,000 
p.  annum.  Four  fifths  of  the  inhabitants  of  this  Province 
being  Quakers,  there  is  little  care  taken  of  their  military  affairs  ; 
only  one  old  ruin'd  fort  at  New  Castle  with  six  useless  guns 
belonging  to  it ;  nor  can  we  learn  there  is  any  establishment 
of  a  Militia  for  their  defence  ;  but  it  must  be  allowed  that  to 
supply  this  defect,  they  have  taken  care  to  cultivate  so  good  an 
understanding  with  their  neighbour  Indians,  by  going  yearly 
to  their  principal  town  (Onistogo,  Conostogo)  to  renew  their 
Peace  and  by  their  fair  and  just  dealings  with  them,  that 
hitherto  they  have  found  no  want  of  any  force  to  protect  them- 
selves, and  probably  may  not,  for  some  time  to  come,  if  the 
Indians  are  not  instigated  by  the  artifices  of  the  French  to 
insult  and  disturb  them.  But  the  endeavors  of  the  French 
to  debauch  the  Indians  from  ye  int'rest  of  your  Majesty's 
subjects  in  America,  and  likewise  the  importance  of  maintaining 
and  impro^'ing  ye  strictest  friendship  with  those  Indians,  with 
ye  proper  methods  of  doing  ye  same,  being  particularly  treated 
on  in  another  part  of  this  Report,  we  shall  mention  nothing 
further  upon  these  heads  at  present. 

Maryland.  Boundaries,  Charter  and  history  of  Govern- 
ment described.  Continue  :  There  is  no  revenue  arising  to  ye 
Crown  in  this  Province,  but  a  very  considerable  one  to  the 
Proprietor.  The  ordinary  expences  of  ye  Governmt,  are 
defray'd  by  a  duty  of  12d.  per  hogshead  on  all  tobacco  exported, 
and  3d.  p.  ton  on  all  shipping  inward  ;  and  the  extraordinary 
charges  of  the  (iovernmt.  are  likewise  provided  for  by  the 
Assembly  as  occasion  requires.  The  number  of  inhabitants 
was  computed  in  the  year  1704  to  be  30,537,  men,  women, 
and  children  and  4475  slaves,  young  and  old,  in  all  35,012. 
In  the  year  1710  was  computed  34,796  whites,  and  7,945  negroes, 
in  all  42,741.  And  in  the  year  1719,  was  computed  55,000 
white  inhabitants,  and  25,000  blacks,  in  all  80,000,  From 
Avhence  it  appears  that  the  inhabitants  of  this  Province  have 
increased  to  above  double  the  number  in  15  years  ;  and  altho' 
some  part  of  this  increase  may  have  been  occasioned  by  the 
transportation  of  the  rebels  from  Preston,  by  the  purchase  of 
slaves,  as  well  as  by  the  arrival  of  several  convict  persons,  and 
of  many  poor  families  who  have  transported  themselves  from 
Ireland  :  yet  it  must  be  allowed  that  Maryland  is  one  of  the  most 
flourishing  Provinces  upon  the  Continent  of  America.  The 
Militia  is  about  8,000  men,  well  arm'd  and  excellent  marksmen. 
There  are  no  forts  or  places  of  defence  in  this  Province,  but  there 
has  been  lately  built  at  the  publick  charge  a  large  magazine 
at  Annapolis  which  is  well  provided  with  spare  arms  for  1200 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  421 


1721. 


loot  and  600  horse,  with  a  great  quantity  of  Ammunition,  to 
maintain  wch.  and  to  make  a  further  provision  of  arms  and 
ammunition  there  is  a  duty  of  3d.  p.  hogshd.  laid  ])y  Act  of 
Assembly  on   all   tobacco  exported.     The   Indians   who  dwell 
within  this  Province  do  not  exceed  500,  and  they  live  peaceably 
with  the  inhabitants.     The  neighbouring  Indians  are  reported 
to  be  many  formidable  nations,  with  whom  the  people  have 
but  little  commerce,  this  country  being  a  peninsula  ;    but  thev 
have  been  careful  to  make  those  on  the  frontiers  their  friends, 
by  which  means  they  have  for  sometime   enjoy'd  a  perfect 
tranquility.     The  soil  of  this  country  is  of  different  kinds,  but 
most  of  it  sandy  ;    when  cultivated,  with  little  labour,  it  gives 
a  vast  increase  and  produces  all  things  necessary  for  life,  that 
G.  Britain  affords,  with  wch.  the  inhabitants  plentifully  provide 
for   their   subsistance.     Tobacco   is   the    staple    commodity   of 
this  Province  of  which  about  30  or  35,000  hogshds.  are  yearly 
exported  to  G.  Britain  ;    the  inhabitants  export  some  tobacco 
to  the  others  plantations,  as  also  grain,  beef,  pork  and  lumber, 
for  which  they  have  in  return  rum  and  sugar.     They  likewise 
send  some  com  to  the  Maderas  for  wine,  but  the  most  part  of 
the  wine  they  have  from  thence  is  purchased  by  Bills  of  Ex- 
change.    Whilst   tobacco   answers,   in   its   price,' the   planters' 
labour,  all  manufactures  and   all   other  trade,  that  might  arise 
from  ye  product  of  the  country  are  laid  aside.     The  inhabitants 
wear  ye  like  clothing  and  have  the  same  furniture  within  their 
houses  with  those  in  this  Kingdom  ;    the  slaves  are  cloathed 
with  cottons,  kerseys,  flannel  and  coarse  linnens,  all  imported, 
and  it   is   computed   that  this   Province   consumes   of  British 
manufactures  to  the  value  of  £20,000  p.  annum.     No  mines  are 
yet  discover'd  here  ;    except  iron,  which  are  ver>'  common  but 
not  wrought  for  want  of  a  sufficient  stock  and  persons  of  skill 
to  engage  in  such  an  undertaking.     The  number  of  ships  belong- 
ing to  this  Province  are  only  four  small  brigantines,  and  not 
more  than  20  sloops  for  the  sea.     The  inhabitants  not  being 
inclined   to   navigation,    but   depending   upon  British  bottoms 
for  the  exportation  and  importation  of  the  bulk  of  their   trade  ; 
and  there  has  been  employ' d  of  late  years  above  100  sail  of 
ships  from  Great  Britain. 

Virginia.  Describe  boundaries  etc.  Continue: — The 
strength  and  security  of  this  Colony,  in  a  great  measure,  depend 
upon  their  Militia  ;  their  plantations  being  usually  at  too  great 
a  distance  from  one  another  to  be  cover' d  by  forts  or  towns. 
James  Town  or  Williamsburgh  are  the  only  towns  in  ye  whole 
country,  and  there  is  no  fort  of  any  consequence  for  the  security 
of  their  great  navigation  and  trade  but  at  James  Town.  How- 
ever for  their  protection  against  the  Indians  who  inhabit  among 
them,  and  that  line  to  ye  westward,  they  have  erected  Christiana 
and  some  other  forts  ;  and  the  Council  and  Assembly  have 
lately    proposed   to    your    Majesty   a   scheme    for   securing   ye 


422  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

passes  over  the  great  ridge  of  mountains  which  lye  on  the  back 
of  this  Province,  dividing  them  from  the  French  and  Indian 
nations  in  the  French  intrest.  Whereupon  we  have  some 
time  since  reported  our  humble  opinion  to  your  Majesty,  and 
beg  leave  upon  this  occasion  to  repeat,  that  we  conceive  their 
proposal  to  be  deserving  of  all  reasonable  encouragement. 
Their  militia  in  the  year  ,1690  consisted  of  6570  horse  and  foot. 
In  the  year  1703  there  were  mustered  1403  officers  2161  horse, 
1794  dragoons,  5198  foot  =  10,556.  And  in  the  year  1715, 
they  were  increased  to  about  14,000  in  all.  From  whence  we 
compute,  supposing  the  militia  to  be  a  sixth  part  of  ye  whole, 
that  the  total  number  of  the  inhabitants  (exclusive  of  negroes) 
amounts  to  about  84,000  souls.  The  Province  is  divided  into 
25  counties,  and  the  proprietors  of  all  lands  that  have  been 
taken  up  in  20  of  the  said  counties,  pay  an  annual  Quit  Rent 
to  your  Majesty  of  two  shillings  in  mony  or  24  hwt.  of  tobacco 
for  every  hundred  acres.  But  the  propriety  of  the  Northern 
Neck  (containing  the  other  five  counties)  was  granted  by  King 
Charles  the  2d  and  King  James  the  2d  to  the  late  Thomas 
Lord  Colepepper  upon  a  Quit  Rent  of  £6  13s.  4d.  p.  annum. 
The  land  in  the  aforesaid  twenty  counties,  on  which  the  said 
quit  rent  to  your  Majesty  is  paid,  contained  in  1704,  2,238,143 
acres,  in  1714,  2,619,773|  acres.  However  the  produce  of  this 
Revenue  is  very  much  governed  by  the  price  of  tobacco  in  the 
country.  For  example  ;  on  a  medium  of  10  years  ending  in 
1713  (during  which  time  the  tobacco  was  low)  the  proceed 
amounted  to  £1411  7s.  7|d.  p.  ann.  And  on  a  medium  of  the 
four  following  years  (when  the  price  of  tobacco  was  high) — 
£2,270  lis.  8d.  per  annm.  There  is  another  revenue  in  this 
province  that  is  settled  and  appropriated  by  the  Assembly 
for  the  constant  support  and  charge  of  your  Majesty's  Governt. 
This  consists  of  several  duties  vizt.  on  every  hogshd.  of  tobacco 
exported  2s.,  on  every  ton  of  shipping  1*.  Sd.,  and  on  every 
poll  imported,  6a.  besides  the  rights  for  taking  up  of  lands  and 
fines  and  forfeitures.  On  a  medium  of  six  years,  ending  the 
25th  of  Octor.  1710,  the  whole  produced  clear  of  charges 
£2,845  15s.  lid.  p.  annm.  And  upon  the  same  medium  the 
established  salaries  etc.,  amounted  to  £2,821 12*.  3d.;  the  ordinary 
charges,  £176  12*.  5d.  ;  and  the  contingent  expences,  £97  3d.  2d. 
The  total  annual  charge  as  aforesaid,  £3,095  75.  IQd.,  which 
exceeds  the  amount  of  the  revenue  £249  11*.  lid.  And  this 
excess  hath  been  generally  allowed  by  your  Majesty  as  well  as 
by  your  Royal  Predecessors  out  of  ye  produce  of  the  Quit  Rents. 
But  besides  the  said  standing  and  certain  charge,  for  which 
provision  is  made  as  aforesaid,  this  Province  has  been  always 
obliged,  for  maintaining  their  guards  and  a  garrisons  on  ye 
Indians  frontiers,  for  erecting  several  publick  magazines  and 
buildings  and  discharging  other  necessary  expences,  to  levy 
certain  quantities  of  tobacco,  at  so  many  hwt.  p.  head  on  every 


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1721. 


tytliable,  which  comprehends  all  persons  exceeding  sixteen 
years  of  age,  except  white  women.  The  number  of  the  said 
tythables  according  to  their  respective  lists.  In  1698  amounted 
to  20,523.  In  1705  to  27,053.  In  1714  to  31,540.  The  principal 
product  of  Virginia  is  tobacco,  and  in  general  its  of  a  better 
quality  than  that  of  Maryland.  Before  the  conclusion  of  the 
last  Peace  with  France,  the  Virginia  planters,  exported  to  this 
Kingdom  at  least  30,000  hogsheads  p.  annm.  but  about  that 
time  the  trade  declining  for  M'ant  of  foreign  consumption,  an 
act  was  passed  in  the  12th  of  Her  late  Majesty's  reign,  for 
encouraging  the  tobacco  trade  ;  and  your  Majesty  hath  been 
since  graciously  pleased  to  give  your  Royal  Assent  to  an  act 
for  continuing  the  same.  But  as  this  commodity  is  of  such 
consequence  to  the  trade  of  Great  Brita,in,  not  only  with  respect 
to  our  home  consumption,  but  likewise  to  our  foreign  exportation ; 
all  further  occasions  should  be  laid  hold  of  for  giving  some  ease 
and  encouragement  to  the  same,  by  a  further  reduction  of  the 
duty  so  soon  as  it  may  be  done  consistant  with  the  present 
appropriations  thereof.  The  other  branches  of  the  trade 
between  this  Kingdom  and  Virginia  consist  in  pitch  and  tar, 
pipe  and  hogshd.  staves ;  skins  and  furrs  ;  and  a  few  druggs ; 
they  also  export  to  the  other  plantations  some  small  quantities 
of  tobacco,  provisions  and  lumber  but  their  dependance  is 
almost  wholly  on  the  produce  of  tobacco. 

Carolina.  Describes  Charter,  boundaries  and  Government ; 
Continues : — 

North  Carolina  was  formerly  part  of  Virginia  till  granted 
to  the  Lords  Proprietors  by  their  second  Charter.  And  it  was 
at  a  certain  place  in  this  province  called  Roanoke,  that  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh's  servants  made  their  first  settlement.  The 
boundary  that  separates  this  Province  from  Virginia  being 
conceived  in  very  disputable  terms  hath  never  yet  been  finally 
settled  tho'  commissaries  have  been  formerly  deputed  by  the 
two  colonies  for  that  purpose,  who  could  never  agree  either  upon 
the  latitude  or  upon  the  true  position  of  Wyanoke  Creek ;  for 
ye  Indians  from  whom  this  place  derives  its  appelation,  having 
often  wander'd  as  their  usual  custom  is,  over  that  part  of  the 
Continent,  and  fix'd  for  certain  times  at  different  places  there, 
they  have  left  their  name  to  many  creeks.  The  South  limits 
of  this  Colony  have  likewise  admitted  of  some  disputes  the 
commissionrs.  of  the  Lords  Proprietors  having  frequently  named 
Cape  Fear  instead  of  the  river  of  that  name  for  their  boundary. 
The  Government  of  North  Carolina  is  something  different  from 
that  of  the  Southern  Province,  resembling  more  nearly  that  for 
Virginia,  of  which  as  hath  been  observed  it  was  formerly  a 
part,  being  divided  into  two  counties  and  seven  precincts 
with  petty  courts  for  each,  from  whence  in  all  matters  exceeding 
a  certain  value,  appeals  lye  to  the  Supream  Court  held  by  the 
Govr.  and  Council,  which  liberty  of  appeal  as  we  are  informed 


421  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

your  Majesty's  subjects  in  South  Carolina  do  not  at  present 
enjoy.  There  are  great  tracts  of  good  land  in  this  province, 
and  it  is  a  very  healthy  country,  but  the  situation  renders  it 
for  ever  incapable  of  being  a  place  of  considerable  trade,  by 
reason  of  a  great  Sound  near  sixty  miles  over,  that  lyes  between 
this  coast  and  the  Sea,  barred  by  a  vast  chain  of  sandbanks  so 
very  shallow  and  shifting  that  sloops  drawing  only  five  foot 
water  run  great  riske  in  crossing  them.  The  little  commerce 
therefore  driven  to  this  colony  is  carry'd  on  by  very  small 
sloops  chiefly  from  New  England  ;  who  bring  them  clothing 
and  iron  ware  in  exchange  for  their  pork  and  corn,  but  of  late 
they  have  made  small  quantities  of  pitch  and  tar,  which  are 
first  exported  to  New  England,  and  thence  to  Great  Britain. 
We  are  not  throughly  informed  of  the  number  of  inhabitants  ; 
but  according  to  the  best  accounts  we  cou'd  get,  the  number 
of  persons  in  their  tythables  or  Poll  Tax,  were  not  long  since 
above  1600,  of  which  about  one  third  were  blacks.  The 
Governmt.  of  this  Province  having  for  many  years  been  a  very 
disorderly  one,  this  becomes  a  place  of  refuge  for  all  the  vaga- 
bonds whom  either  debt  or  breach  of  the  Laws  have  driven 
from  the  other  Colonies  on  the  Continent,  and  pirates  have  too 
frequently  found  entertainment  amongst  them.  There  is  no 
great  prospect  that  these  mischiefs  should  be  redressed 
unless  your  Majesty  shall  be  pleased  to  resume  this  as  well 
as  the  Southern  Province  into  your  immediate  Government ; 
in  which  case  North  Carolina  might  in  our  opinion  be 
restored  again  to  Virginia  and  put  under  the  care  of  your 
Majesty's  Governor  of  that  Colony.  South  Carolina  extends 
from  Cape  Fear  to  the  River  of  St.  Mathias.  The  inhabitants 
of  this  Province  conceiving  themselves  to  be  ill-used,  or 
greatly  neglected  by  the  Lords  Proprietors,  have  lately  deposed 
their  Governor  and  Council,  and  chosen  a  new  Governor  and 
Council  of  their  own,  which  great  disorder  induced  your 
Majesty  to  reassume  the  Governmt.  thereof.  This  colony  is 
the  Southern  frontier  to  your  Majesty's  plantations  on  the 
Continent,  and  will,  no  doubt,  under  ye  happy  influence  of 
your  Majesty's  immediate  protection  become  a  flourishing 
colony.  The  trade  of  this  province  with  respect  to  their  own 
shipping  is  not  hitherto  very  considerable,  the  inhabitants  not 
having  above  20  sail  of  their  own  amounting  to  about  1,500  tons  ; 
and  as  they  chiefly  apply  themselves  to  the  plantation  work, 
they  have  not  many  sea-faring  men  ;  but  their  trade  is  carried 
on  by  the  merchts.  of  Great  Britain  who  reap  a  considerable 
advantage  thereby.  The  commodities  the  people  of  Carolina 
take  from  Great  Britain,  are  all  manner  of  cloathing,  woollen 
linnen,  iron  ware  ;  brass  and  pewter  ;  and  all  sorts  of  houshold 
goods,  having  no  manufactures  of  their  own,  and  their  southerly 
situation  will  make  them  always  dependant  on  G.  Britain  for 
a   supply   of  those   conuiiodilics,    whose   consumption    may    be 


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1721. 


computed  at  about  £23,000  p.  annum  ;  besides  ye  cost  of  a 
considerable  number  of  negroes  with  which  the  British  mer- 
chants have  for  some  time  yearly  furnished  them,  taking  their 
returns  in  rice  and  naval  stores.  There  is  a  small  trade  carried 
on  between  Carolina  and  the  Maderas  for  wine,  and  the  com- 
missioners of  the  Customs  have  a  Surveyor  General,  a  Collector, 
a  Comptroller,  a  searcher,  a  Waiter,  and  a  Naval  Officer  to 
put  the  Laws  of  Trade  and  Navigation  in  execution  here ; 
But  daily  experience  shews  that  illegal  trade  is  not  to  be  pre- 
vented in  a  Proprietary  Government.  The  natural  produce  of 
this  country  is  rice,  pitch,  tar,  turpentine,  buck-skins,  furs, 
com,  beef,  pork,  soap,  mirtle-wax-candles  ;  various  sorts  of 
lumber,  as  masts,  cedar  boards,  staves,  shingles,  and  hoop  poles  : 
But  the  soil  is  thought  capable  of  producing  wine,  oyle,  silk, 
indico,  pot-ashes,  iron,  hemp  and  flax.  The  number  of  white 
inhabitants  in  this  province  have  some  time  since  been  com- 
puted at  9000,  and  the  blacks  at  12,000  :  But  the  frequent 
massacres  committed  of  late  years  by  the  neighbouring  Indians 
at  the  instigation  of  the  French  and  Spaniards,  has  diminished 
the  white  men,  whilst  the  manufacture  of  pitch  and  tar  has  given 
occasions  to  increase  ye  number  of  black  slaves  who  have  lately 
attempted  and  were  very  near  succeeding  in  a  new  revolution, 
which  wou'd  probably  have  been  attended  by  ye  utter  extirpa- 
tion of  all  your  Majesty's  subjects  in  this  province.  And  there- 
fore it  may  be  necessary  for  your  Majesty's  service  that  the 
Govr.  should  be  instructed  to  propose  some  law  to  the  Assembly 
there  for  encouraging  the  entertainmt.  of  more  white  servants 
for  the  future.  The  Militia  of  this  Province  does  not  consist 
of  above  2000  men,  and  therefore  considering  the  circumstances 
and  situation  these  people  are  in,  exposed  in  case  of  a  rupture 
on  the  one  side  to  the  Spaniards,  on  the  other  to  the  French, 
and  surrounded  by  savages,  who  are  for  the  most  part  in  an 
interest  opposite  to  that  of  Great  Britain,  unless  your  Majesty 
shall  be  graciously  pleased  to  send  a  military  force  to  this 
country  sufficient  to  protect  your  subjects,  this  valuable 
province  in  all  probability  will  be  lost.  For  this  reason  we 
took  the  liberty  of  representing  to  the  late  Lords  Justices  the 
necessity  of  sending  four  regiments  thither  to  prevent  the 
further  incroachments  of  the  French  in  those  parts.  We  like- 
wise propose,  that  as  well  to  ascertain  the  bounds  of  this 
province  which  have  not  hitherto  been  fix'd  any  other  way  but 
by  the  Charters  to  ye  Lords  Proprietors,  as  to  extend  and 
protect  the  trade  of  your  Majesty's  subjects  there  ;  several 
small  forts  should  be  erected  in  proper  places,  and  that  particular 
care  should  be  taken  to  secure  the  navigation  of  the  several 
rivers  emptying  themselves  in  those  parts  to  the  northwd.  of 
Fort  St.  Augustine  into  the  Westward  ocean,  but  more  especially 
that  of  the  River  Alamatahama,  which  ye  French  have  some 
time  ago  new  christned  by   the  name  of  the  Ri\  er  May.     ^Ve 


426  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

^vcrc  humbly  of  opinion  that  no  time  should  be  lost  in  a  matter 
of  this  consequence,  because  the  great  difficulties  the  French 
have  found  in  the  navigation  of  the  River  Mississippi ;  made  it 
necessary  for  them  to  secure  a  better  part,  and  they  did  some 
time  ago  take  Pensicola  from  the  Spania,rds,  which  being 
since  as  we  are  informed  restored,  it  is  very  probable  the  French 
may  think  of  opening  another  communication  from  their  great 
settlement  at  Mobile  down  the  River  Alamatahama  to  ye 
western  ocean,  wch.  wou'd  be  a  more  fatal  blow,  than  any 
that  has  hitherto  been  given  to  your  Majesty's  intrest  in 
America.  The  fortifications  of  this  country  at  present  are 
but  very  fev/,  and  their  situation  not  the  most  advantagious. 
Charles  Town,  for  instance,  is  regularly  fortify'd  and  hath 
about  100  guns  mounted  on  the  walls,  the  largest  not  exceeding 
12  pound  ball.  There  is  likewise  a  small  fort  of  about  10  guns 
at  Port  Royal  and  a  pallizado  fort  at  the  late  Savana  Town,  of 
5  or  6  small  guns,  which  lyes  about  140  miles  west  from  Charles 
Town  towards  the  head  of  Santee  River.  120  miles  from  Charles 
Town  is  also  another  small  fort ;  in  all  which  places  there  are 
about  100  men  in  garrison.  But  Port  Royal  seems  to  have  been 
a  good  deal  neglected,  considering  it  is  at  present  the  frontier 
town,  lyes  ready  for  the  supply  of  the  Indian  trade  and  the 
protection  of  the  out  garrisons,  and  has  an  excellent  harbour  ; 
for  which  reason  we  should  think  that  place  ought  to  be  better 
secured.  It  would  likewise  be  for  your  Majesty's  service  that 
other  forts  should  be  built  in  this  Province  in  proper  places, 
for  the  reasons  which  shall  be  mentioned  in  that  part  of  this 
Representation  relating  to  the  means  proposed  for  preventing 
the  encroachmts.  of  our  European  nei'bours.  The  Indian 
nations  lying  between  Carolina  and  the  French  settlemts.  on 
the  Mississippi,  are  about  9200  fighting  men,  of  which  number 
3400  whom  we  formerly  traded  with,  are  intirely  debauched  to 
the  French  intrest  by  their  new  settlement  and  fort  at  the 
Albamas.  About  2000  more  that  lye  between  your  Majesty's 
subjects,  and  those  of  the  French  King,  trade  at  present  in- 
differently with  both  ;  but  it  is  to  be  feared  that  these  likewise 
will  be  debauched  by  the  French  unless  proper  means  be  used 
to  keep  them  in  your  Majesty's  intrest.  The  remaining  3800 
Indians  are  the  Cherekees,  a  warlike  nation  inhabiting  the 
Apalatche  mountains  ;  these  being  still  at  enmity  with  the 
French,  might  with  less  difficulty  be  secured  ;  and  it  certainly 
is  of  ye  highest  consequence,  that  they  should  be  engaged  in 
your  Majesty's  intrest,  for  should  they  once  take  another 
party,  not  only  Carolina,  but  Virginia  likewise  would  be  exposed 
to  their  excursions.  Besides  the  Indians  above  mentioned 
there  are  about  1000  savages  dispersed  in  several  parts  between 
Carolina  and  Virginia,  from  whom  we  have  not  much  to  appre- 
hend, provided  your  Majesty's  governors  of  these  provinces 
live  in  that  perfect  harmony  and    good   understanding  which 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  427 


1721. 


they  ought  to  mamtain  with  each  other,  and  do  justice  to  these 
poor  people,  who  seldom  give  ye  first  offence.  It  were  to  be 
wished  we  had  not  so  much  reason  to  complain  of  our  European 
nei' hours  in  these  parts,  but  besides  the  encroachmts.  made 
by  ye  French,  your  Majesty's  subjects  meet  with  ill  treatment 
from  the  Spaniards,  more  particularly  at  Fort  St.  Augustine 
where  they  have  a  garrison  of  3  or  400  white  men,  and  about 
200  Indians,  who  give  shelter  to  all  our  runaway  slaves,  and 
without  regard  to  Peace  or  Treaties,  commit  frequent  acts  of 
hostility  upon  your  Majesty's  subjects.  We  are  not  as  yet 
informed  whither  the  Spaniards  have  resettled  Pensecola,  or 
what  force  they  haN  e  there  ;  but  they  have  a  fort  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Calahooche  River  with  about  400  or  500  men  in  garrison, 
and  we  shall  give  your  IMajesty  an  account  of  the  French  force 
in  the  nei'bourhood,  in  that  part  of  our  Report  which  relates 
particularly  to  their  settlements  on  the  Continent.  This 
province  having  hitherto  but  few  inhabitants  ;  the  quit  rents 
of  the  Lords  Proprietors  amount  only  to  about  £500  p.  annum  ; 
but  there  is  a  duty  of  Sd.  p.  skin  for  the  benefit  of  the  clergy  ; 
and  the  contingencies  of  the  Government,  which  vary  every 
year,  are  raised  by  the  Assembly.  There  are  no  officers  in 
Carolina  that  have  patents  from  ye  Crown,  and  none  appointed 
at  present  by  Yor.  Majty's.  authority  but  those  of  ye  Govrs. 
and  Custom  :  house  :  officers.  All  other  officers  both  civil  and 
military  hold  their  employments  immediately  under  the  Lords 
Proprietors,  their  Governors  or  ye  Assembly.  Rice  being 
the  principal  and  staple  commodity  of  this  Province,  and  the 
merchants  trading  to  Carolina  having  often  complained  that  the 
advantage  tiiey  formerly  reaped  by  supplying  Portugal  with  rice, 
hath  been  almost  entirely  lost  since  the  Act  of  the  3rd  and  4th 
years  of  Queen  Ann,  whereby  rice  is  made  one  of  the  enumerated 
commoditys.  and  the  importation  thereof  restrained  to  Great 
Britain  ;  we  think  it  necessary  before  we  conclude  what  we 
have  to  offer  concerning  this  Province,  to  lay  before  your 
Majesty  a  particular  state  of  this  trade.  Before  the  production 
of  rice  in  Carolina  the  Kingdom  of  Portugal  was  supply' d  with 
very  great  quantities  every  year  from  Italy.  And  the  great 
consumption  thereof  in  Portugal,  with  the  liberty  of  transporting 
it  directly  thither  from  the  Plantations,  as  freely  as  any  other 
grain,  first  induced  the  people  of  Carolina  to  plant  and  propagate 
it.  Their  labour  and  industry  being  by  degrees  rewarded  by 
an  abundant  increase  of  this  useful  and  valuable  product, 
they  had  a  very  fair  prospect  of  wholly  supplying  the  Portugal 
markets  therewith.  But  being  deprived  by  ye  foresaid  Act, 
of  the  liberty  of  transporting  their  rice  directly  to  Portugal, 
and  the  additional  frieght  (from  this  to  that  Kingdom)  with  all 
other  charges  thereon,  amounting  to  about  one  third  part  of 
its  value  ;  no  rice  could  be  carried  from  England  to  Portugal 
but  when  the  price  has  happen 'd  to  be  very  high  there.  But 


428  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

the  true  state  oi'  this  affair  will  best  appear  by  the  following 
account  of  the  quantities  of  rice  imported  and  re-exported 
communibus  annis,  on  a  medium  of  five  years  from  Christmas 
1712  to  Christmas  1717  vizt.  :  Imported  from  Carolina  and 
the  other  plantations,  28,073  cwt.  ;  from  East  India,  Turkey 
and  Italy  about  250  cwt. ;  the  Total  Import,  28,323  cwt.  per  ann. 

Re-exported  to  Portugal,  Spain  and  other  parts  to  the  South- 
ward of  Cape  Finisterre,  2,478  cwt. ;  to  Holland,  Germany,  and 
other  countries  to  northward  of  Cape  Finisterre,  20,458  cwt,  ; 
the  Total   Export,  22,936   cwt.   per  ann. 

Remained  for  Consumpton,  5,387  cwt.  ;    total  28,323  cwt. 

It  is  evident  from  this  account  that  the  exportation  of  Rice 
from  Great  Britain  to  the  northward  is  very  considerable  ; 
and  that  the  exportation  of  this  commodity  to  the  Southward 
is  very  small,  which  can  arise  from  no  other  cause  but  the  great 
expence  that  attends  the  same  in  double  freight  :  the  rice  of 
Carolina  being  esteemed  the  best  in  the  world  ;  but  by  that 
means  it  happens  that  the  Italians  being  near  at  hand  have 
almost  entirely  beaten  your  Majty.'s  subjects  out  of  this  trade  ; 
which  proves  very  detrimental  to  the  navigation  of  Great 
Britain  :  for  if  the  Italians  had  not  a  vent  for  their  rice  in 
Portugal,  they  would  hardly  be  able  to  carry  on  a  trade  to  that 
Kingdom  and  Spain  in  their  own  shipping,  they  having  no  other 
gross  goods  but  rice  and  paper,  sufficient  to  furnish  a  lading 
for  great  ships  ;  and  they  dare  not  adventure  in  any  others  for 
fear  of  the  Algerines.  We  would  therefore  humbly  submit  to 
your  Majesty  whether  it  might  not  be  for  the  advantage  of 
the  Plantations  and  of  Great  Britain  likewise,  to  allow  that  rice 
might  be  carry' d  from  Carolina  directly  to  Portugal  or  any 
other  part  of  Europe  to  the  Southward  of  Cape  Finisterre  ; 
upon  giving  security  that  every  vessel  so  freighted  shall  touch 
in  Great  Britain  before  she  returns  to  the  West  Indies.  The 
consequence  of  ye  Plantatn.  trade.  Thus  having  gone  through 
the  several  Colonies  on  the  Continent  in  order  to  demonstrate 
ye  consequence  their  trade  is  to  Great  Britain  ;  we  have  drawn 
out  from  the  Custom  House  books  an  Account  No.  1  containing 
the  total  amount  or  value  of  all  goods  imported  from  and  ex- 
ported to  the  said  Colonies,  communibus  annis,  on  a  medium 
of  3  years  from  Christmas  1714  to  Christmas  1717.  And 
forasmuch  as  the  trades  to  Africa  and  Madera  may  be  accounted 
branches  of  the  Plantation  trade,  the  returns  of  the  goods 
exported  to  those  countries  being  generally  sent  from  thence  in 
negroes  and  wine  to  the  Plantations  ;  we  have  included  the 
amount  thereof  in  this  account.  But  having  enquired  upon 
this  occasion  into  the  valuations  of  the  aforesaid  goods,  we  are 
inform'd  that  tobacco,  sugar  and  some  other  of  the  Plantation 
products  are  over-rated ;  the  prices  of  those  commodities 
having   been   considerably  reduced  since  the   valuations   were 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  429 


1721. 


adjusted  in  the  books  of  the  Inspector-General  of  the  Customs, 
from  whence  this  is  drawn  ;  however  as  we  have  not  ye  same 
objection  to  the  valuations  of  our  own  manufactures  and 
products,  we  shall  lay  the  same  before  your  Majesty  upon  ye 
foot  it  now  stands.  From  this  account  it  will  appear  that  the 
Plantations  in  America  take  from  hence  yearly  to  the  value 
of  one  million  sterling,  in  British  products  and  manufactures 
and  foreign  goods.  And  altho'  the  exports  charged  in  this 
account  to  the  several  Colonies  on  the  Continent,  amount  to 
no  more  than  £431,027  165.  5d.,  yet  as  the  Continent  has  un- 
doubtedly a  great  share  in  the  general  article  of  Entry  to  the 
West  Indies  as  well  as  in  the  Articles  of  Entry  to  Africa  and  the 
Maderas,  the  exports  to  ye  Contint.  may  well  be  computed  at 
£500,000  05.  Od.  But  before  we  enter  into  the  particular 
circumstances  of  ye  Plantation  trade  on  the  Continent,  it  will 
be  necessary  to  ascertain  the  principal  commodities  wherein 
their  trade  consists  ;  and  how  much  they  respectively  amt.  to, 
which  will  appear  Account  No.  2.  It  may  be  observed  from 
this  account  that  the  exports  to  the  Continent  of  America 
exceed  the  imports  from  thence  about  £200,000  per  ann.  which 
debt  falls  upon  ye  Provinces  to  the  northward  of  Maryland 
who  probably  are  inabled  to  discharge  the  same  by  the  trade 
they  are  permitted  to  carry  on  in  America  and  to  Europe  in 
commodities  not  enumerated  in  the  Acts  of  Trade,  as  may  be 
gathered  from  a  state  of  their  shipping  and  tonnage  hereunto 
annexed,  number  3,  4  and  5  ;  altho'  the  same  is  not  so  perfect 
as  it  might  otherwise  have  been  for  want  of  returns  from  the 
Proprietary  Governmts.  Besides  the  advantages  accruing  to 
Great  Britain  from  so  large  an  exportation  to  the  Colonies  on 
the  Continent  of  America,  from  whence  as  hath  been  already 
shewn,  there  doth  arise  a  ballance  of  £200,000  sterling  ;  it  is 
to  be  observed  that  your  Majesty's  revenue  of  the  Customs 
is  very  considerably  increased  by  this  trade  ;  that  great  part 
of  ye  commodities  which  we  receive  from  thence  are  such  as 
we  should  otherways  be  obliged  to  take  from  foreign  markets  ; 
and  that  there  is  a  very  great  profit  arising  from  the  re-exporta- 
tion of  such  of  the  said  Plantation  commodities  to  foreign 
markets  as  are  not  expended  at  home.  Our  home  consumption 
of  tobacco  only  may  be  computed  at  lb  wt.  8,175,  226,  per  ann.  : 
and  the  tobacco  re-exported  lb.  wt.  17,142,755  p.  ann.  :  as  may 
appear  by  the  account  number  6,  wherein  the  sugars  as  well  as 
the  tobacco  imported  and  exported  for  five  years  from  Christmas 
1712  to  Christmas  1717,  are  distinctly  stated.  And  we  have  the 
rather  chose  to  joyn  them,  because  they  are  the  two  staple 
commodities  of  the  islands  and  of  the  Continent,  whose  intrests 
are  inseparable,  nor  would  it  be  possible  to  support  the  sugar 
Islands  without  the  assistance  of  the  Continent.  There  still 
remains  to  be  considered  another  great  advantage  that  arises 


430 
1721. 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


to  this  Kingdom  from  the  Plantation  trade,  which  is,  the 
constant  employment  it  gives  to  our  British  shipping.  The 
number  and  tonnage  of  the  ships  cleared  from  England  for 
His  Majesty's  Dominions  in  America,  and  for  Africa  and 
Madera  in  three  years,  from  Christms.  1714  to  Christmas  1717, 
is  as  follows  : — 


Cleared  in  the  said  three  years, 


For 


New  England 

New  York 

Pennsylvania 

Maryland 

Virginia 

Carolina 

For  the  Continent 

Barbados 

Antegoa 

Montserrat 

Nevis 

St.  Christophs. 

Jamaica     . . 

Bennuda 

For  the  Islands 

West  Indies 
Hudson's  Bav 


Total  for  the  Plantatn. 


For  Africa 
Madera 


In  all     .. 
that  is  cnnunnnibus  annis 


Medium  of 

Ships. 

Tonns. 

the  tonnage 

240 

p.  ann. 

20,276 

6,758t 

64 

4,330 

l,443i 

55 

5,429 

l,809f 

108 

17,651 

5,883§ 

340 

47,009 

15,669f 

92 

8,033 

2,677f 

899 

102,728 

34,242S 

347 

37,849 

12,616i 

111 

11,092 

3.697i 

25 

1,770 

590 

33 

2,963 

987f 

30 

3,170 

l,056f 

162 

22,913 

7,637f 

4 

160 

53i 

712 

79,917 

26,639 

123 

16,687 

5,562  i 

7 

732 

244 

1,741 

200,064 

66,688J 

92 

181 

10,823  \ 
15,875/ 

8.899 

2,014 

226,762 

75,.587 

671 

75,587 

And  whereas  there  was  clear'd  from  this  Kingdom,  on  a 
medium  of  the  said  three  years  ending  at  Christmas  1717,  for 
all  foreign  parts. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES. 


431 


1721. 


Ships. 

Tons. 

British 

Foreign 

5,663 
330 

419,681  \ 
17,446/ 

437,127 

p.  annum. 

In  all 

5,993 

It  is  evident  that  the  shipping  employ' d  annually  in  the 
Plantation  trade  only,  was  more  than  a  sixth  part  of  the  whole 
tonnage  for  that  time  from  the  several  ports  of  England  to  all 
foreign  countries.  But  computing  that  the  other  five  sixths 
parts  of  the  said  shipping  may  be  employ'd  (a  little  more  or  less) 
as  follows  : — 

^  in  the  Trade  to  Spain,  Portugal,  the  Streights,  Canaries, 
East  India,  Newfoundland  and  Archangel. 

^  to  Denmark,  Norway  and  the  Baltick  ;  |  to  Germany, 
Holland,  Flanders  and  France,  and  I  to  Ireland,  and  the  other 
British    Islands. 

And  it  being  obvious  that  the  ships  employ'd  in  the  trades 
near  home  make  two  or  three  voyages  whilst  the  ships  bound 
to  the  Plantations  are  performing  one,  it  is  very  probable  that 
the  trade  which  is  carried  on  between  England  and  the  American 
Plantations,  imploys  at  least  one  fourth  part  of  the  shipping 
annually  clear'd  from  this  Kingdom.  And  upon  casting  up 
the  tunnage  of  the  Plantation  products  re-exported  in  the  year 
1717,  it  appears  there  was  imploy'd  near  half  as  much  shipping 
in  transporting  these  goods  from  hence  to  Germany,  Holland 
and  other  foreign  countries,  as  was  imploy'd  in  the  trade 
directly  from  the  British  Colonies  in  America.  Consequently 
therefore  it  may  be  concluded  that  about  one  third  part  of  the 
shipping  imploy'd  in  the  foreign  trade  of  this  Kingdom  is  main- 
tained by  the  Plantation  trade.  But  notwithstanding  the 
advantages  at  present  arising  from  the  Plantation  trade  are 
so  very  considerable  ;  it  is  not  to  be  doubted  but  that  they  might 
still  be  render'd  much  more  useful  if  sufficient  encouragement 
were  given  to  induce  them  to  turn  their  industry  to  the  produc- 
tion of  naval  stores  of  all  kinds,  and  of  such  other  commodities 
as  our  necessities  require,  and  which  are  purchased  by  us  with 
great  disadvantage  from  foreign  countries  ;  from  whence  this 
convenience  amongst  many  others  would  naturally  result, 
that  the  more  northern  Colonies  would  be  thereby  enabled  to 
pay  their  ballance  to  England,  without  lying  under  the  necessity 
of  carrying  on  a  trade  to  foreign  parts,  in  some  respects 
detrimental  to  their  Mother  Kingdom. 


432 
1721. 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Number  1. 

The  total  va 
Impon 

no  of  the 
s  from 

Antegoa 

Barbados 

Jamaica 

Montserrat    . . 

Nevis              . .           . . 

St.  Chri.sto|>licrs 

New  England 
New  York     . . 
Pcnsylvania 

Tlie  total  value  of 
the    Exports  to 

£ 

187,059 

364,557 

332,266 

34,485 

85,078 

98,772 

s. 
0 
6 
0 
5 
15 
18 

d. 
0 
10 
10 
9 
6 
5 

£ 

30,855 

140,697 

147,931 

4,921 

12,729 

11,182 

s. 
19 
14 

5 
11 
10 

7 

d. 
9 
5 

6 
(i 
0 
1 

1,102.219 

65,016 

22,607 

5,051 

7 

7 
16 

7 

4 

2 
4 
0 

348,318 

139,269 
50,31* 
20,176 

8 

14 

6 

14 

3 

6 
6 
2 

92,675 

10 

6 

209,760 

15 

2 

250,994 
38,906 

]0 
16 

6 
1 

Virginia  and  Maryland 
Carolina 

198,276 

22,987 

4 

10 

9 
6 

382,576 

1,102,219 

3,391 

412 

6,898 

17 

7 

17 

19 

6 

1 

4 

0 

6 

10 

Plantations. 
On  the  Continent    . . 
On  the  Sugar  Islands 
West  Indies  in  General 
Bermudas 
Hudson's  Bay 

431,027 

348,318 

96,986 

1,396 

1,951 

16 
8 
6 
3 
6 

5 
3 

2 
3 
2 

1,495,499 

7 

9 

879,680 

0 

3 

27,236 
4,960 

12 
14 

9 

8 

Africa 
Madera 

87,415 
81,427 

16 

7 

11 
1 

1,527.696 

15 

2 

Total                

1,048,-523 

4 

3 

Number  2. 
The    Principal    Imports    from    New    England,    New    York, 
Pensylvania,  Virginia,  Maryland  and  Carolina  are  as  follows  : — 


£ 

s. 

d. 

In  skins  and  furrs 

17,340 

14 

10 

Products  of  the  Indian 
trade. 

Turpentine 

12,082 

19 

5 

~ 

Pitch  and  Tar 

34,990 

0 

0 

Train  Oyle 
Whale-fins 

7,680 
3,679 

18 
14 

7 
3 

/-Of  the  said  Plantations. 

Tobacco 

.       236,588 

18 

1 

Rice 

19,206 

18 

4 

J 

Sugar  brown    . . 

9,834 

7 

3 

Of  foreign   Plantations. 

Logwood 

21,060 

6 

4 

Of  Campeclie. 

362,464 

17 

1 

In  all  other  goods 

20,112 

0 

0 

The    total    Import    accordit 

ig 

to     the     aforesaid     Gener 

al 

Account 

.       382,57(i 

17 

1 

p.  annum. 

But  the   tobacco   being  ove 

r- 

valued  about 

80,000 

0 

0 

The      said      Import      cannc 

>t 

amount  to  more  than 

.       302,576 

17 

1 

p.  annum. 

AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


433 


1721. 


And  the  principal  exports  to  the  said  Provinces,  are  as  follows, 
In  British  Manufactures  and  Products. 


£ 

s. 

d. 

Woollen  Manufactures 

147,438 

11 

7 

Silk  wrought  and  thrown 

18,468 

7 

1 

Linnens  and  Sail  Cloth 

11,464 

9 

0 

Cordage 

11,284 

5 

9 

Gunpowder 

2,392 

15 

5 

Leather  wrought  and  saddles 

15,161 

12 

6 

Brass  and  copper  wrought     .  . 

2,565 

6 

7 

Iron  wrought  and  nails 

35,631 

13 

6 

Lead  and  shott 

2,850 

9 

3 

Pewter 

3,687 

6 

11 

In  many  other  goods 

43,941 

5 

6 

294,886 

3 

1 

In  Foreign  Goods. 

Linnens 

86,413 

0 

0 

Calicoes 

10,102 

4 

0 

Prohibited  East  India  Goods 

10,523 

12 

9 

Wrought  Silks 

1,189 

11 

1 

Iron  and  Hemp 

6,152 

5 

11 

In  other  foreign  goods 

21,760 

19 

9 

136,141 

13 

6 

Foreign  Goods 

294,886 

3 

1 

British  Goods 

The  said  export  amounts  to 

according  to  the  aforesaid 

General  Account 

431,027 

16 

7 

p.  annum. 

But  as  it  has  been  already  mentioned,  the  total  export  might 
probably  amount  to  at  least  £500,000  p.  annum. 

Number  3. 


Ships, 

In  three  years  from  24th  June,    1714,    to 

Sloops 

the  24th  .lune,  1717,  there  was  cleared 

Tons. 

Men. 

and  other 

from  Boston  : — 

Vessels. 

495 

For  the  British  Islands  in  the  West  Indies 

27,831 

3,830 

58 

Foreign  Plantations 

2,-597 

393 

23 

West  Indies    . . 

1,335 

175 

45 

Newfoundland 

1,835 

274 

23 

Europe 

1,865 

210 

34 

Madera,  Azores,  etc. 

1,690 

236 

678 

37,153 

5,118 

143 

Great  Britain 

11,956 

1,412 

390 

British  Plantations  on  the  Continent 

11,589 

1,883 

25 

Bay  of  Campeche  for  Logwood 

1,675 

221 

11 

To  ports  unknown    . . 
The  total  in  three  years 

415 

63 

1,247 

62,788 

8,697 

that  is 

415 

Communibus  Annis 

20,929 

2,899 

N.B.  1,199     of  the  aforesaid 

1,247     ships  and  vessels 

Containing    58,152  tons  were  Plantation  built. 


Wt,  7595 


C,P  32—28 


434 
1721. 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Number  4. 
In  the  said  three  years  there  was  also  eleared  from  the  Port 
of  Salem  (Mass.) 


Ships, 

and 

• 

Tons. 

Men. 

Sloops, 

Etc. 

For  the  British  Ishinds  in  yc  West  Indies 

59 

2,296 

328 

2 

Surinam 

75 

10 

10 

West  Indies     .  . 

304 

46 

117 

Europe 

9,122 

1,1.52 

9 

Madera,  Azores,  etc. 

421 

59 

197 

12,218 

1,595 

4 

Great  Britain 

208 

29 

31 

British  Plantations  on  the  Continent 
The  Total  in  three  years    . . 

1,005 

1.58 

232 

13,431 

1,782 

that  is 
Communibus  Annis 

77 

4,477 

594 

Number  5. 
And  from  New  York  there  was  clear'd  in  3  years  from  24th 
June  1715  to  24  June  1718. 


Ships, 

Sloops, 

Tons. 

Men. 

Etc. 

To  Great  Britain 

63 

4,382 

638 

205 

British  Plantations  on 

ve 

Continent 

4,234 

897 

250 

British  Plantations  on 

the  Islands 

8,776 

1,904 

9 

Newfoundland 

•    395     1 

67 

85 

Foreign  Plantations 

2,595     i 

603 

24 

Maderas,  Africa,  etc. 

1,395 

282 

9 

Europe 

Total  in  three  years 

615 

122 

645 

22,392 

4,513 

that  is 
Communibus  Annis 

215 

7,464 

i 

1,501 

Number  6. 


Sugar,  Brown. 


i          Imported 
!              cwt. 

Re-exported 
cwt. 

In     1713                 

1714                 

1715                 

1716                 

1717                 

503,528 
512,235 
617,414 
684,378 
762,735 

183,201 
157,036 
142,701 
161.519 

289,994 

In  the  sd.   5  years 

3,080,290 

934,451 

Or  Communs.  Annis 

616,058 

186,890 

Remained  for  Consumption 

429,168 

AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


435 


1721. 


Tobacco. 

ears 
lis 

Consumption 

Imported 
lb.  wt. 

Re-exported 
lb.  wt. 

In     1713 
1714 
1715 
1716 
1717 

21,598,807 
29,264,094 
17,810,864 
28,316,088 
29,600,053 

16,597,796 
19,650,246 
13,479,110 
16,601,441 
19,385,186 

In  the  sd.  5  y 
Or  Corns.  Am 

126,589,906 
25,317,981 

85,713,779 
17,142,755 

Remained  for 

8,175,226  p.  ann. 

MiSSISSIPPY. 

The  French  Nation  having  always  been  desirous  to  extend 
their  Dominions  in  America,  have  lost  no  opportunity  of  en- 
croaching upon  their  neighbours  there  ;  and  altho'  your 
Majesty,  and  your  Royal  Ancestors  have  an  uncontestable 
right,  as  well  by  discovery  as  possession,  to  the  several  British 
Colonies  in  America  ;  yet  the  French  Kings  have  at  sundry 
times  made  grants  thereof  to  their  subjects  ;  such  were  the 
Letters  Patents  of  Lewis  the  13th  in  favour  of  the  French 
West  India  Company  bearing  date  the  29th  of  April  1627,  and 
those  of  Lewis  the  14th  to  Mons.  Croisat  some  time  since 
surrendered  to  the  United  India  Company  of  France,  upon 
which  they  build  their  title  to  ye  Mississippy  ;  many  other  in- 
stances of  ye  like  nature  might  be  given,  were  they  necessary' 
to  the  present  purpose.  But  these  two  which  comprehended 
almost  all  your  Majesty's  Dominions  in  America  may  be 
sufficient  to  show  the  unlimitted  inclination  the  French  have 
to  encroach  upon  your  Majesty's  territories  in  those  parts. 
However  as  the  French  are  convinced  that  a  Charter  without 
possession  can  never  be  allowed  by  the  law  of  Nations  to  change 
ye  property  of  the  soil,  they  have  imploy'd  another  artifice  and 
without  embarrassing  themselves  about  former  discoveries 
made  by  the  subjects  of  other  Princes,  have  built  small  forts 
at  the  heads  of  lakes  and  rivers  along  that  vast  tract  of  land 
from  the  entry  of  the  River  of  St.  Lawrence,  to  ye  embouchure 
of  the  Mississippy  into  the  Bay  of  Mexico,  not  so  much  with 
intention  probably  to  bound  their  own  territories  as  to  secure 
what  they  have  already  got  till  a  more  favourable  juncture  shall 
give  them  occasion  to  make  further  intrusions  upon  their  neigh- 
bours. And  if  the  late  war  in  Europe  when  the  Allies  made 
so  successful  efforts  against  the  exorbitant  power  of  France  ; 
had  not  found  Lewis  the  14th  imployment  at  home,  it  is  very 
likely  the  French  would  have  been  much  more  formidable 
than  they  are  now  in  America  ;  notwithstanding  ye  Treaty 
of  Neutrality  for  those  parts  made  at  London  in  1686  ought 


436  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

to  have  secured  to  Gt.  Britain  the  several  Colonies  whereof 
your  Majesty's  Royal  Predecessors  stood  possessed  at  the  time 
of  making  the  said  treaty.  But  the  little  regard  the  French 
have  to  that  Treaty,  will  evidently  appear  by  ye  invasions  and 
frivolous  pretences  set  on  foot  by  their  Ministers  during  the 
debates  in  ye  year  1687  at  London  when  the  Lords  Sunderland, 
Middleton  and  Godolphin  were  appointed  by  King  James  to 
confer  with  ye  then  French  Ambassadors  Monsr.  de  Barillon 
and  the  Sieur  Dusson  de  Bonrepeaux  concerning  the  boundaries 
of  the  Hudson's  Bay  Compy.  And  altho'  that  Conference 
terminated  in  a  confirmation  of  the  aforesd.  Treaty  of  Neutrality, 
together  with  a  resolution  of  settling  the  boundaries  between 
the  English  and  French  Colonies  in  America  by  proper  Com- 
missaries, which  resolutn.  has  since  been  enforced  by  the  10th 
Article  of  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht ;  yet  the  French  could  never 
be  induced  to  enter  sincerely  upon  so  necessary  a  work  not- 
withstanding Commissioners  were  lately  appointed  for  that 
purpose,  and  met  with  others  deputed  by  the  French  Court 
at  Paris.  It  is  therefore  very  apparent  from  these  transactions, 
that  there  remains  no  way  to  settle  our  boundaries,  but  by  making 
ourselves  considerable  at  the  two  heads  of  your  Majesty's 
Colonies  north  and  south  ;  and  by  building  of  forts,  as  the 
French  have  done,  in  proper  places  on  the  inland  frontiers. 
The  French  territories  in  America  extend  from  the  mouth  of 
the  River  St.  Lawrence  to  the  embouchure  of  the  Mississippy, 
forming  one  continued  line  from  north  to  south  on  the  back 
of  your  Majesty's  Plantations  ;  and  altho'  their  garrisons  in 
many  parts  are  hitherto  but  very  inconsiderable,  yet  as  they 
have  by  the  means  of  their  missionaries  debauched  several  of 
the  Indian  Nations  to  their  intrest,  your  Majesty's  subjects 
along  the  Continent  have  the  utmost  danger  to  apprehend  from 
this  new  settlement,  unless  timely  care  be  taken  to  prcA^ent  its 
increase.  But  this  will  be  the  proper  subject  of  another  part 
of  this  report,  and  therefore  we  shall  at  present  proceed  to  give 
your  Majesty  an  account  of  the  forts  ye  French  have  built, 
and  the  settlements  they  have  made  to  secure  their  communi- 
cation of  the  several  routs  they  have  practised  from  Quebeck  to 
the  Mississippy,  of  the  Indian  nations  in  those  parts  whom 
they  have  gain'd  over  to  their  intrest,  and  of  those  who  still 
remain  friends  to  your  Majesty's  subjects.  And  as  the  most 
perfect  account  we  have  of  these  particulars  was  transmitted 
to  us  some  time  since  by  Mr.  Keith  the  present  Govr.  of  Pensyl- 
vania,  we  hold  oursehes  obliged  upon  this  occasion  to  acknow- 
ledge how  much  we  are  indebted  to  his  exactness  and  applica- 
tion therein.  It  is  evidently  from  Father  Hennipen  and  La 
Salles  Travels,  that  ye  communicatn.  between  Canada  and 
Mississippy  is  a  very  late  discovery,  and  perhaps  such  an  one 
as  no  nation  less  industrious  than  the  French  would  have 
attempted.     But  it  must  be  allowed  that  they  have  a  great 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  437 


1721. 


advantage  over  us  in  this  particular,  to  wch.  even  the  nature 
of  their  reHgion  and  Government  do  greatly  contribute.  For 
their  missionaries,  in  blind  obedience  to  their  superiours,  spend 
whole  years  in  exploring  new  countries.  And  the  encouragement 
the  late  French  King  gave  to  the  discoverers  and  planters 
of  new  tracts  of  lands,  doth  far  exceed  any  advantages  your 
Majesty's  Royal  Predecessors  have  hitherto  given  to  their 
subjects  in  America.  And  as  your  Majesty's  European 
Dominions  have  long  been  burthen'd  with  the  expence  of  two 
successive  wars,  the  Parliament  of  Great  Britain  have  hitherto 
only  been  able  to  assist  the  Plantations  with  a  \ery  sparing 
hand  ;  altho'  considering  the  great  revenue  they  bring  your 
Majesty  in  your  Customs,  and  the  vast  importance  they  are 
of  to  the  trade  and  navigation  of  these  Kingdoms,  it  is  now  to 
be  hoped  they  may  be  thought  worthy  of  greater  attention. 
And  indeed  had  this  matter  been  sooner  considered,  the  French 
Dominions  had  never  been  extended  from  north  to  south  thro' 
the  whole  Continent  of  America.  For  your  Majesty's  subjects 
who  had  much  greater  convenience  of  discovering  and  making 
treaties  with  the  Indian  nations  on  the  Lakes  which  lye  so 
contiguous  to  the  back  of  the  British  settlements,  might 
effectually  have  prevented  this  communication  which  may 
prove  highly  inconvenient  to  the  trade  and  welfare  of  your 
Majesty's  Colonies.  However  it  is  not  even  yet  too  late  to 
think  of  applying  a  remedy,  nor  will  it  be  at  all  impossible  to 
interrupt  a  rout  which  your  Majesty  may  perceive  by  the 
following  detale  hath  many  natural  obstructions,  and  could 
never  have  been  rendered  practicable  without  ye  greatest 
industn,^  From  Mount  Real  on  the  river  St.  Laurence  the 
French  generally  sail  in  canoes  about  three  leagues  to  the  falls 
of  St.  Lewis,  where  they  are  obliged  to  land  and  travel  about 
half  a  league  before  they  embark  again  in  order  to  row  up  the 
stream  about  60  leagues  farther  to  Fort  Frontenac,  situate  on 
the  north  side  of  the  river  at  the  entrance  of  the  Lake  Ontario, 
where  they  have  a  garrison  consisting  of  one  or  two  companies. 
From  thence  they  proceed  on  the  said  lake,  reputed  about 
80  leagues  in  length,  to  the  Great  Fall  of  Niagara,  which  lies 
between  the  Lakes  Ontario  and  Erie,  where  they  are  obliged 
to  travel  o\'erland  again  about  three  leagues  before  they  enter 
the  Lake  Erie  which  is  about  130  leagues  in  length.  From  this 
lake  to  ye  Mississippy  they  have  three  different  routs,  the 
shortest  by  water  is  up  the  River  Miamis  or  Ouamis,  on  the 
south-west  of  Lake  Erie,  on  which  river  they  sail  about  150 
leagues,  without  interruption,  when  they  find  themsehes 
stopp'd  by  another  landing  of  about  3  leagues,  which  they  call 
a  carrying  place,  because  they  are  generally  obliged  to  carry 
their  canoes  over  land  in  those  places  to  the  next  river,  and 
that  where  they  next  embark  is  a  very  shallow  one  called  la 
riviere  de  Portage  ;    hence  they  row  about  40  leagues  to  the 


438  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

River  Oubiicli,  and  from  thence  about  120  leagues  to  the  River 
Hohio  into  which  the  Oubach  falls,  as  the  River  Hohio  does 
about  80  leagues  lower  into  ye  Mississippy,  which  continues 
its  course  for  about  350  leagues  directly  to  the  Bay  of  Mexico. 
There  are  likewise  two  other  passages,  much  longer  than  this, 
which  are  particularly  prickt  dow^n  in  Hennipen's  map,  and 
may  be  described  in  the  following  manner.  From  the  north 
east  of  Lake  Erie  to  a  fort  on  the  Lake  St.  Clair  called  Pont 
Chartrin,  is  about  8  leagues  sail ;  here  the  French  have  a 
settlement,  and  often  400  traders  meet  there  ;  along  this  lake 
they  proceed  about  7  leagues  further  and  thence  to  the  great 
Lake  Huron  about  10  leagues  ;  hence  they  proceed  to  the 
Straits  of  Missillimackinack  120  leagues  ;  here  is  a  garrison  of 
about  30  French  and  a  vast  concourse  of  traders,  sometimes 
not  less  than  1000  besides  Indians,  being  a  common  place  of 
rendezvous  ;  at  and  near  this  place  the  Outarvas  an  Indian 
Nation  are  settled.  From  the  Lake  Huron  they  pass  by  the 
Strait  Missillimackinack  four  leagues,  being  two  in  breadth  and 
of  a  great  depth,  to  the  Lake  Illinois  ;  thence  150  leagues  on 
the  lake  to  Fort  Miamis  situated  on  the  mouth  of  the  river 
Chigagoe  ;  from  hence  came  those  Indians  of  the  same  name  ; 
vizt.  Miamis  who  are  settled  on  the  forementioned  river  that 
runs  into  Erie.  Up  the  River  Chigagoe  they  sail  but  3  leagues 
to  a  portage  of  a  ^  of  a  league,  then  enter  a  small  lake  of  about 
a  mile  and  have  another  very  small  portage,  and  again  another 
of  two  miles  to  the  River  Illinois,  thence  down  the  stream  130 
leagues  to  Mississippy.  The  next  rout  is  from  Missillimackinack 
on  the  Lake  Illinois  to  ye  Lake  de  Puans  90  leagues  ;  thence  to 
the  River  Puans  80  leagues,  thence  up  the  same  to  a  portage 
of  about  4  miles  before  they  come  to  the  River  Oviseonsing, 
thence  40  leagues  to  Mississippy.  These  distances  are  as  the 
traders  reckon  them,  but  they  appear  generally  to  be  much 
overdone,  which  may  be  owing  to  those  peoples  coasting  along 
the  shores  of  the  lakes,  and  taking  in  all  the  windings  of  the 
rivers.  They  have  another  much  shorter  passage  from  Mount 
Real  to  Lake  Huron  by  the  French  river  on  the  north  of  St. 
Lawrence  which  communicates  with  the  two  latter  routs,  but 
it  abounds  with  falls  and  therefore  it  is  not  so  much  used.  They 
have  also  by  this  river  a  much  shorter  passage  to  the  upper 
lake  or  Lake  Superieur.  The  French  have  at  all  times  used 
their  utmost  endeavours  to  bring  over  the  Indians  to  their 
intrest ;  and  the  missionaries  have  been  so  successful  in  this 
point,  that  they  have  even  seduced  some  part  of  the  Iroquois 
commonly  called  by  the  name  of  the  Five  Nations,  from  their 
ancient  friendship  and  dependance  on  your  Majesty's  Colony 
of  New  York  ;  and  altho'  provision  was  made  by  the  15th 
Article  of  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  to  prevent  the  like  incon- 
veniencies  for  the  future,  yet  experience  hath  shewn  that  such 
treaties  made  with  the  French  as  cannot  be  afterwards  executed 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  439 


1721, 


without  their  assistance,  are  hkely  to  prove  ineffectual.  We 
would  therefore  follow  their  example  in  this  particular ;  and 
lose  no  time,  at  least  in  securing  such  of  the  Indian  nations  as 
are  not  already  in  league  with  them.  Of  this  sort  are  the 
Miamis — settled  upon  the  river  of  the  same  name  ;  which  runs 
into  the  Lake  Erie,  and  are  about  2000  in  number.  The 
gaining  of  this  Nation  to  the  British  intrest  would  be  of  very 
great  importance,  and  as  we  are  informed  might  be  done  by 
settling  a  trade  with  them,  and  building  a  small  fort  upon  the 
Lake  Erie,  where  ye  French  in  1718,  had  no  settlement.  What 
they  have  now  is  not  as  yet  come  to  our  knowledge,  tho'  in  all 
probability  they  have  or  will  soon  begin  to  build  one  there. 
This  will  appear  to  be  the  more  necessary  when  we  shall  con- 
sider how  many  Indian  nations  on  the  back  of  the  British 
settlements  the  French  have  already  gain'd  to  their  intrest. 
The  Illinois  are  about  3000  men  on  or  near  the  river  of  that 
name.  The  Ottoways  or  Missillimackinacks  were  formerly 
3000,  but  now  scarce  500.  The  Nokes  100  the  Fellesavoins  200, 
the  Sakes  200,  the  Puans  600.  All  these  joyn'd  the  French 
against  the  Five  Nations  in  the  late  war,  and  all  of  them  except 
the  Miamis  are  seated  about  or  near  to  ye  Lake  Illinois,  which 
is  now  commonly  called  by  them  Michegan  and  on  the  rivers 
that  run  into  it,  and  on  the  Lake  Puans  and  the  River  Illinois. 
On  the  Mississippy  and  the  branches  of  it  there  are  many  great 
nations  especially  to  the  west,  as  the  Missouris,  Ozages, 
Acansias  (different  from  those  of  Acansa  on  the  east)  with  many 
more,  not  less,  as  is  affirmed,  than  60,000  men,  with  all  whom 
it  is  said  the  French  have  peace  or  some  alliance.  On  the  other 
hand  all  the  English  to  ye  northward  of  Carolina,  have  not 
1500  fighting  men  in  their  intrest  to  be  depended  on,  except 
ye  Five  Nations.  In  New  England  and  Connecticut  they  have 
very  few :  in  New  York  only  ye  River  Indians  besides 
the  5  nations.  In  Jersey  and  Pensylvania  their 
own  or  home  nations  called  Delawares  are  exceedingly 
decreased,  and  being  in  subjection  to  the  5  nations  take  their 
rules  from  them.  In  Maryland  and  Virginia  there  are  very  few 
except  those  towards  the  south-west,  whom  Col.  Spotswood 
with  great  industry  has  lately  gain'd  by  treaties  and  hostages. 
Those  of  Carolina  and  the  nations  lately  in  friendship  with  them, 
have  been  very  numerous,  but  are  not  so  at  present :  the 
French  having  made  great  encroachmts.  in  those  parts  and 
gain'd  many  of  the  Indians  there,  over  to  their  intrest.  Thus 
by  one  view  of  the  Map  of  North  America,  your  Majesty  will 
see  the  danger  your  subjects  are  in,  surrounded  by  the  French 
who  have  robbed  them  of  great  part  of  the  trade  they  formerly 
drove  with  the  Indians,  have  in  great  measure  cut  off  their 
prospect  of  further  improvements  that  way  ;  and  in  case  of  a 
rupture  may  greatly  incommode  if  not  absolutely  destroy  them 
bv  their  Indian  allies  ;    and  altho'  the  British  Plantations  are 


440  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721 . 

naturally  fortify'd  by  a  chain  of  mountains,  that  run  from  the 
back  of  South  Carolina  as  far  as  New  York,  passable  but  in 
few  places  ;  yet  should  we  not  possess  those  passes,  in  time  this 
would  rather  prove  destructive  than  beneficial  to  us. 

Considerations  for  securing,  improving  and  enlarging  your 
Majesty's  Dominions  in  America. 

Having  laid  before  your  Majesty  the  state  of  your  Plantations 
on  the  Continent,  etc.,  what  further  remains  is,  that  we  should 
humbly  offer  to  your  Majesty's  consideration  such  methods  as 
have  occurred  to  us,  for  securing  improving  and  enlarging  so 
valuable  a  possession  as  that  of  your  Majesty's  Dominions  in 
America  ;  which  we  conceive  might  most  effectually  be  done  : 
1st.  By  taking  the  necessaryprecautions  to  prevent  the  incroach- 
ments  of  the  French,  or  of  any  other  European  nation.  2nd. 
By  cultivating  a  good  understanding  with  the  native  Indians. 
And  lastly  by  putting  the  Government  of  the  Plantations  upon 
a  better  foot.  In  order  therefore  to  secure  your  Majesty's 
Colonies  from  the  encroachments  of  their  European  neighbours 
in  America  ;  whereof  we  receive  daily  complaints  from  the 
several  governors  on  the  Continent ;  it  will  be  highly  necessary 
to  begin  by  fortifying  ye  two  extremities  to  the  north  and  south. 
This  will  appear  ye  more  necessary  when  it  shall  be  considered 
how  much  the  French  have  strengthen'd  their  settlemts.  in 
the  neighbourhood  of  Nova  Scotia  and  Carolina,  whilst  your 
Majesty's  subjects  either  thro'  neglect  or  misfortune,  are  much 
weaker  in  these  two  provinces,  than  any  other  part  of  America. 
It  has  been  already  observed  that  there  are  not  above  two 
British  families  in  all  Nova  Scotia  besides  the  garrison  of  Anna- 
polis consisting  of  at  present  only  six  companies  of  34  men 
each,  but  there  are  still  near  3000  French  inhabitants  remaining 
in  this  Province,  who  contrary  to  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  refuse 
to  take  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  to  your  Majesty,  and  in  comb- 
ination with  their  countrimen  at  Cape  Breton,  are  daily 
instigating  ye  native  Indians  not  only  to  commit  insults  upon 
your  Majesty's  subjects  fishing  upon  the  coast  of  Nova  Scotia, 
but  even  to  set  up  a  title  to  the  whole  Province  in  opposition 
to  your  Majesty's  right.  The  French  likewise  pretend  that  only 
the  Peninsula  of  Accadie  (hardly  one  third  part  of  Nova  Scotia) 
was  yielded  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  by  the  Treaty  of 
Utrecht,  and  notwithstanding  this  pretence  is  sufficiently 
refuted  in  the  former  part  of  this  report,  by  comparing  the 
Charter  to  Sir  William  Alexander  the  first  proprietor  of  Nova 
Scotia,  with  the  Article  of  Cession  in  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht, 
yet  from  these  unreasonable  cavils  in  time  of  profound  peace 
and  friendship  between  the  two  nations  may  be  collected  how 
desirous  the  French  are  to  make  themselves  masters  of  this 
Province,  which  they  may  easily  over-run  on  the  first  rupture, 
the  same  being  in  a  manner  already  suiTounded  by  their  settle- 
ments  at   Cape   Breton,    Long   Island   and   Quebcck.     In   our 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  441 


1721. 


humble  opinion  therefore  no  time  sliould  be  lost  in  putting  of 
this  Province  into  a  better  posture  of  defence  ;  and  we  humbly 
beg  leave  to  repeat  our  proposal  for  sending  of  four  regiments 
of  foot  to  Nova  Scotia.  Without  some  assistance  of  this  nature 
it  will  be  in  vain  to  think  of  settling  Nova  Scotia  ;  for  planters 
will  never  fix  where  they  can  have  no  security  for  their  persons 
or  effects  ;  but  whenever  this  main  point  shall  be  sufficiently 
provided  for,  it  is  to  be  hoped  so  fertile  a  country  will  not  want 
inhabitants,  all  reasonable  encouragemt.  however  should  be 
given  to  adventurers  to  settle  there,  and  in  some  former  reports 
to  Yr.  Majesty,  we  ha\Q  humbly  offer'd  it  as  our  opinion  that 
it  would  be  greatly  for  Your  Service  that  the  present  inhabitants 
of  Newfoundland  should  be  engaged  to  quit  that  place  Avhere 
they  drive  a  trade  prejudicial  to  ye  fishery  of  Great  Britain, 
and  settle  in  Nova  Scotia  where  they  may  be  useful  to  this 
kingdom.  We  shall  not  trouble  your  Majesty  with  the  repetition 
of  the  particidars  mentioned  in  former  parts  of  this  representa- 
tion concerning  the  fortifications  proposed  to  be  erected  on 
the  Coast  of  Nov^a  Scotia,  but  shall  beg  leave  in  general  to  observe 
that  bays  and  harbours  shou'd  be  secured  and  some  forts  built 
in  proper  places  for  the  protection  of  your  Majesty's  subjects 
fishing  upon  this  coast.  In  that  part  of  this  report  relating  to 
the  French  Settlements  we  have  taken  notice  that  nature  has 
furnished  the  British  Colonies  with  a  barrier  which  may  easily 
be  defended,  having  cast  up  a  long  ridge  of  mountains  between 
your  Majesty's  Plantations  and  the  French  settlements  extend- 
ing from  South  Carolina  to  New  York  ;  but  there  are  doubtless 
several  passes  over  these  mountains  which  ought  to  be  secured 
as  soon  as  they  shall  be  discovered,  and  we  had  the  honour 
not  long  ago  to  recommend  to  your  Majesty's  approbatn.  a 
proposal  for  fortifying  the  passes  on  the  back  of  Yirginia. 
In  our  opinion  all  possible  encouragement  should  be  given  to 
discoveries  and  undertakings  of  this  nature  ;  for  if  all  the 
passes  over  this  ridge  of  mountains  are  not  secured,  your 
Majesty's  subjects  will  be  lyable  to  the  insults  of  the  French  and 
of  the  Indians  under  their  influence,  who  are  very  numerous. 
But  altho'  these  mountains  may  serve  at  present  for  a  very 
good  frontier,  we  should  not  propose  them  for  the  boundary  of 
your  Majesty's  Empire  in  America.  On  the  contrar}^  it  were 
to  be  wished  that  the  British  settlements  might  be  extended 
beyond  them  and  some  small  forts  erected  on  ye  great  lakes 
in  proper  places  by  permission  of  the  Indian  proprietors  ;  and 
we  would  particularly  reconimend  ye  buildhig  of  a  fort  on 
the  Lake  Erie,  as  hath  been  proposed  by  Col.  Spots  wood  your 
Majesty's  Lieut.  Governor  of  Virginia,  wherby  the  French  com- 
munication from  Quebeck  to  the  River  Mississippy  might  be 
interrupted,  a  new  trade  open'd  with  some  of  the  Indian  nations, 
and  more  of  the  natives  engaged  in  your  Majesty's  intrest. 
There  will  be  the  same  reason  for  erecting  another  fort  at 


442  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

the  falls  of  Niagara,  near  the  Lake  Ontario.  Mr.  Burnet  your 
Majesty's  Govr.  of  New  York  hath  already  form'd  a  scheme  for 
this  purpose  which  we  hope  he  may  be  able  to  execute  by  the 
consent  and  assistance  of  the  Seneecees,  one  of  the  Five  Indian 
nations  dependant  on  your  Majesty,  to  whom  the  soil  belongs. 
But  because  these  lakes  lye  at  a  very  great  distance  from  the 
settlements  already  made  by  your  Majesty's  subjects,  to  secure 
intermediate  stages  a  third  fort  might  be  built  at  the  head  of 
the  Potomack  River  which  divides  Virginia  from  Maryland, 
and  a  fourth  at  the  head  of  Sasquehana  River,  wch.  runs  thro' 
Pensylvania  into  the  Bay  of  Cheasapeake.  Carolina  likewise 
being  the  southern  frontier  of  your  Majesty's  Plantations,  and 
lying  much  exposed  to  the  incursions  both  of  the  French  and 
Spaniards,  as  well  as  to  ye  insults  of  the  Indians  ;  demands 
your  Majty's.  immediate  assistance  and  protection.  It 
would  be  for  your  Majesty's  service,  that  the  heads  and 
emboucheurs  of  all  rivers  running  thro'  this  Province  should 
be  secured ;  in  our  humble  opinion,  a  less  force  than  four 
regimts.  of  foot  will  not  be  sufficient  for  the  protection  of  your 
Majesty's  subjects  there,  especially  considering  how  many  places 
will  require  garrisons  ;  for  besides  those  already  mentioned 
under  the  head  of  Carolina,  it  will  be  highly  necessary  that  three 
others  should  be  erected  on  the  Savanah,  Catahooche  and 
Hagaloge  rivers  ;  for  at  Palachakolas  on  the  Savanah  river 
the  French  had  formerly  a  Settlement  in  the  time  of  Charles 
the  Ninth,  and  intend  to  settle  there  again  if  not  prevented. 
A  fort  on  Catahooche  River  would  secuje  a  communication 
with  the  Bay  of  Apalatche,  and  another  on  Hagaloge  River 
might  not  only  interrupt  the  communication  of  ye  French 
settlements,  but  likewise  give  your  Majty.'s  subjects  an  oppor- 
tunity of  gaining  the  Charokees,  a  war-like  nation  and  the 
only  Indians  of  consequence  in  those  parts  that  have  not 
already  made  peace  with  the  French.  We  are  very  sensible 
that  this  proposal  will  be  attended  with  expence  ;  but  we  hope 
it  may  be  fully  justify'd  by  the  necessity  thereof,  for  the 
preservation  of  the  British  Colonies  in  America. 

In  relation  to  the  Indians.  The  second  particular  wherein 
your  Majesty's  intrest  is  highly  concerned  wth.  respect  to  the 
trade  and  the  security  of  the  British  Plantations,  is  that  of 
cultivating  a  good  understanding  with  the  native  Indians,  as 
well  those  inhabiting  amongst  your  Majesty's  subjects,  as  those 
that  border  upon  your  Majesty's  Dominions  in  America ;  and 
herein  at  all  times  hath  consisted  the  main  support  of  our 
French  neibours  who  are  so  truly  sensible  of  what  consequence 
it  is  to  any  European  nation  settling  in  America  to  gain  the 
natives  to  their  intrest,  that  they  have  spared  no  pains,  no  cost 
nor  artifice  to  attain  this  desirable  end  ;  wherein  it  must  be 
allowed,  that  they  have  succeeded,  to  ye  great  prejudice  of 
your  Majesty's  subjects  in  those  parts,  having  debauched  as 


1721. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  US 


hath  ah-eady  been  obscrsed,  some  part  of  the   Fi\  e  Nations 
bordering  upon  New  York  from  their  ancient  league  and  depend- 
ance  on  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain.     For  this  purpose  their 
missionaries    are   constantly    imploy'd,    frequent   presents    are 
made  to  the  Sacliems  or  Kings  of  ye  several  nations,  and  in- 
couragement  given  for  intermarriages  between  the  French  and 
natives,   whereby  their  new  empire  may  in  time  be  peopled 
without  draining  France  of  its  inhabitants.     It  was  for  this 
reason  that  in  the  draught  of  instructions  for  the  Governor  of 
Nova  Scotia,  we  took  the  liberty  of  proposing  to  your  Majesty 
that  proper  incouragement  should  be  given  to  such  of  your 
Majesty's  subjects  as  should  intermarry  with  the  native  Indians  ; 
and  we  conceive  it  might  be  for  your  Majesty's  service,  that  the 
said  instructions  should  be  extended  to  all  the  other  British 
Colonies.     Your   Majesty   and   your   Royal   Predecessors   have 
frequently  made  presents  to  the  Indian  chiefs,  more  particularly 
to  those  of  the  Five  Nations  ;    but  as  the  same  have  always 
hitherto  been  a  charge  upon  the  civil  list,  which  is  generally 
overburchened,  so  those  presents  have  not  been  very  regularly 
or  seasonably  sent  to  America,  and  consequently  many  oppor- 
tunities of  improving  the  British  intrest  in  those  parts,  must 
have  been  lost  for  want  of  them  ;    for  which  reason  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  more  exactness  will  be  had  in  this  particular  for  the 
future.     It  is  likewise  much  to  be  lamented  that  our  zeal  for 
propagating  of  the  Christian  faith  in  parts  beyond  the  seas, 
hath  not  hitherto  much  enlarged  the  pale  of  the  British  Church 
amongst    those    poor    infidels,  or  in  any  sort  contributed  to 
promote  the  intrest  of  the  State  in  America.     But  as  it  is  not 
so  immediately   our  province  to  propose  anything  particular 
upon  this  head  ;   we  can  only  wish  that  the  same  may  be  here- 
after put  upon   a  better  foot.     There  is   however  one   other 
method  left  for  gaining  the  good  will  of  these  Indians,   which 
Providence  hath  put  into  our  hands,  and  wherein  ye  French 
could  not  possibly  rival  us  if  we  made  a  right  use  of  our  advan- 
tage, and  that  is  the  furnishing  of  them  at  honest  and  reasonable 
prices  with  the  several  European  commodities  they  may  have 
occasion  for  ;    but  even  this  particular  from  the  unreasonable 
avarice  of  our  Indian  traders,  and  the  want  of  proper  regulations, 
has  turn'd  to  our  detriment,  and  instead  of  gaining  us  friends, 
has  very  probably  created  us  many  enemies.      But  as  we  are 
intirely  of  opinion  that  the  Indian  trade,  if  fairly  carried  on, 
would   greatly   contribute   to   the  increase   of  your  Majesty's 
power  and  intrest  in  America  ;     we  should  humbly  propose, 
that  the  same  may  be  put  under  as  good  regulations  as  ye  nature 
of  the  thing  will  admit  ;     for  on  the  succesful  progress  of  this 
trade,  the  inlargement  of  your  Majesty's  Dominions  in  those 
parts   doth  almost  intirely  depend ;     in    as   much   as  all   the 
settlemts.  that  may  at  any  time  hereafter  be  made  beyond  the 
mountains,  or  on  ye  lakes,  must  necessarily  build  their  hopes 


444  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

of  supi)ort  much  more  upon  ye  advantage  to  be  made  by  the 
Indian  trade,  than  upon  any  profits  to  arise  from  planting  at 
so  great  a  distance  from  the  sea.  This  trade  then  ought  by 
all  possible  means  to  be  encouraged,  it  ought  to  be  equally 
free  in  all  parts  to  all  your  Majesty's  subjects  in  America  ;  and 
all  monopolies  thereof  discouraged,  that  no  one  colony  or  sett  of 
people  whatsoever  may  engross  the  same  to  the  prejudice  of 
their  nei'bours.  All  your  Majesty's  Governors  in  their 
respective  governments  should  use  their  utmost  endeavours  to 
prevent  the  traders  from  imposing  upon  the  Indians,  upon 
complaint  of  any  injustice  done  them  cause  satisfaction  to  be 
made,  and  upon  all  occasions  shew  the  utmost  resentments 
against  the  offenders.  And  that  your  Majesty's  subjects  may  be 
the  more  easily  induced  to  extend  this  trade  as  far  westward, 
upon  the  lakes  and  rivers  behind  the  mountains  as  the  situation 
and  ability  of  the  respective  colonies  will  permit ;  forts  should 
be  built  and  garrisons  settled  in  proper  places,  to  protect  them. 
It  would  likewise  be  for  your  Majesty's  service  that  the  sevl. 
Governmts.  of  your  Majesty's  Plantations  should  endeavor 
to  make  treaties  and  alliances  of  friendship  with  as  many 
Indian  nations  as  they  can,  in  which  treaties  all  your  Majesty's 
subjects  should  be  expressly  included  ;  all  the  Indian  nations 
in  amity  with  your  Majesty's  subjects  should,  if  possible,  be 
reconciled,  to  each  other  ;  and  all  traders  should  be  instructed 
to  use  their  endeavors  to  convince  the  said  Indians,  that  the 
English  have  but  one  King  and  one  interest.  And  if  any  Indian 
nation  in  league  or  friendship  with  any  of  your  Majesty's 
Colonies,  should  make  war,  plunder  or  any  way  molest  any  other 
Indian  nation  in  friendship  with  the  same  colony,  your  Majesty's 
Govr.  should  use  all  possible  endeavrs.  to  oblige  the  sd. 
Indians  to  make  satisfaction  for  their  breach  of  faith  to  ye  party 
aggrieved.  And  that  all  the  Governors  of  your  Majesty's 
Plantations  may  be  informed  of  the  State  of  every  other 
Government,  with  respect  to  the  Indians ;  it  will  be  necessary 
that  every  Governor  upon  his  making  any  treaty  with  any 
Indian  nation,  should  immediately  communicate  the  same  to 
all  other  your  Majesty's  governors  upon  the  Continent.  We 
are  likewise  of  opinion  that  it  might  be  convenient  to  imitate 
the  French  in  sending  home  some  chiefs  of  the  most  considerable 
clans  or  nations  to  whom  they  take  care  to  shew  the  glory  and 
splendor  of  the  French  nation  in  Europe  ;  that  the  sd.  Indians 
may  upon  their  return  instill  the  greater  respect  for  them 
amongst  their  countrymen.  All  which  particulars  would  in 
our  humble  opinion  much  conduce  to  the  securing  of  the  natives 
in  your  Majesty's  intrest,  and  to  the  enlargement  of  your 
frontiers  in  America. 

In  relation  to  the  Government  of  the  Plantations.  The  laws 
and  constitutions  of  your  Majesty's  Colonies  are  copy'd  from 
those  of  Great  Britain,  but  fall  short  of  them  in  many  parti- 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  445 


1721 


ciilars  ;  some  of  which  have  however  from  time  to  time  been 
corrected  and  amended  by  your  Majesty's  instructions  to  the 
respective  Governors  of  the  different  colonies  under  your 
Majesty's  immediate  Government ;  and  they  might  be  rendered 
still  more  perfect  if  your  Majesty's  commands  met  with  due 
obedience  in  the  Proprietary  and  Charter  Governments.  This 
is  the  great  obstacle  which  has  hitherto  made  it  impracticable 
to  put  the  Plantations  in  general  upon  a  better  foot ;  and  there- 
fore we  shall  beg  leave  to  mention  some  of  those  inconveniencies 
that  have  arisen  from  the  large  powers  and  privileges  subsisting 
by  virtue  of  several  Charters  granted  by  your  Majesty's  Royal 
Predecessors,  whereby  not  only  the  soil  but  likewise  the  dominion 
or  government  of  several  colonies  is  absolutely  alienated  from 
the  Crown,  to  certain  Proprietors,  who  far  from  imploying  the 
said  powers  and  privileges  to  the  use  for  which  they  were 
designed,  as  we  find  by  former  reports  from  this  Board,  have 
frequently  refused  obedience  to  such  orders  as  have  been  given 
by  your  Majesty's  Royal  Predecessors,  have  broken  thro'  the 
laws  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  made  laws  of  their  own 
contrary  to  those  of  Great  Britain,  given  shelter  to  pirates  and 
outlaws,  and  refuse  to  contribute  to  the  defence  of  the  nei'bour- 
ing  Colonies  under  your  Majesty's  immediate  government,  even 
in  cases  of  the  greatest  emergency,  altho'  they  would  not  have 
been  able  to  subsist  themselves  without  the  assistance  of  their 
nei'bours.  And  altho'  in  justice  to  some  of  the  Proprietary 
Governments,  it  must  be  allowed,  that  they  are  not  all  equally 
involved  in  this  charge,  yet  certain  it  is  that  great  inconveniencies 
do  arise  from  so  many  different  forms  of  governments,  and  so 
many  different  intrests  on  the  Continent  of  America  ;  nor  is 
it  to  be  expected  that  either  our  Indians  or  European  nei'bours, 
should  pay  that  respect  to  your  Majesty's  subjects,  which  all 
those  who  have  the  happiness  to  be  under  your  Majesty's 
protection  might  otherwise  reasonably  hope  for ;  until  it 
shall  appear,  that  all  the  British  Colonies  in  America  hold 
immediately  of  one  Lord,  and  have  but  one  joint  intrest  to 
pursue  ;  for  which  reason,  and  many  others,  we  shall  first 
humbly  propose  that  all  the  Proprietary  Governments  should 
be  re-assumed  to  the  Crown,  either  by  purchase,  agreement  or 
otherwise,  as  conceiving  this  to  be  one  of  those  essential 
points  without  which  your  Majesty's  Colonies  can  never  be 
put  upon  a  right  footing,  it  might  likewise  be  further  observed 
upon  this  head,  that  some  of  the  Proprietary  and  Charter 
Governments  have  shewn  too  great  an  mclination  to  be  in- 
dependant  of  their  mother  Kingdom,  and  have  carried  on  a 
trade  destructive  to  that  of  Great  Britain,  wherein  they  might 
undoubtedly  be  more  effectually  restrained  if  they  were  all  of 
them  under  your  Majesty's  immediate  government,  and  were  by 
proper  laws  compelled  to  follow  the  commands  sent  them  by 
your  Majesty  ;    and  it  hath  ever  been  the  wisdom,  not  only  of 


446  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  \ 

Great  Britain  but  likewise  of  all  other  States,  to  secure  by  all 
possible  means  the  intire  absolute  and  immediate  dependancy 
of  their  Colonies.     On  the  other  hand,  it  were  but  just  to  con- 
sider the  planters,  whatever  governments  they  may  live  under, 
as  your  Majesty's  subjects  ;    and  that  in  all  reasonable  things 
not  prejudicial  to  the  intrest  of  Great  Britain,  they  should  be 
favour' d  and  incouraged,  more  particularly  in  the  raising  of 
naval  stores  of  all  kinds,  whereby  they  may  greatly  advantage 
themselves  and  contribute  to  render  their  mother  Kingdom 
absolutely  independant  of  all  the  Northern  Pov/ers,  and  that 
their  religion,   liberties   and  properties   should    be    inviolably 
preserved  to  them.     We  have  already  had  a  very  successful 
proof  of  what  due  incouragements  produce  in  the  particulars 
of  pitch  and  tar,  which  at  present  are  made  in  as  great  perfection 
in   your  Majesty's  Plantations,   as  in  any  other  part  of  the 
world,  and  in  such  plenty  as  will  enable  us  to  supply  foreign 
parts,  since  it  hath  reduced  the  common  price  of  those  com- 
modities one  third  of  their  former  cost  within  the  space  of  a 
very  few  years,  whereby  the  importation  of  pitch  and  tar  from 
the  Baltick  is  greatly  decreased,  and  much  mony  saved  in  the 
balla,nce  of  our  trade  ;    nor  is  it  to  be  doubted  but  iron,  flax, 
hemp  and  all  sorts  of  timber,  might  likewise  be  had  from  your 
Majesty's  plantations,  with  the  same  success  upon  sufficient 
encouragement,   whereby   the   trade   and   navigation   of  these 
Realms  would  be  highly  advanced,  and  the  Plantations  diverted 
from   the   thoughts   of  setting   up  manufactures  of  their  own 
interfering  with  those  of  Great  Britain,  and  from  carrying  on 
an  illegal  trade  with  foreigners  ;    but  we  shall  have  an  oppor- 
tunity  of  explaining   ourselves    more    particularly   upon   this 
Iiead,  in  a  separate  representation  to  your  Majty.  relating  to 
such  further  premiums  as  we  conceive  necessary  for  promoting 
so  useful  a  design.     Your  Majesty's  revenues  arising  from  the 
Quit  Rents  reserved  upon  grants  of  land  made  by  your  Majesty 
and  your  Royal  Predecessors,  bear  no  proportion  to  the  extent 
of  your  Majesty's  territories  in  America  ;   for  such  has  been  the 
improvident  management  in  this  particular  that  whole  provinces 
have  been  granted  without  any,  or  upon  very  small  reservations 
to  the  Crown,  and  the  Governrs.  of  your  Majesty's  Colonies, 
who  are  by  their  commissions    and     instructions  usually  im- 
powered   to    make    grants    of  lands,    have    frequently    abused 
their  authority  herein,  by  making  exorbitant  grants  to  private 
persons,  and  the  small  quit  rents  that  have  been  reserv'd,  have 
not  been  so  punctually  collected  and  accounted  for,  as  they 
ought  to  have  been  ;    the  registers  of    such  grants  being  very 
imperfectly  kept,  and  no  due  obedience  paid  to  your  Majesty's 
Auditor  of  the  Plantations,     There  are   likewise    other   abuses 
practised  in  the  manner  of  taking  up  of  lands,  whereby  ye 
grantees  preserve  their  claim  whilst  Yr.  Majesty  is  defrauded 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  447 


1721. 


of  your  quit  rents,  ye  lands  remain  uncultivated,  and  the 
industry  of  the  fair  planter  is  discouraged. 

To  prevent  these  abuses  it  may  be  necessary  for  your  Majesty's 
service,  that  the  Governors  of  your  Majesty's  colonies  on  the 
Continent,  should,  for  the  future,  be  restrained  from  making 
grants  without  reservation  of  the  usual  quit  rents  to  your 
Majesty,  and  from  making  any  grants  exceeding  1000  acres 
to  any  person  in  his  own,  or  any  other  name  in  trust  for  him, 
and  that  all  grants  hereafter  to  be  made  should  be  void,  unless 
the  land  granted,  or  at  least  two  thirds  thereof,  be  cultivated 
within  a  certain  term  of  years  to  be  fixt  for  that  purpose. 

That  no  person  should  be  allow'd  to  hold  any  lands  for  which 
a  patent  hath  not  been  actually  pass'd,  either  under  the  seal 
of  the  respective  Plantation,  or  the  great  Seal  of  this  kmgdom, 
and  that  all  persons  petitioning,  for  the  future,  to  take  up 
lands,  should  be  obliged,  upon  allowance  of  such  petition,  to 
pass  a  patent  for  the  same  within  the  space  of  six  years,  and 
pay  the  usual  duties  due  thereon  to  Yor.  Majesty  ;  in  default 
whereof  the  said  allowance  to  be  void  and  the  lands  to  be 
grantable  to  any  other  person.  That  an  exact  register  be  kept 
of  all  grants  already  made  or  to  be  made,  that  the  quit  rents 
arising  therefrom  be  duly  accounted  for  to  your  Majesty's 
Auditor  of  the  Plantations  ;  and  that  likewise  all  mony  what- 
soever levy'd  in  your  Majesty's  name  ;  in  any  of  your  Majesty's 
Colonies  be  accounted  for  to  the  said  Auditor  ;  which  we  the 
rather  mention  because  some  of  the  northern  provinces  (par- 
ticularly that  of  New  York)  have  of  late  refused  to  account  with 
your  Majesty's  Auditor,  for  monies  raised  by  their  Assemblies  ; 
which  is  a  practise  detrimental  to  your  Majesty's  authority, 
and  tends  to  ye  shaking  of  that  dependency  which  they  owe  to 
your  Majesty  and  to  their  Mother  Kingdom.  The  preservation 
of  the  woods  in  America,  which  hath  hitherto  been  much 
neglected,  is  another  particular  of  very  great  consequence  to 
your  Majesty's  service  ;  in  as  much  as  the  same  might  prove 
an  inexhaustible  store  for  the  Royal  Navy  of  Great  Britain. 
And  altho'  several  Parliaments  have  been  so  sensible  of  the 
importance  of  this  article,  that  laws  have  been  made  in  England 
for  this  purpose  ;  yet  the  daily  complaints  from  America  are 
a  proof  how  ill  these  laws  are  executed,  and  how  little  regard 
is  paid  to  your  Majesty's  Commission  and  Instructions  to  Your 
Surveyor  General  of  the  Woods  ;  which  is  not  so  much  to  be 
wondered  at,  considering  the  present  Surveyor  only  acts  by 
Depty.  no  ways  qualify'd  for  that  employment,  altho'  so  ex- 
tensive a  trust  would  require  the  constant  attendance  of  a 
capable  and  well  experienced  officer,  and  ought  not  to  be  left 
to  the  management  of  a  deputy. 

But  the  many  inconveniencies  that  arise  from  the  granting 
of  offices  in  the  Plantations  to  persons  acting  by  Deputy  there, 
may  deserve  your  Majesty's  animadversion  ;    and  we  would 


448  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

humbly  propose  that  no  offices  in  the  Plantations  may  be 
granted  for  the  future  without  an  express  elause  in  each  Patent 
obliging  the  grantee  to  attend  and  discharge  the  duty  of  his 
office  in  person.  We  beg  leave  further  to  observe  that  the 
laws  at  present  in  force  for  the  preservation  of  your  Majesty's 
woods,  are  very  defective  ;  for  the  exception  therein  made 
whereby  liberty  is  given  for  the  cutting  of  timber  growing 
upon  the  lands  of  sevl.  persons,  hath  given  rise  to  many  pre- 
tentions for  destroying  timber  fit  for  the  service  of  the  Royal 
Navy ;  wherefore  we  wou'd  humbly  propose  that  further 
provision  should  be  made,  by  act  of  Parliament  in  Great  Britain 
for  ascertaining  your  Majtys.  right  to  the  woods  and  the 
boundaries  thereof.  But  the  most  effectual  way  to  put  in 
execution  what  we  have  already  offered  upon  this  subject  to 
your  Majesty's  consideration,  and  to  render  the  several  provinces 
on  the  Continent  of  America,  from  Nova  Scotia  to  South 
Carolina,  mutually  subservient  to  each  other's  support,  will 
be  to  put  the  whole  under  the  (Government  of  one  Lord  Lieut, 
or  Captain  General,  from  whom  all  other  Governors  of  particular 
provinces  should  receive  their  orders  in  all  cases  for  your 
Majesty's  service,  and  cease  to  have  any  command  respectively 
in  such  province  where  the  said  Captain  General  shall  at  any 
time  reside  ;  as  is  at  present  practised  in  the  Leewd.  Islands, 
where  each  island  has  a  particular  Govr.,  but  one  General  over 
the  whole.  The  said  Captain  General  should  constantly  be 
attended  by  two  or  more  Councillors  deputed  from  each  plan- 
tation, he  should  have  a  fixed  salary  sufficient  to  support  the 
dignity  of  so  important  an  employment,  independent  of  the 
pleasure  of  the  inhabitants  ;  and  in  our  humble  opinion,  ought 
to  be  a  person  of  good  fortune,  distinction  and  experience. 
By  this  means  a  general  contribution  of  men  or  mony  may  be 
raised,  upon  the  several  colonies  in  proportion  to  their  respective 
abilities  ;  and  the  utility  of  this  proposal  is  so  evident,  that 
we  shall  not  trouble  your  Majesty  with  any  further  reasons  to 
inforce  the  same  ;  but  in  case  your  Majesty  should  be  graciously 
pleased  to  approve  thereof,  we  shall  take  a  further  opportunity 
of  explaining  in  what  manner  it  may  best  be  executed.  But 
we  humbly  crave  leave  to  inform  your  Majesty,  that  it  will  be 
further  necessary  for  your  service  that  whoever  presides  at 
this  Board,  may  be  particularly  and  distinctly  charged  with 
your  Majesty's  immediate  orders  in  the  dispatch  of  all  matters 
relating  to  the  Plantations,  in  such  manner  as  the  first  Com- 
missioner of  the  Treasury  and  Admiralty  do  now  receive  and 
execute  your  Majesty's  Commands,  with  whom  the  said  Captain 
General,  and  all  other  Governors  of  your  Majesty's  Plantations, 
may  correspond.  We  the  rather  mention  this,  because  ye 
present  method  of  despatchmg  business  relating  to  the  Planta- 
tions, is  lyable  to  much  delay  and  confusion  ;  in  as  much  as 
there  are  at  present  no  less  than  three  different  ways  of  pro- 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  449 


1721. 

ceeding  herein,  that  is  to  say,  by  immediate  appHcation  to 
your  Majesty,  by  one  of  your  Secretaries  of  State  ;  by  petition 
to  your  Majesty  in  Council,  and  by  representation  to  your 
Majesty  from  this  Board  ;  from  whence  it  happens  that  no 
one  office  is  thro'ly  informed  of  all  matters  relating  to  the 
Plantations,  and  sometimes  orders  are  obtained,  by  surprize, 
disadvantagious  to  your  Majesty's  service ;  whereas  if  the 
business  of  the  Plantations  were  wholly  confined  to  one  office, 
those   inconveniencies   would   be  thereby  avoided. 

Printed,  N.Y,  Col.  Doc.  V.  591-630  ;  and  Mich.  Pioneer 
Soc.  Coll.  xix  1-13  ;  and,  in  part  relating  to  Carolina,  N.C.  Col. 
Rec.  II.  418-425  ;  and,  in  part  relating  to  Nezv  Jersey,  N.J. 
Archives,  1st  Ser.  V.  20.  Signed,  M.  Bladen,  E.  Ashe,  J. 
Chetwynd,  P.  Docminique.  [CO.  324,  10.  pp.  296-431  ; 
and  {draft  of  above  report  upon  Pennsylvania,  3|  pp.),  5,  1266. 
ff.  15,  16.]  ■ 

Sept.  8.       657.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Townshend. 

wiiitehaii.  In  reply  to  Aug.  21st,  enclose  following.     Annexed, 

657.  i.  Same  to  the  King.  This  Board  has  always  been  of 
opinion,  that  nothing  can  be  of  greater  importance 
to  your  Majesty's  service  than  ye  matter  which  your 
Majesty  is  now  pleased  to  refer  to  them  etc.  Refer 
to  reports  on  importation  of  Naval  Stores  from  the 
Plantations.  Continue :  The  latter  end  of  1718,  the 
Board  did  apply  themselves  particularly  to  this  subject, 
when  being  assisted  therein  by  some  of  your  Majesty's 
servants  from  the  Treasury,  the  Admiralty,  the  Customs 
and  Navy  Board,  as  well  as  by  the  advice  of  the  most 
eminent  traders  in  the  several  sorts  of  Naval  Stores, 
it  was  thought  expedient  that  a  Bill  should  be  brought 
into  Parliament  for  taking  off  the  duty  on  iron  and 
wood  of  all  kinds  imported  from  the  Plantations,  and 
for  continuing  ye  premium  upon  hemp  for  16  years 
beyond  the  time  already  fix'd  by  Act  of  Parliament ; 
and  a  bill  for  that  purpose  was  brought  into  Parliamt. 
accordingly,  but  some  dilference  in  opinion  arising 
about  the  importation  of  iron  from  the  Plantations 
in  barrs  the  bill  was  dropt.  But  as  we  humbly 
conceive  that  the  said  bill  only  of  pigs  and  sows 
instead  of  barrs  in  the  particular  of  iron  might  greatly 
contribute  to  encrease  the  importation  of  Naval  Stores 
of  all  kinds  from  your  Majesty's  Plantations,  we  would 
humbly  propose  that  a  bill  to  the  same  effect  may  be 
brought  into  Parliament  the  next  Sessions.  We  are 
also  of  opinion,  that  a  clause  should  be  added  to  the 
said  bill  giving  leave  to  import  all  kinds  of  mineral 
oars  unwrought  from  the  Plantations  to  Great  Britain 
duty    free,     i^ut    whenever   premiums    or   encourage- 

Wt.  7595  C.P.32— 20 


450 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721, 


Sept.  9. 

Whitf-hall. 


Sept.  9. 

Whitehall. 


Sept.  10. 

Boston, 
N.  England. 


nients  are  given  for  the  importation  of  any  commodity 
from  the  Plantations,  the  same  should  be  placed  amongst 
the  enumerated  species. 
G57.  ii.  Copy  of  bill  entitulcd  an  Act  for  giving  further  encourage- 
ment for  importing  Naval  Stores,  as  passed  ye  House 
of  Commons  and  sent  up  to  the  Lords  in  171  ii.  [CO. 
324,   10.     pp.  482-435.] 

658.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
H.M.  having  been  pleased  to  appoint  his  Grace  the  Duke 
of  Portland  to  be  Ciovernor  of  Jamaica,  you  are  to  prepare 
draughts  of  his  Commission  and  Instructions  for  H.M.  approba- 
tion etc.  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed,  Reed.  9th,  Read  13th 
Sept.,  1721.  ^  I  p.     [CO.  137,  14.    //'.  32,  33i'.] 

659.  Same  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  En- 
closes following  for  their  report.  Signed,  Carteret,  Endorsed, 
Reed.  9th,  Read  13th  Sept.,  1721.     f  p.     Enclosed, 

659.  i.  Governor  John  Lord  Belhaven  to  the  King.     By  a 

clause  in  his  Commission  Memorialist  is  impowered 
to  dispose  of  H.M.  lands,  not  yet  granted,  at  a  moderate 
quit-rent  etc.  But  by  the  88th  article  of  his  Instruc- 
tions he  is  not  to  encourage  any  planting  nor  grant 
any  lands  in  any  of  H.M.  Islands  under  his  Govern- 
ment, untill  he  shall  receive  further  orders  from  H.M. 
Great  improvements  may  be  made  in  planting  spices, 
indigo  etc.  "and  setling  such  other  Islands  within  your 
Memorialist's  Government  as  are  yet  unplanted 
particularly  in  the  Island  of  Tobago  to  the  increase 
of  the  trade  of  yr.  Maty.'s  Plantations  and  for  the 
benefit  of  this  Kingdom."  Prays  further  orders  for 
encouraging  the  planting  and  granting  lands  and 
tenements  now  in  H.M.  power  to  dispose  of  within 
Memorialist's  Government  particularly  in  the  Island 
of  Tobago  etc.     1  p.    [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  179,  180,  182i;.] 

660.  Governor  Shute  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  Journal  of 
Representatives  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  begun  May  31, 
1721,  etc.  Concludes  : — I  shall  take  care  that  the  fees  for  the 
last  Councellors  for  New  Hampshire  shall  be  paid  into  the  Office 
so  soon  as  you  let  me  know  what  they  amount  to.  Signed, 
Samll.  Shute\  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read  10th  Nov.  1721. 
Enclosed, 

660.  i.  Address  of  the  House  of  Representatives  to  Governor 
Shute,  30th  Aug.  1721.     Signed,  John  Clark,  Speaker. 


fp. 


9|  pp. 


660.  ii.  Reply  of  Governor  Shute  to  preceding. 
1721.      I  small  p. 


1st  Sept., 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


451 


1721. 


6()0.  iii.  Speech  of  Governor  Shute  to  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives. (?  Sept.  1721).     2  pp. 

660.  iv.  Reply  of  the  Representatives  to  preceding,  Sept. 
1st,  1721.  Signed,  EHsha  Cooke,  Speaker  pro  tempore. 
2f  pp. 

660.  V.  Reply  of  Governor  Shute  to  preceding.  Sept.  5th, 
1721.     1  small  p. 

660.  vi.  Copy  of  Vote  of  Representatives,  and  message  from 
the  Governor.  Aug.  23,  1721.     1  small  p. 

660.  vii.  Opinion  as  to  the  Governor's  power  of  adjourning 
the  Assembly  according  to  the  Charter  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bay.     Signed,  Robt.  Auchmuty.     1|  pp. 

660.  viii.  Act  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  for  establishing  the 
form  of  the  writ  for  calling  a  General  Court  etc.  Copy. 
If  pp.  [CO.  5,  868.  ff.  130,  131i'.-137,  139-142, 
143,  145-146T'.,  148r.] 


Sept.  12.       661.     H.M.    Instructions   to   the    Receiver   General    of  the 
Casual    Revenue,     Barbados.     Copy.     6    pp.     [CO.     28,     44. 

ff.  7-9V.] 

Sept.  14.       662.     Lord  Carteret  to  Governor  Shute.     Encloses  following. 
whitehaU.  Concludes :    You  are  to  aid  Mr.  A.  Cumings  in  recovering  the 
pirate  goods  etc.     Signed,  Carteret.     Annexed, 

662.  i.  Mr.  Burchett  to  the  Secretaries  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Admty.  Office.  14th  Sept.,  1721.  My  Lords  Commrs. 
of  1  he  Admiralty  being  informed  that  there  are  pirate 
goods,  perquisites  of  Admiralty,  in  the  hands  of  several 
persons  in  New  England,  who  are  not  authorized  to 
receive  the  same,  desire  Lord  Carteret's  letter  to  Govr. 
Shute  to  assist  Mr.  Archibald  Cumings,  Agent  for 
receiving  perquisites  of  Admty.  in  New  England,  in 
recovering  them  etc.,  and  in  the  further  execution  of 
his  duty.  He  sails  in  a  dav  or  two  etc.  Signed,  J. 
Burchett.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  64,   65.] 

Sept.  14.  663.  H.M.  Instruction  to  Governors  and  Proprietors  of 
Kensington,  the  Plantations.  (Quotes  Article  III  from  Treaty  with  Spain, 
concluded  in  June,  1721,  as  to  restoration  of  goods  etc.  Con- 
tinues :  And  we  being  desirous  that  the  said  Article  should  be 
fully  and  punctually  executed  and  complyed  with,  according 
to  the  terms  therein  expressed,  Our  will  and  pleasure  is  that 
you  cause  to  be  restored  all  goods,  merchandizes,  money,  ships 
and  other  effects,  whicli  are  remaining  of  those  as  aforesaid 
taken  from  ye  subjects  of  Spain,  and  that  you  do  transmit 
to  Us,  or  to  one  of  Our  Principall  Secretary s  of  State  an  account 
of  what  shall  have  been  so  restored  ;  and  as  to  such  parts  of 
the  goods  and  effects  which  may  have  been  sold  or  otherwise 
disposed  of,  we  do  herel)y  direct  you  to  make  a  strict  enquiry 


452 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721 


Sept.  14. 

Whitehall. 


thereof,  as  also  of  their  true  value  at  the  time  when  they  were 
seized,  how  they  have  been  disposed  of,  and  for  what  value, 
that  speedy  justice  may  be  done  to  the  parties  concerned  who 
shall  make  out  their  proofs  according  to  the  above  Article. 
And  whereas  on  the  18th  of  Feb.  17  jo  a  Convention  was  made 
at  the  Hague  for  a  suspension  of  arms,  between  Us  and  His 
most  Christian  Majesty  on  the  one  part,  and  His  Catholick 
Majty.  on  the  other,  whereby  the  ships  and  merchandizes  taken 
from  any  of  the  subjects  of  the  three  Crowns  were  agreed  to  be 
restored  to  them,  within  certain  limitations  of  time  and  place 
therein  declared,  Our  further  will  and  pleasure  is  that  you  give 
the  necessary  orders  for  the  immediate  restoring  to  the  proper 
owners  all  ships  and  effects,  which  shall  have  been  taken  since 
the  time  limited  by  the  said  Convention  in  the  manner  above 
mention'd  ;  provided  that  such  restitution  do  not  extend  to 
such  ships  or  effects  as  were  taken  in  carrying  on  an  illegal 
and  fraudulent  trade,  or  in  committing  piracy.  And  of  this 
part  of  your  proceeding  We  do  likewise  direct  you  from  time  to 
time  to  transmit  an  account  to  one  of  Our  Principall  Seeretarys 
of  State.     Countersigned,  Carteret.     [CO.  324,  34.     jpp.  65-70.] 

664.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Enclose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M.     Annexed, 


664.  i.  Same  to  the  King.     Enclose  following  : 
664.  ii.  H.M.  Commission  to  Henry  Duke  of  Portland  to  be 
Governor  of  Jamaica,  revoking  that  of  Sir  Nicholas 
Lawes.     In  the  usual  form.     [CO.  138,  16.     j^p.  309- 
334.] 

Sept.  14.       665.     Order    of    Council.      Approving     preceding.     Signed, 
Whitehall.     Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd,   Read  24th  April, 
1722.      1  p.     [CO.  137,  14.    ff.  131,  132i).] 


Sept.  14. 

Whitehall. 


666.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Reply  to  9th  Sept.  Representation  upon  settling  Tobago.  It 
would  very  much  conduce  to  the  benefit  of  this  Kingdom  if  not 
only  Tobago  but  the  other  Charibbee  Islands  were  planted  and 
settled.  This  Island  of  Tobago  is  contiguous  to  the  Spanish 
coast  of  Venezula  and  as  well  situated  for  a  trade  with  the 
Spaniards  as  any  other  Island  in  America,  and  would,  if  settled, 
be  a  very  considerable  addition  to  the  strength  of  the  British 
Colonies  and  encrease  of  our  trade  ;  wherefore  we  have  no 
objection  to  the  prayer  of  the  Lord  Belhaven's  Memorial, 
provided  it  be  done  by  the  advice  of  the  Council  of  Barbados, 
and  proper  care  be  taken  that  this  settlement  be  so  restrained 
as  not  to  interfere  with  the  produce  of  H.M.  Charibbee  Islands. 
We  are  further  of  opinion  that  no  grant  be  made  to  any  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  other  Islands  ;  that  no  more  than  500  acres 
be  granted  to  any  one  person  or  to  any  in  trust  for  him,  and  that 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


453 


1721. 


Sept.  26. 

Whitcluill. 


the  patentee  be  oblig'd  to  cultivate  at  least  one  fourth  part 
of  the  same  within  the  space  of  three  years.  That  all  persons 
who  shall  settle  there,  be  effectually  restrain'd  from  planting 
of  any  sugars.  That  as  the  soil  of  this  Island  is  very  proper 
for  the  producing  of  cocoa  anatto  and  indigo,  we  should  hope 
the  planters  would  turn  their  thoughts  to  the  raising  these 
commodities.  Our  other  Colonies  not  producing  any,  we  are 
now  oblig'd  to  purchase  ye  same  of  the  Erench  and  Spaniards. 
As  the  settling  of  uncultivated  lands  is  not  only  a  work  of  time, 
but  of  great  expence,  we  humbly  propose  that  the  planters  who 
shall  come  there  be  exempted  from  the  payment  of  quit  rents 
for  three  years  from  the  date  of  their  grants,  after  which  the 
quit  rents  to  be  moderate  as  in  New  York  or  Virginia  vizt.  at 
half  a  crown  or  two  shillings  pr.  100  acres.  We  are  further  of 
opinion  that  after  10  years  the  planters  be  obliged  to  pass  the 
duty  of  4|  per  cent  as  in  the  Leeward  Islands  and  Barbados, 
[CO.  29,  14.     pjJ.  246-249.] 

667.  Order  of  Council.  Confirming  alterations  in  the  62nd 
and  66th  articles  of  Instructions  for  Governor  Hart  concerning 
the  Bishop  of  London's  powers  etc.,  as  proposed  8th  inst.  (v. 
Oct.  25th).  Additional  Instructions  are  to  be  prepared  for 
vacating  the  clauses  in  the  Instructions  of  other  Governors. 
Signed,  Temple  Stanyan.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  3rd 
Oct.,  1721.  If  pp.  [CO.  323,  8.  No>  24  ;  and  5,  191. 
pp.  125a,  1256.] 


Sept.  26.  668.  Order  of  Council.  Approving  draught  of  Commission 
WhitehaU.  for  Govemor  the  Duke  of  Portland.  Signed,  Temple  Stanyan. 
[CO.  5,  191.     p.  206a.] 


hP 


[Sept.  26.] 

In  New 
England. 


669.  Charles  Burniston  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Reports  information  received  from  his  Deputy,  Robert 
Armstrong,  that  he  has  seiz'd  between  3  and  400  mast-trees, 
cut  down  in  the  King's  woods,  fit  for  H.M.  service,  about  two 
years  ago  by  the  connivance  of  Mr.  Bridger  etc.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  26th  Sept.,  1721,  Read  5th  July,  1722.  1  p.  [CO. 
5,    868.    .//.  268,  269i;.] 


Sept.   27. 

Whitehall. 


670.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Enclose  extracts  of  letters  from  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  relating 
to  the  disorders  and  confusion  in  Jamaica.  [CO.  138,  16.  pp. 
335,  336.] 


Sept.   27. 

Whitehall. 


671 .  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Upon  perusing  your  Lops,  report  of  the  14th  inst.  concerning 
the  granting  lands  in  the  Island  of  Tobago,  I  have  thought  it 
might  be  a  question  worth  your  consideration,  whether  live 
hundred  acres  be  not  more  than  should  be  granted  to  any  one 


4154  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

person,  and  whether  a  fourth  part  of  such  a  number  of  acres, 
as  shall  be  granted  to  any  one  person,  be  not  more  than  he 
can  reasonabl}'^  be  supposed  to  cultivate  within  the  space  of 
three  years.  I  would  gladly  know  your  opinion  upon  these 
two  points,  before  I  receive  H.M.  further  pleasure  in  this  affair. 
Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed,  Reed.  28th  Sept.,  Read  Oct.  3, 
1721.      1  p.     [CO.  28,  17.     //'.  183,  184i;.] 

Sept.  29.  672.  Petty  Expenses,  Postage  and  Stationer's  Account 
of  the  Board  of  Trade  from  Midsummer  to  Michaelmas,  1721. 
V.  B.T.  Journal.     [CO.  388,  78.    ff.  6,  7,  12-15,  19.] 

[?Sept.30.]  673.  Extracts  from  the  Instructions  of  the  Governors  of 
New  York  and  Jamaica  relating  to  the  licencing  of  schoolmasters 
in  the  Plantations  etc.  With  (?Lord  Carteret's)  notes.  1|  pjj. 
[CO.  5,  1092.     No.  20.] 

Sept.  30.       674.     H.M.  Instructions  to  Governor  Hart  {cf.  25th  Aug.), 
Kensington,  with  Instructions  relating  to  the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation. 
[CO.  5,  191.     pp.  126-206.] 

Without  675.  Mr.  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
date.  Encloses  Journal  of  Assembly  to  "  6th  instant."  Refers  to 
[?Sept.  .]  letter  of  Aug.  29th.  Continues  :  Your  Lordships  will  perceive 
by  these  Minutes  with  what  punctuality  I  have  executed  the 
orders  for  restoring  the  Members  of  Council  and  all  Officers, 
Civil  and  Military,  a.nd  yet  how  unworthy  of  H.M.  favour  the 
restored  gentlemen  have  behaved  themselves  ;  who,  instead 
of  a  hearty  application  to  H.M.  service  and  the  business  of 
their  several  stations,  have  fallen  into  the  most  unwarrantable 
outrages,  and  obstruct  not  only  the  affairs  of  ye  Governmt. 
but  the  common  course  of  Justice  in  the  Courts  they  have  been 
restored  to  be  Judges  of :  But,  as  by  the  last  advices  from 
England  we  may  reasonably  expect  my  Lord  Belhaven  in  a 
few  weeks,  I  shall  endeavour  to  keep  all  things  as  quiet  as  possible 
til  His  Lordship's  arrival,  and  overlook  the  madness  of  these 
persons  so  far  as  is  consistent  with  common  justice,  and  the 
preservation  and  honour  of  the  Prerogative  etc.  No  sooner 
were  the  orders  for  restoring  these  gentlemen  arrived,  but  the 
restored  members  of  Council  industriously  spread  over  the 
Island  a  false  rumour  that  I  was  sent  for  home,  and,  being 
afraid  to  appear  in  Britain,  had  run  av/ay  to  Martinique  etc.  ; 
and  one  of  them,  at  the  head  of  the  rest,  had  the  ill  manners 
to  insult  my  daughter  with  the  same  scandalous  story  at  my 
own  house  ;  and  tho'  I  calmly  expostulated  with  them,  and 
shew'd  them  the  evil  tendency  of  such  behaviour  to  H.M. 
Commander  in  Chief,  yet  my  mildness  has  only  encouraged  them 
to  proceed  to  greater  lengths  ;  insomuch,  that  reflecting  upon 
me,  and  all  the  Gentlemen  in  the  Island  who  v>ill  not  joyn  with 


AMERICA  AND    WEST   INDIES.  455 


1721. 


them  in  their  extravagancys,  is  their  daily  entertainment. 
Out  of  many  such  insults  I  could  not  but  take  notice  of  one 
offered  in  a  very  publick  Company  by  one  Ca.pt.  John  Swan, 
who  by  virtue  of  the  late  Order  had  been  restored  to  the  com- 
mand of  a  troop  of  horse  :  that  Cientleman  had  the  insolence 
to  call  me  son  of  a  whore,  to  damn  me  and  my  friends  for  a 
pack  of  dogs,  and  send  me  a  message  so  very  rude  that  I  shall 
not  shock  your  Lordships  with  the  repetition  of  it  ;  and  yet, 
when  I  laid  the  inclosed  deposition  before  the  Council,  and 
afterwards  Capt.  Swan  himself  appeared,  and  could  not  disown 
the  fact,  the  Members  of  Council,  upon  my  asking  their  opinions 
refused  to  advise  me  to  take  his  Commission  from  him  ;  and, 
instead  of  discountenancing,  carryed  him  from  the  Council 
with  them  to  a  publick  treat.  The  refusal  of  the  Gentlemen 
of  the  Council  to  joyn  with  ye  Assembly  and  their  declaration 
that  the  Excise  Bill  pass't  by  this  Assembly  is  no  Law,  is  like 
to  produce  very  ill  effects  etc.  The  Excise  is  the  only  publick 
fund  we  have  to  subsist  the  Government  with,  and  therefore 
the  encouraging  the  merchants  not  to  pay  it,  alleging  that  the 
Act  is  void,  tends  to  bring  us  into  the  utmost  confusion,  as  well 
as  to  strip  the  Government  of  all  subsistence  and  support.  I 
have  laid  this  before  the  Council,  represented  to  them  the 
bleeding  state  of  our  publick  credit,  which  requires  immediate 
releif ;  but  they  are  deaf  to  all  importunitys,  and  obstinately 
persist  in  refusing  to  act  at  all  with  this  Assembly  ;  nor  will  they 
advise  me  to  dissolve  it,  and  call  another  ;  from  which  it  is 
plain  their  sole  aim  is  confusion  ;  however  I  am  determined  to 
give  them  no  offence  but  the  continuing  to  exhort  them  to 
peace  and  unanimity,  and  application  to  the  publick  affairs  etc. 
Since  the  restoring  of  the  Judges  there  has  been  an  universal 
clamour  at  their  stopping  the  common  course  of  Justice  ;  but 
more  especially  in  the  Bridge  Court,  and  in  Scotland  Court, 
where  above  two  hundred  actions  have  been  postponed,  contrary 
to  Law,  and  the  peremptory  rules  of  the  Court  ;  many  of  which 
were  against  the  Judges  and  their  Assistants.  Permit  me,  my 
Lords,  upon  this  occasion  to  observe  that  Edmund  Sutton  Esq., 
vv^ho  is  Judge  of  St.  Michaels  or  Bridge  Court,  and  John  Carter 
Esq.,  who  is  Judge  of  St.  Andrews  or  Scotland  Court,  do  both 
of  them  live  within  the  precincts  of  the  Courts  they  are  Judges 
of,  and  can  only  be  sued  there  etc.  Some  years  agoe,  upon  an 
application  to  your  Lordships'  Board  against  Mr.  Downes  who 
was  Judge  of  the  Bridge  Court  and  lived  in  ye  precincts  your 
Lordships  were  pleased  to  represent  to  Her  late  Majesty  that 
it  was  contrary  to  the  Common  Law  and  practice  of  England 
that  any  man  should  be  Judge  of  the  Precincts  where  he  li\'ed, 
and  to  offer  it  as  your  Lordships'  opinion  that  the  said  Mr. 
Downes  should  be  remoxed  and  for  the  future  no  person  should 
l)e  Judge  of  the  Precinct  where  he  lived  ;  orders  were  sent 
accordingly    etc.  :     Pursuant    to    that    Representation    etc.,    I 


456  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

thought  myself  bound  in  duty  to  act  ;  and  I  perswade  myself, 
had  it  been  known  in  Britain  that  Mr.  Sutton  and  Mr.  Carter 
were  Judges  of  Courts  in  their  own  Preein(;ts,  they  had  been 
excepted  in  the  Orders  for  restoring  the  Officers,  especially 
could  the  interruption  they  have  given  to  Jvistice  have  been 
foreseen,  or  had  it  been  known  there  are  so  many  suits  depending 
against  themselves  and  their  Assistants  which  they  have  stop'd 
process  upon  ;  for  the  doing  of  which,  there  are  complaints 
already  laid  etc.  I  humbly  offer  it  etc.  to  your  Lordships' 
consideration,  whether  the  aforesaid  regulation  ought  not  to 
be  put  in  execution,  and  extended  to  Assistants,  who  are  in 
effect  as  much  Judges  in  all  respects  (except  seniority)  as  he 
that  is  called  Judge  etc.  Signed,  Saml.  Cox.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
4th  Dec,  1721,  Read  11th  Jan.  172|.  Addressed.  3  pp. 
Enclosed, 

675.  i.  Deposition  of  Richard  Byrch.  7th  Sept.,  1721.  On 
Aug.  5th,  deponent  being  at  the  house  of  Col.  Jacson 
drank  the  health  of  President  Cox,  whereupon  Capt. 
John  Swan  abused  him  and  said  "  You  may  tell  the 

President  he  may  kiss  my  a like  a  son  of  a 

whore  etc."  He  afterwards  told  his  negro  slave  to 
shoot  deponent  and  struck  him  etc.  Signed,  Richard 
Byrch.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  [CO.  28,  17. 
ff.  212-214,  215iy.] 

Oct.  1.  676.  Governor  Philipps  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Cansoe.  tations.  Acknowledges  letter  of  28th  Dec.  1720,  "  for  which 
I  returne  your  Lordships  my  hearty  thanks  "  etc.  Nothing 
is  capable  of  giveing  me  more  sensible  satisfaction  than  to  find 
that  my  endeavours  for  the  good  of  this  country  have  mett 
with  your  Lordships'  approbation.  It  was  an  agreeable  surprise 
to  find  this  place  in  such  a  flourishing  way  much  beyond 
expectation  after  the  disturbance  of  last  year  which  would 
have  been  broke  up  for  good  had  I  not  then  placed  a  detachment 
here,  which  I  have  reinforced  now  with  two  company's,  which 
I  was  to  have  drawne  from  Placentia,  so  that  my  good  neigh- 
bours at  Cape  Breton  seem  to  give  up  their  pretention  of  right  : 
and  talk  only  of  it's  being  a  place  neutrall.  But  I  must  desire 
your  Lordships  to  look  upon  it  in  another  view,  as  the  place  of 
greatest  cons[equence]  in  all  these  parts,  not  only  in  respect  to 
the  fishery  M^hich  will  exceed  everything  of  that  kind  that  has 
been  known  but  as  the  best  prospect  of  setling  the  Province, 
from  whence  people  will  by  degrees  extend  themselves  along 
the  coast,  but  this  must  be  the  lure  and  without  Cansoe  I  may 
denounce  the  settlement  will  advance  but  slowly  therefore  your 
Lordships  will  judge  how  much  this  place  ought  to  be  encourag'd, 
and  in  my  humble  opinion,  nothing  will  contribute  more  towards 
its  advancement,  than  permitting  it  to  be  a  free  port  for  three 
or  four  yeares.     IMy  arrival  here  gave  a  general  joy  being  taken 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


457 


1721. 

as  a  good  presage  of  the  Government's  resolution  to  assert  its 
right.  And  to  confirme  the  opinion  the  more,  I  have  detcr- 
min'd  to  pass  a  bad  winter  here,  without  the  nccessarys  of 
life,  which  hinders  me  from  being  more  particular  to  your  Lord- 
ships, my  papers  being  left  at  Annapolis  Royal.  I  must 
begg  leave  to  remind  your  Lordships,  for  the  last  time,  that 
I  remaine  under  an  incapacity  to  receive  familys,  and  begin 
the  settlement.  There  are  several  that  offers  at  this  time, 
but  your  Lordships,  who  drew  my  Instructions  knowes  the 
extent  of  my  power  etc.  When  the  Sur\eyor  shall  arrive,  it  v,ill 
necessaryly  take  up  two  or  three  yeares  time  before  he  can  make 
any  progress  in  tlic  buisness,  therefore  if  a  reserve  (in  every 
settlement  to  be  made)  of  all  woods  fitt  for  the  use  of  the  Royall 
Navy,  may  not  answer  the  ends  of  a  survey,  and  save  time  I 
submit  to  your  better  judgments  in  the  mean  time  I  ha^'e  made 
dispositions  of  small  plotts  of  ground  and  little  rocks  or  Islands 
in  this  harbour  for  the  conveniency  of  the  fishery,  which  I 
have  promised  to  confirme.  I  am  in  hopes  the  officer  who  will 
have  the  honour  to  deliver  you  this,  will  be  dispatched  early 
in  the  spring  with  your  Lordships  Instructions  upon  every 
necessary  point,  etc.  Signed,  R.  Philipps.  Endorsed,  Reed 
(from  Capt.  Henry  Daniel),  Read  18th  April,  1722.  6  pp. 
[CO.  217,  4.  ff.  45-48i;.  ;  and  {abstract,  with  marginal  notes 
for  reply)  217,  30.     p.  15.] 

Oct.  3.       677.     H.M.  Commission  to  Governor  the  Duke  of  Portland, 
Kensiugtuii.  revoking  that  of  Sir  N.  Lawes.     Countersigned,  Carteret.     [CO. 
5,  191.     pp.  207-221.] 


Oct.  4. 

Whitehall. 


678.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Reply  to  Sept.  27th.  q.v.  We  have  reconsidered  our  letter  of 
14th  Sept.,  concerning  Tobago,  and  having  discours'd  with 
some  persons  vers'd  in  the  Plantation  settlements,  we  are  of 
opinion.  First,  that  no  more  than  300  acres  of  land,  or  less  than 
15,  be  granted  to  any  one  person,  or  to  any  in  trust  for  him, 
and  that  no  patentee  be  allowed  to  purchase  any  lands  of  other 
persons  more  than  what  shall  make  ye  land  he  holds  by  patent 
300  acres.  And  2ndly,  that  each  patentee  be  oblig'd  to  cultivate 
every  year  one  acre  in  every  fifty,  as  is  requir'd  by  the  grants 
at  New  York  and  Virginia,  and  so  in  proportion  for  any  quantity. 
We  must  further  observe  that  it  will  be  necessary  among  other 
regulations,  that  every  patentee  be  obliged  for  every  40  acres 
to  keep  one  white  man  or  two  white  women,  within  a  year  after 
the  date  of  their  grant,  and  one  white  man  or  two  white  women 
for  every  20  acres  three  years  after  the  said  date,  as  was  propos'd 
by  this  Board  in  their  regulations  for  the  settlement  of  St. 
Christophers.     [CO.  20,  14.     pp.  244,  245.] 


1-58  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

Oct.  5.       679.     [  ]   to   Mr.   King,   a  merchant  at  Bristol.     I 

Virginia,  have  long  sincc  promised  you  an  account  of  the  management  of 
affairs  etc.  Our  Governour  never  yet  agreed  with  any  Assembly, 
except  that  one  that  made  the  stamping  tobacco  law,  which 
gave  him  all  things  asked,  and  he  their  Agents  places  to  pick 
our  pockets,  but  by  a  good  Providence  we  were  delivered  from 
them  at  the  same  time  the  Nation  was  from  Popery  and  slavery 
on  a  certain  first  day  of  August  etc.  His  high  flown  principles 
and  proud  ambitious  temper  has  made  him  treat  all  other 
Assemblyes  more  like  footmen  then  Representatives  of  the 
body  of  the  country  whenever  they  opposed  him  which  made 
the  differences  run  high,  and  the  Council  met  with  the  same 
treatment,  which  enga,ged  all  people  into  parties  as  Court  and 
Country.  To  support  his  cause  tooles  were  pitched  to  make  up 
Grand  Juries  to  deliver  fulsome  Addresses  to  the  Governour  and 
abuse  the  Councill  and  Assembly.  The  same  tooles  made 
Addresses  from  the  Court  and  even  to  engage  every  barefooted 
fellow  to  signe  Adresses  from  the  Counties  but  all  this  availed 
nothing.  Collo.  Bird  was  acting  at  home  for  the  Assembly, 
and  Council  thought  the  Governour  v/ould  never  pass  a  book 
of  claims  from  the  Assembly  tliat  had  anything  in  it  given  to 
Bird.  The  Lords  Orkney  Argyle  and  other  great  men  were 
willing  to  reconcile  matters  with  him,  and  the  Country  and 
Collo.  Bird  was  to  motion  the  matter  and  the  Governour  was 
to  give  up  the  great  points  in  dispute,  and  advised  by  the  great 
men  to  part  with  all  but  his  honour  for  peace  sake,  but  his 
answer  to  Bird's  message  was,  that  his  terms  were  too  insolent 
to  be  complyed  with,  and  nothing  was  talked  of  but  caining  and 
kicking  but  all  went  off  with  a  little  short  raillery  when  Bird 
and  he  met ;  His  little  mistress  was  just  then  arrived  from  an 
embassy  from  Brittain,  That  he  must  accept  these  terms  or 
out  for  Coll.  Bird  had  nothing  to  do  but  to  return  and  report 
his  non  acceptance  of  the  noblemen's  propositions  and  then 
he  would  be  out  which  made  him  cloudy  for  some  time  but  then 
he  began  to  play  his  old  game  of  dissimulation  and  when  they 
least  thought  of  it  he  melted  them  with  a  most  humble  desire 
of  peace  and  friendship  and  would  agree  with  them  in  all  things 
and  saluted  them  with  a  Judas's  kiss,  and  came  from  the  Council 
Chamber  to  the  Barr,  and  saluted  Mr.  HoUoway  [Speaker  of 
Assembly,  Ed.]  who  had  also  been  his  enemy.  This  humble 
disposition  was  agreable  to  all,  and  there  were  great  rejoycings 
etc.  throughout  the  Towne  for  this  sudden  and  unexpected 
reconciliation.  The  next  thing  was  to  get  an  Assembly  of  his 
old  creatures,  and  then  he  would  not  value  his  nev/  friends  again. 
The  Militia  was  put  into  their  hands  tho'  most  rank  Tories  and 
enemies  to  the  Government,  and  Militia  Comissions  flew  about 
to  every  fellow  that  could  make  tv/o  or  three  votes  and  as  it 
was  expressed  in  one  of  his  letters  he  gave  the  power  to  his 
friends  to  make  a  discreet  use  of  and  ipdeed  never  fouler  play 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES.  159 

1721.  ~ 

was  by  men,  than  at  most  of  our  elections  but  they  lost  the 
majority  in  the  house  to  the  Governour's  great  mortifications 
etc.,  and  the  Militia  Officers  have  ever  since  plagued  the  people 
for  it  by  unavoidable  fines,  but  since  he  could  not  get  an 
Assembly  of  his  own  it  was  but  playing  the  same;  part  with 
them  as  he  had  with  the  Council  and  cajole  them  with  a  fine 
reconciling  speech  and  assemblies  of  musick  dancing  feasting 
etc.  which  took  and  by  the  help  of  some  of  his  friends  got  from 
them  a  fine  flattering  address  calling  him  the  great,  the  good, 
the  just,  the  v.ise  Governour  etc.,  which  he  thought  bound 
them  and  established  himself  at  home.  Then  he  plai'd  his 
game,  to  monopolise  the  frontier  lands  and  cheat  the  Crown, 
He  got  them  to  address  the  King  to  send  an  hundred  soldgers 
to  guard  the  two  passes  of  the  mountains,  tho'  there  is  no  such 
thing  there  and  to  give  the  right  of  taking  up  such  lands  which 
is  five  shillings  for  every  50  acres,  and  to  give  the  quit  rents  for 
10  years,  also  perswaded  the  Assembly  to  make  the  frontiers 
on  our  River  a  new  county  called  Spotsilvania  and  to  give 
£1000  out  of  the  Treasury  to  buy  armes,  build  a  Courthouse 
and  Church  the  first  of  which  is  in  one  roome  of  his  owne  house, 
and  to  cloak  this  the  better  another  county  is  to  be  at  the  head 
of  James  River  but  as  yet  is  onely  in  imagination  ;  then  he  getts 
the  Assembly  to  make  a  law  for  the  easie  seating  and  saving 
such  great  quantities  of  land  as  he  intends  to  have,  which  is 
effectually  done.  When  all  was  secured  he  prohibits  the 
Survej^ors  from  making  surveys  for  any  person,  and  the  lands 
that  he  and  his  Company  held  before  by  surveys,  as  the  mine 
tracts  where  the  iron  works  are  is  19,000  acres,  the  Alexandrum 
also  his  own,  the  Spotsilvania  much  greater  than  the  rest  is 
now  surveyed  to  come  within  the  new  Law  and  the  bounds 
extended  as  farr  as  they  can  go  for  the  mountains.  A  person 
who  knows  it  well  tells  me  it  is  30  miles  in  length  and  se\-eral 
in  breadth,  in  all  supposed  to  be  200,000  acres.  This  amazes 
the  country  to  see  such  a  cheat  upon  the  Crown,  the  poor  people 
that  would  settle  it  cannot  come  in,  those  that  has  had  surveys 
and  better  rights  has  them  taken  awav  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed, 
(from  Mr.  Gee),  Read  9th  Jan.,  172!.  ^2i  pp.  [CO.  5,  1319. 
No.  12.] 

Oct.  5.       680.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclosc  following  {v.  23rd  Aug.).     Annexed, 

680.  i.  Same  to  the  King.  Enclose  draught  of  H.M.  Instruc- 
tions for  Lt.  Governor  Hope.  The  Instructions  "  arc 
in  the  usual  form  except  some  alterations  made  in 
Articles  9-11,  18-22,  24,  25,  27,  31,  43,  52-54,  68,  69, 
81-83,  and  89,  pursuant  to  what  your  Majesty  has 
been  pleas'd  to  approve  of  in  the  Lord  Belhaven's 
and  Col.  Hart's  Instructions  for  which  we  gave  our 
reasons  to  yom-  Majesty  in  a  representation  of  the  8th 


460  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

of  the  last  month.  We  have  omitted  the  latter  part 
of  the  26th  Instruction  which  allow'd  the  Lieut.  Govr. 
to  receive  rent  for  a  house  until  one  be  built  for  him, 
because  we  find  that  there  is  now  a  house  built  there 
pursuant  to  an  Act  pass'd  in  those  Islands  in  1698. 
In  obedience  to  your  Majesty's  particular  commands 
signify' d  to  us  by  the  Lord  Carteret's  letter  of  the  6th 
of  the  last  month  we  have  added  at  the  end  of  Col. 
Hope's  27th  Instruction  a  permission  for  him  to  receive 
such  addition  to  his  salary  as  the  Assembly  there  shall 
think  fit  to  make  under  the  restrictions  therein  men- 
tion'd.  And  in  obedience  to  your  Majesty's  further 
commands  signify'd  by  an  Order  of  Council  of  the  26th 
of  the  last  month  we  have  alter'd  the  58th  and  62nd 
Instructions  relating  to  the  Bishop  of  London's  certifi- 
cate for  Ministers  and  licences  for  Schoolmasters 
pursuant  to  the  said  Order.  We  also  take  leave  to 
lay  before  yom'  Majesty  the  draught  of  the  usual 
Instructions  particularly  in  relation  to  the  Acts  of 
Trade  and  Navigation,"  etc. 

680.  ii.  Draught    of    H.M.    Instructions    for    Lt.    Governor 
Hope. 

680.  iii.  Draught   of  Instructions   in   pursuance   of  Acts   of 
Trade  and  Navigation.     [CO.  38,  7.     pp.  390-458  (6)] 

Oct.  6.       681 .     H.M.  Warrant  for  letters  patent  to  William  Monk  as 

St.  James's.  Attorney  General  at  Jamaica  and  revoking  that  of  Edmund 

Kelly.     Countersigned,   Carteret.      Copy.      [CO.   324,  34.     pp. 

72,  73.] 

Oct.  6.  682.  Mr.  Popple  to  Horatio  Walpole.  Upon  an  Order  of 
Whitehall,  ^f  2n{i  Oct.,  Council  desires  him  to  move  the  Lords  Commrs.  of 
H.M.  Treasury,  for  40  copies  of  the  Act /or  the  further  preventing 
H.M.  subjects  from  trading  to  the  East  Indies  under  foreign  Com- 
missions etc.,  to  be  sent  to  Governors  of  Plantations.  [CO. 
324,  10.     pp.  436,  437.] 

Oct.  6.       g33.     Governor  Nicholson  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

^^Town     tations.     Refers  to  letter  of  19th  July  and  encloses  copy  of  an 

South  '    Act /or  recognizing  King  George,  with  a  list  of  other  Acts  and 

Carolina.  Ordinances  past   by  the   Assembly.     Continues :     One   of  the 

Ordinances  is  for  appointing  two  Agents  a  copy  of  which  is 

herewith  sent  to  your  Lordships  and  by  these  Agents  (God 

willing)  will  be  transmitted  to  your  Lordships  the  Acts  and 

Ordinances  under  H.M.  Great  Seal  with  the  copys  of  the  Joumall 

of  both  houses  and  likewise  the  Journall  of  the  Council  and  other 

publick  papers  which  are  now  prepareing  but  I  meet  with  a 

great  deal  of  difficulty  in  getting  persons  quallifyed  for  writeing. 

The  Agents  will  have  it  in  their  Instructions  to  wait  on  your 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  461 

1721. 

Lordships  and  receive  your  commands.  They  sail  the  16th 
inst.  etc.,  but  Capt.  Taylor  sailing  now  I  thought  it  incumbent 
upon  me  to  send  your  Lordships  the  enclosed  papers  by  which 
your  Lordships  may  please  to  see  how  we  began  and  ended 
the  Assemble.  The  copys  of  the  papers  concerning  Col.  Bam- 
well  the  Alatamaha  River  and  Fort  King  George  they  will 
informe  your  Lordships  of  the  state  of  that  affair  and  after  I 
have  dispatcht  the  Agents  I  design  God  willing  to  goe  to  those 
parts  etc.  I  have  not  been  able  (very  much  contrary  to  mv 
inclination)  to  goe  three  mile  out  of  this  town  either  bv  land 
or  water  etc.  Your  Lordships  will  conclud  I  must  ha^e  met 
with  a  great  many  difficulties  in  settling  the  Governmt.,  a  full 
account  of  which  will  be  given  your  Lordships  by  Mr.  Yonge 
of  what  was  done  in  Council,  and  by  Mr.  Lloyd  of  what  was 
done  in  the  Lower  House  of  Assembly  etc.  Mr.  Lloyd  was 
once  Secretary  to  Mr.  Craggs  in  the  Post  Office  etc.  'Tis 
generally  observed  that  since  H.M.  hath  taken  this  country 
and  Governmt.  it  hath  been  very  seasonable  weather,  but 
before  we  arrived  they  very  much  wanted  rain  that  made 
them  fear  they  should  have  had  but  mean  cropps  either  of  rice 
or  come  and  it  pleased  God  that  soone  after  H.M.  Commission 
was  published  we  had  a  good  deale  of  raine  and  we  ever  since 
have  had  very  fine  and  seasonable  weather  now  is  the  rice 
harvest  both  rice  and  come  proves  very  good  and  if  it  please 
God  the  weather  continues  but  one  fortnight  longer  the  rice  will 
be  all  in,  of  which  we  talk  of  making  30,000  barrills  this  harvest, 
etc.  P.S.  Landgrave  Morton  one  of  H.M.  Council  dyed  about 
a  month  agoe.  But  by  the  Agents  I  shall  send  your  Lordships 
a  list  of  12  persons  fitt  to  be  of  H.M.  Council.  Signed,  Fr. 
Nicholson.  Endorsed,  Reed.  9th  Jan.,  1721,  Read  17th  April, 
1722.  3  pp.  [Enclosures  missing).  \C.O.  5,  358.  ff.  109- 
llOi;.  ;   and  abstract,  with  notes  for  reply,  5,  406.     pp.  3,  4.] 

Oct.  7.  684.  Lord  Carteret  to  Governor  Hart.  It  having  been 
Whitehall,  represented  to  the  King,  that  the  losses  sustain'd  by  the  in- 
habitants of  Monserrat  on  account  of  the  descent  made  by 
the  French  in  1712,  have  in  a  great  manner  impoverished  and 
dispeopled  the  same,  many  of  the  sd.  inhabitants  having  been 
obliged  thereby  to  withdraw  their  persons  and  effects,  in  order 
to  settle  in  other  parts,  H.M.  being  willing  to  pre\ent  the 
farther  desertion  of  the  inhabitants,  and  to  encourage  those, 
who  have  already  deserted,  to  return  and  resettle  there,  is 
pleased  to  declare  his  intention  of  usmg  his  most  earnest 
endeavours  with  the  most  Xtian  King  that  the  Xlth  Article  of 
the  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  so  far  as  it  relates  to  the  Island  of  Mon- 
serrat may  be  duly  executed,  in  order  to  have  justice  done  to 
the  sufferers  for  their  losses  occasioned  by  the  above  mention'd 
descent.  And  to  the  end  this  H.M.  gracious  intention  may  have 
a  due  effect,  you  are  hereby  directed  to  communicate  the  same 


462  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

to  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  the  sd.  Island,  and  to  make 
it  known  in  such  manner  as  you  shall  judge  proper,  to  all  other 
H.M.  subjects  whom  it  may  concern.  Signed,  Carteret.  [CO. 
324,  34.     pp.  73-76.] 

Oct.  7.  685.  Same  to  Same.  It  having  been  represented  to  the 
wiiitehaii.  King  that  the  inhabitants  of  Nevis  one  of  the  Leeward  Charibbee 
Islands,  suffer  great  uneasiness  on  account  of  a  former  capitula- 
tion between  M.  d'Iberville  and  the  inhabitants,  in  1706,  and 
that  they  apprehend  the  demands  founded  on  the  sd.  Capitu- 
lation may  be  unjustly  made  upon  them  by  the  French  ;  H.M. 
being  willing  to  remove  any  such  apprehensions  from  the  minds 
of  the  inhabitants,  and  to  encourage  them  to  remain  in  the 
quiet  and  peaceable  enjoymt.  of  their  possessions  in  the  sd. 
Island,  is  pleased  to  declare  His  intention  of  supporting  them 
in  their  just  rights,  and  of  affording  them  all  due  succour  and 
protection  on  account  of  the  abovementioned  demands.  And 
to  the  end  this  H.M.  gracious  intention  may  have  a  due  effect, 
you  are  hereby  directed  to  communicate  the  same  to  the  Council 
and  Assembly  of  the  sd.  Island,  and  to  make  it  known  in  such 
manner  as  you  shall  judge  proper  to  all  other  H.M.  subjects 
whom  it  may  concern.  Signed,  Carteret.  [CO.  324,  34. 
pp.  76,  77.] 

Oct.  8.       686.     Order    of   Council.     Approving    Instructions    for    Lt. 

"Whitehall.  Govcmor    Hopc    {v.    5th    Oct.).     Signed,    Edward    Southv/ell. 

Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd,  Read  24th  April,  1722.     1^  pp.     [CO. 

37,  10.     No.  23  ;    and  {duplicate,  signed,  Temple  Stanyan)  5, 

191.     p.  307a.] 

Oct.  11.  687.  Mr.  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Since 
Barbados,  ^-j^y  jg^^^^  very  little  material  has  happen'd  etc.,  except  the  follow- 
ing particulars.  The  restor'd  Members  of  Council  still  persist  in 
refuseing  to  act  with  the  Assembly  etc.  I  lately  received  a  very 
llaming  complaint  against  Mr.  Sutton  in  two  petitions  etc. 
enclosed,  and  I  order'd  it  to  be  heard  before  myself  in  Council, 
that  Mr,  Sutton  might  have  an  oppertunity  of  makeing  his 
defence.  But  through  the  artifices  of  the  said  Members  of 
Council,  they  have  contriv'd  to  avoid  makeing  a  Board,  though 
twice  specially  sumon'd,  I  have  call'd  them  againe  to  meet 
to-morrow  etc.  I  have  carefully  search' d  all  the  Council  Books 
of  Barbados,  and  cannot  find  the  Order  of  his  late  Majesty 
King  William  reffer'd  to  in  the  34th  clause  of  my  Instructions 
enter'd  therein,  and  humbly  offer  it  as  my  opinion  that  a  fresh 
copy  of  the  said  Order  be  transmitted  hither.  I  must  according 
to  the  directions  in  the  said  34th  clause  observe  to  your  Lordships 
that  the  makeing  indebted  persons  either  Chief  Judges  or 
Assistants  Judges  in  the  Precints  where  they  live  and  of  course 
in  the  Court  where  they  are  to  be  sued  is  of  very  ill  consequence 


AMERICA   AND    WP:ST   INDIES.  463 


1721 


and  tends  to  the  obstruction  of  Justice  etc.     I  ha^•e  received  a 
complaint  against  William  Carter  Esq.  a  Member  of  Council 
for  threatening  as  he  was  a  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  to 
give  a  cause  against  one  William  Bayley  for  not  voting  for  ye 
said  Carter's  brother.     But  I  have  done  nothing  therein,  except 
ordering  Carter  to  answer  it,  nor  shall  I  do  an)i:hing  therein 
but  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  Council.     Depositions 
enclosed.     The  dayly  ill  treatment  I  meet  with  from  the  restored 
Officers  makes  me  impatiently  wish  for  the  Lord  Bellhaven's 
arrivall.     They  indeed  report  and  perhaps  may  endeavour  to 
raise  a  clamour  in  England  as  if  I  intended  to  displace  all  of 
them  again,  and  indeed  by  their  conduct  they  seem  to  wish  for 
it,  and  provoke  me  to  do  it,  But  I  assure  your  Lordships  I  have 
no  such  intentions  how  just  so  ever  my  reasons  may  be,  being 
determin'd  so  farr  as  is  consistent  with  the  preservation  of  the 
Prerogative  and  the  administration  of  Justice  to  let  them  con- 
tinue not  doubting  but  that  my  Lord  Bellhaven  when  he  finds 
the  Millitia  in  such  a  shatter'd  condition,  and  our  Courts  of 
Justice  compos'd  for  ye  most  part  of  persons  of  scandalous 
charracters  more  in  debt  then  they  are  worth,  will  redress  these 
grievances   of  our   poor   Country.     Refers  to   escape  oj  illegal 
traders,     v.   23rd  Aug.,    "  throw  the   conniveance   of  the  two 
gunners  at  Charles  Fort  whom  I  have  therefore  displaced.     The 
conduct  of  ye  Custom  House  Officer  Mr.  Gibbes  on  this  occasion 
gives  me  just  ground   of   suspect   that    he    was    concern'd    in 
that    escape,  and    the  Collector  Mr.  Lascells  since  his  arrival 
has  been  so  farr  from  concuring  with  me  in  the  prosecution, 
that  he  does  all  he  can  to  retard  and  obstruct  it,  and  refuses  to 
come  to  me  altho'  I  have  sent  for  him."     Signed,  Saml.  Cox. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  4th  Dec,  1721,    Read  11th  Jan.,  172^.     2  jjp. 
Enclosed, 

687.  i.  Petition  of  Joseph  Fowle,  junr.,  and  Francis  Lee  to 
Samuel  Cox,  President  of  the  Council.  Petitioners 
obtained  judgements  against  William  Chearnley,  two 
of  whose  negroes  were  sold  by  auction  to  Willoughby 
Duffey.  The  purchase  money  was  not  paid  by  him 
within  twenty  days,  according  to  law,  but  upon  his 
petition  Judge  Sutton  quashed  the  outcrys  and  all 
proceedings  thereon  on  pretence  that  the  said  negroes 
were  the  slaves  of  William  Chearnley  father  of  sd. 
Chearnley  and  therefore  first  liable  to  his  debts  etc. 
Chearnley  was  only  entitled  to  one  third  part  of  his 
father's  estate  by  his  will.  The  title  of  the  purchaser 
ought  to  have  been  tried  by  jury,  and  Scrutton  acted 
ultra  vires,  whilst  the  purchaser  had  his  remedy  in 
law  against  W.  Chearnley,  jr.  Pray  for  relief.  Signed, 
Joseph  Fowle  junr.,  Francis  Lee.  Ordered  to  be 
heard  before  President  and  Council  at  next  sitting. 


464  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

Signed,   Sam.   Cox.     10th   Oct.   1721.     Same  endorse- 
ment.    2^  pp. 

687.  ii.  Deposition  of  John  Smith.  11th  Oct,  1721.  In  Aug. 
1720  William  Carter,  then  a  Member  of  Council, 
promised,  through  deponent,  to  vote  for  William  Bayly 
(who  married  the  sister  of  deponent's  wife)  at  the 
Council  board  in  his  case  against  James  Cecil,  if  Bavly 
would  vote  for  John  Carter  and  Thomas  Spencer  to 
be  Assemblymen  etc.  Signed,  John  Smith.  Same 
endorsement,     f  p. 

687.  ii.  Deposition  of  Antipas  Treasure.  11th  Oct.,  1721. 
Deponent  heard  William  Carter  threaten  William 
Bayly  {v.  preceding),  that  he  would  do  his  endeavour 
to  put  James  Cecill  into  possession  of  Bayly's  land 
before  the  time  of  the  election.  Bayly  answered 
that  he  should  be  a  freeholder  for  all  that.  Signed, 
Antipas  Treasure.     Same  endorsement.     |  p. 

687.  iii.  Deposition  of  Mary  Tyldesley.  11th  Oct.  1721. 
To  same  effect  as  Nos.  ii.,  iii.  Signed,  Mary  Tyldesley. 
Same  endorsement.     |  p. 

687.  iv.  Deposition  of  William  Bayly  of  St.  Thomas'  parish, 
planter,  2nd  Oct.,  1721.  Carter  {v.  preceding)  said 
he  had  served  Cecil  before  and  would  serve  him  again 
etc.  Deponent  believes  Carter  bears  him  ill  will, 
because  he  always  refuses  to  vote  for  him  and  his 
friends  etc.  Signed,  Will.  Bavlv.  Same  endorsement. 
1  p. 

687.  V.  Petition  of  plaintiffs  in  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
for  the  precinct  of  St.  Michael  to  Saml.  Cox,  President. 
In  accordance  with  H.M.  Order  for  restoring  officers 
etc.,  28th  May,  your  honour  did  appoint  Edmund 
Sutton,  Chief  Judge,  and  Thomas  Dinning,  Thomas 
May  cock  and  John  Boynton  and  Christopher  Fowler 
to  be  Assistants  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas.  Sutton 
swore  Dinning  and  Boynton,  but  refused  to  swear 
Fowler  though  the  latter  offered  himself.  Maycock 
being  very  much  in  debt  and  there  being  several 
writts  against  his  body  did  not  think  fit  to  appear 
at  the  Court.  Sutton,  Dinning  and  Boynton  had 
several  actions  depending  in  sd.  Court  agt.  themselves, 
but  such  of  sd.  actions  as  were  called  were  put  off  for 
want  of  a  quorum  on  the  Bench  etc.  Sutton  held  the 
Court  only  a  few  hours  in  two  of  the  four  days  it 
ought  to  have  been  held,  so  that  not  above  60  actions 
were  tried,  and  400  postponed  etc.  Pray  for  relief. 
Signed,  Jno.  Bentley,  J,  Riddock,  Cha.  Dundas,  Phil. 
Evans.  Endorsed  as  precedi7ig.  2  pp.  [CO.  28, 
17.    ff.  216-2171).,  218r.-225t'.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


465 


1721. 
Oct.   11. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  14. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  14. 

Kensington. 


Oct.  14. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  16. 

New  York. 


Wt.  75t6 


688.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
You  are  to  prepare  an  Instruction  for  His  Grace  the  Duke  of 
Portland  agreeable  to  those  which  you  have  already  prepared 
for  the  present  Governors  of  Barbadoes,  the  Leeward  Islands 
and  Bermuda  etc.  v.  5th  July  etc.  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed, 
Reed.    12th,    Read    27th    Oct.,    1721.     1    p.     \C.O.    137,    14. 

ff.  44,  45i,\  ;    and  5,  1092.     No.  24.] 

689.  Lord  Carteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Having  laid  before  the  King  your  Lops,  report  of  the  14th  past 
etc.  I  am  hereby  to  signify  to  you  H.M.  pleasure,  that  you 
prepare  an  Additional  Instruction  for  Lord  Belhaven,  conform- 
able to  the  said  report,  excepting  only,  that  you  make  such 
alterations  therein,  as  are  proposed  in  your  letter  to  me  of  the 
4th  inst.  Signed,  Carteret.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th.  Read  7th 
Oct.,  1721.     f  p.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  185,  186r.] 

690.  H.M.  Commission  to  Lt.  Governor  Hope  to  be  Captain 
of  the  Independent  Company  at  Bermuda.  Countersigned, 
Carteret.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  77,  78.] 

691.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchett.  Encloses,  for  the  in- 
formation of  the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty,  complaints  against 
Capt.  Whitney  received  with  Governor  Hamilton's  letter  of 
19th  May.     [C.O.  153,  14.     pp.  82,  83.] 

692.  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Abstract.  Encloses  with  comments  20  acts  of  New 
York  passed  in  a  sessions  begun  16th  May  and  ended  27th  July, 
and  Minutes  of  Council,  21st  Dec,  1720-1 9th  Sept.,  1721.  Con- 
tinues :  I  come  now  to  give  your  Lordships  an  account  of  my 
transactions  at  Albany  which  have  given  me  no  small  satis- 
faction and  I  hope  will  not  be  displeasing  to  your  Lordships. 
I  came  to  Albany  on  the  29th  of  August  and  ye  Indians  came 
thither  on  1st  September  the  day  appointed  which  is  not  usual 
with  them  and  in  greater  numbers  than  have  been  known  for 
many  years.  At  first  in  private  conferences  I  expostulated 
with  them  about  their  late  engagements  with  the  French. 
These  they  imputed  to  a  few  ill  men  among  them  and  the  ill 
effect  that  false  reports  spread  by  the  French  concernmg  me, 
had  among  the  young  men  but  said  that  was  now  over,  and  they 
were  satisfyed  that  it  was  all  a  trick  to  mislead  them  against 
their  true  interest.  I  told  them  that  I  knew  that  Cannasora 
an  Onondaga  Indian,  who  has  been  the  most  leading  man 
among  them  and  their  Speaker  for  these  thirty  years,  was 
a  French  spy  and  had  been  the  cheif  ill  instrument  among  them 
and  desired  as  a  token  of  their  good  intentions  that  they  would 
choose  another  Speaker,  which  they  readily  did ;  I  conversed 
with  some  of  them  every  day  by  an  Interpreter  and  grew  so 

C.P.  32—30 


460  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

well  acquainted  and  familiar  with  them,  that  they  were  never 
observed  to  be  better  pleased  and  when  I  was  fully  informed 
of  their  dispositions,  I  made  them  my  general  Speech  or  Pro- 
positions, and  they  gave  me  a  very  satisfactory  and  hearty 
answer.  Refers  to  copies  enclosed.  Continues : — And  that  I 
might  improve  their  present  good  humour  to  the  best  advantage 
I  have  employed  the  £500  granted  this  year  by  the  Assembly 
cheifly  to  the  erecting  and  encouraging  a  settlement  at  Tirand- 
aquet  a  creek  on  the  Lake  Ontario,  about  60  miles  on  this  side 
of  Niagara  whither  there  are  now  actually  gone  a  company 
of  ten  persons  with  the  approbation  of  our  Indians  and  with 
assurance  of  a  sufficient  number  of  themselves  to  live  with  them 
and  l^e  a  guard  to  them  against  any  surprize,  and  because  the 
late  President  of  Councill  Peter  Schuylers  son  first  offered  his 
sendee  to  go  at  the  head  of  this  expedition  I  readily  accepted 
him  and  have  made  him  several  presents  to  equip  him  and  give 
him  a  hansome  allowance  for  his  own  salary  and  a  commission 
of  Captain  over  the  rest  that  are  or  may  be  there  with  him  and 
Agent  to  treat  with  the  Indians  from  me  for  purchasing  land  etc. 
This  company  have  undertaken  to  remain  on  this  settlement 
and  that  never  above  two  shall  be  absent  at  once,  and  tho'  these 
have  the  sole  encouragement  at  present  out  of  the  publiek 
money  yet  there  is  nothing  that  hinders  as  many  more  to  go 
and  settle  there  or  anywhere  else  on  their  own  account  as 
please.  This  place  is  undisputedly  in  the  Indians  possession 
and  lyes  very  convenient  for  all  the  far  Indians  to  come  on 
account  of  trade  from  which  the  French  at  Niagara  will  not 
easily  hinder  them  because  first  it  must  be  soon  known  and  is 
against  the  Treaty  and  besides  they  may  easily  slip  by  them 
in  canoes  and  get  to  this  place  before  the  french  can  catch 
them  in  the  pursuit,  if  they  should  attempt  to  hinder  them. 
This  my  Lords  is  the  beginning  of  a  great  trade  that  may  be 
maintained  with  all  the  Indians  upon  the  Lakes  and  the  cheap- 
ness of  all  our  goods  except  powder  above  the  freneh  will  by 
degrees  draw  all  that  trade  to  us,  which  cannot  better  appear 
than  l)y  the  french  having  found  it  worth  while  to  buy  uur 
goods  at  Albany  to  sell  again  to  the  Indians.  Wherefore  to 
break  that  practice  more  eifectually,  I  have  placed  a  sufficient 
guard  of  soldiers  on  the  carrying  place  to  Canada  and  build 
a  small  block  house  there  with  the  remainder  of  the  £500  before 
mentioned.  As  to  Niagara  I  did  write  to  the  Governour  of 
Canada  to  complain  of  all  the  unwarrontable  steps  he  has  taken, 
and  among  others  of  his  erecting  a  blockhouse  at  Niagara  before 
the  Treaty  of  limits  had  setled  who  it  belongs  to,  I  received 
his  answer  at  Albany  in  which  he  flatly  denyes  most  of  the  facts 
I  complain  of.  But  as  to  Niagara  he  pretends  possession  for 
above  fifty  years  first  taken  by  Mr,  de  la  Sale,  This  letter  from 
the  Governour  of  Canada  was  of  great  use  to  me  with  the  Indians, 
for  I  made  a  french  Interpretress  explain  it  all  to  them  by  which 


AMERICA     AND     WEST     INDIES.  407 


1721. 


they  saw  that  he  was  obliged  to  disown  all  his  proceedings 
with  them.     And  that  his  pretensions  to  Niagara  as  belonging 
to  the  French  was  quite  contrary  to  what  Mr,  de  Longueil  sent 
by  the  Governour  of  Canada  to  treat  with  them  had  told  them 
last  year,  for  he  acknowledged  to  them  it  was  their  land  and 
that  he  only  desired  leave  to  keep  a  magazine  there  to  supply 
them  with  powder  and  other  necessarys.     Upon  this  occasion 
the  Indians  inform'd  me  that  fort  Frontenac  had  been  built 
by  the  French  by  meanes  of  the  like  pretences  formerly,  by  first 
erecting  a  block  house  on  land  which  they  owned  to  belong  to 
the  Indians  and  saying  it  was  only  to  be  a  magazine  to  supply 
them  with  goods  and  wh'en  afterwards  the  Indians  found  them 
fortifying  there,  they  said  it  was  to  have  a  post  to  defend  the 
5  Nations  from  the  attempts  of  some  northern  Indians  who 
intended  to  invade  them.     This  they  own  they  were  foolish 
enough  to  be  deceiv'd  by  thirty  years  ago  but  were  now  resolv'd 
not  to  let  Niagara  be  fortified  tho'  it  had  been  so  once  already 
by  the  French  and  they  had  pulled  it  down.     I  can  not  think 
yt.  ye  french  having  been  long  ago  at  a  place  can  give  them  a 
title  to  it   without  the  consent  of  the  native  Proprietors  for  it 
it  is  only  derelicta  that  become  primi  occupantis  but  Niagara 
and  a  thousand  miles  further  all  round  the  Lakes,  has  been  all 
along  used  by  the  five  Nations  as  their  hunting  country  after 
having  subdued  the  old  inhabitants,   before  the  french  came 
into  America,  all  which  right  the  five  Nations  have  conveyed 
to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  in  these  express  words  in  their 
reply  to  Lt.  Governor  Nanfan  at  Albany,  19th  July,  1701,  "  We 
do  give  up  and  render   all   that  land  where  the  beavor  hunting 
is  which  we  won  in  war  eighty  years  ago  to  Coraghkoe  our  Great 
King  and  pray  that  he  may  be  our  Protector  and  Defender 
there."     And  in  that  very  treaty  the  Indians  complain  of    the 
French  setling  at  the  Detroit  between  Lake   Erie  and  Lake 
Huron,  as  an  eiicroachmt.  on  the  land  of  their  beavor  hunting. 
This  title  of  the  5  Nations  or  Iroquois  as  the  french  call  them 
to  the  hunting    country    appears  by  the  maps  of  the  french 
travellers  at  Baron  La  Hontan  and  Pere  Hennepin  in  those 
countrys  where  in  several  parts  it  is  mark'd  Chasse  des  Iroquois 
and  in  the  late  french  map  of  ye  Louissiane  published  in  1718 
there  is  in  one  place  mark'd  Nation  dctruite  par  les  Iroquois.     I 
can  not  see  what  the  French  can  pretend  to  invalidate  this  title, 
tho'  by  their  unwearied  application  they  have  been  continually 
making    encroachments  on  this    hunting  country  of  the  five 
Nations  and  small  settlemts.  in  the  best  spots  of  it  particularly 
at  Le  Detroit  beforementioned  which  is  the  richest  spot  of    all. 
To  shew  your  Lordships  what  pains  the  french  take  to  gain 
our  Indians  notwithstanding  the  Govr.  of  Canada's  protestations 
to  me  of  the  contrary  ;    while  I  was  at  Albany  there  came  an 
Indian  express  from  the  Senecas  country  to  his  brethren  at 
Albany  telling  them  that  there  was  some  french  men  come  to 


4G8  COLONIAL     PAPERS. 

1721. 

their  homes  to  warn  uiul  conjure  them  not  to  go  to  Albany, 
for  that  I  designed  to  cut  them  all  off,  that  T  might  get  their 
land  and  that  if  they  would  have  some  to  go  to  Albany  to  let 
it  be  only  a  few  old  men  and  that  even  they  would  be  in  great 
danger  of  being  poysoned,  so  restless  as  [fare]  the  freneh  in 
these  parts  but  the  Indians  I  am  resolved  to  keep  them  at  a 
distance  for  the  future,  and  I  hope  next  year  when  I  have 
reeei\"ed  the  King's  present  that  I  shall  fix  what  I  have  now 
begun  on  such  a  foot  that  the  freneh  will  not  be  able  to 
defeat  it,  wch.  makes  me  beg  your  Lordships  to  obtain  so 
necessary  a  supply  for  me  for  it  has  been  a  great  charge  and 
expence  to  myself  l)esides  the  allowance  of  the  Assembly  to 
make  a  noble  present  this  time  because  it  was  necessary  etc. 
I  did  intend  to  setle  the  Palatines  in  the  middle  of  our  Indians, 
l)ut  finding  they  could  not  be  brought  to  that  I  have  granted 
their  request  to  have  a  licence  to  purchase  of  the  nearest  Indians, 
the  Mohocks,  etc.,  weh.  I  have  yeilded  them  with  this  condition 
that  it  be  not  nearer  than  a  fall  in  the  Mohocks  River  which  is 
forty  miles  above  fort  Hunter  and  four  score  from  Albany  by 
which  ye  frontier  will  be  so  much  extended  and  those  people 
seem  very  well  satisfy'd  etc.,  and  as  a  proof  of  it,  all  that  did 
live  in  a  lawless  manner  before  on  ye  land  at  Schokery  which 
had  been  granted  to  other  proprietors  have  now  actually  taken 
leases  from  them  and  attorned  tenants  to  them  etc.  I  wall  at 
this  time  only  repeat  my  instances  that  you  will  please  to  obtain 
the  2  pr.  cent.  Act  to  be  confirmed,  the  King's  presents  for  the 
Indians  to  be  sent  and  the  stores  for  these  garrisons,  all  which 
we  are  in  the  utmost  want  of  and  I  hope  your  I^ordships  will 
think  so  promising  beginnings,  may  deserve  a  more  particular 
protection  and  encouragement.  Set  out,  Doc.  Hist,  of  New 
York,  I.  289.  Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read 
20th  Dec,  1721.'   IS^  pp.     Enclosed, 

692.  i.  Governor   Burnet's   speech   to   the    Five   Nations   of 

Indians    at    Albany,    7th  Sept.,  1721.       Set  out,  N.Y. 

Col.     Does.     V.    pp.      635-638.      Same    endorsement. 

5f  pp. 

692.  ii.  Answer  of  the  Five  Nations  to  preceding.     Albany, 

9th  Sept.,  1721.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  pp. 
638-641.  Same  endorsement.  2f  pp.  [CO.  5,  1053. 
ff.  4-10i'.,  l]r.-14i),  15iJ.] 

Oct.  17.       693.     Council  of  Trade   and   Plantations  to   Lord   Carteret. 
whii.  ii;iii.  Enclose  following  for  H.^.I.  approbation.     Annexed, 

693.  i.  Draught  of  H.M.  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor 

Lord  Belhaven.  Whereas  by  the  88th  Article  of 
Our  Instruetion.s,  you  are  restrained  from  granting 
unto  any  person  or  persons  any  lands  which  now  are 
or  hereafter  shall  be  in  our  power  to  dispose  of,  in  any 
of  Our  Islands,  until  vou  receive  Our  further  orders 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  469 


1721. 

therein.  And  whereas  it  has  been  represented  to 
us  by  Our  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plantations, 
that  it  would  very  much  conduce  to  the  benefit  of 
this  Our  Kingdom,  if  not  only  Tobago,  but  the  other 
Charibbee  Islands  were  planted  and  settled.  It  is 
therefore  Our  will  and  pleasure,  and  We  do  hereby 
give  you  full  power  and  authority,  with  the  advice 
and  consent  of  Our  Council  of  Barbados,  to  make 
grants  of  land  in  Tobago  to  be  pass'd  under  the  seal 
of  Our  said  Island  under  the  following  restrictions  as 
to  planters  from  Charibbee  Islands,  number  of  acres  in 
grant  and  cultivation  of  same,  obligation  to  keep  white 
servants,  prohibition  of  planting  sugar  canes,  encourage- 
ment of  planting  cocoa,  anatto,  and  indigo,  payment  of 
quit-rents  (2/6  per  100  acres),  and  4|-  per  cent,  as  pro- 
posed, I'ifth  Sept.  and  Uh  Oct.  supra.  [CO.  29,  14. 
pp.  250-254.] 

Oct.  20.  694.  Robert  Armstrong  to  Charles  Burniston,  Surveyor 
General  of  H.M.  Woods.  Refers  to  letter  of  20th  Nov.  last. 
Continues : — Upon  my  surveying  the  woods,  I  find  in  New- 
hampshire,  there  was  upwards  of  25,000  loggs  cutt  about  one 
year  before  I  entred  upon  my  post,  and  that  two  thirds  of  said 
loggs  was  from  upwards  of  24  in.  to  above  30  and  20  ft.  long, 
all  cutt  into  suitable  lenghts,  and  brought  down  to  the  severall 
mills  in  New  Hampr.  to  be  sawed  into  plank  boards,  and  other 
timber.  Estimates  that  for  20  years  where  there  was  one  mast 
sent  home  by  contract  for  H.M.  service  there  was  500  cutt  or 
destroyed,  all  or  the  most  part  out  of  New  Hampshire  etc.,  and 
there  is  likewise  some  thousands  of  loggs  cutt  in  the  abovesaid 
woods,  much  about  the  same  dimentions  in  order  to  be  brought 
to  the  waterside,  to  be  conveyed  to  the  mills.  The  waste  is 
due  partly  to  the  penning  of  the  Acts,  and  to  the  Surs-eyor's 
receiving  money  from  the  loggers  etc.  Signed,  Robt.  Arm- 
strong. Endorsed,  Reed.,  from  Mr.  Burniston,  5th,  Read  9th 
Feb.,  17t^     3  pp.     [CO.  5,  868.    .//.  161-162t'.] 

Oct.  21.       695.     H.M.   Instructions  to  Lt.   Governor  Hope,   with  In- 
st. James's,  j^tructions  relating  to  the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation.     [CO. 
5,  191.     pp.  308-353.] 

Oct.  25.       696.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 

WhitehaU.  Enclosc  foUoAving  for  H.M.  approbation  {v.  26th  Sept.). 

696.  i.  Draft  of  H.M.  Additional  Instructions  to  H.M 
Governors  of  New  York,  N.  Jersey,  Carolina  and 
Barbados.  Whereas  by  Our  Instructions  to  you  for 
the  Governmt.  of  our  sd.  Island  of  Barbados  etc.  you 
are  empower'd  by  the  first  part  of  the  63  Art.  thereof 
to  prefer  any  JMinister  to  any  Ecclesiastical  Benefice  • 


i70  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

in  that  Island  who  produces  a  certificate  from  the 
Right  Reverend  Father  in  God  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
London  or  some  other  Bishop  of  his  being  conformable 
to  ye  doctrine  and  discipHne  of  the  Church  of  England, 
and  of  a  good  life  and  conversation  ;  It  is  nevertheless 
Our  Will  and  Pleasure  that  you  do  not  prefer  any 
Minister  to  any  Ecclesiastical  Benefice  in  that  Island 
without  a  certificate  from  the  Right  Reverend  Father 
in  God  the  Ld.  Bp.  of  London  of  his  being  conformable 
to  the  doctrine  and  discipline  of  the  Church  of  England, 
and  of  a  good  life  and  conversation.  Mem.  in  margin  : 
Nicholson's  Instructions  for  Carolina  dated  27th  Sept. 
1720  Art.  75  &  79  ;  Burnet's  for  New  Jersey,  3rd 
June,  1720,  Art.  76  only  ;  New  York  Art.  71  &  75. 
And  whereas  by  the  67  Art.  of  Our  sd.  Instructions 
you  are  empower'd  to  admit  schoolmasters  coming 
from  this  Kingdom  to  keep  school  in  Barbados  by 
virtue  of  your  own  licence,  in  case  persons  with  licences 
from  the  sd.  Bp.  of  London  shall  be  wanting  there. 
It  is  also  Our  Will  and  Pleasure  that  no  person  be 
henceforward  admitted  to  keep  school  in  that  Island 
without  the  licence  of  the  said  Ld.  Bp.  of  London. 
Mem.  There  is  no  such  article  in  the  New  Jersey 
Instructions.     [CO.    324,    10.     pp.    437-439.] 

Oct.  20.  697.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  of  the 
vvhiteiuJi.  Treasury.  Refer  to  letter  of  4th  Aug.  relating  to  building  of 
new  rooms.  Conclude  :  Wee  now  are  oblig'd  to  acquaint  your 
Lordships,  that  the  rain  comes  in  so  very  much,  it  will  be  im- 
possible in  a  short  time  for  us  to  sitt  in  the  Office,  unless  your 
Lordships  shall  be  pleas' d  to  give  speedy  orders  for  repairing 
the  same,  and  for  building  of  the  rooms  mentioned  etc.  [CO. 
389,  37.     pp.  210,   211.] 

[Oct.  27.]  698.  Joshua  Gee  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Memorial  upon  the  Trade  of  the  Plantations.  The  Settlement 
of  Plantations  and  the  Act  of  Navigation  have  greatly  encreased 
our  shipping  etc.  Continues  :  We  have  by  the  favour  of  our 
Plantation  Trade  and  Newfoundland  Fishery  so  encreased  our 
shipping  and  navigation,  that  we  greatly  exceed  the  Dutch 
shiping  in  number  of  tonnage  and  even  in  hiring  out  our  ships 
to  frieght  etc.  We  formerly  paid  the  Portuguese  and  Spaniards 
5  or  £600,000  yearly  for  sugar,  tobacco,  indigo  etc.,  with  which 
we  are  now  supplyd  from  our  own  Plantations,  over  and  above 
what  we  re-export.  We  still  pay  Muscovy,  Sweden  and  Denmark 
7  or  £800,000  yearly  for  iron,  copper,  hemp  and  flax,  boards 
and  timber,  which  might  he  plentifully  supplyed  from  our  own 
Plantations,  by  the  labour  of  our  own  poor.  I  don't  mention 
pitch  and  tar  because  we  are  discharged  from  the  yoke  we  were 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  471 


1721 


under  to  the  Swedes  and  Russians  for  that  comodity.  And 
some  further  care  and  incourugement  from  the  (iovernment, 
would  put  the  inhabitants  upon  raising  and  providing  all  the 
rest  of  the  aforesaid  comoditys.  For  we  have  an  intire  forest 
of  14  or  1500  miles  long  and  3  or  400  broad,  filled  with  mul- 
titudes of  trees  of  all  kinds,  the  country  abounding  with  navigable 
rivers  for  bringing  down  timber  etc.,  with  vast  cjuantity  of  iron 
mine,  and  some  other  mettals,  and  with  extraordinary  land  for 
producing  hemp  and  flax,  what  is  wanting  is  to  give  proper 
incouragment  to  the  inhabitanis,  to  begin  upon  these  manu- 
facturys.  The  merchants  are  of  opinion  that  taking  of  all  dutys 
from  timber  and  boards  [imported  from  the  ?  j  Plantations,  will 
be  sufficient  incouragment  for  importing  those  comoditys  ; 
that  granting  liberty  to  import  pig  or  sow  iron  free  from  all  duty 
will  be  sufficient  encouragment  for  that  comodity  ;  that 
allowing  £6  pr.  ton  upon  flax  may  be  [?sufficien]t  to  encourage 
the  importation  of  it.  But  as  very  little  progres  has  been 
[tnade]  in  sowing  and  raising  hemp  and  as  it  is  impossible  to 
carry  on  the  Navigation  of  [Engljand  without  a  supply  of  7  or 
8000  ton  of  hemp  from  abroard  and  the  Czar  having  got  all  the 
principal  ports  from  whence  we  used  to  be  supplyed  into  his 
own  hand,  and  being  a  Prince  of  deep  penetration  and  enquiry 
etc.  will  doubtless  load  this  comodity  with  so  many  difficulties, 
that  we  shall  not  have  it  otherwise  than  upon  his  own  terms, 
and  perhaps  in  his  own  ships  :  Therefore  'tis  humbly  conceived, 
that  the  Government  ought  to  take  some  extraordinary  care, 
to  set  the  people  of  America  before  any  other  imployment 
whatsoever  upon  sowing  raising  and  dressing  of  hemp.  If 
£10  per  ton  was  given  by  way  of  bounty,  for  the  term  of  7  years, 
it  would  be  the  best  money  that  coud  be  laid  out,  for  tho'  a 
bounty  of  £6  per  ton  has  been  allowed  for  16  or  17  years  past, 
yet  it  has  not  produced  the  importation  of  one  pound  in  all 
that  time.  When  the  Swedish  ports  in  Livonia  etc.  were  open 
to  us,  hemp  seldom  exceeded  20*.  pr.  hundred,  but  since  those 
ports  came  into  the  Czar's  hands,  he  has  found  out  methods 
already  to  make  it  7  or  8s.  pr.  hundred  dearer  to  the  consumer. 
The  persons  concerned  in  building  and  fitting  of  ships,  as  well 
as  several  merchants,  are  under  direfull  apprehensions  what 
the  consequence  may  be,  if  he  should  pursue  those  measures 
etc.  It  will  be  nearly  7  years  before  people  can  get  into  a  right 
way  of  raising  any  great  quantitys  of  hemp,  etc.,  so  that  the 
bounty  to  he  given  cannot  amount  to  any  large  sume  in  that 
time  ;  but  if  by  the  last  year  of  that  tcrme,  they  should  supply 
us  with  1000  ton,  and  the  Government  should  distribute 
£10,000  among  our  own  inhabitants,  by  way  of  bounty,  it 
ought  not  so  much  as  to  be  named,  in  comparison  of  the  many 
hundred  thousand  pounds,  that  are  paid  yearly  to  the  Muscovites 
etc.  for  naval  stores.  Altho'  our  planters  are  possessed  of  land, 
they  have  wanted  seed,  some  indeed  have  carryed  over  several 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


172L 


parcels  in  order  to  sow  it,  but  their  unskilfulness  in  the  nature 
of  seeds,  made  their  experiments  unsuccessful,  for  they  shipt 
it  off,  and  put  it  in  the  hold,  where  it  heated,  which  rendered 
it  altogether  useles,  for  once  heated  it  will  not  grow.  Proposes 
that  3  or  400  bushels  of  hemp  seed  in  cask,  carried  above  deck, 
be  given  to  the  most  industrious  planters  etc.  As  we  have  made 
a  very  great  increase  of  our  riches,  by  the  goods  Ythr ought]  from 
our  Plantations  and  re-exported,  many  true  lovers  of  their 
country  would  rejoyce  to  see  the  other  branches  of  the  products 
of  America  improved  to  the  same  advantages,  and  after  we 
have  supplyed  ourselves,  then  such  bulky  comoditys  as  will  not 
bear  the  roundabout  navigation,  of  bringing  home  to  England 
and  re-exporting  to  Portugal  Spain  and  the  Streights,  should 
be  put  under  such  a  regulation,  that  they  may  become  proper 
merchandize ;  Now  this  might  be  done  by  taking  off  all 
restraints  from  those  comodities,  that  will  not  bear  the  extra- 
ordinary charge  of  bringing  home  from  the  place  of  growth 
to  England,  and  allowing  them  to  be  carryed  thither  directly, 
which  would  employ  the  national  stock,  shipmg  and  mariners 
of  this  Kingdom,  for  want  of  which  liberty,  ^\e  loose  the  supply- 
ing the  Streights  etc.  with  rice,  sugar,  tobacco  and  a  great 
many  other  Plantation  commodities.  Gives  instances.  If 
our  ships  were  allowed  to  proceed  directly  to  Spain,  Portugal 
or  the  Streights,  \this  A"m^]dom  would  unavoidably  have  the 
further  advantage,  of  becoming  the  common  \^.port\  for  Holland, 
Hamburgh,  the  Sound  and  Flanders,  which  may  be  seen  by 
what  \is  5]aid  concerning  our  Newfoundland  shiping  ;  For  this 
Navigation  will  always  supply  a  number  of  ships,  ready  to 
take  in  goods,  which  may  carry  them  for  half  the  freights  {Wie 
Frenc^h.  and  Hamburghers  can  send  out  their  ships  for  and 
return.  Then  there  must  be  a  restraint  laid  upon  all  ships 
belonging  to  the  subjects  of  Great  Brittain,  from  loading  in 
the  Plantations,  and  carrying  that  loading  to  Portugall  etc.  and 
returning  back  again  to  the  Plantations  without  coming  home 
for  England  ;  this  practice  has  been  very  prejudicial  to  our 
Navigation,  and  may  pro\'e  of  pernicious  consequence  in  time 
to  Great  Brittain,  and  is  the  onely  thing  that  can  lead  the  people 
in  the  Plantations,  into  an  independency  on  England.  For 
they  carry  their  lumber  fish  etc.  directly  to  Spain  etc.  and  there 
frequently  have  lodyed  for  them,  French  silks,  linnens  and  all 
other  things  they  want  for  the  conveniencys  of  life,  and  England 
is  entirely  cut  out  of  the  advantage  of  supplying  them.  If  all 
ships  were  obliged  to  come  home  to  England,  and  clear  out 
from  hence,  the  produce  of  all  those  comodities  would  be  brought 
home,  and  laid  in  English  comodities  ;  in  short  it  would  put 
it  out  of  the  power  of  New  England,  or  any  other  of  the  Colonies, 
to  beat  us  out  of  that  trade  :  For  they  are  now  forced  to  be 
supplyed  with  sailors  from  Em'ope,  they  give  twice  the  wages 
we  doe,  and  their  fitting  out  is  near  twice  the  charge  of  ours, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  473 


1721. 


which  is  enough  to  give  us  all  the  advantages  we  can  desire  in 
our  Plantation  trade,  and  will  soon  put  an  end  to  the  appre- 
hensions we  have  had,  of  being  injured  by  the  New  England 
ships  etc.  For  they  will  scarcely  be  able  to  carry  on  any  other 
Navigation  than  coasting  it  from  Plantation  to  Plantation, 
and  their  Fishery,  which  will  be  as  much  our  advantage  as 
theirs,  for  whatever  profits  they  make,  will  be  laid  out  in  our 
manufactures  for  their  cloathing  etc.  Newfoundland  ought 
not  to  be  considered  as  a  Colony,  and  therefore  should  not  be 
laid  under  any  of  these  restrictions,  but  esteemed  as  an  English 
Fishery,  carryed  on  by  our  own  ships,  and  the  sailors  fed  and 
cloathed  with  pro\  isions  from  hence,  who  all  return  home  at 
the  conclusion  of  the  season,  a  very  few  onely  excepted,  who 
stay  behind  to  catch  seal  and  divers  land  creatures  for  their 
oyl,  and  fur,  of  which  a  very  great  advantage  is  made  to  this 
Kingdom,  and  those  that  stay  behind  have  their  provisions 
from  hence,  for  besides  fish  in  the  season,  the  Country  produces 
litle  but  rocks  and  trees. 

Several  objections  have  been  made  against  making  Naval 
Stores  in  our  own  Plantations,  but  more  especially  against  our 
supplying  our  neighbours  with  them,  but  I  shall  make  it  appear, 
that  it  is  greatly  the  interest  of  England  etc.  It  is  objected 
that  if  they  make  iron,  they  will  fall  into  manufactures,  and 
make  nails  and  other  iron  wares  ;  To  this  'tis  answered,  that 
they  have  had  iron  works  among  them  for  40  or  50  years  past, 
and  have  always  had  Spanish  and  Swedish  iron  as  cheap  to 
a  trifle  as  we,  and  in  all  that  time  never  made  anything,  but 
what  'twas  impossible  to  subsist  without ;  tho'  they  have 
had  abundance  of  good  workmen  gone  over  thither,  whose 
circumstances  would  not  permit  them  to  stay  here.  The 
reason  is  plain,  there  is  so  much  an  easier  subsistance  to  be  made, 
where  land  is  of  so  smal  a  value,  by  a  little  farme  and  a  smal 
stock  of  cattle,  that  most  of  them  slight  manufacturies,  and  even 
in  New  England  (the  poorest  of  all  the  Colonies  and  the  fullest 
of  people)  those  few  that  do  work  will  have  near  five  times  as 
much  for  manufacturing  nails  and  other  things,  as  is  given 
for  manufacturing  in  England,  which  is  [las  much]  for  the  bare 
manufacturing,  as  'twould  cost  to  import  them  ready  made 
from  I't England].  It  must  also  be  observ'd,  that  the  country 
abounding  with  great  variety  ['i of  game]  fish  and  fowl,  diverts 
them  from  manufacturies  and  labour.     This  plenty  [  ] 

enclines  them  to  a  genteel  way  of  living,  and  by  the  help  of  a 
gun  and  tackle,  they  in  a  great  measure  supply  their  familys 
with  provisions  ;  [?  if]  they  exchange  the  produce  of  their  farm 
for  clothing,  their  end  is  answered  :  Now  if  they  could  have 
the  additional  oppertunity,  of  raising  hemp  and  flax,  which  may 
in  great  measure  be  carryed  on  by  their  servants  and  children, 
such  a  rural  way  of  life  would    be    muoii  l)otter  accomodated. 


474  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

to  the  inclination  of  the  inhabitants   of   our   Plantations,  than 
the  manufactures  of  England. 

The  best  article  they  have  is  shipbuilding,  by  which  they 
make  the  greatest  returns,  which  ships  when  built  are  sent  to 
Portugal  Spain  and  other  parts  of  Europe,  and  many  of  them 
are  sold  there.  Smiths  are  required  for  shipbuilding  as  well  as 
making  horse-shoes  and  ploughshares  etc.  If  they  should  be 
deprived  of  this  liberty,  'tis  taking  away  from  them  that  natural 
right,  which  never  fell  upon  any  people  tha,t  I  have  heard  of, 
except  the  Israelites  etc.  I  mention  this,  because  two  severe 
clauses  were  incerted  a  bill,  brought  into  Parliament,  which  'tis 
to  be  feared  were  thrust  into  it  by  the  p^i^^ate  views  of  some 
Ironmasters,  who  had  not  consideration  enough  to  think  of 
the  true  interest  of  their  country  etc.  The  fondness  of  some 
people  to  keep  in  the  old  track,  has  caused  them  to  send  their 
emissarys  about,  and  fill  Gentlemen  with  notions,  that  if  we 
were  supplyed  with  boards  a.nd  timber  from  America,  our  Royal 
Navy  would  thereby  be  deprived  of  a  sufficient  supply  of  masts. 
But  the  whole  supply  of  the  Royal  Navy  rarely  exceeds  300 
trees  in  a  year  for  masts,  and  what  are  300  trees  out  of  a  forest 
1500  miles  long  etc  ?  Others  object  against  our  supplying 
our  neighbouring  Kingdoms  with  timber,  alledging  that  if  we 
let  Portugal  and  Spain  have  timber  from  our  Plantations,  they 
will  build  ships  of  war,  and  may  in  time  interrupt  our  Navigation 
and  Trade.  But  if  we  don't  supply  them,  the  Dutch  will,  with 
as  nmch  East  Country  oak  as  they  can  want,  which  is  much 
better  timber  for  shipping  than  our  Plantations  produce  etc., 
etc.  There  is  such  a  propensity  in  the  land  of  America  to  run 
into  wood,  that  ground  which  has  been  tilled  so  long,  that  it 
would  bear  nothing,  has  within  the  space  of  20  years  been 
loaded  with  a  vast  number  of  trees,  many  of  them  about  a 
yard  and  a  half  about,  6ft.  from  the  ground.  Timber  grows 
there  so  very  quick,  that  pine  and  most  other  sorts  are  at  their 
full  growth  in  50  years.  As  to  hemp  and  flax,  the  Government 
may  save  several  times  the  amount  of  the  bounty  proposed 
by  taking  off  all  drawbacks  upon  goods  re-exported  to  our 
Plantations.  I  could  never  see  a  reason  why  the  subjects  of 
Great  Brittain,  who  have  all  along  paid  very  great  taxes  to 
support  the  Government,  and  have  been  at  the  expence  of 
Convoys  to  protect  the  Plantation  Trade,  should  bear  so  much, 
and  the  Plantations  who  have  never  paid  any  taxes,  should 
not  pay  the  comon  duties  of  linnens  etc.  worn  in  England  I 
doubt  there  is  a  great  deal  of  injury  done  to  the  trade  of  England, 
under  cover  of  this  drawback,  for  several  ships,  the  major  part 
of  whose  owners  live  in  Holland,  are  loaden  with  linnens, 
threads,  and  other  Dutch  effects,  the  master  and  two  thirds 
of  the  sailors  being  English,  they  come  boldly  to  Cows  or  some 
other  port  in  the  West,  and  there  enter  their  goods  inwards, 
and  re-export  theni    for   our  Plantations,  thus   foreigners   run 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  475 

1721. 

away  with  our  trade.  The  most  popular  allegation  for  con- 
tinuing these  drawbacks  is,  that  we  ship  them  ofl'  to  the  Spanish 
West  Indies  ;  but  none  of  our  colonies  can  pretend  to  any  such 
traffick,  except  Jamaica,  and  there  has  nothing  been  done  that 
way  of  late  etc.  The  products  of  our  Plantations  being  well 
adapted  for  the  Portugal  and  Mediterranian  market,  proposes 
that  Gibraltar  and  Port  Mahon  be  made  free  ports  etc.  Sees 
no  objection  to  supplying  the  French  Sugar  Islands  with 
horses,  provisions  and  lumber  from  our  Plantations,  as  thereby 
we  become  the  carriers  of  their  Plantation  goods  and  increase 
our  Navigation  etc. 

Adds  a  few  remarks  on  some  inconveniences  attending  our 
settlements  occasioned  by  misunderstandings  between  the 
Governours  and  the  Assemblies.  The  original  cause  of  all 
which  I  take  to  be  this  :  The  Governour  being  generally  paid 
by  them,  it  gives  them  a  handle  to  take  too  great  libertys  : 
If  he  refuses  to  consent  to  such  as  they  pass,  it  creates 
misunderstanding  etc.  If  the  Governour  and  Assembly  of 
each  Pro\'ince  were  obliged  to  transmit  all  acts  of  Assembly 
home  to  England,  to  be  approved  of  by  the  King  and  Council, 
before  passed  into  a  law,  it  would  take  away  the  cause  of  almost 
all  the  debates  and  quarrels  that  have  happened,  and  prevent 
the  passing  a  great  many  laws  that  are  prejudicial  not  only  to 
the  inhabitants  of  the  Plantations  but  even  to  those  of  Great 
Brittain.  When  parlies  run  high,  we  see  they  have  power 
enough  to  make  laws  for  persecuting  one  another,  as  in  the  case 
of  Carolina  ;  to  procure  laws  for  a  monopoly  in  trade,  adapted 
to  the  purposes  of  particular  men,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Indian 
skin  trade  in  Virginia  ;  and  to  make  laws  to  destroy  marriage 
settlements,  as  in  the  case  of  Rebecca  Richardson  in  Pensilvania  ; 
to  make  laws  to  lay  a  duty  of  tonnage  upon  all  English  shipping, 
or  upon  ships  built  in  the  Plantations,  the  major  part  of  wliose 
owners  dwell  in  England  ;  which  laws  I  am  informed  are  not 
onely  in  force  in  Pensilvania,  but  New  England,  and  some  other 
of  the  Provinces,  to  the  very  great  discouragement  of  the 
Navigation  of  Old  England.  Endorsed,  Reed.  27th  Oct.,  Read 
8th  Nov.,   1721.   Torn.   lO^pp.   [CO.  323,  8.  No.  25] 

Oct.  27.  699.  Mr.  Carkesse  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following. 
Custom  ho.,  Upon  No.  V.,  the  Commissioners  of  Customs  are  of  opinion  it 
London,  ^yould  be  for  the  ease  of  trade  and  prevent  disputes  which  may 
happen  between  officers  and  merchants,  if  the  fees  were  accord- 
ingly settled.  But  they  doe  not  think  the  appointing  officers 
at  Newfoundland  will  answer  the  end  proposed,  till  a  regular 
Government,  and  a  Court  of  Admiralty  be  settled  there. 
Upon  No.  ii.,  enquires  whether  a  Court  of  Admiralty  be  as  yet 
fix'd  at  Nova  Scotia.  Signed,  Cha.  Carkesse.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
2ud  Nov.  1721,  Read  25th  May,  1722.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 


470  •  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

699.  i.  James  Menzies,  Judge  of  the  Admiralty,  N.E.,  to 
H.M.  Commissioners  of  the  Customs.  Boston,  N.E., 
25th  July,  1717.  Repeats  his  Memorial  of  Aug.  10th, 
that  the  jurisdiction  and  Courts  of  Admiralty  in  the 
Massachusetts  Bay,  New  Hampshire  and  Rhode 
Island,  are  mightily  incroached  upon  by  the  Judges 
of  Common  Law  constituted  by  the  authority  of  the 
people  in  this  country  (except  those  of  New  Hampshire 
who  are  constituted  by  the  King)  and  thereby  the 
contravening  of  the  Acts  of  Trade  is  encouraged, 
threatening  damage  to  the  trade  and  manufactures 
of  Great  Brittain,  and  in  particular  to  the  woollen 
manufacture  etc.  The  Judges  of  the  Common  Law 
frequently  prohibit  the  execution  of  decrees  pro- 
nounced by  me  in  consequence  of  the  Acts  of  Trade 
etc.  Instances  given  etc.  Signed,  James  Menzies. 
Same  endorsement.     Copy.     3f  pp. 

699.  ii.  Hibbert  Newton,  Collector  of  Nova  Scotia,  to 
H.M.  Commissioners  of  Customs.  Anapolis  Royal. 
July  23,  1718.  Here  has  been  a  considerable  fishery 
carried  on  this  year,  and  I  believe  our  Colony  affords 
one  of  the  finest  in  the  world  out  of  which  New^  England 
reaps  great  benefit  for  returns  both  to  Europe  and  the 
West  Indies  et£.  We  require  in  return  for  what  our 
Colony  produces,  such  commodities  as  are  a  great 
advantage  to  Great  Britain  x'itX.  woollen  and  linnen 
manufactures  haberdashery  and  cutlery  wares  which 
at  present  we  are  supplied  with  from  Boston  and  do 
take  all  the  care  imaginable  that  the  European  com- 
modities are  lawfully  imported  from  Great  Britain 
by  the  produce  of  a  cocqt.  from  the  Custom  ho.  in 
Boston  for  the  want  of  which  I  made  a  small  seizure 
etc.  As  here  are  no  Courts  of  Admiralty  yet  fixed  I 
have  taken  security  till  the  tryall,  etc.  The  goods  I 
seized  were  upon  freight  etc.  The  owners  think  it 
a  very  great  hardship,  that  the  sloop  should  answer 
for  the  master's  ignorance  etc.     Copy.     1  p. 

699.  iii.  Mr.  Armstrong,  Collector,  Piscataway,  to  the  Com- 
missioners of  H.M.  Customs.  Custom  ho..  New  England. 
July  19,  1720.  I  received  your  letter  dated  31st  Oct. 
last  but  on  the  8th  instant  wherein  your  Honours 
desires  from  time  to  time  to  be  informed  what  manu- 
factures of  woollen  and  linnen  are  begun  and  carried 
on  in  my  district.  New  Hampshire  have  made  but 
little  improvement  in  their  woollens  by  reason  for  many 
years  past  they  have  altogether  gone  upon  lumber, 
Navall  Stores  etc.  But  within  this  three  years  past 
there  is  about  500  Irish  Familys  come  over  and  settled 
in  and  about  this  province  who  has  put  the  inhabitants 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  477 


1721. 


here  upon  improving  and  making  linncn  fit  for  shirting 
and  sheeting  and  will  do  the  same  in  the  severall 
Colony s  wheresoever  they  settle  (both  as  to  linnen 
and  woollen).  Refers  to  report  and  proposals  by  him- 
self in  1709.  Continues  :  It  would  have  been  of  great 
advantage  to  the  Crown  to  have  had  our  Navall 
Stores  from  New  England  in  exchange  for  our  own 
woollen  manufactures,  which  was  proposed  severall 
years  agoe  by  Sr.  Mathew  Dudley  and  others.  But  since 
that  matter  met  with  such  various  sorts  of  obstruc- 
tions at  home  and  bemg  so  often  and  to  no  purpose 
recommended  and  earnestly  sollicited  by  gentlemen 
sensible  of,  and  for  the  true  interest  of  England,  had 
that  matter  been  then  obtained  it  would  timely  have 
prevented  the  severall  Colonys  from  raising  and 
improving  their  woollen  manufactures  which  they 
have  now  brought  to  great  perfection  both  as  to  good- 
ness and  quantity.  Several  thousand  poundsworth 
of  stuffs  and  druggetts,  made  in  the  severall  Colonys 
are  sold  in  the  shops  at  Boston.  And  since  New 
England  is  capable  of  producing  their  own  manu- 
factures as  woollen,  linnen,  iron,  copper  and  raising 
of  Navall  Stores,  and  they  are  now  fully  bent  that 
nothing  shall  divert  them  from  it,  that  I  presume  in 
a  few  years  they  will  set  up  for  themselves  independent 
from  England.  In  1717  I  made  a  seizure  of  a  sloop 
load  of  wooll,  imported  from  one  Plantation  to  another 
contrary  to  the  Act  of  10th  and  11th  K.  Wm.  and  the 
same  was  adjudged  a  lawfull  seizure  and  the  wool 
and  vessel  condemned  according  to  law  and  a  decree 
given  for  sale  of  the  same.  Upon  which  the  Courts 
of  Common  Law  here  entred  a  prohibition  agt.  the 
Judge  of  the  Admiralty  not  to  enter  upon  such  actions 
(as  not  being  cognizeable)  in  his  Court,  So  by  this 
means  all  our  suites  will  be  stopt  if  these  prohibitions 
be  allowed,  for  its  only  from  the  jurisdiction  and 
authority  of  that  Court  the  officers  can  be  supported 
for  H.M.  service.  I  am  humbly  of  opinion  that  there  is 
an  absolute  necessity  of  having  that  Act  more  fully 
explaind  at  home  and  that  it  may  be  in  the  power  of 
the  Courts  of  Admiralty  in  the  Plantations  fully  to 
determine  that  matter  otherwise  the  seizing  of  wool 
here  will  be  to  no  effect,  and  they  will  still  be  en- 
couraged to  transport  wooll  from  one  Colony  to  another, 
which  will  unavoidably  enable  them  to  make  greater 
quantities  of  woollen  manufactures.  The  greatest 
stocks  of  sheep  are  raised  to  the  southward  vizt.  in 
the  Massachusetts  Goverment,  Rhoad  Island  and 
Connecticut,    and    I    am    credibly   informed   there   is 


478  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

upon  three  or  four  islands  belonging  to  these  Govern- 
ments above  30,000  sheep  besides  the  vast  quantities 
upon  the  maine  and  that  the  wool  from  these  Islands 
is  yearly  transported  to  the  severall  Colonys  to  be 
manufaetured  to  the  great  disadvantage  of  Great 
Britain  etc.  Signed,  Ro.  Armstrong.  Same  endorse- 
ment.    Copy.     3  ]jp. 

699.  iv.  John  Jekyll,  Collector,  Boston,  X.E.,  to  Same.  Aug. 
19th,  1 720.  '  Reply  to  enquiries  of  Oct.  30th.  As  for  the 
woollens  the  countrey  in  generall  make  it  for  their 
own  use  and  weave  it  commonly  themselves,  there 
are  some  fulling  mills  and  not  far  from  hence  are  made 
good  druggetts  cambletts  and  serges  which  are  sold 
to  the  shops  in  this  town  and  wore  by  the  meanest 
and  labouring  part  the  tradesmen  and  mechanicks 
commonly  appear  in  the  produce  of  Europe.  As  for 
the  linnens  the  peasants  generally  wccir  what  they 
call  homespun,  weh.  is  made  of  cotton  and  linnen, 
and  lately  some  hundreds  of  family s  from  Ireland  are 
settled  at  the  Eastward  which  make  very  good  linnens 
and  diapers.  As  for  the  encouragment  I  only  observe 
this  being  a  Charter  Goverment  and  except  our 
Governour  himself,  the  whole  ('ouncill  and  Assembly 
are  natives  of  New  England  and  are  very  willing  and 
inclinable  to  think  themselves  independent  or  at  least 
capable  of  being  so.  Signed,  John  Jekyll.  Copy. 
Ij  pp. 

699.  V.  Extract  of  letter  from  Mr.  Heathcote,  late  Surveyor 
Genii,  of  the  Northern  Continent  of  America.  That  a 
table  of  fees  be  established  upon  one  equal  foot  for  all 
H.M.  Custom  houses  on  this  Continent  wch.  would  put 
an  end  to  all  disputes  of  that  sort  and  which  are  chiefly 
in  the  Charter  Governments,  where  all  officers  of  the 
Crowne  are  look'd  upon  as  a  nuisance.  That  Custom- 
house Officers  be  establish'd  at  Newfoundland  that 
being  a  door  by  which  abundance  of  form,  manu- 
factures and  other  illegal  trade  is  let  into  all  H.M. 
Plantacons,  not  only  on  this  Continent  but  the  West 
Indies.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  |  p.  [CO.  323, 
8.     Nos.  29,  29.  i.-v.] 

Oct.  27.       700.     H.M.  Warrant  granting  leave  of  absence  from  Mont- 
Ht.  James's,  serrat  to  Lt.   Governor  Talmash  for  18th  months.     Counter- 
signed, Carteret.     Copy.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  81.] 

Oct.  27.        701.     H.M.  Warrant  for  the  use  of  a  new  (silver)  Seal  of 

St.  James's.  South  Carolina,  the  old  (leaden)  to  be  defaced  and  returned  as 

usual.   Countersigned,  Carteret.   Copy.   [CO.  324,  34.  pp.  78-80.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


479 


1721. 

Oct.  28.  702.  Council  of  S.  Carolina  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Council  Plantations.  The  Journals  of  both  Houses  of  Assembly,  the 
Soutir''^'^'  ^^^^^  there  past,  and  other  papers  wch.  Mr.  Lloyd  v.i\\  have  the 
Carolina,  honour  to  deliver  you,  and  a  ^'ery  great  part  of  our  time  having 
been  taken  up  in  disputes  and  setling  the  Custom  House  and 
Court  of  Admty.  affairs,  that  the  Acts  of  Trade  may  be  duely 
obsen'ed,  to  prevent  the  said  Court  of  Admty.  and  Officers  of 
the  Customs  from  setting  up  an  independant  jurisdiction  and 
power  from  that  of  the  Government  which  they  have  pretended 
to,  while  we  humbly  presume  it  our  duty  to  inspect  their 
behaviour  pursuant  to  H.M.  Instructions  to  the  Governour. 
This,  together  with  the  great  want  of  clerks  to  transcribe  papers 
are  the  reasons  we  would  not  now  send  yor.  Lordps.  the  Journalls 
of  the  proceedings  of  the  Council,  how  farr  we  have  complyed 
with  H.M.  instructions,  the  names  and  charracters  of  those 
H.E.  has  honoured  by  appointing  members  of  H.M.  Council 
and  of  such  as  may  be  proper  to  fill  their  places  in  case  of  their 
death  or  absence  etc.  and  many  other  papers,  which  we  hope  to 
do  by  Mr.  Yonge,  who  being  deteined  by  the  indisposition  of 
his  family  we  expect  will  embark  for  England  by  the  next  safe 
and  good  opportunity,  and  fully  sattisfy  yor.  Lordps.  in  what 
Mr.  Lloyd  may  be  now  diffident.  The  country  at  present 
enjoys  a  perfect  tranquillity  owing  to  ye  prudent  administration 
of  H.E.  Genii.  Nicholson.  Desire  their  Lordships'  good  offices 
to  him  and  this  Collony  etc.  Signed,  Arthur  Middleton,  P. 
Concill.,  Wm.  Bull,  A.  Skene,  Char.  Hart,  Fra.  Yonge,  Benja. 
de  la  Conseillere,  Benja.  Schenckingh,  William  Gibbon,  Ra, 
Izard.  Endorsed,  Reed.  9th  Jan.,  1721,  Read  17th  April,  1722. 
2  pp.  [CO.  5,  358.  ff.  Ill,  111?'.,  112i;.  ;  and,  (abstract,  with 
notes  for  reply)  5,  406.     p.  2.] 


Oct.  28. 

Whitehall, 
Treasury 
Chambers. 


703.  Lords  Commissioners  of  the  Treasury  to  the  Board  of 
Works,  directing  them  to  view  the  Office  of  the  Lords  Commissrs, 
for  Trade,  and  to  return  an  estimate  of  repairs  and  works  there 
absolutely  necessar}^  to  be  done.  Signed,  H.  Walpole.  [CO. 
388,  78.  'ff,  1,  2.y 


Oct.  30.  704.  Mr.  West  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Report  upon  several  Acts  of  Jamaica,  1719-1721,  Signed, 
Richd.  West.  Endorsed,  Reed.  31st  Oct.,  1721,  Read  6th  Aug., 
1724.     2f  pp.     [CO.  137,  14.     Jf.  363-364r.] 


Oct.  30.  705.  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Jamaica.  Plantations.  Our  Assembly  met  on  the  17th  instant  according 
to  prorogation.  Refers  to  Speech  enclosed.  Continues  : — Altho' 
I  had  so  earnestly  recommended  to  them  the  laying  aside  all 
former  disputes  yet  the  first  thing  they  enter'd  upon  was  to 
reassume  a  dispute  they  had  in  their  former  Sessions  which 
ought  regularly  by  the   Prorogation   to   have   dropt   but  the 


480  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

spiritts  of  contention  so  far  p^e^'ailed  that  the  members  who 
had  signed  the  paper  I  mentioned  in  my  last  were  ordered  to 
withdraw  from  the  House.  From  such  a  beginning  I  have 
but  Httle  hopes  of  their  accompUshing  anything  I  have  recom- 
mended to  them  and  really  my  Lords  'tis  hardly  possible  to 
express  the  innumerable  difficultys  H.M.  Government  here 
lyes  under  it  has  neither  mony  nor  credit.  I  myself  am  a  year 
and  a  quarter  in  arrears  of  my  salary,  many  poor  people  who 
have  just  demands  on  the  publick  lyes  under  great  hardships 
for  want  of  their  mony  nor  do  1  find  the  Receiver  Generall 
has  as  yet  been  able  to  discharge  any  part  of  Lord  Hamilton's 
demand  and  I  cannot  flatter  myself  that  this  Assembly  will 
reimburse  the  Treasury  and  how  it  shoud  be  expected  I  can 
support  the  honour  and  dignity  of  my  character  as  his  Majesty's 
Governor  without  either  mony  or  credit  I  leave  your  I^ordships 
to  judge.  I  am  dayly  more  and  more  convinced  that  there  is 
no  bringing  these  people  to  a  sence  of  their  duty  but  by  sett  Icing 
H.M.  Revenue  by  Act  of  Parliament  equall  to  the  charge  of 
the  Government  the  necessity  of  this  method  I  am  perswaded 
must  appear  to  your  Lordships  now  to  be  absolutely  necessary 
to  be  put  in  practice  and  I  wait  with  impatience  for  your  Lord- 
ships answer  etc.  The  Law  passed  last  Sessions  for  encouraging 
the  better  settleing  the  East  end  of  this  Island  has  hitherto  had  no 
effect  and  tho'  I  recommended  to  the  Assembly  to  make  such 
alterations  as  might  render  it  of  reall  service  and  advantage 
to  the  country  yet  by  their  proceedings  hitherto  I  don't  find 
a  disposition  in  them  to  alter  or  amend  that  Law,  so  that  I 
really  cannot  press  your  Lordships  to  recommend  the  Act 
transmitted  for  the  King's  allowance  especially  when  considerd 
that  H.M.  parts  with  more  in  escheats  and  otherwise  than  will 
answer  any  benefit  that  is  likely  to  accrue  to  the  country  by 
the  Act  as  it  now  is  etc.  Signed,  Nicholas  Lawes.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  6th  Jan.,  Read  16th  Feb.,  172^     3  pjj.     Enclosed, 

705.  i.  Speech  of  Governor  Sir  N.  Lawes  to  the  Council  and 
Assembly  of  Jamaica,  17th  Oct.,  1721.  Recommends 
the  dropping  of  all  disputes  ;  the  amendment  of  Act 
for  settleing  the  N.E.  part  of  the  Island,  renewal  of 
Additional  Duty  Bill  and  subsist ance  of  H.INI.  soldiers, 
and  the  continuance  of  the  service  of  the  guard  sloop 
etc.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Printed.  1  p.  Price 
one  ryal. 
705.  ii.  Account  of  fortifications  in  Jamaica  25th  March- 
29th  Sept.,  1721.  Signed,  Richd.  Mill,  Recr.  (ienl. 
4  pp. 
705.  iii.  Accounts  of  H.M.  Revenue  in  Jamaica  25th  Mareh- 
29th  Sept.,  1721.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
4  pp.  [CO.  137,  14.  .//.  96-98r.,  99r.,  lOOi'.,  101, 
102,  102i;.,  lOSiy.,  104i'.,  105.  106.   106i-.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST  INDIES. 


481 


1721. 

Nov.  1.       706.     H.M.  Commission  to  Governor  the  Duke  of  Portland 
St.  James's,  to  be  Captain  of  an  Independent  Company  at  Jamaica.    Counter- 
signed, Carteret.     [CO.  324,  34.     p.  82.] 


[Nov.  2.]       707.     List  of  Lt.  Governors  of  Jamaica,  1702-1721. 
[CO.  137,  51.     No.  76.] 


1  p. 


Nov.  2.       708.     H.M.  Commission  to  Charles  Du  Bourgay  to  be  Lt. 
St.  James's.  Govcmor    of    Jamaica.      Countersigned,    Carteret.      Endorsed, 
Reed.  22nd  Nov.,    Read  5th  Dec.  1721.     Copy.     1^  pp.     [CO. 
137,  14.     ff.  46,  46i;.,  ilv.  ;    and  324,  34.     p.  83.] 


Nov.  2.  709.  Memorial  of  the  Council  of  Barbados  to  the  Council 
Barbados,  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  The  behaviour  of  Mr.  Cox  since  he 
was  honoured  with  the  trust  of  Commander-in-Chief  has  been 
one  continued  series  of  tyranny  and  oppression  etc.  So  far 
from  obeying  H.M,  orders  for  restoring  all  officers  civil  and 
military,  he  has  refused  to  restore  upwards  of  100  Justices  of- 
the  Peace  etc.,  and  encourages  a  pareell  of  mean  fellows  his 
creatures  whom  he  made  Justices  to  insult  gentlemen  of  the 
best  fortunes  and  distinction  in  the  Island  and  upon  any 
frivolous  pretence  to  committ  some  and  threaten  others  to  the 
stocks.  Tho'  he  made  a  shew  of  restoring  severall  officers,  yet 
he  no  sooner  had  done  so  but  he  immediately  turned  them  out 
again.  In  order  to  defeat  H.M.  said  orders,  he  has  formed 
severall  frivolous  complaints  against  such  gentlemen  whose 
places  are  of  any  proffitt  to  make  room  for  his  sons  in  law  and 
accordingly  carried  on  a  prosecution  agst.  the  honble.  Edmund 
Sutton,  Chief  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  the 
precinct  of  St.  Michaell,  and  after  he  had  most  vilely  proceeded 
therein  by  professing  himself  a  party  and  calling  the  witness  agt. 
Mr.  Sutton  our  witnesses  and  the  Council  employed  our  Council, 
and  not  suffering  Sutton  or  his  Council  to  offer  anything  in 
justification  of  Sutton  or  against  the  unpresidented  manner 
of  his  proceedings,  he  turned  out  Sutton  and  in  his  place  named 
one  of  his  sons  in  law  Mr.Beckles  without  the  consent  and  against 
the  advice  of  the  Council.  His  behaviour  to  the  Council  on 
this  and  indeed  on  every  occasion  is  so  incredible  that  did  he 
not  glor}'  in  it  we  cou'd  hardly  hope  for  creditt.  He  orders 
the  Council  to  attend  here  twice  or  thrice  a  week  but  suffers 
not  one  of  them  to  speak  or  offer  his  reasons  or  to  give  any 
opinion  touching  any  the  matters  in  debate  and  should  any 
of  them  raise  tlie  least  objection  or  ask  any  questions  for  better 
information  he  innnediately  orders  him  into  custody  or  threatens 
to  committ  him.  His  treatment  of  Mr.  Ball  and  Mr.  Bond  are 
so  notorious  that  wee  presume  twill  not  be  denyed.  He  tells 
the  Councill  in  the  most  insolent  abusive  terms  they  have 
nothing  to  do  with  matters  complained  of  at  that  Board  and 
therefore  are  to  ask  no  questions  nor  gi\e  any  opinions  but 

yn.  750S  C.P.  82—31 


182  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

when  he  requires  it  etc.     He  will  not  suffer  any  Minutes  to  be 
taken  but  those  of  his  own  dictating  by  which  means  the  Council 
are  represented  in  the  most  unjust  manner  for  their  reasons  and 
objections  by  his  express  commands  are  misrepresented  and 
his   own  made  to  answer  his  purposes  by  altering  changing  and 
interpolating  as  the  occasion  will  best  suit  his  designes  and  to 
compass  his  ends  herein  he  has  order'd  the  Depty.  Secry.  and 
Clerk  of  the   Council  not  to  attend  at  that  Board,   and  has 
appointed  one  to  take  the  notes  or  minutes  of  Council  that  he 
may  afterv/ards  add  or  alter  at  pleasure  etc.     From  our  opinions 
and  reasons  for  many  years  offer'd  at  this  Board  and  duly 
entered  in  the  Couneill  Books,  none  can  think  us  capable  of 
committing  such  gross  absurditys  as  he  is  pleased  to  charge 
us  with  etc.     But  the  publick  are  more  nearly  concerned  in 
respect  as  well  to  their  liberty  as  propertyes.     For  no  affair 
is  determined  at  this  Board  under  the  present  administration 
but  one  or  other  of  the  partyes  find  themselves  very  much 
aggrieved     in    the    manner    of    the    President's    taking    and 
ordering  the  Minutes.     He  forms  no  other  rule  than  that  of 
gratifying  his  resentments  and  malice  preferring  his  creatures 
and  sons  in  law  to  all  the  posts  and  preferments  in  the  Gov- 
ernmt.  and  in  order  thereto  to  load  all  those  gentlemen  that 
stand  in  his  way  with  infamy  and  disgrace.     Not  a  gentleman 
of  the  Law  dare  object  to  any  course  or  method  he  proposes  to 
take  or  even  on  the  justest  occasion  to  speak  for  their  clients 
without  hazarding  being  committed.     The  fate  of  a  gentleman 
whom  for  no  other  reason  he  committed  notwithstanding  he 
offer'd  any  security  his  Honour  shoud  require  gives  them  just 
apprehension,  and  wee  cannot  doubt  of  the  like  usage  to  our- 
selves as  he  has  often  threatned  if    wee  in  the  least  by  our 
reasonings  offer  to  controul  his  most  arbitrary  designes.     His 
usage  of  Mr.   Carter  in  forming  a  prosecution  agt.  him  for  a 
pretended  endeavour  of  his  to  engage  a  person's  vote  for  the 
election  of  an  Assembly  man  about  15  months  agoe,  and  the 
manner  of  his  carrying  on  the  same  in  order  to  suspend  him  will 
be  a  notorious  instance  of  his  malice,  but  this  affair  not  being 
yet  determin'd,  we  shall  not  further  insist  upon  it  etc.  Pray 
that  no  vile  misrepresentations  from    Mr.    Cox  or  his   packt 
/assembly  may  receive  any  judgment  untill  H.M.  has  given  them 
time  to  make  good  their  charges  etc.      Signed,  Tho.  Maxwell, 
Tho.  Maycock,  Guy  Ball,    John  Lucie  Blackman,    Will.  Carter, 
Fra.  Bond,  John  Colleton.     Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read  9th  Jan., 
1721(2).     Addressed.     If/?.     [CO.  28,  17.  ./J.  206,  207,  207c-.] 

Nov.  2.       710.     Mr.    Carter,    Attorney    General    of    Barbados,  to  his 

Bari)ados.  correspondent,    Mr.    George    Newport.    Merchant    in    London. 

Repeats  complaints  in  preceding  concerning  Mr.  Cox's  despotic 

behaviour  in  Council.     "  He  used  threats  of  imprisonment  to  Mr. 

Ball  when  he  insisted  upon  his  right  of  speaking  at  the  Board  ; 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  483 

and  Collo.  Bond  was  ordered  to  be  taken  into  the  custody  of 
the  provost  marshal  as  he  sat  at  the  Council  Board,  for  asserting 
his  right  as  a  Member  there "  etc.  Continues : — Lately  he 
and  his  creatures  caused  a  petition  to  be  exhibited  by  four 
persons  against  Judge  Sutton  etc.  This  petition  was  ordered 
to  be  heard  in  Council,  and  Mr,  Sutton  directed  to  answer  it, 
accordingly  he  did  prepare  an  ansv/er  in  writing,  which  he 
delivered  in  at  the  Council  Board  desiring  that  the  same  might 
be  read  and  afterwards  entered  in  the  Councill,  as  the  petition 
against  him  had  been,  Ijut  instead  of  suffering  that  to  be  done, 
Mr.  Cox  snatched  up  the  answer  with  severall  coppyes  of  records 
which  were  annexed  to  it,  and  put  up  all  safely  into  his  pocket 
declaring  that  the  answer  should  not  be  read,  whereupon  Mr. 
Sutton  insisted  upon  having  the  answer  returned  to  him  but 
all  in  vain  ;  for  Mr.  Cox  carry'd  it  home  with  him,  where  it 
remained  severall  dayes,  during  which  time,  he  proceeded  to 
examin  severall  witnesses  very  unfairly  against  Mr,  Sutton,  to 
matters  which  were  not  particularly  alledged  in  the  petition, 
which  I  objected  to,  because  it  was  impossible  for  Mr,  Sutton  to 
make  a  regular  defence  vvithout  knovvdng  what  was  charged 
agt,  him.  But  this  signified  nothing.  For  Mr.  Cox  was  deter- 
mined to  displace  him  from  his  Judgship  at  any  rate,  and  to 
that  end  he  afterwards  caused  Mr.  Sutton's  answer  to  be  read 
and  immedia,tely  upon  that  delivered  in  a  long  replication  in 
writing,  at  the  close  of  which  was  a  sentence  of  deprivation 
against  Mr.  Sutton  without  the  consent  of  the  Council.  My 
brother  William  Carter,  too,  has  mett  with  sad  treatment  from 
this  Mr.  Cox,  for  some  men  have  mett  with  encouragement,  to 
swear  to  words  which  they  say  were  spoken  a  year  and  a  half 
ago  almost,  by  which  they  would  make  him  to  prejudge  a  cause 
in  Chancery,  which  is  not  yet  determined.  These  affidavit 
men  have  bin  sufficiently  confuted  by  affidavits  made  by  men 
of  good  credit  and  reputation,  but  yet  'tis  thought  that  j\Ir.  Cox 
will  venture  at  a  suspention.  P.S.  I  give  you  this  account, 
with  a  desire,  that  if  the  making  it  known  can  be  of  any  use, 
you'l  do  it.  Signed,  Rich.  Carter.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
9th  Jan.,  172|.  Copy.  2  pp.  [CO.  28,  17.  Jf.  208,  208^;., 
209i;.] 

Nov.  3.  711.  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
New  York,  tions.  Informed  that  the  2  pr,  cent.  Act  was  very  much  opposed 
by  the  merchants  and  in  great  danger  of  not  being  confirmed, 
refers  to  postscript  to  letter  of  26th  Nov.  1720  etc.,  and  adds  : 
(i)  By  the  Act  for  a  revenue  passed  in  1691  ten  pr,  cent,  was 
given  on  goods  called  Indian  goods,  specified  tfierein,  to  be 
cheifly  of  English  manufacture  for  2  years,  besides  the  2  pr, 
cent,  on  all  other  English  goods,  (ii-v)  By  the  Acts  pass'd,  in 
1692,  and  1698,  1698,  1702,  the  same  dutys  were  continued 
at  5  pr.  cent,  and    2  p.c.  to  18th  May,  1709,    at    which    time 


484 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 


the  whole  Revenue  expired  etc.  It  is  hoped  since  the 
additional  heavy  dutys  of  10  per  cent,  and  afterwards  5  per 
cent,  are  not  now  renewed  tlie  moderate  one  of  two  per  cent, 
will  be  confirmed.  Since  the  profit  of  30  or  40  per  cent,  is 
generally  made  on  course  goods  from  Bristol  and  20  or  30  on 
the  finest  goods  from  London  and  that  the  use  of  this  Act  is 
for  tlie  fortifying  tb.is  Province  and  securing  ye  Indians  in  the 
British  interest,  without  which  is  secured  the  whole  beavour 
trade  which  is  the  cheif  return  for  the  aforesaid  goods  will  be 
wholly  lost  from  us  to  the  French  which  makes  it  more  reason- 
able that  the  merchant  should  bear  so  small  a  duty,  since  the 
most  immediate  benefit  will  accrue  to  them  from  it  unless  they 
desire  rather  to  trade  with  the  french  in  Canada  entirely  for 
beavor,  and  to  let  them  have  the  whole  trade  of  English  goods 
with  the  Indians  which  has  been  too  much  the  practice  of  late, 
to  the  utter  ruin  of  the  british  interest  with  the  Indians,  if  it 
had  not  been  prevented  by  a  seasonable  law  made  at  the  same 
time  with  the  aforesaid  two  per  cent.  Act  etc.  Signed,  W. 
Burnet.     Endorsed,   Reed.   18th  Dec,   1721,   Read  18th   May, 


1722.      11-  JJP- 


[CO.  5,  1053.    ff.  31-32D.,  33r.] 


Nov.  7. 

Charles 

Town, 

South 

Carolina. 


71 2.  (iovernor  Nicholson  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Refers  to  letter  of  6th  Oct.  repeating  part  of  Oct.  28th. 
Sends  this  by  Mr.  Lloyd  etc.,  28th  Oct.  Continues : — I  thank  God 
our  harvest  of  rice  ended  very  well  and  I  hope  that  of  Indian 
com  will  do  ye  same.  I  do  assure  yor.  Lordps.  that  I  have  not 
been  wanting  in  cost  or  pains  to  settle  this  H.M.  Province  etc. 
P.S.  An  Engineer  arived  here  last  week  from  ye  Board  of 
Ordnance  he  is  employed  at  present  in  viewing  Johnson's  Fort 
and  the  fortifications  of  this  tov»'n  but  I  design  next  week  (if 
possible)  to  carry  him  to  the  Alatamaha  Fort,  Signed,  Fr. 
Nicholson.  Endorsed,  Reed.  3rd  Jan.,  1721,  Read  20th  April, 
1722.  11  jjp.  [CO.  5,  358.  ff  113,  113t'.,  114z;.  ;  and 
(abstract,  zvith  notes  for  rejjly)  5,  406.     p.  2.] 


Nov.  8. 

Barbados. 


713.  Mr.  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
This  ship  being  the  last  conveyance  I  am  likely  to  have  for 
Britlain  this  year,  I  have  by  her  transmitted  the  Minutes  of 
Councill  to  the  24th  of  October  last  which  containe  all  the 
materiall  occurences  in  this  Island  since  my  last.  And  as  it 
is  I  hope  the  last  oppertunity  I  shall  have  as  President  of 
Barbados  of  addressing  yor.  Lordships,  I  flatter  myself  that 
your  Lordships  will  give  me  leave  to  make  some  reflections  on 
my  conduct,  which  has  been  so  very  much  mistaken,  and  so 
unfairly  misrepresented  from  hence  by  a  set  of  men  who  are 
abandon'd  to  ye  sense  of  all  modesty  and  shame  and  whose 
only  support  is  falsehood  and  calumny.  'Tis  no  small  mortifica- 
tion to  me  (My  Lords)  to  be  inform'd  in  general  by  my  enimes 
that  I  have  ineurr'd  yor.   Lordships  displeasure  and  censure 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  485 


1721. 


unhear'd  and  without  knowing  from  yor.  Lordships  or  any 
other  person  whatsoever  what  the  particular  crimes  I  hiwc  been 
accused  of  are.  If  I  may  be  permitted  to  guess  at  them  from 
the  public  prints  (for  those  are  the  only  accounts  of  particulars 
which  I  have)  the  charges  against  me  are  the  most  abominable 
groundless  falsehoods  that  ever  were  in\'ented,  and  without 
any  manner  of  foundation.  I  am  not  surprised  indeed  that  a 
sett  of  men  should  attack  me  with  falsehoods  in  England  when 
they  have  the  assurance  to  do  it  to  my  face.  But  I  cannot 
help  being  under  a  great  surprize,  to  find  credit  gi\'en  to  them, 
I  will  say  without  proof  because  'tis  impossible  to  prove  them. 
If  I  was  too  hasty  in  suspending  the  members  of  Council  at 
the  beginning  of  my  administration,  before  the  spirit  with  which 
they  attackt  me  had  sufficiently  display'd  itself  in  their  actions, 
I  perswade  myself  that  their  conduct  since,  will  demonstrate 
even  to  your  Lordships  that  the  suspending  them  was  for  H.M. 
service,  and  that  it  was  impossible  for  me  any  otherwise  to 
administer  the  Government,  or  preserve  the  peace  and  tran- 
quillity of  the  Island.  And  as  to  the  changes  I  made  in  the  civil 
and  millitary  otficers,  they  were  not  such  as  was  represented  to 
yor.  Lordships,  they  were  only  restoreing  those  old  experience 
officers  (who  had  been  turn'd  out  by  Mr.  Lowther  without 
cause)  to  their  former  posts.  And  I  am  sure  were  it  possible 
for  yor.  Lordships,  to  comprehend  what  ye  Militia  was  before, 
I  turn'd  out  Mr.  Lowther's  needy  oflicers  and  what  it  is  since 
they  have  been  restor'd,  with  what  it  was  when  comanded  by 
the  old  officers  who  I  restor'd,  yor.  Lordships  would  be  of  opinion 
that  I  deser\'ed  thanks  for  the  changes  I  made.  I  am  told  that 
severe  clamours  have  been  raised  about  the  election  of  a  new 
Assembly,  and  I  am  at  a  loss  to  concei^'e  how  I  can  be  affected 
with  them.  I  had  no  concern  in  the  elections,  but  the  issueing 
the  writts  and  issued  them  according  to  the  laws  of  this  Island, 
as  the  Assembly  (whom  the  Law  has  made  Judges  of  that 
affair)  has  determin'd  :  But  as  I  know  not  the  particulars  of 
the  charge  either  against  myself  or  the  Assembly,  I  shall  pass 
over  this  head  with  remarkeing  to  yor.  Lordships,  that  this 
Assembly  by  the  election  law  which  they  pass't  have  plainely 
demonstrated,  that  the>^  are  for  having  the  Assembly  chosen 
by  the  real  and  substantiall  freeholders,  and  not  by  sham  votes, 
and  if  they  have  not  a  majority  of  the  substantiall  and  bona 
fide  freeholders  for  them,  they  have  by  this  law  excluded  them- 
selves from  ever  being  chosen  again.  And  if  they  have  a  majority 
of  the  freeholders  for  them,  then  they  are  the  majority  of  the 
people,  and  not  such  an  insignificant  party  as  Mr.  Lowther 
and  his  necescitous  faction  have  most  groundlessly  represented 
them.  Since  my  last  I  have  removed  Mr.  Sutton  from  being 
Judg  of  the  Bridge  Court,  in  obedience  to  my  eighth  and  thirty 
second  Instructions,  and  in  complyance  with  a  Representation 
of  yr.  Lordships  Board,  and  her  late  Majesties  Order  thereon 


186  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

dated  ye  20th  Aug.,  1709.  And  copies  of  my  reasons  are 
inclosed,  and  the  proofs  of  them  in  the  Minutes  of  Council, 
and  other  papers  herewith  sent.  The  conduct  of  ye  restored 
Members  of  Council  on  this  occasion  has  been  so  very  partial 
that  I  cannot  give  myself  leave  to  doubt,  but  that  yor.  Lordships 
will  be  of  opinion  that  it  deserves  censure.  It  discovers  a  spiritt 
of  party  and  faction,  that  shews,  that  guilt  and  innocence  with 
them  are  nothing  but  being  for  or  agst.  them.  Their  refuseing 
to  agree  to  ye  nomination  of  any  person  wt,soe^'er  to  be  Judg, 
when  so  many  applications  were  made  by  the  inhabitants  who 
are  like  to  be  ruin'd  for  want  of  writts,  which  the  Judges  here 
only  can  test,  is  such  an  injury  to  H.M.  subjects  that  can  never 
be  repair' d.  I  have  done  all  in  my  power  to  prevaile  on  them 
to  comply,  but  in  vain,  and  am  at  a  loss  what  method  to  take 
to  prevent  the  injuries  thereby  dayly  done  to  H.M.  subjects. 
As  to  Mr.  Carter's  affair  which  yr.  Lordships  will  find  in  ye 
Minutes  of  Council,  etc.  {v.  11th  Oct.),  as  he  has  desir'd  further 
time  to  answer,  I  shall  not  say  any  more  of  it.  In  some  of  the 
public  prints  I  find  the  faction  have  accused  me  of  encouraging 
the  french  trade.  'Tis  amazing  to  me  that  any  one  that 
pretends  to  honour  or  humanity  can  advance  such  absurd  lies, 
the  very  reverse  of  which  are  true.  For  I  have  had  a  more 
watchfull  eye  over  that  trade,  and  done  more  to  prevent  it 
than  any  of  my  predecessors  ever  did  etc.  My  Lords,  since  I 
have  been  President  I  have  had  18  vessells  illegal  traders 
seized,  without  being  one  farthing  the  better  for  them  ;  for 
through  the  artifices  of  ye  Attorney  Generall  Richard  Carter, 
and  the  conduct  of  the  Customhouse  Officers,  after  I  had  order'd 
lybells  in  the  Admiralty  as  the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation 
directs,  the  Customhouse  Officer  Gibbes  in  whose  name  they 
were  brought  by  the  advice  of  the  Attorney  Genii,  as  he  told 
me  disavow'd  those  libells,  and  brought  informations  in  the 
Exchequer  upon  a  Barbados  Law,  which  gives  halfe  of  the 
goods  and  vessell  to  the  informer,  and  the  other  halfe  to  the 
Treasury  here.  Whereby  I  am  deprived  of  one  3d.  of  ye  seizures, 
which  by  the  Laws  of  England  belongs  to  me.  However  this 
shall  not  discourage  me  from  doing  my  duty,  But  I  can't  but 
resent  that  those  very  people  who  are  the  encouragers  of  French 
trade  should  have  the  foreheads  to  accuse  me  of  it.  If  yor. 
Lordships  would  know  who  are  the  chief  encouragers  of  it,  give 
me  leave  my  Lords  to  assure  you  that  they  are  none  but  the 
great  factors  who  have  large  consignments  and  who  want  the 
french  sugers  for  their  cheapeness.  But  above  all  Mr.  Henry 
Lascells  Collector  who  by  being  one  of  the  chiefest  shippers  of 
sugers  to  private  persons  as  well  as  the  King,  ships  the  good 
sugers  received  for  duty  to  his  private  correspondents  at  high 
prices,  and  buys  french  sugers  at  low  rates  and  ships  to  the  King 
for  duty,  which  I  am  ready  to  prove  upon  him.  I  lately  received 
a  letter  from  the  French  Generall   gi^'eing  an  acct.   of  some 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  487 

1 72 1 . 

pyrates,  and  have  sent  Capt.  Brown  in  the  Feversham  after 
them,  whose  ships  crew  was  so  sickly  that  I  was  forced  to  supply 
him  with  about  50  men,  the  difficulty  of  procureing  them,  and 
all  ships  being  sickly  at  one  time  or  other  of  their  being  on  the 
station  shews  the  necessity  of  having  two  men  of  warr  here. 
That  on  any  emergency  one  may  be  man'd  out  of  the  other. 
Sigri'd,  Saml.  Cox.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Mr.  Cooke  at  Mr. 
Cowley's  agt.  Queen  Street  end,  in  Windmill  Street)  2nd,  Read 
11th  Jan.,  172 1 .     3 J  pp.     Enclosed, 

713.  i.  Petition  of  Edmund  Duffey,  Ilabbakuk  Saer  and 
Willoughby  Duffey  to  Judge  Sutton,  for  quashing  the 
outcry  for  the  sale  of  negroes,  with  Judge  Sutton's 
order  accordhigly.  6th  Oct.  1721.  {v.  No.  687.  i.) 
Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  11th  Jan.,  172|.  Copy. 
2 1  pp. 
713.  ii.  Petition  of  George  Lyte  Cooper  to  Judge  Sutton,  with 
order  thereupon,  as  preceding.  3rd  Oct.  1721.  Same 
endorsement.  Copy.  3  pp. 
713.  iii.  President  Cox's  reasons  for  removing  Edmund 
Sutton  from  being  Chief  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  of  the  Precinct  of  St.  Michael,  on  the  24th  Oct., 
1721,  in  Council.  (i)  By  refusing  to  swear  Chris- 
topher Fowler  to  be  an  Assistant  of  the  Court,  he  has 
very  much  obstructed  the  administration  of  Justice  ; 
and  prevented  the  tryal  of  se\'erall  actions  depending 
against  himself,  as  well  as  Mr.  Dining,  Boynton,  etc. 
{v.  No.  687  V.)  By  not  holding  a  Court  on  the 
first  day  of  ye  Sept.  Court,  he  prevented  and  delay'd 
the  administration  of  Justice  to  many  complainants 
etc.  (ii)  He  is  Judge  of  the  precincts  where  he  lives 
etc.  (iii)  By  usurping  a  power  to  reject  Assistants 
legally  commissioned  by  a  President  or  Commander 
in  Chief,  etc.,  he  invades  the  Royal  Prerogative,  and 
is  guilty  of  contempt  of  and  disobedience  to  H.M. 
authority,  (iv)  In  assuming  to  himself  a  power  to 
vacate  sales  at  outcry  on  executions,  after  bills  of 
sale  made  out,  the  days  of  redemption  expired  and 
possession  given,  and  to  quash  levys  regularly  made 
by  Marshalls  upon  judgments  and  executions  duly 
obtained,  hath  acted  arbitrarily  and  illegally,  and  in  a 
manner  wholly  new^  and  unprecedented.  (v)  He  is 
not  quallified  according  to  H.M.  8th  Instruction, 
being  a  person  necessitous  and  very  much  in  debt. 
Same  endorsement.  Copy.  1  p.  \C.O.  28,  17.  jj. 
228-2291;.,  230r.-235i'.] 

Nov.  9.       714.     Mr.  Middle  ton  and  Col.  Moore  to  the  Council  of  Trade 

So.  Carolina,  and  Plantations.     The  pressing  affairs  of  the  Province  of  South 

Carolina  making  it  necessary  to  appoint  Agents  to  solicit  in 


488  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

Great  Britain  such  things  as  are  wanting  for  the  prosperity  and 
well  being  thereof,  the  General  Assenihly  have  thought  fit  by 
an  Act  to  intrust  Francis  Yonge  and  John  Lloyd  Esqrs.  in 
those  affairs  etc.  Beg  for  their  Lordships'  countenance  and 
interest  etc.  Continue  : — Wee  suppose  H.E.  General  Nicholson 
has  informed  your  Lordships  of  the  state  of  this  Province,  and 
his  steady  and  wise  government  having  settled  peace  and 
tranquility  amongst  us  makes  him  worthy  of  our  highest 
acknowledgements,  and  wee  are  in  great  hopes  will  induce  your 
Lordships  to  have  the  greater  regard  to  our  Agents,  they  having 
H.E.'s  approbation  and  their  Instructions  received  his  assent 
to  which  we  refer  your  Lordships  etc.  Signed,  Arthur  Middleton, 
P.  Coneil.  ;  Ja.  Moore  Speaker,  Dom.  Cone.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
9th  Jan.,  Read  20th  April,  1722.  llpp.  [CO.  5,  358.  .//.  115, 
l\5v.,  WQv.  ;   and  {abstract,  with  notes  for  reply,)  5,  406.     p.  3.] 

Nov.  11.  71 5.  Order  of  King  in  Council,  approving  draughts  of 
St.  James's.  Additional  Instructions  to  the  Governors  of  New  York,  New 
Jersey,  Carolina  and  Barbados  relating  to  the  Bishop  of  London's 
power  of  licensing  Ministers  and  Schoolmasters  etc.  v.  25th 
Oct.  Signed,  Edward  Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd,  Read 
24th  April,  1722.  f  p.  [CO.  323,  8.  iVo.27  ;  and  {duplicate 
signed,  Temple  Stanyan)  5,  191.     p.  353a.] 

[Nov.  11.]  716.  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor  Lord  Belhaven, 
as  preceding.     Copy.     l\pp.     [CO.  28,  44.    ff.lQ,lQv.] 

Nov.  11.       717.     Order   of   King   in    Council.     Approving   draught   of 

St.  James's.  Additional   Instruction  for  Governor  Lord  Belhaven  relating 

to    the    settling    and    planting    Tobago    etc.     Signed,    Temple 

Stanyan.     Endorsed,  Reed.  28th,  Read  29th  Nov.,  1721.     llpp. 

[CO.  28,  17.    ff.  202,  202i;.,  203i;.  ;    and  5,  191.     p.  97a.] 

[Nov.  11.]  718.  H.M.  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor  Lord  Bel- 
haven, referred  to  in  preceding.  Copy.  3^  pp.  [CO.  28,  44. 
ff.  I9-2O1;.]  ;    and  {draft)  5,  191.     j^P-  98-100.] 

Nov.  17.  719.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Whitehall.  Enclose  extract  of  Governor  Burnet's  letter  12th  July,  with  a 
Memorial  delivered  to  him  by  Mr.  Durand,  the  bearer  hereof  etc. 
As  your  Lordship  will  see  thereby,  he  is  a  person  capable  of 
giving  information  of  the  transactions  between  the  French 
and  Indians,  and  as  he  hath  renounced  Popery  and  embraced 
the  Protestant  Religion  ;  we  take  the  liberty  to  recommend 
him  to  your  Lordship's  protection.  2  pjj.  [CO.  5,  1079.  A^o. 
126  ;    and  5,  1124.     pp.  270,  271.] 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  489 


1721. 
Nov.  18.       720.     Order   of   King   in    Council.     Referring   following   to 
St.  James's,  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report.     Signed, 

Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,   Reed.    12th,   Read   15th  Dec.,' 

1721.     1  jj.     Enclosed, 

720.  i.  Petition  of  the  Jews  of  Jamaica  to  [?  the  Lords  of  the 
Committee  of  Council  for  hearing  appeals  and  complaints 
from    the   Plantations].     The    said    Nation    inhabiting 
there  are  for  the  most  part  trading  people,  and  great 
promoters   towards   the   enlargement   of  business,    as 
may  appear  from  the  increase  thereof,  since  they  have 
resorted    there  in  greater  number,    and    having    for 
many  years  lived  in  Jamaica  hi  enjoyment  of  the  laws 
and  priviledges  of  the  said  Island  in  as  full  and  ample 
manner  as  any  of  H.M.  natural  born  subjects  (Assembly 
and  Jurymen   only  excepted     which     are    places    of 
governing  to  which  they  do  not  aspire)  having  in  all 
things    qualified    themselves    according    to    the    Act 
passed  for  settling  the  said  Island,  and  according  to 
the  Letters   Patents  granted  them  by   virtue  of  the 
said  Act,  whereby  they  were  to  all  intents  and  purposes 
fully  and  compleatly  naturalized.     The   said  Nation 
have  always  demean' d  themselves  with  the  greatest 
fidelity    and    duty    to  H.M.   and  Governmt.    having 
with  the  greatest  readiness  according  to  their  duty 
taken  up  arms  against  the  French  at  the  time  they 
invaded  the  said  Island,  where  severall  of  them  were 
kill'd  wounded  and  taken  prisoners.     The  said  Nation 
have  always  chearfully  contributed  to  all  parish  taxes 
and  offices  equal  with  the  rest  of  H.M.  subjects,  tho' 
their  own  poor  are  wholly  maintained  by  themselves 
without  the  least  burden  to  any  of  the  parishes.     By 
an  Act  passed  10th  Nov.,   1716,  for  encouraging  of 
white  people  in  the  said  Island,  a  reward  is  assigned 
to  any  white  people  that  shall  settle  there  from  any 
part   of  Europe   or   any   of  H.M.  Colonies   excepting 
Jews,  Papists  and  Nonjurors.     This  distinction  most 
sensibly   afflicts   them   who   upon   all   occasions   have 
distinguished  their  zeal  and  affection  for  H.M.  Govern- 
ment that  they  shou'd  be  treated  as  men  disaffected 
to  H.M.   Royall  person  and  Family.     They  humbly 
beseech   Your  Lordships  recommendation  that  H.M. 
will  protect  the  Jews  dwelling  in  Jamaica,  so  as  to  be 
continued  in  their  rights  and  priviledges  etc.     Signed, 
E.Southwell.     Same  endorsement.     Copy.  2  pp.     [CO. 
137,  14.    Jf.  50,  51,  51v.,  52t;.] 

Nov.  20.  721.  Capt.  Evans  to  [Ulr.  Popple].  In  reply  to  letter  of 
bTchTre  l^tJ^'  ^irgt'^  the  settlement  of  Sta.  Lucia  etc.  "  f  have  freinds 
and  Crosse  will  bc  advcuturcrs  with  me  in  soe  great  and  good  an  undcr- 

[sic]. 


400 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


172] 


taking."  etc.      Signed, 
Read  22nd  Nov.,  1721. 
201i;.] 


John   Evans.      Endorsed,   Reed.   20th, 
\l  pp.     [CO.  28,  17.    ff.  200,  200i;., 


Nov.  22.  722.  Reasons  for  takmg  off  the  enumeration  of  rice  from 
CaroUna.  Rice  being  a  grain  ought  to  be  under  no  more 
restraints  than  wheat  from  the  Plantations.  All  restraints  are 
prejudicial  for  perishable  commodities  etc.  Rice  being  enumer- 
ated, we  lose  that  trade  to  Portugal,  which  might  amount  to 
6000  barrels,  now  supplied  by  the  Italians,  Carolina  rice  not 
being  able  to  be  carried  thither  in  time  for  their  Lent,  and  having 
to  be  first  brought  to  England,  is  at  the  charge  of  a  double 
freight,  and  therefore  dearer.  The  export  for  this  year  from 
Carolina  was  nigh  20,000  barrels,  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from 
Mr.  Boon)  22nd,  Read  24th  Nov.,  1721.  1|  pp.  [CO.  5, 
358.    ff.  89,  89u.,  90i;.] 


Nov.  24, 

Annapolis 
Royall. 


1721, 


723.  Lt.  Governor  Doucett  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Alarmed  by  certain  persons  applying  for  com- 
missions as  Lt.  Governor  of  the  Province,  and  Canso,  appeals 
for  the  Board's  protection  etc.  and  refers  for  his  character  to 
enclosed  and  to  Mr.  Boscawen,  now  Viscount  Falmouth,  who 
first  recommended  him  to  H.M.  He  is  entirely  dependant  upon 
his  post  for  support  of  his  wife  and  six  children  etc.  Encloses 
following.  Signed,  John  Doucett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  31st  Jan., 
Read  4th  July,  1723.  4  pp.  Enclosed, 
723.  i.  Petition  of  Lt.  Governor  Doucett  to  the  King. 
Believing  that  the  Province  is  soon  to  be  settled,  and 
that  Annapolis  Royal,  being  out  of  the  way  of  all 
trade,  will  not  be  the  seat  of  Goverment,  there  being 
other  places  much  more  commodious  on  the  Eastern 
coast,  asks  that  his  Commission  may  be  altered  to 
that  of  Lt.  Governor  of  Nova  Scotia,  or  Canso  etc. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  31st  Jan.,  112^.  1  p. 
ii.  Testimonial  of  Officers  and  inhabitants  of  Annapolis 
Royal  to  the  zeal  and  integrity  of  Lt.  Governor 
Doucett.  ^-^  signatures.  Endorsed  as  preceding,  l^pp. 
[CO.  217,  4.    ff.  183-184i;.,  185i;.-187y.,  188t;.] 


723. 


Nov.  24. 

WhitehaU. 


724.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Representation  upon  petition  of  Capt.  John  Evans  {v.  20th  Nov.) 
Represent  our  humble  opinion,  that  the  planting  and  settling 
of  Sta.  Lucia  under  proper  restrictions  and  regulations,  as  hath 
lately  been  directed  in  the  case  of  Tobago  might  conduce  to 
the  benefit  of  this  Kingdom,  and  in  case  H.M.  should  be  pleas'd 
to  give  orders  for  that  purpose,  the  Petitioner  might  deserve 
H.M.  favour  for  a  grant  of  such  part  of  the  said  Island  as  shall 
be  thought  a  sufficient  recompence  for  his  services  and  losses 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  491 


1721. 


on  condition  that  he  shall  effectually  plant  and  settle  the  same 
within  a  reasonable  time  to  be  limited  for  that  purpose  \C  O 
29,  14.     jjp.  255-257.] 

^whiteifau        ^?^'    .^?^"^  (  arteret  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
A  Commission  and  Instructions  are  to  be  prepared  for  Henry 
Worsley,  appointed  Governor  of  Barbados  etc.     Signed,  Carteret. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  28th,  Read  29th  Nov.,  1721.     h  p      \C  O   '>8 
17.    ff.  204,  205r.l  ' 

^^^n'  ^^'  ^^^■'  ^"^'^'^'^^""  ^'^^  Council  of  the  Bahama  Islands  to  the 
Piovidence.  ^'^^"^cil  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Having  by  this  opportunity 
addrest  H.M.  for  an  Assembly,  we  do  also  humbly  entreat  your 
Lordships  to  use  your  good  offices  for  us.  H.M.  having  been 
pleased  to  send  with  Governor  Phenney  several  pieces  of 
ordinance  and  other  stores  of  war,  we  are  under  the  necessity 
to  confess  that  the  Fort  we  now  have  is  not  capable  to  mount 
the  guns,  and  we  want  power  to  enact  laws  to  raise  funds  to 
rebuild  the  Fort,  and  do  other  publick  works  absolutely  necessary 
for  the  general  good  and  support  of  this  Colony.  We  don't  in 
the  least  doubt  your  Lordships'  favor  and  encouragement 
etc.  Signed,  G.  Phenney,  James  Gohier,  W.  Fairfax,  Tho. 
Walker,  P.  G.  P.  Skynner,  William  Spatchers,  Petr.  Courant, 
Joseph  Cookes,  Tho.  Wood.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th  April,' 
Read  1st  May,  1722.     1  p.     [CO.  23,  1.     No.  41.] 

Nov.  30.       727.     Lord  Carteret  to  the  Governor  of  New  York.     Encloses 

Whitehall,  following.     Conti?iues :     It    is    H.M.    pleasure,    that    provided 

the  facts  be  as  stated,  you  forthwith  give  the  necessary  orders, 

that  all  the  effects  taken  out  of  the  sd.  ship  and  disposed  of  in 

any  port  or  place  of  your  Government,  or  the  produce  thereof, 

be  delivered  to  the  Agent  for  the  owners  and  insurers,  upon 

their  paying  reasonable  salvage    and   charges  etc.,  and  in  case 

the  said  ship,  with  any  of  the  goods  remaining  on  board,  shall 

be  in  any  part  of  your  Government,  you  are  to  order  the  delivery 

thereof  to  the  proper  owners  etc.      Signed,  Carteret.     Annexed, 

727.  i.  Memorial  to  the  Envoy  of  the  States  General.     The 

ship  El  Puerto  del  Principe  of  Flushing  was  taken  by 

Roberts  the  Pirate  at  Dominica,  29th  Jan.,  1721,  and 

afterwards    brought   into   Tarpaulin    Cove,    N.E.,    by 

Benjamin    Norton    of   Newport,    R.I.,    who   pretends 

that  Roberts  took  a  brigantine  from  him,  and  gave 

him  this  ship  instead.     Norton  broke  bulk  at  Tarpaulin 

Cove  (a  byplace  fit  for  roguery),  and  in  a  clandestine 

manner  put  a  considerable  part  of  her  cargo  into  small 

vessels,   and   sent   them  to   sundry  ports   therewith  ; 

some  of  the  cargo  he  hid  in  the  woods,  and  some  pert 

he  left  on  board.     The  news  thereof  coming  to  the 

several  Governments,  and  Governor  Cranston  issuing 


492  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

a  Proclamation  enjoyning  all  persons,  that  had  any 
of  the  effects  to  bring  them  to  him,  some  negroes  and 
sugar  were  brought  to  him  at  Newport,  a  sloop  with 
part  of  the  sd.  ship's  cargo  was  seized  at  New  York, 
another  at  New  London  and  another  at  Boston.  The 
ship  itself  was  brought  ])y  the  Seahorse  man  of  war 
to  Boston  with  a  large  (quantity  of  sugar  on  board, 
and  is  there  seized  etc.  Prays  for  orders  that  the  ship 
and  effects  may  be  forthwith  delivered  as  above. 
[CO.  324,  34.     pp.  91-94.] 

Nov.  30.  728.  Similar  letter,  with  enclosure,  to  Governor  Shute  ; 
the  Governor  and  Company  of  Coimecticut  ;  and  the  Governor 
and  Company  of  Rhode  Island.     [CO.  324,  34.     p:  95.] 

No\'.  30.       729.     [?  Governor    Burnet]     to    the    Council    of    Trade    and 
New  York.  Plantations.     There  was  a  Bill  which  past  the  Assembly  and 
afterwards  was  amended  by  the  Council  in  June  last  entituled 
an  Act  for  facilitating  the  partition  of  lands  in  joint  tenancy  or 
in  common  etc.     The  Surveyor  General  then  gave  in  a  repre- 
sentation to  me  against  this  Act  as  prejudicial  to  H.M.  rights 
in  this  Province.     And  while  I  was  weighing  the  matter  of  the 
Act  with  the  objections  to  it,  I  found  by  the  copy  of  the  Laws 
of  this  Province  printed  at  London,  that  an  Act  for  the  like 
purpose  past  here  in  Oct.  1718  was  repeal'd  on  July  9th,  1719, 
tho'  it  does  not  appear  that  H.M.  disallowance  of  it  was  ever 
signified  to   this   Goverment.     However    this    seemed  to   me 
reason  sufficient  to  withhold  my  assent  to  it,  till  I  had  received 
your  Lordships  directions  upon  it  and  because  the  Surveyor 
General  who  was  then  surveying  some  lands  in  Evans  tracts 
desired  to  inform  himself  more  fully  of  some  particulars  that 
he  might  make  his  objections  to  it  in  the  best  manner  he  could 
I  delay'd  transmitting  the  draft  of  that  Bill  till  this  conveyance. 
The  Surveyor  General  has  now  given  me  a  fuller  representation 
upon   the   same   matters,    with   more    particular   observations 
than  were  mentioned   in  his  former  paper.     I  think  these  two 
representations  contain  so  fully  the  prejudice  that  may  accrue 
to  H.M.  Quit-rents  in  this  Province  from  this  Act  that  I  have 
nothing  to  add  etc.     Hoping  to  receive  directions  how  I  am  to 
proceed  as  to  this   Bill  etc.     No  signature.     Endorsed,   Reed. 
15th  Jan.,  1721.     Read  18th  May,  1722.     2^  pp.     Enclosed, 
729.  i.  Act  of  New  York  Jor  facilitating  the  partition  of  lands 
in  joint  tenancy    or    in    common  promoting  the  setting 
and  improving  thereof  and  rendring  the  payment  of  the 
quit-rents  due  thereupon  certain  and  easy.     With  amend- 
ments   made    by    the    Council.     Same    endorsement. 
12  pp. 
729.  ii.  Memorial  of  Cadwallader  Colden,  Surveyor  General 
of  New  York,  to  Governor  Burnet.     July  19,   1721. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  t93 


1721. 


Objection.';  to  foregoing  Act.  The  bounds  of  many 
if  not  of  all  the  tracts  of  land  granted  in  joint  tenancy, 
altho'  they  be  very  large  and  contain  many  thousand 
acres,  were  never  ascertain'd  upon  the  spot  by  any 
Officer  of  the  Crown,  but  have  been  left  to  the  discretion 
of  the  persons  to  whom  they  were  granted.  I  have 
heard  the  Receiver  General  give  this  as  a  reason  why 
he  could  not  compleat  a  rent  roll  of  H.M.  quit  rents 
it  being  impossible  for  him  to  find  out  in  what  part 
of  the  Province  many  of  the  patented  lands  lye. 
Proposes  that  the  survey  for  the  partition  of  lands  to 
be  made  by  virtue  of  this  Act  be  enacted  to  be  per- 
formed by  the  Surveyor  General  or  his  deputy  etc. 
H.M.  interests  may  suffer  very  considerably  if  the 
subjects  be  allow'd  to  lay  out  the  lands  granted  them 
by  patent  by  such  persons  as  they  themselves  shall 
appoint.  Many  of  these  very  large  tracts  held  in 
joint  tenancy  are  bounded  by  lands  still  in  the  Crown, 
the  quit-rents  of  which  when  granted  according  to 
H.M.  late  Instructions  will  amount  to  above  a  hundred 
times  the  value  of  the  quit-rents  of  the  same  quantity 
of  land  granted  before  these  Instructions.  It  may 
therefore  justly  be  fear'd,  that  if  the  people  be  em- 
power'd  to  lay  out  these  lands  for  themselves  they 
will  encroach  upon  the  adjoining  lands  of  the  Crown, 
etc.,  and  in  time  it  may  become  the  general  interest  of 
the  inhabitants  to  defend  these  acquisitions  (for  the 
greater  part  of  the  Province  is  held  in  joint  tenancy) 
and  it  may  become  impossible  for  H.M.  to  recover 
his  rights  or  very  inconvenient  to  endeavour  it  etc. 
It  is  not  improbable  that  for  these  reasons  among 
many  others  H.M.  did  on  9th  July,  1719,  repeal  a 
former  Act  for  prohibiting  the  partition  of  lands  etc. 
jSi^n^fZ,  Cadwallader  Coldcn  Same  endorsement.  51  pp. 
729.  iii.  Same  to  Same.  Nov.  30,  1721.  I  beg  leave  to  lay 
some  particulars  before  your  Excellency  that  you  may 
judge  how  well  grounded  my  apprehensions  were 
{v.  preceding.)  I  am  not  able  to  lay  before  your  Ex- 
cellency a  perfect  account  of  all  the  large  tracts  which 
may  fall  under  the  design  of  this  paper  for  they  were 
granted  without  any  previous  survey  and  the  grantees 
endeavour  all  they  can  to  keep  them  from  the  know- 
ledge of  your  Excellency  and  the  King's  Officers  etc. 
As  there  was  no  survey  previous  to  the  grant,  the 
Governour  did  not  know  what  quantity  of  land  he 
did  grant  but  was  grossly  imposed  upon  by  the 
Patentees  for  their  patents  either  mention  no  number 
of  acres  or  a  number  above  100  times  less  than  what 
they  claim  by  their  boundarys,  and  this  they  think 


494  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 


they  have  a  right  to  by  virtue  of  the  words,  Be  it  more 
or  less  etc.  The  patent  of  SaUsbury  grants  after 
this  manner  400  acres  and  the  Patentees  now  claim 
about  70,000  for  wliicli  they  only  pay  half  a  bushel 
of  wheat  quit-rent.  One  Lokerman  likewise  obtain'd 
a  grant  for  300  acres  by  virtue  of  which  he  now  claims 
above  10,000.  I  mention  only  these  because  they 
are  well  known  to  many,  yet  I  am  assur'd  they  are 
not  the  only  such  nor  the  most  extravagant  etc. 
Altho'  this  bill  doth  not  give  the  Patentees  in  plain 
terms  a  power  of  fixing  and  setling  such  boundaries 
as  they  please  for  themselves  yet  it  will  have  such  an 
effect.  For  the  boundarys  of  these  large  patents  are 
expressed  in  Indian  names  of  hills,  rivers  or  rivolets 
which  are  either  wholly  unknown  or  known  to  very 
few  Christians  and  which  the  Indians  change  as  often 
as  they  change  their  habitations.  These  uncertainties 
which  might  prove  difficulties  to  other  people  the 
Patentees  turn  to  their  great  advantage  by  affixing 
these  names  to  what  hills,  rivers  or  rivolets  they  like 
best.  This  they  do  while  these  parts  are  unsetled 
and  few  or  none  to  contradict  them  at  least  nobody 
on  H.M.  part  to  discover  such  frauds  etc.  In  time  it 
will  not  be  possible  to  discover  ye  deceit  and  by  virtue 
of  this  bill  they  would  divide  these  lands  and  take  them 
into  quiet  and  peaceable  possession  and  in  time  draw 
the  whole  interest  of  the  country  on  their  side  so  that 
any  remedy  may  be  either  dangerous  or  impracticable 
to  be  attempted.  That  the  Patentees  have  really 
us'd  such  frauds  is  not  only  probable  from  the  vast 
disproportion  betv.ixt  the  quantity  of  land  mention'd 
in  the  grant  and  the  quantity  they  now  claim  but 
likewise  from  the  complaint  of  the  Indians  e\  cry  where 
that  they  are  cheated  of  their  lands.  For  tho'  the 
bounds  of  the  patents  are  generally  express'd  in  the 
same  words  with  those  in  the  deeds  of  sale  giv'n  by 
the  Indians  yet  those  Indians  affirm  that  they  did 
not  sell  near  the  quantity  of  land  which  the  patentees 
now  claim  and  they  likewise  say  that  the  patentees 
every  year  claim  more  than  they  did  in  the  year 
preceding.  The  patent  of  Waywiando  extends  above 
50  miles  in  length  and  pays  but  a  trifling  acknowledge- 
ment for  such  a  tract  yet  the  Patentees  are  not  con- 
tented with  this,  but  have  encroach' d  30  square  miles 
upon  the  lands  formerly  granted  to  Capt.  Evans  since 
the  same  was  reassum'd  by  the  Cro-svn.  The  patent 
of  Minisink  being  of  no  less  extent  than  theirs  has 
follow'd  their  example  and  encroached  as  much  upon 
the   same   reassum'd   lands   in   all   other  place.     Mr. 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  195 


1721. 


Faulconnier  (the  person  who  drew  this  bill  and  us'd 
all  his  interest  to  have  it  pass)  is  a  Joint  tenant  or 
tenant  in  common  in  several  extravagantly  large 
patents  of  which  his  share  may  amount  to  400,000 
acres  etc.  He  has  a  seventh  part  of  a  patent  which 
by  the  claim  of  the  Patentees  contains  above  2,000,000 
of  acres  for  they  extend  it  from  within  a  mile  or  two 
of  Hudson's  River  to  Delaware  River  (which  they  call 
the  Fishkill)  abo^'e  60  miles  and  from  that  part  of 
Delaware  River  where  there  Southerly  bounds  touch 
it,  to  the  head  of  that  River  encluding  the  same 
ye  Indians  say  is  near  150  miles.  And  for  this  vast 
tract  they  only  pay  £3  a  year  to  the  Crown.  He  is 
a  partner  likewise  in  the  Waywiando  patent  and  many 
other  large  tracts  etc.,  the  bounds  of  v/hich  he  has 
survey' d  and  extended  at  his  pleasure  without  any 
authority  from  the  Government,  but  clandestinely  and 
without  the  knowledge  of  the  neighbourhood  etc. 
He  bought  a  share  in  a  patent  for  land  of  which  the 
patentees  did  not  know  where  to  find  the  boundarys 
and  therefore  neglected  it  for  about  twenty  years 
till  this  year  when  he  without  any  authority  from 
the  Government  placed  this  in  the  reassumed  lands 
which  formerly  belong'd  to  Capt.  Evans  and  (altho' 
the  patent  grants  only  2000  acres)  survey'd  out  to 
himself  and  the  other  patentees  about  10,000  of  the 
best  of  these  lands.  He  has  succeeded  so  well  and  so 
often  in  the  arts  of  extending  boundarys  that  he 
boldly  ventur'd  to  put  them  in  practice  again  in  this 
place,  by  putting  Indian  names  upon  certain  places 
which  were  never  hear'd  of  by  the  Christians  in  the 
neighbourhood  tho'  they  have  liv'd  above  thirty  years 
within  four  or  five  miles  of  these  places.  It  is  of  great 
consequence  for  the  Crown  timely  to  look  into  the 
affair  of  lands  here.  I  have  calculated  the  contents 
of  eight  patents  according  to  their  present  claim  and 
find  that  if  they  alone  were  to  pay  at  the  rate  all  the 
lands  likely  patented  do,  2/6  per  100  acres,  the  yearly 
rent  of  them  would  amount  to  £4176  tho'  now  they 
only  pay  £17  17s.  6d.  I  believe  it  will  not  be  impossible 
to  raise  from  the  lands  of  this  Province  a  sufficient 
revenue  to  support  the  Government  without  doing 
injustice  or  any  hardship  to  anybody  but  a  great  deal 
of  justice  to  the  King.  Such  like  deceits  did  creep 
into  all  the  Colonys  at  their  first  setling  tho'  I  think 
not  in  any  to  such  a  degree  as  in  this,  they  did  I  know 
into  Virginia,  and  Pensilvania  but  there  the  ill  effects 
of  them  were  prevented  by  the  timely  care  of  the  officers 
and  a  resurvey  of  the  Province.     Indeed  without  a 


496 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721 


Nov.  30. 

St.  James's. 


Nov.  30. 

81.  James's. 

Nov.  30. 

St.  James's. 


Dec.  1. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  2. 

New  York. 


survey  of  this  Province  it  will  be  impossible  to  know 
what  lands  are  patented  and  what  not  it  will  be  im- 
possible ever  to  form  a  rent-roll  or  to  gather  in  the 
quit-rents  if  a  rent  roll  were  form'd,  for  at  present  we 
are  very  ignorant  of  the  situation  of  the  several  parts 
of  ye  Province.  Signed,  Cadwallader  Colden.  Same 
endorsement  7^ pp.  \C\0.  5,  105S.  //".  34-35i;.,  37-42, 
43-46r,    47-51t;.] 

730.  II. M.  Additional  Instruction  to  Wm.,  Burnet,  Governor 
of  New  York,  relating  to  ecclesiastical  benefices  and  school- 
masters.    \C.O.  5,  191.     pp.  354,  355.] 

731.  H.M.  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor  Nicholson. 
As  preceding.     [CO.  5,  191.     jjp.  358,  359.] 

732.  H.M.  Additional  Instruction  to  Wm.  Burnet,  Governor 
of  New  Jersey.  As  preceding,  but  omitting  second  paragraph 
"  that  no  person  be  admitted  to  keep  school  without  the  licence 
of  the  Bishop  of  London."  Set  out,  N.  J.  Archives,  1st  Ser.  V. 
23.     [CO.  5,  191.     pp.  356,  357.] 

733.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Enclose  draught  of  Commission  for  Governor  Worseley,  in  the 
same  form  as  that  for  the  late  Lord  Belhaven  etc.     Annexed, 

733.  i.  Draught   of    H.M.    Commission   to   Henry  Worseley 

"  to  be  Our  Captain  General  and  Governor  in  Chief 
in  and  over  Our  Islands  of  Barbados,  St.  Lucia, 
Dominico,  St. Vincents,  Tobago"  etc.  Signed,  11th  .Ian., 
172|.    [CO.  29,  14.     pp.  258-279.] 

734.  (iovernor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. I  have  sent  Mr.  Kennedy  one  of  the  Lieutenants  of  the 
Troops  here  and  my  adjutant  to  England  in  orderto  sollicit  for  two 
additional  companys  for  to  be  added  to  the  four  now  in  this  Pro- 
\'ince  such  a  force  will  be  the  only  effectual  security  against  the 
designs  of  the  french  and  the  only  sure  meanes  to  keep  ye  Indians 
true  to  us,  by  having  numerous  garrisons  disposed  in  proper  posts 
in  their  country.  If  this  is  done  nothing  will  be  able  to  defeat 
the  measure  I  have  already  taken  to  settle  a  trade  with  the 
far  Nations,  which  Settlement  now  lyes  exposed  to  ye  French 
whenever  they  shall  think  it  worth  their  while  to  break  their 
Treaty  and  destroy  it.  This  is  but  too  much  to  be  apprehended 
from  their  former  conduct  and  I  hope  your  I^ordships  will 
approve  of  the  meanes  I  now  propose  to  put  us  out  of  all  ap- 
prehensions. As  this  was  once  moved  by  Brigadier  Hunter  for 
much  the  same  reasons  and  as  he  is  an  experienc'd  officer  and 
a  perfect  judge  of  this  affair  I  have  directed  Mr.  Kennedy  to 
obtain  of  him  ye   particular   scheme   after  what   manner   he 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  497 


1721. 

proposed  that  the  six  companys  should  be  regimented  etc. 
Signed,  W.  Burnet.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read  18th  Jan. 
172|.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

734.  i.  Account   of  Stores   remaining  in   H.M.    Garrison   of 
New  York,  Sept.  17,  1720.     Same  endorsement.     1  p. 

734.  ii.  Estimate   of  stores  wanting  for  H.M.   garrisons   at 

New  York,  Albany  and  Schenectade  (Seanactendy) 
and  Fort  Hunter,  Dec.  1st.,  1721.  Same  endorsement. 
I  p.     [CO.  5,  1053.    ff.22,22v.,  23z;,-25.] 

Dec.  3.  735.  Lord  Carteret  to  Governor  Burnet.  The  King  having 
Whitehall,  jjggj^  pleased  to  sign  an  Instruction  not  to  prefer  any  Minister 
to  any  Ecclesiastical  benefice  in  the  Province  of  New  York, 
without  a  certificate  from  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  and  not 
to  admit  any  person  to  keep  school  in  that  Province,  without  the 
license  of  the  said  Bishop  of  London,  I  take  this  occasion  to 
transmit  the  same  to  you.     Signed,  Carteret.     Annexed, 

735.  i.  H.M.    Additional    Instructions   to    the    Governor   of 

New  York.  St.  James's,  Nov.  30th,  1721.  Altering 
71st  and  75th  Articles  of  his  Instructions  as  described 
in  preceding.  Signed,  G.R.  [CO.  324,  34.  pp. 
84-86.] 

Dec.  3.       736.     Same  to  Same.      Encloses  similar  instruction,   as  to 
Whitehall,  ecclcsiastical  benefices  only,  in  relation  to  the  Province  of  New 
Jersey.     Signed,   Carteret.     Annexed, 

736.  i.  H.M.    Instruction    referred    to    in    preceding.     [CO. 

324,  34.     pp.  86-88.] 

Dec.  3.       737.     Same  to  Governor  Nicholson.     Encloses  Instructions 
WhitehaU.  similar  to  those  of  the  Governor  of  New  York,  supra.     Signed, 
Carteret.     Annexed, 

737.  i.  H.M.    Instructions    ut   supra.      [CO.    324,    34.    pp. 

88-90.] 

Dec.  4.       738.     H.   Walpole  to  Mr.   Popple.     Encloses  following  for 
I'loasury      the   opinion   of  the   Council   of  Trade.     Signed,   H.   Walpole. 
Chambers.    Endorsed,    Reed.,      Read   5th   Dec,    1721.      Addressed.     |  p. 
Enclosed. 

738.  i.  Account    of   Beaver    skins    imported   and    exported, 

1715-1720.  1  p. 
738.  ii.  The  Hat-Makers  Case.  The  duty  of  15|d  upon 
beaver  skins  was  laid  when  the  value  of  20*.  per  skin. 
The  great  importation  thereof  has  reduced  it  to  4/6  per 
skin,  so  that  the  duty  is  now  30  p.c.  Soon  after  the 
Peace  of  Reswick  the  French  seduced  12  English 
Hatters,  and  one  Hat-dyer  to  Paris,  and  there  set  up 
a  manufactory  of  beaver-hats,  by  which  means  that 
mysterious  art,  heretofore  known  to  the  English  only, 

Wt.  75e&  C-P.  32—33 


498  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

did  soon  spread  into  other  foreign  countries,  and 
(besides  having  their  labour  cheaper)  they  drawing 
back  at  the  Custom-house  13|rf.  on  every  skin  exported, 
enables  them  to  buy  their  goods  at  our  markets  20  to 
25  per  cent,  cheaper  than  the  British  manufacturer 
can  do  :  which  is  equal  to  laying  a  tax  of  20  to  25  per 
cent,  on  our  own  workmen,  when  the  foreigner  pays 
nothing.  A  still  greater  advantage  arises  to  the 
foreigner,  by  an  evil  practice  introduced  a  few  years 
since,  of  carrying  very  great  quantities  of  beaver-skins 
from  New  York,  or  other  Plantations,  to  Holland 
directly  etc.  Pray  that  the  duty  may  be  so  alleviated 
or  proportioned,  as  to  set  the  English  manufacturer  at 
least  on  the  same  level  with  foreigners  etc.  Printed. 
Ip.     [CO.  388,  23.     No.  74.] 

Dec.  8.  739.  Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Bermuda.  Plantations.  On  24th  Sept.  I  received  H.M.  mandamus  for 
calling  into  the  Council  Hen.  Tucker  and  John  and  Richd. 
Jennings,  and  doe  understand  yor.  Lordps.  wants  to  know  what 
is  become  of  Robt.  Burton  formerly  appointed  one  of  the  Council 
by  my  Instructions  frorn  His  present  Matie.,  to  which  I  answer 
that  Robert  Burton  Esq.  died  before  I  received  my  Commission. 
Inclosed  is  an  Act  of  Assembly  whereby  yor.  Lordps.  may  please 
to  observe  in  the  preamble,  there  has  been  two  such  Acts  made 
laying  a  duty  on  all  goods  imported  not  belonging  to  inhabitants 
(provisions  and  liquors  only  excepted)  for  supplying  the  de- 
ficiency of  several  funds  in  these  Islands,  and  for  building  a 
house  for  the  present  and  succeeding  Governours.  The  last  of 
which  will  expire  in  May  next ;  and  by  the  act  herewith  sent  it 
appears  there  are  still  deficiencies  in  answering  the  intent  of 
the  former  Act  with  an  addition  in  the  title  (vizt.)  and  repairing 
the  Castle  and  fortifications,  and  for  defraying  the  other  publick 
charge  of  these  Islands,  which  addition  almost  made  it  a  new 
bill,  and  knowing  the  necessity  of  the  Govermt.  incline  me  to 
presume  so  far  to  pass  it  as  is  mentioned  after  the  close  of  the  Act, 
and  doe  pray  that  as  soon  as  conveniency  will  permit  it  may  be 
laid  before  H.M.  for  approbation,  and  if  allowed  that  I  may  be 
advised  thereof  by  the  first  opportunity,  in  order  to  put  it  in 
force  after  the  expiration  of  the  former  Act  without  which  the 
Govermt.  can  not  with  soe  much  ease  and  content  be  supported, 
for  the  trader  is  noe  way  hurt  he  advanceing  accordingly  on  his 
goods,  and  the  inhabitants  can't  find  fault  because  they  by  their 
Representatives  have  put  it  upon  themselves  :  and  least  this 
tax  may  be  supposed  to  amount  to  more  than  really  it  does, 
on  examining  the  accts  I  find  it  has  one  year  with  another 
brought  in  £162  6s.  8d.  two  thirds  of  which  has  been  paid  by 
persons  comeing  to  trade  for  our  platt,  which  whilst  in  fashion 
may  produce  abt.  the  same,  but  when  not  in  demand  that  fund 


AMERICA   AND   WEST  INDIES. 


499 


1721, 


must  sink  proportionably.  My  Lds.  I  am  sensible  this  Act 
wanted  several  amendmts.  both  as  to  form  and  wording,  but 
the  Assembly  being  impatient  to  return  to  their  plantations  did 
by  the  same  Committy  that  brought  it  up  to  me  in  Council, 
desire  to  adjourn  to  the  first  Monday  in  May.  In  answer  to 
which  I  said  I  would  let  the  Speaker  know  after  reading  the 
bill,  and  upon  consulting  with  the  Council  about  the  amendmts. 
they  advised  me  not  to  detain  the  House  least  something  might 
arise  to  obstruct  it,  and  cause  it  to  be  laid  aside  till  their  next 
meeting,  before  which  time  the  former  Act  will  expire,  besides 
it  was  doubted  that  if  delayed  it  would  not  be  sent  up  to  us 
again,  several  of  the  members  being  against  it ;  which  reasons 
(and  being  for  the  support  of  the  Govermt.)  prevail'd  on  me 
to  proceed  in  passing  it  so  far  as  it  is,  and  hope  I  shall  not  be 
censur'd.  From  Barbados  I  understand  that  that  coast  and 
Martinique  have  been  infested  with  five  pirate  sloops  and  a 
brigantine,  whom  have  taken  several  vessells,  and  that  their 
place  of  randevouz  was  att  Sta.  Lucea,  and  that  the  Govemour 
of  Martinique  had  sent  up  to  the  Presidt.  of  Barbados  for  the 
assistance  of  a  man  of  war  etc.  Refers  to  enclosure.  Signed, 
Ben.  Bennett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  24th  Jan.,  172|,  Read  13th 
June,  1722.     Holograph.     2^  pp.     Enclosed, 

739.  i.  Six  inhabitants  of  Bermuda  qualified  to  supply 
vacancies  in  the  Council : — Capt.  Danl.  Tucker,  John 
Darrell,  Tho.  Parsons,  Capt.  Samll.  Rayner,  Capt.  Geo. 
Ball,  Capt.  Jam.  Browne.  All  of  good  character  and 
estate.  Signed,  B.  Bennett.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 
[CO.  37,  10.  Nos.  27,  27.  i.  ;  and  {abstract  of 
covering  letter),  37,  24.     p.  8.] 


Dec.  11.       740.     B.  Wheelock  (assistant  Secretary,  Board    of    Trade) 
Whitehall,  to  Mr.  Wcst.     Encloscs,  for  his  opinion  thereupon,  the  petition 
of  Lewis  Piers  etc.     [CO.  153,  14.    p.  83.] 


Dec.  12. 

Boston. 


741.  Mr.  Willard  to  [?Mr.  Popple].  Encloses  Minutes 
of  Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  31st  May — Aug.,  1721, 
and  of  Council  for  half  year  ending  Aug.,  1721,  Acts  passed 
May- Aug.,  1721,  Treasurer's  accounts  and  accounts  of  stores 
at  Castle  William.  Signed,  Josiah  Willard.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
31st  Jan.,  Read  13th  Feb.,  171-^.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

741.  i.  Accounts  of  Jeremiah  Allen,  Treasurer  and  Receiver 
General  of  H.M.  Revenue  within  the  Massachusetts 
Bay,  31st  May,  1720-1721.  £45,500  10s.  Id.  The 
balance  of  his  account  discharged  by  the  Assembly, 
June  22,  1721.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  26  pp. 
741.  ii.  Account  of  stores  of  war  at  H.M.  Castle  William  at 
Boston.  June  24,  1721.  Signed,  Zecr.  Tuthill,  Lt, 
Same  endorsement.     1  p. 


500 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1721. 


[Dec.    12.] 

Admty. 
Ofifice. 


Dec.  13. 

Bostf)n. 


Dec.  13. 

WhitehaU. 


741.  iii.  Account  of  stores  of  war  expended  at  Castle  William, 

24th  June,  1720-1721.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  868.  ff.  163, 
164i;.,  166-179i;.,  184r;.,  185,  186i;.-187i;.] 

742.  John  Cokburne,  a  Lord  Commissioner  of  the  Admiralty, 
to  the  Earl  of  Westmorland.  Upon  news  of  death  of  Col. 
Archbould,  recommends  his  brother  to  fill  vacancy  in  Council 
of  Jamaica.  Signed,  Jo.  Cokburne.  Endorsed,  Reed,  from  the 
Earl  of  Westmorland,  12th,  Read  13th  Dec,  1721.  1  p. 
[CO.  137,  14.    ff.  48,  49i;.] 

743.  Governor  Burnet  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Abstract.  Returns  thanks  for  promised  representation 
on  his  administration  (23rd  Aug.).  The  affairs  of  the  Province 
remain  as  before.  Finds  that  the  rebellious  conduct  of  the 
Indians  mentioned  in  his  last  letter  was  chiefly  occasioned  by 
M.  de  Vaudreuil  permitting,  or  encouraging  Father  le  Chaise, 
and  Monsr.  Croizeen,  a  French  officer,  to  come  down  into  H.M. 
Government,  and  there  join  with  Raillee,  another  French  Jesuit, 
who  constantly  resides  among  the  Indians  that  are  in  H.M. 
territories,  who  all  combined  together  as  incendiaries  to  persuade 
the  Indians  to  commit  this  insult.  These  proceedings  keep  the 
Eastern  settlements  constantly  alarmed,  and  obliges  him  to 
keep  troops  upon  the  frontiers,  to  the  great  expence  of  the 
province.  These  proceedings  of  the  French  are  directly  contrary 
to  the  Treaties,  and  he  begs  the  Board  to  consider  them  etc. 
Set  out,  Maine  Hist.  Soc.  Coll.  I.  376.  Signed,  Samuel  Shute. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  31st  Jan.,  Read  6th  Feb.,  17|i.  2  pp. 
Enclosed, 

743.  i.  Account  of  powder  in  H.M.  Fort  William  and  Mary 
at  New  Castle  in  N.  Hampshire,  May  28,  1720-1721, 
with  a  list  of  stores  remaining.  Signed,  J.  Wentworth, 
Same  endorsement.      2  pp. 

743.  ii.  H.M.    Additional    Instruction    to    Governor    Shute, 

27th  Sept.,  1717,  relating  to  passing  Acts  affecting 
trade  or  shipping  etc.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  1  p. 
[CO.  5,  868.    //.  150,  150i;.,  151i;.-152y.,  153z;.-154i;.] 

744.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lord  Carteret. 
Enclose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M.     Annexed, 

744.  i.  Same  to  the  King.  Enclose  following  draught  of 
Instructions  for  the  Duke  of  Portland,  Governor  of 
Jamaica,  "  in  the  usual  form,  except  some  few  altera- 
tions from  the  Instructions  given  to  Sir  N.  Lawes,  etc. 
vizt..  To  the  15th  Article  of  Sir  N.  Lawes'  Instructions 
relating  to  the  passing  of  private  Acts,  we  have  added 
{No.  19),  that  the  Governor  take  care  that  in  all  such 
private  Acts  there  be  a  clause  inserted  to  prevent  their 
being  in  force  till  theyshall  have  receiv'd  your  Majesty's 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  501 


1721. 


Royal  approbation,  and  that  publick  notification  be 
made  of  the  parties  intention  to  apply  for  such  Act 
in  the  several  parish  Churches  where  the  premisses 
in  question  lye,  before  the  same  be  brought  into 
the  Assembly ;  which  addition  your  Majesty  was 
graciously  pleas'd  to  approve  in  the  draughts  of 
Instructions  for  the  late  Lord  Belhaven,  etc.  The 
21st  Article  of  the  present  draught  against  the  passing 
of  Laws  whereby  bills  of  credit  may  be  struck  or  money 
paid  to  the  Governor  or  any  of  the  Council  or  Assembly, 
without  a  clause  declairing  such  Acts  not  to  be  in  force 
till  approved  by  your  Majesty,  is  new,  and  agreeable 
to  the  Additional  Instruction  to  Sir  N.  Lawes,  which 
we  laid  before  the  late  Lords  Justices  11th  Aug,  1720, 
pursuant  to  your  Majesty's  Order  in  Council  of  19th 
May  foregoing.  The  Slst  Article  relating  to  the  Duke 
of  Portland's  appointments  for  the  Governor  of 
Jamaica,  and  your  Majesty's  permission  to  him  to 
receive  such  addition  as  the  Assembly  there  shall 
think  fit  to  his  salary,  under  the  restrictions  therein 
mention' d,  is  prepared  conformable  to  the  Instructions 
to  your  Majesty's  Governors  of  Barbados,  the  Leeward 
Islands  and  Bermuda,  and  in  obedience  to  your 
Majesty's  particular  commands  (11th  Oct.  last)  ; 
except  that  whereas  by  the  Instructions  to  the  said 
Governors  they  are  permitted  to  give  their  assent 
to  any  Act  or  Acts  to  be  pass'd  in  the  first  Assembly 
after  their  arrival,  for  such  addition  to  the  allowance 
for  the  said  Governor's  support  as  the  Assembly  should 
think  fit  to  make  for  the  whole  time  of  their  Govt., 
we  have  in  the  present  draught  confined  the  passing 
of  such  Act  to  the  space  of  a  year  after  the  Governor's 
arrival,  as  conceiving  the  same  more  agreable  to  the 
intent  of  the  said  Instruction,  since  the  sitting  of  the 
Assembly  in  Jamaica  is  not  limited,  as  in  some  other 
Governments,  to  one  year  only.  The  latter  part  of 
the  S5th  Article  after  the  words,  particular  order  for 
that  purpose,  is  new,  and  is  designed  to  prevent  in 
Jamaica  the  same  inconveniences  and  disturbances 
which  have  lately  happen' d  in  Barbados  from  the 
President  of  the  Council  having  taken  upon  him  to 
exercise  a  very  unusual  liberty  of  making  as  many 
changes  in  all  offices  there,  both  civil  and  military, 
as  the  Governor  himself  directly  appointed  by  your 
Majesty,  might  have  done.  The  59th  Article,  is  new, 
and  was  prepared  at  the  request  of  the  Commissioners 
of  Customs,  upon  complaint  from  their  officers  in  the 
Plantations,  that  they  are  frequently  obliged  to  serve 
on   Jurys  and  to  appear  in  arms,  to  the  hindrance  of 


502  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721. 

the  execution  of  their  employments.  The  63rd  and 
6Qth  Articles  relating  to  certificates  for  clergymen, 
and  licences  for  schoolmasters ;  we  have  altered 
pursuant  to  your  Majesty's  Order  in  Council,  26th 
Sept.  The  65th  Article  of  the  Instructions  to  the 
late  Governor,  relating  to  the  entries  to  be  made  in 
all  ports  of  all  goods,  is  omitted  in  the  present  draught, 
as  being  provided  for  in  the  particular  Instructions 
likewise  herewith  humbly  laid  before  your  Majesty, 
in  pursuance  of  the  several  Acts  of  Trade  and  Naviga- 
tion, which  are  in  the  usual  form,  except  that  conform- 
able to  your  Majesty's  Order  in  Council,  2nd  Oct., 
we  have  incorporated  a  clause  for  preventing  any 
illegal  trade  which  may  be  carry' d  on  by  ships  coming 
to  your  Majesty's  Plantations  from  the  East  Indies. 
In  the  85th,  86th  and  87th  Articles  relating  to  the 
particular  incouragement  to  be  given  to  the  Royal 
African  Company,  we  have  included  others  H.M. 
subjects  trading  to  Africa,  which  your  Majesty  has 
been  pleased  to  approve  for  the  Govr.  of  Barbados 
and  others.  And  whereas  pursuant  to  an  Act  of 
Parliament  for  the  more  effectual  suppression  of 
piracy,  your  Majesty  has  been  graciously  pleas'd  to 
grant  a  Commission  for  trying  pirates  at  the  Bahamas 
Islands,  which  before  [your]  Majesty's  appointing  a 
Governor  of  those  Islands,  were  to  be  try'd  by  virtue  of 
the  like  Commission  granted  to  Sr.  Nicholas  Lawes,  we 
have  made  the  necessary  alteration  etc.  We  have 
inserted  in  the  first  place  of  the  Council,  the  name  of 
Charles  Du  Bourgay  Esq.  your  Majesty's  Lt.  Governor, 
as  is  done  in  the  Leeward  Islands,  and  Wm.  Cockburn 
in  the  room  of  James  Archbould  deed.  etc. 
744.  ii.  H.M.  Instructions  to  Henry  Duke  of  Portland, 
Captain  General  and  Governor  in  Chief  of  Jamaica. 
V.  preceding,     [CO.    138,    16.     pp.    337-400.] 

Dec.  14.       745.     Order  of  King  in   Council.     Referring    preceding  to 

St.  James's,  the  Lords  of  the  Committee  for  Plantation  Affairs  for  their 

opinion    thereupon.     Signed,     Edward    Southwell.     Endorsed, 

Reed.  23rd,  Read  24th  April,  1722.     1  p.     [CO.  137,  14.    ff. 

133,  134i;.] 

Dec.  14.       746.     Order  of    King  in  Council.      Referring  representation 

St.  James's,  ^f  ^3^^,  j^^  ^^^^  draught  of  Commission  for  Governor  Woresly  to 

the  Lords  of  the  Committee  for  Plantation  Affairs  for  their 

report.     Signed,    Edward    Southwell.     Endorsed,    Reed.    23rd, 

Read  24th  April,  1722.     1^?.     [CO.  28,  17.    ^.  264,  265i;.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


503 


1721. 
Dec.  14. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  17. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  18. 

St.  James's. 


Dec.  19. 

WhitehaU. 


Dec.  20. 

WhitehaU. 


747.  Mr.  Popple  to  John  Moore.  The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  desire  to  know  whether  you  intend  to  return  again 
to  Jamaica,  and  how  soon,  as  also  how  long  you  have  been 
absent.  Similar  letter  to  Samuel  Moore.  [CO.  138.  16.  p. 
400.] 

748.  Mr.  Popple  to  Horatio  Walpole,  one  of  the  Secretaries 
of  the  Treasury.  Pursuant  to  the  desire  of  the  Lords  Com- 
missioners of  the  Treasury  {v.  4>th  Dec.)  the  Lords  Commissioners 
for  Trade  etc.  have  considered  the  case  of  the  Hat-makers  and 
the  account  of  beaver-skins  imported  and  exported  Christmas 
1715-1720  etc.,  and  have  discoursed  with  several  of  the  said 
hatters  and  other  dealers  in  beaver-skins,  whereupon  their 
Lordships  command  me  to  signify  their  opinion  etc.,  that  the 
large  drawback  of  13jd  for  every  beaver  skin  exported  (the 
whole  duty  on  importation  being  but  15d.)  is  a  great  discourage- 
ment to  our  British  manufacturers  of  beaver  hats,  in  regard 
that  foreigners  are  thereby  inabled  to  buy  the  said  skins  so 
much  cheaper,  and  consequently  to  undersell  us  in  the  markets 
abroad  etc.  They  conceive  the  drawback  should  be  intirely 
taken  off  and  the  duty  of  15d.  on  importation  be  reduced  etc. 
They  are  of  opinion  that  the  evil  practice  complained  of  by  the 
petitioners,  of  carrying  beaver  skins  directly  from  the  British 
Plantations  to  foreign  parts,  ought  to  be  effectually  prevented. 
[CO.  382,  28.     pp.  101,  102.] 

749.  Order  of  King  in  Council.  Approving  draught  of 
Commission  for  Governor  Henry  Woresly.  Signed,  Edward 
Southwell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd,  Read  24th  April,  1722.  I  p. 
[CO.  28,  17.  ff.  262,  263i;.  ;  and  {duplicate  signed,  Temple 
Stanyan)  5,  191.     p.  359a.] 

750.  Mr.  Popple  to  Horatio  Walpole.  Applies  for  40 
copies  of  4  Acts  of  Parliament  to  be  distributed  to  Governors 
of  Plantations  etc.  Dated  (incorrectly)  1722.  Ed.  [CO.  324, 
10.     pp.  441,  442.] 

751 .  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Burnet. 
Having  been  desired  by  Samuel  Pytts  and  his  Lady  the  Countess 
of  Bellomont,  to  recommend  to  you  to  be  assisting  to  them  in 
obtaining  the  payment  of  what  shall  appear  to  remain  due  to 
her  as  Executrix  of  ye  late  Earl  of  Bellomont  on  account  of  his 
Lordship's  sallary  or  otherwise  as  Governor  of  New  York  ;  we 
could  not  refuse  so  reasonable  a  request  and  therefore  hope  you 
will  favour  them  by  knowing  of  Colo.  Depeyster,  who  we  are 
inform'd  has  the  proper  warrants  in  his  hands,  the  state  of  that 
affair  and  by  pressing  him  or  moving  the  Assembly  etc.  to  dis- 
charge the  debt.  1  p.  [CO.  5,  1079.  No.  127  ;  and  5,  1124. 
pp.  272,  273.] 


504 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 
Dec.  20.       752.     H.M.    Commission    to    Governor    Worsley,    revoking 
St.  James's,  that    of    Lord    Belhaven.     Countersigned,    Carteret.     [CO.    5, 
191.     pp.  360-373.] 


Dec.  20. 

Barbados. 


Dec.  20. 

Barbados. 


753.  Samuel  Cox  to  Lord  Townshend.  Returns  thanks 
for  obligations.  Is  confident  that  he  will  be  able  to  justify  his 
conduct  to  the  expected  Governor,  Lord  Belhaven.  If  he  was 
too  hasty  in  suspending  the  members  of  Council,  etc.,  their 
conduct  since  they  were  restored  has  sufficiently  shewn  how 
necessary  it  was.  Continues : — Their  refusal  to  suffer  the 
nomination  of  any  Judg  of  the  Chief  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
when  they  knew  I  could  not  issue  a  Commission  without  their 
consent,  whereby  the  administration  of  Justice  in  that  Common 
Law  Court  was  entirely  stopt,  and  all  mercantile  affairs  in 
confusion  and  at  a  stand  ;  their  refusal  to  let  any  Court  of  Grand 
Sessions  be  held,  in  direct  defiance  of  H.M.  42nd  Instruction  ; 
their  frequent  attempts  to  wrest  the  Prerogative  out  of  my 
hands,  and  claiming  the  right  of  doing  what  the  Govemr.  or 
Commander-in-Chief  is  by  his  Commission  and  Instructions 
impower'd  to  do  ;  and  their  refusall  to  joyn  with  me  on  any 
other  terms,  or  wth.  the  Assembly  at  all,  in  the  publick  adminis- 
tration (besides  the  indignities  and  insults  offer'd  my  person) 
do  now  clearly  prove  that  the  administration  of  the  Government 
and  the  distribution  of  justice  must  have  been  at  a  stand  if 
those  changes  had  not  been  made  etc.  For  the  last  part  of  my 
Government  I  have  been  a  mere  cypher  in  a  maner,  my  hands 
having  been  in  many  things  ty'd  up  by  my  Instructions  to  act 
in  the  administration,  with  those  who  refused  to  act  with  me  at 
all,  etc.,  but  I  can  challenge  the  most  malicious  to  give  one 
single  instance  of  any  person  injur' d  in  his  property  or  his 
liberty.  Justice  has  been  as  equally  and  as  impartially  dis- 
tributed as  in  any  country  on  earth,  till  the  restored  Councillors 
obstructed  the  administration.  No  one  has  had  any  corporal 
punishment  inflicted,  nor  been  so  much  as  imprison'd  for  the 
outragious  insults  against  my  person  and  administration.  I 
have  forgiven  and  pas't  over  them  all  etc.  Signed,  Saml.  Cox. 
2  pp.     [CO.  28,  39.     No.  9.] 

754.  Mr.  Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
The  unexpected  stay  of  my  Lord  Belhaven  having  disappointed 
my  expectations,  that  I  should  not  have  another  opportunity 
of  addressing  your  Lordships  etc.,  I  now  do  myself  the  honour 
to  acquaint  you,  that  since  my  last,  the  insolent  behaviour  of 
the  restored  Members  of  Council  towards  me,  their  resolutions 
to  stagnate  all  affairs  and  to  stop  the  administration  of  publick 
Justice  is  demonstrated  by  every  fresh  oppertunity,  as  will 
appear  from  the  Minutes  of  Council  now  transmitted,  particu- 
larly their  refuseing  to  agree  to  the  appointment  of  any  Judg 
for  ye  Grand  Sessions,   in  manifest   disobedience  to   my  42nd 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  505 


1721. 


Instruction   then   communicated   to   them,    altho'    their    were 
criminals  for  murder,  and  other  crimes  to  have  been  tried.     Mr. 
Lascells,  Collr.  of  the  Customs  here,  has  after  siezure  discharged 
and  let  saile  the  Sloop  Spy  one  Burrows  Master,  altho'  he  knew 
she  was  under  prosecution  in  H.M.  Courts    here  for  breach  of 
the  Acts  of  Trade,  and  had  on  board  her  when  siezed  severall 
french  sugers,  which  (she  having  sailed  from  this  Island  without 
any  clearance)  had  taken  in  at  the  french  Islands,  and  unloaded 
great  part  of,  without  entry  with  me,  and  at  the  Customhouse. 
How  far  this  gentleman's  conduct  deserves  censure,  is  humbly 
submitted.     I  have  been  lately  sensibly  mortified  with  a  generall 
account  that  I  have  fallen  under  your  Lordships  censure,  for 
several  facts  contain'd   in  Mr.  Sutton's  and  Mr.  Terrils  letters, 
I  have  however  the  comfort  to  know  that  those  facts  are  the 
most  monstruou*  etc.  the  most  ridiculous  lyes  that  ever  were 
invented,    etc.     Regrets   delay  in  sending  j^apers  ozving  to   the 
villainy  of  Mr.  Lenoir  etc.     Continues  :   Since  I  have   taken  the 
Council  Books  into  my  custody,  and  at  my  own  private  expence 
made  out  copies  for  your  Lordships,  I  have  neither  been  wanting 
in  writeing  to  your  Lordships,  nor  transmitting  ye  proper  papers 
etc.     I  have  the  further  misfortune  to  find  that  I  have  not  (ever 
since  I  have  been  President)  been  favour' d  with  one  single  line 
from  yor.  Lordships  etc.     I  have  been  now  President  of  Barbados 
above  a  twelvemonth,  and  notwithstanding  that  ye  parties  and 
divisions  (wch.  Mr.  Lowther  left  among  us  and  made  his  faction 
drink  damnation  ever  to  support)  have  run  to  so  great  a  higth, 
yet  there  is  not  one  single  instance  of  violence,  or  oppression, 
or   injustice,  I  challenge  the  most  spitefull,  and    inveterate  of 
all  my  enemies  to  give  one  single  instance  of  any  person  injur'd 
in  his  property,  depriv'd  in  his  liberty,  or  treated  with  severity, 
there  has  been  no  imprisonmts.,  no  corporal  punishments  as 
in  Mr.  Lowther's  time,  nor  a  fine  above  five  pounds  (except  one 
which  was  £20)  for  the  most  dareing  and  scurrilous  insults  on 
the    Goverment   that   can  be  imagin'd.     And  yet  I  have  sup- 
ported ye  Prerogative  and  can  with  great  truth  aver  that  mine 
has  been  a  just,  mild  and  gentle  administration.     And  however 
some  people  may  grumble  for  having  been  turn'd  out  of  places, 
which,  they  neither  deserv'd  nor  were  fit  for,  yet  their  liberties 
and    properties    have    never    been    meddled    with.     Encloses 
Minutes  of  Assembly  to  5th  Dec.     Signed,  Saml.  Cox.    Endorsed, 
Reed.     Read  15th  Feb.,  172i.     Holograph.     2  pp.     [CO.  28, 
17.    ff.  247-248,  250,  250i).  {with  abstract.)] 

Dec.  20.       755.     Mr.   Cox  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Barbados,  jn  pursuaucc  of  my  29th  Instruction,  I  do  myself  the  honour 
of  acquainting  your  Lordships  that  one  Mary  Haselton  of  this 
Island  was  bound  in  a  recognizance  oT  £100  herself,  and  £50 
each  of  her  securitys,  to  appear  at  the  then  next  Quarter  Sessions, 
on  pretence  of  her  living  incontinently  with  one  John  Bently 


506 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


Dec.  22. 

Whitehall. 


1721. 

Esq.,  and  she  being  apprehensive  of  very  violent  proceedings 
intended  to  be  had  against  her  by  some  maUcious  persons  left 
the  Island,  by  which  means  her  said  recognizance  became  for- 
feited. But  I  am  by  the  same  Instruction  impowered  to  suspend 
the  payment  of  any  fines  and  forfeitures  till  H.M.  pleasure  be 
known  ;  which  I  have  accordingly  done  by  that  above-men- 
tioned, as  well  on  the  consideration  that  the  sd.  sum  so  forfeited 
must  fall  on  a  Gentleman  of  known  loyalty  and  avow'd  affection 
to  the  present  Happy  Establishment,  and  who  has  upon  all 
occasions  exerted  himself  for  the  interest  of  H.M,  in  these  parts, 
as  for  that  I  don't  find  any  law  to  punish  incontineney  in  the 
manner  it  has  been  occasionally  practis'd  here  with  the  utmost 
partiality,  or  that  gives  the  Civil  Magistrate  any  cognizance 
of  that  crime,  otherwise  than  by  securing  the  Parish  where  tis 
committed  from  any  damage  that  may  ensue  thereby  ;  which 
I  say  not  without  presuming  to  assure  your  Lordships  that  I 
have  hitherto,  and  ever  shall  discountenance  the  vice  as  much 
as  lyes  in  my  power,  etc.  Signed,  Saml.  Cox.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  15th  Feb.,  172|.    2pp.     [CO.  28,  17.   ff.  245,  245?;.,  246i;.] 

756.  Lord  Carteret  to  Governor  Hart.  It  having  been 
represented  to  the  King  that  James  Milliken  Esqr.,  Mr.  James 
Gordon  and  Mr.  John  Burnet  are  in  possession  of  that  part  of 
the  PYench  lands  in  St.  Christophers  yeilded  to  Great  Britain 
by  the  Treaty  of  Utrecht  by  virtue  of  grants  from  the  Chief 
Governor  there,  and  have  improved  the  same  etc.,  they  are  to 
remain  in  the  quiet  enjoyment  thereof,  till  H.M.  shall  think 
fit  how  to  dispose  of  that  part  etc.  In  case  you  have  already 
given  any  grants  to  dispossess  such  persons,  you  are  to  recall 
the  same,  etc.     Signed,  Carteret.     [CO.  324,  34.     pp.  95,  96.] 

Dec.  25.  757.  Petty  Expenses,  Postage  and  Stationer's  Account 
of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Michaelmas  to  Christmas,  1721.  The 
latter  account  includes  £9  for  "18  large  books  of  loose  papers 
bound  together  in  vellum  att  the  Office."  v.  B.T.  Journal. 
[CO.  388,  78.    ff.  8,  9.  16,  17,  20.] 

Dec.  26.       758.     Governor  Phenney  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Fort  tions.     Refers  to  enclosures.     Continues  : — The  Fort   has  only 

Nassau  in  ^^^^  ^^liu  stouc  walls  and  the  interspace  fill'd  with  earth,  the 
Providence,  bastions  are  all  deformed  and  falling,  the  parapets  being  of  plank 
are  most  part  decay'd,  so  that  it  is  thought  necessary  here  to 
have  the  whole  rebuilt,  to  which  purpose  the  Council  and  In- 
habitants have  addrest  H.M.  to  grant  them  leave  to  elect  an 
Assembly  in  order  to  raise  monys  for  that  and  other  publick 
works.  The  whole  people  here  pray  your  Lordsps.  assistance 
that  they  may  have  an  Assembly  which  will  soon  encrease  the 
number  of  inhabitants  and  make  the  Colony  flourish.  Under 
the  Proprietary  Government  the  Assembly  consisted  of  twenty, 


AMERICA    AND    WEST   INDIES.  507 


1721. 


but  we  hope  your  Lordsps.  will  think  it  proper  to  have  that 
number  enlarg'd.  I  am  now  going  to  work  on  a  platform  for 
the  twenty-four  18  pounders  (that  came  over  with  me)  extending 
from  the  Fort  to  the  westward  which  will  make  the  harbour 
very  secure  till  we  can  get  the  Fort  in  better  order.  I  am  about 
to  form  the  Militia  of  which  I  will  do  myself  the  honour  to  give 
your  Lordsps.  an  account  by  my  next.  I  am  getting  a  general 
draft  of  these  Islands  which  as  soon  as  finish'd  I  will  also  forward 
to  your  Lordships.  Samuel  Pitt  (late  Mate  of  the  Hamilton  a 
Bristol  ship  Joseph  Smith  Commander)  with  six  of  the  crew 
came  in  their  longboat  from  the  Havana  having  the  Governor's 
pass.  They  were  taken  the  22d.  June  last  by  the  Good  Fortune 
brigantine  Thomas  Anstead  Commander  and  Pirate  having 
18  guns,  60  white  men  and  19  negroes,  14  leagues  west  of 
Jamaica.  The  sd.  pu-ates  forct  the  second  mate  and  12  of 
Smith's  men  to  proceed  with  them  etc.  Signed,  G.  Phenney. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  26th  April,  Read  1st  May,  1722.  If  pp. 
Enclosed, 

758.  i.  (a)  List  of  Council  of  Bahama  Islands : — James 
Gohier,  William  Fairfax,  Thomas  Walker  senr., 
Charles  Wainwright  Carrington,  Pedro  Galfrido 
Parabow  Skynner,  Richard  Thompson  senr., 
Nathaniel  Taylor,  William  Spatchers  senr.,  Peter 
Courant,  Joseph  Cookes,  Thomas  Wood,  Samuel 
Watkins. 

(6)  Persons  recommended  to  supply  vacancies  in 
Council : — William  Jones,  John  Cockrem,  Thomas 
Barnett,  Joseph  Hall,  Francis  Besey,  Benjamin 
Bullock,  Richard  Thompson  junr.,  Thomas  Walker 
junr.,  Thomas  Spencer,  Benjamin  Saunders,  Thomas 
Saunders,  John  Thompson.  Endorsed  as  preceding. 
2  pp. 
758.  ii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  the  Bahama  Islands,  24th 
Dec,  1721.  Mr.  Carrington  was  suspended  from  the 
Council  upon  the  information  of  Mr.  Gohier,  that  when 
in  England  he  was  in  the  interest  of  the  Pretender  etc. 
Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy.  4>  pp. 
758.  iii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Bahama  Islands,  18th-29th 
Dec,  1721.  John  Howell,  Lt.  of  the  Independant 
Company,  cleared  himself  of  the  charge  of  having  been 
a  pirate  brought  against  him  by  James  Gohier  and 
Thomas  Walker  e/c.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  13  pp. 
758.  iv.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Bahama  Islands,  Dec  1721. 
Mr.  Gohier,  one  of  the  co-partners  and  sole  Agent  to 
the  rest,  exhibited  articles  against  William  Fairfax, 
Judge  of  the  Vice-Admiralty,  Collector,  and  Deputy 
Secretary,  charging  him  with  maladministration  as 
Deputy  Governor  (i)  Governor  Rogers,  departing  with- 
out leave,  appointed  Fairfax  Lt.  Governor,  tho'  he  had 


508  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1721.  ~~ 

no  power  to  do  so,  and  Gohier  was  President  of  the 
Council.  By  Fairfax's  orders  troops  boarded  the 
Duck  sloop,  belonging  to  the  Bahama  Co.,  and  seized 
12  barrels  of  flower,  (ii)  To  disable  the  Company 
from  recovering  their  goods,  Fairfax  by  proclamation 
declared  Gohier  and  the  Chief  Justice  (Walker) 
enemies  to  the  welfare  of  this  Government,  (iii)  By 
Fairfax's  orders,  soldiers  shot  and  killed  stock  belong- 
ing to  Gohier,  grazing  on  the  common  near  the  fort, 
(iv)  He  forbade  the  inhabitants  to  pay  the  tenth  of 
spermaceti  oil  and  fifth  of  ambergrease  to  Gohier  as 
agent  to  the  lessees  and  took  them  to  maintain  the 
soldiers,  as  he  says  ;  and  protecteth  himself  in  these 
proceedings  by  force  of  arms,  ever  since  the  10th  of 
June.  He  put  a  stop  to  the  established  Courts  of 
Justice,  and  forbade  the  publication  of  the  Chief 
Justice's  announcement  of  their  being  continued,  so 
that  several  debtors  have  gone  off  the  Island  in  debt 
to  the  Company  etc.  v-xi.  Other  charges,  including 
that  of  baptizing  children.  Reply  of  William  Fairfax. 
Refers  to  Minutes  of  Council  in  answer  to  Nos.  i,  ii. 
Denies  No.  iii.  Mr.  Gohier  and  Walker,  Factors,  denied 
all  relief  to  the  Garrison  from  the  Factory.  Fairfax 
therefore  received  ambergreaSe  and  sperma,  as  stated, 
in  order  to  purchase  the  necessaries  for  them,  etc. 
Same  endorsement.     46|  pp. 

758.  V.  Copy  of  proceedings  in  case  James  Gohier  v.  Thomas 
Petty,  relating  to  a  demand  by  the  former  for  a  tenth 
of  all  oil  made  from  seal,  since  seal  fish  was  ever 
esteemed  a  royal  fish  within  the  Bahama  Islands. 
Referred,  at  the  request  of  the  Chief  Justice,  Thomas 
Walker,  the  plaintiff  and  defendant  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations,  for  their  judgment  thereupon. 
Same  endorsement.     7  pjp. 

758.  vi.  Inventory  of  Stores  of  War  in  Fort  Nassau  on  New 
Providence,  12th  Nov.,  1721.  Signed,  John  Allen, 
gunner,  Jno.  Pennell,  Storekeeper.  Same  endorsement. 
3  pp.     [CO.  23,  1.     Nos.  42,  42.  i-vi.] 

Dec.  28.       759.     Order  of  King  in  Council.     Referring  to  Committee  of 

St.  James's.  Privy  Council,  the  report  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of  1st  Sept. 

upon  the  petition  of  Capt.  Gookin  [v.  8th  Jan.  1720).     Signed, 

Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd,  Read  24th  April, 

1722.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  1266.    ff.  31,  321;.] 

[?17211  1^0.     Address  of   the    Governor,  Council  and  Assembly  and 

Inhabitants  of  South  Carolina  to  Governor  Nicholson.  Truly 
sensible  of  and  deeply  affected  with  H.M.  great  grace  and 
goodness  towards  us,  in  sending  your  Excy.  as  His  Representa- 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  509 

1721. 

tive  among  us,  etc.,  next  to  our  grateful  sense  of  the  King's 
goodness  in  taking  us  under  his  own  immediate  protection  that 
of  his  wisdom  in  sending  your  Excellency  for  our  Governor 
takes  place.  We  rejoyce  at  the  extensive  latitude  of  the  powers 
H.M.  has  honoured  you  with  because  they  convince  us  of  the 
great  repose  and  confidence  H.M.  has  in  you,  and  your  Excys. 
wise  conduct  since  your  arrival  very  strongly  shows  us  how 
much  your  Excy.  will  improve  those  powers  for  the  honour  of 
the  King  and  the  advantage  of  his  subjects  in  this  Province. 
The  King  by  taking  us  under  his  protection  makes  it  incumbent 
upon  us  ever  most  gratefully  to  acknowledge  His  grace  and 
favour.  But  H.M.  by  appointing  so  wise  and  experienced  a 
person  as  your  Excy.  (who  has  acquired  such  considerable 
conquests  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  in  America  from  the 
great  employments  and  commands  you  have  heretofore  had  in 
every  Province  thereof)  to  settle  the  safety  trade  and  tranquillity 
of  this  Infant  Colony  demonstrates  that  no  distant  of  place 
lessens  his  fatherly  tenderness  for  his  people.  These  blessings 
will  naturally  induce  us  to  live  in  Love,  Peace,  Unity  and 
Friendship  with  one  another  and  to  have  no  other  strife  among 
ourselves,  but  who  shall  approve  himself  the  best  subject  to 
the  King  and  most  sincerely  and  affectionately  attach'd  to 
your  Excy.  etc.     Undated.     2|  pp.     [CO.  5,  382.     No.  24.] 

[1721]  761.     Memorial  to  Henry,  Lord  Carleton,  President  of  H.M. 

Privy  Council.  Proposal  from  "  an  intended  Company  of 
Trustees  "  to  settle  all  the  half-pay  officers  upon  the  land 
lyeing  between  Nova  Scotia  and  the  Province  of  Maine,  if 
H.M.  will  remit  the  quit-rent  of  the  Province  for  99  years.  It 
has  been  proposed  to  settle  the  said  land  for  raising  hemp, 
flax  and  naval  stores,  with  a  quit-rent  of  28  lb.  of  hemp  per 
100  acres  etc.     No  date  or  signature.     [CO.  5,  752.     No.  17.] 

[1721]  762.     Similar  Memorial  to  Charles  Lord  Viscount  Townshend, 

Principal  Secretary  of  State.     1^  pp.     [CO.  5,  752.     No.  18.] 

[?1721]  763.  Michael  Ayon  to  Lord  Carteret,  Secretary  of  State. 
Prays  for  relief  out  of  H.M.  Royal  bounty  in  compensation 
for  his  great  losses,  services  and  sufferings  at  the  time  of  the 
rebellion  in  Antegoa  in  which  H.M.  Capt.  Generall  was 
murder'd  etc.  Signed,  Michael  Ayon.  No  date.  1  p.  [CO. 
7,  I.     No.  23.] 

[1721]  764.     Major  George  Thomas  to  [?Lord  Carteret].     Prays  to 

be  appointed  to  the  Council  of  Antegoa  upon  the  first  vacancy. 
Has  a  very  plentiful  estate  in  that  island  etc.  Was  lately 
introduc'd  by  my  Lord  Carteret  to  H.M.  with  an  Address  from 
said  Island,  etc.  No  date  or  signature,  f  p.  [CO.  7,  1.  No. 
24]. 


510  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1721. 

[1721]  765.     Petition  of  Col.  Ekines  to  the  King.     In  return  for 

services  done  and  money  disbursed  at  Scilly  etc.  in  the  service 
of  his  country,  asks  to  be  appointed  Governor  of  North  Carolina. 
Signed,  Tho.  Ekines.     1  p.     [CO.  5,  306.     No.  6.] 

[?1721]  766.  Petition  of  Lessees  of  the  Bahama  Islands  to  the  Lords 
Justices.  The  Lords  Proprietors  granted  the  said  Islands  to 
Woods  Rogers,  who  assigned  the  same  to  several  of  petitioners. 
They  have  expended  great  sums  in  settling  and  fortifying  them. 
Finding  it  a  work  too  great  for  a  few  private  persons,  these 
first  assignees  of  the  lease  have  agreed  with  the  rest  of  petitioners 
and  others  to  let  them  into  particular  parts  and  interests  in 
the  Islands  on  their  contributing  proportionable  sums  for 
carrying  on  the  undertaking  etc.  Pray  for  letters  patent  of 
incorporation  etc.  cf.  April  19,  1721.  Without  date  or  signature. 
21  pp.  Dated  by  a  reference  to  attack  by  Spaniards  "  in  March 
last."     Ed.     On  back,  in  later  hand,  (?  1728), 

766.  i.  Members  of  the  Bahama  Company.  Ld.  Londonderry, 
Sr.  Cha.  Wager,  Wm.  Chetwynd,  Paul  Docminique, 
Govr.  Harrison,  Govr.  Hunter.  [CO.  23,  12.  No. 
80.] 

1721-1735.       767.     Naval  Officer's  Returns,  Carolina.     [CO.  5,  509.] 

1720-1721.  768.  Correspondence  of  Commandants  of  Essequibo  with 
the  Directors  of  the  Dutch  West  India  Company.  Dutch.  [CO. 
116,  22  and  23.] 


INDEX. 


Abbott,  Richard,  President  of  Council, 
Nevis,  204  xxxvii. 

,  .  . . . ,  deposition  of,  204  xx. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed   by,   204 

XIX,  295  I. 

,  Thomas,  hostage  at  Martinique, 

payment  for,  204  xxi. 

Abercrombye,  James,  petition  of,  355. 

Act  of  Parliament,  against  clandestine 
running  of  nn customed  goods,  178  i. 

,  observations   upon,   44. 

,  clauses  in  bill  for  restraining  ship- 
building etc.,  objection  to,  698. 

,  for  encouraging  the  tobacco  trade, 

656. 

,to  encourage  trade  to  Newfound- 
land, 3,  38  I,  40. 

,  for   giving  further   encouragement 

for  importation  of  Naval  Stores, 
bill  for,  dropped,  657  I,  ii. 

,  for  the  more  effectual  suppression  of 

piracy,  523  i. 

,for    preserving    H.M.    woods    in 

America,  new,  proposed,  39,  39  i, 
656  ;  and  see  Woods. 

,  for  further  preventing   trading   to 

East  Indies  under  foreign  Com- 
panies, copies  sent  to  Governors, 
682,  750. 

,  to  prohibit  export  of  ore  to  foreign 

CO vui tries,  proposed,  537, 

,  prohibiting  importation  of  wool 

from  one  Plantation  to  another, 
153,  153  I. 

,  . . . . ,  infringement  of,   699  in. 

,  . . . . ,  explanation     of,     required, 

699  m. 

,  prohibiting    trading    by    Custom 

House  Officers,  291,  292,  294. 

making  rice  an  enumerated  com- 
modity, 656. 

,  to    settle    revenue    of    Jamaica, 

proposed,  288,  445,  459,  562,  634, 
705. 

copies  for  Governors,  application 

for,  750. 

Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  effects  of, 
656,  698. 

Adams,  John,  Coimcillor,  Nova  Scotia, 
180  vx. 

,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    241 

xvn. 

,  letter  from,  180  xvi. 


Adams — contd. 

,  Saniuel,  Barbados,  29. 

Admiralty,  Lords  Commissioners  of,  letter 

to,  153  I,  158,  231,  249,  292,  484, 

527  n. 

,  . . . .,  reference  to,  115,  136. 

,  . .  . . ,  Secretary      of.      See    Bur- 

chett,  J. 
,  Courts,     jurisdiction     of,     N.E., 

51,  64. 

,  . .  . .,  . .  .  .,  report  upon,  117,  135. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . .  . ,  referred,  136. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  requested,  51. 

,  rights   and  perquisites,  Receiver 

General  of,  28. 
,  . .  .  . ,  . .  . . ,  dispute     concerning, 

L.I.,  28. 

,  . . .  . ,  . . . . ,  order  upon,  662,  662 1. 

,  Solicitor  of,  28. 

Adventure,  H.M.S.,  527  v,  xxxn. 
African  Company,  the  Royal,  605. 
,  . .  . . ,  instractions  concerning,  744 

I. 
Albany.     See  under  New  York. 
Alberoni,  fall  of,  effect  of,  in  Spanish  W.I., 

47  m. 
Alden,  John,  deposition  of,  241  xn. 
sloop  of,  plundered  by  Indians, 

241,  241  xii-xv. 
Aldridge,  Christopher,  deposition  of,  535  v. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  document    signed    by,    241 

xvin, 
Alexander,    James,     Deputy     Secretary, 

N.Y.,  proposed  for  Coimcil,  303. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  appointed    378,    379, 

387. 
AUein,  Richard,  Councillor,  Car.  S.,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  249. 
Allen,  Daniel,  petition  of,  83. 
,  James,  Mrs.,  negotiation  for  sale 

of  Mason's  grant,  273. 
,  Jer.,  Treasurer,  Mass.,   accoimts 

of,  319  I,  741  I. 

,  John,  document  signed  by,  758  vi. 

,  Samuel,     document    signed     by, 

416  n. 
AUeyne,  Abell,  452. 

,  . .  . . ,  document  signed  by,  317. 

,  Benjamin,  death  of,  490  n. 

,  Judge,  Barbados,  490  n. 

,  Jolm,  son  of  preceding,  490  n. 

,  Reynold,    Coimcillor,    Barbados, 

appointed,  364,  366,  366  in. 


512 


INDEX. 


AUhea,  ship,  498. 

AmitU,  ship,  case  of,  296  i. 

Andrews,  — ,  N.Y.,  263. 

,  Edward,    document    signed    by, 

331  I. 
Anguilla.     See  Virgin  I. 
Anstead,  Thomas,  ship  taken  by,  758. 
Antigua,  and  see  Leeward  Islands. 
Act,  adding  negroes  to  number 

employed  on  fortifications,  500  i. 
,  . . . . ,  for    declaring    qualifications 

of  voters,  repeal  of,  626. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,  proposed,  610. 

,to  enable  A.  Freeman  to  sell 

a  plantation,  confirmed,  42,  75. 
,  ....  ,for  encouraging  John  Slapp, 

etc.,  500  I. 
,  . . . . ,  for  encouraging  T.  Southill, 

etc.,  28  I,  500  i. 
,  . . . . ,  for  erecting  a  new  Church  in 

St.    Philips,    enquiry    concerning, 

replies  to,  227,  227  n-ix  ;   and  see 

Act  to  indemnify  A.  Browne. 
,  ...  .,for  establishing  a   Court  of 

King's  Bench,  objections  to,  581, 

610. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  594. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  repeal  of,   626. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  proposed,  610. 

,  . .  .  .,to  impose  duty  on  sugar  etc. 

imported  from  French  islands,  557. 
, ,  objections  to,   557   i, 

IV,  623  I,  641  I. 

, , ,  reply  to,  557,  557  m. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  617. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  report  upon,  623. 

,  . . . . ,  to     impower     Treasurer     to 

collect  arrears,  204  i. 
,••••,    to   indemnify    A.    Browne, 

enquiries  concerning,  5,  204,  227, 

277  n-ix.,  586,  601. 
, laying    powder    duty,    con- 
firmation of,  urged,  500  i,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  for    paying    money    due    to 

Governor,  645,  645  i,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  for  raising  impost  on  liqiiors 

imported,  500  i. 
,  . . .  . ,  for     raising     poll     tax     on 

negroes  etc.,  500  i. 
,  .  . .  . ,  for    repairing    fortifications 

on  Monk's  Hill,  28  i. 
,  . . . . ,  reinforcing  Act  for  repairing 

fortifications  of  Monk's  Hill,  204  i, 

500  I,  633. 
,  . . . . ,  for     selling    flour     etc.     by 

iveight,  reasons  for,  500  i. 

,  Acts,  collection  of,  204  i,  vi. 

, ,  referred,  567,  587. 

,  . . . . ,  representation  on,  petition 

for,  647. 

transmitted,  500,  633. 

,  . .  . . ,  delay  in,  reasons  for,  500. 


Antigua — contd. 

,  Address  from,  764. 

,  Agent  of.     See  Nivine,  W. 

Assembly  of,  645. 

,  Journal  of,  107,  108,  227  I, 

557  IV. 

powers        and        privileges 

claimed  by,  report  upon,  610. 

,  . . . . ,  remonstrance  of,  501  n. 

,  . . . . ,  Speaker  of.     See  Warner,  A. 

,  Ayres  Creek,  5. 

,  burials  in,  204  xvn. 

,  christenings  in,  204  xvn. 

,  Churches.     See  Act  to  indemnify 

etc. 
,  coins  and  currency,  money  bills, 

instructions  concerning,  464. 

Council  of,  464,  645. 

,••••,  clerk    of,    501;     and    see 

Fleming,  G. 
, ,  Minutes   of,  107,  108,  227, 

n,  VI,  501,  501   XI,  557  iv,  645, 

645  n. 
,  Councillors,    leave     of    absence, 

204,  204  XLin-XLV,  645  m. 
,  . . . . ,  petition    for    appointment, 

764. 
,  Customs,  collectors  of,  question  of 

oath,  557,  557  iv. 
,  drought  in,  serious  effect  of,  204, 

645. 
,  extent  and  inquisition,  539  ;   and 

see  Blundel,  B. 
,  forts  and  fortifications,  repair  of, 

needed,    204 ;     and    see    Act    for 

repairing  etc. 

,  . . . . ,  proposed  for,  204  i. 

,  Governor    and     CouncU,     letter 

from,  557  m. 

, ,  letter  to,  557  I. 

,  guardship,  33  i. 

,  immigration  to,  from  Barbados, 

148. 
,  imports  and  exports,  account  of, 

204  I,  X. 

,  inhabitants,  census  of,  204  xvi. 

,  lands  in,  grants  of,  petitions  for, 

204  xvm, 

,  Lt.  Governor  of.     See  Byam,  E. 

,      Lt.     Governor     and     Council, 

Address  by,  500  n. 

,  . . . . ,  remonstrance  of,  501  i. 

,  map  of,  227  vn-ix. 

,  . .  .  . ,  ordered,  204  i. 

,  .  . . . ,  difficulty  in  obtaining,  204 1. 

,  Monk's  HiU.     See  Act  for  repair- 
ing fortifications. 

,  Naval  Officer.     See  Booth,  John. 

,  negroes,  500  i,  610. 

, numbers  of,  204  xvi. 

pirates,  28, 251 1,  m,  501,  601  I,//. 


INDEX. 


51^ 


Antigua — contd. 

pirates,  arrested  in,  33  i. 
. . . . ,  depredations  of,  463  rrr. 
. . . .,  ship  taken  by,  501. 
prerogative   of    the    Crown,    in- 
fringement of,  610. 
produce  of,  204  xxxix. 
,  provisions,    grant   of,    requested, 
204. 
Provost  Marshall,  610. 
revenue,  accounts  of,  204  i,  205. 
St.  John's  Harbour,  501. 
St.   Philip's  parish.     See  Act   to 
indemnify  A.  Browne. 
. . ,  map  of,  227  vn. 
seamen,  pressed,  501  ii. 
Secretary  of,  204  i. 
ship  seized  at,  enquiry  concern- 
ing, 566. 
shipping,  list  of,  204   xxxvni. 
shipping,  return  of,  204. 
sloop      captured      by      Spanish 
privateer,  33  i. 

. . ,  retaken,  33  I. 
stores  of  war,  need  of,  204. 
sugar-mill,     act     to     encourage, 
28  I,  500  I. 
surveyor,  order  to,  204  i. 
,  trade  with  French  Islands,  act  lay- 
ing duty  on  imports,  557,  557  l-iv. 
. .,  illegal,  557,  557  in. 
. . ,  methods  of,  557. 
.  . ,  with  Ireland,  566. 
. . ,  with  Madeira,  accoimts  of, 
204  X. 

Treasurer,    accounts    of,    204    i, 
205.     A7id  see  Act  to  impower. 
Willoughby  Bay,  5,  227  vi. 
Appleton,    Jos6,    document    signed    by, 

180  xvm. 
Archbould,    Col.,    Coimcillor,     Jamaica, 

death  of,  742,  744  I. 
Argyll,  Duke  of.     See  Campbell,  John. 
Armstrong,      John,      Commissioner      of 
Ordnance,    document    signed    by, 
442  I. 

,  Major  Lawrence,  Coimcillor,  N.S., 

180  VI. 

, ,  letter  to,  535  l(6). 

mission  of,  to  Cape  Breton, 

241. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instructions    for,    241 

vm. 

,  . . . . ,  testimonial  to,  298  in. 

,  Robert,  Deputy  Surveyor  of  H.M. 

Woods  in  America,  letter  from,  153, 
352  n,  450  i,  669,  694,  699  ra. 

, ,  objection  to,  333,  491. 

Amald,  Michael,    document    signed    by, 

287  I. 
Arowsick  I.,  treaty  with  Indians  at,  655. 
Arquibel,  PhiUbert  de,  298  vi. 

Wt.  7505 


Ascough.    See  Ayscough. 

Ashe,    Edward,  a  Lord  Commissioner  of 

Trade     and     Plantations,     Com- 
mission of,  123, 
Asiento  Co.,  effects  of,  seized  by  Spaniards, 

327  n. 
Attorney    General.     See    Raymond,    Sir 

Robert ;  Northey,  Sir  E. 
,  references    to,    from    Board    of 

Trade,  fees  for,  198,  218. 
Auchinlech,  Rev.  Andrew,  463  i. 
,  . . . . ,  recommended  for  Councillor, 

526. 
Auchmuty,  Robert,  opinion  by,  660  vn. 
Aynsworth,     James,     recommended     for 

Council,  Barbados,  366  i. 
Ayon,  Michael,  petition  of,  763. 
Ayscough,    John,     Councillor,     Jamaica, 

leave   of  absence,   459,   592,   598, 

598  I. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  598. 

,  ... ., letter  to,  591. 

Azores      (Western     Isles),     trade     with 

L.I.,  204  I,  x-xm. 
, ,  with  N.H.,  94  n,  656. 


B. 

Bahama,  galley,  498. 

Bahama   Islands,   aid   for,   appeal   for, 
224,  302. 

,  Assembly,    need    of,    for    raising 

revenue,  47,  390,  726,  758. 

, ,  petition  for,  726,  758. 

,  baptisms  in,   charge   concerning, 

758  VI. 

,  Chief    Justice.     See    Gale,    C, ; 

Walker,  T. 

,  Company  (Co-partners)  327,  390, 

766,  766  I. 

,  . . . . ,  Agent  of.     See  Gohier,  Jas. 

,  . . . . ,  attendance    at    Board    re- 
quested, 221. 
. . . . ,  . . . . ,  Charter,  petition  for,  455, 498, 
766. 

. ,  . .  . . ,  referred,  455  i. 
. ,  . .  . . ,  report  upon,  555  i. 
. ,  . . . . ,  conditions  of,  555  i. 
. ,  . . . . ,  referred,  568. 
. ,  complaint  by,  758  rv. 
, ,  . . . . ,      against      Governor 
Nicholson,  351. 

. ,  difficulties  of,  498. 

. ,  expenses  of,  224,  498,  556  I, 


766. 


. ,  factors  of,  498. 

, ,  letter  from,  224,  498. 

,,new,  326,  390. 

. ,  proposals  by,  498,  606. 

. ,  ships  sent  out  by,  498. 


C.P.  32—33 


514 


INDEX. 


Bahama  Islands — contd. 

,  Coimcil  of,  47. 

,  . . . . ,  Address  by,  for  Assembly, 

758. 
,....,  Minutes   of,    302  i,    326  i, 

390,  758,  758  n-iv. 

,  . .  . . ,  President  of,  758  iv. 

,  Councillors,  abet  Capt.  Gale,  167. 

,  ....,listof,  758  I. 

,  . . . . ,  persons    recommended    for, 

758  I. 

,  suspended,  758  n. 

,  Courts  stopped,  758  iv. 

,  defence    of,    measures    necessary 

for,  224,  390. 

,  . . . .,  report  upon,  required,  220. 

,  Duck  sloop,  provisions  taken  from, 

758  IV. 

Eleuthera,  47. 

,  embargo,  47,  390. 

,  . . . .,  raised,  167. 

,  forts,  47,  498,  726. 

,  . . . . ,  rebuilding     of,     need     of 

Assembly  for,  758. 

,  . . . . ,  required,  224. 

,  garrison,       provision       for,      by 

Rogers,  47. 
,  Governor        of.      See        Rogers, 

Woodes  ;   Phenney,  G. 
, ,  appointed    by    Lords    Pro- 
prietors, 161,  161  I,  in. 
,  . .  . . ,  Conference  with    Governor 

of  S.  Carolina,  proposed,  232  x. 

,  . . . . ,  salary  for,  proposed,  555  i. 

,  Governor,  Deputy .  5ee  Fairfax,  W. 

,  Governor  and  Council  of,  letter 

from,  302. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  726. 

,guardship    of    {Delicia    etc.),    47, 

47  i-iv,  167,  167  i-ix. 
,  . . .  . ,  detained     by     Governor 

Rogers,  498. 

,  Harbour  I,  47. 

, ,  fort,  498. 

,  Hogg  I.,  forts  in,  proposed,  224. 

,  importance  of,  498,  555  i. 

,  H.M.  Independent  Company  at, 

167,  167, 1,  II,  VI,  vn,  ix,  758  iii. 
,  . . . . ,  additional,    proposed,    167, 

224,  555  I. 

,  .  . . . ,  land  for,  proposed,  232  xi. 

,  ....,  officers  of,  326,  327. 

,  ....,....,  provisions  and  clotliing 

required  for,   167,  224,  302,  390, 

498,  758  TV. 

, ,  recruits  for,  302,  390. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  barracks  for,  351. 

,  . . . . ,  required,   167. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  sufferings  of,  351. 

,  inhabitants,  character  of,  167. 

,  .  . .  . ,  provisions       supplied       by 

Governor     Rogers,     390. 


Bahama  Islands — contd. 

,  Jacobites,  758  n. 

,  Lt.  Governor.     See  Fairfax,  W. 

;  Lords     Pioprietors     of.     Com- 
missions by,  161,  161  I,  m. 

,  . . . . ,  forfeiture    by,    report    con- 
cerning, 161. 

,  . .  . .,  neglect  of,  161. 

,  .  . . .,  representation  by,  161,  161 

n. 

,  . . . . ,  patent    of,    resumption   of, 

to  Crown,  170. 

,  Martial  Law  in,  224. 

,  Militia,  758. 

,  ordnance  and  stores  of  war  for, 

726. 

,  pirates,  390,  448,  758,  758  in. 

,  danger  from,  224,  455  I. 

,  . . .  . ,  increase    of,    after    Peace, 

expected,  167,  213. 

,  . .  . . ,  removed  from,  224. 

.  . ,  return  of,  feared,  224. 

,  . . . . ,  women,  523  i. 

,  prices  in,  390. 

,  privateer,    ship    recaptured    by, 

125. 

,  privateers,  47  i,  iv. 

,  . . . . ,  commissions,  167. 

,  Providence  I,  Nassau,  Fort  Wil- 
liam etc.,  47,  498. 

,....,  ....,guns    for,    224,    726, 

758. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  rebuilding    necessary, 

726. 

,  . . .  . ,  Spanish    attack    upon,    re- 
pulsed, 35,  224. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  threatened,  224. 

,  . . . . ,  stores  of  war,  account  of, 

758  VI. 

,  provisions  for,  224. 

,  report  upon,  ordered,  220. 

,  seal  oil,  tenths  of,  case  concern- 
ing, 758  IV,  v. 

,  settlement  of,  measure  for,  498. 

,  ships  fitted  out  and  sent  to,  224, 

498. 

,  H.M.  ships  from  Jamaica  ordered 

to,  35,  47,  47  n,  iv. 

,  Spaniards,  attack  by,    47;  47  n, 

m,  v,  498,  766. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  .  . ,  repulsed,    35,    47. 

, , expected,  10,  312,  390, 

455  I. 

,  . . .  . ,  prisoners  at,  224,  498. 

,  stores  of  war,  request  for,  224. 

,  . . . .,  recommended,  225. 

,  tenths,  question  of,  758  iv,  v. 

trade  with  Carolina,  351. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Hispaniola,  351. 

Baird,  Peter,  Coimcillor,  N.J.,  appointed, 
90  i-iii,  104. 

Baker,  John,  deposition  of,  472  rv. 


INDEX. 


515 


Baldwin,  Robert,  printer,  Jamaica,  116  i 

523  I. 
Ball,  George,  recommended    for  Council, 
Bermuda,  739  i. 

>  Guy,  Councillor,  Barbados,  31. 

,case  of,  709,  710. 

,  suspended,  364,  366,  366  ra. 

, ,  petition  of,  421,  423  i. 

, ,  referred,  423,  451. 

>  •  •  •  • ,  •  ■  • . ,  report  upon,  435  i. 

, ,  restored,  509. 

Balston,  — ,  541. 
Baltimore,  Lord.     See  Calvert. 
Bampfield,  George,  Agent  for  Barbados, 
letter,  petition  from,  15,  215. 

, , ,  letter  to,  365. 

» !  • .  .  • ,  agent     for    Governor 

Burnet,  240. 

> . ,  Agent  for  Capt. 

Rogers,  167. 
Banker,  Evert,  document  signed  by,  230. 
Barbados,  204  ;   and  see  Tobago. 

» Act  appointing  oath  ofattornies  etc. 

114  m. 


.,....,  appointing  security  to  be 
given  by  appellees,  petition  against, 
462  I,  n. 


675. 


. , ,  referred,  462,  588. 

. ,  . .  . . ,  reply  to,  465. 

., ,  report  upon,  576,  576 1. 

.,  Excise,  dispute   over,  621, 


. . , ,to    commute    the    value    of 

powder  etc.,  report  upon,  114. 

•  •, , ,  reasons  for,  114,  114  i. 

■ . , , ,  opposition  to,  hearing 

of,  139. 

. . , , ,  repealed,  265,  290. 

. ., ,  to  confirm  deeds  of  lease  etc., 

215. 

• , , ,  referred,  222. 

. ,  . . . . ,  for  docking  an  entail,  con- 
firmation of,  requested,  15. 

•>  •  ■  •  •,  . . .  .,  referred,  19. 

• , ,  . . .  . ,  report  upon,  26,  616. 

. , ,to  deprive    Mr.    Gordon   of 

his  benefice,  29,  280,  452,  489. 

., ,  repeal    of,    proposed,    616; 

and  see  Gordon,  W. 

• granting  liberty  to  load  from 

any  harbours  etc.,  424. 

. ,  . .  .  . , ,  referred,  406. 

. ,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  objection    to,    495, 

529  I. 
. , , ,  report    upon,    432, 

432  I. 
., ,  for  limiting  the  Assembly's 

continuance,  605  i. 
.,  . . . .,  to  oblige  casual  Receivers,  etc., 

objection  to,  348. 
. , ,to      preserve     freedom      of 

elections,  517  rt. 


Barbados — contd. 

J  Act     for    better    preserving    the 

peace,  364,  366,  419  i. 
, ,  object   of,    317,    366, 

366  I. 

. .  . . , ,  report  upon,  435  I. 

, ,  requested,    317. 

»  . .  . ., ,  repealed,  511. 

,  •  •  •  ■ ,  to  prevent  trade  with  rebelliotis 

subjects  of  France,  objection  to,  149. 
»  . . . . ,  for  better  ordering  Court  of 

Common  Pleas,  410. 
>  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  enquiry     concerning, 

402. 

, ,  objections  to,  1 14, 1 14 

m,  428. 

, .reply  to,  114  in,  427. 

> , ,  report  upon,  1 14. 

, ,for     regulating     Court     of 

Exchequer,  objection  to,  149. 

,  . . . .,  . .  . .,  hearing  of,  146. 

>  •  •  .  .,/or  the  better  regulating  the 

power  of  vestries  etc.,  439. 

. . . . ,  . . . . ,  defence  of,  452. 

, ,  objection  to,  280  ;  and 

see  Gordon,  W. 

>  . . . . , repeal    of,    proposed, 

616. 

,  • .  .  .,for  regulating  the  gauge  of 

sugar  casks,  503. 

»  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  enquiry     concerning, 

71,  72. 

, to  render  effectual  legacies  of 

Capt.   Williams,  repeal  of,  petition 
for,  488. 

, , ,  referred,  504. 

,  Acts  affecting  British  trade  and 

shipping,    instruction    concerning, 
654. 

,  for  issuing  paper  currency, 

instruction  concerning,  605,  605  i. 

,  . . . . ,  to  lie  by  probationary,  616. 

, printing  of,  71,  503. 

. . . . ,  . . . . ,  private,    instruction    con- 
cerning, 605,  605  I. 

•  •  •  • ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  saving       clause       re- 

quired in,  616. 

, ,  referred,  141,  291. 

, ,  report  on,   114,   361,616. 

•  •  •  •,  . .  . .,  ... .,  referred,  631. 
, ,  transmitted,  29,  29  I. 

. .  . . ,  Acts  of  Trade,  breach  of,  seizure 

for,  754. 
Agents    of.        See    Bampfield ; 

Stevenson. 
. . . . ,  . . . . ,  salaries  of,  365. 
. . . . ,  appeals  from.    See  Act  regulating 
Court    of    Common    Pleas,    and 
Act  appointing  security. 
.  . .  . ,  .  .  . . ,  instruction  concerning,  654. 
,  Assembly,    Address    of,     423    u, 

508, 


516 


INDEX. 


Barbados — contd. 

,  Assembly,    Address    of,     against 

President  Cox,  364,  366,  366  i,  n, 

IV,  V,  384. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  protest  against,  434. 

,  . . . . , ,  refusal     of     copy     to 

President,  366  i,  n,  iv. 
,  . . . . , adjournments  of,  364, 

384. 

,  .  .  . . ,  Clerk  of.     See  Warren,  R. 

,  Committee  of  accounts,  114, 

419  I. 
,  Council,  disputes  with,  621, 

675,  687. 
,  Council  refuse  to  Act  with, 

753,  754. 

,  . . . . ,  denounce  Mr.  Gordon,  29. 

,  . . . . ,  dissolution    of,    expected, 

364,  384,  419  i. 
,  ....,....,  instruction  concerning, 

605,  605  I. 
,  elections,    irregularities    in, 

490,    490    I,    II,   517,    517   i-in, 

590,  687,  687  n-iv,  709,  713. 

, Excise  bill,  dispute  over,  675. 

, Journal,  278,  366,  366  i,  iv, 

675. 

, ,  locked  in,  490,  490  n. 

,  . . . . ,  members   of,   remonstrance 

by,  517,  517  i-m. 
,  . . . . ,  presents  to  Governor,  550, 

550  I,  563,  565. 
,  . . . . ,  instruction     concern- 
ing, 605,  605  I. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,     representation      on, 

553  I. 

,  . . . . ,  proceedings  of,  517. 

, Speaker.     See  Sutton,  E. 

,  . . . . ,  speech     to,     by     President 

Cox,  366  I,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  writs  for  election   of,   490, 

490  I,  n,  517. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  not  issued   to   parish 

of   St.    James    and    St.    Andrews, 

490,  490  I,  n. 
,  Attorney    General.     See    Carter, 

Richard. 

,  Blenman,  J.,  prosecution  of,  29. 

,  ....,  flight  of,  29. 

,  Carlisle  Bay,  364. 

,  Chief  Justice.     See  Beckles,  T. 

,  Christ  Church,  parish,  legacies  to, 

petition  against,  488. 
,  Clergy  in,  452  ;    and  see  Gordon, 

W. ;  Acts  regulating  vestries. 
,  Clerk   of   the   Crown,    complaint 

against,  169. 

,  cocoa,  imported,  7. 

,Conset  Bay,  529  i. 

,  Council,  422  I,  490. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  arbitrary  treatment  of,  by 

President  Cox,  709,  710. 


Barbados — contd. 

,  Council,  Assembly  disputes  with, 

621,  675,  687,  753,  754. 

, ,  Clerk  of,  709. 

,  . . . . ,  Deputy  Secretary  of,  709, 

,  . . . . ,  memorial  by,  709. 

,   Minutes   of,    29,    30,    145, 

189,  278,  328,   366,  366  v.,  374, 

435  I,  452,  621,  638,  713,  754. 
,  . . . . , ,  delay  in  transmitting, 

reason  for,  621,  621  i-rv. 

,••••,  . .  . . ,  manipulation  of,  709. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  opinion  on  Mr.  Cox,  30-32. 

,  . . . . ,  President  of,  21  i ;   and  see 

Cox,  S.  ;   Frere,  J. 

,  . . .  . ,  instruction  concerning,  25. 

,  . . .  . ,  . . . . ,  Act   restraining,  364, 

366 ;    and  see  Act,  for  preserving 

peace  etc. 
,  . . . . ,  quorum    of.    See    Act   for 

better  preserving   the  peace   of  the 

island. 
,  . . . . ,  refuse  to  act  with  Assembly, 

753,  754. 
,  . .  . . ,  . .  .  . ,  to   permit  Courts    to 

sit,  753,  754. 

,  Covmcillors,  604. 

,  . . . . ,  appointed,  605,  630. 

, by  Mr.  Cox,  364,  366, 

366  I,  m. 
,  finance        equipment        of 

guardships,  374. 
,  . . . . ,  persons    recommended    for, 

366, 1,  m. 

, ,  restored,  509,  609, 621,  687. 

,  ....  complaint  against,  621,  675, 

687,  753,  754. 
,  . .  .  . ,  suspended  by  Mr.  Cox,  29, 

317,  364,  366,  366  i,  m.,  384,  419  i, 

423  n,  451,  605,  630,  709,  710,  713. 
,  suspended      by      Lowther, 

366  I. 
,  suspended,     enquiry     into, 

ordered,  508. 

,  . . .  . ,  .  . . . ,  order  restoring,  509. 

, , ,  petition  of,  421,  422  i. 

,...., ,  referred,    422. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,    report      upon, 

435  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  451. 

,  . . . . ,  suspension    of,    instruction 

concerning,  36,  654. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  intended,  21  i. 

,  Court,  Admiralty,  713. 

,  . . . .,  . .  . .,  case  in,  621. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  Judge  of.     See  Lenoir, 

John  ;    Westlake,  H. 

,  . . . . ,  proceedings  in,  34. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  stayed,    34. 

,  Court,  Chancery ;    and  see  Act 

appointing  security  etc. 
, ,  Clerk  of.   See  Cracherode,  A. 


INDEX. 


517 


Barbados — could. 

,  Court,     Chancery,      Clerk     and 

Registrar.      See  Cracherode,  A. 

,  . .  . . ,  .  . . . ,  Master  in,  419  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  of  Common  Pleas.     See  Act 

for  better  ordering. 

,  Court,  Exchequer,  713. 

>  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Act  regulating,  objec- 
tion to,  146. 

, ,  Clerk  of.    See  Huggins, 

\j, 
,....,  of    Grand    Sessions,    Com- 
missions for,  refused  by  President 
Cox,  422  I. 

,  Courts,  Act  concerning  expenses 

of,  348. 

,  Courts,  Council  refuse  to  permit 

sessions  of,  753,  754. 
,  . . . . ,  delays   in,    complaint   con- 
cerning, 675. 

,    Judges     of,      complaint 

against,  675,  687,  687  i-v. 

,  Custom   House    Officers,   charges 

against,  687,  713. 

, ,   suspended,   687  ;     and   see 

Lascelles,  H. 

memorial  by,  30,  31. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  exemption       from 

Militia  and  juries,  instruction  for, 
605,  605  I. 

,  . . . . ,  representation    by,    against 

Cox,  34. 

,  Dove  sloop,  seizure  of,  34. 

,  earthquake,  490  n. 

,  East  Indiaman,  enquiry  concern- 
ing, 543,  544. 
,  ecclesiastical  benefices  in,  instruc- 
tion concerning,  654,  715,  716  ;  and 
see  London,  Bishop  of. 

,  emigration  from,  to  Antigua,  148. 

, ,  to  Carolina,  148. 

, ,to  Pa.,  148. 

, to  Sta,  Lucia,  prospect  of,  148. 

,  extent  and  inquisition,  542  ;   and 

see  Blundell,  B. 
,  Fort    Charles,    gunners    of,    sus- 
pended, 687. 

,  forts,  disrepair  of,  366  i. 

, ,  viewed  by  French,  364. 

,4|  p.c.  duty,  197. 

,  French  Islands,  trade  with.     See 

trade,  illegal. 

,  French    from    Martinique,    visit 

encouraged  by  President  Cox,  364. 

,  Governor.     See  Irwin,  Viscount ; 

Lowther,     Robert ;      Belhaven, 
Lord  ;    Worsley,  H. 
,  Governor  and  Council,  Act  em- 
powering.    See  Act  for  commuting 
powder. 

,  Grand  Sessions,  writs  for  jurors, 

366  I. 


Barbados — conid. 

,  guardship,  713,  739. 

,  additional,  request  for,  713. 

» .  expedition   against  pirates, 

374. 

, ,  manning  of,  374,  713. 

>  guimers,  restored,  connivance  of, 

with  French  traders,  621. 

,  Haselton,  Mary,  case  of,  755. 

,  impoverishment  of,  374. 

,  Isacape,  trade  with,  148. 

,    Jacobites,    384,    422    i,    423   ii, 

490  n. 

,  Judges,   complaint  against   675  ; 

and  see  Sutton,  E. 

, ,  displaced,  621,  709,  710. 

,  Knights  of  the  Post,  364. 

,  L.I.  ships  victual  at,  501. 

Martinique,  appeal  for  aid  from, 

against  pirates,  374. 

,  Memorial  from,  317. 

,  merchants  and  planters,  petition 

of,  421,  423  I. 

,  •  ••  • , ,  refused,  423. 

,  • .  . . ,  report  upon,  435  I. 

,  . .  . . , ,  referred,  451. 

,Mihtia,    713;     and   see    Officers, 

civil  and  military. 

, ,  neglect  of,  366  i. 

,  Miserable  State  of.  The,  29. 

,  ■  • . . ,  burned  by  common  hang- 
man, 29. 

,  Naval     Officer.      See     Huggins  ; 

Whitworth,  ComeUus  John. 

,  . .  . . ,  accounts  of,  278. 

,  officers,   civil   and    military,  dis- 
placed by  Governor  Lowther,  366  i. 

, , ,  by  ]VIr.  Cox,  364,  384, 

419  I,  422  I,  n,  423  n,  621,  709, 
713,  754,  755. 

, .restored,  510,    605,  605  i, 

621. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  complaints     against, 

675. 

•  I  •  •  • , , ,  displaced,  709. 

,  parish  of  St.  Andrews,  writs  not 

issued  to,  490  n,  490  i,  n. 
,    parish  of  St.  James,  representa- 
tion by,  517,  517  n,  m. 

,  . . . . ,  writs  not  issued  to,  petition 

concerning,  490,  490  i,  n. 

,  parish  of  St.  Michaels,  29. 

,  parish  of   St.  Thomas,    election, 

protest,  517  I. 

parishes,  representation  by,  517, 

517  I,  u. 

parties  in,  709,  710,  713,  754. 

,  Patent  Offices,  reversion  of,  100. 

,  Patent    Officers,    suspension    of, 

instruction  concerning,  654. 

,  pirates,  28,  33  I,  251  i,  iv.,  713, 

739. 


518 


INDEX. 


Barbados — contd. 

,  pirates,  assistance  against,  request 

for,  from  Martinique,  374,  739. 

,  . . . .,  effects  of,  disposal  of,  314 

314  I. 

,  . . . . ,  increase  of,  426. 

,    petition   for   pardon,    621, 

621  V. 

,  . . . . ,  ships    sent    to    Martinique 

against,  374. 

,  . . . . ,  ship  taken  by,  501  iv. 

,  powder  duty,  See  Act  for  com- 
muting. 

, storekeeper,  case  of,  1 14. 

,  Prerogative,  of  the  Crown,  en- 
croachment on,  114,  366  i. 

,  proprietors  in,  petition  of,  381  i. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  381, 

,  Receiver  General,  instructions  of, 

661. 

,  revenue,  631. 

,  . . . .,  accounts  of,  29. 

,  . . . . ,  anticipated,  374. 

, ,  deficiency  of,  348,  675. 

,  . . . . ,  Receiver  of.  See  Berwick,  S. 

,  Sta.  Lucia.     See  Sta  Lucia. 

schoolmasters,  certificates  for,  in- 
struction concerning,  715,  716 ; 
arid  see  London,  Bishop  of. 

Secretary    of.     See    Wliitworth, 

Francis ;    Lenoir,  John. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint  against,  366,  374. 

,  . . . . ,  fees  of,   act  affecting,  462 

I,  II,  465 ;    and  see  act  appointing 
security  etc. 

,  ships,   entered    and   cleared,   list 

of,  621. 

,  soil  of,  exhaustion  of,  148. 

,    state       of.       President       Cox's 

report  on^  366  i. 

stores    of    war,    act    concerning. 

See  Act  for  commuting  powder. 

,  . . .  . ,  embezzled,  366  i. 

,  sugar,  French,  imports  of,  197. 

,  timber  for,  148. 

,  Tobago.     See  Tobago. 

,  trade,  with  Dutch  W.L,  148. 

, ,  with  French  islands,  364, 384. 

,  . . . . , act  prohibiting,  149. 

,  . . . . ,  French  ships  seized  for,  621, 

713,  754. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  escape  of,  connived  at, 

621. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Holland,  44. 

,  with  Italy,  44. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Sta  Lucia,  149. 

,  . . . . ,  with  St.  Vincent,  149. 

, with  Surinam,  148,  197. 

, ,  with  Tobago,  149. 

,  traders,  illegal,  escape  of,  687. 

,  work- houses,  instruction  concern- 
ing, withdrawn,  605. 


Barbuda  (Berbuda),    33   I,   463   rn,    501 

xxvn,  XXIX. 

,  pirates  at,  501,  501  xxv,  xxix. 

Barnet,    Jonathan,  pirate    captured    by, 

288. 
,  Thomas,     Councillor,     Bahamas, 

document  signed  by,  302. 
Barons,  Samuel,  letter  to,  156. 
Barnstable,  260  I. 
BamweU,  John,  Col.,  237,  572. 
,  . . . . ,  accounts  and  proposals  by, 

208,  209,  232  in,  v-ix. 

,  . . . . , comments  on,  232  iv, 

, ,  letter    from,    283,    292    n, 

297,  484,  573  n. 

, ,  letter  to,  283  i,  292  ii. 

,  mission    of,    to    build    fort    on 

Altamaha  River,  573,  573  n,  577, 

683. 

,  recommendation  of,  237. 

' ,  . .  . . ,  replies  to  queries,  207, 

Bartlett,  — ,  263. 

Barwick,     See  Berwick, 

Basnett,     Richard,    deposition    of,     527 

xxvin,  XXIX. 
Basse,  Jeremiah,  late  Secretary,  N.J.,  67. 
Basse tt,  William,  Councillor,  Va.,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  63. 
Bayley,  WiUiam,  Barbados,  case  of,  687, 

687  n-iv. 

, deposition  of,  687  iv. 

Beale,  Othniel,  letter  from,  10. 
Beauchamp,  Robert,  Capt.,  47,  302. 
,  . .  . . ,  complaint      against,      326, 

327. 
Beaver.     See  Trade,  for. 
Beckford,   Peter,  controller  of   Customs, 

Jamaica,  527  m,  562. 
,  . . . . ,  influence  of,  in  Assembly, 

562. 
,  . . . . ,  scheme  of,  for  militia,  527 

m. 
Beckles,  Thomas,  Chief  Justice,  Barbados, 

appointment  of,  709. 
,  . . . . ,  recommended    for    Council, 

366  I. 
Beeston,  Sir  WiUiam,  late  Governor  of 

Jamaica,  634  i. 
Belhaven  and  Stenton,  Earl  of,  Grovemor 

of  Barbados.     See  Hamilton,  John. 
Bell,  Daniel,  letter  from,  9. 
Bellomont,    Countess    of.       See    Coote, 

Richard  and  Pytts,  Samuel, 

,  Earl  of.     See  Coote,  Richard. 

Bennet,   sloop,    case    of.     See   Hamilton, 

Lord  A. 
Bennett,     Benjamin,    Lt.     Governor    of 

Bermuda,  instruction  to,  186  i. 
, ,  letter  from,    33,   277,   426, 

463,  515,  516,  734,  743,  739. 

, superseded,  624. 

,  Joseph,  Capt.,  deposition  of,  535v. 


INDEX. 


519 


Beimett — contd. 

,  Joseph,  document  signed  by,  241 

xvni. 

,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  501  iv. 

Bentinck,    Henry,    Duke    of    Portland, 
Governor  of  Jamaica. 

, ,  appointment  of,  658. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Commission    of,   658, 

664  n,  665, 668, 678. 

.  . . . . ,  . , . . ,  for  Independent 

Company,  706. 

, , ,  instructions    of,    658, 

688,  744  I,  n. 

5  •  ■ . . ,  . . . . ,  presents        to,        by. 

Assembly,  instruction  concerning, 
744, 1,  n. 
Bentley,  John,  755. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  687  v. 

Beresford,  Richard,  Rev.,  Comicillor,  Car. 
S.,  document  signed  by,  249,  363, 
363  I. 
Berkeley,   Edmimd,  formerly  Councillor, 

Va.,  12. 
Bermuda,  Act  laying   duty   on   impoj-ts, 
confirmation  of,  desired,  739. 

,  purport  of,  739. 

,  . . .  . ,  to  supply  the  deficiency  of 

several  funds,  referred,  375. 

,  Acts   of   Trade   and   Navigation, 

695. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  concerning,  680 

m,  686. 

,  Assembly,  739. 

,  . . . . ,  presents    to    Governor,    in- 
structions concerning,  652. 

,  Speaker  of.     See  Jennings, 

John. 

,  Council,  advice  of,  739. 

, ,  minutes  of,  277. 

.Councillors,  appointed,  521,  532, 

739. 

, ,  death  of,  463,  463  i,  739. 

list  of,  463. 

,  . . . . ,  persons    recommended    for, 

463,  463  I,  519,  526,  739  i. 

,  . . . . ,  resignation  of,  463  i. 

,  Court  of  Admiralty,  296  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  proceedings  of,   33,  33    n- 

vn,  277,  277  i. 

,  . . . . ,  Chancery,  463. 

,  fort    and    fortifications,    act    for 

repairing,  739. 

,  Governor's  house,  act  for  building, 

739. 

,  Independent  Company,  690. 

, ,  additional,  request  for,  463. 

,  inhabitants    capable    of    bearing 

arms,  463. 

,  . .  . . ,  number  of,  463  n. 

,  Lt.  Governor  of.   See  Bennett,  B.  ; 

Hope,  John. 
,  negroes,  463. 


Bermuda — contd. 

,  negroes,  nvunbers  of,  463  n. 

,  Newspaper,  33  i,  277  n,  463,  463 

m. 

,  pirates,  501  v. 

,  •  • .  • ,  attack  by,  threatened,  463, 

463  in. 

,  .  .  . . ,  sloop  captured  by,  251  m. 

,  .  .  . . ,  trial  and  condemnation  of, 

277,  277  I. 

» privateer,       engagement       with 

Spanish  privateers,  277  n. 

,  . .  • . ,  Three  Brothers,  case  of,  296, 

296  I. 

,  revenue  deficiency,  act  to  make 

good,  739. 

,  trade,  plat,  739. 

Bernard,  Samuel,  petition  of,  499. 
Berwick  (Barwick),    Samuel,    Coimcillor, 
Barbados,   named  in  instructions, 
605,  605  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  suspension     of,     604, 

605. 

»  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,    enquiry    concerning, 

604. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  continued,  630. 

,  . .  . . ,  Receiver    of    H.M.    casual 

Revenue,  complaint  against,  604, 
606. 
Besey,  Francis,  recommended  for  Council, 

Bahamas,  758  i. 
Betts,  Thomas,  Naval  Officer,  Jam.,  leave 
of  absence,  334. 

, ,  patent  of,  revoked,  373. 

Betty,  galley,  325. 

Beverley,    Peter,    proposed    for   Council, 
Va.,  12,  59,  91. 

, ,  appointed,  132,  142. 

Bevon,  James,  Councillor,  Nevis,  death 
of,  500. 

,  . . . . ,  deposition     of,     204     xxn, 

xxm. 

,  . . .  . ,  documents  signed   by,   204 

XIX,  295  I. 
Bideford,  260  i. 
Birch,    Governor    of    Bahama    Islands, 

Commission  of,  161  m. 
Bishop,  Philip,  490  n. 

,  Robert,  29. 

,  . . . . ,  estate  of,  Barbados,  490  n. 

Blackman,  John  Lucie,  CovmciUor,  Bar- 
bados, suspended,  364,  366,  366  m. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

709. 

, , ,  petition  of,  421,  422  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  report  upon,  435  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  451. 

,  . . . . ,  restored,  509. 

Bladen,  Martin,  Commissary  at  Paris  and 
Commissioner  for  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions, 390. 
, .letter  to,  364. 


520 


INDEX. 


Blair,  James,  Commissary  and  Councillor, 

Va.,  dismissal  of,  proposed,  12. 

,  . .  . . ,  document  signed  by,  63. 

,  . . . . ,  Governor's  right  of  collation 

challenged  by,  12. 
Blakiston,  Col.,  Agent  for  Maryland,  181 1. 
Blathwayt,  W.,  late  Auditor  General   of 

the  Plantations,  554. 
Blechynden,  Charles,  Collector  and  Naval 

Officer,  Salem,  letter  from,  202, 445. 
Blenman,  J.,  32. 

,  . . . .,  document  signed  by,  317. 

,  flight  of,  29. 

,  . . . . ,  prosecution  of,  29. 

Blin,  — ,  180  XVI. 

Blower,  John,  Capt.,  deposition  of,  535  v. 

BlundeU,    Benjamin,    Receiver    General, 

Leicestershire,  539-542. 
,    debts     due     to,     extent     and 

inquisition,  instruction  concerning, 

560,  560  I.,  644,  644  i,  n. 
Bobin,  Isaac,  letter  from,  546. 

,  . . . . ,  advertisement  by,  547. 

Bodoine,  James,  document    signed    by, 

180  xvm. 
Bolingbroke.     See  St.  John. 
Boiling,  John,  petition  of,  396. 
Bond,  Francis,  Covmcillor,  Barbados,  31. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  709. 

, , petition  of,  421,  422  i. 

report  upon,  435  i. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  451. 

,  restored,  509. 

, ,  suspended,  364,  366,  366  m, 

709,  710. 
Bonfils,  Mr.,  case  of,  459. 
Bonnay,  Anne,  pirate,  trial  of,  523,  523  i. 
Bonovrier,  Isaac,  deposition  of,  335  vi. 
Boone,   Joseph,    Agent,    S.    Carolina,    8, 

112,  113,  194. 

, ,  account  by,  208,  209. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed   by,   207, 

232  vn. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  to,  66. 

, .letter  from,  249,  257, 

283,  292  n,  297,  347,  457,  484,  722. 
, , ,  letter    to,    125,    363, 

453,  484. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  queries  to,  181  i. 

, ,  . .  . . , reply  to,  207. 

Booth,    John,    Naval    Officer,    Antigua, 

document  signed  by,  204  x,  xxxvm. 
Boreham,  W.,  Printer,  London,  343. 
Borland,  John,  85. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  86. 

,  . . . .,  petition  of,  95,  110. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  126. 

,  . . . . ,  opinion  on,  152. 

Boscawen,    Hugh,    Viscount    Falmouth, 

reference  to,  723. 
Bossard,  John,  Provost  Marshal,  Bahama 

Islands,  warrant  to,  167,  167  i-ix. 


Boston.     See  Massachusetts. 

Boudr6,  Peter,  Councillor,   Nova   Scotia, 

180  VI. 
Bourg,  Abraham,  180  xvn. 
Boumal,   William,   executed   for  piracy, 

277,  277  I. 
Bowles,  Charles.     See  following. 
,  William.      See  Jamaica,   Act  to 

enable  trustees,  etc. 
Bowling,  Capt.,  47  in. 
BojTion,  John,  document  signed  by,  204 

vn. 
Boynton,  John,  complaint  against,  687, 

687  v.,  713  II. 
Bradestrick.     See  Broadstreet. 
Bradford,  Alexander,  deposition  of,  430. 
Bramble,  Col.,  204. 
Brewton,  Col.,  573  n. 
Bridger,  J.,  Surveyor  of  H.M.  Woods  in 

America,  charges  against,  669,  694. 
,  . . . . ,  complaint  by,  of   waste   of 

woods,  N.H.,  159  i. 
,  .  .  . . ,  heads  of  bill  for  preservation 

of  woods  proposed  by,  39,  39  i. 
, ,  letter    from,    39,    57,    118, 

118  I,  127,  159  n,  179  i,  403,  491. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  to,  118  m. 

,  . . . . ,  salary      and      instructions 

requested  by,  118,  127,  403. 
, ,  seizures  by,  57,  82,  118,  127, 

159  I,  n. 
, ,  trial  of,  118,   118  i,m, 

127  I,  179  I. 

,  . . . . ,  services  of,  403. 

,  . . . . ,  supported  by  Lt.  Governor, 

N.H.,  159  I. 

, ,  testimonial  to,  333,  491 1,  n. 

Bridgwater,    Charles,    document    signed 

by,  204  XIX. 
,  Nathaniel,     Councillor,      Nevis, 

document  signed  by,  295  i. 

,  Capt.  Thomas,  204  xx. 

,  . .  . . ,  deposition  of,  204  xxix. 

Bristol,  8,  260  I,  416  i. 

Bristol  ship,  517. 

Broadstreet,     John,     Deputy     Collector, 

Minis,  241,  241  x. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  deposition  of,  535  v. 

Brodbelt,  Carew,    document    signed    by, 

204  XIX,  295  I. 
,  Lawrence,  document  signed   by, 

204  XIX,  295  I. 
,  Richard,    document    signed    by, 

204  XIX,  295  I. 
Broeck,  Wessel  Ten,  docvunent  signed  by, 

230. 
Brome,  Col.,  Councillor,  Barbados,  605. 
Brooke,  Thomas,  Capt.,  Jam.,  complaint 

against,  472  i-iv. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  472. 

, ,  warrant  to,  340,  340  i,  472 

i-iv,  496  m,  558. 


INDEX. 


521 


Brooke — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  advertisement  by,  527  xxxi. 

,  . . . . ,  Commander  of  Port  Royal, 

deposition  of,  340  n,  m,  527  xix, 

XXX. 

,  letter  to,  527  xrv. 

,  Thomas,     Councillor,     Bermuda, 

463  I. 
Broughton,  Thomas,   Collector,   Car.    S., 

document  signed  by,  577  i. 
Brouillan,  M.  St.  Ovide  de.  Governor  of 

Cape  Breton,  180  xn. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  complaint       to,       of 

attack  upon  Canso  Fishermen,  241, 

241  I,  n,  vm,  ix. 
, .reply    to,    241,    241, 

I,  n,  vrn,  ix. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  consulted    by   French 

inhabitants  of  Nova  Scotia,  180  I, 

xn,  xm. 
, ,  letter  from,  177,  177  i, 

180  I. 

, ,  letter  to,  180  i,  xn. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  missions  to,  241,  241 

I-IX. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  presents      from,      to 

Indians  of  Nova  Scotia,  180  i. 
Brown,  Capt.,  R.N.,  621,  713. 

, ,  (Jam.),  527  iii. 

,  Charles,  petition  of,  355. 

,  Samuel,    Councillor,    Barbados, 

order  concerning,  630. 
Brown(e),    Anthony.     See    Antigua,    Act 

to  indemnify. 
Browne,  James,  251  i. 
,  . .  . . ,  proposed  for  Council,  Nevis, 

613,  613  T,  n. 

, , ,  appointed,  632,  632  i. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended    for   Comicil, 

Bermuda,  739  i. 
,  Jeremiah,   document   signed    by, 

204,  XIX,  295  I. 
Bruce,  Charles,  petition  of,  355. 
Buck,   Samuel,   498 ;     and    see   Bahama 

Company. 

, ,  letter  from,  224,  351,  506. 

, , ,  letter  to,  221. 

Buck,  sloop,  498. 

Bull,  William,  Coimcillor,  Car.  S.,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  702,  709. 
Bullock,     Benjamin,     recommended     for 

Coimcil,  Bahamas,  758  i. 
Bumper,  ship,  621  v. 
Burchett,  J.,  Secretary  of  the  Admiralty, 

letters  from,  37,  51,  159,  179,  388, 

448,  450,  496,  662  i. 
, , ,  letter  to,  38,  159  i,  n, 

179  I,  293,  389  i,  400,  454,  467, 

481,  493,  496  i,  516,  527  i,  m,  iv, 

691. 
Burnet,  John,  grant  of,  continued,  756. 


Burnet — contd. 

,  William,  Gtovemor  of  New  York 

and  New  Jersey,  147,  656  ;  and  see 

New  York  ;  New  Jersey  ;   Indians, 

Five  Nations  ;    German  Protestant 

Refugees. 

, ,  address  to,  303,  554. 

, ,  Agent  of.     See  Bampfield, 

G. 

,  . . . . ,  appointment  of,  46. 

,  . . . . ,  commendation  of,  341. 

, ,  Commissions  of,  46,  60  i, 

61,  76,  99. 
,  . . . . ,  Commission  of,  as  Captain 

of  Independent  Company,  102. 
,  Conference       with       Five 

Nations,  303,  692,  692  i,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  Governor    Hunter's    party 

espoused  by,  303. 
,  . . . . ,  Instructions  of,    46,    60    i, 

61,  90  i-m,  97,  98,  106,  121,  186  i, 

311,  492,  554,  644,  673,  715,  730, 

731  I,  732,  736  n. 
, ,  letter  from,  121,  140,  239, 

240,  264,  271,  303,  320,  323,  401, 

470,  533,  534,  551,  570,  571,  595, 

692,  712,  729,  734. 
, ,  letter  to,  296,  303  i,  305, 

341,  396,  399,  415,  492,  727,  729  n, 

m,  735,  736,  751. 
,  . . . . ,  royalties   on   whale   fishing 

remitted   by,  303. 
,  . . .  .,  speech  to  Assembly,  N.J., 

595  I. 
,  . . . .,  speech  to  Assembly,  N.Y., 

264  I. 
, ,  speech  by,  to  Indians,  692, 

692  I. 

, ,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  692  n. 

,  success  of,  with  Assembly, 

303. 
, ,  Lord  Townshend's  patron- 
age, 534. 
,  . . . . ,  visit  to  Five  Nations  pro- 
posed by,  303. 
Bumiston,    Charles,    Surveyor    of    H.M. 

Woods   in   America,   letter   from, 

352,  669. 
, , ,  letter  to,  352  n,  450  i, 

466,  694. 
Burroughs,  Jeremiah,  251  in. 

,  Nicholas,  deposition  of,  204  xxvni. 

Burrows,  Capt.,  754. 

,  Michael,     Councillor,     Bermuda, 

death  of,  463  i. 
Burt,  William  Pym,    Councillor,   Nevis, 

appointed,  500. 
,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    204 

XIX. 

Burton,    Robert,    Councillor,    Bermuda, 

death  of,  739. 
Bush,  Samuel,  473  i. 


522 


INDEX. 


Butler,  Thomas,  Lt.  Col.,  deposition  of, 

204  xxvn. 
Byam,  Edward,   Lt.   Governor,   Antigua, 

document  signed  by,  501  I. 

,  . . . .,  memorial  of,  421. 

,  William,      Councillor,      Antigua, 

document  signed  by,  501  i. 
Byrch,  Richard,  deposition  of,  675  I. 
Byrd,  William,  Agent,  Va.,  bond  refused 

by,  396. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  nomination  of,  539. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,    dispute      with      Lt. 

Governor  Spotswood,  679. 
, , ,  document  signed  by, 

63. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . , leave  of  absence,  12, 

88. 

, ,  obstruction  by,  12. 

,  .  . .  . ,  . . . . ,  question    of    continu- 
ance, 12. 


C. 
Cadogan,  William,  Earl,  letter  from,  477. 
Caimes,  Sir  A.,  petition  of,  362. 

,  ... ., referred,  115. 

,  Thomas,    document    signed    by, 

204  vn. 
Calabar  Merchant,  ship,  case  of,  79,  416  i, 

429^3L 
,  . . . .,  owners  of,  petition  of,  416 

u. 

, , ,  referred,  416,  429    I. 

, ,....,  report  upon,  440. 

Calley,  John,  letter  from,  298  in. 

,  . .  . . ,  document  signed  by,  298  v. 

Calvert,  Charles,  Baron  Baltimore,  Lord 

Proprietor,    Maryland,    document 

signed  for,  56,  89. 
,  Charles,  Capt.,  Lt.  Governor    of 

Marj^land,  approbation   of    Crown 

requested,  56. 

,  . . . . ,  approval  of,  77. 

, ,  instructions    of,    124,    130, 

132. 
,  security    for,    77,    89,    96, 

119,  124. 
Cambrai,  Archbishop  of.     See  Dubois. 
Cambridge,  St.  John's  College,  364. 
Campanella,  Spanish  ship,  47  ni. 
Campbell,  — ,  negotiations  for  purchase  of 

Mason's  grant,  273. 
Campbell,  John,  Duke  of  Argyll,  679. 
Campeachy,   Bay    of,    British  prisoners, 

exchange  of,  95. 
,  British  right  to  cut  logwood  in, 

insistence  on,  213,  284,  459. 
,    logwood      cutters,     seized      by 

Spaniards,  327  n. 
,  . . . . ,  protest  against,  338. 


Canada,  203. 

,  boundaries    with    Nova    Scotia, 

Commissioners  to  settle,  proposal 
for,  177. 
boundary  Commissioners,  241  xvi. 
Chambley,  230. 

,  fort  at,  230. 

communication  with  Mississippi, 
discovery  of,  656. 

. . ,  description  of,  656  ;  and  see 
Mississippi. 

English    prisoners    detained    in, 
order  for  release,  267,  267  i,  n. 
Fishery,  38  I. 
Fort  Frontenac,  656,  692. 
forts  in,  230, 

French,  number  of,  447  i. 
. . . . ,  Grovemor     of.      See     Vau- 
dreml,  M. 
Lidians.     See  Lidians,  Canada, 
journal  of  proceedings  in,   570 ; 
and  see  Durand,  M. 
Lapreerie,  230. 
map,  French  claims  in,  303. 
Montreal,  230,  656. 
. . . . ,  trade  with  Indians,  303. 
Niagara    Falls,     656 ;      and    nee 
Niagara. 
Quebec,  239. 

. . . . ,  communications  with,  forts 
to  defend,  178. 

,  St.  Louis,  falls,  656. 

Canary  Islands,  296  i. 
Cane,  William,  251  iv. 
Cape  Breton,  203,  219,  223  i,  n,  232  n, 
260  I,  261  ;    arid  see  Nova  Scotia, 
Canso. 

,  division  of,  proposed  under  Treaty 

of  Utrecht,  223  I. 
Fishery-,  38  i. 

Governor  of.     See  BrouiUan,  M. 
de. 

.  officers  from,  180  xv,  xvi. 
trade    A\-ith    Mass.    Bay,     act   to 
prevent,  rejected,  514  i. 

, . .,  with  N.E.,  241  vn,  445. 
. . . ,  . . . . ,  measures  to  prevent, 
proposed,  445. 

,with   N.S.,    168,    177,   241, 

241  vn,  xvn,  xvm,  xx,  656. 
Capon,     Peter,     consulted     upon     Nova 
Scotia,  231. 

,  . . . . ,  memorial  by,  238. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  355. 

Carey,  Capt.,  200. 

Carkesse,  Charles,  Secretary  to  Com- 
missioners of  Customs,  letter  from, 
52,  71,  313,  432,  520,  528,  543, 
603,  623,  641,  699. 

, , ,  letter  to,  53,  72,  216, 

294,  406,  424,  446,  487,  503,  522, 
544,  558,  566,  617. 


INDEX. 


523 


Carleton,  Lord,  President  of  Privy 
Council,  petition  to,  761. 

,  Robert,  act  concerning,  215,  222. 

Cabolina,  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation, 
Instructions  concerning,  246. 

,  . . . . ,  boundaries,  enquiry  con- 
cerning, 181  I. 

, ,  charter  of,  192,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  resumed    to     Crown,    244, 

248. 

French  claim  to,  in  map,  303. 

,  Indians,    numbers    of,    required, 

181  I. 

,  inhabitants,  census  of,  required, 

181  I. 

,  map,  303. 

,  merchants  trading  to,  memorial 

from,  274. 

militia,  return  of,  required,  181  I. 

,  Mines,  181  i. 

,  Naval  Officers'  accounts  of  entries 

and  clearances,  enquiry  for,  216. 

,  . . . . ,  returns  of,  767. 

produce  of,  enquiry  concerning, 

181  I. 

,  Queries  concerning,  181  i. 

,  . . . . ,  replies  to,  207. 

,  Spaniards,  ship  captured  by,  10. 

,  trade,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 

181  I. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

Carolina,  North,  boundaries  with  Vir- 
ginia, disputed,  656. 

, ,  Cape  Fear,  125,  656. 

,  Charter  of,  656. 

,  exports  of,  656. 

,  government  of,  656. 

Governor  of,  petition  for  appoint- 
ment as,  765. 

,  question  concerning,  192. 

,  history  of,  656. 

,  Lidians,  656. 

,  inhabitants,  character  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  number  of,  656. 

,  Lords  Proprietors  of,  656. 

,  naval  stores,  656. 

,  negroes,  656. 

pirates.  Commissions  for  trying, 

proposed,  254. 

,  . . . . ,  harboured  in,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  suppression     of,      by      Lt. 

Governor  Spotswood,  147. 

,  restoration  of,  to  Virginia,  pro- 
posed, 656. 

,  resumption  of,  to  Crown,  pro- 
posed, 656. 

,  Roanoake,  656. 

,  soU  of,  656. 

,  trade  of,  with  N.E.,  656. 

,  Wyanoake  Creek,  656. 

Carolina,  South,  Act,  additional  to  act 
f<yr  raising  £70,000,  113. 


Carolina,  South — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  to     encourage     increase     of 

white  servants,  proposed,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Indian    trading,    repeal    of, 

evil  effects  of,  alleged,  66. 

,  . .  . . ,  for  recognizing  King  George, 

683. 

,  . . . . ,  for  the  better  supporting  of 

public  credit,  113. 

, for  support  of  Government 

under  James  Moore,  etc.,  195. 

,  Acts,  list  of,  683. 

,  . . . . ,  regulation  of,  proposed,  274. 

,  . .  . .  of,  transmitted,  702. 

,  Agents  of.    See  Byrd,  W.  ;  Lloyd, 

J.  ;   Boone,  James  ;   Yonge,  F. 

,  . . . .,  appointed,  577,  683. 

,  Altamaha,  River,    fort    building 

at,  572,  577,  683. 

, , ,  proposed,  232  vi,  237, 

656. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Engineer  for,  712. 

,  . . . . ,    settlement    on,    proposed, 

232  VI,  237. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  common  lands  for,  237. 

,  . . . . ,  guardship  for,  pro- 
posed, 232  xn,  237. 

,  Assembly,  572. 

, ,  Address  of,  619. 

,  . . . . ,  Agents  appointed  by,  683. 

,  . . . . ,  Clerk  of,  66. 

, Committee  of  Correspond- 
ence, 283,  292  I,  386. 

,  . .  . . ,  Journal  of,  683,  702. 

,  .  . . . ,  meeting  of,  363,  386. 

,  . .  . . ,  new,  act  of,  195. 

,  . . .  . ,  proceedings  of,  683. 

,  . . . . ,  Representation   by,   66. 

Speaker  of.     See  Hepworth, 


. ,  boundaries  of,  656. 
.,  Catahooche  R.,  fort  on,  proposed, 
656. 

.,Cape  Fear,  125,  656. 
. ,  chapel,  plate  etc.  for,  request  for, 
232  xn. 

.,  chaplain  for,  proposed,  232  xn. 
.,  Charles  Town  (Charleston),  361, 
363  I. 

Assembly,  new,  at,  195. 
fort,  712. 

fortifications  of,  656. 
, . . ,  out  of  repair,  9. 
. . . ,  work  on,  10. 
. ,  Charter     of,     assigned     to     new 
Proprietors,  protest  against,  249. 
. ,  clerks,    difficulty    in    procuring, 
683,  702. 

. ,  coins   and    currency,    paper,    act 
suspending  sinking  fund,   113. 
. ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instruction  concerning 
money  bills,  299. 


524 


INDEX. 


Carolina,  South,  coins,  &c. — conUl. 
,  . . . . , regulation    of,    pro- 
posed, 274. 

, . . ,  . . . . ,  ruinous  effect  of,  274. 
Committee  of  Correspondence,  283 
:,  292  I,  386. 

condition  of,  peaceful,  702,  714. 
Council  of,  484,  484  i. 

,  letter  from,  702. 

. . . .,  Minutes  of,  573,  573  i,  683, 
702. 

..,(Col.  Moore's),  letter  from, 
249,  363,  363  i. 

. . ,  petition  of,  249. 
. . ,  Secretary     of.     See     Hart, 
Charles. 
Councillors  of,  245. 
..,  death  of,  683. 
. . ,  persons  proposed  for,  683, 
702. 

Court  of  Admiralty,  disputes  con- 
cerning jurisdiction  of,  702. 
. . . . ,  . . . . ,  condemnation  in,  351. 
crops,  712. 
Custom  House,  702. 
. . . . ,  Officers,  complaint  against, 
for  trading  etc.,  283,  283  I,  291, 
292,  292  i-m,  294. 

, . . ,  Surveyor  of.     See  Rhett,  W. 
defence    of,    measures    for,    194, 
195,  232  X,  237,  572,  573  n,  656. 

,.., ,  urged,  283  i. 

, . . ,  report  upon,  220. 
disorders  in,  192  i,  244. 
distances     and     communications 
in,  209. 
drought  in,  losses  from,  156. 
,  ecclesiastical     benefices     in,     in- 
struction    concerning,     715,     731, 
737,  737  I ;  and  see  London,  Bishop 
of. 

.,Edisto,  573n. 
.,  Engineer  for,  712. 
.,  . . . .,  proposed,  237. 
., entries  and  clearances,  313. 
. .  exports  and  imports  of,  413  n, 
577  I,  656. 

. ,  extent  and  inquisition,  540  ;   and 
see  Blundell,  B. 
. ,  flowers  and  plants  from,  580. 
. ,  Fort  King  George,  683  ;    and  see 
Altamaha,  R. 
. ,  forts,  577,  656. 

. ,  . . . . ,  proposed,  232  vi,   xi.   xu, 
237,  656. 

.,  France,  war  with,  rumoured,  156. 
. ,  French  encroachments,  measures 
to  prevent,  proposed,  656. 
. ,  French     settlements,     effect    of, 
enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 
. ,  • . . . ,  danger  from,  283  i. 


Carolina,  South — contd. 
,  garrison,  Commander  of.  Instruc- 
tions for,   232  VI,   237  ;     and   see 

Independent  Co. ;  Nicholson,  F. 
,  . . . . ,  lands  for,  proposed,  232  v, 

XI,  237. 

,  . . . . ,  places  proposed  for,  208. 

,  . . . . ,  stores  for,  proposed,  232  in, 

IX,  237. 
,  Governor  of,  appointed  by  Crown. 

See  Nicholson,  Francis. 

,  .  .  . . ,  conference    with    Governor 

of  Virginia  proposed,  232  x,  237. 
,  . . . . ,  correspondence  with  Grover- 

nor  of  Bahama  Is.  proposed,  232  x, 

237. 
elected,  194,  195 ;    and  see 

Moore,  James  ;   Johnson,  R. 

, ,  letter  to,  47  i,  n. 

Governor     and     Council,     letter 

from  573. 
,  Governor,  Coimcil  and  Assembly, 

address  of,  760. 
guardship,     125,     484,     484     i, ; 

and  see  HUdersley,  Capt. 
,  guardship  for,  request  for,  232  xn, 

237. 
,  Hagaloge,  R.,  fort  on,  proposed, 

656. 
,  Hildersle}^  Capt.,  charges  against. 

See  Hildersley. 
,  immigration  to,  from  Barbados, 

148. 

,  . . . . ,  from  Philadelphia,  125. 

,  imports  of,  656. 

,  Independent      Company,      Com- 
mander of,  instructions  for,  232  vi. 

,  . . . . ,  embarkation  of,  275. 

,  . .  . . ,  estabUshment  of,  255. 

,  lands  at  Charles  To\vn  for, 

573,  573  n. 

,  . . . . ,  reinforcements  of,  357,  656. 

,  . . . .,  subsistence  of,  275,  275  i, 

n. 
Indians,    Cherokee    (Charaches), 

573. 

,  . . . . ,  number  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  war  with  Creeks,  125. 

, ,  Creek,  283  i,  573  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  friendship   of,    125. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  treaties  with,  573. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  war   with    Cherokees, 

125. 
,  . . . . ,  with  Yamassees, 

125. 

, danger  from,  192  i. 

, French  influence  with,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  hostilities    against   Florida, 

complaint  concerning,  order  upon, 

651. 
, incited     by     French     and 

Spanish,  656. 


INDEX. 


525 


Carolina,  South,  Indians — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  incursions  by,  66. 

,  . . . . ,  massacres  by,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  numbers  of,  656. 

,  .  . . . ,  required,  181  I. 

,  . . . . ,  peaceable,  656. 

,  . . .  . ,  presents  for,  275. 

, , .proposed,  237,  242. 

,  . . . . ,  relations  with,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  St.  Augustine,    attack    by, 

283  I. 

, trade  with,  656. 

,  act    regulating,    repeal    of, 

evil  effects  of,  alleged,  66. 
, ,  proposals  for,  232  in, 

vrn,  X,  xn. 
,  . . . . , regulation     of,     pro- 
posed, 232  X,  237,  274. 
,....,....,  to    be    concerted    by 

Governors  of  Virginia  and  Carolina, 

232  X,  237. 

, ,  treaties    with,  572,  573. 

,  . . . . ,  Vocamas,  war  with,  125. 

,  . . . . ,  war  with,  cost  of,  194,  195. 

,  . . . . ,  Yamassees,    hostilities    by, 

125,  283  I. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  encouraged     by 

Spaniards,  125. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,   slaves   captured    by, 

taken  to  St.  Augustine,  125. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  war  with  Creeks,  125. 

,  inhabitants,  decrease  of,  125,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  grievances  of,  against  Lords 

Proprietors,  112,  347. 

,  . . . . ,  in  arms,  petition  of,  194. 

,  indebtededness  of,  156. 

,  . . . . ,  number  of,  413  i,  656. 

,  rebellious      character      of, 

alleged,  363  i. 

,  reply  to,  363  i. 

, return  of  taxpayers,  413  I. 

,  lands  in,  demand  for,  125. 

,  . .  . . ,  grants  of,  proposed,  232  v, 

XI,  237. 

,  Lords  Proprietors  of,  329. 

,  . .  . . ,  Acts  repealed  by,  complaint 

concerning,  66. 

, .Charter  of,  192. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  assigned  to  new,  pro- 
test against,  249. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  resumed     to     Crown, 

244,  248  ;    and  see  resumption  to 

Croviai. 
complaints  against,  66,  112, 

194,  195,  347,  363,  363  i,  541. 

defence  of,  reply  to,  363, 363i. 

,  . . . .,  Deputies  of,  complaint  con- 
cerning, 541. 

,  . . . . ,  proceedings  against,  210. 

, ,  revolt  from,  156,  194,  195. 

, act  of  indemnification    for, 

195. 


Carolina,  South — contd. 
,  manufactures,      return      of,     re- 
quired, 181  I. 
,  measures  for  restoring  prosperity 

of,  proposed,  274. 
,  measures    for    safety    of,    report 

upon,  required,  185,  199. 

,  Militia,  numbers  of,  656. 

,  Naval  Officer,  &c.  See  Hammerton. 

W. 

,  naval  stores,  656. 

, ,  exports  of,  413  ii,  577  i. 

,  negroes,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  act  regulating    number    of, 

proposed,  274. 
,  . . . . ,  captured,     taken      to      St. 

Augustine,  125. 

,  . .  . . ,  increase  of,  125,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  numbers  of,  413  i. 

,  ... .,  rising  of,  plot  for,  discovered, 

125,  656. 
,  officers,     civil     and       military, 

appointment  of  new,  573. 

,  . . . . ,  continued,   195. 

,  . . .  . ,  reliable,  need  of,  125. 

,  Palachacholas,  656. 

,  paper,  lack  of,  573. 

,  Patent    Officers,    return    of,    re- 
quired, 181  I. 

,  pirates,  125. 

,  . . . . ,  commission  for  trying,  232 

xn,  234,  290,  300,  301. 
,  . . . . ,  proposed,  254,  254  i, 

257,  258. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  persons  proposed  for, 

276. 

,  . . . . ,  damage  by,  194. 

,  . . . . ,  increase  of,  prospect  of,  125. 

,  . . . . ,  precautions  against,  242. 

,  Port  Royal,  572. 

, fort  at,  656. 

,    Postmaster,  408. 

,     prisoners,    exchange    of,     mth 

Spaniards,  283  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  orders  to  restore,  411. 

,      Proclamation      of       Governor 

Nicholson's  appointment,  372. 

,  produce  of,  656. 

,  provisions  for,  despatch  of,  242. 

,  queries     concerning,    replies   to, 

207. 

,  quit-rents,  arrears  of,  363  i. 

,  . . . . ,  value  of,  656. 

,  regiments  proposed  for,  656. 

reinforcements  for,  357. 

,  resumption  of,  to  Crown,  192  i, 

244,  248,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  papers  relating  to,  210. 

, ,  petition  for,  125,  156,  194, 

195. 

,  . . . .,  provisional,  order  for,  185. 

, .thanks  for,  619,  760. 


526 


INDEX. 


Carolina,  South — contd. 

rice,  crop,  712. 

,  . . . . ,  an  enumerated  commodity, 

effect  of,  656. 
,  . . . . ,  enumeration  of,  to   be   re- 
moved, reasons  for,  722. 
,  . . .  . ,  export  of,  direct  to  South  of 

Cape    Finisterre,    permission    for, 

proposed,  656. 

, ,  exports  of,  41.3  ii,  656,  722. 

,  . .  . . ,  harvest,  good,  683. 

,  . . . . ,  quality  of,  656. 

,  . .  .  . ,  trade  with  Portugal,  656. 

,  Rogers,  Governor,  visits,  326,  327. 

,  St.  George  R.,  232  vi ;    and  see 

Altamaha  R. 

,  St.  Helena,  283  i. 

,  St.     Simon,  I.,  fort  on,  proposed, 

237. 

,  Santee  River,  656. 

,  Savannah  R.,  fort  on,  proposed, 

656. 

,  Savanna  Town,  125. 

,  . .  . . ,  fort  at,  656. 

,  schoolmasters,      certificates     for, 

instruction    concerning,    715,    731, 

737,    737    I ;     and    see    London, 

Bishop  of. 

Seal,  new,  for,  236,  701. 

Secretary  of.     See  Hart,  Charles. 

ship  seized,  case  of,  351. 

,  shipping  of,  656. 

,  Spanish   expedition   against,   ex- 
pected, 8-10,  35,  47  l-v,  194,  195. 
,  . . . . ,  commanded     by     Scottish 

Jacobite,  47  m. 
,  Spanish  privateers,  depradations 

of,  after  the  cessation,  363  i. 
,  . .  . . ,  ships  taken  by,  refusal  to 

restore,  249. 

,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  retaken,  125. 

,  Spaniards  at  St.  Augustine,  arms 

supplied  to,   protest  against,  283, 

283  I,  291-294. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  prisoners    taken     by, 

283  I. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  protest   against, 

292,  292  i-ra. 

,  stores  of  war  for,  232  in,  ix,  237, 

,  . . . . ,  account  of,  232  xm. 

, ,  freight  for,  275. 

,  trade  of,  656  ;   and  see  rice. 

,  trade,  illegal,  charge  of,  363  i. 

, ,  measures  to  prevent, 

656. 

. . ,  with  Bahamas,  351. 
. . ,  with  Madeira,  656. 
, . . ,  with  the  Plantations,  413  n. 
. . . ,  with  Portugal,  656,  722. 
, . . ,  with  St.  Augustine,  363  i. 
, . .,  with  Spaniards,  283,  283  i, 
291-294. 


Carolina,  South — contd. 

transports  for,  difficulty  of  con- 
voy, 357. 

,  weather,  propitious,  683. 

white  servants,  act  to  encourage, 

proposed,  656. 

Carrington,  Charles,  Councillor,  Bahamas, 
758  I. 

,  . . . . ,  suspended,  758  n. 

Cartagena,  English  prisoners  at,  47  v. 

,  Governor  of.     See  Suere,  Marquis 

de. 

,  (Spanish  galleons  at,  634. 

,  trade  with  Jamaica,  634. 

Carter,  John,  Judge,  Barbados,  687,  687 
n-rv. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint  against,  675. 

,  .  . . . ,  document  signed  by,  490  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  protest  by,  517  i. 

,  Richard,       Attorney      General, 

Barbados,  490. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  against,  713. 

,  letter  from,  710. 

,  . .  . . ,  opinion  by,  517. 

,  Robert,  Councillor,  Va.,  document 

signed  by,  63. 

,  William,  CoimciUor,  Barbados,  31. 

,  ....,case  of,  709,  710,  713. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,    complaint      against, 

687,  713. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

709. 

,  . . . . , suspended,   364,   366, 

366  m. 

, ,  petition  of,  421,  422  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  435  i. 

,  referred,  451. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  restored,  509. 

Carteret,  John,  Lord,  Secretary  of  State 
for  the  Southern  Province,  appoint- 
ment of,  announced,  395. 

,  . .  . . ,  document  signed    by,    394, 

443,  482,  489,  532,  556,  563,  592, 
600,  612,  625,  643,  663,  677,  681, 
701,  706,  708,  752. 

,  . . . .,  letter  from,  395,  409,  417, 

422,  423,  429,  433,  442,  455,  456, 
462,  472,  473,  480,  492,  524,  550, 
563,  600,  624,  640,  644,  651,  658, 
659,  662,  671,  684,  685,  688,  689, 
725,  727,  735-737,  756. 

, ,  letter    to,    329,    408,    425, 

433  I,  435,  441,  458,  460,  473  i, 
485,  490,  605,  507,  516,  517,  525, 
536,  546,  548,  553,  555,  575,  576, 
584,  590,  596,  605,  608,  615,  632, 
642,  664,  666,  670,  678,  680,  693, 
696,  719,  724,  733,  744,  763,  764. 

,  .  . . . ,  Secretaries    of,     letter    to, 

662.  I. 

Cary,  Henry.     See  Va.,  act  empowering. 

Cassart,  M.,  raid  on  Montserrat,  501. 


INDEX. 


527 


Cavelier,  John,  deposition  of,  527  xvn. 
Cayenne,  trade  with  N.E.,  197. 

,  ....,R.I.,  197. 

Cecil,  James,  case  of,  687,  687  n-iv. 

Chadder,  Capt.,  94. 

Chamberlayne,  Charles,  Capt.,  R.N.,  496 

n,  527  rn,  xxxiv. 

, ,letterfro'na,  527  XXXIV  (d),(/). 

Chammorel,  M.  de,  French  Ambassador, 

petition  to,  296  i. 
Charles  II,  King,  grants   by    (Bahamas), 

498. 

,  . . . . ,  grant  of  Tobago  by,  383. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  359. 

Cheamley,  William,  case  of,  687  I. 
Chetwynd,  William,  member  of  Bahama 

Company,  390,  766  i. 

,  letter  to,  419. 

Chicago,  R.,  656. 

Chicken,  Jo.,  document  signed  by,  363, 

363  I. 
Choppin,  John,  204  xxxiv. 

,  . .  . . ,  deposition  of,  204  xxvi. 

,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    204 

XIX,  295  I. 
,  . . . . ,  Councillor,  Nevis,  resigns, 

500. 
Churchill,  John,   Duke   of  Marlborough, 

Master  General  of  the   Ordnance, 

letter  to,  442. 
Clarendon,  Earl  of.     See  Hyde,  E. 
Clark,   John,   Speaker,  Mass.,  document 

signed  by,  660  i. 

,  Robert,  deposition  of,  501  in. 

Clarke,  — ,  Councillor,  Mass.,  suspended, 

103. 

,  . .  . . ,  elected  to  Assembly,  103. 

,  James,  deposition  of,  527  xvi. 

Clark   (Clerke),   Deputy   Auditor,    N.Y., 

fees     of,    instruction     concerning, 

492. 
,  Clerk  of  the  Circuits,  to  be  restored 

to  office  of,  492. 
Clawsen,    Lawrence,    Indian   Interpreter, 

Journal  of,  144,  144  i. 
Clos,  FranQois  du,  petition  of,  296  i. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  296. 

Coates,    Robert,    document    signed    by, 

319  m. 
Cochran,  Archibald,  Councillor,  Antigua, 

document  signed  by,  501  i. 
Cocke,  Abraham.     See  Va.,  act  to  enable. 
,  Nathaniel,  Councillor,  Va.,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  63. 
,  WiUiam,  Covmcillor,  Va.,  death  of, 

270,  312,  330,  368. 
Cockrane,   John,   Treasurer,   Montserrat, 

accounts  of,  204  vn. 
Cockrem,   John,   Capt.,  information   by, 

47  V. 
,  . . . . ,  recommended   for   Coimcil, 

Bahamas,  758  i. 


Cocksidge,  John,  petition  of,  355. 
Cocoa,  6  I,  7  ;  and  see  Tobago. 
Chocolate,  consumption  of,  148  ;   and  see 

Sta.  Lucia,  cocoa. 
Codrington,  General,  148. 

, ,  bequest  of,  529  i. 

Codrot,  Claude,  document  signed  by,  180 

XV. 

Coeur,  Jean,  Interpreter,  144  I. 

Coins  and  currency,  paper  issues,  instruc- 
tions concerning,  74,  186,  186  i, 
233,  252 ;  and  see  Plantations, 
Governors  of,  instructions  to. 

,  . .  . . ,  Car.  S.,  regulation  of,  pro- 
posed, 274. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  act  suspending  sink- 
ing fund,  113. 

,  . . . . ,  Mass.,  depreciation  of,  393, 

655. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . .  . ,  forgeries  of,  259. 

,  . .  . . ,  N.Y.,  success  of,  343. 

,  . . .  . ,  secured    on    land-tax.    Sir 

H.  Mackworth's  proposals  for, 
343. 

Cokbume,  John,  a  Lord  Commissioner  of 
the  Admiralty,  letter  from,  742. 

,  — ,    recommended    for    Coimcil, 

Jamaica,  742. 

Colden,  Cadwallader,  Surveyor  General, 
N.Y.,  48. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  memorial  by,  against 

Act,  729,  729  i,  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  proposed  for  Council,  303. 

Cole,  Thomas,  204  xx. 

Colleton,  John,  Councillor,  Barbados, 
419  I. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  709. 

, ,  petition  of,  421,  422  i. 

Collings,  Jonathan,  573  n. 

Collins,  — ,  Nfd.,  260  i. 

,  William,  deposition  of,  472  rv. 

Commissaries  at  Paris.  See  Bladen, 
M.  ;   Pulteney,  D. 

Commons,  House  of,  representations  on 
waste  of  woods  to  be  laid  before, 
54,  54  I. 

Connecticut,  boundaries,  656. 

, ,  disputed,  109,  229. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,  map  of,  229. 

,  charter,  229. 

,  Government  of,  criticism  of,  656. 

,  Governor  of.     See  Saltonstall,  G. 

,  Governor  and  Company  of,  letter 

from,  229. 

,  map  of,  229. 

,  Narragansett  Coimtry,  claims  to, 

229. 

,  New  London,  seizure  at,  727  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  order  upon,  728. 

,  pirates'  effects,  seizure  of,  727  i. 

,  . . . . ,  order  upon,  728. 

,  sheep  raised  in,  153,  699  in. 


528 


INDEX. 


Conostogo,  656. 

CJonseillere,  de  la,  Benjamin,  Councillor, 

Car  S.,  document  signed  by,  702. 
Cook,  William,  petition  of,  355. 
Cooke,  Elisha,  143,  579,  713. 

censured  by  Council,  93. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  against,  39. 

,  . . . . ,  Crown   right   to    woods   in 

Maine  denied  by,  93,  118. 

,  .  . . . ,  grant  confiitaed  to,  39  m, 

, party  in  Assembly  led  by, 

514. 
,  . . . . ,  Speaker,  Mass.,  rejection  of, 

by  Governor,  93,  93  n,  iv, 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  approved,  41 1. 

,  . . . . ,  speaker,  temporary,  655. 

,  document  signed  by,  660  iv. 

, ,  suspended  from  Council,  93. 

,  Richard,    document   signed     by, 

204  vn. 
Cookes,    Joseph,    Councillor,    Bahamas, 

758  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

726. 
Cooper,  George,  petition  of,  713  n. 
Coote,  Richard,  Earl  of  Bellomont,  late 

Governor  of  New  York,  salary,  etc. 

of,  payment  of,  request  for,  751. 
,  ....,....,  late  Governor  of  N.E., 

salary  of,  579. 
Copley,  Col.,  late  Governor  of  Maryland, 

192. 
Corbiere,  Anthony,  Naval  Officer,  Jam., 

373. 
Cornelius,  John,  Naval  Officer,  Barbados, 

leave  of  absence,  166. 
Cortlandt,    Col.,    Mayor   of    New    York, 

appointment  of,  48,  48  i. 
Cotton,  John,  grant  to,  39  n. 

,  memorial  of,  421. 

Couaret,  Antoine,  document  signed   by, 

241  XIV. 
,  Pierre,  document  signed  by,  241 

XIV. 

Courant,     Peter,     Councillor,     Bahamas, 

758  I. 
, , ,  document  signed  by, 

726. 
Courland,  Duke  of,  grant  of  Tobago    to, 

forfeited,  383. 
Covenant  Place,  fort  at,  proposed,  230. 
Cox,  Sir  Charles,  508. 

, ,  letter  from,  30,  32,  434. 

,  ... ., letter  to,  31. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  21. 

,  . .  . . ,  order  upon,  609. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  36. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  for  Governorship 

of  Jamaica,  4. 

,  . . . . ,  recommendation  of,  4  I. 

,  Samuel,    President    of    Covmcil, 

Barbados,  189,  364,  605. 


Cox,  Samuel — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  absconding,  rumours  of,  676. 

abuse    of,    complaint    con- 
cerning, 675,  675  I. 
,  . .  . . ,  address  by  Assembly,  copy 

refused  to,  366  i,  n,  iv. 
, . . . .,  Addresses,  memorial  against, 

364,  366,  366  i,  n,  iv,  v,  384. 
,  . . . . ,  administration    of,    defence 

of,  753,  754. 
,  . . . . ,  arbitrary      treatment       of 

Council  by,  709,  710. 
,  . . . . ,  arrest   and   recall   of,   pro- 
posed, 590,  675. 
,  . . . . ,  Assembly  men,  nominations 

by,  364. 

,  . . . . ,  bonds  cancelled  by,  34. 

,  . . . . ,  charges,  complaints,  against, 

21  I,  30-32,  34,  364-366,  366  i-v, 

384,  421-423  n,  433  i,   434,   490, 

490  n,  517,  709,  710. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,    enquiry    concerning, 

ordered,  508. 
, , reply  to,  713,  713  m, 

753,  754. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,    representation      on, 

435  I,  590. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  by,  675. 

, ,     against      Governor 

Lowther,  366  i. 
, ,  against     Col.     Frere, 

609. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  against   Judges,    675, 

687,  687  i-iv,  709,  710,  713,  713 

i-ni ;  and  see  Sutton,  E. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  against  restored  Coun- 

cUlors,  621,  687,  753,  754. 
,  . . . . ,  conciliatory    measures    by, 

366  I. 
,  . . . . ,  Covincillors    appointed    by, 

364,  366,  366  m. 
,  . , . . ,  ....   suspended     by,     364, 

366,  366 1,  m,  384,  419 1,  421,  422 1, 

423  n,  451,  709,  710,  713. 

,  dismissal  of,  proposed,  435 1. 

,  document  signed  by,  366  m. 

,  . . . . ,  Col.    Frere   suspended    by, 

364,  366,  366  i,  in. 
,  . . . . ,  French     from     Martinique 

encouraged  by,  364. 
,  . . . . ,  funds     supplied     by,     for 

equipping  guardships,  374. 

,  . . . . ,  gunners  suspended  by,  687. 

, impecunious,  364. 

,  . . . .,  Instructions  of,  186  i,  687, 

753,  755. 
, ,  letter  from,   31,   366,   374, 

621,  638,  675,  687,  713,  753-755, 
, ,  letter    to,    285,    374,    409, 

501  VI,  713,  739. 
,  . . . . ,  nepotism  of,  709, 


INDEX. 


529 


Cox,  Samuel — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  officers,  civil  and  military, 

removed  by,  364,  384,  419  i,  422  i, 

n,  423  n,  709. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  restored  by,  709. 

, ,  petition  to,  490,  490  i,  ii, 

687,  687  I,  V. 

,  . . . . ,  recall  of,  rumoured,  675. 

,  representation    to,     517    n, 

in. 
representation  on  State  of 

Barbados,  366  i. 
,  . . . . ,  Secretary   of,   fees   claimed 

for,  419  I ;  a7id  see  Whitworth,  F. 
,  . . . . ,  ship  and  goods  of,  seized, 

34. 

,  . . .  . ,  inhibition  obtained  by,  34. 

,  . . . . ,  speech    to    Assembly,    366 

I,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  suspension  of,  intended,  29, 

30-32. 

, ,  petition  against,  21  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  36. 

, , ,  forbidden,  25,  105. 

, ,  restored,  317,  630. 

,  . . . . ,  trade,     illegal,     connivance 

with,  alleged,  364,  713. 
Cracherode,  Anthony,  Clerk  and  Registrar 

of  Court  of  Chancery,  Barbados, 

100. 

,  petition  of,  462  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  referred,  462. 

,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  465. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  576. 

Craggs,    James,    Secretary   of    State    for 

the  Southern  Department,  408. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  document  signed   by, 

41,  70,  88,  99,  100,  102,  334,  373. 

, ,  death  of,  395. 

, ,  letter  from,  20,  22,  25,  46, 

54,  58,  73,  81,  87  i,  92,  105,  189, 

201,  285,  295,  296,  303,  307,  366, 

367,  609. 
, ,  letter  to,    40,   43,   47,    60, 

79,  87  II,  90,  137,  167,  223  n,  232 1, 

240,  249,  262,  279,  281  i,  292,  302, 

309,  318,  320,  322,  326,  327,  327  ii, 

330,    337,     370,    372,    374,     391, 

391  I,  n,  413,  429  i,  584  ii,  596. 
,  . .  . . ,  Secretary  of.     See  Stanyan, 

Temple. 
Cranston,    Samuel,   Governor  of   Rhode 

Island  and  Providence  Plantation, 

letter  from,  109. 

,  letter  to,  728. 

,  . . . . ,  Proclamation  by,  727  i. 

Crawcroft,  Capt.  John,  complaint  against, 

296  1. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  296. 

Croiz6en,  M.,  743. 

Crooke,  Clement,  Chief  Justice,  St.  Kitts, 

66. 

wt.  7m 


Crookshanks,    William,     deposition     of, 

621  I. 
Crowley,  ship  captured  by  pirates,  660. 
Crozat,  M.,  patent  of,  238,  600. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  surrendered,   238. 

Crump,   Nathaniel,  Councillor,   Antigua, 

document  signed  by,  501  i. 
Cuba,  Havana,  327  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  EngUsh  prisoners     at,     47 

n,  in,  V. 

,  escape  from,  8,  527  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  cruel    treatment    of, 

5271. 

, expedition  from,  8-10,  36, 

47,  47  i-v. 

, ,  Governor  of,  527  i  //. 

,  . . . . ,  pass  for  crew  captured  by 

pirates,  758. 

,  Santiago,  Governor  of,  letter  to, 

527  xxxm. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  commissions    by,    to 

privateers,  527  iff. 

,  Trinidado,  213. 

,  . . . . ,  privateers  from,  288,  340. 

Cuidad  Royal,  327  n. 
Cumings,  Archibald,  Agent  for  Admiralty 
perquisites,  N.E.,  order  concerning, 
662,  662  I. 

, ,  Surveyor  of  Customs,  N.E., 

proposals    by,    concerning  Planta- 
tion trade,  27. 

,  letter  from,  261,  262,  266. 

Cummins,  — ,  negotiation  for  purchase  of 

Mason's  grant,  273. 
Cura9ao,  296  i. 

,  trade  with  N.Y.,  187  i,  n,  656. 

Current,     Peter,     Councillor,     Bahamas, 

document  signed  by,  302. 
Curriwacco,  251  m. 

Customs,  act /or  regulating  abuses  in,  44. 
Customs,  H.M.,  Commissioners  of,  153. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  by,  557  n. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  190. 

, ,  letter  to,  153  i,  363,  363  i, 

520  I,  623  I,  641  i,  699  i-iv. 

,  order  by,  34. 

,  Secretary  of.    See  Carkesse, 

C. 
Custom    House    Officers,    fees,    uniform, 
proposed,  699,  699  v. 

,  . . . . ,  exemption  from  militia  and 

juries,  528,  528  i,  744  i. 

,  . . . . ,  trading  by.  Act  prohibiting, 

291,  292,  294. 

, ,  complaint  concerning, 

283,  283  I,  291,  292,  292  i-m,  294. 

,  returns,  656. 

,  Surveyor    General.     See  Dunbar, 

Charles. 
Cuyler,  Abraham,  document  signed  by, 
230. 

<:.P.  32—34 


580 


INDEX. 


Cuyler — contd. 

,  Johannes,   document   signed   by, 

230. 


D. 

Daily  Courant,  The,  184. 

Dale,  John,  Councillor,  Montserrat,  re- 
signs, 204. 

Dalrymple,  John,  Earl  of  Stair,  Am- 
bassador at  Paris,  2. 

Daniel,  Lt.  Governor,  Car.  S.,  363  i. 

Darrel,  John,  recommended  for  Comicil, 
Bermuda,  739  i. 

Dasent,  Capt.  John,  204  xxvi. 

,  document    signed    by,    204 

XIX,  291  I. 

Davenant,  Dr.,  148. 

Davers,  Sir  Robert,  452,  508. 

,  order  to,  527  xxxn. 

Davis,  John,  President  of  Council,  St. 
Kitts,  307  I. 

Davison,  Charles,  petition  of,  355. 

Delafaye,  Charles,  Secretary  to  the  Lords 
Justices,  134,  256. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  document  signed   by, 

166,  245. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  150,  155, 

157,  160,  171,  180,  183,  199,  220, 
223,  226,  232,  252,  253,  267,  279, 
281. 

, , letter    to,    140,    173, 

175,  219,  223  i,  232  m,  240,  242, 
255,  273,  275,  339,  351,  464,  518, 
551. 

Delaimy,  Joseph,  deposition  of,  340  m, 
527  XIX. 

Delaware.  See  Peimsylvania,  Three 
Lower  Counties. 

Delaware  R.,  islands  in,  enquiry  concern- 
ing, 552. 

, , ,  petition  for  grant  of, 

representation  on,  646. 

Delicia,  ship,  167,  167  i-ix,  498. 

Delivery,  ship,  621  v. 

Dellius,  Godfrey,  grant  of,  282. 

Denmakk  and  the  Danes  ;  and  see  St. 
Thomas. 

,  Settlement  on  St.  John's  I,  500, 

584,  584  i-iv. 

Dennis,  Capt.,  527  m. 

Dennison,  James,  deposition  of,  251,  251 
n. 

Depeyster,  Col.,  751. 

Desiada  (Desseada),  501,  501  xxvn,  xxix. 

Detroit,  French  settlement  at,  692. 

Devonshire,  privateer,  277  n. 

Dewitt,  Philip,  hostage  at  Martinique, 
deposition  by,  204  xix,  xxxv. 

,  escape  of,  204  xix. 


Dewitt,  Philip — contd. 

, remittances  for,  204  xxm, 

xxxv. 
Digges,  Cole,  Coimcillor,  Va.,  appointed, 

70. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  warrant  for,  withheld, 

12. 
Dinning,  Thomas,  complaint  against,  687, 

687  V,  713  m. 
Dixon,  — ,  Collector,  Ma. ,  letter  from,  304 1. 
Dobbin,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  535  v. 
Docminique,  Paul,  co-partner  in  Bahama 

Company,  390,  766  I. 

, ,  letter  to,  327. 

Dod,  — ,  Receiver  General  of  Admiralty 

rights,  28. 
Doidge,  George,  commission  of,  625. 
Domaine,  — ,  M.,  501  xvm. 
Dominica,  pirates  off,  727  i. 
Dottin,  Judge,  Barbados,  490,  490  n. 
Doucett,  John,  Lt.  Governor,  Annapolis 

Royal,  180  vi. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,    commission    of,    for 

Nova    Scotia,    petition    for,    723, 

723  I. 

,  . . . . ,  deposition  of,  535  v. 

,  . . . . ,  document   signed    by,    241 

xvn,  xvrn,  535  m. 

, letter  from,  158,  723. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  723  i. 

, ,  testimonial  to,  723,  723  n. 

Douglas,  James,  petition  of,  95,  362. 

,  Robert,  490  n. 

Douglass,  George,  grant  of,  307  i. 
,  John,    St.    Kitts,    plantation    of, 

petition  concerning,  307  i. 

,  . . . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  307. 

Dove,  sloop,  34. 

Downes,  —  (Barbados),  517. 

,  . .  .  . ,  case  of,  675. 

Dry,  William,  Car.  S.,  letter  from,  283  i, 

292  m. 
Duan,  J.,  document  signed  by,  180  xi- 

xrrr. 
Dubois,    M.,    Archbishop    of    Cambrai, 

conference    with,    219,    223    i,    n, 

232  n. 
,  reply  by,  to  Sir  R.  Sutton's 

memorial,  232  n. 

,....,... .,  referred,  232,  232  i. 

Du   Bourgay,   Charles,   Lt.    Governor  of 

Jamaica,  Commission  of,  708,  744 

I. 
Duck,  sloop,  351,  758  iv. 
Dudley,   Joseph,    late   Governor,   Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  letter  to,  93  i. 
,  . . . . ,  speaker    rejected     by,     93, 

93  I. 
Sir     Mathew,     Commissioner    of 

Customs,  153,  699  m. 
, , ,  document  signed   by, 

557  n. 


INDEX. 


581 


Duffey,  Edmund,  petition  of,  713   . 

,  William,  687  i. 

,  Willoughby,  petition  of,  713  i. 

Dumaresq,  Phillip,  petition  of,  22  i. 

Dummer,  Jeremy,  Agent  for  Massachusetts 
and  New  Hampshire,  44,  324, 

,  queries  to,  181  i. 

, , ,  replies  to,  259,  259  i. 

,  William,  Lt.  Governor  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  proclamation  by,  50. 

Dunbar,  Charles,  Surveyor  of  Customs, 
Barbados  and  Leeward  Islands, 
letter  from,  557,  557  I,  623  i, 
641  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  letter  to,  557  n,  in. 

,  Capt.  David,  204  xxrv. 

Dundas,  Charles,  petition  of,  687  v. 

Dunks,  John,  527  rn,  xxxrv  (/). 

Dunn,  Robert,  arrest  of,  251,  251  n. 

,  . . . . ,  captured  by  pirates,  251  m. 

,  . . . . ,  deposition  of,  251  rn. 

Duport,  Esther,  case  of,  petition  concern- 
ing, 128,  128  I. 

,  . . . . ,  delay  in,  instructions  con- 
cerning, 133. 

,  Stephen,  complaint  by,  answer  to, 

287. 

,  . . . . ,  case  of,  287. 

,  attorney  of,  128  i. 

,  letter  from,  128,  128  i,  354. 

, ,  letter  to,  128  i. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  concerning  eject- 
ment from  plantation,  128,  128  i. 

,  instruction  upon,  133. 

,  petition  of,  for  payment  for 

services,  128. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended,   133. 

Durand,  John,  French  priest,  570. 

, ,  memorial  of,  570,  571  i. 

,  Justinien,  Pere,  177  i,  180  i,  xin. 

, letter  from,  180  rv. 

, ,  letter  to,  180  m,  ix. 

,  recommendation  of,  719. 

DureU,  Capt.  Thomas,  R.N.,  374. 

Dursley,  H.M.S.,  389  i. 

Dutch.     See  Holland. 

Dutch  West  India  Company,  Directors  of, 
letters  to,  768. 


E. 

Earle,  Col.,  204  xix. 

,  Charles,   hostage   at   Martinique, 

death  of,  28. 
East  Indies.     See  Act  of  Parliament  for 

preventing  trade  etc. 
,  trade,   illegal,   from,    Instruction 

concerning,  744  i. 
Eleis,  Robert,  Councillor,  Nevis,  295  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  deposition  of,  204  xxv. 

,  . . . . ,  resigns,  500, 


Elliott,  James,  490  n. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended   for   Coimcil, 

Barbados,  366  i. 
EUiston,     Richard,     recommended      for 

Council,  Jam.,  459. 
El  Puerto  del  Principe,  case  of,  727. 
,  effects  of,  to  be  restored,  order 

for,  727  I. 
Ekines,  Col.  Thomas,  petition  of,  765. 
Endeavour,  sloop,  501  m. 
England,  — ,  pirate,  ship  taken  by,  416  I. 

,  brutality  of,  416  i. 

Enterprize,  H.M.S.,  507. 

,  prize  of,  95. 

Erie,  General  Thomas,  testimonial  by,  13. 
Escobar,  Francis  Antonio     de,    informa- 
tion by,  47  V. 
Essequibo,  768. 

Estienne,  — ,  half-breed,  241  n. 
Etr^es,  Mardchal  d',  223  i,  n. 
Evans,  Henry,  490. 
,  . . . . ,  recommended   for   Coimcil, 

Barbados,  366  m. 

,  Isaac,  204  xxxiv. 

,  James,  deposition  of,  204  xxxi. 

John,   Capt.,   grant  of,   N.Y.,  1, 

729,  729  I,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  equivalent  proposed, 

43. 
,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  for  settling  Sta. 

Lucia,  87,  721. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  87  I. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  724. 

,  Phihp,  petition  of,  687  v. 

Eveleigh,    Samuel,    Councillor,    Car.    S., 

document  signed  by,  249. 

,  . . . . ,  charge  against,  363  i. 

Eyles,  Joseph,  memorial  of,  421. 


F. 

Fairfax,  William,  Judge  of  Vice-Admir- 
alty, Collector  and  Deputy  Secre- 
tary, Bahamas,  758  i. 

, Lt.  Governor,  302,  390. 

,  document  signed   by,   302, 

327  I,  726. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  against,  758  rv. 

, reply  to,  758  iv. 

Falmouth,  Viscoimt.     See  Boscawen,  H. 

Fane,  Thomas,  Earl  of  Westmorland, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
letter  to,  358,  742. 

Farrill,  Richard,  8,  527  i,  ix. 

, ,  letter  from,  47  rn  (a),  (6). 

Faucett,  John,  deposition  of,  204  xxxiv. 

Felix,  Pere,  180  vin,  xvi. 

Fellowes,  John,  Governor  of  South  Sea 
Co.,  document  signed  by,  350  i. 

Fenner,  Edward,  deposition  of,  167  m,  iv. 


532 


INDEX. 


Fenngass,  John,  report  by,  345. 

Feuqiiieres,  M.  de  Pas,  Governor  of  Mar- 
tinique and  the  French  Leeward 
Islands,  credentials  by,  501  vm. 

, ,  letter  from,  fi  i.,  374,  501, 

501  VT,  vn,  xvn,  xvin,  713,  739. 

, ,  letter  to,  364,  501,  xiv,  xvi. 

,  . . . . ,  proposals  by,  for  co- 
operation with  L.I.  against  pirates, 
501,  501  iff. 

Feversham,  H.M.S.,  621,  713. 

Fisher,  sloop,  501  iv. 

Flamborovgh,  H.M.S.,  47,  47  n,  283,  372, 
390,  448,  484,  573. 

Fleming,  GUbert,  Deputy  Clerk  of  Council, 
Antigua,  document  signed  by, 
500  n,  557  m. 

Florida,  inhabitants  of,  complaint  by, 
against  Carolina  Indians,  order 
upon,  651. 

Flying  Fame,  hostage  for,  case  of,  473, 
473  I. 

Forster,  George,  recommended  for  Coimcil, 
Barbados,  366  I. 

Fort,  Samuel,  document  signed  by,  490  i. 

Fowle  (Fowls),  Henry,  251  i. 

, ,  letter  from,  251  v  (6). 

,  Joseph,  petition  of,  687  I, 

Fowler,  Christopher,  687  v,  713  in. 

Fox,  Anthony,  Coimcillor,  Montserrat, 
death  of,  227. 

,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    204 

VII. 

,  — ,  pirate,  167,  527  xxxrv. 

France  and  the  French ;  and  see  Sta. 
Lucia ;  St.  Christopher ;  Nova 
Scotia ;  Treaty  of  Utrecht ; 
Canada  ;  Mississippi ;  Cape  Breton  ; 
Nevis  ;  Indians,  F.N.;  Montserrat ; 
Martinique  ;    Moville. 

Albamas,  settlement  at,  656. 

colonisation,    encouragement    of, 
656. 

deserters,  return  of,  527  xxxrv. 
,  encroachment  by,  656. 

Fishery,  38  i. 

hostage,  473,  473  i. 
,  indigo,  exports  of,  question  con- 
cerning, 558  ;   and  see  Jamaica. 

man  of  war  taken  by  pirates,  463 
m. 

maps,  692  ;    and  see  Hennepin  ; 
Nova  Scotia. 

. . . . ,  claims  in,   303. 

Mexico,  attack  upon,    47,    47  v, 
309. 

, . . , ,  repulsed,  327  n. 

, . . ,  mines,  304  i. 
,  missionaries,  explorations  of,  656. 
, .  . ,  intrigues  of,  N.E.,  743  ;  and 
see  Indians,  Five  Nations  ;    Nova 
Scotia. 


France — contd. 

,  pirates,  463  m. 

St.  John's  I.,  settlement  of,  241, 

241    xvn,    xvrn ;     and   see   Nova 
Scotia. 

,  St.   Lucia,   claims   to.     See   Sta. 

Lucia. 

,  settlements   on   Mississippi,  etc., 

effect  of,  on  British  Colonies,  203, 
206,    283  I,    304  i,  308-310,  359, 
359  I,  m,  417  I. 
,  settlements,  method  of,  241. 

.  .,  on  great  Lakes,    575  ;  and 
see  Indians,  Five  Nations. 

. .,  progress  of,  178,  241,  656. 
. . ,  measures    to    prevent,  pro- 
posed, 656. 

,  ships,  taken  by  pirates,  401  iv, 
VI,  463  m. 
Spain,  alliance  with,  hinted,  327. 
Tobago,  claimed  by,  6  i. 
trade  with  Barbados,  ships  seized 
for,  621. 

,..,with  Nfd.,  260  i. 
,..,with  L.L,  5.57,  557  i-iv. 
, .  . ,  with    Spanish    settlements 
prevented,  634. 

West  Indies,  Governor  of.     See 
Feuquieres. 

, . . ,  inhabitants  of,  increase  of, 
548. 

...,  trade  with,  211,212. 

, ,  approval  of,  698. 

, ,  with  foreigners,  decree 

forbidding,  183  i,  n. 

, . .,  ... ., referred,  183. 
, . . ,  . .  . . ,  enquiry    concerning, 
184. 

...,  trade  with  N.E.   etc.,   197, 
656. 
war  with,  rumour  of,  in  Carolina, 
156. 
Franklyn,  Francis,  204  xx. 
Freeman,  Arthur.     See  Antigua,   Act  to 
enable. 

,  Dorothy.     See   Antigua,    Act    to 

enable. 

,  Edward,  deposition  of,  621   m. 

,  Thomas,    document    signed    by, 

287  1. 
Frere,  John,  Col.,  President  of  CouncU, 
Barbados,  30,  31,  317,  366  i,  510. 
, . .,  act  concerning,  215,  222. 
. . ,  appointment    of,    managed 
by  Governor  Lowther,  145. 

. . ,  addresses  collected  by,  366 1. 
. . . ,  charges     against,     by    Mr. 
Cox,  366,  366  i. 

. .,  . . . .,  order  upon,  621. 
.  . ,  government     assumed    by, 
366  I. 


INDEX. 


533 


Frere,  John — contd. 

.letter   from,  145,  189,  278, 

278  1. 

, ,  letter  to,  490,  490  n,  517. 

,  . . .  . ,     Lords       Justices'      order 

ignored  by,  366  i. 

,  . . . . ,  recalled,  366  I,  435  i. 

,  named  in  Instructions,  605, 

605  I. 
, suspension  of,  419  i,  421, 

422  I,  423  n,  605. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  order  concerning,  621 , 

630. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  435  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . , referred,  451. 

,  . . . . ,  writs   for    Grand    Sessions 

issued  by,  366  i. 
,  . . . . ,  proceedings  of,  in  Council, 

189. 

, Speech  of,  in  Council,  374. 

,  . . . . ,  nephew  of  Governor  Low- 

ther,  21  i. 
Fry,  Samuel,  document  signed  by,  416  ii. 
Frye,  John,  Councillor,  Antigua,  document 

signed  by,  501  i. 
,  William,    document    signed    by, 

204  vn. 
Fundy,  Bay  of,  241  xvn. 
Furbur,  Jethro,  241  i. 

,  John,  document  signed  by,  241  n. 

Furlong,  Richard,  473  i. 


G. 

GaflErey,  George,  document  signed  by, 
491 1. 

Gale,  Christopher,  Chief  Justice,  Bahamas, 
dismissed,  612. 

Capt.  Wingate,  mutinous  be- 
haviour of,  167,  167  i-ix. 

,  . . . . ,  abetted  by  Councillors,  167. 

, ,  arrested,  167,  167  l-ix. 

Gamble,  John,  Coimcillor,  Antigua,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  501  i. 

Gee,  Joshua,  Agent  for  Pennsylvania,  679. 

, ,  letter  to,  502. 

, ,  memorial  by,  698. 

, mortgage  of,  306. 

,  queries  to,  181  i. 

Geneva  (gin),  275  i. 

George  I,  King  in  Council,  appeals  to, 
114  ;   and  see  Lords  Justices. 

,  . . . . ,  Orders,  Commissions,  in- 
structions, proclamations,  refer- 
ences,   warrants    by,    concerning 

, ,  Antigua,  675,726. 

, , ,  Bahama  L,  568,  569, 

582,  583,  612,  629. 


George  I,  Orders,  &c. — contd. 

, , ,  Barbados,  20  i,  21,  29, 

100,  151,  290,  366  i,  392,  394,  451, 

474,  486,  489,  508-511,  588,  609, 

621,  630,  631,  661,  693  i,  695,  715- 

718,  733  I,  746,  749,  752. 
, ,   Bermuda,    521,    532, 

650,  686,  690,  695. 
, Bishop    of    London's 

powers,  667,  695  i. 
,  . . . . , Carolina,     245,     246, 

289,  299,  300,  695  i,  701,  731. 
, , ,    Jamaica,    288,    334, 

373,  380,  436,  443,  527  xxxv,  592, 

627,  628,  665,  668,  681,  706,  708, 

720,  745. 
, ,  . . . . ,  Leeward  I.,  41,  350, 

649,  675,  700,  726. 

, , ,  Maryland,  77. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . .  . ,  Massachusetts    Bay, 

138,  476. 

, , ,  Montserrat,  41,  700. 

,....,....,  New     England,     138, 

226  I,  425,  425  i,  n,  476. 

,  . . . . ,  Newfoundland,  625. 

,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  New  Hampshire,  138. 

, , New  Jersey,    79,    98, 

99,  104,  695  I,  715,  732. 
,  New  York,  48,  74,  76, 

97,  99,  102,  104,  106,  303  v,  379, 

387,  475,  482,  556,  695  i,  715,  730. 
, , ,  Nova    Scotia,    226    i, 

350,  425,  425  i,  n,  723  i. 
,  . . . . , Pennsylvania,    306, 

316,  759. 
, ,  pirates,    commission 

for  trying,  289. 

, , ,  St.  Christopher,  350. 

, , South  Sea  Company, 

350. 
, Treaty   with    Spain, 

663. 
,....,  ....,Va.,  70,  88,  321,  330, 

368,  589. 
,  . . . . , Addresses,     appeals, 

petitions,  representations  to,  con- 
cerning Antigua,  42,  610. 
,  . .  . . ,  .  . .  . ,  Bahama     I.,     455    i, 

555  I. 
,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,   Barbados,   21   i,   36, 

114,  364,  366,  366  i,  n,  iv,  384, 

423  n,  435  i,  462  i,  550  i,  553  i, 

565,  576  I,  616. 
,....,....,  Bermuda,    519,    526, 

680  I,  n. 

, ,  Carolina  N.,  765. 

, ,Carohna  S.,  194,  619. 

,  . . . . , Jamaica,  414,  472  i, 

607,  634,  634 1,  654,  664 1,  744 1. 
,....,.. .., Leeward  L,  42,  307  i, 

350  I,  610,  659  i. 
,...., ,  Maryland,  56. 


534 


INDEX. 


George  I,  Orders,  &c. — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Massachusetts,   471. 

,  Naval  Stores,  657  I. 

, , New   England,   22   i, 

201  I,  404,  437. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  New  Hampshire,  404, 

437. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  New    Jersey,     90    i, 

346,  646. 

,  New  York,  87,  90  i, 

193,  303  IV,  378,  470,  525  i,  564. 

,  Nova    Scotia,    22    i, 

350  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Pennsylvania,  646. 

,  . . . . ,  pirates,  621  v. 

, St.  Christopher,     307 

I,  350  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Sta.  Lucia,  87. 

, ,  South  Sea  Company, 

350  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  state  and  trade  of  the 

Plantations,  656. 

, , ,  Tobago,  659  I. 

, , ,  Virginia,      91,     312, 

359  I. 

,  . . . . ,  return    to    Great    Britain, 

congratulation  on,  423  n. 
German  Protestant  Refugees   (Palatines), 
in  New  York,  263,  533,  570. 

,  account  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Agents     of.      8ee    Schaff , 

Johann  ;  Weiser,  John. 
,  . . . . ,  Governor  Hvmter's  memor- 
ial on,  282,  305. 

,  . . . . ,  grievances  of,  193. 

,  letter  of  attorney  by  ,193. 

,  . . . . ,  lands  for,  at  Niagara,  pro- 
posed, 303. 

,  . . . . ,  Mohawks     land,    leave    to 

purchase,  692. 

,  . . . . ,  move  to  New  Jersey,  263. 

,  . . . . ,  move  to  Pennsylvania,  263, 

309. 

, mutiny  of,  repressed,  140. 

,  . . . . ,  nimibers  of,  282. 

, road  made  by,  to  Albany, 

282. 

, Schokery,     removal     from, 

692. 

, ,  settlement  of,  recommended 

to  Governor  Burnet,  305,  397-399. 

, settlement  of,  petition  for, 

155  I,  164. 

,  referred,     155,     162  ; 

and  see  Weiser,  John. 

, .reply  to,  163,  164. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  settlement       of,       at 

Schettery  (Schattera),  petition   for 
grant  of,  268. 
, , ,  objection  to,  272. 


German  Protestant  Refugees — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  settlement      of,       at 

Schohary,  263. 
,  . . . . ,  petition  for  confirma- 
tion of,  272,  282. 

, ,    petitions    of,    rejxjrt 

upon,  required,  305. 
Gerrish,  Paul,  57,  118,  118  m,  127  i. 

,  Timothy,  57,  118,  127  i. 

Gibbens,  Aaron,  trial  of,  277  i. 
Gibbes,  — ,     Collector,    Barbados,    sus- 
pended, 687. 
Gibbon,  W.,  document  signed  by,  702. 
Gibbons,  — ,  497. 

Gillman,    Nicholas,    recommended    for 
Council,  N.H.,  404,  412. 

, appointed,  437. 

Gledhill,  S.,  Lt.  Governor  of  Placentia, 
letter  from,  137,  243,  281  i,  325. 

,  . . . . , referred,  281. 

, , ,  letter  to,  279,  442. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  proclamations  delayed 

by,  281  I. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  reprimanded   for  dis- 
obedience   to   Governor    Philipps, 
279. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  share  in  Fishery  for- 
bidden, 442,  442  I. 
Godin,    Stephen,    document    signed    by, 

274. 
Gohier,  James,  Councillor,  Bahamas,  758 
I. 

,  . . . . ,  co-partner,  charges  by,  758 

n-iv. 

, ,  . . . . , ,  reply  to,  758  iv. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  case  of,  758  v. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  726. 

,  . . . . ,   President  of  the   Council, 

758  IV. 
Oood  Fortune,  pirate  ship,  758. 
Gookin,  Charles,  Capt.,  late  Lt. -Governor 
of   Pennsylvania,    testimonial    to, 
13. 

,  . . . . ,  petition    of,  for  islands    in 

Delaware  River,  502. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  recommended,  477. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  representation  on,  646. 

Gordon,  James,  grant  of,  continued,  756. 
,  Rev.  W.,  29,  452  ;    and  see  Bar- 
bados, act  to  deprive  of  benefice  ; 
and   act  for  regulating  power  of 
vestries. 

,  . . . . ,  Acts  affecting,  report  upon, 

request  for,  531. 

,  . . . . ,  character  of,  29. 

,  . . . . ,  charges   against,   29. 

, ,  dismissed,  280,  361  n, 

616. 

, , ,  reply  to,  29. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  by,  upheld,  280. 

,  . .  . . ,  denounced  by  Council  and 

Assembly,  29. 


INDEX. 


535 


Gordon,  Rev.  W. — contd. 

.  flight    of,    from    Barbados, 

29. 

,  . . . . ,  indictment  of,  29. 

, ,  letter  from,   29,    146,    148, 

149,  197,  439,  460,  460  n,  m,  497, 

531. 

letter  to,  196,211. 

, ,  memorial  by,  280,  361  in. 

, ,  .  •  • . ,  reply   to,   452. 

,....,....,  report  upon,  requested, 

439. 
, ,  Miserable  State  of  Barbados, 

by,  29. 
>  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  burnt     by     common 

hangman,  29. 
,  •  •  •  • ,  observation  by,  on  Planta- 
tion trade,  44. 

,  . . . . ,  order  concerning,  280. 

, ,  petition  of,  169,  361  i. 

,  proceedings  against,  169. 

. . . . ,  representation  on  settlement 

of  Sta.  Lucia  and  Tobago,  460  i- 


m. 


. ,  trading    by,    admitted    by. 


452. 
Goulding,  Elisha,  Act  concerning  estate 

of,  616. 
Gouldney,  Henry,  mortgage  of,  306. 
Gourdeaux,  — ,  298  i. 
Graham,  Alexander,  490  n. 
Grame,  George,  recommended  for  Council, 

Barbados,  366  i. 
Grant,  Abel,  document  signed  by,  416  n. 
Granville,    Sir   Bevil,   late   Governor   of 

Barbados,  423  n. 
Grey,  Lord,  6  i. 
Oreyhound,  H.M.S.,  533,  570. 
Groundman,    Martin,     Lt.,     depositions, 

535  v. 
Grove,  Silvanus,  mortgage  of,  306. 
Giymes,  Charles,  petition  of,  396. 

, document  signed    by,   513, 

I,  n. 
Guadeloupe,  development  of,  557. 

,  trade  with  N.E.,  197. 

, ,  Rhode  Island,  197. 

Guildford   (Guilford),   Lord.     See  North, 
Francis. 


H. 

Habilene,  Philisbert  d',  241  m,  rv. 

Haggatt,  Othniel,  Councillor,  Barbados, 
appointed,  364,  366,  366  in. 

Hales,  Robert,  Clerk  of  Privy  Council, 
document  signed  by,  49,  74,  226  i, 
321,  350,  379,  392,  425  n,  436, 
437,  451,  474-^76,  486,  509-511, 
521,  626,  650. 


Hall,  Giles,  petition  of,  180  xvm. 

Joseph,  recommended  for  Council, 

Bahamas,  758  i. 

,  Robert,  472  n-rv,  496  m. 

, ,  deposition  of,  340  m,  527 

XXI. 

, ,  warrant    to,    527,    558    iv, 

xin. 
Halliday  (Holliday),  James,  501  xxiv. 

,  . . . . ,  deposition  of,  501  in. 

Hamerton,  William,  Naval  Officer,  Car. 
S.,  530. 

, ,  letter  from,  329. 

Hamilton,  ship,  taken  by  pirates,  758. 
Hamilton,  Lord  Archibald,  late  Governor, 

Jamaica,  letter  from,  264  m. 
, ,  pajrment     of     money     ad- 
vanced   by,   order  for,    288,    380, 
527  xxxv. 

, ,  recommended  to  Assembly, 

288,  288  I,  n. 

, , refused,  288,  288  in, 

338,   459,   527   m,    xxxvi,    562, 
562  I,  n,  705. 

, ,  •  •  . . ,  address     upon,     634, 

634  I. 

,  . . . . ,  share    in     Bennet    prize, 

application  for,  report  upon,  505. 

,Duke  of,  324. 

,  Greorge,  Earl  of  Orkney,  Governor 

of  Virginia,  12,  679. 

,  . . . .,  instructions  of,  186  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  letter  from,  59. 

, ,  letter  to,  359. 

,  John,  Baron  Belhaven  and  Sten- 

ton.  Governor  of  Barbados,  753, 
754. 

,  . . . . ,  appointed,  456. 

,  . . . . ,  arrival  of,  expected, 

675,  687. 

, , ,  Commission    of,    456, 

458,  474,  478. 

,  death  of,  733. 

, , ,  departure    of,  urged, 

590. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instructions    of,   370, 

433,  456,  458,  605,  605  i,  609,  616, 
630,  635,  644,  654,  680  i, 
715-718,  744  i,  n. 

, , ,  concerning   grants    of 

land  in  Tobago,  689,  693  i. 

, , , ,    presents    from 

Assembly,  563,  605,  605  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  alteration     sug- 
gested, 650  I,  565,  659,  666,  671. 

, , ,  .  . . . ,  referred,    550, 

745. 

,  . . . . , ,  representation     upon, 

553  I. 

,  letter  from,  550  i,  659  i. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  to,  608. 


536 


INDEX. 


Hamilton — contd. 

,      John,      C!oimcillor,      Antigua, 

document  signed  by,  501  i. 
Walter,  Governor  of  the  Leeward 

Islands, 
Act  for  paying  money  due 

for  house  rent,  645,  645  i,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  Acts,  observations    by,    28 

I. 
,  . . . . ,  complaint      against,      128, 

128  I. 

,  . . . . ,  instruction  concerning,  133. 

,  reply  to,  287. 

,  . . . . ,  dispute  with  Capt.  Whitney, 

500,501,  501  Iff.,  691, 
,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    204 

xun-XLV. 
, grants    of    land    by,    com- 
plaints   and    enquiry    concerning, 

307,    307    I ;    and    see    Douglass, 

John. 
,  ... .,  instructions  of,  186  i,  204, 

464,  501,  501  xxin,  xxvi,  584  iv. 
, ,  returns    in    reply    to, 

204  i-xLV. 
, .letter  from,  28,  28  i,   107, 

204,  204  I,  II,  227,  251,  251  i,  287, 

318,  449,  464,  500,  501,  501  xiv, 

XV,  XVI,  XXI,  xxm,  xxvm,  xxix, 

512,  557,  566,  584,  584  i,  597,  633, 

645. 
, letter  to,   5,    133,   204  m, 

227  V,  295  I,  307,  500  n,  501  vi, 

vn-x,   xn,    xrn,   xvni,  xix,  xx, 

xxn,  xxrv,  xxv,  xxvn. 

loyalty  of,  501,  501  i,  a. 

, ,  at  Nevis,  28. 

,  pirates'  effects,  disposal  of, 

dispute  concerning,  28. 

,  . . . . ,  representation  to,  204  xix. 

,  testimonial  to,  287  i. 

,  . . . . ,  transport    by    H.M.    ships, 

question  of,  500,  501. 
,  . . . . ,  Vice- Admiralty,    rights    of, 

dispute  concerning,  28. 
Hampton,  Edward,  Capt.,  498. 
Hansen,  Hendrik,  document   signed    by, 

230. 

.Thomas,  57,  118,  127  i. 

Happy,  H.M.S.,  496  n. 
Harborough,  Earl  of,  letter  from,  444. 
Hare,  — ,  St.  Kitts,  251  i. 
Harenbourgh,  Jean,  241  v.,  298  vi. 
Harley,   R.,   Earl   of  Oxford,   document 

signed  by,  316. 
Harper,  — ,  Barbados,  517. 
Harrison,  Francis,    Surveyor  of  Customs, 

N.Y.,  letter  from,  520  i,  537. 

■. ,  referred,  520. 

,  . . . . ,  Councillor,      New       York, 

appointment  of,  48,  90  I,  n,  104. 


Harrison  — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  Member    of    Bahama    Co.. 

766  I. 

,  Rev.  John,  Chaplain  of  garrison, 

N.S.,  leave  of  absence,  58. 

, ,  Coimcillor,     Nova     Scotia, 

180  VI. 

,  Nathaniel,  Councillor,  Va.,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  63. 

,  Robert,  490  n. 

Hart,  Charles,  Secretary,  Council,  S. 
Carolina,  document  signed  by, 
573,    702. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  408. 

,  Secretary.  Car.  S.,  sus- 
pended, 408. 

,  John,  Governor  of  the  Leeward 

Islands,  appointment  of,  480. 

,  . .  . .,  Commission  of,  480,  485  i, 

486,  489. 

Commission  of  Vice- Admir- 
alty, 654. 

, ,  departure  of,  587,  617. 

, ,  Instructions  of,    480,  600, 

632,  632  I,  644,  667,  680  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred  back,  649. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  representation  ex- 
plaining, 654. 

,  . . . . ,  present  to,  from  Assembly, 

instruction  concerning,  600. 

,  . . . . ,  Lt.  Governor  of  Maryland, 

letter  from,  178,  214,  304,  548,  613. 

, ,  letter  to,  214  I,  613  i, 

684,  685,  756. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  successor  of,  56. 

,  . .  . .,  reply  by,  to  Queries  con- 
cerning Pennsylvania  etc.,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  Agent  for  Maryland,  Queries 

to,  181  I,  214. 

,  . .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  reply  to,  214  i. 

Haselton,  Mary,  case  of,  755. 

Hassan,  Cutts,  petition  of,  355. 

Hatmakers,  petition,  report  upon,  748. 

Havers,  Robert,  document  signed  by,  317. 

Haycock,  Lt.,  R.N.,  arrest  of,  372. 

Hayman,  William,  deposition  of,  527 
xvn. 

Heathcote,  Caleb,  letter  from,  308,  699  v. 

,  . . .  ..death  of,  401,  470,  482. 

Hedges,  Sir  C.,  letter  from,  204  xix. 

Hendrick,  Nicholas,  500  m. 

Hennipin,  Father,  map  of,  656,  692, 

Henshaw,  John,  mission  of,  241,  241  i, 
II,  vm,  IX. 

...  ..petition  of,  180  xvm,  241, 

I.  n. 

.....  son  of,  261. 

Hepworth,  Thomas,  Speaker,  Car.  S., 
document  signed  by.  66. 

Hercules,  ship.  325. 

Heysham,  Robert,  document  signed  by, 
423  I, 


indp:x. 


537 


Heysham — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  petition,  508. 

Hildersley,  Capt.  R.N.,  arrest  of,  484. 

,  attempts        to        restore 

Governor  Johnson,  372,  413,  484, 
484  I. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint     against,      283, 

283  I,  291,  292,  292  m,  293,  372. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  proofs  concerning,  en- 
quiry for,  448,  453,  454,  457. 

,  duel  with  Governor  Rogers, 

372. 

,  . . . . ,  quarrel    with    Col.    Rhett, 

372. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  47  n. 

,  . . . . ,  tyrannical  behaviour  of,  372. 

Hill,  — ,  (Antigua),  28,  464. 

Hiller,  Joseph,  deposition  of,  425  i. 

Hinchbottom,  Capt.,  47  v. 

Hinde,    William,    document   signed    by, 
287  I. 

Hingston,    Capt.,    captured    by    pirates, 
463  m. 

Hinkston  (Henkston),  — ,  St.  Kitts,  251  i 
V.  (6.) 

Hinson,  Benjamin,  Councillor,  Bermuda, 
death  of,  463  i. 

Hiriberry,  M.,  petition  of,  for  compensa- 
tion, 425. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  253. 

,  compensation      for,       pro- 
posed, 253. 

,  . . . . ,  restitution,  conditional,  pro- 
posed, 266. 

,  ships  of,  order  for  disposal 

of,  425,  425  I,  II. 

HiSPANiOLA,  Cape  Rose,  277  n. 

,  pirates,  527  ni,  iv. 

,  trade  with  Bahamas,  351. 

,  trade  with  Jamaica,  340,  340  i- 

m  ;  and  see  Jamaica,  Act  to  pre- 
vent. 

,  trade  with  N.E.,  197. 

,  ....,R.I.,  197. 

Hobson,  Jos.,  document   signed    by,    204 
XIX,  295  I. 

Hodges,    Anthony,    proposed    for    Coun- 
cillor, Montserrat,  204. 

, appointed,  632,  632  i. 

, ,  father  of ,  204. 

Holden,     — ,     appointed     Grovemor     of 
Bahamas,  161. 

Holland  and  the  Dutch,  El  Puerto  del 
Principe,  case  of,  727  i. 

,  . . . . , order  upon,  727. 

,  exports  to,  of  foreign  goods  from 

the  Plantations,  44. 

,  ship  captured  by  pirates,  463  ni, 

500  m. 

,  trade  with  Barbados,  44,  148. 

,  . . . . ,  Leeward  Is.,  44. 

,  ....,N.E.,  44,  197,  656. 


Holland,  trade  with — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  New  Jersey,  520  i. 

, ,  New  York,  44. 

,  . . . . ,  Pennsylvania,  44. 

,  . . . . ,  Plantations,  738  n. 

,  West  Indies,  migration  to,  feared, 

107  ;  and  see  Dutch  W.I.  Co. 
HoUoway,  — ,  Speaker,  Va.,  679. 
Holmes,     Major     Richard,     pirate     ship 

seized  by,  28. 
Honduras,    Bay    of,    British    prisoners, 

exchange  of,  95. 
Hooper,  Daniel,  recommended  for  Council, 

Barbados,  366  i. 
Hope,  — ,  Barbados,  32. 

, ,  flight  of,  29. 

,  John,    Lt.    Governor,    Bermuda, 

appointment  of,  624. 

,  Commission  of,  624,  642  i, 

643,  650. 

,  . . . . ,  ....  as     Captain      of      In- 

dei)endent  Company,  690. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  of,  624,  680  i- 

m,  686,  695. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  concerning  presents 

from  Assembly,  652,  680  i,  686. 
Hosey,  William,  deposition  of,  472  rv. 
Howard,  Major,  527  m. 

,  Robert,  grant   of,   in   St.   Kitts, 

81. 
Howe,  — ,  Paymaster,  255  i. 
Howell,    Lt.    John,   charge   against,   758 
in. 

,  deposition  of,  167  ix. 

Hudson  Bay,  boundaries,  settlement  of. 

Commissaries  for,  656. 
Huggins,  C,  Clerk    of    Exchequer,  Bar- 
bados, leave  of  absence  for,  394. 

,  . . . .,  . .  . .,  patent  of,  151. 

, Naval  Officer,  409. 

Humphreys,    David,    Secretary,    S.P.G., 
letter  from,  529. 

, ,  letter  to,  495,  538. 

Hunking,    Mark,    document    signed    by, 

491  I. 
Hunt,  — ,  St.  Kitts,  251  i. 
Hunter,   Robert,  Brigadier,  Governor  of 
New  York,  and  New  Jersey,  140, 
147,  263,  595,  656,  734. 

,  . . . . ,  commendation  of,  264  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  commissions  to  privateer  by, 

167. 

, ,  letter  from,    80,    163,    164, 

187,  187  I,  n,  415. 

,  . . . .,  letter  to,  48  i,  67,  162,  191. 

, ,  Member   of    Bahama    Co., 

766  I. 

, .memorial  by,  282,  305. 

,  . . . . ,  opposition  to,  239,  303,  595. 

,  . . . . ,  popularity  of,  N.Y.,  303. 

,  . . .  . ,  Agent  for  New  York   and 

New  Jersey,  Queries  to,  181  i. 


538 


INDEX. 


Hunter,  Robert — contd. 

, ,  reply  to,  182. 

Hyde,  Edward,  Earl  of  Clarendon  (Vis- 
count Combury),  funds  misapplied 
by,  303. 


Iberville,  M.  d',  Memorial  of,  reply  to, 

28,  204,  204  xix-xxxvn,  295  i. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  295. 

raid  by.     See  Nevis,  raid. 

Illinois,  R.,  656. 
Indians,  Acansias,  656. 

,  alliances  with,   proposed,   656. 

,  Amniez.     See     Indians,     Five 

Nations,    Mohawks. 

,  Canada,  depredations  by,  656. 

, ,  trade  with  through  Albany, 

prohibition  of,  proposed,  206. 

,  Cannasora,  French  agent,  692, 

,  Carolina,    incursions    by.     See 

Carolina,  S. 
,  Cherokee  (Charaches),  war  with 

Creeks,    125 ;     and    see    Carolina, 

Indians. 
,  Chiefs  to  be  brought  to  England, 

proposal  for,  656. 

,  Christian  missions  to,  656. 

,  Creek,  war  with  Cherokees,  125. 

,  . . . . ,  war   with  Yamassees,  125 ; 

and  see  Carolina,  S. 

,  Dela wares,  656. 

,  Eastern,   French   intrigues   with, 

655,  743. 
,  . . . . ,  influence  of  French  priests 

with,  655,  656,  743. 

,  . . . .,  incursion  into  N.E.,  655. 

, raids  by,  in  Mass.,  319. 

, hostages  taken  for,  319. 

,  Etechimenes,  656. 

,  Far,    Commissioners    for    Indian 

affairs,  Journal  of,  101. 
,  trade  with,  206,  230,  570, 

692. 
, trade    with    Albany,     144, 

144  I. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  French    attempts    to 

stop,  48. 
,  measures  to  promote, 

734. 

,....,  ....,N.Y.,  etc.,  303,  401. 

,  Fellesavoins,  656. 

,  Five    (Six)    Nations    (Mohawks, 

Senecas,       Onondages,       Oneides, 

Cayouges,  Tuscaroras.) 
,  . . . . ,  Act  to  prohibit  trading  with 

French   in    Indian   goods,    (N.Y.), 

effect  of,  303. 


Indians — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  British  settlement  on  Lake 

Ontario,  supported  by,  692. 

,  . .  . . ,  Cayouges,  303. 

, Commissioners    for    Indian 

affairs,  journal  of,  101. 
, ,  Conference  with,   188,  692, 

692  I,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  at    Albany,    recom- 
mended by  CouncU  of  Trade,  147. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  objection  to,   by  Lt. 

Governor  Spotswood,  147. 

, ,  sparsely  attended,  263. 

,  . . . . ,  Covenant  Chain,  renewal  of, 

263. 
,  danger  from,  to  New  York, 

206,  230. 
,  . . . . ,  danger    from,    to    Virginia 

etc.,  206. 
,  Detroit,    French  settlement 

at,  objection  to,  692. 
,  . . . . ,  Fort    Frontenac,  origin  of, 

692. 
,  . .  . . ,  fort,    EngUsh    at    Niagara, 

proposal  to  build,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  at  Onondage,  303. 

,  fort,  French,  near  Niagara, 

demohtion  of,  sought,  303. 
,  . .  . . ,  forts    among,    building    of, 

proposed,  239,  734. 
, ,  forts,  French,  among,  264  i, 

303. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  French   encroachments   on, 

188. 
,  .  . . . ,  . .  . . ,  measures  to  prevent, 

101. 
,  . . .  . ,  . . . . ,  intrigues  with,  48, 147, 

206,  230,  239,  263,  303,  320,  570, 

656,  692. 
,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  measures     to     check, 

48,  239,  264  i,  734. 
, ,  petition     concerning, 

230. 
, ,  invite    to    Canada, 

239. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  . .  . . ,  trade  with,  263. 

,  . . .  . ,  . .  . . ,  trading     house     built 

amongst,  239. 
,  . .  . . ,  gentle  treatment  of,  recom- 
mended,  147. 
, ,  Governor   Burnet's   Speech 

to,  692,  692  I, 

, reply  to,  692  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  visit  to,  proposed,  303. 

, ,  Mohawks,  303. 

,  . .  .  . ,  . . . . ,  land  of,  purchased  by 

Palatines,  692. 
,  . . . . ,  Niagara,    French    fort    at, 

303,  533,  434,  571  i,  596. 

,  . . . . ,  Niagara,  importance  of,  303. 

, ,  title  to,  692. 


INDEX. 


539 


Indians,  Niagara — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  conveyed     to     Great 

Britain,  692. 

,  numbers  of,   187  i,  ii. 

,  . . . . ,  Octjagara,   French   trading 

house  at,  demolition  of,  demanded, 

144,  144  I. 

,  Oneides,  303. 

,  Onjagoro,     French     settle- 
ment at,  206,  230. 
,  . . . . ,  destruction  of,  urged,  206, 

230. 

, Onondages,  303. 

,  ....,....,  Chief  of,  French  Agent, 

692. 

,  . . .  . ,  fort,  plate  for,  263. 

,  . . . . ,  to    overawe    Nova    Scotia 

Indians,  proposal  for,  180  i. 
,  . . . . ,  Peace        with        Virginian 

tributaries  etc.  proposed,  147. 
, ,  presents  for,  48,   188,  263, 

570,  692. 
,  . . . . , Mass.  Bay,  objection 

to,  514  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  ordered,  239. 

, ,  request  for,  239,  303,  320, 

596,  656,  692. 
,  renewal  of  Covenant  Chain 

refused  by  Virginia,  396. 

, ,  Senecas,  144,  144  i,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  forts  proposed  to   be 

built  among,  230. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,     French     fort     built 

amongst,  263,  303. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  demolition  of,  sought, 

303. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  French  intrigues  with, 

144,  144  I,  206,  230,  533,  534,  570, 

596,  692. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  measures  to  pre- 
vent, proposed,  206,  230. 
,  . . . . ,  ....  grant     of     lands     to 

British  Crown,  303. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  migration  to  Canada, 

agreement  for,  230. 

, ,  trade  with,  692,  711. 

,....,... .,  Albany,  144,  144  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  with  Canada,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  Tuscaroras,  peace  with,  pro- 
posed, 147. 
,  . . . . , protected  by  the  Five 

Nations,  147. 
,  . . . .,  French  intrigues  with,  214, 

309,  447  I. 
,  . . . . ,  missionaries  among,  retire- 
ment of,  proposed,  261. 
,  .  . .  . ,  priests,   influence   of,   411  ; 

and    see    Indians,    Five    Nations ; 

Nova  Scotia. 
,  Goyogouen.     See    Indians,    Five 

Nations,  Cayouges. 
,  Illinois,  656. 


Indians — contd. 

,  inter-marriage    with,  encouraged 

by  French,  656. 
,  . . . . ,    encouragement     of,       by 

British,  proposed,  656. 

,  Kennebeck,    656. 

,  lands,  grants  of,  frauds  in,  729  n. 

,  Ma.,  214. 

, good  relations  with,  178. 

,  . . . . ,  number  of,  656. 

,  Mass.,  conciliation   of,  514. 

,  . . . . ,  hostilities  by,  743. 

,  . . . . ,  French  intrigues  with,  743. 

,  . . . . ,  priests  among,  743. 

,  Mexico  etc.,  hostUe  to  Spaniards, 

47,  47  v. 

,  . . . . ,  English  favoured  by,  47. 

,  . . . . ,  oppression  of,  327  n. 

,  . . . . ,  ready     to     rise     against 

Spaniards,  327  u. 

,  . . . . ,  taxes  of,  taken  off,  327  ii. 

,  Miamis,    trade    with,   encourage- 
ment of,  proposed,  656. 

,  Missilimackinack,  656. 

,  Mosquito,  agreement   with,    213, 

213  vm. 

,  . . . . ,  in  Jamaica,  288. 

,  names  given  by,  change  of,  729  n. 

,  Naridgewock,  447  i. 

,  need  of  cultivating  good  relations 

with,  656. 

,N.E.,  93,  622. 

,  . .  . . ,  Christian  in,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Eastern,  incited  by  French 

missionaries,  261. 

outrages  by,  261. 

, French      priests      among, 

intrigues  of,  743. 

,  . . . . ,  hostile  attitude  of,  614,  743. 

,  New  Jersey,  656. 

,  Nokes,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  attack  upon,  263. 

,  . . . . ,  Nova     Scotia.     See     Nova 

Scotia,  Indians. 
Oneit.  See  Indians,  Five  Nations, 

Oneides. 
,  Onontaque.       See  Indians,   Five 

Nations,  Onondages. 

,  Ottawas,   656. 

,  Outarvas,  656. 

,  Ozages,  656. 

,  Pennsylvania,  peace  with,  656. 

,  Penobscot,  447  i,  656. 

,  presents  to,  regular,  proposed,  656. 

,  River,  187  i,  n. 

Six  Nations.     See  Five  Nations. 

,  Sonnontonors.    See  Five  Nations, 

Senecas. 

,  Suriquois,  656. 

,  Susquehanna,   309. 

,  Tirandaquet,  settlement  at,  692. 


540 


INDEX. 


Indians — contd. 

,    trade     with,      monopolies     of, 

objected  to,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  with  New  York,  regulation 

of,  proposed,  206,  230. 

, ,  with,  promotion  of,  urged, 

656. 

, ,  regulation  of,  pro- 
posed, 656. 

traders,  greed  of,  656. 

,  Vocamas,  war  with,  125. 

,  Yamassee.    See  Car.  S.,  Indians. 

Indigo,  6  I,  7  ;  and  see  Jamaica,  Tobago. 

Inns,  — ,  Car  S.,  taken  prisoner  by  Span- 
iards, 283  I,  292,  292  i-ra. 

Ireland  and  the  Irish,  177. 

,in  Maryland,  214, 

,  emigrants  to  Maryland,  656. 

177. 

, to  Massachusetts,  566. 

to  New  Jersey,  656. 

, ,  New  York,  656. 

Pennsylvania,    309. 

,  export  of  tallow  to  L.I.,  seizure 

for,  566. 

,  trade  with  N.H.,  656. 

Iron,  duty  on,  bill  for  removing,  657  I,  n. 

,N.E.,  153. 

,  in  N.H.,  94  ii ;  and  see  Mines. 

Irvine,  Charles,  Rev.,  452. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended    for    Coimcil, 

Barbados,  366  ra. 

Irwin,  (Irvine),  Richard,  Viscount, 
Governor  of  Barbados,  435  i,  490 
n. 

,  . . . . , appointment  of,   367. 

,  . . . . ,  commission   for,   367, 

370,  392. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,      mention       of 

Tobago  in,  370,  377,  381,  381 1,  383. 

,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  instructions  for,  367, 

377,  383,  446. 

,  . . . . ,  death  of,  517. 

,  letter  from,  377. 

, ,  letter  to,  423  i. 

,  . . . . ,  reception  of,  meagre  pro- 
vision for,  490  I,  517. 

Isle  Madame,  241  v. 

Isle  Roy  ale.     See  Cape  Breton. 

Isle  St.  John,  180  xvi. 

Italy,  trade  with  Nfd.,  260  i. 

,  ....,N.H.,  94  II,  656. 

,W.I.,  44. 

Izard,  Richard,  Councillor,  Car.  S., 
document  signed  by,  702. 

....... ,  letter  to,  484  n. 


Jacobites,  758  ii. 

,  in  service  of  Spain,  47  m. 


Jagara.       See    Indians,    Five    Nations, 

Niagara. 
Jamaica,  95. 
Act,    additional    duty,    288,    527 

xxxvi. 

,  . . . . ,  objection  to,  523. 

,  . . . . ,  renewal   of,    recommended, 

705  I. 
,  . . . . ,  concerning  indigo  imported, 

603. 
, to    enable    trustees    to    sell 

estates    of    William    and    Charles 

Bowles  etc.,  634,  634  n. 
,  . . . . ,  to   encourage   white   settlers, 

petition  against,  720  i. 
,  ....  ,for  fitting   out   sloops,   527 

XXXVI. 

,  . . . . , criticism  of,  527  in. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  preamble  of,  527  m, 

XV. 

,  . . . . , referred,  599. 

,  . . . . ,  to  impose  duties  to  defray  the 

extraordinary  charges  of  the  Govern- 
ment, referred,  599. 

,  . . . . ,  to     oblige     the     inhabitants 

to  provide  themselves  with  a  sufficient 
number  of  white  servants,  confirma- 
tion of,  recommended,  459. 

, objection  to,  338. 

,  . .  .  . ,  .  . . . ,  proposed,  288. 

, ,  referred,  593. 

,  . .  . . ,  to    prevent     all    fraudulent 

trade  with  Hispaniola  etc.,  338. 

, ,  repeal    of,    459,    607, 

627. 

,  . . . . ,  to  prevent  enticing  of  slaves, 

confirmation  of,  recommended,  35. 

,  . .  . . ,  for    qualifying    members    of 

Assembly  etc.,  recommended  for 
confirmation,  634. 

,  . . . . ,  for  relief  of  persons  who  have 

suffered   from    piracies    etc.,    con- 
firmation of,  recommended,  459. 

, ,  referred,  593. 

,  revenue,  288,  288  i-m,  608. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  599. 

,...., for   settling   the   N.E.   part, 

objections  to,  634. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  opinion    on,    desired, 

634. 

, ,  . . . . ,  amendment    of,    pro- 
posed by  Governor,  705,  705  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  rejected    by 

Assembly,  705. 

,  . . .  . ,  . .  . . ,  rejjeal    of,    proposed, 

705. 

,  . . . . ,  for    settling    the    Windward 

part,  proposals  for,  562,  562  m. 

,  . . . . ,  for   vesting   lands    in    trust 

for  George  Reid,  634. 

,  . .  . . ,  for  vesting  Pero  Plantation 

etc.  in  the  Crown,  459. 


INDEX. 


541 


Jamaica — contd. 

,  Act  of  Parliament,  proposed  for, 

288,  523,  634. 

,  Acts,    money    bills,    reasons    for 

passing,  35,  35  i. 
,  . . . . ,  private,     instruction     con- 
cerning, 744  I. 

, ,  referred,  336,  338. 

,  report  upon,  459,  704. 

,  .  . . . ,  transmitted,  340. 

,  Acts   of  Trade   and   Navigation, 

seizures      for      breach      of.      See 
Jamaica,  seizures. 

,  Anguilla,  proposal  for  migration 

from,  213,  213  vn. 

,  Assembly,     Act    of    Parliament, 

threat  of,  proposed,  288,  523,  634. 

, Address,  by,    116,    116    n, 

459,  527  XII,  634,  634  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  527  xn. 

, ,  adjourned,  213,  288. 

,  . . . . ,  amendment     of     act      for 

settling  N.E.  part  recommended 
to,  705  I. 

, , ,  rejected  by,  705. 

,••••,  Mr.  Beckford's  influence  in, 

562. 

, ,  charges  against,  by  Captain 

Vernon,  527  m. 

,  . . . . ,  character  of,  523. 

,  . . . . ,  disputes  in,  705,  705  i. 

,  . . . . ,  dissolved,  459. 

,  . . . . ,  elections    of.     See    Act  for 

qualifying  members  etc. 

,  . . . . ,  Governor's  speech  to,   116, 

116  I,  213  I,  m,  V,  288,  288  i,  n, 
459,  527,  527  xxxvi,  562,  562  i, 
634,  634  I,  705  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  address   in    reply    to, 

116  II,  213  n,  IV,  VI,  288  m,  562 
II,  634,  634  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  and  Hispaniola  Act,  459. 

,  Journal   of,   213,   459,   527 

XXXVI,  634. 

, ,  loyalty  of,  634  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  measures  for  defence  recom- 
mended to,  338. 

,  meeting  of,  116,  459,  562. 

,  members      arrested,      562, 

562  n,  634. 

, , ,  ordered  to  withdraw, 

705. 

,  . . . . ,  qualifications  of.     See    Act 

for  qualifying. 
■ ,  payment       of      Lord      A. 

Hamilton,  refused  by,  288,  288  l- 

m,  380,  459,  527  m,  xxxvi,  562, 

562  I,  II. 

,  . . . . ,  address  upon,  634,  634  i. 

, , .Council  of  Trade  upon, 

338. 


Jamaica — contd. 

. . . . ,  presents    to    Governor,    in- 
struction concerning,  744  i,  n. 

, ,  privileges  of,  527  xn. 

, ,  prorogued,  459,  634. 

, ,  resolution  of,  213,  562,    562 

n,  in. 

, ,  revenue,  perpetual,  refusal 

to  fix,  288,  338,  459. 
>  .  • . . ,  . . . . ,  assurances     to,     con- 
cerning, 338. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  deficient,     refusal     to 

make  good,  527  xn,  634. 

, ,  Speaker    of.     See     Kelly, 

Edmund  ;   Modd,  G. 

,  . . . .,  treason,  suggested,  527  m. 

,  Attorney     General.     See     Monk, 

William;  Kelly,  Edmund. 
,  Bennet  sloop,  case  of.     See  Hamil- 
ton, Lord  A. 
,  Campeachy  Bay,  right  to  cut  log- 
wood in,  insistence  on,  284. 

,  coins  and  currency,  paper,  issue 

of,    Instruction    concerning,    339, 
744  I,  n. 

,  condition  of,  representation  upon, 

desired,  634. 

,  Council,  213,459. 

,  .  .  . . ,  Governor's  speech  to,  705  I. 

, ,  Minutes   of,    35,   213,    340, 

459,  634. 

,  . . . . ,  President     of,     instruction 

concerning,  744  i,  n. 
, ,  quorum,  difficulty  in  secur- 
ing, 459. 

,  Councillors,    absentee,   591,    592, 

598,  598  I,  747. 

,  . . .  . ,  . . .  . ,  objection  to,  459. 

, ,  appointed,  436,  443. 

, ,  deceased,  414,  459,  742. 

,  . . . . ,  payment  of  money  advanced 

by,  refused,  459,  634,  634  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  ordered,  380. 

,  . .  . . ,  persons    recommended    for, 

414,  444,  459,  742. 

,  Court  of  Admiralty,  634. 

, ,  Judge  of.     See  Savile. 

,  credit  of,  bad,  523. 

,  Custom  House  Officers,  472  i-iv, 

493,  496  i-m. 

,  . . . . ,  serving  on  juries  or  militia, 

instruction  concerning,  744  i,  n. 

,  defence  of,  measures  for,  337,  338, 

,  escheats  in,  705. 

,  factions  in,  promoted  by  P.  Beck- 
ford,  562. 

,  forts   and  fortifications,  accoimts 

of,  213  IX,  459,  459  i,  705  n. 

,  Port  Royal,   472  l-iv,  496 

i-ni. 


542 


INDEX. 


Jamaica — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Hanover    Line,    guns 

for,    despatch    of,    recommended, 

337,  338. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  request  for,  340, 

459,  523. 
,  Governor  of.     See  Lawes,  Sir  N.  ; 

Portland,  Duke  of. 
,  Governors    of,    letters    from, 

abstracts  of,  344. 

,  guardships,  288. 

,  . .  . . ,  control  of,  by  Grovemor, 

desired,  340. 
,  . . . . ,  sloop  for,  705  i  ;      and    see 

Naval  Squadron. 

,  health  of,  523. 

,  High  Treason,  trials  for,  527  in. 

,  Hispaniola,  trade  with,  340,  340 

i-m ;    and  see  Act  to  prevent. 

,  Independent  Companies  at,  706. 

,  . . . . ,  Navy  manned  from,  35. 

,  . . . . ,  subsistence  of,  provision  for, 

288,  459,  634,  634  i. 
,  . , . . ,  . . . . ,  renewal     of,     recom- 
mended, 705  I. 
,  Indians,     Mosquito,      agreement 

with,  213,  213  vm,  288. 
indigo,    see    Act    to    prevent    all 

fraudulent  trade  to  Hispaniola,  etc. 
,  . . . . ,  imported    from    French 

Plantations,   seizure   of,   340,   340 

i-m,  472  i-v,  496  i-m,  558. 

,  . . . . ,  case  referred,  472,  493, 

,  . . . . ,  law  concerning,  603. 

,  . . . . ,  order  restoring,  628. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  608. 

,  inhabitants,  census  of,  difficulty 

in   procuring,   459. 

, ,  required,  338. 

,  . . . . ,  registers,  not  kept,  459. 

,  . .  . . ,  numbers  of,  459. 

,  . . . . ,  increase   of,  resolution   on, 

213. 

,  Irish  in,  527  m. 

Jews  in,  petition  of,  720  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  . .  . . ,  referred,  730. 

,  tax  on,  288. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  objection  to,  523. 

,  lands  in,  grants  of.     See  Act  for 

settling  N.E.  part  etc. 
,  Lt.  Governor  of.     See  Du  Bour- 

gay. 

,  Lt.  Governors,  list  of,  707. 

,  logwood  cutters  from,  459. 

,  .  . . .,  seized  by  Spaniards  (1714), 

327  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  protest  against,  338. 

,  merchants  trading  to,  petition  of, 

4  I,  472  I,  493,  496  i-m. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  472. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  608. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  order   upon,    608. 


Jamaica — contd. 

,  Militia,  scheme  for,  527  m. 

,  Mines,  patent  for,  562  i. 

,  Naval    Officer.     See    Betts,    T.  ; 

Corbiere,  A. 

,  Naval  Squadron  at,  35. 

,  . . .  . ,  aid   for    Bahamas,    35,   47, 

47  II  V. 
,  . . . . ,  complaint  against,  527  in, 

xn,  XV. 
,  . . . . ,  Commodore    of.     See    Ver- 
non, Capt. 
,  negroes.      See     Act     to     prevent 

enticing  of  slaves. 

, ,  duty  on,  288. 

,  . . . . ,  rebellious.     Mosquito      In- 
dians to  suppress,  213,  213  vni, 

288. 

,  papers,  public,  transmitted,  558. 

,  Papists,  527  m,  720  i. 

,  Pero  Plantation,    act  for  vesting 

in  the  Crown  proposed,  459. 

,  pirates,  capture  of,  288. 

,  . . . . ,  depredations  by,   288,   527 

i-v,  xn-xv,  xxxrv,  xxxv,  758. 

,  . . . . ,  sloops  armed  against,  288. 

, ,  execution  of,  340,  459,  463, 

m. 
,  . .  . . ,  privateersmen      liable      to 

turn,  213. 
,  . .  . . ,  supplied     by    inhabitants, 

527  m. 
, ,  trials  of,  288,  459,  463  m, 

523,  523  I,  634  m. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Commissions  for,  340, 

744  I. 
,  . . . . ,  women,  condemned  and  re- 
prieved, 523  I. 
,  Port  Royal,  Commander  of,  order 

to,  340,  340  I-m  ;  and  see  Forts. 
,  . . . . ,  merchants  etc.,  petition   of, 

496  n. 
,  .  .  . . ,  officer      commanding      at, 

complaint  against,  340,  340  i-in ; 

and  see  Brooke,  Thomas. 

,  poverty  of,  527  xn. 

Prerogative    of    the    Crown,    in- 
fringement of,  607. 
,  prisoners     executed     for     high 

treason,  527  i. 

,  privateers  called  in,  213. 

,  privateersmen,     liable     to     turn 

pirates,  213. 

,  Proclamations,  459. 

,  quit  rents,  459. 

,  Rackham,  John,  pirate,  trial  and 

execution  of,  288,  340,  523,  523  I. 
,  Receiver      General.      See      MiU, 

Richard. 
,  Revenue,    accoimts    of,    213    x, 

459,  459  I,  705  m. 
,  Act,  288  m,  338,  527  ix,  xi. 


INDEX. 


543 


Jamaica,  Revenue — contd. 

, ,  Act,  288  m,  338,  527  ix,  xi. 

, ,  deficiency  of,  288,  459,  527 

XXXVI,  634,  705. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  Assembly     refuse    to 

make  good,  288,  288  i-m. 

,  . . . . ,  increase      of     expenditure, 

complaint  concerning,  634  i  (a). 

,  . . .  . ,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  reply    to,     634, 

634  I  (6). 

,  . . .  . ,  settlement  of,  need  of,   527 

in. 

,  . .  .  . ,  . . . . ,  by  Act  of  Parliament 

proposed,  288,  459,  523,  562,  705. 

,  St.  Thomas  in  the  Vale,  parish, 

634. 

,  sailings,  list  of,  562  i. 

,  seamen,  lack  of,  527  xxx\a. 

,  seizures  in.  Commodore's  inter- 
ference in,  340,  340  i-rn. 

,  . . . . ,  Crown's   share  in,   enquiry 

concerning  disposal  of,  35,  286, 
338,  459. 

,  settlement  of.  See  Act  to  en- 
courage etc. 

,  ships  searched  at,  case  of.     See 

Jam.,  indigo  ;   John  galley. 

,  Spaniards  captured  after  cessa- 
tion of  arms,  restitution  made  to, 
634. 

,  . . . . ,  privateers,  459,  527  m. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  depredations  of,  213, 

284,  288,  340,  634. 

,  . . . . ,  .....  protest    against,    292, 

292  i-m,  527  xu. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instructions  to  plun- 
der, 527  n. 

,  . . . . ,  ships  seized  by,  523,  527  i. 

,  Spanish  ship  taken,  527  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  restored,  527  ix. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  protest    against,    527 

xn. 

,  Spain,  war  with.  Proclamation  of 

cessation  of  arms,  213. 

,  stores  of  war  for,  459. 

,  . . . . ,  difficulty  of  supplying,  338. 

,  . . . . ,  to  be  provided  by  Jamaica, 

338. 

,  trade    with  Cartagena,  634. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Hispaniola.     See    Act 

to  prevent  etc. 

,  . .  . . ,  with  Nova  Scotia,  203. 

, ,  with  Portobello,  634. 

,  . . . . ,  with    Spanish    settlements, 

698. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  prevented,  634. 

,  . .  . . ,  illegal,    from    East    Indies, 

instruction  concerning,  744  i. 

,  Trade  fleet,  Spanish  fleet  to  inter- 
cept, 47  m. 

,  Vane,  pirate,  trial  and  execution 

of,  459. 


Jamaica — con  td. 

,  Virgin    Islands,    inhabitants    of, 

invitation  to  emigrate  to,  288,  459. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  act  to  encourage,  562, 

562  m. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,     objection     to, 

500. 
,  .....  . . . . , report      upon. 

597. 

, , , ,  prohibited,  640. 

,  Warner,  pirate,  trial  of,  463. 

,  Weekly    Jamaica    Courant,    copy 

of,  562  I. 
Jamisson,  David,  Attorney  General,  X.Y.. 

opinion  by,  264  rn. 
Jefferys,  David,  Agent  for  contractor  for 

Naval  Stores,  N.H.,  57,  118,  127. 
Jekj'll,  John,  Collector,  Mass.,  letter  from, 

190,  699  IV. 
Jenings,  Colonel,  Secretary.  Va..  270. 
,  E.,    Councillor,    Va.,    document 

signed  by,  63. 
Jennings,  John,  recommended  for  Council, 

Bermuda,  463  i,  519. 

,  appointed,  521,  532,  739. 

,  .....  Speaker  of   the   Assembly. 

463  I. 
.Richard,        recommended        for 

Coimcil,  Bermuda,  463  i,  519. 

,  . . . .,  appointed,  521,  532,  739. 

Jesuit  priests,  in  N.E.,  743  ;  and  see  Nova 

Scotia ;  France. 
Jews.     See  Jamaica. 
Johannot,  Daniel,  petition  of,  22  i. 
Johyi,  galley,  case  of,  340,  340  i-m,  472 

i-rv",    493,    496    i-m ;     and    see 

Jamaica,  indigo. 
Johnson,  frigate,  327  n. 
Johnson,  Benjamin,  deposition  of,  47  v. 
,  Dr..  Mayor  of  New  York,  replaced. 

48  I. 

, .letter  to.  264  m. 

Robert.    Governor,    S.    Carolina, 

attempt  to  restore,  372,  413,  484, 

4841. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  .....  failure    of.    484. 

484  n. 
. .letter    from,     363     i, 

484  I. 
,  .....  .....    ship     chartered    bv, 

125. 
,  .....  . . . . ,  supported     bv    Capt. 

Hildersley,  413. 

,  William,  deposition  of,  535  v. 

Johnston,    John,    Coimcillor,    N.Y.,    ap- 
pointed, 90  I,  n,  104. 
,  jr..    Councillor,     N.J.,    ap- 
pointed. 90  I,  m,  104. 
Jonathan  and  Sarah,  sloop,  573  n. 
Joncure,  — ,  French  interpreter,  intrigues 

with  Indians,  48, 


544 


INDEX. 


Jones,  Bell,  Secretary  to  Board  of  Ord- 
nance, letter  to,  11,  18. 

,  Griffith,  deposition  of,  535  v. 

,  Jesurum,  act  concerning  estate  of, 

616. 
,  John,  act    concerning  estate  of, 

616. 

John,  Capt.,  372. 

,  Robert,  Capt.,  213  vn. 

,  William,        recommended        for 

Council,  Bahamas,  758  i. 
Jouagate,  Indian,  298  I. 
Joye,  Charles,  Deputy  Governor,  South 

Sea    Company,    document    signed 

by,  350  I. 
Justinien,  Pere,  French  Missionary,  N.S., 

180  XVI,  241  IX. 


K. 

Keen,  WiUiam,  letter  from,  331,  335,  441. 

, ,  letter  to,  335  l-v. 

,  . . . . ,  salmon  fishery  of,  335,  335 

i-vn. 

,  . .  .  . ,  testimonial  to,  331  i. 

Keith,  W.,  Lt.  Governor  of  Pennsylvania, 
report  by,  importance  of,  acknow- 
ledged by  Board  of  Trade,  656. 

Kelly,  Edmond,  Attorney  General, 
Jam.,  527  m. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint  against,  527  m. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  1 16  n. 

,  speech  of,  to  Assembly,  527, 

in. 

,  . .  . . ,  superseded,  681. 

Kennedy,  Thomas,  Capt.,  79,  416  i,  734. 

,  . . . . ,  deposition  of,  430. 

,  mission  to  England,  734. 

King,  — ,  letter  to,  679. 

,  Lord  Chief  Justice,  opinion   by, 

428. 

,  William,  case  of,  490  n. 

King  James,  pirate  ship,  28. 

Knight,  Edward,  deposition  by,  167  vi, 
vn. 

Knott,  Capt.,  captured  by  pirates,  33  i. 

,  . . . . ,  case  of,  79. 


La  Boue,  Renold,  241  n,  298  vi. 
Labrador,  223  i. 
La  Chaise,  Pere,  in  N.E.,  743. 
La  Hontan,  map  of,  692. 
Lake  Erie,  656. 

,  fort  on,  263. 

,  . . . . ,  proposed,  666, 


Lake  Huron,  656. 

Michigan  (Illinois),  656. 

Ontario,  303,  656. 

,  settlement,  British,  on,  692. 

,  de  Puans,  656. 

St.  Clair,  656. 

,  Superior,  656. 

Lakes,  The  Great,  178. 

. . . . ,  . . . . ,  forts  on,  proposed,  656. 

Lamb,  John,  deposition  of,  501  xxv. 

Lambert,  Joseph,  Lt.,  573  (g). 

Landy,  Capt.  Francis,  engagement  with 

Spanish  privateers,  277  n. 
La  SaUe,  Travels  of,  656. 
Lascelles,  C,  memorial  of,  421. 
,  Henry,       Collector,       Barbados, 

charges  against,  687,  713,  754. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  34. 

,  . . . . ,  seizures  by,  34. 

,  . . . . ,  report  by,  432  i. 

La  Sonde  (Lassonde),  241  vn. 

Lavigne,  Nicholas,  document  signed  by, 

180  V. 
Lawes,  James,  recommended  for  Covm- 

cillor,  J.,  444,  459. 
,  Joseph,  Lt.,  R.N.,  deposition  of, 

527  IX,  527  xxm. 
,  SirNicholas,  Governor  of  Jamaica, 

Address  to,  459,  527  xn,  634,  634  I, 
,  . . . . ,  Commission  of,   for  trying 

pirates,  288. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  revoked,  664  n,  665. 

, complaints  against,  499. 

,  dispute  with  Capt.  Vernon, 

340,  340  i-m. 
,....,  document  signed   by,    213 

vn,  vm,  496  m. 
,  . .  . . ,  dormant    warrant  by,  472 

i-rv,  496  m. 
,  . . . .,  instructions  to,  186  i,  339, 

605,  628,  654,  673,  744  i. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  returns    required    by, 

demanded,  338. 
, ,  letter  from,  35,  35  i,  116, 

213,  288,  337,  339,  340,  459,  523, 

527  vm-x,   XIV,   xxxiv   (e),   562, 

597,  634,  705. 

, . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  670. 

...,  letter    to,    338,    380,    527 

v-vn,  XXXV,  640. 

. . . ,  Order  by,  340,  340  i-m. 
, . . ,  Proclamation  by,  459. 
, . . ,  recall  of,  proposed,  4,  4i. 
, . . ,  salary  of,  459. 

, . . , in  arrears,  705. 

. . . ,  instruction  concerning,  380. 
, . . ,  Speech    of,    to    Assembly, 

116,  1161,  213  I,  m,  V,  288,  288  i, 

n,  459,  527  in,  xxxvi,  562,  562  i, 

634,  634  I,  (6),  (c). 
, .reply    to,     116, 

116  n,  213  n,  iv,  vi,  562,  562  n. 


INDEX. 


545 


Lawes,  Sir  Nicholas,  Speech — contd.. 
,....,....,      to       Council       and 

Assembly,  705  i. 
, ,  warrant  by,  472  i,  iv,  496 

m,  558. 
Lee,  Francis,  petition  of,  687  i. 

. .,  George,  petition  of,  355. 

Leeward  Islands,  The  ;  and  see  Antigua; 

Nevis;  Montserrat;  St.  Christopher. 

,  Acts,  28,  28  I. 

,  . . . . ,  general  of,  204  i,  v. 

,  burials  in,  204  xvn. 

,  christenings  in,  204  xvn. 

drought  in,  28  i,  107,  204. 

,  fees  in,  list  of,  204  xv. 

,  . .  . . ,  order  concerning,  204  i. 

,4Jp.c.  duty,  197. 

,  . . . . ,  farming    of,    report    upon, 

52,  53. 
,  Governor  of,  192  ;    and  see  Hart, 

John  ;    Hamilton,  W. 

,  . .  . .,  letter  to,  81. 

,  guardships,  500. 

complaint  concerning,  500, 

501,501  I.//. 
,  co-operation    with    French 

against     pirates,     proposed,     501, 

501  I.  //. 

,  . . . . ,  cruise  of,  28. 

,  . . . . ,  Governor's    authority,    dis- 
pute concerning,  500,  501,  501  iff. 
,  . .  . . ,  manned    by    soldiers,    501, 

501  XXV. 
,  . . . . ,  more   powerful,  request  for, 

repeated,  251. 

,  . . . . ,  pirate  captured  by,  28. 

,  . . . . ,  seamen  pressed  for,  501   ii. 

, ,  refit  at  Boston,  251,  501. 

,  . . . .,  victual  at  Barbados,  501. 

,  imports  and  exports,  return  of, 

difficulty  in  obtaining,  204  i. 
,  inhabitants  of,  census  of,  204  i, 

XVI. 

,  . .  . . ,  decrease  of,  548. 

,  .  . . . ,  emigration     to     Jamaica, 

encouragement  of,  forbidden,  640. 

,  lands  in,  grants  of,  restriction  of 

in     Listructions,     alteration    sug- 
gested, 659  I,  666,  671,  678. 

,  negroes,  acts  concerning,  500  i. 

,  Officers  in,  list  of,  204  xiv. 

, ,  fees  of,  204  i,  204  xv. 

,  . . . . ,  suspension  of,  ordered,  for 

neglect  of  duty,  204. 

,  Patent  Officers  in,  neglect  of  duty 

by,  107,  204,  204  i. 

,  . . . . ,  deputies,  neglect  of  duty  by, 

204  I. 

,  pirates,  500  n,  rn,  501. 

,  attack  by,  251,  251  i  //. 

,  . . . . ,  effects  of,  disposal  of,  dis- 
pute concerning,  28. 

Wt.  7695 


Leeward  Islands,  pirates — contd. 
. . . ,  executed,  28. 
. . . ,  guardships    unfit    to    cope 
with,  251. 

. .  . ,  increase  of,  318,  426. 
. . ,  measures  against,  proposals 
for,  501,  501  iff. 

.., , ,  by  French,  501, 

501  Iff. 
. . . . ,  ship  taken  by,  500. 
pirate  ship  captured  in,  28. 
provisions   for,  request  for  grant 
of,  204. 

H.M.    Regiment    at,    guardships 
manned  by,  501,  501  xxv. 

returns,   difficulty    in   obtaining, 
204. 
. . . . ,  imperfect,  107. 
stores  of  war,  accoimts  of,  204  i. 
. . . . ,  payment  for  expenses  con- 
cerning, petition  for,  128. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended,     133. 

Surveyor  General.     See     Jeatt, 
John, 
trade  with  Holland,  44. 
..,  Italy,  44. 

. . ,  Madeira,  204    i,  x-xni. 
Vice-Admiralty,  rights  of,  dispute 
concerning,  28. 
Legard,  Barnabas,  Clerk  of  the  Crown, 

etc.,  Barbados,  100. 
Lengerken,  Herman  von,  deposition  of, 

621  n. 
Lenoir,  John,  Deputy  Secretary  of  Bar- 
bados, complaint  against,  621,  621 
l-iv,  734. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  419  i. 

,  . . . . ,  Judge    of    the    Admiralty 

Court,  Barbados,  452. 

,  . . . . ,  appointment  of,  34. 

,  . . . . ,  objection  to,  34. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  34. 

,  . . . . ,  sloop  condemned  by,    34. 

Leonard,  Robert,  520  i. 

Les  Bourg,  document  signed  by,  241  xv. 

Leslie,    William,    document    signed    by, 

490  I. 
Leveret,  John,  grant  confirmed  to,  39  m. 

,  Governor,  grant  to,  39  n. 

Lewis,  John,  deposition  of,  527  xvn. 

,  . . . . ,  Comicillor,    Va.,    document 

signed  by,  63. 
Lightfoot,  Richard,  Councillor,  Barbados, 

366  I,  419  I,  490  n. 
Lillington,  A.,  Barbados,  490  n. 
Lincoln,  Earl  of,  255  n. 
LindaU,  Thomas,  Speaker,  Mass.,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  514  i. 
Lisle,  M.  de,  maps  of,  303. 
Livingston,    George,  son  of,  captured    by 
Spaniards,  125. 

C.P.  32— 35 


546 


INDEX. 


Livingston — contd. 

,  Robert,     Secretary     of     Indian 

affairs,  and  Town  Clerk  of  Albany, 

patents  of,  303,  n,  rn. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  206. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  303  i. 

,  . . . . ,  reconamended,  303. 

salary  of,  303  I,  iv,  v. 

,  . . . . ,  services  of,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  Speaker  of  Assembly,  N.Y., 

303. 
, , ,  document  signed   by, 

554, 

, ,  plantation  of,  N.Y.,  263. 

,  .  .  . . ,  Mayor  of  Albany,  48  i. 

,  Philip,  son  of  preceding,  petition 

for  succession  to  his  father's  offices, 

303  I. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  recommended,       303, 

385,  525  I. 

,  . . . . ,  appointed,  556. 

Lloyd,  John,  Agent  for  S.  Carolina,  386, 

683,  702. 

,  appointment  of,  714. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed   by,   363, 

363  I. 

, .letter  from,  372. 

, ,  mission  of,  712,  714. 

,  . . . . ,  postmaster.  Car.  S.  408. 

,  Thomas,  573  n. 

Loan,  Capt.,  captured  by  Spaniards,  10. 
Logwood  cutting  ;     See  Campeachy  Bay. 

,  ships  seized  for  carrying,  513. 

London,  Bishop  of,  powers  of,  relating  to 

ecclesiastical  benefices  and  school- 
masters,    instruction     concerning, 

667,  673,  680  i,  686,  696  i,  715, 

716,   730-732,    735,    735    i,    736, 

736  I,  737,  737  i. 

,  letter  to,  29. 

Londonderry,  Earl  of.     See  Stewart,  R. 

Long,  — ,  193. 

Longueil,  M.  de,  692. 

Longueville,    Peter,    petition    of,    report 

upon,  324. 
Lonsdale,  Viscountess,     act     concerning, 

215,  222. 
Lorance,  Capt.,  473  i. 
Lord  Chamberlain,  the.      See  Newcastle, 

Duke  of. 
Lords  Justices,  The,  in  Coimcil,  order  by, 

concerning  Admiralty  Courts,  136. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  Barbados,     166, 

280,  317,  366,  366  i,  n.  419  i. 
, , ,  Carolina,     185,     228, 

234-236,  245,  248,  255. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  concerning     commis- 
sions for  trying  pirates,  258. 
, , , ,  Maryland,     130, 

132. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  money  bills,  1 86 

I,  233,  464. 


Lords  Justices,  The — contd. 

, , ,  . .  . . ,  New     England, 

4251. 

,....,... .,  New  York,  239. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Nova  Scotia, 

168,  425  I. 
,.... ,-•••,    Virginia,     131, 

142. 
, ,  letter,  petition,  representa- 
tion    to,     concerning     Admiralty 

Courts,  135. 
,  . . . .,  . . . .,  . . . .,  Bahama  L,  161, 

170,  225,  766. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  Barbados,  265. 

,  . . .  . ,  . , . . ,  . .  . . ,  bills    of    credit, 

186. 
,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  Board  of  Trade 

Office,  165. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Carolina,    192, 

217,  237,  276. 
,  . . . . , . . ,  German        Pro- 
testant Refugees,  155  i. 

, ,  . . . . ,  Jamaica,  284. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Massachusetts 

Bay,  174. 

,  .  . , . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  money  bUls,  655. 

, , , New     England, 

253. 
'..,....,... .,  New  York,  134, 

155,  175,  239,  240,  268. 
, ,  . .  . . ,  Nova        Scotia, 

180  I,  231,  253,  266  i. 

Minute  of,  247. 

,  Secretary  of    See  Delafaye,  C. 

Lorey,    Robert,    Depty.     Naval     Officer, 

Nevis,  document  signed    by,    204 

XI. 

Louisiana,  map  of,  692. 

,  French  claims  in,  303. 

Lowe,  Joseph,  petition  of,  83. 

Lowndes,     William,     Secretary     of     the 

Treasury,  letter  from,  639. 

,  . .  . .,  letter  to,  96,  537,  597,  653. 

Lowther,  George,  pirate,  petition  of,  621, 

621  V. 
,  Robert,  Governor  of    Barbados, 

365,  754. 

,  . .  .  . ,  act  concerning,  215,  222. 

,  . . . .,  charges  against,  21  i,  317, 

366,  366  I. 

, , ,  reply  to,  29,  452. 

, , ,  upheld,  280,  419  I. 

,  . . . .,  charges  by,  21  i,  29,  280, 

452. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  reply  to,  29. 

,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  dismissed,     280,     361 

m. 

,  . . . . ,  Commission  of,  189. 

,  . . . . ,  Councillors    suspended    by, 

317,  366  I,  605  ;  and  see  Barbados, 

Councillors  ;  Cox,  S. 
, ,  Declaration  by,  29. 


INDEX. 


547 


Lowther,  Robert — contd. 

.  . .,  answer  to,  29. 
. . . ,  departure  of,  145. 
. . . ,  exactions  of,  374. 
. . . ,  influence  of,  at  Court,  366  i. 
, . . ,  Instructions  to,  25,  36,  105. 
, . . ,  infringement  of,  348,    488. 
. . . ,  leave  of  absence,  20,  20 1,  29. 
,..,  letter  from,   29,   314,  410, 
427,  428,  452. 

. .,  letter  to,  20,  25,  105,  402, 
490. 

, . . ,  nephew  of.  See  Frere,  John. 
, . . ,  officers  displaced  by,  713. 
..,replacedby,  317,  366i. 
. . ,  petition  to,  34. 
. . ,  recalled,  20,  20  i. 
. . . . ,  Secretary  of,  285. 
Viscountess  Lonsdale,  215,  222. 
Ludlow  Castle,  H.M.S.,  35. 
Ludwell,  Philip,  Councillor,  Va.,  dismissal 
of,  proposed,  12. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  63. 

,  . .  . . ,  remonstrance  by,  12. 


M. 
McDowal,  Col.,  St.  Kitts,  251  i. 
McKenzie,  Lt.,  251  i. 
Mackworth,  Sir  Henry,  proposal  by,  for 

paper  currency  secured  on  land- 
tax,  343. 
McMahon,  — ,  490  i,  n. 
Macphedris,  Archibald,  recommended  for 

Coimcillor,  New  Hampshire,  404, 

412. 
Madeira,  trade  with  Car.  S.,  656. 
,  . . . . ,  Leeward     Islands,     204     i, 

x-xni. 

, ,  Maryland,  214,  656. 

, ,  Newfoundland,  260  i. 

,  . . . . ,  Pennsylvania,  309,  656. 

Maine.     See  Massachusetts  Bay. 
Malherbe,  M.  de.,  501,  501  vn,  vni. 

,  letter  from,  501  xin. 

Manesty,     Sprig,    Secretary,    Victualling 

Office,  letter  from,  275  n. 

, ,  letter  to,  275  i. 

Marlborough,    Duke    of.     ^ee    Churchill, 

John. 
Marsh,  John,  letter  from,  601. 

, ,  letter  to,  586. 

Marshall,  Capt.,  125. 

,  John,  document  signed   by,   180 

xvm. 
Marson,  Edward,  deposition  of,  472  iv. 
Martin,  Capt.,  reward  voted  to,  396. 
Martinique,    Governor   of,    hanged    by 

pirates,  463  m. 


Martinique — contd. 

,  Gk)vemor  of,  and  Governor 

General  of  French  Leeward  I.,  letter 
from,  6  I,  374,  501,  713,  739. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  letter   to,    364  ;     and 

see  Feuquieres,  M. 

hostages  at.     See  Nevis,  invasion 

of. 

,  pirates  oflf,  463  m,  739. 

,  co-operation  invited  against, 

501,  501  Iff. 

,  Sta.  Lucia,  6  I,  148. 

,  soil  of,  7. 

,  . . . . ,  trade,  illegal,  at,  463  in. 

,  trade  with  Antigua,  act  to  stop, 

557,  557  i-rv. 

, ,  Barbados,  364,  384. 

,N.E.,  197,656. 

, ,  Rhode  Island,  197. 

, ,  Nova  Scotia,  203. 

Mary,  H.M.S.,  35,  47  iv,  340  n,  523. 

Mary,  sloop,  513. 

Marygalante,  pirates  threaten    to    seize, 

251  m. 
Maryland,  Act  laying  duty  on  tobacco 

exported,  214. 
,  Act  of  Parliament,  against  clan- 
destine    running     of     uncustomed 
goods.  Proclamation  for  observance 
of,  178  I. 
Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  77. 
Agent  of.     See  Hart,  Col. 
Annapolis,  214. 
. .  . . ,  magazine  built  at,  656. 
boundaries  of,  178,  214,  656. 
Charter,  656. 

Coimcil  of.  Minutes  of,  178  i. 
Customs,  Collector  of,  letter  from, 
304  I. 

,  defence,  act  providing  for,  214. 
,  exports  and  imports,  656. 
forts,  214. 

French     settlements,     effect    of, 
214,  304  I. 
government  of,  214. 
Governor  of,  Commission  of,  192, 
192  I. 
. . . .,  provision  for,  214. 
immigrants,  convicts,  656. 

,  Irish,  214,  656. 

. .  . . ,  rebels  prisoners,  656. 
. . . .,  . . . .,  transported,    214. 
Indians,     good    relations    main- 
tained with,  178. 

, . . ,  number  of,  214,  656. 
. .,  peaceable,  unless  provoked, 
214,  656. 
inhabitants,  character  of,  214. 
. . ,  clothing  of,  656. 
. .,  increase  of,  214,  656. 
..,  Irish,  214. 
. . ,  number  of,  214,  656, 


548 


INDEX. 


Maryland — contd. 

,  lands  in,  undeveloped,  described, 

178. 
,  Lt.    Governor   of.      See   Calvert, 

Charles ;  Hart,  John. 
,  Lighthouse  on  Cape  Henry,  con- 
tribution to,  invited  by  Virginia, 

396. 

,  magazine,  built,  214. 

,  Militia,  214. 

,  mines,  181  i,  214,  656. 

,  Naval  Stores,  instructions  for 

making,  proceedings  on,  178  i. 

,  negroes,  clothing  of,  214,  656. 

,  . . . .,  number  of,  214,  656. 

,  neighbours  of,  214. 

,  pirates,    commissions  for  trying, 

proposed,  254. 

,  Potomac,  R.,  178. 

,  Proclamation,  178  i. 

,  produce  of,  214. 

,  prosperity  of,  656. 

,  Queries  concerning,  181  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  replies  to,  214. 

,  revenue  of,  214,  656. 

shipping  of,  214,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  duty  on,  656. 

soil  of,  214,  656. 

,  Sugar  Loaf  Mountain,  178. 

, tobacco,  214. 

, ,  duty  on,  214,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  exports,  656. 

,  trade,   iUegal,   measures   to    pre- 
vent, 214. 

,  trade  with  Lisbon,  214. 

,  Madeira,  214,  656. 

Mascarene  (Mascarenc  etc.),  Paul,  Major, 

description    of    Nova    Scotia    by, 

241  XX. 

,  . . . .,  Councillor,  N.S.,  180  vi. 

,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    241 

xvn,  xvrn. 
Mascarino,  Simon,  527  i. 

,  instructions  of,  527  n. 

Mason,  James,    grant  of,    in  Mass.   and 

N.H.,  negotiations  for  sale  of,  273. 

, ,  . .  . . ,  heirs  to,  273. 

Massachusetts  Bay,  The,  Act,  for  cen- 
sorship of  press,  objection  to,  514  i, 

579. 
Act,  for   emitting   £100,000    bills 

of  credit,  rejected  by  Council,  514  i. 
,  . . . . ,  for  establishing  form  of  writ 

for  calling  a  General  Court,  660  vni. 

,  impost,  93,  103,411. 

, ,  lajdng  duty  on  N.H.  goods 

and  vessels,  333. 
,  . . . . ,  to  prevent  trading  with  Cape 

Breton,     rejected     by     Assembly, 

514  I. 
,  concerning  qualification   of 

Representatives,  criticism  of,  656. 


Massachusetts  Bay,  The,  Act — contd. 
,  for  regulating  culling  of  fish, 

461  I. 

,  . .  .  . ,  . . . . ,  repeal  of,  476. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  petition  for,  461. 

,  . . . .,  .  . . .,  report  upon,  471. 

,  . . . . ,  for  regulating  fees,  83  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  repeal  of,  petition  for, 

83. 
,  Acts,  affecting  British  trade  and 

shipping,  instructions  concerning, 

743  n. 
,  Governor's     signature     to, 

Assembly's  condition,  579. 

,  . . .  . ,  transmitted,  45,  45  i. 

,  Agent  of.     See  Dummer,  J. 

,  Assembly,  411. 

,  . .  . . ,  Act  for  establishing  form  of 

uxrit  for  calling,  660  vin. 
,  Address    by,    to    Governor, 

660  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . , reply  to,  660  n. 

,  . . . . ,  Address     by,     on     paper 

currency,  514  i. 

,  . . . . ,  adjourned,  579. 

,  . . . . ,  adjournment,    right    of, 

claimed  by,  579. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  from   place   to  place, 

dispute  concerning,  655. 
,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  opinion  on,  655,  660 

vn. 

,  on  censorship,  514  i. 

,  . . . . ,  character  of,  579. 

,  . . . . ,  charges       by,       against 

Governor  Shute,  579,  579  i. 

, , ,  reply  to,  579  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  Councillors,    suspended, 

elected  members,  93,  103. 

, ,  dissolved,  93,  93  m. 

,  . . .  . ,  encroachments    on     Prero- 
gative by,  514,  579,  622. 
,  . . .  . ,  executive    powers    claimed 

by,  622. 
,  . . . . ,  Governor's  instructions  ig- 
nored by,  514. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  message  to,  660  vi. 

,  . . .  . ,  Governor's     salary,    514    i, 

656. 

,  . .  . . ,  refusal  to  settle,  579. 

,  . .  . . ,  Governor's   Speech   to,   93, 

93  II,  in,  514,  579  n,  655,  660  m,  v. 
,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  reply  to,  514  i,  655, 

660  IV. 
,  independence     desired     by, 

656. 
,  . .  . . ,  Instructions  commmiicated 

to,  579. 
,  . . .  . ,  .  . . . ,  disregarded    by,    622, 

656. 
,  . . . . ,  Journal    of,    45,    315,    514, 

660,  741. 


INDEX. 


549 


Massachusetts  Bay,  Assembly-   ro?;/f/. 

,  libel    on,    punishment    for, 

desired,  514  i. 

, meeting  of,  93,  143. 

.  members  of,  Act  concerning 

qualifications  for,  criticised,  656. 

, ,  character  of,  514. 

,  memorial  by,  579,  579  i. 

,  Pamphlet  bill,  rejected  by, 

579. 

, ,  party  led  by  Cooke  in,  514. 

.  proceedings  of,  criticised  by 

Council  of  Trade,  622. 

, ,  powers  of,  excessive,  656. 

, ,  Public  Fast,   right   to    ap- 
point, claimed  by,  579. 

> ,  right  to  appoint  Attorney 

General,  dispute  concerning,  655. 

,  . .  . . ,  opinion  on,  655. 

, ,  Riot  bill  rejected  by,  579. 

, ,  Speaker.     See  Clark,  John  ; 

Cooke,    E,  ;    Lindall,  T. 
•  •  .  • ,  Speaker,    Governor's  nega- 
tive voice,  question  of,  93,  93  i, 
II,  IV,  143,  200,  349,  655. 

,  opinion  on,  393. 

, ,  on  trade  with  Cape  Breton, 

514  I. 

, ,  vote  by,  660  vi. 

.Attorney  Genera],  opinion  of,  93. 

» .  right   to   appoint,  disputed 

by  Governor  and  Assembly,  655. 

,  Boston,  95,  103,  153,  177,  180  vi 

200,  200  I,  203,  241,  251,  261,  727  r. 

, ,  fashions  in,  190. 

, ,  Newspapers,  242. 

, ,  shipbuilding  at,  614. 

,  . .  . . , sturgeon,  84. 

,  boundaries,  656. 

,  •  •  •  • ,  enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

, ,  with  Cormectiout,  229. 

» , map  of,  229. 

, ,with   N.H.,   settlement   of, 

by  Council  of  Trade  desired,  333. 

»  •  •  •  • ,  with  Rhode  Island,  dispute 

concerning,  109. 

,  Castle  WiUiam,  200  i. 

»  . . . . ,  stores  at,  account  of,  741  n, 

ni. 

,  censorship  of  press,  objection  to, 

514  I. 

,  Charter  of,  93,  93  iv,  349,  393, 

393  n,  656. 

, ,  appreciation  of,  190. 

, ,  infringements  of,  579. 

,  constitution  of,  656. 

, ,  criticism  of,  656. 

Council,  315,  411,  445. 

, ,  bill  rejected  by,  514  i. 

,  dependent     on     Assembly, 

,  governor  supported  by,  614. 


Massachusetts  Bay,  Coimeil — contd. 

,  grants  by,  39  n,  m. 

.  minutes   of,   45,    315,    514. 

741. 

Council  and  Assembly,  grants  con- 
firmed by,  39  n,  in. 

,  Councillors,  suspended,  93,  103. 

»  Court   of   Admiralty,  decrees  of, 

prohibited,  complaint  concemine 
699  I.  ^ 

Judge  of.    8ee  Menzies, 

James. 

, ,  jurisdiction  of,  51,  64, 

, ,  denied,    153,     153    i, 

699  I,  in. 

, ,  report  upon,  117,  135. 

» , , ,  referred,  136. 

»  •  •  •  • » ,  •  •  .  • ,  requested,  51. 

,  Court  of  Common  Law,  pro- 
hibition of  Admiralty  decrees  by, 
699  I,  m. 

Crown  government,  objection  to, 

333. 

,  Customs,  Collector  of  ;  See  Jekyll, 

John ;    Blechynden,   C. 

,  defence  of,  655. 

,  exports  and  imports,  656. 

,  fees,  act  reducing.    See  Act  for 

regulating  fees. 

,  Fishery,   656  ;    and  see   Act  for 

regulating  culling. 

,  Fishing  vessels,  illegal  trade  by, 

445. 

,  forts,  656. 

, ,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

,  French     settlements,   effect     of, 

enquiry  concerning,  181  l. 

Governor  of.     See  Shute,  S. 

•  •  •  • ,  instructions  of,  disregarded 

by  Assembly,   622,  656;    and  see 
Shute,  Instructions. 

,  . . . . ,  right  to  adjourn  Assembly, 

challenged  by  Assembly,  579,  655. 

,  .  •  .  • ,  opinion  on,  655,  660  vn. 

>  . .  . . ,  right  to  appoint  Attorney 

General,  dispute  concerning,  655. 

> ,  right  to  negative  choice  of 

Speaker  upheld,  349,  411. 

,  . . .  .,  opinion  on,  393,  411. 

,  horses,  exports  of,  656. 

imports,     excess     over    exports, 

effect  of,  655. 
,  coins  and    currency,    paper,    de- 
preciation of,  343,  655. 
. . . .,  . . . .,  measures  to  prevent,  411. 

, , ,  forgeries  of,  259. 

,  issues  of,  656. 

. . . . ,  . . . . , ,  act   for,    rejected    by 

Council,  514  i. 
, , ,  sinking  fund,  343, 656. 


550 


INDEX. 


Massachusetts  Bay — contd. 

,  independence    of,    tendency    to, 

190,  699  m,  iv. 
Indians,  622. 
. .  . . ,  Christian,  in,  656. 
. . . . ,  . . . . ,  numbers  of,  656. 
. . . . ,  Commissioners  sent  to,  655. 
. . . .,  conciliated,  514. 
. . . . ,  Five  Nations,  presents  for, 
objection  to,  514  i. 

. . ,  French  intrigues  with,  743. 
. . ,  hostile    attitude    of,     614, 


743. 


. . . . ,  Kennebec,  656. 

Penobscot,  656. 

. . . .,  numbers  of,  required,  181 1. 

. . . . ,  quiet,  93. 

. . . .,  raids  by,  319,  655. 

....,  hostages  taken  for,  319. 

. .  . .,  treatment  of,  411. 

. . . . ,  treaty  broken  by,  655. 

. . . . ,  war  with,  656. 

inhabitants,  census  of,  required, 
181  I. 

,  clothing  of,  699  m,  iv. 

. . . . ,  increase  of,  656. 

. . . . ,  numbers  of,  656. 

Irish  immigrants,  190,  656. 

. .  . . ,  linen  and  woollen  manufac- 
ture by,  699  in,  iv. 

iron  works,  656. 

labour,  high  wages  of,  656. 

lands  in,  grants  of,  confirmed,  39, 
n,  rn  ;  and  see  Mass.,  Maine. 

Lt.  Governor  of.  See  Dummer, 
William. 

Lighthouse  accoimt,  656. 

linen  manufactures,  656,  699  m, 

IV. 

lumber,  export  of,  656. 
Maine,  261. 

. . . . ,  Crown  rights,  118. 
. . . . ,  lands  between  Nova  Scotia 
and,  grants  of,  22  i,  158. 

. . , ,  petition  for,  22  i,  49, 

761,  762. 

. . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  22. 
. . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  324. 
, . . ,  woods  in.  Crown  right  to, 
denied,  93,  579. 

, . . ,  . . .  . ,   waste   of,   proclama- 
tion prohibiting,  352  i. 
manufactures  in,  656. 
. . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181 1. 
. . . . ,  woollen   and  linen,  699  rn, 

IV. 

, ,  report  upon,  190,  200. 

Mason's  grant,  sale  of,  negotia- 
tions for,  273. 
Militia,  numbers  of,  656. 
. . . .,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 
mines,  181  i,  656. 


Massachusetts  Bay — contd. 

,  Naval  stores,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  encouragement  of,  proposed, 

656. 

,  merchants  trading  to,  petition  of, 

461. 

,  report  upon,  471. 

,     News    from    Robinson    C'ruso's 

Island,  514  i. 

,  Newspapers,  261. 

,  Nova  Scotia  and,  656. 

,  "  An  order  of  our  Sovereign  Lord 

the  People,"  proclamation  concern- 
ing, 50. 

,  Pamphlet  bill,  579. 

,  Patent  Offices,  return  of,  re- 
quired, 181  I. 

,  pirates,  242. 

,  . .  . . ,  effects    of,  seizure  of,  727  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  order  upon,  728. 

,  Prerogative  of  the  Crown,  en- 
croachments on,  50,  514,  579,  656. 

,  prices,  low,  effect  of,  655. 

,  printing,  censorship  of,  instruc- 
tions for,  disregarded,  655. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  objections   to,   514   i, 

579. 

,  . .  . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  411. 

,  .  .  . . ,  libels  on  government  un- 
checked, 655. 

,   prisoners  in   Canada,   order  for 

restoring,  411. 

,  . . . . ,  Governor's  refusal  to  restore, 

protest  against,  174. 

,  Proclamations,  50,  352  i. 

,  produce  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

,    Public    Fast,    right  to  appoint, 

claimed  by  Assembly,  579. 

,  Queries  concerning,  181  i. 

,  reply  to,  259,  259  i. 

,  revenue,  656. 

, ,  accoimts  of,  319  i,  741  i. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  I. 

,  Riot  bill,  579. 

,  rum,  imports  of,  656. 

,  Secretary  of.  See  Willard,  Josiah. 

,  sheep  raised  in,  153,  699  in. 

,  shipbuilding,  656. 

,  ship  captured  by  Spaniards,  513. 

shipping,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  clearances  from,  656. 

,  Stores  of  war,  account  of,  200  i, 

741  n.  m. 

,  sugar,   molasses,  etc.  imports   of, 

656. 

,  trade,  fur,  656. 

,  trade,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 

181  I. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . .  . ,  seizure  for,  prohibited, 

699  I,  in ;  and  see  Court  of 
Admiralty. 


INDEX. 


551 


Massachusetts  Bay,  trade — conkl. 

,  .  . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

,   trade  with  Cape  Breton,  445. 

,  . . . . ,  act  to  prohibit,  rejected  by 

Assembly,  445,  514  1. 

,  . . . . ,  measures  to  prevent,  pro- 
posed, 445. 

, ,  Dutch,  656. 

,  . . .  . ,  French  West  Indies,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Martinique,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  New  Hampshire,  duties  on, 

333. 

, Nova  Scotia,  177. 

, ,  Portugal,  656. 

, ,  Spain,  656. 

. ,  Surinam,  656. 

,  . .  .  . ,  West  Indies,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  woollen,  699  ni,  iv. 

,  Treasurer.     See  Allen,  J. 

Whale  oil,  656. 

,  winter,  severity  of,  94. 

,  Woods,      Controller,      Governor 

proposed  as,  201,  201  i. 

,  . . . . ,  preservation  of,  instructions 

for,  579. 

, ,  waste  of,  333,  491. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  Proclamation   pro- 
hibiting, 319,  352  I. 

, ,  Act  of  Parliament  pro- 
posed, 319. 

,  wool,  imported  from  one  Planta- 
tion to  another,  seizure  for,  153, 
153  I. 

,  wool    and    linen     manufactures, 

656,  699  m,  iv. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  measures  to  prevent, 

656. 

York,  261. 

Massey,  John,  pirate,  petition  of,  621, 
621  V. 

Massy,  Capt.,  241  m-v,  298  vi. 

Mathew,  Wm.,  Lt.  General  of  the  Leeward 
Islands,  501  xxi,  xxv,  633. 

, ,  letter  from,  204  m,  251  i. 

, ,  letter  to,  251  i,  v,  287,  501. 

Matthews,  Scare,  petition  of,  355. 

Maxwell,  Thomas,  Councillor,  Barbados, 
31. 

,  document  signed  by,  709. 

, suspended,  364,  366,  366  in, 

490  n. 

, .petition  of,  421,  422  i. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  435  i. 

,  . . . . , ,  referred,  451. 

,  . . . . ,  restored,  509. 

May,  River.     See  Carolina  S.,  AJtamaha. 

Maycock,  Thomas,  Councillor,  Barbados, 
490  n. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint      against,      687, 

687  V. 

, ,  document  signed  by,  709. 

, ,  suspended,  364,  366,  366  m. 


Maycock,  Thomas — contd. 

, ,  petition  of,  421,  422  i. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  435  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  451. 

, ,  restored,  509. 

Mein,  Richard,  deposition  of,  452. 
Melton,    Thomas,    document   signed    by, 

416  11. 
Menzies,  James,  Judge  of  Admiralty,  N.E., 

letter  from,  153  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  memorial  by,  153  i,  699  i. 

,  .  . . . ,  prohibition     against,     153, 

153  I. 

,  . . .  . ,  report  upon,  117. 

Meriwether,  — ,  Treasurer,  Nevis,  death 

of,  204  I. 
Messurer,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  47v. 
Metanies,  The,  47  m. 
Mexico,   French   attack   upon,   repulsed, 

327  n. 
Mexico,    French    and    Spaniards   in,    47, 

47  V,  304  I,  309. 

,  Indians,  join  with  French,  327  ii. 

,  . . . . ,  oppressed    by    Spaniards, 

327  n. 
,  . .  . . ,  ready  to  join  English,  327 

n. 

,  . . . . ,  taxes  on,  relief  from,  327  n. 

,  Inquisition,  The,  327  n. 

,  mines,  304  i,  309. 

,  Dr.  Sinclair's  adventures  in,  327, 

327  I,  n. 

Viceroy,  327  n. 

, ,  letter  to,  327  n. 

Mexico,  City  of,  47  v,  327  n. 

Miamis,  R.,  656. 

Middleton,  Arthur,  document  signed  by, 

702. 

,  letter  from,  714. 

Mill,  Richard,  Receiver  Gteneral,  Jamaica, 

472  n,  572  ix,  xi,  705. 
,  . .  .  . ,  . . .  . ,  document  signed   by, 

213  IX,  X,  459,  459  i,  705  n,  m. 

,  warrant  of,  472  in  (6),  527  xxxvi. 

Miller,  — ,  pirate,  527  m,  iv. 

,  John,  260  I. 

,  P.,  document  signed  by,  472  i. 

Milliken,  James,  251  i. 

,  deposition  of,  204  xxrv. 

,  grant  of,  continued,  756. 

Mills,  Henry,  Barbados,  49(3  n. 

,  Nehemiah,  petition  of,  473  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  referred,   473. 

,  Richard.     See  Mill,  R. 

Mines,  Jamaica,  patent  for,  562  i. 

,  Mass,  656. 

,coal(N.Y.),  656. 

,  ....,N.S.,  241  XX. 

,  copper,  N.J.,  520  i,  656. 

,  ....,(N.Y.),  656. 

N.S.,  241  XX. 


552 


INDEX. 


Mines — contd. 

iron,  (Ma.),  656. 

,  ....,N.H.,  447  I,  656. 

,  ....,N.J.,  656. 

,  ....,N.Y.,  656. 

, Pa.,  309,  656. 

, in  the  Plantations,  698. 

silver,  Mexico,  304  i,  309. 

, N.H.,  656. 

,  ....,V.I.,  500. 

Missillimackinack,  Strait,  656. 

Mississippi,  R. 

,  communication  with  Canada,  dis- 
covery of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  description  of,  656. 

,  French  fort;s  along,  656. 

,  French  grants  of,  656. 

,  French   settlements   on,  progress 

of,  178,  656  ;   and  see  France. 

Modd,  George,  Speaker,  Jamaica,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  634  i. 

Molesworth,  John,  a  Lord  Commissioner 
of  Trade  and  Plantations,  123. 

Molineaux,  John,  Speaker,  Montserrat, 
document  signed  by,  204  vn. 

Monk,  William,  Attorney  Gteneral, 
Jamaica,  patent  of,  681. 

Montgomerie,  Col.  John,  Governor  of 
New  York,  petition  of,  for  settle- 
ment of  salary,  N.Y.,  564. 

MoNTSERKAT,  and  see  Leeward  Islands. 

,  Act,  detaining  slaves,  etc.,  28  i. 

,  . . . . ,  enquiry    concerning,    reply 

to,  204. 

,  . . . . ,  for    exempting    Members  of 

Council  and  Assembly  from  arrest, 
etc.,  28  I. 

,  . . . . ,  granting  excise  duties  to  Lt. 

Governor,  objection  to,  633. 

,  . . . . ,  raising  poll-tax,  633. 

,  . . . . ,  for    reducing    interest  from 

10  to  6  p.c,  28  I. 

,  Acts,  collection  of,  204  i,  iv. 

,  delay  in  transmitting,  633. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  567. 

,  Agent  for,  138. 

,  Assembly,    members    of,    act    to 

protect,  28  i. 

. . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  embarrassments  of,  28  i. 

Assembly,       Speaker      of.      See 

Molineaux,  John. 

,  burials  in,  204  xvn. 

,  christenings  in,  204  xvn. 

,  coins  and  currency,  lack  of,   633. 

,  Councillors,  204. 

,  . . . . ,  proposed,  204. 

,  Act  to  protect,  28  i. 

, ,  appointed,  632,  632  i. 

,  death  of,  633. 

,  . . . . ,  embarrassments  of,  28  i. 

,  . . . . ,  persons    recommended    for, 

227. 


Montserrat  — contd. 

,  forts,  account  of,  204  i. 

,  inhabitants,  census  of,  204  xvi. 

,  . .  . . ,  migration  of,  684. 

,  Lt.   Governor  of.     See  Tolmash, 

T. 

,  map,  surveyor  needed  for,   204  i. 

,  Naval  Officer.     See  Webb,  N. 

,  negroes,  numbers  of,  204  xvi. 

,  Piers,  petition  of,  545. 

,  produce  of,  204  xlh. 

,  raid  on,  501. 

,  . . . . ,  reparation  for,  to  be  pressed, 

684. 

,  revenue,  accounts  of,  204  i,  vn. 

,  taxes  paid  in  produce,  633. 

,  trade  with  Madeira,  204  xm. 

,  Treasurer,  accounts  of,  204 1,  vn  ; 

and  see  Cochrane,  John. 
Moody,  John,  Col.,  lands  of,  at  Placentia, 

required  for  fort,  11,  17,  18,  23. 

,  . .  . . ,  opinion  on,  14,  14  i. 

Moore,   Augustus,   document  signed    by, 

539  n  (6). 
,  James,   elected    Governor    of    S. 

Carohna,  194,  195,  372,  408. 

,  . . . . ,  act  for  support  of,  195. 

,  attempt  to  displace,  failure   of, 

484,  484  I,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  charges    against,   reply    to, 

363,  363  I. 
, ,  letter  from,  292,  413,  484, 

484  I,  714. 

, ,  letters  to,  484  i. 

,  representation  to,  66. 

,  . . . . ,  brother        of        preceding, 

captured  by  Spaniards,  125. 
,  John,  Coiuicillor,  Jamaica,  leave 

of  absence,  459. 
, , ,  letter    to,    591,    611, 

747. 
,  Samuel,     Councillor,     Jamaica, 

absentee,  459. 

, , ,  letter  to,  747. 

,  Thomas,  Clerk  of  Assembly,  Car., 

66. 
Morris,  Lewis,  Chief  Justice,  N.  J.,  opinion 

by,  264  n. 
,  . . . . ,  recommended  for  Surveyor 

of  Customs,  N.Y.,  401. 
,  ... .,  jr.,    Comicillor    N.Y.,    ap- 
pointed, 475,  482,  492. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended  for,  470. 

,  Thomas,     Councillor,     Antigua, 

document  signed  by,  501  i. 
,  Vallentine,    Coimcillor,    Antigua, 

leave  of  absence,  204,  204  xltv. 
Mortensen,  Christian,  deposition  of,  500 

m. 
Morton,  Jos.,   Landgrave  and  Councillor, 

Car.  S.,  death  of,  683. 
, document  signed  by,  249. 


INDEX. 


553 


Mosquito,  Indians,  agreement  with,  for 
suppressing  negroes  in  Jamaica, 
213,  213  vin. 

, ,  King  of,  document  signed 

by,  213,  213  vin. 

Moville,'327. 

,  French  at,  656. 

Mullins,  Richard,  petition  of,  355. 


N. 
Nanfan,  John,  fonnerly  Lt.  Governor  of 

New  York,  692. 
Napping,  — ,  shot  by  Spaniards,  47  in 

(«),  (b). 
Narragansett,  county,   claimed   by  Con- 
necticut and  Rhode  Island,  229. 
Nassau,  ship,  260  i. 

Naval  Stores,  (iron,  tar,  timber,  pitch, 
hemp,  masts,  turpentine,  copper, 
etc.),  in  the  Plantations,  350  i, 
352  u,  413  n,  447  i,  656  ;  and  see 
under  separate  Colonies. 

,  encouragement  of,  proposals  for, 

656,  698,  699  iv. 

, ,  obstructed  in  N.E.,  153. 

,  . . . . ,  objections  to,  answered,  698. 

, representation  on,  620,  656, 

657  I. 

, ,bill  for,  657  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  dropped,  657  i. 

,  . . . . ,  success  of,  656. 

,  hemp,     encouragement    of,    pro- 
posals for,  698. 
,  .  ■  . . ,  premium  on,  bill  for    con- 
tinuing, 657  I,  II. 

,  . .  . . ,  seed  for,  proposed,  698. 

,  iron,  bounty  on,  698. 

, ,  duty  on,  bill  for  removing, 

657  I.  n. 

,  Russia  and  Sweden,  698. 

Navy,  H.M.  ;  and  see  Jamaica,  Naval 
Squadron ;  Naval  Stores ;  New- 
foundland Fishery  Convoy ;  Smart, 
Capt. 

,  Commissioners    of,    contract    of. 

See  Taylor. 

,  convoys,  374. 

,  guardships    in    the    Plantations, 

33  I,  237,  .527  i.  //. 

,  . .  . . ,  Bahamas,  47,  47  i-iv. 

, Barbados,  374,  713. 

, ,  Car.  S.,  232  xn,  484,  484  i, 

II ;   and  see  Hildersley,  Capt. 

,  . . . . ,  control    of,    by    Governors 

desired,  340. 

,  . . . .,  L.I.,  complaint  concerning, 

500,501  iff. 

, , ,  obliged     to     refit     at 

Boston,  251. 


Navy,  guardships — contd. 

,  ....,N.E.,  241. 

,  .  . . . ,  N.Y.,  533. 

, ,  Nova  Scotia,  158,  269,  322. 

, ,  request  for,  241,  241  xx. 

,  H.M.  Ships.    See  Adventure,  Durs- 

ley.  Enterprise,  Feversham,  Flam- 
borough,  Greyhound,  Happy,  Ludlow 
Castle,  Mary,  Phoenix,  Hose,  Rye,  St. 
Albans,  Seaford,  Seahorse,  Shark, 
Shoreham,  Squirrel,  Winchester. 
Nedham,    William,     recommended      for 

Council,  459. 
Negroes,  Antigua,  610. 

,  Bermuda,  463,  463  n. 

(Car.  N.),  656. 

,  (Car.  S.),  274,  413,  656. 

, ,  captured  by  Indians,  125. 

,  . . . . ,  increase  of,  125. 

, ,  rising    of,    prevented,    125, 

656. 

,  Jamaica,  288. 

,  . .  . . ,  Act         concerning.      See 

Jamaica,  Act  to  prevent  enticing  etc. 

, ,  duty  on,  288. 

,  .  .  . . ,  rebellious.  Mosquito  Indians 

to  suppress,  agreement  with,  213, 
213  vm. 

,  .  .  . . ,  Leeward  I.,  500  i. 

,  . . . . ,  .  . .  . ,  numbers  of,  204  xvi. 

,  Martinique,  463  rn. 

,  Maryland,  214,  656. 

,  Nevis,  204  xx,  xxn,  xxiv,  xxxi. 

New  Hampshire,  94  n,  447  l. 

,  Pennsylvania,  309. 

,  Virgin  Islands,   numbers  of,   204 

XVI. 

Nevis,  287  ;   and  see  Leeward  Islands. 

,  Act  establishing  IVIilitia,  512. 

,  •  •  • . ,  amended  by  Governor,  512. 

,  Acts,  collection  of,  204  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  referred,  587. 

, ,  transmitted,  500. 

,  .  . . . ,  delay  in,  reasons  for,  500. 

,  aid  sent  to  St.  Kitts,  204  xix. 

,  . . . . ,  to  Guadeloupe,  204  xix. 

,  Assembly,  estimates  by,  204  i. 

,  . . . . ,  Speaker.     See  Symonds,  J. 

,  Burials  in,  204  xvn. 

,  Charlestown,  204  xx,  295  i. 

,  christenings  in,  204  xvn. 

,  Council  and  Assembly  of,  Address 

of,  295  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  referred,  295. 

, ,  Committee  of,  28. 

,  representation  of,  204,  204 

XIX. 

,  Councillors,  204. 

, ,  proposed,  204. 

,  . . . . ,  appointed,  500. 

, ,  death  of,  500. 


554 


INDEX. 


Nevis,  Councillors — contd. 

, persons  proposed  for,  613, 

613  I,  n. 

,  .  . . . ,  resignation  of,  500. 

,  Dodan,  the,  204  xx,  xxrv,  xxvi, 

XXXIV. 

,  drought,  damage  by,  204. 

expedition  from,  204,  204  xix. 

,  forts,    accoimt    of,    difficulty    in 

obtaining,  204  i. 

Governor  at,  28. 

,  hurricanes,  damage  by,  204. 

,  inhabitants,  census  of,  204  xvi. 

,  Iberville,    M.    d',    Memorial    of, 

reply  to,  28,  204,  204  xix,  295  i. 
,  invasion  of,  by  French,  capitula- 
tion, articles  of,  204  xxxvn. 
,  . . . . ,  contravened,      204       xix- 

xxxvn,  295  i. 
,  . . . . ,  Capt.     Dunbar's      proviso, 

204  XXIV. 
,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  damage   inflicted    by, 

204,  204  XIX.  //. 

, ,  description  of,  204  xx  ff. 

,  . . . . ,  effect    of,    on    inhabitants, 

28. 
,  . . . . ,    hostages     at     Martinique, 

death  of  last  remaining,  28. 

,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  escape  of,  204  xix. 

,  . . , . ,  . . . . ,  ill  treatment   of,   204 

XIX,   XXXV. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  remittances    for,    204 

vm,  IX,    xix-xxi,    xxm,    xxxv, 

XXXVI. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  accounts  of,  28. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  memorial     by     M.  d' 

Iberville,  reply  to,  28,  204,  204  xix, 
295  I. 

,  map,  surveyor  needed  for,  204  i. 

,  Militia.     See  Act  establishing. 

,  negroes,  numbers  of,  204  xvr. 

Patent  Officers,  204  i. 

pirates,  251  i. 

,  . . . . ,  condemned  at,  251  i,  v. 

,  . . . . ,  executed  at,  28. 

produce  of,  204  XLi. 

,  Naval  Officer.     See  Lorey,  R. 

,  negroes,  204  xx,  xxn,  xxiv,  xxxi. 

,  records  destroyed,  204  xx,  xxiv. 

,  revenue,  accounts  of,  204  vm,  ix. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  confusion  of,  204  i. 

,  St.  Christopher,  aid  rendered  to, 

295  I. 

,  Secretary  of,  allowance  for  collect- 
ing acts  refused,  204  i. 

,  trade  with  Madeira,  accoimts  of, 

204  I,  XI. 

,  Treasurer,  accounts  of,  confiision 

of,  28,  204  I. 

Newcastle,  Duke  of.     See  Pelham,  Holies. 


New  England,  203,  204 ;  and  see  Mass. 
Bay  ;    New  Hampshire. 

Act     laying     duty     on     British 

shipping,  698. 

,  Acts  of  Trade  and   Navigation, 

infringements  of,  699  i-v. 

,  Admiralty    perquisites   in,    order 

concerning,  662,  662  i. 

,  emigration  to  New  Jersey,  656. 

, ,  New  York,  656. 

,  extent  and  inquisition,  541  ;  and 

see  Blundell,  B. 

,  French    missionaries,    retirement 

of,  proposed,  261. 

,  guardship,  needed  at  Canso,  241. 

,  independence,  movement  for,  pro- 
phesied, 153. 

,  Indians,      incited      by      French 

missionaries,  26. 

,  . . . . ,  outrages  by,  261. 

,iron,  153. 

,  manufactures  in,  153. 

,  Naval  stores,  export  of  timber  to 

Spain,  prevention  of,  411. 

,  Pemaquid,  263. 

,  prisoners    detained    in    Canada, 

complaint  concerning,  267  n. 

,  . . . . ,  order  for  release,  267,  267  I. 

rum,  exports  of,  to  Nfd.,  260 1. 

,  salt-making  at  Tortuga,  374. 

,  shipping,  competition    of,    698. 

,  sloop,     plundered     by    Indians, 

Nova  Scotia,  241,  241  xm-xv. 

,  Tarpaulin  Cove,  727  i. 

,  trade  with  Cape  Breton,  241  vn. 

,  ....    measures  to  prevent,  pro- 
posed, 445. 

,  . . . . ,  Carolina  N.,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Cayeime,  197. 

,  . . . . ,  French    and   Dutch    settle- 
ments, enquiry  concerning,  196. 

, , ,  reply  to,  197. 

,  . . . . ,  Guadeloupe,  197. 

,  .  . . . ,  Hispaniola,  197. 

,  ....,HoUand,  44. 

,  Martinique,  197. 

, ,  NcM-foundland,  38  i,  260  l. 

, ,  Nova  Scotia,  203. 

,  . .  . . ,  Pennsylvania,  309. 

, ,  Portugal,  177. 

,  Spain,  411. 

,  . . . . ,  Surinam,  197. 

,  ....,W.I.,  177. 

,  wages  in,  high,  698. 

,  woods,  seizures  of,  669. 

,  . . . . ,  waste  of,  39,  669. 

,  . . . . ,  measure  to  prevent,  411. 

, ,  heads  of  bill  for  preserving, 

39,  39  I. 

New  England  Coffee  House,  11. 

Newfoundland,    Act    to    encourage    the 
trade  to,  3,  28  i,  40. 


INDEX. 


555 


Newfoundland,  Act,  &c. — contd. 

, ,  breaches  of,  260  i. 

,  Cape  Bona  vista,  260  i. 

, Frills,  salmon  fishery,  335, 

335  i-vn. 
,  Court  of  Admiralty  required  at, 

699. 

,  Craggs  Bay,  281  i. 

Customs,  Collector  for,  proposal 

for,  699  V. 

, ,  reply  to,  699. 

.disorders  in,  441,  442  i. 

,  Dog  Creek,  38  I,  40. 

,  drunkenness  in,  260  i. 

,  Fishery  of,  331,  698, 

, ,  abuses  in,  260  i,  441. 

. . . . ,  . . . . ,  enquiries    concerning, 

38  I. 

, ,  Admirals,  38  i. 

J  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  complaint  concerning, 

260  I. 
, Convoy,  Commodore  of.  See 

Percy,  F. ;   Stuart,  James. 
, ,  instructions    of,    37,    38    i, 

260,  260  I. 

, ,  culling,  461. 

. . .  . ,  curing,     improvement     of, 

urged,  38  i. 

, fish,  quality  of,  260  i. 

,  . . . . ,  flakes,  rooms,  etc.,  260  i. 

. .  . . ,  French,  enquiry  concerning, 

38  I. 

, ,  French  ships  at,  243,  260  i. 

,  garrison  forbidden  to  take 

part  in,  38  i,  442,  442  i. 
•  •  •  • ,  greenmen.    Act     not    com- 
plied with,  260  I. 
> New    England,    encourage- 
ment of,  objection  to,  441. 
,  New  Englanders  at,  bonds 

required  from,  38  i,  260  i,  in-v. 

, , ,  forfeited,  260  i,  411. 

,  •  • . . ,  . . . . ,  prosecution  of,  urged, 

260  I. 

,  . . . . ,  prices,  260  n. 

, ,  report  upon,  260  i-vn. 

, ,  return  of,  260  n. 

, ,  salmon,  260  i,  335,  335  i- 

vn. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  petition  concerning,  3 

I. 

,  ■  •  •  • , ,  report  upon,  3. 

, ,  seal,  260  I,  698. 

, , ,  value  of,  281  i. 

,  . . . . ,  seamen     enticed     to     New 

England,  measures  to  prevent,  38 1. 

, ,  ship's  voyage,  cost  of,  260  i. 

, ,  value  of,  281  i. 

, wages,  260  i. 

. . . . ,  . . . . ,  profit   sharing,    38    i. 

260  I. 
, ,  whales,  325. 


Newfoundland  — contd. 

,  Foard,  Thomas,  murder  of,  331. 

,  murderer  of,  sent  for  trial, 

331,  331  I. 

Freshwater  Bay,  38  i,  40. 

,  Gander  Bay,  38  i,  40. 

,  Governor  resident,  need  of,  331, 

331    I.  ;     and    see    Philipps,     R.  ; 
Gledhill,  S. 

,  hemp  growing  in,  243. 

,  imports,  260  i. 

,  Indians,  260  i,  325. 

, ,  French  priests  among,  743. 

,  inhabitants,  698. 

,  . . . . ,  enquiries  concerning,  38  i. 

, ,  French,  38  i,  260  i. 

, ,  Irish,  260  i. 

, ,  migration  of,  to  Nova 

Scotia,  proposed,  441. 

, ,  number  of,  260  n. 

, ,  occupations  of,  260  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  removal    to    Nova    Scotia, 

recommended,  180  i,  656. 

,  Keen,  William,  331,  331  i. 

,  lawlessness  in,    in    winter,    331, 

331  I. 

,  parson,  need  of,  260  i. 

Lt.  Governor.     See  Gledhill,  S. 

,  Petit  Nore,  French  at,  38  i. 

>  Petty    Harbour,   inhabitants    of, 

memorial,  of,  441. 

' » ,  petition  of,  331  i. 

, ,  murder  at,  331. 

»  murderer  sent  for  trial,  331, 

331  I.,  441. 

,  pirates,  277  n,  281  i. 

> ,  damage  by,  reported,  200. 

,  depredations  of,  281  i. 

» ,  ships  plmidered  by,  513. 

,  ship  taken  by,  251  iv. 

>  Placentia,     evacuation     of,     by 

French,  177  i.,  180  xv. 

' .  fort  at,  garrison  to  be  em- 
ployed upon,  92,  442,  442  i. 
»  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instructions  for  com- 
pleting, 442, 

» ,  ■ .  •  • ,  lands  for  site  of,  11. 

»  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  materials  and  site  for, 

11,  14,  14  I,  17,18,23,4421. 

>  •  •  •  • ,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  estimate  for, 

442  I. 

> » , ,  vote  for,  442  i. 

,  French    inhabitants,    38    i. 

260  I. 


• , ,  garrison.    Commissary    of 

Musters,  625. 


• » , estabUshment  of,  255, 

255  I,  n,  256,  256  i. 


• ,  draft  for  Nova  Scotia, 

180  I,  281  I.,  614,  676. 


. ,  proposed,  158,  168. 


556 


INDEX. 


Newfoundland,  Placentia,  garrison — contd. 

, .ordered,  158,  171. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,  employed  on  fort,  92. 

,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  share  in  fishery,  260  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  prohibited,  38  I, 

442,  442  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  subsistence   for,   lost, 

325. 

, ,  Lt.  Governor  of.     See  Gled- 

hiU,  S. 

,  post,  establishment  of,  proposed, 

325. 

,  Ragged  Harbour,  38  I,  40. 

,  Renoose,  260  i. 

,  Resident  Justices,  need  of,  331, 

331  I. 

,  rum,  from  N.E.,  260  i. 

,  St.    John's,    debauchery    at,    in 

winter,  260  i. 

,  . . . . ,  harbour,  260  i. 

,  . . . . ,  Resident    Justice      needed 

for,  331,  331  i. 

, ,  road  from,  proposed,  325. 

,  taverns,  260  I. 

,  St.  Lawrence's,  French  residents 

at,  260  I. 

,  St.  Mary's  Bay,  281  I,  325. 

,  St.    Peters,    French   inhabitants, 

38  I,  260  I. 

,  Skeflfington,  George,  petition  of, 

3  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  report  upon,  3. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  salmon     fishery     of, 

335,335i-vn. 

,  storms,  damage  by,  325. 

,  Trade,  fur,  260  i,  698. 

, ,  . .  . . ,  enquiry   concerning, 

38  I. 

, ,  illegal,  at,  699  v. 

,  .  . . . ,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 

38  I. 

,  trade  with  France,  260  i. 

,  . . . . ,  prevention  of,  ordered,  38  i. 

, ,  with  Ireland,  260  i. 

, ,  with  Italy,  260  i. 

, ,  Madeira,  260  i. 

,  N.E.,  38  I,  260  I. 

,  Portugal,  260  I. 

,  . . . . ,  the     Plantations,     enquiry 

concerning,  38  i. 

,  ....,Spain,  38i,  260i. 

, ,  West  Indies,  260  i. 

,  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  38  i. 

. . . ,  observance  of,  177  I. 

,  Trepassy,  251  iv,  281  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  ships  plundered  by  pirates, 

513. 

,  Trinity  Bay,  260  i,  325. 

New  Hampshire  ;  and  see  New  England. 

,  Act  for  encouraging  hemp,  466. 

,  Act  laying  powder  duty,  discon- 
tinued, 438. 


New  Hampshire — contd. 

,  enquiry  concerning,  618. 

,  permission  to  revive,  requested, 

438. 

memorial  upon,  585. 

,  Acts  affecting  trade  and  shipping, 

instructions  concerning,  743  n. 
,  . . .  . ,  for       encouraging       Naval 

Stores,  491  I. 
,  Agent     of.     See    Dummer,     J. ; 

Newman,  H. 

,  Assembly  of.  Agent,  vote  for,  120. 

,  boundaries  of,  447  i,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

, map  of,  333. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Mass.  Bay,  settlement 

of,  by  Council  of  Trade,  desired, 

333. 

constitution  of,  656. 

,  Council,  Clerk  of.     See  Waldron, 

R. 
,  Council  and  Assembly,  Committee 

of,  instruction  by,  585. 

,  Councillors,  appointed,  437, 

,  certificate  by,  491  i. 

,  . , . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  412. 

,  agent  to   pay  for  warrants  for, 

required,  412,  660. 
,  persons  proposed  for,  404, 

412. 
,  Court  of  Admiralty,  decrees  of, 

prohibited,  699  i. 
,  Custom  House  Officer,  additional, 

required,  94  n. 

,  Customs,  Collector  of,  447  i. 

,  exports  of,  94  n. 

,  Fishery,  447  i,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  increase  of,  94  ii. 

,  fort.   Castle   WilKam   and  Mary, 

condition  of,  94  ii,  447  i,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  importance  of,  438. 

,  .  .  . . ,  . . . . ,  stores  of  war  at,  319 

m,  743  I. 

,  forts,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

,  French  settlements,  effect  of,  447 1. 

,  . . . . , enquiry    concerning, 

181  I. 

,  Governor's  salary,  447  i. 

,  . . . . ,  visit  to,  94  ;    and  see  Shute, 

S. 

hemp,  Act  for  encouraging,  466. 

,  seed,  grant  of,  request  for, 

94  n,  118,  466,  656. 

,  immigrants,  Irish,   153. 

,  . . . . ,  linen    and    woollen  manu- 
factures by,  699  m. 

,  imports,  94  n. 

.Indians,  447  i,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  number   of,    enquiry    con- 
cerning, 181  I. 
,  inhabitants,  census  of,  required, 

181  I. 


INDEX. 


557 


New  Hampshire,  inhabitants— cowlrf. 
. . . . ,  increase  of,  447  i,  656. 

,  number  of,  94  n,  447  i,  656. 

iron  mines,  94  n. 
lumber,  export  of,  656. 
,  manufactures,  linen  and  wooUen 
etc,  94  n,  153,  699  m. 
. .  . .,  return  of,  required,  181  I. 
map  of,  94,  103. 

,  Mason's  grant,  sale  of,  negotiations 
for,  273. 

Mass.  Bay,  Acts  of,    oppressive, 
333. 
. . . . ,  duties  imposed  by,  333. 
Militia,  447  i. 

return  of,  required,  181  i. 

mines,  181  i.,  447  i. 

. . . . ,  iron,  656. 

, . . . ,  silver,  656. 

Naval  Stores,  153,  656,  699  m. 

,  exports  of,  94  n,  447  i. 

negroes,  number  of,  94  n,  447  i. 
.  Newcastle    I.,    fort    on,    447    i ; 
and  see  Fort  William. 
.  .  .  . ,  harbour,  447  I. 
Patent    Officers,    return    of,    re- 
quired, 181  I. 
Piscataqua,  R.,  333,  447  i. 
produce,  of  enquiry  concerning, 
181  I. 

, ,  accomit  of,  94  n,  656. 
Queries  concerning,  94,  94  i,  181  i. 
reply  to,  93,  94,  94  n,  259, 
259  I,  447  I. 
Revenue,  447  i,  656. 
. . . .,  accoimts  of,  319  n. 
. . . . ,  . . .  . ,  required,  181  i. 
,  sawmills,  694. 

. ,  destruction  of  mast- trees  by, 
352  n. 
ship  building,  656. 
shipping  of,  94  n,  447  i,  656. 
. . . . ,  duty  on,  by  Mass.  Bay,  333. 
silver  ore,  94  n. 

stores  of  war,   account  of,   200, 
319  m,  743  i. 

. ,  requested,  438,  447  i. 
,  trade,  447  i. 

. ,  lumber  and  fish,  94  n,    153. 
.,  woollen,  etc.,  699  m,  iv. 
.,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 
. ,  illegal,  enquirj'  concerning, 
181  I. 

, ,  illegal,  measures  to  prevent, 
94  n,  447  i. 

, ,  . . . . ,  proposed,  94  n. 

. ,  with  Azores,  94  n,  656. 

, ,  with  Great  Britain,  94  n. 

. ,  with  Ireland,  94  n,  656. 

. ,  with  Italy,  94  n,  656. 

, ,  with   Mass.  Bay,  duty  on. 


333. 


New  Hampshire,  trade — contd. 

, ,  with   Portugal,  94  ii,  447  i, 

656. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Spain,  447  i. 

, with  W.I.,  94  n,  447  i,  656. 

,  Treasurer.     See  Penhallow,  S. 

,  woods  in.  Crown  rights  to,  objec- 
tion to,  179  I. 

,  . . . . ,  export  of  timber  to  Spain 

prohibited,  319. 

,  . . . . ,  Act  of  Parliament,  pro- 
posed, 319,  352  n. 

,  . . . . ,  Governor  proposed  as  Con- 
troller, 201,  201  I. 

,  . . . . ,  seizures  and  trial  for  felling 

without  warrants,  57,  82, 118, 118 1, 
m,  127,  127  1,  159  I,  179  i. 

. .  . . ,  surveyor  of,  absentee,  159  i. 

, ,  waste  of,  57,  82,  118,  118  i, 

m,  127,  127  I,  491,  694. 

,  complaint  concerning, 

179  I,  159  I,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  efforts  to  prevent,  333. 

,  .....  . . . . ,  under     pretence     of 

townships,  352  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  proclamation  prohib- 
iting, 319. 

,  wool,  imported  from  one  Planta- 
tion to  another,  seizure  of,  153, 
153  I. 

,  woollen    manufactures    in,     153, 

466. 

New  Jersey,  239. 

,  Act,     regulating     elections,     not 

upon  record,  595. 

,  objection  to,  595. 

,  . . . . ,  for       shortening       lawsuits, 

objection  to,  415. 

,  . . . . ,  for  support  of  Oovernment, 

595  I. 

,  amendments  to,  by  Coimcil 

rejected  by  Assembly,  595. 

,  Acts  reducing    fees  of  Secretary 

etc.,  67,  69. 

,  . . . . ,  repeal    of,    requested,    407, 

415,  595. 

,  Agent  of.     See  Himter,  R. 

,  Assembly,     Addresses     by,    595, 

595  I. 

,  . . . . ,  appointment    of    Governor 

and  officers  desired  by,  595. 

,  . . . . ,  Council's    right    to    amend 

money  bills  denied  by,  595,  595  i. 

,  . . . . ,  dissolution  of,  533,  595. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  demanded  by,  533. 

,  . . . . ,  Governor's  speeches  to,  595, 

5951. 

,  . . . . ,  meeting  of,  at  Burlington 

and  Perth  Amboy,  595. 

,  . . . . ,  payment  of,  regulation  of, 

74,  80. 

,  . . . . ,  proceedings  of,  570. 


558 


INDEX. 


New  Jersey,  Assembly — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  recommendation  to,  to  res- 
tore Secretary's  fees,  415. 

,  . .  . . ,  representatives  of,  altera- 
tion in,  suggested,  595. 

,  boimdaries,  656. 

,  . .  .  . ,  enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

,  Burlington,  Assembly  at,  moved 

to  Perth  Amboy,  595. 

,  Council,  Minutes  of,  570,  595. 

, payments  to,  regulation   of, 

74,  80. 

,  . . . . ,  right  to  amend  money  bills, 

asserted  by  Council  of  Trade,  595, 
595  I. 

,  . . . . ,  denied   by   Assembly,   595, 

5951. 

Coimcillor,  appointed,   90  i,  m, 

104. 

,  Delaware      River,      islands      in, 

petition  for  grant  of,  552. 

,  . . . . ,  representation  on,  646. 

,  . . . . ,  opinion  on,  602. 

,  ecclesiastical  benefices,  instruction 

concerning,  715,  732,  736,  736  i ; 
and  see  London,  Bishop  of. 

,  fees,    acts    reducing,  repeal    of, 

urged,  67,  69. 

,  French     settlements,     effect     of, 

enquiry  concerning,  181  I. 

,  Government,  separate,  advantage 

of,  suggested,  656. 

,  Governor  of.     See   Burnet,   W.  ; 

Himter,  R.  ;    Schuyler,  P. 

,  Governor  of,  non-resident,  objec- 
tion to,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  salary  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Himterdon  county,  repre- 
sentation of,  proposal  concerning, 
595. 

,  immigrants  from  Ireland,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  from  New  England,  656. 

,  Indians,  friendly,  656. 

,  numbers  required,  181  I. 

,  inhabitants,  census  of,  required. 

181  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  increase  of,  656. 

,  Jacobites  in,  595. 

,  manufactures,  return  of,  re- 
quired, 181  I. 

,  militia,  number  of,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  required,  181  i. 

,  mines,  181  i. 

,  copper,  520  i,  656. 

,  iron,  656. 

,  opposition  to  Governors,  character 

of,  595. 

,  Palatines,  move  to,  263. 

,  Patent  Offices  in,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

,  . . . . ,  fees  of,  reduced,  67,  79,  656, 


New  Jersey — contd. 

,  Perth       Amboy,      meeting      of 

Assembly  at,  595. 
,  produce   of,  enquiry  concerning, 

181  I. 

Quakers,  656. 

,  Queries  concerning,  181  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  182. 

Revenue,   656  ;    and  see  Act  for 

support  of  Government. 

,  . .  . . ,  instruction  concerning,  121. 

,  Salem  county,  representation  of, 

595. 

,  Secretary  of.     See  Smith,  James. 

,  . . . . ,  acts  reducing  fees  of,  com- 
plaint against,  67,  69,  407,  415,  595. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  object  of,  415. 

,  shipping,  656. 

,  trade,  cattle,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

,  . . . . ,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 

181  I. 

, ,  with  Holland,  520  i. 

,  ....,New  York,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Pennsylvania,  656. 

, ,  West  Indies,  656. 

Newman,  Henry,  Agent,  N.H.,  333. 

,  Commission  of,  120. 

,  letter  from,  447,  585. 

,  petition,  memorial  by,  438,  585, 

618. 
,  . .  . . ,  on  negotiations  for  sale  of 

Mason's  grant,  273. 
Newport,  E.,  memorial,  of,  421. 
. . . .,  George,  letter  to,  710. 
Newton,  Hibert,  Collector,  Nova  Scotia, 

203. 

,  . .  .  . ,  Councillor,  180  vi. 

, document   signed    by,    241 

XVII. 

, , ,  letter  from,  699  n. 

New  York — 

,  Act,    appointing    value    of    lyon 

dollars,  referred,  369. 
,  . . .  .,to    prohibit     trading     with 

French  for  Indian  goods,  303,  570. 

,  ....,  effect  of,  303,  401. 

,  . . . . ,  explained,  323. 

,  opposition  to,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  for  facilitating  partition  of 

lands  in  joint  tenancy,  729  i. 
,  . . . . ,  amended   by  Council,   729, 

729  I. 
, ,  objections  to,  729,  729  n, 

m. 

, ,  repeal  of  former,  729,  729  I. 

,  for  payment  of  Assembly, 

repeal  of,  proposed,  80. 
,  . . . . ,  for  paying  several  debts  etc., 

confirmed,  74. 
,  . . . . ,  laying  2  p.c.  on  goods  im- 
ported, 303. 


INDEX. 


559 


New  York,  Act — contd. 

, ,  confirmation  of,  requested, 

323,  534,  692. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  opposition  to,  711. 

,  reply  to,  711. 

, ,  for   repairing    fortifications 

etc.,  303. 

, .revenue,  239,  303,  323,  711. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  proposals   concerning, 

80,  264  I. 
,  ....  ,for     vacating      extravagant 

grants,  43. 

Acts,  referred,  648. 

, transmitted,  323,  693. 

,  Agent  of.     See  Himter,  R. 

,  Albany,  48,  401. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  Conference  with  Five 

Nations  at,  147,  188,  692,  692  i,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  dangerous  position  of,  206, 

230. 

,  . . . . ,  fort,  disrepair  of,  303. 

, fortification    of,    proposed, 

230. 

,  French  traders  at,  263. 

,  . .  . . ,  Governor's  visit  to,  570. 

,  . . . . ,  Indian  trade  proposed  to  be 

confined  to,  206,  230. 

,  . . . . ,  Mayor  of,  replaced,  48,  48  i. 

,  . . . . ,  representation     from, 

230. 
,  road  to,  made  by  Palatines, 

282. 

,  . . . . ,  sheriff,  48  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  Town    Clerk.     See    Living- 
ston, R. 
,  . .  .  . ,  trade     with     Canada,    Act 

restricting,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Far  Indians,  48. 

.Assembly,  320,  729,  751. 

,  . .  . . ,  address   to   Governor,   303, 

554. 

,  . .  . .,  adjourned,  48,  595. 

,  . . . . ,  dissolution     of,     forbidden, 

48. 
, Auditor   General,   audit   of 

accounts  refused  to,  129. 

,  . . . . ,  continued,  533. 

,  . . . . ,  control   of   revenue    by, 

attempted,   129. 
, dissolution     of,      on      new 

Governor's  Commission,  264  n-iv. 
,  . . . . ,  grant  by,  for  erecting  forts, 

692. 

,  . . . . ,  member  expelled,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  motives  of,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  new,  demand  for,  in  Council, 

303. 

,  . . .  . ,  writs  for,  264  v. 

, ,  old,  continued,  239,  303. 

,  . . . .,  . . . .,  continued,      approval 

of,  341. 


New  York,  Assembly, — contd. 
,  payment  of,  regulation  of, 

74,  80. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  act  providing,  80. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  evil  effects  of,  80. 

,  . . . . ,  paynient     for     stores     for 

regular  troops,  reason  for  refusing, 

140. 

,  . . . . ,  preparations  for  new,  239. 

, ,  presents        to       Governor, 

petition  concerning,  564. 
,  . . . . ,  Revenue,         control         of, 

assumed  by,  representation   upon, 

173. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  objection  to  settling, 

reason  for,  303. 
,  . . . . ,  Speaker.      See    Livingston, 

R. 

, ,  Speech  to,  264  i. 

,  Attorney  General.    See  Jamieson, 

David. 
Auditor  General,  fees  of,  address 

concerning,  554. 
,  . . . . ,  instruction  concerning,  492  ; 

and  see  Walpole,  H. 
,  . . . . ,  Deputy,   audit  of  accounts 

by,  refused  by  Assembly,  129. 
,  . . . . ,  excluded  by  Assembly,  173  ; 

and  see  Clarke. 

,  beaver  trade,  711. 

,  boundaries,  described,   656. 

,  . . . . ,  disputed  with  Connecticut, 

229. 

, ,  map  of,  229. 

,  . . . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

, reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  Chief    Justice    of.     See    Morris, 

Lewis. 

,  Clerk  of  the  Circuits.     See  Clarke. 

,  coins  and  currency.  Act  appointing 

value  of  lyon  dollar,  369. 
,  paper  issue,  fomided  on  Sir 

H.  Mackworth's  scheme,  343. 

,  . . . . ,  success  of,  343. 

,  condition,  tranquil,  188. 

,  Coimcil,        Governor       Burnet's 

management  of,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  memorial  to,  230. 

, ,  Minutes  of,  101,  323. 

,  . . . . ,  new    Assembly    demanded 

by,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  opposition  in,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  payments  to,  regulation  for, 

74,  80. 
,  . . . . ,  President  of.     See  Schuyler, 

P. 
,  Councillors,  appointed,  48,  90  i, 

u,  104,  378,  379,  387,  475,  482,  492. 

, ,  death  of,  470,  482. 

, ,  dismissal  of,  378,  379,  387. 

,  . . . . , ,  urged,    303. 


560 


INDEX. 


New  York,  Councillors — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  persons  proposed  for,  303, 

470. 
Courts,    Admiralty,    appeals    to, 

187  I,  n. 
,  Customs,    Surveyor    of.     See 

Harrison,  F. 
,  defence,  measures  for,  proposed, 

264  I, 
ecclesiastical     benefices     in,     in- 
struction   concerning,    715,    730 ; 

and  see  London,  Bishop  of. 
,El  Puerto  del  Principe,  case  of, 

727. 

,  . . . . ,  order  upon,  727  I. 

,  entries  and  clearances,  323. 

exports  and  imports,  value  of,  656. 

,  extent    and   inquisition,    561    i ; 

and  see  Blimdell,  B. 

,  Fauconnier,  — ,  grant  of,  729  n, 

,  Fishkill,  grant,  729  n. 

,  Fort  Hunter,  263,  692. 

,  . . . . ,  plate  for,   263. 

,  . . . . ,  repair  of,  needed,  303. 

,  Fort  Nicholson,  263. 

,  forts,  account  of,  187  I,  n,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  required,  181  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  among  Indians,  proposal  for 

building,  206,  230,  656,  711. 

,  . . . . ,  repair  of,  act  for,  303,  534. 

,....,  ....,needof,  206,  230,  303. 

,  .  . . . ,  stores  for,  requested,  734  n. 

,  French     settlements,     effect     of, 

enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  181  i,  n,  206,  230. 

,  frontiers,  dangerous  condition  of, 

206,  230. 

,  . . . . ,  representation  upon,  230. 

,  Governor  of.     See   Burnet,   W.  ; 

Hunter,  R.  ;   Schuyler,  P.  ;   Bello- 

mont.  Earl  of. 
,  Governor  Burnet,   welcomed   in, 

595. 

,  . .  . . ,  Instructions  of,  ignored,  303 

, salary  of,  656. 

,  guardships,  533. 

,  horses,  export  of,  656. 

,  immigrants,  Irish,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  from  New  England,  656. 

,  imports,  duty  on,  303. 

,  H.M.  Independent  Companies  at, 

656. 

,  . .  . . ,  additional,  request  for,  734. 

,  . .  . . ,  bedding     and     stores     for, 

estimate  for,  134,  134  I. 
,  .  . . . ,  clothing    etc.    for,    request 

for,  551. 
,  . . . . ,  Grovemor's   Commission    to 

command,  102. 
lands  for,  on  frontier,  pro- 
posed, 303. 


New  York,  H.M.  Independent  Companies 
at — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  mutiny    of    Palatines     re- 
pressed by,  140. 

,  . . . . ,  stores  of  war  for,  263. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  account  of,  239. 

,  . . . . ,  request  for,  239. 

,  stores    for.    Assembly    un- 
willing to  pay  for,  140. 

,  Indian  Affairs,  Commissioners  of. 

Journal  of  mission  to  Indians,  101. 

,  . . . . ,  report  by,  48. 

,  . . . . ,  Secretary   of.     See   Living- 
ston, R. 

,  Indians,    Far,    French    intrigues 

with,  48. 

,  . . . . ,  measures  to  prevent,  48. 

,  Indians,    Five    Nations,    French 

intrigues  with,  48. 

,  . . . . ,  measures  to  counteract,  48. 

,  . . . . ,  presents   to,    48  ;     and   see 

Indians,  Five  Nations. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  I. 

, , ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  inhabitants,  increase  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  I. 

, ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  Jacobites,  303. 

,  lands  in,  Capt.  Evans'  grant,  i, 

729,    729   I,   n ;     and   see   Evans, 
Capt. 

,  . .  . . ,  grants  of.  Act  concerning. 

See  Act  far  facilitating  partition  etc. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,      extravagant.       Act 

vacating,  43. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  memorial  upon,   729, 

729  I,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  quit  rents  inadequate, 

729  n. 

, ,  . .  . . ,  Indian,      frauds      in, 

729  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Instructions  concern- 
ing, 311. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  irregular,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  survey  of,  729  i,  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  surveyor  of.     See  Colden,  C. 

,  . .  .  . , ,  Lokerman,  729  n. 

, , ,  Mackworth,  282. 

, , ,  Minisink,  729  n. 

, , ,  Wayiando,  729  n. 

,  manufactures,  return  of,  required 

181  I. 

,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  Mayor  of,  48,  48  I. 

,  Militia,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

, reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  mines,  coal,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  copper,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  iron,  656. 

, enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 


INDEX. 


561 


New  York — contd. 

,  naval  stores,  656. 

,  Niagara,   fort   and   garrison   for, 

proposed,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  lands    for,    proposed,    303  ; 

and  see,  Indians,  Five  Nations. 

,  opposition  to  Governor  Hunter, 

manoeuvres  of,  239. 

,  Palatines ;  see  German  Protestant 

Refugees. 

,  Patent  Offices,  return  of,  required, 

181  I. 

, ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  pirates'  effects,  seizure  of,  727  i. 

,  . . . . , order  upon,  727. 

,  . .  . . ,  ship  taken  by,  527  xxxiv. 

,  Prerogative  of  the  Crown,  in- 
fringement of,  173,  729,  729  I,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  complaint  concerning, 

129. 

,  privateers,  commissions,  167. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint   against,   296   i ; 

and  see  Crawcraft,  Capt. 

,  . . . . ,  Spanish  prize  taken  by,  33  i. 

,  produce  of,   return  of,  required, 

181  I. 

, ,  reply  to,  187  i,  ii. 

,  Queries  concerning,  181  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  quit  rents,  amount  of,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  inadequate,  729  i,  n. 

,  increase  of,  expected,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  roll  of,  difficulty  in  obtain- 
ing, 729  I. 

,  . . . . ,  sufficient    revenue     to     be 

raised  from,  729  n. 

,  Receiver  General,  729  i. 

,  revenue,  556,  656. 

,  .  .  .  .,  account    of,    required,   191. 

, ,  Act  proposed,  80,  264  i. 

,  . . . . ,  Act  to  make  good  deficien- 
cies, 239. 

,  . . . . ,  auditing    of,     account    of, 

required,  191. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  assembly  on,  554. 

,  . . . . ,  continued    for    five    years, 

303,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  control     of,     assumed     by 

Assembly,  129. 

,  .  . . . ,  representation  upon,   173. 

,  . . . . ,  deficiency  of,  264  i,  554. 

,  . . . . ,  disposal  of,  instruction  con- 
cerning, 311,  492. 

,  . . . . , proposed,  121. 

,  . . . . ,  misapplication  of,  554. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  from  quit  rents,   proposed, 

729  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  reasons     for    objecting    to 

settlement  of,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n, 

VVt.  7695 


New  York — contd. 

,  Salisbury,  grant,  729  n. 

,  Schennectady,  263. 

,  . . . . ,  fort  at,  proposed,  230. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  repair  of,  needed,  303. 

,  Schohary,  Palatines  at,  263  ;  and 

see  German  Protestant  Refugees. 

,  schoolmasters,  certificates,  in- 
struction concerning,  715, 730,  735, 
735 1 ;  and  see  London,  Bishop  of. 

,  Seal,  303. 

,  seat  of  Government  for  Captain 

General,  suggested,  656. 

.Sheriff,  48  I. 

shipping,  656. 

,  ships  entered  and  cleared  at,  list 

of,  101,  656. 

,  stores  of  war,   account  of,  239, 

734  I. 

, recommended,   320,   596. 

,  request  for,  239,  570,  692, 

734  n. 

,  payment  for,  proposed,  134, 

140,  320, 

,  . . . . ,  Assembly's  reason  for  re- 
fusing, 140. 

,  Surveyor  General  of.     See  Golden, 

Cadwallader. 

trade  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  beaver,  554. 

,  fur,  554,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 

181  I. 

, ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181 1. 

, reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

, with  Curagoa,  187  i,  n,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Far  Indians,  401. 

,  . . . . ,  French,   in    Indian    goods. 

See  Act  prohibiting. 

,  . . . .,  French  settlements,  197. 

,....,  Holland,  44,  197,  738  n. 

,  . . . . ,  Indians,      303  ;       and     see 

Indians,  Five  Nations  ;  Far  ;  and 
Act  to  prohibit  French  trade  with. 

,  . .  . . ,  with  New  Jersey,  656. 

, ,  with  St.  Thomas,  187  i,  n, 

656. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Surinam,  187  i,  n,  656. 

,  with  W.I.,  187  I,  n.,  656. 

,  Treasurer,  554. 

,  . . . . ,  defence  of,  554. 

,  whale  fishing,  licences  for,  303. 

,  .  . . . ,  royalty  remitted,  303. 

,  . . . . ,  oil,  exports  of,  656. 

,  Niagara,    fort    at,    proposal    to 

build,  656  ;  and  see  Indians,  Five 
Nations. 

, ,  French   at,   206,   230,   533, 

534,  571  I,  692. 

, , ,  protest  against,  692. 

, ,  reply  to,  692. 

C.P.  32—36 


562 


INDEX. 


Nicholson,  General  Francis,  Governor  of 

S.  Carolina,   180  i,  xv,  xvi,  231, 

324,  530. 

, ,  appointment  of,   185. 

, ,    proclaimed     in 

Carolina,  372. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,     rumour         of 

reversal  of,  372. 
,  . . . . ,  address  in   praise   of, 

619. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  address  of  welcome  to, 

760. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  arrival    of,    expected, 

326,  327,  363,  372,  413,  484,  484  i. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  commission    of,     185, 

192,  192  I,  228,  232,  xn,  235,  244. 
,....,....,....,  for  trying  pirates, 

300,  301. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  complaint  against,  by 

Bahama  Company,  351. 
, ,  convention  made  with 

French  inhabitants  of  Nova  Scotia 

by,  177. 

,  . . . . ,  difficulties  of,  683. 

, ,  document    signed   by,    573 

n  (c-i). 
, ,  establishment    of,    request 

for,  255,  256. 
,  . .  . . ,  Instructions    of,    185,    192, 

217   I,  n,  228,   232  vi,  235,  237, 

245,  246,  299,  644,  702,  715,  731, 

737  I. 

, ,  request  for,  283. 

, ,  replies    to,    delayed, 

573,  573  I. 
, ,   letter   from,  232  m,  242, 

254-256,  275,  275  i,  386,  572,  577, 

578,  580,  683,  712. 
,  letter  to,  232  v,  263,  275  n, 

357,  573  ij),  573  n  {b),  651,  737. 

,  . . . . ,  memorandum  by,  232  x-xn. 

,  . .  . . ,  oath  taken  by,  247. 

, ,  praise  of,  618,  702,  704. 

,  . . .  . ,  present  to  Mr.  Popple,  580. 

, ,  proposals  by,  232  in,  iv,  vn, 

x-xn. 

, ,  . . . . ,  comments  on,  232  iv. 

, , ,  referred,  232. 

,  . . . . ,  visit  to  Altamaha  etc.  pro- 
posed, 683. 

,  Wargent,  letter  from,  47  m. 

Nivine     (Nevine),    William,    Agent    for 

Antigua,  5. 

, ,  letter  from,  574,  647. 

, ,  letter  to,  581. 

,  . . . . ,  Agent  for  St.  Kitts,  salary 

of,  204  I. 
Norridgewalk,  expedition  against,    263. 
North,  Francis,  Baron  Guildford,  guardian 

of  Lord  Baltimore,  Proprietor  of 

Maryland,  instructions  of,  124,  132. 


North,  Francis — contd. 

,  letter  from,  89. 

,  petition  of,  56. 

Northey,  Sir  E.,  late  Attorney  General, 

opinion  by,  211,  655. 
Norton,  Capt.,  501  rv. 
Nova  Scotia,  Agent  of.     See  Vetch,  Col. 
,  Annapolis  River,  Indians,  180  i ; 

and  see  Nova  Scotia,  Indians. 

,  . . . . ,  deputies  of,  241  xv. 

,  .  . . . ,  road  from,  construction  of, 

prohibited,  180  i,  xrv,  xvn. 
,  Annapolis   Royal,    attack    upon, 

threatened,  241  vi,  vn. 

,  . . . . ,  description  of,  241  xx. 

,  . .  . . ,  fort   at,   ruinous   condition 

of,  203,  241  XX. 
,  . . . . , repair    of,     proposals 

for,  241  XX. 

,  . . . . ,  garrison  of,  241  xvn. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  charges  against,  535 1. 

,....,....,....,  reply  to,  535, 535 

n-v. 
, ,  Chaplain  of,   58,   180 

VI. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,     company     sent     to 

Canso,  298. 

,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  condition  of,  180  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  land     for,     proposed, 

232  XI. 

, , ,  number  of,  203. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  officers  of,  representa- 
tion by,  241  xvn. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  testimonial    by, 

723.  723  n. 
,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  .  .  . . ,  supplies  for,  180 

I. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  request  for,  298. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  reinforcement 

of,    from    Placentia,    etc.,    180    i, 

158,  281  I,  614,  671,  676. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  proposed,     158, 

168,  177,  241,  241  xvm,  xx,  322, 

342,  405,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  surgeon,  180  vi. 

, inhabitants   of,   testimonial 

by,  723  n. 

,  Bay  of  Vert,  180  i,  241  xx. 

,  boundaries  of,  203,  656. 

,  boundary  Commissioners,  241  xvi. 

,  . .  . . ,  appointment  of,   proposed, 

177. 

,  . .  . . ,  report  upon,  324. 

,  . . . . ,  settlement  of,  pending,  158. 

,  . . . . ,  stated  by  Council  of  Trade, 

158. 

,  British  River,  241  xx. 

,  Canso,  213,  i,  n. 

,....,  British   title   to,   219,   223, 

I,  n,  231. 
, ,chartof,  467,  481. 


INDEX. 


563 


Nova  Scotia,  Canso — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  British    ships     seized     by 

French  and  Indians  at,  180  xvrn, 
241,  241  I,  //.,  261,  298  i,  n-iv, 
303,  405. 

, ,  complaint  to  Governor 

Brouillan  concerning,  241,  241  i,  n, 
vm,  IX. 

,  . . . . ,  losses    from,    account 

of,  298  V. 

,  . . . . , restitution    proposed, 

266. 

,  . . . . ,  Company  stationed  at,  298. 

,  . .  .  . ,  . .  .  . ,  barracks      built     for, 

298  m,  V. 

.Fishery,  203,  241  xx,  261. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  account  of,  269,  614, 

656,  676. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  export,  241  xx. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  French  claim  to,  219, 

223  I,  n,  231,  232  n,  656,  676. 

,  . . , . , French  encroachments 

on,  158,  168,  269,  389  i,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  ....  enquiry  concern- 
ing, 219. 

,  order  prohibit- 
ing, request  for,  168,  171. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  Governor  Brouil- 
lan undertakes  to  prevent,  269. 

,  . . .  . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  405. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  importance    of,     177, 

298  in,  656,  676,  699  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  New    Englanders    at, 

298  m. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  illegal  trade  by, 

445. 

,  .  . . . ,  petition  from,  298  v. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  for     protection, 

180  xvm. 

,  . . . . ,  forts  and  garrison  at,  pro- 
posed, 241  xvm,  XX,  266,  269,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  plans  for,  615. 

,  . .  . . ,  free  port,  suggested,  676. 

, ,  French  claims  to,  219,  223, 

I,  n,  231,  232  n,  676. 

,  . .  . . ,  French    prisoners    released, 

298  IV. 

,  . .  . . ,  French  vessels  seized  at,  by 

Capt.  Smart,  219,  411. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  order  for  disposal  of, 

226  I,  253. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  226. 

, ,  report  upon,  253. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  restitution,  condition- 
al, proposed,  266. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  reprisals  for,  241,  241 

I  //.,  266. 

,  . . . . ,  garrison  at,  241  xvm,  xx, 

676. 

,....,  guardship   needed  at,  241, 

241  xvn, 


Nova  Scotia,  Canso — contd. 

,  .  . . . ,  inhabitants     of,     memorial 

by,  241,  241  i,  n. 
,  . .  . . ,  Island,  description  of,  241 

XX. 

,  . . . . ,  islands     of,     claimed     by 

French,  219,  223  I,  n,  231,  232  n, 

238. 
, ,  by  British,  219,  223,  i,  n, 

231,  238. 

, ,  Gut,  223  I. 

, ,  map,  French,  223  i,  n,  231. 

,  . . . . ,  map,  English,  required,  223, 

223  I,  n,  231. 

,  Cap  Dore,  241  xx. 

,  Cap  des  Mines,  241  xx. 

,  Chibucto,  harbour,  241  xx. 

Chignecto,    158,    180    xvi,    241, 

241  XX,  656. 

, coal  mines,  241  xx. 

,  . . . . ,  fort  at,  proposed,  241  xvm, 

XX. 

,  . . . . ,  French  priest  at,  241  vi,  rx. 

, Indians,  180  xvi,  241  xx. 

,  . . . . ,  trade    with    Cape    Breton, 

241  xvn,  xvm. 
,  . . . . ,  inhabitants  of,  increase  of, 

241  XX. 

,Cobagit,  180  XVI. 

,  Cobequid,  241  xn. 

,  . .  . . ,  description  of,  241  xx. 

,  . . . . ,  Indians  at,  241  xx. 

, ,  trade  of,  with  Cape  Breton, 

241  XX. 

.Council,  180  xvi,  241. 

,  . . . . ,  Address  by,  535  rv. 

,  . . . . ,  advice  of,  180  i. 

, ,  Minutes  of,   177,   241,  241 

XIX,  342. 

, ,  selected,  180  i. 

,  Council  of  War,  241. 

,  Councillors,  description  of,  180  vi. 

,  Court  of  Admiralty,  need  of,  699, 

699  n. 
,  Customs,  Collector  of,  203  ;    and 

see  Newton,  H. 

,  defence  of,  report  upon,  220. 

,  description  of,  241  xx,  269. 

,  expedition  against,  324,  355. 

,  Felix,  Pere,  180  vm. 

,  forts  at,  proposed,  241  xvm,  xx, 

266,  269,  656. 

, ,  plans  for,  298,  615. 

,  . . . . ,  repair  of,  180  i. 

,  French   encroachments   etc.     See 

under  N.S.,  Canso. 
,  French,  Indians  incited  by,  241 

XX. 

,  French     inhabitants     (Annapolis 

Eiver),  deputies  of,  180  i,  xvn. 

, ,  Conference  with,  180 

I,  vn,  X,  xn. 


564 


INDEX. 


Nova  Scotia,  French  Inhabitants — contd. 

, ,  letter  from,  180  i,  xi,  xn, 

xvn. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  oath  of  allegiance  re- 
fused by,  180  V,  xn. 

,  . . . . , oath  of  allegiance  or 

withdrawal,  extension  of  time  for, 
Proclamation  allowing,  180  i-m. 

, , ,  reply  to,  180  i,  v,  xn. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Priest  of.  See  Durand, 

J. 

,  , . . . ,  . . . . ,  submission  of,   1 80  i, 

xvn. 

,  . . .  . ,  Chignecto,  letter  and  pro- 
clamation to,  180  I,  n,  vni. 

,  ...  .,  description  of,  241,  241  xx. 

,  . . . .,  defiant  attitude  of,    180  i, 

241,  241  iff,  405. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  encouraged  by  French 

Grovemors,  241. 

,....,  depositions     of,     241,     241 

m-vn,  IX. 

,  . . . . ,  exercise  of  religion  per- 
mitted to,  342. 

,  . .  .  . ,  fear  of  Indians  alleged  by, 

180, 1,  rv,  V,  XV,  XVI,  241,  241  xni, 

XV,  XVI. 

,  . . . . ,  Gov.  of  Cape  Breton  con- 
sulted by,  177,  180  i,  xn,  xm,  241, 
xvm. 

, Indians,  intrigues  with,  180 

I,  xm,  241,  241  xm-xv. 

. . ,  instructions  concerning,  re- 
quested, 180  I. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  to,  from  Cape 

Breton,  177. 

,  . . . . ,  Minis,  defiant  attitude    of, 

241  XX. 

,  . . . . ,  deputies  of,  letter  to, 

241,  241  xm. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  241  xv. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  mission  of,  180 1. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  180  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  dread       of       Indians 

alleged  by,  241,  241  xm,  xv,  xvi. 

, ,  . .  . . ,  letter  from,  180  i,  xv. 

,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  letter  and  proclama- 
tion to,  180  I,  vm. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  mission  to,  180  i. 

,  .....  . . . . ,  oath  of  allegiance  re- 
fused by,  180  XV,  XVI. 

,  . .  . . ,  .  . . . ,   required    from, 

180  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,  time  for,  ex- 
tended, 180  II. 

,  . .  . . , ,  taken  by,  180  xv. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  order  to,  180  i. 

, , ,  reply  to,  180  xv,  xvi. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  priests'  influence  with, 

241,  241  VI,  vn,  ix. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Proclamation  to,  180 1. 


Nova  Scotia,  French  Inhabitants — contd. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  withdrawal    of,    time 

for,  prolonged,  180  i. 

,  . .  .  . ,  . . . . ,  number  of,  203. 

,  . . . . ,  oath  of  allegiance,  form  of, 

proposed,  180  i. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  . .  .  . ,  measures  for  enforcing 

proposed,  298. 

,  . . .  . , ,  . . .  . ,  urged,  241  xx. 

, , ,  refused  by,  168,  177, 

180  V,  xn,  XV,  XVI,  241,  241  xvm, 

656. 
,  . . .  . ,  . .  .  . ,  time     for,     extended, 

180  n. 

,  . .  .  . ,  .  . .  . , taken  by,  180  xv. 

,  . . .  . ,  oath  of  allegiance,  or  with- 
drawal required  from,  177  i,  180  n. 

,  . .  .  .,  priests'  influence  over,  168, 

177,  180  I,  XV,  XVI,  241,  241  vi,  vn, 

IX,  xvm,  342,  656. 
,  . .  . . ,     Proclamation      extending 

time  for  evacuation,  241,  241  xm. 

, , ,  effect  of,  241,  241  xv. 

,  . . . . ,  reasons  for  retaining,  241  xx. 

,   . .  .  . ,  removal  of  those   refusing 

allegiance,  proposed,  177,  342,  656. 

, ,  .  .  . . ,  ordered,  177  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  preparation  for,  180  i, 

XIV. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  with  moveable  effects, 

extension  of  time  proposed,  177  i, 
180  n,  XV. 

,  . . .  . ,  rent  paid  by,  to  Cape  Breton 

180  I. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  158. 

,  . . . . ,  trade    with    Cape    Breton, 

168,  177. 

,  French  priests,  retirement  of,  pro- 
posed, 261. 

,  influence  of,  168,  177,  180  i, 

241  xvm,  342,  656. 

, ,  intrigues    of,   241    vr,   vn, 

IX. 

,  French  prisoners,  261. 

, ,  taken,  241,  241  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  depositions  of,    241  m-ix. 

,  Fundy,  Bay  of,  241  xx. 

,  fur  trade,  241  xx. 

,  Goat  I.,  241  XX. 

,  Governor  of.     See  Philipps,  R. 

,  Governor  and  Council  of,  241  m- 

vn. 

,  . . . .,  representation  by,  241  xvn. 

,  grant  of,  to  Sir  W.  Alexander,  656. 

,  Greenland,  22  i. 

guardship  for,  ordered,  158. 

, ,  proposed,  177,  241  xx,  269, 

322,  656. 

,  Indians,  241  xx. 

,  . . . . ,  Annapolis  River,  Governor 

Philipps  and,  180  l. 


INDEX. 


565 


Nova  Scotia,  Indians-  confei. 

,  . . . . ,  attack  by,  on  Canso  Fisher- 
men, 241,  241  iff.,  261,  298  i-vi, 
405. 

,  . . . . ,  captured,  241  i,  ii. 

,  Chignecto,  180  xvi. 

,  . . .  . ,  Conference  with,  177. 

,  . . . .,  defiant    attitude    of,     241, 

241  xn,  XIV,  XV,  xvm. 

,  . . .  . ,  fear  of,  by  French  inhabi- 
tants, alleged,  180  i,  rv,  v,  xv,  xvi. 

,  . . . . ,  French  influence  over,  180  i, 

203,  241,  241  iff.  298,  405,  656. 

,  . .  . .,  French  intrigues  with,  177, 

180  i-m,  241,  241  i,//.,  269,  303. 

,  . . . .,  incited  by  French,  241  xx, 

269. 

,  . .  . . ,  intermarriage  with,  en- 
couragement of,  proposed,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Micmac,    attack    by,    on 

Canso  and    Les  IMines,  248  i-vi. 

,  . . . . ,  IVIinis,   British   sloop   plmi- 

dered  by,  241,  241  xn-xv. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  claim  to  coimtry,  241, 

241  XTV,  XV. 

,  . . . . ,  defiant     attitude     of, 

241,  241  xn,  xrv,  xv. 

,  . . . . , ,  outrages  by,  241  xiv, 

xvm. 

,  . . . . ,  Mohawks  to  overawe,  sug- 
gested, 180  I. 

, ,  number  of,  203. 

,  . . . .,  outbreak  feared,  614. 

,  Passamaquaddy,  invitation 

to,  241  XI. 

, ,  letter  from,  298,  298 1. 

, ,  presents  to,  180  i,  241,  614. 

, ,  requested,    177,    232, 

m,  vn,  xn,  298  n, 

, , ,  ordered,  158,  342. 

,  presents  to,  from  Governor 

of  Cape  Breton,  180  i. 

, St.  John  River,  Conference 

with,  241,  241  x-xn. 

,  letter  from,  298  n. 

,  inhabitants,  migration  of,  203. 

,  . . . . ,  French.  See  French  inhabi- 
tants. 

,  . . . . ,  from        Newfoundland, 

migration  of,  recommended,  180  i. 
441,  656. 

,  Jenny  River,  241  xx, 

,  Kennebec  (Sagadehock)  R.,  327. 

,  La  Have,  241  xvm,  xx. 

,  lands  in,  grants  of,  delayed,  158. 

,....,... ., hastening  of,  urged,  168. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instructions  for,  de- 
sired, 676. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  old,  return  of,  re- 
quired, 158. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  petition    for,    by    Sir 

A.  Caimes,  eic.,  362. 


Nova  Scotia,  lands  in,  petition  ior-contd. 

, , , ,by    Col.    Vetch, 

etc.,  355. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  by    South     Sea 

Company,  350 1,  356,  358,  360.  362. 

, ,  . . . . ,  referred,  350. 

,  . . . . ,  ....,....,  objection  to,  355, 

358,  360. 

lands  between  Maine  and,  grants 

of,  petitions  for,  report  upon,  324. 
,  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  old  grants  of,  158. 
, .  . ,  petition  of  half  pay  Officers 
for  grant  of,  49,  355,  761,  762. 
.  .,  Surveyor  of,  needed,  158. 
Lt.  Governor.    See  Doucett,  John. 
,  manufactures,  203. 
Mary  Town,  inhabitants  of,   re- 
presentation of,  158. 
Militia,  203. 
mines,  203. 
,  ..,coal,  177,  241  xx. 
.  .,  copper,  241  xx. 
Minis  (Les  Mines),  241  xx,  656. 
. . . ,  copper  mines  at,  241  xx. 
. .,  deputies  of,  letter  to,  241, 
241  xm. 

,  . . ,  reply  to,  241  xv. 
, . . ,  description  of,  241  xx. 
, . . ,  fort  and  garrison  at,  pro- 
posed, 241  xvrn,  xx. 

. . . ,  . .  . . ,  approved,  158. 
. .,  French  at,  158. 
, . . ,  French  inhabitants  of.     See 
Inhabitants,  French,  Minis. 
, . . ,  Grand  Pre,  241  xvm,  xx. 
. . . ,  Indians  attack.  See  Indians, 
Minis. 

, . .,  lands  at,  fertility  of,  180  i. 
, . . ,  Priests  at,  177. 
, . . ,  road  from,  construction  of, 
prohibited,  180 1,  xrv,  xvir,  241  xx. 
,  . . ,  sloop  plimdered  by  Indians, 
241,  241  xn-xv. 

, . . ,  trade    with    Cape    Breton, 
241. 
Misconcus,  grant  of,  22  i. 
Mortigashe  (Martigash),  241  xvin, 

XX. 

Moy,  River,  158. 

Naval  Stores,  352  n,  656. 

. . ,  Listruction  for  making,  176. 
, . . ,  survey  of  woods  for,  urged, 
168. 

Passamaquadde,  298  i. 

Penobscot,  R.,  324. 

Pigigit,  180  XVI. 

pirates,  281  i. 

Port  Rosway,  241  xvm,  xx. 

Proclamation,  180  i,  xrv. 

produce  of,  203. 

,  regiments,     additional,    proposal 
for,  656. 


5C6 


INDEX. 


Nova  Scotia — contd. 

,  Remobscoe    (Remobscus),    grant 

of,  22  I. 
,  , . . . ,  confirmation  of,  petition  for, 

22  I. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  22. 

report  upon,  203. 

revenue,  203. 

,  lack    of.    Governor's    diffi- 
culties from,  614. 

St.  Croix,  R.,  158,324. 

St.  George's  I.,  656. 

,  St.  John's  I.,  French  settlement 

on,  241,  241  xvn,  xvm, 

,  . . . . ,  account  of,  389  i. 

, ,  referred,  389. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  405. 

, , title  of  French     to, 

upheld,  405. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  proposal  to  dispute, 

405. 

,  Secretary  of.     See  Savage,  W. 

,  settlement  of,  measures  for,  168, 

177,  241  xvm,  xx,  676,  723  i. 
, , ,  proposed,  180  i,   241, 

241  XX,  261,  266,  298,  405,  656. 

,  shipping  of,  203. 

,  stores  of  war  for,  required,  241 

xvm. 

,  survey  of,  ship  for,  614. 

,  Surveyor,  despatch  of,  urged,  168, 

656,  676. 

trade  of,  203,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  accoimt  of,  342. 

, ,  fur,  203. 

, , ,  value  of,  177. 

,  . . . . ,  illegal,  measures  to  prevent, 

203,  342. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  seizure  for,  699  n. 

, with  Boston,  177. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Canada,  203. 

, ,  with  Cape  Breton,  168,  177, 

203,  241,  241  xvn,  xvm,xx,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Jamaica,  203. 

,  with  Martinique,  203. 

, ,  with  Portugal,  177. 

, ,  with  West  Indies,  177. 

,  trade,  woollen  etc.,  699  n. 

,  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  177  i,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  Bolmgbroke  on  proposal  to 

divide  Cape  Breton,  223  i. 
,  . . . . ,  clauses     differently     inter- 
preted   by    French    and   English, 

219,  223  I,  n,  231,  232  n. 
,  . . . . ,  clauses  relating  to,  quoted, 

405. 
, ,   Commissaries       appointed 

under,  203. 
, .meeting  of,  219,  223 

I,  n,  232  n. 
, ,  instructions  for,   231, 

232. 


Nova  Scotia,  Treaty  of  Utrecht — contd. 
,  . .  . . ,  condition  of,  infringed,  168, 

171. 
, ,  Latin  and  French  versions 

of,  223  I,  n. 

,  woods,  203. 

,  reserved    for   naval    stores, 

656. 

,  . .  . . ,  survey  of,  urged,  168. 

Nunquadden,  Peter,  241  xn. 


0. 

Oakocea,  327  n. 
Ockold,  Lt.  Thomas,  326. 

,  . . . . ,  deposition  of,  167  i. 

Octjagara,  French  trading  fort,  demolition 

of,  demanded,  144,  144  I. 

,.•••,  proposal  to  build,  230. 

Oghquary  (bear),  263. 
Ogle,  Capt.,   R.N.   Commodore   of   New- 
foundland Squadron,  260  i. 
Ohio,  R.,  656. 

Onestogo  (Onistogo),  309,  656. 
Ordnance,  H.M.  Commissioners  of,  180  i, 

712. 
,  . . .  . ,  estimate    by,    134,    134    i, 

239. 

,  . . . .,  letter  from.  17,  134,  442  i. 

, letter  to,  298,  535,  535  i-m, 

585. 

,  ....,  office  of,  337. 

,  . . . . ,  Secretary    of.     See    Jones, 

Bell. 
,  Master    General    of.     See    Marl- 
borough, Duke  of. 
Orijagray,  French  fort  at,  263. 
Orkney,   Earl  of,  Governor  of  Virginia. 

See  Hamilton,  George. 
Orleans,  Due  d'.  Regent  of  France,  223  i, 

n,  232  n. 

,  order  by,  267  i. 

,  representation  to,  267  n. 

Osborne,  Samuel,  490  n. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended    for    Council, 

Barbados,  366  i. 
Oswego  (Ochsweegee),  French  settlement 

at,  230. 

,  removal  of,  proposed,  230. 

Otley,  Thomas,  251  i-v. 

Ottley,    Drewry,    Deputy     Receiver     of 

Admiralty  rights,  L.I.,  claim   by, 

28. 
, ,  Depty.    Naval    Officer,    St. 

Kitts,  document  signed   by,    204 

xn. 
Ounahee,  Indian  Sachim,  230. 


INDEX. 


567 


Outerbridge,    William,    Councillor,    Ber- 
muda, 463  I. 
Oxford,  Earl  of.     See  Harley,  R. 


P. 

Packer,  Thomas,  document  signed  by, 
491  I. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  to,  118  i. 

Page,  Mann,  Councillor,  Va.,  document 
signed  by,  63. 

Palmer,  — ,  Secretary  to  Governor,  Bar- 
bados, fees  claimed  for,  419  r. 

,  merchant,  N.E.,  541. 

Panton,  William,  251  i. 

Parker,  Lord,  letter  to,  308. 

,  Roger,  260  i. 

Parr,  William,  deposition  of,  535  v. 

Parris,  — ,  8. 

Parsons,  Edward,  Councillor,  Montserrat, 
death  of,  633. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  204  vii. 

,  James,  St.  Kitts,  251  i. 

,  letter  to,  251  v  (6). 

,  Thomas,  recommended  for  Coun- 
cil, Bermuda,  739  i. 

Partridge,  — ,  109. 

Paxton,  Nicholas,  Clerk  of  the  Crown  etc., 
Barbados,  100. 

Payne,  Lt.  Col.,  251  i. 

,  Capt.  Nathaniel,  251  i. 

Pearce,  James,  deposition  of,  472  ni. 

Pearse,  James,  document  signed  by,  119. 

Pearse,  Capt.,  R.N.,  484. 

,  Richard,  petition  of,  22  i. 

Peasley,  John,  Councillor,  Bermuda, 
death  of,  463  i. 

Pechell,  Capt.,  petition  of,  376. 

Peers,     Henry,     Councillor,     Barbados, 
appointed,  364,  366,  366  m. 

, ,  case  of,  419  i,  490  n. 

,  — ,  petition  of,  114. 

Pelham,  Holies,  Thomas,  Duke  of  New- 
castle, Lord  Chamberlain,  letter  to, 
171,  172. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

468. 

, , ,  letter  to,  171,  172. 

Pember,  H.,  document  signed  by,  287  i. 

Pemberton,  Robert,  document  signed  by, 
204  XIX,  295  I. 

Pemberton,  Roger,  proposed  for  Comicil, 
Nevis,  204,  613,  613  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  appointed,   500,    632, 

632  I. 

Penhallow,  Samuel,  Treasurer,  N.H.,  118, 
accounts  of,  319  n. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by,  491  i. 

,  .  . . .,  letter  to,  118  i. 

Peniston,  Capt.,  558. 


Perm,  William,  Governor  and  Proprietor 
of  Pennsylvania,  case  of,  306. 

, ,  mortgage  of,  306. 

, ,  surrender  of,  agree- 
ment for,  306,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  payment  for,  306. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  warrant  for,  316. 

,  ....•,  . . . . ,  completion  of,  pro- 
posed, 656. 

Peunell,  John,  document  signed  by,  758 

VI. 

Pennsylvania  ;   and  see  Penn,  William. 

,  Act  la5ring  duty  on  British  ship- 
ping, 698. 

,  Act  concerning  Mrs.  Richardson, 

objection  to,  698. 

,  Act  upsetting  marriage  settlement 

698. 

,  Acts,  transmission  and  approval 

of,  time  fixed  for,  objection  to,  656. 

,  Agent  of.     See  Gee,  Joshua. 

,  boundaries,  309,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

,  Charter,  656. 

,  climate  and    soil  of,  309. 

,  Court  of  Chancery,  309. 

,  Courts,  309. 

,  Customs,  Collectors,  309. 

,  defence  of,  656. 

,  Delaware  River,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  description  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  islands  in,  552. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  opinion  on,  602. 

,  . . .  . , petition  for  grant  of, 

representation  on,  646. 

,  emigrants  to  Carolina,  125. 

,  fees  in,  309. 

,  Fort  at  Newcastle,  ruinous  con- 
dition of,  309,  656. 

,  forts,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

,  French  claim  to,  in  map,  303. 

,  French    Settlements,    effect    of, 

enquiry  concerning,  181  i. 

,  Government,  expenses  of,  309. 

,  immigration  to,  from  Barbados, 

148. 

,  imports  of,  656. 

,  Indians,  numbers,  enquiry  con- 
cerning, 181  I. 

,  . . . . ,  Susquehanna,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  French  intrigues  with,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  threatening  attitude  of,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Peace   with,   renewed 

aimually  at  Onestogo,  309,  656. 

,  inhabitants,  census   of,   required, 

181  I. 

,  . . . . ,  clothing  etc.  of,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  increase  of,  309,  656. 

, ,  Irish,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  numbers  of,  309,  656. 

, ,  Palatines,  309, 


568 


INDEX. 


Pennsylvania —  contd. 

lands  in,  grants  of,  729  n. 
let-passes,  309. 

Lt.  Governor  of.  See  Keith,  Wm. ; 
Gookin,  C. 
map,  303. 
,  manufactures,  309,  656. 

. .,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 
Militia,  309. 

..,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 
mines,  181  i. 

,  iron,  309,  656. 

mortgagees  of,  case  of,  306. 
negroes,  number  of,  309,  656. 
Palatines,  immigration  of,  263, 
309. 
patent  offices,  309. 
. . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181 1. 
Philadelphia,  264  iv. 
. . . . ,  mayor  and  aldermen,  309. 

,  trade  of,  309. 

produce  of,  309,  656. 

. .  . .,  enquiry  concerning,  181  I. 

. . . . ,  value  of,  656. 

prosperity  of,  656. 

Quakers,  309,  656. 

Queries  concerning,  181  I. 

. . ,  reply  to,  309. 
revenue,  309. 

. . . . ,  return  of,  required,  181  I. 
rum,  duty  on,  309. 
shipbuilding,  309 
shipping,  656. 

,  ship  taken  by,  Spaniards,  513. 
soil  of,  656. 

Susqueharmah  R.,  fort  on,  pro- 
posed, 656. 

Three  Lower  Counties  (Delaware), 
petition  for,  report  upon,  656. 
trade,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 
181  I. 

, . . ,  . . . . ,  measures   to  prevent, 
309. 

. .,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 
. . ,  with  Great  Britain,  309. 
, . . ,  with  Holland,  44. 
, . . ,  with  Madeira,  309,  656. 
,..,with  N.E.,  309. 
,..,withN.J.,  656. 
,..,  with  Portugal,  309. 
. . ,  with  Spain,  309. 
, .  . ,  with  West  Indies,  309,  656. 
Pensacola,  327. 

Spanish    expedition    against 
abandoned,  47  m,  v. 
taken  by  French,  656. 
restored  to  Spaniards,  656. 
Pepper,  Greneral  John,    testimonial    by, 

13. 
Pequ6,  M.,  223  i,  n. 
Percivall,  — ,  125. 


Percy,  Francis,  Capt.  R.  N.,  Commodore 
of  Newfoimdland  Convoy,  instruc- 
tions, of,  37,  38  I. 

, .reply  to,  260,  260  i. 

Perry,  Micajah,  document  signed  by, 
423  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  petition  of,  353. 

Petty,  Thomas,  case  of,  758  v. 

Phenney,  George,  Governor  of  the 
Bahama  Islands,  726. 

,  . . . . ,  appointment  of,  524. 

, Commission  of,  524,  536  i, 

569,  593. 

,  . .  .  . ,  document  signed  by,  726. 

,  .  . . . ,  Instructions  of,  524,  536  i, 

569,  592,  615,  629,  637. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  758. 

Philippe,  Diego,  Capt.,  47  rn. 

Philipps,  Guilliam,  Councillor,  Nova 
Scotia,  180  VI. 

,  Col.  Richard,  Governor  of  Nova 

Scotia,  and  Placentia,  203,  261  ; 
and  see  Gledhill,  S. 

,  . . . . ,  Address  in  praise  of,  535  iv. 

,  . .  . . ,  arrival  of,  in  Nova  Scotia, 

158,  180  I,  676. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  against,  535  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  535,  535  i-v. 

,  Conference    with    Indians,    241, 

241  X,  XI. 

, document    signed    by,    241 

xvn,  xvin,  xx. 

,  . . . . ,  estabUshment  of,  256  i. 

,  . . . . ,  information  from,  re- 
quested, 342. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  by,  241  vm. 

,....,  ....,of,  92, 158,  180  1,656. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  requested  by,   180  i, 

298. 

,  . . . .,  letter  from,  168,  176,  177, 

I,  in,  vm-x,  xin,  241,  241  ix, 
XI,  xin,  xvm,  281  i,  298,  322,  391, 
391  I,  n,  535,  535  n,  614,  676. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  391. 

,  letter  to,  58,  158,  177,  177  i, 

180  IV,  v,  XI,  xn,  XV,  xvi-xvm, 
241,  241  I,  xm,  xv,  xvi,  298  i,  n, 
m,  v,  342,  535  iv. 

,....,  Proclamation     by,     177     i, 

180  I,  n-v,  vrn,  xm,  xiv,  xvi. 

, , ,  reply   to,    180  rv,   v, 

xn,  xv-xvn. 

, , ,  withheld  by  Lt.  Govt. 

Gledhill,  279,  281  i. 

,  proposals  by,  177. 

, report  upon,  158, 168,  171. 

Philipse,  Adolphus,  Councillor,  N.Y.,  dis- 
missal of,  303,  378,  379,  387. 

,  character  of,  303. 

Phipps,  Sir  WUUam,  late  Governor  of 
New  England,  579. 

Phoenix,  H.M.S.,  484. 


INDEX. 


569 


Pidgeon  I.,  501  iv. 

Pieke,    Richard,    document    signed    by, 
241  I. 

,  . . . . ,  receipt  by,  298  iv. 

Piers,  Cecilia,  petition  of,  545. 

,  Lewis,  petition  of,  545,  740. 

Pigeon,  David,  petition  of,  355. 
Pindar,  Thomas,  452. 

,  document  signed  by,  317. 

Pinney,  ,  251  i. 

,  Azariah,  Councillor,  Nevis,  deed. 

204,  500. 

,  John,  Coimcillor,  Nevis,  death  of, 

500. 

,  document    signed    by,    204 

XIX,  295  I. 
Pirates,  463  m,  515,  516,  527  i ;  and  see 
Anstead,    Thomas  ;     Roberts    B.  ; 
Read,    Mary  ;      Vane  ;      Bonnay  ; 
England  ;    Warner ;  Rackham. 

,  Anguilla,  28,  32  i. 

,  Antigua,  ship  taken  by,  501. 

,  Bahamas,  224,  390,  498. 

,  . .  ^.,  increase  of,  feared,  167,  213. 

,  Barbados,  28,  251  i,  m,  314,  374, 

426,  713. 

,  Bermuda,  attack  threatened  by, 

463,  463  m. 

,  . . . . ,  trial  and  condemnation  of, 

277,  277  I. 

,  Bonnay,  Anne,  trial  of,  523  i. 

,  booty  of,  33  i. 

,  Calabar,  ship  taken  by,  416  i. 

,  captured    crews    forced    to    join 

by,  758. 

,Car.  N.,  656. 

,Car.  S.,  125,  194,  242. 

,  Commission  for  trying,  254,  254  i, 

257,  258,  276,  288,  289,  300,  301, 
340. 

,  effects   of,   disposal  of,   28,    147, 

311,314,314  1. 

, ,  given  to  masters  of  ships, 

proposal  concerning,  79. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  concerning,  639, 

653. 

,  . .  . . ,  order   for   recovering,    662, 

662  I. 

,  harboured  at  St.  Thomas,  28. 

,  Hispaniola,  527  iv. 

,increaseof,  expected,  125, 167,213. 

,  Jamaica,  288,  527  i  //,  m. 

,  . . . . ,  capture  and  trial  of,  288. 

,  . . . . ,  depredations  by,  288. 

,  . . .  . ,  execution  of,  340,  459. 

Leeward    Islands,    251,    251     i 

//.,  318,  426,  501. 

, ,  condemned   at    Nevis,   251 

I,  m-v. 

, , ,  revenge  for,  251 1,  rrr-v. 

,  . . . . ,  effects  of,  disposal  of,  dis- 
pute concerning,  28. 


Pirates,  Leeward  Islands — contd. 

,  executed,  28. 

,  . .  .  . ,  guardships,  unable  to  cope 

with,  251. 

,  . . .  . ,  ship  captured,  28,  500. 

, ,  ships  at  St.  Kitts  destroyed 

by,  251,  251  iff,  277  n,  512. 

,  Martinique,  374. 

,Mass.,  242. 

,  Ne\vfomidland,  251  iv,  277  n,  325. 

, ,  damage  by,  reported,  200. 

,  New  York,  527  xxxrv. 

,  . . . . ,  ships  taken  by,  33  i. 

,  Nova  Scotia,  281  i. 

,  pardon  of,  petition  for,  621,  621  v. 

,  . .  .  .,  useless,  251. 

,  privateersmen,  liable  to  turn,  213. 

,  Read,  Mary,  trial  of,  523  i. 

,  revenge  threatened  by,  251  i,  iii- 

V. 

,  Rhode  Island  sloop  captured  by, 

33  I. 

,  Roberts,  500  m. 

,  . . . . ,  barbarity  of,  463  ni. 

,  St.  Augustine,  501  m. 

,  ships.     See  Royal  Fortune  ;  Royal 

Rover  ;    King  James. 

,  ship  captured  by,  33  i,  463  m, 

727  I,  728. 

.surrender   and    revert,    251,    527 

xxxiv. 

verses  by,  251  i. 

,  Virginia,  311. 

,  women,  condemned,  523  i. 

PitreUe,  FranQois,  deposition  of,  241  v. 
Pitt,  Governor,  letter  to,  327. 

,  Samuel,  captured  by  pirates,  758. 

Pitts,  James,  petition  of,  22  i. 
Plantation  Trade,  The,  quoted,  148. 
Plantations,  The. 

,  Acts,  approval   of  Crown  before 

passing,  proposed,  698. 
,  Acts,  for  bills  of  credit,  instruc- 
tion concerning,  186,  186  i. 
, private,    clause    to    be    in- 
serted in,  479. 

,  .  . .  . ,  settling  a  revenue,  exception 

concerning,  186  i. 

,  Admiralty  Courts,  jurisdiction  of, 

challenged,    699    i,    in ;     and   see 
Admiralty  Courts. 
,  Auditor  General,  proposals  con- 
cerning, 656. 

, ,  fees  of,  554  ;    and  see  Wal- 

pole,  H. 
,  Assemblies,  quarrels  with  Gover- 
nors, remedy  for,  proposed,  698. 

,  boundaries,  forts  for  settlement  of, 

proposed,  656. 

,  .  . . . ,  importance  of  defining,  203. 

,  business    of,    proposals    for   con- 
centrating in  Coimcil  of  Trade,  656. 


570 


INDEX. 


Plantations,  The — contd. 

,  Council  for,  proposed,  656. 

,  Councils  and  Assemblies,  pay- 
ments to,  regulation  of,  74,  80. 

,  defence  of,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  general     contribution     for, 

proposed,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  representation  upon,  re- 
quired, 620. 

,  drawbacks  upon  goods  re- 
exported to,  objection  to,  698. 

,  ecclesiastical     benefices    in.     See 

London,  Bishop  of. 

,  enlargement     and     security     of, 

proposals  for,  656. 

,  extents  and  inquisitions  in.     See 

Blundell,  B. 

,  forts  to  secure,  proposals  for,  656. 

,  French  settlements,  danger  from, 

203,  241,  304  i,  308-310. 

,  Government     of,    representation 

upon,  656. 

,  Governor  General  for,   proposed, 

656. 

,  Governors  of  ;   and  see  Admiralty 

jurisdiction. 

,  . . . . ,  Act  of   Parliament,   copies 

of,  sent  to,  682,  750. 

,  . . . . ,  circular  letter  to,  announc- 
ing appointment  of  Lord  Carteret, 
395. 

,  . .  .  . ,  control  of  guardships  de- 
sired, 340,  500,  501,  501  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  to,  concerning 

bills  of  crecUt,  74,  186,  186  i,  233, 
252. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Commissioners  of  Cus- 
toms on,  528,  528  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  concerning    licencing 

of  schoolmasters,  673 ;  and  see 
London,  Bishop  of. 

,  . .  . . ,  relating  to  pirates'  effects, 

639,  653. 

, ,    concerning    presents 

from  Assemblies,  74,  80,  553  i,  563- 
565  ;   and  see  Belhaven,  Lord. 

,  . .  .  . ,  . . . . ,  concerning  restoration 

of  Spanish  goods  and  ships,  663. 

,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,       concerning       H.M. 

revenues,  639,  653. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  concerning   Vice- 
Admiralty.     See  Admiralty  Courts. 

,  . . . . ,      queries     to,     from      the 

Board  of  Trade,  181,  181  i. 

,  imports  from  French  plantations, 

law  concerning,  603. 

,  indigo ;     imports     from     foreign 

plantations,  558,  607 ;  and  see 
Jamaica,  Act  to  prevent  fraudulent 
trade  to  Hispaniola  etc. 

,  iron  works  in,  698  ;  and  see  mines, 

iron. 


Plantations,  The — contd. 

,  lands  in,   grants   of,   exorbitant, 

656. 

, ,  regulation  of,  pro- 
posed, 656. 

,  manufactures  in,   200,   202,  656, 

698. 

,  maps  of,  need  for,  231. 

,  monopolies  in,   power  of  Crown 

to  grant,  opinion  on,  152. 

,  ore,  export  of,  to  foreign  countries, 

prohibition  of,  suggested,  537. 

,  Patent  Officers  in.  Deputies  of, 

objection  to,  656. 

,  dislike  of,  656. 

,  Proprietary,  Crown  officers  ob- 
jected to,  699  v. 

,  . . . . ,  Governors  of,  order  to,  663. 

,  . . . . ,  objections  to,  656. 

,  .  .  . . ,  resumption    of,  to    Crown, 

proposed,  656. 

,  . . . . , tendency    to    independence 

in,  656. 

,  .  .  . . ,  trade     of,     destructive     to 

British,  656.  * 

,  trade,  illegal,  in,  656. 

Queries  concerning,  by  the  Board 

of  Trade,  181  i. 

,  quit-rents,    audit   and    collection 

of,  proposals  concerning,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  unsatisfactory  state  of,  656. 

,  re-export  of  foreign  goods,  44. 

,  . . . . ,  to  foreign  countries,  pro- 
hibition of,  proposed,  44. 

,  H.M.    revenues    in,    instructions 

concerning,  639,  653. 

,  schoolmasters    in,    licencing    of, 

instructions  concerning,  673  ;  and 
see  London,  Bishop  of. 

,  shipbuilding  in,  defence  of,  698. 

,  sliipping,  British,  cleared  for,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  duties  on,  698. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,  employed  by,  656. 

,  shut  in  by  French,  178, 

Representation     on     state     and 

government  of,  656. 

,....,  ordered,  171,  175,  620. 

,  stores   of   war   for,    difficxilty   of 

supplying,  338. 

,  . . . . ,  payment   for,  by   Colonies, 

320. 

,  .  .  . . ,  . . . . ,  reason     for     refusing, 

140. 

, ,  representation  con- 
cerning, 134. 

,  . . .  . ,  . . . . ,  expected  by  Parlia- 
ment, 134. 

,  . . . . ,  request  for,  239,  438  ;    and 

see  under  separate  Colonies. 

,  trade  of,  adverse  balance,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  how  discharged,  656. 


INDEX. 


571 


Plantations,  The,  trade  of — c<mtd. 
, ,  British  shipping  employed 

in,  656,  698. 
, ,  foreign,  duty  on,  proposed, 

197. 
, ,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 

181  I. 

, ,  reply  to,  187  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  proposals     for     encourage- 
ment of,  698. 
,  . . . . ,  regulations    and    taxation, 

proposals  concerning,  27, 
»••••,  to  South,  direct,  proposed, 

698, 

, sugar,  148,  197, 

, ,  value  of,  148,  656, 

, ,    with    foreign    Plantations, 

increase  of,  211, 
,  . , . , ,  . , , , ,  opinion  on  legahty  of, 

211, 

,  . , .  . ,  , , , , ,  ordinance  and  Trea- 
tise on,  212, 

, ,  with  French   West   Indies^ 

approval  of,  698. 

J ,  . . . . ,     decree      forbidding, 

183  I,  n, 

, ,  referred,  183, 

,  . . . . ,  enquiry  concerning,  184. 

, with  Indians.     See  Indians, 

trade, 
,  . . . , ,  with  Newfoundland,  38  i, 

,  woollen  and  linen  manufactures 

in,  200,  202, 

Piatt.     See  Splatt. 

Plowman,  John,  petition  of,  73  i,  86,  110. 

,  . . . . ,  . , . . ,  opinion  on,  152. 

, , ,  referred,  73,  126. 

,  . . . , ,  , , , . ,  deposition  of,  84, 

Pomeroy,  Capt.,  R,N,,  501,  501  xxvi, 

Pomier,  M.,  501  vi,  xvm, 

Pompey,  ship,  558, 

Pontchartrain,  Fort,  656, 

Pooge,  John,  deposition  of,  527  xxrv. 

Popple,  WiUiam,  Secretary  to  the  C!ouncil 
of  Trade  and  Plantations, 

,  garden  of,  at  Hampstead,  present 

of  plants  from  Carolina  for,  580, 

,  letter  from,   11,   18,   19,   28,   38, 

53,  64,  68,  69,  72,  96,  126,  141,  162, 
181,  184,  191,  196,  210,  216,  218, 
221,  222,  286,  291,  293,  294,  305, 
310,  328,  336,  349,  356,  369,  375, 
388,  398,  399,  400,  402,  406,  412, 
418,  424,  440,  446,  453,  454,  457, 
479,  481,  487,  493,  495,  502-504, 
516,  522,  537,  544,  552,  558,  566, 
567,  586,  587,  591,  593,  597,  599, 
604,  611,  617,  618,  653,  682,  691, 
747,  748,  750. 


Popple,  William — contd. 

,  letter  to,  14-16,   28,    33,   37,   39, 

45,  49,  51,  52,  55,  57,  65,  71,  86, 
94,   110,  118,  127,   139,  159,   176, 
179,  187,     197,    198,    204  i,  212, 
215,  219,  238,  259,  264,  271,  313, 
315,  331,  335,  352,  360,  371,  377, 
388,  410,  416,  426,  4.32,  447,  448, 
450,  491,  496,  497,  520,  527,  528, 
529,  543,  580,  598,  601,  603,  613, 
623,  639,  641,  660,  699,  721,  738, 
741. 
Porteous,  — ,  Councillor,  Va,  12. 
Porter,  Capt.,  167,  527  xxxiv. 
Portland,  Duke  of.  Governor  of  Jamaica, 

See  Bentinck,  Henry. 
Porto  Bello  (Puerto  Bello),  95. 

,  trade  with  Jamaica,  634. 

Portugal  and  the  Portuguese,  ship 
captured  by  pirates,  28,  33  i. 

,  trade  with,  proposals  concerning, 

698. 

, ,  with  Carolina,  656,  722. 

, ,  with  Maryland,  214. 

with  N.E.  177,  656. 

, ,  with  Newfoundland,  260  i. 

,  with  New  Hampshire,  447  i, 

656. 

, ,  mth  Nova  Scotia,  179, 

, ,  with  Pennsylvania,  309, 

Potomac,  R,,  178. 

Powell,  Charles,  St.  Kitts,  condemned  for 

high  treason,  28. 
Poyntz,  Deane,  Depty.  Auditor,  Jamaica, 

document  signed  by,  459  i. 
Pozobueno,  Marquis    de,    memorial    by, 

order  upon,  651, 
Prerogative   of  the  Crown,  infringement 
of,  Antigua,  610, 

, Barbados,  114,  366  i. 

, ,  Massachusetts,  50,  514,  529, 

656, 

, ,New  York,   129,   174,  729, 

729  I,  n, 

,  . . . .,  Virginia,  12. 

,  right    to    grant    monopohes     in 

the  Plantations,  opinion  on,  152. 
Preuse,  Marquis  de,  95. 
Prideaux,  — ,  Barbados,  517. 
Prioleau,    (Proleau),    Samuel,    document 

signed  by,  249,  363,  363  i. 
Prince  of  Orange,  ship,  513, 
Privy  Council,  The,  Clerk  of.     See  Hales, 
Robert ;   Southwell,  E.  ;   Stanyan, 
Temple, 

,  Committee  of,  for  hearing  appeals 

and  complaints  from  the  Planta- 
tions, 114,  380, 

,  , . , . ,  petition  to,  720  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  reference  to,  588,  589,  745, 

746. 
, ,  report  by,  324,  616. 


572 


INDEX. 


Privy  Council,  The — contd. 

,  Lord  President  of,  letter  to,  572. 

,  . .  . . ,  petition  to,   761  ;    and  see 

Townshend,  Viscount. 
Providence,  brigantine,  seizure  of,  95. 
Providence,  ship,  224,  498. 
Pruyn,  Johannes,  document    signed    by, 

230. 
Puans,  R.,  656. 
Pulteney,  Daniel,  Commissary  at  Paris, 

232,  232  I,  n. 
, instruction    to,     168,     171, 

174. 
, , ,  letter  from,  2,  16,212, 

219,  223  I,  238. 

, ,  letter  to,  184,  231. 

Purvis,  Capt.,  R.N.,  letter    from,    389    i, 

405. 
Pym,  Col.,  204  xix. 
Pymshirt,  William,  document  signed  by, 

295  I. 
Pytts,  Samuel,  751. 


Q. 

Queder.     See  Grovemor,  N.Y. 
Quin,  Thomas,  receipt  signed  by,  45  i. 
Quit   rents,    see   under   Plantations,    and 
separate  Colonies. 


R. 

Rackham,     Jolm,      pirate,      trial      and 

execution    of,    340,    463    m,    523, 

523  I,  634  m. 

,  ship  taken  by,  527  xxxiv  (e). 

RaM  (Raillee),  French    Jesuit  in  N.E., 

655,  743. 
Ramsay,  Col.  (Barbados),  517. 
WilUam,  document    signed    by, 

490  II. 
Randolph,  Thomas,  Va.,  election  of,  396. 
Ravell,   Anthony,   document  signed    by, 

449  I. 
Raymond,  Sir  Robert,  Attorney  General, 

letter,  opmion  from,  152,  235,  393, 

411,  602. 
,  . .  . . ,  letter,  reference  to,  65,  68, 

68    I,    160,    161,    170,    210,   228, 

248,  349,  552. 
Rayner,  Samuel,  recommended  for  Coxmcil, 

Bermuda,  739  i. 
Read,  Mary,  pirate,  trial  of,  523,  523  i. 
Reading,  John,  Councillor,  N.J.,  appoint- 
ed, 90  I,  in,  104. 
Recovery,  ship,  513. 
Regent,  The.     See  Orleans,  Due  d'. 


Reid,     George,     Act    concerning.        See 

Jamaica,  Act  for  vesting  lands. 
Relief,  sloop,  captured  by  pirates,  251  i, 

m. 
..,..., inventory  of  goods   taken, 

251,  I,  V. 
Renaud,  (Le  Boue),  241  n,  v. 
Renaudot,  See  Rodeau. 
Renault   (Renos,     Renods),    Moses,     de- 
position of,  251  IV. 
Renselaer,  Hendrik  van,  document  signed 

by,  230. 
Revenge,     Spanish     privateer,     captured, 

527  I,  n. 
,  . . . . ,  complaint  concerning,  reply 

to,  527  I,  n. 
Rhett,  Col.  W.,  arms  supplied  to  Spaniards 

by     complaint    concerning,     283, 

283  I,  291,  292,  292  in,  294,  363  i. 

,  attack  upon,  alleged,  363  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  363  i. 

,  charges  by,  reply  to,  363,  363  i. 

,  quaiTel  with  Capt.  Hildersley,  372. 

,  surveyor    of    Customs,    Car.    S., 
,        removal  of,  requested,  363. 

,  trading  by,  363  i. 

Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plan- 
tation. 

,  Agent  of,  109. 

,  boundaries,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  dispute  concerning,  109, 229. 

, application     to     H.M.     in 

Council,  109. 

,  map  of,  109,  229. 

,  Charter  of,  656. 

Court  of  Admiralty,  jurisdiction 

of,  challenged,  699  i. 
,  Deputy  Governor  elected  annually. 

Act  of  ParUament  evaded  by,  656. 
,  Depty.  Governor,  Instruction  to, 

proposed,  656  ;    and  see  Cranston, 

S. 

,  map  of,  109. 

,   Narragansett  country,    claimed 

by,  229. 

,  Newport,  727  i. 

,  pirates,  effects  of,  restitution  of, 

ordered,  727  i,  728. 

,  sheep  raised  in,  153,  699  m, 

,  ship  taken  by  pirates,  33  i,  501 

IV. 

,  trade  wth  Cayenne,  197. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Guadeloupe,  197. 

,  with  Hispaniola,  197. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Martinique,  197. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Surinam,  197. 

Richards,  M.,  Commissioner  of  Ordnance, 

document  signed  by,  17,  134,  442  i. 

,  Michael,  deposition  of,  241  vn. 

, ,  letter  to,  535  i  (6). 

,  Thomas,    French    and     Indians, 

captured  by,  241  i,  n. 


INDEX. 


573 


Richardson,  John,  Councillor,  Nevis,  295 1. 
, ,  document    signed    by,    204 

XIX. 

,  Rebecca,   act  concerning,   objec- 
tion to,  698. 

Richier,  — ,  letter  to,  502. 

Riddock,  J.,  petition  of,  687  v. 

Riggs,  John,  Lt.,  551. 

document  signed  by,  230. 

,  letter  from,  263. 

Righteous,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  340  m, 
527  XXV,  xxvn. 

Roberts,  Bartholomew,  pirate,  501. 

, ,  brutality  of,  463  m,  501. 

, ,  effects  of,  distributed,  727  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  order    for    restoring, 

727,  728. 

, ,  Governor     of      Martinique 

hanged  by,  463  iii. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  251  i,  v. 

,....,  ships  taken  by,  251  m-v, 

463  m,  500  in,  501  iv-vi,  xxvn, 
xxvm,  513,  727,  728. 

,  ships  of,  251  m-v,  500  m. 

Robicheau,  Prudent,  deposition  of,  241 

VI,   IX. 

Robinson,  Jolm,  Bishop  of  London.     See 

London,  Bishop  of. 
,  . . . . ,  Coimcillor,  Va.,  appointed, 

321,  368. 

,  proposed  for,  12,  270,  312. 

,  Lt.  Thomas,  deposition  of,  167  n. 

Rocas,  the,  pirates  off,  501  xxv. 

Rodeau,  223  i,  n. 

Rogers,  Woodes,  Capt.,  Governor   of   the 

Bahama  Islands,  224,  304  i,  498. 

,  Agent  of.     See  Bampfield,  George. 

,  assignment  by,  766, 

,  bills  of,  protested,  47,  302,  390. 

,  complaint  by,  against  Lt.  Beau- 
champ,  326,  327. 
, ,  against    Capt.     Gale,     167, 

167  i-ix. 

, ,  of  neglect,  326,  327,  390. 

,  correspondence  with  Governor  of 

S.  Carolina  proposed,  232x,  237. 

,  difficulties  of,  167,  390. 

,  document  signed  by,  47  v  (6),  302. 

,  duel  with  Capt.  Hildersley,  372. 

,  expenses  of,  390. 

,  garrison  supported  by,  47,   302, 

390. 

,  hardships  suffered  by,  35L 

,  instructions  of,  167. 

,  . . . .,  ,request  for,  167. 

,  leave  of  absence,  390. 

,....,  application    for,    47,     167, 

326,  327. 

, ,  .  .letter  from,  8-10,  35,  47, 

47  I,  m,  167,  213,  326,  327,  390. 

, ,  letter  to,  47  m  (a),  iv,  v. 

,  Lt.  Governor  appointed  by,  758  iv. 


Rogers,  Woodes — contd. 

,  losses  of,  through  new  Company, 

390. 

,  return     to     England,    326,    327, 

390,  455  I. 

,  scheme  proposed  by,  327,  327  i, 

n,  390. 

,  Spaniards,  attack  upon,  proposed 

by,  47. 

,  successor  appointed,  524. 

,  visit  to  Carolina,  302,  326,  327, 

,  warrant  by,  167,  167  i-ix. 

Rookwood,  Robert,  Col.,  634  i. 

Rose  H.M.S.,  251,  269,  374,  501 ;    And  see 

Whitney,  Capt. 
Rose,  Francis,  Councillor,  Jamaica,  death 
of,  414,  443,  459. 

,  John,  Capt.,  R.N.,  28. 

,  Thomas,  recommended  for  Coun- 
cil, Jam.,  459. 
Rous,      John,      Councillor,       Barbados, 

appointed,  364,  366,  366  m. 
Rowan,  Andrew,  Dr.,  Councillor,  Bahamas, 
327. 

,  document  signed  by,  302,  327  i. 

Roy,  Pierbec,  Lidian,  298  i. 

Royal  Fortune,   pirate   ship,   251    m-v., 

500  m. 
Royal  Rover,  pirate  ship,  capture  and  case 

of,  28,  251  m-v. 
Royle,  John,  memorial  of,  421. 
Russia,  Czar  of,  698. 
Rye,  H.M.S.,  29. 
Ryswick,  Treaty  of.     See  Treaty. 


S. 
Sables  L,  219,  223  i,  u,  232  n. 
Saer,  Habbakuk,  petition  of,  713  i. 
St.  Albans,  H.M.S.,  37,  260  i,  m. 
St.  Andrews  I.,  47  m  (a),  (b). 
St.  Augustine,  attack  upon,  proposal  for, 

reply  to,  147. 
,  Governor   of,    refuses   to   restore 

ships     taken    after    the    cessation 

of  arms,  249. 
,  Indians,  St.  Augustine,  attack  by, 

283  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  take  captured  slaves  to,  125. 

,  instruction  concerning,  regretted, 

283. 

,  prisoners,  exchange  of,  283  i. 

,  privateers,      commissions     after 

cessation,  513. 

,  . . . . ,  protest  against,  513. 

, ,  depradations  by,  283,  283  i, 

284,  363  I, 
,  . . . . ,  protest  against,  292,  292  i- 

m. 

,  . . . . ,  prizes  by,  125. 

,  . .  . . ,  retaken,  126. 


574 


INDEX. 


St.  Augustine — contd. 

,  Spaniards  at,  aggressions  by,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  arms    supplied    to,    protest 

against,  283,  283  i,  291-294,  363  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  prisoners  taken  by,  283  I. 

,  . . . . ,  protest  against  292,  292  i- 

m. 
,  . . . . ,  slaves   from   Carolina   har- 
boured by,  656. 
,  Spanish  expedition  at,  expected 

to  attack  Carolina,  8-10,  47  i,  194, 

195. 

,  trade  with  Car.  S.,  363  i. 

St.   Cheistopher    (St.    Kitts),    47    iii, 

501,  501   XXV;    and  see  Leeward 

Islands. 
,  Act    giving    titles    to    inhabitants 

building  houses  upon  Brimston  Hill, 

600,  500  I. 
,  . . . . ,  for    employing    negroes    on 

fortifications  etc.,  500  i. 
,  . .  .  . ,  for  laying  a  tax  upon  vintners 

etc.,  204  i-m. 
,  . .  . . ,  for  raising  an  impost  upon 

liquors,  204  i-m. 
,  ...  .,for   raising    a   poll-tax    on 

slaves,  107,  108. 
,  . .  . . ,  for  settling  a  salary  on  Agent, 

204  I-m. 

,  Acts,  collection  of,  204 1. 

,  . . . . ,  delay  in  transmitting  204  i, 

ixt. 
,  . .  .  . ,  duplicates  of,  required,  204 

I,  n. 

, ,  referred,  567,  587. 

,  . . . . ,  report    upon,    request    for, 

574. 

,  . . . . ,  transmitted,  500. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  delay  in,  reasons  for, 

500. 
,  Agent,  salary  of.    See  Nivine,  W., 

and  act  for  settling  salary. 
,  aid  rendered  to,  from  Nevis,  295 

I. 
,  Basseterre,    grant    of    lands    in, 

307,  307  I. 

,  Basseterre  Road,    ship    cut    out 

from,  33  I,  251,  251  iff,  277  u. 
,  Brimston   Hill,     See  Act    giving 

titles,  etc. 

,  Burials  in,  204  xvn. 

,  Christenings  in,  204  xvn. 

,  Coimcil,  Minutes  of,  287,  287  ii. 

,  . . . . ,  President   of.      See   Davis, 

John. 

, , ,  letter  to,  204  n. 

,  Court,  Chancery,  287. 

,  certificate  by  practitioners  in,  287, 

287  I. 

,  Douglass,    John,    plantation    of. 

See  Douglass. 
,  Duport,  S.,  case  of,  287. 


St.  Christopher — contd. 

,  forts,    account    of,    difficulty    in 

obtaining,  204  i. 

,  forts  and  fortifications.    Act   for 

employing  negroes  on,  500  i. 

,  Grand  Golett,  251  I. 

,  inhabitants,  census  of,  204  xvi. 

,  lands  in,   case    concerning.     See 

Duport,  S. 

,  lands  in  former  French  part  of, 

disposal  of,  suggestion  for,  548. 
,  .  . . . ,  grants    of,    complaint    con- 
cerning.    See  Douglass,  John. 

,  grants  of,  continued,  756. 

,  . . . . ,  to  inhabitants  of  Virgin 

Islands,  proposed,  597. 

,  . . . . ,  list  of  holders  of,  449  i. 

,  . . . . ,  grant  of,  petition  for,  by 

South  Sea  Company,  350  i,  354, 
376. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  350. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  objection  to,  353,  356, 

360. 

map  of,  ordered,  204  I. 

Naval  Officer.     See  Ottley,  D. 

,  negroes,  number  of,  204  xvi. 

,  Palmeto  Point,  251  i. 

,  pirates,  attack  by,  on  Basseterre, 

512. 

,  pirates  from,  463  rn. 

,  . . . . ,  ship  at,  28. 

, ships    cut    out    by,    from 

Basseterre  Road,  33  i,  251,  251  i  //., 
277  n. 

,  produce  of,  204  XL. 

,  revenue,  accounts  of,  204  i. 

St.  Bartholomews,  251  i. 

,  Sandy  Point,  251  I,  v. 

Solicitor  General  of,  251  I. 

,  Spanish  privateer,  ship  captured 

by,  and  retaken,  33  i. 

,  Surveyor,  order  to,  204  i. 

,  trade  with  Madeira,  204  xn. 

,  Ward,  James,  plantation  of.     See 

Douglass,  John. 
Sta.  Cruz,  pirates  at,  463  m. 
St.  Domingo,  527  i. 

,  Governor  of,  letter  to,  527  xxxrv. 

St.    Eustatia,   inhabitants   succoured    by 
Nevis,  204  xix. 

,  pirates  oflf,  501  in,  vi. 

St.    John,   Viscount   Bolingbroke,   letter 

from,  on  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  223  I. 
St.  John's  I.     See  Nova  Scotia  and  Virgin 

I. 
St.  Joseph,  Spanish  ship,  47  m. 
St.  Juan,  Spanish  ship,  wreck  of,  47  in 

(a),  (6). 
St.  Lawrence,  R.  and  Gulf,  231, 232  n,  238. 
Sta.  Lucia,  British  title  to,  asserted,  6 1. 

, cocoa,  148. 

,  Col.  Stede's  expedition,  6  i. 


INDEX. 


575 


Sta.  Lucia — contd. 

,  French  claim  to,  2. 

,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  6  i. 

,  enquiries    concerning,    reply    to, 

6  I,  7. 
,  grant  and  settlement  of,  petition 

for,  721. 

,  report  upon,  724. 

,  immigration  to,  from  Barbados, 

prospect  of,  148. 

,  Indians,  6  I. 

,  Martinique  commanded  by,  6  i. 

,  pirates  at,  463  m,  501  rv-vi. 

,  resources  of,  6  i,  7. 

,  settlement    of,    advantages    and 

disadvantages  of,  148,  460  i,  n. 

,  settlement  of,  history  of,  6  i,  7. 

,  proposals  for,  6  i,  7,  721, 

724. 

,soil  of,  148. 

,  . . . . ,  suitable  for  cocoa,  indigo, 

cotton,  etc.,  6  i,  7. 
,  sugar    planting,    prohibition    of, 

proposed,  148. 

,  trade,  illegal,  at,  463  m. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Barbados,  149. 

,  Treaty  of  Ryswick,  6  i. 

,  Treaty  of  Utrecht,  6  i,  7. 

,  woodcutting  at,  6  i,  7. 

St.  Thomas,  Governor  of,  dealings  with 

pirates,  28. 

,  .  . . . ,  letter  from,  500. 

,  pirates  at,  463  rn. 

,  trade  with  N.Y.,  187  i,  n,  656. 

St.  Vincent,  settlement  of,  urged,  148. 

,  trade  with  Barbados,  149. 

Sales,  Francis,  document  signed  by,  241  x. 
Salisbury,  Bishop  of,  letter  from,  371. 
SaUe,  Frangois  de,  letter  from,  298  n. 
Salter,  Timothy,  Councillor,  Barbados,  31. 

,  document  signed  by,  317. 

,  suspended,  29. 

Saltonstall,    Gordon,    Governor   of    Con- 
necticut, document  signed  by,  229. 

,  letter  to,  728. 

Salt  Ponds,  The,  33  i. 
Samuel,  ship,  47,  224,  498. 

,mate  of,  372. 

Sandford,    John,    Councillor,    Barbados, 
517. 

,  appointed,  364,  366, 366  m. 

,  Judge,  Barbados,  517. 

,  Thomas,  517. 

Sandiford,  William,  Col.,  Barbados,  490  ii. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  490  i. 

Sandys,   Edwin,   jr.,    deposition   of,   527 

XXVI. 

Santhill,  Thomas,  coppers  and  windniills 
for  sugar.  See  Antigua,  Act  to 
encourage  etc. 

Sarah,  ship,  498. 


Saunders,  Benjamin,  recommended  for 
Council,  Bahamas,  758  T. 

,  Thomas,  recommended  for  Coun- 
cil, Bahamas,  758  i. 

Savage,  Walter,  Councillor,  Nova  Scotia, 
180  VT. 

,  . . . .,  document  signed   by,   241, 

241  xvn. 

, ,    Secretary,    N.S.,    charges 

against,  reply  to,  559. 

,  William,  document  signed  by,  317. 

Savile,  — ,  Judge  of  the  Admiralty,  Jam., 
complaint  against,  527  in. 

Savoy,  Jairmant,  180  xvn. 

Schaick,  Gerret  van,  sheriff,  Albany,  48 1. 

Schaif,  (Schef),  Johann  William,  Agent 
for  Palatines,  193,  570. 

,  letter  to,  398. 

, ,  petition  of,  155  i,  272,  282, 

397. 

,....,  ....,  referred,  155,  162. 

, , ,  reply  to,  163,  161. 

,  . . . . ,  return  to  America,  399. 

Schenckmgh,  Benjamin,  ComicUlor,  Car. 
S.,  document  signed  by,  249,  363, 
363  I.,  702. 

Schuyler,  Capt.,  263. 

,  Myndert,  Major,  Mayor  of  Albany, 

appointment  of,  48  i. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  230. 

,  Peter,  President  of  Council,  N. Y. 

,  alterations  in  magistracy  by,  ex- 
plained, 48,  48  I. 

,  . . . . ,  forbidden,  48. 

,  character  of,  303. 

,  Conference  with  Indians,  188. 

.,  dismissal  of,  303,  378,  379,  387. 

,  dissolution  of  Assembly  by,  for- 
bidden, 48. 

,  grants  of  land  by,  irregular,  303. 

,  letter  from,  48,  101,  144,  147,  188. 

,  letter  to,  48  i,  147,  206,  305,  396. 

[son],  mission  of,  to  Tirandaquet, 

692. 

,  — ,  mine  of,  in  New  Jersey,  520  I. 

Scott,  Lt.  John,  263. 

,  Capt.,   N.E.,   bond   of,   forfeited, 

411. 

,  Capt.  R.  W.,  Commodore,  New- 
foundland convoy,  order  by,  335. 

Seaford,  H.M.S.,  251. 

Seahorse,  H.M.S.,  374,  727  i. 

Sea  King,  pirate  ship,  500  m. 

Serel,  Marquis  de,  Govenior  of,  letter 
from,  527  xxxrv  (b). 

,  . .  . . ,  letter  to,  527  xxxiv  («),  (c). 

Shannon,  Nathaniel,  document  signed  by, 
241  n. 

, ,  mission  of,  241,  241  i. 

Shard,  Robert,  petition  of,  73  i,  86,  110. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  opinion  on,  152. 

, referred,  73,  126. 


576 


INDEX. 


Shard,  Robert — contd. 

,  deposition  of,  85. 

Shark,  H.M.S.,  251,  374,  501,  501  xxv. 
Sharpe,    William,    President   of   Council, 

Barbados,  21  i,  422  i.,  42.3  ii. 
,  . .  . . , report    by,    on     Sta. 

Lucia,  6,  6  i. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  to,  6  i. 

Sherlock,  Samuel,  Councillor,  Bermuda, 

463  I. 
SherrifT,  William,  Councillor,  Nova  Scotia, 

180  VI. 
,  . . . . ,      document     signed       by, 

241  xvn. 
Shoreham,  H.M.S.,  363  i. 
Shrine,  Jonathan,  letter  from,  8. 
Shute,  Samuel,  Governor  of  Massachusetts 

Bay   and    New    Hampshire,    190 ; 

and  see  Cooke,  Elisha. 

,  Address  to,  660  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  reply  to,  660  n. 

,  appointment    as    Controller     of 

Woods,  proposal  for,  201  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  referred,  201. 

,  charges    against,     bv    Assembly, 

579,  579  I. 

,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  579. 

,  commended,  622,  655. 

,  Commission  by,  120. 

,  complaint       against        Carolina 

Indians,  order  upon,  651. 
,  French  prizes  detained  by,  order 

concerning,  226,  226  i, 

,  . . . . ,  Instructions  by,  491  ii,  585. 

,  . . . .,  Instructions  to,   186  i,  267, 

319,  411,  644,  655,  743  ii. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  Assembly    and,    514, 

579. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  concerning     bills     of 

credit,  518. 

,  . . . . ,  leave  of  absence  for,  138. 

, ,  letter  from,  93,  94,  103,  143, 

174,  200,  319,  349,  393  i,  404,  514, 

518,  579,  655,  660,  743. 
, ,  letter  to,  159  n,  253,  267, 

411,  412,  445,  614,  618,  622,  662, 

728. 
,  . . . . ,  message  from,  to  Assembly, 

660  VI. 

,  . . . . ,  proclamation  by,  352  i. 

,  . . . . ,  salary  of.  Assembly    refuse 

to  settle,  514  I,  579. 
,  . .  . . ,  reduced  by  Assembly, 

656. 
,  . . . . ,  speech    by,    to    Assembly, 

Mass.,  93,  93  n,  m,  514,  579,  579 

II,  655,  660  m,  v. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  reply  to,   514  i,  655, 

660  IV. 

,  . .  . . ,  visits  New  Hampshire,  94. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon  by,  93, 94, 

94  I,  II. 


Sigoumay,  Andrew,  petition  of,  22  i, 
Simes,  Richard,  deposition  of,  501  rv. 
Sinclair,  George,  Dr.,  deposition  of,  327  n. 

,  document  signed  by,  327  i. 

,  adventures  of,  327,  327  i,  n, 

Sitwell,  — ,  claim  of,  328. 

Skefiington,    George,   salmon   fishery   of, 

Nfd.,  3  I,  38  I,  40,  260  i. 
,  . .  . . ,  agreement  concerning,   335 

VII. 

, ,  case  of,  335,  335  i-vi. 

, ,  letter  from,  335  l-v. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  3  I. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  3,  40. 

Skene  (Skeen),  William,  Councillor,  Nova 

Scotia,  180  VI. 
,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    241 

xvn,  702. 
Skipwith,  Sir  Fulwar,  a  Lord  Proprietor 

of  the  Bahama  Islands,  document 

signed  by,  157  i. 
Skynner,    Pedro,    Councillor,    Bahamas, 

758  I. 

,  document  signed  by,  726. 

Slapp,  John,  sugar-mill,  act  to  encourage, 

500  I. 
Smart,  Thomas,  Capt.,  R.N.,  219. 

,  commitment  of,  29. 

,  French    vessels    seized    by,   219, 

231,431. 
,  . . . . ,  order  for  disposal  of,  226  I, 

253,  425,  425  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  226. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  reprisals  for,  241,  241 

//• 
,  . . . . ,  restitution,         condi- 
tional, proposed,  266. 
Smith,  — ,  Judge,  Advocate  of  Court  of 
Admiralty,  N.E.,  claim  of,  report 
upon,  117  ;      and    see    Admiralty 
Courts. 
Capt.,  500. 
Daniel,  Col.,  Nevis,  613,  613  n. 

, ,  letter  from,  613  i. 

James,  Secretary,  N.J.,  570. 
, . . ,  complaint  of,  407. 
. . . , instruction     for    re- 
dress, 415. 

. . ,  fees  of,  reduced,  67,  69. 
. . ,  letter  from,  67. 
. . ,  letter  to,  69. 
. . ,  leave   of   absence,   petition 
for,  346. 
John,  501  rv. 

. . ,  Barbados,  deposition    of, 
687  n. 

..,  Councillor,    Va.,    death    of, 
12,  91. 
Joseph,  Capt.,  758. 
Michael,  Councillor,  Nevis,  docu- 
ment signed   by,  204  xix,  295  I, 


INDEX. 


577 


Smith — contd. 

,  Samuel,     Councillor,     Bermuda, 

463  I. 
,  Thomas,  Councillor,  Car.  S.,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  249,  363,  363  i. 
Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel 

in  Foreign  parts,  letter  from,  529 1. 

,  bequest  to,  529  i. 

,  objection  to  Barbados  act,  495. 

,  Secretary  of.     See  Humphreys,  D. 

Solicitor  General,  552  ;  muL  see  Yorke,  P. 

,fees  for,  198,  218. 

Southack,     Cyprian,     Coxmcillor,     Nova 

Scotia,"l80  VI. 
South  Sea  Bubble,  collapse  of,  327. 
South  Sea  Co.,  288,  546,  547. 
,  Directors  of,  attendance  at  Board 

of  Trade,  requested,  356,  360. 

,  Governor  of,  350  i. 

,  Depty.  Governor,  350  i. 

,  petition    of,    for    grant    of    St. 

Christopher  and  Nova  Scotia,  350 1, 

354. 

,  . . . . ,  referred,  350. 

,  . . . . ,  objections  to,  353,  355,  356, 

358,  360,  362,  376. 
Southwell,  Edward,  Clerk  of  the  Privy 

Council,  document  signed  by,   74, 

75,  76,  104,  115,  130,  131,  136,  170, 

228,  233,  234,  247,  248,  289,  290, 

508-511,  568,  569,  588,  589,  609, 

627-631,  650,  665,  686,  715,  715  i, 

720,  745,  746,  749,  759. 
Spain    and    the    Spaniards  ;     and    see 

Havana. 
,  Alberoni,  fall  of,  effect  in  Spanish 

W.I.,  47  m. 
Assiento  Company's  goods  seized 

by,  327  n. 
,  bullion    sent    for,    from    Mexico, 

327  n. 

,  Calahooche  River,  fort  on,  656. 

expedition  against  Bahamas,  8-10, 

35,  47,  47  n,  m,  v.,  224. 

,  repulsed,  224. 

,  . . . . ,  sails    from    Havana,    8-10, 

35,  47,  47  i-iii. 

,  . . . . ,  strength  of,  8-10. 

,  . . . .,  against  Carolina,  194,  195. 

, ,  reported,  8-10,  35,  47  i-m, 

V. 

,  Pensacola  abandoned  by,  47  iii,  v. 

,  galleons,  324  n. 

,  . . . . ,  at  Cartagena,  634. 

,  goods    captured    smce    cessation 

of  arms,  order  for  restoring,  663. 

Indians  hostile  to,  47. 

,  Inquisition,  The,  327  n. 

King  of,  letter  from,  327  n. 

,  logwood  cutters  seized  by,  327  n, 

513  ;  and  see  Campeachy  Bay. 
,  . . . . , protest  against,  338, 

Wt.  7595 


Spain  and  the  Spaniards — contd. 

,  Mexico,  327,  327  i,  n  ;    and  see 

Mexico. 

, French  designs  against,  309. 

,  . . . . ,  French    successes    in,    47, 

47  V. 

,  Peace  with,  147,  213,  663. 

,  . . . . ,  cessation     of    arms     disre- 
garded by,  283  I,  284,  288. 
,  . . . . ,  protest    against,    292,    292 

i-ni. 
,  . .  . . ,  ships    taken    after,    refusal 

to  restore,  249. 
,  Ports  in  America,  description  of, 

345. 
,  prisoners,  exchange  of,  demanded, 

527  xxxm. 

,  . . . . ,  cruelly  treated  by,  527  i. 

,  . . . . ,  marooned  by,  125. 

5  privateer,  28. 

, ,  capture  of,  277  n. 

,  . .  . . ,  commissions  to,  459. 

,  . . . . ,  from  Cuba,  340. 

,  . . . . ,  depredations       by,       after 

Peace,  213,  249,  283,  283  i,  284, 

288,  527  1 //.,  634. 
,  . . . . ,  protest    against,    292,    292 

i-m. 

,  engagement  with,  277  n. 

,  . . . . ,  ships  captured  by,  and  re- 
taken, 33  I,  125. 
,  ships  captured  since  cessation  of 

arms,  order  for  restoring,  663. 

,  . . . . ,  restored,  634. 

,  ships,  British,  captured   by,   10, 

513,  523,  527  i. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  reparation  demanded, 

95. 

trade  with,  698. 

,  . . . . ,  proposals  concerning,  698. 

,  . . . .,  Car.  S.,  283,  283  i,  291-294. 

,  . . . . ,  French  prevented,  634. 

,  Jamaica  stopped,  634. 

,  ....,  with  N.E.,  411. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Newfoundland,    38  i, 

260  I,  447  I. 

,  . . . . ,  with  Pennsylvania,  309. 

,  Treaty    with,    order   concerning, 

663. 

,  treaties  with  Indians,  656. 

Spatchers,     William,     senr..     Councillor, 

Bahamas,  758  i. 
,  .  . .  . ,  . .  . . ,  document  signed   by, 

302,  726. 
Spencer,  Thomas,  687,  687  n-iv. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by,  490  i. 

,  . . . .,  protest  by,  517  i. 

,  . . . . ,  recommended    for   Council, 

Bahamas,  758  i. 
Splatt,  Richard,  letter  from,  156. 
Spooner,  John,  grant  of,  in  St.  Kitts,  81, 

251  I. 

g.P.  32—37 


578 


INDEX. 


Spotswood,  Col.  Alexander,  Lt.  Governor 

of  Virginia,  178  ;  and  see  Virginia. 
,  Address    to,     by    Assembly,    in 

praise  of,  359,  359  i,  iii  (e). 
, by  Council,  in  praise  of,  359, 

359  I,  m  (b). 

, ,  by  Grand  Jury,  359  ll  (6). 

,  Addresses  to,  how  procured,  679. 

,  Assembly,  agreement  with,  359, 

359  m. 

, differences  with,  679. 

,  .  . .  . ,  . . . . ,  cause  of,  alleged,  232 

X. 

,  . . . . ,  management  of,  679. 

,  Charge  to  Grand   Jurj'    by,    359 

n  (a). 

,  charges  against,  679. 

,  complaints  by,  against  Coun- 
cillors, 12. 

,  . . . .,  against  Col.  Byrd,  12. 

,  Coimcil,  disputes  with,  679. 

,  . . . .,  reconciliation  with,  62,  63, 

111,  147,  670. 

,  Councillors,      appointment      and 

removal  of,  proposed  by,  12. 

,  and     the     Five     Nations.      See 

Indians,  Five  Nations. 

,  house  of,  act  for  finishing,  396. 

,  .  . . . ,  charge  concerning,  396. 

,  . . .  . ,  accoimts  of  building,  396. 

,  .  . .  . ,  grant  for  finishing,  396. 

, , interest  of,  in  Vir- 
ginia, 359  m  (a). 

,  journeys  of,  417  i. 

,  letter  from,  12,  59,  62,  78,   270, 

305,  311,  359,  396,  429,  513. 

,  letter  to.  111,  147,473. 

negroes  seized  by,  petition  con- 
cerning, 416,  416  I,  n. 

,  papers,    public,   transmitted   by, 

147. 

,  praise     of,      by      Coimcil     and 

Assembly,  359  in. 

,  reconciliation   of,    with    Council 

etc.,  359,  359  iii. 

,  services  of,  in  Flanders,  359. 

,  Speech  to  Council  and  Assembly, 

359  m  (a). 

.Spotsylvania  County,  manage- 
ment of,  679. 

Spaganti,  Indian,  298  i. 

Spy,  sloop,  case  of,  754. 

Squirrel,  H.M.S.,  29,  226  i,  231,  425  i,  ii. 

Stair,  Earl  of.     See  Dalrymple,  John. 

Stanhope,  Charles,  Secretary,  H.M. 
Treasury,  letter  from,  65,  416. 

, , ,  letter  to,  68,  173,  286, 

440. 

,  James,  Earl  Stanhope,  document 

signed  by,  138,  151. 


Stanhope,  James — contd. 

, letter  to,  171,  172. 

Stanley,  Joseph,  hostage  at  Martinique, 

escape  of,  204  xix. 
Stanyan,  Temple,  Clerk  of  Privy  Council, 

document   signed    by,  21,  76,  77, 

106,  185,  258,  392,  474,  486,  629, 

667,  668,  686,  715,  717,  749. 
,  .  .  . . ,  Secretary    to    Mr.    Craggs, 

683. 

, ,  letter  from,  357. 

Stapleton,    Leopold    de,    deposition    of, 

527  XX. 

,  Sir  William,  204  xxm. 

States  General,  Envoy  of,  memorial    to, 

727  I. 
Stede,  Col.,  Expedition  of,  6  I. 
Stephens,  Daniel,  deposition  of,  204  xxxiii. 
Stevens,  Francis,  79. 

,  document  signed  by,  416  n. 

Stevenson,  Alexander,  Agent,  Barbados, 

letter  to,  365. 
Stewart,   Robert,   Earl   of  Londonderry, 

co-partner  in   Bahama   Company, 

390,  766  I. 
Strode,  George,  452. 
Stuart,  James,  Capt.,  R.N.,  Commodore 

of  Newfoundland  Convoy,  instruc- 
tions for,  388,  400  i. 
Sturgeon,    patent    for    monopoly    of,  in 

America,  petition  for,  73, 73 1, 84-86, 

110. 

,  . .  . . ,  opinion  on,  152. 

,  . .  .  ..referred,  73,  126,  713. 

Subercase,   M.,    late    Governor   of   Nova 

Scotia,  203. 
Sucre  (Sucre),  Marquis  de.  Governor  of 

Cartagena,  capture  and  exchange, 

of,  95. 
Sugar,  imports  and  exports  of,  656. 

,  trade,  197. 

Sullivan,  Francis,  petition  of,  355. 
Summersett,  John,  sale  of  lands  by,  22  i. 
Sunderland,  Earl  of,  letter  to,  460  i,  m. 
Surinam,  trade  with  Barbados,  148,  197. 

, ,  New  England,  197,  656. 

,  ....,N.Y.,  187  1,  n,  656. 

, ,  Rhode  Island,  197. 

Sutherland,  Earl  of,  claim  of,  358. 
,  . . . . ,  petition    of,    report    upon, 

656. 
Sutton,  Edmund,  490  ii. 
,  charges     against,    by    President 

Cox,  etc.,  366  i,  675,  687,  687  i-v. 
,  dismissal  and  prosecution  of,  709, 

710,  713,  713  m. 

,  document  signed  by,  384,  517  m. 

,  letter  from,  364,  365,  490,  517. 

,  order  by,  713  i-ni. 

,  petition  to,  713  i,  n. 

, reply  to,  754. 


INDEX. 


579 


Sutton — contd. 

,  Sir  Robert,  ambassador  at  Paris, 

171,  174,  223  I. 

,  letter,    memorial,    from,    183    i, 

223  I,  II,  232  I,  267  n. 

, ,  reply  to,  232  ii. 

, ,  referred,  232,  232  i. 

, ,  order  upon,  267  i. 

Swale,  William,  Lt.,  R.N.,  deposition  of, 

527  xvm. 
Swan,   John,    Capt.,    complaint   against, 

675,  675  I. 
Sweden,  Naval  Stores,  698. 
Swymmer,    Anthony,    Councillor,    Jam., 
recommended,  414. 

, ,  appointed,  436,  443. 

Sytnonds,  James,  Coimcillor,  Nevis, 
appointed,  500,  632,  632  i. 

, ,  proposed  for  Council,   613, 

613  I,  n. 

,  Joseph,  Speaker,  Nevis,  document 

signed  by,  204  xix,  295  i. 

, ,  CoimciUor,  Nevis,  appointed 

632,  632  I. 
,  . .  . . ,  proposed,  613,  613  i,  ii. 


T. 

Talmash.     See  Tolmach,  T. 

Taylor,  John,  Contractor  for  the  Navy, 

Agent  of,   complaint  against,   39, 

179  I ;   and  see  Jeffreys,  D. 
,  .  . .  .,  contract    of,    118,    118    ii, 

127,  127  I. 
,  Nathaniel,  Councillor,   Bahamas, 

758  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  document  signed  by,  302. 

,  William,  Capt.,  498,  683. 

, ,  document  signed  by,  241  i, 

n. 
Teatt,  John,     Surveyor     Gteneral,     L.I., 

document  signed  by,  227  ix. 
Terrell  (TerriU),  William,  490. 

.  . ,  letter  from,  490  n, 

,  .  .  .  . ,  reply  to,  754. 

Thannet,  Andrew,  Capt.,  grant  of,  in  St. 

Kitts,  petition  for  confirmation  of, 

376. 
Thatch  (Teach),  pirate,  effects  of,  147. 
Thomas,  brigantine,  501  v. 
Thomas,  — ,  captured  by  pirates,  251  iv. 

,  George,  Major,  petition  of,  764. 

,  Lt.  Isaacs,  251  i. 

,  Peter,  251  i. 

Thompson,  John,  recommended  for  Coun- 
cil, Bahamas,  758  i. 
,  Richard,  jimr.,  recommended  for 

Council,  Bahamas,  758  i. 
Richard,         senr.,        Councillor, 

Bahamas,  758  i. 


Thompson,  Richard,  senr. — contd. 
,  . . .  . ,  Councillor,  Bahamas,  docu- 
ment signed  by,  302. 
Thorn  hill,  Donden,  document  signed  by 

490  I. 
Three   Brothers,  privateer,   case  of,   296, 

296  I. 
Tickell,  Thomas,  Secretary,Va.,  appointed, 
330. 

,  letter  from,  55. 

,  letter  to,  535  i. 

Tjerondequat,  144  i. 

,  fort  at,  proposed,  230. 

Tilson,  Christopher,  Secretary,  Treasury, 
letter  from,  198. 

, ,  letter  to,  218. 

Tobacco,  trade,  value  of,  656. 
Tobago,  370,  724. 

,  cocoa  planting  to  be  encouraged 

in,  666. 

,  French  claim  to,  6  i. 

,  grant  of,  to  Duke  of  Courland, 

forfeited,  383. 
,  indigo  planting  in,  to  be  encour- 
aged, 666. 

lands  in,  grants  of,  proposals  for, 

659  I,  666,  671,  678. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  instruction  for,  693  i. 

,  mention  of,  in  Governor  of  Bar- 
bados' Commission  and  Instruc- 
tions, 370,  377,  381,  381 1,  383,  458, 
605,  605  I. 

,  settlement    of,    instructions    for, 

693  I,  717,  718. 

,  . . .  . ,  proposals   for,    148,   659   I, 

666,  671,  678. 

,  .  . .  . ,  reasons  for,  460  i,  ni, 

,  trade  with  Barbados,  149. 

Tobasco,  327  n. 

Tobin,  Walter,  204  xxm. 

,  deposition  of,  204  xxxn. 

Toledo,  Fra.,  Antonio,  47  v. 
Tolmach,     (Talmash)      Thomas,     Lt. 

Governor,  Montserrat,  act  granting 
excise  duties  to,  objection  to,  633. 

,  . . . . ,  leave    of   absence    for,    41, 

700. 
Toole,  Charles,  deposition  of,  535  v. 
Tortuga,  salt  raking  at,  convoy  for,  374. 
Totterdale,  — ,  (Jamaica),  527  m. 
Toule,  Joseph,  deposition  of,  535  v. 
Townshend,  Charles,  Viscoimt,  document 
signed  by,  380,  387. 

,  letter  from,  381,  389,  391, 

620. 
,  . . . . ,  letter,  memorial  to,  327  n, 

383,  386,  405,  460,  460  i,  534,  657, 

753,  762. 
,  . . . . ,  Lord     President    of    the 

Council,   letter,   petition   to,   572, 

671. 


580  INDE 

Trade,    foreign,    duty    on    imports    into 
British  Colonies,  proposed,  197. 

,  fur,  beaver  etc.,  178. 

,  imports     and    exports    of, 

738  I,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  duty  on,  738  n. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  concerning,  738  n. 

, , .referred,  738. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  report  upon,  748. 

.illegal,  L.I.,  557,  557  in. 

,  . . . . ,  Nfd.,    enquiry    concerning, 

38  I. 

,  . .  . . ,  N.H.,  measures  to  prevent, 

94  n. 
,  . .  . . ,  in      Proprietary      Govern- 
ments, 656. 

,  sugar,  197. 

,  tobacco,  value  of,  656  ;     and  see 

Virginia,  Maryland. 

,  with  British  Plantations,  returns 

and  value  of,  148,  656. 

,  . . .  . ,  adverse    balance    of,    how 

discharged,  656. 

,  with     foreign     Plantations.     See 

Plantations,  trade. 

,  woollen,  699  n-iv. 

Trade  and  Plantations,  Council  of, 
Lords  Commissioners  of,  123. 

, ,  salaries  of,  154,  382,  494. 

,  Counsel    to.     See    West, 

Richard. 

,  . . . .,  Office  expenses,  24,   122, 

154,  250,  332,  382,  420,  483,  494, 
549,  672,  757. 

,  . . . . ,  new    rooms    for,  request 

for,  165,  171,  172,  697. 

, ,estimate  for,  ordered, 

703. 

,  . . . . ,  . . .  . ,  sanctioned,  468. 

,  . . . . ,   President    of,    constant 

communication     with,     proposed, 
656. 
,  .  . . . ,  proposals  for  concentrat- 
ing Plantation  business  in,  656. 

,  . .  . . ,  Secretary  of.   See  Popple, 

William  ;    Wheelock,  B. 

,  . . .  . ,    references       from,       to 

Attorney  and  Solicitor  General, 
fees  for,  65,  68,  68  i,  218. 
,  . .  . . ,  instruction  concern- 
ing, 198. 
,  letters,  instructions,  repre- 
sentations from,  concerning  : — 
Admiralty   Jurisdiction,    135,  136. 

, ,  Antigua,  5,  42,  581,  610. 

, .Bahama     I.,     161,     225, 

536,  555,  555  i,  615. 

,  . . . . ,  Barbados,        36,       265, 

370,  383,  435,  435  i,  458,  485,  553, 
553  I,  576,  576  i,  590,  605,  605  i, 
616,  693,  695,  733. 


X. 

Trade  and  Plantations,  Council  of — contd. 
, ,  Bermuda,  515,  516,    519, 

526,  642,  680,  680  I. 

, ,  bills  of  credit,   186,  186  i. 

,  . . .  . ,   Bishop       of      London's 

powers,  ecclesiastical  benefices,  and 

schoolmasters,  695. 
,  ....,Car.    S.,    192,    217,    220, 

237,  242,  276,  695. 

,  . .  .  . ,  Indians,  411. 

, ,  Jamaica,    35,    284,    337, 

338,  414,  505,  607,  608,  654,  664, 

664  I,  670,  744,  744  i. 
, ,  L.I.,  1.33,  318,  632  ;    and 

see  Antigua. 

,  . . . . ,  logwood  cutting,  284. 

, ,  Maryland,     124,     214     I, 

310. 
, ,  Mass.    Bay,    93    i,     411, 

471,  622. 

, ,  Naval  Stores,  657,  657  i. 

, ,  New    England,    22,    253, 

266. 
, ,  Newfoundland,    23,    40, 

441. 
,  . . . .,  New     Hampshire,     319, 

404. 
,  .  . . . ,  New     Jersey,      60,      90, 

90  i-in,  415,  595,  595  i,  646,  695. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  new     rooms     for     office, 

165,  171,  172,  697. 
, ,  New      York,      43,      60, 

87  n,    90,  90  i,  n,  305,  320,  341, 

378,  470,  525,  525  i,  596,  695,  719. 
, ,  Nova     Scotia,     22,     158, 

168,  220,  231,  253,  266,  322,  342, 

404,  656. 
,  . . . . ,  Office      Accounts,     154, 

382,  494. 

,  . . . . ,  Pennsylvania,  646. 

,  . . . .,  pirates,  318. 

,  . . . , ,  Queries     to    Governors, 

181,  181  I. 

, ,  St.  Christopher,  133. 

,  . . . . ,  Spaniards,     depredations 

by,  after  peace,  292. 
,  . . . . ,  state    and   trade  of   the 

Plantations,  175,  656. 
,....,  ....,  Tobago,    383,    666, 

678,  693. 
,....,  ....,  Virginia,  12, 91,  111, 

147,  305,  312,  575. 
,....,.. ..,  Virgin  I.,  584,  584 

n,  m. 
,  letters,  instructions,  memorials, 

orders,    petitions,    references    to, 

concerning : — 

,  Admiralty  Jurisdiction,  117. 

,  Antigua,   227,   501    i,  n,    645, 

647. 
,  attendance  on  Lords  Justices, 

150. 


INDEX. 


581 


Trade  and  Plantations,  Council  of — contd. 

,  Attorney  and  Solicitor  General's 

fees,  198. 

Bahama  L,  47,  157,   160,  167, 

220,  224,  390,  455,  498,  506,  524, 
726,  758,  758  v. 

,  Barbados,  21,  26,  29,  30,   114, 

145,  146,  148,  149,  169.  189,  278, 
280,  314,  317,  348,  351,  361  m, 
366,  367,  374,  381,  421,  422,  423, 
427,  428,  433,  434,  439,  452,  456, 
462,  529  I,  550,  563,  606,  621,  638, 
675,  687,  689,  709,  713,  725,  754, 
755. 

,  Bermuda,    277,  463,  624,  653, 

739. 

,  Carolina,  N.,  220,  254,  297. 

,  Carolina,  S.,  185,  199,  220,  232, 

254,  283,  292  i,  n,  297,  363,  573, 
577,  578,  683,  702,  712,  714,  722. 

,  Connecticut,  229. 

,  Genuan    Protestant   Refugees, 

155,  163,  164,  397. 

,  Capt.  Gookin,  377. 

,  Jamaica,    116,    213,   288,   340, 

344,  444,  459,  472,  499,  523,  527  x, 
562,  634,  658,  688,  704,  705,  720. 

,  Leeward  I.,  28,  107,  128,  209, 

251,  480,  500,  501,  600,  633,  649, 
659. 

,  Maryland,    77,    89,    178,    214, 

257,  304. 

,  Mass.  Bay,  93,   103,  143,   153, 

190,  200,  319,  333,  393,  445,  461, 
514,  579,  655,  743. 

^ ,  Montserrat,  227,  545. 

'  ".'. ,  Naval  Stores,  620,  698. 

,  Ne\is,  295. 

,  New  England,  201,  226,  261. 

,  Newfoundland,  1,  17,  243,  260, 

281,  325,  331  i. 

,New  Hampshire,  82,   93,   103, 

153,  200,  333,  438,  585,  743. 

,  New  Jersey,  67,  80,  239,  533, 

595,   602. 

,  New  York,  1,  46,  48,  80,  101, 

121,  129,  144,  155,  163,  164,  188, 
239,  272,  282,  303,  323,  385,  397, 
401,  407,  533,  595,  692,  712,  729, 
734,  751. 

,  Nova  Scotia,  177,  180,  203,  220, 

223,  226,  232,  241,  261,  269,  281, 
298,  350,  355,  362,  389,  391,  535, 
614,  676,  723. 

,  Pennsylvania,  13,  309,  602, 

,  pirates,  28. 

,  representation    on     state     of 

Plantations,  171,  180,  620. 

,  Rhode  Island,  109. 

,  St.  Christopher,  287,  350,  353, 

354,  376,  449,  574. 


Trade  and  Plantations,  Council  of — contd. 

,  Sta.  Lucia,    1,6,    6  i,  7,  87  i, 

460  I,  II. 

,  ship  seized  by  Spaniards,  95. 

,  South  Sea  Company,  350,  353. 

,  Sturgeon,  patent  for,  73. 

,  Tobago,  381,  659,  671. 

,  trade  with  French  settlements, 

183. 

,  trade   of   the    Plantations,   27, 

44,  698. 

,  Virginia,  59,  62,   64,    78,   254, 

270,  359,  396,  417,  429,  469,  513. 

,  Virgin  I.,  584  i. 

,  Woods,  54,  54  i,  82,  403,  669. 

,  woollen    and    linen    manufac- 
tures, 200,  202. 

,  Questionnaire  by,  to  Governors 

and  Agents,  181  i. 
Trant,  Richard,  deposition  of,  621  iv. 
Treasure,  Antipas,  deposition  of,  687  ii  (6). 
Treasury-,  HM.,  Lords  Commissioners  of, 
554. 

,  letter  from,  303  iv,  554,  702. 

,  letter,  reference  to,  115,  158,  180, 

237,  239,  328,  338,  363,  382,  416  n, 
468,  492,  494,  697. 

,  .....  Secretary  of.     See  Lowndes, 

W.  ;   Stanhope,  C.  ;  Tilson,  C. 
Treaty  of  Breda,  656. 

,  of  Neutrality,  (1686),  183  i,  223  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  infringements  of,  656. 

,  Ryswick,  and  Newfoundland,  38 1. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  and  Sta.  Lucia,  6  i. 

,  of    Utrecht,    article    relating   to 

Indians,  infringement  of,  692,  743. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  article       for       reparations, 

Montserrat,  to  be  pressed,  684. 

,  . . . . ,  articles    relating    to    Nova 

Scotia.     See  under  Nova  Scotia. 
,  . . . . ,  article     relating    to     New- 
foundland, observed,  177  i. 

,  . . . . ,  articles      concerning      Sta. 

Lucia,  6  I,  7. 

,  breach   of,    168,    171,    174, 

177  I,  533,  534,  596,  656. 

,  .....  Cape    Breton,    division    of, 

proposed,  223  i. 

, Commissaries     appointed 

under,  at  Paris,  2,  203,  656 ;  and 
see  Bladen,  M.  ;    Pulteney,  D. 
Tregency,  Bryant,  473  i. 
Trimingham,  John,  Coimcillor,  Bermuda, 

463  I. 
Trinidado.     See  Hispaniola. 
Trott,  Nicholas,  Car.  S.,  charge  against, 
363  I. 

,  intrigues  of,  329. 

Tryon,  Roland,    Agent     for    Montserrat, 
128. 

,  Thomas,  letter  from,  139. 

Tuck,  Philip,  deposition  of,  527  xxiv. 

C.P.  32— 37A 


582 


INDEX. 


Tucker,  Daniel,  recommended  for  Council, 
Bermuda,  739  i. 

,  Henry,  recommended  for  Council, 

Bermuda,  463  i,  519. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  appointed,   739. 

,  John,  Councillor,  Bermuda,  re- 
signs, 463  I. 

,  .  .  . . ,  appointed,  739. 

,  Richard,    Coimcillor,     Bermuda, 

463  I,  739. 

,  William,    Councillor,     Bermuda, 

463  I. 

Tulton,  Capt.,  490. 

Turks  I.,  uninhabited,  498. 

Tuthill,  Zechariah,  Lt.,  document  signed 
by,  200  I,  741  ii. 

Two  Brothers,  sloop,  241  xii-xv. 

Tyldesley,  Mary,  deposition  of,  687  in. 


U. 


Unity,  ship,  520  i. 
Utrecht,  Treaty  of. 


See  Treaty. 


V. 

Vane,  Charles,  pirate,  498. 

,  trial  and  execution  of,  459,  463 

m,  523,  523  i. 
Vaudreuil,     Marquis     de.     Governor     of 

Canada  and  Quebec,  743. 

,  letter  from,  241,  241  XVI,  692. 

,  letter,  instruction   to,    144,    177, 

188,  267  I,  411,  692. 
,  refusal  to  restore  prisoners,  com- 
plaint concerning,  174. 
Vaughan,  — ,  memorial,  b}",  238. 
Vera  Cruz,  47  rn,  327  ii. 
Vernon,  Edward,  Capt.  R.N.,  Commodore 

of  Jamaica  Squadron,  213,  472  i, 

527  XXXVI. 
,  letter  from  47  iv,  472  n,  496  i, 

527  I,  ii-vn,  xxxn-xxxiv,  (a),  (c). 
,  letter,  petition  to,  496  n,  527  vm, 

IX,  xxxiv  (e),  (/). 
,  dispute  with  Governor  340,    340 

i-ni. 

,  sails  for  Bahamas,  35,  47. 

,  James,  letter  to,  472  ii. 

Vetch,  Col.  Samuel,  231. 

,  letter,    petition    from,    95,    203, 

355,  385. 

,  letter  to,  181,  181  i. 

,  father  in  law  of,  385. 

Victualling    Office,    Secretary'    of,    letter 

from,  275  n. 
,  letter  to,  275  i. 


Vincent,  P6re,  French  Missionary,  N.S., 

241  VI,  IX. 

,  Samuel,  information  by,  47  v. 

Virmontois,  Bertrand,  296  i. 

Virginia,  125. 

,  Act,  amending  act  for  appointing 

Sheriffs,  etc.,  396. 
,  . .  . . ,  for  the  better  discovery  and 

securing  of  H.M.  Quit  rents,  359, 

418. 

,  . .  . . ,  .  .  . . ,  objection  to,  469. 

,  ...  .,for    building    a    Church    in 

the  Parish  of  Accomack,  Governor's 

assent  refused  to,  396. 
declaring    what    shall    be    a 

a  sufficient    seating  etc.,  described, 

359,  679. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  report  upon,  469. 

,  . .  .  . ,  for     dividing      new      Kent 

County,  396. 
,  . . . . ,    for     dividing     Richmo7id 

County,  396. 
,  ...  .,for  dividing  the  parishes  of 

Westover  and  Wyanoak,  396. 
,  . . . . ,  for  dividing  Henrico  parish, 

396. 
,  ...  .,for  dividing  St.  John's  parish 

396. 
,  . .  . . ,  empowering  Henry  Cary  to 

finish  Governor's  house,  reason  for, 

396. 
,  . . .  .,to  enable  Abraham  Cocke  etc., 

396. 
,  ...  .,for   enlarging    Charles    City 

County  etc.,  396. 
,  . . . . ,  for  erecting  counties  of  Spot- 
sylvania and  Brunswick  etc.,  559 

418. 

,  . .  . . ,  .  .  . . ,  report  upon,  469,  575. 

,  .  . . . ,  explaining    act    appointing 

rowling  houses  etc.,  396. 
,  . . .  . ,  explaining    what    shall    be 

accounted    a    sufficient    seating    of 

lands  etc.,  418. 
,  . .  . . ,  to  explain  act  for  regulating 

election     of    Burgesses      etc.,     Lt. 

Governor's  assent  refused  to,  396, 

396  I. 
,  . . . . ,  granting  reward  for   killing 

wolves,  396. 
,  . . . . ,  lessening  reward  for  killing 

wolves,  failure  of,  396. 
,  ...  .,for  preventing  the  tending  of 

seconds,  396. 

,•••••,  for  raising  a  public  levy,  396. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  for  regulating  Indian  trade, 

698. 
,  ...  .,for  settling  new  ferries   etc., 

396. 

,  . . . . ,  for  stamping  tobacco,  679. 

,  . . . . ,  of  Parliament,  for  encourag- 
ing the  tobacco  trade,  656. 


INDEX. 


583 


Virginia,  Act — contd. 

,  Acts,  affecting  British  trade  and 

shipping  referred,  396. 

, ,  transmitted,  396. 

,  . . .  . ,  report  upon,  147. 

,  Agent,   appointment   of,   dispute 

concerning,  396. 
,  . . . . ,  need    for,    539  ;     and    see 

Blakiston,  Col.  ;   Byrd,  W. 
.Assembly,  Address  by,  513,  539, 

539  III,  679. 
, Agent,  appointment  of,  dis- 
pute concerning,  396. 

,  . . . . ,  Agent  nominated  by,  539. 

,  . . . . ,  Council  invited   to  join  in 

preparing  bills  and  Addresses  by, 

396. 
,  . . .  . ,  differences         with         Lt. 

Governor,  232  x,  396,  679. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  cause  of,  alleged,  232 

X. 

,  . . . . ,  elections,  act  to  regulate,  Lt. 

Governor's  assent  refused  to,  396, 

396  I. 
,  . . . .,  elections,   disputed,   abuses 

concerning,  396. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  petitions    concerning, 

396. 

,  . . .  . ,  Journals,  359. 

,  . . . . ,  privileges  of,  definition  of, 

desired,  396. 

,  . .  . . ,  proceedings  of,  359,  396. 

,  . . . . ,  salaries     at     discretion     of 

Speaker,  resolution   vetoed  bv  Lt. 

Governor,  396,  396  i. 
,  boundaries,    enquiry    concerning, 

181  I. 
,  . . . . ,  with  Carolina,  dispute  con- 
cerning, 656. 
,  Brunswick  County,  Act  erecting, 

359,  359  I,  417  i. 

,  .  . .  . ,  boundaries  of,  359. 

,  . . . . ,  explored  by  Spotswood,  359. 

,  . . . . ,  settlement  of,  proposals  for, 

359,  359  I,  m. 
,  Calabar  Merchant,  case  of,  416, 

416i,n,  429-431. 

,  report  upon,  440. 

,  Cape  Henry,  lighthouse  on,  vote 

concerning,  396. 
,  Carolina,  N.,  to    be    restored  to, 

proposal  for,  656. 
,  collation  to  benefices,  H.M.  right 

to,  challenged,  12. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  opinion  on,  12. 

,  Council,  Address  to  Lt.  Governor 

by,  539,  539  m  (6). 

,  . . .  . ,  . . .  . ,  report  upon,  575. 

,  . .  . . ,  disputes  with  Lt.  Governor, 

679. 
,  . . . . ,  invited  by  Assembly  to  join 

in  preparing  bills  and  addresses,  396. 


Virginia,  Council — contd. 

,  . . . . ,  letter  from,  63. 

, ,  letter  to.  111. 

,  . . .  . ,  Minutes  of,  513. 

,  .  . . . ,  reconciliation  of,   with    Lt. 

Governor  Spotswood,  62,  63,  111, 
147,  539,  539  m,  679. 

,  Council   and   Assembly,   Address 

by,  .359,  359  I,  .396,  417^1. 

,  .  .  .  .,  referred,  417. 

,  . .  . . ,  on  importance  of  securing 

the  passes  of  the  Blue  Mountains, 
359,  359  I,  lu. 

,  . . . . ,  Lt.   Governor's  Speech   to, 

539  m  (a). 

,  . . . . ,  unanimity  of,  359,  359  m. 

, ,  views  on  Five  Nations,  396. 

,  Coimcillors,  12. 

, .appointed,    70,     131,     142, 

321,  368. 

,  .  . . . ,  appointment    and    removal 

of,  proposed,  12,  59. 

,  . . . . ,  complaints  against,  12. 

, ,  death  of,  12,  91,  312,  368. 

,  . . . . ,  Judges    of    Oyer   and  Ter- 
miner, refusal  to  sit,  12. 

,  leave  of  absence,  88. 

,  . . . . ,  opposed  to  Spotswood,  12. 

,  . . . . ,  persons  proposed  as,  12,  91, 

270,  312. 

,  counties,  acts  for  dividing,  396. 

,  . . . . ,  new,  act  erecting,  359,  469, 

418,  575. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  settlement     of,     pro- 
posals for,  359,  359  i,  m,  417  i. 

,  Courts  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  147. 

,  . . . . ,  Councillors  claim  to  be  sole 

Judges,  12. 
,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  Commissions  appoint- 
ing Judges  for,  12. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  objection  to,  12. 

,  defence  of,  656. 

, measures  for,  232   x,   237, 

359,  359  I,  in,  417  1,  513. 

,  Elizabeth  town,  473  i. 

,  exports,  656. 

,  ferries,  act  settling,  396. 

.forts,  513,  656. 

,  enquiry     concerning,     147, 

181  I. 

...  ..erection  of,  proposed.  359, 

359  I.  417  I.  575. 

.....  garrison    for,    address    for, 

359,  359  I. 

,  .....  expenditure     on     western. 

proposed,  147. 

,  French  on  Mississippi,  advance  of, 

danger  from,  359,  359  i,  417  i,  575. 

.....  enquiry  concerning,  181  l. 

.garrison,  land  for,  proposed. 232  XI. 

Governor  of.     See  Orkney,  Earl 

of ;    Spotswood,  A. 


584 


INDEX. 


Virginia — con  td. 

,  Governor,        conference        with 

Governor  of  S.  Carolina  proposed, 
232  X,  237. 

Governor's  house,  act  for  finish- 
ing, 396. 

Grand  Jury,  Address  by,  539  n 
(b). 
. .  .  .,  charge  to,  539  ii  (a). 
Grand  Juries,  addresses  by,  how 
procured,  679. 
guardship,  507. 
. . . .,  prize  of,  513. 
. .  . . ,  additional,  required,  513. 
immigrants,  Protestant,  measures 
to  encourage,  359,  359  i. 
. .  . . ,  French  Refugee,  359. 
Independent      Companies,      two 
additional,  request  for,  359,  359  i, 
575,  679. 

. ,  Indians,  fear  of,  396. 

. ,  .  . . . ,  the  Five  Nations,  confer- 
ence with,  at  Albany.  <See  Indians, 
Five  Nations. 

. ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  danger  from,  206. 

. ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  treaty  with ,  to  be 
concluded  with  Virginian  Govern- 
ment, proposed,  206. 

. ,  . .  . . ,  . . .  . ,  renewal  of  Covenant 
Chain  refused  by  Council  and 
Assembly,  396. 

.,  . . . .,  French  intrigues  with,  178. 

. ,  . . . . ,  incursions  by,  measures  to 
prevent,  417  i. 

.,  . .  . .,  Northern, danger  from,  359, 
359  I,  m. 

.,  . .  .  .,  nvnnbers  of,  required,  181  i. 

. ,  . .  . . ,  relations  with,  656. 

.,  . . . .,  trade,  regulation  of,  pro- 
posed, 232  X,  237. 

.,....,....,  to  be  concerted  by 
Governors  of  Virginia  and  Carolina, 
232  X,  237. 

.,  . . .  .,  treaties  with,  656. 

.,  . .  . .,  Tributary,  peace  with  the 
Five  Nations,  proposed,  147. 

,  Tuscaroras,  peace  with,  pro- 
posed, 147. 

. ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  protected  by  the  Five 
Nations,  147. 

. ,  inhabitants,  number  of,  656. 

.,  .  . . .,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

. ,  James  River,  Battery  erected, 
513. 

. ,  lands  in.  See  act  concerning 
seating  of. 

. ,  . . . . ,  act  concerning  quit-rents, 
359. 

. ,  . . . . ,  not  forfeited  for  non-pay- 
ment of  quit-rents,  359. 

. , ,  grants  of,  729  ii. 

. ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  petitions  for,  513. 


Virginia,  lands  in — contd. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  proposal     concerning, 

575. 
,  Lt.  Governor  of.     See  Spotswood, 

A. 
,  lighthouse,      contribution      from 

Maryland  invited,  396. 

,  loyalty  of,  539  m  (6). 

,  manufactures,  return  of,  required, 

181  I. 

,  Militia,  656. 

,  . .  .  . ,  commissions  in,  679. 

,  . . . . ,  deficiencies  of,  359  ni. 

,  . . . .,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 

,  Mills,    Nehemiah,    case    of,    473, 

473  I. 

,  Mines,  181  i. 

,  mountains,  passes  of,  fortification 

etc.  of,  proposed,  417  i,  575,  656, 

679. 
,  . . . . ,  importance  of  securing,  359, 

359  I,  m. 
,  . . . . ,  occupation       of,       recom- 
mended, 417  I,  513,  575,  656. 
,  . . . .,  representation  on,  referred, 

589. 

,  . . . . ,  Spotswood's  journey  to,  359. 

,  negroes,  seizure  of,  case  of,  416, 

416  I,  n. 

,  Northern  Neck,  propriety  of,  656. 

,  parishes,   acts  for  dividing    etc., 

396. 

,  parties.  Court  and  Country,  679. 

,  Patent  Offices,  return  of,  required, 

181  I. 
,  pirates,    effects    of,    disposal    of, 

147,  311. 

,  . . . . ,  Listruction  concerning,  147. 

,  . . . . ,  executed,      revenge       for, 

threatened,  513. 

,  . . .  . ,  seized  in,  33  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  trial  of.  Courts  for,  147. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  Commissions  for,  254. 

,  Potomac   R.,  fort  on,   proposed, 

656. 
,  Prerogative    of    the    C^rown,    in- 
fringement of,  12. 
,  produce  of,  enquirj'^  concerning, 

181  I. 

,  Queries  concerning,  181  i. 

,  quit  rents,  656  ;    and  see  act  for 

better  securing. 

, accounts  of,  513,  513  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  application  of,  to  forts,  575. 

,  . . . . ,  goods    distrained    for,    act 

regulating  method  of  selling,  359. 
,  . .  .  . ,  lands  not  to  be  forfeited  for 

non-payment,  359. 
,  . . . . ,  method    of    payment,    act 

regulating,  359. 
,  . .  . . ,  remission      of,      for      new 

counties  requested,  359,  359  i,  575. 


INDEX. 


585 


Virginia — contd. 

Rappahannock  River,  359. 
. .  . .,  Battery  erected,  513. 
revenue,  accounts  of,  513,  513  i, 
n. 

. ,  balance  of,  order  concern- 
ing, proposed,  232  x. 

. ,  deficiency  made  good  from 
quit  rents,  656. 
. . . .,  return  of,  required,  181  i. 
Richmond  County,  election,  396. 
Roanoake  R.,  359. 
St.  Augustine,  attack  upon,  pro- 
posal for,  reply  to,  147. 

,  mission  to,  reward  voted 
for,  396. 

Secretary     of.     See     Cocke ; 
Tickell ;    Jenings. 
Sheriffs,  act  concerning,  396. 
Spanish  prisoners,  513. 

. ,   privateers,       depredations 
after  cessation  of  arms,  513. 
.,  protest  against,  513. 
,  Spotsylvania  County,  Acterecting, 
359,  359  I,  417  i. 

. ,  boundaries  of,  359. 
. ,  explored  by  Spotswood,  359. 
. ,  address  concerning,  679. 
. ,  settlement  of,  proposals  for, 
359,  359  I,  m. 

,,  survey  of,  how  managed,  679. 
state  of,  representation  on,  417  i. 
taxes,  light,  396. 

tobacco   duty   on,   reduction   of, 
recommended,  656. 
. ,  exports,  656. 
. ,  payments  in,  359. 
. ,  quality  of,  656. 
. ,  seconds,     act      concerning, 
described,  396. 

. ,  rowling  house,  act  concern- 
ing, 396. 

,  taxes,  396,  656. 

, ,2s.  pr.  hhd.,  656. 

trade,  656. 

. . . . ,  illegal,  enquiry  concerning, 
181  I. 

.  return  of,  required,   181    i. 
.,  tobacco,  656;    and  see  Va. 
tobacco. 
Western  expansion,  approval  of, 
147. 

wolves.     See  Acts. 
Wyanoake  Creek,  656. 
York  River,  battery  erected,  513. 
Islands,  The. 

. ,  inhabitants,  emigration  of, 
to  Jamaica,  encouragement  of, 
forbidden,  640. 

,  proposals  to  encour- 
age, 213,  213  VII,  288,  459,  562, 
562  in. 


Virgin 


Virgin  Islands,  The,  inhabitants, 

emigration  of — contd.. 

,  . .  . . ,  . . . . ,  objection  to,  500. 

,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  597. 

,  . .  . . ,  grants     of      lands    in    St. 

Christopher,  proposed,  597. 

,  instructions  concerning,  584  iv. 

,  mine,  silver,  in,  500. 

Anguilla,  drought  in,  107. 

,  . . . . ,  inhabitants,  census  of,  204 

XVI. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  emigrate,  107. 

,  . . . . ,  negroes,    numbers    of,    204 

XVI. 

,  . . . . ,  pirates  at,  28,  33  i. 

,  St.    Johns    I,    Danes    settle    on, 

enquiry  concerning,  500. 
,  . . . . ,  representation      on,      584, 

584  n. 

,  Spanish  Town,  33  i. 

, inhabitants,  census  of,  204 

XVI. 

,   . . . . ,  negroes,  numbers  of,   204 

XVI. 

,  . . . . ,  pirates,  501  in. 

,  Tortola,    inhabitants,  census    of, 

204  XVI. 

,  . . . . ,  lands  in,  grants  of,  appli- 
cations for,  107. 

,  . . . .,  negroes,    numbers    of,    204 

XVI. 


W. 

Wabash,  R.     656. 

Wabract,    Gerard,    agent    for    Palatines, 

193. 
Waddon,  Richard,  Lt.,  R.N.,  letter  from, 

507. 
Wager,    Sir   Charles,    R.N.,    Member   of 

Bahama  Co.,  766  i. 
Wahup,  Col.     See  Wauchope. 
Waldo,  Samuel,  letter  to,  10. 
Waldron,     Richard,    Clerk    of    Council, 

N.H.,   document  signed    by,    120. 
Walker,  Alexander,  508. 
,  recommended   for   Council,    Bar- 
bados, 366  in. 
,  George,  recommended  for  Comicil, 

Barbados,  366  i. 
,  Pecoq,      document     signed     by, 

204  XIX,  295  I. 

,—,  Sheriff,    Barbados,    490    n. 

,  Thomas,  Capt.,  351. 

,  . . . . ,  Councillor,    Bahamas,    726, 

758  I. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  by,  758  m. 

,  . .  . . ,  Chief     Justice,     Bahamas, 

612,  758  V. 
,  . . . . ,  dismissal  of,  758  iv. 


586 


INDEX. 


Walker,  Thomas — contd. 

, ,  suspended,  758  iv. 

, ,  Factor,  Bahamas,  758  iv. 

,  junr.,      recommended      for 

Comicil,  Bahamas,  758  i. 

,  Wilham,  Barbados,  452. 

,  . . . .,  document  signed  by,  317. 

Walpole,  Horace,  Auditor  General  of  the 

Plantations,  605. 

,  complaint  by,  129,  604. 

,  document  signed  by,  763. 

,  letter  from,  129,  180,  191,    314, 

348,  606,  738. 
letter  to,  311,  328,  604,  682,  748, 

750. 

,  representation  by,  referred,   173. 

,  salary  of,  554. 

,  Sir  Robert,  255  ii. 

Walter,  John,  452. 

,  document  signed  by,  317. 

Walters,  — .,  SoUcitor  of  the  Admiralty, 

28. 
Ward,   James,   St.   Kitts,   plantation  of. 

See  Douglass,  John. 
Ware,  Peter,  Coimcillor,  N.H.,  appointed, 

437. 

,  recommended,  404,  412. 

Warner,    Ashton,   document   signed    by, 

287  I,  501  n. 
,  Edward,  Col.,  Councillor,  Antigua, 

leave  of  absence,  204,  204  xlv. 
,  . . . . ,  recommended    for    Council, 

Barbados,  366  in. 

,  pirate,  trial  of,  463  ni. 

War  Office,  The,  203. 

Warren,     Robert,     Clerk    of    Assembly, 

Barbados,    document    signed    by, 

423  n. 
Wase,  — .,  letter  to,  256. 
Washington,  John,  Lt.,  charges  by,  535  I. 

,....,  reply  to,  535,  535  n-v,  559. 

Watkins,   Samuel,   Councillor,   Bahamas, 

758  I. 
,  . . . . ,  . .  .  . ,  document  signed   by, 

302. 
Watts,  Alexander,  deposition  of,  535  v. 
Wauchope,  Col.,  in  service  of  Spain,  47  m. 
Webb,  Nathaniel,  Councillor,  Montserrat, 

appomted,  632,  632  i. 

, , ,  recommended  for,  227. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Collector    and    Naval 

Officer,  document  signed  by,  204 

xni. 
Webb,  — .,  Governor  of  Bahama  Islands, 

Commission  of,  161  i. 
Webb(e),   George,   document  signed    by, 

204  XIX,  295  I. 
Webber,  Capt.,  8. 
Weeks,     Ralph,    document    signed     by, 

490  n. 
Weiser,  John  Conrad,  agent  for  Palatines, 

193. 


Weiser,  John  Conrad — contd. 
letter  from,  268. 
petition  of,  155  i,  268. 

,  objection  to,  272,  282. 

,refened,  155,  162. 

,  reply  to,  163,  164. 

Wendel,     Harmanus,     document  signed 

by,  230. 
Wentworth,      Benjamin,      letter      from, 

118  m. 
,  John,  Lt.  Governor,  New  Hamp- 
shire, 57,  118. 
,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    309 

m,  743  I. 
,  . . . . ,  Mr.  Bridger  supported  by, 

159  I. 

, letter  from,  82,  159  i,  333. 

, ,  referred,  159. 

Wescomb,    Daniel,    Secretary    of    South 

Sea  Co.,  letter  from,  360. 

,  letter  to,  356. 

West,  Richard,  Coimsel  to  the  Board  of 

Trade,  198. 
,  . . . . ,  letter,  opinion  from,  3,  14  i, 

26,  42,    114,    117,    135,    147,   338, 

361,  459,  469,  644  n,  704. 
,  letter,  reference  to,    19,   64, 

126,  141,  222,  291,  336,  338,  369, 

375,  418,  479,  504,  567,  587,  593, 

599,  648,  740. 
,  . . . . ,  salary  and  services  of,  65, 

68. 
,  William,  petition  of,  report  upon, 

324. 
Westbrook,    Thomas,    Councillor,    N.H., 

charge  against,  118,  127. 
Western  Islands.     See  Azores. 
West  Indies. 
,  shipping,   British,   employed    by, 

656. 
,  sugar,   imports   and   exports    of, 

656. 

,  trade,  value  of  148,  656. 

,  .  . . . ,  with  New  England,  656. 

, ,  Newfoundland,  260  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  New     Hampshire,     94     ii, 

447  I,  656. 

,  . . . . ,  New  Jersey,  656. 

, ,  New  York,  187  i,  ii,  656. 

, ,  Nova  Scotia,  177. 

,  Pennsylvania,  309,  656. 

Westlake,    Henry,    Judge    of    Admiralty 

Court,  Barbados,  suspended,  34. 
Westmorland,      Earl      of.       See      Fane, 

Thomas. 
Weston,  Benjamin,  deposition  of,  535  v. 
Whale  oU,  exports  from  N.E.,  656. 
Wheate,  T.,  Commissioner  of   Ordnance, 

document  signed  by,  17,  442  i. 
Wheelock,    Bryan,   deputy   Secretary   to 

Board  of  Trade,  letter  from,  538, 

648,  740. 


INDEX. 


587 


White,  Harry,  Capt.,  47  iv,  351. 

,  Leonard,    Councillor,    Bermuda, 

463  I. 
,  T.,   Commissioner    of    Ordnance, 

document    signed     by,     17,     134, 

442  I. 
,  WUliam,    document    signed    by, 

204  vn. 

,  — .,  pirate,  527  xxxiv  (e). 

Whitehaven,  125. 

Whitehome,  George,  petition  of,  22  i. 
Whitney,  Thomas,  Capt.,  R.N.,  374. 
,  Grovemor's     authority     disputed 

by,  500,  501,  501  I,  n,  xn-xxix. 
co-operation     of,    with     French 

against  pirates  invited,  501,    501 

vi-xvin. 

, ,  reply  to,  501,  501  xix-xxix. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint      against,      501, 

501  iff.  691. 
, ,  letter  from,   501   xn,   xvi, 

xvm,  XIX,  XX,  xxn,  xxrv,  xxv, 

xxvn. 
,  letter  to,  501  xiv,  xv,  xvn, 

XXI,  xxTTT,  xxvrn,  xxix. 
^Vhitworth,  Capt.,  R.N.,  35,  47  rv. 
,  Francis,      Secretary,      Barbados, 

letter  from,  419,  465. 

,  letter  to,  419  i. 

,  .  .  . . ,  claim  to  Naval  Office,  409. 

,  . . . . ,  complaint       by,       against 

President  Cox,  419. 
,  . . . . ,  Deputy  of , order  concerning, 

285. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  433  i. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  referred,  433. 

Wibird,   Richard,   document   signed    by, 

491  I. 

, ,  letter  to,  118  i. 

Wickham,  Dr.,  601. 

Willard,   Josiah,    Secretary,   Mass.    Bay, 

514. 
,  . . .  . ,  fees      of,      act      reducing, 

petition  against,  83,  83  i. 

, ,  letter  from,  45,  315,  741. 

Willet,  Major,  251  i. 

Williams,       Daniel,       charge       against, 

527  XXXI. 
, ,  deposition   of,   340  m,  527 

xxn. 

,  EUzabeth,  petition  for,  488. 

,  Jacob,  deposition  of,  204  xxx. 

,  John,  legacies  of.     See  Barbados, 

Act  to  render  effectual. 

,  . . . . ,  document   signed    by,    560. 

Mary,  petition  for,  488. 

Michael,        CovmciUor,        Nevis, 

appointed,  632,  632  i. 

,  . . . . ,  proposed  for,  613,  613  i,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  document    signed    by,    204 

XIX,  295  I. 
,  William,  Capt.,  47  v. 


Willing  Mind,  ship,  498. 

Willocks,  Gleorge,  N.J.,  opposition  led  by, 

595. 

,  Jacobite,  595. 

Willoughby,  Lord,  of  Parham,  6  i. 
Wills,  Charles,  General,  a  Commissioner 

of  Ordnance,  document  signed  by, 

134,  442  I. 

,  .  . . . ,  testimonial  by,  13. 

Willson,  Alexander,  petition  of,  355. 

,  George,  539. 

Winchester,  H.M.S.,  388. 

Winea  River,  125. 

Winniett,  WilUam,  deposition  of,  535  v. 

Winter,  Capt.,  327  n. 

Wisconsin,  R.,  656. 

WoUocks,  Mrs.,  48  i. 

Wood,    Thomas,    Coimcillor,    Bahamas, 

758  I. 

,  .  .  . . ,  document  signed   by,   726. 

Woodin,  John,  petition  of,  355. 

Woods,  H.  M.,  in  New  England. 

,  . .  . . ,  Crown    rights    denied,    93, 

118. 
,  . . . . ,  export   to    Spain    etc.    pro- 
hibited, 319. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  Governor  proposed  as 

Controller,  201,  201  i. 

,  natural    resources  of,  698. 

,  . . . . ,  seizures      and      trial      for 

felling  without  warrants,   57,   82, 

118,  118  I,  m,  127,  127  i,  179  i, 

669. 

, ,  waste  of,  403,  491,  669,  694. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  measures  to  pre- 
vent, 311,  411. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  new    act    needed     to 

prevent,  57,  319,  352  n,  656,  694. 
, , ,  . . . . ,  complaint    con- 
cerning, 656. 
,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,      proclamations 

forbidding,  319. 
,  . . . . ,  .  . . . ,  reports  upon,  required 

to  be  laid  before  House  of  Commons, 

54,  54  I. 

,  Surveyor  General,  absentee,  159 1. 

,  . . . . ,  objection   to,   82,   656. 

,  . . . . ,  deputy     of,     incompetent, 

656 ;       and    see    Bumiston,     C.  ; 

Bridger,  E.  ;   Armstrong,  R. 

,  John,  mortgage  of,  306. 

Wool,  imported  from  one  Plantation  to 

another,  seizure  for,  153,  153  i. 
Woollen  and  linen  manufactures,  in  the 

Plantations,  94  n,  153,  190,  200, 

202,  656. 

,  trade,  303,  447  i. 

Works,  H.M.  Commissioners  of,  order  to, 

703. 
Worsam,  R.,  44,  197. 
,  letter  from,  211. 


588 


INDEX. 


Worsley,  Henry,  Governor  of  Barbados, 
appointment  of,  725. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  commission    of, 

725,  733  I,  749,  752. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . , instructions  of, 

725. 

Worward,  Thomas,  Capt.,  R.N.,  commit- 
ment of,  29. 

Wragg,  Samuel,  letter  to,  8. 

,  William,  letter  to,  9. 

Wright,  Isaac,  deposition  of,  167  iv. 


Y, 

Yearaans,  Col.,  Barbados,  419  i. 

,      John,      Councillor,      Antigua, 

leave  of  absence,  204,  204  xlhi, 

645  ra. 
,  Robert,     document     signed     by, 

517  m. 
,  William,    document    signed    by, 

287  I. 


Yeamans.  William — conid. 

,  sale  of  Mason's  grant  to,  nego- 
tiations for,  273. 

Yonge  (Younge)  Francis,  Agent,  Car.  S., 
683,  702. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  appointment  and  mis- 
sion of,  714. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  document  signed   by, 

702. 

,  . .  . . ,  Surveyor         General         of 

Customs,  Carolina  and  Bahama  I., 
371,  386. 

, ,  letter  to,  484  n. 

Yorke,  Sir  Philip,  Solicitor  General,  letter, 
opinion  from,     12,   152,  235,  602. 

,  letter,    reference     to,    160,    161, 

228. 

,  fees  for,  65,  68,  68  i,  198,  218. 

Young,  Benjamin,  Lt.,  chart  of  Canso  by, 
467,  481. 

,  . . . . ,  petition   of,   467. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,     recommended, 

481. 

, ,  letter  from,  269. 

,  — .,  Barbados,  490  li. 


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