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CONTENTS, 


PAGE 

CORRIGENDA  .  .  iv 

PREFACE  .....  v 

CALENDAR  ....  i 

GENERAL  INDEX  .....  569 


CORRIGENDA, 


Page  20,  line  13,  for  Bridges  read  Bridger. 

„    29,  line  33,  for  Pennsylavia  read  Pennsylvania. 

„  120,  No.  173,  insert   "    after  Oct.  9th  in  line  2. 

„  133,  line  6,  for  Bamford  read  Bamfeild. 

„  248,  last  line,  for  Feb.  10  read  Feb.  20. 

„  254,  9  lines  from  bottom,  for  ventureed  read  ventured. 

,,  304,  line  1,  dele  signed  as- preceding. 

„  339,  line  17  from  bottom,  for  554  i.  read  554  i.  (a). 

,,  363,  line  12  from  bottom,  for  Hain  read  Ham. 

„  465,  line  6,  for  Lays  read  Luys. 

„  512,  line  3,  for  835  i.  read  835  ii. 

,,  556,  line  5.    Replace  line  dropped  out :    909    i.  Petition  of 

Francis  Pouch  of  Antegua  and  Daniel  Gaschet  of 
„  564,  line  16  from  bottom,  for  924  i.  read  924  i.  (a). 


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  in  places  where  the  MS.  is  rubbed 
or  torn  etc. 


(v.) 


PREFACE, 


statistical  During  the  period  covered  by  this  volume,  returns 
Returns.  came  to  haricl  from  the  several  Plantations  in  reply  to 
the  series  of  queries  addressed  to  them  by  the  Board  of 
Trade  in  1708.  These  replies  furnish  valuable  informa- 
tion as  to  the  numbers  and  increase  of  inhabitants ;  kinds 
of  produce  and  manufactures;  fisheries  and  shipbuild- 
ing; ships  and  illegal  trade;  movements  of  ships  and 
the  volume  and  channels  of  trade  between  one  Colony 
and  another.  Returns  are  given,  too,  of  Patent  Offices, 
and  of  the  number  of  negro  slaves  imported  and  required 
by  the  several  Plantations. 

The  Expedi-       The  most  important  incident  with  which  the  documents 
Canadian?  included  in  this  volume  are  concerned,  is  the  abortive 
N^a  Scotia  preparation  for  a  campaign  in  America.      It  aimed  at  the 
foundiand.    reduction  of  Canada,  Nova  Scotia,  and,  possibly,  of  New- 
foundland.    Marlborough  was  determined  to  pursue  the 
plan  of  William  III.  and  to  carry  on  the  war  in  Flanders. 
But,  since  1707,  it  had  been  a  plank  in  the  policy  of  the 
Tories  to  change  the  seat  of  war  to  Spain  and  to  call 
attention  to  the  feebleness  of  Naval  action  in  the  West 
Indies. 

We  now  find,  in  the  summer  of  1708,  the  Whig  Minis- 
ters, Boyle  and  Sunderland,  taking  up  Capt.  Vetch's 
proposal  for  driving  the  French  out  of  Canada  (60, 
71,  85). 

The  idea  of  an  expedition  against  Quebec  had,  of 
course,  long  been  in  the  air.  Proposals  to  that  end  had 
repeatedly  been  made  from  the  Colonies,  as  we  have  seen 
in  previous  volumes  of  this  Calendar.  The  demand 
came  with  greatest  insistence  from  New  England.  For 
New  Hampshire  and  the  Massachusetts  Bay  were  the 
greatest  sufferers  on  the  Continent  from  the  neighbour- 
hood of  the  French  and  their  Indian  allies  (19,  60,  533  i., 
609). 

Wt.  11522.  CP«. 


vi.  PREFACE. 

Rewards  for  Great  indignation,  too,  had  been  aroused  by  the  action 
of  the  French  in  paying  a  reward  of  £5  to  their  Indians 
for  the  head  of  every  English  subject  brought  in  by 
them,  "'which  the  savages  cannot  challenge  without 
shewing  the  scalps." 

Governor  Dudley  explains  that  he  had  himself  set  a 
price  of  £100  upon  the  heads  of  rebel  Indians,  who  after 
forty  years  allegiance,  had  broken  out  and  murdered 
several  families  of  settlers  at  the  beginning  of  this  war, — 
"a  very  far  different  case  from  ....  their  treatment  of 
Christians."  He  threatened  reprisals,  and  his  action 
was  confirmed  at  home.  But  neither  his  expostulations 
nor  threats  of  reprisal  had  any  effect  upon  the  French 
Governors  (19,  30,  533  i.,  p.  238). 

New  York  also  suffered,  but  was,  on  the  whole,  less 
affected  by  the  neighbourhood  of  the  French  (60).  For 
the  agreement  made  by  Lord  Cornbury  with  the  Gov- 
ernor of  Canada  for  keeping  the  Five  Nations  and 
French  Indians  neutral,  threw  the  burden  of  defence 
upon  New  England.  The  Council  and  Assembly  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  again  sent  a  protest  against  this 
agreement  (533  i.) 

The  Agent  of  New  Hampshire  complains,  that  it  had 
cost  the  lives  of  a  thousand  settlers  and  the  devastation 
of  their  plantations,  besides  the  expense  of  £100,000  (19, 
p.  328).  Meanwhile  benefit  accrued  to  the  "handlers" 
at  Albany,  who  traded  with  the  French  (617). 
Demand  for  But  the  New  Englanders  beheld  the  fertile  Eastern 
tion  fro^the  Country  abandoned,,  and  their  fur  trade  lost,  whilst  the 
Colonies,  privateers  from  Port  Royal  ruined  their  fishery  on  the 
coast  and  paralysed  their  seaborne  trade  with  the  sugar 
Islands  (p.  49).  Again  and  again,  in  a  phrase  calculated 
to  appeal  to  Ministers  at  home,  Port  Royal  is  described 
as  a  regular  den  of  privateers, — an  American  Dunkirk 
(533  i.,  etc.)  Another  reason  for  reducing  Nova  Scotia 
was  urged.  Coal  mines  of  great  value  were  known  to 
be  there.  Fireing  in  New  England  was  growing  scarce 
and  dear,  "soe  dear  ytt.  will  be  forced  to  burn  coales" 
(260,  663).  The  time' for  an  offensive  against  the  French 
seemed  ripe.  They  were  scattered  and  not  numerous. 
Their  numbers  indeed  were  estimated  at  less  than  5000 
(217).  But  an  attack  by  them  upon  Maine  was  dreaded, 


PREFACE.  vii. 

and  this  might  best  be  countered  by  the  English  taking 
the  offensive  (60).  The  Five  Nations  were  ready  for 
the  war-path,  and,  if  allowed,  would  soon  extirpate  or 
reclaim  the  Eastern  Indians  (533  i.). 

Coi.  vetch's  It  was  in  these  circumstances  that  Col.  Vetch  came 
forward  with  an  elaborate  report  upon  the  French  in 
Canada  and  a  proposal  for  an  Expedition  against  them. 
His  Memorial,  entitled  Canada  Surveyed,  was  presented 
to  Ministers  in  July  1708  (60,  71).  In  the  absence  of 
Lord  Sunderland  abroad,  it  was  taken  in  hand  by  Mr. 
Secretary  Boyle.  Vetch  was  requested  to  stay  in  Eng- 
land, in  order  to  expound  his  proposals  more  fully  (71, 
85,  89).  Canada  Surveyed,  with  its  explanatory  sup- 
plement, is  a  remarkable  document  (60,  196).  Not  only 
does  it  review  the  whole  case  for  expelling  the  French 
from  America,  and  summarize  the  strength  and  condition 
of  their  forces  and  defences,  but  it  also  outlines  the  plan 
of  campaign  which  was  presently  adopted. 

The  dependence  of  the  West  Indian  Islands  upon  the 
produce  of  the  Continent  is  pointed  out  (p.  47).  As  to 
the  cost  of  the  Expedition  it  is  suggested  that  the  saving 
that  would  result  from  the  mere  cessation  of  the  damages 
inflicted  by  the  French  and  their  Indians,  and  of  the 
necessity  for  continual  defence,  would  pay  for  the  outlay 
in  six  months  (p.  42).  The  plan  of  campaign  proposed 
was  a  combined  naval  and  military  movement  directed 
simultaneously  against  Quebec  and  Montreal  (p.  50). 

its  adoption.  In  Dec.,  upon  Sunderland's  return,  the  Council  of  Trade 
reported  favourably  upon  the  scheme,  so  far  as  it  lay 
within  their  province  (221  i.).  Three  months  later  a 
decision  had  been  taken,  and  Col.  Vetch's  Instructions 
were  signed  (March  1st,  1709.  No.  387). 

He  was  ordered  to  sail  immediately  for  New  York. 
Upon  his  arrival  he  was  to  communicate  the  plan  of  the 
Expedition  to  the  Governors  concerned  in  it.  New  York, 
New  Jersey,  Connecticut  and  Pennsylvania  were  to  fur- 

The  Quotas,  nish  contingents  amounting  in  all  to  1500  men.  These 
were  to  be  provided  with  arms  and  ammunition  from 
H.M.  magazines  at  New  York,  and  to  be  disposed  into 
four  battalions,  with  which  the  four  regular  companies  at 
New  York  were  to  be  incorporated.  Officers  were  de- 
tached from  England  to  train  and  command  them. 


viii.  PREFACE. 

These  troops  were  to  be  ready  to  march  from  Albany,  in 
conjunction  with  the  Five  Nations  and  River  Indians, 
by  the  middle  of  May.  A  depot  of  provisions  was  to 
be  organised  at  Wood  Creek.  Meantime,  the  Gov- 
ernors of  New  England  and  Rhode  Island  were  to  raise 
1200  men,  and  to  prepare  transports,  pilots  and  supplies. 
They  were  to  be  ready  to  embark  by  the  middle  of  May, 
and  to  await  the  arrival  of  the  Fleet  from  England, 
which  would  bring  them  arms  and  ammunition. 

Such  other  preparations  as  might  be  deemed  neces- 
sary were  to  be  undertaken  if  unanimously  agreed  upon 
by  Col.  Vetch,  the  Governors  concerned,  and  Col. 
Nicholson,  who  had  offered  himself  as  a  volunteer  on  the 
Expedition.  Volunteers  in  the  Plantations  were  to  be 
encouraged  (387,  388).  In  order  to  stimulate  the  en- 
thusiasm of  the  Colonists,  they  were  to  be  assured  that 
the  Governments  which  contributed  towards  the  reduc- 
tion of  Canada,  should  have  a  preference  with  regard 
both  to  the  soil  and  the  trade  of  that  country,  when  re- 
duced (p.  232).  Instructions  in  detail  and  to  the  same 
effect  were  sent  to  the  several  Governors  after  Vetch 
had  sailed  (475-478).  It  is  stated  therein  that  "H.M. 
is  now  fitting  out  her  Commander  in  cheif  of  the  said 
expedition  with  a  squadron  of  ships,  and  five  regiments 
of  the  regular  troops,  who  are  to  be  at  Boston  by  the 
middle  of  May."  That  was  on  April  28th  (p.  284). 
The  Commander  in  Chief  referred  to  was  General  Whet- 
ham  (492).  Sealed  Orders  were  prepared  for  him. 
They  were  only  to  be  opened  if,  upon  his  arrival  at  Bos- 
ton, it  was  decided  at  a  Council  of  war  that  the  Expe- 
dition against  Canada  was  impracticable.  In  that  case, 
he  was  to  attempt  the  reduction  of  Newfoundland  (497, 
498).  In  America,  expectation  ran  high. 

At  the  end  of  June  Col.  Francis  Nicholson  and  Col. 
'Vetch  reported  that  nothing  could  prevent  the  success 
of  the  campaign  except  the  too  late  arrival  of  the  Fleet. 
They  had. reached  Boston  on  April  28th.  There,  as  in 
Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut,  the  project  was  received 
with  enthusiasm,  and  preparations  were  at  once  begun  in 
accordance  with  the  plan  of  campaign  (604).  Three 
regiments,  raised  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  were  uni- 
formed, armed  and  drilled  so  effectively  that  Col.  Vetch 


PREFACE.  ix. 

considered  them  equal  to  most  regiments  in  the  service 
(666).  From  Boston,  Vetch  and  Nicholson  proceeded  to 
Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut,  and  thence  to  New  York. 
The  view  that  "New  York  was  the  only  Colony  which 
threw  itself  into  the  attempt  with  hearty  enthusiasm" 
(Do)ie,  The  Middle  Colonies,  p.  345)  is  not  borne  out  by 
the  reports  now  published  (602-605,  617).  The  several 
Governors  and  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  New  York 
appointed  Nicholson  Commander  in  Chief,  with  Col. 
Schuyler  as  second  in  command  (p.  403).  On  May  26th 
a  force  marched  out  to  Wood  Creek  and  began  to  con- 
struct a  depot  and  to  build  boats  and  canoes  there  (666). 
On  leaving  New  York,  Vetch  and  Nicholson  visited  New 
Jersey.  There  the  Assembly,  being  composed  largely 
of  Quakers,  refused  to  contribute  their  quota  of  men. 
They  also  at  first  refused,  but  afterwards  passed,  acts 
for  £3000,  for  the  present  service  and  expedition  against 
Canada,  and  for  the  encouragement  of  volunteers.  These 
Acts  were  only  passed  with  great  difficulty,  all  the 
Quakers  in  the  House  of  Representatives  voting  against 
them  (617).  Pennsylvania  refused  to  contribute  either 
men  or  money  (580). 

The  possibility  of  the  refusal  of  Quotas  had  not  been 
unforeseen  (497).  It  was,  however,  hoped  to  make  up 
the  deficit  by  raising  more  Indians.  But  the  opportunity 
was  taken  to  urge  the  exclusion  of  all  Quakers  from 
Government  (p.  405.  No.  605). 

At  the  beginning  of  July  Nicholson  and  the  acting  Lt. 
Governor  of  New  York,  Col.   Ingoldesby,  proceeded  to 
meet  the  Indians  at  Albany  "whither  all  the  forces  nre 
Non-arrival  gon  up"  (629).      A  month  went  by,  and  still  there  was 
of  the  Fleet.  no   sjgn    of   tne    pieet>      All   hope   of   a   surprise   disa- 
peared.      For  Col.   Nicholson  waiting  impatiently  with 
his  contingent  at  the   Lake  side,  ready  to  embark  for 
Montreal   in   canoes   and   specially-constructed   fiat-bot- 
tomed boats,  had  a  skirmish  with  the  French  and  Indians 
(666). 

At  last,  on  Oct.  llth,  a  man  of  war  arrived  bringing 
letters  dated  27th  July,  which  announced  that  the  expe- 
dition had  been  abandoned.  The  high  hopes  of  the 
Colonists  were  dashed.  But  there  was  still  a  chance 
that  all  their  trouble  and  the  heavy  expense  of  their 


PREFACE. 

preparations — estimated  at  £100,000  apart  from  the  cost 
of  dislocated  trade  and  a  three  months'  embargo  on  ship- 
ping-might not  have  been  wholly  in  vain. 

Attack  on  For  the  Commanders  of  the  Expeditionary 'forces  were 
instructed  to  consider  whether,  with  the  resources  at  their 
disposal,  an  attack  upon  Nova  Scotia  and  Port  Royal 
might  not  still  be  feasible  (794).  A  Council  of  War 
was  therefore  held,  attended  by  Cols.  Nicholson,  Vetch 
and  Moody — who  had  arrived  from  Newfoundland — the 
Governors  and  some  of  the  Members  of  Council  and 
Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  Connecticut,  Rhode 
Island  and  New  Hampshire. 

After  considering  Col.  Moody's  report  upon  New- 
foundland, it  was  unanimously  decided  to  defer  any 
attempt  against  the  French  there,  or  for  the  recovery  of 
the  Bahama  Islands,  until  the  spring,  but  to  proceed 

abandoned  f°rlnwitn  against  Port  Royal.  The  Government  of  New 
York  and  the  Jerseys,  however,  would  take  no  part  in 
the  project.  And  the  Navy  flatly  refused  to  help.  The 
Commanders  of  H.M.  ships  pleaded  orders  from  the  Ad- 
miralty, some  to  sail  for  Newfoundland,  and  some  for 
New  Providence  (794,  794  i.-xii.,  798,  803,  806).  As  their 
aid  was  vital,  there  was  nothing  for  it  but  to  abandon 
all  action,  and  seek  consolation  in  the  hope  of  a  renewed 
attempt  in  the  spring.  With  this  end  in  view,  it  was 
decided  to  maintain  the  forts  which  had  been  erected  at 
Wood  Creek  with  so  much  labour  and  expense,  and  to 
send  home  Representatives  from  each  Government  and 
the  Five  Nations  to  urge  a  renewal  of  the  Expedition. 
Col.  Nicholson  was  the  first  to  sail,  commissioned  to 
press  the  cause  and  present  Addresses  to  that  effect 
(794,  794  i.-xii.,  797,  798,  803,  806,  922  ii.).  In  any  future 
Expedition,  it  was  significantly  suggested  that  the  ships 
of  war  should  be  obliged  to  obey  the  orders  of  the  Com- 
manders in  Chief  of  the  Expedition,  or  at  least  the  de- 

TheNavyin  cisions  of  a  Council  of  War,  of  which  the  Commanders 
indies?  of  ships  should  be  members  (798).  Vetch  in  his  ex- 
planatory supplement  had  already  called  attention  to  the 
necessity  of  a  careful  adjustment  of  the  commands  by 
sea  and  land,  "the  want  of  which  hath  often  occasioned 
the  miscariage  of  the  undertaking"  (196).  The  feeble 
administration  of  the  Navy,  it  will  be  remembered,  was 


PREFACE.  xi. 

one  of  the  points  of  attack  by  the  Opposition  at  home. 
In  the  West  Indies  we  have  seen  frequent  examples  of 
the  want  of  fighting  spirit.  Rear  Admiral  Wager  had 
recently  repeated  the  bitter  experience  of  Benbow. 

The  list  of  the  Spanish  galleons  and  their  convoy — 
fourteen  sail  of  ships,  including  three  men  of  war,  two 
sloops  and  a  brigantine — engaged  by  Wager,  is  given 
(56  ii.,  135).  The  Captains  of  the  two  men  of  war  ac- 
companying him  left  him  to  fight  them  almost  single- 
handed. 

The  Spaniards  trading  with  the  English  on  the  Span- 
ish Main  laughed  at  these  two  ships  of  60  and  50  guns 
who  dared  not  attack  their  Vice  Admiral  of  64  guns,  but 
kept  at  a  safe  distance  ahead  or  astern  of  him  (p.  38). 
officers  Court       Wager,   like    Benbow,    courtmartialled   his   cowardly 

martialled.  -t  ,. 

subordinates  and  broke  them — a  very  favourable  sen- 
tence, in  Governor  Handasyd's  opinion  (68,  135).  For 
the  rest  of  the  year  the  Naval  Squadron  stationed  at 
Jamaica,  and  privateers  commissioned  from  thence,  were 
engaged  in  watching  for  the  Spanish  galleons  at  Car- 
tagena, Vera  Cruz,  Porto  Rico  and  the  Havana,  hoping 
to  pounce  upon  them  should  they  venture  to  put  to  sea 
under  French  or  Spanish  convoy,  but  hoping  in  vain 
(56,  68,  451,  542,  649). 

TWO  Minor  Apart  from  numerous  captures  of  merchantmen  and 
Emenfse  packets  on  either  side,  two  minor  naval  engagements  are 
mentioned.  That  of  H.M.S.  Portland  off  Porto  Bello 
ended  successfully  in  the  recapture  of  H.M.S.  Coventry 
with  400,000  pieces  of  eight  on  board  (451,  483,  542,  679, 
872).  Adventure  was  less  fortunate.  Giving  chase  to 
Valeur  off  the  Leeward  Islands,  she  caught  a  tartar. 
When  she  had  lost  1 17  in  killed'  and  wounded,  and  her 
officers  had  been  put  out  of  action,  the  remainder  of  the 
crew  surrendered  to  the  Frenchmen  (487,  529  iii.,  iv.) 

Privateers.  The  Naval  Forces  were  helped  by  privateers  in  their 
task  of  scouring  the  seas.  These  were  reported  to  have 
done  much  damage  to  French  traders  among  the  West 
Indies  and  in  the  South  Seas  (720,  720  i.).  But  there 
was  another  side  to  the  picture.  Privateers  had  in- 
creased ir  numbers  owing  to  the  encouragement  of  the 
recent  Act  of  Parliament.  But  for  this  more  profitable 
calling  sailors  were  tempted  to  desert  men  of  war  and 
merchantmen  alike  (301,  445,  '445  i.). 


xii.  PREFACE. 

Shortage  of        Desertion    and    sickness    thinned    the    crews    of    the 

Sailors.     Squadron  at  Jamaica  to  such  an  extent  that  ships  could 

not  put  to  sea  unless  one  fifth  of  their  men  were  supplied 

from   the    Regiment   stationed   there.      Governor    Han- 

H.M.  Ships  dasyd   complains   again   and   again   that   his   men  '"are 

m8oid£rsby  fatigued  out  of  their  lives."  Their  losses  in  action,  too, 
were  neavy  (56,  68,  174,  542,  649). 

Question  of  To  meet  the  deficiency  of  sailors,  outgoing  ships  were 
dispatched  with  supernumerary  crews.  But  the  Admir- 
alty pointed  out  that  the  recent  Act  for  the  encourage- 
ment of  trade  to  America  deprived  naval  officers  of  the 
power  of  impressing  men  for  H.M.  service,  even  in  the 
greatest  necessity.  They  therefore  instructed  the  Cap- 
tains of  men  of  war  in  the  West  Indies  to  leave  their 
stations  the  moment  their  complement  was  so  far  re- 
duced, that  there  remained  but  men  enough  to  carry  them 
home.  The  plight  of  unguarded  Colonies  was  left  out 
of  account  (96,  376).  The  clause  in  the  Act  referred  to 
was  interpreted  by  Governors  of  Plantations  as  applying 
to  civil  magistrates  also.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  the 
Law  Officers  of  the  Crown  held  otherwise.  But  in  view 
of  the  doubt  felt,  the  whole  question  was  referred  for  de- 
cision to  the  Secretary  of  State  (68,  96,  248,  376,  621,  621 
i.,  ii.,  747,  747  i.-v.,  753). 

Privateers        There  were  other  objections  to  privateers.      For  there 

and  Pirates.  •„  , 

was  always  a  danger  lest  pnvateersmen  might  turn  pir- 
ates. It  was  not  only  that  Peace  would  throw  them  out 
of  employment  and  "leave  to  the  world  a  brood  of 
pyrates  to  infest  it"  (301,  785,  908).  But  there  was  also 
a  present  temptation  to  capture  a  fellow  countryman  and 
"sink  him  without  trace"  (445,  445  i.). 

Governor  Handasyd,  indeed,  reports  an  ominous  in- 
crease in  pirates  off  the  Spanish  coast.  Strangely 
enough,  they  represented  themselves  as  being  so  strongly 
pro-ally  in  their  sympathies  that  they  refused  to  be 
tempted  by  French  or  Spanish  offers.  Nothing  but  an 
English  pardon  would  satisfy  them  (785). 

^  curious  proposal  was  made  concerning  the  notorious 
nest  of  pirates  at  Madagascar.  First  we  have  memorials 
from  the  Marquis  of  Carmarthen  urging  the  suppression 
of  the  pirates  there,  and  a  resolution  of  the  House  of 
Commons  to  that  effect  (557  i.,  908,  908i.-vi.).  It  was 


PREFACE.  xih. 

practically  impossible  to  apply  force.  The  application  of 
former  schemes  for  securing  their  surrender  upon  prom- 
ise of  pardon  had  been  mismanaged.  It  was  therefore 
now  proposed  to  appoint  some  responsible  persons  to  ne- 
gotiate with  them  as  trustees  for  their  lives  and  property. 
This  plan  was  also  pressed  by  Lord  Morton  and  others, 
and  backed  by  the  "wives  and  relations  of  pirates  and 
buckaneers  of  Madagascar  and  elsewhere"  who  asked 
for  a  general  pardon  and  good  guarantees  "that  their 
riches  may  be  secured  to  them  on  their  return  home"  (620 
i.,  ii.) 

Who  sups  with  the  devil,  should  use  a  long  spoon. 
Lord  Carmarthen  gave  warning  of  a  rival  expedition 
under  the  camouflaged  command  of  the  old  pirate,  Capt. 
Breholt.  The  ostensible  purpose  of  it  was  to  recover 
wrecked  treasure.  In  this  adventure  he  had  engaged 
the  support  of  Lord  Fairfax,  Lord  Rivers  and  others. 
But  his  real  object  was  to  get  out  to  sea  and  then  sail  for 
Madagascar  "upon  a  Scotch  pardon  for  the  pyrats  there" 
(908  ii.-v.) 

Privateers  Another  grievance  against  the  privateers  finds  fre- 
quent  expression.  Their  indiscriminate  action  off  the 
Spanish  main  brought  to  a  standstill  that  correspondence 
with  the  Spanish  West  Indies  and  trade  from  Jamaica 
and  elsewhere  with  the  subjects  of  King  Charles  III. 
upon  the  coast,  which  it  was  the  policy  of  England  to 
encourage  (53,  60,  68,  69,  87,  174  ii.,  649). 

^e  advantages  of  a  proposal  by  a  merchant  of  New 
Spain  to  settle  the  Assiento  trade  in  Barbados  were 
recognised.  But  it  was  pointed  out  that  it  would  be 
contrary  to  the  Acts  of  Navigation  to  grant  his  request 
for  passes  for  Spanish  ships  to  import  bullion  thither  in 
return  for  cargoes  of  slaves.  For  negroes,  it  had  been 
decided  in  1689,  were  merchandize  within  the  meaning 
of  the  Act  (134,  134  i.,  170,  177,  226  i.).  Other  sugges- 
^ons  ^or  tne  granting  of  passes  for  Spanish  vessels  to 
trade  in  the  West  Indies  were  similarly  rejected  (305, 
372,  406,  449,  463).  But  a  Spanish  ship  with  a  pass  is 
reported  at  Newfoundland  (p.  167). 

Export  of  So,  too,  permission  was  refused  to  the  Portuguese 
Portugal  to  purchase  wheat  and  flour  in  America  for  their  army. 
vetoed.  jror  though  this  would  have  been  a  means  of  helping 


xiv.  PREFACE. 

a  member  of  the  Grand  Alliance,  yet  it  was  feared  that 
their  competition  might  cause  a  shortage  of  supplies  for 
the  Sugar  Islands  (761,  779). 

Naval  stores.  The  problems  of  developing  the  production  of  naval 
stores  in  the  Colonies,  and  of  preventing  the  destruction 
of  forest  trees  suitable  for  providing  the  Navy  with 
masts,  continued  to  exercise  the  representatives  of  the 
Crown  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  The  Council  of 
Trade  invited  suggestions  from  Lord  Lovelace  and  the 
Governors  of  New  York  and  New  England  (17,  20  i., 

of  ^last-trees.  429,  430).  Under  pressure  from  the  Surveyor  of  H.M. 
Woods,  Governor  Dudley  persuaded  the  Assembly  of 
New  Hampshire  to  pass  a  law  for  the  preservation  of 
white  pines.  But  he  could  not  induce  the  Assembly  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  to  follow  suit.  The  bill  was 
drawn  in  the  very  words  of  their  Charter;  but  "they 
would  not  enact  their  Charter  into  a  Law"  (30,  33,  914  i. 
etc.}.  Sunderland  took  occasion  to  remark  that,  as  the 
The  Massa-  matter  was  sufficiently  provided  for  in  the  Charter,  it 

chusetts  Bay  * 

Charter,  would  have  been  better  not  to  give  the  Assembly  an  op- 
portunity of  refusing  to  enact  it  by  a  law  (670).  The 
Council  of  Trade  rejected  the  claim  of  the  Assembly 
that  they  were  not  bound  by  a  clause  in  their  Charter, 
"for  if  that  Charter  do  bind,  and  is  as  a  law  to  H.M.  in 
relation  to  their  rights  and  priviledges,  it  does  also  bind 
and  is  as  a  law  to  the  inhabitants  of  that  Colony"  (292). 
In  these  circumstances,  the  Council  of  Trade  proposed 
a  new  Act  of  Parliament  to  supplement  the  Act  for  en- 
couraging the  importation  of  Naval  Stores  from  America 
(914  i.,  ii.). 

Ne  otfaSons  ^e  victories  of  Marlborough  and  the  exhaustion  of 
France  compelled  the  Grand  Monarque  to  open  negoti- 
ations for  Peace  in  the  spring  of  1709.  The  Council  of 
Trade  accordingly  received  instructions  to  state  the  Eng- 
lish claims  to  places  which  were  at  that  moment  in  the 
hands  of  the  French,  or  which  had  been  captured  by 
either  side  during  the  war  (512).  They  lost  no  time  in 
consulting  the  Agents  of  the  Colonies  and  preparing  the 
British  case  (516,  517,  519,  520).  From  all  sides  came 
claims  suggestions  and  demands.  The  Hudson's  Bay  Company 
had  already  prepared  and  circulated  their  case  for  repar- 
ations and  restorations  (500,  522,  523). 


PREFACE.  xv. 

Jamaican  merchants  demanded  the  removal  of  the 
French  altogether  from  America, — from  the  Continent 
as  well  as  from  Martinique  and  Guadeloupe.  But  es- 
pecially the  new  French  settlements  on  Hispaniola,  were 
instanced  as  "a  sad  and  grievous  thorne  in  the  side  of 
Jamaica"  (540).  The  English  title  to  Dominica,  To- 
bago, St.  Vincent  and  Sta.  Lucia  was  stated  (539).  The 
retention  of  the  whole  of  St.  Kitts  was  insisted  upon 
(546,  547).  The  damage  suffered  by  Newfoundland  and 
the  English  claim  to  that  island  and  fishery  were  tabu- 
lated (548).  From  Carolina  it  was  urged  that  the 
French  must  be  compelled  to  relinquish  their  new  settle- 
ments on  the  Mississippi.  Above  all,  the  demand  for 
the  restoration  of  Nova  Scotia  and  Port  Royal  was  reiter- 
ated (533  i.  etc.}.  These  and  all  other  claims  and  titles 
of  the  British  in  America  and  the  West  Indies  were  enun- 
tiated  in  a  long  and  careful  report  by  the  Board  of  Trade 
at  the  beginning  of  June  (554  i.). 
Provision  for  At  the  beginning  of  this  period  estimates  were  being 

Settlement  of  ,          '  .  Xr      .     _,  . 

German  prepared  for  transporting  to  New  York  Protestants  from 
t^ie  Palatinate  who  had  already  sought  refuge  in  England 
(1).  The  stream  of  refugees  increased  in  volume. 
They  arrived  sickly,  destitute  and  infirm,  "without  stock 
or  manufacture"  to  contribute  to  the  wealth  of  the  coun- 
try (527,  553).  Provision  was  made  for  their  support 
by  the  Treasury  until  a  decision  should  be  reached  as  to 
their  future  (495,  504,  527,  551,  561,  680).  A  Committee 
was  appointed  to  lodge  and  relieve  them  (536-538).  Lists 
of  them  are  recorded  (495  ii.,  551,  592).  Overcrowding 
produced  sickness,  and  the  Board  of  Trade  suggested 
that  a  stop  should  be  put  to  the  flow  of  immigrants  until 
those  who  had  arrived  could  be  disposed  of  (553). 

Several  schemes  were  put  forward  for  employing 
them .  Sunderland  suggested  that  they  might  be  settled 
in  Er  gland.  Proposals  were  made  to  that  effect  by  the 
Marquis  of  Kent  (485,  570  ii.).  The  Societies  of  Mines 
Royal  offered  to  employ  them  in  the  silver  and  copper 
mines  of  Merionethshire  and  Snowdonia  (526,  552  i., 
595).  The  Lords  Proprietors  o'f  Carolina  made  a  grant 
of  lands  for  a  settlement  of  "poor  Palatines"  (687,  719). 
An  offer  was  made  to  plant  200  families  in  Jamaica  (657 
i.).  The  Council  of  Trade,  after  carefully  canvassing 


XVI. 


PREFACE. 


Viticulture. 


Settlement  in 
New  York. 


Swiss 
Refugees 
settled  in 
Virginia. 

The  Negro 
Trade  and 
The  Royal 

African 
Company. 


the  latter  proposal,  reported  in  favour  of  it  (704).  As 
an  alternative,  they  called  attention  to  the  suitability  of 
the  waste  lands  upon  Hudson  River.  There  the  immi- 
grants might  promote  the  fur  trade  and  turn  to  the 
production  of  naval  stores,  whilst  by  following  the  ex- 
am pie,  of  the  French  and  intermarrying  with  the  Indians, 
they  would  prove  "a  barrier  between  H.M.  subjects 
and  the  French"  (217,  705).  Or  the  vine-dressers 
amongst  them  might  cultivate  the  wild  vines  in  Vir- 
ginia and  elsewhere,  and  lay  the  foundation  of  a  new  and 
profitable  trade  (p.  457).  Viticulture  was,  indeed,  al- 
ready being  attempted  in  Pennsylvania,  and  in  Virginia 
by  Mr.  Beverley,  "whose  vineyards  and  wine  all  persons 
are  talking  of  in  Virginia"  (932). 

When  Col.  Hunter  was  appointed  Governor  of  New 
York,  he  took  up  the  suggestion  of  settling  3000  Pala- 
tines in  that  Colony  with  a  view  to  the  production  of 
naval  stores.  A  formal  contract  was  drawn  up,  binding 
them  to  attend  to  that  work,  in  order  to  prevent  their 
being  decoyed  into  the  neighbouring  Provincial  Gov- 
ernments (881,  882,  885,  891  i.,  915-918).  Orders  were 
sent  to  the  President  and  Council  of  New  York  to  provide 
for  them  upon  their  arrival.  It  was  distinctly  stated  that 
"the  expence  of  it  will  be  answered  from  hence"  (842  i.). 

Provision  was  also  made  for  the  settlement  in  Virginia 
of  a  colony  of  Protestant  Refugees  from  Switzerland 
(601  i.,  ii.,  639,  652,  697,  724). 

In  response  to  orders  from  the  House  of  Commons, 
the  Council  of  Trade  made  two  reports  upon  the  state 
of  the  African  trade  (316,  331,  910,  913).  The  approach- 
ing expiration  of  the  Act  of  1697  raised  the  question  of 
the  renewal  of  the  monopoly  of  the  Royal  African  Com- 
pany. The  supply  of  negroes  was  a  matter  of  the  first 
importance  to  all  but  the  Northern  Plantations.  The 
"separate  traders",  who  had  paid  an  ad  valorem  duty  of 
10  p.c.  to  the  Company,  had  kept  them  we'll  supplied, 
when  they  would  otherwise  have  been  short,  and  by  in- 
creasing supplies  had  kept  down  prices.  They  there- 
fore regarded  with  dismay  the  Company's  demand  for 
an  exclusive  trade.  Grant  them  that,  and,  by  restricting 
supplies,  they  will  raise  the  price  to  £50  a  head  and  ruin 
the  Island.  So  the  planters  and  merchants  of  Jamaica 
protest  (243). 


PREFACE.  xvii. 

The  Company,  on  the  other  hand,  argued  that  the 
competition  of  the  separate  traders  in  purchasing  sup- 
plies in  Africa  was  responsible  for  sending  up  the  prices. 
The  10  p.c.  received  from  the  separate  traders  had  not 
sufficed  to  meet  the  charges  of  maintaining  forts  etc.  to 
which  they  were  bound  (331).  The  returns  from  the 
Plantations,  in  reply  to  their  enquiries  of  the  preceding 
year,  enabled  the  Board  of  Trade  to  state  the  numbers 
and  prices  of  negroes  imported  into  each  Colony  by  the 
Company  and  the  traders,  and  the  numbers  required  by 
each.  They  showed  that  the  trade  to  the  Plantations 
had  been  so  far  neglected  by  the  Company,  that,  but  for 
the  separate  traders,  the  supply  of  slaves  would  have 
been  quite  inadequate  to  maintain  the  production  of 
sugar  and  tobacco  (331,  913). 

Stwar°f  Whilst  requests  for  supplies  of  stores  of  war  continued 
to  be  sent  home,  Governors  were  strictly  directed  to 
make  annual  returns  of  the  expenditure  of  arms  and 
ammunition  (77). 

Packet-boats.  Communications  remained  as  bad  as  ever.  The  need 
of  packet-boats  for  the  Continent  is  emphasised  (pp. 
7,  24). 

Patent  offices  The  Council  of  Trade  made  yet  another  effort  to  check 
Deputies.  ^Q  growing  evil  of  granting  patent  offices  in  the  Planta- 
tions to  patentees  who  stayed  at  home  and  executed  them 
by  Deputy.  They  very  pointedly  called  the  attention  of 
the  Secretary  of  State  to  the  Order  in  Council  of  1699 
(15).  But  the  evil  went  on  unchecked  (153,  296).  Re- 
turns of  Patent  Offices  were  sent  in  from  the  several 
Plantations.  One  of  the  disadvantages  of  the  system 
is  indicated  by  Governor  Parke: — "Tis  true  if  they  do 
not  do  their  duty,  I  may  suspend  the  Deputies,  but  then 
I  disoblige  their  patrons  in  Great  Britain"  etc.  (p.  5). 

The  Tobacco  The  war  wjth  France  and  Spain  and  troubles  in  Swe- 
den, Poland  and  Russia  had  caused  a  great  depression 
in  the  tobacco  trade.  The  planters  of  Virginia  and 
Maryland  especially  suffered  acutely  from  the  low  price 
of  tobacco  and  the  lost  markets.  They  were  forced  to 
abandon  the  planting  of  tobacco  and  turned  to  the  manu- 
facture of  linen,  woollens,  and  leather.  This,  in  the  eyes 
of  the  English  Government,  was  always  forbidden  fruit. 
To  restore  the  tobacco  market  the  export  of  that  com- 


xviii.  PREFACE. 

modity  to  France  was  therefore  set  free,  and  consump- 
tion in  the  Navy  stimulated  (216,  216  i.,  249,  295,  296  etc.} 
Irish  Trade        There  are  some  indications  of  a  trade  carried  on  be- 
French6     tween  Ireland  and  the  French,  Spanish  and  West  Indies 

(166,  186,  209,  305,  831  ii.,  p.  5  etc.}. 
Potash  in         Application  was  made  and  recommended  for  a  patent 

to  work  potash  in  America  (27,  28,  43). 

The  Act  of        The  Act  of  Union,   published  and  welcomed  in  the 
lon'      several  Colonies,  necessitated  the  issue  of  new  Seals  for 

each  (16,  40,  815). 

The  Council       A  copy  of  a  Privy  Seal  for  the  establishment  of  the 
°SaTaries     Commissioners  and  Officers  of  the  Board  of  Trade  oc- 
owingr.      curs    (350).      Salaries    were   still   owing   for  the   period 
from  Michaelmas  1700  to  March  1702,  and  were  claimed 
from  the   Commissioners   for  stating  arrears   due  from 
King  William.      In  June  1709,  they  were  also  five  quar- 
ters in  arrear  (144,  613). 

Report  to         The  Board  took  the  opportunity  of  an  expected  de- 
Request  for  mand  for  a  report  upon  their  work  to  Parliament  to  press 
decisions.    jyjr     Secretary   Sunderland   for   belated   decisions   upon 
Order  for  a  some  of  their  Representations  (294).    That  Minister  re- 
Remain1  ii?    turned  the  compliment  some  months  later  by  instructing 
Town,      the  Secretary  to  summon  absent  members  back  to  town. 
Important  business  was  being  delayed  by  their  absence, 
and  the  Board  was  ordered  to  see  to  it  that  sufficient 
members  to  form  a  quorum  were  always  available  (759, 
782). 

Secretary's        The  Board  proposed  that  the  little  white  house  adjoin- 

(Md  Paiace^f  in£  to  their  Office  should  be  assigned  to  the  Secretary 

Whitehall,    of  the  Commission.      This,  it  was  suggested,  would  aid 

the  dispatch  of  business  and  be  a  security  for  their  papers 

in  case  of  fire.      The  details  given  offer  an  interesting 

sidelight  upon  the  history  of  the  old  Royal  palace  of 

Whitehall  after  the  fire  of  1698  and  its  desertion  by  the 

Court   for    St.    James'.       They   are   not   referred   to   in 

Canon  Shephard's  History  of  the  Palace. 


PREFACE.  xix. 


§2 

THE  AMERICAN  COLONIES. 


(For  reference  to  general  reports  see  §    1.     p.  1.) 
a-        The  refusal  of  the  Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay 

ay. 

to  pass  a  bill  for  the  preservation  of  mast  trees  and  its 
*    relation  to  their  Charter  is  referred  to  above  (p.  xiv.) 

rejected. 

The  Assembly       in  the  same  session  they  presented  a  list  of  very  trivial 

and  Governor        .  J 

Dudley,  grievances  to  the  Governor  and  Council;  they  granted 
the  Governor  the  miserable  sum  of  £200  for  his  support  ; 
and,  refusing  to  join  with  him  and  the  Council  in  an 
Address  to  the  Queen,  secretly  despatched  one  of  their 
own.  It  was  signed  by  22  of  their  Members  only  (33, 
33  i.-iv.).  Dudley  remarks,  "The  value  of  my  Office 
will  make  nobody  fond  of  it;  but  I  am  not  willing  to  be 
by  such  methods  bubled  out  of  an  honourable  post; 
wherein  I  have  served  H.M.  faithfully  with  all  diligence 
and  acceptance  of  the  people"  (p.  32). 

From  New  Hampshire  came  addresses  in  his  favour, 
repudiating  the  suggestions  of  some  malcontents  against 
him,  and  praising  both  his  civil  administration,  and  his 
pains  for  the  defence  of  the  frontiers  (65  ii.-vi.).  He 
Defence  of  was,  indeed,  able  to  report  that,  owing  to  the  precautions 
he  had  taken,  only  one  raid  from  Canada  had  been  made, 
and  that  that  had  been  successfully  repelled  (pp.  240, 
241).  In  the  course  of  a  return  to  the  queries  of  the 
Board  of  Trade  referred  to  above,  he  gives  a  sketch 
of  the  calls  upon  the  time  of  a  Governor  of  New  Eng- 
land (391).  But  the  burden  of  this  defence  of  the 
frontiers  lay  heavily  upon  the  Colony.  Taxes  were 
seven  times  higher  in  Massachusetts  than  in  any  other 
Colony.  Though  trade  was  good,  and  the  population 
steadily  increasing,  the  poorer  people  were  tempted  to 
move  across  a  boundary  which  was  indicated  only  by 
marked  trees  to  colonies,  like  Connecticut,  which  were 
less  affected  by  the  war.  Dudley  urges  that  the  charge 
of  the  war  should  be  made  equal  upon  all  Governments 
(p.  235).  To  ease  the  situation  and  to  provide  means 
of  paying  for  English  woollen  goods,  he  recommends 
the  building  up  of  a  lumber  and  ship-building  trade. 
To  make  the  Country  secure  against  incursions  from  Port 


xx.  PREFACE. 

Royal  and  Canada,  he  suggests  the  planting  of  a  Colony 
of  Scots  in  Nova  Scotia  (391).  In  the  autumn  of  1708 
the  Council  and  Assembly  addressed  the  Crown  to  the 
same  effect.  They  emphasise  the  drain  the  war  has 
made  upon  their  resources.  Massachusetts  and  New 
Hampshire  are  the  frontiers  against  the  French  and 
Indians,  but  the  Neutrality  agreement  made  by  Lord 
Cornbury  deprives  them  of  the  aid  of  the  Mohawks  and 
other  Indians.  Further  they  urge  the  reduction  of  Nova 
Scotia  and  Port  Royal,  which  is  as  another  Dunkirk  for 
privateers  preying  upon  their  commerce.  They  complain 
of  the  barbarity  of  the  French  in  setting  a  price  upon 
the  scalps  of  English  subjects  (533  i.  and  see  supra  p. 
vi.) 

The  Canada       For  the  rest,  the  energies  of  the  Governor  and  the 
Q   Colonists  were  largely  absorbed  in  the  preparations  for 
the  Expedition  against  Canada  (v.  §  1). 

New  Hamp-  George  Vaughan,  sent  home,  despite  the  protests  of 
Lt-  Governor  Usher,  as  Agent  by  the  Assembly,  re- 
ported  upon  the  condition  and  defences  of  New  Hamp- 
shire (2,  2  i.,  ii.,  19).  The  poverty  of  the  country,  the 
decay  of  trade  arid  credit,  and  the  aggression  of  the 
French  Indians  were  advanced  as  reasons  for  the  send- 
ing of  a  garrison,  guardship  and  stores  of  war  from 
home,  and  for  the  rooting  out  of  "those  two  nests  of 
French,  Canada  and  Port  Royal,  settled  on  ye  backs  of 
ye  English." 

Protest  is  made  against  the  French  reward  for  scalps 
(§1),  and  Lord  Cornbury 's  Neutrality  agreement,  which 
is  held  responsible  for  the  murder  of  1000  English  sett- 
lers and  the  devastation  of  frontier  towns  and  plantations 
(19,  65  ii.).  Governor  Dudley  backed  these  requests, 
praising  the  people  of  this  "small  and  poor  frontier 
Province"  as  being  "very  much  distinguished  from  some 
others  by  their  loyalty  arid  good  obedience,  and  inferior 
to  none  for  their  diligence  and  industry."  He  urges 
the  settlement  of  the  Allen  controversy  (392).  An  ap- 

Aiien's title;  peal  in  this  case  was  still  depending  before  the  Privy 
Appeal.  Council  (58,  65  iii.,  185).  Stores  of  war  were  ordered 
Grant  of  to  be  sent  and  a  grant  made  for  finishing  Fort  William 

store*t°fWarand  Mary.  The  Governor  was  directed  to  exhort  the 
inhabitants  to  maintain  a  sufficient  guard  for  it,  and 


PREFACE.  xxi. 

to  take  care  that  the  powder  duty  was  regularly  paid 
in  kind  (54,  185,  332). 
Frontier          jn  Aug.   1708  Lt.   Governor  Usher  was  sent  into  the 

attack 

repelled.  Province  upon  news  of  a  design  by  the  French  and  In- 
dians from  Canada  to  attack  the  frontiers.  He  found 
the  people  "very  secure  and  remiss,'"  did  his  best  to  put 
them  on  the  alert,  and  had  the  satisfaction  of  repulsing 
the  enemy,  but  not  of  being  paid  his  expenses  (260, 
260  L). 

Act  for          The  passing  of  an  Act  for  preserving  H.M.  woods 
prwoodsngr    is  referred  to  above,  §  1.    p.  xiv. 

New  York.        Reference  is  again  made  to  a  point  in  constitutional 
Constitution*  procedure    raised    by    some  Members  of  the  Assembly 
ai  procedure.  o£  N€W  York  when  it  was  summoned  to  meet  by  a  procla- 
mation signed  by  Lord  Cornbury  whilst  in  New  Jersey. 
They  maintained  that  an  Order  signed  in  one  Province 
could  not   be   of   force   in   another    (pp.    14,   15).      The 
ruling  of  the  Council  of  Trade  on  this  subject  has  al- 
ready   been    given    in    the    previous    volume  (Pref.  p. 
xxxii.). 

The  Militia.  The  difficulty  he  experienced  in  getting  the  Assembly 
to  pass  an  act  for  settling  the  Militia,  led  Cornbury  to 
suggest  that  the  Militia  o'f  all  Governments  in  America 
should  be  regulated  by  an  Act  o'f  Parliament.  Till  that 
was  done,  he  declared,  the  Militia  would  never  be  in  a 
satisfactory  condition  (p.  13). 

The  Bolting  In  the  course  of  a  review  of  the  resources  and  con- 
consequences,  ditions  of  the  Province,  Cornbury  attributes  the  decrease 
of  trade  during  the  last  decade  to  the  Bolting  Act,  and 
the  refusal  of  the  Assembly  to  renew  the  protective 
duty  of  10  p.c.  The  operation  of  this  Act  he  traces  in 
a  curious  passage  (pp.  9,  10). 

Cornbury  on       He  proposes  its  repeal,  and  calls  attention  to  the  op- 
,ountyym     p^^g  mterests  of  County  and  City  Members.     "County 
Members.    Members  don't  care  what  becomes  of  the  City  provided 
they  have  goods  cheap."      Since  the  County  members, 
who  predominated  in  the  Assembly,  had  laid  full  half  of 
the  taxation  upon  the  City,  he  suggests  that  it  would  be 
fair,  and  would  solve  the  difficulty  of  renewing  the  pro- 
tective Acts,   if  the  number  of  the   representatives  for 
the  City  were  raised  so  as  to  equal  that  of  all  the  rest  of 
the  Province  (pp.  10,  11). 

Wt.  11522.  CP  b. 


xxii. 


PREFACE. 


3any> 


Lord 


Lord 

Lovelace. 


The  Five  Reference  has  already  been  made  to  the  objections 
taken  to  the  neutrality  agreement  concluded  by  Corn- 
bury  with  the  French  in  Canada  regarding  the  Five 
Nations  of  Indians.  In  June,  1708,  Cornbury  was  sum- 
Conference  at  moned  to  Albany  to  hold  a  Conference  with  them  (p. 
14).  Only  two  Sachems  attended,  and  the  visit  would 
have  been  fruitless  but  for  the  opening  up  of  trade  with 
some  of  the  Far  Nations.  Cornbury  again  represented 
the  necessity  of  a  present  to  the  Five  Nations,  without 
which  he  feared  we  should  lose  them  before  the  ensuing 
year,  and  again  he  urged  an  attack  upon  Canada  (107). 
The  Assembly  had  plainly  showed  their  opinion  of  the 
Governor's  trustworthiness  by  refusing  to  vote  any  such 
present  unless  they  were  first  provided  with  a  schedule 
of  prices  (107).  Cornbury  was  complaining  that  he 
had  been  without  letters  for  over  a  year  when,  as  we 
have  seen  in  the  previous  volume,  he  was  recalled. 

Meantime,  Lord  Lovelace,  appointed  to  succeed  him, 
by  was  receiving  his  Instructions.      Amongst  them  was  one 
for  re-granting  in  smaller  lots  the  lands  resumed  by  the 

_  .       * 

Act  for  vacating  extravagant  grants.  Reservation  was 
to  be  made  in  the  patents  of  timber  suitable  for  use  in 
the  Navy,  and  the  Governor  was  directed  to  procure  an 
Act  for  the  preservation  of  the  woods  (20  i.). 

Lovelace  arrived  in  December,  after  a  terrible  voyage 
lasting  over  nine  weeks  in  the  most  bitter  weather  (252). 
He  was  warmly  welcomed,  and  made  a  good  impression. 
Any  change  from  Cornbury  must  indeed  have  been 
popular  with  the  majority  of  the  settlers.  One  of  the 
new  Governor's  first  acts  was  to  restore  Byerley,  who 
had  fled  from  the  persecution  of  Cornbury  (405).  He 
at  once  found  himself  obliged  to  finance  the  German 
Protestant  Refugees  who  had  been  sent  over  with  him 
(252,  401). 

But  he  never  shook  off  the  effects  of  a  chill  contracted 
during  that  winter  voyage.  He  died  on  the  6th  of  May, 
1709,  and  two  of  his  sons  also  succumbed  (571,  617,  621). 

The  Commission  of  Col.  Ingoldesby  as  Lt.  Governor 
of  New  York  had  been  revoked,  as  is  recorded  in  the  pre- 
vious volume  of  .this  Calendar.  But  he  had  received 
no  official  intimation  of  the  fact.  Upon  Lord  Love- 
lace's death,  he  therefore  a'ssumed  the  administration  of 


His  death. 


tion. 


PREFACE. 


xx. 


Act  for 

regulatingr 

fees. 


New  York  and  New  Jersey  (578,  621,  711,  712,  738).  He 
lost  no  time  in  making  hay  whilst  the  sun  shone. 

The  eagerness  of  the  Assembly  to  establish  their  con- 

.  ir  •          t.  i  r  j-  -ij 

trol  not  only  or  taxation  but  also  of  expenditure  had  not 
been  lessened  by  their  experience  of  Lord  Cornbury. 
They  now  produced  an  Act  for  regulating  fees  so  re- 
strictive in  its  provisions  that  it  caused  lawyers  to  de- 
cline to  practice  and  reduced  all  officers  of  state  to  pen- 
ury. Ingoldesby  passed  it  because,  as  he  says,  the  As- 
sembly "seemed  to  be  very  fond  of  it,"  and  he  wished 
to  humour  them,  seeing  that  the  question  of  the  part  the 
Province  was  to  play  in  the  Canada  Expedition  then  lay 
before  them  (p.  412).  Protests  were  entered  against  it, 
and  the  Act  repealed,  instructions  being  given  to  the 
new  Governor  to  reconsider  the  officers'  fees,  and,  with 
the  Council,  to  prepare  a  new  bill  if  need  be  (768,  769, 
879,  901,  903,  924  ii.,  929). 

The  Revenue  Act  having  expired,  the  Assembly,  when 
tion  clauses,  they  came  to  renew  it,  following  the  example  of  New 
Jersey,  insisted  upon  appropriating  what  was  voted  for 
the  support  of  the  Government.  The  effect  fore- 
shadowed by  Ingoldesby  was  that  "those  officers  that 
are  now  the  Queen's  will  soon  become  the  creatures  and 
servants  of  the  people."  The  reason  for  the  Assembly's 
insistence  is  significant:  "It's  true  there  has  been  of 
late  years  some  ill  management  with  respect  to  the 
Revenue  and  the  expences  of  the  Government,  whereby 
a  considerable  debt  has  been  contracted."  Meanwhile 
the  status  of  officers  was  as  precarious  as  their  fees  were 
inadequate  (621,  888). 

In  sp*te  °^  kis  wise  words,  Ingoldesby  appears  to 
revoked,  have  done  his  best  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  Lord 
Cornbury.  Lady  Lovelace's  arrival  with  a  tale  of  his 
high-handed  treatment  of  her  as  the  bearer  of  the  late 
Governor's  papers  was  followed  by  a  new  order  revok- 
ing his  Commission  (711,  712,  714). 

mSr          Robert  Hunter,  who  had  been  appointed  Governor  of 
appointed    Virginia,  had  been  taken  prisoner  and  carried  into  France 
^3^  2g^       Happily  he  was  now  chosen  to  succeed  Lord 
Lovelace  (721,  v.  §  1). 

By  his   Instructions    (924  i.)   Dr.   Staats  and  Robert 
Walters  were  restored  to  the  Council,  William  Peartree 


Governor. 


His 

instructions. 


xiv.  PREFACE. 

.,'     being    removed    for    employing    deserters    from    H.M. 

ships.      His   conduct   and   that    of   the   Mayor   of    New 

York,  a  fellow-sinner,  was  to  be  enquired  into   (924  i., 

925,  928). 

Act/<w  jn  jvjew  York,  as  in  New  Jersey  and  other  Plantations, 

'ascertaining 

rates  of  the  Act  for  ascertaining  the  rates  of  foreign  coins  re- 
mained  practically  a  dead  letter.  It  was  so  far  pub- 
lickly  ignored  that  the  Assemblies  of  New  York  and  New 
Jersey  would  not  pass  any  "bill  for  money,  but  to  be 
paid  at  the  value  it  was  before  the  said  Act"  (p.  414). 
The  Governor,  Council  and  Assembly  of  New  York, 
indeed,  addressed  the  Queen  on  the  subject,  and  de- 
clared that  the  Province  would  be  ruined  if  the  Act  were 

regulating'  Put  m  ^orce  (157  *•)•  They  therefore  passed  an  Act 
com  repealed,  of  their  own  fixing  coin  at  the  old  rates.  This  Act 
was  repealed  (399).  The  Council  of  Trade  pointed  out 
that  in  passing  it  Lord  Cornbury  had  acted  in  direct 
contradiction  of  his  Instructions  (375).  Several  other 
currency  acts  were  repealed  or  held  over  for  consider- 
ation for  reasons  given  (879,  901). 

Privateers.  xhe  sea-going  trade  of  the  Province  was  much  har- 
assed by  privateers.  Confidence  was  to  some  extent 
restored  by  the  activity  of  H.M.S.  Triton's  prize  (p.  14)-. 

New  Jersey.  rf  he  advent  of  Lord  Lovelace  was  as  welcome  in  New 
Jersey  as  New  York.  He  opened  an  Assembly  there 
upon  Marcli  3rd,  and  his  Instructions  to  enquire  into  their 
differences  with  the  Governor  and  Council  were  grate- 
fully acknowledged  in  an  Address  to  the  Queen  as  an 
instance  of  H.M.  justice  and  good  will  (64,  440).  Lewis 
Morris  had  once  more  been  restored  to  the  Council  (4, 
105)-  But  when  Ingoldesby,  as  Lt.  Governor,  took  up 
the  administration  he  promptly  suspended  him  from 
the  Council  again,  in  accordance  with  the  desires  of  the 
party  which  had  supported  Lord  Cornbury  (578,  819 

Commission  xiii.,  924  i.).  Before  his  Commission  was  revoked  in 
October  (814),  he  had,  at  the  expense  of  Lady  Lovelace, 
accepted  the  salary  which  had  been  voted  to  the  late 
Governor. 

In  return  for  this  salary  he  gave  a  free  hand  to  the 
anti-Proprietary  party  in  the  Assembly.      The  action  of 

Qcawidfar    tlie  Assembly  witn  regard  to  the  Quota  for  the  Canada 

Expedition.   Expedition  has  already  been  described  (  §1). 


PREFACE. 


XXV. 


Governor 
Hunter's 

Instructions. 


The  new 
Council. 


Act  for 
regulating- 
Slaves. 


Accounts  of 
1704-1706. 


Pennsyl- 
vania ;  Penn 
and  the  Three 

Lower 

Counties. 

Refusal  of 

Quota  to 

Canada 

Expedition. 


The 

Assembly's 
claims  and 
W.  Penn. 


Acts  repealed. 


Hunter,  the  new  Governor,  received  special  instruc- 
tions to  enquire  into  the  "heats  and  animosities  between 
the  Council  and  Assernbly,"  and  to  endeavour  to  recon- 
cile them.  If  he  was  unsuccessful  in  his  attempts,  he 
was  to  report  upon  the  whole  matter  for  H.M.  further 
pleasure  therein  (921/924  i.).  With  this  end  in  view 
the  composition  of  his  Council  was  the  subject  of  careful 
consideration.  In  spite  of  the  protests  of  the  London 
Proprietors  (819,  876),  it  was  decided  to  retain  those 
Members  against  whom  complaint  was  made  as  "dis- 
turbers of  the  people"  and  supporters  of  Lord  Cornbury 
to  the  prejudice  of  the  Proprietors,  and  a  Council  was 
chosen  which  was  intended  to  hold  the  balance  between 
the  opposing  parties  (921). 

The  Act  of  1704  for  regulating  slaves  was  repealed  on 
the  grounds  that  it  inflicted  inhuman  penalties  upon 
negroes  '(778,  792). 

A  statement  of  accounts  of  the  Province,  1704-1706, 
was  submitted  by  Mr.  Fauconnier  to  Lord  Lovelace  (847, 
847  i.). 

Penn's  Declaration  with  regard  to  the  title  to  the 
Three  Lower  Counties  is  given  (12,  12  i.). 

We  have  seen  (§1)  that  the  Assembly  of  Pennsyl- 
vania refused  on  religious  grounds,  and  in  spite  of  the 
recommendation  of  the  Lt. -Governor  and  Council,  to 
raise  money  directly  or  indirectly  for  the  expedition 
against  Canada,  or  to  take  any  measures  for  the  defence 
of  their  own  coasts  (580).  The  extreme  claims  of  the 
Assembly  against  which  Lt.  Governor  Evans  had  de- 
claimed (Pref.  to  previous  vol.  p.  xxxv.),  are  sketched 
by  Col.  Quary  (888).  The  Secretary  of  the  Province 
went  home  on  purpose  to  urge  Penn  to  resign  the  Gov- 
ernment, for  things  had  "now  come  to  that  pass  that 
in  the  opinion  of  all,  the  Proprietors  must  of  necessity 
be  forc'd  to  surrender  this  Governmt.  into  the  Queen's 
hands"  (888). 

The  Council  of  Trade  reported  upon  a  collection  of 
Laws  passed  by  Lt.  Governor  Evans  in  1705.  Half  a 
dozen  of  these  were  repealed  as  being  unreasonable  or 
repugnant  to  the  laws  of  England  (717,  790).  At  the 


PREFACE. 


Order  in 
Council  as  to 
submission 

and 

re-enactment 
of  Acts. 


Bounds  of 
Pennsylvania 

and 
Maryland . 


Maryland  ; 

The 
Assembly. 


A  new 
Election. 


same  time  the  Board  drew  attention  to  the  awkward 
provision  of  the  Charter  by  which  the  Proprietor  was 
allowed  five  years  in  which  to  lay  his  Laws  before  the 
Crown,  and  the  Crown  only  six  months  to  consider  and 
decide  upon  laws  however  many,  when  at  length  sub- 
mitted. They  also  recommended  the  passing  of  an  Act 
of  Allegiance  (pp.  460,  461).  An  Order  in  Council  was 
accordingly  made  by  which  Mr.  Penn  was  recommended 
to  endeavour  to  get  such  an  Act  passed,  and  to  sub- 
mit all  Acts  for  H.M.  approbation  "as  soon  as  conveni- 
ently may  be."  A  general  order  was  added,  that  in  the 
case  of  an  Act  disallowed  upon  account  of  some  clause 
or  clauses,  but  otherwise  desirable,  notice  should  be 
given  to  the  Government  of  the  Plantation  concerned,  so 
that  the  Assembly  might  re-enact  it,  if  desired  (791). 

The  long-disputed  boundaries  of  Pennsylvania  gave 
rise  to  tension  on  the  borders  of  Maryland  and  that  Prov- 
ince (p.  252).  Lord  Baltimore  and  Mr.  Penn  were 
pressed  by  the  Board  of  Trade  to  come  to  an  agreement 
on  that  subject  (115,  256). 

Lord  Baltimore  petitioned  that  the  Order  of  Nov.  7, 
1685,  might  be  revoked,  alleging  that  it  had  been  dis- 
honestly obtained  by  Penn  (289,  289  i.-iii.).  But  upon 
a  counter-petition  from  Penn,  this  application  was  dis- 
missed (334,  521,  596). 

The  Assembly  of  Maryland  met  on  27th  Sept.  They 
refused  to  pass  a  law  against  the  dissemination  of  false 
news,  prepared  by  the  Governor  and  Council  and  aimed 
at  the  Reman  Catholics  and  Jacobites  (290).  Ignoring 
the  business  laid  before  them  by  Governor  Seymour, 
they  busied  themselves  about  the  legality  of  a  Charter 
he  had  granted  to  Annapolis,  and  "ran  into  heats  and 
divisions."  Seymour  therefore  dissolved  them.  But 
most  of  the  Delegates  were  returned  at  the  new  election 
(Nov.  29).  The  New  Assembly  were  as  stubborn  as 
the  old  in  resisting  the  claims  of  the  Secretary,  Sir  T. 
Laurence;  they  contented  themselves  by  addressing  the 
Crown  on  that  subject  and  the  guage  of  hogsheads 
(290,  410).  They  revived  the  Militia  Act  and  the  Act 
for  limiting  officers'  fees  only  to  the  end* of  the  next 
Sessions,  "being  very  anxious  to  render  those  who  are 
dependent  on  the  Government  as  mean  as  may.  be." 


PREFACE.  xxvii. 

They  would  not  provide  for  the  itinerant  Justices,  for 
reasons  given  by  Seymour  (410).  The  effects  of  the 
Act  for  the  advancement  of  natives,  referred  to  in  the 
previous  volume  (Pref.  p.  xli.),  are  reiterated  here  (p. 
250).  To  this  Act,  to  the  Roman  Catholics,  and  to  the 
ambition  and  large  jurisdiction  of  the  County  Court 
Justices,  Seymour  attributes  the  difficulties  of  his  Gov- 
ernment (p.  250). 

Acts /or  relief  Two  Acts  were  passed  which  were  intended  to  relieve 
'  planters  suffering  from  the  effects  of  the  depression  in 
the  tobacco  trade.  That  for  the  relief  of  debtors  was 
denounced  as  injurious  to  European  merchants  as  well 
as  to  inhabitants  of  Maryland,  and  as  calculated  to  dry 
up  the  fountain  of  credit,  "whereby  the  trade  of  that 
Province  will  greatly  suffer."  It  was  therefore  repealed 
(290,  745,  773,  795). 

fl'i»  "damn's  Similarly,  an  Act  for  lessening  damages  on  protested 
a*Bitt»tf  bills  of  exchange,  and  the  Act  for  establishing  ports  and 
Exc&y;  towns  were  repealed,  as  unjust  to  creditors  and  mer- 
for  erecting  chants  (745,  880,  904,  905). 

ports  and 

towns 
repealed. 

Roman          Seymour  took  a  census  of  the  Roman  Catholics  in  the 

Catholics  and  _          .  .       .    ...    .  .  ,  ..  .... 

the        Province  (131  in.).      He  observes  that  they  were  hoping 

Pretender.    £Qr  ^Q  success  of  the  Pretender,  of  whose  attempt  they 

had  information  long  before  those  not  in  the  secret  (131). 

Death  of          He  died  on  30th  July,  1709,  after  a  long  illness  (707). 

Governor 
Seymour. 

Col.  Quary's        Col.  Quary,  in  a  letter  dated  four  months  later,  attri- 
Report.      j.jut:es  the  divisions  of  the  Province  to  the  ill-conduct  of 
the  Governor.      He  gives  a  summary  of  events  following 
upon  his  death.      He  describes  how  he  urged  the  Presi- 
dent and  Council  not  to  make  a  Sessions,  but  to  await 
the  arrival  of  a  new  Governor.      They,  however,  struck  a 
bargain  with  the  Assembly,  and  proceeded  to  pass  sev- 
.    eral  Acts   (888). 

'  Rhode  Island  gained  credit  for  its  readiness  to  take  "its 
share  in  the  Canada  Expedition.  But  it  retained  its 
bad  name  as  an  emporium  for  illegal  trade:  "Tis  a  place 
where  all  roguerys  are  committed,  and  great  quantitys 
of  goods  from  Portugall  are  landed  there,  and  so  con- 
vey'd  to  severall  parts"  (268). 


xxviii.  PREFACE. 

Acts  to  be  In  the  course  of  a  reply  to  the  queries  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  it  is  noted  that  the  Acts  of  the  Colony  are  about 
to  be  printed  (230). 

diirHunter       When  the  new  Governor,  Col.  Robert  Hunter,  at  last 
a  prisoner    set  sail  for  Virginia,  he  was  captured  by  a  French  priva- 

in  France.  .     ,  ...  r       _  ,  A  i^^s 

teer  and  carried  prisoner  to  France  (Aug.  1707). 
Grants  out  of  the  Quit-rents  were  made  on  account  of 
his  salary  and  loss  of  equipment  (137,  295).  Exchanged 
at  length  for  the  French  Bishop  of  Quebec,  he  was  ap- 
Orkne°/  pointed  Governor  of  New  York  upon  his  return  to  Eng- 
Govemor.  land  (121).  The  Commission  of  the  Earl  of  Orkney  as 
Governor  of  Virginia  was  once  more  renewed  (897,  926). 
Whilst  awaiting  the  advent  of  a  Lt.  Governor,  the  coun- 
try continued  to  be  efficiently  administered  by  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  Council,  Edmund  Jenings.  In  the  autumn 
of  1709  he  was  able  to  report  that  the  country  was  in 
perfect  peace  and  quiet,  in  spite  of  a  prolonged  drought 
which  had  involved  a  shortage  and  necessitated  an  em- 
A  general  bargo  upon  the  exportation  of  grain.  A  general  Fast 
was  appointed  in  the  spring,  for  intercession  on  account 
of  a  "dangerous  pestilential  distemper,  which  continues 
to  rage  to  the  great  consternation  of  all"  (137,  765,  765 
ii.). 

Reversion  to       Amongst  the  Instructions  prepared  for  Governor  Hun- 
Oldgraenting0f  ter>  was  one  directing  him  to  revert  to  the  old  method 
lands.      Of  granting  lands  (285,  297,  346  L).      This  was  in  accord- 
ance with  the  representation  of  the  Council  of  Virginia 
(765,  p.   161). 

Act  for          ^°  ^ar  tne  yiews  °f  tne  Colonists  were  considered.    But 
settling  towns  the  Act  for  settling  towns  and  ports  was  repealed,  when 
'repealed!    the  Commissioners  of   Customs   reported  that  it  might 
lead  to  the  development  of  woollen  and  other  manufac- 
tures  and   distract   the   planters   from  growing  tobacco 
(661,  883,  906). 

viticulture.  Mr.  Robert  Beverley's  experiments  in  viticulture  upon 
the  highlands  of  Virginia  were  the  subject  o'f  great  in- 
terest in  the  country  (932). 

Swiss  An  allotment  of  lands  was  ordered  for  the  settlement 

of  Swiss  Protestant  Refugees  on  Potomac   River   (601, 
652,  697,  724). 

Privateers  The  trade  of  Virginia  suffered  severely  from  enemy 
privateers.  Almost  every  small  vessel,  inward  or  out- 


PREFACE. 


xxx. 


A  raid  by 


Indians. 


Boundary 
Commission. 


ward  bound,  was  intercepted.  One  merchantman  was 
even  chased  from  his  anchors  at  the  mouth  of  York 
River.  The  shoal  waters  at  the  mouths  of  the  rivers 
enabled  privateer  sloops  of  light  draught  to  operate 
within  the  Capes  and  in  sight,  but  out  of  gun-shot,  of 
H.M.  ships  of  war,  which  were  too  bulky  to  follow  them 
(pp.  96,  162).  In  response  to  urgent  appeals,  and  in 
spite  of  the  many  pressing  calls  upon  the  Navy,  the  Ad- 
miralty ordered  a  sloop  to  be  bought  in  New  England, 
which  would  be  able  to  defend  the  shallow  seas  in  com- 
bination with  a  regular  guardship  (254,  421,  608,  668). 

Emboldened  by  the  success  which  had  hitherto  at- 
tended them  in  the  Virginian  Rivers,  French  privateers 
were  reported  to  be  preparing  a  raid  in  force  in  the 
spring  of  1709.  Successful  dispositions  of  the  Fleet  had 
driven  them  from  the  Channel  and  English  coasts. 
They  now  sought  the  least  well-defended  shores  of 
America.  The  moment  selected  was  when  the  men  of 
war  had  returned  home  as  convoy  of  the  merchant  fleet. 
There  was  great  consternation  in  Virginia.  Such  meas- 
ures of  defence  as  were  possible  in  the  absence  of  a  naval 
force  were  taken  by  Col.  Jenings. 

The  Militia  and  watches  were  organised  on  land,  and 
a  brigantine  commissioned. 

These  preparations  sufficed  to  damp  the  ardour  of  the 
privateers,  who  turned  away  to  plunder  the  coast  towns 
of  the  neighbours  on  either  side  (421,  571). 

Pressure  was  put  upon  the  Tuscoruro  Indians,  sus- 
pected of  a  murder  in  the  previous  year,  by  the  pro- 
hibition of  trade  with  them.  The  Saponies,  returning 
from  a  migration  to  the  West,  were  taken  under  the 
protection  of  the  Dominion  and  settled  upon  Maherine 
River  (p.  97). 

Commissioners  were  ordered  to  be  appointed,  and  to 

be    paid    OUt    of     H.M.     Revenue,     for    Settling    the    long- 

disputed  boundary  question  with  Carolina  (285,  297,  434, 
435). 

Another  serious  difference  had  arisen  over  the  treat- 
ment of  Virginian  Indian  traders  by  that  neighbour- 
ing Colony.  A  duty,  stated  by  the  one  side  to  be  small 
and  by  the  other  to  be  prohibitive,  was  laid  by  the  Gov- 
ernment of  Carolina  upon  skins  exported  from  that  prov- 


xxx.  PREFACE. 

ince.  This  was  applied  to  goods  in  transit  to  Virginia 
in  the  course  of  trade  with  the  Southern  and  Western 
Indians.  It  was  from  this  profitable  trade  that  the 
greater  part  of  the  revenues  of  the  College  of  William 
and  Mary  were  derived.  With  those  Indians  Virginia 
had  traded  "before  the  name  of  Carolina  was  known." 
To  enforce  payment  of  the  duty,  some  skins  belonging 
to  Virginian  traders  were  seized.  It  was  suggested  by 
the  Virginians  that  Carolina  aimed  at  engrossing  the  fur 
trade.  The  Council  of  Trade  reported  that  it  ought 
to  be  left  open  to  Virginia  (216,  216  i.,  ii.,  682,  716,  750, 
765). 

Quakers  and       "Great  commotfons"  are  reported  from  North  Caro- 

^North18  lina>  wnere>  it:  is  said.  tne  Quakers,  had  set  the  country 
Carolina.    in  a  flame  and  everybody  but  themselves  in  arms  (p.  98). 

Neighbouring       *n    tne    course    of    their    replies    to    the    queries    of 
Indians,     the  Board,  the  Government  of  Carolina  describe  their 
relations  with  the  neighbouring  Indians,  and  also  the  for- 
tifications  of    Charlestown.      They   ask   to   be   supplied 
with  guns  and  ammunition,   "which  is  all  we  want  to 
make  Carolina  impregnable"   (739). 
Projected         Warning  was  sent  from  Bermuda  of  a  projected  at- 

FreSand  tack  by   French   and   Spaniards   from   Vera   Cruz    (411, 

Spaniards.     411   j  ^   jj   ) 

Naime's          A  survey  of  the  relations  between  Carolina  and  the 

report.      French  at  Mobile,  and  of  the  Indians  on  either  side  was 

communicated   to    the    Secretary   of    State   by    Thomas 

Nairne  (622).      The  writer  proposed  the  settlement  of  a 

new  Colony  near  the  Mississippi.      In  a  curious  passage 

he  refers  to  the  high  prices  given  to  friend  Indians  by 

English  traders  for  Indian  slaves,  and  observes  "Some 

think  it  both  serves  to  lessen  their  numbers  before  the 

Indian  slave  French  can  arm  them,  and  it  is  a  more  effectual!  way  of 

Trade.      civilising  and  instructing,  then  all  the  efforts  used  by 

the  French  missionaries"  (p.  422). 

Nairne  was  a  severe  critic  of  the  Governor,  Sir  Na- 
thaniel Johnson.  His  administration  he  regarded  as 
destructive  of  the  welfare  of  the  Colony.  He  soon  had 
to  suffer  for  his  opposition.  Abuses  in  this  Indian  Slave 
trade,  in  which  the  Governor  was  suspected  of  having  a 
share,  led  to  the  passing  of  an  Act  intended  to  rectify 
them.  By  this  Act  Nairne  was  appointed  as  an  itiner- 
ant magistrate  to  do  justice  as  between  the  Indians  and 


PREFACE. 


Charges 

against 

Governor 

Johnson. 


Bahama 

Islands. 


traders.  "This  was  a  peice  of  magistracy  exposed  me 
at  once  to  the  hatred  of  the  Governor  and  traders."  He 
was  clapped  into  gaol  on  a  trumped  up  charge,  and  re- 
fused bail  (662). 

Johnson  is  accused  of  arbitrary  management  of  the 
Law,  and  also  of  having  granted  a  commission  as  priva- 
teer to  a  well-known  pirate  (662,  831  ii.). 

Illegal  trade  with  Portugal  is  reported  (257,  268,  284). 
Coi.  Edward  In  the  mean  time  Col.  Edward  Tynte  had  been  ap- 
Governor.  pointed  Governor.  Amongst  his  instructions  was  one  in 
which  he  was  particularly  directed  to  protect  the  Indians 
and  to  cultivate  their  friendship  (424). 

§3 

THE    WEST    INDIES. 
(See   also   preceding   Sections}. 

The  Bahama  Islands  were  practically  derelict.  Ameri- 
can traders  found  their  passage  to  the  Gulf  of  Florida 
and  the  Continent  generally  was  menaced  by  the  threat- 
ened settlement  of  Spaniards  there.  They  petitioned 
that  those  Islands  might  be  resumed  to  the  Crown  and 
New  Providence  fortified  (270  i.).  At  present,  the  few 
remaining  inhabitants  were  exposed  to  raids  by  French 
and  Spanish  privateers,  some  of  whom  tortured  men  and 
women  alike  with  the  most  frightful  cruelty  in  order  to 
force  them  to  reveal  their  hidden  property  (176  i.,  270  i., 
448,  472).  The  Council  of  Trade  once  more  called  the 
attention  of  Ministers  to  the  neglect  of  the  Proprietors 
and  repeated  the  arguments  for  resuming  the  Islands  to 
the  Crown.  In  the  mean  time  they  urged  the  dispatch 
of  a  Military  Governor  with  a  Royal  Commission  and  a 
Company  of  Foot,  to  prevent  them  falling  into  the  hands 
of  the  enemy,  and  to  repair  the  Fort  (340,  344).  Orders 
were  presently  sent  to  the  Governors  of  New  England, 
New  York  and  Virginia  "to  use  their  best  endeavours  to 
recover"  the  Islands  from  the  enemy,  and  to  use  H.M. 
ships  upon  their  coast  for  that  purpose  (658.  v.  supra, 
p.  x.) 

Ignoring  such  warnings  as  the  reprimand  for  his  dis- 
pensing Mr.  Holder  from  the  judgment  passed  against 
him  by  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  (88,  and  cf.  Pref.  to 
previous  vol.  p.  xlvii.),  Mitford  Crowe  continued  his 


Barbados. 
Crowe's  mis- 


xxxii.  PREFACE. 

career  of  arbitrary  and  corrupt  government.  In  August, 
1708  three  Members  of  the  Council  of  Barbados — William 
Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker  and  the  Rev.  Samuel  Beres- 
ford— presented  to  him  in  Council  a  detailed  protest 
against  his  irregular  procedure  in  the  Courts  and  his 
general  misgovernment  (126,  126  i.).  Crowe  waited  till 
the  packet  had  sailed,  and  then  suspended  them  (156, 
178,  179). 

^heUThreeS       ^°  cnarSes  so  serious  he  made  no  haste  to  reply,  but 
Councillors,  contented  himself  with  dispatching  an  Address  of  the 
Assembly  in  his  favour— an  Address,  the  three  Coun- 
cillors complain,   passed  without  investigation  upon  an 
imperfect  abstract  of  their  representation  (96  i.,  126,  141 
iii.). 
Reply  to         Over  two  months  elapsed  before  he  dispatched  his 

their  cnarfirBS 

defence  (180,  180  ii-viii.).  Meantime,  the  Council  of 
Trade  had  censured  his  delay,  and  an  immediate  answer, 
with  depositions  on  either  side,  had  been  ordered  (210, 
224  i.,  248,  267).  But  whilst  the  hearing  of  the  case 
brought  against  the  Governor  was  thus  delayed,  his  sus- 
pension of  the  Three  Councillors  was  promptly  revoked. 
The  Three  Their  procedure  had  been  correct  and  their  language 

Councillors  ri  111  •  t  -,  •  r  ir 

restored,  careful.  It  would  be  an  evil  precedent  if,  merely  for 
making  a  complaint,  Councillors  were  to  be  suspended, 
"for  thereby  the  Governor  will  be  left  without  any  sort 
of  cheque  in  the  administration  of  Government"  (352  i., 
356,  370). 

Crowe  and        In  their  Address   (96  i.,  141  iii.),  the  Assembly  had 
nbly  enumerated  certain  grievances  arising  out  of  the  mal- 
administration  of    Sir    B.    Granville,   upon   whom   they 
threw  the  blame  for  the  difficulties  still  felt  from  the  issue 
of  the  paper  money.      Crowe  wras  ordered  to  attend  to 
these  grievances  (248).      But  the  faction  in  the  Assem- 
bly which  had  at  first  intended  to  oppose  him,  had  by  this 
time  resolved  to  make  use  of  him  as  their  tool.    His  as- 
sumption of   the   dispensing   power  had  given   them   a 
hold  over  him   (126  i.,  156).      Contrary  to  the  Instruc- 
tions which  forbade  Governors  to  accept  any  presents, 
Crowe  had  already  received  several  votes  of  money  "£500 
for  furnishing  his  cellars,"  and  so  forth  (248,  583  xi.,  895). 
A  New  Paper      A  new  method  was  now  devised  for  evading  this  In- 
Act<       struction   (156).      The  Three  Councillors  had  protested 


PREFACE.  xxxiii. 

against  the  introduction  of  a  new  Paper  Act,  which,  as 
they  alleged,  was  about  to  be  proposed,  to  the  utter 
ruin  of  the  country  (p.  85).  The  Assembly  had  denied 
that  any  such  thing  was  contemplated  (p.  99).  Yet  al- 
most immediately  afterwards  a  bill  for  a  new  issue  of 
paper  money  was  brought  in.  The  Three  Councillors 
pointed  out  that  this  was  simply  a  device  intended  to  en- 
rich the  Governor,  Treasurer  and  others  in  the  secret  at 
the  expence  of  the  taxpayer  and  the  credit  of  the  coun- 
try (156).  The  inhabitants  of  Bridgetown  protested 
against  the  bill. 

But  it  was  passed  none  the  less;  and  the  protestants 
were  rewarded  by  being  taxed  four  times  more  heavily 
than  ever  before  (583  xiii.).  The  Assembly  then  ex- 
pired, but  in  order  to  secure  their  re-election,  the  Repre- 
sentatives took  care  not  to  vote  the  sums  needed  for 
carrying  on  the  Government  of  the  Country  (396). 
Delay  in  The  new  Assembly  met  in  May,  1709,  and  passed  an 

restoring  the     .    .  t  .  .  -i         Xi          r  •  i 

Councillors.  Address  protesting  against  the  Order  for  restoring  the 
Three  Councillors  (502,  513  iv.).  Crowe  delayed  obey- 
ing the  Order.  There  were  several  causes,  in  which 
he  was  himself  concerned,  which  awaited  determination 
in  Council.  There  were  votes  for  presents  to  himself, 
and  for  carrying  on  the  campaign  against  the  Three, 
which  had  to  be  passed  before  they  were  admitted. 
An  address  in  their  favour,  presented  by  Col.  Christo- 
pher Codrington,  was  therefore  received  with  an  outburst 
of  "scurrilous  Billingsgate  language"  (p.  229),  and 
Crowe  wrote  to  the  Council  of  Trade  that  he  dared  not 
re-admit  them,  for  fear  of  a  riot  (513).  But  he  lost  no 
time  in  turning  out  15  Justices  of  the  Peace,  without  the 
consent  of  the  Council  and  contrary  to  an  Act  passed  by 
himself.  They  were  those  to  whom  the  Three  Coun- 
cillors might  have  been  expected  to  apply  for  the  taking 
of  depositions  in  support  of  their  complaints  against  him 
(583  ii.). 

Crowe  He  was  twice  sternly  called  to  order  and  bidden  to 

reprimanded.  obey  the   Queen's   commands    (618,   677).      He  was   in- 

Briber   and  vo^veci  in  niany  lawsuits   in  connection  with  his  wife's 

Corruption,   property,  and  was  accused  of  sitting  as  Judge  in  his  own 

cases,  and  of  arbitrary  and  corrupt  interference  with  the 

process  of  the  law  when  prompted  by  bribes  offered  to 

himself  or  his  wife  (583  xiv.  ff). 


XXXI V. 


PREFACE. 


Crowe 
recalled. 


Presents  of 
citron-water. 


Act  for 

appointing 

Agetits 

repealed. 


Patent 
Offices. 


and  restored, 


The  Judge  to  whom  Crowe  had  referred  his  own  case 
was  removed  (651,  664,  681).  In  spite  of  the  rebuke 
of  the  Council  of  Trade,  he  exacted  from  the  Naval 
Officer  yet  another  payment  on  account  of  his  office,  and 
was  said  to  have  permitted  a  sloop  to  sail  which  was 
under  seizure  for  illegal  trade  (583  ii.). 

Finally  he  was  recalled,  to  answer  these  complaints 
before  the  Queen  in  Council  (694,  696,  764),  as  well  as  a 
serious  double  charge  of  indecent  assault  and.  abuse  of 
his  powers  as  Governor  preferred  against  him  by  John 
Sober  (653,  700,  723). 

There  are  several  references  to  the  dispatch  of  dozens 
of  citron  water  as  presents  to  England  (124,  248,  p.  100. 
cf.  183,  487). 

The  Act  for  appointing  Agents  was  repealed  (861). 
The  reasons  are  given  in  a  careful  report  by  the  Council 
of  Trade  (837),  together  with  a  history  of  the  claim  of  the 
Assembly  to  the  right  of  nominating  agents  to  solicite 
their  affairs  in  England,  exclusive  of  the  Governor  and 
Council.  If  that  claim  were  admitted,  they  contend,  it 
would  create  "jealousies  and  divisions  in  the  several 
parts  of  the  Legislature,"  whilst  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil would  be  led  to  appoint  distinct  agencies  of  their  own 
—  a  system  which  would  result  in  inevitable  confusion. 
The  Governor  had  done  wrong  in  passing  such  an  Act 
(837). 

Complaints  were  made  of  encroachments  upon  the 
rights  and  perquisites  of  patent  offices  by  several  new 
laws  (326).  Directions  were  given  for  the  repeal  of  the 
Acts  complained  of,  and  the  Governor  was  instructed  to 
protect  the  place-holders  (568,  582).  The  Assembly  re- 
plied, claiming  an  ancient  right  and  privilege,  and  de- 
claring that  the  appointment  of  all  Marshals  by  the 
Provost  Marshal  General  led  to  extortion  and  abuse 
(857  i.). 

Another  holder  of  a  patent  office,  Alexander  Skene, 
the  Secretary,  was  convicted  of  bribery  and  extortion 
and  dismissed  from  his  post  (29,  97).  But  he  promptly 
petitioned  for,  and  was  granted  a  rehearing  of  his  case 
(140).  Some  extenuating  circumstances  were  now  ad- 
mitted, and  he  was  restored,  on  the  assumption  that  he 
had  been  punished  enough  and  had  learned  his  lesson 
(369,  482). 


PREFACE. 

Lists  of          Long    lists    of    baptisms,    burials    and   causes    in    the 

Baptisms,       „  •      <••  i     /    n    •  •        •  •  •    \ 

Burials  and   Courts  are  indicated  (96  n.,  in.). 

Causes. 

s^TimSnt        Dominica  was  included  in  the  Government  of  Bar- 

sta.  Lucia  bados.  From  that  island  came  an  Indian  chieftain  to 
visit  the  Governor.  The  English  title  to  the  Island,  as 
well  as  to  St.  Vincent,  Sta.  Lucia,  and  Tobago,  was 
stated.  The  allegiance  of  those  islands,  Crowe  declared, 
was  firm;  but  they  are  described  as  nests  of  cannibals 
and  runaway  negroes,  whose  cruelties  were  encouraged 
by  the  French  (396,  539,  554  i.,  709). 

^ha^Si'         Bermuda  had  an  uneventful  year.      But  a  petition  for 

economical  the  removal  of  the  restriction  of  loading  and  unloading 
vessels  to  St.  George's,  points  to  the  changed  economi- 
cal circumstances  of  the  Island.  The  virginal  richness 
of  the  soil  having  been  exhausted,  tobacco  could  no 
longer  be  grown,  and  the  industry  of  the  place  turned  to 
the  production  and  export  of  salt,  cabbages  and  onions 
(231,  231  iv.). 

The  case  of        The  feud  between  the   Governor  and  the   Secretary, 

tary'  Edward  Jones,  continued.      A  petition  for  the  removal  of 

the  latter  was  referred  for  consideration   (231,  231  iii., 

643  etc.}.      The   Governor   complained  that  his   corres- 

pondence was  intercepted  and  tampered  with  (389). 

An  epidemic  Jamaica  suffered  much  from  an  epidemic,  the  symp- 
toms of  which  are  described  (227,  649,  912). 

Councillors  In  accordance  with  the  Act  for  settling  the  trade  to 
Factors°of  the  Africa,  directions  were  sent  for  the  removal  of  such 


Councillors  as  refused  to  resign  their  agencies  for  the 
African  Company  (444,  453,  466,  912  etc.). 
The  Governor       Governor    Handasyd    received    a    reprimand    for    his 

and  Escheats,  , 

etc.        management  of  lands   escheated  to  the   Crown,   in  the 

form   of  an   Additional    Instruction   (67  i.).      He  com- 

plains of  several  other  checks  from  home.      But  after  he 

TotSaie    ^d  suspended  the  firebrand  Totterdale  who  was  play- 

ing the  popular  part  of  opposing  the  authority  of  the 

Crown,  he  was  able  to  announce  that  he  was  now  on 

The  Assembly  better  terms   with   the   Assembly  than  at  any  previous 

time  during  his  Government  (451,  p.  102).  They  voted 
some  arrears  and  revenue,  and  renewed  the  Quartering 
Act  (451). 


xxxv. 


PREFACE. 


Handasyd 
apreiieved. 


Rumours  of 

by  th.6 

French. 


Defence, 


Spaniards, 


A  rich 
avoy' 


Act  for 


repealed, 
Leeward 

Al8<Snerai 

Assembly 

contemplated 


For  himself,  and  for  his  regiment,  he  again  repeatedly 
applied  to  be  relieved.  According  to  the  promise  held 
out  by  Royal  Proclamation,  the  relief  of  the  Regiment 
was  already  four  years  overdue.  It  had  suffered  se- 
verely from  sickness  and  fatigue,  as  well  as  from  losses 
in  action.  For  the  lack  of  sailors  in  the  Naval  Squadron 
compelled  the  ships  of  war.  as  we  have  said  above,  to  rely 
upon  soldiers  for  a  third  part  of  their  complement  (227, 
339,  451,  542,  912). 

There  were  several  reports  that  an  attack  by  the 
French  was  imminent  (171/227).  With  the  Regiment 
thus  depleted  and  three  out  of  the  five  men  of  war  left 
by  Admiral  Wager,  when  he  sailed,  practically  useless  for 
want  of  crews,  the  Island  was  in  a  somewhat  parlous 
state  of  defence  (720).  Handasyd  saw  to  the  repair  of 
the  fortifications,  and  began  a  new  line  for  guns  at  Port 
Royal  (542). 

Attempts  to  trade  with  the  Spaniards  on  the  coast  were 
persevered  in,  but  without  much  success.  The  Spani- 
ards said  they  had  no  money  with  which  to  buy  British 
manufactures  (542  etc.},  and  the  action  of  the  Jamaican 
privateers,  referred  to  above,  who  did  not  distinguish 
between  French  and  Spanish  ships,  did  much  to  check 
commercial  intercourse  (100).  The  Council  of  Trade 
urged  the  Governor  to  see  that  the  clause  in  the  Act  for 
the  encouragement  of  trade  to  America,  whereby  pro- 
vision was  made  for  trading  with  the  Spaniards,  was 
enforced.  Further  legislation  was  contemplated  with 
that  object  in  view  (100,  111,  474). 

Trade  and  privateering  together  brought  riches  to 
Jamaica.  We  read  of  a  convoy  sailing  with  £200,000 
sterling  in  bullion  on  board  (142). 

The  Act  for  further  quieting  of  possessions  was  re- 
pealed,  with  an  intimation  that  if  an  amended  Act  were 
passed  it  would  receive  the  Royal  assent  (834,  858). 

Writing  from  the  Leeward  Islands  at  the  beginning 
°^  t^s  P6"0**  Governor  Parke  explains  that  he  cannot 
call  a  General  Assembly  of  the  Four  Islands  until  he  has 
a  man  of  war  at  ^is  disposal  (5).  But  in  Nov.  1709,  in 
order  to  avoid  the  impasse  with  Antigua  and  the  claim 
of  the  Assembly  of  that  Island  to  the  negative  voice,  he 
announces  his  intention  of  summoning  a  General  As- 
sembly to  make  laws  for  the  whole  Government  (873). 


PREFACE. 


xxxvi. 


Leeward         Whilst  in  Barbados  the  Governor  sided  with  the  As- 

Islands.  .  ,  .  ,          _  ., 

Governor    sembly  against  the   Council,   in  Antigua  the  Assembly 
S^SyS6  entered  uP°n  a  quarrel  with  the  Governor  arid  Council. 

Antigua.  According  to  Parke,  Col.  Codrington  is  the  villain  of  the 
piece.  Stimulated  by  him  and  his  party,  the  Assembly 
brought  in  a  bill  of  privileges,  by  which  they  claimed  to 
act  as  a  Court  of  Judicature,  and  to  fine  and  imprison 
anybody  who  reflected  upon  their  House.  They  also  de- 
nied the  Crown  the  right  of  the  negative  voice.  This  they 
claimed  for  their  Speaker.  They  offered  to  give  the 
Governor  a  handsome  present  and  his  house  rent  if  he 
would  pass  the  laws  they  desired,  and  sacrifice  the 
Queen's  Prerogative.  Otherwise,  he  would  receive  no- 
thing. "None  of  these  Govermrients  give  something 
for  nothing"  he  observes,  and  urges  that,  to  secure  their 
independence,  Governors  should  be  paid  a  fixed  and 
sufficient  salary  by  the  Crown  and  receive  nothing  from 
the  inhabitants  (5,  117,  117  i.).  As  for  the  Assembly, 
he  offered  them  all  the  privileges  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, "but  they  are  for  the  privileges  of  the  Lords,  and 
the  Queen's  Prerogative  too"  (487). 

Codrington's       Parke  suggests  some  of  the  motives  which  actuated 

Party.      Codrington  and  his  party,  and  explains  the  dilemma  in 

which  it  was  intended  to  place  him   (116,  117).      They 

were  determined,  he  says,  to  get  him  removed  from  the 

Government;    and   so   much,    indeed,    is   evident.      His 

Their       chief  offence,  he  says,  in  their  eyes  was  that  he  upheld 

intrigues  and     i        •.->  *    i->  •  -t  -i  •  1  1  i  t        / 

bribery,     the  Royal  Prerogative  and  put  down  illegal  trade  (pp. 

105,  106,  137).      Also,  as  a  champion  of  the  smallholders 

against  the  large  landowners,  he  has  brought  a  wasps' 

nest    about    his    ears    (182).       Certainly,    the    charges 

Complaints   brought  against  him   show   extreme  vindictiveness   and 

pSe*     are  frequently  frivolous  and  ill-founded. 

First  series  of       Upon  the  first  batch  of  complaints  against  Parke,  the 

against      Council   of    Trade    accepted   his   explanations   and    the 

Beared  ?ndis  A(^^resses  °f  tne  Lt.  Governors  and  Councils  of  Antigua 

commended,  and  St.  Kitts  in  his  favour.      They  found  not  only  that 

he  had  completely  cleared  himself,  but  also  that  he  'de- 

served commendation  for  his  zeal  for  H.M.  service  and 

his  great  care  for  the  good  and  security  of  the  Islands 

under  his   Government   (91,   116,   116  i.-ii.,   193,   194  ii., 

367,  381). 

Wt.  11522.  CPf, 


xxxvm.  PREFACE. 

second.and        A  few  weeks  later,  March,  1709,  a  whole  series  of  corn- 
Third  Series.      .    .  ,  .  '  . 

plaints  against  him  were  secretly  brought  home  by  Mr. 
Nivine  (443  i.-iii.,  459  i.,  465  i.,  484).  They  taxed  him 
with  tyrannous  and  corrupt  maladministration.  The 
charges  were  got  together  in  a  clandestine  manner  by 
Codrington's  party,  and  signatures  obtained  to  them  in 
most  rePrenensible  fashion.  Both  the  Governor 
and  Council  were  kept  in  ignorance  of  their  nature  (116 
i.,  ii.,  pp.  76,  104) 

Parke's  reply.  For  Parke's  reply  in  detail,  and  that  of  the  Council 
on  his  behalf,  we  must  turn  to  Nos.  532,  589  i.,  597  i. 
He  asked  leave  to  return  home  and  answer  the  charges  in 
person  (488,  597).  Some  of  them,  even  after  they  had 
been  combed  and  edited  by  Codrington,  would  appear 
to  have  been  frivolous  or  malicious  misrepresentations. 
But  they  bear  witness  to  the  heated  feelings  of  the  people 
(532).  Parke  says  that  the  principle  of  his  opponents 
was  to  throw  enough  dirt  in  the  hope  that  some  would 
stick,  but  that  they  did  not  really  rely  upon  their  arti- 
cles. In  Antigua  a  riot  was  organised  in  the  hopes  of 
making  his  position  intolerable  (Nos.  183,  487,  p.  107). 

Presents  sent  For  home  consumption,  £5000  was  subscribed  "to 
bribe  me  out"  (pp.  105,  106),  besides  "a  vast  quantity  of 
citron  water."  In  fact,  Col.  Codrington  had  bought 
up  all  the  citron  water  in  Barbados,  and  Parke  himself 
had  difficulty  in  obtaining  any  when,  in  his  turn,  ihe 
wished  to  make  a  present  to  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle!  (183, 
487). 

illegal  Trade.  This  money  and  these  presents  were  subscribed  by 
people  like  Codrington,  Hodges,  the  Lieutenant  Gov- 
ernor of  Montserrat,  Chester  and  others,  who  had  good 
reasons  for  getting  rid  of  him.  Codrington,  whose  patron 
was  Lord  Peterborough,  whilst  Parke's  was  Marlbor- 
ough  (852),  wanted  the  Government  for  himself;  he 
objected  to  Parke's  enquiries  into  his  title  to  Barbuda; 
and  feared  his  making  him  refund  monies  due  for  prizes 
taken  under  his  administration  (116). 

Everybody  who  was  implicated  in  illegal  trade  with 
Guadeloupe  and  Curagao  was  ready  to  pay  heavily  to 
get  rid  of  a 'Governor  who  took  pains  to  prevent  it.  By 
such  trade  "old  Codrington  got  all  his  estate"  (pp.  105, 
106);  Hodges  and  Chester  were  deeply  concerned  in  it; 


PREFACE.  xxxix. 

whilst  Col.  Johnson,  the  late  Lt.  Governor  of  Antigua, 
had  openly  suffered  it.  As  for  stopping  it,  that  was  not 
easy  for  a  Governor  left  without  privateers  and  often 
without  a  man  of  .war  (192,  193,  487). 

It  is  to  be  observed  that  one  of  the  charges  against 
Parke  himself  is  that  he  traded  with  the  French  and  with 
Curacao  by  means  of  flags  of  truce.  His  own  account 
of  those  transactions  is  not  convincing  (p.  77). 

He  sent  home  addresses  which  he  claimed  proved 
that  three  but  of  the  four  Islands  esteemed  him  a  good 
Governor,  and  was  able  to  assert  that  in  all  his  public 
transactions  he  had  had  the  support  of  the  Councils 
(487,  488). 

Complaints        Complaints,  however,   against  his  exactions  and  un- 
stfKitt's     bridled  behaviour  came  also  from  St.   Kitts   (625,  626). 
Replies          Upon  the  whole  matter,  replies  and  evidence  by  both 
called  for.    sides  were  ord€red  (630). 

HM  One  of  Parke's  enemies  was  the  Colonel  of  the  Regi- 

Regimentin  ment  stationed  in  the  Leeward  Islands.  Parke  com- 
isiands.  plained  of  his  absenteeism,  and  that  of  the  officers,  and  of 
the  neglect  of  the  soldiers'  clothing  and  pay.  The  Coun- 
cil of  Trade  represented  the  necessity  of  their  return  to 
duty.  The  Islanders,  though  very  anxious  for  their 
protection,  refused  to  pay  for  their  quartering  (5,  191, 
487). 

Attempt  to  Nivine's  complaints  were  to  be  heard  on  Sept.  26th, 
e  1709  (730)-  But  before  that  date  arrived,  an  attempt 
was  made  to  assassinate  Parke  in  Antigua.  Disap- 
pointment caused  by  the  delay  through  Nivine  being 
carried  prisoner  into  France  had  already  led  to  an  at- 
tempt to  shoot  the  Governor  in  the  previous  year.  Dis- 
appointment on  hearing  that  Parke  was  to  have  liberty 
to  answer  the  charges  brought  against  him,  led  now  to 
another  attempt.  A  runaway  negro  was  put  up  to  shoot 
him  from  behind  a  hedge  at  night.  His  horse,  start- 
ing at  the  flash  of  the  gun,  saved  his  life.  The  bullet 
pierced  his  arm.  The  negro  and  the  principal  con- 
spirators were  spirited  off  the  Island  (741,  852).  What- 
ever Parke's  faults  of  conduct  and  temper  may  have 
been — and  his  correspondence  reveals  him  as  arrogant, 
hot-headed,  high-handed  and  unrestrained  in  speech — 
several  incidents  show  that  he  had  to  deal  with  a  violent 


xl.  PREFACE. 

and  unruly  population.  In  view  of  the  crime  which 
was  shortly  to  occur,  it  has  to  be  remembered  that  Lt. 
Governor  Johnson  also  was  murdered,  and  his  murderer 
went  unhanged.  The  Provost  Marshal  was  forced  to 
fight  several  duels  before  he  could  perform  his  duty 
unmolested.  The  Chief  Justice  himself  is  described  as 
no  lawyer,  but  one  who  had  murdered  an  unarmed  man 
and  been  pardoned  by  Codrington.  "There  never  was 
any  inhabitant  that  ever  I  heard  of  brought  in  guilty 
of  murther";  says  Parke,  "There  was  a  merchant  once 
they  did  bring  in  guilty,  the  reason  they  gave,  he  had 
sold  his  goods  too  dear"  ,(150,  182,  pp.  310,  311,  387).  The 
unwillingness  of  the  inhabitants  to  convict  any  of  their 
fellow-planters  for  crime  or  debt  was,  in  -fact,  according 
to  Parke,  one  of  the  chief  causes  of  the  trouble  between 
him  and  them.  An  instance  of  this  was  the  murder  by 
Chester  of  one  Sawyer,  who  met  with  the  fate  of  Mr. 
Bardell.  Chester  was  acquitted  by  a  packed  jury. 
Parke's  interference  on  this  occasion  was  made  the 
grounds  of  one  of  the  articles  exhibited  against  him 
(p.  310).  Another  grievance,  he  declares,  was  his  hold- 
ing of  Courts.  The  Islanders'  idea  of  justice  was  that 
nobody  outside  of  the  Island  must  be  allowed  to  recover 
a  debt  (p.  107).  Their  law  for  establishing  Courts  was 
skilfully  adapted  to  this  end.  Parke's  vigorous  criti- 
cism  of  this  Act  was  endorsed  by  the  Attorney  General, 
and  the  Act  was  repealed  (25,  84,  99,  182,  250,  264,  269,  p. 

repealed.      385). 

Elections  of       The  rejection  of  the  bill  for  ascertaining  the  elections 
etives" a    °f    Representatives   was    approved    by    the    Council    of 
Antigua.     Trade;  but  in  reference  to  the  case  of  an  Assemblyman 
whom   Governor   Parke   had   refused   to    swear   on   the 
ground   that   he   was    not    a    freeholder,    the  Board  ob- 
served that  the  Assembly  was  the  proper  judge  of  the 
qualifications    of    its    own    members,    and    that,    where 
there  was  no  law  to  direct  in  any  particular  case,  it  would 
be  safest  for  him  "to  follow  the  antient  custom  of  the 
Island"  (245). 

Minutes  of        The  blame  for  delay  in  sending  home  the   Minutes 

CAsasembiyd  of   Council,    Parke   throws    upon   the   shoulders   of   the 

Secretaries  of  the  several   Islands    (pp.   3,  5,  311,  368). 

One  of  these  was  the  Deputy  of  Sir  Charles   Hedges, 


PREFACE.  xli. 

Parke  has  some  pertinent  observations  on  the  inconveni- 
ence of  Patent  Offices  (v.  supra}.  As  'for  the  Minutes 
of  the  Assembly  of  Antigua,  not  only  were  they  very 
irregularly  kept,  but  the  Assembly  refused  to  allow 
copies  to  be  supplied  to  the  Governor  (487). 
Nevis ;  jn  Nevis,  the  planters  'finding  themselves  in  desperate 

attempts  at  a  ' 

Moratorium,  straits  after  the  raid  and  hurricane,  endeavoured  to  adopt 
desperate  remedies.  They  brought  in  a  bill  for  estab- 
lishing a  moratorium  and  shutting  up  the  Courts  of 
Law  for  three  years.  Governor  Parke  refused  to  pass 
it,  and  was  commended  by  the  Council  of  Trade  for  so 
doing  (187,  188,  209). 

The  grant  in  To  relieve  the  distress  of  the  sufferers  from  the  raid 
ami  st.  Kilts.  and  hurricane  at  Nevis  and  St.  Kitts  a  grant  of  pro- 
visions and  building  materials  was  despatched  from 
home.  Strict  directions  were  given  for  securing  an 
equal  distribution  of  this  bounty,  and  reference  made  to 
the  suspicion  that  there  had  been  embezzlement  of  some 
of  the  former  grant  of  provisions  (127,  130). 

French'part  ^n  yiew  °^  tne  Peace  Negotiations,  the  importance  of 
of  st.  Kitts  retaining  that  part  of  St.  Kitts  which  had  been  captured 
from  the  French  was  strongly  urged.  Attention  was 
also  called  to  the  unhappy  fate  of  the  hostages  .taken 
from  St.  Kitts  by  Iberville  (534,  546,  547,  554  i.). 

In    N°V'    1709>    nCWS    Came    °f    the    capture   of    St.    EuS- 

French.     tatia  by  some  French  privateers,  when  an  attack  upon 

the  Leeward  Islands  seemed  probable  (865,  873). 
Newfound-        A  Custom  House  Officer  for  Newfoundland  was  ap- 

land :  Custom         •  i    .         .  •         •,        -,  ?  •  •»          i 

House  office  pointed  in  Aug.  1708,  in  the  hopes  of  preventing  illegal 
appointed.   trade  wnen  a  Court  of  Admiralty  should  be  established 

there  (119). 

a^SSvor  Some  complaints  were  lodged  against  Major  Lloyd. 
Lloyd.  He  was  charged  with  hiring  soldiers  out  to  work  and 
robbing  them  of  their  pay,  and  of  treating  the  inhabi- 
tants like  slaves.  The  Commodore,  however,  upon  en- 
quiry found  that  these  complaints  were  not  justified  (158, 
158  i.-xx.,  223,  911  ix.). 

Major  Lioyd       After  the  departure  of  the  fishing  fleet  and  convoy, 
securitye0f   Major   Lloyd   reported,    Nov.    1708,   that   about   700   in- 
st.  Johns,    habitants  were  going  to  pass  the  winter  under  the  pro- 
tection of  the  forts  in  St.  Johns.      He  had  strengthened 
the  forces  under  his  command  by  enlisting  some  soldiers 


xlii.  PREFACE. 

on  the  spot.  Placentia  was  reported  to  be  weak,  and 
weakly  garrisoned.  So  good  was  the  position,  that  no 
danger  from  the  French  was  to  be  apprehended.  "If 
the  enemy  hurt  us  this  year,  I'le  allow  ye  fault  to  be 
laid  to  my  charge"  (152,  158,  195,  195  ii.,  859  iv.,  890  ii., 
v.,  vi.). 

s^jSuw!  Fiye  weeks  later  St.  Johns  was  surprised  and  captured 
by  a  force  of  160  Frenchmen  from  Placentia  under  the 
command  of  M.  St.  Ovide  de  Brouillan  (Dec.  21st, 
1708).  Lloyd  was  carried  as  prisoner  of  war  to  Placentia 
(345)-  The  first  account  of  the  affair  reached  White- 
bility-  hall  at  the  beginning  of  February  (348).  It  definitely 
suggested  treachery  on  the  part  of  Major  Lloyd.  De- 
tailed accounts  arrived  later  (890  ii.-ix.,  911  ix.).  They 
establish  the  negligence  of  Lloyd,  if  not  his  cowardice 
and  treason.  In  a  cryptic  letter  he  suggests  treachery 
elsewhere  (890  ix.). 

Attacks  upon  Ferryland  and  the  Isle  of  Boys  were  suc- 
andthe     cessfully  resisted  by  the  inhabitants  (859  i.,  890  ii.). 

Isle  of  Boys 
repulsed. 

Defences  of        The  French  demolished  the  Castle  and  Old  Fort  at 

demolished-  St.  Johns,  and  removed  the  guns.  The  inhabitants  were 
held  to  ransom  by  Brouillan,  and  hostages  taken  to 
Placentia.  Their  treatment  is  described  (859  i.,  890  ii.- 
iv.). 

Reports  upon  Commodore  Mitchell  made  his  report  upon  the  Fish- 
hery'  ery  in  1708  (223  i.-xv.).  Owing  to  the  capture  of  St. 
Johns,  no  full  report  was  to  be  expected  in  1709  (567). 
But  Commodore  Taylor  sent  in  a  report  which  shows 
that  the  number  of  quintals  of  fish  made  fell  from 
Old  Fort  135,934  to  90,364  (859  ii.,  223  iv.,  890  iii.).  He  persuaded 
the  inhabitants  of  St.  Johns,  Quidi  Vidi  and  Petty  Har- 
bour to  rebuild  their  winter  houses  in  the  Old  Fort,  which 
he  reconstructed  with  the  aid  of  sailors  from  H.M.S. 
Litchfield  and  Rye  and  the  fishing  ships,  mounting  eight 
guns  upon  it  (859  i.,  922).  This  was  done  in  response 
to  a  petition  from  the  Fishing  Admirals  (890  vii.J.  He 
also  left  a  store  of  provisions  against  the  winter. 

John  Collins  Before  leaving,  Commodore  Taylor  commissioned 
John  Collins  to  act  as  Governor  in  his  absence,  and  other 

Commodore,  officers  to  act  as  Governors  in  the  several  harbours.   They 
were  all  first  chosen  by  the  inhabitants  themselves  (756, 
859  i.,  911  xv.). 


PREFACE. 


xliii. 


report. 


Expedition        The  reduction  of  Newfoundland  was  part  of  the  plan 
Newfound-   laid  for  the  Expedition  which  came  to  naught,  and  is 
land.       referred  to  supra  §   1.     Col.  Moody,  who  had  been  sent 
out  to   St.    Johns   with  stores  of  arms   and  provisions, 
put  the   case   of   Newfoundland   before  the   Council   of 
Coi.  Moody's  War  at  Rehoboth  (602-4,  794  i.,  922  i.,  ii.).      He  reported 
that  he  had  settled  about  900  men  with  their  families 
upon  the  islands   about   St.   Johns,  and  prevailed  with 
them  to  abide  there  for  the  winter.      But  they  expressed 
their  intention  of  abandoning  the  country  unless  a  strong 
fort  and  garrison  were  established  to  protect  them  and 
their  trade  (922). 

The  British  claim  to  Newfoundland  is  given  at  length 
(554  i.). 


The  British 
claim. 


CECIL   HEADLAM. 


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in  the  volumes  preserved  at  the  Public  Record  Office  and  listed 
as  follows: 

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5,382.  5,716.  5,717.  5,720.  5,727.  5,751.  5,864.  5,865. 
5,898.  5,912.  5,913.  5,970.  5,994.  5,995.  5,1049.  5,1084. 
5,  1091,  5,  1121.  5,  1122.  5,  1234.  5,  1264.  5,  1292.  5,  1316. 
5, 1362.  5, 1363.  7, 1.  28, 11.  28, 12.  28,  13.  28,  38.  28,  43. 
29,  11.  29,  12.  33,  15.  37,  8.  37,  9.  38,  6.  116,  20.  134,  2. 
134,  3.  135,  3.  137,  8.  137,  41.  137,  45.  137,  51.  138,  12. 
138,  13.  152,  7.  152,  8.  152,  9.  152,  39.  152,  42.  153,  10. 
153,  11.  194,  4.  194,  22.  195,  5.  253,  1.  285,  2.  318,  3. 
319,  1.  323,  6.  323,  7.  324,  9.  388,  11.  388,  12.  388,  76. 
389,  6,  389,  20.  389,  21.  389,  36.  S.P.  Naval,  7. 


COLONIAL    PAPERS. 


ADDENDA:  JUNE,  1708. 


1708 
Juno  16. 
Whitehall. 


Juno  16. 

Boston. 


1.  W.  Popple,  jr.,  to  Mr.  Lowndes.     Encloses  estimate  for 
transporting  German   refugees  to   New   York  etc.    (June   7),   to 
which  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  have  no  objection. 
But  Mr.    Perry  having  informed  them  that  if  a  Virginia  ship 
cou'd   be   found  that  wou'd  drop  them   at   New   York,    it  would 
be   much  the   cheaper   way,    and  might    come   to   £250   instead 
of  £333,    they  have   desired  him   to   endeavour   to   find   .such  a 
ship,  and  to  bring  terms  to-morrow,  which  shall  be  transmitted 
to  you.     Their  Lordships  propose  that  the  tools  and  money  for 
subsistance    be    committed   to    the    care    of    the   Lord    Lovelace 
to  issue  from  time  to  time.      [C.O.   5,   1121.    pp.   264-266.] 

2.  Lt    Governor  Usher  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions.    Since  mine  by  ye  mast  ships  [see  June  28,  1708],  have 
bin  in  the  province  of  New  Hampshire,   find  H.E.   taken  care 
to  putt  the  fourtt   into  a   good  condition   for  defence,   whereas 
butt   8   men  formerly,   now   20   men    belonging   to   the   ffourtt.. 
H.E.  hath  taken  care  getting  an  actt  pastt  for  preserveing  trees 
[see  June   1st  and  28]    fitt  for   H.M.   Navy,   wish  in  ye  Actt/ 
care  had  bin  taken  for  a  nursery.      Unexpectedly  we  have  bin 
preserved  from  insults  of  ye  enemy.     Repeats  part  of  June  28, 
1708.     In  Province,  doe  say  country  nott  willing  to  contribute 
for  Mr    Walderen's  case,  the  Representatives  have  raised  money 
and  ordered  itt  outt  of  Treasury.    The  Treasurer  acquaintts  that 
£250    apointed    by   Representatives    was    advanced,    and    in   en- 
closed Minuitt   Councill  more   mony  for   Agency,    in   all  £488; 
am   informed  a  minuitt  in   assembly ;    ytt.   Mr.    Vaughan  doth 
goc  as  Agentt,  thatt  all  his  exspences  be  borne  by  ye  province, 
and   to   be   allowed   £80    a   year   and   necessary   suplys    for  his 
family  in  his  absence,   if  Assembly  raise  and  dispose  of  mony 
in  such  a  maner,  wth.  submistion  doe  nott  actt  as  a  Govermtt. 
immediately  under  the  Crown,  butt  Comonwealth  Govermtt.  ;  'tis 
certain  £1000  issued  outt  of  Treasury  under  notion  of  Agency ; 
when  in  truth  onely  to  maintain  Mr.  Walderen's  law-suite.   When 
I   wentt  into  the   province   to   se   H.   M.    Order   in  Councill  as 
to    direction    for    a    spetiall    verdictt,    my    charges    nott    to    be 
allowed,  because  I  wentt  on  a  private  case  etc.     T  thinck  Mr. 
Allen's  case  very  hard,   for  he  to  be  in  disburse  aboutt  £2000, 

Wt.  11522,— B.&S— ST.",,  C  P  \ 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708, 


July-Dec. 


July  1. 

Whitehall. 


to  recover  his  rightt,  as  hath  bin  owned  in  all  reign,  and  now 
a  people  being  weary  in  advanceing  mony  for  a  private  cause 
of  controversy  in  Law,  ytt.  same  mustt  be  maintain'd  by  ,a 
Govermtt.  I  hope  this  mony  will  nott  be  allowed  of  in  the 
Treasurer's  accotts.  att  home,  and  ytt.  some  care  will  be, 
such  things  to  be  rectified,  many  in  country  dissatisfied,  they 
to  be  rated  for  maintaining  private  Law  suites,  and  same  time 
refuse  to  raise  mony  to  pay  poore  men  there  just  due  in 
serveing  ye  country.  Signed,  John  Usher.  Endorsed,  Reed, 
(from  Mr.  Armstrong)  4th,  Read  llth  Nov.,  1708.  Holograph. 
1  p.  Enclosed, 

2.  i.  Minute  of  Council  of  New  Hampshire,  May  8,  1708. 
Present,  Governor  Dudley  etc.  The  Treasurer  stated 
that  the  £250  appointed  by  Assembly  for  the  Agency 
was  all  advanced,  and  that  he  had  his  warrants  for 
the  same.  Further  sums  advanced  on  the  same  account 
were  allowed,  and  £1100  voted  for  soldiers'  wages  and 
other  debts,  including  £210.  9s.  for  the  Agency.  Copy. 
1  p. 

2.  ii.  Account  of  money  advanced  for  the  Agency.  Total, 
£488.  16.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  865.  Nos.  2,  2.i.  ii. ; 
and  (without  enclosures)  5,  913.  pp.  26-28.] 


3.  Passports  for  32  ships  to  sail  without  convoys  or  embargo 
in  America  and  the  West  Indies. 

[C.O.   5,  210.     pp.   107,   112,   116,   118,   121,  124,   125.] 

4,  Council  of  Trade  and   Plantations   to  the   Earl    of   Sun- 
derland.     Reply  to  letter  of  June  29.     We  have  no  objection1  to 
Mr.    Lewis   Morris   being  restored  to   his   place   and   precedency 
in  the  Council  of  New  Jersey,  from  which  he  has  been  suspended 
by  the  Lord  Cornbury:   But  we  are   apprehensive  some  incon- 
venience may  insue  upon  the  displacing  of   either  Mr.    Cox  or 
Mr.   Sonmans,  some  time  since  appointed  by  H.M.,  and  there- 
fore are  of  opinion  that  they  be  continued,  and  that  Mr.  John 
Harrison,    who    is   the    last   of   those    we   had    proposed   by  our 
Representation  of   May  31,    be   left   out.      [C.O.    5,    994.      pp.. 
449,   450.] 


July  1. 


5.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
St.Xphers.  Acknowledges  letters  of  Jan.  29  and  Feb.  26.  I  hope  H.M. 
will  think  itt  for  her  service  to  order  all  the  officers  to  their 
posts,  the  Regiment  else  in  a  little  time  will  be  in  the  same 
condition  the  last  was,  £rd  of  their  arms  are  already  unservice- 
able, and  they  have  10  months  pay  due  to  them,  so  that  I 
am  forced  to  give  them  liberty  to  worke,  and  onely  keep  the 
most  necessary  guards,  as  at  Monks  Hill,  and  in  the  severall 
ffortts.  appointing  them  a  place  of  Rendevous  in  case  of  alarms ; 
the  giving  them  quarters  is  so  expensive  to  the  Islands,  they 
are  quite  weary  of  it,  and  will  do  it  no  longer.  Indeed  Antigua 
excepted,  the  rest  are  not  able ;  and  Antigua  is  so  expensive 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  3 

1708 

a  place,  to  live  in  that  a  soldier  cannot  live  on  his  pay  there, 
here  they  can  as  beef  is  at  present,  but  for  Indian  provissions, 
which  is  what  they  must  cheifly  live  on  is  just  as  dear  againe 
in  Antigua,  as  'tis  in  St.  Kitts,  therefore  I  have  brought  .most 
of  the  men  here;  the  Kegiment  will  hardly  be  of  use  except 
they  are  paid,  armed  and  cloathed,  and  whilst  the  Coll.  and 
Major  and  great  number  of  officers  are  at  home,  it  will  never 
be ;  Major  Aldy  has  not  yet  been  here,  who  ought  never  to 
be  from  the  Regiment,  the  Coll.  agrees  with  merchants  to  pay 
the  Regiment,  they  make  use  of  the  mony,  and  take  no  care  to 
pay  the  Regiment,  the  mony  ought  to  be  sent  by  the  packet 
every  month,  here  is  one  Company  has  no  officer  to  it,  and 
several!  with  but  one.  Coll.  Jones,  the  Lt.  Col.,  has  downe 
right  quarrell'd  with  me  because  I  would  not  give  him  leave 
to  go  home,  and  so  has  severall  others ;  I  have  given  leava 
but  to  two  Ensigns  and  a  Lieut.,  one  had  the  leprosie,  the 
other  very  ill,  and  the  third  was  good  for  nothing ;  Coll.  Jones 
tells  me  he  has  got  leave  from  home,  wch.  will  come  by  the 
next  packet.  I  suppose  in  5  or  6  months  most  of  the  rest  will 
have  leave  to  go  home,  or  if  your  Lordships  does  not  prevent. 
Whenever  your  Lordships  have  not  had  the  Minutes  of  the 
Councills  and  Assembles  regularly,  it  has  not  been  my  fault. 
I  have  from  time  to  time  constantly  called  upon  and  writt  to 
the  severall  Secretarys  for  them,  and  'tis  their  fault,  by  this 
oppertunety  you  will  receive  all  from  Nevis  and  this  Island 
to  this  day;  there  is  only  the  last  three  months  due  from 
Antigua  and  Montserrat,  wch.  if  possible  to  be  got  shall  be 
sent  by  the  next  packet,  those  of  Antigua  will  be  long,  and 
give  your  Lordships  some  trouble  to  hear  them  read.  Coll. 
Codrington  and  his  Emissarys  has  put  such  notions  into  their 
heads  that  untill  they  are  told  from  yr.  Lordships  they  are  in 
the  wrong,  they  will  do  nothing;  they  drew  up  a  bill  for 
Priviledges,  wherein  the  Assembly  makes  themselves  a  Court 
of  Judicature  to  fine  and  imprison  etc.  ;  they  deny  the  Queen  the 
negative  voice,  and  severall  other  matters  never  heard  of  before, 
the  quarrell  began  between  the  Councill  and  Assembly  whilst  I 
was  at  St.  Kitts.  I  thought  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Councill  so 
much  in  the  right,  that  I  could  not  but  approve  of  all  they 
had  done,  when- 1  came  up,  they  had  no  priviledge  taken  from 
them,  everything  had  run  in  the  same  channel  it  had  allways 
done.  I  let  them  know  I  had  instructions  not  to  pass  any 
Law  of  an  extraordinary  nature  without  first  laying  it  before 
your  Lordships,  that  I  was  onely  intrusted  with  the  Queen's 
prerogative,  she  might  do  as  she  pleased,  but  to  give  any  part 
away,  would  be  a  breach  of  trust  in  me;  your  Lordships  will 
see  in  one  of  their  last  messages  they  promise  to  be  gratefull 
to  me,  if  I  would  pass  what  Laws  they  desired,  in  short,  one 
of  their  Members  came  to  me  early  the  next  morning  and  gave 
me  to  understand  that  I  should  have  a  noble  present,  and  also 
the  thousand  pounds  as  they  call  it  paid  me  better  then  I 
had  it  last  year  for  my  house  rent.  I  told  him  in  private, 
and  sent  them  a  publick  message  that  I  would  not  betray  my 


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1708 

trust  on  any  consideration  whatever.  I  kept  them  to  the  day 
before  the  Fleet  sail'd,  therefore  'twas  impossible  to  send  you 
the  Minutes,  but  the  Deputy  Secretary  has  promised  them  wth. 
coppies  of  those  Laws,  to  go  by  the  packet  if  she  does  not 
come  very  soon:  yr.  Lordships  will  then  be  able  to  judge  of 
the  whole  matter,  and  be  able  to  direct  me  what  to  do. 

As  to  the  Order  relating  to  my  house-rent,  I  shall  be  .very 
glad  to  gett  what  yr.  Lordships  have  been  pleas'd  to  allow  me, 
but  as  it  is  order'd,  must  lay  it  before  the  Generall  Council! 
and  Assembly  of  all  the  four  Islands,  wch.  can't  be  done  untill 
I  have  a  man  of  warr ;  the  first  year  I  was  paid  'tis  true, 
but  so  as  it  did  me  little  good — I  was  paid  in  sugar  after 
the  ffleet  was  gone ;  as  for  what  St.  Christophers  promised  me, 
the  hurricane  has  made  them  so  poor,  they  are  not  able.  I 
have  not  so  much  as  asked  one  pound  of  sugar  from  them,  nor 
expect  any.  I  am  to  have  nothing  from  Antigua  except  I 
give  up  the  Queen's  prerogative  and  pass  such  laws  as  will 
make  them  a  Commonwealth,  so  that  this  yeare  a  necessitous 
man  that  had  been  in  my  post  must  either  have  starved  ,or 
betrayed  his  trust.  I  assure  your  Lordships  none  of  these 
Governments  give  something  for  nothing,  therefore  the  Queen 
should  allow  her  Governors  such,  sallary  as  they  may  be  able 
to  lay  up  something  to  keep  them  when  out  of  their  Governments, 
and  to  receive  nothing  from  the  Inhabitants  ;  if  the  Queen  will 
advance  my  sallary  to  £2000  per  annum  as  the  other  Governors 
have,  I  will  be  content  to  suffer  as  a  Traytour  if  ever  I  take 
any  ffee,  present,  perquisit  or  reward,  private  or  publick,  whilst 
I  have  the  honour  to  command;  'tis  true  the  Governour  of 
Bermudas  has  not  a  sallary  of  £2000  per  annum,  but  then  he 
has  an  independent  Company,  and  a  benefit  out  of  the  whale- 
fishing,  wch.  makes  it  much  'more,  and  one  may  buy  as  much 
provission  there  for  five  shill.  as  here  for  20.  I  leave  this 
to  your  Lordships'  consideration.  I  beg  the  same  favour  of 
your  Lordships  (wch.  the  poorest  man  and  greatest  criminal 
has  a  right  too)  that  is  that  I  may  not  be  condemn'd  unheard, 
for  there  is  no  doubt  but  Coll.  Codrington  by  himself  or  his 
friendt*  will  misrepresent  every  thing ;  he  wants  not  will  to 
do  itt  (except  in  the  full  and  change  of  the  moon).  I  beg 
that  you  will  suspend  your  judgement  untill  you  have  seen  the 
Minutes  of  the  Councill  and  Assembly ;  then  your  Lordships 
will  be  convinced  I  have  lost  my  sallary  for  house-rent  because 
I  would  not  break  my  Instructions.  I  hope  I  shall  not  suffer 
in  your  Lordships'  good  opinion  for  obeying  your  orders.  In 
this  dispute  Barry  Tankard  Esq.,  one  of  the  Councill,  was  for 
gratifyeing  the  Assembly  in  everything,  and  because  he  could 
not  bring  over  anybody  else  to  his  opinion,  he  affronted  the 
Councill  and  left  them  declareing  he  would  never  sitt  more; 
pursuant  to  the  Order  I  receiv'd  from  your  Lordships,  I  writt 
to  him  by  the  Secretary,  he  came  to  towne  that  day  the  Councill 
satt,  but  neither  came  to  Councill,  nor  answered  the  letter, 
against  the  next  Councill  day,  I  had  him  writt  to  againe,  wch.  he 
never  answered  nor  came,  tho  that  clay  in  towne  alsoe ;  und  for 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  5 

1108 

seaven  Councill  dayes  together  never  came  nor  sent  any  excuse ;  at 
last  two  of  the  Councill  spoke  to  him,  his  answer  was,  he  would 
never  sitt  more,  all  wch.  is  entred  in  the  Councill  books,  and 
therefore  pursuant  to  the  Order  I  receiv'd  from  yr.  Lordships, 
and  by  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Councill  I  suspended 
.  him ;  therefore  since  it  has  been  done  pursuant  to  yr.  Lordships 
Instructions  I  hope  the  suspension  will  be  confirm'd,  and  his 
name  struck  out  of  the  list  of  Councillors  for  Antigua;  I  had 
but  six  Councellors  left,  for  Coll.  Williams  has  been  bed-rid 
(ever  since  I  came,  he  has  never  been  sworne,  and  Major 
Lyons  has  kept  his  chamber  this  six  months,  and  Mr.  Crab 
in  England,  therefore  I  was  necessitated  to  swear  another,  wch. 
is  Coll.  Wm.  Byam,  wch.  I  hope  yr.  Lordships  will  confirme, 
for  he  is  not  onely  of  the  best  ffamily,  but  has  one  of  the 
best  estates,  and  as  good  a  charector  as  any  one  on  the  Island .; 
as  to  the  postscript  in  your  Lordships'  letter  about  the  Patent 
Officers ;  the  Secretary  is  Sir  Charles  Hedges'  Couzen,  the 
Navall  Officer  is  Coll.  Rowland  Williams,  who  has  been  bed -rid 
severall  years.  The  marshall  was  one  Mr.  John  Perry,  who  has 
left  the  Islands  this  3  years;  about  8  months  ago  I  put  in  one 
Mr.  Michael  Ayon,  not  hearing  from  Mr.  Perry  and  his  Deputy 
(who  was  one  of  the  Drummers  of  the  Regiment)  letting  a 
man  go  about  his  buissness  that  was  committed  for  murther; 
therefore  I  hope  Mr.  Ayon  may  be  confirmed,  the  place  is  not 
worth  much,  for  Mr.  Perry  offered  it  in  England  for  £150; 
I  think  it  unreasonable  that  any  such  offices  should  be  exe- 
cuted by  Deputy.  'Tis  true  if  they  do  not  do  their  duty  I 
may  suspend  them,  but  then  I  disoblige  their  patrons  in  Brit- 
taine,  who  are  men  of  intrest  and  perhaps  may  have  them 
restor'd,  wch.  would  be  an  affront  put  upon  me ;  and  truly 
the  best  of  them,  wch.  is  the  Secretary's  is  hardly  worth  the 
begging.  I  think  the  Deputy  does  not  allow  above  £100,  or  at 
most  £150,  the  yeare,  the  other  are  hardly  worth  the  charge  of 
takeing  out  patents  for;  Mr.  Rhods  that  came  over  Secretary 
about  the  losses  at  Nevis  Sir  Charles  writt  me  word  would 
stay  and  be  Deputy  Secretary.  I  wish  he  had  thought  it 
worth  his  while,  for  he  was  a  pretty  Gentleman,  and  Avould 
have  been  a  great  help  to  me ;  the  Capt.  of  the  Hector  man 
of  warr  had  an  order  to  convoy  the  ffleet  home  in  case  I 
wth.  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Councill  thought  it  for 
the  service.  I  laid  it  before  the  severall  Councills  of  Antigua, 
Nevis  and  St.  Christophers,  and  they  were  all  unanimous  that 
'twas  for  the  good  of  the  Islands  to  have  the  ffleet  convoyed 
home,  accordingly  she  sayles  wth.  tihe  ffleet  and  carrys  the 
publick  papers ;  I  wish  yr.  Lordships  could  find  some  way  to 
prevent  the  trade  between  Ireland  and  the  French  Islands, 
for  I  never  send  a  fflag  of  truce  but  they  find  Irish  ships 
there  wth.  beef  etc.,  whilst  the  last  fflag  of  truce  was  at  Mar  - 
tineco,  there  came  in  three  large  ships  directly  from  Ireland  wth. 
beef,  and  their  Irish  colours  ff lying,  'tis  a  very  great  shame. 
P.S.  I  "beg  yr.  Lordships'  pardon  that  I  have  not  sent  the 
Navall  Officers  accts.  of  the  imports  and  exports  as  often  as 


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1708. 


July  1. 

St.  Xphers. 


July  1. 

St.  Xphers. 


July  1. 


July  1. 

Whitehall. 


July  1. 

New  York. 


I  could  get  them.  I  used  to  send  them  to  the  Gusto  me -house 
and  Treasury,  but  for  the  future  shall  take  care  to  send  them 
also  to  your  Lordships.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Sept.  1st,  Read  Oct.  27,  1708.  5  pp.  [0.0.  152,  7. 
No.  55;  and  153,  10.  pp.  195-203.] 

6.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Inclosed  I  send  the  Minutes  of  Council  and  Assembly  of  this 
Island   to    this    day.      Uppon    the    death    of    Col.    Crisp,    I  had 
but    six    Councillors,    therefore    swore    Francis    Phipps,    Esq.    a 
Gent     of   a   good   estate    and    charector ;    therefore   desire    your 
Ldpps    th'at  he  may  be  confirmed  and  added  to  the  list  for  this 
Island.     Signed,  Daniel  Parke.     Endorsed;  Reed.   Sept.  6,  Read 
Oct.  28,  1708.     Holograph.     1  p.     [0.0.   152,  7.     A7o.   56;  and 
153,  10.     p.  204.] 

7.  Same    to    same.      Inclosed    I    send    the    Minutes    of  the 
Council   and  Assembly  of  Nevis  to  this   day.     Signed  and  en- 
dorsed as   preceding.      [C.O.    152,    7.      No.    57 ;    and   153,  10. 
p.    205.J 

8.  Capt.    Gardner   to    Mr.    Popple.      There    was   raised    312 
men  foi  Brigadier  Handasyd's  Regt.,  whereof  the  officers  carry 'd 
285  to  Plymouth,  and  have  imbark'd  the  greatest  part  of  that 
number,  but  presume  they  may  not  all  arrive  in  Jamaica  before 
November,  there  has  neither  been  tyme,  pains  or  money  spar'd, 
to    accomplish    what    was    thought    impossible,     recruiting     for 
Jamaica,   if  those  men  arrive  safe,  the  Regemt.   will  not  want 
above  40  more.     Signed,  Rob.   Gardner.     Endorsed,   Reed.   1st, 
Read  2nd  July,  1708.     Holograph.      1  p.      [C.O.   137,  8.     No. 
10;   and   138,   12.      p.   293.] 

9.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Recom- 
mend John   Peters,  John   Burryan,   Joseph   Estridge   and  John 
Willet;  to  fill  vacancies  in  the  Council  of  St.  Kitts,  and  Thomas 
Goar,  Robert  Elleis,  Michael   Smith,   and  John  Richardson  for 
Nevis,   as  proposed  by  Governor  Parke,   March   13  etc.      [C.O. 
153,  10.     pp.  184,  185.] 

10.  Governor  Lord  Cornbury  to  the   Council   of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Your  Lordshipps'  letters  of  May  7,  1707,  I  had  the 
honour  to  receive  on  June  25th  last  at  Shrewbury  in  New  Jersey, 
from    whence    I    returned    to    this    place    on    June    28,    at  my 
arrivall   here,    I   was   informed  that   a   ship   would   be  ready  to 
sail  in  few  days  directly  for  Bristoll,  which  opportunity  I  was 
glad  to  embrace  to  acknowledge  the  receit  of  these  letters,  which 
are  thu  only  letters  I  have  been  favoured  with,  since  the  Queen 
has  been  pleased  to  grant  her  Commission  to  your  Lordshipps 
of   which   I   beg    leave   to   wish,    your    Lordshipps    much    joy. 
Your   Lordshipps    are   pleased   to    inform    me   that   it    is    H.M. 
pleasure    and    expresse    command    that    the    Governors    of    all 
forreign   Plantations   doe,   from   time   to   time,    give   unto   your 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  7 

1708. 

Lordshipps  frequent  and  full  information  of  the  state,  and 
condition,  of  their  respective  Governments,  etc.  In  all  these 
things  I  shall  endeavour  to  observe  H.M.  commands  punctually, 
as  soon  as  time  can  possibly  allow  it,  for  some  of  the  things  you 
are  pleased  to  require  of  me,  will  take  a  considerable  time  to 
transcribe,  as,  for  example,  the  proceedings  in  the  Councill, 
and  Assembly,  and  the  Supreame  Court,  all  which  shall  be  done  as 
fast  as  possible;  I  wish  with  all  my  heart  that  packet-boats  were 
established  to  some  part  of  this  Continent,  then  we  should  not 
only  have  frequent,  safe  opportunitys  of  writing  to  England, 
but  we  should  hear  more  frequently  from  thence,  whereas  now 
we  are  some  times  many  months  without  hearing  any  thing, 
perticularly  at  this  time,  till  I  had  the  \Javour~]  of  these  [letters] 
of  May  7,  [/  have  not  had~\  one  line  from  your  Lordshipps' 
Board,  nor  from  the  Et.  Hon.  the  Secretary  of  State  these 
15  months,  and  we  have  but  two  safe  ways  of  sending  into 
England,  which  are  the  Virginia  fleet,  and  the  mast  fleet  from 
New  England,  from  the  first  of  those  places  there  is  noe  post, 
soe  that  it  is  very  hard  to  know  when  that  fleet  is  to  sail, 
for  either  we  must  know  it  by  some  vessell  that  comes  from 
thencti  to  this  port  (and  that  is  not  above  two  or  three  in  a 
year),  or  else  by  some  traveller  who  comes  from  thence  by 
land,  soe  that  some  times  a  letter  is  six  weekes  coming  to 
this  place  from  Virginia,  some  times  longer,  by  which  means  we 
loose  the  opportunity  of  sending  by  that  fleet,  from  Boston 
there  is  a  post  by  which  we  can  hear  once  a  week  in  summer 
time,  and  once  a  fortnight  in  winter,  soe  that  we  have  a  sure 
conveyance  by  the  Mast  fleet,  the  conveyances  by  the  West  Indies 
have  proved  very  uncertain,  for  severall  of  our  vessels 
havj  been  taken  every  year  during  this  warr,  besides  that  severall 
of  the  packet  boats  from  England  have  been  likewise  taken. 
Your  Lordshipps  are  likewise  pleased  to  inform  me  that  the 
said  Governors  are  to  transmit  unto  you  yearly  accounts  by 
way  of  Journall  etc.,  all  which  I  shall  take  care  to  observe. 
I  can't  but  be  extreamly  surprised  to  find  by  your  Lordshipps' 
letter  relating  to  this-  Province  of  New  York,  that  there  are 
not  in  your  Office  any  Minutes  of  Councill,  or  Assembly,  or 
accounts  of  the  Revenue,  since  my  coming  to  the  Government, 

,  because    I    must    assure    your    Lordshipps,    that    I    have    never 

failed  of  sending  the  Minutes  of  the  Assembly  by  the  first 
opportunity  after  each  Sessions,  and  some  of  them,  I  am  sure, 
got  safe  into  England,  and  I  hope,  if  you  are  pleased  ,to 
order  Mr.  Popple  to  look  among  his  papers,  he  will  find  them. 
However,  they  shall  be  all  transcribed  fair,  and  sent  to  you ; 
the  accounts  of  the  Revenue  have  been  constantly  sent  by 
the  first  opportunity  [ajter]  the  Deputy  Auditor  has  audited 
them,  but  \n[deed~\  that  Mr.  Clark,  the  present  Deputy  Auditor, 
has  refused  to  do,  ever  since  Mr.  Byerley  was  suspended, 
which  was  in  April,  1705,  soe  that  it  has  been  impossible  for 
me  to  send  those  accounts  as  I  ought  to  have  done,  for  I 
must  have  sent  them  unaudited,  or  not  at  all ;  as  for  the 
Minutes  of  Councill,  I  sent  to  your  Lordshipps  two  years  agoe 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708 

all  the  Minutes  of  Councill  during  the  time  that  Mr.  Cosens 
was  Clerk  of  the  Councill,  and  last  year  I  sent  all  the  Minutes 
of  Councill  since  Mr.  Clarke  has  been  Clerk  of  the  Councill ; 
these  likewise  shall  be  all  transcribed  as  fast  as  the  length;  of 
them  will  permitt,  and  shall  be  sent  by  the  first  opportunity 
that  offers.  I  here  inclosed  send  your  Lordshipps  a  list  of 
the  present  Councill,  and  likewise  a  list  of  the  names  of  such 
persons  as  I  think  by  their  circumstances  most  proper  to  fill 
up  any  vacancy  that  may  happen  in  the  Councill,  in  these 
lists,  I  have  distinguished  where  the  persons  named  live;  and 
I  intreat  your  Lordshipps  that  what  vacancys  are  first  to  be 
filled,  may  be  filled  with  persons  inhabiting  in  this  City,  because 
very  often  I  find  it  difficult  to  get  five  together,  soe  many  of 
them  living  at  a  distance.  As  for  the  number  of  inhabitants  of 
this  Province,  I  sent  one  exact  list  of  them  about  four  years 
agoe,  and  another  two  years  agoe,  where  they  were  distinguished 
by  whites,  and  blacks,  males,  and  females.  I  will  take  care 
a  new  list  shall  be  taken  and  sent  by  the  first  opportunity. 
I  will  likewise  endeavour  to  give  your  Lordshipps  an  account 
of  the  increase,  or  decrease  of  the  inhabitants  since  my  coming 
to  this  Government.  Two  sorts  of  people  remove  out  of  this 
Government  into  the  neighbouring  Provinces,  the  first  are  tra- 
ding men,  of  these  but  few  are  removed  since  I  came  hither; 
the  other  sort  are  Husband  Men,  of  this  sort  many  are  removed 
lately,  espetially  from  Kings  County  on  Long  Island;  and  the 
reasons  why  they  remove  are  of  two  kinds,  the  first  is,  because 
King's  County  is  but  small,  and  full  of  people;  soe  as  the 
young  people  grow  up,  they  are  forced  to  seek  land  farther 
off  to  settle  upon,  the  land  in  the  Eastern  Division  of  New 
Jersey  is  good,  and  not  very  far  from  King's  County,  there 
[is  only}  a  Bay  to  crosse,  the  other  reason  that  induces  them 
to  remove  into  New  Jersey  is,  because  there  they  pay  noe  taxes, 
nor  noe  dutys ;  the  most  effectuall  way  to  prevent  the  removal! 
of  the  first  sort  of  people,  would  be  to  bring  all  the  Collonys 
and  Plantations  upon  the  Continent  of  America,  under  the 
same  dutys,  and  customes,  for  goods  imported  and  exported, 
if  this  were  once  setled,  the  trading  men  would  then  consider 
which  is  the  healthiest,  pleasantest  and  most  convenient  place 
for  trade,  whereas  now  the  chief  consideration  is,  where  the  least 
dutys  are  paid,  of  this  we  have  had  severall  instances  lately, 
since  the  french  destroyed  Nevis,  severall  familys  have  removed 
from  that  Island,  with  intent  to  settle  in  this  place,  but  when 
they  have  found  what  dutys  people  have  paid  and  doe  pay 
here,  and  that  at  Philadelphia  they  pay  none  at  all,  they  remove 
thither ;  As  for  the  Husband  Men  I  can't  see  how  they  ,can 
be  hindred  from  removing  out  of  one  Province  into  the  other. 
As  for  the  number  of  the  Militia  of  this  Province,  your  Lord- 
shipps  shall  have  an  exact  list  of  all,  in  the  mean  time,  I 
think  I  may  say  they  amount  to  rather  more  then  4,000  men. 
The  commodity s  exported  from  this  Province  to  England,  of 
the  growth  of  the  Province  are,  peltry  of  all  sorts,  pitch, 
tar,  rosine  and  train  oyl,  and  if  due  incouragement  were  given, 


AMERICA'  AND  WEST  INDIES.  9 

1708. 

good  quantitys  of  hemp,  flax,  timber,  masts  and  yards  might 
be  sent  from  this  Province  to  England;  but,  besides  the  com- 
moditys  above  mentioned,  we  send  into  England  considerable 
quantitys  of  sugars,  molosses,  logwood  and  other  dying  wood, 
scochaneel,  indigo  and  cacao  nutts,  which  we  have  from  the 
Islands  of  Barbados,  Monserat,  St.  Christophers,  Nevis,  An- 
tegoa  and  Jamaica,  to  which  places  we  send  flower,  biscuit, 
beefe,  pork,  bacon  and  train  oyl.  Besides  the  trade  we  have 
with  the  English  Islands  in  the  West  Indies,  as  abovementioned, 
we  have  some  vessels  that  trade  to  Surinam  and  Curacao,  and 
some  to  St.  Thomas's,  to  the  two  first  of  these  places  we 
carry  flower,  bacon,  candles,  and  train  oyl,  and  some  times 
horses,  from  thence  we  have  in  return  heavy  Spanish  money, 
and  sometimes  some  cacao ;  from  the  later  we  have  rum,  sugar, 
molosses,  cacao,  and  cotton  wool,  and  we  send  thither  flower, 
beefe,  pork  and  bacon,  but/  I  look  upon  the  trade  to  St.  Thomass, 
to  be  prejudicial  to  these  parts,  because  the  commoditys  we 
have  from  that  Island,  (which  is  subject  to  the  King  of  Den- 
mark), are  not  the  produce  of  the  Island,  but  the  produce 
of  prises  taken  by  the  French  upon  the  subjects  of  the  Queen, 
and  carried  in  thither,  it  being  a  Neutral  Port;  sometimes  we 
have  a  vessell  or  two,  that  goe  to  the  Coast  of  Guinea,  and 
bring  negros  from  thence,  but  they  seldom  come  into  this 
place,  but  rather  goe  to  Virginia,  or  Maryland,  where  they  find 
a  much  better  market  for  their  negros  then  they  can  doe 
here.  The  trade  of  this  Province  is  much  decayed  of  late 
years,  I  mean  for  these  ten  years  past  or  more,  for  in  1694/5., 
it  received  its  most  fatall  blow  by  this  means,  till  that  time, 
noe  body  was  permitted  to  bolt,  but  the  citizens  of  New  York, 
then  the  bolters  were  under  rule,  proper  officers  being  appointed 
to  view  all  the  flower  that  was  exported,  soe  that  noe  bad 
commodity  was  suffered  to  goe  out,  but  in  that  year,  an  Act 
of  Assembly  was  passed  whereby  all  persons  in  the  country,  as 
well  as  the  city,  were  permitted  to  bolt,  by  which  means  two 
great  inconveniencys  have  hapned,  one  (which  is  the  greatest) 
is,  that  the  commodity  is  vitiated,  for  the  country  bolter  being 
under  noe  rule,  or  checque,  does  not  care  what  the  commodity 
is,  soe  it  passe  out  of  his  hands,  soe  that  he  very  often  mingles 
Indian  corn  flower  with  his  wheat  flower,  this  being  discovered 
in  the  West  Indies,  has  soe  cried  downe  our  flower,  that  the 
Pensilvania  flower  sels  for  3/-  the  hundred  more  then  ours, 
whereas  the  New  York  flower  used  formerly  to  exceed  the 
Pensilvania  flower  one,  and  sometimes  two  shillings  the  hun- 
dred, and  this  I  look  upon  as  the  greatest  inconveniency  that 
has  hapned  by  that  Act,  the  other  is,  that  the  country  bolter 
ingrosses  all  the  corn  of  the  County  where  he  lives,  and  there 
being  bolters  almost  in  every  County,  it  is  very  difficult  for 
the  city  bolters  to  get  corn  to  carry  on  their  trade,  the  con- 
sequence of  which  is,  that  the  bolters  remove  into  the  country, 
if  they  remove,  the  coopers  must  remove  too,  for  they  will  find 
noe  work  in  the  city,  that  this  will  be  the  case,  we  see  by 
experience  already,  severall  having  removed  themselves,  by  which 


10  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

means  the  City  will  in  some  years  be  unpeopled,  these  two 
inconveniencys  have  hapned  by  the  abovementioned  Act,  which 
I  take  to  be  the  greatest  cause  of  the  decay  of  our  Trade ; 
there  is  another  cause  for  the  decay  of  the  trade  of  this 
Province,  which  arises  from  the  People's  own  faults,  and  that 
is  thus,  in  the  time  that  Sir  Edmond  Andros  was  Gouvernor  of 
this  Province,  there  was  noe  Assembly,  but  all  was  done  by 
Orders  of  the  Gouvernor  in  Councill,  he  being  willing  to  in- 
courage  the  trade  of  the  place  as  much  as  he  could,  made 
two  Orders  in  Councill.  One  was  to  incourage  the  bolting 
trade,  by  prohibiting  the  exportation  of  corn  in  grain,  the 
other  was  to  lay  a  duty  of  10  per  cent  upon  all  European 
commoditys  imported  into  this  Province  from  any  part  except 
from  England  directly,  and  that  was  the  first  thing  that  en- 
couraged the  people  of  this  Province  to  build  shipping,  the 
same  thing  was  done  since  by  Act  of  Assembly,  but  since 
that  Act  expired  (which  was  since  I  came),  I  could  never 
perswade  the  Assembly  to  renew  it,  though  the  inconveniencys 
that  happen  for  want  of  it,  are  many,  as  follows,  now  the 
people  of  New  England  come  and  buy  our  corn  in  grain, 
with  money  which  they  have  clipped  to  the  third  part  of 
the  real  vallue,  they  carry  it  to  New  England,  there 
grind  it,  and  bolt  it,  and  ship  it  off  for  the  West  Indies, 
on  the  other  hand,  they  bring  us  in  European  goods,  for  which 
they  carry  away  our  best  money,  formerly  we  had  nothing  in 
return  from  the  West  Indies  for  our  flower,  and  other  com- 
moditys, but  heavy  pieces  of  eight ;  now  there  is  not  one  vessell 
in  ten  that  brings  any  money,  only  European  goods,  soe  that 
if  it  were  not  for  the  small  trade  our  people  have  with  Sur- 
inam and  Curacao,  we  should  have  noe  heavy  money  in  the 
Province,  and  though  these  things  are  as  plain  as  the  sun, 
yet  it  is  not  possible  to  prevail  with  the  Assembly  to  renew 
these  Acts,  and  the  only  reason  I  can  give  for  it  is,  that 
the  Members  for  the  country  are  more  numerous,  then  those 
for  the  city,  they  don't  care  what  becomes  of  the  city,  provided 
they  have  goods  cheap,  they  think  the  more  goods  are  brought 
in,  the  cheaper  they  will  be,  noe  matter  from  whence  they 
come,  nor  how  much  the  trade  of  the  Province  is  destroyed, 
thus  I  have  acquainted  your  Lordshipps  with  the  decay  of 
the  trade  of  this  Province,  and  the  causes  of  it;  if  I  may 
propose  a  cure  for  the  first  of  these  distempers,  I  can  think 
of  none  but  these,  first,  if  the  Bolting  Act  is  not  already 
confirmed  at  home,  that  the  Queen  would  be  pleased  to  reject 
it;  if  it  is  confirmed,  either  by  his  late  Majesty,  or  by  the 
Queen  under  whose  auspicious  reign  we  now  happily  live,  then 
I  can  propose  noe  other  remedy  then  this,  that  H.M.  will  be 
gratiously  pleased,  to  allow  the  City  of  New  York  to  chuse  as 
many  Eepresentatives  to  serve  in  Generall  Assembly,  as  all  the  rest 
of  the  Province  does,  by  that  means  they  will  be  able  to  passe  an 
Act  to  repeal  the  Bolting  Act ;  And  that  this  proposall  may 
not  be  thought  soe  unreasonable,  as  at  first  sight  it  may  be 
thought  to  be,  I  think  the  last  Generall  Assembly  of  this  Province 


AMERICA'  AND  WEST  INDIES.  11 

1708 

have  made  it  plainly  appear  to  be  most  reasonable,  for  in  the 
taxe  of  £3000,  which  was  raised  for  the  fortifying  this  City 
last  year,  when  we  expected  the  frencih  to  land  upon  us,  the 
Assembly  thought  fit  to  lay  £1,500,  one  full  half  of  the  £3000, 
upon  the  City  and  County  of  New  York.  Now,  I  think  it  seems 
reasonable  that  if  the  city  of  New  York  is  to  bear  h'alf  the 
burthen,  the  city  ought  to  bear  a  proportionable  share  in  the 
Legislature,  but  this  I  submit  to  your  Lordshipps'  better  judg- 
ments ;  as  for  the  second  cause  of  the  decay  of  thje  trade  ofj 
this  Province,  I  see  noe  remedy  for  that,  unlesse  H.M.  is 
pleased  to  signifie  her  pleasure,  that  an  order  of  the  Gouvernor 
in  Councill  shall  be  effectuall  in  that  case,  as  it  was  in  the 
time  of  Sir  Edmond  Andros.  That  there  has  been  a  great 
deal  of  illegall  trade  carried  on  in  this  Province  formerly  is 
undoubtedly  true.  I  hope  it  has  not  been  soe  bad  of  late 
years,  but  yet  I  know  there  has  been  illegall  trade  carried  on 
between  New  England,  Connecticut  and  the  East  end  of  Long 
Island,  the  only  way  we  have  to  prevent  it  is,  to  send  a 
small  sloop  to  cruise  in  the  Sound,  between  Connecticut,  and 
the  East  End  of  Long  Island,  we  have  some  times  had  the 
good  luck  to  meet  with  some  of  their  vessels,  but  those  cruizers 
have  proved  chargeable,  and  the  Eevenue  here  is  not  able 
to  bear  it ;  Col.  Quary  has  lately  settled  an  Officer  at  New 
London  in  Connecticut,  whose  Commission  likewise  extends  to 
the  East  End  of  Long  Island,  I  hope  that  will  in  some  measure 
checque  that  illegall  trade,  though  I  am  well  satisfied  that  the 
poor  gentleman  who  goes  there,  will  meet  with  very  great 
diflicultys ;  I  am  of  opinion  that  if  a  small  yacht  were  built; 
of  about  50  or  60  tonns,  that  might  cruise  in  the  Sound  between 
Connecticut,  and  Long  Island,  it  would  be  one  of  the  most 
effectual  means  to  prevent  illegall  trade,  and  the  charge  of 
such  a  vessell  will  not  be  soe  great  as  it  may  at  first  sight 
seem  to  be,  for,  if  the  iron  work,  sails  and  rigging  are  sent 
from  England,  the  timber,  masts  and  building  will  be  found  here 
for  £400,  and  the  only  certain  charge  will  be  a  Master,  one 
man  and  a  boy  to  look[t]  after  the  yacht  when  she  is  in  harbour, 
and  in  winter  when  she  is  laid  up,  and  I  think  it  is  very 
plain,  the  charges  of  building  such  a  vessell  will  soon  be 
saved,  for  if  we  must  hire  a  sloope  for  that  service,  the  cheapest 
we  can  get  her  is,  £25  a  month,  or  18/-  a  day,  and  we  must 
man  her,  and  victual  her,  the  months  in  which  that  illegall 
trade  is  chiefly  carried  on,  are  the  months  of  May,  June,  July, 
August  and  September,  soe  that  at  £25  a  month,  the  charge  will 
be  £125  a  year  for  the  vessell  only,  besides  the  uncertainty  ,of 
finding  a  sloop  fit  for  the  service  at  an  hour's  warning,  whereas 
such  a  yacht  would  be  always  ready  at  hand.  The  number 
of  vessels  belonging  to  this  Port  is  much  diminished  of  late 
years.  I  have  been  told  that  there  has  formerly  belonged  to 
this  Port  32  top  sail  vessells,  besides  sloops,  now  we  can't 
reckon  above  28  top  sail  vessells,  and  sloops,  the  number  of 
sea-faring  men  is  likewise  decreased,  chiefly  by  the  losse  of 
two  privatiers,  one  of  which  it  is  thought  foundered  at  sea 


12  •'     COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1708. 

with  about  four-score  hands  on  board  of  her,  and  another, 
which  was  cast  away  at  Sandy  hook,  going  out,  and  120  men 
were  lost  in  her,  soe  that  now  by  the  best  computation  that 
can  be  made,  I  [_cant  find]  above  300  seafaring  men,  of  all 
sorts,  belonging  to  this  Port.  All  sorts  of  vessells  are  built 
well  in.  this  place,  but  the  vessells  most  usually  built  here  are 
briganteens  and  sloops  of  both  which  sorts  •  there  are  severall 
built  every  year  in  this  place,  by  direction  and  for  the  use  of 
the  merchants  in  Jamaica,  Barbados  and  others  of  the  Leeward 
Islands,  besides  those  that  are  built  for  the  use  of  the  merchants 
of  this  place,  which  have  been  a  pretty  many  of  late,  because 
our  people  have  lost  a  great  many  vessels  this  warr,  both: 
going  to  and  coming  from  the  West  Indies ;  and  I  don't  believe 
there  are  above  6  vessells  belonging  to  the  place  but  were 
built  here.  The  manufactures  setled  in  this  Province  are  linnen, 
and  woolen,  they  make  very  good  linnen  for  common  use,  and 
I  don't  doubt  but  in  time  they  will  improve  that  considerably. 
As  for  the  woolen,  I  think  they  have  brought  that  to  too  great 
perfection  already,  and  I  must  be  of  opinion  that  that  will  be 
a  very  great  prejudice  to  England  in  a  few  years,  and  ought 
to  be  taken  care  of  in  time,  they  already  make  very  good 
serges,  linsey  wodlseys,  and  in  some  places  they  begin  to  make 
course  cloth,  and  without  doubt,  in  a  short  time  they  will  soe 
farr  improve  in  that,  as  not  to  want  the  assistance  of  England 
to  cloth  themselves,  how  farr  that  may  be  to  the  advantage 
of  England  I  submit  to  your  Lordshipps'  considerations;  we 
have  all  sorts  of  trades  here  and  some  of  every  sort  that  work 
well,  there  is  as  good  fullers  earth  and  tobacco  pipe  clay 
in  this  Province  as  anywhere  in  the  world.  The  quantity  of 
train  oyle  made  in  Long  Island  is  uncertain,  some  years  they 
have  much  more  fish  than  others,  for  example,  last  year  they 
made  4000  barrels  of  oyl,  and  this  last  season  they  have  not 
made  above  600,  about  the  middle  of  October  they  begin  to 
look  out  for  fish,  the  season  lasts  all  November.  December, 
January,  February  and  part  of  March,  a  yearling  will  make 
about  40  barrels  of  oyl,  a  stunt  or  a  whale  two  years  old  will 
make  sometimes  50,  sometimes  60  barrels  of  oyl,  and  the 
largest  whale  that  I  have  heard  of  in  these  parts,  yielded  110 
barrells  of  oyl,  and  12  cwt.  of  bone,  there  might  be  good 
improvement  made  in  the  fishery  of  codd  fish  and  mackrill, 
but  fish  of  severall  sorts  is  soe  plenty  in  the  Kivers  and  in 
the  Bay  before  this  City,  that  our  people  will  not  take  the 
pains  to  goe  to  sea.  Thus  I  have  endeavoured  to  answer  the 
severall  queries  your  Lordshipps  are  pleased  to  put  to  me 
with  respect  to  the  Province  of  New  York,  as  well  as  the  short - 
nesso  of  the  time  of  the  sailing  of  this  ship  would  permit, 
by  the  next  conveyance  I  will  suply  what  is  defective  in  this. 
Your  Lordshipps  are  pleased  to  command  me  to  add  what  ever 
I  think  conducive  to  H.M.  service,  to  the  interest  of  England, 
to  the  advantage  of  this  perticular  Province,  and  to  your  as- 
sistance in  the  discharge  of  the  trust  reposed  in  your  Lord- 
shipps. There  are  many  things  which  might  be  proposed  under 


AMEKICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  13 

1708. 

these  directions,  but  I  dare  not  undertake  to  doe  it  off  hand 
in  the  little  time  this  ship  allows  me  to  write,  but  by  the 
next  I  will  endeavour  to  offer  to  your  Lordshipps  what  is 
proper  upon  this  subject ;  in  the  meantime  I  think  it  my  duty 
to  offer  one  thing  to  your  considerations,  which,  I  think  very 
much  for  H.M.  service,  for  the  interest  of  England,  and  indeed 
for  the  perticular  advantage  of  this  Province,  if  the  people 
would  but  understand  it  right.  The  Assembly  of  this  Province 
is  not  very  forward  to  passe  any  Act  for  setling  the  Millitia, 
and  the  last  Act  I  did  prevail  with  them  to  passe  for  that 
purpose,  they  limited  to  the  space  of  one  year,  besides,  they 
are  not  very  forward  to  inflict  penaltys  on  their  neighbours  for 
not  doing  their  duty;  this  is  soe,  not  only  in  this,  but  in 
almost  all  the  Provinces  upon  the  Continent,  I  therefore  offer 
it  to  your  Lordshipps'  considerations,  whether  it  would  not  be 
for  H.M.  service,  that  a  short  Act  of  Parliament  were  passed 
in  Great  Brittain,  for  the  setling  and  regulating  the  Militia  of 
thes3  parts  of  the  world.  I  am  afraid  the  Millitia  here  will 
never  be  in  the  order  it  ought  to  be,  till  thlat  is  done ;  In 
the  Province  of  New  Jersey  it  is  worse,  and  in  the  Province  of 
Connecticut,  though  H.M.  was  pleased  by  her  Commission  to 
put  the  Millitia  of  that  Province  under  my  direction,  they 
refuse  to  receive  any  Commission  from  me,  or  to  obey  any 
Order.  Your  Lordshipps  are  pleased  to  say  that  Mr.  Burchett 
has  sent  Mr.  Popple  an  answer  to  my  letter  of  Dec.  14,  1706, 
relating  to  Capt.  Fane  etc.,  and  that  a  copy  thereof  is  inclosed 
for  my  information.  I  beg  leave  to  inform  you  that  I  have 
received  noe  such  copy  inclosed.  Capt.  Fane  is  fallen  out 
with  all  this  Province,  he  has  often  publickly  declared  that  he 
hates  the  whole  Province  and  every  body  in  it,  and  that,  if 
he  met  with  a  New  Yorke  vessell  at  sea  in  distresse  he  would 
give  her  noe  assistance,  and  indeed  he  has  shewen  very  lately 
how  little  kindnesse  he  has  for  the  place,  for  having  taken  a 
prise  in  his  voyage  from  Barbados  to  this  place,  he  would 
not  bring  her  into  this  Port,  but  carried  into  Virginia,  where 
he  had  noe  businesse,  and  ought  not  to  goe,  [this  being']  his 
Port ;  I  don't  trouble  your  Lordshipps  with  his  behaviour  to 
me,  which  I  believe  has  noe  president;  but  I  hope  some  other 
ship  will  be  sent  to  relieve  him,  which  will  make  the  Country 
easier,  under  the  command  of  some  Gentleman,  who  will  be 
more  dilligent  then  this  Gentleman  has  been,  for  I  could  never 
send  him  an  order  to  cruise,  but  he  wanted  something  which 
retarded  his  going  out,  six  or  eight  or  sometimes  ten  days ; 
Now  Capt.  Norbury,  since  his  arrivall  here,  has  always  been 
ready  at  24  hours  warning,  does  his  duty  with  chearfulnesse, 
and  I  believe  will  make  this  country  very  easy.  Your  Lord- 
shipps arc  pleased  to  inform  me  that  an  Act  of  Parliament 
is  passed  for  a  perfect  and  intire  Union  of  the  two  Kingdoms 
of  England  and  Scotland,  and  you  are  pleased  to  say  that  you 
.  have  sent  me  two  of  the  said  Acts,  that  it  may  be  published 
in  th-j  most  solemn  manner  in  this  Province  of  New  York  etc.  ; 
I  must  inform  your  Lordshipps  that  noe  such  Acts  are  como 


H  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

to  my  hands,  I  did  procure  one  from  the  Attorney  Generall  of 
this  Province,  who  had  received  it  from  England,  .and  in  obedi- 
ence to  your  commands  I  have  taken  care  to  publish  it  in 
the  most  solemn  manner  we  are  capable  of.  Now  I  beg  leave 
to  inform  your  Lordshipps  that  since  the  letters  I  sent  to  you 
by  the  Mast  fleet,  which  sailed  from  Boston,  March  18,  nothing 
extraordinary  has  hapned  in  this  Province ;  In  the  beginning 
of  May,  one  Jones,  Master  of  a  ship  bound  from  Barbados  to 
Philadelphia,  overshot  his  Port,  and  was  taken  by  a  small  French 
privatier  from  Martinico,  about  three  leagues  off  from  Sandy- 
hook,  the  same  privatier  had  before  that  taken  a  small  sloop 
belonging  to  this  place,  and  two  ships  bound  from  Leverpool 
to  Philadelphia.  I  was  at  Burlington  when  this  hapned,  as 
soon  as  I  heard  of  it,  I  sent  orders  to  Capt.  Norbury  to  put 
to  sea  with  H.M.S.  Triton's  prise,  which  he  did,  and  since 
that,  we  have  heard  of  no  privatier  off  of  Sandyhook,  but  two 
french  privatiers  have  taken  station  off  the  Capes  of  Delaware, 
whero  they  have  taken  7  or  8  prises,  and  among  the  rest, 
a  very  rich  ship  from  London,  commanded  by  one  Young, 
who  was  taken  in  sight  of  the  Capes,  severall  of  the  merchants 
of  that  place  have  writ  to  me  to  desire  that  one  of  the  men 
of  warr  that  are  here  may  cruise  off  of  their  Capes  for  some 
days  to  see  some  of  their  vessels  safe  to  sea,  who  dare  not 
peep  out  now,  the  Triton's  prise  will  sail  in  two  days  for 
that  purpose.  I  hope  we  shall  have  a  good  account  of  some 
of  the  privatiers ;  yesterday  I  had  a  message  from  Albany., 
from  the  Commissioners  for  managing  the  Indian  affairs,  to 
desire  me  to  make  what  haste  I  could  up  to  Albany,  in  [order 
to  be  there]  by  the  15th  inst.,  which  I  will  doe,  God  willing, 
unlesse  I  am  hindred  by  contrary  winds,  however,  I  will  get 
up  as  soon  as  it  is  possible,  though  I  did  not  intend  to  have 
gone  till  the  end  of  August,  for  it  is  now  a  hot  season,  and 
this  is  the  hottest  summer  I  have  knowne  since  I  came  into 
America.  I  intend  to  make  but  a  short  stay  there,  as  soon 
as  I  return,  I  will  acquaint  your  Lordshipps  by  the  first  oppor- 
tunity what  it  is  the  Indians  had.  to  propose  to  me.  I  had 
almost  forgot  to  acquaint  your  Lordshipps  that,  being  in 
New  Jersey  longer  then  I  expected  this  Spring,  I  sent  a 
Proclamation  to  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Councill  of  New  York, 
to  adjourn  the  Assembly  of  New  York,  and  some  days  agoe, 
upon  a  message  from  Albany  relating  to  the  Indians,  the  Gen- 
tlemen of  the  Councill  were  of  opinion  that  the  Assembly 
ought  to  be  called  together  to  see  if  th,ey  would  raise  a  fund 
for  some  presents  to  the  Indians.  I  issued  a  Proclamation, 
requiring  their  meeting  the  25th  of  this  month  ;  two  days  after 
the  Proclamation  was  issued  Mr.  Philips  acquainted  me  that 
severall  of  the  Members  of  the  Assembly  had  said  that  they 
would  not  meet,  because  the  former  adjournment  was  by  a 
Proclamation  signed  in  New  Jersey,  and  that  they  took  themselves 
to  be  dissolved,  this  is  a  notion  started  last  year  by  Mr-Byerley, 
when  he  received  an  Order  from  me,  dated  at  Burlington,  which 
he  had  noe  mind  to  obey.  I  did  acquaint  the  late  Council  of 


AMERICA  ^ND  WEST  INDIES.  15 

1708. 

Trade  with  this  matter,  and  beg'd  their  opinions,  but  I  have 
not  yet  had  any  answer.  I  beg  I  may  have  your  Lordship ps' 
opinion  whether  any  Order  signed  by  me  in  on©  Province  is  to 
be  of  force  in  the  other  or  not.  Signed,  Cornbury.  Erv.lorsed, 
Reed.  3rd.  Read  llth  Nov.,  1708.  Holograph.  12  pp.  En- 
closed, 

10.  i.   (a)  List  of  the  Council  of  New  York,  and 

(b)  Persons    recommended    by    Lord    Cornbury    to    fill 

vacancies : — Col.  Peartree,  Col.  D'Peyster,  Mr.  De  Lan- 

cey,    Mr.    Cholwell,    Mr.    Rynders,    Mr.    Walters,    Mr. 

Wilson,  Mr.  Milward,  in  New  York;  Col.  Willett,  Major 

Jones,    Long   Island;   Col.    Beckman,    at   Esopus;    Col. 

Quary,  at  Philadelphia.     2  pp.      [C.O.  5,   1049.     Nos. 

96,    96.    i.  ;    and    (without    enclosure],    5,    1121.      pp. 

328-349.] 

July  1.  11.  Governor  Lord  Cornbury  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
New  York.  Plantations.  Repeats  part  of  preceding.  I  did  two  years  agoe 
send  your  Lordshipps  the  Minutes  of  Councill  [of  New  Jersey] 
to  that  time,  and  I  have  constantly  sent  the  Minutes  of  Assembly 
by  the  first  opportunity  after  each  Sessions  etc.  The  accounts 
of  the  Revenue  have  not  been  sent  because  the  Deputy  Auditor 
has  refused  to  audit  them,  the  Queen  has  had  noe  Revenue 
in  the  Province  of  New  Jersey,  only  for  two  years,  since  they 
were  expired,  the  Assembly  by  the  [underhand  practices  -i/  Mr. 
Lewis~\  Morris  and  severall  of  the  [Quajkers,  one  Doctor  Johnson, 
and  some  others,  have  been  prevailed  upon  not  to  give  the 
Queen  any  Revenue,  and  I  am  of  opinion  that  as  long  as  the 
Queen  is  pleased  to  allow  the  Quakers  to  sit  in  the  Assembly., 
they  never  will  settle  a  Revenue,  nor  a  Millitia.  I  will  by  the 
first  opportunity  send  your  Lordshipps  an  exact  transcript  of 
the  Accounts  of  the  Revenue  for  those  two  years,  whether  the 
Deputy  Auditor  will  audit  them,  or  not.  I  here  send  you  en- 
closed a  list  of  the  present  Councill,  and  likewise  a  list  of 
such  persons  as  by  their  circumstances  are  in  my  judgment 
proper  to  fill  any  vacancy  that  may  happen  in  the  Councill. 
About  two  years  and  a  half  agoe  I  did  transmit  compleat  lists 
of  the  inhabitants  of  each,  County  of  New  Jersey,  the  Sherriffs 
are  now  making  new  lists,  which  shall  be  transmitted  to  your 
Lordshipps  by  the  first  opportunity.  The  numbers  of  inhabi- 
tants of  New  Jersey  are  considerably  increased  by  the  reasons  I 
have  offeree!  in  preceding.  None  of  the  inhabitants  of  New 
Jersey  remove  into  the  neighbouring  Collonys.  The  Millitia 
of  New  Jersey  will  amount  to  about  2,300  men  besides  the 
Quakers,  but  of  this  you  shall  have  compleat  lists  by  the  first 
opportunity.  Nothing  is  exported  from  New  Jersey  to  England ; 
neither  has  the  Province  any  trade  with  any  other  place,  except 
the  neighbouring  Provinces  of  New  York,  and  Pensilvania,  the 
Eastern  Division  bring  their  grain  of  all  sorts  to  New  York, 
and  their  sheep  etc.,  the  Western  Division  carry  all  their 
produce  to  Philadelphia,  the  Western  Division  has  not  one 
vessell  belonging  to  it,  the  last  year  some  of  the  inhabitants 


16  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

3708. 

of  the  Eastern  Division  built  a  sloop,  and  fitted  her  out  to 
sea,  she  has  made  one  voyage  to  Barbados,  and  that  is  all  the 
vessells  that  belong  to  the  Eastern  Division,  except  wood  boats 
that  bring  fire-wood  and  pipe-staves  to  New  York;  the  Province 
of  New  Jersey  is  furnished  with  European  goods  thus,  the 
Eastern  Division  from  New  York,  the  Western  Division  from1 
Philadelphia.  The  Province  of  New  Jersey  has  noe  trade  but 
as  above-mentioned.  There  have  sometimes  goods  been  run 
into  fhe  Eastern  Division  by  vessels  bound  to  New  York,  but 
it  is  now  pretty  well  cured  by  the  men  of  warr  lying  at  Sandy 
hook,  and  there  is  an  officer  at  Amboy,  there  have  likewise 
goods  been  run  on  shoar  in  the  Western  Division  by  vessels 
bound  up  the  Kiver  Delaware  to  Philadelphia,  Collonel  Quary 
has  appointed  an  officer  at  Burlington  [and  one  at  Salem;  I 
hope  their  dilligence  will  in  a  great  measure]  prevent  illegal! 
trade  on  that  side. 

There  is  noe  shipping  belonging  to  New  Jersey,  except  as 
is  mentioned  on  the  other  side ;  neither  is  there  any  sea-faring 
man,  unlesse  the  men  that  goe  in  the  wood  boats  may  be 
called  such.  There  have  been  three  or  four  ships  and  one 
briganteen  built  at  Woodbridge  in  the  Eastern  Division  since  I 
came  to  the  Government,  and  one  briganteen  and  one  sloop 
have  been  built  at  Burlington  in  the  Western  Division.  In 
New  Jersey  they  make  good  linnen  for  common  use,  and  they 
begin  to  make  woolen  stuffs.  I  have  offered  my  thoughts  to 
your  Lordshipps  concerning  the  latter  of  these  in  preceding. 
Thus  I  have  endeavoured  to  answer  tflie  queries  contained  in 
your  Lordshipps'  letter  as  well  as  the  shortnesse  of  the  time 
this  ship  allows  me,  I  will  take  care  by  the  next  to  suply 
what  may  be  wanting  in  this.  Your  Lordshipps  are  pleased  to 
command  me  to  add  whatever  else  I  think  conducive  to  H.M. 
service,  to  the  interest  of  England,  to  the  advantage  of  that 
perticular  Province,  and  to  your  assistance  in  the  discharge  of 
the  trust  reposed  in  your  Lordshipps.  Many  things  may  be 
offered  under  these  directions,  but  I  dare  not  venture  to  doe 
it  off  hand,  but  by  the  next  I  will  endeavour  to  offer  such 
things  to  your  Lordshipps  as  may  be  proper  upon  this  subject. 
In  the  mean  time  I  think  it  my  duty  to  lay  some  matters 
before  you  for  your  consideration,  which  I  think  very  much  for 
H.M  service,  for  the  interest  of  England,  and  indeed  for  the 
advantage  of  that  perticular  Province,  if  the  People  could  be 
persuaded  to  understand  things  right ;  the  first  thing  is  the 
Militia.  Refers  to  preceding.  I  shall  say  noe  more,  only  that 
the  Queen  must  not  expect  a  Militia  Act  to  be  past,  as  long 
as  the  Quakers  are  allowed  to  sit  in  the  Assembly.  The  next 
thing  I  shall  offer  to  your  Lordshipps'  considerations  is  that 
some  method  may  be  directed  to  inquire  into  the  quallifications 
of  Members  returned  to  service  in  the  Generall  Assembly.  H.M. 
is  pleased  in  her  Instructions  to  me  to  direct  how  people 
shall  be  quallified  to  chuse,  and  to  be  chosen,  and  that  noe 
person  though  chosen,  shall  be  suffered  to  sit  unlesse  soequalli- 
fied,  the  late  Lords  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  upon  a  complaint 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  17 

1708. 

mado  to  them  that  I  kept  three  Quakers  out  [o/]  the  Assembly 
(which  was  done  by  advice  of  the  Councill,  and  only  till  they 
Shewed  their  quallifications)  were  pleased  to  direct  me  for 
the  future  not  to  intermeddle  with  the  quallifications  of  the 
Member;  of  the  Assembly  but  to  [leave  that  matter  to  tlie 
House ;  in  obedience  to  their  Lordshipps']  commands,  I  have 
not  intermedled  since  that  time,  the  consequence  has  been  this, 
that  upon  the  last  Election  in  some  places  they  chose  some 
persons  who  are  not  qualified  according  to  H.M.  Instructions, 
in  the  Eastern  Division  they  chose  one  person,  who  has  not  a 
foot  of  land  in  the  Province,  nor  does  not  inhabit  in  the  Province, 
but  because  he  is  a  forward  man,  and  promised  them  that  if 
he  were  chosen,  he  would  not  consent  to  the  giving  a  Eevenue 
to  the  Queen,  they  chose  him,  and  the  House  have  suffered 
him  to  sit,  notwithstanding  that  every  -Member  of  the  House 
knows  he  is  not  qualified ;  there  are  more  of  the  same  sort ;  and 
it  will  always  be  soe,  unlesse  H.M.  is  pleased  to  appoint  some 
Method  to  inquire  into  the  qualifications  of  persons  returned 
to  serve  in  the  Assembly,  other  then  the  House  themselves. 
These  things  I  intreat  your  Lordshipps'  consideration  off. 

Your  Lordshipps  are  pleased  to  signifie  to  me  that  an  Act 
of  Parliament  is  passed  for  a  perfect  and  intire  Union  of  the 
two  Kingdoms  of  England  and  Scotland,  and  you  are  pleased 
to  say  that  you  send  me  two  of  the  said  Acts  that  it  may 
be  published  in  the  most  solemn  manner  in  New  Jersey  etc. 
I  taka  the  liberty  to  acquaint  your  Lordshipps  that  I  have  not 
received  any  such  Acts,  but  having  procured  one  from  the 
Attorney  Generall  of  New  York,  I  will  take  care  to  publish  it 
in  the  most  solemn  manner  possible.  I  am  very  much  concerned 
that  your  Lordshipps  have  not  received  my  letter  relating  to 
Mr.  Ormston  and  Mr.  Sonmans,  because  besides  that  which  I 
sent  by  the  way  of  the  West  Indies,  I  sent  a  duplicate  by 
the  way  of  Boston,  and  another  by  the  way  of  Philadelphia. 
I  hopo  some  of  them  have  reached  your  hands  before  this 
time.  However,  I  now  send  another  duplicate  of  the  same ; 
and  I  don't  at  all  question  your  Lordshipps'  justice  to  me. 
I  likewise  send  a  duplicate  of  my  letter  of  June  21  last,  in 
which  you  will  see  an  account  of  the  proceedings  of  the  As- 
sembly of  New  Jersey  this  spring,  to  which  I  beg  leave  to 
referr.  Just  as  I  was  going  to  seale  this  letter,  I  have  received 
H.M.  commands  to  admit  Mr.  Sonmans  into  the  Councill, 
which  shall  be  done  accordingly.  Signed,  Cornbury.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  3rd,  Read  llth  Nov.,  1708.  Holograph.  4  pp.  Enclosed, 
11.  i.  (a)  List  of  the  Council  of  New  Jersey,  and  of 

(b)  Persons  recommended  by  Lord  Combury  to  supply 

vacancies : — Messrs.    Wheeler,    Huddy   and    Newbold   of 

Burlington,  Capt.  John  Bowne,  Monmouth  County,  Capt. 

Kingsland,    Essex    County,    Mr.    Longfield,    Middlesex. 

Set  out,   New  Jersey  Archives,   1st  ser.    iii.    340.   q.v. 

Endorsed,  Reed.   Nov.  3,   1708.     2  pp.     [(7.0.  5,  970. 

2Vos.  77,  77.  i. ;  and  (without  enclosure')   5,  994.     pp. 

465-472.] 

Wt.  11522.  CP2 


18  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1708. 

July  2.  12.     Wm.    Penn  to   the   Council   of   Trade   and    Plantations. 

[2ndf  (Jul.)  Honorable  ffriends,  I  have  submitted  to  wt.  you  are  pleased 
1708.]  to  say  you  could  not  help,  and  that  time  and  other  circumstances 
will  not  allow  me  to  sett  that  matter  of  the  Queen's  Eight  to 
the  Lower  Countys  in  a  better  explanation,'  the  scruple  being 
only  about  right  of  Govermt.,  and  that  my  recompense  from 
those  yt.  had  the  advantage  of  the  Commission  of  Trade,  that 
was  my  proposall  for  a  better  and  more  impartiall  as  well  as 
expeditious  and  honorable  way  of  superintending  the  Great- 
Provinces  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  a  poore  returne.  I  here 
inclose  the  declaration  under  my  hand  and  seale,  wch.  as  it 
is  a  saveing  to  the  Queen,  this  is  also  writt  for  a  saveing 
to,  Honorable  ffriends,  your  very  Respectfull  Friend,  Signed, 
Wm.  Penn.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  2,  1708.  Addressed. 
Holograph.  If  pp. 
Enclosed, 

12.  i.  Mr.  Perm's  Declaration.  I  underwritten  do  by  these 
presents  declare  and  promise,  that  the  Queen's  Royal 
approbation  and  allowance  of  Capt.  Charles  Gookin  to 
be  Deputy-Governor  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  three 
lower  Counties  upon  Delaware  River,  shall  not  be  con- 
strued in  any  manner  to  diminish  or  set  aside  H.M. 
Claim  of  Right  to  the  said  three  Lower  Counties.  'In 
witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and 
seal,  this  second  day  of  the  mo.  calld  July,  1708. 
Signed,  Wm.  Penn.  Sealed.  The  words  in  italics 
are  in  Penn's  handwriting,  f  p.  [0.0.  5,  1264.  iYos. 
48,  49;  and  5,  1292.  pp.  63,  64.] 

July  3.  13.  Governor  Crowe  to  Mr.  Popple.  Refers  to  letter  sent 
Baibados.  on  June  27  by  Mr.  Rowland  Tryon.  I  was  in  hopes  to  have 
sent  you  the  negroe  acct.  per  these  ships,  but  have  not  been 
able  to  coleckt  the  sundry  private  traders  accounts,  soe  must 
begg  your  Lordship's  paytiance  untill  next  conveyance  etc. 
Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Sept.  3,  Read  Oct.  27, 
1708.  Holograph,  f  p.  [0.0.  28,  11.  No.  19;  and  29,  11. 
p.  310.] 

[July  4.]        14.     J.   de   Kocherthal  to  the   Queen.      Prays  to   be   allowed 
a  salary  and  £20  for  outfit,   as  other  Ministers,   etc.     Set  out, 
N.Y.  Docs.    V.    p.  62.     Signed,  Josua  de  Kocherthal.    Overleaf, 
14.  i.  H.M.  refers  above  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations   for    their    report.     Signed,    H.    Boyle.          The 
whole    endorsed,    Reed.    Read    July    7,    1708.     1|    pp. 
[C.O.  5,  1049.     Nos.  80,  80.i. ;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  301, 
302.] 

July  6.  15.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of   Sun- 

Whitehall,  derland.  By  letters  lately  received  from  Governor  Crowe,  we 
find  that  there  are  several  offices  granted  by  patent  under  the 
Great  Seal  of  this  Kingdom,  and  particularly  that  a  Patent  has 
been  past  for  the  Clerk  of  the  Market,  in  which  there  is  a 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  19 

1708. 

clauso  allowing  the  Patentee  to  execute  the  said  Office  by  Deputy, 
the  ill  consequence  of  such  clauses  was  represented  by  the 
Commissioners  of  this  Board  to  his  late  Majesty.  Quote  Order 
in  Council,  Feb.  16,  1698/9  (C.S.P.  1699.  No.  104).  But  as 
we  presume  your  Lordship  has  not  been  apprised  of  this  matter, 
we  send  a  copy  of  the  said  Order.  [0.0.  324,  9.  pp.  217,218.] 

July  6.  16.     The   Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 

Whitehall.  Plantations.  The  alteration  in  the  Queen's  Arms  by  the  Union 
making  it  necessary  that  new  Seals  should  be  provided  for 
H.M.  Plantations,  I  desire  you  will  let  me  have  a  description 
of  those  several  seals  that  I  may  be  able  to  get  a  warrant 
prepared  for  H.M.  signature  for  their  being  engraved.  Signed, 
Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  6th,  Read  8th  July,  1708.  'f  p. 
[O.O.  323,  6.  No.  63;  and  324,  9.  p.  218.] 

July  6.  17.     Mr.   Bridger  to  the   Council  of  Trade  and   Plantations. 

Boston.  Encloses  following.  I  pray  your  Lordships  would  send  me 
an  order  for  an  Appeal  to  boston,  or  set  that  tryall  aside,  and 
have  a  new  tryall;  the  Judges  sent  out  the  Jury  twice,  but  ini 
vaine,  they  cleering  them  without  wittness  or  reason,  etc.  In- 
closed is  a  copie  of  an  Act  which  I  layd  before  the  Governor, 
Council  and  Assembly  of  New  Hampshire,  wch.  I  pray  your 
Lordshipps  to  have  confirmed.  I  hope  that  Act  will  secure 
in  some  measure  H.M.  intrest  in  that  Province.  The  reason 
of  the  penalty  on  marking  any  trees  is  thus,  some  ill  men 
have  this  last  winter  gone  into  the  woods  and  marked  all  trees 
before  them,  those  trees  fitt  and  unfitt  for  masts,  with,  the 
Broad  Arrow.  This  was  in  common  woods,  and  when  theire 
neighbours  come  into  the  woods  to  get  loggs  for  boards  etc., 
they  seeing  all  the  trees  marked  immediatly  returned,  thinking 
that  I  had  ordred  the  marking  of  sd.  trees.  The  marker  seeing 
that  had  fritned  all  people  out  of  that  place,  he  and  his  associates 
outts  down  all  masts  and  others  to  a  very  great  number. 
I  hope  I  shall  be  able  to  prove  the  fact  on  someboody.  The 
General  Assembly  of  this  Province  now  sitting,  I  drew  a  bill 
for  the  better  preservation  in  H.M.  woods  in  this  Province, 
which  bill  is  the  very  words  of  the  Charter  etc.,  but  the  Assembly 
will  not  enact  their  own  Charter  etc.  (see  July  10).  In  the 
tryall  inclosed  they  there  plead  the  Charter  no  Law,  against 
H.M.  in  the  case  of  masts,  now  my  lords  if  the  Charter  be 
no  law,  nither  will  they  enact  it  as  a  law,  what  will  H.M. 
do  for  her  Navy;  all  will  be  cutt  down  next  winter,  if  an 
imediate  care  be  not  taken  by  an  Act  of  Parliament  out  ,of 
Great  Brittain,  of  which  I  sent  yr.  Lordsps.  a  rough  draught 
etc. 

Here  is  no  licence  yet  come  from  Mr.  Collins,  etc.  I  have 
found  some  masts  in  the  woods  cutt  by  Mr.  Jno.  Plaisted 
order,  which  has  layne  there  6  months,  and  had  been  lost, 
had  I  not  found  them,  for  they  must  be  hewn,  squared,  etc., 
else  the  worme  get  into  them  and  spoyles  the  masts,  and  this 
is  the  practice  of  Plaisted;  he  sett  men  to  cutt  those  musts,, 


20  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

in  the  winter,  and  those  men  has  not  heard  from  him  since, 
and  soe  he  has  done  in  many  places,  but  the  woods  are  now 
soe  dangerous  by  reason  the  Indians,  that  I  dare  not  venture 
a  3rd  time.  Those  masts  I  have  found  are  of  the  first  and 
principall  dimentions.  I  have  ordred  some  worke  men  to  goe 
and  save  those  trees  by  squaring  them.  Prays  for  their  Lord- 
ships' directions.  Repeats  former  proposal  for  encouraging 
the  making  of  pitch  and  tar.  I  am  well  assured  that  at  New 
Yorke  there  would  be  great  quantitys  of  tar  made  there,  if 
I  was  there  to  instruct  them ;  that  lays  wholly  with  your  Lord- 
sps.  to  enable  me  to  goe  thither  for  that  service.  Expecting 
with  great  impatience  your  Lordshipps'  commands,  not  having 
one  line  since  my  arrival,  etc.  Signed,  J.  Bridges.  P.S.  I 
had  an  order  from  the  Inf eriour  Court  at '  York  to  appeall  to 
Boston  Superiour  Court.  I  pray  I  may  have  an  order  that 
the  appeal  be  heard  accordingly,  wch.  will  save  any  order 
for  the  new  tryall  of  those  offenders.  It  was  the  opinion 
of  the  Lawyers  her[e]  the  appeal  would  not  lye  to  the  Superiour 
Court,  wch.  makes  me  pray  an  Order  now.  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Sept  8,  1708,  Read  Dec.  9,  1709.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

17.  i.  Copy  of  Governor  Dudley's  Warrant,   Aug.   24,   1707, 

for  the  arrest  of  persons  cutting  masts  without  licence. 

2  pp. 
17.  ii.    (a)  Mr.    Bridger    to    Charley    Frost.     Instructions    to 

arrest  Nathaniel  Gubtaile,  Jno.  Thompson,  Jno.  Hearle, 

Wm.  Hearle,  jr.,  under  aoove  warrant,  Dec.  29,  1707. 

(b)  Bonds    for    the    appearance     of    above,    given     by 
Hearle,  Gubtaile,  Humphry  Spencer  and  James  Emery. 

(c)  Depositions  against  them  by  Nicholas  Gillison,  Wm. 
Dyer,   and  Benj.   How.      (d)  Their  trial  and  acquittal.. 
Defence  by  Jno.  Pickerin,  Attorney,     (e)  Mr.  Bridger's 
Appeal,     (f)  H.M.    warrant    for    John    Taylor    to     cut 
masts,    June    22,    1704.      (g)  John    Plaisted's    letter   to 
Governor   Dudley,    and  deposition   touching   masts    cut 
by  him.      (h)  Depositions  as  to  the  bounds  of  Kittery, 
York  and  Wells  in  New  England.    The  whole  endorsed, 
Reed.  Sept.  8,  1708,  Read  Dec.  9,  1709.    Copies.  12  pp. 

17.  iii.  Act  for  the  better  preservation  of  Mast  trees  or  White 
pine  trees  in  New  Hampshire.  Same  endorsement. 
Copy.  2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  865.  Nos.  27,  27. i. -iii.;  and 
(without  enclosures)  5,  913.  pp.  120-126.] 

July  6.  18.     Sir  John  Bennett  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

tations. Defends  the  punishment  of  Mr.  Newnam,  for  a  crime 
amounting  to  little  less  than  high  treason  etc.  It  appears  by 
the  Remonstrances  of  the  Justices  of  Bermuda,  July  18,  1706, 
that  Newnam  is  a  very  dangerous  person  and  a  common  disturber 
of  the  peace ;  they  prayed  the  Governor  to  have  the  prison  window 
closed  and  another  opened  which  was  done,  because  that  window 
fronted  upon  a  common  passage,  and  Jones  the  Provost  Marshal 
allowed  the  prisoners  to  abuse  and  affront  the  public  Officers, 
as  Councillors,  Judges  etc.,  as  they  passed  along,  etc. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  21 

1708. 

Signed,  Jo.  Bennett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  6,  1708.  8  pp. 
[0.0.  37,  8.  No.  68;  and  38,  6.  pp.  397-411.] 

July  6.  19.     Mr.  Vaughan  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

In  ye  Province  New  Hampshire  are  six  towns,  Portsmouth,  Dover, 
Exeter,  Hampton,  New-Castle  and  Kingstown,  ye  two  last  very 
small  and  extraordinary  poor,  drove  to  great  streights  by 
reason  of  ye  warr.  The  inhabitants  of  New  Hampshire  are 
few  and  inconsiderable,  there  not  being  1000  men  in  ye  whole 
Goverment,  and  that1  number  dayly  lessning,  by  ye  murders  of 
ye  salvage  enemy,  assisted  by  ye  French,  and  ye  removal  1 
of  sundries  for  shelter  and  protection  to  other  places.  Ye 
situation  of  ye  Province  is  by  ye  seaside,  about  16  miles  between 
ye  rivers  of  Piscataqua  and  Merimack,  having  ye  Massachusets 
Goverment  on  each  side  of  it,  and  likewise  heading  of  it  up 
in  yo  countrey,  so  that  it  is  a  punct  or  small  spot  in  ye 
center  of  that  Goverment,  there  being  severall  seperate  Counties 
thers  larger  than  this  whole  Province.  The  trade  of  this  Prov- 
ince has  formerly  been  considerable,  ye  settlements  whereof  are 
principally  upon  ye  River  Piscataqua,  wch.  is  navigable  near 
30  miles,  accommodated  with  sundrie  branches,  into  wch.  severall 
great  and  fresh  rivers  have  their  outlets,  and  is  addapted  to 
trade  by  reason  of  ye  extraordinary  conveniency  of  transpor- 
tation both  up  and  down,  wch.  is  ocasioned  by  the  swift  tide 
both  on  ye  fflood  and  ebb,  and  ye  indraft  of  ye  many  larg-e 
branches  and  of  two  great  bayes,  ye  one  3  miles  in  length, 
ye  other  6  miles  over  in  any  part  of  it,  both  wch.  lie  at 
ye  head  of  ye  river,  wch.  for  10  miles  together  nearest  ye 
sea  is  not  more  than  half  a  mile  over,  and  is  furnished  Avith. 
great  plenty  of  ffish,  such  as  cod  and  haddock,  wch.  are  caught 
10  miles  up  ye  river,  bass,  shad,  mackerell,  herring,  blew -fish, 
alewines,  pollock,  ffrost-fish,  perch,  flounders,  sturgeons,  Jumps, 
ells,  hollowboats,  scales,  salmon  and  many  others,  and  all  sorts 
of  shell -fish,  such  as  lobsters,  crabs,  cockles,  clams,  mussells, 
oysters,  etc.  At  ye  head  of  almost  every  branch  of  said  river 
are  great  fresh  rivers  whidh  come  out  of  the  countrey,  which 
likewise  are  full  of  all  sorts  of  freshwater  fish,  as  pikes, 
pearch,  salmon -trouts,  ells,  etc.,  wch.  fresh  rivers  run  some 
100  miles  into  the  country,  some  more,  some  less,  and  are 
accomodated  with  suitable  places  for  mills,  iron  works,  otc., 
ye  land  on  both  sides  furnished  with  wood  of  all  sorts  and 
sizes  fit  for  fireing  or  timber  of  all  sorts  either  for  building 
of  vessells,  houses,  etc.,  wch.  land  has  no  sooner  ye  woods 
cut  down  but  ye  English  grass  within  two  or  three  years  cover 
the  face  of  ye  earth,  and  is  extraordinary  fodder  for  all  sorts 
of  cattle,  wch.  were  also  plenty  and  cheap  and  would  be  again 
were  it  not  for  ye  salvage  Indians  and  French,  who  kill  great 
numbers  of  them  as  they  feed  in  ye  forrests  and  woods ;  which 
river  of  Piscataqua  furnishes  Boston  with  most  of  their  lumber 
aind  severall  other  places  on  ye  mainland  as  also  ye  West 
Indies,  and  H.M.  Navy  with  masts,  sparrs,  rafters  etc.,  and 
were  it  not  for  ye  enemy  is  ye  fittest  place  of  all  ye  present 


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1708. 

settlements  of  New  England  for  ffishing  for  ye  supply  of  forreigne 
markets,  being  ye  most  Northerly  settlement  of  those  planta- 
tions, and  ye  more  Northward  ye  more  fish,  and  where  ye 
fishermen  of  other  places  are  obliged  to  come  to  take  their 
fish,  and  after  carry  to  more  incirculed  towns  for  cureing  thereby 
to  avoid  ye  danger  of  ye  Enimy.  Note  further  upon  some  of 
ye  fresh  rivers  lies  great  quantities  of  intervall  grounds,  incon- 
ceiveably  rich,  fit  for  ye  production  of  all  sorts  of  grain,  hemp, 
fflaXj  etc.,  wch.  land  is  naturally  free  from  wood,  and  alwaise 
fit  for  improvement  save  in  'ye  winter,  when  it  is  overflowed 
and  covered  with  water,  wch.  is  ye  only  cause  of  its  fertilyty 
and  will  never  have  occasion  of  any  other  dressing  than  what 
is  left  by  ye  ebbing  and  decreasing  of  ye  waters.  In  the 
Province  of  N.  Hampshire  at  ye  entrance  of  ye  River  of  Pis- 
cataqua  is  H.M.  Castle  called  William  and  Mary,  formed  and 
built  by  tho  directions  of  Col.  Homer  H.M.  Enginere,  but  not 
finished  by  reason  of  Col.  Rednap  his  coming  from  great  Brit- 
tain  in  that  .post  and  office,  wch.  prevented  ye  said  Col.  Romer 
his  finishing  ye  same,  since  wch.  nothing  more  has  been  done 
to  it,  but  is  in  statu  quo,  save  what  is  tumbled  down,  and  gone 
to  decay  it  bein'g  thro'  ye  poverty  of  ye  inhabitants  builded  and 
made  of  turff  and  saltmarsh  sodds,  wch.  in  a  little  time 
moulders  and  cannot  endure  ye  stormy  weather  and  searching 
frosts  of  that  countrey.  At  ye  other  end  of  this  Island,  on 
wch.  ye  Castle  William  and  Mary  stands,  is  another  inlet 
from  ye  sea,  wch.  is  called  Little  Harbour,  wch.  end  of  said 
Island  is  something  nearer  ye  sea,  and  can  command  a  ship 
sooner  than  ye  other,  but  here  are  but  two  small  and  inconsider- 
able gunns  and  no  intrenchments  or  walls  for  a  guard  and 
security  to  men,  wch.  said  inlet  will  admit  all  small  vessells., 
and  is  as  direct  a  way  into  and  up  ye  River,  and  much  more 
accommodable  to  land  men  upon  ye  mainland  than  ye  great 
river  or  harbour  is,  and  ought  likewise  to  be  fortifyed  and 
secured  to  prevent  any  such  attempt,  and  for  ye  prevention  of 
illegal!  trade,  there  being  no  watch,  guard  or  ffort  to  command 
vessells  coming  in  out  of  ye  sea,  or  going  out  without  clearance 
order  etc.,  and  is  most  needfull  to  be  done,  but  not  possible 
to  be  effected  by  ye  people  who  are  reduced  to  great  poverty, 
and  indeed  not  able  to  defend  their  inland  garrisons  for  defence 
of  ye  women  and  children  from  ye  barborous  Indians.  In. 
every  town  of  sd.  Province  are  sundrie  garrisons  and  small 
fortifications  built  of  small  timber  or  palisadoes,  and  each 
garrison  erected  and  defended  by  eight  or  ten  families  or  their 
abouts,  wch.  is  ye  only  security  of  sd.  families,  included  against 
ye  Indians,  who  watch  all  opportunities  of  ye  people's  coming 
out  in  order  to  their  destruction  and  murder,  which,  when  they 
have  at  any  time  effected,  they  strip  of  ye  scalp  of  ye  head  and 
carry  them  to  ye  French  at  Canada  where  they  receive  a  reward 
of  £5  for  every  scalp  so  brought  in,  wch.  barbarous  usage  doth 
so  much  deter  and  keep  back  ye  people  from  their  labour 
and  callings  that  many  times  their  families  are  ready  to  famish 
and  starve  in  heaps,  wch.  necessity  obligeth  them  to  out  to 


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1708. 

ye  improvement  of  their  plantations  for  corn  and  hay  for  their 
cattle,  and  thereby  are  exposed  as  a  pray  to  ye  wild  men 
of  ye  forests,  who  are  every  year  lessning  our  numbers,  and 
I  fear  in  ye  end  rout  us  out  of  that  end  of  ye  country  having 
already  effected  it  full  100  miles.  The  forces  or  men  wch, 
defend,  look  after  and  keep  ye  sd.  Castle  William  and  Mary,, 
are  generally  4  or  6,  sometime  upon  any  extraordinary  oc- 
casionr,  6  or  10  more,  who  are  sent  by  turns,  by  order  of  ye 
Assembly,  thereby  to  prevent  payment,  since  all  persons  are 
to  do  duty  in  proportion  of  time,  wch.  is  very  intolerable  and 
distressing  to  ye  poorer  sort,  to  do  service  and  not  be  payed., 
while  ye  family  starves  at  home.  The  condition  of  ye  Castle 
is  tollerably  well  at  the  present  so  far  as  is  finished  but  will 
yearly  want  repairs, — there  are  30  odd  guns  competently  well 
mounted,  but  some  of  them  very  small,  old  and  useless,  and 
all  of  them  too  short  for  Castle  guns, — there  is  a  small  powder- 
room  built  and  finished,  none  for  arms,  no  houses  for  enter- 
tainment of  men.  All  sorts  of  stores  wanting,  for  wch.  ye 
Assembly  has  addressed  H.M.,  wch.  they  confidently  promise 
themselves  H.M.  will  be  graciously  pleased  to  grant,  and  bestow 
her  bounty  to  inable  them  to  mentain  her  Goverment  and  Castle, 
and  therewith  ye  masts  and  stores  lying  there  for  ye  use  of 
her  Royall  Navy.  There  are  three  small  towns  on  ye  other  side 
of  Piscataqua  River,  wch.  is  in  ye  Massachusets  Goverment,  web,, 
oblidgeth  ye  sd.  Goverment  to  defend  them,  and  thereby  are 
unwillingly  serviceable  to  ye  Province  of  New-Hampshire,  with- 
out wch.,  and  had  those  three  towns  been  drawn  in  or  destroyed, 
or  should  they  be  so,  wch.  they  are  in  great  danger  of,  it 
would  then  absolutely  be  impossible  that  the  Goverment  of  N. 
Hampshire  should  stand  of  itself  as  a  seperate  Goverment, 
unless  H.M.  should  immediatly  take  it  into  her  care  and  pro- 
tection, and  without  wch.  at  present  it  is  reasonable  to  conclude 
it  will  also  fall,  the  poverty,  want  of  assistance  from  the  neigh- 
bouring Provinces  and  Collonies,  and  the  decay  of  trade  being 
so  great,  wch.  is  further  shewed  in  ye  Addresses  of  that  Gover- 
ment to  H.M.  In  consideration  of  all  wch.,  as  also  that 
the  Province  is  some  thousands  pounds  in  debt,  contracted 
in  ye  time  of  peace,  and  thereby  their  credit  forfited,  and  for 
ye  preservation  of  that  river  and  Goverment,  it  is  most  humbly 
proposed,  (1)  That  200  men  be  raised  and  sent  over  to  New- 
Hampshire,  to  be  posted  in  the  Castle,  as  also  for  ye  releife 
of  the  out  towns  when  attacked,  or,  as  need  may  be,  to  relieve 
ye  people  in  their  distresses  about  raising  and  secureing  their 
harvests,  ye  enemy  of  late  haveing  taken  ye  methods  of  pulling 
down  ye  fences  about  ye  standing  corn,  wch.  is  no  sooner  done 
but  destroyed  by  ye  cattle,  ye  owners  not  dareing  to  go  out 
to  prevent  ye  same.  (2)  That  a  fourth  rate  man  of  warr  may 
be  sent  over  to  cruize  about  ye  Eastern  coast,  and  for  her 
wood,  water  and  vitling  to  repair  to  ye  River  of  Piscataqua, 
wch.  will  be  a  great  incouragment  to  ye  inhabitants,  and  guard 
to  ye  River  and  Navall  Stores  there.  (3)  That  stores  of  all 
sorts  be  sent  over  at  ye  same  time  and  by  ye  same  conveyance. 


24  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

(4)  That  dureing  ye  extraordinary  troubles  and  dangers  of  ye 
Plantations  on  ye  mainland  of  America,  two  pacquet-boats  may 
be  sent  yearly  to  New  Hampshire,  by  wch.  dispatches  may  be 
had  to  and  from  ye  Queen  [s]  Governors,  and  ye  ships  of  warr 
and  transportation  of  men  and  stores,  and  other  great  advantages, 
both  to  ye  Crown  and  Plantations,  especially  since  ye  Xing' 
of  France  has  setled  such  a  strong  garrison  so  near,  and  is 
infesting  ye  coast  of  New  England  both  wth.  ships  of  warr 
and  privateers.  (5)  That  ye  two  nests  of  French,  (vizt.) 
Canada  and  Port  Royall  setled  on  ye  backs  of  ye  English  on 
ye  mainland  of  America  be  rooted  out,  wch.  is  ye  only  ready 
and  certain  way  to  procure  peace,  for  all  ye  Plantations  of 
English  there,  wch.  might  easily  be  effected  by  one  of  ye 
squadrons  of  men  of  warr,  wch.  yearly  go  to  ye  West  Indies, 
and  be  no  great  hindrance  to  their  intended  voiage,  wch.  if 
H.M.  would  vouchsafe  to  grant,  hir  good  subjects  on  ye  Con- 
tinent there  would  heartily  joine  as  one  man  to  make  those 
two  Plantations  of  ye  french  King's  subjects  submitt  and  subject 
themselves  to  ye  Crown  of  great  Brittain.  (6)  That  ye  Maquas 
or  Five  Nations  of  Indians  which  alwaise  were  in  ye  English! 
interests  be  incouraged  by  ye  Govorner  of  New  York  against 
ye  Enemy,  who  have  been  kept  back  and  are  in  number  as 
many  as  ye  Enemie  Indians,  who,  if  they  had  been  duely 
incouraged,  might  before  this  time  have  put  all  ye  plantations 
far  from  ye  fear  of  such  an  enemy,  and  saved  ye  lives  of  more 
than  a  thousand  English  people  who  have  been  murthered, 
and  their  towns  and  plantations  have  been  held  and  mentained, 
wch.  were  many  and  large,  and  are  now  growing  up  again 
into  a  wilderness,  besides  the  expence  of  more  than  £100,000. 
Signed,  Geo.  Vaughan,  Agent  for  N.  Hampshire.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  6th,  Read  13th  July,  1708.  Holograph.  6|  pp.  [C.O. 
5,  864.  #o.  227;  and  5,  912.  pp.  452-461.] 

July  6.  20.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of   Sun- 

Whitehall,    derland.     Enclose  following  for  H.M.   signature. 

20.  i.  Draft  of  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor  Lord 
Lovelace.  Whereas  We  have  thought  fit  by  Our  Order 
in  Council  of  June  26,  1708,  to  repeal  an  Act  past  at 
New  York,  Nov.  27,  1702  for  repealing  Acts,  etc.,  and 
to  confirm  the  Act  for  vacating  extravagant  grants, 
etc.,  by  the  confirmation  of  which  Act,  several  large 
tracts  of  land  (as  by  the  said  Act  will  more  fully  appear) 
are  resumed  to  us,  and  are  in  our  disposal  to  regrant 
as  we  shall  see  occasion,  Our  will  and  pleasure  therefore 
is,  that  you  may  regrant  to  the  late  Patentees  of  such 
resumed  grants  a  suitable  number  of  acres,  not  ex- 
ceeding 2000  to  any  one  person;  and  that  in  such 
grants,  as  well  as  in  all  future  grants,  there  be  a 
reservation  to  Us,  Our  Heirs  and  successors,  of  an 
yearly  quit  rent  of  2/6  for  every  100  acres,  with  a 
covenant  to  plant,  settle  and  effectually  cultivate  at 
least  3  acres  of  land  for  every  50,  within  3  years  after 


AMERICA'  AND  WEST  INDIES.  25 

1708. 

ttie  same  shall  be  so  granted,  upon  forfeiture  of  every 
such  grant.  And  for  the  more  convenient  and  equal 
setting  out  of  all  lands  to  be  granted  within  Our  said 
Province  of  New  York,  Our  further  will  and  pleasure 
is  that  you,  Our  Governor,  or  the  Commander  in  Chief 
of  Our  said  Province  for  the  time  being,  the  Collector 
of  Our  Customs,  Our  Secretary,  and  Surveyor  General 
of  New  York  for  the  time  being  (the  Surveyor  General 
always  to  be  one),  or  any  3  or  more  of  you  and  them, 
do  set  out  all  lands  to  be  hereafter  granted,  and  that 
therein  you  have  regard  to  the  profitable  and  unprofit- 
able acres,  so  that  each  grantee  may  have  a  propor- 
tionable number  of  one  sort  and  the  other ;  as  likewise 
that  the  length  of  each  tract  of  land  to  be  hereafter 
granted  do  not  extend  along  the  banks  of  any  river, 
but  into  the  mainland,  that  thereby  the  said  grantees 
may  have  each  a  convenient  share  of  what  accommo- 
dation the  said  Eivers  may  afford  for  Navigation  or 
otherwise.  And  to  prevent  any  impediment  which  the 
production  of  Naval  Stores  in  Our  said  Province  may 
receive  from  such  grants,  you  are  to  take  care,  that 
in  all  new  Patents  for  land,  there  be  inserted  a  clause 
to  restrain  the  grantees  from  burning  the  woods  to 
clear  the  land,  under  the  penalty  of  forfeiting  their 
patent,  and  you  are  to  use  your  endeavours  to  procure 
an  Act  to  be  passed  in  the  Assembly  of  Our  Province 
of  New  York  for  that  purpose.  And  lastly,  Our  pleasure 
is,  that  in  the  said  patents,  there  be  likewise  a  par- 
ticular reservation  to  Us,  Our  Heirs,  and  successors, 
of  all  trees  of  the  diameter  of  24in.  and  upwards, 
at  12in.  from  the  ground,  for  masts  for  Our  Royal 
Navy;  as  also  of  such  other  trees  as  may  be  fit  to 
make  plank,  knees,  etc.  for  the  use  of  our  said  Navy. 
[C.O.  5,  1121.  pp.  297-300;  and  5,  210.  pp.  109-111.] 

July  7.  21.     Council    of   Trade   and    Plantations    to    the   Lord    High 

Whitehall.     Treasurer.     Enclose   Office   Accounts   for   payment.      See   B.    of 

T.   Journal,  July  7.     [C.O.   389,  36.     pp.   365-367.1 

July  7.  22.     Mich.  Newman  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Temple.  He  will  not  be  able  to  attend  at  the  Board  upon  his  brother's 
business  for  a  week  etc.  Signed,  Mich.  Newnam.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  July  7,  1708.  Addressed,  i  p.  [C.O.  37,  8.  No. 
69;  and  38,  6.  p.  411.] 

July  7.  23.     Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    to   Lt.     Governor 

.Whitehall.  Bennett.  Enclose  Orders  in  Council  of  June  26  etc.  [C.O. 
38,  6.  p.  412.] 

July  7.  24.     Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    to    Mr.    Bridger. 

'Whitehall.     'Acknowledge  letters  of  March  9  and  13,   1707/8.     We  are  very 

sorry  to  perceive  there  is  such  wast  made  in  the  woods;  but 


26  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

we  arc  of  opinion  it  may  in  a  great  measure  be  prevented 
by  putting  in  execution  the  Act  for  encouraging  the  importation 
of  Naval  Stores,  and  by  prosecuting  the  transgressors  of  that 
Law;  we  doubt  not  but  the  Governor  will  give  all  the  assistance 
necessary  in  a  matter  tending  so  much  to  H.M.  service.  Since 
you  say  that  Mr.  Mico  only  cutts  small  masts,  and  that  in 
inclosures,  which  he  might  have  done :  why  then  did  you  take 
the  bond  from  him ;  we  find  that  you  have  cancell'd  it,  but 
you  should  have  explain 'd  that  matter  to  us.  Your  cheife  com- 
plaint is  against  Mr.  Plaisted  for  cutting  of  masts,  (notwith- 
standing his  being  forbid  by  you)  contrary  to  the  clause  of 
reservation  in  the  Charter,  and  in  the  forementioned  Act  of 
Parliament,  without  haveing  H.M.  license  for  the  same,  which 
is  absolutly  necessary,  tho'  a  contract  be  made  with  the  Navy 
Board,  he  ought  therefore  to  be  prosecuted  for  so  doing.  And 
we  doubt  not,  if  this  method  be  taken,  it  will  effectually  prevent 
such  waste  for  the  future.  In  all  contracts  with  the  Navy  Board 
the  time  is  specify'd  within  which  such  contract  is  to  be 
perform'd,  and  therefore  if  Mr.  Plaisted's  contract  was  expired 
at  the  time  when  he  cut  the  masts,  you  mention,  or  if  he 
had  before  cut  the  full  number  contracted  for,  then,  in  either 
of  these  cases,  his  pretended  license  in  1691  is  null  and  void, 
besides,  the  trees  to  be  cut  by  any  license  ought  first  to  be 
veiwed  by  H.M.  Surveyor  of  the  Woods,  as  is  specify'd  in  the 
said  licenses.  As  to  your  receiving  the  fines  that  may  become 
due  upon  prosecution  of  this  nature,  we  can  give  you  no  par- 
ticular directions  therein.  But  it  seems  to  us  reasonable  that 
the  said  fines  should  be  paid  into  the  hands  of  the  .Receiver 
General,  till  upon  your  giveing  an  account  of  the  same,  H.M. 
pleasure,  shall  be  known  therein.  If  the  masts  be  cut  in  H.M1. 
woods,  they  ought  to  be  reserved  to  H.M.,  but  if  they  be  cut 
within  the  grants  of  pryvate  persons  it  may  be  dificult  for 
you  to  justify  your  seizing  the  same,  for  it  will  lye  upon  you 
to  prove  that  they  were  not  under  such  grants.  And  we  doubt 
not  but  you  have  been  cautious  therein,  before  you  made  the 
said  seizures.  You  ought  to  comply  with  your  Instructions 
in  going  to  New  York,  so  soon  as  H.M.  service  will  permit. 
As  to  the  bills  you  have  drawn  for  your  travelling  charges  etc., 
that  matter  does  not  properly  appertain  to  us ;  but  you  may 
remember  that  when  you  were  here,  and  solicited  at  the  Treasury 
for  a  summ  to  be  alowed  you  for  travelling  and  other  incident 
charges,  that  was  not  comply 'd  wifch  there ;  and  therefore  you 
ought  not  to  have  drawn  such  Bills  without  leave  from  the 
Treasury  for  so  doing.  We  are  laying  before  H.M.  the  sub- 
stance of  what  you  have  writ  to  us  in  relation  to  the  waste  in 
the  woods,  and  so  soon  as  H.M.  pleasure  shall  be  declared 
thereupon,  you  will  have  timely  notice.  We  have  as  you  de- 
sired laid  before  H.R.H.  a  copy  of  your  letter,  but  we  find  that 
he  has  received  the  like  from  yourself,  which  you  ought  to 
have  informed  us  of.  You  say  that  one  reason  for  the  decrease 
of  the  importation  of  Naval  Stores  from  New  England  is  the 
Navy's  not  paying  the  premiums  according  to  the  Act  of  Parlia- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  27 

1708- 

ment ;  upon  which  we  must  take  notice  that  this  is  a  misinfor- 
mation, for  you  will  perceive  by  the  inclosed  account  from  the 
Custom  House  what  certificates  have  been  allow'd  of  the  goodness 
of  Naval  Stores  from  the  commencement  of  the  foresaid  Act 
of  Parliament  to  Nov.  29,  1707 ;  and  we  have  been  informed 
by  the  merchants  who  import  Naval  Stores,  that  they 
have  received  bills  from  the  Navy  Board  accordingly,  which 
bills  will  be  paid  in  course;  so  that  upon  strict  examination 
we  don't  find  that  the  said  premium  was  ever  refused  to  the 
importers  of  such  Naval  Stores;  however,  we  shall  further 
consult  the  said  merchants,  in  order  to  the  better  promoting 
the  importation  of  Naval  Stores  from  the  Plantations,  as  much 
as  possible.  [C.O.  5,  912.  pp.  444-448.] 

July  7.  25.     Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

St.  Christophers.  I  had  the  honour  to  receive  yours  dated  Aprill  15th,  relateing  to 
the  Affrican  Company.  I  have  just  now  sent  to  their  Agent  at 
Antigua  to  draw  out  an  accompt  as  your  Lordships  desire;  as 
to  this  Island,  there  never  was  any  Agent ;  their  agent  that  was 
at  Nevis  before  it  was  plundered  is  dead,  and  I  am  afraid  his 
books  lost  when  that  Island  was  plundered,  and  since  I  came 
there  has  been  no  negroes  brought  there  by  the  Company ;  and 
onely  one  small  vessell  by  private  trade,  at  Mountserrat  there 
has  been  none ;  at  Antigua  the  Company  has  had  one  ship 
and  two  small  sloops,  this  is  of  my  owne  knowledge ;  but  as 
soon  as  I  can  persuade  the  Agent  to  do  it  I  shall  send  your 
Lordships  the  accompt  as  I  am  ordered.  'Tis  true  I  have 
an  instruction  relateing  to  the  Affrican  Company  to  assist  them 
in  the  recovery  of  their  debts  and  to  send  yr.  Lordships  ,un 
acct.  of  what  negroes  imported;  accordingly  some  little  time 
after  I  came  I  sent  to  Mr.  Chester  their  Agent  to  send  me 
the  accompt,  he  sent  me  a  proud  answer  that  he  had  no  orders 
from  the  Eoyall  Company  to  obey  my  orders,  but  some  time 
after  he  sent  me  a  lame  imperfect  accompt  of  one  vessell 
onely.  which  I  did  not  think  fitt  to  trouble  your  Lordships  with. 
I  told  him  what  orders  I  had,  he  said  he  had  nothing  to  do 
with  the  Committee  for  Trade.  I  told  him  he  was  very  imper- 
tinent, and  in  returne  he  told  me  he  would  not  change  his 
post  for  mine,  for  that  he  got  twice  as  much  mony,  and  had 
less  to  do,  and  was  not  obliged  to  the  fateigue  of  goeing 
from  Island  to  Island ;  this  was  at  my  first  arrival!,  which  made 
me  think  I  had  a  strange  sort  of  people  to  deal  with,  but 
resolveing  to  make  myself  easy  took  no  further  notice  of  it, 
but  took  all  occasions  to  let  him  know  I  would  give  him 
all  manner  of  encouragement.  Sometime  after  I  went  to  St. 
Kitts,  and  from  thence  writt  to  him  to  send  me  downe  -0 
negro -women  out  of  the  first  ship  that  came,  and  left  the 
price  to  him,  accordingly  he  sent  me  20,  one  of  which  died 
before  they  were  ship'd,  and  in  two  month's  eight  more  died., 
and  yet  he  charged  me  £800,  which  was  £300  more  than  I  could 
have  had  the  best  negroes  from  Barbados,  and  made  it  his 
braggs  to  the  rest  of  his  chapmen  how  he  made  me  pay  more 


23  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1708, 

then  them.  I  sent  for  severall  other  things  from  him  as  I 
wanted  them,  he  being  our  greatest  merchant,  and  he  charged 
me  in  proportion  for  everything  as  he  had  for  the  negroes, 
and  I  did  not  know  how  I  was  to  be  used  untill  I  camel  to 
settle  accompts  with  him,  which  was  not  long  since,  and  then 
as  a  very  great  favour  he  gave  me  credit  for  £150  as  an 
abatement,  whereas  in  his  whole  accompt  he  had  charged  me 
4  or  £500  more  than  anyone  else  would  have  done.  I  would 
have  writt  home  to  the  Company,  but  I  thought  it  might  be 
ill  construed,  and  that  they  would  be  apt  to  think  I  had  ai 
mind  to  quarrell  with  their  Agent  except  he  lett  me  have  negroes 
at  my  owne  price ;  nor  had  I  writt  this  story  to  your  Lordships 
now  but  to  lett  you  know  it  has  not  been  my  fault  you  had 
not  the  accompt  sooner;  The  minutes  of  all  the  Councills  have 
been  sent  your  Lordships  from  my  arrivall  to  the  first  of 
this  month,  and  an  accompt  of  all  the  stores ;  if  your  Lordships 
does  not  receive  duplicates,  'tis  not  my  fault,  I  have  much 
ado  to  gett  those  I  send ;  the  officer  that  has  charge  of  the 
stores  has  no  reward,  he  is  onely  excused  doing  duty  in  the 
Millitia:  and  the  several  Deputy- Secretarys  gett  so  little  by 
their  places  'tis  hardly  worth,  their  while  to  keep  them,  and 
if  I  should  suspend  them,  I  know  not  where  to  gett  others 
to  put  in.  As  to  the  Treasurer  of  Antigua,  he  tells  me  his 
accompts  with  the  Assembly  every  yeare,  and  has  his  discharge, 
and  is  not  obliged  to  have  whole  books  transcribed.  If  I 
will  be  at  the  expense  of  doing  it,  I  may  (which  cost  me  in 
this  place  at  least  £50.)  Your  Lordships  may  see  in  the  Minutes 
what  paines  I  took  to  gett  a  law  for  holding  Courts,  but  to 
no  purpose ;  how  the  law  they  have  at  present  came  to  pass 
here  and  at  home,  I  cannot  imagine,  had  I  passed  such  a 
law,  I  should  have  thought  I  deserved  to  lose  my  head ;  for  by 
it  every  freeholder  has  the  same  priviledge  as  a  Peer  of  Eng- 
land, his  person  is  to  be  sacred,  and  by  it  no  poor  man  is 
aible  to  sue,  nor  can  any  one  in  England  by  his  Attorney 
hardly  ever  recover  his  due  here  (as  Mr.  Dumma  and  Mr. 
Baron  will  be  able  to  informe  you),  and  when  judgement 
is  obtained,  'tis  two  yeare  before  you  can  come  to  levy  an 
execution  upon  anything  that  may  do  you  good;  there  is  no 
help  for  it  but  an  Act  of  Parliament  that  I  know  ,of ;  for 
they  pretend  the  Queen  can't  repeal  it,  and  I  am  sure  they 
never  will.  P.S.  Inclosed  I  send  your  Lordshipps  the  imports 
and  exports  of  this  Island,  and  allso  an  Adress  to  the  Queen, 
wch.  we  beg  your  Lordshipps  to  present.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Sept.  17,  Bead  Oct.  28,  1708.  3  pp.  [C.O. 
152,  7.  A7o.  58;  and  153,  10.  pp.  205-209.] 

July  7.  26.     Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    to    Col.    Jenings. 

Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letter  of  March  26,  giving  us  an  account  of  the 
peaceable  state  of  the  Colony  under  your  care,  with  which  we 
are  very  well  satisfyed,  and  doubt  not  but  by  your  prudent  man- 
agement the  attempts  any  Indians  may  make  to  give  you  disturb- 
ance will  be  frustrated.  And  in  relation  to  the  enemy's  privateers, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  29 

1708. 

we  hope  ye  convoy  yt.  sail'd  hence  some  time  ago  will  effectually 
protect  ye  coast  of  Virginia  during  their  stay  there.  r(?.O. 
5,  1362.  p.  297.] 

July  7.  27.     Wm.    Lowndes    to    Mr.    Popple.       Encloses     following 

Treasury       papers    concerning   Mr.    Keble's    petition    for   the    consideration 

Chambers.      of  ^  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.     Set  out,  New  Jersey 

Archives    1st   ser.    iii.,    329,    341-343.      Signed,    Wm.    Lowndes. 

Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  7,  1708.    Addressed.    1  p.  Enclosed, 

27.  i.  Proposals  of  John  Keble  etc.  in  explanation  of  his 
petition,  cf  May  27,  June  7,  1708.  Endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding. 1  p. 

27.  ii.  Certificate  in  favour  of  Mr.  Keble.  Signed,  Jos  (?) 
Evans,  of  New  Jersey,  Wm.  Penn,  Jno.  Finney  and 
James  Thomas  of  Pena.,  Evan  Evans,  Minister  of 
Philadelphia,  f  p. 

27.  iii.  Certificate  of  R.  Dennett,  Soap-maker,  as  to  the 
good  quality  of  2  barrels  of  American  pot-ash  made 
by  John  Keble.  Signed,  Robert  Dennett.  £  p. 

27.  iv.  Certificate,  similar  to  preceding,  signed  by  the  same 
and  six  other  soapmakers  of  London,  £  p. 

27.  v.  Commissioners  of  Customs  to  the  Lord  High  Trea's- 
urer.  Enclose  following.  Continue: — If  the  manufacture 
of  potashes  can  be  brought  to  perfection  in  the  Plan- 
tations, it  will  be  a  usefull  trade,  and  of  publick 
benefitt  to  the  Kingdome.  Custome-house,  London. 
July  1,  1708.  Signed,  Sam.  Clarke,  T.  Newport,  Jo. 
Werden,  J.  Stanley,  M.  Dudley.  1  p. 

27.  vi.  Imports  and  Exports  of  Pott  and  Pearl  Ashes.  In- 
spector General's  Office,  June  29,  1708.  From  East- 
Country,  1704-1706,  total,  8,192,4941b.  at  2±d.  to  3R 
per  Ib.  Holland,  28,135.  Ireland  (1704)  14,581. 
Russia,  1,637,600.  Sweden  (1706)  7,040.  New  Eng- 
land (1705)  250.  'Pennsylavia  (1704)  630.  Prize- 
goods  (1705)  2016.  Germany,  Pearl-ashes,  295,386. 
Total  import,  for  3  years,  10,178,1321b.  Value,  127,226*. 
13s.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  970.  Nos.  76,  76.i.-vi.;  and 
(without  enclosures  ii.,  iii.,  iv.,  vi.)  5,  994. A.  pp. 
451-453,  456-458.] 

[July  8.]  28.  Mr.  Keble's  Addition  to  above  proposals.  Proposes  to 
pay  H.M1.  6d.  a  bushel  for  the  salt  he  makes.  "My  patent  for 
salt-making  I  apprehend  the  cheif-foundation  towards  carrying 
on  of  my  pott- ash  works."  The  transporting  16  servants  will 
not  amount  to  above  £80,  which  he  craves  may  be  allowed  him, 
etc.  Signed,  John  Keble.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  8,  1708. 
|  p.  [C.O.  5,  970.  No.  78;  and  5,  994.  p.  458.] 

July  8.  29.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Report 

Whitehall.     On  the  case  of  Alexander  Skene  (cf.  Aug.  13,  1705  etc.)  Summarize 

evidence   given   supra.      Upon   the   whole,    we   humbly   represent 

that   the   first   Article,    relating  to  his    being   concerned   in   the 


30  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1708, 

taking  of  the  said  Lee  by  force  from  off  Barbados,  is  not  fully 
proved,  there  being  but  the  single  affidavit  of  Capt.  St.  Loe, 
which  consists  chiefly  of  hearsaye.  The  second  article,  relating 
to  his  taking  17/6  and  3/9  from  Masters  of  ships  for  liberty 
to  sail  has  been  fully  proved  by  depositions  and  Skeen's  answer 
thereto,  except  that  he  takes  no  notice  of  the  3/9,  for  the 
Minute  of  Councill  of  Barbadoes,  which  he  referrs  to,  of  Nov. 
21,  1704,  we  observe,  that  it  was  made  6  months  after  Skeen's 
having  taken  the  fees  abovementioned,  so  that  we  do  not  see 
how  it  can  be  of  any  use  towards  his  justification;  and  there- 
fore we  humbly  represent  to  your  Majesty,  that  the  obliging 
Masters  of  ships  to  petition  for  liberty  to  sail,  and  the  exacting 
of  fees  for  the  draughts  of  such  petitions  and  licences  to 
sail,  are  new  impositions,  and  a  burden  upon  trade ;  and  we 
humbly  offer  that  your  Majesty  be  pleased  to  signify  to  thle 
Governor  of  Barbadoes  your  dislike  thereof,  that  such  evil  prac- 
tices may  be  prevented  for  the  future.  As  to  the  Article  re- 
lating to  Skeen's  receiving  £210,  for  procuring  a  fleet  to  be 
stop't  which  was  ready  to  sail,  we  observe  that  in  his  answer, 
(which  is  not  upon  oath)  he  seems  rather  to  evade  his  having 
received  the  said  summe,  than  to  give  any  direct  answer  in 
that  point,  and  refers  himself  to  his  tryal,  by  which  we  find 
he  does  not  make  any  answer  to  that  part  of  Guy  Ball's 
affidavit,  nor  is  there  once  mention  made  on  the  part  of  Skeen 
of  such  summ  either  received  or  not  received  by  him ;  Notwith- 
standing Skeen  has  been  tryed  and  acquitted  by  his  Jury,  yet 
from  what  has  appeared  to  us  from  the  aforesaid  affidavits, 
and  a  due  observation  made  upon  the  said  tryal,  we  are  humbly 
of  opinion  that  the  said  Skeen  is  guilty  of  having  exacted  unusual 
fees  from  Masters  of  ships,  and  of  bribery  in  taking  the  £210 
aforementioned.  [C.O.  29,  11.  pp.  272-280.] 

July  8.  3O.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Dudley. 

Whitehall.  Enclose  duplicate  of  April  15.  Your  last  was  dated  Oct.  10, 
1707.  Refer  to  Mr.  Bridger's  letters  of  March  9  and  13.  We 
must  desire  you  to  give  him  all  incouragment  and  assistance 
in  his  prosecutions  of  the  persons  so  offending,  and  that  you 
do  use  your  best  endeavours  with  the  Assembly  to  pass  an 
Act  with  sufficient  penalties  on  all  such  persons  as  shall  presume 
to  cut  masts,  contrary  to  the  clause  of  reservation  in  the  said 
Charter.  As  to  what  you  write  touching  the  want  of  Counsellors 
and  recommending  Messrs.  Waldron,  Hilton  and  Smith  for  the 
Council  of  New  Hampshire,  we  have  some  time  since  represented 
the  same  to  H.M.,  who  has  been  pleased  by  her  Order  in  Council 
to  approve  of  the  said  persons.  And  we  have  acquainted  Mr. 
Chamberlain  therewith,  that  he  might  take  out  the  said  orders, 
and  transmit  them  to  you  for  their  admission  into  the  said 
Council  accordingly. 

P.S.  Whereas  we  have  been  informed  amongst  other  things 
by  Mr.  George  Vaughan,  Agent  for  New  Hampshire,  that  the 
Indians  from  Canada,  watching  all  oppertunitys  to  murder  H.M. 
subjects  in  New  Hampshire,  and  when  they  have  so  done,  strip 


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81 


1708. 


off  the  scalp  of  the  head  and  cary  them  to  the  French'  at 
Canada,  where  they  receive  a  reward  of  £5  for  every  scalp 
so  brought  in ;  this  is  so  barbarous  and  inhuman  that  it  ought 
by  any  means  to  be  prevented,  and  therefore  you  ought  imme- 
diatly  to  write  to  the  Governour  of  Canada  and  signify  to  him 
that  unless  he  forbear  to  incourage  sudh  barbarities,  and  do 
not  effectually  prevent  it,  you  shall  be  obliged  to  make  reprisals, 
and  to  treat  all  the  French  that  shall  fall  into  your  hands  with 
tha  utmost  severity.  [0,0.  5,  912.  pp.  448-451.] 


July  8.  31.     Certificate    that    Capt.    Gookin   has    given     security    for 

observing  the  Acts  of  Trade,  etc.  Signed,  Hen.  Stevens,  D. 
Eembr.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead  July  8,  1708.  £  p.  [C.O. 
5,  1264.  No.  50;  and  5,  1292.  p.  65.] 

July  8.  32.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Refer 

Whitehall,  to  Mr  Penn's  Declaration  (July  2)  and  Capt.  Gookin's  bond 
(July  8),  and  recommend  the  latter  accordingly  for  H.M.  appro- 
bation as  Dep.  Governor  of  Pensylvania,  without  limitation  of 
time,  and  of  the  three  lower  Counties  during  H.M.  pleasure 
only.  "We  do  further  humbly  lay  before  your  Majesty  a  draught 
of  Instructions  for  Mr.  Penn  relating  to  the  Acts  of  Trade,  to 
the  like  effect  as  have  been  given  to  him  and  all  other  Proprietors 
of  Plantations  upon  the  like  occasion."  [C.O.  5,  1292.  pp. 
65,  66.] 

July  10.  33.  Governor  Dudley  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Bostou.  tations.  I  am  not  willing  to  omit  any  opportunity  humbly  to 
acquaint  your  Lordpps.  with  the  state  of  H.M.  Provinces,  as 
my  duty  is ;  tho.  there  is  nothing  of  moment  since  my  last 
publick  accounts  of  the  year  by  H.M.S.  Deptford.  We  have 
some  little  mischiefs  amongst  our  fishermen  by  the  French 
privateers,  and  our  neighbours  of  Quebec  have  been  looking 
upon  our  frontiers ;  but  our  partys  upon  the  borders  are  so 
diligent  and  careful  that  we  have  suffered  no  considerable  loss 
these  nine  months  past.  The  Assemblymen,  or  Representatives 
of  this  Province,  are  chosen  every  year  against  the  General 
Assembly  for  Election  of  Councellours,  holden  in  May  as  the 
Charter  directs  ;  and  it  was  observed  this  year  that  there  was 
a  considerable  alteration  more  than  usual  in  that  House,  and 
accordingly  when  they  came  to  the  Election  of  the  Council, 
they  shewed  their  temper  and  left  out  three  principal  Gentlemen 
of  the  Council  of  approved  loialty  and  of  the  best  estates  in 
the  Country,  and  brought  in  others  of  a  much  less  character. 
Out  of  the  whole  number  of  28,  by  virtue  of  H.M.  Prerogative 
of  right,  and  as  is  usual  I  refused  two  of  that  election,  and1 
they  chose  two  others,  and  so  the  Assembly  proceeded  to  their 
buisness.  Amongst  other  things  offered  them  for  H.M.  service, 
I  had  observed  that,  notwithstanding  the  provision  in  the  Charter 
for  tha  preservation  of  H.M.  Woods  and  great  timber,  several 
wasts  had  been  made,  and  when  the  Surveyor  presented  the 


32  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

delinquents,  it  was  objected  that  there  was  no  law  of  the 
Province  agreeable  to  the  Charter;  I  therefore  offered  such 
a  law  in  the  words  of  the  Charter,  (copy  inclosed),  which 
was  soon  agreed  in  Council;  but  the  Eepresentatives  refused 
it ;  I  again  returned  it  to  their  consideration,  as  being  the 
words  of  the  Charter,  and  enforced  it  with  a  letter  of  his 
late  Majesty  King  William  lying  on  file,  directing  that  such  a 
Law  should  be  enacted.  They  again  and  finally  refused  it,  to 
the  great  prejudice  and  dishonor  of  H.M.  rights  arid  most 
valuable  interest.  In  the  same  session  they  presented  the  Coun- 
cil with  a  list  of  grievances,  to  which,  the  Council  made  answer, 
the  copys  of  both  are  inclosed,  and  I  am  humbly  of  opinion 
the  reading  of  them  will  justify  me  before  H.M.  If  the  defence 
of  H.M.  fortifications  and  small  expence  upon  H.M.  Birthday, 
and  a  troop  of  guards  attending  the  Governour  thro'  the  depth 
of  the  Country  in  sight  of  the  Enemy  be  grievances,  I  humbly 
submit  myselfe  to  H.M.  censure.  Soon  after,  they  sent  in 
their  votes  to  have  £200  paid  to  the  Governour  for  his  support, 
and  £225  for  the  Treasurer,  who  is  a  person  chosen  by  them- 
selves. The  Council  sent  back  their  votes,  earnestly  moving  they 
would  put  a  greater  honour  upon  H.M.  Governour  than  upon 
their  own  Treasurer ;  but  could  obtain  no  alteration  in  those  votes : 
the  Gentlemen  of  the  Assembly,  alledging  that  they  must  some- 
times make  alterations  in  their  grants  of  money,  otherwise  it 
would  looke  as  if  it  were  a  salary,  which  they  resolved  to  avoid. 
Tho'  H.M.  has  often  repeated  Her  commands  since  my  coming 
hither  that  a  setled  salary  should  be  established  for  her  Gov- 
.ennours,  which  they  have  as  often  denyed.  I  will  trouble 
your  Lordships  with  one  Article  more.  I  moved  the  Council  and 
Assembly  to  Address  H.M.  upon  the  Union  and  any  other 
affaires  of  their  own  that  they  might  have  to  offer.  The  Coun- 
cil thereupon  sent  the  Eepresentatives  an  Address  upon  the 
Union,  and  votes  to  joine  their  Committees  in  any  other  affaire; 
which  have  been  usual  in  all  times  past;  This  they  refused: 
and  since  they  rose,  I  am  informed  they  have  sent  away  fin 
Address  from  that  House  alone ;  when  it  seems  in  their  long 
session  they  had  reduced  them  from  77  members  to  about 
40,  and  of  them  about  twenty-two  or  three  agreed  this  Address; 
the  Governour  and  Council  being  perfectly  ignorant  of  what  is 
contained  therein.  I  most  humbly  pray  your  Lordships'  con- 
sideration of  what  is  foregoing,  and  if  anything  be  inconvenient 
in  that  Addresse  or  other  thjeir  Papers,  it  may  not  be  attributed 
to  myselfe  or  H.M.  Council,  but  truly,  as  it  is,  of  a  few  men 
that  are  displeased  and  restless ;  who  are  also  put  forward  by 
some  persons  attending  at  Whitehall  in  hopes  of  removing  me 
from  my  station.  The  value  of  my  Office  will  make  nobody 
fond  of  it;  but  I  am  not  willing  (if  I  may  have  H.Ml.  favour) 
to  be  by  such  methods  bubled  out  of  an  Honourable  Post: 
wherein  I  have  served  H.M.  faithfully  with  all  diligence  arid 
acceptance  of  the  People;  and  doubt  not  for  the  future  of  so 
doing,  if  H.M.  shall  be  so  graciously  pleased.  Signed,  J. 
Dudley.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Eead  Nov.  29,  1708.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  33 

1708. 

33.  i.  Minutes  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  June  24,  28,  1708,  relating  to  an  Address 
to  H.M.  The  Council  propose  a  joint  Committee  ,to, 
prepare  the  heads  of  th&  Address,  not  thinking  it  reason- 
able that  either  House  should  be  tied  up  to  heads  pro- 
posed by  one  House  singly.  Referred  to  in  preceding1,. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  16,  Bead  Dec.  17,  1708.  1  p. 

33.  ii.  Resolves  of  the  Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay, 
granting  £200  for  the  Governor's  support,  and  £225 
for  the  Treasurer.  July  3,  1708.  Referred  to  in  pre- 
ceding. Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

33.  iii.  Minutes  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  July  1,  2,  1708.  (a)  Grievances  sent 
up.  Complain  of  money  being  spent  (1)  on  men  for 
looking  after  Salem,  Marblehead  and  Charlestown  forti- 
fications, (2)  on  illuminations  at  the  Council  Chamber 
(3)  entertaining  the  Court  Martial  in  Sept.  (4)  paying 
Capt.  Southack  40s.  more  per  month  than  any  sea 
commander  (5)  allowing  large  sums  for  the  support  of 
the  Governor  and  his  guards  eastward  into  N.  Hamp- 
shire without  the  concurrance  of  the  House.  Complain 
that  the  President  of  the  Colledge  is  not  dismissed 
from  his  places  of  Judge  of  Probate  and  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  whereby  he  is  hindred  from  devoting  himself 
entirely  to  that  work.  Signed,  Thomas  Oliver,  Speaker, 
(b)  Reply  of  the  Governor  and  Council.  (1-3)  The 
sums  referred  to  are  very  trivial.  The  first  is  in  accord- 
ance with  the  object  of  the  vote  as  declared  by  the 
Representatives  themselves.  The  second  for  the  cele- 
bration of  H.M.  Birthday,  Coronation  and  Accession'. 
The  third  for  an  enquiry  into  the  miscarriage  of  the 
expedition  to  Nova  Scotia.  (4)  Capt.  Southack  is  paid 
less  than  the  English,  establishment  for  a  ship  of  the 
same  rating.  (5)  The  "large  sums"  amount  to  £60 
for  several  journeys  in  one  year.  It  is  necessary  that 
the  Governor  should  visit  the  forces  defending  the 
Eastward  part  of  the  Province  etc.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 2f  pp. 

33.  iv.  Copy  of  a  Bill,  proposed  by  the  Council  and  rejected 
by  the  Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  June,  1708, 
for  the  better  providing  of  masts  of  H.M.  Navy.  Same 
endorsement.  2  pp,  [C.O.  5,  865.  Nos.  6,  6.i.-iv. ; 
and  (without  enclosures)  5,  913.  pp.  30-35.] 

July  11.          34.     Two  Orders  of  Queen  in  Council,  appointing  Councillors 
Windsor,      for   Nevis    and    St.    Kitts,   as   proposed   July   1.      q.v.      Signed, 

Wm.  Blathwayt.     Endorsed.  Reed.   16th,  Read  19th  Nov.  1708. 

2  pp.     [C.O.  152,  7.     Nos.  62,  63;  and  153,  10.    pp.  216-219.]' 

July  11.          35.     Order    of    Queen    in    Council.      John    Rayner    is    to    be 

Windsor,      appointed  Attorney  General  of  New  York  in  place  of  Sampson, 

Broughton    etc.      Signed,    Wm.    Blathwayt.       Endorsed.    Reed. 

Wt.  11522,  CP3 


34 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 


July  12. 

Windsor. 


Juh  13. 


Read  Aug.  23,  1708,    1|-  pp. 
1121.     p.   324.] 


[C.O.   5,  1049.     A7o.   93;  and  5, 


36.  H.M.  Warrant  to  Governor  Lord  Lovelace  for  the 
appointment  of  John  Rayner  as  Attorney  General  of  New  York 
etc.  Countersigned,  Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  30, 
1708  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  89;  and  5,  1121.  pp. 
314,  315;  and  5,  210.  pp.  107,  108.] 


37.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,  derland.  Enclose  Representation,  recommending  Capt.  Gookin 
(July  8),  to  be  laid  before  H.M.,  "not knowing  when  there  will 
be  a  Council,  and  that  the  said  Gookin  may  not  lose  the  oppor- 
tunity of  transporting  himself  to  Pensylvania,  with  the  Lord 
Lovelace,  who  is  on  his  departure  for  New  York"  etc.  [C.O. 
5,  1292.  p.  67.] 

July  13.  38.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Whitehall.  Boyle.  Reply  to  July  4.  We  find  no  precedent  of  a  salary 
being  settled  here  upon  foreign  clergymen  in  the  Plantations, 
only  that  at  New  York  the  French  Minister  there  has  a  salary 
of  £20  out  of  the  Revenue.  But  as  the  said  Kocherthal  is  very 
poor  and  the  Lutherans,  who  go  over  with  him,  are  not  in  a 
condition  to  make  him  any  allowance,  we  humbly  offer  that 
Lord  Lovelace  have  directions  to  grant  him  a  reasonable  portion 
of  land  for  a  glebe  etc.,  and  that  he  be  allowed  £20  for  his 
voyago  etc.  Set  out,  New  York  Docs.  v.  pp.  62,  63.  q.v.  '[C.O. 
5,  1121.  pp.  303,  304.] 

July  13.  39.  Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Reply  to  June  11.  In  answer  to  the  first  quaere, 
my  humble  opinion  is,  that  since  the  Statute  of  the  15th  of 
Charles  II  does  expressly  require  all  Masters  of  ships  coming 
to  the  Plantations  to  make  known  their  arrivall,  and  give  in  an 
inventory  of  their  goods  to  the  Governor  there  or  such  officer 
as  shall  be  by  him  thereunto  authorized  and  appointed,  before 
any  goods  be  unladen,  that  the  appointment  of  this  Officer,  who 
is  now  called  the  Navall  Officer,  does  solely  belong  to  the 
Governor  of  such  Plantations ;  and  therefore  if  the  Crown  con- 
stitute a  person  to  execute  this  office,  and  the  Governor  appoint 
another  person;  I  think  all  Masters  of  ships  will  be  oblidged 
to  apply  to  the  Navall  Officer  appointed  by  the  Governor ;  and 
the  patentee  will  not  be  in  such  case  impowered  to  doe  the 
things  required  by  such  Officer  mentioned  in  the  said  Act  of 
Parliamt.  (2)  I  hold  consequently  that  the  said  office  can  never 
be  said  to  be  full  by  vertue  of  Letters  Patents  from  the  Crowne. 
(3)  I  don't  think  the  present  Governor  can  be  said  to  have 
dispossessed  Mr.  Cox  of  the  said  office  by  appointing  a  Navall 
Officer ;  because  if  Mr.  Cox  was  not  appointed  by  the  Governor, 
he  never  was  the  Officer  mentioned  in  the  Act  of  Parliament,  who 
is  described  to  be  one  that  is  authorized  and  appointed  by 
the  Governor;  but  in  regard  the  Governors  of  the  Plantations 


AMERICA  AND    WEST   INDIES.  35 

1708. 

are  put  in  by  the  Crown  only  during  pleasure,  I  take  it  for 
granted  no  one  will  make  any  difficulty  in  appointing  such 
Navall  "Officer  as  the  Crown  shall  best  approve  of.  Signed,  Jas. 
Mquntague.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  10th,  Bead  20th  Aug.,  1708. 
Addressed.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 

39.  i.  Copy  of  June  11,  1708.  C.S.P.  No.  1539. 
39.  ii.-v.  Copies  of  clauses  in  Acts  of  Parliament,  for  the 
encouragement  of  Trade,  etc.,  and  the  preventing  frauds, 
etc.,  and  in  Governor  Crowe's  Instructions.  9  pp. 
[C.O.  28,  11.  Nos.  12,  12.i.-v. ;  and  (without  en- 
closures) '29,  11.  pp.  293-296.] 

July  13.  40.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,  derland.  Reply  to  letter  of  July  6.  Refer  to  Order  in  Council 
concerning  Seals  May  31,  1702  (C.S.P.  1702.  No.  555).  Pur- 
suant to  the  said  Order  Mr.  Harris,  then  Seal-cutter  to  H.M., 
frequently  attended  this  Board  in  order  to  make  the  proper 
alterations,  and  as  it  will  be  necessary  that  the  present  seal- 
cutter  do  attend  us  from  time  to  time,  we  offer  that  he  may 
have  a  general  warrant  for  preparing  Seals  for  H.M.  Provinces 
of  New  Hampshire,  the  Massachusets  Bay,  New  York,  New 
Jersey,  Maryland,  Virginia,  Jamaica,  Barbados,  the  Leeward 
Islands,  and  Bermuda,  pursuant  to  the  directions  he  shall  re- 
ceive from  H.M.  Commissrs.  of  Trade  and  Plantations  in  that 
behalf.  [C.O.  324,  9.  p.  219.] 

July  13.  41.  Circular  Letter  from  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Whitehall.  tations  to  the  Governors  and  the  Proprietors  of  the  Plantations. 
We  inclose  an  additional  Instruction  in  pursuance  of  several 
Acts  past  here,  relating  to  Trade  and  Navigation,  [see  June  29, 
1708]  :  and  you  are  to  take  care  and  give  the  necessary  directions 
that  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  said  Instruction  be 
punctually  and  duly  complied  with  in  your  Government.  [C.O. 
324,  9.  p.  220.] 

[July  14.]  42.  Receipts  by  Mr.  Popple  and  Mr.  Kocherthal  for  £100 
for  ths  use  of  the  German  Refugees  June  4-July  24.  Of.  May 
10,  1708.  Signed,  Wm.  Popple,  Joshua  de  Kocherthall,  San 
Jacob  Plattell.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  81.] 

July  15  43.     W.  Popple  to  W.  Lowndes.     Report  upon  the  proposals 

Whitehall,  of  John  Keble  (see  July  7),  to  be  laid  before  the  Lord  High, 
Treasurer.  Their  Lordships  are  of  opinion  that  pott-ashes  being 
a  commodity  so  absolutely  necessary  here,  the  setting  up  of 
pott -ash  works  in  the  Plantations  will  be  of  very  great  ad- 
vantage to  this  Kingdom,  besides  the  particular  advantage  it 
will  be  to  H.M.  in  her  Revenue  of  the  Customs ;  and  therefore 
such  a  work  ought  to  be  incouraged  as  much,  as  may  be: 
for  the  returns  for  the  American  pott-ashes  will  be  made  in 
the  woolen  and  other  manufactures  of  this  Kingdom ;  whereas 
at  present  all  the  pott-ashes  we  have  from  the  Czar  of  Mus- 
covy's Dominions  are  paid  for  two-thirds  in  mony  and  but  one 


36 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 

third  in  goods,  whicih  is  a  great  disadvantage  in  our  trade. 
Recommend  that  credit  be  given  to  Keble  for  £200  upon  se- 
curity, etc.  and  that  he  be  allowed  the  transportation  of  16 
servants  at  £5  per  head.  As  to  his  patent  for  making  of 
salt,  their  Lordships  have  nothing  to  offer,  till  they  receive  the 
certificates  he  has  promised.  Set  out,  New  Jersey  Archives  1st 
ser.  iiL  347.  [C.O.  5,  994.  pp.  459-462.] 

[July  15.]       44.     H.M.  Licence  to  Francis  Collins  to  cut  timber  in  New 

Kensington.   England  in  pursuance  of  his  contract  to  load  three  ships  per 

annum    with    masts    for    the    Navy,    for    five    years.      May    31, 

1707.      Countersigned,   Godolphin.      Endorsed,   Reed.   Bead  July 

15,   1708.     If  pp.      {C.O.   5,  864.     No.  230.] 


July  15. 

London. 


July  15. 
Whitehall. 


July  15. 
Whitehall. 


July  16, 

Admiralty. 
Office. 


July  16. 

Custom- 
house. 


45.  List  of  guns    and    stores    wanting  at  New  Hampshire. 
Signed,  Geo.   Vaughan.     Endorsed,   Reed.   Read  July  15,   1708. 
I"!  PP-     Lc-°-  5>  864-     No-  229-l 

46.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Report  upon  petition  of  Mathew  Newnam  (c/June  27, 
1707.)     Wee  find  that  he  has   been  guilty  of  threatening  and 
abuseing   of  the  Governor,   Judges   and  Justices   of  the   Peace, 
in  Bermuda,  in  a  very  gross  manner,   and  that  he  has  been  a 
frequent  disturber  of  the  peace  there;  and  we  pray  your  Lord- 
ship  to   represent  to    H.M.    our   humble   opinion  that   notwith- 
standing the   said  Newnam's    behaviour,   the   bail    in   £500   de- 
manded   of    him    for    his    appearance,    and   the  fine   of  £100 
imposed  on  him  considering  his  circumstances,  are  both  of  them 
excessive,  and  contrary  to  the  Bill  of  Rights.     And  we  further 
humbly   o^er   that   in   regard   the    petitioner   has   now    lain    in 
prison  near  upon  two  years,  which  may  be  a  sufficient  punish- 
ment   for    his    crime,    H.M.    be    pleased    to    extend    her   mercy 
to  him  by  remitting  his  said  fine,  and  by  directing  the  Governor 
to  release  him  out  of  gaol,   upon  condition  that  the   petitioner 
either  depart  the  Island  within  a  reasonable  time,   or  that  he 
give  sufficient   security  for  his   future   good  behaviour,  himself 
to  be  bound  in  £100,  with  two  suerties  in  £50  each.     [C.O.  38,  6. 
pp.    413-415.] 

47.  W.  Popple  to  Josiah  Burchett.     Encloses    30    copies    of 
H.M.   Proclamation,  June  26,  to  be  dispersed  and  published  by 
Capt.   Chamberlain,   H.M.S.   Advice,   in  the   Harbours  of   New- 
foundland etc.      [C.O.   195,   5.     pp.   57,   58.] 

48.  J.    Fawler  to  W.    Popple.      Reply    to    preceding.     The 
necessary    instructions    are    given    to    Capt.     Chamberlain,    etc. 
Signed,  J.  Fawler.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  19,  1708.     Ad- 
dressed.    £  p.     [C.O.  194,  4.     No.  72 ;  and  195,  5.    p.  5S.]: 

49.  Mr.     Carkesse     to     Mr.     Popple.       Encloses     following 
Signed,  Cha.   Carkesse.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  19.    1708. 
•Addressed.      ^    p.      Enclosed, 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES. 


37 


1708. 

49.  i.  The  Collector  of  Cowes  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  July  12.  We  have  not  here  any  ships 
employed  in  the  Fishery  at  Newfoundland.  Signed, 
Tho.  Cole  etc.  ±  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  73,  73. i.] 

July  17.          50.     Royal   Warrant  to   John  Roos   for    making    new    seals 
Windsor,      for    the    Plantations    in    America,   etc. ;   as  proposed  July   13. 

Countersigned,  Sunderland.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug.  3,  1708. 

1  p.      [C.O.  323,  6.     No.   67;  and  5,  751.     No.  76;  and  324, 

9.     p.  248.] 

July  19.          51.     W.    Popple   to   W.    Lowndes.       Encloses    copy    of    Mr. 
Whitehall.     Byerley's  letter  of  Dec.  13,  1707,  for  the  Lord  High  Treasurer's 
directions  thereupon.      [C.O.   5,  1121.     p.  308.] 

July  19.          52.     W,    Popple  to   Thomas   Byerley.      Acquaints    him    with 
Whitehall,     above  procedure.     Lord  Lovelace  is  now  on  his  departure,  and 

will  no  doubt  put  an  end  to  the  hardships  you  complain  of,  etc. 

[C.O    5,  1121.     pp.  308,  309,] 

July  19.  53.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  Governor  Handasyd.  Recom- 
mends the  bearer,  Don  Pietro  Marino  Sermain,  going  to  the 
Spanish  West  Indies  with  intention  to  do  service  there  to  his 
lawfull  King  Charles  III,  and  to  the  common  cause,  etc.  Signed, 
Sunderland.  [C.O.  5,  210.  p.  118.] 

July  19.  54.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitchail.  derland.  Mr.  Vaughan,  Agent  for  New  Hampshire,  having 
laid  before  us  a  Memorial  of  the  state  of  that  Province,  jand 
acquainted  us  that  he  has  presented  to  H.M.  by  your  Lordship 
some  Addresses  relating  among  other  things  to  their  want  cf 
stores  of  war,  we  take  leave  to  acquaint  your  Lordship  that 
the  circumstances  of  that  Province  are  such  as  do  require 
a  speedy  supply,  and  therefore  we  desire  your  Lordship  would 
receive  H.M.  pleasure  upon  the  said  Addresses  as  soon  as 
conveniently  may  be.  [C.O.  5,  912.  p.  462.1 

July  20.         55.     W.  Popple  to  Wm.   Lownds.     Encloses  extract  of  Gov- 
Whitehall.     ernor  Dudley's  letter  relating  to  the  commissions  of  the  Collector 
and    Comptroller    of    Customs    at    Boston,    for    the    Lord    High 
Treasurer's   directions  thereupon.      [C.O.    5,   912.     p.   480.1 

July  20.  56.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Jamaica,  tations.  I  am  to  own  the  receipt  of  your  Lops,  of  Jan.  29, 
March  25  and  Aprill  15.  As  to  the  6  cruizing  ffrigots,  my 
meaning  is  6  very  good  sailers,  3  of  which  I  would  always 
have  out,  2  of  them  to  cruize  to  windward  to  keep  the  coast 
clear,  the  other  to  be  with;  the  trading  vessells  either  at  Porto 
Bell  or  Carthagene ;  and  the  other  3  to  lie  ready  carrened  in 
.harbour  to  go  out  upon  their  return,  the  least  of  them  I 
think  ought  to  be  from  40  odd  to  50  guns:  This  will  keep  the 
coast  clear  of  French  traders,  they  being  seldom  strong  enough 


38  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

to  do  such  a  Force  any  damage,  and  when  they  are,  we  may 
depend  on  our  sailing.  I  dare  not  venture  to  give  your  Lops. 
my  opinion  what  ships  are  necessary  to  guard  the  Island,  or 
convoy  the  trade  from  Great  Britain  here,  and  from  hence 
back,  for  fear  any  accident  should  happen  contrary  to  my 
expectation,  but  must  leave  that  to  your  Lops,  and  people  of 
better  judgment  than  myself e,  who  know  better  what  the  Enemy 
are  doing  in  Europe  than  I  can  here.  As  to  the  Councellors, 
I  can  say  no  more  than  that  it  has  been  a  custom  for  the 
Council  I  to  have  the  same  priviledge  the  Assemblys  have,  which 
I  look  upon  to  be  no  more  than  fformality,  for  I  have  always 
told  them,  that  neither  myselfe  nor  any  of  them,  as  long  as 
I  am  in  the  Government  should  be  protected  from  paying  their 
just  debts,  and  I  must  do  them  that  Justice,  that  I  think  there 
are  not  any  of  them  that  stand  in  need  of  it,  nor  have  been 
protected  for  these  7  years  past,  that  I  have  been  in  the 
Island ;  and  I  dare  venture  to  give  your  Lops,  under  my  hand, 
that  whoever  has  informed  you  of  anything  like  it,  has  said 
what  is  not  just.  I  enclose  a  list  of  the  Patent  Offices  of 
this  Island,  with  tfhe  value  of  them,  which  is  the  account 
that  the  Patentees  or  Deputys  have  themselves  given  me  in;  my 
opinion  is,  that  most  of  them  make  more  of  their  Offices, 
but  not  near  what  they  are  generally  adjudged  to  be  worth, 
living  here  being  of  great  expence,  an'd  I  do  not  see  that  any 
of  them  save  inony.  As  to  your  Lops.'  of  Aprill  15,  in  relation 
to  tho  Negro  trade,  here  have  been  so  many  different  Officers  in 
the  Offices  concerned  in  that  affair,  that  it  is  impossible  to  give 
your  Lops,  full  information  of  it,  from  the  time  your  Lops, 
would  have  it,  by  this  opportunity,  but  I  hope  to  send  you  a 
satisfactory  account  per  the  next  packett,  with  the  best  remarks 
upon  it  that  I  can  make.  I  herewith  send  your  Lops,  a 
list  of  the  galleons,  and  the  other  vessells  that  were  with  them, 
when  they  were  attack'd  by  Mr.  Wager.  I  understand  Mr. 
Wager  intends  to  bring  the  two  Captains  that  were  then  with 
him  to  a  triall,  as  soon  as  the  ships  expected  from  great 
Britain  arrive,  that  they  may  be  able  to  make  up  a  Court 
Martiall :  By  the  account  that  I  have  had  from  my  own  Officers 
that  were  on  board  those  ships,  and  the  Lieutenants  of  them, 
Mr.  Wager  has  had  very  foul  play,  but  that  will  be  best 
known  when  the  Court  Martiall  meets.  The  traders  that  are 
lately  come  from  Porto  Bell,  say,  that  the  Spaniards  laugh  at 
them  and  tell  them  that  two  of  our  men  of  war,  one  of  60, 
the  other  of  50  guns,  dare  not  attack  their  Vice  Admirall  of 
64  guns,  that  they  only  ffired  now  and  then  their  chase  gunns 
at  him,  and  then  sailed  ahead  of  him  and  gave  him  their  stern 
gunns,  at  so  far  distance  as  not  to  do  him  any  damage,  and 
never  came  up  to  give  him  a  broadside.  This  talk  is  enough 
to  concern  any  true  Englishman.  I  humbly  begg  leave  to 
offer  one  thing  as  my  opinion,  that  if  H.R.H.  thought  fitt> 
that  a  third  part  of  the  Courts  Martiall  held  at  sea  upon  such 
occasions  as  this,  should  consist  of  Lieutenants,  it  wou'd  tend 
very  much  to  the  advantage  of  H.M.  service.  As  to  Monsieur 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  39 

1708. 

du  '  Cass,  I  cannot  learn  from  any  hand  whether  he  is  yet 
sailed  with  the  fflota  and  other  ships,  hut  it  is  my  opinion 
he  would  not  stay  long  after  the  hearing  this  news.  As  to 
the  Spanish  ships  at  Carthagene,  I  do  believe  none  of  them  will 
endeavour  to  join  Monsieur  du  Cass  or  stir  from  thence  till 
flurthe.-  orders  from  Old  Spain,  because  all  the  Directors  of 
those  affairs  were  on  board  the  Spanish.  Admiral!  that  blew  up, 
of  which  the  chief  man  that  was  saved  was  the  Admirall's 
Coxon,  and  with  him  only  10  men.  As  to  other  particulars, 
I  shall  not  presume  to  trouble  you  with  common  Eeports, 
since  Mr.  Wager  is  now  here,  who  was  an  eye  witness  to 
everything,  and  has  promised  to  give  a  very  exact  relation 
of  it  to  H.M.  and  H.R.H.  About  3  weeks  ago  we  received 
advice  of  9  ships  at  Port  Rico,  supposed  to  be  Spaniards  that 
were  expected  from  Old  Spain;  upon  which  Mr.  Wager  desired 
me  to  spare  him  50  soldiers  to  man  3  ships  that  were  then 
ready  for  sailing  to  endeavour  to  meet  with  them  betwixt  the 
Capes,  which  were  immediatly  sent  aboard,  and  the  ships  sailed 
the  next  day.  I  hope  if  they  meet  with  them,  we  shall  have 
a  good  account  of  them.  In  3  weelts  or  a  month's  time  we 
shall  have  a  very  good  magazine,  that  is  bomb  proof  finished 
at  Port  Royall,  which  I  have  been  endeavouring  to  get  done 
ever  since  my  coming  into  the  Country,  but  could  never  accom- 
plish it  till  this  year.  I  have  received  20  recruits  by  this 
packett-boat,  and  expect  the  remainder  by  the  next.  I  believe 
H.M.  Regiment  under  my  command  will  then  be  compleat.  I 
lost  4  or  5  men  in  the  engagement  with  t'he  galleons,  having 
then  on  board  Mr.  Wager's  squadron  170  men.  As  to  Mr. 
Wager,  I  begg  leave  to  say  this  of  him  that  I  have  never 
known  a  man  more  diligent,  or  more  zealous  for  H.M.  ser- 
vice, he  being  ready  on  all  occasions  to  advise  in  every  thing 
that  may  tend  to  the  welfare  of  great  Britain,  and  the  good 
of  this  Island,  so  that  I  think  it  a  pleasure  to  be  concerned 
with  him. 

P.S.      If   there   can    be    a   method   found   out   to   prevent  the 

French  trading  to  Lima,   and  the   South   Seas,   trade  here  will 

soon   be   in  a   flourishing   condition.      Signed,    Tho.    Handasyd. 

Endorsed,  Reed.  Sept.  17th,  Read  Oct.  28,  1708.  4£  pp.  Enclosed, 

56.  i.  List    of    Patent    Offices    in    Jamaica    and    salaries    in 

Jamaica   mony ; —  ; 

Attorney  Generall:   Robt.    Hotchkyns   £80. 

Receiver  Generall:  Leonard  Compere  £300,  of  which  the 
contingent  charges  amount  to  at  least  £160. 

Secretary:  John  Baber  £800,  contingent  charges  £200. 

Provost  Marshall:  Richd.  Rigby  £500,  contingent  £150. 
In  time  of  martial  law  the  office  has  no  fees, 
and  is  of  charge. 

Clerk  of  the  Pattents  and  Register  in  Chancery:  Arthur 
Wynter  '£200. 

Clerk  of  the  Crown  and  Peace:   Henry  Needham  £70. 

Clerk  of  the  Grand  Court:  Thomas  Cotton  £500.  Con- 
tingencies, £150. 


40 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 

Navall  Office :  William  N  orris  £150.    -  Endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding,     1   p. 

56.  ii.  List  of  the  Galleons  etc.  met  by  Commodore  Wager, 
with  3  men  of  war  and  a  fireship,  between  the  Brew 
and  Friends  Islands,  May  28,  1708:— St.  Joseph,  64 
guns,  600  men,  Count  de  Cass  Alegre,  Admiral.  Blew 
up  in  the  engagement.  St.  Joachim,  64  guns,  500 
men,  Don  Michaell  Augustine  de  Villa  Nova,  Vice- 
Admiral.  Sta.  Cruz,  50  guns,  300  men,  Count  de 
Bega  Florida,  Beer-Admiral.  Taken  by  Mr.  Wager. 
Merchant  ships :  Le  Mieta,  34  guns,  140  men,  Capt. 
Don  Joseph  Tanis.  6  more  Spanish  merchant  ships, 
name  and  force  unknown.  One  small  French  merchant- 
man, 24  guns,  200  men.  The  Holy  Ghost,  a  French1 
Privateer  of  32  guns  and  300  men,  ran  ashore  and 
burnt.  A  small  Biscayan  packet-boat,  12  guns  and 
150  men.  One  brigantine.  Two  sloops.  Same  en- 
dorsement, f  p. 

56,  iii.  Duplicate  of  June  17,  1708.  C.S.P.  A7o.  1551. i. 
[C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  23,  23. i. -iii.;  and  (without  en- 
closures) 138,  12.  pp.  333-337.] 

July  23.          57.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of   Sun- 
Whitehall.  *  derland.      Enclose  copy  of  Governor  Handasyd's  letter  of  May 
19  last.     [C.O.  138,  12.    p.  299.] 

July  23.          58.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Dudley. 

Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letters  of  Nov.  10  and  Feb.  16,  1707.  We  are 
very  glad  from  the  account  you  give  u,s  that  you  have  had 
good  success  against  the  Indian  Enemy,  and  are  sensible  of 
your  care  and  dilligence,  and  of  the  good  service  you  have 
done,  which  we  shall  not  be  forgetfull  of  as  occasion  requires. 
We  are  considering  your  proposall  for  attacking  the  French 
in  Canada  and  Port  Royall,  and  shall  lay  the  same  before  H.MW 
for  her  pleasure  thereupon.  We  are  glad  to  perceive  the  Gov- 
ernment of  Rhode  Island  have  been  so  sensible  of  their  duty 
as  to  assist  you  in  your  late  expedition  against  the  French, 
and  we  doubt  not  but  their  good  correspondence  with  you  will 
tend  to  the  mutual  advantage  of  both  Governments.  As  for 
the  paper  you  sent  us  containing  your  defence  against  a  com- 
plaint presented  to  H.M.  at  Windsor,  June  23,  1707,  the  said 
papers  shall  be  made  use  of  as  occasion  offers ;  and  if  your 
friend  Mr.  Chamberlain  have  not  received  the  like  from  yourself, 
we  will  deliver  it  to  him,  keeping  a  copy  for  ourselves,  and 
while  you  act  for  H.M.  service  you  may  depend  that  we  shall 
doe  all  that  in  us  lyes  to  protect  you  from  any  unjust  complaints 
against  you.  We  have  laid  before  my  Lord  Treasurer  what 
you  write  in  relation  to  the  Commissions  whidh!  limitts  the  two 
Officers  of  the  Customs  you  mention  to  the  Port  of  Boston, 
and  we  doubt  not  but  his  Lordship  will  give  the  necessary 
directions  therein.  Mr.  Allen's  title  to  the  lands  in  New  Hamp- 
shire is  now  depending  before  a  Committee  of  H.M.  Council, 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES. 


41 


170S. 


July  25. 

Windsor. 


July  27. 


and  you  will  in  time  be  informed  of  what  is  done.  We  have 
nothing  to  say  upon  Mr.  Usher's  account,  but  that  we  shall 
consider  the  same  when  referred  to  us.  As  for  what  you 
write  about  Mr.  Collins'  contract  with  the  Navy  Board  for 
masts,  we  have  also  been  informed  of  that  matter  by  Mr. 
Bridger,  and  have  examined  the  same,  and  been  attended  by 
Mr.  Collins,  who  did  produce  to  us  H.M.  license  for  cutting 
of  masts,  dated  May  31,  1707,  which  (having  been  mislaid  was 
the  reason  of  its  not  being  sent  to  New  England ;  and  has  been 
the  occasion  of  all  the  disorder  tihat  has  hapened  there,  however, 
we  must  advise  you  to  give  all  the  assistance  you  can  to  Mr. 
Bridger  in  preventing  waste  in  the  woods.  Mr.  Collins  has 
promised  to  send  the  said  license  to  New  England  by  the 
first  opportunity.  Whereas  we  have  been  informed  that  the 
logging  trade  and  the  great  number  of  saw  mills  in  New  Hamp- 
shire do  occasion  great  waste  in  the  woods,  and  that  Mr. 
Bridger  himself  does  connive  thereat,  you  are  also  to  take 
the  most  effectuall  care  for  preventing  this  mischief,  and  to 
admonish  Mr.  Bridger  thereof,  that  for  the  future  he  do  not 
permit  or  connive  at  such  practices.  Mr.  Yaughan  has  attended 
us,  and  produced  to  us  his  powers  for  the  Agency  of  New 
Hampshire.  We  shall  give  him  all  the  assistance  we  can, 
in  the  affair  he  comes  about.  We  have  laid  before  H.R.H. 
the  Lord  High  Admirall  the  account  you  have  given  of  the 
good  services  performed  by  Captain  Stucley.  We  are  now  to 
take  notice  .that  in  your  box  which!  brought  your  last  letter- 
there  were  severall  others  not  relating  to  our  Board,  and  which 
were  much  more  in  bulk  than  what  was  for  us,  which  is  a 
considerable  increase  of  charge  to  this  office,  we  must  therefore 
remind  you  of  the  letter  writt  you  March  26,  1707,  upon  that 
subject,  and  we  expect  that  for  the  future  all  letters  adressed 
to  our  Board  be  sent  in  packets  by  themselves,  and  that  jno 
letters  to  other  persons  be  inclosed  therein.  [C.O.  5,  912. 
pp.  481-484.] 

59.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     In  pursuance  of  a  report 
from  the  Lord  High  Treasurer,  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations   are    to    dispatch    letters    to    the     several    Governors    in 
America,  directing  them  to  transmit  to  H.M.  Board  of  Ordnance 
here,    as    soon   as    may   be,    an    account   of   the    remains  of  all 
the  Ordnance-stores   in  their  respective  Governments,   and  also 
to   send   like    accounts    once    a    year    (and    oftner,    if   it   ?hall 
be    found   necessary)    to    the    said    Board     as     abovementioned. 
Signed,    William   Blathwayt.      Endorsed,    Reed.    Read   July    30, 
1708.     2  pp.     [C.O.  323,  6.    No.  66  ;  and  324,  9.    pp.  247,  248.], 

60.  Canada    Survey'd,    or   the   French   Dominions  upon  the 
Continent    of    America    briefly    considered    in    their    situation, 
strength,  trade  and  number,   more  particularly  how  vastly  pre- 
judiciall  they  are  to  the  British  interest,  and  a  method  proposed 
of  easily  removing  them. 

It  cannot  but  be  wondred  att.by  all  thinking  rnea  who  know 


42  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

the  valuableness  of  the  Brittish  Monarchy  in  America,  both  with 
regard  to  their  power  and  trade,  that  a  nation  so  powerful! 
in  shiping,  so  numerous  in  subjects,  and  other  ways  so  wisely 
jealous  of  their  trade,  shou'd  so  tamely  allow  such  a  troublesome 
neighbour  as  the  French,  not  only  to  sitt  down  peaceably  beside 
them,  but  with  a  handfull  of  people  vastly  dispersed  to  possess 
a  country  of  above  4,000  miles  extent,  quite  encompassing  and 
hemming  in  betwixt  them  and  the  sea,  all  the  Brittish  Empire 
upon  the  said  Continent  of  America,  by  whicih  they  have  already 
so  mightily  obstructed  the  Brittish  trade,  all  America  over, 
and  must  in  time  totally  ruin  the  same,  unless  seasonably  pre- 
vented, as  will  appear  by  the  following  considerations,  (and 
what  renders  us  intirely  inexcusable  is,  that  the  half  of  one 
year's  loss  we  sustain  in  trade  by  them,  besides  the  vast  expenca 
both  the  Crown  and  Country  is  att,  in  maintaining  of  troops 
and  garrisons  upon  their  frontiers,  bribing  of  the  natives  for 
their  friendshipps,  or  indeed,  more  properly  speaking,  being 
tributaries  to  those  inhumane  savages  for  their  favour  und 
assistance ;  the  half',  I  say,  of  one  year's  loss  we  sustain  would, 
if  rightly  aplyed,  wholly  dispossess  them  of  the  Continent  and 
Newfoundland,  and  by  so  doing  render  H.M.  sole  and  peaceable 
possessor  of  all  the  North  Continent  of  America,  large  enough 
to  form  four  kingdoms  as  bigg  as  Great  Brittain).  As  to 
the  situation  of  the  country  possesst  by  the  French  in  North 
America,  and  commonly  all  comprehended  under  the  prevailing 
name  of  Canada,  the  seat  and  residence  of  their  Governor 
Generall  being  upon  the  place  properly  so  called,  its  situation 
is  from  about  54  degrees  North  Latitude,  begining  to  the  East- 
ward of  Port  Nelson  in  the  country  of  the  Esdmoee,  extend- 
ing itself  all  the  way  Southwest  to  the  mouth  of  the  river 
Missasippi,  which  falls  into  the  Bay  of  Appalatchio  in  the 
great  Bay  of  Mexico,  about  the  Latitude  of  28  degrees  and  30 
minutes,  comprehending  as  itt  goes  their  part  of  Newfoundland, 
the  Islands  of  St.  Peter,  Accadia  or  Nova  Scotia,  which  borders 
upon  the  Brittish  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  whose  boundaries 
to  the  Eastward  is  the  little  river  St.  Croy  (as  the  French1 
alledge),  not  far  to  the  North  East  of  this,  upon  the  head  of 
the  Bay  of  Fundy,  they  have  a  settlement'  called  Port  .Boy all, 
where  is  a  stone  fort  pretty  strong,  garrison'd  by  5  regular 
Companyes,  though  not  exceeding  30  men  a  company,  their 
cheifest  strength  consisting  in  their  officers,  which  are  generally 
double  the  number  of  ours,  here  is  also  a  small  town  of  about 
100  familyes,  and  upon  a  place  call  Minas  and  the  Country 
about  there  are  betwixt  2  and  300  familyes  more,  being  in 
all  able  to  raise  about  400  'men,  besides  some  natives  who 
join  with  them,  this  is  a  distinct  government  of  ittself,  both  the 
Governor  and  Lieut.  Governor  having  their  Commissions  imme- 
diately from  the  French  King,  yett  under  the  command  of  the 
Governor  Generall,  who  resides  att  Quibeck,  the  present  Governor 
of  Port  Koyall  is  M.  Supercass,  formerly  Governour  of  Placentia, 
a  very  brave  and  experienced  officer;  the  Lieut.  Governor  M. 
Bona venture,  formerly  a  sea  officer.  Against  this  place  the 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  43 

1708. 

Governmt.  of  New  England  made  two  efforts  last  summer  un- 
successfully only  through  want  of  Officers  and  conduct,  and 
now  justly  fears  their  returning  the  blow  upon  the  little  Province 
of  New  Hampshire,  by  which,  they  must  inevitably  ruin  the 
same,  and  consequently  deprive  the  Crown  of  Brittain  of  all 
the  masts,  timber  and  navall  stores  which  itt  produces  both  in 
perfection  and  plenty,  unless  suddenly  supported  by  the  Crown., 
with  some  regular  troops  and  stores  of  warr.  This  country  of 
Accadia  is  that  which  was  formerly  by  us  called  Nova  Scotia, 
sold  (as  is  generally  reported)  by  the  Lord  Sterling  to  the 
French,  and  extends  ittself  all  the  way  North  East  from  the 
river  St  Croy,  in  Latitude  of  43,  to  Cape  Britton  in  Latitude 
of  47,  where  is  the  entry  to  the  Gulph  of  Canada  or  St 
Lawrence,  so  called  from  the  great  river  of  that  name,  which 
disembogues  itself  into  itt,  and  which  justly  both  from  its 
extent  and  largeness  is  said  to  be  the  greatest  in  the  known 
world.  Upon  this  river  of  St.  Lawrence  or  Canada,  the  French 
have  their  chief  towns,  forts  and  settlements,  in  the  mouth 
o.f  which  about  Latitude  of  51,  lyes  a  large  Island  called 
Anticosty,  about  16  legues  in  length,  where  the  French  in 
time  of  peace  had  some  small  settlements  for  the  benefitt  of 
fishing  and  hunting,  but  now  desolate  by  reason  of  the  warr. 
This  river  is  about  20  leagues  over  att  the  mouth,  but  so  high 
and  mountanous  is  the  country  that  you  can  see  land  distinctly 
from  one  side  to  the  other,  upon  both  sides  of  this  rivef  iri 
timo  of  peace  were  stragling  settlements,  but  now  mostly  de- 
serted until  1  you  come  up  as  high  as  Tadousack,  which  is 
about  20  leagues  below  the  City  of  Quibeck.  This  town,  which 
is  the  seat  of  the  Governour  General!,  Intendant  and  Bishop, 
lyes  about  120  leagues  from  the  mouth  of  the  river,  about 
Latitude  of  47,  situate  upon  a  high  promontory  or  neck  of  land 
formed  by  the  great  river,  which  runs  by  the  West  side  of  itt, 
and  another  river  which  runs  by  the  East  side  of  itt,  and 
is  by  them  called  little  river.  The  Great  River,  which  is  fresh 
for  10  leagues  below  this  town,  and  navigable  for  about  60 
above  itt  for  vessells  of  50  tunns,  forms  befor  this  town  a  sort 
of  a  bason,  or  harbour,  though  none  of  the  best,  because  the 
rapidity  of  the  river  as  well  as  the  great  tide  (itt  flowing 
about  7  fathom  right  up  and  down),  makes  the  ships  ride  a 
great  strain,  but  the  water  is  constantly  smooth  by  reason  of 
the  highness  of  the  land  on  both  sides,  and  the  narrowness 
of  the  River,  itt  being  scarse  haff  a  mile  over  att  the  town, 
which  is  divided  in  two  by  the  names  of  the  Higher  and 
Lower,  in  the  first  of  these  is  the  Castle  or  fort,  where  the 
Governor  resides,  being  a  spacious  stone  building  courtways, 
affording  a  great  deal  of  good  lodging  for  him  and  the  several  1 
Officers  under  him,  as  allso  a  large  guard  Hall  for  the  soldiers 
and  another  for  the  Officers,  itt  is  built  upon  a  precepice  att 
the  very  point  of  the  land,  directly  over  the  River,  and  so 
high  that  the  foundation  of  itt  is  att  least  100  yards  above 
the  surface  of  the  water,  there  are  no  great  gunns  within  itt, 
but  a  little  above  itt  to  the  right  hand,  is  a  Battery  of  about 


44  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

20  gunns,  the  biggest  of  them  n'ot  exceeding  a  12  pounder: 
there  is  likewayes  a  little  above  this,  upon  the  pitch  of  all 
the  Hill  a  little  stone  redoubt  with  six  small  gunns,  this  com- 
mands in  some  measure  the  passage  from  the  land  to  the 
town,  being  placed  in  the  center  of  the  neck  of  land,  betwixt 
the  two  Rivers,  they  were  also,  whien  I  was  there  about  two 
years  ago,  drawing  a  stone  wall  of  about  20ft.  high,  quite  across 
this  neck  of  land,  to  secure  itt  upon  that  side,  tnWe  are  in1 
the  upper  Town  three  handsome  churches,  a  noble  large  semin- 
ary of  the  Jesuits  (who  are  the  principall  proprietors  of  that 
Country)  three  cloisters  of  priests,  two  nunneryes,  two  hos- 
pitalls,  the  Intendants  and  Bishops'  palaces,  which  are  all  very 
noble  buildings.  The  lower  Town  is  built  almost  round  the 
foot  of  the  hill  on  which  the  upper  Town  stands,  extending 
from  the  one  River  to  the  other,  from  itt  to  the  High  town 
is  a  winding  coach-way  of  a  pretty  large  circumference,  and 
yett  very  steep,  but  the  foot  passage  to  itt  is  full  as  isteep 
as  going  up  any  ordinary  stairs  of  a  house,  in  this  lower  town 
just  opposite  to  where  the  ships  ride  is  a  stone  bastion  with 
six  18  pounders  mounted  upon  itt,  and  upon  the  opposite  side 
of  the  River  a  little  lower  upon  a  small  point  is  a  battery 
of  eight  12  pounders,  but  no  redoubt  or  cover  for  the  men. 
In  the  Low  town  is  one  Church;  and  a  great  many  good  stone 
buildings.  In  both  the  towns  will  be  about  300  dwelling  houses, 
and  they  can  raise  about  the  same  number  of  fighting  men 
besides  souldiers,  of  which  there  are  not  ordinarly  above  three 
Companyes,  who  seldom  exceed  30  men  a  Company,  about  a 
league  below  this  town  lyes  the  Isle  of  Orleans,  being  about 
7  leagues  in  length,  and  in  most  places  noi  above  two  miles 
broad,  the  river  is  navigable  on  both  sides  of  itt,  but  cho  n\  .in 
Channell  is  on  the  west  side  of  itt  which  is  generally  about 
a  mile  broad,  but  upon  the  other  side  mostly  not  above  a  quarter 
of  a  mile,  this  Island  is  very  well  peopled,  having  3  parish! 
Churches  upon  itt,  and  near  300  familyes  upon  itt,  upon  both! 
sides  of  the  River  opposite  to  this  Island  tihe  country  is  well 
planted  with  people,  who  may  in  all  amount  to  200  familyes 
more.  So  that  I  believe  for  about  "20  miles  round  Quibeek' 
may  be  about  800  familyes  who  could  not  raise  above  so  many 
fighting  men.  The  Governor  Generall  is  Governor  of  Quibeck 
in  particular,  the  present  is  the  Marquis  de  Vauderoile,  and  the 
Lieut.  Governour  M.  Anglosery,  both  these  have  serv'd  in  the 
Country  above  20  years,  and  have  raised  themselves  by  their 
services.  About  30  leagues  South-west  from  this,  upon  the  same 
river,  lyes  a  small  fortifyed  town  called,  from  the  confluence 
of  three  Rivers,  Trois  Rivieres,  itt  is  only  pallisadoed  round, 
having  nothing  of  a  fort  in  itt,  only  lodgings  for  the  Governor 
and  Officers,  and  hath  not  above  50  familyes  in  itt  besides 
soldiers,  itt  hath  a  particular  Governor  of  its  own,  who  is 
att  present  an  Italian,  called  the  Marquiss  de  Crisafi,  in  this 
town  lyes  ordinarly  six  of  their  company es  of  Foot.  About 
.  30  leagues  .above  this,  and  60  from  Quibeck,  upon  the  same 
river,  lyes  the  City  of  Montreal!,  upon  an  Island  of  the  same 


AMEBICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  45 

1708. 

name,  about  5  leagues  in  length,  this  Town  is  equall  in  bigness 
and  number  of  inhabitants  to  Quibeck,  but  not  altogether  so 
well  built,  nor  so  rich  as  the  other,  hither  the  tide  flows,  and 
barques  of  50  or  60  tuns  can  come  up,  this  town  is  pallisadoed 
round,  lying  pretty  levell,  and  hath  3  or  4  block  houses  att  itts 
severall  corners,  itt  hath  three  Churches,  as  many  convents 
and  a  hospitall,  itt  is  the  next  best  Government  to  that  of 
Governour  Generall,  upon  whose  death  the  Governour  of  this 
place  generally  succeeds  a  course,  the  present  Governour  is  M. 
Du  Ramsey,  the  Lieut.  Governour  M.  Gallifait,  and  town  Major 
M.  du  Muy.  There  are  some  small  towns  besides,  such  as 
Shambly  and  Sorrel,  where  sometimes  a  Company  or  two  lyes, 
as  also  severall  little  forts,  commanded  by  Captains  and  Subal- 
terns, such  as  Fort  Frontinack,  built  upon  the  side  of  Corlar's 
Lake,  to  curb  the  trade  of  the  English,  from  Albany  and  the 
five  Nations  of  Indians  in  league  with  them,  there  are  also  to 
the  Westward  severall  little  forts  in  the  way  to  Missasippi, 
such  as  Fort  Crevecour,  and  Fort  Louis  in  the  Straits,  where 
are  a  few  french  and  Indians  placed  for  the  conveniency  of 
their  trade,  and  to  give  them  a  title  to  the  country,  through 
•which  every  year  there  goes  one  Officer  of  note  with  about 
40  men  to  view  the  condition  both  of  their  trade  and  garrisons, 
all  the  way  to  Missasippi,  which  is  likewayes  subject  to  the 
Governour  Generall,  the  present  Governour  of  which  is  the 
Sieur  Deberville,  a  Canadian  born,  and  brother  to  the  com- 
mander of  that  name  who  plundered  Nevis  in  the  west  Indies. 
Tha  whole  number  of  regular  troops  the  french  have  in  all 
tha  above  mention'd  countryes  is  28  Companyes,  who  were  not 
two  years  agoe  above  30  a  Company,  and  are  generally  posted 
as  follows ;  at  Placentia  in  Newfoundland  3  Companyes,  com- 
manded for  the  time  after  the  removall  of  M.  Supercass  by 
M.  Moniack,  att  a  Hew  little  fort  in  Charles  Straits,  or  Labeadore, 
called  fort  Pontchartrein,  commanded  by  M.  Certomanche,  one 
Company,  att  Port  Royall  5  Companyes,  att  Quibeck  3  Com- 
panyes, att  Trois  Rivieres  6  Companyes,  att  the  Citty  of  Montreal 
7  Companyes,  the  other  3  are  generally  in  some  of  the  forts 
upon  the  frontiers  of  Albany,  and  the  5  Nations  in  league  with 
us,  the  immediate  Commander  or  General  of  all  those  troops 
under  the  Governour  Generall,  and  to  whom  they  give  the 
title  of  Commandant  de  Troupes,  is  the  Marqui  de  St.  Croy. 
Having  given  a  pretty  exact  account  of  the  situation,  strength 
and  number  of  all  the  chief  places  in  this  country,  the 
number  and  disposition  of  their  regular  troops,  with  the 
names  of  their  chief  Officers,  the  whole  number  of  which  will 
not  amount  to  above  5000  inhabitants,  dispersed  almost  as  many 
thousand  miles,  itt  may  be  easily  believed  itt  cannot  be  very 
difficult  to  reduce  such  a  country,  especially  since  we  have 
above  20  times  their  number  upon  the  same  Continent,  but 
ere  we  think  of  reducing  them,  lett  us  first  see  what  their 
country  produces  by  way  of  encouragemt.,  and  next,  what  damage 
they  now  doe  the  Brittish  trade  all  America  over,  but  more  imme- 
diately upon  the  Continent,  and  what  further  they  must  neces- 


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1708 

sarly  doe  in  time,  when  more  populous,  if  not  prevented.  As 
to  their  trade,  which  chiefly  consists  in  furrs  and  fish,  of 
both  wch.  they  have  but  to  great  a  quantity,  in  so  much,  that 
had  they  but  hands  to  manage  the  same  they  would  quickly 
glutt  all  Europe  with  both,  as  they  have  in  some  measure  done 
with  the  first,  for  two  years  agoe  I  see,  according  to  their 
computation,  above  £60,000  value  in  beaver  alone,  besides  all 
other  furrs  and  peltry,  of  which  their  magazines  were  full, 
and  which  were  not  to  be  sent  home  att  that  time,  because  the 
European  marketts  were  then  glutted  with  them.  And  as  to 
the  ordinary  sorts  of  fish,  such,  as  codd,  heak,  pallock  and  had- 
dock, every  bay  and  creek  along  all  their  coasts  abound  with 
them  farr  beyond  the  Bancks  of  Newfoundland,  as  they  doe 
also  with  herring  and  mackerel!,  but  above  all  for  whale  fishing 
their  coast  excells  all  places  ever  yett  heard  of.  They  have 
also  particular  to  that  great  river  of  St.  Lawrence  a  fish  they 
call  a  white  porpoise  in  infinite  numbers,  which  hath  afforded 
them  a  new  and  advantageous  manufactory,  for  besides  the 
vast  profitt  the  oyle  of  them  affords,  they  have  found  a 
way  to  tann  their  skinns,  of  which;  they  make  the  finest  upper 
leather  for  shooes  imaginable,  far  excelling  any  marokin,  as 
I  have  found  by  experience,  having  worn  shooes  made  of  them, 
which  never  grow  hard  with  being  wett.  The  french  King 
hath  given  a  considerable  sume  for  the  advancing  of  this  manu- 
factory, which  is  not  to  be  done  anywhere  but  in  such  a  country 
as  that,  for  no  bark  save  that  of  Cyrus  will  tann  th'eir  skinns. 
The  soil  here  is  also  very  fertile,  as  well  appears  by  the  grains 
itt  produces,  not  only  in  vast  quantityes  but  the  best  of  itts 
kind  upon  the  whole  Continent,  especially  wheat  and  pease 
of  all  sorts,  and  that  in  so  short  a  time,  notwithstanding  the 
coldness  of  their  winters,  for  though  they  doe  not  sow  their 
wheat  till  May,  they  reap  itt  in  great  perfection  in  the  be- 
ginning of  August.  But  now  that  we  have  sufficiently  surveyed 
the  country,  lett  us  only  consider  how  infinitely  more  agreeable 
this  climate  would  be  to  our  Northern  constitution  then  Darien, 
what  a  vast  revenue  the  furr  trade  would  bring  into  the  Crown, 
having  all  the  Nations  of  Indians  upon  the  North  Continent, 
who  make  so  vast  a  body  of  people,  intirely  att  our  devotion. 
How  vast  an  improvement  of  shipping  and  Navall  Stores  could 
be  made  here,  where  the  timber  of  all  sorts  is  the  best  upon 
the  whole  Continent,  and  the  fishing  there  of  all  sorts  would 
exceed  all  the  others  in  the  world.  But  having  said  enough 
to  pshow  the  country  is  both,  commodious  and  advantageous 
enough  to  be  inhabited,  lett  us  next  consider  some  more  pungent 
and  powerfull  arguments,  which  must  prevail  upon  every  true 
Brittain,  who  hath  any  regard  to  the  honour,  interest  or  safety 
of  his  Country,  to  endeavour  the  reduction  of  that  country., 
att  any  rate,  and  those  arguments  arising  so  naturally  from 
two  of  the  first  and  great  principles,  which,  are  born  almost 
with  all  mankind,  will  need  but  very  little  enforcing,  and  are 
these,  self-interest  and  self-preservation,  both  Which  to  a  demon- 
stration plead  for  the  reduction  of  this  place,  etc.  For  consider 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  47 

1708 

how  much  that  Colony  endarnrnages  the  Brittish  interest  over  all 
America,  as  well  as  upon  the  Continent.  In  order  to  which, 
we  must  first  consider  ye  complexness  of  their  commerce,  and 
how  much  the  disturbance  of  the  trade  of  the  Continent  affects 
all  the  Brittish  Colonyes  in  America,  which  will  easily  appear 
by  considering  their  dependance  upon  the  same,  as  in  the 
following  particulars.  There  is  no  Island  the  Brittish  possess 
in  the  West  Indies  that  is  capable  of  subsisting  without  the 
assistance  of  the  Continent,  for  to  them  we  transport  their 
bread,  drink  and  almost  all  the  necessaryes  of  humane  life, 
their  cattle  and  horses  for  cultivating  their  plantations,  lumber 
and  staves  of  all  sorts  to  make  casks  of  for  their  rumra,  sugar 
and  molosses,  without  which,  they  could  have  none,  ships  to 
transport  their  goods  to  the  European  marketts,  nay,  in  short, 
the  very  houses  tiiey  inhabitt  are  carryed  over  in  frames, 
together  with  the  shingles  that  cover  them,  in  so  much  that 
their  very  being,  much  more  well  being,  depends  almost  intirely 
upon  the  Continent.  And  now  that  we  have  made  itt  evidently 
appear  that  the  interest  of  the  whole  British  Empire  in  America, 
is  inseparably  linkt  with  that  of  the  Continent,  itt  remains  next 
to  consider  how  much  damage  the  Colony  yearly  doe  the  said 
Brittish  Continent,  in  ruining  and  obstructing  their  trade,  the 
expence  they  occasion  the  same  by  the  warr,  besides  the  loss 
of  people,  every  one  of  whom  are  vastly  valuable,  in  so  new 
and  trading  Colonyes.  To  make  this  more  evidently  appear, 
lett  us  consider  the  particular  Governments  which  suffer  mostly 
by  them  (though  indeed  all  the  Brittish  Continent  doe  con- 
siderably already,  and  are  ere  long  like  to  doe  more),  but  to 
come  to  particulars,  New  York  and  the  Jerseyes  have  of  late, 
by  means  of  the  french  seducing  over  to  them  a  great  part  of 
the  five  Nations  (who  have  so  long  been  in  league  with  the  Crown 
of  Brittain),  and  are  known  by  the  nam'es  of  Senecas,  Makuas, 
Onondagos,  Cajugas  and  Oneidas,  the  french  Missionaryes,  who 
swarm  among  them,  have  carryed  over,  both  to  the  French 
interest  and  religion,  a  great  many  of  them,  and  with  them  the 
furr  trade,  which  was  formerly  so  valuable  and  profitable  to 
those  Colonyes  of  the  Brittish,  that  merchants  now  in  London., 
who  lived  there  20  years  agoe,  say  there  used  to  be  exported 
from  thence  yearly  about  £50,000  value  in  beaver  and  other  furrs, 
this  they  have  not  only  almost  intirely  lost,  but  are  utt  a  vast 
expence,  both  of  blood  and  treasure,  to  defend  their  frontiers 
from  the  insults  of  those  troublesome  neighbours,  so  that  the 
expence  the  Crown  and  Country  is  att  yearly  in  maintaining  of 
troops  and  garrisons,  as  well  regular  as  Country  militia,  the 
presents  and  charges  of  cultivating  a  friendshipp"  with  the  above 
named  five  Nations,  building  and  repairing  fortifications,  and 
furnishing  stores  of  warr,  amounts  yearly  to  above  620,000, 
besides  the  vast  loss  the  inhabitants  sustain,  who  have  any 
settlements  upon  the  frontiers,  being  obliged  wholly  to  abandon 
the  same,  and  leave  them  desolute  and  uninhabited,  and  what 
further  yett  affects  the  trade  (besides  the  raising  the  price  of 
all  provisions,  by  the  desertion  of  many  of  the  most  fertile 


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1708. 

plantations)  the  pressing  of  men  to  serve  on  the  frontiers 
renders  all  labour  so  much  the  dearer,  especially  sailors,  in-so- 
much  that  the  wages  of  an  ordinary  sailor  to  goe  to  the  West 
Indies  in  any  of  the  mercht.  shipps  is  att  least  £4  10s.  or 
£5  per  month,  all  which  att  last  must  in  some  measure  .come 
upon  the  purchasers  of  their  goods  in  the  West  Indies.  So 
that  I  think  I  will  undertake  to  demonstrate  that  the  Colonyes 
of  New  York  and  Jerseys  suffer  yearly,  what  with  the  loss  of 
trade,  expences  of  the  warr,  desertion  of  plantations,  scarcity 
of  labourers  and  sailors,  all  which  is  alenerly  f?  annually']' 
occasioned  by  the  French  att  least  £50,000.  Next  to  them 
along  shoar,  North  East,  is  Connecticout,  a  Propriety  Govern- 
ment, which  also  borders  with  the  french,  and  feels  sufficiently 
the  effects  of  their  ill  neighbourhood,  in  so  much,  that  the 
very  expences  they  are  att  yearly,  for  the  payment  of  their 
men,  whom  they  are  obliged  to  keep  in  arms  upon  their  frontiers, 
cost  them  £7,000,  while  thje  loss  they  sustained  in  their  trade, 
by  tho  want  of  those  people's  labour,  amounted  to  three  times 
that  sume,  they  being  obliged,  not  only  to  lay  waste  and  leave 
uncultivated  a  great  many  of  their  frontier  plantations,  but 
to  neglect  their  making  of  pitch,  tarr,  rosin  and  turpentine, 
which  that  Country  produces  in  great  quantity,  and  which  are 
so  much  the  interest  of  the  Crown  to  encourage,  as  appears 
by  the  Act  of  Parliament  for  that  effect.  So  that  itt  can 
easily  be  made  appear  that  this  small  Propriety  Country,  by 
a  modest  computation,  suffers  yearly  in  expence  and  obstruction 
of  trade,  the  loss  of  att  least  £20,000,  besides  their  losses  oc- 
casion'd  by  the  coasting  privateers  from  Port  Eoyall  and  Qui- 
beck.  But  to  give  the  finishing  stroke  to  all,  and  shew  un- 
ajnswerable  arguments  for  reducing  Canada  at  any  rate,  lett 
us  only  consider  New  England,  a  country  of  att  least  ten  times 
the  trade  of  all  forementioned  Colonyes,  and  whose  loss  doe 
more  then  exceed  their  proportion  to  thie  same.  New  England 
is  so  well  situate  for  trade,  both  with  respect  to  the  conveniency 
of  its  harbours,  the  commodityes  itt  affords  for  commerce,  the 
healthyness  of  the  climate,  which  with  the  genius  of  the  people 
calculate  to  improve  all  those  advantages,  have  rendred  itt  a 
place  of  vast  trade  and  buisiness,  for  besides  that  the  inland 
country  affords  great  quantityes  of  all  sorts  of  provisions,  horses., 
cattell,  and  lumber,  fitt  to  be  transported  to  the  West  Indies  and 
elsewhere,  the  maritime  parts  affords  an  immense  quantity  of 
timber  fitt  for  shipping,  masts  and  all  navall  stores,  which  they 
have  not  fail'd  to  improve  to  the  best  advantage,  for  they 
yearly  build  some  hundreds  of  vessells,  while  their  sea  costs, 
which  are  wonderfully  rich!  in  fish  of  all  sorts,  affords  them 
advantageous  cargos  to  load  them  withall.  But  of  late  years, 
the  disturbance  they  have  mett  with'al,  in  every  part  of  their 
commerce,  from  their  troublesome  neighbours  the  french,  hath 
been  of  so  fatall  consequence,  that  itt  hath  almost  intirely 
ruined  that  Country,  and  must  ere  long  inevitably  doe  so,  if 
some  remydy  be  not  quickly  afforded  them.  For  besides  the 
ravaging  the  frontiers,  burning  their  uttermost  towns  and  settle- 


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1708. 

rnents.  murdering  and  carrying  away  captives  ye  inhabitants 
by  the  french,  and  their  unexpressably  savage  accomplices,  the 
Indians,  who  have  no  compassion  on  either  sex  or  age,  nor 
are  they  bounded  by  any  laws  of  reason  or  religion,  but  do 
exercise  all  manner  of  barbarityes  upon  their  prisoners  of  all 
sorts,  long  after  quarter  is  given,  those  unparalelled  hostilityes 
not  only  lay  waste  the  uttermost  parts  of  this  country,  but 
occasion  a  constant  expence  and  trouble  of  keeping  a  con- 
siderable force  upon  the  frontiers,  who,  after  all,  are  not  able 
to  prevent  frequent  irruptions  of  the  barbarous  enemy,  who 
are  favoured  in  their  enterprises  by  the  thickness  and  im- 
passableness  of  the  woods,  with  which  they  are  well  accustomed. 
These  and  the  like  reasons  have  rendred  uninhabited  one  of  the 
best  and  most  fertile  countryes  upon  all  the  Continent,  com- 
monly called  the  Eastern  Country,  from  its  situation  with  regard 
to  Boston,  where  formerly  the  English  had  both  garrisons 
and  very  thriving  plantations,  "but  by  the  disturbance  they  mett 
withall  from  their  neighbours,  the  french  att  Port  Roy  all,  they 
have  been  forced  at  last  totally  abandon  the  same.  And 
though  the  loss  of  the  country  and  its  produce  was  very  con- 
siderable, yett  was  the  smallest  part  that  attended  the  deserting 
of  that  country,  for  by  itt  they  have  not  only  lost  a  verry 
considerable  furr  trade,  which  was  caryed  on  in  that  Country 
while  the  English  possest  itt,  which  is  now  wholly  gone  over 
to  the  french,  but  what  was  yett  of  more  consequence  by  farr, 
and  was  justly  reckoned  the  chief  branch  of  the  New  England 
trade,  their  fishery  is  quite  ruined  by  itt,  for  whereas  they 
had  many  hundreds  of  vessells,  who  formerly  both  catched  and 
made  their  fish  along  this  shore,  they  are  now,  by  the  french 
(and  Indians  instigated  by  'them)  almost  wholly  debared  this 
trade,  to  the  unexpressible  loss  of  New  England  in  particular, 
and  all  the  English  Islands  in  generall,  who  used  to  be  supplyed 
from  thence  with  codd  and  mackrell,  in  great  quantities,  and 
att  low  rates  for  the  subsistance  of  themselves  and  slaves,  the 
considerations  of  all  those  hardships  they  lay  under  made  that 
Governmt.  undertake  two  expeditions  last  summer  against  Port 
Royall,  which  both  proved  unsuccessfull  for  want  of  Officers 
of  conduct  and  some  regular  troops,  and  cost  the  country 
£20,000  expence,  besides  double  that  loss  in  a  total  sist  of  trade 
for  the  time,  and  now  the  french,  as  I  am  credibly  inform'd, 
having  go'tt  a  reinforcement  from  france,  both  of  men  and 
ammunition,  resolve  to  return  the  blow  upon  the  little  province 
of  Main,  which  they  are  no  ways  capacitate  to  resist,  and 
which,  being  the  magazine  from  whence  the  Crown  hath  masts, 
timber  and  other  navall  stores,  will  make  the  loss  generall  to 
Brittain,  as  well  as  particular  to  that  place.  But  to  sume 
up  the  whole,  I  believe  itt  will  plainly  appear  to  any  considering 
person,  that  the  loss,  expence  and  detriment  in  trade,  (besides 
the  barbarous  murthers  of  many  persons)  sustain'd  by  the 
English  upon  the  Continent  in  America  from  the  french  who 
inhabitt  the  same  Continent,  amounts  to  severall  hundred  thou- 
sand pounds  yearly,  and  must  in  time,  as  the  french  grow 

Wt.  11322.  CP  t 


50  COLONIAL  PAPEKS. 

1708. 

more  numerous,  be  vastly  more,  for  by  their  situation,  the 
french  have  sourrounded  and  hemmed  in  betwixt  them  and  the 
sea,  all  the  English  Governments  upon  the  Continent,  so  that 
in  time,  when  they  are  fully  peopled,  as  they  project  in  a 
great  measure  to  be,  after  the  warr  is  over,  by  transporting 
thither  (as  Monsieur  Rodot,  the  present  Intendant  of  Canada, 
told  me  the  french  King  designed),  20,000  men,  who  will  chuse 
rather  to  gain  their  bread  by  hunting  and  gunning,  then  by 
labouring  the  ground.  Should  such  a  thing  happen,  they  may 
easily  in  time  be  able  to  make  the  Brittish  find  use  for  their 
shipping  and  be  forced  to  transport  themselves  elsewhere  and 
leave  their  improvements  to  their  more  powerfull  neighbours, 
and  though  this  should  never  happen,  yett  posterity  will  blame 
us  for  risking  the  same  while  the  remedy  is  so  easily  in  our 
power,  and  the  expence  will  not  amount  to  near  one  half 
of  the  yearly  loss  we  sustain  from  them,  as  will  appear  by 
the  following  scheame,  which  the  author,  who  pretends  to  know 
that  country  as  well  as  any  subject  of  the  Crown,  and  who 
made  itt  his  buismess  to  know,  with  that  designe  of  being 
capable  to  serve  his  country,  engages  to  give  Lin  assistance 
in  putting  the  design  in  execution.  To  effectuate  which  great 
enterprise  (so  vastly  advantageous  to  the  honour  and  interest 
of  the  Crown  and  the  people  of  great  Brittain  and  itts  Empire 
in  the  west  Indies  and  North  America),  there  would  need  no 
more  than  two  battallions  of  regular  Troops  from  Great  Brit- 
tain,  who  would  cost  the  Crown  no  more  expence,  excepting 
their  .provision  and  transportation,  then  thiey  now  doe  in  Scotland, 
where  they  are  idle,  nor  more  men  of  warr  for  thieir  convoy  and 
protection  than  are  ordinarly  employed  in  attending  the  Colonyes 
of  New  York,  New  England,  or  conveying  home  the  Virginia 
fleets,  which  they  might  likeways  doe  in  the  fall  after  that 
expedition  was  over.  With  those  two  battalions  and  six  men 
of  warr  joyned  from  New  England  with  1000  of  their  best  men, 
which  they  will  readily  furnish  and  transport  by  sea  to  goe 
directly  to  Quibeck  about  the  latter  end  of  May,  or  beginning  of 
June,  fitted  with  bombs,  mortars  and  one  or  two  bomb  ketches, 
while  a  fbody  of  1500  men  from  Nework,  Jersey  and  Connecticout, 
which  they  would  readily  furnish,  marched  by  land  being  joyn'd 
by  our  five  Nations  of  Indians  directly  to  Montreal,  with  which! 
number  they  would  hardly  fail  of  takeing  that  place,  and  att 
least  preventing  their  regular  troops,  who  are  mostly  quartered 
thereabouts,  from  coming  to  the  assistance  of  Quibeck,  which, 
by  cutting  off  the  inhabitants  of  the  Isle  of  Orleans  from  joyning 
them,  which  might  be  done  by  sending  two  nimble,  well  raann'd 
sloops  up  thither  before  the  fleet  came  in  sight,  and  as  itt 
is  almost  humanely  impossible  the  town  could  hold  out,  being 
attacqued  att  three  different  places  att  once  upon  the  side  to 
the  water,  where  itt  hath  no  walls,  and  could  not  have  any 
great  number  to  defend  itt,  while  the  fireing  their  houses  by 
the  bombs  would  employ  many  of  them  to  quench;  itt,  upon 
taking  of  which  two  towns  of  Quibeck  and  Montreal,  all  the  rest 
of  their  forts  and  settlemts.  would  fall  of  course  into  the  hands 


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of  the  Crown,  and  will  not  only  afford  a  booty  to  the  captors 
farr  exceeding  all  the  expence  of  the  undertaking,  but  infinitely 
advance  the  commerce  of  the  Brittish  over  all  America,  and 
particularly  make  them  sole  masters  of  the  furr,  fish  and  navall 
stores  trade  over  all  the  Continent,  and  H.M.  sole  Soveraign 
of  the  North  Continent  of  America,  and  of  hundreds  of  nations 
of  new  subjects,  who  will  become  intirely  obedient  to  her  laws, 
when  they  have  no  preists  to  poyson  them,  nor  no  rivall  Monarch 
to  debauch  them  from  her  interest  and  make  Canada  a  noble 
Colony,  exactly  calculate  for  the  constitutions  and  genius  of 
the  most  Northern  of  the  North  Brittains.  Being  therefore 
fully  perswaded  that  nothing  but  the  want  of  a  trew  state  and 
information  of  the  vast  disadvantages  the  french  Governmt.  of 
Canada  occasions  to  the  commerce  of  Brittain,  and  the  easiness 
of  its  being  reduced  to  the  subjection  of  that  Crown,  hath  been 
the  reason  why  our  Ministers  of  State,  who  have  so  wisely  and 
successfully  manag'd  the  great  affairs  of  the  Nation,  have  never 
put  this  project  in  execution,  I  doubt  not  but  upon  their  having 
maturely  considered  the  above  reasons,  they  will  fall  upon  such 
methods  as  their  greater  wisdom  shall  think  fitt  for  remeding 
all  the  aforesaid  grievances  occasioned  by  the  said  Colony  of 
french,  towards  which,  the  author  shall  be  alwayes  most  ready 
to  contribute  what  further  information  and  assistance  he  is 
capable  of,  then  whom  none  is  a  more  intirely  devoted  servant 
to  the  Crown  and  interest  of  great  Brittain.  [?  by  Capt. 
Vetch,  cf.  Aug.  4.  Ed.~\  Endorsed,  Reed,  from  Capt.  Vetch, 
Read  July  27,  1708.  11£  pp. 
Annexed, 

60.  i.  Abstract   of  preceding,   If   pp.      [C.O.    323,   6.     Nos. 

64,  64. i.  ;  and  (duplicate}  Nos.  65,  65. i. ;  and  324,  9. 
pp.  221-246.] 

61.  Mr.   Taylour  to  Mr.    Popple.     Enclose  following.    My 
Lord  Treasurer  desires  the  opinion  of  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations,    whether   they   think  it  necessary  to  have  this  office 
and  salary  continued.     Signed,   Jo.    Taylour.     Endorsed,   Reed. 
Read  July  30,  1708.     Addressed.  ±  p. 

Enclosed, 

61.  i.  John  Rayner  to  the  Lord  High  Treasurer.     Prays  to 

be  allowed  £150  per  annum  as  Attorney  General  of 
New  Yorke  and  £75  advanced  for  his  voyage,  as  in  the 
case  of  S.  Broughton.  1  p.  \G.O.  5,  1049.  Nos.  88, 
88.i.  ;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  312-314.] 

62.  List  of  fishing-boats  and  seamen  sailed  from  Chichester 
to    the    Newfoundland    Fishery,    Midsummer     1707-1708.      Nil. 
Signed,  Hen.  Baker,  Collector  etc.     Endorsed,  Reed.   Sept.  29, 
Read  Aug.  4,  1708.     1  p.    [C.O.  194,  4.    A7o.  74.] 


July  29.  63.     The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  Governor  Crowe.     I  write 

Whitehall,     this  at  the  desire  of  Mr.  Robert  Harmsworth,  the  last  patentee 

in   the  office  of   Clerk  of  the   Markets   in   Barbadoes,    who  has 


52 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 

some  moneys  arising  out  of  the  profits  of  his  place  lying  in 
the  hands  of  Mr.  Raynes  Bate,  which  you  make  some  difficulty  of 
suffering  Mr.  Bate  to  remitt  to  him,  not  being  well  satisfyed, 
it  seems,  of  his  having  such  a  patent.  I  can  assure  you,  that 
he  had  it  and  about  Feb.  last  resigned  it  to  Mr.  Meckaskell, 
etc.  Signed,  Sunderland.  [C.O.  5,  210.  p.  111.] 

July  29.  64.     Same   to   Governor  Lord   Lovelace.     Encloses   Address 

Whitehall.  Of  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  New  Jersey,  complaining  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  General  Assembly  there.  It  is  H.M.  pleasure 
that  upon  your  arrival  there  you  enquire  into  the  matter  of 
fact  and  send  me  an  account  thereof  as  it  shall  appear  to  you, 
that  I  (may  lay  the  same  before  the  Queen.  [C.O.  5,  210.  p.  112.] 

July  29.  65.     The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 

Whitehall.     Plantations.     Encloses  following  for  their  report.     Signed,  Sun- 
derland.    Endorsed,  Reed.  July  29.,  Read  Aug.  3,  1708.     £  p. 
Enclosed, 
65. 
65. 

to  the  Queen,  Portsmouth,  N.E.  Oct.  22,  1707.  Not- 
withstanding his  late  Majestie  was  gratiously  pleased 
to  send  a  supply  of  artillery  and  ammunition  for  your 
Majesties  Fort  at  Great  Island,  since  which  the  great 
expence  of  rebuilding  said  Fort,  and  constant  keeping 
of  men  in  pay  for  the  better  defence  of  this  your 
Majesties  province  towards  the  sea;  together  with  the 
extraordinary  charge  of  defending  the  frontiers  by  land 
against  the  Indian  Rebels,  assisted  by  the  French  from 
Canada  and  Port  Royal,  has  reduced  your  Majesties 
poor  subjects  to  a  great  distresse,  many  of  whome 
have  been  necessitated  to  remove,  by  which  our  number 


.  Copy  of  Memorial  of  Geo.  Vaughan,  June  1,  1708,  q.v. 
ii.  Address  of  Council  and  Assembly  of  New  Hampshire 


and    strength 


lessend,    cannott    provide    for    their 


65. 


families,  but  with  hazard  of  their  lifes,  many  ffeilds 
lying  untild,  unlesse  such  as  are  under  covert  of  the 
Garrisons.  At  present  wee  labour  under  a  great  want 
of  good  small  armes  and  ammunition,  which  are  daily 
waisted  and  lost  in  the  wildernesse,  in  persuite  of 
the  Enemy.  And  by  reason  of  our  poverty  cannot  be 
supplyed.  Your  Majesties  petitioners  therefor  most 
humbly  pray  of  your  most  Excellent  Majestie,  that 
of  your  Majesties  Royal  bounty  they  may  be  supplyed 
with  such  a  quantity  of  small  arms  of  several  sorts, 
and  ammunition  proper  for  them,  as  well  as  for  the 
great  Ordinance  at  your  Majesties  Fort,  which  will  at 
all  times  be  thriftily  expended  for  the  defence  of  your 
Majestie's  good  subjects  etc.  Signed,  Charles  Story, 
Secretary  }  John  Pickerin,  Speaker.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
July  29,  Read  Aug.  3,  17,  1708.  1  p. 
iii.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  New  Hampshire  to  the 
Queen.  [Portsmouth,  Feb.  [  ],  1707.]  Our  Ancestors 
and  Predecessors  weare  eighty  years  past  comeing  over 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  o3 

1708. 

from  England,  and  issueing  out  from  the  neighbouring 
Colonies,  and  by  and  with  their  concurrence  and  en- 
couragement peaceably  and  in  a  publick  manner, 
entred  and  sett  downe  upon  the  now  inhabited  lands 
of  this  Province,  and  which  were  not  onely  thien  Vacuum 
domicilium,  but  a  miserable  desert  and  surrounded 
with  the  barbarous  salvages,  from  whose  Sachims  our 
Ancestors  all  along  informed  and  assured  us  the  said 
lands  were  honestly  and  justly  purchased  for  their 
use.  Wee  and  our  Ancestors  through  the  great  mercy 
of  Almighty  God,  by  the  expence  of  our  Treasure  and 
the  swett  of  our  brows,  have  now  turned  this  wildernesse 
into  a  fruitful  feild.  Wee  have  with  the  expence  of 
our  lifes  and  estates  defended  this  your  Majesties 
Province  in  New  England  in  two  long  and  distressing 
warrs,  against  the  barbarous  salvages  assisted  by  the 
French  King's  subjects,  and  which  wee  are  yett  en- 
gaged in,  and  must  have  suffered  very  much  were  wee 
not  encouraged  and  protected  by  the  great  and  constant 
care  and  vigilance  of  his  Excellency  our  Governor  end 
the  assistance  of  his  other  Government  both  as  to 
men  and  mony.  By  the  deligent  industry  and  expence 
of  your  Majesties  loyal  subjects,  wee  have  soe  improved 
this  your  Majesties  Countrey  that  the  trade  thereof  is 
become  very  considerable  and  of  great  importance  fnd 
advantage  to  your  Majestie  and  your  people  of  Great 
Brittaine.  All  this  has  been  done  without  the  least 
aid  or  assistance  imaginable  of  Mr.  Mason,  or  those 
that  succeed  him  in  their  pretended  claime  to  this 
Countrey.  The  possessions  and  estates  of  this  Province 
have  been  bought  and  sold,  and  have  descended  from 
family  to  family  for  now  neare  70  years  together,  and 
except  it  be  a  very  few  of  the  inhabitants,  is  all  they 
have  in  the  world.  Notwithstanding  ["  ]  the  Gov- 

ernour's  interposition,  who  endeavoured  to  ["  ]  the 

differences    [  ]    from   any    difference    of   our   own 

right,  wee  made  overtures  to  an  Agreement,  but  Mr. 
[Allen's']  death  prevented  any  further  proceedings  there- 
in. If  your  Majesties  most  loyal  subjects  of  this 
your  Majesties  Province  may  by  your  Majesties  Royal 
favour  be  confirmed  and  encouraged  in  the  possession 
and  enjoyment  of  what  they  have  acquired  soe  just  a 
right  to,  "and  may  yett  be  protected  and  defended  from 
the  unreasonable  and  unjust  [c/a]ime  and  demand  of 
Mr.  Allen,  which  they  confidently  promise  themselves, 
from  the"  late  instance  of  your  Majesties  great  justice 
done  them  in  the  same  case,  when  Mr.  Allen  appealed 
from  a  judgment  of  your  Superiour  Court  here  to 
your  Majestie  in  Council,  where  judgment  was  affirmed 
in  favour  of  the  inhabitants,  and  hereby  your  sacred 
Majestic  will  not  onely  have  the  grateful  acknowledg- 
ment of  your  Majesties  most  loyal  and  dutiful  subjects, 


COLONIAL  PAPERS.      '! 

1708. 

in  this  your  Majesties  Province,  but  your  Majestie 
and  your  people  in  all  places  will  reap  the  benefitt  and 
advantage  thereof  in  the  increase  of  the  Trade  of  this 
Countrey  by  a  greater  supply  of  your  Majesties  Navy. 
Pray  for  the  consideration  of  their  case,  etc.  Signed 
and  endorsed  as  preceding.  Torn.  1  p. 
65.  iv.  Address  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  New  Hamp- 
shire to  the  Queen,  Portsmouth,  N.E.  Oct.  22,  1707. 
Since  our  late  Addresse,  wee  are  surprised  with  advise 
from  England  that  several  disaffected  persons,  have 
petitioned  your  Majestie  for  the  remove  of  Colonel 
Dudley,  our  present  Governour,  for  male-administration, 
which  wee  are  well  assured  was  done  out  of  a  perticuler 
pique  by  the  principal  of  the  said  petitioners,  who 
drew  in  others  to  subscribe  that  knew  nothing  of 
Col.  Dudley,  nor  had  any  ffamilies  or  concerns  in 
New  England.  And  wee  admire  the  more  thereat, 
for  that  your  Majestie  had  then  received  an  Addresse 
from  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  this  Province, 
humbly  representing  the  great  care  and  good  conduct  of 
Col.  Dudley  in  the  Government  thereof  both  as  to  the 
warr  as  well  as  Civil  administration.  And  wee  are 
humbly  bold  to  lett  your  Majestie  know  that  wee  are 
still  of  the  same  opinion,  haveing  daily  instances  of 
his  indefatigable  paines  for  the  defence  of  the  ffrontiers 
against  the  French  and  Indian  enemy,  who  by  his 
prudent  fforesight  and  good  intelligence  which  he  has 
alwayes  gained  of  the  enemies  motion,  and  where  they 
designed  to  make  an  attack,  has  sent  seasonable  releife 
soe  as  that  their  designes  have  been  totally  defeated, 
and  your  Majestie's  good  subjects  and  their  estates 
thereby  preserved.  Wee  therefore  most  humbly  pray 
that  'the  malitious  insinuations  of  a  few  male-contents 
may  have  noe  impression  upon  your  Majestie  to  the 
prejudice  of  Col.  Dudley,  but  that  if  it  consists  with 
your  Majestie's  good  pleasure,  he  may  still  be  con- 
tinued in  his  Government.  Whereby  wee  firmly  beleive 
your  Majestie's  Honour,  the  interest  of  the  Crown,  and 
the  welfare  and  prosperity  of  your  good  subjects  here 
will  be  better  promoted  than  by  another  person  not 
soe  well  acquainted  with  the  affaires  of  this  Countrey. 
Wee  render  our  most  sincere  thanks  to  Almighty  God 
for  the  successes  of  your  Majesties  victorious  armes, 
and  the  happy  Union  of  your  Majesties  Kingdome  of 
great  Brittaine,  which  will  for  ever  advance  your 
Majestie's  Glory  and  tend  to  the  ruine  of  the  Enemy 
of  the  repose  of  Europe.  Signed  and  endorsed  as 
preceding.  1  p. 

65.  v.  Address  from  the  Justices,  Officers  of  the  Militia, 
Merchants,  etc.  of  New  Hampshire  to  H.M.  Similar 
to  preceding,  in  favour  of  Governor  Dudley.  Signed, 
Jnc.  Walker,  Clement  Hughes,  Jno.  Cutts,  R.  Wibird, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


55 


1708. 

Samll.  Allcock,  John  Janurirde,  B.  Gambling,  Jonathan 
Thing,  Jacob  Green,  Geo.  Jaffrey,  Obediah  Mors, 
Richard  Gerrish,  Sampson  Sheafe,  Joseph  Smith,  John 
Knight,  Winthrop  Hilton,  John  Gillman,  Robert  Coffin, 
Jno.  Low,  Samll.  Hartt,  Moses  Leavitt,  David  Levans, 
Thomas  Wilson,  Isaac  Green,  Joshua  Winget,  Thomas 
Tebbetts,  Shed.  Walton,  Nath.  Hill,  Josh.  Peirce, 
Tobias  Langdon,  John  Sherburn,  James  Gillman,  Henry 
Gillman,  Richd.  Waldron,  Geo.  Vaughan,  Thomas 
Phipps,  Ichabod  Plaisted,  Theo.  Atkinson,  Theophilus 
Dudley,  Samuel  Calcot,  sen.,  Jno.  Tuttle.  Endorsed  as 
preceding.  1  p. 

65.  vi.  Address  of  the  Ministers  of  New  Hampshire  to  the 
Queen.  As  preceding,  in  favour  of  Governor  Dudley. 
Signed,  Jno.  Cotton,  Minister  of  Hampton ;  Nathl. 
Rogers,  Portsmouth;  John  Pike,  Dover;  John  Buss, 
Oyster  River ;  John  Emerson,  Newcastle ;  Theophilus 
Cotton,  Minister  9f  the  Isles ;  John  Odlin,  Exeter. 
Same  endorsement.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  864.  Nos.  235, 
235.  i — vi ;  and  (without  enclosures)  5,  913.  p.  1.] 

July  30.  66.     W.   Popple  to  W.    Lowndes.     Reply  to  Mr.    Taylour's 

Whitehall,  letter,  July  27.  Quotes  Representation  and  Order  of  Council 
Dec.  14,  1699  [C.S.P.  1699.  Nos.  1061,  1062].  The  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations  are  of  opinion  that  all  the  reasons, 
mentioned  in  the  said  Representation  for  an  Attorney  General 
for  New  Yorke  (except  that  relating  to  pirates)  do  still  subsist, 
and  particularly  that  of  illegall  trade;  and  therefore  they  cannot 
but  think  it  necessary  the  said  office  and  salary  be  continued. 
[C.O  5,  1121.  pp.  315,  316]. 

July  30.  67.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 

Whitehall,  derland.  Enclose  following  for  H.M.  signature  (Cf  June  26, 
1708). 

67.  i.  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor  Handasyd.  Where- 
as diverse  merchants  and  planters,  traders  to  and 
inhabitants  of  Our  Island  of  Jamaica,  in  behalf  of 
themselvs  and  others  Our  subjects  in  Our  said  Island, 
have  made  complaint  to  Us  of  severall  unjust  and 
vexatious  proceedings  obtained  there,  and  that  :;everal 
writs  of  escheat  have  issued  out  of  Our  Supream  Court  of 
Judicature  in  Our  said  Island,  for  trying  the  complain- 
ants' title  to  their  lands  and  negroes,  notwithstanding 
they  have  held  and  enjoyed  the  same  many  years,  and 
that  when  judgment  was  given  for  Us  upon  such  writts, 
the  said  lands  and  negroes  have  been  granted  by  you, 
Our  Governor,  to  the  Prosecutors  and  Informers,  and 
whereas  such  proceedings  is  contrary  to  Our  former 
Instruction  to  you,  etc.  (quoted),  and  whereas  your 
breach  thereof  does  give  incouragement  to  groundless  and 
vexatious  suits  against  our  subjects  in  Our  said  Island, 
on  account  of  escheats  or  forfeitures,  to  the  disquieting 


56  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

the  minds  of  Our  said  subjects,  a  due  protection  and 
enjoyment  of  whose  property  is  necessary  to  the  well 
carrying  on  the  trade  of  that  Our  Island  so  beneficial 
to  this  Our  Kingdome.  It  is  therefore  Our  will  and 
pleasure,  that  you  do  not  molest  the  complainants  or 
any  other  Our  subject  in  Our  said  Island,  on  account 
of  escheats  or  forfeitures  of  lands  or  negroes,  without 
good  and  sufficient  grounds  for  your  so  doing ;  and 
that  whenever  any  lands  or  negroes  shall  be  adjudged 
escheat  or  forfeit  to  Us,  you  do  under  pain  of  our 
highest  displeasure,  strictly  observe  Our  foresaid  In- 
struction to  you  in  that  behalf,  in  forbearing  to  make 
any  grant  of  such  escheat  or  forfeiture  to  any  person 
or  persons  whatsoever  till  you  shall  have  given  Us  an 
account  o'f  all  escheats  or  forfeitures  so  adjudged,  by 
the  first  opportunity  that  shall  offer,  after  such  judge- 
ment given,  and  that  you  shall  have  received  Our  Roy  all 
pleasure.  [C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  302-305]. 

Aug,  2.  68.     Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

Jamaica.  tations.  I  am  now  favoured  with  your  Lordships'  of  Aprill  15, 
the  duplicate  of  which  I  received  by  the  last  packett.  I  gave 
a  tshort  account  in  my  last  of  the  misbehaviour  of  the  two 
Captains  of  the  men  of  war  that  were  with  Mr.  Wager  when 
he  engaged  the  Galleons,  since  which  they  have  been  brought 
to  a  triall  and  are  broke,  which  in  my  opinion  is  a  very 
[favourable  sentence ;  but  what  the  evidences  made  out  against 
them  I  am  a  stranger  to,  any  otherwise  than  by  common 
vogue.  I  am  informed  that  Monsr.  Du  Cass  sailed  from  the 
Havanna  July  4  or  5,  with  the  fflota  and  merchant  ships 
richly  laden,  under  convoy  of  9  men  of  war,  which  are  but 
indifferently  man'd,  consisting  in  all  of  50  sail ;  I  hope  our 
British  ffleet  will  meet  with  them  before  they  get  to  their  designed 
port.  The  Vice-Admirall  of  Galleons,  and  the  Spanish  merchant 
ships  are  still  at  Carthagene,  and,  'tis  said,  will  not  sail  this 
year.  Some  trading  sloops  came  from  the  Spanish  coast  5 
or  6  days  ago;  and  there  are  now  going  out  to  Porto  Bell 
10  or  12  sloops  under  convoy  of  2  men  of  warr,  with  the 
manufactures  of  great  Britain,  and  the  prize  goods  lately  brought 
in  here.  Our  men  of  war,  which  I  gave  your  Lops,  an  account 
of  in  my  last,  were  sent  to  Porto  Rico,  in  hopes  to  intercept 
some  Spanish  and  French  ships  tftat  were  arrived  there  from 
France  and  Old  Spain,  are  returned  without  meeting  with  them, 
they  being  gone  before  so  far  to  Leeward,  that  they  were  out 
of  their  reach.  I  am  very  uneasy  to  think  of  the  misfortunes 
that  will  attend  our  men  of  war  here,  if  there  is  not  care 
taken  to  send  supplys  of  men,  since  the  last  Act  of  Parliament 
has  deprived  them  of  all  other  means  of  having  any  here. 
They  want  now  300  men,  and  every  day  men  are  dying,  besides 
other  accidents  that  happen,  as  desertion.  All  the  help  I 
am  able  to  give  them  is  to  spare  them  men  out  of  H.M. 
Regiment  under  my  command,  which  I  shall  constantly  do  as 


I 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  57 

1708. 

long   as   I  have  a  man,   since  it  is  still   for  the  good  of  H.M'. 
service,  and  I  hope  your  Lops,  will  approve  of  it. 

P.S.  This  should  have  been  sent  by  the  Dunkirk's  prize 
but  she  did  not  sail,  as  was  expected.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  18th,  Read  19th  April,  1709.  Holograph.  2  pp. 
[C.O.  137,  8.  No.  37;  and  138,  12.  pp.  391-393]. 

Aug.  2.  69.     Mr.    Dummer   to   Mr.    Popple.     Gives    sailings    of   the 

London.  Antego  packet-boat,  120  days  out  and  home.  Account  of  Com- 
modore Wager's  engagement,  May  28.  It  began  a  litle  before 
sunsett.  An  hour  after,  the  Spanish  Admirall,  El  Conde  de  Cassa, 
Allegra,  Commander  blew  up,  and  but  10  or  12  men  saved ; 
the  Rear  Admirall  was  taken  by  the  Commodore,  being  a  ship 
of  54  brass  gunns,  very  richly  laden.  Sunday,  May  30th,  ye 
Vice-Admirall  was  chased  among  the  rocks  of  Cartagena.  June 
5th  ono  of  the  capitall  galleons  was  put  on  shoar  on  the  litle 
brow  on  the  coast,  and  was  fired  by  the  Spanyards.  There 
are  very  great  complaints  against  privateering  on  the  coast, 
which  will  infallibly  destroy  all  our  correspondence  with  the 
Spanish  West  Indies.  Signed,  E.  Dummer.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  Aug.  3,  1708.  1  p.  [C.O.  323,  6.  No.  68]. 

Aug    3.  70.     Mr.  Heathcote  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

New  York.  Refers  to  his  proposals  concerning  Naval  Stores.  What  in  the 
first  place  I  aimed  at  was,  to  have  diverted  the  Americans  from 
goeing  on  with  their  linen  and  wollen  manufactory s,  and  to 
have  turned  their  thoughts  on  such  things  as  might  be  benefitial 
to  Great  Brittan,  they  are  allready  so  far  advanced  in  their 
manufactorys  that  f  of  ye  linen  and  wollen  the[y]  use,  is 
made  amongst  em,  espetially  the  courser  sort,  and  if  some 
speedy  effectual  1  ways  are  not  found  to  putt  a  stop  to  it, 
they  will  carry  it  on  a  great  deal  further,  etc.  I  could  have 
furnished  the  Crown  with  all  the  light  friggatts  that  would 
have  been  wanted  for  this  coast  and  the  West  Indies,  and 
that  without  putting  the  Crown  to  a  new  penny  charge,  etc. 
etc.  Set  out,  New  York  Docs.  V.  pp.  63,  64.  Signed,  Caleb 
Heathcote  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th.,  Read  17th  Dec.,  1708.  2  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  98;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  356,  357]. 

Aug.  4.  71.     Council    of    Trade   and    Plantations    to    Mr.    Secretary 

Whitehall.  Boyle.  Capt.  Vetch,  who  has  lived  many  years  at  New  York, 
and  at  Boston  in  New  England,  and  is  well  acquainted  with 
the  settlements  and  strength  of  the  French  on  the  Northern 
Continent  of  America,  having  delivered  in  to  the  Earl  of  Sunder- 
land.  as  also  to  us,  a  proposal  for  destroying  the  French 
settlements  in  those  parts,  which,  when  done,  will  be  of  great 
benefit  to  this  Kingdom,  both  in  relation  to  its  trade  and  the 
security  of  our  Plantations  on  the  Continent,  as  is  fully  set 
forth  in  the  said  proposal,  we  have  the  same  now  under  con- 
sideration, in  order  to  a  report  to  H.M.  But  the  said  Vetch 
having  acquainted  us  that  he  intends  to  take  the  opportunity 
of  the  Lord  Lovelace's  going  to  New  York,  to  return  to  his 


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1708. 

family  there,  unless  it  be  thought  necessary  that  he  stay  longer 
in  this  Kingdom,  in  order  to  his  better  explaining  his  meaning 
in  the  several  parts  of  his  proposal,  and  to  his  answering1 
any  questions  or  objections  that  may  arise  thereupon,  we  have 
directed  him,  in  the  absence  of  my  Lord  Sunderland,  to  attend 
you  with  a  copy  of  his  said  proposal ;  and  are  of  opinion 
that,  if  the  same  be  approved,  it  will  be  necessary  the  said 
Vetch  do  stay  here  for  the  purposes  aforesaid,  and  therefore 
we  desire  you  will  receive  H.M.  pleasure  as  to  his  going  to 
New  York,  etc.  Autograph  Signatures.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

71.    i.  Copy  of  Capt.  Vetch's  Proposal  for  driving  the  French 

out  of  Canada.    (Of.  July  27.)    15£  pp.     \C.O.  5,  108-1. 

Nos.   37,   37. i. ;   and   (without  enclosure)   324,   9.     pp. 

249,    250.] 

Aug.  4.  72.     Lt.    Governor   Bennett  to   the    Council   of   Trade   and 

Bermuda.  Plantations.  Acknowledges  letter  of  March  25,  received  Aug.  1. 
I  also  on  July  29  had  your  Lordps.'  of  April  30,  (being  duplicate, 
the  originall  not  yet  come  to  hand),  inclosed  by  Mr.  Jones  to 
his  Attorney  Mr.  Daffey,  whom  I  have  told  I  shall  be  always 
ready  upon  refusall,  to  advise  Mr.  Jones  his  tenants  to  pay 
him  their  rent,  and  to  performe  everything  required  of  me 
by  your  Lordps.'  letter.  In  it  is  mentioned  that  the  late  Lords 
Commissioners  wrote  to  me  Aug.  30,  1705,  incerting  that  it  was 
reasonable  Mr.  Jones  his  deputys  here  should  enjoy  one  moiety 
of  the  fees  and  perquisites  of  his  places,  dureing  his  absence. 
Which  letter  I  never  reed.,  perhaps  it  was  inclosed  to  Capt. 
Jones  to  deliver  me  (he  being  att  that  time  here)  and  ais 
reason  for  not  soe  doeing  might  be  to  carry  on  the  designe 
of  makeing  me  accomptable  for  the  whole,  Cor  I  have  been 
often  told,  since  he  went  for  England  he  has  said  (before 
his  departure)  I  was  £500  in  his  debt,  and  doubted  not  to 
make  me  pay  it.  I  hope  rny  packet  of  Feb.  10,  as  also  the 
duplicate  thereof,  etc.  are  arrived.  If  soe,  I  doubt  not  but  your 
Lordps  are  convinced  both  as  to  my  innocency  and  injurys, 
and  that  justice  will  be  done  me  with  reparation  for  the  latter. 
Col.  White  and  Capt.  Tucker  sailed  from  hence  in  the  sloop 
Lyon,  Captain  Edgley  Commander,  on  June  29,  being  bound 
for  Bristol.  Mr.  Castleman,  in  return  to  my  constant  civility 
to  him  whilst  here,  has  wrote  a  most  base  and  reflecting1 
letter,  dated  in  April  last,  to  one  Doctor  Starr,  which  he  has 
shown  to  severall,  and  amongst  the  rest  to  Col.  Trimingham,  of 
H.M.  Council:  the  contents  of  which  are  (leaving  out  the 
scurility),  that  he  intended  to  exhibite  articles  against  me  for 
detaining  his  ship,  which  was  the  occasion  of  her  being  lost, 
he  narrowly  escapeing  with  his  life,  (and  to  confirm  his  mean 
and  ungenerous  designes  and  proceedings)  he  desires  the  Doctor 
and  Capt.  Nelson  to  send  to  him  what  complaints  they  have 
against  me,  that  he  may  annex  them  to  'his,  and  that  what 
letters  they  write  to  be  soe  worded  as  proper  to  lay  before 
the  Board.  My  Lords,  I  did  not  stop  him  nor  his  ship  one 
moment,  nor  acted  any  thing  that  he  seemed  to  take  amiss, 


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1706. 


Aug.  4. 

Beimuda. 


Aug.  4. 

Bermuda. 


and  the  day  he  sail'd,  he  came  by  six  in  the  morning  to 
take  his  leave,  and  returned  me  thanks  for  my  great  civilities 
to  him,  which  again  (after  being  cast  away)  he  acknowledged 
by  his  letter  dated  from  Philadelphia,  May  17,  1705,  a  copy  of 
which  my  brother  has,  and  will  be  produced  when  your  Lordps. 
pleases  to  desire  it.  What  I  pray  of  your  Lordps.  is,  that 
if  Mr.  Castleman  or  any  one  else  should  exhibite  complaints  or 
articles  against  me,  I  may  have  a  copy  of  them,  and  if  I 
can't  justify  myself,  I  shall  willingly  submitt  to  my  fate. 
Signed,  Ben.  Bennett.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  14th,  Eead  17th  Dec., 
1708.  Holograph.  3  pp.  [C.O.  37,  8.  No.  75;  and  08,  6. 
pp.  438-441.'] 

73.  Same  to  same.  The  duplicate  of  your  Lordps.  of  April 
15  (the  original  not  yet  come  to  hand)  concerning  the  trade 
to  Africa,  I  reed,  on  Aug.  2,  and  the  3rd  being  Council  day, 
I  had  that  speedy  opportunity  of  qualifying  myself  to  answer 
what  is  required  therein : 

(1)  No    negroes,    either-  on   the    Royal    African    Company's 
acct.  or  separate  traders,  have  been  imported  into  these  Islands 
directly  from  Africa  since  June  24,  1698  to  Dec.  25,  1707. 

(2)  About    36    years    agoe,    a    small    ship    (her    name    nor 
Capt's.  remembred),  went  from  hence  to  Callebar  on  the  coast  of 
Guiny,  and  brought  back  125  negroes,  near  half  of  whom  were 
disposed  off   here    (but   att  what  prices   I    cannot    le.arn) ;   the 
rest   were    reshipt    for    Carolina    and    Virginia.      Also   ubt.    25 
years  since,  another  ship  went  from  hence  to  Callebar,  comanded 
by   one   Capt.    Stone    (her  name   not   remembred)    and   broug-ht 
back  abt.   90  slaves:   But  most  of  them  was   carry'd  to  North 
Carolina,    Virginia,    and    places    on    the    Continent,    and    there 
disposed  off,   but  att  what  rates  can't   be  mform'd.     And  the 
way  this  plantation  has  been  supplyed  witih  negroes  hath  been 
from  Barbados. 

(3)  Not  one  vessell  is  employed  to  goe  from  this  place  to 
the  coast  of  Africa,  either  on  the  Company's  acct.  or  separate 
trade.     I    shall    carefully   observe    your    Lordps.'    commands    in 
transmitting  half-yearly  accts.  of  negroes,   by  whom  imported, 
and  att  what  rates   sold,   if  any  vessells  arrive   here   from  the 
coast  of  Guiny:  And  as  for  not  haveing  given  an  account  accord- 
ing to  my  Instructions  of  the  number  of  negroes  these   Islands 
are   yearly   supplyed   with,    I    answer;    that   since    my   arrival!,, 
I    have  not   heard  of   any  negroes    being   imported  to   be  sold ; 
this    Country   for   several   years    haveing    been    (by   their   great 
increase)   over  stockt,  which  has  occasioned  many   of  them  to 
be   sent  to  the    Southerne' plantations,    and    Northern   parts   of 
America,   and  there  disposed  of.     Signed,    Ben.    Bennett.    En- 
dorsed as  preceding.     Holograph.     3  pp.    [C.O.  37,  8.      No.  76 ; 
and  38,  6.     pp.  441-443.] 

74.  Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  Mr.  Popple.  Refers  to  Castle- 
man etc.  as  in  No.  72.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
Holograph.  2  pp.  [C.O.  37,  8.  No.  77 ;  and  38,  6.  p.  444.] 


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COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 

Aug.  4.  75.     Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  Mr.  Popple.     Refers  to  former 

Beiii'uda.     letters.     I  have  now  none  to  answer,  etc.     Signed  and  endorsed 

a?  'preceding.     Holograph.     1   p.      [C.O.   37,   8.       A7o.    78;    tnd 

38,  6.     p.  445.] 

Aug    4  76.     Mr.    Secretary    Boyle   to    the    Council    of     Trade     and 

Whitehall.  Plantations.  Encloses  following  for  their  report  to  H.M.  Signed., 
H.  Boyle.  Endorsed,  Reed.  4th,  Read  9th  Aug.,  1708.  'l  p. 
Enclosed, 

76.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Col.  Jones,  Antigua,  March 
9,  170| .  q.v.  1  p.  [C.O.  152,  7.  Nos.  51,  51.i.;  and 
153,  10.  pp.  186,  187.] 


Aug.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  7. 

Boston. 


Aug.  8. 
Wicdsor. 


[Aug.    10.31 


77.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governors  of  Plan- 
tations.    Circular  letter  requiring  annual  accounts  of  Stores  of 
War  to  be  sent  in  pursuance  of  Order  of  July  25,  1708,  upon 
pain   of   H.M.    highest  displeasure.      [C.O.    5,    1362.     pp.    398- 
300;  and  324,  9.     pp.  250-  252;  and  5,  727.     pp.  51-53.] 

78.  Council    of    Trade   and    Plantations    to    Mr.    Secretary 
Boyle.     Communicate  news  contained  in  Governor   Handasyd's 
letter  of  June   17.     1±   pp.     [C.O.    138,    12.    p.    312;  and  318, 
3.     No.  35.] 

79.  Governor    Dudley    to   Mr.    Popple.     Acknowledges    re- 
ceipt  of   letters  of   May   7,    1707    etc.     With  all   solemnity  the 
Union  was  published  at  Boston,  and  a  few  days  after  at  Ports- 
mouth in  New  Hampshire,  and  H.M.  commands  read  in  Council, 
etc.     It  is  a  very  great  accident  if  this  letter  come  safe.  Signed, 
J.   Dudley.      P.S.    Here   are  two   ships   runners  this   comes   in 
one   and   my   letters   to   their   Lordships   of  the   same   date  are 
in  the  other  that  one  may  arrive,  tho  I  hope  for  both.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Oct.  30,  Read  Nov.  10,  1708.     2  pp.     [C.O.   5,  865.  No. 
1;  and  5,  913.  pp.  24-26.] 

80.  Lord  High  Admiral  to  the  Queen.    Having  received  very 
pressing   applications  from  the  merchants  tradeing  to  Jamaica, 
Barbadoes,    Leeward    Islands,    Virginia     and     Portugal,    that    a 
squadron  of  H.M.   ships   may  be   sent  into  the   Soundings   for 
security   of  their  trade   from   the   squadron   gone   to   sea   under 
Monsieur  Du  Gue,  and  ten  or  eleven  ships  having  been  appointed 
to  convoy  the  Queen  of  Portugal  to  Lisbon,  I  humbly  propose 
that  the  remainder  of  tihe  26  ships  under  the  command  of  Sir 
George  Byng  be  forthwith  ordered^  into  the  Soundings,  for  the 
security  of  the   Trades   coming   home,    in  regard  their   convoys 
are    very    weak,    and    that   the    merchant    ships    expected    from 
Jamaica  have  no  convoy  at  all.     Signed,  George.   1^  pp.    [S.P. 
Naval,  7.  under  date.~] 

81.  Col.  Lloyd  to  the  Council  of    Trade    and    Plantations. 
Since  I  had  the  honour  to  wait  on  your  Lordships  last,  I  reed,  a 
letter  from  Brigadier  Genii.   Handasyde,  who  tells  me  he  has 


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1708. 


Aug.  10. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  10. 
Whitehall. 


Aug.  11. 
Whitehall. 


Aug.  11. 

Whitehall. 


Aug    11. 

Whitehall, 


put  a  stop  to  the  intended  escheat  of  my  Negroes,  but  advises 
ine  to  take  such  methods  as  may  prevent  any  accidents  in  case 
of  alteration  of  Governmt.  I,  and  those  whose  Estate  I  possesse, 
have  been  37  years  in  quiet  possession,  nor  doe  I  yet  know 
any  defect  in  my  title;  but  because  there  are  sometimes  extra- 
ordinary proceedings  in  those  remote  country s,  I  humbly  de- 
sire that  your  Lordships  will  represent  the  matter  to  H.M., 
SOB  as  there  may  be  an  order  to  the  Governors  to  doe  what 
my  Agents  in  that  country  shall  desire  ad  corroborandum  titu- 
lum  as  was  donne  in  Mr.  Whitchurch,  his  case.  Signed,  Richd. 
Lloyd.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Read  Aug.  10,  1708.  1  p.  [0.0. 
137,  8.  No.  15 ;  and  138,  12.  p.  313.] 

82.  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle  to  Governor  Lord  Lovelace.     You 
are    to    pass    a    grant    of    glebe-land    not    exceeding    500    acres 
for  the  subsistance  of  Joshua  de  Kocherthall,  etc.     Set  out,  New 
York  Docs.  III.  328.    Signed,  H.  Boyle.  .  [0.0.  5,  210.  p.  112.] 

83.  Council    of    Trade   and    Plantations    to    the    Board    of 
Ordnance.     Enclose  copy  of  account  of  Stores  of  War  at  Barba- 
does.    Of.  May  18,  1708.     [0.0.  29,  11.    p.  287.] 

84:.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Solicitor  General.  The  Lords  Com- 
missioners of  Trade  and  Plantations  having  occasion  to  consult 
you  upon  two  Acts  past  in  the  Leeward  Islands,  they  have 
commanded  me  to  send  you  the  state  of  the  case  as  follows, 
vizt. : — The  8th  Feb.  170f ,  an  Act  was  past  by  the  General! 
Assembly  of  Antego,  for  establishing  Courts,  etc.  The  22nd 
June,  1705,  an  Act  was  past  by  a  General  Assembly  of  all 
the  Leeward  Islands  at  Nevis,  whereby  the  aforesaid  Act  is 
enacted  to  be  in  force  throughout  all  the  said  Islands.  Dec. 
12th,  1705  the  forementioned  Act  past  at  Antego  was  repealed 
by  the  Queen :  that  past  by  the  General  Assembly  of  all  the 
Islands  at  Nevis  not  being  then  transmitted  over  for  H.M. 
pleasure.  Upon  which  they  desire  your  opinion,  whether  the 
Queen's  repeal  of  the  Antego  Act  does  not  supercede  and  make 
void  the  Act  past  at  Nevis ;  and  whether  the  said  Nevis  Act 
does  not  remain  in  force  till  there  be  a  particular  and  express 
repeal  thereof  by  the  Queen.  [O.O.  153,  10.  pp.  188,  189.] 

85.  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    Reply  to  Aug.  4.     H.M.  is  not  duly  informed  whether 
Capt.    Vetch's   proposal   be   of   such   use   as   to   deserve   incour- 
agement.     You   are  to   report  your   opinion,   in   order   to   H.M. 
declaring    her   further    pleasure,    etc.     Signed,    H.    Boyle.     En- 
dorsed, Reed,   llth,  Read  13th  Aug.    1708.     1  p.      [0.0.   323, 
6.     A7o.  69  ;  and  324,  9.     p.  253.] 

86.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.   Burchett.     Encloses  copies  of  affi- 
davits  relating  to  Capt.    Fane,   to   be   laid   before   H.R.H.,   ihe 
Lord  High  Admiral    See  May  18,  1708.     [O.O.  29,  11.   p.  288.] 


62  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

Aug.  13.          87.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Handasyd. 

Whitehall.  'Acknowledge  letters  of  May  19  and  June  17.  The  information 
we  had  in  relation  to  the  privateers  who  had  committed  irregu- 
larities on  the  Spanish  coast  was  not  from  Commodore  Kerr, 
and  besides  you  might  have  perceived  by  what  we  writ  July 
31,  1707,  that  it  was  not  a  report  lightly  taken  up,  for  we 
told  you  that  we  had  it  from  very  good  hands.  We  are  not 
a  little  surprized  at  what  you  write  about  transmitting  the 
Minutes  of  the  Assembly  according  to  H.M.  Instructions,  all 
H.M  former  Governors  of  Jamaica,  as  well  as  those  of  the  other 
Plantations,  constantly  doing  it.  But  seeing  you  find  such 
difficulty  in  complying  with  that  part  of  H.M.  commands,  we 
think  it  needfull  that  you  inform  yourself  of  the  grounds  and 
reasons  why  a  thing,  designed  only  for  the  good  and  benefit  of 
the  Island,  should  meet  with  any  obstruction  or  opposition, 
and  if  you  find  that  no  reason  is  offer'd  against  it,  and  that 
it  appears  only  to  be  humour  and  obstinacy,  you  are  to  return 
to  us  the  names  of  such  obstinate  opposers,  and  in  the  mean- 
time you  are  to  take  notice  and  to  acquaint  whomever  it  may 
concern,  that  H.M.  does  require  and  expect  that  her  orders 
in  this  particular  shall  be  punctualy  complyed  with.  As  for 
prizes  you  will  see  by  ye  Act  for  the  encouragement  of  the 
trade  to  America,  that  that  matter  is  now  otherwise  regulated; 
however,  it  will  be  necessary  that  when  any  prizes  are  taken, 
either  by  H.M.  ships  of  war  or  by  tihe  Jamaica  privateers,  that 
you  give  us  as  particular  an  account  thereof  as  may  be  for 
H.M.  information.  And  upon  this  occasion  we  cannot  but 
rejoice  with  you  for  Commodore  Wagger's  good  success.  And 
we  doubt  not  from  the  good  character  we  have  of  him  but  he 
will  be  able  to  give  a  good  account  of  the  ships  that  are  in 
the  Havana  with  Mr.  du  Casse.  We  are  very  sorry  to  perceive 
the  Spanish  trade  is  so  dull  but  if  care  be  taken  that  the 
privateers  be  kept  within  just  bounds,  as  is  provided  by  the 
last  mentioned  Act,  we  doubt  not  but  that  trade  will  increase 
and  flourish  again.  We  expect  the  account  of  the  Pattent  Officers 
you  promise.  As  to  the  copy  of  the  Proclamation  which  you 
have  sent  us,  we  can  by  no  means  approve  thereof,  for  ,in 
one  place  it  is  said,  "and  as  an  encouragement  to  all  such 
as  shall  discover  any  such  lands  so  held  upon  orders  or  other- 
wise without  patent  as  aforesaid,  whereof  the  possessor  or 
proprietor  shall  neglect  our  bounty  hereby  offered ;  we  do  hereby 
promise  that  we  will  grant  such  patents  of  land  so  conceal'd 
to  such  discoverer"  etc.,  which,  is  contrary  to  H.M.  Instructions, 
for  by  the  said  Instructions  you  are  not  to  make  grants  of  for- 
feited lands  or  escheats,  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known  therein. 
As  you  will  perceive  by  H.M.  Order  in  Councill  of  May  26. 
And  you  will  more  particularly  understand  H.M.  pleasure  in 
these  matters  when  you  shall  receive  an  additional  Instruction, 
now  lying  before  H.M.  for  her  Boyall  signature,  upon  the 
Petition  of  divers  merchants  in  relation  to  your  proceedings 
against  their  lands  and  negroes.  We  writ  you  at  large  in  our 
forementioned  letter  of  June  25  in  relation  to  the  Members  of 


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Aug.  13, 

Whitehall. 


the  Councill,  being  Factors  to  the  African  Company,  whereto 
we  now  refer  you.  We  also  acquainted  you  in  our  foresaid 
letter,  that  H.M.  had  been  pleased  to  appoint  Mr.  Peck  of  the 
Councill  in  the  room  of  Col.  Sadler  deceased,  and  therefore 
when  Col.  Low  and  Col.  Long  shall  arrive,  there  will  be  11 
Counsellors  upon  ye  Island;  and  we  shall  take  the  first  oppor- 
tunity to  offer  another  person  to  H.M.  to  make  the  number 
of  Counsellors  compleat.  [C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  314-317.] 

88.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Crowe. 
'Acknowledge  letter  of  May  18.  As  to  what  you  write  touching 
the  repeal  of  the  Act  about  the  Governor's  holding  General 
Sessions,  and  to  the  new  one  past  and  transmitted  hither,  we 
shall  take  the  said  Acts  into  consideration  at  a  convenient 
time,  and  lay  the  same  before  H.M.,  and  so  soon  as  H.M.  shall 
have  declared  her  pleasure  thereupon,  we  shall  signify  the  same 
to  you.  Before  we  sent  you  our  opinion  upon  your  suspension 
of  tLe  Law  mentioned  in  our  letter  of  Jan.  29  last,  in  relation 
to  Mr.  John  Holder,  we  had  read  and  maturely  considered  that 
part  of  the  Minutes  of  Council  and  Assembly  which  you,  sent 
us  touching  that  matter,  and  are  therefore  very  much  sur- 
prized at  your  saying,  that  if  we  had  perused  the  Minutes  of 
Councill  at  a  Court  of  Grievances,  we  should  have  seen  that 
you  had  no  share  in  suspending  the  execution  against  Holder. 
We  admit,  that  writs  of  error  or  appeals  from  inferior  Courts 
brought  before  you  in  Councill,  or  other  matters  cognizable  in 
Council,  the  same  being  determined  by  a  majority,  do  become 
the  acts  of  that  Board,  for  which  you  are  not  personally  answer- 
able ;  but  for  the  reasons  sent  you,  June  25,  we  take  Holder's 
case  to  be  of  another  nature,  and  are  still  of  opinion  that  the 
suspending  of  execution  upon  the  judgment  passed  against  him 
by  an  Act  of  the  Legislature,  is  a  matter  no  ways  cognizable 
before  you  in  Councill,  or  releivable  by  any  other  authority  than 
of  the  Legislature,  by  which,  the  said  Law  was  first  made. 
We  must  observe  to  you,  that  among  the  Acts  of  Assembly 
last  transmitted  to  us,  we  find  one  (relating  to  the  late  repealed 
Paper  Act)  wherein  there  is  a  clause  to  compel  Holder  to 
account  for  a  summe  of  money,  therein  mentioned  in  like 
manner  and  under  the  like  penalties  and  forfeitures  as  are 
contained  in  that  former  Clause,  for  his  refunding  the  5  per 
cent.,  while  that  Law  (so  lately  passed  and  by  a  new  Assembly) 
was  depending,  he  had  a  good  opportunity  of  applying  for 
relief  against  the  hardships  complained  of  in  the  refunding 
Clause,  but  we  presume  he  had  no  hopes  of  relief,  tho'  from 
a  new  Assembly,  since  we  do  not  find  from  the  Minutes  of 
CouLcill  or  of  Assembly,  that  any  step  has  been  made  therein; 
and  by  this  our  observation,  you  will  find  that  we  have  perused 
the  papers  last  sent  us.  We  shall  expect  the  list  you  promise 
us  of  all  the  Patent  Officers,  and  the  value  of  their  places,  by 
the  first  conveyance,  as  also  the  copies  of  the  Publick  Accounts, 
together  with  those  of  the  Revenue.  We  shall  consider  whit 
you  write  in  relation  to  Counsellors,  and  give  you  notice  of 


64 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 

what  shall  be  done  therein.  We  have  layd  before  H.R.H. 
the  affidavits  etc.,  against  Capt.  Fane.  You  ought  yourself 
to  have  transmitted  them  to  H.B.H.  as  well  as  to  us.  We 
arc  glad  to  hear  that  H.M.S.  Greenwich,  in  her  cruizing,  has 
met  with  and  taken  a  French  prize.  You  will  do  well  to 
send  us  the  best  account  you  can  of  all  prizes  that  shall  be 
taken  from  time  to  time.  You  say  that  in  the  new  Commission 
of  the  Peace,  we  shall  find  there  are  none  but  men  of  the 
best  estates.  You  would  have  done  well  to  have  incerted  in 
the  list  of  their  names,  to  which  you  referr,  their  qualifications, 
for  the  bare  list  of  them  gives  us  no  information.  [C.O.  29, 
11.  pp.  289-293.] 

Aug.  16.  89.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Whitehall.  Boyle.  Reply  to  Aug.  11.  Capt.  Vetch's  proposal  is  still  under 
our  consideration,  in  order  to  our  laying  the  same,  with  our 
opinion  upon  it  before  H.M.,  which  we  shall  do  with  as  great 
a  dispatch  as  the  nature  and  weight  of  such  a  matter  will  allow. 
In  the  mean  time,  from  what  we  have  hitherto  been  able  to 
observe  upon  it,  we  think  Capt.  Vetch's  proposal  of  such  use 
as  to  deserve  incouragement.  Wherefore,  in  regard  it  is  neces- 
sary that  it  be  duly  examined  and  considered,  and  that  in  the 
doing  thereof,  it  may  be  proper  from  time  to  time  to  confer 
with  the  proposer  (of  w^om  we  have  heard  a  good  character), 
as  well  while  the  same  is  before  us,  as  when  it  shall  fall 
under  H.M.  further  consideration,  we  are  of  opinion  that  he 
be  directed  and  incouraged  to  attend  H.M.  commands  here  in 
relation  to  his  said  proposal.  And  having  discoursed  him  as 
to  his  stay  here,  we  find  that  his  attendance  here  will  oblige 
him  to  some  charge,  lie  having  a  wife  and  family  at  New 
York;  whither  his  occasions  call  him,  and  would  be  going 
thither  in  company  with  the  Lord  Lovelace,  if  not  required  to 
attend  here.  Nevertheless,  if  H.M.  will  graciously  please  to 
allow  him  after  the  rate  of  10/-  day,  so  long  as  it  shall  be 
found  necessary  to  continue  him  here,  he  will  rest  satisfied 
therewith;  he  proposing  it  only  to  enable  him  to  subsist,  and 
not  to  capitulate  any  thing  for  himself.  Autograph  sic/natures. 
2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1084.  ATo.  38;  and  324,  9.  pp.  253/254.]  _, 

Aug.  16.         9O.    Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.   Recom- 
Whitehall.    mend  the  appointment  of  Wm.  Bird  to  the  Council  of  Virginia. 
[C.O.  5,  1362.     pp.  300,  301.] 


Aug    16. 

Whitehall. 


91.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Parke. 
Since  our  letter  of  June  25,  we  have  received  none  from  you, 
however  we  cannot  omit  this  opportunity  of  acquainting  you 
according  to  your  desire  with  such  complaints  as  have  been 
laid  before  us.  We  are  informed  that  at  Antego  the  Gentlemen 
Officers  and  soldiers  are  ill  used;  that  strangers  are  made 
officers  over  the  heads  of  Gentlemen  who  had  served  many 
years  ;  that  the  soldiers  are  sent  in  private  sloops  to  trade 
without  the  officer's  knowledge  or  consent;  that  the  Assembly 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


1708. 


Aug.  17. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  17. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  17. 
Barbados . 


upon  three  days  sitting  was  dissolved  only  for  addressing  in 
behalf  of  a  poor  woman,  who  'had  soldiers"  put  into  her  house 
to  take  possession  of  the  same  without  law  or  reason.  This 
being  the  substance  of  what  we  have  been  informed  of,  we 
shall  expect  from  you  a  full  and  clear  answer  thereunto,  with! 
such  affidavits  as  you  shall  find  necessary  in  your  own  justifi- 
cation, and  as  it  will  be  for  your  interest,  that  nothing  of 
this  kind  may  remain  unclear'd,  we  are  of  opinion  this  our 
letter  be  communicated  to  the  Councill,  and  accordingly  we 
advise  you  to  it,  that  if  there  be  no  grounds  for  the  said 
complaint,  you  may  publickly  make  the  same  appear.  And  if 
there  be  any  persons  who  think  they  are  aggriev'd  or  have 
reason  to  complain,  and  are  willing  to  make  out  the  same,  you 
are  to  permit  them  to  do  it  before  the  Councill,  and  to  take 
such  affidavits  relating  thereto  as  they  shall  judge  necessary, 
whereby  you  will  have  an  opportunity  of  answering  such  com- 
plaint, and  of  transmitting  the  same  to  us.  This  we  look 
upon  to  be  so  much  for  your  advantage  and  service,  that  we 
cannot  doubt  of  your  ready  complyance  herewith.  FC.O.  153, 
10.  pp.  189,  190.] 

92.  W.   Popple  to   Col.    Homer.     Encloses   copy  of  stores 
of  war  demanded  for  New  Hampshire.     The  Council  of  Trade 
and   Plantations   desire  you  to   give  them   an  account  of   what 
stores  there  were  remaining  there  when  you  came  from  thence ; 
as    likewise   of   what   you   think   necessary   to   be   sent.      \C.O. 
5,  913      pp.  4,  5.] 

93.  Council    of    Trade   and    Plantations    to    the    Board   of 
Ordnance.     We  desire  you  to  let  us   have  an  account  of  what 
Ordnance    stores    were    last    sent    to    New    Hampshire.       [C.O. 
5,  913.     p.  5.] 

94.  Governor   Crowe   to  the   Council   of   Trade   and   Plan- 
tations.    In  obedience  to  your  Lordships'  commands   of  Aprill 
15th,    I    have   made    as    strict    an    examination    as    I    can  into 
the  Affrican  trade  since  June  24,    1698,   and  am  sorry  to  tell 
yr.  Lordshipps  tha/t    I  can  get  but  an  imperfect  acct.   thereof, 
by  reason  severall  merchants,  who  had  negroes  consigned  them 
are    either    dead,    or    gon    off    with    their    books,    and    Messrs. 
Heyshams  ffactors  has  sent  theirs  home ;  so  the  inclosd  paper  is 
the  best  that  I  could  procure  from  those  Gentlemen  that  remain, 
by   wch,    your  Lordships   will   perceive   that   negroes   has    been 
since  an  open  trade  very  dear  here,  the  best  from  £30  to  £40 
each,    and   in  an    average   amounts   to   about  £23.8.    per    head, 
there  is   little  or  no  difference  in  the  prices  betwene  what  the 
Company  and  private  traders  sold  at  the  same  time.     By  the 
Navall  Office  list  (wch.  is  the  most  correct),  yr.  Lordshipps  will 
perceive  there  has  been  34,583  imported  from  June  24th,  1698- 
1708.  of  wch.   9006   by  the  Affrican  Cornpa.,   wch.   is  above  £, 
and  the  whole  makes  but  3458  per  annum.     Whereas  to  keep 
up  the   present  stock   of  this   Isld.    computed   at    52,000,   and 

Wt.  11522,  C  P  5 


66  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1708. 

7  per  cent,  per  annum  the  common  decreas  amounts  to  3640,  so 
that  if  there  is  not  a  greater  supply,  negroes  will  rather  advance 
than  lower  their  prices ;  the  want  whereof  occasions  above  J 
of  the  lands  lying  uncultivated,  and  there  is  not  ten  plantations 
fully  handed.  When  the  Company  had  the  sole  trade  to  Affrica., 
negroes  indeed  were  much  cheaper  here,  and  I  find  these  reasons 
for  it.  (1)  They  could  slave  on  the  coast  on  Iheir  own  terms, 
whereas  the  separate  traders  goeing  there,  advanced  the  price 
from  £4  to  £10  per  head.  (2)  The  produce  of  this  Island  was 
then  more  advantagious  in  returns,  bills  of  exchange  goeing 
at  parr,  but  rarely  above  10  p.c.,  whereas  now  they  pay  30 
to  35  (3)  The  high  premio  on  insurance  and  loss  by  the 
warr,  many  shipps  haveing  miscarryed.  (4)  As  the  Collonies 
increas  so  doth  the  demand  for  negroes,  wch.  has  drain'd 
the  coast,  so  that  now  they  are  forced  to  be  supply 'd  at  a 
greater  charge  from  the  inland  countries. 

By  the  accompt  of  the  10  p.c.  yr.  Lordships  will  find  whatt 
trade  lias  been  drove  from  hence  to  Affrica,  and  that  of  111 
vessells  loaden  here  since  Dec.  9,  1698,  only  18  has  been  pn 
the  Companies  account,  and  those  in  the  late  years  when  the 
Compa.  perceiv'd  the  separate  traders  began  to  neglect  it.  I 
find  only  Messrs.  Carter  and  Harbin  amongst  the  traders  here 
that  still  continew  it  on  their  own  acct.,  and  that  so  little 
that  'tis  not  worth  mentioning.  I  have  consulted  wth.  severall 
of  the  principall  planters  and  antient  inhabitants,  and  find 
they  are  of  opinion  the  plantations  can  never  be  well  tup- 
ply'd  but  by  a  united  stock,  for  any  little  discouragemt.  to 
private  traders  may  occasion  their  desisting,  and  then  the 
Collonies  must  suffer,  as  is  evident  in  these  two  last  years ; 
only  one  small  shipp  and  two  sloops  has  arriv'd  on  the  private 
traders'  account  with  350  negros,  whereas  to  keep  up  the 
number  now  on  the  Island,  and  supply  what  are  wanting  we 
should  have  at  least  5000  per  annum,  but  except  a  Compa. 
have  a  sufficient  stock,  and  oblidg'd  to  transport  such  a  number 
yearly  to  the  Collonies,  it  may  prove  of  very  dangerous  conse- 
quence. Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  19th,  Read  Nov. 
23rd,  1708.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

94.  i.  Account  of  negroes  imported  into  Barbados,  since 
June  24,  1698,  (a)  by  private  traders,  7218,  sold  for 
£159,138.  6.  8.,  +  1362  negroes  consigned  to  John 
Grove,  who  "would  give  noe  acct.  of  ye  sales,  being  a 
Quaker."  (6)  imported  by  the  Royal  African  Company 
1700-1708,  5982  negroes  sold  for  £156,425.  7.  6.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Nov.  19,  1708.  2  pp. 

94.  ii.  Naval  Officer's  List  of  negroes  imported  into  Bar- 
bados, June  24,  1698— Dec.  1707,  34,583.  Same  en- 
dorsement. 1|-  pp. 

94.  iii.  Account  of  the  10  p.c.  duty  on  negroes  imported 
into  Barbados,  Dec.  9,  1698— June  30,  1708.  Total, 
£7443.  2.  9.  The  African  Company  paid  no  duty,  but 
the  total  includes  what  the  duty  would  have  amounted 
to.  Names  of  ships  given.  Same  endorsement.  3  pp. 


AMEKICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  67 

1708. 

10. 0.    28,    11.      Nos.   23,   23.    i-iii.  ;  and   (without  en- 
closures]   29,    11.     pp.    319-323.] 

Aug.  17.  95.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.  Encloses 
Baibados.  copy  of  following.  Unlesse  there  be  two  convoys  yearely  from 
England,  and  new  Orders  to  H.M.  men  of  warr,  this  place 
cannot  subsiste.  I  hope  Mr.  Coxes  letter  has  fully  satisfied 
your  Lordship  etc.  Signed1,  M.  Crowe.  Holograph.  1  p.  fin- 
closed, 

95.    i.  Duplicate  of  part  of  following  letter.      TC.O.   28,  38. 
Nos.  71,  71.  i.] 

Aug    18.         96.     Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Barbados.  Acknowledges  letters  of  May  14  and  June  25.  The  last  As- 
sembly was  not  dissolved,  but  fell  in  cource,  their  year  being 
expired,  neither  had  I  any  difference  with  them,  it  was  the 
Members  of  the  Councell  and  they,  that  could  not  agree  about 
the  bill  of  excise,  so  that  I  perceive  your  Lordships  misappre- 
hended that  matter.  I  have  not  only  often  recommended  to 
them  the  necessity  of  raising  money  to  compleat  Fort  St.  Ann, 
and  dischargeing  the  debts  and  accrueing  charges  of  the  Island, 
but  put  them  into  a  method  of  raising  funds  for  the  .same, 
wch.  is  now  under  their  consideration,  and  most  of  the  publick 
accompts  stated.  The  Fleete  arriv'd  here  on  the  8th  past,  it's 
allmost  loaden  and  will  be  ready  to  sail  in  20  days,  their 
passing  the  Maderas  is  a  great  disappointment,  not  only  to 
the  publick  (for  the  Customes  commonly  amounted  from  5  to 
£7000)  but  wine,  wch.  is  the  common  drink  here,  and  ased  to 
be  sold  for  15  is  now  35  per  pipe.  Except  two  convoys  be 
allow'd  annually  as  was  appointed,  the  planters  will  not  be 
able  to  hold  their  estates,  for  the  shipps  per  last  will  not  be 
able  to  carry  off  the  crop,  wch.  makes  ye  masters  stand  on 
high  ffraights,  now  demand  12s.  6d.  p.c.  and  good  sugar  may 
be  bought  at  that  rate,  above  3000  hhds.  will  be  left  in  the 
store-houses.  I  cannot  but  observe  to  your  Lordshipps  the 
inconveniencie  that  may  happen  by  the  Parliament's  takeing 
away  the  Governor's  power  of  pressing  men  for  H.M.  shipps. 
The  Prince  has  given  orders  to  the  men  of  warr  yt.  attend 
this  Island  (notwithstanding  any  former  orders)  to  return  to 
England  when  the  shipp's  company  by  sickness  or  otherwise 
shall  be  so  far  reduc'd,  that  there  remains  but  men  enough  to 
carry  them  home,  (wch.  is  left  to  the  Capt. 's  discretion),  so 
that  if  they  should  happen  in  a  cruice  to  meet  wth.  an  enemie 
that  destroys  them  any  number  of  men,  or  by  sickness  or  by 
any  other  accident  disabled,  the  Isld;  will  be  left  without  any- 
thing to  guard  it ;  so  that  'two  French  sloops  will  take  all 
our  Northern  trade  and  starve  us.  Neither  has  the  country 
money  or  credit  to  fitt  out  vessells,  it  now  pays  to  Mr.  Roberts 
20  p.ct.  for  the  intrest  of  whatt  he  disburst  on  the  three 
sloops  that  were  sent  to  look  after  Ducass. 

A    list   of   Patient.   Offices:— The    Attorney    Generall    has   not 
been   in  one  year,   so   can  give  no   annual  vallew   theirof ;  The 


68 


COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 


1708. 


Register  in  Chancery,  £500  ;  the  Provost  Marshall,  £400  ;  Navall 
Office,  £300;  Clarke  of  the  Crown,  £70;  Clarke  of  the  Market, 
£80.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  25,  ReadDea 
3,  1708.  '  2  pp.  Enclosed,  . 

90.  i.  Copy  of  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados,  to 
Governor  Crowe,  Sept.  4,  1708.  Reply  to  complaints 
of  three  Members  of  Council  as  to  his  male-adminis- 
tration in  detail.  There  has  'not  been  so  general  a 
satisfaction  and  so  much  quiet  in  this  Island  for  4 
years.  The  principal!  grounds  for  dissatisfaction 
remaining  are,  (1)  Poverty  owing  to  the  paper  bills, 
and  the  late  arbitrary  government  of  Sir  B.  Granville, 
wch.  has  made  several  hundreds  of  the  inhabitants 
leave.  (2)  A  full  inquiry  has  not  yet  been  made  into 
the  bribery  and  corruption  by  wch.  that  paper  money 
was  forced  upon  us,  (3)  or  into  the  villainous  treat- 
ment of  Major  Lillington  and  Col.  Downes.  (4)  The 
grievous  extortions  in  the  Register's  Office  of  vhe  Court 
of  Chancery  are  not  yet  reformed.  (5)  The  simon- 
aicall  disposall  of  Church  liveings  in  the  time  of  Sir 
B.  Granville  are  not  yet  enquired  into.  Signed,  William 
Grace,  Clk.  of  Assembly.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  3  pp. 
96.  iL  List  of  Baptisms  and  Burials. 

St.  Michaels  from  May  23,  1707  to  Aug  1708 


St.  Josephs 
Christ  Church 
St.  Peters 
St.  Lucys 
St    Georges 
St.  Thomas 
St.  James 
St.  Andrews 
St.  Philips 
St.  Johns 

Same  endorsement. 


May,       170 

June  24,1707 

June,      1707 

Jan., 

June, 

May, 

May, 

Aug., 

May, 

Sept., 


1708 
1707 
1708 
1707 
1707 
1707 
1707 
iP- 


Baptisms. 

110 

25 

65 

32 

51 

12 
3 

25 

20 
106 

19 


146 
6 
39 
38 
12 
35 
5 

21 
10 
29 
22 


96.  iii.  Abstracts  of  causes  determined  in  Courts  of  Common 
Pleas,  April-Aug.  1708.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  25, 
1708.  58  pp.  [C.O.  28,  11.  Nos.  40,  40.  i-iii. ;  and 
(without  enclosures)  29,  11.  pp.  343-347.] 

Aug.  18.          97.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Alexander   Skeen  is  dis- 

Ken&ington.   missed  from  the  post  of   Secretary  of   Barbados.     Cf.   July   8. 

Signed,    Chris.    Musgrave.      Endorsed,    Reed.    Sept.    15th,    Read 

Oct.    25,    1708.      1    p.      [C.O.    28,    11.      No.    13;    and  29,   11. 

pp.  298-299.] 

Aug.  18.          98.     Order    of    Queen    in    Council.      Appointing    Wm.    Bird 

Kensington,    to  the  Council  of  Virginia.   A  warrant  to  be  prepared  accordingly. 

Signed,    Chris.    Musgrave.      Endorsed,    Reed.    Sept.     15,    Read 

Oct.  25,   1708.     H  pp.      [C.O.   5,   1316.     No.   4;  and  5,   1362. 

pp.   301-303.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  69 

1708. 

Aug.  18.  99.     Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  Mr.  Popple.    'Reply  to  Aug.  11. 

I  am  of  opinion  that  the  Repeal  of  ye  Antego  Act  dos  not  make 
void  the  Nevis  Act.  For  the  Act  wch.  passed  ye  Generall  As- 
sembly at  Nevis  subsist  by  the  authority  of  that  Assembly, 
and  is  not  to  be  look'd  upon  to  be  dependent  on  the  Antego 
Act.  When  ye  authority  that  made  it  to  be  a  Law  in  the 
Leeward  Islands,  or  the  Queen  shall  think  fit  expressly  to  repeal 
it,  it  will  determine.  But  till  then  I  shall  looke  upon  it  to; 
be  in  force.  Signed,  Jas.  Mountague.  .  Endorsed,  Reed.  18th, 
Read  20th  Aug.,  1708.  Holograph.  2  pp.  [C.O.  152,  7. 
ATo.  53 ;  and  153,  10.  pp.  192,  193.] 

Aug.  18.  100.  Memorial  from  Mr.  Dummer  concerning  the  Act  for 
encourageing  Trade  to  America.  The  limmit-ing  clause  is,  No 
molestation  whatsoever  between  Rio  de  la  Hatch  and  .^iver 
Chagre,  or  within  5  leagues  at  sea  of  any  part  of  that  shore — 
to  any  sloop,  etc. — Coleby's  expedition  is  a  breach  of  this  Law, 
the  effect  whereof  has  broaken  the  private  trade  of  Jamaica  to 
that  part  of  the  Continent  in  a  very  great  degree,  and  if  not 
remedied  will  preclud  it  wholly.  The  remedy  to  retrieve  the 
said  trade  is,  that  all  privateers  who  shall  cruize  to  leward 
of  River  de  la  Hatch,  be  charged  with  instructions  annex'd' 
to  their  Commissions  of  the  conditions  underwritten  upon  se- 
curityes  unquestionable  (1)  That  they  shall  attack  and  take 
no  other  ship,  on  that  coast,  but  such  as  shall  be  mann'd 
and  sailed  with  French  men ;  preserving  the  ship's  company 
to  evidence  the  lawfullness  of  the  capture.  (2)  That  in  case 
they  take  or  destroy  any  Spanish  coasting  vessell  mann'd  with! 
Spanyards  on  the  said  shore,  carrying  coastwise  the  manu- 
factures of  Europe,  that  then  they  shall  be  subject  to  the 
penalty  of  paying  to  the  Spanyard  the  double  value  in  the 
same  species  they  shall  so  take  or  destroy.  And  the  coppyes 
of  such  instructions  being  sent  to  the  Spanyard  will  revive  the 
trade.  Subscribed  in  another  hand: — N.B.  Add  another  in- 
struction viz.,  That  no  goods  of  the  growth,  product  or  manu- 
facture [?  of  H.M.  Dominions.  Ed.]  brought  in  by  any  priva- 
teer, shall  be  accounted  lawfull  prize.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
Aug  18,  1708.  1  p.  [C.O.  137,  8.  No.  16;  and  138,  12.  pp. 
318,  319.] 

Aug.  18.          101.     Order   of    Queen   in    Council.      Referring    following    to 
Kensington,   the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report.     Signed, 
Chris    Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Oct.  27,  Read  Nov.  12,  1708. 
|  p.     Enclosed, 

101.  i.  Edward  Jones  to  the  Queen.  Charges  against  Lt. 
Governor  Bennett,  as  supra.  Copy.  30;*  pp.  [C.O. 
37,  8.  Nos.  71,  71.  i.;  and  38,  6.  pp.  424-431.] 

Aug.  18.         102.    Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     John  Peek  is  appointed 

Kensington,   to  the  Council  of  Jamaica.    A  warrant  to  be  prepared  accordingly. 

Signed,  Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  25th  Oct., 

1708.  1J  pp.    [C.O.  137,  8.    No.  19 ;  and  138,  12.  pp.  327,  328.] 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1708. 
Aug    18. 

Kensington, 


Aug.  18. 

Kensington, 


Aug.  19. 

Kensington. 


Aug.  ia 

Tunbridge 
Wells . 


Aug.  20. 

New  York. 


103.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Approving  Additional  In- 
struction to  Governor  Handasyd  relating  to  escheats   (See  July 
30).     Siqned  and  endorsed  as  preceding,      f  p.      [C.O.   137,  8. 
No.  20;' and  138,  12.     pp.  328,  329.] 

104.  Order    of    Queen    in    Council.      Mr.    Lewis    Morris    is 
appointed  to  the  Council  of  New  Jersey,  instead  of  John  Harrison 
(See  July  1).     Signed,  Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  15th 
Sept..   Eeacl  25th  Oct.,    1708.    f  p.       [C.O.    5,   970.     ATo.  79; 
and  5,  994.     p.   464.] 

105.  H.M.  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor  Lord  Lovelace. 
You  are  to  admit  Lewis  Morris  to  Our  Council  of  New  Jersey, 
and  also  to  cause  him  to  resume  his  former  place  therein,  etc. 
[C.O    5,  210.     p.  113.] 

106.  Mr.  Way  to  Mr.   Popple.     Becommends  Mr.   Hotchkyn 
to  supply  a  vacancy  in  the  Council  of  Jamaica.     Signed,  Benj. 
Way.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  Aug.  21,  1708.     Holograph.  Addressed. 
Postmark.    £  p.    [C.O.  137,  8.     No.  17.] 

107.  Governor  Lord  Cornbury  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Since  I  wrote  to  your  Lordshippes  by  the  Elisa- 
beth gaily,  one  Sylvanus  Grevill  Master,  bound  from  this  port 
to  Bristol,  by  which  I  acknowledged  the  receit  of  your  letters 
of  June,  1707,  I  have  not  been  favoured  with  any  fetters  ,from! 
your  Lordshipps.      Since  that  ship  sailed,    I   have   been  up  at 
Albany    in    the    hottest    season    of    the    year,    which    made    my 
voyage  very  uneasy  as  well  as  dangerous  for  health,  but  having 
been    informed    by   the    Commissioners    for    Indian    affairs   that 
the    Sachems   of  the    Five    Nations   had    sent  them    word   that 
they   would   be   at   Albany   by   July   15,    and  that  they  desired 
I  would  meet  them  at  that  time,  I  immediately  ordered  a  sloop 
to  be  got  ready,  and  notwithstanding  the  heat  of  the  weather 
which  was  excessive   (it  being  the  hottest  summer  I  have  yet 
felt  since  I  came  into  America),  I  got  to  Albany  on  July  16. 
None  of  the   Sachems   were  then  come,   but  the  next   day  one 
Kunasore,    who    is  ,the    chief    Sachem    of    the    Onondagos,    and 
Cagnaquinny,   one  of  the   chief   Sachems  of  the  Oneides,   with 
three   other   Indians   came   to   towne,    and   hearing   that   I   was 
there,   they   came  to   me   and   told   me   that   they   came  to  bid 
me  welcome  to  Albany,  that  they  had  noe  businesse,  but  came 
only  to  trade,  I    asked    them    where  the  rest  of  the  Sachems 
were :    they  told  me   they   were    busy   in   making   canoes,    at  ,a 
place  which  they  named,  and  is  160  (miles  from  the  first  of  the 
Mohacks'    Castles,    consequently  200   miles   from   the   towne   of 
Albany,  I  asked  them  if  they  knew  when  the  Sachems  intended 
to  be  at  Albany,  and  if  they  knew  of  a  message  the  Sachems 
had    sent   to  the    Commissioners    for   tihe    Indian   Affairs,    they 
said  they  did  believe  the  Sacliems  did  intend  to  be  at  Albany 
in    a    month's   time,    but   they   were   not   sure ;    that   they  ihad 
heard   that   the   Mohacks    had    sent    a    message   to    the    Com- 


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1708. 

missioners,  but  that  they  did  not  know  of  any  time  appointed 
for  their  coming.  I  desired  them  to  send  one  of  their  young 
men  to  the  Sachems  to  know  when  they  would  come,  which' they 
did,  and  he  being  returned  told  me  that  the  Sachems  were 
at  work  upon  their  canoes,  and  that  they  could  not  come 
till '  they  had  finished  them,  which  would  be  about  a  month, 
upon  that  I  resolved  to  return  to  New  York,  where  thie  As- 
sembly were  to  meet  upon  August  18,  but  I  must  acquaint 
your  Lordshipps  that  during  my  stay  at  Albany,  twelve  of 
the  farr  Nations  of  Indians  came  to  trade  with  our  people, 
there  arc  two  "Nations  of  them  who  are  called  Twigtwicks  anct 
Dionondadees,  the  nearest  of  their  Castles  is  800  miles  from 
Albany,  I  have  been  these  five  years  endeavouring  to  get  those 
Nations  to  trade  with  our  people,  but  the  french  have  always 
dissuaded  them  from  coming  till  this  year,  and  this  year, 
goods  being  very  scarce,  they  came  to  Albany,  where  our  people 
have  suplyed  them  with  goods  much  cheaper  than  ever  the 
french  did;  and  they  have  promised  me  to  return  in  spring 
with  a  much  greater  number  of  their  Nations,  which  will  be 
a  very  great  advantage  to  this  Province ;  I  did,  in  a  letter 
of  June  25,  inform  your  Lordshipps  that  three  french  souldiers, 
who  had  deserted  from  the  french  at  a  place  called  by  them 
Le  Destroit,  were  come  to  Albany,  while  I  was  at  Albany, 
another  deserter  came  from  the  same  place,  whom  I  examined 
my  self,  and  I  send  here  inclosed  a  copy  of  his  examination, 
by  which  your  Lordshipps  will  perceive  how  easily  the  french 
may  be  beaten  out  of  Canada,  I  did  send  a  proposall  for  that 
purpose  to  the  late  Lords  Commissioners  for  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations in  1702.  The  better  I  am  acquainted  with  this  country, 
and  the  more  I  enquire  into  matters,  soe  much  the  more  I 
am  confirmed  in  my  opinion  of  the  facillity  of  effecting  that 
conquest,  and  by  the  method  I  then  proposed,  to  which  I 
refer ;  the  advantages  that  would  attend  that  matter  are  very 
many,  and  perticularly  this,  that  Newfoundland  will  be  a  very 
easy  conquest  after  Canada  is  reduced,  what  an  advantage  the 
having  all  Newfoundland  would  be  to  England  I  believe  every- 
body sensible  of,  and  that  that  would  be  the  certain  consequence 
of  reducing  Canada,  is  most  true ;  besides  this  deserter,  there 
is  come  to  Albany  one  Montour,  who  is  the  son  of  a  french 
Gentleman,  who  came  above  40  years  agoe  to  settle  in  Canada, 
he  had  to  doe  with  an  Indian  woman,  by  whom  he  had  a  son 
and  two  daughters,  the  man  I  mention  is  the  son,  he  has 
lived  all  along  like  an  Indian,  some  time  agoe  he  left  the 
french,  and  has  lived  among  the  farr  Indians,  and  it  is  chiefly 
by  his  means  that  I  have  prevailed  with  those  farr  Nations 
to  come  to  Albany,  he  has  given  me  the  same  account  /of 
Canada  that  the  deserter  did;  the  regular  forces  in  Canada 
consist  of  28  companys  of  foot,  at  their  first  coming  they 
were  fiftys,  but  now  by  death  and  desertion  the  strongest  of 
them  is  'but  22,  some  16,  most  of  them  12  or  14,  Canada  is 
now  governed  by  one  Monsieur  de  Vaudreuil,  under  him  one 
jVIonsieur  de  Ramsay  commands  at  Montreal,  which  is  the 


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1708. 

upper  part  of  Canada,  in  which  the  whole  number  of  men 
does  not  exceed  800,  Quebec,  which  is  iihe  lower  part  and  much 
the  larger  part  of  Canada,  has  near  3000  men  in  all,  soe 
that  the  whole  strength  of  Canada  does  not  amount  to  5000 
men  including  the  Regular  forces,  Quebec  is  fortify'd  with  sodd 
work,  but  now  they  have  begun  to  fortify  with  stone,  they  doe 
it  by  degrees,  every  year  some,  soe  that  if  they  are  not  disturbed, 
in  four  or  five  years  they  will  have  finished  their  work,  which 
will  make  the  reducing  that  place  much  more  difficult  then  it 
is  now.  I  have  often  by  letters  informed  the  late  Lords  Com- 
missioners for  Trade  and  Plantations  of  the  necessity  of  having 
presents  sent  over  from  England  for  the  five  Nations  of  Indians ; 
without  which  it  is  impossible  to  keep  them  firm  to  the  Crowne 
of  England,  they  have  had  noe  presents  since  the  first  year 
that  I  came  hither,  which  is  above  six  years  agoe ;  I  have 
proposed  it  to  the  Assembly,  which  is  now  sitting,  to  raise 
a  fund  for  presents  for  them  this  fall,  I  can't  yet  tell  if  I 
shall  prevail  with  them  or  not,  but  if  they  doe  not  raise  such 
a  fund,  I  am  afraid  we  shall  loose  the  Indians  before  next 
summer.  I  have  endeavoured  to  convince  them  of  the  necessity 
of  the  thing,  therefore  I  am  in  hopes  they  will  doe  it.  About 
£400  sterling,  well  laid  out  every  other  year  in  England,  would 
furnish  presents  enough  to  keep  the  Indians  firm  to  the  interest 
of  England,  and  I  don't  at  all  question  but  if  that  were 
allowed,  I  could  debauch  a  great  many  of  the  French  Indians 
from  them.  I  intreat  your  Lordshipps  will  please  to  recommend 
this  matter  soe  effectually  to  my  Lord  High  Treasurer  that  it 
may  be  obtained.  I  was  in  hopes  to  have  sent  you  by  this 
conveyance  the  Minutes  of  Councill  and  Assembly  from  the 
time  of  my  arrivall  in  this  Province,  but  the  Clerks  have  not 
been  ablo  to  get  them  ready,  the  Virginia  fleet  sailing  much 
sooner  then  was  expected,  but  as  soon  as  possibly  they  can 
be  done,  they  shall  be  transmitted  etc.  Signed,  Cornbury.( 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Dec.  9,  1708.  Holograph.  4  pp.  [C.O. 
5,  1049.  No.  97;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  349-355.] 

Aug.  23.         1O8.    Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Recom- 
.Whitehall.     mend  that  John  Hallett  be   appointed  to  the   Council   of  13ar- 
badoes.     [C.O.  29,  11.     p.  297.] 

Aug.  23.  109.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Antigua,  tations.  I  have  obeyed  yr.  Lpps.  orders  to  the  utmost  of  my 
power  and  have  sent  the  best  acctt.  I  can  gett  of  what  negroes 
have  been  imported  into  my  Government  so  far  back  as  could 
be  procured.  The  Agent  for  Antigua  before  Feb.  170^  is  dead,, 
and  Sr  Tho.  Cook  in  London  is  his  Executer.  Inclosed  is  aoi 
acctt.  from  Mr.  Chester  who  has  acted  as  Agent  ever  since. 
There  has  no  negroes  been  imported  from  the  Company  to 
Nevis  since  I  came,  and  their  Agent  before  my  time  is  dead, 
and  his  widdow  has,  or  pretends  has,  lost  the  books  when1  the 
French  took  the  Island.  The  private  traders  are  either  dead 
or  gone  of  the  Island  that  were  before  my  time,  since  my 


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1708. 


time  there  has  been  a  smal  vessell  wth.  abt.  180,  but  the  master 
yt.  sold  them  was  lost  in  returning  home.  I  can't  learn  that 
the  Compa.  ever  had  an  Agent  at  St.  Christophers,  there  has 
not  any  been  imported  in  my  time,  and  those  merchants  that 
imported  any  before  are  eighther  dead  or  gone  off  the  Island., 
and  their  books  lost  by  the  invasion  or  hurricane.  Col.  Fry 
is  the  Comp.'s  Agent  at  Montserat.  I  sent  to  him  the  first 
opertunity  I  had  after  I  had  yr.  Ldpps.  Orders,  but  as  yet 
have  no  answer,  nor  have  I  any  from  the  Lt.  Governor  what 
has  been  imported  by  private  trade,  the  number  I  am  informed 
is  inconsiderable  on  eighther  side.  There  has  been  since  my 
time  but  three  ships  and  one  briganteen  fitted  from  my  Governmt. 
for  that  trade,  two  by  the  Compa. 's  Agent,  and  two  by  private 
traders,  two  of  wch.  arrived  safe,  the  other  two  'tis  fear'd 
arc  lost.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  25, 
Read  Dec.  7,  1708.  Holograph.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

109.  i.  Negroes  imported  from  Africa  to  Antigua,  by  private 
traders  June  24,  1698-Dec.  25,  1707,— 4945.  Details 
given.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  23,  1708.  1  p. 
109.  if.  Negroes  imported  into  Antigua  by  the  Royal  African 
Company,  June  24,  1698-Dec.  25,  1707.— 1805.  De- 
tails given.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  \  p. 
109.  iii.  Edward  Chester's  Account  of  sales  of  negroes  im- 
ported into  Antigua  by  the  Royal  African  Company, 
Feb.  2,  170|-Aug.  26,  1707.  Names  of  purchasers  and 
prices  given  in  detail.  Number  of  slaves  imported: — 
2178.  11  pp.  [C.O.  152,  7.  Nos.  64,  64.  i.-iii. ;  and 
(without  enclosures)  153,  10.  pp.  228-230.] 


Aug.  23. 

Whitehall. 


11O.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Pro- 
pose Valentine  Mumby  for  the  Council  of  Jamaica,  in  the  room 
of  Mr  Ascough,  he  "having  been  recommended  to  us  by  the 
merchants  here  as  a  person  of  a  considerable  estate  in*  that 
Island,  well  affected  to  your  Majesty's  Government,  and  long 
resident  there,"  etc.  [C.O.  138,  12.  p.  320.] 


Aug.  23.        111.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Handasyd. 

.Whitehall.  Since  our  letter  to  you  of  Aug.  13,  we  have  further  consider'd 
your  complaint  of  the  great  obstruction  which  our  privateers 
have  given  to  our  trade  with  the  Spanish  nation  in  the  West 
Indies,  and  have  received  the  like  complaint  from  some  eminent 
merchants  here  who  are  concerned  in  that  trade.  Whereupon 
we  observe  that  such  pernicious  practices,  contrary  to  H.M. 
express  Instructions  were  committed  before  the  Act  for  the 
encouragement  of  the  trade  to  America,  sent  you  May  14,  could 
reach  Jamaica,  and  do  hope  that  since  the  publication  of  that  Law 
there  the  like  mischiefs  have  been  and  will  be  prevented  for 
the  future.  Yet  we  think  it  our  duty  to  H.M.  once  more  to 
let  you  know  how  much  we  were  dissatisfy'd  with  such  practises, 
tending  to  the  prejudice  of  a  trade  much  more  beneficial  to 
this  nation  then  whatever  can  be  gained  by  privateering  in 


74  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

those  parts.  We  therefore  strictly  recommend  it  to  you  that 
all  possible  care  be  taken  in  the  most  effectual  manner  to  prevent 
the  like  for  the  time  to  come.  In  order  whereunto,  you  are 
amongst  other  things  to  communicate  this  our  letter  to  the 
Members  of  the  Councill  there,  and  to  such!  others  as  you,  shall 
judge  proper,  and  exhort  them  in  their  severall  stations  to  do 
what  in  them  ly's  to  detect,  discourage  and  prevent  all  such; 
unlawfull  privateering  contrary  to  the  said  Act;  in  which  Act 
there  is  a  clause  whereby  all  trade  with;  the  Spaniards  between 
Bio  la  Hacha  and  the  River  Chagre,  and  within  5  leagues  at 
sea  of  any  part  of  that  shore,  is  to  be  free  and  unmolested. 
This  you  are  in  the  most  proper  manner  to  make  known  ito 
all  who  are  any  wise  concerned  therein,  and  at  the  same  time 
to  signify  to  ym.  that  whoever  shall  presume  to  act  contrary 
to  the  express  directions  and  provisions  in  that  Law  (which 
has  been  judg'd  necessary  to  our  carrying  on  so  proffitable  a 
trade  with  the  Spaniards  on  that  coast)  every  such  offender  will 
not  only  incur  H.M.  highest  displeasure,  but  be  further  pun- 
ish'd  with  the  utmost  rigour  of  Law.  For  notwithstanding1 
the  want  of  an  express  penalty  in  that  clause,  every  breach 
of  a  Law  is  punishable  at  Common  Law  at  the  discretion  of  the 
Court,  upon  an  information  to  be  exhibitted  in  the  name  of 
the  Queen's  Attorney  Generall.  We  are  sensible  that  when  a 
prize  is  brought  into  Port  in  order  to  an  adjudication  in  the 
Court  of  Admiralty  (as  the  Law  directs)  it  will  be  difficult 
to  prove  whether  such  capture  was  made  within  the  said  limmitts 
or  not,  without  a  discovery  thereof  by  some  of  the  captors' 
crew,  or  unless  the  captor  be  required  to  preserve  and  bring 
into  Port  some  of  the  ship  or  vessell's  company  so  made  prize 
to  evidence  the  lawfulness  of  the  capture,  which  last  men- 
tioned method  you  may  lawfully  require  to  be  strictly  observed 
by  all  persons  concerned  in  privateering  within  your  Govern- 
ment, and  we  do  expect  that  you  give  such  an  Instruction  to 
them  accordingly.  As  a  further  remedy  against  such  unlawfull 
practices  at  present  we  see  no  objection  to  the  making  some 
provision  for  an  Act  to  be  passed  the  next  Session  of  Parliament 
whereby  no  goods  or  merchandizes  of  the  growth,  product  or 
manufacture  of  any  of  H.M.  Dominions,  brought  by  any  ship 
of  war,  privateer  or  letter  of  marque,  main,  into  any  Port  of 
America,  except  in  the  case  of  recapture,  or  of  a  French  prize, 
shall  be  accounted  lawfull  prize,  which  we  conceive  will  ef- 
fectually put  a  stop  to  all  illegal  and  pernitious  captures  contrary 
to  the  said  Act.  But  this  we  only  mention,  that  in  case  you 
have  any  just  objection  thereto  you  may  acquaint  us  with  it. 
It  will  be  convenient  that  in  the  best  manner  you  can,  timely 
notice  be  given  to  the  Spaniards  upon  that  coast  of  the  due 
care  that  is  taken  not  to  molest  them  in  their  trade  with 
the  Queen's  subjects,  and  that  in  case  any  damage  shall  at 
any  time  be  done  to  them,  that  upon  complaint  made  to  you 
they  will  receive  due  satisfaction,  which  we  hope  will  remove 
whatever  discouragement  in  that  trade  they  may  at  present 
lye  under.  [C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  321-324.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  75 

1708. 

[Aug.  23.]  112.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council,  Aug.  17,  1704.  Confirming 
Eevenue  Act  of  Jamaica.  Signed,  William  Bl&thwayt.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  29th  July,  Read  Aug.  23,  1708.  If  pp.  'C.O. 
]37;  8.  No.  18;  and  138,  12.  pp.  325,  326.] 

Aug.  24.  113.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Solicitor  General.  Encloses  for 
Whitehall,  his  opinion  an  Act  of  Nevis,  Feb.  23,  170|,  for  the  establishing 
of  Courts.  The  inhabitants  and  planters  in  those  parts  were 
so  well  satisfyed  of  the  usefulness  of  this  Law  that  at  a  Generall 
Assembly  of  all  the  Leeward  Islands  held  in  June,  17Q5,  the 
same  has  been  enacted  to  be  in  force  throughout  all  the  said 
Islands,  etc.  [C.O.  153,  10.  pp.  193,  194.] 


Aug.  24.       114.    Board  of  Ordnance  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

Office  of       tations.      Enclose   following    (cf.    Aug.    17).      We   have   sent   at 

Ordnance.     Severall    times    stores   to    New    England,    from    whence   supplys 

might  have  been  sent  to  New  Hampshire,  but  wee  received  no 

account  thereof.    Signed,  C.  Musgrave,  Wm.  Bridges,  Ja.  Craggs. 

Endorsed,  Reed.  25th,  Read  26th  Aug.,  1708.     1  p.    Enclosed, 

114.    i.  List  of  Stores  of  War  sent  to  New  Hampshire,  July 

30,  1692.    1|  pp.     [C.O.  5,  864.    Not.  237,  237.  i.  ;  and 

(without  enclosure}  5,  913.     p.  6.] 

Aug.  24.  115.  W.  Popple  to  Lord  Baltimore.  The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall,  and  Plantations  having  long  expected  that  your  Lordship  and 
Mr.  Penn  should  have  come  to  some  agreement  relating  to 
the  boundaries  between  the  Provinces  of  Maryland  and  Pensil- 
vania,  their  Lordships  have  commanded  me  to  acquaint  your 
Lordship,  as  also  Mr.  Penn,  that  unless  the  said  agreement 
be  made  and  layd  before  their  Lordships  on  or  before  Oct.  12, 
they  shall  be  obliged  witihout  delay  to  make  their  report  to 
H.M.  thereupon,  as  the  same  does  now  lye  before  them.  [C.O. 
5,  727.  pp.  53,  54.] 

Aug.  24.       116.     Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Antigua.  I  shall  in  the  best  manner  possible  have  the  two  Laws  sent 
me  publish'd  in  each  of  the  Islands,  and  take  care  pursuant 
to  yr.  orders,  to  put  them  in  execution,  though!  I  shall  have 
something  to  doe  to  make  them  observe  t!he  law  for  regulateing 
ye  coine,  for  of  late  they  have  brought  out  all  theyr  light 
money  and  they  take  some  pieces  of  eight  for  six  shillings, 
which  I  believe  tihe  intrinsick  value  is  not  two,  this  will  ex- 
asperate ithem,  soe  that  I  shall  despaire  of  getting  anything 
for  house-rent  that  was  due  to  me  before  I  had  your  last 
instructions,  the  people  begin  now  to  be  satisfied,  the  Councill 
have  taken  pains  to  satisfie  them  ye  grievances  they  pretended 
in  takeing  Mrs.  Hastings'  house,  and  putting  in  soldiers  was 
false,  they  brought  severall  yt.  was  told  by  Codrington's  Caball, 
I  had  taken  the  house  she  lived  in,  and  have  show'd  them  the 
Hutt,  which  is  litle  bigger  then  a  centry  box  and  show'd  them  it 
stood  on  the  Towne  land,  and  satisfied  them  the  soldiers  could 
not  live  on  this  dear  Island  except  they  had  quarters,  and 


76  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

that  the  Assembly  woud  not  allow  quarters,  except  I  passed 
Laws,  yt.  I  coud  not  justifie,  show'd  them  the  records,  to 
Justine  them  that  the  not  swearing  Mr.  Perry,  he  being  uoe 
freeholder  where  he  was  chose,  was  according  to  the  ancient 
custome,  used  from  the  very  first  Assembly  downe  to  the  late 
Coll.  Coddrington's  time,  and  then  they  made  a  law  to  enable 
anyone  to  be  chose,  which  law  was  rejected  at  home,  soe  the 
same  method  was  to  be  followed,  which  was  before  that  Law. 
The  Councill  have  taken  soe  much,  pains  to  satisfie  the  people, 
that  they  assure  me  yt.  in  the  next  Assembly  few  or  none  of 
Coddrington's  party  will  be  chose.  They  all  begin  to  be  satis- 
fied that  'tis  only  a  tricke  to  gett  me  out,  and  Codrington  in,. 
they  employ  one  Nivine,  an  impudent  North  Brittish  lawyer, 
and  he  and  this  Perry  and  Tankard  makes  feasts  and  getts 
men  drunke,  and  then  getts  them  'to  signe  a  paper  they  call 
articles,  against  me  without  knowing  one  word  of  them,  as 
severall  of  them  have  confessed ;  others  that  have  more  sense 
they  tye  by  giveing  them  an  oath  not  to  divulge  them,  a 
deposition  relateing  thereto  I  here  send  you ;  some  of  my  friends 
gott  one  of  them  drunke  and  asked  him  the  Articles,  he  told 
them  one  was  I  had  traded  wth.  the  French.  Now  I  can 
prove  by  the  oaths  of  each  man  that  ever  went  with'  a  flagg 
of  truce,  that  directly  nor  indirectly,  in  my  owne  name  nor  any 
others,  that  ever  I  had  goeing  or  coming,  any  more  then  & 
hogshead  of  clarratt  for  my  owne  table  in  each  flagg  of  truce, 
and  that  I  pay'd  for  in  ready  money,  the  Collector  and  Wayters 
will  swear  that  I  from  my  first  comeing  order'd  them  to  search 
all  flaggs  of  truce.  I  have  taken  all  the  care  possible  to 
prevent  it,  and  I  believe  that  is  the  true  grievance,  for  myi 
predecessor,  Col.  Johnson,  suffer'd  it  publickly,  and  has  had 
himselfe  six  hoggsheads  at  a  time.  I  order'd  one  Peuch  to  be 
prosecuted  for  carryeing  50  barrills  of  beef,  but  there  came  noe 
evidence  against  him,  the  Collector  tells  me  he  has  search'd1  them 
in  the  harbour,  and  he  has  been  informed  the  sloope  has  gone 
into  another  bay,  and  there  they  have  sent  beefe  on  board  in 
the  night,  there  is  noe  way  to  prevent  it,  but  by  breakeirngi 
the  Cartell,  and  that  the  Councell  tells  me  will  ruine  the 
Island.  This  Peuch  was  the  man  that  was  used  to  be  sent 
up  before  my  time,  soe  I  continued  him,  but  since  I  heard 
of  his  carryeing  up  beefe,  I  never  have  sent  him  nor  never: 
will  for  the  future,  though  he  pretends  the  beefe  was  in  the 
sloope  before  she  was  press'd,  and  one  Montegroe  one  of  theyr 
richest  merchants  had  sworne  it,  and  that  she  was  designed 
for  Montserratt,  and  that  they  never  designed  to  sell  it  in 
Martinecoe.  I  thanke  God  I  can  prove  my  innocency,  that 
I  neither  had  directly,  nor  indirectly,  anything  to  doe  with  it, 
nor  knew  anything  of  it  untill  I  had  an  acctt.  from  sayd 
Peuch  that  a  french  privateer  had  robbed  him  of  it  goeing 
to  Martinecoe,  and  that  it  was  not  designed  to  be  sold  there; 
I  heare  another  article  is,  Mr.  Chester  swears  he  gave  me  a 
bribe  of  20  pistoles  for  a  Register.  I  never  had  any  gold 
or  silver  of  him  on  any  account  in  my  life,  it  seems  he  calls 


'AMEBICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  77 

1708. 

20  barrells  of  damnified  flower  20  pistoles,  the  story  is  this, 
he  has  had  a  briganteen  and  sloopes  registred  as  by  the  records 
will  apear  at  severall  times,  and  I  never  tooke  soe  much  as 
my  fee,  which  is  two  pieces  of  eight,  but  some  litle  time  after 
the  Hurricane  all  provisions  being  scarce,  I  sent  about  the 
towne  to  buy  some  biskett,  or  flower  for  my  negroes,  hut  cou'd 
not  buy  any.  Mr.  Chester  came  to  me  one  morneing,  and  told 
me  he  had  some  flower  damnified  wth.  salt  water,  the  best  of 
which  he  had  disposed  of,  and  perhaps  in  this  scarce  time 
my  negroes  might  make  shift  with  it,  and  if  I  pleas'd  to 
trye  he  would  lett  me  have  tenn  barrills.  I  asked  him  the 
prise,  he  told  me  it  was  soe  bad  he  could  set  noe  price,  he 
wou'd  put  it  on  board  my  privateer  sloope,  to  carry  it  to 
St.  Kitts,  accordingly  he  did,  and  when  it  came  there,  it  was 
soe  bad  it  was  not  worth  my  lawfull  fee  for  one  register,  but 
to  my  very  good  fortune  there  was  one  Mr.  Eoache  a  merchant 
by ;  who  is  ready  to  depose  upon  oath  what  is  here  set  downe 
is  true,  and  that  there  was  not  one  word  of  register,  or  any 
thinge  like  it,  and  by  examineing  the  Eecord,  I  find  that  Mr. 
Chester  very  often  registers  sloopes  and  vessells,  he  had  not 
registred  any  for  severall  weekes  before  or  after  he  made  me 
a  compliment  of  these  tenn  barrills  of  flower,  which  were 
worth  just  nothing;  An  other  article  as  I  hear  is,  that  I 
traded  to  Curascoa.  I  doe  assure  your  Ldpps.  I  have  never 
traded  for  any  kind  of  thing.  I  have  settled  a  plantation  at 
St.  Kitts.  I  thinke  a  shepherd  will  not  be  the  less  carefull  for 
haveing  sheepe  of  his  owne  in  the  fflocke,  soe  that  I  hope  my 
haveing  hired  a  plantation  will  not  be  imputed  a  crime,  if 
it  be,  I  have  been  justly  punished  by  loss  of  negroes  "and 
the  hurricane,  what  I  have  sent  for  the  use  of  my  plantation, 
I  employed  one  Mr.  Bawleigh  to  deliver  out  to  them,  if  he  has 
to  much  of  one  thing,  he  disposes  of  it  for  some  other  thing 
that  is  wanting  as  every  manager  of  a  plantation  does,  and  this 
consists  only  in  5  or  600  yards  of  cotton,  and  as  much  osen- 
brigs  and  blew  linnen,  and  hoes,  axes  and  bills  and  other  tools. 
I  hope  this  cant  be  called  trade,  and  for  sending  to  Curacoa, 
this  is  the  story,  at  the  request  of  the  inhabitants,  I  fitted  out 
a  privateer  as  much  to  gratifie  them  as  any  profit  I  expected, 
she  never  tooke  but  a  briganteen,  loaden  with  ginger  and  sugar, 
both  vessell  and  cargoe  was  sold  for  £700,  since  she  has  taken 
soni(3  negroes  of  Mary  Gallante  and  Martinecoe,  she  was  soe 
run  out  of  repaire,  she  cou'd  not  be  fitted  here,  I  was  advised 
to  put  some  of  the  prize  ginger  and  sugar  on  board  her 
and  send  her  to  be  fitted  to  Curacoa,  which  I  did.  but 
gave  strickt-  orders  to  the  master  to  bring  noe  goods 
backe.  And  if  the  ginger  and  sugar  sold  for  more  then  fitted 
the  sloope  to  bring  money  backe,  and  I  order 'd  the  Collector 
to  see  that  nothing  was  carryed  in  her  or  brought  backe  but 
what  might  lawfully  be  done,  it  soe  happned  that  the  sugar  and 
ginger  sold  for  less  then  the  fitting  the  sloope  came  to,  soe 
that  she  brought  neither  money  nor  any  other  thing,  to  the 
truth  of  this  I  can  have  the  depositions  of  the  master  and 


78  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

all  the  crew,  and  the  Collector  who  sent  on  board;  the  samel 
sloope  has  now  spranke  her  mast,  and  because  she  must  be 
sent  to  the  northward  to  get  a  new  one,  none  being1  to  be  had 
here,  I  have  let  her  to  a  merchant,  and  have  nothing  to  doe 
with  her  lading,  and  when  fitted  have  order'd  him  to  sell  her 
as  alsoe  another  privateer,  resolveing  for  the  future  not  to 
give  the  least  pretences  for  sayeing  I  traded,  what  the  privateers 
tooke,  and  what  has  been  seized  have  been  sold,  they  cant  call 
that  trade,  all  this  has  been  done  by  others  for  me,  soe  that 
it  has  taken  up  noe  part  of  my  time,  these  are  what  I  can 
learne.  except  what  the  Assembly  mentioned  about  Mrs.  Hast- 
ings, which  I  thinke  sufficiently  answerd  by  the  Council  I  and 
myselfe  as  apeares  by  the  minutes,  but  if  your  Lordshipps 
thinks  not,  I  will  be  at  the  charge  of  sending  the  Towne  Platt, 
and  the  Law  and  4Q  depositions  to  justifie  me  as  to  that. 
They  may  make  what  articles  they  please,  they  may  say  I  have 
cloven  feet  and  20  other  things,  but  I  am  soe  very  confident 
of  my  actions  both  publicke  and  private,  that  I  am  very  sure 
I  can  answer  to  your  Lordpps.  everything  alledged  against 
me,  I  desire  only  a  faire  tryall,  after  that  I  have  noe  doubt 
but  I  shall  be  justified,  and  that  twill  be  mad  apear  I  hlave 
taken  more  pains  to  see  justice  done  and  in  make  ing  workes 
for  theyr  defence  then  any  of  my  predecessours.  And  had  it 
not  been  for  this  faction,  myselfe  and  the  whole  Island's 
had  been  very  happy,  if  I  shou'd  be  removed,  'twill  be  the 
same  thing  wth.  my  successour,  lett  whoe  will  come.  I  have 
defended  myselfe  much  better  then  Sir  William  Mathews,  he 
had  noe  honey-moon,  for  he  was  scarce  a  month  before  they 
quarrell'd  with  him,  and  perfectly  broke  his  heart.  I  have  with 
a  great  deale  of  care  kept  myselfe  quiet  for  two  year,  Coll. 
Codrington  was  exasperated  more  then  ordinary  because  I  had 
orders  from  my  Lord  Treasurer  to  sue  him  for  a  great  summ 
paid  him  for  prizes  last  warr,  and  had  Mr.  Parkhurst  delivered 
me  the  originall  papers,  I  had  recover'd  it  of  him  before  now. 
I  had  them  sent  by  this  packett,  and  now  he  is  in  Barbados, 
if  he  comes  downe  I  don't  doubt  but  recover  it,  soe  that  'tis 
worth  his  while  be  at  some  expense  to  remove  me.  The  Councill 
advised  me  to  gett  Gent,  of  the  Countrey  to  signe  an  adress 
in  my  behalfe,  and  has  engaged  for  every  one  that  has  signed 
articles  against  me,  three  wou'd  signe  for  me,  which  I  re- 
fused, for  it  lookes  like  apealing  to  the  people.  I  thought 
if  they  themselves  gave  it  me  under  theyr  hands,  'twould  not 
be  amiss.  The  which  I  here  send  you.  I  depend  upon  my 
own  inocency  more  then  anything  else,  the  Councill  have  sent 
a  letter  to  'the  Agent  to  the  same  purpose,  a  duplicate  of 
which  I  alsoe  send,  here  is  alsoe  an  Address,  which  we  desire 
may  be  presented.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  6  pp.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Nov.  25th,  Read  Dec.  7,  1708.  Enclosed, 

116.  i.  Deposition  of  Major  Samuel  Wickham.  Edward  Per- 
rie,  Commissioner  of  Customs,  explained  to  him,  as 
a  Member  of  the  Assembly,  that  the  Articles  of  com- 
plaint against  the  Generall  were  being  prepared  secretly.. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  79 

1708. 

in  order  that  he  might  not  be  able  to  make  too  great  a 
defence  etc.    Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  25, 1708.  Copy.  1  p. 

11G.  ii.  Address  of  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua 
to  Governor  Parke.  Express  surprize  and  concern  at 
the  many  attempts  being  made  to  secure  signatures  to 
an  Address  and  Articles  of  complaints  against  H.E. 
The  particulars  are  kept  secret.  But  none  could  know 
the  transactions  of  H.E.  better  than  the  Council,  who 
do  not  know  of  any  male  administration  he  has  com- 
mitted. The  proceedings  of  these  people  has  much 
disturbed  the  Government  and  divided  the  Island  into 
factions,  etc.  St.  Johns,  Antigua,  Aug.  24,  1708. 
Signed,  John  Yeamans,  Jno.  Hamilton,  Edw.  Byam, 
Will.  Codrington,  Thomas  Morris,  Geo.  Gamble,  Will'. 
Byam,  Law.  Crabb.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p. 

11G.  iii.  Same  to  Richd.  Carey,  Agent  for  Antigua.  Direct- 
ing him  to  oppose  the  Articles  intended  to  be  exhibited 
against  Governor  Parke  as  in  preceding.  Signed  and 
endorsed  as  preceding.  3  pp. 

11G.  iv.  Address  of  the  Governor,  Lt.  Governor  and  Council 
of  Antigua  to  the  Queen.  Congratulate  H.M.  on  the 
defeat  of  the  late  attempt  on  H.M.  Kingdoms  by  the 
French  King  under  the  masque  of  the  pretended  Prince 
of  Wales.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke  and  as  preceding. 
Same  endorsement.  1  p.  [C.O.  152,  7.  Nos.  65, 
65.  i.-iv. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  153,  10.  pp.  230- 
239.] 

Aug.  24.  117.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Antigua,  tations.  I  herewith  send  your  Ldpps.  the  remaining  Minutes 
of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  Antigua,  with  the  coppy  of  the 
Law  they  were  so  angry  I  would  not  pass,  by  wch.  I  have 
lost  my  last  years  sallary  for  house  rent.  Your  Ldpps.  will 
see  by  their  Law  for  previlege  they  would  both  imprison  and 
fine  anyone  that  should  reflect  on  any  one  of  their  House, 
but  any  of  the  Council,  the  Lt.  Governor,  or  myselfe  might 
be  reflected  on  with  impunety:  I  offer'd  to  pass  these  laws  if 
amended,  provided  there  might  be  a  clause  that  they  should 
not  take  place  untill  yr.  Ldpps.'  aprobation  were  known,  wch.  is 
pursuant  to  my  Instructions,  for  I  take  this  to  be  a  law 
of  an  extraornary  nature.  This  has  been  Col.  Codrington 's 
masterpiece,  he  settled  this  matter  with  his  friends  before  he 
went  to  Barbados,  and  by  every  packett  and  all  other  opertunetys 
they  have  communicated  tftieir  thoughts  to  each  other,  when 
they  dispaired  of  getting  any  advantage  off  me  by  my  misbe- 
having myselfe  in  the  Post  I  am  in ;  they  therefore  put  the 
Assembly  uppon  desireing  such  Laws  wch.  if  I  past,  I  should 
incurr  the  Queen  and  yr.  Ldpps.  disfavour,  and  if  I  did  not 
pass  them,  I  should  be  paid  no  House  rent,  and  the  people 
told  I  was  going  to  take  away  their  previleges :  they  went  so 
fan*  as  to  send  me  a  message  that  they  would  pass  no  law 
except  I  would  lett  their  Speaker  have  the  negative  voice,  wch. 


80  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

if  I  had  granted,  I  ought  to  have  been  hanged.  There  are 
but  three  people  are  the  chief  actors,  the  first  is  one  Mr. 
Perrie,  who  is  Commissioner  for  the  4|  p.c.,  he  and  his  brother 
John  Perrie,  who  is  in  London,  were  raised  by  Col.  Codrington's 
father,  I  had  also  the  misfortune  to  disoblige  Mr.  Ed.  Perrie 
because  I  would  not  displace  the  Collector,  who  is  an  honest 
man,  to  put  in  his  kindsman,  who  has  not  that  charecter. 
The  second  is  Mr.  Tankard,  yt.  was  of  the  Council,  he  is  to 
be  Lt.  Governor  if  Codrington  comes  back  Genii.  The  third  is 
Coll.  Will.  Thomas,  who  Mr.  Baron  made  his  Attorny  to  sue 
Coll.  Codrington,  and  had  all  the  encouragement  possible  from 
me  to  do  it,  he  has  now  accomadated  wth.  Col.  Codrington, 
and  has  never  so  much  as  sued  him,  he  is  to  be  Treasurer. 
Your  Lordshipps  may  see  by  this  how  hard  it  is  for  anyone 
in  England  to  gett  justice  done  them  here.  Mr.  Baron  in  allmost 
six  years  has  not  been  able  to  procure  any  one  to  sue  for  him ; 
I  shall  not  trouble  your  Ldpps.  wth.  makeing  any  other  observa- 
tions on  the  Minuts,  when  they  have  been  read  if  your  Ldpps. 
will  communicate  to  me  where  I  have  acted  amiss,  I  shall 
readely  obey  your  Ldpps.'  orders  in  amending  for  the  future 
what  falce  stepps  your  Ldpps.  may  think  I  have  made ;  I  have 
allwais  according  to  my  Instructions  acted  no  one  thing  without 
the  Council,  not  so  much  as  a  decree  in  Chancery  but  has 
gone  as  they  have  advised  me.  When  I  writ  to  your  Ldpps, 
that  I  thought  vessells  ought  not  to  be  seized  uppon  every 
trifling  occasion,  I  did  not  think  I  should  be  so  misunderstood 
as  yt.  I  would  not  seize  notorious  illegall  traders;  for  I  have 
orderd  two  slupes  to  be  seised  for  bringing  Hollands  etc.  from 
Curacoa,  both  belonging  to  Mr.  Ed.  Chester,  for  wch.  he  has 
declaired  he  would  be  content  to  ley  seven  years  in  Hell  to 
be  revenged  on  me,  therefore  I  have  no  doubt  but  his  brother, 
Mr.  Robt.  Chester,  will  at  yr.  Lordshipps'  board  appear  very 
zealous  against  me ;  Uppon  a  fair  hearing  I  have  no  doubt 
but  to  appear  very  innocent  as  to  any  crime  they  or  any 
others  can  charge  me  with ;  'tis  very  true  that  the  best  of 
actions  may  be  sett  in  an  ill  light,  and  'tis  an  easy  matter 
to  rais  a  claymour  against  the  best  of  men ;  I  am  very  sure 
to  make  it  appear  uppon  a  fair  tryall  that  I  have  not  done 
any  one  thing  but  what  I  am  warranted  eighther  by  my  In- 
structions or  the  Laws  of  the  Islands.  Tho'  after  the  petition 
of  Mrs  Bowden  (that  notorious  woman)  what  may  I  not  expect 
(?),  all  that  ever  I  had  to  do  with  her  was  so  publickly 
in  the  face  of  the  sun  that  she  of  all  people  I  thought  [she] 
would  have  said  all  manner  of  good  things  of  me.  I  had 
nothing  of  her  but  what  I  bought  very  dear,  being  vallued  by 
her  own  friends  at  her  request  and  before  the  best  people 
of  the  Island;  I  gave  her  bills  of  Exchange  and  took  her 
receipt  in  full  of  all  demands,  and  after  this  to  put  up  a 
petetion  to  the  Queen  that  I  had  cheated  her  of  a  vast  sume, 
four  times  more  than  ever  she  was  worth;  all  that  ever  I 
had  of  her  she  shall  have  for  the  same  mony  I  gave  her 
whenever  she  pleases.  I  am  told  her  brother,  Coll,  Lillingston, 


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81 


1708. 


was  the  anther  of  it,  in  hopes  to  gett  my  post,  wch.  with 
his  Regiment  would  have  prevailed  with  him  to  come  to  the 
West  Indias,  others  tell  me  she  did  it  to  make  people  believe 
she  had  an  estate  here  in  hopes  to  draw  in  some  rich  widdower, 
I  know  not  the  true  reason,  but  sure  I  am  there  never  was 
so  scandelous  a  petition  given  to  a  Crownd  head  that  had  no 
truth  in  it.  I  have  sent  to  my  Agent  Mr.  Perry  all  thfe 
proceedings  I  had  with  her,  and  the  deposetions  to  the  truth 
of  it,  wch,  he  will  lay  before  your  Lordshipps,  wch.  I  hope 
may  justifie  me  before  the  Queen  and  Council  and  your  Ldpps. 
I  think  myselfe  obliged  to  sett  Mr.  Crabb  right  with  your 
Ldpps. ;  I  was  myselfe  a  stranger  to  him  and  his  charecter 
was  given  me  by  those  yt.  wished  him  ill.  I  find  himi  to 
be  an  honest  Gent,  and  one  that  has  a  good  estate.  Signed, 
Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  25,  Read  Dec.  7,  1708. 
4  pp.  Enclosed, 

117.    i.  Copy  of  a  Bill  of  Antigua,  for  ascertaining  the  elec- 
tions  and   privileges  of  the   Assembly,    referred   to   in 
preceding.     Endorsed,   Reed.    Nov.    25,    1708.      3£  pp. 
117.    ii.  Copy  of  above  Bill  as  amended  by  the  Governor  and 

Council.    Same  endorsement.  2j  pp. 
117.    iii.  Amendments  of  the  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua 

to  above  Bill.  So/me  endorsement.  2  pp. 
117.  iv.  Copy  of  an  Agreement  between  Governor  Parke  and 
Mrs.  Bowden  for  the  purchase  of  her  negroes  etc.  in 
St.  Kitts,  Sept.  5,  1706,  with  her  receipt,  and  affidavits 
of  Michael  Lambert,  Hen.  Burrell,  Stephen  Payne, 
James  Rawleigh,  and  Caleb  Rawleigh  relating  thereto. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  23,  Read  Dec.  8,  1708.  5  pp. 
[C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  1,  1.  i.-iv. ;  and  (without  enclos- 
ures) 153,  10.  pp.  240-245.] 


Aug.  26 

Custom- 
house, 
London . 


118.  Mr.  Savage  to  Mr.  Popple.  Desires  copies  of  letters 
from  Lord  Bellomont,  1700,  and  affidavits  by  Messrs.  Usher, 
Brid(g)er,  and  Wiberd  (1702-3)  relating  to  Mr.  Partridge  and 
the  export  of  timber  from  New  Hampshire  to  Portugal  and 
Spain.  Signed,  Richd.  Savage.  Endorsed,  Reed.  27  Aug., 
Read  Oct.  26,  1708.  i  p.  Enclosed, 

118.  i.,  ii.  Memoranda  of  documents  required  in  above.  2 
pp.  [C.O.  5,  864.  Nos.  238,  238.  i.,  ii.] 


Aug.  26. 

Custom- 
house, 
London. 


119.  Mr.  Savage  to  Mr.  Popple.  The  Commissioner  of  the 
Customs  have,  pursuant  to  the  directions  of  the  Lord  High 
Treasurer,  appointed  Mr.  Archbold  Cummings  an  officer  in  New- 
foundland to  prevent  illegall  trade  there.  And  when  a  Court 
of  Admiralty  shall  be  erected  there,  and  some  fitt  and  able 
person  impowerd  to  hear  and  determine  causes  on  informations 
of  seizure  pursuant  to  the  severall  Acts  of  Trade,  they  will  send 
him  their  Commission  and  Instructions.  Signed.  Richd.  Savage. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  27,  Read  Oct.  26,  1708.  •?-  p.  [C.O.  194, 
4.  No.  75  :  and  195,  5.  pp.  59,  60.] 

Wt.  11522,  CPfi 


82  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

Aug.  28.  120.  Receipts  of  Mr.  Popple  (Aug.  28)  arid  Josuah  de 
Kocherthal  for  £10,  and  of  Herman  Schuneman,  Sept.  1st  for 
£20,  on  account  of  the  German  Refugees,  (cf.  July  4.)  etc. 
Copies,  2  pp.  [O.O.  5,  1049.  No.  94.] 

Aug.  28.       121.     H.M.   Warrant  for  Wm.  Bird  to  be  of  the  Council  of 
Windsor.      Virginia.     Countersigned,    Sunderland.     [C.O.    5,   210.   p.    114.] 

Aug.  28        122.     H.M.  Warrant  for  John  Peeke  to  be  of  the  Council  of 
Windsor.      Jamaica.     Countersigned,    Sunderland.     [C.O.    5,    210.    p.    114.] 

Aug.  30.  123.  Col.  Romer  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Reply  to  Aug.  17th  etc.  When  1  was  taken  by  privateers  and 
carried  into  France,  I  flung  overboard  my  draughts,  papers 
and  schemes,  (of  mine  above  nine  years  service).  I  know 
no  neAv  Castle,  or  a  new  one  to  be  built,  but  Fort  Wm.  and 
Mary.  It's  true  I  once  propos'd  att  Little  Harbour  a  strong 
stone  redoubt,  etc.  I  am  humbly  of  opinion  that  Fort  Wm. 
and  Mary  should  first  be  finish'd,  because  the  greatest  part  of 
material  are  to  that  end  left  there  at  hand,  and  might  have 
been  donn  then  for  £100  upon  such  dispositions  as  the  Assembly 
had  made,  wch.  was  thait  the  Militia  was  to  worck  twelve  dayes 
by  turnee  for  their  victuals  only,'  and  whereas  the  Governour 
would  by  no  means  give  me  leave  to  do  it,  because  I  was 
reliv'd  by  Capt.  Redknap,  and  likewise  by  an  excuse  that  there 
was  no  money  in  ye  Treasury,  neither  was  there  any  to  be 
risen,  wherefore  I  offer'd  to  do  it  out  of  my  own  estate,  bat 
could  not  prevail  with  the  Governour.  I  realy  think  it  of 
the  highest  necessity  that  Fort  William  and  Mary  should  be 
finish'd  according  to  my  designs  and  profils,  wch.  I  sett  forth1 
and  left  behind  me,  and  so  donn,  they  would  not  be  expos'd 
as  they  are  now,  because  the  fishermen  in  going  with  their 
shalops  to  sea,  and  in  returning  home,  lay  under  the  rocks 
of  the  Fort,  go  on  shoare,  steal  the  aprons  of  the  guns,  so 
likewise  an  enemy  may  come  and  pin  up  all  the  guns,  wch. 
would  be  of  dangerous  consequence,  they  likewise  neglect  to 
lay  the  chevoux  de  frises  order'd  in  case  of  surprise,  and  to 
finish  them  as  they  are  begon.  There  is  no  regular  centinell 
sett  out,  haveing  only  an  allowance  of  four  ordnary  men  for 
the  whole  garison,  and  in  my  time  upon  application  made  to 
ye  Governour  there  was  order'd  for  a  few  dayes  16  men  in 
time  of  some  danger,  then  did  the  People  universaly  complain 
(without  consideration)  of  the  hardship,  wch.  occasion'd  their 
being  drawn  off,  and  the  fort  was  againe  guarded  as  before 
by  4  decrepld  men,  and  those  seldom  on  their  duty  as  they 
should  be,  etc.  The  powder  demanded  seems  to  me  extraordinary 
and  surprising,  unless  they  intend  to  merchandize  therewith, 
because  I  am  certain  the  powder-house  will  not  contain  that 
quantity,  and  I  cannot  imagine  what  use  they  can  make  of 
so  much  powder,  when  I  consider  what  quantity  they  receive 
yearly  from  the  shippin  wch.  comes  to  the  Province  etc.  What 
further  is  demanded,  I  must  confess  that  H.M.  Garisons  have 


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1708. 

no  occasion  for  such  a  quantity  etc.  Proposes  necessary  stores. 
Set  out,  Acts  of  Privy  Council,  II.  pp.  573,  574.  Concerning 
the  money  part-,  I  know  ye  Province  is  poor,  and  I  belive 
that  without  H.M.  assistance  the  fort  Wm.  and  Mary  will  not 
be  finish'd  etc.  A  boat  for  H.M.  Collector  is  highly  necessary. 
The  fort,  barracks,  guard-house,  officers'  house  centry  boxes 
and  necessary  house  may  be  finish'd  for  £200  sterl.  etc.  Signed, 
Wolfgang  W.  Romer.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  31,  Read  Oct.  26, 
1708.  5  pp.  Enclosed, 

123.  i.  List  of  guns  and  stores  required  for  New  Hampshire. 

2   pp. 

123.  ii.  List  of  Stores  of  War  at  Fort  William  and  Mary  and 
Newcastle,  Sept.  29,  1707.  Signed,  Shadrach  Walton, 
•  Capt.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  864.  Nos.  239,  239.  i.-ii.] 

Aug.  30.  124.  Governor  Crowe  to  Tho.  Hopkins.  I  have  not  been 
Barbados .  honoured  with  any  of  yours  since  my  last  of  May  19;  by 
the  Lucitania.  Capt.  Wentworth  I  have  sent  in  a  casque  directed 
to  Mr.  Tryon  two  dozen  of  citron  water,  which  he  will  take 
care  to  deliver,  and  I  humbly  begg  your  acceptance  thereof. 
I  hear  there  is  a  long  catalogue  of  complaints  to  goe  home 
against  me  this  fleet.  I  hope  they  will  make  no  impression  on 
my  Lord  Sunderland,  untill  I  have  an  oppertunity  of  vindi- 
cateing  myself,  etc.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  1  p.  [C.O.  28,  38. 
No.  72.] 

Aug.  30.        125.     Col.  Jones  to   [?  the  Earl  of  Sunderland].       Returns 
Antigua,     thanks  for  recommending  him  for  the  command  of  Col.  Lilling- 

ston's  Regiment,   etc.     Signed,   Ja.   Jones.     Endorsed,   R.   Nov. 

25.     1  p.     [C.O.  7,  1.     No.  18.] 

Sept  3rd.  126.  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  the  Council 
Baibados.  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Upon  the  arrival  of  our  present- 
Governor,  Mr.  Crow,  we  had  reason  to  believe  from  the  founda- 
tion we  had  lay'd  dureing  the  Presidency,  the  Factions  and 
Partys  that  had  so  long  and  so  unhappily  divided  us  were  well 
nigh  over.  Most  men  were  inclinable  to  be  quiet,  and  to 
agree  upon  a  general  amnesty  for  their  former  heats.  But  H.E. 
has  from  his  first  entering  upon  the  Government  been  so  far 
from  endeavouring  or  proposeing  an  accommodation,  that  he 
has  only  added  warmth  and  violence  to  our  animositys  by 
countenancing  and  cherishing  sometimes  one  party,  sometimes 
another,  by  turning  in  and  out  most  of  the  chief  officers  pf 
the  Militia  according  to  the  humour  of  the  party  he  happens  to 
be  embarqued  with,  by  rejecting  the  advice  and  aid  of  the 
Council,  by  determineing  causes  himself  cognizable  only  in  H.M. 
established  Courts,  and  by  imprisoning  and  oppressing  H.M. 
subjects  contrary  to  Law.  This  his  insufferable  behaviour  oblig'd 
us  to  draw  up  the  inclos'd  Representation,  containing  a  few 
instances  of  his  mismanagement  out  of  a  multitude  we  could 
produce,  which  we  presented  to  himself  in  person;  at  the  same 
time  acquainting  him,  we  were  ready  to  Justine  and  prove 


84  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 

the  truth  of  every  fact  therein  alledged,  tho  they  were  too 
notorious  to  need  any  confirmation.  It's  with  the  greatest 
concern,  my  Lords,  we  find  ourselves  under  this  indispensible 
necessity  of  transmitting  complaints  from  a  Colony  that  has 
already  given  your  Honourable  Board  so  much  unnecessary 
trouble.  We  humbly  assure  your  Lordships  that  nothing  but  the 
just  sense  we  have  of  our  duty  to  H.M.  and  the  good  of  our 
Cuntrey  could  ever  have  engaged  us  in  so  unnecessary  and 
troublesome  a  procedure,  and  if  the  free  and  impartial  advice 
we  took  the  liberty  to  give  H.E.,  both  in  and  out  of  Council, 
could  have  prevailed  with  him  to  alter  his  measures,  or  if 
there  were  any  prospect  of  his  being  made  sensible  of  his 
errors,  we  should  not  have  disturbed  your  Lordships  on  this 
occasion.  We  could  not  but  foresee  from  the  arbitraryness  of 
his  temper  that  the  presenting  him  such  a  free  censure  of  his 
behaviour,  would  provoke  him  to  remove  us  from  the  Board, 
and  misrepresent  us  to  your  Lordships,  but  our  duty  constrain'd 
us  to  that  course.  We  have  done  what  we  thought  was  incum- 
bent upon  us  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walksr, 
Sam!.  Beresford. 

P.S.  Sept.  6.  Since  we  deliver'd  the  inclosed  Representation 
to  H.E.,  he  has  conven'd  the  Assembly,  and  very  ungenerously 
given  them  an  imperfect  abstract  of  some  parts  thereof,  on 
which  without  the  least  proof  or  any  farther  enquiry,  they 
have  come  to  several  very  violent  and  scandalous  resolves  against 
us,  by  which  your  Lordships  will  please  to  observe  both  the 
temper  of  the  Gentlemen,  and  the  mutual  combination  there 
is  betwen  them  to  oppress  all  those  that  are  inclinable  to 
enter  into  fairer  and  more  honourable  termes  than  themselves, 
and  tho'  several  members  of  the  Assembly  moved  that  the 
whole  Representation  shou'd  be  layd  before  them,  before  they 
proceeded  to  pass  scandalous  votes  and  Addresses  against  the 
Members  of  H.M.  Council,  whose  oaths  and  duty  oblige  them 
to  advise  the  Governour,  but  they  were  so  far  from  consenting 
to  so  reasonable  a  motion,  that  they  even  refus'd  to  let  a 
minute  thereof  be  entred  in  their  Books,  contrary  to  the 
constant  rules  and  practice  of  that  House.  The  Addresses 
were  brought  by  the  Speaker  ready  drawn  into  their  House, 
as  by  the  minutes  of  ye  Assembly  will  appear,  put  to  the 
vote  and  carryd  by  a  majority  without  suffering  any  previous 
question  to  be  put,  tho  often  prest  by  several  of  the  Members ; 
we  have  not  yet  been  able  to  get  a  coppy  of  the  Address, 
and  the  Fleet  being  just  now  ready  to  sayl,  your  Lordships  can 
expect  no  observations  on  it  by  this  opportunity.  We  are, 
my  Lords,  very  far  from  opposeing  any  acknowledgements  to 
those  noble  persons  to  whom  the  presents  given  by  the  Assembly 
arr>  said  to  be  design'd,  but  what  it  is,  my  Lords,  that  we 
think  we  have  very  great  reason  to  resent,  is  that  they  shoud 
dispose  of  the  publick  money  without  our  approbation  and 
privity.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker,  Sam.  Beres- 
ford. "  Endorsed,  Reed.  17th,  Read  19th  Nov.  1708.  5  pp. 
Enclosed, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  85 

1708. 

126.  i.  Representation  by  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  .Here- 
ford to  Governor  Crowe.  Barbados,  Aug.  27,  1708. 
H.M.  having  been  pleas 'd  to  appoint  us,  the  under- 
written, Members  of  the  Council  here,  we  had  reason 
to  hope  your  Excellency  would,  in  these  times  of  general 
dissatisfaction  have  called  us  together  as  such,  that 
we  might  have  discharg'd  our  dutys  in  that  station 
by  giveing  your  Excellency  faithful  and  wholesome 
advice ;  But  since  your  Excellency  has  adjourn'd  the 
usual  monthly  meetings  of  that  Board  without  our 
knowledge,  and  yet  at  the  same  time  suffer'd  ye  As- 
sembly to  meet  and  act  without  us,  contrary  to  ye 
practice  and  end  of  Legislatures,  we  think  ourselves 
oblig'd  to  make  this  Representation,  least  by  our  un- 
warrantable silence  at  this  juncture  we  should  be 
thought  to  approve  your  Excellency's  unhappy  meas- 
ures. And  first  we  represent  to  your  Excellency,  that 
it  is  the  undoubted  right  of  H.M.  Council  here,  in  con- 
junction with  your  Excellency,  to  determine  all  writts 
of  error,  grievances  and  equitable  causes,  that  they 
are  an  essential  part  of  the  Legislature,  and  ought  to 
be  advised  and  consulted  with  by  your  Excellency  un- 
doubtedly in  the  disposal  of  all  Civil  Offices,  and  in 
prudence  at  a  General's  first  arrival  in  ye  Military, 
and  generally  in  all  things  which  concern  the  legal 
and  orderly  administration  of  ye  Government ;  for  which 
ends  chiefly  H.M.  and  her  Royal  Predecessors  have 
thought  fit  to  establish  a  Council  here.  (2)  That  your 
Excellency,  in  permitting  ye  Assembly  to  meet  and 
act  when  you  adjourned  the  Council,  and  to  proceed 
without  us  to  appoint  persons  in  England  to  sollicit 
the  affairs  of  this  Island,  has,  as  far  as  in  you  lay, 
debarr'd  and  excluded  the  Council  from  that  right, 
and  this  disuse  of  Councils,  since  H.M.  gracious  restora- 
tion of  some  of  us,  whom  your  Excellency  had  dis- 
placed, is  ye  more  remarkable,  if  compar'd  with  ye 
frequent  meetings  of  that  Board  when  ye  same  mostly 
consisted  of  Members  appointed  by  yourself.  Your 
adjourning  the  Council  has  been  already  attended  with 
this  dangerous  consequence,  yt.  the  traders  to  this 
place  are  allarm'd  with  the  dreadful  apprehensions  of 
another  Paper  Act.  (3)  Your  Excellency  has  taken 
upon  yourself  out  of  Court  to  set  aside  Orders  solemnly 
resolv'd  and  made  in  the  Court  of  Chancery ;  us  in 
ye  case  of  Mr.  Mannasses  Gillingham,  and  Butler  his 
wife,  formerly  Butler  Chamberlain,  who  appealing  from 
a  decree  of  ye  Court  in  a  suit  for  several  negro  slaves ; 
the  Order  of  ye  Court  was,  that  warrants  of  apprais- 
ment  should  issue  to  discreet  persons  to  appraise  the 
negroes,  and  yt.  if  their  value  amounted  to  £500, 
an  appeal  should  be  granted.  The  said  warrants  did 
issue  and  ye  negros  were  by  gentlemen  of  ye  most 


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1708. 


considerable  estates  in  the  parish  valued  at  £500  and 
upwards,  notwithstanding  which  your  Excellency,  alone 
and  out  of  ye  Court  of  Chancery,  did  set  aside  ye 
said  appraisment,  and  deny  Gillingham  his  appeal.  This 
appears  more  arbitrary  and  illegall,  when  we  consider 
yt.  in  a  case  of  Mr.  Bate's  which  came  before  your 
Excellency  and  Council,  a  day  or  two  before,  you 
declared  your  opinion  that  an  appraisment  once  made 
could  not  be  set  aside ;  and  what  makes  the  proceedings 
of  your  Excellency  in  this  case  yet  more  partial  and 
unjustifiable  is,  that  your  Excellency,  who  was  party 
complainant  in  this  very  suit  against  Mr.  Gillingham 
and  his  wife,  had  yourself  decreed  for  yourself  against 
them,  and  yet  took  this  way  contrary  to  your  own 
declared  opinion  to  deprive  them  of  an  appeal  toH.M. 
from  your  judgment  in  your  own  favour.  (6  (sic)  ) 
Your  Excellency  has  assum'd  to  yourself  a  power  of 
acting  in  some  cases  as  sole  Chancellor,  and  in  others 
as  you,  in  conjunction  with  the  Council,  are  a  Chancery, 
and  this  in  one  and  ye  same  day,  and  sitting  the  same 
Court,  as  in  ye  case  of  Shetterden  against  Lyte  upon 
a  demurrer.  The  Court  then  consisted  of  your  Ex- 
cellency, and  five  Members  of  ye  Council ;  ye  Court 
was  equally  divided ;  and  yet  your  Excellency,  whose 
vote  made  the  Division  equal,  as  sole  Chancellor  gave 
judgment  against  the  demurrer,  and  order'd  the  de- 
murrer to  be  overul'd.  Immediately  after,  a  Cause 
comeing  on,  in  which  one  of  the  said  Members,  Mr. 
Colleton  was  a  party,  he  of  course  arose  from  the 
Board,  and  then  there  being  only  four  Members  with 
your  Excellency,  whereas  ye  practice  of  that  Court 
requires  five  and  the  Governour,  your  Excellency  put 
off  ye  hearing  ye  same,  declareing  there  was  no  Court 
for  that  Cause ;  so  yt.  your  Excellency  in  one  and  ye 
same  day  has  declar'd  yourself  Chancellor,  and  not 
Chancellor.  What  fatal  consequences  may  we  not  ex- 
pect from  inconsistency  and  uncertainty  in  so  high  a 
Court?  (7)  Your  Excellency  has  as  a  Chancellor  kept 
one  Cuthbert  Mitford  in  prison  above  one  year  by 
vertue  of  a  ne  exeat  insulam,  altho'  he  has  fully  answer'd 
and  deny'd  upon  oath  the  suggestions  of  ye  Bill  brought 
against  him,  and  no  proceedings  but  dilatory  motions 
for  renewing  Commissions  have  been  on  the  plaintiff's 
part  in  the  said  cause;  and  what  makes  this  yet  a 
higher  violation  of  ye  subjects'  liberty  is,  that  you 
are  yourself  party  complainant  in  ye  said  Cause.  Your 
Excellency  has  not  only  innovated  in  the  Chancery; 
but  haveing  rented  ye  office  of  your  private  Clerk  or 
Secretary  for  an  excessive  annual  summe,  which  the 
legal  ffees  could  not  raise,  two  methods  have  been 
fal'n  upon  to  effect'  it;  exacting  ffees  from  Plaintiff 
and  Defendant,  and  takeing  cognizance,  by  way  of 


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1708. 

petition,  of  matters  cognizable  alone  in  H.M.  Courts 
of  Law  or  Equity;  as  in  ye  case  of  Mr.  Somers,  where 
ye  matter  in  dispute  was  a  promisary  note,  which  your 
Excellency  commanded  should  be  paid  on  pain  of  im- 
prisonment ;  in  ye  case  of  Bampfield  and  Waterman, 
where  you  order'd  several  negro  slaves  to  be  surrender'd 
on  ye  same  pain.  Your  Excellency  cant  but  be  sensi- 
ble many  more  instances  then  these  can  be  given, 
where  you  have  taken  upon  you  at  your  own  House 
by  way  of  petition,  to  give  judgment  in  cases  of  debt 
and  other  cases  of  meum  and  tuum,  all  wch.  we  pro- 
test against  as  illegal  infringments  of  our  rights  as 
Englishmen,  who  as  sudh  have  not  only  a  right  to 
justice,  but  also  to  the  establisht  legal  method  of  dis- 
tributeing  it.  That  when  your  Excellency  has  by  way 
of  petition  call'd  up  H.M.  subjects  from  all  parts  of 
ye  Island,  the  very  defendants  are  oblig'd  to  pay  for 
ye  dismissions  of  ye  petitions  against  them,  and  this 
when,  on  the  very  face  of  ye  petitions  it  appears 
even  to  yourself  that  you  have  no  cognizance  of  them. 
(8)  In  order  to  encrease  ye  busines  of  your  private 
office,  you  have  assum'd  to  yourself  ye  power  of  putting 
a  stop  to  proceedings  at  Common  Law,  upon  executions 
after  judgment  upon  the  bare  suggestions  of  ye  party 
in  his  petition,  as  in  ye  case  of  Mr.  Walter  against 
Mr,  Gibbes.  Your  Excellency,  on  ye  petition  of  Mr. 
Gibbes,  stopt  ye  proceedings  of  the  Marshal  upon  the 
execution,  without  any  proof  of  any  irregularity,  and, 
which  is  more  grievous,  upon  hearing  the  said  petition, 
altho  the  Marshal  produced  the  Records,  whereby  it 
appear'd  he  had  acted  according  to  law ;  yet  your 
Excellency  continued  ye  stay  of  proceedings,  which 
Mr.  Walter's  Attorneys  appealing  from  to  ye  Court 
of  Grievances  holden  by  your  Excellency  and  Council., 
your  Excellency  was  so  conscious  of  haveing  acted 
arbitrarily  in  this  matter,  yt.  without  any  farther  proof 
on  either  side  then  what  was  before  you  on  your 
private  hearing  the  same,  you  took  off  ye  stay  of  pro- 
ceedings, alledging  it  had  another  face  when  formerly 
before  you,  tho  James  Cowse  Esq.,  Counsel  at  Law, 
to  whom  you  appeal'd,  declared  to  your  Excellency  it 
appear'd  alike  on  both  hearings.  (9)  Your  Excellency 
has  not  only  assum'd  to  yourself  this  power  in  ye 
case  of  private  persons,  but  also  where  ye  Queen  has 
been  party,  by  which  means  tihe  casual  Revenue  may 
be  very  much  impair'd ;  as  in  ye  case  of  Mr.  Arnold 
and  Mr.  Grey ;  against  whom  a  considerable  recovery 
was  had  upon  the  behalf  of  H.M.  in  ye  Court  of 
Exchequer,  but  when  ye  Marshall  went  to  levy  for 
satisfaction  of  ye  same,  he  was  stopt  by  yr.  Excellency's 
order,  and  this  too  after  it  had  been  pu'blickly  dis- 
courst  yt.  ye  negroes  of  one  of  those  gentlemen  had 


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1708. 


done  your  Excellency  considerable  service  "in  your  plan 
tation.  (10)  Mr.  Walters  haveing  made  a  recovery 
which  affected  the  estate  late  Mr.  Farmer's,  was  pro- 
ceeding to  obtein  satisfaction,  when  he  was  stopt  by 
your  Excellency's  order  on  the  bare  suggestions  of 
Mrs.  Herbert  in  her  petition,  yt.  she  claimed  dowre  out 
of  ye  said  estate.  This  stop  lasted  some  time,  and 
then  the  party  dismist  her  own  petition,  which  was  all 
ye  relief  Mr.  Walter  could  obtein  for  that  unjust  delay. 
If  any  man  is  aggriev'd  by  any  error  in  ye  Courts 
below,  our  Laws  give  him  a  writt  of  error ;  If  any 
man  has  equitable  matter  for  his  relief,  ye  Court  of 
Chancery  gives  him  an  Injunction ;  in  these  cases  ye 
recovery  is  well  secured,  and  ye  party  griev'd  will 
have  his  costs ;  But  in  this  new  way  your  Excellency 
has  found  out,  you  take  upon  you  to  stop  proceedings 
without  secureing  the  recovery.  You  harass  ye  Queen's 
subjects  by  calling  them  before  you  from  all  parts  on 
suggestions  of  facts,  which,  if  true,  cannot  be  deter- 
mined by  you;  and  when  at  last  after  all  their  attend- 
ance and  expence  they  can  procure  a  dismission,  they 
must  themselves  pay  ye  fees  for  it,  and  yet  your 
Excellency  can  give  them  no  cost.  (11)  As  ye  es- 
tablishment of  this  petitioning  Court  in  the  manner 
above  is  wholly  new,  so  in  the  establisht  Courts  of 
Justice,  your  Excellency  has  taken  upon  you  to  inno- 
vate ;  when  your  Excellency  was  pleas'd  to  sit  as  Chief 
Judg  of  ye  Court  of  Grand  Sessions,  immediately  after 
your  arrival;  a  Bill  of  Indictment  haveing  been  pre- 
ferr'd  to  ye  Grand  Jury  at  ye  Queen's  suit  against  Mr. 
Sandford,  wherein  Mr.  Cox  was  prosecutor  in  behalf 
of  H.M.,  when  the  Attorney  General  desired  the  prose- 
cutor might  be  sworn  to  give  evidence  to  ye  Grand 
Jury ;  your  Excellency,  tho  ye  same  be  according  to 
law,  deny'd  it,  and  at  ye  same  time  was  pleas'd  with 
a  great  deal  of  good  nature  without  any  mocion  by 
ye  prisoner,  to  call  for  his  evidences,  and  order  them 
all  to  be  sworn  to  give  evidence  to  ye  Grand  Inquest 
on  ye  prisoner's  behalf.  (12)  Your  Excellency  has 
in  ye  Courts  of  Chancery,  Error  and  Grievances  brought 
th(;  impartiality  of  your  judgment  very  much  in  question 
by  accepting  considerable  presents  from  persons  have- 
ing suits  depending  in  those  Courts ;  as  in  ye  case  of 
Mr.  Slingsby  and  others.  (13)  Your  Excellency  has 
obtein'd  the  summe  of  £500  to  provide  yourself  another 
house ;  notwithstanding  which  your  Excellency  and 
family  have  still  had  your  constant  residence  in  the 
same,  under  a  rent  paid  by  ye  publick,  over  and 
above  ye  said  summe.  (14)  Your  Excellency  in  the 
capacity  of  Ordinary  has  taken  upon  yourself  to  im- 
prison H.M.  subjects  for  supposed  comtempts  in  not 
obeying  illegal  and  arbitrary  orders  made  by  your  Ex.- 


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1708. 

cellency  as  Ordinary ;  and  that  too  in  cases  where  such 
orders  have  never  been  served  upon  the  party  committed 
for  breach  of  them ;  and  when  the  prisoner  has  with 
great  difficulty  obtain'd  to  be  bail'd  on  such  committ- 
ment, upon  entering  into  security  to  appear  ?it  ye 
next  Court  of  oyer  and  Terminer ;  your  Excellency, 
conscious  of  the  illegality  of  such  your  committment, 
has  not  only  without  ye  applycation  of  the  prisoner, 
but  even  contrary  to  his  earnest  desires,  order'd  a 
nolle  prosequi  to  be  enter'd,  as  in  the  case  of  Mr. 
Buckworth,  sole  Judg  of  H.M.  Court  of  Admiralty  here. 

(15)  Your  Excellency  has  also  imprison'd  H.M.  subjects 
for   supposed   contempts   of   your    extrajudicial    orders, 
and  has  kept  them  in  prison  several  weeks  without  bail 
or  mainprize,   till  they  have   been  necessitated  to  lay 
down  offices  of  considerable  yearly  value  thereby  giveing 
your    Excellency    an    opportunity    of    conferring    them 
upon  your  own  creatures,  as  in  ye  case  of  Mr.  Small. 

(16)  Your  Excellency  has  taken  upon  you  to   impose 
new,   arbitrary,   and  illegal  oaths,   extrajudicially  upon 
H.M.   subjects,  threatning  them  with  imprisonment  in 
case  of  refusal ;  as  in  ye  case  of  Mr.  Godfrey,  whose 
wife  discovering  a  jealousy  of  him  to  your  Excellency, 
you  thereupon,  without  any  proof,  obliged  him  to  swear 
never   more   to   speak  to  ye   party  suspected;    and   to 
Mr.  Baron,  upon  a  suspicion  you  had  of  your  secrets 
being   discover'd,   you   administer'd   a   general   oath   to 
answere  all  such  questions  as  you  should  ask,  without 
limitation  to  any  subject  matter.     This  we  cannot  but 
look  upon  as  a  sort  of  Inquisition,   and  as  one  of  ye 
greatest    infringments    of   the    English    Libertys.    (17) 
Your  Excellency  has  greatly  discourag'd  trade  in  threat- 
ning to  seize  merchant  ships,  and  sending  persons  on 
board  for  that  end  without  any  cause,   as  you  tacitly 
confest  by  proceeding  no  farther  on  such  occasion ;  as 
in  ye  case  of  the  Eoyal  African  Company's  ship,  the 
Sherborough.      (18)  You  have  also  oblig'd  all  masters 
of   ships   to   have   their   petitions   to   you   for   leave   to 
sail   drawn    by   your   own   Clerk,    even    in   cases   when 
they  have  already  had  them  drawn  by  others,  so  yt.  they 
have    doubly    paid    for    the    same,    which    is    a    heavy 
burthen  upon  trade,  of  which  ye  Masters  of  the  several 
ships  now  bound  out  are  so  many  instances,   and  of 
which  they  make  just  and  heavy  complaints,  as  contrary 
to  a  solemn  Order  of  Council  made  on  the  like  occasion. 
(19)  Your    Excellency    is   very   much   lessen'd    in   the 
esteem  of  H.M.  good  subjects  by  several  times  solemnly 
and  publickly  denying  you   ever  design'd  Mr.   Cleland 
for  Lt.  Governour  of  this  place,  when  he  as  publickly 
gives  out  and  shews  your  Excellency's  letter  assureing 
him  of  the  same  ;  wch.  if  you  were  not  sensible  was  true, 
it  might  be  reasonably  presumed  you  would  have  called 


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1708. 


him  to  a  legal  account  for  the  same.  (20)  Your  Ex- 
cellency, at  a  time  when  the  Publick  was  in  gre-it  want 
of  money,  and  the  inhabitants  unable  to  pay  a  tax, 
did  by  frequent  adjournments  and  other  methods  prevent 
ye  passing  of  the  Excise  Bill  the  last  Assembly  till 
their  time  expired;  and  before  ye  present  Assembly 
could  meet  and  prepare  another  Bill  for  that  purpose, 
great  quantitys  of  exciseable  liquors  were  imported, 
by  which  the  Publick  lost  a  considerable  summe.  (21) 
Your  Excellency  has  made  so  many  suddain  and  un- 
accountable alterations  in  the  Militia,  yt.  many  of  our 
best  men  are  unemploy'd,  and  for  no  other  apparent 
reason,  then  their  not  being  of  the  prevailing  party; 
whereas  your  Excellency  can't  but  be  sensible,  yt. 
ye  way  to  quell  our  factions,  and  so  put  an  end  to 
our  divisions,  would  be  to  prefer  all  men  of  merit- 
indifferently,  without  any  regard  to  a  party;  that  H.M. 
subjects  may  find  virtue,  and  not  listing  themselves 
under  this  or  that  leader,  the  best  way  to  preferment. 
(22)  Your  Excellency  has  given  a  Brigadeer's,  and 
a  Cheif  Judge's  Commission  to  two  Gentlemen  ^ifter 
you  had  declared  one  of  them  a  hot-headed  fellow,  fit 
only  to  breed  disturbance ;  and  ye  other  a  beggarly 
fellow,  more  in  debt  then  he  was  worth.  If  these 
were  not  your  Excellency's  real  sentiments  of  these 
Gentlemen,  you  did  them  ye  highest  injustice  in  repre- 
senting them  under  such  disadvantageous  characters, 
and  gave  all  men  too  just  grounds  to  believe,  you 
would  have  but  little  regard  to  your  Instructions,  when 
any  prevailing  passion  came  in  competition ;  and  if 
your  Excellency  was  of  opinion  they  deserv'd  ye  char- 
acter you  gave  them,  then  we  leave  your  Excellency 
to  consider,  whether  in  disposeing  these  posts,  you 
have  well  discharg'd  ye  trust  reposed  in  you  by  H.M. 
But  we  cannot  forbear  telling  your  Excellency,  your 
illegal  dispensing  with  ye  Law  in  Mr.  Holder's  case  had 
subjected  you  to  ye  complaints  of  the  Assembly,  who 
like  faithfull  patriots  were  about  representing  your 
illegal  proceedings  to  H.M.  ;  to  prevent  which  you 
were  contented  to  prostitute  ye  dignity  of  ye  Govern- 
ment, and  to  sacrifice  the  publick  good  to  your  private 
safety.  Sr.,  we  think  it  our  duty  to  lay  this  repre- 
sentation before  you ;  we  design  farther  to  send  ye 
same  home  to  the  Lords  Commissioners  for  Trade  and 
Plantations.  In  ye  mean  time,  your  Excellency  will 
please  to  make  such  use  of  it  as  you  see  proper.  P.S. 
Sept.  1st.  The  foregoing  representation  is  what  wee 
had  prepared  to  lay  before  your  Excellency  in  Council 
yesterday,  being  Council  day  of  course,  but  we  were 
prevented  from  doing  it  by  your  summoning  ye  Council 
to  meet  the  day  before,  and  even  then  adjourning 
the  same  for  a  month,  as  soon  -as  you  had  sworn  Mr. 


AMERICA  AND  .WEST  INDIES.  91 

1708. 

Pilgrim  a  Member  of  that  Board,  without  affording  us 
time  to  enter  on  ye  consideration  of  ye  publick  affairs. 
We  were  then  very  much  surprized  at  this  proceedure, 
but  are  more  so  this  day,  when  we  find  your  Excellency 
has  permitted  the  Assembly  to  meet  and  prepare  Ad- 
dresses to  H.M.  of  very  great  concern  to  the  Publick 
without  giveing  us  an  opportunity  of  declaiming  our 
approbation  or  dislike  of  the  same.  We  are  sensible 
this  is  intended  to  affront  the  Council,  and  represent 
the  same  as  insignificant  and  useless  in  H.M.  Govern- 
ment. But  our  surprize  did  not  end  here.  We  find 
you  have  not  only  put  this  slight  upon  us,  but  have 
also  permitted  the  Assembly  yesterday  to  dispose  of 
ye  publick  mony  in  presents  to  private  persons  without 
our  consent  or  priority.  This  we  can't  but  look  upon 
as  an  assuming  the  Legislature  solely  to  themselves, 
contrary  to  H.M.  Instructions.  Wee  are  sorry  we  should 
be  forc'd  to  lay  before  your  Excellency  here  and  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  at  home,  so  many 
miscarriages  in  the  management  of  the  publick  affairs. 
But  we  are  sensible  it  is  what  our  duty  obliges  us  to, 
and  therefore  needs  no  apology.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe, 
Alexander  Walker,  Saml.  Beresford.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
17th,  Read  19th  Nov.  1708.  of  pp.  \C.O.  28,  11.  Nos. 
22,  22.  i. ;  and  28,  38.  Nos.  73,  73.  i. ;  and  (without 
enclosure)  29,  11.  pp.  313-318;  and  (enclosure  only) 
319,  1.  pp.  93-101.] 

Sept.  4.  127.  The  Queen  to  Governor  Parke.  Whereas  in  compassion 
Windsor,  to  the  distrest  estate  of  our  subjects  in  Nevis  and  St.  Christo- 
phers, whom  the  depredations  of  the  enemy  and  a  late  hurricane 
have  almost  reduced  to  ye  utmost  extremity,  We  have  been 
graciously  pleased  out  of  our  Royal  Bounty  to  order  a  supply  of 
provisions  of  beef,  pork  and  flower,  as  also  50  barrels  of 
nailes  of  several  sorts,  together  with  bolts  and  hinges  for  the 
building  their  houses  to  be  sent  to  them,  and  that  the  same 
should  be  consigned  to  you.  Our  further  will  and  pleasure  is, 
and  We  do  hereby  strictly  charge  and  command  you  that,  as 
soon  as  you  shall  have  received  the  said  provisions,  nails  and 
other  things  abovementioned,  you  distribute  the  same,  or  cause 
them  to  be  distributed  by  the  Lieutenant  Governors  of  our  said 
Islands  to  the  inhabitants  thereof  in  proportion  to  their  wants. 
In  the  doing  of  which  you,  or  our  said  Lieut.  Governors  in 
your  absence,  are  to  take  ye  advice  of  our  Council  and  Assembly 
in  each  of  ye  said  Islands  respectively  to  the  end  v>he  said 
distribution  may  be  performed  in  the  most  just  and  equal 
manner  possible,  and  no  part  of  our  said  bounty  may  be  em- 
bezeled  or  misapplyed,  but  that  our  charitable  purpose  and 
intention  in  this  behalf  may  be  effectually  cornplyed  with,  which 
wee  earnestly  recommend  to  your  care,  and  shall  expect  from  you 
a  particular  account  of  your  proceedings  herein.  And  for  so 
doing,  this  shall  be  your  warrant,  etc.  Counter  siqned,  Sunder  - 
land.  [O.O.  5,  210.  p.  115.] 


92 


COLONIAL   PAPEES. 


1708. 
Sept.  5. 

Windsor. 


Sept.  6. 
Barbados. 


Sept.  7. 

Whitehall. 


Sept,  7. 

Maryland . 


128.  The   Earl   of   Sunderland  to   Governor   Lord   Lovelace. 
Having  a   very  good   character  given  me   of  Mr.   John   Biggs, 
a    Lieutenant   of   one    of   the    Independant   Companys    in    New 
York,   I  take  the  liberty  to  recommend  him  to  your  Lordsp's. 
protection.      Your    favour   to    him    in    any    occasion   that    may 
offer  for  his  advantage  will  particularly  oblige,   my  Lord,   etc. 
Signed,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  116] 

129.  Governor    Crowe   to  the    Council   of   Trade    and   Plan- 
tations.     Refers  to   enclosed   duplicate   of    his    last  letters    and 
papers.     Messrs.    Sharp,   Walker   and  Beresford  has    lately  de- 
liver'd   me   one   of   a   very   extraordinary   nature,    wch.    I    have 
not  had  time  to  answere  by  reason  of  the  great  hurry  I  have 
been  in  on  the  ffleet's  sailing,  they  tell  me  they  will  lay  the 
same  before  yr.  Lordshipps,  where  I  hope  it  will  "make  no  im- 
pression till  the  next  opportunity,  when  I   shall  vindicate  my- 
selfe,   so   as  I   hope  will   be   approv'd  off   by  your  Lordshipps. 
I  humbly  recommend  the  Generall  Assembly's  inclos'd  Address 
to   your   consideration.      Signed,    M.    Crowe.      Endorsed,    Becd. 
16th,  Bead  19th  Nov.,   1708.      1  p.      [C.O.   28,   11.     No.  21; 
and  29,  11.     pp.  311,  312.] 

130.  The   Earl  of  Sunderland  to  Governor  Parke.     I  send 
you  enclosed  H.M.   Letter  concerning  the  disposal  of  the  pro- 
visions,  nails   etc.,   she   is    graciously   pleased   to    send   as   Her 
Boyall  Bounty  to  the  poor  inhabitants  of  Nevis  and  St.  Christo- 
phers   (See   Sept.  4),   by  which  you  will  observe  that  H.M.  is 
very   earnest  to   have   the   same   equally   distributed   and   duely 
applyed  in  which  H.M.  is  ilhe  more  pressing  because  of  a, surmise 
that  the   provisions  wcih.    were   sent  on   board   two   ships   that 
arrived  in  those  parts   some  time  since   were  not  so  regularly 
disposed   of    as    they    might   have    been,    but   I    hope    you  will 
take  such  care  of  those  which   are  now  sent  as   may  prevent, 
any  complaints  of  this  kind  for  the  future.     Signed,  Sunderland. 
[C.O.  5,  210.    p.  119.] 

131.  Governor  Seymour  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    This    serves    to    accompany    the    Laws    and    severall 
Journalls  now  transmitted  your  Honble.   Board  by  Commodore 
Huntington,    and  to   acquaint  you,   that  on   June   14,    and  not 
before,    I    had  the   honour   of   your    Lordshipps'    commands    in 
your   letter   of  May    7,    1707.      Wherein    your    Lordships    were 
pleased    to    signify,    that    an    Act    of    Parliament    had    past    in 
England  for  the  Union  of  H.M1.  two  Kingdoms  of  England  and 
Scotland  into  one  by  the  name  of  Greate  Britain.     Whereupon, 
with  the  advice  of  H.M.  Councill  (here,  I  issued  a  Proclamation 
to   the   severall   Countys   of  this   Province  for   proclayming   the 
same:   And  at  this   place,   being  the   seate  of  Government,   on 
July  18,  having  ordered  severall  troops  of  the  Militia  to  review, 
and  invited  the  best  of  H.M.  subjects  here  to  the  handsomest 
entertainment  the  country  would  admitt  me  to  make  them,  we 
proclamed.  H.M.   Queen  of  Great  Brittain,   the  Act  of  Union 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  93 

1708. 

being  read  on  the  Courthouse  Hill,  after  which'  H.M.,  H.B  H. 
and  many  other  good  loyall  Healths  were  dranke,  and  the 
gunns  on  our  plattforme,  as  well  as  those  of  the  ships  in  the 
Severne  River  here,  discharged,  to  the  great  joy  and  pleasure 
of  H.M.  subjects.  I  had  likewise  presented  to  me  four  severall 
letters  under  H.M.  signett  and  sign  manuall,  commanding  me 
to  admitt  and  swear  of  H.M.  Councill  here,  four  Gentlemen,  to 
witt>  CoL  John  Contee,  Mr.  Seth  Biggs,  Mr.  Samuel  Young,  and 
Col.  Thomas  Greenfeild.  Coll.  Contee  and  Mr.  Samuel  Young 
had  been  sworne  some  little  time  before,  for  want  of  Coun- 
cellors,  being  under  the  number  of  9,  and  on  Aug.  16  Col. 
Greenfeild  was  admitted  and  sworne,  and  at  the  same  time, 
with  the  advice  of  the  fullest  Board  I  could  procure,  I  was 
obliged  to  sweare  Mr.  Philip  Lynes,  whom  I  have  heretofore 
mentioned  to  your  Lordships,  for  want  of  Councellours ;  CoL 
Contee  and  Mr.  Biggs  being  both  dead  since  H.M.  appointment, 
and  Col.  Francis  Jenkins,  who  is  now  President  at  the  Boarde, 
being  very  ancient,  often  indisposed,  and  residing  at  so  vast 
a  distance,  to  witt,  the  extream  parts  of  Somersett  County,  on 
the  other  side  of  the  Bay,  that  I  can  never  gett-  him  on  any 
emergency  till  the  Councill  is  over ;  Wherefore  to  compleate 
the  number  of  Counsellours,  there  being  only  8  resident;  here 
besides  Mr.  Lynes,  I  humbly  present  to  your  Lordshipps  the 
names  of  four  Gentlemen  of  good  reputation,  integrity  and 
ability,  that  is  to  say,  the  said  Mr.  Phillip  Lynes,  Col.  Thomas 
Addison,  Mr.  John  Hall  and  Col.  William  Whitington,  if  you 
please  to  recommend  them  to  H.M.  for  her  appointment.  Your 
Lordships'  letter  of  Dec.  30,  1707,  with  H.M.  circular  letter, 
requiring  the  Counsellours  in  the  Plantations  diligently  to  attend 
H.M.  service  in  the  respective  Councills,  of  which  they  are 
Members,  were  read  in  Councill,  and  H.M.  said  letter  recorded 
in  the  Journall  thereof.  As  for  your  Lordships'  letter  of  March 
6  you  mentioned,  I  have  not  had  the  good  fortune  to  receive 
it,  but  am  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  H.M.  Order  in  Councill 
of  Aprill  1st,  1708,  declaring  2  Acts  of  the  General!  Assembly 
of  this  province  to  be  repealed,  etc.,  which  were  read  at  the 
Board  and  publique  notice  given  of  the  said  Laws  being  re- 
pealed. And  Sir  Symon  Harcourt's  report  concerning  Sir 
Thomas  Larance  etc.,  with  H.M.  Order  thereon,  being  read  to 
H.M.  Councill  here,  wee  have  resolved  to  recommend  it  to 
the  next  Generall  Assembly  with  the  most  pressing  arguments 
and  motives  we  can  use  to  perswade  them  to  comply  with 
H.M  Royall  pleasure.  And  for  your  Lordships'  truer  infor- 
mation of  the  value  of  those  lycences ;  in  obedience  to  your 
commands,  I  have  procured  the  best  account  I  could,  and  have 
inquired  into  their  reall  value,  on  which  occasion  I  had  the 
advice  of  the  greatest  traders  here,  and  especially  Mr.  Amos 
Garrett,  who  is  one  of  Sir  T.  Laurence's  Agents,  and  am 
informed  that  Sir  Thomas's  calculation  is  soe  extravagant,  that 
it  is  almost  two  thirds  more  than  what  they  truely  amount  to, 
the  said  Mr.  Garrett  and  others  not  valuing  them  at  more 
than  5  per  cent.,  and  their  reasons  are  tlhat  the  sallary  of 


94  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

receiving  to  the  Sherriff  is  10  per  cent.,  that  the  tobacco  lyes 
stragling  and  dispersed  in  the  severall  Countys,  not  being  on 
execution,  and  many  times  slender  securitys  taken  for  the  pay- 
ment of  those  fines,  most  of  such  who  keep  ordinarys  very  poore 
persons,  who  take  up  the  trade,  and  the  Justices  are  willing 
to  encourage  them,  to  keep  them  off  tihe  County  charge.  My 
Lords,  observing  the  Roman  Catholicks  in  this  province  dis- 
course of  the  lat-e  designed  invasion  by  the  pretended  Prince 
of  Wales,  and  were  listning  after  the  success,  I  thought  it 
might  not  be  amiss,  with  the  advice  of  the  Councill,  to  take 
the  number  of  them  in  the  severall  Countys,  that  I  might 
compute  their  ability  in  case  any  misfortune  should  befall  us, 
which  God  forbid,  and  have  inclosed  the  said  lists  for  your 
Lordships'  consideration,  for  I  am  satisfied  those  people  have 
an  illegall  correspondance  somewhere,  they  having  reported  the 
raising  the  seige  of  Toulon  some  months,  and  the  invasion  of 
the  Pretender  severall  weeks,  before  we  could  have  any  intimation 
thereof.  My  Lords,  it  might  still  continue  prejudicial!  to  H.M. 
service  should  I  omitt  to  acquaint  your  Lordps.  how  ill  the 
trade  here  have  been  treated  in  respect  to  the  incertainty  of 
the  sayling  of  the  present  convoy,  of  wihich  I  had  not  the 
least  intimation  from  Commordore  Huntington,  untill  the  latter 
end  of  August,  and  then  was  forced  to  dispatch  boate  and 
hands  to  Virginia  to  obtain  that  satisfaction.  And  altho'  Capt. 
Gore  in  H.M.S.  Bristoll,  has  layne  in  Patuxent  some  months 
within  50  miles  of  this  place;  I  have  neither  seen  nor  heard 
from  him.  I  hope  your  Lordships  will  remember  my  severall 
applications  concerning  the  encouragement  given  in  North  Caro- 
lina to  H.M.  subjects  here  to  disert  this  her  more  profitable 
province,  which  is  still  carryed  on  to  a  very  high  degree.  All 
which  I  submitt  to  your  Lordships'  wise  consideration,  etc. 
Signed,  Jo.  Seymour.  Endorsed,  Reed.  9th,  Read  17th  Dec., 
1708.  6  pp.  Enclosed, 

131.  i.  Copy  of  Address  from  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council 
of  Maryland  to  ithe  Queen.  Congratulate  H.M.  on 
failure  of  the  attempted  invasion  by  the  Popish  Pre- 
tender, equipt  by  the  French  King.  Endorsed  as 
preceding.  1  p. 

131.  ii.  Account  of  the  Ordinary  licences  granted  in  Mary- 
land Oct.  1703-1707.  Total,  101,6001b.  tobacco,— at 
5  p.c.  in  money  for  four  years,  £254.  etc.  Names 
given  of  some  70  keepers  of  ordinaries  during  those 
years.  Same  endorsem&nt.  2  pp. 

131.  iii.  List  of  Papists  inhabiting  the  several  Counties  of 
Maryland,  1708.  Total,  2974.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  716. 
Nos.  56,  56.  i.-iii. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  5,  727. 
pp.  99-106.] 

Sept.  9.         132.    Mr.  Cox  to  Mr.   Popple.     Governor  Crow  having  sur- 

Southwark.   rendred  ye   Navall  Office  to  my  brother   Samuel  Cox,   I   desire 

leave  to  withdraw  my  petition.    Signed,  Charles  Cox.     Endorsed, 

Reed.      Sept,    9,   Read  Oct.    26,    1708.     Addressed.     Postmark. 

J  p.     [C.O.  28,  11.     #o.  27;  and  29,  11.  #.306.1 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


95 


1708. 
Sept.  11 

Windsor. 


Sept.  14. 
.Whitehall. 


Sept.  16. 

London. 


Sept.  20. 
Windsor. 


Sept.  20. 

Virginia. 


133.  H.M.  Warrant  granting  Richard  Rigby,  Provost  Marshal 
of  Jamaica,  3  years  leave  of  absence,  on  his  appointing  a  Deputy 
etc.     Addressed  to  Governor  Handasyd.     Countersigned,  Sunder- 
land.     [C.O.  5,  210.     pp.  116,  117.] 

134.  The   Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     What  is  proposed  in  the  inclosed  petition  seems  to 
be  so  advantagious  to  our  trade,  that  H.M.   thinks  it  deserves 
your  serious   consideration,    and   desires   your  opinion   what  be 
proper  for  H.M.  to  do  therein.     Signed,  Sunderland.    Endorsed, 
Reed.  Sept.  15,  Read  Oct.  25,  1708.     1  p.    Enclosed, 

134.  i.  Thomas  Pindar,  of  London,  merchant,  to  the  Queen. 
By  incouragement  of  your  Majesties  letter  of  Feb.  20, 
170f,  granted  to  petitioner  in  favour  of  Manasses  Qilli- 
gan  of  Barbadoes,  for  promoting  the  trade  with  the 
Spanish  West  Indies,  petitioner  is  now  advised  that,  by 
the  interest  and  influence  of  Gilligan,  a  considerable 
merchant  of  New  Spain  hatih  been  at  Barbadoes  to 
purchase  negroes,  etc.,  and  made  offers  of  settling 
and  promoting  the  Assiento  Trade  in  that  Island,  &-nd 
of  importing  thither  for  that  end  sufficient  quantities  of 
bullion  and  peices  of  eight,  and  that  the  same  may 
meet  with  no  interruption,  he  desires  your  Majesty 
will  be  pleased  to  grant  passes  for  the  ships  imployed 
in  that  service.  Prays  for  4  passes  accordingly.  lp. 
"C.O.  28,  11.  Nos.  15,  15.  i.  ;  and  29,  11.  pp. 
U-808.] 


301 


135.  Mr.  Dummer  to  Mr.  Popple.  Gives  sailings  of  the 
King  William  packet.  Out  and  home  112  days.  This  pacquet 
boate  brings  from  severall  hands  an  account  of  the  conduct 
of  Admirall  Wager  and  ye  ill  conduct  of  those  Captns.  which 
made  up  his  verry  litle  squadron  with  which  he  attempted  the 
Spanyards'  fleet  (14  saile  of  ships,  2  sloops  and  one  brigantine), 
for  which  they  have  been  tryed  and  found  guilty  of  the  breach 
of  the  14  and  30  articles  of  warr.  Signed,  E.  Dummer.  En- 


dorsed,   Reed.    Sept.    17fth,    1708.-    Addressed. 
323,  6.    A7o.  70.] 


If   pp.     [C.O. 


136.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     John  Hallet  is  appointed 
to  the   Council  of   Barbados    (c/.    Aug.    18).      A   warrant   is  to 
be  prepared  accordingly.     Signed,  John  Povey.     Endorsed,  Reed. 
23rd,  Read  25th  Oct."  1708.     1£  pp.      [C.O.  28,   11.     A7o.  14; 
and  29,  11.     pp.  299,  300.] 

137.  Col.  Jenings  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Having    on   June   24    given   myself    the    honour   of   writing   to 
your    Lordships    by    H.M.S.    Garland    and    at    the    same    time 
sent   a   duplicate   by   a   merchant  ship   of   that  fleet,    I  humbly 
beg  leave  to  be  referred  to  that  letter,  and  the  papers  therewith 
sent,    without   giving  your   Lordships   the   trouble   of   repeating 
anything  I  then  laid  before  you.     f  herewith  send  your  Lordships 


96  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1708. 

the  Journals  of  Councill  from  Oct.  15,  1706  to  April  30,  1708, 
an  abstract  of  which  I  sent  in  my  last.  There  have  been 
four  meetings  of  the  Councill  since,  chiefly  intended  for  giving 
the  necessary  orders  for  hastening  tihe  merchant  ships  in  their 
joining  Capt.  Stewart  in  June,  and  Commodore  Huntington  now, 
and  for  taking  into  consideration  your  Lordps.'  commands  signi- 
fyed  in  your  severall  letters ;  but  the  severe  and  extraordinary 
fevers  and  other  sicknesses  with  which  almost  all  parts  of 
the  country  have  been  afflicted  for  near  two  moneths  past, 
and  under  which  several  of  tihe  members  of  the  Council  at 
this  time  labour,  hath  hindered  the  answering  those  inquirys 
sent  by  your  Lordps.,  as  well  as  the  reading  the  last  proceedings 
of  Council,  so  as  to  prepare  them  for  your  Lordships'  view. 
After  the  departure  of  H.M.S.  Garland,  Commodore  Huntington 
ordered  out  one  of  H.M.  ships  under  his  command  to  cruise: 
but  that  ship  did  not  proceed  on  that  service  for  some  days 
after,  (having  been  obliged  to  go  round  to  York  Eiver,  to  take 
in  bread  and  provisions,  during  which  time  we  had  daily  advices 
of  the  appearance  of  privateers  on  our  coast,  and  after  that 
man  of  war  was  out  a  cruising,  one  Capt.  Tarleton  of  Leverpoole 
was  chased  from  his  anchors  at  the  mouth  of  York  Eiver  by 
a  privateer  sloop.  Whereupon,  at  the  Council  held  July  29, 
upon  consideration  of  our  danger,  it  was  the  unanimous  opinion 
of  the  Council  that,  for  securing  this  coast  and  trade  against 
the  privateers,  it  was  necessary  to  have  a  fourth  rate  man  of 
war,  and  a  briganteen  or  sloop  of  about  8  or  10  guns,  and 
proportionably  mann'd ;  this  latter  to  give  chase  to  the  priva- 
teer sloops  in  the  shoal  water,  where  by  the  report  of  all  the 
Captains  of  the  men  of  war  that  had  been  discoursed  on  that 
subject,  it  appeared  very  easy  for  such  sloops  to  pass  without 
coming  within  gun  shott  of  a  large  ship.  I  have  by  this 
conveyance  laid  this  matter  before  H.E.H.  the  Lord  High; 
Admiral,  and  I  humbly  beg  your  Lordships'  favourable  recom- 
mendation thereof,  for  it  is  demonstrable  from  the  boldness  of 
those  privateers  in  coming  within  our  Capes,  even  in  sight  of 
H.M.  ships  of  war,  that  they  place  their  chief  confidence  in  the 
lightness  of  their  vessells,  and  the  impossibility  of  a  large 
ship's  following  them  among  the  shoals.  I  must  on  this  head 
beg  leave  further  to  observe  to  your  Lordships  that  the  sloops 
which  have  been  occasionally  hyred  here  for  the  assistance 
of  the  men  of  war  in  that  service  have  never  answered  the  end 
proposed,  for  besides  the  almost  impossibility  of  procuring  a 
good  sloop  here  fitt  for  such  a  design,  the  difficultys  which 
the  Captains  of  the  men  of  war  have  pretended  of  dividing 
their  men,  and  of  sending  out  such  sloops  without  their  ships 
going  in  company,  have  made  all  the  services  intended  by 
those  sloops  fruitless ;  so  that  they  have  only  proved  a  charge 
on  the  Queen's  Eevenue,  without  any  real  advantage ;  and  this 
consideration  obliged  the  Council  to  advise  the  discharging  the 
sloop  impressed  last  summer,  after  she  had  been  imployed  and 
paid  out  of  the  Queen's  revenue  for  six  weeks,  and  yet  in 
all -that  time  not  above  five  days  out  a  cruising.  I  informed 


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1708 

your  Lordships  in  my  last,  that  we  were  under  some  appre- 
hensions from  the  Tuscoruro  Indians,  who  had  not  eomplyed 
in  delivering  up  some  of  their  nation  suspected  of  a  murther 
committed  last  year  in  this  Colony.  In  order  to  make  them1 
more  yeilding  in  that  particular  it  hath  been  thought  fitt  to 
prohibite  all  trade  and  commerce  with  them:  this  hath  had 
some  effect  on  them  already,  by  obliging  them  to  make  over- 
tures for  an  accommodation,  and  I  am  inform'd  their  coming 
in  to  complete  it  hath  been  only  obstructed  by  the  raging  of 
a  violent  distemper  amongst  them  for  several  weeks  past.  I 
thought-  it  necessary  to  advise  with  the  Councill,  concerning 
the  calling  an  Assembly,  the  chief  occasion  for  which  at  this 
time  is  the  raising  an  additional  fund  for  finishing  the  Governor's 
house,  the  whole  sum  appropriated  by  Act  of  Assembly  for 
that  use  being  already  expended,  and  yet  the  rooff  not  rais'd, 
nor  any  inside  work  done:  I  should  have  been  glad  to  have 
had  an  Assembly  for  this  purpose,  but  the  majority  of  the 
Council  thought  it  too  great  a  dhaKge  to  the  Country  !o  have 
an  Assembly  now,  and  another  on  the  arrival  of  the  Governor 
(ho  being  daily  expected  and),  by  whom  they  thought  it  very 
probable  H.M.  would  send  such  directions  as  might  make  the 
calling  of  an  Assembly  then  of  absolute  necessity.  Nor  were 
they  of  opinion  that  either  the  danger  of  the  Country  from 
the  privateers,  or  the  apprehensions  we  were  under  from  the 
Tuscoruro  Indians,  were  sufficient  grounds  for  calling  an  As- 
sembly, the  preventing  of  the  first  being  a  task  too  great  for 
this  Country  to  undertake,  and  the  danger  of  the  latter  not  so 
apparent,  since  there  was  hopes  of  an  accommodation  with1 
those  Indians.  A  nation  of  Indians  called  the  Saponies,  who 
were  formerly  tributarys  to  this  Government,  and  removed 
Westward  about  20  or  25  years  agoe,  have  lately  return'd  and 
prayed  to  be  received  again  into  protection,  and  to  have  land 
•  assign'd  them  for  a  settlement,  which,  by  the  advice  of  the 
Council  I  have  granted  them,  in  consideration  of  their  being 
one  of  the  Nations  included  in  the  Articles  of  Peace  made  with 
the  Indians  in  1677.  Their  number  is  not  considerable,  being 
only  about  30  bowmen,  but  the  character  they  have  of  being 
stout  fellows,  and  withall  very  friendly  to  our  inhabitants,  makes 
me  hope  their  Settlement  (which  is  on  the  Maherine  Hiver) 
will  be  some  kind  of  barrier  against  the  Tuscoruros,  or  any 
other  Indians  that  might  be  suspected  to  annoy  us  on  that 
side,  since  they'l  be  able  to  advise  us  of  their  designs,  sooni 
enough  to  prevent  both  their  and  our  danger.  I  have  lately 
received  H.M.  warrant  for  paying  unto  Col.  Hunter  £1418-5  0 
out  of  the  Quitt-rents  as  a  compensation  for  the  loss  of  his 
equippage,  and  £500  per  annum  out  of  the  same  fund  from 
July  1,  1707,  till  his  arrival  in  this  Colony ;  and  pursuant  to 
H.M.  commands  I  have  passed  a  warrant  for  the  first,  and 
another  for  one  year's  allowance  ending  July  1,  1708,  both 
which  sums  will  be  remitted  him  by  this  conveyance:  but  that 
fund  is  so  much  drained  by  this  and  tihe  former  remittances 
into  tho  Exchequer  that  I'm  afraid  the  subsequent  allowance 

Wt.  11522.  CP7 


>8  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1706. 

(which  ic  ordered  to  be  paid  quarterly)  must  be  superseded  till 
the  next  year,  if  he  stays  out  so  long.  I  hop'd  to  have  sent 
your  Lordpvs.  the  copys  of  the  accounts  of  H.M.  Revenues  of 
quitt- rents,  and  2/-  per  hogshead,  but  t!he  unfortunate  absence 
of  the  Council  has  hindered  their  being  audited ;  so  that  I  must 
beg  your  Lordps.'  patience  till  after  our  Genii.  Court,  when  I 
hope  to  have  an  opportunity  of  sending  by  some  of  the1  latter 
ships.  I'm  sorry  to  acquaint  your  Lordps.  that  there's  but  an 
indifferent  prospect  of  a  market  for  the  quitt -rents  this  year, 
the  want  of  shipping  in  the  country  in  the  winter  time,  casts 
a  damp  on  the  tobacco  trade,  and  discourages  purchasers  when 
they  are  uncertain  of  the  conveniency  of  sending  it  home ; 
I'm  perswaded  that  among  the  many  advantages  the  trade  might 
gain  by  the  fleets  coming  in  hitlher  in  the  fall,  and  returning 
in  the  spring,  H.M.  quitt-rents  would  be  considerably  advanced 
by  it.  I  am  informed  from  North  Carolina  that  there  are  very 
great  commotions  in  that  Governmt.,  occasioned  principally  by 
the  Quakers,  who  after  they  had  prevail'd  with  the  Lords  Pro- 
prietors to  turn  out  the  Deputy  Governor,  and  give  the  Council 
(who  were  most  of  their  perswasion)  a  power  of  ehuseing 
their  own  President,  made  choice  of  one  Mr.  Glover,  and  because 
they  did  not  find  him  for  their  turn,  voted  him  out  again. 
They  have  had  the  cunning  to  sett  all  that  Country  in  a 
flame,  and  all  but  themselvs  in  arms  against  one  another. 
It  would  be  tedious  to  trouble  your  Lordships  with  an  account 
of  the  proceedings  of  the  several  partys,  which  look  liker  the 
freaks  of  madmen  than  the  actions  of  men  of  reason,  there 
has  already  been  one  man  unfortunately  killed  in  the  fray,  and 
tho'  'tis  said  they  are  coming  to  an  accomodation,  yet  by  the 
best  information  I  have,  it  is  not  like  to  end  so.  I  thougjht 
it  my  duty  to  acquaint  your  Lordships  of  this,  as  it  happens 
so  nigh  this  H.M.  Colony;  tho'  I  hope  it  will  have  no  ill 
consequences  as  to  us.  Signed,  E.  Jenings.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
6th,  Read  17th  Dec.,  1708.  3|  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1316.  No.  9; 
and  5,  1362.  pp.  318-325.] 

Sept    20.         138.     Order    of    Queen    in    Council.     Appointing    Valentine 
Windsor.      Mumby  a  Member  of  Council  of  Jamaica.     Warrant  to  be  pre- 
pared accordingly.     Signed,  John  Povey.      Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd, 
Read   25th  Oct.    1708.      1|   pp.      [C.O.    137,    8.      No.    21;  and 
138,  12.     pp.  329,  330.] 

Sept.  20.         139.     The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Windsor.      Plantations.     Encloses   following,    "which  you'll   please   to   take 
into  your  consideration  and  to  let  me  have  your  opinion  what 
is  fitting  for  H.M1.   to  do  therein."     Signed,   Sunderland.      En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Sept.  24,  Read  Oct.  25,  1708.     1  p.     Enclosed, 
139.    i.  Francis   Oldfield  to  the   Council   of   Trade   and   Plan- 
tations.    A  native  and  constant  inhabitant  of  Jamaica, 
having  a  considerable  estate  there,  and  for  several  years 
a  member  of  Assembly,  petitioner  desires  to  be  one  of 
the  Council,  for  which  he  is  recommended  by  Governor 


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99 


1708. 


Handasyd.    Copy,     f  p. 
and  138,   12.     p.   331.] 


[C.O.  137,  8.    Nos.  22,22.1. 


Sept.  20.  14O.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Referring  following  to 
Windsor,  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  who  are  to  hear  the 
Petitioner's  Agent  and  make  further  report  upon  this  matter 
to  H.M  in  Council.  In  the  meantime  the  Order  in  Council 
of  Aug.  18  is  to  be  suspended.  Signed,  Edward  Southwell.  En- 
dorsed. Reed.  Dec.  23,  1708,  Read  Jan.  3,  1709.  1£  pp. 
Enclosed, 

140.  i.  Alexander  Skene  to  the  Queen.     Prays  that  ihe  recent 

proceedings  against  him  (July  8,  Aug.  10,  1708)  may 
be  reviewed.  Petitioner's  Agent  was  not  heard  by  the 
Council  of  Trade,  etc.  Copy.  If  pp.  \C.O.  28,  11. 
Nos.  43,  43.  i. ;  and  29,  11.  pp.  363-366.] 

Sept.  23.  141.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Barbados,  tations  This  packet  honours  me  with  none  of  your  Lordships' 
commands.  Our  Fleet  sayled  on  the  7th.  I  have  been  since 
soe  indisposed  with  a  cold  and  feavour  that  I  have  not  been 
able  to  finish  the  answer  I  am  a  making  to  Messrs.  Sharp, 
Walker  and  Berresford's  Paper  (Sept.  3) ;  your  Lordships  may 
depend  thereon  by  next  etc.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  20th,  Read  24th  Jan.  170|.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

141.  i.  Governor   Crowe's    Speech  to  the   Assembly   of   Bar- 

bados, Sept.  4,  1708.  Refers  to  following.  I  desire 
the  Assembly  will  let  me  know  whether  there  be  any 
such  general  dissatisfaction  in  the  country  as  these 
Gentlemen  pretend,  etc.  f  p. 

141.  ii.  Abstract  of  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Berresford's 
complaints,  (see  Sept.  3.)  1|  pp. 

141.  iii.  Address  of  the  Assembly  to  Governor  Crowe.  Reply 
to  preceding.  (1)  The  Assembly  hath  satt  very  often 
at  times  when  the  Council  did  not  sit,  to  prepare 
laws.  This  Assembly  hathi  never  done  otherwise,  or 
pretended  to  pass  any  Act,  to  which  they  did  not  expect 
the  concurrence  of  the  Councill,  as  by  their  Minutes 
appears.  (2)  The  Councill  has  satt  as  frequently  in 
the  time  of  your  Excellency's  Government  as  it  usually 
did  formerly,  except  since  the  arrivall  of  the  London 
Fleet,  etc.  As  to  ye  dredfull  alarm,  another  Paper 
Bill,  we  know  of  no  such  alarm.  It  never  was  in  our 
thoughts,  etc.  (3)  In  the  time  mentioned  the  As- 
sembly passed  two  Excise  Bills;  the  first  after  some 
conferences  and  delays  made  by  the  Councill  was  re- 
jected by  them  because  Agents  for  this  Island  were 
appointed  in  the  sd.  Bill,  wch.  the  Councill  refused 
to  pass,  alledging  that  the  Agency  was  a  matter  forreign 
to  the  title  of  the  Bill,  upon  wch.  the  Assembly  passed 
a  second  Bill,  wherein  the  Agency  was  named  in  the 
title,  and  sent  it  to  the  Councill,  who  after  severall 
debates  and  delays  did  likewise  reject  that  Bill,  because 


100  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 

the  Assembly  according  to  their  former  custom  had 
named  the  Agents  for  this  Island,  so  that  these  Gentle- 
men charge  the  delays  and  inconveniencies  brought 
on  this  Island  by  others  on  your  Excellency.  (4)  The 
Militia  has  not  been  so  well  setled  these  last  four 
years  as  it  is  at  present.  (5)  It  is  justifiable  by  the 
example  of  Parliaments  and  conventions  of  Represen- 
tatives in  other  places,  to  petition  H.M.  separately  or 
joyntly  with  others  as  they  think  fit.  The  Councill  sat 
on  Aug.  30.  The  Assembly  sat  the  next  day  and  re- 
solved upon  the  sd.  Address  to  H.M.,  of  wch.  we  do 
not  know  that  your  Excellency  had  any  foreknowledg. 
etc.  (6)  It  is  true  that  Assembly,  according  to  the 
example  of  former  Assemblies,  did  agree  that  the  Treas- 
urer should  buy  15  doz.  citron  water,  to  be  sent  for 
presents  to  England,  the  Members  declareing  that  if  it 
should  be  refused  to  be  allow'd  to  the  Treasurer  on  his 
accompting,  wch.  is  done  by  consent  of  the  Council, 
they  would  reimburse  it  out  of  their  own  pockets.  How 
this  can  be  called  a  disposall  of  the  public  money  etc., 
we  do  not  understand,  and  it  is  most  unjust  to  charge 
your  Excellency  for  permitting  us  to  vote  it,  since 
it  was  impossible  for  you  to  know  what  our  Azotes  would 
be  etc.  (7)  Their  appreciation  of  the  general  dissatis- 
faction of  the  Island  arose  in  these  Gentlemen  only 
as  soon  as  the  Assembly  had  offered  in  an  address  to 
your  Excellency,  Tuesday  last,  to  prove  the  corruption 
and  bribery  of  Alexander  Walker  in  promoting  the 
late  Paper  Bills.  There  has  not  been  so  general  a 
satisfaction  and  quiet  in  these  Islands  for  four  years. 
The  principal  grounds  for  dissatisfaction  that  remain 
are  (1)  The  poverty  and  want  of  trade  occasioned  by 
the  late  paper  bills,  and  the  arbitrary  governmt.  of 
Sir  B.  Granville  which  has  made  several  hundred  of 
the  inhabitants  leave  the  Island.  (2)  That  a  full 
enquiry  has  not  yet  been  made  into  the  villanous  design 
against  Major  Lillington  and  Col.  Downs  in  laying 
treason  to  their  charge  and  imprisoning  them  there- 
upon wth.  other  great  hardships,  and  that  the  ministers 
and  instruments  of  that  villany  are  not  yet  punished, 
without  wch.  the  inhabitants  cannot  hope  to  live  in 
safety  for  the  future.  (3)  That  a  full  enquiry  has 
not  been  made  into  the  bribery  and  corruption  by 
wch.  the  paper  mony  was  forced  upon  us.  (4)  The 
deposit  mony  and  other  greivous  extortions  in  the  Regis- 
ter's Office  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  are  not  yet 
reformed.  (5)  That  the  simonaicall  disposall  of  Church 
liveings  in  the  time  of  Sir  B.  Granville,  of  wch. 
there  is  violent  cause  of  suspicion,  are  not  yet  en- 
quired into.  etc.  Sept.  4,  1708.  Same  endorsement. 
3  pp. 
141.  iv.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Barbados,  Aug.  30,  1708. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  101 

1708. 

The  Governor  adjourned  the  Council  to  next  day  in 
course,  owing  to  the  sailing  of  the  fleet,  etc.  Same* 
endorsement.  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  1, 
1.  i.-iv. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  29,  11.  pp.  383,  384.] 

Sept.  24.  142.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Jamaica.  tations.  I  am  to  own  the  receipt  of  your  Lordships  of  May 
14,  June  25,  and  enclosures,  etc.  As  to  Mr.  Whitchurch's  allega- 
gations  sett  forth  in  his  petition,  I  do  aver  that  the  most 
part  of  them,  (if  not  all)  is  false,  and  that  in  Sir  W.  Beeston's 
Government  the  land  was  escheated  and  the  Negroes  belonging 
to  Worth  Delamaine  and  this  Negro  woman,  particularly  named 
in  the  writ  of  enquiry,  were  by  Mr.  Whitchurch  or  some  others 
kept  out  of  the  way,  and  were  not  be  found,  it  being  the 
common  custom  of  people  here  to  deprive  the  Queen  of  all  they; 
can:  As  to  his  setting  forth  that  Mr.  Puckle,  his  Attorney) 
here,  spoke  to  me  in  his  behalfe,  he  never  said  one  word  to 
pie  of  the  matter,  as  his  letter  I  have  here  enclosed  will 
affirm,  and  as  to  the  Chief  Justice's  opinion  or  the  proceedings 
then  of  the  Grand  Court,  I  never  do  concern  myselfe  Avith! 
them,  but  do  always  let  the  Law  have  its  due  course.  It 
has  been  my  constant  study  sin'ce  I  came  into  the  Government 
to  assist  H.M.  Treasury  by  all  lawfull  means,  as  ffines,  ffor- 
feitures  and  escheats,  and  there  has  been  an  account  given 
by  tho  Eeceiver  Generall's  Deputy  here  in  the  publick  accompts 
he  has  sent  to  my  Lord  Godolphin  of  all  escheats  found  for 
H.M.,  and  the  bonds  given  in  by  the  persons  to  whom  they 
were  granted,  made  payable  at  the  expiration  of  3  years,  if 
no  heir  appeared  in  that  time.  I  writ  to  your  Lops,  about 
4  or  5  years  ago  concerning  escheats,  and  particularly  of  an 
escheat  granted  to  one  Parker,  to  which  I  had  your  Lopjs.' 
answer,  and  took  it  to  be  a  very  satisfactory  one.  I  must 
confess  I  believe  the  Country  is  not  very  well  satisfied  at  my 
diligence  to  see  that  they  pay  Quitt-rents  to  H.M. '  for  the 
land  they  have  in  their  possession,  and  obliging  them  to  patent 
what  they  hold  without  title,  which1  I  am  sure  is  above  half 
a  (million  of  acres  added  to  the  Revenue,  since  I  came  into 
the  Government.  And  notwithstanding  this,  H.M.  Revenue  here, 
if  well  paid,  does  not  amount  to  within  £2,000  per  annum  of 
the  contingent  charges,  and  the  Assembly  have  never  assisted 
the  Treasury  with  one  royall,  altho  severall  times  desired  it,  to 
help  to  discharge  the  debts  of  it.  I  have  been  under  a  necessity 
myselfo  to  give  £200  per  annum,  Jamaica  mony,  out  of  my 
own  pockett  for  private  intelligence,  that  we  may  not  be  sur- 
prized by  the  French  and  Spaniards  that  surround  us  on  every 
side,  which  I  hope  I  shall  be  considered  for,  for  in  case  I 
should  bring  any  such  charge  herey  I  should  be  obliged  to  make 
known  from  whence  I  had  my  intelligence,  which  must  in- 
falliby  be  the  ruine  of  the  spys,  they  being  under  the  subjection, 
of  the  French.  This  I  have  formerly  given  an  account 
of  to  your  Lops.  As  to  Mr.  Peeke,  whom  your  Lops, 
acquaint  me  H.M1.  has  been  pleased  to  appoint  one  of 


102  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1708. 

the  Councill  of  this  Island,  I  have  no  objections  to  him, 
but  I  am  sorry  my  behaviour  has  been  so  indifferent,  as  that 
my  recommendations  should  not  be  taken  notice  of,  since  it 
has  always  been  thought  that  the  Governors  were  the  fittest 
judges,  who  were  men  most  capable  to  serve  the  Queen  and 
Country  in  the  Councill,  and  not  that  the  Jamaica  merchants 
and  ffactors  should  have  the  recommending  them.  Mr.  Brodrick, 
whom  your  Lops,  mention  in  yours,  I  have  known  here  these 
5  or  6  years  to  have  behaved  himself  very  justly  to  his  Queen 
and  Country;  I  likewise  recommended  Mr.  Oldfield  who  is  a 
very  honest  man,  and  a  man  of  as  good  an  estate  as  any  in 
the  country,  but  am  mightily  concerned  that  I  have  had  no 
return.  I  writt  to  this  purpose  to  my  Lord  Sunderland.  I 
have  lately  had  the  misfortune  to  meet  with  many  unexpected 
alterations,  as  the  Privy  Seal  for  restoring  Mr.  Barrow,  who 
so  basely  affronted  the  Queen's  authority,  altho  I  had  H.M. 
approbation  as  well  as  your  Board's  for  what  I  had  done  in 
that  case:  this  Privy  Seal  in  relation  to  Mr.  Bigby's  escheat, 
without  being  heard  what  reasons  I  had  to  offer  one  way  or 
the  other:  and  severall  other  matters  which  I  shall  not  here 
trouble  your  Lops.  with.  Mr.  Totterdale,  who  has  been  a  constant 
desturber  in  Assemblys  and  Grand  Courts,  did  in  face  of 
the  last  Grand  Court,  upon  the  triall  of  a  criminall  who  was 
to  bo  burnt  in  the  hand,  tell  the  Queen's  Attorney  Genii.,  when 
arguing  law  for  the  punishment  of  the  criminall,  that  he  did 
not  know  how  soon  it  might  be  his  turn  to  be  whip'd  at  that 
placet  As  soon  as  I  heard  of  it,  I  sent  to  the  Court  to  have 
Mr.  Totterdale  suspended  pleading,  or  bound  over  till  there 
should  be  satisfaction  made  for  the  affront  given  to  H.M. 
Officer,  but  have  yet  obtained  neither,  so  that  without  some  other 
method  is  taken  to  support  the  Queen's  authority,  I  know  not 
what  will  be  the  issue,  for  no  man  is  in  ffashion  here,  but  he 
that  will  oppose  it.  Enclosed  your  Lops,  will  have  a  list 
of  the  ships  that  have  arrived  here  from  Guinea  since  June  25, 
1698,  with  the  number  of  Negroes  imported  by  each  vessell,  as 
well  permission  ships  and  others  as  the  Affrican  Company's. 
I  likewise  send  a  list  of  all  prizes  brought  in  here,  and  condemn'd 
since  July  last  till  Sept.  20.  And  since  that  a  French  ship  has 
been  sent  in  by  one  of  our  privateers,  which  is  not  yet  condemn'd, 
the  same  privateer  took  3  or  4  more  vessells,  but  burnt  them, 
not  being  able  to  send  them  into  Port.  I  have  caused  a  brigan- 
tine  to  be  seized  for  the  Queen  that  was  taken  without  a  legal 
Commission,  she  will  be  tried  in  a  few  days,  of  which  I  shall 
give  you  an  account  in  my  next.  I  have  received  40  recruits 
by  this  packett  boat,  and  hope  to  have  the  remainder  by  the 
next.  The  Privy  Seal  for  the  return  of  Mr.  Whitchurch's  Negroes 
shall  be  duly  comply'd  with,  notwithstanding  Mr.  Bigby  has 
been  at  between  £30  and  40  expence  in  the  passing  through  the 
Courts  and  the  severall  Offices,  we'll.  I  shall  reimburse  him,  and 
place  to  the  back  of  my  own  acct.  The  Act  of  Parliament  in 
relation  to  the  coin  and  that  of  the  Trade  to  America  shall 
likewise  be  observed.  By  a  ship  lately  arrived  from  Bristoll  I 


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1708. 


Sept.  24. 

Jamaica. 


Sept.  25. 

Plantation 

Office, 
Whitehall. 


_  fc.    28. 
Kensington. 


Sept    28. 

Kensington. 


Sept    28. 

Kensington. 


have  received  a  Gazette  that  gives  an  account  of  our  glorious 
victory  in  Flanders,  which  I  shall  cause  to  be  put  into  Spanish, 
and  send  among  the  Spaniards.  Our  merchant  ships  consisting 
of  7  sail  under  convoy  of  5  men  of  war  will  sail  for  Great 
Britain  in  two  or  three  days,  on  board  which  will  be  in  boullion. 
better  than  £200,000  sterl.,  and  therefore  I  hope  a  squadron 
will  be  ordered  to  meet  them  in  the  Soundings.  The  Island 
has  been  sickly  this  montih  past,  but  not  attended  with  great 
mortality.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  25th, 
Bead  26th  Nov.,  Dec.  6th,  1708.  5  pp.  Enclosed, 

142.  i.  William  Puckle  to  Governor  Handasyd.  I  never  ap- 
plied to  your  Excellency  in  relation  to  Mr.  Whitchurch's 
affairs,  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Puckle.  Endorsed,  Eecd. 
25th  Nov.  1708.  Addressed.  1  p. 

142.  ii.  List  of  prizes  condemned  in  the  Admiralty  Court, 
Jamaica  July-Sept.,  1708.  5  Spanish,  2  French.  En- 
dorsed as  preceding.  1  p. 

142.  iii.  List  of  vessels  arrived  in  Jamaica  with  negroes  June 

25,  1698-June  14,  1708.  Totals:  Negroes  imported 
by  the  African  Company — 6854;  by  separate  traders., 
35718;  importers  not  indicated,  1804.  Grand-  total, 
44,376.  Same  endorsement.  6  large  pp.  [C.O.  137, 
8.  Nos.  24,  24.  i.-iii. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  138, 
12.  pp.  340-345.] 

143.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.     Re- 
peats   preceding    letter,    and   adds : — I    received    40   recruits    by 
this  packett-boat,  and  hope  to  have  the  remainder  by  the  next. 
I  am  favoured  with  your  Lop.'s  letter  of  Jan.  31  in  behalf e  of 
Capt.   Virnon.      I   think   he   is   very   deserving,   and   I   shall  be 
proud  of  an  opportunity  of  doing  him  all  the  service  that  lies 
in  my  power  or  any  Gentleman  your  Lop.  is  pleased  to  recom- 
mend... Signed,   Tho.   Handasyd.    Endorsed,  E.   Nov.   25,   1708. 
4f  pp.     [C.O.  137,  45.    No.  90.] 

144.  W.   Popple  jr1.,  to  the  Commissioners  for  stating  the 
arrears  due  from  King  William.     Salaries  due  to  the  Lords  Com- 
missioners of  Trade  and  Plantations,  Michaelmas,  1700 — March 
8,   1702— £11,574.  8.  4.     Salaries  due  to  the  Secretary,  Clerks, 
Doorkeepers  etc.  £1,022.  0.  3£.     [C.O.  389,  36.    pp.  368.  a,b.] 

145.  H.M.  Warrants,  addressed  to  Governor  Parke,  appointing 
Wm.    Thomas   and   Eichard   Oliver   to   the   Council   of   Antego. 
Countersigned,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  118.] 

146.  H.M.   Warrant,  addressed  to  Governor  Handasyd,  ap- 
pointing Valentine  Mumby  to  the  Council  of  Jamaica.     Coun- 
tersigned, Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.  p.  118.] 

147.  H.M.  Warrant,  addressed  to  Governor  Crowe,  appoint- 
ing  John   Hallet   to   the   Council   of  Barbados.     Countersigned, 
Sunderland.      [C.O.   5,  210.     p.   119.] 


104 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1708. 

Sept.  29.  148.  Governor  Parke  to  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle.  I  did  ray- 
Antigua,  selfe  the  honour  to  write  soon  after  I  heard  you  were  principal! 
Secretary  of  State  to  congratulate  you ;  I  write  now  to  begg  a 
favour  which  is  onely  common  Justice.  I  hear  there  is  one 
Mr.  Nivine  gone  home  to  endeavour  to  gett  me  out  of  my 
government.  He  has,  as  I  am  informed,  carryed  home  articles 
against  me,  but  the  Councill  as  well  as  myselfe  are  ignorant 
what  they  are.  The  favour  I  begg  is,  that  I  may  have  liberty 
to  answer  whatever  is  lay'd  to  my  charge,  before  I  am  con- 
demned. I  am  very  sure  they  can  alledge  nothing  against  me 
will  doo  me  an  injury;  it  is  noe  wonder  people  of  these  Islands 
sends  home  Articles  against  theyr  governours!  I  hav.e  been 
the  longest  without  a  complaint  of  any  that  ever  was  before 
me,  nor  doe  I  know  any  just  cause  they  have  now,  except 
preventing  theyr  clandestine  trade  with  the  French  and  Dutch. 
If  upon  a  full  hearing,  you  thinke  I  deserve  to  be  turned  out, 
then  lett  me  be  used  as  I  deserve,  but  if  I  have  discharged 
my  trust  like  an  honest  man,  I  hope  I  shall  have  your  protection, 
etc.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Jan.  19.  2  pp. 
[C.O.  152,  42.  No.  9.] 

Oct    1.          149.    Governor    Parke   to  the    Council    of    Trade    and    Plan- 
Antigua,     tations.      Encloses    accounts   of    imports    and    exports.     Signed, 

Daniel  Parke.    Endorsed,  Eecd.  Jan.  18,  Read  Feb.  7,  170f.  I  p. 

[C.O.  152,  8.     No.  8. ;  and  153,  10.     p.  285.] 

Oct.  1.  15O.  Same  to  Same.  Recieving  noe  commands  from  your 
Antigua.  Lordshipps  by  this  packett  I  have  nothing  elce  to  send  but 
duplicates  of  what  sent  by  the  last  except  a  account  from 
Montserrat  of  what  negroes  have  been  imported  by  the  Company 
and  private  trade,  and  the  imports  and  exports  of  this  Island. 
I  don't  doubt  but  your  Lordshipps  before  this  comes  have  seen 
one  Nr.  Nevine,  who  as  I  hear  is  gone  home  wth.'  articles 
against  me,  he  went  of  in  a  clandestine  manner,  though  I  sent 
him  word  by  the  Secretary  that  I  heard  he  was  going  of 
privately,  that  if  he  would  give  in  security  as  the  Law  directs 
for  the  payment  of  his  debts,  I  promised  I  would  not  stop>p 
him,  but  on  the  contrary,  if  he  would  lett  me  know  the  articles, 
I  would  send  home  my  answer  at  the  same  time,  but  he  tooke 
noe  notice  of  my  messuage,  for  that  would  not  answer'd  his 
end,  for  it  will  sound  better  to  say  he  was  afraid  of  being 
stopped,  and  had  I  knowne  the  Articles,  my  answers  would 
have  prevented  theyr  makeing  any  impression.  What  these 
Articles  are,  neither  myselfe  nor  Councill  can  guess,  theyr 
manner  of  getting  people  to  subscribe  them  has  been  very 
extraordinary,  they  made  severall  feasts,  and  got  people 
to  subscribe  when  drunke.  The  Agent  of  the  Affrican  Company,. 
Mr.  Chester,  made  most  that  were  in  the  Company's  debt 
subscribe,  promiseing  them  to  trust  them  for  more  negroes, 
and  those  that  would  not  were  threatened,  there  is  not  one  in 
tenn  knows  any  one  Article,  and  those  that  doe  were  sworne 
to  secrecy,  a  deposition  of  one  of  the  Assembly  relateing  thereto 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  105 

1708, 

I  sent  by  the  last  packett,  etc.  Your  Lords hipps  had  not  had 
this  trouble,  notwithstanding  Col.  Codrington's  private  intriegues, 
had  I  not  for  this  five  or  six  months  past  been  very  industrious 
in  supressing  a  clandestine  trade  that  has,  it  seems,  though 
I  did  not  know  it,  been  all  along  carryed  on  between  these 
Islands  and  the  French  and  Dutch  Islands,  all  theyr  brandy, 
clarrat,  white  sugar,  cocoa  and  other  French  goods  they  gett 
from  Guardaloupe  for  beef,  which  serves  to  fitt  out  theyr  priva- 
teers ;  this  trade  is  drove  chiefly  from  Montserat,  which  is  in 
sight  of  Guardaloupe.  Col.  Hodges,  theyr  Lt.  Governour,  and 
the  CollejVjtour,  are  unkle  and  nephew,  and  they  absolutely 
governc  that  litle  Island,  there  comes  every  year  tenn  times  as 
much  beefe  as  that  Island  expends,  yet  noe  body  knows  what 
becomes  of  it,  the  most*  of  it  comes  to  the  Lt.  Governour,  and 
in  a  few  years  he  has  got  a  greate  estate  by  Trade.  I  can 
gett  noe  proof  against  him,  they  are  soe  linked  together,  either 
by  relation  or  by  intrest,  but  this  I  have  found  out,  that  there 
is  two  Danish  sloopes,  that  used  constantly  to  goe  and  come. 
I  ordered  my  privateers  to  search  these  sloopes,  if  they  found 
them  at  anchor,  but  they  were  good  saylors,  and  as  soon  as 
they  made  a  privateer,  run  from  them  as  from  an  enemy.  Mr. 
George  Sherrard,  that  lives  in  Princess  Court,  Westminster, 
can  informe  your  Lordshipps  how  I  sent  him  after  a  Dane,  and 
how  one  Mr.  Blake  told  him!  to  tell  me,  if  I  would  lett  them! 
trade  quietly  as  before,  it  should  be  worth  me  more  then  my 
sallary.  The  same  offer'd  me  100  pistoles  to  lett  a  Dane's' 
sloop  sayle  from  St.  Johns  unsearched,  and  upon  my  refuseall 
told  me  noe  Governor  could  gett  anything  here  except  he  winked 
at  that  trade,  and  that  old  Coll.  Codrington  got  all  his  estate  that 
way,  and  that  if  I  resolved  to  be  soe  strickt,  the  jnerchants 
by  one  means  or  other  would  make  me  very  uneasy;  I  have 
found  his  words  true,  most  of  the  people  on  Montserratt  are 
Papists,  and  they  have  an  Irish  priest  with  them,  and  notwith- 
standing I  have  severall  times  gave  orders  for  takeing  him  up,, 
yett  I  cannot  get  it  done.  I  have  severall  packetts  that  have 
been  taken  out  of  sloops  by  my  privateers  that  plainly  discovers 
a  considerable  trade  is  carryed  on,  but  they  are  not  proof,  for 
false  names  are  made  use  of,  but  the  invoyces  for  beef  .etc., 
plainly  discovers  it,  about  5  or  6  weeks  agoe  my  privateers 
landed  on  Guardaloupe,  and  took  of  some  negroes.  Among 
them  there  was  a  very  remarkable  fellow,  he  had  a  monstrous 
great  knob  of  flesh  grew  from  'his  ear  to  his  shoulder,  he  was 
presently  knowne  being  a  negroe  that  came  in  Mr.  Chester's 
sloope  from  Guinea,  about  10  or  12  months  before,  if  they  got 
pieces  of  eight  in  returne  for  theyr  beef  and  negroes,  there 
would  be'  some  excuse,  but  it  is  quite  contrary,  they  bring 
great  quantitys  of  dry  goods,  which  may  be  had  from  England. 
I  have  been  informed  that  lutestrings  have  been  sent  from 
Montserrat  to  Bristoll,  and  vast  profitts  got  by  them,  the  London 
merchants  have  noe  profitt  of  this  trade,  nor  know  anything 
of  it,  it  is  theyr  factors  here  that  makes  use  of  theyr  effects, 
to  carry  on  this  trade,  and  pretend  in  theyr  letters  that  they 


106  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1708. 

have  trusted  the  planters,  and  cant  gett  in  theyr  debts,  as 
Mr.  Chester,  Agent  for  the  African  Company,  writes  the  Com- 
pany, when  the  truth  is  he  makes  use  of  theyr  effects  <to 
carry  on  his  trade.  I  bought  some  negroes  of  him,  he  was 
very  earnest  with  me,  and  I  paid  him  in  3  or  4  months,  other 
people  tells  me  the  same  thing,  and  yett  the  Company  (as  I 
am  informed)  has  due  to  them  from  this  Island  £30,000,  a 
privateer  about  4  or  5  months  agoe,  seeing  a  sloope  of  Mr. 
Chester's,  putting  on  shore  some  goods  in  a  private  bay, 
took  her  and  brought  her  downe  to  St.  Kitts,  where  the  Collector 
seized  her,  and  she  was  condemned,  she  came  from  Curacoa, 
and  had  great  quantity  of  Holland  and  other  manifactures  of 
Europe  on  board,  as  much  as  was  apraised  at  near  £600,  though 
the  privateers  had  plundered  her  of  the  better  halfe,  if  this 
clandestine  trade  is  permitted,  these  Islands  will  have  noe  oc- 
casion to  send  for  England  for  goods,  which  will  be  a  great 
loss  to  the  English  nation,  and  worth  your  Lordships'  consider- 
ation. I  have  put  a  good  stopp  to  it,  in  a  litle  time  doubt  not 
but  wholy  to  prevent  it.  This  has  provoked  the  merchants, 
and  this  has  been  the  cause  of  Mr.  Nevin's  being  sent  home 
with  articles,  lett  them  pretend  what  elce  they  please.  Nor 
doe  they  depend  upon  theyr  articles,  for  had  they  been  true, 
they  would  not  have  been  less  true  after  I  had  knowne  them. 
And  as  a  proof  they  doe  not  depend  upon  theyr  articles,  they 
have  raised  £5000,  this  must  be  with  an  intent  to  bribe,  for 
£100  would  [a]  have  been  suffitient  to  fee  Councill ;  I  hear 
Coll.  Hodges  has  subscribed  £300,  it  is  worth  his  while,  for 
rather  then  lose  this  profitable  trade,  he  had  better  give  £3000, 
and  I  believe  he  would,  and  yet  he  is  sworne  to  the  Acts  of 
Trade,  as  well  as  myselfe,  this  is  a  plaine  demonstration  my 
preventing  this  trade  is  the  great  grievance ;  for  till  that  time 
Col.  Hodges  I  thought  was  my  very  good  friend,  and  severall 
other  merchants,  whoe  I  have  very  much  obliged,  have  now 
given  money  to  gett  me  out,  that  used  to  raile  against  Codrington, 
and  have  declared  I  was  the  best  Generall  they  ever  had. 
Chester  himself e  said  the  same  to  Capt.  Saml.  Byam  but  two 
days  before  his  sloope  was  seized,  but  when  he  heard  the  sloop 
was  seized,  he  swore  I  was  the  worst  Generall  they  ever  had, 
and  that  he  would  be  revenged  of  me,  thus  your  Lordships 
may  see  what  I  have  got  by  doeing  my  duty ;  my  salary  they 
would  not  pay  me  by  reason  I  would  not  pass  unreasonable 
laws,  and  [and]  give  the  negative  voice  to  the  Speaker,  and  QOW 
for  preventing  a  clandestine  trade,  they  have  raised  £5000  to 
gett  me  out,  theyr  articles  are  all  forged,  and  but  made  use 
of  to  throw  dirt,  and  to  make  an  impression  on  your  Lordships, 
knowing  it  will  be  3  or  4  months  before  they  can  be  sent 
me  and  my  answers  returned,  and  in  that  time  they  hope  to  bribe 
me  out.  I  have  noe  doubt  but  your  Lordships  will  be  soe  good 
to  me  as  by  your  last  you  promised  me,  that  if  there  comes 
over  any  articles,  they  shall  be  sent  me,  and  have  time  allowed 
me  to  answer  them,  I  desire  noe  more,  for  I  am  very  sure 
I  have  been  soe  carefull  that  neither  in  iny  publick  nor  .private 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  107 

1708. 

capacity,  I  have  done  any  one  thing  but  what  I  can  Justine 
before  the  stricktest  Judges,  for  my  part  I  am  weary  of  being 
with  them,  and  whenever  I  have  cleared  myselfe  I  shall  desire 
the  Duke  to  provide  for  me  some  other  way.  There  is  one 
other  reason  for  theyr  being  angry  with,  me,  which  is,  my 
takeing  care  to  have  the  Courts  kept,  for  last  year  I  had  much 
adoe  to  have  the  Courts  kept,  and  my  holding  a  Court  of 
Chancery  every  weeke,  and  amongst  others  I  made  a  decree 
against  the  Chiefe  Justice,  for  which  he  did  me  all  the  mischief 
he  could  underhand  for  some  months,  and  when  I  found  him 
out,  he  layd  down  his  place,  it  is  a  constant  maxim  not  to 
doe  justice  to  any  one  but  of  the  Island;  there  is  hardly  an 
instance  of  any  one  in  England  that  ever  recovered  his  right 
here.  Some  of  the  best  Gentlemen  that  have  been  summonsed 
upon  a  jury  have  declared  they  would  bring  it  in  for  such  a 
one  because  he  was  theyr  neighbour  right  or  wrong,  as  in 
the  case  of  Mr.  Dumma  last  year:  Mr.  Baron,  and  others,  can 
hardly  gett  soe  much  as  anyone  to  prosecute  for  them,  for  it 
is  looked  upon  as  a  very  great  crime  for  anyone  to  accept 
a  power  to  prosecute  an  inhabitent;  and  by  theyr  law  noe  free- 
holder can  be  arrested,  but  you  must  proceed  against  him  with  the 
same  respect  as  with  a  peer  in  England,  and  after  you  have 
judgement,  it  is  a  year  and  a  halfe  before  you  can  levvy  an 
execution  to  doe  them  any  service,  these  evills  I  have  endeav- 
oured to  have  remedied,  but  to  no  purpose,  by  which  I  have 
created  myselfe  many  enemies,  and  nothing  can  remedy  those 
abuses  but  an  Act  of  Parliament  to  repeale  theyr  Court  Law, 
and  put  the  Commom  Law  of  England  in  force,  and  someone 
that  understands  the  law  sent  over  as  Chiefe  Justice.  I  find 
my  enemys  that  have  articled  does  not  thinke  theyr  articles 
will  be  suffitient  to  turn  me  out,  therefore  they  give  out  they 
will  .affront  me  soe  as  to  make  me  leave  them,  accordingly 
upon  all  occasions  where  I  have  been  ever  since  Mr.  Nevine 
went,  they  would  come  in  partys  and  say  rude  things,  and 
have  committed  severall  disorders  in  the  Towne  under  my  nose,, 
when  I  have  sent  to  them  they  have  affronted  the  Messengers, 
though  magistrates,  and  Mr.  Chester  made  a  feast  the  18th 
past,  and  it  was  given  out  some  time  before  that  that  night 
they  would  affront  the  Generall,  and  they  should  see  fine  worke. 
I  thinke  they  gott  nothing  by  that  project,  soe  I  believe  I 
shall  be  easy  from  affronts  for  the  future,  they  imprisoned  all 
the  civill  magistrates  of  the  Towne,  so  that  I  was  forced  to 
call  for  a  guard  to  prevent  mischiefe,  I  bid  the  Justices  bind 
them  to  theyr  good  behaviour,  but  they  committed  and  fined 
them  as  for  a  riot  on  view,  those  that  are  fined  above  the 
sum  limmitted  in  my  instructions  for  apeales,  I  offered  them  to 
release  them  on  security  to  prosecute  the  apeal  at  home,  but 
they  refused,  and  sent  me  word  one  and  all  would  come  out, 
or  else  lye  there.  I  know  not  what  to  doe.  I  have  asked  the 
opinion  of  the  Attorney  Generall,  and  the  Queen's  Councill  at 
Law,  they  tell  me  they  must  pay  theyr  fines,  or  be  discharged 
from  home,  for  by  theyr  law  there  being  noe  Court  of  Queen's 


108  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708 

bench  in  the  Island  there  can  be  noe  writt  of  error  brought, 
or  they  tell  me  I  may  grant  them  a  pardon,  which  I  have 
offered  them,  but  they  had  rather  lye  in  prison  then  acept  of 
of  a  pardon,  though  I  thinke  before  I  gave  them  a  pardon 
I  would  have  security  that  in  case  the  Queen  did  not  thinke  fitt 
to  remitt  theyr  fines,  that  they  should  pay  them,  for  it  is  not 
in  my  power  to  remitt  fines,  the  fines  may  seem  extravagant  at 
first  sight,  but  if  your  Lordshipp  [s]  will  consider  the  difference 
of  money  is  50  p.c.,  there  is  two  are  over  fined.  I  asked 
the  Justices  their  reason,  they  told  me  they  were  sett  on  by 
rich  people,  and  they  ought  to  pay  theyr  fines,  and  they  them- 
selves are  worth  more  then  they  are  fined.  I  here  send  your 
Lordships  severall  depositions  which  will  informe  your  Lordships 
better  then  anything  I  can  say.  I  could  send  forty  more  to 
the  same  purpose,  people  that  were  awaked  out  of  theyr  sleep, 
their  neighbors  that  heard  and  saw  what  past,  but  I  think  soe 
many  is  as  good  as  a  thousand.  I  had  notice  given  me  what 
was  designed,  and  tooke  all  the  care  imaginable  to  prevent  it. 
I  hear  they  have  taken  some  depositions  to  make  apear  theyr 
innocency  for  now  they  begin  to  thinke  themselves  in  the 
wronge,  for  at  first  they  outbraved  it,  but  those  depositions  are 
from  people  that  were  in  the  riot,  that  the  Justices  did  not 
thinke  fitt  to  commit,  haveing  done  enough  for  example  and  to 
prevent  the  like  for  the  future.  P.S.  Just  as  I  had  finished 
this,  I  had  a  petition  brought  me  from  the  rioters  desireing 
a  writt  of  error  to  be  brought  before  me  and  Councill.  I 
answered  that  I  would  lay  it  before  the  nixt  Councill,  and 
should  act  as  they,  the  Attorney  Generall,  the  Queen's  Councill 
at  Law,  advised  me.  The  Packett  sail'd  within  an  hour  after 
this,  and  notwithstanding  I  had  given  this  answer,  and  had 
given  orders  for  calling  a  Council  the  next  day,  yett  that  night 
they  broke  the  prison ;  I  would  have  had  them  taken,  but  the 
Council  advised  me  to  make  them  give  good  securety  for  (the 
payment  of  their  fines  in  case  the  Queen  did  not  remit  them 
to  lett  them  alone,  wch.  I  did.  I  hope  the  Queen  will  think 
them  better  bestowed  on  some  charitable  case  then  remitted.  I 
will  take  care  to  have  them  received  and  sent  home.  Signed, 
Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  18th  Jan.,  Read  7th  Feb.,  170f. 
7  pp.  Enclosed, 

150.  i.  Address  of  the  Council  of  Antigua  to  Governor  Parke. 
Duplicate  of  Aug.  24.  q.v.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  pt. 
150.  ii.  Council  of  Antigua  to  Richard  Carey,  Agent  for  An- 
tigua. If  a  paper  of  complaints  against  H.E.,  is  laid 
before  the  Council  of  Trade,  this  is  to  let  you  know 
that  they  are  not  formed  by  the  Representative  body 
of  this  Island,  but  concerted  by  some  particular  dis- 
gusted and  disaffected  persons,  etc.  Signed.  John  Yea- 
mans,  John  Hamilton,  Edward  Byam,  Will.  Codrington, 
Tho.  Morris,  Law.  Crabb,  Will  Byam.  Aug.  -24,  1708'. 
Same  endorsement.  Copy,  3  pp. 

150.    iii.  Account  of  the  Riot  at  the  house  of  Mr.    Edward 
Chester,  senr.,  at  St.  Johns,  Antigua,   Sept.   18,  1708. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  109 

1708. 

That  morning  General  Parke  received  information  of 
a  riotous  meeting  the  night  before  in  the  street  before 
the  goale,  supposed  to  be  occasioned  by  the  comittment 
of  Mr.  John  Barnes,  the  evening  before,  for  wounding 
of  a  person,  who  desired  leave  to  sea[r]ch  his  negro 
houses  for  things  stolen  from  him,  and  also  at  the 
same  time  speaking  very  scurrilously  and  disdainfully 
of  the  General,  etc.  The  Generall  desired  the  Con- 
stables to  prevent  any  such  doeings  the  next  night.  Re- 
turning after  dinner  to  towne  about  7  p.m.  and  passing 
Mr.  Chester's  house,  a  great  deale  of  company  imme- 
diately fell  a  singing  and  makeing  a  noise  in  a  very 
scoffing  and  rude  manner,  but  the  Generall  tooke  noe 
notice,  but  walked  on  to  the  Coffee-house.  There  Mr. 
Chester  senr.,  Bastian  Otto  Byar,  Edward  Chester  jr., 
Joseph  Adams  and  others  came  by  him  in  a  very 
rude  manner,  and  had  like  to  have  justled  him,  and 
fell  upon  abuseing  the  mistress  of  the  house,  and 
swearing  and  makeing  a  noise,  on  purpose  to  affront 
him.  The  Generall  advised  Mr.  Otto  Byar  to  goe 
home  and  behave  himself  for  his  father's  sake.  Some 
tyme  after,  the  Generall  was  walking  againe  by  Mr. 
Chester's  house,  and  the  company  there  againe  fell 
a  singing  and  makeing  a  noise  very  rudely.  The 
Generall  sent  constables  into  them  to  require  them 
not  to  keep  such  a  noise,  but  they  continued  drinking 
there,  and  said  'twas  time  enough  to  go  home.  Presently 
the  Generall  ordered  Col.  Thomas  Morris  (one  of  the 
Council  and  a  J.P.)  and  the  Provost  Marshall  to  tell 
them  to  be  more  civill  or  else  to  disperse,  whereupon 
the  company  fell  abuseing  them,  and  immediately  the 
doors  and  windows  were  shut  up,  and  Col.  Morris,  the 
Provost  Marshall  and  severall  of  the  constables  were 
in  a  riotous  manner  made  prisoners.  Mr.  Byar  had 
his  sword  drawn.  One  of  the  constables  jumped  out 
of  a  window  for  fear,  and  another  was  wounded  in  the 
leg.  Mr.  Justice  Gateward  in  a  loud  voice  commanded 
all  persons  in  the  Queen's  name  to  keep  the  peace  and 
goe  to  their  severafl  habitations,  and  then  went  in, 
where  severall  of  the  Company  behaved  themselves 
very  insolently  towards  him  and  the  other  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  and  thereupon  they  and  the  Marshall  com- 
mitted several  to  the  goale  for  a  ryott,  as  being  con- 
victed thereof  by  their  view,  and  accordingly  a  record 
is  made  thereof,  and  the  persons  fined.  The  Attorney 
General  and  Queen's  Council  approve  of  above  pro- 
ceeding. Oct.  1,  1708.  Signed,  H.  Pember,  J.  Brady. 
Endorsed  as  preceding.  1^  pp. 

1 50.  iv.  Copy  of  the  Record  of  the  Riot  described  in  preceding. 
Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

150.  v.-xix.  Depositions  of  Tho.  Gateward,  Michael  Ayon, 
Saml.  Wickham,  John  Bermingham,  Thomas  Morris, 


110  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

James  Robinson,  Jacob  Thibon,  Samll.  Walker,  Alex- 
ander Dunn,  Jason  Martin,  William  Harrox,  Capt. 
Thomas  Newell,  in  support  of  No.  iii.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 30  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  9,  9.  i.-xix.;  and 
(without  enclosures)  153,  10.  pp.  288-300.] 

Oct.  1.  151.  Governor  Dudley  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

Boston,  tations.  Your  Lordships'  commands  of  April  15,  referring  to 

En.N;Uind  ^ne  Affrican  trade,  came  to  my  hand  from  Barbados  on  Sept. 
28.  And  I  have  used  all  possible  application  to  make  my 
letters  ready  from  this  Province,  as  I  hope  to  do  from  the 
Province  of  New  Hampshire,  and  this  is  the  first  conveyance 
since.  And  that  I  might  perfectly  satisfy  your  Lordships  what 
negro's  have  been  imported  into  this  Province  from  June  24, 
1698— Dec.  25,  1707,  I  have  caused  ye  Officers  of  the  Revenue 
to  attend  me,  and  have  had  conference  with  the  principal 
merchants  and  planters  referring  to  the  number  and  prices  of 
negro's  brought  in.  And  I  find  by  the  best  computation  that 
I  can  make  (which  cannot  faile  me  to  any  degree)  that  there 
are  in  Boston  negro  servants  to  the  number  of  400,  above  half 
of  them  born  here;  in  100  towns  and  villages  in  this  Province 
150.  That  in  the  9^  years  last  past  of  the  abovesaid  number, 
arrived  200.  That  none  of  these  were  brought  in  by  any  ships 
of  the  Affrican  Company,  nor  seperate  traders  directly  from 
any  part  of  Affrica,  but  from  the  West  Indies.  That  is  to 
say,  Barbados,  Jamaica,  the  Leward  Islands,  etc.  Nor  can  I 
learn  from  any  the  merchants  or  planters  here,  that  before  this 
time  the  Affrican  Company  had  any  ship  or  factory  here;  but 
some  traders  on  their  own  accompts,  a  long  time  since,  have 
been  upon  the  coast  of  Guinea  [n]  and  brought  slaves,  the  last 
was  Thomas  Windsor  in  the  year  1700,  who  brought  in  26 
negroes,  copy  of  the  dutys  paid  to  the  Affrican  Company  is 
inclosed.  Since  which  here  is  an  Officer,  Mr.  Benja.  Alford, 
impowred  to  receive  the  10  p.c.  as  by  Act  of  Parliamt.  given 
for  the  Affrican  Company,  whose  commission  is  dated  Feb.  25, 
170£.  Everybody  is  sensible  of  the  absolute  necessity  and  great 
benefit  of  that  trade  for  the  West  Indies,  but  it  is  not  so 
serviceable  for  these  Northern  Plantations.  Because  the  winter 
halfe  year  admits  of  little  service  from  them,  but  demands  a 
great  deal  of  clotheing,  which  is  very  dear  in  these  Provinces. 
The  negroes  so  brought  in  from  the  West  Indies  are  usually 
the  worst  servants  they  have,  which  are  therefore  sent  to  be 
solde.  The  prizes  are  usually  between  £15  and  £25  per  head. 
These  Plantations  being  upon  the  Continent  admit  of  their 
running  from  their  masters,  whereas  upon  the  Islands  they  are 
soon  recovered.  Upon  all  which  accounts  they  have  been  found 
so  little  profitable,  and  the  planters  here  do  so  much  prefer 
white  servants  from  Great  Britain,  Ireland,  Jersey  and  Guernsey, 
who  are  serviceable  in  the  war  presently,  and  after  become 
planters,  that  they  have  set,  by  a  Law  three  years  since,  £4 
per  head  upon  all  Blacks  imported,  to  encourage  the  bringing 
in  of  white  servants,  etc.  P.S.  I  have  prepar'd  4  copy's  of 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


Ill 


1708. 


Oct.  4-20. 


Oct.  9. 

Windsor. 


Oct.  9. 


Oct.  10. 

New 
Hampshire. 


Oct.  11. 

Barbados . 


this  letter,  whidh  I  shall  dispatch  all  way's  possible  that  it  may 
arrive  seasonably,  as  yr.  Lordsps.  have  commanded.  Signed,  J. 
Dudley.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  1st,  Read  3rd  Jan.,  170  f.'  2  pp. 
Enclosed, 

151.  i.  List   of   vessels    cleared   at   Boston    for    Africa,    June 

25,  1698— Dec.  25,  1707.  Total,  2.  (1699,  and  1700). 
Signed,  John  Jekyll,  Collector.  Endorsed  as  preceding. 
1  p.  [C.O.  5,  865.  Nos.  8,  8.  i. ;  and  (without  en- 
closure) 5,  913.  pp.  37-40.] 

152.  List   of    soldiers    enlisted    at    Newfoundland    by   Major 
Lloyd.     Signed 'a    Jno.    Mitchell,    Danl.    Snagg,    Charles    Davis, 
Danl.  Maddox,  Tymy.  Mackarlye,  Jno.  Arnold,  Matthew  Walker. 
Endorsed,  Reed,  from  Mr.  Thurston,  Read  Jan.  5th,  170f.  3  pp. 
[C.O.  194,  4.     2Vo.  78.] 

153.  H.M.  Warrant,  addressed  to  Governor  Crowe,  granting 
leave  of  absence  to  George  Gordon,  Provost  Marshal,  of  Barbados, 
on  appointing  a  Deputy,    "in  regard  to  his  being  employed  in 
the  Office  of  our  Admiralty  and  to  some  private  affairs  of  his 
own'*  etc.     Countersigned,  Sunderland.      [C.O.  5,  210.    p.  120.] 

154.  Lord  Baltimore  to  Mr.  Popple.     Haveing  by  your  favour 
Sr.,  had  ye  peruseall  of  a  report  made  by  Mr.    Solicitor  Genii, 
upon   ye   two  Acts    lately   sent  from   Maryland ;    I   desire   you'] 
please   to   acquaint  the   Lords    Commissioners   of   Trade   that   I 
humbly  petition  to  be  heard  by  Council  before  their  Lordpps., 
before  that  report  be  sent  to  the  Queen.     Herein  you'l  add  to 
the  favours   you  have  shewne  to,   Signed,    C.   Baltemore.     En- 
dorsed, Reed,  llth,  Read  26th  Oct.,  1708.     Addressed.    Sealed^ 
\  p.     [C.O.  5,  716.     No.  52;  and  5,  727.     pp.  54,   55.] 

155.  Governor  Dudley  to  the   Council   of   Trade   and   Plan- 
tations.    Same  as  Oct.  1.     "There  are  in  New  Hampshire  negro 
servants    to    the   number    of    70.      And    about    20    of    them  in 
nine  years  past  have  been  brought  in."  etc.     Signed,  J.  Dudley. 
Endorsed,   Reed.    1st,   Read  3rd  Jan.,    170 f.     2  pp.      [C.O.    5, 
865.     No.  9;  and  5,  913.     pp.  41-43.] 

156.  Messrs.   Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.     We  enclose  a  copy  of  the  Assembly's 
Address   against  us  by  the  instigation  of  Mr.   Crowe,   together 
with   some   remarks   upon   the    same,    which    were   prepared    to 
have  gone  by  ye  Cotton,  pacquet,   Sept.  23,  but  it  haveing  been 
thought  she  would  not  sail  till  the   24th   in  the   morning,  pur 
letters    came    too    late    for    that    conveyance.      Since    that,    we 
find  a  Faction  in  the    Assembly    resolving    not    to  depart  from 
their  darling  project  of  paper  mony,  which  they  so  much  condemn 
in  others,  have  prevail'd  to  brinlg  a  Bill  into  the  House  for  that 
purpose;    and   altho'    a    petition   herewith   sent    your   Lordships 
was  presented  against  that  design,  sign'd  by  the  most  consid- 
erable  Traders   of  ye   place,   yet  they   have   voted   a   Bill  to  be. 


112  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 

brought  in  for  that  end.  We  observe  these  Gentlemen  fhink 
they  answere  all  clamours,  When  they  say  they  do  not  design  to 
force  their  Paper  Bills  on  any  person,  but  this  is  a  weak  as 
well  as  unpardonable  fallacy,  for  they  declare  the  Country  in 
debt  above  £20,000 ;  they  declare  also,  they  raise  this  tax,  and 
frame  this  Paper  notion  to  discharge  those  debts.  With  what 
face  then  can  they  tell  ye  world  they  don't  design  a  force? 
For  if  ye  Creditor  of  ye  Publick  must  take  these  paper  Bills 
in  discharg  of  his  debt  or  have  nothing,  it  is  plain  they  are 
forc't  upon  him.  But  there  is  yet  a  greater  injustice  hid  under 
this  pretence  of  no  force ;  for  as  it  already  appears,  the  creditor 
being  effectually  forc't  to  take  these  paper  Bills,  because  unless 
he  dos,  he  must  go  without  his  mony,  he  is  under  ye  greatest 
hardship  in  ye  world,  if  he  can't  force  them  from  him  upon 
those  he  is  indebted  to.  As  to  what  may  be  said,  that  these 
Bills  are  made  currant  in  ye  payment  of  ye  taxes  and  excise, 
this  can  be  no  relief,  for  ye  grand  creditors  of  this  Island 
are  mattrosses  and  other  guardsmen  of  our  fforts,  who  can 
hardly  be  supposed  to  trade  in  excisable  liquors,  or  to  be  able 
to  wait  for  their  pay  five  years,  the  time  limited  for  sinking 
these  Paper  Bills.  So  that  it  is  plain,  this  is  only  a  project 
to  mortgage  the  Country  for  5  years  for  £30,000  payable 
£6000  annually  reckoning  interest,  by  which  means  all  future 
Governours  will  be  embarrast.  But  which  is  worse,  the  Gov- 
ernour,  Treasurer,  and  others  let  into  the  secret  will  undoubtedly 
buy  up  these  Bills  from  ye  poor  creditors  for  a  trifle,  which 
we  have  reason  "to  believe  was  the  view  intended,  in  not  adding 
a  forco  and  makeing  them  currant ;  by  which  means  they  will 
receive  to  themselves  ye  greatest  part  of  ye  tax  of  £6000  ,a 
year:  a  new  method  of  evadeing  H.M.  Instructions  against 
takeing  presents,  and  of  retrieving  the  lost  fortunes  of  these 
unhappy  men  at  the  expense  of  the  publick.  We  are  prepareing 
full  proofs  to  be  transmitted  to  your  Lordships  by  ye  next 
opportunity  of  all  the  particulars  we  have  charged  Mr.  Crowe 
with  in  our  late  Representation,  which  we  were  so  cautious  as 
to  communicate  to  no  person  in  this  Island  but  himself,  and 
that  personally  and  privately ;  notwithstanding  which  he  thought 
fit  to  suspend  us  from  H.M1.  Council  for  the  same  on  Sept. 
25,  immediately  after  the  pacquet  sail'd.  We  are  satisfy'd 
we  have  done  nothing  but  our  duty.  We  lye  under  great  hard- 
ships in  obtaining  the  Minutes  of  common  matters,  and  persons 
willing  to  prove  his  illegal  and  arbitrary  practices  are  deterr'd 
from  doeing  the  same  by  ye  apprehensions  they  lye  under  of  his 
power,  which  alone  hinder  us  from  doeing  ourselves  the  honour 
of  transmitting  them  by  this  vessel  privately  dispatch't,  and 
of  whose  sailing  we  had  but  a  few  hours'  notice.  We  gladly 
submit  ourselves  to  your  Lordships,  beseeching  you  to  exert 
not  only  your  reason,  but  your  authority  in  censureing  effectu- 
ally the  dispensing  power  assumed  by  Mr.  Crowe,  which  has 
highly  incensed  all  true  Englishmen,  which  has  subjected  him 
to  ye  influence  of  a  faction,  who  now  resolve  to  make  a  tool, 
instead  of  complaining  of  him ;  which  they  once  resolv'd  with 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  113 

1708, 

all  ye  violence  imaginable;  and  which  will  render  us,  without 
your  Lordship's  interposition,  the  only  sacrifices  to  Mr.  Crowe's 
violence  and  obstinacy,  tho'  we  are  neither  guilty  of  them, 
nor  of  ye  wicked  arts  of  the  Faction,  but  have,  and  do  still 
continue-  to  declare  for  steady,  legal  and  moderate  measures,  by 
which  only  Barbados  can  be  saved,  which  we  beg  leave  to 
assure  your  Lordships  is  upon  ye  very  brink  of  ruine.  Signed, 
Wm.  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker,  Saml.  Beresford.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  14th,  Read  15th  Dec.,  1708.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

156.  i.  Copy  of  petition  of  several  merchants  in  Barbados 
to  the  Assembly  against  a  proposed  Bill  for  issuing 
a  great  sum  in  notes  from  2/6  to  10/s.  49  signatures. 
Endorsed  as  preceding.  2  pp. 

156.    ii.  Copy  of  heads  of  proposed  Paper  Act.      1|  pp. 
156.    iii.  Copy  of  Governor  Crowe's  Message  to  the  Assembly, 
and  their  Address  to  him  upon  the  Representation  of 
Messrs.   Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  him.     Sept. 
4,  1708.     Same  endorsement.     3  pp. 

156.  iv.  Answer   of   Messrs.    Sharpe,    Walker    and   Beresford 

to  the  [preceding^  Address  of  the  Assembly.  Same 
endorsement.  5  pp.  [C.O.  28,  11.  Nos.  42,  42. 
i.-iv. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  29,  11.  pp.  357-361.] 

Oct  18.  157.  Governor  Lord  Cornbury  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
New  York.  Plantations.  I  trouble  your  Lordshipps  with  these  few  lines 
to  acquaint  you  that  the  great  abuses  committed  in  the  neigh- 
bouring Collonys  upon  the  Spanish  coin  allowed  to  be  current 
here;  to  that  degree  that  it  is  generally  diminished  above  one 
third  of  the  vallue,  have  obliged  the  Assembly  now  sitting  to 
passe  an  Act  for  regulating  and  preventing  the  corruption  of 
the  currant  coin,  which  I  herewith  send  you,  and  intreat  your 
Lordshipps  to  use  your  best  endeavours  to  obtain  the  Royall 
assent  for  this  Act,  which  I  know  to  be  of  the  utmost  conse- 
quence to  this  Province,  and  without  which  it  must  be  ruined ; 
I  likewise  send  your  Lordshipps  an  Addresse  signed  by  my 
self,  all  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Councill  that  were  in  towne,  and 
all  the  Members  of  the  Assembly  that  were  in  towne.  I  urn 
desired  by  them  all  to  desire  your  Lordshipps  to  lay  it  before 
H.M.,  with  the  Act  to  which  it  relates.  I  am  obliged  in  justice 
to  the  people  of  this  place,  to  assure  your  Lordshipps  that  the 
Addresse  contains  the  truth,  and  that  the  inconveniencys  therein 
mentioned  will  most  certainly  attend  this  Province,  unless  H.M. 
is  gratiously  pleased  to  confirm  the  Act  passed  here.  I  beg 
the  favour  of  your  Lordshipps  that  I  may  hear  what  H.M. 
pleasure  is  as  soon  as  'possible,  because  the  Act  of  Parliament  of 
Great  Brittain  is  to  take  place  in  these  parts  the  first  of  May 
next.  Signed,  Cornbury.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Jan.  26,  Read  Feb. 
18,  170 f.  Holograph.  *2  pp.  Enclosed, 

157.  i.  Address   of  the  Governor,    Council   and   Assembly  of 

New  York  to  the  Queen.  Wee  your  Majesty's  most 
dutifull  and  loyall  subjects,  being  highly  sencible  of 
the  great  disadvantages  this  Province  has  already  and 

Wt.  11522,  C  P  8 


114  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 


must  still  labour  under  by  the  great  abuse  of  the 
forreign  coin  allowed  to  be  currant  in  these  parts,  to 
the  great  decay  and  even  almost  the  intire  ruine  of 
trade,  unless  timely  prevented,  for  the  currant  coin 
of  this  your  Majesty's  Province  has  of  late  been  clipped 
and  diminished  at  least  one  third  part  of  its  real 
value  and  great  quantitys  thereof  for  want  of  some 
good  Law  to  prevent  the  same  daily  imported,  whereby 
we  are  subject  not  only  to  the  abuse  of  all  evill  practices 
of  this  kind  here ;  but  in  apparent  danger  of  being 
the  receptacle  of  all  the  clipt  money  in  this  part  of 
America ;  And  having  seen  an  Act  of  Parliament  for 
ascertaining  the  rates  of  foreign  coins  in  H.M.  Planta- 
tions ;  which  is  to  take  effect  in  these  American  parts 
on  May  1st  next,  doe  with  all  humility  acquaint  your 
Majesty,  that  if  that  Act  is  to  take  place  according 
to  the  letter  of  it,  this  Province  in  particular,  and 
some  of  the  neighbouring  Provinces  upon  this  vast 
Continent  must  unavoidably  be  ruined,  for  if  the  coin 
allowed  to  be  current  in  these  parts  (which  is  cheifly 
the  Spanish  coin  and  some  Lyon  dollars)  is  to  be 
upon  the  same  foot  here  as  it  is  in  the  West  Indies, 
we  shall  not  have  money  to  support  the  Government 
to  pay  the  four  company's  of  fuzileers,  which  your 
Majesty  is  graciously  pleased  to  allow  for  the  defence 
of  this  Country,  nor  to  carry  on  any  trade,  and  our 
ships  must  lye  and  rott  by  the  walls,  for  it  is  an 
undoubted  truth  that  nothing  brings  money  into  this 
Province,  but  the  trade  to  your  Majesty's  Islands  in 
the  West  Indies  and  to  those  subject  to  the  States 
Generall  of  the  United  Provinces ;  from  the  latter  of 
which  we  bring  nothing  but  heavy  money.  The  cheif 
returns  from  this  Province  to  Great  Britain  are  made 
in  heavy  money.  And  if  the  money  must  pass  here 
at  the  same  rate  it  does  at  Jamaica  and  other  Islands 
of  the  West  Indies,  as  by  the  said  Act  is  directed,  it 
will  not  be  worth  the  merchants'  while  to  bring  money, 
but  will  rather  bring  the  produce  of  those  Islands  in 
return  for  the  produce  of  these  parts,  which  they  carry 
thither,  and  so  leave  this  Province  without  money,  for 
want  whereof  the  merchants  here  will  not  be  able  to 
make  such  returns  to  Great  Britain  as  they  used  to 
doe,  and  consequently  this  Province  will  not  be  able 
to  take  off,  by  a  great  deal,  so  much  of  the  manufactures 
of  that  your  Majesty*s  Kingdom  as  it  has  hitherto  done, 
to  the  great  damage  of  this  Province,  as  well  as  the 
manufactures  of  Great  Britain.  In  the  last  clause  of 
the  Act  your  Majesty  is  left  at  liberty  to  alter  the 
regulation  of  the  coin  made  by  the  said  Act,  either 
by  your  Majesty's  Royal  Proclamation,  or  by  assenting 
to  any  Act  of  Assembly  to  be  past  in  any  of  your 
Majesty's  Plantations  in  America  for  that  purpose. 


AMEEICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  115 

1708. 

The  certain  knowledge  wee  have  of  the  consequences 
that  will  attend  the  execution  of  that  Act  in  these  parts, 
and  the  duty  we  owe  to  your  Majesty,  and  the  desire 
wee  have  to  promote  the  good  and  wellfare  of  your 
Majesties  subjects  of  this  Province,  have  made  us  think 
it  an  indispensible  duty  upon  us,  not  only  to  repre- 
sent the  circumstances  of  this  Province  to  your  Majesty, 
but  likewise  in  most  humble  manner  to  lay  at  your 
Majesty's  Eoyall  feet  an  Act  passed  this  present  Sessions 
of  Assembly,  "for  the  regulating  and  preventing  the 
corruption  of  the  currant  coin,"  in  the  passing  of  which! 
wee  have  taken  care  to  observe  the  directions  your 
Majesty  has  been  pleased  to  give  the  Governor  in 
your  Eoyall  Instructions  to  him,  in  which  your  Majesty 
is  pleased  to  direct  him  not  to  suffer  any  Act  to  pass 
by  which  the  value  of  the  silver  coin  allowed  to  be 
currant  in  this  Province  may  be  diminished  without 
your  Majesty's  leave  first  obteined ;  the  rates  contained 
in  this  Act  are  the  same  which  the  money  now  goes  at 
in  the  Provinces  of  Connecticut,  Massachusets  Bay, 
New  Hampshire,  Eode  Island  and  New  Jersey,  ;ind  has 
gone  at  the  same  rate  in  this  Province  upwards  of 
20  years  past.  This  being  the  Truth,  wee  humbly 
beseech  your  Majesty  will  be  graciously  pleased  to 
favour  this  Province  with  the  Eoyall  Assent  etc.,  und 
to  beleive  wee  should  not  have  presumed  to  have  passed 
the  said  Act  without  first  obteinning  your  Majesties' 
leave  for  soe  doeing,  were  it  not  for  the  shortness  of 
time,  between  this  and  the  first  of  May,  that  the  Act  of 
Parliament  is  to  take  place  here,  and  the  very  great 
incertainty  of  hearing  from  Great  Britain  during  this 
time  of  warr,  it  being  sometimes  14  or  15  months' 
before  wee  can  have  any  answers  to  the  letters  wee 
write  from  these  parts,  so  that  before  wee  could  have 
humbly  pray'd  for  and  obteined  your  Majesty's  leave 
to  pass  such  an  Act  all  the  inconveniencies  which  \vee 
apprehend  from  the  execution  of  the  Act  of  Parliament 
would  have  fallen  upon  this  Province  before  wee  could 
have  obtained  a  remedy,  which  wee  now  humbly  hope 
for  from  your  Majesty's  great  goodness  to  us  etc. 
Signed,  Cornbury,  P.  Schuyler,  Eip  van  Dam,  Tho. 
Wenham,  John  Barbarie,  J.  Beckman,  Adr.  Philiptes, 
W.  Nicholl,  Steph.  Delanedy,  J.  v.  Cortlandt,  Tho. 
Codrington,  Law.  Eead,  Edmund  Ward,  Jona.  White- 
head,  Wm.  Willett,  Josiah  Hunt,  Jno.  Stillwell,  Cornels, 
van  Brunt,  Abrah.  Lakeman,  Hen.  Handen,  Cornels. 
Seberingh,  Mich.  Hawdon.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Jan.  26, 
Eead  18  Feb.,  170£.  Copy.  6  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  Nos.  99, 
99.i.  ;  and  (without  enclosure)  5,  1121.  pp.  357,  858.] 

Oct    22          158.     Major  Lloyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
St.  John's.    I    every    year    since    my    comeing    to   this    countrey    gave    your 


116  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 

Lordshipps  a  particular  acct.  of  this  land ;  it  is  my  misfortune 
to  fiend  they  have  been  intercepted,  by  what  meanes  I  know- 
not,  but  can  produce  ye  coppies  and  prove  my  sending  of 
them ;  I  hereby  send  an  acct.  and  state  of  ye  fishery  of  this 
countrey  etc.  I  went  myselfe  or  sent  an  officer  to  all  ye 
harbours  for  a  just  information  that  nothing  might  come  from 
me  to  your  Lordshipps  but  what  I  co[w]ld  justifie  to  be  true. 
If  ihereafter  your  Lordshipps  thinks  fitt  to  signifie  your  pleasure 
to  ,me  in  relation  to  that,  or  ye  yearly  Instructions  to  ye 
Commodores,  I  shall  be  proud  of  your  commands  etc.  I  have 
sent  to  Mr.  Thurston,  ye  Agent,  an  acct.  of  ye  men  listed  by 
me.  etc.  It  is  H.M.  commands  to  me  to  send  that  acct.  to  ye 
Capt.  Generall  of  ye  Army,  wch.  I  have  from  time  to  time  done, 
and  occasioned  my  not  sending  that  acct.  of  late  years  to  your 
Lordshipps.  The  malitious  and  false  complaint  of  my  enemies 
laid  before  yr.  Lordshipps,  I  refer  to  ye  papers  ye  Commodore 
has  in  answer  thereto.  I  know  my  innocence,  and  humbly  pray 
your  Lordshipps  to  suspend  your  thoughts  untill  I  am  admitted 
a  faire  tryall  in  England  or  here.  The  Garrison  is  in  as  good] 
a  condition  as  I  desire  it  for  this  winter,  ye  Company  being 
full  and  good  men,  and  ye  inhabitants  nere  800  that  will  winter 
at  St.  Johns,  if  ye  enemy  hurt  us  this  year,  I'le  allow  ye 
fault  to  be  laid  to  my  charge.  Signed,  Tho.  Lloyd.  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  Dec.  22,  1708,  Bead  Jan/ 5,  170f.  Addressed.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

158.  i.  Schedule  of  following  papers.  2  pp. 
158.  ii.  Inhabitants  of  Newfoundland  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  (i.,  ii.)  It  was  to  their  unspeak- 
able grief  that  Capt.  Moody  was  recalled,  etc.  (in.) 
Since  Major  Lloyd's  return,  the  people  are  worse  used 
than  before.  They  are  compelled  like  slaves  to  goe 
into  ye  woods  on  Sundays  to  cutt  timber  for  his 
service,  and  spitt  upon,  kickt,  beaten,  wounded,  over- 
laden with  unequall  quartering  of  soldiers  and  are  dis- 
possessed of  their  properties.  Taxes  are  made  without 
laws,  raised  with  partiality,  and  whoever  dared  to  com- 
plain are  immediately  either  miserablely  abused  in  their 
persons  or  oppressed  in  theire  trade.  The  soldiers 
are  lett  out  to  hire  and  robbed  of  their  wages  when 
earned;  many  (to  be  delivered  from  ye  depressure 
of  theire  calamityes)  have  been  forced  secretly  to  escape 
and  desert  theire  Plantations,  especially  in  ye  winter 
season  when  ye  Comodores  are  absent,  at  whose  returne 
some  come  back  again,  in  hopes  to  finde  shelter  under 
ye  small  remaines  of  power  left  in  the  Comodore. 
(iv.)  Major  Lloyd  boasts  his  power  and  interest  in 
England,  and  threatens  some  and  bribes  others  to 
subscribe  a  good  character  of  himself  and  an  accusa- 
tion of  Capt.  Moody.  (v.)  The  present  subscribers 
dare  not  returne  to  their  families,  if  theire  humble 
representation  be  known  and  their  supplication  for  the 
removeall  of  Major  Lloyd  prove  abortive.  Copy.  1^  pp. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  117 

1708. 

158.  iii.  Inhabitants  of  Newfoundland  to  [?  Commodore 
MitchelT] .  Pray  that  their  affidavits  may  be  taken  in 
refutation  of  preceding  representation.  Major  Lloyd 
has  by  his  courage  and  diligence  baffled  the  enemy, 
and  by  his  continuall  good  behaviour  highly  encour- 
aged ye  industry  of  all  people  in  theire  fishery.  St. 
Johns.  July  3,  1708.  63  signatures.  1%  pp. 

158.  iv.  Reply  of  some  Inhabitants  of  Newfoundland  to  above 
Representation  (No.  ii).  (i).  Capt.  Moody  behaved  very 
well  during  the  French  invasion,  1704,  but  afterwards 
plundered  and  arbitrarily  imprisoned  some  of  the  in- 
habitants, (ii).  Major  Lloyd  has  behaved  very  well, 
to  the  general  content  of  everybody.,  (iii).  False  in 
every  particular,  (iv).  Their  testimony  is  true,  (v.) 
This  charge  is  false.  July  6,  1708.  74  signatures. 
3  pp. 

158.  v.  Masters  of  ships  and  merchants  of  Newfoundland  to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  The  allegations 
(No.  ii.)  against  Major  Lloyd  are  wholly  false.  Pray 
that  his  services  may  be  represented  to  H.M.  38 
signatures.  1  p. 

158.  vi.  Commodore  Mitchell  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  The  replies  of  the  inhabitants  above  (iii.- 
v.)  were  made  of  their  own  free  will.  All  merchants 
and  masters  trading  here  unanimously  agree  that  Major 
Lloyd  has  behaved  well,  etc.  Signed,  Jno.  Mitchell. 
1  p. 

158.  vii.  Examination  of  Abraham  Taverner.  He  knew 
nothing  of  his  own  knowledge  as  to  the  allegations 
which  he  signed  against  Major  Lloyd  (No.  ii.)  Signed, 
Robt.  Harland,  Admiral  of  St.  Johns  Harbour.  Oct.  1, 
1708.  1  p. 

158.  viii.  Deposition  of  John  Fletcher  and  Griffith  Russell. 
Reply  to  petition  of  Mrs.  Benger.  We  rented  Poole 
Plantation  from  Mrs.  Benger  and  her  husband  for  £48 
a  year  in  1707.  Major  Lloyde  never  concerned  himself 
directly  or  indirectly  with  us  about  the  said  plantation 
or  rent.  Sept.  15,  1708.  Signed,  John  Fletcher  (mark), 
Griffith  Russell  (mark).  1  p. 

158.  ix.  Opinion  of  14  Admirals  of  the  Harbour  and  Masters 
of  ships  at  Ferryland,  that  the  fishing  rooms  known  as 
Pool  Plantation  belong  by  right  to  Phillip  Kirke.  Sept. 
17,  1707.  Signed,  Rich.  Hartnoth,  James  Cradock, 
John  Wickley,  Wm.  Meddon,  Thomas  Netheway,  Willm. 
Tetherly,  John  Tucker,  John  Piffton  of  ye  Kingsale, 
Henery  Pearden,  Vice-Admll.,  Wm.  Hodder,  Rear 
Admll.,  Christopher  Browning,  George  Stephens, 
Nichos.  Andrews,  Phillip  Rowstiffe.  1  p. 

158.  x.  Judgment  of  Commodore  Mitchell  and  other  Com- 
manders of  H.M.  ships  of  war  upon  the  complaints 
against  Major  Lloyd.  At  a  Court  held  at .  St.  Johns, 
Oct.  18,  1708.  Major  Lloyd  has  not  traded,  directly  or 


118 


COLONIAL   PAPEES. 


1708. 


[Oct.  25.] 
[Oct.  25.] 


Oct.  25. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  26. 

Whitehall, 


Oct.  26. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  26. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  26. 

Whitehall. 


indirectly,  nor  let  soldiers  out  to  hire  and  taken  the 
profits,  but  [h]is  condescention  to  the  entreatys  of  some 
masters  of  ships  hath  been  the  saving  of  otherwise 
lost  voyages,  without  any  damage  to  the  Queen's  ser- 
vice, care  being  taken  that  such  was  not  to  be  without 
call  of  drum.  He  hath  not  levied  any  taxes  as  alledged 
but  that  three  quihtalls  complained  of  was  a  voluntary 
subscription  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Minister,  and 
to  be  a  bank  for  their  own  particular  services  in  order 
the  better  to  defend  themselves  from  the  enemy,  which 
hath  not  amounted  in  the  whole  to  above  £160  per 
annum.  All  these  complaints  have  been  contrived  by 
some  few  disaffected  persons,  etc.  Signed,  Jno. 
Mitchell,  S  (?).  Chamberlen,  Et.  Harland,  J.  Percy, 
Covill  Mayne,  W.  Ockman,  Eichard  Prius,  Admiral, 
Arthur  Holdsworth,  Vice-Admiral,  Abra.  Passmor,  Eear 
Admiral.  If  pp.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  77,  77.  i.-x..: 
and  (without  enclosures)  195,  5.  pp.  68,  69."] 

159.  Petty  Expenses  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Midsummer  to 
Michaelmas,   1708.     See  B.   of  T.   Journal     5  pp.     [C.O.   388, 
76.     Nos.  41-44.] 

160.  Copy    of    Patent    from    K.    William    III.,    constituting 
Samue!  Cox  Naval  Officer  in  Barbados.     Westminster,  Dec.   13, 
1701.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  from  Charles  Cox,  Oct.  25,  1708.     £  p. 
[C.O.  28,  11.    No.  16.] 

161.  Council   of   Trade  and   Plantations   to   the    Lord   High 
Treasurer.      Enclose    account   of    Office    expenses,    Midsummer- 
Michaelmas,   1708.      [C.O.   389,   6.     pp.   369-371.] 

162.  W.  Popple  to  Mr. .  Savage.     Encloses  papers  as  desired 
Aug.    26.      I   do   not   find   the   affidavit  of   Mr.    Wiberd  in  this 
Office      [C.O.  5,  913.     pp.  7,  8.] 

163.  The    Earl    of    Sunderland    to    Lt.    Governor    Bennettt. 
'Acknowledges    letters    of    Feb.    10.      You    need    not   doubt    that 
H.E.H     will    do   you   justice    upon    your    complaints   of   Lieut. 
Wilcox's   behaviour  to  you  and  the   Attorney   General   of   your 
Island.     Signed,   Sunderland.      [C.O.   5,  210.     p.   121.] 

164.  Same   to   Governor   Crowe.      I   have   received   yours   of 
May  18  and  June  7.     I  am  sorry  you  should  differ  in  opinion 
from  the  Council  of  Trade,  but  can  assure  you  that  they  have 
nothing    personal    against   you,    and    that    there    is    no    ground 
for   your    suspicion   that   they    are   none    of    your    Friends.      I 
presume  they  will  return   you   full   answers   to  what  you  write 
to  them,  and  must  therefore  refer  you  thereto.     Signed,   Sun- 
derland.    [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  122.] 

165.  Same  to   Mr.   Jennings.      I   am  to   acknowledge   yours 
of  June  24.     I  have  sent  to  the  Admiralty  what  you  write  of 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


119 


1708. 


Oct.  26. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  26. 
Whitehall. 


Oct.  26. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  26. 

Whitehall. 


the  necessity  of  a  guard  ship  along  your  coast,  and  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  what  you  mention  of  the  attempts  from  South 
Carolina  to  disturb  your  Indians  trading  with  the  West  Indians ; 
as  also  what  you  hint  of  the  advantage  it  would  be  for  our 
merchants  to  supply  your  plantation  with  European  goods  to 
prevent  the  Planters  running  upon  manufactures  of  their  own. 
Signed,  Sunderland.  [C.O.  5,  210.  p.  122.] 

166.  Same  to  Governor  Parke.    I  thank  you  for  the  informa- 
tion you  give  me   (July  1)  of  a  trade  carryed  on  from  Ireland 
and   Barbadoes   to   Martinico,    which   I   have    communicated   to 
the   Council   of  Trade,  that  they  may   enquire   into  the  matter 
and   consider  of  methods   for   preventing   that   unlawfull  trade. 
Signed,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  123.] 

167.  Same  to  Governor  Handasyd.     I  have  received  yours  of 
June  17  and  July  20.     You  may  imagine  how  very  welcome  was 
the  news   of  the   good   success   of  Bear   Admiral   Wager's    Ex- 
pedition,  your   readiness  to   assist  him    with   men   is   certainly 
very  much  to  be  commended,  and  the  good  agreement  between 
you,  as  it  must  needs  be  a  great  pleasure  to  yourselves,  must 
undoubtedly  be  a  mighty  advantage  to  H.M.  service.     You  are 
very  right   in  not  passing   the   Bill   which  the   Assembly   were 
preparing,   especially  since  you   could  not   get  the  two   clauses 
inserted  for  the  preserving  H.M.  Prerogative  and  the  due  pay- 
ment of  the  Quit-Bents,  and  the  Proclamation  you  have  issued 
concerning   that   matter   may   prove   of   good   service   to    H.M. 
Kevenue  in  your  Island.     Your  recommendation  of  Capt.   Old- 
field  to  be  one  of  the  Council  there  was  referr'd  to  the  Com- 
missioners of  Trade  as  is  usual  in  the  like  cases;  from  whom 
I   have  received  an   answer  that  the   Council  of  Jamaica   is  at 
present  full,  but  that  he  stands  the  first  upon  the  list  of  persons 
for  supplying  the  vacancy s  there.    H.M.  is  not  yet  come  to  any 
determination  in  the  affair  of  Mr.  Norris  whom  you  recommend 
to  bo  a  Naval  Officer,  nor  as  to  what  you  propose  of  the  sending 
a    Chief   Justice   to    Jamaica.      Signed,    Sunderland.      [C.O.    5, 
210.     p.  95.] 

168.  Same  to  Governor  Seymour.     Acknowledges  letters  of 
Oct.  13,  1707  and  June  23  last  past.     I  have  transmitted  to  the 
Admiralty  what  you  write  of  the  necessity  of  a  guardship  on 
your  coast,  and  of  your  letters  being  detained  which  are  sent 
by  the  men  of  warr,   and  to   the   Council   of   Trade  what  you 
mention  concerning  the  bounds   between  Maryland  and  Pensil- 
vania,   that  they  may   consider  of   a  method   to   put   a  speedy 
end  to  that  dispute.     Signed,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.  p.  96.] 

169.  Mr.    Popple    to    Mr.    Attorney    ["  ?  Solicitor]    General. 
According  to  your  desire,  I  send  you  a  copy  of  the  objections 
that  have  been  made  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and   Plantations 
against  the  Act  of   Nevis   for  establishing  Courts,  etc.  (cf.  Aug. 
11,  24)       [C.O.  153,  10.     pp.  194,  195.] 


120 


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1708. 
Oct    26. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  26. 

Treasury 
Chambers . 


Oct    26. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  27. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  27. 

Jamaica. 


170  Same  to  Mr.  Solicitor  General.  Upon  Mr.  Pindar's 
petition  [see  Sept.  14] ,  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations, 
apprehending  that  such  passports  and  trade  [as  desired  by  him] 
are  inconsistant  with  the  Act  of  Navigation,  whereby  no  goods 
may  be  imported  into  or  exported  out  of  any  of  H.M.  Plantations 
in  any  vessels  but  such  as  do  truly  belong  to  the  subjects 
of  this  Kingdom  or  of  Ireland  etc.,  desire  your  opinion  whether 
such  passes  may  be  lawfully  granted.  [0.0.  29,  11.  pp.  303, 
304.] 

171.  W.  Lowndes  to  W.  Popple.  Encloses  following.  My. 
Lord  Treasurer  desires  the  opinion  of  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations,  what  may  be  a  reasonable  bounty  for  the 
petitioner's  subsistence  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Lowndes.  Endorsed, 
Kecd.,  Kead  Oct.  27,  1708.  Addressed.  \  p.  Enclosed, 

171.  i.  Melchior  Gilles  to  the  Queen.     Petitions  for  a  chari- 

table allowance  till  his  wife  has  recovered  and  they 
are  able  to  join  the  other  German  Refugees  in  New 
York.  Signed,  Melchior  Hilg.  [naturalised  GuicJi] . 
1  p.  [0.0.  5,  1049.  Nos.  95,  95.  i. ;  and  5,  1121. 
pp.  325,  326.] 

172.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Reply   to   Sept.    20.      The   Councill  of  Jamaica   is   at 
present    full.      Mr.    Oldfield,    of    whom    we    have   had    a    good 
character,   does   stand  first  upon  the   list  of  persons   for   sup- 
plying vacancys  there.      [O.O.    138,   12.     p.    332.] 

173.  W.  Popple  to  Mr.  Attorney  Generall.     Refers  to  Lord 
Baltimore's  letter,  Oct.  9th,  that  you  may  be  present  on  Nov. 
8  to  hear  what  he  may  have  to  offer,"  etc.      [O.O.  5,  727.  pp-. 
55,  56.] 

174.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.     I   have  not  received   any   letter   from   your   Lops,    by 
this  packett.     What  occurrences  have  happened  here  since  my 
last,  by  the  Resolution  packett  boat  and  Fleet  that  sailed  from! 
hence  the  last  month,  I  shall  now  inform  your  Lops.  of.     Two 
of  our  privateers    have    sent   in    2  Spanish  vessells  loaden  with 
cocoa  and  other  goods,  they  took  severall  more  off  Campeachy, 
but   were   not  able   to    bring   them   up  to   windward,    and  have 
either   burnt   or   sold    them.      It    is    reported    these   they   have 
brought    in    are    very    valuable,    but   the    truth   of    that    I  am 
not  certain  of.     H.M.S.   Severn  has   retaken  from  the   French' 
an   English  ship  bound  from  Barbadoes  to  Virginia,   and  sent 
her  into   port.     I   send  your   Lops,    here   enclosed   the   contract 
made   between  the   French   King   and   the   Duke  of   Anjou   and 
Councill  of  Spain,  for  the  transporting  goods  from  Old  France, 
and    likewise    Spanish   goods    to    the    West    Indies,    which    was 
found  in  one  of  the  prizes,   and   I   hope  may  be  of  service  to 
us,  when,  it  please  God  King  Charles  is  settled  on  the  throne 


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1708. 

of  Spain.  There  are  lately  arrived  at  Lavera  Cruz  12  ships 
from  Cadiz,  but  most  of  them  are  French  vessells  under  convoy 
of  two  men  of  war,  one  of  70  guns,  the  other  of  50,  the 
prisoners  that  are  come  from  thence  say  they  are  all  loaden 
with  Spanish  and  French  goods.  Our  sloops  are  not  yet  re- 
turned from  the  coast,  and  trade  there  seems  to  be  very  in- 
different, they  pretending  that  mony  is  scarce.  In  my  last  I 
acquainted  your  Lops,  of  the  seizure  of  a  Spanish  brigantine 
that  was  taken  by  one  Scrivener,  without  a  commission,  since 
which,  the  enclosed  paper  will  inform  you  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  and  Navall  Officer  in  that  affair. 
I  have  now  writt  to  H.R.H.  Secretary  to  acquaint  H.R.H.  of 
the  same,  that  I  may  know  what  shall  be  further  done.  A 
French  privateer  sloop  being  supposed  to  be  one  of  our  traders, 
has  taken  from  the  North  side  of  this  Island  one  of  our  sloops 
loaden  with  furstick  and  10  or  12  negroes  that  were  at  work, 
which  is  owing  altogether  to  the  carelessness  of  the  people 
there.  The  men  of  war  here  are  healthy,  but  are  in  great  want 
of  sailors,  to  supply  which  the  soldiers  of  H.M.  Regiment  under 
my  command  are  almost  ffatigu'd  out  of  their  lives,  for  there 
cannot  2  ships  go  to  sea  unless  a  fifth  part  of  their  men  are 
soldiers.  I  have  received  20  recruits  by  this  packet  boat,  and 
the  Officer  at  Plymouth  writes  me  word  he  has  60  more  ready 
to  send.  The  Councellors  that  are  Factors  to  the  Guinea  Com- 
pany and  Judges  of  Courts,  by  which  are  incapable  to  sitt 
upon  Appeals,  I  have  shewn  your  Lops.'  letter  to,  and  told 
them  the  hazard  they  run  of  incurring  the  penalty  of  the  Act 
of  Parliament,  but  they  all  seem  to  think  themselves  very  secure, 
except  Col.  Beckford,  who  says  he  will  be  no  longer  Factor  to 
the  Guinea  Company ;  I  therefore  desire  to  know  your  Lops.' 
further  opinion,  sincei  I  shall  not  be  able  to  make  up  a  Councill 
for  Appeals.  The  Quartering  Act  being  near  expired,  I  shall 
be  obliged  to  call  an  Assembly,  but  am  mighty  apprehensive 
of  their  stubborness  in  relation  to  the  allowance  to  the  Officers, 
who  will  not  be  able  to  live  without  it,  for  their  common 
discourse  is,  they  do  not  want  Officers,  but  private  men.  The 
Revenue  is  not  able  to  support  the  contingent  charges,  and 
I  cannot  find  out  a  method  to  oblige  the  Assembly  to  enable  it, 
notwithstanding  I  have  moved  it  to  every  Assembly,  and  must 
desire  your  Lops.'  advice  in  this  matter  as  well  as  others.. 
The  Island  is  healthy,  etc.  P.S.  Since  my  concluding  this 
letter  we  have  had  the  ill  news  of  the  loss  of  H.M.S.  Dunkirk's 
prize,  which  in  pursuit  of  a  French  ship  off  Cape  Francis,  run 
upon  a  rock  and  broke  to  pieces,  the  French  ship  at  the  same 
time  run  upon  a  sand,  and  after  some  little  dispute  surrendered 
to  the  Captain  and  men  of  the  Dunkirk's  prize,  who  got  her 
off  the  sand  and  have  brought  her  into  port:  she  is  an  outward 
bound  ship  from  France,  laden  with  wine,  brandy  and  dry 
goods,  some  of  her  cargo  was  disposed  of  at  Port  Rico,  some 
they  put  a  shore  upon  Hispaniola,  before  we  had  possession. 
Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Reed.  19th  Jan.,  Read 
Feb.  22,  170f.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 


122 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1708. 

174.  i.  Copy  of  Contract  between  the  French  King  and  the 
Duke  of  Anjou  for  transporting  French  and  Spanish 
goods  to  the  West  Indies.  Endorsed  as  preceding. 
Printed.  Spanish.  15^  pp. 

1 74.  ii.  Copy  of  proceedings  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty,  Ja- 
maica, in  relation  to  the  periago  Kingston  Galley.  John 
Bill  sailed  with  her  for  the  Spanish  coast  in  June,  in 
order  to  dive  on  the  galleon  Admirall  Wager  blew 
up.  Bill  fell  sick,  and  Benj.  Scrivener  taking  command 
hoisted  the  privateer  Jack  without  any  commission. 
A  Spanish  brigantine  taken  by  him  was  brought  in  to 
Kingston  by  some  of  Scrivener's  men  and  there  seized 
by  the  Naval  Office.  The  Judges  were  of  opinion  that 
the  seizure  did  'not  lie  properly  before  them,  by  reason 
it  was  within  the  Harbour,  and  cognizable  at  law,  and 
so  dismiss'd  the  monition.  The  goods  being  perish- 
able were  sold  by  the  Navall  Officer  at  publick  outcry  for 
£1300  Jamaica  mony.  Same  endorsement.  1£  pp. 
[C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  27,  27.  i.,  ii. ;  and  (without  en- 
closures) 138,  12.  pp.  355-359.] 

Oat.  28.          175      Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,     derland.     Enclose  Address  to  H.M.   from  St.  Kitts.     (See  July 
7,  1708).     [C.O.  153,  10.     pp.  210,  211.] 

Oct.  29.  176.  Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Bermuda.  Plantations.  Refers  to  letter  of  Aug.  4,  etc.  Inclosed  are  the 
Navall  Officers'  lists  of  vessells  entering  and  clearing  from 
April  4,  1706,  to  Oct.  5,  1708,  soe  that  I  presume,  with  what 
has  been  before  transmitted,  those  accounts  are  stated  to  that 
day-  Also  is  inclosed  the  condemnation  of  the  sloop  Margarett 
for  clandestine  tradeing,  but  the  owners  being  much  dissatis- 
fied att  the  loss  of  their  vessell  for  soe  small  a  matter,  have 
endeavoured  many  ways  to  reflect  and  blame  the  prosecution, 
pretending  that  the  tobacco  found  on  board  was  loose  and  in 
the  sailors'  chests  and  designed  by  them  for  their  own  use, 
and  that  the  Master  nor  owners  knew  nothing  of  it.  But  with 
the  tryal  is  the  searcher's  affidavit,  which  explains  that  matter. 
Capt.  Brooke,  H.M.  Collector  here  of  the  Customes,  has  trans- 
mitted the  whole  proceedings  to  the  Commissioners,  whom  I 
presume  will  appear  to  justify  their  Officer  if  further  applycation 
is  made  concerning  the  same.  M'r.  Daffy  haveing  taken  copys 
out  of  the  Office  of  the  proceedings  against  him  at  the  Court 
of  Assize,  holden  in  Dec.,  1706  for  promoteing  and  getting 
(Subscriptions  to  a  libellous  paper,  of  which  he  was  found 
guilty  and  fined  £50,  and  being  in  hopes  to  prevail  to  gett 
that  fine  remitted,  I  have  therefor  now  again  transmitted  a 
copy  of  that  tryall.  By  the  inclosed  affidavits  your  Lordships 
will  be  informed  of  the  cruelties  the  French  have  been  guilty 
of  among  the  Bahama  Islands.  The  Justice  of  the  Peace  who 
took  the  examinations  told  me,  that  when  he  was  interrogateing 
Mrs.  Strode,  she  desired  to  be  excused  for  that  she  was  asham'd 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  123 

1708. 

to  declare  what  she  saw  and  heard  of  their  brutalities.  Signed, 
Ben.  Bennett.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  June  29,  Kead  July  1st,  1709. 
Holograph.  2^  pp.  Enclosed, 

176    i.  Deposition    of    Elizabeth    Stroude,     of    the   Bahama 

Islands,    as    to   the    beating    and    torturing    of   women 

etc.,    at   Exhuma   and   Illethera,    by   french   privateers 

^  July,  1708,  in  order  to  make  them  divulge  their  hidden 

wealth.     Signed,  Eliz.   Stroude.    Copy.     1  p. 
176.    ii.  Deposition   of    Samuel   Harvey.      To   same    effect   as 
preceding.     Endorsed,    Eecd.    June   29,    Kead   July    1, 
1709.     Copy.     1  p. 

176.  iii.  Copy  of  Proceedings  of  Court  of  Assize,  Bermuda, 
Dec.  2,  1706,  against  Mr.  Daffy.  Referred  to  supra. 
Endorsed,  Eecd.  June  29,  1709.  4  pp. 

176.  iv.  Deposition  of  D.  Ubanks,  Searcher  in  the  Custom 
House,  Bermuda,  as  to  tobacco  found  on  board  the 
sloop  Margaret.  Sept.  29,  1708.  Signed,  Daniel 
Ubanks.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy.  1  large  p. 

176.  v.  Copy  of  Proceedings  at  a  Court  of  Admiralty,  Ber- 

muda, March  12  and  15,  1708.  The  Margarett  was 
condemned,  and  Appeal  granted  to  the  Lord  High 
Admiral,  etc.  Same  endorsement.  8  pp.  [C.O.  37, 
8.  Nos.  82,  82.  i.-v.  ;  and  (without  enclosures}  38, 
6.  pp.  456-458.] 

Oct.  29.  177.  Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Eeply  to  Oct.  26.  I  humbly  conceive  that  the 
granting  of  the  passes  desir'd  will  be  illegal,  and  directly 
contrary  to  the  Act  of  Navigation.  Signed,  E.  Eyre.  En- 
'dorsed,  Eecd.  1st,  Eead  9th  Nov.,  1708.  Holograph.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

1 77.  i.  Copy  of  Mr.  Popple's  letter,  Oct.  26,  1708.    Addressed. 

Sealed.  1  p.  [C.O.  28,  11.  Nos.  20,  20.  i. ;  and 
(without  enclosure)  29,  11.  p.  311.] 

Nov.  2.  178.  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  the  Council 
Barbados,  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Refer  to  former  letters,  and  their  charges 
against  Governor  Crowe.  We  hoped  that  H.E.  would  have 
waited  H.M.  determination  of  this  affair  or  given  us  an  oppor- 
tunity of  makeing  good  our  charges,  but  on  Sept.  25th  he 
removed  us  from  the  Council  Board  for  presenting  him  with  a 
scandalous  libel,  as  he  was  pleased  to  call  our  representation, 
and  tho'  we  insisted  at  the  Council  Board  that  we  had  done 
nothing  but  what  we  conceived  was  our  dutys  pursuant  to  our 
oaths,  and  had  been  prevented  from  offering  in  Council  by  the 
several  adjournments  therein  complained  off,  and  tho  we  earn- 
estly prest  him  that  the  said  Eepresentation  might  be  read 
at  the  Board  and  that  he  would  enquire  into  the  several  alle- 
gations, and  offer'd  to  prove  them  all  and  tenn  times  more, 
yet  nothing  coud  prevail  on  him  to  doe  either  himself  or  us 
justice,  but  proceeded  to  suspend  us  from  the  Council,  tho 
several  members  offered  to  protest  against  such  suspension, 


124  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

and  pray'd  that  we  might  be  admitted  to  make  good  our  charge, 
which  he  rejected.  We  submit  it  to  your  Lordships  consider- 
ation, if  the  suspension  of  Members  of  H.M.  Council  for  offer- 
ing their  advice  in  matters  to  which  they  are  obliged  by  their 
oaths  will  not  have  a  very  fatal  influence  on  the  publick  affairs, 
etc.  Signed,  Saml.  Beresford,  Alexander  Walker,  Wm.  Sharpe. 
Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  Jan.  19,  170f.  1  p.  [C.0.%28,  11. 
No.  47 ;  and  29,  11.  pp.  374-376.] 

Nov.  2.  179.  Major  Pilgrim  to  the  Earl  of  Stamford.  My  last  of 
Barbados.  Aug.  28  acquainted  you  of  my  health  and  safe  arrivall  with 
my  wife  and  daughter  in  this  poor  distressed  Island,  occasioned 
by  the  illegall  and  arbitrary  proceedings  of  Mr.  Crow,  who 
governs  by  his  will  and  pleasure,  as  is  dayly  seen  by  everyone, 
to  the  great  greif  of  the  poor  inhabitants,  a  great  many  of 
which  have  been  ruin'd  by  the  late  Paper  Act,  and  now  Mr. 
Crow  with  the  Assembly  are  projecting  another  Paper  Act, 
which  if  he  can  get  to  pass  the  Council  will  wholy  ruin  the 
poor  Island,  which  he  endeavours  to  accomplish  by  suspend- 
ing Mr.  Sharpe,  Mr.  Walker,  and  Mr.  Berrisford,  for  acquaint- 
ing him  of  his  illegall  and  arbitrary  proceedings,  etc.  He 
has  placed  two  in  their  places,  (viz.)  one  Barwick  that  came 
here  from  England  in  the  ffleet  with  me,  and  is  Mr.  Blathwait's 
kinsman,  and  will  doe  what  he  will  have  him,  the  other  is  one 
Aynsworth,  who  is  another  tool  for  his  purpose,  at  the  suspend- 
ing the  above  gentlemen,  Mr.  Cox  and  myself  did  protest  against 
his  suspending  them,  and  desired  our  protest  might  be  ontred 
in  tho  Council  book,  which  we  showed  to  him,  which  hie  refused, 
telling  us  he  did  not  ask  any  man's  consent  to  the  suspending 
them,  but  did  what  he  thought  fitt ;  I  asked  him  why  he  called 
a  Council,  there  being  no  other  business  that  day,  if  he  did 
not  intend  to  take  their  advice,  to  which  he  replyed,  he  would 
call  them  when  he  pleased ;  the  next  sitting  of  the  Council, 
the  Minutes  of  their  sitting  before  was  read,  and  there  the 
Minutes  said  the  former  day's  minutes  were  read  and  approved 
of,  to  which  I  told  him  it  was  a  wrong  minute,  for  that  Mr. 
Cox  and  myself  desired  our  protest  might  be  entered,  and  we 
were  dismissed,  so  that  we  did  not  approve  of  the  same,  his 
answer  was  nothing  should  be  altered,  and  we  might  write  for 
England  and  make  the  most  of  it  we  could ;  and  the  last  sitting 
of  the  Council,  there  were  severall  petitions  heard,  there  being 
only  five  Members  which  made  a  Council  and  Mr.  Crow,  a 
petition  being  read  and  argued,  three  of  the  Members  were  for 
the  petitioner,  two  against  him,  Mr.  Crow  voted  against  him, 
which  made  the  votes  but  equall,  nevertheless  he  gave  it  against 
the  Petitioner ;  I  told  him  the  votes  were  equall,  and  unless  he 
had  two  votes,  it  was  not  carried,  his  answer  was,  wherever  he 
voted,  he  would  carry  it.  By  all  which  your  Lordship  may 
see  he  will  doe  what  he  thinks  fit ;  he  has  now  severall  suits 
depending  in  the  Chancery  where  he  is  Judge  in  his  own 
cause,  he  has  also  severall  suits  at  the  Common  Law  now 
depending,  and  no  Governour  before  him  ever  had  the  like, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  125 

1708. 

he  has  a  Judge  in  the  precincts  where  his  causes  are  to  be 
tryed,  that  will  doe  what  he  will  have  him ;  the  said  Judg 
is  Speaker  of  the  Assembly  and  is  more  in  debt  than  Jie 
is  worth ;  so  that  did  not  Mr.  Crow  keep  him  in  ft  Judge, 
his  icrediters  would  fall  on  him,  and  extend  all  his  estate,  so 
that  this  Judge  must  do  something  for  this  favour ;  you  must 
also  note  that  this  Judge  is  Judge  in  the  precincts  where  jiis 
estate  is,  so  that  he  also  is  Judge  in  his  own  causes.  As 
to  the  Millitia,  he  makes  so  often  alterations  in  the  Feild 
Officers,  in  turning  out  and  putting  in  new  ones,  that  at  this 
time  we  have  not  two  regiments  settled  in  the  Island,  which 
would  be  of  ill  consequence,  were  we  attack'd ;  by  all  which 
I  hope  your  Lordship  will  commisserate  our  deplorable  con- 
dition, by  making  known  the  same  to  H.M.,  that  we  may  be 
releived  from  a  Governour  that  has  acted  illegall  and  arbitrary, 
which  will  easely  be  made  to  appear  very  plain  by  the  sus- 
pended gentlemen,  and  by  a  great  many  other  complaints  made 
against  him.  Signed,  Jno.  Pilgrim.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  .Head 
Jan.  20,  170|.  3  pp.  [C.O.  28,  11.  No.  48;  and  29,  11. 
pp.  377-380.] 

Nov.  2.  180.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Baibados.  tions.  Acknowledges  letters  of  July  13,  Aug.  4  and  13.  Your 
Lordships'  commands  shall  be  punctually  observ'd,  etc.  I  can- 
not but  take  notice  of  the  Custom-hous  officers'  remissness  in 
their  duties-;  they  pretend  to  dispose  of  all  inferiour  places 
by  order  from  the  Commissioners  in  London,  so  that  Governor's 
directions  is  not  regarded  by  them,  nor  will  by  any  others, 
except  H.M.  will  be  pleased  to  support  it  by  showing  her  dis- 
pleasure on  those  that  have  so  scandalously  condemn'd  it.  Refers 
to  enclosures.  I  hope  that  your  Lordshipps  will  make  such  a 
representation  thereof,  that  I  may  have  justice  don  me — and 
the  authority  of  the  Governmt.  preserved,  for  as  it  now  is, 
a  Governor's  whole  time  is  taken  up  in  vindicateing  himselfe 
against  the  unjust  aspertions  of  a  sett  of  ill-designing  men,, 
who  want  nothing  but  a  change,  in  hopes  their  corruptions 
will  (as  heretofore)  then  take  place.  I  refer  your  Lordships  to 
the  Minutes  of  Councill  of  Sept.  25th  for  my  reasons  of  dis- 
placeing  them,  wch.  T  doubt  not  will  be  as  well  approved 
off  by  yr.  Lordships  as  it  has  been  here ;  there  then  wanting 
two  Members  to  make  up  the  number  seven,,  I  offer'd  to  reinstate 
Col.  Hallet  and  Mr.  Salter,  but  they  both  refus'd  it,  with 
this  excuse,  off  experiencing  the  uncertainty  of  the  continuance, 
so  I  thought  it  was  not  proper  to  run  the  hazard  of  the  like 
answere  from  Messrs.  Colleton  and  Warren,  therefore  pitcht 
upon  Mr.  Samuel  Barwick  and  Mr.  James  Aynsworth,  who 
are  gentlemen  without  exceptions,  and  very  agreable  to  the 
people  Yr.  Lordshipps  will  receive  their  characters  from  their 
ffriends  in  England,  wch.  I  hope  will  be  so  satisfactory  to 
yr.  Lordshipps,  that  they  will  be  confirm'd  by  H.M.  At  the 
request  of  the  Grand  Jury,  Generall  Assemblie,  and  Attourney 
Generall  I  have,  with  the  unanimous  advice  of  the  Councill, 


126  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

alter'd  that  rule  in  the  Chancery  Court,  whereby  the  Register 
in  Chancery  unjustly  demanded  and  kepp  10  p.c.  (of  all  mony 
deposited)  for  his  own  use.  Mr.  Mein,  who  went  home  in 
H.M.S.  Greenwich,  can  give  your  Lordships  a  very  particular 
acct.  of  all  occurrences  dureing  his  time.  I  suppose  your 
Lordships  will  think  fitt  to  supply  his  place  in  the  Councill. 
H.M.S.  Weymouth  about  20  days  ago  took  off  Martineek  a  French 
shipp  of  120  tunns  loaden  from  Nants  with  beefe,  pork,  flower, 
wine  and  brandy,  wch.  has  been  sould  here.  The  Assembly 
are  now  about  raising  a  leavy  to  pay  off  the  country's  debts, 
wch.  amounts  to  above  £20,000,  but  the  methods  they  propose 
are  not  so  agreable  to  the  merchts.  as  I  could  wish,  the  bill 
now  lys  before  the  Councill,  for  their  consideration.  As  soon 
as  the  publick  accts.  are  all  stated,  yr.  Lordshipps  may  depend 
on  a  coppy  thereof.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  22nd, 
Read  24th  Jan.,  170|.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 

180.  i.  Representation  of  Mr.  Sharp,  Mr.  Walker  and  Mr. 
Beresford  to  Governor  Crowe,  touching  his  maladminis- 
tration, etc.  Duplicate  of  Sept.  1,  1708.  Endorsed  as 
preceding.  7  pp. 

180.  ii.  Governor  Crowe's  Reply  to  the  foregoing  complaint. 
Nov.  2,  1708.  The  Council  has  alwayes  been  called  when 
anything  occurred,  and  never  mist  the  usual  monthly 
sittings,  but  on  Aug.  3  last,  which  was  occasioned  by  a 
cold  and  feaver  that  confined  me  to  my  chamber  for  four 
days,  and  on  the  meeting  of  Council,  Aug.  30,  I  gave 
them  the  reasons  for  not  holding  on  the  next  day, 
which  they  then  approved  off,  and  notwithstanding 
I  demanded,  if  they  had  anything  to  communicate  for 
the  service  before  the  Council  was  adjourned,  they 
declared  they  had  not  as  per  the  Minute  here  adjoyn'd, 
and  by  those  already  at  large  sent  home,  will  appear. 
Although  they  tell  of  general  dissatisfactions  (which 
I  immediatly  thought  convenient  to  inform  myself  of 
by  the  Generall  Assembly),  your  Lordships  will  per- 
ceive the  falcity  of  that  assertion  by  said  General 
Assembly's  Address.  It  has  alwayes  been  the  custom 
of  the  Assemblys  to  meet  (altho'  the  Council  did  not 
sitt)  to  prepare  buisness  or  bills,  in  order  to  be  passed 
into  laws  by  the  Governour  and  Council,  as  by  ?»11 
former  Minutes  of  the  Councill  and  Assembly  sent 
home  may  appear  I  never  did,  nor  do  they  instance 
any  Cause  of  Error  or  Grievance  determin'd  without 
the  due  forms  by  a  majority  of  the  votes  of  the 
Councill,  and  as  to  what  relates  to  ye  affairs  of  Sir 
Willoughby  Chamberlain,  as  my  wife  is  sole  execu- 
trix, all  determinations  relateing  thereto  was  unanim- 
ously consented  to  and  adjudged  by  the  Council,  and 
their  prayer  for  my  decreeing  accordingly.  I  have 
duely  observ'd  II. M.  Instructions  in  the  disposal  of 
Civil  Offices,  nor  do  they  give  one  particular  instance 
to  the  contrary,  and  as  to  ye  millitary,  I  refer  to 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  127 

1708. 

the  above  Address,  of  the  satisfaction  of  the  people 
under  the  present  Officers.  But  I  must  observe  that 
untill  this  paper,  those  Gentlemen,  if  there  had  been 
any  error  committed,  never  were  so  just  as  to  advise 
me  thereof.  I  never  consented  to  the  Assembly's  em- 
ploying any  Agents  in  England,  nor  did  the  General 
Assembly  ever  ask  my  leave  for  so  doeing ;  as  for  the 
Council  not  sitting  so  often  as  at  my  first  comeing, 
the  reason  is  evident,  that  I  then  so  regulated  the 
affairs  of  the  Government,  that  there  was  no  occasion 
for  such  a  constant  attendance,  nor  do  they  mention 
one  instance.  As  to  the  dreadfull  apprehensions  of 
another  Paper  Act;  I  referr  to  the  General  Assemblies 
Address.  As  to  the  charges  3,  4,  5,  7,  refers  to 
enclosures.  As  to  6,  setting  aside  orders,  I  apprehend 
it  was  alwayes  the  custom  of  the  Court  of  Chancery 
in  this  Island  to  be  determined  by  the  vote  of  the 
Chancellor  when  the  votes  were  equal,  and  so  the 
Barristers  were  of  opinion,  otherwise  the  party  sup- 
posed to  be  grieved  would  have  objected  thereto.  (7). 
If  my  private  secretary,  Mr.  Skene,  committed  any 
abuses  in  extorting  undue  fees,  it  was  contrary  to  my 
orders,  and  what  I  am  wholly  ignorant  of,  never  have- 
ing  had  any  complaints  relateing  thereto.  Nor  did 
ever  I  determine  any  matter  of  law  by  private  pe- 
titions, they  do  not  give  any  instance,  only  that  I 
threatned  Mr.  Summers,  wch.  was  for  abusive  lan- 
guage, and  not  for  not  complying  with  the  just  debt; 
I  have  to  relieve  the  poor  (who  before  my  arrival 
were  much  oppressed,  and  durst  not  complain  of  a 
rich  planter,  for  if  they  did  to  any  neighbouring  Justice 
of  the  Peace,  had  litle  or  no  redress.)  I  set  aside 
one  day  of  the  week  to  hear  their  complaints,  and! 
have  taken  all  proper  methods  to  relieve  them,  which' 
was  the  only  means  to  protect  them  from  their  accus- 
tomed oppression,  and  to  keep  them  amongst  us,  as 
also  to  oblige  the  Justices  of  ye  Peace  to  comply  with 
their  dutys.  As  to  the  case  of  Bamfeild  against  Water- 
man, the  petitions  are  not  to  be  found  in  the  Offices. 
So  that  I  cannot  remember  what  was  ordered  in  that 
case,  but  that  there's  no  complaint  from  the  partys. 
(8).  As  to  stopping  executions  after  judgment  at  Com- 
mon Law,  it  has  alwayes  been  done  by  petition  and 
injunctions  granted.  (9).  As  to  Mr.  Arnol  and  Grey's 
fine,  it  was  done  on  their  petition  according  to  my 
Instruccions ;  it's  true  Mr.  Arnol  being  next  neighbour 
to  one  of  my  plantations  and  seeing  the  neglect  of  my 
overseer,  did  send  30  negroes  for  two  dayes  to  help 
to  hole  a  piece  of  ground,  wch.  is  not  yet  paid  for. 
It  amounts  to  £1-10-0  at  1\  per  day.  (10).  As  to 
Mrs.  Walter's  recovery  against  Farmer's  estate,  refers 
to  enclosure.  On  the  day  appointed  for  the  hearing 


128  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1708 


the  petition,  it  was  dismisst  by  the  plaintiff's  consent, 
on  a  better  understanding  between  her  and  the  de- 
fendants, as  I  was  informed.  They  do  not  instance 
any  one  case  of  hardship  putt  upon  any  person,  on 
a  private  petition.  (11).  As  to  the  affair (s)  of  the 
Grand  Sessions,  I  do  not  now  remember  it.  But  why 
did  not  these  Gentlemen  who  were  Councillors,  as 
Messrs.  Sharpe  and  Walker,  and  at  that  time  on  the 
bench,  as  it  was  their  duty  then  to  have  informed  and 
advised  me  better,  if  by  my  then  sickness  in  Court, 
or  inadvertency  any  mistake  had  been  committed.  Nor 
did  I  ever  hear  this  affair  mention'd  before  this  paper 
charge.  It  was  also  the  duty  of  the  then  Attorney 
General  to  have  protested  against  any  irregularity  of 
ye  Court.  (12).  There  is  no  instance  given  or  ever 
any  question  made  (but  by  these  Gentlemen)  of  my 
partiallity  in  judgment,  either  in  Chancery,  Error  or 
Grievances,  nor  of  receiving  any  presents  but  from 
Mr.  Slingesby.  Refers  to  enclosure,.  (13).  If  I  con- 
tinued at  Pilgrim  after  the  Act  of  £500  was  past,  it 
was  well  known  the  reason  was  because  I  could  not 
rent  a  convenient  plantation,  and  that  my  own  house 
was  at  that  time  fitting  up.  (14).  As  to  imprisoning 
Judge  Buckworth,  refers  to  enclosure.  The  noli  prose^ 
qui  was  entred  by  the  Attorney  Generall  without  any 
order  from  me.  (15).  As  to  the  committing  the  undrir- 
goaler  Smal,  it  was  for  contempt  and  letting  prisoners 
for  debt  goe  out  of  prison.  (16).  As  to  imposeing 
new  oaths,  it's  like  the  rest,  false.  (17).  As  to  trade, 
I  have  been  so  far  from  discourageing,  that  never  no 
Governour  went  so  far  to  encourage  it.  (18).  And  as  to 
the  Sherbrough  ffrigot,  I  believe  the  concern'd  do  not 
think  they  have  any  ground  for  complaint.  That  affair 
would  have  been  brought  to  a  trial,  if  the  Custom 
House  Officer  who  ought  to  have  prosecuted,  had  not 
failed  in  his  duty.  I  never  gave  any  orders,  or  obliged, 
or  ever  so  much  as  spoke  to  any  Master  to  have  his 
petition  drawn  by  my  private  Secretary,  or  over  re- 
fused, when  it  was  propper  and  consistent  with  H.M. 
Instructions,  to  sign  any  petition  for  sailing,  nor  do 
they  pretend  to  give  an  instance,  but  in  the  general 
discontent.  (19).  As  to  appointing  Coll.  Cleland  Lieut. 
Governor,  these  Gentlemen  would  make  a  handle  thereof 
to  insense  the  People,  who  know  as  well  as  they  that  no 
Lieut.  Governor  can  be  appointed  here  but  by  H.M. ; 
so  I  could  not  by  letters  or  otherwise  pretend  to  the 
disposal  of  it  without  H.M.  approbation:  whatever  might 
be  pretended  in  this  was  before  I  left  England,  when 
H.M.  was  pleased  to  order  my  returning  into  Spaine 
as  her  Envoy  extraordinary  and  Plenipotentiary  but,  on 
the  planters'  and  merchants'  petition  for  my  oomeing 
directly  for  Barbados,  there  was  an  end  of  it.  (20). 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  129 

1708. 

As  to  the  not  passing  the  new  Excise  Bill,  it  was 
the  Gentlemen  of  ye  Councill  who  disputed  it  with 
the  Assembly  on  account  of  the  Agency  being  incerted 
therein,  and  had  several  conferences  with  them  thereon, 
nor  was  ever  the  General  Assembly  adjourned  on  that 
account ;  much  to  the  contrary,  long  before  their  time 
expired  they  were  ordered  to  sitt  de  die  in  diem,  untill 
that  should  be  accomodated  between  them,  to  which 
I  referr  to  the  General  Assembly's  Address;  nor  in 
the  interval,  to  the  best  of  my  memory,  did  there  more 
than  one  smal  sloop  arrive  with  35  pipes  of  wine  con- 
signed to  Mr.  Mackenzie,  the  duty  whereof  amounts 
to  no  more  than  about  £157-10-0.  (21).  As  to  the 
alterations  in  the  Militia,  I  was  several  months  in  the 
Island  before  any  was  made,  and  those  that  has  since 
been,  are  to  the  general  satisfacion  of  the  people, 
as  appears  by  the  Assembly's  Address.  (22).  As  to 
the  Brigadeer,  there  are  two  that  bears  that  Com- 
mission, which  they  mean  doth  not  appear,  but  I 
must  do  them  both  that  justice,  as  to  declare  my  opinion 
of  their  being  gentlemen  of  as  good  estates,  and  as 
much  honour,  courage  and  integrity  as  any  in  this 
Island.  And  as  to  the  Judges,  there  has  been  but  two 
new  ones  made  since  my  arrival.  The  first  was  Coll. 
Eeynd.  Alleyne,  of  whom  I  have  not  heard  any  com- 
plaint, and  Coll.  Downes,  who  has  for  some  years 
been  Speaker  of  the  General  Assembly,  and  in  his 
place  as  Judge  done  his  duty  with  as  much  expedition 
and  justice  as  ever  any  man  that  sat  on  that  Bench. 
Whatever  disadvantages  any  of  these  Gentlemen  might 
at  my  first  comeing  to  this  Island  lye  under  by  mis- 
representations to  me  from  some  of  these  discontented 
persons  or  others,  I  have  now  been  long  enough  here 
to  know  them  personally,  and  think  myself  obliged  to 
acknowledge  my  satisfaction  with  their  conduct  and 
proceedings.  As  to  their  charge  of  my  illegally  dispens- 
ing with  the  law  in  Coll.  Holder's  case,  it  is  as 
falsely  represented  as  the  rest ;  ffor  what  was  done 
in  that  case  was  in  a  Court  of  Grievance  und  voted1 
by  a  majority  of  the  Councillors,  by  which  I  was 
obliged  to  give  sentence,  so  that  I  had  no  other  share 
therein  than  to  pronounce  the  judgment,  as  in  all 
other  cases,  which  is  carried  by  a  majority  of  votes 
in  Council,  which  by  my  oath  I  was  obliged  to,  as 
the  General  Assembly  was  soon  sensible  of,  and  that 
was  the  reason  they  did  not  proceed  on  the  Represen- 
tation, haveing  detected  the  false  insinuations  by  which 
they  were  led  into  that  error,  and  Mr.  Beresford  gave 
his  vote  for  ye  supporting  that  Order  he  now  exclaims 
against.  So  that  there  doth  not  in  the  least  appear 
what  they  so  falsly  and  scandalously  assert,  that  by 
any  way  or  thing  I  have  prostituted  the  dignity  of 

Wt.  11522.  C  P  9 


130  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 


the  Government,  or  sacrificed  the  publick  good  to  my 
private  safety,  etc.  (23).  As  to  their  additional  charge, 
dated  Sept.  1,  1708,  their  false  pretence  of  want  of 
opportunity  or  time  to  consider  of  publick  affairs  is 
answered  by  the  Minutes  of  Councill,  and  as  to  the 
Assemblys  addressing  H.M.  without  the  concurrence 
of  the  Council,  it  is  both  parliamentary  and  hath  often 
been  done  by  former  Assemblys,  and  is  a  priviledge 
that  even  a  private  subject  cannot  be  debarred  from, 
nor  did  any  of  these  Gentlemen  give  me  notice  of 
such  proceedings  of  ye  Assembly  (untill  by  their  paper), 
that  I  might,  if  there  had  been  any  just  grounds,  have 
stoped  it.  (24).  And  as  to  my  permitting  of  the  As- 
sembly disposing  of  the  publick  money  without  advice 
of  the  Council,  it  is  so  notorious  \ly~]  false,  that  the 
Assembly  never  offered  or  demanded  any  such  thing, 
as  by  their  Address.  So  that  I  think  it's  plain  how 
falsely  and  scandalously  they  have  abused  me.  Upon 
the  whole  matter  it  appears  that  the  instances  these 
gentlemen  have  given  of  male  administracion  (if  they 
were  true),  were  matters  transacted  many  months  since, 
so  that,  if  the  zeal  they  pretend  for  H.M.  service  and 
a  due  administration  of  the  affairs  of  this  Governmt. 
were  real,  they,  on  consideration  of  their  oaths  and 
duty  as  Councillors,  ought  long  since  to  have  given 
me  their  opinion  and  advice  in  these  matters,  which 
I  do  averr  they  never  did  till  the  delivery  of  the 
said  paper,  excepting  only  Mr.  Sharpe's  protest  con- 
cerning the  business  of  Coll.  Holder,  which  was  the 
last  Council  day  before  the  delivery  of  this  paper : 
and  it  is  observable  that  they  do  not  so  much  as 
pretend  they  had  ever  given  me  any  advice  in  the 
affairs  complained  of,  till  the  delivery  of  said  paper, 
which  would  have  been  such  an  aggrevation  as  they 
would  not  have  omitted,  as  may  appear  by  the  temper 
shewed  in  their  remonstrance.  I  beleive  they  will 
not  be  justified  in  treating  me  in  the  manner  they 
have  done,  when  I  am  by  H.M.  Commission  their 
Governour,  which  could  tend  only  to  create  sedition 
and  ffaction  in  the  Island,  and  endanger  the  safety 
thereof.  What  this  action  of  theirs  and  their  publick 
proclaimeing  and  bragging  of  it  had  like  to  have  pro- 
duced may  in  part  appear  by  enclosure.  In  respect 
to  the  Queen's  authority,  I  think  their  advice  should 
have  been  given  with  some  decency  and  modesty,  and 
without  the  many  unnecessary  and  impertinent  reflec- 
tions with  which  it  is  filled.  And  if  my  managment 
of  this  Government  had  been  imprudent  or  even  crim- 
inal, till  H.M.  had  judgd  it  so,  I  beleive  they  cannot 
justifie  their  insolence,  which,  if  it  go  uncensur'd, 
will  be  a  president  for  the  like  treatment  of  future 
Goveraours,  the  consequence  of  which  may  be  easily 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  131 

1708. 

forseen.  It  was  neither  zeal  for  the  Queen's  service 
nor  sense  of  their  duty  that  moved  these  Gentlemen 
to  deliver  the  said  paper  to  me,  but  some  of  the  true 
reasons  are  these:— On  Aug.  31,  1708,  in  the  Assembly 
of  this  Island  there  happened  some  warm  debates  con- 
cerning the  accusation  and  imprisonment  of  Mr.  Lilling- 
ton  and  Coll.  Downes  for  High  Treason,  in  the  later 
end  of  Sir  B.  Granville's  Government,  and  the  force- 
ing  from  one  of  them,  as  it  was  said,  great  summs  of 
money.  The  Assembly  thought  it  very  much  for  the 
safety  of  H.M.  subjects  of  this  Island  that  so  villainous 
a  practice  should  be  thoroughly  enquired  into  and  de- 
tected, and  in  the  said  debates  Alexander  Walker  and 
his  brother  William  Walker  Esqs.  were  by  some  of 
the  Members  charged  to  be  persons  against  whom 
there  was  violent  cause  of  presumption,  that  they  first 
had  suborn 'd  an  evidence  to  swear  against  the  said 
gentlemen,  and  that  they  had  after  their  commitment 
made  their  advantage  of  it,  but  that  debate  was  ad- 
journed till  a  further  and  more  particular  discovery 
might  be  made,  wch.  I  am  informed  is  carried  so  far 
that  one  or  both  of  those  brothers  will  probably  have 
a  trial  at  ye  next  Grand  Sessions,  which  is  to  be  pn 
Dec.  12  next.  The  Assembly  then  proceeded  to  con- 
sider of  other  transactions  of  Alexander  Walker,  and 
particularly  of  his  takeing  a  sum  of  money  of  Col. 
Holder  for  promoteing  and  voteing  for  the  Banke  bills 
issued  in  the  time  of  Sir  B.  Granville,  the  said  Walker 
being  then  a  leading  Member  in  the  Assembly,  on 
which  they  made  an  Address  to  me  (enclosed}.  The 
said  Walkers  sometime  before  foreseeing  that  there 
would  probably  be  some  enquiry  made  into  those  mat- 
ters, by  many  applications  and  insinuations  endeav- 
ourd  to  gain  the  same  credit  and  power  with  me 
that  they  formerly  had  with  Sir  B.  Granville,  sup- 
poseing  that  the  only  way  by  which  they  could  avoid 
the  penalties  of  the  Law  if  they  were  prosecuted  here, 
but  being  before  that  well  informed  of  their  characters, 
their  endeavours  were  in  vain.  Thus  the  matter  stood 
till  the  Assembly  proceeded  and  addressed  as  aforesaid 
on  Aug.  31,  when,  finding  themselves  without  the  pro- 
tection they  expected,  and  despairing  thereof  whilst  I 
continued  in  this  Governmt.,  they  framed  the  aforesaid 
libell,  and  Alexander  Walker  prevailed  with  Mr.  Sharpe 
and  Mr.  Beresford  to  joyne  with  him  therein,  and  de- 
liverd  it  to  me  the  next  day  after  the  proceedings  of 
the  Assembly,  being  September  1,  artificially  dateing  the 
first  part  of  it  August  27,  as  if  it  had  been  prepared 
sometime  before  the  said  proceedings  of  ye  Assembly. 
To  omit  many  other  reasons  which  Sharpe  had,  not  to 
seperate  himself  from  the  Walkers  (with  whom  he 
has  alwayes  been  strictly  united),  his  very  great  debts 


132  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1708. 

and  low  circumstances  in  ye  world  have  given  him 
sufficient  occasion  to  be  dissatisfied  with  the  frequent 
sitting  of  the  Courts  and  more  speedy  execution  of 
justice  in  the  time  of  'my  Government  than  was  formerly 
used  in  this  Island,  as  by  the  Records  of  the  Courts 
and  the  general  confession  of  all  persons  interrested 
here  may  appear  by  enclosure.  It  will  likewise  appear 
that  he  now  owes  the  sum  of  £15,739  by  judgments, 
besides  what  he  owes  on  bonds  and  open  accounts, 
so  that  for  want  of  the  security  from  payment  of  his 
debts  which  he  formerly  enjoyed,  and  the  hopes  he 
publickly  declared  he  has  of  this  Government  on  the 
next  vacancy,  he  has  been  tempted  to  joyne  with  the 
said  Walker.  As  to  Mr.  Beresford,  he  was  first  placed 
in  the  Council  by  Mr.  Sharpe  in  the  time  of  his 
Presidentship,  and  is  a  dependant  on  him.  His  low 
character  in  the  Church  I  believe  is  well  known  to  my 
Lord  Bishop  of  London,  his  Diocesian,  as  well  as  to 
all  persons  here,  some  part  of  which  will  appear  by 
the  depositions  of  Brigadeer  Thomas  Alleyne  and  Mr. 
Salter,  sent  herewith.  I  think  his  temper  will  likewise 
appear  by  the  paper  to  which  this  is  an  answer,  which! 
showes  not  much  of  the  spirit  and  discretion  of  a 
worthy  and  sober  Divine  fitly  qualified  to  be  a  Member 
of  H.M.  Council.  What  I  believe  has  most  provoked 
those  Gentlemen  is  to  see  their  scheem  of  Government 
projected  in  the  President's  time  by  Mr.  William 
Walker,  as  by  his  letter  to  Coll.  Cleland,  and  Cleland's 
explanation  thereof  to  the  Assembly,  wholly  frustrated. 
Coppy  goes  herewith.  I  hope  by  what  has  been  said 
it  will  appear  that  those  three  Gentlemen  has  falsely 
and  scandalously  abused  me.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  En- 
dorsed as  preceding.  10|  pp. 

180.  iii.  Certificate  that  the  following  are  sworn  copies  of 
the  originals.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Nov.  1.  1  p. 

180.    iv.   (a).  Minutes  of  Council  of  Barbados,  Aug.  30,  1708. 

180.  iv.  (b).  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  Gov- 
ernor Crowe,  in  reply  to  the  paper  of  Messrs.  Sharpe, 
Walker  and  Beresford.  Sept.  4,  1708. 

180.  iv.  (c).  Depositions  and  petitions  of  Arthur  Slingesby, 
Susanna  Scott,  John  Pittman,  Thomas  Baron,  Tho. 
Godfrey,  Arthur  Upton,  W.  A.  Moore,  Wm.  Godman, 
Wm.  Shuller,  Patrick  Thomson,  John  Holder. 

180.  iv.  (d).  Minutes  of  Council  of  Barbados,  Oct.  11,  1707— 
July  6,  1708. 

180.  iv.  (e).  Copy  of  Warrant  for  arrest  of  Cuthbert  Mitford 
on  the  petition  of  Joseph  Swaine.  Nov.  1,  1705. 

180.  iv.  (f).  Copy  of  petition  of  Richard  Williams  and  an 
order  against  John  Summers  for  payment  of  a  debt 
referred  to  therein,  after  he  had  refused  to  attend  the 
Governor.  Aug.  18,  1707. 

180.    iv.   (g).  Copy  of  petition  of  Katherine  Herbert,  and  sum- 


AMEEICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  133 

1708. 

mons  against  Alexander  Walker,  dismissed  July  26, 
1708. 

180.  iv.  (h).  Depositions  by  Thomas  Baron,  Secretary,  that 
he  cannot  find  in  his  office  the  petition  said  to  be  pre- 
ferred by  John  Holder  against  the  proceedings  of  the 
Bank  Marshal,  or  of  Gibbes  v.  Walter,  or  Bamford  v. 
Waterman.  Oct.  12,  1708. 

180.  iv.  (i).  Petition  of  Manuel  Manasses  Gilligan  and  But- 
ler [Chamberlain]  his  wife,  administratrix  of  Sir  John 
Witham,  Bart.,  for  leave  to  appeal  from  a  decision 
upon  an  action  of  detinue  against  William  Battyne, 
Cuthbert  Mitford  and  John  Cleland.  Granted,  pro- 
vided the  negroes  in  debate  be  found  upon  appraise- 
ment to  be  of  the  value  of  £500.  Leave  to  appeal 
was  then  refused,  April  24,  1708,  upon  the  grounds 
that  the  warrant  of  appraisement  was  not  duly  executed. 

180.  iv.  (j).  Address  of  the  Assembly  to  Governor  Crowe, 
Aug.  1,  1708.  Pray  that  Alexander  Walker  may  be 
removed  from  the  Council,  if  Col.  Holder's  allegation 
be  proved,  that  he  received  £527  out  of  the  profits  of 
the  Bank  Bills,  he  having  zealously  promoted  the  Paper 
Act,  etc. 

180.  iv.  (k).  Certificates  of  20  judgments  entered  against 
William  Sharpe  since  1681,  varying  in  amounts  from 
£3000  downwards,  upon  which  no  satisfaction  has  been 
made.  Signed,  Wm.  Burnet,  Cl.  Cur. 

180.  iv.  (1).  Deposition  of  Capt.  Alexander  Arnot,  that  in  1706 
he  with  Capt.  Christopher  Jackson,  entered  into  bond 
of  £2000  for  Cuthbert  Mitford,  then  taken  up  on  a  ne 
exeat  insula  on  a  bill  in  Chancery  filed  against  him! 
by  the  Attorneys  of  Mitford  Crowe,  then  in  England. 
Soon  after,  they  caught  him  at  sea  endeavouring  to 
escape  and  refused  any  longer  to  stand  his  security. 
Oct.  28,  1708. 

180.  iv.  (m).  Deposition  of  Eichard  Downes,  Nov.  1,  1708. 
On  Sept.  4,  when  he  was  with  H.E.,  Mr.  Bate  waited 
upon  deponent.  In  reply  to  his  enquiry  by  letter 
as  to  his  business,  he  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Bate: 
"Sir,  my  business  was  to  give  you  a  letter  from  Col. 
Codrington,  written  at  the  desire  of  4  or  5  gentlemen, 
who  are  willing  to  preserve  the  rights  of  their  constitu- 
tion as  long  as  they  can.  The  business  of  the  letter 
was  this,  that  if  publick  business  could  not  be  dispatcht 
without  private  quarrells  (which  as  it  was  your  duty, 
so  you  had  authority  enough  to  prevent),  it  was  not 
reasonable  Mr.  Maxwell  and  Mr.  Carter  should  be  en- 
gaged alone,  but  that  Mr.  Carter  had  3,  4  or  half  a 
dozen  freinds  to  attend  him  whenever  his  enemys 
should  think  fitt  to  call  on  him.  Wee  went  to  drink 
chocolat  with  Col.  Carter  this  morning,  and  haveing 
made  him  our  complements  came  back  to  towne.  Signed, 
Eaynes  Bate.  Sept.  5,  1708.  For  the  honble.  Mr. 


134  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 

Speaker   Downes.      The   whole    endorsed,    Reed.    22nd, 
Read  24th  Jan.   170f.     62  pp. 

180.  v.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  Governor 
Crowe  Oct.  5,  1708.  Return  thanks  for  abolishing 
the  practice  of  the  Registrar  of  the  Chancery  Court  in 
keeping  to  his  own  use  10  p.c.  of  money  deposited  in 
the  Court.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

180.  vi.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Alleyne,  Oct.  8,  1708.  After 
the  Council  had  risen  from  business,  they  were  one 
day  discoursing  of  the  debauchery s  of  the  youth  of 
this  Island,  and  particularly  toward  ill  women.  Some 
of  the  company  said  that  Oxford  and  Cambridge  af- 
foarded  as  great  oppertunitys  for  that  vice  as  any 
place  else.  Deponent  replyed,  he  was  sorry  to  hear 
that,  he  haveing  a  son  at  each  University,  and  that  if 
he  should  know  either  of  his  sons  guilty  of  such  wicked- 
ness, he  would  discard  them  from  his  favour.  Mr. 
Samuel  Beresford  said  he  was  of  a  quite  different 
opinion,  etc.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

180.  vii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Barbados,  Sept.  25,  1708. 
Same  endorsement.  2j  pp. 

180.  viii.  (a).  William  Walker  to  Col.  Cleland.  A  project 
for  sharing  the  Government  in  Mr.  Sharpe's  Presi- 
dentship. W.S.  to  be  made  Commissary  General  with 
the  allowance  formerly  projected,  and  the  Treasury 
being  secured  to  J.  H[oZdler],  I  believe  he'l  be  content 
to  quitt  the  Bank.  Then  W.  C[ZeZand]  and  A. 
W[aZ&er]  to  have  the  management  of  the  Bank,  and 
J[o/m]  S[harpe]  to  have  the  direction  of  it  under 
them,  with  a  certain  sallary,  and  W.  S.  to  have  out 
of  the  profitts  of  the  Bank  £4  or  £500  per  annum.  And 
in  regard  of  the  loss  the  Register's  Office  will  sustain 
by  reason  of  the  Bank  credit,  Robert]  S[tetvart]  or 
W.  W[alker~\  dureing  his  continueing  in  the  said  office 
be  allowed  £4  or  £500  per  annum  out  of  the  profitts  of 
the  Bank.  The  letter  is  signed  Philotas  and  writt  in 
Mr.  William  Walker's  own  hand. 

180.  viii.  (b).  William  Walker's  explanation  of  above  to  the 
Speaker.  April  24,  1707.  Neither  Col.  Holder 
nor  I  approved  of  this  project.  Another  project  was 
by  James  Vaughan,  who  declared  the  President  was  to 
have  £2000  to  dissolve  the  Assembly  and  grant  new 
commissions  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Cleland.  Same  en- 
dorsement. 11  pp.  [O.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  2,  2.  i.- 
viii. ;  and  (without  enclosures]  29,  11.  pp.  385-390.] 

Nov.  2.  181.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.  Plantations.  Encloses  extracts  from  Col.  Jenings'  letter  of 
Juno  24,  relating  to  Indian  trade  and  European  goods  etc., 
and  from  Governor  Parke,  July  1,  relating  to  trade  with  Mar- 
tinique. "Of  which  advices,  you'll  please  to  make  such  use 
as  you  shall  judge  to  be  for  H.M.  service."  Signed,  Sunder- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  135 

1708. 

land.    Endorsed,  Eecd.  3rd,  Eead  8th  Nov.  1708.    1  p.  Enclosed, 

181.    i.,  ii.   Extracts  of  letters  referred  to  in  preceding.     See 

under  June  24  and  July  1.     2£  pp.      [C.O.  5,   1316. 

Nos.    6,    6.  i.,  ii. ;    and    (without   enclosures)    5,    1362i. 

pp.  303,  304.] 

Nov.  3  182.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
st.  Christophers,  tions.  Inclosed  I  send  an  Address  from  the  Lt.  Governour, 
and  Councill  of  St.  Kitts  to  the  Queen,  all  has  signed  'but 
Capt.  Crook,  who  is  so  disabled  with  the  gout  he  cannot  hold 
a  pen,  or  he  had  sign'd  it,  the  Assembly  as  soon  as  they  sitt 
I  dont  boubt  [sic]  but  will  signe  it;  I  am  "but  just  come:  from! 
Antigua,  as  soon  as  the  Fleet  is  dispatched,  I  shall  vissitt  the 
other  Islands  of  Nevis  and  Montserratt.  I  have  no  doubt  but 
to  have  an  Address  in  my  behalfe  from  them,  notwithstanding 
Col.  Hodges  is  my  enemy  whomej  I  disobliged  by  chaseing  away 
the  Daneish  sloops ;  I  have  sent  an  attested  coppy  of  the  Lieut. - 
Governour  and  Councill  of  Antigua's  letter  to  me  and  their 
letter  to  Mr.  Gary  their  Agent,  for  I  ordered  them  to  be  entred 
on  the  Councill  Books;  It's  very  surprizeing  that  I  .should 
be  guillty  of  so  many  crimes,  and  in  such  a  small  Government, 
and  that  nobody  should  know  of  it  but  a  caball  of  five  or 
six  ipeople,  for  tho  by  extraordinary  methods  they  have  got 
many  to  signe  the  Articles  and  Address,  yet  they  know  not  what 
they  are ;  I  hear  they  have  taken  depositions  before  the  Cheif 
Justice,  one  Samuel  Wattkins ;  I  beg  leave  to  informe  your 
Lordshipps  the  charectar  of  this  man.  I  found  him  Cheif 
Judge,  and  by  my  Instructions  was  not  to  turne  him  out. 
Sometime  before  he  was  made  Cheif  Justice,  he  murder'd  a 
man  that  had  neither  stick  or  sword  in  his  hand,  the  Jury  here 
brought  feim  in  guilty  onely  of  manslaughter.  ( There  never 
was  any  inhabitant  that  ever  I  heard  of  brought  in  guilty  of 
murther ;  There  was  a  merchant  once,  one  Lloyd,  they  did  bring 
in  guillty,  the  reason  they  gave,  he  had  sold  his  goods  too  dear) . 
Coll.  Codrington  pardon'd  his  manslaughter,  and  some  time 
after  was  made  Cheif  Justice,  therefore  he  thinks  he  ought  to 
do  all  manner  of  clandestine  things  to  carry  on  Codrington's 
intrest.  I  have  the  misfortune  to  disoblige  this  Gentleman  by 
makeing  a  decree ;  the  story  is  this,  one  in  Buckinghame  had 
sent  some  goods  to  Antigua,  he  to  whom  they  were  sent  died ; 
Wattkins,  the  cheif  Justice,  and  Mr.  Feild  were  executors; 
Feild  refused,  but  Wattkins  acted  as  Executor,  one  Andrew 
Martin  was  sent  over  to  sue  Wattkins,  but  was  three  years 
about  it  to  no  purpose,  at  last  brought  it  before  me  in  Chancery  y 
he  plainly  prov'd  his  debt.  I  had  the  whole  Councill  with] 
me,  who  were  unanimous  of  opinion  I  ought  to  decree  for  the 
Plaintiff,  which  I  did ;  'tis  impossible  for  your  Lordshipps  to 
imagine  what  a  clamour  this  decree  made,  tho'  the  most  just  in 
the  world.  That  which  galled  them  was  that  an  attachment 
went  to  take  him  up  untill  he  had  paid  the  man  the  mony 
decreed,  this  they  cryed  was  ruineing  the  Island  and  breaking  into 
their  constitution,  for  by  their  Court  law  a  debtor  may  tyre  out 


136  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

his  creditor  till  he  obliges  him  to  take  what  he  thinks  fitt; 
for  after  a  man  has  obtain'd  judgement,  he  must  give  20 
dayes  notice  to  the  debtor  before  he  can  lay  his  execution. 
In  that  time  he  removes  what  the  execution  can  be  levied  upon 
to  his  next  neighbours,  and  it  must  be  6  months  before  he  can 
have  another,  and  then  he  must  againe  'give  20  dayes  notice, 
and  so  on  for  .eighteene  months,  and  if  the  Marshall  should 
catch  his  effects  (which  is  very  improbable),  then  the  creditor 
must  choose  two  and  the  debtor  two  men  to  appraise  the 
goods,  and  the  Law  sayes,  except  they  all  four  agree,  it  shall 
be  no  appraisement,  now  'tis  hard  if  the  Debtor  cant  find  one 
friend  that  will  not  agree  to  the  appraisement;  so  that  I  may 
justly  say  they  have  established  iniquity  by  a  Law,  and  in  Anti- 
gua any  man  may  choose  wether  or  not  he  will  pay  his  debt, 
tho'  one  has  his  bond  or  judgement;  this  may  seem  strange, 
but  'tis  very  true,  read  but  the  Law,  and  your  Lordshipps  will 
see  it ;  What  they  call  my  goeing  about  to  ruine  their  country 
would  be  the  makeing  of  it,  they  would  have  more  goods  sent 
them,  if  a  man  knew  how  to  come  by  his  owne,  after  he  h&d 
trusted  it  out :  and  if  the  rich  did  not  oppress  the  poor  as  they 
do ;  a  fellow  that  a  few  years  ago  was  not  worth  a  groat  have- 
ing  by  wayes  and  means  got  into  a  Plantation  and  some  negroes, 
tyranises  over  all  the  poor  about  him  worse  than  a  Bashaw; 
There  is  one  Daniel  Mackenin,  that  20  years  ago  was  ehyrur- 
geoii  to  a  little  merchant  ship,  has  drove  off  the  Island  near 
a  hundred  men,  all  the  land  where  he  lives  was  inhabited 
by  poor  people,  that  live  upon  some  three,  some  five  and  some 
ten  acres  of  land,  for  a  little  land  here  will  maintaine  a  poor 
family.  I  could  name  you  severall  instances  of  the  like  kind, 
thus  the  'poor  are  droveioff,  and  the  Queen  loses  sojmany  subjects  ; 
for  they  go  to  the  Dutch  or  Daneish  Islands,  or  to  some 
of  the  little  Islands  to  Leeward,  which  is  the  same  thing,  for 
what  they  make  they  sell  to  the  Dutch  or  Danes ;  'tis  the 
intrest  of  the  Brittish  Nation  that  the  Islands  should  be  well 
inhabited,  and  not  ingrossed  by  a  few  rich  men ;  all  these 
Islands  decreases  in  inhabitants  every  year,  and  will  do  so 
untill  the  Parliament  makes  some  laws  to  keep  the  poor  on  the 
Islands,  and  keeps  the  rich  from  breeding  up  their  slaves  to 
all  manner  of  trades,  and  from  oppressing  the  poor,  and  whole- 
some laws  to  encourage  trade  by  makeing  it  easy  for  creditors 
to  .come  by  their  debts,  and  the  poor  have  justice  against  the 
rich ;  it  must  be  the  Parliament  must  do  it,  for  they  have 
such  laws  putts  it  out  of  the  power  of  a  Governour,  except 
he  will  dispence  with  their  Laws,  wch.  I  shall  observe,  tho' 
they  were  worse  than  they  are  (which  can  hardly  be).  What- 
ever Governour  goes  about  to  remedy  these  abuses,  and  will  hear 
the  complaints  of  the  poor  against  the  rich  will  fall  under  the 
same  fate  with  myself e,  bring  a  wasp's  nest  about  his  oars; 
there  are  a  great  many  Gentlemen,  as  all  the  Councill  in 
generall,  would  gladly  make  laws  to  remedy  these  evills,  but 
»  the  Assemblys  will  not  give  into  it.  Your  Lordshipps  may 
see  in  the  Minutes  of  the  Councill  of  Antigua  how  many 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  137 

1708. 


messages  I  sent  with  the  consent  of  the  Councill  to  the  As- 
sembly to  get  a  wholesome  law  made  for  regulateing  the  Courts 
of  Judicature  etc.,  but  to  no  purpose  ;  my  endeavouring  both 
publickly  and  privately  to  perswade  them  to  make  wholesome 
laws,  and  my  endeavouring  to  prevent  a  clandestine  trade  to  the 
French,  Dutch  and  Daneish  Islands  carryed  on  by  the  Factors 
here  to  the  prejudice  of  the  merchants  in  England  (for  'tis 
with  the  effects  they  ought  to  send  home  to  their  employers  that 
they  carry  on  this  trade).  These,  my  Lords,  I  may  justly 
say  they  think  are  their  great  greviances  whatever  else  they 
may  pretend  to,  or  they  had  not  subscribed  such  a  great  summ 
of  mony  to  be  disposed  off  to  gett  me  removed  that  have  done 
no  one  of  them  any  injury  either  in  their  person  or  estate, 
nor  never  took  any  advantage  of  any  masters  of  ships  not 
haveing  his  register;  but  on  the  contrary  have  to  the  utmost 
of  jny  power  encouraged  all  fair  traders  (tho  perhapps  Mr. 
Chester  may  say  his  sloop  that  was  catched  landing  of  hol- 
lands  and  other  goods  was  a  fair  trade).  I  never  spared 
my  person  any  fateigue  to  do  the  Islands  good,  and  yett  I  am' 
complained  off,  and  not  paid  my  sallary  for  house-rent  neither; 
they  would  neither  do  that  nor  give  the  soldiers  quarters  except 
I  would  give  away  the  Queen's  negative  voice;  this  was  what 
Codrington  contrived  for  me  ;  if  I  had  betrayed  my  trust,  the 
Queen  would  have  removed  me,  if.  I  did  not,  they  would  give 
me  nc  sallary.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Becd.  18th, 
Bead  20th  Jan.,  170f  .  6  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8.  No.  5  ;  and  153, 
10.  pp.  267-273.] 

Nov.  3.  183.  Governor  Parke  to  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle.  Encloses  let- 
St.  Kitts.  ter  from  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua  and  address 
from  St.  Kitts,  by  wch.  you  may  see  what  just  cause  Col. 
Codrington  and  his  emissarys  have  to  frame  articles  against 
me.  They  have  raised  a  great  summe  to  be  distributed  in  order 
to  gett  me  removed,  in  their  cupps  they  name  how  much  such 
a  one  is  to  have  and  how  much  another,  whose  names  I  durst 
not  so  much  as  mention  beside  a  vast  quantity  of  cytron 
water  for  presents,  for  my  part  I  could  not  gett  any,  Col. 
Codrington  had  bought  it  all  up  in  Barbadoes.  I  don't  doubt 
but  their  articles  will  prove  as  falce  and  scandalous  as  Mrs. 
Bowden's,  in  whose  petition  there  was  not  one  word  of  truth, 
as  I  have  allready  proved,  and  by  the  next  packett  will  be  certefied 
by  the  Lt.  Gover.  and  Councill  of  this  Island:  and  yet  this 
scandalous  petition  was  read  before  the  Queen  and  Councill  as 
was  procured  only  to  throw  dyrt:  my  friend  Col.  Lillingston, 
who  is  Mr.  Bowden['s]  brother,  I  sopose  had  read  Machiavill, 
both  he  and  Codrington  think  if  they  fling  dyrt  enough  some 
will  stick.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Becd.  Mar.  12. 
Holograph.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

183.  i.  Governor  Parke  to  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle.  Sept.  29, 
1708.  Duplicate.  2  pp. 

183.  ii.  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua  to  Governor 
Parke.  Aug.  24,  1708.  We  do  not  know  of  any  male- 


138 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 


Nov.  3. 

Whi 


Nov    8. 

Whitehall. 


administration    your    Excellency    has    committed,   etc. 
Duplicate.     1  p. 

183.  iii.  Address  of  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  St. 
Kitts  to  the  Queen.  Oct.  31,  1708.  In  praise  of  Gov- 
ernor Parke,  as  preceding.  We  conceive  the  Ar- 
ticles of  complaint  against  him  will  be  deemed  ground- 
less. The  malecontents  have  raised  £5000  to  be 
disposed  of  by  Mr.  Nevin,  etc.  Signed,  Mich.  Lambert, 
Hen.  Burrell,  John  Garnett,  Steph.  Payne.  1|  pp. 
[C.O.  152,  42.  Nos.  10,  10.  i.-iii.] 


184.  W.  Popple  to  W.  Lowndes.  Reply  to  Oct.  26.  The 
itehall.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  are  informed  the  surgeons 
are  in  hopes  the  said  Gilles'  wife  may  be  cured  of  the  cancer 
in  her  breast  in  3  or  4  months  time.  Proposes  that  he  and 
his  family  be  allowed  H.M.  bounty  in  proportion  as  the  other 
Lutherans  before  their  departure.  [C.O.  5,  1121.  p.  327.] 


185.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Repre- 
sentation upon  Addresses  from  New  Hampshire  for  a  supply 
of  arms  etc.  By  reason  of  the  great  charges  and  loss  of  men 
which  the  inhabitants  have  sustained  in  their  necessary  defence 
against  the  frontier  Indians,  assisted  by  the  French  from 
Canada  and  Port  Royal  during  the  late  and  present  war,  we 
do  believe  they  are  much  weaken'd,  and  reduced  to  a  necessitous 
condition.  The  Province  lying  to  the  sea,  and  the  principal 
settlements  thereof  being  on  the  Piscataway,  a  large  and  navi- 
gable river,  (among  other  advantages  in  trade)  it  is  so  well 
furnished  with  ship  timber  of  the  best  sort  and  largest  size, 
that  it  supplies  masts  and  other  materials  fit  for  the  use  of 
your  Majesty's  Royal  Navy;  we  are  therefore  of  opinion  that  all 
due  care  should  be  taken,  and  fitting  provision  made  for  the 
security  of  that  Province,  which  (in  regard  of  the  present 
condition  of  your  Majesty's  subjects  there)  will  require  a  supply 
from  your  Majesty  of  such  stores  of  war  as  may  be  proper  for 
their  defence.  Col.  Dudley  having  omitted  to  transmit  to  us 
a  state  of  Ordnance  Stores  there  (for  tb.e  doing  whereof  circular 
letters  have  lately  been  sent  to  him,  and  to  the  other  Governors 
in  America)  on  this  occasion  we  writ  to  the  principal  officers 
of  your  Majesty's  Ordnance  for  an  account  of  what  stores  of 
war  were  last  issued  by  them  for  the  use  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  when  issued,  who  having  made  a  return,  we  find  that  in 
July  1692  a  supply  of  powder  and  small  stores  was  sent  thither 
from  that  Office,  but  it  does  not  appear  that  any  cannon  or 
small  arms  were  then  sent,  or  that  these  last  mentioned,  or  any 
other  stores  of  war,  have  at  any  time  since  been  issued  for 
the  use  of  that  particular  Province;  however  supplies  of  Ord- 
nance stores  having  at  several  times  been  sent  to  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  (as  the  said  Principal  Officers  do  alledge),  the 
Province  of  New  Hampshire  might  upon  any  exigency  have 
been  supply'd  from  thence.  Refer  to  Col.  Romer's  report  (See 
Any.  24,  1708.)  We  humbly  offer  that  a  further  suply  of  ord- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  139 

1708. 

nance  stores  as  mentioned  [Aug.  24]  may  be  sent  to  New 
Hampshire  etc.,  and  consigned  to  the  Governor,  with  a  strict 
charge  that  the  same  be  not  issued  but  as  the  necessary  defence 
of  the  inhabitants  shall  require,  and  that  regular  accounts  of 
the  expenditure  and  remain  of  all  such  stores  be  taken  and 
transmitted  hither  in  such  manner  as  by  his  Instructions  and 
the  said  circular  letter  is  directed.  Your  Majesty's  Fort  William 
and  Mary  (first  raised  by  Col.  Eomer,  and  near  finished  by 
him  when  recall 'd)  is  the  most  considerable  place  of  strength 
in  that  Province,  which  he  then  offered  to  have  finished  for 
£100,  most  of  the  materials  being  upon  the  spot,  and  he 
computes  that  the  said  Fort,  as  likewise  barracks,  a  guardhouse, 
and  what  else  is  necessary,  may  now  be  finish'd  for  £200  sterl., 
amounting  to  about  £320  currant  money  of  that  country.  Where- 
fore, if  your  Majesty  shall  be  further  graciously  pleased  to 
extend  your  Eoyal  bounty  to  that  Province  in  granting  £200 
sterl.  for  the  finishing  the  said  works  (a  charge,  as  we  are 
informed,  too  great  for  the  inhabitants  under  their  present 
circumstances)  we  are  then  humbly  of  the  opinion  that  directions 
be  sent  to  the  Governor  to  exhort  them  to  provide  for  a  suf- 
ficient guard  to  be  regularly  kept  in  the  said  fort,  and  to 
take  care  that  their  powder-duty  be  duly  paid  in  kind.  It  is 
proposed  by  their  Agent  that  (1)  200  disciplined  men  be  sent 
from  hence  to  do  duty  in  that  fort ;  (2)  that  a  fourth-rate  man 
of  war  be  appointed  for  the  service  of  that  Province,  with  orders 
to  cruize  off  the  Eastern  coast ;  (3)  that  packet-boats  be  set 
up  for  the  use  of  the  Continent,  in  like  manner  as  they  now 
are  for  the  Islands  in  America.  But  we  shall  forbear  to 
to  trouble  your  Majesty  upon  those  matters,  what  we  have 
already  offered,  with  the  ships  of  war  usually  appointed  for  the 
service;  of  those  parts,  being,  as  we  hope,  sufficient  for  the 
security  of  that  Province,  and  to  protect  the  inhabitants  while 
they  are  at  work  in  the  woods,  especially  if  your  Majesty's 
Governor  of  New  York  do  take  effectual .  care  to  support  and 
encourage  the  Five  Indian  Nations  subject  to  your  Majesty, 
as  by  his  Instructions  he  is  required  to  do.  As  to  the  claim! 
made  by  Thos.  Allen  to  the  Propriety  of  New  Hampshire,  men- 
tioned in  the  other  Address  from  that  Province,  that  matter 
now  depending  before  your  Majesty  in  Council  (upon  an  appeal 
brought  by  the  said  Allen)  will  be  laid  fully  before  your 
Majesty  in  a  report  from  the  Committee  of  Council  appointed 
to  hear  the  said  appeal ;  therefore  we  shall  not  presume  to  offer 
anything  therein.  Annexed, 

185.    i.  Duplicates   of   enclosures,   Aug.    24,    1708.      [C.O.    5, 
913.     pp.  9-20.] 

Nov.  9.  186.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
.Whitehall.  derland.  Reply  to  Nov.  2.  We  have  the  matters  referred  to 
by  Col.  Jennings  under  consideration,  in  order  to  our  pro- 
posing remedies  for  prevention  of  such  mischeifs  for  the  future. 
As  to  Col.  Parke's  complaint  of  an  illegal  trade  from  Ireland 
and  Barbadoes  to  Martinico,  we  refer  to  our  letter  of  Oc,t. 


140  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1708. 

26.  Enclose  extract  of  letter  from  "Col.  Jennings,  relating 
to  a  murder  committed  in  New  Kent  County,  whereby  your 
Lordship  will  perceive-  that  the  person  condemn'd  is  a  fitting 
object  of  H.M.  mercy,  and  therefore  we  desire  your  Lordship 
will  please  to  lay  that  matter  before  H.M.  [(7.0.  5,  1262. 
pp.  316,  317.] 

[Nov.  9th.]  187.  Some  Merchants  of  Nevis  to  their  Correspondent  in 
ftevis.  London.  Wee  lay  before  you  the  prosseedings  of  our  Councill 
and  Assembly,  that  you  may  plainly  see  what  sinister  ways  and 
means  they  take  to  resetle  the  Island  again,  etc.  All  their 
publique  meetings  has  cheifly  tended  to  make  acts  for  puting 
a  stop  to  the  due  currancy  of  the  Law,  without  any  exceptions 
of  poor  or  rich,  that  they  may  have  time  to  recrute  their  estates, 
without  any  regard  to  us  here,  that  were  fellow  sufferers  with 
them.  Wee  have  laboured  under  great  dificulties  in  oposition 
to  their  passing  their  Act.  H.E.  has  a  great  regard  for  the 
merchants'  interest  boath  at  home  and  here;  he  will  not  pass 
any  of  their  Acts,  notwithstanding  he  intends  to  send  them  home 
without  the  broad  seale.  Affter  they  made  their  first  Act, 
which  the  Generall  would  not  pass,  Mr.  Fowler  went  up  to 
Aritegua  with  a  petition  to  the  Generall;  H.E.  very  readily 
granted  a  Commission  for  houlding  the  Courts,  notwithstanding 
the  Councill  and  Assembly  put  a  stop  to  \Jbhat]  proseeding,  and 
sent  Mr.  Bevon,  Mr.  Goar,  Sp.,  and  James  Symonds  with  an 
Address  to  the  Generall  [/or]  stoping  the  law.  This  put  a 
demur  till  the  Generall  came  down  [to]  St.  Christophers,  and 
then  wee  proferd  another  petition,  which  went  down  by  Dr. 
Semple :  the  Generall  on  sight  of  the  petition  promised  to  come 
up  himselfe  and  compose  matters  between  planters  and  mer- 
chants, which  in  two  days  he  did.  At  his  coming  up,  the 
Councill  and  Assembly  mett,  the  Generall  entered  some  Minnats 
in  the  Councill  Book  with  his  own  hand,  that  a  bill  should  be 
prepared  by  a  Commity  of  two  of  the  Councill  and  four  of  the 
Assembly,  and  the  [?  same]  number  of  merchants.  The  bill 
was  to  oblige  planters  to  ajust  with  and  give  bond  for  what 
was  justlj  due  those  that  were  not  able  to  make  prompt  payment, 
a  time  should  be  allowed  them,  and  those  that  were  able  and 
not  willing,  [the]  Law  should  proseed  against  them,  and  that  all 
debits  contracted  since  our  misfortune  shou'd  be  payd.  The 
Generall  had  a  conference  of  the  Councill  and  Assembly  and 
merchants  in  the  Councill  Chamber,  and  made  the  above  pro- 
posals, which  the  Councill  and  Speaker  agreed  to,  but  as  soon 
as  the  Generall  was  gone,  they  prepared  this  bill.  We  heard 
Coll.  Abbott  and  Thomas  Bridgwatter  and  Mr.  Horn  was  goeing 
down  with  the  bill  to  gett  the  broad  seale  to  itt ;  Mr.  Huffam, 
Mr.  Washington,  and  Dr.  Semple  went  downe  before,  and  ac- 
quainted the  Generall  with  their  bill  and  left  some  proposals  withi 
him,  which  he  aproved  of,  and  when  Col.  Abbot  shoud  the 
bill,  the  Generall  altogither  refused  to  pass  any  such  bill,  and 
dd.  to  Coll.  Abbot  the  proposalls  left  with  him,  and  signed  the 
same,  and  told  him  he  would  pass  no  other  Act,  but  what  was 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


141 


1708. 


Nov.  9. 


Nov    10. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  11. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  12. 

Whitehall. 


agreeable  to  the  proposalls.  The  publication  ["?  is~\  up  for  hold- 
ing the  Courts,  but  it's  so  late  in  the  year  the  Generall  thinks 
itt  conveniant  to  pass  it  over  till  the  Spring,  and  then  intends 
the  Courts  shall  be  open.  In  the  [?  meantime  the]  planters  are 
using  all  their  interest  both  here  and  in  England  to  gett  an 
Act  past  [?  for  put]ting  a  stop  to  the  Law  for  some  time,  till 
they  can  think  of  some  more  effectuall  means  either  to  make 
former  debts  altogether  voyd,  or  downright  to  defraud  their 
creditors  by  private  conveyances  of  their  estates  to  their  re- 
lations, or  one  to  another,  and  they  to  make  itt  over  to  their 
children  again;  and  all  this  is  acted  through  a  pretence  of 
poverty;  ther  is  some  of  them  will  not  stand  to  say  they  are 
in  a  better  condition  then  before  the  misfortune.  Wee  hope 
you  will  use  your  uttmost  endeavours  that  the  Law  may  have  its 
due  currancy,  and  that  the  Courts  may  be  open  in  the  Spring, 
that  we  may  be  able  to  oblige  them  to  ajust  accompts,  etc. 
Signed,  Samuel  Browne,  Chas.  Minors,  [?]  Geo.  Meriwether, 
Tho.  Washington,  Will.  Semple.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  (from  Mr. 
Duport,  Mr.  Pindar,  etc.}  9th,  Bead  9th,  22nd  Nov.,  1708. 
2|  pp.  [C.O.  152,  7.  No.  60.] 

188.  Copy  of  an  Act  of  Nevis  to  oblige  the  inhabitants  who 
shall  refuse  to  settle  their  accounts,  etc. ;  with  proceedings  re- 
lating to  the  opposition  against  passing  the  same ;  and  copy  of 
a   Bill  for  stopping   the  further  proceeding's  of  the  Courts   of 
Queen's    Bench,    Common    Pleas    and   Exchequer,    and   for    es- 
tablishing a  Court  Merchant,   etc.     Endorsed  as  preceding.      10 
pp.  [C.O.  152,  7.     No.  61.] 

189.  Council  of  Trade   and   Plantations   to   the   Lords   Pro- 
prietors  of  Carolina.     Having   received   a   complaint   from   Col. 
Jennings,    that  the    Government   of    South    Carolina   has    lately 
seized  divers  goods  which  the  Indian  traders  of  Virginia  were 
carrying  to  the  Western  Indians,  to  the  great  disturbance  and 
interruption   of  that   trade ;    we   have   thought   it   convenient   to 
acquaint  your  Lordships  therewith,  and  to  desire  we  may  know 
whether  the  same  has  been  done  by  vertue  of  any  orders  from 
your  Lordships,  and  upon  what  grounds.      [C.O.   5,   1292.     p. 
69.] 

190.  Mr.  Popple  to  Richard  Savage.     Encloses  extract  from 
Governor   Seymour's  letter    [June  23] ,  proposing  a  method  for 
preventing   illegal   trade   in  Maryland,   to   be  laid   before   H.M. 
Commissioners  of  Customs.     [C.O.  5,  727.    pp.  95,  96.] 

191.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Communicate  Governor  Parke's  complaints  as  to  the 
absenteeism  of  officers,  the  difficulty  of  quartering  soldiers,  and 
their  pay.     Having  discoursed  with  Mr.  Logan,  a  person  who  is 
appointed  to   pay  the   subsistance   money  to  such  officers   only 
as    are    imployed    in    raising    recruits    here   for   that   Regiment, 
we  do  find  that  several  of  the  said  officers  have  continued  here, 


142  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

,    1708. 

that  Major  Aldy  has  stayed  under  a  pretence  of  having  the 
officers  of  the  Regiment's  accompts  to  adjust;  that  two  others 
are  but  lately  gone  from  hence  with  twelve  recruits  to  Bristoll, 
in  order  to  their  embarkation  for  the  Leeward  Islands ;  that  one 
Holland,  another  officer  has  likewise  got  twelve  recruits,  which 
with  those  aforementioned  are  to  be  made  up  30,  the  number 
wanting  to  compleat  the  regiment,  and  that  so  soon  as  they 
shall  be  raised,  they  will  also  be  sent  to  the  said  Islands ;  that 
Lieut  Akins  cannot  go  over  being  ill  of  a  hurt  received  from 
a  fall :  and  that  there  are  also  here  Mr.  Mackenzy  and  Mr.  Jones, 
who  are  under  age.  We  have  also  discoursed  with  Mr.  Thurston, 
formerly  Agent  to  the  said  Regiment,  touching  the  pay  of  the 
officers  and  soldiers  thereof,  and  are  informed  by  him  they  were 
paid  their  full  subsistence  to  Michaelmas,  1707,  and  no  further, 
as  he  knows  of;  that  one  reason  of  their  not  being  more  regu- 
larly paid,  does  proceed  from  some  misunderstandings  among  the 
officers,  who  neglect  to  send  home  muster-rolls,  and  that  when 
they  do  send  any,  they  are  so  imperfect  that  the  Paymaster 
of  the  forces  here  does  not  think  proper  to  pass  the  same. 
Upon  the  whole  matter,  we  are  of  opinion  that  the  defence  and 
security  of  H.M.  said  Islands  in  this  time  of  war  depending 
in  a  great  measure  upon  the  forces  there,  it  is  absolutely, 
requisite  for  H.M.  service  that  the  Officers  belonging  to  the 
said  Regiment,  who  are  absent  from  it,  be  directed  forthwith 
to  repair  to  their  respective  post  in  the  said  Islands,  and  further, 
that  the  said  Regiment  be  well  armed  and  duly  paid  their 
subsistence  from  time  to  time  for  their  encouragement  and 
better  support.  [C.O.  153,  10.  pp.  212-216.] 

Nov.  13.  192.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plon- 
st.  Christophers,  tations.  I  have  at  last  got  from  the  Depty.  Navall  Officer 
of  Nevis  the  imports  and  exports  from  my  arrivall  to  my 
Governmt.  to  Oct.  25,  1708.  I  shall  take  what  care  possible 
that  hereafter  they  may  be  regularly  sent;  tho  during  the  warr 
'tis  allmost  impossible,  for  sometimes  I  am  without  any  man 
*  of  warr  on  this  station,  at  other  times  the  man  of  warr  is 
three  months  careening,  all  that  time  I  am  a  prisoner  at 
some  one  Island.  I  have  sent  your  Ldpps.  the  best  acctt.  I 
could  procure,  and  duplicates  of  what  negroes  have  been  imported 
by  the  Company  and  private  traders ;  if  they  are  not  exactly 
as  yr.  Ldpps.  would  have  them,  'tis  not  my  fault.  I  have 
sent  them  as  I  could  gett  them.  I  beg  yr.  Ldpps.  to  consider 
'tis  not  so  easy  for  me  to  comply  wth.  my  orders  as  the  other 
Governrs.  that  have  but  one  Island  and  all  the  Officers  about 
them ;  the  Islands  of  my  Govermt.  are  dispersed ;  'tis  20  leagues 
from  Antigua  to  St.  Christophers  and  some  times  for  3  or  4 
months  I  can  nither  send  or  hear  from  Nevis  or  St.  Kitts ; 
if  I  happen  to  be  at  St.  Kitts  when  a  packet  arrives  smd 
I  receive  any  orders  from  yr.  Ldpps.  yt.  relates  to  Antigua, 
I  must  return  there  before  I  can  answer  it ;  I  have  sent  the 
Comissarys  of  each  Island's  acctt.  of  all  stores,  but  will  order 
others  from  the  time  of  my  arrivall,  and  will  send  them  as 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  143 

1708. 

soon  as  they  can  be  got  ready;  there  were  few  or  no  armes 
in  the  publick  stores  yt.  were  serviceable  when  I  came,  the 
armes  I  reed,  from  England  I  order'd  to  be  distributed  where 
I  thought  most  wanted,  part  to  Antigua  part  to  Nevis,  and 
part  St.  Kitts,  I  designed  part  for  Montserratt;  but  uppon  the 
arrival!  of  the  Regiment  on  a  muster,  I  found  they  wanted1 
above  100  armes,  therefore  what  I  had  order'd  for  Montserratt  I 
order'd  to  be  delivered  to  Coll.  Jones  for  the  Regiment,  who 
has  given  his  receipt  for  them.  Some  has  been  lent  to  priva- 
teers on  condetion  to  restore  them  in  good  order  or  new  ones 
in  their  room,  wch.  they  at  all  times  have  done.  I  have  allso 
order'd  to  lend  the  men  of  warr  powder,  and  sometimes  to  ye 
privateers,  to  restore  new  in  the  place,  wch.  I  take  to  be 
a  service,  for  powder  and  armes  will  decay,  and  to  lend  old 
when  it  can  be  spared,  to  have  new  restored  I  think  a  service. 
This  is  all  I  know  of  the  stores,  but  yr.  Ldpps.  shall  have 
a  perticuler  acctt.  signed  by  each  Comissary.  According  to 
your  Ldpps.'  orders,  whatever  laws  are  made  for  the  future, 
tho'  temporary,  shall  be  sent  home.  I  will  take  care  to  observe 
the  Instructions  reed,  by  this  packett  abt.  Acts  of  Parliament 
relating  to  rice,  molassus,  the  regulating  the  coin,  and  for 
that  for  incourageing  Trade  and  Navigation,  tho'  the  Act  for 
ascertaining  the  vallue  of  the  coin  will  with  a  great  deal  of 
difficulty  be  put  in  execution,  but  as  there  is  an  Act  of  Parliament 
for  it,  and  I  have  yr.  Ldpps.'  orders  to  take  care  it  be  ob- 
served, I  will  see  it  done,  wch.  they  will  call  ruining  the  Islands. 
Just  now  is  arrived  a  briganteen  from  Montserrat,  the  Master 
informes  me  he  found  and  left  a  Danish  sloop  there.  I  haveing 
sold  off  all  my  privateers,  they  are  now  in  no  danger ;  there 
is  no  help  for  it,  except  there  was  a  new  Governor  and  a 
new"  Collector,  and  a  sloop  to  cruise  constantly  to  look  after 
them.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  18th,  Read 
24th  Jan.,  170  f.  Holograph.  4  pp. 
Enclosed, 
192.  i.  Account  of  negroes  imported  to  Mountseratt,  June 

24,   1698— Dec.  25,   1707.      (1)  By  the  Royal  African 

Company: — 599.      (2)  By    private    adventurers :— 1604. 

Same  endorsement.     1  p.     [C.O.  152,  8.     Nos.  6,  6.i. ; 

and  (without  enclosure)  153,  10.    pp.  274-277.] 

Novu  14.  193.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
st.  Christophers,  tations.  I  give  your  Lordshipps  ten  thousand  thanks  for  sending 
me  those  complaints  to  answer  that  came  from  Antigua;  As  to 
what  relates  to  the  Regiment,  I  call'd  all  the  Officers  that  were 
here  (wch.  are  the  better  halfe,  and  who  were  all  at  Antigua) 
before  the  Councill  and  read  your  Lordshipps'  letter  to  them ; 
and  here  is  their  answer  upon  oath.  Lt.  Col.  Floyer  is  just 
gone  for  England,  your  Lordshipps  may  take  his  oath  there 
and  Lt.  Sherrard's,  which]  I  take  will  be  very  well  worth  your 
Lordshipps'  examineation,  for  Lt.  Sherrard  was  the  Officer  that 
commanded  the  soldiers  that  were  put  on  board  the  tradeing 
sloop.  As  they  insinuate,  the  sloop  was  mine.  I  bought  her 


144  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1708. 

when  there  was  no  man  of  warr  on  the  station,  not  for  trade, 
for  she  never  did  anything  but  saile  from  Island  to  Island 
to  bring  me  intelligence  and  carry  orders,  and  for  this  service 
I  kept  her  and  for  saylors  at  my  owne  charge  for  10  months, 
and  to  my 'knowledge  never  carryed  any  sort  of  goods  for  trade; 
there  never  was  any  soldiers  in  her  but  once,  and  that  was 
to  prevent  an  Irish  Papist  from  carrying  in  a  Danes'  sloop 
about  40  negroes  to  the  French,  bought  of  Mr.  Chester,  the 
Company's  Agent.  Yett  notwithstanding  all  my  care,  they  were 
landed  at  Montserrat  and  afterward  carryed  to  Guardaloupe, 
for  my  privateer  took  some  of  those  very  negroes  from  the 
French  off  Guardaloupa  some  time  after ;  this  trade  it  seems 
for  negroes  and  beef  has  been  all  along  carryed  on.  I  found 
it  out  by  accident ;  I  hapened  to  see  a  sloop  in  a  by  place, 
I  sent  to  know  what  she  was,  they  brought  me  word  she  was 
a  Dane,  I  went  to  towne  and  sent  for  the  Collector,  and  bid 
him  send  on  board,  wch.  he  did  and  found  severall  chests  and 
hhds.,  but  all  empty;  she  came  next  day  into  St.  Johns  Harbour, 
and  one  Mr.  Blake,  and  one  French,  both  Irish  Catholicks,  in 
'Tier ;  the  Company  had  a  sloop  just  arrived  wth.  negroes ; 
I  presently  imagined  they  designed  to  carry  them  to  the  French, 
whereupon  I  order'd  Lt.  Sherrard  to  put  20  soldiers  on  board 
my  little  sloop,  and  attend  the  Daneish  sloop,  and  us  she 
went  out  to  search  her ;  this  was  not  done  so  privately  but 
Blake  came  to  know  it,  and  came  to  me  and  offered  rne  a1 
bribe  to  lett  the  Daneish  sloop  carry  off  the  negroes.  I  used 
him  as  he  deserved,  and  away  he  went  and  hired  a  sloop  <to 
carry  them  to  Montserratt,  and  from  thence  the  Daneish  sloop 
carryed  them  to  Guardaloupe.  Lt.  Sherrard  went  after  them, 
but  they  gott  away ;  this  is  my  sending  the  soldiers  in  tradeing 
sloops.  If  the  Queen  would  keep  a  sloop  on  purpose,  'twould 
be  of  greater  consequence  to  prevent  that  trade,  then  the  man 
of  warr.  Lt.  Sherrard  can  also  informe  your  Lordshipps  what 
large  offers  Blake  desired  him  to  make  me,  if  I  would  suffer 
the  Daneish  sloops  to  come  and  go  quietly.  I  did  prevent 
them  whilst  I  had  privateers,  but  since  I  sold  them,  I  hear 
they  are  as  frequently  at  Montserrat  as  before. 

As  to  the  other  part  of  the  Antigua  complaint  that  I  dissolv'd 
the  Assembly  after  sitting  3  dayes  because  they  addressed  me 
about  takeing  possession  with  soldiers  of  a  poor  woman's  house, 
is  every  part  of  it  false.  Refers  to  Minutes  of  Council.  I  never 
took  possession  of  any  house  or  land,  nor  did  I  ever  pretend 
to  any  house  or  foot  of  land  (but  what  I  hyre)  in  my  whole 
Government;  Your  Lordshipps  order [s]  me  to  suffer  everybody 
to  come  and  make  out  their  complaints  before  the  Councill. 
I  should  take  it  well  of  them  if  they  would  do  so,  for  then 
I  could  send  my  answers  with  the  complaint ;  this  I  offer'd 
the  malecontents  and  Nevin,  but  they  knew  that  would  not 
answer  their  end,  for  I  am  very  sure  they  can  have  no  complaint 
that  will  bear  an  examineation ;  they  onely  designe  by  them 
to  make  a  clamour,  and  by  that  means  give  some  great  person 
a  pretence  to  get  me  removed,  and  they  have  raised  £5000 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  145 

1708. 

to  engage  some  one  or  more  to  do  it ;  Lillingstone  expected  the 
same ;  he  expected  so  many  villanous  things  laid  to  my  charge 
would  have  turn'd  me  out  presently,  and  truely  had  any  one 
part  of  Bowdon's  petition  been  true,  I  had  deserved  not  onely 
to  be  turn'd  out  but  hanged.  Whilst  the  Lords  Committee 
for  Trade  are  such  men  as  your  Lordshipps,  I  shall  not  doubt 
of  jhaving  justice  done  me,  and  I  have  a  better  opinion  of 
all  concern'd  in  the  Ministry  to  beleive  any  of  them  capable 
of  doeing  me  an  injustice  for  any  sumrn  of  rnony  whatsoever, 
tho'  they  give  it  out  if  the  £5000  they  have  raised  will  not 
be  enough,  they  will  raise  £10,000  more;  and  'twould  'be  worth 
their  while,  if  they  could  be  sure  th,e  next  that  comes  in  my 
post  would  wink  at  their  clandestine  trade;  for  except  Mr. 
Norwood  and  Mr.  Helden,  that  I  put  in,  all  the  other  Custome 
house  officers  are  inhabitants;  should  'they  do  their  duty  as 
they  ought,  the  4^  p.c.  would  raise  the  Queen  £1000  per  annum 
more  than  it  does,  and  to  convince  you  what  I  say  is  true,  I 
will  farme  that  Revenue  and  give  £1000  per  annum  more  than 
it  has  made  for  this  3  yeare  past,  wch1.  is  very  considerable, 
in  so  small  a  revenue,  let  me  have  the  putting  in  all  the 
officers.  There  is  but  one  man  does  his  duty,  that  is  Mr. 
Buckeridge,  and  him  they  mortally  hate  for  no  other  reason,  the 
Commissr.  of  the  Customes  here,  one  Edward  Perrie,  suspended 
him  twice  on  very  frevilous  pretences ;  and  in  all  cases  relate  - 
ing  to  the  Queen's  Revenue  he  appears  for  the  unfair  merchant 
rather  than  for  the  Queen;  the  officers  for  the  Revenue  iof 
4-g-  p.c.  should  be  all  strangers  and  removed  every  three  or 
four  yeares,  for  when  they  come  to  be  inhabitants,  they  durst 
not  do  their  duty ;  The  same  packet  that  brings  my  letters  and 
orders,  brings  the  same  to  some  of  the  inhabitants;  how  they 
come  by  their  intelligence  I  know  not ;  there  may  be  occasion 
to  send  me  such  Instructions  as  ought  not  to  be  knowne,  at 
least  untill  they  are  to  be  put  into  execution;  my  order  about 
my  house  rent  and  other  Instructions  since  were  told  me  by 
the  People  before  I  had  it  from  your  Lordshipps.  I  dare  say 
your  Lordshipps  designed  that  I  should  receive  what  was  then 
due  to  me  when  that  order  camel;  I  wish  the  Queen  would  add 
the  £400  sterl.  to  my  sallary  and  not  suffer  me  to  take  anything 
here ;  whoever  comes,  they  may  pay  him  the  first  yeare  as  they 
did  me  (tho'  so  as  it  did  me  little  good),  but  if  they  pay  it 
him  the  next  yeare,  he  must  be  both  perjured  and  betray  his 
trust ;  if  'tis  my  fortune  to  stay  here  seven  yeares,  I  expect 
not  one  farthing  allowed  me  for  house  rent;  this  is  worth  your 
Lordshipps'  consideration.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed, 
Reed  18th,  Read  21st  Jan.,  170f.  4  pp.  Enclosed, 

193.  i.  Testimonial  of  the  Officers  of  the  Regiment  in  the 
Leeward  Islands  in  favour  of  Governor  Parke.  St. 
Kitts,  Nov.  13,  1708.  He  has  used  them  civilly,  es- 
tablished an  hospital  in  Antigua  for  sick  soldiers,  wch. 
never  was  done  before,  etc. ;  he  has  offered  to  be 
security  for  the  subsistence  of  the  soldiers,  and  offered 
the  officers  money  since  Antigua  hath  taken  away  the 

Wt.  11522,  CP10 


146  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

quarters.  No  soldiers  have  been  employed  by  him  ex- 
cept as  stated  in  preceding.  Signed,  B.  Jorrens,  John 
Kent,  Peter  Buor.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p. 

193.  ii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  St.  Kitta,  Nov.  12,  1708.     The 

above  statements  were  , sworn  to  by  the  Officers,  etc. 
Same  endorsement.  2  pp.  \C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  7, 
7.  i.,ii. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  153,  10.  pp.  278- 
284.] 

Nov.  14.  194.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
st.  Christophers,  tations.  Refers  to  enclosure.  Mrs.  Bowdon  seemed  a  stranger 
to  her  owne  petition,  which  makes  me  beleive  it  was  fraimed  by 
others,-  not  herselfe.  I  can't  but  think  I  have  ill  fortune  to 
meet  with  such  useage.  I  beg  that  justice  from  your  Lordshipps 
that  it  may  be  laid  before  the  Queen  and  Councill,  that  I  may 
be  justified  where  I  was  so  basely  scandilized.  Your  Lord- 
shipps will  find  Mr.  Nevin's  complaint  the  same  when  it  comes 
to  be  examined  into.  I  understand  they  designe  to  bestow 
the  £5000  they  have  raised,  to  gett  into  my  post  (in  case  they 
find  it  hard  to  gett  Col.  Codrington  restored)  one  Lt.  Col. 
Jones,  an  Irish  Gentleman,  he  was  here  in  Col.  Whetham's 
regiment.  I  don't  doubt  your  Lordshipps  justice,  and  then  I 
need  not  fear  being  removed  whilst  I  do  my  duty.  Signed, 
Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  18th  Jan.,  Eead  9th  Feb., 
170f.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

194.  i.   Petition  of  Mary  Bowden  to  the  Queen.     Duplicate. 
Same  endorsement.     2^-  pp. 

194.  ii.  Answer  of  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  St.  Kitts 
to  the  complaints  of  Mrs.  Bowden.  Oct.  31,  1708, 
Mrs.  Bowden  and  her  witnesses — Mrs.  Margaret  Tyson, 
Daniel  Burton,  Daniel  Stoner  and  Christopher  Dean — 
were  examined  after  due  notice  given.  Evidence  quoted 
on  both  sides.  The  Council  were  of  opinion  that  the 
General  had  been  rather  her  friend  than  her  oppressor, 
and  that  the  whole  of  her  petition  was  false  and 
scandalous.  Signed,  Mich.  Lambert,  Hen.  Burrell,  John 
Garnett,  .Steph.  Payne,  J.  Panton.  Same  endorsement. 
2  large  pp. 

194.  iii.  List  of  Mary  Bowden's  negroes,  with  her  receipt 
for  the  same.  Affidavits  by  Mich.  Lambert,  Steph. 
Payne,  and  Hen.  Burrell.  Same  endorsement.  3  pp. 

194.  iv.-viii.  Affidavits  of  Stephen  Payne,  Rachel  Symonds, 
John  Helden,  Jedidiah  Hutchinson,  and  Thomas  Young, 
relating  to  above  case.  Same  endorsement.  5  pp.  [C.O. 

152,  8.     Nos.   10,   lO.i.-viii. ;  and  (without  enclosures) 

153,  10.     pp.   301,   302.] 

Nov.  15.          195.     Major  Lloyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

St.  John's.  In  my  last  by  ye  Warwick  and  Valleur  men  of  warr,  I  forgott 
to  inform  yr.  Lordshipps  of  ye  death  of  Mr.  Tho.  Adams, 
surgeon  to  this  Independent  Company.  I  have  commissionate 
Mr.  Wm.  Chalmers,  a  surgeon,  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  further 


AMEKICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  147 

1708. 

known,  etc.  Upon  examination  since  ye  departure  of  ye  ffleet, 
I  find  about  700  men  to  inhabit  here  under  ye  covert  of  ye 
fforts  in  St.  Johns,  and  all  things  in  so  good  posture  yt.  I 
doe  not  apprehend  any  danger  for  tihis  winter.  The  French  has 
returned  us  26  prisoners  being  ye  crews  of  two  English  mer- 
chts.  shipps  taken  by  a  French  man  of  warr  belonging  to  Port 
Eoyall;  off  wch.  ye  enclosed  acct.  from  Capt.  Jno.  Woodward, 
one  of  ye  sd.  prisoners,  will  better  informe  yr.  Ldpps.,  as 
alsoe  of  ye  condition  of  ye  enemy  att  Placentia,  etc.  This  comes 
by  a  vessell  bound  for  Oporto ;  butt  another  being  to  sayle 
hence  in  8  days  dyrect  for  England,  I  shall  enlarge  more  on  all 
matters  by  that,  etc. 

P.S.  I  humbly  crave  yr.  Ldpps.'  excuse  for  ye  enclosed, 
wch.  I  have  presumed  to  send  under  ye  protection  of  ye  covert. 
Signed,  Tho.  Lloyd.  Endorsed,  Becd.  Bead  19th  Jan.  170|.  1± 
pp.  Enclosed, 

195.  i.  M.  de  Costebelle  to  Commodore  Mitchell.  Acknowledges 
receipt  of  French  prisoners  and  returns  some  English. 
I  am  sure  you  have  no  share  in  what  your  corsairs  do 
contrary  to  the  laws  of  humanity,  when  their  brutality 
falls  upon  women  and  children,  etc.  Plaisance.  Oct. 
18,  1708.  Signed,  De  Costebelle.  Endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding. French.  2  pp. 

195.  ii.  An  Account  of  the  state  of  the  French'  at  Placentia. 
29  guns  and  2  mortars  in  the  Fort.  At  present  fortified 
with  pallasadoes  and  wet  moat,  but  \_they~\  have  ad- 
vanced a  new  wall  of  stone  from  the  foot  of  the  Castle 
Hill  to  about  30  yards  in  length,  etc.,  which  if  per- 
fected will  render  the  place  very  strong.  At  present 
it  seems  weak.  About  150  soldiers  and  200  inhabitants, 
etc.  Signed,  John  Woodwad.  Same  endorsement.  2  pp. 
[C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  82,  82.i.,ii. ;  and  (without  en- 
closures) 195,  5.  pp.  76,  77.] 

[Nov  17.]  196.  An  explanatory  supplement  to  Capt.  Vetch's  proposal 
for  an  attack  upon  Quebec  and  Montreal,  (See  July  27,  1708), 
together  with  a  scheme  for  raising  the  two  new  battalions 
required,  etc.  Proposals  for  their  equipment.  A  packet-boat 
to  be  despatched  with  orders  to  New  England,  New  Hampshire 
and  Rhode  Island  to  have  1000  of  their  best  disciplined  men  and 
officers,  with  3  months'  provision,  transports  and  pilots,  with 
10  flat-bottomed  boats  that  will  carry  60  men  each  to  go  along 
with  the  transports,  those  all  to  be  ready  about  the  end  of 
April  to  embark,  upon  two  days  advertisement;  and  when  the 
expedition  from  hence  is  just  ready  to  sail,  let  one  of  the 
frigats  be  dispatched  to  make  the  best  of  her  way  to  Boston, 
with  orders  for  the  said  troops  to  embark  with  all  possible 
expedition,  and  go  under  convoy  of  the  said  frigat,  and  those 
that  attend  that  Government,  directly  to  Piscaitaqua,  there  to 
meet  the  fleet  from  England,  whose  orders  must  be  to  go 
directly  thither.  Whereas  the  New  England  men's  arms  are 
generaly  of  different  bore  and  sise,  so  that  it  will  be  impossible 


148  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

they  can  safely  be  ventured  with  upon  service,  it  will  be  abso- 
lutely necessary  the  Crown  send  them  1200  good  uniform  arms 
from  the  Tower,  with  flints  and  ammunition  conforme.  The 
Governments  of  New  York,  Connecticut,  Jerseys  and  Pensil- 
vania  must  be  ordred  att  the  same  time  to  have  their  severall 
proportions  of  men  ready  by  the  end  of  Aprill,  to  be  att  Albany, 
ready  to  march  from  thence,  upon  two  days  warning.  The 
proportions  of  these  Governments  to  make  up  1200  men,  besides 
the  regular  troops  (of  which  2  and  300  may  be  spared  from 
New  York)  will  be  New  York,  550 ;  Connecticut,  350 ;  the  Jerseys, 
200;  and  Pensilvania,  100,  each  Government  furnishing  their 
men  with  6  weeks'  provisions  att  first,  which  they  can  "doe 
easily  from  Albany,  where  it  is  cheapest  to  be  had  in  all  the 
Continent,  while  the  Governor  of  New  York  shall  be  ordred 
to  give  directions  to  the  Commissioners  for  the  Indian  Affairs 
att  Albany  to  contract  with  our  Five  Nations,  to  make  as  many 
canoes  as  will  be  requisite,  and  to  engage  them  heartily  to 
join  in  the  sd.  undertaking,  which  lys  much,  in  Col.  Schyler's 
power  to  doe ;  and  because  the  foresayd  number  of  country! 
troops  will  labour  under  the  same  difficulty  as  to  arms,  it  will 
be  necessary  that  the  Governor  of  New  York  be  directed  to 
lend  them  out  of  the  magazine  as  many  as  can  be  spared 
to  such  as  have  not  arms  of  the  same  calibre  with  the  regular 
troops.  The  person  fittest  to  command  thiss  land  expedition 
is  Mr.  Ingoldsby,  and  next  to  him,  Col.  Schyler,  upon  whom  the 
Country  arid  Five  Nations  have  a  great  dependance.  The  above 
expedition,  being  ordred  to  sett  out  from  Albany  att  the  same 
time  the  fleet  does  from  Piscataqua,  will  be  able  to  be  full 
as  soon  att  Montreal,  as  they  can  be  att  Quibeck,  and  as 
they  cannott  be  reduced  to  any  straits  having  one  of  the  most 
plentifull  countrys  in  the  world  behind  them,  from  whence  they 
can  almost  weekly  be  supplyed  with  provisions  and  other  neces- 
sarys  by  water,  excepting  a  carying  place  of  10  miles  from! 
Suratoga,  to  the  wood  creek,  where  they  can  rise  houses ;  as 
they  can  hardly  fail  of  taking  Montreal  (which  hath  nothing 
to  defend  it  but  palisadoes,  which  can  easily  be  burnt  by  pitched 
faggots,  which  that  country  will  afford  in  plenty)  or  att  least 
makeing  such  a  diversion  as  the  sea  expedition  cannott  fail 
of  carying  Quibeck,  which  being  done  they  will  soon  by  sending 
up  the  river  6  or  700  men  and  some  small  guns,  to  attacque 
Montreal  in  concert  with  the  land  forces  cary  the  same.  .But 
that  there  may  be  no  misunderstanding  about  command,  it  will 
be  requisite  that  he  who  commands  the  troops  from  hence, 
shall  have  the  cheif  command  of  all ;  and  nixt  to  him  every 
officer  conform  to  the  Commission  he  bears ;  and  the  date  of 
the  same ;  thiss  is  to  be  understood  of  the  regular  troops ;  the 
other  to  be  so  intermixt  upon  command  with  them,  that  there 
shall  be  always  one  officer  of  the  same  quality  of  the  regular 
troops  with  those  of  the  Country ;  by  whom  they  will  never 
grudge  to  be  commanded.  The  fleet  att  Piscataqua  with  the  first 
fair  wind  must  make  the  best  of  their  way  to  Quibeck;  but 
there  being  two  different  commands,  of  the  sea  and  land,  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  149 

1708. 

want  of  adjusting  which  hathi  often  occasioned  the  miscariage 
of  the  undertaking ;  therefore,  it  will  be  requisite  to  have  the 
matter  so .  clearly  setled  before  their  go'ing  from  hence.  The 
Generall  of  this  expedition  should  have  the  sole  power,  as  soon 
as  they  come  into  the  Eiver  of  Canada,  to  detach  or  send 
before  such  sloops  or  vessels  as  he  shall  see  fitt,  to  cutt  of  thie, 
communication  of  the  Isle  of  Orleans,  to  send  ashoar  partys 
where  and  when  he  shall  judge  it  convenient,  and  as  soon 
as  they  come  to  ane  anchor,  to  command  ashoar  such  men  and 
stores  as  he  shall  find  necisary,  etc.  Which  things  being  well 
concerted,  there  is  no  doubt  of  good  success,  for  the  town 
lying  upon  a  point,  by  landing  some  forces  above  it,  and  some 
below  it,  who  can  easily  make  a  communication  togither,  quite 
across  the  Isthmus,  so  as  to  cutt  of  all  their  correspondence  by 
land,  while  the  ships  can  easily  doe  the  same  by  sea,  it  will 
not  be  verry  difficult,  by  attacqueing  it  att  three  different  places 
att  the  same  time  to  carry  it  without  much  loss.  The  which, 
when  it  pleases  god  they  shall  be  masters  of,  it  will  be  necisary 
to  send  all  or  att  least  by  much  the  greatest  number  of  the 
inhabitants  in  their  own  small  barks  to  Martinico,  which  will 
mightily  incomode  that  place,  where  provisions  are  so  verry 
scarse:  the  souldiers  may  be  sent  home  to  England,  but  theirs 
and  the  greatest  part  of  the  inhabitants  being  removed  from 
thence  is  absolutely  necisary,  as  well  for  the  security  of  our 
own  people,  in  case  of  ane  attempt  from  France  to  recover, 
it,  as  to  make  the  natives  come  over  intirely  to  the  intrest  and 
obedience  of  the  Crown.  And  as  it  is  not  to  be  doubted  but 
the  French  King  will  make  strong  efforts  to  recover  his  footing 
upon  the  Continent  of  America  again,  so  it  will  be  absolutely 
necisary  that  there  be  a  sufficient  force  left  to  garison  'ihose 
places,  who  ly  att  so  great  a  distance  from  receiving  any 
reinforcement  from  hence  or  elsewhere,  so  that  it  will  be  requisite 
there  be  700  regular  troops  left  to  garison  Quib'eck,  200  at 
Trois  Eivier,  who  upon  any  emergency  can  in  two  or  three 
days  time  j'oyn  them  of  Quibeck;  300  att  Montreal,  to  keep  the 
natives  thereabouts  in  obedience  to  the  Crown,  having  no  other 
enimy  to  fear,  having  Albaaiy  to  behind  them ;  200  at  Placentia,, 
when  reduced,  200  att  Port  Royal,  which  being  contiguous  to 
New  England;  can  be  assisted  from  thence  upon  occasion  either 
by  sea  or  land.  And  to  make  it  clearly  appear  that  the  men 
proposed  to  be  furnished  by  the  several  Governments  there, 
will  not  only  be  soon  gott  in  a  readiness,  but  is  farr  from 
being  a  hardship  upon  them,  it  being  what  they  have  pressed 
and  wished  for  these  many  years,  besides  that  most  of  them, 
excepting  Jerseys  and  Pensylvania,  (who  may  the  better  furnish 
now,  that  they  have  so  long  bein  exempted)  keep  as  many 
troops  in  pay  at  thiss  present  time ;  for  New  York  sends  up 
generaly  evry  fall  near  300  men  to  reinforce  the  garison  att 
Albany,  who  continue  there  untill  the  latter  end  of  March, 
besides  a  company  of  bushlopers,  who  are  about  40,  with  a 
Capt.,  two  Lieuts.,  evry  sentinel  of  which  hath  3.5.  per  diem, 
because  of  the  severity  of  their  duty,  they  being  oblidged  to  ly 


150  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

all  winter  as  scouts  upon  the  Lake  side  to  observe  the  motions 
of  the  enimy ;  so  that  these  two  are  yearly  more  then  thiss  will 
be,  which  if  successfull,  will  ease  them  for  ever ;  nixt  Conecti- 
cout  have  constantly  300  men  upon  their  frontiers  att  least,  and 
New  England  above  the  number  they  are  to  furnish  in  constant 
pay,  and  are  now  without  doubt  double  what  they  use  to  be, 
for  by  our  last  advices  from  Boston,  Aug.  25,  they  had  accounts 
from  Albany  that  the  French  and  Indians  from  Montreal  to 
the  number  of  800,  were  preparing  to  cross  the  Lake,  in  order 
to  attacque  some  of  their  frontier  towns,  so  that  all  their  frontiers 
were  in  arms,  and  must  continue  so  all  winter,  so  that  if 
the  Governmt.  sends  them  orders  as  proposed,  they  vvill  find 
them  with  the  most  part,  if  not  all  the  troops  in  readyness  etc. 
Proposes  that  30  good  Serjeants  be  sent  over  to  discipline 
the  companies.  Scheme  for  raising  the  two  regiments  proposed 
for  the  expedition.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead  Nov.  17,  1708.  3f 
pp.  [C.O.  323,  6.  No:  71;  and  324,  9.  pp.  255-266.] 

Nov.  18.  197.  Governor  Seymour  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Maryland,  tations.  I  have  your  commands  of  Aprill  15th,  which  came 
to  hand  by  a  chance  sloope  from  Barbados,  but  not  untill 
Oct.  13,  by  which  your  Lordships  may  perceive  how  tedious  and 
uncertain  that  conveyance  is ;  and  therefore  have  not  the  least 
apprehensions  your  Lordships  justice  will  impute  any  neglect 
to  me ;  since  in  obedience  thereto  I  imediately  made  the  best 
inquiry  I  could,  what  numbers  of  negro's  have  been  supplyd 
to  this  H.M.  Province  by  the  Royall  Affrican  Company,  or  by 
the  seperate  traders  who  pay  the  10  p.c.  since  June  24,  1698, 
and  by  the  list  inclosed,  which  is  as  exact  as  the  speedy 
dispatch  of  this  answer  would  admitt,  your  Lordships  will  find 
the  Royall  Affrican  Company  have  not  supplyd  one  negro  to 
this  Province  during  that  tyme ;  nor  can  I,  on  enquiry  of 
above  20  years  last  past,  heare  of  any  ship  belonging  to  the 
Company  that  has  come  hither ;  but  wee  have  been  wholy 
supply'd  by  the  separate  traders,  as  your  Lordships  may  per- 
ceive, (tho'  by  the  death  and  removeall  of  severall  officers  of  the 
Customes  here,  I  cannot  learne  the  owners  or  importers,  further 
than  the  names  of  the  severall  shipps  and  commanders,  yet 
am  satisfied  they  were  exclusive  of  the  Royall  Affrican  Company. 
And  these  negro's  have  been  sold  for  Bills  of  Exchange  payable 
in  London,  generally  men  at  £30  sterl.  per  head,  and  women 
at  5  and  6  and  20  pounds.  I  have  pursuant  to  your  Lordships' 
directions  discourst  many  of  the  principall  planters  here,  by 
whom  I  am  inform'd  that  before  1698  this  province  has  been 
supply'd  by  some  small  quantitys  of  negro's  from  Barbados 
and  other  H.M.  Islands  and  Plantations,  as  Jamaica  and  New 
England,  7,  8,  9  or  10  in  a  sloope,  and  sometymes  larger 
quantitys,  and  sometymes,  tho'  very  seldome,  whole  ship  loads 
of  slaves  have  been  brought  here  directly  from  Affrica  by 
interlopers,  or  such  as  have  had  lycences  or  otherwise  traded 
there.  At  present  the  trade  seems  to  run  high,  there  having 
been  between  6  and  700  negro's  imported  hither  this  yeare, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


151 


1708. 

1708,  and  ye  Planters  owne  themselves  obliged  to  the  separate 
traders  for  these  supplys  having  never  had  any  from  the  Com- 
pany, and  now  the  price  of  negro's  begins  to  abate  as  wee 
suppose  by  reason  of  the  plentifull  importation  by  ye  seperate 
traders,  so  that  'tis  the  opinion  of  most  here,  should  the  seperate 
traders  be  totally  excluded,  the  Company  would  take  no  better 
care  to  supply  them  with  slaves  than  they  have  formerly  done, 
which  would  not  only  be  a  great  detriment  to  the  planters, 
but  also  to  H.M.  Revenue  of  so  valuable  Customes  on  tobaccos. 
As  to  shipping  belonging  to  this  Country  and  imploy'd  to  the 
coast  of  Affrica  at  present,  I  cannot  learne  of  any,  nor  above 
2  or  3  persons  concern'd  therein  with  ye  merchts.  in  London. 
I  humbly  begg  your  Lordships'  pardon  that  the  account  of 
negros  has  not  been  transmitted,  which  being  interwoven  withj 
the  encouragemt.  and  protection  I  am  eejoyned  to  give  the 
Royali  Affrican  Company  made  me  mistake  to  be  intended  of 
those  to  be  supply'd  by  them  only.  And  to  convince  your 
Lordships  of  my  future  exact  comply ance  with  commands  I 
esteeme  so  sacred,  have  sent  you  a  list  of  those  imported 
this  year,  etc.  Signed,  Jo.  Seymour.  Endorsed,  Reed,  llth 
May,  Read  July  18,  1709.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 

197.  i.  List  of  negroes  imported  into  Maryland,  Midsummer 
1698— Xtmas,  1707.  Total,  2290.  Same  endorsement. 
I  p. 

197.  ii.  List  of  negroes  imported  into  Maryland  Dec.  25, 
1707—1708.  Total,  648.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 
[C.O.  5,  716.  Nos.  66,  66.i.,ii. ;  and  (without  enclos- 
ures) 5,  727.  pp.  121-125.] 

Nov.  20.          198.     H.M.  Warrants  for  John  Richardson  and  Michael  Smithi 
St.  James's,    to    be    of    the    Council    of    Nevis.     Countersigned,    Sunderland. 
[C.O    5,  210.     p.  123.] 

Nov.  20.         199.     H.M.  Warrant  for  John  Burryan  to  be  of  the  Council  of 
St.  James's.    St.  Kitts.     Countersigned,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.    p.  123.] 

Nov.  22.    "     2OO.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Recom- 

Whitehall.    mend  Francis   Phips  for  the  Council  of  St.   Kitts   in  place  of 

Col.  Crisp,  deed.  ;  and  Wm.  Byam  for  the  Council  of  Antigua, 

in  place  of  Barry  Tankard,   recommended  to  be  dismissed   for 

neglecting  to  attend.      [C.O.   153,   10.     pp.  219,  220.] 

[Nov.  22.]  2O1.  Sir  John  Bennet  to  Mr.  Popple.  Desires  copies  of 
papers,  in  order  to  the  vindication  of  Lt.  Governor  Bennet 
from  Mr.  Jones'  complaints,  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read  Nov. 
22,  1708.  li  pp.  [C.O.  37,  8.  No.  72.] 

Nov.  23.          202.     Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Jamaica.      tations.     The    packett   boat   returning    into    port    after   she  had 
been  at  sea  near  a  month  in  her  way  home1,  I  take  this  oppor- 
tunity  to    give    you    an    account    of   what    has    happen'd    since 
mine  by  the  same  boat.     I  acquainted  your  Lops,  of  the  seizure 


152  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1708. 

of  a  brigantme  by  the  Navall  Officer,  for  which  there  is  a 
suit  now  commenced  against  him  at  Common  Law  by  one  of 
the  Councill,  Col.  Thompson:  I  desire  to  know  what  methods 
I  shall  take  in  this  and  the  like  cases,  Where  prizes  are  brought 
in  by  our  vessells  without  commission  or  letter  of  marque, 
and  where  any  vessells  from  another  port  or  place,  that  have 
sold  their  prizes  bring  in  the  hostages,  that  I  may  prevent 
such  practices,  which  if  continued,  will  be  great  encourage- 
ments to  piracy:  I  am  told  it  is  likewise  a  custom  among  our 
privateers,  after  they  have  plunder'd  the  prizes  they  take,  to 
put  the  prisoners  ashore  and  sink  the  vessells  without  bringing 
in  any  of  the  prisoners  to  condemn  them,  by  which  means  the 
Lord  High  Admirall  is  deprived  of  his  tenths.  Two  or  three 
days  ago  came  in  a  privateer  ship  and  sloop  that  took  off 
the  Havanna  a  barco  longo,  with  betwixt  £30,000  and  40,000 
in  coined  and  uncoined  gold  and  silver,  as  I  am  informed: 
at  the  same  time  they  very  narrowly  missed  of  a  brigantine, 
that,  had  on  board  near  two  millions  of  mony,  which  was  oc- 
casioned by  the  brigantine's  having  our  privateer's  signall  from 
a  long  boat  she  had  taken  a  little  before.  All  other  matters 
are  the  same  as  in  my  last.  We  had  an  earthquake  two  nights 
ago  but  has  done  no  damage  that  I  hear  of.  Signed,  Tito* 
Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Jan.  19,  Read  Feb.  23,  170f.  2  yp- 
[C.O.  137,  8.  No.  28;  and  138,  12.  pp.  361,  362.] 

'Nov.  23.          203.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Repeat 

Whitehall,    arguments  against  the  Act  of  Maryland  (1707)  empowering  the 

fanners   of  Lord  Baltimore's  rents  to  recover  arrears  etc.,   and 

recommend  its  repeal.      [Cf.   Feb.   20,   1708.]        [C.O.    5,   727. 

pp.  96-98.] 

Nov.  24.  204.  Loque  yo  tengo  que  proponer  Alxa.  Es  nego  cio  de 
gran  considerazioni  mucho  utilpa.  estereino  isin  Acerg'astos. 
Es  enla  America  en  los  dommios  de  Portugal.  Pa.  este  ofecto 

Si  declarare  Lafor  ma  por  escrito  con  las  circustancias  necesarias. 
as  es  menes  terque  Ixa  (?)  ia  que  Ami  nome  permita  la  iionra 
de  ablar  le  sesirua  de  ablar  Ahora.  A  Mer.  Jones  puis  nosiendoasi 
no  po  dre  io  A9er  los  papeles  Alxa.  cuia  pa.  g.  dsm.  a.  En- 
dorsed, Mattamoro,  etc.  Portuguese.  f  p.  [C.O.  318,  3. 
No.  36.] 

Nov.  25.         205.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     The  Board  of  Ordnance 

St.  James's,   are  to  make  an  estimate  of  the  charge  of  the  ordnance  stores 

proposed  for  New  Hampshire,  Nov.  8.     Endorsed,  Reed.,  Read 

Dec    20,    1708.     1£  pp.      [C.O.    5,   865.     No.   7;   and  5,   913. 

p.   36.] 

Nov.  25.         206.     Order    of    Queen    in    Council.     Francis    Phips    is    ap- 

St.  James's,    pointed   to  the   Council   of   St.    Kitts.      Cf.    Nov.    22.      Signed, 

William    Blathwayt.     Endorsed,    Reed.    15th,    Read    17th    Jan., 

170&.     H    pp.      [C.O.    152,    8.      No.    4;    and    153,    10.      pp. 

263,   264.] 


AMEKICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


153 


1708. 

,Nov.  25.          2O7.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Barry  Tankard  is  removed 
St.  James's,    from    the    Council    of    Antegoa,    and    William   Byam    appointed 
in    his    place.     Cf.      Nov.    22.      Signed    and   endorsed   as    pre- 
ceding.    If  pp.      [C.O.   152,  8.     No.  4.A. ;  and  153,  .10.     pp. 
264,  265.] 

Nov.  25.          2O8.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Handasyd. 

Whitehall.  Since  our  letter  of  Aug.  25,  a  duplicate  whereof  is  here  en- 
closed, we  have  received  yours  of  July  20,  1708.  You  have 
not  yet  fully  answer'd  the  question  we  asked  you,  March  26th 
last,  relating  to  6  ships  of  war  you  had  proposed  for  Jamaica. 
What  we  desire  to  know  is  whether  you  mean  6  ships  over  and 
above  the  squadron  which  is  annually  appointed  to  attend  your 
Government.  This  therefore  we  expect  you  will  clear,  before 
we  can  proceed  any  further  thereupon.  Your  answer  to  what 
we  writ  you  about  Counsellors  claiming  a  priviledge  of  not 
being  sued  for  debts  is  satisfactory.  But  if  any  complaint  be 
made  in  that  matter,  we  shall  then  more  fully  consider  what 
you  have  writ  thereupon.  We  expect  that  by  the  next  packet 
we  shall  receive  from  you  the  account  of  Negroes  we  had 
desired,  and  which  you  promised.  But  in  case  it  be  not  dis- 
patched by  that  time,  we  desire  you  to  get  it  done  as  soon 
as  possible,  it  being  for  H.M.  service.  We  are  very  glad  to 
perceive  the  magazine  at  Port  Royal  is  in  such  forwardness  as 
you  mention,  and  that  your  Regiment  is  so  near  "being  corn- 
pleated.  We  shall  take  notice  of  the  good  character  you  give 
Commodore  Wager  as  opportunity  offers.  But  on  this  occasion 
we  must  take  notice  that  you  have  neglected  to  give  us  an 
account  of  the  value  of  the  prizes  taken  by  him.  H.M.  has 
been  pleased  to  appoint  Mr.  Valentine  Mumby  a  Member  of  ye 
Councill  of  Jamaica  in  the  room  of  Mr.  John  As  cough',  aoid 
Mr.  Francis  Oldfleld  standing  now  the  first  upon  our  list  we 
shall  be  mindfull  of  him  upon  the  first  vacancy.  We  have  only 
to  add  that  you  have  not  returned  us  any  answer  to  the  third 
paragraph  of  our  letter  of  Jan.  29  relating  to  the  transmitting 
us  the  Journals  of  the  Assembly,  which,  therefore  we  do  expect. 
[C.O  138,  12.  pp.  338,  339.] 

Nov.  25.         209.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Parke. 

Whitehall.  Acknoiviedge  letters  of  June  21,  July  1  and  7th.  We  have  laid 
before  H.M.  what  you  write  concerning  the  absence  of  officers; 
•  and  we  doubt  not  but  effectual  care  will  be  taken  to  prevent 
their  leaving  their  posts  for  the  future.  When  the  Minutes  of 
Antigoa  and  Mountserrat  arrive,  we  will  consider  the  same. 
In  the  meantime  we  must  take  notice  that  you  have  done  well 
in  not  passing  the  Bill  proposed  by  the  Assembly  of  Antigoa, 
and  in  pursuing  your  Instructions  in  that  matter,  as  well  as 
in  supporting  the  rights  of  the  Crown.  As  to  what  you  write 
in  relation  to  the  augmenting  your  salary,  we  do  not  think  it 
proper  for  us  to  propose  any  alteration  therein.  We  cannot 
doubt  but  your  services  will  so  recommend  you  to  the  respective 
Assemblys  of  each  Island,  that  as  their  circumstances  will 


154  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

admit,  they  will  comply  with  H.M.  directions  in  relation  to 
house  rent.  You  may  be  assured  upon  all  occasions  of  our 
doing  you  right,  and  particularly  in  case  any  complaints  against 
you  do  come.  We  shall  not  represent  you  to  H.M.  as  guilty 
till  you  have  had  an  opportunity  of  clearing  yourself.  We 
have  represented  to  H.M.  what  you  write  in  relation  to  Mr. 
Barry  Tankard,  and  have  offered  that  Col.  Byam  be  appointed 
of  the  Council  in  his  stead.  But  we  must  take  notice  that  you 
have  exceeded  your  Instructions  in  swearing  Col.  Byam  into 
the  Councill  of  Antigoa,  and  Mr.  Phips  into  the  Councill  of 
St.  Christophers,  it  appearing  to  us  that  there  were  7  upon  each 
Island:  for  tho'  some  of  the  Members  be  sick  and  not  in  a. 
condition  to  come  to  the  Councill,  yet  they  are  to  be  reputed 
Counsellors  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known  to  the  contrary.  Be- 
sides we  must  further  take  notice  that  though  you  have  named 
to  us  persons  fit  to  supply  vacancies  that  may  happen  in  those 
Ciouncills,  yet  you  have  put  in  two  Gentlemen  not  mention'd  in 
those  lists,  which  is  not  riglht,  and  we  hope  you  will  avoid 
it  for  the  future.  Mr.  Perry  the  Provost  Marshall  lias  yet 
made  no  complaint  of  your  having  put  Mr.  Ayon  into  his  place, 
if  he  do,  we  shall  then  consider  what  you  write  thereupon.  We 
have  laid  before  H.M.  what  you  write  in  relation  to  the  trade 
carryed  on  between  Ireland  and  the  French  Islands  in  America, 
and  we  doubt  not  but  effectual  care  will  be  taken  therein.  We 
have  also  laid  before  H.M.  the  Address  from  yourself,  the 
Councill,  and  Assembly  of  St.  Christophers.  We  expect  the 
account  of  negroes  we  had  desired  from  you,  which  being  for 
H.M.  service,  we  doubt  not  but  you  will  dispatch  the  same  in 
the  most  speedy  and  best  manner  you  can.  The  difficulty  you 
find  in  obtaining  duplicates  of  publick  papers  from  the  respective 
offices  is  such,  that  we  shall  be  obliged  to  lay  it  before  H.M. 
But  it  is  necessary  that  you  should  first  send  us  a  better  account 
of  the  Patent  Offices  in  the  Leeward  Islands,  that  is,  a  list  of 
each  respective  office,  held  by  Patent,  with  an  account  of  each1 
respective  salary  or  yearly  income,  taking  notice  what  deductions 
are  made  either  by  allowances  to  their  Deputies,  or  otherwise. 
In  your  letter,  St.  Kitts,  July  7,  you  say  that  you  had  endeav- 
oured in  vain  to  get  a  law  passed  for  holding  of  Courts,  and 
you  wonder  how  their  law  came  to  be  passed  at  the  Leeward 
Islands  and  allowed  by  the  Eoyall  authority  here ;  but  you 
ought  to  have  given  us  the  title  of  that  law,  and  to  have  ac- 
quainted, us  in  what  year  it  was  made.  Having  considered  the 
copy  of  a  Bill  you  transmitted  to  us  from  Nevis,  to  oblige 
the  inhabitants  who  shall  refuse  to  adjust  and  settle  their 
accounts  with  their  creditors  for  debts  contracted  before  the 
invasion  of  170 f,  and  having  discoursed  with  the  merchants 
trading  to  that  Island,  we  must  observe  that  there  is  no  destinc- 
tion  in  the  said  bill  between  such  as  are  able  and  such'  as  are 
not  able  to  pay  their  debts  contracted  before  the  invasion ; 
whereas  those  that  are  not  able  ought  to  have  time  allowed 
them,  but  those  that  are  able  and  not  willing  should  be  pro- 
ceeded against  at  law ;  and  we  further  observe  that  since  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  155 

1708. 

hurricane  in  that  Island,  there  may  have  been  severall  debts 
contracted,  which  ought  not  to  be  upon  the  same  foot  with 
those  contracted  before.  Besides  the  said  objections,  we  find 
that  the  Bill  does  in  effect  shut  up  the  Courts,  and  stop  the 
course  of  Justice  for  the  space  of  three  years,  and  in  some; 
cases  much  longer,  which  is  not  to  be  allowed  of,  and  therefore 
you  have  done  well  in  rejecting  the  same.  But  in  case  it  shall 
be  thought  necessary,  you  may  propose  to  the  Assembly  the 
passing  of  another  Bill,  that  may  not  be  liable  to  such  objections, 
and  that  may  lead  to  the  good  as  well  of  the  inhabitants  and 
planters  in  the  said  Island,  as  of  the  merchants  here.  P.S, 
Refer  to  Orders  in  Council  July  llth.  [C.O.  153,  10.  pp. 
223-227.] 

Nov.  25.         21O.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Crowe. 

Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letters  of  June  27  and  July  3.  We  will  not  doubt 
of  your  care  to  prevent  for  the  future  such  omissions  in  the 
Minutes  of  Councill,  concerning  which  we  writ  to  you.  It 
was  great  neglect  in  the  Clerk  of  the  Councill,  and  rendred 
those  Minutes  of  very  little  use.  As  to  what  you  write  about 
the  Spaniards  coming  to  fetch  negroes  from  Barbadoes,  we 
have  only  this  to  say,  that  you  will  do  well  to  give  all  the 
incouragement  possible  to  frhe  negroe  trade  with  the  Spaniards, 
having  due  regard  to  the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  and 
to  the  particular  laws  of  Barbadoes.  Enclose  correspondence 
relating  to  Mr.  Pindar's  petition  for  passes  for  Spanish  ships. 
The  account  you  have  given  us  of  the  Patent  Officers  does  not 
come  up  fully  to  what  we  had  desired,  and  therefore  wee  expect 
that  you  give  us  a  perfect  list  of  all  patent  places,  with  an 
account  of  the  yearly  value,  or  income,  of  each  place.  We 
observe  what  the  Grand  Jury  says  in  their  Address  to  you 
relating  to  the  4^  p.c.,  upon  which  we  think  you  ought  to 
make  application  at  the  proper  place  in  that  matter,  by  the 
Agents  of  the  Island,  whose  business  it  is,  and  then  upon  your 
giving  us  an  account  of  their  success,  we  shall  doe  what  will 
be  fitting  for  us  therein.  You  have  made  us  no  answer  to  what 
we  writ-  March  25,  in  relation  to  the  powder  duty.  Nor  have 
you  taken  notice  of  the  receipt  of  H.M.  Order  in  Councill 
for  repealing  an  Act  allowing  you  £500  for  House  Bent,  which 
you  ought  to  have  done,  and  therefore  we  expect  it  from  you. 
H.M.  has  been  pleased  to  appoint  Mr.  John  Hallet  to  be  a 
Member  of  the  Councill  of  Barbadoes  in  the  room  of  Mr.  Frere 
deed.,  and  the  Order  will  have  been  sent  you  by  Mr.  Hallet's 
friends  accordingly.  An  affidavit  of  William  Bushel  and  Roger 
Richardson  having  been  laid  before  us,  relating  to  the  said 
Buf-heFs  being  obliged  by  you  to  enter  into  bond  of  £500  that 
his  ship  the  Laurel  in  her  voyage  from  Barbadoes  to  this 
Kingdom  should  touch  at  some  of  the  Leeward  Islands,  we 
enclose  a  copy,  and  expect  that  you  will  give  us  your  reasons 
for  obliging  him  to  touch  there,  he  not  having  any  business 
there,  nor  none  recommended  to  him  by  you  for  those  Islands, 
and  why  the  said  bond  should  not  be  discharged,  if  not  already 


156 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 


Nov.  25. 

St.  James's, 


Nov.  25. 


Nov.  26. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  27. 

Admiralty 
Office. 


Nov.  27. 

Virginia. 


done.  Acknowledge  letters  of  Aug.  17  and  Sept.  6,  touching! 
complaints  against  you,  which  are  of  so  very  high,  a  nature 
that  we  wonder  you  did  not  think  yourself  concern 'd  to  give 
us  an  immediate  answer  to  it,  since  you  had  notice  of  the 
complaint  5  days  before  the  date  of  your  last  letter  and  the 
departure  of  the  fleet,  and  had  time  (as  we  are  informed)  to 
lay  several  matters  contained  in  that  complaint  before  the  As- 
sembly. Tho'  we  shall  not  conclude  you  guilty  of  \vhat  is 
laid  to  your  charge  till  you  have  had  an  opportunity  of  making 
good  your  defence,  yet  that  we  might  not  in  the  meantime  be 
wanting  to  the  safety  and  good  government  of  that  Island,  we 
think  it  incumbent  to  lay  those  articles  before  H.M.  for  her 
directions  therein.  The  Address  you  mention  to  be  inclosed., 
Sept.  6,  we  have  not  received.  [C.O.  29,  11.  pp.  324-328.] 

211.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Eepealing  Act  of  Mary- 
land  empowering   the  farmers   of   Lord  Baltemore's  quit   rents, 
etc.    (Cf.  Nov.  23,  1708,  etc.]     Signed,  William  Blathwayt.     En- 
dorsed.  Reed.   15th,   Read  17th  Jan.,   170f.     \\  pp.     [(7.0.    5, 
716.     No.  60;  and-  5,  727.     pp.  118,  119;  and  5,  720.  "No.   4.] 

212.  Mr.  Armstrong  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Prays,    as    Solicitor    for,  Mr.    Allen,    for   a    perusal     of    papeirs 
relating  to  Mr.  Mason's  title  as  Proprietor  of  New  Hampshire, 
"there    being   an   appeale   come   over    in  order   to   try  his    title 
before  H.M.   and  Council."    Signed,  Ro.  Armstrong.    Endorsed, 
Reed.,  Read  Nov.  27,  1708.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  865.     A7o.  4.] 

213.  W.  Popple  to  Josiah  Burchet  Esq.     Encloses  extract  of 
letter  from  Governor  Handasyd,   Sept.   24,  relating  to  Jamaica 
merchant  fleet.      [C.O.   138,   12.     p.  347.] 

214.  Josiah  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.      Reply  to  preceding. 
Having    had  "the    same    account   from    Rear   Admiral    Wager    I 
send  it  to  my  Lord  Dursley,  who  is  cruizing  in  the  Soundings 
and   has   directions   to    look   out    carefully   for   them.     I    desire 
you  will  acquaint  the  Lords  of  the  Councill  for  Trade  etc.  that 
there  is  a  squadron  preparing  to  releive  Rear  Admiral  Wager, 
and  that  it  is  hoped  they  may  be  ready  by  Dec.  20.     Signed, 
J.    Burchett.     Endorsed,    Reed.,    Read    Nov.    29,    1708.      1    p. 
[C.O.    137,   8.     No.   25;   and  138,    12.     p.   348.] 

215.  Col.  Jenings  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
It  was  the  llth  of  last  moneth  and  the  Fleet  then  sailed  before 
I  had  the  honour  to  receive  your  Lordships'  of  April  15  con- 
cerning the  negro  trade.     Since  which  I  have  endeavoured  by 
the  means   of  the   proper  officers    and  the   information   of  th,e 
ancient  inhabitants  to  answer  your  Lordships'  commands.     Re- 
fers  to   enclosures.     The   seperate  traders  have  had   much  the 
greater  share.     The  medium  rates  for  men  and  women  may  be 
reckoned  from  £20  to  £30  a  head  for  those  sold  by  the  Company, 
and  from  £20   to   £35   a   head   for   the   like   kinds   sold  by  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  157 

1708. 

separate  traders,  who  in  genii,  have  sold  theirs  at  a  higher 
rate  than  the  Company.  How  the  Country  was  supplyed  with! 
negros  before  the  Trade  to  Affrica  was  laid  open  in  1698,  I 
have  endeavoured  to  informe  myself  from  some  ancient  in- 
habitants conversant  in  that  trade,  as  well  as  by  recollecting 
what  hath  happened  in  my  own  knowledge,  and  find  that  before 
1680  what  negros  were  brought  to  Virginia  were  imported  gener- 
ally from  Barbados,  for  it  was  very  rare  to  have  a  negro 
ship  come  to  this  country  directly  from  Affrica;  since  that 
time,  and  before  1698  the  trade  of  negros  became  more  frequent, 
tho  not  in  any  proportion  to  what  it  hath.1  been  of  late,  dureing 
which  the  Affrican  Company  sent  several  ships,  and  others 
by  their  licence  (as  I  liave  been  informed)  haveing  boughjt 
their  slaves  of  the  Company  brought  them  in  hither  for  sale, 
among  which  I  remember  the  late  Alderman  Jeffrys  and  Sir 
Jeffry  Jeffrys  were  principally  concerned,  but  all  this  time  the 
pricfe  of  the  negros  was  currant  from  £18  to  £23  per  head 
for  men  and  women,  and  never  exceeded  that  rate.  Whether 
the  opening  tihe  trade  to  Affrica  haveing  created  an  emulation 
between  the  Company  and  the  seperate  traders  which'  should 
outbid  the  other  in  the  purchase  of  their  slaves  there,  or 
whether  the  dexterity  of  their  Factors  here  in  takeing  advantage 
of  the  prevailing  humour  of  our  inhabitants  for  some  years 
past  of  buying  negros  even  beyond  their  ability,  or  the  con- 
currence of  both,  hath  raised  the  rates  of  negros  so  extravagantly, 

1  shall  not  pretend  to  determine,   but  this   I   may  venture  to 
say,  that  it  will  be  much  harder  to  lower  the  price  again  now 
'tis   raised,   unless  there   be  the  same  ffreedome   of  trade  con- 
tinued as  formerly,  for  tho'  the  inhabitants  of  this  country  in 
genii,   will  not   now   be   so   fond  of   purchaseing   negros   as   of 
late,   being  sensibly  convinced  of  their  error,   which  has   in  a 
manner  ruined  the   credit  of  the  country,   yet   there  will  still 
be  some  that  must,   and  others  that  will   at  any  rate  venture 
to  buy  them,  and  if  the  Company  alone  have  the  management 
of  the  trade,  they'l  find  pretences  enough  to  keep  up  the  price, 
if    not    to    impose    what    higher    rate    they    please,    which   the 
buyer    must    submitt    to,    knowing    he    cannot    be    supplyed    by 
any   other  hand.     As    for   vessell'S   tradeing    directly   from   this 
place  to  the  coast  of  Affrica,  I  never  knew  of  any,  nor  is  the 
same   practicable,   this    country  not   being   provided   with   com- 
moditys    suitable   for   carrying   such   a   trade,   etc.     *P.S.      The 
Instructions  to  our  late  Governor  were  sealed  up  at  his  death, 
and  were  not  opened  till  I  had  the  honour  of  being  intrusted 
with   the   Government    etc.,    else    I    should   not   have    failed    in 
sending   the  account  of  negroes    required   therein.     Signed,    E. 
Jenings.     Endorsed,    Reed.    16th   April,    Read   3rd   May,    1709. 

2  pp.     Enclosed, 

215.  i.  List  of  negros  imported  from  Barbados  to  Virginia, 
1699—1708.  Total,  236  in  3  ships.  Endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding. ^  p. 

215.  ii.  List  of  negroes  imported  to  Virginia  direct  from 
Africa,  June  24,  1699— Oct.  12,  1708.  36  ships.  Total 


158  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708.  . 

negroes  imported  by  the  African  Company,  679;  by 
the  separate  traders,  5692.  Same  endorsement.  1 
large  p.  [C.O.  5,  1316.  Nos.  15,  15. i.,  ii. ;  and  (with- 
out enclosures)  5,  1362.  pp.  365-367.] 

Nov.  27.  216.  Same  to  Same.  Reply  to  May  7,  1707,  hoping  my 
Virginia,  late  receipt  thereof  (wch.  was  not  till  the  begining  of  last  June) 
with  what  I  writt  by  the  Fleet  of  the  sickness  of  several  of 
the  Council  (whose  advice  I  thought  necessary)  will  plead  my 
excuse  for  making  so  late  a  return.  I  hope  I  have  already 
complyed  with  your  Lordships'  direction  in  sending  the  Journals 
of  Council  (which  contain  all  the  material  transactions  of  the 
Government)  as  often  as  there  has  been  a  safe  conveyanoe, 
and  shal  continue  the  like  care  for  the  future,  tho  the  casualtys 
of  the  war  will  necessarily  make  that  transmission  less  frequent 
than  I  could  wish.  I  have  by  former  occasions,  and  now  again 
by  this,  sent  the  names  of  Councillors,  etc.  As  to  the  number 
of  inhabitants,  according  to  the  list  of  tithables  taken  this  year 
(wch.  is  the  best  way  to  judge  of  their  number)  I  have  computed 
the  labouring  tithable  persons  to  be  about  30,000,  whereof  about 
12,000  negros,  the  rest  being  almost  all  free  men;  for  the  number 
of  white  servants  is  BO  inconsiderable  that  they  scarce  deserve 
notice;  so  few  having  been  imported  since  the  begining  of  this 
war.  So  that  by  comparing  list  with  those  of  former  years, 
the  number  of  tithable  persons  (among  which  are  included  all 
masters  of  familys  and  their  male  children  above  the  age  of 
16)  have  increased  within  these  three  years  about  3000,  partly 
by  the  natives  coming  of  age,  but  chiefly  by  the  importation 
of  negros.  It  is  possible  that  when  yr.  Lordps.  shal  compare  this 
estimate  with  the  list  of  negros  imported  of  late  (supra),  yr. 
Lordps.  may  be  induced  to  expect  a  far  greater  encrease  of 
our  numbers ;  but  besides  the  distempers  usual  among  new 
negros,  wch.  carry  off  not  a  few  of  them,  many  of  our  poorer 
sort  of  inhabitants  daily  remove  into  our  neighbouring  Colony s, 
especially  to  North  Carolina,  which  is  the  reason  that  the 
number  of  our  inhabitants  doth  not  increase  proportionably  to 
what  might  be  expected.  Refers  to  enclosures  i.-iv.  Since  the 
late  Act  for  setting  the  Militia,  they  begin  to  be  better  arm'd 
than  formerly,  and  I  hope  the  continuing  the  due  execution 
of  that  Law  will  oblige  all  to  provide  themselves,  tho  I  cannot 
help  observing  to  your  Lordps.  that  the  low  price  of  their 
tobacco  is  a  great  hindrance  to  what  I  believe  they  are  well 
enough  inclined  to  do  in  this  particular.  The  number  of  ships 
etc.  belonging  to  the  inhabitants  of  this  Colony,  it  is  so  incon- 
siderable that  I  think  it  unnecessary  to  trouble  yr.  Lordps. 
with  a  particular  list  of  them,  there  being  only  6  ships  (the 
largest  not  exceeding  150  tunns),  eight  brigantines  and  two 
sloops  now  belonging  to  the  countrey,  besides  those  open  shallops 
wch.  carry  tobacco  for  the  ships  and  sometimes  trade  from  one 
River  to  another  (wch.  I  believe  yr.  Lordps.  do  not  mean 
should  be  listed  with,  the  others).  All  which  ships,  vessells  and 
coasting  shallops  imploy  about  200  seafaring  men,  and  of  those 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  159 

1708. 

but  few  able  sailors,  such  going  generally  to  Pensilvania  and 
the  Northern  Proprietary  Governments,  where  they  receive 
greater  encouragement  than  the  small  trade  of  this  country  will 
afford  them.  Besides  the  ships  and  vessells  abovementioned  there 
are  not  at  this  time  any  ship  or  vessell  tradeing  hither  of  this 
country  built,  diverse  which  have  been  built  here  of  late  haveing 
in  their  first  voyages  had  the  misfortune  of  falling  into  the 
hands  of  the  enemy.  Refers  to  enclosure  ii.  It  contains  a 
complaint  of  some  new  and  unusual  proceedings  of  the  Governor 
of  South  Carolina  in  seizing  the  effects  of  our  Indian  traders 
ancT  interrupting  that  trade  from  which  a  great  part  of  the 
revenue  of  the  Collegte  [of  William  'and  Mary]  doth,  arise,  and 
indeed  is  a  very  profitable  trade  to  many  of  the  inhabitants  of 
this  icountry.  Tho'  the  interruption  complained  of  be  upon 
the  matter  owned  by  the  Governor  of  S.  Carolina,  yet  because 
I  would  not  trouble  yr.  Lordps.  with  any  complaints  against 
our  neighbour  governments  without  such  authentick  proofs  as 
may  make  the  matter  undeniable,  I  have  with  the  advice  of 
the  Council  appointed  the  affidavits  of  the  traders  to  be  taken, 
which  I  shall  send  by  the  first  conveyance  for  your  Lordps.' 
further  satisfaction.  Humbly  submitting  how  far  (on  the  rea- 
sons laid  down  in  the  said  Memorial)  H.M.  service  and  the 
interest  of  Great  Brittain  may  be  concerned  to  protect  the  trade 
of  this  H.M.  Colony  from  the  new  raised  pretensions  of  a 
Proprietary  Government.  Signed,  E.  Jenings.  Endorsed,  Eecd. 
April  16th,  Bead  May  3rd,'  1709.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

216  i.  Reply  of  the  Council  of  Virginia  to  the  en- 
quiries of  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations, 
May  7,  1707.  At  the  Capitol,  Oct.  19,  1708. 
(1).  The  chief  cause  of  the  removal  of  the  inhabitants 
of  this  Colony  into  the  neighbouring  Plantations  is 
the  want  of  land,  the  most  convenient  land  yet  un- 
patented  being  on  Pamunky  Neck  and  on  the  south 
side  Blackwater  Swamp,  and  that  shutt  up  by  the 
orders  of  the  Government ;  this  has  occasioned  many 
familys  of  old  inhabitants,  whose  former  plantations 
are  worne  out,  as  well  as  a  great  number  of  young 
people  and  servants  just  free  to  seek  for  settlements 
in  the  Province  of  North  Carolina,  where  land  is  to 
be  had  on  much  easier  termes  than  here,  not  a  few 
have  obtained  grants  from  that  Government  of  the 
very  same  land  which  they  would  have  taken  up  from 
this,  if  liberty  had  been  given  for  it.  For  preventing 
whereof,  it  is  humbly  proposed  that  the  bounds  between 
Virginia  and  Carolina  be  settled  as  soon  as  may  be, 
and  that  free  liberty  be  given  to  all  persons  to  take 
up  lands  anywhere  within  the  bounds  of  Virginia  in 
the  termes  mentioned  in  the  Charter  granted  by  H.M. 
King  Charles  II.,  and  according  to  the  constant  custome 
of  granting  land  in  the  country  from  the  first  settlement 
thereof.  Another  cause  is  the  exemption  granted  in 
most  of  the  Proprietary  Governments  from  being  sued 


160  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1708. 


for  debts  contracted  in  other  places;  this  encourages  a 
great  many  people  of  uneasy  circumstances  or  dishonest 
inclinations  to  run  thither  to  avoid  their  creditors  and 
secure  themselves  a  safe  retreat.  And  even  in  N. 
Carolina,  where  Virginia  debts  are  pleadable,  there 
are  such  difficultys  in  the  prosecution  thereof,  partly 
by  the  distractions  of  that  country,  which  has  no  settled 
Government,  and  partly  by  the  protection  those  debtors 
find  among  persons  of  like  circumstances  and  principles, 
that  it  is  but  lost  laliour  to  sue  them.  (2).  The  staple 
commodity  of  this  country  being  tobacco  is  only  ex- 
ported to  Great  Brittain,  and  returnes  made  in  the 
manufactures  thereof  and  other  commoditys  brought 
directly  from  thence.  This  country  hath;  no  manner 
of  supplys  of  any  European  manufactures  (except  a 
very  little  to  the  plantations)  but  only  from  Great 
Brittain.  There's  very  little  trade  carryed  on  by  the 
inhabitants  of  this  Colony  to  any  of  H.M.  Plantations, 
what  trade  they  have  is  to  the  Island  of  Barbados,  to 
which  they  export  Indian  corne,  pork,  pitch,  tarr,  lumber 
and  sometimes  a  little  tobacco,  in  exchange  of  which1 
they  import  rum,  sugar,  molasses,  a  little  cocoa  and 
ginger,  but  a  great  part  of  the  commoditys  of  that 
Island  are  purchased  by  bills  of  Exchange ;  from  New 
England  are  imported  rum,  sugar,  molasses,  Madera  and 
Fiall  wine,  fish  and  wooden  ware ;  exported  thither 
corne,  pork,  and  some  tobacco  and  money.  From  New 
York  and  Pensilvania  imported  rum,  sugar,  wine,  bread, 
flower  and  beer;  exported  thither  European  goods, 
money  and  wheat.  From  S.  Carolina  and  Bermudas, 
rum,  sugar,  Madera  wine,  salt,  cocoa,  and  rice;  ex- 
ported thither  flower,  cyder,  and  European  goods.  All 
the  trade  with  the  above  Plantations  (except  some  part 
of  the  Barbados  trade)  is  carryed  on  entirely  in  vessells 
belonging  to  the  said  Plantations.  (3).  There  can't 
be  an  exact  estimate  made  how  much  tobacco  is  exported 
hence,  that  being  best  known  to  the  Commissioners 
of  the  Customes,  but  it  is  very  plain  the  production 
of  that  manufacture  has  been  encreasing  for  several 
years,  as  on  the  other  hand  the  value  thereof  has 
proportionably  decreased,  which  we  conceive  is  oc- 
casioned by  the  great  number  of  negros  imported  and 
the  encrease  of  the  inhabitants,  who  being  only  em- 
ployed in  that  manufacture,  there  is  much  more  made 
than  can  possibly  be  vended  to  any  advantage.  (4). 
Another  branch  of  the  trade  of  the  country  is  the 
Indian  trade  for  skins  and  ffurrs,  in  which  great  quan- 
titys  of  course  cloaths  from  England,  powder,  ehott, 
guns,  hatchets  etc.  have  been  vended  annually,  but 
this  trade  is  now  like  to  be  totally  wrested  out  of  our 
hands  by  the  Government  of  South  Carolina,  who  under 
pretence  that  the  Indian  Nations  with  whom  we  trade 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  161 

1708. 

live  within  their  Government,  take  upon  them  to  seize 
the   effects   of  our  traders   and  to  impose  high   duties 
equal    to    a    prohibition    on    all    commodity's    carryed 
thither  from  hence,  and  tihe  like  on  the  skins  brought 
back;  this  is  a  new  and  strange  pretence  that  Virginia, 
who    traded    with  these    Indians    before    the   name    of 
Carolina  was  known,  should  be  now  abridged,  especially 
since  most  of  the   Indians   with  whom  we   trade   live 
some  hundreds  of  miles   from  any  of  the   inhabitants 
of  Carolina.     (5).  We  know  of  no  illegal  trade  carryed 
on   in  this    Country,   but   for   the  more   effectual   sup- 
pressing  of  illegal   trade,   it  is   humbly  proposed  that 
proper    officers    be    appointed    to    reside    at    the    ports 
established  here  by  Act  of  Assembly  pursuant  to  H.M. 
Instructions,  or  at  such  of  them  as  Commissioners  of 
the    Customes   shall   think   fitt,    and   that   the    shiping 
may  be  directed  to  ride,   lade  and  unlade  there ;   this 
with  a  strict  charge  to  the  officers  to  be  diligent  in  the 
execution   of  their  duty  would   effectually   put  an  end 
to  all  endeavours  for  illegal  tradeing.     (6).  The  manu- 
factures   of    linnen,    woolen    and    cotton    have   of    late 
been  sett  up  for  supplying  the  pressing  necessitys  of 
the  people,  the  price  of  tobacco  being  so  low  that  for 
some    years    it    hath   not    been    sufficient   to    purchase 
cloaths    for    the    makers    thereof.     Pitch    and    tar    are 
also  made   in  this   Country  enough  to  supply  the   oc- 
casions thereof  and  to  export  a  little  to  the  West  Indies 
and  much  greater  quantitys  might  be  produced,  if  there 
were  an  encouraging  market  for  it.     (7).  The  Council 
offer  their  opinion  that  it  is  for  H.M.  service  that  the 
present   restraint    and   prohibition   on    the   takeing   up 
of  land  be  removed,  and  that  H.M.  would  supersede  the 
Instruction  to  Governor  Nott  concerning  a  new  method 
of  takeing  up  land,  because  the  tenures  of  land  in  this 
country  being  founded  on  the  Charters  to  the  Virginia 
Company,    and   afterwards    confirmed    by    the    Charter 
of  Charles  II.,   are  now  so  interwoven  with  our  laws 
that  it   is  not  possible  without  the  greatest  confusion 
to   make   the   alteration   proposed   in   that   Instruction. 
All  the  valuable   and  convenient  land   in  the   country 
is    already   taken    up    and    patented    according   to    the 
ancient  constitutions  of  the  country,  and  what  remains 
now   being  remote   from  the   conveniencys   of  trade   isi 
of    little    value,    and    only    desirable    because   there    is 
none   else   to   be   had.     According  to  the  method   pro- 
posed  in  the   said   Instruction,   there   can  be  no   such' 
thing  as  a  succession  of  inheritance  in  any  lands,  for 
supposeing    by    death    or    any    other    casualty    a    man 
should  come  to  lose  his  servants  or  slaves   for  which1 
his  land  was  granted  him,  he  must  at  the  same  time 
lose  his  land  too,  since  such  a  casualty  would  disable 
him  to  pay  the  quitt-rent  proposed,   and  so  one  mis- 

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1708. 

fortune  would  so  unavoidably  introduce  another  till 
at  last  perhaps  after  all  his  toil  his  land  will  be  taken 
away  by  a  stranger,  etc.  It  is  very  apparent  no  land 
will  ever  be  taken  up  here  on  the  termes  proposed,  so 
long  as  there  is  any  land  to  be  had  in  our  neighbouring 
Colonys  on  easier  termes,  for  since  the  Propriety  Gov- 
ernments, so  long  as  their  Charters  are  in  being, 
cannot  be  abridged  in  granting  their  lands  as  they 
please,  the  introduceing  of  this  kind  of  tenure  in  the 
Colonys  under  H.M.  Government  will  only  tend  to  the 
depopulateing  of  them,  at  least  it  can  never  be  ex- 
pected they  should  encrease  in  inhabitants  for  the 
future,  since  people  will  always  go  to  those  places 
where  they  may  have  land  cheapest,  and  have  a  cer- 
tainty of  preserving  it  to  their  posterity.  The  restraining 
the  takeing  up  land  only  to  small  tracts  will  be  very 
prejudicial  to  H.M.  interest,  for  if  only  small  parcels, 
such  as  100,  200  or  500  acres  in  a  tract  to  be  taken 
up,  it  will  follow  that  the  good  land  only  will  be 
patented,  and  the  bad  (which  may  be  reckoned  £th. 
of  all  that  is  yet  to  be  taken  up)  will  forever  remain 
wast.  Another  thing  of  great  concernment  to  H.M. 
service  and  the  advantage  of  this  Colony  would  be  to 
confine  the  trade  of  this  country  (especially  dureing 
the  war)  to  regulate  Fleets  once  a  year,  which  may 
proceed  from  England  in  the  moneth  of  September  and 
return  from  hence  in  April,  that  no  ship  be  permitted 
to  sail  to  or  from  Virginia  but  in  those  Fleets,  and 
that  a  sufficient  convoy  be  appointed  for  them.  By 
this  means  the  market  for  tobacco  would  become  certain 
and  regular,  and  would  not  be  damped  by  the  reputation 
of  interveneing  ships,  the  planters  would  be  supplyed 
with  goods  and  cloathing  before  winter,  and  their  in- 
dustry encouraged  by  haveing  something  for  their 
labour,  and  the  sickness  of  the  seamen,  and  the  danger 
of  the  worme  so  frequent  and  fatal  to  the  ships  and 
seamen  in  the  summer  prevented.  Lastly,  that  there 
be  a  sufficient  guard  appointed  for  our  coast,  which 
we  humbly  conceive  cant  be  less  than  one  ship  of  good 
force  and  another  small  vessell  of  10  or  12  guns  fitt 
to  pursue  the  enemy's  small  privateers  among  the  fflatts 
and  shoal  water ;  the  want  of  such  a  guard  has  been 
an  extraordinary  loss  to  the  trade  of  this  country  for 
these  two  years  past,  the  enemy's  privateers  inter- 
cepting almost  all  the  small  vessells  both  outward  and 
inward  bound,  and  sometimes  even  within  our  Capes 
and  in  sight  of  H.M.  ships  of  war,  who  were  too  bulky 
to  follow  such  small  light  vessells,  and  without  such 
a  guard  we  have  reason  to  beleive  not  only  our  trade 
will  be  destroyed,  but  even  the  country  plundered.  En- 
dorsed as  preceding.  4|  pp. 
216.  (ii.)  (a).  The  Visitors  and  Governors  of  the  College 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  163 

1708. 

of  William  and  Mary  to  Edmund  Jennings,  President, 
and  the  Council  of  State.  Whereas  the  General  As- 
sembly thought  fitt  to  grant  to  the  sd.  College  an 
imposition  on  all  skins  and  furrs  exported,  which  is 
one  of  the  most  considerable  branches  of  the  Revenue 
of  the  College,  and  arises  by  a  trade  for  many  years 
carryed  on  with  the  Southern  and  Western  Indians 
etc.  Complain  of  the  action  of  the  Government  of 
Carolina  as  supra.  The  Indians  concerned  are  not 
under  that  Government.  The  laying  dutys  on  European 
commoditys  exported  ^ through  any  plantation  to  an- 
other hath  never  been  encouraged.  The  goods  vended 
being  imported  by  this  Colony  directly  from  England, 
whereas  Carolina  has  constant  clandestine  trade  with 
St.  Thomas'  and  Currasoa,  and  import  European  goods 
from  thence,  if  Carolina  is  allowed  to  engross  this 
trade,  English  trade  will  suffer.  Besides  they  have 
not  such  conveniencys  of  shiping  from  England  as 
the  inhabitants  of  this  Colony  have  to  furnish  them 
with  supplys,  so  that  they  neither  export  from  England 
such  quantitys,  nor  can  afford  to  sell  them  so  cheap. 
And  since  it  is  the  interest  of  England  to  encourage 
that  trade  which  exports  most  of  the  British  manufac- 
tures, the  Trustees  humbly  hope  that  by  your  Honours' 
favourable  representation  of  this  case  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  the  unwarrantable  encroachments  of  the  Gov- 
ernment of  Carolina  will  receive  a  check  etc.  (b). 
Minute  of  Council  of  Virginia,  Oct.  28,  1708.  Resolu- 
lution  ut  supra.  E>ndorsed  as  preceding.  2^  pp. 

216.  iii.    (a).  List  of  the  Council  of  Virginia. 

(b).  List  of  persons  fit  to  supply  vacancies  in  the 
Council: — Wm.  Byrd,  Wm.  Randolph,  John  Page,  Miles 
Gary,  Wm.  Wilson,  Gawen  Corbin,  Wm.  Armistead, 
of  Gloucester,  Arthur  Allen,  Wm.  Taylor,  Wm.  Fitz- 
hugh,  Edwd.  Hill,  David  Bray.  Same  endorsement. 
2  pp. 

216.  iv.  List  of  Militia  of  Virginia,  1708.  Totals :— Captains 
and  subalterns,  1060;  horse,  2211,  dragoons,  1221, 
foot,  6140.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1316.  Nos.  16,  16.i.-iv. ; 
and  (letter  and  enclosure  1  only)  5,  1362.  pp.  369- 
382.] 

Nov.  29.  217.  Capt.  Vetch  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
As  ,to  what  your  Lops,  seem  desierous  to  be  further  informed 
of,  with  relation  to  the  numbers  of  the  inhabitants  of  Canada; 
As  to  the  French,  I  am  almost  moraly  sure  their  number  does 
not  exceed  5000,  for,  besides  the  accounts  I  have  had  from 
their  JMissonarys,  their  merchants,  their  Indian  traders,  non 
of  which  ever  aledged  them  to  be  above  that  number,  the 
present  Intendant  of  that  place,  M.  Rodot,  when  talking  with1 
toe  of  them,  and  who,  I  found,  designed  rather  to  magnify 
than  lessen  their  numbers,  sayd  that  by  the  accounts  he  had 


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1708. 

gott  from  the  Curates  of  the  severall  parishes,  he  found  them, 
to  be  full  5,000,  of  which  we  may  allow  near  one  half  to  be 
men,  there  being  but  few  French  women  there,  the  men  having 
a  reward  of  60  crowns  each  for  marying  ane  Indian  women. 
As  to  the  number  of  the  Indians  who  joyn  with  them  in  warr, 
I  cannotfc  be  so  particular,  for  they  have  a  great  many  nations 
who  trade  with  them,  who  doe  not  att  all  joyn  in  warr,  nay, 
that  never  come  within  3  or  400  miles  of  Quibeck  or  Montreal, 
such  as  the  Ottouauas,  the  Onagongoes,  the  Ilianoes,  nay,  quite 
to  Missasippi,  but  for  such  as  are  constantly  along  with  vthem 
in  warr,  I  know  only  of  five  litle  forts  (as  they  call  them), 
which  is  only  a  piece  of  ground  palisadoed  round,  in  whichj 
are  perhaps  40  or  50  Indian  familys,  living  in  wigwams,  or 
litle  hutts,  and  with  them  generaly  about  20  French!  and  ane 
Officer,  as  well  to  keep  them  firme  to  their  intrest,  as  to  manage 
their  furr  trade,  and  prevent  the  Indians  carrying  them  to 
Albany,  as  they  used  offten  formerly  to  doe.  The  names  of 
those  five  forts  I  find  (in  the  lists,  where  our  prisoners  were, 
whom  I  got  exchanged),  to  be  (1)  Fort  Covetto,  within  12 
miles  of  Quibeck;  St.  Francis  fort,  near  Trois  Biviers,  Chnack- 
nawago,  betwixt  that  and  Montreal ;  Conosadago,  about  12  miles 
above  Montreal,  and  Fort  Louis,  att  the  fals  above  that,  about 
20  miles.  All  the  judgement  I  can  make  of  their  numbers  is 
only  according  to  the  opinion  of  the  people  of  Albany,  and 
our  Five  Nations,  who  judge  the  French  fighting  Indians  to 
be  near  double  ours,  yet  not  able  to  encounter  them,  because 
not  so  warlike ;  from  whence  I  believe  they  may  be  800  or  000, 
but  so  dispersed,  that  it  would  take  them  above  a  month's  time 
to  bring  them  all  in  a  body  to  one  place.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  Nov.  29,  1708.  1  p.  [C.O.  323,  6.  No.  72;  and  324,  9. 
pp.  266-268.] 

Nov.  30.         218.     The  Queen  to  the  Attorney  or  Solicitor  General.     In- 

St.  James's,    structions  to  prepare  a  warrant  for  the  appointment  of  William 

Norris    to    be    Naval    Officer    in    Jamaica    in    place    of   Barnaby 

Jenkins,  deed.,  with  a  clause  for  obliging  him  to  reside  there, 

etc.     Countersigned,  Sunderland.      [C.O.  5,  210.     pp.  174,  175.] 

[Nov.  30.]  219.  Addresses,  Minutes,  and  Papers  relating  to  Barbados, 
presented  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  by  Messrs. 
William  Heysham  and  Mr.  Royle,  as  described  Journal  of  Coun- 
cil, Nov.  30,  1708.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  30,  Read  Dec.  1, 
1708.  28  pp.  [C.O.  28,  11.  Nos.  30-39.] 

Nov.  30.          220.     Wm.    Popple   to   the   Merchants    trading   to   Jamaica. 
Whitehall.     Gives   notice   of   correspondence   concerning   the   Jamaica   mer- 
chant fleet,  Sept.  4,  Nov.  26,  27.    q.v.    [C.O.  138,  12.    p.  349.] 

Dec    1.          221.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,     derland.     Having  during  your  Lordship's  absence  received  H.M. 
directions  from  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle  to  report  our  opinion  upon 
Capt.  Vetch's  Memorial,  we  inclose  following: — 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  165 

1708. 

221.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Report 

upon  Capt.  Vetch's  Scheme.  The  great  advantages  of 
the  Plantation  Trade  to  this  Kingdom,  and  to  your 
Majesty's  Revenue,  are  so  well  known  that  we  will  not 
presume  to  trouble  your  Majesty  with  particular  in- 
stances thereof,  yet  must  humbly  begg  leave  to  say 
that  your  Islands  in  the  West  Indies  will  not  be  able 
to  carry  on  their  trade,  or  even  to  subsist  (especially 
in  time  of  war)  without  the  necessary  supplies  from 
those  northern  Plantations  of  bread,  drink,  fish  and 
flesh,  of  caittle  and  horses  for  cultivating  their  plan- 
tations, of  lumber  and  staves  for  casks  for  their  sugar, 
rum  and  molosses,  and  of  timber  for  building  their 
houses  and  sugar  works.  As  an  inducement  to  your 
Majesty's  engaging  in  a  vigourous  attempt  upon  the 
French  in  those  parts,  we  shall  now  lay  before  your 
Majesty  a  short  view  of  the  dammages  the  said  Plan- 
tations have  sustained  by  the  neighbourhood  of  the 
French  on  that  Continent.  Quote  Capt.  Vetch  July 
27,  Nov.  17  and  29,  q.v.  We  humbly  begg  leave  to 
offer  that  it  will  highly  tend  to  the  ease  and  security 
•  of  your  Majesty's  subjects  in  America,  and  to  the 

increase  of  that  trade  so  beneficial  to  Great  Britain, 
if  the  French  be  driven  from  their  settlements  on  the 
Northern  Continent.  But  whether  the  manner  of  doing 
it  (proposed  by  Capt.  Vetch)  may  'be  proper  and  effectual 
to  that  end,  as  it  consists  of  matters  purely  military, 
we  shall  not  presume  to  judge ;  and  therefore  most 
humbly  submit  the  same  to  your  Majesty.  [C.O.  324, 
9.  pp.  268-289;  and  (covering  letter  and  part  of  en- 
closure only)  5,  1084.  Nos.  39,  39. i.] 

[Dec.  1.]  222.     Alexander  Walker  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

tations. Reply  to  the  complaint  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados 
against  him.  Of.  Dec.  3,  and  Journal  of  Council,  Nov.  30, 
Dec.  1.  Endorsed,  Reed,  from  Mr.  Gillibrand,  Read  Dec.  1, 
1708,  Enclosed, 

222.  i.  Petition  of  Alexander   and  William   Walker  to  Gov- 

ernor Crowe  for  a  public  examination  into  the  reasons 

for  the  commitments  of  George  Lillington  and  Richard 

Downs,  etc.     No  such  order  could  be  obtained.     Aug. 

31,    1708.     1^   pp. 
222.  ii.  Minutes   of  Assembly  of   Barbados,   Aug.    31,   1708. 

2  pp. 
222.  iii.  Petition    of   Wm.    Sharpe,    Alexander    Walker,    and 

Samuel  Beresford  to  Governor  Crowe,  for  a  Council  to 

be    held    this    day.     Sept.    1,    1708.     H.E.     refused. 

Signed,    William    Sharpe,    Alexander    Walker,    Samuel 

Beresford.     1  p. 
222.  iv.  Address   of  the   Assembly  of  Barbados   to  Governor 

Crowe.     Duplicate.      3   pp. 
222.  v.  Address   of   the   Assembly   of   Barbados    to   Governor 


166  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

Crowe  for  the  dismissal  of  Alexander  Walker  from  the 
Council  for  having  been  bribed  by  Mr.  Holder  to 
promote  the  Paper  Act.  Aug.  31,  1708.  Copy.  2  pp. 
[C.O.  28,  11.  Nos.  24-29.] 

Dec.  2.  223.  Commodore  Mitchell  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  arrived  safe 
Falmouth,  with  all  my  fleet  at  Newfoundland  May  13,  and  sail'd  from; 
Warwfck  Newfoundland  Oct.  23  following,  and  parted  with  the  Advice, 
Looe,  and  Nightingall  the  24th,  they  being  bound  for  the 
Streights  and  the  Winchelsea  for  Oporto.  The  store-ships  ar- 
rived a  day  or  two  before  I  sailed,  and  is  arrived  safe  at 
Falmouth,  Nov.  25,  and  I  have  here  sent  an[d]  account 
of  all  my  proceedings  in  Newfoundland,  etc.  When  I 
received  my  commission  from  H.M.,  I  immediately  summoned 
all  ye  inhabitants,  masters  of  ships,  soldiers  and  all  others  in 
St.  Johns  to  appear  in  Fort  William,  and  to  give  me  an 
acct.  of  what  alligations  they  had  against  the  Major,  which  will 
be  laid  before  their  Honors  in  a  short  time.  Signed,  Jno. 
Mitchell.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  6th,  Read  9th  Dec.,  1708.  Addressed. 
Sealed.  Postmark.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

223.  i.  Answers  to  Heads  of  Enquiry  relating  to  Newfound- 
land, '(See  March  12,  1708).  (1).  There  being  no  penal- 
ties in  the  Act,  'tis  amongst  ye  inhabitants  invalued. 
(3).  35.  (4).  None.  (5)  and  (6).  No  complaint  was 
made  to  me  as  to  this.  (7).  The  by-boat  keepers  and 
fishing  ships  do  carry  over  such  number  of  green 
men  as  they  are  capable  to  get,  and  acquaint  me  that, 
att  the  entry  of  them  on  board,  do  according  to  the 
Act,  but  never  can  produce  me  any  certificate  of  the 
same.  (8)  and  (9).  These  articles  are  observed.  (10). 
I  did  not  know  any  case.  (11).  The  rules  are  observed 
as  far  as  do  consist  by  their  way  of  trade.  (12).  The 
Admiralls  are  carefull  to  see  yt.  the  Rules  of  the  Act 
be  discoursed  on,  provided  it  does  not  touch  a  Customer, 
and  they  gave  me  Journalls  and  an  acct.  of  the  fishery. 
(13).  If  any  difference  doth  arise  where  each  AdmiralTs 
customer  is  concerned,  there  will  be  a  difference  between 
them  all,  but  without  appealing  to  me,  they  do  agree 
among  themselves.  (14).  They  are  very  carefull  in 
carrying  their  press  stones  and  ballace  ashoar,  and  not 
filling  the  harbour  up.  (15).  They  do  not  go  a-fishing 
on  ye  Sabbath  day  till  4  of  ye  clock  in  the  afternoon, 
nor  att  Church,  tho'  I  allways  sent  musqueteers  att 
ye  Lords  of  ye  harbour  to  compell  them,  but  it  being 
the  only  victualling  day,  and  all  ye  houses  in  St. 
Johns,  both  inhabitants  and  boat-keepers,  sell  all  sorts 
liquour,  they  are  forced  by  a  file  of  musqueteers  to 
pay  ye  Minister.  (16).  New  England  people,  French 
Prodestants  and  Dutch  privateers  this  year  did  resort 
thither.  (18).  All  the  inhabitants,  boat-keepers  and 
fishing  ships  do  cure  their  fish  wth.  the  best  salt  they 
7?i..  can  get,  and  make  the  most  fish  they  can.  (19).  The 


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1708. 

inhabitants  in  curing  their  fish  in  St.  John's  harbour, 
with  their  offells,  does  not  annoy  ye  said  harbour,  nor 
does  it  annoy  them.  (20).  The  planters  and  inhabi- 
tants have  no  other  sustenance  than  what  they  get 
out  of  their  own  gardens.  They  have  nothing  from 
any  of  ye  neighbouring  islands.  They  that  belongs 
to  ye  fishery  att  ye  northward,  after  they  have  done, 
goes  a-furring,  but  what  quantity  they  get  I  know  not, 
but  what  they  have  or  bought  by  the  New  England  - 
men.  (21).  The  inhabitants  have  their  salt  provissions 
from  England  and  Ireland,  and  their  necessaries  for 
fishing  likewise,  and  their  fresh  provisions  from  New 
England.  (22).  The  New  Englandmen  bring  from  New 
England  sugar,  rum  and  Molossus,  and  ye  same  from 
Barbados;  by  which  means  the  fishermen  never  want 
liquor.  (23).  I  do  not  know  of  any  Europian  com- 
modities brought  from  anywhere  else  but  England  and 
Ireland.  (24).  These  are  disposed  off  among  the  in- 
habitants, seamen,  fishermen  and  ye  New  England  sloops 
and  brigganteens.  (25).  No  Plantation  commodity  dur- 
ing my  time  was  brought,  except  tobacco,  sugar,  mo- 
losses  and  rumm,  wch.  was  disposed  off  there.  (28). 
The  value  of  fish  14s.  per  quintal,  ye  train  oyl  £14 
per  tunn,  the  fish  went  for  Portugal  and  Spain,  the 
train  oyl  for  England.  (30).  Men  carried  from  Brit- 
tain  to  stay  or  come  home  as  their  masters  pleases. 
(31).  The  number  of  the  French  inhabitants  att  Pla- 
centia,  which  I  have  understood  by  my  flag  of  truce 
I  sent  thither,  are  about  500,  besides  what  belongs 
to  ye  garrisons,  wch.  is  about  100  men. 

I  did  endeavour  to  prevent  all  the  irregularities  which 
was  mentioned  in  ye  Additionall  Instructions,  and  do 
not  know  of  any  other  Europian  commodities  that  came 
to  Newfoundland  than  what  came  from  England,  except 
one  ship  from  Spain  and  ye  Queen's  pass  not  to  be 
molested.  Ye  old  boome  being  broken,  I  stretched  a 
cable  across  to  find  ye  breadth,  110  fathoms.  Signed, 
Jno.  Mitchell.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  6th,  Read  9th  Dec., 
1708.  3|  pp. 

223.  ii.  List  of  harbours  in  Newfoundland,  inhabitants,  (names 
given)  boats,  and  fishing  returns,  1708.  Totals : — Boat- 
keepers,  240;  wives,  114;  children,  251;  servants,  1554; 
boats,  291;  skiffs,  76;  train-fats,  240;  quintalls  of 
fish,  95574;  tuns  of  train-oil,  533.  9  pp. 

223.  iii.  (a).  List  of  the  Masters  of  fishing  ships  (names 
given)  and  the  state  of  their  fishery  in  Newfoundland, 
1708.  Totals :— Commanders,  49;  ships,  49;  burthen 
in  tuns,  5135;  men,  838;  guns,  148;  boats,  170; 
train-fats,  52;  quintals  of  fish,  40,450;  tuns  of  train- 
oil,  242.  (b).  List  of  running  galleys  (26),  sack  ships 
(7),  American  vessels  (15),  men  of  war's  prizes  (5), 
merchantmen's  prizes  (9),  Dutch  privateers  (3),  Dutch 


168  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1708 

privateers'  prizes  (9),  with  their  tunnage  and  equip- 
ment. 6  pp. 

223.  iv.  Abstract  of  the  Fishery  (as  above).  Total  quintals 
of  fish:— 135,934.  Decrease  in  1708;  9  ships,  107 
men ;  Increase  in  1708 : — 73  boats,  15,252  quintals  of 
fish ;  1124  hhds.  train  oyl ;  556  inhabitants.  1  p. 

223.  v.,vi.  Duplicates  of  ii.  and  iii.,  with  slight  variations. 
The  whole  endorsed-,  Reed.  6th,  Bead  9th  Dec.,  1708. 

223.  vii.  Capt.  Vane  to  Commodore  Mitchell.  St.  Johns,  Oct. 
28,  1708.  Describes  requirements  for  the  Boom  etc. 
Signed,  E.  Vane.  1£  pp.  Enclosed, 

223.  viii.  List  of  necessaries  required  for  the  Boom.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  6th,  Read  9th  Dec.,  1708.  £  p. 

223.  ix.  Major  Lloyd's  Account  of  Provisions  for  Fort  William 
and  South  Castle  in  St.  John's.  Sept.  30,  1708.  En- 
dorsed as  preceding.  2  pp. 

223.  x.  A  state  of  the  provisions  remaining  in  Newfoundland, 
as  surveyed  by  order  of  Commodore  Mitchell,  June  29 
and  Oct.  15,  1708.  Sicpied,  Jno.  Mitchell.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Dec.  6,  1708.  7  pp. 

223.  xi.  List  of  provisions  allowed  to  men  (names  given) 
sent  out  upon  sundry  occasions,  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
6th,  Read  9th  Dec.,  1708.  11  pp. 

223.  xii.  Number  of  days  for  which  the  men  have  been  vic- 
tualled. Sept.  30,  1708.  Same  endorsement.  5  pp. 

223.  xiii.  Account  of  Ordnance  Stores  in  Fort  William  and 
South  Castle.  Oct.  4,  1708.  Same  endorsement. 
Printed.  3  pp. 

223.  xiv.  Account  of  Stores  wanting  for  Newfoundland  garri- 
son, 1709.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

223.  xv.  Muster-roll  of  the  Company  at  Newfoundland,  July 

25,  1707— Aug.  2,  1708.  The  major,  2  lieutenants,  3 
sergeants,  2  drummers  and  80  privates.  Signed,  Jno. 
Mitchell,  Tho.  Lloyd,  Tim.  Gully.  Same  endorsement. 
1  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  76,  76i.-xv. ;  and  (with  en- 
closure i.  only}  195,  5.  pp.  60-67.] 

Dec.  3.          224.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall.     derland.     Enclose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M.     Autograph 
signatures.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

224.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Repre- 

sentation upon  the  complaints  of  Messrs.  Sharpe, 
Walker  and  Beresford.  Recommend  that  Governor 
Crowe  be  required  to  give  an  immediate  answer  thereto 
etc.  Set  out,  Acts  of  Privy  Council,  II.  pp.  574,  575.. 
[C.O.  29,  11.  pp.  337-340;  and  (without  enclosure) 
28,  38.  No.  74.] 

Dec.  3.          225.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,     derland.     Enclose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M. 

225.  i.  Council     of     Trade     and    Plantations    to    the    Queen. 

Recommend   Timothy   Salter   to   be   of  the   Council   of 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  169 

1708. 

Barbados,  in  the  room  of  Patrick  Mein,  who  does  not 
intend  to  return  thither.     [C.O.  29,  11.     pp.  341,342.] 

Dec.  3.  226.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
.WMtehall.  derland.  Enclose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M.  in  Council. 
226.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Re- 
port upon  petition  of  Thomas  Pindar  for  passes  for 
Spanish  ships  (See  Sept.  17,  Oct.  26).  The  Assiento 
trade  having  been  found  of  very  great  advantage  to 
this  Kingdome,  and  to  your  Majesty's  American  Plan- 
tations (while  the  same  was  carryed  on  in  those  parts), 
it  were  to  be  wished  that  it  might  be  resettled  there, 
whereby  your  Majesty's  subjects  wou'd  sell  their  negroes 
to  the  Spaniards  for  bullion,  and  have  the  benefit  of 
that  navigation  by  exporting  the  said  negroes  in  ships 
belonging  to  your  Majesty's  subjects.  Such  a  settle- 
ment of  that  trade  may  be  impracticable  during  the 
present  war;  however,  the  promoting  and  settling  the 
Assiento  trade  in  Barbadoes  as  proposed  by  the  peti- 
tioner may  be  of  such  advantage  to  this  Kingdom  and 
to  your  Majesty's  Plantations,  (tho  thereby  the  trade 
will  not  be  so  profitable  as  formerly)  that  under  the 
present  state  of  affairs.,  we  shou'd  not  object  to  your 
Majesty's  granting  the  passes  desired,  were  it  not  that 
we  find  the  same  cannot  be  granted  without  dispensing 
with  part  of  the  Act  of  Navigation  12  Car  II.  cap.  18, 
whereby  'tis  provided  "that  no  goods  or  commodities 
whatsoever  shall  be  imported  into,  or  exported  out  of 
any  lands,  islands,  plantations  or  territories  belonging 
to  your  Majesty  in  Asia,  Africa  or  America  in  any 
other  ship  or  vessell,  but  in  such'  as  does  belong  to. 
your  Majesty's  subjects  of  this  Kingdom,  or  Irland, 
or  are  of  the  built  of  and  belonging  to  any  of  the 
said  lands,  islands,  plantations  or  territories,  as  the 
Proprietors  or  right  owners  thereof,  and  whereof  the 
Master  and  fth  of  the  mariners  at  least  are  subjects  of 
this  Kingdom"  (which  number  of  fths  is  by  a  late  law 
reduced  to  one  half  during  the  present  war)  under  the 
penalty  and  forfeiture  both  of  ship  and  goods,  and 
by  the  said  Act  it  is  further  provided  that  no  alien 
etc.  not  naturalised  shall  exercise  the  trade  of  a  merchant 
or  factor  in  any  of  the  said  places  upon  pain  of  for- 
feiture of  all  his  goods,  etc. 

In  1689  a  proposal  for  encouraging  and  settling  the 
Assiento  trade  in  the  Plantations  was  presented  to 
their  late  Majesty's  by  the  Boyall  Affrican  Company, 
wherein  were  contained  some  propositions  in  substance 
the  same  with  what  is  now  offered  by  the  petitioner, 
which  having  been  referred  to  the  Judges,  Nov.  17, 
1689,  they  certifyed  their  opinion  to  be  that  negroes 
are  merchandize,  that  it  is  against  the  Act  of  Navi- 
gation to  give  liberty  to  any  alien  not  made  a  denizon 


170  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

to  trade  in  any  of  the  said  Plantations,  or  for  any 
shipping  belonging  to  aliens  to  trade  or  export  negroes 
from  thence,  or  for  aliens  to  trade  there.  Wherefore 
since  that  trade  cannot  be  carryed  on  in  the  manner 
proposed  by  the  petitioner  without  dispensing  with  the 
Act  of  Navigation  made  for  the  general  good,  and 
increase  of  the  shipping  and  trade  of  this  Kingdom, 
we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  it  is  not  adviseable  for 
your  Majesty  to  grant  the  passes  desired  by  him. 
[C.O.  29,  11.  pp.  332-336.] 

Dec.  4.  227.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Jamaica,  tations.  I  am  favoured  with  your  Lops,  of  July  13,  A.ug.  4  and 
13,  Aprill  15,  and  June  25.  As  to  the  stores  of  war,  amunition 
etc.,  which  your  Lops,  are  pleased  to  require  accounts  of,  I 
shall,  take  care  as  soon  as  I  can  possibly  get  them  from  the 
remote  parts  of  the  Island  to  send  them  to  you,  as  well  as 
the  Board  of  Ordnance.  I  acquainted  your  Lops,  in  my  last 
of  a  vessell's  being  seized  by  the  Navall  Officer,  according 
to  my  orders  and  the  advice  of  the  Attorney  Genii.,  the  person 
that  took  her  not  having  a  commission,  wihich  practice  is  a 
great  encouragement  to  other  roguerys.  Since  that  the  Navall 
Officer  haa  been  sued  by  Col.  Thompson,  one  of  the  owners 
of  the  periago.  I  have  writt  to  H.R.H.  of  the  same  to  desire 
his  Instructions,  as  I  do  your  Lops.,  how  I  shall  behave  myself 
in  this  and  the  like  cases  for  the  future.  I  likewise  gave  a-n 
Account  of  a  boat  that  was  taken  by  two  of  our  privateers, 
and  that  she  had  on  board  her  between  £30,000  and  £40,000,  but 
I  understand  since  that  there  was  in  coined  and  uncoin'd  gold 
ajid  silver  200,000  pieces  of  eight.  Nov.  28  came  in  here  a 
fflagg  of  truce  from  St.  lago  upon  Cuba,  which  I  must  confess 
I  was  not  very  well  pleased  with,  she  brought  12  English 
prisoners  and  carried  away  28  Spanish  prisoners.  I  understand 
by  a  letter  to  Admirall  Wager,  that  the  French  are  fitting  out 
a  squadron  to  make  an  attempt  against  this  Island.  I  hope 
it  will  only  prove  a  report,  as  we  have  had  severall  such  within 
these  7  years,  but  if  their  design  is  in  earnest,  you  shall  h.ear 
they  shall  buy  it  inch  by  inch,  with  the  best  of  their  blood; 
let  their  numbers  be  what  they  will,  I  hope  that  will  never 
daunt  our  resolutions.  Our  sloops  are  now  almost  all  returned 
from  the  Spanish  coast,  and  trade  has  of  late  been  very  dead, 
the  Spniards  pretending  they  have  not  mony.  I  have  received 
by  this  packett  boat  43  recruits.  The  Island  has  been  for  this 
month  very  sickly,  and  severall  people  have  died,  but  now  I 
thank  God  it  grows  pretty  healthy  again.  I  am  now  to  desire 
the  favour  of  your  Lops,  interest  towards  the  relief  of  me  and 
H.M  Regiment  under  my  command.  It  is  the  humble  request 
of  the  officers  and  private  men  as  well  as  myself e,  and  since 
H.M.  was  4  years  ago  graciously  pleased  by  a  proclamation  to 
promise  the  relief  of  her  Regiments  in  these  parts  every  3 
years,  which  time  we  have  exceeded  4  years,  I  hope  we  may 
expect  not  to  be  deny'd.  And  as  to  my  own  particular,  I  have 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  171 

1708. 

in  my  long  service  to  his  late  Majesty'  King  William,  and  her 
present  Majesty  received  so  many  wounds  and  had  the  fatigue 
of  severall  cold  campaigns,  that  the  whole  frame  of  my  nature 
is  decay'd,  which  makes  me  the  more  pressing.  Here  having 
been  two  French  privateers  upon  our  coast,  one  of  which  has 
taken  off  a  man,  as  we  suppose,  for  intelligence  upon  some 
design  the  French  have  to  invade  us,  I  have  by  the  advice 
of  the  Councill,  been  obliged  to  lay  an  imbargo  on  all  ships 
and  vessells  for  10  days,  till  we  inform  ourselvs  what  prepara- 
tions the  enemy  is  making.  Admirall  Wager  on  my  giving  him 
notice  of  these  privateers  sent  out  two  men  of  war  after  them, 
one  of  which  he  has  likewise  ordered  to  cruize  off  the  French 
and  Spanish  coast,  and  endeavour  to  get  off  a  man  from  thence 
to  learn  what  they  are  doing,  and  whether  they  have  any  design 
this  way.  I  hope  the  imbargo  will  be  of  no  prejudice  to  the 
trade,  since  it  is  for  so  short  a  time.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd. 
Endorsed,,  Eecd.  19th  Jan.,  Read  23rd  Feb.,  1708.  3f  pp*. 
[C.O  137,  8.  No.  29;  and  138,  12.  pp.  363-366.] 

Dec.  5.  228.  Governor  Cranston  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Newport  on  tations.  Report  upon  import  of  negroes,  in  reply  to  letter 
Rhoad  Island.  of  April  lg  lagt>  (1)  We  haye  not  had  ^  negroeg  impOrted 

from  June  24,  1698— Dec.  25,  1707.  (2).  On  May  30,  1696 
arrived  at  this  port  from  Africa  the  briganteen  Sedflower,  Thomas 
Windsor,  master,  haveing  on  board  47  negroes,  14  of  which  he 
disposed  of  in  this  Colony  for  betwixt  £30  and  35  per  head, 
the  rest  he  transported  by  land  for  Boston,  where  his  owners 
lived.  (3).  Aug.  10,  and  Oct.  19  and  28,  1700,  sailed  from  this 
port  3  vessels  directly  for  the  coast  of  Africa,  the  two  former 
were  sloops,  the  one  commanded  by  Nicholas  Hillgrove,  the 
other  by  Jacob  Bill,  the  last  a  ship  commanded  by  Edwin  Carter, 
who  was  part  owner  of  the  3  vessels  in  company  with  Thomas 
Bruster  and  John  Bates,  rnerc'hts.  of  Barbados,  and  separate 
traders  from  thence  ttf  the  coast  of  Africa.  They  arrived  safe 
to  Barbados  from  the  coast  of  Africa,  where  they  made  the 
disposition  of  their  negroes.  (4).  Wee  have  never  had  a-ny 
vessels  from  the  coast  of  Africa  to  this  Collony,  nor  any  trad 
there,  the  briganteen  abovementioned  excepted.  (5).  The  whole 
and  only  suply  of  negroes  is  from  Barbados,  from  whence  is 
imported,  one  year  with  another,  betwixt  20  and  30,  and  if 
those  arrive  well  and  sound,  the  generall  price  is  from  £30 
to  £40.  We  have  advised  with  the  chieffest  of  our  Planters, 
and  find  but  small  incouragement  for  that  trade  to  this  Colony, 
since  by  the  best  computation  wee  can  make,  there  would  not 
be  disposed  in  this  Colony  above  20  or  30  at  the  most  annually/ 
the  reasons  of  which  are  chiefly  to  be  attributed  to  the  generall 
dislike  our  Planters  have  for  them,  by  reason  of  theire  turbulent 
and  unruly  tempers.  And  that  most  of  our  'Planters  that  are 
able  and  willing  to  purchase  any  of  them,  are  supplyed  by  the 
offspring  of  those  they  have  already,  which  increase  daly,  and 
that  the  inclination [s]  of  our  people  in  generall  are  to  imploy 
servants  before  negroes,  etc.  Sic/nerf,  Samll.  Cran[-s£on].  En- 


172  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

dorsed,  Eecd.  May  23,  Read  Dec.   12,  1709.     Holograph.     1  pj. 
[0.0.  5,  1264.     No.  90;  and  5,  1292.     pp.  187-189.] 

Dec.  5.  229.  Same  to  Same.  Acknowledges  letters,  etc.  May  14, 
Newport  on  Upon  the  reciept  of  said  packett,  I  forthwith  convean'd  H.M. 
Ehoad  Island.  Councill,  by  whose  approbation  and  advice  I  caused  H.M.  In- 
structions with  the  Acts  of  Parliament  to  be  published,  the 
which  wee  will  not  be  wanting  to  see  duly  complyed  with,  etc., 
notwithstanding  that,  as  we  are  linkt  to  the  Province  of  the 
Massachusetts  (particularly  to  the  Towne  of  Boston)  as  to  our 
traffic!:  and  dealing  together,  wee  cannot,  without  great  .incon- 
veniency  and  prejudice  differ  from  them  in  the  valuation  and 
rates  of  foreigne  coine.  Therefore,  if  wee  should  suspend  that 
matter  about  the  coine,  till  wee  can  see  or  understand  what 
meth[~o<&:  or  steps]  they  will  take  in  that  Province,  I  hope 
H.M.  and  your  Lordsh[i/>s  will  pardon]  us.  I  do  not  give  your 
Lordships  this  intimation  by  any  order  from  [the  Colony],  but 
as  my  owne  sentiments,  etc.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding. 
Holograph.  Edges  torn.  1  p.  [O.O.  5,  1264.  No.  91;  anid 
5,  1292.  pp.  189-191.] 

Dec.  5.  23O.  Same  to  Same.  Your  Lordships'  letter  of  May  7, 1707 
Newport  on  came  not  to  my  hands  till  the  latter  end  of  July  last,  upon 
Rhoad  Island.  tho  reciept  wnereof,  with  the  advice  of  H.M.  Councill  of  this 
Colony,  I  caused  the  Act  of  Parliment  for  the  Union  of  the 
Kingdoms  to  be  published  in  the  towne  of  Newport,  the  Metro- 
polis of  this  H.M.  Colony,  at  the  same  time  causing  the  Milissia. 
of  the  Island  to  be  in  armes  for  the  greater  solemnity  thereof, 
and  after  the  publication  concluded  the  same  with  three  vollies 
of  small  armes,  and  the  discharge  of  what  cannon  wee  had 
att  ye  Fort  and  Towne,  which  was  seconded  with  loud  acclama- 
tions of  joy,  etc.  In  October  last,  it  being  the  first  meeting 
of  the  Generall  Assembly  after  the  reciept  of  your  Lordships' 
letter,  I  communicated  the  same  to  them,  who  ordered  me  to 
give  you  the  best  information  I  could  in  answerr  etc.  (1).  As 
to  the  state  of  this  H.M.  Colony,  since  the  present  war,  it  has 
ple&sed  the  Almighty  thro'  his  infinite  mercy  and  goodness 
(upon  our  indvours)  to  preserve  us  from  the  assaults  of  the 
common  enemy,  tho'  not  without  great  charge  and  oxpence,  in 
keeping  watches  and  wards  upon  the  sea  coast,  and  scouts  upon 
the  land  side  into  the  cuntry,  our  lying  so  open  to  the  assaults 
and  attempts  of  the  enemy  by  sea  doth  also  occation  often  and 
frequent  alarums,  which  doth  also  create  great  charge.  This 
Colony  are  also  at  considerable  charge  and  troble  in  maintaning 
(during  ye  summer  season)  a  cota  of  men  at  Block  Island  for 
the  defence  thereof.  I  presume  your  Lordships  is  fully  informed 
of  cur  frequent  expeditions  by  sea,  in  order  to  secure  our  coast 
from  being  infested  with  the  enemy's  privateers,  haveing  in  our 
last  given  a  full  account  thereof,  as  well  as  our  great  charge 
in  assisting  H.E.  Col.  Dudly  in  his  expedition  to  or  against 
Port  Royall.  Wee  had  frothing  material!  that  hapned  the  last 
summer,  save  one  expedition  on  Sept.  8,  upon  intiligetice  given 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  173 

1708. 

me  by  an  express  from  Martin's  vinyard  of  a  privateer  that  had 
taken  a  sloop  and  chased  a  briganteen  on  shbare  upon  said 
Island.  I  dispatched  (within  3  howrs)  two  sloops  under  the 
command  of  Major  William  Wanton  and  Capt.  John  Cranston. 
The  enemy  fearing  our  sudden  expedition  (they  being  wnll 
acquainted  of  our  dispatch  upon  such  occations)  burnt  his 
prize  and  made  the  best  of  his  way  into  the  sea,  so  as  our 
people  could  not  get  any  sight  of  him,  tho'  they  made  pursuit 
after  him  about  24  howres  that  way,  which  they  was  informed 
he  directed  his  course.  (2).  As  to  the  strength  and  defence 
of  this  Colony,  it  chiefly  consists  (under  the  Providence  of 
God)  in  our  good  look-outs,  our  expedition  [by  sea],  and  in  our 
milissia,  the  which  consists  of  all  mails  from1  [16  to]  60  years 
of  age,  who  are  obliged,  at  theire  owne  charge,  to  be  [always 
provided  with  a  good  firelock,  musket  or  f  usea,  a  sword  or  bagonet, 
[catouch  box]  with  one  pound  of  good  powder,  and  41b.  of 
bullets,  who  are  to  [be  ready  upon]  any  alarrum,  or  other  ex- 
petion  or  service,  to  repaire  to  theire  ensign  fs  at  their]  respective 
/places  of  randisvouse,  to  attend  such  orders  as  they  shall 
r[ecieve]  from  theire  superier  officers,  etc.,  the  which  obligations 
and  orders  is  u[pon  all  occasions']  very  chearfully  and  readily 
obeyed  and  complyed  with,  so  that  what  is  [before  premised,] 
in  our  Milissia  consists  the  strength  of  [this  Colony  it  ftgm<y 
impossible  for  us  to  forti]fi.Q  ourselves  so  as  to  keep  an  enemy 
[/rom  enlring  into  our  Bay  and  rivers,  or  to  obstruct]  there 
landing  in  most  places  in  the  Co\[ony,  tho'  we  have  a  small 
fort  upon  an  Island]  that  covers  the  harbour  of  Newport, 
whi[c/*J  is  mounted  with1  15  pieces  of  ordnance  from]  6  to  9 
pound  ball,  and  is  a  security  [to  our  navigation  and  the  aforesaid 
town  against]  any  small  force.  (3).  As  to  the  administration 
of  Justice,  wee  have  two  generall  courts  of  tryalls,  which  is  on 
the  last  Tuesday  in  March  and  the  first  Tuesday  in  September 
annually,  att  which  Courts  are  tryed  all  actionall  and  crimonall 
causes  hapning  within  said  Collony,  where  the  Laws  of  England 
are  approved  of,  and  pleaded,  to  all  intents  and  purposes, 
without  it  be  in  some  perticuler  acts  for  the  prudentiall  affaires 
of  the  Colony,  and  not  repugnant  to  the  Laws  of  England'. 
(4).  As  to  the  number  of  inhabitants,  etc.,  I  enclose  a  list  in 
as  truo  and  exact  a  manner  as  I  could  procure  it  from  the 
severall  townes.  (5).  As  to  trade  and  ships  etc.,  I  enclose  a 
list.  (6).  As  to  what  commodeties  exported  from  this  Colony 
to  England,  and  'how  said  Colony  is  now  supplyed  with  any 
manufacturies  that  it  was  wont  to  be  supplyed  with  from  Eng- 
land, this  Colony  niver  had  any  direct  trade  to  or  from  Engiland, 
nor  any  supply  directly  from  thence,  but  what  commodeties  any 
of  the  *  inhabitants  have  had  to  export  for  England,  hath  bin 
exported  by  way  of  Boston,  where  there  returns  are  also  made, 
and  from  whence  wee  have  and  are  cheifly  supplyed  with  the 
manufactury  of  England,  and  it  is  computed  that  not  less  then 
£20,000  in  cash  hath  bin  annually  (for  some  years  past)  remitted 
from  this  Colony  to  Boston  upon  that  account.  (7).  As  to  the 
methods  taken  to  prevent  illegall  trade,  wee  have  a  Collector  and 


174  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

Controler  ;of  H.M.  Customes  isetled  by  the  Hon.  the  Commissrs.  iin 
this  Colony,  and  a  navell  officer  by  the  Governer,  who  take  all 
due  methods  and  care  they  can  by  serening  and  inspecting 
the  severall  cargoes  imported,  and  putting  the  severall  masters 
upon  theire  oaths,  etc.  Wee  have  had  no  trade  to  any  place 
but  Corrico  that  could  give  us  any  suspicion  of  illegal!  trade, 
but  that  trade  is  at  present  wholy  laid  aside  by  our  traders, 
so  that  I  know  of  no  other  place  that  they  have  any  trade 
to  or  from  that  can  give  us  grounds  to  suspect  any  fraud.  Your 
Lordships  may  assure  yourselves  that  all  due  methods  will  be 
taken,  as  there  may  be  occation,  to  prevent  and  suppress  any 
illegall  trade,  that  may  hereafter  be  managed  by  any  of  our 
traders,  and  that  what  orders  wee  shall  at  any  time  recieve  from 
your  Lordships  will  be  punctually  and  duly  observed  etc.  (8). 
As  to  the  number  of  vessels  built  in  this  Colony,  wee  are  not 
capable  to  informe  your  'Lordships,  by  reason  there  hath  bin 
no  list  ever  kept  till  since  the  Act  for  registring  hath  bin  in; 
force,  from  which  time  you  have  an  exact  account  in  the  inclosed 
list.  (9).  As  to  the  increase  or  decay  of  the  trade  of  this 
Colony  of  late  years,  [it  cTjoth  appeare  that  about  20  years  past 
wee  had  not  above  4  or  5  vessels  that  did  belong  to  this  Colony, 
wch.  hath  since  gradually  increased  to  29.  The  reason  of  which 
increase  (as  I  apprehend)  is  chiefly  to  be  attributed  to  the, 
inclination  the  youth  on  Bhoad  Island  have  to  the  sea ;  the 
land  on  said  Island  being  all  taken  up  and  improved  in  small 
farmes,  so  that  the  farmers,  as  theire  families  increase  are 
compePd  to  put  their  children  to  trades,  but  their  inclinations 
being  mostly  to  navigation,  the  greater  part  betake  themselves 
to  that  imployment,  so  that  such  as  are  industrious  and  thrifty, 
as  they  get  a  small  [stock  beforehand,  improve  it  in  getting  part 
of  a  vessel,  as~]  many  of  the  tradesmen  [in  the  town  of  Neivport 
also  doth  for  the  benefit  of  their  clhiMren  that  are  bred  to 
navigation,  in  which  town  consists  the  Chiefest  of  our  navigation, 
not  above  2  or  3  vessels  belonging  to  all  the  Colony  besides.'] 
One  other  cause  of  the  increase  of  our  trade  is,  that  it  has 
pleased  God  to  protect  them  from  the  hands  of  the  enemy,  so 
that  they  have  not  lost  above  two  or  three  vessels  taken  this  war, 
they  being  light  and  sharp  for  runners,  so  that  very  few  of 
the  enemy  privateers  in  a  gaile  of  wind  will  rong  or  outsaile 
one  of  our  laded  vessells.  The  Colony  is  putting  the  severall 
acts  of  Assembly  in  a  method  for  the  press,  as  soone  as  it 
can  be  accomplished  will  not  faill  in  sending  your  Lordships 
a  copy  of  the  whole,  and  will  according  to  your  Lordships' 
command  transmit  yearely  accotts.  of  there  administration,  and 
additionall  Acts  of  Assembly  as  opertunity  will  present.  Thus 
may  it  please  your  Lordships  you  have  the  most  exact  and 
imperciall  account  I  am  capable  of  giveing  you  at  this  time, 
tho'  my  plaine  and  homely  method  of  wrighting  may  not  be 
so  acceptable  and  intiligable  to  your  Lordships  as  it  ought  to 
bee ;  yet  I  will  depend  so  far  upon  your  Lordships'  goodness, 
that  you  will  pardon  my  rudeness  therein,  and  accept  my 
good  will  and  inclination  to  serve  H.M.  and  your  Lordships 


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1708. 

with  all  faithfullness  and  integrity,  to  the  best  of  my  capasity 
and  abillity,  and  that  you  will  believe  me  to  be  H.M.  loyall  and 
dutifull  subject.  Signed,  Saml.  Cranston.  Endorsed,  Reed.  23rd 
May,  Read  Dec.  12,  1709.  Holograph.  2|  pp.  Edges  lorn. 
Enclosed, 

230.  i.  List  of  Inhabitants  of  Rhode  Island,  Dec.  5,  1708. 
Totals:  Freemen,  1015;  Militia,  1362;  White  servants, 
56  ;  black  servants,  426.  Total  inhabitants,  7181.  There 
was  no  list  of  inhabitants  ever  taken  before.  The 
Milissia  hath  increased  since  Feb.  14,  170f,  the  number 
of  237.  Signed,  Saml.  Cranston.  1  p. 
230.  ii.  Number  of  vessels  built  in  Rhode  Island  1698—1708; 
Ships,  8,  briganteens,  11,  sloops  84.  Belonging  to 
Rhode  Island,  1708  ; — briganteens,  2,  sloops,  27.  Exports 
to  Jamaica,  Barbados,  Nevis,  Antigua,  St.  Kitts,  Mont- 
serrat — lumber,  beef,  pork,  butter,  cheese,  onions,  horses, 
candles,  cider.  Imports  thence,  shuger,  molasses,  cot- 
ten,  ginger,  indico,  piemento,  rum,  English  goods,  both 
wollens  and  linnins,  sweeds,  and  Spanish  iron.  Exports 
to  Bermuda,  Bahama  Islands,  and  tfie  Salt  Islands 
(Salt  Tertudoes  and  Turks  Islands) — rum  and  pro- 
visions. Imports  thence, —  salt,  and,  from  Bahamas, 
braziletto.  Exports  to  Carolina, — Rum,  sugar,  mo- 
lasses, butter,  cheese.  Imports  thence, — Rice,  pitch, 
pork,  peltry,  walnut  wood,  bearskins  and  deerskins. 
Exports  to  Virginia  and  Maryland, — Rum,  molasses, 
butter  and  cheese.  Imports  thence, — pork,  wheat  and 
English  goods.  Exports  to  Pensilvane,  Jarseys,  and 
New  Yorke, — Rum,  butter,  cheese  and  money.  Imports 
thence, — flower,  wheat,  bisquet,  drest  leather  and  bacon, 
and  (from  New  York)  rigging.  Exports  to  Connecticut, 
— rum,  shuger,  molasses,  New  England  iron.  Imports 
thence, — grain,  flax,  pork,  boards,  tar,  pitch,  turpentine, 
rosin.  Exports  to  Massachusetts  Bay, — butter,  cheese 
and  money.  Imports  thence, — all  sorts  of  European 
commodities.  Exports  to  Madera  and  Fyall, — shoes, 
wheat,  Indian  corn,  wax  and  money.  Imports  thence, 
— wine.  Exports  to  Surinam,  —  provisions,  butter, 
cheese,  onions  and  horses.  Imports  thence,  Molasses. 
Exports  to  Curacoa, — provisions,  boards,  butter,  cheese 
and  onions.  Imports  thence, — pieces  of  eight,  salt,  and 
caccao.  Number  of  seafaring-men  belonging  to  Rhode 
Island, — 140.  Signed,  Saml.  Cranston.  Endorsed  as 
letter.  1  p.  [C'.O.  5,  1264.  Nos.  92,  92.i.,ii.;  and 
(without  enclosures)  5,  1292.  pp.  192-199.] 

Dec.  8.  231.  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
WMtehall.  tations.  Encloses  petition  of  Bermuda  for  the  removal  of  Mr. 
Jones  from  the  employment  of  Secretary  and  Provost  Marshall. 
You  are  to  hear  their  Agents  upon  those  complaints  which  they 
alledge  have  not  been  fully  heard,  and  report  thereon.  I  am 
also  commanded  to  refer  to  your  consideration  a  petition  of  the 


176  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1708. 

Island  for  leave  to  load  and  unload  their  vessels  in  the  country, 
eto.  Signed,  Sundjerland.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  9th,  Read  13th  Dec., 
1708.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

231.  i.  Deposition  of  Justices  of  Bermuda  that  Governor 
Bennett  never  did  insinuate  and  direct  us  to  pro- 
pose to  our  Tribes  or  Parishes  any  particular 
person  to  he  a  Mtember  of  Assembly.  Signed,  George 
Darrell,  Danl.  Jonson,  Eobert  Burchhall,  Saml.  Sher- 
lock, Willm.  Tucker,  Wm.  Outerbridge,  Eichd.  Gilbert, 
Francis  Jones,  Tho.  Burton,  John  Dickinson,  Henry 
Tucker,  f  p.' 

231.  ii.  Deposition  of  Charles  Minors  that  Lt.  Governor  Ben- 
nett has  not  received  or  demanded  any  of  the  fees 
or  perquisites  of  the  Secretary's  Office.  Nov.  20,  1707. 
Signed,  Cha.  Minors.  Sealed.  1  p. 

231.  iii.  Petition  of  Council,  Assembly,  Judges,  Justices,  Offi- 
cers and  Inhabitants  to  the  Queen,  praying  that  Mr. 
Jones  may  not  be  restored  to  his  Offices  in  the  Island. 
460  signatures.  Endorsed),  Eecd.  9th,  Eead  13th  Dec., 
1708.  Seal.  3  large  pp.  sewn  together. 
231.  iv.  Same  to  Same.  Pray  that  they  may  not  be  restricted 
to  loading  and  unloading  their  ships  and  vessels  at  the 
Town  or  Castle  Harbour  at  St.  Georges.  This  In- 
struction w>s  intended  in  the  time  of  the  Proprietors 
to  secure  them  the  duty  of  Id.  per  Ib.  on  Tobaccoy 
which  was  then  made  in  great  quantitys.  Lately,  the 
land  is  so  extreamly  impoverished  that  it  will  not 
produce  tobacco  as  formerly,  and  the  inhabitants  do 
not  plant  it,  it  being  much  cheaper  to  buy  from  Vir- 
ginia. But  they  still  labour  under  the  same  Instruction, 
"which  hathj  in  a  great  measure  already  and  if  con- 
tinued will  be  the  utter  ruin  of  the  unhappy  Petitioners, 
whose  subsistance  is  chiefly  by  navigation."  The  chief 
product  of  the  Island  is  provisions,  but  not  more  than 
f-ths.  of  what  is  required,  their  small  vessels  supplying 
the  rest,  which  for  want  of  commodities  here,  generally 
go  from  hence  empty  to  the  Salt  Ponds,  and  bring  salt 
here  to  be  landed  in  their  store-houses,  till  they  have 
an  opportunity  of  transporting  it  again  (it  being  at 
such  a  time  of  year  that  they  cannot  carry  it  to  the 
Northern  Plantations)  and  then  return  to  the  Salt 
Ponds  for  another  load,  which  tihey  carry  to  Carolina, 
Eoanoak,  Virginia,  Maryland,  Pensilvania,  New  York, 
and  New  England,  and  bring  back  Indian  corn,  bread, 
flower,  pork,  etc.  They  must  be  ruined  if  they  cannot 
land  at  their  own  store-houses  (which  are  a  great 
distance  generally  from  the  harbours),  and  having  no 
conveniency  of  land-carriage,  are  obliged  to  transport 
everything  in  small  open  boats.  The  inhabitants  not 
dwelling  in  towns  as  in  England,  but  everyone  on 
his  little  Plantation  most  persons  haveing  a  convenient 
harbour  for  boats  near  their  own  dwellings.  In  the 


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177 


1708. 


Dec    8. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  9. 


Dec.  9. 

Ciaven 
Reuse. 


Dec.  9. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  11. 

St.  James's. 

Dec.  11. 

Ci  aven 
House. 


Dec.  11. 

Ciaven 
Hcuse. 


beginning  of  the  winter,  before  the  salt  season  comes  on, 
our  vessels  do  transport  hence  great  quantitys  of  cab- 
bages, and  at  ot|her  times  onions  (which  the  poorer 
sort  of  people  do  plant)  to  several  parts  of  the  West 
Indies,  and  return  from  thence  with  English  goods, 
sugar,  rum,  mellasses,  and  cotten,  of  which  last  a  great 
part  of  our  apparel  is  made;  all  which  must  also  be 
unloaded  in  one  of  the  aforemention'd  harbours.  Such 
perishable  exports  as  cabbages  and  onions  must  be 
loaded  near  where  they  grow  etc.  462  signatures.  En- 
dorsed as  preceding.  Seal.  3  large  pp.  sewn  together. 
[C.O.  37,  8.  Nos.  73,  73.i.-iv. ;  and  (without  enclos- 
ures) 38,  6.  p.  432.] 

232.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose  loyal  Address  from  the  Governor  and  Council 
of  Antigua  to  H.M.     [C.O.  153,  10.     p.  246.] 

233.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and   Plantations.     Reply  to    Nov.    10.     This   was   not   done    by 
any  order   from   us :   But  the    Secretary  and   Attorney   General 
of  Our  Province  are  coming  over  by  this  Virginia  Fleet,  which' 
is  now  daily  expected,   and  immediatly  after  their  arrival,   we 
shall  lay  the  whole  grounds  of  tlhe  premisses  before  your  Lord- 
ships. Signed,  Craven,  Palatine ;  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton, 
John  Danson.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  Read  Dec.  10,  1708.    Addressed. 
Sealed.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  1264.     No'.  52;  and  5,  1292.     p.  70.] 

234.  The  Lords  Proprietors'  Commission  to  Edward  Tynte, 
Governor  of  N.  and   S.   Carolina.     Set  out,  N.C.    Col.   Rec.   I. 
694.     [C.O.    5,   289.  •  pp.    158-160.] 

235.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Since  our  Representation   (Dec.   1),  we  have  received 
a  letter  from  the  Lord  Cornbury  (Aug.  20)  wherein  many  things 
are  .contained,  showing  the  advantage  and  facility  of  expelling 
the  French  out  of  Canada ;  which  being  of  the  like  nature  with 
what  has  been  proposed  by  Capt.  Vetch,  we  inclose  an  extract, 
'which  your    Lordp.    will   please   to   lay   before    H.M.    with   our 
aforesaid  Representation.     £C.O.  5,  1121.     p.  355.1 

236.  H.M.  Warrant  for  Francis  Phipps  to  be  of  the  Council  at 
St.    Christophers.      [C.O.    5,   210.     p.    123.] 

237.  The   Lords    Proprietors'    Commission   and   Instructions 
for    Edward    Hyrne,    Naval    Officer    of     S.    Carolina.      Signed, 
Craven,  Palatine,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J.   Colleton,  J.  Danson. 
[C.O.  5,  289.     pp.  156,  157,  193.] 

238.  The   Lords    Proprietors'    Commission    and   Instructions 
to  William   Saunders  to  be  Attorney  and  Advocate  General  for 
South  Carolina.     Signed,  Craven,  Palatine,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley, 
J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson.      [C.O.  5,  289.     pp.  161,  185-187.] 

Wt.  11522.  C  P  12 


178 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1708. 
Dec.  11. 


Dec.  11. 

Craven 
House. 


Dec.  11. 

Craven 
House. 


Dec    13. 


Dec.  13. 

Kingston. 


239.  The   Lords   Proprietors'    Commission   and   Instructions 
to   Nathaniel    Sale  to   be  Eeceiver   General  of    South   Carolina. 
Signed  as  preceding.      [O.O.   5,  289.     pp.   161,   188-190.] 

240.  The    Lords    Proprietors'    Commission   to    the    Honble. 
Eobert  Gibbs,  Esq.  to  be  Chief  Justice  of  South  Carolina.    Signed 
as  preceding.     [O.O.   5,  289.     pp.  208,  209.] 

241.  Sir  John  Colleton's  Patent  for  4423  acres  in  Carolina, 
Mulberry  Plantation,  upon  the  Western  branch  of  Cooper  Eiver. 
Signed,    Craven,    Palatine ;    Beaufort,    M.    Ashley,    J.    Colleton, 
J.  Danson.     Dec.  11,  170|    (sic).     [O.O.  5,  289.     p.  204.] 

242.  Col.  John  Frere  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    Son  of  the  late  Tobias  Frere,  petitioner  is  a  J.P.  of 
Barbados,  Col.  of  the  best  regiment  of  horse  and  was  bred  and 
born  there,  etc.     Prays  to  be  appointed  Councillor  in  place  of 
Col.    Eichard    Scot,    who   has    been    5f  years    absent   from    hjs 
post.     Endorsed,  Eecd.   Eead  Dec.   13,   1708.     f  p.     Enclosed, 

242.  i.     Certificate  in  favour  of  Col.  J.  Frere.     Signed,  Eob. 

Lowther,  Eob.  Heysham,  Eichard  Diamond,  Eichd. 
Tilden,  Edw.  Lascelles,  Jos.  Mayne,  Matt.  Matson, 
Manasses  Gilligan.  1  p.  [O.O/  28,  11.  Nos.  41, 
41.i.  ;  and  29,  11.  pp.  347-349.] 

243.  Tho.   Mitchell  and  Eichd.   Basnet  to  Mr.   Milner  and 
Mr.  Morris.     Opinion  of  the  Planters  and  Merchants  of  Jamaica 
on  the  African  Trade.     The  attempts  of  the  African  Company 
to  get  the  wholesale  trade  to  Guinea  into  their  own  hands  ex- 
clusive of  all  ye  rest  of  ye  Queen's  subjects,  has  put  us  under 
ye  apprehensions  of  being  thereby  intirely  ruined  in  this  Island 
for   want   of   negroes   to   supply   and   improve   our    Plantations. 
We  have  now  many  persons  in  ye  Island  that  sell  negroes  on 
accott.    of    separate    traders,    and    give    considerable    credit    for 
them  to  the  great  benifit  and  improvement  of  our   Plantations, 
and  if  we  cannot  purchase  at  a  reasonable  rate  of  one  person, 
we  can  goe  to   another,   but  if  ever  this  trade  be   put  into  ye 
hands   of  an   exclusive   Company,   we   shall  then   have   but  one 
person   to   purchase   of,    and   must  give  his   price,    be   what   it 
will,  or  elce  let  our  settlements  goe  to  ruin  for  want  of  negroes 
to    cultivate   our    land,    which   will   not   admit    of   the   plow   or 
anything  elce,  but  a  number  of  hands  to  improve  it.     When  a 
Company   or   single    person    have    ingrost   any   perticular   trade 
intirely  into  their  own  hands,  they  will  certainly  endeavour  to 
manage    it   soe    as    to    yeild    ye   greatest    proffit    with   ye    least 
risque    to    themselves,    whatever   ye    publick    or    any    perticular 
place    suffer   by    it.     If   the    Affrican    Company   obtain    an    ex- 
clusive Act  for  ye  Guinea  Trade,  ye  fewer  negroes  they  import 
into  ye  Colonies,  the  dearer  they  will  be  sold,   and  noe  doubt 
they  may  raise  them  to  £50  a  peice,  by  not  importing  into  all 
ye  Plantations  above   5000   head  per  annum,  wch.   if  sold  but 
at  £40  per  head,  it's  plain  the  Company  will  get  as  muoh  proffit 


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179 


1708. 

as  by  importing  25,000  at  £20.  etc.,  etc.,  elaborated.  Also,  an 
exclusive  company  will  deprive  us  of  a  great  part  of  ye  benifit 
we  hope  to  reap  by  ye  union,  for  that  part  of  ye  Kingdom 
formerly  called  Scotland  will  be  intirely  excluded  from  ye  trade, 
and  SOB  will  all  other  parts  of  H.M.  Dominions  except  London, 
and  therefore  it  cannot  be  supposed  that  ever  ye  Parliament 
will  give  up  ye  right  which  all  ye  people  of  Great  Brittain 
and  ye  Plantations  have  to  this  trade  into  ye  hands  of  a  monopo- 
lizeing  Company  to  ye  destruction  of  ye  Colonies  and  general 
damage  of  ye  whole  Kingdom,  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  8th,  Read 
9th  Feb.  170f.  2  pp.  [(7.0.  388,  11.  No.  111.] 

Dec.  14.          244.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Col. 

Whitehall.  Richard  Scot,  one  of  the  Council  of  Barbadoes,  having  been  near 
six  years  in  this  Kingdom,  and  having  from  time  to  time  promised 
your  Majesty's  late  Commissioners  for  Trade  to  return  to  his 
post,  and  having  lately  declined  attending  us  in  order  to  our 
being  informed  of  his  final  resolution,  we  are  humbly  of  opinion 
that  it  is  not  for  your  Majesty's  service  that  the  Counsellors 
should  be  permitted  to  be  so  long  absent  from  their  duty,  and 
therefore  offer  that  your  Majesty  dismiss  him  and  appoint  John 
Frere  (Dec.  13)  in  his  stead.  [O.O.  29,  11.  pp.  350,  351.] 

Dec.  14.          245.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Parke. 

Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letters  of  Aug.  23,  24.  We  shall  take  into  con- 
sideration the  list  of  negroes  imported,  which  you  have  sent  us, 
but  you  have  not  fully  observed  the  directions  we  gave  you, 
Aprill  15,  to  consult  some  of  the  principal  planters  and  inhabi- 
tants within  your  Government  touching  the  negro  trade,  and 
particularly  what  number  of  negroes  they  might  think  necessary 
for  the  annual  supply  of  the  Leeward  Islands ;  this  therefore  we 
expect  you  will  do  by  the  first  opportunity.  As  to  your  refusing 
to  swear  Mr.  Perry,  who  was  chose  one  of  the  Assembly,  for 
not  being  a  freeholder,  we  can  only  say,  that  where  there  is 
no  law  to  direct  in  any  particular  case,  then  we  think  it 
safest  for  you  to  follow  the  antient  custome  of  the  Island,  and 
we  think  that  the  Assembly  is  the  proper  Judge  of  the  qualifi- 
cation of  their  own  Members.  None  of  the  complaints  which 
you  mention  have  jet  been  laid  before  us.  When  they  shall  be, 
we  shall  then  consider  the  answers  you  make  thereunto.  In 
the  meantime,  we  can  only  assure  you  that  no  impressions  to 
your  prejudice  will  be  made  upon  us,  till  you  have  been  heard. 
We  have  considered  the  Bill  past  by  the  Assembly  of  Antegoa, 
for  ascertaining  and  declaring  the  elections  of  Representatives, 
etc.,  as  also  the  Bill  drawn  up  by  the  Councill.  The  Lt. 
Governor  and  Councill  were  muc'h  in  the  right  in  not  passing 
the  Assembly's  Bill,  which  is  of  such  a  nature  as  wou'd  not 
have  been  approved  by  H.M.  As  to  the  Bill  prepared  by  the 
Councill,  we  have  this  observation  to  make,  that  in  the  clause 
which  appoints  the  method  and  time  for  chusing  Assembly 
men,  there  ought  to  be  a  direction  that  due  and  reasonable 
notice,  of  the  respective  days  of  election  be  affixed  in  the  most 


180 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 

publick  places  of  the  Island.  We  must  further  take  notice  that 
the  last  clause,  relating  to  the  Assembly's  right  to  hear  greivances, 
ought  to  be  omitted,  for  we  find  that  an  Act  that  was  past 
at  Barbadoes,  relating  to  the  Election  of  Eepresentatives,  having 
the  very  same  clause  in  it,  was  for  that  and  other  reasons  re- 
pealed. What  we  writ  you,  June  25,  concerning  seizures,  did 
arise  from  what  you  had  writ  Oct.  22,  1707,  quoted,  so  you 
may  sec-  that  what  wee  writ  was  not  without  ground.  We  shall 
expect  your  answer  to  the  third  and  fourth  paragraphs  of 
.  [y]our  letter  of  June  25  relating  to  the  Acts  for  quartering  of 
soldiers  etc.,  and  to  getting  of  a  law  past  for  the  better  regulating 
of  Courts.  When  you  transmit  to  us  the  list  of  Patent  places 
which  we  have  writ  to  you  for,  we  desire  you  to  inform  (us 
whether  there  be  an  oatlh.  of  office  annexed  to  any  of  the 
said  places,  and  if  so,  whether  the  Patentees  have  taken  that 
oath  or  no.  [C.O.  153,  10.  pp.  247-250.] 

Dec    15.          246.     Hans  Hantenaar  to  the  Directors  of  the  Dutch  West 
[N.S.]      India   Company.     Signed,   Hans.    Hantenaar.      With  enclosures. 
Middelburgh.  Dutch.     2  pp.      [C.O.   116,   20.     Nos.    16,    16.  i.  //.] 

Dec.  15.  247.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor 
Whitehall.  Handasyd.  Acknowledge  letter  of  Sept.  24.  As  to  Mr.  Whit- 
church's  petition,  H.M.  having  declared  her  pleasure  in  that 
matter,  we  shall  add  nothing  more  thereupon.  Your  care  in 
getting  private  intelligences  is  very  commendable,  and  tho  your 
reasons  for  not  laying  before  the  Assembly  your  disbursments 
upon  that  account  be  good,  yet  we  doubt  not  but  you  know 
where  and  how  to  make  the  proper  application  here.  It  was  not 
for  any  disregard  to  your  recommendation  that  Mr.  Francis 
Oldfield  was  not  put  into  •  the  Councill,  but  upon  account  of 
others  standing  before  him  upon  our  lists,  who  were  equally 
well  qualifyed,  but  as  we  writ  you,  Nov.  25,  Mr.  Oldfield  being 
now  the  first  person  upon  our  list,  we  shall  be  mindful  I  of 
him  upon  the  first  vacancy.  We  have  considered  what  you 
write  about  Mr.  Totterdale's  behaviour  towards  the  Attorney 
Generall,  and  do  think  the  Court  ought  to  have  asserted  its 
own  authority  in  punishing  any  contempt  in  Court,  which  power 
is  incident  to  every  Court  of  Justice.  We  shall  expect  an 
account  of  the  tryal  of  the  ship  which  you  say  was  seized  for 
the  Queen  for  having  been  taken  without  a  legal  Commission. 
The  reason  for  restoring  Mr.  Barrow  to  the  practice  of  the 
Law  in  Jamaica  was,  that  Mr.  Barrow  having  been  once  ad- 
mitted by  the  Courts,  he  has  an  undoubted  right,  and  ought 
to  enjoy  the  liberty  of  practicing  as  a  lawyer  till  convicted 
of  such  misbehaviour  in  his  said  practice  as  shall  amount  to  a 
forfeiture  of  such  right.  Upon  the  receipt  of  your  foremen- 
tioned  letter,  we  immediately  gave  notice  to  the  Admiralty  of 
what  you  writ  in  relation  to  the  Jamaica  fleet  coming  home  ;  and 
we  received  an  answer  from  thence  that  care  was  taken  therein 
and  some  ships  of  war  gone  out  to  meet  them.  In  your  letter 
transmitting  the  account  of  Negroes  you  have  ommitted  to 


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1708. 

acquaint  us  whether  you  had  consulted  the  principal  Planters 
and  inhabitants  in  your  Government,  relating  to  the  Negroe 
trade,  and  particularly  what  number  might  be  annually  necessary 
for  the  supply  of  Jamaica.  We  therefore  desire  that  you  will 
consult  the  said  inhabitants  and  Planters  upon  this  matter,  and 
that  you  do  acquaint  us  therewith  by  the  first  opportunity. 
We  desire  you  to  inform  us  whether  there  be  an  oath  of  office 
annexed  to  any  of  the  patent  places,  and  if  so,  whether  the 
patentees  have  taken  that  oath  or  no.  [C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  350- 
352.] 

Dec    15.          248.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Crowe. 

Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letter  of  Aug.  18.  What  we  writ  in  relation  to 
the  dissolution  of  the  Assembly,  was  occasioned  by  what  you 
had  said,  March  1,  which  not  being  so  clearly  expressed  as  it 
ought  to  have  been,  we  were  thereby  misinformed.  If  they  did 
sit  out  their  full  time  as  limited  by  their  Act,  you  are  no  ways 
blamable  in  that  matter.  We  are  in  hopes  that  the  Assembly 
will  raise  the  necessary  funds  for  compleating  of  Fort  St.  Anne, 
which,  if  they  do,  will  be  of  good  service.  You  acquaint  us 
that  most  of  the  publick  accounts  are  stated ;  we  shall  expect 
that  you  transmit  to  us  copies  thereof  as  soon  as  possible. 
As  to  what  you  write  about  two  convoys  a  year  for  the  trade 
of  Barbadoes,  that  matter  being  before  H.M.  by  an  Address 
from  the  Assembly,  if  H.M.  be  pleased  to  refer  the  same  to 
us,  we  shall  then  report  our  opinion  thereupon.  In  the  mean- 
time we  shall  only  say,  that  if  the  circumstances  of  the  war 
would  permitt,  it  seems  a  thing  desireable,  but  at  present  we 
fear  it  will  be  difficult  to  obtain.  In  answer  to  what  you  write 
that  the  Act  for  incouraging  the  trade  to  America  has  taken 
from  the  Governors  the  power  of  pressing  seamen  for  H.M. 
service,  [which]  will  occasion  several  inconveniences,  we  can 
only  say  that  there  are  such  provisions  in  the  Act  for  this 
matter,  that  we  hope  the  same  will  answer  the  end.  In  the 
list  of  Patent  Offices  which  you  have  sent  us,  you  have  not 
mentioned  the  Secretary's  Office,  nor  told  us  the  value  thereof, 
which  we  expect  therefore  you  will  do  by  your  next,  its  also 
that  you  inform  us  whether  there  is  an  oath  of  office  annexed 
to  any  of  the  said  offices,  and  if  so,  whether  the  Patentees 
have  taken  that  oath  or  no.  We  have  received,  (Aug.  18)  the 
Address  from  the  Assembly  to  yourself,  and  observe  that  they 
complain  that  the  deposit  money,  and  other  grievious  extortions 
in  the  Register's  Office  of  the  Court  of  Chancery  are  not  yet 
refunded :  nor  the  symoniacal  dispositions  of  the  Church  livings 
in  Sir  B.  Granville's  time  inquired  into.  These  are  things 
which  you  ought  to  have  done,  arid  which  therefore  we  shall 
expect  from  you.  In  your  letter  transmitting  the  account  of 
negroes,  you  have  omitted  to  acquaint  us  whether  you  had 
consulted  the  principal  Planters  and  inhabitants  in  your  Govern- 
ment relating  to  the  negroe  trade,  and  particularly  what  number 
might  be  annually  necessary  for  the  supply  of  Barbadoes,  we 
therefore  desire  that  you  will  consult  the  said  inhabitants  and 


182  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

planters  upon  this  matter,  and  that  you  do  acquaint  us  therewith 
by  the  first  opportunity.  We  observe  that  one  of  the  matters 
contained  in  the  charge  against  you  is,  that  you  gave  way  to 
the  Assembly's  ordering  the  Treasurer  to  dispose  of  publick 
monies  to  be  laid  out  in  presents;  which  we  look  upon  to  be 
contrary  to  your  Instructions,  and  a  practice  which  you  ought 
by  no  means  to  have  allowed.  P.S.  Since  our  writing  the 
above  letter,  we  have  receved  one  from  Col.  Sharp,  Mr.  Walker, 
and  Mr.  Beresford,  dated  Oct.  11,  transmitting  to  us  their 
remarks  upon  the  Assembly's  Address  to  you  against  them,  which) 
reminds  us  what  you  writ,  Sept.  6,  that  you  will  transmit  your 
answer  to  their  complaints  by  the  first  oppotunity,  and  we 
cannot  but  take  notice  that  the  packet-boat  which  sailed  from 
Barbadoes  Sept.  25,  and  the  ship  which-  brought  us  the  above- 
mentioned  letter  of  Oct.  11,  are  two  opportunities  you  have 
omitted.  By  the  first  you  had  17  days  from  the  date  of  the  said 
letter,  and  by  the  last  35  days  to  make  your  answer.  The  charge 
against  you  being  of  so  high  a  nature,  and  which,  you  knew 
was  sent  over  to  us  in  order  to  it's  being  laid  before  H.M., 
it  is  very  extraordinary  you  did  not  think  yourself  enough 
concern'd  to  make  your  answer  in  that  time.  [C.O.  '29,  11. 
pp.  352-356.] 

[Dec.  16.]  249.  The  present  state  of  the  Tobacco  Plantations,  etc. 
Before  the  present  war,  France  and  Spain  annually  took  off  near 
20,000  hhds.  of  Virginia  and  Maryland  tobacco;  but  of  late 
both  those  Kingdoms  have  been  otherwise  supply'd.  The  troubles 
in  Sweden,  Poland,  Russia,  etc.,  have  prevented  the  usual  ex- 
portations  of  great  quantities  of  tobacco  to  those  parts.  Virginia 
and  Maryland  have  severely  felt  the  loss  of  such  exportations, 
having  so  far  reduc'd  the  Planters  that  for  several  years  past 
the  whole  product  of  their  tobacco  would  hardly  clothe  the 
servants  that  made  it,  notwithstanding  the  ready  and  earnest 
endeavours  of  the  Lords  Commissioners  of  Trade,  etc.,  to  prevent 
such  mischiefs,  and  encourage  the  tobacco-trade.  This  hath 
produc'd  two  effects.  (1)  Some,  in  hopes  of  better  success, 
have  continued  planting  till  they  have  run  themselves  so  far 
in  debt  that  they  have  been  forc'd  to  sell  part  of  their  land 
and  servants,  to  secure  the  rest.  (2).  Others,  out  of  meer 
necessity,  have  fallen  into  the  manufacturing  of  woollen,  cotton, 
flax,  leather,  etc.  Which  they  have  brought  to  such  perfection, 
that  four  whole  counties,  and  part  of  several  others,  not  only 
clothed  themselves,  but  sold  great  quantities  of  the  same  manu- 
factures to  other  neighbouring  counties.  These  Plantations  of 
Virginia  and  Maryland,  in  times  of  peace,  yearly,  (and  in  the 
war,  in  fleets)  have  taken  off  not  less  than  the  value  of  £300,000 
sterl.  in  the  woollen  and  other  manufactures  of  this  Kingdom; 
and,  in  return,  send  the  product  of  their  labour,  tobacco; 
which  pays  annually  to  the  Crown  above  £400,000  Customs,  ex- 
clusive of  what  is  drawn-back,  by  debenture,  on  exportation. 
Wherefore  it  is  humbly  hop'd,  a  general  liberty,  and  further 
encouragement  may  speedily  be  given  for  the  exporting  of  to- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  183 

1708. 

bacco.  and  all  other  products  of  the  Plantations,  and  manu- 
factures of  Great  Britain  not  counterband,  for  France,  etc., 
to  prevent  the  impending  ruin  of  the  Plantations,  and  regain 
the  advantagious  trade  of  sending  the  woollen  and  other  manufac- 
tures of  Great  Britain  to  those  Colonies,  which  otherwise  must 
annually  decrease.  Note.  The  establishing  of  woollen  and  other 
manufactures  in  America  will  not  only  lessen  the  planting 
tobacco,  but  consequently  very  much  diminish  the  revenue  and 
navigation  of  this  Kingdom.  Endorsed,  Becd.  Read  Dec.  16, 
1708.  Printed.  1  p,  [C.O.  5,  1316.  2Vo.  8;  and  5,  716, 
No.  55.] 

Dec.  17.  25O.  Attorney  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Report  upon  Act  of  Nevis  (1704)  for  es- 
tablishing of  Courts,  etc.  (Of.  Aug.  24,  1708).  I  am  of  opinion 
that  the  said  Act  is  not  in  all  respects  such'  as  ought  to  be 
allowed  of  by  H.M.,  notwithstanding  there  be  in  it  very  many 
u^efull  clauses;  for,  in  the  first  place,  tho'  it  be  very  fit 
to  have  sucji  a  number  of  judges  as  are  therein  constituted,  and 
it  .may  be  convenient  that  they  should  be  appointed  by  the 
C.  in  C.  of  the  Leward  Islands,  yet  it  will  be  certainly  better 
for  the  Crown  to  have  it  still  in  their  power  to  direct  hjow 
they  shall  be  commissionated  from  time  to  time;  For  H.M.,  who 
is  the  Fountain  of  Justice,  ought  alwayes  to  have  it  in  her 
power  to  appoint  who  shall  be  judges ;  and  tho  for  her  ease 
she  often  delegates  that  power  to  her  Governors  in  Chief,  yet 
it  may  not  be  convenient  to  have  that  power  annexed  to  the 
office  of  C.  in  C.  by  an  Act  of  Assembly,  especially  when  the 
Act  gives  the  judges  as  ample  powers  and  jurisdictions  as  the 
judges  in  Westminster  Hall  have  in  their  respective  Courts  in 
England,  without  reserving  liberty  of  appeal  to  H.M.  here  in 
England.  In  the  next  place  it  is  in  my  opinion  not  fitting  to 
fix  the  Courts  to  be  holden  at  any  one  particular  place;  for 
tho  Charles  Town  be  the  most  convenient  place  at  present  for 
such  Assemblies  to  be  holden  at,  yet  it  may  be  visited  with 
a  plague,  or  may  be  in  the  possession  of  enemies  or  rebells ; 
and  tho'  it's  said  the  power  of  adjourning  the  said  Courts  shall 
be  discretionary  in  the  judges,  yet  it  may  be  questioned  here- 
after whether  it  be  left  to  their  discretions  to  appoint  another 
place  for  holding  the  Courts  by  adjournment,  it  not  being  said 
in  the  Act  that  they  may  adjourn  to  such,  other  places  as  they 
shall  think  fitt.  Thirdly,  'tis  enacted  that  all  actions  shall  be 
enter'd  in  the  Secretarye's  Office  10  dayes  before  the  holding 
such  respective  Courts,  and  the  Plaintiff  must  give  the  Deft., 
or  his  Attorney  copyes  of  "his  charge  within  3  dayes  after  the 
entring  dayes  are  over,  when  perhaps  the  Deft,  has  not  appeared, 
and  is  not  to  be  mett  with.  Fourthly,  the  summons  for  to 
compell  Defts.  to  appear  is  to  be  issued  forth  by  the  judges,  before 
whom  there  is  no  cause  depending;  for  the  actions  are  to  be 
enter'd  in  the  Secretarye's  Office,  and  from  thence  the  summons 
ought  to  issue  and  be  made  returnable  before  the  judges  as  our 
originall  writs  are,  which  are  taken  out  of  Chancery  and  made 


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1708. 


Dec    17. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  18. 

New  York, 


returnable  in  the  Queen's  Bench  or  Common  Pleas.  Fifthly, 
it  sayes  the  Deft,  or  his  Attorney  must  be  summoned  full  six 
dayes  before  the  sitting  of  the  Court,  and  served  at  the  same 
time  with  a  copy  of  the  Plaintiff's  declaration,  which  restrains 
the  serving  process  within  the  compass  of  3  dayes,  for  the  copyes 
of  the  charge  must  not  be  delivered  till  after  the  entring  dayes 
are  over,  and  the  entring  dayes  continue  till  within  10  dayes 
of  the  sitting  of  the  Court;  so  that,  if  the  summons  must  be 
served,  and  the  copy  of  the  declaration  must  be  delivered  six 
dayes  before  the  sitting  of  the  Courts,  there  cannot  be  more  than 
three  or  four  dayes  for  finding  out  the  Deft.  But  to  ease 
this  difficulty  'tis  enacted,  sixthly,  that  leaving  a  note  at  the 
usuall  abode  of  the  Deft,  shall  be  as  effective  as  a  personall 
summons  ;  and  if  a  Deft,  be  absent  from  ye  Island,  having 
made  no  Attorney,  his  effects  in  the  Island  shall  be  as  lyable 
to  the  Plaintiff's  suit  as  if  the  Deft,  had  appeared,  that  may  be 
hard  on  the  Defts.,  since  their  effects  can't  make  the  defence 
that  might  be  made  by  the  party  himselfe.  Seventhly,  'tis 
enacted  that  issues  shall  be  tryed  the  same  Court  they  are 
pleaded,  which  may  be  very  inconvenient  to  both  partyes,  for 
perhaps  neither  of  their  wittnesses  may  at  that  time  be  forth- 
coming. Eighthly,  it  requires  the  appraisers,  that  appraize  goods 
upon  an  execution,  to  be  sworne  by  the  Judge  that  signed  the 
execution,  or  in  his  absence  by  the  next  to  him  in  Commission, 
wch.  restrains  the  giving  such  oathes  to  two  Judges,  whereas 
the  officer,  that  is  entrusted  with  the  execution,  may  administer 
such  an  oath  as  well  as  any  judge.  Ninethly,  'tis  enacted  that 
all  fees  belonging  to  any  officer  of  any  of  ye  Courts  are  to 
be  levyed  by  attachmt.  to  be  signed  by  ye  first  judge  on  ye 
Bench  without  any  other  suit,  woh.  may  encourage  ye  officers 
to  exact  ffees  of  ye  suitors  ;  therefore  upon  ye  whole  I  am 
of  opinion  that  this  Act  ought  not  to  be  established  one  of 
ye  Laws  of  ye  said  Island.  Signed,  Ja.  Mountague.  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  Read  Dec.  20,  1708.  4  pp.  [(7.0.  152,  8.  A7o.  2; 
qnd  153,  10.  pp.  250-254.] 

251.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Recommend   Mr.    Christopher    Rhodes    for    the    office 
of  Secretary  of  one  of  the  Plantations  when  a  vacancy  occurs, 
he,  being  a  person  of  good  capacity  and  integrity,  having  given 
a  general   satisfaction  as    Secretary   to   the   Nevis   Commission, 
and  having  been  bred  up  in  business  etc.     [C.O.  389,  36.     py. 
372,    373.] 

252.  Governor     Lord    Lovelace    to    the    Council    of    Trade 
and    Plantations.     I    do    myselfe   the   honour    to   acquaint    your 
Lordships  that  I  very  happily  arrived  here  this  morning,  having 
been  9  weeks  and  odd  days  in  my  passage,  the  Kinc/sale  in  which 
I  came,  being  separated  from  the  fleet,  got  into  "Buzard's  Bay 
in   New   England,   and  getting  pilots  there,  gained  our  passage 
through   the    Sound    between   Long    Island   and   the   Main,    and 
landed  at  Flushing.     I  do  not  yet  hear  of  the  arrivall  of  any 


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185 


1708. 


Dec,  18. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  18. 

Admiralty. 
Office. 


Dec.  18. 

London. 


Dec    18. 

Whitehall. 


other  ship  of  our  fleet,  except  the  Unity,  which  struck  on  the 
Bank  at  Sandy  Hook.  She  was  left  by  all  her  seamen,  but  has 
since  got  off,  and  is  gone  to  sea  again.  Wee  have  not  since 
heard  of  her,  but  hope  she  is  safe,  having  two  good  pilots  from 
hence  on  board.  Our  winter  sets  in  very  hard,  ye  ports  and 
rivers  &re  full  of  ice.  I  am  in  pain  for  the  Germans  and 
recruits  on  board  the  Globe,  they  wanting  water,  and  the  weather 
not  permitting  us  to  assist  them.  This  coast  is  so  terrible 
in  the  winter,  I  think  no  ship  ought  to  be  sent  hither  from 
England  after  August  at  farthest.  Our  poor  seamen  were  so 
benummed  with  cold,  that  at  last  wee  had  but  25  men  fitt 
to  do  any  duty,  and  had  not  the  soldiers  whidh  wee  had  on 
board  assisted,  the  ship  had  been  in  great  danger.  I  shall  take 
care  to  send  the  dispatches  I  have  for  the  severall  Governours 
on  the  Continent,  and  to  conforme  myselfe  to  the  severall 
Instructions  I  have  received  from  your  Lordships.  Signed, 
Lovelace.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  4th  April,  1709.  2  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  101 ;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  365,  366.] 

253.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchett.  Encloses  extract  from 
'Col.  Jenings'  letter,  Sept.  20.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations desire  to  be  informed  whether  any  guard  ship  is  ap- 
pointed for  that  service.  Encloses  extract  from  Governor 
Seymour's  letter,  complaining  of  his  not  having  timely  notice 
of  the  sailing  of  Commodore  Huntingdon.  As  this  may  tend 
very  much  to  the  prejudice  of  the  Maryland  trade,  should  it  be 
continued,  I  am  to  desire  you  would  lay  the  said  extract  before 
the  Lord  High  Admiral.  [C.O.  5,  1362.  p.  326.] 


Popple.      Reply   to    preceding, 
rill 


254.  Mr.   Burchett  to  Mr. 

The  Guardland  is  appointed  a  guardshipp  for  Virginia'  and  wil 
proceed  on  her  voyage  soe  soon  as  the  Trade  is  ready.  I  will 
enquire  into  the  matter  of  Col.  Seymour's  complaint.  Signed, 
J.  Burchett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Dec.  20,  1708.  Addressed. 
1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1316.  No.  10;  and  5,  1362.  p.  327.] 

255.  Mr.    Dummer   to   Mr.    Popple.     The    Antego    packett 
boate,  which  sailed  Nov.  13th  from  Bristoll,  had  the  misfortune 
on   the   9th   day   following,    45    leagues    N.W.    of   the   Nor  ward 
Cape,   to  meet  with  a  French  privateer  etc.,   and  was  brought 
to   St.  Mallo,  soe  that  all  those  dispatches  which  shee  carryed 
outward  were  put  overbord  and  lost.     Signed,  E.  Dummer.  En- 
dorsed,  Reed.  18th  Dec.,  1708.     Holograph.     Addressed.    Post- 
mark.    1  p.     [C.O.  323,  6.     No.  73.] 

256.  W.  Popple  to  William  Perm.     The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  having  long  expected  to  be  informed  of  what  deter- 
mination you  and  the  Lord  Baltemore  should  come  to  in  relation 
to  the  boundaries  between  Pensylvania  and  Maryland,  and  not 
having  received  any  such  account  from  either  of  you,  they  have 
commanded   me  to   acquaint  you  that  they  shall   be   obliged  to 
represent,   the   matter   as   it  now   lyes  before  them,   unless   you 


186 


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1708. 

have  some  good  reason  to  the  contrary.  Mem.  The  Lord 
Baltemore  was  spoke  to  by  the  Secretary  to  the  same  purpose. 
[C.O  5,  1292.  p.  71.] 

Dec.  18.  257.  Same  to  [John]  Lloyd.  The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  command  me  to  remind  you  of  the  promise  you 
made  them,  July  6th,  to  give  them  a  particular  information 
of  the  trade  you  then  mentioned  to  be  carryed  on  between 
Carolina  and  Portugal,  this  their  Lordships  desire  you  would 
do  as  soon  as  possibly  you  can.  [C.O.  5,  1292.  p.  71.] 

Dec.  20.          258.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Pro- 
Whitehall,     pose   Philip   Lynes,    Thomas   Addison,   John   Hall  and    William' 
Whittington  to  be  of  the  Council  of  Maryland,  they  having  been 
recommended   by  the   Governor  and   by  Col.   Blakiston.      [C.O. 
5,    727.     pp.    108,    109.] 

Dec.  21.  259.  Account  of  the  taking  of  St.  Johns,  Newfoundland, 
by  the  French  upon  this  day.  See  Dec.  3,  1709. 

Dec.  21.  260.  Lt.  Governor  Usher  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Boston,  tations.  Since  mine  in  June  lastt  H.E.  haveing  reed,  accott. 
of  a  body  of  French  and  Indians  design'd  from  Canada  to 
assault  our  frontiers,  in  Augtt.  lastt  was  pleased  to  give  me 
orders  forthwith  to  repaire  into  Govermt.  of  N.  Hampshire,  to 
take  care  thereof.  Upon  my  there  ariveall,  found  people  very 
secure  and  remiss.  I  sentt  for  Malitia  Officers,  enformed  myself e 
of  true  state  of  places,  forthwith  gave  outt  orders  for  due 
scoutting  and  strict  watching  and  warding.  After  had  bin  there 
some  time,  haveing  setled  all  matters,  with  H  E.'s  leave  re- 
turn'd  to  Boston,  gave  H.E.  accott.  of  my  procedeings,  copy 
inclosed.  For  me  to  goe  into  the  Province  in  time  of  greatestt 
hazard  of  my  life  by  the  enemy:  expecting  hourly  to  be  at- 
tacked, to  bare  all  my  own  charges  and  nott  allowed  one  peny, 
and  for  the  Treasurer  to  pay  £20  for  one  Pickerin  goeing  to 
Boston  to  vissitt  an  Agentt,  sentt  by  Assembly  (George  Vaughan) 
and  nott-  by  Governor  and  Council!,  leave  itt  wth.  yor.  Ldships. 
the  respectt  they  have  for  Queen's  comistion.  I  judge  your 
Ldships.  have  a  full  acct.  from  H.E.  of  the  attack  by  French 
and  Indian  enemys,  whoe  mett  with  a  repuls,  and  loss  of  severall 
men,  since  wch.  have  butt  litle  mischeife  done.  In  mine  June 
lastt  gave  accott.  of  about  £488  pd.  by  the  Treasurer  for  one 
George,  Vaughan  for  Agency,  when  in  truth  nott  sentt  by 
Governor  and  Councill,  if  he  be  an  Agentt,  wish  he  may  shew 
his  authority  as  soe,  and  give  your  Ldships.  the  Adress  to  the 
Queen,  in  wch.  is  onely  setting  forth  there  mindes  relateing 
to  the  controversy  betwene  Mr.  Allen  and  Walderen.  I  hope 
directions  may  be  given  yt.  mony  be  nott  raised  of  H.M.  subjects 
for  ,maintaining  law  suites  under  notion  of  Agency:  for  noe 
Agentts  ever  sentt,  butt  when  case  of  Allen  and  Walderen  by 
apeal  wentt  for  Engd.  H.E.  is  pleased  to  communicatt  nothing 
to  me  from  your  board,  haveing  reed,  noe  lines  from  same,  have 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  187 

1708. 

nothing  further  to  ad,  salveing  our  country  being  on  defencive 
partt  are  att  greatt  expence,  while  other  Governmtts.  sitt  att 
ease,  wish  H.M.  apointt  a  Vice-Boy  over  all  thatt  all  Govermtts. 
may  putt  theire  helping  hand  agtt.  the  publick  enemy,  and  in 
case  H.M.  will  be  pleased  to  send  and  take  Portt  Boyall  and 
St.  Jno's,  will  be  of  great  service  to  H.M.  Kingdom  in  pro- 
moteing  of  fishery,  and  the  cole  mines;  there  incomes  thereof 
will  contribute  greatly  for  suportt.  Signed,  John  Usher.  En- 
dorsed, Becd.  26th,  Bead  28th  March,  1709.  Holograph.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

260.  i.  Lt.  Governor  Usher  to  Governor  Dudley.  Aug.  30, 
1708.  Yours  15th  reed,  att  9  a.m.  to  repaire  into  ye 
Province,  forthwith  wentt  and  ytt.  nightt  did  gett  to 
Hampton  and  sentt  for  Councill  to  sett.  16th  Councill 
mett.  I  dispatched  what  was  proper,  and  pressed  a 
sloope  to  make  discovery  of  aproache  enemy  by  sea. 
Being  in  the  Province  enformed  Major  Smith  had  your 
commistion  for  Justice  of  Peace,  Councill  refuseing 
to  give  him  the  oaths,  I  sentt  for  him  and  gave  his 
oaths  in  Councill.  I  thinck  wrong  in  them  in  refuseing, 
find  they  are  of  a  levelling  spiritt.  I  gave  accott. 
of  Major  Walton's  neglectt  of  his  duty,  and  contemptt 
both  in  words  and  actions.  I  confined  him  till  your 
further  order,  and  leftt  the  charge  of  fourtt  with  Lt. 
•  Atkinson.  As  to  Capt.  Puttman  with  his  souldiors 
from  Musathusetts  posted  att  Portsmoth,  in  ease  of 
an  attack  by  ye  enemy  in  any  place,  ytt  he  forthwith1 
march  to  there  releife.  Alsoe  gave  orders  to  Col. 
Hilton  in  case  of  an  attack,  ytt.  he  marched  with  rest 
of  Massathusett  souldiors  forthwith  to  there  releife. 
As  to  Malitia  of  Province,  had  Col.  Hilton,  Major 
Smith,  Capt.  Phips  and  Capt.  Coffin  to  consider  of 
state  of  province  and  whatt  to  doe  in  this  juncture  of 
time.  Advized  to  have  a  scoutt  of  30  or  40  men  for 
3  days  outt  and  every  town  doe  there  partt  accordingly, 
and  for  Capt.  Coffin's  troope,  one  halfe  to  be  on  con- 
stantt  duty.  According  gave  orders.  Garisons  in 
Hampton  within  the  line  of  Province  refuseing  to  doe 
there  duty  as  warding  and  watching,  gave  orders  to 
yeild  obedience  and  doe  there  duty,  and  Capt.  Green 
to  take  care  thereof.  I  am  sorry  mustt  say  all  places 
secure  as  if  in  Boston,  neither  watching  nor  warding 
when  I  came  there.  I  wentt  to  Kittery,  in  case  of 
an  attack  by  sea  upon  the  fourtt,  to  know  whatt  assist- 
ance from  them  mightt  exspectt.  Answered,  none,  they 
had  noe  orders,  judge  may  nott  be  amiss  to  give  orders. 
I  laid  an  imbargoe  on  all  vessells  to  secure  men  for 
the  ffourtt,  ytt.  lasted  nott  10  days,  when  I  came  away, 
ordered  in  the  morning  all .  souldiors  to  apear,  and 
apeared  butt  nine.  For  fear  of  an  attack  by  sea,  I 
did  take  my  lodgings  in  the  fourtt,  gave  directions  to 
Treasurer  provide  all  things  necessary,  butt  the  lodg- 


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1708. 


Dec    21. 

Whitehall. 


ings  worse  then  my  negroes,  noe  provistions  laid  in 
for  me,  and  reed,  nott  Id.  towards  my  exspence  and 
charge,  though  £20  could  be  pd.  outt  of  Treasury  for 
one  Pickerin  to  Boston.  Haveing  your  leave  to  return 
to  my  family,  called  the  Councill  to  know  if  had 
anything  to  offer  for  H.M.  service.  Answered,  noe. 
Soe  took  my  leave,  etc.  Signed,  John  Usher.  Holo- 
graph. 1  p.  [C.O.  5,  865.  Nos.  13,  14;  and  (ivithout 
enclosure]  5,  913.  pp.  61-63.] 

261.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Perry.  Refers  to  letters  of  Dec. 
18.  H.M.  S.  Guardland  is  appointed,  etc.  The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  have  commanded  me  to  signify  the  same  to  the 
merchants  trading  to  Virginia,  and  to  desire  that  they  will  let 
them  know  when  thte  ships  designed  to  go  with  the  said  convoy 
will  bo  ready  to  sail.  If  the  said  merchants  shall  judge  it  neces- 
sary to  have  a  briganteen  as  is  proposed  by  Col.  Joinings,  it 
will  bo  proper  that  they  make  application  to  the  Lord  High] 
Admirall,  etc.  [C.O.  6,  1362.  pp.  328,  329.] 


Dec.  22.         262.     [ 


-?]    to   Thomas    Hopkins.     Prays   for   a   respite 


in  the  hearing  of  Mr.  Skene's  case,  referred  back  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  Sept.  20.,  etc.     Addressed.   1  p.     [C.O.  28,  38.  No.  75.] 

Dec.  23.          263.     Masters  of  ships  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    Mr.    Skeen,    Secretary  of  Barbados,   was  never  guilty 
of  extortion,   etc.,  such  as  he  is  charged  with.     12  signatures. 
Endorsed,  Eecd.  Dec.  23,  Eead  Jan.  3,  1708(9).    1  p.    Enclosed, 
263.  i.  Certificate  by  3  of  the  above-mentioned  masters.     Mr. 
Skeen   acted   in   accordance   with   custom   and   did   not 
exact  exorbitant  fees,  etc.     Dec.  23,  1708.     1  p.  \C.O. 
28,    11.     Nos.   44,   44.i.] 


Dec.  23.          264.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Re- 

Whitehall.  port  on  Act  of  Nevis  for  establishing'  Courts,  etc.  (1704). 
Quote  some  of  the  objections  advanced  by  the  Attorney  General, 
Dec.  17.  Add: — Tho'  it  may  be  usefull  and  necessary  to  have 
Acts  in  the  Plantations  for  regulating  the  proceedings  of  Courts, 
yet  we  look  upon  many  of  the  regulations  mentioned  in  this 
Act  to  be  improper.  For  it  provides  that  a  summons  fixed  up 
at  the  Court  House  door  shall  be  sufficient  in  the  absence  of 
the  Defendant,  and  where  he  hath  no  Attorney,  tho'  such  De- 
fendant be  a  freeholder,  whereas  the  summons  ought  in  reason 
to  be  served  on  his  freehold,  whereby  he  may  have  due  notice 
of  the  service.  By  this  Law  judgements  may  be  given  against 
absent  persons  on  such  summons  so  affix'd ;  and  the  Court  is 
without  jury  to  ascertain  damages,  and  the  Plaintiff  to  give 
security  to  refund,  if  in  two  years  the  defendant  makes  appear 
less  is  due  than  is  allowed,  without  any  regard  to  the  de- 
fendant's being  an  infant,  or  madd,  in  prison,  or  out  of  the 
Island.  The  Provost  Mashal  is  inabled  on  executions  to  sell 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  189 

1708. 

inheritances,  if  the  defendant  has  no  goods,  this  is  different 
from  the  Law  of  this  Kingdom,  whicih  only  allows  the  Plaintiff 
to  hold  the  lands  under  an  extent,  till  the  debt  be  satisfy'd ; 
besides  the  sale  is  made  good  against  the  Defendant,  and  all 
persons  claiming  by  and  from  or  under  him,  which  will  void 
the  Defendant's  acts  precedent  to  the  judgement,  such  judge- 
ment not  being  restrained  to  subsequent  claims.  This  Act  far- 
ther provides  that  in  all  cases  after  the  verdict  the  Defendant 
shall  be  barr'd.  from  moving  in  arrest  of  judgement;  which 
seems  unreasonable:  for  it  may  be  that  no  action  at  law  lyes 
for  the  matter  mentioned  in  the  Plaintiff's  declaration,  or  the 
words  not  actionable,  and  yet  the  Plaintiff  having  a  verdict  by 
this  law  must  have  execution.  That  all  extraordinary  contempts 
of  jurymen  and  talesmen  are  to  be  punished  by  the  judges 
by  fine:  what  contempts  are  meant  doth  not  appear  by  the  Act. 
It  may  be  taken  to  be  a  contempt  for  not  finding  a  verdict 
according  to  the  direction  of  the  Court,  for  which)  by  law  they 
are  not  to  be  fined.  If  a  bill  of  exchange  be  returned  protested, 
the  drawer  is  to  pay  to  the  person  for  whose  use  thfe  same 
was  drawn  £10  damage,  with  £10  interest,  and  an  allowance 
for  exchange ;  this  is  a  matter  different  from  the  title  of  the 
bill,  nor  is  it  reasonable  in  itself,  the  allowance  of  damage 
and  interest  being  the  same  in  all  cases,  be  the  summ  in  the 
bill  greater  or  lesser.  There  is  likewise  erected  by  this  law 
a  perpetual  Court  Merchant,  which  is  impowered  to  hear  and 
determine  without  a  jury,  according  to  law,  equity  and  good 
conscience,  all  causes  between  transcient  persons  not  exceeding 
the  value  of  £100  current  money;  this  power  is  arbitrary  and 
uncertain,  whether  the  judges  are  to  act  according  to  law 
or  equity,  and  is  not  therefore  fit  to  be  allowed.  There  are 
objections  to  several  other  clauses,  etc.  In  case  your  Majesty 
shall  think  fit  to  disallow  the  said  Act,  we  do  then  propose  that 
your  Majesty's  Royal  pleasure  be  signifyed  to  your  Governor 
there,  to  recommend  to  the  Assembly  the  passing  of  another 
Law  for  the  establishing  of  Courts  and  settling  due  methods  for 
the  administration  of  Justice  in  Nevis,  and  in  like  manner  to 
the  Assemblys  of  the  other  Leeward  Islands ;  which  Acts  may 
not  be  lyable  to  these  or  any  other  objections.  And  till  such 
a  law  shall  be  past  by  the  Legislature  there,  we  beg  leave 
to  inform  your  Majesty  that  the  course  of  Justice  may  go  on, 
for  your  Majesty  by  your  Commission  to  your  Governor  there, 
hath  impowered  him  to  erect  Courts  and  name  judges  and 
other  officers  for  the  due  administration  of  Justice. 

We  further  humbly  represent  that  at  a  General  Assembly  of  all 
your  Majesty's  Leeward  Islands  held  at  Nevis,  1705,  an  Act 
was  past  for  establishing  Courts  etc.,  the  purport  of  which)  is 
only  to  make  an  Act  past  at  Antego  Feb.  8,  170f  to  be  in 
force  throughout  all  the  Leeward  Islands.  And  whereas  that 
Act  of  Antego  did  contain  clauses  to  the  same  purpose  as  those 
aforementioned,  your  Majesty  did  think  fit,  Dec.  13,  1705,  to 
repeal  it,  and  therefore  we  humbly  offer  that  the  Act  of  Nevis, 
1705,  be  likewise  repealed.  [C.O.  153,  10.  pp.  255-260.] 


190 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1708. 
Dec.  27. 


Dec).  27. 

Boston, 

New 
England. 


Dec.  30. 

St.  James's. 


Dec.  30. 

St.  Nicholas 
Lane. 


265.  Sir  T.  Laurence  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Refers  to  Governor  Seymour's  letter  of  Sept.  7,  1708. 
I  have  not  overrated  the  receipts  from  the  ordinary  licences,  as 
is  pretended.  £150  per  annum  at  least  hath  been  taken  away 
from  me  and  the  Secretary's  Office  for  five  years,  etc.  Details 
given.  Signed,  Thomas  Laurence.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Jan. 
3,  170f .  Holograph.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 

265.  i.  A  computation  of  the  value  of  the  ordinary  licences  in 

Maryland,  Oct.  1703—1707.  Total,  1936001b.  tobacco 
at  5/s.  the  hundred.  Estimated  total  loss  to  Sir  T.  L, 
=£1167. 18.  1.  Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding1. 
Holograph.  3  pp.  [C.O.  5,  716.  Nos.  57,  57.L] 

266.  Governor  Dudley  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    This  morning  the  post  from  New  York  brought  us  the 
good  news  of  my  Lord  Lovelace's  arrival,  and  my  packet  from 
their  Lordships,   and   a   single   ship   being  now  under   sayle,   I 
thought   it  my   duty   to   acquaint  you  that   I   have  them   safe, 
etc.,  and  perticularly  that  if  there  be  any  necessity  of  seeing  the 
present  state  of  the  fortifications  here,  they  have  been  carefully 
sent  every  half  year  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance,  and  will  come 
again  by  the  Mast  fleet,  there  being  no  other  safe  conveyances 
but  that,   once   a   year.   etc.      P.S.     I    think    it    is    now    four 
year    since    I    returned    Major    Smith's    name   with    others    for 
Councellors  of  New  Hampshire  etc.    There  is  one  thing  happened 
ill  to   him   last  year,  he  was  accused  of  a  bastard   child  by  a 
young  woman,  and  by  the  Sessions  was  ordered  to  mayntayn  the 
child,    tho'    he    alwayes    denyed    tihe    matter   and    is    by    many 
judged  innocent,  however  I  thought  it  my  duty  thus  to  acquaint 
you   of    it,    his    service    will    be   very    acceptable    to    mee,    etc. 
Signed,    J.    Dudley.      Endorsed,    Reed.    May   23,   Read   Dec.    8, 
1709.     Holograph.     2  pp.     [C.O.  5,  865.     No.  19;  and  5,  913. 
pp.  80-82.] 

267.  Order  of  Queen   in  Council.     Upon  Representation  of 
Dec.  3  (q.v.),  Governor  Crowe  is  to  return  answer  to  the  com- 
plaints against  him,  with  depositions  on  either  side  etc.    Set  out, 
Acts    of    Privy    Council,    II.     pp.    575,    576.      Signed,    Edward 
Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.  9th,  Read  Feb.  15th,  170f.    2  pp. 
[C.O.  28,  12.     No.  8;  and  29,  11.     pp.  400-402.] 

268.  John    Lloyd   to   W.    Popple.     Reply    to   Dec.    18,    etc, 
I  wrote  to  a  particular  friend,  but  he  is  unwilling  to  give  any 
information.     All    that    I    can    leame    is,    that    3    ships    loaded 
att  Carolina  and  took  oute  cleareings   for  Rhode   Island,   from 
whence  they  gott  certificates  to  cleare  their  bonds  att  Carolina, 
and  thence  reloaded  their  ships,  the  masters  names  are  Samuel! 
Jones,  Thomas  Thatcher,  and  one — Pitts,  all  New  England  men. 
I  have  a  ship  lately  arrived  from  Carolina,  now  att  Portsmouth, 
when  the  master  comes  for  London,   if  I   can  learne  anything 
farther,    shall   waite   on   their    Honours.     Presume    one   way   to 
stop  this  trade  wou'd  be  to  give  power  to  our  Consuls  abroad 


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1708. 


Deo    30. 

St.  James's. 


Dec.  30. 

St.  James's. 


Dec.  30. 

St.  James's. 


Dec.  30. 

St.  James's. 


Dec.  30. 

St.  James's. 


strictly  to  examine  all  ships  from  H.M.  Plantations,  that  shall  be 
loaded  with  fish,  whether  part  of  their  cargoe  be  nott  rice, 
logwood,  pitch  or  tarr,  which  are  often  imported  in  those  parts. 
As  for  Rhode  Island,  'tis  a  place  where  all  roguerys  are  com- 
mitted, and  greate  quantitys  of  goods  from  Portugall  are  landed 
there,  and  so  convey 'd  to  sever  all  parts.  Signed,  John  Lloyd. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  1st,  Read  3rd  Jan.,  170f.  *  Addressed.  1  p. 
[CO.  5,  1264.  No.  53;  and  5,  1292.  p.  72.] 

269.  Order  of  Queen   in  Council.     Repealing  Act  of  Nevis 
for  establishing  Coufts,  and  Act  of  Leeward  Islands  for  estab- 
lishing Courts.    (Cf.  Dec.  23.)     Signed,  Chris.  Musgrave.     En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  Jan.  13,  170f.     2£  pp.     [O.O.  152,  8.     No. 
3;  and  153,  10.     pp.  261,  262.] 

270.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    Referring  following  to  the 
Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    for    their    report.     Signed, 
Chris.   Musgrave.     Endorse!,   Reed.    5th,   Read  7th1  Jan.,   170f. 
lj  pp.     Enclosed, 

270.  i.  Petition    of   Merchants     and    Commanders    of    shipps 

tradeing  to  and  liveing  on  the  Continent  of  North 
America  and  on  the  Island  of  Jamaica,  and  the  dis- 
tressed inhabitants  of  the  Bahama  Islands,  to  the  Queen. 
Pray  H.M.  to  take  the  Bahamas  under  her  protection 
and  government,  and  to  fortify  the  harbour  of  New 
Providence,  for  securing  petitioners'  trade  in  their 
passage  through  the  said  Islands  and  the  Gulph  of 
Florida.  It  is  threatened  to  be  settled  by  the  Spaniards 
etc.  Set  out,  Acts  of  Privy  Council,  II.  p.  550. 
91  signatures.  Copy.  5  pp.  ["(7.0.  5,  1264.  Nos. 
54,  54.i.  ;  and  5,  1292.  pp.  75-81.]  . 

271.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Approving  Major  Edward 
Tynt    as    Governor    of    Carolina.      The    Council    of    Trade    and 
Plantations    are    to    take    care    that    he    give    good    security   to 
observe   the   Acts    of   Trade    and   obey   H.M.    Instructions,    etc. 
Signed,  Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Jan.  7,  170 f. 
1  p.     [C.O.  5,  1264.    No.  55;  and  5,  1292.     pp.  82,  83.] 

272.  Order   of   Queen    in   Council.     Referring   following    to 
tho  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report.     Signed, 
Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.    5th,  Read  7th  Jan.,   170f. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 

272.  i.  Petition  of  Thomas  Pilgrim  to  the  Queen.  Prays  to 
be  restored  to  his  estate  in  Barbados,  which  he  bought 
of  Mrs.  Butler  Chamberlain,  and  which'  Governor  Crowe 
has  violently  seized,  without  any  form  of  Law,  etc.  1  p. 

272.  ii.  Case  of  Thomas  Pilgrim.     2  pp.     [C.O.  28,  11.    Nos. 

45,  45.i.,ii.  ;  and  (without  enclosures)  29,  11.  pp. 
367-369.] 

273.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.   Col.  John  Frere  is  appointed 
to  the  Council  of  Barbados,  in  place  of  Col.  Richard  Scot,  dis- 


192  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1708. 

missed.  Cf.  Dec.  14.  Signed,  John  Povey.  Endorsed,  Heed. 
15th,  Bead  17th  Jan.,  170|.  1£  pp.  [C.O.  28,  11.  No.  46 ; 
and  29,  11.  pp.  371,  372.] 

![?1708.];  274.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  the  Queen. 
[Of.  Jan  26,  1708.]  Whereas  an  Act  was  sometime  since  passed 
in  this  Island  for  allowing  £500  per  annum  to  H.M.  Governourto 
supply  the  inconveniencies  and  defects  of  the  habitation  provided 
for  Sir  B.  Granville,  which  your  Majesty  ha  tin  been  pleased  to 
repeale,  we  humbly  represent  that  we  were  induced  to  pass 
the  said  law  for  the  following  reasons;  (1)  to  show  all  possible 
regard  for  H.M.  Governours ;  (2)  that  all  former  Governors 
had,  besides  convenient  houses,  a  considerable  quantity  of  land 
found  them,  which  Sir  B.  Granville  declined  for  greater  ad- 
vantage; (3)  that  the  house  of  Pilgrim,  built  by  Sir  B.  Granville 
at  the  great  expence  of  the  Island,  has  only  about  19  acres 
of  land  belonging  to  it,  whereas  less  than  150  acres  is  not 
sufficient  for  the  convenient  support  of  such  a  ffamily  as  your 
Majesty's  Governours  must  necessarily  have;  (4)  that  the  nature 
of  this  Island  is  such,  and  differs  so  much  from  the  way) 
and  manner  of  liveing  in  England,  that  it  is  almost  impossible 
to  subsist  a  large  ffamily  with  any  conveniency  without  a 
proportionable  quantity  of  land  near  the  dwelling-house,  and 
where  it  is  done  without  such  a  conveniemcy,  the  expence  is 
above  four  times  as  much  as  in  England.  Pray  H.M.  licence 
to  settle  £380  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  Which,  with1  £120 
rent  now  paid  for  Pilgrim's  house,  was  the  sum  allowed  to 
former  Governours.  Signed,  Richd.  Downes,  Speaker,  Tho. 
Maxwell,  Tho.  Beckles,  Wm.  Leslie,  Edmund  Sutton,  James 
Vaughan.  Tho.  Maycock,  Wm.  Grant,  Wm.  Roberts,  Thomas 
Neale,  Hen.  Peers,  Rob.  Yeamans,  Will.  Terrill,  John  Bowman, 
Richd.  Sandiford.  1  p.  [C.O.  28,  38.  No.  69.] 

[?  1708.]  275.  Instructions  concerning  Prizes  by  the  Governor  [?  of 
Barbados'].  [C.O.  319,  1.  pp.  33.  //.] 

1700,  1708.      276.     Laws  of  Barbados.     [319,  1.     pp.  201-240.] 

[1708  ff.]  277.  Shipping  returns  and  List  of  negroes  imported  Bar- 
bados, 1708—1726.  [C.O.  33,  15.] 

[1708  ff .]  '278.  Abstracts  of  Letters  from  Governors  of  Jamaica,  1708— 
1719.  [C.O.  137,  41.] 

[?  1708-9.]  279.  Report  [?  of  a  Committee  of  Assembly  of  Jamaica  to 
the  Governor  of  Jamaica]  upon  the  petitions  of  Nicholas  Gualtier 
and  Thomas  Abell  Bassett.  In  Jan.,  1708  Mr.  Gualtier  on  board 
the  brigantine  St.  Nicholas  was  taken  by  H.M.S.  Roebuck, 
which  was  condemned  at  Port  Royal,  about  which  an  appeal 
is  now  depending.  He  appears  to  be  a  Frenchman  and  in  the 
interest  of  the  French  King  and  has  abused  the  trust  reposed 
in  him  by  the  States  General,  and  ought  therefore  to  be  sent 


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1708 


to  Great  Britain,  and  not  to  be  allowed  to  go  to  Cura^oa-  according; 
to  his  petition.  With  respect  to  Mr.  Bassett,  we  know  nothing 
except  his  commanding  this  snow,  etc.,  and  think  he  may  be  a 
naturalised  subject  of  Holland,  and  be  allowed  to  go  where  he 
desires.,  etc.  2|  pp.  \O.O.  137,  51.  No.  7.] 


1709. 


Jan. -June.  28O.  Permits  for  24  ships  to  sail  without  convoy  and  not 
to  be  embargoed  in  the  West  Indies.  [C.O.  5,  210.  pp.  126, 
127,  131,  132,  134,  142,  152.] 

Jan.  1st.       281.     P.  Vanderheyden  Eeze  to  the  Directors  of  the  .Dutch] 
(N.S.)     West  India  Company.     Signed,   Pr.    Vanderheyden  Eeze.     En- 
Rio  Essequebo. dorsed,  Bead  May  28  (N.S.),  1709.    Dutch.     39  pp.     Enclosed, 

Fort  Kykoveral.       2gl>    •      game    ^    game>      Jan>    y    (N>g>) 

281,  ii.-lv.  Copies   of  letters,   inventories,   accounts   etc.   1707 
//.    Dutch.     [C.O.  116,  20.     Nos.  15,  15.i.-lv.] 

Jan.  4.          282.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Thurston.     Major  Lloyd  (Oct.  22, 
Whitehall.     1708),  having  transmitted  to  you  an  account  of  the  men  listed 
by  him  in  Newfoundland,  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations 
desire  a  copy  as  soon  as  possible.     [C.O.  194,  4.     p.  70.] 


Jan.  4. 

Custom- 
house, 
Sandwich . 


Jan.  5. 

Whitehall. 


283.  Custom-house  Officers,  Sandwich,  to  Mr.  Popple.  En- 
close following.  Signed,  Jeff.  Haford,  Benj.  Fisher.  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  Read  Jan.  19,  170 1.  Addressed.  Postmark.  \  p.  En- 
closed, 

283.  i.  Masters  of  Fishing  ships  and  by-boats  trading  from 

this  Port  and  members  to  Newfoundland,  Dec.  25, 
1707— 1708,=Nil.  Signed  as  preceMng.  \  p.  [C.O. 
194,  4.  Nos.  81,  81.i. ;  and  (without  enclosure)  195, 
5.  pp.  75,  76.] 

284.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Quote   Mr.    Lloyd    [Dec.    30,    1708]    on  illegal   trade 
between   Carolina  and  Portugal.     This  trade   being  contrary  to 
the  Act  of  Parliament  for  granting  a  further  subsidy  on  wines, 
etc.,  by  which  rice  is  declared  one  of  the  enumerated  commodities, 
and  therefore  not  to  be  exported  from  the  Plantations  to  any 
place   in    Europe   but  to   Great   Britain  or   Ireland,    we  are   of 
opinion  that  H.M.  pleasure  be  signify 'd  to  Col.  Dudley  that  he 
make  enquiry  into  this  matter,  and  prosecute  the  offenders,   if 
there   be   sufficient   proof,    for  the  merchants   at   Oporto    being 
themselves   concerned,   are  unwilling  to   give  the  necessary  in- 
formation therein.     We  are  apprehensive  such  illegal  trade  will 
hardly  be  prevented  unlesis  a  power  be  given  to  H.M.  Consul  in 
Portugal    to   examine    all    ships    coming    from   the    Plantations, 
and  to   seize   such  ships   as  shall  bring   any  of  the   prohibited 
commodities   in   breach  of  the   Acts   of   Trade   and    Navigation. 
[0.0.  5,  1292.     pp.  73,  74.] 

Wt.  11522-  CP13 


194 


COLONIAL   PAPEES. 


1709.   . 
Jan.  7. 

Whitehall. 


Jan    8. 

Whitehall. 


Jan.  8. 

St.  James's. 

Jan.  9. 

St.  James's. 


Jan.  9, 

St.  James's, 


Jan.  10. 

Maryland . 


285.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Re- 
port upon  the  Boundary  disputes  between  Carolina  and  Virginia. 
Propose  that  a  Commission  be  appointed  on  the  part  of  each 
Government,    and   that    the    old    method    of  granting    lands    be 
resumed  in  Virginia,  according  to  the  Charter,  notwithstanding 
the    late    Instruction     (1705,     1707.)     Set    out,    Acts    of    Privy 
Council,  II.     pp.  584-588.  q.v.     [C.O.  5,  1362.     pp.  329-335.] 

286.  W.  Popple  to  Thomas  Pilgrim.     The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  desire  to   speake  with  you  and  Mr.    Fullerton 
on  Thursday,  when  they  do  expect  that  you  should  bring  with 
you  such  proofs  as  you  may  have  to  make  good  the  allegations 
in  your  petition,  etc.    [Dec.  30,  1708.]     [C.O.  29,  11.    p.  370.] 

287.  H.M.  Warrant  for  John  Frere  to  be  one  of  the  Council 
at  Barbados.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  136.] 

288.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  are  to  consider  what  stores  are  necessary"  for  New- 
foundland  etc.     Set   out,   A.P.C.    II.,    No.    1078.    q.v.      Signed, 
Edward    Southwell.     Endorsed,    Eecd.    12th,    Eead    13th    Jan., 
170  f.     f  p.     Enclosed, 

288.  i.  Mr.  Burchett  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Council  in  Wayting, 
The  convoy  for  Newfoundland  being  now  getting  ready, 
I  acquaint  you  therewith  to  the  end  my  Lord  High 
Admirall  may  receive  an  Order  of  Councill  for  sending 
provisions,  etc.  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos. 
79,  79.i.  ;  and  195,  5.  pp. 


1    p.      [C 
p.  70,  71. 


289.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Eeferring  following  to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Signed,  Edward  South- 
well. Endorsed,  Eecd.  Eead  Jan.  13,  170f.  Dismist  by  an 
Order  of  Jan.  27.  \  p.  Enclosed, 

289.  i.  Petition  of  Charles,  Lord  Baltimore  to  the  Queen. 
Prays  that  the  Order  of  Nov.  7,  1685  may  be  re- 
voked, having  been  surreptitiously  got  by  William  Penn, 
falsely  suggesting  that  petitioner  by  his  grant  was 
to  have  noe  land  but  what  was  cultivated  by  savages. 
Prays  that  the  boundaries  of  Maryland  and  Pennsyl- 
vania may  be  ascertain'd  pursuant  to  H.M.  letter  of 
April  2,  1681.  Signed,  C.  Baltemore.  Copy.  3  pp. 
289.  ii.  Duplicate  of  H.M.  Letter  to  Lord  Baltimore,  April 
2,  1681.  C.S.P.  1681.  No.  62. 

289.  iii.  Duplicate  of  Letter  from  Wm.  Penn  to  Lord  Balti- 

more, April  2,  1681.  C.S.P.  Feb.  5,  1708.  [C.O. 
5,  716.  Nos.  59,  59. i. -iii. ;  and  (Order  only)  5,  720. 
No.  2.] 

290.  Governor  Seymour  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    On    Sept.    27    last    the    Generall    Assembly   mett    and 
pursuant  to  H.M.    commands    I   laid  before  them   H.M.   Order 
in   Councill,    expressing   her   disassent  to   the  two   Laws   lately 


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1709. 

pa,ss'd  here  concerning  tobacco  hhds.,  and  H.M.  commands  to 
reenact  a  Law  for  the  guage  of  hhds.  conformable  to  those  in 
Virginia;  also  H.M.  commands  in  favour  of  Sir  T.  Laurence; 
and  likewise  proposed  a  Law  to  be  made  to  punish  such  persons 
who  should  maliciously  invent  and  disperse  false  news  of  tran- 
sactions in  Europe  tending  to  the  discouraging  and  dispiritting 
H.M  (good  subjects  here,  with  severall  other  things  H.M.  Couneill 
and  myself  thought  proper  for  H.M.  service  and  the  good  of 
the  countrey ;  but  not  being  able  to  win  their  complyance  to 
any  the  least  of  H.M.  just  and  reasonable  commands,  and  finding 
that  instead  thereof  they  disputed  what  they  had  no  cognizance 
of,  vizt.  the  legality  of  a  charter  I  granted  to  the  Citty  of 
Annapolis  (by  the  advice  of  H.M.  Couneill)  and  ran  into  heats 
and  divisions,  proceeding  so  irregularly  that  notwithstanding  a 
Commission  prepared  to  swear  them,  and  four  Gentm.  of  the 
Couneill  ready  to  attend  them  in  order  thereto,  they  had  made 
severall  votes,  and  adjourn'd  their  house,  resolv'd  to  acquaint 
them  they  were  dissolv'd;  and  accordingly  issued  new  writts  of 
election  returnable  to  Nov.  29,  hoping  the  severall  Countys 
would  take  better  care  who  they  sent  to  represent  them,  but 
contrary  to  expectation  found  the  most  of  the  persons,  ret  urn  M 
to  the  last  convention,  appear  as  Delegates  of  this  Assembly, 
so  that  there  could  be  but  little  'hopes,  unless  a  more  moderate 
Speaker  were  chosen,  which  being  happily  effected,  I  once 
more  laid  H.M.  commands  before  them,  tho'  I  am  sorry  to 
acquaint  your  Lordships  without  any  success.  But  tho'  they 
would  not  agree  to  the  Law  proposed  for  the  guage  of  tobacco 
hhds.,  yet  have  humbly  addrest  H.M.  to  give  leave  to  lay  their 
reasons  before  her  why  they  could  not,  wihich  will  be  transmitted 
to  your  Lordships  with  the  Journalls  of  the  Assembly  and' 
Couneill  so  soon  as  transcribed ;  notwithstanding  which  I  am 
humbly  of  opinion  it  would  be  to  the  generall  advantage  of  trade 
a  small  Act  of  Parliament  were  made  in  Great  Brittaine  to 
ascertain  the  guage  of  the  same  size  both  in  Virginia  and 
Maryland,  that  the  merchants  may  know  how  to  build  their 
shipps  for  stowage  suitable  to  either  country.  As  to  H.M1. 
commands  in  favour  of  Sir  T.  Laurence,  altho'  the  Couneill  and 
myself  used  our  utmost  endeavours  to  persuade  their  eomply- 
ance>  wee  could  not  percieve  the  least  inclination  in  the  Delegates 
thereto;  but  on  the  contrary  have  addrest  H.M.  in  opposition 
to  Sir  Thomas's  claime,  in  which  I  advised  the  Couneill  not  to 
agree  with  them,  so  that  I  have  'not  any  reason  to  alter  my 
opinion,  which  I  heretofore  presumed  to  offer  to  your  Lordships, 
that  it  would  be  adviseable  Sir  T.  Laurence  should  procure 
the  fines  of  the  ordnary  lycences  to  be  setled  on  his  office 
by  an  Act  of  Parliament  or  some  other  legall  power  in  Great 
Brittaine ;  for  let  me  do  what  I  can  to  enforce  H.M.  cominiuds 
on  the  Country,  he  seems  to  be  the  last  person  they  are  willing 
to  oblige,  for  on  my  proposall  they  should  make  an  ordnance 
to  leavy  those  Fines  to  lye  in  the  Sherriffs'  hands  and  be 
left  to  H.M.  gracious  disposall,  they  would  not  concurr  least 
Sir  T.  Laurence  should  obtaine  her  favour  therein.  The  As- 


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1709. 

sembly  have  referr'd  untill  the  next  Sessions  the  making  a 
necessary  and  reasonable  provision  to  supporte  and  enable  the 
four  Justices  of  the  Provinciall  Court  to  hold  their  Courts,  and 
go  the  circuits  twice  yearly ;  and  tho  the  reduceing  tlhe  number 
of  the  Provinciall  Justices  seems  to  grate  on  some  whose  in- 
tegrity and  understanding  allow  them  noe  title  thereto,  and 
yet  are  desireous  to  be  eminently  distinguished  from  their 
neighbours,  yet  in  generall  and  especially  the  people  on  the 
Eastern  shoare,  seem!  to  be  much  obliged  with1  this  institution. 
The  Assembly  sate  untill  Dec.  17,  and  made  severall  laws, 
amongst  the  rest,  revived  those  for  the  supporte  of  the  Govern- 
ment, and  being  sencible  of  the  continuall  desertion  of  many  of 
the  inhabitants,  whose  misfortunes  with  the  lowe  vallue  of 
tobacco  in  Europe,  and  losses  by  the  enemy  this  last  warr,  gave 
them  great  dread  of  long  and  tedious  imprisonment,  have  made 
an  Act  of  Bankruptcy  for  the  enlargement  of  the  persons  of 
such  debtors  who  shall  deliver  up  to  their  creditors  all  their 
estates,  reall  and  personall,  and  that  concealments  in  such! 
case  shall  be  Felony.  They  also  made  an  Act  to  lessen  the 
dammage  on  protested  Bills  of  Exchange,  making  it  only  10 
p.c.,  whereas  it  was  20.  And  tho'  the  merchants  may  not  ap- 
proove  thereof,  yet  since  it  is  manifest  the  too  much  creditt 
given  the  people  of  this  Province,  being  a  careless  unthinking 
sort  of  folke,  has  helpt  to  bring  them  into  their  present  ill 
circumstances,  the  methods  now  propos'd  will  not  only  be  a 
means  to  encourage  the  planters  to  abide  on  their  plantations, 
but  prevent  their  having  too  large  a  creditt,  which  is  only  in 
summe;  but  not  in  intrinsick  vallue  of  the  comodity,  and  gener- 
ally falls  heavy  at  the  last  by  the  many  protests  of  their 
bills.  On  the  17th  inst.  by  way  of  New  Yorke  have  receiv'd 
severall  duplicates  of  letters  from  your  Honoble.  Board  enumer- 
ated, and  letters  of  May  14,  July  13,  Aug.  4,  1708.  There  are 
not  in  this  Province  any  stores  of  arms  and  ammunition  sent 
from  H.M.  Office  of  Ordnance.  As  for  your  Lordships'  letter 
of  March  26,  1707,  you  referr  me  to  in  yours  of  Sept.  2, 
I  have  neither  received  the  originall  or  duplicate  thereof,  so 
am  wholly  at  a  loss  what  answer  to  make  thereto.  Since  my 
last  another  Gentleman  of  H.M.  Councill  is  dead,  vizt.  Mr. 
Kenchin  Cheseldyne,  which/  will  lay  me  under  a  necessity  of 
swearing  another  in  his  roome,  Coll.  Jenkins  being  so  aged 
and  at  so  remote  a  distance,  and  Col.  Ennalls  so  often  indis- 
posed1 that  they  are  seldom  able  to  attend  their  dutys.  Whien 
the  Journalls  of  the  Councill  and  Assembly  are  transcribed, 
I  shall  endeavour  to  give  your  Lordships  a  true  light,  how 
the  Delegates  are  chosen,  and  influenced  by  the  Roman  Catho- 
lique  party,  whose  cheife  aime  is  to  make  everybody  uneasy, 
who  are  willing  to  serve  the  Queen  and  Government,  and  doubt 
not  but  they  will  use  their  utmost  efforts  to  put  another  gloss 
on  their  actions  here,  but  as  I  have  ever  endeavoured  to  dis- 
charge my  duty,  faithfully,  I  shall  while  I  have  the  honour 
to  ibe  abroade  do  what  in  me  lyes  to  serve  the  Queen  .like 
an  honest  servant,  and  to  obey  your  Lordships'  commands  with' 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  197 

1709. 

all  integrity  and  dilligence.  Signed,  Jo.  Seymour.  Duplicate. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  May  llth,  Read  Dec.  6,  1709.  6  pp.  ["(7.0. 
5,  716.  No.  68;  and  5,  727.  pp.  143-149.] 

Jan.  11.          291.     Council   of  Trade   and   Plantations  to  the  Lords   Pro- 
Whitehall,     prietors  of  the  Bahama  Islands.     Give  notice  that  parties  will 

be   heard  on   28th  Jan.   to  the  petition  of  the  merchants   etc. 

for  the  resumption  of  the  Islands  to  the  Crown,  (v.  Dec.  30,  1708). 

[C.O.  5,  1292.     pp.  83,  84.] 

Jan.  12.  292.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Dud- 
Whitehall,  ley.  Acknowledge  letters  of  May  27,  June  10,  July  10,  and 
Aug.  7,  1708.  We  are  sensible  of  your  care  in  endeavouring  to 
promote  the  production  of  Naval  Stores,  and  you  will  do  well 
to  continue  to  do  your  utmost  therein;  when  the  Act  which 
you  mentioned  to  be  past  in  New  Hampshire  shall  be  transmitted 
to  us  in  due  form,  we  will  consider  the  same.  In  the  meantime 
we  cannot  but  take  notice  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Assembly 
of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  in  refusing  to  pass  ^a  law  to  the 
same  purpose.  Their  assertion  that  the  clause  in  the  Massa- 
chusetts Charter  relating  to  masts  is  not  binding  to  them, 
are  groundless,  for  if  that  Charter  do  bind,  and  is  as  a  law 
to  H.M.  in  relation  to  their  rights  and  priviledges,  it  does  also 
bind  and  is  as  a  law  to  the  inhabitants  of  that  Colony ;  this 
you  will  do  well  to  communicate  to  the  Assembly,  and  also  to 
inform  them  that  their  refusal  to  pass  sudh  an  Act,  considering 
what  priviledges  has  been  allowed  them  by  the  Crown,  will 
be  looked  upon  as  a  great  disrespect  to  H.M.,  and  a  disregard 
to  the  interest  and  service  of  this  Kingdom.  However,  we 
commend  your  zeal  in  this  matter,  and  desire  you  to  continue 
your  further  endeavours  therein.  We  shall  lay  before  H.M. 
what  you  write  in  relation  to  Mr.  Waldron,  Hilton,  and  Smith, 
and  propose  others  to  supply  their  places  in  the  Council  of 
New  Hampshire.  We  are  glad  to  perceive  the  enemy  has  made 
so  little  impression  upon  your  frontiers,  and  we  hope  that 
your  care  and  diligence  will  effectually  prevent  their  doing 
anything  of  moment.  We  have  laid  before  H.M.  our  opinion 
in  relation  to  stores  of  war  etc.  wanting  for  the  security  of 
New  Hampshire,  and  that  matter  is  in;  a  way  of  being  dispatched. 
Since  the  writing  of  what  is  above,  we  have  received  two  letters 
of  Oct.  1st  and  10th,  which  we  shall  make  use  of  as  there 
shall  be  occasion ;  We  take  notice  that  you  say  the  Assembly 
of  the  Massachusets  Bay  have,  by  an  Act  passed  about  three 
years  ago,  laid  a  duty  of  £4  per  head  on  negroes,  you  ought 
to  have  acquainted  us  with  the  year  the  said  Act  was  passed 
in,  and  have  given  us  the  title  of  the  Act,  for  we  can  find 
none  such  among  those  we  have ;  and  therefore  we  expect  that 
you  transmit  it  to  us  by  the  first  opportunity.  One  of  the 
reasons  you  give  why  negroes  are  not  desired  in  New  England, 
is  because  it  being  on  the  Continent,  the  negroes  have  thereby 
an  opportunity  of  running  away:  the  same  reason  will  hold  in 
Carolina,  Virginia  and  Maryland,  which  are  also  upon  the  Con- 
tinent; where  negroes  are  so  valuable.  [C.O.  5,  9-13.  pp.  44-46.] 


198 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

[Jan.  12.]  293.  The  case  of  James,  Duke  of  York,  against  Lord  Balti- 
more, relating  to  the  bounds  of  Maryland  and  Pennsylvania. 
The  land  claimed  by  him  was  purchased  and  seated  by  authority 
of  a  sovereign  and  Christian  State  of  Europe  many  years  before 
the  date  of  his  patent.  Historical  summary  1609 — 1674,  when 
the  King  gave  all  to  the  Duke,  who  kept  New  York  and  dis- 
posed of  the  Jerseys  and  Pennsylvania.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
Jan.  12,  170f.  Reced.  from  Mr.  Perm.  !£  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1264. 
No.  56.] 

Jan.  12.  294.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,  derland.  There  being  several  Representations  which  we  sent  to 
your  Lordship,  upon  which  we  have  not  yet  been  informed  of 
H.M  pleasure ;  and  whereas  we  are  in  expectation  of  being 
called  upon  by  the  Parliamt.  for  an  account  of  our  proceedings 
since  our  last  Report,  Nov.  1707,  and  that  it  will  be  necessary 
that  we  give  an  account  of  what  has  been  done  upon  our 
said  Representations,  that  our  Report  may  be  the  more  perfect, 
we  desire  your  Lordship  will  please  to  give  directions  that 
we  may  be  informed  thereof.  Annexed, 

294.  i.  List  of  Representations  referred  to  in  preceding: — 
Dec.  4  and  19,  1707;  June  23,  July  19,  Oct.  26,  Nov. 
9,  Dec.  3  and  6,  1708.  [C.O.  324,  9.  pp.  290-292.] 

Jan.  12.          295.     Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    to    Col.    Jenings. 

Whitehall.  We  have  received  yours  of  June  24  and  Sept.  20,  1708.  We 
have  transmitted  what  you  write  about  a  guardship  to  the  Lord 
High  Admiral,  and  have  been  informed  by  his  Lordship  that  the 
Garland  is  appointed  for  that  service  and  is  accordingly  pre- 
paring to  sail  to  your  Government.  We  likewise  acquainted  the 
merchants  with  our  proceedings  therein,  that  they  might  sollicit 
at  the  Admiralty  the  appointing  a  sloop  for  the  service  you 
desire.  As  to  the  incroachments  made  by  the  Government  of 
Carolina  upon  the  boundaries  of  Virginia,  we  have  considered 
the  same  and  laid  before  H.M.  our  opinion  thereupon.  But 
we  must  acquaint  you  that  you  wou'd  have  done  well  to  have 
given  us  an  estimate  of  the  charge  and  ye  method  and  manner 
you  propose  of  settling  the  boundaries  between  the  two  Provinces, 
which  wou'd  have  enabled  us  to  have  been  more  exact  in  what 
we  have  proposed.  However  we  hope  this  matter  is  now  in  a 
way  of  being  soon  determined.  We  have  laid  before  H.M. 
what  you  write  in  relation  to  the  Indian  condemned  for  a 
murder  in  Kent  County,  and  when  H.M.  pleasure  shall  be  de- 
clared, we  shall  not  fail  of  giving  you  notice  thereof.  In 
the  mean  time  that  Indian's  case  being  as  you  have  stated, 
you  will  do  well  to  suspend  his  execution  till  further  order. 
We  have  communicated  to  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina 
what  you  writ  in  relation  to  the  goods  seized  by  that  Govern- 
ment from  the  Virginia  Indian  traders,  and  the  said  Proprietors 
have  promised  us  an  answer  thereunto,  which,  when  we  receive, 
we  shall  communicate  unto  you.  Whatever  their  answer  be, 
.we  shall  be  glad  to  know  what  the  Governor  of  Carolina  writes 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  199 

1709. 

to  you  upon  that  head.  We  are  glad  you  have  received  H.M. 
Instructions  impowering  you  to  act  as  Lt.  Governor  during 
the  absence  of  a  Governor,  and  we  will  not  doubt  but  you 
will  take  such  care  that  all  things  will  be  managed. to  the  best 
advantage  of  the  Colony  and  for  H.M.  service.  Though  the 
letters  you  mention  to  have  received  were  directed  to  Col. 
Hunter,  yet  you  being  in  his  absence  Commander  in  Cheif, 
ought  to  answer  the  same,  and  therefore  we  shall  expect  it 
from  you.  We  doubt  not  but  the  money  raised  for  building 
a  house  for  H.M.  Governor  has  been  so  prudently  laid  out  that 
the  Assembly  will  readily  comply  with  your  desire  of  giving  a 
further  supply  for  the  finishing  of  that  work.  We  have  reason  to 
beleive  that  the  incouragement  given  by  H.M.  and  the  Parliament 
here  to  the  tobacco  trade  (of  which  you  will  have  received  ac- 
counts from  the  merchants)  will  have  a  good  effect.  However, 
if  anything  occurr  to  your  thoughts  that  may  further  promote 
the  said  trade,  you  will  do  well  to  communicate  the  same  to 
us.  Upon  this  occasion  we  think  it  necessary  to  recommend  to 
you  that  you  discourage  the  inhabitants  as  much,  as  possible 
from  applying  themselvs  to  the  linnen  and  woollen  manufactures, 
which  we  hope  they  will  not  need  to  do,  when  they  come  to  be 
regularly  supplyed  with  those  commodities  by  the  merchants 
from  hence,  who  have  inform'd  us  that  in  August,  1707,  they 
had  shipp'd  to  the  value  of  £200,000  in  cloathing  and  other 
necessaries,  but  that  fleet,  being  detained  here  till  March  follow- 
ing, did  occasion  a  great  want  and  scarcity  in  Virginia.  This 
evill  we  hope  will  be  remedyed  for  the  future.  The  liberty 
given  for  the  importation  of  tobacco  from  this  Kingdom  to 
France  on  board  neutral  vessells,  and  that  H.M.  Navy  be 
supplyed  with  tobacco  bought  here  are  considerable  advantages, 
and  the  planters  will  find  the  benefit  thereof.  We  are  glad  the 
difference  with  the  Tuscaruro  Indians  is  in  a  fair  way  of 
accomodation,  as  also  that  the  nation  of  Saponees  are  returned 
to  your  Government.  You  have  done  well  to  grant  them  lands. 
We  doubt  not  but  the  good  treatment  they  will  meet  with  from' 
you  will  incline  them  to  stay  and  to  be  of  service  in  case 
of  need.  Notwithstanding  the  reasons  you  say  the  Councill 
give  for  not  calling  the  Assembly,  yet  whenever  the  service 
of  the  country  does  require  their  meeting,  you  ought  not  to 
delay  the  calling  of  an  Assembly  in  expectation  of  the  Governor's 
arrival,  which  is  uncertain,  especially  in  the  case  of  the  present 
Governor,  who  is  still  a  prisoner  in  France.  We  expect  the 
account  of  quit-rents  and  2/-  per  hogshd.  you  promised  us,  and 
'  shall  do  what  in  us  lies  that  the  fleet  from  hence  may  arrive 
with  you  in  the  fall  in  order  to  return  here  in  the  spring, 
but  we  fear  it  will  be  difficult  to  bring  the  merchants  here  to 
be  of  one  mind  in  this  matter.  However,  we  shall  do  on  our 
part  what  we  think  most  for  H.M:.  interest  and  the  service  of 
that  Colony.  [C.O.  5,  1362.  pp.  336-340.] 

Jan.  12.          296.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Seymour. 
Whitehall.    'Acknowledge  letter  of  June  23,  Aug.   16,  and  Sept.   7  and  10. 


200  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

Refer  to  representation  Dec.  20.  We  are  glad  to  find  the 
Province  in  so  good  a  condition,  and  that  the  people  increase, 
and  we  hope  by  this  time  what  you  write  of  the  inhabitants  re- 
moving to  Pensylvania  and  Carolina  is  remedied,  by  reason 
that  the  Act  passed  here,  for  settling  the  rates  of  foreign  coines, 
will  have  put  all  the  Plantations  upon  the  same  foot,  in  regard 
to  the  value  of  coine,  so  that  there  will  not  be  the  same  incour- 
agement  to  remove  as  formerly.  If  it  be  necessary  that  an  Act 
of  Bankruptcie  be  past,  you  will  do  well  to  recommend  the 
passing  of  such  a  Law  to  the  Assembly.  We  hope  that  the 
Act  which  directs  that  every  servant  upon  his  freedom  shall 
have  gun  etc.  provided  him  by  his  Master,  will,  if  duly  observed, 
in  a  little  time  arm  all  the  inhabitants,  so  that  the  Militia 
may  be  in  a  good  condition.  Your  care  in  preventing  illegal 
trade  is  very  commendable,  and  your  proposal  for  that  purpose 
has  been  sent  to  the  Commissioners  of  H.M.  Customs,  from 
whom  you  will  receive  directions.  We  are  glad  to  find  the 
inhabitants  of  Maryland  do  not  apply  themselves  to  manufactures, 
which  ought  to  be  imported  from  tihis  'Kingdom ;  and  we  doubt 
not  but  thej  will  be  supply'd  therewith  from  hence,  that  they 
will  not  neecl  to  turn  their  thoughts  to  anything  but  the  culture 
of  tobaccos.  We  have  not  received  the  accounts  of  publick 
arms  you  mention,  and  therefore  you  will  do  well  to  send  them 
by  the  first  opportunity:  however  we  are  glad  to  perceive  by 
your  letters  that  the  stores  are  in  so  good  a  condition.  "Tis  well 
the  country  is  at  last  releived  from  the  trouble  occasioned  by 
Clark,  and  that  he  has  been  brought  to  condign  punishment. 
We  have  considered  the  Law  for  encouragement  of  learning  etc. 
.  past  in  Sept.  1694,  and  find  that  the  last  clause,  "that  no 
person  having  ELM'.  Commission  to  execute  any  office  judicial 
within  this  Province,  shall  be  obliged  actually  to  inhabit  within 
this  Province,  and  exercise  the  same  in  his  proper  person,  and 
not  by  any  Deputy"  etc.,  is  so  penned  that  it  cannot  be  easily 
understood,  and  therefore  we  think  it  necessary  that  the  intention 
of  the  Law  be  better  explained  in  that  particular,  which  may 
be  by  allowing  the  patentees  in  express  terms  a  power  to  execute 
their  respective  offices  by  their  deputy  or  deputies.  Since 
the  new  regulation  of  the  Courts  has  given  such  satisfaction, 
and  since  it  appears  to  be  of  public  advantage,  the  dislike 
of  a  few  persons  to  it,  ought  not  to  be  regarded.  You  say 
you  have  not  received  our  letter  of  March  6,  170£,  we  suppose 
you  mean  our  letter  of  March  26,  1707,  and  therefore  we  send 
you  a  copy,  for  we  did  not  write  any  of  the  6th.  As  to  the 
Act  past  in  Carolina  for  encouraging  the  settlement  of  that 
Country,  whereof  you  complain;  H.M.  has  been  pleased,  upon 
our  Representation,  to  repeal  the  same;  a  copy  of  H.M.  Order 
in  ^Council  is  inclosed.  But  we  must  inform  you  that  the 
Proprietors  here  say,  no  such  Act  has  been  transmitted  to 
them,  nor  do  they  know  of  any  such.  But  if  any  Act  to  the 
like  effect  be  made,  they  will  take  care  tihe  same  shall  be  repealed. 
Your  reason  for  sending  the  list  of  Roman  Catholicks  in  .your 
Government  is  good,  and  we  commend  your  care  therein.  We 


AMEKICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


201 


1709. 


Jan.  13. 

St.  James's. 


Jan.  13. 

.Whitehall. 


Jan.  17. 

St.  James's. 
[Jan.  17.] 


Jan.  17. 

London. 


have  sent  to  the  Lord  High  Admiral  what  you  write  in  relation 
to  Commodore  Huntington's  not  giving  you  timely  notice  of  the 
sailing  of  the  Fleet:  that  matter  will  be  inquired  into,  and  we 
doubt  not  otherwise  regulated  for  the  future.  We  send  you 
here  inclosed  some  objections  that  have  been  made  to  the  Act 
requiring  the  Agents  of  the  Lord  Baltimore  to  certify  into 
the  Secretary's  Office  the  Instructions  and  conditions  of  Plan- 
tations, with  the  fees  by  them  demanded,  and  obliging  his 
Lordship's  Deputy  Surveyors  to  qualify  themselves  according 
to  law,  and  desire  you  to  communicate  the  same  to  the  Councill, 
that  we  may  have  your  and  their  observations  thereupon,  and 
that  you  inform  us  by  the  first  opportunity  of  the  reasons  for 
passing  that  Law.  As  to  the  Act  giving  power  to  the  farmers 
of  the  Lord  Baltimore's  rents  to  recover  the  arrear  thereof 
after  expiration  of  their  lease,  H.M.  has  thought  fit  to  repeal 
the  same,  it  being  grounded  upon  two  mistakes  in  law  quoted. 
(Of.  Feb.  20,  June  7,  Nov.  23,  1708).  We  have  communicated  to 
Sir  T.  Laurence  what  you  write  in  relation  to  his  affair,  as 
also  the  account  you  have  transmitted  of  the  Ordinary  licences; 
and  Sir  Thomas  having  thereupon  made  some  remarks,  we 
transmit  to  you  copies  thereof,  for  your  observation  thereon,, 
which  you  are  to  dispatch  to  us  by  the  first  conveyance.  [C.O.  5, 
727.  pp.  110-117.] 

297.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  are  to  propose  to  the  Proprietors  of  Carolina  a  Bound- 
ary Commission   etc.,   as   suggested  Jan.    7.   q.v.     Lands  to  be 
granted    in   Virginia    as    then    proposed.      Set    out,    A.P.C.,11., 
p.    588.     Signed,    Edward    Southwell.      Endorsed,    Reed.    21st, 
Bead  24th  Jan.,  170|.     6£  .pp.     [C.O.   5,  1316.     No.  11 ;  and 
5,  1362.     pp.  341-349.] 

298.  Wm.  Popple  to  Wm.  Penn.     The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations   desire   to   speak  with   you   concerning  Lord   Balte- 
more's   petition  at   10  of  the   clock  on  Monday   morning  next. 
[C.O.  5,  1292.     p.  85.] 

299.  H.M.    Warrant  for   John   Pilgrim   to    be   one   of   the 
Council  of  Barbadoes.     [C.O.    5,   210.     p.    126.] 

300.  Mr.  Thurston  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Estimate    of   necessaries    for    the    Company    at    Newfoundland, 
1709.   etc.     Of.  Jan.   19,  27.     Signed,  J.   Thurston.    Endorsed, 
Eecd.  Read  Jan.  17,  170f.     1  p.     [C.O.  194,  4.     No:  80;  and. 
195,    5.     p.    72.] 

301.  Mr.   Dummer  to  Mr.    Popple.      Gives   sailing's  of  the 
Frankland   packet-boat.      Out    and    Home    112    days.     She   was 
stopt  at   some   of  the.  Islands   longer  than  her   stated  time   by 
order  of  the  Governours.     The  Cotton  packet-boat,  which  should 
have  been,  here  the  middle  of  December,  has  met  with  desertion 
of  her  men,  and  great  sickness  among  the  rest,  and  north  winds 


202 


COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 


1709. 


Jan.  18. 


between  the  Capes,  by  which  meanes  she  lost  her  passage  thro' 
the  Bahamas  and  put  back  to  Jamaica,  after  having  been  sup- 
plied with  4  French  seamen  by  Governor  Handaside  proceeded 
again;  but  was  overtaken  by  the  Frankland  on  this  side  the 
Windward  Passage  within  hopes  of  her  being  at  home  in  a 
few  days.  Great  complaints  come  from  those  parts  against 
the  late  Act  of  Parliament  for  privateers,  which  tends  to  ye 
ruine  of  all  trade  with  the  Spanish  West  Indies,  disabling  the 
men  of  warr  and  merchant  ships  of  seamen  now ;  and  when 
Peace  shall  come,  leave  to  the  world  a  brood  of  pyrates  to 
infest  it,  etc.  Signed,  E.  Dummer.  Endorsed,  Becd.  17th, 
Bead  19th  Jan.,  170|.  Addressed.  1  p.  [C.O.  323,  6.  No.  74.] 

302.  Sir  John  Cooke  and  Wm.  Farmer  to  the  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations.  I  beg  the  favour  of  the  first  vacancy 
that  happens  in  Barbadoes,  that  you  will  make  Francis  Bond 
one  of  the  Councill  there,  etc.  P.S.  He  has  a  very  good  estate 
in  the  Island.  Signed,  J.  Cooke ,•  Wm.  Farmer.  Endorsed,  Becd. 
18th  Jan.,  Bead  2nd  March,  170f.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

302.  i.  Certificate  of  Merchants  trading  to  Barbados  in  favour 
of  Francis  Bond,  a  native  of  Barbados.  Jan.  16, 
170f.  8  signatures.  1  p.  [C.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  16, 


Jan.  18.  3O3.  Petty  Expenses  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Michaelmas 
to  Christmas,  1708.  See  Journal  of  Council  under  date.  3^ 
pp.  [C.O.  388,  76.  Nos.  45-47.] 

Jan.  18.          304.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lord  High 
Whitehall.     Treasurer.      Enclose   above   accounts,   and  request   for  payment 

of  a  quarter's  salaries  due  to  the  Secretary  and  under-officers. 

[C.O.   389,  36.     pp.  374-376.] 

[Jan.  18.]  305.  Peter  Diharce,  Merchant  of  London,  to  the  Queen. 
Prays,  in  behalf  of  Gabriel  Bouvy,  of  Bilboa,  permission  to 
load  beef  in  Ireland  in  a  Spanish  ship,  for  the  Spanish  Planta- 
tions in  the  West  Indies,  and  to  return  thence  to  Spain  with 
goods  not  contraband.  Signed,  P.  Diharce.  Endorsed,  Becd. 
Bead  Jan.  24,  170  f.  1  p.  Annexed, 

305.  i.  H.M.  refers  above  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations for  their  report.  Jan.  18,  Whitehall.  Signed, 
Sunderland.  [C.O.  388,  11.  No.  105;  and  389',  20. 
p.  273.] 


Jan.  18. 

Office  of 
Ordnance. 


Jan.  19. 

Whitehall. 


306.  Board  of  Ordnance  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    Desire  a  copy  of  Col.  Bomer's  report  upon  Ordnance 
stores  remaining  in  Fort  William  and  Mary,  New  Hampshire, 
1707.     Signed,  C.  Musgrave,  Wm.  Bridges,  Bobt.  Lowther,  Tho. 
Erie.     Endorsed,  Becd.   Bead  Jan.    18,    170f.     1  p.      [C.O.   5, 
865.     No.   10;  and  5,  913.     p.  47.] 

307.  Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    to    the    Board    of 
Ordnance.     Enclose  copy  of  report  desired  in  preceding.      [C.O. 
5,  913.     p.  48.] 


AMEEICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


203 


1709. 
Jan.  19. 

Whitehall. 


Jan.  19. 

.Whitehall. 


Jan.  19. 
Whitehall. 


Jan.  19. 

Whitehall. 


Jan.  19. 

London. 


Jan.  20. 

Whitehall. 


Jan.  20. 

Whitehall. 


Jan.  20. 

St.  James's. 

Jan.  20. 


308.  Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    to    the    Queen. 
Thomas    Pilgrim    has    not    made    good    the    allegations    of    his 
petition    [Dec.    30,    1708],    it   appearing   that  the   Marshall  of 
Barbadoes  only  levyed  on  the   estate   in  question  by  virtue  of 
a  decree  obtained  in  the  Court  of  Chandery  for  the  arrears  of 
the  jointure  of  the  Lady  Chamberlain,  now  wife  of  the  Governour. 
IG.O.  29,  11.     pp.  372,  373.] 

309.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Becom- 
mendation    of    necessaries    etc.    for    Newfoundland,    as    ordered 
Jan.   27.     Of.   A.P.C.,II.     No.    1078.      [C.O.   195,   5.     pp.   72- 

75.] 

310.  Win.   Popple  to  Wm.   Lowndes.     Encloses  draught  of 
a  bond  for  sureties  on  behalf  of  Major  Tynt.   (Dec.  30,   1708) 
for  the  Lord  High  Treasurer's  approval.     Enclosed, 

310.  i.  Draught  of   a   bond   in  £2000   for  sureties   proposed 

by  Major  Tynt  for  his  observing  the  Acts  of  Trade 
etc.  in  the  Government  of  Carolina.  [C.O.  5,  1292. 
pp.  85-89.] 

311.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Parke. 
Since  our  letter  of  Dec.  24,  we  have  received  none  from  you, 
and  have  therefore  only  to  acquaint  you  that  H.M.   has  been 
pleased  to  repeal  the  Acts  for  establishing  Courts  etc.    (Order 
of  Dec.  30),  which  you  are  to  cause  to  be  published  and  entred 
in  the   Councill   books  as   usual,   and  that  you  may  get  a  lawi 
passed  that  shall  not  be  lyable  to  the  like  objections,  as  those 
for  which  these  Acts  have  been  repealed.   Enclose  Bepresentation. 
[(7.0.   153,  10.     pp.  266,  267.] 

312.  Mr.   Dummer  to   Mr.    Popple.  Gives   sailings   of  the 
Cotton  packet-boat    (See  Jan.   17).     Out  and   home,   162  days. 
Signed,    E.    Dummer.     Endorsed,    Becd.  Head   Jan.    20,    170  f 
f  p.     [C.O.  323,  6.     No.  75.] 

313.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose    Address    from    St.    Kitts    in    favour    of    Col. 
Parke.     [C.O.  153,  10.     pp.  273,  274.] 

314.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose  copy  of  Major  Lloyd's  letter,  Nov.  15,  1708, 
with  account  of  the  French  force  at  Placentia.     [C.O.  195,  5. 
p.  78.] 

315.  H.M.  Warrant  for  Philip  Lynes  to  be  of  the  Council  in 
Maryland.     Countersigned,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  129.] 

316.  Order  of  House  of  Commons.     The  Commrs.  of  Trade 
are   to    lay    before    this    House    a    state   of    the   African   trade* 
and    their    observations    thereupon.     Signed,    Paul    Jodrell.    Cl. 
Dom.  Com.      [C.O.   388,    11.     No.    104.] 


204 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 
Jan,  21. 

Whitehall. 


Jan.  22. 


Jan-  22. 
St.  James's. 


Jan.  22. 
St.  James's. 


Jan.  24. 

London . 


Jan^  24. 

Admiralty 
Office. 


317.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Refer  to  Representation  of  Dec.    3,   1708,   as   to  the 
suspension  of  Messrs.    Sharpe,   Walker   and   Beresford,   and  to 
letter  of  Major  Jno.   Pilgrim,   Nov.    2,   1708,   relating  to  Gov- 
ernor   Crowe's    having   sworn   Messrs.    Berwick    and   Aynsworth 
into  the  Council  of  Barbados.     By  our  list  it  appears  there  were 
at  least  6   Counsellors  residing   in  that  Island   at   the  time  of 
the  said  suspension;   so  that  Mr.   Crow  was  impowred  to  have 
sworn  in  but  one  person  at  most,  for  by  his  Commission,  which 
authorises  him  to  fill  up  vacancies  that  may  happen  in  Council, 
he    is    allowed    to    fill    up    such   vacancies    to    the    number    of 
seven  and  no  more,  which  Councillors  are  to  continue  till  H.M. 
pleasure    be    known.     And    we    must    further    observe    to    your 
Lordship,    that   we    have    not    yet    received    any    account    from 
the  Governor  of  his  having  suspended  the  foresaid  Councillors, 
notwithstanding   he    is   directed   by   his    Instructions,    upon   his 
suspending  of  any  Counsillors  to  cause  his  reasons  for  so  doing, 
together  with  the  charges   and  proofs  against  the  said   persons 
and  their  answers  thereunto   (unless  he  had  some  extraordinary 
reason   to   the   contrary)    to   be   duly  entred   upon   the   Councill 
Books,  and  to  transmit  the  same  to  us  by  the  first  conveyance. 
[C.O.  29,  11.     pp.  381-383.] 

318.  Deposition  of  Dudley  Woodbridge,  one  of  the  Justices 
of  the   Court   of  Oyer   and   Terminer,   Barbados,    1705,   that  A. 
Skeen   was   then  farely  and  legally   acquitted.     Signed,   Dudley 
Woodbridge.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Feb.  14,  170|.     1  p.  \C.O. 
28,  12.     No.  6.] 

319.  H.M.  Warrants  for  Joseph  Estridge,  John  Willet,  and 
John  Peters  to  be  of  the  Council  of  St.  Kitts.      [C.O.  5,  210. 
p.  130.] 

320.  The   Queen  to   Governor  Crowe.     You  are  to  give   an 
immediate  answer  to  the  complaints  of  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker 
and  Beresford,  etc.  as  Dec.  30,  1708.  q.v.     Countersigned,  Sun- 
derland.     Endorsed,  Reed.   Read  Feb.  23,  170f.     2  pp.      [C.O. 
28,   12.     No.    9;   and  29,   11.      pp.  416-418;   and,  5,   210.     pp. 
127-129.] 

321.  Deposition  of  Owners  of  estates  of  Barbados  in  favour 
of   A.    Skene.      Signed,    Rober[£]    Havers,    J.     Bromley,     John 
Walter,  Benj.  Alleyne,  Richd.    Steele,  Pat.   Mein,  Ro.   Stewart, 
Rowld.  Tryon,  Dudley  Woodbridge,  Robt.  Moore,  Robt.  Chester, 
Tho.    Forster,    Will    Tryon,    Thomas    Pindar,    Edwd.    Lascelles. 
Endorsed,    Reed.    Read    Feb.    14,    170f.     1    p.     [C.O.    28,    12. 
No.  7.] 

322.  J.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.     Encloses  Capt.  Hunting] - 
ton's   reply    (Cf.   Dec.    18,    1708).     Signed,    J.   Burchett.      En- 
dorsed,  Reed.   25th,   Read  27th  Jan.,   170f.     Addressed.     1  p. 
Enclosed, 


AMEEICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  205 

1709. 

322.  i.  Capt.  Huntinton  to  Mr.  Burchett.  H.M.S.  Guernsey 
in  the  Downs,  Jan.  21,  170-|.  I  wrote  to  the  Governor 
of  Maryland,  July  20  and  Aug.  24,  and  should  have  writ 
to  him  sooner,  had  I  had  tihe  benefitt  of  a  tender 
allowed  by  the  country,  as  Capt.  Stewart  had,  which! 
I  could  hardly  be  allowed  to  take  my  powder  in  for  8 
or  10  days,  while  I  shifted  my  foremast,  the  old  one 
being  made  unserviceable  by  a  clap  of  thunder,  and 
although  the  time  limited  by  H.R.H.  was  not  longer 
than  Sept.  2,  by  there  request  and  to  oblidge  the 
Trade,  stay'd  till  Oct.  4.  Signed,  Jno.  Huntinton. 
Copy.  1  p. 

322.  ii.  Capt.  Huntinton  to  Governor  Seymour.  July  20,  1708. 
My  time  will  be  expired  Sept.  2,  and  do  design  to 
saile  Sept.  5.  I  desire  all  masters  of  ships  now  in  the 
Bay  would  be  in  readyness,  etc.  Signed,  Jno.  Huntin- 
ton. Copy.  1  p. 

322.  iii.  Same  to  same.  Aug.  24,  1708.  I  am  sorry  that 
through  any  mistake  I  should  be  thought  to  forgett 
my  friends,  etc.  I  assure  you  that  this  is  my  third, 
the  first  dated  a  month  since,  the  last  inclosed  in  a 
letter  to  the  Captain  of  the  Bristoll,  which'  without 
doubt  must  have  come  to  hand  were  not  the  messengers 
in  those  parts  very  negligent,  etc.  I  was  in  hopes 
the  President  of  Virginia  had  given  you  an  earlier 
account  than  this,  resolving  to  saile  Sept.  15.  etc. 
Signed,  Jno.  Huntinton.  Copy.  1  p.  \C.O.  5,  716. 
Nos.  61,  61. i. -iii.  ;  and  (without  enclosures)  5,  727, 
p.  119.] 

Jan.  24.  323.  Governor  and  Council  of  Connecticut  to  the  Council  of 
New  Trade  and  Plantations.  Your  Lordships'  letter  of  May  7th, 
on-  1707,  we  reed,  not  till  July  8th  last,  immediately  upon  iwch. 
H.M  pleasure  for  proclaiming  that  Union  was  duely  attended; 
and  such  farther  steps  taken  as  were  necessary  for  our  rendring 
ye  account  required.  (1).  As  to  the  method  used  in  ye  adminis- 
tration of  Government  and  Justice,  there  is  no  considerable 
variation  from  ye  account  we  formerly  gave,  July  15,  1680. 
We  have  two  Genell.  Courts,  wch.  are  held  on  ye  2nd  Thursdays 
of  May  and  October,  according  to  ye  time  fixed  for  them  in 
our  Charter,  consisting  of  our  Governor,  D.  Govr.,  Assistants 
and  Representatives  from  ye  severall  towns  in  ye  Colony ;  in 
wch.  Courts  such  locall  Laws  as  are  found  needfull  are  made, 
and  such  taxes  as  are  necessary  for  defraying  ye  publique 
charges  are  granted.  There  are  2  Superiour  Courts  held  annually 
for  the  triall  of  capital  offenders,  aind  for  the  hearing  of  appealls. 
There  are  also  2  Inferiour  Courts  held  annuailly  in  the  severall 
counties  in  this  Colony,  which  are  four  in  number,  in  wchi. 
are  tried  actions  in  debt,  trespass,  and  of  the  case,  and  criminall 
oausses,  wch.  are  not  capitall,  with  liberty  of  appealls  from 
these  to  the  Superiour  Courts.  The  method  observed  in  the 
proceedings  of  these  Courts  is,  (a).  The  Plaintiff  takes  out  a 


206  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

writt,  wherein  he  makes  a  declaration  of  his  case,  and  sinews 
the  cause  he  has  of  action  agt.  the  Defendt.,  wch.  writt  bears 
the  test  of  the  sworn  officers,  that  are  appointed  to  grant 
them,  as  the  Clerks  of  the  Court  where  the  action  is  brought, 
(b).  This  writt  is  served  upon  the  Defendt.  6  days  before  the 
Session  of  the  Court,  where  the  action  is  to  be  tried,  and  a 
copy  of  it  given  him  by  the  Sheriff  or  Constable,  who  are 
sworn  officers  appointed  for  the  serving  of  such  writts.  (c).  The 
Defendt.  appearing  is  first  heard  in  his  pleas  for  abating  ye 
writt,  or  in  barr  of  the  action,  wch.  if  found  insufficient,  he 
then  pleads  to  an  issue.  The  Jury  summoned  to  attend  ye 
Court  are  sworn ;  both  Plaintiff  and  Defendt.  are  heard  on  their 
severall  pleas,  and  what  they  bring  in  evidence  received ;  and 
the  cause  committed  to  the  Jury.  (d).  The  Jury  being  agreed 
upon  a  verdict,  give  it  in  to  the  Court,  which  being  entred,  the 
Court  proceeds  to  give  judg[/i]ment  accordingly,  (e).  Either 
party,  aggrieved  with  the  judg[/i]ment,  may  review  to  the  same 
Court,  at  the  next  session,  or  appeall  to  the  Superiour  Court, 
giving  in  bond  to  prosecute,  (f).  Either  party  aggrieved  with 
ye  sentence  or  judg[7i]ment  of  the  Superiour  Court,  upon  such 
appeall  brought,  may  bring  ye  action  by  review  to  ye  next 
Sessions  of  such  Superiour  Court,  where  it  is  again  heard  and 
determined  in  the  foregoing  method,  (g).  Upon  the  finall  hear- 
ing and  determining  any  cause,  execution  is  granted  by  the 
Clerk  of  the  Court,  according  to  the  judg[/i,]ment.  In  all 
capitall  causes  we  have  a  Grand  Jury.  And  if  they  find  the 
bill,  a  Petty  Jury  is  improved,  as  in  other  cases.  (2).  We  are 
preparing  an  exact  Body  of  our  Laws  to  send  yr.  Lordships. 
The  low  circumstances  of  the  Colony  has  kept  us  without  a 
Press,  so  that  we  have  been  necessitated  to  make  use  of  Manu- 
scripts for  a  considerable  number  of  our  Laws ;  but  are  now 
endeavouring  to  put  them  all  in  print,  which  we  hope  will  be 
accomplished  in  a  short  time ;  and  shall  take  the  most  speedy 
care  to  transmitt  them.  (3).  The  number  of  our  inhabitants 
according  to  the  exactest  computation  we  can  make  of  it,  is 
about  4000.  And  of  them,  those  that  upon  their  desire  have 
been  admitted  Freemen  are  about  2000.  For  servants,  we  have 
but  few,  either  white  or  black,  and  we  judge  not  above  100. 
(4).  As  for  the  increase  for  5  years  last  past;  it  has  not 
been  much,  especially  of  our  servants,  some  blacks  are  brought 
from  the  West  Indies  hither,  but  very  rarely.  And  we  have  none 
that  trade  to  Affrica,  or  bring  any  white  servants  to  us  from 
Europe.  (5).  The  Militia  of  the  Colony,  which  consists  of  al] 
above  16  that  are  capable  to  bear  arms,  amount  to  3,500.  (6). 
The  commodities  exported  to  Great  Brittain  are  chiefly  turpen- 
tine, pitch  and  tarr.  But  there  is  little  of  these  wch.  go  directly 
from  hence ;  the  last  fall  there  was  one  briganteen,  mostly  be- 
longing to  inhabitants  in  this  Colony,  which  sailed  from  hence 
to  Great  Brittain  laden  with  such  stores.  And  there  was  at 
the  same  time  another  briganteen,  of  Boston,  which  took  in 
the  same  kind  of  loading  here,  for  Great  Brittain ;  but  most  of 
these  stores  were  of  the  growth  and  production  of  Massathusetts 


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1709. 

Bay.  These  2  are  ye  only  vessells  wch.  we  know  of  that  took 
in  their  lading  here  for  Great  Brittain.  Those  small  quantities 
of  such  commodities  made  in  this  Colony,  are  sent  directly  to 
Boston  or  New  York,  for  the  procuring  of  such  European  goods 
as  are  consumed  in  this  Government.  (7).  Our  trade  with  other 
places'  is  chiefly  with  Boston,  New  York,  and  ye  West  Indies; 
to  Boston  and  New  York  we  ship  the  principall  produce  of 
this  Colony,  which  is  grain,  as  wheat  and  peas,  rie,  barly  and! 
Indian  corn ;  and  pork  and  beef ;  some  small  quantities  of 
turpentine  and  tarr.  And  it  is  by  this  way  we  are  furnished 
with  cloathing  and  other  manufactures  brought  from  England. 
To  the  West  Indies  we  send  horses,  staves,  hoops,  and  some 
small  quantities  of  pork  and  beef ;  and  bring  in  return  sugar, 
malasses  and  rum,  cotton  wooll,  and  these  in  such  small  quan- 
tities that  very  seldom  any  of  those  commodities,  so  brought 
into  this  Government,  are  exported. 

Your  Lordships  will  see  that  the  trade  of  this  Colony,  wch. 
lies  principally  in  what  is  produced  by  the  labour  of  the  inhabi- 
tants in  their  tillage  of  land,  is  not  likely  to  admitt  of  any 
great  increase,  especially  during  the  warr,  wch.  takes  off  many 
of  our  labourers  from  their  tillage ;  European  and  other  com- 
modities being  also  by  reason  of  the  warr  sold  at  so  great  rates, 
that  all  we  can  raise  upon  our  lands,  to  procure  them  with, 
will  afford  us  but  a  very  slender  supply.  Nor  are  there  any 
persons  among  us  of  estate  sufficient  to  import  such  stores  of 
European  goods,  as  produce  of  the  West  Indies,  into  this  Colony, 
as  (might  increase  trade  here,  by  inviting  the  inhabitants  of 
the  neighbouring  Provinces  to  supply  themselves  from  hence. 
(8).  There  is  a  carefull  inspection  had  upon  the  Navall  Officers 
in  the  severall  ports  within  the  Government,  that  at  no  time  any 
vessels  that  trade  unlawfully  may  escape.  And  tho  it  is  not 
possible  for  the  best  care  wholly  to  prevent  such  evill  practises, 
yet  we  believe  there  is  as  little  of  it  at  any  time,  practised 
by  any  vessels  trading  into  this  Government,  as  can  be  thought. 
For  our  supplies  of  European  goods  are  from  the  neighbouring 
Provinces.  No  vessels  having  any  trade  from  Europe,  Asia 
or  Affrica  directly  to  this  Colony,  (excepting  a  sloop  sometimes 
from  Fiall  and  ye  Maderas),  nor  any  ennumerated  commodities 
exported  out  of  the  Colony  but  very  rarely.  (9).  Ships  we 
have  none,  briganteens  2,  and  sloops  17 ;  about  100  seamen ;  all 
which  vessels  were  built  in  this  Government.  (10).  The  Manu- 
factures in  the  Colony  are  but  few ;  there  is  but  one  clothier 
in  the  Government.  So  that  our  people  are  necessitated  to 
wear  the  cloth  they  can  make  in  tlheir  own  families,  without 
anything  more  than  fulling  of  it  (for  ye  most  part)  lifter  it 
comes  out  of  the  loom.  All  we  make  is  not  enough  to  serve 
the  occasions  of  the  poorer  sort.  Nor  are  those  few  tradesmen 
we  have  of  other  sorts  capable  to  supply  the  necessities  of 
our  inhabitants,  who  are  obliged  to  buy  for  their  use  in  ye 
neighbouring  Provinces.  We  rejoyced  in  this  opportunity  to 
lay  the  present  state  of  this  Colony  before  yr.  Lordships, 
whose  great  concerns  for  the  good  of  the  Plantations  in  generall. 


208 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


and  this  in  particular,  expressed  in  your  letter,  does  both'  assure 
us  of  yr.  Lordships'  favour,  and  confirm  us  in  the  hope  of 
our  future  prosperity,  to  which  nothing  can  contribute  more 
than  yr.  Lordships'  counsel  and  directions,  etc.  Signed,  by 
order,  Eleazar  Kimberly,  Secy.  Endorsed,  Reed.  9th  June, 
Read  12th  Dec.,  1709.  7  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  No.  88;  and 
5,  1292.  pp.  178-185.]  ^ 


Jan  24.  324.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,  derland.  Since  our  letter  of  Jan.  21,  we  have  received  a  letter 
from  Governor  Crow,  wherein  he  acquaints  us  that  upon  his 
suspending  Col.  Sharp,  Mr.  Walker  and  Mr.  Beresford,  there 
were  then  but  five  of  the  Council  resident,  for  which  reason  he 
had  sworn  in  Messrs.  Berwick  and  Ay ns worth,  so  that  in  that 
respect  he  has  pursued  his  Instructions.  By  the  same  packet 
we  have  received  the  Governor's  reasons  for  his  suspending  the 
3  Councillors,  which  we  shall  consider.  [C.O.  29,  11.  p.  391.] 

Jan.  25.          325.     W.  Popple  to  Richard  Savage.     Communicates  Governor 
Whitehall.     Crowe's   complaints    (Nov.   2,   1708)    against  the  Custom   House 
Officers  at  Barbados.     [C.O.  29,  11.     p.  392.] 


Jan.  25.  326.  George  Gordon  to  the  Queen.  Petitioner  was  appointed 
by  H.M.  Provost  Marshal  of  Barbados,  1707.  The  Provost 
Marshal  formerly  appointed  a  deputy  as  Marshal  to  attend  the 
General  Assembly,  and  has  also  by  himself  or  Deputy  been 
accustomed  to  serve  all  processes  and  execute  all  executions 
arising  out  of  the  Courts,  etc.  But  the  Government  of  the 
Island  in  several  new  laws  have  empowered  several  Committees 
and  Commissioners  to  make  their  own  Marshals,  which  they 
have  done.  Refers  to  Act  to  ascertain  the  payment  of  bills, 
1707,  and  the  Supplemental  Act,  1708,  and  the  Act  for  settling 
the  public  accounts.  The  Judges  of  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas 
and  the  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  have  of  late  taken 
upon  them  to  appoint  their  own  Marshals,  and  have  refus'd 
to  admit  Petitioner's  Deputy  to  execute  the  duty  of  Marshal  for 
the  said  Courts  as  has  been  usual.  Which  proceedings  are 
manifest  encroachments  on  your  Majesty's  grant,  and  thereby 
Petitioner  is  deprived  of  the  greatest  part  of  the  perquisites  of 
his  office,  and  several  great  complaints  are  made  of  the  partial 
and  slow  execution  of  Justice,  occasioned  by  the  great  de- 
pendance  that  these  Marshals  now  have  upon  the  inhabitants, 
many  of  which  are  obnoxious  to  the  law,  and  new  offices  are 
erected  to  the  increasing  of  the  disputes  and  contentions  of 
the  people.  Prays  to  be  restored  to  the  due  execution  of  his 
office.  Subscribed, 

326.  i.  Jan.  25,  Whitehall.  Referred  by  H.M.  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Signed,  Sunder  land.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  Feb.  1,  170f.  3£  pp.  [C.O.  28, 
12.  No.  3;  and  29,  11.  pp.  393-396.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


209 


1709. 
Jan.  26. 

African. 
House. 


Jan.  26. 

New 
London. 


Jan.  27. 

St.  James's. 


Jan.  27. 

Whi'tei/all. 


Jan.  27. 
Whitehall. 


327.  Eoyal  African  Company  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Bequest   for   copies   of   any   complaints   from   the 
Plantations  against  them.     Signed,  John  Pery,  Secy.    Endorsed, 
Eecd.  Bead  Jan.  27,  170f.     Addressed.     1  p.     [C.O.  388,  11. 
No.   107.] 

328.  Governor  and  Council  of  Connecticut  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.     Your  Lordships'  letter  of  April  15, 
1708,  came  not  to  our  hand  till  Dec.  22,  in  obedience  to  which 
wee   have  made   strickt  enquiry  what  number  of  negroes   have 
been  imported  June  1698— Dec.  1707,  and  find  that  their  hath 
not  been  one  vessell  either  of  the  Royall  Affrican  Company's, 
or  of  seperate  traders,  that  hath  imported  any  negroes  hither  in 
that  ,spac(-   of    time,    nor    any   since   or    before,    that   wee    can 
heare  of.     Their  are  but  few  negroes  in  this  Government,  and 
those   wee  are   supplied  with  from  the  neighbouring   provinces 
for  the   most  part,    except  that   sometimes  half   a   dozen   in  a 
year  may  be  imported  from  the  West  Indies.     As  to  the  half 
yearly  accounts  of  negroes  imported  from  Dec.  25,  1707,  their 
is   now   a    year   from   that  time   run   out    and   none    imported, 
nor  any   like   to   be   in   vessells  from   this   Colony,   their    being 
none   employed   in   that  trade.      And   for  the   future   wee  shall 
be  carefull  to  transmit  the  half  yearly  accounts  your  Lordships 
send  for,   as   wee   shall  to   observe  what  other   directions  your 
Lordships   may  give  us.     Signed  by  order,    Eleazar  Kimberly, 
Secry.     Endorsed,  Reed.   June  9th,  Read  Dec.   12,   1709.     Ad- 
dressed-.    Sealed,     f  p.     [0.0.  5,  1264.     No.  87;  and  5,  1292. 
pp.  176,  177.] 

329.  Four  Orders  of  Queen  in  Council,  relating  to  supplies 
for    Newfoundland   etc.      Set   out,    A.P.C.,11.,      No.    1078.    q.v. 
Flncli  signed,  Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,  Reed.  9,  Read  15, 
17()f.     4£  pp.      [C.O.   194,  4.     Nos.  84-87;  and  195,   5.     pp. 

81-84.] 

330.  W.  Popple  to  John  Pery.     In  reply  to  letter  of  26th. 
The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  have  consider'd  the  ob- 
servations made  by  the  Royal  African  Company  on  their  Repre- 
sentation of  Feb.  3,  170|-,  and  have  thereupon  made  such  altera- 
tions   in   their    report    to    the    House   of   Commons    as    appears 
necessary.      They  have   receiv'd   from   some   of  the   Plantations 
lists  of  negroes  imported  into  the  said  Plantations,  which  they 
have  inserted  in  their  report,   and  they  have  not  receiv'd  any 
complaints,    as    you    intimate    in    your    letter.      [C.O.    389,    20. 
pp    274,  275.] 

331.  Council   of    Trade    and    Plantations    to   the   House    of 
Commons.     Report  upon  the  African  Trade.     Cf.  Jan.  20, 170f . 
In  1672  the  liberty  of  trading  to  Africa  was  by  K.  Charles  II. 
granted  to  the    present    Company    exclusive  of  all  others,   etc. 
Several    complaints    against   the    Company,    and   a   general    dis- 
satisfaction that  so  profitable  a  trade  should  be  confined  to  an 

Wt.  11522.  CPU 


210  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 

exclusive  joynt-stock,  soon  brought  on  an  interloping  trade. 
During  that  time  several  private  ships  with  their  cargoes  were 
seiz'd  on  the  coast  of  Africa,  and  in  the  Plantations  for  trading1 
contrary  to  the  Company's  Charter,  whereby  such  private  trade 
was  in  a  manner  crushed ;  but  upon  the  late  Revolution  it  re- 
vived again,  and  was  carry'd  on  for  some  years  to  a  much 
greater  degree  than  formerly.  In  1697  an  Act  was  passed  for 
settling  that  trade,  whereby  liberty  is  given  for  the  term  of 
13  years  (and  to  the  end  of  the  then  next  session  of  Parliament) 
from  June  24,  1698,  to  any  of  H.M.  subjects  to  trade  within  the 
limits  of  the  Company,  paying  duties  of  10  p.c.  ad  valorem  on 
all  exports  and  imports  for  trade  between  Cape  Blanco  and 
Cape  Mount,  and  10  p.c.  upon  exports  only  between  Cape 
Mount  and  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  with  an  exemption  of  duties 
on  negroes,  and  paying  5  p.c.  only  on  redwood,  all  which 
duties  are  payable  to  the  Company,  and  (together  with  the 
ird  part  of  all  forfeitures)  are  by  them1  to  be  wholly  apply'd 
to  the  maintaining  their  Forts.  Since  the  passing  of  that  Act, 
we  receiv'd  no  complaints  from  the  Plantations,  either  as  to 
the  scarcity  or  excessive  prices  of  negroes,  otherwise  than  as 
occasioned  by  the  present  war  till  those  which  have  lately  been 
sent  from  some  of  the  Plantations.  The  prices  of  negroes  sold 
by  the  "Company  and  separate  traders  have  been  much  the  same, 
and  have  ad  vane 'd  or  lessen'd  according  to  the  demand,  and  to 
the  rise  and  fall  of  the  commodities  produced  in  the  several 
Plantations.  The  Company  does  say,  that  being  willing  to  try 
if  they  could  carry  on  the  trade  under  this  new  regulation,  they 
rais'd  an  additional  stock,  but  after  an  experience  of  so 
many  years  have  found  it  attended  with  insupportable  in- 
conveniences, under  which  they  can  no  longer  subsist.  For 
they  say  that  the  10  p.c.  amounting  to  £53,731  does  not  near 
answer  the  charge  of  the  Forts  etc.,  and  show  a  deficit  of 
£185,707  for  the  years  1698—1707.  The  separate  traders  ac- 
cuse the  Company  of  extravagance  and  bad  management.  Argued 
in  detail  with  the  Company's  replies.  The  separate  traders  say 
the  Company  has  raised  the  price  of  negroes,  which  is  more  than 
double  what  it  was  before  the  Trade  was  laid  open,  in  order  to 
outdo  and  ruin  them.  The  Company  further  complain  that  the 
natives  (grow  insolent,  and  are  encouraged  by  other  traders  to 
insult  the  Company's  Forts,  and  bring  them  under  difficulties 
on  purpose  to  obtain  bribes  to  compose  differences  of  their 
own  creating ;  and  particularly,  that  one  of  the  separate  traders 
having  made  a  bargain  for  some  negroes,  carry'd  them  to  Bar- 
badoes  without  paying  for  the  same,  but  that  the  Company,  in 
order  to  secure  peace  and  a  friendly  correspondence  with  the 
negro  Kings,  sent  to  Barbadoes  and  bought  the  said  negroes  and 
returned  them  to  the  King  from  whom  they  were  so  taken.  The 
traders  say  the  Company's  differences  with  the  natives  were 
due  to  their  bad  treatment  of  them  in  trade.  The  Company 
desire  of  Joint- Stock  exclusive  of  all  others,  or,  in  case  that 
shall  not  be  thought  proper,  they  would  be  content  to  be  limited 
in  their  trade  from  Cape  Blanco  to  Cape  Lopez,  if  the  separate 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  211 

1709. . 

traders  be  restrained  from  coming  there.  The  separate  traders 
propose,  on  the  contrary,  that  the  trade  be  laid  open  (like  that 
to  Turkey)  under  a  just  regulation.  Arguments  on  this  point 
and  the  financial  position  of  the  Company,  and  their  work  in 
Africa.  Negroes  imported  into  the  Plantations  by  the  Company 
1698—1707,  Total,  =  17,760.  'Tis  computed  that  the  number  of 
negroes  necessary  for  a  yearly  supply  of  the  Plantations  is 
(Virginia  and  Maryland,  4000;  Carolina  and  New  York,  1000; 
Barbadoes,  4000;  Leeward  Islands,  4000;  Jamaica,  and  what 
are  carry'd  by  H.M.  subjects  to  the  Spanish  West  Indies, 
12000)  =25,000.  The  separate  traders  add  that  the  greatest 
part-  of  the  negroes  furnished  to  Virginia,  Maryland,  Carolina 
and  New  York  has  been  by  the  separate  traders,  and  that  not 
above  200  have  been  carry'd  to  those  parts  by  the  Company 
sinco  their  establishment,  which  not  having  been  contradicted 
by  the  Company,  we  must  observe  upon  it  that  those  Plantations, 
so  profitable  to  this  Kingdom,  ought  not  to  be  neglected,  for 
without  such  a  supply  by  the  separate  traders,  near  one  half  of 
the  tobacco  could  not  have  been  produced  and  brought  hither; 
and  how  much  that  would  have  lessen'd  H.M.  Customs,  and  the 
navigation  of  this  Kingdom,  we  need  not  mention.  Quote  returns 
•from  the  Plantations  in  reply  to  letter  of  April  15,  1708.  Upon 
all  which  we  observe  that  the  number  of  negroes  furnish'd  to 
Jamaica,  Barbadoes  and  the  Leeward  Islands  (which  are  the 
principal  Plantations)  either  by  the  Company  or  separate  traders 
sinco  the  opening  the  trade,  is  much  less  than  what  were  wanting 
for  their  necessary  supply,  and  the  carrying  on  the  Assiento 
trade,  according  to  the  foregoing  computation  made  on  that 
head ;  nevertheless  we  are  sensible  that  in  this  case  an  allowance 
is  to  be  made  for  losses  and  other  accidents  of  war,  and  we 
believe  that  the  scarcity  as  well  as  great  rates  of  negroes 
at  Barbadoes  have  proceeded  from  the  imposition  of  their  paper- 
money  in  payment  for  negroes,  instead  of  silver  or  other  goods 
since  1706,  tho'  it  must  be  allow'd  that  between  1698—1708, 
the  separate  traders  have  imported  into  that  Island  about  four 
times  as  many,  and  into  Jamaica  twice  as  many,  as  have  during 
the  same  time  been  imported  into  those  Islands  by  the  Company ; 
and  that  the  losses  lately  sustain'd  at  Nevis  and  St.  Christophers, 
when  invaded  by  the  French,  have  occasion'd  a  like  scarcity 
and  excess  of  price  in  those  last  mentioned  Islands,  where  the 
Planters  have  little  money  or  effects  to  buy  negroes.  It's  hard 
to  make  a  true  value  of  imports  either  by  the  Company  or 
separate  traders,  in  regard  such  imports  consist  mostly  of  gold 
as  well  as  of  elephants'  teeth,  and  redwood ;  and  it's  yet  the 
more  difficult  to  come  near  the  truth  thereof  on  the  part  of  the 
separate  traders,  for  that  most  of  the  masters  of  their  vessels 
bring  home  their  private  adventures  in  gold.  It  cannot  be 
doubted  but  that  a  trade  so  very  profitable  in  itself,  and  so 
absolutely  necessary  for  the  support  of  the  Plantations,  ought 
to  be  preserv'd  and  put  on  such  a  foot,  that  it  may  be  carry'd 
on  and  improv'd  to  its  full  extent.  It  may  reasonably  be  appre- 
hended, should  this  trade  be  confined  to  a  Company  by  a 


212  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1709. 

joynt-stock  exclusive  of  all  others,  that  such1  a  Company  will 
contract  the  trade  within  the  Gold  coast,  or  such  narrow  limits 
in  Africa  as  may  best  turn  to  their  own  profit,  without  regard 
to  the  good  of  the  Plantations,  or  of  the  Publick,  which  may 
be  presum'd  from  the  way  of  their  having  carry'd  it  on  for 
the  time  past.  It  will  of  consequence  very  much  lessen  the 
number  of  ships  now  employ'd  in  the  Trade,  to  the  great  discour- 
agement of  our  Navigation ;  for  since  there  has  been  an  open 
trade,  tho  separate  traders  have  sent  out  three  ships  for  one 
employ'd  by  the  Company.  Should  so  extensive  a  trade  be  con- 
fined by  an  exclusive  joynt-stock,  the  Plantations  may  suffer 
for  want  of  a  sufficient  number  of  able  negroes  at  reasonable 
rates,  those  markets  being  always  best  supply'd,  where  there 
are  most  sellers ;  and  on  this  head  we  observe  that  by  the 
Company's  own  accounts  of  the  negro-trade  from  1680  to  1688, 
in  9  years  (and  in  a  time  of  peace)  there  were  but  46,396  negroes 
deliver'd  in  the  Plantations ;  whereas  'tis  computed  by  the  separ- 
ate traders,  that,  since  the  opening  of  the  trade,  within  the 
like  term  of  years  (notwithstanding  the  present  war,  there  have 
been  imported  by  the  separate  traders  into  those  parts,  160950 
negroes.)  Lastly,  we  cannot  but  be  sensible  how  prejudicial 
it  must  be  to  trade  in  general  to  have  but  one  buyer  of  all  such 
woollen  and  other  goods  as  are  annually  exported  for  this  trade ; 
but  one  freighter  of  so  many  ships  at  home,  and  but  one  buyer 
of  the  Plantation  commodities  abroad.  'Tis  true,  that  the  French, 
Dutch  and  Danes,  Hamburghers  and  other  nations  trade  to  Africa 
in  a  joynt-stock;  their  trade  being  not  very  considerable;  whereas 
had  they  the  benefit  of  so  large  and  so  many  improveable  Plan- 
tations as  belong  to  Great  Britain  in  America,  'tis  presum'd 
they  would  soon  enlarge  that  profitable  trade  to  a  greater  extent 
by  laying  the  same  open,  and  the  separate  traders  do  say  that 
the  Portuguese  never  had  any  except  the  Cacho  Company,  which 
lasted  but  5  years,  but  that  the  trade  remain'd  open  to  all 
people  of  that  nation,  and  that  they  usually  carry'd  off  more 
negroes  yearly  (before  our  trade  was  open'd  by  the  said  Act) 
than  all  other  nations  in  Europe ;  and  the}'  say  likewise,  it  can 
be  proved,  that  there  have  been  about  100  sail  of  Portuguese 
vessels  in  one  part  of  the  coast  of  Africa  in  one  year,  when 
there  hath  been  but  one  Company's  ship  (while  the  trade 
was  exclusive)  in  15  months  at  one  of  the  Company's  chief 
places  of  trade.  Tho'  the  carrying  on  of  this  trade  in  the  way 
now  settled  by  the  Act,  is  much  more  advantageous  to  the  publick 
than  that  of  an  exclusive  Joynt-stock,  yet  we  find  that  great 
inconveniencies  have  arisen,  and  will  unavoidably  arise  from 
it's  being  carry'd  on  upon  such  different  and  contending  in- 
terests as  those  of  a  Joynt- Stock,  and  of  a  separate  trade,  for 
while  they  strive  to  beat  each  other  out  of  the  trade,  the  value 
of  our  commodities  is  greatly  lessen'd,  and  those  of  Africa  as 
much  increas'd,  and  it  is  reasonable  to  believe  that  from  such 
a  struggle  in  trade  the  disputes  and  quarrels  between  the 
Company  and  the  natives,  and  the  losses  of  which  the  Company 
complains,  have  in  some  measure  proceeded ;  for  tho'  the  Com- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


213 


1709. 


Jan.  27. 

St.  James's. 


Jan.  27. 

Whitehall. 


Jan.  27. 

St.  James's. 


Jan.  28. 

St.  James's. 

Jan.  29. 

St.  James's. 


pany  do  impute  the  great  lessening  of  their  stock  to  the  extraor- 
dinary charges  in  maintaining  the  Forts  and  castles  over  and 
above  the  produce  of  the  10  p.c.,  yet  if  the  said  10  p.c.  had 
been  well  invested  in  goods,  and  prudently  managed,  it  might 
have  answer'd  that  service.  In  the  valuation  of  the  Company's 
quick-stock  (as  given  by  them)  all  the  debts  due  to  the  Company, 
of  what  kind  soever  being  included,  unless  we  were  uble  to 
distinguish  the  good'  debts  from  the  bad,  we  cannot  positively 
affirm  in  what  condition  the  Company  now  is,  with  regard  to 
their  real  stock  in  trade,  but  do  believe  it  is  reduced  so  very 
low  that  it  will  be  impossible  (upon  the  foot  they  now  stand) 
for  them  to  carry  on  that  trade,  which,  if  duly  extended  will 
employ  a  much  greater  stock  than  the  Company  have  hitherto 
at  any  time  "had.  Their  forts  and  castles  and  other  their  dead 
stock,  the  Company  did  last  year  value  at  £141,450,  tho'  the 
separate  traders  say  that  (at  the  time  of  passing  the  Act)  all 
their  forts  and  castles  then  in  their  possession  were  valued 
by  some  separate  traders  (well  acquainted  with  their  affairs) 
at  no  more  than  £4,100,  and  if  they  are  of  greater  value  now, 
by  any  additional  fortifications  made  to  any  of  them  since 
that  time,  the  separate  traders  hope  it  will  be  thought  reasonable 
that  such  improvement  should  be  look'd  upon  as  owing  to  the 
10  p.c.  by  them  paid  (pursuant  to  the  said  Act)  in  proportion 
to  their  duties.  [C.O.  389,  20.  pp.  275-313.] 

332.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Stores  of  war  for  New 
Hampshire   ordered   as    Nov.    25,    1708    etc.      The   Governor   to 
return  an  account  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance,  etc.     See  A. P.C. 
II.    pp    571-574.     Signed,  Edward  Southwell.     Endorsed,    Reed. 
7th,  Read  9th  Feb.,  170f.     11  pp.     [C.O.  5,  865.     No.  11 ;  and 
5,  913.     pp.  49,  50.] 

333.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords   Pro- 
prietors  of   Carolina.     We   desire   to   know   your  resolution,    as 
soon    as    may    be,    concerning    the    Boundary   Commission,    etc. 
(See  Jan.   7,  and  13,   1709).      [C.O.   5,   1292.      p.   91;   and  5, 
289.     p.   154.] 

334.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Order  of  Jan.  9  relating 
to  petition  of  Lord  Baltimore  revoked,  upon  petition  of  William 
Penn,   setting  forth  that  the   case  had  been  heard   and  settled 
Nov.    7,    1685.      Signed,    Edward    Southwell.      Endorsed,   Reed. 
3rd,  Read  4th  Feb.,  170f .     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  1264.     No.  59 ;  and 
5,  1292.     pp.  97,  98 ;  and  5,  720.     No.  3.] 

335.  H.M.  Warrant  for  Robert  Eleis  to  be  of  the  Council  in 
Nevis.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  130.] 

336.  H.M.  Warrant  for  Wm.  Byam  to  be  of  the  Council  in 
Antegoa,    in  the   room  of   Barry   Tankard,   etc.     [C.O.    5,   210. 
p.    130.] 


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COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 

Jan.  29.         337.     H.M.    Warrant   for    Wm.    Whittington    to    be.  of   the 
Council  in  Maryland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  130.] 


Jan.  29. 

Admiralty 


Feb.  1. 

Jamaica. 


338.  J.  Burchett  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and   Plantations. 
Recommends  to  their  Lordships  Mr.  Gordon  (c/.  Jan.  25),  who 
has  been  many  years  in  this  office,  etc.     Signed,  J.   Burchett. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Feb.   1,  170f.     Holograph.     1  p.     [C.O. 
28,  12.     No.  4  ;  and  29,  11.     p.  397.] 

339.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.     I  think  myself  obliged  by  this  opportunity  to  acquaint 
your  Lops,  that  the  Assembly  after  sitting  4  weeks  have  made 
ready  two  Laws,  one  for  the  quieting  possessions,  the  other  the 
settling  the  ffees  of  the  severall  Offices  of  this   Island.     After 
many    disputes    for    and    against    them,    by   the    advice    of   the 
Councill  and  Attorney  Generall,  as  your  Lops,  will  see  in  the 
Minutes  of  the  Councill  of  Jan.  29,  which  I  shall  send  you  by 
the   first   packett-boat  or  man-of-war,    being   very  well   assured 
the  Assembly  resolved  to  enter  on  no  other  business,  till  satis- 
faction  was    given   them    in    relation    to   these    two    Bills,    and 
most  part   of   the   objections   that   were  to   them    before   being 
removed,   I   have   at    last    passed    them    which  I   hope  will   be 
approved  of  by  H.M.  and  your  Lops.  I  have  not  been  backward 
to  put  the  Assembly  in  mind  how  much  they  will  be  obliged 
to   H.M.,   if  she  is  pleased  to  give  her  royall  assent  to  them, 
and  therefore  do  assure  myself  they  will  enable  the  Treasury  to 
pay  its  contingent  charges  for  the  support  of  the  Government. 
The  Quartering  Act  expiring  was  another  motive  of  my  passing 
these  two  Bills,   and  I  hope  it  may  be  the  means  of  the  As- 
sembly's making  a  better  provision  for  the  Officers  and  soldiers 
of  H.M.  Regiment  here,  as  well  as  the  Treasury.     The  enclosed 
paper   will   give   your    Lops,    an    account  of   what    prizes   have 
been   taken  and   brought   in  here   since  my   last,    the  value   of 
them  I  am  not  acquainted  with,  but  believe  some  of  them  were 
very  considerable.     Here  are  severall  sloops  and  other  vessells 
igoing    to    trade    on    the    Spanish    coast    under    convoy    of    two 
men    of    war.     A    French    privateer    sloop    and    periago     lately 
landed  on  the  north  side  of  this  Island,  and  took  off  32  slaves, 
they  likewise  took  3  sloops  from  thence,  2  of  which  were  loaden 
with  ffurstick  and  piemento,  but  of  no  great  value.    The  good 
news  of  the  glorious  success  of  H.M.  fforces,  under  the  comand 
of  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  we  had  the  other  day 
by  a  runner  from  Bristoll,   which  puts  me  and  the  Regiment 
under    my    command    in    hopes    of    being    soon    relieved.     Mr. 
Wager  designs  very  shortly  to  sail  with  all  the  fforce  he  can 
make  *to   windward,   to   endeavour   to   intercept   some   merchant 
ships  coming  from  Old  France  to  Hispaniola  under  convoy  of 
two  men  of  warr,  one  of  70  guns,  the  other  of  50,  which,  are 
to  cruize  there  some  time,  and  then  go  down  to  the  Havanna, 
where  they  are  to  bee  joined  by  a  ffleet  from  La  Vera  Cruz, 
which  is  very  rich,  to  strengthen  their  convoy  home.     I   have 
given  instructions  to  all  the  privateers  commissioned  from  hence 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  215 

1709. 

to  join  with  some  Dutch  privateers  that  lie  to  windward,  if 
they  can,  and  cruize  between  La  Vera  Cruz  and  the  Havanna, 
in  hopes  to  fall  in  with  that  fleet,  which  is  now  under  a  very 
weak  convoy.  I  have  been  obliged  to  put  on  board  Mr.  Wager's 
squadron  betwixt  200  and  300  men  of  H.M.  Begiment,  to  help 
to  man  the  ships,  whidh  makes  the  duty  very  hard  on  those 
left  on  the  Island.  I  shall  give  your  Lops,  a  more  particular 
account  of  affairs  here  by  the  first  packett  boat  that  arrives, 
or  man  of  war  that  sails  from  hence. 

P.S.  Since  my  concluding  this  letter  here  is  arrived  in  the 
harbour  of  Port  Boyall  a  Gunea  ship  of  300  tonn  retaken  by 
H.M.S.  Jersey  from  two  French  privateers,  who  took  her  off 
Cape  Tiberoon  in  her  way  to  this  Island.  Signed,  Tho.  Han- 
dasyd.  Endorsed,  Becd.  2nd,  Bead  4th  April,  1709.  3  pp. 
Enclosed, 

339.  i.  An  account  of  prizes  brought  into  Port  Boyal  since 
Nov.  12,  1708  =  10.  (4  French  and  4  Spanish).  Same 
endorsement.  1  p.  [C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  33,  83.i.; 
and  (ivithout  enclosure)  138,  12.  pp.  377-380.J 

Feb.  2.  340.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Re- 
Whitehall.  port  upon  the  petition  of  the  Bahama  Merchants  etc.,  Dec. 
30, .  1708.  We  have  heard  the  petitioners,  as  also  the  Lords 
Proprietors  by  their  Council.  It  did  appear  to  us,  at  the 
said  hearing,  that  these  Islands  have  been  wholly  neglected; 
that  no  arms,  ammunition  or  stores  of  war  have  been  sent 
thither  by  the  Lords  Proprietors  these  20  years  past;  tho' 
frequent  applications  have  been  made  to  them  upon  that  ac- 
count: that  the  side  of  the  Fort  next  the  sea,  upon  the  Island 
of  Providence  (which  was  the  only  place  of  strength)  has 
been  demollished  and  still  lyes  unrepaired ;  that  the  guns  that 
were-  in  the  Fort  have  been  spiked  up  and  thrown  over  the 
wall  by  the  French  and  Spaniards,  when  they  plundered  the 
said  Islands  in  1703,  as  they  have  done  2  or  3  times  since, 
insomuch  the  inhabitants  have  deserted  to  such  a  degree,  that 
of  150  families  formerly  on  the  Island  of  Providence,  there 
are  now  but  12  remaining,  and  those  dispers'd.  So  that  the 
Petitioners  have  fully  proved  the  allegations  of  their  petition, 
etc.  Repeat  argument  for  resuming  the  Islands  to  the  Crown. 
See  June  17,  1707.  In  the  meantime,  since  the  defenceless 
state  of  those  Islands  hath  been  thro  the  neglect  of  the  Pro- 
prietors, we  humbly  offer  that,  to  prevent  their  falling  into 
the  hands  of  the  enemy,  and  for  the  better  administration  of 
the  Civil  and  Military  Government  there  in  time  of  war,  your 
Majesty  be  pleased  to  send  over  with  your  Boyal  Commission  a 
Governor  well  experienced  in  Military  affairs,  and  fitly  qualify'd 
for  such  an  employment,  as  was  done  in  some  other  Propriety 
Governments  during  the  late  war ;  and  which  your  Majesty 
may  legally  do  in  the  present  case,  according  to  the  opinion 
annexed.  .  And  we  further  humbly  offer  that  your  Majesty  be 
pleased  to  send  along  with  the  said  Governor  at  the  least  one 
oompleat  company  of  foot  for  the  defence  of  the  said  Islands, 


216 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 

and  that  such  Governor  be  impowered  and  enabled  by  a  suit- 
able number  of  gunners,  with  a  supply  of  warlike  stores  and 
other  necessaries,  to  be  sent  from  hence  to  repair  the  said 
Fort,  and  to  put  the  said  Islands  in  a  good  state  of  defence, 
as  has  allready  been  humbly  proposed,  May  24,  1706,  June  17, 
1707.  [C.O.  5,  1292.  pp.  92-95.] 

Feb.  2.  341.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lords  Pro- 
Whitehall.  prietors  of  Carolina.  Refer  to  letter  of  Dec.  9,  1708.  It  being 
some  time  since  the  Virginia  Fleet  arrived,  we  desire  to  know 
whether  you  have  received  any  further  account  of  the  goods 
of  the  Virginia  Indian  traders  seized  in  S.  Carolina,  etc.  [C.O. 
5,  1292.  p.  96;  and  5,  289.  p.  153.] 


Feb.  3. 
Craven 
House. 


342.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Reply  to  preceding.  Since  the  arrivall  of 
the  Virginia  Fleet,  we  Ihear  that  the  Loyal  Johnson  from  Carolina, 
on  board  of  whidi  our  Secretary  and  Attorney  General  are, 
fell  short  in  her  voyage,  and  was  left  in  Virginia,  but  we 
are  dayly  in  expectation  of  her  arrivall,  etc.  Signed,  Craven, 
Pallatine ;  Beaufort,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
4th,  Read  7th  Feb.,  170f.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  ATo.  60;  and 
5,  1292.  p.  98;  and  5,  289.  p.  153.] 


Feb.  3.  343.     Certificate  of  the  Queen's  Remembrancer's  Office  that 

Westminster.  Governor  Tynt  has  given  security  in  £2000  to  observe  the  Acts 
of  Trade.  Signed,  Hen.  Stevens.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Feb. 
9,  170f.  f  p.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  No.  61.] 

Feb.  3.  344.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    Referring  Representation 

St.  James's,  upon  the  Bahamas,  Feb.  2,  to  H.M.  Attorney  and  Solicitor 
General,  who  are  to  report,  with  all  convenient  speed,  what  they 
conceive  may  be  fit  to  be  done  thereupon.  Endorsed,  Reed.  9th, 
Read  15th  Feb.,  170|.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  No.  62;  and 
5,  1292.  pp.  132,  133.] 


Feb.  4.  345.     Major  Lloyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

[15  N.S.]  The  Garryson  of  St.  Johns  haveing  been  surprised  on  Dec.  21 
Platientia.  last  and  carryed  by  the  Enemy  before  ye  soldiers  could  gett 
under  armes,  I  take  leave  to  acquaint  you  therewith  by  this 
which  goes  by  the  way  of  France,  tiherefore  cannot  expect  to 
say  more  then  to  pray  your  Lordshypps  I  may  be  demanded 
by  ye  commanding  officer  of  St.  Johns  next  summer  according 
to  ye  Chartell  formerly  settled  between  ye  commanding  officers 
of  both  nations  for  exchange  of  prisoners  in  this  Collony, 
in  order  to  my  being  tryed  there  by  a  Court  Martiall  far  ye 
justification  of  my  behaviour  relateing  to  ye  misfortune  that 
happen'd.  Signed,  Tho.  Lloyd.  Endorsed,  Reed.  17th,  Read 
20th  June,  1709.  Holograph.  1  p.  [G.O.  194,  4.  No.  95;  and, 
195,  5.  p.  110.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


217 


1709. 
Feb.  4. 
Whitehall. 


Feb.  5. 

African 
House. 


Feb.  8. 
6  p.m. 


346.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.  Enclose  following  for  H.M.  signature,  at  the  first 
convenient  opportunity,  the  convoys  bound  with  the  trade  for 
Virginia  having  orders  to  sail  with  the  first  fair  wind  after 
the  10th.  Annexed, 

346.  i.  Additional  Instruction  to  Governor   Hunter.     Revo- 
king    Instruction    about     granting    lands    in    Virginia, 
April  30,   1707.     The  method  of  granting  lands  is  to 
be   according   to   the    Charter   and    Laws   of    Virginia, 
"due  care  being  taken  that  in  all  such  grants  of  lands 
hereafter  to  be  made,  regard  be  had  to  the  profitable 
and  unprofitable  acres,  and  particularly  that  every  pat- 
tentee  be  obliged  in  the  best  and  most  effectual  manner 
to  cultivate  and  improve  3  acres  part  of  every  50  acres 
so  granted  within  the  term  of  3  years  after  the  passing 
of  such  grant.     And  in  case  of  failure  thereof,   such 
grant  or  grants  to  be  void  and  of  none  effect.     [C.O. 
5,  1362.     pp.  350-355.] 

347.  Royal    African    Company   to    Mr.     Popple.      Ask   for 
names  of  ships  that  have,   since  the  passing  the  Act  to  settle 
the  trade  to  Africa,  imported  negroes  into  Jamaica  and  Antegoa, 
and  the  number  of  such  negroes  imported  by  the  separate  traders 
into  each  of  these  Plantations.     Signed,  John  Pery,  Sec.     En- 
dorsed,  Reed.    5th,    Read   7th   Feb.,    170f.      Addressed.     %   p. 
[C.O.  388,  11.     No.  110;  and  389,  20.     p.  316.] 

348.  James  Campbell  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  was  this  day  to  waite 
on  you,  'but  came  too  late,   from  thence  I  went  to  ye  House 
of  Lords  to  waite  on  my  Lord  Stamford,  but  missed  of  him. 
At  my  return  to   ye  Citty,   I  just  now  received  the  favor  of 
yours,  and  in  answer  send  you  the  inclosed  coppy  of  a  letter 
I  had  last  night  by  the  Lisbon  male  from  Newfoundland,  etc. 
Signed,   Ja.'  Campbell.      Endorsed,   Reed.    Read   Feb.    9,    170f. 
Holograph,      Addressed.      Sealed.      1   p.     Enclosed, 

348.  i.  H.E.  to  James  Campbell.  Harbargrave  Island,  Jan. 
4,  1708.  I  writ  you  by  Mr.  Archey  Cummings,  who 
I  hope  is  safe  with  you.  I  am  now  to  informe  you 
of  the  misfortun  of  the  countrey  since  Mr.  Gumming 
left  this  countrey.  On  Dec.  21  the  French  from  Pla- 
centia  to  the  number  of  160  cam  to  the  Fort  of  St. 
Jones,  and  ther  with  Staling  ladders  gott  over  the 
work  without  any  resistance,  only  two  small  armes 
the  sentry  fir'd.  Major  Loyd  then  asleep  in  his  bed, 
and  after  the  French  gott  into  the  Fort,  the  inhabitants 
in  the  new  Fort  rose  in  armes,  and  would  have  taken 
the  Fort  again  from  the  French,  but  the  shouldiers 
could  not  gett  the  keyes  out  of  the  Major's  house,  but 
when  the  French  cam  he  could  find  them,  soe  from 
some  of  those  men  that  have  mad©  their  escape  to 
those  respective  Islands,  Harbargrav  and  Carbanere 
Island  the  Fort  was  actually  sold  to  the  French,  or 


218  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1709. 

els  that  number  would  never  have  taken  it,  they  sur- 
render'd  the  Castle  next  day,  being  never  an  officer 
in  it  to  command  it.  Wee  have  petition'd  the  Queen 
to  send  us  succors  betimes  in  the  spring,  for  I  doe 
hope  if  we  can  have  succors  betimes  in  the  spring, 
we  shall  be  able  to  keep  those  Islands  from  the  insults 
of  the  Ennimie.  I  hope  you  will  doe  what  you  can  to 
the  Government,  or  els  we  shall  make  noe  voyages  this 
yeire  insuing,  etc.  Signed,  H.E.  Copy.  1  p.  [0.0. 
194,  4.  Nos.  83,  83. i. ;  and  195,  5.  pp.  79,  80.] 

Feb.  8.  349.     Deposition  of  Capt.  John  Wentworth,  Commander  of 

the  Lusitania,  and  Capts.  Thomas  Lemon  and  Isaac  GoswilL 
Have  used  the  trade  to  Barbados  upwards  of  ten  years,  and 
have  in  time  of  peace  as  well  as  war  been  obliged  to  clere 
at  the  Secretary's  Office,  and  take  out  a  licence  to  saile,  signed 
by  ye  Governor  and  attested  by  ye  Secretary.  The  fee  for 
the  licence  to  ye  Secretary  hath  never  bine  less  then  3/9. 
Sinned,  J.  Wentworth,  Tho.  Lemon,  Is.  Goswill.  Endorsed, 
Becd.  Bead  Feb.  14,  170 f.  f  p.  [O.O.  28,  12.  No.  5.] 

Feb.  9.  350.     Copy  of  the  Privy   Seal  for  establishing  the  salaries 

of  the  Commissioners  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  as  appointed 
May  4,  1708:— £1000  per  annum  to  Thomas,  Earl  of  Stamford, 
William  Lord  Dartmouth,  Sir  Philip  Meadows,  John  Pulteney, 
Bobert  Monckton,  Sir  Charles  Turner,  and  in  proportion  to  the 
day  of  his  death,  to  the  executors  of  Lord  ....  Herbert  of 
Cherbury  lately  deed.  £400  per  annum  to  the  four  Clerks 
of  the  Privy  Council  for  dispatch  of  orders  and  business  re- 
lating to  the  Council  of  Trade;  and  £73  to  be  divided  equally 
between  the  two  Doorkeepers  of  the  Council  Chamber ;  £500  to 
Wm  Popple,  Secretary,  and  £650  to  be  divided  amongst  the 
under-officers,  etc.  Signed,  John  Tench,  Deputy  to  Thomas 
Gosling.  1\  pp.  [O.O.  388,  76.  No.  50;  and  389,  36.  pp. 
380-387.] 

Feb.  10.  351.  Order  of  Committee  of  House  of  Commons  (appointed 
to  consider  of  methods  for  the  more  effectual  execution  of  the 
Laws  now  in  force  for  excluding  from  the  House  of  Commons 
Officers  and  such  as  receive  pensions  during  pleasure.)  The 
Commissioners  of  Trade  are  to  lay  before  the  Committee  on 
Tuesday  an  accompt  of  such  pensions  during  pleasure  as  paid 
by  them.  etc.  Signed,  Tho.  Onslow,  Chairman.  Endorsed, 
Becd.  Bead  Feb.  11,  170f.  f  p.  [C[.0.  388,  76.  No.  48;  and 
389,  36.  p.  377.] 

Feb.  11.          352.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,     derland.     Enclose    following    to    be    laid    before    H.M. 

352.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen. 
Representation  upon  the  complaints  against  Governor 
Crowe.  Cf.  Dec.  3,  1708.  We  have  received  his 
answer  and  the  Minutes  of  Council  Sept.  25,  1708, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  219 

1709. 

whereby  it  appears  that  he  has  suspended  the  Com- 
plainants from  the  Council,  during  your  Majesty's 
pleasure,  without  assigning  any  other  cause  for  his 
having  so  done,  than  that  they  delivered  to  him  the 
said  Articles  of  complaint,  which  he  terms  a  false, 
libellous  and  scandalous  paper.  When  the  Complain- 
ants are  prepared  with  their  proofs,  and  the  Governor 
to  make  his  defence,  as  by  your  Majesty's  Order  (Dec. 
30)  is  directed,  and  the  complaint  shall  thereupon  have 
been  fully  heard  in  such  manner  as  your  Majesty  shall 
think  fit  to  appoint,  it  will  then  appear  whether  the 
Governor  has  been  guilty  of  what  is  laid  to  his  charge ; 
therefore  we  shall  not  presume  now  to  offer  anything 
to  your  Majesty  in  regard  either  to  the  truth  or  false- 
hood of  the  matters  contained  in  the  said  complaint. 
But  we  thought  it  our  duty  so  far  to  enter  into  the 
consideration  of  the  complaint  and  answer,  as  to 
whether  the  complainants  had  thereby  given  just  cause 
for  such  their  suspension ;  and  thereupon  do  find  that, 
as  the  Complainants  affirm  the  said  articles  of  complaint 
were  by  them  delivered  to  the  Governor  in  a  private 
and  respectfull  manner  at  his  own  house,  no  other 
person  being  present  or  privy  thereunto,  which  method 
they  say  they  took  the  better  to  prevent  any  heats  or 
disorders  in  the  Island  on  that  account.  As  they  took 
this  method  to  acquaint  the  Governor  with  the  com- 
plaint they  intended  to  lay  before  your  Majesty  of  his 
maleadministration,  so  have  they  taken  care  in  the 
framing  thereof  not  to  make  use  of  any  scurrilous  or 
indecent  expression,  which  might  give  just  offence.  Nor 
does  the  complaint  seem  to  be  without  ground,  since  the 
Governor  in  his  answer  does  admit  several  of  the 
facts,  tho'  not  as  the  same  are  set  forth  in  the  com- 
plaint; however  that  will  more  fully  appear,  upon  such 
further  examination  as  your  Majesty  shall  think  fitt 
to  direct.  In  the  meantime,  there  does  not  appear 
to  us  any  good  reason  for  the  Goveraour's  having  sus- 
pended the  complainants  from  the  Council.  If  they 
had  laid  this  complaint  before  your  Majesty  without 
acquainting  the  Governour  therewith,  and  upon  it  your 
Majesty  had  thought  fit  to  have  put  the  same  into  a 
method  of  examination,  in  that  case  we  cannot  imagine 
that  the  Governor  wou'd  have  suspended  them  from 
the  Council,  while  the  complaint  was  under  examin- 
ation, and  there  seems  to  be  less  reason  for  his  doing 
it  in  the  present  case,  which  differs  only  in  their 
having  given  him)  a  copy  of  the  complaint  in  the  manner 
before-mentioned,  whereby  he  might  be  better  prepared 
to  make  an  early  defence,  and  if  inocent,  be  the  sooner 
eased  of  the  weight  of  so  heavy  an  accusation.  Tho'  it 
be  the  undoubted  duty  of  every  Member  of  that  your 
Majesty's  Councill  to  pay  all  due  and  lawfull  submission 


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1709. 


Feb.  11. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  11. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  12. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  13. 

St.  James's. 


Feb.  13. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  14. 

Custom- 
house, 
Lyme. 


to  the  authority  wherewith  your  Majesty  has  been 
pleased  to  intrust  the  Governour;  yet  if  upon  a  com- 
plaint, made  to  your  Majesty  by  any  of  the  Members 
of  that  Board  (who  in  some  cases  have  a  concurrent 
power  with  the  Governor  and  in  others  are  assistants 
to  him)  the  persons  so  complaining  shall  by  reason 
thereof  without  any  other  cause  be  liable  to  suspen- 
sion, we  think  that  such  proceeding  will  greatly  tend 
to  discourage  all  manner  of  complaint,  how  just  or  well 
grounded  soever  the  same  may  be ;  and  that  thereby  the 
Governor  will  be  left  without  any  sort  of  cheque  in 
the  administration  of  Government.  Wherefore  we  do 
humbly  propose  that  the  suspension  of  the  said  Coun- 
sellors, William  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker  and  Samuel 
Beresford  be  taken  off,  and  that  they  be  restored  to 
their  respective  places  in  that  your  Majesty's  Council. 
[C.O.  29,  11.  pp.  398,  410-415.] 

353.  W.  Popple  to  W.  Lowndes.   Encloses  Gov.  Parke's  com- 
plaints   as   to    illegal    trade    in   the   Leeward    Islands,    (Oct.    1, 
1708)  to  be  laid  before  the  Lord  High  Treasurer.     [C.O.   153, 
10.    'p.  304.] 

354.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Dudley. 
In  pursuance  of  Order  in  Council,  Jan.  27,  you  are  to   take  care 
that  the  stores  of  war  ordered  for  New  Hampshire  be  not  issued, 
but  as  the  necessary  defence  of  the  inhabitants  shall  require; 
and  that  you  transmit  to  us  and  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance  regular 
accounts  of  the  expenditure  and  remain  of  all  such  stores,  as 
by   your   Instructions    and   our   letter   of   Aug.    4   last   you   are 
required  to  do.     You  are  therefore  to  give  the  necessary  direc- 
tions both  in  New  Hampshire  and  the  Massachusets  Bay  that 
H.M.    pleasure   herein   be  punctually   and  duly  complied   with. 
[C.O     5,   913.      p.   51.] 

355.  Mr.   Popple  to   Thomas   Corbin.     Encloses  letters  for 
Col.    Jenings,    to    be    forwarded    by    the    convoy    for    Virginia, 
etc.     [C.O.  5,  1362.     p.  356.] 

356.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Messrs.    Sharpe,   Walker 
and  Beresford  are  to  be  restored  to  their  places  in  the  Council 
of   Barbados,    etc.      Warrant   to   be   prepared  accordingly.      Cf, 
Feb.   11  and  19.     Signed,  John  Povey.     Endorsed,  Reed.   Feb. 
25,  Bead  March  2,  170 £.     1£  pp.     [C.O.  28,  12.     A7o.  15;  and 
29,    11.      pp.    424-426.] 

357.  Mr.   Popple  to  Mr.   Burchett.     Quotes  Governor  Han- 
dasyd  (Oct.  27,  1708)  as  to  need  of  sailors  at  Jamaica,  for  the 
Lord  High  Admiral's  information.     [C.O.  138,  12.     p.  360.]    , 

358.  Thomas    Jans    to    Mr.    Popple.       Encloses    following. 
Signed,    Tho.    Jans.      Endorsed,    Becd.    Bead    March   3,    170f. 

p.  Enclosed, 


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Feb.  14. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  14. 


Feb.  14. 
Whitehall. 


Feb.  14. 

Louden. 


Feb.  14. 

London. 


Feb.  15. 


358.  i.  List  of   ships    wch.    sailed   from    Port   Lyme   Regis 
to  the  fishery  at  Newfoundland,  Christmas  1707 — 1708, 
=  1.     Signed,  Tho.  Jans,  Collector,  \Vm.  Bennett.  1  p. 

[C.O.   194,  4.     Nos.  88,  88.i.] 

359.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Representation   on    petition    of   Mary   Bowden    (April 
22,  30th,   and  Nov.   12,   1708.).     It  appears  by  the  report  and 
affidavits  transmitted  from   St.   Kitts,  that  she*  could  not  show 
any  title  to  the  Plantation,  nor  that  she  had  made  any  improve- 
ment thereon;   that   Governor  Parke  had  paid  her  the   full  of 
what  her  negroes  were  appraised  at ;   and  that  he  was  so   far 
from    hindring   her    from   coming   over   to   this    Kingdom,    that 
when   (upon  her  endeavouring  to  come  away)  she  was  arrested 
for  debt  (which  was  the  true  reason  of  her  being  stopp'd)   the 
Governor    himself    became   her    security,    upon    which   she   was 
discharged.     And  therefore  we  humbly  represent,  in  concurrence 
with  tho  oppinion  of  the  Lieut.   Governor  and  Councill  of  St. 
Christophers,   that   it   does   not   appear   the  petitioner   had   any 
ground    for    complaint   against    Governor    Parke,    and   that   her 
allegations  are  not  true.     [C.O.   153,  10.     pp.  305-307.] 

360.  Deposition  of  J.  Warters    as    to    the    rights    of    the 
Provost  Marshal   of  Barbados.      Similar   to   No.    362.     Signed, 
J.  Warters.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  March  1,  170f.     1  p.    [C.O. 
28,    12.     No.    14.] 

361.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Committee  of 
the  House  of  Commons  (v.  Feb.  10).    No  such  pensions  are  paid, 
nor    ever    have    been    paid    by    us   to    any    person   whatsosver. 
{C.O.   389,  36.     p.  378.] 

362.  Deposition  of  Mr.  Woodbridge,  Judge  of  the  Court  of 
Admiralty,  Barbados,  till  Sept.,  1708,  that  George  Hannay  and 
James    Hannay,    Provost   Marshal,    and    George    Hays,    Deputy 
Marshal,   executed  the  office  of  Marshal  of  the  Admiralty  and 
received  the  profits  thereof.     Signed,  Dudley  Woodbridge.     En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  March  1,  170|.     1  p.     [C.O.  28,  12.  No  11.] 

363.  Deposition    of    Patrick    Mein,    formerly    Judge    of   the 
Court  of  Admiralty,  Barbados,  to  the  same  effect  as  preceding. 
Signed,  Pat.  Mein.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  March  1,  170f .     1  p,. 
[C.O    28,    12.      No.    12.] 

364.  Deposition    of    Tho.    Foulerton    and    Wm.     Heysham. 
George  Hannay,  as  Provost  Marshal,  used  himself  or  by  Deputy, 
to  levy  executions  upon  the  judgments  obtained  in  all  or  most 
of  the  Courts  of  Common  Law.     Before  his  death  the  Judges 
of  the  respective  Courts  began  to  claim  a  right  of  appointing 
their   own   Marshal   by   vertue   of   an   old   obsolete    law   of   the 
Island,   but  Mr.    Hannay  contested  the  matter  and  maintained 
his   patent.     Whilst  the  office  of  Provost  Marshal  General   ex- 
tended  all  over  the  Island  it  was  better   executed  than  it  has 


222  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

been  since.  The  offices  of  Marshal  of  the  Assembly,  Marshal 
for  the  Council  and  Court  of  Errors,  Marshal  of  the  Court  of 
Admiralty,  Serjeant  at  arms  for  the  Court  of  Chancery,  were 
always,  dureing  our  residence  in  Barbados  without  interruption 
or  dispute  executed  by  Mr.  Hannay  and  his  deputies.  Signed, 
Tho.  Foulerton,  Wm.  Heysham.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Read  March 
1,  170f.  2£  pp.  [C.O.  28,  12.  No.  13.] 

Feb.  15.  365.  Order  of  Committee  of  the  House  of  Commons  (See 
Feb.  10).  The  Commissioners  of  Trade  are  to  lay  before  the 
Committee  the  establishment  of  their  Office,  and  whether  the 
persons  therein  named  are  interessed  for  themselves  or  in  trust 
for  any  other  person,  and  for  whom.  Signed,  Tho.  Onslow, 
Chairman.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read  18th  Feb.,  170|.  £  p. 
[C.O.  388,  76.  No.  49 ;  and  389,  36.  p.  379.] 

Feb.  15.  366.  Joshua  Kocherthal  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
New  York,  tations.  Returns  thanks  for  the  favours  of  the  Board  to  him- 
self and  the  poor  German  Protestants.  See  C.S.P.  1706—8. 
Signed,  Josua  Kocherthal.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug.  29, 
1709.  Addressed,  Sealed.  Latin.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No. 
108.] 

Feb.  15.  367.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary 
Whitehall.  Boyle.  In  obedience  to  H.M.  commands  (Aug.  4,  1708),  we 
have  examined  the  complaints  from  Antigua  against  Governor 
Parke,  etc.  March  9,  170|.  As  to  what  relates  to  the  dissolving 
of  the  Assembly,  we  find  by  the  Minutes  of  Councill  in  As- 
sembly, March  1-5,  170|,  that  the  Assembly  did  sit  but  three 
days,  but  that  their  dissolution  was  by  advice  of  the  Councill 
there  in  regard  the  Assembly  did  refuse  or  neglect  to  proceed 
upon  the  publick  business  of  the  Island,  unless  some  unwarrant- 
able priviledges  by  them  claimed  were  first  complyed  with, 
not  for  addressing  in  behalf  of  the  woman  who  complained  of 
having  soldiers  put  into  her  house.  We  find  by  the  foresaid 
Minutes  that  Mrs.  Cardro,  or  Hasings,  the  woman  named  in  the 
Address,  had  no  right  or  title  to  the  said  House,  she  having 
forfeited  the  land  whereon  it  was  built,  by  not  complying  with 
the  directions  of  the  Law  of  that  Island,  relating  to  the  seating 
of  lands;  the  said  lands  and  house  (if  it  can  be  called  so, 
being  but  8  foot  square)  were  thereupon  granted  to  another 
person,  who  likewise  forfeited  the  same,  and  for  the  same 
reason ;  that  one  of  the  Lieutenants  of  the  Regiment  having  com- 
plain'd  to  Col.  Park  that  the  Magazine[s]  were  so  crouded 
that  he  feared  they  might  get  distempers,  Col.  Park  ordered 
the  said  Lieutenant  to  put  some  of  the  said  soldiers  into  that 
House,  which  he  did  accordingly.  This  is  what  the  complaint 
calls  sending  of  soldiers  to  take  possession  of  a  poor  woman's 
house  without  law  or  reason.  Having  on  this  occasion  pe- 
rused the  several  Minutes  of  Councill,  we  find  that  the  Governor 
has  behaved  himself  witih  great  zeal  for  H.M.  service,  as  Jike- 
wise  with  great  care  and  diligence  for  the  good  and  security 


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Feb.  15. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  18. 

Whitehall. 


of  those  Islands,  which  in  justice  to  him  we  cannot  but  acquaint 
you  with.     Autograph  signatures.      3   pp.     Enclosed, 

367.     i.  Minutes    of    Council    of    St.    Christophers,    Nov.    12, 
1708.     2f  pp. 

367.  ii.-iv.   Extracts  of  letters  from  Antigua,  March  9,1708, 

St.  Kitts,  Nov.  13,  1708  and  Governor  Parke  Nov.  14, 
1708,  referred  to  in  preceding.  Duplicates.  5  pp. 
[C.O.  152,  39.  Nos.  118,  118.1. -iv.;  and  (without  en- 
closures) 153,  10.  pp.  308-310.] 

368.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose  draught  of  Instructions,  relating  to  the  Acts 
of  Trade  and  Navigation,  for  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina, 
to   be   given   to   Major   Tynte,    appointed  Governor,    they   being 
to  the  like  effect  as  those  given  to  them  and  all  other  Proprietors 
of   Plantations   on  the   like   occasion.      Annexed, 

368.  i.  Instructions    referred    to    in    preceding.     Cf.    March 
24.      [C.O.    5,    1292.     pp.    99-131.] 

369.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.   Repre- 
sentation upon  the  petition  of  A.  Skene  (Cf.  July  8  and  Sept. 
20,  1708).    Quote  charges  and  defence   (Cf.  Journal  of  Council 
of   Trade,   Feb.    14).     It  appears  to  us,  the  said   Skeen  is  not 
the    first     Secretary     who     hath    taken     such     fees,     the    like 
having   been   received   by   his    predecessors ;    however   the    com- 
pelling masters  of  ships  to  petition  for  liberty  to  sail,  whereby 
they   are   put   to   the    charge   of  having   such   petitions   drawn, 
and  the  5/s.  paid  for  the  Governor's  Order  upon  every  petition, 
over  and  above  3/9d.  for  every  licence  to  sail  are  an  imposition 
and  burden  upon  trade,  and  therefore  we  humbly  offer  that  your 
Majesty  signify  to  the  Governor  your  dislike  thereof,  and  that 
for  the  future  masters  of  ships  may  be  put  to  no  other  charge 
for  licence  to  sail  than  that  of  3/9d.,  the  ancient  and  accustomed 
fee:   and  that  such  signification  of  your  Majesty's  pleasure  be 
entred   in  the    Council!   Books   there,    and   that   the    same  may 
be  made  publick.     The  second  charge  relates  to  Skeen's  receiving 
£210  for  procuring]  a  fleet  to  be  stopt  in  May,  1704.     Upon  the 
whole  matter,  tho  we  cannot  but  adhere  to  our  former  opinion 
that  he  has  justly  incurred  your  Majesty's  displeasure  in  liaving 
been  engaged   in  the  several   beforementioned   practices,  yet  in 
regard  that   the  aforesaid  fees  of   12/6  and  5/s.   imposed  upon 
trade  were  not  first  introduced  and  demanded  by  him,  and  that 
he  has  continued  for  more  than  three  years  past  under  a  suspen- 
tion   from  the   execution   and  profit  of  his   office   of   Secretary, 
that  he  has   past   the   form   of  a   tryal    (tho'   we   cannot  think 
the  same  so  regular  as  it  ought  to  have  been)   and   in  regard 
of  the    good    character    which  has   been  given  of  him,   we   do 
humbly  submitt  it  to  your  Majesty,  whether  he  may  not  be  a 
proper  object  of  your  Majesty's  clemency  and  goodness  in  direct- 
ing that  his   suspention   be   taken   off,   and   he   restored   to  the 
execution  of  his  office ;  which  if  your  Majesty  shall  be  gratiously 
pleased  to  doe,  we  presume  that  the  punishment  he  has  already 


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undergone  will  deter  him  from!  the  like  practices  for  the  future. 
[C'.O.  29,  11.     pp.  '403-409.] 


Feb.  19.        37O.     The   Queen  to   Governor   Crowe.     You   are  to  restore 
St.  James's.    Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  their  respective  places 
in   the   Council,    etc.     Countersigned,    Sunderland.      1   p.     En- 
dorsed, Recd.  Read  Feb.  23,  170  f.    1  p.     \C.O.   28,   12.     No. 
10;  and  29,   11.     pp.   419,  420.] 

Feb.  19.         371. '  Governor  Saltonstall  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
New  London  tations.    Upon  the  arrival  of  my  Ld.  Lovelace  to  his  Govermt.  I 
iU  Cc°onionytiCUfc  recd-  from  him  yr-  Lordships'  letters  of  May  14  and  July  13,  1708. 
etc.     I   immediately   caused   the   2   Acts  of   Parliament   therein 
mentioned  to  be  published,   and  shall  use  my  utmost   care  yt. 
H.M.    Instructions  be  very  punctually  observed.     Signed,  Gur- 
don   Saltonstall.     Endorsed,   Recd.    9th  June,   Read  12th  Dec., 
1709.     1  p.      [C.O.  5,  1264.     No.  89;  and  5,   1292.     p.  186.] 

Feb.  20.         372.     The    Earl    of     Sunderland   to   the    Council    of    Trade 
Whitehall,     and  Plantations.     I  desire  to  know  whether  you  have  any  ob- 
jection to  the  granting  such  a  pass  as  is  desired  in  enclosed, 
and  what  proviso's  or  restrictions  you  will  think  necessary  to 
be  inserted  inj  a  pass  in  this  particular  case.   Signed,  Sunderland. 
Endorsed,  Recd.  25th,  Read  28th  Feb.,  170f.    I  p.     Enclosed, 
372.     i.  Petition    of    Peter    Diharce,    of    London,    Merchant, 
in   behalf   of   the   owners   of   a    Spanish    ship    Nuestra 
Senora  de  Begona,  for  a  pass  to  proceed  on  a  voyage 
from    Spain   to    Newfoundland    or    New    England,    and 
to  return  to  Spain  with  goods  not  contraband.    Signed, 
P.   Diharce.      1   p.      [C'.O.    388,    11.     Nos.    115,    117; 
and  389,  20.     pp.   323-325.] 

Feb.  21.  373.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Committee  of 
Whitehall,  the  House  of  Commons.  Reply  to  Feb.  15.  Enclose  Privy  Seal 
(Feb.  9).  We  certify,  each  of  us  for  himself,  and  not  one  for 
thi?  other,  that  the  respective  salaries  and  every  part  thereof 
payable  to  us  by  the  said  Privy  Seal  are  to  our  own  proper 
use,  and  not  in  trust  for  any  other  person  or  persons  whatsoever. 
Signed  by  the  Commissioners,  Secretary  and  Officers,  Cf.  Feb. 
9.  [C'.O.  389,  36.  pp.  387-389.] 

Feb.  21.  374.  Samuel  Barons  to  Governor  Parke.  Prays  that  H.M, 
Order,  July  9,  1705,  for  the  restitution  of  his  ship,  the  America 
and  cargo,  condemned  by  Governor  Codrington  in  1700,  may) 
be  put  in  execution.  Case  stated.  Endorsed,  Recd.  Feb.  21, 
170|.  S%pp.  [0.0.  152,  8.  tfo.ll.] 

Feb    22.         375.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Repre- 

Whitehall.     sentation   on   Lord  Cornbury's   letter,   Oct.    18,    1708.      Foreign 

coins  are  by  this  Act  of  Assembly   (of  New  York)  raised  to  a 

higher  rate  than  at  which  they  are  allowed  to   be  current   by 

the  Act  for  ascertaining  the  rates  of  foreign  coins  etc. ;  and  we 


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1709. 

take  leave  to  instance  in  one  particular,  vizt.,  all  Spanish  coins 
of  Mexico,  Sevill  and  Pillar  are  not  to  pass  at  less  than  &/- 
the  ounce  Troy;  whereas,  according  to  the  proportion  settled  by 
the  foresaid  Act  of  Parliament,  the  ounce  Troy  ought  to  be  but 
6/10J.  Upon  this  occasion,  we  cannot  but  observe  that  the 
Lord  Cornbury,  in  giving  his  assent  to  this  New  York  Law, 
has  acted  contrary  to  his  Instructions,  whereby  he  is  required 
not  to  permit  any  Act  of  Assembly  to  pass  for  altering  the 
price  or  value  of  the  current  coin  within  his  Government  with- 
out your  Majesty's  particular  leave  or  direction  for  the  same, 
Tho',  in  the  forementioned  Act  of  Parliament,  there  be  a  Clause 
(quoted)  that  this  Act  shall  not  restrain  H.M.  from  regulating 
the  rates  of  foreign  coins  in  the  Plantations  by  Proclamation, 
or  from  giving  Her  royal  assent  to  any  law  hereafter  to  be  made 
in  any  of  the  said  Colonies  or  Plantations,  for  ascertaining 
the  current  rates  of  such  coins,  etc.,  yet  the  intent  of  th,© 
said  Law  was  that  there  should  be  but  one  and  the  same 
value  of  the  same  species  of  foreign  coins  throughout  all  your 
Majestys  Plantations  in  America.  When  your  Majestys  royal 
Proclamation  for  settling  the  rates  of  foreign  coins  was  sent 
over  to  New  York  in  1704,  the  complaints  then  made  by  that 
Government  were,  that  if  the  said  Proclamation  was  duly  put 
in  execution  at  New  York,  that  Province  would  suffer  Very 
much  thereby,  for  that  the  neighbouring  Provinces  of  the  Massa- 
chusets  Bay  or  Pennsylvania  did  not  pay  any  obedience  there- 
unto;  and  therefore  the  Lord  Cornbury  suspended  the  execution 
of  the  said  Proclamation  within  his  Government,  but  they  did 
not  then  make  any  objection  to  the  rates  at  which  your  Majesty 
was  pleased  to  order  the  said  coins  to  pass.  We  further  hum- 
bly offer,  that,  should  this  New  York  Act  be  confirm'd  by  your 
Majesty,  it  may  reasonably  be  presumed  the  other  Plantations 
will  also  pass  laws  of  the  like  nature,  and  thereby  raise  the 
value  of  such  coins  as  they  shall  think  most  to  their  particular 
advantage ;  which  method  would  entirely  defeat  the  intent  of 
the  foresaid  Act  passed  here  the  last  Session  of  Parliament, 
and  bring  the  Plantations  under  the  same  inconveniencies  as 
formerly.  We  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  your  Majesty  be 
pleased  to  signify  your  disallowance  and  disapprobation  of  the 
forementioned  New  York  Act.  [0.0.  5,  1121.  pp.  359-362.] 

Feb.  23.  376.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  have  received  and  corn- 
Admiralty  muuicated  to  my  Lord  High  Admiral  your  letter.  (Feb.  13).  As 
Office.  my  Lor(i  High  Admiral  is  very  sorry  for  this  great  want  of 
men  for  the  ships  in  Jamaica,  soe  is  his  Lordship  not  a  little 
surprized  at  it,  since  the  Governor  is  pleased  to  say  that  the 
shipps  are  very  healthy.  However  I  am  to  observe  to  you  that 
the  late  Act  of  Parliament,  which  restraines  the  Captains  of 
H.M.  shipps  from  imprest-ing  men,  even  in  the  greatest  neces- 
sity, has  undoubtedly  put  it  out  of  their  power  of  keeping  their 
sd.  ships  soe  well  mann'd  as  otherwise  they  might  have  been, 
insomuch  that  both  Rear  Admiral  Wager  and  Mr.  Baker,  who 
is  now  going  to  succeed  him  in  the  command  of  the  squadron  at 

Wt.  11522.  C  P  15 


226 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 


Feb.  24. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  24. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  24. 

Whitehall. 


Feb.  24. 

Whitehall. 


Jamaica,  have  orders  to  send  their  ships  home,  when  they  'find 
their  men  soe  reduced,  as  that  there  are  not  more  than  a  suf- 
ficient number  to  sayl  them ;  but  as  it  is  to  be  hoped  tih'at 
the  squadron  now  going  will  sett  forward  well  mann'd,  soe  will 
they  carry  with  them  supernumerary  men,  the  better  to  enable 
the  ships  to  come  home  which  are  to  convoy  the  Trade,  &to. 
Signed,  J.  Burchett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Feb.  24,  170f.  Ad- 
dressed. If  pp.  [C.O.  137,  8.  No.  30;  and  138,  12.  pp.  371, 
372.] 

377.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  Governor  Parke.     Acknow- 
ledges letter  of  Sept.  29.     I  am  yet  a  stranger  to  any  articles 
Mr.  Nevin  may  have  brought  against  you.     Be  they  what  they 
will,  you  need  not  doubt  of  justice  and  a  fair  hearing.     Signed, 
Sunderland.      [C.O.    5,    210.     p.    132.] 

378.  The     Earl     of     Sunderland     to     Governor     Handasyd. 
Acknowledges  letters  of  Oct.   27,   Nov.    23  and  Dec.   4.     H.M. 
has  not  yet   come  to  any  determination  upon   your  request  to 
be  recalled,  and  that  your  Regiment  may  be  releived.     As  soon 
as  I  know  H.M.   resolution  in  it,  I  shall  not  fail  to  send  you 
an  account  by  the  first  opportunity ;  in  the  mean  time  you  may 
be    assured   of    H.M.    favourable    acceptance    of    your     service. 
Signed,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  133.] 

379.  Same    to    Governor    Crowe.      Acknowledges    letters    of 
Sept.   6   and  23,   and  Nov.    2.     The    charge    against  you  is   SQ 
heavy  that  H.M.  could  not  but  grant  her  letters  to  the  Complain- 
ants for  their  being  restored  to  their  places  in  the  Council  of 
your  Island,  and  for  a  fair  and  full  examination  of  this  matter, 
which   I   hope   instead  of   doing  you  any   prejudice   will   prove 
of  service  to  you  in  giving  you  an  opportunity  fully  to   clear 
yourself,    and   then   you  need   not   doubt  of   H.M.    justice  and 
favour,  and  you  may  be  assured  of  the  good  wishes  of,  Signed, 
Sunderland.      [C.O.   5,  210.     pp.   133,  134.] 

380.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Crowe. 
Acknowledge  letter  of  Nov.  2.     As  to  what  you  write  in  relation 
to   the   remissness   of   the   Custom    House   Officers,    and   to   the 
power   they   pretend   to   have    from   hence  of   disposing   of   all 
inferior  places  with  regard  to  the  Customes  in  Barbadoes,   we 
have  laid  that  matter  before  the  Lord  High  Treasurer.     However 
you  ought  to  have  transmitted  the  like  accounts  to  the  proper 
offices.     We  have  had  under  consideration  your  answer  to  the 
complaints   of  Messrs.    Sharpe,   Walker  and  Beresford,   as   also 
the  Minutes  of  Council  to  which  you  referr  us  for  the  reason 
of  your  suspending  the  said  Counsellors ;  which  do's  not  seem 
to  us  to   be  well   grounded;   for  the   presenting   to  you   in  the 
manner  they  did  their  paper  of  complaints,  is  not  a  sufficient 
reason    for    suspending     them     from    the     Councill,     especially 
H.M.     pleasure    not    being    first   known  upon  the   complaints, 
nor  you  cleared  of  what  they  lay  to  your  charge:  wherefore 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  227 

1709. 

we  have  thought  it  our  duty  to  represent  the  same  to  ELM.,, 
who  has  thereupon  been  pleased  to  direct  that  they  be  restored 
etc.  (Feb.  19).  So  that  the  Council  as  appears  by  our  list 
(Mr  Timothy  Salter  and  John  Frere  having  been  lately  ap- 
pointed by  H.M.,  and  Mr.  Middleton.  Chamberlain  being  some 
time  since  gone  over)  will  be  full,  and  therefore  Mr.  Samuel 
Berwick  and  Mr.  James  Ayns worth  are  no  longer  to  be  con- 
tinued. Upon  this  occasion  we  cannot  but  take  notice  that 
after  you  had  received  H.M.  Order  for  swearing  Major  Pilgrim 
of  the  Councill,  it  was  51  days  before  you  did  it,  which 
delay  in  obeying  H.M.  Orders  you  ought  not  to  have  been 
guilty  of.  Enclose  H.M.  letter,  Jan.  22.  We  shall  expect  the 
•public  accts.  you  promise  us,  by  the  next  conveyance,  [p-0. 
29,  11.  pp.  421-423.] 

Feb.  24.         381.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Parke. 

Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letters  of  Oct.  1  and  Nov.  3  and'  13  and  14. 
The  Address  from  St.  Kitts  transmitted  Nov.  3  has  been  laid 
before  H.M.  As  to  what  you  write  in  relation  to  the  Court 
Jjaw,  you  wou'd  have  done  well  to  have  sent  us  the  title 
thereof,  the  time  when  it  was  past,  and  whether  the  same  be 
confirmed  here  or  not,  which  wou'd  have  enabled  us  to  have 
been  more  particular  in  our  answer ;  therefore  we  shall  expect 
in  your  next  that  you  do  give  us  an  answer  to  these  particulars, 
to  the  end  we  may  lay  yt.  matter  before  H.M.,  if  it  shall  'be 
found  necessary  for  her  pleasure  therein.  We  cannot  but  con- 
cur with  you,  that  it  will  tend  very  much  to  the  advantage 
of  the  Island,  that  persons  be  oblig'd  to  pay  the  debts  they 
have  already,  or  may  hereafter  contract  there,  and  we  are 
sorry  to  find  the  inhabitants  refuse  to  do  it,  and  are  therefore 
of  opinion  that  you  do  use  your  best  endeavours  with  the 
Assembly  as  well  in  that  Island  as  in  the  other  three  under 
your  Government,  to  get  a  Law  past  to  oblige  all  persons  to 
pay  their  just  debts ;  this  we  take  to  be  the  readiest  way  to 
prevent  fraud  and  oppression,  and  what  we  conceive  will  turn 
to  the  good  of  trade  and  generall  benefit  of  those  Islands. 
We  must  again  repeat  what  we  have  severall  times  writt  to 
you,  that  whilst  you  continue  to  act  for  H.M.  service  and  the 
welfare  of  the  said  Islands,  the  resentmts.  of  those  persons 
concerned  in  illegal  trade  and  dissatisfied  with  you  for  doing 
your  duty  shall  make  no  impressions  upon  us  to  your  prejudice. 
On  the  contrary,  we  do  assure  you,  that  when  Mr.  Nevin, 
whom  we  have  not  yet  seen,  shall  lay  tfhe  complaints  you 
mention  he  is  to  make  against  you  before  us,  our  opinion 
will  "be  that  the  said  complaints  be  transmitted  to  you  for  your 
answer  before  any  determination  be  had  thereupon.  What  you 
have  writ  touching  illegal  trade,  has  been  laid  before  the  Lord 
High  Treasurer.  We  have  laid  before  H.M.  your  answer  to 
Mrs.  Bowden's  complaints  as  likewise  to  those  from  .Antigua, 
with  our  opinion,  that  you  have  fully  cleared  yourself  thereof, 
We  have  not  received  the  accounts  of  stores  of  war  in  each' 
of  the  Islands,  which  you  mention  to  have  sent,  Nov.  13, 


228  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 

therefore  you  will  do  well  to  transmit .  the  same  by  the  next 
conveyance,  as  well  to  us  as  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance ;  and 
henceforth  yearly  accounts  of  the  receipts,  expence  and  remains 
of  stores  of  war  within  your  Government  or  oftener,  as  oppor- 
tunity shall  offer,  etc.,  as  you  are  required,  July  25,  1708  etc. 
Mr.  Samuel  Barons  owner  of  the  America  illegally  condemned 
in  1700  by  Col.  Codrington,  has  acquainted  us  that  finding, 
his  business  has  hitherto  been  delayed  through  the  neglect  of 
his  former  Agent,  Col.  Thomas,  he  intends  for  the  future  to 
employ  Mr.  Edward  William  and  Samuel  Byam  as  his  Attorneys 
for  the  prosecution  of  that  matter;  and  has  thereupon  desired 
us  to  recommend  it  to  you  to  use  your  interest  with  those  gen- 
tlemen to  engage  them  in  that  undertaking,  and  protection  in 
the  management  thereof,  which,  request  of  his  being  founded 
upon  Justice,  and  consonant  to  H.M.  former  directions  given 
in  his  behalf,  we  do  therefore  recommend  the  doing  thereof  to 
your  care.  [C.O.  153,  10.  pp.  311-314.] 

Feb.  24.  382.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Han- 
Whitehall,  dasyd.  Acknowledge  letters  of  Oct.  27,  Nov.  23,  and  Dec. 
4,  1708.  As  to  the  contract  made  between  the  French  King1 
and  the  Duke  of  Anjou  for  transporting  goods  from  France 
etc.  to  the  West  Indies,  we  have  not  yet  had  time  to  consider 
the  same  fully  as  it  ought  to  be,  but  we  shall  do  it  at  th'e 
first  convenient  opportunity,  and  if  thereupon  anything  occur 
to  us  that  may  be  of  use  to  you  for  your  future  directions 
in  this  matter,  we  shall  communicate  it  to  you.  The  practice  of 
privateers  selling  or  burning  their  prizes  as  you  mention  in 
the  first  of  your  foresaid  letters,  may  be  of  ill  consequance,  but 
having  writ  fully  to  you  upon  the  subject  of  privateers  Aug. 
23,  1708,  we  refer  you  thereto,  and  only  recomend  to  you  that 
the  directions  in  that  letter  be  observed  as  much  as  possible, 
in  that  case  we  have  reason  to  hope  that  the  trade  with  the 
Spanish  Wrest  Indies  will  increase  and  flourish  again.  We  have 
laid  before  my  Lord  High  Admiral  what  you  write  in  relation 
to  the  want  of  seamen  for  the  ships  of  war.  Wee  see  no 
reason  why  the  Councellors  who  are  Agents  for  the  African 
Company  should  think  themselvs  not  to  be  within  the  meaning 
of  the  Act  for  settling  the  trade  to  Africa,  it  appearing  very 
plainly  to  us  that  they  are  within  the  intent  and  meaning  of 
that  Act,  in  regard  that  they  are  Judges  upon  Writs  of  Error 
and  Appeals  in  Equity,  and  therefore  if  they  do  persist  in  the 
said  Agency,  notwithstanding  what  we  writ  you  June  25,  1708, 
and  now  write,  you  are  to  send  over  to  us  a  list  of  their 
names,  that  H.M.  pleasure  may  be  known  therein.  We  are 
sorry  to  perceive  by  your  letter  that  you  apprehend  the  As- 
sembly will  be  averse  to  the  quartering  of  the  Officers  of  the 
Eegiment  at  Jamaica,  since  H.M.  is  at  the  expence  of  keeping 
a  Eegiment  in  that  Island  for  their  security,  we  think  that  the 
least  return  they  can  make  is  to  give  quarters  to  the  said 
Officers  and  soldiers.  You  will  do  well  therefore  to  use  your 
utmost  endeavours  in  this  matter.  As  to  what  you  write  about 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


229 


1709. 

the  Spanish  brigantine,  taken  at  sea  by  the  Commander  of  the 
Kingston  gaily  without  any  commission,  we  shall  consider  of 
that  matter,  and  by  the  next  opportunity  you  may  expect  to 
hear  further  from  us  about  it.  You  say  that  you  were  not 
pleased  with  the  arrival  of  a  flag  of  truce  from  St.  lago, 
we  wish  you  had  explained  yourself  a  little  further,  for  we 
do  not  see  if  due  care  be  taken,  and  that  the  flag  of  truce 
come  only  for  the  exchange  of  prisoners,  what  the  inconvenience 
can  be.  We  observe  that  there  was  28  Spanish  prisoners  ex- 
changed for  12  Brittish,  we  presume  that  was  done  in  order 
to  have  a  proportionable  number  of  our  men  return'd  when  they 
fall  into  the  hands  of  the  Spaniards,  however  we  desire  you  to 
explain  this  in  your  next.  We  have  not  heard  of  any  design 
the  French  have  upon  the  Island  of  Jamaica,  but  in  case  they 
should  make  any  attempt,  we  do  not  doubt  of  your  zeal  and 
care  to  defend  the  same.  As  to  your  desire  of  having  your 
Eegiment  and  yourself  releived,  that  matter  is  now  before  H.M., 
whose  pleasure  therein  will  be  communicated  to  you  from  the 
Earl  of  Sunderland.  We  are  glad  to  perceive  the  Island  is  at 
present  healthy,  we  shall  expect  the  account  of  stores  of  war 
you  promise.  As  to  the  laying  of  embargoes,  that  is  a  matter 
you  pugM  to  be  tender  in,  least  it  prove  an  obstruction  to 
trade.  But  however  when  there  is  an  absolute  necessity  and 
when  it  is  for  so  short  a  time  as  what  you  mention,  we  have 
no  objection  to  it. 

P.S.  Since  our  writing  what  is  above  we  have  received  a 
letter  from  Mr.  Burchet,  a  copy  whereof  is  here  inclosed.  [0.0. 
138,  12.  pp.  367-370.] 

Feb.  25.  383.  W.  Popple  to  Sir  John  Cook.  Refers  to  capture  of  a 
Whitehall.  Spanish  brigantine  by  the  Kingston  galley  without  a  commission. 
See  Governor  Handasyd,  Dec.  4,  1708.  The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  desire  your  opinion  whether,  the  aforemen- 
tioned brigantine  having  upon  her  arrival  at  Jamaica  been 
seized  by  the  Naval  Officer  in  port,  the  cognizance  thereof  does 
lye  in  the  Court  of  Admiralty  there,  or  in  what  other  Court 
the  same  may  be  tryed.  [C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  372,  373.] 

Feb.  26.        384.     H.M.   Additional  Instruction  to  Governor  Hunter,  re- 
st. James's,    lating  to  the  method  of  granting  lands  in  Virginia,  as  Feb.  4 
and  A.P.C.  II.    p.  588.     [C.O.  5,  210.    pp.  137-139.] 

Feb.  26.         385.     H.M.    Additional   Instruction   to   Governor    Handasyd, 
St.  James's,    for  the  more   strict  observance   of  his  Instructions   relating  to 
escheats    as  June  15,  26  and  A.P.C.  II.,  No.   1059.      [C.O.   5, 
210,     pp.   135,    136.] 

Feb.  27.         386.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    A  copy  of  enclosed  petition 

St.  James's,    by  Norman  Mackaskell  to  the  Queen,  complaining  that  Governor 

Crowe   had  committed  him  to  gaol   for  refusing  to  answer  all 

such  questions  as  should  be  demanded  of  him  concerning  the 

proceedings  of  the  late  Court  of  Grand  Sessions  (see  June  18, 


230  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

'09,  No.  xlvi.),  and  praying  for  relief  therein,  is  to  be  sent 
to  the  Governor  and  Council  of  Barbados,  who  are  to  return 
to  H.M.  in  Council  a  true  state  of  the  matter  and  answer  to 
petitioner's  complaints.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16,  Read  17  Nov., 
1709.  1£  pp.  Enclosed, 

386.  i.  Certificate  that  the  above  Order  has  not  been  read 
att  the  Council,  since  it  was  presented  to  the  Governor. 
Aug.  31,  1709.  Signed,  A.  Skene.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  Nov.  23,  1709.  1  p. 

386  ii.  Deposition  of  Norman  Mackasgell,  Deputy  Clerk  of 
the  Crown,  Barbados.  Duplicate  of  June  18.  No,  xlvi. 
386.  iii.  Deposition  of  Giles  Cooke,  Clerk  to  Mackasgell. 
Corroborates  preceding.  Signed,  Giles  Cooke.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  Nov.  23,  1709.  1±  pp.  [(7.0.  28, 
12.  Nos.  48,  48.i.-iii.  ;  and  (without  enclosures}  29, 
12.  p.  52.] 

March  1.  387.  H.M.  Instructions  to  Colonel  Vetch.  Whereas  you  have 
St.  James's,  laid  before  us  the  proposall  of  an  enterprise  upon  Canada  a,nd 
Newfoundland,  which  may  turn  very  much  to  the  security  and 
advantage  of  our  subjects  in  those  parts  of  America,  as  well 
as  to  the  prosperity  of  our  Kingdomes  in  generall,  We  having 
taken  the  same  into  our  royall  consideration,  do  entirely  ap- 
prove of  the  said  proposall,  and  in  order  to  execute  it  effectually, 
have  thought  fitt  to  give  you  these  our  following  Instructions. 
You  shall  immediately  repair  on  board  the  ship  appointed  by 
our  High  Admiral  for  the  transporting  you,  with  such  officers 
as  shall  be  sent  over  under  your  command  to  severall  of  our 
Colonys  in  North  America.  Upon  your  arrivall  at  New  York 
you  are  to  deliver  to  the  Governor  of  that  place  a  letter  from1 
us,  and  communicate  to  him  there  your  Instructions,  acquaint- 
ing him  that  we  shall  expect  from  him  a  punctual  and  ready 
complyance  to  all  such  as  relate  to  him.  You  shall  represent  to 
him  that  out  of  our  great  desire  to  answer  the  frequent  appli- 
cations, which  have  been  made  to  us  by  our  good  subjects  the 
inhabitants  of  those  parts,  to  deliver  them  from  the  neighbour- 
hood of  the  French  at  Canada,  which  of  late  years  hath  been 
so  troublesome  to  them,  we  have  fitted  out  an  expedition, 
the  particulars  of  which'  you  shall  lay  before  him,  and  withall 
let  him  know,  that  we  strictly  require  and  enjoin  him,  to  give 
such  an  assistance  to  the  said  expedition,  as  is  hereafter  speci- 
fyed.  You  shall  signify  to  him  our  pleasure,  that  the  Govern- 
ment of  New  York  do  furnish  a  Quota  of  800  men,  including 
the  four  standing  companys,  and  that  the  City  Regiments  of 
York  and  Albany  do  duty  in  the  Forts  during  the  absence  of 
the  said  standing  companys.  You  shall  at  the  same  time  acquaint 
him  that  New  Jersey  is  to  furnish  200  men,  Connecticut  350, 
and  Pensilvania  150,  so  that  the  whole  force  will  consist  of 
1500  effective[s],  which  are  to  be  disposed  into  four  battallions, 
each  battallion  to  have  one  of  the  four  regular  companys  mixed 
and  incorporated  in  it,  and  to  be  commanded  by  the  Captain 
as  Colonel,  whose  company  is  so  incorporated  in  it,  and  under 


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1709. 

him  by  the  respective  officers  of  the  country  troops;  the  officers 
that  go  with  you,  and  are  designed  for  New  York,  to  be 
distributed  among  the  Companys,  as  the  Governour  in  concert 
with  the  Commander  in  Chief  shall  think  best  for  t"he  service. 
You  shall  likewise  acquaint  the  aforesaid  Governours  in  our 
name,  that  we  do  command  and  expect  from  him  that  the 
Quotas  of  his  Governments  be  ready  at  Albany  with  all  things 
necessary  for  the  expedition,  by  the  middle  of  May  next  ensuing 
at  furthest,  and  that  he  furnish,'  all  the  troops  with  what  arms 
and  ammunition  they  want  out  of  the  magazine  at  New  York, 
and  that  he  do  forthwith:  get  together,  and  keep  in  readinesse 
three  months  provisions  for  his  quota  of  men,  to  be  transported 
and  lodged  in  some  convenient  place  at  the  Wood  Creek,  or 
elsewhere,  for  the  security  of  which,  he  shall  in  conjunction 
with  the  Governmts.  of  Connecticut  and  Pensilvania  cause  to 
be  built  a  large  wooden  storehouse,  as  also  six  or  more  large 
boats,  that  will  carry  60  men  each,  for  the  transportation  of 
their  heavyer  stores  by  water  and  also  contract  with  the  Five 
Nations  to  make  as  many  canoes  with  all  speed  as  will  be 
wanted  for  the  said  expedition.  You  shall  moreover  enjoin 
the  aforesaid  Governour  in  our  name  to  command  and  engage 
the  aforesaid  five  Nations  as  also  the  River  Indians  to  join 
with  all  their  fighting  men  in  the  said  expedition,  and  promise 
them  a  good  present  if  they  do.  You  shall  likewise  acquaint 
him  that  it  is  our  pleasure,  that  he  give  all  fitting  encouragemt. 
to  any  Gentleman  or  others,  that  shall  offer  themselves  to  go 
as  volunteers  in  this  our  service.  You  shall  deliver  a  letter 
from  us  to  the  Governour  of  Pensilvania,  and  another  to  the 
Governour  of  Connecticut  for  the  time  being,  and  signify  to 
them  our  Royall  will  and  pleasure  that  they  have  their  quota's 
of  men  and  provisions  ready  by  the  middle  of  May  at  farthest, 
acquainting  them  wit-hall,  that  the  Governour  of  New  York 
is  ordered  to  assist  them  with  what  arms  and  ammunition  they 
shall  want.  After  having  finished  your  negotiations,  for  the 
foregoing  expedition  with  all  possible  secrecy  and  dispatdh, 
you  shall  deliver  a  letter  from  us  to  the  Governour  of  New 
England,  and  another  to  the  Governour  of  Rhode  Island  tfor 
the  time  being,  strictly  commanding  and  enjoining  them  in  our 
name  to  raise  at  least  1200  of  their  best  men,  according  to 
their  usuall  proportions,  and  likewise  to  give  all  fitting  en- 
couragement to  any  such  as  shall  offer  themselves  to  go  volun- 
teers in  the  expedition  whether  gentlemen  or  others,  as  also  to 
have  in  readinesse  a  sufficient  number  of  transports  wth.  three 
months  provisions,  and  able  pilots,  whereof  Capt.  Southweek 
to  be  one,  and  to  go  in  his  own  galley,  and  that  all  may  be 
ready  to  embark  by  the  middle  of  May  next,  upon  the  arrivall 
of  the  Fleet  from  England,  and  for  their  greater  encouragement 
you  shall  acquaint  them  that  we  have  ordered  arms  and  ammu- 
nition to  be  sent  with  you  for  the  number  of  troops  they  are 
to  furnisli,  which  arms  and  ammunition  you  shall  accordingly 
deliver  to  the  sever  all  companys,  in  presence  of  the  Governor 
or  Commissary  of  the  country  taking  a  receipt  for  the  same, 


232  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

•web.  you  shall  transmit  to  our  Board  of  Ordnance  in  this 
Kingdoms.  You  shall  with  the  concurrence  and  advice  of  our 
Governour  of  New  England  contract  with  ship  carpenters  for 
the  building  of  ten  or  more  'large  flatt-bottom  boats  that  will 
carry  60  men  each  for  the  landing  of  troops,  and  also  contract 
with  proper  persons  for  the  furnishing  of  eight  months  pro- 
visions to  the  troops  that  shall  be  left  at  Quebeck  and  Montreal, 
if  it  shall  please  God  to  make  our  forces  masters  of  thesei 
places,  and  to  give  us  the  successe  we  hope  for  from  this 
expedition.  And  to  the  end  that  nothing  may  be  wanting  on  our 
part  towards  engaging  the  severall  Governments  to  act  with 
the  uttmost  spiritt  and  vigour  in  this  expedition,  you  shall 
assure  them  in  our  name,  that  such  of  the  Governments  as 
contribute  towards  the  reduction  of  Canada,  shall  have  a  prefer- 
ence both  with  regard  to  the  soyl  and  trade  of  the  country, 
when  reduced,  to  any  other  of  our  subjects,  and  when  they 
shall  have  concerted  among  themselves  any  reasonable  pro- 
posail  for  the  procuring  to  their  respective  Colonys,  the  benefitt 
of  the  said  soyl  and  trade,  we  shall  not  be  wanting  to  give 
our  Boyall  sanction  to  the  same.  You  shall  communicate  these 
our  Instructions  to  Coll.  'Nicholson  who  has  offered  himself, 
as  a  volunteer  in  this  present  expedition,  and  further  out  of 
our  regard  of  his  known  abilitys  and  zeal  for  our  service, 
we  do  require  that  you  shall  a^lmitt  him  into  your  private 
consultations  with  our  severall  Governours  on  the  methods  for 
putting  this  your  proposall  in  execution ;  and  if  by  reason 
of  the  distance  of  time  and  place,  any  other  preparation  may 
be  necessary  for  the  carrying  on  of  this  expedition,  which) 
we  could  not  here  foresee,  and  which  is  not  contained  in  these 
your  Instructions,  you  shall  with  the  concurrence  of  Ihe  Gov- 
ernour who  is  to  assist  in  any  such  service,  and  of  Coll. 
Nicholson,  make  any  such  preparations,  tho'  it  is  not  men- 
tioned in  these  your  Instructions,  provided  that  it  appear  to 
you  absolutely  necessary  for  the  carrying  on  of  the  expedition, 
as  ,aforesaid,  and  that  the  Governour  and  Coll.  Nicholson  do 
entirely  concur  with  you  in  judging  it  to  be  so.  Signed,  A.R. 
Copy.  9  pp.  [C.O.  5,  9.  No.  22.] 

March!  1.  388.  The  Queen  to  the  Governor  of  New  York.  Trusty  and 
St.  James's,  and  wellbeloved,  We  greet  you  well.  Whereas  We  are  fitting 
out  an  expedition,  with  great  expence,  for  the  security  of  our 
subjects  in  your  Government  from  the  neighbourhood  of  the 
French  in  Canada,  which  has  been  very  troublesome  to  them 
of  late  years,  according  to  certain  proposals  laid  before  us  by 
our  trusty  and  well-beloved  Col.  Vetch,  and  pursuant  to  the 
many  applications  that  have  been  made  to  us  by  our  subjects 
who  have  suffered  very  much  from  tflie  French  in  that  neigh- 
bourhood; we  do  hereby  strictly  require  and  command  you,  to 
be  assisting  to  this  our  expedition,  after  the  manner  that  the 
said  Col.  Vetch  shall  propose  to  you,  and  that  you  look  upon 
those  parts  of  his  Instructions  whicih  relate  to  you,  and  to 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  233 

1709. 

our  Government  under  your  care,  and  which:  we  Wave  order'd 
him  to  communicate  to  you,  in  the  same  manner  as  if  they 
were  our  positive  commands  directed  to  yourself,  and  that  you 
pay  the  same  obedience  to  them.  And  whereas  there  may  be 
some  particulars  in  our  abovementioned  Instructions,  as  that 
of  the  place  of  Eendezvous,  which  you  who  live  in  the  country 
may  be  the  most  proper  judge  of,  we  do  therefore  leave  this, 
and  other  the  like  circumstances,  to  be  alter'd  at  discretion, 
as  our  service  shall  require,  provided  that  Col.  Vetch  and  Col. 
Nicholson  do  concur  with  you  in  any  such  alteration,  and 
provided  that  you  punctually  and  exactly  observe  the  numbers 
of  men  which  you  are  to  raise,  and  the  time  when  they  are 
to  appear  and  be  in  readiness  to  enter  on  the  expedition. 
2  ipp.  [C.O.  5,  1084.  No.  40;  and  5,  1091.  Aro.  14.] 

March  1.  389.  Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Beinmda.  Plantations.  Acknowledges  letters  etc.  of  May  14  and  July 
13.  My  letter  of  Sept.  22,  1707  was  repeated  Feb.  10.  Inclosed 
is  a  list  of  H.M.  Council  etc.  By  Capt.  Harford  withdrawing 
himself  there  are  now  5  vacancies.  When  I  deliver  a  packt. 
to  any  Master  of  a  vessel,  I  constantly  put  a  string  to  it 
and  order  when  they  find  they  must  be  taken,  to  put  a  weight 
to  it  (as  your  Lordships  mentions)  and  throw  it  overboard: 
But  I  fear  it  is  to  common  that  that's  forgott  when  dangec 
approaches,  but  however  since  it's  your  Lordps.'  opinion,  I 
shall  for  the  future  send  lists  of  the  inhabitants  and  what  else 
is  required  by  my  Instructions  etc.  What  papers  I  have  from 
time  to  time  transmitted  to  my  brother,  chiefly  related  to  my 
defence  when  representations  have  been  made  against  me.  But 
if  that's  a  fault,  I  shall  desist  from  soe  doeing,  and  depend 
on  your  Lordsps.'  promise,  that  noe  complaints  will  be  made 
use  of  to  my  disadvantage,  till  me  or  my  friends  for  me 
have  been  heard.  I  am  very  much  concern'd  that  mine  of 
June  25,  1706  miscarrye.d,  wherein  was  an  account  of  powder 
and  stores  of  war  etc.  But  I  shall  with  all  expedition  prepare 
another.  The  4  Acts  of  Assembly  your  Lordships  mentions 
to  be  wanting  are  herewith  sent,  and  if  not  before,  the 
omission  must  be  in  the  Secretary  in  not  transcribing  them 
with  the  rest.  But  pardon  me  I  am  sure  that  Act  for  the 
farther  regulateing  Courts  of  Judicature  hath  been  (att  least) 
twice  transmitted.  Therefore  I  conclude  it  has  been  intercepted, 
which  practise  my  packts.  have  to  frequently  fallen  under. 
Here  are  also  other  Acts  which  have  been  either  omitted  or 
miscarryed,  that  were  passed  both  before  and  between  the  yeares 
1704  and  1707  and  since,  etc.  Signed,  B.  Bennett  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  June  29,  Read  July  11,  1709.  Holograph.  3  pp.  En- 
closed, 

389.  i.  List  of  Council  of  Bermuda,  showing  7  dead  and  one 
resigned.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p.  [C.O.  37, 
8.  Nos.  84,  84. i. ;  and  (tvithout  enclosure)  38,  6. 
pp.  461-465.] 


234 


COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 


1709. 
March  1. 

Beittiuda. 


March  1. 

Boston, 

New 
England. 


390.  Same  to  Same.     Acknowledges  letter  etc.  July  7,  Aug. 
4.     I    shall    acquaint    the    Assembly    when    they    sit    of    H.M. 
Order  relating  to  the  passing  a  Bill  to  encourage  the  building 
a  House  at  the  Ferry.     The  account  of  stores  of  war  shall  be 
transmitted  as  soon  as  possible.     Signed  and  endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding.    Holograph.     1  p.     [C.O.  37,  8.     No.  85;  and  38,  6. 
yp-    465,    466.] 

391.  Governor  Dudley  to  the   Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    This    comes    by    Capt.    Eiddell    in    H.M.S.    Falmouth, 
which  is  the  only  safe  conveyance  since  the  Deptford  brought 
home    the    accounts    and    papers    from    these    Governments    the 
last  year,    and   with  this   your   Lordships   will   receive   all   the 
Acts   of  the  Assembly  of  both.  Provinces,   continuation  of  the 
Eevenues   and  grants  of  supplys   for  the  war,   the  Minutes  of 
Council,   the   issues   of  causes   and   judgments   at   law,   the  ac- 
counts of  stores,  armes,  ammunition  and  cannon  in  the  several 
castles  and  forts,  and  what  else  I  am  commanded  by  H.M.  In- 
structions and  your  Lordships'  letters.     Refers  to  enquiries  of 
May   7,    1707.    q.v.      All  which  the  answers   to   the   particular 
questions  will  open  to  your  Lordships'   satisfaction  unless  the 
last,  referring  to  the  Governour's  imploying  his  time  in  H.M:. 
service  here,  which  is  after  this  manner.     In  May,  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts  sits  down,  and  generally  holds 
six  weeks,  which!  I  am  forced  to  attend  everyday  to  put  forward 
H.M.  service  and  to  keep  the  Houses  to  their  duty.     The  Council 
consisting   of   28   Members   and  the   Representatives   about   80, 
they  may  be,  if  the  Towns  please  to  be  at  the  charge  of  their 
sitting,  one  hundred.     When  that  Assembly  rises,  the  Assembly 
of    New    Hampshire    usually   sits    down     for    a    shorter     time, 
being  fewer  in  number  and  more   '[ready']   in  their  dispatches. 
The    issue    of    these   two    Assemblys    brings   July    and    August, 
[in]  which  months  I  have  what  troubles  the  French  and  Indians, 
my  neighbours,  can  give  me  in  the  frontiers  by  their  marches 
upon   me    in   the    covert   of   the   woods,    which   keeps   me   well 
imployed  to   send   forces  to   all   parts  of  the   frontiers  of  200 
miles  long,  which  has  been  so  successfully  managed  these   six 
years  of  the  war,  that  I  have  not  lost  one  village,  nor  drawn 
in  any,  which  has   been  always  done  in    the    former    troubles 
with  the  Indians.     This  trouble  and  hurry  of  their  incursions 
holds    till    the    fall    of    the    leafe,    and    beginning    of   October, 
when  the   General   Assembly  of  the  Massachusetts   setts   down 
again   for   another   six   weeks,    and   then  follows   the   Assembly 
of   Piscataqua,    as    in   the    spring,    and  these    bring    December, 
when  I  am  fitting  out  partys  from  all  places  upon  their  snow- 
shoes,    who    in    the    depth   of  the  winter  for  four  months  are 
searching  the  forrests  for  200  miles  deep  for  the   lodgings  of 
the  Indians,   whereby  this   whole  war  I  have;  kept  them  from 
all  their  antient  seats  and  planting  grounds,  and  driven  them 
to  inaccessable  places  and  parts,  where  no  corn  will  grow  for 
their   support,    and   this   brings   the    Spring   again,    and   a   new 
year's  business,  and  all  the  travail  and  care  return  again.     The 


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1709. 

names  of  the  present  Council  of  the  Massachusetts  are  in  the 
inclosed  list,  tho  I  suppose  that  clause  in  your  Lordships' 
letter  mistaken,  because  H.M.  do's  not  supply  the  vacancies 
of  Councellours  here,  as  in  all  H.M.  other  Governments,  but 
they  stand  by  an  annual  election,  and  so  the  Assembly  alters 
them  every  year  as  they  please,  and  the  Governour  has  power 
by  the  Charter  to  refuse  any  so  elected,  which,  is  usually, 
done,  so  far  as  to  refuse  one  or  two  of  the  28,  to  maintain 
H.M.  Prerogative,  tho'  there  is  frequently  reason  enough  besides, 
it  being  easily  observed  by  strangers  here,  that  the  best  estates 
in  many  parts  of  the  Countrey  are  not  chosen  into  the  Council, 
but  very  inferiour  persons  taken  in,  both  for  estate  and  edu- 
cation, and  of  less  affection  to  the  strict  dependance  of  these 
Governments  upon  the  Crown  and  Government  of  England,  to 
the  hurt  of  H.M.  interest,  whidh;  can  be  amended  only  by 
time,  and  a  steady  management  of  affairs,  which,  will  at  length' 
convince  the  people  of  their  own  benefit  in  H.M.  favour  by 
their  good  obedience.  By  the  rule  of  five  to  one  for  old  men 
and  children  against  the  mustered  souldiers,  I  judge  this  Province 
to  contain  when  I  arrived  50,000  souls,  these  are  all  freemen, 
and  their  children,  besides  the  Blacks,  of  which  your  Lordships 
have  account  in  my  answer  of  the  Affrican  Company.  This 
number  is  increased  by  1000  every  year,  and  so  I  believe  they 
are  for  these  last  six  years  that  I  have  served  H.M.  here, 
the  warrs  and  troubles  with  the  Indians  notwithstanding.  The 
muse  of  the  People's  removal  out  of  this  Province  is  the 
inequality  of  the  taxes.  The  lands  are  equal  our  health  here, 
the  best  of  all  the  Provinces,  trade  superiour  to  any,  but  our 
taxes  are  seven  times  as  much  as  any  other  part  of  H.M. 
Governments,  from  Carolina  to  Newfoundland,  and  there  being 
nothing  but  a  line  of  marked  trees  between  the  inhabitants  of 
this  and  the  other  Provinces,  and  they  every  year  see  that  the 
whole  burthen  of  the  warr  lyes  upon  these  Provinces,  this 
poor  people  can  easily  remove  to  the  next  Colonys  to  that 
degree,  that  I  believe  we  have  lost  200  'men  within  this  5  years, 
most  of  them  to  our  neighbours  of  Connecticot,  which  will 
be  all  redrest  and  people  quiet,  when  H.M.  shall  be  pleased  to 
make  the  charge  of  the  war  equal  upon  all  the  Governments. 
[//?,]  Peace,  the  import  and  excise,  tho  very  small  will  maintain 
the  charge  of  the  Massachusetts  Government,  and  now  wee 
spend  in  the  warr  £30,000  per  annum  by  a  land  tax  very 
heavy  to  the  Planter.  I  mustered  the  Militia  of  the  whole 
Province  in  1702,  and  gave  the  account,  about  10,000,  and  I 
believe  there  are  now  1000  more  [in  *]he  musters,  the  warrs 
and  troubles  notwithstanding.  The  commoditys  raised  in  this 
countrey  for  exportation  for  Europe  are  fish,  lumber,  oyl  tar 
and  other  gumms,  furrs ;  fish  to  the  value  of  £30,000;  lumber 
£2000;  oyl,  £5000;  tarr  and  gumms  £10,000;  furrs,  £1000; 
besides  these  from  hence  comes  into  Great  Britain  sugar,  to- 
bacco, logwood,  and  other  dyes,  rice,  molasses  etc.  to  a  very 
great  Value,  produced  and  brought  [7w£]her  by  a  trade  with 
the  West  Indies,  for  provisions,  horses  and  lumber,  and  from 


236  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

Virginia  for  a  coasting  trade  and  barter  holden  with  them, 
all  which  center  at  home  in  England.  I  know  of  no  commoditys 
of  Europe  supplying  the  inhabitants  here,  but  from  England 
directly,  though  they  may  originally  come  from  Holland,  Ham- 
borough,  France  (in  peace)  or  Spain,  because  the  Acts  of 
Parliament  command  it  to  be  prevented,  and  I  am  as  carefull 
as  is  possible,  tho  it  be  very  displeasing  to  such  as  use  a 
false  trade.  The  trade  of  this  Province  is  increased  in  all 
the  articles  above  to  a  very  great  degree,  since  my  [coramgr] 
hither,  except  the  article  of  furrs,  which  is  abated  by  reason 
of  the  war;  the  Indianis  [earn/]  their  furrs  to  the  French,  and 
our  own  Indians  and  English  are  prevented  from  lying  abroad 
and  following  their  traps  as  in  peace.  And  I  must  add  that 
the  woolen  trade  from  England  is  also  in  a  great  measure 
abated,  the  people  here  cloathing  themselves  with  their  own 
wool,  and  this  is  occasioned  by  two  things — first  the  excessive 
prices  of  all  goods  from  England,  nothing  is  here  sold  at 
less  than  £150  p.c.  advance,  most  goods  more,  so  that  the 
countrey  cannot  purchase,  and  secondly,  the  returns  for  England 
in  payment  pass  througjh  [so]  few  handss  that  many,  if  not 
most,  have  no  share  in  them,  and  so  have  not  wherewith  to 
pay  for  goods.  I  begg  your  Lordships  pardon  to  say,  that 
unless  tho  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain  will  please  to  come  into  a 
lumber  trade  from  these  Provinces,  and  H.M.  will  please  to 
build  some  of  her  great  ships  here,  the  trade  for  the  woolen 
manufactory  will  every  year  grow  less,  tho'  the  people  increase 
to  a  very  great  degree.  They  are  proud  enough  to  wear  the 
best  cloath  of  England,  if  chopping,  sawing  and  building  of 
ehips  would  pay  for  their  cloaths,  and  this  method  would 
double  the  sale  of  English  woolen  manufactory  presently.  There 
wants  nothing  to  prevent  illegal  trade,  and  the  officers  H.M. 
has  here  are  very  good,  but  they  are  but  four  persons  of 
salary,  and  there  are  40  harbours  and  places  to  look  after, 
where  goods  may  be  landed ;  to  supply  all  these  places  with' 
officers  purely  upon  the  head  of  prevention,  where  there  is 
nothing  to  receive,  would  increase  an  unreasonable  charge  to 
the  Crown.  I  am  of  opinion  that  if  there  were  a  good  yatch 
with  6  able  hands  always  tending  upon  the  coast,  obliged 
to  speak  with  all  ships  coming  into  these  Provinces,  the  charge 
would  be  little  and  the  prevention  very  great,  and  serve  beyond 
all  the  land-waiting  and  officers  possible  to  be  erected,  and 
in  a  few  years  might  be  again  abated,  when  the  trade  of 
smugling  were  diverted. 

Our  ships  are  of  3  sorts; — above  100  tonns,  20;  between  50 
and  100  tons,  60 ;  below,  these  are  vessels  belonging  to  the 
Province  that  trade  to  the  West  Indies  and  the  shore  of  America, 
120 ;  which  must  demand  1000  saylors,  as  near  as  I  can  set 
it,  besides  a  like  number  of  all  sorts  built  every  two  year 
for  merchants  of  London  and  elsewhere,  there  having  been 
registred  generally  70  vessels  per  annum,  most  of  them  built 
here.  This  Province  has  all  sorts  of  manufactures  setled,  that 
belong  to  iron,  leather,  linnen,  and  tho'  to  no  degree  capable 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  237 

1709. 

to  servo  the  inhabitants  as  yet.  There  is  usually  shipped  800 
tons  of  train-oyl  from  this  Province,  which  alters  yearly  as 
the  whales  pass  by  us,  nearer  or  further  from  the  shore,  and 
as  the  weather  happens  for  boats  to  keep  the  sea  as  they 
pass,  wch.  they  do  every  year  from  Pole  to  Pole.  The  fishing 
for  codd  is  much  superiour  to  value  of  £30,000  per  annum, 
which  goes  to  Spain  etc.,  and  returns  mostly  by  England 
home  again,  besides  the  trade  of  mackerill  for  the  West  Indies, 
at  £5000  per  annum  uncertain.  Your  Lordships'  wisdome  needs 
no  intimation  of  mine  to  know  how  these  Provinces  may  be 
made  happy  and  serviceable.  I  am  humbly  of  opinion  that  the 
English  settlemt.  from  Pemaquid  to  Delaware  River,  which 
never  cost  England  above  tenn  thousand  souls  to  settle  them, 
which  tract  is  now  divided  into  six  several  Governments,  con- 
tain in  them  150,000  [souls],  and  are  daily  increasing,  and  are 
a  very  industrious  people,  as  appears  by  a  subdued  and  well- 
built  [countrey] ,  and  will  stand  in  need  of  nothing  to  make 
them  such  as  your  Lordships  would  have  them,  but  a  good 
[defence]  against  the  incursions  of  the  Indians  and  French 
by  land  which  would  be  done  at  once  by  a  Colony  of  tenn 
thousand  North  Britains,  who  might  peaceably  enter  upon  a 
better  land  than  their  [own]  with  all  advantages  of  trade, 
fishing  and  lumber,  and  be  in  a  readiness  to  assist  the  removal 
of  the  French  from  Quebeck  and  Port  Royal,  and  then 
the  Peace  and  repose  of  these  Provinces  would  make  the 
trade  of  all  sorts  five  times  what  it  is  presently,  over  all 
which,  if  H.M.  Government  be  justly  maintained,  and  the 
people  and  trade  kept  to  a  strict  and  constant  dependance  upon 
the  Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  and  put  upon  the  linnen 
manufactory,  for  which  the  countrey  is  extreamly  proper ;  the 
Mother  will  find  her  daughters  increase  her  wealth  and  honour 
to  a  very  great  degree.  The  publication  of  the  Union  was 
forthwith  done  in  the  presence  and  attendance  of  the  Council, 
Military  Officers,  the  Regiment  in  [Boston],  Horse  and  Foot 
in  armes,  with  all  due  solemnity,  as  the  Minutes  of  Council 
will  further  advise.  Acknowledges  letter  etc.  May  12,  1707, 
which  came  not  to  my  hands  {till  the]  12th  July,  fourteen 
months  after,  but  were  presently  communicated  to  the  Councill 
[an<£]  are  upon  record  in  the  Council  Books.  Acknowledges 
letter  Dec.  30,  1707,  April  15,  1708  and  May  15,  1708.  The 
Acts  concerning  foreign  coyns  and  Trade  have  had  their  solemn 
publication  in  both  Provinces,  and  I  hope  will  be  [duly'] 
obeyed:  there  shall  be  nothing  wanting  on  my  part  to  make 
H.M.  subjects  [sensible]  of  the  ffavour  done  them  in  both 
those  Acts,  and  the  injury  the  Plantations  have  done  themselves 
in  raising  the  value  of  peices  of  eight,  on  pretence  of  keeping 
them  in  the  Countrey,  which,  they  have  mist  of,  and  have 
only  lowered  and  injured  their  own  estates  thereby.  Acknow- 
ledges letters  of  July  8,  1708.  Mr.  Bridger  is  very  sensible 
that  at  all  times  he  has  had  my  Proclamations,  Orders,  War- 
rants and  the  assistance  of  the  Justices  and  [Shertiffs]  every- 
where, and  in  all  dangerous  places  I  have  assigned  him  guards 


238  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 

for  the  security  of  \Wmself]  and  his  Deputys,  and  wherever  he 
has  had  tryals  with  Mr.  Plaisted!  and  Mr.  Mico,  he  has  had 
{letters]  to  the  Judges  of  the  Courts  •  advising  and  requiring 
them  to  do  their  duty  to  H.M;.  therein,  [as  being  the]  only 
Article  wherein  anything  is  reserved  to  H.M.  in  these  great 
Provinces ;  and  [because]  there  was  nothing  of  a  Charter,  nor 
any  record  of  that  saving  of  great  timber  to  H.M.  [in]  New 
Hampshire,  I  have  obtained  a  Law,  which  is  humbly  offered 
to  your  Lordships  in  the  [files],  that  it  shall  be  £100  nine 
for  any  person  on  any  pretence  to  cut  such  [timber]  ;  but  am 
forced  to  acquaint  your  Lordships  that  at  the  next  Sessions 
of  the  Massachusetts  Assem'bly  in  May  last  I  offerred  the  same 
Act  in  the  very  words  of  the  Charter  of  the  late  King,  [but] 
could  not  obtain  it  to  be  enacted  by  the  ^Representatives,  which 
was  the  same  House  that  [by  a]  farr  minor  part  of  what  sat 
down  at  first  (who  were  necessarily  withdrawn  for  the  defence 
of  the  Province,)  sent  away  a  secret  Address  to  H.M.  reflect- 
ing upon  myself,  and  perhaps  if  it  could  be  known,  the  care 
of  H.M.  rights  and  interests  in  this  and  other  things  are  the 
[latent]  reasons  of  all  the  displeasure  of  that  little  party  of  men., 
against  whom  there  is  100  [to  one]  that  are  of  another  mind. 
Beferring  to  the  Councellours  mentioned  for  New  Hampshire  in 
this  letter,  I  hope  Mr.  Vaughan  [t(heir  ^4<7]ent  will  take  out  the 
warrants,  and  if  your  Lordships  shall  please  at  his  return  to 
add  him  and  Mr.  George  Jaffreys,  son  of  a  Councellour  lately 
deed.,  they  are  [men]  of  loyalty,  estates  and  education,  and 
will  honour  the  Queen's  service  in  New  Hampshire.  The  post- 
script of  this  letter  referring  to  the  barbarous  method  of  the 
French  and  [7m£f]ans  depending  on  them,  scalping  the  dead 
that  fall  into  their  hands,  is  upon  account  [that]  the  French 
Government  have  set  the  heads  of  H.M.  subjects  at  a  Value, 
sometimes  [40]  shillings,  sometimes  £5,  which  the  savages 
cannot  challenge  without  shewing  [the]  scalps,  as  the  French 
have  made  it  in  their  order  referring  thereto.  This  I  have 
[expostulated  and  upbraided  Mr.  Vaudreuil  and  Mr.  Supercass 
and  every  Governour  on  the  French  [side] ,  and  challenged  thtem 
to  tell  their  own  Master  if  they  dare  of  such  barbarity  used 
to  Christians,  [but  to]  no  effect,  and  have  threatned  them  to 
leave  their  prisoners  in  the  hands  of  the  Indians,  as  they  [have] 
done  many  of  ours,  but  have  prevailed  nothing.  On  the  other 
hand,  I  have  treated  their  [dead]  and  living  prisoners  with  all 
respect,  tho  as  your  Lordships  will  see  by  the  Acts  of  the 
[Assem]b\y  of  the  Massachusetts,  I  have  set  the  Indian  rebels' 
heads  at  £100  each,  [who]  after  a  fforty  years  submission  and 
allegiance  to  the  Crown  of  England,  and  contrary  to  all  [pro- 
test]aiions  and  covenants  with  me  at  two  appearances  and 
attendancies  of  me  since  my  [comin]g  to  this  Government, 
without  the  least  provocation  have  broken  out  and  murthered 
[severall]  Familys  at  the  first  opening  of  the  warr  five  years 
since  etc.,  a  very  far  different  case  from  what  your  Lordships 
[take]  notice  of  in  their  treatment  of  Christians. 
Acknowledges  letter  of  July  13,  1708,  and  Instruction,  July 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  239 

1709. 


3,  relating  to  molasses  and  rice,  which'  I  formerly  had,  land 
is"]  well  established  in  the  Customeihouse  of  both  Provinces ; 
all  other  clauses  in  that  Instruction,  referring  to  the  Union, 
Forreign  coyns,  trade  to  America,  are  published  and  established 
as  commanded  in  both  the  Provinces.  .  Your  Lordships'  next 
letter  is  of  July  23,  1708,  wherein  I  acknowledge  my  [self] 
well  rewarded  for  all  my  service  here,  that  anything  I  hiave 
done  against  the  Indian  [enemy^]  is  acceptable  to  your  Lord- 
ships, and  if  the  proposals  mentioned  referring  to  Canada  [and 
Port]  Eoyal  may  proceed,  it  will  perfectly  put  the  North  America 
with  all  the  Fishery  and  Naval  stores  into  H.M.  hands,  and 
these  Provinces  to  a  lasting  repose.  I  shall,  as  your  Lordships 
direct,  maintain  a  good  correspondence  with  my  neighbours 
[of  jRoa]d  Island,  and  the  rest,  with  whom  I  never  had  any 
personal  difference,  but  was  sometime  [since]  commanded  by 
their  Lordships  then  at  the  Plantation  Board  to  take  and  remit 
papers  and  [evidences^  referring  to  the  neighbour  Governments, 
in  which  I  proceeded  upon  articles  by  H.M.  commands  under 
the  Great  Seal  of  England,  and  no  otherwise.  It  would  ibe 
very  happy  if  the  challenge  of  Mr.  Allyn  against  New  Hamp- 
shire may  have  [an  issue]  after  33  years  strife.  I  shall  continue 
my  care  and  duty  to  H.Mi.  affairs  in  Mr.  Bridger's  hands,  an4 
[cannot]  suppose  him  guilty  of  any  neglect  or  connivance ; 
however  shall  use  the  caution  [your]  Lordships  have  given  me. 
I  humbly  pray  your  Lordships'  favour  to  Mr.  Vaughan  in  his 
[atten dance~] ,  I  hope  he  will  behave  himself  as  he  ought, 
having  always  observed  his  loyalty  and  affection  to  H.M.  Gov- 
ernment here.  I  shall  obey  your  Lordships'  commands,  and 
put  the  letters  to  the  other  Offices  [by~\  themselves  for  the  future. 
I  have  also  with  these  letters  a  duplicate  of  H.M.  commands 
referring  to  Mr.  [Vetch']  and  Borland  etc.,  and  have  proceeded 
long  since  in  that  affair  as  I  am  commanded ;  [the~]  fines  of 
every  one  of  them  were  forthwith  restored,  tihey  having  given 
bonds  for  their  attendance  of  a  new  tryal  in  ordinary  form, 
except  Mr.  Vetch  who  is  not  yet  returned,  and  the  Courts  are 
proceeding  in  their  tryals,  and  the  accounts  of  causes  will 
contain  the  issues  of  those  ca[ses]. 

Acknowledges  letter  of  Aug.  4,  1708,  containing  H.M.  Order 
as  to  accounts  of  ordnance,  eto.  I  have  not  hitherto  neglected 
for  4  or  5  years  last  past  the  account  from  the  Castle  of 
Boston,  the  Forts  of  Salem  and  Marblehead,  and  from  New 
Castle  in  New  Hampshire,  for  every  half  year  with  the  expences 
have  been  duly  transmitted  under  [the]  officers'  hands,  and  my 
letter  'Conveying  them  unto  the  Board  of  Ordnance,  and  are 
well  arrived*  as  \Jar~]  as  I  can  learn,  and  I  doubt  not  are 
there  remaining,  ending  Lady  Day  and  Michaelmas  Day  annu- 
ally, and  shall  now  be  sent  home  to  June  24  for  the  years,, 
with  this  intimation,  that  I  had  50  barrels  of  powder  from 
the  Tower  of  London  which  came  with,  me  hither  in  April, 
1702,  and  since  that  I  received  20  cannon,  which  are  set  in 
the  Castle  of  Boston,  in  such  places  as  H.M.  Engineer  has 
determined  most  proper  for  the  service;  all  other  powder  and 


240  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1709. 

shot  has  been  annually  bought  by  the  Province  money  given 
for  that  end  and  taken  in  the  powder  duty  in  both  Provinces, 
being  one  pound  of  powder  for  a  ton  of  all  ships  coming 
hither  in  trade. 

Duplicates  of  these  shall  be  also  sent  to  your  Lordships' 
Board,  and  are  inclosed,  etc.  The  continual  marches  in  the 
woods  and  150  small  garrisons  in  the  frontiers,  and  the  Province 
gaily,  which  are  all  maintained  at  the  Province  charge,  put 
me  to  the  expence  of  —  barrels  of  powder  per  annum,  for 
which  the  Assembly  raises  a  payment  in  common  with  other 
affairs,  and  is  with  great  strictness  and  care  issued  by  warrant 
for  the  several  services  at  all  times,  which  has  sometimes  cost 
£18  a  barrel,  and  to  the  [end  that]  the  stores  of  powder  might 
be  kept  safe  and  not  endanger  this  great  town,  I  have  this 
[summer']  built  a  very  fair  Powder-house  of  brick,  distant 
from  any  other  buildings,  and  appointed  [and  sworn]  officers 
to  receive  and  deliver  all  powder  and  other  stores  there  kept, 
which  cost  the  Province  £600.  Your  Lordships  will  see  by  the 
account  of  cannon  etc.,  that  there  are  but  four  fortifications 
that  give  in  their  accounts,  the  Oastle  of  Boston,  Salem,  Mar- 
blehead,  and  Newcastle,  besides  which  there  are  two  other  at 
present  holden  by  a  standing  force,  both  in  the  Province  oj 
Main,  one  at  Saco  Biver  and  the  other  at  Casco  Bay,  these 
two  forts  were  built  before  my  coming  hither  as  Trading  Houses, 
but  .had  each  of  them  4  gunns  for  the  security  of  the  Trade, 
and  when  war  broke  out,  the  Representatives  of  this  Province 
earnestly  moved  me  to  slight  them,  and  draw  [in  that]  frontier ; 
but  they  being  the  utmost  frontiers  eastward,  I  have  always 
possitively  refused  [to]  draw  them  in,  and  while  Col.  Bomer 
was  here  H.M1.  Engineer,  I  got  that  at  Casco  enlarged,  and 
have  usually  100  men  in  garrison  there.  The  other  at  Saco 
stood  inconveniently  [in  a]  valley,  and  Col.  Bedknap,  H.M. 
Engineer  now  residing  here,  has  taken  down  this  Fort,  [and] 
set  it  in  a  more  advantagious  place  down  the  Biver,  where  it 
covers  the  Fishery.  This  put  tihe  [Province]  this  year  to  3 
or  £400  cost,  and  will  be  for  the  "future  very  serviceable.  I 
have  had  but  one  inroad  this  summer  from  Canada.  Mr.  Vau- 
dreuil,  the  Governour  [of]  Quebeck,  being  in  June  last  at 
Montreal,  gave  out  his  warrant  for  the  raising  1000  men  for  a 
descent  upon  me,  of  which  I  had  soon  notice  from  my  Indian 
scouts  always  [lying  in]  his  countrey,  and  near  him,  but  not 
knowing  where  they  intended  to  light  upon  me,  I  was  for[ced] 
to  equip  2000  men,  10  troops  of  horse  and  the  rest  ffoot,  and 
lay  them  about  150  in  every  village  from  Dearfield  to  Wells, 
200  miles  in  length.  But  it  so  ha,pp[ened  that]  Mr.  Vaudreujl 
being  then  300  miles  from  Quebeck,  where  the  most  of  his 
tiroops  were  to  be  raised,  the  people  made  a  great  pretence 
of  sickness  and  disorder  amongst  them,  so  that  he  fell  in  his 
demands  to  500,  and  when  they  mustered  they  proved  but 
300,  [and]  after  3  days  march,  half  of  them,  being  most  Indians 
weary  of  the  war,  deserted  and  fled,  so  that  at  40  days  they 
fell  in  upon  Haverhill,  aa  open  village  of  about  200  ffamilys, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  241 

1709. 

where  as  in  other  villages  there  was  a  troop  of  horse,  and 
100  men  quartered,  who  soon  beat  [them  out]  of  town,  killed 
them  20  men,  and  they  carryed  away  as  many  wounds,  and 
we  lost  here  3  [ffam]  ilys  of  the  poor  people,  who  without 
that  care  must  1000  of  them  have  perished  in  a  few  hours 
[time.]  I  have  now  abroad  a  force  of  200  men  upon  thiedr 
snow-shoes,  ranging  all  the  old  [settlem]eiits  of  the  Indians  at 
200  miles  distance,  where  I  have  kept  them  from  their  planting 
and  [reside]  nee  these  6  years,  and  resolve  by  the  help  of  God 
to  keep  them  from  thence  till  they  desert  the  [Fren]ch  service 
and  return  to  their  duty  and  allegiance.  And  they  now  confess 
it  was  easy  for  the  French  to  draw  them  into  a  Rebellion,  but 
they  are  not  able  to  support  them  in  their  own  places,  but 
[they]  must  leave  their  beloved  countrey  for  another  that  will 
bear  no  corn,  nor  support  them  like  [their]  own.  All  this 
unspeakable  trouble  and  cost  would  be  saved  by  rooting  out  the 
French  [a*]  Quebeck  and  Mont  Real,  and  all  the  Indians  in 
North  America  would  submit  in  one  day,  for  [want]  of  arms 
and  ammunition,  as  well  as  other  supports  and  succours. 

In  1692  the  Government  of  this  Province  obtaining  the  late 
King's  [favour]  for  the  establishment  of  the  meiJhods  of  their 
churches,  and  amongst  other  laws  [/or]  that  end,  an  Act  for 
the  support  of  Ministers  etc.,  and  thereby  being  impowered  to 
raise  a  maintenance  for  the  ministers  equally  upon  the  in- 
habitants, [whi]ch  in  some  places  proved  ineffectual,  so  many 
of  the  people  living  disorderly,  and  some  of  them  [being] 
Quakers,  that  there  was  nothing  done  towards  the  maintenance 
of  a  Minister  in  several  [pla]oes,  particularly  in  two  villages 
called  Dartmouth  and  Tiverton,  to  remedy  which'  the  General 
Assembly  the  last  year  added  60  pounds  to  the  publick  tax 
of  Dartmouth,  and  30  to  that  of  Tiverton  for  the  maintenance 
of  the  Ministers  there,  which  the  Quakers,  who  were  the  as- 
sessors [of  the]  towns  perceiving,  refused  to  lay  the  tax  with' 
that  addition,  and  are  since  restrained  and  [imprisoned  by  the 
Treasurer's  warrant  for  the  whole  tax  of  the  two  towns  amount- 
ing to  [five]  hundred  pounds.  I  thought  it  my  duty  to  acquaint 
your  Lordships  herewith,  expecting  [a]  complaint  thereupon. 
I  am  sorry  for  their  suffering,  tho  it  be  not  upon  the  head 
of  [reli]gion,  and  am  also  sorry  that  they  would  be  assessors 
of  the  tax  to  bring  themselves  into  trouble,  [they]  think  it 
hard  to  be  taxed  to  the  maintenance  of  the  Ministry,  and  if 
those  that  are  strictly  of  their  [pro/]  ession  were  quitted,  it 
would  be  no  great  loss,  but  it  is  expected  that  if  such  an 
indulgence  be  [given],  a  great  many  will  profess  themselves 
Quakers  to  quit  themselves  of  this  charge,  as  they  have  [done] 
from  bearing  armes,  and  many  villages  in  the  countrey  would 
be  left  without  any  publick  [worship]  on  the  Lord's  Day.  I 
humbly  offer  it  to  your  Lordships'  consideration,  having  no 
interest  in  the  matter  but  that  [Religi]<m  may  be  maintained. 
At  a  village  called  Swansey  in  the  same  County  with  these 
there  was  a  sober  young  Divine,  [a]  Master  of  Art,  who  preached 
to  some  of  the  people  at  their  request;  the  Selectmen  of  [the] 

Wt.  11522.  C  P  Ifi 


242  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

town  being  Anabaptists,  issued  a  warrant  to  convent  him  as 
if  he  had  [&ee]n  a  vagabond,  and  like  to  be  chargeable  to  the 
Town:  a  copy  of  that  warrant  is  enclosed.  P. S.  [Since]  the 
writing  of  what  is  above,  [referi]  ing  to  the  Assessors  of  Dart- 
mouth [and]  Tiverton  being  imprisoned,  etc.,  that  matter  is 
accommodated,  and  the  persons  discharged  of  their  imprison- 
ment, and  the  raising  that  money  for  the  support  of  the 
Ministery  in  the  two  towns  suspended  at  present.  Signed,  J. 
Dudley.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  May  23,  Eead  Dec.  8,  1709.  6  large 
pp.  Edges  torn.  Enclosed, 

391.  i.  List  of  Council  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay: — Wait 
Wintnrop,  James  Russell,  John  Hathorne,  Rlisha  Hut- 
chinson,  William  Browne,  Samuel  Sewall,  Isaac  Adding- 
ton,  John  Phillips,  Jonathan  Corwin,  John  Foster, 
Joseph  Lynde,  Elm.  [  =  Eliakiin]  Hutchinson,  Peter 
Sergeant,  Samuel  Partridge,  John  Appleton,  Andrew 
Belcher,  Ephraim  Hunt,  John  Higginson,  Edward 
Bromfield,  Samuel  Appleton,  Isaac  Winslow,  John 
Gushing,  John  Otis,  Nathanl.  Norden,  Ichabod  Plaisted, 
John  Wheelwright,  Joseph  Church,  Daniel  Epes.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  May  23,  1709.  f  p. 

391.  ii.  Account  of  gunpowder  issued  in  the  Massachusetts 
Bay,  April  1703— March,  170f.  354  barrels.  Signed, 
Andr.  Belcher.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  |-  p. 
391.  iii.  Gunpowder  bought  for  the  Province,  1703-8.  335± 
barrels  =£3200.  12.  4.  Signed,  Jer.  Allen,  Cl.  to  ye 
Treasury.  Same  endorsement,  f  p. 

391.  iv.  Warrant  by  the  Select  men  of  Swansey,  Co.  Bristol, 
Dec.  10,  1708.  To  Benjamin  Carey,  Constable.  Where- 
as we  are  informed  that  John  Fiske,  late  of  Bristol,  is 
come  to  dwell  in  this  town,  and  is  entertained  at  Mr. 
Israel  Pecks.  Therefore  according  to  the  trust  com- 
mitted to  us  by  Law,  you  are  required  in  H.M.  name 
to  warn  the  above-named  John  Fisk  to  depart  this 
town  within  14  days  after  warning,  and  not  to  return 
to  inhabit  again  within  this  town  without  liberty  from 
the  Selectmen,  etc.  Signed,  Joseph  Carpenter,  Wm. 
Anthony,  Joseph  Mason.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 
391.  v.  List  of  causes  tried  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  Dec., 
1703 — March,  170  f.  The  whole  endorsed  as  preceding. 
46  pp. 

391.  vi.  Proclamation  by  Governor  Dudley  for  a  Day  of 
Thanksgiving  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Nov.  25,  1708, 
for  the  maintenance  of  the  Union,  the  victory  in  Flan- 
ders ;  preservation  from  the  enemy,  particularly  in  not 
giving  Haverhill  a  prey  to  their  teeth;  for  health, 
harvest,  and  later  rain ;  and  for  lengthening  out  our 
civil  and  religious  privileges,  etc.  Boston,  Nov.  3, 
1708.  Printed.  1  p. 

891.  vii.  Proclamation  by  Governor  Dudley  for  a  General  Fast 
in  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  March  24,  170f.  Boston, 
March  2,  1708(9).  Printed.  1  p. 


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Boston, 

New 
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391.  viii.  Proclamation  by  Governor  Dudley  with  regard  to 
seamen   and  deserters   in   New   England   in  accordance 
with  the  Act  of  Parliament  for  the  encouragement  of 
trade,    etc.     Boston,    Dec.    16,    1708.     Endorsed,    Reed. 
May   23,    1709.     Printed.      1   p.     [C.O.    5,   865.     Nos. 
22,    22. i. -viii. ;    and    (without   enclosures)    5,    913.    pp. 
89-119.] 

392.  Governor  Dudley  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and   Plan- 
tations.     This    comes   by   Capt.    Riddel,    who   brings   the   year's 
accounts,    papers    etc.    [of  New   Hampshire. ,]     Repeats  part   of 
preceding   letter.      Replies   to   enquiries   May   7,   1707.      By  the1 
rule  of  usual  judgment  of  the  number  of  inhabitants  from  their 
muster-rolls,  I  judge  there 'were  in  this  Province  on  my  arrival 
5000  souls,  besides  a  few  Blacks ;  this  number  may  be  increased 
150,  the  troubles  with  the  Indians  notwithstanding.     Very  few 
have  removed  from  hence,   but  the  security  from  the  war  and 
the  ease  of  the  taxes  in  the  neighbour  Provinces  are  apparent 
invitations    to    all    the    poorer    people    [to    seek    other"]    places. 
I   mustered  this   Province   in   1702,   and  the  rolls   amounted  to 
100C.     I  believe  they  are  150  more  now.     By  this  your  Lordships 
may  perceive  that   [  account  New  Hampshire  is  in   [value]   of 
men.  towns  and  acres  of  improvement  just  a  tenth  part  of  the 
Massachusetts,    [and  /]    believe  I  do  not  misreckon  to  a  hun- 
dredth part,  their  trade  excepted,  which  will   [not  make]   more 
than    the    thirtyeth    part    of    Boston,    and    dependancies.      The 
regulation,   Government  and  security  of  the  trade,   its   advance 
and   strict    [depend]ance  upon   Great  Britain,    is  all   the   saline 
with  thb  Massachusetts,  etc.     Their  shipping  will  bear  a  tenth 
from   Boston   also,   ships  above   100  tons,   4 ;   between   50  and 
100,  6;  below  50,  that  trade,  20. 

This  Province  particularly  would  presently  increase,  grow  rich 
and  strong,  if  they  were  [put]  upon  the  building  great  ships 
for  H.M.  Navy,  and  the  North  Britains  setled  in  Nova  Scotia, 
as  I  have  humbly  offered  last  year,  and  now.  All  the  Acts  of! 
Parliament  referring  to  the  Union,  coyns,  trade  to  America, 
and  the  [<4c£s]  referring  to  the  accustomed  dutys  upon  enumer- 
ated commoditys,  have  been  duly  published  and  recorded  here 
as  in  the  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Bridger  has  all  the  encourage- 
ment in  this  Province,  as  in  the  other,  by  Proclamation,  war- 
rants, guards,  and  guides  in  the  woods  that  he  has  at  any  time 
desired,  and  this  Province  has  shewed  their  loyalty  and  duty 
in  agreeing  to  an  Act  of  the  Assembly  that  I  [offered]  the 
last  session,  making  it  £100  penalty  for  [any]  person  to  cut 
any  mast  tree  without  H.M.  warrant  and  lycence  therefore, 
which  the  Assembly  very  unanimously  came  into,  tho  in  this 
Province  there  was  no  [pena]\iy  ever  set  before  by  the  command 
of  the  Crown  or  the  submission  of  the  people.  [This]  I  hum- 
bly acquaint  your  Lordships  with,  to  shew  the  loyalty  and  good 
inclination  [of]  this  Province,  in  destinction  to  the  other,  where 
I  could  not  obtain  it  in  a  long  [ses-sjion  of  6  weeks,  tho'  I 
propounded  it  in  the  words  of  the  Charter  of  that  Province, 


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[where~]  the  £100  penalty  is  expressly  provided.  The  other 
Act  this  Province  has  made  for  the  encouragement  of  the  making 
[of  tar],  they  have  set  it  at  20s.  per  barrel  for  this  year,  and 
commanded  all  future  \_Assemb~\\jQ  to  set  a  price  annually  upon 
it,  and  that  it  be  received  at  that  price  [from]  time  to  time  in- 
stead of  money  for  the  payment  of  all  taxes  of  the  Province, 
[which]  will  at  all  times  put  the  poor  people  upon  making  what 
possibl}r  they  can  annually,  and  the  Treasurer  of  the  Province 
must  have  the  trouble  to  dispose  of  [it  /or]  the  publick  debts, 
and  by  this  means  it  will  center  in  Great  Britain.  I  hope  Mr. 
Vaughan  will  take  out  the  warrants  for  the  three  Councellours 
H.M.  has  been  pleased  to  add  to  this  Province,  to  which;  I 
desire  if  your  Lordships  seem  meet,  that  Mr.  Vaughan  himself 
and  Mr.  George  Jaffreys  may  be  also  [added],  being  persons 
of  good  estate  and  loyalty.  The  Act  referring  to  molasses  and 
indigo  has  been  published  and  established  [here]  in  the  Custome- 
house  long  since.  The  account  of  the  Castle  of  this  place  is  in 
all  points  sent  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance  by  this  conveyances, 
as  it  always  has  been,  with  this  addition  that  your  Lordships 
have  a  copy  inclosed.  For  this  Castle,  I  have  received  nothing 
since  my  arrival,  cannon,  armes,  or  stores.  I  have  kept  this 
Province  carefully  upon  their  guards  and  scouting,  and  they 
[are  o6e]dient  and  diligent,  and  I  have  had  no  inroad  of  the 
enemy,  to  the  loss  of  [one]  man  within  the  year  last  past,  and 
Col.  Hilton,  their  Chief  Military  is  now  commanding  a  party  of 
150  men  in  the  woods,  in  search  [of  the]  Indian  rebels.  This 
Province,  my  Lords,  is  very  small  and  poor,  and  a  frontier  to 
the  enemy,  [gives  it]  a  great  check,  but  above  all  the  controversy 
between  Mr.  Allyn  and  the  ter -[tenants  Afjeeps  the  Province 
at  a  great  uncertainty,  and  it  would  dispose  all  things  to  a 
perfect  settlement,  if  that  were  determined.  The  people  are 
very  much  distinguished  from  some  others  [by]  their  loyalty 
and  good  obedience,  and  inferiour  to  none  for  their  diligence 
and  industry,  and  I  heartily  recommend  their  prayers  humbly 
presented  by  their  Agent  for  supply  of  armes  and  stores,  and, 
if  it  may,  a  small  garrison  of  20  souldiers  at  H.M.  Fort  upon 
an  English  settlement.  Signed,  J.  Dudley.  Endorsed,  .Reed. 
May  23,  Read  Dec.  12,  1709.  2£  large  pp.  Edges  worn.  En- 
closed, 

392.  i.  List  of  Council  of  New  Hampshire.  Signed,  J.  Dud- 
ley. Endorsed,  Reed.  May  23,  1709.  1  p. 
392.  ii.  List  of  causes  tried  in  the  Superior  Court,  New 
Hampshire,  Aug.  1708.  Signed,  Theodore  Atkinson, 
Cler.  Same  endorsement.  4  pp.  [C.O.  5,  865.  Nos. 
30,  30.  i.,ii. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  5,  913.  pp. 
128-137.] 

March  1.  393.  Mr.  Vaughan  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Returns  thanks  for  their  report  made  for  the  supply  to  New 
Hampshire,  whose  distresses  are  dayly  encreasing.  The  As- 
sembly have  addressed  H.M.  for  a  supply  of  small  armes,  wch. 
are  dayly  lost  in  ye  woods  in  pursuit  of  ye  enemy,  wch.  are 


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New 
England. 


1709 

much  wanted,  especially  in  H.M.  Castle,  there  never  yet  being 
any  such  furniture  there,  wch.  doubtless  on  yr.  Lordships' 
Representation  may  be  supplyed,  etc.  A  body  of  French  and 
Indians  promising  themselves  ye  desolation  of  that  part  of  ye 
country,  were  prevented  by  some  troops  opportunely  comeing 
thither,  so  that  they  did  not  wholy  depopulate  a  town,  but 
murdered  many  of  the  principle  inhabitants  thereof.  Prays 
that  some  men,  as  well  as  small  armes  may  be  supplyed  for 
said  Castle,  to  defend  ye.  sd.  Province  as  well  as  H.M.  Stores 
of  masts,  wch.  are  much  exposed,  and  may  soon  be  destroyed 
by  three  or  four  chops  of  an  hatchet.  Petitioner  is  informed 
from  ye  Governor  to  pray  yr.  Lordships  that  ye  Council  may 
be  filled  up,  etc.  Signed,  'Geo.  Vaughan.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
March  3,  170|.  Addressed.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  865.  No.  12 ;  and 
5,  913.  pp.  52,  53.] 

394.  Governor  Dudley  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Encloses  following.  Signed,  J.  Dudley.  Endorsed*, 
Reed.  May  23,  Read  Dec.  12,  1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

394.  i.  Account  of  Stores  of  War  in  H.M.  Fort  at  Marble- 
head,  June  24,  17*08.  Signed,  Edward  Brattle,  Capt. 
of  sd.  Fort.  1  p. 

394.  ii.  Account  of  powder  expended  at  H.M.  Fort,  Mar- 
blehead,  June  24,  1707—1708.  Signed  and  endorsed 
as  preceding.  ^  p. 

394.  iii.  Account  of  Stores  of  war,  and  of  powder  expended 
at  Fort  Anne,  Salem,  June  24,  1707—8.  Signed,  Ste- 
phen Sewall,  Capt.  1  p. 

394.  iv. ,  v.  Account  of  Stores  of  War,  and  of  Powder  expended 
at  Castle  William,  Boston,  June  24,  1707—1708.  Signed, 
Zee.  Tuthill,  Lt.  and  Master  Gunner.  3  p. 

394.  vi.,  vii.  Account  of  Stores  of  War,  and  of  powder  ex- 
pended at  Fort  William  and  Mary,  Newcastle,  June 
24,  1707—1708.  Signed,  Shadrach  Walton,  Capt.  2 
pp.  [(7.0.  5,  865.  Nos.  31,  31.  i.-vii. ;  and  (without 
enclosures)  5,  913.  pp.  138,  139.] 

March  2.  395.  Sir  John  Cooke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
D.D.  Commons  .Reply  to  Feb.  25.  I  am  of  opinion  that  this  matter  ought  to  be 
communicated  to  ye  Lord  High  Admiral,  that  directions  may 
issue  to  the  proper  officers,  to  proceed  in  his  Lordship's  name 
in  the  Court  of  Admiralty  here,  in  order  to  have  ye  [Spanish] 
brigantine  condemn'd  and  declared  a  perquisite  of  ye  Admir- 
alty, being  seiz'd  at  sea,  by  a  non-commissioned  ship.  Signed, 
J.  Cooke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  March  3,  170f.  Addressed. 
Sealed.  1  p.  [C.O.  137,  8.  No.  31;  and  138,  12.  pp.  373, 
374.] 

March  2.       396.     Governor   Crowe   to  the   Council   of   Trade  and   Plan- 

Barbadoes.    tations.     We   have  had  no   packet  or  other  vessell   from   Great 

Brittain  these  four  months,  some  masters  of  merchantmen  from 

Ireland  report  they  had  news  there  of  H.R.H.  the  Prince's  death, 


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1709. 

god  grant  it  may  be  otherwayes.  Encloses  coppys  of  dispatches 
Nov.  2.  I  hope  H.M.  will  shew  some  marks  of  her  displeasure 
on  the  offenders.  All  Mr.  Sha'rpe's  negroes^and  works  are  now 
levied  upon,  and  shortly  to  be  sold  at  outcry,  but  will  not  be 
sufficient  to  satisfy  his  creditors.  H.M.  ships  the  Windsor  and 
Dolphin  being  forced  in  here  to  refitt  falls  very  fortuneatly 
out  to  convey  about  12  vessells  home,  which  carry s  above  3000 
hhds.  sugr.,  the  remainder  of  our  last  cropp.  The  Try  ton's 
Prize  that  brought  the  Northern  trade  from  New  Yorke  has 
taken  a  French  vessell  off  Martineco  of  80  tunns  loaden  with 
wine,  beef,  pork,  bread  and  linnings ;  said  man  of  war  is  to 
re  turn  e  againe  to  her  station  on  the  10th  of  this  month.  Last 
week  I  had  one  of  the  Indian  Princes  of  Domineco  up  here, 
those  Islands  continues  firm  in  their  obedience  to  H.M.  Our 
two  men  of  warr  are  now  a  cruising1.  The  Weymouth  is  or- 
dered to  call  at  St.  Vincents  before  she  returns.  By  the  inclosed 
Acts  your  Lordps.  will  perceive  that  the  Assembly  could  not 
be  prevailed  upon  to  raise  more  than  15d.  per  head  on  negroes, 
which  will  but  pay  Mr.  Eoberts  and  the  mattrosses  six  months 
sallary,  so  that  there  is  nothing  for  repairing  the  Fortifications, 
or  discharge  of  other  debts.  Their  time  being  expired,  I  have 
issued  writts  for  a  new  one,  to  meet  on  March  22,  and  shall 
then  repeat  the  many  instances  I  have  made  for  a  further  supply, 
which  altho  they  are  all  sensible  is  absolutely  necessary,  yet 
deferr  it  to  get  favour  with  the  Freeholders  in  order  to  continue 
their  votes.  Refers  to  case  of  the  Walkers  and  Lillington 
(C.S.P.  1705-8.)  Mr.  William  Walker  at  the  last  Grand  Sessions 
was  indicted  by  the  Grand  Jury  on  the  evidence  of  3  credible 
witnesses  for  compelling  Lillington  (at  the  time  of  his  im- 
prisonment) to  give  him  £2000  to  save  his  life  and  obtaine  his 
liberty.  I  send  all  the  proceedings,  by  which  you  will  see 
what  strange  transactions  were  at  the  said  Court  thereupon. 
I  have  likewise  sent  the  minutes  and  proceedings  in  Council 
on  a  memorial  and  complaint  of  the  Attorney  General  against, 
the  said  Court  of  Grand  Sessions,  by  which  your  Lordps.  will 
have  a  full  view  of  that  matter  and  all  the  proceedings  here 
thereupon ;  it  being,  as  I  conceive,  a  matter  of  great  importance 
to  the  honour  of  H.M.  Government:  I  pray  your  Lordps.'  speedy 
and  full  direction  what  must  be  done  further  therein.  I  have 
transmitted  the  Board  of  Ordnance  a  list  of  all  our  ammunition 
etc.,  and  hope  your  Lordps.  will  be  pleased  to  order  the  sending 
what  are  wanting.  I  have  some  reason  to  complain  of  Commo- 
dore Legg,  which  I  must  deferr  untill  I  can  more  properly 
apply  myself  to  the  Admiralty  Board.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  April  19,  Read  May  2,  1709.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 
396.  i.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance.  Bar- 
bados, March  2,  170  f  Encloses  following,  by  which 
you  will  perceive  the  great  necessity  wee  have  of  sun- 
dry things,  especially  powder,  smal  iron,  shott  from  3 
to  91b.,  bunting,  .neats  foot-oyle,  tarr,  and  match,  etc. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  April  19th,  1709.  Copy.  1  p. 
396.  ii.,  iii.  Accounts  of  the  Ordnance  stores  in  the  divisions, 


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March  3. 

St.  James's. 


March  3. 

Craven 
House. 


March  3. 

St.  James's. 


March  4. 

Perth 
Amboy. 


magazines  and  batteries  in  Barbados.     Endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding.    3  pp. 

396.  iv.  Proceedings  of  the  Grand  Jury  in  Barbados  against 
Messrs.  Alexander  and  William  Walker  relating  to  Mr. 
Lillington,    Dec.    14-17,    1708.     With    Depositions     of 
George    Lillington,     see     supra.       Same     endorsement. 
Copy.     47  pp.      [C.O.  28,  12.     Nos.  19,  19.i.-iv. ;  and 
(without   enclosures)    29,    11.      pp.    449-454.] 

397.  H.M.    Warrant  for   restoring  Alexander   Skeen  to  the 
office  of  Secretary  of  Barbados,  etc.,  as  Feb.  27,  and  A.P.C.  II. 
p.  490.      [C.O.   5,  210.     pp.   139-141.] 

398.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Earl  of  Pembroke. 
Request  his  approbation  of  John  Turbill,  whom  they  have  ap- 
pointed Judge  of  the   Admiralty  in  Carolina.     Signed,   Craven, 
Palatine,  Beaufort,  J.   Colleton,  J.   Danson.      [C.O.   5,  289.    p. 
155.] 

399.  Order   of   Queen   in   Council.     Eepealing   Act  of    New 
York  for  preventing   the   corruption  of  currant  coin.     Of.    Feb. 
22,  1709.     Signed,  William  Blathwayt.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
March  21,  170f.     l£  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1049.    No.  100;  and  5,  1121. 
pp.   302,  303.] 

400.  Governor  Lord  Lovelace  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.      I   am   come   hither  to   hold  an   Assembly,    which! 
met  yesterday  and  chose  Mr.  Thomas  Gordon  Speaker.     I  have 
given  orders  for  ye  proper  officers  to  transcribe  fair  accts.  of 
the  Minutes  of  the  Councill  and  Assembly,  that  were  holden  both 
here  and  at  New  York,  the  lists  of  the  ships  entred  and  cleared/ 
and  the  accounts  of  the  Revenue  during  my  Lord  Cornbury's 
time ;  there  is   also  preparing  now  an  acct.   of  the  remains  of 
the  stores  of  war  at  New  York  and  Albany.     I  know  not  how 
soon  they  can  be  got  ready,  buti  I  ishall  send  yor.  Lops,  quarterly, 
or  half-yearly  accounts  of  these  things  during  my  continuance 
here.     Yr.  Lops,  directions  relating  to  the  accounts  of  the  num- 
bers  of   the   negroes    imported   from   Africa   for    severall    years 
past,  I  am  afraid  cannot  be  complyed  with,  but  I  will  endeavour 
in    all   things   to    follow   my    Instructions,    and   give    yr.    Lops- 
from  time  to  time  an  account  of  my  proceedings.     I  take  the 
liberty  to  add  that  Mr.  Mompesson  having  heard  that  two  Gentle- 
men in  England  are  putting  in  for  his  office  of  Cheif  Justice, 
hath  desired  me  to  remind  yr.  Lops,  of  a  letter  which  yr.  Lops, 
sent  to  my  Lord  Cornbury,   and  thinking  from  thence  himself 
secure   in   his   imployment  hath  therefore  made  no   application 
to  England  to  be  confirmed,  etc.     Signed,  Lovelace.     Endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  May  25,   1709.     1|  pp.     Enclosed, 

400.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  to  Governor  Lord  Cornbury,  Feb.  26,  170|. 
Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  970.  A7o.  80; 
and  5,  994.  pp.  473,  474,  (without  enclosure) ;  and 
(enclosure  only)  5,  1049.  No.  102.] 


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March  7. 

Craven 
House. 


1709. 
March  4.        401.     Governor  Lord  Lovelace  to  the  Lord  High  Treasurer. 

Perth  Extract : — I  have  not  yet  been  able  to  divide  the  lands  among 
Amboy-  the  poor  German  Protestants,  the  snow  being  upon  the  ground, 
and  no  distinction  can  yet  be  made  between  profitable  and  un- 
profitable land.  I  have  been  forced  to  support  them  by  my 
credit  here,  tho'  I  have  not  any  directions  about  that  matter. 
I  hope  your  Lordship  will  please  to  order  the  payment  of  such 
Bills  which  I  must  draw  upon  my  Agent,  Mr.  Gough,  to  answer 
the  charge  of  their  support.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug.  12, 
1709.  1  p.  {C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  105.] 

402.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  We  are  now  sending  to  Carolina  John  Lawson 
and  Edward  Mosely  Esqs.,  whom  we  have  appointed  to  be 
Commissioners  to  survey  the  lands  in  dispute  (cf.  Jan.  27), 
and  to  take  all  necessary  care  in  the  settling  and  ascertaining 
the  bounds  on  our  part  conjointly  with  such  as  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  H.M.  or  by  any  other  persons  by  her  order  for  the 
Province  of  Virginia;  and  in  case  any  dispute  may  arise  which 
we  doe  no  way  foresee  in  the  determination  of  the  said  boundaries, 
we  are  willing  to  refer  the  same  to  H.M.  decision,  not  doubting 
of  H.M.  justice  and  goodness  upon  this  and  all  other  occasions. 
Signed,  Craven,  Pallatine,  Beaufort,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson: 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  llth  March,  170f.  If  pp.  [C.O.  5, 
1264.  No.  63 ;  and  5,  1292.  pp.  133,  134 ;  and  (dated  March  3) 
5,  289.  p.  155.] 

March  9.        403.     P.  Vanderheyden  Razen  to  the  Directors  of  the  Dutch, 
(N.S.)     West  India  Company.     Signed,  Pr.  Vanderheyden  Razen.     En- 
Fort  Kykoveral^orsetf,  Sept.  6  (N.S.),  1709.     Dutch.     21  pp.     [C.O.  116,  20. 
No.  17.] 


Essequebo. 


March  9.        404.     T.  Byerley  to  Mr.   Popple.     Returns  thanks  for  letter 
New  York,      of  July  23,    1708,    and  repeats   part  of  following.     Signed,    T. 
Byerley.     Endorsed,  Reed.  May  21,  Read  Sept.   5,  1709.     1  p, 
{C.O.    5,   1049.      No.    113;  and  5,   1121.     p.   401.] 

March  9.  405.  Same  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  In 
New  York.  Oct.  last  the  Lord  Cornbury  suspended  me  again,  and  by  (a 
special  warrant  order'd  the  High  Sherif  to  arrest  me  in  an 
action  of  £4000,  and  afterwards  by  a  writ  of  £5000  at  the 
suit  of  ye  Queen,  likewise  at  his  own  suit  for  £700.  To  all 
which  summs  I  gave  in  security,  but  being  threatn'd  to  be 
worse  us'd,  I  was  forc'd  to  retire  to  the  next  Government, 
till  H.E.  my  Lord  Lovelace  arriv'd,  wch.  was  about  Dec.  20 
last,  who  finding  the  hardships  I  had  done  me  without  being 
guilty  of  any  crime,  restor'd  me  to  my  Office  again,  etc.  Signed 
and  endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  ATo.  114;  and 
5,  1121.  pp.  402,  403.] 

March  10.       406.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
.Whitehall.    derland.     Reply    to   petition   of   Peter   Diharce,    Feb.    10.     The 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


249 


1709. 


March  10. 

Whitehall. 


March  10. 

Whitehall. 


March  10. 

Whitehall. 


March  10. 

Maryland. 


permission  therein  desired  cannot  be  granted  without  dispensing 
with  the  Act  of  Navigation,  12  Car.  II.  etc.  [C.O.  389,  20. 
pp.  338-340.] 

407.  W.  Popple  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Council  in  waiting.     An 
Act  having  been  past  in  Barbados,  Sept.  5,  1667,  declaring  how 
the  Clarks  and.  Marshalls  of  the  Courts  of  Common  Pleas  shall 
be  appointed  and  what  fees  they  shall  receive,  the  Council  of 
Trade  desire  to  know  whether  it  appears  by  the  Councill  Books 
that  the  said  Act  was  ever  confirmed  or  repealed  by  the  Crown, 
and  when.     [C.O.  29,  11.     pp.  426,  427.] 

408,  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Han- 
dasyd.     Since  our  letter  of  Feb.   24,  we  have  only  to  transmit 
to  you  an  additional  Instruction  from  H.M.  in  relation  to  writts 
of  escheat  etc.,  June  26,  Aug1.   18,  1708.     You  are  therefore  to 
cause  this  Instruction  to  be  entred  in  the  Councill  Books,  and 
observe  H.M.  directions  accordingly.     As  to  the  brigantine  men- 
tioned   by    you    to    have    been    seized   by    a    vessell    without    a 
commission  or  letters  of  marque,  we  have  been  informed  that 
the  Lord  High  Admiral  has  had  that  matter  under  consideration, 
so  that  you  may  soon  expect  to  receive  his  Lordship's  orders 
therein.     [C.O.  138,  12.    pp.  374,  375.] 

409,  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Col.  Jenings.    En- 
close  H.M.    Instruction    (Jan.    13)    relating  to  the   granting  of 
lands  in  Virginia,  which,  is  to  be  entred  in  the  Councill  books 
and  observed  in  the  future,  etc.     [C.O.  5,  1362.   p.  357.] 

410.  Governor  Seymour  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    Though  I  wrote  to  your  Lordships  very  lately  of  Nov. 
18  by  the  way  of  New  Yorke,  and  of  Jan.  10  by  a  small  brigan- 
teen  hence ;   yet  now  having  the  opportunity  of  the  Catherine 
of  London,  a  ship  of  good  countenance,  I  have  herewith  trans- 
mitted the  Laws  and  Journalls  of  our  last  Assembly.     By  which' 
your  Lordships   will   see  I   have  not  fail'd   in  my  duty   to  lay 
H.M.  Boyall  commands  before  the  Generall  Assembly,  and  with 
all   the   dilligence   and   industry   I   was   capable   of,   heartily   to 
recomend  them  to   their  ready  complyance ;   But  as  there  was 
not   any   person    of    liberall    education   that   appear'd    there;    it 
was  too  difficult  a  taske  for  me,  to  graft  good  manners  on  so 
barren   a    stock;    so   that   they   have   once    more   refus'd   to   do 
anything  therein,    save   ye   addressing   H.M.    in   answer   to    Sir 
Thomas  Laurence's  complaint,  and  the  guage  of  tobacco  hhds. 
H.M.  Boyall  commands,  and  the  reviving  the  temporary  Laws, 
and  especially  those  for  defraying  the  necessary  charges  of  the 
Province,  discharging  the  publique  debts  of  this  year,  and  settling 
the   itinerant  Justices   requir'd  the   meeting  of  this   Assembly,, 
and  I   had  some  small  hopes  from  their  Address  to  me  at  ye 
opening  of  the  Sessions,  they  would  have  had  a  greater  reguarde 
for  my  advice  to  them ;   but  there  were  not  some  envious  and 
malicious  spiritts  wanting  to  create  heats  and  jealousyes  among 


250  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 

the  Members  of  the  Lower  House;  so  that  it  was  with  greate 
difficulty  they  consented  to  revive  the  Act  for  ordering  and 
regulating  the  Militia  untill  the  end  of  the  next  Session  of  As- 
sembly, as  they  have  done  the  Act  for  lymitation  of  Officers' 
fees  with  the  like  reluctancy  and  lymitation  of  tyme,  being 
very  desirous  to  render  those  who  are  dependent  on  the  Govern- 
ment as  meane  as  may  be,  and  discourage  persons  of  any  toller- 
able  qualifications  from  discharging  the  severall  offices  therein ; 
and  this  partly  to  satisfye  their  owne  envious  tempers,  because* 
they  have  not  what  others  better  deserve,  and  partly  being 
instigated  by  a  restless  and  pernicious  crew,  who,  tho'  they 
enjoy  H.M.  gracious  protection,  are  the  declared  enemys  of 
our  Church  and  State,  and  the  busiest  at  the  severall  elections 
in  the  Countys  where  they  reside,  to  get  such:  ignorant  and 
obstinate  people  return'd,  who  will  pursue  their  destructive 
notions  and  countenance  their  illegall  proceedings.  There  are 
three  things  in  this  Province  which  make  the  Governmt.  very 
uneasye.  The  Lord  Proprietor  and  his  Agents  and  a  greate 
many  of  his  and  their  relations  being  Eoman  Catholiques,  and 
constantly  providing  and  maynteyning  severall  busie.  Jesuites, 
the  Act  of  Assembly  for  the  advancemt.  of  the  natives  and 
residents  of  this  Province,  and  the  ambition  and  large  jurisdiction 
of  the  County  Court  Justices.  The  first  by  his  Lordship's  favour 
in  lands  not  only  makes  a  considerable  interest  with  many  of 
the  inhabitants  and  Delegates,  but  also  gains  many  proselites, 
their  priests  being  encouraged  and  supported  by  them  on  all 
occasions,  so  that  one  of  them  had  the  confidence  to  tamper 
with  one  of  my  domestiques ;  and  when  they  are  chequ'd  for 
these  abuses,  the  whole  party  is  in  a  flame,  and  ready  to  raise 
a  considerable  contribution  for  their  defence  and  protection, 
and  with  the  extreamest  spite  and  malice  exclayme  against 
the  severity,  as  they  term  it,  of  H.M.  Instructions  (which  indeed 
would  be  none,  would  they  conteyne  themselves  in  any  reason- 
able bounds)  and  often  are  heard  to  declare  that  this  Province 
was  favourably  created  by  King  Charles  I.  as  an  Asylum  for 
them,  which  indeed  it  might  be  could  they  be  contented,  and 
not  continually  give  occasion  of  scandall  and  offence  to  the 
Government,  by  the  illegall  practices  of  their  priests  and  ye 
vain  malicious  lyes  they  dayly  invent  and  disperse  to  lessen 
the  glory  of  H.M.  and  her  confederates  happy  successes.  The 
second  rendring  this  Province  more  unfortunate  than  any  other 
of  any  H.M.  Plantations  by  imposeing  so  great  an  hardship 
on  H.M.  free  subjects  of  Greate  Brittaine  and  other  her  Do- 
minions, that  they  shall  not  be  capable  of  having  or  enjoying 
any  office  or.  trust  in  this  Government  untill  they  have  resided 
here  three  full  years.  This  discourages  all  ingenious  men  to 
seeke  their  fortunes  in  Maryland.  And  in  the  space  of  14 
years,  there  are  scarce  14  men  who  have  undergone  that  tedious 
dissability,  so  that  the  natives  who  are  ignorant  and  raw  in 
busieness,  and  naturally  proude  and  obstinate,  are  not  only  the 
Representatives  in  Assembly,  but  the  Justices  of  the  County 
Courts:  and  by  the  name  of  Country-borne  distinguish  them- 


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1709. 

selves  from  the  rest  of  H.M.  subjects,  and  run  into  great  heats 
and  divisions,  which  may  be  of  ill  consequence,  for  as  they 
know  little  of  the  laws  and  good  manners  they  practice  less. 
Thirdly,  many  of  the  County  Court  Justices  for  many  years 
last  past,  having  been  return'd  as  Delegates  to  the  Generall 
Assembly,  on  all  occasions  have  sought  to  corroborate  and 
establish  their  jurisdiction  by  severall  Acts  of  Assembly  made 
of  late  years,  that  they  allmost  believe  themselves  independent 
of  the  Queen's  Govemour,  and  were  I  to  change  them  for  othjers, 
there  is  so  little  choice,  the  remedye  might  be  worse  than  the 
disease.  These  Justices,  especially  if  they  are  dealers,  which 
everybody  here  are,  that  have  anything  beforehand,  not  only 
countenance  their  customers,  but  too  often  favour  one  the  other, 
and  would  have  all  things  under  their  jurisdiction  and  ad- 
ministration, tho'  they  are  never  so  meanly  qualified  for  the 
trust,  and  therefore  though'  with  their  tongues,  when  seperate, 
they  applaude  the  new  institution  of  the  itinerant  Justices,  yet 
when  any  of  them  are  in  the  House  pf  Delegates,  they  leave  no 
stone  unturn'd  to  render  it  precarious  and  abortive,  by  re- 
ferring ye  settlement  of  a  competent  sallary  to  enable  the  four 
provinciall  Justices  to  performe  their  duty,  and  by  severall 
other  crafty  evasions,  looking  upon  their  honour  and  grandeur 
to  be  highly  eclipsed  and  impair'd  by  the  provinciall  Justices 
comeing  to  hold  the  Assizes,  and  before  the  appearance  of  their 
full  countys,  giving  handsome  and  regular  charges  to  ye  Grand 
Jurys  of  Inquest,  thereby  acquainting  the  people  of  their  duty 
to  God,  their  Sovereigne  and  Country,  which  these  Justices  of 
the  County  Courts  never  do,  were  any  of  them  capable  thereof, 
so  that  the  Country-borne,  as  they  terme  themselves,  neither; 
know  their  duty  to  the  Queen's  Majesty,  nor  ye  respect  they  owe 
the  civill  magistrate;  wherefore  seing  their  ignorance  and  am- 
bition will  not  suffer  them  to  do  what  in  all  honesty  and  good 
conscience  they  ought  for  ye  service  of  their  country,  I  know 
not  how  these  Justices,  who  are  the  only  asserters  of  H.Ml 
Royal  prerogative  can  be  supported,  unless  H.M.  is  pleas'd  to 
direct  the  Councill  and  myselfe  should  pay  each  of  them  £120 
per  annum  out  of  the  imposts  rais'd  for  the  defraying  the  neces- 
sary charge  of  this  Province,  which  will  very  well  answer  that, 
and  the  other  necessary  contingencyes.  The  Justices  of  the 
Provinciall  Court,  as  it  stood  before  this  regulation,  having 
been  as  great  a  charge  to  ye  Province,  without  any  encourage- 
ment to  them.  The  severall  Laws  for  the  imposts  are  now 
revived  for  3  years  and  better,  so  that  there  will  be  a  oertaine 
supporte  for  3  years  at  least  to  those  Justice^,  but  without? 
H.M.  express  direction  I  shall  not  presume  to  make  them  any 
allowance  for  their  service.  According  to  a  former  direction 
of  the  honble.  Boarde,  I  have  made  some  observations  on  the 
severall  laws  enacted  this  session,  which  are  inclosed,  and  most 
heartily  begg  pardon  for  anything  that  may  have  slipt  my 
notice/  having  been  so  very  ill  that  I  could  not  sitt  in  Councill 
above  3  or  4  days,  during  the  whole  Session,  and  have  not 
been  able  to  go  out  of  my  house  ever  since.  I  should  be  very; 


252  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

glad  to  have  H.M.  royall  commands  about  running  out  th'e 
northern  lyne  of  this  Province,  or  to  heare  my  Lord  Baltimore 
and  Mr.  Penn  had  adjusted  that  matter  between  themselves,., 
there  being  many  hot  disputes,  so  that  ye  people  of  both  provinces 
are,  with  much  ado,  restrayned  from  comitting  violence  on 
each  other  which  I  should  be  sorry  to  see,  and  in  the  meantyme 
will  take  the  best  care  I  can  to  prevent  it,  etc.  Signed,  Jo. 
Seymour.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June  3,  Read  Dec.  6,  1709.  6  pp. 
Enclosed, 

410.  i.  Copy  of  a  Charter  for  erecting  the  Town  and  Port 
of  Annapolis  into  a  City.  Nov.  22,  1708.  Signed, 
Jo.  Seymour.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June  3,  1709.  9|  pp. 
410.  ii.  Titles  of  Laws  past  in  Maryland,  Dec.  1708,  with 
Governor  Seymour's  comments  upon  them.  Same  en- 
dorsement. 12  pp. 

410.  iii.  Journal  of  Committee  of  Accounts,  in  the  Assembly 
of  Maryland,   Nov.    6,    1708.      25   pp.      [(7.0.    5,    716. 
Nos.   69,   69.  i. -iii.;   and   (without  enclosures)    5,   727. 
pp.  150-157.] 

March  12.  411.  Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  Mr.  Popple.  Refers  to  letters 
of  March  1,  and  to  enclosed,  relateing1  to  the  designes  of  the 
Spaniards  and  French  on  Carolina.  I  have  ordered  an  advice- 
boat  to  be  fitted,  and  will  be  ready  in  a  few  days  to  carry  my 
packet  of  notice  to  Sir  Nath.  Johnson.  Also  when  I  have  oppor- 
tunities, shall  send  the  like  accounts  to  New  York,  and  other 
H.M.  Govermts.  on  the  Continent,  and  to  all  the  plantations  in 
the  West  Indies ;  least  the  enemy  may  design  elsewhere  and  not 
on  Carolina.  As  for  this  place  all  due  care  shall  be  taken, 
and  hope  if  they  doe  come,  we  shall  behave  ourselves  like  men 
and  good  subjects.  The  reason  I  did  not  receive  intelligence 
sooner  was  that  Capt.  Bell  went  from  Curacoa  to  Saltertudas, 
and  did  not  arrive  here  till  4th  inst.  Signed,  B.  Bennett.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  June  29,  Read  July  1,  1709.  Holograph.  1  p, 
Enclosed, 

411.  i.  M.   Gilleber  of  Cura9oa  to  M.    Samuel  Peroneau  of 
Charlestown   Carolina.    Jan.    19,    1709.      I   have  heard 
here,  itt  was  projected  in  La  Vera  Crux  to  go  in  the 
spring   to   his    country,    South   Carolina,    and  that   the 
vessels   were   already  manned   for   the   said  expedition. 
I  know  not  what  success  itt  may  have,  but  itt  is  good 
to    stand    on    one's    guard.     The    Spanish    gentry   will 
revenge  what  was  done  att   St.  Augustine.     The  worst 
of  that  affaire  is  that  the  French,  will  help  them.     This 
is  all  what  I  can  say  of  that  enterprise,  which  wants 
confirmation.     Extract  translated  by  P.    Chardon,   and 
Peter   le   Conte.      1   p. 

411.  ii.  Deposition  of  Boaz  Bell,  jr.,  Master  of  the  sloop 
Dolphin.  Deponent  being  in  the  beginning  of  Janu- 
ary last  at  Curasao  a  French  gentleman,  M.  Bernoe 
informed  him  that  a  Flag  of  Truce  had  brought  news 
that  a  Fleet  from  Gales  touching  att  the  Havana  withi 


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253 


1709. 


March  14. 

Whitehall. 


March  14. 

Councill 
Office. 


March  15. 

Whitehall. 


March  15. 

Whitehall. 


March  15. 

Boston. 


March  15. 

Boston, 

New 
England. 


their  boats  only  had  taken  6  large  laden  shipps  out  of 
the  Fleet  from  Jamaica  bound  home  near  the  Gulf  of 
Florida.  Deponent  saw  at  Curacao  several  of  the  offi- 
cers and  mariners  who  had  been  so  taken  cind  they 
told  him  that  there  were  about  16  or  18  ships  of  war 
from  20  to  40  guns  and  the  rest  small  crafts  and 
privateers.  M.  Bernoe  sent  preceding  letter  by  de- 
ponent to  warn  his  friends  in  S.  Carolina.  Siy.ned, 
Boaz  Bell.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  June  29,  Read  July  1, 
1709.  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O.  37,  8.  Nos.  83,  83.  i.,  ii. ; 
and  (without  enclosures')  38,  6.  p.  460.] 

412.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Pro- 
pose that  the  Governor  and  Council  of  Virginia  be   instructed 
to  appoint  Boundary  Commissioners  to  act  with  those  of  Carolina, 
etc.     Set   out,   A.P.C.    II.      p.    588.    q.v.      [C.O.   5,    1362.     pp. 
358-360.] 

413.  Wm.  Blathwayt  to  Mr.   Popple.     The  Lords  of  H.M:. 
Privy   Councill   appointed   for   hearing  appeals   from  the   Plan- 
tations, having  under  their  consideration  an  Appeal  relating  to 
Jamaica,  are  desirous  to  know  the  names  of  the  several  Coun- 
cellors  of  that  Island,  and  where  each  of  them  is  supposed  to 
be  at  present.     Signed,  Wm.  Blathwayt.     Endorsed,  Reed.  14th, 
Read  15th  March,  170f.     Addressed,     f  p.     [C.O.  137,  8.    No. 
32;  and  138,  12.     p.  376.] 


414.  Wm.  Popple  to  Mr.  Blathwayt.    Encloses  list  as  desired 
in  preceding.     The  Council  of  Trade  do  not  know  that  any  oct1 
the  Counsellors  are  absent  from  the  Island,  except  Col.   Long, 
who  is  here  in  England.     [C.O.  138,  12.     pp.  376,  377.] 

415.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Pro- 
pose that  Mark  Hunkins  and  Thomas  Packer  be  appointed  to  the 
Council  of  New  Hampshire.     [C.O.  5,  913.     p.  58.] 

416.  Mr.  Addington  to  Mr.  Popple.     Encloses  lists  of  public 
papers  forwarded  by  H.M. 8.   Falmouth.     Signed,   Isa.   Adding- 
ton.    Endorsed,  Reed.  May  23,  Read  Dec.  9,  1709.  2  pp.     [C.O. 
5,   865.     Wo.   23.] 

417.  Governor  Dudley  to  Mr.  Popple.     This  comes  by  Capt, 
Riddel,  the  convoy  of  the  mast  fleet,  with  the  year's  papers  and 
accounts   etc.,   wherein   I   have  observed  their  Lordships'   com- 
mands in  putting  no  papers  into  their  Lordships'  pacquets,  but 
what  belong  to  the  office.     I  was  not  aware  of  the  fault  of  it 
before,  tho  I  never  put  in  any  letter  of  my  own  private  business 
at  any  time,   etc.     P.S.     I  gave    Mr.    Drift's   second  letter  to 
Capt.  Southack,  and  he  tells  me  he  has  taken  order  severall  wayes 
for   payment.     Signed,   J.    Dudley.     Endorsed,    Reed.    May   23, 
Read  Dec.    12,   1709.      Holograph.      1  p.      [O.O.    5,   865.     .Vo. 
32 ;  and  5,  913.     pp.   139,  140.] 


254 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 
March  16. 

Whitehall. 


March  17. 


March  17. 


March  21. 

Virginia. 


418.  Wm.    Popple   to    Charles   Davenant.      The   Council   of 
Trade  and  Plantations  desire  an  account  of  Naval   Stores   im- 
ported Christmas  1706—1708.     [C.O.   389,  20.     pp.  340,  341.] 

419.  Form  of  Deputation  by  Henry  Duke  of  Beaufort,  ap- 
pointing Portescue  Turbervill  Deputy  to  represent    him    in    the 
General  Assembly  and  Council  of  South  Carolina.    Signed,  Beau- 
fort,    [C.O.   5,  289.     p.   205.] 

420.  Lord     High    Admiral's     Warrant     for     John     Turbill 
to  be  Judge  of  the  Vice-Admiralty,  Carolina.    Signed,  Pembroke. 
[0.0.    5,  289.     p.   156.] 

421.  Col.    JeningB    to    the    Council    of    Trade    and     Plan- 
tations.    The   intelligence   I   have   receiv'd   of   the   preparations 
made   by  the   French  privateers   in  the  West   Indies   to   attack 
this  H.M.  Colony  and  Dominion,  oblige  me  to  give  your  Lordps. 
this  trouble  both  to  lay  before  your  Lordps.  the  grounds  of  our 
fears,   and  the  means  taken  for  preventing  the  danger,   as  far 
as   the  weakness  of  the  country  will  admitt.      There   is   lately 
arrived  here  from  the  West  Indies  a  person  of  good  credit,  who 
was  last  Fall  at  the  Island  of  St.   Thomas,  and  there   (as  in  a 
neutral    port)    had    conference   with   several    French   privateers, 
who   cruised   last  summer   on   the   northern   coast   of   America:' 
they  told  him  they  would  certainly  attack  Virginia  this  spring, 
and  said  they  doubted  not  but  to  find   good   booty  in  negros,, 
plate  and  other  goods,  they  used  great  endeavors  to  engage  him 
to   be  their  pilote  into  James  River,  York  and  Rappahannock, 
for  wch    Service  they  offerred  him  £100  sterl.   in  hand,  besides 
a   full   share   of  what  plunder   they   should   gain,    but  he   very 
honestly  refused  their  proposals.     This  design  of  the  privatsers 
is   also   confirmed   by   other   persons   taken   prisoners    by   them, 
who    heard    the    Captain's    discourse    of    the    expectations    they 
had  of  great  booty  in  this  country,  and  how  easy  it  might  be 
had,  and  we  have  also  certain  advice  that  one  Hendrix,  formerly 
an  inhabitant  of  this  country  and  Mr.  of  a  ship,  is  now  Com- 
mander   of    a    Martinico    privateer,    and    engaged    with    several 
other   renegados    in  the   same    design,    and   'tis    probable    that 
from   them  the   French   privateers  have  had  their  accounts   of 
the   men   of   best   estates   in  the  country,   of  which  they   have 
spoken  to  the  prisoners  with  such  assurance.     It  was  very  rea- 
sonable to  conclude  from  the  success  of  the  privateers  the  two 
past   summers   that   they   would    endeavour    to    keep   the    same 
post  thereafter,  and  that  they  wh,b  had  yentureed  up  to  the  mouths 
of  our  Rivers  in  sight  of  H.M.  ships  of  war  last  summer,  would 
use  greater  boldness  when  the  men  of  war  were  gone.     Upon 
this  consideration  it  was  that  I  represented  to  your  Lordships 
the  importance  of  having  guardships  here  early  in  the  Spring, 
to  check  the  designs  of  those  privateers,  the  want  of  wch.  I'm 
afraid  will  prove  of  bad  consequence  to  H.M.    service  and  the 
trade   of   this    country.      The    aforementioned    advices,    as    they 
carry  a  great  deal  of  probability,  have  occasioned  a  more  general 


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1709. 

consternation  among  the  inhabitants  of  the  country,  especially 
the  maritime  countys  than  ever  I  have  ever  known ;  and  it  is 
certain  that  every  man  who  reflects  upon  the  openness  of  our 
rivers,  the  many  convenient  landings  in  the  bay  and  rivers, 
wch.  can  neither  be  fortifyed  nor  otherwise  defended  by  the 
power  of  the  inhabitants,  that  it  is  easy  for  a  privateer  to  land 
at  any  of  those  places  in  the  night,  and  surprize  people  in 
their  beds  and  before  any  number  of  men  can  be  drawn  together, 
return  to  their  vessells,  must  conclude  that  there  can  be  no 
safety  against  such  attempts  but  by  a  naval  force,  and  when 
that  is  wanting,  cannot  but  have  very  just  apprehensions  of 
danger  from  an  enemy,  whose  attacks  will  be  sudden,  and  are  the 
better  prepared  by  being  conducted  by  men  so  well  acquainted 
with  all  our  rivers  and  inletts.  In  order  to  allay  the  fears  of 
the  people,  and  provide  as  far  as  possible  for  the  defence  of 
the  country,  I  have  by  advice  of  the  Council  ordered  the  Militia 
to  be  in  readiness,  and  caused  the  arms  and  ammunition  sent 
hither  by  H.M.  to  be  distributed  among  them.  Look-outs  are 
appointed  for  discovering  the  enemy's  approach  and  great  guns 
planted  in  convenient  places  along  the  Bay  to  alarm  the  country 
on  their  appearance.  But  because  the  privateers  (who  are 
generally  small  vessells)  having  such  pilots  as  we  understand 
they  have,  may,  notwithstanding  these  precautions,  come  in 
either  by  night  or  day,  and  stand  directly  up  into  our  rivers 
without  being  suspected  by  our  look-outs,  we  thought  it  abso- 
lutely necessary  to  fitt  out  a  vessell  to  cruise  between  the  Capes 
and  speak  with  all  vessells  inward  bound,  and  have  accordingly 
hyred  and  fitted  out  a  briganteen  of  10  guns  and  80  men  foi 
that  service,  which  being  a  very  good  sailor  will  be  able  to 
fight  anyone  of  the  small  privateers,  and  in  case  of  a  superior 
force,  will  alarm  the  country  before  the  enemy  can  land.  It 
was  with  much  unwillingness  that  the  Council  took  a  resolution 
so  chargeable  to  the  Queen's  Bevenue  (out  of  which,  it  must  be 
at  present  defrayed)  if  such  a  preparation  could  have  been  at 
all  avoided  with  safety  or  satisfaction  to  the  country:  and  yet 
if  it  brings  no  other  advantage  than  the  quieting  the  appre- 
hensions of  danger,  wch.  the  people  had  so  universally  conceived, 
and  prevailing  on  them'  to  apply  themselves  to  prosecute  their 
labour,  and  make  the  necessary  preparations  for  their  cropps, 
wch.  they  would  not  otherwise  have  done,  I  am  perswaded  the 
charge  will  be  amply  recompenced!:  and  I  hope  your  Lordships 
will  believe  that  we  have  endeavored  to  do  this  with,  as  little 
charge  as  possible,  tho  in  a  country  so  unprovided  of  all  things 
necessary  as  this  is,  and  even  of  men  fitt  for  such  a  service, 
it  has  proved  a  matter  of  extraordinary  difficulty.  As  the  coun- 
try in  general  are  pleased  with  this  preparation,  I  hope  the  next 
Assembly  will  reimburse  the  charge,  to  wch1.  I  beg  yr.  Lordps. 
to  be  assured  I  shal  use  my  best  endeavors  to  dispose  them, 
and  I  doubt  not  the  rest  of  the  Council  will  do  the  same,  this 
vessel  is  hyred  for  10  weeks,  before  wch.  time  I  hope  we  shal 
have  a  man  of  war  to  defend  us  more  effectually.  It  is  a 
great  misfortune  to  this  Country  to  be  left  without  those  guards 


256  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

wch.  alone  can  protect  the  trade  and  defend  the  coast;  and  if 
what  we  have  now  so  great  reason  to  expect  from  the  privateers 
should  happen  to  us,  it  will  be  found  that  our  loss,  tho  it  may 
be  first  felt,  will  be  but  inconsiderable  in  comparison  of  what 
the  Trade  and  H.M.  Customs  must  unavoidably  suffer.  Th,e 
privateers  may  land  and  kill  some  of  the  inhabitants,  burn  their 
plantations,  destroy  their  stocks,  and  perhaps  carry  off  their 
negros,  wch.  will  be  severe  losses  to  particular  persons ;  but 
if  it  be  considered  that  not  only  on  such  an  invasion,  but  upon 
every  alarm  whether  real  or  not,  the  people  must  be  drawn  off 
from  their  labour,  to  defend  the  coast,  and  the  slaves  conveyed 
into  a  place  of  safety  till  the  danger  is  over,  to  prevent  their 
being  taken  or  runing  to  the  enemy,  it  must  be  granted  that 
the  cropps  wch.  should  be  produced  by  their  labour  will  be 
exceedingly  lessened,  if  not  intirely  ruined,  and  thereby  the 
shipping  disappointed  of  freight,  the  merchant  of  the  returns 
of  his  commoditys,  and  H.M.  of  her  customs,  wch.  might 
otherwise  have  been  expected.  It  is  very  reasonable  to  believe 
we  shal  be  much  more  infested  with  the  French  privateers  than 
formerly,  for  since  the  interruption  they  have  found  in  thq 
Channel!  by  the  prudent  disposition  of  the  cruisers  oblige? 
them  to  come  in  greater  numbers  to  America,  so  the-  posture  of 
defence  H.M.  Islands  in  the  West  Indies  are  put  into,  and  the 
men  of  war  that  attend  there  will  force  them  to  adventure  into 
places  where  they  expect  less  opposition  tho  they  cannot  hope 
for  so  considerable  a  profite,  and  there's  no  doubt  this  will  be 
thought  a  country  very  fitt  for  their  purpose  from  the  ex- 
perience they  have  already  had,  how  ill  our  coasts  have  been 
guarded.  As  it  is  the  peculiar  happiness  of  the  plantations 
that  H.M.  hath  placed  them  under  the  immediate  care  of  your 
Lordps.,  whose  great  experience  in  their  particular  circum- 
stances enable  you  to  judge  what  assistances  and  encouragements 
they  want,  as  well  for  their  defence,  as  to  render  tham  more 
beneficial  to  the  Crown  and  trade  of  Great  Britain,  so  it  is  (at 
the  desire  of  H.M.  Council)  that  I  am  more  particularly  ito 
apply  to  your  Lordships,  that  by  your  Lordships'  prudent  coun- 
sels, and  interposition  we  may  have  such  guardships  appointed 
and  continued  here  (wch.  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  cannot 
be  less  than  one  fourth-rate  man  of  war  and  a  tender  of  8  or 
10  guns)  as  may  effectually  protect  the  trade  and  defend  the 
coast,  and  prevent  those  many  inconveniencys  to  H.M.  interest 
and  service  and  the  trade  in  general,  which  will  unavoidably 
happen,  if  our  safety  and  protection  be  not  intended  with  the 
same  vigilance  as  H.M.  enemys  use  for  our  destruction.  Refers 
to  letters  and  enclosures  Nov.  27,  1708.  q.v.  Acknowledges 
letters  by  way  of  New  York.  Persuant  to  your  Lordships' 
instructions,  [/]  have  caused  the  Acts  for  ascertaining  the 
coin)  and  -for  encouraging  the  trade  to  America  to  be  published ; 
and  shal  take  care  that  H.M.  Instruction  concerning  the  late 
Acts  of  Trade  (July  3)  be  duly  observed,  and  have  by  this 
conveyance  sent  to  the  Board  of  Ordnance  an  account  of  all 
the  stores  of  war  within  this  Colony  etc.  Signed,  E.  Jenings. 


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1709. 


Endorsed,  Eeod.  3rd,  Read  29th  June,  1709.     3|  large  pp.  fC.O. 
5,  1316.     No.  18;  and  5,  1362.     pp.  384-391.] 


March  23.       422.     Li.  Governor  Usher  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Boston,       tations.     Repeats  his  complaints  against  Mr.  Vaughan  and  Gov- 
ernor  Dudley   etc.      [See   C.S.P.    1706—1708.]      Signed,    John 
Usher.     Endorsed,   Reed.   May   13,   Read  Dec.    12,    1709.     Ad- 
dressed.    Sealed.     Holograph.     1  p.   [O.O.  5,  865.     A7o.  33.] 

March  24.       423.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Repre- 
Whitehall.    sentation  upon  the  petition  of  George  Gordon,  Provost  Marshal 
of  Barbados.     See  Jan.  25  and  June  9,   1709.     [O.O.   29,  11. 
pp.   428-434.] 


March  24. 

Craven 
House . 


424.  Instructions  for  Col.  Edward  Tynte,  Governor  of  North 
and  South  Carolina.  He  is  to  observe  and  inforce  the  Acts 
of  Trade  and  Navigation ;  assist  H.M.  Collectors ;  see  that  in 
any  action  concerning  H.M.  duties  or  forfeitures,  only  native- 
born  subjects  of  this  Kingdom,  Ireland  or  the  Plantations  be  of 
the  Jury:  give  notice  to  H.M.  or  the  Lord  High  Treasurer,  if 
any  person  dispose  of  any  patent  rights  in  lands  in  America 
to  other  than  H.M.  natural-born  subjects  of  Great  Britain  or 
Ireland,  without  H.M.  Order  in  Council  first  obtained ;  take 
care  that  all  places  of  trust  in  the  Courts  of  Law,  or  in  what 
relates  to  the  Treasury  of  Carolina  be  in  the  hands  of  H.M;. 
native-born  subjects  of  Great  Britain,  Ireland  or  the  Plantations; 
correspond  with  H.M.  Commissioners  of  Customs;  grant  their 
officers  liberty  of  appeal  etc.  and  moderate  the  Court  fees  on 
their  behalf. 

Additional  Instructions:  (1)  You  are  constantly  to  transmit 
to  us  all  Laws  passed  there  as  soon  as  possible  for  our  appro- 
bation. (2)  You  are  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of 
any  4  or  more  of  our  Deputies  to  adjourn,  prorogue  and  dissodve 
the  General  Assembly,  as  often  as  you  shall  think  requisite  so 
to  do.  And  that  there  may  be  no  delay  in  the  execution  of 
Justice  by  the  death  or  removall  of  any  of  our  officers  imploy'd 
in  our  Courts  untill  we  can  be  advised  thereof  the  first  oppor- 
tunity, you  are  to  appoint  others,  and  make  choice  of  persons 
of  known  loyalty,  experience,  diligence,  and  fidelity,  until  you 
shall  have  our  approbation  of  them,  or  nomination  of  others 
from  hence.  (3)  You  are  particularly  to  enquire  into  ye  affairs 
of  Rebecca  Cox,  widdow,  and  see  that  she  has  justice  done  her, 
according  to  the  merits  of  her  cause.  (4)  You  are  with  the 
assistance  of  Nathaniel  Sale,  our  Receiver  General,  to  inspect 

the  accounts  of Ashley,  our  late  Receiver  General,  etc.,  and 

transmit  the  balance  due  to  us.  (5)  Whereas  Landgrave  Abel 
Ketelbey  hath  purchased  5000  acres  of  land  of  us,  and  paid 
to  us  £100  as  ye  purchase  mony  for  the  same,  you  are  to 
order  Col.  Broughton,  our  Surveyor  General  to  set  out  the  same 
for  him,  for  which  you  are  to  pass  grants,  reserving  the  quit- 
rent  of  10/-  per  1000  acres  to  us.  (6)  In  case  of  your  death 
or  absence,  and  should  there  be  no  person  on  the  place  com- 

Wt.  11522.  C  P  17 


258 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

missioned  by  the  Palatine  or  the  Lords  Proprietors,  our  Depu- 
ties shall  choose  one  of  their  number  to  be  Governor  until 
another  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Proprietors.  (7)  You  are  to 
take  great  care  that  the  Indians  be  not  abused,  and  justice  be 
duly  administred  to  them  in  our  Courts,  and  that  you  endeavour!' 
your  utmost  to  create  a  firm  friendship  with  them,  and  to  bring 
them  over  to  your  part  for  your  better  protection  against  the 
enemy,  the  neighbouring  French  and  Spaniards,  against  whom 
you  are  to  protect  our  Province,  and  we  assure  you  of  our 
utmost  assistance  for  your  security.  (8)  You  are  to  transmit 
to  us,  as  soon  as  you  can  conveniently  get  it  handsomely  tran- 
scribed, a  full  and  exact  account  of  our  yearly  rents,  etc.  (9) 
You  are  to  take  care  that  Mr.  Wigginton,  our  Secretary,  enters 
into  a  bond  of  £1000  conditioned  that  he  shall  safely  keep  the 
records  and  papers  which  shall  be  in  his  custody  as  Secretary, 
and  deliver  them  safe  and  entire  when  demanded  by  their  Lord- 
ships etc.  (10)  You  are  to  inform  yourself  of  what  Acts  are 
fit  and  proper  to  be  passed  for  the  benefit  of  trade,  and  the 
good  and  prosperity  of  the  Province,  for  which  you  shall  have 
all  manner  of  encouragement  from  us.  (11)  You  shall  repre- 
sent to  us  the  state  of  the  whale-fishing,  and  what  further 
encouragement  is  proper  and  fitting  for  us  to  give  to  encrease 
the  same.  (12)  You  are  to  take  particular  care  that  no  land 
whatsoever  exceeding  the  number  of  640  acres  shall  be  sold  to 
any  person  or  persons  whatsoever  without  a  special  warrant 
under  the  hand  and  seals  of  the  Lord  Palatine  and  four  of  us  the 
Lords  Proprietors  be  first  produced  to  justify  such  sale.  (13) 
You  are  to  take  care  that  it  be  made  publick  'that  all  land  which! 
shall  for  the  future  be  sold  in  South  Carolina,  the  purchase 
mony  thereof  shall  be  according  to  the  value  of  English  sterling, 
and  the  quit-rents  reserved  for  the  said  land  shall  be  of  the 
Iik3  value,  and  made  payable  at  Charles  Town,  with  such  cov- 
enants as  you  our  Governor  and  4  more  of  the  Council  shall 
think  fit.  And  for  all  lands  sold  in  North  Carolina,  the  purchase 
rnony,  and  ye  quit  rents  for  the  same,  are  to  be  of  like  value, 
and  made  payable  at  Chewan  or  at  Bath  Town.  Signed,  Craven, 
Palatine,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson.  \C.O. 
5,  289.  pp.  162-184.] 

March  24.  425.  Patent  from  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  Abel 
Ketelbey,  for  1000  acres  of  land,  referred  to  in  preceding.  Same 
signatures.  Latin.  [C.O.  5,  289.  pp.  191,  192.] 


March  24. 
Craven 
Be  use. 


426.  Warrant  of  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the 
Eeceiver  General  to  pay  Governor  Tynte  "270  pounds  in  peices 
of  eight  weighing  17dwt.  10  gr.  at  6  shillings  the  peice."  Signed, 
Craven,  Palatine,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J.  .Danson. 
By  their  Lordships'  command,  E.  Skelton.  [C.O.  5,  289.  p. 
187.] 

March  24.       427.     W.  Popple  to  Dr.  Davenant.     Repeats  request  for  ac- 
Whitehail.     count  of  Naval  Stores,  by  next  week.   See  March  16.    [C.O.  389, 
20.     p     345.] 


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1709. 
March  27. 

Boston. 


March  28. 

Whitehall. 


428.  Mr.  Bridger  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Acknowledges   letters   of  July   7   and   Dec.   29.     The   Act   your 
Lordships    ofer    for    the    preservation    of    H.M.    woods    has    no 
relation  thereto,   that  Act   prespects   only   pitch'-pine,   the   mast 
tree  is  another  speice,  tho'  both  pine,  etc.     Altho'  I  proved  by 
3  wittnesses  the  cutting  6  large  mast  trees  by  Mr.  Plaisted,  yet 
was  cast,  the  jury  being]  all  as  guilty  as  he  was,  and  therefore 
I  was  cast,  and  forever  shall  be,  till  an  Act  be  passed  in  Greati 
Britain  for  the  preserving1  H.M.  woods  in  the  Plantations.     Mr. 
Plaisted   has   this   winter   cut   many  masts  above   his    contract. 
Prays  for  orders.    Proposes  to  seize  all  masts  of  reserved  dimen- 
sions,  and  that  the  proof  lie  upon  the  cutters,  that  they  wer*a 
cut   on   private    lands.     The    frontiers    extends    somewhat   more 
than  50  miles  where  the  masts  grow,  and  there  is  70  oddl  saw- 
mills, and  I  have  no  assistance,  etc.     As  to  the  wast  made;  iiu 
H.M.    woods    I    am    still    endeavouring   to   prevent,    but   not  to 
effect.     Repeats  application  for  deputies  and  grant  for  expenses 
etc.     The  marchants  here  told  me  the  premiums  were  not  paid 
and  that  was  the  reason  of  the  decrease  of  Naval  Stores,  and 
as  soon  as'  I  reed,  your  Lordshipps'  leter,  acquainted  them  there- 
with,   who    answred   twas    of   late,    if   soe.     But   be   the   cause 
what   it    will,    the    effect    is    very   plaine,    for   this    year    in  thei 
whole  fleet  there  is  no  more  than  120  barrl.  tar,  1890  barrll. 
pitch;  124  rozin,  1333  barrl.  tirpentine.     I  can  see  the  woolen 
manufacture  here  is   increased  very  much  and  growing  daily. 
But  am  in  hopes  that  in  peace  the  people  will  be  more  inclinable 
to  the  making  pitch,  tar,  etc.,  for  now  there  is  a  great  number 
of  soldiers  employ  [&d~]  by  the  Government,  besides  the  frontiers 
that  now  are  exposed  to  the  ravages  of  the  Indians  will  ba  than/ 
in   safty,   those   parts   producing  good   land,   and   most   proper1. 
I  have  made  some  progress  in  the  raising  hemp,  and  hope  shall 
in  a  few  years  be  able  to  give  your  Lordps.  a  good  acct.  thereof, 
etc.     Denies    his    conniving   at   the    cutting  of   mast -trees    etc. 
Signed,  J.  Bridger.     Endorsed,  Reed.  May  23,  Bead  Dec.  9, 1709. 
6|  pp.     [C.O.  5,  865.     No.  28.] 

429.  Council   of   Trade   and   Plantations   to  Governor  Lord 
Lovelace.     Tho'  the  premium  allowed  by  the  Act  of  Parliament 
to   importers   of   Naval   Stores   from   the  Plantations   be   a  con- 
siderable incouragement  to  the  importers,  as  likewise  to  the  in- 
habitants,   in   the    several    Plantations,    to    apply   themselves   to 
the  production  of  the  said  Stores  there,  yet  that  there  may  be 
nothing  wanting  whereby  so  good  a  work  may   be  further  in- 
couraged    and    promoted,    we    desire   your    Lordp.    will    consult 
with  the  persons  chiefly  concerned  and  most  knowing  in  these 
matters   in  the   Provinces   of   New   York  and   New  Jersey,   and 
then   lett  us   know  what   you   may  have   to   propose   upon   this 
subject,    particularly  with   regard  to   the   making  of   pitch   and 
tarr,  and  to  the  furnishing  H.M.   Navy  and  this  Kingdom  with 
masts.     We  further  desire  your  Lordship  to  consider  of  a  proper 
method  for  preserving  the  masts  and  timber  in  the  woods,  that 
are  fit  for  the  use  of  H.M.  Royal  Navy.   Enclose  Order  in  Council 


260 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


March  28. 
Whitehall. 

March  29. 

Whitehall. 


March  29. 

Whitehall. 


March  30. 

Whitehall. 


March  31. 

St.  James's. 


March  81. 

St.  James's. 


repealing  the  Act  for  preventing  the  corruption  of  currant  coin 
(March  3),  which  you  are  to  cause  to  be  published  and  ejitred 
in  the  Council  Books  as  usual,  and  a  paper  containing  some 
of  the  reasons,  etc.  [C.O.  5,  1121.  pp.  363,  364.] 

430.  Same    to    Governor    Dudley.      Similar    Instruction    to 
above,  relating  to  Naval   Stores.      [C.O.   5,  913.     pp.    59,   60.] 

431.  Mr.    Popple   to   Col.    Jenings.      Encloses   letters  to   be 
forwarded  to  Col.   Dudley  and  Col.    Seymour.      [C.O.    5,    1362. 
p.  361.] 

432.  Same  to  Mr.  Corbin.     Encloses  dispatch  to  Col.  Jen- 
ings  to   be  forwarded  by  one  of  the  men  of  war  designed  for 
Virginia,  etc.     [C.O.  5,  1362.     pp.  361,  362.] 

433.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     The    little    white    house    adjoyning    to    our    office    (in 
which  Sir  John  Stanley  did  live)  was  after  the  fire  at  Whitehall 
granted  by  his  late  Majesty  King  William  for  the  use  of  this 
Office,    and   workmen   were   employed   in   fitting  it   up   for   that 
purpose.     But  the   Earl  of  Albemarle  having  desired  it  of  his 
said  Majesty  for  Mr.  Vanderesse,  Paymaster  of  the  Dutch  troops, 
the   said   Vanderesse   was   put   into   possession  thereof,    and   by 
that  means  it  was  lost  to  the  Office.     Our  Secretary  has  served 
in  this  Office  near  upon  12  years,  during  10  of  the  said  years 
he  never  received  on  account  of  his  salary  more  than  four  score 
pounds  per  annum  clear ;  nor  has  he  had  during  that  time  or 
since  any  fees  or  perquisites  whatsoever.     In  consideration  there- 
fore of  his   service,  which  'has   been  approved  and  accordingly 
certifyed   by   the    former    Commissioners,    under   different   Com- 
missions; and  in  regard  the  said  house  by  being  contiguous  to 
the  Office  will   be   a  considerable  advantage  in   relation   to  the 
dispatch  of  our  business,  and  a  security  to  our-  books  and  papers 
in  case  of  fire,  we  desire  your  Lopp.  will  please  so  to  represent 
this  matter  to  H.M.  that  she  may  be  graciously  pleased  to  order 
the  said  house  for  him  and  for  the  Secretary  of  this  Commission 
for  the  time  being.     Annexed, 

433  i.  Certificates  by  former  Commissions  in  favour  of  an 
increase  of  salary  for  Win.  Popple,  jr.  April  4,  1698, 
April  18,  1700.  [C.O.  389,  36.  pp.  390-393.] 

434.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Boundary  Commissioners  to 
be   appointed  on  the   part  of  Virginia,  as   proposed  March   14. 
Signed,  John  Povey.    Endorsed,  Eecd.  Kead  May  2,  1709.  If  pp. 
[C.O.   5,   1316.     No.   14;  and  5,   1362.     pp.   363,  364.] 

435.  Order   of   Queen    in   Council.     Expenses    of    Virginian 
Boundary  Commission  to  be  paid  out  of  H.M.  Eevenue.    Signed 
and  endorsed  as  preceding.     1£  pp.      [C.O.   5,   1316.     ATo.   13; 
and  5,   1362.     pp.   362,   363." 


AMEEICA   AND    WEST   INDIES, 


261 


1709. 

March  31.  436.  Petty  Expenses  of  the  Board  of  Trade  Xtmas,  1708— 
Lady-Day,  1709.  See  Journal  of  Council,  under  date.  3  pp. 
[C.O.  388,  76.  Nos.  51-53;  and  389,  36.  p.  394.] 

March  31.       437.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lord   High 
Whitehall.     Treasurer.     Enclose  preceding  and  request  for  salaries  of  Secre- 
tary etc.     [C.O.   389,  36.     pp.   395-398.] 

March  81.       438.     W.   Popple   to   Eichard   Savage.     Desires   accounts   of 
Whitehall,     imports    of    Naval    Stores    Christmas    1707—1708,    etc.      [C.O. 
389,   20.     p.    346.] 

March  31.       439.     Orders  of  Queen  in  Council.   Appointing  Mark  Hunkins 
Whitehall,     and  Thomas  Packer  to  the  Council  of  New  Hampshire.    Signed, 
John  Povey.    Endorsed,  Eecd.   Eead  May  2,  1709.   '2pp.      \O.O. 
5,  865.    No.  15 ;  and  5,  913.  pp.  64,  65 ;  and  5,  11.  No.  39.] 

March  31.  44O.  Address  pf  the  Assembly  of  New  Jersey  to  the  Queen. 
We  are  very  sorry  that  this  Address  is  occasioned  by  the  unhand- 
some treatment  we  have  met  with  in  an  Address  made  to  your 
Majestic  by  ye  Lieut.  Governour  and  Council  of  your  Majties. 
Province  of  New  Jersey,  in  which  your  Majties.  loyall  subjects, 
ye  Eepresentatives  of  ye  said  Province,  are  accus'd  of  many 
great  and  heinous  crimes,  and  among  the  rest  of  a  design  to 
throw  of  your  Majties'.  prerogative  Eoyall,  and  involve  your 
Dominions  in  this  part  of  ye  world,  and  your  good  subjects  in 
them  in  confusion,  thereby  to  obtain  their  wicked  purposes.  We 
think  ourselves  under  ye  greatest  obligation  to  your  Majestie  for 
your  justice  in  appointing  H.E.  John  Lord  Lovelace  to  enquire 
into  ye  matters  of  fact  alledged  in  that  address,  and  to  lay 
them  before  your  Matie.,  which  we  make  no  question  he  will  do 
with  much  truth  and  justice,  and  set  ye  difference  between  ye 
Gentlemen  of  your  Maties.  Council  and  this  house  in  its  true 
light.  We  cannot  accuse  ourselves  either  of  doing  or  designing 
anything  prejudiciall  to  your  Maties.'  service,  and  have  said 
nothing  we  know  of  either  in  our  Eemonstrance  or  our  Reply  to 
ye  Lord  Cornbury's  Answer  but  what  was  true,  and  what  we  can 
make  out  by  unquestionable  proof,  having  us'd  all  ye  caution 
we  were  capable  of  to  inform  ourselves  in  ye  severall  matters 
of  fact  there  related,  and  had  not  ye  Addressers  given  too  much 
way  to  ye  resentments  of  ye  Lord  Cornbury,  we  perswade  our- 
selves they  would  not  have  appear 'd  so  violent  in  ye  justification 
of  a  person  whose  conduct  did  not  entitle  him  to  so  great  a; 
regard  as  they  have  paid  him.  The  intemperate  language  they 
treat  us  with,  as  it  does  not  become  persons  in  their  stations, 
so  wee  could  wish  they  had  forborn  that  unaccountable  heat  so 
prejudiciall  to  your  Maties.'  service,  and  join'd  with  us  in  such 
measures  as  might  have  conduc'd  to  ye  publick  good,  but  that 
was  what  they  have  (by  this  address)  fully  evinct  we  had  no 
reason  to  expect  from  them,  and  we  have  but  too  much  reason 
to  fear  they  will  make  no  scruple  of  sacrificing  the  publicld 
peace  of  the  Province  to  their  private  resentments  whenever  any 


262  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1709. 

opportunity  is  given  them.  This  Address  of  the  Lieut. -Gov- 
ernour  and  Council  was  rejected  in  publick  Council,  and  is  no 
Act  of  Council,  but  sign'd  by  the  said  Lieut.  Governour  and  the 
rest  of  the  Addressers  at  different  times  and  in  different  places 
being  carried  privately  about  for  that  end,  and  what  is  worse 
not  only  without  that  consideration  publick  procedures  of  that 
kind  required  but  by  many  of  them  as  we  have  reason  to  believe 
without  so  much  as  reading  of  it,  as  the  Lieut.  Governour  himself 
has  acknowledged  he  did.  We  believe  the  safetie  and  welfare  of 
your  Maties.'  Plantations  in  America  is  not  ye  meanest  part  of 
your  Royal]  care,  nor  of  ye  least  concern  to  ye  advantage  and 
flourishing  condition  of  your  Maties.'  Kingdom  of  Great  Brittain, 
and  that  the  suggesting  to  your  Matie.  that  all  or  any  of  them 
are  inclin'd  to  throw  of  your  prerogative  Royall  is  an  endeavour 
to  render  your  Maties.  loyall  subjects  in  the  Plantations  sus- 
pected to  your  Matie.,  and  of  alienating  your  affections  from 
them,  which  must  be  of  the  last  consequence  to  your  Maties.' 
affairs.  We  think  our  proceedings  cannot  justly  be  charg'd 
with  the  consequences  they  deduce,  such  we  very  much  abhorr 
or  any  other  measures  that  looks  like  want  of  duty,  affection  or 
loyalty  to  your  Maties.'  Royall  person  and  Government,  and 
hope  that  nothing  will  induce  your  Matie.  to  believe  the  contrary 
either  of  us  or  of  any  other  of  your  Plantations  in  America.  We 
cannot  tell  what  reason  those  Gentlemen  had  to  tell  your  Matie. 
that  you  .would  be  disappointed  in  your  expectations  of  a  Revenue, 
if  some  dislike  of  the  Assembly's  proceedings  were  not  shewn 
by  your  Majestie,  when  a  considerable  support  for  your  Maties. 
Government  was  voted  long  before  that  address  was  made,  and 
it  was  altogether,  the  fault  of  ye  Lord  Cornbury  and  ye  addres- 
sers that  it  was  not  rais'd,  and  this  House  is  so  far  from  making 
their  resentments  any  obstruction  to  your  Maties.'  service  that 
in  honour  to  your  Majestie's  Commission  they  have  given  the 
Lieut.  Governour  £200  for  one  year,  though  he  is  a  person  that 
has  least  deserved  it  of  them,  and  an  office  no  ways  usefull 
to  your  Maties.'  subjects  here;  and  which  we  are  not  able  to 
support,  and  though  we  are  one  of  the  poorest  of  your  Majesty's 
Provinces  in  these  parts,  have  paid  that  regard  to  that  office 
which  New  York  tho'  abundantly  better  able  has  not  done. 

When  H.E.  represents  the  matter  of  fact  to  your  Matie.,  we 
doubt-  not  you  will  perceive  how  much  your  Matie.  and  youi 
good  subjects  here  have  been  abused  by  ye  misrepresentations  of 
ye  addressers,  and  how  unfit  those  men  are  who  have  so  grossly 
endeavou-r'd  to  mislead  your  Matie.  to  be  of  your  Maties.'  Council 
here,  and  who  we  fear  will  create  differences  and  animosities 
among  your  loyall  subjects,  which  will  wholly  obstruct  all  en- 
deavours for  your  service  or  the  good  of  this  Province,  we 
humbly  submit  to  your  Majesties'  consideration.  We  heartily 
pray  that  God  may  continue  your  Majesty  a  blessing  to  your 
subjects,  etc.  Signed,  By  order  of  the  House,  Thomas  Gordon, 
Speaker.  March  31,  1709.  Some  of  the  Members  of  this  house 
being  of  the  people  called  Quakers  doe  consent  to  the  matter 
and  substance  above  written,  but  make  some  exceptions  to  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  263 

1709. 

stile.     Endorsed,   transmitted   by  Mr.    Cockeril  to  the  Earl   of 
Stamford,  Eecd.  Nov.  14,  1709.     3  pp.     [0.0.  5,  970.    No.  81.] 

March  31.        441.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Referring  enclosed  to  the 
St.  James's.    Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  examine  and  report  upon. 
Signed,    William   Blathwayt.      Endorsed,    Reed.    5th,    Read   6th 
April,  1709.     f  p.     Enclosed, 

441.  i.  Alexander  Skene  to  the  Queen.  Petitions  against 
Governor  Crowe's  encroachments  upon  his  office  as 
Secretary  etc.  See  Acts  of  Privy  Council,  II.  No. 
1082.  Copy.  3  pp. 

441.  ii.  Copy  of  H.M.  Warrant  appointing  Alexander  Skene 
Secretary  of  Barbados,  etc.  April,  1702.  3^  pp. 
[0.0.  28,  12.  Nos.  17,  17.  i.,  ii. ;  and  29,  11.  pp. 
435-443.] 

March  31.       442.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Timothy  Salter  is  to  be 
St.  James's,    appointed  to  the  Council  of  Barbados.    Of.  Dec.  3,  1708.   Sir/ned, 

John    Povey.     Endorsed,    Reed.    Read   May    2,    1709.      If    pp. 

[O.O.  28,  12.     No.  18 ;  and  29,  11.     pp.  447-449.] 

March  31.       443.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    Referring  following  to  the 
St.  James's.    Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  examine  and  report  upon. 

Signed,    William   Blathwayt.      Endorsed,    Reed.    4th,    Read   6th' 

April,  1709.     1£  pp.     Enclosed, 

443.  i.  Address  and  Petition  of  Members  of  Assembly,  Free- 
holders, merchants  etc.  of  Antigua  to  the  Queen.  Ex- 
press loyalty  and  delight  in  H.M.  victories,  and  the 
Union.  Complain  that  they  are  insulted  and  tyrannized 
over  by  Governor  Parke.  He  has  been  every  way  want- 
ing in  making  provision  for  the  defence  of  the  Island. 
In  times  of  the  most  imminent  danger  his  conduct  looked 
more  like  a  design  to  surrender  up  than  defend  the 
same.  In  all  his  administration  he  has  exercised  the 
highest  acts  of  injustice  and  violence,  and  trampled 
upon  our  Laws,  etc.  etc.  Signed,  Robt.  Duning,  Will. 
Pearne,  Giles  Watkins,  John  Paynter,  Hopefor  Bendall, 
John  Rose,  Jno.  Otto  Bayer,  Bastiaen  Otto  Bayer,  H. 
Givehene,  Richd.  Couchran,  Henry  Symes,  Gervas  Tur- 
ton,  Saml.  Frye,  Charles  Loyd,  Wm.  Lavington,  Thomas 
Hanth,  Aniho.  Brown,  Row.  Williams,  Bar.  Tankard, 
Sa.  Watkins,  Th.  Oesterman,  Jacob  Morgon,  Allen  Gil- 
bert, W.  Glanuch,  Joshua  Jones,  Edwd.  Chester  jr., 
Jos.  Adams,  Andrew  Murray.  The  Gent:  of  the  As- 
sembly:— Natha.  Crump,  Wm.  Thomas,  Dan.  Mackinen, 
John  Duer,  John  Leighfoot,  Fran.  Carlile,  Sam.  Phil- 
lips, Edwd.  Perrie,  Bas.  Looby,  John  Fry,  Ja.  Reade, 
Edw.  Chester,  Charles  Callahane,  John  Barnes,  Thomas 
Williams,  Isaac  Hertford.  Copy.  3  pp. 
44.3.  ii.  Articles  of  complaint  exhibited  against  Governor 
Parke.  (1)  Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Antigua  (to  pave 
the  way  for  his  injustice  and  tyranny  etc.)  he  did 


264  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


frequently  and  publickly  declare  that  he  had  assurance 
from  my  Lord  High  Treasurer  and  the  Dutchess  of 
Marlborough  that  he  should  be  supported  and  pro- 
tected, let  him  do  what  he  would,  etc.  (2)  He  did 
menace  and  otherways  endeaver  to  scare  witnesses  from 
testifying  the  truth  in  the  <case  lof  Edward  Chester,  :senr., 
under  prosecution  for  the  death  of  Mr.  Thomas,  Lawyer, 
and  that  because  the  testimonys  tended  clearly  to  prove 
that  he  dyed  a  natural  death,  and  did  attempt  by  his 
presence  and  all  the  artifices  he  was  master  of  to 
oblige  the  Coroner's  Inquest  to  find  that  the  said  Law- 
yer dyed  by  a  iblow  upon  his  head  with  a  tankard  given 
to  him  by  Chester,  and  that  contrary  to  a  train  of  the 
clearest  evidences  imaginable,  and  did  threaten  and 
ill  use  the  Justices  who  bailed  Chester,  tho'  done  after 
it  was  found  by  the  Coroner's  Inquest  that  the  said 
Lawyer  dyed  a  natural  death,  and  did  immediately  turn 
out  the  Depty.  Provost  Marshall  for  shewing  Chester 
some  civilitys,  and  all  this  at  a  time  when  the  General 
had  vowed  and  threatned  the  ruine  of  Chester ;  upon  the 
most  groundless  displeasure.  (3)  He  endeavoured  to 
compel  several  persons  to  give  him  an  account  by  what 
title  they  held  their  estates,  and  that  by  ways  unheard 
of  and  abhorred  in  law,  and  particularly  he  commanded 
Col.  Christopher  Codrington,  immediately  upon  a 
precept  signed  by  the  said  Col.  Parke,  to  give  him  an 
account  by  vertue  of  what  authority  he  did  hold  the 
Island  of  Barbuda,  tho'  Codrington's  father  and  uncle 
had  been  in  the  undisturbed  possession  of  the  said 
Island  for  two  and  twenty  years  and  upwards,  and 
claimed  the  same  by  several  Patents  past  in  due  fform. 
(4)  He  has  several  times  employed  parties  of  armed 
soldiers  not  only  in  the  business  properly  belonging 
to  the  Constables,  Custom-house  Officers  and  other  civil 
officers,  but  likewise  in  the  highest  acts  of  violence 
and  injustice,  particularly  in  ejecting  persons  out  of 
their  freeholds  and  possessions,  and  in  order  to  it 
breaking  open  doors  and  windows.  (5)  When  the  As- 
sembly most  humbly  represented  this  as  a  grievance 
like  to  produce  such  dismal  melancholy  consequences 
that  in  duty  to  their  country  they  could  not  sit  silent 
under,  and  prayed  H.E.  to  redress  such  past  disorders, 
etc.,  and  prevent  the  like  for  the  future,  he  told  them 
they  had  nothing  to  do  with;  it,  which  obliged  the 
Assembly  in  their  next  Message  to  assert  that  undoubted 
privilege  of  their  House  to  inquire  into  and  represent 
grievances  to  him  and  his  Council  for  redress.  He  in 
answer  flatly  declared  he  knew  no  privileges  they  had, 
and  in  a  very  few  days  after  dissolved  them  for  no  other 
reason  but  'insisting  upon  their  privileges.  (6)  He 
issued  out  writs  for  the  election  of  a  new  Assembly 
by  which  the  persons  to  be  elected  were  to  be  Free- 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  265 

1709. 

holders  of  the  Division  or  Town  where  elected,  contrary 
to  former  usage,  grounded  upon  his  and  former  Generals' 
Commissions,  whereby  the  Electors  were  to  be  Free- 
holders, but  no  such  qualification  required  in  the  Elec- 
ted. (7)  He  did  take  upon  himself  to  determine  the 
validity  of  elections  of  Members  of  the  Assembly,  par- 
ticularly of  Capt.  Edward  Perrie,  whom  he  refused  to 
admit  to  take  the  oaths,  and  admitted  one  James  Nesbit 
in  his  room,  tho'  the  Assembly  had  determined  the 
Election  in  favour  of  Capt.  Perrie,  which  raised  that 
just  jealousy  in  the  Assembly  of  their  constitution 
being  invaded  in  so  high  a  degree,  that  without  having 
their  privileges  asserted,  they  could  not  esteem  them- 
selves the  Representatives  of  the  People,  nor  discharge 
the  high  trust  reposed  in  th,em,  and  in  a  few  days  that 
Assembly  was  dissolved,  without  having  it  in  their 
power  (by  reason  of  the  aforesaid  obstructions  given 
them  by  the  Genl.)  to  provide  for  the  payment  of! 
the  publick  debts,  or  any  other  way  to  take  care  of  the 
credit,  security  and  welfare  of  the  Island,  as  they  were 
well-disposed  to  have  done.  He  hath  given  the  same 
obstructions  to  the  present  Assembly  called  in  a  month 
or  thereabouts  of  the  last  mentioned  dissolution  and 
continued  in  his  obstinate  denyal  of  the  just  and  un- 
doubted privileges  of  the  Assembly,  by  which  means, 
and  for  that  no  Assembly  has  been  called  for  these 
9  weeks  last  past,  this  Colony  is  left  .destitute  of  suit- 
able provision  in  its  greatest  concerns  to  this  day. 
(8)  By  menaces,  promises,  and  all  other  artifices  used 
by  him  and  his  emissaries,  he  hath  endeavoured  these 
two  last  elections  of  Assemblymen  to  overawe,  impeach 
and  hinder  the  freedom  of  Elections,  and  hath  fre- 
quently declared  by  high  and  severe  resentments  against 
a  great  many  persons  who  voted  for  such  men  whom 
they  thought  disposed  and  capable  faithfully  to  serve 
their  Queen  and  country.  (9)  He  hath  been  -all  along 
guilty  of  most  unsoldier-like  neglect  in  time  of  warr, 
and  in  the  neighbourhood  of  a  most  powerfull  and 
watchfull  enemy  (nay,  even  when  there  was  a  Fleet 
of  French  men  of  warr  at  Martinique,  and  advice  of  a 
descent  threatned  on  this  Island  thence).  Insomuch] 
that  the  Militia  had  quite  forgot  the  use  of  their  arms, 
in  which  they  had  been  brought  to  a  great  perfection 
by  the  care  of  former  Generals.  At  that  very  time  of 
imminent  danger,  he  not  only  left  the  Fort  of  Monk's 
Hill  (which  has  been  fortifyed  at  an  immense  charge  to 
the  Island,  for  the  securing  the  wives  and  children  and 
,  most  valuable  effects  at  the  first  appearing  of  an  enemy) 

destitute  of  men,  ammunition,  and  provisions,  but  like- 
wise did  throw  the  great  guns  from  off  the  walls  of 
an  outwork  of  the  said  Fortification,  which  otherwise 
would  have  been  of  great  service  for  the  commanding 


266  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 


of  Falmouth  Harbour,  and  two  great  roads  that  lead  into 
the  heart  of  the  Country,  without  the  advice  of  his 
Council,  and  at  that  time  was  wholly  taken  up  in  in- 
trenching and  fortifying  the  town  of  St.  Johns,  a  place 
not  to  be  made  tenable  with  any  charge,  altho'  the  whole 
strength  of  the  Island  had  been  employ'd  upon  it  for 
any  length  of  time,  much  less  in  so  short  a  time  as 
we  had  reason  to  depend  upon,  when  we  expected  the 
enemy  every  day,  and  that  by, reason  of  the  neighbouring 
hills  which  command  it,  and  of  the  great  extent  of  its 
trenches  not  to  be  garnished  with  treble  the  number 
of  men  that  was  then  upon  or  can  ever  be  muster'd 
in  said  Island.  He  did  then  not  only  order  the  afore- 
mentioned guns  to  be  thrown  off  the  outwork  of  Monk's 
Hill,  and  almost  all  the  other  great  guns  from  all  the 
other  landing-places  in  the  Island  to  be  drawn  to  St. 
Johns,  but  likewise  ordered  all  the  troops  both  regular 
and  militia  upon  an  alarm  to  march  to  St.  Johns,  the 
standing  guards  not  excepted,  so  that  by  his  conduct 
the  landing  was  to  have  been  yielded  to  the  c-nemy 
without  the  least  dispute,  and  all  this  not  only  without 
the  advice  or  consent  of  any  Council,  but  likewise  con- 
trary to  the  opinion  of  a  Council  of  Officers,  and 
contrary  to  the  constant  practice  of  former  times,  ex- 
perience having  taught  us  to  receive  them  at  landing 
if  possible,  and  give  them  the  warmest  reception  we 
can,  and  when  out-done  bye  numbers  or  otherwise,  to 
retreat  to  the  next  Pass,  and  there  make  a  stand,  and 
by  byways  and  'ambuscades  to  annoy  and  continually 
harrass  the  enemy,  and  at  last  after  losing  the  Island 
ffoot  by  ffoot,  that  the  bulk  of  the  troops  retreat  to 
Monk's  Hill  by  such  paths  as  would  be  hard  for  the 
enemy  to  find  out,  which  might  be  easily  made  through 
the  woods,  whilst  drawing  all  the  men  and  great  guns 
to  St.  Johns  looks  like  a  design  of  surrendring  the 
Island,  and  every  person  so  shut  up  within  the  trenches 
of  St.  Johns  at  first  push.  (10)  He  has  frequently1 
and  publickly  declared  in  the  Court  of  Chancery,  where 
he  sits  as  Chancellor,  that  he  would  be  guided  in 
making  his  decrees  by  no  law  or  precedent  whatsoever, 
but  that  either  to  the  merits  of  the  cause  or  the  proofs, 
he  will  judge  as  he  thinks  reasonable  and  equitable, 
if  it  were  against  all  Law  and  the  constant  current  of 
all  the  precedents  of  the  High  Court  of  Chancery  of 
England,  so  that  he  is  rather  a  Law-giver  than  a  Judge, 
and  that  he  hath  made  good  his  declarations,  his  arbi- 
trary, illegal  and  unjust  decrees  will  sufficiently  make 
out,  tho'  he  has  pronounced  but  very  few,  and  that 
he  hath  drawn  almost  all  business  into  Chancery,  where 
there  is  not  the  least  colour  of  equity,  almost  to  the 
total  exterminating  of  the  Common  Law,  and  eluding 
the  fruits  of  all  judgments,  especially  considering  that 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  267 

1709. 

our  executions  upon  judgments  at  Common  Law  are 
very  dilatory,  and  that  he  has  granted  frequently  genl. 
injunctions  to  hinder  and  stop  persons  from  prose- 
cuting any  action  whatsoever  at  Common  Law,  tho' 
the  bill  upon  which  tih,e  injunction  has  been  granted 
has  been  only  for  one  particular  single  matter,  and 
commonly  granted  injunctions  before  any  bill  filed) 
and  has  bought  in  bonds  for  a  third  part  or  half  the 
value  of  the  debt,  when  the  obligee  has  been  barr'd 
his  remedy  at  Common  Law  by  injunction.  All  which 
proceedings  of  his  as  Chanceller  have  been  'matter  of 
the  greatest  horrour  to  all  men  of  judgment,  when  they 
consider  that  every  man's  estate,  nay  and  person  must 
by  those  means  be  subjected  to  such  a  man's  unparal- 
leled and  unjustifiable  passions  and  resentments,  and 
that  insatiable  avarice  which  has  so  strongly  and  clearly 
discovered  itself  in  all  his  administration.  (11)  He 
has  several  times  threatned  to  turn  out  Judges  of  the 
Common  Law,  particularly  Samuel  Watkins,  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  for  both  the  pre- 
cincts of  this  Island,  and  that  upon  notoriously  false 
and  forged  complaints,  but  truly  for  not  being  appli- 
cable to  all  his  purposes,  tho'  never  so  contrary  to 
Law  and  Justice.  He  has  by  unprecedented  and  un- 
warrantable mandamus's  commanded  the  said  Chief 
Justice  to  sign  such  process  as  was  directly  contrary 
to  the  Laws  of  England  and  this  Island.  (12)  He 
has  been  manifestly  guilty  of  the  breach  of  his  oath 
pursuant  to  the  Acts  of  Trade,  in  that  after  he  had 
information  that  a  considerable  quantity  of  brandy  had 
been  imported  contrary  to  the  directions  and  purport 
of  the  said  Acts,  and  had  according  to  his  laudable 
custom  clapt  partyes  of  armed  soldiers  upon  the  doors 
and  other  passages  of  the  house  or  cellar  where  the 
brandy  was  lodg'd,  he  afterwards  in  few  hours  ordered 
the  soldiers  to  be  taken  off,  and  by  agreement  yuffer'd 
the  same  to  be  carry 'd  away  by  Edwd.  Chester,  ^enr., 
owner  of  the  brandy,  and  after  obliged  him  to  allow 
him  in  accompt  £150  currt.  mony  for  his  £rd  of  the 
seizure  as  Chief  Governor.  (13)  He  has  ordered  several 
unwarrantable  seizures  to  be  made,  where  no  offence 
has  been  committed,  upon  full  assurance  that  he  had 
made  such  Judges  of  the  Admiralty  as  would  not  fail 
to  condemn  them,  with  or  without  cause,  and  other 
seizures  made,  which  never  have  been  so  much  as  in- 
formed against,  much  less  condemned,  particularly  16 
firkins  of  butter  belonging  to  John  Barbotaine  of  St. 
Johns,  merchant.  (14)  By  an  order  of  his  directed 
to  the  officer  appointed  for  collecting  of  powder  from 
the  vessels  arriving  in  this  Island,  he  did  exempt  the 
sloops  belonging  to  it  from  the  paymt.  of  powder,  tho' 
the  said  duty  of  powder  was  by  an  Act  of  the  Island 


268  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 


indifferently  upon  all  vessels  arriving,  and  then  upon 
his  groundless  displeasure  conceived  against  the  people 
of  this  Island,  did  by  a  contrary  order  command  the 
said  officer  to  exact  the  same  of  all  vessels  without 
exception,  which  is  the  most  barefaced  and  bold  dis- 
pensing with  and  trampling  upon  Laws  that  ever  was 
attempted  by  any  subject.  (15)  He  has  heightn'd  all 
his  own  ffees,  some  of  them  very  near  double  of  what 
was  exacted  by  any  former  Genls.,  and  that  not  only 
without  the  consent  of,  but  also  without  so  much,  as 
communicating  the  same  to  the  Council  of  this  Island. 
(16)  Upon  the  arrival  of  the  brigantine  Anne,  Sept. 
1707,  which  in  a  violent  storm  was  overset,  and  a 
wreck  for  several  days,  and  forced  into  this  Island, 
tho'  design'd  for  Barbadoes,  he  told  Mr.  Chester  senr. 
who,  (upon  application  to  him  from  the  Master  as 
Friend  and  Correspondent  of  the  owners),  waited  upon 
H.E.  to  have  a  new  register,  the  former  being  lost  in 
the  storm,  that  it  lay  in  his  power  to  seize  her,  and 
refused  at  that  time  to  grant  a  register,  but  told  him 
to  come  again,  which  he  did,  and  then  he  told  Chester 
that  it  was  an  act  of  favor,  and  that  he  must  have  a 
present,  and  thereupon  granted  a  register  in  some  few 
days,  after  that  did  ask  Chester  in  presence  of  Capt. 
John  Bock  for  what  he  had  promised  him,  and  ac- 
cordingly had  10  barrils  of  flower.  (17)  He  has  made 
Justices  of  the  Peace  of  the  meanest  and  the  lowest 
rank  and  most  wretched  character,  who  dare  not  do 
their  duty,  when  it  is  the  most  clear  and  unquestion- 
able without  the  Genl's.  direction  and  approval.  (18) 
He  hath  given  the  command  of  one  of  his  privateer 
sloops  to  one  John  Ham,  a  man  notoriously  known  to  be 
guilty  of  piracy,  and  all  manner  of  villanys,  and  par- 
ticularly of  a  most  barbarous  and  treacherous  murder 
of  5  or  6  Spaniards  in  cold  blood,  whom  he  had  invited 
to  an  entertainment  at  his  own  house,  since  which  time 
the  said  Ham  never  durst  appear  in  the  Leeward  Islands., 
or  anywhere  but  in  such  places  where  Justice  could 
not  reach  him,  till  the  arrival  of  our  present  Genl., 
who  as  it  is  universally  reported  has  given  him  his 
pardon.  (19)  He  has  frequently  and  publickly  de- 
clared his  implacable  malice  against  Antigua,  and  par- 
ticularly once  at  the  house  of  Col.  Fra.  Eogers  did 
declare  that  were  it  not  for  a  few  Friends,  he  would 
send  the  Island  to  the  Devil,  so  that  it  must  be  obvious 
to  every  common  understanding  that  the  Island  must 
be  in  a  very  wretched  condition,  especially  if  we  should 
be  attackt  by  an  enemy,  which  we  are  threatn'd  with 
almost  every  year.  (20)  He  did  publickly  swear  at 
the  house  of  Col.  John  Lucy  Blackman,  that  if  he  knew 
any  person  was  going  home  to  complain  of  him  to 
the  Queen,  he  would  clap  them  into  a  dungeon,  and 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  269 

1709. 

there  they  should  perish,  and  there  was  more  ways  to 
kill  a  dog  than  one,  and  repeated  the  same  upon  several 
other  occasions.  (21)  He  has  exacted  a  tenth  part 
of  all  prizes  taken  by  privat  men  of  warr,  for  granting 
them  commissions,  and  refused  to  grant  commissions 
to  several  persons  unless  they  had  agreed  to  pay  ac- 
cordingly, etc.  (22)  It  has  been  his  common  practice 
to  ramble  at  night  up  and  down  the  streets  of  St.  Johns 
and  from  house  to  house,  list'ning  and  eavesdropping, 
and  that  in  different  disguises,  tho'  very  well  known 
in  all  of  them,  and  so  exposed  to  all  the  world,  bringing 
thereby  his  person  and  authority  in  contempt.  In 
those  his  night  rambles,  he  did  alway  go  privatly 
armed,  with  a  small  ponyard  and  case  of  pocket  pistols, 
well  knowing  that  his  scandalous  purposes  must  expose 
him  to  very  notable  dangers.  Signed,  as  preceding, 
reading  Glanville  for  Glanuc\h,  and  Trant  for  Hanth, 
and  omitting  Givehene.  Copy.  15^  pp. 
443.  iii.  Petition  of  Merchants  trading  to  Antigua  to  the 
Queen.  Pray  that  above  complaints  may  be  heard. 
"Some  of  us  have  had  fresh  advices  from  our  corre- 
spondents that  since  the  sending  home  the  preceding 
articles,  Governor  Parke's  administration  has  been  in- 
supportable in  every  part  of  it,  and  particularly  that  he 
has  made  no  manner  of  provision  for  the  security 
of  the  Island  against  the  attempts  of  the  common  .enimy, 
which  has  encouraged  them  to  land  with  a  design  to 
plunder  the  Plantations  upon  the  sea-coast,  tho'  hitherto 
insuccessfully,  and  that  they  have  been  more  than  ever 
insulted  and  oppressed  by  him  in  their  persons  and 
estates,  and  that  he  has  given  such  discouragement  to 
the  trade  of  the  said  Island  as  must  very  much  sink 
if  not  totally  ruin  the  same. '  Petitioners  have  good 
reason  to  believe  that  they  should  all  have  had  letters 
from  their  friends  to  the  same  purpose,  had  not  some 
late  practices  of  the  Governour  render'd  the  convey- 
ance of  letters  and  packet-boats  much  suspected,  etc. 
Signed,  Richd.  Norris  and  13  others.  Copy.  3  pp.  [C.O. 
.152,8.  Nos.  12,  12.i.-iii. ;  and  153, 10.  pp  815-843.] 

March  31.  444.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Upon  the  appeal  of  Sir 
St.  James's.  Charles  Orby,  Bart.,  and  Dame  Anne  Hopegood,  his  wife,  relict 
of  Sir  W.  Beeston,  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  are  to 
propose  two  persons  fitly  qualifyed  to  be  Councillors  in  Jamaica, 
who  may  make  up  a  sufficient  number  for  hearing  this  cause 
on  appeal  to  the  Governor  and  Council,  3  of  the  present  Coun- 
cillors being  disabled  for  hearing  it  as  being  Factors  in  the 
African  Trade,  and  as  having  been  Judges  in  the  Grand  Court 
in  the  said  cause,  etc.  The  case  is  set  out,  Acts  of  Privy  Council, 

11.  No.   1067.     Signed,  William  Blathwayt.     Endorsed,   Reed. 
Read  April  4,  1709.     3£  pp.     [C.O.  137,  8.     No.  34;  and  138, 

12.  pp.  381-384.] 


270  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

April  1.  445.  Mr.  Dummer  to  Mr.  Popple.  'Tis  my  duty  to  acquaint 
London.  you  what  comes  to  hand  touching  tihe  interest  of  trade  in  the 
West  Indies ;  I  can  only  lament  our  misfortune  in  this,  and  I 
doubt  many  other  cases  of  practice,  that  we  so  easily  runn  into 
popular  laws,  quite  against  the  nature  of  the  thing,  or  at  least 
against  the  most  publick  and  honest  interest  of  the  Nation,  with 
the  Spanyard  in  this  particular.  This  copy  is  from  my  corre- 
spondent at  Jamaica,  and  is  of  the  same  tenour  that  all  other 
men  write  which  are  fair  traders  and  void  of  rapacious  and 
violent  enterprizes,  the  mischeifs  of  whicth.  are  well  enough  de- 
scribed to  satisfy  you  or  anybody  what  is  likely  to  come  to  pass 
by  that  pernicious  law,  a  law  that  manifestly  carries  a  legion 
of  evils  in  the  practice  of  it.  Signed,  E.  Dummer.  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  2nd,  Eead  6th  April,  1709.  Addressed.  Postmark,  f  p. 
Enclosed, 

445.  i.  Wm.  Bignall  to  [?  Mr.  Dummer]  Kingston,  Jan. 
17,  1708.  Trade  in  generall  seems  at  a  stand,  and 
nothing  on  foot  but  privateering.  We  are  promised 
a  convoy  for  the  coast  as  soon  as  the  packet  or  any 
advice  from  England  arrives.  Gandy  and  severall  have 
bought  negroes  for  the  trade  to  help  of  the  woollens 
which  are  now  run  downe  in  price  so  much  by  the 
privateering  that  we  expect  no  profit,  all  we  hope  for  is 
to  sell  at  low  prizes  that  the  goods  may  not  perrish 
on  our  hands.  I  was  in  hopes  the  account  you  gave 
me  that  the  privateers  were  forbid  to  cruise  on  the 
coast  would  have  had  some  good  effect ;  but  since  yt., 
is  come  in  Morgan  in  his  privateering  sloop  from  the 
coast,  where  he  took  severall  canoes  with  money  under 
the  shoar,  as  they  were  going  aboard  the  traders  then 
under  convoy  of  the  Roebuck,  and  since  that  has  taken 
a  Spanish  vessell  as  he  says  with  a  good  summ  of 
money  on  board,  but  whither  Spanish  or  English  ves- 
sell is  uncertain,  for  he  has  brought  in  nothing  either 
Spanyard  or  anybody  to  condemn  the  prize,  and  whither 
the  vessell  was  within  5  leagues  of  the  shoar,  is  never 
enquired  after;  at  this  rate  the  privateers  may  follow 
anyone  of  our  own  ships  out  of  port,  and  take  away 
what  he  sees  good  and  burn  the  ship,  and  we  never 
the  wiser.  It  is  the  opinion  of  every  one  this  cursed 
trade  will  breed  so  many  pirates,  that  when  peace 
comes  we  shall  be  in  more  danger  from  them  than  wee 
are  now  from  the  enemy,  their  captains  have  no  com- 
mand, every  man  is  allowed  a  vote,  and  so  most  votes 
carry  the  vessell  where  they  please,  if  the  captain  was 
to  have  the  sole  command  it  would  be  much  better  for 
keeping  the  men  in  subjection,  and  that  might  easily 
be,  if  the  Governor  would  so  order  it,  but  they  have  so 
much  incouragement,  I  beleive  we  shall  find  it  very 
difficult  to  get  men  for  the  traders  when  we  have  a 
convoy.  Signed,  Wm.  Bignall.  Copy,  f  p.  [C.0. 137, 
8.  Nos.  35,  35.  i.] 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES. 


271 


1709. 

April  2.         446.     H.M.    Warrant   granting    Thomas     Hodges,     Attorney 

St.  James's.    General   of  Barbadoes,   leave  of  absence  for  6   months   for  the 

settling    some    extraordinary    affairs,    and    for    the    recovery    of 

his  health,  on  his  appointing  a  Deputy  approved  by  the  Governor. 

Countersigned,    Sunderland.      [C.O.    5,   210.     p.    142.] 

April  2.        447.     The  Queen  to  Governor  Handasyd.     You  are  forthwith 
St.  James's,   to  transmit  a  true  state  of  Capt.  Samuel  Jones'  case,  and  stop 
proceedings    in   the    mean    time.    etc.      Countersigned,    Sunder- 
land.    (A.P.C.II.    pp.  549,  550.   q.v.)     [C.O.  5,  210.    pp.  143, 
144.] 

April  4.  448.  John  Crofts  to  John  Graves.  The  taking  of  Uxuma, 
Virginia.  Providence  and  ye  Isle  of  Thera  is  confirmed,  and  that  the 
French  and  Spaniards  did  ^most  barbarously  and  unhumanly 
treat  and  abuse  ye  poor  inhabitants,  beating  them  very  cruelly, 
stripping  many  stark  naked.  Bead  Elding's  Misres.  they  whipt 
to  death,  and  severall  others  they  miserably  tormented,  and  are 
now  setled  at  the  Isle  of  Thera,  Providence,  etc.,  so  at  present 
they  are  actually  in  possession  of  those  Islands,  and  have 
already  taken  about  17  sayl  of  sloops  etc.  that  were  bound  to 
Jamaica,  and  coming  from  thence  to  Carolina,  New  York,  Ber- 
muda, etc.,  and  doubtless  there  are  many  more  that  know  not 
yet  of.  The  ill  and  fatall  consequence  of  ye  enemy  possessing 
these  Islands  time  will  manifest.  I  wish  with  all  my  heart 
there  may  be  speedy,  effectuall  care  taken  to  suppress  them, 
if  not  there  will  be  no  trading  from  the  northern  parts,  Carolina, 
nor  Bermuda  to  Jamaica  without  running  very  great  hazard 
of  being  taken.  I  am  of  opinion  that  two  sixth-rate  frigatts 
well-man'd  will  be  of  sufficient  force  to  repell  ye  enemy  thence., 
and  if  there  was  but  incouragement  and  notice  thereof  given, 
doubtless  severall  persons  from  all  parts  would  venture  to  go 
tJhero  to  inhabit,  and  once  more  settle  those  Islands,  especially 
if  there  was  any  prospect  of  living  there  hereafter  in  security. 
I  must  and  do  beleive,  if  ye  great  considerable  advantage  of  our 
keeping  those  Islands  was  fairly  and  truly  stated,  and  ye  damage 
we  might  reasonably  expect  to  sustein  by  ye  loss  of  them  but 
well  and  fully  represented  to  our  most  gracious  and  good  Queen, 
yt.  H.M.  would  immediately  take  them  under  her  particular 
care  and  protection,  ajid  forthwith  send  a  suitable  and  necessary 
strength  to  regain  them  again.  Doubtless  there  are  many  in 
London  etc.  that  will  joyn  with  you  to  demonstrate  the  great 
importance  of  so  weighty  an  affair.  Certainly  the  traders  to 
Jamaica,  Carolina,  New  York,  New  England,  and  all  the  Northern 
parts,  as  also  Bermuda,  will  be  very  forward  to  assist  you  in 
a  proper  Representation,  and  in  the  Loyall  Johnson  of  Carolina 
the  Hon.  Coll.  Willm.  Rhett,  with  whom)  I  have  often  had  some 
discourse  concerning  the  consequence  of  the  enemys  being  setled 
in  ye  Bahama  Islands,  and  he  seems  to  be  much  troubled  thereat, 
and  believes  that  if  they  be  not  speedily  repulsed  that  these 
American  parts  will  be  very  great  sufferers  thereby,  and  be 
in  (great  want  of  salt,  the  French  having  also  taken  Turks  Islands, 


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1709. 


etc.  etc.     Signed,  John  Crofts.    Endorsed,  Eecd.  28th',  Read  29th' 
June,  1709.   Copy.    1±  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1264.     No.  71.] 


April  5.         449.     The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.    Plantations.     Encloses  following  for  their  report.     Signed,  Sun- 
derland.    Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  April  6,  1709.     1  p.  Enclosed, 
449.     i.   Sir  Wm.  Hodges,  Bart.,  to  the  Queen.     The  Marquis 
de  Preu,   a  Fleming  born,   hath  served  the   Crown  of 
Spain   for  many  years,   and   being  now  old,   and  dis- 
gusted, hath  bought  the  Governmt.  of  Cartagena,  etc. 
Prays    for    a    pass    for    a    Spanish    ship    from    Cadiz., 
to  carry  the  Governor  and  Dep.  Governor  with  Spanish 
goods   thither,   and  to  return  by  way  of  the   Havana, 
laden  with  products  of  the  Spanish  West  Indies.     Such 
a  voyage  would  turn  to  the  advantage  of  trade  to  H.M. 
subjects,  for  not  a  French  man  is  to  be  concerned  in 
ship  nor  cargo.     1  p.      [C.O.  388,  12.     Nos.   2,  2.  i.; 
and  389,  20.     pp.  347,  348.] 

April  6.  45O.  Wm.  Penn  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
[6.  currtt.]  Honorable  Friends,  I  presume  to  beg  the  favour  of  a  coppy 
of  all  orders  since  1685  from  the  respective  Committes  of 
Trade  and  Plantations  for  settling  boundarys  between  the,  Province 
and  Territorys  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Province  of  Maryland, 
especially  that  1699,  or  1700,  and  any  since  sent  to  those  Prov- 
ince:* (if  any  were)  and  it  will  very  much  engage,  Your  re- 
spectfll.  Friend,  Signed,  Wm.  Penn.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  April 
6,  1709.  Holograph.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  A7o.  64;  and 
5,  1292.  p.  134.] 

April  6.  451.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Janiaica.  tations.  I  here  enclose  a  duplicate  of  my  last,  which  I  hope 
is  before  this  come  into  your  hands,  and  shall  likewise  give 
your  Lops,  an  account  of  what  has  offer'd  since,  that  is  come 
to  my  knowledge.  The  Assembly  is  still  sitting,  and  I 
hope  will  have  finished  in  less  than  14  days,  most  of  the 
Bills  being  read  twice.  Things  seem  to  go  much  smoother  with 
me  and  them,  than  have  done  sinoei  I  h^ave  been  in  the  Govern- 
ment, which  I  think  does  all  proceed  from  my  passing  the 
two  first  Bills ;  They  have  voted  to  reimburse  the  Treasury 
£2,500,  and  renew  the  Quartering  Act,  the  Additionall  Duty 
Bill,  and  severall  other  private  Acts,  which  I  hope  to  have) 
ready  by  the  first  man  of  war  that  sails  or  packett  boat,  with' 
the  Minutes  of  the  Councill  and  Assembly,  which,  I  dare  not 
send  by  any  of  these  private  ships  for  fear  of  miscarrying;. 
I  writt  to  your  Lops,  in  mine  by  the  last  packett  boat,  to 
desire  the  relief  of  me  and  my  Regiment  since  wee  have  been 
here  these  8  years,  and  our  constitutions  are  quite  worn  out, 
but  if  it  is  to  the  disadvantage  of  H.M.  service,  I  had  rather 
we  should  all  have  our  graves  here,  than  insist  on  anything  that 
is  not  for  the  good  of  the  service,  but  must  further  begg  of 
your  Lops,  that  if  a  peace  should  be  made,  neither  me  nor 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  273 

1709. 

my  Regiment  may  suffer  by  being  absent,  since  it  is  of  so 
old  a  Corps.  Our  trading  vessells  are  not  yet  returned  from! 
the  coast,  trade  there  being  very  indifferent.  H.M.S.  Portland, 
Captain  Hutchins  Commander,  has  lately  been  engaged  with  2 
French  ships  off  Porto  Bell,  one  of  50  guns,  formerly  an 
English  man  of  war  called  the  Coventry,  the  other  a  larger  ship, 
but  had  but  between  30  and  40  guns,  the  former  of  which!  he 
took  after  a  dispute  with  them  both  of  about  8  hours;  they 
say  she  has  a  considerable  quantity  of  mony  aboard,  having 
sold  her  cargo  not  long  before  at  Porto  Bell,  being  ships  from 
Guinea.  The  Portland  took  in  her  270  men,  besides  the  wounded, 
which  he  put  a  shore.  The  first  Captain  of  the  French  ship 
was  killed,  and  the  second  mortally  wounded.  I  had  on  board 
the  Portland  50  soldiers  of  H.M.  Regiment,  of  which'  I  am  appre- 
hensive I  have  lost  a  share  in  this  engagement.  There  are  in 
the  whole  squadron  under  Mr.  Wager  300  and  odd  soldiers  of 
my  Regiment,  which  makes  the  duty  hard  on  those  that  remain 
ashore.  The  other  men  of  war  have  taken  since  the  last  account 
I  gave  your  Lops,  a  snow  and!  3  sloops,  and  one  of  our  privateers 
has  taken  a  French  privateer,  one  Spanish  trading  sloop,  and 
retaken  an  English  sloop  which  they  burnt.  Both  our  men  of 
war  and  privateers  have  lately  been  very  successfull,  and  done 
considerable  damages  to  the  enemy  in  these  parts.  The  Al- 
mirantte  Fleet  is  still  at  La  Vera  Cruz,  as  is  the  Vice-Admirall 
of  galleons  that  escaped  the  last  year  at  Carthagene,  and  neither 
dare  venture  to  Havanna  for  fear  of  our  men  of  war  and  priva- 
teers, that  are  very  diligent,  but  they  daily  expect  a  French' 
convoy.  They  are  very  rich,  and  if  they  should  escape  us 
here,  I  hope  care  will  be  taken  to  intercept  them  before  they* 
get  home.  The  Island  is  very  healthy  and  likewise  the  men  of 
war,  but  are  in  great  want  of  men.  I  send  your  Lops,  herewith 
the  state  of  a  case  signed  by  the  Attorney  Generall  and  the 
other  Councill  for  the  Queen,  Mr.  Totterdale,  in  relation  to  a 
judgment  that  passed  our  last  Grand  Court,  against  the  Navall 
Officer,  upon  his  seizing  a  Spanish  brigantine  that  was  brought 
in  here  by  one  Scrivener,  who  had  no  commission,  nor  hias! 
had  any  since  he  was  some  time  ago  complained  of  for  com- 
mitting roguish  tricks  upon  the  Spanish  coast,  such,  a  judgement 
so  opposite  to  the  rules  of  reason  I  have  never  known  given 
before,  and  is  an  encouragemient  to  all  privateers  and  other 
vessells  to  turn  pirates.  The  Jury  brought  in  the  damages  to 
the  captors  to  amount  to  about  £170  more  than  the  goods  were 
sold  for,  of  which  £100  odd  was  for  the  vessell,  tho'  she  sunk 
in  the  harbour.  And  I  have  since  disbursed  to  the  Mavall 
Officer  that  £170  out  of  my  own  pockett,  that  he  may  not  suffer 
who  acted  by  my  order  and  the  advice  of  the  Attorney  Genii. 
Therefore  desire  your  Lops,  will  recommend  it  to  the  Lord 
High  Admirall,  that  I  may  have  his  directions  how  I  shall  act 
in  the  like  cases  for  the  future.  I  am  now  to  request  your 
Lops.'  favour  in  the  behalf  of  a  poor  man  a  Serjeant  in  H.M. 
Regiment  under  my  command,  that  now  lies  under  the  sentence 
of  death:  His  Father  came  out  of  Holland  with  me,  and  was 

Wt.  11522.  CP18 


274  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

a  Serjeant,  in  my  Company,  when  King  William  landed  in  the 

West  of   England,   his    brother   and  himself  carried   arms,   the 

father  and  brother  were  killed  in  the  wars   of  Ireland  against 

the  French  and  Irish,  this  man  has  been  in  this  Regiment  ever 

since  he  was  a  child,  and  has  always  behaved  himself  well  in 

every  respect:  but  it  was  his  misfortune  that  a  drunken  Fellow, 

coming   into   company  where  he  was,   told  him  neither  he  nor 

any   of   his    cloth   dare    fight   one   of   his    country,    upon   whicih' 

the  Serjeant  answered  that  he  wore  the  Queen's  cloth,  and  was 

not  to   be   affronted   in   that  manner ;   this   fellow   then   fetch 'd 

a  hanger  and  told  the  Serjeant  he  dared  not  to  draw  a  sword 

against   him,    and   upon   that   they   both;,  went   out   without   the 

door,  where  after  some  blows  given  the  Serjeant  by  this  fellow, 

the   Serjeant  gave  him  a  wound  of  whidh  he  immediatly  died: 

and  notwithstanding  all  that  could  be  said  by  the  Bench,  upon 

the  triall  in  the  behalf  of  the  Serjeant,  the  Jury  being  managed 

by  the  prosecutors  according  to  their  desire,  the  Serjeant  was 

brought  in  guilty  of  murther ;  but  upon  the  request  of  the  Chief 

Justice    and   the    rest   of   the    Judges,    as    your    Lops,    will   see 

by  the  enclosed  signed  by  them,   I  have  given  him  a  reprieve, 

and    hope    through    your    Lops.'    interest    he    may    have    H.M. 

gracious  pardon ;  I  have  desired  the  same  favour  of  the  Secretary 

of   State,   and  I   hope  he  will  assist  your  Lops,   in  the  saving 

this   poor  man's   life   since  his   father  and   brother   as  well   as 

himself    have    been    such    faithfull    servants    to    their    country. 

I  have  order 'd  Capt.  Gardner  to  wait  on  your  Lops,  and  receive 

your  directions  in  this  matter.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed, 

Reed.  June  14th,  Read  July  llth,   1709.     5|  pp.     Enclosed, 

451.     i.  Address  from  the  Chief  Justice  and  Judges  of  Jamaica 

to    Governor    Handasyd,    for    the    reprieve    of   serjeant 

Thomas  Bradshaw  (see  supra)  March  3,  170f.    Signed, 

Peter  Heywood,  Jo.   Bonner,   William  Careless,  James 

Archbould,    Samuel   Vassall,   Ed.   Pennant.     1   p. 

451      ii.  Proceedings  in  the  case  against  William  Norris  the 

Naval  Officer  of  Jamaica,  upon  his  seizing  a   Spanish 

brigantine,  taken   by  Benjamin   Scrivener  without  any 

Commission   from   H.M.    etc.      Signed,    Ro.    Hotchkyn, 

Hugh   Totterdell.      Endorsed  as   letter.      2    pp.      [O.O. 

137,  8.     Nos.    43,   43.  i.,  ii.  ;   and,    (without  enclosures] 

138,  12.     pp.    409-415.] 

April  6.  452.  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Whitehail.  tations.  Encloses  Governor  Handasyd's  recommendation  of 
Messrs.  Broderick  and  Oldfield  to  be  of  the  Council  of  Jamaica. 
I  must  add  to  what  the  Governor  writes  in  Mr.  Broderick's 
behalf,  that  I  have  received  a  very  good  character  both  of  his 
capacity  and  zeal  for  H.M.  service,  and  that  he  is  of  a  family 
distinguishable  by  their  loyalty  and  good  affection  to  the  Govern- 
ment, and  for  which  have  a  particular  regard,  so  that  I  hope 
you  will  have  so  much  for  him  as  to  let  him  be  the  first 
you  shall  recommend  as  usual  for  that  employment.  Signed, 
Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Reed.  13th,  Read  14th  April,  1709. 
1  p.  Enclosed, 


AMEKICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  275 

1709. 

452.  i.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland,  Ja- 
maica, Aug.  6,  1708.  Concludes: — I  understand  that 
Sir  Bartholomew  Gracedieu  and  others  are  endeavour- 
ing to  put  in  one  Peter  Beckford,  who  as  well  as  the 
whole  family  of  them  has  been  constantly  a  disturbance 
of  the  tranquility  of  H.M.  subjects  ever  since  I  have 
been  in  the  Government ;  but  what  most  sticks  with  me 
is  an  old  gentleman  of  60  years  of  age  was  murther'd 
by  him,  who  was  found  dead  with  his  sword  in  his 
scabbard,  and  by  the  interest  that  was  made  he  was 
brought  in  not  guilty.  His  brother  has  likewise  killed 
a  man,  and  came  off  too  without  damage.  This  I  think 
fit  to  acquaint  your  Lordship  of,  that  such  hardships 
may  not  be  done,  so  much  to  the  disadvantage  of  H.M. 
service.  Copy.  1±  pp.  [(7.0.  137,  8.  Nos.  36,  36. i.: 
and  138,  12.  pp.  389-391.] 

April  8.         453.     The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen. 

Whitehall.  In  reply  to  Order  in  Council,  March  31,  represent  that  by  a 
letter  from  Governor  Handasyd,  Oct.  27,  1708,  we  were 
informed  that  severall  Members  of  the  Councill  being  Factors 
for  the  African  Company,  and  thereby  disabled  from  sitting  as 
Judges  in  any  of  these  Courts,  there  wanted  a  sufficient  number 
of  Counsellors  duly  quallifyed  to  make  a  Councill  for  hearing 
Appeals.  We  forthwith  writ  to  the  Governor  to  admonish  such 
Members  to  forbear  to  act  any  longer  as  Factors  or  Agents  for 
the  said  Company,  and  if  they  refused  to  comply  therewith,  that 
then  he  should  return  to  us  the  names  of  the  persons  so  re- 
fusing in  order  to  our  laying  that  matter  before  your  Majesty 
for  your  pleasure  to  which  letter  we  have  yet  received  no 
answer.  Therefore  in  obedience  to  your  Majesty's  forementioned 
order  in  Councill  we  do  most  humbly  offer  that  your  royal 
pleasure  be  signifyed  to  the  said  Governor  to  require  all  such 
Members  of  the  Councill  there  as  are  Factors  or  Agents  for  the 
said  African  Company  or  -for  any  other  person  or  persons,  for 
the  sale  or  disposal  of  Negroes,  that  they  forthwith  quit  ori 
resign  such  Factorage  or  Agency,  and  if  they  shall  refuse  or 
neglect  so  to  do,  that  in  such  case  he  forthwith  remove  the 
person  or  persons  for  refusing  or  neglecting  from  the  said 
Councill ;  and  whereas  the  number  of  Counsellors  who  are  Factors 
or  Agents  for  the  said  Company  does  not,  as  wee  are  informed, 
exceed  three  persons  (nor  do  we  know  that  any  others  of  the 
Councill  are  otherwise  employed  as  Factors  or  Agents  to  any 
other  persons  for  the  sale  or  disposal  of  Negroes)  we  therefore 
further  humbly  propose  that  the  said  Governor  be  at  the  same 
time  impowered  by  your  Majesty's  royall  letters  mandatory  to 
swear  into  the  said  Councill,  in  the  room  of  such  person  or 
persons  who  shall  be  removed,  Francis  Oldfeild,  John  Cossly 
and  John  Carver  Esqs.,  or  so  many  of  them  as  shall  compleat 
the  full  number  of  12  Counsellors,  they  being  persons  now 
resident  within  that  Island,  having  good  estates  there,  and  as 
wee  have  been  credibly  informed,  duly  qualifyed  for  that  trust. 


276 


COLONIAL   PAPEES. 


1709. 


This  we  humbly  apprehend  to  be  agreeable  to  the  true  intent 
and  meaning  of  the  Act  of  the  9th  and  lOfch  of  his  late  Majesty 
for  settling  the  trade  to  Africa,  it  being  thereby  enacted  that  no 
Judge  of  any  Court  in  any  of  your  Majesties  Colonies  or  Plan- 
tations in  America,  shall  be  a  Factor  or  Agent  for  the  said 
African  Company,  or  any  other  person  or  persons  for  the  sale 
or  disposal  of  any  Negroes.  And  by  this  method  as  any  failure 
of  Justice  in  such  case  will  for  the  future  be  prevented  there, 
so  will  the  present  constitution  of  the  Councill,  as  to  the  number 
of  12  Counsellors  be  preserv'd,  which  regulation  or  restriction 
of  the  number  of  12  having  severall  years  past  been  settled 
throughout  your  Majesties  said  Colonies  and  Plantations,  we 
are  humbly  of  opinion  it  will  be  for  your  Majesty's  servide 
that  the  same  be  still  punctually  observed.  And  if  your  Majesty 
shall  be  graciously  pleased  to  approve  what  we  have  herein 
before  proposed  to  the  end  the  said  African  Company  may  not 
receive  any  prejudice  from  a  want  of  their  having  Factors  or 
Agents  there  to  perform  the  services  of  the  said  Company  in 
the  room  of  such  of  their  present  Factors  or  Agents  as  shall 
so  quit,  or  resign  that  trust  as  aforesaid,  we  do  further  humbly 
offer  that  notice  may  be  given  hereof  to  the  said  Company  that 
they  may  take  care  to  constitute  and  appoint  any  other  person 
or  persons  not  disqualifyed  by  the  said  Act  to  be  their  Factors 
or  Agents  in  the  room  of  such  persons  as  shall  so  quit  and  resign 
as  aforesaid.  [(7.0.  138,  12.  pp.  384-388.] 


April  9.         454.     Instructions   for    Edward   Hyrne,    Naval   Officer  of   S. 
Craven        Carolina.     Signed,    Craven,    Palatine;    Beaufort,   M.    Ashley,    J. 
Colleton,  J.  Danson.     [C.O.   5,  289.     pp.  194,  195.] 


House. 


April  9. 

Ci  aven 
House. 


455.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Deputies  and 
Council  of  South  Carolina. ,  We  being  very  unwilling  to  let  any 
opportunity  slip  whereby  we  might  signify  to  you  the  earnest 
desire  we  have  of  your  welfare,  and  the  general  good  and 
prosperity  of  our  Province  of  Carolina,  we  now  acquaint  you 
that  we  have  sent  you  a  Governor  and  some  new  commissioned 
officers,  etc.,  and  earnestly  recommend  them  to  your  care  and 
friendship  etc.  We  have  been  informed  of  your  unwillingness 
to  admit  a  Deputy  who  was  nominated  for  Mr.  Blake  by  his 
mother,  his  guardian,  wch.  we  do  assure  you  is  very  irregular, 
and  is  in  some  measure  openly  declaring  yourselves  against  the 
Laws  of  this  H.M.  Kingdom,  for  by  the  Law  here  every  mothjer 
has  a  right  precedent  to  all  others  to  have  the  guardianship  of 
her  son,  and  is  thereby  impowered  to  do  all  acts  that  /can 
anyways  tend  to  his  benefit.  As  therefore  Mrs.  Blake  has 
appointed  one  of  our  number  here  to  sign  such  instruments, 
rules  and  orders  as  we  at  this  Board  shall  think  proper  for 
the  better  government  of  our  Province,  so  she  has  an  undoubted 
and  legall  right  to  appoint  such  Deputy  as  she  shall  think  con- 
venient to  represent  the  person  of  her  son  during  his  minority 
in  your  Councils  and  Assemblies  in  Carolina.  We  therefore 
strictly  require  of  you  Gentlemen,  that  you  constantly  for  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  277 

1709. 

future  admit  of  such  Deputy  for  Mr.  Blake  as  shall  be  con- 
stituted by  Mrs.  Blake  his  guardian  under  her  hand  and  seal. 
And  whereas  the  Proprietorship  that  Col.  Trott  lays  cladm 
to  is  contested,  several  persons  pretending  a  right  to  the  same 
upon  which  account  a  cause  is  now  depending  in  H.M.  Court 
of  Chancery  here,  least  you  should  fall  into  any  error  or  mistake 
by  not  duly  and  carefully  considering  the  Laws  that  are  now 
in  force,  and  to  which  all  H.M.  subjects  are  obliged  to  pay 
obedience,  we  think  it  necessary  to  inform  you  that,  whatsoever 
Acts  are  done  by  any  persons  that  are  parties  to  the  suit 
during  the  continuance  of  the  said  suits,  are  illegal,  void  and  of 
no  effect,  and  are  highly  liable  to  censure  here.  We  therefore 
command  you  not  to  receive  or  countenance  any  person  whatso- 
ever claiming  a  right  to  that  Proprietorship,  nor  any  Deputy 
for  ye  same,  until  you  shall  receive  information  from  us,  that 
all  suite  and  controversies  relating  thereunto  are  ceased  and  in 
a  judicial  way  decided  and  determined.  We  earnestly  desire  your 
endeavours  that  such  Laws  and  usages  of  our  Province  as  are 
for  the  advantage  of  the  Goverment  thereof  be  put  in  execution, 
and  in  a  particular  manner  we  recommend  to  you  the  due 
observation  of  that  Law,  wherein  it  is  enacted  that  no  Law 
either  already  passed,  or  that  shall  hereafter  be  passed,  shall' 
be  in  force  for  any  longer  term  than  two  years,  unless  such 
Law  is  within  that  time  confirmed  under  the  hands  and  seals 
of  ye  Palatine  and  4  more  of  the  Lords  Proprietors.  You  are 
also  to  take  care  that  no  Deputies,  Comrnrs.,  or  any  other  person 
whatsoever  make  or  sign  any  grant  or  sale  of  lands  exceeding 
the  number  of  640  acres,  withou't  a  warrant  or  licence  under  our 
hands  and  seals  first  obtained  in  that  behalf.  We  think  it 
necessary  the  Surveyors  of  our  said  Province  should  give  good 
security  to  us,  or  to  our  Governor  and  Council  for  the  perform- 
ance of  their  trust  and  the  due  execution  of  their  Office,  and 
that  they  shall  follow  such  directions  only  in  admeasuring, 
surveying  and  setting  out  of  land,  as  we  shall  think  fit  and 
proper  to  give  to  our  Governor  and  Council  from  time  to  time, 
or  such  as  we  shall  appoint  by  warrant,  or  any  other  instrument 
under  our  hands  and  seal.  We  think  it  highly  expedient  for 
the  good  of  our  Province  that  in  the  General  Assemblies  you 
would  seriously  consider  of  the  best  and  most  proper  methods 
for  improving  all  the  products  and  Inanufactures  of  our  Province 
(particularly  that  of  rice  and  silk),  and  as  we  have  always  had 
a  good  opinion  of  your  fidelity  and  inclination  to  our  service, 
so  we  hope  you  will  every  day  improve  the  same  by  your  con- 
tinual endeavours  the  good  of  our  Province,  and  doing  us  all 
the  friendly  offices,  which  may  be  within  your  power,  etc. 
Signed,  Craven,  Palatine;  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton, 
J.  Danson.  [C.O.  5,  289.  pp.  196-198.] 

April  9.         456.     Same  to  the  Governor,  Deputies  and  Assembly  of  South 

Craven        Carolina.     We  having  taken  into  our  consideration  the  present 

House.        condition  of  our  Province  of  Carolina,  as  well  in  regard  to  the 

administration  of  ye  Government  and  Justice  there,  as  in  relation 


278 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 


to  the  commerce  thereof,  and  being  fully  perswaded  that  nothing 
can  more  effectually  contribute  to  ye  quiet  and  welfare  of  our 
said  Province,  than  the  appointing  knowing  and  fitt  persons  to 
enquire  into  the  state  and  condition  of  ye  same  and  administer 
Justice  accordingly,  have  appointed  Col.  Edwd.  Tynte  Governor 
and  other  officers  whose  commissions  are  given  in  this  volume. 
We  do  earnestly  require  of  you  Gentlemen  that  you  would  con- 
stantly in  your  General  Assemblies  inspect  into  the  trade  of  our 
Province,  and  prepare  laws  for  our  confirmation,  whereby  all 
profitable  and  advantageous  trade  may  be  more  improved  and 
extended,  and  such  as  are  hurtfull  and  prejudicial  may  be 
rectifyed  or  discouraged,  and  by  these  means  we  shall  no  way 
doubt  but  our  endeavours  seconded  by  your  care  and  prudence, 
will  effectually  establish  the  good  of  our  Province  and  the  peace 
and  satisfaction  of  all  the  inhabitants  under  our  care.  We  do 
assure  you  of  our  friendship  and  bid  you  heartily  farewell,  etc. 
Signed  as  preceding.  [C.O.  5,  289.  pp.  199,  200.] 


April  9. 

St.  James's. 


April  12. 

Portsmouth 

in   New 
England . 


457.  H.M.  Warrant  for  Timothy  Salter  to  be  of  the  Council 
in   Barbados.      Countersigned,    Sunderland.      [C.O.    5,    210.      p. 
145.] 

458.  Mr.  Plaisted  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
The    present    warr    with    the    French    and    Indians    from    Port 
Boy  all  doth  very  affect  these  Provinces,  and  the  more  for  that 
H.M.   subjects  of  New  York  have  constantly  held  a  neutralitie 
with  those  her  enemies,  while  wee  are  dayly  subject  to  theire 
barbarous   insults,   and  were   it  mot  for  the   extraordinary  care 
our  Governor,   Col.  Dudley,   and  his  particular  regard  to  H.M. 
service    herein,    by   sending   out   scouts    into   the  woods,    and   a 
sufficient  force  to  cover  my  workmen  and  repell  the  enemy,   I 
could  never  make  that  provision  for  ye  yearly  loading  of  the 
ships   which   I  'have   done   this   thirteen  or   forteen   years,    etc. 
Signed,  Ichabod  Plaisted.     Endorsed,  Reed.  June  20,  Read  Dec. 
9,  1709.     Addressed.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  865.     No.  25.] 


April  12. 

.Whitehall. 


459.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Encloses  following,  which  should  have  been  laid 
before  H.M.  at  the  same  time  with  the  rest.  Signed,  Sunderland. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  April  13,  1709.  \  p.  Enclosed, 

459.  i.  Additional  Articles  of  complaint  against  Governor  Parke 
[see  March  31  supra] .  (23)  He  did  offer  to  Anthony 
Hodges,  Lt.  Governor  of  Montserat,  £300  sterling  to 
cancell  and  destroy  Letters  Patents  which  had  been 
granted  of  a  certain  Plantation  in  that  Island  to  Sir 
Michael  Cole,  and  were  in  the  custody  of  Hodges,  to 
the  end  that  Parke  might  escheat  the  said  Plantation. 
Hodges  refusing,  Parke  did  the  day  after  threaten  to 
turn  him  out  of  his  Government.  (24)  After  the  de- 
parture of  Mr.  Neavin  from  Antego  with  the  Petition 
to  H.M.  against  him,  Sept.  18,  1708,  Parke  between 
8  and  9  p.m.  did  with  his  sword  drawn  enter  the  house 


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1709. 

of  Edwd.  Chester,  senr.,  of  St.  Johns,  attended  with 
Capt.  Newell  with  his  sword  drawn,  and  8  Granadiers 
with  their  musketts  cock'd.  Parke  as  he  came  to  the 
door  of  Chester's  house,  commanded  the  Granadiers  to 
fire,  but  as  the  door  opened  he  forbad  them.  He 
commanded  the  Granadiers  to  secure  all  the  company 
then  in  Chester's  house,  and  the  Provost  Marshall  to 
carry  them  all  to  gaol,  and  did  himself  throw  down 
and  strike  one  Peter  Scheurman,  calling  him  Eascall. 
Four  of  the  company  were  forthwith  carryed  to  gaol, 
vizt.  Capt.  Bastian  Otto  Bayer,  Capt.  Francis  Carlisle, 
Richard  Smith,  and  Peter  Scheurman,  and  in  a  little 
time  after  Thomas  Gatewood  a  J.P.,  came  to  Chester's 
house,  and  with  Thomas  Morris,  J.P.,  did  by  the  di- 
rection of  Parke  order  the  Provost  Marshall  to  carry 
other  5  persons  of  the  company  to  goal,  which  was 
done,  vizt.  Major  John  Tomlinson,  Capt.  Charles  Kalla- 
han,  John  Swettenham,  merchant,  Wm.  Hamilton,  and 
Wm.  Dikes.  Thomas  Morris,  Thomas  Gatewood,  and 
Michael  Ayon,  the  Provost  Marshall  have  signed  and 
sealed  a  writing,  dated  Sept.  18,  1708,  importing  a 
conviction  as  their  view  of  the  said  9  persons  of  a 
riotous  Assembly,  and  that  they  have  caused  them  to 
be  committed  to  goal  untill  they  should  pay  the  under- 
mentioned sumes  opposite  to  their  names,  which  amount 
to  £2900.  Morris  and  Gatewood  have  signed  and  sealed 
another  paper  of  the  same  date,  commanding  the  Provost 
Marshall  to  apprehend  the  said  9  persons  and  to  convey 
them  to  goal,  and  detaine  them  till  they  shall  have 
payd  the  said  fines.  The  said  record  of  conviction  and 
warrant  of  commitment  were  not  fram'd  till  the  day 
after  the  said  pretended  riotous  Assembly,  and  the 
4  first  mentioned  of  the  said  9  persons  were  sent  to 
goal  before  Justice  Gatewood  came  to  the  house  of 
Chester.  Scheurman  is  by  profession  a  taylor,  and 
not  worth  one  half  the  sume  imposed  on  him  as  a  fine. 
The  said  9  persons  during  the  whole  time  demeaned 
themselves  in  a  very  quiett  and  peaceable  manner, 
without  offering  the  least  disturbance  or  offence  to  any 
person  whatsoever.  They  were  confin'd  13  days  in 
a  hot  loathsome  goal,  were  denyed  the  common  favour  of 
confinement  in  a  cooler  apartment  at  their  own  expence, 
and  of  being  admitted  to  bayle  on  any  security  whatso- 
ever, to  the  great  indangering  of  their  lives.  Tho' 
now  at  liberty  by  permission  or  connivance,  they  are 
in  dayly  fears  of  being  again  imprisoned,  and  of  having 
their  estates  seized  on  account  of  the  aforesaid  fines 
etc.  (25)  Parke  hath  threaten'd  to  cause  whip  the 

best   man's    wife    in   Antego    at    the    cart's    a that 

should  trouble  herself  with  him,  and  hath  declared  his 
resolution  to  cause  whip  publickly  even  men  of  sub- 
stance, if  they  should  speak  any  disrespectfull  words 


280 


COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 


1709. 


April  13. 

Admiralty 
Office. 


April  14. 

Whitehall. 


April  14. 


April  14. 

Whitehall. 


April  14. 

Craven 
Hcuse. 


April  15. 

Whitehall. 


of  his  Friend,  and  by  such  usage  bring  them  to  rebell 
and  then  seize  on  their  estates.  List  of  fines  referred 
to  supra.  1^  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  13,  13.  i.  ;  and 
153,  10.  pp.  344-349.] 

460.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.   Popple.     Asks  if  there  are  any 
Heads    of    Enquiry    for    Newfoundland.      Signed,    J.    Burchett. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  April  14,  1709.     Addressed.     1  p.    [C.O. 
194.,  4.     No.  89;  and  195,  5.     p.  85.] 

461.  Mr.    Popple    to    Mr.    Burchett.      Reply    to    preceding. 
While  we  were  in  possession  of  St.  Johns,  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  thought  it  necessary  that  several  enquiries  re- 
lating to  the  Trade  and  Fishery  shou'd  be  yearly  given  to  the 
Commodore  of  the  Convoy,  but  now  their  Lordps.  not  knowing 
in  what  condition  or  circumstances  our  settlements  there  may 
be  in.,   in  regard  to  the  accounts  received  of  St.  Johns  having 
been    surprised   by   the   French,   they   do  not   see   what   proper* 
queries    can    be    framed.     However,    they   think    it   will    be    of 
service   that   the   Commodore   do  transmit  to  their   Lordps.   the 
best  accounts  he  can  get  of  the  Trade  of  this  year,  and  of  the 
state  he  shall  find  and  leave  the  Island  in  ;  which  you  will  please 
to  lay  before  my  Lord  High  Admiral  for  his  Lordp's.  directions 
therein.     [C.O.  195,  5.     pp.  85,  86.] 

462.  Copy  of  Patent  of  Landgrave  Edward  Jukes  (Carolina). 
Signed,  Craven,  Palatine  ;  Craven,  for  Lord  Carteret,  M.  Ashley, 
M.  Ashley  for  Jos.  Blake,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson.     Latin.     [C.O. 
5,  289.     pp.   202,  203.] 

463.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Reply  to  April  5.     Recommend  that  a  pass  be  given 
to  the  Spanish  Governor  and  ship  to  Cartagena  only,  for  reasons 
given  Journal  of  Council,   April   11,   q.v.      [C.O.   389,   20.      pp. 
363-365.] 

464.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  Governor  Tynte.   War- 
rant to   dispose  of  the  barony  with  several  thousand  acres   of 
land  adjacent  to  Cowper  River  to  purchasers  from  Peter  Colleton, 
who   is  inclined  to  dispose  thereof.     Signed,   Craven,   Palatine; 
Beaufort,   M.    Ashley,   J.    Colleton,   J.    Danson.      [C.O.    5,   289. 
p.  201.] 

465.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Encloses  following  to  be  added  to  the  other  papers 
now  under  consideration   [March  31,  April  12.]     Signed,   Sun- 
derland.    Endorsed,    Reed.    Read  April   18,    1708.    [sic]      1   p. 
Enclosed, 

465.  i.  Merchants  of  Bristol  trading  to  Antigua  to  the  Queen. 
Complain  of  the  tyranny  of  Governor  Parke,  support 
articles  of  March  31,  and  pray  for  redress.  39  signa- 
tures. 1  p.  [C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  14,  14.i.  ;  and  153, 
10.  pp. 


1  p.      [C.O. 
.   349-351.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


281 


1709. 
April  16. 

St.  James's. 


April  18. 

'Whitehall. 


April  19. 

Craven 
House. 


April  19. 

Craven 
House. 


April  19. 

Whitehall. 


April  20. 

St.  James's. 


April  20. 

Beimuda. 


466.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     In  pursuance  of  Repre- 
sentation of  March  31,  q.v.,  Messrs.  Oldfield,  Cossley  and  Carver 
are  to  be  appointed  to  the  Council  of  "Jamaica  if  the  3  members 
referred  to  refuse  to  resign  their  agencies  for  the  African  Com- 
pany etc.     Set  out,  A.P.C.,11.,  No.  1067.     Signed,  John  Povey. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  20th,  Read  27th  June,  1709.     3  pp.  [C.O.  137, 
8.     No.   42;  and  138,  12.     pp.  406-409.] 

467.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Gov- 
ernor  Crowe's   treatment  of   Alexander    Skene    is   an   encroach- 
ment of  H.M.  Patent,  eto.     Set  out,  A.P.C.,IL,  No.  1082.  q.v. 
[C.O.  29,  11.     pp.  444-447.] 

468.  Warrant  of  the  Lords  ^Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  Thomas 
Broughton,   Surveyor  General  of  South  Carolina,   to  admeasure 
out  3000  acres  of  land  for  Governor  Tynte  at  a  yearly  quit -rent 
of    30/s.     Signed,    Craven,    Palatine;    Beaufort,    M.    Ashley,    J. 
Colleton,  J.  Danson.     [C.O.  5,  289.     p.  206.] 

469.  Warrant  of  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  Gov- 
ernor   Tynte,    to   cause   grants   of   2000   acres   to    be    issued   to 
Edward  Jukes  at  a  quit-rent  of  20/-s.,  he  intending  to  carry  over 
with   him    into    our    said   Province    a    considerable    number    of 
Planters,  Handicrafts,  Artificers,  and  other  persons  at  his  own 
proper  cost,  etc.     Signed  as  preceding1.     [C.O.  5,  289.  p.  207.] 

470.  Council   of   Trade   and   Plantations   to   Mr.    Secretary 
Boyle.    Melchior  Gilles,  one  of  the  poor  Lutherans  (see  C.S.P., 
1708)  having  had  leave  to  stay  behind  on  account  of  his  wife's 
illness,  who  being  now  dead,  he  is  desirous  to  proceed  with  his 
children   on   board  of  a   merchant  ship  now   ready  to   sail   for 
New  York.     Pray  for  an  Order  to  the  Navy  Board  accordingly. 
[C.O.  5,  1084.     'No.  41 ;  and  5,  1121.     p.  366.] 

471!  The  Queen  to  the  Governor  of  Jamaica.  Directions  as 
to  Councillors  in  accordance  with  Representation  of  March  31. 
q.v.  Countersigned,  Sunderland.  [C.O.  5,  210.  pp.  146-148.] 

472.  Deposition  of  Capt.  Edward  Holmes.  Late  an  inhabi- 
tant of  the  Bahama  Islands  and  one  of  the  Lords'  Deputies  there, 
he  did  about  Aug.  27  last  arrive  with  his  own  sloop  in  Harbor 
Island  under  that  Government  with  his  wife  and  some  of  his 
family,  when  a  vessell  under  French  colours  fired  a  valley  of 
small  armes  upon  him,  and  at  the  same  time  another  valley 
was  fired  from  the  shore,  and  imediately  the  captain  of  the 
said  vessell,  whose  name  was  Martell  (a  Frenchman)  with  a 
canoo  and  armed  men  and  his  Lieutenant  in  another  canoe  like 
wise  came  on  board  in  a  violent  manner,  and  took  hold  of 
deponent's  wife  and  stript  her,  and  the  Quarter -Master  presented 
a  loaded  pistoll  att  her  breast,  .thereby  to  force  her  to  discover 
deponent's  wealth,  and  searcht  her  very  haire  of  her  head,  and 
threatned  to  fling  her  overboard.  Then  Capt.  Martell  ordered 


282  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

them  to  bee  carried  on  shore  and  there  tyed  deponent's  wife 
fast  to  a  tree,  and  one  of  his  men  struck  her  with  a  sword, 
deponent,  being  then  bound  on  shore.  Next  morning  hee  \vas 
carryed  on  board  his  own  vessell  and  his  hands  seized  to  the 
mast,  and  the  quarter -master  belonging  to  'Capt.  Martell  with 
his  naked  cutlass  beat  him  on  his  back,  as  was  guessed,  500 
blows,  untill  all  thought  him  dead,  the  quarter-master  still  con- 
tinueing  to  push  the  deponent  in  the  face  with,  the  point  of 
his  sword  upon  every  groane  hee  made.  And  then  deponent 
comeing  to  himself  Capt.  Martell's  gang  lighted  eight  peeces  of 
match  about  3  inches  long  and  tyed  them  betweene  his  fingers  and 
burnt  them  about  half  an  (hour  hy  the  glass,  to  force  him  to  confess 
his  wealth,  and  afterwards  they  tyed  him  with  his  back  to  the 
scuppers  and  brought  lighted  matches  to  tye  to  his  toes,  and 
swore  they  would  burne  his  privy  members,  and  so  they  cruelly 
extorted  deponent's  discovery  of  what  he  had  and  took  itt  from 
him,  and  so  turned  him  and  his  wife  and  child  on  shore,  striped, 
about  8  leagues  from  their  habitation  in  great  necessity,  and 
many  other  cruelties  and  barbarities  Capt.  Martell  and  his 
gang  did  then  and  there  comitt.  Signed,  Edwd.  Holmes.  En- 
dorsed, Eecd.  12th,  Bead  15th  Sept.,  1709.  Eecd.  with  duplicate 
of  Col.  Bennet's  letter  of  March  1st,  170  f.  1  p.  [C.O.  5, 
1264.  No.  74.] 

Aprill  21.  473.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Han- 
Whitehall,  das  yd.  Since  our  letter  of  March  10  (a  duplicate  whereof  is 
here  inclosed)  we  have  received  yours  of  Aug.  21  and  Feb.  1. 
When  the  two  Laws  you  mention  for  quieting  possessions  and 
for  settling  fees,  together  with  the  Minutes  of  Councill  relating 
thereto,  shall  arrive,  we  will  take  the  same  into  consideration, 
and  lay  them  before  H.M.  etc.  We  have  received  the  account 
of  prizes  taken  by  H.M.  ships  of  war,  and  should  have  been 
glad  to  have  known  the  respective  value  of  each  of  the  said' 
prizes,  for  without  that  the  names  of  the  prizes  only  is  of 
little  information  to  us.  You  will  do  well  therefore  to  give 
us  as  good  an  account  as  you  can  of  the  value  of  all  prizes 
that  shall  be  taken  and  brought  into  Jam'aica  for  the  future. 
We  are  glad  to  hear  that  Commodore  Wager  is  again  going  out 
in  quest  of  some  ships  coming  from  Old  France  to  Hispaniola, 
etc.  and  we  are  in  good  hopes  he  will  meet  with  success..  We 
cannot  but  commend  as  well  your  having  given  Instructions 
to  all  the  privateers  of  Jamaica  to  cruize  between  La  Vera 
Cruz  and  the  Havanna,  etc.  as  Feb.  1,  as  your  readiness  and 
care  in  supplying  H.M.  ships  of  war  with  men.  You  will  see 
by  the  copy  of  Mr.  Burchet's  letter  which  we  sent  you  Feb. 
24,  that  care  is  taken  for  supplying  the  ships  of  war  with  men 
for  the  future.  We  are  likewise  glad  to  understand  that  the 
Jersy  man  of  war  has  madei  a  recapture  of  the  Guinea  ship  etc., 
(Feb.  1).  The  Lord  High  Admiral  having  had  the  opinion  of 
the  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  here  in  relation  to  the  briganteen 
which  was  seized  by  a  vessell  without  a  commission,  you  will 
undoubtedly  receive  his  Lordship's  directions  therein.  We  ob- 


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283 


1709. 

serve  what  you  write  in  relation  to  privateers,  but  as  we  writ 
fully  to  you  upon  that  subject  Aug.  23,  1708  (a  copy  whereof  js 
here  inclosed)  wee  refer  you  thereunto,  and  have  only  to  add 
that  if  the  Captains  of  privateers  were  to  have  the  sole  command 
of  the  ships,  it  might  be  one  means  in  our  opinion  to  prevent 
the  ill  practices  too  frequently  committed  by  them,  whereas, 
as  we  have  been  informed,  every  iseaman  on  board  a  privateer 
having  a  vote,  it  is  not  in  the  Captain's  power  to  prevent 
their  committing  irregularities  when  the  majority  is  against 
him.  And  therefore  you  will  do  well  in  all  commissions  to 
privateers  to  insert  a  clause  giving  the  Captain  the  sole  power 
of  the  ship,  and  restraining  the  seamen  from  having  anything  to 
do  in  the  command  thereof.  You  will  receive  from  the  Earl  of 
Sunderland  H.M.  pleasure  in  relation  to  Counsellors  that  are 
Factors  to  the  African  Company  and  others  concerned  in  tJhe 
Negroe  trade,  etc.  We  shall  expect  the  account  of  the  affairs 
of  the  Island  you  promise  us  by  the  packet.  [(7.0.  138,  12. 
pp.  394-396.] 

April  28.        474.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    Referring  following  to  the 
St.  James's.    Council   of   Trade   and    Plantations,    for   their   report.      Signed, 
Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Eecd.   5th,  Read  6th  May,   1709. 
|  p.     Enclosed, 

474.  i.  Richard  Lloyd  to  the  Queen.  Your  petitioner  is  seized 
of  a  Plantation  in  Jamaica.  One  of  his  negroe  slaves 
(by  name  Sherry)  was  in  June,  1708,  accused  upon 
suspicion  of  poysoning  a  Negro  child  belonging  to  a 
neighbour's  Plantation.  Although  the  proofs  against 
him  were  but  light  and  barely  presumptive,  yet  the 
two  Justices  and  three  freeholders  who  are  Judges 
in  such  cases,  ordered  him  to  be  transported.  Sherry 
is  a  wheelwright  and  carpenter,  and  of  very  great 
use  in  petitioner's  Plantation.  Prays  H.M.  pardon 
for  Sherry.  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  39, 
39.i.  ;  and  138,  12.  pp.  397-399.] 

April  28.         475.     The   Earl   of   Sunderland  to   Governor   Lord  Lovelace. 

Whitehall.  H.M.  designing  to  fitt  out  an  expedition  for  the  reduction  of 
Canada  and  Newfoundland,  according  to  some  proposals  made  by 
Coll.  Vetch,  to  whom  H.M'.  has  given  Instructions  at  length* 
with  orders  to  communicate  them  to  your  Lordp.,  as  also  to 
deliver  a  letter  from  her  Majesty,  enjoining  you  to  assist  in 
the  said  expedition  after  the  manner  prescribed,  etc.  I  send  you 
by  another  ship  the  inclosed  copy  of  Col.  Vetch's  Instructions,  to 
which  H.M.  expects  that  you  should  show  a  ready  and  punctual 
complyance  so  farr  forth  as  they  relate  to  you  etc.  In  case  you 
should  receive  the  inclosed  Instructions  before  the  arrival  of 
Col.  Vetch,  it  is  H.M.  pleasure  that  immediately  upon  receipt 
of  them  you  dispatch  an  expresse  to  the  severall  Governours  of 
Pensilvania  and  Connecticut  to  meet  you  with  all  expedition 
at  New  York,  and  that  you  consult  with  them  on  the  most 
proper  and  effectuall  methods  for  executing  the  inclosed  In- 


284  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

structions.  And  because  it  may  be  necessary  to  inform  you  of 
severall  particulars,  which  Coll.  Vetch  will  give  you  an  account, 
of,  if  he  arrive  soon  enough,  H.M.  is  pleased  that  I  should 
give  you  a  further  light  into  the  intended  expedition,  than  what 
you  receive  from  the  inclosed  Instructions,  and  which  will 
be  unnecessary,  if  Col.  Vetch  arrive  soon  enough  to  transact 
this  affair  with  you;  and  I  must  signify  to  you  H.M.  pleasure 
that  you  pay  the  same  obedience  to  any  directions  hereaifter 
mentioned  as  if  they  were  a  part  of  the  aforesaid  Instructions. 

It  is  resolved  to  attack  at  the  same  time  both  Quebeck  and 
Montreal,  the  first  by  sea  and  the  second  over  the  lake  from 
Albany,  with  a  body  of  1500  men,  who  are  to  be  raised  and 
armed  as  you  will  see  in  the  inclosed  Instructions.  H.M.  is 
now  fitting  out  her  Commander  in  cheif  of  the  said  expedition 
with  a  squadron  of  ships,  and  five  regiments  of  the  regular 
troops,  who  are  to  be  at  Boston  by  the  middle  of  May,  and 
there  to  be  joined  with  1200  of  the  best  men  of  New  England 
and  Eoad  Island;  they  are  then  to  sail  with  all  expedition  to 
attack  Quebeck,  being  provided  with  Enginiers,  bomb -vessels, 
and  all  sorts  of  artillery  for  such  an  enterprise.  At  the  same 
time  the  1500  men  from  Albany,  under  the  command  of  one 
whom  you  shall  appoint,  are  to  make  the  best  of  their  way 
to  Montreal,  which  place  they  are  to  attack,  and  if  possible  reduce 
to  H.M.  obedience. 

You  are  to  concert  with  the  Governors  of  Pennsylvania  and 
Connecticut  the  most  easy  and  expeditious  way  of  providing 
at  Albany  by  the  middle  of  May,  or  sooner,  3  months  provisions 
for  your  respective  Quotas  of  men,  which  provisions  you  are 
to  lodge  in  a  large  wooden  storehouse,  as  you  will  see  in  the 
aforesaid  Instructions,  to  which  I  must  add  that  you  are  imme- 
diately to  order  one  half  of  the  regular  Company s  with  as  many 
of  the  country  troops  as  you  shall  think  sufficient  to  cover  the 
workmen  that  shall  be  employed  on  the  said  storehouse,  and  to 
guard  the  stores  that  are  to  be  laid  in  it.  In  your  negotiations 
with  the  Five  Nations  and  River  Indians  you  are  to  employ 
such  as  you  think  have  the  most  influence  on  them,  and  in] 
particular  Col.  Schyler,  unlesse  you  have  any  objections  against 
him,  who  as  H.M.  has  been  informed,  is  very  well  qualify ed 
for  her  service,  and  particularly  known  in  these  parts,  for 
which  reason  he  is  likewise  thought  a  very  proper  person  to  be 
employed  in  the  expedition,  and  to  be  consulted  with  on  the 
best  methods  o~f  corresponding  by  Indian  messengers  overland 
with  the  expedition  which;  is  to  go  by  sea  to  Quebeck,  with 
which  methods  you  are  to  acquaint  H.M.  Commander  in  cheif 
by  letters  as  soon  as  he  arrives  at  Boston.  You  are  likewise 
to  find  out  some  of  the  most  sensible  Indians  that  you  can  confide 
in,  whom  you  are  immediately  to  send  both  to  Quebeck  and 
Montreal  to  bring  the  best  accounts  they  can  get  of  the  numbers, 
fortifications,  stores  and  provisions  that  are  in  the  said  places, 
for  which  you  are  to  reward  them  as  they  deserve,  and  transmit 
to  the  Commander  in  cheif  of  the  expeditions  such  informations 
as  they  or  any  other  persons  shall  be  able  to  give  you  of  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  285 

1709. 

said  places.  You  are  also  to  acquaint  the  Commander  of  the 
troops  which  are  to  march  from  Albany,  that  he  is  to  obey 
all  such  orders  as  he  shall  receive  from  time  to  time  from  H.Mj, 
aforesaid  Commander  in  cheif  of  the  expedition.  And  in  case 
the  abovementioned  1500  men  cannot  make  themselves  masters 
of  Montreal  for  any  want  of  force  or  artillery,  they  shall  en- 
deavour to  block  that  up,  so  as  to  cutt  off  all  communication 
between  that  place  and  Quebeck,  and  if  H.M.  troops  can  make 
themselves  masters  of  Quebeck,  the  Commander  in  cheif  will 
with  all  possible  expedition  send  a  reinforcement  of  the  troops 
with  him  to  assist  in  the  reduction  of  Montreal.  The  pacquet 
in  which  this  goes  being  directed  in  absence  of  Col.  Vetch  to 
your  Lordship,  as  soon  as  it  comes  to  your  hands,  you  are  to 
forward  with  all  diligence  the  dispatches  for  the  other  Gov- 
ernours.  Signed,  Sunderland.  6£  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1091.  No.  15.] 

April  28.  476.  Same  to  Governor  Dudley.  H.M.  having  resolved  to 
putt  in  execution  severall  proposals  laid  before  her  by  Col. 
Vetch  for  driving  the  French  out  of  the  North  Continent  of 
America  and  Newfoundland  did  some  time  since  dispatch  Col. 
Vetch  in  the  ship  Dragon,  with  full  Instructions  to  her  Gov- 
ernours  in  those  parts,  in  all  things  relating  to  the  said  expedition, 
as  also  with  some  officers  and  stores  for  the  assistance  of  the 
troops  to  be  raised  in  their  respective  Governments.  But  H.M. 
not  judging  it  safe  to  trust  the  successe  of  the  whole  expedition 
to  the  uncertainty  that  may  attend  a  single  ship  in  so  long  a 
voyage,  and  considering  that  the  success  of  the  whole  enter- 
prise will  in  a  great  measure  depend  upon  the  readiness  of  the 
abovementioned  troops  to  perform  their  part  in  the  intended 
expedition,  to  the  end  that  her  Governours  above-mentioned  may 
not  fail  of  timely  notice  to  make  such  preparations  as  are 
enjoined  them  in  their  respective  Governments,  H.M.  has  thought 
fitt  to  dispatch  another  vessell  with  enclosed  Instructions  etc., 
as  in  preceding,  paragraph  2.  You  are  therefore  as  soon  as 
this  comes  to  your  hands  to  send  to  the  Governour  of  Rhode 
Island'  to' meet  you  at  Boston,  that  you  may  together  concert  the 
methods  you  shall  judge  most  proper  for  executing  H.M.  Orders 
for  having  in  readinesse  the  1200  men  to  be  furnished  out 
of  your  Government  and  that  of  Rhode  Island  according  to 
your  usuall  proportions,  and  to  be  at  Boston  by  the  middle 
of  May  with  3  months  provisions  and  ships  to  transport  them 
with  able  pilots  (of  which  Capt.  Southweck  in  the  country 
galley  to  be  one),  and  H.M.  expects  yt.  these  troops  shall  be 
ready  with  all  necessarys  to  embark  on  two  days  warning,  as 
soon  as  the  forces  and  fleet  from  hence  shall  arrive.  It  is 
also  H.M.  pleasure  that  you  cause  to  be  built  10  large  flat- 
bottom  boats,  such  as  may  carry  60  men  each,  and  which,  are 
to  be  ready  for  the  service  of  the  expedition  against  the  middle 
of  May,  and  because  it  may  be  of  the  greatest  importance  to 
the  success  of  this  Expedition,  that  persons  be  employed  who 
know  the  Country  and  places  to  be  attacked  by  H.M.  forces. 
You  are  therefore  to  take  all  possible  pains  to  find  out  such 


286 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

persons  as  have  been  prisoners  formerly  at  Quebeck  or  Mon- 
treal, and  also  such  of  the  Indians,  to  the  number  of  30  or 
40,  who  you  shall  judge  best  acquainted  with  the  country,  and 
who  may  be  made  use  of  by  the  Commanders  of  H.M.  forces  in 
this  Expedition,  as  they  shall  find  occasion  for  them,  and  you 
are  to  inform  yourself  in  as  particular  a  manner  as  you  can 
of  the  state  of  St.  Johns  and  Placentia  in  Newfoundland,  in 
reference  to  their  strength,  situation,  the  number  of  their  garri- 
sons and  quantity  of  provisions,  and  nature  of  the  ground 
about  them,  that  you  may  be  able  upon  the  arrival  of  the  ex- 
pedition to  give  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  H.M'.  forces  such 
advice  and  information  of  the  state  of  these  places,  as  may 
be  of  use  to  him  in  the  execution  of  H.M.  Orders.  Signed, 
Sunderland.  5£  pp.  [C.O.  5,  898.  No.  1.] 

[April  28.]       477.     Abstract  of  H.M.  Instructions  (above)  to  the  Governors 
of  New  York  and  Boston.     4  pp.     [C.O.  5,  9.     No.  79.] 

April  28.  478.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Governor  of  Rhode 
Whitehall.  Island.  H.M.  designing  an  expedition  for  the  reducing  of  Cana- 
da, and  having  sent  the  necessary  orders  about  the  part  you 
are  po  act  to  the  Governour  of  New  England,  I  am  ordered 
by  H.M.  to  signify  to  you  her  pleasure,  that  as  soon  as  this 
comes  to  your  hands,  you  repair  to  Boston,  there  to  concert  with 
the  aforesaid  Govr.  of  New  England,  the  proper  methods  for 
performing  the  service  H.M.  expects,  and  requires  of  you  on 
that  occasion,  not  doubting  of  your  ready  complyance  with  this. 
Signed,  Sunderland.  1  p. 

Mem.      Similar   letters   to  the  Governors   of  Pensilvania  and 
Connecticut.     [C.O.   5,   10.     No.   222.] 


April  28. 
Craven 
House. 


479..  Commission  from  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina 
to  John  Lawson  to  be  Surveyor  General  for  North  Carolina. 
Signed,  Craven,  Palatine ;  Beaufort,  Craven  for  the  Lord  Car- 
teret,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson,  M.  Ashley  for  Jos.j 
Blake,  [C.O.  5,  289.  p.  210.] 


April  28. 

Ci  avert 
Bouse. 

April  28. 

St.  James's. 


480.  Instructions    for    John    Lawson    (supra).      Signed    as 
preceding.     [C.O.   5,  289.     pp.  211,  212.] 

481.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Referring  Acts  of  Penn- 
sylvania, 1705,  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  ex- 
amine and  report  upon.     Signed,  Edward  Southwell.    Endorsed', 
Reed.   Read  May  5,   1709.     1  p.     [C.O.   5,   1264.     No.  67;  and 
5,  1292.     pp.   135,  136.] 


April  28. 

St.  James's. 


482.     Order   of    Queen   in   Council.     Alexander    Skene   is   to 
be  restored  to  his  offices  and  fees  etc.  Of.  April  18,  andA.P.C., 

11.  No.    1082.     Signed,   John   Poyey.     Endorsed,    Reed.    15th, 
Read  25th  Oct.,  1709.     1  p.      [C.O.  28,  12.     No.  40;  and  29, 

12.  p.  28.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  287 

1709. 

May  1.  483.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Jamaica.  tations.  Encloses  duplicate  of  last  letter.  The  Assembly  has 
pass'd  12  private  and  publick  Acts,  which  I  am  getting  ready 
with  all  speed,  and  shall  send  with  tihe  Minutes  of  the  Council! 
and  Assembly  by  the  first  man  of  war  or  packet  boat,  not  daring) 
to  venture  them  by  this  ship.  I  have  prorogued  the  Assembly 
from  April  18  to  May  30,  at  which  time  I  design  to  prorogue 
them  to  March  1,  1710,  believing  I  shall  not  get  a  better.  A 
small  Spanish  sloop  came  in  here  about  a  fortnight  ago  from 
Porto  Prince  for  exchange  of  prisoners,  and  gives  an  account 
that  the  ships  are  not  yet  sail'd  from  La  Vera  Cruz,  nor  the 
galleon  from  Carthagene  to  Havanna.  The  Island  is  at  present 
pretty  healthy. 

P.S.  I  am  informed  by  the  Spaniards  that  came  in  the 
Flag  of  Truce,  that  there  was  in  the  ship  lately  taken  by  the 
Portland  400,000  peices  of  eight  registered,  besides  what  was 
not  registered.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Reed.  21st, 
Read  25th  July,  1709.  !£  pp.  [C.O.  137,  8.  No.  44;  and  138, 
12.  pp.  419,  420.] 

May  2.  484.  W.  Nivine  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Encloses  following.  Signed,  Will.  Nivine.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  May  2,  1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

484.  i.  Abstract    of    Petition    and    Articles    against    Governor 
Parke.     (See  March  31,  April  12).     Same  endorsement. 
3|  closely  written  pp. 
484.  ii.  Abstract  of  depositions  in  support  of  preceding.  Same 

endorsement.      10^    closely    written    pp. 

484.  iii.  Abstract  of  the  Minutes  of  Assembly  of  Antegoa, 
Nov.  28,  1707— June  14,  1708.  Same  endorsement. 

.*lPP- 

484.  iv.  Analysis  of  evidence  in  support  of  No.  1.  Same 
endorsement.  2  pp. 

484.  v.  Remarks  [by  Mr.  Nivine']  upon  the  preceding,  and 
a  proposal  for  the  suspension  of  Governor  Parke,  etc. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  May  2,  1709.  2  pp. 

484.  vi.  Draft  of  bond  proposed  to  be  entered  into  by  4 
merchants  in  £500  each,  for  the  indemnification  of 
Col.  Parke  if  acquitted.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  2  pp. 

484.  vii.  Deposition  of  John  Barnes,  in  support  of  Article 
I.  (March  31).  Copy.  1  p. 

484.  viii.  Depositions  of  James  Atkinson,  Mariner,  as  to  pres- 
sure put  upon  him  by  the  Governor  to  give  evidence 
against  Mr.  Chester,  etc.  Copy.  5  pp. 

484.  ix.  Copy  of  Col.  Parke's  Order  to  Col.  Codrington  to  pro- 
duce his  title  to  Barbouda,  etc.  March  18,  1707.  Signed, 
Daniel  Parke.  Copy.  1^  pp. 

484.  x.  Deposition  of  Elizabeth  Hastings,  Aug.  10,  1708, 
that  she  was  turned  out  of  her  house  near  St.  Johns, 
Antigua,  by  soldiers,  upon  orders  from  the  Governor, 
etc.  Copy.  2|-  pp. 

484.  xi.  Deposition   of   Geffrey   Duncomb,    Antigua,   July   30, 


288  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

1708,  as  to  a  guard  of  grenadiers  placed  over  some 
brandy  imported  by  Edward  Chester,  and  removed  after 
an  interview  with  the  Governor.  Copy.  1^  pp. 

484.  xii.  Copy  of  a  decree  made  by  Governor  Parke,  Antigua, 
June  8,  1708,  on  the  petition  of  Anne,  wife  of  John 
Vincent,  for  maintenance.  Edwd.  Chester  to  pay  her 
annuity  according  to  a  bond  entered  into  with  her  before 
her  marriage.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  2  pp. 

484.  xiii.  Copy  of  a  decree  made  by  Governor  Parke,  Anti- 
gua, June  14,  1708,  in  the  case  of  Robert  Latimer 
v.  Samuel  Watkins,  James  Field,  and  John  and  Kather- 
ine  Greenway.  Watkins  to  pay  £43  as  an  executor 
of  Leonard  Waller,  but  only  as  far  as  he  had  assets. 
Nothing  decreed  against  Waller's  relict,  Katherine 
Greenway.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  4  pp. 

484.  xiv.  Copy  of  an  injunction  granted  by  Governor  Parke, 
St.  Kitts,  May  20,  1708.  Giles  Watkins  of  Antegoa  is 
not  to  proceed  v.  Thomas  Morris,  until  the  Court  of 
Chancery  shall  have  given  their  decree  in  the  case 
Morris  v.  Watkins.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  1  p. 

484.  xv.  Deposition  of  Eichard  Sharpe,  Antigua,  Aug.  6,  1708. 
The  sloop  Great  Britain,  belonging  to  Edward  Chester, 
senr.,  was  condemned  by  a  Court  of  Admiralty,  St. 
Kitts.  Governor  Parke  granted  deponent  leave  to  ap- 
peal to  England,  but  deterred  Dr.  Rowland  Garnet  and 
Mr.  Burreau  by  threats  from  providing  the  necessary 
security.  Signed,  Richard  Sharpe.  Copy.  1  p. 

484.  xv  (a).  Copy  of  Richard  Sharpe's  appeal  (see  preceding}. 
1  p. 

484.  xvi.  Governor  Parke's  warrant  to  Samuel  Watkins  to 
remit  the  powder  duty  to  vessels  owned  by  the  in- 
habitants of  Antigua  any  former  act  or  order  to  the 
contrary  notwithstanding.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke,  May 
24,  1707.  Copy.  1  p. 

484.  xvii.  Deposition  of  Samuel  Watkins,  Antigua,  Aug.  25, 
1708.  In  June  last  past,  Governor  Parke  said,  "were 
it  not  for  some  few  friends  I  have  upon  your  Island, 
I  would  send  your  Island  to  the  Devil."  Signed,  Sa. 
Watkins.  Copy.  1  p. 

484.  xviii.  Deposition  of  Samuel  Philips,  Antigua,  Aug.  26, 
1708.  Confirms  Articles  20  and  25,  March  31  and 
April  12.  q.v.  Signed,  Samuel  Philips.  Copy.  1  p. 

484.  xix.  Deposition  of  Geffrey  Duncomb,  Antigua,  July  30, 
1708.  Confirms  Article  25,  April  12,  q.v.  Copy.  1  p. 

484.  xx.  Deposition  of  Capt.  Joseph  Hall,  Commander  of  the 
Virgin  Queen,  privateer.  June  13,  1708  at  St.  Kitts, 
Governor  Parke  exacted  from  himyVthj  of  a  prize,  etc. 
Confirms  Article  21.  Signed,  Joseph  Hall.  Copy.  3  pp. 

484.  xxi.  Governor  Parke  to  Lt.  Governor  Hodges,  Antigua, 
Feb.  14,  170 J.  I  understand  that  you  have  condemned 
the  54  negroes  brought  in  by  Capt.  Dunavan ;  when  I 
sent  you  that  Commission  'twas  only  to  try  the  sloop 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  289 

1709. 

that  was  seized,  and  'twas  never  intended  to  condemn 
any  prizes,  for  no  privateer  shall  condemn  any  prize 
but  where  I  am.  I  shall  take  Dunavan's  commission 
from  him,  since  he  has  served  me  so.  I  expect  the 
tenths  in  kind,  and  not  by  appraisment.  I  desire  you 
to  send  them  by  the  Bearer  and  the  negro  that  run 
away,  tho'  I  promised  Capt.  Akers,  and  the  rest  of 
the  English  privateers,  for  their  mcouragement,  they 
should  not  pay  the  tenths,  I  did  not  promise  it  to 
Dunavan.  I  understand  the  Danes  have  a  Free  Trade 
at  Mountserratt,  for  the  future  suffer  none  to  stay 
longer  than  to  fill  water,  which  is  not  above  an  hour's 
work.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Copy.  1  p. 

484  xxii.  Deposition  of  John  French,  merchant  of  St.  Thomas. 
Montserrat,  July  21,  1708.  In  Feb.  last  he  was  in 
Antigua,  Commander  of  a  Danish  sloop.  He  twice 
received  a  message  by  Mr.  Patrick  Blacke  from  Governor 
Parke,  assuring  him  he  should  not  be  molested  in 
trading  within  his  government,  provided  he  gave  him 
100  pistoles  in  gold.  He  refused  £40  which  he  offered. 
In  Curagoa  last  May  deponent  met  with  Robert  Jones  of 
St.  Kitts,  Master  of  an  English  sloop  belonging  to 
H.E.,  loaden  with  brown  Muscovada  sugars,  which  cargo 
Jones  traded  for  Dutch  goods  and  money  for  H.E. 
account  and  brought  to  St.  Kitts,  July  10.  Signed, 
John  French.  Copy.  1^  pp. 

484.  xxiii.-xxviii.  Copies  of  Depositions  of  Edward  Chester 
senr.,  William  Chapman,  Jeremiah  Brown,  Edward 
Chester,  jr.,  Samuel  Walker,  and  Jacob  Thibon,  confirm- 
ing Article  24,  April  12,  q.v.  Antigua,  Sept.  20,  1708. 
The  whole,  18  pp. 

484.  xxix.  Deposition  of  Lt.  Governor  Hodges,  confirming 
Article  23,  April  12.  q.v.  Mountserratt,  June  26,  1708. 
Signed,  Anthony  Hodges.  Copy.  If-  pp. 

484.  xxx.  Deposition  of  Jonathan  Warner,  Jan.  3,  1709.  Clerk 
of  the  Council,  Montserat,  deponent  heard  some  dispute 
in  Council,  on  Dec.  20,  1708,  between  Governor  Parke 
and  George  Wyke  relating  to  [preceding]  deposition. 
Governor  Parke  said  the  [LtJ]  Governor  was  a  raskal, 
for  what  he  spoke  "was  in  jest  and  over  a  glass  of 
wine,  etc.  Signed,  Jonan.  Warner.  Copy.  1  p. 

484.  xxxi.  Copies  of  papers,  warrants  etc.  relating  to  the  pro- 
ceedings at  Edward  Chester's  house,  Sept.  18,  1708, 
including  letter  from  Sir  Samuel  Gerrard  to  Edward 
Perrie,  etc.  Confirm  Article  24,  April  12.  q.v.  6£  pp. 

484.  xxxii.  Governor  Parke's  Mandamus  to  C.  J.  Samuel 
Watkins  to  sign  an  attachment  against  Henry  Fletcher. 
Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  July  30,  1708.  Note:  The  Gov- 
ernor has  no  power  to  intermeddle  with  the  orders 
of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  except  upon  application 
in  Council.  Copy.  2  pp. 

484.  xxxiii.  Mr.   Nivine's  evidence  in  support  of  the  Articles 

Wt-  11523-  C  P  19 


290  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1709. 

of  complaint  against  Governor  Parke.  Signed,  Will. 
Nivine.  Copy.  1  pp. 

484.  xxxiv.  Col.  John  Ward  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  St.  Kitts,  Aug.  25,  1708.  Petitioner  en- 
tered into  partnership  with  Governor  Parke  to  farm 
a  plantation  etc.  The  Governor  has  broken  through 
all  his  covenants  and  so  forfeited  his  bonds,  besides 
so  treating  petitioner  as  to  ruin  him  speedily,  unless 
prevented.  Prays  that  he  be  compelled  to  pay  him 
the  money  due  to  him  for  th;e  labour  of  his.  negroes 
etc.  Signed,  John  Ward.  Copy.  lj  pp. 

484.  xxxv.-xxxvii.  State  of  the  case,  accounts,  agreements, 
etc.  between  John  Ward  and  Governor  Parke.  Copies. 
62  pp. 

484.  xxxviii.  Copy  of  proceedings  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 
St.  Kitts,  re  the  sloop  Great  Britain,  July  12  and  13, 
1708.  9  pp. 

484.  xxxix.  Copy  of  proceedings  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty, 
Antigua,  re  the  sloop  Union.  July  31,  Aug.  3  and  4, 
1708.  15  pp. 

484.  XL.  Edward  Chester  to  Eobert  Chester.  Aug.  24,  1708. 
The  Governor  demanded  a  present  of  2  negroes  from 
every  ship  that  came  from  the  Gold  Coast.  Confirms 
Article  16,  March  31.  etc.  Copy.  6  pp.  \_C.O.  152, 
8.  Nos.  15,  15.  i.-xl.  ;  and  (without  enclosures] 
153,  10.  pp.  352,  353.] 

May  3.  485.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.  Plantations.  The  Queen  being  informed  that  some  hundreds 
of  poor  German  Protestants  are  lately  come  and  more  are  coming 
from  the  Palatinate  with  intentions  to  settle  in  ELM.  Plantations 
in  America,  H.M.  being  convinced  that  it  would  be  much  more 
for  the  advantage  of  Her  Kingdoms  if  a  method  could  be  found 
to  settle  them  here  in  such  manner  as  they  might  get  a  com- 
fortable, livelyhood,  instead  of  sending  them  to  the  West  Indys, 
that  it  would  be  a  great  encouragement  to  others  to  follow 
their  example,  and  thlat  this  addition  to  the  number  of  her 
subjects  would  in  all  probability  produce  a  proportionable  in- 
crease of  their  trade  and  manufactures ;  H.M.  has  commanded  me 
to  signify  to  you  Her  pleasure  that  you  should  take  this  matter 
into  consideration,  and  that  if  you  can  think  of  any  proper 
method  of  having  this  done,  you  should  propose  the  same  to 
H.M.  as  soon  as  is  possible,  together  with  your  opinion  in  what 
part  of  England  it  maiy  be  most  feasible.  They  are  for  the 
most  part  husbandmen  and  labouring  people,  which  renders  it 
the  easier  to  dispose  of  them  to  the  advantage  of  the  publick. 
Sinned,  Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  3rd,  Bead  4th  May,  1709. 
If  pp.  [C.O.  388,  76.  No.  54;  and  389,  36.  pp.  398,  399.] 

[May  3.]  486.  Capt.  Moody  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Proposals  for  the  better  Government  and  security  of  New- 
foundland. Signed,  J.  Moody.  Endorsed,  Becd.  Bead  May  3, 
1709.  3  pp.  [C.O.  194,  4.  No.  90;  and  195,  5.  pp.  86-90.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  291 

1709. 
May  4.          487.     Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of   Trade  and  Planta- 

Antigua.  tions.  Capt.  Buor,  who  brings  your  Lordshipps  this,  alsoe  carrys 
with  him  the  Minutes  of  the  Councill  to  the  meeting  of  the 
last  Councill,  etc.  I  need  make  eoe  remarke  for  I  doe  nothing 
without  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Councill,  and  it  is  all 
entered  in  the  books.  I  can't  gett  the  Minutes  of  the  Assembly, 
the  bookes  are  kept  by  the  Speaker,  and  he  is  to  deliver  noe 
ooppys  but  by  order  of  the  house,  indeed  there  is  no  great 
regard  to  be  had  of  them,  for  they  are  not  kept  by  sworne  Clerke, 
they  pretend  it  is  their  right  to  put  in  their  owne  clerke,  and 
he  is  not  to  be  sworne  to  enter  all  yt.  passes,  for  sometimes 
it  is  not  requisite,  and  they  are  soe  very  fickle  they  have  had 
in  my  time  three  severall  Clercks  in  one  weeke,  one  thing  shall  be 
put  to  the  vote  and  carryed  one  way,  if  some  of  the  cunning 
men  dont  like  it,  two  or  three  hours  afterwards,  they  will 
continue  to  gett  some  of  the  members  out  of  the  house  with 
a  bowle  of  punch,  or  some  other  way,  and  put  the  same  question 
and  have  it  carryed  quite  contrary,  and  then  adjourne  the  house, 
and  soe  it  must  stand.  Tell  them  this  is  not  like  the  House  of 
Commons,  when  a  vote  is  passed,  the  same  thing  cannot  be 
brought  on  that  Sessions,  they  laugh,  and  thinke  themselves  in  the 
rig'ht,  they  assume  the  negative  voice,  and  without  it  they  will 
pass  noe  law,  that  is  they  pretend  it  is  noe  Law,  untill  it  be 
first  passed  their  house,  the  Councill  and  myselfe,  and  after 
that  be  sent  downe  and  the  Speaker  has  signed  it.  Tell  them 
when  once  a  law  has  passed  the  House  of  Commons  and  Lords 
it  is  never  sent  backe,  and  when  the  Queen  gives  her  assent 
to  it,  then  it  is  a  Law,  they  say  it  is  noe  matter  for  that, 
they  will  have  it  their  owne  way.  None  of  the  other  Islands 

Eretend  to  any  thing  like  this.  They  had  a  Custome  that  all 
aws  were  to  be  signed  by  ye  Generall  and  Speaker,  and  when 
the  Generall  passed  any  Law,  the  Assembly  were  by,  and  out 
of  respect  they  gave  the  Generall  the  penn  first,  but  when  the 
Generall  was  of  the  Island,  the  Speaker  then  signed  the  Law, 
and  sent  it  for  the  Generall  to  signe,  and  it  had  gone  on  soe 
still  but  the  last  Assembly  after  a  law  had  been  passed  wch. 
was  a  very  good  one,  for  establishing  standing  guards,  after 
I  had  signed  it  the  Speaker  was  order'd  by  the  house  not  to 
signe  it,  and  soe  it  was  noe  law,  and  that  we  might  not  Jiave 
it  to  put  in  force,  they  kept  it,  these  Gentlemen  not  only 
pretend  to  be  part  of  the  Legislative,  but  the  whole  Goverment, 
for  if  any  man  wants  anything,  they  sollicitt  them,  and  they 
adress  me,  and  if  I  don't  grant  it,  nothing  is  then  to  be  done, 
noe  mony  must  be  disposed  of  but  by  a  warrant  from  the 
Speaker,  though  it  is  contrary  to  my  Instructions,  it  is  all  one 
if  I  will  not  suffer,  they  will  raise  none,  the  reason  for  all 
this  irregularity  is  this,  theyr  former  Generalls  did  not  under- 
stand the  proper  methods,  and  then  every  time  they  met,  they 
made  him  a  present,  and  therefore  he  let  them  doe  what  they 
pleased,  and  because  I  would  not  lett  them  doe  soe  too  and  pass 
a  law  to  fine  and  imprison  any  one  that  should  affront  any 
of  their  house,  and  they  to  be  judges,  and  alsoe  power  to  inflict 


292  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

corporall  punishment,  they  would  not  pay  me  what  they  settled 
on  me  by  a  law  for  house-rent,  but  if  I  would  have  humoured 
them  in  their  unreasonable  desires,  then  I  should  have  my  house  - 
rent  ^well   payd,    and  have  a   hansome   present,    besides   had    I 
done  this  your  Lordships  had  heard  of  no  complaint,  notwith- 
standing all  Codrington's  intriegues.     Now  they  tell  the  people 
I  have  taken  away  all  their  libertys,  though  in  a  messuage  to 
them  I  offer'd  them  all  the  priviledges  the  house  of  Commons 
pretended    to,    but    they    are    for    the   privileges    of    the    Lords, 
and   the    Queen's    prerogative   too.     It   is    in   your    Lordshipps' 
power  to  bring  them  now  into  the  same  method  with  the  other 
Goverments.     Their  Clerke  should  have  a  sallary  settled  on  him 
and  sworne,  their  proceedings  ought  to  be  as  near  as  may  be 
like   the    House    of    Commons.      I    shall    be   governed    by    your 
Lordshipps,   and   shall   follow  ye  order   I  recieve.     Your  Lord- 
shipps will  see  in  the  Minutes  of  the  Councill  a  letter  I  writ 
to   Coll.   Jones   about   cloathing,   and  paying  his   regiment,   and 
I  there  offer  him  if  he  will  lett  me  recieve  wt.  the  Queen  allows, 
I  will  doe  it,  and  add  to  the  pay  of  the  subaltern  officers.     I 
undertooke  to  doe  it  myself  e  because  he  should  have  noe  pretence  to 
evade  it,  and  I  had  people  in  every  Island  would  have  under- 
taken it,   I   know  noe  reason  why  the  poor  soldier  should  not 
have  that  paid  him  and  layd  out  upon  him  the  Queen  allows., 
they  ought  to  be  paid  once  a  month,  and  every  Captaine  have 
liberty  to  take  up  money  to  pay  his  company,  and  his  bills  on 
the  Agent  to  be  paid,  but  the  Coll.   is  makeing  bargains  with 
the  merchant  who  will  give  him  most,  and  they  send  over  goods, 
and  if  any  accident  happens,   the  men  are    [wlnpaid  and   un- 
cloathed,   and  consequently  a  great  many  will  die  for  want  of 
neccessarys.     Provisions  now  are  cheap,  such  as  they  eat,  and 
they  may  live  very  well  on  their  pay,   if  the  Coll.  would  duly 
cloath  them  and  see  that  they  be  paid  their  due,  if  the  Queen  does 
not  think  fitt  to  intrust  the  Captains,  there  should  be  a  Com- 
missary apointed  to  see  it  done,  for  unless  some  care  be  taken 
in  a  litle  time  they  will  be  reduced  to  a  very  small  number, 
and   those   not   fitt   for   service,    it  is   now   allmost   sis   months 
since  I  recieved  any  letter  from  your  Lordshipps.     I  expect  your 
Lordships'   command  with  a   great   deale  of  impatience.     Capt. 
Medcalfe   is   arrived  with  the   Queen's   bounty  provissions,   and 
I  have  sent  the  Queen's  order  and  my  Lord  Sunderland's  letter 
to  the  Lt.  Governor  of  Nevis  and  St.   Christophers.     Refers  to 
enclosures.     I  sent  some  of  these  by  the  last  fleet,  but  not  hear- 
ing of  their  arrivall,  I  send  others.     I  shall  have  an  adress  alsoe 
from  Nevis,  but  the  sickness  being  there,  I  could  not  call  the 
Councill    and   Assembly   when    I    was    at  that   Island,    and   the 
Adventure  being  taken  the  first  of  March  last  has  made  me  a 
prisoner    to    this    Island.     The    Weymoutk   being    now   here,    I 
thinke   to    get   Capt.    Legg   to   carry  me   to   the   other   Islands. 
Signed,  Daniel  Parke.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  July  13,  Bead  Nov.  15, 
1709.     Eecd.  from  Mr.  Perry.     4  pp.     Enclosed, 

487.  i.  Affidavits  of  the  officers  of  the  Regiment  in  the  Lee- 
ward Islands,  justifying  Governor  Parke  from  the  com- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  293 

1709. 

plaints  made  against  him  March  31,  April  12.  Sworn 
in  Council,  Nov.  12,  1708.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  July  J3, 
1709.  3  pp. 

487,  ii  Address  of  Freeholders,  Merchants  and  Planters  of  Anti- 
gua to  the  Queen.  Congratulate  successes  of  H.M.  We 
should  think  ourselves  as  happy  as  any  other  your  Majes- 
ty's subjects,  if  a  spirit  of  division,  (which  of  long  time 
has  been  brewing)  had  not  at  this  time  broke  out  into 
a  flame  begun  and  carried  on  by  the  restless  malice  of 
some  few  persons  against  Governor  Parke,  etc.  Praise 
Parke's  administration,  etc.  Signed,  Richard  Olive, 
Samuel  Byam,  Wm.  Yeamans,  Christopher  Knight, 
Thos.  Rome,  J.  Huyghue,  Will.  Grear,  'John  Smith, 
Wm.  Lyell,  Nathaniel  Humphry,  Tho.  Dewitt,  Alex. 
Blake,  Edward  Morgon,  Jno.  Sawcolt,  H.  Pember, 
Charles  Goss,  John  Gosse,  Richard  Oglethorp,  Danl. 
Hobart,  Robert  Porter,  John  Chamberlain,  Henry  Beau- 
lieu,  John  Weatherill,  Saml.  Picart  Lafertey,  John 
Vineens,  Sam.  Wickham,  Jno.  Wickham,  Saml.  Proctor, 
Leonard  Burroughs,  Saml.  Hewes,  John  Barbottain, 
Alexander  Caiman,  Geo.  Salter,  Timothy  Singin,  [? 
St.  John]  John  Parry,*  Dennis  Machelmore,  Cuth.  Black, 
Walter  Shelley,  John  Blondon,  jr.,  Thomas  Sawcolt, 
John  Brady,  James  Westmore,  Michael  Ayon,  John 
Brett,  Robert  Weir,  F.  Pouch,  N.  Symon,  Jno.  Poach, 
Jam.  Robinson,  Saml.  Podivinu  (?),  Alexr.  Dunn,  Henry 
Norton,  Giles  Blizard,  Giles  Blizard  jr.,  Gousse  Bonnin, 
Petre  Vollard,  Abraham  Cairson,  Caesar  Rodeney,  John 
Hoskins,  Elias  Jamain,  Richard  Sharpe,  Walter  Kirwan, 
Geo.  Napper,  John  Watlington,  Jer.  Blizard,  John 
Greenway,  Jeremiah  Blizard,  jr.,  John  Elliott,  John 
Buxton  Clerk,  Jean  Decosty,  John  Reynolds,  Hazael 
Reynolds,  B.  Johnson,  Thomas  Lone,  Jer.  French, 
Edwd.  Taylor,  John  Wright,  James  Nisbitt,  Richd. 
Buckeridge,  Abr.  Redwood,  John  Haddon,  Isaac  Royall, 
Humphry  Osborn,  Joseph  Buckshorn,  C.  Stoodly,  Fran- 
cis Rogers,  Saml.  Parry,  Tho.  Gateward,  John  Burton, 
Anth.  Henteyne.  Endorsed,  Reed.  July  13,  1709.  1 
large  p. 

487.  iii.  Account  of  Stores  of  War  in  Antigua,  Feb.  10,  170f. 
Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

487.  iv.  List  of  inhabitants  of  Martinique,  their  stores,  ammu- 
nition and  cattle  etc.  Jan.  1,  170f.  1481  men  and 
150  soldiers,  20,282  slaves  etc.  Same  endorsement. 
1  p.  [C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  35,  35.i.-iv. ;  and  (without 
enclosures)  153,  10.  pp.  386-395.] 

May  4.          488.     Governor  Parke  to  Mr.  'Secretary  Boyle.     I  have  desired 

Antigua,     the  favour  of  Capt.  Buor  to  deliver  this  to  you,  with  some  cytron 

water  etc.     He  is  an  officer  in  the  Regt.  here,  soe  will  be  able 

to  informe  you  of  the  state  of  these  Islands  much  better  then  I 

can  possibly  doe  by  a  letter.     I  hear  they  have  sent  some  time 


294  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

agoe  Articles  against  me,  but  what  they  are  I  am  yett  a  stranger 
too,  as  alsoe  are  the  whole  Councill,  and  all  the  inhabitants 
except  5  or  6,  for  though  they  have  gott  severall  to  signe 
them,  they  were  not  suffered  to  see  them,  there  are  adresses 
from  the  severall  Councills  of  each  Island  in  my  justification. 
I  send  these  Adresses  home,  that  the  Queen  may  see  that  3  of 
the  4  Islands  not  only  thinke  I  have  not  been  guilty  of  any 
male  administration  but  on  the  contrary  I  have  acted  like  a 
very  (good  Governour,  and  the  whole  Councill,  part  of  the  Assembly 
and  the  most  considerable  inhabitants  of  this  Island  are  of  the 
same  opinion,  as  they  declare  in  their  Address.  Everybody 
knows  very  well  the  Duke  of  Marleborrough  and  my  Lord  Treas- 
urer are  my  patrons,  and  it  is  by  their  favour  that  I  was 
sent  here.  If  I  have  been  guilty  of  any  male  administration,  the 
Duke  and  his  Lordshipp  ought  to  see  that  I  bee  not  only  removed 
but  punnished,  but  common  Justice  requires  that  I  be  heard 
before  condemned,  this  is  all  I  desire.  What  a  villanous  petition 
did  Mrs.  Bowden  deliver  to  the  Queen  against  me,  which  upon 
examination  by  the  Councill  of  Saint  Christophers  was  found 
to  be  every  article  falce  in  fact,  as  apears  by  their  report 
sent  home  with  the  severall  affidavits  to  justifie  their  report, 
this  was  putt  in  by  order  of  her  brother,  Coll.  Lillingston,  to 
be  revenged  of  me  for  pressing  for  his  comeing  over  to  his 
Eegiment,  putting  in  a  petition  and  rnakeing  a  complaint  costs 
nothing,  it  is  throwing  of  dyrt,  and  wfhen  it  is  proved  to  be 
falce  I  can  have  noe  remedy  against  the  authors,  the  Articles 
Col.  Codrington's  friends  have  sent  home  they  know  themselves 
to  be  falce,  notwithstanding  the  pretended  depositions  they  have 
sent  with  them,  but  they  hope  to  gett  me  out  by  bribery  without 
being  heard,  for  they  make  noe  scruple  to  owne  in  their  cupps 
and  declare  their  articles  are  only  to  give  a  pretence  to  some 
great  men.  In  all  my  publick  transactions  I  have  taken  the 
advice  of  the  Councill,  and  they  are  to  be  seen  in  the  Minutes, 
etc.,  and  if  I  am  charged  with  any  ill  thing  in  my  private 
capacity,  I  am  very  certaine  I  shall  be  able  to  prove  it  both 
false  and  malitious.  Had  I  had  a  Commission  to  be  Brigadeer 
Generall,  as  the  Duke  promised  me,  when  I  tooke  my  leave, 
I  had  not  had  this  uneasyness,  but  Coddrington  finding  soe  many 
Collonels  made  Briggadeers  over  my  head,  who  am  by  the 
Duke's  Commission  an  older  Coll.  than  any  that  has  been  made 
brigadeers  for  this  two  years  past  except  Coll.  Lillingston,  he 
therefore  concluded  I  hiad  noe  intrest,  and  consquently  flinging  of 
dyrt  and  makeing  a  claymour  and  some  money  well  disposed 
of,  would  gett  me  removed.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  3  pp. 
[C.O.  152,  42.  No.  11.] 

May  4.  489.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Lowndes.  The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall,  and  Plantations  having  under  consideration  the  most  effectual 
method  for  preventing  illegal  trade  in  thle  Plantations,  and 
more  particularly  in  Virginia,  they  desire  you  to  move  the  Lord 
High  Treasurer,  that  they  may  have  as  soon  as  possible  the 
opinion  of  the  Commissioners  of  H.M.  Customes  upon  an  Act 


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May  5. 

Treasury 
Chambei's . 


May  5. 

Whitehall. 


May  7. 
St.  James's. 


May  7. 

St.  James's, 


May  7. 
St.  James's. 


past  in  Virginia  in  June  1706,  entituled,  An  Act  for  establishing 
of  Ports  and  Towns  in  that  Colony,  transmitted  to  you  in  my 
letter  of  Dec.  4,  1706.  [C.O.  5,  1362.  p.  383.] 

490.  Mr.    Lowndes    to    Mr.    Popple.     My   Lord     Treasurer 
directs    you    to    signifye    to    his    Lordp.   what    accounts    at   any 
time    have    been    sent    to    the    Lords    Commrs.    for    Trade    and 
Plantations   concerning   the   galeon   taken   by   Capt.   Waager   in 
the  West  Indies.     Signed,  Wm.  Lowndes.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  5th, 
Bead  6th  May,   1709.     Addressed,      f  p.      [O.O.    137,   8.      No. 
38;  and  138,  12.     p.  397.] 

491.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     H.M.  being  graciously  disposed  to  relieve  the  neces- 
sitys  of  the  German  Protestants  [see  May  3],  you  are  forthwith 
to  make  enquiry  into  their  numbers  and  condition,  and  report  to 
H.M.    as   soon   as   may   be,    what  it   may   be   necessary  to  g|iv,e 
them  for  their  present  support,  till  they  be  either  settled  here 
or  sent  to  H.M.   Plantations.     Siqned,   Sunderland.     Endorsed, 
Recct.  Read  May  6,  1709.     1  p.     [O.O.  388,  76.     A7o.  55;  and 
389,  36.     p.  409.] 

492.  Additional    Instructions    for    Brigadier    Whetham.      If 
the  squadron  of  our  Fleet  employed  in  this  expedition  shall  act 
against   the    enemy's    battery's   or   fortifications,    or   shall   assist 
in  reducing  any  place  possess't  by  the  enemy  to  our  obedience, 
the  Flagg  Officer  [Com.  in  Cheif,  in  margin]  who  commands  the 
same,    is   to   be   considered   with  regard  to^tne  plunder   in  the 
same  proportion  as  you  or  the  Commander  in  Cheif  of  our  said 
forces,  and  the  Captains,  other  officers  of  ships  and  seamen  In 
our  fleet,   in  the   same  manner   as  those  acting  on   shore,   and 
all   other   cases    of    plunder  to   be   ruled,    according   to   former 
custome   of   land,   and   sea  forces   acting  together   in  the   West 
Indies.     \p.     [C.O.  5,  751.     No.  77.] 

493.  H.M.   Warrant  for  Governor  Hunter  to  be  Captain  of 
the    Independant    Company   at   New   York,    whereof  John    Lord 
Lovelace    was    late    captain,    etc.      Countersigned,    Sunderland. 
[C.O.   5,  210.       p.  176.] 

494.  The   Queen   to   Governor   Crowe.     Alexander   Skeen   is 
to  be  restored  to  his  offices,  according  to  the  Representation  of 
the  Council  of  Trade,  April  15,  q.v.     Countersigned,  Sunderland. 
[C.O.  5,  210.     pp.  149-151.] 


[May  9.]  495.  John  Tribbeko  and  George  Ruperti  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.  According  to  your  Lordships'  order, 
we  have  made  a  particular  enquiry  into  the  condition  of  the 
poor  Protestant  Palatines  (see  encl.  ii.).  These  poor  distressed 
people,  who  most  humbly  implore  H.M.  most  gracious  protection, 
have  desired  us  to  represent,  (1)  That  those  of  'em  who  had 
some  substance  when  they  left  their  country,  have  during  their 


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journey  been  obliged  to  assist  the  others  who  had  nothing,  by 
which  means  all  of  'em  (except  some  few)  are  now  reduced  to 
great  want.  (2)  That  they  finding  themselves  under  great  straits, 
and  having  already  some  sick  among  'em  for  want  of  necessary 
sustenance,  and  many  of  'em  going  allmost  naked,  they  pray 
some  speedy  relief,  lest  the  vigorous  young  men  might  lose 
their  health  and  strength,  and  so  not  be  serviceable  in  the 
Plantations.  (3)  Those  who  are  come  over  last  and  landed 
May  5th,  having  had  some  brandy  taken  from  them  by  thie 
Custom  House  Officers,  pray  that  it  may  be  restored  to  'em. 
(4)  That  your  Lordships  would  be  pleased  to  order  that 
they  may  not  be  overcrowded  in  the  ships  in  their  voyage 
to  the  Plantations,  they  having  been  in  great  misery,  and  had 
severall  children  died  in  their  passage  from  Holland  for  want 
of  room.  (5)  That  about  100  more  of  their  countrymen  having 
been  obliged  to  stay  behind  at  Eotterdam,  they  cannot  pay  their 
transport  hither,  and  leave  it  to  your  Lordships'  generosity, 
etc.  (6)  It  being  likely  that  these  poor  people  who  are  destitute 
of  a  minister,  may  stay  here  some  time,  we  are  ready  to  perform 
the  divine  services  with  'em  once  or  twice  a  week,  if  your 
Lordships  would  appoint  a  place  near  their  dwellings  in  St. 
Catherine's,  where  they  might  meet.  Return  thanks  etc.  Signed, 
John  Tribbeko,  Chaplain  of  his  late  E.H.  Prince  George  of 
Denmark.  George  Andrew  Euperti,  Minister  of  the  German 
Lutheran  Church  in  the  Savoye.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  9th,  Eead 
12th  May,  1709.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

495.  i.  Same  to  same.  A  great  many  of  the  poor  Palatines 
begin  to  be  very  sikly,  and  several  are  dead  here  already, 
because  (1)  they  are  pakt  up  in  such  great  numbers, 
we  having  found  very  often  20  to  30  men  and  women 
together  with  their  children  in  one  room ;  (2)  when  they 
fall  sick  they  are  destitute  of  all  comfortable  assistance, 
and  many  really  want  bread.  Pray  for  some  speedy 
relief  for  their  great  necessity.  Signed  as  preceding. 
1  p. 

495.  ii.  A  list  of  the  poor  Germans  lately  come  over  from! 
the  Palatinate,  taken  in  St.  Catherine's,  May  6,  1709. 
Names,  families,  and  ages,  religions  and  trades  of  852 
refugees,  of  whom  150  of  the  210  men  are  agricul- 
turists, the  rest  tradesmen  and  mechanics.  Signed  as 
preceding.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Eead  May  12,  1709.  19 
pp.  [C.O.  388,  76.  Nos.  56,  56.i.,ii.] 

May  9.  496.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Barbados,  tations.  Encloses  duplicates.  Acknowledges  letters  of  Nov.  25, 
Dec.  15  and  Feb.  24.  There  is  not  amongst  them  the  copy  of 
the  Eepresentation  of  the  three  Counselours  as  H.M.  letter  ex- 
presseS;  and  commands  me  to  answer  to.  I  doubt  not  but 
fully  to  clear  myself  from  all  false  aspertions  which  I  find  has 
had  so  great  an  impression  on  your  Lordships  etc.  Signed,  M. 
Crowe.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  6th,  Eead  8th  Aug.,  1709.  1  p.  [C.O. 
28,  12.  No.  34;  and  29,  12.  p.  1.] 


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St.  James's. 


May  9. 
St.  James's. 


May  9. 

Whitehall. 


May  10. 


497.  Additional  Instructions  to  Brigadier  Whetham.  Where- 
as   by    our    former    Instructions    you    are    at    your    arrival!    at 
Boston    in    New    England    to    consider    at   a    Councill    of    war 
whether  considering  the  failure  of  the  Quotas  of  the  respective 
Provinces,    or    the    latenesse    of   the    season,    the    expedition   to 
Canada   shall    be    found    practicable,    this    is   further    to    direct 
and  require  you,  that  in  case  the  said  expedition  is  found  not 
practicable,   you   forthwith  repair   with   the   forces   under   your 
command  to   Newfoundland,   in  order  not  only  to  the  recovery 
of  St   Johns,  and  what  the  enemy  have  lately  taken  from  us  and 
our   subjects,    but   to   the   reducing  to  our   obedience   Placentia 
and  the  rest  of  Newfoundland,  and  this  in  such  a  manner  as  shall 
be  judged  most  practicable  in  a  Councill  of  War.     N.   This  In- 
struction was  sealed  and  thus  endorsed  'Additional  private  In- 
struction not  to  be  opened  by  Brigadier  Whetham,  except  upon 
his  arrival  at  Boston  in  New  England,  if  it  be  at  a  Councill 
of  War  found  impracticable  to  go  on  the  expedition  on  Canada." 
f  p.     [(7.0.  5,  751.     No.  78.] 

498.  Additional  Instruction  for  Brigadier  Whetham.    Where- 
as by  your  former  Instructions  you  are  directed  at  your  arrivall 
at  Boston  in  New  England,  in  case  of  the  failure  of  the  Quota's  of 
the  Troops  of  New  England  and  New  York  etc.,  to  consider  whether 
the    expedition    to    Canada   will   be    found  practicable,    you   are 
hereby  further  directed,  in  case  at  that  time  there  shall  be  any 
doubt,  whether  the  proper  season  of  the  year  is  past,  to  take  that 
matter  at  the  same  time  under  your  consideration,  and  you  are 
at  the  same  Councill  of  War  to  have  the  opinions  in  writing 
of  the  Lord  Lovelace   [Col.  Hunter  in  margin],  our  Governour 
of  New  England,  of  Coll.  Nicholson  and  Mr.  Vetch,  or  as  many 
of  them   as   shall   be  present,   together  with  their   reasons  for 
their  said  opinions,   and  this  for  the  better   guidance   of  your 
judgment  in  the  said  Councill  of  warr,  and  for  our  information  of 
the  reasons  on  which  your  resolutions  shall  be  founded,     f  p. 
[C.O.  5,  751.    No.  79>] 

499.  W.   Popple  to  Mr.    Lownds.     I   herewith  transmit  to 
you   the    extracts    of   two    letters    from   Brigadier    Handasyd   of 
June  17  and  June  20,  1708,  relating  to  the  galleons  taken  and 
destroy 'd  by  Capt.  Wager   (Of  May  5)  which  is  all  the  infor- 
mation their   Lordships   have   received   of  that  affair.     And   as 
Brigadier  Handasyd  has  given  me  no  account  of  the  value  of 
any  of  the  prizes  mentioned  in  his  letter,  their  Lordships  have 
writ  to  him   about  that  neglect,   and  directed  him  to  transmit 
to   them   by  the   first  opportunity  th'e   best   account  he   can  of 
the  value  of  the  said  prizes.     This  you  will  please  to  lay  before 
my  Lord  High  Treasurer.     [C.O.  138,  12.     p.  400.] 

500.  Governor  of  the  Hudson's  Bay  Company  to[?  the  Earl 
of   Sunderlancf] .     The    Hudson's    Bay    Compa.    have    sent   your 
Ldshipp.    the   two   Bookes   promised   you,   which  your   Ldshipp. 
would  have  had  sooner,  could  they  have  been,  gott  ready.     They 


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have  likewise  sent  you  the  Compies.'  case  which  they  have  already 
distributed  in  London,  and  designe  to  send  the  same  over  into 
Holland.  They  return  e  your  Ldshipp.  theire  harty  thankes  for 
the  many  and  great  favours  already  received,  humbly  praying 
the  continuance  thereof.  Signed,  Step.  Evance,  Govr.  f  p. 
[C.O.  5,  3.  #o.  36.] 

May  12.  501.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall.  derland.  Reply  to  letters  of  May  3  'and  5.  Quote  MM.  Tribbeko 
and  Ruperti  [May  9].  These  Gentlemen  proposing  that  the 
medium  to  provide  for  the  852  persons  now  here,  if  carefully 
distributed,  may  amount  to  no  more  than  £16  per  day,  we 
signify  the  same  to  your  Lordship  for  H.M.  pleasure.  [C.O. 
389,  36.  pp.  401-403.] 

May  14.  5O2.  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  the  Council 
Barbadoes.  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Our  Governour  Mr.  Crowe's  behaviour 
upon  the  receipt  of  H.M.  gracious  orders  for  restoreing  us  to 
ye  Council  and  for  ye  examination  of  evidences  on  our  complaint 
against  him,  has  oblig'd  us  to  lay  before  your  Lordships  this 
Representation,  whereby  your  Lordships  will  perceive  how  little 
H.M.  sacred  commands  are  regarded,  and  what  violent  steps 
he  is  forced  to  take,  rather  then  suffer  an  examination  of  those 
unjustifiable  practices,  which  he  knows  we  can  so  evidently 
prove  against  him.  On  ye  6th  of  this  month  we  received 
duplicates  of  H.M.  Orders.  On  ye  7th  H.E.  promised  to  restore 
Mr.  Walker  and  Mr.  Beresford,  who  waited  on  him,  on  Tuesday 
following,  when  the  Council  was  to  meet,  and  yt.  he  would 
give  an  order  to  any  magistrate  yt.  we  should  name  to  take 
what  depositions  we  pleased.  But  on  Monday,  the  meeting  of 
ye  Council  was  adjourned  to  ye  Thursday  ye  12th;  and  that 
evening,  as  the  pacquet  was  goeing  under  sail,  the  Assembly 
met  and  passed  an  Address,  wherein  they  falsely  pretended 
yt.  H.M.  Order  for  restoreing  us  had  occasion'd  a  general 
consternation  and  great  dissatisfaction  in  ye  inhabitants.  This 
Address  was  passed  by  those  persons  against  whom  we  were 
forced  to  complain  in  our  Representation.  They  themselves  seem  to 
have  been  so  sensible,  yt.  that  they  had  given  a  wrong  account 
of  ye  people's  inclinations,  yt.  they  endeavour'd  to  keep  ye 
Address  private ;  and  in  order  thereunto  ye  "Speaker  took  it 
from  ye  Clerk  without  leaving  him  any  copy,  or  so  much  as 
suffering  it  to  be  enter 'd  on  ye  Journals.  But  as  soon  as 
it  came  to  be  known,  by  ye  information  of  ye  Members  that 
voted  against  it,  yt.  ye  majority  had  passed  such  an  Address, 
it  rais'd  ye  resentments  of  everybody  to  yt.  degree,  yt.  in  48 
hours  an  Address  was  presented  to  H.E.  sign'd  by  160  Gentle- 
men, who  happened  to  be  then  in  town,  whereof  nine  tenths  are 
ye  most  considerable  merchants  and  traders,  and  it  would  also 
have  been  sign'd  by  a  very  great  majority  of  all  ye  Gentlemen 
on  ye  Island,  if  they  had  had  ye  least  notice  of  it ;  but  they 
will  still  sign  duplicates,  and  if  there  had  been  any  freedome  of 
choice  at  the  last  election,  very  few  of  these  factious  men 


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would  have  been  now  in  yt.  House.  The  ten  Gentlemen  that 
voted  for  ye  Address  were  Richard  Downes,  Speaker,  Thomas 
Maycock,  Thomas  Maxwell,  Edmund  Sutton,  Thomas  Home, 
Thomas  Neal,  Samuel  Husbands,  William  Terril,  William  Grant, 
and  James  Vaughan,  and  we  most  humbly  submit  it  to  your 
Lordships,  if  it  be  not  a  matter  of  very  dangerous  consequence, 
yt.  a  few  Members  of  the  Assembly  should  presume  to  address 
H.M.  Governour  to  disobey  Her  Eoyal  Commands,  as  well  as  to 
take  upon  them  to  declare  the  sentiments  of  ye  People ;  the 
contrary  whereof  will  appear  from  a  copy  of  ye  Address  herewith 
transmitted,  etc.  On  ye  12th  we  went  to  Pilgrim,  where  the 
Council  was  appointed  to  meet,  to  know  whether  he  would  restore 
us.  Soon  after  we  came  in,  Col.  Christopher  Codrington,  at 
the  request  of  ye  most  considerable  merchants  of  ye  Island 
presented  ye  aforesaid  Address;  upon  which  H.E.  after  having 
read  it;  broke  out  into  a  violent  passion,  and  turning  himself 
to  us,  abus'd  us  in  such  scurrilous  Billingsgate  language  as 
would  be  offensive  to  your  Lordships'  ears  to  hear;  such  as  no 
Gentleman  would  have  given  even  to  a  ffootman.  After  his 
temper  was  a  little  cooled,  we  presented  to  him  a  Memorial, 
praying  him  to  give  order  by  ye  Honble.  Thomas  Beckles,  Chief 
Judge  of  H.M.  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  ye  precinct  of  St. 
James  and  St.  Thomas,  to  take  ye  affidavits  upon  our  complaint. 
He  ask'd  whether  your  Lordships  had  transmitted  to  us  a  copy 
of  ye  Bepresentation,  and  when  we  told  him  that  your  Lordships 
had  not,  he  said  that  neither  had  your  Lordships  sent  any  to 
him,  and  yt.  therefore  untill  he  had  a  copy  sent  him,  he  would 
give  no  order.  Then  we  offer'd  to  give  him  a  copy  of  it,  to 
which  he  answer'd  tihat  'there  was  no  occasion,  since  he  himself 
had  ye  original;  but  that  he  did  believe  H.M.  in  her  Order 
meant  some  other  Representation  then  that  which  we  deliver'd 
to  him ;  for  he  had  already  answer'd  that  very  fully.  Upon 
which  we  tender'd  H.E.  our  oaths  that  we  had  not  since  that 
transmitted  any  other  Representation  to  your  Lordships ;  but 
he  told  us  yt.  would  not  do.  However,  after  several  times 
pressing  him,  he  said  he  would  take  time  to  consider  of  it. 
When  he  went  in  to  Council,  he  order'd  ye  doors  to  be  shut, 
and  would  not  suffer  us  to  be  admitted,  notwithstanding  that 
ye  Serjeant  at  arms  attending  the  Council  acquainted  him  yt.  we 
were  without,  and  had  waited  several  hours,  and  desired  admit- 
tance, haveing  matters  of  moment  from  H.M.  to  lay  before  him; 
and  a  2tnd  time  told  him  yt.  we  had  H.M.  letter  unopen'd  directed 
to  H.E.,  as  indeed  we  had,  which  we  desired  him  to  receive.  His 
answere  was,  that  he  would  receive  no  paper  from  us  then ; 
but  that  if  we  had  anything  to  say,  we  must  give  it  him  in 
writeing  another  time.  In  ye  evening  ye  Minutes  of  Council  were 
sent  to  us,  by  which  we  perceive  yt.  ye  reasons  there  given, 
why  he  will  not  restore  us,  are,  in  complyance  with  the  afore- 
said Address  of  ye  ten  Assemblymen,  and  some  crimes  as  yet 
to  us  unknown,  which  they  pretend  to  charg  us  with ;  tho'  it 
is  but  too  evident  yt.  the  true  reasons  are  his  own  numerous 
causes  now  depending,  which  are  like  to  take  up  ye  business  of 


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ye  Council  for  some  time,  and  which  he  is  willing  to  have 
determined  before  our  admittance,  besides  2  Addresses,  which 
were  that  day  to  be  passed  in  Council,  one  for  £500  to  himself, 
and  ye  other  for  £300  to  be  sent  to  Mr.  Heysham  and  Mr. 
Eoyle  to  carry  on  a  complaint  against  us;  as  also  an  Act 
constituteing  them  Agents  with  the  allowance  of  £250  per  annum 
salary  to  each.  And  we  humbly  recommend  to  your  lordships' 
consideration,  whether  an  Act  obtein'd  with  such  violence,  yt. 
was  carry'd  only  by  one  voice,  and  when  3  Members  of  ye 
Council  were  excluded,  ought  to  be  confirm'd.  Assert  their 
integrity,  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker,  Saml. 
Beresford.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  June  27,  1709.  4  closely 
written  pp.  Enclosed, 

302.  i.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Barbados,  May  12,  1709,  re- 
ferred to  in  preceding.  Copy.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June 
27,  1709.  4i  pp. 

502.  ii.  Petition  from  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford 
to  Governor  Crowe,  that  he  will  instruct  Mr.  Beckles 
to  take  depositions  as  supra.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe, 
Alexander  Walker,  Saml.  Beresford.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
June  27,  1709.  f  p. 

502.  iii.  Governor  Crowe's  reply  to  preceding.  He  will  give 
orders  as  desired  as  soon  as  he  receives  their  Repre- 
sentation referred  to  in  H.M.  Order.  Barbados,  May 
16.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p. 
502.  iv.,v.  Reply  of  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford. 
to  preceding,  May  18,  1709.  Copy,  sealed  and  certi- 
fied by  Alex.  Skene.  Same  endorsement.  2|  pp. 

502.  vi.  Petition   of   Messrs.    Sharpe,   A.   Walker   and  Beres- 

ford to  Governor  Crowe  for  a  copy  of  the  Address  of 
the  Assembly  accusing  them  of  crimes  to  them  unknown, 
etc.  Copy,  sealed  and  certified  by  A.  Skene.  1  p. 
[C.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  25,  25.  i.-vi;  and  (without  en- 
closures) 29,  11.  pp.  460-468.] 

503.  S.   Cox  and  J.   Pilgrim  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Confirm  statements  in  preceding  as  to  proceedings 
in   Council   of   Barbados,    May   12,    1709.     Signed,    Saml.    Cox, 
Jno.    Pilgrim.     Endorsed,    Reed.    9th,    Read    15th   Aug.,    1709. 
2  pp.     [C.O.  28,  12.     No.  38;  and  29,  12.     pp.  3-5.] 

504.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     H.M.    approving  of  what  you  propose    [May  12], 
has  given   orders   for  a  supply  to  the  poor   Germans  till  they 
are   otherwise   provided   for ;    and  desires   you   will   make   what 
dispatch  you  can  to  i  report  your  opinion  in  the  several  points 
mentioned  in  my  letter  of  May  15.     Signed,  Sunderland.    En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  May  17,  1709.     1  p.   [C.O.  388,  76.     No. 
57;  and  389,  36.     pp.  403,  404.] 

505.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
I  tooks  the  opertunity  of  the   Weymouth  being  in  my  Govern- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


301 


1709. 


May  16. 


May  16. 


May  16. 


May  16. 

Ciaven 
House. 


[May  16?] 


May  17. 

Whitehall. 


May  17. 

Whitehall. 


ment  to  viset  Nevis  and  the  other  Islands.  .As  I  was  returning 
to  Antigua,  I  met  this  packet.  Acknowledges  Order  in  Council 
re  Mrs.  Bowden's  petition,  and  thanks  for  report.  I  am  well 
assured  I  shall  clear  my  self  e  of  all  manner  of  crimes  laid  to 
my  charge  etc.  All  the  best  people  of  my  Government  will 
Justine  me,  but  'tis  hard  contending  with  a  man  worth  £100,000, 
etc.  Refers  to  enclosures  May  4.  etc.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke. 
Endorsed,  Eecd.  Aug.  6,  Eead  Nov.  15,  1709.  2  pp.[C.O.  152, 
8.  #o.  36;  and  153,  10.  pp.  396,  397.] 

506.  E.   Jones   to   the   Council   of    Trade  and    Plantations. 
Prays   that   there   may   be   no   further  proceedings    in   his   case 
till  there  be  a  full  Board.     (See  Journal  of  Council,  May  9  and 
16.)     Signed,  Ed.  Jones.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  Eead  May  16,  1709. 
2  pp.     [C.O.  37,  8.     No.  79 ;  and  38,  6.     pp.  447-450.] 

507.  Mr.  Eyre  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.     En- 
closes following.     Signed,  E.  Eyre.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  16th,  Eead 
17th    May,    1709.     Eecd.    from   Mr.    Jones.     Addressed.      1    p. 
Enclosed, 

507.  i.  Proposed  alterations  in  the  draught  of  a  letter  to  the 

Earl  of  Sunderland  relating 'to  Mr.  Jones.  See  Journal 
of  Council,  May  12,  1709.  4  pp.  [C.O.  37,  8.  Nos. 
80,  80. i. ;  and  (without  enclosure)  38,  6.  .  p.  455.] 

508.  Alterations   in  same  proposed   by   Sir   Thomas  Parker 
and  Sir  Peter  King.     Endorsed,  Eecd.   (from  Sir  John  Bennet) 
16th}  Eead  May  17th,  1709.     6|  pp.     [C.O.  37,  8.   A7o.s.  81,  81.i.] 

509.  Commission   from   the   Lords    Proprietors   of   Carolina 
to   Fortescue   Turberville,   for  taking  probate  of  wills  in   South 
Carolina.     Signed,    Craven,    Palatine;    Beaufort,    Craven   for   ye 
Lord  Carteret ;  M.   Ashley,  J.   Colleton,  J.  Danson,  M.   Ashley 
for  Jos.  Blake.      [C.O.  5,  289.     p.  217.] 

510.  Eeceipt  for  Lady  Granville   by  the  Lords  Proprietors 
of   Carolina   for   the  discharge  of  liabilities  of   Lord   Granville, 
late  Palatine.     [C.O.    5,  289.     p.   218.] 

511.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.    Reply  to  letter  of  May  15,  etc.     Finding  great  diffi- 
culties in  proposing  a  method  to  employ  the  poor  Germans  in 
such  manner   as   they  may   be  able  to   support  themselves,   we 
pray  the  favour  your  Lodship  would  give  us  an  opportunity  of 
conferring   with    your    Lordship    upon   that   affair.     [C.O.    389, 
36.     pp.  404,  405.] 

512.  Mr.    Secretary    Boyle    to    the    Council    of    Trade    and 
Plantations.     It   is    H.M.    pleasure    that   you    should   make    out 
and  report  to  her  a  true  state  of  the  pretensions  of  the  Crown  of 
England  to  any  Colonys  or  places  in  the  West  Indies  which  are 
now  in  the  hands  of  the  French,.     And  you  are  likewise  to  give 
an  account  of  what  towns,  places  or  territorys  they  have  taken 


302  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

from  us  in  those  parts  during  this  present  warr,  or  we  from 
them.  Signed,  H.  Boyle.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  May  18,  1709. 
1  p.  [(7.6.  323,  6.  No.  76;  and  324,  9.  pp.  292,  293.] 

May  18.  513.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Barbados,  tions.  Since  the  inclosed  coppy  of  my  last,  there  is  another 
packet  arrived,  but  I  am  not  honoured  with  any  letters  from 
your  Lordps.  thereby.  Refers  to  Minutes  of  Council,  May  12, 
and  the  reasons  for  suspending  the  admitting  of  Messrs.  Sharpe, 
Walker  and  Beresford  into  the  Council  (see  supra  May  14), 
in  which  I  have  followed  tlhe  advice  of  the  majority  of  the 
present  Council  as  well  as  the  Assembly.  These  three  Gentle- 
men are  so  unacceptable  to  the  majority  of  the  People  here,  as 
your  Lordships  will  perceive  by  the  Addresses  sent  home  to  their 
Agents,  that  I  was  afraid  it  would  have  occasioned  some  tumult 
especially  when  I  perceived  by  their  hott  Address  they  were  for 
haveing  the  sword  bore  no  longer  in  vain,  and  here  are  many 
needy  Gentn.,  who  haveing  spent  their  estates,  would  embrace 
the  least  occasion  to  hurry  us  into  civill  commotions.  Another 
reason  I  had  for  suspending  the  swearing  of  said  Gentlemen 
was.  the  aversion  they  have  for  the  Members  of  the  present 
Assembly,  who  have  such  interest  in  their  country  that  it's 
impossible  by  any  dissolution  to  alter,  and  in  admitting  the 
three  Members,  they  with  Mr.  Cox  and  Mr.  Pilgrim  would 
have  had  a  majority  in  Council,  so  have  stopt  all  publick 
business,  and  infallibly  ruined  the  Island.  Hopes  for  H.M. 
approbation.  Refers  to  enclosure.  So  soon  as  the  Representa- 
tion H.M.  orders  the  affidavits  are  to  be  taken  to  comes,  it 
shall  be  punctually  obeyed.  I  cannot  but  take  notice,  your 
Lordps.  had  all  these  papers  under  your  consideration,  but 
does  not  advise  any  particular  that  my  answer  was  short  in. 
Your  Lordps.  cannot  forgett  what  distraction  this  place  was  in 
before  my  arrival,  occasioned  by  the  male  administration  of 
these  very  Gentln.,  which  was  the  reasoln  I  had  directions  in  my 
Instructions  to  turn  them  out,  which  was  done  accordingly. 
And  I  am  confident  their  proceedings  since  have  not  any  wayes 
lessened  their  former  crimes.  Indeed  their  private  peek  against 
me  was  only  occasioned  by  obeying  that  Order.  Encloses  Act 
for  appointing  of  Agents.  On  the  Assembly's  petition  to  stop 
the  packet  for  their  papers,  I.  gave  directions  accordingly,  which 
is  the  first  time  that  any  of  them  has  been  detained  a  minute  here. 
Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  29  June,  Read  July  6, 
1709.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 

513.  i.  (a)   Speech   of    Governor    Crowe    to    the    Assembly   of 
Barbados,  March  22,  170  f. 

(b)  Reply  of  Assembly  to  preceding.  The  elections 
have  been  made  with  more  liberty  under  your  Excellency 
than  for  some  years  before.  Such  persons  as  did 
zealously  and  violently  concurr  with  Sir  B.  Granville, 
hi  ye  oppression  of  ye  honble.  George  Lillington  and 
others  are  very  unfitt  to  sitt  as  Justices  for  tryall 
for  their  own  accomplices,  etc.  The  different  senti- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  303 

1709. 

ments  of  some  former  Assemblys  were  only  occasioned 
by  forced  elections,  etc:  Copy.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June 
29,  1709.  3i  pp. 

513.  ii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  Barbados,  May  12.  Same  en- 
dorsement. 4  pp. 

513.  iii.  Certificate  by  4  Members  of  the  Council  of  Bar- 
bados that  they  approve  of  the  Assembly's  address 
concerning  the  suspending  of  the  swearing  of  Messrs. 
Walker,  Sharpe,  and  Beresford.  May  12,  1709.  Signed, 
Geo.  Lillington,  John  Milles,  John  Hallett,  John  Prere. 
Same  endorsement.  \  p. 

513.  iv.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  the  Queen, 
May  17.  The  people  are  under  a  very  great  con- 
sternation and  dissatisfaction  on  the  report  of  Messrs. 
Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  being  restored  to  the 
Council,  by  bringing  fresh  into  their  memories  the 
oppressions  and  miseries  they  had  so  greivously  suf- 
fer'd  under  in  Sir  B.  Granville's  governmt.  by  their 
ill  designs,  etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June  29,  1709.  Copy. 
2  large  pp. 

513.  v.  Duplicate   of  May   14.      No.    iii. 

513.  vi.  Address  of  the  Assem'bly  of  Barbados  to  Governor 
Crowe,  thanking  him  for  not  admitting  Messrs.  Sharpe, 
Walker  and  Beresford  to  the  Council,  etc.  May  16, 
1709.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  2  pp. 

513.  vii.  Deposition  of  Isabella,  widow  of  Benjamin  Cryer. 
May  9,  1709.  On  Dec.  14,  1708,  Wm.  Walker  desired 
her  to  offer  Governor  Crowe  £1000  to  stop  the  pro- 
ceedings at  the  Grand  Sessions  against  him,  which 
H.E.  refused.  Signed,  Isabella  Cryer.  1  p. 

513.  viii.  Deposition  of  Mrs.  Cryer.  In  Dec.,  1708  Alexander 
Walker  approached  Governor  Crowe  through  her,  offer- 
ing to  withdraw  the  charges  against  him  and  to  pay 
him  £800  sterl.  down  and  a  very  handsome  present  every 
six  months,  as  they  had  done  Sir  B.  Granville,  if  he 
would  join  there  party  in  the  Assembly,  etc.  H.E. 
refused.  Signed,  Isabella  Cryer.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
June  9,  1709.  1£  pp. 

513.  ix.  Deposition  of  Rev.  G.  Ramsay,  May  16,  1709.  In 
Jan.  1706,  the  Rev.  Samuel  Beresford  proposed  to 
offer  the  Governor  £100  for  the  living  of  Bridge  Parish. 
Signed,  Gilbert  Ramsay.  Same  endorsement.  ^  p. 
[C.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  26,  26.i.-ix.;  and  (duplicate  of 
No.  1)  28,  12.  No.  22;  and  (without  enclosures)  29, 
11.  pp.  469-473.] 


May  19.  514.  Commission  from  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina 
Craven  for  John  Danson  to  be  Receiver  General  for  North  Carolina. 
House.  Signed,  Craven,  Palatine;  Beaufort,  Craven  for  ye  Lord  Car- 

teret,  M.   Ashley,  J.   Colleton,   J.   Danson,  M.   Ashley   for  Jos,. 

Blake.     [C.O.  5,  289.     p.  213.] 


304 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 

May  19.          515.     Instructions  for  John  Danson,  (supra).  Signed  as  pre- 
Craven        ceding.      Signed,    Craven,    Palatine ;    Beaufort,    M.    Ashley,    J. 
Colleton,  J.  Danson.      [(7.0.  5,  289.     pp.  214-216.] 

May  19.         516.     W.  Popple  to  Mr.  Eowland  Tryon.     Asks  for  an  account 
Whitehall.    of    French    encroachments    in    the    West    Indies,    as    following. 
[C.O.    324,   9.     p.   293.] 

May  19.  517.  Mr.  Popple  to  Col.  Lodwick.  The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall,  and  Plantations  having  under  consideration  some  matters  re- 
lating to  the  French  incroachments  upon  H.M.  Dominions  in 
America,  desire  that  you  will  let  them  have  as  soon  as  possible 
you  can,  an  acct.  of  such  incroachments  as  the  French  have 
made  in  New  York.  [C.O.  5,  1121.  p.  367.] 

May  19.         518      Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Referring  following  to  the 
St.  James's.    Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    for    their   report.      Siqned, 
Edward  Southwell.    Endorsed;  Becd.  Bead  June  1,  1709.    f  p. 
Enclosed, 

518.  i.  Address  of  the  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  the  Queen. 
Allege  obstruction  of  justice  and  evasion  of  trial  of 
Wm.  Walker  for  prosecuting  George  Lillington  on  a 
pretended  charge  ojf  high  treason,  etc.  See  A.P.C., 
II.  No.  1088.  Signed,  William  Grace,  Clk.  of  As- 
sembly. Copy.  2  pp.  [C.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  21,  21. i., 
and  29,  11.  pp.  454-457.] 

May  19.  519.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Campbell.  The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall.  and  Plantations  having  under  consideration  some  matters  re- 
lating to  the  French  incroachments  upon  H.M.  Dominions  in 
America,  desire  that  you  will  consult  with  the  rest  of  the  mer- 
chants trading  to  Newfoundland,  and  let  them  have  as  soon 
as  possible  you  can  an  acct.  of  such  incroachments  as  the 
French  have  made  there.  [C.O.  195,  5.  p.  90.] 

May  19.  520.  Mr.  Popple  to  the  Governor  of  the  Hudson's  Bay 
Whitehall.  Company.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  having  under 
consideration  some  matters  relating  to  the  French  incroachments 
upon  H.M.  Dominions  in  America,  they  desire  that  you  will 
let  them  have  as  soon  as  possible  you  can,  an  account  of  such 
incroachments  as  the  French'  have  made  upon  the  territories 
within  the  limits  of  the  said  Company's  Charter.  [C.O.  135,  3. 
p.  108.] 

May  19.         521.     Order  of   Queen   in  Council.     Petition  of  Lord  Balti- 

St.  James's,    more,   for  relief  from  the  Order  of  Nov.   7,   1685,   granting  to 

Wm.  Penn  half  an  isthmus  of  petitioner's  land  in  Maryland,  is 

to  be  heard  on  June  9.     Of.   A.P.C.,   II.    No.   1077.     Signed), 

John  Povey.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  720.     No.  5.] 

[May  23.]  522.  Petition  of  the  Governor  and  Company  of  Adventurers 
of  England  trading  into  Hudson's  Bay  to  the  Queen.  Repeats 
the  Company's  case  against  the  French  as  given  in  previous 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  305 

1709. 

volumes  of  this  Calendar  1699—1701  and  Jan.  19,  1702.  Not- 
withstanding the  losses  and  discouragements  they  have  laboured 
under,  and  during  the  war,  the  Company  have  brought  from 
thence  between  30  and  40,000  skins  per  annum,  and  doubt  not, 
if  they  were  reinstated  in  their  right  according  to  their  Charter 
to  bring  the  importation  to  100,000  skins  per  annum.  The 
Country  doth  abound  with  several  other  commodities,  of  which 
Petitioners  have  not  been  able  to  begin  a  trade  by  reason  of 
the  interruption  from  the  French1,  as  with  whale-oyl,  whalebone, 
of  which  last  your  subjects  purchase  from  Holland  and  Germany 
to  the  value  of  above  £26,000  per  annum.  If  the  French  come 
once  to  be  entirely  possessed  of  Hudson's  Bay,  they  will  un- 
doubtedly set  up  a  whale -fishing  in  those  parts,  which  will 
greatly  tend  to  the  increase  of  their  navigation  and  to  their 
breed  of  seamen.  There  is  carried  thifhsr  and  consumed  there 
nothing  but  of  the  product  and  manufacture  of  England,  Pe- 
titioners encouraging  and  daily  bringing  the  Indians  to  wear 
coarse  cloth  instead  of  skins,  which  in  process  of  time  will 
considerably  advance  the  woollen  trade  at  home.  It  must  needs 
reflect  upon  the  honour  of  Britain  to  relinquish1  'to  the  French 
territory  of  which  their  violent  usurpation  in  a  time  of  Peacei 
was  alledged  as  a  main  Article  in  the  first  Declaration  of  War 
against  that  Kingdom.  If  the  French  could  pretend  to  any 
right  to  the  said  Territories  by  the  Peace  of  Byswick,  this  right 
must  needs  be  determined  by  their  notorious  infraction  of  the 
said  Treaty.  When  your  Majesty  in  your  high  wisdom  shall 
think  fit  to  give  Peace  to  those  Enemies  whom  your  victorious 
arms  have  so  reduced  and  humbled',  Petitioners  pray  that  the 
French  King  be  obliged  by  such  Treaty  to  renounce  all  right 
or  pretentions  to  the  Bay  and  Streights  of  Hudson,  to  quit 
and  surrender  all  Forts  and  Settlements  erected  by  the  French, 
or  which  are  now  in  their  possession,  as  likewise  not  to  sail 
any  ship  or  vessel  within  the  limit  of  the  Company's  Charter, 
and  to  make  restitution  of  the  £108,514.  19.  8.  of  which  they 
robbed  and  dispoiled  your  Petitioners  in  times  of  perfect  amity 
between  the  two  Kingdoms.  [See,  C.S.P.  1699.  No.  150  etc.] 
Annexed, 

522.i.  Report  of  the  English  Commissioners,  1687,  and  His 
Majesty's  Resolution  thereupon.  The  whole  endorsed, 
Reed.  Read  May  23,  1709.  4  large  pp.  [C.O.  134, 
2.  Nos.  81,31.i.] 

[?  May  23.]  523.  Governor  and  Company  of  Hudson's  Bay  to  the  Queen. 
A  deduction  of  the  right  and  title  of  the  Crown  and  Company 
to  the  lands  within  Hudson's  Bay  and  Streights  etc.  1497 — 1689. 
Contrary  to  the  Treaty  of  Ryswick,  the  French  still  keep  pos- 
session of  the  greatest  part,  etc.  Of.  C.S.P.,  1699.  No.  350. 
2|  printed  pp.  No  date,  signature  or  endorsement.  Of.  May 
19.  [C.O.  134,  3.  Nos.  16,  and  (duplicates)  17,  18.] 

May  23.         524:.     Governor   Parke   to   the   Council   of   Trade   and    Plan- 
Antigua,     tations.     Encloses    Address    to    H.M.    [see   May    4]    signed    by 

Wt.  11522.  C  P  20 


306  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

above  double  the  number  of  those  that  have  sign'd  the  Articles. 
This  waj  done  by  my  friends  when  I  was  at  St.  Christophers. 
They  have  twice  their  estates,  and  noe  arts  were  used.  etc. 
I  have  alsoe  sent  an  adress  signed  by  the  whole  Councill  and 
Assembly  of  Montserrat,  and  I  daresay  every  inhabitant  of  that 
Island  (the  Governour  and  nephew  excepted)  would  signe  it  if 
desired,  etc.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  6, 
Read  Nov.  15,  1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

524.  i.  Address    from    the    Council    and   Assembly    of   Mont- 

serrat to  the  Queen.  Governor  Parke  has  not  been 
guilty  of  any  male  administration  in  this  Island,  but 
has  been  indefatigable  for  the  preservation  of  H.M. 
Islands,  having  visited  this  Island  much  oftner  than 
any  other  Generall  ever  did  in  the  same  compass  of 
time,  etc.  Signed,  Edward  Buncombe,  Speaker,  Jno. 
Bramby,  John  Hartt,  William  Finch,  Antho.  Ravell, 
Denis  Daly,  Joseph  Kirwan.  Thomas  Lee,  William 
Frye,  John  Daly,  Geo.  Liddell,  W.  Gerrish.  Endorsed. 
Reed.  Aug.  6,  1709.  1  p.  [O.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  37, 
37.  i.;  and  (without  encloswe)  153,  10.  pp.  398,399.] 

May  23.         525.     The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 

Whitehall.    Plantations.     The  enclosed  Petition  having  been  laid  before  the 

Queen,  I  was  commanded  by  H.M.  to  transmit  it  to  you  for  your 

opinion,  etc.     Signed,   Sunderland.     Endorsed,  Reed.  9th,  Read 

27th  June,  1709.'     1  p.     Enclosed, 

525.  i.  Petition  of  Thomas  Onslow,  Edward  Broughton,  Ben- 

jamin Way  and  Thomas  Bernard  on  behalf  of  themselvs 
and  many  other  merchants  of  Jamaica,  to  the  Queen. 
Your  petitioners  or  those  under  whom  they  are  intituled 
were  merchants  adventurers  in  Jamaica  about  1693, 
and  did  then  contract  with  Sir  James  De  L'Castillo 
and  Don  Francisco  Portio,  subjects  to  the  King  of 
Spaine  and  Factors  for  the  Assiento,  for  introduction 
and  importing  Negroes  to  the  Spanish  West  Indies 
by  grant  from  his  said  Catholick  Majestic,  for  monies 
and  Negroes  to  be  delivered  at  Porto  Bello  and  Car- 
thagena,  which  were  deliver'd  accordingly,  whereby  the 
petitioners  had  justly  due  to  them  according  to  their 
said  contracts  86,014  peices  of  eight,  which  money 
or  great  part  thereof  was  putt  on  board  severall  shipps 
at  Carthagena  by  the  Factors  of  the  Assiento  there  for 
the  use  of  the  petitioners,  but  by  the  contrivance  of 
the  Spanish  Governor  and  the  said  Portio  was  taken 
out  of  the  said  ships  and  deteyned  from  the  petitioners 
to  their  great  detriment  and  damage.  Your  petitioners 
being  left  without  remedy  in  the  ordinary  course  of 
bussiness  did  apply  to  Sir  W.  Beeston  then  Governor  of 
Jamaica,  who  severall  times  sent  to  the  Spanish  Gov- 
ernors of  Panama  to  demand  satisfaction  for  the  peti- 
tioners, but  not  being  able  to  obtaine  any  redress  from 
them.  It  on  the  contrary  appearing  manifestly  that 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  307 

1709. 

they  were  privy  to,  connived  at  and  encourag'd  the 
defrauding  the  petitioners  in  the  premises,  the  peti- 
tioners on  Aprill  2,  1696,  apply'd  by  petition  to  his 
late  Majesty  in  Councill,  which  was  referr'd  to  the  then 
Committee  for  Trade  and  Plantations,  but  by  reason 
of  severall  accidents  that  then  happen'd,  and  after 
the  alteration  of  the  Spanish  Government  and  the  en- 
suing warr,  the  petitioners  have  hitherto  been  without 
releife.  In  regard  the  said  debt  was  contracted  with 
those  in  publick  authority,  and  that  the  petitioners  are 
ready  to  make  appear  that  by  reason  of  the  artifices, 
delayes  and  fraudulent  proceedings  of  the  Spanish  Gov- 
ernors, yorfr  petitioners  have  not  been  able  or  can 
obtaine  their  just  debts  without  your  Majesty's  gracious 
interposition  and  favour,  by  demanding  and  securing 
in  some  Treaty  or  otherwise  tihat  reparation  be  made 
your  petitioners  for  their  great  losses  and  damages  in 
the  premisses,  the  want  whereof  will  not  onely  be  a 
very  great  loss,  damage  and  discouragement  to  your 
said  petitioners,  but  if  past  by  with  impunity  be  an 
inducement  to  such  base  practices  hereafter.  Your 
petitioners  therefore  humbly  pray  your  Majesty  to  give 
such  orders  for  the  obtaining  justice  and  releif  to  the 
petitioners,  as  your  Majesty  in  your  great  wisdom  shall 
think  meet  and  proper.  1  p. 

525.  ii.-vi.  The  case,  receipts  etc.  of  the  Merchant  Adven- 
turers in  the  late  Assiento  under  Don  Nicholas  Porcio, 
setled  in  Jamaica.  1693,  1694.  6  pp.  [C.O.  137,  8. 
2Vos.  41,  41.  i.-vi. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  138,  12. 
pp.  401-405.] 

May  23.  526.  United  Societies  of  London  for  Mines  royal  etc.  to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Propose  to  employ  the 
poor  Palatine  Protestants  in  the  silver  and  copper  mines  of 
Merionethshire  etc.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  (from  Dr.  Stringer)  Head 
May  23,  1709.  1  p.  [C.O.  388,  76.  No.  58.] 

May  23.         527.     Mr.  Taylour  to  Mr.  Popple.     My  Lord  Treasurer  de- 
Treasury       sires  the  opinion  of  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations,   in 
Chambers.      what   manner   the   German   Protestant   Refugees    may   be   most 
properly    disposed    of.     Signed,    J.    Taylour.      Endorsed,    Reed. 
Read  May  24,  1709.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

527.  i.  Mr.  Coleby  to  the  Lord  High  Treasurer.  There  are 
1100  more  of  the  German  Protestants  come  over,  and 
600  more  lye  at  Rotterdam  for  passage.  They  are  very 
poor  and  sickly,  and  if  they  are  not  quickly  disposed 
of,  will  breed  a  sickness  in  the  City,  etc.  1  p.  1(7.0. 
388,  76.  Nos.  59,  59.  i. ;  and  389,  36.  pp.  406,  407.] 

May  23.  528.  '  Copy  of  an  Act  of  Maryland  for  the  reliefe  of  poor 
debtors,  etc.,  with  criticisms  thereupon.  Endorsed,  Reed,  (from 
Mr.  Perry  etc.)  May  23,  1709.  [Of.  Oct.  17,  18,  1709.1  6£  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  716.  No.  63.] 


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COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 
May  24. 

Antigua. 


May  24. 

Antigua. 


May  24. 

Antigua. 


529.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Encloses  following.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Kecd. 
Aug.  6th,  Bead  Nov.  16,  1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

529.  i.  Account   of   guns    and   stores   of    war   at   Montserrat, 

Dec.  1,  1708.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  Aug.  6,  1709.     1  p. 
529.  ii.  Account   of   guns    and    stores    of    war   at    St.    Kitts. 

Dec.  6,  1708.     Same  endorsement.     1  p. 

529.  iii.  Account  of  the  capture  of  H.M.S.  Adventure,  44 
guns,  194  men,  Capt.  Eobt.  Clarke,  by  the  French  man  of 
war  Valeur  36  guns,  286  men,  Monsr.  Du  Clair,  Commr. 
March  1,  1709,  between  Montserrat  and  Martinique 
sighted  2  sail.  After  chasing  the  Valeur  and  engaging 
her,  the  Capt.  several  officers  and  many  of  the  crew 
were  killed  or  wounded.  The  Valeur  offering  to  board 
the  Adventure,  the  crew  of  the  latter  refused  to  fight 
on,  saying  they  had  no  small  arms,  and  struck  the 
colours,  etc.  Signed,  Jno.  Wilkinson,  Master;  Eobt. 
Northoner,  gunner,  William  Harwood,  Carpenter.  Same 
endorsement.  2j  pp. 

529.  iv.  List  of  men  captured  on  board   H.M.S.   Adventure. 

Unwounded,  Seamen  64,  Marines  6,  Soldiers  from  Anti- 
gua, 6.  Wounded,  Seamen  67,  Marines  9,  Soldiers  from 
Antigua,  12.  Killed,  seamen,  21,  marines  3,  soldiers  5. 
Same  endorsement.  1  p.  [C.O.  152,  8.  ~Nos.  38,  38.  i.- 
iv. ;  and  (urithout  enclosures)  153,  10.  pp.  400, 401.] 

530.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions.    Encloses   3   Acts   of   Nevis.     All   temporary  Laws   shall 
be  sent  by  the  first  opertunity  after  passed.     I  will  endeavour 
to   the   utmost   of   my   power   to   procure   laws   for   establishing 
of  Courts,  but  hitherto  I  have  had  no  success.     Signed,  Daniel 
Parke.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  Aug.   6,  Eead  16th  Nov.,  1709.     1  p. 
[C.O    152,  8.     No.  39;  and  153,  10.     pp.  401,  402.] 

531.  Same  to  Same.     Acknowledges  ]etters  of  Nov.  25,  Jan. 
19  and  July  13.     Meeting  the  packett,  I  had  not  time  to  make 
my  answer,  but  shall  doe  by  this.     I  thanke  your  Lordshipps  for 
haveing  Mr.  Tankard  put  out  of  the  Councill.     When  ye  Minutes 
of  Councill  arrives  which  I  sent  home  in  the  last  fleet,  which 
sailed  the  6th  inst.,  your  Lordshipps  will  see  with  \vhat  inso- 
lence he  behaved  himselfe  on  a  publicke  day,  March  8th,  and 
doe  not  doubt  but  I  shall  be  thought  to  have  acted  with  great 
moderation  in  this  insult,  as  well  as  that  of  the  Eiot,  though 
both  was  design'd  to  make  me  committ  some  rash  action  or  other. 
It  is   true   there  was   seaven   Councellours  at    St.    Christophers 
and  att  Antigua,  when  Coll.  Phipps  and  Col.  Byam  were  swor, 
and  neither  of  them  were  in  the  list.     I  must  have  five  to  make 
a   Councill    if   3    of   the    7    are    and   have    been    for  some  time 
and    are    like    to    continue    in    such   a    condition    as    not   to  be 
able  to   come  to   Councill.     What  shall   I  doe   in  such   a  case, 
I  cannot  act  anything  without  a  Councill,  this  was  the  case  of 
both  the  Islands  att  that  time.     Coll.   Williams  is  one  of  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  309 

1709. 

Councill   in   my   instructions,    but   he   never   was    sworne,    and 
Major  Lyons  ha-s  not  been  able  to  come  almost  this  2  year  in 
St.   Xphers,    Capt.    Crooke  never  was   above  twice  at   Councill, 
and  Capt.   Willett  sometime  for  4  months  together  is  not  able 
to    come.     When    I    sent    the   lists,    Col.    Wm.    Byam    was   not 
upon  the   Island  though  he  has  one  of  the   best  estates  in  it, 
neither   was   Major    Samuel   Byam,   who   has   alsoe   one   of  the 
best  estates,   they  are  both  come  since,  and  the   reason  I  did 
not  put   in   Col.    Phipps   was   I  then   thought  him   too  young, 
and  his  father-in-law  Col.   Crispe  was  of  the  Councill,  and  I 
did  not  thinke  it  proper  to  have  father  and  son  sitt  together. 
When  his  father  died  I  swore  him  in  his  place,  he  then  being 
almost  3  years  older.     I  protest  I  follow  my  instructions,  and 
near  as  it  is  possible,  but  all  accidents  can't  be  provided  against, 
and  of  two  evills   I  ought  to  choose  the    least.      I  hope  your 
Lordshipps  will  not  think  I  have  done  amiss.     They  could  not 
make  a  Councill  at  Nevis,  Coll.  Smith  being  off  the  Island,  soe 
thab  at  the  request  of  the  Lt.  Governour  and  Councill  I  ordered 
John  Norwood  the  Commissioner  of  the  Customes  to  be  swore. 
I    hope    your    Lordshipps    will    lett    him    be    confirmed.      I    am 
glad   your   Lordshipps  have  put  in   soe  many  out   of  the   lists 
I   sent    it  is  a  kindness  to  me,   for  when  I  put  in  one  I  dis- 
oblige four  or  five.     I  hope  your  Lordshipps  will  have  soe  much 
goodness  for  me  as  not  to  put  in  any  that  have  signed  Articles 
until'  they  have  proved  them  true.     I  obeyed  your  Lordshipps' 
commands  to  the  uttmost  of  my  power  in  what  related  to  the 
negroes,   in  my  letter  of  Aug.   23  last  I   asked  severall  of  the 
best  men  what  quantity  of  negroes  would  supply  these  Island  [s] 
every  year,  and  they  all  answer'd  me  soe  that  I  was  not  able 
to   makb   any   tollerable   judgmt.,   the   merchants  named   about 
1000,  the  Planters  2000,   some  3000,  other  more  modest  said 
1500.     There    is    3    Patent    places,    the    Secretary,    the    Navall 
officer,  and  the  Marshall^,  they  all  give  secureity  and  take  oaths, 
the  Deputy  Secretary  will  not  informe  me  either  what  his  place 
is  worth,  or  what  he  gives   Sir  Charles  Hedges  for  it,  there  is 
noe   sallary   allowed  to   any  of  them,   their   profitts   arise   from 
their    fees.     I    desired    the    Marshall    (ever    since    I    had    your 
Lordships'    first    letter    about    it)    to    informe    himselfe,    which' 
h,e  has,  and  he  tells  me  it  is  worth  about  £600  per  annum.     I 
must  confess  I  never  thought    it    worth    halfe  soe  much.     The 
Navall  Officer  is  one  Col.  Williams,  who  is  above  80  years  old1, 
yt.  is  worth  about  £300  per  annum.     The  Marshall  tells  me  he 
has  made  this  year  £120  besides  some  advantage  he  getts  from 
French     prissoners,     the     difference    between    this     mony    and 
sterl.   is   50  p.c.     I  want  a  good  Secretary  that  is  a  stranger. 
Sir    Charles    writt    me    that    Mr.    Rhodes    would    come    :md    be 
Secretary.     I  wish  he  had,  or  any  other  that  was  a  stranger. 
Indeed   all   the   officers   should  be   strangers,  had   there   been   a 
stranger   Marshall,    Mr.    Poggson  had   been   hanged   for    basely 
murdering    Col.    Johnson,    and    some    others    punished   as    they 
deserved.     This  present  Marshall  has  been  forced  to  fight  sever- 
all  duels,  before  he  was  able  to  doe  his  duty  in  quiet.     I  tooke 


310  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

jhim  out  of  the  Regiment,  being  a  briske  bold  young  Gent,  that 
jcarryed.  armes  there.  I  begg  your  Lordshipps  may  have  his 
Commission  confirmed,  he  very  well  deserves  it. 

When  I  come  to  answer  their  second  Article  about  Chester's 
murdering  Sawyer,  you  will  see  how  hard  a  matter  it  is  to 
punnish  an  inhabitant,  and  how  absolutely  necessary  it  is  to  have 
all  Ministeriall  officers  strangers.  I  will  give  your  Lordshipps 
a  little  hint  of  that  murder.  Sawyer  was  a  Gentleman's  son 
of  Virginia,  he  came  here  with'  a  cargoe,  he  had  some  dealings 
with  Chester  and  came  in  ye  evening  to  speake  to  him.  Chester 
takes  up  a  great  tankard  of  punch  and  flings  it  att  him,  and 
hitt  him  behind  the  ear,  he  staggered  when  he  received  the 
blow,  went  home,  languished  all  yt.  night,  and  the  next  morning 
he  walked  out  complaineing  of  his  head,  but  not  being  able  to 
walke  where  he  designed,  he  put  into  a  house  and  there  fell 
downe  dead,  the  Jury  brought  it  in  that  he  died  of  an  appoplexy* 
the  reason  I  apeared  in  it  was  this,  the  Corroner  sent  a  warrant 
to  the  Constable  to  summons  a  Jury  of  Inquest,  they  innocently 
tooke  the  first  they  mett  among  which  there  were  severall 
masters  and  mates  of  shipps  that  were  strangers,  when  they 
saw  the  returne  of  the  jury,  they  were  frightened,  and  this 
very  Nevin  and  Dr.  Macckennen  went  out  of  towne  to  meet  the 
Corroner,  and  desired  him  to  discharge  those  summoned,  and 
to  summons  a  jury  of  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Country,  they  had 
with  them  some  of  th'eir  friends  for  that  purpose,  sent  for  out 
of  the  country,  the  Foreman  was  one  William  Glanvill,  who  had 
had  an  inquest  sometime  before  on  a  white  servant-maid  he 
had  tyed  up  and  unmercifully  beat  her  so  that  she  immediately 
dyed,  and  there  came  from  her  out  of  her  mouth  a  great 
quantity  of  bruised  blood  (as  those  that  were  not  of  the  Jury 
said),  but  the  Jury  on  their  oaths  said  it  was  liquid  lodinum', 
and  that  she  had  poysoned  herself e.  Mr.  Sawyer  had  a  great 
contusion  behind  his  ear  with'  the  marke  of  the  edge  of  the 
tankard,  yett  he  died  of  fitts.  I  had  at  that  time  noe  differende 
at  all  with]  Chester,  nor  with  anybody  else,  my  browbeating 
of  evidence,  etc.,  was  this: — I  ordered  the  body  to  be  brought 
out  into  the  street,  and  exposed,  and  made  everyone  of  the  jury 
see  the  contusion,  and  had  the  wittnesses  seperated  and  ex- 
amined apart,  by  which  means  I  discovered  a  great  deale  of 
roguery,  and  that  a  poor  woman  had  been  offered  £50  (which 
she  refused)  to  swear  that  the  negroes  in  taking  up  the  body 
had  lett  it  fall  on  that  side,  which  was  the  cause  of  the  contusion. 
Daniel  Mackennen,  that  worthy  Member  of  the  Assembly,  and 
article  subscriber,  with  another  surgeon  gave  it  as  their  opinion 
that  he  died  of  fitts,  I  asked  them  what  they  thought  of  the 
contusion,  they  gave  me  for  answer  only  a  politick  shrugg; 
this  was  my  first  act  of  tyranny  and  breaking  in  upon  their 
constitutions,  and  indeavons  to  ruin  the  Country.  I  had  not 
concern'd  myself  e,  if  I  had  not  been  told  that  the  first  Jury  was 
discharged,  and  yt.  William  Granvill  was  sent  for  and  made 
foreman,  he  being  considerably  in  Chester's  debt  at  yt.  time. 
I  would  have  sent  your  Lordshipps  a  duplicate  of  the  Minutes 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  311 

1709. 

I  sent  by  Capt.  Buor,  but  the  Secretary  was  not  pleased  to 
gett  them  ready,  he  has  promised  them  against  the  next  packett, 
but  perhapps  he  will  serve  me  as  he  used  to  doe,  thje  last  are 
soe  ill  writt,  I  wish  they  may  be  read,  he  getts  those  to  write 
that  will  doe  it  cheapest.  I  shall  send  the  Order  of  the  Councill 
to  Nevis  about  the  two  Laws  repealed,  and  your  Lordshiipps' 
observations  about  that  I  sent  home.  I  h'ave  your  Lordshipp' 
orders  for  not  passing  laws  of  an  extraordinary  nature,  which! 
I  shall  religiously  observe,  had  I  not  been  soe  nice  and  would 
apass'd  their  bill  here  for  Privileges,  I  th'en  should  not  only, 
have  been  payd  my  sallary,  there  being  due  to  me  £2000,  but 
I  should  have  had  a  gratuity  besides,  as  apears  by  a  message 
sent  me  from  the  Assembly,  and  the  next  morneing  one  of  their 
Members  came  privately  to  me  and  assured  me  that  gratuity 
should  be  a  good  thousand  pound.  I  leave  your  Lordshipps 
to  judge  if  my  refuseall  of  this  Law,  and  £3000  is  not  a  great 
argument  of  my  avaritious  temper  as  they  charge  me  with  in  their 
article  about  the  Chancery,  though!  I  gett  nothing  by  holding  a 
Court  of  Chancery  but  fatiegue,  haveing  noe  fee,  but  I  suppose 
they  would  insinuate  bribeery,  and  then  all  ye  Councill  must  be 
bribed,  for  they  all  sitt  with  me.  I  thinke  I  have  answered 
every  part  of  your  Lordshipps'  commands.  The  Councill  and 
Assembly  haveing  formerly  addressed  me  to  make  the  Lieutenant 
Governour  Chief  Justice,  I  then  refused  it  as  not  being  willing 
to  displace  him  I  found  possessed  of  it,  though'  he  was  very 
unfittly  quallified,  being  noe  lawyer,  and  haveing  murdered  a 
man  that  had  noe  weapon,  but  he  haveing  layd  downe,  and  tho 
Councill  once  more  addressing  mle  to  put  in  the  Lieut.  Gov- 
ernour, I  did  it,  I  hope  it  will  not  be  thought  I  havte  acted 
amiss  since  there  is  noe  other  in  the  Island  fitt  for  it  but 
himselfe,  being  a  good  lawyer  and  has  the  reputation  of  a  very 
honest  man.  It  is  very  rare  any  writt  of  error  are  brought 
before  ye  Councill,  there  has  not  been  any  in  my  time,  and 
if  ever  there  should  come  any,  there  will  be  Councellours  enough,1 
besides  to  try  it,  in  Barbados,  and  other  Goverments  there 
are  choice  of  men  to  be  had,  but  it  is  not  soe  here,  for  except 
it  be  ye  Lieut.  Governour,  there  is  not  a  man  in  the  Island 
understands  anything  of  the  Law.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  En- 
dorsed, Eecd.  Aug.  8,  Read  Nov.  16,  1709.  5  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8. 
No.  40;  and  153,  10.  pp.  403-412.] 

May  24.  532.  Same  to  Same.  I  had  not  the  honour  to  receive  any 
Antigua,  command  from  your  Lordshipps  by  this  packett,  but  by  the 
dilligence  of  my  Agent  Mr.  Micajah  Perry,  I  had  a  coppy  of 
the  articles  sent.  Indeed  it  is  noe  wonder  to  us  all  now  they 
were  soe  very  carefull  to  swear  people  to  secrecy,  before  they 
would  lett  them  be  seen,  they  talked  of  noe  less  then  fourscore 
at  first,  and  as  I  am  informed  soe  many  wer  sent  up  with 
their  Ambassadour  to  Coll.  Codrington  and  he  reduced  them, 
and  licked  them  into  ye  forme  they  now  apear  in.  I  must 
confess  were  they  true,  or  but  any  one  of  them,  I  very  well 
deserve  to  be  hanged,  but  they  are  all  falce,  notwithstanding 


312  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1709. 

the  affidavits  they  have  gott  to  support  them.  I  hope  to  re- 
cieve  from  your  Lordshipps  by  ye  next  packett  directions  how 
and  before  whome  I  shall  answer  them  though  almost  all  of 
them  are  already  answered  in  the  Minutes  of  Councill.  Your 
Lordshipps  will  find  that  some  of  the  Articles  will  be  much  to 
my  honour,  even  that  of  the  Chancery,  which  they  say  all  good 
people  look  upon  with  horror.  Your  Lordshipps  will  find  it 
is  only  Mr.  Nevin  and  Samuel  Watkins,  and  all  bad  people 
thinke  of  it  with  horror,  as  they  have  reason,  could  Mr.  Baron 
or  20  more  I  could  name  bring  there  causes  before  me,  their 
adversarys  would  look  upon  the  Chancery  with  horror.  I  am 
soe  cautious  that  I  never  sitt  in  Chancery,  but  all  the  Council) 
sitts  with  me  as  if  they  were  sitting  in  Councill,  and  I  uske 
their  opinions  in  the  same  manner,  it  is  very  true  I  have  often 
publickly  told  Nevin  I  would  have  noe  manner  of  regard  to 
what  he  should  avver  to  be  Law  for  two  reasons,  first  because 
he  is  no  Lawyer,  and  the  next  is  I  have  noe  opinion  of  his 
integrity,  but  whenever  we  had  any  cause  that  admitted  of  a 
dispute,  we  have  s'tated  the  case  home,  with  orders  to  the  partys 
to  bring  us  the  opinion  of  two  able  Chancery  men,  and  I  shall 
governe  myselfe  accordingly.  I  shall  send  your  Lordshipps  the 
proceedings  of  ye  Chancery  in  answer  to  this  Article,  by  which 
you  may  see  if  there  be  the  least  reason  for  such1  a  villanous 
reflection;  what  villany  is  couch'd  under  the  first  article,  and 
all  that  for  noe  other  purpose  but  to  take  of  those  two  great 
persons  from  doeing  m'e  any  more  good,  but  I  hope  I  have 
the  honour  to  be  soe  well  knowne  to  them  that  it  will  make 
noe  impression  on  either  of  them  to  my  disadvantage,  they 
had  as  I  am  informed  a  worse  article  of  this  kind,  and  to 
support  it  gott  one  Kate  Sullivan's  affidavit,  she  was  formerly 
Codrington's  wench  and  she  layd  two  bastards  to  him,  but 
she  giveing  him  the  pox,  ihe  turned  her  off,  but  haveing  occasion 
for  affadavitts,  she  was  sent  for  to  lend  an  oath,  but  it  soe 
happned  that  some  time  after  she  fell  sicke  and  thinkeing  she 
should  die,  she  confessed  she  had  perjured  herself e,  for  which 
she  had  £16  given  her,  and  that  Perrie,  Tankard,  etc.  had  sub- 
scribed a  paper  to  give  her  £100  more  if  the  Genii,  was  turned 
out,  that  article  I  find  is  left  out,  it  relateing  to  a  great  Lady, 
but  soe  very  scandallous,  I  dare  not  mention  it,  though  Cod- 
rinton  has  been  heard  to  report  it  in  Barbados,  little  dreaming 
his  Irish  wench  had  soe  squeamish/  a  conscience.  I  find  myselfe 
well  rewarded  in  the  9th  article  for  all  the  fatiegue  and  charge 
I  underwent  about  those  lines  at  St.  Johns,  which  your  Lord- 
ships will  find  in  the  Minutes  of  ye  Councill  now  before  you 
were  done  by  virtue  of  a  Law  made  by  myselfe,  Councill  and 
Assembly,  had  I  a  mind  to  have  delivered  them  up  to  the 
French,  would  it  not  a  been  as  easy  for  me  to  a  carry'd  them 
to  Monk's  Hill,  and  done  it  there  as  at  St.  Johns.  I  have  never 
done  anything  but  with  the  advice  of  my  Councill,  I  have 
sometimes  acted  by  theire  advice  though  contrary  to  my  owne 
opinion,  but  never  acted  in  any  one  thing  without  them  as  the 
Minutes  will  make  apear.  The  two  bribes  I  am  charged  with' 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  313 

1709. 

to  have  recieved  from  Mr.  Chester,  the  £150  for  some  brandy, 
his  account  will  make  that  apear  to  be  falce.  I  never  had  one 
farthing  of  him  in  my  life  in  ready-money,  I  payd  him  £800 
sterl.  for  20  negroes,  there  was  a  mistake  in  that  account,  and 
I  can  prove  I  told  him  of  the  mistake  many  months  before  ye 
brandy,  and  the  next  time  I  settl'd  another  account  with  him, 
which  was  above  6  months  after  the  brandy,  hee  allowed  me 
this  mistake,  and  that  it  may  apear  how  carefull  I  was  to  have 
the  brandy  seized  haveing  put  centrys  at  almost  all  the  ware- 
houses in  towne,  but  when  my  friends  told  me  the  whole  Island 
would  be  strangely  alarmed  at  it,  I  order'd  the  centrys  to  be 
taken  of,  but  before  I  did  it,  I  sent  for  the  Collector  .and 
Navall  Officer,  and  ordered  them  with  their  officers  to  goe  and 
search  for  prohibited  goods,  for  that  I  had  an  account  that  a 
great  quantity  of  brandy  had  been  landed  the  night  before,  they 
told  me  they  could  not  break  open  doors  without  a  warrant,  I 
sent  imediately  for  ye  Deputy  Secretary,  and  order'd  him  to 
write  two  warrants,  which  I  signed,  but  not  haveing  officers 
enough,  whilst  they  were  searching  one  place  they  removed  it 
to  another;  as  I  am  inform'd  there  was  to  the  vallue  of  £1500, 
if  I  had  seized  it,  I  should  have  got  £1000,  what  reason  had 
I  to  quitt  £1000  for  £150,  to  an  enemy.  This  shall  upear 
by  the  affidavits  of  the  Collector,  Navall  Officer  and  Depty. 
Secretary,  (who  is  one  of  my  enemys)  and  by  Chester's  owne 
account,  and  for  the  team  barrils  of  flower  I  am  charged  with, 
Mr.  Roach  was  by,  he  will  clear  me  of  that  suffitiently;  Chester 
himselfe  for  severall  months  has  been  ashamed  of  it,  and  curses 
those  that  put  him  upon  it,  he  was  enraged  at  looseing  his 
Dutch  cargoe,  and  they  made  him  quite  madd  by  telling  him 
twenty  storys  wch.  he  has  since  found  to  be  falce,  that  at  that 
very  time  he  was  heard  he  would  be  content  to  lye  seaven 
years  in  Hell  to  be  revenged  of  me,  and  now  repents  of  it,  and 
never  goes  near  any  of  them.  I  will  not  trouble  your  Lordshipps 
with  any  more  of  them  now,  they  never  expected  this,  they 
were  in  hopes  £5000  would  turne  me  out,  the  articles  were  only 
designed  for  a  pretence.  Yet  I  must  say  something  to  the 
14th  article.  I  gave  that  Order;  the  Councill  and  Assembly 
haveing  addressed  me  soe  to  doe,  and  I  daresay  it  is  in  the 
Minutes  sent  home,  if  not  it  shall  be  sent.  When  I  gave  that 
order,  I  told  them  it  should  only  be  in  force  untill  they  could 
make  a  Law,  to  exempt  the  Islands  from  paying  powder,  but 
they  neglecting  soe  to  doe,  I  countermanded  my  order,  this  is 
my  suspending  the  Laws,  this  I  take  notice  of  because  I  find 
it  in  the  petition  of  the  London  Merchants.  I  had  hithertoo 
Charity  enough  to  thinke  it  was  only  their  factors  here  that 
drove  only  a  trade  to  the  Dutch  and  French  Islands  with  their 
effects,  and  that  it  was  they  alone  that  used  tricks  to  defraud 
the  Queen  of  her  4|  p.c.,  but  this  Petition  of  theirs  has  altered 
my  opinion,  this  zeal  of  theirs  could  not  proceed  from  nothing', 
it  is  strange  to  thinke  soe  many  men  should  desire  an  injustice 
to  be  done  on  hearsay.  My  Lords,  the  Queen  has  noe  friend  here 
but  myselfe,  and  if  a  Governour  is  to  be  removed  when  the 


314  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

merchants  don't  like  him,  h'e  must  either  not  doe  his  duty,  or  if 
he  does  he  must  expect  to  be  turn'd  out  for  his  reward,  those 
merchants  echo  what  tihose  that  have  signed  the  Articles  have 
writt  to  them,  the  fresh  articles  they  say  is  my  neglect  of 
the  fortifications,  the  Minutes  will  testifie  how  often  I  have 
pressed  that  to  the  severall  Assemblys.  I  hope  they  don't 
expect  I  should  build  them  at  my  owne  charge.  Then  for  the 
enemy's  landing  and  takeing  of  negroes,  there  never  has  been 
one  negroe  taken  of  since  I  came,  but  before  my  time  there 
was  a  great  many  taken  of  forty  at  one  time,  they  alsoe  inti- 
mate as  if  I  open'd  their  letters,  for  my  justification  the  officers 
that  have  allways  given  them  out  and  taken  th,em  in  shall  make 
their  affidavits,  that  directly  nor  indirectly  I  never  gave  them 
any  manner  of  orders,  or  ever  concerned  myselfe  about  them, 
they  bring  me  my  letters  when  the  Packett  arives,  and  they 
call  for  them  when  she  sayles.  They  might  have  as  well  put 
in  their  Petition  that  I  was  a  Mahometan  or  a  Jesuit.  Signed, 
Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Aug.  8th,  Eead  Nov.  16th,  1709. 
4  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8.  No.  41;  and  153,  10.  pp.  413-420.] 

May  24.         533.     The  Earl  oi  Bunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.     Plantations.     Encloses  following,   H.M.   being  desirous  to  have 
your    advice,    and    particularly    to   know    from   you    when    Port 
Eoyal   was    taken    by   the    French.     Signed,    Sunderland.      En- 
dorsed, Eecd.  Eead  May  25,  1709.    1  p.     Enclosed, 

533.  i.  Address  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  to  the  Queen.  Oct.  20,  1708.  It's  nothing 
short  of  20  years  that  your  Majesties  good  subjects  of 
this  Province  have  been  wasting  under  the  calatnitys 
of  a  distressing  and  expensive  war,  takeing  the  com- 
mencement thereof  from  the  rebellion  and  eruption  of 
the  Eastern  Indians  in  1688,  save  only  the  intervention 
of  3  or  4  years  cessation  after  the  Peace  of  Eeyswick, 
during  the  continuance  whereof  they  forbore  to  commit 
their  bloody  villanies  and  outrages.  The  French  not 
daring  then  openly  to  avow,  assist  and  protect  them 
therein,  yet  in  those  years  we  were  put  to  a  very 
considerable  charge  in  keeping  constant  guards  and 
espyals  over  them  to  prevent  surprisals  by  their  perfidy 
and  treacheries.  And  very  soon  upon  the  new  declar- 
ation of  war  with  France,  they  broke  out  again  in  open 
rebellion  and  hostility,  committing  divers  barbarous 
murthers,  just  after  a  repeated  and  fresh  recognition 
of  their  duty  and  allegience  to  your  Majesty.  We 
have  been  sharers  in  common  with  other  our  fellow 
subjects  to  a  great  degree  in  losses  both  of  men  and 
estate  at  home  and  at  sea,  both'  in  the  former  and  the 
present  war,  our  trade  is  greatly  diminished  and  we 
are  very  much  exhausted,  our  yearly  expence  for  our 
necessary  defence,  and  to  prevent  the  incursions  of 
the  enemy,  is  vastly  great.  But  by  the  good  Provi- 
dence of  God,  in  the  early  advice  from  time  to  time 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  315 

1709. 

given  of  the  motions  of  the  enemy,  and  the  prudent 
methods  taken  by  your  Majesty's  Captain  General  to 
observe  them,  and  preparations  made  for  their  recep- 
tion in  their  descents  upon  us,  has  prevented  those  im- 
pressions which  probably  we  might  otherwise  have  felt, 
and  they  have  been  forced  to  return  back  ashamed, 
not  without  loss  on  their  part.  But  we  have  no  prospect 
of  the  end  of  these  troubles  and  of  being  eased  of  our 
heavy  and  insupportable  charge  and  burthen,  whilst 
we  can  act  only  defensively,  and  have  to  doe  with 
enemys  and  rebells  within  our  very  bowells,  who  like 
beasts  of  prey,  seek  their  living  by  rapine  and  spoil, 
and  are  such  monsters  that  their  barbaritys  and  cruel  - 
tys  are  horrendous  to  humane  nature,  and  they  are 
animated  and  encouraged  to  such  barbaritys  by  the 
French  setting  the  heads  of  your  Majesty's  subjects  at 
a  price  upon  bringing  in  their  scalps,  and  they  kill 
many  in  cold  blood  after  they  have  received  them  to 
quarter ;  they  have  the  advantage  of  retiring  for  shelter 
to  the  obscure  recesses  of  a  vast  rude  wilderness,  full 
of  woods,  lakes,  rivers,  ponds,  swamps,  rocks  and  moun- 
tains, whereto  they  make  an  easy  and  quick  passage  by 
means  of  their  wherries,  or  birch  canoes  of  great 
swiftness  and  light  of  carriage,  the  matter  whereof 
they  are  made  being  to  be  found  almost  everywhere, 
and  their  skill  and  dexterity  for  the  making  and  using 
of  them 'is  very  extraordinary,  which  renders  our  tire- 
some marches  after  them  inaffectual.  These  rebels  have 
no  fixed  settlement,  but  are  ambulatory  and  make  fre- 
quent removes,  having  no  other  houses  but  tents,  or 
hutts  made  of  bark  or  rinds  of  trees,  matts,  etc.,  which 
they  soon  provide  in  all  places  where  they  come,  so 
that  it  is  impracticable  to  pursue  or  follow  them  with 
any  body  of  regular  troops;  they  are  supported  and 
encouraged  by  the  French  who  make  them  yearly  pres- 
ents gratis  of  cloathing,  armes  and  ammunition,  besides 
the  supplys  they  afford  them  for  the  beaver  and  furrs 
which  they  take  in  hunting,  and  constantly  keep  their 
priests  and  emissaries  among  them  to  steady  them  in 
their  interests,  and  the  bigoteries  they  have  instiled  into 
them.  The  French  also  of  times  join  them  in  their 
marches  on  our  frontiers.  We  humbly  conceive,  with 
submission,  that  the  most  probable  method  of  doing 
execution  upon  them  and  reducing  of  them,  is  by  men 
of  their  own  colour,  way  and  manner  of  living.  And 
if  your  Majesty  shall  be  graciously  pleased  to  command 
the  service  of  the  Mohawks  and  Nations  of  the  Western 
Indians,  that  are  in  friendship  and  covenant  with  your 
Majesty's  several  Governments,  against  these  Eastern 
Indian  rebels,  for  which  they  express  themselves  to 
stand  ready,  and  to  whom  they  are  a  terrour,  they  would, 
with  the  blessing  of  God,  in  short  time,  extirpate  or 


316  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


reclaim  them,  and  prevent  the  incursions  made  upon 
us  from  Canada,  or  the  East.  The  force  of  the  Enemy 
is  chiefly  bent  against  this  your  Majesty's  Province 
and  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  whilst  we  are  a 
barrier  to  ye  others.  A  letter  from  Monsieur  Vau- 
dreuil,  Governour  of  Canada,  to  Mr.  Brouillan,  late 
Governour  of  Port  Royal,  was  sometime  since  happily 
intercepted,  and  came  to  our  Governour's  hand,  wherein 
he  writes  thus,  namely,  that  he  endeavours  to  keep  all 
quiet  on  the  side  of  Orange  (or  Albany)  having  com!- 
mand  from  the  King  his  Master  not  to  have  any  quarrel 
with  your  Majesty's  subjects  on  that  side,  or  with  the 
Mohawks,  which  he  hath  strictly  observed,  and  they  are 
in  a  profound  peace,  having  met  with  little  or  no  loss 
on  the  land  side,  eithe**  in  men  or  estates  this  warr, 
which  has  proved  so  very  chargeable  and  grievious  to 
us,  in  respect  of  both,  which  we  made  bold  humbly  to 
represent  to  your  Majesty  in  1704  etc.  In  the  former 
war,  when  your  Majesties  subjects  of  Albany  with 
their  dependant  Indians  acted  offensively  against  the 
enemy  by  partys  frequently  issuing  forth  into  the  woods, 
they  greatly  distressed  the  French  and  the  Indans  in 
their  interests,  made  considerable  spoils  upon  them, 
and  prevented  the  descents  from  Canada  upon  these 
Plantations,  which  now  are  frequent.  We  pray  leave 
in  most  humble  manner  further  to  offer  to  your  Royal 
consideration  the  very  great  disadvantage  this  your 
Majesty's  Province  is  at  all  times  under,  more  especially 
in  time  of  warr,  by  reason  of  Port  Royal  remaining 
in  the  hands  of  the  French,  which  was  originally  a 
Scotts  Colony  granted  and  begun,  and  is  included  in 
the  Royal  Charter,  or  Letters  Patent  of  this  Province 
granted  by  their  late  Majestys  King  William  and  Queen 
Mary ;  the  situation  whereof  makes  it  a  Dunkirk  to  us 
with  respect  to  navigation,  it  lying  so  apt  and  com- 
modious for  the  intercepting  of  all  shipping  coming  to, 
or  going  from  hence  to  the  eastward,  and  is  a  fit 
receptacle  for  privateers,  who  can  soon  issue  out  thence, 
and  are  near  hand  to  send  in  their  prizes,  as  also  to 
annoy  our  Fishery,  whereof  we  have  had  frequent  ex- 
perience, to  the  very  great  hurt  of  the  trade  of  our 
Nation,  and  the  diminution  of  your  Majesty's  Revenue. 
If  your  Majesty  shall  be  graciously  pleased,  during 
the  continuance  of  the  present  war,  by  your  Royal 
Armes  to  reduce  that  Countrey  and  take  it  by  force 
out  of  the  French  hands,  or  if  by  the  blessing  of  God 
the  just  armes  of  your  Majesty  and  your  Allies  be 
followed  with  repeated  glorious  successes,  as  of  late 
they  have  been,  so  that  the  French  King  find  himself 
under  a  necessity  of  suing  for  peace,  and  a  treaty 
be  thereupon  negotiated,  and  your  Majesty  in  your 
princely  wisdome  shall  think  fit,  that  place  may  have 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


317 


1709. 


a  consideration  in  that  Treaty  to  be  restored  to  your 
Majesties  obedience,  and  setled  by  your  Majesty's  British 
subjects.  It  will  be  of  the  last  importance  to  your 
Majties.  good  subjects,  trading  to  and  from  these  Prov- 
inces, and  a  general  security  'to  them,  and  also  of 
singular  benefit  and  advantage  for  the  providing  of 
masts  for  the  use  of  your  Majesty's  Royal  Navy, 
whereof  that  Countrey  affords  great  plenty,  which  are 
now  grown  scarce  nearer  hand,  and  prevent  the  French 
King  of  that  yearly  supply  he  has  from  thence  of 
Naval  Stores.  Signed  by  Order,  Isa.  Addington,  Secry. 
Council ;  Thomas  Oliver,  Speaker.  2  closely  written 
pp.  [C.O.  5,  865.  Nos.  16,  16.  i. ;  and  5,  913.  pp. 
66- 


j.     [0.0. 
1-747] 


May  24.  534.  Mr.  Tryon  to  [?  Mr.  Popple].  States  English  claim 
London.  to  St.  Kitts.  H.M.  having  made  grants  of  several  Plantations  in 
ye  French  part  during  the  warr,  which  are  now  settled  at  great 
expence,  the  restoreing  them  to  ye  French  must  prove  very 
ruinus  to  ye  present  possesors,  if  a  recompence  be  not  made, 
etc.  The  weak  condition  all  those  Islands  are  now  in  makes  it 
highly  necessary  for  their  safety,  that  a  cessation  of  hostilletys, 
with  a  time  fixed  for  restitution  of  what  shall  be  taken  after- 
wards, be  obtain'd  as  soone  as  possible,  the  only  man  of  warr 
they  had  for  a  gard  being  taken,  land  ye  enemy's  privaters 
being  very  numerus  exposis  them  to  ye  danger  of  haveing  their 
negroes  etc.  carried  of,  all  suplys  intersepted,  and  upon  a 
prospect  of  peace  ye  enemy  wont  faile  to  improve  their  time  as 
much  at  our  expence  as  possible,  as  has  allways  been  usuall 
with  them  at  such  junctures,  etc.  Signed,  "Rowld.  Tryon.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  25th,  Read  27th  May,  1709.  2  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8. 
No.  17.] 


May  24. 

Crotchett 
Fryers . 


535.     Mr.  ^Merrett  to  Mr.  Popple.    -Reply  to  May  19.    Refers 

to  enclosure.  When  the  last  peace  was  concluded,  our  trading 
ships  abroad  did  not  enjoy  the  Peace  but  in  several  places  and 
latitudes  therein  specified,  so  that  the  enemy  tooke  more  merchant 
ships  within  two  months  before  and  after  the  peace  took  place 
than  they  tooke  in  all  the  yeare  before,  from  which  it  may 
be  presumed  that  severall  ships  were  fitted  out  by  the  enemy 
for  that  intent,  wherefore  I  humbly  offer  that  it  will  highly 
conduce  to  the  safety  of  trade  that  in  the  Peace  now  on  foote, 
one  article  may  be  that  all  ships  taken  on  either  side  after  the 
date  of  the  Peace,  (or  sooner  if  it  shall  be  thought  convenient) 
shall  be  restored  to  the  Proprietors  in  the  same  condition  they 
were  in  when  taken,  which  if  published  may  prevent  the  capture 
of  a  great  many  ships,  especially  those  comming  home  from 
long  voyages.  The  duty  French  shipping  paid  here,  which  oc- 
casioned them  to  lay  the  same  on  our  shipping  in  France,  was 
much  to  the  prejudice  of  our  shipping,  as  we  had  and  may  have 
20  times  the  ships  go  to  France,  etc.  Signed,  Solomon  Merrett. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  24th,  Read  27th  May,  1709.  l£  pp.  Enclosed, 


318  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

535.  i.  Merchants  trading  to  Newfoundland  to  the  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Repeat  former  statements  as 
to  French  encroachments  and  the  value  of  the  New- 
foundland fishery.  London,  May  21,  1709.  18  signa- 
tures. 1  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  91,  91.  i.;  and  (with- 
out enclosure)  195,  5.  pp.  91,  92.] 

May  24.         536.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Taylour.     Reply  to  May  23.    40/s  a 

Whitehall,  day  per  100,  would  be  a  competent  provision  for  the  German 
Refugees.  And  whereas  the  1100  Germans  last  arrived  are  still 
on  ship- board  for  want  of  proper  places  to  put  them  in, 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  propose  that  they  be  lodged 
for  the  present  in  a  large  rope  yard  at  Deptford,  now  not  in 
use,  and  which  mighit  be  fitted  up  for  them  at  a  small  expence, 
etc.  [C.O.  389,  36.  pp.  407,  408.] 

May  25.  537.  Abstract  of  the  list  of  the  German  Protestant  Refugees. 
(See  May  9.)  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  May  25,  1709.  1  p.  \O.O. 
388,  76.  No.  62;  and  389,  36.  p.  410.] 

May  25.         538.     Mr.  Chamberlayne  to  [Mr.  Popple^.     Encloses  follow- 
Petty    France,  ing.     Signed,  John  Chamberlayne.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  May 
Westminster.  25>  11Qg       1  p      Enclosed, 

638.  i.  Proceedings  of  a  Committee  for  lodging  and  relieving 
the  German  Protestant  Refugees.  Temple  Exchange 
Coffee-house.  May  20-24,  1709.  3£  pp.  [C.O.  388, 
76.  Nos.  60,  61;  and  (without  enclosure)  389,  36. 
p.  409.] 

May  25.  539.  Rowland  Tryon  to  [?  Mr.  Popple}.  H.M.  predecessors 
have  always  claimed  St.  Lucia,  Dominico,  Tobago,  etc.,  not- 
withstanding the  French  have  at  times  possesst  several  of  them, 
when  both  nations  were  in  peace,  but  the  Governors  of  Bar- 
bados have  as  often  sent  and  disposest  them,  particulerly  from 
St.  Lucias.  The  French  have  allways  with  great  industry  culti- 
vated a  frindship  with  the  native  Caribbeans  and  fomented  ye 
cruilltys  frequently  exercised  by  those  canibals  upon  the  English 
and  countenance  that  nest  of  barbarus  natives  and  runaway 
negroes  yt.  are  setled  upon  St.  Vincents  and  Dominico.  Allso 
when  any  negroes  run  of  from  Barbados,  or  any  other  of  our 
Islands  to  theirs,  they  have  always  refused  to  deliver  them 
when  demanded,  tho  in  times  of  peace.  It  would  be  of  grate 
advantage  to  the  Nation  if  liberty  could  be  obtained  to  export 
our  woolen  manufactorys,  herrings  etc.,  from  Britain  and  the 
British  Islands  to  those  possest  by  ye  French',  wch.  by  their 
Laws  and  allso  by  a  Treety  between  them  and  the  Dutch  we  are 
debar'd.  Barbados  is  well  scituated  for  all  the  trade  to  those 
parts  of  the  Spanish  'West  Indies  that  lye  from  the  River  Ama- 
sones  to  Rio  Delahateh,  therefore  grate  regard  ought  to  be  had 
to  that  trade,  for  generally  we  can  go  and  come  between  those 
costs  and  Barbados  upon  a  stretch;  with  a  Trade  wind.  It's 
allso  to  be  observed  if  the  French  should  be  suffered  to  keep 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  319 

1709. 

Petiguavas,  they  will  by  degrees  possess  themselves  of  all  His- 
paniola.  Signed,  Rowld.  Tryon.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  25th,  Eead 
27th  May,  1709.  If  pp.  [C'.O.  28,  12.  No.  20.] 

May  25.  54O.  Richard  Harris  to  Mr.  Popple.  Sir  B.  Gracedieu 
shewed  me  your  letter  of  May  19.  What  seems  absolutely  neces- 
sary, especially  for  Jamaica,  is  to  remove  the  French  from 
among  our  settlements  in  America.  In  Canada  they  have  pre- 
vented the  people  of  New  England  for  many  years  from  extending 
the  limitts  of  that  Country.  What  they  have  done  at  Newfound- 
land is  wel  known.  By  being  fixed  att  Martinico  and  Guada- 
lupa,  they  intercept  all  ships  coming  with  provisions  from  our 
Northern  Colonies,  without  a  supply  whereof  the  planters  must 
suffer  and  their  negroes  perish!,  which  was  the  case  of  Barbadoes 
in  1694,  when  of  27  such  vessels  24  were  brought  in  by  priva- 
teers to  Martinico  in  4  months.  But  the  French  settlements  on 
the  north  side  of  Hispaniola,  now  called  La  Coste  de  Sta. 
Domingo  are  a  sad  and  greivous  thorne  in  ye  side  of  Jamaica, 
which  were  first  begun  by  malefactors  or  others  banished  from 
France,  and  were  farther  improved  'by  the  bucaniers  and  other 
pirates  setling  among  them,  who  durst  not  returne  to  their 
country,  but  in  ye  first  warr  after  the  Revolution,  the  French 
subjects  being  drove  from1  St.  Christophers  went  down  thither 
and  largely  extended  those  settlements,  etc.  described.  It  may 
justly  be  computed  that  the  French  are  in  possession  of  more 
than  frds  of  that  fine  Island,  which  by  degrees  they  have  tho' 
unobserved  and  without  noise  possessed  themselves  of  in  a  very 
few  yeares  time.  From  hence  arise  3  great  mischiefs  to  Jamaica 
and  Great  Brittain,  (1)  The  productions  of  Hispaniola  being  the 
same  as  those  of  Jamaica  hinder  the  vent  of  ours  among  our 
neighbours,  (2)  In  time  of  peace  they  wil  quickly  interfere  with' 
us  in  our  trade  with  tile  Spaniards.  (3)  In  time  of  warr  those 
of  Hispaniola  lying  to  windward  of  Jamaica,  and  but  25  leagues 
distant,  can  in  a  sudden  invade  and,  before  our  inhabitants 
can  have  any  notice,  which  was  the  case  when  M.  Du  Casse 
invaded  it  in  the  late  warr,  etc.  Whether  the  French  may  be 
forced  to  yeild  up  these  Colonies  again  to  ye  Spaniards,  I  know 
not,  etc.  Signed,  Rd.  Harris.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  May  27, 
1709.  2%. pp.  [C.O.-137,  8.  A^o.  40.] 

May  25.  541.  Arthur  Freeman  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Prays  the  Board  to  write  to  Governor  Parks  about  the 
Act  to  enable  Robert  Freeman,  etc.,  sent  over  by  them  in  1707, 
or  that  he  may  have  it  pass  here.  Signed,  A.  Freeman.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  May  25,  1709.  f  p.  [C.O.  152,  8.  'No.  ,16.] 

May  25.  542.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Jamaica.  tations.  Since  mine  of  the  1st  inst.  sent  by  the  Tiger  of  Bristoll, 
nothing  extraordinary  has  happened.  In  a  sloop  taken  by 
H.M.S.  Roebuck  bound  from  Cuba  to  Carthagene  letters  were 
found  that  give  advice  of  a  French  squadron's  being  arrived, 
or  was  every  day  expected  at  Carthagene,  and  directions  were 


320  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1709. 

therein  sent  to  prepare  their  effects  to  ship  on  board  them;  the 
truth  of  it  I  must  confess  I  much  question,  the  Spaniards  and 
French  very  often  giving  out  false  reports.  The  galleon  is 
still  at  Carthagene  and  a  great  fleet  at  La  Vera  Cruz,  and 
also  some  ships  at  Havanna,  all  which1  I  am  informed  are  very 
rich.  I  have  already  given  your  Lops,  an  acct.  of  the  success 
H.M.S.  Portland  has  had  in  the  taking  a  French  Guinea -man; 
off  Porto  Bell,  in  which  engagement  the  French  own  they  lost 
90  men,  besides  what  were  wounded.  I  had  on  board  .the 
Portland  50  soldiers,  of  which  double  the  number  were  killed 
and  wounded  that  there  was  of  sailors.  The  great  ffitigue  the 
Begiment  is  under  by  serving  on  board  the  men  of  war,  having 
had  there  at  once  betwixt  2  and  300  men,  and  the  hard  duty 
at  land,  is  the  occasion  I  shall  want  a  great  many  recruits, 
if  the  Begiment  is  not  relieved,  and  therefore  I  hope  your  Lops, 
will  befriend  the  Agent  and  my  officers  in  that  affair,  that  I 
may  not  lie  under  the  censure  of  not  having  done  my  duty, 
if  any  attempt  should  he  made.  I  send  the  Acts  passed  the 
last  Sessions,  with  the  Minutes  of  the  Councill  and  Assembly, 
and  an  account  of  the  stores  as  near  as  I  can  from  the  time 
of  my  entring  into  the  Government,  which  I  likewise  send  to 
the  Board  of  Ordnance.  I  am  now  very  busy  in  repairing  the 
fortifications  and  making  a  new  line  for  guns  at  Port  Boyall. 
This  packett  goes  in  H.M.S.  Severn  accompany'd  with  the 
Scarborough,  and  15  or  16  merchants  ships  under  their  convoy. 
The  men  of  war  have  on  board  them  considerable  riches,  and  I 
hope  they  will  have  a  good  voyage.  Our  sloops  are  all  returned 
from  the  Spanish  coast ;  who  say  they  have  had  very  indifferent 
trade  especially  in  our  woolen  manufactures,  and  have  sold 
little  or  nothing  but  negroes,  for  the  Spaniards  complain  they 
have  not  mony  to  buy  them  necessary s.  The  Island  is  at  present 
healthy  and  likewise  the  men  of  war,  but  very  thin  of  sailors, 
for  they  would  not  be  able  to  send  a  ship  to  sea  without  a  third 
part  of  their  complement  were  soldiers.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd. 
Endorsed,  Beod.  Aug.  6,  Bead  Nov.  11,  1709.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 
542.  i.  Account  of  stores  of  war  at  Jamaica  Dec.  12,  1705 

—May  24,  1709.     4  pp. 
-542.  ii.  Account  of   stores   of   war   issued   for   land   and   sea 

service.     Endorsed,   Becd.    Aug.    6,   1709.     1  p.    [C.O. 

137,  8.     Nos.    64,   64.  i.,ii.  ;   and   (without  enclosures} 

138,  13.     pp.   34-37.] 

May  26.  543.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Jarraica.  tations.  I  must  in  a  particular  manner  recommend  to  your 
Lops.'  favour  the  confirmation  of  a  private  Act  for  the  sale  of 
part  of  the  estate  of  George  Joy  Esq.  deed.,  whereby  the  family 
of  that  gentleman,  whose  behaviour  in  his  lifetime  deserved 
very  well  of  the  Government  will  be  preserved  from  ruine,  and 
his  creditors  be  satisfied  their  just  debts,  a  matter  which  could 
by  no  other  means  be  effected.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  En- 
dorsed, Becd.  Aug.  6,  Bead  Nov.  11,  1709.  1  p.  [O.O.  137, 
8.  No.  65;  and  138,  13.  p.  13.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  321 

1709.. 

May  26.  544.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
Craven  and  Plantations.  It  having  been  represented  to  us  that  the 
House.  French  about  8  years  since  made  several  settlements  upon  the 
river  Messisippi,  which  settlements  if  they  are  suffered  to  con- 
tinue will  be  of  dangerous  consequence  not  only  to  the  Province 
of  Carolina,  but  very  prejudicial  to  all  other  H.M.  Colonies  in 
America,  we  therefore  desire  that  your  Lops,  upon  this  occasion 
of  a  Treaty  for  a  General  Peace,  would  lay  this  matter  before 
H.M.  in  Council,  that  the  French  may  be  obliged  to  relinquish 
such  settlements  for  the  security  of  all  H.M.  Colonies  and 
Plantations,  which  are  of  so  great  consequence  to  the  Crown 
and  People  of  Great  Britain.  Signed,  Craven,  Palatine,  Beaufort, 
Craven  for  the  Lord  Carteret,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Dan- 
son.  Endorsed,  Reed,  Read  May  30,  1709.  1  p.  [(7.0.  5, 
1264.  No.  68;  and  5,  1292.  p.  136;  and  5,  289.  p.  219.] 

[May  27.]  545.  William  Atwood  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions. Petitioner,  late  Chief  Justice  of  New  York,  having  notice 
that  a  letter  is  come  from  the  Governor  of  New  York  to  desire 
one  who  succeeded  him  may  be  continued,  in  possession,  acquaints 
your  Lordships  that  a  report  from  Mr.  Attorney,  when  Solicitor, 
upon  his  claim  to  a  restitution  lyes  with  ye  Earle  of  Sunderland 
to  be  presented  to  H.M.  with  a  petition  against  him,  falsely 
suggesting  that,  upon  a  report  from  ye  Board,  his  suspension 
by  ye  Lord  Cornbury  was  confirmed  by  H.M.  Prays  the  Board, 
that,  if  they  acquaint  H.M.  with  ye  Governor's  desiring  his 
successor's  continuance,  they  will  at  ye  same  time  certify  peti- 
tioner was  never  heard  at  the  Board  upon  any  complaint  against 
him,  and  asks  for  papers,  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Atwood.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  May  27,  Read  June  9,  1709.  !£  pp.  [C.O.  5, 
1049.  No.  103;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  368,  369.] 

[May  27.]  546.  Col.  Jory  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Refers  to  the  miserable  condition  of  the  4  hostages  carried  off 
from  Nevis  by  the  French  to  Martinique.  [1706].  Insists  on 
the  necessity  of  making  St.  Kitts  altogether  English1  etc.  Signed, 
Jos.  Jory.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  27th  May,  1709.  l|  pp. 
[C.O.  152,  8.  No.  18.] 

[May  27.]  547.  Constantino  Phipps  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Similar  memorial  re  St.  Kitts.  Signed,  Con.  Phipps. 
Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p.  [C.O.  152,  8.  No.  19.] 


May  27.  548.  Mr.  Campbell  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
A  deduction  of  the  English  title  to  Newfoundland,  and  an 
account  of  French  encroachments  (c/.  May  19).  The  losses 
susteyned  from  the  French  by  H.M.  subjects  trading  in  and  to 
Newfoundland  during  this  warr  only  amounts  by  a  very  modest 
computation  to  £300,000  sterl.,  wherein  I  have  the  misfortune  to 
be  a  large  sharer.  Signed,  Ja.  Campbell.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read 
May  27,  1709.  Addressed.  2  pp.  [C.O.  194,  4.  No.  92.] 

Wt.  11522,  C  P  21 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 

May  30. 

Whitehall. 


June  1. 


June  1. 


June  1. 

Whitehall. 


June  1. 

Whitehall. 


549.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Attorney  General  and  Mr.  Solicitor 
General.     Whereas   many   poor   people   are   lately   arrived   from 
the  Palatinate  in  Germany,  most  of  Whom  are  husbandmen,  and 
H.M.  being  desirous  they  should  have  relief,  etc.,  the  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations  desire  your  opinion  to-morrow  morning 
if  possible,    (1)  whether  H.M.   has  a  right  and  power  by  law 
to  grant  parcells  of  lands  in  her  forests,  chaces  and  wasts  to  any 
of  her  subjects,  with  licence  to  build  cottages  and  inclose  the 
said   lands,    in  order   to   convert   the  same   to   tillage   and  hus- 
bandry;    (2)  what   security    H.M.    may   give   to   indemnify   the 
respective  parishes  from  the  settlements  of  poor  families  amongst 
them,    who    shall    be    admitted   to    dwell   in    the    said   cottages. 
[0.0    389,  36.     pp.  411,  412.] 

550.  Attorney  and  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.     Reply  to  preceding.     (1)  H.M.  has  a  right  to 
grant  such  parcels  of  lands  for  any  term  or  estate  not  exceeding 
31  years,  or  3  lives,  or  for  a  term  of  years  determinable  upon 
one,  two  or  three  lives,  etc.     (2)  No  such  security  is  required 
by  law  to  be  given,  etc.     Signed,  Ja.  Mountague,  R.  Eyre.     En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Read  June  1,   1709.     1  p.     [C.O.  388,  76.     2V<* 
63 ;  and  389,  36.     pp.  412-414.] 

551.  A  second  list  of  1193  Palatines  lately  come  over  from 
Germany,  taken  by  John  Tribbeko  and  Mr.  Ruperti;  Walworth, 
May  27,  1709.  (cf.  May  9).     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  June  1,  1709. 
30  pp.     [C.O.  388,  76.     No.  64.] 

552.  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.  Encloses  following.    Signed,  H.  Boyle.    Endorsed,  Reed. 
2nd,  Read  3rd  June,  1709.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

552.  i.  United    Society   of   London    for   Mines    Royal   to    the 

Queen.  Proposal  for  settling  the  German  Protestant 
Refugees  in  the  Manor  of  Penlyn  (Snowdon)  as  May 
23.  2  pp.  [C.O.  388,  76.  Nos.  65,  65.  i. ;  and  (with- 
out enclosure)  389,  36.  p.  421.] 

553.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland  and  the  Lord  High  Treasurer.  (See  May  3,  9,  etc.)     As 
to  the  settlement  of  the  poor  Palatines  here,   'tis  certain  that 
a  multitude  of  people  is  the  glory  and  strength  of  a  Government; 
that  many  hands  contribute  to  the  increase  of  trade,   and  the 
increase    of    trade    naturally   tends    to    the    increase    of    wealth. 
And  of  this  we  have  a  famous  instance  in   Queen   Elizabeth's 
reign,   when   many  Dutch  and  Walloon   families,   to   avoid   the 
persecution  of  the  Duke  of  Alva  etc.,  were  seated  at  Norwich 
etc.     But  then   'tis  to  be  observed  these  families  brought  with 
them  considerable  stocks  to  set  up  a  new  manufacture  of  bays, 
says,  (stuffs  and  serges ;  which  England  till  then  was  unacquainted 
with.     The  case  of  the  poor  Germans   is  quite  different:   they 
have  neither  stock  nor  manufacture,  most  of  them  women  and 
children;   a  great  many  of  them,   through  age  and   infirmities 


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1709. 

past  their  labour,  others  (not  a  small  number)  not  come  to  it; 
some  of  them  more  fit  for  alms-houses  than  work-houses ;  there 
are  2000  already  arrived,  besides  others  that  are  expected,  and 
many  more  that  will  probably  follow,  unless  some  discounten- 
ance be  given  to  the  transporting  of  them  hither,  until  those 
already  arrived  be  disposed  of.  Quote  Attorney  and  Solicitor 
General  (No.  550)  and  discuss  methods  of  settling  the  Palatines 
in  England.  [C.O.  389,  36.  pp.  414-420.] 

June  2.         554.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle. 

Whitehall.     Reply  to  May  17.     Enclose  following. 

554.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  We 
humbly  represent  that,  in  relation  to  Hudson's  Bay, 
that  part  of  your  Majestys  Dominions  being  under  the 
direction  and  management  of  a  Company  of  merchant 
adventurers  of  this  kingdom,  by  virtue  of  letters  patents 
of  incorporation  1670,  we  have  been  attended  by  the 
Governor,  who  has  delivered  to  us  a  printed  deduction 
of  your  Majesty's  right  and  title  to  the  said  Hudson's 
Bay,  and  all  the  places  thereto  appertaining,  which, 
being  very  particular  and  agreeable  to  what  we  find  in 
our  own  books,  we  take  leave  to  annex  the  same  here- 
unto. We  have  also  received  from  the  said  Company 
a  Memorial,  relating  to  the  damages  sustained  by  them, 
from  the  French,  which  is  also  hereunto  annexed. 
Upon  which  we  humbly  take  leave  to  remark  that 
your  Majestys  title  to  Hudson's  Bay  is  clearly  and 
evidently  made  out  by  the  foresaid  deduction,  and  by 
the  report  of  the  Commissioners  appointed  to  treat 
with  the  French  Ambassador  in  1687,  added  to  the  fore- 
mentioned  Memorial,  notwithstanding  any  claim  the 
French  may  pretend  thereunto.  And  the  Company 
having  informed  us  that  they  have  appointed  two  of 
their  members  to  attend  your  Majesties  plenipoten- 
tiaries, when  a  Treaty  with  the  French  shall  be  set 
on  foot,  in  order  to  prove  the  several  matters  in  the 
said  deduction,  as  also  the  several  allegations  in  their 
foresaid  Memorial,  relating  to  their  losses,  we  shall 
only  humbly  offer  that  a  very  great  advantage  will 
accrue  to  this  Kingdom,  were  the  Company  reinstated  in 
their  right,  according  to  their  Charter,  by  the  fur 
trade  from  those  parts,  by  the  importation  of  other 
commodities,  particularly  whale  oyl  and  whale  bone, 
which  might  be  had  in  plenty  there,  and  by  the  ex- 
portation of  our  woolen  manufactures,  which  the  Indians 
are  now  perswaded  to  wear  instead  of  skins.  In  relation 
to  Nova  Scotia  or  Accadie,  to  the  boundaries  on  the 
Northern  Continent  and  to  the  incroachments  made 
by  the  French  upon  your  Majesties  territories  in  North 
America.  Terra  Nova  (by  Peter  du  Val  called  Nova 
Britannia)  comprehends  not  only  the  Island  of  New- 
foundland, but  also  Nova  Francia  or  Canada,  and 


324  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 


Nova  Scotia,  and  Sir  Sebastian  Cabbot  was  the  first 
discoverer  of  all  these  countries  in  1497,  at  the  charge 
and  for  the  use  of  King  Henry  VII,  who  had  employed 
him  to  find  out  some  <  Northern  parts  of  America  un- 
discovered by  Collurnbus.  King  Henry  VIII  and  Queen 
Elizabeth  continued  the  English  interest  there.  In  the 
year  1604  or  1606,  the  French  possessed  themselves  of 
Accadie,  part  of  Nova  Scotia,  lying  on  the  South  side  of 
the  River  Canada,  and  named  the  whole  Nova  Francia, 
upon  pretence  that  John  Varazonus  discovered  these 
parts  for  the  French  King,  Francis  I.  But  this  pretence 
of  theirs  has  been  fully  answer'd  by  the  Hudson's 
Bay  Company  before  the  Commissioners  appointed  by 
King  James  II  for  executing  the  Treaty  of  Neutrality 
in  America  in  1687.  King  James  I,  looking  upon  this 
encroachment  of  the  French  as  an  invasion  of  his 
right,  did,  by  Letters  Patents,  dated  Nov.  3,  1620, 
grant  all  the  lands  lying  between  the  degrees  of  40 
and  48,  Northern  Latitude,  and  extending  from  the 
East  sea  to  the  West  sea,  unto  the  then  Duke  of  Lenox 
and  others,  by  the  name  of  the  Council  of  Plymouth. 
In  1621,  the  country  of  Nova  Scotia  was  more  par- 
ticularly granted  'by  King  James  I  to  Sir  William 
Alexander  afterwards  Earl  of  Sterling,  who  took  pos- 
session thereof,  drove  out  the  French,  and  planted  a 
Colony  there.  In  1627,  King  Charles  I  being  at  war 
with  the  French  King  Lewis  XIII,  granted  a  Com- 
mission to  Sir  David  Kirk  and  others  to  take  possession 
of  the  lands  lying  on  both  sides  of  the  River  Canada, 
and  to  expel  and  eject  all  the  French  trading  in  those 
parts,  wherein  they  succeeded,  and  that  year  seized 
upon  20  French  ships,  which,  together  with  the  Com- 
manders and  seamen,  they  brought  for  England ;  and 
in  1628,  they  possessed  themselves  of  that  part  of 
Canada  situated  on  the  North  side  of  the  river  with 
the  Fort  of  Quebeck,  while  Sir  William  Alexander  at 
the  same  time  subdued  all  Accadie  or  Nova  Scotia. 
In  '1630,  Sir  W.  Alexander  sold  his  right  to  Monsieur 
Claude  de  la  Tour,  a  French  .Protestant,  to  be  held  by 
him  and  his  successors  under  the  Crown  of  Scotland. 
About  1631,  King  Charles  I  made  (as  wee  have  been 
informed),  some  sort  of  concession  of  the  said  country 
to  the  Crown  of  France  (unto  which  the  French  had  not 
till  then  any  title,  for  it  was  both  discovered  and 
planted  by  the  subjects  of  England,  and  named  Nova 
Scotia  by  King  James  1),  reserving  nevertheless  the 
right  of  the  Proprietor  who  had  before  enjoyed  it. 
In  1633  (notwithstanding  the  foresaid  concession)  King 
Charles  I,  by  Letters  Patents  dated  May  11,  1633, 
granted  to  Sir  Lewis  Kirk  and  others  full  priviledge 
not  only  of  trade  and  commerce,  even  in  the  River 
of  Canada  (which  is  to  the  Northward  of  Nova  Scotia) 


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1709. 

and  places  on  either  side  adjacent,  but  also  of  planting 
Colonies  and  building  ports,  and  bulworks,  where  they 
should  think  fit;  by  which  it  may  be  reasonably  con- 
cluded that  the  fore -mentioned  concession  (whatever 
it  were)  was  not  understood  to  have  been  an  'absolute 
grant  and  alienation  of  the  said  country  from  the 
Crown  of  England.  But  nevertheless  Sir  Lewis  Kirk 
and  partners  were  molested  by  the  French  in  the 
enjoyment  and  exercise  of  the  abovesaid  priviledges. 
Many  years  before  this,  the  country  about  Penobscot, 
lying  to  the  westward  of  Nova  Scotia,  had  been  dis- 
covered by  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  New  Plymouth,  who 
seated  themselves  there,  but  were  also  afterwards  some- 
times disturbed  by  the  French  Governor  of  Nova  Scotia. 
In  1654,  Cromwell  having  a  fleet  at  New  England., 
caused  the  country  of  Nova  Scotia  to  be  seized,  as 
being  antiently  a  part  of  the  English  Dominions  to 
which  the  French  had  no  just  title;  and  the  Proprietor 
of  the  said  country,  Sir" Charles  de  St.  Estienne,  son 
and  heir  to  the  forementioned  Monsieur  de  la  Tour, 
coming  thereupon  into  England,  and  making  out  his 
title  under  the  foresaid  Earl  of  Sterling  and  the  Crown 
of  Scotland,  his  right  was  allowed  of  by  Cromwell, 
whereupon  the  said  St.  Estienne  by  his  deed,  bearing 
date  Sept.  20,  1656,  made  over  all  his  right  and  title, 
both  to  Nova  Scotia  and  Penobscot,  to  Sir  Thomas 
Temple  and  Mr.  William  Crown,  one  or  both  of  them. 
The  said  Temple  and  Crown,  or  one  of  them,  or  their 
assignes,  did  accordingly  continue  to  possess  and  enjoy 
the  same,  with  the  profits  thence  arising,  until  1667, 
in  which  year  it  was  agreed  between  King  Charles  II 
and  the  French,  by  the  Treaty  of  Breda,  that  the  said 
country  should  be  surrender'd  to  the  French,  which 
was  accordingly  done  (by  H.M.  directions,  as  appears 
by  his  Order  to  that  purpose)  in  1670,  by  Sir  Thomas 
Temple,  then  residing  as  Governor  upon  the  place. 
But  in  the  execution  of  that  surrender,  it  has  been 
represented  to  us  that  the  said  Temple  exceeded  his 
Commission,  and  delivered  up  Penobscot  also,  at  which 
King  Charles  II  was  Tiighly  displeased,  an~d  did  not 
confirm  ye  same.  Not  long  after,  a  war  broke  out 
between  France  and  Holland,  in  which  the  Dutch  took 
the  Fort  of  Penobscot  from  the  French,  demolished  it 
and  quitted  it.  King  Charles  II  thereupon  ordered  and 
commissionated  the  Governor  of  New  York  to  take 
the  same  under  his  jurisdiction,  which  was  accordingly 
done ;  and  the  said  country,  extending  from  a  place 
called  Pemtagoet,  Westward  to  the  River  St.  Croix  East- 
ward, and  was  annexed  to  the  Government  of  New 
York,  by  the  Duke  of  York's  Patent  for  the  same, 
and  in  prosecution  thereof  (the  French  still  keeping 
possession  of  some  parts  of  it)  Sir  Edmund  Andross, 


326  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 


when  Governor  of  New  York  under  the  Duke,  invaded 
them  by  force,  and  took  the  habitation  of  one  Monsieur 
St.  Costine,  a  Frenchman.  In  further  proof  that  the 
Eiver  St.  Croix  was  esteemed  by  the  French,  as  well 
as  by  us,  their  boundary  of  Nova  Scotia  since  the 
Treaty  of  Breda,  we  annex  hereunto  the  copy  of  a 
Memorial  upon  that  matter  from  Captain  John  Alden 
of  Boston  in  New  England,  formerly  employed  by  Sir 
Thomas  Temple,  and  transmitted  to  us  from  thence  by 
the  late  Earl  of  Bellomont.  In  1691,  not  only  the 
'country  of  Penobscot,  but  also  Nova  Scotia,  was  by 
Charter  of  the  late  King  William,  granted  to  the  Colony 
of  the  Massachusets  Bay,  and  annex'd  to  that  Govern- 
ment. It  is  to  be  observed  that  during  Sir  Thomas 
Temple's  residence  in  and  Government  of  those  parts, 
he  having  been  at  great  charge  in  building  forts  and 
otherwise  for  the  protection  of  our  fishery  did  levy 
£5  upon  every  fishing  vessel  that  cured  and  dryed 
their  fish  upon  that  shoar.  And  accordingly  after  the 
surrender  of  that  country  by  him,  the  French  at  first 
contented  themselves  with  the  same  duty,  but  in  process 
of  time,  some  of  their  Governors  claimed  also  the  whole 
right  of  fishing  upon  the  high  seas,  and  have  accord- 
ingly caused  several  of  our  vessels  fishing  there  to  be 
taken  and  made  prize  of.  As  to  the  encroachments 
of  the  French  in  those  parts:  About  1687  or  1688,  the 
Eastern  Indians,  together  with  the  French  of  Canada, 
committed  several  barbarous  acts  of  hostility  upon  the 
Eastern  frontiers  of  New  England,  and  during  the 
late  and  present  war,  have  continued  the  same  both 
by  land  and  sea.  In  1690,  in  an  expedition  under  the 
command  of  Sir  William  Phipps,  Port  Eoyal,  together 
with  all  the  Southern  Cape  of  Nova  Scotia,  was  re- 
duced under  the  subjection  of  the  Crown  of  England ; 
but  not  long  after  was  retaken  by  the  French,  and  has 
ever  since  continued  in  their  possession.  In  1696, 
several  French  men  of  war  invaded  the  Eastern  coast 
of  New  England,  and  took  and  demolished  the  fort  at 
Pemaquid,  whereupon  the  inhabitants  of  that  country 
fled,  and  by  reason  of  the  insecurity  of  the  place  for 
want  of  that  fort,  have  not  since  returned.  The  French 
pretend  to  and  peremptorily  challenge  the  sole  right 
of  fishing  upon  the  Banks  lying  on  the  high  seas  off 
and  about  the  coast  of  Accadie  or  Nova  Scotia,  as 
also  that  Eastern  country  which  has  all  along,  ever 
from  the  discovery  and  first  settlement  of  New  England, 
been  used  and  improved  for  fishing  as  the  just  right 
and  priviledge  of  the  English.  They  pretend  also  to 
extend  the  bounds  of  their  dominions,  thro  the  main 
land  as  far  as  the  Eiver  Kennebeck,  tho  the  utmost 
they  can  pretend  to  is  the  Eiver  St.  George,  Avhich  is 
many  miles  short  of  Kennebeck.  That  the  French  lay 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  327 

1709. 

claim  to  the  sole  right  to  this  fishery  on  the  coast, 
appears  by  the  annex 'd  affidavits  of  John  Swasey  and 
William  Giggles,  Masters  of  two  sloops  who  were  seized 
by  a  French  Captain  in  1698,  in  their  return  from  fish- 
ing on  the  forsaid  Banks.  We  further  annex  the  copy 
of  a  letter  from  Monsr.  de  Villebon,  Governor  of  Ac- 
cadie,  to  Mr.  Stoughton,  Lieut.  Governor  of  the  Massa- 
chusets  Bay,  dated  Sept.  5,  1698,  wherein  he  declares 
that  he  had  possitive  orders  to  seize  on  all  English 
vessels  fishing  there,  and  to  maintain  the  bounds  of 
the  French  territories  and  sole  right  of  fishing,  as 
aforementioned.  Upon  which  we  take  leave  to  observe 
that  the  consequence  of  those  incroachments  of  theirs 
by  land,  besides  many  other  inconveniences,  would  not 
only  deprive  your  Majesty's  subjects  of  four  or  five 
of  the  best  fishing  harbours  on  that  coast,  but  it  would 
also  open  to  the  French  a  way  of  being  supply'd  from 
the  woods  with  a  perpetual  store  of  excellent  timber 
and  masts,  and  in  a  great  measure  defeat  our  design 
of  being  supply'd  therewith,  and  with  other  naval  stores 
from  those  parts.  In  case  the  French  are  to  continue 
in  Accadie  or  Nova  Scotia,  it  will  be  necessary  that 
by  treaty  the  limits  of  Nova  Scotia  be  fixed  and  re- 
strained to  the  Eiver  St.  Croix,  and  that  the  claim  which, 
the  French  pretend  to  derive  from  Sir  Thomas  Temple's 
forementioned  surrender,  which  at  most  can  extend  no 
further  than  the  river  St.  George,  be  not  allowed  of; 
much  less  that  any  concession  be  made  for  extending 
their  boundaries  Westward  to  the  Eiver  Kennebeck, 
where  their  Jesuits  have  built  a  Church,  for  it's  of 
great  consequence  to  this  Kingdom  and  the  Plantations, 
that  the  French  be  confined  to  the  East  side  of  the 
Eiver  St.  Croix ;  for  if  they  be  admitted  to  extend  their 
Dominions  to  the  Eiver  St.  George,  then  at  once  near 
200  mile  of  coast  will  be  lost;  and  if  they  are  to 
extend  as  far  as  Kennebeck,  then  much  more  of  the 
coast  and  fishery  will  be  lost  to  the  Crown.  The  country 
beyond  St.  Croix  is  desart,  being  sandy,  and  having 
few  timber  trees,  or  trees  for  masts  growing  on  it; 
whereas  between  the  Eiver  St.  Croix  and  St.  George, 
the  soil  is  rich  and  abounds  with  trees  for  masts 
and  timber.  That  the  French  have  a  design  to  make 
use  of  those  trees  will  appear  from  an  intercepted 
letter  from  Monsieur  Denys  to  the  French  King, 
which  we  received  from  the  Earl  of  Bellomont  in  1700. 
In  case  the  French  are  to  remain  in  Canada,  the  next 
boundary  to  be  considered  is  that  of  the  North  and 
West  parts  of  your  Majesty's  Plantations  from  New 
England  to  Carolina.  Tho  the  English  Patents  gener- 
ally have  allowed  no  bounds  by  land,  but  extended  the 
grant  of  those  lands  from  sea  to  sea,  yet  the  French, 
since  their  possession  of  Canada,  having  at  several 


328  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 


times  gone  up  the  Eiver  St.  Lawrence,  and  from  thence 
into  the  Lakes  South  Westward  of  the  said  river,  lying 
all  along  upon  the  North  and  West  of  H.M.  foresaid 
Plantations,  as  far  as  the  Eiver  Missisipi,  in  the  Gulph 
of  Mexico,  where  they  have  lately  made  a  Settlement, 
as  appears  by  a  letter  from  the  Lords  Proprietors  of 
Carolina.  And  tho  these  voyages  of  theirs  be  no  more 
than  what  has  frequently,  and  as  early,  heen  done  by 
Englishmen,  yet  they  have  thereupon  from  time  to 
time  extended  their  pretentions  to  the  propriety  of  all 
the  countries  bordering  upon  the  said  rivers  and  lakes, 
which,  if  it  should  be  allowed  them,  and  that  an 
intire  freedom1  be  not  maintain'd  for  H.M.  subjects 
to  trade  at  least  with  the  Indians  of  those  parts,  and 
for  them  and  the  said  Indians  to  pass  and  repass  without 
protestation,  it  will  exclude  your  Majestys  subjects  from 
the  inland  trade,  and  confine  them  to  a  narrow  tract  of 
ground  upon  the  coast. 

In  relation  to  New  York  and  its  dependences,  your 
Majesty's  title  to  'that  Province  is  not  disputed.  But 
as  the  French  have  without  any  just  right  pretended 
to  the  soveraignty  over  the  Five  Nations  of  Indians 
bordering  upon  New  York,  we  [humbly  beg  leave  to  annex 
a  deduction  of  your  Majesty's  right  and  title  to  the 
soveraignty  over  the  said  Indians,  as  the  same  was 
prepared  by  the  then  Commissioners  for  Trade  and 
Plantations  in  July  1697,  for  his  late  Majesty's  pleni- 
potentiaries then  at  the  Hague,  and  have  added  there- 
unto an  account  of  the  proceedings  between  the  late 
Earl  of  Bellomont  and  the  French  Governor  of  Canada 
upon  that  subject.  We  have  likewise  added  the  copy 
of  a  Memorial  from  Col.  Bayard  and  an  affidavit  of 
William  Teller,  transmitted  by  the  said  Earl,  proving  the 
constant  subjection  and  dependance  of  the  said  Five 
Nations  upon  the  Government  of  New  York,  ever  since 
the  first  settlement  of  that  country  by  the  Dutch1,  in 
or  about  1609  or  1610,  by  which  Memorials  and  affi- 
davit, all  the  pretentions  of  the  French  to  any  right 
over  the  said  Indians  seem  to  us  to  be  fully  answered 
and  made  void.  This  matter  we  thought  of  such  con- 
sequence as  to  deserve  to  be  laid  before  your  Majesty 
for  your  royal  consideration,  it  being  our  humble 
opinion  that  it  is  absolutely  necessary  for  the  security 
of  the  Province,  of  New  York  and  the  rest  of  your 
Majesty's  Dominions  in  that  part  of  America,  that  the 
Five  Nations  of  Indians  be  preserved  and  maintained 
in  their  subjection  to  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain  as 
formerly.  We  shall  only  add  that  since  the  Lord  Com- 
bury's  Government  of  New  York  (as  we  have  been 
inf9rmed),  an  Agreement  was  concluded  by  his  Lord- 
ship with  the  Governor  of  Canada  for  a  Neutrality 
between  the  said  forementioned  Five  Nations  and  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  329 

1709. 

French  and  their  Indians  of  Canada,  which  has  been 
of  great  prejudice  to  your  Majesty's  Governments  in 
New  England,  as  will  more  fully  appear  by  the  foresaid 
paper.  In  relation  to  St.  Christopher's,  that  Island 
was  first  discovered  by  Christopher  Columbus,  and  after- 
wards possessed  by  Sir  Thomas  Warner  for  the  Crown 
of  England,  in  1623,  and  the  said  Warner  was  made 
Governor  thereof.  But  how  or  by  what  means  the  French 
came  to  have  a  share  of  that  Island  before  the  Treaty 
concluded  at  Breda,  we  do  not  find  any  footsteps  in 
our  books.  We  only  find  that  the  said  Island  was 
divided  into  four  quarters  between  the  English  and 
ye  French,  each  Nation  having  two  different  quarters, 
besides  a  Peninsula  running  Southerly  towards  Nevis, 
with  some  salt  ponds  upon  it,  which  were  claimed  by  the 
French,  but  the  salt  was  commonly  gathered  or  shared 
by  both  Nations,  who  kept  a  friendly  correspondence 
until  1666,  when  the  French  by  surprize  took  the  two 
English  quarters  of  that  Island,  which  by  the  Treaty 
of  Breda,  they  were  obliged  to  restore  with  all  speed, 
or  at  the  furthest  within  six  months,  together  with 
all  the  negroes,  slaves  and  other  moveable  goods.  But 
contrary  to  such  obligation,  they  detained  the  English 
part  of  the  Island  until  about  1671,  notwithstanding 
the  several  demands  that  were  made  in  due  manner  in 
pursuance  of  the  said  Treaty,  as  well  as  the  immediate 
surrender  to  the  French  of  Nova  Scotia  or  Accadie- 
By  which  detention  of  St.  Christopher's  and  inexe- 
cution  of  the  said  Treaty,  and  their  not  restoring  all 
the  moveables  and  other  things  which  they  were  obliged 
to  do,  the  English  were  very  greatly  endamaged;  and 
in  such  state  that  Island  remained  untill  the  first  year 
of  the  late  war  in  1689,  when,  contrary  to  Article  18 
of  Neutrality,  made  between  the  two  Crowns  in  1686, 
whereby  it  is  expressly  stipulated,  that  upon  any  breach 
between  the  said  two  Crowns  in  Europe,  no  act  of 
hostility  should  be  committed  in  any  of  the  American 
Colonies,  the  French  fell  on  the  English  again,  and 
taking  the  chief  fort,  drove  them  off  the  Island,  and 
destroy'd  most  of  their  Plantations,  kept  the  whole 
Island  till  the  year  1690,  when  by  the  assistance  of 
forces  from  Europe  it  was  retaken,  by  Col.  Codrington, 
then  Governor  in  Chief  of  the  Leeward  Islands,  and 
all  the  French  sent  away  by  capitulation  to  their  other 
Colonies  in  America ;  and  thus  it  continued  till  the 
Peace  at  Eiswick;  by  which  the  French  part  was  re- 
stored to  them  again.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of  this 
war,  the  forementioned  Treaty  of  Neutrality,  not  then 
in  force,  as  is  more  particularly  set  forth  in  a  paper 
hereunto  annex'd,  Col.  Codrington,  then  Captain  General 
of  the  Leeward  Islands,  did  in  June  or  July,  1702, 
retake  the  whole  Island  again,  which1  has  ever  since 


>  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 


remained  in  your  Majesty's  possession,  and  the  French 
part  has  been  setled  by  your  Majesty's  subjects.  But 
in  regard  of  the  uncertainty  of  the  possession,  the 
grants  made  in  the  French  part  were  limited  to  2 
or  2i  years  at  most;  by  which  means  that  said  part 
has  not  been  so  well  improved  as  otherwise  it  might 
have  been,  the  inhabitants  being  unwilling  to  venture 
any  considerable  stock  upon  such  lands  and  plantations 
as  they  have  no  assurance  shall  be  long  enjoy 'd.  But 
if  it  be  once  known  that  the  said  Island  shall  remain 
wholy  to  H.M.,  it  will  soon  be  well  setled  and  inhabited 
by  people  that  will  resort  thither  from  all  parts  to  live 
upon  an  Island  so  famous  for  the  healthiness  of  the 
clime,  firtility  of  ye  soil,  ,and  for  its  plentifull  production 
of  many  profitable  commodities,  especially  sugar,  in- 
dico,  ginger,  etc.,  having  a  reasonable  good  fort,  good 
roads  for  snipping,  ana  well  water'd,  with  other  ad- 
vantages to  make  it  the  best  and  most  considerable 
of  all  the  Leeward  Charibbee  Islands.  But,  in  case 
the  French  should  be  restored  to  their  part  of  the  said 
Island  of  St.  Christophers,  those  that  are  now  settled 
upon  some  of  those  plantations,  will  be  turned  out 
again  to  the  discouragement,  not  only  of  them,  but 
more  especially  of  the  former  or  old  inhabitants  as 
well  as  of  those  of  the  other  of  the  Leeward  Islands, 
who  have  freely  ventured  their  lives  in  the  taking  of 
the  said  Island,  besides  when  the  former  inhabitants 
find  that  the  French  are  to  be  restored,  they  will  not 
only  be  discouraged  but  perhaps  driven  by  their  just 
apprehensions  of  future  danger  to  quit  the  Island, 
where  they  have  been  allready  twice  ruined,  not  willing 
to  run  the  like  hazard  upon  the  breaking  out  of  a  new 
war,  by  which  means  the  Crown  will  lose  a  considerable 
revenue,  and  the  Nation  a  beneficial  trade.  Besides 
that  if  the  French  be  restored  to  their  part  of  that 
Island,  they  will  allwayee  not  only  be  the  occasion  of 
a  continual  uneasiness  to  your  Majesty's  subjects  there, 
but  may  also  prove  dangerous  to  the  other  Leeward 
Islands,  and  the  trade  thereof,  especially  to  Nevis, 
which  lyes  but  3  miles  distant  from  St.  Christophers, 
In  relation  to  Jamaica,  that  Island  having  ever  since 
the  Treaty  of  Breda  been  entirely  in  the  possession  of 
the  Crown  of  England,  and  remaining  so  still,  we  shall 
only  take  notice  that  toward  the  West  end  of  the  Island 
of  Hispaniola,  lies  a  small  Island,  called  by  the  French 
Isle  des  V aches,  and  by  us  Isle  of  Ash,  where  the 
inhabitants  of  Jamaica  formerly  fished  for  turtle,  and 
sometimes  went  to  hunt  upon  it.  But  in  1687,  Mon- 
sieur de  Cussy,  the  French  Governor  of  Hispaniola, 
writ  to  the  then  Governor  of  Jamaica,  that  the  French 
King  had  given  orders  for  settling  the  said  Isle  of  Ash, 
and  he  therefore  required  the  English  to  forbear  any 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  331 

1709. 

more  fishing  upon  that  coast,  or  hunting  upon  that 
Island,  threatning  to  make  prize  of  those  that  should 
bo  taken  there.  And  the  said  Isle  of  Ash  has  accord- 
ingly, since  that  time,  been  setled  by  the  French. 
Having  received  a  Memorial  relating  to  the  inconveni- 
encies  arrising  to  your  Majesty's  Plantations,  from 
the  settlements  of  the  French  in  the  West  Indies, 
especially  to  Jamaica  from  the  French  on  Hispaniola, 
tho  this  matter  do  not  directly  come  within  your 
Majesty's  order  to  us,  yet  it  seems  of  such  importance 
that  we  think  it  our  duty  to  lay  it  before  your  Majesty. 
In  relation  to  Newfoundland,  this  country  was  first  dis- 
covered by  Sir  Sebastian  Cabbot  in  1497,  at  the  charge 
and  for  the  use  of  King  Henry  VII.  King  Henry  VIII 
continued  the  English  interest  there,  and  sent  one 
Bute  to  make  a  settlement  in  Newfoundland.  Queen 
Elizabeth  sent  Sir  Humphrey  Gilbert  to  plant  a  Colony 
there,  who  possessed  the  Harbour  df  St.  John.  In 
1608,  John  Guy,  a  merchant  of  Bristol,  made  a  good 
settlement  there  also.  In  1623,  King  James  I  granted 
to  Sir  George  Calvert  that  part  of  Newfoundland  be- 
gining  Southerly  from  the  middle  of  a  neck  of  land 
lying  between  the  Harbours  of  Fermose  and  Aquaforte, 
all  along  the  coast  Northward  to  Petty  Harbour,  under 
the  name  of  Avason.  In  1628,  Sir  George  Calvert 
transported  himself  with  his  family  thither.  But  upon 
pretence  that  the  said  Sir  George  and  his  successors 
had  deserted  and  neglected  to  settle  the  said  country, 
it  was,  together  with  all  the  rest  of  Newfoundland', 
in  the  13th  year  of  the  reign  of  King  Charles  I,  1638, 
granted  to  the  Marquis  of  Hamilton,  Sir  David  Kirke 
and  others,  with  power  to  demand  and  receive,  as  an 
acknowledgement  of  the  King's  soveraignty  over  that 
country,  from  all  strangers  that  should  come  to  fish 
or  to  buy  fish  there,  or  within  30  leagues  thereof, 
10  per  cent  of  such  fish1,  one  moiety  lor  the  use  of 
the  King,  and  the  other  for  the  Proprietors.  We  find 
that  about  1660  the  French  did  fish1  at  Newfoundland, 
but  we  do  not  find  at  what  time  or  how  they  came  to 
make  their  settlement  there.  According  to  the  best 
information  we  can  get,  the  English  fishery  and  pos- 
session of  the  coast  of  Newfoundland,  about  the  time 
of  the  Treaty  of  Breda,  extended  from  Salvage  and 
Barrow  Harbour  (which  lye  to  the  Northward  of  Bona- 
vista)  to  Trepasty  (a  harbour  which  lyes  to  the  Westward 
of  Cape  Race)  inclusively ;  only,  in  the  Harbour  of 
Trepastey,  the  French  have  also  fished,  as  well  as  the 
English.  We  do  not  know  of  any  alterations  in  the 
possession  of  that  country  since  that  time,  until  the 
last  war,  when  the  French  made  several  attempts  upon 
some  of  the  English  harbours,  and  particularly  in  1694, 
they  attaqued  the  Port  of  Ferryland,  but  were  beaten 


332  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1709. 


off  with  loss.  In  1696,  they  took  St.  John's,  Ferryland, 
and  other  harbours,  and  generally  made  themselves 
masters  of  the  whole  coast,  but  quitted  the  same  before 
the  arrival  of  the  forces  sent  by  his  late  Majesty  to 
dispossess  them.  In  1705,  Monsieur  Subercasse,  the 
French  Governor  of  Placentia,  with  about  600  French 
and  Canadian  Indians,  attacked  the  Fort  of  St.  John's, 
but  were  repulsed  by  Capt.  Moody,  then  Commander 
of  that  Garrison.  In  December,  1708,  the  French, 
with  about  160  men,  took  the  Fort  of  St.  John's,  the 
particulars  whereof  are  not  come  to  our  hands.  What 
further  progress  the  French  may  have  made  there  is 
uncertain.  Off  of  Newfoundland,  and  within  the  limits 
granted  to  the  Marquis  of  Hamilton  etc.,  over  against 
Cape  Eace,  at  a  small  distance,  there  lyes  the  Great 
Bank  about  100  leagues  in  length  and  25  in  breadth ; 
on  this  Bank  the  French  employ  some  hundreds  of  ships 
yearly  in  fishing,  each  whereof  ma"kes  two,  and  some 
three  voyages  a  year,  which  is  of  great  advantage  to 
them  in  the  increase  of  their  seamen,  and  in  the  returns 
for  the  fish  they  send  to  forreign  markets;  they  fish 
upon  this  Bank  all  the  yea,r ;  whereas  on  the  coast,  we 
can  only  fish  from  May  20  to  August  20.  And  therefore 
we  humbly  offer  it  to  your  Majesty's  royal  consideration, 
whether  the  French  shall  continue  to  fish  upon  the  said 
Bank  or  no.  In  relation  to  Tobago,  in  1626,  Sir 
Thomas  Warner  took  actual  possession  of  all  the  Char- 
ribbee  Islands  (whereof  Tobago  is  one),  for  the  use 
of  the  Crown  of  England,  and  in  the  name  of  King 
Charles  I,  who,  by  letters  patents,  dated  June  2,  1627, 
and  confirmed  the  year  following,  granted  the  said 
Islands  to  James  Lord  Haye,  Earle  of  Carlisle,  his 
heirs  and  assignes,  who  held  the  same  in  propriety, 
under  the  protection  of  England,  till  the  patentees  made 
a  surrender  of  their  interest  'to  the  Crown.  Sometime 
after  the  Island  of  Barbados  had  been  settled  under 
the  grant  of  the  Earl  of  Carlisle,  a  considerable  number 
of  English  were  sent  from  thence  to  Tobago,  who  not 
only  retook  possession  thereof  under  the  command  or 
government  of  one  Ayris,  but  stay'd  there  till,  by 
reason  of  the  unhealthiness  of  the  country,  they  thought 
fit  to  draw  off  and  return  to  Barbadoes,  where  the  said 
Ayris  was  living  about  1699,  if  not  at  this  time,  and 
well  known  by  the  name  of  the  Governor  of  Tobago. 
Sometime  before  the  restoration  of  King  Charles,  the 
Duke  of  Courland,  intending  to  settle  a  Colony  in  the 
West  Indies,  took  advantage  of  the  disorders  in  Eng- 
land by  reason  of  the  Civil  Wars  and  possessed  himself 
of  the  Island  of  Tobago,  giving  permission  to  one 
Lampson,  a  rich  Zealander,  to  associate  himself  with 
the  undertakers  in  that  design,  he  paying  a  yearly 
acknowledgement  to  the  Duke  for  the  same.  In  1658, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  333 

1709. 

the  said  Duke  being  imprisoned  by  the  Swedes,  Lamp- 
son's  party  made  use  of  that  conjuncture  to  raise  a 
mutiny  in  the  Garrison  of  Tobago  against  the  Governor, 
whom  they  forced  to  capitulate  with  them  and  their 
adherents ;  and,  by  this  violent  act,  the  Lampsons  be- 
came masters  of  the  Fort  arid  Island  of  Tobago,  which 
usurpation  they  continued  for  some  years.  Upon  the 
Duke  of  Courland's  being  set  at  liberty,  he  made  appli- 
cation to  King  Charles  II  for  his  protection  and  leave 
to  reposess  himself  of  Tobago,  and  accordingly  ob- 
tained a  grant  thereof,  Nov.  17,  1664,  upon  certain 
conditions  which  show  an  acknowledgment  of  his  tenure 
from  the  Crown  of  England.  Notwithstanding  which 
grant,  the  Dutch  kept  their  footing  in  that  Island 
till  1665,  when  they  were  driven  out  by  the  English, 
and  upon  their  retaking  possession  without  leave  from 
England,  they  were  again  expelled  in  1672,  by  Sir 
Tobias  Bridge  and  Sir  William  Pool,  who  destroyed  the 
•  Fort  and  buildings  without  making  any  new  settlement, 

it  being  judged  sufficient  that  the  Government  of  the 
neighbouring  Island  of  Barbadoes  should  retain  the 
Island  of  Tobago  under  their  jurisdiction,  and  make 
use  of  it  on  all  necessary  occasions  as  depending  on 
that  Government,  thereby  preserving  the  title  of  the 
Crown  of  England,  and  hindering  any  other  nation 
from  beginning  a  settlement  there.  Nevertheless,  after 
the  peace  was  concluded,  the  Dutch  West  India  Com- 
pany took  upon  them  to  resettle  Tobago,  and  were  pos- 
sessed of  that  Island  until  the  war  they  had  with  the 
French  in  1676,  when  Count  d'Estree's  with  a  squadron 
of  ships  attacked  the  Island t  and  blowing  up  the  Fort, 
carryed  off  all  the  Dutch  inhabitants,  except  a  serjant', 
John  Hessen  of  Amsterdam,  and  two  other  Hollanders, 
who  continued  there  some  days  after  the  French  had 
entirely  abandoned  the  Island,  as  appears  by  the  depo- 
sitions of  the  said  John  Hessen  produced  by  the  Sieur 
Van  Benningen,  then  Ambassadour  from  the  States  in 
England,  who,  redemanding  some  negroes  that  were 
come  into  the  hands  of  a  Governor  of  one  of  your 
Majesty's  Charribbee  Islands,  did  alledge  that  the  Ad- 
miralty of  Amsterdam  remained  masters  of  the  Island, 
notwithstanding  the  depredation  of  the  French,  who 
had  made  but  a  transient  invasion,  without  stay  or 
settlement  there,  as  is  more  at  large  expressed  in  his 
Memorial.  In  this  desolate  state  the  Island  remained 
till  towards  1680,  when  the  Duke  of  Courland  had  once 
more  thoughts  of  resettling  it  under  the  grant  from  the 
Crown  of  England  as  aforesaid,  and  with  the  assistance 
of  Dutch  merchants  fitted  out  some  ships  in  Holland 
to  that  end,  but  with  little  or  no  success,  which  obliged 
the  Duke  to  have  again  recourse  to  the  Crown  of 
England,  arid  to  make  his  request  by  his  Agent  Baron 


334  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 


Blomberg  to  the  late  King  James  II,  in  1686,  that  H.M. 
would  be  pleased  to  encourage  the  settlement  of  the 
said  Island,  and  allow  some  of  his  English  subjects  to 
joyn  in  the  design,  with  others  that  should  be  employed 
by  the  Duke;  but,  upon  an  hearing  in  Council,  it  was 
then  declared  by  H.M.  Attorney  General  that  the  said 
Duke  not  having  duly  fulfilled  the  conditions  of  his 
contract  or  grant  from  King  Charles  II,  had  forfeited 
the  advantages  of  his  said  grant,  and  consequently 
any  right  the  Duke  could  pretend  to  by  virtue  thereof 
was  become  void  in  law,  and  returned  to  the  Crown. 
Notwithstanding  which  declaration,  a  fresh  encourage- 
ment has  been  given  by  the  Agents  of  the  Duke  of 
Courland  to  several  persons  here  in  England  to  resettle 
the  said  Island;  but  upon  our  humble  representation 
to  his  late  Majesty  of  May  18,  1699;  shewing  the  in- 
conveniencies  of  such  a  settlement,  H.M.  was  pleased, 
by  an  Order  of  Council  of  the  same  date,  not  to  allow 
thereof,  but  to  forbid  all  persons  to  proceed  on  that 
design,  either  from  England  or  any  other  place.  From 
which  deduction  of  matter  of  fact,  we  humbly  beg 
leave  to  infer,  that  the  possession  taken  of  Tobago  by 
Sir  Thomas  Warner  in  1626,  gave  King  Charles  I  a 
just  right  to  the  said  Island,  which  has  ever  since  con- 
tinued in  the  Crown  of  England,  and  is  now  undoubtly 
inherent  in  your  Majesty,  notwithstanding  the  pre- 
tentions  that  may  be  formed  to  the  contrary  by  any 
other  Prince  or  State  whatsoever,  for  the  reasons  fol- 
lowing; that  the  Duke  of  Courland  had  never  any  direct 
dominion  over  the  said  Island,  but  possesseti  it  only  by 
a  grant  and  tenure  from  King  Charles  II,  which  he 
forfeited,  as  aforesaid ;  that  the  incroachment  made 
by  the  Lampsons  on  the  Duke  of  Courland  was  a  meer 
usurpation,  which  could  in  no  wise  prejudice  the  original 
claim  of  the  English,  which',  however,  was  twice  as- 
serted by  two  entire  conquests  made  by  them  on  the 
Dutch  in  1665  and  1673,  since  which  time  the  Dutch 
have  not  acquired  any  new  title,  either  by  cession  or 
otherwise,  from  the  Crown  of  England.  So  that  the 
French  cannot  be  said  to  be  well  founded  in  their 
claim  to  this  Island,  either  by  what  they  call  a  conquest 
in  1676,  which  has  been  proved  to  be  no  more  than 
a  transitory  invasion  without  any  settlement,  barely 
affecting  the  Dutch  Colony  and  garrison,  or  by  treaty 
with  the  Dutch  in  1678,  who,  having  no  just  right  of 
their  own,  could  neither  lose  nor  transfer  any  right 
to  the  French  towards  the  invalidating  the  superior 
and  original  title  of  the  Crown  of  England.  And 
whereas  it  is  alledged  by  the  French  that  for  maintain- 
ing their  property  in  that  Isfand,  they  send  ships  twice 
a  year  to  Tobago,  to  hinder  any  other  nation  from 
taking  possession  thereof,  we  do  further  humbly  offer, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  335 

1709. 

that  the  coming  of  French  ships  to  Tobago  cannot  be 
understood  to  be  otherwise  than  by  allowance  for  the 
maintaining  a  friendly  correspondence  and  a  recipro- 
cal kindness  between  the  two  Crowns,  and  that  the 
continuance  of  possession  by  your  Majesty  is  much  more 
easily  proved  by  the  constant  frequenting  of  that  Island 
by  your  Majesty's  men  of  war  and  other  ships  of  your 
subjects,  which  resort  thither  daily  from  Barbados, 
and  stay  there  2  or  3  months  at  a  time  or  more,  to 
furnish  themselves  with  wood,  water  and  other  neces- 
saries in  the  said  Island,  which  depends  absolutely  on 
your  Majestys  Government  of  Barbadoes,  as  othsr  Is- 
lands lying  to  windward  of  Guardaloupe.  In  relation 
to  Dominico,  your  Majesty's  right  and  title  to  that 
Island  will  clearly  appear  from  the  considerations  fol- 
lowing, viz.,  that  from  the  first  discovery  thereof  by 
the  English,  that  Island  was  expressly  and  by  name 
contained  in  the  original  grant  made  of  the  Charribbee 
Islands  to  the  Earl  of  Carlisle  in  1627  and  has  con- 
stantly and  without  interuption  been  inserted  in  all 
Patents  and  Commissions  given  to  the  several  pro- 
prietors or  Captains  General  successively  from  that 
time  to  this,  and  has  ever  been  reputed  as  a  depend- 
ance  of  your  Majestys  Government  of  Barbadoes;  that 
upon  information  of  the  French  having  made  some 
encroachments  on  those  neighbour  Islands,  William 
Lord  Willoughby  (appointed  Governor  of  the  Char- 
ribbee Islands  in  1666)  had  a  particular  Instruction  to 
allow  no  stranger,  subject  to  any  other  Prince  or 
State,  to  inhabit  or  possess  any  place  contained  in  his 
Commission  (wherein  Dominico  and  Sta.  Lucia  were 
expressly  named)  but  such  as  should  acknowledge  H.M. 
sovereignty  there ;  and  was  likewise  order'd  to  streigh- 
ten,  distress  and  dispossess  any  of  the  French  King's 
subjects  who  should  have  taken  possession  of  any  Is- 
land named  in  his  Commission,  H.M.  being  resolved 
to  assert  his  right  to  those  Islands,  and  to  vindicate 
his  subjects  from  the  insolence  and  injuries  of  their 
neighbours ;  that  in  pursuance  of  this  Instruction  Lord 
Willoughby  went  to  Dominico  with  an  armed  force  to 
punish  the  Indian  inhabitants  for  some  injuries  done 
the  English,  and  soon  brought  them  to  a  composition, 
whereby  the  Chiefs  of  these  Charribbees  did,  by  a 
general  consent  in  March  1668,  surrender  and  convey 
the  said  Island  to  the  King  of  England,  putting  them- 
selves as  subjects  under  H.M.  protection  and  Govern- 
ment. This  they  did  by  an  instrument  in  writing 
sealed  and  delivered  in  the  most  solemn  and  ,-iuthentick 
manner  that  these  people  are  capable  off ;  the  truth 
whereof  was  attested  by  Edward  Littleton  Esq.,  who 
was  then  Secretary  to  his  Lordship,  and  had  the  said 
instrument  in  his  custody ;  that  in  consequence  of 


336  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 


this  pacification,  the  Lord  Willoughby  gave  a  com- 
mission to  Col.  Thomas  Warner  (whose  father  was 
Governor  of  St.  Christophers  and  his  mother  an  Indian 
woman),  to  be  Deputy  Governor  of  Dominico,  who 
for  several  years  maintained  the  Indians,  (then  the 
only  inhabitants  of  that  Island)  in  their  quiet  and  peace- 
able subjection;  that  the  first  dispute  to  the  contrary 
was  in  May  1672,  when  Col.  Codrington,  then  Deputy 
Governor  of  the  Charribbee  Islands  under  the  eaid 
Lord  Willoughby,  having  sent  some  men  from  Barba- 
-  does  for  the  better  peopling  of  Dominico,  Monsr.  de 
Baas,  (Governor  of  Martinico),  did  not  only  dispossess 
them,  but  burnt  their  houses,  and  warned  the  said 
Colonel  from  sending  men  thither  to  plant  any  more, 
lest  by  such  an  action  he  might  be  guilty  of  a  breach 
of  peace  then  settled  between  the  two  Crowns ;  by  one 
of  the  articles  or  conditions  of  which  peace,  he  pre- 
tended Dominico  was  to  remain  a  neuter  Island,  free 
to  the  Indians,  and  possessed  by  neither  nation,  whether 
English  or  French.  To  which  suggestion  answer  was 
made  by  the  then  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  in 
their  letter  to  my  Lord  Willoughby  of  Dec.  11,  1672,  that 
no  such  Articles  of  Peace  have  been  treated  on  here  or 
elsewhere  in  H.M.  name  by  his  order  or  direction  etc. 
(See  C.S.P.  1672.  992.  i.)  That  upon  the  death  of  the 
Lord  Willoughby  (in  April,  1673),  the  Government  of 
the  Windward  Islands  devolving  (as  appointed  by  his 
Commission)  on  the  President  'and  Council  of  Barbadoes, 
they,  in  order  to  secure  H.M1.  title  to  Dominico,  sent 
new  powers  to  Col.  Thomas  Warner,  of  the  same  tenure, 
with  that  Commission  formerly  given  him  by  the  Lord 
Willougby,  whereby  he  continued  Governor  over  that 
H.M.  Island  till  Dec.  27,  1674,  when  he  was  killed  by 
Col.  Philip  Warner,  and  others  from  Antego,  who  were 
tryed  in  1676,  for  the  crime  against  the  King  in  the 
loss  of  a  subject.  That  from  that  time  the  English 
have  not  thought  fit  to  plant  the  said  Island,  but  have 
left  it  unsettled  for  the  use  and  supply  of  Barbadoes, 
on  which  Government  it  has  always  been  reputed  to 
depend.  That,  as  an  instance  thereof,  Col.  Stede  (Lieut. 
Governor  of  Barbadoes  and  the  rest  of  the  Windward 
Islands),  after  having  published  on  Barbadoes  the  Treaty 
of  Peace  and  Neutrality  in  America,  sent  Capt.  Beach 
with  one  of  H.M.  frigates  to  make  a  like  publication 
of  the  said  Treaty  on  Dominico,  (as  a  part  of  his  Gov- 
ernment), which  was  done  accordingly  in  March  168f. 
and  the  Arms  of  England  were  solemnly  affixed  in  the 
most  eminent  places  of  the  said  Island,  as  an  ensign 
of  H.M.  Soveraignty  over  it.  That,  notwithstanding  all 
this  care  to  preserve  H.M.  right  to  Dominico,  some 
French  soon  after  got  thither  again,  which,  obliged 
Col.  Stede  by  H.M.  frigat  once  more  to  disturb  their 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  337 

1709. 

settlements  in  May,  1687,  by  burning1  their  hutts,  their 
fishing  tackle  and  canoes,  and  causing  a  French  ship 
to  be  seized  with  the  men  belonging  to  it  for  having 
cut  wood  there  without  leave.  That,  to  prevent  further 
disputes  with  the  French  upon  this  and  the  like  oc- 
casions, Commissioners  were  appointed  in  1688,  to  treat 
with  Mounsr.  Barillon,  then  French  Ambassador  here, 
for  determining  the  respective  Colonies,  Islands,  etc., 
belonging  to  each  nation;  and  Instructions  were  dis- 
patched to  Col.  Stede,  to  send  an  exact  account  of  the 
boundaries  and  limits  of  his  Government  of  Barbadoes, 
and  of  the  Islands  and  Territories  depending  thereon. 
In  pursuance  whereof  he  gave  a  Commission  to  several 
of  the  Council  of  Barbadoes,  to  make  enquiry  into 
H.M.  title  to  St.  Lucia,  St.  Vincent  and  Dominica, 
who  from  the  depositions  of  the  most  aged  and  best 
knowing  persons  then  living  in  those  parts,  formed  a 
Eeport  (Sept.  23,  1688),  whereby  it  appears  (to  use 
his  own  words)  "that  H.M.  had  an  undoubted  and  sole 
right  to  these  three  Islands,  and  that  the  French  have 
not  truly  any  shaddow  or  colour  of  pretence  thereto ;" 
but  this  Eeport  not  arriving  in  England  till  after  the 
late  war  with  France  broke  out,  the  Commissioners 
appointed  on  both  sides  for  settling  the  respective  limits 
in  America  (as  abovementioned)  separated  without  com- 
ing to  any  agreement.  And  whereas  the  'French  have 
acquired  no  new  title  to  any  of  these  Islands  in  dispute., 
either  by  right  of  conquest  during  the  course  of  the 
late  war,  or  by  any  condition  expressed  in  the  late 
Treaty  of  Peace,  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  your 
Majesty  has  an  intire  right  of  soveraignty  over  "the 
Island  of  Dominico.  In  relation  to  Sta.  lAicia,  a  general 
discovery  was  made  of  all  the  Charribbee  Islands  by 
Thomas  Warner  in  1626,  who  took  possession  of  St. 
Lucia  in  particular,  and  left  there  one  Major  Judge  as 
Governor.  King  Charles  I,  made  a  grant  of  all  the 
said  Islands  to  the  Earl  of  Carlisle  in  1627 ;  who  setled 
St.  Lucia,  in  1635  and  1637,  by  English  Colonies  from 
Bermuda ;  in  1638  by  a  Colony  from  St.  Christophers ; 
and  in  1640,  1644  and  1645,  by  Colonies  from  Barba- 
does. In  1663,  the  English  from  Barbadoes,  con- 
tracted with  the  Indians  for  the  full  and  absolute 
purchase  of  St.  Lucia,  on  valuable  considerations ;  as 
appears  by  a  deed  of  conveyance  signed  by  Anna- 
Watta,  the  Babba  (or  Chief  Governor)  Thomas  Warner, 
an  Indian  and  two  others  of  that  nation,  by  the  consent 
and  in  the  behalf  of  all  their  people.  By  vertue  of 
this  deed,  Francis,  Lord  Willoughby,  Captain  General 
over  all  the  Charribbee  Islands,  sent  a  regiment  of 
foot  from  Barbados  to  St.  Lucia  in  1664,  under  the 
command  of  Col.  Carew,  to  whom  the  four  Indian 
Princes  or  Captains  abovementioned  gave  and  deliver'd 
Wt.  u  r,2  2.  OP  22 


338  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


by  a  solemn  manner  of  turf  and  twigg,  in  behalf 
of  themselves  and  the  rest  of  the  Indian  Proprietors,  all 
their  right,  title  and  interest  to  the  said  Island;  and 
accordingly  Col.  Carew  remained  there  as  Deputy  Gov- 
ernor. From  that  time,  St.  Lucia  has  been  reputed  a 
dependance  on  the  Government  of  Barbados,  and  as 
such,  has  been  constantly  inserted  in  all  Commissions 
and  Instructions  given  to  the  respective  Governors, 
particularly  the  Lord  William  Willoughby  was,  in  1666, 
directed  to  streighten  distress  and  dispossess  any  of 
the  French  King's  subjects,  or  others,  who  might  offer 
to  possess  themselves  of  the  said  Island.  The  first 
pretention  formed  by  the  French  to  St.  Lucia,  was 
in  1685,  when,  under  colour  of  hunting,  fishing  and 
cutting  wood  for  the  use  of  Martinico,  they  built  houses 
and  made  some  small  settlements  there ;  upon  notice 
whereof,  Instructions  were  sent  by  King  James  to  Col. 
Stede,  then  Lieut.  Governor  of  Barbados,  to  pause  all 
forreigners,  unless  they  submitted  themselves  and  ac- 
knowledged the  King  of  England's  sovereignty  over 
that  Island,  to  remove  from  thence,  and  on  this  and 
all  occasions  to  renew  H.M.  claim  and  possession.  In 
pursuance  of  these  orders,  Col.  Stede,  in  July,  1686, 
sent  Capt.  Temple,  Commander  of  one  of  H.M.  frigats, 
to  Sta.  Lucia,  where  he  immediately  summoned  such 
of  the  French  as  cou'd  be  found  upon  the  Island,  and', 
in  their  presence,  published  H.M.  title  to  the  said 
Island,  by  a  solemn  Proclamation,  and  erected  in  the 
chief  Ports,  the  Arms  of  England  as  an  Ensign  of  H.M. 
soveraignty  over  that  Island ;  caused  all  the  French  in- 
habitants to  be  transported  to  Martinico,  and  writ  a 
letter  to  the  French  Governor  there,  Count  de  Blennac, 
giving  him  notice  of  what  he  had  done,  requiring  him 
withal  not  to  suffer  any  within  his  Government  to  cutt 
wood,  plant,  fish  or  hunt  in  or  about  Sta.  Lucia, 
without  leave  first  obtained  from  H.M.  Governor  of 
Barbados.  Count  Blennac  complained  of  these  pro- 
ceedings, but  the  effect  of  these  memoirs  presented  by 
the  French  Ambassador  here  upon  that  subject  was., 
that  King  James  thought  fit  again  to  assert  his  title,  and 
Capt.  Temple  was  commissionated  a  second  time  to 
drive  off  from  Sta.  Lucia  such  foreigners  as  'he  should 
find  there,  to  demolish  their  houses  and  to  destroy 
their  settlements,  which  he  accordingly  executed,  and 
was  actually  in  possession  of  the  said  Island  in  the 
beginning  of  Nov.,  1686,  and  at  the  very  time  when 
there  was  concluded  at  Whitehall  the  Treaty  of  Peace 
and  Neutrality,  by  Article  4  whereof  it  was  agreed 
that  both  Kings  should  have  and  retain  all  they  then 
possess'd  in  America.  Capt.  Temple  staid  on  Sta. 
Lucia  with  a  fleet  of  merchantmen  (who  were  cutting 
wood)  till  the  middle  of  January  following,  and  no 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  339 

1709. 

French  vessels  were  suffer 'd  to  arrive  there.  In  March 
168|,  Col.  Stede  published  the  said  Articles  of  Neu- 
trality in  Sta.  Lucia  as  a  Dependance  on  his  Govern- 
ment, and  caused  his  said  Majesty's  Arms  to  be  affix'd 
in  the  most  eminent  places  there,  as  a  fresh  .assertion 
of  his  sovereignty  over  the  said  Island.  In  March 
168|,  some  French  being  crept  once  more  into  the 
Island,  Capt.  Wren  disturbed  their  settlements,  and 
again  asserted  the  ancient  right  of  the  Crown  of  Eng- 
land. In  June  1699,  Col.  Grey,  Governor  of  Barbadoes, 
had  notice  that  some  French  were  observed  to  inhabit 
the  said  Island,  and  had  employed  negroes  in  order  to 
a  settlement.  Whereupon  King  William  was  pleased  to 
renew  the  Order  formerly  sent  to  Col.  Stede,  di- 
recting Col.  Grey  to  pursue  the  same,  by  giving 
notice  to  the  French  or  any  other  foreigners  who 
are  settled,  or  may  hereafter  pretend  to  settle 
there,  that  unless  they  remove  from  off  that  Island, 
and  discontinue  their  settlement,  he  should  dis- 
possess them  by  force  and  send  'em  off  the  said  Island. 
From  all  which  it  is  evident  that  your  Majesty  has  an 
entire  right  of  sovereignty  over  the  Island  of  Sta. 
Lucia,  by  all  the  grounds  and  titles  whereby  property 
can  either  be  acquired  or  reserved,  viz.  by  first  dis- 
covery in  1626 ;  by  so  frequent  settlements  as  amount 
to  a  constant  possession ;  by  purchase  from  the  natives ; 
by  having  preserv'd  the  English  title  to  this  Island  ex- 
pressly and  by  name,  without  interruption,  in  all  Patents 
and  Commissions;  by  having  at  several  times  vindi- 
cated and  asserted  that  title  by  force  of  arms,  driving 
away  all  forreigners  as  often  as  they  pretended  to 
make  settlements  there,  without  leave  ;  by  solemn  Procla- 
mations and  Ensigns  of  sovereignty,  and  by  actual 
possession  confirmed  to  the  English  by  Article  4  of 
the  Treaty  of  Peace  and  Neutrality,  in  America,  .  in 
1686.  Annexed, 

554.  i.  A  Deduction  of  the  title  of  the  Crown  of  Great  Britain 
and  the  Hudson's  Bay  Company  to  that  territory. 

554.  ii.  Memorial  of  the  Hudson's  Bay  Company.     See  May 

23,  1709. 

554.  iii.  Capt.  John  Alden's  Memorial  re  Nova  Scotia.  See 
C.S.P.  1700,  No.  402.  iii. 

554.  iv.  Memorial  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  to  the  Queen.  Oct.  20,  1708.  See  May 

24,  1709. 

554.  v.   Testimony  of  John  Swasey  and  William  Gigles.    See 

C.S.P.   1698,   No.   922.  iv. 
554.  vi.  M.   de  Villebon  to  Mr.    Stoughton.     Sept.   5,    1698. 

See  C.S.P.   1698.     No.  922.  i. 
554.  vii.  M.  Denys  to  the  King  of  France.     See  C.S.P.  1700. 

No.   402.     iv. 
554    viii.  Lords    Proprietors    of    Carolina    to    the    Council    of 

Trade  and  Plantations,  May  26,  1709.  q.v. 


340 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

554.  ix.  Memorial  by  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations, 

1697,    relating    to    the    right    of    the    Crown    of    Great 

Britain   to   the   soveraignty   over  the    Five   Nations    of 

Indians. 
554.  x.  Memorial  from  Col.  Nicholas  Bayard  relating  to  same. 

July,   1698.     See  C.S.P.    1698.     No.   644. 
554.  xi.  Deposition  of  William  Teller  relating  to  same.     See 

C.S.P.,    1698.     tfo.    643. 
554.  xii.  Abstract    of   proceedings    between   the    English   and 

French  from  the  Treaty  of  Breda  to  1677,  relating  to 

St.   Kitts. 
554.  xiii.  Observations  by  the  Council  of  Trade  on  the  Treaty 

of   1686.     See  C.S.P.    1699.     p.   67. 
554.  xiv.  Memorial  by  Richard  Harris.    See  May  25,  supra. 

[C.O.  324,  9.     pp.  294-399.] 

June  2.         555.     Extract    of    above    Representation    relating    to    Tobago 
(1715).     [C.O.   285,   2.     No.   2.] 

June  2.         556.     Extract  of  above  Representation  relating  to  Sta.  Lucia. 
[C.O    253.  1.     No.  1.] 


June  2. 

St.  James's. 


June  2. 
St.  James's. 


June  3. 

Whitehall. 


557.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Referring  following  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report.  Signed,  John 
Povey.  Endorsed,  Reed,  llth,  Read  13th  June,  1709.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

557.  i.  Peregrine,   Marquis  of  Carmarthen,   to  the   Queen  in 

Council.  Urges  suppression  of  pirates  at  Madagascar, 
and  gives  warning  of  an  intended  expedition  thither 
under  one  Captain  Breholt.  See  A.P.C.II.  ATo.  1090. 
Copy.  2 f  pp.  [C.O.  323,  6.  Nos.  77,  77.  i.;  and  324, 
9.  pp.  400-405.] 

558.  Order   of   Queen    in   Council.     Referring   following  to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  examine  and  report  upon. 
Signed,   John   Povey.     Endorsed,   Reed.    Read   Feb.   21,    170^-. 
1  p.    Enclosed, 

558.  i.  James   Campbell  to  the  Queen.     Prays  to  be  recom- 

pensed for  his  losses  (£9000)  in  Newfoundland  etc. 
at  the  hands  of  the  French,  and  for  his  services  in  the 
defence  of  St.  Johns,  1705,  and  in  giving  intelligence 
of  the  state  of  affairs  in  Newfoundland,  etc.  Copy. 
2|  pp.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  126,  126.1. ;  and  195,  5. 
pp.  93-96;  and  129-132.] 

559.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Mr. 
Gordon  \see  March  24  supra'] ,  has  produced  to  us  two  certificates 
signifying   that   it   do's   not   appear   that  the   Act   of   Barbados 
referred  to  has  been  either  confirmed  or  repealed  by  the  Crown. 
[C.O.  29,  11.     pp.  458,  459.] 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


341 


1709. 
Juno  3. 

Whitehall. 


June  4. 

St.  James's. 


Juno  8. 

Whitehall. 


June  9. 

Whitehall. 


June  9. 

TJ  easury 
Chambers. 


560.  Council  of   Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lord  High 
Treasurer.     There   was   due   to   the  Commission   for  Trade   and 
Plantations    one    whole    year's    salary   at   Lady   Day   last    past, 
besides  what  is  incurr'd  since.     We  pray  your  favourable  order 
therein.     [C.O.  389,  36.     p.  422.] 

561.  Copy  of  H.M.  Warrant  for  payment  of  £24  a  day  for 

the  support  of  the  poor  German  Protestant  Eefugees,  over  and 
above  the  £16  already  granted.  Countersigned,  Godolphin.  En- 
dorsed, Becd.  Bead  June  23,  1709.  If  pp.  [C.O.  388,  76. 
No.  77.] 

562.  Bobert   Pringle    to    Mr.    Popple.     Encloses    following,, 
and  requests  that  a  Commission  and  Instructions  be  transmitted 
to    the    Earl  of   Sunderland   to   be  laid   before   H.M.      Signed, 
Bo.  Pringle.     Endorsed,  Becd.  Bead  June  9,  1709.     1  p.    En- 
closed, { 

562.  i.  Mr.  Burchett  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.     Prays  for 

a  Commission  for  the  Commodore  of  the  convoy  to  New- 
foundland, Capt.  Joseph  Taylor,  H.M.S.  Litchfeild,  to 
command  at  land  (v.  Jan.  27,  1709).  The  last  men 
of  war  bound  convoy  thither  are  now  under  sailing! 
orders,  etc.  Copy,  f  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  94,  94. 
i.;  and  195,  5.  pp.  96,  97.] 

563.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Park  fa]. 
Since  ours  of  Feb.  24,  we  have  reed,   none  from  you.     Refer 
to  passage  in   his  letter   of  Nov.   14,    1708,   relating   to  leakage* 
of  intelligence,  which  being  an  imputation  upon  somebody,  and 
a  matter   fit  to  be  inquired  into,  we  therefore  desire  that  you 
will   inform  yourself   as   particularly  as   you  can  what  the   in- 
telligence was,  who  the  persons  were  that  received  it,  ana  also 
if  possible  from  whom  they  had  it,  and  to  give  us  an  account 
thereof   as   soon   as   possible,   that  we  may  thereupon   do  what 
shall  then  appear  proper  on  that  occasion.     Having  been  again 
attended    by    Mr.    Arthur    Freeman    in   relation   to    the    Act   of 
Antigua  (c/.  May  9,  1707)  and  having  received  no  answer  from' 
you  in  that  matter,   we  again  transmit  copies  of  the  Act  and 
Attorney  General's  report,  and  desire  that  you  will  examine  the 
several  matters  therein  mentioned,  and  return  to  us  as  soon  as 
may  be  a  particular  accot.  thereof,  as  is  proposed  by  the  said 
Report.     [C.O.   153,   10.     pp.   358,  359.] 

564.  Mr.  Bendyshe  to  Mr.   Popple.     Encloses  following.    I 
shall  be  very  glad  if  the  poor  man  may  obtain  the  favour  desired. 
Signed,   Tho.  Bendyshe.     Endorsed,  Becd.  June  10,  Bead  July 
5/1709.     ip.     Enclosed, 

564.  i.  Bichard  Jurdine,  a  linen-draper  in  Cambridge,  having 
inherited  an  estate  in  Antigua,  prays  for  a  recom- 
mendatory letter  to  the  Governor  and  Council  to  see 
that  justice  be  done  him  with  despatch,  etc.  [C.O. 
152,  8.  Nos.  21,  21.i. ;  and  153,  10.  pp.  360,  361.] 


342 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 
Juno  9. 
[9.4m. 
(Jun.J] 


Juno  9. 

Whitehall. 


June  9. 

Whitehall. 


June  9. 

St.  James's. 


June  9. 

Craven 
House. 


565.  Mr.  Penn  to  Mr.  Popple.    Hond.   Frd.    I  beg  leave  to 
have  the  boundarys  of  Ld.  Baltimore's  Patent  in  order  to  my 
defence,    and   ye   date   of   it,   wth.   any  other  things   or   papers 
yt.  are  reasonably  to  be  graunted  refering  therunto,  wch.  will  much 
oblige,  Thy  assured  and  affect,  ffrd.  Wm.  Penn.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  June   9,   1709.     Addressed.     Holograph.     I  p.      \C.O.   5, 
716.     No.  64;  and  5,  727.     pp.  120,  121.] 

566.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose  following  to  be  laid  before  H.M.    Enclosed, 

566.  i.  Draught  of  Commission  for  Capt.  Taylour  to  command 

at  land  in  Newfoundland  during  his  stay  there,  and 
of  Instructions  for  the  better  putting  in  execution  'the 
Act  for  redressing  abuses  practised  by  masters  of  ships 
etc.  in  those  parts. 

Similar  to  those  given  to  former  Commodores.  [C.O. 
195,  5.     pp.   98-105.] 

567.  Mr.  Popple  to  Josiah  Burchett.     The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  not  knowing  in  what  condition  our  settlements 
at  Newfoundland  may  be  in  by  reason  of  the  late  attempts  by 
the  French,  they  do  not  see  what  proper  queries  can  be  framed 
to   be   given   to    the    Commodore    for   this    year;    howeve*   they 
think   it   will   be  of  service   that  the   usual   Heads   of   Enquiry 
and  Additional  Instructions,  tho'  it  is  not  expected  the  Commo- 
dore shou'd  answer  them  all,  be  given  to  him  entire,  for  such 
answers    as    he    shall    be    able    to    make;    and    therefore    their 
Lordships  have  commanded  me  to  send  you  the  said  enquiries 
here   inclosed,    which  you  will   please   to  lay   before   my   Lord 
High  Admiral  for  his  Lordship's  directions  therein.     Enclosed., 

567.  i.  Heads    of    Enquiry    and    Additional    Instructions    for 

the  Commodore  of  the  Newfoundland  Convoy.  Same 
as  last  year.  [C.O.  195,  5.  -pp.  105-109.] 

568.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Repealing  clauses  in  an 
Act  of   Barbados,    1667,   concerning  clerks  and  marshals'  fees, 
whereby  judges  are  empowered  to  appoint  their  own  marshals, 
as  encroaching  on  Mr.  Gordon's  Office  etc.     The  Governor  is  to 
endeavour  with  the  Assembly  that  clauses  in  an  Excise  'Act  of 

1708,  empowering  Commissioners  of  Assembly  to  appoint  their 
own  Marshals   be  also  repealed,  or  that  he  return  an  account 
to  H.M.   of  the  objections  against  repealing  it.     The  Governor 
is  to  protect  Mr.  Gordon  in  his  office  and  not  to  pass  any  law 
prejudicial  to  the  rights  and  perquisites  of  the  office  of  Provost 
Marshal.      Set   out,    A.P.C.II.    1093.    q.v.,    and   June    3    supra. 
Signed,   John  Povey.     Endorsed,   Reed.    15th,   Read  25th  Oct.. 

1709.  2|  pp.    [(7.0.28,12.   Nos.  42;  and  (first  part  only)   41; 
and  29,  12.    pp.  29-33.] 

569.  Warrant  of  the  Lords  Proprietors  granting  5000  acres 
in  S.  Carolina  to  Abel  Ketelbey,  ID  consideration  of  £100  purchase 
money  and  a  quit-rent  of  10/s.  per  1000  acres.     Signed,  Craven, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


343 


June  11. 

Whitehall. 


1709. 

Palatine,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J.   Colleton,  J.  Danson.      \C.O. 
5,  289.     p.  220.] 

57O.  Mr.  Pringle  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following. 
Signed,  Ro.  Pringle.  Endorsed,  Reed.  13th,  Read  15th  June, 
1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

570.  i.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Whitehall.  June  11.  You  are  to  discourse 
with  my  Lord  Chamberlain's  Agents  and  report  upon 
the  following  proposal  with  all  the  despatch  possible. 
Signed,  Sunderland.  1  p. 

570.  ii.  Proposal  by  the  Marquis  of  Kent,  Lord  Chamberlain, 

to    allot    lands    in    Herefordshire    and    Gloucestershire 

to    the    German    Protestant   Refugees.     1£    pp.     [C.O. 

.  388,   76.     Nos.   66,   66.  i.,ii. ;   and  389,   36.     pp.  423- 

426.] 

June  13.  571.  Col.  Jenings  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Virginia.  I  have  but  just  time  to  acknowledge  the  honour  of  diverse 
letters  from  your  Lordps.  by  the  convoy  wch.  arrived  within 
the  Capes  last  night,  not  one  ship  of  the  Fleet  missing.  I  have 
called  a  Council  for  advising  of  your  Lordps.'  commands,  but 
beg  your  Lordps.  will  excuse  me  that  I  cannot  have  one  iso 
suddenly  as  to  be  able  to  return  your  Lordships  a  particular 
answer  by  the  ships  now  bound  out ;  they  chiefly  belong  to 
Maryland,  and  will  not  stay,  tho'  I  have  written  to,  and  daily 
expect  the  homeward  bound  men  of  war  from  New  York  to  take 
them  and  some  others  of  this  Colony  under  convoy.  Refers  to 
letter  of  March  22  relating  to  fitting  out  a  briganteen.  That 
preparation  has  been  very  usefull  in  frighting  the  enemy  from 
attempting  anything  within  our  Capes ;  tho'  they  have  done  much 
dammage  on  both  sides  of  us,  by  plundering  the  Horekills,  a 
town  on  the  mouth  of  Delaware,  and  the  inhabitants  of  Corro- 
tuck  in  North  Carolina,  and  they  have  owned  to  some  of  their 
prisoners  that  they  would  have  done  the  like  to  Virginia,  but  that 
they  found  us  on  our  guard.  Since  there's  a  guard  ship  now 
arrived,  I  shall  ease  H.M.  Revenues  by  discharging  the  brigan- 
teen, and  by  the  next  opportunity  send  your  Lordps.  an  account 
of  the  charge  thereof.  I  hope  in  a  few  days  to  have  the  honour 
of  writing  to  your  Lordps.  more  fully  by  the  men  of  war  from 
New  York  if  I  can  prevail  with  them  to  stay  any  time ;  but 
am  afraid  they  will  not,  having  on  board  my  Lady  Lovelace  and 
her  family,  who  on  the  unfortunate  death  of  my  Lord  (a  Gentle- 
man very  much  lamented)  is  returning  home  and  will  no  doubt 
be  impatient  to  be  in  England.  Signed,  E.  Jenings.  Endorsed^ 
Reed.  Aug.  30,  Read  Sept.  5,  1709.  2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1316. 
No.  32 :  and  5,  1362.  pp.  413,  414.] 

June  14.        572.     Copy   of    H.M.    Warrant   for   payment    of  £40   a   day 
St.  James's,    for  support  of  2000  more  German  Protestant  Refugees,  in  ad- 
dition   to    the    £40    already    granted    (June   4).     Countersigned., 
Godolphin.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  June  23,  1709.     2  pp.  [C.O. 

388,  76.     No.   78.] 


344  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709, 

June  14.  573.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and- Plan- 
Jamaica,  tations.  Acknowledges  letters  of  Feb.  24,  March  10,  July  13, 
Aug.  4,  13,  23,  Nov.  25  and  Dec.  15,  H.M..  additional  Instruc- 
tions, and  two  Privy  Seals,  one  for  Col.  Mumbee,  the  other 
for  Cap.  Peeke  to  be  of  the  Councill.  As  to  what  you  mention 
about  the  six  cruisers,  I  mean  six  nimble  ships  from  40  to 
50  guns  for  convoys  to  our  trade  to  the  Spanish  coast,  and 
to  prevent  the  French  bringing  any  merchantable  goods  to 
dispose  of  to  the  Spaniards,  by  which  means  it  will  enricih 
the  British  subjects,  and  destroy  the  interest  of  the  French. 
As  to  the  giving  an  exact  account  of  prizes,  I  have  always 
given  the  best  I  could  learn,  being  no  way  interested  in  them. 
I  have  consulted  the  Planters  and  Factors  about  the  number  of 
negroes  the  Island  will  have  occasion  for  yearly,  but  cannot 
find  any  that  can  make  a  true  estimate  of  the  matter,  it  being 
uncertain  what  improvements  are  yearly  made  of  land,  or  what 
negroes  may  die,  or  run  into  the  woods  and  mountains  from! 
their  masters.  As  to  the  oath  bf  office,  all  patentees  that  come 
into  these  parts  take  the  oaths  the  Law  requires.  As  to  the 
Flaggs  of  Truce  from  the  Spaniards,  it  is  still  my  opinion  they 
only  come  as  spys,  to  know  what  ships  are  out  a  cruizing,  and 
what  are  in  port,  tho'  all  possible  care  is  taken  to  prevent  it, 
for  the  Spanish  prisoners  are  constantly  sent  home  by  our  sloops 
that  go  daily  to  the  Spanish  coast,  and  our  prisoners  brought 
from  them  by  the  same  vessells,  so  that  they  have  no  occasion 
to  come  upon  any  other  score  than  as  spys.  Your  Lops,  say 
you  do  not  doubt  but  I  know  where  to  malte  application  for, 
the  mony  I  have  disbursed  for  private  intelligence.  It  has 
been  my  misfortune  these  38  years  never  to  have  much  time 
to  make  application  to  Court,  and  that  is  the  reason  I  am  so 
much  a  stranger  where  to  apply  myself  now  in  this  affair, 
unless  to  your  Lops,  or  the  Secretary  of  State,  whom  1  look 
upon  as  patrons  to  all  Governors,  and  therefore  must  begg 
your  Lops.'  favour  in  assisting  my  agent  there  on  this  behalf. 
I  find  that  one  of  the  persons  I  had  intelligence  from  has  been 
clapt  up  betwixt  5  and  six  months  upon  suspicion,  and  likewise 
two  others  have  been  in  prison  these  18  months  at  Petit  Guavas 
upon  the  same  account,  tho'  I  had  no  correspondence  with  them. 
So  that  that  expence  will  now  be  at  an  end,  which  if  ,tha 
war  continues  will  be  very  uneasy  for  the  gentleman  that  re- 
lieves. The  fourth  instant  was  brought  in  here  by  a  Jamaica 
privateer  a  Spanish  brigantine  loaden  with  corn  and  earthen 
ware  of  a  small  value.  I  send  your  Lops,  herewith  enclosed  a 
list-  of  the  escheats  found  for  the  Queen  this  Grand  Court,  with 
the  value  of  them,  most  of  which  are  only  land  that  has  lain 
unmanured  for  these  30  or  40  years,  and  pays  no  quitt  rent  to 
H.M..  which  if  she  is  pleased  shall  be  disposed  of,  may  be  of 
service  to  severall  familys  lately  come  from  St.  Christophers  and 
the  other  Windward  Islands,  where  they  have  been  forced  by 
the  enemy  to  leave  their  places  of  abode,  to  settle  in  Jamaica, 
and  therefore  I  desire  your  Lops.'  speedy  answer  herein.  Being 
informed  that  there  was  a  quantity  of  ambergreese  taken  up  at 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES. 


345 


1709. 

Withywood  of  about  '20lb.  weight,  Wlb.  of  which  being  exposed 
to  sale,  and  it  plainly  appearing  to  me  that  it  was  taken  up 
within  the  ebbing  and  flowing  of  the  water,  I  caused  it  to 
be  seized  by  the  navall  officer  on  behalf  of  the  Queen,  and 
ordered  the  prosecution  of  the  person,  who  had  the  other  half, 
as  the  Law  directs ;  but  finding  that  it  would  go  in  the  Grand 
Court  against  the  Queen,  as  everything  does  where  there  is 
the  least  shadow  to  take  hold  of,  I  ordered  the  Attorney  Gerierall 
and  Col.  Brodrick  to  demand  a  speciall  verdict,  which  was 
possitively  refused,  and  which  in  my  opinion  is  contrary  to  the 
known  Laws  of  England.  I  therefore  send  your  Lops,  here  en- 
closed the  papers  relating  to  it,  and  desire  they  may  be  laid 
before  H.M.  Attorney  General  and  what  other  Gentlemen  of  the 
Law  your  Lops,  think  fitt,  to  know  if  H.M.  has  had  justice  done 
her,  and  what  methods  are  to  be  further  used  about  it.  The 
Wlb.  that  was  seized  by  the  Navall  Officer  I  have  ordered  him 
to  return  to  the  person  from  whom  he  had  it,  that  I  may  be 
at  no  further  expence  in  the  matter,  having  fee'd  the  Lawyers 
out  of  my  own  pockett,  who  would  do  nothing  without  ready 
mony,  and  there  is  no  allowance  for  it  out  of  the  Treasury ^ 
Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  6,  Read  Nov.  11, 
1709,  5  pp.  Enclosed, 

573.  i.  List  of  escheats  found  for  the  Queen  at  the  Grand 
Court  in  Jamaica,  1709.  5  lots  of  land  and  some 
negroes.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

573.  ii.  Deposition  of  A.  Nowlan.  He  purchased  20Z&.  of 
ambergrease,  thinking  it  to  be  pitch  for  his  canoe, 
from  James  Litchell  who  keeps  a  storehouse  belonging 
to  Humphrey  Mumby,  William  Kingston  and  John 
Hutchinson.  At  a  horse-race  at  Salt  Savanna  his 
brother  in  law,  James  Davis,  shewed  it  to  Dr.  Trapham 
who  assured  him  it  was  very  good  ambergrease.  To  avoid 
a  law  suit,  he  shared  it  with  Mumby.  His  half  was 
seized  by  William  Norris,  H.M.  Naval  Officer.  See 
supra.  Signed,  Arthur  Nowlan.  Same  endorsement. 
Ip.  [C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  66,  66.i.,ii. ;  and  (without 
enclosures)  138,  13.  pp.  40-46.] 

June  15.         574.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,     derland.     Reply  to  June  11.     We  have  discoursed  with  the  Lord 
Chamberlain's  Agent,  who  hopes  to  make  his  proposal  compleat 
in  a  week  or  ten  days  time,  etc.     [C.O.  389,  36.     p.  427.] 

[June  16.]  575.  List  of  persons  concerned  in  Capt.  Breholt's  intended 
expedition  to  Madagascar.  See  June  2  supra.  The  Earl  of 
Morton;  Hon.  Charles  Egerton,  Sir  John  Bennett,  Sir  David 
Nairne;  Sir  James  Gray,  Paul  Jodrell,  the  Earl  of  Carlisle,  etc. 
etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  June  16.  1  p.  [C.O.  323,  6.  No. 
78.] 

June  16.          576.     Order  of   Queen   in  Council.     Mathew  Newnam's  fine 
St.  James's,    is  remitted  etc.  as  proposed  in  Representation  of  July  15,  1708. 


346 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


June  16. 
Barbadoes. 


June  16. 

Perth  Amboy. 


v.  A.P.C.,II.  No.  1097.  Signed,  John  Povey.  Endorsed,  Reed;. 
5th,  Read  10th  Nov.  1709.  1±  pp.  [O.O.  37,  9.  ATo.  2;  and 
38,  6.  pp.  473,  474.] 

577.  G.  Newport  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  was  one  of  those  who 
signed  an  Address  to  Governor  Crowe  protesting  against  the 
Address  of  the  Assembly  requesting  him  not  to  restore  the  3 
Councillors  as  directed  by  H.M.  A  few  days  later  I  justified1 
my  action  when  challenged  by  Col.  Maycock.  Six  or  seven  days 
later  I  was  summoned  to  appear  before  Joseph  Brown  to  give 
an  account  of  some  words  spoken  by  Col.  Maycock  to  me,  which 
reflected  upon  the  honour  and  justice  of  H.M.  I  went  and 
gave  my  deposition  of  May  23,  1709,  by  which  you'l  perceive 
that  the  words  that  gave  offence  are  Col.  Maycock's  saying  the 
Queen  was  surprised  or  spiritted  into  the  Order  for  restoringi 
the  Councellors.  On  June  1  H.E.  issued  an  order  to  a  cooper, 
one  Mr.  Conningham,  and  at  present  a  J.P.  too,  commanding 
him  to  summon  before  him  Col.  Hallet,  Col.  Terril,  Mr.  Roberts, 
Mr.  Townsend,  and  two  Jews,  and  to  take  their  depositions  re- 
lating to  my  aforesaid  discourse  with  Col.  Maycock.  I  was 
not  allowed  to  cross-examine  them,  but  they  could  not  give 
any  tolerable  account  of  the  affair,  or  tell  one  single  word  of 
what  I  said  in  answer  to  Col.  Maycock.  All  the  time  Col.  May- 
cock  was  whispering  the  Justice  and  the  deponents,  and  had 
free  liberty  to  ask  what  he  pleased.  This  proceeded  from  the 
awe  that  Col.  Maycock  has  over  the  Justice,  who  is  but  a  poor 
cooper,  and  Col.  Maycock  is  Treasurer,  and,  (which  'is  the  greatest 
post  that  ever  was  in  the  Island)  Commissioner  for  paying  of 
Bank-notes  ;  he  is  Chief  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas 
and  Col.  of  the  Regiment,  and  Commander  of  the  Forts  and 
matrosses  in  the  division  where  he  lives  and  consequently  can- 
not but  be  Assembly-man  for  the  parish,  and  bring  in  such  of 
his  creatures  as  he  pleases,  etc.  Signed,  G.  Newport.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  5th,  Read  15th  Aug.  1709.  3£  pp.  Enclosed, 

577.  i.  Deposition    of    George    Newport,    as    to    his    interview 

with  Col.  Maycock,  as  supra.  May  3,  1709.  1  p.  fC.O. 
28,  12.  Nos.  38,  38.  i.  ;  and  (without  enclosure)  29, 
12.  pp.  6-12.] 

578.  Col.  Ingoldesby  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Refers    to   former   letters.     I    have  not   been  favored   with   one 
line  in  answer.     I  presume  \_your~\  Lordshipps  may  already  have 
received  notice  of  the  death  of  my  Lord  Lovelace,  and  from  his 
Lady  the  minutes  of  all  lhat  passed  either  in  Councill  or  'As- 
s[embly],  with  other  publique  transactions  dureing  his  Govern- 
ment,  since  the   Secretary  hath  ass[urec£]    me  that  as  to  what 
relates   to    his   office   and   duty,   he   hath    delivered   two   coppys 
to  her  Lordsp.   [sic]  [to]  be  transmitted  home.     Togeather  with 
this  your  Lordships  will  receive  an  accompt  of  what  passed  in 
both  Governments  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  since  [7  have] 
had  the  administration  thereof,  and  hope  nothing  will  be  found 
wanting  that  your  L[ordships]   expect  to  have  returned  by  me, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  347 

1709. 

although  I  cannot  but  acquaint  your  Lordships  that  [the]  multi- 
plicity of  business  ocationed  by  my  Lord  Lovelace's  coming 
into  the  Government,  [so  suddain]  death,  and  the  arivall  of  Col. 
Nicholson  and  Col.  Vetch  with  H.M.  commands  to  call  the 
Assembly  in  each  Province,  and  to  give  them  all  possible  assist- 
ance in  that  great  and  glorious  designe  hath  rendred  it  very 
dificult  to  comply  with  H.M.  instructions  soe  [punctually]  as  I 
might  otherwise  have  done,  and  may  excuse  ine  to  your  Lord- 
ships in  case  there  shou'd  happen  to  be  anything  omitted.  The 
present  state  of  the  Governmt.  your  Lordships  will  be  fully 
acquainted  with  by  the  papers  you  will  receive  with  this  letter, 
and  your  wisdomes  will  discerne  the  unhappy  causes  of  the 
non- comply ance  of  the  Province  of  New  Jersey  with  H.M.  com- 
mands in  the  supplying  the  expected  Quotas  of  men  and  money 
for  the  reduction  of  Canada  to  precede  partly  from  the  admision 
of  Quakers  into  the  Assembly  and  Governmt.,  and  partly  from  the 
factious  and  turbulent  spiritt  of  some  other  persons  in  this 
Government,  and  is  a  full  confirmation  of  all  that  hath  formerly 
been  wrot  to  your  Lordships  on  that  head,  although  your  Lord- 
ships have  all  the  voates  of  the  Assembly  and  proceedings  in 
Councill  before  you,  yet  I  cannot  omit  mentioning  two  or  three 
of  them  [as]  a  sufficient  demonstration  of  the  truth  of  my  as- 
sertion. May  31.  p.m. :  Motion  being  made,  and  the  question 
being  putt  whither  this  house  would  detacih  men  for  the  present 
expedition,  it  passed  in  the  negative.  June  3,  1709  ;  Resolved 
the  following  words  [in]  the  Address  to  Col.  Nicholson,  vizt. 
that  his  honnor  would  obleige  our  Province  and  nation  by  takeing 
on  him  the  supreame  command  of  the  forces  employed  against 
[Canada]  by  land,  this  House  takes  to  signifie  none  but  such 
as  volluntarily  doe  list  themselves  under  his  command.  June  9 : 
Thie  engrossed  bill  for  the  raiseing  of  £3000  for  H.M.  service 
was  read  the  third  time,  and  uppon  question  put,  was  rejected. 
Mr.  Gardner,  on  behalfe  of  the  People  called  Quakers  that  were 
members  of  this  house,  desired  that  the  following  entry  might 
be  made,  vizt.,  the  Members  of  this  [house']  being  of  the  people 
called  Quakers,  have  always  been  and  still  are  for  raiseing 
[rrisOney]  for  the  support  of  H.M'.  Governments.  But  to  raise 
money  for  the  raiseing  souldiers  [is]  against  their  religious 
principles,  and  for  conscience  cannot  agree  thereto.  I  cannot 
[but]  observe  that  had  the  Bill  passed  as  it  was  rejected,  it 
would  not  have  [been]  very  servisable,  since  the  sum  of  £3000 
was  to  be  paid  to  such  as  volluntarily  [enlisted]  themselves  to 
goo  on  this  presant  expedition,  and  hot  otherwise,  so  that  if 
there  ware  not  [two]  hundred  vollunteers  out  of  this  Province, 
there  was  no  provision  for  any  men  that  ware  [detached]  out 
of  the  Militia.  I  doe  assure  your  Lordshipps  I  have  left  no  stone 
unturned  to  man[i/es£]  my  zeale  and  diligence  in  this  matter 
and  heartily  sorry  that  it  hath  miscarried.  I  think  it  my  duty 
further  to  acquaint  your  Lordships  that  there  are  two  of  H.M. 
Council  dead  that  are  mentioned  in  my  Lord  Lovelace's  In- 
structions, vizt.  Mr.  Davenport  and  Capt.  Andrew  Bowrie,  and 
two  being  at  that  time  removed,  vizt.,  Mr.  Revell  and  Mr. 


348  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

Leeds,  who  both  resided  in  the  Western  Division,  that  are  two 
of  the  Members  of  the  Councill  for  that  Division  still  wanting. 
I  have  therefore  according  to  H.M.  Instructions  sent  a  list  of 
the  names  of  such  persons  as  I  beleive  most  proper  to  fill 
up  the  said  vacancys,  which  I  think  is  for  H.M.  service  to 
be  spedily  [done],  that  we  may  have  as  many  of  the  Councill 
as  is  posible  to  assist  on  all  occations.  To  acquaint  your 
Lordships  that  the  Assembly  has  raised  nothing  for  the  support 
of  the  Government  and  payment  of  sallaries  of  the  officers  nor 
contingent  charges  of  expresses ;  that  I  have  received  no  more 
then  two  years  sallary  since  my  arivall  here  in  this  Province, 
and  have  maintained  the  honor  of  my  post  and  service  of  H.M, 
at  my  owne  expence  without  any  manner  of  reward  for  about 
4  years,  is  but  to  say  what  I  beleive  your  Lordships  are  already 
acquainted  withall,  ooiely  I  thinke  it  a  justice  due  to  myselfe 
to  assure  your  Lordships  that  in  all  the  course  of  my  adminis- 
tration here,  I  dare  challenge  every  individuall  man  in  both 
the  Provinces  to  instance  in  any  one  thing  that  they  have  been 
wronged,  or  might  have  any  just  complaint  against  me,  and 
therefore  cannot  but  hope  that  I  may  have  your  Lordships' 
recommendations  of  me  to  H.M.,  either  for  the  continuance  of 
me[?z]  in  the  chief  command  of  these  Governments,  or  such 
other  provition  as  may  in  some  measure  reimburse  me  for  my 
time  and  expences.  I  have  been  many  years  always  in  the 
.service  of  the  Crowne,  and  have  had  the  honor  of  beareing  a 
Commition  under  it,  and  am  shure  have  never  violated  either 
my  honor  or  the  trust  reposed  in  me,  therefore  thinke  have  a 
just  pretention  to  this  post  that  the  death  of  my  Lord  Lovelace 
and  H.M.  Commission  hath  placed  me  in,  and  hope  that  I  may 
receive  a  confirmation  thereof  from  H.M.  by  her  Letters  Pattents. 
At  the  desire  of  the  Gentlemen  of  H.M.  Councill  and  for  the 
reasons  alledged  in  the  Address  that  your  Lordships  will  see 
in  the  Minutes  of  the  Councill,  I  have  thought  it  for  H.M. 
service  to  suspend  Lewis  Morris  Esq.  from  being  one  of  H.M. 
Councill  or  any  other  office  or  place  of  profit  or  trust  in  this 
Province  untill  H.M.  pleasure  be  farther  known  and  cannot 
but  beleive  that  H.M.  will  see  it  to  be  for  her  service  to  confirme 
the  same.  My  Lords,  although  the  stubborness  of  the  Assembly 
in  not  complying  with  H.M.  commands  relateing  to  the  Ex- 
pedition occationed  my  adjourning  of  them  by  the  advice  of 
H.M  Councill,  yet  that  nothing  may  be  left  untried  to  forward 
the  same  I  have  called  them  againe  to  meet  at  Burlington  the 
21st  inst.,  and  hope  they  may  be  prevailed  with  to  study  their 
own  interest  and  H.M.  service.  Signed,  Richd.  Ingoldesby. 
Endorsed,  Eecd.  Aug.  20,  Read  Sept.  5,  1709.  2  pp.  \C.O.  5, 
970.  No.  82 ;  and  5,  994.  pp.  474-480.] 

June  17.         579.     William  Penn  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

[17  curtt.]  Honble.  Friends,  I  humbly  pray  yt.  I  may  have  a  free  access, 
or  my  clark  and  agent  for  me,  to  the  Records  of  yr.  Office  in 
reference  to  affaires  of  America,  especially  of  Virginia,  Mary- 
land and  Pennsylvania,  wth.  coppyes  of  such  records  us  I 


AMERICA   AND   WEST  INDIES. 


349 


Juno  17. 

Philada. 


1709. 

shall  need  and  you  will  much  oblige  your  very  resp^ectfuT] 
friend,  Signed,  Wm.  Penn.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  June  20,  1709. 
Addressed.  Holograph,  f  p.  [O.O.  5,  1264.  A7o.  70;  and  5, 
1292.  p.  137.] 

58O.  Lt.  Governor  Gookin  to  Col.  Nicholson  and  Col.  Vetch;. 
In  answer  to  yours  of  13th  inst.,  notwithstanding  all  I  could  say, 
assisted  by  ye  Councill  and  most  of  ye  men  of  note  in  ye  Town, 
Quakers  and  others,  ye  Assembly  sent  me  their  last  answer  in 
these  words,  "Resolved,  n.c.d.,  that  they  cannot  raise  money 
directly  or  indirectly  for  ye  expedition "  to  Canada,"  to  wch. 
they  added  they  were  preparing  a  Bill  for  raising  £500  as  a 
present  to  ye  Queen  for  her  favours  etc.,  which  should  be 
ready  at  their  'next  meeting  on  Aug.  15th,  tho'  I  told  them 
'twould  not  be  convenient  to  adjourne  but  from  day  to  day 
till  some  matters  of  moment  I  had  to  communicate  to  them1 
were  answered,  nor  will  they  do  anything  to  defend  their  own 
coasts  or  encourage  our  neighbouring  Indians,  who  have  offered 
their  assistance,  alledging  for  all  their  religeous  principalls,  so 
that  there  is  nothing  to  be  expected  from  hence.  When  you 
write  to  ye  Ministry  at  home,  I  hope  you  will  do  me  ye 
justice  to  acquaint  them  how  far  I  have  obeyed  H.M.  com- 
mands, as  I  shall  also  do  myselfe,  and  transmitt  to  them  ye 
Minutes  of  Councill  with  ye  proceedings  of  ye  Assembly,  and 
whatever  else  may  be  thought  necessary  to  justify  such  of  this 
Province  as  are  zealous  for  H.M.  honored  service.  Signed, 
Charles  Gookin.  Holograph.  £p.  [C.O.  5,  1234.  No.  1.] 

[June  17.]  581.  Accounts  of  receipts  and  disbursements  on  behalf  of 
the  German  Protestant  Refugees,  May  17— June  17,  1709.  Signed, 
J  .Tribbeko,  A.  Ruperti.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June  21,  1709.  4  pp. 

[C.O.  388,  76.     Nos.  71-74.] 

June  18.        582.     The   Queen   to   Governor   Crowe.    Instructions    in  the 
St.  James's      case  of  George  Gordon  as  June  9,  supra.     Signed,  A.R.    [O.O. 
5,  210.    pp.  152-154.] 

June  18.  583.  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  the  Council 
Barbados,  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Our  complaints  against  Governor 
Crowe  have  given  your  Lordships'  Board  much  trouble,  but 
we  hope  the  papers  which  will  be  now  layd  before  your  Lordships 
will  entirely  put  an  end  to  it.  Repeat  part  of  May  14.  Pursuant 
to  H.M.  Order,  Jan.  22,  we  did  this  day  goe  Pilgrim,  the 
Governor's  residence,  with  a  copy  of  our  Representation  and 
severall  affidavits  and  other  proofs  to  make  good  our  charge 
conteyned  therein.  He  refused  us  admittance,  and  sent  us  a 
message  by  Mr.  Barron,  Depty.  Clerk  of  the  Council  that  he 
wou'd  receive  no  papers  from  us  that  required  debate.  We 
replied  that  these  papers  requir'd  no  debate  and  would  not  admit 
of  any,  and  explained  what  they  were,  but  were  obliged  to 
return  without  delivering  them.  Mr.  Crowe's  insolent  disobe- 
dience his  unaccountable  conduct  in  this  as  well  as  on  most 


350  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

other  occasions,  has  brougiht  on  him  the  contempt  of  every  one 
of  all  partyes  who  has  common  sense,  and  the  just  indignation 
of  those  who  have  any  share  of  honour  or  probity.  Signed, 
Wm.  Sharpe,  Saml.  Beresford,  Alexander  Walker.  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  30th  July,  Read  Aug.  2,  1709.  2  pp.  Enclosed, 
583.  i.  List  of  enclosures.  If  pp. 

583.  ii.  Representation  by  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Alex- 
ander to  Governor  Crowe.  Your  refusal  to  obey  H  M. 
Order  of  Jan.  22  (v.  infra,  No.iv.),  is  a  plain  proof 
that  your  Excellency  is  conscious  of  the  truth  of  ye 
several  charges  in  our  Representation.  Enclose  proofs. 
If  any  particular  charge  shall  seem  imperfectly  made 
out,  'tis  not  for  want  of  evidence,  but  because  your 
Excellency  has  refus'd  to  order  us  summons  as  H.M. 
directs.  Within  two  days  after  the  receipt  of  H.M. 
Order  you  did  (as  you  formerly  had  done  just  before 
Mr  Walker's  tryal)  by  a  private  supersedeas  turn  15 
gentlemen  out  of  ye  Commission  of  the  Peace,  without 
ye  consent  or  privity  of  ye  Council,  which  is  contrary 
to  an  Act  passed  by  yourself,  whereby  your  Excellency, 
dureing  our  suspension,  has  given  up  that  part  of  H.M. 
prerogative  of  makeing  or  displacing  Justices  without 
the  consent  of  Council.  Whether  these  Gentlemen,  who 
are  men  of  known  probity  and  moderation  were  not 
displac'd  on  purpose  to  prevent  our  applying  to  them, 
we  leave  all  impartial  men  to  judge.  If  you  will  please 
to  signify  H.M.  pleasure  to  Mr.  Beckles,  or  such  other 
magistrate  as  we  shall  name,  we  can  upon  every  gen- 
eral head  of  complaint  produce  many  more  instances  of 
ye  truth  of  them.  However  we  believe  the  annexed 
papers  will  suffice.  Enclosures  analysed  and  amplified. 
We  could  prove  many  more  matters  of  a  higher 
nature,  if  possible,  then  any  contein'd  in  our  Repre- 
sentation, but  we  shall  only  mention  two:  (1)  Your 
exacting  from  Mr.  Cox  a  second  obligation  to  pay  you 
a  considerable  summ  for  the  Naval  Office,  after  you 
had  receiv'd  a  severe  repremand  from  ye  Lords  of 
Trade  on  that  occasion.  (2)  Your  permitting  the  sloop 
Neptune,  Hugh  Christian,  master,  to  sail  before  she 
came  to  a  tryal,  whilest  she  was  under  a  seisure  and 
libell'd  on  some  depositions  you  had  yourself  taken  to 
prover  her  guilty  of  the  breach  of  ye  Acts  of  Trade 
etc.  The  reasons  are  very  publickly  talkt  of,  etc. 
(3)  Your  intercepting,  breaking  open  and  concealing 
a  letter  from  the  Government  of  Surinam  to  Mr.  Sharpe 
and  Mr.  Cox.  To  do  right  to  ourselves,  we  insist  upon 
it,  that  your  Excellency  will  give  us  copys  of  all  the 
depositions  you  have  caused  to  be  taken  against  us, 
and  of  whatever  else  you  have  written  home  against 
us,  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker,  SamL 
Beresford.  Barbados,  June  16,  1709.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
July  30,  Read  Aug.  10,  1709.  7  pp. 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  351 

1709, 

583.  iii.  Same  to  Same.  May  12,  1709.  Pray  H.E.  to  instruct 
Thomas  Beckles  or  another  judge  to  take  depositions  as 
ordered  Jan.  22,  1709.  Signed  as  preceding.  1  p. 

583.  iv.  Governor  Crowe's  Reply  to  preceding.  Barbados,  May 
16,  1709.  By  H.M.  .Order  Jan.  22  directions  were  given 
to  send  him  a  coppy  of  their  late  Representation,  which 
has  not  been  done.  Complainants  inform  him  they  have 
not  received  one  either,  so  that  he  cannot  make  any 
answer  thereto,  or  cross-examine  any  wittnesses.  etc. 
Signed,  M.  Crowe.  1  p. 

583.  v.  Reply  to  preceding.  May  18,  1709.  The  Representa- 
tion referred  to  is  that  of  which  your  Excellency  on 
May  12  owned  you  had  the  original  still  by  you.  We 
pray  for  a  copy  of  the  answer  you  say  you  have  already 
sent  home,  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker, 
Saml.  Beresford.  1£  pp. 

583.  vi.  Copy  of  Supersedeas  signed  by  Governor  Crowe,  Pil- 
grim, Dec.  7,  1708,  for  removing  William  Sharpe,  Alex- 
ander Walker,  Samuel  Beresford,  Raynes  Bate,  Alex- 
ander Anderson,  Thomas  Sandiford,  Richard  Sandiford, 
Mathew  Keynell,  Charles  Egerton,  Francis  Alexander, 
Peter  Mascoll,  John  Rushworth,  and  Joseph  Tod  from 
the  Commission  of  the  Peace,  f  p. 

583.  vii.  Copy  of  Supersedeas,  signed  by  Governor  Crowe, 
Pilgrim,  May  11,  1709,  removing  Joseph  Salmon,  John 
Sandford,  Benjamin  Bullard,  Thomas  Prideaux,  George 
Forster,  Daniel  Hooper,  Joseph  Hannis,  Robert  Vau- 
ghan,  Zachary  Shute,  Robert  Lottis  Hooper,  Othniel 
Haggath,  Thomas  Stewart,  Thomas  Roulston,  John 
Dome,  and  Richard  Wiltshire  from  the  Commission  of 
the  Peace.  1  p. 

583.  viii.  Certificate  that  H.E.  and  Council  met  48  times  dur- 
ing the  suspension  of  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Cox,  Milles  and 
Walker,  Aug.  26,  1707— June  1,  1708.  Signed,  A. 
Skene,  Secry.  June  1,  1709.  %  p. 

583.  ix.  Certificate  that  from  June  1st,  1708,  the  day  the 
above  were  restored,  to  Sept.  25th,  the  day  Messrs. 
Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  were  suspended,  H.E. 
and  Council  met  3  times.  Signed  as  preceding.  %  p. 

583.  x.  List  of  meetings  and  adjournments  of  Assembly  of 
Barbados,  May— Sept.  1708.  Signed,  William  Grace, 
Cl.  of  Assembly.  1  p. 

583.  xi.  Votes  of  Assembly,  June  5,  1707,  of  £200  for  repair 
of  roof  and  completing  stables  etc.  at  Pilgrim's,  and 
£500  currt.  money  to  H.E.  for  his  habitation  etc., 
July  18,  1707,  and  £500  for  furnishing  H.E.'s  cellars, 
May,  1708.  8.i  pp. 

583.  xii.  Minutes  of  Assembly  of  Barbados,  May  18 — Aug. 
31,  1708.  1\  pp. 

583.  xiii.  Inhabitants  of  Bridge  Towne  to  Governor  Crowe. 
Petitioners'  Representatives  having  communicated  to 
them  the  heads  of  a  Bill  prepareing  by  the  Assembly 


352  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


to  impower  the  Publick  Treasurer  to  issue  a  verry 
great  summe  in  noates  from  2/6  to  £10  for  dischargeing 
the  publick  debts,  petitioners  laid  before  the  House 
the  great  losses  the  Island  had  sustained  by  the  last 
paper  money,  together  with  their  apprehensions  that 
any  attempt  to  establish  any  other  paper  credit  would 
yet  more  discourage  trade,  and  prayed  that  the  said 
Bill  containing  matters  of  an  extraordinary  nature 
might  not  pass  that  House  nor  any  noats  issue  thereon 
untill  H.M.  most  gracious  pleasure  should  first  be 
known,  and  that  in  the  meanetime  some  effectual! 
course  might  be  taken  for  dischargeing  the  Bank  and 
Country  noates  allready  issued  by  the  former  Lawes, 
the  time  for  paying  the  same  haveing  been  long  since 
elapsed.  Notwithstanding  which  that  House  hath  past 
the  said  Bill,  and  as  if  they  had  conceived  a  displeasure 
against  petitioners,  have  layed  4  times  a  greater  tax 
on  them,  in  this  great  decay  of  trade  then  wass  ever 
knowne  even  in  the  times  when  the  number  of  in- 
habitants were  considerably  greater  and  our  commerce 
at  the  highest.  In  1692,  when  a  verry  considerable 
tax  was  raised  of  4s.  per  head  on  negros  and  £12  on 
each  windmill,  the  proportion  of  this  towne  was  on 
the  Christian  inhabitants  £675,  and  on  the  Jews  £750, 
and  in  1704,  when  a  verry  great  summe  was  raised 
for  dischargeing  the  publick  debts  5s.  per  head  was 
laid  upon  negroes  and  £5  upon  each  windmill,  the 
proportion  laid  on  the  Christian  inhabitants  of  this 
towne  was  £1500  and  on  the  Jews  £750,  which  was  soe 
grievious  that  the  vestry  found  it  almost  impossible 
to  raise,  and  occasioned  several  of  the  poore  inhabi- 
tants to  leave  the  Island,  and  yet  in  this  intended  levey, 
when  5s.  per  head  is  laid  on  negroes  and  £4  only  on 
each  windmill,  the  whole  tax  amounting  to  £23,129.  15s. 
the  Christian  inhabitants  of  this  towne  are  taxed  £6000, 
the  Jews  £1500,  besides  the  lawyers,  pattentees  and 
other  officers,  which  amount  to  above  ^rd  of  the  whole 
tax.  Yet  the  proportion  would  have  been  considerably 
lessened  if  any  regard  had  been  had  to  the  present 
great  decay  of  trade,  the  number  of  merchant  vessels 
haveing  decreased  from  552  in  1701  to  178  the  last 
year.  And  which  is  yet  a  greater  hardshipp,  the  in- 
habitants of  this  towne  are  the  greatest  creditors  of 
the  publick,  to  whome  chiefly  the  debts  intended  to  be 
discharged  by  this  Bill  are  due,  soe  that  should  the  same 
pass  into  a  Law,  petitioners  will  be  oblidged  them- 
selves to  pay  above  £rd  of  the  debts  due  to  themselves, 
and  to  goe  without  the  remainder  or  receive  the  same 
in  the  designed  noates,  which  they  have  noe  hopes  to 
pass  away  under  50  p.c.  loss,  that  discount  haveing 
been  on  the  former,  soe  that  those  who  have  credited 
the  publick  will  be  forct  after  soe  long  a  stay  to  com- 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  353 

1709. 

pound  for  halfe  their  just  debts.  Pray  that  their  pro- 
portion be  justly  laid,  that  no  notes  be  issued  until 
H.M.  pleasure  be  known,  and  that  the  Assembly  be 
recommended  to  relieve  those  who  have  the  State  Bank 
and  Country  noates  lyeing  by  them  useless  and  unpaid. 
102  signatures.  1  large  p. 

683.  xiv.  Copy  of  proceedings  in  a  Court  of  Chancery,  held 
by  Governor  Crowe,  Feb.  20,  1707.  Mitford  Crowe  v. 
Butler  Chamberlin  (see  No.  xv.)  H.E.  acquainted  the 
Board  that  he  was  a  party  in  this  cause  and  desired 
them  to  consider  it.  The  Board  decided  that  the  in- 
junction formerly  granted  in  this  cause  should  remain 
perpetual.  Whereupon  H.E.,  at  their  unanimous  re- 
quest, ordered  accordingly.  Leave  to  appeal  granted, 
if  appealable.  1|  pp. 

583.  xv.  Manasses    Gilligan   and   Butler,    his   wife,    formerly 
But'er   Chamberlaine,  administratrix  of  Sir  Jclin  Witham, 
•  Bart.,   to   Governor   Crowe.     Liberty  to   appeal  having 

been  granted,  provided  petitioners  applyed  for  a  warrant 
of  appraisment  to  appraise  the  negroes,  in  question, 
and  they  be  found  to  amount  to  the  vallue  of  £500., 
they  now  apply  for  such  warrant.  Granted  by  H.E. 
March  20,  170f.  1£  pp. 

583.  xvi.  Governor  Crowe's  warrant  appointing  Commissioners 
of  appraisement  as  desired  in  preceding.  Signed,  M. 
Crowe.  March  23,  1707.  Copy.  I  p. 

583.  xvii.  Appraisement  of  negroes  on  Chappell  Plantation, 
belonging  to  the  late  Sir  Willoughby  Chamberlaine,  as 
ordered  xv.  xvi.  supra.  Total  value,  £565.  April  15, 
1707.  Signed,  John  Frere,  John  Bowman,  Ja.  Ayns- 
worth,  John  Bushworth.  Copy.  1  p. 

583.  xviii.  (a)  Manuel  Manasses  Gilligan  and  Butler,  his  wife, 
to  Governor  Crowe.  Pray  for  copies  of  proceedings 
in  above  case,  in  order  to  an  Appeal  to  H.M.  accord- 
ingly. Signed,  Tho.  Hodges,  James  Cowse.  Overleaf, 
(b)  Governor  Crowe's  order  rejecting  above  petition, 
because  the  warrant  of  appraisement  was  not  duely 
executed,  nor  the  return  thereof  regularly  made.  Pil- 
grim, April  24,  1708.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Copy.  The 
whole,  1£  pp. 

583.  xix.  (a)  William  Eayner  and  Eleanor,  his  wife,  to  Gov- 
ernor Crowe.  Pray  that  William  Copp  be  kept  in  close 
custody  till  he  comply  with  an  order  of  the  Court 
and  pay  costs  in  a  certain  case,  he  having  been  com- 
mitted for  contempt  in  not  paying,  but  being  now  at 
large.  Signed,  Wm.  Bayner,  Elenor  Rayner. 

(b)  Governor  Crowe's  order  for  hearing  this  petition 
next  petitioning  day.    Pilgrim,  Aug.   9,   1707.    Signed, 
M.    Crowe. 

(c)  Order  that  Wm.  Copps  pay  William  Baynor  the 
above-mentioned  costs   in  two  months.    Pilgrim.    Aug. 
11,   1707.    Signed,  M.   Crowe.    2  pp. 

Wt.  11522.  CP23. 


354  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

583  xx.,  xxi.  Case  of  the  Hon.  Middleton  Chamberlain,  by 
his  Attorney  Dorothy  Chamberlain  his  wife,  and  Doro- 
thy Chamberlain  and  Eliza.  Nanfan,  the  co-heiresses 
of  William  Chester,  senr.,  v.  John  Egginton.  Upon  the 
petition  of  the  latter,  H.E.  ordered  that  it  be  heard 
before  him  next  Chancery  day  in  course,  and  that 
meantime  no  attachment  do  issue  against  petitioner,, 
for  want  of  an  answer.  Pilgrim,  Aug.  9,  1708.  Copy. 
4  pp. 

683.  xtii.  Proceedings  at  a  Court  of  Chancery  held  by  Gov- 
ernor Crowe,  May  12,  1708.  In  the  case  of  John  Milles 
v.  Constance  Shatterdon,  3  of  the  Council  were  of  opinion 
that  defendant's  demurrer  was  good,  arid  two  of  them 
together  with  H.E.  that  it  ought  to  be  overruled. 
Whereupon  H.E.  ordered  it  to  be  rejected.  Copy.  I  p. 

583.  xxiii.  Proceedings  at  a  Court  of  Chancery  held  by  Gov- 
ernor Crowe,  March  12,  1708.  In  the  case  of  Sir  John 
Colleton  v.  the  Hon.  John  Colleton,  defendant's  Coun- 
cill  moving  for  costs,  complainant's  bill  being  dismist, 
H.E.  ordered  the  said  motion  to  be  continued,  there 
being  no  Court  without  the  Hoe.  John  Colleton.  Copy. 

1  p. 

583.  xxiv.  Governor  Crowe  v.  Cuthbert  Mittford.  Chancery 
Court,  Barbados.  Complainants  filed  their  bill  June  b, 
1705.  A  series  of  delays  up  till  July  22,  1707,  since 
which  no  proceedings.  Copy.  1  p. 

583.  xxv.  Richard  Williams  to  Governor  Crowe.  Aug.  11,  1707. 
Petitioner  sold  a  negro  to  Capt.  John  Summers  for 
£30,  of  which  he  has  only -paid  40s.  Prays  for  relief, 
having  lost  his  all  in  a  fire.  Signed,  Richard  Williams. 
H.E.  Order  for  Capt.  Summers  to  attend  next  petitioning 
day.  Capt.  Summers  said  he  could  not  do  so.  On  Aug. 
18  Governor  Crowe  ordered  Capt.  Summers  to  pay 
Williams  £28  in  a  month.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Copy. 

2  pp. 

583.  xxvi.  Deposition  of  Humphry  Waterman,  jr.  In  Aug., 
1707,  he  was  possest  of  some  negroes  he  had  pur- 
chassed  at  a  publick  outcry.  Philip  Bamfeild  pretend- 
ing hie  had  a  right  to  them,  Governor  Crowe  on 
his  petition  ordered  deponent  to  attend.  After  treating 
him  with  the  greatest  rudeness  and  most  vilifying  ex- 
pressions, without  allowing  him  or  his  Counsil  a  due 
liberty  of  speaking  in  his  defence  and  without  hearing 
any  evidences  sworne  on  either  side,  he  ordered  him 
to  deliver  the  negroes  to  Bamfeild.  Deponent  con- 
ceiveing  H.E.  had  noe  power  to  determine  rights  or 
titles  to  estates  of  inheritance,  refused  to  obey.  Where- 
upon he  was  informed  that  a  warrant  did  issue  to 
imprison  him,  but  upon  his  offering  to  support  himself 
as  an  English  subject  and  to  surrender  himself, 
he  heard  noe  more  of  the  affair.  H.E.  told  deponent 
in  the  hearing  of  Bamfeild,  that  if  he,  Bamfeild,  should 


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1709. 

shoot  him,  he  would  serve  him  but  right  enough,  and 
within  a  short  time  afterwards  deponent  rideing  quietly 
and  unarmed  in  the  Queen's  highway,  Bamfeild  brought 
out  a  gunn  and  discharged  it  at  him,  shooting  his  horse 
in  the  shoulder,  which  died.  Signed,  H.  Waterman. 

1J  PP- 

583.  xxvii.  Deposition  of  Adrian  Martin,  Planter.  On  July 
8,  1707,  upon  the  petition  of  his  wife  setting  forth 
grievances  against  him,  which  deponent  offered  to  dis- 
prove, Governor  Crowe,  in  spite  of  his  protests,  or- 
dered said  petition  to  be  endorsed  that  deponent  had 
agreed  that  his  wife  should  have  his  only  house  with  3 
acres  of  land  and  3  negroes  to  live  upon.  H.E.  called 
him  a  rogue,  and  told  him  if  ever  he  went  near  his 
wife  or  said  house  he  would  send  him  to  gaol,  and 
turning  to  Mr.  Sharpe  said,  what  a  sad  misfortune  'tis 
we  have  not  gallys  for  such  rogues  as  this,  etc.  Signed, 
Adrian  Martin,  f  p. 

583.  xxviii.  Deposition  of  William  Anderson.  In  Oct.  1707, 
being  then  Marshall  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  and 
having  leveyd  an  execution  on  the  estate  of  Thomas 
Dowding,  deed.,  at  the  suite  of  the  Attorneys  of  John 
Gardner,  merchant  of  London,  deponent  was  servod 
with  an  order  from  H.E.  to  appear  at  Pilgrim  on  a 
petition  of  Mr.  Stephen  Gibbs  against  the  aforesaid 
attorneys.  H.E.,  upon  hearing  the  said  petition,  or- 
dered that  deponent  should  forbear  any  further  pro- 
ceedings in  the  aforesd.  executions.  He  did  30,  til 
some  time  after,  upon  a  hearing  of  this  matter  before 
H.E.  and  Council  deponent  had  liberty  to  proceed  on 
the  said  execution.  Signed,  Wm.  Anderson. 

583.  xxix.  (a)  Copy  of  an  execution  against  Eobert  Arnol  issued 
by  Edward  Burk,  Chief  Baron  of  the  Court  of  Exchequer, 
Jan.  28,  1707.  Signed,  Ed.  Burk.  Copy.  1  p. 

(b)  Proceedings  were  begun  in  accordance  with  above 
order,  Feb.  28,  170|,  but  stopped  by  the  Governor's 
order  for  12  months.  Signed,  Arch.  Darroch,  Mar- 
shall. |  p. 

583.  xxx.  (a)  Copy  of  an  execution  against  Mathew  Gray, 
issued  as  xxix.  (a).  Jan.  31,  1707.  Signed,  Ed.  Burk. 
I  p. 

(b)  Proceedings  were  begun,  but  stopped  by  the 
Governor's  order,  as  xxix.  (b).  Signed,  Arch.  Darroch. 
1  p. 

583  xxxi.  Similar  execution  against  John  Smith,  issued  by 
Ed.  Burk  Feb;.  3,  1707,  and  stopped  by  the  Governor's 
order.  Signed  as  preceding.  1  p. 

583.  xxxii.  Similar  execution  against  Charles  Payton,  issued 
by  Ed.  Burk  Feb.  3,  1707,  and  stopped  by  the  Gov- 
ernor's order.  Signed  as  preceding.  1  p. 

583.  xxxiii.  Petition  of  Katherine  Herbert,  wife  and  attorney 
of  Capt.  Saml.  Herbert,  to  Governor  Crowe,  As  relict 


356  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

of  John  Farmer  petitioner  had  commenced  several 
actions  of  dower  against  James  dowse  and  John  H other - 
sall,  residuary  devisees  of  Farmer.  Her  proceedings  are 
stayed  by  an  injunction  bill  in  ye  Court  of  Equity 
brought  against  her  by  James  Cowse.  But  now  Alex- 
ander Walker  in  the  name  of  himself  and  others  the 
Attorneys  of  John  Watter  now  in  England  hath  caused 
execution  to  be  leavyed  on  the  works  of  John  Farmer's 
plantation  called  Cabbage  Tree  Walk,  of  which  petitioner 
hath  not  as  yet  been  endowed  etc.,  and  threatens  to 
take  up  the  coppers  etc.,  which  will  ruin  the  estate, 
if  not  prevented.  Petition  heard  and  dismissed  July 
26,  1708.  Copy.  2  pp. 

683.  xxxiv.  Petition  of  Arthur  Slingsby  and  Susannah,  his 
wife,  to  Governor  Crowe.  John  Legay  on  Aug.  4, 
1705  commenced  an  action  against  Susannah  Slingsby, 
and  claimed  £2000  damage,  for  assaulting  his  wife, 
Sarah  Legay,  in  Cheapside,  St.  Michael's,  and  causing 
a  miscarriage  thereby.  Judgment  was  passed  against 
them  in  default.  On  July  30,  1707  a  writ  of  enquiry  of 
damages  issued  upon  the  said  judgment.  The  Jury 
found  for  plaintiff  in  £115  currt.  with  costs,  upon  which 
verdict  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  have  also  given 
judgment  for  plaintiff.  Pray  for  a  writ  of  error,  several 
matters  having  been  unduly  admitted  in  evidence.  Writ 
ordered  to  issue  accordingly  by  Governor  Crowe,  Sept. 
1st,  1707.  Copy.  3pp. 

583.  xxxv.  On  hearing  the  above  case,  Oct.  28,  1707,  H.E. 
and  Council  reversed  the  judgment  given  on  the  writ 
of  enquiry.  1£  pp. 

583.  xxxvi.  Deposition  of  Dorothy  Chamberlain.  Deponent  and 
her  sister  having  several  suits  pending,  involving  many 
thousands  of  pounds  (see  No.  xxi.)  and  hearing  that 
H.E.  did  generally  take  presents  from  persons  haveing 
causes  depending  before  him,  they  presented  Dame 
Oriana,  wife  of  Mitford  Crowe,  with  his  privity,  4 
negro  men  slaves,  value  £128,  and  one  fine  silver! 
brocade  suit  of  cloths,  a  fine  head-^ress  and  rich  ruffles 
and  fan,  of  the  value  of  £150,  etc.,  all  which  the  said 
Oriana  received.  1^  pp. 

583.  xxxvii.  Deposition  of  John  Nusum.  Deponent  lived  with 
Governor  Crowe  as  manager  of  his  Chapel  Plantation. 
In  June  1708,  on  the  Governor's  behalf  he  received 
five  bulls  and  an  ox  from  Mr.  Eobert  Gibbes.  Signed, 
Jo.  Nusum.  1  p. 

583.  xxxviii.  Deposition  of  George  Tyrwhitt.  Robert  Gibbes, 
being  in  custody  for  debt,  ordered  him  to  take  six 
cattle  to  the  Governor  as  a  present,  which  he  did.  A 
month  later  he  took  him  30  negroes  loads  of  yam  seed. 
H.E.  told  him  to  deliver  them  to  his  Agent,  Patrick 
Thompson.  Signed,  Geo.  Tyrwhitt.  2  pp. 

583.  xxxix.  Deposition  of  Robert  Gibbes.    Having  a  consider- 


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1709. 

able  cause  depending,  he  made  presents  to  H.E.  (as 
xxxvii.,  xxxviii.),  who  gave  him  encouragement  to  rely 
upon  his  favour  in  the  determination  of  the  said  cause. 
Signed,  Eobt.  Gibbes.  1  p. 

583.  XL.  Deposition  of  Tho.  Beckles  that  on  May  21,  1709, 
Robert  Gibbes  refused  to  renew  preceding  deposition,, 
unless  summoned  to  it,  for  fear  Governor  Crowe  might 
do  him  a  prejudice  in  his  cause  still  depending.  Signed, 
Tho.  Beckles.  I  p. 

583.  XLJ.  Deposition  of  Charles  Buckworth.  Mary  Mill,  wife 
of  Capt.  William  Mill,  a  prisoner  of  warr  at  Martinique, 
lived  and  died  without  paying  rent  in  part  of  deponent's 
house.  On  her  death,  deponent  took  an  inventory  of 
her  goods  on  his  own  account  and  for  his  own  justi- 
fication. Susannah  Scott,  her  mother,  obtained  ad- 
ministration of  William  Mill's  estate  when  he  died,  and 
upon  her  petition  Governor  Crowe  ordered  deponent 
(Sept.  15,  1707)  to  deliver  up  his  inventory.  With  this 
order  he  was  never  legally  served,  and  it  was  illegal, 
even  if  he  had  been.  Oct.  13,  H.E.  committed  him 
to  prison  for  refuseing  to  deliver  up  this,  his  own 
property.  Bail  was  at  first  refused.  When  he  appeared 
before  the  Court,  a  nolle  prosequi  was  entered  contrary 
to  his  desire.  Signed,  Cha.  Buckworth.  1^  pp. 

583.  xLii.  Deposition  of  William  Small.  Acting  as  gaoler  in 
May  1707,  he  permitted  John  Markand,  a  prisoner,  to 
go  into  the  town  in  order  to  procure  some  subsistance 
and  clean  cloaths.  Governor  Crowe  did  thereupon  com- 
mit deponent  for  contempt,  and,  whilst  he  was  in 
prison  and  moved  for  a  habeas  corpus,  gave  his  place 
as  Marshall  to  the  troop  of  guards  and  the  regiment  to 
one  Mr.  Gibson,  who  came  hither  with  and  was  depend- 
ent on  H.E.  H.E.  was  angry  at  his  moving  for  a 
habeas  corpus,  etc.  Signed,  W.  Small.  lj  pp. 

583,  xLiii.  Governor  Crowe's  warrant  for  committing  Small 
as  in  preceding.  'May  21,  1707.  f  p. 

583.  xLiv.  Deposition  of  Paul  Manier,  wig-maker.  On  Aug. 
2,  1707,  deponent  having  credited  several  sailors  and 
fearing  they  would  leave  without  paying,  petitioned 
H.E.  through  Patrick  Mein  for  relief.  H.E.  in  great 
heat  thereupon  committed  deponent  to  the  custody  of 
the  guard,  and  refused  to  hear  him.  Signed,  Paul 
Manier.  f  p. 

583.  XLV.  Deposition  of  Hugh  Hall  that  Thomas  Godfrey,  in 
reply  to  his  question,  confirmed  that  the  Governor  had 
made  him  swear  not  to  co-habit  with  Mrs.  Ann  Deacon. 
Signed,  H.  Hall.  £  p. 

583.  xLvi.  Deposition  of  Norman  Mackaskell,  Depty.  Clerk 
of  the  Crown.  On  Dec.  24,  1708,  H.E.  sent 'for  him 
and  required  him  to  take  this  oath,  vizt.  that,  "you 
shall  true  answer  make  to  all  such  questions  as  shall 
be  demanded  of  you  relateing  to  the  proceedings  of 


358  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

the  late  Court  of  Grand  Sessions."  Deponent  refused 
until  he  had  copyes  of  the  queries,  which  were  produced 
but  never  read  to  him.  He  was  the  same  night  com- 
mitted to  the  custody  of  the  Provost  Marshall,  where 
he  remained  until  he  and  his  sureties  had  entered  into 
a  recognizance  of  £1000  for  his  enlargement.  On  Jan. 
8,  1708,  after  the  Councill  was  adjourned,  the  Governor 
tendered  to  deponent  copies  of  two  or  three  papers,  all 
of  the  same  tenor,  the  first  draught  whereof  had  been 
drawn  up  by  Mr.  Hodges,  which  were  affixt  to  the  copys 
of  the  Recorcfls  of  the  Grand  Sessions  then  prepareing 
to  be  transmitted  under  the  Scale  for  England,  to 
which  papers  the  Governour  (att  the  request  of  Hodges) 
demanded  if  deponent  would  swear.  Deponent  refused, 
and  prayed  to  have  the  reasons  of  his  refusall  then 
taken  and  entered,  which  was  denyed  him,  the  Governor 
growing  angry  and  threatening  him.  Deponent  desired 
John  Robinson  and  Patrick  Davidson,  then  present,  to 
take  notice  of  all  that  had  then  past.  Signed,  Norman 
Mackaskell.  l\  pp. 

583.  XLvii.  Deposition  of  Giles  Cooke,  Clerk  to  N.  Mackaskell. 
Corroborates  preceding.  1  p. 

583.  xLviii.  Protest  by  Alexander  Skene,  Public  Notary,  on 
behalf  of  Benjamin  Ballard,  Raynes  Bate,  and  Thomas 
Stewart,  Agents  for  the  Royal  African  Company,  against 
Samuel  Cox  and  John  Hinton,  who  placed  two  men  on 
board  the  Sherbrowe  frigat,  and  by  order  of  H.E. 
refused  to  allow  the  negroes,  elephants'  teeth  etc.  on 
board  her  to  come  on  shore.  Nov.  21,  1707.  Signed, 
A.  Skene.  1^  pp. 

583.  XLIX.  "Minutes  of  Council  of  Barbados,  Nov.  21,  1704. 
1 J  pp. 

583.  L.  Journal  of  Assembly  of  Barbados,  Nov.  3,  1707 — 
Jan.  8,  1708.  6  pp. 

683.  Li.  List  of  days  on  which  the  Assembly  met  and  ad- 
journed, Oct.  1707— Jan.  16,  1708.  H  pp. 

583.  Lii.  Deposition  of  Daniel  Hooper.  On  "Dec.  28,  1707, 
deponent  with  his  brother  Robert  Lettice  Hooper  asked 
H.E.  how  he  intended  to  dispose  of  ye  Regiment  then 
under  command  of  deponent  by  the  death  of  Col.  Lyte 
and  the  resignation  of  Lt.  Coll.  Whetstone.  H.E.  said 
he  had  given  it  to  Mr.  Maxwell  and  desired  deponent  to 
serve  under  him  as  Lt.  Coll.  and  his  brother  as  Major. 
Deponent  refused,  Mr.  Maxwell  having  been  publickly 
his  enemy  and  never  in  a  higher  post  then  Major,  till 
H.E.  had  made  him  a  Brigadeer.  The  officers  of  the 
Regiment  thereupon  threw  up  their  commissions.  H.E. 
then  proposed  that  if  deponent  and  his  brother  would 
turn  Mr.  Maxwell  out  of  the  Assembly,  he  would  give 
the  regiment  to  deponent.  They  refused  commissions 
on  any  such  terms.  Signed,  Dan.  Hooper.  l£  pp. 

583.  Liii.  Deposition  of  Robert  Lettice  Hooper.  Corroborates 
preceding.  Signed,  R.L.  Hooper.  1  #. 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  359 

1709. 

583.  L!V.  List  of  5  Colonels,  9  Lieut.  Cols,  and  5  Majors  in 
Barbados.  1  p. 

583.  LV.  Christopher  Codrington  to[?].  Barbados,  June  1,  1709. 
I  informed  H.E.  that  Mr.  Maxwell  was  promoted  con- 
trary to  all  ye  rules  of  military  discipline,  but  has 
ever  since  been  very  jealous  to  deserve  the  honour  that 
was  done  him,  etc.  Signed,  Chr.  Codrington.  1  p. 

583.  Lvi.  Rebecca  Hay,  widow  of  George  Hay,  to  Governor 
Crowe.  Executions  were  levied  on  her  behalf  on  William 
Sealey's  cattle.  He  petitioned  Judge  Richd.  Downes 
that  the  levy  might  be  removed  under  colour  of  a 
mortgage  of  the  cattle  which  he  pretended  he  had 
executed  to  Timothy  Roberts  and  Thomas  Bullen,  plan- 
ters. The  petition  was  dismissed,  but  next  day  Richard 
Downes  examined  two  evidences,  without  any  new  pe- 
tition preferred  or  notice  given  to  petitioner  to  cross- 
examine,  and  ordered  petitioner's  levy  to  be  removed. 
Order  by  Governor  Crowe  that  Richard  Downes  re- 
hear above  case  within  ten  days  and  proceed  therein 
according  to  law.  Sept.  27,  1708.  Signed,  M.  Crowe. 
The  whole,  2±  pp. 

583.  Lvii.  Richard  Downes'  judgment  etc.,  Sept.  14,  1708, 
referred  to  in  preceding.  2|  pp. 

583.  Lviii.  John  Bentley  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  to  Governor 
Crowe.  Petitioners  have  actions  for  considerable  sums 
of  money  depending  in  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for 
St.  Michael's,  against  Richard  Downes,  Chief  Judge 
of  the  Court.  William  Roberts,  one  of  the  Assistants 
of  the  Court  refuses  to  act  as  such,  whereby  petitioners' 
causes  are  delayed.  Pray  H.E.  to  appoint  another 
assistant. 

Order  by  Governor  Crowe  referring  above  petition  to 
Richard  Downes  for  his  opinion.    Feb.  25,  170f.  1|-  pp. 

583.  Lix.  William  Sharpe  to  Governor  Crowe.  May  17,  1709. 
I  understand  from  Brittain  that  base  unworthy  persons 
have  had  the  confidence  to  accuse  me  of  being  a  forger 
of  bonds.  Repudiates  the  suggestion  and  appeals  to 
H.E.  and  Council  to  declare  whether  they  ever  had  so 
much  as  suspected  of  it,  etc.  Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe, 
Endorsed,  Reed.  July  30,  1709.  Copy.  1%  pp. 

583.  LX.  Christopher  Codrington  to  Governor  Crowe.  I  have 
been  earnestly  requested  by  many  worthy  Gentlemen 
to  deliver  your  Excellency  this  paper,  my  hand  and 
my  heart  goe  along  with  it.  We  aim  at  nothing  more 
than  that  the  dignity  of  Government  may  be  preserved, 
and  H.M.  sacred  authority  supported  against  all  at- 
tempts whatsoever.  Your  Excellency  cannot  but  re- 
member what  the  Queen's  answer  was  to  an  Address  of 
Peeres  concerning  the  Lord  Almoner,  and  shall  an 
Assembly  of  Barbados  planters  pretend  to  tell  H.M. 
whom  she  shall  or  shall  not  employ  in  her  service.  'Tis 
well  known,  sir,  I  have  no  unkindness  for  some  of  the 


860 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 


Gentlemen  who  have  unadvisedly  consented  to  so  bad 
an  Address.  But  when  they  so  far  forget  themselves 
as  to  become  undutyfull  to  H.M'.,  I  think  myselfe  oblig'd 
in  honour  and  prudence  to  express  my  just  resentments, 
with  other  good  subjects,  that  wee  may  not  all  be  in- 
volved in  their  guilt,  nor  share  in  the  ill  consequences 
of  their  folly.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  9,  1709.  Copy. 

1  p. 

583.  Lxi.  Address  of  the  inhabitants  of  Barbados  to  Governor 
Crowe.  Protest  against  Address  of  Assembly,  which 
urged  him  not  to  admit  the  3  Councillors  as  ordered  by 
H.M.  Signed,  Chr.  Codrington  and  590  others.  Copy. 

2  large  pp.     The  whole  endorsed,  Reed.  July  30,  Read 
Aug.  10,  12,  15,  1709.     IC.O.  28,  12.     Nos.  32,  32. i.- 
Lxi. ;  and   (without  enclosures)   29,   11.     pp.  486-488.] 


June  20. 

Whitehall. 


June  20. 


June  20. 

Barbados . 


June  20. 

Antigua . 


584.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose  copy  of  Major  Loyd's  letter,  Feb.  -^,  1709. 
[C.O.  195,  5.     p.  111.] 

585.  Further  proposal  from  the  Marquis  of  Kent  for  settling 
the  German  Protestant  Refugees  (c/.  June  11).    Endorsed,  Reed. 
20th,  Read  June  21,  1709.     3  pp.     [O.O.  388,  76.     No.  67.] 

586.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions.    Refers  to  duplicate  of  May  18.     There  has  nothing  since 
occurr'd  new,  but  what  relates  to  the  men  of  warr,  which  the 
Council  and  Genl.  Assembly  has  sent  home  to  their  Agents  to 
lay  before  ye  Queen  and  your  Lordps.     The  Frankland  packet 
Arrived   two    dayes   agoe,    but   honours   me   with  none    of   your 
Lordships'    commands.     Signed,    M.    Crowe.      Endorsed,    Reed. 
July  30,  Read  Aug.  2,  1709.     1  p.     [(7.0.  28,  12.     Na.  31 ;  and 
(duplicate)  No.  51 ;  and  29,  11.    p.  485  ;  and  29,  12.    p.  56.] 

587.  Governor  Parke  ito  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Refers  to  following.     By  Capt.  Scot  I  shall  send  yr.  Ldpps.  my 
own  answer,  wch.  will  be  a  perfect  history  of  my  administration. 
I   hope   it  will   be   satisfactory,   and  if   it   be   defective,   please 
to  let  me  know  in  what,  etc.    Signed,  Daniel  Parke.     Endorsed, 
Reed    1st,  Read  5th,  Aug.   1709.    2  pp.    [O.O.   152,  8.    No.  30; 
and  153,  10.     p.  367.] 


June  20.  588.  Council  of  Antigua  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Antigua,  tations.  Commend  Col.  Yeamans,  Lt.  Governor  of  Antigua,, 
against  whom,  as  against  Col.  Parke,  articles  of  complaint  are 
being  secretly  prepared,  for  what  cause  we  cann  no  ways  imagine, 
etc.  Signed,  Jno.  Hamilton,  Will.  Codrington,  Thomas  Morris, 
Geo.  Gamble,  Richard  Oliver,  William  Byam.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Sept.  20,  Read  Nov.  17,  1709.  Addressed.  2pp.  [C.O.  352, 
8.  Nos.  31,  Sl.i. ;  and  153,  10.  pp.  368,  369.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES..  361 

1709. 

June  20.        589.     Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua  to  the  Council  of 
Antigua.      Trade  and  Plantations.     Enclose  following.     Signed,  John  Yea- 
mans.    Jno.    Hamilton,   Will.   Codrington,    Thomas  Morris,  Geo, 
Gamble,  Bichard  Oliver.     Endorsed,  Eecd.   1st,  Bead  5th  Aug., 
1709.     2  pp.     Enclosed, 

589.  i.  Answer  of  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua 
to  the  22  Articles  of  complaint  exhibited  against  Gov- 
ernor Parke.  (1).  We  never  heard  him  say  any  such 
thing.  (2).  We  approved  of  the  General's  treat- 
ment of  Mr.  Chester.  Col.  Gamble  informes  us  that 
he  was  one  of  the  Justices  that  took  baile  of  Mr. 
Chester.  The  General  never  threatened  him,  but  an- 
grily told  him  he  wondered  he  should  take  bail  for  a 
man  committed  by  himself  and  Council  for  murder, 
but  more  especially  considering  he  refused  acting  in 
other  matters  as  a  J.P.  The  General  informed  us  that 
he  turned  out  the  Marshall  for  suffering  Mr.  Chester  to 
go  at  large  without  any  officer  with  him,  before  he  had 
given  bail,  etc.  (3).  We  never  knew  the  General  de- 
manded by  what  right  any  man  held  his  estate,  except 
Col.  Codrington,  who  refused  to  answer  in  the  case  of 
Barbuda.  By  the  advice  of  the  Council  he  proceeded 
no  farther  in  it.  (4 — 7).  Eefer  to  Minutes  of  Council. 
(8).  Notoriously  false;  for  at  the  election  of  the  As- 
sembly before  this,  there  was  hardly  any  disputes,  and 
the  Generall  was  at  St.  Xtophers  for  severall  weekes 
before  and  after  the  last  Assembly  was  called;  wee  writt 
him  whilst  he  was  there  to  desire  him  to  call  an  Assembly, 
and  there  he  sign'd  the  writts  etc.  The  first  dispute 
about  the  negative  voice  was  occasion'd  by  the  Generall's 
being  off  the  Island,  they  ordering  their  Speaker  not 
to  sign  what  laws  were  ready  to  be  sent  down  to  the 
General  to  pass,  it  being  their  opinion  that  a  law  is 
not  in  force  untill  it  be  signed  both  by  the  chief  Gov- 
ernor and  Speaker,  so  that  if  the  Genii,  had  passed 
all  the  lawes  sent  him,  if,  when  return'd,  the  Speaker 
refus'd  to  signe  them,  they  were  to  be  noe  lawes, 
which  was  plainly  giving  the  last  sanction  to,  the  Speaker, 
which  no  Assembly  before  thought  of,  and  unless  the 
General  would  consent  to  their  Speaker  should  give 
the  last  sanction,  they  would  neither  quarter  the  soldiers, 
nor  raise  a  tax  to  pay  of  the  publick  creditt,  though 
the  Generall  generously  desir'd  them  to  lett  alone  what 
was  due  to  him  for  house-rent,  which  was  then  £1000. 
(9).  Defects  in  the  Militia  are  chiefly  occasion'd  by 
want  of  a  proper  law  to  enforce  officers  and  soldiers 
to  doe  their  duty,  which  both  the  Generall  and  our- 
selves have  recommended  to  noe  purpose.  As  to  the 
fortifications,  he  has  always  been  desirous  of  carrying 
them  on,  and  particularly  that  of  Monk's  Hill,  because 
it  was  the  inclination  of  the  people,  tho'  himself  had 
no  great  opinion  of  it;  the  discontinueance  of  the 


362  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1709. 


workes  there  being  occasion'd  for  want  of  the  Assem- 
bly's consent  to  a  Law,  without  which  they  cannot  be 
carry'd  on.  The  removing  of  the  gunns  from  the  sev- 
erall  plattformes  was  left  to  the  Generall's  direction 
by  the  Assembly,  and  the  Treasurer  was  order'd  to  pay 
the  expence ;  the  disposition  the  Genii,  proposed  to  make 
in  case  the  enemy  attacked  us,  was  contrary  to  the 
opinion  of  the  Councill  and  the  Militia  Officers,  and  to 
our  former  Generall,  Col.  Codrington ;  but  his  opinion 
was  not  made  into  an  order  further  than  that  he  order'd 
all  the  Militia  and  Queen's  troopes  to  "meete  in  one  "body 
at  St.  Johns,  which  order,  at  the  request  of  the  Councill, 
the  Generall  afterwards  revealed  [sic].  (10).  We  have- 
heard  the  Governor  as  Chancelor  say  that  as  he  found 
(directing  to  the  lawyers)  the  equity  of  the  cause,  not- 
withstanding their  presidents  and  what  they  asserted 
for  law,  he  would  accordingly  judge.  As  to  his  de- 
crees, wee  never  heard  of  his  making  any,  except  in 
the  case  of  Judge  Wattkins,  as  executor  to  one  Waller, 
to  which  he  called  the  Council  to  his  assistance,  which 
decree  wee  are  satisfied  was  reasonable,  equitable  and 
just.  As  to  the  generall  injunctions  mentioned  fre- 
quently to  be  granted,  wee  know  not  but  of  one,  and 
that  in  the  case  of  Lt.  Coll.  Morriss  and  Capt.  Wattkins, 
which  being  occasion'd  by  a  mistake  in  the  Clerke  in 
the  Secretary's  Office,  when  it  was  issued,  as  soone  as 
the  Governor  was  appris'd  of  it,  he  declared  he  was 
wholly  ignorant  of  it,  and  expressed  his  abhorrence 
thereto  by  owning  such  a  proceeding  would  be  very 
unjust,  and  did  accordingly  recall  the  same.  Wee  know 
of  no  injunction  issued  without  bill  first  filed,  nor  has 
any  been  otherwise  granted,  tho'  there  is  on  the  Chan- 
cery books  such  an  order,  but  it  was  never  putt  in 
execution,  nor  does  the  General  or  either  of  us  remember 
the  Clerke  had  any  direction  for  entering  such  an  order, 
and  believes  it  a  mistake  in  the  Clerke.  As  to  bring- 
ing in  bonds  for  ^rd  or  ^  the  vallue,  wee  know  not 
what  is  meant  by  it,  nor  do  wee  understand  that  any 
injunctions  have  been  granted  to  avoid  the  penalty  of 
the  bond,  that  ever  came  to  hearing,  if  there  were  any 
such,  the  parties  made  it  up  between  themselves.  The 
Generall  was  very  far  from  being  arbitrary,  for  he 
alwayes  tooke  the  advice  of  those  of  the  Council  that  satt 
with  him,  and  when  the  cause  seemed  intricate,  he  re- 
ferred it  home  for  the  opinion  of  two  Chancery  men 
there,  as  in  the  case  of  Col.  Morriss.  (11).  Wee  know 
not  of  his  threatning  to  turne  out  any  Judge  or  J.P., 
nor  did  he  turne  out  Judge  Wattkins,  neither  doe  wee 
believe  he  would  displace  any  officer  for  not  being 
aplicable  to  ill  purposes.  As  to  the  Mandamus  men- 
tioned, wee  thinke  it  very  just.  v.  Minutes  of  Council. 
(12).  We  believe  the  Governor  is  well  justified.  (13). 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  363 

1709. 

Wee  know  of  no  seizures  made  by  order  of  the  Governor 
nor  any  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  appointed  by  him, 
save  the  present  Judge  Herbert  Pember,  Attorney  Gen- 
eraj  of  the  Leeward  Islands,  a  person  bred  to  the  law, 
and  of  good  life  and  conversation.  He  has  encour- 
aged all  fair  traders,  and  has  never  taken  any  advantage 
of  the  master  when  he  had  lost  his  register  as  his 
predecessors  did.  Wee  never  heard  of  any  vessells 
seized  in  this  Island,  but  a  small  sloope  of  Major 
Blizards;  after  she  was  condemned,  he  gave  his  part 
because  he  believed  there  was  no  designe  of  f  raude : 
wee  have  heard  of  a  small  sloope  he  order'd  to  be  seiz'd 
at  St.  Christopher's  that  came  from  Currasow,  belong- 
ing to  Mr.  Chester,  and  another  of  his  for  carrying  sugar 
without  paying  the  4|  p.c.  or  qualified.  (14).  The 
General  is  justified,  being  adressed  to  by  the  Assembly 
and  Councill  for  so  doing,  and  his  revealing  [sic]  that 
order  was  after  the  hurricane  there  being  a  great  quan- 
tity of  powder  lost.  The  very  men  that  adressed  him 
have  signed  this  article,  and  made  it  a  crime.  (15). 
Wee  have  understood  the  fees  mentioned  to  be  so  in- 
considerable that  the  Governor  has  scarce  thought  them 
worth  collecting.  They  were  settled  by  the  Councill  and 
Assembly  of  St.  Kitts  at  his  first  coming,  and  neither 
the  Councill  or  Assembly  of  this  Island  ever  acquainted 
him  they  thought  them  an  agrievance,  even  when  he 
offered  to  redress  any  grievance.  (16).  Refer  to  depo- 
sition of  Capt.  Roach,  a  merchant  of  a  very  fair  char- 
acter. (17).  Wee  know  of  few  or  no  J.P.'s  made,  but 
what  were  formerly  soe,  except  one  Thomas  Gateward, 
which  was  recommended  to  the  Governor  as  a  person 
knowing  the  law  and  living  in  St.  John's ;  others  refus- 
ing to  act,  he  was  put  into  the  Commission;  nor  do 
wee  believe  (as  wee  take  him  to  be  a  person  chief  el  y 
they  hinted  at)  to  be  of  soe  despicable  a  character  as 
set  forth  in  this  Article.  Wee  are  of  opinion  that  when 
he  was  by  us  recommended  to  the  General  1,  he  was 
a  perfect  stranger  to  him1,  it  being  at  his  first  coming ; 
he  was  also  recommended  to  the  Generall  to  be  Master 
in  Chancery,  there  being  nobody  fitter  for  it,  that 
would  accept  of  it.  (18).  Wee  know  that  John  Hain 
had  the  command  of  one  of  the  GeneralFs  sloops,  and 
it  is  not  deny'd,  but  it  has  been  reported,  that  he  killed 
some  Spaniards  in  cold  blood,  but  it  was  Ihe  beginning 
of  this  warr,  when  wee  were  in  hostility  with  them,  ana 
tho'  the  action  was  no  way  commendable,  yet  wee 
see  not  what  occasion  there  was  "for  a  pardon,  nor 
do  wee  thinke  he  ever  apply'd  for,  or  any  ever  was 
given  him;  he  lives  with  his  family  at  St.  Kitts,  and 
may  be  taken  up  at  any  time ;  and  wee  are  confident 
the  Generall  will  not  protect  him  from  Justice.  (19). 
The  Governor  has  often  expressed  himself  with  a  pecu- 


364  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

culiar  regard  for  this  Island,  etc.  Refer  to  depositions. 
'(20).  Wee  are  wholly  strangers  to  any  such  expressions 
proceeding  from  the  General],  nor  ever  heard  of  such  re- 
ports. The  Governor  announced  he  was  ready  to  receive 
grievances  etc.  and  help  to  forward  them  to  England. 
(21).  Wee  have  not  heard  of  any  Commissions  refused 
since  the  Act,  nor  have  wee  knowne  of  any  tenths  or 
other  summs  exacted  for  his  Commissions,  but  it  has 
alwayes  been  the  custome  of  privateers  to  pay  the 
tenths  to  the  Lord  High  Admirall ;  and  that  he  has  had 
YQ  and  more  out  of  what  has  been  taken  by  his  owne 
privateeres;  and  that  according  to  agreement  with  the 
commanders  that  went  in  them,  which  wee  thinke  law- 
full  and  reasonable  for  the  owner.  The  GeneralFs 
privateeres  were  of  great  service  to  the  Islands.  As 
soone  as  the  Act  of  Parliament  for  encouraging  of 
privateeres  came  out,  he  disposed  of  all  his.  (22). 
Refer  to  depositions.  8^  pp. 

589.  ii.  Reply  of  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  Antigua  to 
the  merchants'  petition  to  the  Queen.  Several  of  the 
21  subscribers  are  strangers  to  us,  and  have  little 
or  noe  effects  in  this  Island.  The  best  part  of  the 
inhabitants  thinke  the  Generall  has  acted  with  zeale 
for  H.M.  service  and  good  of  this  Government.  And 
whereas  this  petition  mentions  new  Articles  of  insult- 
ing their  persons,  and  by  neglect  of  the  guards  the 
enemy's  dayly  insulting  the  Island,  and  their  negroes 
being  in  danger,  wee  never  heard  the  Generall  in- 
sulted any  of  them,  but  on  the  contrary  they  have 
insulted  him,  both  when  they  committed  the  riot  at 
Mr.  Chester's,  and  alsoe  Barry  Tankard  in  the  street. 
And  whereas  they  say  they  could  have  better  proofes 
but  that  people  were  affraid  of  the  Generall,  little 
agrees  with  their  actions  here,  for  not  only  Mr.  Ni- 
vine's  chamber  was  an  office  for  severall  months  for 
everyone  to  come  and  give  an  account  of  what  they 
knew,  or  had  heard  of  the  Generall,  but  there  were 
severall  feasts  made  all  over  the  Island,  and  all  sorts 
of  people  treated  and  openly  encouraged  under  the 
Generall 's  very  nose  to  come  in  against  him,  and  they 
gave  out  they  were  soe  sure  he  would  be  removed,  that 
those  that  had  a  just  abhorrence  of  their  proceedings 
were  unwilling  to  shew  their  resentment  openly  because 
they  would  not  draw  upon  themselves  the  spite  and 
malice  of  those  men.  As  to  their  letters  being  inter- 
cepted, there  was  not  for  above  5  months  any  packett, 
and  we  think  it  a  very  scurrillous  reflection,  without 
any  just  cause,  for  the  same.  There  has  been  few  or 
no  negroes  taken  of  by  the  enemy  since  the  Generall 
came,  though  before  his  time  wee  lost  above  100.  Those 
merchants  have  little  reason  to  be  afraid  of  their  ef- 
fects, if  they  had  any  here,  for  noe  man  has  ever 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  365 

1709. 

encouraged  the  fair  trader  more  than  Generall  Parke, 
though  he  is  a  scourge  to  the  smuggler.  We  are  not 
a  little  pleased  to  find  that  the  merchants  that  havei 
the  greatest  effects  on  this  Island,  have  not  signed  this 
petition,  etc.  Signed,  John  Yeamans,  Jno.  Hamilton, 
Will.  Codrington,  Thomas  Morris,  Geo.  Gamble,  Richard 
Oliver.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  1,  1709.  3  pp. 

589.  iii.  Deposition  of  George  Gamble.  Antigua,  June  14, 
1709.  Capt.  Giles  Wattkins  said  to  him  that  they  had 
raised  a  considerable  sum  of  money  and  Nivine  would 
see  to  it  that  Governor  Parke  was  condemned,  etc. 
Signed,  Geo.  Gamble.  1  p. 

589.  iv.  Deposition  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Wright,  mer- 
chant. Antigua,  June  18,  1709.  I  informed  the  Gen- 
erall that  Mr.  Sawyer  of  Virginia  was  killed  by  Mr. 
Chester,  who  bid  me  summon  the  Coroner.  Next 
morning  I  being  informed  by  the  Constable  that  they 
did  not  like  the  jury  he  had  summoned,  and  the  next 
day  he  had  gott  another  jury,  and  being  told  by  others 
that  Mr.  Chester  had  sent  for  Mr.  Glanvill  to  be  of 
the  jury,  I  concluded  there  was  some  unjust  designe 
on  foot,  and  told  the  Generall.  He  went  to  the 
crowd  where  the  body  was.  He  did  not  threaten  any- 
body, but  told  the  Marshal  a  man  committed  for  mur- 
der ought  not  to  walke  the  streets.  He  ordered  Mr. 
Sawyer's  wound  to  be  exposed  to  everybody's  view,  and 
went  away,  having  first  ordered  the  Coroner  to  ask 
the  witnesses  some  questions.  Witness  believes  the 
wound  Mr.  Chester  gave  Mr.  Sawyer  caused  his  death, 
etc.  Signed,  Eliza.  Wright  (mark).  1|  pp. 

589.  v.  The  interrogatories  of  Samuel  Wickham,  Coroner,  taken 
before  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council,  June  18,  1709. 
Corroborates  preceding.  Signed,  Sam.  Wiokham.  2|-  pp. 

589.  vi.  Col.  Lilly  to  Governor  Parke.  I  find  [Antigua! 
open  to  the  attempt  of  an  enemy  when  and  allmost 
wherever  he  shall  please  to  attack.  There  is  no  such 
thing  in  the  whole  country  as  deserves  the  name  of 
a  fort,  for  that  which  is  built  upon  Munck's  Hill  is 
not  so,  since  an  enemy  may  upon  his  first  landing 
(without  haveing  occasion  to  "bring  any  canon  against 
it)  easaly  make  himselfe  master  of  it  with  sword  in 
hand,  nor  can  this  place  in  my  opinion  be  well  forti- 
fyed  without  a  very  great  deal  of  unnecessary  expence. 
Gives  reasons.  Proposes  that  some  other  place  should 
be  pitcht  upon,  etc.  Signed,  Cr.  Lilly.  Copy.  1  p. 

589.  v-ii.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Morris.  Giles  Watkins  sued 
deponent  in  an  action  of  ejectment.  Deponent  ob- 
tained an  injunction  to  stay  proceedings,  signed  by 
H.E.  But  when  deponent  found  that  the  form  of  in- 
junction granted  wa;s  a  gieneral  one,  he  informed  Watkins 
that  he  would  take  noe  advantage  of  it  in  any  other 
cause,  etc.  Signed,  Thomas  Morris.  If  pp. 


366  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

589.  viii.  Order  of  Court  of  Common  pleas  for  the  precincts 
of  Falmouth,  July  18,  1708,  in  the  case  of  William 
Grear  v.  Henry  Fletcher.  In  the  absence  of  defendant 
and  his  counsel,  Mr.  Nivine,  ordered  that  the  4  negroes 
in  dispute  be  delivered  to  plaintiff,  he  giving  security 
to  prosecute  at  the  next  Court  held,  etc.  Writ  of  at- 
tachment issued  against  defendant,  etc.  Signed,  Thos. 
Kerby,  Cler.  Cur.  1^  pp. 

589.  ix.  Deposition  of  John  Brett,  Naval  Officer,  Antigua.  In 
May,  1707,  Governor  Parke  showed  to  him  an  account 
settled  between  him  and  Edward  Chester,  senr.,  wherein 
Chester  had  given  credit  for  two  sums  of  £250  each, 
which  deponent  apprehending  to  be  paid  in  specie,  ac- 
quainted the  Governor  that  he  had  injured  himself  in 
suffering  the  said  two  sums  to  go  towards  the  discharge 
of  the  accompt  which  was  £800  for  20  negro  women 
bought  to  be  paid  in  the  country  produce,  their  being 
at  that  time  near  50  p.c.  difference  'between  country 
produce  and  specie  in  money.  Whereupon  the  Governor 
said  that  the  next  time  he  adjusted  accompfs  with 
Chester,  he  would  do  himself  right  by  stopping  so  much 
as  the  difference  amounted  to.  Deponent  has  since 
heard  that  the  Governor  did  stop  in  his  hands  £150 
of  Chester's  money  on  that  score.  Signed,  John  Brett. 

H  PP> 

589.  x.  Deposition  of  Jos.  French,  Treasurer  of  Antigua. 
Governor  Parke  told  deponent  July,  1708,  that  he  had 
informed  some  of  the  signatories  to  the  Articles  of 
complaint,  that  if  they  had  any  grievances  they  should 
set  them  forth  and  he  would  redress  those  that  were 
really  so.  The  Governor  told  deponent  two  of  the 
articles  were  utterly  false  etc.  as  preceding.  Signed, 
Jos.  French.  1|  pp. 

589.  xi.  Governor  Parke's  warrant  to  Custom  House  Officers 
to  make  diligent  search  in  St.  Johns  and  in  the  vessels 
in  St  John's  Harbour  for  prohibited  goods,  etc.  Dec. 
3,  1707.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  1  p. 

589.  xii.  Deposition  of  Richard  Buckeridge,  Collector,  and 
John  Brett,  Naval  Officer.  Pursuant  to  preceding  war- 
rant, they  made  diligent  search,  especially  for  a  parcell 
of  brandy,  which  was  noised  abroad  to  be  landed  and 
belonging  to  Mr.  Edward  Chester,  senr.,  but  no  brandy 
or  prohibited  goods  were  found.  The  Governor  on 
this  and  other  occasions  caused  deponents  to  be  very 
exact  in  the  discharge  of  their  offices.  Signed,  Richd. 
Buckeridge,  John  Brett.  1^  pp. 

589.  xiii.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Kerby.  Deponent  drew  the 
abovementioned  warrants,  etc.  Signed,  Tho.  Kerby. 
\l  pp. 

589.  xiv.  Deposition  of  John  Barbollain.  Deponent  having 
been  acquainted  of  the  seizure  of  some  butter  and 
tobacco  upon  a  supposition  that  it  was  intended  to  be 


AMERICA   AND    WEST    INDIES.  367 

1709. 

carryed  to  Martinico  in  a  French  Flag  of  Truce,  Aug., 

1707,  he  never  petitioned  the  Governor  for  it.    Signed, 
John  Barbollain.     Copy.      1  p. 

589.  xv.  Deposition  of  Richard  Buckeridge,  collector.  Gov- 
ernor Parke  instructed  him  to  be  very  carefull  in  the 
exact  discharge  of  his  office.  Deponent  caused  majiy 
seizures  to  be  made  accordingly.  He  does  not  remem- 
ber any  seizure  made  but  not  brought  to  tryal  the  last 
18  months,  but  one  small  sloop  alledged  to  have  been 
belonging  to  Col.  Wm.  Thomas  of  this  Island,  which 
sloop  because  the  Queen's  Councillor  was  att  a  loss 
how  readily  to  draw  a  libell  suitable  to  the  transgression, 
and  Thomas  refused  to  take  her  into  his  care  til  could 
be  brought  to  a  tryal,  she  perished  in  the  harbour,  and 
nothing  since  was  done  therein,  she  being  scarce  of 
any  value;  Signed,  Richard  Buckeridge.  f  p. 

589.  xvi.  Deposition  of  John  Brett,  Dep.  Collector.  Gov- 
ernor Parke  frequently  ordered  him  strictly  to  search 
all  flaggs  of  truce,  and  hinder  them  from  carrying  any 
provisions  or  prohibited  goods.  Some  butter  and  to- 
bacco of  very  little  worth  was  accordingly  seized,  said 
to  belong  to  one  Barbottaine  (see  xiv.),  who  said, 
Let  them  answer,  that  shipp'd  it.  No  claim  was  made 
relating  to  this  seizure.  During  his  time  of  office  no 
seizure  except  this  was  made  and  not  brought  to  a 
tryal  1.  Signed,  John  Brett. 

589.  xvii.  Governor  Parke's  Warrant  to  Samuel  Watkins,  Re- 
ceiver of  the  powder  in  Antigua.  St.  Kitts,  May  20, 

1708.  You  are  to  receive  of  all  masters  of  ships  the 
powder    in    kind,    there    being   great    want   of    powder. 
This  you  are  to  do  notwithstanding  a  former  order  for 
excuseing  the  inhabitants  of  Antigua,  the  law  not  ex- 
cuseing  any  one,  that  order  being  granted  at  the  request 
of  the  Assembly  of  Antigua,  when  there  was  plenty  etc. 
Signed,   Daniel   Parke.     Copy.      1  p. 

589.  xviii.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Kerby,  Register  of  the  Or- 
dinary's Office.  H.E.'s  fees  in  this  office  have  amounted 
but  to  113  pistoles,  24s.,  accounting  28  shillings  for 
each  pistole.  H.E.  has  remitted  fees  of  administration, 
guardianship  and  probates  of  wills  to  the  poor  and 
orphans,  etc.  Signed,  Thos.  Kerby.  Copy,  f  p. 

589.  xix.  Deposition  of  John  Roach.  Oct.  1707,  Edward  Ches- 
ter senr.  offerred  Governor  Parke  some  damnified  flour 
for  his  negroes,  saying  it  was  not  worth  anything.  He 
never  mentioned  one  word  of  any  register,  etc.  f  p. 

589.  xx.  Deposition  of  Francis  Rogers.  Dining  at  deponent's 
house,  Governor  Parke  being  moved  in  passion  said 
that,  were  it  not  for  some  friends  in  Antegua,  he 
did  not  care  who  the  devill  had  the  Island,  or  who  ye 
devill  had  the  Government,  but  deponent  does  not  re- 
member he  should  say  he  would  send  the  Island  to  the 
Devill,  but  on  the  contrary  has  oftentimes  heard  him 


368  COLONIAL  PAPEKS. 

1709. 

express  himself  with  peculiar  regard  for  its  prosperity, 
as  witness,  his  precautions  for  its  defence,  etc.  Signed, 
Francis  Eogers. 

589.  xxi.  Deposition  of  the  honble.  George  Gamble.  Cor- 
roborates preceding.  Signed,  Geo.  Gamble.  1  p. 

589.  xxii.  Deposition  of  Joseph  French,  Treasurer  of  Antigua. 
Governor  Parke  has  brought  guns  and  troops  from  the 
other  Leeward  Islands  for  the  defence  of  Antigua, 
etc.  Corroborates  preceding.  Signed,  Jos.  French. 
1  p. 

589.  xxiii.  Deposition  of  John  Roach.  Governor  Parke  granted 
him  a  Commission  for  a  privateer  without  making  any 
bargain  with  him.  As  he  let  him  have  some  guns,  it- 
was  agreed  to  let  him  have  the  tenths  formerly  paid  to 
Governors.  Since  the  Act  of  Parliament,  he  has  never 
taken  anything  for  prizes.  Edward  Perrie,  Commis- 
sioner of  Customs,  tried  to  induce  deponent  to  swear 
falsely  that  he  had  taken  the  tenths  since  the  Act. 
Signed,  Jno.  Eoach.  1  p. 

589.  xxiv.  Deposition  of  Capt.  Thomas  Newell.  Governor 
Parke  has  often  ordered  him  to  go  the  rounds  in  the 
night  at  St.  Johns,  and  several  times  accompanied  him, 
by  which  means  the  Towne  has  been  kept  in  very  good 
order.  He  never  saw  him  eves  dropp  at  any  house., 
etc.  Signed,  Tho.  Newell.  Copy.  1  p. 

589.  xxv.  Deposition  of  John  Bishop.  Corroborates  preceding. 
Signed,  John  Bishop  (Mark).  Copy.  1  p. 

589.  xxvi.  Deposition  of  Robert  Jones.  Corroborates  prece- 
ding. Signed,  Robert  Jones  (Mark).  Copy,  f  p. 

589.  xxvii.  Deposition  of  John  Brett.  Appointed  by  Mr.  Dum- 
mer  to  receive  and  open  the  mails,  deposes  that  the 
Governor  never  received  or  asked  for  any  letters  but 
those  directed  to  himself.  No  letter  has  been  inter- 
cepted that  he  knows  of.  Signed,  John  Brett.  1  p. 
[C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  32,  32.  i. -xxvii. ;  and  (without  en- 
closures) 153,  10.  pp.  372,  373.] 

June  20.  59O.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Antigua.  tions.  Refers  to  preceding.  The  affidavits  were  publickly  taken. 
I  have  more  to  take,  some  who  are  off  the  Island,  etc.  I 
shall  send  the  duplicates  of  the  Minutes  of  Councill  which  I 
sent  by  Capt.  Buor,  and  a  coppy  of  all  the  proceedings  of 
Chancery  and  the  Councill  of  Officers.  I  durst  not  venture  them 
by  a  single  •  shipp  for  fear  to  loose  them,  considering  with 
what  difficulty  I  gett  them.  My  predecessour  Coll.  Codrington 
did  not  care  to  send  home  his  Minutes  of  Councill,  and  the 
Secretary  being  his  friend  and  my  enemy  won't  lett  me  have 
them  to  send  home,  knowing  very  well  it  is  for  my  intreet 
to  have  your  Lordshipps  truly  informed,  and  the  Councill  and 
myselfe  both  have  reason  "to  believe  all  along  he  has  told  them 
everything  that  has  passed  in  Councill ;  that  were  noe  great 
matter,  but  we  believe  he  has  misentered  some  things,  and 
some  others  he  has  not  entered  at  all,  and  though  he  lays  it 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  369 

1709. 

upon   his    Clerke,    the   writeing   the   gemerall   injunction   we   all 
believe   it  was   designed   by  him  to  give   a   collour   for  the  Ar- 
ticle,  knowing   I   never  read   the   injunctions,   when    I    see   his 
hand  to  them  that  they  are  passed  the  office,  I  signe  them.     Wee 
find  in  the  Minutes  of  the  Chancery  that  he  has  entered  a  short 
order  that   injunctions   may  issue  though  no  bill   filed,   though 
both  myself e,  Lt.  Governour  and  Councill  upon  our  oaths  will 
declare  he  never  had  any  such  directions  for  soe  doeing ;   but 
it   being    my   constant   custome   to   enquire   if   a    bill    was   filed 
before   I    granted   an   injunction,    his   designe   in   that    was   de- 
.  feated,  for  there  never  was  any  injunction  granted  till  the  bill 
was  filed,  as  apears  by  the  Minutes  in  Chancery,  notwithstanding 
that   order,    soe   that   for   the    future   I   must    be    forced  'to  see 
myself  e  all  the  entrys.     This  is  a  hard  case  that  I  must  have  a 
Secretary  put   upon  me,  that  shall  use  me  after  this  manner. 
If   Sir   Charles    Hedges   does   not   send  over   a   good    Secretary, 
the  Councill  and  myself  e  shall  be  obliged  to  complaine  in  forme 
to  your   Lordshipps   and   desire   redress.     I   hear  now  they  are 
fbrgeing    Articles    of    Complaint    against    their    Lt.    Governour, 
they  have  indeavoured  by  all  the  ways  and  means  possible  to 
draw  him   over   to  their  side,   he  has   often   told  them  if  they 
would  prove  any  one  Article  against  me,  he  would  joyne  in  the 
aomplaint.     This    Gentleman    is    a   man    of   good   famally,    and 
has  been  their  Lt.  Governour  for  many  years,  and  in  three  years 
that   I  have   been  here  he  has  never  missed  one   Councill ;   he 
has  one  of  the  very  best  estates  in  the  Island,   and  has  none 
anywhere   else,   and  has   a  numerous   ffamally  of  children   and 
grandchildren   all    settled  here;    therefore   it   would   be   strange 
he  should  not  be  in  the  true  intrest  of  the  Island,  there  was 
a  igreat   deale   of   paines   taken   to   make   a    difference    between 
Sir  William  Mathewes  and  this  Gentleman,  and  Sir  William  writt 
home  that  he  being  no  soldier  (for  he  could  lay  nothing  to  his 
charge)  desired  he  might  be  removed;  but  Sir  William  saw  his 
error    before    he    died,    and   owned    that   he    had    been    abused. 
This  Gentleman  is  as  much  a  soldier  as  any  of  the  other  Lieut. 
Governours,  for  all  the  soldiershipp  any  of  them  can  pretend  to, 
is  what  they  have  seen  here,  and  he  has  done  the  same',  being 
a  man   bred  to  the   Law,   he  never  affected   the   title  of  Coll., 
but  he  understands  as  much,  of  it  as  any  of  them  doe  and  better 
as   having   more   sence.     Whatever   articles   they   may  draw   up 
against  him,  when  they  come  to  be  examined  into  your  Lord- 
shipps will  find  he  will  clear  himselfe  with  honour,   and  they 
will  all  be  found  both  false  and  malitious.     I  dare  say  in  this 
case   he   desires   noe  more  then   common  justice,    which   is   all 
I   desire  myself  e ;   the  reason  the  other  three  Councillors  have, 
not  signed  the  answer  etc.,  they  were  not  able  to  come.     Major 
Lyons  has  been  lay'd  up  near  this  18  months,  and  the  Byams 
were  sicke.     Signed,  Daniel  Parke.     Endorsed,  Seed.  Sept.   10, 
Bead  Nov.  17,  1709.     4  pp.     Enclosed, 

590.  i.  Copy  of  Proceedings  of  the  Court  of  Chancery,  Anti- 
gua, Sept.  12,  1707— Sept.  23,  1708.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Sept.  10,  1709.  10  pp. 

Wt.  11522.  CP24 


370 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

590  ii.  Copy  of  proceedings  of  the  Council  of  Officers,  Anti- 
gua, July,  1706 — March,  1709.  Same  endorsement.  14 
pp.  [C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  42,  42.  i.,  ii. ;  and  (without 
enclosures)  153,  10.  pp.  421-425.] 

[June  21.]  591.  Lt.  Col.  Charles  Floyer  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Eecounts  his  service.  He  had  a  brevet  for  Lt. 
Col.  in  Col.  Jones'  Regiment  in  the  Leeward  Islands,  with  which 
he  was  serving,  and  a  promise  of  the  Regiment,  which  has 
now  been  given  to  a  younger  officer,  a  stranger  to  the  Regiment, 
and  a  then  prisoner  of  France.  Prays  that  his  case  be  con- 
sidered, etc.  Endorsed,  Reed.  21st,  Read  27th  June,  1709.  1  p. 
[(7.0.  152,  8.  No.  20.] 

[June  21.]  592.  List  of  poor  Palatines,  (names,  trades,  religion)  ar- 
rived in  St.  Catherines  Mav  1st — June  llth,  1709.  With  abstract. 
Total,  6519.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  (from  Mr.  Tribbeko)  Read 
21st  June,  1709.  115  pp.  [C.O.  388,  76.  Nos.  68-70.] 

June  23.  593.  Mr.  Tribbeko  and  Mr.  Ruperti  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Request  assistance  in  work  of  relieving  the 
German  Protestant  Refugees,  etc.  Signed,  John  Tribbeko,  A. 
Ruperti  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  June  '23,  1709.  4  pp.  [C.O. 
388,  76.  No.  75 ;  and  389,  36.  pp.  430-432.] 

June  23.        594.     Council   of    Trade   and   Plantations   to  the  Lord   High 
Whitehall.     Treasurer.     Submit  preceding  .Memorial.     [C.O.  '389,  36.  p.  433.] 

June  23.  595.  London  Society  for  Mines  Royal  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Further  proposal  for  employing  German  Prot- 
estant Refugees  in  Welsh  mines.  Signed,  Moses  Stringer  and 
7  others.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  June  23,  1709.  4£  pp.  W.O. 
388,  76.  No.  76.] 

June  23.        596.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Lord  Baltimore's  petition 
St.  James's     (May   19)    is   dismissed,   the   parties   having  been   divers   times 

heard  before  the  making  of  the  Order  complained  of.  etc.   Signed, 

John  Povey.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  5,  1709.    Ii  pp.   '[C.O. 

5,  720.     No.  6;  and  5,  1264.     No.  75;  and  5,  1292.     -pp.  141, 

142.] 

June  26.  597.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Antigua.  I  had  not  the  honour  to  recieve  any  letter  from  your  Lordshipps 
by  this  packett  except  two  duplicates.  I  am  the  more  surprised 
at  it,  because  by  the  last  packett,  my  Agent  Mr.  Micajah  Perry, 
writt  me  word  Nivin  had  delivered  in  the  Articles,  and  they 
were  referred  to  your  Lordshipps,  he  alsoe  sent  me  a  coppy  of 
them,  which  I  have  answered  myselfe,  every  article  very  largely, 
which  is  in  a  manner  a  history  of  my  administration.  Refers 
to  other  enclosures.  I  don't  doubt  but  your  Lordshipps  will  be 
satisfied  when  you  see  them.  The  affidavits  are  made  by  the 
very  best  Gentlemen  of  the  place.  What  the  Lt.  Governour 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  371 

1709. 

and  Council!  have  done  is  allsoe  upon  their  oaths  as  Councillors. 
And  your  Lordshipps  will  find,  if  they  have  any  affidavitta  to 
support  any  Articles,  they  are  made  by  Irish  Papists,  proffligate 
wretches,  bankrupts,  or  some  that  depend  on  Coll.  Codrington, 
or  others  that  are  affraid  of  the  Court  of  Chancery.  I  wish,  part 
of  their  £5000  they  have  raised  has  not  been  lay'd  out  to  stopp 
my  letters,  for  I  had  not  one  in  this  packett,  except  a  single 
letter  from  one  Gentleman,  who  tells  me  Nevine  offered  your 
Lordshipps  £30,000  security  to  prove  all  the  articles,  provided 
I  might  be  suspended  and  Commissioners  sent  to  hear  it.  I 
thinke  it  a  piece  of  injustice  to  suspend  me  upon  his  request, 
or  to  be  called  home ;  but  this  my  Lords  I  will  agree  to,  that 
if  Mr.  Nivine  will  give  good  secureity,  such  as  Mr.  Micajah 
Perry  aproves  of,  for  £3000  to  be  paid  me  for  my  hazzard,  cost 
and  dammages,  provided  he  does  not  prove  before  your  Lord- 
shipps all  or  ye  greatest  part  of  the  articles,  or  soe  many 
of  them,  for  which  your  Lordshipps  shall  think  I  deserve  to 
be  removed,  upon  such  condition  I  desire  I  may  have  leave 
to  come  home  to  answer  them  before  your  Lordshipps,  for  I 
am  very  sure  your  Lordships  will  doe  me.  justice ;  but  if  they 
are  to  name  one  to  command  in  my  roome,  and  Commissioners 
are  to  be  sent  here  to  he&re  it,  I  may  conclude  I  shall  not 
have  justice,  for  these  reasons,  first  noebody  will  come  here 
as  a  Commissioner  but  one  of  a  small  or  decayed  fortune,  and 
such  a  man  (let  his  character  be  what  it  will)  is  lyable  toi 
corruption,  especially  if  great  sums  are  offered,  and  I  know 
Codrington  soe  well  (though  he  is  as  covettous  as  a  Jew)  yet 
to  gaine  his  ends  and  have  his  revenge,  I  know  he  would  give 
£10,000,  and  I  don't  know  but  that  sett  of  men  would  make 
up  the  sum  they  have  raised  as  much  more.  Men  need  be  very 
virtuous  to  withstand  such  a  temptation.  Then  Nevine  will 
have  the  opertunity  of  makeing  himselfe  acquainted  with  them 
and  come  with  them',  and  though'  he  is  the  most  insolent  fellow 
alive.,  yet  when  it  is  to  gaine  his  ends,  he  can  fawne  like 
a  spanniell.  When  these  Commissioners  comes  over,  to  be  sure 
they  must  not  live  with  me,  and  there  are  noe  publick  houses 
fitt  to  entertain  them,  soe  that  in  course  they  must  live  with' 
my  enemys,  or  my  friends,  and  your  Lordshipps  knowes,  re- 
venge is  much  more  industrious  then  friendshipp,  it  being  alsoe 
observed  that  friendshipp  is  coldest  in  hottest  climates,  though 
mallico  is  most  inveterate.  All  these  considered,  I  begg  that  I 
may  have  my  cause  brought  before  your  Lordshipps,  and  that 
I  may  have  noe  Commissioners  sent  out.  I  once  did  think  it  best 
to  have  Commissioners  on  the  spott,  but  these  reasons  which 
have  been  since  given  me,  have  altered  my  mind,  I  only  fear 
bribery,  for  I  am  very  well  assured  they  can  doe  me  noe  harme 
if  I  have  justice,  for  I  have  done  nothing  contrary  to  law,- 
or  my  Instructions,  and  notwithstanding  this  claymour  now 
against  me,  I  had  been  very  easy  notwithstanding  all  Col. 
Codrington's  mallice,  had  I  had  less  regard  to  the  doeing  my  duty. 
It  is  plaine  I  have  quitted  my  owne  intrest  for  the  publicke 
good,  for  before  I  had  recieved  your  Lordshipp's  last  instructions 


372  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

atout  my  house-rent,  I  sent  that  message  to  the  Assembly  to 
lett  my  sallary  alone  and  pay  other  people,  and  never  demanded 
of  the  people  of  St.  Kitts  the  100,0001b.  of  sugar  due  to  me 
on  the  same  score.  I  shall  with  impatience  wayte  your  Lord- 
shipps'  commands,  etc.  P.S.  Col.  Jones  is  my  inveterate  enemy, 
and  did  your  Lordshipps'  but  see  him,  I  dare  say  you  would 
not  thinke  him  fitt  to  command  a  foot  Company.  Mr.  Harley 
is  his  relation  and  got  him  this  post.  I  don't  thinke  either 
he,  or  the  Lt.  Governour  of  Nevis  ought  to  comand  in  my 
absence,  any  more  then  a  man  ought  to  be  foreman  of  a  jury 
upon  the  life  of  a  man  whose  estate  he  is  to  enjoy,  provided 
he  be  brought  in  guilty.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Sept.  10,  Read  Nov.  17,  1709.  4  pp.  Enclosed, 

597.  i.  Governor  Parke's  Reply  to  the  22  Articles  of  Com- 
plaint. (1).  I  alwayes  look'd  upon  the  people  in  this 
part  of  the  world  to  have  the  sharpest  and  most  pene- 
trating witt  of  any  I  ever  mett  with;  and  therefore  I 
must  have  been  guilty  of  the  greatest  folly  and  weak- 
nesse,  if  I  could  thinke  to  impose  upon  them  after 
.  so  gross  a  manner,  etc.  (2).  It  is  very  true  I  did 
all  I  could  to  have  justice  done  Mr.  Chester  for  mur- 
dering a  harmless,  honest  Gentleman,  but  I  had  as 
bad  success  in  this  as  I  had  in  Mr.  Pogson's  case.  I 
had  no  difference  with  Mr.  Chester,  nor  did  I  threaten 
the  Justices,  but  I  told  Col.  Gamble  it  was  remarkable 
he  should  act  now  as  Justice,  that  never  would  before. 
I  confess  I  told  the  Councill  that  I  never  knew  baile 
taken  in  England  for  willfull  murder,  and  that  I  thought 
it  very  extraordinary  that  when  Mr.  Chester  was  by 
a  mittimus  signed  by  themselves  sent  to  prison,  the 
Marshall  neither  sent  him  to  prison  nor  confined  him 
to  any  house.  The  Coroner  could  not  sitt  upon  the 
body  that  night,  but  sent  an  order  to  the  Constables  to 
summons  a  jury  against  the  next  morning  which  they 
did  by  taking  the  next  they  mett  with,  by  which  means 
severall  strangers  were  returned  of  the  jury,  as  masters 
of  vessells,  etc.  Mr.  Chester  and  his  friends  were  so 
allarrned  at  this  jury,  that  immediately  messengers  were 
sent  into  the  country  for  to  get  his  Freinds  to  towne. 
His  Friends  Dr.  Mackinnen  and  Mr.  Morgan  went  out 
of  towne  to  meete  the  Coroner  and  desired  him  to  dis- 
charge the  jury,  telling  him  the  deceased  being  a  gentle- 
man, he  ought  to  have  a  jury  of  gentlemen;  and  the 
Coronor,  who  did  not  mistrust  the  juggle,  discharg'd 
that  jury,  and  presently  there  apeared  a  number  of  Mr. 
Chester's  friends  to  be  sworne,  and  one  Mr.  William 
Glanville  was  made  Foreman,  who  himself,  not  Jong 
before  I  came  to  the  Goverment,  had  had  a  jury  of 
inquest  upon  his  servant-maid  etc.  see  supra.  One  Mrs. 
Wright,  landlady  to  the  deceased  came  and  inform'd 
me  all  this  as  I  was  going  to  Church,  and  all  that 
I  did  was  to  order  the  body  to  be  brought  into  the 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  373 

1709. 

open  street  (after  the  jury  had  viewed  it)  that  every 
one  might  see  ye  wound,  which  plainly  apeared  behind 
his  eare,  but  this,  and  the  evidence,  was  of  no  weight 
with  the  jury,  etc.  All  my  brow-beating  of  evidence 
was,  I  desir'd  the  Cbronor  to  aske  this  fellow  and  his 
wife  some  questions,  which  they  answered  soe  as  a 
London  jury  would  have  had  little  regard  to  their  evi- 
dence, etc. 

I  must  confess  I  have  a  very  extraordinary  quiet  and 
innocent  people  to  governe,  for  tho'  it  be  the  last 
Island  settled,  yet  in  three  yeares  I  have  been  here 
there  has  noe  one  inhabitant  [been]  punished,  neither 
hanged,  whipped,  pilloried,  or  so  much  as  putt  in  the 
stocks ;  the  reason  is  this.  I  have  of  late  been  served 
with  Deputy  Marshalls,  that  have  been  inhabittants, 
and  have  such  engagements  with  the  people  they  durst 
not  .doe  their  duty,  and  if  I  order  the  J.P.'s  or  Con- 
stables to  doe  what  in  other  places  is  thought  their 
duty,  they  looke  me  in  the  face  and  tell  me  it  is  not 
their  duty,  but  can  assure  them  had  I  an  absolute 
power,  would  a  beene  arbitrary,  the  stocks,  whipping- 
post, ducking  stoole  and  gallows,  too  would  have  been 
severall  times  putt  into  use;  the  Deputy  Marshall  that 
gave  Mr.  Chester  his  liberty  was  very  much  in  his 
debt,  and  if  he  had  not  been  so,  I  have  no  doubt  but 
he  would  have  found  meanes  to  have  made  it  worth 
his  while  to  have  got  such  a  jury  as  he  desired;  here 
are  abundance  of  honest  Gentlemen  that  would  be  very 
glad  to  assist  me  to  have  offences  of  all  kinds  punished 
(knowing  it  is  for  the  good  of  the  Island)  but  as  yet 
myselfe  and  they  have  not  been  able  to  effect  it,  but 
in  a  little  time  I  hope  to  doe  itt,  if  I  have  not  a 
Marshall  of  their  owne  choosing  putt  upon  me,  and 
have  that  protection  I  ought  to  have  at  home  whilst  I 
doe  my  duty  here.  (3).  The  severall  persons  they 
speake  of  in  general  termes  is  onely  the  one  that  is 
mention'd,  (vizt.)  Col.  Codrington,  whose  person  I  sup- 
pose he  thinks  equivalent  to  a  multitude.  I  thinke  it 
was  my  duty  to  ask  him  what  pretence  he  had  to 
Barbuda  and  by  what  authority  he  presumed  to  a  point 
a  Deputy  Governor,  Barbuda  being  almost  as  bigg  as 
Antigua,  and  at  one  time  there  was  about  80  families 
upon  it,  who  were  drove  off  only  to  make  a  pasture  for 
one  man's ;  whereas  might  that  Island  be  settled  by 
poore  people,  it  would  raise  fresh  provisions  not  only 
to  supply  these  Islands,  but  Barbados  too.  I  could 
not  doe  anything  in  itt  without  the  consent  ['?  of  the 
Council"],  otherwise  I  would  have  settled  itt,  and  given 
grants  to  all  people  that  would  goe  and  live  upon  it, 
and  I  could  have  brought  up  150  or  200  familyes 
from  Anguilla,  Spanish  Towne  and  Turtola,  which  are 
at  present  so  many  Families  lost  in  effect  to  the  Crovvne 


374  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


of  England,  those  small  and  barren  Islands  lying  over 
St.  Thomas's,  that  what  cotton  they  make  there,  they 
sell  it  to  the  Danes.  These  ffamilyes  have  formerly 
been  drove  off  these  Islands  by  the  rich  men's  in- 
grossing  their  land,  and  live  very  poorly  on  these  barren 
Islands,  and  would  be  glad  to  come  and  settle  on 
Barbuda,  provided  they  had  a  good  title  made  to  the 
land;  for  they  might  not  only  make  great  advantages 
by  raising  horses,  cattle  and  sheep,  and  all  sorts  of 
fowles,  but  also  by  cotton  and  Guiney  corne,  which 
would  be  sold  at  this  Island,  and  the  cotton  sent  for 
Brittaine,  and  now  it  is  of  noe  advantage  at  all  to  the 
Crowne,  to  this  Government,  nor  as  he  manages  it,  to 
himselfe.  I  hope  your  Lordshipps  will  lay  this  before 
the  Queen,  that  I  may  have  orders  to  grant  the  Island 
to  people  that  would  settle  it;  for  Coll.  Codrington 
cannot  have  any  just  right  to  itt.  I  can't  think  a 
Governour  has  power  to  grant  a  whole  Island  at  once, 
nor  could  a  patent  be  granted  on  that  Island  by  and 
with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Councill  there,  be- 
cause there  never  was  any  Councill  apointed  there,  nor 
any  records  kept,  nor  Deputy  Secretary  to  record  them1, 
nor  any  Ministeriall  officer  to  putt  him  in  possession; 
nor  is  there  any  on  Spanish- Towne,  Turtola  or  An- 
guilla ;  indeed  there  is  a  Deputy  Governor  upon  each, 
but  they  regard  him  not,  they  live  like  wild  people 
without  order  or  Government,  and  have  neither  Divine 
nor  Lawyer  amongst  them,  they  take  each  others  words 
in  marriage;  they  thinke  themselves  Christians  because 
they  are  descended  from  such,  but  I  have  got  a  parson 
to  goe  to  them  lately  out  of  charity,  to  make  Christians 
out  of  them ;  I  would  visitt  them  myself e,  but  that  I 
durst  not  leave  these  four  Islands  during  the  warr; 
now  according  to  reason,  I  should  thinke  if  he  have  a 
pattent  (which  I  very  much  doubt)  it  can  be  of  no 
vallue,  it  not  being  possible  such  a  pattent  should  pass 
as  is  directed  by  the  Commission  or  Instructions;  sup- 
pose Col.  Codrington  should  also  have  pretended  he 
had  a  right  to  Nevis,  Antigua  and  St.  Christophers, 
and  would  have  pretended  to  have  made  Deputy  Gov- 
ernours  for  these  Islands  (for  Barbuda  is  as  much 
named  in  my  Commission  as  they  are)  does  the  Law 
abhorr  I  shall  demand  bye  what  authority  he  pretends 
to  hold  what  I  have  a  Commission  for  from  the  Queen? 
(4).  (5).  These  are  the  same  Articles  as  were  sent 
before,  and  answered  to  your  Lordshipps'  satisfaction. 
Additions  answered.  (6).  The  writts  have  been  al- 
wayes  issued  according  to  the  ancient  custome  of  this 
Island,  but  they  made  a  law  to  alter  them,  and  during 
the  time  that  Law  was  in  force,  the  writts  were  issued 
according  to  that  Law,  but  that  Law  oeing  rejected  at 
home,  the  writts  were  issued  as  before.  This  appears 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  375 

1709. 

by  the  records,  and  everybody  knowes  the  constant 
custome  was,  that  no  one  ever  pretended  to  sitt  as  an 
Assemblyman,  except  he  was  Free -holder  in  the  Division 
where  he  was  chose.  They  cannot  produce  one  presi- 
dent to  the  contrarye,  nor  was  it  ever  offer'd  at  till 
now  by  Mr.  Edward  Perrie,  and  they  were  so  well 
satisfied  of  it,  that  before  the  last  election  he  was  made 
a  freeholder.  The  reasons  they  get  a  majority  in  the 
Assembly  \_are~],  against  an  election  they  make  sham 
freeholders,  and  the  Register  being  on  their  side,  they 
can  doe  it  and  my  friends  not  know  it  till  too  late;  if 
the  Register  was  my  friend,  my  friends  could  and 
would  I  believe  doe  the  same.  (7).  The  custome  is  here 
as  it  is  in  England  and  all  other  Governments,  to  sweare 
those  which,  are  return'd  members;  and  Capt.  James 
Nisbett  was  return'd  duely  elected,  and  notwithstanding 
they  would  have  had  me  swore  Capt.  Edward  Perriei 
without  hearing  the  cause,  tho  he  was  not  return'd. 
Refers  to  House  of  Commons  practice.  But  before 
they  would  go  -upon  any  business,  without  a  petition 
or  any  hearing,  they  insisted  that  I  should  sweare  Capt. 
Perrie  etc.  (8).  Notoriously  false.  I  was  at  St.  Kitts 
several  weeks  before  and  after  the  last  Assembly  was 
called.  (Refers  to  Minutes  of  Council).  So  that  it  was 
impossible  for  me  to  use  menaces  in  that  Election.  The 
first  starting  the  business  of  the  negative  voice  was 
by  the_  Lt.  Governour  and  Councill.  Having  passed 
some  laws,  the  Lt. -Governour  and  Councill  sent  to  the 
Speaker  to  signe  them,  in  order  to  send  them  to  me, 
which  he  refused,  tho  it  had  alwayes  been  the  method 
when  the  Generall  was  off  the  Island ;  and  the  reason 
they  gave  was,  in  case  the  Generall  did  not  signe  their 
law  for  privilledges,  the  Speaker  should  not  signe  any 
of  the  rest,  when  they  should  be  return'd;  this  was 
plain  by  insisting  upon  their  Speaker's  giving  the  last 
sanction  to  lawes,  which  is  taking  from  the  Queen  her 
negative  voice.  Nevine  and  some  others  of  Col.  Cod- 
rington's  faction  putt  them  upon  it,  for  when  they 
found  I  gave  them  no  manner  of  handle  for  the  least 
just  complaint,  they  putt  the  Assembly  upon  insisting 
on  such  things,  which  if  I  granted,  1  must  have  be- 
trayed my  trust,  or,  •  if  not,  disoblige  the  Assembly. 
They  concluded  that  I  would  give  up  the  negative 
voice,  and  pass  that  bill  for  privilledges,  rather  than 
loose  my  sallarie  for  house -rent,  which  was  what  they 
call  £1000  a  yeare,  and  as  sugar  now  goes  is  really 
worth  £500 ;  and  when  they  found  by  a  message  I  sent 
them,  desiring  them  to  raise  a  tax  and  pay  off  all  others, 
and  lett  my  sallerie  alone,  they  then  offer'd  me  a  bribe; 
they  sent  me  a  message  that  if  I  would  pass  the  Acts 
before  me,  and  let  their  Speaker  give  the  last  sanction 
to  them,  then  they  would  not  onely  pay  me  my  sallery, 


376  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


but  make  me  a  handsome  acknowledgement.     I  answered 

1  could  not  give  up  the  Queen's  prerogative,  etc.     All 
this  apears  in  the  Minutes 'now  before  your  Lordshipps, 
since  which  they  have  desired  me  to  call  them  together. 
The  Councill  were  of  opinion,  as  well  as  myselfe,  that 
it  putt  the  Island  to  a  great  charge,  and  to  noe  purpose, 
for  as  long  as  they  insisted  on  the  negative  voice,  no 
Act  could  pass.     But  if  they  would  give  it  me  under 
their  hands  not  to  insist  on  the  negative  voice,  I  would 
call  them  together,  but  they  refused.     I  often  earnestly' 
desir'd  them  to  raise  a  tax. to  pay  off  the  publick  creditt, 
and  that  they  might  not  thinke  it  was  for  my  own  ends., 
tho'  I  had  my  whole  yeares  saJlerie  due  to  me,  I  desired 
them    to    take    no    notice    of    that.     I    appeale    to    the 
Treasurer's   Bookes,   whether   I   have   not   been  a   very 
good    husband    for   the    publick ;    for    I    have    putt   the 
Island  to  very  little  more  charge  in  three  yeares  than 
Col.  Johnson  did  in  one ;  they  have  raised  but  one  tax 
in  my  time,  and  that  to  pay  off  the  debts  contracted  by 
Col.    Johnson,    whose    table    they    maintained,    and    to 
whome  they  gave  £850  gratuity,  which  by  a  trick  they 
found  for  it  he  tooke  contrary  to  his  Instructions  for 
putting  them  to  above  £5000  charge  to  doe  what  they 
ought  to  be  at  the  charge  to  have  undone.     For  instance, 
there   were   severall   great   gunns,   24   pounders,   which 
were  to  guard  the  principal  harbour,   St.  Johns ;  these 
gunns  he  removed  at  a  prodigious  expence  to  the  topp 
of  Monkes  Hill,  where  they  were  of  no  manner  of  use: 
for  if  Monkes   Hill  had  been  attacked,  if  they  should 
have    fired    those    gunns    often,    the    concussion   wou'd 
have  throwne  downe  the  wall,  which  for  the  most  part 
is  made  onely  of  loose  stones  without  mortar ;   at  the 
same  time  left  the  harbour,  and  consequently  the  towne 
exposed ;  the  bigest  gun  left  being  a  9  pounder,  except 

2  very  bad  12  pounders,  at  some  distance  from  the  Fort, 
to  defend  the  Eoade,  but  they  were  found  too  short  for 
that  purpose,  not  heing  able  to  protect  a  shipp  rideing 
in  the  Eoade  from  a  privateere  that  cutt  her  out.     He 
putt  them  to  a  great  expence  to  raise  part  of  the  inward 
area  of  the  Fort   (without  any  designe  of  throwing  up 
&  cavalier)   by  which  meanes  everyone  that  stood  there 
would  be  exposed  to  the  very  knees  to  the  fire  of  an 
enemy,  etc.     He  built  a  great  number  of  wooden  houses 
contiguous,  by  which  meanes  one  bomb  or  carcass  would 
have   fired   the   whole   Fort,   and   severall   little    square 
houses  on  the  walls,  because  it  looked  well  at  sea,  and 
a  plattforme  with  6  small  six  pounders  on  it  to  defend 
Falmouth  Harbour,  tho'  a  mile  from  it.     I  asked  Col. 
Johnson  how  he  could  be  guilty  of  such  strange  blun- 
ders;   he  told  me  there  was   in  the   Assembly  a   very 
strong  faction   for   Monk's    Hill,   and   that  the   taking 
of   Nevis  and   St.   Kitts   having  putt  them  into  a  very 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  377 

1709. 

great  streight,  they  were  for  making  Monkes  Hill  very 
strong;  I  told  him  he  had  not  at  all  added  to  the 
strength,  but  quite  contrary;  he  said  he  knew  that  well 
enough,  but  they  themselves  would  be  the  IngeniereSj 
and  he  was  only  to  governe  them  till  I  came,  and  was 
willing  to  get  what  he  could  from  them,  and  if  he  had 
not  humoured  them,  he  should  have  got  nothing.  I 
find  he  was  the  wiser  man,  tho-'  I  cannot  much  commend 
his  honesty;  at  the  same  time  they  tooke  up  a  great 
quantity  of  provisions  and  sent  it  to  Monkes  Hill  some 
time  after  this  freight  was  over ;  I  came,  and  then  all 
this  foolish  extravagancy  was  to  be  paid  for,  and  like 
very  honest  people,  they  voted  to  pay  the  publick  debts 
in  sugar  at  20s.  per  cent.,  the  private  people  tooke 
the  same  advantage  and  paid  their  debts  in  the  same 
manner,  yet  any  man  might  buy  sugar  at  12/6  per 
cent,  and  at  ten;  so  that  it  was  not  better  nor  worse 
than  compounding  the  debts  of  the  Island  for  12/6  in 
the  pound.  I  opposed  this  all  I  could,  and  to  be  even 
with  me  they  never  would  give  me  an  order  for  my 
sallerie  till  all  the  shipps  were  gone,  and  that  there 
was  nothing  in  the  Treasurer's  hands ;  so  that  to  this 
very  day  I  have  not  my  first  yeares  sallerie  paid  me; 
there  was  one  Capt.  Mutton  that  putt  in,  being  bound 
for  Jamaica,  he  was  laden  with  provisions,  they  bought 
his  provisions  and  obliged  themselves  to  pay  him  money 
sterling  in  England,  but  have  not  paid  him.  His 
owners  have  putt  him  in  prison  for  selling  his  cargo 
contrary  to  his  orders;  and  this  was  long  before  my 
time,  so  that  it  is  no  new  thing  among  them,  severall 
instances  of  the  like  nature,  as  the  pressing  of  sloopes 
belonging  to  Roade  Island  and  New  England,  for  the 
hire  of  which  they  have  never  paid.  It  is  no  wonder 
the  same  men  are  my  enemies  for  doing  my  duty  etc. 
The  Assembly  say  they  were  well  disposed  to  raise  a 
public  leavy,  if  I  would  allow  them  their  privileges, 
tho'  in  a  message  to  them  I  offered  them  all  the  privileges 
of  the  House  of  Commons,  etc.  (9).  There  is  not  a 
man  in  this  Island  except  Codrington's  faction  but  will 
reade  this  Article  with  detestation  to  thinke  of  their  base 
ingratitude  and  villany,  etc.  I  tooke  more  paines  to 
putt  this  Island  in  a  posture  of  defence  than  any  of  my 
predecessors  ever  did.  At  my  first  coming  I  order 'd 
a  general  muster  of  all  the  forces,  but  the  Councill  and 
officers  disswaded  me  from  it  for  fear  least  some  Irish 
Papists  or  other  amongst  us  might  give  the  enemy  an 
exact  account  of  our  strength ;  I  then  viewed  the  several 
Regiments;  I  did  the  same  in  all  the  other  Islands. 
Their  musters  ought  by  law  to  be  once  a  month,  and 
whenever  I  was  on  the  Island,  if  I  hiad  notice  and  was 
able  to  goe,  I  hardly  ever  missed  seeing  each  Regiment 
exercised,  and  alter'd  their  dayes  for  that  purpose, 


378  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


and  tooke  some  paines  to  teach  them  their  wheelings, 
which  Col.  Codrington  never  taught  them,  etc. etc.  I  never 
turn'd  out  but  one  officer,  and  that  was  a  Captain  for 
being  a  notorious  coward,  and  everyone  succeeds  ac- 
cording to  his  Commission.  Col.  Blackman  and  his 
brother  Col.  Williams  both  layd  downe  their  Commis- 
sions, but  I  courted  Col.  Williams  to  keep  his  Com- 
mission more  than  it  was  decent  for  me  to  doe.  The 
reason  Col.  Blackman  lay'd  downe  his  Commission  was 
this ;  the  Quakers  being  excused  from  bearing  armes 
are  made  orderly  men  to  summons  the  troopes  on  extra- 
ordinary occasions,  and  by  law  the  Col.  has  power  to 
send  those  that  does  not  appeare,  when  there  is  an 
alarme,  to  one  of  the  fortes,  there  to  be  kept  prissoners, 
until]  he  or  the  Generall  himself  e  discharges  them ; 
accordingly  Col.  Blackman  on  such  an  occasion  sent 
three  of  the  Quakers  prissoners  to  the  Fort  at  Saint 
Johns,  their  friends  came  to  me  to  get  them  discharged, 
I  sent  them  to  Col.  Blackman  from  time  to  time  for 
7  or  8  dayes  together,  and  thought  it  very  extraordinary 
that  he  should  have  no  mercy  on  three  Quakers  for  not 
doing  their  duty,  when  he  excused  5  or  6  at  a  time 
on  Nevine's  account  because  they  were  drinking  with 
him ;  therefore  I  sent  an  order  under  my  hand  to  dis- 
charge them,  which  he  took  as  an  affront.  I  have 
endeavoured  all  I  can  to  get  such  a  law  as  they  have  in 
Berbados  passed  here,  for  regulating  the  Militia,  by 
putting  larger  fines;  sometimes  the  Assembly  has  an- 
swer'd  my  message  by  saying  it  would  be  too  great  a 
hardshipp  on  the  subject,  but  to  my  last  message  they 
answer'd,  they  humbly  desir'd  me  to  divide  the  Horse 
into  two  bodyes,  for  that  it  was  too  great  a  fatigue  for 
some  that  lived  to  windward  when  they  met  at  St. 
Johns  to  come  to  muster.  This  Island  is  very  small, 
and  I  don't  thinke  there  are  six  men  to  ride  8  miles 
to  come  to  muster,  let  it  be  where  it  will.  Col.  Cod- 
rington called  this  body  of  horse,  tho'  under  100  men, 
the  Regiment  -of  Carbineires,  commanded  by  a  Coll  on  ell, 
two  Lt.  Cols.,  two  majors,  4  captains,  4  Lts.,  and  4 
called  Brigadieres ;  the  Regiments  of  Foot  are  in  pro- 
portion ;  all  the  men  both  horse  and  foot  will  not 
make  one  good  regiment,  and  yet  they  are  divided  into 
four.  In  viewing  one  regiment,  the  Lt.  Col.'s  company 
amounted  but  to  4.  etc.  As  for  the  disposition  made 
in  case  of  attack: — Here  is  a  Law  that  gives  a  very 
great  power  to  the  Generall  and  Councill  of  Officers. 
By  the  orders  made  since  my  arrivall  will  be  found, 
what  I  am  charged  with  for  acting  not  onely  contrary 
to  the  opinion  of  the  Councill  and  Councill  of  Officers  to 
be  false,  there  never  being  above  2  or  3  orders  ever 
made  by  myselfe  and  Councill  of  Officers,  which  were 
for  a  meeting  of  the  troopes  at  St.  John's  in  case  of  an 


AMERICA  AND    WEST   INDIES.  379 

1709. 

allarum,  and  for  hireing  standing  guards,  being  forced 
to  draw  off  the  Queen's  troops  to  defend  St.  Kitts  and 
Nevis  etc.  I  never  called  the  Councill  of  Officers  but 
when  the  Assembly  would  no  longer  allow  me  any 
nigroes  to  carry  on  Monk's  Hill,  etc.  As  for  what  I 
am  charged  with  in  the  Minutes,  was  onely  my  opinion 
given,  but  never  proceeded  to  an  order,  except  that  of 
ordering  all  the  troops  to  meet  in  a  body  at  Sainfc 
Johns.  I  appeale  to  anyone  whether  or  no  it  is  better 
to  keepe  a  small  force  together  in  one  entire  body  or 
divide  them  into  three,  which  was  the  standing  order 
before  I  came.  It  was  alwayes  Col.  Codrington's 
opinion,  and  he  had  infused  the  same  into  the  most  of 
the  officers,  that  it  was  better  to  attack  the  enemy  into 
their  boates  before  they  landed,  and  at  their  landing. 
I  am  of  a  quite  contrary  opinion.  It  was  my  opinion 
to  have  all  the  troops  rendezvous  at  Saint  John's,  and 
wherever  I  found  the  enemy  designed  to  land,  thither 
to  march  and  to  keepe  out  of  reach  of  the  enemyes 
cannon-shotts  from  their  shipps  till  they  had  landed 
part  of  their  men,  and  then  fall  upon  them,  and  then  if 
the  enemy  fired,  their  owne  men  would  have  been  in  as 
great,  danger  of  their  s'hott  as  mine.  As  for  retreating 
from  pass  to  pass,  and  at  last  by  unknowne  paths  to 
retire  to  Monkes  Hill,  is  a  mere  jest,  there  being  no 
pass  in  the  Island  but  a  place  called  Crabb  Hill  in  a 
remote  part  of  the  Island,  where  the  enemy  has  no 
business  to  come,  and  Monkes  Hill  is  to  be  seene  almost 
all  over  the  Island;  the  woods  are  like  small  English 
copps,  if  they  can't  find  the  paths  to  goe  through,  they 
may  easily  goe  above.  And  if  I  had  been  obliged  to  de- 
fend Monkes  Hill,  I  would  rather  choose  to  draw  up 
my  men  without  the  walls  than  within,  for  there  is  a 
hill  within  half  musket  shott  that  commands  it,  aoid 
most  part  of  the  wall  is  onely  loose  stone,  such  as  the 
Duke  of  Beufort  makes  about  his  trees  at  Badminton, 
that  if  the  enemy  brought  up  but  3  or  4  field  pieces 
to  the  opposite  hill,  they  would  make  the  stones  so 
fly  about  our  eares,  there  would  be  noe  standing  in 
the  ffort.  When  I  first  came,  I  would  have  had  them 
made  a  fort  in  some  other  place;  but  finding  there  was 
a  strong  party  that  were  fond  of  this  place,  and  that 
they  had  built  small  houses  there  for  the  reception  of 
their  women  and  children,  I  told  them  the  only  thing 
that  was  to  be  done,  was  to  scarpe  down  the  hill  to 
make  it  inaccessible,  and  if  they  would  spare  me  some 
nigroes,  I  would  goe  and  live  there  untill  it  was  done. 
I  arrived  in  July,  and  untill  February  following  I  could 
not  perswade  them  to  anything;  and  then  wee  heard 
there  was  a  French  squadron  coming  out,  which  putt 
'em  into  a  fright,  and  then  they  consented  to  allow  me 
some  slaves  to  scarpe  downe  Monkes  Hill;  accordingly 


380  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 


I  carryed  my  bedd  there,  and  was  their  inginiere  and 
overseer  for  severall  weekes,  untill  wee  heard  there 
was  no  danger  for  that  yeara;  I  had  gone  by  this  time 
halfe  round  almost  the  hill  though,  not  halfe  finished, 
and  designed  to  have  made  a  good  covered  way;  I 
desired  them  to  spare  me  but  two  per  cent  of  their 
nigroes,  and  promised  I  would  live  upon  the  hill  till  I 
had  finished  itt,  tho  it  was  to  me  a  very  great  fatigue, 
but  they  were  growne  such  good  husbands,  they  would 
not  comply  with  my  request,  the  danger  they  thought 
was  over  for  that  yeare,  and  by  the  next  they  hoped 
for  a  peace.  Whilst  I  was  scarping  down  the  hill, 
Col.  Lilly  came  from  Berbados,  by  order  of  the  Board  of 
Ordnance,  to  view  the  fortifications  of  these  Islands; 
he  told  them',  as  1  had  done,  that  Monkes  Hill  might 
be  taken  sword  in  hand.  They  were  so  angry,  they 
passed  a  vote  in  the  Assembly  never  more  to  goe  on 
upon  Monkes  Hill.  Everything  went  on  very  well,  and 
the  people  were  in  good  humour  untill  the  hurrycane  the 
last  of  August  following,  which  threw  downe  a  great 
part  of  the  wall,  and  all  the  houses  but  one  on  Monks 
Hill.  I  could  not  perswade  them  to  let  me  have  any 
nigroes  to  goe  on  with  until  the  end  of  November 
uppon  hearing  of  M.  Ducass's  coming,  I  then  easily 
perswaded  them  to  let  me  have  some  nigroes  to  work 
there  and  also  to  make  a  line  about  the  towne.  'Refers 
to  Minutes  of  Council.  I  am  charged  with  doing  this  of 
my  owne  head,  whereas  they  mad'e  a  law  for  it.  Nor 
did  I  in  my  life  nor  ever  will  putt  them  to  one  peny 
charge  without  a  Law  t©  justifye  me,  and  all  I  gott 
or  proposed  to  gett,  was  only  a  great  deale  of  fatigue, 
riding  20  miles  a  day  for  3  weekes  etc.  My  reason 
for  desiring  to  make  a  line  about  the  towne  was,  all 
the  houses  for  the  women  on  Monkes  Plill  were  blown 
down,  etc.  etc.  The  men  I  had,  with  the  nigroes  I 
could  have  armed,  with  the  cannon  I  should  have 
planted  on  the  angles  would  have  defended  my  line 
against  any  force  can  well  be  brought  here.  I  had 
not  above  3  per  cent  of  their  nigroes  allowed  me  for 
the  towne,  and  yet  in  3  weekes  I  had  brought  my 
line  quite  round,  and  if  they  would  have  allowed  me 
term  (which.  I  earnestly  desired),  I  had  finished  them 
and  made  them  as  good  as  the  lines  in  Flanders,  which 
bid  defyance  to  the  Confederate  armies  for  three  cam- 
paignes,  and  at  last  were  entered  by  surprize.  They 
allowed  Col.  Johnson  what  number  of  nigroes  he  pleased 
to  do  what  had  better  been  left  undone,  and  found  his 
table  and  £50  the  weeke  for  his  trouble  for  17  weekes. 
He  put  them  to  very  neare  as  great  expence  in  the 
little  time  he  was  with  them  as  I  have  done  in  three 
yeares,  tho'  I  heare  it  is  said  in  London  I  had  a  good 
table  kept  for  me  all  the  time,  yet  I  never  had  anything 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  381 

1709. 

allowed  me,  except  a  mutton  and  a  few  turkies  the 
Treasurer  sent  me  on  the  hill,  and  a  pipe  of  wine, 
which  I  never  meddled  with,  but  I  heare  was  sold  after 
I  came  away.  They  make  no  scruple  also  to  report  that 
the  merchants  and  shoppkeepers  bribed  me,  which  was 
the  reason  I  was  so  zealous  for  defending  the  towne; 
when  I  was  laying  out  the  lines,  an  old  Gentlewoman 
indeed  used  to  send  me  sometimes  a  tankerd  of  wine 
and  water  to  drink;  and  one  Mr.  Proctor,  a  merchant, 
made  me  a  present  of  four  sacks  of  oats  for  my  horses, 
there  being  not  any  at  that  time  to  be  bought ;  this  is 
all  the  bribes  or  reward  I  ever  had.  As  to  the  standing 
guards,  they  would  be  of  no  use,  if  the  enemy  were 
landed,  they  being  only  to  prevent  privateers  from1 
taking  off  nigroes.  As  to  moving  the  great  gunns,  the 
Assembly  consented,  and  some  of  them  that  have  signed 
this  Article,  were  very  zealous  to  have  it  done.  There 
are  severall  guns  up  and  downe  the  Island  more  to 
please  some  leading  man  that  lives  neare  the  place  than 
of  any  real  use,  any  further  than  to  give  some  lazia 
Gentleman  a  pretence  to  get  a  Commission  to  com- 
mand them,  by  which  meanes  he  is  excused  all  duty  in 
the  Militia;  and  these  are  called  platforms,  tho  not 
one  stone  lay'd  one  on  another,  and  a  gun  or  two 
buried  in  the  earth ;  when  I  came  to  examin  into  it, 
I  found  there  were  hardly  any  fitt  to  bring  away,  except 
two  from  Willoughby  Bay  and  6  small  ones  on  Monkes 
Hill.  They  were  useless  for  defending  the  harbour 
etc.  The  guns  are  still  there,  for  before  1  could  bring 
them  to  St.  Johns,  Ducass  .sayl'd  to  Leeward,  they  no 
sooner  had  an  account  of  his  sayling,  but  all  the  nigroes 
were  according  to  custoine  taken  from  the  workes ;  I 
desir'd  the  Assembly  to  let  me  have  one  p.c.  of  their 
nigroes  to  finish  the  lines  and  the  scarping  Monkes -Hi  11, 
but  I  could  not  obtaine  it,  nor  to  make  good  the  labour 
that  was  due  hy  the  law  they  had  made.  It  was  once 
thought  my  zeale  for  the  publick  workes  was  an  a  griev- 
ance, but,  to  make  an  article,  I  am  accused  of  neg- 
lecting them.  The  truth  is  Col.  Codrington  and  his 
creatures  were  not  willing  I  should  have  the  honour 
of  finishing  any  publick  worke,  and  opposed  everything 
that  was  for  the  publick  good,  because  he  himself  had 
neglected  the  publick  workes,  being  of  too  lazie  a 
temper,  neither  did  he  understand  the  Engineer's  busi- 
ness. To  conclude,  they  basely  and  villainously  insinu- 
ate as  if  by  making  the  lines  at  Saint  Johns,  tho'  done 
by  a  law,  and  ordering  all  the  troops  to  meete  there, 
was  with  a  design  to  deliver  up  the  Island  to  the  enemy ; 
and  yet  Nivine,  that  drew  those  articles  etc.,  for  ought 
anyone  here  knowes  may  be  a  Papist,  for  I  never  could 
learne  that  he  was  ever  at  Church  etc.  I  appeale  to 
the  Earle  of  Manchester  who  was  ambassador  in  France 


382  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


what  my  behavior  was  to  the  Pretendor  when  I  was 
in  France,  whether  I  did  not  disowne  him  to  his  face. 
My  zeale  for  my  country  has  sufficiently  appeared  this 
war.  Refers  to  his  3  campaigns  under  the  Duke  of 
Marlborough,  in  which  time  I  was  in  two  battles,  and 
was  at  the  taking  of  14  strong  townes  and  forts,  whereof 
Loudan  was  one,  and  had  the  honour  of  being  sent  to  the 
Queene  by  the  Duke  with  the  newes  of  the  glorious 
victory  of  Blenheim,  for  which  her  Majesty  gave  me 
her  picture  and  a  thousand  pounds,  and  told  me  she 
would  take  care  of  me,  and  sent  me  back  to  the  Duke 
with  another  express;  I  joyn'd  the  army  at  Philipps- 
burgh,  and  that  long  and  glorious  campaigne  being 
ended  I  had  the  honour  of  waiting  on  the  Duke  to  the 
Courts  of  Berlin  and  Hanover,  where  I  received  sev- 
erall  markes  of  those  Princes'  favour;  I  had  also  at 
my  coming  to  the  Hague  a  gold  chaine  and  meadall 
given  me  by  the  States  worth  1500  florrins.  -j£c.  Not- 
withstanding I  am  charged  with  an  unsoldier-like  be- 
havior, yet  not  one  of  those  that  have  signed  the  articles 
are  competent  judges.  Yet  if  the  enemy  had  appeared, 
I  should  have  acted  as  the  majority  of  a  Councill  of  War 
advised,  for  I  have  seen  too  much  of  the  world  to  take 
that  wholly  on  myselfe  for  which,  if  I  had  succeeded, 
I  should  have  been  thought  a  rash  fool,  and  if  I  had 
miscarry'd,  I  should  have  forfeited  my  life. 

Why  I  have  such  difficulty  in  getting  them  to  spare 
nigroes  for  any  workes  [is,  that]  everyone  is  desirous 
to  have  a  ffort  neare  his  own  plantation,  that  he  may 
the  easier  remove  his  effects  there  upon  alarum ;  when 
wee  expected  Ducass,  I  could  not  perswade  them  to  let 
me  have  a  nigro  for  Monkes  Hill  or  the  towne  except  I 
would  consent  that  a  campe  should  be  lay'd  out  on  a 
hill  called  Waldron's,  tho'  I  told  them  it  was  imprac- 
ticable by  reason  the  hill  was  all  in  woods,  etc.  I 
was  obliged  to  let  them  throw  away  about  £1000  upon 
what  could  be  no  use,  all  because  3  or  4  of  the 
Assembly  lived  neare  that  hill.  Another  party  were  for 
a  hill  called  Home's  Hill,  where  might  be  made  a  good 
Fort,  but  they  were  outvoted,  the  Towne  party  were 
the  weakest,  there  being  a  kind  of  a  warr  between  the 
shop-keepers  in  towne  and  the  planters,  the  trades- 
men complaine  the  Planters  pay  them  bad  sugar,  and 
made  them  take  it  at  20/s.  the  hundred  for  their  debts, 
when  it  was  sold  for  12/6  p.c.  and  for  10/. ;  the  planters 
complaine  they  sell  their  goods  at  excessive  rates ;  both 
which  complaints  are  too  true.  I  am  of  opinion  if  an 
Enginiere  were  to  make  choice  of  a  place,  he  would 
choose  it  where  Col.  Long's  house  and  worke  stands, 
and  were  this  to  be  putt  to  the  vote  in  the  Assembly, 
not  two  men  would  vote  for  that  place,  for  none  of 
them  lives  neare  it  but  Dr.  Mackinnen,  who  has  one 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  383 

1709. 

maxim  never  to  give  his  consent  to  what  a  Governour 
proposes.  I  sent  them  from  Nevis  14  great  gunns,  and 
would  have  had  them  made  a  small  plattforme  on  Creple 
Gate  Point,  which  is  a  propper  place  to  secure  the 
Boade  of  Saint  Johns  etc.  I  disobliged  Nevis  by  send- 
ing up  these  gunns,  tho'  they  still  have  more  gunns 
than  men  to  traverse,  etc.  They  let  these  gunns  lye 
six  weekes  on  board  until!  I  came  up,  and  they  were 
asked  £150  to  land  them.  I  got  the  soldiers  and  some 
saylors,  and  by  giving  them  a  little  drinke  and  fatigue- 
ing  myselfe  two  dayes,  I  landed  them  at  the  propper 
place,  and  did  not  putt  the  country  to  one  peney  charge ; 
the  Assembly  indeed  thanked  me  for  what  I  had  done, 
but  they  would  have  pleased  much  more  to  have  built 
a  plattforme  for  them;  they  promised  me  from  time 
to  time  to  doe  it,  but  never  did,  though  It  might  have 
been  done  for  4  or  £500.  (10).  My  holding  Courts 
of  Chancery  is  looked  upon  with  a  great  deale  of  horror 
by  Mr.  Nevine  and  all  those  that  are  in  danger  of 
just  and  legal  decrees  that  will  make  them  restore  the 
right  owners  what  they  have  kept  in  their  hands  many 
yeares,  and  which  they  could  not  be  made  to  doe  by  the 
laws  of  this  Island;  by  holding  this  Court  I  broake  all 
Mr.  Nevine's  measures,  for  he  had  such  an  ascendant 
over  Chiefe  Justice  Wattkins,  that  whoever  retained 
him  was  almost  sure  to  carry  his  cause,  and  he  made 
his  markett  accordingly,  for  50  pistolles  was  but  a 
common  ffee,  if  the  cause  was  of  any  consequence: 
and  severall  that  had  just  cause  of  suite,  if  they  found 
Nevine  was  retained  against  them,  they  gave  over  all 
thoughts  of  it;  and  everybody  that  had  bad  titles,  or 
had  any  apprehensions  of  being  sued  for  great  sums 
tooke  care  to  secure  Nevine,  who  never  failed  of  having 
a  large  retaining  fee.  I  have  often  told  him  that  I 
never  would  be  governed  by  any  law  or  president  that 
he  should  avouch;  for  that  I  have  often  knowne  him 
impudently  to  averr  that  to  be  Law  that  I  knew  my- 
selfe to  be  otherwise.  As  for  Injunctions,  I  never 
read  any,  and  the  Lawyers  tells  me  my  Lord  Chancellor 
never  does ;  when  I  see  the  Secretary's  name  to  it, 
that  it  has  past  the  Office,  I  signe  it  in  course ;  and 
if  he  has  made  any  gennerall  injunctions,  let  him  suffer 
for  it,  or  on  his  oath  declare  if  ever  he  had  any  sucbJ 
'direction  from  me,  either  to  pass  such  or  any  before  a 
bill  was  filed;  but  all  this  was  from  one  injunction 
done  by  his  Clerke,  but  had  no  ill  consequence,  for 
I  had  enter'd  imediately  that  it  was  his  mistake,  and 
intended  only  for  the  action  depending  etc.  And  where- 
as I  am  charged  with  making  arbitrary  -and  unjust 
decrees,  I  never  made  but  one  since  my  arrival! ,  but  it 
is  not  to  be  imagined  what  good  that  one  decree  did, 
for  it  was  against  the  Chief  Justice  and  he  and  I  were 


384  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


then  very  good  friends,  and  this  decree  was  the  oc- 
casion of  our  difference,  for  when  people  saw,  when  I 
satt  in  Chancery,  I  neither  vallued  Chiefe  Justice  nor 
friend,  those  that  were  afraid  of  just  decrees  thought 
it  best  to  compound  with  their  adversaries  in  time. 
The  decree  referred  to  was  in  favour  of  Andrew  Martin 
who  had  been  sent  from  England  to  recover  a  debt. 
Justice  Wattkins,  acting  as  executor  of  the  debtor,  had 
kept  Martin  out  of  his  money  for  two  years.  I  was  so 
careful  in  this  matter  of  decrees  that  in  another  case 
in  which  Martin  was  concerned  in  behalf  of  one  Jordan, 
though  I  believed  he  was  right,  I  made  no  decree,  it 
not  being  proved  so  as  the  law  requires.  This  Martin 
is  to  be  heard  of  at  the  Bull-head  in  New  Gate,  When 
any  case  has  appear'd  intricate  and  the  Councill  were 
doubtfull,  I  have  sent  it  home,  to  have  the  opinion 
of  two  able  Chancery  men  upon  it,  as  in  the  case  of 
Giles  Wattkins,  brother  of  the  Judge.  Col.  Thomas 
Morriss  brought  his  action  at  common  law  for  some 
nigroes  before  Judge  Wattkins,  who  gave  possitive  charge 
to  the  jury  to  find  for  his  brother,  which  they  did. 
Col.  Morriss  after  this  preferrs  a  Bill  in  Chancery 
against  Wattkins  for  the  same  nigroes.  Wattkins's 
Councill  demurrs,,  decjareing  the  cause  did  not  lye 
before  me  in  Chancery,  it  having  been  try'd  by  a  jury 
at  Common  Law.  Here  I  must  owne,  I  was  at  a  stand, 
for  I  am  noe  lawyer.  The  Lt.-Governour,  who  is  the 
only  Gentleman  amongst  us  that  understands  anything 
of  the  Law,  was  not  possitive,  and  the  Councill  could 
not  advise  me ;  at  last  I  perswaded  both  parties  to 
state  the  case  and  send  it  home  for  the  opinion  of  two 
able  Chancery  men.  I  told  both  parties  I  should  be 
governed  "by  the  opinion  of  the  Chancellors  at  home. 
For  my  arbitrary  proceedings,  though  I  am  sole  Judge, 
yet  I  never  sat  but  I  had  the  Lieut.  Governour  and 
Councill  for  my  assistance,  I  have  alwayes  asked  their 
opinion  and  have  been  constantly  governed  by  it.  In 
the  decree  against  Judge  Wattkins  wee  were  all  unani- 
mous. It  is  impossible  to  imagine  what  a  clamour 
there  was  in  this  Island  about  that  decree  and  the 
attachment  to  oblidge  him  to  comply  with  it;  they  cry'd 
out  I  ihad  trampled  and  broke  in  upon  their  constitution, 
and  the  Island  would  be  ruined  if  I  was  not  removed, 
and  that  was  the  first  beginning  of  caballing,  etc. 
People  subscribed  to  get  me  removed  in  proportion  to 
the  horror  they  h'ad  for  the  Chancery;  but  all  the 
Councill  and  those  gentlemen  that  have  unquestionable 
titles  to  their  estates,  nor  any  demands  from  home, 
commended  my  steddy  and  resolute  proceedings  and 
firmly  stand  by  me,  etc.  I  begg  to  informe  your 
Lordshipps  why  it  is  so  difficult  for  any  man  to  come 
by  his  debt  in  this  Island.  Dec.  22,  1698,  they  passed 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  385 

1709. 

an  Act  for  establishing  Courtes,  which  is  confirmed 
at  home,  some  part  is  very  good,  for  you  soone  obtaine 
judgment,  but  when  you  have  judgment,  you  are  never 
the  neare;  for  by  the  Act  you  are  to  give  20  dayes 
notice  before  you  can  levy  an  execution,  in  which 
time  the  debtor  may  remove  his  cattle  and  house -hold 
goodes,  for  you  are  not  suffer'd  under  18  months  to 
levy  your  execution  upon  his  nigroes ;  the  Act  setting 
forth  what  shall  be  lyable  to  be  seized  and  what  not, 
by  the  first,  second  and  third  execution,  and  what  time 
there  must  be  between  the  several  executions  and  still 
20  dayes  notice  to  be  given ;  so  that  the  debtor  knowing 
what  you  can  levy  every  execution  upon,  has  that  time 
to  remove  it;  but  what  is  worst,  if  your  debt  be  so 
large  that  you  can  afford  to  make  it  worth  the  Marshall's 
while  to  be  so  very  diligent  to  levy  the  execution, 
you  are  no  nearer  your  debt  than  before;  for  the  Law 
sayes,  what  taken  in  execution  shall  be  appraised  by 
two  planters  and  two  merchants,  and  they  must  all 
meet  and  agree,,  and  the  penalty  if  they  do  not  meet 
is  but  40s.,  so  that  a  man  must  be  very  ill  belov'd  that 
can't  find  one  man  that  will  either  not  meet,  or  not 
agree  with  the  others,  if  he  does  meete.  There  is 
another  very  'extraordinary  clause,  every  Freeholder's 
person  is  as  sacred  as  the  Duke  of  Sommersett,  Lord 
High  Chancellor,  or  Archbishop  of  Canterbury;  his 
person  is  not  to  be  arrested,  and  every  man  is  a  Free- 
holder that  has  team  acres  of  land,  which  in  some  parts 
of  the  Island  may  be  purchased  for  £10,  so  that  lett 
a  man  owe  what  he  will,  if  he  have  but  £10,  hie  is 
safe  enough,  and  let  him  owe  never  so  much,  he  has 
time  enough  to  dispose  of  it  before  his  credittors  face ; 
but  then  they  will  tell  you  he  cannot  goe  off  the  Island 
without  giving  security  to  pay  his  debts,  but  that  is 
easily  evaded  by  buying  a  small  boate,  which  will 
carry  him  to  one  of  the  Dutch,  French,  or  Danish 
Islands,  from  whence  he  may  goe  where  he  pleases. 
Your  Lordshipps  may  see  in  the  first  Minutes  of  Coun- 
cill  sent  home,  how  often  [/]  desired  the  Assembly 
to  noe  purpose  to  repeale  this  abominable  Law  and 
lett  the  Common  Law  of  England  be  in  force,  or  make 
some  good  one.  I  believe  the  Chancery  and  my  xeale 
to  repeale  this  Law  is  their  greatest  grievance.  I  am 
charged  with  bringing  bonds  for  ^rd  or  ^  the  vallue 
of  the  debt;  all  this  is  false;  I  never  had  any  bonds 
at  all  brought  before  me.  This  Article  is  concluded, 
as  the  rest  are,  with  a  scandalous  lye.  Extravagance 
rather  than  avarice  has  always  been  my  fault.  I  con- 
fesse  I  live  worse  than  ever  1  did  in  my  life,  but 
take  care  to  maintaine  my  dignity  whenever  any  stranger 
comes  upon  the  Island,  and  would  live  better  if  there 
was  a  markett  or  provissions  were  to  be  had,  tho'  at 

Wt,  11522,  C  P  25 


386  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


any  rate,  and  yet  as  bad  as  I  live,  I  have  16  servants 
about  me,  and  spend  my  full  sallerie,  which  will  not 
goe  farr,  considering  fresh  beefe  is  at  9d.,  and  all 
other  meat  at  12d.  per  lb.,  and  everything  else  in  pro- 
portion. I  brought  over  with  me  a  good  French  cook, 
and  everything  tnecessarie  for  living  like  a  Gene  rail., 
but  the  fellow  in  a  little  time  desir'd  me  to  discharg 
him  and  send  him  home,  for  feare,  if  he  stay'd  much 
longer,  he  should  forgett  his  trade,  so  that  I  sent  him 
and  severall  others  back,  paying  for  their  passages  and 
wages  to  their  arrival!  in  England,  and  three  months 
more,  when  I  might  have  made  a  great  advantage  by 
selling  them,  and  have  found  presidents  for  it.  I  ap- 
peale  to  the  Minutes  of  Councill,  what  an  avaricious 
temper  I  was  of  when  I  quitted  £1000  a  year  and 
£1000  gratuity  rather  than  pass  a  law  which  would 
have  given  away  the  Queen's  prerogative,  and  Dutt  in 
the  power  of  the  Assembly  to  tyrannize  over  the  people. 
Let  Lt.  Sherard  (who  is  now  in  London)  upon  oath! 
declare,  what  a  large  offer  he  was  desir'd  to  make  me 
from  a  gentleman  of  Montseratt,  if  I  would  suffer  the 
Danish  sloops  to  come  and  goe  unmolested,  and  what 
answer  I  made  him.  The  King  of  Dominico's  sons 
came  downe  to  mS  some  time  ago,  to  complaine  that  a 
Jamaica  privateer  had  landed  there  and  killed  some 
of  ftieir  men,  and  ravished  their  women;  I  promised 
to  doe  him  justice  if  ever  that  privateer  came  into  my 
Government,  and  to  putt  him  in  a  good  humor,  I 
gave  him  a  paire  of  pistolls  garnished  with  silver,  and 
cloathed  him  and  treated  him  and  sent  with  him  a 
caske  of  rum  and  another  of  sugar;  if  I  had  not  done 
this  they  would  have  taken  their  oportunity  to  have 
been  revenged,  having  formerly  landed  on  this  Island 
and  cutt  of  some  of  the  inhabitants;  the  Island  ought 
to  have  been  at  this  charge,  not  I.  The  Weymouth 
coming  to  our  assistance,  at  my  request,  after  we  had 
lost  our  guardshipp,  the  Adventure,  putt  me  to  upwards 
of  £200  charge,  this  country  money ;  had  they  not  been 
of  an  avaricious  temper,  they  would  have  made  Capt. 
Legg  a  present  of  500  pistolles  for  the  service  he  did 
us ;  but  insted  of  that  they  sent  him,  with  an  ostenta- 
tious, rediculous  letter,  one  paragraph  of  which  was  a 
lye,  with  a  reflection  on  Governor  Crow,  signed  by 
almost  all  these  that  signed  these  articles,  I  say  their 
present,  thus  introduced  was  one  small  bullock  and 
6  indifferent  sheepe.  I  undergo  some  fatigue  in  always 
holding  a  Chancery  Court  when  anybody,  poore  or  rich', 
has  any  business;  and  the  reason  there  has  beene  no 
more  decrees  is,  I  perswade  them  to  agree  amongst 
themselfes;  and  whereas  in  some  other  Governments 
the  Chancery  Court  is  a  Revenue  to  the  Governour,  for 
Governour  Crowe's  Secretary  gives  him  £500  the  yeare 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  387 

1709. 

for  it;  I  have  no  manner  of  advantage  whatsoever  by 
all  I  doe  in  Chancery;  I  grant  injunctions,  subpoenas, 
etc.,  and  make  decrees  without  either  fee  or  reward. 
(11).  I  never  threatened  to  displace,  or  have  I  ever 
turn'd  out  a  Judg,,  or  so  much  as  a  J.P.,  except  Coll. 
Hodges  of  Montserratt,  which  I  did  at  the  request  of 
the  principal  inhabitants;  as  for  Judge  Wattkins,  tho 
I  had  several  very  great  complaints  against  him,  as 
supra,  I  never  threaten'd  to  remove  him ;  I  sent  for 
him  when  I  was  setting  in  Councill  and  told  him  that 
I  hoped  he  wou'd  take  care  to  give  no  occasion  for 
any  more  such  complaints,  and  checked  those  who  made 
frivolous  complaints,  and  one  Mr.  Mallett  a  lawyer, 
who  drew  up  a  complaint  against  him,  Judge  Wattkins 
having  committed  him  for  his  undecent  behaviour  to 
him  in  Court.  As  to  the  mandamus,  there  never  was 
but  one  ordered,  and  that  never  issued.  I  am  no 
lawyer,  and  cannot  tell  if  it  was  or  was  not  agreeable 
to  the  Common  Law  of  England,  for  the  lawyers  on  one 
sidn  averred  it  was,  and  those  on  the  other  side,  it 
was  not,  etc.  The  Chiefe  Justice  refusing  what  was 
agreed  to  by  all  the  other  Judges  on  the  Bench,  com- 
plaint being  made  to  me,  I  called  the  Councill  and  they 
unanimously  gave  their  opinion  he  ought  to  signe  the 
process,  and  if  he  refused  it,  then  to  issue  out  a  man- 
damus, whereupon  he  immediately  sign'd  the  process. 
The  Judges  that  complained  against  Wattkins  have 
signed  this  article.  I  beg  to  informe  you  the  true 
intrigue  of  Wattkins  laying  downe  his  Commission,  for 
I  did  not  designe  to  remove  him,  for  I  knew  it  was 
what  they  desired ;  nor  did  it  at  that  time  signify  any- 
thing to  remove  him,  for  he  satt  till  the  Courts  were 
over,  and  then  there  was  no  occasion  for  a  Chiefe 
Justice  for  six  months;  therefore  it  was  contrived  for 
him  to  lay  downe  his  Commission  to  give  some  colour 
for  this  base  and  false  article;  and  they  made  a  great 
jest  of  it,  and  offer'd  wagers,  that  the  Generall  would 
be  removed  before  Christmas  and  Wattkins  Chiefe  Jus- 
tice againe  before  the  Courts  began  etc.  This  Gentle- 
man was  made  Chiefe  Justice  by  Col.  Johnson  at  the 
request  of  Col.  Codrington,  tho  he  had  been  guilty  of 
the  murder  of  Capt.  Weatherly,  who  was  run  through 
by  him  for  words  spoke,  the  poor  "Gentleman  having 
no  sort  of  weapon  about  him,  was  cleared ;  but  had 
he  been  tryed  before  my  Lord  Chiefe  Justice  Holt, 
upon  the  statute  of  stabing,  a  Midlesex  jury  would 
have  gone  neare  to  have  hanged  him1.  I  thinke  a  man 
with  such  a  staine  upon  him  not  fitt  to  beare  any  office : 
had  he  not  laid  downe,  I  designed  to  have  desired 
leave  of  your  Lordshipps  to  have  removed  him  before 
the  opening  of  the  Courts.  (12).  Being  informed  that 
several  boates  had  come  loaden  on  shoare  at  an  un- 


388  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


reasonable  time  of  night,  I  presently  suspected  they 
had  landed  prohibitted  goods,  and  it  was  most  Jikely 
to  be  brandy,  from  on  boarde  one  Reade.  After  the 
Councill  broke  up  about  sunsett,  I  sent  for  Capt.  Newell 
and  order'd  him  to  place  centinells  at  Mr.  Chester's, 
Mr.  Rose's  and  some  other  warehouses,  where  I  thought 
it  most  likely  to  bee.  I  then  ordered  the  Collector  and 
Deputy  Navall  Officer  to  search  Read's  shipp  and  the 
warehouses.  They  asked  for  a  warrant.  I  order'd  the 
Secretary  to  draw  one,  which  I  signed;  Mr.  Brett 
also  copied  the  said  warrant,  which  I  also  signed. 
Whilst  this  was  doing,  Mr.  Chester  came  to  me  and 
told  me  that  I  had  putt  soldiers  at  his  ware -ho  use 
doore ;  that  he  had  only  got  a  little  clarett  and  brandy 
for  his  owne  use,  and  he  hoped!  I  would  not  order  it  to 
be  seized ;  I  told  him  I  was  obliged  to  give  orders  to 
seize  it,  but  I  promised  him,  when  it  was  condemned, 
to  restore  it  halfe  back ;  he  seemed  dissatisfied,  and 
went  away  and  stood  on  the  bridge,  which  was  between 
the  warehouse  and  where  I  stood ;  there  came  several 
to  me  and  told  me  the  towne  was  alarumed  at  my  setting 
soldiers  at  the  merchants'  warehouses,  and  to  satisfv 
the  people,  I  order'd  the  soldiers  away,  which  I  have 
since  very  much  repented ;  but  before  I  did  so,  I  de- 
liver'd  the  warrants  to  the  Collector  and  Naval  Officer 
to  execute  them;  then  as  I  stood  alone,  Mr.  Chester 
came  back,  and  seeming  very  uneasie,  I  told  him  I  was 
obliged  to  doe  what  I  did,  being  sworne  to  the  Acts 
of  Trade ;  as  to  my  part  of  it,  he  should  give  me  what 
he  pleased;  by  this  time  it  was  neare  9  at  night,  my 
usuall  time  of  going  to  bed;  I  went  home  not  doubting 
but  the  officers  would  have  seized-  it,  but  the  next 
morning  enquiring  about  it,  I  was  surpriz'd  when  they 
told  me,  they  could  not  find  it.  I  have  been  since 
informed  there  was  to  the  vallue  of  £1500  in  brandy ; 
if  I  had  seized  it,  I  had  a  right  to  £rd  as  Governor 
and  £rd  as  seizing  of  it;  what  reason  had  I  to  quit 
£1000  for  £150  to  an  enemy;  I  have  been  informed 
they  saved  it  by  taking  up  the  ffloore  and  hoisting 
of  it  up;  others  told  me,  while  they  were  searching 
one  place,  it  being  in  the  night,  was  by  a  great  number 
of  nigroes,  removed  to  another.  As  to  the  £150  Mr. 
Chester  allowed  me,  this  was  on  account  of  negroes 
which  he  had  supplied  to  me  at  an  excessive  rate,  etc. 
etc.  (13).  I  do  owne  I  have  strictly  charged  the  Cus- 
tom-house officers  to  doe  their  duty,  and  not  to  suffer 
that  smugling  and  clandestine  trade  that  has  been  for 
many  years  carryed  on  to  the  Dutch,  French  and 
Danish  Islands ;  for  if  great  care  were  not  taken,  in 
a  few  yeares  foreign  e  states  wou'd  reape  the  whole 
benefit  of  these  Islands ;  for  that  severall  large  sloops 
were  heretofore  kept  for  no  other  use  but  to  carry 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  389 

'1709. 

sugar  to  Curacoa,  and  bring  back  from  thence  nigroes, 
linnens  and  other  Europian  goods  etc. ;  and  it  being 
a  common  practice  here  to  putt  sugars  on  board  with- 
out taking  out  a  cockett,  pretending  to  doe  it  before 
it  was  shipped  on  board  the  vessell  designed  to  transport 
it  to  Europe,  by  which  meanes  an  opportunity  was 

?iven  to  the  unfaire  merchants  of  defrauding  the  Queen, 
gave  orders  the  Law  should  be  strictly  putt  in  exe- 
cution. Pursuant  to  these  orders,  several  parcells  of 
sugars  etc.  have  been  seized  and  justly  condemned, 
and  to  encourage  the  under-officers,  I  gave  them  my 
part.  The  4|  p.c.  has  considerably  encreased  since  I 
came ;  yet  notwithstanding  wee  had  a  hurrycane,  if  I 
might  be  allowed  the  overplus,  I  would  desire  no  other 
sallerie ;  and  I  'don't  doubt  but  to  encrease  this  Revenue 
every  yeare.  This  is  a  great  grievance  to  the  little 
smugling  factor  or  planter,  but  none  to  the  generous 
fair  trader,  etc.  It  is  true  I  heard  it  whisper'd  that  the 
tobacco  and  butter  referred  to  belonged  to  Mr.  Bar- 
bottaine,  but  he  had  the  wisdome  to  disowne  it;  for 
they  were  seized  going  to  Martinica ;  for  being  informed 
that  they  used  to  loade  the  flaggs  of  truice  with  tobacco, 
provissions  and  cordage  to  fitt  out  French  privateers, 
I  gave  strict  orders  to  search  all  flaggs  of  truice,  and 
Capt.  Grey,  of  'the  Hector  man  of  warr  had  the  good 
fortune  to  seize  one  full  of  French  goods,  with  in- 
voyces  in  cant  names,  but  truely  Mr.  Chester  had  2  or 
£300  in  goods  in  his  owne  name,  amongst  which  were  a 
great  many  pieces  of  lutestrings  and  alamodes.  The 
Naval  Officer  told  me  the  butter  and  tobacco  were  kept 
till  they  were  spoiled,  no  owner  appearing  for  it.  Not- 
withstanding all  the  care  I  have  taken,  yet  they  do 
trade  by  putting  into  bye-places,  and  it  is  impossible 
to  prevent  it,  except  I  had  two  or  three  armed  sloops 
on  purpose.  And  for  the  Judges  I  made  to  condemn 
them,  when  I  came  here,  I  found  Col.  George  Gamble 
Judge  of  the  Admiralty  Court,  who  laid  down  his 
Commission ;  whereupon  I  made  Mr.  Herbert  Pember 
Judge,  and  notwithstanding  Nevin's  base  reflection,  there 
is  not  a  man  in  my  Goverment  that  has  a  fairer  and 
better  character ;  he  is  a  gentleman  and  was  bred  up 
to  the  Law,  and  came  over  with  his  family  in  as 
handsome  and  credittable  a  manner  as  anybody  ever 
did  into  this  Island.  Lett  them  shew  any  advantage 
ever  was  taken  of  a  faire  trader ;  there  never  was  any 
advantage  taken  of  a  master  that  had  lost  his  register, 
etc.  Instances  to  the  contrary.  (14).  The  Councill, 
reading  this  Article,  could  hardly  believe  it  possible 
men  could  be  guilty  of  so  much  baseness  that  the  very 
same  men  that  had  addressed  me  to  exempt  the  Island 
sloops  from  paying  powder,  should  make  it  an  article 
against  me,  I  did  it  in  response  to  an  Address  from  the 


390  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

.1709. 


Assembly,  but  told  them  it  would  be  thought  extra- 
ordinary in  me,  and  I  would  superceede  my  order  very 
soone,  unless  they  passed  a  law  to  the  same  purpose. 
There  was  a  great  quantity  of  powder  in  the  magazine. 
After  the  hurrycane,  there  was  like  to  be  a  great 
scarcity  of  powder,  there  having  been  a  great  quantity 
destroy 'd  by  that  storme ;  and  the  Assembly  not  having 
made  a  Law,  I  superceeded  my  former  order.  Not- 
withstanding their  villainous  wording  this  article,  it 
is  not  so  strange  a  thing  in  these  Islands  for  the 
Governour's  order,  made  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  Councill  and  Assembly,  to  have  the  same  force  of 
a  Law ;  even  the  Lt.  Governour's  order ;  though  I  must 
confesse  I  thinke  it  not  right.  This  was  the  only 
order  of  the  kind  I  ever  gave.  (15).  By  my  Instruc- 
tions, myselfe  and  Councill  are  to  regulate  all  fees; 
the  first  place  I  had  occasion  to  have  the  fees  settled 
was  at  St.  Christophers,  and  there  it  was  not  only  done 
by  the  Councill,  but  for  the  greater  sanction,  by  the 
Assembly  too ;  the  Deputy  Secretary  collects  them,  if 
he  has  taken  more  than  was  so  settled,  I  desire  he  may 
be  punished,  or  make  oath  he  did  it  by  my  order ;  they 
were  so  inconsiderable  since  the  first  yeare  I  gave 
them  to  the  several  Deputy  Secretaryes  of  the  other 
three  Islands  for  their  encouragement  etc.,  and  I  had 
given  my  frees  to  the  Deputy  Secretary  o'f  this  Island., 
if  that  would  have  obliged  him:,  but  he  was  soe  linked 
in  the  interest  with  Nevine  and  Col.  Codrington's  party 
that  I  had  no  reason  to  give  away  anything  to  a  man 
that  I  found  would  doe  me  what  disservice  he  could ; 
he  knowes  I  order 'd  him  not  to  take  anything  from 
poor  people ;  and  had  the  Councill  or  Assembly  ever 
found  fault  with  the  ffees,  I  would  have  quitted  them, 
tho'  they  are  as  low  as  any  other  ffees  in  ye  Island, 
and  less  in  proportion  to  the  ffees  in  England  than 
are  all  sorts  of  goods ;  my  ffee  for  the  Great  Scale 
was  settled  by  the  Councill  before  my  time;  in  3  yeares 
1  don't  thinke  I  have  had  6  ffees  for  it ;  I  would 
have  no  ffees  settled  for  what  I  do  as  Chancellor,  etc., 
for  I  would  give  no  manner  of  handle  for  them  to  say 
my  zeale  for  doing  Justice  was  only  to  enrich  myselfe ; 
all  my  ffees  are  for  registering  of  vessells,  lett  passes, 
for  letters  of  administration,  probates  and  lycences  of 
marryage,  and  letters  of  guardianshipp;  the  registering 
vessells  and  lett-passes  I  have  given  now  to  the  Deputy 
Naval  Officer  for  his  encouragement,  and  all  my  other 
ffees  amount  to  no  more  than  113  pistolles.  (16). 
Refers  to  Capt.  Roach's  affidavit.  It  was  at  least  six 
weekes  after  I  registered  his  brigandine,  that  he  came 
and  made  me  this  noble  present ;  I  never  tooke  my  ffee 
of  Mr.  Chester  for  my  register,  and  daresay  he  had  as 
many  vessells  registered  as  my  lawfull  ffees  had  come 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  39i 

1709. 

to  more  than  would  buy  10  very  good  barrells  of 
flower ;  and  his  were  so  much  damnifyed  with  salt  water, 
my  nigroes  could  not  pick  any  of  it  fitt  to  eate ;  so  that 
this  present  was  not  only  not  worth  one  farthing  but 
cost  me  above  3s.  a  'barrel!  to  send  it  to  St.  Christophers, 
where  it  was  throwne  out  o'f  doores  etc.  In  Berbados 
and  other  places,  it  is  the  custome  when  any  Guiney 
shipp  arrives,  for  the  master  or  owner  to  present  the 
Governour  with  one  or  two,  three  or  four,  according 
to  the  number  of  slaves  they  bring,  and  yet  never  any- 
body thought  this  was  a  bribe.  Mr.  Chester  once  got 
£800  by  my  giving  him  timely  intelligence:  this  putt 
him  into  so  good  a  humour  that  the  next  nigro  vessell 
he  gave  me  two  nigroes,  which  he  sold  for  me  for  £100 
this  country  pay ;  I  wonder  this  is  not  also  putt  downe 
as  a  bribe.  (17).  The  only  one  that  I  ever  made  was 
Mr.  Pember,  he  is  a  sober  gentleman  of  a  good  family 
and  bred  up  to  the  Law  in  the  Temple,  of  as  faire  and 
good  a  character  as  anybody  whatever.  In  making 
J.P.s.,  I  putt  in  all  the  men  of  estates  in  the  division, 
friend  or  foe,  upon  the  Chiefe  Justice's  laying  downe  his 
Commission  in  granting  the  new  for  the  Judges,  I 
lay'd  it  before  the  Councill  (as  I  do  everything) 
and  they  advised  me  to  the  men  they  thought  most 
propper ;  there  were  to  be  but  six,  and  three  they  ad- 
vised me  to  were  three  that  had  signed  the  Articles: 
I  had  no  regard  to  that,  but  putt  them  in,  thinking  it 
for  the  service  of  the  Island,  wch.  shall  alwayes  have 
the  greatest  weight  with  me ;  I  owne  part  of  this  is 
very  true,  I  have  made  Justices  of-  the  Peace  of  most 
wretched  characters,  nay  even  the  Chiefe  Justice  Watt- 
kins,  if  that  be  a  wretched  character  for  a  man  to 
stab  another,  that  has  no  weapon  in  his  hand;  I  made 
also  the  Commissioner  of  the  Customes,  Mr.  EdAvd. 
Perrie  a  J.P.,  tho  he  has  had  a  molatto  bastard,  and 
now  letts  one  Keate  Attkinson  live  with  him,  who  has 
all  her  life -time  been  a  profligate  woman  and  is  an- 
other man's  wife ;  and  yet  I  dare  say  this  good  man 
is  on  the  wrong  side  of  fiffty.  The  Justices  of  the 
Peace  may  doe  me  good,  and  take  a  great  deale  of 
trouble  from  me  if  they  would  act  as  they  ought, 
and  keep  good  orders;  but  this  they  won't,  because 
it  will  disoblige ;  it  is  true  wee  have  stocks  and  whipping 
post;  and  I  got  them  to  putt  up  a  ducking-stool,  but 
it  is  only  for  forme  sake ;  but  no  inhabitant  was  ever 
punished  since  I  came ;  I  saw  two  women  fighting 
in  the  street,  and  would  have  had  them  both,  duck't, 
but  one  of  them1  being  a  house-keeper's  wife,  tho'  a 
notorious  jade,  her  person  was  sacred,  and  not  to  be 
punished,  but  the  other  being  a  soldier's  drabb,  I  had 
her  duck't.  When  I  came  over  I  renewed  all  Com- 
missions, and  was  a  stranger  to  everybody ;  if  there 


392  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


were  any  new  ones  added,  they  were  added  by  the 
Councill,  for  I  knew  them  not ;  there  has  been  no  new 
Commissions  for  the  Peace,  therefore  none  could  be 
left  out  or  added;  there  are  several  of  these  43,  that 
have  signed  these  articles,  in  the  Commission  of  Peace, 
nor  shall  I  displace  any;  and  yet  I  think  it  a  ^ery 
scandalous  character  for  any  man  to  set  his  name  to 
22  articles,  that  he  knew  himselfe  to  be  false,  etc. 
(18).  The  Councill  are  o'f  opinion  that  by  the  late 
Act  I  am  obliged  to  grant  Commissions  to  every  one 
that  desires  them  and  gives  securitty  accordingly ;  and 
those  Gentlemen,  on  purpose  to  ,affront  me,  that  I  isjhould 
be  forced  to  give  a  Commission  to  one  Hall,  a  ffellow 
of  a  worse  character  than  Ham,  and  has  also  cheated 
me,  fitts  out  a  privateere,  and  demands  a  commission 
for  him,  and  were  in  hopes  I  would  have  refused  them, 
but  I  gave  "him  one,  tho'  myselfe,  they  and  everybody 
else  knew  him  to  be  a  very  great  villaine ;  and  after 
they  had  thus  affronted  me,  they  in  a  little  time  dis- 
charged the  privateer.  When  any  man  gives  me  a 
petition  for  a  Commission,  I  referr  him  to  the  Judge 
of  the  Admiralty  for  him  to  give  in  good  security,  as 
the  Law  directs;  and  on  his  certificate  that  he  lias  so 
done,  I  order  a  Commission.  This  Ham  did  the  same, 
and  for  the  scandal  throwne  on  him  in  this  article  is 
false,  as  they  tell  it;  arid  it  is  false  to  say  he  never 
apeared  till  after  my  arrivall,  for  long  before  he  had 
a  Commission,  he  was  a  house-keeper  in  Saint  Chris- 
tophers, and  it  is  almost  a  whole  yeare  since  he  de- 
liver'd  up  his  Commission,  and  yet  he  lives  there  still ; 
he  has  no  pardon  from  me,  nor  never  asked  for  any; 
if  anyone  will  let  me  know  any  crime,  for  which  he 
ought  to  be  punished,  I  will  soon  order  him  to  be 
taken  up;  as  for  killing  5  or  6  Spaniards,  it  was  to 
get  from  them,  they  having  taken  him  and  made  him  a 
slave,  which  is  their  custom,  etc.  (19).  This  is  no- 
toriously falce,  and  the  affidavitts  of  Col.  Rogers  him- 
selfe, Col.  George  Gamble  and  Mr.  Joseph  French  makes 
appeare ;  what  I  said  was,  complaining  of  the  ingrati- 
tude of  the  people  and  how;  I  had  been  deceived  in  my 
expectations  as  to  the  profitts  of  my  Government,  that 
it  was  represented  to  me  in  England  to  be  three  times 
better  than  it  is,  and  if  it  were  not  for  the  sake  of 
my  friends,  I  did  not  care  how  soone  I  was  out  of  it, 
and  that  I  had  rather  be  Captaine  of  a  Foot  company 
in  England  than  Gennerall  of  the  Leeward  Islands. 
The  people  here  are  in  extreames,  very  good  or  very 
bad ;  all  those  that  are  my  friends,  are  so  'because  they 
think  I  have  acted  like  an  honest  man;  I  have  no 
places  absolutely  in  my  gifft,  worth  anybodeye's  ac- 
ceptance, and  yet  I  have  disobliged  several  1,  because 
I  wou'd  not  consent  to  doe  some  injustices,  by  suspend- 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  393 

1709. 

ing  those  few  that  are  in  places  of  profitt,  and  useing 
my  interest  to  get  them  for  themselves,  eta.  They 
would  have  had  the  Treasurer  removed  without  assigning 
any  cause ;  because  two  or  three  leading  men  in  the 
Assembly  had  a  great  mind  to  his  place ;  and  because 
I  would  not  doe  it,  they  were  angry  with  me,  and  would 
have  had  me  passed  a  Law,  which  would  have  made 
the  Treasurer  so  meane,  as  that  he  must  have  quitted. 
They  settled  his  accompt  w'ith  all  imaginable  niceness, 
and  after  all  it  was  found  the  Island  owed  him  £4,800 ; 
and  he  told  them  if  they  would  pay  him,  he  would  quitt 
his  place ;  I  never  had  the  least  obligation  to  the  man ; 
but  I  think  whilst  he  faithfully  discharged  his  duty, 
I  ought  to  protect  him,  etc.  I  appeale  to  all  with 
whom  I  ever  keepe  company,  if  it  has  not  constantly 
been  my  custome,  after  I  had  dranke  the  Queen's,  the 
Prince  and  Duke's  health,  to  drinke  the  prosperity  of 
this  Island,  and  every  one  knowes  that  the  other  Islands 
are  angry  for  nothing  elce,  but  that  they  thinke  I 
favour  this  Island  more  than  them,  tho'  in  that  they 
are  mistaken ;  if  one  Island  wants  what  another  has 
to  spare,  I  alwayes  supply  one  from  the  other;  and 
if  I  send  the  troops  to  Antigua,  arid  take  care  to  be 
there  myselfe,  when  I  have  an  account  of  a  French 
squadron,  it  is  because  it  is  the  Windward  Island, 
and  the  richest  and  most  likely  to  be  attacked;  and 
from  thence  I  can  assist  the  other  Islands  if  attacked: 
but  if  I  should  be  to  Leeward  and  have  the  troops 
with  me,  and  Antigua  should  be  attacked,  I  could  not 
assist,  them  time  enough.  I  have  no  interest  in  Antigua, 
but  a  very  good  one  at  St.  Xtopher,  and  that  Island  I 
thinke  much  healthier,  and  very  much  cheaper  to  live 
at,  etc.  (20).  I  am  very  sure  I  never  said  what  I  am 
here  charged  with,  I  think  Lt.  Beyly,  Mr.  Keyly's  son, 
one  of  the  Commissioners  of  Excise,  was  with  me,  and 
can  inform  your  Lordships.  There  could  be  no  occasion 
for  my  saying  so,  for  there  was  not  at  that  time  any 
faction  against  me ;  for  Col.  Codrington  then  pretended 
to  be  my  friend,  tho'  I  knew  otherwise.  There  was 
a  discourse  about  Sir  B.  Granville  and  the  difference  at 
Barbados,  and  I  was  excusing  some  of  his  actions  that 
had  been  misrepresented.  Mr.  Nevine's  chamber  for 
3  months  together  was  a  perfect  office  for  everybody 
to  bring  in  what  they  knew  or  heard.  People  were  sent 
to  the  rest  of  the  Islands  to  gather  what  they  could 
against  me ;  and  they  sent  to  Col.  Ward  at  St.  Christo- 
phers by  no  means  to  come  to  any  agreement  with  me, 
for  they  would  pay  him  more  than  he  demanded,  and 
accordingly  he  broke  an  agreement  with  me,  which  he 
had  made.  They  had,  once  a  weeke,  a  gieneral  meeting, 
and  a  feast  to  engiage  all  they  could,  and  have  offer'd 
money  to  several  to  sweare  what  they  desired ;  at  that 


394  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


meeting  they  had  at  Mr.  Perrie's,  I  sent  them  a  letter 
to  let  them  to  know,  if  they  were  drawing  up  any 
articles  against  me,  if  they  pleased  to  give  me  a  copy, 
I  would  answer  them,  and  signe  a  tickett  for  one  or 
more  to  goe  off  the  Island  to  carry  them  home ;  I  de- 
clared to  all  the  Councill,  and  bid  the  Secretary  tell 
Mr.  Nevine,  if  he  would  give  security,  as  the  law 
(directed,  I  would  give  him  a  tickett  to  goe  off,  but 
he  scorn'd  to  be  governed  by  the  lawes,  and  pretended 
to  goe  off  without  for  f eare  of  being  stopp'd ;  and 
yet  there  was  not  a  child  in  the  Island  but  knew  of 
his  going,  and  he  went  off  publickly  etc.  My  .[friends 
would  have  had  me  tooke  him  up  for  scandalous  words 
spoken  of  me,  and  several  times  perswaded  me  to 
disperse  their  .factious  and  seditious  meetings;  but  I 
never  would ;  but  told  them  I  desired  my  actions  might 
be  enquired  into,  etc.  After  he  went  off,  I  could  easily 
have  taken  him  up  at  Montseratt,  etc.  (21).  I  not  only 
exacted  one  tenth,  but  also  of  one  privateer  sixteen 
shares,  and  in  another  fourteen,  and  in  another  one 
fourth  part ;  but  they  were  all  of  my  owne  fitting  out ; 
etc.,  yet  for  all  this  I  lost  by  my  privateeres.  I 
cannot  but  smile  at  their  ingratitude,  they  have  quite 
forgott  why  "those  privateers  were  fitted  out.  After 
the  hurrycane,  having  lost  both  our  men  of  warr,  the 
Assembly  desired  me  to  take  up  a  sloope  at  the  publick 
charge  to  be  fitted  and  man'd  for  a  private  man  of 
warr,  and  to  give  a  commission  to  one  Capt.  Dodson, 
who  had  been  Lieut,  to  Capt.  Doyly,  which  I  did;  with, 
orders  to  cruise  to  keepe  off  the  enemy's  privateers  from 
insulting  us;  and  if  she  had  taken  a  galloone,  it  had 
not  been  a  peny  advantage  to  me ;  and  thinking  to 
oblige  them,  I  bought  two  sloops  myselfe,  and  fitted 
them  at  my  owne  charge ;  the  publick  privateer  tooke 
nothing  at  all,  and  all  that  mine  tooke  were  some  nigroee 
from  Marygalant  and  Guardeloupe,  and  one  brigandine 
loaden  with  sugar  and  ginger  bound  for  France,  and 
one  small  sloope  of  little  vallue,  which  I  made  into  a 
privateer ;  the  prize  sugar  and  ginger  could  not  be  sent 
for  England,  because  of  the  great  duty  upon  it,  therefore 
I  sent  it  in  a  sloope  for  Curacoa,  with  orders  to  sell 
it  for  pieces  of  eight,  and  to  fitt  the  sloope  and  bring 
me  up  the  rest  in  money;  I  igott  Col.  Panton  to  manage 
all  this  for  me,  and  by  his  account  I  was  brought 
something  in  debt,  for  the  sugar  arid  ginger  did  not 
sell  for  so  much  as  was  lay'd  out  in  fitting  the  sloope. 
As  soon  as  I  had  the  Act  for  encouraging  privateers  in 
the  West  Indies,  I  sold  off  all  mine,  and  since  that 
Act  I  have  given  commissions  to  everybody  that  peti- 
tioned for  one,  antt  gave  security  to  observe  the  in- 
structions ;  and  this  I  have  done  without  any  fee  or 
reward;  it  is  true,  before  this  Act  I  did  refuse  com- 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  395 

1709. 

missions  to  one  or  two  that  were  strangers;  but  not 
because  they  refused  to  give  me  10  p.c.,  for' I  ihad  reason 
to  believe  they  would  only  stay  here  till  they  had  got 
men,  and  then  would  goe  to  Curacoa,  which  would 
have  been  a  loss  to  the  Islands ;  I  also  refused  to  one 
or  two  that  had  been  guilty  of  roguish  actions,  who 
would  have  willingly  given  me  the  tenths ;  it  being  a 
custome  long  before  my  time.  I  don't  understand, 
before  this  Act  passed,  I  was  obliged  to  give  com- 
missions to  every  idle  fellow  that  asked  for  one;  though 
now  every  master  of  a  little  sloope  will  have  a  Com- 
mission ;  and  I  grant  it  in  course ;  I  had  the  10  p.c. 
but  of  2  or  3,  and  that  was  before  the  Act,  and  not 
for  giving  a  Commission,  but  for  finding  them  with 
great  guns;  for  I  bought  more  guns  than  I  wanted 
for  my  owne  vessells ;  and  let  Capt.  Roach  have  some 
for  his  sloope  commanded  by  Hall,  and  also  to  one 
Darby  Dunavon  and  one  Akers;  I  got  by  this  10  p.c. 
in  all  about  £150 ;  I  had  about  £90  paid  Lieut.  Sherrard 
for  me  by  Coll.  Hodges  of  Montseratt  and  the  rest  paid 
me  by  Hall ;  I  should  have  had  more  indeed,  but  Hall 
both  cheated  his  owners  and  me  too.  (22).  Eves- 
dropping  is  an  employment  fitt  for  such  as  Nevine. 
When  this  Regiment  came  over  at  first,  I  was  obliged 
to  keepe  good  part  of  it  in  the  towne.  I  gott  an  house 
for  an  hospitall  for  them1,  and  kept  a  guard  there,  and 
another  at  the  Magazine,  and  six  more  at  the  Little 
House,  they  have  made  such  a  noise  about ;  the  rest 
were  either  in  the  Fort  or  lodged  where  they  could 
about  the  Towne;  there  was  scarce  a  morning  but  I 
had  a  great  many  complaints  of  some  disorder  or  other 
committed  by  the  soldiers  in  the  night,  upon  whic.hj  I 
gave  out  orders  that  the  tatou  should  beate  every  night 
at  8  o'clock,  and  if  any  soldier  was  found  in  a  punch- 
house,  or  out  of  his  quarters  after  that  time,  he  should 
be  sent  to  the  guard  and  punished;  my  orders  were 
not  punctually  obeyed ;  for  still  some  of  the  inhabitants 
complained,  which  made  me  goe  the  rounds  myselfe  in 
the  night,  but  not  in  disguise  or  to  bring  my  person 
or  authority  into  contempt,  but  quite  contrary,  eto. 
Nor  did  I  think  myselfe  in  any  danger,  tho  I  used 
to  weare  a  bayonett,  which  I  alwayes  wore  in  England 
when  I  hunted,  being  lighter  than  a  sword,  for  I  had 
twc  stout  soldiers  of  my  guard  that  kept  behind  me 
armed ;  this  was  farr  from  being  a  secrett ;  for  I 
never  went  but  I  sent  severall  to  the  guard,  which! 
were  punished.  Nor  did  I  disguise  myselfe,  till  I 
found  the  soldiers  used  to  sett  centinells  to  watch  when 
I  came;  then  I  only  pulled  off  a  laced  or  embroider'd 
coate,  which  I  (had  worne  that  day,  and  putt  on  a  plaine 
one,  or  sometimes  without  my  coate,  in  a  waist-coate 
only,  and  made  my  two  soldiers  keepe  at  a  greater; 


396  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


distance ;  I  have  some'times  tooke  Capt.  Newell  along 
with  me;  I  did  once  or  twice  disguise  myself e  by 
borrowing  of  Capt.  Newell  a  granadeer's  coate  and 
capp ;  but  never  was  discover'd ;  but  have  since  told 
of  it  myself  e ;  by  this  meanes  I  brought  the  towne  in  a 
little  time  to  be  as  quiett  as  the  city  within  the  wall ; 
and  before  I  did  this  there  was  somebody  or  other 
wounded  and  crying  out  murder  every  night,  firing 
gunns  and  pistolls  all  houres  in  the  night;  I  also 
saved  the  towne  'from  being  fired.  This  was  a  great 
grievance  to  Nevine,  who  seldome  went  sober  to  bed  ; 
but  it  had  this  good  effect,  to  make  him  and  his  drunken 
companions  drink  at  their  owne  houses,  and  there  re- 
maine  all  night  for  feare  of  being  sent  to  the  cage; 
for  I  ordered  the  Constables  to  send  all  disorderly 
people  there,  but  in  this  I  was  not  obeyed.  One  way 
Nevine  had  to  ingratiate  himself  was,  he  never  would 
be  entertained  in  any  cause  by  a  stranger  'gainst  an 
inhabitant ;  then  he  would  promote  feasting  arid  play, 
tho  the  pretence  was  for  shooting  and  to  play  at  quoites, 
in  which  he  would  engage  all  the  young  merchants, 
debauching  them  with  drink  etc.,  and  teaching  them 
to  game.  They  took  it  in  turnes  to  make  the  feast, 
which  seldome  cost  less  than  £50.  I  was  at  two  of  these 
feasts,  and  I  discouraged  it  by  telling  some  whose 
employers  and  fathers  I  knew  that  such  feasting  and 
gaming  was  not  fitt  for  them  etc.,  by  which  meanes 
it  was  broke  off ;  this  was  another  mortification  to 
Nevine  etc.  Refers  to  Minutes  of  Council  and  Affi- 
davits (see  June  20).  I  could  a  sent  more,  but  I  think 
two  to  any  one  poynt,  if  people  of  any  reputation^ 
and  no  wayes  depending  on  me,  are  as  good  as  200. 
All  the  affidavits  I  send  are  made  by  the  best  people., 
and  those  they  have  taken,  by  profligate  wretches, 
necessitous  bankrupts  or  those  who  have  the  Court  of 
Chancery  in  great  horrour,  etc.  I  hold  a  Court 
of  Chancery  whenever  any  desire  it,  and  take  no 
fees.  This  is  a  great  grievance  to  such  people, 
considering,  that  by  a  law  in  the  Island,  con- 
firmed at  home,  no  man  neede  pay  his  debt,  except 
he  himselfe  pleases,  and  whereas  in  all  other  places 
in  the  world  the  debtor  is  afraid  to  disoblige  his  credi- 
ttor,  it  is  here  just  the  reverse;  for  there  is  nothing 
more  common  than  for  a  debtor  to  tell  his  credittor, 
I  will  not  pay  you,  because  you  have  disobliged  me, 
knowing  very  well  he  cannot  recover  it  by  law,  tho' 
he  has  his  bond.  The  repealing  this  Law  I  take  to  be 
worth  the  Parliament's  consideration ;  for  I  have  often 
press 't  it  to  them,  it  being  both  for  the  honour  and 
good  of  the  Island,  it  should  be  repealed,  but  to  no 
purpose.  P.S.  I  could  have  avoided  all  the  trouble 
and  expence  these  articles  have  and  are  like  to  give 


AMEKICA    AND    WEST   INDIES.  397 

1709. 

me,  if  I  had  pleased;  for  Capt.  Buor  can  informe  your 
Lordshipps  that  Nevine  told  him1,  that  he  might  tell 
me,  that  if  I  would  make  Dr.  Maokinnen  my  friend,  I 
should  live  easie,  which  was  as  much  as  to  say,  if  the 
Generall  will  make  Nevine  his  friend ;  I  told  them  I 
would,  as  vacancys  happen,  sweare  Dr.  Mackinnen  and 
Thomas  etc.  of  the  Council!,  and  accordingly  putt  them 
on  the  list  sent  to  your  Lordshipps  in  the  ffront ;  but 
this  would  not  doe,  the  Lt. -Governor,  the  Treasurer, 
and  everyone  that  had  any  place  of  honour  or  prolitt, 
must  out,  to  make  roome  for  that  sett;  and  Nevine 
was  to  be  chiefe  Minister ;  had  I  done  this,  they 
would  have  left  Codrington ;  for  some  of  those  hate  him 
in  their  hearts.  And  were  your  Lordshipps  to  know 
what  these  men  were  but  a  few  yeares  ago,  you'd 
admire  at  their  impudence,  and  because  I  would  not 
do  all  this  injustice,  to  gratify  them,  I  am  everything 
that  is  bad ;  and  therefore  the  Island  must  be  in  danger ; 
just  so  I  remember,  because  the  Queene  would  not 
gratify  some  great  men,  that  were  willing  to  governe, 
they  presently  cry'd  out,  the  Church1  was  in  danger, 
etc.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Sept.  10, 
1709.  51  large  closely  written  pp. 

597.  ii.-xxvi.  Duplicates  of  Nos.  589,  589.  iff.  \C.O.  152, 
8.  Nos.  43,  43.  i.-xxvi. ;  and  (mthout  enclosures] 
153,  10.  pp.  427-432.] 

June  27.  598.  Lt.  Governor  Yeamans  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Antigua.  Plantations.  The  restless  spirits  of  some  men,  on  pretentions 
for  the  publick  good,  has  allready  complained  to  your  Lordships 
against  Col.  Parke  etc.,  are  still  at  worke  and  so  very  busey  in 
frameing  projects,  which  are  in  such  a  clandestine  manner1 
and  unusual  secrecy  endeavoured,  to  be  carryed  on  in  their  private 
caballs,  that  every  man  in  post  (tho5  never  so  circumspect 
in  discharge  of  his  duty)  has  cause  to  suspect  there's  some 
evill  forgeing  against  him;  and  being  privately  informed  some- 
what of  this  nature  is  perticularly  aimed  at  against  myselfe., 
refers  to  his  character  with  the  Council  as  expressed  in  their 
letter,  etc.  Signed,  John  Yeamans.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  20th  Sept., 
Read  Nov.  17,'  1709.  2  pp.  [O.O.  152,  8.  No.  44;  and  153, 
10.  pp.  433,  434.] 

June  27.        599.     Representation  by  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Cox  and  Walker  to 
Baibados.     Governor  Crowe,  Sept.  1,  1708,  with  their  observations  thereon. 
Signed,  Wm.  Sharpe,  Alexander  Walker,  Saml.  Beresford.    En- 
dorsed, Reed.  June  27,  Read  Aug.  10,  1709.     21  pp.     [C.O.  28, 
12.     No.  35.] 

June  28.        60O.     P.  Vanderheyden  Rezen  to  the  Directors  of  the  Dutch 
(N.S.)       West   India   Company.     Signed,   P.  Vanderheyden  Rezen.     En- 

Fort  Kykoveral  rforgg<7     Read  Qct     20,    (N.S.)    1709.       Dutch.      8  pp.       [C.O.    116, 
Essequebo- 


398 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 
June  28. 

Whitehall. 


Juno  28. 

New  York. 


6O1.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  I  am  commanded  by  the  Queen  to  referr  to 
your  consideration  the  enclosed  petition,  H.M.  being  desirous 
to  have  your  opinion  how  far  it  is  practicable  and  may  be 
for  H.M.  service  and  the  benefit  of  her  subjects  etc.  Signed, 
Snnderland.  Endorsed,  Reed.  8th,  Read  llth  July,  1709.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

601.  i.  George  Ritter,  Burgess  of  Berne,  to  the  Queen.  Prays 
permission  for  4  or  500  Swiss  Protestants  to  settle  as 
H.M.  subjects,  with  their  own  minister,  upon  the  S.W. 
branch  of  Pottomac  River  in  Virginia,  etc.,  near  the 
settlement  of  Francois  Luis  Michell.  Prays  for  free 
passage  and  freedom  from  taxes  for  the  first  10  years. 
etc.  French.  3^  pp. 

601.  ii.-vii.  Petitions  of"  Christopher  de  Graffenried  and  Luis 

Michell  to  the  Queen,  for  the  settlement  of  a  Colony  of 
Switzers  in  Virginia.  With  Map  etc.  8  pp.  [C.O.  5, 
1316.  Nos.  20-27;  and  (without  enclosures)  5,  1362. 
p.  394.] 

602.  Col.  Vetch  to  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle.    I  could  not   so    far 
neglect  my  duty  and  the  many  obligations    I  ly    under  to  you 
as  not  to  tender  the  most  grateful  acknowledgment  of  the  same 
to  you,  by  those  few  lines  you  will  see  by  the  Journall  of  my 
transactions    since    I    landed   in   America,    transmitted   herewith 
to  my  Lord  Sunderland,  that  I  have  at  least  made  good  all  if 
not  more  then  I  proposed  to  your  Lordship  and  the  Ministry, 
though  not  without  a  vast  fatigue  and  a  great  expence,   which, 
I  doubt  not  your  Lordship  and  the  rest  of  the  Ministry  will,  be 
pleased  to  Consider  off,  which  have  wrote  the  Duke  of  Queens- 
berry,  my 'Lord  Sunderland,  my  Lord  Treasurer,  and  my  Lord 
Burners,  and  doubt  not  of  your  justice  and  favour  with  regard 
to  the   same.     I   doubt  not  but  your  Lordship  remembers  that 
after  your  Lordship  had  agreed  to  the  putting  my   scheam  in 
practice   for   reducing   Canada  and   Newfoundland,   that  I   gave 
in   a  memorial  to  the  Cabinet  Councel,  praying  that  after  the 
success  of  the  affair  had  made  the  truth  of  my  proposals,  and 
the  advantages  of  the  same  appear,  that  I  might  be  left  Com- 
mander  in   Chief  of   Canada  untill   the  Government   should   be 
regularly   modelled,   wch.   my   Lord   Sunderland   was  pleased   to 
give   me   some    assurances   of,   concerning   which  I    wrote    both 
to  my  Lord  Treasurer  and  his  Lordship  from  Portsmouth  that 
the  General  of  the  expedition  might  have  a  perticular  instruction 
about  the  same,  there  appearing  now  nothing  (humanly  speaking) 
which   can  disappoint  this  noble  designe,  the  success  of  which 
(I  am  almost  morally  sure)  will  be  attended  with  more  advaln- 
tageous  consequences  to  Great  Britain's  Empire  then  the  many 
millions   have   been  expended   in  the   European  wars    (save  the 
too   late   arival   of   the   Fleet   from   Europe)    for   which   we   im- 
patiently  wait,    I    have   therefore   in   case  it   should  have   been 
forgot,    put   the    above-named   Lords   of   the   Ministry   in   mind 
of   what  they   gave   me   reason   to   expect,    and   that   in   case  itj 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  399 

1709. 

should  have  "hitherto  been  neglected,  they  will  please  by  the 
first  express  directly  to  Quebeck  to  send  me  such  a  Commission 
and  power ;  have  likewise  proposed  to  my  Lords  Queensberry  and 
Sunderland  the  forming  a  regiment  out  of  the  volentiers  of  the 
Country  troops,  who  go  upon  this  expedition,  whose  knowledge 
in  the  use  of  birch  canoes  and  snow-shoes  makes  them  more 
serviceable  then  our  European  troops  by  much,  and  will  in  a 
short  time  discipline  the  others  in  those  exercises.  This  regi- 
ment to  be  left  in  garison  at  Quibeck  under  my  command  as 
Collonell,  and  under  me  by  such  other  officers  according  to  their 
ranks  as  have  most  signalised  themselves  in  the  'present  expe- 
dition. I  have  likewise  proposed  to  their  Lordships  the  absolute 
necessity  of  allowing  us  a  brigantine  and  sloop  to  attend  that 
place  after  reduced,  as  well  to  cruise  off  the  mouth  of  that 
great  River,  in  order  to  give  us  timely  notice  of  the  appearance 
of  any  Fleet  to  attack  us,  that  so  we  may  have  time  ;to  get 
the  troops  downe  to  Quibeck  from  Montreal  and  Trois  Rivers,  or 
if  need  be  to  send  them  express  to  Old  or  New  England,  to 
acquaint  them  of  our  circumstances,  that  so  they  may  send 
us  'the  necessarie  supplys,  to  the  obtaining  in  all  which,  I 
humbly  begg  your  Lordships  favour  and  assistance,  which  I 
doubt  not  after  your  perusal  of  the  papers  directed  to  my 
Lord  Sunderland,  and  the  Duke  of  Dover,  your  Lordship  will 
be  convinced  are  absolutely  necessarie  for  the  good  of  the 
service  etc.  Signed,  Sam.  Vetch.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June  39, 
1709  [?1710].  11  pp.  [0.0.  5,  1091.  No.  16.] 

June  28.  603.  Col.  Vetch  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.  To  same  effect 
as  preceding.  Signed,  Sam.  Vetch.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  20. 
2  pp.  [0.6.  5,  9.'  2Vo.  23.] 

June  28.  604.  Col.  Nicholson  and  Col.  VetcbJ  to  [?  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
's. York.  derland.~\  This  being  the  first  oppertunitie  which  hath  offered 
since  our  departure  from  Portsmouth  Mar.  11,  wee  could  not 
but  judge  it  our  duety  to  give  your  Lordp.  a  short  abstract  of 
a  Journal!  of  our  proceeding.  Describe  their  departure  in  the 
Dragon,  'being  obliged  to  leave  behind  some  officers  who  had 
failed  to  come'  on  board.  Wee  made  the  best  of  our  way  out 
of  the  Channel!,  the  wind  came  cross  about  seaven  at  night, 
so  that  for  five  weekes  afterwards  wee  had  no't  one  days  faire 
wind,  our  busking  so  long  to  windward  in  such  stormy  weather 
had  pretty  much  chattered  our  ship,  as  well  as  rendered  our 
water  a  little  scarce,  which  upon  the  Captain's  application  (copy 
enclosed]  was  the  cause  of  our  going  to  Boston.  Accordingly 
wee  landed  at  Boston  upon  April  28th  about  6  in  the  evening1, 
and  as  soon  as  wee  had  waited  upon  the  Governour,  and  de- 
livered H.M.  letter  to  him',  wee  sent  away  an  express  that  same 
night  with  the  letters  from  H.M.  to  the  Governours  of  Road 
Island,  Connecticote,  New  Yorke,  Jersies  and  Pensylvania,  cov- 
ered with  a  particular  letter  to  each  of  them  containing  the 
substance  of  H.M.  Instructions,  and  what  was  proper  for  them 
to  be  doing  towards  advancing  the  Expedition  before  wee  arrived 


400  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

in  theire  Governments,  etc.  Next  morning1  at  Boston  the  Gov- 
ernour  and  Councill  mett,  to  whom  wee  communicated  H.M. 
Instructions,  which  were  received  with  all  the  duetifull  obedience 
becoming  good  subjects,  and  all  the  marks  of  joy  and  thankful- 
ness which  became  the  subjects  of  so  great  favours,  etc.  That 
same  day  wee  sent  to  find  out  a  fitt  person  and  a  vessell  to 
send  to  bring  us  an  account  of  the  state  of  Newfoundland,  and 
laccordingly  found  Capt.  Pickering  who  perfectly  well  knew 
all  that  %countrey,  and  was  then  master  of  a  fine  bergentine, 
which,  was  ready  to  sayle  for  that  place,  when  wee  arrived1 
and  brought  the  news  of  St.  Johns  being  taken  by  the  French. 
Him  wee  dispatched  as  a  flagg  of  truice  to  bring  off  the  Englishl 
prisoners  in  case  any  Frenchmen  had  mett  him,  and  a  small 
quantitie  of  provisions,  which  was  to  be  pretended  was  to 
maintain  the  sd.  prisoners  on  their  voyage  home;  but  with  all 
gave  him  private  orders  (coppie  einClosed).  May  2 nd  arrived  from 
Boad  Island  Coll.  Wanton,  one  of  the  principall  men  of  that 
place,  he  came  in  place  of  the  Governour  for  whom  we  had 
wrote ;  but  the  yearely  election  of  a  Governour  happening  to  be 
that  weeke,  the  Governour  wrote  us  the  reasons  why  he  could 
not  come,  not  being  sure  his  power  would  continue ;  but  sent 
Col.  Wanton  to  recieve  H.MJ.  further  orders  from  us,  and  tq 
assure  us  of  a  very  ready  compliance  with  the  same.  etc.  Wee 
gave  him  a  coppie  of  what  part  of  H.M.  Instructions  related  to 
that  Collonie,  and  a  letter  to  the  Governour  with  directions  what 
necessary  preparations  to  make  before  wee  should  come  there, 
which  would  be  in  a  few  days ;  and  so  dispatched  him  againe 
to  Boad  Island;  he  being  the  leading  man  of  the  Councill  of 
that  Goverment,  having1  setled  w'ith  him  their  Quota  of  men, 
which  was  to  be  200,  for  whom  wee  acquainted  the  Governour, 
who  must.  ,gett  their  Assembly  (which  was  then  sitting)  to  lay 
on  a  subsidy  for  maintaining  and  paying  the  sd.  200  men  for 
foure  months  at  least,  for  providing  transport,  pilots,  surgeons., 
and  all  other  necessaries  excepting  arms  and  amunition.  May 
3rd.  The  Governour  and  Councill  and  wee  began  to  enter  upon 
the  particular  preparations  to  be  made  both  for  raising1  the 
troops  and  providing  everything  necessary  for  them,  which  wee 
first  digested  into  the  following  heads,  and  then  tooke  the  most 
expeditious  methods  could  be  thought  of  to  put  them  in  execution. 
First  wee  laid  an  embargo  upon  all  shipping  except  coasters, 
as  well  to  prevent  the  Frenches  having  intelligence,  as  to  hinder 
the  exportation  of  provisions  until!  such  time  as  enough  was 
secured  for  the  present  expedition,  the  which  embargo  wee 
caused  likeways  to  be  laid  forthwith  in  all  the  Goverments  con- 
cerned in  the  expedition.  Finding  it  impossible  to  keepe  the 
enterprize  secret  in  the  severall  Goverments,  wee  caused  scouts 
to  -be  placed  all  along  the  fronteers  to  prevent  either  Indians 
or  Christians  carrying  any  intelligence  by  land  to  the  enemy. 
Secondly,  wee  began  to  modell  the  men  who  were  to  be  raised 
by  those  Goverments,  Who  were  to  act  by  sea  in  conjunction  with 
H.M1.  troops  who  were  to  come  from  Brittam ;  the  which  troops 
wee  formed  into  three  regiments  as  followeth ;  the  New  England 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  401 

1709. 

men  were  resolved  to  make  1000  effective  men  besides  officers 
to  2  regiments,  one  of  which  to  be  commanded  by  Sir  Charles 
Hobbie  as  Coll.,  the  other  by  Col.  William  Taylor,  one  of  the 
present  Colls,  of  their  Militia,  The  third  regiment  to  be  formed- 
of  the  Eoad  Island  men  and  New  Hampshire  men  to  be  com- 
manded by  Coll.  Wanton,  the  which  wee  hope  will  make  about 
400  good  men,  to  each  of  those  regiments  wee  assigned  one  of 
the  officers,  a  second  which  wee  judged  fittest  for  the  same  to 
be  second  major  to  teach  them  the  exercise  of  their  arms,  thirdly 
wee  directed  them  to  provide  surgeons,  chaplains,  pilots,  etc. 
Ordered  all  persons  who  had  been  prisoners  in  Canada  and 
were  able  for  service  to  be  taken  up  thorow  all  the  countreyf  to 
go  upon  the  present  expedition ;  fourthly  wee  contracted  with 
builders  for  tenn  flatt-bottom'd  boats  to  carry  60  men  each  at 
least  for  landing  our  men,  to  be  built  conforme  to  H.M.  In- 
structions, and  see  one  of  them  finished,  for  each  of  wh'idh  wee 
were  to  give  £23,  etc.  Then  wee  setled  a  method  of  sending 
expresses  from  Albany  to  Boston,  and  ordered  baraks  or  wooden 
houses  to  be  built  upon  an  island  by  the  harbour  mouth1  for 
putting  a&hoare  any  such  men  might  be  aboard  the  fleete  was 
to  come  from  England,  then  upon  the  desire  of  the  Governour 
and  Councill  wee  published  a  Proclamation  as  well  to  satisfie 
the  countrie  troops,  they  should  not  be  left  in  garrison  at  Quibeck 
or  Mountreall  (if  reduced)  unless  they  are  willing,  as  to  acquaint 
them  of  H.M.  further  bountie  and  encouragement.  The  Gov- 
ernour and  Councill  signed  an  Address  to  H.M.  for  her  care 
of  them  (the  Assembly  not  being  to  sitt  untill  May  25).  Having 
done  all  could  be  untill  the  Assembly  satt,  wee  prepared  for 
our  departure  for  Eoad  Island,  having  hired  11  carts  to  carry 
the  stores  designed  for  the  land  expedition  as  farr  as  Bristol  1. 
being  about  60  miles  where  they  could  be  em'barquecl,  wee  then 
hired  a  sloope  to  bring  them  and  ourselves  as  farr  as  New 
York,  which  is  about  70  leagues  further.  Just  as  wee  were 
preparing  for  our  departure  from  Boston,  wee  received  an  express 
from  New  York,  May  6,  signed  by  the  President  of  the  Councill, 
that  my  Lord  Lovelace  dyed  the  5th,  this  wee  feared  might  prove 
a  great  retardment  to  the  service,  so  wee  resolved  to  make  all 
possible  dispatch  thither,  to  give  the  necessarie  directions  for 
putting  in  execution  H.M.  Instructions.  They  likeways  ac- 
quainted us  that  the  Assembly,  which  was  then  sitting,  designed 
to  continue  so,  untill  our  arrivall,  that  so  they  might  be  ready 
to  comply  with  H.M.  orders.  Att  this  time  the  Commissioners 
from  Boston  to  New  York  returned  to  Boston,  Who  had  been  there 
to  solicit  my  Lord  Lovelace  with  the  people  under  his  command, 
and  the  five  Nations  to  joyn  with  New  England  against  the 
French.  Wee  arrived  the  13th  at  night  at  Road  Island,  next 
morning  the  Governour  and  Councill  mett ;  and  gave  us  an 
account  of  what  steps  they  had  taken  in  order  to  comply  with' 
H.M.  commands.  And  indeed  wee  must  do  them  that  jusfice  to 
acquaint  your  Lodsp.  that  they  had  taken  care  both  to  provide 
their  men,  transport,  provisions  and  all  other  necessaries,  and 
their  Assemblie  had  made  dew  provision  for  payment  of  the 

Wt.  11522.  CP2G 


402  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 

same,  as  their  Address  to  H.M.  herewith  transmitted  does  make 
appeare.  Att  this  place  wee  mett  with  one  Coll.  Church,  who 
was  employed  by  Coll.  Dudley  to  raise  about  £00  whaling  Indians, 
who  were  very  dexterous  and  nimble  upon  the  water  in  their 
whaling  boats.  This  Col.  Church  who  being  bred  up  amongst 
those  Indians  demonstrated  to  us  the  vast  use  those  whale  boats 
could  be  of  in  the  great  River  of  Canada,  being  farr  nimbler 
then  any  pinace,  able  to  carry  15  men  each  being  about  36 
foot  long,  yet  so  light  that  two  men  can  easily  carry  one  of 
them,  those  wee  found  would  be  of  so  great  use  for  surprizing 
of  places  or  vessels  in  the  night,  their  padles  making  no  noice 
as  oares  do,  that  Col.  Dudley  and  wee  agreed  to  cause  provide 
35  of  them,  which  will  carry  500  men  upon  any  suddain  and 
and  secret  design.  The  Goverment  of  New  England  provides 
15  at  their  charge,  and  the  o'jhsr  20  is  to  be  paid  for  by  H.M., 
their  common  price  being  always  £6  per  boate  this  countrie 
monie,  so  that  the  20  will  not  cost  H.M.  quite  £100  sterling. 
Wee  sett  out  from  Road  Island  the  16  of  May  designing  to  call 
upon  Coll.  Saltonstall  the  Governour  of  Connecticote,  who  was 
upon  the  12  of  sd.  month  (which  is  the  time  of  their  yearly 
electing  their  Governours)  elected  anew  for  that  year.  Wee  had 
upon  our  arri vail  at  Boston  sent  him  a  coppy  of  that  part  of  H.M. 
Instructions  which  related  to  his  Goverment,  which  he  had  com- 
municated to  his  Councill  and  Assembly,  whose  hearty  con- 
currence with  the  same,  he  had  before  signified  to  us  by  an 
express ;  and  that  they  were  getting  everything  in  readiness 
according  to  H.M.  orders.  Wee  called  upon  him  at  Newhaven, 
where  he  had  left  a  letter  to  acquaint  us  that  he  could  not 
leave  the  Assembly  for  some  days  untill  they  had  finished  every- 
thing, but  follow  us  to  New  York  in  2  or  3  days.  Accordingly 
wee  proceeded  on  our  voyage,  and  on  the  18th  of  May  arrived 
at  New  York,  the  19th  the  Lt.  Governour  Coll.  Ingoldsbie 
summoned  ye  Councill  att  Fort  Ann;  where  wee  presented  to 
them  H.M.  originall  Instructions,  coppies  of  which  wee  had 
transmitted  them  before.  After  they  had  been  read  over  in 
Councill,  and  wee  had  acquainted  them  with  severall  things  to 
be  done  not  exprest  in  the  same,  ana  their  having  given  us  an 
account  of  Coll.  Rensler  and  Mr.  Robert  Livingston,  Secretarie 
for  the  Indian  Affaires,  having  been  sent  to  Albany  to  dispatch 
the  spys  according  to  the  Instructions  to  my  Lord  Lovelace, 
then  it  was  thought  convenient  to  send  for  the  Lower  House. 
Weo  severally  made  a  speech  to  them,  giving  them  a  short  acct. 
of  the  designed  expedition  withall  shewing  H.M.  great  care  and 
concerne  for  their  welfaire,  in  sparing  such  a  number  of  troops 
and  summe  of  monie  for  their  releefe  att  a  juncture  when  both 
men  and  monie  were  so  much  wanted  for  carrying  on  the  great 
affaires  of  Europe  etc.,  and  withaM  recommended  to  them  a  hearty 
and  expeditious  compliance  with  H.M.  commands,  the  season 
of  the  year  being  so  farr  advanced;  wee  gave  the  Speaker  H.M. 
Instructions  to  Col.  Vetch  to  lay  before  the  House,  as  also  an  ab- 
stract of  what  steps  they  had  made  in  the  Goverments  through 
which  wee  had  passed ;  which  might  be  of  some  use  to  them  by  way 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  403 

1709. 

of  president.  Then  they  appoynted  a  Committie  of  the  Assembly 
to  attend  a  Committie  of  the  Council!,  which  were  joyntly 
ordered  to  waite  upon  us  att  the  Council  1  Chamber,  in  order  to 
concert  the  particular  preparations  which  were  to  be  made, 
etc.  Col.  Gookin,  Lt.  Governour  of  Pennsylvania,  to  whom  wee 
had  wrote  to  meete  us  here,  wee  tooke  along  with  us  to  the 
meetings  of  the  Committies  of  Councill  and  Assemblie,  that  so 
he  might  see  the  methods  of  our  proceeding  with  them,  and  be 
able  to  informe  his  Councill  and  Assembly  of  the  same,  whither 
time  would  not  allow  us  to  go.  Col.  Saltonstall  arrived  in  three 
days  after  us,  who  was  likeways  day  lie  present  in  all  the  Councills 
and  consultations,  and  shewed  a  hearty  zeale  for  obeying  every 
part  of  H.M.  commands.  All  the  Governours  of  the  severall 
Provinces  concerned  in  the  land  expedition  being  here  at  New 
York  together,  wee  began  to  fall  upon  modelling  this  land  armie 
which  was  now  a  raising,  my  Lord  Lovelace  death  having  made 
considerable  alteration  in  the  sceam  of  affaires:  Col.  VTetch  in 
order  to  lay  a  right  foundation  for  the  sd.  modell,  gave  in  a 
memorial  1  to  the  severall  Governours,  shewing  the  necessity  of 
their  joyntly  appointing  a  Commander  in  Cheefe  over  the  sd. 
Armie.  Upon  which  the  severall  Governours  with  the  Councill 
and  Assembly  of  this  place  unanimously  addressed  Coll.  Nicholson 
to  take  the  sd.  command  upon  him.  To  this  Coll.  Nicholson 
shewed  a  great  deal  of  aversion,  aleadging  the  greatness  of  the 
charge  and  his  inabilitie  for  it ;  but  willingly  offered  to  go  along 
as  volunteer  to  give  them  all  the  advice  and  assistance  he  could, 
though  when  he  came  to  this  place,  he  had  no  other  designe, 
then  in  returning  to  go  by  sea  with  Coll.  Vetch.  However  upon 
the  pressing  instances  of  the  severall  Governours,  the  Councill 
and  Assembly  of  this  place,  and  Coll.  Vetch  his  declaring  that  it 
was  his  opinion  that  the  Expedition  could  hardly  go  on  unless 
he  undertooke  it,  Coll.  Schyler  who  was  to  command  next  to 
him,  and  upon  whom  the  five  Nations,  and  all  this  and  the 
neighbouring  Goverments  have  such  dependence  and  trust  declar- 
ing he  would  not  go  unless  Coll.  Nicholson  undertooke  the  cheeffe 
command,  which  Col.  Schyler  said  he  knew  would  be  very 
acceptable  to  the  Indians,  rather  then  H.M.  service  should  be 
retarded,  he  accepted,  etc.  It  was  agreed  upon  unanimously  in 
the  next  place,  that  Col.  Peter  Schyler  should  have  the  next 
command  to  Col.  Nicholson  etc.,  then  was  setled  the  troops  of 
the  foure  Goverments  in  foure  batalions,  etc.  Wee  could  not 
forme  them  according  to  the  scheam  in  H.M.  Instructions,  but 
the  regular  companies  neither  being  so  full  as  was  expected,  and 
there  being  but  one  Capt.  who  was  able  to  go  upon  this  command, 
wee  judged  it  better  for  the  service  and  to  prevent  debates  upon 
command  to  modell  the  foure  regular  companies  into  a  batalion 
by  themselves,  to  be  commanded  by  their  owne  proper  officers, 
and  the  rest  in  three  distinct  batalians.  Wee  have  likeways  sent 
along  with  the  armie  foure  small  field  pieces  which  they  will 
be  able  to  carry  along  with  them  over  the  Lakes,  the  charge 
of  them  as  also  of  the  cohorn  mortars,  as  also  the  harquebuses 
with  swivels,  blunderbushes  etc.  is  committed  to  Col.  Redknap, 


404  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

who  was  here  as  Engender,  who  for  his  assistance  hath  along 
with  him  one  of  the  Bombardiers  Coll.  Vetch  brought  from  the 
Tower,  and  twelve  matrosses  which  he  raised  at  New  York  by 
vertuo  of  an  order  of  the  Board  of  Ordinance  to  him  for  raising 
80  matrosses  for  the  train  of  the  present  expedition  (the  rest  to 
be  raised  at  Boston,  they  being  to  go  from  thence  by  sea  along 
with  himselfe,  where  the  other  three  bombardeers  he  brought 
over  from  the  Tower  dayly  exercise  them  in  exercise  of  the  great 
gunns).  These  things  being  adjusted,  wee  sent  away  from  hence 
about  May  26  a  detatchment  of  about  400  of  the  regular  and 
countrey  troops  of  this  and  Connecticote,  with  about  200  Indians 
with  carpenters  and  proper  artificers  to  go  directly  to  the  Wood 
Creek,  there  to  make  a  Fort  to  secure  the  forces  in,  and  to 
build  canoes  for  the  use  of  the  armie  which'  is  to  follow  them, 
where  wee  designe  to  make  a  strong  stockadoed  fort  for  the 
securitio  of  our  provisions  and  magazines  untill  our  troops  have 
made  themselves  masters  of  Shambly  on  the  other  aide  of  the 
Lake,  where  will  be  a  convenient  place  for  another  store  howse;: 
wee  having  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  all  the  Governours 
concerned  in  this  land  expedition  thought  it  absolutely  for  the 
good  of  H.M.  service,  and  the  present  Expedition,  that  all  the 
Indians  who  can  be  raised,  that  are  fltt  for  service,  should  be 
encouraged  to  go  upon  this  Expedition,  and  it  being  havie  enough 
upon  the  severall  Goverrnents  to  victuall  and  pay  their  respective 
Quotas,  to  whom  they  are  oblidged  to  give  foure  times  the  pay 
of  Europe,  each  man  being  allowed  at  least  18r7.  per  day,  besides 
their  provisions,  and  generally  £10  per  man  advance  monie 
besides,  wee  have  therefore  judged  it  for  the  good  of  H.M. 
service  to  provide  a  small  reward  either  of  a  gunn  to  such  as 
want  them,  or  as  much  strouds  or  duffalls  as  will  make  them  .an 
Indian  suite,  which  does  not  exceed  three  yards  to  a  man,  for 
which  Coll.  Vetch  hath  drawn  bills  upon  my  Lord  Treasurer  as 
is  desired  in  the  Memoriall  to  H.M.  herewith  transmitted,  etc. 
The  arms  in  the  Magazine  of  New  York  being  extreamly  out  of 
order,  having  been  entirely  neglected  for  want  of  a  proper 
*  stone -keeper,  and  an  armourer,  as  by  report  of  the  Committie 
of  the  Councill  appeares,  and  there  not  being  a  sixpence  in  the 
Treasury  here  to  pay  for  anything,  wee  were  necessitate  to 
engage  to  the  severall  gunnsmiths  to  pay  them  for  mending 
and  cleaning  the  sd.  arms  before  they  would  medle  with  any 
of  them,  an  acct.  of  which  expences  is  charged  to  H.M.  amongst 
others.  Then  a  new  Proclamation  was  issewed  by  us  and  the 
Governour[s]  of  the  Countreyfs]  concerned  in  the  land  expedition 
to  assure  their  severall  men  either  of  arms  or  the  value  of 
them  in  monie  to  such  as  brought  good  arms.  The  Assembly 
of  the  Jerseys  being  conveened  about  this  affaire  at  Perth  Amboy, 
wee  went  downe  to  meete  them,  at  the  desire  of  the  Lt.  Gov- 
ernour  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Councill,  betwixt  whom  and  the 
Assembly  there  hath'  been  for  some  time  a  great  variance, 
as  your  Lordps.  will  perceive  by  theire  severall  complaints  against 
one  another  to  H.M.  These  misunderstandings  and  fewds  do 
not  a  little  retard  H.M.  service,  as  well  as  ruin  the  countrey. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  405 

1709. 

Upon  our  arrival!,  after  being  received  by  the  Lt.  Governour 
and  Council],  and  communicating  to  them  H.M.  Instructions 
relating  to  their  Governments,  the  Howse  of  Commons  were  sent 
for  to  whom  wee  made  a  speech  severally  as  at  New  York,  with 
relations  to  H.M.  Instructions,  and  that  their  hearty  and  speedy 
complyance  with  the  same  was  expected  to  which  ail  the  rest 
of  the  Goverments  wee  had  been  In,  had  shewed  them  a  faire 
example,  then  they  desired  a  conference  with  us  and  the  Councill, 
in  a  Committie  of  tiheir  whole  Howse,  where  after  wee  had 
answered  any  objections  which  were  only  raised  by  the  Quakers 
whio  made  a  half  of  the  house,  they  came  at  last  to  a  resolve 
to  raise  £3000  for  H.M.  service  for  this  present  juncture ;  but 
would  not  have  it  named  for  paying  or  raising  souldiers,  that 
being  against  the  pretended  principles  of  the  Quakers.  And 
indeed,  might  wee  be  allowed  humbly  to  offer  our  advices  to  your 
Lodsp.  wee  should  think  it  absolutely  necessary  that  H.M. 
should  send  over  an  Instruction  to  her  severall  Governours, 
where  they  are,  to  allow  none  to  be  of  the  Councill  or  Assembly 
of  those  parts,  but  such  as  qualifle  themselves  by  taking  the 
oathes  appoynted  by  the  Act  of  Parliament,  this  would  totally 
exclude  them,  whose  very  principles  ought  to  exclude  them  from 
all  Goverment,  for  what  betwixt  their  pretended  conscientious 
scruples  against  having  any  ^iand  in  warr,  and  the  jarrs  betwixt 
the  Councill  and  Assembly,  the  bill  for  raising  the  ?nen  and 
monies  in  the  Jersies  is  not  yet  agreed  to,  and  they  are  like 
to  be  worse  in  Pensylvania,  wh,ere  the  Assembly  are  mostly 
all  Quakers,  though  att  the  same  time  all  H.M.  subjects  in  both 
these  Goverments  are  very  willing  and  ready  to  comply  with 
H.M  commands;  but  the  Goverment  being  in  Pensylvania  wholly 
in  the  Quakers'  hands,  and  mostly  so  in  the  Jerseys,  wee  feare 
they  wilJ  hardly  be  prevailed  with  all  to  raise  men,  if  they  do 
monio  .for  carrying  on  warr,  hjowever  hope  wee  shall  have  numbers 
enough  to  effectuate  the  matter  without  them,  for  which  reason 
wee  must  raise  all  the  Indians  wee  can  to  supply  their  want. 
Your  Lordship  will  percieve  by  the  foregoing  Journall,  as  well 
as  by  the  Addresses,  Minutes  of  Council!,  Acts  of  Assembly,, 
and  other  publick  papers,  that  wee  have  spared  no  pains  to 
full  fill  H.M.  orders,  which  all  the  Goverments  everywhere  gave 
a  hearty  complyance  withall,  so  that  your  Lodsp.  will  percieve, 
that  hitherto  the  state  Coll.  Vetch  gave  H.M.  and  your  Lodsps.  of 
the  Ministry  hath  answered  what  he  promised  in  the  Scheain. 
And  though  the  Quakers  should  not  perforate  their  part,  yet 
wee  doubt  not  but  botihi  by  sea  and  land,  wee  shall  have  con- 
siderably above  the  number  ordered  in  the  scheam,  and  hope 
that  the  Christians  and  Indians  together  who  go  over  land  will 
make  a  body  of  2000  men,  and  the  troops  from  New  England, 
Eoad  Island  and  Newhampshire  including  Indians  and  saylors 
will  make  about  2000.  So  tlhat  in  all  humane  probability  nothing 
can  occasion  the  designes  miscarriage,  except  the  too  late  comeing 
of  the  fleete.  The  bergentine  wee  sent  for  'Newfoundland  is 
returned  to  Boston  about  the  begining  of  June,  etc.  Your  Lodsp. 
may  easily  beleeve  that  travelling  foure  or  five  hundred  miles  by 


406  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 

land  and  sea  with;  so  manie  officers  along  with  Coll.  Vetch  and 
in  so  publick  a  character,  could  not  be  without  a  vast  expence, 
for  the-  officers'  whole  months  pay,  would  not  have  payd  for 
their  horses'  hire;  could  not  be  expected  to  go  upon  their  own 
expences,  so  wee  hope  your  Lodsp.  will  please  to  lay  the  state 
of  this  matter  before  the  Queen,  who  wee  doubt  not  by  your 
Lodsp's.  and  my  Lod.  Treasurer's  advice,  will  give  him  an  allow- 
ance conforme  to  his  disbursements,  he  having  been  necessitate 
likeways  (having  such  a  vast  deale  of  writing  and  being  oblidged 
to  keepe  coppies  of  all  letters  and  papers  of  moment  as  well 
as  to  transmitt  duplicates  to  your  Lodsp.  of  the  same)  to  hire 
a  good  clerk  to  whom  he  is  oblidged  to  give  5s.  per  day  untill 
the  Expedition  be  accomplished,  which  is  but  the  pay  of  a  common 
labourer  here,  hope  your  Lodsp.  will  speak  to  my  Lod.  Treasurer 
to  order  the  payment  of  the  same  amongst  the  other  accfcs. 
And  when  the  Expedition  is  over  shall  not  faile  to  give  your 
Lodsp.  and  the  rest  of  the  Ministry  a  new  and  impartiall  acct. 
of  the  same  attested  by  the  principall  people  concerned  in  the 
Expedition.  Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson,  Sam.  Vetch.  Endorsed, 
Kecd,  Aug.  20.  8  closely  written  pp.  [C.O.  5,  9.  A7o.  25.] 

June  28.  605.  Col.  Nicholson  and  Col.  Vetch  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
New  York,  and  Plantations.  We  could  not  but  judge  it  our  duty  to  acquaint 
your  Lordships  of  our  safe  arrival  here,  and  in  short  of  the 
success  hitherto  of  our  negotiation,  which  your  Lordships  con- 
tributed so  heartily  your  endeavours  for  advanceing.  We  have 
met  with  the  wish'd  for  success  in  all  the  Governmts.  who  are 
concerned  in  the  same,  save  those  of  the  Jersies  and  Pennsilvania, 
the  first  of  which  hath  one  half  of  its  Assembly  Quakers,  and 
the  latter  the  whole  number  is  almost  so;  whose  pretended 
principles  being  against  fighting,  they  have  not  as  yet  raised 
either  men  or  mony  for  the  expedition,  and  indeed,  as  their 
principles  are  inconsistant  witih  Government,  so  their  practice 
is  to  oppose  all  good  order,  and  especially  any  directions  from 
the  Crown,  as  we  have  but  too  visibly  seen  at  this  time,  for 
wch.  reason  we  have  joyned  with  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Councell 
and  Assembly  of  Jersies,  who  are  not  Quakers  in  representing 
to  H.M.  the  necessity  of  giving  an  Instruction  to  her  Governors 
not  to  admitt  any  into  the  Councell  or  Assemblys  but  such  as 
qualifies  themselves  as  the  Act  of  Parliamt.  directs.  This  we 
doubt  not  your  Lordships  will  think  fitt  to  advise  H.M.  to  doe 
when  it  comes  before  you,  as  likewise  to  advise  H.M.  to  proper 
methods  with  relation  to  Pensilvania,  who  have  wholly  refused 
H.M.  commands.  And  though  we  hope  they  shall  not  be  able 
to  obstruct  this  noble  enterprise,  the  success  of  which  we  doubt 
not  will  be  attended  with  such  consequences  as  will  sufficiently 
convince  both  your  Lordships  and  the  Ministry  that  nothing  could 
have  been  enterprised  which  could  have  contributed  so  much  to 
the  honour  and  advantage  of  the  Crown  and  subjects  of  Britain, 
than  this  present  expedition,  which  the  Quakers  have  not  been 
wanting  to  their  power  to  obstruct,  etc.  Signed,  Fr.  Nicholson, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  407 

1709. 

Sam.    Vetch.     Endorsed,  Reed.  20th,  Read  23rd  Aug.,  1709.    1   p. 
IC.O.  5,  1049.     A7o.  106 ;  and  5,  1121.     pp.  370,  371.] 

June  29  606.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,  derland.  Enclose  letter  from  Mr.  Graves,  April  4,  reporting 
that  the  French  and  Spaniards  have  taken  possession  of  the 
Bahama,  Islands.  This  being  a  matter  of  such  consequence  to 
the  trade  from  hence  as  well  as  from  the  Northern  Continent  of 
America  to  Jamaica,  we  thought  it  our  duty  to  transmit  a  copy 
to  your  Lordship.  [0.0.  5,  1292.  p.  138.] 

Juno  29.        6O7.     Mr.    Popple    to   Mr.    Burchett.     Encloses    letter   from 
Whitehall.    Col.  Jenings,  March  21,  relating  to  the  great  want  of  guardships 

for  Virginia,   etc.,   to   be  laid  before  the   Lord  High  Admiral. 

[0.0.   5,  1362.     p.  392.] 

June  30.        608.     Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.     Reply  to  preceding.    Some 

Admiralty      time  since  the  Guarland  a  forty-gunn'd  ship  sayl'd  for  Virginia., 

ice>         and  is  ordered  to  cruise  between  the  Capes;  and  another  ship 

for  the  same  service  is  ordered  to  be  bought  at  New  England. 

Signed,  J.  Burchett.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead  July  1,  1709.     1  p. 

[C.O    5,  1316.     No.  19;  and  5,  1362.     p.  393.1 

[June  30.]  609.  Memorial  of  Col.  John  Higginson  of  New  England. 
Whereas  the  French  inhabiting  Canaua  are  endeavouring  might 
and  maine  to  gaine  over  to  their  religion  and  intrest  all  the 
Indians  at  Canada  and  places  adjacent  the  Eastern  Rebel  Is, 
and  those  inhabiting  about  Missipa  Euio  and  on  the  backside  of 
Carolina,  Virginia,  Pensilvania,  Jersey,  New  Yorke  and  part  of 
the  Maques,  it  may  be  considered  the  danger  those  Plantations 
wth.  the  Massathuset  and  New  Hampshire  will  be  in  when  they 
have  brought  that  to  pass,  their  barbarities  and  makeing  our 
people  slaves  to  the  heathen  shaw  what  wee  may  expect  from 
them  in  time  to  come.  For  preventing  whereof,  and  as  an 
addition  and  advantage  of  the  Crown  of  England,  itt  will  be 
highly  necessary  that  Canada  be  reduced  to  the  Crown  of  Eng- 
land. Nova  Scotia  and  Canada  did  formerly  belong  to  the  Crown, 
etc.  It  is  a  country  proper  for  the  produceing  Naval  Stores, 
there  being  a  great  quantity  of  mast  trees,  white  and  other  oak, 
pine,  spruce,  firr  etc.,  and  the  land  is  suposed  to  be  propper 
for  hemp,  and  good  hemp  has  been  produced  there  by  the 
inhabitants  for  their  use,  and  a  great  quantity  of  pitch,  tarr, 
rosen  and  turpentine  may  be  produced  there.  It  is  a  healthful! 
place,  etc.  and  as  good  for  fishing  as  any  in  ye  world,  and! 
provisions  of  all  sorts  may  be  raised  there  for  thousands  Qf 
famileys,  the  meadows  bear  as  good  wheat  as  any  in  America, 
it  is  stored  with  many  good  harbours,  where  good  towns  and 
villiages  may  be  erected,  there  is  alsoe  store  of  sea  coales.  If 
H.M.,  the  Parliamt.  of  England,  and  the  Gentlemen  Commrs. 
for  providing  stores  for  the  Navy  were  sensible  of  the  great 
advantage  it  would  be  to  the  Crown  to  take  and  settle  Novai 
Scotkv  and  Canada  witjh.  a  Colony  of  suitable  people,  whose 


408  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

business  should  be  to  provide  stores,  it  is  not  doubted  but  the 
Navy  of  England  might  in  a  little  time  be  suplyd  with  consider- 
able stores  from  thence  on  reasonable  termes,  and  spare  the 
vast  quantities  of  ready  money  which  they  are  now  forc'd  to 
disburse  to  foreigners  etc.  And  it  is  proposed  that  whoever 
comes  to  settle  the  countrey  there  shall  be  a  saveing  'to  all  or 
any  of  H.M.  subjects  to  have  a  free  liberty  of.  fishing  on  those 
coasts,  harbours  etc.  Port  Royall  is  to  these  Northern  Plan- 
tations as  Dunkirke  to  England,  a  den  of  privateers,  etc.  Sea 
coal  is  not  known  to  be  in  any  part  of  H.M.  Dominions  in 
America,  but  only  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  the  wood  is  soe  much 
consumed  in  New  England  that  it  is  fear'd  in  a  few  years  they 
will  not  be  able  to  subsist  without  sea-coale  for  their  fireing., 
and  the  French  will  not  even  in  peace  permitt  the  English 
to  get  sea-coale  there,  but  have  in  such  case  formerly  taken 
their  vessells  that  went  for  that  purpose.  Endorsed,  Reed,  from 
Sir  Stephen  Evans,  Reed.  June  30,  Bead  July  8,  1709.  2  pp. 
[0.0  5,  865.  No.  17.] 

June  30.  610.  Thomas  Byerley  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
NewYork.  tions.  Announces  and  deplores  death  of  Governor  Lord  Lovelace. 
Lt.  Governor  Ingoldesby  is  so  influenced  by  my  Lord  Cornbury 
and  his  party  that  whatever  his  Lordship  desires  is  put  in 
execution,  etc.  Prays  to  be  appointed  to  the  Council,  etc.  Set 
out,  N.Y.  Col.  Doc.  V.  p.  80.  q.v.  Signed,  T.  Byerley.  En- 
dorsed, ,Recd.  29th,  Read  30th  Aug.,  1709.  2  pp.  [(7.0.  5,  1049. 
No.  110;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  395,  396.] 

July —  611.     Permits  for  20  ships  to  sail  without  convoy  in  America 

Dec.  31.     and  the  West  Indies.     [C.O.   5,  210.     pp.   155—187.] 

[July  1st.]  612.  Memoranda  taken  from  Lord  Sunderland's  book  of  Let- 
ters and  Instructions  concerning  the  West  India  Expedition 
(v.  April  28  etc.).  Men  of  warr  to  be  ready  by  ye  end  of 
March  at  furthest  etc.  Concludes  with  memorandum  of  letter 
to  Col.  Vetch,  1st  July,  Exped.  laid  aside.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  9. 
No.  24.] 

July  1.          613.     Council   of    Trade   and   Plantations   to   the   Lord    High 
Whitehall.     Treasurer.     Enclose  following  and  pray  for  the  payment  of  their 

own  salaries,  now  five  quarters  in  arrear.     [C.O.  389,  36.     pp. 

436,  437.] 

July  1.  614.     Petty   Expenses    of   the   Board   of    Trade,    Lady   day — 

Midsummer.  1709.  See  Journal  of  Council.  6*  pp.  [C.O. 
388,  76.  Nos.  79-83.] 

July  1.  615.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,  derland.  Enclose  Lt.  Governor  Bennett's  letter  etc.  of  Oct.  29, 
1708,  in  confirmation  of  barbarities  committed  by  the  French  and 
Spaniards  in  the  Bahama  Islands  (c/.  June  29);  and  of  March 
12,  1709,  relating  to  their  design  against  Carolina.  [C.O.  5, 
1292.  pp.  139,  140.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  409 

1709. 

[July  1.]  616.  Caveat  by  Sir  John  Colleton,  praying  that  John  Colleton 
may  not  be  appointed  to  the  Council  of  Barbados,  till  his  case 
be  determined.  Endorsed,  Reed.  1st,  Read  8th  July,  1709.  £  p. 
\C.O.  28,  12.  No.  27.] 

July  2.  617.  Thomas  Cockerill  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  am  to  excuse  my 
New  York,  self  to  you  that  I  have  not  written  to  you  since  my  arrival  here. 
Our  disordered  family  and  other  affairs  have  taken  up  so  much 
of  my  time  that  I  have  hardly  thought  of  Old  England.  My  Lord 
dyed  here  on  May  6,  haveing  never  had  a  well  day  in  his 
Government,  which  I  attribute  wholly  to  the  cold  and  sickness 
he  caught  a  board  the  man  of  war  upon  the  coast.  One  son 
dyed  before  him,  and  the  young  Lord  a  fortnight  after,  this 
bad  news,  I  suppose,  is  already  come  to  your  hands.  With  this 
comes  my  Lady,  who  will  want  the  assistance  of  your  honble. 
Board  to  recommend  her  case  to  H.M.  She  hath  been  a  very 
great  loser,  in  other  respects  besides  those  already  mentioned 
by  this  voyage.  I  dare  promise  myself  you  will  do  her  all  the 
good  offices  in  your  power,  etc.  Wee  are  here  bigg  with  expecta- 
tion of  good  success  from  the  Canada  expedition,  and  shall 
raise  in  this  Province  £10,000  towards  the  charg  of  it.  I  cant 
say  that  wee  match  the  zeal  and  spirit  of  the  men  of  New 
England,  Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut,  but  we  have  already 
sent  away  all  our  forces  botli  regular  and  militia,  whom  Coll. 
Nicholson  commands  in  cheif.  Wee  have  some  against  it,  but 
they  have  been  out  numbered.  Interest,  that  governs  all  the 
world,  tyrannises  at  New  York.  At  Albany  where  they  trade 
with  the  French  at  Canada,  the  handlers,  i.e.  traders,  are  against 
it,  tbje  farmers  for  it.  In  Jersey  the  Quakers  in  the  Assembly 
voted  against  ye  "bill  for  raising  £3000,  etc.  for  the  Canada 
expedition,  and  upon  the  third  reading,  two  of  ye  Assembly 
that  were  not  Quakers  joyned  with  them  thro  somebody's 
instigation  to  render  that  Assembly  odious,  whereby  the  Bill  was 
lost.  But  the  Assembly  being  prorogued  at  the  desire  of  the 
Speaker  met  again  and  have  since  past  it.  Those  two  men 
voted  all  along  for  the  Bill  untill  the  third  reading.  I  am  told 
the  Quakers  would  have  absented  from  the  house  if  they  had 
known  of  these  two  men's  designes,  but  I  will  not  altogether 
credit  this  report.  It  may  deserve  the  Queen's  consideration, 
whether  Quakers  shall  be  allowed  to  be  chosen  Assembly  Men 
in  that  Province  for  the  future.  You  will  now  send  us  a  new 
Governour  and  consequently  make  some  new  alterations  in  the 
Council!.  Coll.  Depeyster  (being  the  Country's  Treasurer)  will 
not  act.  There  is  your  friend  Dr.  Staats,  who  hath  the  best 
interest  in  this  place,  and  is  one  of  the  honestest  men,  will 
deserve  the  Queen's  favour.  If  he  be  restored  to  his  place, 
he  will  be  near  the  top.  I  dare  not  venture  to  give  you,  other 
names,  but  my  friend  Sir  Will.  Ashhurst,  if  you  consult  him, 
can  supply  you.  If  you  any  time  desire  an  account  of  persons 
and  things  here,  I  shall  very  readily  obey  etc.  I  hope  to  hear 
of  the  Fleet's  arrival  with  the  forces  from  England,  for  all 
trade  is  at  a  stand  untill  this  expedition  is  over.  Coll.  Vetch 


410 


COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 


1709. 


July  2. 

St.  James's. 


is  gon  back  this  week  for  Boston  to  receive  them.  Do  me 
the  favour  Sir  to  recomend  me  to  the  new  Governour.  Signed, 
Thorn.  Cockerill.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  29th,  Bead  30th  Aug.,  .1709. 
2-i-  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  109;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  892-394.] 

618.  The  Queen  to  Governor  Crowe.  We  resent  your  dis- 
nespect  in  disobeying  our  directions  Jan.  24,  170|-,  etc.  We 
command  you,  as  you  shall  answer  ye  contrary  at  your  peril,  to 
admit  Messrs.  Sharpe,  Walker  and  Beresford  to  the  Council, 
and  comply  with  the  Order  of  Dec.  30  last,  etc.  Of.  A.P.C.  II., 
576.  577.  Countersigned,  Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
th,  Read  8th  July,  1709.  2  pp.  [C.O.  28,  12.  No.  28;  and 
5,  210.  pp.  154,  155;  and  29,  11.  pp.  474,  475.] 


pp 

7t 


July  4. 

Custom- 
house. 
Bristoll. 


619.  Custom  House  Officers  at  Bristol  to  the  Council  of 
Trade  and  Plantations.  Enclose  following.  Signed,  3.  Reynard- 
son,  Jn.  Elbridge.  Endorsed,  Reed.  July  7th,  Read  Aug.  25, 
1709.  Addressed.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

619.  i.   List    of    ships    cleared    from    Bristol    to    the    fishery 
at  Newfoundland,  June  24,   1708—1709.     4,  of  50  to 
100    tons.     Signed   as    preceding.      1    p.      [C.O.    194, 
4.     Nos.    96,    96.  i.] 

[July  4.]  620.  Robert  Tolson  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Encloses  following.  My  Lord  Morton  and  the  Gentlemen  sub- 
scribing will  be  ready  to  attend  yr.  Lopps.  upon  any  reasonable 
notice,  etc.  Signed,  Rt.  Tolson.  Endorsed,  Reed.  4th,  Read 
5th  July,  1709.  £  p.  Enclosed, 

620.  i.  Earl  of  Morton  and  others  to  the  Lords  Committees 
of  Trade.     The  matter  of  a  proper  method  for  reduce- 
ing  the  pyrates  at  Madagascar  being  referr'd  to  your 
Lordshipps,  we  haveing  been  requested  by  severall  of 
the  near  relations  of  the  said  pyrates  to  be  concerned 
as  trustees   for  secureing  to  the   said  pyrates  the  due 
execution  of  such  termes  as   H.M.    should  be  pleased 
to  grant  unto  them  touching  their  lives  and  estates, 
and  wch.   persons  assureing  some  of  us  that  the  said 
pyrates  would  accept  H.M.   most  gracious  pardon  and 
returne  to  their  allegiance  with  their  effects,  and  Ad- 
mirall   Benbow's  sonn   (who  was  shipwraked  at  Mada- 
gascar,  and  lived  amongst  them  four   yeares)    haveing 
assured   us   that   the   pyrates   are   willing   to   transport 
themselves  with  their  effects  to  Great  Brittaine  at  their 
owne  expences,  and  they  haveing  drawn  a  petition  to 
H.M.    to   the    effect   aforesaid   desired   our  approbation 
thereof,  soe  far  forth  as  to  accept  such  trust  onely  as 
H.M.    with   the    advice    of   her    Privy   Councill    should 
think  fit  to  repose  in  us.     To  obtaine  such  trust  to  be 
put  in  us,  we  did  countenance  the  said  petitioners  as 
being  willing  to  attend  H.M.  pleasure  therein,  as  really 
thinking    it    an    effectual!    meanes    to    reduce   the    said 
pyrates  and  utterly  to  destroy  their  settlement  at  Mada- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  411 

1709. 

gascar  by  bringing  them  voluntarily  to  Great  Brittain 
with  their  effects,  which  we  believeing  could  not  be 
better  effected  in  any  other  manner  then  as  the  petition 
of,  or  in  the  name  of  the  said  pyrates  (lodged  with  the 
Secretary  of  State,  annexed)  and  haveing  been  informed 
that  the  attempts  of  reduceing  the  said  pyrates  by 
force  or  otherwise  have  in  severall  late  reign.es  proved 
ineffectual!,  and  we  being  induced  to  believe  that  all 
future  attempts  of  that  kind  will  likewise  prove  in- 
vallid,  unless  proper  trustees  be  appointed  to  whom 
the  pyrates  may  remitt  their  effects  to  be  secured  for 
and  delivered  to  them  in  such  proportions  as  may 
respectively  belong  to  them,  and  we  observeing  the 
Address  of  the  honble.  House  of  Commons  to  H.M. 
for  the  effectual]  suppressing  the  said  pyrates  and  H.M. 
most  gracious  answer  thereto,  were  incouraged  to  lay 
before  H.M.  the  methods  aforesaid  as  the  most  effectuall 
meanes  to  be  used  for  suppressing  the  said  pyrates 
without  any  charge  to  H.M.  or  the  Governmt.,  which 
we  pray  you  will  represent  to  H.M.  etc.  Nota.  After 
the  method  aforesaid  the  said  pyrates  will  (it's  supposed 
and  hoped)  voluntarily  submitt  themselves  and  bring 
home  their  whole  effects  to  Great  Brittaine,  from  wch. 
H.M.  will  receave  great  summes  for  Customes  and 
save  chargeable  equipping  of  a  Fleet  otherwise  necessary 
for  the  uses  aforesaid,  and  her  subjects  for  the  future 
trade  safe  from  the  said  pyrates.  Signed,  Morton, 
Cha.  Egerton,  and  4  others.  1  p. 

620.  ii.  Petition  of  wives  and  relations  of  Pirates  and  Buckan- 
eers  of  Madagascar  and  elsewhere  in  the  East  and 
West  Indies  to  H.M.  Pray,  on  behalf  of  said  pirates 
and  their  accomplices,  for  a  general  pardon,  soe  that 
their  wealth  and  riches  may  be  secured  to  them  on 
their  return  home  etc.  And  that  this  great  and  good 
work  may  not  become  abortive  as  a  former  undertaking 
did,  propose  that  some  persons  may  be  appointed  by 
H.M.  as  trustees  in  Great  Brittaine  to  give  instructions 
to  Commissioners  to  be  appointed  by  H.M.,  who  shall 
carry  the  said  pardon,  and  receave  their  effects  and 
secure  the  same  for  their  use  upon  their  returne  hither, 
petitioners  intending  H.M.  nor  the  publick  should  be  at 
any  charges  therein,  etc.  Signed,  Mary  Read  and  47 
others  (mostly  "their  marks").  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O. 
323,  6.  Nos.  79-81.] 

July  5.  621.  Lt.  Governor  Ingoldesby  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
New  York.  Plantations.  I  embrace  this  opportunity,  which  is  the  first  I 
have  had,  to  inform  your  Lordships  that  my  Lord  Lovelace  dyed 
May  6,  whereby  the  Governmt.  of  this  and  H.M.  neighbouring 
ProVincf)  of  New  Jersey  devolved  upon  me,  whome  H.M.  lias 
been  pleased  to  appoint  Lieut.  Governor  thereof.  My  Lord 
Lovelace  left  the  Assembly  sitting  when  he  dyed,  and  it  was 


COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 

very  lucky  for  the  carrieing  on  this  expedition  against  Canada, 
which  I.  hope  will  be  attended  with  the  success  I  wish,  and  I 
have  no  cause  to  doubt  it.  I  herewith  transmitt  to  your  Lord- 
ship several  Acts  of  Assembly  of  this  Province,  some  past  by 
my  Lord  Cornbury  and  some  by  my  selfe  (titles  given).  There 
is  one  Act  among  these,  which  I  cant  but  take  some  perticular 
notice  of.  It  is  for  regulating  and  establishing  fees,  which  was 
framed  wholly  by  the  Assembly,  who  seemed  to  be  very  fond 
of  it;  severall  of  the  Councill,  when  it  came  up  to  them, 
were  of  opinion  it  required  many  considerable  amendments, 
yett  the  part  this  Province  is  to  perform  in  the  aforesaid  expe- 
dition against  Canada  being  at  that  time  before  the  Assembly 
for  their  assistance  therein,  those  of  the  Councill  who  thought 
the  Bill  required  those  amendments  conceived  it  was  not  proper 
at  that  time  to  attempt  it,  least  it  might  impede  those  other 
weightyer  affairs,  whereupon  they  past  it,  and  desired  me  to 
give  my  assent  to  it,  for  the  same  reasons.  I  am  sencible  there 
was  reason  for  moderating  the  fees  in  some  instances,  but  I 
think  the  Assembly  have  runn  into  extravigancies  fan-  greater 
on  th-3  other  hand,  of  which  I  am  since  by  dayly  experience 
convinced,  for  the  lawyers  have  declined  their  practice  in  every 
Court,  and  the  Officers  would  likewise  quit  their  imploys,  but 
that  their  duty  obliges  them  to  wait  H.M.  commands,  and  that 
they  are  in  hopes  they  shall  be  releived  from  the  hardships 
which  they  suffer  from  this  Act.  An  other  reason  for  my 
passing  this  Act  is  an  other  of  the  aforesaid  Acts  now  trans- 
mitted to  your  Lordships,  and  past  by  my  Lord  Cornbury  in 
October  last,  to  relieve  this  Colony  from  divers  irregularitys  and 
extortions,  which  is  so  unintelligable  that  it  rendred  it  doubtfull 
whether  any  fees  could  be  taken  till  some  other  Act  were  past 
for  settling  the  same.  If  your  Lordships,  upon  the  consideration 
of  the  aforesaid  Act  for  establishing  Fees,  should  represent  it 
to  H.M,  as  necessary  to  be  rejected,  I  pray  your  Lordships 
consider  at  the  same  time  whether  it  may  not  be  proper  that 
the  other  Act  be  likewise  rejected  to  remove  the  doubts  men- 
tioned to  have  arisen  thereon,  and  as  to  that  clause  giving 
power  to  the  people  to  elect  their  coroners,  if  H.M.  should 
think  it  reasonable,  her  signification  thereof  to  her  Governour 
will,  I  presume,  be  sufficient,  and  as  to  the  establishing  of  Fees, 
I  humbly  recommend  it  to  your  Lordships'  consideration  and 
directions  that  offices  may  be  capable  of  maintaining  gentlemen 
of  understanding  and  probity  suitable  to  the  nature  and  quality 
of  each  office,  without  being  dependant  on  the  humour  of  the 
Country,  and  that  the  practicers  of  the  Law  may  have  an 
encouragement  to  proceed  as  near  as  may  be  in  the  order  and 
method  used  in  England,  and  not  Oretenus,  as  in  some  of  H.M. 
Plantations  in  the  West  Indies,  and  that  they  may  thereby  have 
a  maintainance  suitable  to  their  education  and  profession.  The 
Revenue  of  this  Province  expired  May  18,  and  I  fear  the  As- 
sembly will  hardly  be  brought  to  give  it  again,  I  mean  as  they 
should  and  hitherto  have  done  to  the  Queen,  to  be  disposed  of 
as  shio  shall  think  fitt,  whereby  H.M.  might  reward  her  servants 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  413 

1709. 

as  they  deserve,  but  instead  of  that  the  Assembly  are  now  taking 
upon  them  to  appropriate  what  they  give  for  the  suport  of 
Governmt.  I  doubt,  if  it  be  permitted  to  go  on,  those  Officers 
that  are  now  the  Queens  will  sone  become  the  creatures  and 
servants  of  the  people;  it's  very  well  known  that  this  Province 
has  ever  since  it  has  been  under  the  Crown  supported  the 
Governmt.  handsomly  and  as  they  ought,  without  oppression 
to  any  or  impoverishing  the  place,  and  they  are  still  as  able 
to  do  it  as  ever.  It's  true  there  has  been  of  late  years  .some 
ill  managmt.  with  respect  to  the  Revenue  and  the  expences  of 
the  Governmt.,  whereby  a  considerable  debt  has  been  contracted, 
but  if  prudence  and  moderation  be  used  in  those  things,  or 
some  directions  given  relating  thereto,  there  need  be  no  iippre- 
hensions  of  the  like  for  the  future,  at  present  Officers  are 
very  precarious,  some  of  them  are  like  to  have  no  sallary  allowed 
them  by  the  Assembly,  and  almost  all  the  rest  so  much  reduced 
that  it's  scarse  worth  accepting:  'twas  the  Assembly  of  New 
Jersey  that  first  begann  to  appropriate  what  they  gave  for  the 
support  of  Governmt.,  and  I  have  been  forc't  to  accept  of  what 
the  Assembly  would  give  here  on  these  termes,  rather  'then  lett 
all  the  Officers  starve.  And  that  is  only  the  Excise,  no  other 
mony  being  yet  given  for  support  of  Government,  and  this 
is  not  yett  appropriated,  but  provided  to  be  disposed  of  by  Act 
of  Assembly,  I  hope  it  will  not  be  drawn  into  precedent,  but 
that  H.M.  will  take  such  effectuall  methods  to  have  a  Revenue 
settled  on  a  sure  foundation,  that  Officers  may  without  fear 
discharge  their  duty,  and  intend  the  Queen's  interest.  The  only 
standing  Revenue  the  Queen  has  in  this  Province  is  the  quit- 
rents,  and  they  are  so  much  concealed  that  very  little  comes 
into  the  Treasury,  nor  is  it  practicable  to  make  a  rent  roll 
whereby  they  may  be  collected  yearly,  other  then  by  a  Law 
to  be  made  particularly  for  that  purpose,  for  I  am  very  well 
informed  that,  when  the  Dutch  took  this  place  from  us,  severall 
Books  of  records  of  Patents  and  other  things  were  then  lost; 
and  how  little  an  Assembly  will  favour  such  a  Bill  is  much 
to  be  doubted  from  their  interest.  I  wish  your  Lordships  would 
give  me  your  directions  herein,  that  I  might  apply  myself e  to 
bring  this  matter  to  a  clearer  sight  then  it  has  yett  been  in. 
I  am  informed  that  the  Minister  of  this  place  is  attempting  to 
obtain  from  H.M.  an  allowance  of  £26  a  year  out  of  the  quitt- 
rents  for  his  house  rent,  as  also  the  payment  of  some  arrears 
occasioned  in  common  with  others  by  the  anticipating  and 
overcharging  the  Revenue,  out  of  which  this  used  to  be  paid, 
it  was  given  in  the  infancy  of  the  Church,  when  the  congregation 
were  not  able  to  bear  the  expence,  and  'twas  a  very  pious  act 
and  has  contributed  very  much  to  increase  of  it,  which  is  now 
so  flourishing  that  their  Minester  has  a  very  handsome  sallary 
of  £160  per  annum,  besides  his  perquisites.  And  the  Church  has 
now  in  bank,  as  I  am  informed,  £700  or  £800.  I  hope  H.M. 
will  think  of  some  other  way  of  paying  this  arrear  and  house 
rent,  for  besides  the  ill  example  it  will  be  to  appropriate  the 
remainder  of  it  to  particular  uses,  it  will  deprive  the  'jovern- 


414  COLONIAL  PAPERS.' 

1709. 

ment  of  all  manner  of  means  to  provide  for  severall  unavoidable 
exigencies,  this  being  the  only  money  it  can  command  on  these 
occasions.  I  cannot  omitt  acquainting  your  Lordships,  that, 
tho  by  my  Lord  Lovelace's  directions,  the  Act  of  Parliament 
for  the  ascertaining  the  rates  of  foreign  coyns,  was  published 
in  this  Province  and  in  New  Jersey,  yett  the  people  of  either 
Province  pay  no  obedience  thereto.  Nay,  the  Assemblys  take 
upon  them  thus  farr  to  make  the  Act  of  no  signification  that 
they  will  pass  no  Bill  for  money,  but  to  be  paid  at  the  value 
it  was  before  the  said  Act  took  place.  Indeed,  Mr.  Cockerill, 
who  pays  the  forces  here,  has  paid  them  according  to  that  Act 
ever  since  May  1st,  and  the  Publick  Officers  conform  to  it, 
but  nobody  elce  does  that  I  hear  of.  I  pray  your  Lordships' 
directions  herein,  whether  I  shall  cause  the  Attorney  General 
to  preferr  an(d)  information  or  indictment  against  one  or  two 
persons,  and  trye  if  that  will  bring  the  people  to  the  necessary 
obedience,  or  what  other  measures  I  shall  take.  The  Queen, 
by  her  Instructions  to  the  Governor,  commands  him  to  furnish 
her  shipps  of  warr  with  men,  upon  application  from  the  Cap- 
tains. The  Captains  of  the  King  sale  and  Maidstone,  which 
came  with  my  Lord  Lovelace,  have  applied  to  me  for  men.  I 
was  willing  to  supply  them,  but  yett  I  doubted  my  hands  were 
tied  up  from  impressing  by  the  Act  of  Parliament  for  the 
encouragement  of  the  trade  to  America',  yett  I  was  unwill- 
ing to  rely  altogether  on  my  own  judgment,  and  therefore  re- 
ferred it  to  the  Chief  Justice  and  the  Attorny  General  for  their 
opinion  thereon,  who  have  severally  given  it  me  (enclosed). 
The  disagreement  there  is  in  those  opinions  obliged  me  to  take 
the  advice  of  the  Councill  thereon,  who  have  given  it  (enclosed}. 
I  pray  your  Lordships  that  I  may  have  some  further  directions 
herein,  or  that  some  other  method  may  be  taken  to  man  the 
Queen's  shipps.  I  am  just  now  honoured  with  your  Lordships' 
letter,  wherein  was  H.M.  disaprobation  of  the  Act  for  ye  cor- 
ruption of  the  current  coin,  which  I  have  made  publick,  and 
I  shall  use  my  utmost  endeavours  to  have  the  Act  of  Parliament 
for  ascertaining  the  rates  of  forreign  coyns  obey'd,  nor  doe  I 
see  now  what  pretence  the  people  can  have  not  to  comply  there- 
with. I  have  given  the  Attorney  Generall  leave  to  goe  for 
England  upon  his  request,  and  his  representing  to  me  the 
necessity  of  it ;  he  can  witness  to  your  Lordships  what  an 
unwillingness  Assembly's  here  have  to  give  a  Revenue  suitable 
to  the  exigences  of  the  Governmt.,  tho  many  years  experience 
has  convinced  the  considerate  and  best  part  of  mankind  that 
the  Revenue,  as  it  has  hitherto  been  raised  has  been  exceeding 
easy  to  the  Province.  One  principle  motive  for  the  Attorny 
Generall's  going  is  that  the  Assembly  have  not  thought  con- 
venient to  give  him  the  sallary  which  his  predecessors  had,  and 
they  are  going  the  same  way  to  work  with  the  rest  of  the 
officers,  of  which  I  pray  your  Lordships'  consideration  that  this 
budding  evil  may  be  prevented  from  growing  greater.  In  my 
last  to  yr.  Lordships  from  Perth  Amboy,  I  sent  an  acct.  of 
what  then  occurred  both  in  the  Councill  and  Assembly  to  that 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  415 

1709. 

time.  I  have  only  to  add  that  our  Assembly  mett  according 
to  the  appointment,  and  have  passed  an  Act  for  raising  £3000, 
for  the  present  service  and  expedition  against  Canada,  an  other 
for  the  inforcing  the  currency  of  bills  of  credit  for  £3000,  and 
an  other  for  the  encouragement  of  volunteers.  I  have  only  to 
observe  to  your  Lordship  that  they  passed  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives with  great  difficulty,  all  the  Quakers  in  the  House 
voting  against  the  Bills,  which  is  a  further  confirmation  of  the 
representation  sent  to  H.M.  from  myself e  and  the  Cpuncill, 
in  which  Coll.  Nicholson  and  Coll.  Vetch  have  joined  with  us. 
I  hope  your  Lordships  will  excuse  me  for  not  sending  the  Acts 
past  in  New  Jersey,  the  Secretary  not  having  as  yett  sent  'em 
me.  I  shall  transmitt  them  your  Lordships  per  very  next  oper- 
tunity.  Signed,  Rich.  Ingoldesby.  Endorsed,  Reed.  20th,  Read 
25th  Aug.,  1709.  4  pp.  Enclosed, 

621.  i.  Opinion  of  the  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  New  York.  The 
prohibition  as  to  pressing  in  the  late  Act  is  general., 
and  no  commission  or  instruction  can  dispense  with 
it.  June  30,  1709.  Signed,  R.  Mompesson.  Endorsed 
as  preceding.  1  p. 

621.  ii.  Opinion  of  the  Attorney  General  of  New  York.  June 
21,  1709.  It  is  proper  for  the  Governor  to  grant 
warrants  for  impressirg  men  to  make  up  the  comple- 
ments of  H.M.S.  ships,  the  late  Act  of  Parliament 
not  being  intended  to  tye  up  the  hands  of  the  Govern- 
ment here,  etc.  Signed,  Jno.  Rayner.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 2^  pp. 

621.  iii.  Minutes  of  Council  of  New  York,  July  3,  1709. 
The  Board  advised  that  the  Governor  cannot  grant  any 
warrant  for  impressing  mariners,  except  deserters. 
Same  endorsement.  Copy.  ^  p. 

621.  iv.  (a)  Examination  of  Wagrasshse  and  Canawanegoe, 
that  were  sent  by  Col.  K.  v.  Renselaer  and  Robt. 
Livingstone  spyes  to  Canada.  (At  a  meeting  of  the 
Commissioners  for  the  Indian  Affairs,  Albany,  June  21, 
1709.  Present:  Col.  K.  v.  Renselaer,  Evt.  Banker, 
J.  Abeel,  H.  Hansen.)  Say  that,  when  they  sett  out 
from  Schaennechtade,  they  came  unto  the  French  Pray- 
ing  Indian  Castle  of  Cachnawage  in  Canada,  the  7th 
day,  where  the  Indians  askt  what  there  hussiness  was, 
they  replyd  they  came  to  fetch  bevers  which  they  had 
there,  the  next  morning  by  order  of  ye  Govr.  of  Mont- 
royall  were  carryed  thither,  who  also  askt  what  brought 
them  there  and  how  all  was  at  Albany,  they  reply 'd 
that  all  was  well  and  in  quietness.  After  we  left  the 
Govr.  of  Canada,  went  according  to  our  directions  to 
view  what  quantity  of  great  guns  there  was  in  that 
place,  we  first  saw  two  patarrores  before  the  Govrs. 
house,  and  10  more  and  8  great  gunns  near  the  water- 
syde  whereof  two  great  gunns  were  only  mounted,  after 
yt.  ye  Govr.  of  Montroyall  sent  for  us  again,  and  askt 
when  we  went  home,  we  answered  in  3  days  time,  upon 


416  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1709. 


wch.  he  forbid  us  to  return  thro  Corlaer's  Lake,  for 
tlhat  many  of  his  people  were  gone  out  that  way  to  fight, 
and  if  they  went  that  way  might  be  kil'd,  therefore 
desyred  us  to  return  by  way  of  Cadarachqua  River. 
As  to  the  quantity  of  people  in  Montroyall,  found  no 
more  then  at  other  times,  that  is  many  officers,  but  few 
souldiers,  the  stockadoes  round  the  town,  we  perceiv'd 
many  decay'd,  when  we  came  by  Laplarie  we  wee  some 
part  of  the  Fort  made  new,  the  rest  old  and  rotten ;  in 
Chambly  Fort  were  two  great  gunns  and  3  patarrares, 
and  abt.  30  men  with  the  souldiers  there,  and  the  in- 
habitants living  near  the  same,  and  we  also  inform'd 
ourselves  relating  Quebeck,  do  understand  that  that  place 
is  ^ery  welf  fortifyed  with  a  thick  stone  wall  round  it, 
and  is  enlarg'd  over  the  Creek,  at  which  place  the 
Bostoners  stopt  when  they  attackt  it,  there  is  a  con- 
siderable quantity  of  bourns  and  three  mortors.  When 
we  were  at  Cachnawage  in  order  to  return  home,  just 
as  we  were  going  out,  came  in  th,e  Govr.  of  Quebeck 
wiho  desired  a  meeting  with  us,  and  all  other  our  Indians 
that  were  there,  and  being  convein'd,  he  askt  us  if 
we  were  going  home,  we  answer'd  yes,  then  sd.  he, 
lett  us  first  drink  together,  and  gave  every  man  of  us 
a  dram  of  brandy,  and  a  small  roll  of  tobacco,  and  sayd 
that  he  was  inform'd  that  the  hatchatt  was  given  into 
the  hands  of  the  Five  Nations,  but  that  he  expected 
tih,e  first  blow  from  Quider,  and  then  should  know  how  to 
deal  with  him,  for  it  is  an  easey  matter  (say'd  he)  to 
take  Albany,  and  as  for  you  children,  (say'd  he  to  us) 
doe  what  you  think  fitt,  fight  or  not,  it  is  at  your 
pleasure.  Says  that  the  Fort  at  Cachnawage  is  also 
old  and  sett  round  with  small  stockadoes,  has  3  great 
guns  therein.  We  are  informd  that  a  considerable  party 
are  gone  out  agt.  N.  England,  whom  one  of  our  Indians 
hath  seen  march  out,  in  which  party  there  is  100 
Indians  from  Cachnawage,  the  same  party  is  commanded 
by  one  Romvich,  a  son  of  Monr.  Artel  1 ;  they  are  to 
make  a  Fort  on  the  head  of  New  England  River  at  a 
place  call'd  Oneyade ;  after  that  we  travel'd  on  to 
Chambly  in  order  to  proceed  on  our  journey  home,  we 
were  overtaken  again  by  a  messanger  from  the  Govr. 
of  Canada,  who  desired  us  back  again,  on  which  we 
return'd  back  to  Montroyall,  and  went  to  the  Govr.,  who 
sayd  he  was  glad  we  were  come  back,  and  desired  us  to 
tarry  a  few  days  to  take  good  news  along  to  Quider,  which 
would  be  Peace,  whereof  he  had  a  report,  and  expected 
letters  from  Quebeck  every  hour,  where  a  vessel  was 
arrived  from  France,  and  had  brought  that  news,  but 
he  had  not  yet  any  letters  relateing  the  same,  but  ex- 
pected hourly,  whereupon  we  tarry ed  one  day,  then 
told  him  we  were  going  home,  he  say'd,  since  you  will 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  417 

1709. 

not  stay,  tell  Quider  that  as  soon  as  my  letters  come 
from  Quebeck  with  Peace,  shall  immediatly  send  him 
an  express,  altho'  I  beleeve  by  this  time  he  will  have  an 
account  thereof  by  the  way  of  N.  York,  so  that  I  beleeve 
the  expresses  will  meet  together  by  the  way. 

(b).  Examination  of  Matanas,  one  of  the  three  that 
were  sent  to  Canada  by  Col.  K.  v.  Renslaer  and  Mr. 
Robt.  Livingston,  and  return'd  here  this  day,  haveing 
been  8  days  by  the  way  from  Chambly.  Says  that  in  his 
going  thither  he  was  9  days  by  'the  way  to  Chambly, 
where  he  found  40  Mohags  from  Cachnawage  and  other 
Indians  which  he  knew  not ;  there  he  was  taken  up  to 
be  one  of  them  that  had  kil'd  of  theirs  in  the  Lake 
and  Chambly  River,  and  was  detained  there  on  that 
acct.  3  days.  Says  that  the  stockadoes  round  the  Fort 
of  Chambly  are  all  rotten  and  propt  up  with  cross 
pieces  of  timber  to  hold  them  up,  therein  is  also  six 
great  gunns  including  patarres,  all  the  men  in't  and 
inhabitants  round  it  are  not  above  30  in  number;  from 
thence  he  went  down  to  Sorrel,  where  he  beleeves 
all  and  all  is  not  above  40  men;  then  he  went  to  an 
Indian  Castle  a  litle  from  thence  call'd  Adgecantehook, 
where  the  Preist  bid  him  welcome,  there  he  saw  2 
litlo  pattarares,  and  found  provision  very  scarce ;  that 
Castle  consists  of  abt.  170  men  when  all  are  at  home, 
many  of  them  were  not  yett  come  from  beaver  hunting, 
after  10  days  stay  to  give  no  suspetion  he  resolved  to 
goe  to  Troy  River,  with  an  intention  to  goe  to  Quebeck, 
but  the  Preist  takeing  him  to  be  a  spye,  would  not 
allow  him  to  take  his  guim  etc.  with  him,  but  gave 
leave  to  goe  to  see  the  place  only,  wch.  put  a  stop 
to  his  intended  proceedings,  after  he  came  to  Troy 
River,  he  found  it  to  be  a  town  like  Schaennechtady, 
wh.  consists  abt.  40  familys,  has  a  Fort  wherein  is 
with  great  guns  and  patarrares  about  the  number  of 
30,  the  stockadoes  rotten  and  decay'd,  he  likewise  meet 
an  Indian  a  frind  of  his  come  there  from  Quebeck,  by 
whom  he  understood  that  the  stone  wall  round  Quebeck 
was  compleatly  finish'd,  beirg  built  out  over  the  Creek 
where  the  Bostoniers  made  their  attack,  and  that  there 
was  56  great  guns  planted  round  the  inside  of  the 
citty  and  upwards  of  20  mortors ;  has  further  understood 
that  some  Indians  are  gone  out  a -fighting  towards  the 
N.W.  Passage,  and  so  return'd  home. 

(c).  Intelligence  given  by  an  Indian  call'd  Ticonnon- 
dadiha  deserted  from  a  French  party  gone  to  N.  Eng- 
land. Says  that  it  is  now  24  days  ago  since  that  party 
went  out  from  Canada,  wcih.  he  left  3  days  ago  at  the 
head  of  the  other  Creek  at  a  place  call'd  Oneyade., 
and  to  goe  over  a  long  carrying  place  before  they 
come  to  the  N.  England  River;  this  party  consists  of 
180  men,  40  Christians  and  140  Indians ;  they  are  de- 

Wt.  11522.  CP27 


418  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1709. 

sign'd  for  Dearfeild,  and  intended  to  post  themselfs 
near  the  Fort,  and  then  send  out  a  skulking  party  to 
draw  out  the  English,  thinking  by  that  means  to  take 
the  place.  That  by  another  Indian  corns  latter  from 
Canada  confirms  that  this  party  is  out,  and  that  two 
N.  England  captives  deserted  from  thence  14  days  ago. 
Albany,  June  22,  1709.  Hereupon  the  Comrs.  for  the 
Indian  Affairs  have  sent  Danl.  Ketelhuyn  expresse  with 
a  letter  to  Coll.  Partridge  to  give  an  acct.  hereof. 
Same  endorsement,  4^  pp. 

621.  v.  Extracts  from  the  Journals  of  the  Assembly  of  New 
York  relating  to  the  expedition  to  Canada.  Same  en- 
dorsement. 5|  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  Nos.  107,  107. 
i.-v.  ;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  372-385.] 

Julj  5.  622.  W.  Popple  to  the  Marquis  of  Carmarthen.  I  am  again 
Whitehall,  commanded  by  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  acquaint 
your  Lordship  that  they  will  be  ready  between  tenn  and  eleven 
of  the  clock  on  Friday  morning  next,  to  hear  what  your  Lordship 
may  further  have  to  offer  in  relation  to  the  pirates  at  Madagascar. 
[C.O,  324,  9.  p.  405.] 

[July  6.]'  623.  Copies  of  depositions  of  James  Feild,  Richard  Cochran, 
and  Jeffry  Duncombs,  as  to  soldiers  being  sent  to  seize  Barry 
Tankard  for  his  contemptuous  behaviour  to  Governor  Parke. 
Antigua,  April,  May,  1709.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  July  6,  1709. 
8  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  22-24.] 

[July  6.]  624.  (a).  Deposition  of  Samuel  Walker.  Thomas  Gateward, 
J.P.,  informed  him  that  he  did  not  think  there  would  be  a 
sessions,  because  there  could  not  be  a  jury  got  to  condemn 
the  gentlemen,  etc.  May  2,  1709.  Copy.  1±  pp. 

(b).  Deposition  of  Francis  Carlisle.  Governor  Parke  said  he 
would  have  no  man  to  serve  as  his  Provost  Marshal,  but  such 
as  should  summons  such  jurors  as  he  should  direct  or  approve, 
etc.  April  27,  1709.  Copy.  1  p.  The  whole  endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  July  6,  1709.  [C.O.  152,  8.  Nos.  25,  26.] 

July  7.  625.     Deposition   of  Jedidiah  Hutchinson  late  of   St.   Kitts. 

Deponent  received  the  following  Instrument  from  Col.  Jno.  Ward, 
Speaker  of  the  Assembly  of  St.  Kitts,  to  be  delivered  to  Wm. 
Nevin,  etc.  (a).  Council  of  St.  Kitts  to  the  Assembly.  Dec. 
7,  1708.  We  know  of  no  grievance  against  the  General  [Parked] 
such  as  some  malicious  people  of  Antigua  report,  and  desire 
you  to  inform  us  if  you  know  of  any.  (b).  Reply  of  the  As- 
sembly. Dec.  7,  1708.  We  heartily  wish  we  could  concur  that 
H.E.  has  been  guilty  of  no  maladministration.  (1).  The  Public 
griciances:  (1).  His  not  laying  before  H.M.  the  Act  for  raising 
100,00(M&.  of  muscovado  sugar  per  annum  for  the  Governor's 
house-rent,  which,  considering  our  unhappy  circumstances  by 
the  late  hurricane  and  great  debts,  as  well  publick  as  private, 
we  were  in  hopes  would  not  have  had  the  Royal  assent.  (2). 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  410 

1709. 

H.E.'s  keeping  the  late  Assembly  15  months  longer  than  is  di- 
rected by  the  Act  for  preserving  the  freedom  of  elections.  (3) . 
His  taking  greater  fees  than  any  General  heretofore  for  licences 
of  marriage,  probate,  etc.  (4).  The  discouragement  of  the  settler 
in  ye  late  French  quarter  of  Basseterre.  (5).  The  Lieut.  Gov- 
ernor's sloop  being  sent,  Easter  1708,  with  a  Flagg  of  Truce  to 
Martineco  loaded  with  beef,  which  the  country  was  then  in  great 
want  of.  As  to  particular  grievances,  we  give  for  instance  the 
hardship  done  Col.  Codrington,  Col.  Ward,  James  Emra,  Capt. 
Marcum,  Christopher  Stodard,  and  Guillias  McArthur  being 
cleny'd  guardians.  What  shall  we  say  to  the  case  of  Mr.  Vanbell, 
Capt.  Derby  Donovant,  Capt.  Tho.  Copping  and  their  companies, 
with  Capt.  Mallary,  who  was  struck  by  the  General,  PS  'tis 
said,  for  only  offering  to  search  his  sloop,  Eobert  Jones,  master, 
that  came  from  Carrasau  with  contraband  goods,  as  it's  sup- 
posed. Mrs.  Clark,  who  was  marryed  in  the  night  in  the 
General's  presence,  in  a  little  thatcht  hutt  agt.  the  inclination 
of  her  guardian.  Col.  Daniel  Smith,  and  carryed  off  this  Island, 
by  the  General  in  H.M.S.  Hector  etc.,  etc.  Copy.  4  pp.  [C.O. 
152,  8.  Nc.  27.] 

July  7.  626.     Deposition  of  Jedidiah.  Hutchinson.    Deponent  was  resi- 

dent in  Sfc.  Kitts  1706—1709.  The  inhabitants  of  the  French 
part  made  great  complaints  amongst  themselvs  of  the  arbitrary 
government  of  Governor  Parke,  who  exacted  a  yearly  rent  from 
them,  which  was  never  demanded  by  any  preceding  General,  and 
caused  many  to  remove  from  the  Island.  Corroborates  other 
charges  againsi  the  Governor.  He  indecently  assaulted  Mrs. 
Du  Sovthsay  in  St.  Kitts.  Signed,  Jedh.  Hutchinson.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Bead  July  8,  1709.  Copy.  4  pp.  [C.O.  152,  8. 
No.  28.] 

July  7.  627.  Roger  Mompesson  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Petitions  to  be  continued  as  Chief  Justice  of  New 
York.  Signed,  Roger  Mompesson.  Endorsed,  Reccl.  7th,  Read 
27th  July,  1709.  1  large  p.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  104.] 

July  7,  628.     Observations  made  in  Placentia,  June  1709,   by  Allen 

St.  John's.  Southmaid  and  Jno.  Collin.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Feb.  23,  1709 
(1710).  5  pp.  [C.O.  194,  22.  No.  74.] 

July  8.  629.     Col.   Nicholson  to    [?   the  Earl  of  Sunderland.']      An- 

New  York,  nounces  and  explains  his  acceptance  of  the  command  in  chief 
of  the  land  expedition  against  Canada,  as  June  28,  q.v.  Col. 
Vetch  went  last  week  for  Boston.  Enumerates  enclosures,  in- 
cluding a  Proclamation  for  praising']  of  voluntiers  in  the  Jersies, 
Pensilvania  etc.,  "tho'  Capt.  Farmer  hopes  to  get  the  men,  yet  I 
am  very  doubtful  thereof,  and  if  they  are  raised  it  will  be  late 
before  they  can  joyne  the  other  forces,  and  I  fear  they  will 
not  before  we  have  marched  from  the  Wood  Creek,  if  so  we 
shall  have  350  men  less  then  were  ordered,"  etc.  Some  of  the 
Long  Island  Indians  are  come  to  me  already,  and  I  am  in 


420  COLONIAL  PAPEKS. 

1709. 

hopes  there  will  be  more.  By  the  accot.  that  the  Indian  spyes 
give  (who  are  returned  from  Canada)  your  Lordship  may  like- 
wise see  in  what  condition  they  were  in,  in  Canada,  if  the 
Indian  account  may  be  relyed  upon.  I  find  that  one  of  the 
great  difficulties  I  shall  meet  with  is  the  transportation  of  the 
men,  provitions,  and  amunition,  and  I  suppose  we  shall  meet 
with  the  like  difficulty  of  carrying  of  3  or  4  small  brass  guns., 
but  I  will  endeavour  to  make  good  use  of  the  cowhorne  morters 
and  granadeers,  for  I  have  (tho'  with  very  much  trouble)  got 
arms  and  accouterments  for  218  of  them.  I  think  very  few  of 
the  forces  have  been  in  any  service  where  great  guns  have 
been  used,  wch.  I  find  we  are  like  to  meet  with,  yet  I  shall 
endeavour  to  manage  affairs  accordingly.  We  have  as  yet  no 
news  of  the  Fleet  being  arrived  at  Boston,  which  makes  people 
here  somewhat  uneasy  by  reason  of  the  sumer's  being  DO  fair 
advanced.  But  notwithstanding  any  of  these  difficulties  I  hope 
in  God  that  the  usual  I  success  will  attend  H.M.  arms.  This  day 
Governr.  Ingoldesby  and  myself  designes  for  to  meet  Indians 
at  Albany,  whither  all  the  forces  are  gon  up,  and  most  of  the 
arms  and  amunition,  the  last  being  now  loading  to  go  \vith  us 
or  presently  after,  I  found  it  absolutly  necessarie  to  stay  here 
for  the  dispatch  of  the  affairs,  etc.  I  hope  your  Lordship  will 
be  pleased  to  excuse  this  unpollished  letter,  etc.  P.S.  This  is 
designed  by  John  Eayner  Esq.,  H.M.  Attorney  General!  here, 
who  tells  me  he  is  bound  for  Great  Britain  upon  some  affairs 
wch.  he  proposes  will  be  for  H.M.  interest,  etc.  Signed,  Fr. 
Nicholson.  2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  9.  No.  26.] 

July  8.          63O.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     We 

Whitehall,  have  considered  the  Articles  of  complaint  etc.  against  Governor 
Park  (see  March  31).  It  being  but  just  and  reasonable  that 
he  should  be  heard  in  his  own  defence,  we  humbly  offer  that 
your  Majesty  be  pleased  to  order  that  copies  of  the  Address, 
Petitions  and  Articles  be  sent  to  him,  and  that  he  be  directed 
by  your  Majesty's  letters  mandatary  to  make  his  particular 
answer  to  all  the  said  articles  as  soon  as  possible;  and  that 
ho  be  required  to  give  free  liberty  to  the  complainants  and 
other  persons  concerned  to  make  affidavits  before  any  judge 
or  magistrate  of  what  they  know  in  those  matters,  and  that  such 
judge  or  magistrate  do  summon  before  them  such  person  or 
persons  as  the  complainants  shall  name;  and  that  Col.  Park 
do  signify  your  Majesties  pleasure  herein  to  such  judge  or 
magistrate  accordingly.  We  further  humbly  offer  that  the  com- 
plainants be  obliged  to  give  unto  Col.  Park  authentic  copies  of 
their  affidavits  and  other  proofs;  and  also  that  he  do  in  like 
manner  deliver  to  them  copies  of  his  answer  and  such  depo- 
sitions and  other  proofs  as  he  shall  think  necessary  for  his 
defence  within  the  space  of  one  month  after  publication  of 
your  Majestyes  said  letters  mandatary  upon  rect.  thereof  without 
delay.  And  further  that  within  20  days  after  having  so  reed, 
each  others  proofs,  they  do  in  like  manner  change  the  replys 
that  .each  of  them  shall  think  fit  to  make,  and  that  ye  whole 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


421 


1709. 


be   returned  hither  by  the   first   conveyance  to   be  laid  before 
your  Majesty.     [C.O.  153,  10.     pp.  363,  364.] 


July  8.          631.     Same    to    Governor    Parke.     Recommend   Mr.    Jurdine 
Whitehall,    to  his  care  and  assistance  in  the  dispatch  of  his  business  etc. 
(See  June  9.)     [C.O.  153,  10.     p.  365.] 


July  10. 

bouth 
Carolina. 


632.  T.  Nairne  to  [?  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.']  Having 
been  imployed  by  the  Genera  11  Assembly  of  this  Province  in  the 
quality  of  an  Agent,  and  itenerary  Justice  antong  the  Indians, 
subject  to  our  Governmt.,  among  other  things  useful!  to  be 
known  for  the  safety  and  interest  of  this  Colony,  I  aplyed 
myself  in  particular  to  have  a  very  minute  acct.,  of  all  people 
as  well  Europeans  as  salvages,  from  Virginia  to  the  mouth  of  the 
Mississipi.  I  have  had  a  personall  view  off  most  of  these  parts, 
either  formerly  when  a  Commander  in  the  warrs,  or  this  year  by 
travelling,  altho  my  inquiries  and  serches  of  this  kind  are  not 
finished,  yett  considering  the  juncture,  that  peace  must  of 
necessity  in  some  small  time  be  concluded,  I  could  not  dispense 
with  myself  from  laying  before  yr.  Lordship  a  map  of  such 
travells  and  observations  as  I  have  already  taken,  to  the  end 
yr.  noble  Lordship  may  at  one  view  perceive  what  part  of  the 
Continent  we  are  now  possest  off,  and  what  not,  and  procure 
the  articles  of  peace  to  be  formed  in  such  a  manner  that  the 
English  American  Empire  may  not  be  unreasonably  crampt 
up.  Yr.  Lordship[s]  may  depend  on  the  Inland  topography  to  be 
exact  as  any  thing  of  that  kind  can  well  be.  The  numbers  of 
the  inhabitant  I  took  with  the  greatest  care.  Yr.  Lordship 
upon  view  of  the  map  will  presently  conclude  that  if  the  French 
now  setled  at  Mobile  were  possest  of  all  the  Indians  subject  to 
ye  Governmt.  of  Carolina,  and  had  united  them  to  those  of  the 
Mississipi,  they  wold  be  in  circumstances  to  draw  from  among 
them  such  bodies  of  forces  as  wold  be  intollerably  troublesom 
either  to  the  English  Colonies,  or  the  naked  unarmed  country 
of  New  Mexico,  and  that  this  province,  only  by  trading  and 
other  managemt.  can  put  a  check  to  them,  a  consequence  of  this 
is  that  this  province,  being  a  frontier  both  agiainst  the  French 
and  Spand.,  ought  not  to  be  neglected.  I  have  represented  this 
matter  in  such  a  true  light  to  the  Genii.  Assembly,  that  they 
resolved  to  raise  some  forces,  to  reduce  either  the  French  fort  at 
Mobile,  or  at  least  all  tdie  Indians  betwixt  us  and  the  Mississipi, 
now  in  their  alliance,  accordingly  I  was  busy  providing  every- 
thing for  my  voyage.  I  entertained  intelligence  among  the  Yassas, 
Tassas  and  Nochees,  inviteing  them  to  setle  up  Cussate  river, 
I  ventured  my  life,  and  made  peace  with  the  Chactas,  in  short 
I  design'd  to  invite  by  fair  means  all  that  wold  accept  of  our 
friendship,  upon  the  terms  of  subjecting  themselves  to  our 
governmt.  and  removeing  into  our  territory,  and  quite  to  ruine 
such  as  wold  not,  soe  that  the  French  might  never  be  in  a 
capacity  to  raise  an  Indian  army  to  'disturb  us  or  our  allies, 
and  that  the  lower  parts  of  the  Mississipi,  being  left  desolate, 
the  trade  of  the  up[p]er  might  fall  to  this  province  by  means 


422  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

of  factories,  setled  on  Cussate  river,  for  the  French  from  Mobile 
wold  find  it  extreme  difficult  to  carry  on  that  commerce,  unless 
had  releif  and  defence  from  the  Indian  towns  on  the  Lower 
parts.  But  as  I  was  imploying  myself  in  concerting  measures 
for  the  intended  expedition,  the  intelligence  of  the  French  and 
Spands.  designing  to  invade  Carolina  put  a  full  stop  to  it, 
only  I  continue  to  invite  over  by  fair  means  all  that  I  can, 
which  I  hope  will  not  be  altogether  in  vain.  My  design  was 
to  fall  down  from  the  Talapoosies  against  the  French  with  a 
fleet  of  80  canoes  man'd  with  500  Indians  and  1000  by  land 
15  English  on  ye  one  part  and  30  with  the  other,  with  jthese 
forces  I  pretended  eitiher  to  destroy  or  remove  into  our  territory 
all  thie  salvages  from  Mobile  to  the  Mississipi,  and  up  the  river 
to  36  degrees  of  latitude.  The  French  of  Mobile  have  their 
support  by  the  furr  trade  from  the  head  of  the  Mississipi,  and 
a  good  underhand  trade  with  the  Spaniards  of  La  Vera  Cruz 
by  way  of  Pansacola,  that  small  garrison  depends  on  Vera 
Cruz,  and  live  in  extream  good  terms  with  Mobile,  being  both 
afraid  of  our  subjects,  tthe  Talapoosies,  who  last  year  burnt 
Pansacola  town,  tho  the  French  at  Mobile  be  now  weak,  yett 
they  are  well  scituated  for  Indian  trade.  I  have  fix'd  a  red 
Cross  to  these  places  now  subject  to  Carolina  and  a  triangle 
at  these  in  amity  with  Mobile.  The  English  trade  for  cloath 
alwayes  atracts  and  maintains  the  obedience  and  friendship 
of  the  Indians.  They  effect  them  most  who  sell  best  cheap. 
This  makes  it  necessary  that  the  trade  with  them  should  in 
England  lye  under  as  small  duties  and  embarrassment  as  may 
be,  sixpence  custom  for  sucihj  dear  skins  as  are  small  and  not 
worth  12rf.  seems  unreasonable.  Yr.  Lordship  may  perceive 
by  thje  map  that  the  garrison  of  St.  Augustine  is  by  this  wan- 
reduced  to  the  bare  walls,  their  Castle  and  Indian  towns  all 
consumed  either  by  us  in  our  invasion  of  that  place  or  by  our 
Indian  subjects  since,  who  in  quest  of  booty  are  now  oblidged 
to  goe  down  as  farr  on  the  point  of  Florida  as  the  firm  land 
will  permitt,  they  have  drove  the  Floridians  to  the  Islands  of 
tbje  Cape,  have  brought  in  and  sold  many  hundreds  of  them 
and  dayly  now  continue  that  trade,  so  that  in  some  few  years 
they'll  reduce  these  Barbarians  to  a  farr  less  number,  there 
is  not  one  Indian  town  betwixt  Charlestown  and  Mowila  Bay 
except  what  are  prickt  in  the  mapp,  only  am  uncertain  of  the 
numbers  of  the  Floridians.  Our  friend  the  Talopoosies  and 
Checasas  imploy  themselves  in  making  slaves  of  such  Indians 
about  the  lower  parts  of  the  Mississipi  as  are  now  subject  to 
the  French.  The  good  prices  the  English  traders  give  them 
for  slaves  encourage  them  to  this  trade  extreamly,  and  some 
men  think  that  it  both  serves  to  lessen  their  numbers  before 
the  French  can  arm  them,  and  it  is  a  more  effectual  I  way  of 
civilising  and  instructing,  then  all  the  efforts  used  by  the  French 
missionaries.  Ye  English  in  next  Treaty  of  Peace  have  just 
reason  to  insist  upon  the  French  quitting  that  setlemt.  on  'the 
Bay  of  Mowila,  because  they  setled  it  in  prejudice  to  and 
dispight  of  the  just  title  the  English  had  to  that  Bay  and  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES'.  423 

1709. 

Kiver  of  it.  It  seem  they  found  the  Mississipi  unfitt  to  setle  on, 
and  not  willing  to  give  any  umbrage  at  that  time  to  the  Spaniards 
by  going  to  the  westward  of  it,  made  bold  (tho'  in  time  of 
Peace)  with  the  English!  of  Carolina,  and  setled  on  the  Bay  of 
Mowila,  150  miles  to  the  east  of  the  Mississipi,  all  the  inhabitants 
whereof  |had  for  10  years  before  submitted  themselves  and  country 
to  the  governmt.  of  Carolina,  and  then  actually  traded  with  us; 
the  French  upon  their  first  arrivall  were  so  liberall  of  theiri 
presents  yt.  they  entirely  decoyed  the  people  of  the  lower  parts 
from  their  duty,  and  endeavouring  to  doe  the  same  with  the 
Talapoosies  who  live  higher  up,  5  of  them  were  killed  in  the 
attempt,  as  they  were  coming  up,  by  an  Indian  called  Dearsfoot; 
this  has  made  them  desist  ever  since,  and  the  English  are  now 
in  .possission  of  the  greatest  part  of  the  people  of  that  River. 
Yr.  Lordship  by  a  view  of  the  map  will  perceive  that  if  the 
Englist  think  fitt  to  use  any  efforts  to  make  themselves  masters 
of  the  furr  trade  from  the  head  of  the  Mississipi,  it  must  be 
done  by  drawing  up  the  Yassas  etc.  to  setle  on  Cussate  river 
and  (making  small  forts  to  defend  the  traders  merchantdise 
where  'the  places  are  marked.  Yr.  Lordship  will  likewise  se 
that  the  Cherockee  nation  tnow  entirely  isubjeot  to  us  are  extreamly 
well  scituate  to  keep  of  any  incursions  which  either  ye  Illinois 
or  any  other  French  Indians  may  think  of  making  into  Carolina, 
and  in  effect  so  it  is,  they  are  now  our  only  defence  on  the 
Back  parts,  but  are  themselves  miserably  harrassed  by  the 
Iroquis.  Yr.  Lordship  may  please  to  write  to  the  governours 
of  Maryland  and  New  York  to  interpose  as  much  with  the 
Iroquois  in  their  behalf  a[s]  possible,  all  parts  of  the  English 
Dominions  ought  mutually  to  espouse  one  another's  interest 
in  everything  that  relates  to  the  Common  Defence  against  ye 
French  and  their  party.  I  have  considered  this  coast,  what 
parts  may  be  any  way  usefull  to  ye  Brittish  nation  in  order  to 
setle  Colonies.  It  is  certain  we  have  firm  possession  by  means 
of  our  Indians  from  Charles  Town  to  Mowila  Bay,  excepting 
only  the  garrison  of  St.  Augustine  and  ye  Islands  of  Cape 
Florida.  If  the  English  could  spare  people,  it  seems  fitter  to 
strengthen  this  Province,  then  setle  any  new.  But  if  an  inclina- 
tion to  setle  any  place  to  the  Eastward  of  the  Mississipi  should 
prevaile,  the  old  Country  of  the  Apalachias  is  the  only  best, 
being  for  40  miles  long  and  20  wide  clear  feild  fitt  for  the 
plough,  formerly  manured  by  the  Indians,  who  were  four  year 
agoe  subdued,  and  the  remaining  part  of  them  removed  to 
Carolina.  This  place  wold  be  proper  for  the  seat  of  a  governmt. 
to  take  in  the  neck  of  Florida  and  100  miles  to  the  westward 
along  the  Bay,  that  country  is  full  of  catle  and  horses,  'which 
before  the  war  belonged  to  ye  Spaniard  and  Apalachia  Indians, 
but  are  now  all  wild.  But  if  yor.  Lordship  please  to  have  laid 
before  you  all  the  printed  mapps  and  descriptions  that  are 
in  England  of  the  country  to  the  westward  of  the  Mississipi, 
and  thoroughly  consider  all  circumstances,  you  will  incline  to 
beleive  that  the  English  Nation  can  setle  a  Colony  nowhere  to 
greater  purpose  then  upon  some  convenient  place  any  where  60 


424 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

or  80  miles  to  the  westward  of  the  mouth  of  ye  Mississipi.  It  is 
certain  there  are  considerable  numbers  of  Indians  there,  so 
farr  from  being  subject,  that  are  at  constant  warrs  with  the 
Spaniards  of  new  Mexico  it  is  certain  the  french  could  not 
persuo  La  Salle's  design  formed  against  ye  mine  country,  by 
reason  of  their  present  circumstances  with  Spain,  so  that  if 
the  English  put  in  and  gett  the  Indians  of  their  side,  it  may 
be  a  means  of  at  least  enjoying  a  good  share  of  the  trade  both 
with  ye  Spaniards  and  their  Indian  subjects  of  that  part  of 
New  Spain,  the  example  of  Queriso  shows  us  that  neither  galleys, 
men  of  warr,  nor  garrisons  can  prevent  a  trade  of  that  nature, 
and  no  man  can  foretell  how  favourable  some  revolutions  of 
time  might  prove  in  affording  oppertunities  worth  catching  att, 
to  gain  some  of  the  mines.  The  Bay  of  Campeeche  lying  hot 
farr  of  the  bay,  men  might  be  invited  to  setle  in  the  new 
Colony  and  make  it  the  port  to  ship  home  their  wood  from,  and 
occasionally  exercise  the  trade  of  cutting  logwood  from  that 
port,  above  all  things  arming  the  Indians,  purchasing  their 
commodities,  making  discoveries  and  sending  youths  to  learn 
their  language  wold  be  of  the  utmost  consequence  to  the  firm 
establishing  ye  Colony,  for  of  them  might  be  had  men  ready  at 
any  time  to  help  oppose  the  Spaniards,  a  thing  of  this  nature 
must  be  done  with  great  secrecy,  and  first  setled  with  con- 
siderable strength,  and  fortified  with  the  utmost  celerity.  If 
the  Spaniard  patiently  suffer  the  french  to  goe  sharers  with 
them  in  the  Peruvian  trade,  it's  equally  reasonable  that  the 
English,  should  aim  at  gaining  some  of  the  Mexican.  It's  easy 
to  make  the  peace  and  inland  discoveries  from  Carolina,  from 
whence  we  are  already  well  acquainted  as  farr  as  the  Missis- 
sipi, 2  or  £300  sterling's  worth  of  goods  proper  will  be  suffi- 
cient and  for  discovering  the  coast  and  finding  a  fitt  Eiver 
to  setle  on  a  sloop  may  be  sent  from  hence  privately.  Signed, 
Thomas  Nairne.  4  pp.  [C.O.  5,  382.  No.  11.] 

[July  10 1  633.  Petition,  statement  of  case,  and  depositions  (2)  of 
George  Lillington.  v.  following,  and  C.S.P.  1705,  and  A.P.C. 
II.  No.  1088.  7  pp.  [C.O.  28,  43.  Nos.  5-8.] 

July  11.  634.     Order   of    Queen   in   Council.     On   petition   of   George 

Windsor.  Lillington,  the  Order  of  May  19  is  revoked,  and  the  matter  re- 
ferred to  the  Committee  for  hearing  Appeals,  etc.  -v.  A.P.C.  II. 
No.  1088.  Signed,  John  Povey.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug. 
2,  1709.  1^  pp.  [C.O.  28,  12.  No.  30;  and  29,  11.  pp. 
483,  484.] 


July  12.  635.     AY.   Popple   to   Mr.    Burchet.      Encloses   extracts   from 

Whitehall.    Governor  Handasyd's  letter  April  6,  relating  to  the  case  of  the 

Naval  Officer  condemned  in  Jamaica,  to  be  laid  before  the  Lord 

High  Admiral  for  his  directions  therein.     [C.O.   138,   12.    pp. 

415,  416.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


425 


1709. 

July  13.          636.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 

Whitehall.     derland.     Enclose    extracts    from    Governor     Handasyd's    letter, 

April   6th,   relating  to  a   Serjeant  condemned  in  Jamaica,   etc., 

to  bo  laid  before   H.M.   for  her  pleasure  therein.     [C.O.   138, 

12.     pp.  416,  417.] 

July  13.          637.     Same  to  the  Queen.     Recommend  that  Samuel  Sherlock, 
Whitehall.     Samuel  Smith,  Wm.  Outerbridge,  Leonard  White  and  John  Peasly 
be    appointed  to   the   Council   of    Bermuda.     [C.O.   38,    6.     p. 
467.] 

July  13.          638.     Masters  of  ships  lying  in  the  harbour  of  Antigua  to 

Antigrua.       thje   Council   of   Trade   and  Plantations.     Address   in  favour  of 

Governor   Parke    and   his   fair   and   regular   administration    etc. 

10    signatures.     Endorsed,    Eecd.    Bead    July    13,    1709.     1    p. 

[C.O.   152,  8.     No.  29.] 

[July  14.]  639.  Christopher  de  Graffenried  and  Luis  Michel  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Explain  their  proposal  for 
settling  Swiss  Protestants  in  Virginia  (see  June  28,  supra). 
Signed,  De  Graffenried,  Michel.  Endorsed,  Reed.  14,  Read  15 
July,  1709.  French.  3pp.  [C.O.  5,  1316.  A7o.  28.] 


July  15. 

Whitehall. 


July  15. 

Whitehall. 


July  15. 

Whitehall. 


640.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Han- 
dasyd.     Acknowledge    letters    of   Aug.    2,    1708,    and   Aprill    6, 
1709.     What  you  write  of  the  want  of  seamen  has  been  laid 
before  the  Lord  High  Admiral,  and  we  have  also  transmitted  to 
him  the  case  of  the  Naval  Officer  etc.     We  have  likewise  laid 
before  H.M.   your  desire  in  relation  to  the  Serjeant  etc.,  and 
as  soon   as  we  shall  know   H.M.   pleasure,   we   shall  give  you,    t 
notice   thereof.     We   are    glad   to   perceive    that   the    Assembly 
have   passed   the   Acts    you   mentioned   which  we   shall    expect 
according   to    your   promise,    and   when   received   shall    consider 
the  same   as   opportunity   offers.     P.S.     Since   our   writing  the 
above,  wo  have  received  yours  of  May  1,  and  have  only  to  add 
that  H.M.  has  been  pleased  to  pardon  the  Serjeant, , etc.,  and 
the  same  is  now  preparing  by  Mr.  Attorney  Generall  for  passing 
the  Great  Seal.     [C.O.  138,  12.     pp.  417,  418.] 

641.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose    Addresses    from    Antigua   and    St.    Kitts   in 
favour  of  Governor  Parke,  to  be  laid  before  H.M.     [C.O.   153, 
10.     p.   366.] 

642.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Crowe. 
Acknowledge  letters  of  March  2  and  May  18.     As  to  the  pro- 
ceedings  of  the   Grand  Session  against    Alexander    and    Wm. 
Walker,  we  can  give  you  no  directions  therein ;  that  matter  is 
now  depending,  and  Mr.  Lillington's  son  is  here  to  prosecute  his 
father's  complaint,  as  also  Mr.  Wm.  Walker  to  defend  himself, 
so  that  till  both  sides  have   been  heard,   we  cannot  make  any 
determination  thereupon.     The  Acts  you  transmitted,  March  2., 


426 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


July  15. 

Whitehall. 


shall  be  considered ;  but  we  have  not  received  the  Act  about 
Agents  referr'd  to,  May  18.  And  therefore  we  suppose  that  it 
has  been  sent  to  the  said  Agents,  which  ought  to  be  immediatly 
transmitted  to  us  from  yourself.  As  to  your  refusing  to  re- 
admit Mr.  Sharp,  Mr.  Walker  and  Mr.  Beresford  into  the  Coun- 
cill,  and  your  not  issuing  orders  for  their  taking  of  depositions 
pursuant  to  H.M.  directions  to  you,  H.M.  having  been  pleased 
to  determine  that  matter  in  Councill,  and  having  accordingly 
writ  fully  to  you  thereupon,  we  need  not  add  anything  in  that 
matter.  [C.O.  29,  11.  pp.  476,  477.] 

643.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Lt.  Governor  Ben- 
nett. Acknowledge  letters  of  April  8,  June  12,  Aug.  4  and  14, 
Oct.  29,  1708,  and  March  170f.  We  can  now  make  no  return 
to  what  you  write  in  relation  to  Mr.  Jones,  because  the 
hearing  of  the  complaints,  which  we  had  begun,  has  been  put 
off  till  Michaelmas  next  by  reason  of  the  term  then  at  hand, 
and  other  business ;  so  that  till  both  sides  have  been  fully  heard, 
we  cannot  give  you  any  particular  answer  upon  that  head.  We 
have  recommended  5  proposed  by  you  for  the  Council  (v.  July 
13),  and  doubt  not  but  the  orders  for  their  admission  will  be 
sent  you  by  the  Agent.  We  have  received  the  tryal  of  Mr. 
Daffy,  and  shall  as  occasion  offers  have  recourse  thereunto. 
We  have  laid  before  H.M.  what  you  writ  us  in  relation  to  the 
cruelties  of  the  French  in  the  Bahama  Islands,  and  to  their 
design  on  Carolina.  As  to  the  condemnation  of  the  Margaret, 
that  matter  being  transmitted  to  the  Com'missioner  of  Customes, 
we  need  not  say  anything  thereupon,  not  doubting  but  they 
will  take  care  to  justify  their  own  officer's  legal  proceedings. 
[C.O.  38,  6.  pp.  468-470.] 


July  18. 

Windsor. 


644.  Order  of. Queen  in  Council,  appointing  William  Outer- 
bridge  to  the  Council  of  Bermudas.  Signed,  John  Povey.  IT- 
pp.  [C.O.  5,  11.  No.  40.] 


July  18. 

Windsor. 


645.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council,  appointing  John  Peasly 
to  the  Council  of  Bermudas.  Signed,  John  Povey.  II  pp. 
10.0.  5,  11.  No.  41.] 


July  18. 

Windsor. 


646.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council,  appointing  Samuell  Smith 
to  the  Council  of  Bermudas.  Signed,  John  Povey.  IT  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  11.  No.  42.] 


July  18. 

Windsor. 


647.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council,  appointing  Leonard  White 
to  the  Council  of  Bermudas.  Signed,  John  Povey.  1£  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  11.  No.  43.] 


July  18.  648.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council,  appointing  Samuell  Shir- 
lock  to  the  Council  of  Bermudas.  Signed,  John  Povey.  1^  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  11.  No.  44.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  4.27 

1709. 

July  18.  649.     Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

Spanish  Town,  tatiqns.  Acknowledges  letters  of  April  21,  and  duplicates,  etc. 
The  Gentlemen  of  ye  Councill  who  is  Factors  for  ye  Affrican 
Company,  or  Factors  for  the  sale  of  any  other  negroes,  as  to 
yt.  matter,  Col.  Beckford  and  Mr.  Chaplain  haveing  resigned 
their  Factor idge,  I  know  of  none  that  is  concerned  but  Col. 
Clark  and  Col.  Thomson,  who  gave  me  for  answere  the  last 
Councill  Day,  that  they  did  not  act  for  anybody  but  what  is 
related  to  their  own  shipps,  but  since  H.M.  last  orders  is  possitive 
in  that  case,  as  soon  as  I  cann  have  a  Councill  (which  I 
hope  will  be  in  14  days  time,  their  being  severall  of  ye  Councill 
sick  and  nott  able  at  present  to  travill)  H.M.  commands  shall 
then  be  nicely  observed;  as  to  ye  Capts.'  commissions  of  priva- 
teers, they  are  as  full  as  they  cann  be  according  to  the  rules 
of  warr,  and  everyone  that  disobeys  command,  is  as  lyable  to 
suffer  death  as  if  they  were  on  board  H.M.  shipps  of  warr, 
but  as  they  are  a  headstrong  ungovernable  people,  they  must 
sometimes  be  led,  and  sometimes  drove ;  as  to  what  yr.  Ldshipps 
mentions  of  the  prizes,  to  have  an  account  of  the  value  of 
each  prize,  it  is  wholly  out  of  my  power,  for  in  ye  first  place 
it  being  15  or  16  miles  distant,  in  the  next  place  the  frequent 
disputes  that  happens  between  ye  captures  and  others,  which 
offten  last  for  severall  months  before  condemnation,  as  also 
the  delays  in  selling,  and  the  last  is,  those  who  are  appointed 
for  the  disposall  of  these  prizes  will  nott  transcribe  me  out  an 
account  under  £20  a  shipp;  as  to  the  Lord  High  AdmiralFs 
being  surprized  at  my  writing  that  the  shipps  of  warr  was  in 
health  at  that  time,  and  that  they  were  in  want  of  men.  Since 
I  have  been  in  this  Government,  their  has  nott  been  super- 
numerary men  in  their  shipps  of  warr,  and  never  above  two 
men  of  warr  that  had  their  highest  complement.  I  hope  my 
mistake  cannott  be  great,  considering  the  clymt.,  but  they  have 
men  dies  and  desarts  here  as  well  as  in  other  parts,  and  a  great 
many  more,  as  I  suppose  does  appear  by  their  muster,  and  all 
the  [supply  which  I  find  is  now  come,  is  one  man  of  warr 
named  ye  Portsmouth,  with  the  midle  of  her  complement,  the 
men  of  warr  that  Admirall  Wager  designes  to  leave  here  will 
not  be  capable  of  doeing  any  service,  for  want  of  men,  ye 
Portsmouth  onely  excepted,  but  to  be  more  plain  with  your 
Lordshipp  the  supplying  the  men  of  warr  has  and  will  be  the 
ruin  of  H.M.  Eegiment  under  my  command,  considering  also 
the  duty  w*hich  must  be  done  at  land.  I  have  sent  your  Ldshipps. 
the  Publick  Account  of  H.M.  Revenue,  which  I  desire  yr. 
Ldships,  will  order  the  delivery  of  to  my  Ld.  High  Treasurer, 
they  have  been  swore  to  by  thie  Deputy  Receiver  Generall,  Mr. 
Chaplain,  before  me  in  Councill;  as  to  publick  affares  here  we 
have  litle  materiall,  onely  the  Island  has  (for  the  3  weeks  or  a 
month  past)  been  afflicted  with  a  violent  distemper  occasioned 
by  a  sore  throat  attended  by  a  violent  Feavour,  which  has  carry'd 
of  a  great  many  people  of  all  sorts.  There  was  brought  in  here 
abt.  10  days  agoe  a  French  [ship]  of  abt.  160  tunn  for  ye  most 
part  loaded  with  dry  goods  from  Did  France.  She  touched  at 


428 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

Martinego  and  unloaded  some  part  of  her  cargoe,  she  was  taken 
by  a  "Jamaica  privateer,  Capt.  Pinckerman,  "Commander,  the 
value  of  her  I  cannott  inform  yr.  Ldshipps.,  but  beleives  she 
may  prove  a  good  prize;  our  men  of  warr  and  privateers  has 
been  very  diligent,  but  I  think  for  this  2  or  3  months  past 
ye  trayd  both  to  France  and  Spain  seems  to  be  very  dead,  tho 
severall  of  our  sloops  and  vessalls  are  gone  and  goeing  a  traiding 
upon  ye  Spanish  cost;  the  gallions  yt.  escaped  last  year  is 
still  in  Carthergena,  and  ye  Laverdecrous  Fleet  is  not  yet  arived 
at  Havana.  I  beleive  they  will  have  a  hard  peice  of  work  to 
get  past  our  privateers,  Who  has  (for  this  4  month)  been 
watching  for  them.  I  return  your  Ldshipps.  my  hearty  thanks 
for  all  favours  done,  to  the  releife  of  me  and  my  Regimt.,  which 
I  hope  soon  to  have  an  order  for,  I  doubt  nott  but  the  Gentle- 
men who  is  to  succeed  me  will  be  better  quallifyed  to  the 
management  of  the  Queen  and  Countrey's  affares  then  I  have 
been  to  the  entire  satissf  action  of  all  ;  altho  I  take  God  to  ray 
wittness  I  have  faithfully  endeavoured  to  give  satissfaction  to 
all,  except  in  preserveing  H.M.  perrogative  and  the  interrest 
of  Great  Brittain,  as  to  any  other  affares  here  I  know  of  none 
worth  giveing  your  Ldshipps.  the  trouble  of,  etc.  Signed,  Tho. 
Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Sept.  10,  Read  Nov..  11,  1709. 
2|  pp.  [C.O.  137,  8.  tfo.  67;  and  138,  13.  pp.  46-51.] 

650.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Referring  following  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report.  Signed,  John 
Povey.  Endorsed,  Reed.  26th,  Read  27th  July,  1709.  1£  PP- 
Enclosed, 

650.  i.  Petition  of  Robert  D'Oyly,   administrator  to  Cope  D' 

Oyly,  late  Rector  of  Williamsburgh,  Va.,  to  the  Queen. 
Abstracted  A.P.C.  II.  No.  1100  q.v.  Copy.  If  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  1316.  Nos.  29,  29.  i.;  and  5,  1362.  pp. 
399-403.] 

July  18.          651.     Order  of   Queen   in   Council.     Referring   following  pe- 
Winclsor.      tition  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report. 
Signed,   John   Povey.     Endorsed,   Reed.    23rd,   Read  25th  July, 
1709.    Ip.     Enclosed, 

651.  i.  John   Bentley   of   Barbados,    and   Elizabeth   his   wife, 

to  the  Queen.  Pray  for  relief  in  case  r.  Richard 
Downes,  which  is  tryable  only  in  the  Court  of  Common 
Please  there,  where  Downes  is  Chief  Justice.  See 
Aug.  2,  8,  and  A.P.C.  II.  No.  1099.  Copy.  1  p. 
[C.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  29,  29.  i.;  and  29,  11.  pp.  477- 
479.] 


July  18. 


July  25. 

Whitehall. 


652.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to»the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.  Report  upon  petition  of  Switzers  to  be  settled  in 
Virginia  (v.  June  28,  1709).  Th,e  settlement  of  such  a  Colony 
will  be  a  public  benefit  and  advantage,  by  strengthning  the 
frontier  of  Virginia  against  the  French  of  Canada  and  Misisipi: 
and  by  the  increase  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  and  therefore 


AMEEICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


429 


1709. 


July  25. 

Windsor. 


July  27. 

Whitehall. 

July  27. 

Whitehall, 


we  see  no  objection  why  H.M.  may  not  be  graciously  pleased  to 
grant  their  desire  and  to  direct  her  Governor  upon  their  arrival 
to  allot  them  lands  on  the  southwest  branch  of  Potomac  (which 
is  a  place  not  yet  seated  by  any  of  H-.M.  subjects)  under  th<e 
like  conditions  as  are  by  the  Charter  and  Laws  of  that  Colony 
directed  to  be  made;  due  care  being  taken  in  all  such  grants, 
of  an  equal  distribution  of  the  profitable  and  unprofitable  acres., 
and  particularly  that  every  patentee  be  obliged  in  the  best  and 
most  effectual  manner  to  cultivate  and  improve  3  acres  part 
of  every  50  acres  granted  to  them  within  the  term  of  three 
years  after  the  passing  such  grant ;  and  in  case  of  failure 
thereof,  such  grant  or  grants  to  be  void  and  of  none  effect 
according  to  H.M.  additional  Instruction  to  Col.  Hunter,  Feb. 
19,  1709.  Provided  always  that  in  all  things  they  duly  conform 
themselvs  to  the  several  Acts  and  Laws  of  Trade  and  Navigation 
etc.  Set  out,  A.P.C.II.  pp.  608,  609.  [C.O.  5,  1362.  pp. 
396-399.] 

653.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Referring  following 
petition  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report. 
Signed,  John  Povey.  Endorsed,  Reed.  July  28th,  Read  Aug.  8, 
1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

653.  i.  John  Sober,  of  Barbados,  to  the  Queen.  Governor 
Crowe  behaved  indecently  to  his  wife  and  sister,  and 
then  forced  him  to  leave  the  Island  by  an  unjust 
prosecution  etc.  Prays  for  relief.  Copy.  2  pp. 

653.  ii.  Deposition    of    John    Sober.     Details    of    preceding. 

Signed,   John    Sober.     Copy.     2|  pp.     [C.O.   28,   12. 
Nos.    33,    33.  i.,  ii. ;    and    29,    11.     pp.    490-494.] 

654.  W.  Popple  to  Mr.  Solicitor  General.     Encloses  for  his 
opinion  D'Oyly's  petition,  July  18.     [C.O.  5,  1362.     p.  403.] 

655.  Council   of    Trade    and    Plantations   to    Col.   Jenings. 
Acknowledge  letters  of   Nov.   27  and  March  21.     The  accounts 
of  negroes  you  have  sent  us  will  be  made   use  of  as  occasion 
shall  offer.     But  it  came  too  late  for  the  last  Session  of  Parlia- 
ment, where  the  African  trade  was  under  consideration.     How- 
ever, we  have  reason  to  beleive  that  ye  next  winter  that  Trade 
will    be    further    look'd    into,    and   then   your    accounts    will    be 
of  service.     But  there  is  one  particular  wherein  we  are  yet  in 
the  dark,  vizt.,  you  say  that  the  Company  have  sold  their  negroes 
from  20  to  £30  a  head,   and  the  separate  traders   from  20  to 
£35.     We  wish  you  had  explained  the  reason  of  this  difference, 
and   therefore    desire   you   to   do    it   the    first   opportunity.     We 
have  considered  the  Counsel I's  answers  to  the  several  enquiries 
in  our  letter  to  you  of  May  7th,   1707.     As  to  what  they  say 
about  patenting  of  lands  on  the  South  side  of  Blackwater  Swamp, 
and  in  Pamunkey  Neck,  you  will  perceive  by  H.M.  Instructions, 
March  10,  that  that  matter  is  now  settled,  which  we  hope  will 
prove  for  the  advantage  of  the  Colony.     We  represented  to  H.M. 
what    you    formerly    writ    us,    in    relation    to    the    settling    the 
boundaries   between   Virginia  and  Carolina,   etc.     Quote  Repre- 


430  COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 

1709. 

sentation  of  Jan.  7,  Order  of  Council  Jan.  13,  and  reply  of  Lords 
Proprietors  of  Carolina.  H.M.  Letters  Mandatory  as  to  issuing 
out  a  Boundary  Commission  will  be  sent  you.  As  to  the  ex- 
emption you  mention  to  be  granted  by  the  Proprietary  Govern- 
ments to  people  that  remove  thither  from  being  sued  for  debts 
contracted  in  other  places,  we  hope  that  matter  is  remedyed  at 
least  in  Carolina.  For  an  Act  having  been  past  there  granting 
such  an  exemption,  we  laid  the  same  before  H.M.  with  our  opinion 
of  the  ill  consequence  of  such  Laws;  whereupon  H.M.  was 
pleased  to  repeal  the  said  Carolina  Act.  But  if  that  practice  of 
protecting  creditors  [sic]  be  still  continued  in  Carolina  or  any 
other  of  the  Proprieties,  you  will  do  well  to  give  us  as  particular 
an  account  thereof  as  you  are  able,  that  we  may  lay  the 
same  before  H.M.  for  her  further  pleasure  therein.  In  relation 
to  the  Tobacco  Trade,  we  doubt  not  but  the  merchants  have  given 
you  and  their  correspondents  an  account  of  what  has  been 
done  here  for  the  encouragement  thereof.  However,  the  en- 
closed copy  of  an  Order  of  Councill  will  explain  that  matter  to 
you.  So  that  we  hope  in  a  little  time  especially  when  a  Peace 
shall  be  made,  that  the  Colony  of  Virginia  will  find  the  benefit 
thereof.  We  do  not  conceive  the  difficulty  the  Councill  make 
in  returning  an  account  of  the  quantities  of  tobacco  exported 
from  Virginia,  because  we  beleive  it  may  easily  be  known  from 
the  Naval  Officer  or  Collectors  Books.  As  to  the  Indian  trade 
for  furrs,  which  you  fear  is  like  to  be  wrested  from  Virginia 
by  the  Government  of  Carolina,  we  have  writ  to  the  Lords 
Proprietors  thereupon,  who  have  acquainted  us  that  they  had 
no  account  of  that  matter,  but  that  they  expected  it  by  the 
first  ships.  However,  when  we  shall  receive  the  affidavits  you 
promise  upon  that  subject,  we  shall  lay  that  affair  before  H.M. 
for  her  pleasure  therein.  We  are  glad  there  is  no  illegal  trade 
carryed  on  in  Virginia,  and  we  desire  that  you  will  be  as  watch- 
full  as  possible,  and  that  you  will  give  all  the  discouragement 
you  can  to  the  setting  up  of  manufactures  in  that  Colony.  We 
have  often  represented  the  necessity  of  regular  fleets  during 
the  war,  which  has  been  ordered  by  H.M.  But  the  merchants 
here  have  such  different  interests  and  opinions,  that  we  may 
justly  fear  it  will  not  be  so  punctually  observed  as  it  ought. 
We  have  laid  before  my  Lord  High  Admiral  what  you  write  in 
Delation  to  a  guard  ship,  and  have  been  informed  by  Mr. 
Burchet  that  some  time  since  the  Guarland,  a  40  gunn'd  ship 
sail'd  for  Virginia,  and  is  ordered  to  cruize  between  the  Capes, 
and  anothter  ship  for  the  same  service  is  order'd  to  be  bought 
at  New  England.  You  have  done  well  in  taking  care  for  the 
defence  of  the  Colony,  and  we  doubt  not  but  you  will  have  a 
watchfull  eye  over  the  proceedings  of  the  enemy.  [C.O.  5,  1362. 
pp.  405-410.] 

July  27.          656.     The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.     Plantations.      Recommends    following.      Enquires    if    they    have 
any  objections,  etc.     Signed,   Sunderland.     Endorsed,   Reed.  8th 
Aug.,  1709,  Bead  4th  Jan.,  170 -&.    Enclosed, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  431 

1709. 

656.  i.  Samuel    Berwick    to    the    Earl    of    Sunderland.      Son 

of  a  former  Deputy  Governor  of  Barbados,  having  an 
estate  of  £1500  a  year  there,  etc.,  Colonel  of  the  Militia 
there  and  Keceiver  of  the  Queen's  Revenue,  he  prays  lo 
be  appointed  to  the  Council.  \  p.  \C.O.  28,  13.  Nos. 
3,  3.i. ;  and  (without  enclosure)  29,  12.  p.  65.] 

July  27.          657.     H.  Bendysh  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Doctors        H.M.   Commissioners  for  receiving  and  disposing1  of  the  rnony 

Commons.      to  be  coined  for  the  subsistence  and  settlement  of  the  poor 

Palatines   refer  following  for  your  Lordships'  opinion  thereon. 

Signed,   H.   Bendysh.     Endorsed-,  Reed.  29th,  Read  30th  July, 

1709.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

657.  i.  A  proposal  for  settling  200  families  of  the  poor  Pala- 

tines in  Jamaica.  That  H.M.  will  be  pleased  to  send 
immediate  orders  and  instructions  to  her  Governor  at 
Jamaica,  to  acquaint  the  Assembly  there  that  it  is  her 
royal  pleasure  that  Linches  Island  at  the  entrance  of 
Port  St.  Antonio  be  forthwith  cleared  for  the  building 
of  a  town,  and  th|at  200  hutts  be  immediatly  made  cape- 
able  to  lodge  the  said  Palatines  on  their  first  arrival, 
which  must  be  performed  by  each  Plantation's  furnish- 
ing a  due  proportion  of  Negroes  for  that  work  etc. 
That  whereas  there  is  a  large  tract  of  land  an  the 
main  Island  opposite  to  that  place,  viz.,  between  the 
East  side  of  Rio  Grande  and  the  East  side  of  Porte 
Morante,  which  is  at  this  time  the  property  of  the 
Crown  and  unoccupied,  H.M.  will  be  pleased  to  grant 
a  parcell  of  15  acres  of  the  samfe  to  each  of  the  said 
families,  the  allotment  and  distribution  thereof  to  be 
made  by  H.M.  Governour  or  Deputy  on  their  first  ar- 
rival reserving  only  to  H.M.  title  usual  quit  rents  on  such 
grants  to  commence  after  years.  That  in  order 
to  the  transportation  of  the  said  Palatines,  application 
be  made  to  the  owners  of  the  severall  ships  bound  to 
Jamaica  this  season,  to  take  on  board  so  many  as  they 
conveniently  can,  and  tihat  ships  be  provided  for  the 
remainder  to  be  reaHy  to  sail  the  begining  of  October. 
It  is  humbly  conceived  that  ye  charge  attending  this 
proposal  will  be,  for  transportation  of  1000  people 
at  £6  per  head,  £6,000;  for  subsistance  till  their  own 
labour  can  produce  it,  £5  per  head,  £5,000;  for  tools 
and  other  necessaries,  £2,000.  In  all  £13,000.  It  is 
humbly  hoped  that  a  settlement  pursuant  to  this  pro- 
posal will  he  of  so  great  advantage,  not  only  to  the 
trade  but  also  to  the  security  of  the  said  Island,  as 
to  enable  the  inhabitants  to  support  and  defend  them- 
selves, and  to  ease  H.M.  of  the  great  charge  of  main- 
taining a  Regiment  there,  and  that  the  labour  of  these 
people  will  in  a  very  few  years  repay  to  'England  the 
present  charge  many  fold  in  commodities,  which  we 
are  now  obliged  to  send  silver  into  forreign  parts  to 


432 


COLONIAL   PAPEBS. 


1709. 


July  27. 
Whitehall, 


July  28. 


July  28. 

Admlty. 
Office. 


July  28. 

Custom- 
house, 
London. 


purchase.  Signed,  Bartho.  Gracedieu,  Ed.  Harris,  Win. 
Coward,  James  Whitchurch,  Benj.  Way,  Lawrence  Gal- 
dy,  Wm.  Parrott,  Edmd.  Watkinson,  Samuel  Jones. 
Copy.  3  pp.  [C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  45,  45.  i. ;  and  138, 
12.  pp.  420-424.] 

658.  The    Earl    of    Sunderland    to    the    Governors    of    New 
York,  Virginia  and  New  England.     It  being  absolutely  necessary 
for   the    security   of   H.M.    Dominions    in  America   and   of   the 
trade  of  her  subjects  thither  that  the  Bahama   Islands  should 
be  recovered  from  the  enemy  if  possible,  H.M.  has  commanded 
me  to  signify  her  pleasure  to  your  Lordship  that  you  use  your 
best  endeavours  'for  that  purpose;  and  the  Commanders  of  H.M. 
ships   on   your  coasts  have  orders  to  follow  your  directions   in 
the  pursuit  of  this  design,  which  H.M.  commends  to  your  care 
and  diligence,  etc.     Signed,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  163.] 

659.  Copy  of  Landgrave  Christopher  de  Graffenried's  Patent 
for  land  in  Carolina.  Cf.  Aug.  4.     Signed,  Craven  Palatin,  Beau- 
fort.   Craven   for  the  Lord  Carteret,  M.  Ashley,  J.   Colleton,  J. 
Dansorj,   M.   Ashley  for  Jos.   Blake.     fC.Q.    5,  289.     pp.   224, 

225.] 

660.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.     This  night  the  Queen's 
and  my  Lord  High  Admirall's  Orders  will  bee  sent  to  Virginia, 
New  England  and  New  Yorke,  relateing  to  the  Bahama  Islands, 
and  they  are  to  bee  carry  ed  by  Capt.  Smith  of  the  Enter  prize, 
etc.     Signed,  J.  Burchett.     Endorsed,  Reed.  July  28,  1709.   f  p. 
[C.O.   323,   6.     No.  82.] 

661.  Commissioners   of   H.M.    Customs   to   the   Lord   High 
Treasurer.     Report   upon    the    Act    of   Virginia    for   setting    the 
towns,    ports,    wharfs    and    keys,    etc.    v.    C.S.P.,    1704—1706. 
Refer  to  Report  of  March  7,   170|.     This  Board  then  approved 
of  that  Act.     Though  we  are  still   of  the  same  opinion  that  it 
will  be  more  for  the  ease  of  collecting  ye  duties  in  the  country., 
yet  we  have  great  reason  to  fear  from  the  improvment  in  the 
woollen  and  other  manufactures  already  begun  and  still  carry- 
ing on  in  Virginia  and  other  parts  of  the  Continent,  that  the 
establishment  of  towns  and  incorporating  the  planters  and  others 
there  with  the  priviledges  intended  by  this  Act  will  put  them 
upon  further  improvements  in  the  like  manufactures,  not  only 
for  themselvs  but  other  of  the  Plantations,  and  take  them  off 
from  planting  tobacco,  which  would  b«  of  a  very  ill  consequence 
to  this  Kingdom,  both  in  respect  to  the  exports  of  clothing,  and 
all  other  necessaries  from  hence  thither,  and  their  dependance  on 
this  Kingdom,   but  lessening  the  importation  of  tobacco  hither 
for  the  home  consumption  and  supply  of '  foreigners,  besides  a 
further  injury  in  point  of  shipping  and  navigation,  and  therefore, 
rather    than    put    this    trade    upon    such   hazardous    points,    we 
would  humbly   advise  that  the  said  Act  may   be   rejected,   and 
that  all  due  encouragement  may  be  given  to  the   Planters  for 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  433 

1709. 

turning  their  hands  to  manuring  and  cultivating  their  wast 
lands  for  tobacco,  and  diverting  them  from  other  manufactures. 
P.S.  We  are  of  the  like  opinion  relating  to  the  Act  of  Maryland 
for  settling  ports,  etc.  Signed,  3.  Stanley,  Will.  Cullyford,  Jo. 
Werden,  M.  Dudley,  J.  Shute.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead  Nov.  18, 
1709.  1^  pp.  Enclosed, 

661.  i.,ii.  Duplicates  of  C.S.P.    1706,  Nos.   642,   674.     [C.O. 
5,  1316.     Nos.  37-89;  and  5,  1362.     pp.  432-436.] 

July  28.  662.     Tho.   Nairne    to    [?  the   Earl  of  Sunderland .]     Since 

Carolina.  my  last,  my  ffortunes  have  mett  with  a  strange  turn,  haveing 
[1708.]  had  the  misfortune  to  fall  into  the  hands  of  such1  persons 
as  are  well  known  never  to  lett  an  opportunity  escape  of  being 
revenged  on  those,  who  have  ever  opposed  any  of  their  actions, 
tho  never  so  irregular.  It  is  the  great  unhappiness  of  this 
Countrey,  ever  since  the  reign  of  the  present  Governor  to  be 
divided  into  two  parties,  the  most  violent  whereof  haveing  the 
Govermt.  and  Courts  of  Justice  in  their  hands,  often  use  their 
power  to  crush  others,  as  is  notoriously  known.  It  was  my 
fortune  to  be  one  of  that  party  who  look'd  upon  Governor' 
Johnson's  administration  to  be  in  great  measure  destructive 
to  ye  Collony,  and  naturally  tending  to  confusion  and  depopu- 
lation. I  was  against  his  excludeing  Act,  and  drew  and  brought 
into  ye  Assembly  Addresses  to  thank  H.M.  and  the  House 
of  Lords  for  their  goodness  and  justice  in  repealing  them : 
things  of  this  nature  have  laid  me  open  to  ye  hatred  of  ye 
Governor.  It  is  our  custom  in  this  Province  to  make  mer- 
chandize of  such  other  savages  as  they  of  our  party  take  in  the 
warrs.  But  not  content  with  this,  those  English  traders,  who 
live  among  them,  had  gott  a  trick  of  setting  them  to  surprize 
one  another's  towns,  by  that  means  to  have  the  quicker  sale 
of  their  goods  for  the  prissioners  taken,  and  to  the  end  they 
might  never  be  punished  for  actions  of  that  kind,  usually  had 
the  adress  to  procure  a  present  to  be  made  to  the  Governor  of 
the  booty  so  gott.  In  particular,  one  James  Child  about  two 
years  agoe  raised  the  people  of  some  of  the  Chereckie  towns, 
and  led  them  to  cutt  off  two  or  three  small  towns  of  our  freinds, 
pretending  'twas  the  Governor's  order,  they  destroyed  the  towns, 
took  about  160  slaves  (besides  the  slain),  30  of  which  came 
to  Child's  share,  these  he  brought  and  exposed  publickly  to 
sale  in  Charles  Town,  pretending  still  to  have  an  order  from! 
the  Governor,  and  that  half  were  for  him,  the  Assembly  then 
sitting  sett  the  people  free,  examined  Child,  who  could  (or 
would)  show  no  sufficient  commission,  they  sent  Address  after 
Address  that  the  fellow  might  be  prosecuted,  but  nothing  could 
prevail  with  the  Governor  so  much  as  to  hinder  him  from  goeing 
again  among  the  Indians  (who  have  since  killed  him),  Ihis 
made  people  mightily  exclaim  and  gave  great  reputation  to  the 
private  whispers  that  the  Governor  privately  encouraged  these 
kind  of  actions.  This  and  others  of  this  kind,  lying  before  the 
Assembly  made  them  dread  the  consequences  of  such  actions, 
and  being  by  these  methods  led  into  one  Indian  warr,  especially 
Wt.  11523-  r]>:>x 


434  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

sinca  the  French  settlement  on  the  Mississipi,  whereupon  on 
July  19,  1708,  they  presented  the  Governor  with  £400  and  £100 
per  annum  for  passing  an  Act  for  the  rectifying  these  abuses, 
this  they  did  with  much  reluctancy,  only  fear  of  danger  pre- 
vailed with  them.  By  that  Act  I  was  appointed  an  Agent 
to  ride  a  circuite  do  Justice,  among  the  traders  and  Indians, 
to  redress  all  abuses,  this  was  a  peice  of  magistracy,  exposed 
me  at  once  to  the  hatred  of  the  Governor  and  Traders,  by  my 
endeavouring  faithfully  to  discharge  my  dutty  which  the  cor- 
ruption of  the  time  and  place  would  not  bear.  This  made  two 
of  these  loose  fellows  (one  whereof  I  had  formerly  committed 
for  buggery)  swear  against  me  several  I  things,  relateing  to 
scandelous  words  spoke  against  the  Governor,  but  these  presently 
blew  over,  which  made  them  have  recourse  to  a  peice  of  perjury, 
that  would  effectually  answer  their  master's  designs,  and  give 
him  large  scope  to  pursue  his  malice  to  my  thorough  destruc- 
tion. The  words  they  pitched  upon  for  that  purpose  were, 
that  I  said  the  Prince  of  Wales  was  King  James'  son,  one 
added  Right  Heir  to  the  Crown,  the  other  did  not.  Upon  which 
I  had  a  mittimus  made  clapt  into  close  goall  for  high  treason, 
and  pursued  with  the  most  violent  injustice  ever  was  heard 
of  in  America.  I  petitioned  either  to  be  speedily  tryed  here, 
admitted  to  bail  or  sent  to  England,  but  the  malice  of  the 
Governor  was  so  great  that  he  denyed  to  allow  either,  pretending 
he  would  send  to  H.M.  for  orders  what  should  be  done  with 
me,  which  in  plain  English  was,  you  shall  [?lie]  like  a  dog 
in  a  hot  hole,  which  in  this  warm  countrey  will  soon  make 
an  end  of  you,  while  I  still  pretend  not  to  have  heard  from 
England,  and  in  the  meantime  your  small  estate  will  be  entirely 
ruined.  This  is  my  present  condition.  I  have  profferr'd  £10,000 
secureity  either  to  go  for  England,  or  to  appear  at  the  next 
Sessions  here,  but  could  be  admitted  [to]  neither,  for  the  Gov- 
ernor knows  well  that  what  is  alledgad  against  me  will  eippear 
in  its  proper  colours  before  any  Court  of  Justice,  nothing  more 
blind  then  malice,  else  any  man  would  be  ashamed  to  make  use 
of  such  evidences  or  talk  of  dethroneing  a  great  prince  among 
the  pine  trees  4000  miles  from  her.  I  showed  both  Law  and 
reason  for  being  admitted  to  the  benefit  of  a  writt  of  Habeas 
Corpus,  but  to  prevent  anything  of  that,  my  mittimus  was 
wrote  contrary  to  the  deposistions,  tho'  at  the  same  ye  Governor 
acknowledged,  there  never  had  been  any  Law  arrived  in  this 
Countrey,  that  would  reach  my  case,  only  he  had  heard  of  one 
in  England,  and  would  send  for  it.  My  circumstances  are 
hard,  for  by  this  usage  no  doubt  my  enemies  will  soon  gett 
me  out  of  the  way,  if  am  not  speedily  releived  from  England. 
I  never  was  in  England,  have  neither  friends  nor  acquaintance, 
nor  know  to  whom  to  apply  myself.  By  means  of  Mr.  Boon's 
letters  from  London,  I  [have  been  acquainted  with  your  Lordship's 
noible  aharacter,  that  yr.  Lordship  is  an  enemy  'to  all  illegdll 
and  unjust  oppressions.  This  gives  me  confidence  to  begg  yr. 
Ldsr.'s.  protection,  in  being  pleased  to  lay  open  my  case  to 
H.M.  and  entreating  the  following  favours — to  procure  an  order 


AMEEICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  435 

1709. 

for  that  I  may  be  speedily  admitted  to  a  tryall  here ;  where  all 
parties  are  well  known,  and  for  preventing  all  illegalities,  by 
delaying  the  sessions  or  keeping  of  evidences,  that  I  may  be 
admitted  to  bail.  The  Orders  must  be  very  positive,  and  clear, 
or  else  a  thousand  pretexts  will  be  sett  on  fl'oot  to  elude  them, 
for  tho  in  England  the  course  of  law  is  open,  and  the  powerful! 
cannot  easily  wrong  others,  yet  here  it  is  quite  otherwise,  and 
now  more  then  ever.  The  better  to  comprehend  how  arbitrarily 
Governor  Johnson  reigns,  especially  in  my  case,  yr.  Lordship 
may  please  to  observe  that  it's  a  genera  11  rule  of  Law,  taken 
up  in  this  place,  that  no  English  Act  of  Parliament  is  in 
force  here  until!  made  so  by  an  Act  of  this  Province.  This  is 
upon  many  occasions  insisted  upon,  and  by  none  more 
then  by  the  present  Governor  who  would  not  so  much  as 
let  the  Statute  of  Bankrupt  be  pleaded  in  Court  against  Lt. 
Col.  Win.  Rhett,  because  it  was  never  passed  into  a  Jaw  here, 
and  that  the  better  to  vindicate  his  proceedings,  took  pains 
himself  to  procure  subscriptions  to  papers  sent  to  England, 
to  show  that  to  be  the  Law  of  the  Collony.  If  your  Lordship 
please  to  compare  this  with  my  case,  you  will  conclude  the 
Law  here  is  a  strange  sort  of  Proteus  capable  of  putting  on  all 
shapes  and  figures  as  occasion  requires  etc.  etc.  He  well  knows 
no  Jurry  will  hang  a  kitten  upon  the  oaths  of  his  evidences, 
and  knows  my  principles  to  be  quite  opposite  to  what  is  alledged 
etc  Signed,  Tho.  Nairne.  3  pp.  [C.O.  5,  306.  No.  4.] 

[July]  663.     Lt.  Governor  Usher  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 

tations. Since  mine  in  March,  lastt,  have  onely  to  ad  H.M1. 
gracious  sending  to  reduce  the  French,  and  apointing  Col. 
Nicholson  to  take  care  for  effecting  thereof,  exceding  joyfull 
to  all  in  N.  Engld.,  who  are  redy  and  willing  contribute  there 
assistance  to  soe  glorious  an  undertakeing,  pray  God  may  have 
success.  Col.  Nicholson,  to  admiration  neglects  noe  time  nor 
spares  any  exspence  for  promoteing  design,  his  procedeings 
formerly  well  known  for  courage,  justice,  honour  and  endeavor- 
ing prosperity  of  place,  thatt  the  Generall  wishes  he  may  have 
Govermtt.  N.  Engld.,  and  itts  the  desire  of  all  H.M.  true  loyall 
subjects.  The  vastt  sums  raised  from  H.M.  subjects  and  all 
to  litle  purpose  by  reason  wantt  of  good  judgmtt.  and  conductt, 
the  people  of  N.  Engld.  groanes  under  burden  thereof.  George 
Vaughan  returnd,  giving  accott  Mr.  Allen  castt,  lostt  the  Province 
and  same  confirm'd  to  the  people,  and  a  finall  issue,  \ 
suspend  beliefe  thereof ;  knowing  in  all  raines  Mr.  Mason's 
title  judged  good,  consequently  Mr.  Allen's,  judges  and  jurors 
being  all  partys  will  never  give  the  case  nor  find  a  spetiall 
verdictt,  butt  hope  ways  may  be  found  for  releife,  if  nott, 
liberty  to  apeal  for  Greatt  Brittain  noe  advantage  butt  a  ruin, 
charges  of  same  being  greatt ;  I  know  2  cases  where  spetiall 
verdictt,  denied,  vizt.,  one  of  Crown's  for  some  thousands  pounds 
for  prize  mony,  jury  gave  for  Deft.,  other  Mr.  Allen's  case. 
As  to  procedeings  in  Courtt,  one  Langstaf  for  Walderen 


436  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 

a  pea  red  in  Courtt  sworne,  as  to  title  poscestion,  Mr.  Allen 
desired  Langstaf  mightt  be  examined,  whether  he  did  nott 
come  to  N.  Engld.  as  one  Mason's  servatts.,  and  did  setle  the 
country,  build  fourtts,  etc.,  judges  refused  to  examin  saying 
was  onely  summoned  to  give  evidence  for  Walderen,  wen.  I 
judge  contrary  to  practice  of  Engld. ;  thus  the  Crown  as  well 
as  subjectt,  may  be  denyed  justice  and  noe  releife.  I  presume 
all  lands  to  be  held  from  Crown,  Mason's  title 'from  the  Crown, 
I  would  have  Mr.  Allen  resign  up  his  claime  for  a  sum  of  mony 
with  arears  of  all  dues,  for  case  has  bin  30  year  in  Law,  if 
H.M,  perchase  same,  then  from  Naumkege,  wch.  is  Salem,  to 
Eastward  would  be  att  disposeall  of  H.M.,  and  a  quitt-rent  may 
be  raised,  wch.  with  the  dutys  of  imposte  and  excise  may  amountt 
to  above  £2000  per  anum.  Mr.  Allen  mortgaiged  the  Province 
for  monys  I  advanced  and  ingaiged  for  to  vallew  of  £1500, 
and  now  with  interestt  is  above  £1700:  on  receiptt  of  my  mony 
will  resign  mortgaige  to  the  Crown,  all  the  Fishery,  mastts, 
timber  for  building,  and  trees  of  turpentin,  for  roisin,  pitch  and 
tar,  land  for  hemp  and  flax,  doth  all  lay  from  Naumkege  soe 
eastward;  H.M.  King  Charles  would  have  perchased  Province 
Main,  ytt  being  the  Govermtt's.  is  now  the  Queen's,  and  haveing 
Hampshire,  will  bring  all  more  depending  on  the  Crown.  And 
a  quitt-rent  may  be  laid  for  suportt  of  Go  verm  tt.  if  H.M.  re- 
ducess  Nova  Scotia  and  Acada,  there  are  cole  mines  of  greatt 
vallew,  fireing  in  N.  Engld.  soe  dear  ytt.  will  be  forced  to 
burn  coales.  We  have  had  an  Actt  of  Parlimtt.  here  published 
relateing  to  mony  passing  at  17^  dwt. ;  noe  reguard  to  the  Actt, 
all  mony  still  att  15  dwt.,  soe  merchatts.  makes  a  prodigious 
advance  on  goods,  ye  country  impoverished,  and  in  issue  prove 
a  damage  to  Kingdome  Great  Brittain  as  to  woollen  manufactury, 
for  from  H.E.'s  family  to  meanestt  peasantt  home -spun  is  worne. 
A  Governour  cant  be  suported  with  a  small  salary  if  the  lawes 
of  Engld.  be  nott  putt  in  due  execution.  Mr.  Allen  when  had 
his  comistion  from  King  Wm.  sfor  Governour,  in  itt  I  was  apointed 
Lt.  Governour ;  Mr.  Allen  did  agree  to  allow  me  £250  per  annum, 
was  there  4  years,  spentt  my  estate  and  time,  never  had  one 
peny.  Mr.  Allen  being  keptt  outt  of  his  rightt,  could  nott  pay 
the  money ;  he  tendered  me  1000  acres  lands  uninclosed  and  un- 
occupied att  Little  'Boares  Head,  a  draughtt  of  dede  drawen, 
butt  before  accomplish  ye  same  dyed,  if  H.M.  perchase  ye  place, 
desire  care  may  be  ytt.  I  have  the  £1000  or  1000  acires  laind. 
There  are  many  persons  pretend  to  greatt  tractts  land.  One 
lays  (Claime  to  18000  acres  by  town  grants,  same  noe  ways 
improved,  a  greatt  hinderance  in  setleing  and  peopling  place. 

1  humbly  offer  to  your  Ldships.'  consideration  a  quitt-rentt  how 
to  be  laid.     H.E.   is  pleased  to  kepe  me  ignorantt  as  to  any- 
thing  relateing   to  the  Govermtt.,   ytt  he  makes   my   comistion 
onely  a  cipher,  however  in  all  things  shall  redily  yeild  obedience 
to  :any  commands  from  Crown,  or  H.E.,  waiteing  and  hopeing 
for   better  times,    etc.     Signed,    John   Usher.     Endorsed,    llecd. 
Sept.  8t.h,  Eead  Dec.  12,  1709.     Holograph.    Addressed.   Sealed. 

2  pp.     Enclosed, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


437 


Aug.  2. 

Whitehall. 


1709. 

663,  i.  Mr.  Usher's  scheme  for  quit-rents  at  6d.  on  ye  pound, 

as  agreed  with  Mason,  etc.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  865.    Nos. 
34,  34.i.;  and  5,  913.     pp.  145-152.] 

664.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Repre- 
sentation upon  petition  of  John  Bently  etc.    See  July  18.     Gov- 
ernor  Crowe   ought  not   to   have  referred  the   case   to   Richard 
Downes,    the    principal    person    interested.     Recommend   as    or- 
dered  Aug.    8.    q.v.     [C.O.    29,    11.     pp.    480-482.] 

[Aug.  2.]  665.  Mr.  Onslow  and  Mr.  Lloyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Proposals  for  settling  Palatines  in  Jamaica  elabor- 
ated, v.  July  27.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug.  2,  1709.  1  p. 
[C.O.  137,  8.  No.  46;  and  138,  12.  pp.  424-426.] 


Aug.  2 
and  12. 

Boston. 


666.  Col.  Vetch  to  [?  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.~]  Refers  to 
letter  and  journall  of  June  28.  After  having  finished  everything 
at  New  York  relating  to  the  service  of  that  part,  all  the  troops 
being  gone  to  Albany,  and  the  advanced  detatchment  of  500 
men  having  been  employed  in  making  a  Fort,  storehouse  and 
building  canoes  and  boats  att  Wood  Creek,  I  sett  out  for  Boston 
June  29,  hoping  to  have  found  the  Fleet  arrived  before  I  could 
reach  that  place,  Coll.  Nicholson  and  the  Lt.  Governour  of 
New  York  being  to  sett  out  for  Albany  in  a  day  or  two  after 
me,  in  order  to  give  the  necessary  directions  there  to  meete 
the  five  Nations  of  Indians,  and  deliver  them  H.M.  present  sent 
by  my  Lord  Lovelace,  withi  the  addition  which  we  judged  abso- 
lutely necessary  to  make  upon  this  juncture;  the  French  having 
laboured  so  much  to  bring  them  over  to  their  intrest,  or  at  least 
to  anake  them  newtrall.  In  three  days  after  I  left  New  York 
I  arrived  at  Road  Island  by  sea  in  a  s'loop  hyred  for  that  purpose ; 
I  found  their  quota  of  troops  were  gone  to  Boston  by  sea  and 
had  been  arrived  there  tenn  days ;  upon  which  I  made  all 
possible  dispatch:  to  Boston  by  land,  being  about  80  miles  dis- 
tance, being  by  sea  200,  and  very  dangerous,  for  privateers, 
upon  my  arrival  1  at  Boston  which  was  in  two  days  more,  making 
the  3rd  of  July,  I  formed  the  3  regiments  which  had  been  agreed 
upon  before  I  left  Boston,  and  where  I  had  left  an  officer  to 
exercise  every  batalion,  which  I  found  upon  reveiwing  the  troops, 
they  had  performed  very  diligently.  The  Assembly  upon  a  me- 
morial I  lhad  left  with  the  Governour  representing  the  advantages 
of  their  being  uniformly  cloathed  as  the  Regular  troops,  had 
ordered  every  man  to  have  a  blew  or  red  coat  as  the  Colls, 
inclined,  so  after  their  being  armed,  cloathed  and  regimented, 
I  have  seen  them  every  day  exercise  by  the  three  officers  whom 
I  left  with  them,  and  who  are  since  commissioned  as  second 
Majors  to  the  sd.  three  regiments,  so  that  I  can  now  without, 
the  least  boast  assure  your  Lodp.  that  they  both  do  the  manuail 
exercise  and  fire  in  platoons  and  battalion  equall  to  most  regi- 
ments in  the  service.  I  have  like  ways  formed  3  companies  of 
granadiers  fitted  with  everything  as  in  the  armie,  as  I  did  at 
cNew  York  to  the  regiments  there  before  I  left  that  place. 


438  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

The  bodys  of  men  are  generally  better  then  those  in  Europe, 
and  I  hope  their  courage  will  prove  so  too,  so  that  nothing  in 
humane  probability  can  obstruct  the  success  of  this  glorious 
enterprice,  save  the  too  late  arrivall  of  the  Fleete,  our  transports, 
flatt-bottom'd  boats,  whale-boats,  as  well  as  our  troops  being 
all  ready  att  12  hours  warning;  and  because  the  fleet  i.s  so 
long  a  coming  that  the  lateness  of  the  Expedition  may  endanger 
some  of  the  ships  in  their  return  to  be  blown  off  the  coast, 
the  Assembly  upon  my  representation  have  allowed  their  Troops 
six  months  provisions  besides  what  they  now  use,  every  man 
having  8d.  per  day  punctually  payd  him  for  his  victuals  besides 
9s.  per  week  pay,  and  most  of  them  have  had  £12  per  man 
levy  money,  so  that  it  is  a  vast  expense  to  the  Goverments 
here;  but  what  they  chearfully  pay  in  hopes  of  being  freed 
forever  hereafter.  All  that  they  have  now  to  do  is  to  fast  and 
pray  for  the  safe  and  suddain  arrivall  of  the  Fleet,  for  which 
they  have  already  had  two  publick  fast  days  kept.  I  acquainted 
your  Ldshp.  in  my  last  of  the  vast  expense  I  have  been  at  in 
travelling  neare  900  miles  from  Boston  to  the  Jersies,  and  back 
again  by  sea  and  land:  as  well  as  the  carrying  along  with  me 
7  officers  whose  expense  I  was  necessitate  to  defray  all  the 
(way  to  New  York,  which  being  absolutely  necessary  'for  the 
good  of  the  service,  I  assure  myselfe  your  Ldshp.  and  the  Minis- 
try will  not  scruple  the  payment  of  the  same:  I  have  charged 
but  20s.  per  diem  during  the  time  of  my  departing  from  Boston 
until  I  my  return;  all  which  together  with  my  own  pay  I  have 
spent  on  the  journey,  and  £5  to  each  officer  that  went  with 
me,  etc.,  etc.  Prays  for  a  suitable  reward  when  success  has 
been  achieved.  By  my  last  advices  from  Col.  Nicholson  att 
Albany,  of  July  20th,  the  troops  were  mostly  all  advanced  to  the 
side  of  the  Lake,  and  had  finished  their  forts,  canoes,  and 
almost  th,o  necessary  forts,  as  well  as  made  a  waggon-road  all 
th,j  way  to  the  Wood  Creek  from  Albany,  and  all  of  them  but 
especially  tho  Indians  grew  impatient  to  be  in  action ;  by  the 
long  delay  of  the  Fleete,  and  our  people's  being  upon  the  French 
frontiers  (which  hath  sufficiently  alarm'd  them)  they  have  had 
time  to  prepare  themselves  to  give  us  a  warme  reception;  but 
if  the  fleet  arrives  so  as  we  can  reach  Quibeck  before  the  latter 
end  of  September,  I  doubt  not  to  give  your  Lordsps.  a  good 
(acct.  of  the  affaire,  providing  the  French  have  not  sent  a 
considerable  reinforcement  from  Old  France.  Portroyull  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  this  place  proves  a  little  Dunkirk  in  disturb- 
ing their  commerce,  and  taking  their  vessels,  having  taken  8  or 
9  within  this  month;  had  I  supposed  the  Fleet  would  have  taryed 
so  long,  I  would  have  proposed  with  the  men  of  warr  which 
waite  here  for  the  Fleet,  and  the  three  regiments  of  this  place, 
together  with  a  company  of  matrosses  (which  I  have  levied  here 
and  at  New  York,  consisting  of  80  etc.)  to  have  gone  an'd  at- 
tacked that  place,  which  I  doubt  not  but  to  have  caryed.  Repeats 
requests  of  June  28,  etc.  The  too  late  arrivall  of  the  Fleet  would 
be  the  last  dissappoyntment  to  all  H.M.  Colonies  who  have  so 
heartily  and  at  so  vast  an  expense  complyed  with  Her  Koyall 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  439 

1709. 

orders,  and  would  render  them  much  more  miserable  then  if  such 
a  thing  had  never  been  projected  or  undertaken,  etc.  I  have 
conforme  to  H.M.  Royal  I  Instructions  for  the  same  provided  here 
a  considerable  quantitie  of  provisions  for  the  troops  to  be  left 
in  garrison  in  Quibeck  and  Mountreall,  particularly  "bread  arid 
flower,  which  begin  to  grow  dearer  here,  by  reason  of  the  great 
price  it  gives  in  Portugall,  whither  they  ship  off  a  great'deal 
as  well  as  to  the  west  Indies ;  I  have  drawn  upon  my  Lord 
Treasurer  for  what  I  have  bought;  but  would  not  adventure 
to  buy  up  the  quantity  requisite  nor  the  pork,  nor  beeffe  untill 
I  have  certain  news  of  the  Fleet  being  sayled;  I  doubt  not 
but  my  Ld.  Treasurer  will  honour  the  bills,  it  being  both  H.M. 
positive  orders,  and  absolutely  necessary  for  the  good  of  the 
service,  etc.  P.S.  Aug.  12.  Since  the  date  of  the  above  ar- 
rived here  the  Guernsey  man  of  warr,  in  her  Capt.  Moody,  via 
Newfoundland,  whom  I  have  desired  to  acquaint  your  Ldsp.  at 
largo  with  his  negotiation,  etc.  I  shall  only  presume  to  acquaint 
your  Ldsp.  how  vastly  uneasie  all  H.M.  loyall  subjects  upon  the 
Continent  are,  att  the  not  arivall  of  the  Fleet,  which  is  like 
to  dii-^appoynt  the  great  expectation  and  faire  prospect  they 
had  of  securing  to  themselves  and  their  posteritie  a  lasting 
hap] -mess  and  tranquility,  as  well  as  an  advantageous  trade  both 
to  tht-mselves,  and  all  the  Brittish  Empyre ;  the  hopes  of  which 
made  them  so  readilie  and  heartily  comply,  nay,  outdoe  H.M. 
orders,  by  me  signified  to  them  att  so  vast  an  expense,  that  it 
cost  H.M  subjects  embarked  in  this  affaire  £100,000,  besides 
the  loss  of  their  trade,  which  the  embargo  upon  all  shipping 
for  these  three  months  past  hath  occasioned.  'Add  to  this  the 
alaraming  the  French  (which  could  not  be  evited,  after  our 
advance.!  party  went  to  the  Wood  Creek)  hath  given  them  oc- 
casion to  fortifie  both  places  better  then  ever  they  were  before, 
pray  God  hasten  in  the  fleet,  otherways  the  vast  service  I  had 
the  hopes  of  doing  them,  and  of  which  they  were  highly  sensible, 
will  prove  the  reverse  of  it:  but  as  the  fault  does  in  no  ways 
lye  at  my  door,  haveing  in  everything  performed  my  part,  so 
I  hope,  should  it  miscarrie  by  the  too  late  or  not  arivall  o$ 
the  Fleet,  I  shall  not  loose  a  just  reward,  etc.  By  an  express 
from  th(-  armie  upon  the  Lake  side,  of  the  29th  of  July,  I  ami 
advised  that  Coll.  Nicholson  and  the  whole  army  are  there  fitted 
and  ready  to  embark  in  their  canoes,  and  flatt  boats  for  Mountre- 
all, upon  the  first  orders  from  hence,  which  they  impatiently 
wait  for:  they  have  had  some  scirmishes  in  canoes,  with  some 
partys  of  French  and  Indians,  who  came  over  with  designe 
to  burr,  our  boats  and  canoes,  and  so  frustrate  the  designe 
for  this  summer,  but  were  repulsed  with  loss,  they  are  quite 
impatient  for  the  arivall  of  the  Fleet,  the  transportation  of 
their  provisions  to  the  lake  side  costs  as  much  as  the  provisions 
itselfe.  Signed,  Sam.  Vetch.  Endorsed,  R.  Oct.  1st.  4  pp. 
[C.O  5,  9.  No.  27.] 

Aug.  3.          667.     W.  Popple  to  Mr.  Bendysh.     Encloses  following  to  be 
Whitehall,    laid  before  H.M.   Commissioners,  etc.   (v.  July  27).     Annexed, 


440  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

•  667.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  H.M.  Commis- 
sioners for  'the  settlement  of  the  poor  Palatines.  We 
have  considered  the  proposal  of  Sir  B.  Gracedieu  and 
other  merchants  and  traders  to  Jamaica,  for  settling  of 
200  families  of  poor  Palatines  on  that  Island,  referr'd  to 
us  by  your  Lordships,  and  have  been  attended  by  some 
of  ye  said  proposers  and  heard  what  they  had  to  offer 
thereupon.  We  have  likewise  been  attended  by  Mr. 
Onslow  and  Col.  Lloyd  who,  in  behalf  of  themselvs 
and  other  planters  of  that  Island,  have  made  some  ob- 
jections to  the  said  proposal,  and  have  delivered  to  us 
one  of  their  own.  They  think  it  a  great  hardship  that 
a  power  should  be  lodged  in  the  Governor  or  Assembly 
to  oblige  the  planters  to  send  their  negroes  (some  per- 
haps 100  miles  or  more)  to  clear  the  land  and  build 
a  town  on  Linohes  Island,  for  the  settlement  of  the 
said  Palatines,  while  their  own  plantation  work  shall 
stand  still  for  want  of  the  said  negroes.  The  first  pro- 
posers seem  to  agree  in  the  same  opinion,  and  therefore 
do  not  desire  any  such  compulsory  power  to  be  lodged 
either  in  the  Governor  or  Assembly.  But  they  think 
it  reasonable,  and  therein  we  concur  with  them,  that 
the  Governor  have  H.M.  directions  to  move  the  As- 
sembly to  raise  a  fund  for  clearing  the  land  and  making 
plantations  for  the  said  Palatines.  The  next  objection 
is,  that  Linches  Island  is  the  property  of  the  heirs  of 
Sir  Thomas  Linch,  who  besides  the  said  Island,  had 
a  grant  of  a  great  number  of  acres  of  land  at  or 
near  the  said  place  now  m  the  possession  of  Mr, 
Woodcock.  But  forasmuch  as  those  lands  have  never 
been  cultivated  by  the  respective  owners,  nor  the  con- 
ditions of  the  grants  performed,  'tis  conceived  the  owners 
may  be  compounded  with  to  surrender  their  rights  at 
very  moderate  rates,  and  this  wee  look  upon  as  a  thing 
that  ought  in  the  first  place  to  be  taken  care  of,  that 
the  title  to  the  lands  where  the  settlements  are  to  be 
made,  be  cleared,  to  prevent  any  future  disputes  con- 
cerning the  same.  We  have  communicated  the  pro- 
posals offered  to  us  by  Mr.  Onslow  and  Col.  Lloyd, 
to  the  persons  who  made  the  first  proposal  to  your 
Lordships.  They  agreed  to  the  3  first  articles,  but  as 
to  the  4th,  they  think  that  1^  years  provisions  to  be 
allowed  the  Palatines  upon  the  publick  charges  (with 
which  opinion  we  a'lso  concur)  will  be  too  much;  and 
that  a  provision  for  their  subsistence  one  year  will  be 
sufficient,  for  that  there  are  pease  and  several  other 
sorts  of  pulse  that  come  to  perfection  and  may  be 
gathered  in  6  weeks  after  they  have  been  sown,  besides 
that  there  is  plenty  of  fish  on  the  coast,  and  wild  hogs 
etc.  in  the  woods.  They  likewise  agree  to  Article  5, 
but  Article  6,  which  is,  that  this  settlement  be  made 
wholy  at  the  charge  iof  this  Kingdom,  we  think  unreason- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  441 

1709. 

able,  for  that  the  inhabitants  of  Jamaica,  besides  their 
security  and  defence  will  have  a  proportionable  and 
more  immediate  share  in  the  advantage  that  will  accrue 
from  the  said  settlement.  Article  7  relates  to  the 
charge.  They  agree  to  the  transportation  of  1,000  per- 
sons at  £6  per  head,  but  we  suppose  it  may  be  done 
cheaper,  considering  the  number,  and  that  several  of 
them  are  small  children.  As  to  subsistence,  they  think 
£5  a  head  for  one  year  sufficient.  For  buying  cloths, 
tools,  netts  for  fishing,  fuzees,  powder  and  shot,  they 
think  £2  per  head  will  suffise.  As  to  clearing  the  land 
the  charge  whereof  is  estimated  at  £3  per  acre,  they 
think  it  ought  to  be  left  to  the  Assembly  to  provide  for 
the  defraying  thereof.  Upon  the  whole  we  are  of 
opinion  that  the  place  agreed  upon  for  this  settlement 
is  very  commodious  and  proper  for  that  purpose,  but 
as  we  conceive  they  ought  rather  to  be  seated  on  the 
Main  Island  than  on  Linches  Island,  their  abode  there 
ought  only  to  be  provisional  till  their  plantations  on  the 
Main  can  be  perfected;  that  such  a  settlement  may 
be  rendred  very  advantagious  to  this  Kingdom  and  to 
Jamaica  by  the  increase  of  the  product  of  that  Island 
(and  particularly  of  indigo)  and  by  the  consumption 
of  the  British  manufactures  there,  and  therefore  it  ought 
to  meet  with  all  due  and  fitting  encouragement.  It 
will  be  of  great  advantage  to  the  better  carrying  on 
of  this  design  that  H.M.  be  humbly  desired  to  direct 
her  Governor  there  to  move  the  Assembly  in  the  most 
effectual  manner  to  contribute  a  sufficient  summ  to 
be  employed  in  building  of  hutts  on  Linches  Island, 
and  in  falling  and  planting  400  or  500  acres  of  land 
on  the  Main  Island,  as  is  mentioned  in  Article  3  of 
Mr.  Onslow  and  Mr.  Lloyd's  proposal.  And  for  the 
better  security  of  the  said  Palatines  at  their  first  ar- 
rival against  tihe  insults  of  the  French  and  Spaniards 
from  Hispaniola  and  from  their  privateers,  'tis  con- 
ceived that  it  will  be  needful!  a  party  of  H.M.  soldiers 
of  about  30  or  40,  or  what  number  shall  be  thought 
most  expedient,  be  drawn  down  to  Linches  Island, 
which  commands  Ports  St.  Antonio,  with  an  Ingineer 
or  other  Officer,  and  there  to  erect  a  small  fort  with 
some  guns  for  the  security  of  the  harbour,  and  the 
protection  of  the  planters  in  their  new  settlements. 
\C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  427-433.] 

Aug.  4.  668.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  Mr.  Jennings.  Acknoiv- 
Whitehall.  ledges  letter  of  March  21.  I  hope  you  are  long  before  this 
time  eased  of  the  apprehensions  you  had  from  the  enemy,  tho' 
it  will  be  but  prudent  to  be  upon  your  guard ;  as  to  the  ships 
you  desire,  you  may  depend  upon  it  My  Lord  High  Admiral  will 
do  the  best  he  can  for  you,  but  there  being  at  this  time  so 
many  services,  and  some  of  them  very  pressing  to  employ  H.M. 


442 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 


Aug.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  4. 
Whitehall. 


Navy,  it  is  not  possible  so  good  provision  can  be  made  for 
all  of  them  as  might  be  wisht,  and  this  ought  to  redouble  your 
diligence  in  providing  for  your  own  defence,  in  which  I  doubt 
not  but  you  will  employ  your  zeal  and  application.  Signed, 
Sunderland.  [C.O.  5,  210.  p.  156.] 

669.  Same  to  Governor  Handasyd.     I   am  to   acknowledge 
your  letters  of  Feb.   1,  April  6,  May  1  and  25,  and  to  return 
you  my  thanks  for  the  particular  accounts  they  contain  of  oc- 
currences in  your  parts,   I  have  procured  H.M.   warrant  for  a 
pardon  to  the  poor  serjeant  of  your  Regiment,  as  you  desired, 
and  shall   always   be  very  ready  to  do   anything   in   my  power 
that  may  be  for  your  service,   or  upon  your  recommendation. 
Signed,    Sunderland.     [C.O.    5,   210.     p.    156.] 

670.  Same  to  Governor  Dudley.     I  am  to  acknowledge  the 
receipt   of   yours   of  March  9 ;    your  care   for   the   encouraging 
the  trade  for  tarr  and  preserving  the  timber  is  certainly  to  be 
commended,  but  it  is  thought  it  had  been  better  not  to  have 
given  the  Assembly  of  Massachusets  Bay  an  opportunity  of  re- 
fusing to  enact  a  law  for  the  latter,  since  that  was  sufficiently 
provided  for  by  the  Charter;  your  endeavours  for  the  defend- 
ing your  Frontiers  from  inroads  of  the  enemy  are  a  very  good 
service  to  H.M.  and  the  Colony,  and  the  further  providing  for 
their  security  has  not  been  unthought  of  here ;  as  you  will  have 
been  fully  informed  by  Col.  Nicholson  and  Col.  Vetche,  but  the 
juncture  of  affairs  would  not  admit  of  doing  all  that  was  de- 
signed.    You  may  be  sure  all  th«  assistance  will  be  given  you  that 
is  possible,   but  in  the  meantime  you  must  not  be  wanting  to 
yourselves  in  making  the  best  provision  you  can  for  preventing 
and   disappointing   any  "designs   the   enemy   may  have    against 
you.     Signed,  Sunderland.     [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  157.] 

671.  Same  to  Governor  Seymour.     Acknowledges  letters  of 
Sept.   10,   1708  and  March  10,   1709.     You  are  certainly  very 
right  in  the  care  you  take   to  observe  the   Eoman   Catholioks 
in  your  parts,  who  like  them  of  the  same  profession  elsewhere, 
tho'  they  enjoy  the  benefit  of  H.M.  protection,  the  equity  of 
the  laws  and  mildness  of  the  Government,  cannot  forbear  giving 
manifest  signs  of  their  disaffection  thereto.     The  several  matters 
you  write  about  in  relation  to  the  Assembly,  the  County  Courts 
and  your  Boundary,  naturally  fall  under  the  consideration  of  the 
Council   of    Trade,    to   whom    I    take   it    for    granted   you    have 
written  on  that  subject,  as  the  allowance  to  the  itinerant  Judges 
does  under  that  ol  My  Lord  Treasurer,  and  you   shall   be  ac- 
quainted with  H.M.  pleasure,  when  she  is  come  to  any  deter- 
mination therein.     Signed,  Sunderland.      [C.O.  5,  210.     p.  158.] 

672.  Same  to  Governor  Park.     I  have  received  yours  of  May 
2  and  4,  the  former  requires  no  particular  answer,  and  as  to 
what  you  mention  in  your  last  of  the  complaints  against  you, 
you  may  depend  upon  a  fair  hearing  and  examination  of  them 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


443 


1709. 

and  justice  being  done  you,  which  is  all  the  service  your  friends 
can  do  you,  and  if  your  conduct  has  been  as  fair  as  I  hope 
it  has,  is  all  you  need  desire  of  them.  Signed,  Sunderland. 
[C.O.  5,  210.  p.  158.] 

Aug.  4.  673.  Same  to  Lt.  Governor  Bennett.  Acknowledges  letters 
Whitehall,  of  Oct.  29,  1708,  and  March  12,  1709.  Your  care  in  relation  to 
the  French  prisoner  Peter  Gremot  (of  whom  care  will  be  taken 
in  the  way  you  mention)  is  very  commendable,  as  is  likewise 
your  diligence  in  sending  notice  to  the  Governor  of  Carolina  of 
the  intelligence  you  had  of  the  enemy's  designs  on  that  Colony, 
which  I  doubt  not  have  been  disappointed,  as  1  am  persuaded 
any  attempts  on  your  Island  would  be  by  your  care  and  dili- 
gence in  providing  for  its  security.  Signed,  "Sunderland.  [C.O. 
5,  210.  p.  159.] 

Aug.  4.         674.     Same  to  Mr.  Bridger.     Acknowledges  letter  of  March 
Whitehall.    29.     The  matters  it  contains  lying  before  the  Council  of  Trade, 

I   have    nothing    to    a"dd,    etc.     Signed,    Sunderland.     [C.O.    5, 

210.     p.    159.] 

Aug.  4.  675.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Deputy  Governor 
Craven  House,  of  North  Carolina  and  John  Lawson,  Surveyor  General.  We 
have  thought  fit  to  create  the  Hon.  Christopher  Graffenried  a 
Landgrave  of  our  Province  of  Carolina,  and  granted  to  him  and 
his  heirs  5000  acres  of  land  in  North  Carolina,  he  having  paid 
to  us  £50  purchase  money  for  the  same.  You  are  to  sett  out 
for  his  use  5000  acres  contiguous  to  each  other  where  he  shall 
think  proper,  and  reserve  a  quit-rent  of  5s.  per  1000  acres  to 
us,  our  heirs  and  assigns,  etc.  Signed,  Craven  Palatine,  Beau- 
fort, M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson.  [C.O.  5,  289.  p. 


Aug.  6. 

Windsor. 


Aug.  6. 

Wiudsor. 


Aug.  6. 

Windsor. 


676.  H.M.  Warrant  granting  John  Perrie,  Provost  Marshal 
of  the  Leeward  Islands,  a  further  two  years   leave  of  absence, 
on  th<!  grounds  of  ill -health,  he  appointing  a  deputy  approved 
of  by  the  Governor.     Countersigned,   H.  Boyle.     [C.O.  5,  210. 
p.  160.] 

677.  The  Queen  to  Governor  Crowe.     It  cannot  but  be  very 
displeasing  unto  us  to  receive  repeated  complaints  of  your  dis- 
obedience to  our  commands  as  we  have  now  lately  done  by  the 
petition  of  Manuel  Gilligan  etc.     We  doe  hereby  command  you, 
as    you   will    answer   the   contrary   at  your   peril    forthwith   to 
obey  our  Order  of  March.  31.  etc.    Of.  July  18,  1709.     Counter- 
signed, H.  Boyle.     [C.O.  5,  210.     pp.  160,  161.] 

678.  The  Queen  to  Governor  Hunter.     Instructions  to  ap- 
point  boundary   Commissioners  to  act  with  those  of   Carolina, 
etc.,  as  Order  in  Council,  March  31,  1709.     Countersigned,  H. 
Boyle.     Endorsed,  Eecd.   Aug.   10,  Bead  Oct.   12,  1709.     3  pp. 
[C.O.    5,    1316.     No.   34;   and  5,    1362.     pp.   422-424;   and  5, 
210.     pp.   161-163.] 


444 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 
Aug.  6. 
London. 


Aug.  6. 

Treasury 
Chambers . 


679.  Mr.    Dumrner    to   l\Ir.    Popple.     The   Resolution   West 
India  packet  boate  arrived  at  Penzance  Aug.  "2,  after  a  tedious 
voyage  out  and  hpme  of  130  days.     There  is  nothing  extraor- 
dinary but  the  action  of  the  Portland  upon  the  Coventry,  wherein 
was  found  78  chests   valued  at  £75,000.     That  the   Spanyards 
haveing   been   pinched  by  our   privateers   are  cautious   of  their 
coasting  trade,  and  verry  litle  purchase  gotten,  soe  yt.  as  they 
have  spoyled  the  honest  trader  and  the  Jamaica  trading,  soe  in 
likelyhood  will  ruine  themselves.     The  postmaster  Generall  and 
myselfe  have  concluded  to  send  orders  this  day  sennett,  for  ye 
saileing  of  ye  Pearle  packett  boate.     Signed,  E.  Dummer.     En- 
dorsed, Eecd.  Aug.  8,  1709.     Addressed.     Postmark.     1  p.  [C.O. 
323,   6.     No.   83.] 

680.  Mr.  Taylour  to  Mr.  Popple.     My  Lord  Treasurer  taking 
notice  of  the  great  charge  that  H.M.  is  at  for  the  relief  e  and 
subsistance   of   the   poor   Palatines   and   of  the   slow   steps  that 
are  jmade   towards   setling   of  them,    in  a   Commission   so   very 
numerous  as  is  appointed  for  that  purpose,  desires  the  Council 
of   Trade   and  Plantations   to  make   a  proposal   for   the   speedy 
disposing  of  them,  in  such  manner  as  may  soonest  lessen  the 
expence  the   Government   is  now  at   for  their   subsistance,   etc. 
Signed,  J.  Taylor.     Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Bead  8th  Aug.,  1709. 
Addressed.     1   p.     [C.O.    388,   76.     No.    84;    and  389,    36.     p. 
439.] 


Aug.  8. 


681.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Richard  Downes  is  to 
Windsor,  be  removed  from  being  Judge  of  the  .Common-  Pleas,  St.  Michael's, 
Barbados,  and  Governor  Crowe  is  to  see  that  there  is  no  delay 
in  the  case  of  John  Bently,  etc.  See  Aug.  2,  and  A.P.C.  II. 
No.  1099.  Signed,  John  Povey.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read 
10th  Nov.  1709.  1  p.  fC.O.  28,  12.  No.  45;  and  29,  12. 
p.  46.] 

Aug.  8.  682.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
Craven  House.  and  Plantations.  The  ship  call'd  ye  Loyal  Johnson  (which  we 
so  long  expected)  being  now  arrived  at  London,  we  have  made 
enquiry  into  the  seizure  of  goods  belonging  to  Virginian  Indian 
Traders  (v.  Feb.  2,  1709),  and  are  informed  that  there  was  a  law 
pass'd  there,  wherein  a  small  duty  was  laid  upon  all  skins  that 
should  be  exported  out  of  Carolina,  which  duty  was  laid  for 
the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  Clergy,  by  virtue  of  which 
law  some  skins  were  stopt  till  the  said  duty  was  paid,  but 
immediately  upon  the  payment  of  the  said  duty  they  were  dis- 
charged. We  know  of  no  law  that  prohibits  any  of  the  Queen's 
subjects  trading  in  Carolina,  but  all  H.M.  subjects  have  the 
same  liberty  and  freedom  of  trading  there  as  any  of  the  inhabi- 
tants. It  shall  be  our  constant  care  not  to  allow  of  any  law  to 
ye  contrary.  Signal,  Craven  Palatin,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J. 
Colleton,  J.  Danson.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Aug.  9,  1709.  1 
p.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  No.  76;  and  5,  1292.  p.  143;  and  5, 
289.  p  222.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


445 


1709. 

Aug.  8.  683.  Thomas  Dummer  to  Mr.  Popple.  The  Sophia,  West 
London.  India  packett-boate,  arrived  at  Fallinouth  ye  4th  of  this  month, 
116  dayes  in  all.  There  is  nothing  of  moment  from  thence,  save 
yt.  the  trade  on  ye  cost  is  totally  spoyled  by  our  privateers. 
Signed,  Tho.  Dummer.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Aug.  8,  1709.  Ad- 
dressed. Postmark.  1  p.  [C.O.  323,  6.  No.  84.] 

Aug.  9.  684.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Barbados.  tions.  I  have  not  had  the  honour  of  any  from  you  since  my 
last  of  June  20.  H.M.S.  Norwich,  Greenwich,  Burlington,  and 
Hector,  with  30  rnercht.  men  under  their  convoy,  arrived  here 
July  2nd,  they  load  but  slowly,  by  reason  of  ye  litle  quantity 
of  sugar,  so  fear  some  of  them  will  not  be  able  to  sail  with 
H.M.S.  Weymoutji  and  Larke,  whose  time  will  be  out,  Sept. 
2,  by  them  I  shall  send  your  Lordps.  all  my  dispatches.  Every- 
thing is  now  very  quiet  here.  By  this  packet  I  received  H.M. 
directions  about  the  Marshalsea  of  the  several  Courts,  which 
shall  be  obeyed.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th, 
Read  28th  Nov.,  1709.  1  p.  [C.O.  28,  12.  No.  52;  and 
29,  12.  p.  57.] 

Aug.  9.          685.     W.  Popple  to  Mr.  Taylour.     In  reply  to  Aug.  6,  en- 

Whiteball.    closes    following.     Annexed, 

685.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lord  High 
Treasurer.  Propose  that  a  premium  of  £5  per  head 
for  every  Palatine  be  given  to  any  parish  or  particular 
person  who  shall  be  willing  to  receive  or  employ  or 
otherwise  provide  for  any  family  etc. ;  that  the  charge 
of  conveying  them  thither  be  defrayed  by  H.M.  etc. 
Hardly  any  parish  will  care  to  receive  these  poor 
people  without  some  consideration,  lest  they  should 
become  chargeable  to  such  parish  in  case  of  sickness, 
etc.  [C.O.  389,  36.  pp.  440-443.] 

Aug.  10.  686.  W.  Popple  to  Sir  James  Mountague.  Encloses  5  Acts 
of  Pensylvania  passed  in  1705  (see  Sept.  8)  for  his  opinion  in 
point  of  Law,  as  soon  as  may  be,  for  that  by  the  Charter 
the  Queen  is  liinitted  to  declare  her  pleasure  upon  the  Laws 
of  that  Province  in  6  months  after  they  have  been  laid  before 
Her,  etc.  [C.O.  5,  1292.  p.  144.] 

Aug.  11.  687.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
Craven  House,  and  Plantations.  Application  being  made  to  us  to  give  encour- 
agement to  some  poor  Palatines  who  had  a  mind  to  be  trans- 
ported and  settled  in  Carolina,  and  we  being  willing  to  encour- 
age the  making  of  silk,  planting  of  rice,  vineyards,  fruit  and 
naval  stores,  came  to  these  resolutions,  vizt.  (1)  We  will  give 
them  100  acres  of  land  a  head  for  men,  women  and  children, 
free  from  any  quitt-rent  for  10  years,  and  from  thenco  forward 
to  pay  1  penny  an  acre  per  annum;  (2)  If  they  will  settle -in 
towns  now,  or  hereafter,  to  lett  them  land  for  building  and 
improvement  for  the  term  of  three  lives  or  99  years,  which 


446 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 


Aug.  12. 

Whitehall. 


Aug    13. 

Bo  ton  in 

New 
England. 


[Aug.  15.] 


Aug.  16. 

Boston  in 

New 

England. 


shall  first  expire,  at  a  pepper-corn  rent,  with  th'eir  own  liberty 
to  renew  in  case  the  lives  dye.  Signed,  Craven  Palatin,  Beau- 
fort, M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson.  [C.O.  5,  289.  p. 

223.] 

688.  W.  Popple  to  Col.   Laws.     The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  having  under  consideration  some  matters  relating  to 
Jamaica,  they  are  very  desirous  of  speaking  with  you  on  Munday 
or  Tuesday  next,  etc.     [C.O.  138,  12.     p.  433.] 

689.  Governor  Dudley  to  [?  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.']    Du- 
plicate of  account  given  Aug.  16,  of  preparations  for  the  expe- 
dition   against    Canada.     Prays    for   his    Lordship's    patronage. 
Signed,   J.    Dudley.     Endorsed,   R.   Oct.    1st.     2   pp.     [C.O.   5, 
9.     No.    28.] 

690.  Synopsis  of  the  case  of  the  three   Suspended  Coun- 
cillors of  Barbados,  Messrs.   Sharpe,  A.   Walker  and  Beresford. 
Endorsed,  Eecd.  from  Wm.  Walker,  Bead  Aug.  15,   1709.    '2f 
pp.     [C.O.  28,  12.     tfo.  36.] 

691.  Governor  Dudley  to  Mr.  Popple.     This  is  an  adventure 
by  a  simple  mercht.   ship  via  Ireland.     On  April  29th  arrived 
here  Coll.  Nicholson  and  Col.  Vetch  with  H.M.  most  acceptable 
commands   for   the   rayseing   of   1200   of  our   best   men    for  a 
descent  upon  Quebeck  by  sea,  and   1500  for  the   land  service 
to  march  by  the  way  of  Mont  Keal.     The  1500  drawn  out  of 
New  York,   Connecticutt  etc.   are  upon  the  death  of  my  Lord 
Lovelace,  at  the  united  desire  of  all  H.M.  Governmts.  put  under 
the  command  of  Col.  Nicholson,  and  are  some  time  since  inarched 
to  this  Wood  Creek,  the  head  of  Mont  Keal  Waters  on  the  side 
of  Albany,  and  have  built  themselves  3  forts  and  lodgemts.  and 
have   made    ready    boats    and   canoes    sufficient   to    make    their 
descent  as   soon  as  they  shall   be  inform'd  of  our  comeing  by 
ye    way    of    Canada    River.     H.M.    commands    repeated   by    the 
Earl  of  Sunderland  arriv'd  June  22.     And  the  1200  men  from  the 
Governments  of  the  Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  and  Rhode 
Island  have  been  in  armes  ever  since  May  20,  well  clothed  and 
exercised   every   day   from   that   time,    and   22    transport    ships, 
briganteens   and    decked   sloops    with   6   months   provissions   on 
board  for  their  embarcation  lye  ready  to  sayle  at  10  hours  warn- 
ing.    We  are  in  daily  expectation  of  the  fleet  and  forces  from 
Great  Britain.     The  season  is  very  far  advanced,  and  the  winter 
begins  early  in  those  northern  provinces,  which  makes  us  impa- 
tient of  their  delay   least  ye  time  be  lost.     I   hope  Col.   Vetch 
will  do  H.M.  Governors  and  all  her  good  subjects  of  these  Prov- 
inces the  justice  to  represent  their  duty  and  readiness  "in  every- 
thing for  so  important  a  service  to  the  Crown,  and  the  future 
establishment  of  these  Colonies.     I  hive  always  humbly  repre- 
sented to  H.M.  the  unspeakable  benefit  to  the  British  Nation  to 
have  all  the  North  America  in  H.M.  hands,  of  which  there  is 
now   a   very   fair  prospect,   by   ye  favour  of   Almighty   God,    if 
the  fleet  and  forces  might  arrive  seasonably  and  in  health.     The 


AMERICA   AND   .WEST  INDIES.  447 

1709. 

French  privateers  from  the  West  Indies  have  much  infested 
the  Continent  from  Virginia  to  this  place  in  the  present  summer, 
and  have  surprized  several  of  our  coasting  provision  vessels, 
notwithstanding  all  care  and  vigilance  to  observe  and  pursue 
'em,  some  of  which  have  very  narrowly  escaped  our  s-hips  of 
war  by  the  advantage  of  sayleing,  being  light  slender  vessells, 
and  haveing  Port  Royal  so  near  at  hand  to  run  in  for  shelter : 
<which  will  always  be  a  pest  to  this  Country,  whilst  in  the 
hands  of  the  French.  Sir,  I  am  lately  intimated  from  Governor 
Saltonstal  that  the  Government  of  Connecticott  have  a  "memorial 
or  (complaint  lying  before  H.'M.,  referring  to  the  Southern 
line  of  this  Province  drawn  'into  question  upon  a  contest  arisen 
between  their  people  of  the  town  of  Windsor  and  ours  of  the 
towns  of  Suffield  and  Enfield,  which  border  on  that  line,  the 
Windsor  men  haveing  several  times  entred  into  the  lands  of  those 
towns,  and  seized  upon  and  imprison'd  divers  of  the  inhabitants, 
and  Crirryed  away  "the  fruits  of  their  labour ;  and  upon  tryals 
had  within  that  Colony,  their  own  Courts  and  Jurys  have  de- 
termined once  and  again  in  favour  of  our  people,  who  have  very 
much  to  plead  for  their  just  right  and  title  to  the  lands  con- 
troverted about;  which  tliey  long  since  derived  by  grant  from 
the  Governmt.  of  this  H.M.  Province,  who  have  from  time  to 
time  made  proposals  and  concessions  to  the  Governmt.  of  Con- 
necticott for  a  neighbourly  and  friendly  accommodation  of  that 
matter.  There  is  a  memorial  from  the  Council  and  Assembly  of 
this  Province  relating  to  that  affair  in  the  hands  of  John  Cham- 
berlayne  Esq.  with  direction  to  him  upon  a  visit  to  yourselfe  to 
acquaint  you  thereof,  but  not  to  make  further  use  of  it,  unless 
anything  offered  from  Connecticutt  should  come  un'der  consider- 
ation;  which  you'le  please  to  intimate  to  him,  if  any  such  there 
be.  The  line  in  controversy  was  made  by  sldlfull  artists  20 
or  30  years  before  Connecticut  had  a  Charter,  anfl.  the  people 
of  this  Province  hope  H.M.  will  not  give  them  away  out  of  this 
Goverment,  and  will  desire  to  be  heard,  my  share  in  it  will  be 
only  obedience.  I  shall  send  the  years  papers  by  a  safe  con- 
veyance. Signed,  J.  Dudley.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Oct.  1,  Read 
Dec.  8;  1709.  2  pp.  [0.0.  5,  865.  No.  20;  and  5,  913. 
pp.  82-86.] 

Aug.  16.  692.  Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Opinion  on  the  case  of  Robert  D'Oyly  (July  18). 
Petitioner  is  not  capable  of  being  guardian  to  his  brother's 
children,  as  he  asks,  because  the  inheritance  may  descend  to 
him,  etc.  There  is  the  less  occasion  for  H.M.  interposing  in 
this  matter,  because  the  children  and  their  estates  are  put  under 
the  care  of  a  Court  of  Justice ;  and  the  Laws  of  Virginia  have 
made  very  good  provisions  for  the  benefit  of  orphans,  etc. 
Signed,  R.  Eyre.  Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Read  18th  Aug.  1709. 
1|  pp.  Enclosed, 

692.  i.  Mr.    Popple's   letter,   July   27.     fC.O.    5,    1316.     Nos. 

31,  31.  i. ;  and  (without  enclosure)   5,   1362.     pp.  411, 

412.] 


448 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 
Aug.  17. 

Boston. 


Aug.  19. 

Whitehall, 


693.  Mr.  Bridger  to  th,e  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
The  mast[s]  cutt  by  Mr.  Collins  Factor  are  now  more  than  800, 
besides  those  left  in  the  woods,  wch.  are  a  great  many,  all 
lying  perishing  and  rotting,  and  are  like  so  to  do.  Mr.  Collins 
have  not  yet  loaded  one  mast  since  I  made  the  seizure  of  those 
masts,  neither  will  he  this  year,  his  mast  shipps  being  em- 
ployed in  the  transport  service,  and  impossible  for  them  to 
be  here  this  winter  (there  was  one  shipp  loaded  last  year,  but 
on  Mr.  Eichard  Eyton's  account,  wch.  is  since  gone  of)  by  the 
next  many  of  those,  if  not  all  will  be  made  unservisable  to 
H.M.  I  most  humbly  pray  your  Lordshipps'  leave  to  dispose  of 
those  masts  that  are  now  under  seizure,  before  they  are  wholly 
spoyled,  or  so  many  as  will  reimburse  me  of  the  sume  I  layd 
before  my  Lord  Treasurer,  and  for  my  travailing  charge.  I  have 
not  received  your  Lordshipps'  answers  about  a  deputy.  One 
person  cannot  preserve  all  the  woods,  on  the  whole  frontiers, 
the  inhabitants  thereof  living  cheifly  on  geting  loggs  etc.  Signed, 
J.  Bridger.  Endorsed,,  Kecd.  Oct.  1,  Bead  Dec.  9th,  1709. 
If  pp.  [C.O.  5,  865.  No.  29.] 

694?.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Enu- 
merate complaints  against  Governor  Crowe  and  his  proceedings 
tending  to  delay  an  enquiry  into  them,  as  stated  by  Messrs. 
Sharpe,  Walker,  Beresford,  Cox  and  Pilgrim.  As  in  the  mean- 
time your  Majesties'  subjects  may  suffer  by  a  continuance  of 
the  administration  of  that  Government  in  the  hands  of  one 
against  whom  there  are  so  many  other  great  complaints,  we 
humbly  represent.  (1)  That  ye  said  Governor  has  taken  upon 
himself  out  of  Court  to  set  aside  orders  solemnly  made  in  ye 
Court  of  Chancery.  Quote  case  of  Manasses  Gilligan,  etc.  (2) 
Ye  Governor  has  rented  out  the  office  of  his  private  Secretary  for 
an  excessive  annual  sunim  greater  than  the  legal  fees  would 
amount  to,  and  ye  better  to  enable  his  Secretary  to  pay  his 
said  rent,  fees  were  exacted  from  plaintiff  and  defendant,  and 
ye  Governor  took  sole  cognizance  by  way  of  petition  of  matters 
cognizable  only  in  your  Majesties  Courts  of  Law  and  Equity 
etc.  Quote  cases  of  Summers,  Bamfeild  and  Waterman  etc., 
and  refer  to  Kepresentation  concerning  Alexander  Skene,  April 
10.  Quote  cases  of  Summers,  Bamfoile  and  Waterman,  etc. 

(3)  While  suits  have  been  depending  in  ye  Courts  of  Chancery,, 
Error  and  Grievances,   the   Governor   has   received  considerable 
presents   from   party s   concerned   in   such   suits,   as   in   ye   case 
of  Mr.  Slingesby,  Mr.  Chamberlain  and  Mr.  Gibbes  and  others, 
which  practice  hath  drawn  his  justice  very  much  in  question. 

(4)  The  Governor  hath  taken  upon  him  to  imprison  Mr.  Buck- 
worth,   sole   judge   of  yr.   Majesties   Court  of   Admiralty   there, 
for   supposed   contempt    in   not   obeying  'illegal  orders   made   by 
him   as    ordinary   etc.     (5)  The   Governor  has    also   imprisoned 
your    Majesties    subjects    for    suggested    contempt    of  his    extra 
judicial  orders,  has  kept  them  in  prison  without  bayl  or  main- 
prize   till    they   have   been   necessitated   to  lay   down   offices   of 
profit,  thereby  taking  an  opportunity  of  conferring  ye  said  places 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


449 


1709 

upon  his  creatures,  as  in  ye  case  of  Mr.  Small  and  Paul 
Manier.  (6)  He  has  obliged  Masters  of  ships  to  have  their 
petitions  to  him  for  leave  to  sail  drawn  by  his  private  Secretary, 
even  when  they  had  their  petitions  already  drawne  by  others, 
so  that  they  have  doubly  payd  for  the  same,  which  is  a  burthen 
upon  trade.  (7)  This  they  say  may  be  proved  by  Masters  of 
ships  that  were  then  there.  Refer  to  representation  of  Febru- 
ary 18,  1709.  (8).  By  frequent  and  unusual  adjournment  of  ye 
Assembly  to  prevent  their  complaints  of  ye  Governor's  undue 
administration,  the  Excise  Bill  for  1708  was  not  renewed  till 
several  months  after  the  expiration  of  ye  former,  during  which 
time  a  considerable  quantity  of  liquors  was  imported  without 
paying  the  dutys.  (9)  The  Governor  has  made  many  and  un- 
reasonable changes  in  the  Militia  in  turning  out  the  best  qualifyd 
Officers  of  the  Island,  and  granting  commissions  to  others  to 
serve  his  private  ends.  etc.  There  are  several  other  articles 
which  have  been  in  like  manner  proved.  Upon  the  whole  matter, 
it  appearing  that  the  Governor  has  been  guilty  of  such  high 
crimes  and  male  administrations  as  are  contayned  in  ye  several  1 
articles  of  complaint  against  him,  and  in  regard  he  is  involved 
in  many  lawsuits  there  in  right  of  his  wife,  which  have  had 
an  influence  upon  him  in  the  administration  of  justice,  to 
which  we  must  add  that  he  has  not  payd  that  due  obedience  to 
your  Majesties  express  comands  as  he  ought  to  have  done,  wee  do 
therefore  humbly  submit  it  to  your  Majestic  whether  a  person 
under  such  circumstances  is  to  be  any  longer  intrusted  with  the 
administration  of  your  Majesties  Government  of  that  Island. 
Set  out,  A.P.C.II.  pp.  577-581.  q.v.  [C.O.  29,  12.  pp.  13- 
19.] 

Aug.  20.        695.     The   Queen  to  Governor  Crowe.     Instructions   in   the 
Windsor,      case  of  Bentley  and  for  the  removal  of  Downes,   as   in  Order 
in  Council  Aug.  8,   1709.     Countersigned,   H.  Boyle.     [C.O.   5, 
210.     pp.  164-166;  and  319,  1.     pp.  105-107.] 

Aug.  22.  696.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Upon  reading  Representa- 
Windsor.  tion  of  Aug.  19,  ordered  that  Governor  Crowe  be  instructed  to 
come  over  without  delay,  to  make  his  defence  before  H.M.  in 
Council!  upon  the  severall  complaints  against  him,  and  that  the 
complainants  be  at  liberty  to  take  such  proofs  and  depositions 
upon  oath  before  such  Judge  or  Chief  Magistrate  as  they  shall 
think  fitt,  to  be  transmitted  under  the  seal  of  the  Island,  etc. 
Signed,  John  Povey.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read  25th,  1709. 
1  p.  [C.O.  28,  12.  No.  44;  and  29,  12.  pp.  35,  36;  and 
319,  1.  pp.  101-104.] 

Aug.  22.        697.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Upon  Representation  of 

Windsor.      July  25,  the  Governor  of  Virginia  is  to  allot  lands  to  the  Switzers 

from    Berne,    as    therein    recommended.     Signed,    John    Povey. 

Endorsed,   Reed.   5th,   Read   10th   Nov.,    1709.     1   p.     [C.O.    5, 

1316.     No.  36;  and  5,  1362.     pp.  431,  432.] 

Wt.  11522.  CP29 


450  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

Aug.  22.        698.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Eef erring  following  to  the 
Windsor.      Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    for    their   report.     Signed, 
Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  16th,  Bead  17th  Nov.  1709. 
1  p.     Enclosed, 

698.  i.  Norman  Mackaskell  to  the  Queen.  Governor  Crowe 
has  not  obeyed  H.M.  Order  in  Council  Feb.  27  last 
(q.v.),  but  has  ordered  petitioner  to  be  tried  at  a 
Court  of  Grand  Sessions  for  the  same  matters,  and  has 
superseded  several  J.P.s  out  of  the  Commission  of  the 
Peace,  thereby  to  expose  him  to  greater  hardships  at 
his  trial,  etc.  Copy.  2±  pp.  [C.O.  28,  12.  ATos.  47, 
47.i.  ;  and  29,  12.  pp.  49-51.] 

Aug.  24.  699.  Col.  Laws  to  tbje  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
If  a  good  number  of  Palatines  are  sent  to  settle  and  plant  in 
Jamaica,  they  will  save  the  Crown  the  charge  of  keeping  stand- 
ing forces  there  in  time  of  war,  increase  the  customs,  navigation 
and  trade.  To  do  that,  transport  ships  must  be  provided,  that 
they  may  be  free  so  soon  as  they  set  foot  on  shore  in  that 
Island,  and  enjoy  all  the  priviledges  in  common  with  the  present 
settlers  there  and  be  subject  to  and  governed  by  the  same  Laws. 
That  so  much  land  be  assigned  for  their  use  as  will  afford  5 
or  6  acres  a  head,  for  every  person  in  each  family,  and  granted 
them  from  the  Crown  in  fee  to  them  and  their  heirs  for  ever. 
To  that  end  I  propose  that  all  that  tract  of  land,  with  a  salvo 
to  those  already  settled  betweene  the  North  East  of  Rio  Grandy 
and  the  South  East  of  Port  Morant.  And  that  the  harbour  of 
St.  Anthony  be  made  a  port  of  entry.  For  the  immediate  re- 
ception of  those  people  it  will  be  necessary  that  Lynches  Island, 
att  the  mouth  of  St.  Anthony,  which  makes  two  good  harbours 
and  contains  about  60  or  80  acres,  be  recommended  to  the 
present  inhabitants  o*f  Jamaica  to  fall  and  clear  all  the  wood 
and  build  small  thatch'd  houses  and  hutts  for  them  to  dwell 
in  untill  they  can  fix  themselvs  on  their  own  land  and  freehold. 
From  this  harbour  the  windward  passage  to  England  is  easily 
gained,  and  may  be  practiced  all  the  year  round,  and  planting, 
which  is  the  mother  of  trade,  may  be  improved  in  Jamaica 
to  the  loading  1,000  or  more  ships  yearly.  It  will  be  needfull 
for  those  people  to  have  £8  or  £10  a  head  given  them  in  money 
to  purchase  cloths,  bedding  and  tools,  such'  as  hoes,  bills, 
axes,  nails,  locks  and  keys,  and  many  other  usefull  things  for 
them  to  begin  with,  and  that  every  man  may  have  a  gun  given 
him  with  about  lOlb.  of  powder  arid  shott  in  proportion  for 
their  defence  and  use.  That  they  be  encourag'd  to  settle  in 
partnerships,  as  3  or  4  to  joyn  in  one  plantation,  so  that  one 
may  be  hunting,  fishing  or  fowling  while  the  rest  are  falling 
and  planting  the  land.  This  land  is  all  in  wood  and  will  afford 
the  labourers  boards,  plank  timber,  staves  and  heading  for 
suggar  hogsheads,  which  will  yeild  ready  money  at  Port  Koyal 
or  Kingston  at  all  times,  besides  peimento  or  fusteck  wood  for 
merchandize,  which  naturally  comes  in  their  way.  And  in  18 
months  or  2  years  the  ground  so  clear'd  and  planted  will 


AMEKICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  451 

1709. 

produce  quantities  of  ginger,  cotton,  indigo,  tobacco,  annotto, 
rice  and  other  commodities.  As  for  sugar,  it  is  indeed  a  work 
of  longer  time  and  great  expence,  but  that  will  follow  at  last, 
and  as  the  people  grow  able  to  purchase  negroes  and  cattle. 
Those  people,  once  settled  in  that  part  of  the  country,  will 
effectually  secure  botthi  the  North  and  South  side  of  that  Island 
from  any  great  attempt  of  the  enemy,  and  they  being  once  got 
on  the  improving  side,  and  well  settled  in  planting,  will  quickly, 
reimburse  the  Crown  and  nation  to  advantage,  not  only  by  the 
consumption  and  use  of  English  goods  but  the  customs  arising 
on  their  produce,  which  may  in  8  or  10  years  amount  to  £16,000 
or  20,000  per  ann.  in  customs  to  H.M.  and  advance  yearly  in 
some  degree  besides  the  benefit  of  freight  comission  to  mer- 
chants, and  many  other  proffits.  As  for  instance  this  year, 
1709.  The  custom  freight  comission  and  petty  charges  of  1 
hhcl.  of  sugar  is  about  £7;  on  1000  of  ginger  about  £7-10-0;  on 
100  of  indigo  about  £3-10-0;  on  100  of  cocoe  about  £3-10-0. 
And  all  other  comodities  of  the  West  Indies  comes  within  the 
same,  or  such  like  estimates  of  advantage  to  the  nation,  besides 
the  promt  to  the  planter  or  importer,  which  all  centers  att 
last  in  England.  It  may  be  objected  how  shall  the  Crown  be 
reinvested  in  that  tract  of  land  proposed  to  be  given  to  those 
people,  since  the  greatest  part  thereof  is  already  granted  by 
Letters  Patents  to  others.  And  it  is  very  true  most  of  it  is  in 
such  proprietors'  hands  as  have  had  it  20  or  30  years  and 
never  made  the  least  stepp  toward  settling  it,  and  seldom  if  ever 
paid  the  quitt-rent,  to  the  great  injury  and  loss  of  the  publique 
and  revenue,  and  without  any  advantage  to  themselves  as  time 
and  experience  has  too  fattaly  made  appear.  Soe  that  it  may 
be  presumed  if  no  other  way  can  "be  found  to  reinstate  the 
Crown  in  those  lands,  that  the  present  owners  will  for  so  great 
a  good  freely  resigne  f  or  f  of  each  grant,  especially  when 
they  consider  that  what  remains  will  be  of  ten  times  greater 
value  by  those  people  settling  there,  then  the  whole  can  ever  be 
without  them.  But  in  case  this  method,  or  something  like  it, 
cannot  be  accomplished,  as  I  am  fully  perswaded  it  may,  from 
a  isence  of  their  own  interest  and  the  general  good,  then  the 
Government  of  that  Island  should  have  directions  to  recommend 
them  to  and  distribute  them  in  the  several!  remote  parishes,  as  St. 
Elizabeth,  Westmoreland,  St.  James,  St.  Anns,  St.  Mary's  and 
St.  Georges,  where  the  people  are  thynly  settled  and  land  enough 
to  entertain  great  numbers,  and  much,  wast  in  the  Queene's 
gift,  and  no  doubt  the  planters  will  gladly  receive  them,  and 
not  only  give  them  land,  but  help  them  to  settle,  as  indeed 
'tis  their  interest  so  to  doe,  for  they  know  they  want  nothing 
but  numbers  of  white  people  and  neighbours  to  make  them  as 
happy  and  rich  as  any  in  the  world.  Otherwise  those  people 
may  be  for  some  time  subsisted  on  the  deficiences  as  the 
souldiers  are  now,  while  they  can  provide  for  themselves  or 
be  otherwise  settled  by  the  Country.  But  this  way  or  the  other 
must  'be  in  a  great  measure  referred  to  the  Governour,  CouncilJ 
and  Assembly,  and  the  people  must  be  assured  of  the  money 


452 


COLONIAL   PAPEES. 


1709. 


Aug.  25. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  29. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  30. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  30. 


Aug.  30. 

Whitehall, 


and  other  encouragements  above  proposed.  And  it  would  be 
convenient  some  English  or  Scotch  were  mixt  with  them  on 
the  same  foot  and  encouragement.  I  am  told  there  is  a  Law 
to  oblidge  every  body  to  pay  their  quitt-rent  within  a  certain 
time  therein  exprest,  or  the  land  shall  be  forfeited  and  re- 
turne  to  the  Queene.  And  perhaps  much  has  fallen  upon  that 
foot,  but  then  great  care  should  be  taken  in  the  regranting  it, 
and  that  settling  and  planting  be  the  cheif  condition,  els  it  will 
run  into  the  same  evil  they  intended  to  rectify.  And  it  may 
be  confidently  affirmed  that  unless  some  such  expedients  as  these 
be  putt  in  practice,  and  this  oppertunity  of  sending  the  Pala- 
tines and  others  promoted,  that  Island  which  alone  is  capable 
of  ,makeing  England  rich,  must  sinck  to  be  lost.  And  then 
farewell  all  the  advantages  the  Nation  has  in  the  Spanish  West 
Indies,  e'ither  in  peace  or  warr.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Bead  Aug. 
24,  1709.  2f  pp.  [0.0.  137,  8.  No.  47;  and  138,  12.  pp. 
434 -'439.] 

700.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Re- 
commend, upon  Sober's  petition,  July  25,  that  Governor  Crowe 
be  instructed  to  transmit  his  answer  and  proofs  to  a  Secretary 
of  State,  and  in  the  meantime  that  Sober  be  allowed  to  return 
to    Barbados    without    any    further    molestation,    etc.     Set   out, 
A.P.C.II.     pp.  607,  608.     [C.O.  29,  12.     pp.  20-22.] 

701.  W.  Popple  to  W.   Lowndes.     Encloses  extract  of  Col. 
Ingoldesby's  letter,  July  5,  relating  to  the  minister's  salary  at 
New  York.     [C.O.    5,    1121.     p.   386.] 

702.  Same   to  Josiah  Burchett.     Encloses   extract  and  en- 
closures  from  Col.   Ingoldesby's  letter,   July   5,  relating  to  the 
pressing  of  seamen,  for  the  Lord  High  Admiral's  information. 
[C.O.  5,  1121.     p.  387.] 

703.  Mr.  Attorney  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    I  have  no  objection  to  make  to  the  5  Acts  of  Pensil- 
vania    (<v.   Aug.    10)   etc.      Signed,    Ja.   Mountague.      Endorsed, 
Reed.  Aug.  30,  Read  Sept.  2,'  1709.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  1264.     No. 
11 ;  and  5,  1292.     p.  145.] 

704.  Council   of  Trade   and   Plantations  to  the  Lord   High 
Treasurer   of   England.     In   our  proposal   to   your   Lordship  of 
Aug.  9  for  the  speedy  settling  or  disposing  of  the  poor  Palatines, 
we  mentioned  the  having  under  our  further  consideration  how 
the   same  might  be  done,   and  having  accordingly   applyed  our 
thoughts  to  the  perfecting  so  good  and  necessary  a  work,   and 
having  reconsidered  our  Report  of  Aug.  3  to  H.M.  Commissioners 
for   the    settlement   of   the   said   Palatines,   we   now   take    leave 
further   to  propose ;   that  they  be  transported  at   H.M.    charge 
to  Lynch's   Island,   at  the  mouth   of  St.    Antonia   River,   there 
to  continue  till  they  shall  be  settled  on  the  Island  of  Jamaica,, 
in  the  manner  herein  proposed,  and  that  the  harbour  St.  An- 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  453 

1709. 

tonio  be  made  a  port  of  entry.  That  to  prepare  the  said  Lynch 
Island  for  their  reception  H.M.  royal  pleasure  be  signifyed 
to  the  Government  of  Jamaica,  to  recommend  it  in  the  most 
effectual  manner  to  the  Councill  and  Assembly,  by  some  Law 
to  be  forthwith  pass'd  there,  to  make  provision  for  the  clearing 
the  ground  and  building  of  hutts  on  Lynch  Island  sufficient  for 
such  number  of  the  said  Palatines  as  shall  be  sent  thither.  This 
as  we  are  informed,  may  be  done  without  any*  great  charge, 
and  therefore  have  reason  to  beleive  the  present  inhabitants  will 
readily  agree  to  it  on  account  of  the  great  benefit  they  will 
receive  by  this  increase  of  people,  as  well  in  regard  to  their 
trade  as  to  the  security  of  that  Island.  It  is  agreed  that  Lynch 
Island  being  the  property  of  Mr.  Cotton  as  heir  to  Sir  Thomas 
Lynch,  this  cannot  be  done  without  his  consent,  but  we  pre- 
sume there  will  be  no  difficulty  in  obtaining  it  for  this  use, 
since  that  Island  is  not,  or  ever  was  of  any  benefit  to  him, 
whereas  by  what  is  now  proposed  he  may  expect  a  considerable 
improvement  of  his  estate  in  that  part  of  Jamaica  where  these 
poor  people  are  to  be  settled.  If  a  Law  cannot  be  procured 
there  for  clearing  the  ground  and  building  hutts  on  Lynch! 
Island,  nor  the  inhabitants  be  willing  to  undertake  that  work 
freely  at  their  own  charge,  in  such  case  if  H.M.  shall  be 
pleased  to  bear  the  expence  thereof,  we  are  informed  that  it 
will  not  exceed  the  rate  of  £3  per  acre  for  clearing  the 
ground,  which  were  the  whole  Island  consisting  of  about  80 
acres  to  be  cleared,  will  not  amount  to  above  £240,  nor  can  the 
building  of  a  sufficient  number  of  'hutts,  where  there  is  such 
plenty  of  timber,  add  much  to  the  expence.  And  as  to  the 
number  of  acres  to  be  clear'd  or  hutts  built,  if  done  at  H.M. 
charge,  we  are  of  opinion  it  may  be  left  to  the  Governor  ancl 
Councill  to  direct  the  doing  thereof,  with  regard  and  in  pro- 
portion to  the  number  of  Palatines  to  be  sent  thither.  Thisi 
being  only  a  provisional  or  temporary  lodgment  proposed  for 
them  till  they  can  conveniently  be  settled  on  the  Main  Is- 
land of  Jamaica,  in  order  thereunto  we  further  propose  that 
within  the  tract  of  land  lying  between  the  North  East  of  Rio 
Grande  and  the  South  East  of  Port  Morant,  a  sufficient  number 
of  acres  (not  already  seated)  be  granted  under  the  seal  of 
the  Island  to  the  said  Palatines  and  their  heirs  for  ever,  not 
exceeding  6  acres  per  head  for  every  person  in  each  family, 
which  proportion  of  acres  we  conceive  may,  when  cultivated 
be  a  reasonable  maintenance  for  them,  by  the  produce  of  ginger, 
cotton,  indigo,  anotto,  rice  and  other  commodities,  not  to  men- 
tion the  present  proffit  that  will  arise  upon  clearing  those  lands, 
by  boards,  plank  timber,  staves  and  heading  for  sugar  hoggsheads, 
which  will  at  any  time  yeild  ready  money  at  Port  Royal  or  King- 
ston, and  from  peimento  or  fustick  wood  for  merchandize.  As 
for  isugar,  the  produce  thereof  is  a  work  of  time  and  grea't 
expence,  yet  they  may  fall  into  it  as  they  grow  able  to  purchase 
negroes  and  cattle.  Such  a  settlement  will  effectually  secure 
the  North  and  South  side  of  that  Island  from  any  attempt  of 
an  enemy,  and  when  those  people  are  well  settled  in  planting, 


454  COLONIAL  PAPEBS, 

1709. 

they  will  soon  reimburse  the  Crown  and  this  nation,  as  well 
by  their  consumption  of  Brittish  manufactures,  as  by  the  duties 
arising  on  their  produce,  which  after  8  or  10  years  may  be 
a  considerable  increase  of  the  customes,  besides  the  benefit  of 
navigation,  etc.  Quote  Customs  etc.  for  1709.  C/.  Aug.  24. 
It  may  be  objected  that  the  greatest  part  of  that  tract  of 
land  is  already  granted  by  letters  patents  to  others.  To  which 
we  answer,  'tis  true  that  the  same  is  at  present  in  the  possession 
of  such  proprietors  who  have  held  it  for  20  or  30  years  past 
without  making  the  least  step  towards  settling  it,  and  seldome 
if  ever  paid  the  quit  rent,  to  the  great  injury  and  loss  of 
the  publick  and  of  H.M.  Revenue  there,  and  without  any  benefit 
to  themselvs.  So  that  (not  to  have  recourse  to  any  other  method 
for  revesting  those  lands  in  the  Crown)  it  may  reasonably  "be 
presumed  that  the  present  owners  will  for  so  great  a  good 
freely  surrender  to  the  Crown  |  or  f  of  the  lands  so  granted 
to  them;  especially  when  they  consider  that  what  remains  will 
be  of  a  much  greater  value  from  such  a  settlement  than  the 
whole  is  like  to  be  without  it.  But  in  case  they  shall  mot 
comply  herein,  then  we  propose  that  the  Governor  and  Councill 
be  directed  to  recommend  ye  said  Palatines  to  be  distributed 
throughout  the  several  remote  Parishes,  as  "St.  Elizabeth,  West- 
morland, St.  James',  St.  Ann's,  St.  Mary's  and  St.  George's, 
where,  the  people  being  thinly  settled,  there  is  land  enough  to 
receive  great  numbers  of  them,  and  a  considerable  quantity  of 
waste  land  in  H.M.  gift,  and  there  is  reason  to  beleive  that  the 
Planters  will  not  only  receive  these  Palatines  and  give  them 
land,  but  help  them  to  settle  it,  as  'tis  their  interest  so  to  do, 
they  being  sensible  how  much  they  want  numbers  of  white 
people  in  that  place.  On  this  occasion  we  take  leave  to  observe 
that,  by  a  Law  of  Jamaica  made  in  1682,  every  Master  of  slaves', 
for  the  first  five  working  slaves,  is  obliged  to  keep  one  white 
working  manservant,  overseer  or  hired  man  for  three  months  at 
the  least,  for  ten  slaves  two  whites,  and  for  every  ten  slaves 
over  and  above  the  said  number  one  white  to  be  resident  on 
the  Plantation  where  the  negroes  are  imployed,  on  penalty  of 
£5  for  every  servant  that  shall  be  wanting.  Which  Law,  being 
not  complyed  with  by  many  of  the  said  Masters,  such  of  them 
as  are  deficient  in  their  respective  proportions  of  white  men 
are  compelled  to  quarter  a  soldier  belonging  to  H.M.  regular 
forces  in  that  Island  for  every  white  man  he  wants  of  his 
quota,  or  else  to  allow  to  every  such  soldier  5/-  per  week. 
Wherefore  we  take  leave  to  offer  it  to  your  Lordship's  consider- 
ation, whether  as  a  temporary  provision  for  these  Palatines  or 
for  a  good  number  of  them,  till  they  shall  be  otherwise  settled, 
it  may  not  be  proper  to  recommend  it  to  the  said  Governor, 
Councill  and  Assembly  to  subsist  them  on  such  deficiencies  where- 
on soldiers  are  not  already  charged.  And  whereas  great  tracts 
of  land  have  been  granted  by  the  Crown  to  persons  who  have 
neglected  to  seat  or  plant  the  same  to  the  great  prejudice  of 
that  Island,  for  prevention  of  the  like  mischeif  for  the  future, 
it  will  be  necessary  that  in  every  grant  to  be  made  to  the 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  455 

1709. 

said  Palatines  or  to  any  other  persons,  there  be  an  express  proviso 
that  the  lands  so  granted  shall  be  seated  and  planted  within  a 
reasonable  time  to  be  therein  prefixed,  or  on  failure  thereof,  such 
grant  to  be  void  and  the  lands  to  revert  to  the  Crown.  It  will 
be  requisite  that  these  poor  people,  before  they  begin  their 
voyage,  be  supplyed  with  convenient  cloathing,  bedding  and  tools, 
viz.,  hoes,  bills,  axes,  nails,  locks  and  keys  and  such  like  utensils, 
the  charge  of  which  is  computed  at  about  £8  or  £10  per  head. 
Beside  which  it  will  be  necessary  that  every  man  have  a  gun, 
with  about  lOlb.  of  powder  and  a  proportionable  quantity  of 
shot  for  his  defence  and  use,  and  that  they  be  encouraged  to 
settle  in  partnership,  that  is,  three  or  four  families  on  one 
Plantation,  whereby  some  may  hunt,  fish  or  fowl,  while  others 
clear  and  plant  the  land.  In  regard  they  will  not  be  able  to 
maintain  themselvs  out  of  the  produce  of  their  labour  till  12  or 
18  months  after  the  clearing  and  planting  of  the  ground,  it  will 
be  necessary  that  such  of  them  as  shall  not  be  placed  on  de- 
ficiencies or  otherwise  provided  for  as  aforesaid,  be  subsisted 
at  the  rate  of  £5  per  head,  which  charge  or  a  great  part 
thereof,  may  reasonably  be  defrayed  by  the  inhabitants,  in  con- 
sideration of  the  great  benefit  that  will  accrue  to  that  Island 
by  such  settlement,  particularly  in  gaining  the  Windward  pas- 
sage to  Great  Britain,  which  may  be  made  at  any  time  of  the 
year,  and  consequently  the  trade  from  thence  very  much  facili- 
tated and  increased.  While  these  Palatines  are  at  Lynch  Island, 
the  passage  over  the  mainland  is  so  small  that  they  may  easily 
be  supplyed  with  provisions  and  other  necessaries  for  their 
subsistence  and  may  frequently  cross  over  and  help  to  clear 
the  land,  on  which  as  'tis  cleared,  they  may  by  degrees  seat 
themselvs.  And  for  their  further  encouragement  thereto,  it  will 
be  necessary  that  the  Governor  be  directed  upon  their  arrival 
to  grant  them  letters  of  naturalization  without  fee  or  reward, 
that  may  enjoy  all  such  priviledges  and  advantages  as  cire  en- 
joyed by  the  present  inhabitants  of  Jamaica.  In  this  manner 
we  hope  those  poor  people,  or  a  considerable  number  of  them, 
may  be  disposed  of  and  settled  to  the  benefit  not  only  of  Jamaica, 
but  of  the  trade  of  this  Kingdom,  the  persons  themselvs  gain  a 
comfortable  livelyhood  by  their  industry,  the  Crown  eased  of 
that  heavy  charge  it  is  now  at  in  the  subsisting  of  them  and 
reap  a  considerable  advantage  by  the  increase  of  the  customs. 
[C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  440-448.] 

Aug.  30.  705.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lord  High 
Whitehall.  Treasurer.  In  case  the  above  proposal  be  not  approved,  tho 
we  do  not  at  present  foresee  any  objections  but  what  may 
arise  from  the  greatness  of  the  charge  (which  nevertheless  we 
have  lessned  all  we  can),  or  if  it  shall  not  be  thought  con- 
venient to  settle  the  whole  number  of  the  poor  Palatines  in 
Jamaica,  we  offer  to  youir  Lordship's  consideration,  that  such 
of  them  as  shall  not  otherwise  be  disposed  of,  may  conveniently 
be  settled  upon  Hudson's  River,  New  York,  where  H.M.  has  very 
large  tracts  of  waste  lands.  In  order  whereunto  we  further 


450  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

propose  that  they  be  transported  thither  at  H.M.  charge,  which 
for  so  great  a  number,  partly  made  up  of  small  children, 
may  be  done  at  between  £3  and  £4  a  head,  one  with  another. 
That  they  be  supplied  here  with  all  necessary  tools  for  hus- 
bandry, and  with  nails  and  hinges  and  other  iron  work  for 
building  their  timber  houses,  to  enable  them  to  begin  and  make 
settlements,  which  emptions  may  be  computed  at  40/-  per  head, 
as  in  the  case  of  the  poor  Palatines  sent  to  the  same  place 
the  last  year.  That  the  Governor  or  Commander  in  Chief  of  the 
said  Province  be  directed,  upon  their  arrival  there,  to  grant  unto 
every  one  of  them,  under  the  seal  of  that  Province,  without  fee 
or  reward,  the  usual  and  like  number  of  acres  as  was  directed 
to  be  granted  to  every  one  of  the  Palatines  lately  sent  thither 
upon  the  like  terms,  etc.  But  as  these  people  are  very  necessi- 
tous, they  will  not  be  able  to  subsist  there  till  they  can  reap 
the  fruit  of  their  labour  (which  will  not  be  till  after  one  year) 
unless  assisted  by  H.M.  bounty;  for  we  doubt  there  is  little 
relief  to  be  expected  from  the  inhabitants  of  that  Province 
under  its  present  circumstances,  and  therefore  these  poor  people 
must  depend  on  H.M.  royal  bounty  for  their  subsistance  for  one 
year  after  their  arrival  in  New  York,  which  charge  may  be 
computed  at  about  £5  per  head.  Further,  we  propose  that  before 
their  departure  they  be  made  denizens  of  this  kingdom,  that  they 
may  enjoy  all  the  priviledges  and  advantages  as  are  enjoyed 
by  the  present  inhabitants  of  New  York  accruing  thereby.  It 
may  be  objected  that,  should  these  people  be  settled  on  the 
Continent  of  America,  they  will  fall  upon  woollen  and  other 
manufactories  to  the  prejudice  of  the  manufactures  of  this 
Kingdom  now  consumed  in  those  parts.  To  this  we  answer, 
that  the  Province  of  New  York  being  under  H.M.  immediate  Gov- 
ernment, such  mischievous  practice  may  be  discouraged  and 
chequed  much  easier  than  under  any  Proprietary  Governments  on 
the  said  Continent,  as  has  been  found  by  experience ;  and,  as 
a  further  provision  against  any  such  practice,  a  clause  may  be 
inserted  in  the  several  patents  so  to  be  passed  to  the  said 
Palatines,  declaring  the  same  to  be  void,  if  such  patentee  shall 
apply  himself  to  the  making  the  woollen  or  such  like  manu- 
factures. If  it  be  thought  advisable  that  these  poor  people,  or 
'  any  number  of  them,  be  settled  on  the  Continent  of  America,  we 
are  of  opinion  that  such  settlement,  especially  if  made  at  H.M. 
charge,  should  be  in  Provinces  under  H.M.  immediate  Govern- 
ment, and  we  know  no  place  so  proper  as  Hudson's  River  on 
the  frontier  of  New  York,  whereby  they  will  be  a  good  barrier 
between  H.M.  subjects  and  the  French  and  their  Indians  in  those 
parts,  and  in  process  of  time,  by  intermarrying  with  the  neigh- 
bouring Indians,  (as  the  French  do),  they  may  be  capable 
of  rendring  very  great  service  to  H.M.  subjects  there,  and 
not  only  very  much  promote  the  fur  trade,  but  likewise  the 
increase  of  naval  stores,  which  may  be  produced  in  great  plenty 
at  New  York,  wherein  Mr.  Bridger  may  be  directed  to  instruct 
them.  Lastly,  we  take  leave  to  observe  that  in  Virginia  and 
some  other  parts  of  the  said  Continent,  where  the  air  is  clear 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


457 


1709. 


Aug.  31. 

Whitehall. 


Aug.  31. 

Maryland. 


Sept.  1st. 

Whitehall. 


Sept.  2. 

Barbados . 


and  healthful!,  wild  vines  do  naturally  grow  and  afford  plenty  of 
grapes,  which,  if  cultivated  and  improved  by  husbandry,  would 
produce  good  wines.  Wherefore,  if  some  of  these  Palatines, 
who  are  vine  dressers,  were  settled  there  and  imployed  in  that 
sort  of  husbandry,  a  new  and  profitable  trade  might  be  intro- 
duced to  the  benefit  of  this  Kingdom.  [C.O.  5,  1121.  pp. 
387-391.] 

706.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Lowndes.     Encloses  extract  of  Mr. 
Byerley's  letter,  June  30,  complaining  of  Col.  Ingoldesby's  pro- 
ceedings against  him  in  relation  to  the  payment  of  salary  to  the 
Lord  Cornbury,  etc.     [C.O.  5,  1121.     p.  397.] 

707.  Council  of  Maryland  to  thje  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    On  July   30th|  last   it  pleased   Allmighty  God  to   take 
away  our  Governour,  Col.  John  Seymour,  after  a  long  lingring  in- 
disposition of  a  continued  feavour,  etc.     Pursuant  to  H.M.  Com- 
mission to  him,   wee  have  taken  upon  us  the  execution  of  the 
Government,    etc.     Signed,    Edwd.    Lloyd,   Wm.    Holland,    Will. 
Coursey,  Tho.  Ennalls,  Sam.  Young,  Tho.  Greenfield,  Cha.  Green- 
berry,  Jno.  Hall.     Endorsed,  Reed.,  Bead  Dec.  20,  1709.     1  p. 
[C.O.  5,  717.     No.  1 ;  and  5,  727.     pp.  158,  159.] 

708.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Stm- 
derland.     Enclose    Address    from    New    York   to    H.M.    relating 
to  the  expedition  against  Canada.     [C.O.  5,  1121.     p.  397.] 

709.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and   Planta- 
tions.    Encloses  papers.     By  that  of  the  Chancery  your  Lordps. 
will   perceive   nothing   is   depending   there   that  was   ripe   for  a 
hearing,  and  I  have  taken  such  care  of  the  Magazine  stores  that 
there    is   now   a   good   stock  of  powder.     All   the   lower   Courts 
have  been  kept  very  exactly,  only  St.  Michael's,  by  reason  of  the 
smal    pox   rageing   in   the   Bridge    Town  was    (for   want   of  as- 
sistants)   sometime    adjourned.     Since    my    arrival    (blessed    be 
God)    all   provisions   has   been   very   plenty,   and   the    Island   in 
general    more    healthy    than    for   many    years    before,    as    your 
Lordps.   may  observe  by  the  lists  of  births  and  burialls,  there 
being  an  increase  thereby.     That  of  the  Martineco  inhabitants, 
I   had  from   a   good  hand.     The   Indians  on    St.    Vincents,    St. 
Lucia  and  Dominico  continue  very  quiet  under  H.M.  protection. 
H.M.S.    Burlington   and   Hector  are   now   a-cruising   off   tho.se 
Islands.     By    my    last    Speech   to   the    General    Assembly    your 
Lordps.  will  find  how  pressingly  I  have  recommended  the  Pro- 
vost Marshalls  affair  to  them,  and  the  raising  money  for  repairing 
of  the  Forts  etc.,   which  indeed  very  much  want  it.     The  ac- 
count of  the  Publique  Revenue  is  not  yet  all  stated.     I  have  often 
sollicited  for  the  frequenter  attendance  of  that  Committe,  which 
they   now   promise.     It   being    contrary   to    my    Instructions    to 
permit  any  single  vessell  without  H.M.   express  orders  to  saile 
for  Europe,  Capt.  Bushel  under  pretence  of  wanting  sugars  to 
fill  his  ship,   petitioned  me  for  leave  to  go  to   Antego  to  com- 


458  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 

pleat  his  loading,  on  which  I  granted  the  prayer  of  said  petition, 
provided  he  gave  in  bond  to  touch  there,  that  H.M.  Instructions 
might  be  observed,  which  I  perceive  by  the  deposition  he  makes 
a  complaint  of.  Capts.  Legge  and  Norburry,  H.M.S.  Weymouth 
and  Larke,  have  been  so  insolent  in  their  behaviours  and  breach 
of  orders  here,  that  the  Council  and  Assembly  have  ordered  their 
Agents  to  represent  the  same  to  your  Lordps.  and  my  Lord 
High  Admiral.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th,  Read 
28th  Nov.  1709.  If  pp.  Enclosed, 

709.  i.  Bond  of  Capt.  Bushell  and  Henry  Adamson  that  the 
Laurel  shall  touch  at  Antego,  etc.  as  described  in  pre- 
ceding. Endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  15,  1709.  Copy.  1  p. 
709.  ii.  List  of  causes  pending  in  the  Court  of  Chancery, 
Barbados.  Aug.  25,  1709.  Same  endorsement.  Signed, 
Tho.  Hide,  Dep.  Reg. 

709.  iii.-vii.  List  of  causes  determined  in  the  Courts  of  Com- 
mon Pleas,  Barbados,  Aug.  1708 — 1709.  Names  given. 
Same  endorsement.  The  whole,  62  pp. 

709.  viii.  List  of  baptisms  and  burials,  Barbados,  Aug.  1708 — 
9,  by  parishes;  Total ;— Baptisms,  434;  Burials,  345. 
Same  endorsement.  \  p. 

709.  ix.  Account  of  negroes  imported  from  Guinea,  June  24, 
1708— Aug.  1,  1709.  6  ships  imported  1293  negroes. 
Signed,  Saml.  Cox,  Naval  Officer.  Same  endorsement. 

i  P- 

709.  x.  List  of  the  inhabitants  of  Martineque,  with  their 
slaves,  horses,  cattle  and  sugar- works,  Jan.  1,  170  f. 
Totals:— Men,  1481,  boys  2312,  women,  1593,  girls, 
1738,  slaves,  20,282,  soldiers,  150,  etc.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 1  p. 

709.  xi.  Account  of  prizes  and  seizures  condemned  in  the 
High  Court  of  Admiralty,  Barbados,  established  since 
Aug.  1708.  7  ships.  Signed,  Stephen  Alexander,  Regr. 
Cbr.  Admiral.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 

709.  xii.  Account  of  stores  of  war,  Barbados,  Jan. -July  1, 
3709.  Same  endorsement.  2  long  strips. 

709.  xiii.  Act  of  Barbados  for  adjourning  the  General  Ses- 
sions, June  4,  1709.  Same  endorsement.  Copy.  1| 
pp  [C.O.  28,  12.  Nos.  53,  53.  i.-xiii. ;  and  (without 
enclosures]  29,  12.  pp.  58-62.] 

[Sept  2.]  71O.  Account  of  money  disbursed  by  Governor  Lord  Love- 
lace on  behalf  of  the  German  Protestant  Immigrants,  and  now 
due  to  Lady  Lovelace.  Total,  £202-17-8.  Signed,  Joshua 
Kocherthall,  Herman  Schuneman.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Sept. 
2,  1709.  2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  111.] 

Sept.  2.          711.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     It  not 
Whitehall,    appearing  whether  the  warrant  revoking  Col.  Ingoldesby's  Com- 
mission as  Lieut.  Governour  of  New  York  (v.  April  8  and  11, 
1706)   was  signed  by  your  Majesty  and  sent,  or  no,  we  forbear 
transacting   with  him  till   we  receive   your  Majesty's   pleasure, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


459 


1709. 

etc.     Set    out,    N.Y.    Docs.    V.    89.     [C.O.    5,    1121.     pp.    398y 
399.  J 

Sept.  3.  712.  Lady  Lovelace  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
In  spite  of  Col.  Ingoldsby's  bullying  and  hectoring  endeavours  to 
seize  papers  entrusted  to  me  by  Lord  Lovelace  for  Lord  S  under - 
land,  and  to  prevent  my  sailing,  I  did  at  midnight  get  the  trunk 
of  papers  and  myself  on  ship-board,  etc.  The  expenses  we  were 
at  amounted  to  above  £2000  more  than  he  received  at  New 
York,  which  was  not  above  £400.  etc.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Docs. 
V.  89.  Signed,  Lovelace.  Endorsed,  Reed.  3rd,  Read  5th 
Sept.,  1709.  Holograph.  2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  112 ;  and 
5,  1121.  pp.  399-401.] 

Sept.  3.          713.     Commission  and  Instructions  of  the  Hon.  Charles  Cra- 

Craven  House,  yen  to  be  Secretary  of  South  Carolina.     Signed,  Craven  Palatin, 

Beaufort,    Craven   for   ye   Ld.    Carteret,    Maurice   Ashley,    John 

Danson,  M.  Ashley  for  Jos.  Blake,  J.  Colleton.     [C.O.  5,  289. 

pp.  226-228.] 

Sept.  5.          71-4.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     A  warrant  is  to  be  pre- 
Windsor.      pared  mokmg  Col.   Ingoldesby's  Commission  as   Lt.   Governor 
of  New  York   (cf.   Sept.   2,   1709).     Signed,  John  Povey.     'En- 
dorsed, Reed.  15th,  Read  25th  Oct.  1709.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  1049. 
Aro.  126;  and  5,  1121.     pp.  435,  436.] 

Sept.  5.          715.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     John  Sober  to  have  leave 
Windsor,      to    return    to    Barbados    etc.,    as    recommended    Aug.    25.    q.v. 

Signed,    John    Povey.      Endorsed,    Reed.    15th,    Read  25th   Oct. 

1709.     li  pp.     [C.O.   28,    12.     No.    43;   and  29,   12.     pp.   34, 

35.] 

Sept.  6.  716.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Repre- 
Whitehall.  sentation  upon  seizure  of  goods  by  the  Government  of  South 
Carolina,  belonging  to  Indian  traders  of  Virginia.  The  trade 
ought  to  be  left  free  and  open  to  Virginia.  Propose  that  the 
Government  of  Carolina  be  instructed  not  to  levy  any  duty  upon 
goods  carried  by  Virginia  Indian  traders  to  the  Western  Indians, 
and  that  the  Governor  be  required  to  return  the  bond  extorted  in 
this  case  from  them,  etc.  Set  out,  A.P.C.  II.  pp.  610-613. 
[C.O.  5,  1362.  pp.  415-419.] 

Sept.  8.  717.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  In 
Whitehall,  obedience  to  your  Majesty's  Order  in  Council,  April  28th  last, 
referring  to  our  examination  a  Collection  of  Laws  passed  in 
Pensylvania,  1705,  by  Lt.  Governor  Evans,  we  have  consider'd 
the  same.  There  are  some  which  are  unfit  to  be  continued  in 
force,  vizt.  (1)  An  Act  against  riotous  sports,  plays  and  games, 
which  was  repealed  Feb.  7,  170f  for  the  reason  then  given,  that 
it  restrains  your  Majesty's  subjects  from  innocent  sports  and 
diversions.  If  the  Assembly  shall  pass  an  Act  for  preventing 
of  riotous  sports  and  for  restraining  such  as  are  contrary  to 


460  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

the  Laws  of  this  Kingdom,  we  shall  have  no  objection  there- 
unto. (2)  An  Act  limiting  the  presentments  of  the  Grand  Jury. 
Liable  to  the  same  objection  as  the  Act  repealed  Feb.  7,  170f. 
(3)  An  Act  for  the  further  securing  the  administration  of  the 
Government  of  this  Province,  which  enacts  that  upon  the  death 
or  absence  of  the  Lt.  Governor,  and  in  the  absence  of  the 
Governor  in  Chief,  the  President  with  5  Members  of  the  Council 
may  take  upon  them  the  Governmt.  of  that  Province,  with  as 
full  power  and  authority  as  any  Lt.  Governor,  by  which  means 
your  Majesty's  approbation  of  a  Lt.  Governor  may  be  eluded, 
at  least  so  long  as  the  Proprietor  shall  think  fit  to  continue 
the  Government  in  the  hands  of  the  President  and  Council,  and 
therefore  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  this  Act  likewise  be 
repealed.  (4)  An  Act  for  the  acknowledging  and  recording  of 
deeds.  By  a  clause  in  this  Act  it  is  provided  that  no  woman 
shall  recover  her  dower  or  thirds  of  any  lands  or  tenements, 
which  have  been  sold,  alien'd  or  convey'd  by  her  husband  during 
her  coverture,  altho'  she  be  no  party  to  the  deed,  nor  anyways 
consenting  to  the  sale  or  assurance  of  such  lands  or  tenements, 
which  we  think  unreasonable,  and  repugnant  to  the  Laws  of 
this  Kingdom.  (5)  An  Act  directing  the  qualification  of  magis- 
trates and  officers,  as  also  the  manner  of  giving  evidence.  The 
objections  to  this  Law  have  already  been  stated.  (6)  An  Act 
for  the  better  proportioning  the  rates  of  mony  in  payment  made 
upon  contracts  according  to  the  former  regulation.  An  Act 
having  been  pass'd  here  for  ascertaining  the  rates  of  foreign 
coins  in  H.M.  Plantations,  we  humbly  offer  that  the  foregoing 
Act.be  repealed.  As  to  the  other  of  the  Pensylvania  Laws  re- 
ferr'd  to  us,  we  have  no  objection  against  the  same,  so  that  in 
case  your  Majesty  do  not  see  cause  within  6  months  from  their 
having  been  presented  to  your  Majesty  in  Council  (which  was 
on  April  28)  to  repeal  any  of  them,  they  will  remain  in  full 
force,  pursuant  to  tfoe  Charter  of  Propriety,  granted  to  Mr. 
Penn.  Upon  this  occasion  we  humbly  take  leave  to  represent 
to  your  Majesty  that  by  the  said  Charter  Mr.  Penn  is  impowered, 
with  the  advice  of  the  Freemen  of  that  Province,  or  their 
delegates  in  Generall  Assembly,  to  enact  Laws  for  the  good  of 
the  said  Province,  under  a  proviso,  that  such  Laws  be  not 
repugnant  or  contrary  to,  but  so  far  as  conveniently  may  be 
agreable  to  the  Laws  of  this  Kingdom;  as  also  that  a  transcript 
of  such  Laws  be  within  five  years  after  the  making  thereof  de- 
livered to  your  Majesty's  Privy  Council,  and  that  if  any  of  the 
said  Laws  within  the  space  of  6  months  after  they  shall  be 
so  deliver'd,  as  aforesaid,  be  declared  by  your  Majesty  to  be 
void,  the  said  Laws  shall  thenceforth  become  null  and  void  ac- 
cordingly;  otherwise  to  remain  in  full  force.  This  we  think 
unreasonable,  that  Mr.  Penn  should  have  5  years  time  to  lay 
his  Laws  before  your  Majesty,  and  your  Majesty  but  6  months 
to  consider  thereof ;  for  it  may  so  happen,  as  in  the  present  case, 
that  so  great  a  number  of  Laws  may  at  one  time  be  transmitted, 
as  that  it  will  be  difficult  if  not  impossible,  considering  the  other 
business  that  may  intervene,  to  examine  the  same  as  they  ought 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  461 

1709. 

to  be.  We  further  take  leave  to  observe,  that  in  none  of  the 
Acts  of  this  Province,  there  is  any  clause  for  renouncing  the 
Pretender,  or  declaring  their  allegience  to  your  Majesty,  and 
therefore  we  humbly  offer  that  your  Majesty  be  pleased  to  signify 
your  pleasure  to  Mr.  Penn  that  he  endeavour  to  get  a  Lawpass'd 
for  that  purpose.  List  of  44  Acts  annexed.  [C.O.  5,  1292. 
pp.  146-154.] 

Sept.  8.  718.  William  Popple  to  William  Penn.  The  Council  of 
Whitehall.  Trade  and  Plantations  'having  gone  through  the  examination 
of  the  Pensylvania  Laws,  intended  to  have  spoke  with  you  on 
Tuesday  last,  but  upon  enquiry  they  found  you  were  out  of 
town,  and  they  being  pressed  in  point  of  time  to  lay  the  said 
Laws  befor  H.M.,  which  they  did  this  day,  with  their  opinion 
that  several  of  them  be  repealed,  I  believe  there  will  be  no  Council 
till  the  19th  inst.,  at  least  I  hear  so.  This  I  thought  necessary 
to  acquaint  you  with.  [C.O.  5,  1292.  p.  155.] 

Sept.  8.  719.  Warrant  of  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  the 
Craven  House.  Hon  Christopher  de  Graffenried  for  10,000  acres  of  land,  et  a 
quit-rent  of  5/-  per  1000,  he  having  paid  us  a  competent  sum 
and  fully  satisfy'd  us  of  his  intention  to  carry  over  into  North 
Carolina  a  considerable  number  of  poor  Palatines,  for  the  better 
improving  and  planting  that  part  of  our  said  Province,  etc. 
Signed,  Craven  Palatine,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J. 
Danson.  [C.O.  5,  289.  p.  229.] 

Sept.  8.  72O.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Spanish  Town,  tations.  Acknowledges  duplicates,  and  H.M.  Privy  Seale  of 
April  2,  1709,  in  relation  to  one  Mr.  Jones,  a  marchant,  wherein 
I  am  ordered  to  give  an  acct.  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Grand 
Court  touching  that  affair,  all  that  I  can  find  of  the  matter 
is  that  that  land  has  been  patented  by  Robt.  Norris,  who  has 
been  dead  this  five  or  six  and  twenty  years,  and  dyed  without 
either  will  or  heire  that  ever  we  heard  of,  till  Mr.  Jones 
two  years  agoe  made  pretentions,  neither  had  Mr.  Jones  nor 
anybody  else  dureing  that  time  (that  ever  was  heard  of)  any 
goods  or  chatties  upon  that  land  to  distrain  for  H.M.  quit-rent; 
neither  doe  I  believe  that  either  Mr.  Jones  or  anybody  else  (ex- 
cept H.M.)  has  any  pretentions  to  it;  but  if  he  or  his  Agent 
pays  the  Queen's  Quit-rent,  according  to  the  Act  of  the  countrey, 
the  Receiver  Generall  will  be  ready  to  recieve  it ;  I  doe  think  it 
is  very  hard  that  they  who  faithfully  serve  H.M.  cannot  by  any 
means  come  at  there  just  due,  as  myself  who  is  £2700  behind 
in  my  sallery  as  Governor,  and  does  not  know  where  to  get 
a  groat  of  it,  and  severall  others  that's  considerably  behind ; 
and  as  to  the  great  perquisites,  anybody  should  have  had  mine 
for  £50  a  year  ever  since  I've  been  in  the  Govemmt. ;  However  I 
hope  some  other  Gentleman  will  soon  enjoy  the  same ;  As  to  ye 
affairs  of  the  Island,  Mr.  Wager  clesignes  to  saile  very  soon  with 
three  men  of  war  and  severall  marchantmen,  he  leaves  here  5 
men  of  war,  3  of  which  has  not  above  330  men  to  man  the 


462  COLONIAL  PAPEKS. 

1709. 

3,  so  yt.  we  have  onely  the  Crown  and  Portsmouth  to  depend 
upon :  Thte  Spaniards  has  an  acct.  of  a  large  French  squadron, 
who  designes  for  this  Island,  but  the  truth  of  which  I  am  a 
stranger  to,  and  beleives  your  Ldships.  will  be  better  informed 
then  I  can  here;  I  need  not  acquaint  your  Ldships.  of  our 
circumstances  in  case  we  should  be  attackt,  however  I  hope 
we  shall  show  ourselves  to  be  ffaithfull  servants  to  our  gracious 
Queen  and  Countrey,  but  doe  not  believe  we  are  capable  of 
doeing  maracles.  I  enclose  two  abstracts  of  some  Spanish  let- 
ters, which  was  intercepted  by  a  privateer,  which  gives  us  an 
acct.  what  damage  our  English  ships  has  done  in  the  South 
Seas.  I  have  seat  a  copy  of  the  same  to  the  Earle  of  Sunder  land, 
and  another  to  my  Lord  Godolphin ;  I  hope  my  last  of  July  18 
the  oreginall  is  come  safe  to  your  hand  before  this,  (copy  en- 
closed] which  gives  you  an  acct.  of  the  distemper  the  Island 
was  afflicted  with,  but  (I  thank  God)  is  pretty  healthy  at 
present ;  that  brave  man  Capt.  Hutchens  dyed  10  days  agoe, 
and  Admirall  Wager  has  been  very  bad,  but  I  hope  he  is  now 
in  a  fare  way  of  recovery ;  there  is  some  of  our  trading  sloopes 
out  upon  the  Spanish  coast,  and  others  goeing,  they  pretend 
tradeing  is  very  dull,  there's  3  small  boates,  2  periagoes,  and 
one  lance  committing  pyracy  upon  the  Spanish  coast,  which 
cannot  be  catcihed,  to  the  number  of  100  and  odd,  they  are 
of  all  nations  but  commanded  by  a  Frenchman ;  here  is  brought 
in  since  my  last  3  prizes  by  the  privateers,  a  Frenchman  and 
2  sloops.  There's  another  Frenchman  of  28  gunns,  which  they 
attackt  3  severall  times,  but  still  was  beaten  off ;  she  was 
so  disabled  that  afterwards  she  sunk,  they  report  she  was  of 
vast  vallue,  the  other  that  they  have  taken  caryed  14  gunns,  and 
they  say  is  very  rich;  their  is  just  now  brought  in  a  large 
Spanish,  ship  by  one  of  our  privateers,  on  board  of  which  their 
is  4000  sherroons  of  cocko,  I  doe  not  hear  there  is  anything 
else  on  board  of  her.  The  great  disputes  that  happens  here  be- 
twixt the  Collectors  of  H.M.  outward  Customes  and  the  captures 
of  €hie  privateers  as  also  the  private  sailers,  I  am  apprehensive 
it  will  be  much  to  the  disadvantage  of  keeping  the  seaffairing 
people  on  this  Island,  belonging  to  the  privateers,  etc.  Signed, 
Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead  Nov.  23,  1709.  2  pp. 
Enclosed, 

720.  i.  (a)  Extract  of  letter  from  Fra.  Earth.  Catoo,  Porto 
Bello,  June  18,  1709.  The  news  is  that  the  16th  has 
been  letters  here  from  Panama,  that  in  the  South  Seas 
was  two  English  ships,  one  of  24  gunns  and  the  other 
of  30.  They  have  taken  a  French  ship  and  two  boates 
near  Piatta,  and  they  are  gone  to  Guajaquil,  they  landed 
140  men  and  set  fire  to  part  of  the  place,  and  being  they 
should  not  goe  ffurther  they  capitulated  for  30,000 
peices  of  eight,  which  was  given  to  them,  and  for  all 
that  they  plundered  most  part  of  the  houses,  the  17th 
instant  arived  a  vessall  from  Panama,  which  gave  us 
notice  that  off  of  this  side  of  the  King's  Island  was 
seen  4  ships,  and  assures  us  was  the  enemy,  the  place 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


463 


1709. 


Sept.  9. 

Whitehall. 


Sept.  10. 
London. 


Sept.  10. 

Windsor. 


Sept.  10. 

Windsor. 


is  in  arms  and  in  great  confusion  and  have  secured 
Dariell  with  160  men  for  fear  the  enemy  should  goe 
to  Calidonia  as  it  seems  they  designe  and  destroy  it 
etc.,  as  also  that  they  will  be  in  the  South  Sea's  for  a 
long  time,  haveing  commission  from  Queen  Anne  for 
2  years,  and  'tis  but  9  months  since  they  left  England, 
(b)  Extract  of  letter  from  Pedro  Jozeph  Delaranza, 
Panama,  June  20,  1709.  Wee  are  not  secure  of  the 
enemy  in  these  seas  being  a  squadron  of  7  English 
vessalls,  and  they  have  taken  6  Frigates  of  great  value, 
and  some  other  small  vessalls,  etc.  Repeats  preceding. 
It  will  be  a  great  while  before  we  cann  goe  from  this 
Citty,  the  president  will  not  permit  any  vessalls  to  goe 
out.  The  whole,  1  p.  [0.0.  137,  8.  A7os.  72,72.  i.; 
and  (without  enclosure)  138,  13.  pp.  59-63.] 

721.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.      The    Queen    having    thought    fit    to    appoint   Col. 
Robert    Hunter   to   the   Governments    of    New   Yorke    and   New 
Jersey,    you    are    to    prepare     draughts     of     Commissions     and 
Instructions,  etc.     Set  out,  N.Y.  Docs.  V.  p.  91.     Signed,  Sun- 
derland.    Endorsed,   Reed.    10th,  Read   15th  Sept.,   1709.     1  p. 
[C.O.  5,  1049.     No.  115;  and  5,  1121.     p.  403.] 

722.  Mr.  Dummer  to  Mr.   Popple.     The  Frankland  packet- 
boat  is  arriv'd  in  Mounts  Bay  from  the  West  Indies.     Out  and 
home  113  days.     There  is  a  sort  of  distemper  in  Jamaica,  which 
begins  in  a  soar  throat  and  then  into  a  feavour,  which  carrys 
many  off.     The  last  Fleet  of  merchants  bound  to  Jamaica  came 
there  July  10th,  little  or  no  trade  in  those  parts.     Admiral  Wager 
designs    to   come    away    in    60    days,    from    the    arrival    of   the 
abovesaid   fleet.     Signed,    E.    Dummer.     Endorsed,    Reed.    Sept. 
10,  1709.     1  p.     [C.O.  323,  6.     A7o.  85.] 

723.  The  Queen  to  Governor  Crowe.     You  are  to  attend  us 
in  Councill  prepared  to  make  your  defence  against  the  complaint 
of  John  Sober,  who  is  permitted  to  return  to  Barbados  and  take 
depositions  etc.  as  Sept.   5.     Coimter signed,   Sunderland.    TC.O. 
5,  210.     p.  167.] 

724.  The    Queen    to    the    Governor    of    Virginia.     Whereas 
divers  inhabitants  of  the  Canton  of  Berne  have  made  it  their 
humble  petition  to  us  that  they  may  be  permitted  to  make  a 
settlement  on  the  frontiers  of  Virginia,  where  they  propose  to 
establish  a  Colony  of  aboujt  5  or  600  persons  at  their  own  charge 
etc.,  our  will  and  pleasure  is  that  you,  upon  their  arrival,  allot 
them  lands  on  the  S.W.  branch  of  the  River  Potomack,.  according 
to  your  Instructions  of  Feb.  19,   1709,  provided  always  that  in 
all  things  they  duly  conform  themselves  to  the  several  Laws  of 
Trade  and  Navigation  heretofore  made  or  which  hereafter  shall 
be   made,   etc.     Directed  to  Robert  Hunter,   tdfao  had,   however, 
been  appointed  Governor  of  New   York  Sept.  9.    Supra.      [C.O. 
5,  210.     pp.  168,  169.] 


464 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 
Sept.  12.         725.     William  Perm  to  Mr.  Popple.     Honored  Friend,  I  could 

Bristol.  have  been  glad  I  might  have  had  ye  favour  from  the  Lords 
to  have  seen  these  laws,  as  returned  by  ye  Atturny  Genii,  before 
reported ;  and  yet  pray  if  the  Bord  please  that  they  were  delay'd 
till  I  waite  upon  them,  for,  I  hope,  my  lame  leg  will  give  me 
leave  to  attend  yt.  affaire  in  two  or  3  weeks  time.  I  returne 
my  acknowledgements  for  thy  kinde  advertismt.,  and  pray  ye 
Lords  will  for  ye  Queen's  service,  eminently  more  than  mine,  $top 
ye  negative  and  sanction,  forgive  this  scrible,  and  beleive 
I  am  wth.  truth  and  esteem,  Thy  reall  and  affect.  Friend,  Signed, 
Wm.  Penn.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  14th,  Bead  15th  Sept.  1709. 
Holograph.  Addressed.  Sealed.  1^  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  A7o. 
79 ;  and  5,  1292.  p.  156.] 

[Sept.  13.]  726.  Eobert  D'Oyly,  Clerk,  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Prays  that  his  nephews,  now  detained  in  Vir- 
ginia, may  be  sent  for  and  made  wards  in  Chancery,  v.  July 
18  etc.  Endorsed,  Keod.  Sept.  13,  Bead  Nov.  2,  1709.  3  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  1316.  No.  35;  and  5,  1362.  pp.  429-431.] 


Sept.  14. 

Whitehall. 


Sept.  14. 
Whitehall. 


Sept.  14. 
Whitehall. 


Sept    14. 
Whitehall. 


Sept    14. 

Whitehall. 


Sept    15. 

Whitehall. 


Sept.  15. 
Whitehall. 


727.  W.   Popple  to  Governor    Handasyd.     The    Council    of 
Trade  and  Plantations  having  adjourned  for  some  days  I  have 
receiv'd  several  letters  from  you  to  their  Lordships  dated  May 
1,  25  and  26,  June  14  and  July  18,  1709,  all  which  letters  will 
be  laid  before  their  Lordships  at  their  next  meeting  etc.     [C.O. 
138,   12.     p.  449.] 

728.  Same   to    Lt.    Governor   Bennett.     To   same    effect   as 
preceding.  Encloses  letter  to  be  forwarded .   [C.O.  38,  6.  p  470.] 

729.  Same  to  Governor  Crow.     To  same  effect.     [C.O.  29, 
12.     p.  23.] 

730.  Same  to  Governor  Parke.    To  same  effect.    Concludes: 
Upon  a  petition  from  Mr.  Nevine  H.M.  was  pleased  to  order  that 
the  complaints  against  you  be  heard  before  her  in  Councill  Sept. 
26.     I  have  accordingly  communicated  your  papers  to  Perry  for 
your  defence,  etc.     [C.O.  153,  10.     pp.  374-376.] 

731.  W.  Popple  to  Mr.  Burchett.     Encloses  extract  of  letter 
from  Governor  Handasyd,  July  18,  1709,  relating  to  the  want  of 
seamen  of  H.M.   ships  of  war  etc.  to  be  laid  before  the  Lord 
High  Admiral.     [C.O.  138,  12.     pp.  449,  450.] 

732.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sunder  - 
land.     Enclose  draughts   of  Commissions   for  Col.    Hunter,   for 
the  Governments  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  in  the  usual  form. 
Set  out,  N.Y.  Docs.  V.  92.      [C.O.  5,  1121.    pp.  404-422;  wnd 
5,  995.     pp.   1-19;  and  5,  189.     pp.   1-18.] 

733.  Same  to   same.     Enclose    Capt.     Holmes'    account  of 
French  cruelty  in  the  Bahamas,   v.   April  20,   1709.     [C.O.    5, 
1292.     p.   156.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


465 


1709. 

Sept.  15.        734.     W.  Popple  to  Wm.  Penn.     Reply  to  Sept.  12.    Refers 
Whitehall,    to  letter  of  Sept.  8.     Their  Lordships  do  not  think  it  proper  for 
them  to  do  anything  further  therein.    I  am  informed  the  Council 
will  not  meet  till  the  26th  inst.     [(7.0.  5,  1292.     p.  157.] 

Sept.  15.  735.  Warrant  from  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina,  grant- 
Craven  House,  ing  Mr.  Lays  Michel  2500  acres  of  land  in  N.  Carolina,  at  a 
quit- rent  of  5/-  per  1000  acres,  "he  having  given  us  many  and 
undoubted  proofs  of  his  inclination  to  our  service  and  his 
continual  endeavours  to  promote  the  general  good  of  our  Province, 
and  we  having  also  received  a  reasonable  summe  of  money  of 
him"  etc.  Signed,  Craven  Palatin,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashley,  J. 
Colleton,  J.  Danson.  [C.O.  5,  289.  p.  230.] 


Sept    16. 

Whitehall. 


736.  Order    of    Queen    in    Council.     Refering    following    to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  opinion.     Signed, 
Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Sept.  29,  1709.  '  En- 
closed, 

736  i.  Lt.  Governor  Walter  Hamilton  to  the  Queen.     Prays 

for  H.M.  Commission  to  be  Lt.  General  1  of  the  Leeward 
Islands,  and  in  case  of  the  death  or  absence  of  the 
Capt.  Generall  to  have  the  usual  salary  and  perquisites 
of  Lieut.  Generals  in  such  cases.  The  Captains  Gen- 
eral have  pretended  a  power  of  nominating  whom  they 
think  fitt  to  that  trust.  Petitioner  hath  served  long  and 
faithfully,  and  suffer'd  much  in  his  person  and  estate, 
,  and  humbly  hopes  he  is  very  acceptable  to  the  inhabi- 

tants, to  whom  in  consideration  of  their  near  neigh- 
bourhood to  the  enemy ;  dureing  the  warr  it  would  be  a 
great  satisfaction  to  have  the  chief  command  of  those 
Islands  setled  by  your  Majesty,  etc.  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O. 
152,  8.  Nos.  33,  33.  i.;  and  153,  10.  pp.  377-380.] 

Sept  16.  737.  Mr.  Bendysh  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following  to  be 
laid  before  the  Council  of  Trade.  Signed,  H.  Bendysh.  En- 
dorsed, Reed.  Sept.  19,  1709.  Addressed,  f  p.  Enclosed, 

737  i.  Resolution  of  a  Committee  of  the  Commissioners   for 

the  relief  and  settlement  of  the  poor  Palatines,  Guild- 
hall, Sept.  13,  1709.  The  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions are  the  most  proper  persons  for  considering  the 
settlement  of  some  of  the  Palatines  in  Jamaica,  and  none 
are  fitter  to  put  the  same  in  execution  under  them  than 
Capt.  Jones,  Benjamin  Way  and  Mr.  Whitchurch,  etc. 
Copy.  1  p. 

737.  ii.-vi.  Duplicates  of  Representations  of  Aug.   3,  30   (2), 

and  of  Proposals  of  July  27,  Aug.  2.  [C.O.  137,  8. 
Nos.  49,  49.  i.,  50-54;  and  (with  enclosure  i.  only) 
138,  12.  pp.  451-453.] 

Sept.  17.         738.     H.M.  Warrant  revoking  Col.  Ingoldesby's  Commission 

Windsor      as  Lt.  Governor  of  New  York.     Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  v.  p.  91. 

Countersigned,    Sunderland.      Endorsed,    Reed.    Read    Oct.    21, 

Wt.  11522.  CP30 


466  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

1709     lp.    [0.0.  5,  1049.     Nos.  125,148;  and  5,  210.  -pp.  170, 
171 ;  and  5,  1121.     pp.  434,  435 ;  and  5,  1122.     pp.  139,  140.] 

Sept.  17.  739.  Governor  and  Council  of  Carolina  to  the  Council  of 
Carolina.  Trade  and  Plantations.  Reply  to  letter  of  May  7,  1707.  The 
number  of  ye  inhabitants  in  this  province  of  all  sorts  are 
computed  to  be  9580  souls,  of  which  there  are  1360  freemen, 
900  free  women,  tO  white  servant  men,  60  white  servant  women, 
1700  white  free  children,  1800  negro  men  slaves,  1100  negro 
women  slaves,  500  Indian  men  slaves,  tOO  Indian  women  slaves, 
1200  negro  children  slaves,  and  300  Indian  children  slaves. 
The  freemen  of  this  Province,  by  reason  of  the  late  sickness 
brought  here  from  other  parts,  tho  now  very  healthy,  and  small 
supply  from  other  parts,  are  within  these  five  years  last  past 
decreased  about  100,  free  women  about  40,  white  servants  for 
the  aforesaid  reasons  and  haveing  compleated  their  servitude  are 
dec[r]eas'd  50,  white  servant  women  for  the  same  reason  30, 
white  children  are  encreased  500,  negro  men  slaves  by  im- 
portation £00,  negro  women  slaves  200,  Indian  men  slaves  by 
reason  of  our  late  conquest  over  the  French  and  Spaniards  and 
the  success  of  our  forces  against  the  Appallackys  and  other 
Indian  engagements  are  wifohin  this  5  years  encreased  to  the 
number  of  400,  and  the  Indian  woman  slaves  to  450,  negroe 
children  to  COO,  and  Indian  children  to  200.  The  whole  number 
of  tho  Militia  of  this  Province  is  950  white  men  fit  to  bear 
arms,  vizt.  two  Regiments  of  'Foot,  both  makeing  up  16  com- 
panys,  50  men  one  with  another  in  a  company,  to  which  must 
be  added  a  like  number  of  negro  men  slaves,  the  Capt.  of  each 
Com'pany  by  an  'Act  of  Assembly,  being  obliged  to  enlist,  traine 
up  and  bring  into  the  field  for  each  white  one  able  slave  armed 
with  gunn  or  lance  for  each  man  in  his  Company,  and  the 
Governor's  troop  of  guards  consisting  of  about  40  men,  the 
Col.,  Lt.  Col.,  Capt.  Cornet  and  two  Exans,  together  w'ifch  9 
patrowls  of  10  men  in  each  patrowl  to  take  care  of  the  women 
and  children  in  time  of  allarum  and  invasion,  French  proclestants, 
and  an  independent  compa.  at  Santee  consisting  of  45  men  and 
pattrowle  of  10  men ;  the  commoditys  exported  from  this  Prov- 
ince to  England  are  rice,  pitch,  tarr,  buck  and  doe  skinns  in 
the  haire  and  Indian  drest,  allso  some  few  fuirs,  as  beaver1, 
otter,  wilde  catt,  racoons,  buffloe,  and  bear  skins,  and  some 
ox  and  cows  hides,  a  little  silk,  white  oak  pipe  staves,  and 
sometimes  some  other  sorts,  wee  are  sufficiently  provided  with 
timber  fitt  for  mast  and  yards  of  severall  sizes  both  pine  and 
Cyprus,  which  may  He  afforded  very  reasonable  and  supplied 
at  all  times  in  the  year,  there  being  no  frost  or  snow  con- 
siderable- enough  to  hinder  bringing  them  down  the  rivers.  Other 
commodities  not  of  the  produce  of  this  place,  but  brought  here 
from  the  American  Islands  and  exported  for  England,  are  log- 
wood>  brasiletto,  fustick,  Cortex,  Isleathera,  tortoiseshell,  amber  - 
grease  and  cocoe.  From  this  Province  are  exported  to  severall 
of  ye  American  Islands,  as  Jamaica,  Barbados,  Antigua,  Nevis, 
St.  Christophers,  the  Virgins,  Montserrat,  and  the  Bahama  Is- 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES.  467 

1709. 

lands,  staves,  sloops  and  shingles,  beef,  pork,  rice,  pitch,  tarr, 
green-wax-candles  made  of  myrtle -berries,  tallow  and  tallow 
candles,  butter,  English,  and  Indian  pease,  and  sometimes  a  small 
quantity  of  tann'd  leather.  Goods  imported  from  the  foregoing 
Islands  are  rum,  sugar,  mollosses,  cotton,  fustick,  brasilettd, 
cortex,  Isleathera,  ambergrease,  tortoise-shell,  salt  and  pamento. 
Logwood  is  generally  brought  from  the  bay  of  Campeachy. 
Wee  are  allso  often  furnished  with  negros  from  the  American 
Islands,  chiefly  from  Barbados  and  Jamaica,  from  whence  aMso 
comes  a  considerable  quantity  of  English  manufactures  and 
some  prize  goods  (vizt.)  clarrett,  brandy  etc.  taken  from  the 
French  and  Spaniards.  Wee  have  allso  commerce  with  Boston, 
Road  Island,  Pensilvania,  New  York,  and  Virginea,  to  wch. 
places  wee  export  Indian  slaves,  light  dear  skinns- drest,  some 
tann'd  leather,  pitch,  tarr,  and  a  small  quantity  of  rice.  From 
thence  wee  receive  beere,  sider,  flower,  dry  cod-fish  and  mac- 
kerell,  and  from  Virginea  sometimes  European  commodities. 
Further  wee  have  a  trade  to  ye  Maderas,  (from  whence  wee 
receive  most  of  our  wine)  allso  to  St.  Thomas  and  Curacco,  to 
which  places  wee  send  ye  same  commodities  as  to  the  other  Is- 
lands, excepting  pitch  tarr  and  rice  lately  prohibited,  which 
prohibition  is  greatly  disadvantageous  to  our  trade  in  those  parts. 
The  trade  of  this  Province  is  certainly  encreased  of  late  years, 
there  being  a  greater  consumption  yearly  of  most  commodities 
imported.  And  the  inhabitants  by  a  yearly  addition  of  slaves 
are  made  the  more  capable  of  improving  the  produce  of  the 
Colony.  Notwithstanding  'tis  our  opinion  that  the  value  of  one 
[  ?  our]  import  is  greater  (if  we  include  negros  with  the 
commodities  that  are  consumed  here)  then  our  export  by  which 
means  it  comes  to  pass  that  wee  are  very  near  drained  of  all 
our  silver  and  gold  coine,  nor  is  there  any  remedy  to  prevent 
this  but  by  a  number  of  honest  laborious  persons  to  come 
amongst  us,  that  would  consume  but  little,  by  which  means  the 
produce  of  the  country  being  encreased  might  in  time  make  our 
exportation  equalize,  if  not  exceed  our  importation.  That  wch. 
has  been  a  considerable,  though  unavoidable  hindrance  to  the 
greater  encrease  of  our  trade,  is  the  great  duty  on  goods  both 
imported  and  exported,  occasioned  by  the  debts  ye  Country 
is  involved  in  by  the  late  expedition  in  the  time  of  Governor 
Moore  against  St.  Augustine,  and  the  charge  in  fortifying  Charles 
Town  this  time  of  warr  and  danger,  to  which  may  very  justly 
be  added  the  late  prohibition  of  pitch,  tarr  and  rice.  There  are 
not  above  tenn  or  twelve  sail  of  ships  or  other  vessells  belong- 
ing to  this  province,  about  halfe  wch.  number  only  were  built 
here  besides  a  ship  and  a  sloop  now  on  the  stocks  near  launch- 
ing, neither  are  there  above  twenty  sea-faring  men  who  may  be 
properly  accounted  settlers  or  livers  in  the  province.  There 
is  not  as  yett  any  manufactures  setled  in  this  province  saving 
some  particular  planters  who  for  their  own  use  onely  make 
a  few  stuffs  of  silk  and  cotton,  and  a  sort  of  cloth  of  cotton 
and  wool  of  their  own  growth  to  cloath  their  slaves.  All  possi- 
ble precautions  are  taken  by  this  Goverment  to  prevent  illegal 


468  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

trade,    the    Acts    of    Trade   and    Navigation   being    strictly    en- 
forsed  on   all   occasions. 

The  Indians  under  the  protection  of  this  Govermt.  are  numer- 
ous, and  may  be  of  great  use  and  service  in  time  o~f  invasion, 
the  Nations  wee  have  trade  with  are  as  follows:  (vizt.)  the 
Yamasees,  who  are  seated  about  80  or  100  miles  south  from 
Charles  Town,  they  consist  of  about  500  men  able  to  bear 
armes,  they  are  become  great  .warriours,  and  continually  are 
annoying  the  Spaniards  and  the  Indians  their  allies.  To  the 
southward  of  the  Yamasees  are  a  small  nation  called  Palea- 
chuckles,  in  number  about  80  men,  they  are  settled  in  a  town 
about  20  miles  up  the  Savanna  river,  and  are  very  serviceable  in 
furnishing  with  provisions  the  Englishmen  who  goe  up  that  River 
in  perry-agues  wth.  supplys  of  goods  for  the  Indians,  and  bring 
skinns  in  returne  for  them.  About  150  miles  south-west  from 
Charles  Town  is  seated  on  ye  aforesaid  River  a  nation  of  Indians 
called  the  Savannas,  they  are  settled  in  three  towns,  arid  consist 
of  about  150  men;  a  few  miles*  distant  on  ye  said  River  is  a 
considerable  town  of  Indians,  that  deserted  the  Spaniards  and 
came  with  our  forces  from  them  about  five  years  past,  they 
are  known  by  the  name,  of  the  Appalatchys,  and  are  about  250 
men,  and  behave  themselves  very  submissive  to  this  Goverment, 
these  people  are  seated  very  advantageous  for  carrying  on  trade. 
Indians  seated  upwards  of  700  miles  off  are  supplied  with  goods 
by  our  white  men  that  transport  them  from  this  River  uppon 
Indians  backs.  About  150  miles  westward  are  settled  on  Ochasee 
River  11  towns  of  Indians  consisting  of  600  men,  amongst  whom 
are  severally  families  of  the  aforesaid  Appalatchys.  These  people 
are  great  hunters  and  warriours  and  consume  great  quantity  of 
English  goods.  About  150  miles  west  from  these  people  on 
the  Chochtakuchy  River,  there  is  a  town  of  Indians  eetled 
for  conveynicency  of  carrying  on  trade  who  are  very  service- 
able on  that  account,  these  people  are  seated  about  middway 
between  Ochasee  River  and  the  settlements  of  the  Tallabousees 
and  the  Attalbamees.  They  are  many  townes  and  consist  of  at 
least  1SOO  men,  are  great  warriours  and  trade  with  this  Govern- 
ment for  great  quantities  of  goods.  About  200  miles  from  the 
Tallaboosees  and  ye  Attalbamees  westward  lies  the  Nation  of 
Indians  called  the  Chickysaws,  who  are  \_at~]  least  in  number 
600  men,  these  Indians  are  stout  and  warrlike,  they  are  divided, 
part  in  the  English  intrest  and  part  in  the  French,  there  is  a 
factory  settled  by  those  French  about  four  days  journey  down 
that  River  whereon  the  Tallabooses  and  Attalbamees  live.  Wee 
have  but  few  skinns  or  furrs  from  the  Chickysaws,  they  living 
soe  distant  twill  hardly  answer  ye  carriage,  slaves  is  wt. 
wee  have  in  exchange  for  our  goods,  wch.  "these  people  take 
from  severall  nations  of  Indians  that  live  beyond  them.  The 
Chereky  Indians  live  about  250  miles  northwest  from  our  settle- 
ment on  a  ridge  of  mountains,  they  are  a  numerous  people,  but 
very  lasey ;  they  are  settled  in  Sixty  townes,  and  are  at  least 
5000  men,  the  trade  we  have  with  them  is  inconsiderable, 
they  being  but  ordinary  hunters  and  less  warriours.  There  are 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


469 


1709. 

several!  other  Nations  of  Indians  that  inhabit  to  the  Northward 
of  as,  our  trade  as  yett  with  them  is  not  much,  but  wee  are 
in  hopes  to  improve  it  very  shortly.  From  the  aforesaid  severall 
Nations  of  Indians  is  bought  and  shipped  for  England  one 
year  with  another  about  50,000  skinns,  to  purchase  wch.  re- 
quires at  least  £2,500  or  £3000  first  costs  in  England;  the 
goods  proper  for  a  trade  with  ye  Indians  are  English  cottons, 
broad  cloth  of  severall  coloures,  doffells  blew  and  redd,  beads 
of  severall  sorts  and  sizes,  axes,  hoes,  faulchions,  small  fuzee 
gunns,  powder,  bulletts  and  small  shott. 

St.  Augustine,  a  Spanish  garison,  being  planted  to  the  south- 
ward of  us  about  100  leagues,  makes  Carolina  a  frontier  to  all 
the  English  settlements  on  the  Maine.  Therefore  Charles  Town, 
the  cheif  port  in  Carolina,  by  the  direction  and  diligence  of  our 
present  Governor,  Sir  Nathaniell  Johnson,  is  surrounded  with  a 
regualar  fortification,  consisting  of  bastions,  flankers  and  halfe 
moons,  ditched  and  pallasadoed  and  mounted  with  83  gunns, 
allso  at  the  entrance  of  the  harbour  on  a  place  called  Windmill 
Point,  within  carabine  shott  of  wch.  all  vessells  must  pass  by, 
is  now  building  and  almost  finished  a  triangular  fort  and  plat- 
form of  capacity  to  mount  30  gunns,  which  when  finished  will 
bo  the  key  and  bulwark  of  this  province,  but  wanting  some 
large  and  heavy  gunns  both  for  the  fortifications  about  Charles 
Town  and  thie  said  fort  and  platforme,  together  with  a  sutable 
storo  of  shott,  the  preservation  of  this  province  sbe  nearly  con- 
cerning the  security  of  the  rest  of  H.M.  Plantations  on  the 
Maine.  Wee  humbly  conceive  that  it  would  be  conducive  to 
H.M.  service  to  have  these  places  as  well  fortifyed  as  possible, 
the  inhabitants  of  this  Province  having  been  allready  at  very 
great  charge  and  expence  towards  perfecting  soe  necessary  a 
work,  wee  therefore  pray  your  Lordships  to  become  interces- 
sours  to  her  Sacred  Majesty  that  she  would  pleas  to  give 
us  50  gunns,  (vizt.)  30  dimi  canon  and  20  culverin  of  the  largest 
size  with  a  sutable  store  of  shott  and  powder,  which  is  all  wee 
want  to  make  Carolina  impregnable.  Your  Lordships  shall  from 
time  to  time  receive  from  us  a  faithfull  account  of  all  occur- 
rancfls  that  can  anyways  concerne  either  H.M.  service,  the 
interest  of  Great  Brittaine,  or  the  advantage  of  this  particuler 
Province.  Signed,  N.  Johnson,  Tho.  Broughton,  Robt.  Gibbes, 
Geo.  Smith,  Richd.  Beresford.  Endorsed,  Reed.  1st,  Read  7th 
Dec.  1709.  10  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1264.  No.  86 ;  and  5,  1292.  pp. 
166-176.] 

Sept.  20.         74O.    W.  Popple  to  Josiah  Burchett.     The  Council  of  Trade 

Whitehall,     and  Plantations  being  informed  that  my  Lord  High  Admiral  has 

referred  the  papers  relating  to  the  pressing  of  seamen  at  New 

York  (Aug.  30)  to  the  Attorney  and  Solicitor  General,  desire  a 

copy  of  their  opinion  thereon.     [C.O.  5,  1121.     pp.  422,  423.] 

Sept.  20.         741.     Michael  Ayon  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Aiitigua.     By  H.E.'s  order  I  give  your  Lordshipps  an  account  of  a  bar- 
barous designed  murder  against  him  on  Sept.  5th.     Last  year 


470  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

Mr.  Nivine's  being  taken  "into  France,  going  to  England,  and 
not  haveing  an  opertunity  of  writeing  to  his  friends  in  Antigua 
as  soon  as  expected,  the  faction  of  this  Island  concluded  he  was 
lost,  which  put  them  upon  a  desperate  designe  of  shooting 
the  Generall,  which  they  in  a  little  time  after  fruitlessly  at- 
tempted by  shooting  at  Capt.  Clarke  of  the  Adventure  mann  of 
warr,  who  they  tooke  for  the  Generall,  but  mist  him,  in  a 
litle  time  after  they  shott  att  himselfe  and  likewise  mist  him, 
he  then  not  thinkeing  it  any  other  then  an  accidentall  shott, 
in  a  litle  time  after  they  had  a  letter  from  Nivine  which  gave 
them  some  hopes  of  accompleishing  their  ends  in  a  more  honour- 
able manner,  but  afterwards  hearing  that  your  Lordshipps  had 
made  a  report  in  his  favour  and  knowing  that  their  base  com- 
plaints would  not  beare  inquireing  into,  what  with  the  disapoint- 
ment  and  the  vast  expence  they  had  been  at,  putt  them  once  more 
upon  acting  as  designed  a  piece  of  viltanny  as  never  was  heard 
of  before  in  a  Christian  country  which  they  brought  about 
after  this  manner.  A  notorious  runn-away  negroe  belonging  to 
one  Capt.  John  Otto  Bayer,  who  had  for  some  time  been  runn 
away  from  his  said  Master,  hearing  that  there  was  a  reward  of 
£30  for  the  bringing  of  him  in  dead  or  alive,  came  and  sur- 
rendred  himselfe  to  one  Mr.  James  Field  Minister  of  St.  Johns 
in  this  Island,  who  went  with  him  to  his  said  Master  and 
begg'd  very  earnestly  for  his  pardon,  which  at  last  he  obtained, 
which  makes  every  one  here  justly  suspect  that  the  parson  was 
in  great  measure  guilty  of  what  was  designed  against  H.E., 
because  (1)  it  seems  very  strange  that  the  parson  (who  is  very 
barbarous  in  his  nature,  frequently  punishing  allmost  to  death 
the  smallest  of  crimes  in  his  owne  slaves,  and  never  was  knowne 
to  begg  for  any  slave  before)  should  at  this  time  begg  for  soe 
great  an  affender,  and  at  the  same  time  geld  and  cutt  of  one  of 
his  owne  slaves  leggs,  who  was  seduced  by  this  negro  and  was 
not  equally  cullpable  with  the  other,  if  he  did  not  designe  this 
slave  of  Capt.  Otto's  for  the  Generall's  executioner;  (2)  Why 
should  the  parson  and  Col.  William  Thomas,  clandestinely  leave 
the  f  Island  the  night  before  the  Generall  was  to  be  shott  by 
thie  negroe,  if  they  had  not  been  afraid  of  hearing  their  guilt 
repeated  by  others  and  the  negroe's  confession  if  taken,  their 
forceing  away  of  Capt.  Harry  without  takeing  the  Genii. 's  letters, 
and  severall  other  instances  of  this  kind  gives  just  grounds  to 
believe  that  they  were  deeply  concerned  in  the  murder  de- 
signed; the  management  of  which  was  left  to  one  Bastian 
Otto  Bayer,  a  profligate  young  fellow,  who  the  faction  of  this 
Island  putt  at  the  head  of  the  mobb  when  the  riott  was  com- 
mitted; they  tooke  care  to  convey  Otto  and  the  negro  off  the 
Island  after  they  had  shott  the'  Generall  from  behind  a  hedge 
through  the  arme  in  a  moonlight  night  as  he  was  comeing  from 
Capt.  Matthews's,  the  bullett  had  gone  through  his  bodye  had 
not  his  horse  started  at  the  flash,  being  very  near.  H.E.  has 
gone  through  a  great  deale  of  torture,  but  now  is  more  easy, 
the  fractured  bones  beginning  to  worke  out,  and  is  in  hopes 
he  will  not  loose  the  use  of  his  arme,  though  it  was  a  large 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  471 

1709. 

muskett  ball  that  went  through.  Att  the  house  of  one  Andrew 
Murray  (one  of  the  subscribers)  near  the  place  where  the 
Generall  was  shott,  I  am  informed  by  Mr.  Duncan  Dee  jr., 
that  there  was  tenn  or  a  dozn  of  that  faction  by  him  seen 
come  out  of  the  said  house  after  he  left  the  Generall,  he 
being  with  him  at  Capt.  Matthews's,  and  it  is  believed  they  way- 
ted  there  to  heare  the  success  of  the  shott;  another  thing 
which  makes  people  believe  the  Parson  had  a  hand  in  the  de- 
signed murder  is,  that  upon  the  news  brought  by  the  Diamond 
mann  of  warr,  that  your  Lordshipps  had  made  a  report  that  it 
was  but  reasonable  the  Generall  should  be  heard  in  answer  to 
what  they  alledge  against  him  in  their  articles,  some  of  the 
Generall's  friends  (upon  this)  makes  a  coppy  o'f  verses,  'in  the 
GeneralFs  behalfe,  which  lashes  the  faction  very  home  by  ex- 
poseing  their  villany ;  and  nailed  them  up  at  a  publick  door ;  the 
Parson  writes  at  the  bottom  of  the  verses,  in  Latin,  words 
to  this  effect,  "Lett  them  rejoice  at  the  conquest,  for  he  wont 
enjoy  it  long."  This  was  about  a  weeke  before  the  Generall 
was  shott.  Signed,  Michael  Ayon.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Dec.  28, 
1709,  Bead  Jan.  12,  170  TV  Addressed.  Sealed.  3  pp.  \C.O. 
152,  8.  No.  45;  and  153,  10.  pp.  440-445.] 

Sept.  22.  742.  Earl  of  SunderUnd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Whltehall.  tions.  Captain  Jones,  Mr.  Benjamin  Way  and  Mr.  Whitchurch 
having  made  proposals  for  selling  some  of  the  Palatines  at 
Jamaica,  you  are  to  hear  what  these  gentlemen  have  to  offer, 
and  report  your  opinion  what  agreement  it  will  be  proper  for 
H.M.  to  make  with  them  in  order  to  the  providing  for  these 
poor  people  in  those  parts.  Signed,  Sunderland.  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  22nd,  Bead  27th  Sept.  1709.  1  p.  [0.0.  137,  8.  No. 
48;  and  138,  12.  pp.  450,  451.] 

Sept.  22.  743.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  Christopher  Gale, 
Craven  House.  Receiver  General  of  North  Carolina.  You  are  to  supply  Chris- 
topher de  Graffenried  with  such  necessaries  and  provisions  of 
ours  for  the  poor  Palatines  (cf.  Sept.  8)  at  such  rates  as  you 
received  them,  taking  and  forwarding  his  receipt  for  same  etc. 
Signed,  Craven  Palatin,  Beaufort,  M.  Ashjey,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Dan- 
son.  [C.O.  5,  289.  p.  231.] 

Sept.  22.  744.  Same  to  the  Governor,  or  President  and  Council  and 
Craven  House.  Assembly,  of  North  Carolina.  We  being  extreamly  desireous 
that  the  good  of  our  Province  should  by  all  proper  means  be 
promoted,  and  being  sencible  that  nothing  can  more  effectually 
contribute  thereto  than  by  encreasing  ye  number  of  the  inhabi- 
tants and  planters,  who  by  their  labour  and  industry  may  occupy 
the  soil  and  improve  the  produce  thereof,  we  have  therefore 
given  all  reasonable  encouragemt.  to  some  families  of  poor 
Palatines  to  come  and  settle  amongst  you,  and  have  also  given 
directions  as  preceding.  We  do  earnestly  recommend  them  to 
your  care,  Gentlemen,  etc.  P.S.  We  have  received  ye  several 
pacquetfe  of  complaints  from  Col.  Gary  and  Mr.  Glover,  etc., 


472  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

which  disturbances  we  are  very  much  dissatisfied  with,  being; 
a  great  hindrance  to  ye  settlemt.  of  that  part  of  our  Province, 
and  a  disadvantage  as  well  to  us  as  yourselves,  and  have  given 
particular  instructions  to  Governor  Tynte,  who  is  now  gone 
over,  for  him  to  settle  those  disorders.  Signed  as  preceding. 
[C.O.  5,  289.  p.  232.] 

[Sept.  23.]  745.  Merchants  of  Maryland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Complain  against  3  recent  Acts  of  Maryland.  (1) 
An  Act  for  releif  of  poor  debtors.  It  is  evident  this  Law  was 
made  to  surprize  all  the  traders  in  Brittain  who  had  launched 
out  their  estates  in  the  support  of  the  creditt  of  the  planters, 
and  being  at  such  distance  could  not  be  able  to  discover  ye 
frauds  of  such  as  should  make  over  their  negroes  and  estates, 
under  cover  to  others,  under  pretence  of  country  debts,  as 
severall  have  been  fouind  to  do,  and  their  lawes  allowes.  Be- 
sides it's  evident  that  by  this  Law  the  Country  intends  to  sett 
themselves  up  at  the  cost  and  ruine  of  the  merchants  that 
have  given  them  creditt,  tho  at  the  same  time  they  ruine  the 
future  credit  of  the  country.  It  is  impossible  to  support  the 
tobacco  trade  without  credit;  without  it,  the  people  must  manu- 
facture to  cloath  themselves.  The  cheif  debates  in  the  House 
of  Burgesses  was  that  they,  ruining  credit,  might  force  the 
people  to  manufacturyes,  which  is  in  effect  to  destroy  the 
Queen's  Revenue.  This  Law  supposes  that  he  that  shall  swear 
he  is  not  worth  £5,  besides  his  cloaths,  etc.,  shall  be  dis- 
charged. This  is  to  cutt  off  all  the  justice  of  Trade,  and  the 
honour  that  hath  ever  been  given  it  at  once.  Because  the 
merchants  have  given  the  Planters  credit  to  buy  negroes  to 
cloath  and  support  their  families,  not  upon  any  known  or  sup- 
posed stock  they  had,  but  upon  their  justice  and  future  crops, 
and  this  Law  at  once  cutts  out  all  merchants  that  have  trusted 
them  etc.  And  it  is  very  remarkable  how  they  pretend  to  ex- 
tend their  Law  to  all  Brittain,  and  to  the  Traders  there  to  whom 
only  they  are  valuably  in  debt,  without  any  man's  being  heard 
against  the  Law,  etc.  No  such  law  as  this,  which  so  eminently 
concerns  this  Kingdome,  ought  to  be  made  in  any  of  the  Plan- 
tations before  it  be  considered  here,  where  it  hath  its  greatest 
efficacy.  If  such  plantations  have  such'  power  to  destroy  the 
credit  and  trade  of  Europe,  it's  most  certain  it  gives  them  a 
power  in  time  to  dismember  themselves  from  Brittain  and  ye 
dependance  thereon  which  is  a  consideration  to  be  well  digested, 
etc.  etc.  (2)  An  Act  for  the  lessning  the  costs  and  damages 
on  Bills  of  Exchange,  etc.  By  this  Law  any  person  who  shall 
draw  bills,  are  sure  not  to  pay  common  interest  for  the  money 
so  drawn,  etc.  (3)  An  Act  for  Townes.  In  this  Law  they 
confine  all  H.M.  subjects  of  Great  Brittain  to  keep  store  with 
their  goods  imported  thither  in  towns  at  present  unbuilt,  but 
reserve  a  liberty  to  the  inhabitants  of  that  province  to  keep 
store  with  their  own  goods  in  any  part  of  the  country.  By 
this  Law  they  enact  that  all  the  manufacturys  of  Great  Brittain 
being  once  imported  into  Maryland,  can't  be  exported  again 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


473 


1709. 


Sept.  24. 
Office  of 
Ordnance. 


Sept.  24. 

Admiralty 
Ofrce. 


from  thence,  which  if  it  can't  be  sold,  must  by  this  Law 
perish  there,  to  the  great  discouragemt.  of  Trade  and  Navigation. 
We  humbly  hope  H.M.  subjects  of  Europe  may  be  supported 
alwayes  on  the  same  freedom  and  privi ledges  of  trade  with  any 
the  inhabitants  of  this  or  any  other  plantation  whatever;  there 
hath  been  severall  Laws  in  this  kind  attempted,  but  have  alwaies 
been  thought  unreasonable  and  rejected.  Signed,  Micajah  Perry 
and  nine  others.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Sept.  23,  Read  Oct.  17, 
1709.  2  pp.  [0.0.  5,  716.  No.  67;  and  5,  727.  pp.  126- 
132.] 

746.  Board  of  Ordnance  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    This  Office  for  many  years  having  been  at  an  extror- 
dinary    expence    in    supplying    the    Plantations    with    Ordnance 
stores,  for  which  no  money  has  been  paid  by  the  plantations,  nor 
any   allowance   made   by   parliamt.,    wee    desire   if    any    of   thje 
Plantations    have    at    this   time    any    occasion    for    stores,    your 
Lordships  will  be  pleaseid  to  make  such  early  applications  to 
H.M.  in  Councill  that  wee  may  receive  H.M.  pleasure  for  making 
a   demand  for  the   same  to   parliamt.   by   putting   it   into  our 
estimates.     Signed,   C.   Musgrave,  Ja.  Craggs.     Endorsed,  Reed. 
24,  Read  27th  Sept.  1709.     1  p.     \C.O.  323,  6.     No.  86;  and 
324,  9.     pp.  406,  407.] 

747.  Mr.  Burchett  to  W.  Popple.     Encloses  opinion  of  At- 
torney and  Solicitor  General  on  pressing  seamen  at  New  Yorke, 
"by  the  Govermt.  there  for  the  use  of  H.M.  shipps  attending  that 
Island"    [sic].      Signed,    J.    Burchett.      Endorsed,    Reed.    24th, 
Read  27th  Sept.  1709.     £  p.     Enclosed, 

747.  i.  Extract  of  letter  from  Col.  Ingoldesby,  July  5,  1709. 

,1*.PP- 

747  ii.,  iii.  Opinions  of  the  Attorney  General  (Rayner)  and 
Chief  Justice  (Mompesson)  of  New  York  touching  the 
impressing  of  seamen,  etc.  July  3,  1709.  Duplicate. 

747.  iv.  Opinion  of  H.M.  Attorney  General  thereupon.  I 
concur  with  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Rayner,  Attorney  Gen- 
eral of  New  York.  Mr.  Mompesson  seems  to  me  to 
mistake  the  point  by  talking  of  the  dispensing  power. 
The  question  is  whether  this  Act  does  forbid  ye  Civill 
Magistrate  from  takeing  up  seamen  for  H.M.  service, 
and  I  think  it  does  not.  Signed,  Ja.  Mountague. 
Sept.  15,  1709.  2£  pp. 

747.  v.  Opinion  of  the  Solicitor  General  on  the  clause  in  the 
Act  for  the  encouragement  of  trade  in  America  re- 
lating to  pressing.  This  clause  extends  only  to  the 
officers  of  H.M.  ships  of  war,  who  are  apt  to  be 
irregular  in  the  execution  of  this  power,  etc.  It  can't 
be  imagin'd  that  it  was  design'd  to  take  away  a  pre- 
rogative of  the  Crown,  in  which  the  common  security 
of  the  Plantations  is  so  much  concern'd,  by  depriving 
the  Governors  of  the  power  of  providing  the  necessary 
men  for  H.M.  ships  of  war,  etc.  Signed,  R.  JSyre. 


474 


COLONIAL  PAPEKS. 


1709. 


Sept.  25. 

Barbados . 


Sept.  17,  1709.     2  pp.    [C.O.  5,  1049. 
and   5,    1121.     pp.    422-430.] 


Nos.  116-121 


748.  Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Encloses  duplicates  and  acknowledges  letter  of  July 
15.  The  Agents  Act  was  by  mistake  of  my  Secretary  left  out  of 
ye  packet  of  March.  2.  It  goes  enclosed.  Our  men  of  warr 
has  mett  with  nothing  in  their  late  cruise  but  an  empty  French 
sloope  which  they  carried  in  and  condemned  at  Antegua,  and 
retaken  an  English,  one  loaden  with  lumber  from  New  England. 
I  had  no  letters  from  the  Secretary's  Office  by  this  packet: 
H.M.  Orders  for  reinstating  the  three  Councillours  shall  be 
immediatly  obeyed,  but  I  have  not  as  yet  seen  said  Order,  nor 
any  coppy  thereof,  they  took  all  the  depositions  they  had  a 
mind  for  without  leave,  and  have  sent  the  same  home.  By 
Mr.  Parke's  fate,  your  Lordps.  may  perceive  what  it  is  to 
encourage  these  people  against  Government.  Signed,  M.  Crowe. 
Endorsed,  Kecd.  2nd,  Read  16th,  Feb.  170TV  1  p.  [C.O.  28, 
13.  No.  19;  and  29,  12.  p.  95.] 


Sept.  25. 


749.  Same  to  Same.  In  this  Minute,  just  as  the  packet's 
Baibados.  timo  is  out  and  goeing  under  saile,  Mr.  Alexander  Walker  brought 
me  H.M  Order  for  reinstateing  the  3  Councillours,  which  shall 
be  immediatly  obeyed.  But  I  did  not  think  it  for  H.M.  service 
to  detaine  ye  packet  untill  the  Councill  should  be  summoned, 
some  of  them  living  distant  18  miles  from  this  place,  which  would 
occasion  her  detention  at  least  2  dayes.  Signed  and  endorsed 
as  preceding.  %  p.  [C.O.  28,  13.  No.  20;  and  29,  12.  p.  96.] 


Sept.  26. 
Windsor. 


75O.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Upon  Kepresentation  Sept. 
6,  relating  to  goods  seized  in  Carolina  belonging  to  Virginia 
Indian  Traders,  ordered  as  there  proposed.  Signed,  Chris.  Mus- 
gravfi.  Endorsed,  Reed.  3rd,  Bead  4th  Oct.,  1709.  l£  pp.  [C.O. 
5,  1316.  No.  33;  and  5,  1362.  pp.  420,  421.] 

Sept.  27.         751.      The  Queen  to  the  Attorney  or  Solicitor  General.     In- 
Windsor.      structions  to  prepare  a  Commission  for  Robert  Hunter  to   be 
Governor  of  New  York.     Countersigned,   Sunderland.     fC.O.  5, 
210.     p.    177.] 

Sept.  28.  752.  Nathaniel  Sale  to  the  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina. 
Charles  Towne.  We  arrived  Sept.  1st  after  a  most  tedious  and  dangerous  voyage 
of  16  weeks  from  Gravesend.  My  comission  for  your  Lordships 
Receiver  General  is  received  here  in  Councell  and  recorded  the 
19th  of  next  month,  Mr.  Ashby,  the  late  Receiver,  is  to  make 
up  his  accots.  before  yr.  Lordships  Comissioners,  and  yn.  is  to 
deliver  what  is  in  cash,  wch.  as  yett  he  cant  tell  me  wt.  it 
is,  but  by  his  last  accott.  wch.  he  settled  and  adjusted  before 
ye  sd  Comissioners,  Aug.  25th,  there  was  but  £172-1-7  due 
to  yr.  Lordships  for  ballance.  I  shall  doe  my  utmost  for  yr. 
Lordships  interest,  but  as  there  is  no  rent  rowle  nor  any  bookes 
kept  in  the  Receiver's  Office,  it  is  att  present  in  great  confusion. 


AMEKICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  475 

1709. 

Mr.  Ashby  affirm's  it  never  has  been  worth  above  £50  a  year 
to  him  since  he  had  ye  place.  Yr.  Lordships  were  pleased  to 
consent  yt.  Mr.  Edwd.  Hyrne,  yr.  Lordships'  Naval  Officer, 
should  depute  me  his  deputy  here,  but  for  want  of  an  order 
from  yr.  Lordships  yt.  you  did  agree  to  it,  Sr.  Nathaniel  Johnson 
being  willing  to  keep  Mr.  Trot  his  friend  in  it  as  long  as  he 
can,  will  not  admit  me  to  act  as  deputy,  so  I  humbly  desire 
your  Lordships  to  send  over  yr.  order,  without  which,  though 
Major  Tynt  'does  arrive  whjo  is  sensible  it  was  your  Lordships' 
will  and  pleasure,  yet  as  it  is  Mr.  Saunders  opinion  yt.  it  not 
appearing  in  writing  I  must  not  act,  and  he  may  overperswade 
Major  Tynt  against  it,  'tis  a  great  disapointment  to  me,  for  there 
are  more  veasells  comes  in  here  in  these  3  months  following 
yn.  in  all  the  rest  of  the  year. 

Oct  15.  The  above  is  coppy  of  wt.  I  wrote  via  Antegoa; 
this  goes  by  ye  Blackermoor  gaily  for  Exon.  Mr.  Ashby  is  to 
settle  his  accotts.  before  yr.  Lordships'  Comissioners  next  meet- 
ing etc.  I  hear  yr.  Lordships  gave  a-  bill  or  order  to  Major 
Tynt  for  £270,  the  Major  nor  the  bill  does  not  yett  appear,  wn. 
it  does  yr.  Lordship  may  depend  Fie  punctually  pay  it  tho  I 
advance  the  mony  my  self  e,  but  I  must  beg  of  yr.  Lordships  not 
to  draw  any  more,  for  it  cant  be  exspected  I  should  pay  mony 
before  1  receive  it ;  there  was  but  £172  in  cash  Aug.  25  (as 
above),  and  the  Governor's  and  other  officers'  sallary  are  paid 
quarterly,  besides  £80  or  thereabouts  the  charges  of  the  ses- 
sions, wch.  is  next  weeke,  now  yr.  Lordships'  Comissioners 
have  orders  yr.  Lordships'  Receiver  Genl.  to  pay  the  charges  of 
the  sessions,  wch.  is  twice  a  year,  and  comes  to  about  £80 
each  sessions,  it  has  been  the  custome  so  to  doe,  but  I  thought 
it  my  duty  to  acquaint  yr.  Lordsps.  of  it.  Yr.  Lordships  were 
pleased  to  grant  me  the  Register's  place  of  conveyances  and 
grants,  but  afterwards  left  it  to  Major  Tynt  yt.  if  it  did 
not  belong  to  the  Secretary's  Office,  the  Major  should  establish 
me  in  it,  now  I  find  by  Mr.  Saunders,  the  Attorney  Genl., 
that  he  is  to  have  the  sd.  Register's  place,  wch.  is  wt.  I  did 
not  expect,  and  whereas  the  Receiver  Genl.'s  place  is  not  worth 
above  £50  a  year,  and  indeed  things  are  so  dear  here  yt.  it 
costs  me  £46.10.  a  yeare  onely  lodging  and  dyet,  so  I  hope 
yr.  Lordships  will  consider  me  some  way  or  other  etc.  The 
Dunkley  never  came  hither  but  went  to  Merryland,  where  landed 
the  goods  and  passingers,  one  Mr.  Mathews  and  Mr.  Saunders 
nephew  and  two  more  are  come  hither  by  way  of  North  Carolina, 
the  rest  are  still  in  Merryland.  Signed,  Nathaniel  Sale.  2^ 
pp.  [C.O.  5,  382.  No.  12.] 

Sept.  29.  753.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,  derland.  We  have  prepared  the  draughts  of  Instructions  for 
Col.  Hunter  to  be  Governor  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey;  but 
whereas  therein  is  contained  a  clause,  which  relates,  to  the 
pressing  of  seamen,  upon  which  we  have  some  doubt,  we  take 
leave  to  observe,  that  clauses  (quoted)  in  the  Act  for  the  en- 
couragement of  the  trade  to  America  might  be  construed  to 


476 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

extend  to  the  taking  away  the  power  from  the  Governor  of  im- 
pressing seamen  in  all  cases  whatsoever.  But  as  Mr.  Attorney 
and  Mr.  Solicitor  General  have  given  a  different  opinion  (Sept. 
24),  we  enclosed  copies  thereof,  that  your  Lordship  may  please 
to  recieve  H.M.  pleasure,  whether  the  said  clause  shall  be  con- 
tinued in  the  Instructions,  or  not.  3  pp.  Enclosed, 

753.  i.-vi.  Duplicates  of  papers  relating  to  above.  Cf.  Sept. 
17th  etc.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  Nos.  124,  124.  i.-vi.;  and 
(without  enclosures)  5,  1121.  pp.  431-433.] 

Sept.  30.  754.  Mr.  Popple  to  Capt.  Jones  and  Mr.  Whitchurch.  By 
Whitehall,  order  of  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  I  am  commanded  to 
send  you  the  inclosed  heads  of  the  letter  read  while  you  were 
with  them  yesterday,  and  thereupon  I  am  to  desire  that  you 
would  please  to  consider  of  and  give  their  Lordships  an  account 
of  the  quantities  and  qualities  of  the  tools  necessary  for  about 
1,000  Palatines,  men,  women  and  children,  to  be  sent  to  Jamaica, 
and  the  prices ;  an  account  of  provisions  for  the  subsisting 
of  them  there,  at  about  5d.  per  head,  that  is,  for  so  many  of 
theni  as  shall  not  be  upon  deficiencies  or  otherwise  provided 
for ;  an  account  of  the  cloathing  necessary  for  them,  as*  also  of 
guns,  powder  and  shot;  and  their  Lordships  further  desire  that 
you  would  give  them  an  account  of  the  charge  of  their  freight 
and  transportation,  as  also  that  you  would  give  them  a  list 
of  the  names  of  the  Proprietors  of  Lynch  Island  and  the  lands 
lying  about  it.  I  have  desired  Mr.  John  Heathcote,  by  their 
Lordships  order,  to  be  assistant  to  you.  [C.O.  138,  12.  pp. 
453,  454.] 

Sept.  30.  755.  Lt.  Governor  Bennett  to  Mr.  Popple.  Refers  to  letter 
Bermuda.  of  June  30.  The  Captains  of  the  Forts  have  made  up  their  accts. 
of  stores  to  June  1st.  But  this  sommer  has  been  soe  excessive 
hott  (and  by  reason  of  my  late  illness)  I  could  not  endure  the 
heat  abroad,  soe  that  I  have  not  yet  gone  to  the  fortifications. 
But  now  the  weather  declines,  I  shall  in  a  few  days  begin, 
and  will  in  as  short  time  as  possible  return  a  parfect  state  and 
condition  of  them,  etc.  Signed,  B.  Bennett.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
5th,  Read  12th  Dec.  1709.  Holograph.  1£  pp.  [C.O.  37,  9. 
No.  3;  and  38,  6.  pp.  475,  476.] 

[Oct.]  756.     (a)  Account  of  Stores  left  in  the  Fort  of  St.  Johns, 

Newfoundland,  by  Capt.  Taylor,  H.M.S.  Litahfield,  also  at  Car- 
bonear,  Harbour  Grace,  and  Little  Bell  Islands,  and  the  Isle  of 
Boys.  Signed,  Jos.  Taylor.  2£  pp. 

(b)  List  of  the  Officers  in  Newfoundland,  commissioned  Oct. 
1709.  St.  Johns: — John  Collin,  Governor;  Edward  Sheppard, 
Lt.  Governor;  John  Jenkins,  Major;  William  Roberts,  Gilbert 
Jeane,  John  Marshall,  John  Cock,  John  Eleat,  Wm.  Bowles,  Rd. 
Tapley,  Captains ;  Tho.  Squarry,  Jono.  Martin,  Henry  Parker, 
James  Prosser,  Tho.  Roberts,  Samuel  Nicks,  Giles  Goss,  John 
Julian,  Rt.  Bowles,  Step.  Dann,  Lieutenants ;  Daniel  Ranes,  Rt. 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


477 


1709. 


Oct.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  5. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  5. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  5. 

Whitehall. 


Willicot,  Char.  Coaker,  Jos.  Newham,  Tho.  Hawkins,  John  Mar- 
tin, Rowland  Martin,  Ed.  Boden,  John  Bichardson,  Abr.  Barrott, 
Ensigns ;  Isaac  Legoss,  Surgeon ;  Wm.  Squarry,  Master  Gunner. 
Ferryland  and  Isle  of  Boys :— Oliver  Lang,  Governor ;  John 
Tucker,  Lt.  Governor;  Ed.  Eoberts,  Hen.  Bex,  Lieuts.;  Tho. 
Deble,  Arthur  White,  Ensigns.  Carbonear: — Wm.  Pynn,  Gov- 
ernor; Tho.  Williams,  Tho.  Peck,  Capts. ;  Wm.  Pynn,  jr.,  Peter 
Merkin,  Wm.  Beeves,  Lieuts.  Harbour  Grace  Island: — Hen. 
Edwards,  Governor;  Et.  Pynn,  Jona.  Webber,  Capts.;  Wm. 
Parsons,  Wm.  -Burt,  Edwd.  Stephens,  Lieuts/  Little  Bell  Isle:— 
James  Butler,  Governor;  Geo.  Garland,  Jno.  Snow,  Capts.;  John 
Butler,  jr.,  John  Fancy,  Wm.  Thacker,  Lieuts.  Signed,  Jos. 
Taylor.  2  pp.  [O.O.  194,  22.  No.  73.] 

757.  Council    of   Trade   and    Plantations   to    the   Board    of 
Ordnance.     Reply   to   Sept.    24th.     At  present  there  is  no  de- 
mand of  stores  from  any  of  the  Plantations  before  us ;   but  so 
soon  as  any  shall  be  made,  we  will  immediately  lay  the  same 
before  H.M.     [010.  324,  9.     p.  407.] 

758.  W.  Popple  to  Sir  Eobert  Cotton.     Bequests  his  attend- 
ance at  the  Board  to  discuss  the  settlement  of  Palatines  on  Lynch 
Island,   Jamaica,   belonging  to  his   grandson,   Mr.    Cotton.     Of. 
Oct.    7.     [C.O.    138,    12.     pp.    454,   455.] 

759.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  Mr.  Popple.     There  being 
several  references  of  moment  from  H.M.  before  the  Lords  Com- 
missioners  of   Trade   and   Plantations,    which   require  dispatch, 
and  H.M.  being  informed  tihat  the  same  cannot  be  done  for  want 
of  a  'quorum  of  the  Council  of  Trade  in  Town ;  you  are  to  summon 
the  absent  Commissioners  immediately  to  town,  that  the  service 
may  not  suffer  any  longer  by  their  absence.     Signed,  Sunderland. 
Endorsed,  Eecd.  Oct.  6,  1709.     1  p.     [0.0.   388,  76.     A'o.  85; 
and  389,  36.     pp.  443,  444.] 

760.  Mr.  Popple  to  Col.  Blakiston.     The  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations  think  it  proper  for  you  as  Agent  for  Virginia 
to  deliver  the  Order  of  Council,    (Sept.  26)   to  the  Lords  Pro- 
prietors of  Carolina  and  procure  a  duplicate  to  be  transmitted  to 
the  Government  of  Virginia.     [O.O.   5,   1362.     pp.   421,  422.] 

761.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Mr.  Marquez,  Commissary  of  the  Purveyors  of  the 
King    of    Portugal's    Forces,    having    directions    from    them    to 
purchase  quantitys  of  wheat,  rye,  barley  and  oats  for  the  ser- 
vice  of   those   forces,    he  has   thoughts  of   getting   some   wheat 
and  flower  from  New  England,  New  York  and  Pensilvania,  but 
exportations  of  this  kind  being  altogether  new  and  unusual   in 
those  places,  he  apprehends  the  same  will  meet  with  difficultys 
and  oppositions,  for  preventing  of  which  he  desires  the  Queen 
would  write  to  the  Governors  of  those  Colony s   to   give   such 


478  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

assistance  as  may  be  desired  by  Nicholas  Koberts  or  his  Agents 
for  the  exportation  of  all  such  quantitys  of  corn  and  flower  as 
the  Country  can  conveniently  spare  without  prejudice  to  them- 
selves or  danger  of  occasioning  a  scarcity  there,  at  such  prices 
as  they  shall  be  commonly  sold  for  at  the  time  of  making] 
such  purchase  or  as  the  Governors  shall  appoint  between  the 
Factor's  Agents  and  the  Inhabitants  of  the  respective  Colonys, 
and  to  cause  the  names  of  the  ships  and  quantitys  of  the  corn 
and  flower  which  -shall  be  exported  by  the  said  Roberts  or  his 
Agents  to  be  registred.  Her  Majesty  is  enclined  to  consent  to 
anything  he  can  reasonably  ask  towards  enabling  him  to  comply 
with  the  orders  he  has  received  from  Portugal,  but  desires  to 
have  your  opinion  whether  this  request  can  be  granted  without 
inconvenience  to  H.M.  service  or  to  those  Plantations.  Signed, 
Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Oct.  6,  1709.  1£  pp.  \C.O. 
323,  6.  No.  87;  and  324,  9.  p.  408.] 

Oct.  7.  762.  W.  Popple  to  Sir  Robert  Cotton.  The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall,  and  Plantations  having,  by  H.M.  direction,  under  consider- 
ation thie  settling  of  some  Palatines  on  the  Island  of  Jamaica, 
and  their  Lordships  being  inform 'd  that  Mr.  Cotton,  your  son, 
is  Proprietor  of  Lynch  Island,  which  is  thought  a  proper  place 
for  the  present  reception  of  the  said  Palatines,  they  have  there- 
fore commanded  me  to  make  the  following  proposal,  which  they 
desire  you  will  please  to  transmit  to  your  son  for  his  answer, 
viz.  That  about  1000  of  the  above  Palatines  be  transported  at 
H.M  charge  to  Lynch  Island,  there  to  continue  till  they  can  be 
settled  on  the  Island  of  Jamaica.  That  the  Harbour  of  St. 
Antonio  be  made  a  port  of  entry.  That  Lynch  Island  be  cleared, 
arid  huts  built  thereon  for  the  reception  of  the  said  Palatines, 
without  any  charge  to  the  Proprietor.  It  is  presumed  the  clear- 
ing of  Lynch.  Island  will  be  a  considerable  improvement  to 
Mr.  Cotton's  estate  on  that  Island,  and  elsewhere  in  Jamaica, 
whereas  at  present  no  benefit  accrues  to  him  from  the  said 
Island.  In  consideration  whereof,  it  is  proposed  that  the  said 
Palatines  have  the  use  of  so  much  of  Lynch  Island  as  shall 
be  necessary  till  their  settlements  can  be  perfected  on  the 
Island  of  Jamaica,  and  that  Mr.  Cotton  do  surrender  to  H.M. 
use  in  fee  about  30  acres,  part  of  the  said  Lynch  Island  for 
settling  such  of  the  said  Palatines  as  shall  be  thought  fit  to 
continue  there,  and  for  building  a  small  Fort  for  the  security 
of  the  Harbour  of  St.  Antonio;  whereby  he  will  not  only  con- 
tribute to  'the  promoting  so  good  a  work  as  the  settling  those 
poor  people,  but  in  all  likelyhood  very  much  improve  his  par- 
ticular property.  [C.O.  138,  12.  pp.  455-457.] 

Oct.  7.  763.  Messrs.  Whitchurch  and  Jones  to  the  Council  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.  Proposal  and  estimate  for  settling  1000  Pala- 
tines at  Jamaica.  "Endorsed,  Reed.  7th,  Read  10th  Oct.,  1709. 
3-|  PP-  LC.O.  137,  8.  #o.  55;  and  138,  12.  pp.  457-465.1 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  479 

1709. 

Oct.  8.  764.  The  Queen  to  Governor  Crowe.  Refers  to  Order  of 
Windsor.  Jan.  22  last,  and  Representation  of  Council  of  Trade  upon  further 
complaints  against  him.  You  are  forthwith  to  repair  to  our 
presence  to  make  your  defence  before  us  in  Council,  and  the 
complainants  are  to  be  at  liberty  to  take  such  proofs  and  de- 
positions upon  oath  before  such  chief  magistrate  as  they  shall 
think  fit,  etc.  Countersigned,  Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
22nd,  Read  25th  Oct.  1709.  5  pp.  [C.O.  5,  210.  pp.  179-182; 
and,  28,  12.  No.  39 ;  and  29,  12.  pp.  23-27.] 

Oct.  8.          765.     Col.  Jenings  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 

Virginia.  Refers  to  letter  of  June  13th,  sent  by  a  running  ship.  This  by 
the  return  of  the  Fleet,  etc.  According  to  what  your  Lordps. 
were  pleased  to  intimate,  I  have  with  the  advice  of  the  Council 
given  directions  to  the  Surveyors  of  the  Countys  bordering  on 
Carolina  to  prepare  an  estimate  of  the  charge  of  laying  out  the 
boundarys  of  that  Province,  and  hope  in  a  very  short  time  I 
shal  be  able  to  give  your  Lordps.  a  satisfactory  account  both 
of  the  method  and  charge  of  that  work.  Refers  to  enclosures 
"relating  to  the  interruption  given  our  Indian  Traders  by  the 
Government  of  Carolina.  Your  Lordps.  will  observe  that  the 
pretence  for  seizing  the  skins,  furs  and  other  effects  of  our 
traders  is  grounded  on  the  Act  of  the  15th  of  King  Charles  II., 
but  it  is  not  alledged  tlhat  our  traders  either  were  within  the 
inhabited  bounds  of  Carolina,  or  that  there  were  any  officers 
for  putting  that  Act  in  execution  within  200  miles  of  the 
place  where  they  traded:  so  that  whether  that  Act  obliged 
our  traders  to  look  for  Custom  house  Officers  where  "there  was 
not  ar  English  inhabitant,  or  to  go  200  miles  to  Charles  To'^n 
to  ask  the  Governor  of  Carolina  leave  to  trade  with  people  alto- 
gether independent  on  him  or  his  Province  is  humbly  submitted 
to  your  Lordps.'  consideration.  Perhaps  it  may  be  urged  that 
the  traders  ought  to  have  carryed  certificates  from  hence  that 
ther^  goods  were  legally  imported  here;  but  as  they  had  never 
before  seen  nor  heard  of  anybody  to  exact  such  certificates,  your 
Lordps.  will  not  think  it  strange  that  they  judged  them  unneces- 
sary. But  I  dare  affirm  to  your  Lordps.  that  our  traders  carry  no 
goods,  bu,t  what  are  legally  imported  according  to  the  Acts  of 
Trade,  being  generally  purchased  here  of  the  most  substantial 
and  fair  traders  in  the  country,  who  have  them  imported  directly 
from  London.  Your  .Lordps.  will  observe  that  it  was  not  the 
European  goods,  but  tihe  skins  and  furrs  purchased  of  the 
Indians  that  were  seized,  wch.  kind  of  commodity  I  humbly 
conceive  is  not  seizable  by  any  construction  of  that  Act  of 
Parliament.  So  that  I  doubt  not  yr.  Lordps.  will  plainly  per- 
ceive it  was  the  private  interest  of  engrossing  that  trade,  more 
than  any  regard  to  the  Law  that  inclined  the  Government  of 
Carolina  to  this  unusual  treatment  of  our  traders.  H.M.  ad- 
ditional Instruction  concerning  the  granting  of  land,  I  have 
communicated  to  the  Council,  but  upon  considering  the  diffi- 
culty of  the  seating  required  therein,  they  are  humbly  of  opinion 
that  no  man  will  take  up  any  land  upon  those  Jerms  while  there 


480  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

is  land  to  be  had  on  easier  terms  in  the  neighbouring  Govern- 
ments, and  beg  leave  to  repeat  the  reasons  for  no't  altering 
the  ancient  condition  of  grants  laid  before  yr.  Lordships  Oct. 
19  last  (v.  Journal  of  Council  of  Virginia),  in  which  they  are 
more  and  more  confirmed  by  observing  how  many  entire  familys 
besides  great  numbers  of  single  persons  have  removed  this  last 
summer  and  are  daily  removing  into  the  Province  of  North 
Carolina,  where  H.M.  will  receive  no  benefite  either  by  the 
Quitt  rent  or  the  produce  of  their  labour."  Enclose  Council 
Journal  June  4,  1708— Sept.  12,  1709.  I  confidently  hop'd  I 
should  have  been  able  by  this  conveyance  to  have  sent  your 
Lordps.  the  accounts  of  H.M.  Revenue,  but  the  sickness  of  some 
of  the  Collectors  having  hindered  them  from  reforming  some 
errors  in  their  accots.,  hath  disappointed  the  settling  the  general 
accoanpts  of  the  Revenue.  But  as  the  Auditor  and  Receiver 
General  have  assured  me  they  will  have  every  thing  in  a  readi- 
ness against  the  General  Court  for  perfecting  those  accounts, 
I  hope  the  first  opportunity  thereafter  to  transmitt  them  to  yor. 
Lordps.  According  as  I  wrote  June  13,  as  soon  as  the  Guardship 
arrived,  I  discharged  the  briganteen  employed  for  the  defence 
of  the  Countrey,  and  have  caused  the  men  to  be  paid  off ;  but 
there  being  some  accots.  for  transporting  and  mounting  the 
alarm  guns  on  the  shoar  of  the  Bay  not  yet  come  to  hand 
(and  wch.  are  proper  to  be  put  with  the  charge  of  the  brigan- 
teen) the  accots.  of  that  whole  expence  are  not  yet  fully  settled, 
so  as  to  be  laid  before  yor.  Lordps.,  but  I  believe  the  whole 
charge  will  not  exceed  800  and  odd  pounds,  the  particulars 
whereof  I  hope  by  the  first  opportunity  to  send  yr.  Lordps. 
The  Captain  of  the  Guard  ship  has  been  very  dilligent  in  cruis- 
ing ever  since  his  arrival,  but  the  ship  being  of  too  great  bulk 
to  pursue  the  privateer  sloops  among  the  flatts,  he  has  not 
been  able  to  come  up  with  those  he  has  seen,  yet  seems  fully 
perswaded,  that  if  together  with  this  ship,  he  had  the  sloop 
wch.  my  Lord  High  Admiral  hath  ordered  to  be  bought  for  this 
station,  no  privateer  on  this  coast  could  escape  him.  Among 
the  Proclamations  wch.  I  herewith  send  yr.  Lordps.,  there 
is  one  prohibiting  the  exportation  of  corne,  the  long  and  un- 
usual dry  weather  for  almost  the  whole  past  summer  having 
burnt  up  the  corn  in  many  places  of  the  country,  and  the  appre- 
hensions of  a  great  scarcety  of  all  sorts  of  grain  to  follow 
thereon  hath  occasioned  this  prohibition,  but  I  hope  it  has  been 
laid  so  seasonably  that  there  will  still  be  enough  left  in  the 
country  for  the  subsistance  of  the  inhabitants  till  a  new  cropp. 

The  Fleet  now  bound  out  hath  almost  drain'd  the  country  of 
all  the  old  tobacco,  wch.  would  have  been  of  great  benefite, 
if  the  present  cropp  had  not  proved  very  small,  and  far  short 
of  what  might  have  been  expected  from  more  seasonable  weather, 
and  I'm  afraid  the  next  Fleet  will  meet  with  a  disappointment 
if  there  comes  as  many  ships  as  heretofore.  The  Country  enjoys 
a  perfect  peace  and  quiet,  etc.  Signed,  E.  Jenings.  Endorsed, 
Reed.  Dec.  20,  1709,  Read  Jan.  3, 170TV  4±  pp.  Enclosed, 

765.  i.  Correspondence  between  Col.  Jenings  and  Governor  Sir 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES.  481 

1709. 

N.  Johnson  relating  to  the  seizure  of  goods  of  Virginian 
Indian  Traders,  etc.  April  22,  July  22,  Nov.  2,  1708. 
With  depositions  of  Robert  Hix,  David  Crawley,  James 
Lundy,  Nathaniel  Urven  as  to  same.  Copies.  7£  pp. 
765.  ii.  Proclamations  by  Col.  Jenings.  (1)  June  22,  1708, 
declaring  the  repeal  of  the  Revenue  Act  (Jan.  25,  1708). 
(2)  July  30,  1708,  receiving  the  Nations  of  the  Saponies 
into  the  Protection  of  this  Government,  and  peaceably 
to  possess  and  enjoy  the  land  where  they  are  now 
seated,  until  further  provision  be  made  for  them;  (3) 
Oct.  26,  1708,  confirming  the  Act  about  hhds.  (4) 
Oct.  26,  1708,  prohibiting  trade  with  the  Tuscaruro, 
Nottaway,  Maherine  or  any  other  Indians  living  S.  of 
James  River;  (5)  Feb.  10,  1709,  publishing  Acts  about 
Coin  and  Trade  to  America.  (6)  April  15,  1709,  ap- 
pointing a  General  Fast,  May  18,  for  intercession  on  ac- 
count of  "the  dangerous  pestilential  distemper  which  has 
already  swept  away  great  numbers  of  the  inhabitants 
of  the  Eastern  Shore  and  is  now  lately  spread  and  con- 
tinues to  rage  in  some  parts  of  the  Western  Shore,  to 
the  great  terror  and  consternation  of  all";  (7)  April 
15,  1709,  to  encourage  seamen  to  serve  on  board  the 
Seajlower]  (8)  to  prevent  seamen  deserting  Jan.  21, 
1709 ;  and  (9)  for  preventing  export  of  corn,  Sept.  12, 
1709.  Copies.  7  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1316.  Nos.  11,  41.  i., 
ii. ;  and  (urithout  enclosures)  5,  1363.  pp.  27-35.] 

Oct.  8.  766.  R.  Tryon  to  Mr.  Popple.  Reply  concerning  Oct  5. 
Lyme  Street,  gr.-y.  Barbados,  ye  Leward  Islands  and  Jamaica  haveing  their 
sole  dependance  for  beef  from  our  Colonys  in  America,  ye  price 
of  grain  here  and  in  Ireland  being  likely  to  deprive  them  of 
ye  litle  they  have  usually  had  from  hence,  and  it  can'te  be 
sopos'd  they  should  have  notice,  time  enough,  to  provide  for 
such  a  disapointmt.  by  planting  more  then  usuall  quantitys  of 
Indian  provisions  (if  they  had  ground  to  spare,  which  is  not 
ye  case  of  Barbados,  that  has  most  mouths),  so  it's  fit  to  be 
consider'd,  whether  under  ye  incouridgmt.  propos'd,  those  Colonys 
may  not  be  so  drain'd  as  will  disable  them  from  afordeing  any 
suplys  to  ye  Suger  Islands,  ye  concequences  of  which  I  need 
not  tell  you.  Signed,  Rowld.  Tryon.  Endorsed,  Reed.  8th^ 
Read  Oct.  10th,  1709.  2  pp.  [C.O.  323,  6.  A7o.  88;  and 
324,  9.  p.  409.] 

Oct.  9.         767.     Samuel  Bayard  to  Mr.  Rayner.     Col.  Wenham  is  dead, 
New  York.      etc.     Endorsed,  Extract,  Reed,  from  Mr.  Rayner,  Read  Dec.  23, 
1709.     f  p.     [C.O.  5,  1049.     No.  145.] 

Oct.  10.  768.  Practisers  of  the  Law  in  the  Province  of  New  York  to 
the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Petition  against  recent 
Act  of  New  York  for  regulating  fees.  The  Act  was  badly  drawn 
by  the  Assembly  and  hastily  passed  by  the  Lt.  Governor  and 
Council,  who  declared  their  dislike  of  it.  It  obliges  lawyers  to 

Wt.  11522.  CP31 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 

accept  any  cause,  if  not  retained  before,  at  a  retaining  fee  not 
exceeding  6s.,  and  in  no  cause  to  have  above  £5  from  first  to  last, 
though  the  value  of  money  there  is  £rd  worse  than  sterl.  and 
all  merchandize  |  rd  dearer  than  hora,  etc.  Cf.  Nov.  29.  Signed, 
Jno.  Eayner.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  10th,  Eead  25th  Oct.,  1709. 
2  pp.  [0.0.  6,  1049.  No.  129.] 

[?0ct.  10.]  769.  Memo,  [by  Mr.  Raynert']  There  was  an  Act  of  As- 
sembly in  my  Lord  Cornbury's  time,  where  it  is  enacted  that  no 
fees  shall  be  taken  by  severall  officers  therein  named,  but  what 
shall  be  settled  by  Act  of  Assembly,  etc.,  so  that  Act  must  be 
disapproved  as  well  as  ye  last,  or  they  can  take  no  fees  at  all. 
No  signature  or  endorsement.  1  p.  [0.0.  5,  1049.  No.  128.] 


Oct.  12. 

Comberma.  e. 


Oct.  12. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  17. 

London. 


Oct.  18. 

Whitehall. 


770.  Thomas  Cotton  to  Sir  Eobert  Cotton.     I  received  yours 
of  Oct.  8  with  proposalls  from  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations  to   settle  some  poore  Palatines   in  Jamaica,   and    in   ye 
meantime   to   have   them  transported   to    Lynch   Island,    which 
belongs   to   me   in   right   of   my   wife,    heir    to   her   father,  Sir 
Thomas  Lynch,  deceased.     I  am  willing  to  surrender  for  H.M. 
use  in  fee  about  30  acres,  part  of  the  said  Lynch  Island,  as  is 
therein  required  for  the  promoting  so  good  a  work  etc.     Wee 
designe  to  give  the  remainder  of  this  Island  and  Lynch  Yale 
Plantation   to  our   youngest  son  of  that  name,   for   his   future 
benefitt  and  inheritance,  but  have  made  no  settlement  as  yett, 
hopeing   ye   Government   will   be   kind   to   him.     If   farther    be 
needfull   wee  leave  you,  a  discressionary   power  to  act   for  us. 
Signed,  Thomas  Cotton.     Endorsed,  Eecd.  Eead  Oct.  17,  1709. 
1  p.     [0.0.  137,  8.     Mo.  56 ;  and  138,  12.     pp.  465,  466.] 

771.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Edmund  Jenings, 
President  of  the  Council  of  Virginia.     Acknowledge  letter  of  June 
13,  refer  to  proceedings  relating  to  complaints  against  S.  Caro- 
lina seizing  Virginian  goods,  and  enclose  Order,  v.  Sept.  6  and 
26.     Enclose    H.M.    letters   mandatory  for   the   appointment  pf 
boundary   Commissioners,    etc.     Col.    Hunter   is   now   appointed 
Governor  of  New  York.     We  do  not  hear  of  any  named  yet  for 
the    Government   of   Virginia.     Enclosure   to    be   forwarded   to 
Col.  Quary.     [0.0.   5,  1362.     pp.  425-427.] 

772.  Josiah  Thorns'  receipt  for  letter  to  Mr.  Jenings.    (Oct. 
12).     [0.0.  5,  1362.     p.  427.] 

773.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.   Eepre- 
sentation  upon  an  Act  of  Maryland    (1708)   for  relief  of  poor 
debtors,  which  is  made  to  continue  for  3  years.     Tho'  this  Act 
seemb  to  have  been  made  with  a  charitable  intent,  yet  are  there 
some  clauses  in  it  which  may  prove  injurious  as  well  to  your 
Majesty's  subjects  there,  as  to  the  merchants  here.     Clause  II.  is 
impracticable,  for  many  of  the  inhabitants  may  have  dealings 
in  sundry  counties  100  miles  from  their  abode,  and  it  may  so 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  483 

1709. 

happen  that  the  Justices  of  the  respective  County  Courts  may 
give  notice  to  the  creditor  to  attend  them,  at  severall  places, 
on  or  about  the  same  day,  with  regard  to  his  several  debtors; 
but  if  that  case  should  not  happen,  yet  the  trouble  and  charge 
of  travelling  when  the  creditor  has  little  hopes  of  recovering 
his  debt,  may  incline  him  rather  to  give  it  up,  than  attend  the 
said  Justices.  Clause  IV.  is  a  great  hardship  on  the  creditor, 
who  besides  the  loss  of  his  debt,  shall  likewise  forfeit  £10  for 
not  obeying  the  summons,  let  the  distance  of  place  be  never  so 
great,  or  the  creditor  not  think  it  worth  his  while  to  be  at  that 
troublo  and  charge  to  claim  his  debt.  Clause  VIII.,  enacting 
that  no  debtor,  so  discharged  out  of  prison,  shall  pay  any  fees 
due  to  the  Sheriff,  is  a  great  hardship  on  the  Sheriff,  who  in 
that  Province  is  obliged  to  maintain  his  prisoners.  Clause  IX., 
enacting  that  creditors  living  out  of  the  Province  shall  have  12 
months  allowed  them  to  claim  their  debts  and  receive  their 
dividends,  is  hard  upon  European  creditors,  it  being  almost 
impossible  for  them  to  claim  their  debts  within  a  year's  time, 
especially  during  the  war;  and  further  the  Justices  are  impow- 
ered  by  this  clause  to  keep  the  produce  of  the  debtor's  estate 
in  their  hands  without  giving  security  for  the  same,  till  after 
the  expiration  of  the  said  12  months,  which  -nay  be  of  ill- 
consequence  to  the  creditors,  many  of  the  Justices  of  the  Peace 
being  but  in  mean  circumstances.  There  are  some  other  clauses 
liable  to  objections,  but  we  shall  forbear  to  trouble  your  Majesty 
therewith,  and  only  presume  to  offer  that  the  releiving  insolvent 
debtors,  who  have  lain  some  time  in  prison,  by  discharging  them 
from  their  debts  and  imprisonments  is  an  Act  of  humanity  and 
agreablo  to  the  prudence  of  the  Legislature  of  this  Kingdom; 
but  then  such  Acts  have  ever  look'd  back,  and  extended  only 
to  such  debtors  who  were  actually  in  prison  some  time  before 
the  making  thereof ;  whereas  this  Act  does  not  only  look  forward 
and  discharge  debtors,  who  shall  be  in  prison  on  a  certain  day 
then  to  come,  but  as  is  before  mentioned,  the  same  is  made 
to  be  in  force  for  3  years,  and  to  the  end  of  the  then  next 
Session  of  Assembly.  This  may  give  incouragement  to  idle 
extravagant  persons  to  contract  debts  during  all  that  time  without 
any  remedy  to  the  creditor  for  recovery  thereof,  which  may 
prove  very  prejudicial  to  trade,  particularly  with  regard  to  the 
credit  given  to  the  planters  and  other  inhabitants  of  that  Province 
by  the  merchants  here,  whose  debts  ought  therefore  to  be  dis- 
tinguished from  those  contracted  between  inhabitant  and  inhabi- 
tant, and  excepted  out  of  such  Acts ;  otherwise  they  may  reason- 
ably be  discouraged  from  giving  any  credit  for  the  future,  as 
several  Maryland  merchants  who  have  attended  us  have  declared* 
whereby  the  trade  of  that  Province  will  greatly  suffer.  Propose 
that  the  Act  be  disallowed.  [(7.0.  5,  727.  pp.  132-137.J 


Oct.  18.          774.     Same  to  the  Lord  High  Treasurer.     Enclose  accounts 
Whitehall,    of  incidental  expenses  of  the  Office,  and  pray  for  the  payment 
of  salaries  due.     [C.O.  389,  36.     pp.  445-447.] 


484 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 
Oct    18. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  18. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  18. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  18, 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  18. 

Whitehall. 


775.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Car- 
bury.     Proposal  to  treat  with  him  for  lands  similar  to  following. 
IC.G.  138,  12.     pp.  468-470.] 

776.  Mr.    Popple  to  Sir    Robert    Cotton.     The    Council  of 
Trade   and   Plantations   having   considered  Mr.    Cotton's   answer 
to  the   letter  I  writ  you  Oct.   7,   they   have  commanded  me  to 
transmit  to  you  this  further  proposal  following,  viz.  The  settle- 
ment on  Lynch  Island,  being  only  a  provisional  or  temporary 
lodgment  proposed  for  some  of  the   Palatines  till  the  rest  can 
be   conveniently   settled  on  the  Main   Island  of  Jamaica,    it   is 
further  proposed  that  the  several  Proprietors  of  the  lands  lying 
between  the  N.E.  of  Rio  Grande  and  the  S.E.  of  Point  Morant, 
do  surrender  to  H.M.  in  fee,  a  part  of  the  said  lands,  in  order 
to  H.M    regranting  the  same  to  the  said  Palatines.     It  is  pre- 
sumed that  the  present  owners  of  those  lands  will  for  so  great 
a  good,   freely   consent  to  this   proposal,   especially   considering 
that  what  remains  to  them  of  the  said  lands  will  be  of  much 
greater  value  from  such  a  settlement,  than  the  whole  is  like  to 
be  without  it.     The  same  reasons  which  have  induced  Mr.  Cotton 
to  comply  in  what  has  hitherto  been  proposed  their  Lordships 
hope  will  induce  him  to  give  in  to  this  proposal.     [C.O.  138,  12. 
pp.  467,  468.] 

777.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lord  President 
of  the   Council.     Remind  his  Lordship  of   Representation   con- 
cerning Acts  of  Pennsylvania,   Sept.   8,   for  fear  of  the  incon- 
veniencies  that  may  happen  by  a  lapse  of  time.     [C.O.  5,  1292. 
p.  159.] 

778.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     We 
have  considered  th.e  Act  passed  in  the  General  Assembly  of  New 
Jersey,    Dec.    1704,    for   regulating    negro,    Indian   and   mulato 
slaves,  in  which,  tho'  there  are  several  good  and  useful  clauses, 
there  is  one  that  inflicts  inhumane  penalties  on  negroes  etc.  not 
fit  to  be  confirmed  by  your  Majesty,  and  therefore  we  humbly 
offer  that  the  said  Act  be  repealed.     [C.O.  5,  995.     p.  20.] 

779.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Reply  to  Oct.   5.  q.v.     Having  discoursed  some  mer- 
chants here  concerned  in  the  trade  of  New  England  and  New 
York  as  likewise  in  that  of  Barbadoes  and  the  Leeward  Islands, 
we  find  that  those  Islands  do  mostly  depend  upon  being  supplyed 
with  wheat  and  flower  from  the   said  Provinces,   and   in  some 
measure  from  the  Colony  of  Virginia,  as  likewise  that  consider- 
able quantities  of  corn  are  yearly  carryed  from  the  Continent 
to   Jamaica,    and    from   thence   exported    to   the    Spanish    West 
Indies ;   that  when   our  Plantations   on  the   Continent  have  an 
overstock  of  corn,  more  than  is   necessary  for  their  own  con- 
sumption,  and  for  the  supply   of  our   Islands,   they   frequently 
send  some  to  the  Maderas   in  exchange  for  wines,   corn  being 
none  of  the  enumerated  commodities,  nor  do  we  know  of  any 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES. 


485 


1709. 

Law  that  restrains  the  exportation  of  corn  from  the  Plantations 
to  the  Maderas,  or  any  other  foreign  country  in  amity  with 
H.M.;  but  at  present  there  is  no  such  overstock  in  H.M. 
Provinces  on  the  Continent;  it  being  reasonable  to  believe  that 
no  more  is  produced  there,  than  what  may  be  sufficient  for  their 
own  consumption,  and  the  necessary  supply  of  the  said  Islands  : 
especially  since  we  do  not  find  that  there  are  any  granaries  in 
those  parts.  The  Crown  of  Portugal  being  in  the  Grand  Alliance., 
and  our  trade  to  that  Kingdom  very  beneficial  to  Great  Britain, 
we  are  sensible  that  all  fitting  incouragemt.  shou'd  be  given  to 
the  supplying  the  Portugueze  with  whatever  they  may  want,  as 
far  as  may  be  consistant  with  the  good  of  H.M.  subjects; 
nevertheless  we  are  of  opinion  it  will  not  be  advisable  that 
H.M.  shou'd  give  incouragement,  as  is  proposed,  to  the  buying 
wheat  and  flower  in  any  of  our  Plantations  for  the  service  of 
Portugal,  whereby  our  Sugar  Islands  may  be  distressed  for 
want  of  a  sufficient  supply,  or  at  least  the  price  of  corn  greatly 
inhanced  to  the  oppression  of  the  inhabitants,  and  the  prejudice 
of  that  trade.  Nor  do  we  see  wherein  the  proposal  will  be  of 
use  to  Portugal,  this  being  an  unseasonable  time  of  the  year  to 
send  to  the  Plantations  for  corn,  forasmuch  as  no  British  ships 
(for  such  only  are  to  be  imployed)  which  are  now  to  undertake 
a  voyage  to  those  parts,  will  be  able  to  depart  from  thence 
with  their  intended  lading  sooner  than  about  the  middle  or  end 
of  April  next,  and  before  they  can  arrive  at  Lisbon,  the  next 
year's  crop  in  Portugal  may  be  got  in.  [C.O.  324,  9.  pp.  410- 
412.] 

[Oct.  18.]  78O.  Petty  Expenses  of  the  Board  of  Trade,  Midsummer  to 
Michaelmas,  1709.  See  Journal  of  Council.  5  pp.  [C.O.  388, 
76.  Nos.  86-88;  and  389,  36.  p.  447.] 


Oct.  19. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  19. 

Whitehall. 


781.  W.  Popple  to  John  Baber.     Governor  Handasyd  hav- 
ing  transmitted  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  an  Act 
past  in  Jamaica  for  the  regulating  fees,  if  you  have  any  objections 
to  make  to  it  you  are  to  lay  the  same   before  their  Lordships 
in  writing  on  Friday  morning  next.     [C.O.  138,  12.     pp.  470, 
471.] 

782.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     The  Queen  looking  upon  it  to  be  necessary  for  her 
service  that  there  should  be  a  quorum  of  your  Board  constantly 
in  town  to  dispatch  divers  matters  of  weight  that  happen  to  be 
frequently  referred  to  you;  H.M.  has  commanded  me  to  signify 
Her  pleasure  to  you,  that  whenever  your  private  occasions  shall 
call  any  of  you  out  of  town,  you  relieve  one  another,  and  that 
you  take  your  turns  for  being  absent,  still  taking  care  that  so 
many  of  your  number  may  remain  in  town  as  is  necessary,  in 
pursuance  of  your  Commission,  to  go  on  with  the  dispatch  of  the 
business  of  your  Board.     Signed,  yunderland.     Endorsed,  Jlecd. 
20th.  Bead  21st  Oct.  1709.     1  p.     [C.O.  388,  76.     No.  89;  and 
389,  36.     p.  448.] 


486  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

Oct.  19.          783.     W.  Popple  to  Leonard  Compere.     The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall,    propose  to  treat  with  you  for  lands  in  Jamaica  as  Oct.  18;  and 
require  your  objections,  if  any,  to  the  Act  for  regulating  fees, 
etc.  as  No.  781.     [C.O.  138,  12.     pp.  471-473.] 

Oct    20.         784.     Mr.   Popple  to  Mr.  Attorney  General.     Encloses,  for 

Whitehall,     his  opinion  in  point  of  Law,   Act  of  Jamaica  for  the  further 

quieting  of  possessions,  etc.     {0.0.  138,  12.     p.  474.] 

Oct.  20.  785.  Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Spanish  Town,  tations.  Since  my  last  of  Sept.  8,  I  have  little  materiell  to 
offer,  onely  the  following  particulars .  I  told  you  there  were  100 
pyrats  upon  the  Spanish  coast;  they  are  now  above  300  strong 
and  I  doubt  will  every  day  encrease  unless  some  method  cann 
be  taken;  as  I  am  informed  the  Governor  of  ye  Havannah  as 
also  the  Governors  of  Portabell,  St.  Jago  upon  Cuba,  the  Gov- 
ernor of  Carthagena  and  all  ye  French  Governors  upon  Cuba 
as  Port  Lewis,  Petteguavers,  Lugan  etc.  have  all  offered  to  give 
them  a  generall  pardon  if  they'll  come  in  and  serve  them  against 
H.M.  and  her  Allies,  but  they  have  utterly  refused  to  be  con- 
cerned with  them  notwithstanding  the  chief  of  them  is  a  French 
man ;  they  have  sent  me  severall  messuages  by  prisoners  they 
had  taken  of  ours  and  used  them  very  well,  that  in  case  they 
can  have  H.M.  the  Queen  of  England's  pardon  and  protection, 
that  they  are  willing  to  come  to  Jamaica  and  to  serve  H.M. 
and  her  allies  faithfully,  haveing  as  they  say,  never  done  any- 
thing against  H.M.  nor  her  Allies,  the  truth  of  which  I  am 
a  stranger  to,  onely  what  ye  two  depositions  which  I  have  sent 
to  the  Secretary  of  State  declares ;  I  could  wish  with  all  my 
heart  that  some  method  could  be  taken  to  prevent  their  growth, 
least  they  come  to  soe  great  a  number  that  may  not  easily 
be  overcomed,  there  being  severall  resolute  persons  of  noe  fortune 
in  these  parts  which  will  be  ready  to  joyne  with  anything,  tho' 
ye  gallows  were  to  be  their  reward.  There  is  since  my  last 
brought  in  a  large  Spanish  ship  and  a  small  Spanish  sloop,  the 
one  loaden  with  wine,  olives,  figgs,  and  other  fruit,  the  other 
loaden  with  hydes  and  tallow,  the  value  of  them  I  doe  not 
know,  both  taken  by  Jamaica  privateers.  Haveing  heard  nothing 
since  of  me  and  my  Regimt.'s  being  released  makes  me  very 
uneasy,  since  I  find  noe  recruits  is  like  to  come,  and  ye  Eegmt. 
haveing  lost  a  great  many  men;  therefore  I  hope  in  case  I  am 
not  to  be  releaved  so  soon  as  I  expected  that  orders  will  be 
given  to  my  officers  that  is  there,  for  recruiteing;  there  is  as 
many  of  them  in  England  as  I  can  spare  from  doeing  duty 
here,  they  being  dayly  upon  some  command  either  at  sea  or 
land.  As  to  other  affairs  of  ye  Island,  it  is  at  present  pretty 
healthy;  H.M.  ships  the  Crown  and  Roe  Buck  is  upon  the  coast 
of  Carthergena  in  hopes  to  receive  a  confirmation  of  ye  designe 
in  relation  to  ye  gallion.  The  ships  is  as  yet  not  come  to  ye 
Havannah  from  Laverdicrous,  the  French  and  Spaniards  both 
expects  a  strong  squadron  from  France  the  truth  of  which  I  am 
a  stranger  too.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES. 


487 


1709. 


Dec.  13,  1709.     Addressed.     Sealed.     1%  pp.     [C.O.  137,  8.  No. 
74;  and  138,  13.     pp.  73-76.] 


Oct.  21.         786.     Mr.   Popple  to  Mr.   Pery.     Asks  for  several  accounts 
Whitehall,    relating   to   the   trade   of  the   African   Company,    including   the 
number    of    negroes    furnish'd    by    the    Company    and    separate 
traders  to  the  Plantations.     [C.O.  389,  20.     pp.  449,  450.] 

Oct.  21.         787.     Mr.  Popple  to  Richard  Harris,  mercht.     Similar  ques- 
Whitehali.    tions  to  the   separate  traders  to   Africa.     [C.O.   389,   20.     pp. 
460,  451.] 

Oct    21  788.     Mr.    Popple   to   the  Commissioners   of   the   Transport 

Whitehall.    Office.     Asks  for  estimate  of  cost  of  provisions  and  transport  of 

1000  Palatines  to  Jamaica.     [C.O.  138,  12.     p.  475.] 


one  o'clock. 


[Oct.  22.]        789.     Governor    Hunter  to  Mr.    Popple.     Requests    that  a 
Saturday,      letter  for  Mr.  Micajah  Perry  may  be  forwarded  via  a  ship  now 
jing  to   Pennsylvania,   etc.     Signed,  Ro.   Hunter.     Endorsed, 
1.  22nd,  Read  25th  Oct.  1709.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  1049.     No. 
127;  and  5,  1121.     p.  437.] 

Oct.  24.         79O.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Repealing  6  Acts  of  Penn- 

Windsor.      sylvania,    1705.     Cf.    Sept.   8.     Signed,   John   Povey.      Set  out, 

Penn.  Archives,  1st  ser.  I.  156.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Oct.  27, 

1709      2pp.     [C.O.   5,  1264.     No.  83;  and  5,  1292.     pp.  161, 

162.] 


Oct    24. 

Windsor. 


791.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Approving  Representation 
of  Sept.  8,  1709,  and  ordering  accordingly  that  it  be  recom- 
mended to  Mr.  Penn  by  the  Council  of  Trade  to  cause  all  such 
Laws  as  shall  hereafter  be  past  in  the  Assembly  of  Pensylvania 
to  be  transmitted  and  presented  for  H.M.  approbation  or  dis- 
allowance in  Councill  as  soon  as  conveniently  may  "be  after  the 
same-  shall  have  been  past  there,  and  to  endeavour  to  get  a 
Law  past  in  the  Assembly  there  for  renouncing  the  Pretender  and 
declareing  the  allegiance  of  the  inhabitants  to  H.M.  As  also 
that  notice  be  given  to  Mr.  Pen  or  his  Agent  by  the  Council 
of  Trade  that  in  case  the  Assembly  of  Pensylvania  shall  think 
fitt  to  re-enact  the  Law  now  disallowed  for  the  further  securing 
the  administration  of  the  Government,  with  a  proviso  that  upon 
the  death  or  absence  of  the  Lieut.  Governr.  the  Proprietary 
doe  nominate  an  other  and  obtain  H.M.  approbation  within  6 
months  after  such  death  or  absence,  H.M.  will  be  gratiously  in- 
clined to  approve  of  the  said  Act.  And  H.M.  taking  notice, 
upon  this  occasion  that  divers  Acts  transmitted  from  the  Plan- 
tations have  been  disallowed  by  H.M.  by  reason  of  some  clause 
or  clauses  therein  which  have  not  been  thought  fitt  for  H.M. 
approbation,  and  the  other  parts  of  the  said  Acts  have  ap- 
peared good  and  profitable  for  the  welfare  of  H.M.  subjects 
there,  H.M.  is  pleased  to -order  that  where  any  suoh  Acts  shall 


488 


COLONIAL  PAPEKS. 


1709. 

be  disallowed  by  ELM.  on  the  Bepresentation  from  the  Lords 
Commrs.  of  Trade,  notice  be  given  to  the  respective  Govern- 
ments or  their  Agents  by  the  said  Lords  Commrs.  of  the  reasons 
for  repealing  the  said  Acts,  to  the  end  that  upon  re-enacting 
the  same,  the  Assembly  may  form  them  accordingly.  Signed, 
John  Povey.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead  Oct.  27,  1709.  2j  pp. 
[(7.0.  5,  1264.  No.  84;  and  5,  1292.  pp.  163,  164.] 

Oct.  24.         792.     Order   of   Queen   in  Council.     Bepealing   Act   of  New 
Windsor.      Jersey  for  regulating   negros  etc.     Cf.   Oct.    18.     Signed,   John 

Povey.     Endorsed,   Kecd.   Bead  Oct.  27,   1709.     If  'pp.     ^C.O. 

6,  970.     No.  86;  and  5,  995.     pp.  22,  23.] 

Oct.  24.         793.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Jenings.     Encloses  an  "authentick 
Whitehall,    example"  of  Order  in  Council,   Sept.   26.   etc.     [C.O.   5,   1362. 
p.  428.] 


Oct    24. 
"Boston. 


794.  Governor  Dudley,  Col.  Nicholson,  Col.  Vetch,  and  Capt. 
Moody  to  [?  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.~\  We  have  omitted  no 
opportunity  since  the  receipt  of  H.M.  commands  for  :he  in- 
tended expedition  to  Canada,  to  transmit  to  your  Lordships  an 
account  of  our  preparations  etc.  (v.  June  28,  July  8  etc.)  We 
awaited  the  arival  of  the  Fleet  with  earnest  desires  and  patient 
expectation,  until  the  llth  instant,  at  which  time  we  had  the 
honour  of  your  Lordships  letters  of  the  27th  of  July  by  the 
Enterprise  man  of  war,  importing  that  for  divers  weighty  con- 
siderations H.M.  had  thought  fit  to  lay  aside  at  this  time  the 
designed  Expedition  to  Canada,  etc.,  withal  signifying  her 
Koyal  pleasure,  that  consideration  be  had  here  upon  the  place, 
whither  with  the  forces  at  present  on  foot,  and  other  prepar- 
ations made,  it  be  expedient  to  attempt  any  places  belonging  to 
the  enemy  at  Nova  Scotia,  and  particularly  Port  Eoyal,  and  then 
to  prosecute  the  same  without  delay.  And  a  general  consultation 
being  had  thereupon,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Governours  of  the 
Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire,  Connecticott,  and  Ehode  Island 
(attended  by  several  Members  of  the  Council  and  Assembly  of 
their  respective  Governments)  with  the  Honble.  Colo.  Francis 
Nicholson,  Col.  Vetch  and  Colo.  Moody,  it  was  unanimously  ad- 
vised that  an  attack  upon  Port  Eoyal,  agreeable  to  H.M.  directions 
be  undertaken  and  proceeded  upon  forthwith  (v.  infra).  We 
well  supposing  by  the  general  expression  in  H.M.  directions  [of 
other  preparations  made]  it  had  equal  reference  to  the  service 
of  the  ships  of  war,  especially  those  appointed  to  attend  the 
Grand  Expedition,  as  to  the  Forces;  for  without  their  being 
imployed  and  used  therein,  it  is  impracticable  to  support  such 
an  attack,  and  accordingly  demanded  the  attendance  and  as- 
sistant of  the  Captains,  ships  and  men,  in  that  important 
enterprize,  judgeing  it  a  service  of  the  last  consequence  to 
H.M.,  there  seeming  to  be  so  favourable  an  opportunity  and 
prospect  of  success,  by  the  favour  of  God  for  the  reduction  of 
that  place  to  H.M.  obedience,  and  removeing  that  nest  of  spoilers 
3tt4  V9bbers,  who  are  so  great  a  plague  to  all  H.M.  Plantations 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  489 

1709. 

in  America,  by  infesting  and  interrupting  their  intercourse  of 
commerce  and  trade,  and  ye  Fishery  being  so  nigh  and  a,dvan- 
tagiously  situate,  to  make  their  enterprizes  upon  all  navigation, 
and  are  every  year  strengthened  and  enriched  by  their  spoils 
mado  upon  H.M.  subjects,  nor  were  we  sensible,  that  the  attend- 
ance of  this  so  necessary  and  important  service  would  have 
anyways  infringed  the  orders  of  the  Lord  High  Admiral  to  the 
said  Captains  by  the  directions  of  H.M.  Governours  of  New 
England  and  New  York  to  proceed  to  the  Isle  of  Providence,  and 
the  Bahamas,  which  may  well  be  pursued  and  in  better  season, 
after  this  descent  is  over,  if  any  service  to  the  Crown  can  be 
done  there;  of  which  there  is  no  present  view,  and  gave  our 
opinion  accordingly  under  our  hands  to  ye  sd.  Captains.  Not- 
withstanding all  which  they  would  by  no  means  be  perswaded  to 
consent  to  proceed  to  Port  Royal,  so  that  hopeful  and  probably 
successful  enterprize  (for  which  all  other  preparations  were  in 
readiness)  is  for  this  time  disappointed.  The  consequence  where- 
of wo  fear  will  be  very  prejudicial  to  H.M.  interests  in  more 
respects  that  one ;  Besides  the  total  loss  of  the  extraordinary 
charga  of  the  Crown,  and  of  these  Governments,  in  the  summer 
preparations,  which  will  be  a  very  heavy  burthen,  and  great 
discouragemt.  to  H.M.  good  subjects  that  have  with  all  alacrity 
express'd  their  readiness  and  laid  out  themselves  to  do  service 
for  H.M.,  and  their  country,  and  to  give  check  to  the  insolence 
of  their  enemies.  We  humbly  pray  your  Lordship  to  present 
to  H.M.  the  inclosed  humble  representation  and  address  from 
ourselves,  with  the  Governours  of  Connecticot  and  Rhode  Island, 
and  aske  your  Lordship's  favour  in  furthering  the  obtainment 
of  the  things  therein  petition'd  for,  hopeing  that  according  to 
our  advice  at  the  Congress  Meeting  to  the  respective  Governmts., 
they  will  speedily  depute  some  persons  to  accompany  the  Hon. 
Col.  Nicholson,  as  their  Agents  to  attend  H.M.  with  further 
applications  in  this  weighty  concern.  And  if  H.M.  in  her 
Royal  wisdom  may  think  fit  to  revive  the  aforesd.  grand  Expe- 
dition to  Canada  etc.,  and  shall  be  pleased  to  order  the  same 
to  be  proceeded  on  the  next  year;  or  that  a  lesser  expedition 
be  formed  against  Port  Royal,  which  will  not  demand  near  the 
number  of  ships  and  troops  as  the  former,  we  humbly  offer  our  . 
opinion  that  it  will  be  absolutely  necessary  for  the  good  of  the 
service,  that  ye  ships  of  war  that  shall  be  appointed  to  assist 
the  same,  be  perfectly  under  the  direction  of  the  person  who 
shall  have  the  honour  of  H.M.  Royal  Commission  to  be  Com- 
mander-in-Chief  of  the  Expedition  in  order  to  prevent  all  mis- 
understandings between  the  land  and  sea  part,  which  on  some 
occasions  of  like  nature  in  the  West  Indies  has  unhappily 
frustrated  and  ruined  hopeful  designes.  We  account  it  our 
duty  further  to  acquaint  your  Lordship  that  in  all  this  affair 
referring  to  the  support  of  ye  Forts  in  frontiers,  and  the 
attack  on  Port  Royal,  we  have  not  been  able  to  obtain  any  advice 
or  assistance  from  the  Governmt.  of  New  York,  notwithstanding 
the  repeated  letters  sent  them  for  that  purpose.  Signed,  J. 
Dudley,  Fr.  Nicholson,  J.  Moody,  Sam.  Vetch..  3  pp.  Enclosed, 


490  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

794.  i.  Congress  of  the  Governors  of  Massachusetts,  New- 
Hampshire,  Conneticutt,  and  Ehode  Island,  with  Col. 
Nicholson,  Col.  Vetch,  and  some  of  the  Councilors  and 
Representatives  of  the  several  Governments.  Lord  Sun- 
derland's  instructions  of  July  1,  1709  to  Col.  Vetch 
were  read  (as  in  preceding). 

An  Address  to  H.M.  was  drawn  up  and  agreed  to, 
stating  that  "We  are  of  advice  the  Wood-Creak  Fort 
and  the  other  two  forts,  which  have  been  built  with 
great  expence  and  labour,  and  are  of  great  importance, 
bo  supported  this  winter,  in  just  hopes  that  H.M.  will 
revive  the  Expedition  against  Canada  in  the  Spring. 
Voted,  that  the  Governor  and  Government  of  New 
York  and  the  Jerseys  be  a&vised  of  this  vote,  and 
our  oppinion  that  H.M.  regular  forces  be  improv3d,  as 
far  as  they  will  amount  to  ye  numbers  of  800,  at 
Fort  Wood-Creek,  150  at  Fort  Nicholson,  60  at  Fort 
Ingoldsby.  And  the  rest  to  be  drawn  out  of  the  forces 
raised  and  marched  on  that  side  by  the  Queen's 
command.  And  that  the  Governor  and  Government 
of  Conneticutt  be  advised,  of  our  oppinion  herein,  and 
it  is  recommended  to  them,  to  do  their  quota  of  this 
duty,  and  that  we  shall  thereupon  abate  any  expecta- 
tion from  them  in  the  Port  Royall  expedition  hoped  for, 
and  in  case  that  expedition  do  not  proceed,  that  it  be 
recommended  to  the  respective  Governmts.  of  Massa- 
chusetts, Rhode  Island,  and  New  Hampshire,  to  afforde 
their  assistance  in  proportion  with  the  rest  of  ye  Gov- 
ernments concerned  for  that  service.  Voted.  That  we 
are  of  advice,  that  an  attack  upon  Port  Royall  by  the 
forces  of  the  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island  and  New 
Hampshire,  agreeable  to  H.M.  direction  be  undertaken, 
and  proceeded  upon  forthwith,  and  that  a  sufficient 
number  of  men  of  war,  now  in  the  Government  be 
imploid  and  used  therein,  it  being  a  service  of  the  last 
consequence  to  H.M.  and  ought  therefore  to  be  attended 
accordingly,  which  is  hereby  recommended  to  the  re- 
spective Governments.  The  Hon.  Col.  John  Moody  of- 
fred  a  memoriall  referring  to  the  state  of  Newfoundland. 
Voted,  that  it  would  very  much  conduce  to  the  service 
if  Col.  Nicholson  will  attend  H.M.  with  the  Representa- 
tion and  Address  now  agreed  upon,  and  set  forth  the 
great  expence  of  this  year's  preparation  etc.,  and  the 
great  inconvenience  all  these  Governmts.  will  labour 
under  by  the  French  and  Indians,  if  a  -decent  upon  them 
do  not  proceed  the  next  year.  And  further  advised, 
that  a  gentleman  from  each  of  the  Governmts.  as  their 
Agent  do  accompany  and  assist  him  in  his  application 
to  H.M.  in  this  affair.  And  that  a  Sachim  of  each  tribe 
of  ye  five  Nations  at  their  election  be  procured  to  attend 
him  in  his  voyage.  Signed,  J.  Dudley,  G.  Saltonstall, 
Fr.  Nicholson,  Saml.  Vetch,  Sam.  Cranston.  Copy.  3  pp. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST  INDIES.  491 

1709. 

794.  ii.  Address  of  the  Governors  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay, 
New  Hampshire,  Connecticott  and  Rhode  Island  at  a 
Congresse  with  Col.  Nicholson,  Col.  Vetch  and  several 
Members  of  the  Council  and  Representatives  to  the 
Queen.  Upon  the  communicating  to  us  your  Maj'ty.'s 
commands  to  desist  any  further  pursuing  the  designed 
expedition  at  this  time,  the  war  in  Europe  haveing  de- 
manded the  present  service  of  your  Majesty's  ships 
of  war  and  forces  intended  for  that  Expedition  nearer 
home,  etc.  We  crave  leave  humbly  to  addresse  your 
Sacred  Majesty  with  our  repeated  grateful  recognition 
of  your  Majesty's  most  gracious  regard  to  your  good 
subjects,  of  these  your  Majesty's  several  Governments, 
in  your  Royal  resolution  and  advance,  towards  the 
aforesd.  Expedition ;  to  ease  them  of  the  oppressive 
burthensom  charge,  which  for  divers  years  past,  they 
have  been  necessarily  put  to;  for  the  defence  of  them- 
selves and  your  Majesty's  interests  in  these  your  Nor- 
thern Plantations,  against  the  insults,  of  the  French,  in 
their  neighbourhood,  and  their  dependant  Indians;  and 
withall,  to  let  your  Majesty  know,  that  there  was  all 
dutiful  and  cheerful  obedience  paid,  to  your  Royal 
Commands,  received  the  last  spring,  in  doing  what  was 
required,  on  the  part  of  your  Majesty's  said  several 
Governments ;  towards  prosecuting  the  said  designed 
Expedition,  their  several  quotas  of  effective  men  for  the 
same ;  haveing  stood,  under  their  arms,  ever  since  the 
20th  day  of  May  past,  and  transports,  with  provisions, 
and  other  stores,  for  support  of  the  force,  have  been 
in  readiness  for  their  embarcation,  at  six  hours  warn- 
ing, to  the  aggravated  and  insupportable  charge,  of  the 
respective  Governments.  We  most  humbly  pray  your 
Majesty's  most  gracious  consideration  and  assistance 
therein:  as  also,  that  the  aforesd.  intended  Expedition, 
may  be  revived,  and  prosecuted  with  effect  the  next 
year,  May  your  Majesty  in  your  royal  wisdom  think 
fit  to  order  the  same.  And  if  in  the  mean  time  any  new 
overtures  be  made  for  a  peace ;  that  the  sixteenth  article 
in  the  Preliminaries  lately  concerted  for  that  purpose, 
may  be  enlarged:  so  as  to  include  Canada  and  Nova 
Scotia,  that  they  be  rendred  into  your  Majesty's  hands: 
particularly  Port  Royal ;  which  is  of  the  last  consequence 
to  all  your  Majesty's  Colonys  in  America,  as  to  Trade, 
and  the  Fishery;  it  being,  originally,  a  British  Colony, 
and  now  contained  in  the  Letters  Patent,  for  the  Massa- 
chusetts Province :  lies  within  80  leagues  of  their  Capes, 
in  the  course  of  all  shipping  from  Europe,  and  the 
Southern  Plantations:  and  is  become  the  receptacle  of 
all  privateers,  from  Martineco,  and  other  French  Is- 
lands, being  near  hand  to  carry  in  their  prizes,  taken 
along  this  shoar,  even  from  Virginia.  And  we  have 
suff ered  very  heavy  losses  by  them,  in  our  trade,  and 


492  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

Navigation,  this  summer  besides  the  unspeakable  ad- 
vantage that  will  accrue  to  your  Maty's.  Crown,  in  Naval 
Stores,  fishery  and  furrs,  by  Canada  and  Nova  Scotia 
being  under  your  Maty.'s  obedience,  and  should  it  con- 
tinue in  the  hands  of  the  French,  they  will  soon  grow 
so  numerous,  and  be  so  strongly  fortifyed,  that  it  will 
be  hard  to  reduce  them.  Rehoboth,  in  the  Massachu- 
setts, Oct.  14,  1709.  Signed,  J.  Dudley,  Samll.  Cran- 
ston, G.  Saltonstall,  Fr.  Nicholson,  Sam.  Vetch.  1  p. 
794.  iii.  Address  of  the  principal  inhabitants  and  merchants 
at  Boston,  and  other  adjacent  places,  to  the  Queen. 
Among  the  many  thousands,  that  rejoyce  in  the  privi- 
leges, they  enjoy  under  your  Majesty's  most  excellent 
administration,  wee,  with  all  humility,  appear  with  our 
gratefull  acknowledgments  of  your  Majesty's  favours 
towards  us,  as  in  many  other  instances,  so  in  particu- 
lar for  the  vast  expence  your  Majesty  has  been  at  the 
summer  past  in  sending  hither  shipps  of  warr,  mili- 
tary officers  etc.  for  the  reduceing  of  the  French  settle- 
ments in  Nova  Scotia  and  Canada  etc.,  which  this 
country  rejoyceing  in  hopes  of,  with  great  chearfullness, 
contributed  their  part,  for  the  raiseing  the  number 
of  men  your  Majesty  required  for  that  service.  Our 
enemys  dreaded  the  event  of  this  affair,  hearing  that 
vast  preparations  were  made  against  them,  and  would, 
wee  doubt  not  (through  the  divine  blessing)  have  become 
an  easie  prey  in  a  few  days  to  your  Majesty's  shipps 
of  warr,  which  have  been  sent  hither,  and  other  forces 
raised  here,  had  the  Commanders  of  the  friggotts  been 
ordered  to  have  gone  without  delay ;  but  they  refuseing 
to  goe,  and  all  power  here  to  oblidge  them  failling, 
these  Colonies  are  reduced  to  great  distress,  our  ene- 
mies haveing  their  fears  scattered,  and  being  flushed 
with  success,  doe  looke  on  us,  as  a  people  forsaken  of 
your  Majesty,  and  as  left  to  be  a  prey  to  their  teeth. 
The  privateers  from  Port  Royall  have  ye  summer  past 
taken  many  of  our  vessells  with  much  of  our  substance, 
and  will,  wee  fear,  with  our  eastern  salvage  enemys, 
make  dreadfull  attempts  upon  us  this  winter,  while 
those  at  Canada  will  endeavour  to  alienate  the  five 
Nations  of  Indians  from  your  Majesty's  service,  and 
possibly  prevail  with  them  to  joyn  in  their  attacks  on 
those  parts  as  well  as  on  these  frontiers.  Wee  being 
surrounded  with  difficulty s,  humbly  prostrate  ourselves 
at  the  feett  of  your  most  excellent  Majesty,  and  as  our 
Governour,  with  other  principall  persons  of  this,  and 
the  neighbouring  Governments,  have  desired  the  honour- 
able, industrious  and  couragious,  Col.  Francis  Nicholl- 
son,  to  be  their  Agent  in  this  extremity:  wee  allsoie 
judgeing  him  faithfull  to  your  Majesty's  interest,  well 
acquainted  with  the  state  of  affairs  of  this  country,  and 
what  are  the  best  methods  for  our  releif,  referr  the 


AMERICA   AND   WEST  INDIES.  493 

1709. 

more  full  representation  of  our  case  to  his  prudence: 
beseeching  your  excellent  Majesty  to  revive  our  lan- 
guishing spiritts  by  such  supplys  early  in  the  Spring  as 
may  (by  the  favour  of  Almighty  God)  be  our  deliverers 
from  the  annoyance  of  our  troublesome  and  bloody 
neighbours;  but  if  your  Majesty  in  your  great  wisdom 
shall  see  meett  to  hearken  to,  and  aggree  on  terms  of 
peace,  before  a  reduction  of  Port  Koyall  to  your 
Majesty's  obedience,  can  be  effected,  wee  humbly  be- 
seech your  Majesty  that  Nova  Scotia  may  be  reserved 
for,  and  annexed  to  your  Brittish  dominions.  And1 
since  it  is  for  the  glory  of  your  Majesty,  suffer  our 
desires  to  be  enlarged,  and  to  pray,  that  Canada  in 
those  terms  of  peace  may  allsoe  come  into  your  thoughts. 
Without  reserve  of  Port  Roy  all,  that  people,  that,  in  a 
sense,  may  be  now  called  no  people,  will  in  time  en- 
deavour the  razeing  your  Majesty's  interests  here.  That 
America,  as  well  as  Europe  may  be  freed  from  the 
French  tyranny,  both  ecclesiasticall  and  civill  by  the 
blessing  of  the  Most  High,  on  your  Majesty's  endeav- 
ours, etc.  etc.,  are  the  constant  prayers  of,  Signed, 
Charles  Hobby  and  66  others.  1^  pp. 

794.  iv.  Account  of  the  charges  accruing  for  the  intended 
expedition  to  Canada ;  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  £30,811 
12s.  Wd. ;  (v.  Jan.  31,  1710.  No.  XV.)  to  New  Hamp- 
shire £3,500;  to  Rhode  Island,  £6,700;  plus  £5,000 
more  before  the  forces  can  be  disbanded.  Total,  £46,011 
12s.  &d.  1  p. 

794.  v.  Governor  Dudley  to  Capt.  Clifton  of  H.M.S.  Kinsaile, 
Capt.  Davis  of  H.M.S.  Maidstone.  Oct.  12,  1709. 
Communicates  Lord  Sunderland's  Instructions  concern- 
ing the  Bahamas,  July  27,  q.v.  Continues ;  I  cannot 
take  measures  till  after  the  congress  of  H.M.  Governours 
to  be  holden  three  days  hence  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island. 
I  desire  you  will  stay  in  this  Port  till  you  hear  from 
me,  unless  you  have  other  orders  I  am  not  knowing 
of,  etc.  Signed,  J.  Dudley.  Copy.  1  p. 

794.  vi.  Circular  Letter  from  Governor  Dudley  to  the  Cap- 
tains of  H.M.  ships  of  war  desiring  their  attendance 
at  a  Council  of  War  to  consider  an  attack  upon  Port 
Royal,  etc.  Boston,  Oct.  18,  1709.  Signed,  J.  Dudley. 
Copy,  i  p. 

794.  vii.  Governor  Dudley,  Cols.  Nicholson,  Moody  and  Vetch, 
to  Lt.  Governor  Ingoldsby,  desiring  him  to  order  H.M.S. 
Kinsale  and  Maidstone  to  joyne  the  other  frigates  and 
troops  in  an  attack  upon  Port  Royal.  Boston,  Oct. 
18,  1709.  Signed,  J.  Dudley,  Fr.  Nicholson,  Saml. 
Vetch,  J.  Moody.  Copy.  1  p. 

794.  viii.  Capt.  Clifton  to  Governor  Dudley.  On  your  former 
request  I  have  defer'd  sailing  this  seven  days  last  past, 
but  can't  think  myselfe  safe  to  delay  it  longer,  for  you 
are  sensible  by  the  copys  I  sent  I  am  order'd  to  repair 


494  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

to  my  station  with  the  ships  under  my  command:  so 
desire  your  excuse  for  not  waiting  on  you  and  the  other 
gentlemen  etc.,  being  now  with  ye  Maidstone  endeavour- 
ing to  put  my  orders  in  execution  with  all  expedition. 
Kinsale,  Oct.  18, 1709.  Signed,  Jno.  Clifton.  Copy.  ±  p. 
794.  ix.  Governor  Dudley,  and  Cols.  Nicholson,  Vetch  and 
Moody  to  Capts.  Thomas  Matthews,  Mathew  Tate,  John 
Clifton,  (Nicholas)  Smith,  Richard  Davis,  Commanders 
of  H.M.  ships  of  war,  Nantaskett.  Recite  events  re- 
lating to  the  intended  expedition  against  Canada.  Con- 
tinue ; — In  pursuance  of  instructions  from  White  Hall, 
at  a  conference  of  Governors,  officers,  and  members  of 
Council  and  Assembly,  it  is  unanimously  advised  that 
an  attaque  upon  Port  Royall,  agreeable  to  H.M.  direc- 
tion, be  undertaken  and  proceeded  upon  forthwith,  and 
that  a  sufficient  number  of  men  of  war  now  in  the 
Government  be  imploy'd  and  used  therein,  and  the 
Governour  of  New  York  particularly  directed  to  give 
all  assistance  in  hiss  power,  it  being  a  service  of  ye 
last  consequence  to  H.M.  Now  this  important  enter- 
prise so  necessary  for  H.M.  service  and  interests  and 
for  wch.  there  seems  to  be  so  favourable  an  opportunity 
and  prospect  of  success  by  ye  favour  of  God  (as  by 
the  relation  of  divers  prisoners  lately  returned  from 
thence  appears)  depends  upon  ye  assistance  of  H.M. 
ships  under  your  command,  or  the  greater  number  of 
them,  of  wch.  Capt.  Mathews  and  the  Province  gaily 
are  two,  whose  service  we  have  no  reason  to  doubt  of. 
There  are  four  others,  vizt.  Capt.  Clifton,  Capt.  Tease, 
Capt.  Smith,  and  Capt.  Davis,  whose  orders  are  to 
attend  the  Governor  of  New  England  and  New  York 
for  ye  recovery  of  the  Isle  of  Providence  and  Bahamas 
from  ye  French  and  put  them  into  ye  hands  of  ye 
English  subjects,  as  ye  orders  to  ye  respective  Capts. 
import,  as  well  as  the  letters  from  my  La.  Sunderland 
to  the  several  Governors.  Since  which  ye  said  Gov- 
ernors with  Col.  Nicholson  and  Col.  Vetch  have  used  all 
possible  means  to  get  advice  whither  there  be  any 
French  resideing  at  Providence  or  any  other  of  ye 
Bahamas,  and  where  H.M.  subjects  ye  late  inhabitants 
of  ye  sd.  Islands  are,  and  being  made  certaine  that  there 
are  no  French  to  be  removed  from  thence,  nor  any  of 
H.M.  subjects  that  offer  to  return  and  dwell  there,  it 
is  determined  to  delay  that  voyage  untill  February, 
wch.  season  of  ye  year  will  well  suit  that  service,  if 
there  be  occasion,  and  in  the  mean  time,  that  a  decent 
be  made  upon  Port  Royall  as  by  ye  aforerecited  vote  is 
adviced  agreeable  to  H.M.  commands.  We  therefore 
desire  and  expect  that  you  do  freely  and  unanimously 
consent  and  subscribe  your  resolution  to  attend  that 
service  and  that  your  ships  be  forthwith  fitted  and 
victualled  for  three  months  accordingly,  and  that  you 


AMERICA  AND   WEST  INDIES.  495 

1709, 

will  put  forward  the  service  at  Port  Royal  with  your 
ships  and  men  in  such  maner  as  a  Council  of  war  upon 
ye  place  consisting  of  such  members  as  shall  be  ap- 
pointed to  set  therein  shall  think  fitt,  least  any  unhappy 
missunderstanding  should  prevent  the  desired  success 
as  it  has  done  on  several  occasions  of  like  nature  in 
the  West  Indies.  Of  this  we  must  be  forthwith  re- 
solved, for  that  there  are  1200  men  well  arm'd,  cloathed 
and  disciplined  with  transports  ready  for  their  embar- 
cation  in  12  hour's  (and  provisions)  continued  under 
pay  to  the  very  great  charge  of  the  Governments,  and 
if  this  enterprize  should  not  proceed,  all  the  past  great 
charge  and  advance  of  the  Crown  will  be  wholly  lost, 
etc.  Boston,  Oct.  19,  1709.  Signed,  J.  Dudley,  Pr. 
Nicholson,  Saml.  Vetch,  J.  Moody. 

794.  x.  Same  to  Capt.  Geo.  Martine,  Commander  of  H.M.S. 
Dragon,  Nantaskett.  We  last  night  acquainted  you  in 
ye  Council  Chamber  of  our  resolution  to  make  a  decent 
upon  Port  Royal,  etc.  To  several  of  ye  Captains  we 
have  written  this  morning  (v.  preceding).  Notwith- 
standing your  answer  to  us  alledging  ye  Ld.  High 
AdmiralFs  possitive  orders  to  saile  to  Newfoundland 
where  in  an  [=?  our]  oppinion  'twill  very  well  agree 
wth.  ye  present  projected  decent  it  being  in  the  way 
thither,  and  we  are  also  of  oppinion,  that  ye  appear- 
ance of  your  ship  and  the  Guarnsey  before  Port 
Royal  to  be  there  seen,  will  certainly  give  the  eniriiy 
the  thoughts  that  ye  fleet  from  England  is  arrived  for 
their  reduction,  and  therefore  we  desire  this  of  you 
to  accompany  ye  fleet  thither  though  you  leave  them  in 
24  hours  after  their  arrival  and  proceed  your  voyage 
to  Newfoundland  from  thence  according  to  ray  Ld. 
High  AdmiralPs  Orders,  and  this  we  are  confident  will 
be  no  hinderance  to  the  service  at  Newfoundland,  for 
that  the  appointed  time  is  already  past  for  their  ships 
sayling,  and  must  certainly  be  gone  before  your  ar- 
rival there.  Boston,  Oct.  19,  1709.  Signed  as  pre- 
ceding. 2  pp. 

794.  xi.  Capt.  Smith  to  Governor  Dudley.  Reply  to  No.  IX. 
I  should  be  very  glad  to  answer  your  expectation,  could 
I  beleive  myselfe  safe  in  it ;  but  my  Orders  from  my 
Lord  High  Admiral  directs  me  to  receive  your  commands 
for  the  Bahama  Islands,  etc.  I  am  accordingly  using 
my  utmost  endeavours  to  get  the  ship  in  a  condition  to 
execute  that  service.  But  if  your  Excellency  do's  not 
designe  to  send  me  that  way,  do  conceive  it  to  be  my 
duty  to  put  in  execution  the  other  part  of  my  Instruc- 
tions, by  makeing  the  best  of  my  way  to  Virginia  and 
cruising  there  as  commanded,  unless  you  have  any  par- 
ticular orders  from  H.M.  or  my  Lord  High  Admiral 
to  the  contrary,  etc.  Enterprize,  Nantasket  Road.  Oct. 
20,  1709.  Signed,  Nich.  Smith.  1  p. 


496 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


Oct    24. 

Windsor. 


Oct.  25. 

Whitehall, 


Oct.  25. 

Boston  in 

New 
England. 


Oct.  25. 

Boston. 


794.  xii.  Capt.   Martine   to   Governor  Dudley   etc.     Reply   to 

No.  X.  I  haveing  received  pressing  orders  from  my 
Lord  High  Admll.  to  proceed  immediately  with  H.M.S. 
Dragon  and  Guarnsey  to  Newfoundland  etc.,  I  will 
adventure  to  stay  till  Sunday  for  what  dispatches  your 
Excellency  are  to  send  to  ye  Queen,  and  then  (God 
willing)  per  first  opportunity  -of  weather,  shall  saile 
for  England.  Oct.  20,  1709.  Dragon,  Nantaskett 
Roade.  Signed,  G.  Martine.  1  p.  {C.O.  5,  9.  Nos. 
32,  34-45;  and  (duplicate  of  No.  iii.),  47.] 

795.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Repealing  Act  of  Mary- 
land  for   relief   of  poor   debtors    (Of.    Oct.    18).     Signed,    John 
Povey.     Endorsed,   Reed.   Read  Oct.  27,   1709.     1£  pp.     [C  0. 
5,  716.     No.  67A. ;  and  5,  727.     pp.  138,  139.] 

796.  Mr.   Popple  to  Lt.  Governor  Gookin.     Encloses  letter 
to   be   forwarded  to  the   President   and   Council   of   New   York. 
[C.O.   5,  1292.     p.   160.] 

797.  Governor  Dudley  to  Mr.  Popple.     This  comes  by  Col. 
Nicholson  and  Col.  Moody,  who  are  determined  to  sayle  with  12 
hours  warning  that  prevents  mee  of  doing  my  duty  in  writing 
largely  to  the  board,  in  which  I  also  hope  to  be  excused,  those 
Gentlemen  having  been  here  all  the  summer  past  and  seen  the 
dutifull  preparation  made  here  for  a  descent  upon  Canada  to  a 
very    great    expence    of   the    severall    provinces,    wherein    I    am 
well  assured  they  will  represent  me  to  have  neglected  nothing 
necessary  for  the  service,  which  yet  is  diverted  by  H.M.  greater 
affayreSj  and  we  must  patiently  bear  the  disappoyntment,  especi- 
ally while  we  can  hope  it  will  be  revived  the  next  spring,  which 
the  Gentlemen  coming  home  I  hope  will  solicite.     A  few  dayes 
since  arrived  the  Supply,  bringing  H.M.  stores  for  Piscataqua, 
and  I  am  now  by  the  Comissary  Genral  and  a  Comittee  of  that 
Government  taking  care  to  land  and  dispose  in  safety,  and  have 
given  notice  thereof  to  the  board  of  ordinance.     I  humbly  thank 
their  Lordships'  care  at  the  board  to  put  that  supply  forward, 
and  shall  alwayes  give  account  of  the  thrifty  expence  of  them 
annually   as   I   am  commanded.     By  the   mast   shipps    who   are 
now   in  harbour   I   shall  humbly  offer  to  their   Lordshipps   the 
year's  accounts  as  is  my  duty,  being  the  only  safe  conveyance 
from  these  Governments,   etc.     Signed,  J.   Dudley.      Endorsed, 
Reed.   6th,   Read  8th  Dec.,   1709.     Addressed.     Sealed.      Holo- 
graph.   1  p.  [C.O.  5,  865.     No.  21 ;  and  5,  913.     pp.  87,  88.J 

798.  Governor  Dudley,  Col.  Vetch  and  Capt.  Moody  to  [?  ihe 
Earl    of   Sunderland.~\     It   haveing   been   fully    resolved   at   the 
Congress  of  the  several  Governours   in  conjunction  with  Colo. 
Nicholson,  Colo.  Vetch  and  Captain  Moody  to  attack  Port  Royal, 
providing  a  sufficient  number  of  H.M.   ships   could  have   been 
prevailed  with  to  assist  therein  as   being  absolutely  necessary, 
not  onely  to  offend  the  enemy's  Fort  or  Battery's,  but  to  protect 


AMERICA  AND   WEST   INDIES.  497 

1709. 

the  transports  and  victuallers  from  ye  enemys  ship  or  ships 
of  war,  which  were  expected  there,  but  after  all  possible  en- 
deavours used  by  us,  it  was  impossible  to  prevail  with  any  of 
H.M.  ships,  save  the  Chester  (whose  station  was  to  attend  the 
Government  of  New  England)  to  go  upon  the  sd.  expedition, 
which  not  being  a  sufficient  force  for  the  sd.  enterprize,  we 
are  all  necessitated  to  desist  from  any  such  attempt:  than  which 
nothing  could  be  more  for  the  honour  of  the  Crown,  and  the 
interest  and  advantage  of  H.M.  Co'.onys  in  these  parts,  to  which 
th«  sd  Port  Royal  is  become  another  Dunkirk,  We  do  therefore 
humbly  pray  your  Lordship  to  represent  to  H.M.  the  absolute 
necessity  of  this  place  being  reduced  to  H.M.  obedience,  either 
by  force  of  annes,  or  comprehended,  if  a  Treaty  of  Peace  should 
intervene :  but  if  the  war  continues  we  begg  your  Lordship  to  lay 
before  H.M.  that  unless  this  place  be  reduced,  this  country  must 
be  abandoned  as  to  it's  trade;  as  Colo.  Nicholson  will  more  at 
length  inform  your  Lordship  and  the  Ministry.  And  if  H.M. 
would  be  pleased  to  order  four  frigatts  with  a  detachment,  if 
it  were  but  of  500  marines,  or  other  regular  troops,  together  with 
a  bomb  ketch,  and  two  large  morters  and  other  necessary  stores 
for  them  to  be  at  Boston  by  the  latter  end  of  March  in  con- 
junction with  what  troops  we  shall  get  ready  here,  we  should 
hope  by  God's  assistance  to  give  a  good  account  of  that  trouble- 
som  nest  of  privateers,  so  much  the  bane  of  all  H.M.  subjects 
upon  this  Continent,  providing  always  H.M.  shall  be  pleased  to 
order  it  so,  that  the  ships  of  war  shall  be  obliged  to  obey  the 
orders  of  the  Commanders  in  Chief  of  the  Expedition,  or  at 
least  what  shall  be  judged  necessary  for  them  to  do  by  the 
result  of  a  Council  of  War,  of  which  the  several  Commanders  of 
ships  to  be  members :  the  full  state  of  this  affair  we  wholey 
intrust  to  Colo.  Nicholson,  who  hath  been  prevailed  with  by 
the  unanimous  applications  of  the  several  Governours,  to  lay 
the  distressed  condition  of  these  Colonys  before  H.M.  and  your 
Lordships  of  the  Ministry,  he  haveing  been  a  witness  to  all 
the  preparations  which  were  made  here  in  obedience  to  H.M. 
commands:  as  also  capable  to  represent  the  sad  circumstances 
this  British  Continent  will  be  under,  if  H.M.  be  not  graciously 
pleased  to  renew  the  intended  Grand  Expedition  the  next  year, 
or  at  least  to  order  that  an  expedition  be  formed  against  Port 
Royal  as  before  projected,  in  which  we  most  humbly  and 
earnestly  begg  your  Lordship's  favour  and  assistance.  H.M.S. 
Dragon  and  Guernsey  being  in  readiness  to  sayle  for  England, 
and  no  other  opportunity  probable  to  present,  before  the 
Mast  fleet,  who  perhaps  may  not  saile  until  the  Spring,  We  have 
prevailed  upon  Colo.  Nicholson  to  take  passage  on  these  ships 
at  twelve  hours  notice,  to  attend  H.M.  with  the  humble  repre- 
sentation of  our  difficult  and  hazardous  circumstances,  hopeing 
that  some  persons  from  the  several  Governments  will  be  deputed 
soon  to  follow  him,  and  in  the  mean  time  we  shall  forward 
all  the  advices  the  publick  affairs  shall  demand  by  every  con- 
veyance, etc.  Siqned,  J.  Dudley,  Sam.  Vetch,  J.  Moody.  En- 
dorsed, R.  by  Col.' Nicholson,  Dec.  6.  2J  pp.  [C.O.  5,  9.  No.  33.] 

Wt.  11522.  CP32 


498 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 
Oct.  25. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  25. 

Whitehall. 


Oct.  25. 

Transport 
Office. 


799.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Since    your    Lordship's   letter   of    Sept.    20,    we   have 
discoursed   with   Captain   Jones   and   Mr.    Whitchurch,    who   do 
concur  with  what  was  proposed  by  u,s  to  my  Lord  High  Treasurer, 
Aug.  30,  for  settling  the  poor  Palatines  on  Jamaica  etc.    Refer 
to   their  Memorial   and  estimate   of   Transport  Office,   Oct.    25. 
We  have  likewise  proposed  to  Mr.  Cotton,  who  is  Proprietor  of 
Lynch  Island,  the  surrendring  30  acres  part  of  the  said  Island 
to  H.M.    in   fee,  which  he   has   consented  to,   as   also  that  the 
timber  on  the  said  Island  should  be  made  use  of  for  building 
of   hutts   for   the   said   Palatines,   provided  that   leave   be   given 
him    to    cutt    the    like    quantity    of   timber    elswhere    on    H.M. 
lands   ungranted,   in  case  he  should  need  any   for  the   further 
settlement   of   Lynch   Island.     And   whereas   the    settlement   on 
Lynch  Island  is  only  a  provisional  or  temporary  lodgment  pro- 
posed  for  the   Palatines,   till   they   can   be    conveniently   settled 
on  tho  main  Island  of  Jamaica,   we  have  further  proposed  to 
Mr.    Cotton   and   Mr.  'Compere,    who   are   Proprietors    of   lands 
lying  between  the  North  East  of  Eio  Grande  and  the  S.W.  of 
Point  Morant,  that  they  do  likewise  surrender  to  H.M.   in  fee 
a  part  of  the  said  lands,  in  order  to  H.M.  regranting  the  same 
to  the   said  Palatines.     There  are   several   other   Proprietors  of 
lands   lying  within  those  limits,   but   upon  enquiry  we   do   not 
find  that  any  of  them  are  in  this  Kingdom.     As  soon  as  we  shall 
have  received  answers  to  the  foregoing  proposals,  as  also  from 
the    Transport   Office   and  have   duly    considered   the    same,    we 
shall  dispatch  our  Eeport  to  H.M.  upon  the  whole  matter.  This  we 
thought  necessary  to  inform  your  Lordship  of,  that  a  delay  m  this 
affair  might  not  be  imputed  to  us.    [C.O.  138,  12.    pp.  176-178.] 

800.  Mr.  Popple  to  the  President  and  Council  of  New  York. 
Encloses    H.M.    letter   to   Col.    Ingoldesby,    revoking   his    Com- 
mission,   (Sept.   17),   which  they  are   immediately  to  deliver  to 
him.     [C.O.   5,  1121.     p.   438.] 

801.  The  Commissioners  of  the  Transport  Office  to  Mr.  Pop- 
ple.   We  transmit  you  an  estimate  of  the  charge  of  transporting 
1000  Palatines  to  Jamaica  (Of.  Oct.  21).    Signed,  Nich.  Eoope, 
Tho.  Colby.    Endorsed,  Eecd.  Eead  Oct.  26,  1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 


801.  i.  Estimate  as  above.  4000cwt.  of  bisquet 
at  26/-  per  cwt.  

500cwt.  of  oatmeal  at  45/-  per  quarter,  8 
bushells  to  the  quarter,  each  bushell 
weighing  431b.  makes  163  quarters 

500cwt.  of  pease  ,at  45  per  quarter,  eight 
bushells  to  the  quarter,  each  bushell 
weighing  591b.  makes  119  quarters 

200  busells  of  salt  at  5/-   per  bushell 

500  bedds,  pillows  and  blanketts,  each 
blankett  being  2^yd.  long  and  l^yd. 
wide,  at  8/6  per  sett  


£5200    0     0 


£366  15     0 


£267  15 
£50     0 


£212  10     0 
£6097    0    0 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


499 


1709. 

The  charge  of  transporting  1000  Palatines  to  Jamaica, 
(including  provisions  to  be  found  by  the  owners  of 
the  ships),  will  amount  to  £8  per  head,  £8,000.  Signed 
as  preceding.  1  p.  [C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  57,  57.i., 
and  138,  12.  pp.  479,  480.] 

[Oct  26.]  802.  Mr.  Atwood,  late  Chief  Justice  of  New  York,  to  the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  on  behalf  of  himself,  Col. 
Abraham  De  Peyster,  Capt.  Robert  Walters,  Dr.  Staats,  Abra- 
ham Governeur,  etc.  Prays  to  be  restored  to  his  office,  and 
reviews  factions  in  New  York  since  Lord  Bellomont's  time.  Signed, 
Wm.  Atwood.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Oct.  26,  1709.  20  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  181.] 


Oct.  26. 

Boston. 


803.  Mr.  Addington  to  Mr.  Popple.  The  hurry s  of  the  past 
summer  in  the  frequent  sittings  of  the  General  Assembly  and 
intermediate  Councils  for  the  necessary  preparations  for  the 
design'd  expedition  to  Canada,  etc.,  against  the  arrival  of  the 
expected  fleet  from  Great  Brittain;  and  the  insults  we  have  had 
on  th.3  coast  by  French  privateers  from  Port  Royall,  has  de- 
manded the  service  of  my  whole  time,  so  that  I  have  had  no 
liesure  to  get  ready  the  Journals  etc.,  but  must  pray  your  excuse 
until  the  next  by  the  mast  fleet.  The  disappointment  of  the 
expedition,  for  which  this  Government  stood  ready  in  all  points 
for  so  many  months  together,  has  put  them  to  an  excessivej 
aggravated  charge,  and  the  great  losses  suffered  by  the  enemy 
has  brought  us  into  very  distressing  circumstances,  and  exposed 
us  to  many  future  inconveniences.  Col.  Nicholson  returns  home 
by  H.M.S.  Dragon,  at  the  desire  of  the  Governors  of  H.Ml 
several  Colonies,  to  attend  H.M.  with  a  humble  Representation 
of  the  present  state  of  affaires  here,  and  withal  humbly  to  pray 
H.M.  gracious  consideration  thereof,  and  in  especial  manner 
referring  to  Port  Royall,  that  nest  of  spoilers  so  near  to  us, 
that  if  the  war  continues,  a  sutable  force  may  be  ordered  for 
the  reduceing  thereof;  or  if  any  new  overtures  for  Peace  be 
proceeded  in,  it  may  be  comprehended,  so  as  to  be  rendred 
under  H.M.  obedience,  as  it  anciently  was.  It  being  of  the  last 
consequence  to  all  H.M.  Plantations  in  America  relating  to 
trade  and  commerce  and  particularly  to  the  Fishery  here.  If 
you  please  to  give  what  assistance  thereto  shall  lye  within  yr. 
power,  it  will  be  a  very  especial  service  to  H.M.  interests. 
Asks  for  receipt  for  papers  sent  by  H.M.S.  Falmouth,  Capt. 
Riddell.  Signed,  Isa.  Addington.  Endorsed,  Reed.  6th,  Read 
9th  Dec.,  1709.  2  pp.  [C.O.  5,  865.  No.  24.] 

[Oct.  26.]  804.  Jno.  Rayner  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Explains  Memorial  of  Oct.  10.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Oct.  26, 
1709.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  ATo.  130.] 

Oct.  26.         805.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,    derland.     Enclose   new   seals   for  the  Plantations,   prepared  by 
John  Roos,  H.M.  Seal-cutter,  together  with  draughts  of  warrants 


500 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

for  their  use,  to  be  laid  before  H.M.  for  her  signature. 
324,  9.     p.  413.] 

Oct  27.  806,  Resolution  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay,  Oct.  27,  1709.  The  House  gratefully 
acknowledges  the  good  services  of  Col.  Nicholson,  and  desire 
him  to  represent  to  H.M.  their  distressing  circumstances,  and 
to  pray  that  H.M.  would  consider  them  with  respect  to  this  year's 
vast  expence,  and  to  send  a  force  sufficient,  early  next  spring,  to 
reduce  Port  Royall,  or  in  case  of  peace,  that  Nova  Scotia  and 
Port  Royall  may  be  restored  to  H.M.  obedience,  etc.  Counter- 
signed, John  Clark,  Speaker.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  9.  Nos.  30,  31.] 

Oct.  27.  8O7.  Mr.  Attorney  Generall  to  Mr.  Popple.  I  am  of  opinion 
that  the  enclosed  Act  of  Jamaica  ought  not  to  be  allowed  of 
and  ratify'd  by  H.M.  for  the  reasons  I  have  mentioned  in  the 
margent  of  the  copy  you  sent  me.  Signed,  Ja.  Mounta-gue. 
Ertdorsed,  Reed.  Read  Oct.  27,  1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

807.  i.  Act  of  Jamaica  for  the  further  quieting  possessions 
etc.  With  marginal  notes  by  the  Attorney  General: — 
I  think  5  years  too  short  a  time  to  barr  ye  titles  of 
persons  who  are  proprietors  of  lands  in  Jamaica,  etc. 
To  make  bargains  and  sales  and  other  conveyances 
not  of  record  to  be  of  equall  force  with  fines  and  re- 
coveryes  may  be  dangerous  to  subsequent  purchasers 
not  cognisant  of  such  secret  conveyances,  etc.  Signed, 
Ja.  Mountague.  5^  pp.  [C.O.  137,  8.  A7os.  58,  58.i. ; 
and  138,  12.  pp.  482-494.] 

Oct.  27.  808.  W.  Popple  to  Wm.  Blathwayt.  The  Council  of  Trade 
Whitehall,  and  Plantations  desire  you,  as  Auditor  of  the  Plantations,  would 
let  them  have,  as  soon  as  possible,  the  names  of  the  persons 
that  have  patents  for  land  in  Jamaica  lying  between  N.E.  of 
Rio  Grande  and  S.W.  of  Point  Morant,  which  expressing  the 
number  of  acres  in  each  patent,  how  the  same  are  situated,  what 
quit  rents  are  reserved,  what  arrears  of  quit  rent  there  are  due, 
and  if  you  can  what  quantity  of  lands  there  are  remaining  in 
the  said  limits  ungranted.  [C.O.  138,  12.  p.  481.] 

Oct.  28.          8O9.     Same  to  William  Penn.  Encloses  2  Orders  in  Coun- 

Whitehall.     cil  Oct.  24,  wherein  you  will  give  the  necessary  directions ;  also 

the  reasons  for  the  repeal  of  the  Laws  referred  to,  etc.     TC.O. 

5,  1292.     p.  165.] 

Oct.  28.          81O.     Mr.  Popple  to  the  Earl  of  Carbury.     Returns  a  paper 
Whitehall,    relating  to  his  lands  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Mary  in  Jamaica.    [C.O. 
138,  12.     p.  494.] 

Oct.  28  and      811.     Three  Certificates  in  favour  of  Lt.  Governor  Hamilton. 
29.          (Cf.  Sept    16).     Signed  by  H.  Holt,  Jos.  Jory,  N.  Blakiston  and 
16  others.     Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Nov.  1,  1709.     3  pp.     [C.O. 
152,   8.     Nos.   34,   34.i.,ii.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


501 


1709. 
Oct.  29. 


Oct.  29. 

Ciaven 
Rouse . 


Oct.  29. 

Windsor. 


Oct    29. 

Windsor. 


Oct.  29. 


Oct.  30. 

Bermuda. 


812.  Mr.  Baber  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following.  Signed, 
John  Baber.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  1st,  Bead  10th  Nov.  1709.  Ad- 
dressed. Sealed.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

812.  i.  John  Baber,  Secretary  at  Jamaica,  in  behalf  of  himself 

and  others,  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Pray  that  the  recent  Act  of  Jamaica,  for  regulating 
fees,  may  be  repealed,  the  rights  of  H.M.  Patent  Offi- 
cers being  thereby  broke  and  great  part  of  their  fees 
restrained  and  taken  away,  etc.  Signed,  John  Baber. 
1  p.  [C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  63,  63.i. ;  and  138,  13.  pp. 
31-33.] 

813.  Commission    from   the    Lords   Proprietors    of   Carolina 
to  Edward  Moseley  and  John  Lawson,  Surveyor  General  of  N. 
Carolina,    to   settle   the   boundaries   with   the   Commissioners   of 
Virginia  (Cf.  Jan.  13,  1709).     Signed,  Craven  Palatin,  Beaufort, 
Craven  for  the  Ld.  Carteret,  M.  Ashley,  J.  Colleton,  J.  Danson, 
M.  Ashley  for  Jos.  Blake.    [C.O.  5,  289.     p.  233.] 

814.  H.M.  Warrant  revoking  Col.  Ingoldesby's  Commission 
as  Lt.  Governor  of  New  Jersey.     Countersigned,  Sunderland.  1£ 
pp.    Set  out,   N.J.  Archives,  1st  ser.  III.   474.      [C.O.  5,  970. 
#o.  87  ;  and  5,  210.     p.  171;  and  5,  995.     pp.  29,  30.] 

815.  H.M.    Instructions    to    the    Governors    of    New    York, 
New    Jersey,    Massachusetts    Bay,    New    Hampshire,    Barbados, 
Bermuda  and  the  Leeward  Islands,  for  the  use  of  enclosed  Seals, 
and  return  of  the  old  ones.     Set  out,   N.H.   Prov.    Papers  II. 
610.     The   various   seals   are  described  as   C.S.P.    1705.     Nos. 
1089-1097.     Countersigned,    Sunderland.      [C.O.    5,    210.     pp. 
171-173;  and  5,  1121.     pp.  439-441;  and  38,  6.     pp.  471-473; 
and  5,  995.     pp.  21,  22;  and  5,  913.     pp.  76-79;  and  29,  12,.. 
pp.  36,  37 ;  and  153,  10.     pp.  380-382.] 

816.  The   Queen  to  the  President  of  the  Council   of  New 
York.     No   grants   of   land  are  to   be  made   or   passed  till  the 
arrival    of    Governor    Hunter,    etc.     Countersigned,    Sunderland. 
Endorsed,  Kecd.  Bead  Nov.  10,  1709.     1£  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1049. 
No.   132;  and  5,   1121.     pp.  443,   444;  and  5,   210.     pp.   184, 
185.] 

817.  Lt.    Governor   Bennett   to   the   Council    of   Trade   and 
Plantations.     Encloses  proceedings  relating  to  a  treasure  trove. 
All    that    can    be   discovered   yet    is   only    153|    ounces    and  12 
rials   of   Spanish  silver  coin.     I  have    (with  the   Chief  Baron) 
examined   all   such   as   could   be    imagined   should    be    any   way 
knowing  in  that  matter,  but  to  noe  purpose.     But  I  hope  time 
may    give    more    light,   and   shall    take    care   to    direct   that  the 
hearing   of   that   cause  shall   be   putt  off   till   further   discovery 
can   bo   made,    for   I   verily    believe  more   mony   was   taken  up. 
Your   Lordps.'   of  July   15   I   reed.   Oct.    24,   and  doe  conclude 
that  the  hearing  of  the  complaints  of  these  Islands  against  Mr. 


502  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

Jones,  and  also  his  against  me  are  over,  and  I  doe  not  doubt 
but  my  inooency  and  injuries  have  been  made  appear,  and 
that  your  Lordps.  have  some  way  considered  how  to  salve  my 
injur'd  reputation  which  has  been  every  where  for  these  eight 
years  exposed  by  the  clamours  and  insinuations  of  my  most 
barbarous  and  unjust  enemys.  Refers  to  letter  of  Sept.  30.  q.v. 
But  being  much  better  of  late,  I  have  inspected  all  the  fortifi- 
cations, stores  and  powder,  and  am  preparing  an  account,  and 
state  of  the  whole  in  order  for  transcription,  etc.  Signed,  Ben. 
Bennett  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Dec.  28,  Bead  Jan.  13,  170^.  Holo- 
graph. 2  pp.  Enclosed, 

817.  i.  Proceedings  of  a  Court  of  Exchequer,  Bermuda,  Aug. 
30,  1709,  relating  to  some  Spanish  coin  etc.  found  and 
concealed  by  John  Hilton,  referred  to  in  preceding. 
Copies.  4  pp.  [(7.0.  37,  9.  Nos.  5,  5.i.-iv. ;  and 
(without  enclosures)  38,  6.  pp.  483-485.] 

Oct.  31.         818.     Mr.    Popple   to   Mr.    Solicitor   General.     Encloses   for 
Whitehall,     his  opinion   in  point  of   Law,    Acts   of   New  York,   Oct.,  1708, 
(1)  to  relieve  this  Colony  from  divers  irregularities  and  extor- 
tions', (2)  for  the  easier  partition  of  lands  on  the  joint  tenancy 
or  in  common.     [(7.0.  5,  1121.     p.  442.] 

Oct.  31.  819.  William  Dockwra  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations. Encloses  following,  praying  that  they  be  considered 
before  the  settlement  of  Members  of  Council  for  New  Jersey  and 
Governor  Hunter's  Instructions,  etc.  Set  out,  N.J.  Archives 
1st  ser.  III.  475.  Signed,  Wm.  Dockwra.  Endorsed,  Eecd. 
Read  Nov.  2,  1709.  f  p.  Enclosed, 

819.  i.  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  New  Jersey  to  Governor 
Lord  Lovelace,  April,  1709,  relating  to  their  Address 
to  H.M.  complaining  of  the  proceedings  of  the  As- 
sembly there.  Signed,  Richard  Ingoldesby,  Wm.  Pin- 
horn,  Wm.  Sandford,  Richd.  Townley,  Dan.  Coxe,  Roger 
Mompesson,  Robert  Quary.  20  pp. 

819.  ii.  The  Answer  of  Peter  Sonmans  to  an  Address  to  Gov- 
ernor Lord  Lovelace  from  the  Assembly  of  New  Jersey, 
March  18,  1708.  Printed.  26  pp. 

819.  iii.  Address  of  the  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  New 
Jersey  to  the  Queen.  Mr.  Lewis  Morris  and  Samuel 
Jennings,  a  Quaker,  are  the  cause  of  the  irregular  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Assembly  etc.  We  propose  that  your 
Majesty  discountenanc'e  those  wicked  designeing  men, 
and  show  some  dislike  of  the  Assembly's  proceedings., 
who  are  resolved  neither  to  support  your  Majesty's 
Governmts.  by  a  revenue,  nor  take  care  to  defend 
it,  by  settling  a  Militia,  etc.  Copy.  3  pp. 
819.  iv.  Evidence  in  support  of  preceding  Address.  Copy. 

12  pp. 
819.  v.  Minutes   of   Assembly   of   New   Jersey,    May   5-12th, 

1708.     9  pp. 
819,  vi.  Lt.  Governor  and  Council  of  New  Jersey  to  the  Queen, 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


503 


1709. 

relating  to  the  proceedings  of  the  Quakers  there.  At- 
tested by  Francis  Nicholson  and  Samuel  Vetch.  Copy. 
3  pp. 

819.  vii.  Petition  of  Peter  Sonmans  and  William  Dockwra  to 
the  Queen.  Duplicate  of  C.S.P.  1702.  Nos.  484,  484. 
i.  Copy.  3  pp. 

819  viii.  Duplicate  of  Order  of  Council  appointing  Peter  Son- 
mans  to  the  Council  of  New  Jersey,  May  20,  1707. 
Copy.  1  p. 

819.  ix.  Memorial  of  Committee  of  Proprietors  of  the  Eastern 
Divisions  of  New  Jersey  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations  in  favour  of  Mr.  Sonmans  etc.  "Feb.  170£. 
Copy.  2  pp. 

819.  x.  Peter  Sonmans  to  Governor  Lord  Cornbury.  Capt. 
John  Harrison,  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas, 
by  his  opposition  to  complainant,  encouraged  the  in- 
habitants of  Newark  to  refuse  to  pay  their  quit-rents, 
etc.  1708.  Copy.  2  pp. 

819.  xi.  Copies  of  Address  of  Lt.  Governor  Ingoldesby  to 
Col.  Francis  Nicholson,  June  3,  1709 ;  Address  to  H.M. ; 
Two  Acts  and  notes  thereupon;  all  relating  to  the 
expedition  against  Canada.  4  closely  written  pp. 

819.  xii.  Copies  of  an  Address  of  welcome  delivered  by  Mr. 
Lewis  Morris  alone  to  Governor  Lord  Lovelace;  with 
some  satirical  verses  upon  that  occasion;  Mr.  Morris' 
reply  to  them  in  verse,  and  a  reply  to  him.  5  pp. 

819.  xiii.  Extract  of  Governor  Lord  Cornbury 's  letter  Feb. 
19,  1705,  upon  the  suspension  of  Lewis  Morris.  C.S.P. 
1705,  No.  878.  3  pp. 

819  xiv.  Minutes  of  Council  in  Assembly  of  New  Jersey, 
June  23-30,  1709.  8  pp. 

The  above  documents  are  endorsed,  Reed.  Nov.  2, 
1709.  They  are  all  set  cut,  N.J.  Archives,  1st  ser. 
III.  476-496.  [C.O.  5,  970.  Nos.  88,  88.i.-xiv. ;  and 
(u-ithout  enclosures)  5,  995.  pp.  25,  26.] 

Nov.  1.         820.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Seymour. 

Whitehall.  Enclose  Order,  Oct.  24,  repealing  Act  for  relief  of  poor  debtors. 
We  also  send  you  the  reasons  for  the  repeal  of  the  said  Act 
(Oct.  18),  that  you  may  avoid  passing  the  like  for  the  future. 
Enclose  letter  to  be  forwarded  to  the  President  of  the  Council 
of  New  Jersey.  [C.O.  5,  727.  pp.  139,  140.] 

Nov.  1.        821.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  President  of 
Whitehall,     the  Council  of  New  Jersey.     Enclose  Order,  Oct.  24,  repealing 
Act  for  regulating  negroes,  etc.,  by  reason  the  punishment  in- 
flicted on  negroes  etc.  is  such  as  never  was  allowed  or  known 
in  the  Laws  of  this  Kingdom.     [C.O.  5,  995.     p.  24.] 

Nov.  1.         822.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Lord  High 

Whitehall.     Treasurer.     Having  beeQ  in  treaty  with  the   Earl  of  Carbury 

for  his  lands  [see  Oct.  18]   lying  in  the  parish  of  St.  George, 


504 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


Nov.  2. 

Treasury 
Chambers . 


Nov.  2. 
Whitehall. 


Nov.  2. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  3. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  3. 

Whitehall. 


in  Jamaica,  his  Lordship  is  ready  to  surrender  to  H.M.  in  fee  such 
land*  as  he  has  within  those  limits  being  by  estimation  about  1,000 
acres,  upon  condition  that  the  said  1,000  acres,  as  likewise  the 
rest  of  his  lands  consisting  of  about  8,000  acres  lying  in  the  parish 
of  St.  Mary's  at  a  very  considerable  distance  from  the  limits 
aforesaid,  may  be  discharged  from  all  arrears  of  quit  rent  to 
the  time  that  such  surrender  shall  be  made.  Wherefore  if  H.M. 
shall  be  pleased  to  approve  thereof,  we  desire  your  Lordship 
will  enable  us  to  acquaint  the  Lord  Carbury  therewith,  as  soon 
as  conveniently  may  be,  in  order  to  the  dispatch  of  our  Report 
to  H.M.  [C.O.  138,  12.  p.  495.] 

823.  \Vm.  Lowndes  to  Mr.  Popple.     My  Lord  Treasurer  is 
inclinable,  on  H.M.  behalf,  to  approve  of  Lord  Carberry's  propo- 
sition   (Nov.    1),   and  in  order   thereunto  he   has   directed  Mr. 
Blathwayt,  H.M.  Auditor  for  the  Plantations,  to  lay  before  him 
a  state  of  the  arrears  owing  from  the  Earl  of  Carberry  upon 
the    quit    rents    issuing   out   of   the    said    lands,    and   what  the 
valua  of  the  lands  proposed  to  be  surrendred  by  the  said  Earl 
may  reasonably  be  computed  at.     Signed,  Wm.  Lowndes.     En- 
dorsed,   Reed.    Read    Nov.    3,    1709.     Addressed.     I    p.      [C.O. 
137,  8.     No.  59;  and  138,  12.     p.  497.] 

824.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Blathwayt.    Requests  reply  to  letter, 
Oct.  27.     The  proposal  for  settling  the  poor  Palatines  at  Jamaica 
is  obstructed  for  want  of  the  account  desired.     [C.O.  138,  12. 
p.  496.] 

825.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Attorney  General.    Encloses  an  Act 
of  Barbados  (1708)  for  holding  a  Court  of  Grand  Sessions,  etc., 
for  his  opinion  in  point  of  Law,  etc.     [C.O.  29,  12.     p.  38.] 

826.  Mr.    Popple  to  the  Earl  of  Carbury.     Mr.    Pulteney 
having  acquainted  the   Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations   that 
your  Lordship  is  willing  to  surrender  to  H.M.   in  fee  all  your 
Lordships  lands  lying  in  the  parish  of  St.  George  in  Jamaica, 
and  comprized   in  a  deed  of   conveyance  from   Nicholas    Smith 
to  your  Lordship,  which  deed,  together  with  a  survey  of  those 
lands,    Mr.    Pulteney    has   delivered   to   the    Board    from    your 
Lordship;  they  did  give  my  Lord  Treasurer  an  account  thereof, 
who  has  signifyed  that  he  is  inclinable  on  H.M.  behalf  to  approve 
of  the   said  proposition.     Your  Lordship  will  please  to  signify 
to  the  Board,  in  such  manner,  that  the  same  may  be  transmitted 
to  the  Governor  of  Jamaica,  that  you  do  consent,  the  said  lands 
may    be   cleared   by   H.M.    for   the   use   of   the   poor  Palatines, 
and  your  Lordship  will  be  pleased  to  do  it  with  all  convenient 
speed,  this  matter  not  admitting  of  any  delay.     [C.O.  138,  12. 
pp.  498,  499.] 

827.  Wm.  Blathwayt  to  Mr.  Popple.     Reply  to  Oct.  27  and 
Nov.    2.     Explains    delay   by   his   absence    etc.     Mr.    Compere, 
Receiver  Generall  of  Jamaica,  could  give  me  no  light,  but  only 
undertook  to  procure  from  his  Deputy  in  Jamaica  as  soon  as 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES. 


505 


1709. 


Nov.  3. 

Craven 
House. 


Nov.  8. 

Ciaven 

House. 


Nov.  4. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  4. 

Admiralty- 
Office. 


possible  a  particular  answer.  In  reference  to  my  part  therein, 
encloses  accompt,  to  which  I  might  have  been  able  to  have 
added  a  further  information,  if  I  had  not  been  disappointed 
by  the  death  of  the  Deputy  Auditor  there,  about  3  months 
past,  etc.  There  are  in  Jamaica  more  than  6  millions  of  acres 
of  profitable  land,  of  which  above  one  half  remain  unpossess'd 
or  unpatented,  so  that  the  Island  might  with  due  prevision  and 
assistance  receive  with  great  advantage  the  whole  number  of 
poor  Palatines.  The  tract  referred  to  is  at  least  TV  part  of  the 
whole  Island,  and  consequently  capable  of  receiving  a  consider- 
able number  of  these  Palatines,  tho'  it  may  be  observed  that 
the  North  Eastermost  part  of  this  tract  be  most  exposed  to 
pirates  and  the  invasion  of  the  French  and  Spaniards  from  the 
neighbourhood.  As  to  the  Quit-rents  reserv'd  to  the  Crown,  the 
lands  granted  by  Sir  Tho.  Modyford  pay  2/6  per  100  acres,  by 
Sir  Tho.  Lynch  ^d.  per  acre,  by  Lord  Vaughan  Id.  per  acre, 
and  by  some  of  the  succeeding  Governors  three  halfpence  or  2d. 
per  acre.  Signed,  Wm.  Blathwayt.  Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read 
7fch  Nov.  1709.  If  pp.  Enclosed, 

827.  i.  Accompt  of  H.M.  Quit-rents,  Jamaica,  Sept.  29,  1706- 

1707.  Total,  £2174.  9. 1.  Signed,  Charles  Chaplin.  2 
pp.  [C.O.  137,  8.  Nos.  60,  60.i. ;  and  (without  en- 
closure) 138,  13.  pp.  1-3.] 

828.  Lords  Proprietors  of  Carolina  to  Edward  Moseley  and 
John   Lawson,    Surveyor   General  of   N.    Carolina.     The   better 
to  enable  you  to  put  in  execution  your  Commission   (Oct.  29) 
we  thought  it  proper  to  inform  you  that  the  Lords'  Proprietors' 
Charter,  Charles  II.,  is  the  only  legall  evidence  they  can  make 
use  of  to  assert  their  bounds  with  the  Governor  of  Virginia. 
We  have  therefore  sent  you  herewith  a  true  printed  copy,  etc. 
Signed,   Craven   Palatin,   Beaufort,  M.    Ashley,   J.   Colleton,   J. 
Danson      [C.O.  5,  289.     p.  234.] 

829.  Same  to  Governor  Tynte,  and  Col.  Thomas  Broughton, 
Surveyor  General  of  S.  Carolina.     Warrant  to  set  out  100  acres 
of  land  to  all  such  poor  Palatines  that  shall  land  there,  free 
from  any  quit-rent  for  10  years,   after  which  they  are  to  pay 
Id.  yearly  per  acre.     Signed  as  preceding.     [C.O.   5,  289.     p. 
235.] 

830.  Mr.  Attorney  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.    I  have  no  objections  to  the  Act  of  Barbados  for  hold- 
ing a  Court  of  Grand  Sessions  etc.  (Nov.  2).    Signed,  Ja.  Moun- 
tague.     Endorsed,  Reed.  5th,  Read  10th  Nov.  1709.     1  p.    [C.O. 
28,  12.     No.  46 ;  and  29,  12.     p.  47.] 

831.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.    Encloses  following  and  two 
Bills    of    Exchange    signed   Peter    Holt,    to    be    laid    before   the 
Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations.     Signed,  J.   Burchett.     En- 
dorsed, Reed.  5th,  Read  8th  Nov.   1709.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

831.  i.  E.B.  to  the  Earl  of  Pembroke,  Lord  High  Admiral. 


506  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

On  the  29th  Oct.  goeing  over  Tower  Hill,  I  chanced  to 
take  up  the  enclosed,  etc.  Signed,  E.B.  Addressed. 
1  p. 

831.  ii.  Peter  Holt  to  Capt.  William  Billton,  upon  the  Camper- 

Hoofe  in  Amsterdam.  London,  Oct.  26,  1709.  En- 
closes two  bills  "for  the  rest  of  the  men,"  with  direc- 
tions for  transmitting  the  money  to  the  sender.  As 
to  the  brigintine,  if  you'll  take  my  advice,  lett  hir 
alone,  for  I  shall  never  ingadge  myselfe  with  hir  againe. 
She  is  20  year  old,  and  could  she  be  bought  for  little 
who  will  goe  swair  that  she  belongs  all  to  English- 
men, I  shall  not.  etc.  Have  made  some  inquiery 
whether  anything  can  be  recovered  from  Capt.  Stone 
or  his  security  for  the  damage  he  did  me  in  the  Bay 
of  Hundoras,  but  I  am  afraid  their  will  not.  I  am 
sorry  Mr.  Handes  should  be  so  greart/  a  sufferer,  he  being 
the  only  friend  an  Englishman  can  find  in  Curacao, 
and  without  dou(t  its  £500  sterl.  out  of  my  owners 
pocket.  If  such  men  have  Commissions  given  them,  in 
a  little  time  thear  will  be  no  going  to  the  West  Indies. 
The  Governor  of  Carolina  had  but  little  to  say  for 
himselfe  when  I  tould  him  Capt.  Stone  shewed  me  his 
Commission.  When  the  Governor  gave  Stone  a  Com- 
mission, he  knew  him  to  have  don  that  which  is  by  all 
men  called  piracy,  and  since  he  robed  me  in  the  Bay, 
Stone  met  with  a  brigauteen  that  was  a  prise  belong- 
ing to  a  Jemeca  privateer,  and  tooke  hir  from  theyr 
men  that  was  carrying  hir  home,  and  carryed  hir  to 
Carolina  and  had  liberty  to  condemn  and  sell  the  same. 
As  for  Curacao,  if  it  was  sunk  under  water,  it  woud  be 
beter  for  England  by  5  or  £600,000  in  one  year,  thear 
is  not  a  marcht.  in  England  that  trades  to  ye  West 
Indies  but  what  is,  has  been  and  will  be  the  worse  for 
that  Island.  You  may  think  what  I  now  say  is  a  little 
straing,  but  no  more  strange  then  new,  and  the  Island 
of  St.  Thomases  to  help  us  this  war  has  been  with 
Curacao  more  dammage  then  Martineco.  And  our  owne 
Plantations  are  cheefly  in  the  fuilt.  You  say  you  think 
it  might  be  a  good  thing  to  goe  with  provision  from 
Ireland.  I  cannot  think  it  can.  If  6  or  800  barills  of 
beefe  comes  in  at  a  time,  ye  Jews  blowe  upon  it,  etc. 
I  have  seene  so  much  hard  dealing  by  Englishmen  thear, 
that  my  bely  is  full  of  Curacao,  etc.  etc.  Signed,  Peter 
Holt.  2  pp.  [(7.0.  323,  6.  Nos.  90,  90.i.,ii. ;  and 
(without  enclosures)  324,  9.  p.  414.] 

Nov.  8.  832.  Mr.  Lowndes  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  following. 
Treasury  Signed,  Wm.  Lowndes.  Endorsed,  Becd.  Bead  Nov.  8,  1709. 
Chambers.  Addressed.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

832.  i.  Mr.    Blathwayt   to  Mr.    Lowndes.     Cf.    Nov.    2.      The 

1000  acres  Lord  Carberry  proposes  to  surrender  in 
Jamaica  pay  a  quit  rent  of  Id.  per  acre  per  annum. 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  507 

1709. 

How  much  the  arrears  thereof  do  amount  unto  does 
not  appear  by  the  last  return.  I  conceive  these  lands, 
as  unsettled,  may  be  worth  at  present  about  £400  sterl. 
Whitehall,  Nov.  3,  1709.  Signed,  William  Blathwayt. 

If  PP. 

832.  ii.  Duplicate  of  No.   827.   1.      [C.O.   137,  8.     Nos.   61, 
62,  62.i. ;  and  138,  13.     pp.  4-9.] 

Nov.  8.  833.  Mr.  Collins,  Commander  in  Chief  at  Newfoundland,  to 
St.  John's,  Col.  Nicholson.  Being  ordered  by  the  Commander  in  Chief  of 
idland.  Newfoundland  to  command  in  said  place  untill  further  orders 
from  H.M.,  and  being  perfectly  acquainted  with  the  poverty  of 
the  people,  by  reason  of  the  many  insults  made  against  them 
by  the  French  from  Placentia,  and  more  especially  since  the 
scandallous  loss  of  said  place  last  winter,  I  think  it  my  duty 
to  acquaint  your  Honour,  that  there  is  in  the  Garrison,  (which 
as  well  as  we  cou'd  we  have  re-built)  9  pieces  of  cannon,  20 
barrils  gunpowder  and  100  small  arms,  with  which  we  shall 
to  the  utmost  of  our  power  defend  H.M.  said  garrison  etc. 
There  is  within  said  garrison  470  persons,  including  women  and 
children,  which  for  want  of  provisions,  are  like  to  be  miserable, 
without  H.M.  early  relieves  us,  there  being  amongst  us,  at  this 
time,  but  30,000  of  bread  and  flour,  which  will  scarce  last  3 
months  at  a  short  allowance ;  pork,  beef  and  all  other  provisions 
being  wanted  in  the  same  manner;  so  that,  unless  H.M.  put 
of  her  Eoyal  Bounty,  do's  give  us  an  early  and  seasonable  relief, 
we  must  all  of  us  unavoidably  become  slaves  to  the  French,  or 
perish  with  famin ;  all  w,hich,  as  being  in  the  place  yourself, 
you  find  too  apparent;  etc.  Prays  him  to  solicite  H.M*.  assist- 
ance in  their  behalf.  Signed,  John  Collins.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  Jan.  27,  170TV  Copy.  1  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  tfo.  105.] 

Nov.  9.  834.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Repre- 
Whitehall.  sentation  upon  an  Act  of  Jamaica  for  the  further  quieting  of 
possessions.  By  this  Act  it  is  declared  that  all  possessors  of 
lands,  houses,  negroes  etc.,  by  virtue  of  any  deed  or  conveyance 
whatsoever,  who  have  been  in  peaceable  possession  for  5  years 
before  this  Act,  or  shall  continue  in  such  possession  from  the 
first  possessing  such  lands  for  the  space  of  5  years,  shall  injoy 
such  estate  and  hold  the  same  in  fee  against  all  persons  what- 
soever. This  term  of  5  years  we  are  humbly  of  opinion  is  too 
short  to  barr  the  titles  of  persons  who  are  Proprietors  of  lands 
in  Jamaica,  many  of  which  Proprietors  may  be  resident  in  some 
of  your  Majesty's  Dominions  in  Europe,  or  in  some  other  of 
your  Majesty's  Plantations,  and  may  not  have  timely  notice  of 
the  loss  of  their  possession,  besides  that  your  Majesty's  claim 
to  any  lands  .  ought  by  no  means  to  be  barr'd  by  so  short  a 
space  as  5  years,  the  term  of  7  years  in  our  humble  opinion 
is  little  enough  to  be  allowed  in  this  case,  and  was  the  time 
limmitted  by  a  former  Act  of  yt.  Island.  The  Act  further  allows 
to  infants,  women  under  coverture,  and  to  persons  of  non  sane 
memory  but  three  years  after  their  being  of  age,  the  death  of 


508  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

their  immediate  husbands,  or  their  becoming  of  sound  mind  and 
memory,  to  commence  their  actions  respectively  for  such  estates 
as  they  may  lay  claim  to.  This  we  think  a  hardship,  five  years 
having  been  thought  little  enough  here  in  such  cases.  Tt  is 
further  enacted  that  all  bills,  bonds,  mortgages,  judgements 
and  all  other  writings  obligatory  whatsoever  that  have  not  been 
legally  demanded  within  20  years  since  the  dates  thereof,  and 
shall  not  be  legally  demanded  within  12  months  from  the 
passing  of  this  Act,  shall  become  null  and  void.  Upon  this 
we  take  leave  to  observe  that  where  interest  is  constantly  paid, 
there  may  be  no  occasion  to  make  a  demand  of  the  principal ; 
and  therefore  it  seems  unreasonable  to  make  void  all  debts 
not  demanded  in  20  years,  besides  that  it  may  be  very  incon- 
venient to  compell  persons  to  demand  their  debts  within  the 
space  of  12  months.  All  lands,  tenements,  negroes  etc.  con- 
vey'd  by  bills  of  sale,  deeds  or  other  conveyancies  whatso- 
ever, for  valuable  considerations,  are  by  this  Act  declared  to 
have  pass'd  and  to  be  conveyed  by  the  said  bills  of  sale,  deeds 
etc.  as  fully  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  any  real  estate 
might  or  could  pass  in  this  Kingdom,  by  fine  and  recovery  in 
your  Majesty's  Court  of  Common  Pleas.  Upon  this  we  humbly 
observe  that  to  make  bargains  and  sales  and  other  conveyances 
not  of  record  to  be  of  equal  force  with  fines  and  recoveries 
may  be  of  ill  consequence  to  subseqt.  purchasers,  who  may  not 
be  privy  to  or  cognosant  of  such  secret  conveyances;  and  we 
find  that  by  a  former  Law  made  there,  for  prevention  of  Law 
suites,  such  bills  of  sale  and  conveyances  were  to  be  acknowledged 
before  the  judge  of  sorne  Court  of  Eecord,  and  duly  recorded 
there.  There  is  a  proviso  in  this  Act,  which  declares  that  no- 
thing Ihoreiu  contained  shall  disannull  or  make  void  any  rents 
or  services  reserved  to  your  Majesty.  Yet  should  this  Law  be 
confirmed,  the  possession  of  the  several  grantees  from  the  Crown 
wou'd  be  quieted,  and  their,  titles  confirmed,  notwithstanding 
any  forfeiture  they  may  have  incurr'd,  by  reason  of  the  non- 
performance  of  covenants  contained  in  their  respective  grants. 
Propose  that  the  Law  be  repealed  and  that  H.M.  royal  pleasure 
be  signifyed  to  the  Governor  that,  if  a  Law  for  this  purpose 
shall  be  pass'd  there,  not  lyable  to  any  of  these  or  other  just 
objections,  H.M.  will  be  graciously  inclined  to  approve  of  such 
Act.  [(7.0.  138,  13.  pp.  10-14.] 

Nov.  9.         835.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,    derland.     Enclose    following.     We   asked   Mr.    Whitchurch   and 
Mr.  Jones  whether  they  were  willing  to  make  an  agreement  with 
H.M.    in   order   to  the  providing   for   the   poor   Palatines,   but 
they  declined  to  do  it.     Annexed, 

835.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Re- 
capitulate their  negotiations  with  Mr.  Whitchurch,  Mr. 
Jones,  Sir  Robert  Cotton,  Lord  Carberry  and  Mr.  Com- 
peer, for  settlement  of  Palatines  in  Jamaica.  Pro- 
pose that  1000  Palatines  be  transported  at  H.M.  charge 
to  Lynch  Island,  there  to  continue  till  they  shall  be 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  509 

1709. 

settled  in  Jamaica,  and  that  the  harbour  of  St.  Antonio 
be  made  a  Port  of  Entry,  and  that  a  small  Fort  be 
built  there  for  its  security.  The  most  commodious 
place  for  their  settlement  in  Jamaica  is  between  the 
N.E.  of  Eio  Grande  and  the  S.E.  of  Point  Morante, 
where  a  sufficient  number  of  acres  may  be  granted 
under  the  Scale  of  the  Island  to  them  and  their  heirs 
for  ever,  not  exceeding  5  acres  per  head  for  every 
person  in  each  family,  which  proportion  of  acres  we 
conceive  may,  when  cultivated  yeild  a  reasonable  main- 
tenance for  them,  by  ye  produce  of  ginger,  cotton, 
indigo,  annotto,  rice  and  other  commodities.  As  for 
sugar,  the  produce  thereof  is  a  work  of  time  and  great 
expence,  yet  they  may  fall  into  it  as  they  grow  able  to 
purchase  negros  and  cattle;  such  a  settlement,  especi- 
ally if  there  be  a  small  fort  built  on  Linch  Island  will 
effectually  secure  the  south  as  well  as  north  side  of 
Jamaica,  from  any  attempt  of  an  enemy,  and  when 
these  people  are  well  settled  in  planting,  they  will  soon 
reimburse  your  Majesty  and  this  Kingdom,  as  well  by 
their  consumption  of  Brittish  manufactures,  as  by  the 
duties  arising  on  their  produce,  which  after  8  or  10 
years  may  be  a  considerable  increase  of  the  Customes, 
besides  the  benefit  to  Navigation.  Although  the  great- 
est part  of  the  land  within  the  limmits  aforementioned 
is  already  granted  by  letters  patents  to  others,  who 
have  held  the  same  for  20  or  30  years  past  without 
making  the  least  step  towards  settling  it,  and  as  we 
have  reason  to  beleive,  seldome  if  ever  paid  the  quit- 
rent,  to  the  great  injury  and  loss  of  the  publick  and 
of  your  Majesty's  Revenue  there,  and  without  any 
benefit  to  themselves;  yet  Col.  Lloyd,  Col.  Long  and  Mr. 
Broughton,  who  have  good  estates  there,  make  no  doubt  if , 
the  Palatines  were  sent  to  Jamaica,  but  without  having 
recourse  to  any  other  method  for  revesting  these  lands 
in  the  Crown,  the  present  owners  will,  for  so  great  a 
good,  freely  surrender  to  your  Majesty  $rds  or  fths 
of  their  said  lands.  But  if  the  lands  which  shall  be 
voluntarily  surrendered  by  the  Proprietors  (Lord  Car- 
berry  etc.)  shall  not  be  sufficient  for  this  intended 
settlement,  we  humbly  represent  that  there  are  in  Ja- 
maica some  millions  of  acres  of  profitable  land,  of 
which  more  than  one  half  remain  unpossessed  or  un- 
patented,  and  therefore  in  such  case  we  humbly  offer 
that  the  Governor  and  Councill  be  directed  to  seat  the 
said  Palatines  on  the  said  unpatented  lands  in  the 
severall  parishes  (though  this  will  not  be  so  advantageous 
as  the  seating  them  near  Port  St.  Antonio)  and  ac- 
cording to  the  information  we  have  had  the  inhabitants 
will  help  them  to  make  their  settlements,  as  'tis  their 
interest  so  to  do,  they  being  sensible  how  much  they 
want  numbers  of  white  people  in  those  parts. 


510  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


On  this  occasion  we  take  leave  to  observe  that  by 
a  Law  of  Jamaica,  1682,  every  master  of  slaves,  for  ye 
first  5  working  slaves,  is  obliged  to  keep  one  white 
man-servant,  overseer  or  hired  man  for  3  months  at  the 
least ;  for  10  slaves  two  whites,  and  for  every  W  slaves 
over  and  above  the  said  number  one  white  to  be  resi- 
dent on  the  Plantation  where  the  negroes  are  employed, 
on  penalty  of  £5  for  every  servant  that  shall  be  wanting, 
which  Law  being  not  complyed  with  by  many  of  the 
said  masters,  such  of  them  as  are  deficient  in  their 
respective  proportions  of  white  men,  are  compelled  to 
quarter  a  soldier  belonging  to  the  regular  forces,  for 
every  white  man  he  wants  of  his  quota,  or  else  to  allow 
to  every  such  soldier  5/s.  per  week.  Wherefore  we 
humbly  offer,  whether  as  a  temporary  provision  for 
these  Palatines,  or  for  a  goo'd  number  of  them,  till  they 
shall  be  otherways  settled,  in  case  they  are  not  settled 
near  Port  St.  Antonio,  according  to  the  first  part  of 
our  proposal,  it  may  not  be  proper  to  recommend  it  to 
the  Governor,  Councill  and  Assembly  to  subsist  them  on 
such  deficiencies  whereon  soldiers  are  not  already 
charged.  And  whereas  great  tracts  of  lands  have  been 
granted  to  persons  who  have  neglected  to  seat  or  plant 
the  same  (as  already  mentioned)  to  the  great  prejudice 
of  that  Island,  for  the  prevention  of  the  like  mischeif 
for  the  future  it  will  be  necessary  that  in  every  grant 
hereafter  to  be  made  to  the  said  Palatines  or  to  any 
other  persons,  there  be  an  express  proviso  that  the 
lands  so  granted  shall  be  seated  and  planted  within  a 
reasonable  time  to  be  therein  prefix 'd,  or  on  failure 
thereof,  such  grant  to  be  void,  and  the  lands  to  revert 
to  the  Crown.  And  we  further  humbly  offer  that,  in 
every  such  grant  to  the  said  Palatines  there  be  a  clause 
exempting  them!  from  the  payment  of  any  quit-rents 
for  a  reasonable  number  of  years  from  the  date  of  c-ach 
respective  grant.  If  your  Majesty  shall  approve  of  what 
we  have  herein  humbly  offered,  it  will  be  requisite  that 
these  poor  people  before  they  begin  their  voyage,  be 
supplyed  with  convenient  cloathing,  bedding,  tools, 
armes,  provisions,  etc.  In  regard  these  poor  people 
will  not  be  able  to  maintain  themselvs  wholly  out  of 
the  produce  of  their  labour  till  about  12  months  after 
the  clearing  and  planting  the  ground,  it  is  proposed 
that  they  be  subsisted  with  bread  for  one  year,  and 
with  other  provisions  for  6  months,  according  to  the 
annexed  paper,  which  we  hope  may  be  sufficient,  for 
that  there  are  potatoes,  peas,  and  several  other  sorts  of 
pulse,  that  will  be  ready  for  their  food  in  a  less  time, 
besides  that  there  is  plenty  of  fish  on  the  coast,  and 
wild  hogs  etc.  in  the  woods.  If  these  Palatines  shall 
be  settled  near  Port  St.  Antonio,  which  we  look  upon  as 
the  most  advantagious  place  being  so  scituated,  that 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  511 

1709. 

the  windward  passage  from  thence  to  Great  Britain  may 
be  made  at  any  time  of  ye  year,  and  consequently  the 
trade  from  thence  very  much  facilitated  and  increased, 
and  therefore  most  proper  for  a  settlement,  we  offer 
that  they  be  encouraged  to  settle  in  partnership,  that 
is,  three  or  four  families  in  one  Plantation,  whereby 
some  may  hunt,  fish  or  fowl,  while  others  clear  and 
plant  the  land.  While  they  are  on  Lynch  Island,  the 
Channell  is  so  narrow  and  the  passage  so  short  to 
the  Island  of  Jamaica,  that  they  may  easily  and  fre- 
quently cross  over  and  help  to  clear  the  land,  on  which 
as  it  is  cleared,  they  may  by  degrees  seat  themselvs. 
And  for  their  further  encouragement  thereto,  we  hum- 
bly offer  that  the  Governor  of  Jamaica  be  directed  upon 
their  arrival  to  grant  them  letters  of  naturalization 
without  fee  or  reward,  and  that  they  may  enjoy  all  such 
priviledges  and  advantages  as  are  enjoyed  by  the  present 
inhabitants  of  that  Island.  In  this  manner  we  hope 
these  poor  people,  or  a  considerable  number  of  them, 
may  be  disposed  of,  and  settled  to  the  benefit  not  only 
of  Jamaica,  but  of  the  trade  of  this  Kingdom,  the 
persons  themselvs  gain  a  comfortable  livelyhood  by  their 
industry,  your  Majesty  eased  of  the  great  charge  you 
are  now  at  in  the  subsisting  of  them,  and  reap  a 
considerable  advantage  by  the  increase  of  the  Customes. 
Refer  contracts  for  transportation  to  the  proper 
officers.  Lastly  we  humbly  offer  that  your  Royal  pleas- 
ure be  signifyed  to  the  Governor  and  Councill  of  Ja- 
maica that  they  cause  Lynch  Island  to  be  forthwith 
cleared  and  hutts  built  for  the  reception  of  these  Pala- 
tines upon  their  first  landing,  the  clearing  of  the  whole 
Island  being  convenient  for  the  preserving  the  health 
of  those  who  shall  be  settled  there,  and  the  charge 
thereof  will  not  exceed  the  rate  of  £3  per  acre  for 
clearing  the  ground,  which  (the  Island  consisting  of 
about  80  acres)  will  not  amount  to  above  £240;  nor 
can  the  building  of  a  sufficient  number  of  hutts,  where 
there  is  wood  and  timber  plentifull,  add  much  to  the 
expence,  and  that  the  Governor  and  Councill  be  directed 
to  recommend  it  in  ye  most  effectual  manner  they  can 
to  the  Assembly,  that  provision  be  made  by  a  law  for 
the  settlement  of  these  poor  people  on  the  main  Island, 
in  the  manner  hereby  proposed,  a  copy  of  which  pro- 
posal may  be  transmitted  to  the  said  Governor  and 
Councill  for  that  purpose,  to  which  we  have  reason  to 
beleive  the  Assembly  will  agree,  on  account  of  the 
great  benefit  the  Island  will  receive,  as  well  in  regard 
to  their  security  against  an  enemy  as  to  the  advance- 
ment of  their  trade;  But  if  the  Assembly  shall  not  be 
prevailed  upon  to  undertake  this  service,  to  the  end 
the  same  may  not  be  disapptd.,  we  humbly  propose  that 
the  Governor  and  Councill  be  ordered  to  mate  such 


512 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


Nov.  9. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  9. 

Whitehall. 


provision    for   their   settlement  at   your   Majesties   ex- 
pence.     Annexed, 

835.  i.  List   of   stores    and  ordinance    to    be    sent    with   the 

Palatines.     [C7.0.   138,  13.     pp.   15-30.] 

836.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Repre- 
sentation upon  petition  of  Lt.  Gov.  Hamilton,  Sept.  16.  q.v.    We 
have   been   attended   by  several   planters  and  considerable  mer- 
chants trading  to  the  Leeward  Islands,   who  have  produced  to 
us  ample  certificates  of  his  affection  to  your  Majesty's  Govern- 
ment,  of  his  having  distinguish'd  himself  by  his   courage  and 
good  conduct  in  several  considerable  posts  both  civill  and  mili- 
tary, and  of  his  being  generally  in  good  esteem  of  the  inhabi- 
tants.    Finding  therefore  that  there  are  presidents  of  what  he 
desires    (vizt.    Col.    Thomas    Hill    and    Col.    Edward    Fox    were 
constituted  Lt.  General  by  King  William)  and  that  this  is  only 
an  honorary  title  which  will  be  no  addition  of  charge  to  your 
Majesty,  for  during  the  presence  of  a  Capt.  General,  Hamilton 
will    receive   no   other   salary   than    what   he    now    does    as  Lt. 
Governor    of    Nevis,    and   in   case    of   the    death   or   absence  iof 
the  Captain  General,  he  will  have  the  command  of  all  the  said 
Islands,  and  receive  a  moiety  of  the  salary  and  the  perquisite, 
which  is  no  more  than  he  will  now  do,  as  he  is  Lt.  Governor 
of  Nevis,  we  have  nothing  to  object,  if  your  Majesty  please  to 
grant   him   a   Commission  to   be   Lt.    Governor   of  the   Islands. 
[C.O.  153,  10.     pp.  383-385.] 

837.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Repre- 
sentation upon  an  Act  of  Barbadoes,  May  10,  1709,  appointing 
Agents  to  transact  the  publick  affairs  of  this  Island.    We  find  since 
1666  there  have  been  frequent  disputes  between  the  Council  and 
Assembly  about  the  nominating  and  appointing  Agents  residing- 
within  this  Kingdom,  the  Assembly  having  claimed  a  right  of  such 
nomination  and  appointment  exclusive  of  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil,   and   they   having   for   the   most   part   done   the   same  by  a 
clause   in  the  Excise  Bill,   refusing  to  grant  the   duty  arising 
thereby,  unless  they  named  the  sd.  Agents  in  the  Bill,  to  which 
the   Council    were   sometimes   necessitated   for   the   sake    of  the 
said   duty   to   consent ;    by   this   means    (the   Excise    Bill   being 
made  for  one  year  only)  the  Assembly  annually  nominated  the 
Agents   notwithstanding   the   opposition  made   thereunto   by  the 
Council.     But  we  do  not  find  that  any  of  those  Laws  whereby 
Agents  have  been  constituted  have  at  any  time  been  confirmed 
by  your  Majesty  or  any  of  your  Royal  predecessors.     In  1697, 
when  the  Assembly  insisted  on  their  pretended  right,  the  then 
President   in   Council   disallowed  thereof   for   the   reasons   men- 
tioned Minutes  of  Council  Aug.   24,   1697.     But  not  to  go  too 
far  back  we  shall  only  humbly  lay  before  your  Majesty  what 
has   passed   relating   to  the   appointment   of   Agents    since   Mr. 
Crow's  arrival  there.     The  Assembly  in  March  170  J  sent  up  to 
the   Council   a  new  Excise   Bill   with  the  usual   clause   for  the 
Agents  in  it,  the  Council  upon  consideration  thereof,  gave  their 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  513 

1709. 

reasons  for  not  allowing  the  said  clause;  this  occasioned  several 
messages  and  conferences  between  the  Council  and  Assembly, 
and  upon  the  Council's  insisting  to  have  the  said  clause  omitted, 
the  Assembly  on  March  19,  170f,  in  consideration  of  the  great 
want  of  mony  there  was  at  that  time,  passed  the  Excise  Bill 
without  the  said  clause,  but  made  the  following  resolves: — 
"that  from  the  first  constitution  and  appointing  of  Agents  in 
England  for  the  publick  service  of  this  Island,  the  right  of 
appointing  such  Agents  was  and  is  in  the  Eepresentative  Body 
of  this  Island.  The  Members  of  Council  by  setting  up  a  right 
with  this  House  to  nominate  and  appoint  such  Agents,  have 
endeavoured  to  invade  the  right  which  is  solely  vested  in  this 
House."  In  Dec.  1708,  the  first  above-mentioned  Act  for  ap- 
pointing Agents  (which  is  founded  upon  the  foresaid  resolves,  the 
preamble  setting  forth  the  necessity  of  the  inhabitants  having 
Agents  here,  to  solicit  for  them,  and  the  next  clause  desiring  the 
Governor  and  Council  to  ratify  the  Assembly's  nomination  and 
appointment  of  their  Agents)  was  brought  into  "the  Assembly, 
where  it  lay  till  May,  and  was  then  passed  by  them  and  sent  up  to 
the  Council;  but  whether  the  Council  made  then  any  objections 
to  this  Act  or  no,  does  not  appear  to  us,  their  Minutes  ,fo£ 
that  time  not  having  been  yet  transmitted.  However  as  this 
Act  excludes  the  Governor  and  Council  from  nominating  and 
appointing  Agents,  we  humbly  conceive  that  Mr.  Crow  has  not 
done  his  duty  in  passing  the  same.  But  that  your  Majesty  may 
have  a  clearer  view  of  this  pretention  of  the  Assembly,  we  further 
take  leave  to  represent  that  in  Nov.  1708,  the  persons  named  in 
the  first  abovementioned  Act  for  Agents  delivered  to  us  a 
paper  entitled  some  positions  laid  down,  that  the  General  As- 
sembly exclusive  of  the  Governor  and  Council  may  appoint 
Agents  to  negotiate  the  publick  affairs  of  this  Island  in  England, 
which  paper  containing  some  positions  of  a  very  extraordinary 
and  dangerous  consequence,  we  take  leave  to  annex  a  copy 
thereof,  and  upon  it  to  make  the  following  observations: — We 
do  agree  that  it  is  the  undoubted  right  of  the  subject,  either 
in  his  private  capacity,  or  as  a  body  politic,  to  apply  to  your 
Majesty  by  petition,  complaint  or  other  Address,  so  it  be  done 
in  such  manner  as  the  Law  directs ;  yet  we  can  by  no  means 
admit  it  to  be  a  necessary  consequence,  that  therefore  the 
Generall  Assembly  of  Barbadoes,  exclusive  of  the  Governor  and 
Council  there,  has  a  right  to  appoint  persons  under  a  publick 
character  of  Agents  for  negotiating  in  this  Kingdom  the  public 
affairs  of  that  Island,  by  way  of  application  to  your  Majesty; 
such  a  pretended  right  is  no  ways  founded  upon  good  reason,  nor 
warranted  by  the  like  usage  in  any  other  Plantation  under  your 
Majesty's  imediate  Government;  but  is  inconsistant  Tvith  the 
nature  and  form  thereof,  and  may  tend  to  create  jealousies 
and  divisions  in  the  several  parts  of  that  Legislature,  to  the 
manifest  disquiet  of  your  Majesty's  subjects  there,  and  to  the 
prejudice  of  that  trade.  If  such  exclusive  power  of  appointing 
publick  Agents  be  allowed  to  the  General  Assembly,  with  as  touch 
reason  may  the  Governor  and  Council  severaly  claim  a  like 

Wt.  11522.  CP33. 


514  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 


1709. 


power,  exclusive  one  of  the  other,  to  appoint  their  respective 
Agents ;  for  if  the  General  Assembly  cannot  (as  they  suggest) 
rely  upon  the  service  of  any  other  Agents  than  such  as  are 
solely  chosen  by  and  intirely  dependant  on  them ;  what  use  can 
the  Governor  or  Council  expect  to  have  of  Agents  so  chosen, 
who  are  intirely  independant  either  of  the  Governor  or  Council? 
What  mischief  and  confusion  in  business  such  distinct  agencies 
may  occasion  by  their  interfering  and  clashing  one  with  another, 
according  to  the  several  instructions  they  may  receive  from  their 
respective  principals  is  so  obvious,  we  [will]  not  trouble  Your 
Majesty  therewith.  Among  the  severaf  reasons  given  for  al- 
lowing an  exclusive  right  in  the  General  Assembly,  some  of 
them  are  very  extraordinary,  they  being  founded  upon  unjust 
suppositions,  that  the  Governor  and  Council  will  refuse  or  neglect 
to  employ  their  best  offices  for  procuring  from  your  Majesty 
a  concession  of  whatever  may  reasonably  be  desired  for  the 
ease,  safety  or  benefit  of  the  Island ;  and  that  they  will  in  all 
matters  be  inclined  to  support  and  maintain  the  Prerogative 
without  having  a  due  regard  to  the  rights  and  priviledges  of 
the  subject.  This  is  to  suppose  not  only  that  so  many  of  the 
principal  inhabitants  as  constitute  the  Council  have  no  share 
in,  or  concern  for  the  good  of  their  country ;  but  that  both 
Governor  and  Council  will  act  contrary  to  the  express  trust  re- 
posed in  them ;  and  we  look  upon  any  insinuation  as  tho'  the 
interest  of  the  Crown  were  separate  from  that  of  the  subject 
to  be  fals  and  of  dangerous  consequence.  Wherefore  we  are 
humbly  of  opinion  that  the  General  Assembly  of  Barbadoes, 
exclusive  of  the  Governor  and  Council,  has  not  any  right  nor 
ought  to  be  allowed  to  appoint  persons  under  the  character  of 
publick  Agents  for  negotiating  in  this  Kingdom  the  publi-ck 
affairs  of  that  Island,  nor  do  we  see  wherein  such  appointments 
of  Agents  by  the  Assembly  can  answer  the  end  they  propose, 
since  they  cannot  reasonably  expect  that  your  Majesty  will 
come  to  any  resolution  upon  the  applycation  of  such  Agents  in 
publick  matters  without  refering  the  same  to  the  Governor,  or 
to  him  and  the  Council  there,  for  their  opinion  therein.  And 
therefore  we  humbly  offer  that  your  Majesty  be  pleased  to 
signify  your  disallowance  and  disapprobation  of  the  said  Act 
for  appointing  Agents.  But  in  case  your  Majesty  shall  think 
fit  that  Agents  may  be  nominated  and  appointed  by  the  joint 
consent  of  the  Governor,  Council  and  Assembly,  to  negotiate 
here  the  publick  affairs  of  that  Island,  as  is  practised  in  Jamaica, 
and  some  other  of  the  Plantations,  we  have  no  objection  to  it. 
[C.O.  29,  12.  pp.  39-45.] 


Nov.  10.         838.     W.  Popple  to  the  President  of  the  Council  of  New  York. 
Whitehall.     Encloses  H.M.  letter  of  Oct.  29.     [C.O.  5,  1121.     p.  445.] 


Nov.  10.         839.     Same   to   Lt.    Governor   Gookin.     Encloses   letters   for 

Whitehall,    the  Presidents  of  the  Council  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  to 

be  forwarded  with  all  dispatch,  etc.     [C.O.   5,  1121.     p.  446.] 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES. 


515 


1709. 
Nov.  10. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  10. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  11. 


Nov.  11. 

Whitehall. 

Nov.  11. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  12. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  12. 


840.  Same  to  the  President  of  the  Council  of  New  Jersey. 
Encloses  H.M.  letter  to  Col.  Ingolsby,  revoking  his  commission, 
Oct.  29.     [0.0.  5,  995.     p.  31.] 

841.  Mr.  Pringle  to  Mr.  Popple.     Encloses  letter  from  Lord 
Sunderland,    to   be    forwarded   to   the   President   of   New   York, 
about    making    provision    for   the    Palatines,    etc.     Signed,    Eo. 
Pringle.     Endorsed,    Reed.   Read   Nov.   11,    1709.     1  'p.     [C.O. 
5,  1049.     #o.  133;  and  5,  1121.     p.  447.] 

842.  Mr.  Delafaye  to  Mr.   Popple.     Encloses  2  duplicates 
of  Lord  Sunderland's  letter  as  preceding.    Signed,  C.  Delafaye. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  12th,  Read  14th  Nov.,  1709.     1  p.     Enclosed, 

842.  i.  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  President  of  the  Council  of 

New  York.  The  Queen  having  thought  fit  to  order  the 
sending  of  3000  of  the  poor  Palatines  to  New  York,  has 
commanded  me  to  tell  you  that  they  are  to  sail  from 
hence  about  Dec.  15,  to  the  end  that  you  may  consult 
with  H.M.  Council  there  upon  the  proper  measures  to 
be  taken  for  providing  for  these  poor  people  at  then- 
arrival  in  your  parts,  both  as  to  lodging  and  pro- 
visions. H.M.  does  particularly  recommend  this  to  your 
care ;  the  expence  of  it  will  be  answered  from  hence., 
H.M.  intention  being  that  these  people  should  in  no 
wise  become  a  burthen  to  your  Colony.  Countersigned, 
Sunderland.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  Nos.  134,  134.i.;'  and 
5,  1121.  pp.  449,  450;  and  5,  210.  p.  185.] 

843.  Mr.  Popple  to  Lt.  Governor  Gookin.     Encloses  above 
letter  to  be  forwarded,  etc.     [C.O.  5,  1121.     p.  448.] 

844.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.   Repre- 
sentation upon  an  Act  of  Barbados,   1708,  for  holding  a  Court 
of  Grand  Sessions,  etc.     This  Act  is  the  same  in  substance  with 
an  Act  concerning  the  General   Sessions,   1698.     That  wherein 
we  find  they  chiefly  vary  is,  that  the  charges  of  each  Session 
not   exceeding  £100   sterl.   in  any   session,   are   by   this   Act  to 
be  defray'd  out  of  your  Majesty's  casual  Revenue  in  that  Island, 
whereas  by  the  former  Act  they  were  defray'd  out  of  part  of 
the  said  Revenue,  vizt.  out  of  the  fines,  forfeitures  and  amercia- 
ments.     But  as  the  said  Casual  Revenue  is  apply'd  there  for  the 
uses  of  that  Government,  we  have  no  objection  why  your  Majesty 
may  not   be  graciously  pleased  to   ratify  and   confirm  the  said 
Act.     {C.O.  29,  12.     p.  18.] 

845.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Attorney  General.     Encloses  extract 
from  Governor  Handasyd's  letter  (June  14)  relating  to  a  seizure 
of  ambergrease,   for  his  opinion  what   is  proper  to  be  done  in 
that  matter.     [C.O.  138,  13.     p.  52.] 

846.  Draft  of  a  letter  of  Attorney  from  the  Earl  of  Carbery 
impowering  the  Council  of  Jamaica  to  surrender  his  lands  near 


516  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

Port   St.   Antonio,   etc.     Signed,   Carbery.     Endorsed,    Nov.    14, 
1709.     1|-  pp.     Enclosed, 

846.  i.  Plan  of  Lord  Carbery's  lands  referred  to  in  preceding. 

1  p.     [C.O.   137,   8.     Nos.   68,   69.] 

[Nov.  14.]  847.  Mr.  Fauconnier  to  [?  Governor  Lord  Lovelace].  New 
York,  Feb.  8,  170f.  Encloses  accounts  etc.,  of  New  Jersey  up 
to  Dec.  13,  1706,  "since  which  all  salaries  etc.  are  owing,"  and 
a  list  of  papers  relating  to  that  Province,  which  are  yet  in 
my  Lord  Cornbury's  hands,  and  which  I  supose  the  trouble  of 
mind  he  lays  under  has  made  him  forget  to  deliver  to  your 
Excellency.  Signed,  P.  Fauconnier.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Nov.  14, 
1709.  (Transmitted  by  Mr.  Cockeril  to  the  Earl  of  Stamford). 
1  p.  Enclosed, 

847.  i.  A  general  state  of  the  accounts  of  H.M.  Revenues  and 

Fines  in  New  Jersey,  Dec.  1704-1706.  Revenue:  total, 
£3894.  8. 1.  Charges,  £4054.  15.  6.  Fines,  1706  ;  £40. 
12.  Mr.  Fauconnier 's  expenses,  £46.  Signed  and  en- 
dorsed as  preceding.  2  pp.  Torn. 

847.  ii.  Speech  of  Governor  Lord  Lovelace  to  the  Assembly 
of  New  Jersey,  March  4,  1708 ;  the  Council's  Address  to 
H.M. ;  and  Addresses  from  the  Council  and  the  Assem- 
bly to  Lord  Lovelace.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Printed. 
12  pp. 

847.  iii.  Duplicate  of  preceding.  [C.O.  5,  970.  Nos.  89, 
89.i.  -iii.] 

'Nov.  14.  848.  Observations  upon  several  grants  of  land  at  New  York. 
(1)  Grants  have  been  made  of  all  the  lands  that  could  be  dis- 
covered :  some  of  them  very  large  tracts,  and  in  all  that  are  good 
and  valuable  Mr.  Fauconnier  or  Mr.  Bridges,  and  sometimes 
both,  are  pattentees.  (2)  Grants  have  been  made  of  such  lands 
as  should  hereafter  be  discovered,  as  to  Capt.  Lancaster  Symes 
of  all  the  unpatented  land  on  Staten  Island,  by  which  meanes 
several  poor  persons  who  were  by  the  permission  and  connivance 
of  the  Government  setled  on  small  tracts  of  land  where  neither 
the  persons  nor  lands  were  of  value  to  pay  the  fees  of  a 
patent  are  lyable  and  already  threatned  to  be  turned  out  of 
possession.  (3)  Where  persons  have  by  license  purchased  lands 
from  the  .Indians,  their  lands  have  been  granted  away  to  others. 
Dr.  Staats'  case  concerning  Wiwanda.  (4)  Grants  have  been 
made  of  lands  formerly  pattented  to  others,  which  former  patents 
have  thereby  (as  far  as  in  Governor  and  Councill  lys)  been  set 
aside,  so  was  Newton  patent  in  effect  declared  void  tho'  under 
the  Seale  of  the  Province,  because  not  found  on  the  Records,  tho 
indorsed  by  the  then  Secretary  to  be  recorded.  But  part  of 
the  lands  contained  in  that  Patent  were  since  granted  to  the  town 
of  Bushwick  for  £300  (as  'tis  said),  other  part  to  Mr.  Bodinot 
in  discharg  of  £300  due  for  part  of  Lady  Cornbury's  funeral, 
other  part  to  Mrs.  Bridges,  Capt.  Ask,  Mr.  Hoogland,  Mr.  Mil- 
ward  and  others  for  £400.  Lands  between  high  water  and 
lowater  mark  on  Long  Island  lately  granted  to  ye  City  of  New 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST  INDIES.  517 

1709. 

York  for  £300,  being  the  lands  lately  in  possession  of  several 
inhabitants,  tho'  now  covered  with  the  sea,  the  land  being 
washed  away.  (5)  Some,  or  at  least  one  grant  has  been  made 
without  advice  of  the  Councill,  which  is  conceived  to  be  against 
the  Queen's  Instructions,  as  the  houses  in  the  City  of  New  York 
lately  burnt  down,  said  to  belong  formerly  to  Governour  Love- 
lace, and  no  person  claiming  from  him  as  heir  at  law,  the 
same  was  seized  for  the  Crown  and  lately  granted  privately  to 
Wilson  and  Ask  etc. 

In  relation  to  the  Eevenue  (1)  The  Act  says  for  the  better 
defraying  of  the  Publick  and  necessary  charges  and  expences  of 
this  Province,  the  money  is  raised.  By  the  Governor's  Instruc- 
tions he  is  not  to  permit  any  of  the  Eevenue  to  be  issued 
forth  but  by  order  from  himself  by  advice  of  H.M.  Councill. 
Hence  it  followed  that  whatever  was  proposed  by  the  Govr. 
to  the  Councill,  and  consequently  whatever  Mr.  Fauconnier  de- 
manded, was  allowed  of  by  the  Councill  and  warrants  granted 
accordingly.  So  the  extravagant  charges  of  one  voyage  to  Albany 
amounted  to  near  £2,200,  and  no  stint  was  put  to  the  ,expence 
of  firewood  and  candles  for  the  fort.  (2)  The  officers  of  the 
Government  and  others  to  whom  money  is  oweing  on  warrants 
think  the  late  Act  for  refunding  £711.  5.  misapplyed  in  the 
•£1800  tax  very  greivous  on  them,  being  to  be  raised  out 
of  tho  Eevenue  which  should  grow  due  on  or  before  Dec.  :3, 
being  to  reimburse  Col.  Wenham  and  Mr.  Fauconier,  who  had 
misimployd  £500  and  upwards  in  ye  £1800  tax  formerly  rais'd 
for  building  forts  etc.  on  pretence  that  it  was  imployd  for 
the  Queen's  service  in  payment  of  warrants,  which  the  officers 
say  were  to  defray  the  extravagant  expences  in  the  Albany 
journey,  which  if  they  ought  to  have  been  payed  should  have 
given  place  to  sallary  warrants.  Nor  was  there  any  reason  to 
forestall  the  Eevenue  and  raise  an  interest  of  10  p.c.  to  be 
paid  out  of  the  Eevenue,  if  that  money  had  been  imployd  in 
paying  sallary  warrants  then  due.  They  say  'tis  plain  that  Col. 
Wenham  and  Mr.  Fauconier  did  not  discharg  their  duty,  and 
if  they  are  money  out  of  pocket,  there  is  no  reason  they  should 
be  reimburs'd  out  of  moneys  due  to  others,  who  have  discharg'd 
their  dutys,  and  the  question  is  whether  a  Eevenue  granted  to 
the  Queen  can  be  taken  from  H.M.  even  by  Act  of  Assembly 
without  H.M.  or  the  Lord  Treasurer's  express  directions.  The 
officers  likewise  suffer  £500  and  upwards  by  two  sallarys  being 
taken  for  ye  same  office  Mr.  Fauconier  and  Mr.  Byerley,  if  Mr. 
Byerley  suspension  was  unlawfull,  then  Mr.  Fauconier  must  apply 
himself  to  him  that  sett  him  at  worke  for  his  wages.  (3)  It  is 
thought  a  hardship  on  the  officers  of  the  Governmt.  that  when 
Mr.  Byerley  was  suspended  Mr.  Fauconier  should  be  put  inComn. 
on  purpose  as  they  imagin  that  he  should  pay  himself  the  £2000 
or  thereabouts  which  he  pretended  'he  disburst  for  ye  Government, 
whereas  if  the  same  were  bona  fide  due  to  the  said  Fauconier, 
which  they  deny,  yet  sallary  warrants  ought  first  to  be  paid,  and 
they  think  it  still  harder  on  them  yt.  when  Mr.  Byerley  ,was 
restored,  Feb.  1,  170  f,  that  Mr.  Fauconier  should  detain  in  his 


518  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

hands  recognizances  of  excise  due  and  payable  Feb.  18  and  May 
18  following,  when  the  condition  of  those  recognizances  were  for 
paymt.  of  moneys  to  ye  Queen's  Collector  or  Eeceiver  Generall, 
and  they  look  on  Mr.  Fauconier's  pretences  that  the  recognizances 
were  burnt,  to  be  a 'fraud  to  deceive  the  Queen.  Endorsed,{  Trans- 
mitted by  Mr.  Cockeril  to  the  Earl  of  Stamford,  Eecd.  Nov.  14, 
Bead  Dec.  27,  1709.  2£  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  146.] 

[Nov.  14.]  849.  Messrs.  Eip  van  Dam,  Wenham  and  Philips  to  the 
Governor  Lord  Lovelace,  New  York,  Feb.  3,  170f.  Enclose  fol- 
lowing. The  stores  in  Fort  St.  Ann  are  in  great  disorder.  We 
propose  that  the  Commission  Officers  of  H.M.  Forces  be  ordered 
to  make  a  compleat  list  of  the  old  stores  before  they  are  inter- 
mixt  with  the  new  ones,  etc.  Signed,  Rip  van  Dam,  Tho. 
Wenham,  C.v.  D.  Philips.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  1  p.  En- 
closed, 

849.  i.  List  of  stores  and  arms  in  Fort  St.  Anne,  New  York. 
6  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1049.     Nos.  147,  147.i.] 

Nov.  14.  85O.  Micajah  Perry,  Thomas  Byfield  and  Co.  to  the  Council 
London.  of  Trade  and  Plantations.  Mr.  Thomas  Wenham  owes  us  a  large 
sum  on  account  of  cargoes  of  goods.  But  he  having  a  great 
intrest  with  the  Ld.  Cprnbury,  and  being  one  of  the  Councell  ,of 
New  York,  we  cannot  bring  him  to  justice.  Pray  that  he  be 
removed  from  the  Council.  Signed,  Micaj.  Perry,  Thomas  By- 
field,  Joseph  Marshall.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Eead  Nov.  14,  1709. 
1  p.  [(7.0.5,1049.  No.  135;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  451,  452.] 

Nov.  14.  851.  Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.  Reply  to  Oct.  31.  I  find  the  Act  to  relieve  this 
Colony  (New  York)  from  divers  irregularities  and  extortions  agre- 
able  to  the  Law  and  practise  of  England  in  every  part  but 
the  last  clause,  whereby  'tis  enacted  that  no  person  prosecuted 
for  any  crime,  and  acquitted  by  verdict,  shall  be  oblig'd  to  pay 
any  fees  for  or  relating  to  his  prosecution,  unless  the  Fees  of 
the  Officers  respectively,  whom  he  does  or  shall  employ,  for 
and  in  order  to  his  necessary  defence  and  discharge;  for  this 
clause  may  discharge  such,  persons  from  paying  the  ordinary 
Fees  to  the  officers  of  the  Courts  where  they  are  prosecuted  and 
tried,  whereas  Fees  are  due  to  the  officers  of  our  Courts  upon 
all  acquitalls.  I  am  of  opinion  that  the  Act  for  the  easier 
partition  of  lands  in  joint  tenancy  or  in  common  will  clear  a 
difficulty  which  the  people  of  the  Colony  who  are  jointenants 
or  tenants  in  common  have  hitherto  labour'd  under,  and  is  well 
enough  contrived  to  answer  the  purpose  intended  by  it.  Signed, 
E.  Eyre.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  16th,  Eead  21st  Nov.,  1709.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

851.  i.  Duplicate  of  Mr.   Popple's  letter,   Oct.   31.     [C.O.    5, 

1049.     Nos.    136,    136. i. ;   and    (without    enclosure)    5, 

1121.     pp.  453,  454.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  519 

1709. 

Nov.  14.  852.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Antigua.  tions.  Though  I  have  not  had  the  honour  of  recieving  any 
letter  from  your  Lordshipps  since  Aug.  12,  yet  I  thinke  it  my 
duty  (by  all  opertunitys)  to  informe  your  Lordshipps  of  the 
state  of  my  Government.  Wee  are  all  in  peace,  and  like  to  make 
good  cropps  (as  the  Planters  tell  me).  Wee  are  threatned  with 
the  comeing  of  Ducass,  but  the  Islanders  will  not  believe  it, 
and  consequently  will  not  spare  one  negroe  to  be  imployed  for 
their  defence ;  they  insist  still  upon  their  Speaker's  haveing  the 
negative  voice,  (or  signeing  last,  which  is  the  same  thing)  in 
passing  all  Laws.  I  have  already  writt  so  largely  on  this,  and  it 
being  so  largely  treated  of  in  my  answer  to  the  Articles,  I 
shall  not  trouble  your  Lordshipps  further  with  it,  but  expect  your 
orders  what  I  shall  doe  further  in  it.  I  have  soe  often  tryed 
them,  and  they  still  insisting  upon  this  point  that  I  will  never 
put  the  Island  to  the  charge  of  calling  them  together  untill 
I  have  your  orders  how  to  behave  myselfe  in  this  point.  I  have 
for  this  8  months  expected  orders  about  it  for  the  minutes  re- 
lateing  to  this  dispute  were  sent  last  November.  All  those  that 
subscribed  the  Articles  have  been  sumoned  before  the  Councill 
to  know  if  they  did  subscribe  them,  but  there  was  not  one  that 
would  owne  it.  I  hope  your  Lordshipps  will  send  me  the  originall 
to  answer,  and  if  what  I  am  charged  with  be  true,  I  ought 
to  be  punished,  but  if  not,  those  that  have  falsely  accused  me. 
I  can  have  no  remedy  but  by  action  at  law,  and  except  I  can 
have  the  originall  (which  they  signed)  I  can  have  no  action 
for  the  Law  allows  of  noe  coppys  for  evidence.  By  Act  of 
Parliament,  if  I  injure  any  one  in  my  Government  he  may 
bring  his  action  against  me  in  any  part  of  the  Queen's  dominions  ; 
if  I  have  not  the  same  liberty,  I  had  better  have  been  a  Poirter 
then  a  Governour.  As  I  have  been  inform'd  those  that  com- 
plained against  Governour  Crow  signed  what  they  had  to  say 
against  him,  and  deliver'd  it  to  him,  this  was  acting  fairely 
with  him ;  on  the  contrary  when  I  sent  to  them  to  desire  them 
to  letfc  me  know  my  crimes,  and  if  I  had  done  anyone  an 
injury,  I  would  make  them  satisfaction,  or  if  the  Publick  had 
anything  to  charge  me  with,  let  me  know  it,  1  would  redress 
it,  or  the  Assembly  should  sitt  till  they  had  drawne  them  up,  to 
send  home  and  my  answer  should  goe  with  them,  but  I  had 
no  answer  from  them,  but  the  articles  were  a  secret  to  all  but 
the  managers.  Two  thirds  of  those  that  subscribed  them  knew 
not  what  they  were  (as  has  plainly  apeared  since)  and  it  is 
a  plaine  demonstration  those  Articles  were  only  to  throw  dyrt, 
for  they  expected  to  gett  me  out  by  the  £5000  they  had  raised^ 
and  by  my  Lord  Peterborough's  (Coll.  Codrington's  great  friend) 
intrest,  and  it  is  their  custome,  after  the  Queen's,  to  drink  his 
health.  My  Lord  Marleborrough's  is  never  dranke  but  by  my 
friends,  because  he  is  my  patron,  nor  do  they  ever  rejoyce  at 
his  success,  they  never  expected  I  should  have  had  the  Articles 
sent  me,  and  have  liberty  to  answer  them,  and  talked  soe  in 
their  publick  discourse,  and  now  it  plainly  appeares  how  much 
they  depended  on  their  Articles ;  for  the  Diamond  comeing  here 


520  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 

the  latter  end  of  August  brought  me  a  letter  from  my  Agent, 
Mr.  Perry,  which  informed  me  that  your  Lordshipps  had  made  a 
report  that  I  ought  to  have  liberty  to  answer.  This  piece  of 
Justice  (which  your  Lordshipps  did  me)  had  like  to  have  cost 
me  my  life,  for  on  Sept.  5th,  I  was  waylayd  as  I  came  home 
in  the  evening  with  two  Gent,  with  me,  and  shott  at  from 
behind  a  hedge  in  a  kane  piece  etc.  as  letter  from  Michael 
Ay  on,  Sept.  20.  I  shall  loose  the  use  of  my  arme.  All  that  my 
friends  could  doe  could  not  take  the  negroe,  or  him  that  was  with 
him,  they  gott  them  of  off  the  Island.  I  have  charity  enough 
to  believe  that  not  above  5  or  6  of  them  were  guilty  of  .this 
piece  of  villany,  and  by,  a  great  many  circumstances  the  managers 
that  sett  Mr.  Otto,  and  the  negroe  to  do  it,  were  Coll.  William 
Thomas,  and  one  Mr.  Field,  a  drunken  quarrellsome  fighting 
parson;  who  runn  away  on  the  Saturday  night,  which  was  the 
night  the  first  designe  was  laid,  for  I  went  out  in  the  morning 
to  view  the  troope,  and  Col.  Byam's  Eegiment,  but  disapointed 
them  by  lyeing  out  at  the  Governour's.  I  was  waylayd  on 
Sunday  night  comeing  home,  but  being  surrounded  by  Gentlemen, 
they  could  not  doe  it;  on  the  Monday  night  it  was  done,  Otto 
and  the  negroe  imediately  absented.  Repeats  part  of  Ayon's 
letter.  This  negroe  is  a  very  noted  fellow  (though  I  don't 
know  him  myselfe)  and  is  very  remarkeable  for  his  courage  and 
being  a  good  markesman,  being  a  native  of  the  place  and  im- 
ployed  to  shoot  wild  pigeons  and  the  parson  is  noted  even  in 
this  place  for  his  cruelty,  never  was  knowne  to  forgive  a  slave 
for  absenting  from  his  worke,  often  whipping  them  without  mercy 
and  castrateing  them.  The  best  negroe  he  had  and  one  of  the 
finest  in  the  Island,  he  not  only  castrated  but  cutt  off  one  of] 
his  leggs  for  absenting  himselfe  from  his  worke,  the  fellow 
dyed  under  his  hands,  he  never  was  knowne  to  forgive  a  negroe 
or  to  begg  for  any.  I  haveing  (myselfe)  begg'd  off  severall 
negroes,  the  parson  being  afraid  I  should  (sometime  or  other) 
begg  for  some  of  his,  told  me  if  anyone  should  begg  for  a 
negroe  of  his  he  would  punish  him  the  more  for  it,  now  tihie 
Parson's  begging  for  this  notorious  fellow  was  a  surprize  to 
everyone  till  they  found  he  was  the  negroe  that  shott  me,  the 
Parson's  going  off  that  very  day  that  I  was  laid  to  be  shott 
at  night,  for  nobody  that  I  can  find  out  knew  of  his  going  off, 
till  after  he  was  gone,  Mr.  Laferte  the  Parson  that  preached  for 
him  the  next  day  told  me  he  knew  nothing  of  his  going  off, 
and  that  he  desired  him  only  to  preach  that  day,  telling  him 
that  he  was  to  goe  to  the  other  side  of  the  Island.  Mr.  Field 
for  this  4  or  5  year  has  constantly  talked  of  going  hence  every 
fleet,  and  there  was  then  some  shipps  ready  to  sayle,  and  the 
mann  of  warr  was  ordered  to  convoy  them,  and  did  doe  it  3 
or  4  days  after,  and  our  Great  Fleet  was  to  saile  in  3  weekes ; 
it  is  true  the  small  vessell  he  went  in  was  not  used  to  stay  for 
the  great  convoy,  she  had  been  ready  for  severall  days,  and  I 
had  writt  my  letters  to  goe  by  her,  but  the  master  .told  me  he 
would  stay  a  few  days  for  the  mann  of  warr  to  see  him  off, 
but  just  as  I  was  going  to  bedd  on  the  Fryday  nigh,t,  he  comes 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  521 

1709. 

to  me  and  tells  me  hie  should  sayle  to-morrow.  I  did  all  I 
could  to  persuade  him  to  stay  two  days  longer  for  tile  mann  of 
warr,  since  he  had  stayed  already,  5  or  6.  I  was  the  more  earnest 
with  him  because  she  belonged  to  my  friends  Mr.  Perry  arid  Sir 
Jeffry  Jeffreys,  the  Master  seemed  to  be  under  some  concerne,  and 
went  from  me,  as  I  thought,  resolved  to  stay.  I  told  him  if  lie 
resolved  to  goe,  to  send  for  my  letters  in  the  morneing.  I  stayed 
at  home  till  10  in  the  morneing,  nobody  comeing  for  my  letters, 
I  sent  them  to  the  Collectors  with  orders  if  Capt.  Harry  sailed, 
to  give  him  them,  he  sailed  that  afternoon  and  lay  by  over 
against  Dr.  Mackinnen's,  which  is  about  3  miles  to  the  northward 
of  the  harbour,  it  was  there  it  seems  hee  tooke  on  board  the 
Parson  and  Col.  Thomas,  and  one  he  calls  his  wife,  and  their 
things  which  had  layne  there  sometime  ready.  The  Collector 
sent  the  Custome -house  boate  with  my  letters,  but  he  would  not 
stay  for  her.  Everyone  concludes  they  hired  him  to  be  ready 
at  an  hour's  warneing,  for  he  seem'd  for  severall  days  to  be 
under  some  concerne,  and  used  to  say  for  severall  days,  he  did 
not  know  but  he  might  sayle  to-morrow,  and  had  been  cleared  at 
the  Custome-house  some  time.  I  daresay  they  never  told  Capt. 
Harry  the  true  reason,  but  what  made  him  have  a  concerne  upon 
him  was,  he  being  a  stranger  could  gett  nobody  to  be  his  secureity 
here,  for  all  vessells  by  the  law  of  the  place,  are  to  give  a 
thousand  pound  secureity  to  carry  nobody  off  without  the  Gov- 
ernour's  lycenee,  and  his  vessel!  belonging  to  my  friends  in 
London,  I  desired  two  of  my  friends  here  to  be  his  secureity, 
and  they  are  (by  his  takeing  off  those  people  without  a  certifi- 
cate) lyable  to  pay  the  penalty.  The  reason  wee  suppose  of  his 
being  kept  soe  long  and  allways  to  be  ready,  they  wayted  for 
my  rideing  out,  which  I  seldome  doe  except  it  is  to  a  muster, 
and  since  I  was  shott  my  people  tells  me  this  negroe  came 
severall  times  to  enquire  if  I  was  to  ride  out  or  not,  and  the 
first  time  I  rid  out  they  designed  to  sett  sayle,  for  they  were 
afraid  (as  I  suppose)  if  the  negroe  or  young  Otto  were  taken, 
one  or  both  might  confess  who  sett  them  on  to  doe  it.  Another 
circumstance  is,  noe  one  had  any  influence  over  the  young  Otto 
but  Parson  Field,  for  though  his  father  has  a  good  estate  here, 
yett  the  young  man  is  a  profligate  wretch  keeping  company 
only  with  mallattoes,  and  such  sort,  they  picked  him  to  begin 
the  riot.  A  circumstance  against  Col.  Thomas  besides  his  going 
off  after  this  manner  is  that  about  Xmas  last  everyone  thought 
that  Mr.  Nivine  was  lost  going  home  with  their  Articles,  for 
severall  vessels  comeing  in  brought  no  news  'of  him.  Col.  Thomas 
at  a  meeting  of  their  party  at  his  house,  they  all  being  concern 'd 
for  the  loss  of  Nivine,  said  lett  us  imploy  some  of  our  negroes 
to  shoot  him,  and  accordingly  some  litle  time  after,  I  was  shott 
at  but  missed,  and  Capt.  Clarke  was  alsoe  shott  in  the  eveneing 
takeing  him  for  me,  being  such  another  as  myself e  in  my  ool- 
loured  clothes  and  on  a  white  horse,  which  collour'd  horse  I 
generally  ride.  I  tooke  then  no  notice  of  it,  though  I  was  desired 
by  my  friends,  for  the  future  I  shall  never  be  out  after  sumnsett, 
nor  goe  out  but  I  will  have  a  number  of  my  friends  about  me. 


522  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 

This  action  of  theirs  will  doe  me  a  kindness,  if  I  have  justice 
done  me  at  home,  for  the  people  that  were  drawne  in  by  their 
falce  and  scandallous  storys  beginns  to  see  through  it  all,  and 
very  many  abhor  what  they  have  done,  so  that  I  have  noe 
doubt  but  when  this  complaint  is  over,  to  live  very  happy  and 
to  persuade  them  to  make  good  Laws.  Your  Lordshipps  may 
naturally  conclude  I  had  done  some  very  great  injury  to  these 
three  people  Otto,  Field  and  Thomas ;  about  two  year  agoe  young 
Otto  had  a  bastard  by  a  poor  wench,  and  he  refused  to  take  any 
care  of  it  she  complained  to  me  I  sent  her  to  a  Justice  she 
told  me  she  had  but  they  would  not  meddle  in  it,  whereupon  I 
sent  to  him  to  take  care  of  the  child.  In  running  the  lines 
round  the  towne,  I  was  forced  to  goe  throw  part  of  Parson 
Field's  ground,  and  yet  I  did  him  very  litle  hurt,  but  he  was 
as  angry  as  if  I  had  taken  away  part  of  his  land  for  my 
owne  use,  and  from  that  time  preached  such  sermons  to  the 
people  as  I  thanke  God  I  never  heard  before.  I  disoblieged  Col. 
Thomas  because  I  would  not  turne  out  a  man  that  I  found 
Treasurer,  and  to  whome  the  Country  was  much  in  debt,  to  put 
himselfe  in  his  place ;  I  would  have  made  him  of  the  Councill, 
and  put  him  into  the  list  I  sent  your  Lordshipps,  but  that 
would  not  then  please  him  because  the  other  was  more  profitable, 
these  are  the  crimes  for  which  I  was  to  be  assassinated.  A 
Bristoll  shipp  has  brought  us  the  good  news  of  the  Duke's  victory 
near  Mons.  My  friends  and  myselfe  that  evening  expressed  our 
joy  in  the  best  manner  wee  could,  but  the  others  seemed  rather 
angry  then  pleased;  they  looked  just  as  the  Jacobites  did  when 
I  brought  the  news  of  the  victory  of  Hochstat.  Signed,  Daniel 
Parke.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  14th,  Read  19th  Jan.  170TV  7  pp. 
[C.O.  152,  9.  No.  5;  and  153,  10.  pp.  458-470.] 

[Nov  14.]  853.  Some  considerations  relating  to  the  good  Government 
of  Barbados,  presented  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations* 
Proposal  to  increase  the  Governor's  salary,  in  order  to  keep  him 
out  of  temptation,  etc.  If  the  Island  decline  as  much  in  the 
next  20  years  as  it  has  done  in  the  last,  what  will  become  of 
the  women  and  children ;  for  it  will  be  incapable  of  subsisting 
the  inhabitants?  Endorsed,  Eecd.  14th,  Eead  28th  Nov.  1709. 
6i  pp.  [C.O.  28,  13.  No.  1.] 

Nov.  15.         854.     Mr.  Popple  to  John  Baber.     The  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.    Plantations  desire  to  speak  with  you  upon  your  memorial,  etc. 
(c/.  Oct.  29).     [(7.0.  138,  13.     p.  53.] 

[Nov.  17.]  855.  Separate  traders  to  Africa  to  Mr.  Popple.  Eeply  to 
queries,  Oct.  21,  1709.  Discuss  relations  with  the  African  Com- 
pany. As  to  the  imports  of  negroes  into  the  Plantations,  but 
3  of  the  40  ships  dispatched  for  this  yeares  trade  are  yett  ar- 
rived in  the  Plantations,  etc.  Refer  to  enclosure.  Negroes  im- 
ported into  Jamaica  by  separate  traders  have  been  usually  sold 
at  from  £15  to  £26  per  head,  at  Virginia  for  about  £25 ;  but  at 
Barbados  and  the  Leeward  Islands  very  deare,  by  reason  o'f  the 


AMERICA   AND    WEST   INDIES.  523 

1709. 

Planters  of  Barbados  their  creditt  not  being  reestablished  since 
they  made  their  payments  for  negroes  in  paper  money,  rior  is 
the  creditt  at  the  Leeward  Islands  well  esteemed  since  the  take- 
ing  of  Nevis.  The  loss  of  20  odd  ships  belonging  to  the  separate 
traders  last  year,  and  5  more  lately  hath  been  noe  small  dis- 
couragement to  the  progress  and  success  of  this  trade  to  Africa 
this  year.  etc.  The  continuance  of  the  10  p.c.  to  the  Company 
is  noe  small  prejudice  to  the  trade,  etc.  Signed,  Peter  Paggen 
and  7  others.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  17th,  Bead  29th,  Nov.  1709. 
3  pp.  Enclosed, 

855.  i.  Account  of  negroes  delivered  at  the  Plantations  by 
the  separate  traders  Michaelmas,  1708 — July,  1709.  Ja- 
maica, 3982;  Virginia,  630;  Barbados,  340;  Antigua, 
970.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  17th,  Bead  29th  Nov.,  1709. 
1  p.  [C.O.  388,  12.  Nos.  61,  61.i.,ii.  ;  and  (without 
enclosures)  389,  20.  pp.  488-497.] 

'Nov.  17.  856.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Solicitor  General.  Encloses  Act  of 
.Whitehall.  Jamaica,  1709,  to  enable  the  sale  of  certain  lands,  part  of  the 
estate  of  George  Joy  deed.,  etc.,  for  his  opinion  in  point  of 
law,  and  particularly  whether  by  the  proviso  "that  nothing  in  this 
Act  contained  shall  be  construed  to  extend  to  barr  or  make  void 
the  right  of  any  other  person  whatsoever  to  any  of  the  lands 
abovementioned,"  the  right  of  H.M.  be  sufficiently  saved,  in  re- 
gard that  H.M.  is  not  expressly  named  therein.  [C.O.  138, 
13.  p.  54.] 

Nov.  18.         857.     Governor  Crowe  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Barbados.     tions.     This  packet  honours  me  with  none  of  your  Lordships. 
The  three  Councilours  were  immediatly  sworne,  and  orders  given 
for  the  takeing  such  affidavits  as  they  think  fitt,  but  as  yet  they 
have  not  sent  me  any  coppys.     I  hear  H.M.  has  been  pleased  to 
order  me   home,   wch.   I   shall  readily  obey   so   soon  as  I  have 
9  directions  therein.     My  Lord  High  Admiral  has  sent  over  a  Com- 

mission as  Commissary  to  Mr.  Woodbridge,  which  wholly  takes 
away  that  of  Vice-Admiralty;  the  Governours  of  Barbados  have 
ever  been  invested  with  that  power,  so  I  thought  it  my  duty  to 
inform  your  Lordp.  of  this  innovation  that  it  may  be  lay'd  before 
H.M.  Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  2nd,  Eead  16th  Feb. 
170-1%-.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

857.  i.  Address  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Barbados  to  Gov- 
ernor Crowe,  Oct.  5,  1709.  Eeasons  against  repealing 
a  clause  in  the  Act  appointing  a  Committe  to  settle  the 
publick  accounts,  which  impowers  the  said  Committe 
to  appoint  a  clerk  and  marshall.  (1)  It  is  an  ancient 
right  and  privilege,  etc.  (2)  By  Mr.  Gordon's  Patent 
he  is  only  appointed  Provost  Marshall  General,  which 
wee  can  never  suppose  gives  him  a  right  to  dispose  of 
all  other  Marshalls'  places  to  such  persons  as  wee  have 
seen  lately  striveing  who  should  bid  most,  without  regard 
to  their  qualifications,  whereby  extortion  and  exorbitant 
ffees  will  be  exacted  from  the  poor  inhabitants  to  make 


524  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

up  the  annual  rent  for  the  same.  (3)  Mr.  Gordon's 
Patent  is  directly  contrary  to  the  Act  of  1667  authorise  - 
ing  the  Governour  to  appoint  a  Provost  Marshall,  etc. 
Copy.  Signed,  William  Grace.  Endorsed,  Becd.  Feb. 
2,  170  TV  1*  pp. 

857.  ii.  Governor  Crowe's  Speech  to  the  Assembly  of  Bar- 
bados, Oct.  31,  1709.  Lays  following  estimate  before 
them,  and  urges  them  to  act  without  delay,  etc.  Same 
endorsement.  £  p. 

857.  iii.  Estimate  of  necessaries  wanting  for  the  repair  of 
the  fortifications.  Sept.  20,  1709.  Signed,  Jno.  Pil- 

frim,    Tho.   Maxwell,    Saml.    Husbands,    Saml.    Adams, 
ohn  Bowman,  Wm.  Eamsay,  etc.    Same  endorsement. 
14  pp. 

857.  iv.  Copy  of  Governor  Crowe's  Order  to  Judge  Thomas 
Beckles  for  taking  depositions  in  behalf  of  Messrs. 
Sharpe,  A.  Walker  and  Beresford.  Oct.  28,  1709. 
Signed,  M.  Crowe.  Same  endorsement.  1  p. 
857.  v.  Deposition  of  Arthur  Upton  that  he  delivered  above 
order  with  a  copy  of  Mr.  Sharpe's  Representation,  to 
Mr.  Beckles,  Oct.  28,  1709,  etc.  Same  endorsement. 

\P> 

857,  vi.  Deposition  of  Arthur  Upton  that  Alexander  Walker 
delivered  to  the  Governor  H.M.  Order  for  the  re-admit- 
ting of  the  three  Councillors,  when  the  packet  was  out 
for  sailing  etc.  Governor  Crowe  told  Walker  the  order 
should  be  immediately  obeyed,  etc.  Same  endorsement. 

s  P- 

857.  vii.  Deposition  of  Arthur  Upton.  On  Oct.  14,  H.E. 
ordered  deponent  to  wait  upon  Mr.  Sharp  for  a  copy 
of  his  representation,  in  order  to  H.E.'s  giving  an  order 
thereon  for  examining  witnesses  according  to  H.M. 
Instructions,  Mr.  Sharpe  said  he  would  order  the  coppy- 
ing  of  it  out,  but  did  not  deliver  it  till  Oct.  22nd, 
although  deponent  several  times  called  upon  him  for  it 
by  H.E.'s  express  commands.  Same  endorsement,  £  p. 
[0.0.  28,  13.  Nos.  21,  21.i.-vii. ;  and  (without  en- 
closures) 29,  13.  pp.  96,  97.] 

Nov.  18.         858.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Repealing  Act  of  Jamaica 
St. James's,    for   quieting    possessions   and   giving    directions    therein   to    the 

Governor  as  recommended,  Nov.  9.  q.v.     Signed,  Wm.  Blathwayt. 

Endorsed,   Reed.   Read  Nov.   24,    1709.     2   pp.     [(7.0.    137,   8. 

No.  73 ;  and  138,  13.     pp.  65,  66.] 

Nov.  18.  859.  Commodore  Taylor  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Litchfieid,  tations.  I  herewith  give  the  best  account  I  can  of  Newfoundland, 
Bearhaven  ^  am  a^j^'d  ft  cannot  be  perticular  to  every  Article  of  your 

in  Ireland..  .  I-ITTI  •  i.«n    A_J.      j          «•         j 

Instructions,   which   I    did  not   recieve   untill   Oct.    4.      Signed, 

Jos.  Taylor.    Endorse^,  Reed.   1st,  Read  5th  Dec.,   1709.     Ad- 
dressed.    \  p.     Enclosed, 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  525 

1709. 

859,  i.  Commodore  Taylor  to  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.  Nov. 
18,  1709.  This  gives  an  account  of  what  condition 
I  found  St.  John's,  which  had  been  taken  Dec.  21,  1708, 
by  about  160  Frenchmen  from  Placentia,  commanded  by 
Monsr.  St.  Ovide  de  Brouillion.  The  Castle  on  the 
South  side  of  the  entrance  of  the  harbour  was  blown 
up  and  demolished,  the  cannon  that  were  there,  and 
those  that  were  in  the  Old  Fort  were  carried  to  Pla- 
centia, where  they  are  said  to  be  all  mounted ;  all  the 
buildings  that  were  in  the  Old  Fort,  with  the  gates 
and  drawbridges,  were  burnt  down,  the  platforms  pull'd 
up  and  spoyl'd,  part  of  the  Bank  on  the  Southside 
pull'd  down,  the  pallisadoes  cut,  pull'd  up  and  destroy'd, 
and  everything  ther  ruin'd,  all  the  inhabitants'  houses 
in  the  town  or  New  Fort  burnt,  and  to  save  their  summer 
houses,  stages,  shallops  etc.,  ransom'd  at  100  quintals 
of  fish,  or  £70  sterl.  for  each  shallop  they  'should  send 
to  sea  a -fishing,  the  enemy  to  find  for  each  shallop 
20  hhds.  of  salt,  which  ransome  is  payd.  After  the 
fishing  season  was  over,  I  had  severall  meetings  with 
the  inhabitants  of  St.  Johns,  Quidi-Vidi,  and  Petty 
Harbour,  to  desire  them  to  build  their  winter  houses 
in  the  Old  Fort,  which  when  I  had  per s waded  them  to 
give  their  consent  to  do,  I  (with  the  men  of  H.M. 
ship  under  my  command,  and  some  out  of  the  Rye,  and 
the  help  of  the  fishing  ships)  began  to  rebuild  it, 
whilst  they  built  their  houses  in  it,  which  by  Oct. 
20  was  completely  finish'd,  and  in  the  opinion  of  all 
that  had  seen  it  before  it  was  destroy'd  by  the  Enemie, 
is  now  much  more  defenceable,  there  have  (by  the 
nearest  computation)  been  used  about  it  in  pallisading, 
stockading  etc.  10,000  sparrs,  which'  wee  cut  and  brought 
out  of  the  woods,  the  charge  I  have  put  H.M.  to  is 
very  little,  and  only  for  nails  to  fasten  the  pallisadoes, 
etc.,  and  boards  for  the  guard-houses,  a  prison,  cen- 
tinel- boxes,  and  trunks  to  throw  the  bomb  shells  into 
the  ditches,  etc.  I  have  mounted  8  guns  in  it.  etc. 
Refers  to  enclosures,  and  repeats  preceding.  I  have  given 
a  Commission  to  Mr.  John  Collin  to  be  Governour ; 
he  is  an  inhabitant  of  St.  John's  of  good  repute  there, 
and  was  chosen  Governour  by  the  rest  of  the  inhabi- 
tants, who  also  chose  all  the  other  officers,  which  are 
in  a  list  now  sent,  together  with  the  Officers  of  the 
Isle  of  Boys  and  the  Island  in  Conception  Bay,  where 
I  have  oblig'd  the  inhabitants  of  the  Main  to  transport 
themselves,  their  families,  effects  and  provisions,  and 
to  whom  I  supply 'd  all  such  stores  as  they  wanted. 
I  have  done  all  that  was  possible  for  me  to  do,  and 
what  I  thought  best  for  H.M.  service,  etc.  And  for 
the  farther  security  of  that  Country,  I  believe  it  neces- 
sary to  send  speedily  a  supply  of  provisions  to  St. 
Johns,  which  they  will  be  in  need  of,  and  to  send 


526  COLONIAL    PAPERS. 

1709. 

proper  persons  to  rebuild  the  Castle  on  the  South  side 
of  the  entrance  of  that  harbour,  with  men,  cannon  and 
ammunition  for  the  defence  of  the  same,  and  when 
H.M.  shall  be  pleased  to  garrison  the  Fort  of  St. 
John's,  I  pray  that  H.M.  may  be  moved  to  give  some 
allowance  to  the  Inhabitants  for  their  houses  in  the 
said  Fort,  which  must  then  be  pull'd  down,  and  if  the 
Governour  and  Officers  there  should  behave  themselves 
well  in  maintaining  and  defending  the  Fort,  I  humbly 
pray  they  may  be  recommended  to  H.M.  favour,  as  they 
shall  deserve.  And  whereas  there  are  some  persons 
in  and  about  St.  Johns,  who  may  after  my  eomeing 
away  slight  and  contemn  the  Governor's  authority  to 
the  prejudice  of  H.M.  service,  I  therefore  pray  that  the 
Officers  who  shall  be  appointed  to  command  in  New- 
foundland the  next  year,  may  have  orders  to  enquire 
into  the  same,  and  punish  the  offenders,  according  to 
the  merit  of  the  cause,  and  countenance  and  incourage 
the  Governour  in  his  authority.  After  the  enemy  had 
taken  St.  Johns,  a  French  shipp  of  26  gunns  made  an 
attempt  upon  the  Isle  of  Boys,  but  was  repulsed  from 
thence  without  doing  much  damage,  so  made  no  other 
attempt  anywhere.  The  New  England  sloops  which  bring 
to  Newfoundland  bread,  flour,  pork,  rum,  mallasses, 
suger,  tobacco,  sheep,  etc.,  at  their  going  from  St. 
John's,  when  the  fishing  season  is  over,  stop  at  severall 
small  harbours  and  coves  on  the  coast,  and  there  take 
in  artificers  and  seamen,  (who  wait  their  for  their 
comeing)  and  carry  them  to  New  England.  I  have  en- 
deavour'd  as  much  [as]  I  could  to  prevent  it,  though 
impossible,  unless  a  sloop  be  kept  upon  H.M.  charge 
to  see  them  off  the  coast.  The  Governour  of  Placentia 
sent  two  shallops  with  about  70  of  H.M.  subjects  who 
had  been  prisoners  there,  but  all  the  seamen  went  out 
of  them  to  the  Southard  of  Ferryland,  and  I  suppose 
went  from  thence  to  New  England,  there  being  no  ac- 
count to  be  had  of  them  in  Newfoundland.  All  the 
French  prisoners  which  have  been  taken  and  brought 
into  "Newfoundland  by  H.M.  shipps  and  privateers, 
which  were  to  the  number  of  about  120,  have  been  sent 
to  Placentia;  there  are  now  aboard  H.M.S.  under  my 
command  one  eerjeant  and  3  private  centinells  of  the 
Garrison  of  St.  John's  Fort  when  it  was  taken.  I  desire 
to  know  what  I  must  do  with  them.  Signed,  Jos. 
Taylor.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Dec.  1,  1709.  Copy.  2|-  pp. 

859.  ii.  (a)  Account  of  the  stores  left  in  the  Fort  of  St. 
Johns  by  Commodore  Taylor,  and  a  list  of  the  Officers 
there.  3|  pp. 

859.  ii.  (b)  List  of  Officers  at  Newfoundland.  Signed  and 
endorsed  as  preceding.  If  pp. 

859.  iii.  Account  of  the  Fishery  in  Newfoundland,  1709. 
Number  of  ships  35;  men,  985;  ships'  burthen,  3650; 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  527 

1709. 

shalops,  384;  half  shalops,  6;  quintals  of  fish  made, 
90,364 ;  hhds.  of  traine  made,  2013 ;  masters,  181 ;  ser- 
vants, 1251;  women,  171;  children,  280. 

Export;  to  Portugal,  the  Streights,  West  Indies  and 
Great  Brittain;  ships  and  sloops,  62;  burthen,  6370; 
quintalls  of  fish,  80,600  (3500  to  the  West  Indies,  the 
rest  to  Portugall  and  the  Streights) ;  hhds.  of  traine 
oil,  partly  from  seal,  2292  to  Great  Brittain. 

There  are  ships  enough  in  the  land  to  carry  away  what 
fish  is  left.  The  prices  of  fish  was  24  royalls  per 
quintal,  some  have  been  sold  for  22,  and  at  the  last 
of  the  year  for  28.  Bread  have  been  sold  there  for  40s. 
per  cwt.,  and  all  other  provisions  proportionable.  Signed 
and  endorsed  as  preceding.  2  pp. 

859.  iv.  Account  of  Placentia  in  1709.  There  are  liveing  upon 
the  Great  Beach  of  Placentia  47  familys,  the  greatest 
part  boat-keepers,  upon  which  beach  there  is  no  manner 
of  fortification;  the  inhabitants  are  well  arm'd,  and 
commanded  by  one  Rochiord  a  Militia  Major  and  in- 
habitant of  the  place;  the  inhabitants  in  case  of  an 
allarm  have  their  respective  posts  for  their  defence. 
Upon  the  Little  Beach  are  but  few  houses  except  what 
are  built  within  the  Fort,  and  those  only  stores,  ex- 
cepting one  suttling  house.  The  Fort  itself  is  a  quad- 
rangle, and  has  in  it  26  gunns  mounted,  16  of  which 
front  towards  the  sea,  8  fronting  the  entrance  of  the 
harbour,  and  2  faceing  the  Little  Beach,  with  palli- 
sadoes  sett  double  about  10ft.  distance  and  fill'd  up 
with  dirt,  the  platform  raised  in  the  inside  that  fronts 
the  sea  and  entrance  of  the  Harbour  of  about  4  foot, 
upon  which  the  gunns  are  mounted,  and  the  works  not 
above  5ft.  high  from  the  platforme,  the  other  two  sides 
are  plain  and  only  fortify'd  with  a  double  row  of 
pallisadoes,  between  which  are  placed  2  cannon  fronting 
the  mound;  the  magazine  is  in  one  corner  of  the  Fort 
next  the  little  Beach  built  with  stone.  A  considerable 
quantity  of  ammunition  with  one  chaine  for  to  secure 
the  Harbour,  was  brought  from  France  in  the  Fiddell 
(?  Fidele)  man  of  warr  this  year.  The  redoubt  upon 
the  hill  looking  into  the  Fort  is  built  with  stone  end 
pallisado'd  round,  in  which  a  guard  of  30  men  are 
kept,  commanded  by  a  Lieutenant  and  relieved  monthly ; 
they  have  now  14  gunns  and  2  mortars,  the  gunns  are 
mounted  over  the  walls  upon  which  are  placed  great 
stones  to  roll  down  if  assaulted.  There  is  another  small 
Fort  building  opposite  to  the  Redoubt,  which  is  design'd 
for  the  muskittry  to  cleer  the  redoubt  when  attempted, 
at  the  foot  of  the  redoubt  under  the  hill  is  four  gunns 
mounted  to  defend  the  entrance  of  the  road  etc.  There 
is  not  water  to  be  had  at  the  Castle,  but  what  is 
brought  up  by  soldiers  and  mules  and  kept  in  cisterns, 
which  water  is  brought  from  a  valley  near  the  fourth 


528  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 


of  a  mile  from  the  Redoubt.  The  inhabitants  on  the 
Great  Beach  are  oblig'd  to  cross  an  arm  of  the  harbour 
for  all  the  water  they  use.  The  Fort  has  the  same 
trouble  of  bringing  in  their  water.  Little  Placentia  is 
about  two  leages  to  the  southard  of  Great  Placentia.  The 
Harbour's  mouth  is  so  shallow  that  only  vessells  of  40 
tuns  can  enter,  so  that  no  manner  of  commerce  is  there 
had  by  shipping.  The  Bay  is  large  and  good  rideing 
for  shipps,  there  are  about  20  familys  boatkeepers  that 
keep  24  boats  and  150  men,  no  fortification.  Upon  the 
seaboard  side  going  along  to  Little  Placentia  is  a  small 
Chappell,  before  which  is  raised  works  with  sodds  kbout 
6ft.  high  in  forme  of  a  half  moon,  out  of  which  are 
cut  6  posts,  a  large  flagg-staff  and  cross  standing  by  it, 
the  which  is  only  built  for  a  shbw  o(f  a  Fort,  .when  really 
it  is  nothing  but  a  scarecrow.  It's  dangerous  sailing 
along  that  shore  in  the  night  by  reason  of  a  rock  which 
appears  above  water  at  low-water  about  a  mile  from 
the  shoare,  the  Rock  is  call'd  Le  Bass  de  la  Marquise. 
At  Odiorn  in  the  Bay  lives  but  2  familys,  the  Princi- 
pal, who  has  a  Pattent  from  the  King  of  France  for 
that  place,  and  has  at  his  own  charge  built  a  fort  of 
4  gunns :  keeps  10  boats  and  60  men.  Little  Paradise*, 
a  fishing  harbour  in  the  Bay  by  pattent  to  Mr.  Lartogue, 
keeps  8  boats,  50  men,  no  fortifications.  At  Cape  St. 
Mary's  are  no  inhabitants,  the  Fishery  there  is  only 
kept  by  the  Bask  shipps,  that  have  yearly  upwards  of 
150  boats,  the  fish  is  there  salted,  and  brought  thence 
in  shalloways  to  Placentia  where  it  is  cured.  The  trade 
of  Placentia  is  much  inferiour  to  that  of  the  English 
coast  of  Newfoundland ;  nothing  but  the  Fishery  is 
there  minded;  here  are  about  50  Artificers  dayly  at 
work  cutting  stone  out  of  a  large  quarry,  of  which  they 
have  abundance,  in  order  to  build  a  wall  all  round  the 
Fort,  and  have  allready  built  one  square,  that  fronts 
to  the  harbour  about  10ft.  high,  which  is  levell  with  the 
lowest  platforme  of  the  Fort.  The  ships  useing  Pla- 
centia are  generally  fishing  ships ;  each  shipp  commonly 
kills  their  ladeing  of  fish,  there  are  yearly  from  40  to 
60  sail,  the  greatest  number  of  which  are  Bask,  and 
but  few  of  them  off  any  force.  The  Malwinds  that  use 
the  trade  are  generally  shipps  from  10  to  24  gunns,  of 
which  there  are  15  to  20  sail  yearly.  The  number  of 
boat-keepers  by  the  French  at  Placentia  and  places  ad- 
jacent, I  judge  may  be  360,  of  which  belongs  to  the 
shipping  230,  there  is  not  left  in  the  whole  country, 
soldiers  included,  (of  which  there  are  now  near  400) 
not  800  men  after  the  saileing  of  their  shipps.  The 
French  trade  from  Canada,  although  but  very  small,  is 
very  advantageous  to  the  inhabitants,  there  does  not 
above  6  small  vessells  use  the  trade  yearly ;  their  loading 
consists  of  flour,  bread,  and  pease,  for  which  they 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


529 


1709. 


Nov    18. 


Nov.  18. 
St.  James's. 


Nov.  18. 

St.  James's. 


Nov.  18. 
Whitehall. 


Nov.  18. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  19. 

Antigua. 


expect  salt,  wine,  brandy,  and  other  merchandize;  the 
prices  of  bread  and  flour  are  generally  from  18  to  24 
livres  per  quintall.  Two  shipps  and  a  sloop  was  sent 
in  June  last  to  load  provision  for  the  garrison,  which 
if  miscarry  will  raise  the  price  to  a  prodigious  degree, 
and  most  of  the  people  must  starve  for  want  of  bread. 
St.  Peter's  Island  being  so  often  plundered  and  taken 
by  our  English  galleys  is  allmost  abandon'd,  few  shipps 
fish  in  that  place,  and  none  since  the  last  year  in  St. 
Mary's  Harbour.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  Dec.  1,  1709.  2£ 
pp.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  97,  98,  98.i.a,b.— iii. ;  and 
(without  enclosures]  195,  5.  p.  112.] 

860.  Address  of  the  Governour,  Council  and  Assembly  of 
the  Massachusets  Bay  to  the  Queen.    Boston,   Nov.    18,   1709. 
Address  concerning  Port  Royal  and  Nova  Scotia  in  the  same  terms 
as   tho   resolution   of  Oct.    27,    q.v.    1    p.      Signed,    3.  Dudley, 
Isa.  Addington,  Sec.  Council,  John  Clark,  Speaker.    1  p.    [C.O. 
5,  9.     No.  46.] 

861.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Repealing  Act  of  Barbados 
for  appointing  Agents,  etc.  v.  Nov.  9.     Signed,  Wm.  Blathwayt. 
End.orsed,  Reed.  Read  Nov.  24,  1709.     2  pp.     [C.O.  28,  12.   No. 
49 ;  and  29,  12.     pp.  53,  54.] 

862.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Confirming  Act  of  Barba- 
dos,  for  holding  a  Court  of  Grand  Sessions,    etc.   v.   Nov.  11. 
Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.     1^  pp.     [C.O.  28,  12.     No. 
50;  and  29,  12.     pp.  55,  56.] 

863.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Perry  and  Mr.  Hyde.     The  Council 
of  Trade  and  Plantations  desire  to  know  what  has  been  dona 
in  Virginia  and  Maryland  towards  the  building  of  ports  in  pur- 
suance   of   the    Acts    of    each    Province,    etc.     [C.O.    5,    1362. 
p.  436.] 

864.  Mr.  Popple  to  Sir  Charles  Hedges.     Encloses  extract 
of  letter  from  Governor  Parke,   June   20,   complaining   of  the 
Depty.   Secretary  of  the  Leeward  Islands.     [C.O.   153,  10.     p. 
435.] 

865.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade   and  Plantations. 
Last  night   a   litle   before   midnight   I    reed,    a    letter   from  the 
Lt.  Governour  of  Nevis,  that  Saint  Eustatia  was  taken  by  the 
French  on  Monday  the  14th  inst.     The  Capt.   of  the  Diamond 
mann  of  warr  informes  me  that  on  the  17th  being  under  Dominico 
ha    was    chaced    by   two    menn    of   warr    and    six    sloopes  that 
came  from  Martineque  to  Guardalupa.     I  am  afraid  that  those 
vessells  waytes  for  the  returne  of  those  that  tooke  Saint  Eustatia 
and  will  attacke  some  or  all  of  those  Islands,   if  they  doe  we 
cannott  assist  one  another,  haveing  but  one  man  of  warr  here, 
and  no  vessells  to  transport  our  men  our  fleet  being  just  gone, 

Wt,  11522.  CP34 


530 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


Nov.  21. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  22. 


Nov.  23. 


Nov.  24. 

Antigua. 


if  they  attacke  us,  we  are  in  a  very  bad  condition  to  relieve 
them,  but  I  hope  I  shall  doe  my  duty.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke. 
Endorsed,  Eecd.  16th,  Eead  19th  Jan.  170-&.  Addressed.  Post- 
mark. 1  p.  [C.O.  152,  9.  No  6;  and  153,  10.  pp.  483,  484.] 

866.  Mr.    Popple    to    Mr.    Jenings.     Encloses    duplicate    of 
letter  to  be  forwarded  to  the  President  of  the  Councill  of  New 
York.     [C.O.  5,  1362.     p.  437.] 

867.  Mr.  Solicitor  General  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
tations.   Reply  to  Nov.   17.    I  have  no  objection  to  the  Act  of 
Jamaica  referred  to,  and  am  of  opinion  that  the  right  of  H.M. 
is    sufficiently    saved    by   the    proviso,    etc.      Signed,    B.    Eyre. 
Endorsed,    Eecd.   Eead   Nov.    23,    1709.     1   p.     Enclose^, 

867.  i.  Duplicate    of    Mr.    Popple's    letter,    Nov.    17.      [C.O. 

137,   8.     Nos.   70,   70. i.;  and   (without  enclosure)   138, 
13.     pp.   55,  56.] 

868.  Mr.    Attorney   General    to   the    Council    of   Trade    and 
Plantations.     Reply    to    Nov.    12.      I    am    of    opinion    that  the 
Governor  and  Queen's  Councel  at  Jamaica  have  done  all  that  by 
Law    can    be    done    for    recovery    of   this    ambergrease    for  the 
Queen.     For  a  jury  have   it  in  their  power  whether  they  will 
give    a    general    verdict   or    a    special    verdict.     And    the    most 
that  the  Queen's  Councel  can  do  is  to  desire  them  not  to  take 
upon  them  the  determination  of  matters  wch.  in  point  of  law 
are   disputable,    but   find   the   facts    specially,    and   submitt   the 
points  of  Law  to  the  judgemt.  of  the  Court,  and  this  I  undier- 
stand    was    done    by   the    Queen's    Attorney    General    and    Mr. 
Brodrick,   but  the  Jury  refus'd  to   give  a   special   verdict,   and 
found    generally    for   the   Deft.    agt.    the    Queen.     This    refrac- 
toriness in  the  Jury  is  oftentimes  seen  in  our  Courts  here  in 
England,   and   when   it  do's  happen,   the   Queen's   Councel   are 
forc'd  to  submitt,  unless  they  can  hope  to  get  a  more  favourable 
Jury  return'd,  and  then  indeed  they  move  for  a  new  tryal.    But 
in  this  Grand  Court  of  Jamaica  I  understand  it  usually  go's  agt. 
the  Crown,  where  there  is  the  least  shaddow  for  so  doing.   And 
therefore  I   much   question  whether  granting  a  new  tryal  will 
be  of  any  avail.     In  all  likelyhood  it  will  only  run  the  Queen 
into  greater  charges  and  expences,   for  wch.  reasons   I   cannot 
advise  anything  further  to  be  done  than  what  has  been  already 
directed    and    attempted.     Signed,    Jas.    Mountague.     Endorsed, 
Reed.  Eead  Nov.   23,  1709.     If  pp.    'Enclosed, 

868.  i.,  ii.  Duplicates   of  Mr.    Popple's   letter   and    enclosure, 

Nov    12.     [C.O.  137,  8.     Nos.  71,  71.i.,ii. ;  and  (with- 
out enclosures)   138,   13.     pp.   56-58.] 

869.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
tions.    In  obedience  to  your  Lordshipps'  commands  I  have  made 
dilligent  inquirey  concerning  the  affair  relateing  to  Robert  Free- 
man and  the  petition  of  his  brother.     The  petition  and  reasons 
therein  'delivered  to  have  an  Act  to  pass  for  the  sale  of  certain 


AMERICA  AND  .WEST  INDIES.  531 

1709. 

parcells  of  land  he  then  held  in  right  of  his  wife,  was  in  nvary 
part  true;  the  said  land  was  a  burthen  and  charge,  at  that 
junctun  of  time,  unto  him.  I  further  certifie  that  he  with  his 
wife  did  sell,  after  the  passing  of  the  Act,  some  parcells  of  land 
which  were  improved  by  the  purchacers  before  his  wife  was  of 
age,  and  that  the  deeds  of  sale  was  not  brought  for  aprobation 
and  wittnessed  by  the  Governour,  Councill  and  Assembly,  as  the 
said  Act  directs  should  be,  and  likewise  the  said  Robert  with 
his  wife  did  live  together  for  some  years  after  she  came  to  her 
full  age,  and  then  he  dyed  without  makeing  any  other  deed  to 
the  purchacers  of  the  said  land,  some  of  which  have  been  since 
sued  for  by  one  Pearne,  who  intermarryed  with  the  said  Mary. 
Freeman  by  his  will  did  "devise  to  his  said  wife  all  his  plate 
and  houshold  stuff,  with  the  choice  of  7  negroes,  a  rideing  horse 
and  furniture  for  ever,  which  is  of  more  vallue  here  then  £500 
currant  money  of  this  Island,  as  also  the  third  part  of  what 
sugars,  or  other  commodity's,  shall  be  made  of  his  plantation 
or  plantations  dureing  her  life,  which  some  yeares  may  be  worth 
more  than  £100.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reod.  2nd, 
Read  16th  Feb.  170^.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

869.  i.  Petition   of  Robert  Freeman  to   the    Queen,    that   an 

Act  of  Antigua,  1700,  may  be  confirmed.     Copy.  1^  pp. 

[C.O.  152,  9.     Nos.  12,  12. i.  ;  and  (without  enclosure) 

153,  10.     pp.  481-483.] 

[Nov.  24.]  870  Extracts  of  letters  to  Col.  Rhett  from  Carolina  by  his 
Carolina.  Lady,  concerning  the  Bahama  Islands,  Feb.  and  April,  1709. 
Adrean  Willson,  Master  of  Mr.  Gibbins'  sloop  laden  with  pro- 
visions bound  to  Jamaica  was  taken  of  the  Bahama  Islands  by 
Capt.  Pasquean,  who  was  Commander  of  one  of  the  French 
shipps  who  invaded  us  and  you  tooke  afterwards  at  Seawee  Bay. 
Hee  has  a  sloop  of  fouer  gunn  and  70  men,  and  has  .taken 
17  prizes  this  summer  amoungst  the  Bahama  Islands.  Poore 
Benja.  Symms  bound  for  Jamaica,  and  wee  fere  Capt.  Watson 
has  meet  the  same  fate,  for  hee  has  hinn  expected  any  time 
this  too  mounths.  The  French  and  Spaniards  are  settled  at 
Exuma  and  cruse  of  all  the  Bahama  Islands,  soe  that  wee  fere 
noe  vessell  will  be  able  to  escape  them  that  are  bound  that  way 
or  to  Jamaica ;  they  have  taken  Capt.  Holmes  and  his  wife  arid 
all  his  richis,  tying  lighted  macthes  beetwene  there  fingers,  and 
burnt  them  to  the  bone,  to  make  them  discover  there  wealth,  and 
they  killed  Mr.  Perrion  Trot's  wife  in  a  most  barberous  manner 
with  there  cruelty s,  to  make  hir  confess  where  Col.  Elding  and 
his  riches  were.  The  Capt.  of  the  French  privatere  which  took 
Capt.  Williams  gave  him  a  sloop  to  carry  him  and  the  restl 
of  the  prisoners  to  Carrolina,  but  as  hee  was  going  by  Provi- 
dence., the  French  and  Spaniards  tooke  them  againe  and  stripped 
them,  tooke  there  sloop  away  and  put  them  on  a  maruaen  [ —  ? 
Tnaroon]  Island,  where  they  lived  ur3on  conckes  and  wilkes 
seavrall  weekes,  till  Capt.  Joyce  by  chance  found  them  and 
tooke  them  on  board,  else  must  have  perrished.  The  Governor 
of  Bermuda  haith  lately  sent  a  sloop  on  purpose  with  ann  ex- 


532 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 


press  to  our  Governor  to  acquaint  him  that  the  French  and 
Spaniards  desinge  to  attack  us  this  summer,  and  wee  are  satis- 
fied the  Lords  Proprietors  will  neither  supply  us  with  powder 
nor  nothing  else  for  the  defence  of  this  place,  tho'  they  have 
binn  addressed.  Therefore  our  Assembly  has  sent  a  petition  to 
the  Queene  humbly  requesting  to  take  us  into  hir  imediate  care 
and  protection,  the  coppy  of  which  I  here  inclose  to  you. 
Signed,  Wm.  Rhett.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Bead  Nov.  24,  1709. 
H  pp.  [0.0.  5,  1264.  No.  85.] 


Nov.  24.         871.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,    derland.     Enclose  extracts  of  Governor  Handasyd's  letter,  Sept. 

8,    relating   to    privateers    and    ships    of   war.     [C.O.    138,    13. 

p.  64.] 

Nov.  25.         872.     Council   of  Trade  and  Plantations   to   Governor   Han- 
Whitehall,    dasyd.    Acknowledge  letters  of  May  25,   26,  June  14,  July  18, 
and   Sept.   8.     The  news  of  the   Portland's  taking  the   French 
Guinea   ship  and  of  your  privateers  taking  the  3   prizes,   was 
very  acceptable  to  us ;  though  at  the  same  time  we  were  very 
sorry  to  find  your  Regiment  had  suffered  so  much  on  board  the 
Portland;  and  should  have  been   ready  to  have   assisted  Capt. 
Gardner  in  what  we  were  able,  but  that  on  discourse  with  him 
we  are  informed  120  recruits  have  been  already  shipt  off,  and 
that   30  more  are  to   go   by  the  next  packet  boat,  so  that  ac- 
cording to  what  he  tells  us  there  will  be  30  men  sent  more  than 
were   wanting   when   you  last   writ  to  him.     We  have   likewise 
discoursed  with  him  on  the  subject  of  the  mony  you  have  ex- 
pended for  private  intelligence,  but  as  you  have  neither  sent  to 
him  nor  to  us  any  particular  account  of  that  expence,  we  can- 
not proceed  therein.     So  soon  as  you  shall  send  to  Capt.  Gardner 
such  an  account,  he  will  lay  the  same  before  H.M.,  and  ,if  it 
be  referr'd  to  us,  we  will  farther  it  all  we  can.     We  have  con- 
sidered the  Acts  you  sent  us,  and  shall  lay  our  opinion  thereupon 
before  H.M.,  and  particularly  that  that  relating  to  the  estate  of 
Mr.  Ivy  deed,  be  confirmed.     What  you  have  done  in  relation  to 
the  fortifications  is  very  commendable,  and  we  hope  that  before 
this   time   the   new   line   you   were   making    is    perfected.     You 
complain,   and  we  beleive  with  reason,   of  the  deadness   of  our 
trade  to  the  Spanish  coast:  but  we  wish  you  had  been  able  to 
have  explained  that  matter  more  fully ;  particularly  how  it  comes 
that  tho  Spaniard  want  mony  now  more  than  formerly.     Is  not 
the  reason  of  their  not  buying  of  us,  that  they  are  furnished 
with  European  commodities  from  the  French :  may  they  not  also 
be   supplyed   with   the   said   commodities    for   Cura9ao    and    St. 
Thomas.     What  you  say  of  6  nimble  ships  of  war  for  protection 
of  the  trade,  would  undoubtedly  be  of  service;  but  we  very  much 
question,  that  besides  the  squadron  ,that  attends  your  Government, 
whether  suflh  a  number  can  be  spared  now.     We  observe  what 
you  write   in  relation  to   flags   of  truce,   and   can  onely  advise 
you,  that  when  any  arrive  all  the  care  possible   be  taken  that 
they   get  as  little  intelligence  of  the  state  of  Jamaica  as  may 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  533 

1709. 

be :  for  we  do  not  think  it  proper  you  shou'd  absolutely,  forbid 
them  your  Government.  In  relation  to  the  ambergreece,  we 
enclose  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Attorney  General  (Nov.  23).  In 
relation  to  the  Members  of  the  Councill  that  are  Factors  to  the 
African  Company  or  others  concerned  in  the  negro  trade,  we 
can  onely  advise  you  to  pursue  your  Instructions,  the  Act  of 
Parliamt.,  and  such  directions  in  relation  thereunto  as  were 
sent  yoi.  by  the  Earl  of  Sunderland  (c/.  April  21).  What  wo 
desire  in  relation  to  the  value  of  prizes  is  onely  the  best 
account  you  can  give.  We  have  transmitted  to  ye  Lord  Treas- 
urer the  accounts  of  the  Revenue  you  sent  to  us.  We  are 
in  hopes  to  hear  a  good  account  of  La  Vera  Crux  Fleet  and  of 
the  pirates  you  mention,  from  the  vigilance  of  your  privateers. 
As  to  what  you  write  us  in  relation  to  the  lands  claimed  by 
Mr.  Jones,  we  think  it  just  and  reasonable  that  he  and  others 
having  lands  in  Jamaica  should  pay  their  quit-rents  according 
to  the  Laws  and  Constitutions  of  that  Island.  We  have  no  ac- 
count of  any  intended  expedition  of  the  French  against  youn 
Government.  However  in  case  such  a  thing  should  happen,  we 
have  no  doubt  of  your  care  and  zeal  in  the  defence  of  the 
Island.  We  have  received  your  letter  of  July  18  last,  but  not  the 
duplicate  thereof  mentioned  to  be  inclosed  in  yours  of  Sept.  8. 
You  say,  Sept.  8,  that  "ye  great  disputes  betwen  the  Collectors 
of  H.M.  outward  customs  and  the  Captains  of  the  privateers,  as 
also  the  private  sailors  will  be  a  disadvantage."  We  wish  you 
had  explained  this ;  for  we  do  not  understand  what  the  disputes 
are  you  mention,  nor  how  they  arise,  you  .will  do  well  therefore 
to  give  us  more  particular  information  if  you  expect  that  we 
should  do  anything  in  it.  We  have  received  the  list  of  escheats 
you  sent  us,  and  are  of  opinion  that  you  forbear  granting  the 
same,  till  you  hear  further  from  us  thereupon.  The  reason  is, 
that  there  is  a  proposal  before  H.M.  for  settling  1000  Palatines 
at  Jamaica,  the  substance  o'f  the  proposal  is  contained  in  the 
inclosed  paper,  and  therefore  till  H.M.  pleasure  be  known,  we 
think  it  will  be  prudent  to  forbear  regranting  the  said  escheats. 
Enclose  Order  in  Council  repealing  Act  for  quieting  possessions 
etc.  with  reasons  etc.  (Nov.  18).  [C.O.  138,  13.  pp.  67-73.] 

Nov.  25.  873.  Governor  Parke  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
Antigua.  tions.  This  is  the  minutes  of  the  Councill  to  this  day.  Your 
Lordshipps  will  observe  that  at  the  last  meeting  I  had  the  Asr 
sembly  before  the  Councill,  and  before  they  were  summoned 
I  asked  the  opinion  of  the  Councill  what  was  to  be  done  in 
case  they  refused  to  give  me  assurance,  when  I  called  them 
before  me,  to  allow  the  Queen  the  negative  voice;  their  opinion 
was  to  adjourne  them,  which  accordingly  I  did.  Now  I  begg 
leave  to  informe  your  Lordshipps  that  when  they  sent  me  word 
they  would  allow  the  Queen  the  negative  voice,  we  had  an  account 
the  French  had  taken  Eustatia,  but  that  morneing  they  inett 
(which  was  in  two  days  after)  we  had  an  account  they  were 
only  some  privateers,  that  had  taken  Eustatia,  and  they  v/ere 
gone  to  Leeward,  soe  the  danger  was  over;  as  to  the  answer 


534 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 

they  gave  me,  they  would  answer  me  in  the  house,  this  was 
bantering  me,  for  they  met  together  before  I  sent  for  them 
some  time,  and  came  to  me  in  a  body  with  the  Speaker  at  the 
head  of  them ;  I  told  them  I  never  would  receive  any  message 
from  them  signed  by  a  Clerke  that  was  not  sworne  truly  to 
enter  what  passed,  for  I  have  found  the  effect  of  not  haveing  a 
sworne  Clerke  upon  severall  occasions,  and  that  Nivine  in  Eng- 
land in  his  and  the  seaven  merchants'  last  petition  to  thie  Queen 
had  th-g  impudence  to  averr  that  the  Assembly  unanimously  came 
to  a  resolution  May  29,  1708,  to  lay  before  the  Queen,  etc.,  and 
that  it  was  soe  entred  in  their  bookes,  which  if  soe  is  false,  for 
that  severall  of  the  Members  doe  avver  they  never  came  to  such 
a  resolution,  so  that  haveing  no  sworne  Clerk,  and  the  Speaker 
keeping  the  Assembly  bookes,  he  might  enter  what  he  pleased ; 
and  that  I  was  refused  coppys  of  their  Journalls  to  send  home 
as  I  am  oblieged  by  my  Instructions,  and  that  the  man  that 
acted  for  them  last  as  Clerke,  declared  on  oath  that  he  was 
forbidd  to  give  me  coppys,  and  the  Speaker  tooke  the  books  from 
him.  When  I  have  Justice  done  me  at  home,  they  will  doe 
their  duty  here,  and  not  before,  for  every  packett  they  recieve 
letters  that  I  either  am  suspended  or  will  be  by  the  next  packett. 
I  designe  to  call  a  Generall  Councill  and  Assembly  of  all  the 
Islands,  and  they  can  make  Laws  for  the  whole  Goverment ;  this 
is  the  only  Island  that  pretends  to  this  ridiculous  priviledge,  of 
the  negative  voice  or  signeing  last,  which  is  the  same  thing,  for 
it  is  giveing  the  last  sanction,  and  to  act  without  a  swoirne 
Clerke.  Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read 
16th  Feb.  170  &.  2  pp.  [(7.0.  152,  9.  No.  10;  and  153,  10. 
pp.  476-478.] 

874.  Governor   Parke  to  Mr.   Popple.     Acknowledges   letter 
of  Sept.  14.     I  was  mightily  surprized  when  I  heard  my  tryall 
was   to   come   on  before  the    Queen  and   Councill,    of   Sept.  5, 
without  haveing  the  affidavitts  sent  me  by  the  Lords ;  one  oif  the 
affidavits    came    to   my   hands,    the    which   I    can    prove   to  be 
false,  and  the  deponent  perjured,  but  by  such  affidavitts  all  false 
articles   must    be    supported,    etc.      Repeats   part   of   preceding. 
Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.     Addressed.     Sealed.     Post- 
mark.   1  p.     [0.0.  152,  9.     Nos.   11  and  25;  and  153,  10.    pp. 
479,  480 ;  and  153,  11.     pp.  38,  39.] 

875.  Governor    Parke    to    the    Earl    of    Sunderland.     I    am 
heartily  sorry  for  all  the  trouble  your  Lordshipp  and  the  Coun- 
cill has  been  put  too  on  my  account,  etc.     I  hope  the  inveteracy 
of  the  stile  the  spirit  of  malice  that  apears  in  the  whole  charge 
will  pass  as   evidence  for  me;   but  men  who  will  not  stick  at 
assassinations  will   scarce  make  any   scruples   at  perjurys,   etc. 
But   I   need  not   feare   Justice    from   them    who   administer   it, 
etc.,  etc.     Signed,  Daniel  Parke.  3  pp.    [C.O.  152,  42.  No.  12.] 

Nov.  26.         876.     Majority    of   the    London   Proprietors    of    New   Jersey 
London,      to    the   Council    of   Trade   and    Plantations.     Pray   that    Daniel 


Nov.  25. 

Antigua. 


Nov    25. 

Antigua. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


535 


1709. 


Nov.  28. 

Queen  Street, 
Westminster. 


Nov..  29. 

Whitehall. 


Cox,  Roger  Mompesson,  Richd.  Townly,  Peter  Sonmans,  Wm. 
Pinhorn,  and  Wm.  Sandford  be  left  out  of  the  Council,  as  dis- 
turbers of  the  People.  Mr.  Sonmans  is  charged  with  oppression 
and  maladministration,  and  both  he  and  Mr.  Cox  with  having 
grossly  abused  the  interest  they  had  with  Lord  Cornbury  to  the 
prejudice  of  the  rights  of  the  Proprietors,  etc.  Set  out,  N.J. 
Archives,  1st  ser.  iii.  497.  q.v.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Nov.  30, 
1709.  1  large  p.  Torn.  Enclosed, 

876.  i.  Petition   of   Freeholders   of  Middlesex   to   the   Repre- 

sentatives of  New  Jersey  against  Mr.  Sonmans.  41 
Signatures.  [C.O.  5,  970.  Nos.  90,  90.i. ;  and  (with- 
out enclosure)  5,  995.  pp.  31-33.] 

877.  Commissioners  for  stating  the  Arrear  due  from  King 
William,  to  Mr.  Popple.     We  find  in  your  demand  of  the  arrears 
due  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  a  demand  for  the 
Earl  of  Stamford  as  one  of  those  Commissioners  on  his  salary  of 
£1000  per  annum  from  Michaelmas  1700  to  March  8,  1701.     We 
do  not  find  his  Lordship  in  the  Exchequer  Account  among  the 
other  Commissioners,  and  therefore  desire  to  know  whether  his 
Lordship  was  on  the  establishmt.   with  salary,  or  whether  his 
Lordship  might  not  be  cleared  that  arrear.     And  observing  that 
in  the  Exchequer  account,  John  Lock  Esq.  is  inserted  as  a  Com- 
missioner of  Trade,  and  made  to  be  in  arrear  from  Midsummer, 
1700  to  March  8,   1701,   with  a  Memorandum   "if  not  dead  or 
superseded,"  there  being  no  demand  made  for  him  in  your  list, 
we  desire  to  know  the  reason,  and  whether  he  was  succeeded  by 
the  Earl  of  Stamford,  any  other,  and  the  time  when.     Signed^ 
Grery.    King,    Wm.    Vanbrugh,    Edmd.    Williamson.     Endorsed, 
Reed.  Nov    28,  1709.     1  p.     [C.O.  388,  76.     No.  91;  and  389, 
36,     pp.  449,  450.] 

878.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Parke. 
Acknowledge   letters   of   4,    16,   23,    24  May,    20,    26   and  27th 
June.     As  to  the  Assembly  of  Antego,  we  can  only  advise  you,  to 
pursue  the  Instructions  you  have  from  H.M.,  which  will  be  a 
sufficient  justification  to  you.     If  there  be  any  irregularity  com- 
mitted  in  the   clothing  or   paying   of  the   soldiers,    which  is  a 
matter  not  properly  in  our  Province,  you  ought  to  lay  the  same 
before  the  Secretary  of  War,  in  as  particular  a  manner  as  you 
are  able,   that  JJie  necessary  directions   may  be   given   for  the 
relief  and  ease  of  the  said  soldiers.     We  are  glad   H.M.   pro- 
vision ships  were  arrived  and  we  hope  they  have  been  a  season- 
able relief  to   St.  Christophers  and   Nevis.     The  Acts  we  have 
received  from  you  will  be  considered ;  the  other  papers  you  have 
sent  us,  which  in  any  ways  related  to  your  justification,  have  been 
communicated  to  Mr.  Perry  etc.     You  will  do  well  to  use  your 
utmost  endeavours  to  convince  the  Assembly  of  the  necessity  of 
passing  of  good  laws  for  setling  o'f  "Courts,   which,  is  so  much 
their  own  interest,  for  that  without  such  laws,  whereby  persons 
may  easily  come  to  their  right,  the  credit  of  the  Islands  under 
your  Government  will  very  much  suffer.     You  have  again  fallen 


536  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

into  the  same  error  as  that  we  complained  of,  Nov.  25,  by  ad- 
mitting Mr.  John  Norwood  into  the  Councill  of  Nevis,  when  it 
appears  by  our  books  notwithstanding  the  absence  of  Col.  Smith, 
that  there  was  10  Counsellors  besides  the  Lt.  Governor  upon  the 
Island,  and  besides  the  said  'Norwood  is  not  upon  the  list  of 
those  recommended  by  you.  This  is  the  more  irregular  in  that 
we  had  already  admonished  you  of  it,  and  therefore  we  do  not 
think  fit  to  recommend  him  to  H.M.  till  we  are  better  sattis- 
fyed  in  this  matter ;  however  we  shall  not  offer  any  to  be  of 
your  Councills  who  have  signed  the  articles  against  you.  We 
have  acquainted  Sir  Charles  Hedges  with  what  you  writ  in  re- 
lation to  the  Deputy  Secretary,  and  Sir  Charles  has  thereupon 
assured  us  to  write  to  the  said  Deputy  that  he  behave  himself 
better  for  the  future  or  that  he  shall  be  obliged  to  remove  him, 
and  you  will  do  well  to  admonish  all  the  other  officers  that  unless 
they  furnish,  you  with  copies  of  such  papers  as  are  necessary  to 
be  transmitted  to  us  from  their  respective  offices,  we  shall  com- 
plain to  H.M.  of  their  neglect.  We  hear  as  yet  of  no  complaint 
against  the  Lieut.  Governour  of  Antigua,  if  any  such  do  come 
to  us,  we  shall  not  fail  of  doing  him  justice,  and  that  he  will 
not  be  censured  without  being  heard,  wherewith  we  desire  you 
to  acquaint  him.  [C.O.  153,  10.  pp.  436-439.] 

'Nov.  29.  879.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  Be- 
JVhitehall.  port  upon  Acts  of  New  York,  1708,  1709.  Act  for  regulating 
fees.  In  Sept.  1693  a  table  of  fees  was  prepared  by  the  then 
Assembly,  and  sent  to  the  Governor  and  Council,  with  their 
desire  that  the  Governor  would  establish  the  same  as  the  stand- 
ing fees  of  the  officers  in  thiat  Government,  which  was  accordingly 
done;  and  no  complaint  that  we  have  heard  of  has  hitherto 
been  made  against  the  same.  The  present  Act  reduces  most  of 
those  fees  so  low  that  it  is  alledged  'tis  very  difficult,  if  possi- 
ble, for  the  officers  to  live  upon  the  profits  of  their  places ;  and 
in  many  cases  it  allows  no  fees  for  several  particular  services 
necessary  to  be  done.  It  lays  a  penalty  of  £50  upon  any  person 
who  shall  demand  or  receive  other  fees  or  sums  of  mony  than 
are  therein  mentioned,  and  disables  all  practicers  of  the  Law 
that  shall  do  so  from  ever  practising  any  more  in  that  Province, 
tho'  the  Act  itself  is  but  for  3  years.  It  lays  yet  a  greater 
hardship  upon  the  said  practisers  at  Law;  for  it  ena-cts  that 
none  of  them  shall  receive  under^  the  said  penalty  above  6s. 
retaining  fees,  New  York  money,  'and  obliges  them  under  the 
said  penalty  of  £50  to  accept  the  said  retaining  fee,  if  not 
already  retained  by  the  adverse  party,  tho'  against  a  friend  or 
nearest  relation,  and  tho'  the  cause  in  their  opinion  be  never 
so  unjust.  There  are  several  other  objections  to  this  Act;  but 
as  we  think  these  are  sufficient  to  trouble  your  Majesty  with  at 
present,  we  humbly  offer  that  your  Majesty  be  pleased  to  signify 
your  disallowance  and  disapprobation  of  the  said  Act.,  in  which 
case  the  Table  of  Fees  established  in  1693  will  be  in  force  again. 
(2)  An  Act  to  releive  this  Colony  from  divers  irregularities  and 
extortions.  By  a  clause  in  this  Act,  all  the  officers  are,  prohibited 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  537 

1709. 

from  taking  any  fees  but  what  shall  be  settled  by  consent  of  the 
people  convened  in  General  Assembly,  and  some  positive  law 
so  enacted,  etc.  Whilst  this  Act  is  in  force,  no  fees  can  be 
taken  but  such  as  are  settled  by  Act  of  Assembly,  so  that  if 
your  Majesty  shall  think  fit  to  repeal  the  foregoing  Act  for 
establishing  fees,  unless  this  be  likewise  repealed,  no  fees  can 
be  received  by  the  Officers  there,  those  of  1693  not  having  been 
established  by  a  law,  and  therefore  we  humbly  offer  that  it  be 
repealed.  In  case  your  Majesty  repeal  the  said  two  Acts,  we 
further  offer  that  your  Governor  now  going  over  have  an  In- 
struction to  reconsider  the  said  table  of  fees  of  1693,  and  with 
the  advice  and  assistance  of  the  Council,  if  need  be,  to  prepare 
such  another  as  may  make  a  reasonable  provision  for  the  said 
officers,  and  be  most  agreable  to  the  circumstances  of  that  Prov- 
ince. (3)  An  Act  to  enable  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Common- 
alty of  the  City  of  New  York  to  raise  £600  in  two  years  for 
the  uses  therein  mentioned.  (Oct.  1708).  By  your  Majesty's  In- 
structions the  Governor  is  required  not  to  pass  any  Act  for 
levying  of  money  without  express  mention  be  made  in  the  Act 
that  the  said  mony  is  granted  or  reserved  to  your  Majesty  for 
the  publick  uses  of  the  said  Province ;  and  whereas  the  said  Act 
grants  tho  £600  thereby  to  be  levied  to  the  Mayor,  Aldermen  iand 
Commonalty  for  the  use  of  the  City  of  New  York,  contrary  to 
this  rule,  we  humbly  offer  that  it  be  disallowed.  (4)  An  Act 
for  levying  of  £6000  (May  1709).  The  preamble  sets  forth  that 
it  is  for  defraying  the  charge  of  the  intended  expedition  against 
Canada;  it  is  therefore  temporary  and  has  had  it's  effect.  But 
as  there  is  a  clause  in  it  that  directs  that  the  mony  thereby  to 
be  raised  shall  be  paid  to  and  issued  by  the  Treasurer  according 
to  the  value  of  money  in  the  Act  (1708)  for  regulating  current 
coin  which  was  repealed  (March  3,  170f),  we  humbly  offer  that 
this  Act  be  likewise  repealed.  (5)  An  Act  for  the  currency  of 
bills  of  credit  for  £5000  (1709).  This  is  to  give  currency  to 
bills  for  part  of  the  £6000  in  the  foregoing  Act,  and  therefore  it 
will  be  proper  that  this  likewise  be  repealed.  Besides,  this  Law  is 
compulsory,  and  enacts  that  the  tender  of  the  said  bills  for  the 
payment  of  any  debts  whatsoever  shall  be  as  good  and  effectual 
in  law  as  if  the  current  coin  of  that  Colony  had  been  offerred ; 
which  is  an  intolerable  hardship  upon  creditors  who  have  already 
lent  their  mony  or  sold  their  goods  under  covenants  or  obliga- 
tions of  being  repaid  in  the  current  mony  of  that  Province.  It 
is  yet  a  greater  hardship  upon  those  who  have  lent  their  mony 
upon  mortgages,  that  they  should  be  obliged  to  give  up  that  se- 
curity for  those  bills.  It  is  further  enacted  that  the  said  bills 
shall  be  issued  pursuant  to  the  currency  of  mony  in  the  last 
abovementioned  Act ;  for  which  reasons  we  humbly  offer  that  your 
Majesty  be  pleased  to  repeal  this  Act.  (6)  Act  for  levying 
£4000  (1709).  This  is  for  paying  487  men  to  be  raised  for  the 
intended  expedition  to  Canada,  and  is  lyable  to  'the  same  objec- 
tions as  the  aforesaid  Act  (4). 

There  are  other  of  the  said  Laws  that  are  temporary  and  some 
of  them  already  expired,  and  therefore  do  not  require  anything 


538 


COLONIAL  PAPEES. 


1709. 


Nov.  29. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.,  29. 

Whitehall. 


Nov.  30. 

London. 


Nov.  30. 
Whitehall. 


farther  to  be  done  thereupon.     Recommend  for  confirmation  9 
other  Ack  of  1708.     [O.O.  5,  1121.     pp.  455-463.] 

880.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.     Be- 
port  upon  Act   of  Maryland,    1708,   ascertaining   what  damages 
shall  be  allowed  upon  protested  bills  of  exchange,  whereby  10  p.c. 
only  is  allowed  to  be  recovered  for  costs,  damages  and  interest 
upon    all    protested    bills,    whereas    the    other    Plantations    in 
America,  do  allow  some  20  p.c.   (as  did  this  Province  before  this 
Act),   and  others  not  less  then   15  on  all   such  protested  bills. 
By  this  Law  the  persons   who  take  bills  of  exchange  will  not 
get  common  interest  for  their  money,  in  case  the  bills  be  pro- 
tested, for  it  often  happens  that  it  is  18  months  or  two  years 
from  the  time  of  drawing  such  bills  before  they  can  be  returned, 
and  the  payment  demanded,  which  is  often  not  to  be  obtained 
by  reason  of  the  deathl  of  the  drawer  or  indorser ;  and  at  thid 
best  the  loss  by  disappointments  is  very  considerable  in  trade. 
These   are   hardships   which  the   merchants   here    complain    of 
besides   that   there   is   an  omission   in   the   Act   relating   to  the 
time  within  which  such  protested  bills  are  to  be  returned  into 
that  Province,  whereby  tihe  said  Act  is  defective  in  a  very  material 
part.     Therefore  we  numbly  offer  that  your  Majesty  be  pleased 
to   signify  your  disallowance  of  the   said  Law.     [C.O.    5,   727. 
pp.  141,  142.] 

881.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Col.   Hunter  will  attend  you  with  some  proposals 
relating  to  the  Palatines,  on  which  you  are  to  report  with  all 
possible  expedition,  etc.     Signed,  Sunderland.     Endorsed,  Becd. 
Bead  Nov.  30,   1709.     f  p.     [0.0.   5,  1049.     No.   137;  and  5, 
1121.     p.  464.] 

882.  Col.  Hunter  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Proposals  relating  to  the  settlement  of  3000  Palatines  in  New 
York.     Kenebec  Biver  in  the  northern  part  of  New  England  is 
beyond  all  dispute  the  most  proper  place  for  that  purpose,  etc. 
Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Docs.  V.  p.   112.  q.v.     Signed,  Bo.  Hunter. 
Endorsed,  Becd.  Bead  Nov.  30,  1709.     2|  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1049. 
No,  138 ;  and  5,  1121.     pp.  465-469.] 

883.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.    Repre- 
sentation upon   an   Act  of  Virginia  for   establishing   ports   and 
towns.      Recapitulate    the    occasion    of    it.     See    C.S.P.    March 
170^   //.     In  pursuance  of  Instructions  sent  to  Governor  Nott, 
this  Act  was  passed  in  Virginia  1706,  rwhich  extends  much  further 
than  was  intended  by  your  Majesty's  foresaid  Instructions,  for 
it    is   thereby    enacted   that   each    place   therein   mentioned    for 
ports  bo  established  into  a  township  or  free  burgh ;  that  they 
have  a  market  at  least  twice  a  week  and  a  fair  once  a  year ; 
that    the    same    shall   have    a    merchant   guild   and    community, 
with  all  customs  and  liberties  belonging  to  a  free  burgh,  etc. 
that   all   the   inhabitants  of  the   said  ports   shall   be   acquitted 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  539 

1709. 

of  fths  of  thie  duties  that  all  other  persons  shall  be  obliged  to 
unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  Acts  imposing  them ;  that 
they  shall  be  acquit  for  15  years  from  Dec.  20,  1708 
from  all  levies  to  be  raised  by  poll  in  tobacco,  except  parish 
levies  where  there  are  Churches  or  where  Churches  shall  be 
built;  that  no  dead  provision  either  of  flesh  or  fish  shall  be 
sold  within  5  miles  of  any  of  the  said  ports  or  towns',  but 
within  the  limits  of  the  said  town,  upon  pain  of  forfeiture  of 
the  said  provisions  by  the  purchaser,  and  of  the  purchase  mony 
by  the  vendor. 

We  shall  forbear  to  trouble  your  Majesty  with  any  further 
particulars,  the  whole  Act  being  designed  to  incourage,  by  great 
priviledges,  the  settling  in  townships,  and  such  settlement  will 
incourage  their  going  on  with  the  woollen  and  other  manufac- 
tures there,  we  having  'for  some  years  past  received  repeated 
advices  from  thence,  that  by  reason  of  the  low  price  of  tobacco, 
they  had  fallen  upon  the  making  those  manufactures,  tho'  we 
have  from  time  to  time  writ  to  your  Majesty's  Cheif  Governor 
of  that  Colony,  to  discourage  and  prevent  their  doing  thereof 
as  much  as  possibly  he  could.  Wherefore  should  this  Act  be 
confirmed,  the  establishment  of  towns  and  incorporating  of  the 
planters  as  intended  thereby,  will  put  them  upon  further  im- 
provements of  the  said  manufactures,  and  take  them  off  from 
the  planting  of  tobacco,  which  would  be  of  very  ill  consequence, 
not  only  in  respect  to  the  exports  of  our  woollen  and  other 
goods,  and  consequently  to  the  dependance  this  Colony  ought 
to  have  on  this  Kingdom,  but  likewise  in  respect  to  the  im- 
portation of  tobacco  hither  for  the  home  and  foreign  con- 
sumption; besides  a  further  prejudice  in  relation  to  our  ship- 
ping and  navigation.  Upon  the  whole  matter,  having  had  the 
opinion  of  the  Commissioners  of  your  Majesty's  Customs,  who 
concur  with  us  in  these  particulars ;  and  in  regard  (as  we  have 
been  informed)  that  nothing  has  yet  been  done  in  Virginia 
towards  tho  settlement  of  such  ports ;  we  humbly  offer  that  your 
Majesty  be  pleased  to  signify  your  disallowance  and  disappro- 
bation of  the  said  Act.  In  pursuance  of  your  Majesty's  In- 
struction to  the  Governor  of  Maryland,  3  Acts  have  been  passed 
there  jor  advancement  of  trade  and  erecting  ports  and  towns, 
1706 — 1708,  against  which,  there  are  the  like  objections  as  to 
the  forementioned  Virginia  Law,  and  therefore  in  consideration 
(as  we  have  been  informed)  that  there  has  been  hitherto  very 
little  done  in  pursuance  of  the  said  Acts,  we  humbly  offer,  in 
case  your  Majesty  shall  think  fit  to  repeal  the  Virginia  Act, 
that  these  Acts  be  repealed  also.  [C.O.  5,  1362.  pp.  438-442.] 

Nov.  30.  884.  Mr.  Popple  to  the  Commissioners  for  stating  the  arrear 
Whitehall,  due  from  King  William.  Reply  to  Nov.  28.  The  Earl  of  Stam- 
ford informs  me  that,  H.M.  was  pleased  to  direct  that  the 
arrears  due  to  his  Lordship  from  King  William  for  his  place  of 
Commissioner  of  Trade  and  Plantations,  should  be  paid  him, 
and  that  he  has  received  the  same.  As  to  Mr.  Lock,  he  laid 
down  his  place  June  27,  1700,  and  was  paid  to  the  24th.  Mr. 


540 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 

Prior  succeeded  Mr.  Lock,  and  his  Privy  Seal,  Nov.  30,  1700, 
directs  that  his  salary  shall  commence  from  Midsummer,  1700. 
[C.O  389,  36.  pp.  450,  451.] 

Dec.  1.  885.  Col.  Hunter  to  the  Council  of  Trade  apd  Plantations. 
Further  Memorial  relating  to  the  Palatines.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col. 
Docs.  V.  p.  113.  q.v.  Signed,  Ro.  Hunter.  Endorsed,  Reed. 
Read  Dec.  1,  1709.  2|  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  139;  and 
5,  1121.  pp.  469-471.] 

Dec.  1.         886.     Mr.  Popple  to  Richard  Savage.    Desires  an  Account  of 
Whitehall.     Naval    Stores    imported    Christmas    1707 — 1708,    specifying   how 
many    of   those    imported   from    the    Plantations   have    had    the 
allowance  of  the  premium.     [C.O.  389,   21.     p.   1.] 


Dec.  2. 

Admty. 
Office. 


Dec    2. 


887.  Mr.   Burchett  to  Mr.   Popple.     Encloses  a  draught  of 
the  Fort  which  Capt.  Taylor  caus'd  to  be  made  at  St.  Johns, 
and  other  papers,  etc.    Cf.  Nov.  18.     Signed,  J.  Burchett.     En- 
dorsed, Reed.  3rd,  Read  5th  Dec.    1709.     1  p.      ^C.O.    194,  4. 
No.  99 ;  and  195,  5.     p.  113.] 

888.  Col.  Quary  to  [?  Mr.  Pulteney,  Lord  Cominr.  of  Trade 
and  Plantations.   Cf.  Sept.  5th,  1710.]     I  did  myself  the  honour 
of  writing  to   you  by  the   men  of  war   from   New  York,  since 
which  I  have  visited  all  the  Southern  Governmts.    All  things  are 
very  quiet  in  Virginia  and  so  will  continue  till  the  arrival  of 
a  new  Governor.     No  Assembly  has  sat  since  the  death  of  Col. 
Not,  etc.    Maryland,  which!  I  always  took  to  be  the  most  quiet 
and    easyest    Government    of    the    Maine,    the    freest    from    all 
factions  and  partys,  is  now  by  the  ill  conduct  of  the  late  Gov- 
ernour  run  into  as  great  extravagancy  as  any  of  the  rest.     I 
found  the  Assembly  setting  on  a  prorogation,  and  the  President 
and  Council  very  inclineable  to  make  a  session  of  it  by  passing 
some  Acts.     I  thought  it  my  duty  to  mind  them  of  H.M.  In- 
struction, that  in  suchl  a  case  as  ye  death  of  a  Governr.,  they 
shou'd  pass  no  Acts  but  such  as  were  of  absolute  necessity  etc. 
I    prest  this   the  more,    knowing   that  there   were   two   Acts  of 
the    greatest    consequence    that   wholly    depended    on    the    next 
Sessions,   the  Militia   Act,  and  the   Act  for  all   Officers'   Fees, 
these   two   Acts    I   found   that   the   Assembly   were   resolved  to 
damn,  and  they  had  no  way  to  effect  it,   but  by  getting  some 
Act  passt  to  make  a  session.     I  acquainted  the  Council  with  the 
design  of  the  Assembly,  and  gave  them  all  the  caution  I  cou'd, 
the   truth   of   which   appeared   plainly   that   very    day,    for   the 
Assembly  sent  up  a  very  triffling  bill,  which  was  all  to  confirm 
all   the   process  and  proceeding   of   a   particular   County   Court, 
by  reason  the  Justices  of  that  Court  were  Members  of  ye  Assem- 
bly   and    cou'd    not   attend   to    hold    the    Court :    with    the  Bill 
they   sent   a   message  to  the   Councill   requesting   that  the   Bill 
might  be  past  that  very  day,  else  it  wou'd  not  do ;  this  opened 
the   eyea   of  the  Council,   and   made   them   see   the   real  design 
of  the  Assembly,  which  I  so  well  improved,  that  they  resolved 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  541 

1709. 

to  pass  no  Act  or  make  a  Session  unless  'they  cou'd  have  the 
Militia  Act,  and  the  Act  for  the  Officers  fees  revived.  I  still 
prest  to  have  the  Assembly  adjourn'd  to  such  a  time  as  they 
might  reasonably  expect  the  arrival  of  a  new  Governour.  But  I 
found  the  President  and  almost  all  the  Council  resolved  to  have 
a  sessions,  provided  they  cou'd  secure  those  two  Acts,  and  ac- 
cordingly after  several  messages  a  Conference  was  appointed 
and  tha  same  day  a  Bill  was  sent  to  the  Council  for  reviving 
those  Acts ;  when  it  was  read,  it  appear'd  to  be  limitted  ,to  6 
months  after  the  arrival  of  a  new  Governour,  and  no  longer. 
The  President  and  Council  were  very  much  pleased  with  this 
Bill,  and  some  of  them  took  occasion  to  say,  that  they  cou'd  not 
have  expected  so  great  a  complyance  from  the  Assembly,  which 
forced  me  to  say  with  some  warmth,  that  the  Bill  was  a  very 
pernicious  one,  and  ought  not  to  be  past  if  they  had  any  regard 
to  the  Queen's  interest,  to  that  of  the  Country,  to  H.M.  In- 
structions, or  to  their  oaths  as  Counsellors,  which  I  demonstrated 
by  shewing  them,  that  those  two  Acts  were  now  secure,  ,the 
Militia  Act  was  of  the  greatest  consequence  to  the  country, 
and  shou'd  they  give  it  now  up,  there  was  but  very  little  hopes 
of  ever  getting  it  renewed,  at  least  so  as  to  answer  the  end. 
And.  as  for  the  Act  for  the  public  officers'  fees,  if  once  they 
let  it  drop,  they  very  well  knew  that  it  never  wou'd  be  revived, 
but  all  the  officers  must  be  ruined,  especially  those  belonging  to 
H.M.  and  in  her  guift ;  the  consequence  of  which  will  be  not 
only  a  very  high  injustice  to  the  Queen,  but  very  injurious 
to  tho  Country.  I  beg'd  them  again  to  consider  the  Queen's 
Instructions  and  their  oaths,  and  not  proceed  further  with  the 
Assembly  at  this  time,  but  leave  things  as  they  are  till  a  new 
Governor  came,  since  there  was  no  necessity  for  passing  any 
Act.  They  all  seemed  uneasy,  and  told  me,  that  shou'd  they 
send  home  this  Assembly  without  doing  business,  the  Country 
wou'd  clamour  at  them,  and  be  in  a  flame ;  I  answer'd  that 
no  man  of  sence  wou'd  blame  them  for  observing  the  Queen's 
Instructions.  They  were  pleased  to  say  that  there  must  be  an 
Act  past  to  settle  the  levies  (most  of  which  is  for  paying  them- 
selves for  their  attendance  in  Assembly).  I  said  that  there  was 
no  necessity  for  passing  such  an  Act  now,  for  at  worst  it  was 
but  a  short  delay  till  a  Governor  came,  that  it  took  away  no 
man's  property,  and  a  little  delay  wou'd  not  be  of  a  thousand 
times  the  ill  consequence  as  the  looseing  two  such  Acts,  which 
I  had  reason  to  believe  wou'd  never  be  recovered  again,  but  after 
all  I  cou'd  say,  I  found  that  they  were  resolved  to  make  a 
Sessions,  and  (if  I  mistake  not)  some  of  them  as  willing  as 
the  Assembly.  I  stay'd  some  time  after  thjs,  to  try  if  I  cou'd 
alter  their  opinion,  or  do  the  Queen  Service,  but  finding  I  cou'd 
not,  I  told  them  that  I  thought  the  end  of  H.M.  appointing 
me  one  of  her  Council  for  that  Province  was,  that  I  might 
to  the  utmost  of  my  power  defend  her  prerogative  and  just 
rights,  and  to  give  such  advice  as  in  my  judgement  was  most 
for  her  interest  and  service,  and  that  I  shou'd  pay  all  due 
obedience  to  her  Royal  Instructions.  But  finding  it  was  not 


542  COLONIAL  PAPEES. 

1709. 

in  my  power  to  answer  any  of  those  ends,  I  therefore  resolvned 
to  leave  them,  and  hasten  where  my  duty  and  H.M.  service 
called  me,  and  leave  them  to  answer  for  what  they  shou'd  do, 
so  took  my  leave  and  came  away.  And  since  my  coming  hither, 
I  hear  that  they  have  passed  several  Acts.  I  have  sent  to  the 
Clarke  for  a  copy  of  all  their  proceedings,  which  I  will  send 
to  your  Honours  by  the  first  opportunity.  I  am  oblig'd  to 
observe  to  your  honours  that  all  the  Assemblies  on  the  Maine 
are  running  into  very  great  extreams ;  they  design  to  have  the 
Governors  and  all  officers  who[lly  to  depend  on  them]  ;  the  truth 
of  this  will  appear  to  your  Honours  by  the  Acts  lately  past  in 
the  Governmt.  of  New  York.  I  wish  my  Lord  Lovelace  had  not 
given  them  a  handle  for  what  they  did  by  some  steps  he  took 
in  the  Jerseys,  however  I  believe  his  Lordship  saw  his  mistake, 
and  had  he  liv'd  wou'd  not  have  passed  those  pernicious  Acts 
in  N.  York,  but  the  Assembly  taking  the  advantage  of  my  Lord's 
death,  made  use  of  the  proper  meanes  to  give  their  point  by 
ruining  all  publick  officers,  and  by  issuing  out  the  Colony  money 
(as  they  call  it)  to  whom  they  please,  which  will  oblige  all 
to  depend  on  them.  If  I  durst  speake  plain  English,  I  cou'd 
shew  the  fatal  consequence  that  these  proceedings  must  be  to 
the  Queen's  interest  and  service  in  all  these  Governments.  I 
presume  your  Honble.  Board  will  not  think  fit  for  the  future  to 
,  lodge  a  power  in  the  Council  to  pass  Acts  of  Assembly  on 
the  death  or  absence  of  the  Queen's  Governour.  I  do  assure 
your  Honours  that  the  generality  of  the  Councills  being  Gentle- 
men of  the  Country  are  wholly  in  the  interest  of  the  Assembly, 
and  as  ready  to  lessen  the  prerogative  in  all  things  as  they 
are,  and  therefore  it  requires  care  in  the  choice  of  them,  and 
those  that  are  steady  to  ye  Queen's  interest  ought  to  be  sup- 
ported and  encourag'd.  I  cou'd  mention  many  wrong  stepps 
that  have  been  taken  by  some  Governors  in  their  recommending 
to  your  honourable  board  persons  fitt  to  be  of  the  Council, 
etc.  The  Assembly  of  this  Government  [?  Pennsylvania]  are 
run  into  the  greatest  extravagancy  and  confusion  that  ever 
people  were  in ;  they  resolve  to  have  all  the  power  in  their  hands, 
the  appointing  of  all  officers,  and  all  Courts  of  Judicature,  they 
pretend  to  a  power  of  apprehending  and  imprisoning  any  of  the 
Gentlemen  of  the  Council  that  they  please,  and  have  actually 
issued  out  their  warrants  accordingly.  It's  im  [possible  for  me] 
to  tell  the  confusion  that  they  are  in;  the  present  Lieut.  [Gov- 
ernor do's  with]  most  courage  oppose  them  and  assert  the  Pro- 
prietor's rig  [/its,  but  things  are]  now  come  to  that  pass,  that  in 
the  opinion  of  all,  the  T?ro[prietors  must  of]  necessity  be  forc'd 
to  surrender  this  Governmt.  into  the  Qu  [eon's  hands.  The] 
Secry.  of  the  Province  goes  home  in  this  "ship  on  purpose  [to 
represent  these]  matters  to  Mr.  Penn,  and  to  shew  him  the 
necessity  of  his  [resigning  up  the]  Governmt.  I  thought  it  my 
duty  and  for  the  Queen's  [service  to  give  your]  Honours  this 
hint.  I  will  not  trouble  your  Honours  about  the  [present  un- 
happy] circumstances  of  the  Northern  province  occasioned  by 
[the  disappointment]  of  that  nohle  designe  against  Canada, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  543 

1709. 

since  the  Honble.  [Col.  Nicholson's']  lately  gone  to  London,  who 
is  a  person  the  best  able  to  [set  all  those]  affairs  in  a; true 
light.  Signed,  Eobt.  Quary.  Endorsed,  Reed.  June  21st,  Read 
July  12,  1710.  Copy.  Torn.  3  pp.  [C.O.  323,  7.  No.  1; 
and  324,  9.  pp.  434-441.] 

Dec.  2.  889  Copy  of  Act  of  Maryland,  reviving  an  Act  for  limi- 
t-  tation  of  Officers'  fees,  Nov.  4,  1709.  Enclosed  in  preceding. 

Same  endorsement.     1  p.     [C.O.  5,  717.     Nos.  9,  10.] 

Deo  3.  89O.  Mr.  Burchett  to  Mr.  Popple.  Encloses  further  papers 
Admty.  relating  to  Newfoundland  (Of.  Dec.  2).  Signed,  J.  Burchsfct. 
Office-  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Dec.  5,  1709.  1  p.  Enclosed, 

890.  i.  Plan  of  the  Fort  of  St.   John's,   referred  to  Dec.   5. 

Endorsed,  Reed.  Dec.  5,  1709.  1  large  p. 
890.  ii.  Mr.  William  Keen's  Journall  of  the  takeing  of  Si>. 
John's,  1709.  Dec.  21,  1708,  about  4  this  morning  wee 
were  allarm'd  by  the  fireing  of  severall  musquets,  end 
were  within  half  an  hour's  time  surprized  to  heare  the 
Fort  was  taken  without  raakeing  resistance,  some  small 
time  after  the  Fort  surrendred,  the  Castle  took  ye  al- 
larme,  and  fired  2  guns,  all  the  inhabitants  of  that  side, 
being  about  60  men,  were  retired  to  the  Castle,  about 
7  this  morning  two  French  officers  came  to  assure  the 
inhabitants  of  good  quarters,  and  took  with  them  the 
most  master  inhabitants  and  merchants  into  the  Fort, 
where  I  saw  Major  Lloyd  very  heavy  ey'd  and  little 
notice  taken  of  him.  In  entering  the  Fort  the  French 
lost  3  men  kill'd  by  the  inhabitants;  about  5  in  the 
evening  the  inhabitants  and  servants  were  imprisoned 
in  store-houses,  excepting  some  few  that  were  left  in 
their  own  houses,  a  fire  hapned  and  burnt  two  streets 
of  houses.  Mr.  Russell  was  committed  to  the  guard  in 
the  guard-house.  Mr.  Will.  Keen  was  confin'd  with  a 
guard  in  his  own  house ;  Capt.  Larron  Dennis  was  sent 
to  have  the  Castle  surrender,  which  was  at  first  refused, 
the  next  day,  Dec.  22,  the  people  gave  up  the  Castle 
with  their  cannon  charg'd,  the  French  hoisted  a  white 
flagg  and  fired  3  gunns,  fthe  people  by  this  surrender  [was 
to  have  their  cloaths  and  provisions  and  reinstated  in 
their  houses,  which  was  not  comply'd  with.  The  24th 
St.  Ovide  de  Brouillian,  Commissnr.  of  the  French 
forces,  sent  477  men  prisoners  to  the  Church,  and  the 
house  of  Mr.  Collins,  allowing  them  for  their  subsist- 
ance  lib.  o'f  bread,  4oz.  of  pork  and  4oz.  of  pease  per 
diem ;  the  prisoners  were  sett  in  ranks  and  counted  by 
the  Indians,  who  threatened,  if  they  found  any  to  absent 
themselves,  they  would  kill  as  many  more  in  their 
roome,  the  25th  the  French  were  examining  the  master 
inhabitants  and  others  relateing  to  the  goods  etc.  that 
were  in  the  harbour  and  took  an  acct.  of  the  same, 
the  26th  an  express  from  St.  Ovide  went  to  Placentia 


544  COLONIAL  PAPEBS. 

1709. 


by  land.  The  Enemy  were  commonly  in  the  Fort,  and 
did  not  much  resort  among  the  English  untill  the  re- 
turne  of  their  express,  which  was  19  days.  The  French 
were  lookeing  out  for  the  best  shalloways  etc.  yt.  were  in 
the  Harbour,  and  accordingly  found  two  which  they 
equipt,  and  one  cut  to  peeces,  one  of  which  they  loaded 
with  some  of  the  best  plunder,  and  put  Major  Loyd, 
Lt.  Phillips,  Engineer  Vane  and  his  wife  with  one 
French  Officer  call'd  Le  Chevalier  de  Pen,  and  sent 
them  to  Placentia.  Jan.  8.  M.  St.  Ovide  sent  an 
officer  with  proposalls  of  ransoming  the  shallops  and 
fishing  craft  to  the  inhabitants,  desireing  their  answer 
within  24  hours,  and  unless  the  people  would  ransome, 
he  would  send  them  prisoners,  their  women  and  children 
to  Canada,  affirmeing  it  was  his  Masters'  intention  to 
take  possession  of  the  country.  The  inhabitants  de- 
sired some  longer  time  to  consider,  Tnit  could  have  no 
longer  time.  The  next  day  sail'd  one  (?)  Geon.  Mr. 
Pensance  a  passenger  in  a  shalloway  for  France  to 
acquaint  the  Court  of  their  proceedings,  after  which 
the  inhabitants  were  a  second  time  assembled  at  the 
house  of  Mr.  Benjers,  where  the  said  Larond  left  the 
people  by  produceing  the  Article  St.  Ovide  had  made, 
the  greatest  part  whereof  were  refused  by  the  severall 
alterations  which  were  made,  Laronde  protesting,  be- 
fore 'twas  night  all  the  houses  and  boats  in  the  harbour 
should  be  in  flames,  the  inhabitants  fearing  'their  threats, 
some  consented  to  the  ransoming  that  night,  and  the 
next  day  it  was  concluded  upon ;  the  Articles  wrote  in 
French  and  English  were  sign'd  by  both  partys ;  soon 
after  return'd  their  express  from  Placentia,  as  also  one 
sloop  with  about  40  men,  and  in  some  few  days  arriv'd 
the  Venus,  a  shipp  of  20  gunns  and  250  men,  two 
small  sloops  in  order  to  load  their  plunder ;  some  men 
were  taken  out  of  the  shipp  to  keep  in  the  Fort,  severall 
boats  were  cut  up  for  firewood,  and  many  more  burnt 
by  the  French  with  store-houses  which  were  not  ran- 
som'd ;  a  party  of  men  were  sent  from  this  place  in 
order  to  take  Ferryland,  commanded  by  Laronde,  but 
had  no  success,  the  people  resolving  not  to  give  away 
the  Island,  nor  would  they  admit  of  a  flagg  of  truce,  the 
inhabitants  cut  up  their  boats  for  to  'hinder  any  land- 
ing. Upon  Larond's  returne,  St.  Ovide  resolved  himself 
to  take  it  at  the  head  of  his  men,  and  made  as  sure 
of  'it,  as  he  did  of  St.  John's,  the  people  belonging!  to 
the  shipps  were  getting  the  best  of  their  goods  on  board 
their  vessells,  and  dismounting  their  cannon  at  the  Fort, 
and  getting  everything  in  order  for  their  departure,  the 
ice  coming  hinder'd  them  very  much  and  detain'd  them 
near  a  month  longer  then  was  expected,  the  houses  in 
the  Fort  were  burnt  with  some  few  necessarys  in  them, 
some  few  days  after  ye  Fort  was  demolished,  and  St. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  545 

1709. 

Ovide  remov'd  to  the  Castle,  Mr.  Lartice,  one  of  his 
officers,  was  there  blown  up  with'  powder,  St.  Ovide 
and  severall  others  had  escaped  the  danger,  there  being 
in  the  next  roome  near  20  quintalls  of  powder,  in  order 
to  blow  up  the  Castle  and  demolish'  it,  which  had  like 
to  have  taken  fire.  March  27  St.  Ovide  sent  for  some 
of  the  principall  inhabitants,  and  told  them  they  must 
prepare  to  go  with  them  to  Placentia,  to  give  his 
Master  an  account  of  what  he  had  done  to  the  in- 
habitants here,  and  he  promised  upon  his  word  and 
honour,  he  would  returne  them  in  15  or  20  days  at 
farthest,  and  took  on  board,  Mr.  Eichd.  Cole,  Mr.  Allin 
Southmayd,  Mr.  Wm.  Keen,  Mr.  Thomas  Eussell,  and 
Mr.  Wm.  Nicholls,  and  sail'd  out  of  St.  John's,  the 
wind  not  being  faire,  put  back  into  the  harbour,  and 
took  on  board  Mr.  Colins,  and  Wm.  Squarry,  and  carried 
to  Placentia.  Aprill  5th  the  Venus  and  sloop  were 
before  Ferryland.  The  English  prisoners  on  board  the 
Venus  remain'd  on  board  two  days  after  her  .'irrivall, 
the  third  day  sent  for  before  the  Governour,  severall 
questions  were  ask'd  relateing  to  the  treatment  of  the 
English  "by  St.  Ovide,  after  examination  were  sent  to 
separate  houses,  to  live  upon  their  own  expences ;  when 
the  time  was  expired  that  St.  Ovide  had  given  his  word 
and  honour  for  the  return  of  the  prisoners,  he  was 
ask'd  leave  by  the  prisoners  to  be  sent  home,  his  answer 
was,  tarry  patiently  four  days,  and  you  shall  be  sent 
away,  after  that  four  days,  four  days  more;  untill  the 
Governor  assemhled  together  3  of  his  officers,  and  made 
us  sign  to  ratify  and  confirme  ye  ransomes,  with  his 
promise  that  the  prisoners  then  in  his  custody  should 
be  sent  to  St.  Johns  in  a  little  time.  May  1st  consulta- 
tions was  call'd  relateing  to  the  English  prisoners,  and 
it  was  concluded  as  we  heard,  that  all  the  prisoners  be- 
longing to  St.  Johns  of  H.M.  garrison  should  be  sent 
to  Canada.  The  10th  a  messenger  from  the  Grand 
Seigneur  to  order  on  board  the  Venus  Messrs.  Eussell, 
Keen,  Southmayd,  Cole,  Collins,  Squarry,  Digor  Heart, 
Jno.  Gross,  Eich.  Bowden,  and  Jno.  Elliot,  there  to  be 
kept  close  prisoners,  and  not  permitted  to  speake  to  any 
person  whatsoever  nor  to  have  the  liberty  to  walk  the 
deck  without  a  centinell.  The  13th  sail'd  a  small  shipp 
and  one  sloop  with  the  English  prisoners  on  board  for 
Canada,  among  whom  was  Mr.  Loyd  and  Mr.  Phillips ; 
we  were  detain'd  on  board  dose  prisoners  untill  May 
18,  and  had  nothing  allow'd  us  for  our  subsistance,  and 
had  only  liberty  for  one  day  to  go  ashoare  to  buy  our 
provisions ;  the  18th  the  Governor  sent  for  the  English 
prisoners  on  shoare,  and  told  them  he  had  a  design  to 
enlarge  our  liberty  upon  giveing  our  word  and  honour 
that  we  would  not  depart  without  leave,  which  we  gave 
him,  and  were  return'd  to  the  Great  Beach,  excepting 
Wt.  11522,  C  P  35 


546  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

four  that  were  sent  to  the  Eedoubt  prisoners;  some 
few  days  after  was  sent  to  St.  John's  one  La  Valleere 
with  one  French  and  two  Indians,  by  whome  the  Gov- 
ernor gave  leave  and  liberty  to  write  to  St.  John's, 
upon  delivering  the  letter  with  his  perusall,  and  prom- 
ised the  prisoners  that  in  a  few  days  they  should  be 
set  at  liberty,  the  26th  arriv'd  the  Fiddell  man  of  warr 
from  France,  54  gunns,  in  which  came  over  200  soldiers, 
which  were  design'd  for  the  reinforceing  St.  John's 
Forts,  expecting  the  French,  had  not  quitted  it,  the 
Gentl.  that  was  sent  by  St.  Ovide  with  an  express  to 
Court,  return'd  in  the  Fidell,  and  St.  Ovide  reed,  news 
of  his  being  created  Knight  of  the  Military  Order  of  St. 
Lewis,  and  Governour  of  St.  John's.  June  2nd  arriv'd 
the  Galliard  from  Port  Lewis,  belonging  to  ye  King 
and  hired  by  merchants,  200  men,  who  was  design'd  to 
cruise  on  the  coast  of  New  England;  the  4th  return'd 
La  Valleer  from  St.  Johns  and  inform'd  the  Governour 
that  if  our  fleet  was  not  arrived,  that  there  were  two 
galleys  that  arrived  off,  to  discover  the  arrivall  of  our 
Fleet,  that  the  said  galleys  had  been  at  Bay  of  Bulls 
for  intelligence,  to  direct  our  forces,  that  were  expectad 
there.  Wee  imbarqu'd  in  a  small  ketch  bought  by  the 
prisoners  with  the  Grand  Snr's.  leave,  for  St.  John's 
and  arriv'd  June  26  ;  at  my  departure  thence  were  ar- 
riv'd 43  sail  of  shipps,  twelve  from  10  to  20  guns 
each,  their  Fort  is  very  much  out  of  repaire,  and  a 
great  number  of  men  daily  imploy'd  at  work  in  repaire 
of  the  same.  They  have  double  palisado'd  the  western- 
side  of  the  same,  and  mounted  severall  gunns  against 
the  entrance.  The  Fort  is  only  built  with  pallisadoes, 
and  fill'd  up  with  dirt,  without  any  manner  of  ditch. 
The  Fort-  has  in  it  mounted  upwards  of  40  gunns :  the 
Eedoubt  upon  the  Hill,  which  looks  down  into  the  Fort 
hath,  now  in  it  about  16  gunns,  which  were  cary'd  from 
St.  Johns,  the  Redoubt  palisado'd  round,  and  some 
small  coverts  built  with  palisadoes  for  the  defence  of 
their  passage  to  the  water,  at  the  foot  of  the  Hill  on 
the  larboard  side,  comeing  in  upon  entrance,  is  a  small 
battery  of  10  gunns,  and  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile 
from  that  lyes  another  small  [? battery]  of  6  guns,  all 
their  force  lying  on  the  larboard  side  aforesaid,  at  the 
narrow  entrance  of  the  Harbour  is  now  fix'd  two  small 
chains  and  a  new  cable,  the  chains  link  about  4  inches 
diameter  layd  slanting  by  reason  of  the  prodigious 
current.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Dec.  5,  1709.  3%  pp. 
890.  iii.  Copy  of  the  proposals  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
English  part  of  Newfoundland  for  ransoming  their 
goods.  We  inhabitants  of  St.  Johns,  Petty  Harbour, 
Bay  Bulls,  Quidividi,  Tar  Bay,  Portugal  Cove  and  Par- 
lican,  have  this  day  desired  and  do  humbly  desire  Monsr. 
de  Ovide  de  Bruillan,  King's  Lieutenant  at  Placentia  (and 


AMEEICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  547 

1709. 

Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Port  of  St.  Johns,  and  the 
Harbours  abovementioned,  to  grant  us  the  liberty  (if  it 
be  his  good  pleasure)  to  ransom  and  buy  our  goods  as 
they  are  specif y'd  in  the  9  following  articles.  (1)  We 
promise  and  engage  one  for  the  other  to  pay  to  M. 
St.  Ovide  de  Brouillian  100  quintals  of  fish  for 
each  shallop,  and  50  quintals  for  each  half  sh'al- 
lop  (wch.  shall  be  sent  a  fishing  by  said  in- 
habitants) of  the  first  fish  that  shall  be  cured,  and  in 
case  the  English  or  other  nation  take  this  Port,  or  that 
it  be  abandon 'd  by  the  French,  we  promise  to  pay 
to  the  said  St.  Ovide  de  Brouillan,  or  to  his  order  in 
London,  £70  sterl.  per  boat,  in  good  bills  of  exchange, 
for  performance  of  which  we  have  deliver'd  you  3  ran- 
somers  until  perfect  payment  of  said  ransom,  which 
shall  be  in  Aug.,  Sept.  or  Oct.  next.  (2)  That  our 
houses  situated  in  the  harbours  above-named  may  be 
preserved  in  the  same  estate  as  they  are  at  this  day, 
with  all  our  cloaths,  and  the  cloaths  of  our  families. 
(3)  There  must  be  no  manner  of  damage  done  to  our 
stages,  flakes,  shallops  and  other  utensils  of  the  fishery 
that  we  have  actually  in  possession.  (4)  M.  de  St. 
Ovide  is  only  to  furnish  us  with  20  hhds.  of  salt  for 
each  ransom'd  shallop,  and  10  to  each  half  shallop.  (5) 
That  no  waste  or  damage  be  done  by  the  French  to 
the  victuals  that  we  have  in  our  houses  for  the  sub- 
sistence of  our  families.  (6)  After  we  have  began  the 
Fishery,  there  shall  be  no  manner  of  hindrance,  but 
all  shallops  suffer'd  to  go  to  sea,  as  heretofore.  (7)  If 
anything  be  taken  from  an  inhabitant,  or  any  spoil 
made  by  the  French,  contrary  to  the  above  articles,  the 
same  shall  be  returned  or  the  value,  and  the  offender 
punished  as  M.  de  St.  Ovide  shall  judge  proper.  (8) 
We  promise  upon  our  word  and  honour  not  to  commit 
any  acts  of  hostility  against  the  French,  but  to  live 
as  neuters,  until  our  ransom  be  comply'd  with  and.  paid. 
(9)  If  after  said  time  the  French  dwell  masters  and 
peaceable  possessors  of  this  port  and  harbours  above- 
named,  then  we  shall  have  free  liberty  to  buy  or  ransom 
some  small  vessels  sufficient  to  transport  us  to  New  or 
Old  England,  with  our  effects,  after  our  ransom  be  paid 
and  acquitted.  And  if  any  inhabitants  have  a  mind  to 
reside  in  the  land,  they  shall  have  free  liberty,  and  their 
houses  and  effects  shall  be  defended.  St.  Johns,  New- 
foundland, Feb.  2,  170f.  Signed,  St.  Johns,  owners 
of  shallops,  John  Marshall,  Gilbert  Jane,  James  Fuss, 
Thomas  Greeny,  William  Eoberts,  (l£),  Giles  Goree, 
Eichard  Goodbed,  Nehemiah  Hore,  John  Studley,  Ed- 
ward Sheppard,  John  Martin,  Bartho.  Webber,  Samuel 
Nick,  Eichard  Miller,  John  Tucker,  Henry  Jeffry,  Eu- 
pert  Harris,  Pancras  Collin,  John  Drew.  Petty  Har- 
boun— Thomas  Ford  (2),  Eichard  Colesworthy  (If), 


548  COLONIAL   PAPERS. 

1709. 

John  Lee  (!£),  Elias  Cunditt  (2),  John  Stripling, 
Richard  Willson,  Nicholas  Langley,  William  Langmayd, 
John  Chasse,  Edward  Hill,  Adam  Shiliver,  John 
Wakem,  Andrew  Holman,  John  Marshall.  Bay  of 
Bulls: — William  Hancock,  William  Squarry  (2),  Joseph 
Knill  (i),  Edward  Weeks,  William  Bole,  John  Chasse, 
Samuel  Hendly,  William  Woodmason,  John  Campion, 
Samuel  Windsor,  John  Rex  (2),  Nicholas  Cunnitt,  John 
Wallis,  John  Mitchell,  Sarah  Short.  Quidividi :— John 
Elliott,  William  Nicholla  and  Richard  Tapley  (3),  Robert 
Sellman,  Gregory  Cole,  William  Bargus  (2),  Richard 
Bawden,  Rowland  Martin,  Thomas  Roberts,  Thomas 
Carter,  George  Laudly,  Thomas  Johnson  (If).  Tar 
Bay  and  Portugal  Cove: — John  Cock  (2),  Philip  Stuckey, 
Abraham  Barrett,  Alexander  Green.  Same  endorsement. 
1  large  p. 

890.  iv.  Copy  of  the  Ratification  of  the  Articles  made  with 
M.  de  St.  Ovide.  This  day,  May  6,  1709,  at  Placentia, 
at  the  Government  House  before  Mons.  de  Costebelle, 
Governor,  etc.,  Alyn  Southmayd,  Thomas  Russell,  Wm. 
Keen,  Richard  Colesworthy,  John  Collin,  Wm.  Nicholls, 
William  Squarry,  English  merchants  residing  at  St. 
Johns,  declare  that  there  has  been  nothing  done  contrary 
to  the  Laws  of  war,  and  have  done  nothing  in  all  the 
articles  by  them  made  with  M.  de  St.  Ovide,  wcth.  are 
not  accomplished  and  ratifyed,  before  us  the  Governor 
confirming  the  said  articles  of  St.  Johns,  for  the  accom- 
plishing of  which  we  have  detained  and  do  retain 
for  hostages  Thomas  Greeny,  Richard  Page  and  William 
Nicholls,  until  intire  payment  of  the  summs  in  the 
general  covenant  made  between  the  said  inhabitants 
of  the  harbours  of  St.  Johns  Quidividi,  and  Petty  Har- 
bour, etc.,  the  which  are  obliged  equally  one  for  the 
other ;  etc.  Signed,  De  Costebelle.  Same  endorsement. 
1  p. 

890.  v.  Observations  made  by  Mr.  Allen  Southmayd  and  Jno. 
Collin  in  Placentia,  June  1709.  Description  of  the 
Fort,  Castle,  Batteries  etc.  Of.  No.  ii.  They  have 
now  50  men  constantly  in  the  Castle,  and  upon  an 
allarme  M.  St.  Ovide  takes  his  place  there;  the  Castle 
itself  is  scarce  large  enough  to  hold  150  men  when  they 
come  to  a  reall  engagement.  The  6  brass  gunns  from 
St.  Johns  are  mounted  here,  and  all  the  choicest  of 
their  cannon,  esteeming  that  place  their  only  security, 
it  being  impossible  for  the  Fort  or  any  part  of  the 
harbour  to  hold  out  one  hour  after  the  takeing  this 
castle.  .  .  .  When  we  came  from  Placentia  there  was 
43  sail  of  shipps  with  one  man  of  warr  of  56  gunns, 
and  6  or  8  shipps  that  mounted  from  14  to  26  gunns, 
the  rest  being  (generally  large  fly-boats  but  without  force. 
They  reckon  there  is  belonging  to  the  shipps  about  3000 
men,  including  those  that  fish  at  Cape  St.  Maries  and 


AMERICA   AND   .WEST   INDIES.  549 

1709. 

other  places,  which  wee  judge  to  be  near  1000.  The 
soldiers  in  Fort  and  Castle  350,  and  the  inhabitants  in 
and  about  Placentia  700,  very  few  shipps  more  was  ex- 
pected, when  wee  came  from  Placentia  (June  15) ;  the 
inhabitants  and  officers  of  the  garrison  have  plenty  of 
mony  there,  haveing  severall  shipps  from  the  South 
Sea  been  lately  there,  which  have  left  large  quantitys 
behind  them.  Abundance  of  plate  they  also  have,  there 
being  lodg'd  most  of  the  plunder  taken  on  the  English 
coast  of  Newfoundland  both  this  and  the  last  warr; 
the  inhabitants  are  very  f earf ull  of  looseing  th'e  place,  wee 
haveing  heard  them  provideing  provisions  and  other 
necessarys  to  carry  in  the  woods  with  them,  in  case  they 
should  be  attacqu'd  this  summer.  They  have  fdvice 
every  other  day  from  Cape  St.  Maries  per  land,  where 
they  keep  a  watch  to  discover  what  shipps  enter  the 
Bay,  and  upon  the  discovery  of  a  Fleet,  they  have  a 
beacon  which  they  fire  at  point  de  Vert,  on  fight  of 
which  all  the  fishing'  boats  are  to  repaire  to  Placentia. 
From  thence  they  send  to  St.  John's  or  any  other  Eng- 
lish harbour,  and  in  8  days  returne  againe,  there  hath 
been  severall  times  people  carry'd  from  St.  John's  and 
other  places  in  Newfoundland  to  Placentia  and  made 
servants,  and  thereby  engage  them  so  much  to  their 
interest  that  at  this  time  there  is  not  less  then  40  or 
50  English  and  Irish  that  have  declared  themselves  sub- 
jects to  the  King  of  France,  and  have  severall  times 
taken  up  arms  against  the  English.  Same  endorse- 
ment. 3  large  pp. 

890.  vi.  Mr.  Digori  Head's  description  of  the  Castle  and 
Fort  of  Placentia,  1709.  Same  endorsement.  1  <p. 

890.  vii.  A.  Holdworth  and  H.  Hayman  to  Capt.  John  Shales, 
Commander  of  H.M.S.  Rye  and  Cheif  of  the  New- 
foundland Convoy.  St.  Johns,  July  5,  1709.  Refer  to 
their  ransom,  ut  supra.  Continue: — We  have  great 
reason  to  fear  the  trade  of  this  harbour  being  in 
all  about  15  sayle  ships,  may  be  in  great  hazard  of  the 
enemy,  unless  are  strengthened  with  more  force,  having 
no  manner  o"f  batterries  ashoar,  neither  can  we  txdven- 
ture  to  land  any  gunns,  least  should  prove  to  our  pre- 
judice by  the  enemy  pointing  them  against  ourselves. 
We  offer  that  Fort  William  may  be  in  a  little  repaired, 
so  as  that  the  inhabitants  may  for  the  winter  there 
retire  and  build  their  houses,  otherwise  they  must  lye 
wholly  exposed  to  the  enemy,  etc.  Signed,  Arthr.  Hold- 
worth,  Admll.,  Hen.  Hayman,  Vice-Admll.  Same  en- 
dorsement. Copy.  2  pp. 

890.  viii.  Amount  of  Stores  supplied  from  H.M.  ships  in 
Newfoundland  by  order  of  Capt.  Joseph  Taylor,  1709. 
Signed,  Jos.  Taylor.  Same  endorsement.  3^  pp. 

890.  ix.  Major  Lloyd  to  Capt.  Henry  Pearden,  Hayman, 
Moxom,  Bronsuns,  or  Paence.  May  9,  1709.  I  cannot 


550 


COLONIAL   PAPEBS 


1709.  » 

write  you  half  as  much,  as  you  will  hear  at  St.  Johns. 
I  was  surprized  that  is  the  worst  that  in  justice  can  be 
said  of  me,  and  that  is  too  much.  I  referr  you  to  some 
matters  of  triffles  to  a  letter  to  Mr.  Short,  and  in  gen- 
eral to  what  you  always  practised,  to  hear,  see,  and 
judge  deliberately.  They  are  vertues  uncommon,  there- 
fore of  the  greater  value  when  found.  It  is  without 
dispute,  your  experience  of  the  world  knows,  that  com- 
mon vogue  changes  of  men,  according  to  the  fate  of 
actions,  but  with  men  of  justice  and  sence  it  will  be 
allowed  otherwise,  the  fate  of  now  being  in  the  hands 
not  of  men,  to  deside.  Had  —  stood  neuter,  I  should 
not  have  lost  St.  Johns.  I  would  writ  more  but  it  signi- 
fies nothing  at  this  distance.  I  know  not  who  of  our 
friends  are  with  you,  etc.  Signed,  Thomas  Loyd.  Copy. 
1±  pp.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  100,  lOO.i.-ix. ;  and  (with- 
out enclosures)  195,  5.  p.  114.] 

Deo.  5.         891.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,    derland.     Enclose  following: — 

891.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen. 
Recommend  Col.  Hunter's  proposals  for  settling  3000 
Palatines  at  New  York  and  employing  them  in  the  pro- 
duction of  Naval  Stores.  Set  out,  N.Y.  Col.  Doc.  V. 
117:  and  Doc.  Hist.  N.Y.  III.,  382.  q.v.  [C.O.  5, 
1121.  pp.  472-487.] 


Dec.  7.  892.  [?  Governor  Crowe~]  to  Mr.  Secretary  Boyle.  Fifteen 
Baibados.  dayes  after  sailing  of  last  packet,  I  had  two  letters  from  H'.M. 
delivered  me,  countersigned  by  you:  I  am  sorry  to  find  that 
false  insinuations  has  made  so  deep  an  impression  to  my  pre- 
judice. As  to  Gillingham's  Order,  it  was  read  the  very  first 
Court  that  could  be  made,  after  recept  thereof.  Refers  to  en- 
closure. So  that  my  refuseing  to  obey  therein  is  as  far  from 
truth  as  my  inclinations  to  disobey  what  H.M.  is  pleased  to 
command.  Neither  in  point  of  time  from  the  delivery  of  gaid 
Order  to  me  (wch.  was  July  12th  to  Aug.  8th  that  the  2nd  order 
was  granted)  was  it  possible  to  know  any  Eesolution  to  be  taken 
upon  it,  and  you'l  find  "by  the  publication  of  said  Order,  /the 
very  first  Court  that  held,  which  was  Aug.  12th,  that  there  was 
no  delay  in  me.  I  humbly  begg  that  H.M.  may  be  informed 
thereof,  and  I  doubt  not  but  to  make  all  the  other  accusations 
against  me  appear  in  the  like  stamp.  Judge  Downes  has  been 
acquainted  with  his  dismission,  and  I  shall  take  care  to  appoint 
another  before  the  Courts  sitts.  I  cannot  but  observe  that  his 
removal  was  also  ordered  upon  bare  suggestion  without  so  much 
as  a  hearing ;  'tis  a  very  difficult  thing  to  find  men  of  probity 
here  for  such,  posts,  and  far  more  for  assistants,  who  have  no 
sallary  or  any  manner  of  advantage  for  their  trouble  and  ex- 
pence  of  attendance.  No  signature  or  endorsement.  1  p.  En- 
closed, i 


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551 


1709. 

892  i.  Certificate  by  Governor  Crowe  that  the  following  are 
true  copies.  1  p. 

892.  ii.  (a)  Memorandum  upon  July  12,  1709,  H.E.  attended 
in  Council  but  owing  to  the  absence  of  George  Lilling- 
ton,  through  indisposition,  and  Mr.  John  Hallett  being 
obliged  to  leave  through,  illness,  was  unable  to  make 
a  Council,  and  therefore  the  Council  and  Court  of 
Chancery  were  adjourned  untill  the  day  in  course. 
Signed,  A.  Skene.  Council  Chamber,  att  Pilgrim. 

(b)  Deposition  of  Thos.  Hide,  Depty.  Register  of  the 
Court  of  Chancery,  that  upon  Aug.  12,  he  did  by  order 
of  H.E.  publish  in  open  Court  H.M.  Order  in  Council 
March  31,  1709.  (quoted).  3  pp. 

892.  iii.  Joint  Letter  from  the  most  considerable  Proprietors 
of  Barbadoes,  to  Col.  Richard  Scot,  Col.  Robert  Stewart, 
Richard  Bate,  Patrick  Mein  and  Thomas  Fullerton, 
and  other  friends  in  England  having  estates  or  interests 
in  the  said  Island.  We  intreat  you  to  concern  your- 
selves in  the  petition  we  have  signed  to  the  House  of 
Commons  representing  that,  unless  the  trade  to  Africa 
be  carried  on  by  a  Company  of  a  sufficient  Joint -Stock, 
we  shall  not  bjave  a  sufficient  number  of  slaves  imported 
here,  or  at  such  rates  as  we  may  be  able  to  purchase 
them,  even  in  time  of  peace.  By  which  misfortune, 
we  shall  not  be  in  a  condition  to  support  our  Planta- 
tions. The  late  high  prices  for  negroes  has  risen  from 
no  other  cause  but  the  liberty  given  to  separate  traders, 
etc.  77  signatures.  Printed.  1  p.  [C.O.  28,  43. 
Nos.  36,  36. i. -iii.] 

[Dec.  7.]  893.  Receipt  for  Order  in  Council,  Feb.  27,  1708,  concern- 
ing Mr.  Mackasgell.  Signed,  A.  Skene,  .Secretary,  May  19,  1709. 
Endorsed,  Reed,  (from  Col.  Stewart),  Read  Dec.  7,  1709.  |  p. 
[C.O.  28,  13.  No.  2.] 

Dec.  8.          894.     Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.   Burchet.     Returns  Newfoundland 
Whitehall,     papers  (Dec.  2  and  3)  with  request  to  be  allowed  to  keep  certain 
duplicates.     [C.O.    195,   5.     p.   116.] 

Dec.  9.  895.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Crowe. 
Whitehall.  Acknowledge  letters  of  June  20,  Aug.  9  and  Sept.  2.  We  are 
glad  to  perceive  you  have  got  so  good  a  stoek  of  powder.  We 
will  not  doubt  of  your  care  that  it  be  not  imbezeled.  Wa  sh,all 
expect  the  accounts  of  the  Revenue  so  soon  as  they  are  stated. 
Wa  have  consider'd  what  you  write  in  relation  to  the  complaints 
of  William  Bushel,  which  at  present  appears  to  us  satisfactory. 
If  anything  further  be  moved  therein,  we  shall  have  recourse  io 
your  letter.  Enclose  Orders  in  Council  Nov.  18.  You  are  to 
take  care  for  the  future  that  no  countenance  be  given  by  you 
or  the  Council  k>  the  Assembly's  pretended  right  of  appointing 
Agents,  exclusive  of  the  Governor  and  Council.  We  find  by 
the  Minutes  of  Council,  May  12  last,  that  £500  was  given  for 


552 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


Deo.  10. 

Whitehall. 


Dec    10. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  12. 

Custom- 
house, 
London. 


Dec.  12. 

Custom- 
house, 
London . 


Dec    13. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  15. 

St.  James's. 


furnishing  your  cellers,  and  that  the  same  has  been  done  several 
times  before.  This  we  look  upon  as  a  'direct  breach  of  your 
Instructions  forbidding  you  to  receive  any  presents  whatsoever, 
and  tho'  when  it  was  done  upon  your  first  arrival,  no  notice 
was  taken  of  it,  you  ought  not  to  have  accepted  of  it  afterwards, 
H.M.  Instructions  being  very  express  in  that  matter.  As  to  what 
you  write  in  relation  to  the  2  Captains  of  H.M.  ships  of  war, 
if  that  matter  be  referred  to  us,  we  shall  report  the  same  to 
H.M.,  as  it  shall  appear  upon  examination.  [O.O.  29,  12. 
pp.  63,  64.] 

896.  Mr.  Popple  to  Mr.  Savage.     Desires  to  know  whether 
the   Commissioners   of  the  Customs   have  anything   under   con- 
sideration in  relation  to  Mr.  Bridger,  Surveyor  General  of  H.M. 
Woods  in  America.     [(7.0.  5,  913.     pp.  127,  128.] 

897.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     The  Queen  having  thought  fit  to  appoint  the  Bight 
Honble.  George,  Earl  of  Orkeney,  to  be  Governor  of  Virginia,  I 
giva  you.  no'tice  of  it,  that  you  may  prepare  a  Commission  and 
Instructions    for   his    Lordship  as   usual.     Signed,    Sunderland. 
Endorsed,   Eecd.   Bead  Dec.    14,   1709.     1   p.      [C.O.    5,    :  316. 
No.  40;  and  5,  1363.     p.  1.] 

898.  Mr.    Savage  to   Mr.   Popple.      Reply   to  Dec.    1.     The 

Commissioners  of  the  Customs  have  no  particular  acct.  of  the 
prsemiums.  You  are  referred  to  the  Commissioners  of  the  Navy. 
etc.  Signed,  Bichd.  Savage.  Endorsed,  Becd.  Bead  Dec.  13, 


1709. 


[C.O.  388,  12.     2Vo.  62;  and  389,  21.     p.  3.] 


Dec.  15. 

St.  James's. 


899.  Mr.    Savage  to  Mr.   Popple.     Beplies  in  the  negative 
to  Dec.  10.     The  Commissioners  of  the  Customs  have  not  properly 
any    cognizance    of   that   office.     Signed,    Bichd.    Savage.      En- 
dorsed. Becd.  Bead  13th  Dec.  1709.     Addressed.     %  p.     [C.O. 
5,  865'.     No.  35;  and  5,  913.     p.  152.] 

900.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.    Enclose  extract  from  Governor  Handasyd's  letter,  Oct. 
20,  relating  to  pirates.     [C.O.   138,   13.     p.  77.] 

901.  Order  of   Queen  in  Council.     Bepealing  Acts  of  New 
York  for  regulating  fees ;  for  relieving  the  Colony  from  divers 
irregularities ;  and  for  enabling  the  City  of  Netv  York  to  raise 
£600,    etc.    (Cf.    Nov.   29).     The  Acts  for  levying  £6000;   and 
£4000 ;  and  for  bills  of  credit  for  £5000 ;  are  to  be  further  con- 
sidered.   Signed,  Chris.    Musgrave.     Endorsed,   Becd.  Bead   Dec. 
22,  170&.     24  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1049.     No.  142;  and  5,  1121.     pp. 
493-496.] 

902.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Confirming  9  Acts  of  New 
York,  1708,  1709.     Signed,  Chris.  Musgrave.      Endorsed,  Becd. 
9th,  Bead  12th  Jan.  170^.    2£  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1049.     No.  154; 
and  5,  1122.    pp.  146-149.] 


AMERICA   AND   WEST   INDIES.  553 

1709. 

Deo.  15.  9O3.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  The  Council  of  Trade  and 
St.  James's.  Plantations  are  to  prepare  a  clause  to  be  inserted  in  the  In- 
structions of  the  Governor  of  New  York,  directing  him  to  recon- 
sider the  Officers'  Fees  (cf.  Nov.  29),  and  with,  ye  advice  of  the 
Council  to  prepare  a  new  bill  if  need  be.  Signed,  Chris.  Mus- 
grave. Endorsed,  Eecd.  Bead  Dec.  22,  1709.  1  p.  [C.O. 
5,  1049.  No.  143;  and  5,  1121.  pp.  496,  497.] 

Dee,  15.         904.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    Repealing  3  Acts  of  Mary- 
St.  James's,    land,  for  erecting  ports  and  towns  etc.  1706-8.     Signed,  Chris. 
Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  9th,  Read  12th,  Jan.,  170&,    2  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  717.     No.  2;  and  5,  727.     pp.  161,  162.] 

Dec..  15.       '  905.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Repealing  Act  of  Maryland 
St.  James's,    for  ascertaining  damages  upon  protested  bills  of  exchange  (Nov. 

29).     Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.     1%  pp.     [C.O.  5,  717. 

Wo    3 ;  and  5,  727.     pp.  162,  163.] 

Dec.  15.         906.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Repealing  Act  of  Virginia 
St.  James's,    for  establishing  ports  and  towns.     Signed  and  endorsed  as  pre- 
ceding.    1£  pp.     [C.O.   5,   1316.     No.   42;   and   5,   1363.     pp. 
37,  38.] 

I)ec    15.         907.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Referring  following  to  the 
St.  James's.    Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  for  their  report.   Signed,  Chris. 
Musgrave.    Endorsed,  Reed.  Deo.  17,  Read  Jan.  4,  170^-.  1  p. 
Enclosed, 

907.  i  George  Gordon  to  the  Queen.  Richd.  Downes,  Judge 
of  the  Precincts  of  St.  Michael,  Barbados,  refuses  to 
admit  Petitioner's  Deputy  Marshal  in  manifest  contempt 
of  H.M.  Instructions  June  9  and  18,  1709.  Prays  for 
relief  etc.  If  pp.  [C.O.  28,  13.  Nos.  6,  6.i. ;  and 
29,  12.  pp.  66,  67.] 

[Deo.  15.]  908.  Reasons  for  reducing  the  Pyrates  at  Madagascar, 
and  proposals  humbly  offered  to  thie  Houpe  of  Commons  for  (effect- 
ing the  same.  (See  following.) 

Certain  Pyrates  having  found  thie  Island  of  Madagascar  to  be 
the  most  proper  if  not  the  only  place  in  the  world  for  their 
abode,  and  carrying  on  their  destructive  trade  with  security  etc., 
and  being  since  increased  to  a  formidable  body  are  become  a 
manifest  obstruction  to  trade,  and  scandal  to  our  nation  and 
religion,  being  most  of  them  English,  at  least  ^-ths.  Upon  a 
General  Peace,  when  multitudes  of  soldiers  and  seamen  will  want 
employment,  or  by  length  of  time  and  the  pyrates  generating 
with  the  women  of  the  country,  their  numbers  should  be  in- 
creased, they  may  form  themselves  into  a  settlement  of  robbers, 
as  prejudicial  to  trade  as  any  on  the  coast  of  Africa.  It 
seems  morally  impossible  to  reduce  them  by  force,  for  the 
pyrates  have,  by  their  liberality  in  bestowing  part  of  their  booties 


554  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

on  the  inhabitants,  so  gain'd  their  love  and  esteem  that,  should 
any  superior  force  be  sent  to  reduce  them,  they  might  readily 
march  up  far  into  the  country  and  be  safe.  Fair  means  is  the 
only  way  to  reclaim  them ;  and  in  order  to  it  endeavours  of 
that  nature  have  been  used,  "but  so  ill  managed  that  several 
of  the  pyrates  who  relied  upon  promises  (and  even  Proclama- 
tions) and  thereupon  surrender'd  themselves,  having  lost  some 
their  lives,  all  their  effects,  and  been  treated  in  a  most  inhumane 
manner,  it  is  not  to  be  expected  the  rest  should  come  in  without 
more  ample  security  for  the  safety  both  of  their  lives  and 
treasure,  but  have  declared  they  are  still  willing  to  come  in, 
on  condition  they  were  rendered  secure  to  their  satisfaction!. 
And  though  their  treasure  has  been  all  got  by  robbery,  yet 
since  it  can  never  be  restored  to  the  owners,  having  been  taken; 
(mostly,  if  not  wholly)  from  the  subjects  of  the  Great  Mogull, 
etc.,  and  now  lies  buried  or  useless  in  or  near  Madagascar,  it's 
much  better  they  should  be  permitted  to  bring  it  to  England 
with  safety,  where  it  may  do  good,  etc.,  and  the  pyrates  be  re- 
claimed and  become  bold  and  skilful  mariners  and  subjects  of 
H.M.  etc.  Proposes  that  a  person  of  considerable  quality,  well 
known  to  them,  be  sent  with  a  pardon  and  conditions  of  ,sur- 
render;  and  escort  them  to  England  with  a  squadron  of  4  or 
5  H.M  ships,  etc.  Printed.  3|  pp. 

908.  i.  Marquis  of  Carmarthen  to  the  Queen.  Upon  [pre- 
ceding'] memorial  presented  by  petitioner,  the  House 
of  Commons  resolved  that  an  humble  address  be  pre- 
sented to  H.M1.,  that  she  will  be  gratiously  pleas'd  to 
take  into  her  royal  consideration  how  the  pirates  at 
Madagascar  may  be  suppressed.  Petitioner  further  pro- 
poses that  this  expedition  should  capture  Mombasa, 
Patta,  etc.  from  the  Arabians  of  Muscat,  and  that  he 
should  command  it.  Signed,  Carmarthen.  3£  pp. 
908  ii.  Deposition  of  Laurence  Waldron,  barber- chyrurgeon. 
In  1700,  he  shipped  from  Carolina  with  Capt.  John 
Breholt,  Dn  the  Carlisle  who  with  the  rest  of  his 
officers  then  declared  his  intention  to  go  to  Madagascar 
a  pyrating.  The  crew  getting  drunk  at  the  Island  of 
Fiall  discovered  the  Captain's  intention,  and  were  ar- 
rested, but  the  rest  of  the  crew  cut  cables  and  escaping 
the  guns  of  the  Fort  sailed  away  to  Africa  and  amassed 
good  treasure  by  piracy  at  Madagascar.  The  captain 
and  his  men  were  kept  several  months  in  the  Castle  at 
Fiall,  and  thence  removed  to  Lisbon,  and  after  a  year's 
imprisonment,  no  act  of  piracy  being  proved  against 
them,  they  were  discharg'd  and  so  came  for  England. 
There  the  Captain  visited  Peter  Dearlove,  a  shipwright, 
one  of  the  company  that  went  away  with  the  ship 
from  Fiall,  who  was  in  the  Marshalsea  prison  for  py- 
racy.  Dearlove  fram'd  a  pretence  that  he  knew  of  a 
rich  wreck  of  a  ship  called  the  Bon  Jesus,  in  the  West 
Indies,  by  which  stratagem  he  drew  in  the  Lord  Fair- 
fax to  support  him  and  gett  him  bayl'd  out  of  prison, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  555 

1709. 

and  afterwards  put  his  Lordship  to  great  charges  to 
provide  shipping  to  go  and  take  up  such  pretended 
wreck ;  and  after  some  time  he  clandestinely  left  his 
Lordship  and  conoeal'd  himself  from  him ;  and  then 
confederating  with  one  Haskett  '(Coll.  Haskett),  the 
said  Breholt,  and  one  Freame,  a  ship-builder,  did  by 
meanes  of  Haskett  and  Freame,  draw  in  the  Lord  Eivers 
and  several  other  gentlemen  to  the  expence  of  many 
thousand  pounds  in  providing  and  equipping  ships  for 
going  upon  such  pretended  wreck,  matters  being  so  con- 
certed that  Haskett  was  to  go  Commander  in  Chief  of 
the  said  ships,  and  Dearlove  the  pilot.  But  Breholt 
only  acted  behind  the  curtain,  that  his  ill  charectar 
might  not  defeat  their  reall  design,  which  was  to  get 
out  to  sea  and  then  to  carry  the  said  ships  to  Mada- 
gascar, upon  a  Scotch  pardon  for  the  pyrats  there, 
that  Breholt  pretended  to  have  gott.  But  when  they 
were  almost  ready  to  sail,  a  certain  person  who  knew 
their  villanous  intention,  discovered  the  same  to  the 
owners  of  the  ships,  who  turning  out  Haskett,  Dear- 
love  ran  away  from  them  likewise,  and  went  with  Bre- 
holt for  Scotland,  and  have  been  for  some  years  en- 
deavouring there  to  get  out  with  ships,  but  failing  there- 
of, are  returned  into  England,  and  prosecuting  such 
their  design  here,  in  order  to  get  to  their  old  friends 
and  ship's  company  at  Madagascar.  May  17,  1709. 
Signed,  Lawr.  Waldron.  1  p.  (For  Breholt  cf.  C.S.P. 
1699,  880.ii.,  807;  and  1700.  523.xv.Liv.  etc.) 

908.  iii.  Depositions  of  Lawrence  Waldron  and  John  Clough 
as  to  Capt.  Breholt's  piratical  character.  June  16, 
1709.  Signed,  Lawr.  Waldron,  Jno.  Clough.  f  p. 

908.  iv.  Deposition  of  Elizabeth  Woodstock,  Barbara  Ramsey 
and  Ann  Rupert,  as  to  Capt.  Breholt's  proposals  for 
going  to  Madagascar  with  the  Queen's  pardon  for  pirates 
etc.  Signed,  Elizabeth  Woodstock  (mark),  Barbara 
Ramsey,  Ann  Rupert.  June  16,  1709.  1  p. 

908.  v.  Deposition  of  Penelope  Aubin,  wife  of  Capt.  Abra- 
ham Aubin,  in  support  of  Nos.  iii.  and  iv.  supra.  June 
20,  1709.  Signed,  Penelope  Aubin.  £  p. 

908.  vi.  Reasons  humbly  offered  by  Peregrine,  Marquis  of 
Carmarthen,  to  shew  that  it  is  most  consistent  with 
H.M.  honor  and  interest  and  the  true  intent  and  design 
of  the  honbl.  House  of  Commons  in  their  late  humble 
address  to  H.M.  on  that  subject,  for  H.M.  to  endeavour 
the  suppressing  or  reclaiming  the  pirates  at  Madagas- 
car by  her  own  imediate  power  and  authority,  to  be 
executed  by  her  own  officers  and  ships,  and  not  to 
entrust  that  power  to  the  East  India  Company  or  any 
private  person.  Breholt  is  the  contriver  of  such  over- 
tures, etc.  Signed,  Carmarthen.  If  pp.  The  whole 
endorsed,  Reed.  Read  Dec.  15,  1709.  [C.O.  323,  6. 
Nos.  91,  91.i.-vi.] 


556  COLONIAL   PAPEES. 

1709. 

Deo.  15.         9O9.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    Referring  following  to  the 
St.  James's.    Council    of    Trade    and    Plantations    for    their    report.     Signed,, 

Chris,   Musgrave.      Endorsed,   Reed.   17th  Dec.,   Read  Jan.   13, 

1 70^-.  1£  pp.     Enclosed, 

Martinico  to  the  Queen.  A  French  sloop,  the  Society, 
laden  with  wine  etc.  for  Guadalupa,  and .  belonging  to 
Gaschet  was  prest  by  M.  Demaschault,  Governor  of  the 
French  Leeward  Islands,  without  time  to  unload,  to  go 
with  the  English  prisoners  as  a  flag  of  truce  to  Guada- 
lupa, there  to  take  in  one  Major  Lapoterie,  appointed 
to  manage  the  exchange  of  the  said  prisoners, -and  thence 
to  proceed  with  them  to  Antegua.  The  said  French 
flagg  of  truce,  being  near  Guadalupa,  came  in  sight  of 
H.M.S.  Hector,  Capt.  Grey,  whereupon  the  prisoners 
on  board  forced  the  master  to  change  his  course  so 
that  she  was  taken  and  carried  into  Antegua,  where  she 
was  cleared  but  the  goods  condemned.  Afterwards  the 
sloop  St.  Johln  Baptist,  belonging  to  Pouch,  loaden 
with  merchandizes  for  Montserrat  was  in  like  manner 
prest  by  order  of  Governor  Park  to  go  as  a  flag  of 
truce  with  French  prisoners  to  Martinico,  without  time 
to  unload  her  cargoe,  and  in  her  voyage  was  plundered 
by  a  French  privateer,  whereupon  M.  Demaschault 
caused  restitution  to  be  made  of  all  that  was  plundered 
except  so  much  as  amounted  to  an  equivalent  for  the 
goods  taken  on  board  the  Society,  which  he  detained 
by  way  of  reprizall.  If  such  violence  be  permitted  on 
either  side  contrary  to  the  Laws  of  Nations,  it  will 
soon  break  the  cartell  in  those  parts.  Pray  that 
restitution  be  made  to  Gaschet,  who  will  then  procure 
recompense  for  Pouch.  Copy.  3  pp.  [O.O.  152,  9. 
Nos.  1,  l.i.;  and  153,  10.  pp.  446-451.] 

Dec.  15.  91O.  Order  of  the  House  of  Commons.  That  the  Com- 
missioners of  Trade  do  lay  before  this  House  what  further  ob- 
servations they  have  made  relating  to  the  trade  to  Africa. 
Signed,  Paul  Jodrell,  Cler.  D.  Com.  Endorsed,  Reed.  15th, 
Read  16th  Dec.  1709.  f  p.  [O.O.  388,  12.  No.  64;  and 
389,  21.  p.  7.] 

Deo.  16.  911.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.  Plantations.  Encloses  following  papers  relating  to  Newfound- 
land. Signed,  Sunderland.  Endorsed,  Reed.  17th,  Read  21st 
Dec.,  1709.  f  p.  Enclosed, 

911.  i.  Duplicate  of  No.  859. i. 

911.  ii.  Duplicate  of  No.   890.ii. 

911.  iii.  Duplicate  of  No.  859. ii. (a). 

911.  iv.  Duplicate  of  No.  859.ii.(b). 

911.  v.  Duplicate  of.  No.  859. iii. 

911.  vi.  Duplicate  of  No.  890.V. 

911.  vii.  Duplicate  of  No.   890.vi. 

911.  viii.  Duplicate  of  No.  859. iv. 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  557 

1709. 

911.  ix.  Deposition  of  John  Collins,  of  St.  Johns.  Oct.  22, 
1709.  On  Dec.  21,  1708,  about  3  or  4  a  clock  in  the 
morning,  a  party  of  French  of  about  160  men  was 
discovered  very  near  the  fort  by  the  centinell  of  the 
S.W.  corner  of  the  New  Port,  who  endeavoured  to  fire 
his  peice,  which  did  not  go  off,  he  then  called  to  the 
centinell  of  the  N.W.  corner,  who  fired  his  peice  which 
alarmed  the  place.  Deponent  being  one  of  the  Captains 
of  Militia  for  the  New  Fort,  went  to  ye  place  which  had 
been  appointed  for  his  quarters,  which  was  the  Guard 
House  of  ye  said  Fort,  where  two  other  Companys  be- 
sides his  were  appointed  their  quarters  for  the  assist- 
ance of  H.M.  Garrison  in  the  Old  Fort,  and  to  re- 
ceive orders  from  their  commanding  Officer.  Deponent 
found  severall  men  there  who  wanted  powder  and  ball, 
he  having  ordered  what  he  had  in  his  possession  to  be 
carryed  there,  with  which  he  supplyed  those  that  wanted 
as  far  as  it  would  go,  and  then  heard  the  firing  of 
small  arms  at  the  N.W.  corner  of  the  New  Fort,  which 
was  between  our  men  there  and  the  enemy.  The 
Lieutenant  of  deponent  going  to  see  what  was  the 
meaning  of  this,  was  shot  through  the  shoulder  before 
he  could  return.  At  the  same  time  as  the  firing,  de- 
ponent heard  Quarter  cryed  in  the  Old  Fort,  and  pres- 
ently after  the  French  there  cryed  "Vive  le  Boy"  three 
times,  upon  which  Deponent  and  others  in  the  Old 
Fort  gave  3  huzzaa's,  and  then  the  Enemy  immediately 
fired  at  them,  and  they  at  the  enemy.  Severall  men 
on  our  side  were  kill'd  and  wounded.  They  of  the  New 
Fort  called  often  to  the  Old  Fort  to  have  the  Sally 
Port  opened  and  the  Bridge  let  down,  but  could  have 
no  answer,  some  of  the  soldiers  of  the  Garrison  got  out 
into  the  New  Fort,  and  said  there  was  500  French  men 
in  the  Old  Fort,  and  that  they  gave  no  quarter,  upon 
which  those  of  the  New  Fort  accepted  their  offer  of 
quarter  on  Dec.  26.  Deponent  heard  Serjeant  Steel 
say  at  Mr.  Winchen's  house  that  when  the  French  en- 
tered the  Old  Fort,  there  was  but  one  man  besides  him- 
self on  the  works,  and  that  Major  Tho.  Loyd  came  as 
far  as  the  ramparts  and  said  Fight,  Boys,  and  went 
away,  and  he  never  saw  him  afterwards,  untill  the 
Garrison  was  taken  half  an  hour  after  the  first  alarm, 
and  that  he  beleived  it  was  lost  by  neglect.  Some  time 
before  the  French  came,  deponent  was  ordered  to  the 
Old  Fort  to  give  a  receipt  for  ammunition,  which  he 
did  as  he  saw  all  the  other  Captains  of  the  Militia  do. 
It  was  for  double  ye  quantity  of  ammunition  they 
received,  and  the  said  receipts  were  to  Capt.  Vane.  De- 
ponent allways  paid  towards  the  Minister  3  quintalls 
of  fish  per  boat ;  he  knew  it  had  been  paid  for  a  year 
or  two  by  most  of  the  Harbours  in  the  land,  out  of 
which  the  Minister  was  to  have  an  allowance,  the 


558  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

rest  to  be  as  a  publick  stock,  but  to  wKat  use  it  was 
converted,  he  knoweth  not.  He  do  not  know  that  Major 
Loyd  traded,  but  sayeth  he  did  let  out  soldiers  to  hire 
every  year,  for  that  one  year  he  had  two  for  which  he 
paid  Major  Loyd  £35. 

List  of  inhabitants  killed  in  the  New  Fort: — Jno. 
Nicholls,  Wm.  Armstrong,  Nich.  Southard,  Win.  Bick- 
ford,  Wm.  Johnson,  Jno.  Grove,  Jno.  Busenell,  Antho. 
Gifford ;  wounded,  Tho.  Squary,  Jno.  Luff,  Michll.  (sic), 
Bobt.  Bentiett,  Wm.  Lee,  Tho.  Harris,  Abr.  Barritt. 
Copy.  3f  pp. 

911.  x.  Deposition  of  Tho.  Gruchy.  Oct.  19,  1709.  Cor- 
roborates preceding.  Signed,  Tho.  Gruchy.  Copy.  If  pp. 

911.  xi.  Deposition  of  Allin  Southrnayd.  Major  Loyd  hired 
soldiers  out  to  the  Planters  including  himself.  The 
money  raised  by  the  levy  of  fish  was  paid  to  the 
Minister  by  him  to  the  amount  of  £105  sterl.  in  1707. 
On  Dec.  20,  1708,  he  was  in  the  Old  Fort  untill  about 
12  at  night,  and  in  company  witlh  Major  Loyd,  who 
was  as  at  other  times  ch,earfull  without  having  to  ap- 
pearance any  apprehension  of  th.e  enemy's  being  so 
near,  and  ordered  one  of  the  Serjeants  to  be  put  in 
prison  for  not  seeing  the  cartouch  boxes  fill'd.  Does 
not  beleive  the  Old  Fort  was  taken  by  treachery  of 
Major  Loyd,  but,  by  the  report  of  those  in  it,  as  well 
as  others,  beleives  it  to  be  by  neglect.  Signed,  A. 
Southmayd.  Copy.  2  pp. 

911.  xii.  Deposition  of  John  Marshall,  St.  John's  Harbour. 
Oct.  19.  Corroborates  No.  ix.  supra.  Signed,  John 
Marshall.  Endorsed,  Becd.  17,  Bead  21st  Dec.  1709. 
Copy.  1^  pp. 

911.  xiii.,  xiv.  Account  and  receipts  of  nails,  boards,  etc.  fur- 
nished by  order  of  Capt.  Taylor,  H.M.S.  LittiJifieU, 
for  the  rebuilding  of  the  Fort  of  St.  Johns.  Signed, 
Arthr.  Holdsworth,  Jos.  Taylor,  Jno.  Shales,  John  Col- 
lin.  Oct.  20,  1709.  Same  endorsement.  Copies.  1^  pp. 

911.  xv.  Copy  of  Commodore  Taylor's  Commission  to  John 
Collin  to  be  Governor  of  the  Fort  and  Harbour  of  St. 
John's  and  all  the  sea -coast  between  Ferryland  and 
Carbonear.  Signed,  Jos.  Taylor.  Oct.  6,  1709.  Same 
endorsement.  1  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  101,  101. i.- 
xv. ;  and  (without  enclosures)  195,  5.  p.  117. J 

Dec.  17.        912.     Governor  Handasyd  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plan- 
Spanish       tations.     Since  my  last  I  have  none  to  own  from  your  Ldships. 
Town.        kut  a  duplicate  of  July  15th;  as  to  the  affaires  here,  we  have 
been  greaviously  afflicted  with  sickness,  I  think  more  people  has 
dyed  of  all  sorts  this  year  than  in  any  year  since  I  have  been 
in  these  parts.     I  have  reed,   by  the  pacquet  boate  Sophia  50 
recruites,    they    tell    me    I    am    to   have    50    more   by  the  next 
pacquet  and  yt's.  all  we  are   [to]   expect,  but  in  case  mortality 
attends  us  so  every  year,   I   am  afraid  we   shall  have  occasion 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  559 

1709. 

for  near  as  many  every  pacquet,  I  have  lost  within  this  3  months 
137  men.  We  have  a  report  here  of  a  French  squadron  con- 
si  [s]  ting  of  15  saile  and  8  saile  of  St.  Mallows  privateers,  as 
for  my  own  part  I  am  of  opinion  their 's  nothing  in't,  notwith- 
standing they  write  it  "very  possatively  from  the  Windward 
Islands.  The  Frencih  and  Spanish  Fleet  is  not  yet  come  from 
Laverdecrous  to  the  Havannah,  but  is  hourly  expected ;  there 
is  one  gallion  and  another  ship  at  Carthagena  very  richly 
loaden  with  money  etc.,  which  the  Spaniards  say  they  will  not 
trust  under  a  French  convoy,  therefore  is  resolved  they  shall 
stay  there  till  Peace,  but  as  they  are  the  weaker  party,  I 
expect,  if  a  strong  Drench  squadron  come,  they  will  obleidge 
them  either  by  foule  means  or  fare.  The  marchants  and  others 
haveing  requested  of  me  for  the  advantage  of  trade,  to  issue 
out  a  proclamation  and  to  grant  a  pardon  to  these  Pirates  at 
the  Semblers  and  other  places  upon  the  Spanish  Coast,  which  I 
gave  you  an  acct.  of  in  my  last,  and  haveing  consulted  with  the 
Councill  concerning  yt.  matter  as  also  the  Attorney  Generall, 
they  have  unanimously  requested  of  me  to  issue  out  a  Proclama- 
tion and'  to  grant  a  pardon  (according  to  H.M.  Commission  to 
me)  for  all  misdemeaners,  High  Treason  and  wilfull  murder  ex- 
cepted,  which  I  have  done  accordingly  and  sent  it  by  a  vessell 
which  has  obleidged  himself  to  deliver  it  to  the  Commander  in 
Chief,  Mishall,  all  which  I  hope  will  be  to  H.M.  and  your 
Ldships.'  satisfaction,  and  that  it  will  do  us  that  service  in  case 
they  will  not  come  in,  they  will  not  be  our  enemys,  at, least 
they  will  not  medle  with  H.M.  subjects.  As  to  the  Councillors  in 
relation  to  the  selling  and  disposeing  of  negroes,  they  have  all 
given  me  for  answere,  tha.t  they  doe  not  sell  or  dispose  of  any 
but  what  belongs  to  themselves,  so  they  look  upon  themselves 
quallifyed  to  sitt  upon  appeales.  Our  men  of  warr  here  is  in 
a  very  bad  condition  by  death  and  sickness,  they  can  send  but 
two  of  them  to  sea  at  once,  and  the  one  fifth  part  of  their 
company  must  be  soldiers ;  we  have  been  very  much  plagued  with 
French  and  Spanish  privateers  for  this  two  months  past  about 
this  Island.  As  to  other  news  here  their  is  none  that  I  know 
of  worth  giveing  your  Ldships.  the  trouble  of.  I  should  be  glad 
to  receive  H.M.  Orders  for  the  releife  of  me  and  my  regiment, 
eto.  Signed,  Tho.  Handasyd.  Endorsed,  Reed.  2nd,  Read  16th 
Feb  170^.  2  pp.  [(7.0.  137,  8.  No.  77;  and  138,  13.  pp. 
89-92.] 

Dec.  19.         913.     Council    of    Trade    and   Plantations    to   the    House    of 

Whitehall.  Commons.  Representation  on  African  Trade,  as  ordered  Dec. 
15.  So  far  as  it  relates  to  the  Plantations,  quotes  reply  of 
Separate  Traders,  Nov.  17.  "It  does  appear  that  the  separate 
traders  have  sent  out  from  the  several  Ports  of  this  Kingdom 
about  12  ships  to  one  despatch'd  by  the  Company.  .  .  .  The 
Company  have  so  far  neglected  the  Trade,  that  had  not  the 
separate  Traders  carried  it  on  .  .  .  .,  our  American  Plantations 
would  have  suffer'd  very  much  for  want  of  a  competent  supply 
of  negroes  to  the  great  prejudice  of  the  sugar  and  tobacco  trades 


560 


COLONIAL   PAPERS. 


1709. 

(already  labouring  under  the  utmost  discouragements)  and  con- 
sequently the  Eevenues  arising  to  the  Publick  from  those  trades 
must  have  been  greatly  lessen'd."  etc.  etc.  [C.O.  389,  21.  pp. 
7-16.] 

Deo.  19.         914.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehall,     derland.     Enclose    following,    and   desire,    in    case    H.M.    shall 
think  fit  that  a  Law  be  passed  here,  as  we  propose,  that  Her 
pleasure  be   signified  accordingly.     Annexed, 

914.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  An 
Act  having  been  passed  here  in  the  3rd  and  4th  years 
of  your  Majesty's  reign  for  incouraging  the  importation 
of  Naval  Stores  from  America,  etc.,  we  sent  the  same 
to  your  Majesty's  several  Governors  there;  but  there 
being  no  provision  in  the  said  Act  for  preserving  of 
white  pines,  which  are  the  only  trees  proper  for  masts 
for  your  Majesty's  Eoyal  Navy,  and  great  waste  being 
frequently  made  of  those  trees,  Governor  Dudley,  by 
the  advice  of  Mr.  Bridger,  proposed  to  the  Assembly  of 
New  Hampshire  the  passing  of  a  Law  for  that  purpose, 
which  was  passed  accordingly,  prohibiting  all  persons 
in  that  Province  to  cutt,  fell  or  destroy  any  white 
pines  or  mast  trees,  not  being  the  particular  property 
of  any  private  person,  above  the  growth  of  24  inches 
diameter  at  12  inches  from  the  earth  under  the  penalty 
of  £100  sterl.  for  every  such  tree  so  cutt.  But  upon 
Coll.  Dudley's  proposing  to  the  Assembly  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  the  passing  of  a  like  Law  there,  they 
refused  to  do  the  same,  tho'  it  was  in  the  words  of 
their  Charter,  alledging  that  they  wou'd  not  enact  their 
Charter  into  a  Law.  Wherefore  for  the  more  effectual 
prevention  of  spoils  in  the  woods  there,  and  for  the 
better  preserving  of  trees  fit  for  your  Majesty's  Eoyal 
Navy,  we  humbly  offer  that  an  Act  be  passed  here  for 
that  purpose,  and  humbly  take  leave  to  annex  Ihe 
draught  of  such  a  Bill.  In  case  the  same  be  passed 
into  a  Law,  there  will  then  be  no  necessity  that  the 
forementioned  New  Hampshire  Act  be  confirmed ;  other- 
wise we  are  humbly  of  opinion  that  your  Majesty  be 
pleased  to  ratify  and  confirm  the  same. 

914.  ii.  Draught  of  an  Act  for  the  better  preserving  of  Mast- 
trees  in  America.  [C.O.  324,  9.  pp.  415-420.] 

Dec.  19.  915.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Whitehall.  Plantations.  Col.  Hunter  having  proposed  that  for  preventing 
the  Palatines  he  carrys  with  him  to  New  York  from  falling  off 
from  the  employment  designed  for  them,  or  being  decoy'd  into 
Proprietary  Governments,  they  may  be  obliged  by  a  contract 
in  writing  to  attend  that  work,  H.M.  is  pleased  to  approve  thereof, 
you  are  to  advise  with  Mr.  Attorney  General  about  the  drawing 
up  such  an  instrument  etc.  Signed,  Sunderland.  Endorsed, 
Eecd.  Eead  Dec.  20,  1709.  1  p.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  140; 
and  5,  1121.  p.  488.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES. 


561 


1709 

Dec.  20. 


Dec.  20. 

Whitehall. 

Deo.  21. 


Dec.  21. 

Whitehall. 


Deo.  22. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  23. 


916.  Draught  of  a  Covenant  for  the  residence  and  em- 
ployment of  Palatines  in  New  York.  See  preceding  and  Dec.  21. 
3  pp.  Endorsed,  Eecd.  (from  Col.  Hunter.)  Bead  Dec.  20, 
1709.  3  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  141;  and  5,  1121.  pp. 
489-492.] 


pre- 


j 

917.  Mr.   Popple  to  Mr.   Attorney  General.     Encloses 
ceding 'for  his  opinion  thereon.     [C.O.   5,   1121.     p.  493.] 

918.  Mr.    Attorney   General    to   the   Council    of   Trade    and 
Plantations.     Encloses,    with    amendments,    covenant   for    Pala- 
tines,    v.    Dec.    19,    20.     Signed,   Jas.    Mountague.      Endorsed,, 
Reed.  Read  Dec.  22,  1709.     1  p.    Enclosed,, 

918.  i.  Draught  of  Covenants  for  Palatines'  residence  in  New 

York.     5   pp.    [C.O.    5,    1049.     Nos.    144,    144.i. ;    and 
5,  1121.     pp.  498-503.] 

919.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun - 
derland.     Enclose   letter   from   Council   of  Maryland,    Aug.    21. 
q.v.     From  whence  we  presume  the  late  Governor  had  not  com- 
municated to  them  H.M.   Additional  Instruction  May  3,   1707, 
empowering   the    eldest    Counsellor   to   take    upon   him   the    ad- 
ministration   as    Governor    in   such    cases.     Recommend   that   a 
triplicate  of  that  Instruction  be  transmitted  to  them,  to  prevent 
any  disputes  that  may  arise  amongst  them,  till  the  arrival  of  a 
new  Governor.     [C.O.   5,  727.     p.   160.] 

920.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
derland.     Enclose   Commission   for  the   Earl   of  Orkeney  to  be 
Lieut,    and    Governour    General   of    Virginia,    which    is    in    the 
usual  form.     Enclosed, 

920.  i.   The   Earl   of  Orkney's   Commission  as   above.     [C.O. 

5,    1363.     pp.    2-26.] 

921.  Draft  of  H.M.  Instructions  for  Robert  Hunter,  Governor 
of  New  Jersey.  (Signed  Dec.  27).  Set  out,  N.J.  Archives,  1st  ser. 
iv.i.  and  see  No.  924. i.    Includes: 

Members  of  Council: — Lewis  Morris,  Andrew  Brown,  Francis 
Davenport,  Wm.  Pinhorn,  Geo.  Deacon,  Wm.  Sandford,  RicJid. 
Townley,  Dan.  Cox,  Roger  Mompesson,  Peter  Sonmans,  Hugh 
Hoddy,  Wm.  Hall,  and  Robt.  Quary.  Additional  Instruction  re- 
lating to  the  heats  and  divisions  in  New  Jersey :— Whereas  an 
Address  has  been  laid  before  us  from  several  of  the  Members  of 
our  Council  complaining  of  the  Assembly  there  (Nov.  2),  and 
likewise  another  Address  from  the  Assembly  in  their  own  vindi- 
cation and  complaining  of  the  Council :  and  whereas  we  have 
been  informed  that  these  Addresses  have  increased  the  heats 
and  animosities  between  the  said  Council  and  Assembly  to  the 
great  obstruction  of  our  service  in  that  Province,  and  to  the 
disquiet  of  our  subjects  there,  it  is  our  will  and  pleasure  that 
upon  your  arrival  you  examin  into  the  reasons  and  causes  of 
the  said  differences,  and  that  you  endeavour  all  you  can  amicably 

Wt.  11522.  C  P  36 


562  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

to  reconcile  the  disagreeing  parties  and  to  compose  all  such 
differences  betwixt  them,  and  in  case  you  shall  meet  with  any 
opposition  therein,  that  you  then  represent  unto  us  by  one  of 
our  Principal  Secretarys  and  to  our  Commissioners  of  Trade  and 
Plantations,  your  opinion  upon  the  whole  for  our  further  pleas- 
ure therein.  [C.O.  5,  995.  pp.  34-132.] 

Dec  23.  922.  Capt.  Moody  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations. 
Report  on  Newfoundland.  In  July  last,  pursuant  to  H.M.  com- 
mands I  sealed  about  900  men  with  their  families  upon  severall 
strong  Islands  lying  to  the  norward  and  southward  of  St.  Johns, 
delivering  to  them  a  share  of  H.M.  bounty  of  armes,  ammunition 
and  provisions,  assureing  them  that  they  might  expect  further 
marks  of  hir  Royall  favour,  prevailing  with  them  to  change  their 
resolution  of  quiting  the  country,  which,  as  they  told  me,  was 
only  ocationed  by  the  Garrisons  a'tt  St.  Johns  being  so  shamefully 
lost,  by  which  means  the  course  of  their  trade  was  stopt,  and 
their  corispondence  and  interest  quite  rewend  at  St.  Johns, 
together  with  their  just  feors  of  their  own  weakness  and  the 
enemies  power  and  further  designes  of  carrying  them1  all  away 
captive  to  Cannada  to  be  slaves,  which  they  threaten  to  doe, 
believing  them  no  longer  able  to  pay  £7000  sterl.  for  their  ran- 
som, as  they  did  last  summer  at  St.  Johns,  and  for  liberty  to 
fish  their.  I  have  not  only  now,  but  in  time  past  used  my 
faithfull  endavers  for  the  preservation  of  the  people  and  trade 
of  Newfoundland,  and  for  H.M.  Garrisons  their,  the  los  of  which, 
and  the  manner  of  takeing  it,  I  doubt  not  but  your  Lordships 
have  been  fully  apprized  of,  as  well  as  that  all  the  officers 
and  souldiers,  with  48  pieces  of  cannon,  morters,  armes,  ammu- 
nition and  provisions,  with  boombs,  powder  ball  etc.,  was  carryed 
in  4  ships  to  Plasentia  and  Cannada  in  April,  1709,  and  that 
the  Fort  and  Castle  at  St.  Johns  are  both  blown  up  and  burnt 
with  all  the  inhabitants'  houses  except  4  or  5,  and  most  part  of 
the  mud  wall  of  the  Fort,  which  would  have  been  too  great 
labour  to  have  levelled,  and  to  litle  or  no  purpose  if  they  had, 
and  which  the  remaining  part  of  the  inhabitants  at  St.  Johns 
by  the  diligence  of  Comadore  Taylor  have  pallasaded  and  retired 
into,  and  built  themselves  hutts  with  hopes  to  defend  themselves 
against  any  stragleing  or  small  parties  for  this  winter,  but 
withal!  assured  me,  before  my  departure  from  St.  Johns  in 
July,  and  upon  my  comming  away  from  thence  Nov.  8  last,  as 
did  allso  the  inhabitants  in  generall,  that  they  were  no  longer 
then  this  winter  able  to  abide  in  the  country,  unless  the  Gover- 
ment  would  build  a  garrison  and  send  a  sufficient  force  from 
hence  to  protect  them  and  their  trade  and  families,  they  have- 
ing  likewise  petitioned  H.M.  to  that  purpose,  and  writ  to  your 
Lordships,  beging  that  you  would  assist  them  in  recommending 
their  supplication  for  protection  etc.,  which  petition  and  letter 
were  sent  by  me  to  Boston  and  with  one  from  myselfe  to  your 
Lordships,  Aug.  10,  in  the  Dursly  gaily,  etc.  Signed,  J.  Moody. 
Endorsed,  Reed.  Dec.  28,  1709,  Read  Jan.  20,  170T9F .  Holo- 
graph. 1^  pp.  Enclosed, 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  563 

1709 

922.  i.  Capt.  Moody  to  Governor  Dudley,  Col.  Nicholson,  Col. 
Vetch,  and  to  the  Honble.  the  Governers  assembled  att 
Eehoboth  to  consult  of  present  affairs.  Proposal  for 
reduction  of  Plasentia.  Signed,  J.  Moody.  If  pp. 

922.  ii.  Reply  to  preceding.  Oct.  14,  1709.  Rehoboth  in 
the  Massachusetts.  We  do  highly  approve  of  Col. 
Moody's  good  intention,  and  thankfully  accept  the  offer 
of  his  service  in  the  projected  expedition  to  PortRoyall; 
but  cannot  under  the  present  distresses  and  disappoint- 
ments judge  ourselves  capable  to  do  anything  at  New- 
foundland, the  support  of  the  Inland  frontiers  of  the 
Province  demanding  the  service  of  all  their  troops,  be- 
sides the  hopes  of  a  descent  upon  Port  Royall  if  possi- 
ble to  be  brought  to  passe  this  winter,  etc.  Signed,  J. 
Dudley,  G.  Saltonstall,  Saml.  Cranston,  Sam.  Vetch, 
Fr.  Nicholson.  Endorsed,  Reed.  Dec.  28,  1709,  Read  Jan. 
20,  170&.  £  p.  [C.O.  194,  4.  Nos.  103,  103.i.,ii. ; 
and  (without  enclosures)  195,  5.  pp.  118-121.] 

Dec.  23.        923.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehaii.    derland.     Enclose  draught  of  Instrument  to  be  signed  by  Pala- 
tines going  to  New  York  (Dec.  21).     [C.O.  5,  f!21.     p.  504.] 

Dec.  23.        924.     Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Earl  of  Sun- 
Whitehail.    derland.     Enclose   following   to   be   laid   before   H.M. 

924.  i.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  the  Queen.  We 
herewith  present  to  your  Majesty  draughts  of  Instruc- 
tions for  Col.  Hunter  for  the  Governments  of  New 
York  and  New  Jersey,  which  are  to  the  same  purpose  as 
those  given  to  the  late  Lord  Lovelace.  And  whereas 
William  Peartree,  one  of  the  present  Council  of  New 
York,  has  been  represented  to  us  as  a  person  unfit  to 
serve  your  Majesty  in  that  station,  particularly  in  re- 
gard of  his  not  giving  due  attendance  at  that  Board, 
that  several  men  who  deserted  your  Majesty's  service 
from  on  board  Lowstoft  and  Triton's  prize,  are  there 
imployed  by  the  Mayor  of  New  York,  and  by  the  said 
Peartree  on  board  their  vessells,  contrary  to  the  Act 
for  incouragement  of  the  Trade  to  America,  and  to  the 
prejudice  of  your  Majesty's  service,  we  therefore  humbly 
offer  that  he  be  left  out  of  the  said  Council,  and  that 
Dr.  Samuel  Staats,  of  whom  we  have  had  a  very  good 
character,  be  constituted  a  Member  in  his  stead ;  and 
there  being  a  vacancy  by  the  death  of  Thomas  Wenham, 
wo  humbly  offer  that  Robert  Walters,  of  whom  we  have 
likewise  had  a  good  character,  be  constituted  by  your 
Majesty  a  Member  of  the  said  Council  in  his  stead.  We 
further  offer  that  as  the  said  Stats  and  "Walters  were 
formerly  Members  of  that  Council,  they  be  now  rein- 
stated in  their  places  according  to  the  precedency  they 
then  had,  as  has  usually  been  done  in  like  cases.  In 
relation  to  the  Council  of  New  Jersey,  Lewis  Morris 


564  COLONIAL  PAPERS. 

1709. 

having  been  suspended  by  Capt.  Ingoldsby  by  the  Lt. 
Governor,  since  the  death  of  the  late  Lord  Lovelace, 
for  reasons  which  do  not  appear  to  us  sufficient,  we 
humbly  offer  that  he  be  restored  to  his  place  and  pre- 
cedency there,  and  there  being  two  vacancies  in  the 
said  Council,  we  humbly  offer  that  Thomas  Gordon  and 
Thomas  Gardner,  who  have  been  well  recommended  to 
us  by  the  Proprietors  here,  as  persons  fit  to  serve 
your  Majesty  in  that  station,  be  constituted  Members  of 
the  said  Councill,  that  the  number  of  twelve  may  be 
compleat.  And  whereas  there  have  been  great  disputes 
and  differences  between  the  Council  and  Assembly  of 
New  Jersey  and  both  have  addressed  to  your  Majesty, 
each  against  the  other,  and  as  Col.  Hunter  who  is  now 
going  over  will  be  the  best  able  when  upon  the  place  to 
inform  himself  of  the  matters  contained  in  the  said 
Address,  we  humbly  offer  that  he  have  an  Instruction 
from  your  Majesty  requiring  him  to  examin  into  the 
causes  and  reasons  of  the  said  differences,  and  to 
endeavour  all  he  can  to  compose  the  same ;  and  that  in 
case  he  shall  meet  with  any  obstruction  therein,  that 
then  he  represent  the  matter  as  it  shall  appear  to 
him,  to  one  of  your  Majesty's  Principal  Secretaries 
of  State,  and  to  your  Commissioners  for  Trade  and 
Plantations,  for  your  Majesty's  pleasure  thereupon,  and 
therefore  we  take  leave  to  add  hereunto  the  draught 
of  an  Additional  Instruction  for  that  purpose.  We 
further  take  leave  to  lay  before  your  Majesty  the 
draughts  of  Instructions  for  Col.  Hunter  for  his  Gov- 
ernments of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  relating  to  the 
Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation  which  are  in  the  usual 
form.  And  in  obedience  to  your  Majesty's  Order,  Dec. 
15,  we  humbly  lay  before  your  Majesty  th,e  draught  of 
an  Additional  Instruction  to  Col.  Hunter,  relating  to 
the  fees  of  the  several  officers  at  New  York.  Annexed, 

924.  i.  Draught  of  Instructions  for  Col.  Hunter,  Governor 
of  New  York.  Of.  those  of  Lord  Lovelace,  C.S.P.  1708. 
Set  out,  N.J.  Archives,  1st  ser.  iv.i.  (These  were 
dated  Dec.  27,  1709). 

924.  ii.  Additional  Instruction  to  same.  You  are  to  recon- 
sider the  Table  of  Fees  of  1693,  and  to  prepare  another 
etc.  as  proposed  Nov.  29,  Dec.  15  supra. 

924.  iii.  Instructions  to  same  relating  to  the  Acts  of  Trade 
and  Navigation.  \C.O.  5,  1122.  pp.  1-125.] 

Dec.  23.  925.  Council  of  Trade  and  Plantations  to  Governor  Hunter. 
Repeat  Instructions  for  the  Governments  of  New  York  and 
New  Jersey,  previously  given  to  "the  late  Lord  Cornbury,  now 
Earl  of  Clarendon."  You  are  to  enquire  into  the  employment 
of  deserters  from  H.M.  ships  by  William  Peartree  and  the  Mayor 
of  New  York,  and  prosecute  them  etc.  if  guilty.  Set  out, 
N.Y.  Docs.  v.  154.  q.v.  \C.O.  5,  1122.  pp.  126-136.] 


AMERICA  AND  WEST  INDIES.  565 

1709. 

Dec.  24.         926.     H.M.    Warrant  to   the  Attorney   or   Solicitor  General. 
St.  James's.    You   are   to    prepare   a    Bill    for    our    Boyall    signature    for  the 
Earl    of    Orkney    to    be    Governor    of    Virginia.     Countersigned, 
Sunderland.     [C7.0.   5,  210.     p.  187.] 

Dec.  25.      -  927.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.    Drafts  of  Instructions  for 

St.  James's.    Col.  Hunter,  Governor  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  relating  to 

Acts  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  approved.     Of.  Dec.  23.     Signed, 

Chris.  Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  9th,  Read  12th  Jan.  170TV 

H  pp.     [C.O.  5,  1049.     No.  151;  and  5,  1122.     pp.  142,  143.] 

Dec.  25.         928.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Dr.    Staats  and  Thomas 

St.  James's.    Walters  are  appointed  to  the  Council  of  New  York  in  the  room 

of  William   Peartree,    discharged,   and   Thomas    Wenham,   deed. 

Cf.  Dec.  23.     Signed  and  endorsed  as  preceding.     2^  pp.     [C.O. 

5,    1049.     No.   152;  and  5,   1122.     pp.   143-145.] 

Dec.  25.  929.  Order  of  Queen  in  Council.  Draft  of  Instructions  for 
St.  James's.  Col.  Hunter,  Governor  of  New  York,  with  Additional  Instruction 
for  preparing  a  table  of  Fees  to  be  taken  by  the  respective 
officers  there,  approved.  Cf.  Dec.  23.  Signed  and  endorsed  as 
preceding.  H  pp.  [C.O.  5,  1049.  No.  153;  and  5,  1122, 
pp.  145,  146.] 

Dec.  25.         93O.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Restoring  Lewis  Morris 
St.  James's,    and   appointing   Thomas   Gordon  and   Thomas   Gardiner  to   the 

Council  of  New  Jersey,  as  recommended  Dec.  23.     Signed,  Chris. 

Musgrave.     Endorsed,  Reed.  9th,  Read  12th  Jan.  170TV    2  pp. 

[C.O.  5,  970.     No.  91;  and  5,  995.     pp.  133-135.] 

Dec.  25.         931.     Order  of  Queen  in  Council.     Approving  Representation 
St.  James's,    on  draft  of  Instructions  of  Governor  Hunter,  New  Jersey,  Dec. 

23.     Signed  'and  endorsed  as  preceding.     1£  pp.     [C.O.  5,  970. 

No.  92;  and  5,  995.     pp.  135,  136.] 

Dec.  27.  932.  J.  de  Kocherthal  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and  Planta- 
London.  tions.  I  have,  since  my  arrivall  at  New  Yorke,  observed  that  if 
the  planting  of  vineyards  in  the  English  America  was  once 
seriously  undertaken,  the  same  would  be  the  most  profitable 
labour  which  the  new-comers  there  could  ever  desire,  and  more 
advantageous  to  this  Kingdom  than  the  America  sugar  or  tobacco 
trade.  To  that  end  I  have  kept  correspondence  with  all  such 
persons  as  have  had  the  least  experience  in  that  affaire,  and 
havo  actually  undertaken  a  journey  over  the  whole  Continent. 
The  climate  and  soil  are  suited  for  vine-growing,  as  is  shown 
by  the  presence  of  wild  vines  and  by  trials  already  made.  Of 
all  the  experiments  which  hitherto  have  been  tryed,  that  of 
Mr.  Robert  Bevcrley  upon  the  highlands  in  Virginia  is  the 
last  and  most  remarkable,  whose  vineyards  and  wine  all  persons 
are  talking  of  in  Virginia.  The  President  and  Consuls  in 
Williamgburgh  have  had  this  matter  under  their  deliberation. 
That  the  experiment  has  hitherto  not  been  found  to  answer, 


566 


COLONIAL  PAPERS. 


1709. 


Dec.  27. 

Whitehall. 


Dec.  28. 
Whitehall. 


[V  Dec.] 


1709. 


1709  ff. 


is  duo  to  inexperience  and  want  of  skill.  The  French  method  of 
planting  is  altogether  disagreeable  with  the  ground  and  climate, 
whilst  as  to  that  made  on  the  Bhinlander  system,  conducted  by 
High  Germans  in  Pensylvania,  the  best  of  them  are  the  Greis- 
heimers,  who  have  hardly  any  common  skill  or  knowledge  in  the 
vintage.  Other  objections  as  to  climate  and  tending  etc.  stated 
and  answered.  If  10  or  12  skilful  vine-gardiners,  were  allowed 
to  go  over  with  suitable  plants,  to  choose  convenient  places, 
there  is  not  the  least  doubt  but  that  English  America  would  in 
a  short  time  appeare  full  as  fit  and  capable  for  the  nursery 
and  wine -trade  as  any  other  place  in  the  whole  Universe.  Signed^ 
Joshua  de  Kocherthal.  Endorsedf  Reed.  2nd,  Read  13th  Jan. 
170^,-.  7  pp.  Enclosed, 

932.  i.  Abstracts    of    letters    to   Joshua    de    Kocherthal    from 

persons  consulted  as  to  the  cost  of  his  maintenance  at 
New  York.  Endorsed  as  preceding.  Copy.  3  pp. 
[C.O.  5,  1049.  Nos.  155,  155.i.] 

933.  Mr.    Popple  to  Governor  Hunter.     Encloses  Order   in 
Council,  Dec.   15.   etc.     Set  out,   N.Y.  Docs.   v.   158.     FC.O.   5, 
1122.     pp.    137,    138.] 

934.  The  Earl  of  Sunderland  to  the  Council  of  Trade  and 
Plantations.     Refers  to  letter  July  27.     I   once  more  desire  to 
know    whether    you    have   any    objection    to    Mr.    Berwick,    etc. 
Signed,    Sunderland.     Endorsed,   Reed.   Dec.   28,   Read  Jan.   4, 
17bTV    1  p.      [C.O.  28,  13.     No.  4;  and  29,  12.     p.  65.] 

935.  Thomas  Gordon  to  [?  the  Earl  of  Sunderland.]     En- 
closes   "duplicate    of    the    last   Assembly's    Address    to    be    layd 
before  H.M."     For  as  soon  as  the  Assembly  [New  Jersey^  had 
complyed  with  H.M.  commands  and  raised  both  men  and  money 
for  the  expedition  against  Canada,  the  Lt.  Governour  disolved 
the    Assembly.     My    Lord    Lovelace    (a    good    and    pious    man, 
whose   death  is  greatly  lamented)    in   Aprill   last  appointed  •  me 
Cheife  Justice,  in  the  room  of  Roger  Mompesson.     In  Aug.  the 
Lt.  Governour  put  Mompesson  in  again,  without  assigning  any 
reason  for  suspending  me,  etc.    Set  out,  N.J.  Archives,  1st  ser. 
III.  500.     Signed,  Thomas  Gordon.     2  pp.     [C.O.  5,  980.     .Vo. 
38.] 

936.  Naval    Office.      List   of    Ships,    Jamaica,    1709—1722. 
[C.O.  142,  14.] 

937.  Lists  of  persons  recommended  for  Councillors   in  the 
Plantations.     [C.O.  324,  48.] 


567  ) 


GENERAL    INDEX 


(569) 


GENERAL    INDEX. 


Abbott,  Col.,  187. 

Abeel,  J.,  621  iv.  (a). 

Accadia,  Accadie.     See  Nova  Scotia. 

Acts  of  Parliament,  347. 

,    for    ascertaining     rales     of 

foreign  coin,  116,  142,  192,  229, 

296,  375,  391,  392,  421,  663, 

765  ii. 

,  ignored,  621. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  against,  1 57  I. 

,  concerning  Councillors,   L74. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  enumerated  commodi- 
ties, 392. 
,   granting   subsidy   on  wines 

284. 
,  for  better  preserving  mast-trees 

in  America,  proposed,  914  i., 

, ,  draft  of,  914  ii. 

,  for  encouraging  importation 

of  Naval  Stores,  914  i. 
,    for     encouraging     trade     to 

America,    87,    111,    142,    192, 

248,  391.  391  vin.,  392,  421, 

621,    621    i.,  ii.,    747   iv.,   v., 

753,  765  n.,  924  i. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  memorial  concerning, 

100. 
for  encouraging  privateers  in 

the    West  Indies,    87,    589   i., 

597  i. 

,  complaints  against,  301. 

,  for  redressing  abuses  in  the 

Newfoundland  trade,  566. 
,  concerning  rice,  indigo   and 

molasses,  192,  391,  392. 

/or  settling  the  trade  to 
ica,  382,  453. 

,  of  Trade  and  Navigation,  119, 

170,  177,  210,  226  i.,  271, 
284.  368,  368  i.,  421,  652,  724, 
739,  924  i.,  in.,  925,  927. 

, ,  of  Union.  See  Union, 

the. 

,  validity  of,  in  the  Planta- 
tions, 662. 

and  see  Trade  and  Navigation. 


Adams,  Joseph,  150  in.,  443  i.,  n. 

,  Samuel,  857  in. 

,  Thomas,  195. 

Adamson,  Henry,  bond  of,  709  i. 
Addingtori,      Isaac,      Secretary      of 

Council,  Mass.  Bay,  391  I. 
,  document  signed  by,  533  i., 

860. 

,  letter  from,  416,  803. 

Add-on,  Thomas,  131,  258. 
Adgecantehook,  Indian  Castle  at,  621 

iv.  (6). 
Admiral,    The    Lord    High,    56,    58, 

86,  88,  96,  137,  174,  227,  261, 
288  i.,  295,  296,  357,  382,  387, 
395,  408,  451,  461,  473,  567, 
635,  640,  649,  655,  668,  709. 

,  Commission  by,  857. 

,    Instructions,    warrants    by, 

420,  658,  660,  794,  794  x-xii. 

,  letter  from,  80. 

,  letter  to,  398.  831  i. 

, ,  tenths  of,  202,  589  i. 

and   see    Denmark,    Prince 

George  of  ;  Pembroke,  Earl  of. 
Admiralty,  The,   153,   165,  168,  247, 

396. 

,  High  Court  of,  395. 

.......  Secretary  of.     See  Burchett, 

.    Josiah  ;  Fowler,  J. 
Adventure,  H.M.S.,  597  i.,  741. 
,  capture  of,  487,  529  in.,  iv., 

534. 

Advice,  H.M.S.,  47,  223. 
Africa,    separate    traders    to,    letter 

from,  855. 

,  negroes  imported  by,  855  i. 

African    Company,    the    Royal,    25, 

94,    94    i.,    in.,    126  *i.,    142, 

142  in.,  150,  151,  328,  330. 
,  . . .  . ,  agents,  factors  of,  1 09, 

109    m.,    382,    444,    484    xt>., 

583  XT/VIII. 
,   . . . . ,  barred  as  councillors, 

87,  174,    453,    466,    471,    473, 
649,  872. 

,  .  . .  . ,  and  the  Assiento,  226  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  case  of,  in  Parliament, 

655. 

, ,  letters  from,  327,  347. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  negroes   imported    by, 

73,  94,  94  i.,  in.,  192,  192  i., 

197,  215,  215  i.,  ii.,  and  see 

Negroes. 


570 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


African  Company,  the  Royal- — cont. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  objection  to,  243. 

,  ,  .  .  . ,  petition  concerning, 

892  in. 

, representation  concern- 
ing, 330,  331,  913. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  return  upon,  ordered, 

316,  910. 

,    ,  trade  of,   786. 

African  Trade,  the,  Act  for  settling, 
382,  453. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  return  upon,  ordered, 

316,  910. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,   913. 

Akers,  Capt,,  484  xxi.,  597  i. 

Albany,  10,  217,  621  iv.,  629,  848. 

,  garrison  of,  196,  387. 

,  starting  point  for  Canada 

expedition  ;  196,  475-478,  604, 
666,  691. 

,  stores  of  war  at,  accounts  of, 

400. 

,  trade  of,  60. 

trade  with  Canada,  617. 

Alden,  John,  Capt.,  memorial  of, 
554  i.,  in. 

Aldy,  Major,  5,  191. 

Alegre  (Allegra),  Count  de  Cass,  56  IT., 
69. 

Alexander,  Francis,  583  vi. 

Alexander,  Stephen,  709  xi. 

Alexander,  Sir  William,  Earl  of 
Sterling,  grant  of,  554  i. 

.......  sale  of  Nova  Scotia  by,  60. 

Alford,  Benjamin,  151. 

Allcock,  Samuel,  65  v. 

Allen,  Arthur,  216  in. 

Allen,  Jeremiah,  document  signed  by, 
391  m. 

,  Thomas,  claim  to  the  pro- 
priety of  New  Hampshire, 
appeal  of,  and  case  of,"  2, 
58,  65  m.,  185,  212,  260,  391, 
392,  663. 

Alleyne,  Benjamin,  321. 

Reynold,  180  n. 

Thomas,  deposition  of,    180 

II.,   VI. 

America,  ship,  374,  381. 
Anderson,  Alexander,  583  vi. 
,  William,   deposition   of,  583 

XXVIII. 

Andrews,  Nicholas,  158  ix. 
Andross,     Sir     Edmund     (formerly 

Governor   of   New    England), 

10,  554  i. 
Anglosery,      M.,      Lt.  -Governor      of 

Quebec,  60. 
Anguilla,  597  I. 
Anjou,  Duke  of,  382. 
Annapolis    (Ma.),    charter    of,    290, 

410  i. 
Anna  Watta,   document  signed  by, 

554  i. 
Anne,  brigantine,  443  n. 


ANNE,  QUEEN,  in  Council,  appeal  to, 

212. 

orders   in   Council,    instruc- 
tions, references,  warrants  etc., 
by,  concerning  : — 
Acts  repealed,  791. 
Acts  of  Trade,  421. 
Antigua,  145,  147,  207,  443. 
Bahama  Islands,   270,   344. 
Barbados,     97,      136,     140, 
147.    153,   266,   272,   273, 
287,    299,    320,   356,    370, 
386,  386  i.,  397,  402,  441, 
441    n.,    442,    446,    457, 
482,   494,   518,   568,   582, 
618,    634,    651,    653,    677, 
681,   695,    696,    698,   715, 

723,  764,    815,    861,   862, 
892,  892  n.,  893,  907. 

Bermuda,  23,  101,  576,  644- 

648,  815. 
Canada      expedition,      387, 

388,  691. 
Carolina,  271,  297,  678,  750, 

760. 

Council  of  Trade,  782. 
Jamaica,    67    i.,    102,    103, 

112,    122,    133,    138,    146, 

218,   408,   444,   447,   466, 
.  471,  474,  858,  872. 
Leeward  Islands,  269,  676, 

736,  815,  909. 
Maryland,  211,  289,  289  n., 

290,    315,    334,   521,   596, 

795,  904,  905,  919. 
Massachusetts  Bay,    815. 
Nevis,  34,  127,  198. 
Newfoundland,  47,  288,  329, 

558  i. 
New    Hampshire,     2,     205, 

332,  439,  815. 
New  Jersey,    11,    104,    105, 

792,   814,   815,   819  vm., 

921,  924  i.-m.,  925,  927, 

930,  931. 
New    York,     35,    36,     399, 

493,   714,   728,   751,    815, 

816,  901-903,  924  i.-m., 

925,  927-929. 
patent  offices,  15. 
Pennsylvania,  289,   289  11., 

334,   481,   790,   791,   809. 
pirates,  557. 
St.    Christophers,    34,    127, 

198,  206,  236,  319. 
Seals    for    the  Plantations, 

16,  40,  50,  815. 
Stores  of  war,  59. 
Swiss  Protestant  refugees, 

697,  724. 

Tobacco  trade,  655. 
Virginia,  98,  121,  297,  409, 

434,  435,    650,   678,    697, 

724,  750,   760,   765,   793, 
883,  906,  926. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


571 


Anne,  Queen— cont. 

,     representations,     petitions, 

addresses  etc.  to,  concerning  :- 

Antigua,  116  TV.,  285,  443 
i.,  in.,  487  ii. 

Assiento  trade,  226  i. 

Bahama  Islands,  270  i.,  340. 

Barbados,  29,  108,  134  i., 
140  i.,  224  i.,  225  i., 
226  i.,  244,  270,  308,  326, 
352  i.,  369,  423,  441  i., 
467,  513  TV.,  518  i.,  559, 
586,  651  i.,  653  I.,  664, 
694,  698  i.,  700,  837,  844, 
907  i. 

Bermuda,  101  i.,  231,  231 
m.,  iv.,  637. 

Canada  expedition,  221  i., 
794,  794  i-m..  803,  806. 

Carolina,  285,  412,  662,  716, 
870. 

convoys,  80. 

French    captures    and    en- 
croachments,  554   i. 
*  German       Protestant       re- 
fugees, 14,  171  i.,  552  i., 
801  i.,  835  i. 

Hudson's  Bay,  522. 

Jamaica,  110,  453,  474  i., 
525,  525  i.,  834,  835  i. 

Leeward  Islands,  25,  194  i., 
200,  465  i.,  524,  589  n., 
630,  736  i.,  836,  909  i. 

Maryland,  131  i.,  203,  258, 
289  i.,  290,  410,  773, 
880,  883. 

Naval  stores,  914  i. 

Massachusetts  Bay,  33,  33 
i.,  391,  533  i.,  554  iv., 
604,  914  i. 

Montserrat,  524  i. 

Nevis,  9,  264. 

Newfoundland,  309,  922. 

New  Hampshire,  65  u.- 
vi.,  185,  212,  415. 

New  Jersey,  440,  778,  819  i., 

III.,      IV.,      VI.,      VII.,      XI., 

847  n.,  in. 
New  York,   14,   157  i., 

375,  711,  879,  891  i., 

924  i. 

passes,  305,  449  i. 
Pennsylvania,    32,     289   i., 

717. 

pirates,  908  i. 
Port  Royal  expedition,  533 

i.,  803,  806. 
Rhode  Island,  604. 
St.    Christopher's,    9,    175, 

182,  183,  183  m.,  209. 
Swiss    Protestant    refugees, 

601  i.,  n. 
Virginia,  90,  285,  601  i.,  n.f 

650  i.,  716,  883. 
,  pardon  by,  640,  669. 


Anne,  Queen — cont. 

Parke,   governor,   rewarded 

by,    597   i.,    scandal    concern- 
ing, 532. 

,     Prerogative    of.     See    Pre- 
rogative of  the  Crown. 

,    Proclamation   by,   47. 

,   Victories  of.     See  Churchill. 

Antego.     See  Antigua. 
Antego,  packet  boat,  69. 

,  captured,  255. 

Anthony,  William,  document  signed 

by,  391  iv. 
Anticosti,  Island,  60. 
Antigua,  116,  182,  187,  347,  367  n., 

505,  554  i.,   709,   709  i.,   748, 

752. 

,  Acts,  bills  of,  5,  532. 

,    ....    for  establishing   courts, 

84,  99,  150,  182,  245,  264,  597 

i.,  878. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  concerning  debtors,  182. 

,    . . .  . ,    regulating    elections, 

245. 
,     .  .  .  . ,     concerning     Robert 

Freeman,   563,   869. 
,   ....    for  establishing  guards, 

487. 
,-....    for    regulating  Militia, 

597  i. 
,    ....  for  quartering  soldiers, 

245. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  establishing    privileges 

of  Assembly,   5,    117,    117    i.- 

m.,  245,  531,  597  i. 

,  ....  for  seating  lands,  367. 

,   addresses  from,   443   i.,   n., 

487  n.,  488,  597  i.,  638,  641. 

,  agent  of.  See  Carey,  Richard. 

,  agents  of  African  Co.  at,  25, 

182,  and  see  Chester,  Edward. 
,  Assembly    of,    25,    91,    116, 

116  i.,  531  :  and  see  Acts,  bills. 
,   ....,  addresses    of,    443    i., 

488,  597  i. 

, ,  reply  to,  443  n. 

,  adjournment,   dissolu- 
tion of,  193,  367,  873. 
,     .  .  .  . ,     attempts     to     bribe 

Governor  Parke,  3,  531. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  claim  to  negative  voice, 

5,   117,   150,  487,  589  i.,    597 

i.,  852.  873. 

, ,  clerk  of,  487,  873. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    elections,     privileges, 

qualifications  of,    5,    117,   117 

T.-III.,   245,  443  n.,    531,    589 

T.,  597i. 
,  . .  .  . ,  journal  of,  5,  209,  484 

in. 
,  .  . .  . ,  .  . .  . ,  copies  of,  refused 

to  Governor,  873. 
,    . . . . ,    . . . . ,  falsification  of, 

487,  873. 
irregularities  of,  457. 


572 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


Antigua,  Assembly  of — cont. 

,  and  the  Militia,  597  I. 

,     .  .  .  . ,     and     quartering    of 

soldiers,   116. 
,    ,  speaker  of,    117,  487, 

589  i.,  597  i.,  873. 

,  Anne,  case  of  the,  443  11. 

,  attack  by  French    expected, 

443  ii.,  597  i.,  852. 
,   Barbotaine,   John,    case   of, 

443  ii. 
,  case  of  Mrs.  Cardro's  house 

in,  367. 

cartel,  the,  116. 

,  Clarke,  Capt.,  shot,  852. 

,    attorney    general    of,     1 50, 

150  in. 
,  chief  justice  of.    See  Watkins, 

Samuel. 

,  Crabb  Hill,  597  i. 

,  Creple  Gate  Point,  597  I. 

collector  of  Customs  at.     See 

Buckeridge,  Richard. 
,  cost  of  living  in,  5,  487,  p. 

386. 
,    Council   of,    116,    117,    148, 

150,   182,   193,  245,  488.  532, 

589  l.,  590,  597  i.,  852. 
,    .  .  .  . ,   address  from    150  i., 

531. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  instructions  from,  150 

n. 
,   minutes    of,    5,     182, 

367,    487,    531,    532,    597    i., 

873. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  quarrel  with  assembly, 

5. 
,      .  .  .  . ,     reply     to     charges 

against  Governor  Parke,  587- 

589  n. 

, ,  secretary  of,  590. 

,  Council  of  officers,  597  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    proceedings    of,    590, 

590  n. 

,  Coimcil  and  assembly  of, 

address  of,  531. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  minutes  of,  1 1 7,  209. 

,  Councillors  of,  5,  116  ii., 

145,  200,  207,  209,  336,  531, 
590,  597  i. 

courts  in,  150. 

,  court  of  Chancery,  pro- 
ceedings in,  150,  182,  443  n., 
531,  589  i.,  590,  590  i.,  597  i. 

,  court  of  admiralty,  pro- 
ceedings in,  484  xxxix.,  597  i. 

judge  of  the,  443  it., 

589  i. 

debts,  public,  of,  597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  difficulty  of  recover- 
ing, 597  i. 

,  defence  of,  443  I-IH.,  532, 

589  i.,  ii.,  vi.,  xxii.,  597  I., 
852. 

,  evictions  from,  1 82. 


Antigua — cont. 

,  Falmouth  Harbour,  443  n., 

597  i. 

,  fees,  regulation  of,  597  I. 

,  flags  of  truce,  589  xiv,  xvi., 

909  i. 

,  fortifications  of,  532,  597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  report  on,  589  vi. 

,  freeholders  of,  protected,  150. 

,    4J    p.c,,    commissioner    of. 

See  Perrie,  Edward. 
,  Freeman,   Robert,    case    of, 


,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  of,  869,  869  I. 

,  Governor  of,  complaints  etc. 

against.     See    Parke,    Daniel. 

,    Governor    and    Council    of, 

117,  n.,  m. 

,    ,    address    of,    116   iv., 

232. 

guardships  at,  597  i. 
Ham,  John,  case  of,  443  n. 
Home's  Hill,  597  i. 
hurricane  at,  597  i. 
imports  and  exports,  accounts 

of,  149,  150. 
,    justices    of    the    peace    in, 

443  n. 
,  Jurdine,  Richard,  petition  of, 

564  i. 

,  lawyers  in,  lack  of,  531. 

,  licences  for  leave  from,  852. 

,       Lt.- Governor      of.         See 

Yeamans,  John. 
Lt.- Governor  and  Council  of, 

597  i. 
,    Lt. -Governor    and    Council, 

address  of,  116  n. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  oppose  charges  against 

Parke,  116  HI. 
,  Lt. -Governor  and  Council  of, 

letter  from,   182,   183,   183  n. 
,  merchants  trading  to,  peti- 
tion of,  443  in. 

, ,  reply  to,  589  n. 

,  Militia  of,  443  n. 

,    Militia,    act    for    regulating 

desired,  597  i. 

Commissions  in,  597  i. 

,  defects  of,  589  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  reviewed,  852. 

,  Monk's  Hill,  fortification  of, 

5,    443  ii.,    532,    589    i.,    vi., 

597  i. 

,  Mutton,  Capt.,  case  of,  597  I. 

,  Naval  Officer  of.     See  Brett, 

John. 
,  negro  shoots  Governor  Parke, 

741,  852. 
,  negroes  in,  25,  150,  150  in., 

589  IT.,  ix.,  597  i. 
,    . .  . . ,   barbarous   treatment 

of,  852. 
imports  and  prices  of, 

109,  109  i.-in.,  855  i. 


GENEKAL  INDEX. 


573 


Antigua — cont. 

,     ordinary     office,     fees     of, 

589  xvin. 
,  Pearne,  case   of,    443  i.,  n., 

869. 
,    planters    in,    grievances    of, 

597  i. 
,  powder  duty,  remitted,  484 

xvi.,  443  TI.,  484  xvi.,  589  i., 

xvn.,  597  i. 
,    Prerogative    of   the    Crown, 

5.  597  i,,  and  see  Assembly. 

,  privateers,  1 16,  597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  commissions  of,  443  TI., 

p.   392. 

,  prizes,  443  n. 

,    Provost    Marshall    of.     See 

Ayon,  Michael. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deputies  of,  597  i. 

,  Quakers  in,  597  i. 

,  H.M.  regiment  in,  91,   191- 

193,  367. 

,  discipline  of,  597  i. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  losses  in  naval  action. 

529  iv. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    quartering    of,     116, 

589  i. 
,    riot    in,    150,    150    m.-xix, 

459  i.,  531. 
,  St.  Johns,  150,  413  11.,  589  i., 

XI.,  XXIV.,  XXV. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    fortification    of,    532, 

597  i. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  minister  of.     See  Feild, 

James. 
,   Secretary    of,    531,    589    i., 

597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deputy  of,  5. 

,  seizures,  245. 

stocks  etc.,  in,  597  i. 

,  stores  of  war  in,  account  of, 

487  in. 

sugar,  price  of,  597  i. 

trade,   illegal,   in,    117,    148, 

150,  589  xi.-xvi.,  597  i. 

,  with  Carolina,  739. 

, ,  with  New  York,  10. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  with  Rhode  Island  230 

n. 

Treasurer  of,  852. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  accounts  of,  25. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  removal  of,  597  i.  ;  and 

see  French,  Joseph. 

,  turkeys,  597  i. 

,    Union    the,    welcomed    in, 

443  i 

Waldron's  Hill,  597  i. 

,  Willoughby  Bay,   597  i. 

,       and        see        Codrington  ; 

Chester  ;   Nivine  ;   Parke,  and 

Leeward  Islands. 

Appeals  from  the  Plantations,  Com- 
mittee for  hearing  ;    see  Privy 

Council. 
Appleton,  John,  391  i. 


Appleton,  Samuel,  391  i. 

Aquaforte,  Harbour  of  (Newfound- 
land), 554  i. 

Archbould,  James,  451  i. 

Armistead,  William.  216  in. 

Armstrong,   Robert,    2. 

,   letter  from,  212. 

,  William,  911  ix. 

Arnol,  Robert,  case  of,  126  i.,  180  n., 
583  xxix. 

Arnold,  John,    152. 

Arnot,  Alexander,  deposition  of, 
180  iv.  (I). 

Arrears,  commissioners  for  stating, 
letter  from,  877. 

, ,  letter  to,  884. 

Artell,  Monsr.,  621  iv  (a). 

Ascough  (Ayscough),  John.  110,  208. 

Ash,  Isle  of  (Isle  des  Vaches)  settled 
by  the  French,  654  i. 

,  report  on,  554  i. 

Ashhurst,  Sir  William,  617. 

Ashley  (Ashby),  — ,  Receiver  General, 
S.  Carolina,  424,  752. 

Ashley,  Maurice,  a  Lord  Proprietor  of 
Carolina,  document  signed  by, 
233,  237-241,  424-426,  456, 
462,  464,  468,  469,  479,  480, 
509,  514,  515,  544.  554  vm., 
569,  659,  675,  682,  687,  713, 
719,  735,  743.  744,  813,  828, 
829. 

Ask,  Capt.,  848. 

Assiento,  the  (negro  trade  agree- 
ment), 134  i.,  226  T.,  331,  525 

I.-VT. 

Atkins,  Lieut.,  191. 

Atkinson,  John,  484  vm. 

Atkinson,    Theodore,    65   v.,    260   i., 

392  n. 

Attkinson,  Keate,  597  I. 
Attorney    General,     the.     See    Har- 

court,    Sir   Simon    (1708)   and 

Mountague,  Sir  James  (1709). 
Atwood,  William,  late   Chief  Justice 

of   New    York,     letter    from, 

802. 

,  petition  of,  545. 

Aubin,  Abraham,  908  v. 

,  Penelope,  wife  of  preceding, 

deposition  of,  908  v. 
Auditor  General  of  the  Plantations. 

See  Blathwayt,  William. 
Avason  (Newfoundland),  554  i. 
Aynsworth,  James,  179,  180,  317, 

324,  380,  583  xvn. 
Ayon,   Michael,   Provost  Marshal   of 

Antigua,  5,   150  m.,  209,  443 

n.,  459  i.,  589  i.,  597  i.,  624 

(6). 

,  letter  from,  741,  852. 

deposition  of,   150  VT. 

,  document  signed  by,  487  n. 

Ayris,     — ,     Governor     of     Tobago, 

554  i, 


574 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


B 


Baas,  M.  de,  Governor  of  Martinique, 

554  i. 

Baber,  John,  secretary  of  Jamaica, 
56  I.,  781. 

,  letter  from,  812. 

,  letter  to,  854. 

,  petition  of,  812  i. 

Badminton,  597  i. 
Bahama  Islands,  the,  301. 

account  of,  870. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  defence  of,  proposals 

for,  340. 

,  French  at,   615. 

,    ,    cruelty    of,    176,    176 

i.,  ii.,  448,  472,  643,  733,  870. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  not  resident  at,  794  rx. . 

.......    .  .  .  . ,  seizure  by,  606. 

,  Governor  proposed  for,  340. 

,  Harbour  Island,  472. 

,  Lords  Proprietors  of,  340. 

, ,  letter  to,  291. 

,  neglected  state  of,  340. 

,  New  Providence,  870. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    fortification    of,    de- 
manded, 270  i. 

, ,  raid  on,  448. 

,  privateers,  870. 

,  recovery  of,  instructions  for, 

658.  660,  794,  794  v.,  794  ix., 

794  xi. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    delay    in,    proposed, 

794  ix. 

,   report   upon,    340,  344. 

,    resumption    to    the    Crown, 

petition,  proposal  for,  270  i., 

291,  340,  448. 

,  salt  in,  448. 

,  soldiers  for,  340. 

Spaniards  in,  615. 

,  cruelties  of,  870. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   seizure  by,   606. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  settlement  by,  feared, 

270  i. 

trade  with  Carolina,  739. 

,    trade   with    Rhode    Island, 

230  ii. 

Bahamas  ;    and  see  Providence. 
Baker,  — ,  Capt.  R.  N.,  376. 
Henry,  document  signed  by, 

62. 

Ball,  Guy,  affidavit  of,  29. 
Ballard,  Benjamin,  agent  for  Royal 

African  Co.,  583  XLVIII. 
Baltimore,      Lord.         See      Calvert, 

Charles. 
Bamfeild,    Philip,    case    of,      126    i., 

180  ii.,  180  iv.  (h),  583  xxvi., 

694. 
Banker,  Evt.,  621  iv.  (a). 


BARBADOS,  11,  29,  116,  117,  151, 
197,  228,  531,  532  ;  and  see 
Dominico  ;  St.  Vincents  ;  Sta. 
Lucia  ;  Tobago  ;  African  Co.  ; 
Beresford,  Samuel  ;  Crowe, 
Mitford  ;  Downes,  Richard  ; 
Lillington,  George  ;  Sharpe, 
William  ;  Skene,  Alexander  ; 
Sober,  John;  Walker,  Alex- 
ander. 

,  accounts  of,  88,  96,  180,  248. 

,  Acts  of,  88,  276,  642. 

,  Act  of,  for  settling  accounts, 

326,  857  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  for  appointing  agents, 

502,  513,  642,  748,  837. 

, , ,  repeal  of,  861. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  appointing  clerks  and 

marshals  etc.,  407,  559. 

,  .  . .  . ,  for  holding  a  court  of 

Grand  Sessions,  88,  825,  830. 
844,  862. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  regulating  elections,  245. 

,  Act,  Excise,  96,  126  i., 

141  m.,  180  ii.,  694,  837. 

,  . . . . ,  clauses  in  to  be  re- 
pealed, 568. 

,  .  . .  . ,  concerning  fees,  568. 

.  .  ;  .  .,  .  .  .  .,  for  Governor's  House 
rent,  repealed,  210. 

,   ....,  levy  bill,  180. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  for  regulating  the 

Militia,  597  i. 

,  Acts,  the  Paper  (for  ascertain- 
ing payment  of  bills),  141  in., 
156,  180  iv.  (j),  222  v.,  326. 

,  evil  effects  of,  96  I., 

179,  855. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  how  procured,  96  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  objection,  petition, 

against,  156,  156  i.,  ii.,  583 
m.,  583  xiii., 

,  .  .  .  . ,  project  of  new  Act, 

126  i.,  178,  180,  180  n. 

,  repealing  Paper  Act, 

88. 

, adjourning  sessions,  709 

XIII. 

address  from,  180  iv.  (6), 

210,  502,  583  LXI. 

,  agents  of,  180  n.,  210,  502, 

513,  642,  709. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  right  of  appointing, 

141  m.,  837. 

, ,  .  .  .  . ,  instruction  con- 
cerning, 895. 

,  Assembly  of,  126  i.,  180  vni. 

(6),  396,  583  x.  ;  and  see  Acts, 
Council. 

,  ....,  addresses  by,  96  i., 

126,  126  i.,  129,  141  m.,  156, 
156m.,  180  n.,  180  iv.  (j),v.t 
222  iv.,  v.,  248,  274,  502, 
502  vi.,  513,  513  i.,  m.-vi  , 
518  i.,  857  i, 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


575 


Barbados,  Assembly  of,  addresses  by 

— cont. 
»       ,   .  .  .  . ,   .  .  .  . ,  reply  to,  156  iv., 

577,  583,  LX.,  LXI. 

,   .....  adjournments  of,  694. 

,     .  .  .  . ,     claim      to     appoint 

agents.    Sec  Barbados,  agents. 

, ,  clerk  of,  502. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  complaints  against  A. 

Walker,  222,   222  v. 

, , ,  reply  to  222. 

,  council,  difference  with,  96. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  dissolution  of,  91,  248. 

,    .  .  .  .,  elections  to,  502,  513 

i.  (6). 
,     .  .  .  . ,    Governor's    message, 

speech,    to,    141    i.,    156    in., 

709,  857  ii.,  in. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  grievances  of,  96  I. 

, ,  journals  of,  222  n.,  502, 

583    xi.,    xii.,    L.,    u. 

, ,  levy  bill,  180. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  presents  voted  by,  126, 

141    in.,    274. 
,    . . .  . ,    reply    to    the    Three 

Councillors,   180  iv.   (ft). 

,  Assiento  trade,  226  i. 

,    Attorney    General    of,     96. 

180,    180    n..    396  ;     and   see 

Hodges,  Thomas. 
,  Baptisms,  burials  in,  96  n., 

709  vm. 

,  Bate,  case  of,  126  i. 

,  Bridge  Town,  inhabitants  of, 

petition  of,  583  xm. 
,  Bushel,  William,  complaints 

of,  895. 

.......     Chappell     Plantation,     ap- 
praisement of  negroes  on,  583 

XVII. 

,  Chief  Justice  of,  126  i. 

,    Church   livings   in,   disposal 

of,  96  i.,  141  in.,  248. 

,  citron  water,   183. 

,  clerk  of  the  Crown,  96. 

,  clerk  of  the  Markets,  15,  63, 

96. 

,  Colony  from,  554  i. 

.......      Commissions      of      Peace, 

changes  in,  597  i.,  698  i. 
,    convoys,    80,    95,    96,    248, 

396,  684. 

,  cost  of  living  in,  274. 

,  Council  of,  91,  96,   141  m., 

179,  180  n.,  222  in.,  v.,   502, 

503,513,  51 3  in.,  v.,  583  vni.. 

ix.,  749. 

,  .  .  .  .,  adjournment  of,  126  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   appeals  to,    88,     583 

T,IX. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by  4 

members  of,  513  ui.,  v. 

,  .  . .  . ,  Governor's  arbitrary 

proceedings  in,  179. 


Barbados,  Council  of — cont. 
,  Minutes  of,    141    m., 

iv.,   179,   180,  180  iv,  (a),  (d), 

VIT.,  352  i.,  396,    502,   502  T., 

513,  513  ii.,  583  XLIX.,  892  n., 

895. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  Minutes  of,  omissions 

in,  210. 

,  Council  and  Assembly  of,  180. 

,      .  .  .  . ,     complaint,     against 

Capts.    Legge    and    Norbury, 

709. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  memorial  from,  586. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  minutes  of.  88. 

,  Councillors  of,  88,  108,  126, 

13fi,  147,  179,  180,  210,  225  i., 

242,  244,  273,  287,  299,  302, 

317,   324,  380,  442,  457,  616, 

656  i. 
.......    ..I.-,  the  Three  Suspended. 

(Beresford,     Sharpe,    Walker, 

q.v.),  case  of,  690,  694. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  address  concern- 
ing, 577. 
,  . . .  . ,   .  . .  . ,   protest  against, 

583  LX.,  LXI. 
,    ,    reply  to, 

156  iv. 
,  .  .  . . ,  .  .  .  . ,  charges  against, 

502,  502  vz,  513,  513  i.-ix. 
,....,....,  charges  by , against 

Governor   Crowe,    96   I.,    126, 

126   i.,    129,    141,    141    i.-m., 

156,  178,  179,  180  i. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    ,   reply    to, 

180  IT. 
,....,....,....,  depositions 

concerning,  857,  857  iv.-vii. 
, ,  letters,  petitions, 

representations    of,    156,     156 

iv.,  178,  179,  180  i.,  496,  502: 

502    i.-vi.,  583,  583    ii.,    m., 

v.,  599. 
, ,    , ,    reply    to, 

180  n.,   180  iv.  (6),  583  iv. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    .  .  .  . ,    restoration    of, 

356,  370,  379,  380,  502,  513, 

618,  642,  748,  749,  857,  857  vi. 
,   .  .  .  . ,    .  .  .  . ,   .  .  .  . ,    delay   in, 

502,  502  i.-v.,  503. 
,   .  .  .  . ,   .  .  .  . ,    .  .  .  . ,  suspension 

of,  126,  156,  178,  179,  317,  356, 

370,  583  ix. 
,    ...,-,    .  .  .  . ,     .  .  .  . ,    reasons 

for,  324,  513. 
,....,....,....,  report 

upon,  352  i. 

,  Courts  of,  386,  892  IT. 

,  .....  abuses  in,  96  i.,  1 26  /., 

248. 
,     causes    in,     96    in., 

583  xiv.  ff.,  709  ITI.-VIT. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  marshals  of,  326. 

,    proceedings    of,    396, 

396  iv. 


576 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Barbados — cont. 

,  Court  of  Admiralty,  judge  of. 

See  Buckworth. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  seizures  condemned  in, 

709  xi. 
,  Court  of  Chancery,  179,  180 

ii.,  v.,  583  xiv.  ff.,  694,  709. 
, abuses  in,  126  i.,  and 

see  Crowe,  Mitford. 
,   .  .  .  . ,   causes   depending    in, 

709  ii. 

extortion  in,  96 i.,  248. 

,    Registrar    of,    96    i., 

141   in.,  180". 

,  Custom  House  officers,  com- 
plaints   against,    180,    180  n., 

380. 

,  debts  of,  156. 

,  decline  of,  853. 

,  defence  of,  396,  709,  857  n., 

in. 
,    Downes,    Richard,    case   of, 

141  in. 

,  factions  in,  126. 

,  Fort  St.  Anne,  96,  240; 

,    forts    of,    repair    of,    urged, 

709. 

,  fortifications  of,  396. 

,  4£  p.c.  duty,  210. 

,    Gilliiigham,    Manasses,    case 

ot,  126  i.,  892  ;  and  see  Gilhgan. 
,    Governor    of.     See    Crowe, 

Mitford  ;    Granville,  Sir  B. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    house    of    (Pilgrim), 

180  n.,  274. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  house-rent,   274. 

,    .  . .  . ,    instructions   to,    568. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  presents  to,  597  i. 

, ,  .'...,  disallowed,  274. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  salary  of,  proposal  to 

increase,  853. 
,    Governor    and    Council    of. 

Order   concerning,    386. 
,  Governors  and  Vice-Admir- 
als of,  857. 

,  Grand  Jury,  180. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  address  of,  210. 

,    Guardships    for,    586,    709. 

, prizes  of,  748. 

,  health  of,  709. 

,  Holder,  John,  case  of,  88. 

,  imports   of   beef   and    grain, 

766,  779. 
,  i  inhabitants  of,  baptisms  and 

burials,  96  n.,  709  vm. 

,  inhabitants,  increase  of,  709. 

,  Jews,  taxation  of,  583  xm. 

,  Justices  of  Peace  in,  88. 

,  Laurel,  case  of,  210. 

,    Lieut. -Governor  of,    126   i., 

180  TI.,  554  i. 

,  Lillington,  case  of,  141  in. 

,  Madeira  wine  imports,  96. 

,  Marshals,  right  to  appoint, 

857  i. 


Barbados — cont. 

,  merchants  and  traders  of, 

address  by,  502. 

,  merchants  trading  to,  testi- 
monial by,  302  i. 

,  Militia  of,  126,  141  in.,  179. 

,  .  .  . . ,  commissions  in, 

changes  in,  126  n.,  180  n., 
583  MI.-LV.,  694. 

,  Naval  Officer  of,  39,  39 1.,  n., 

94,  94  n.,  96,  132  ;  and  see 
Cox,  Samuel. 

,  negroes,  73,  126  i.,  151,  331. 

,  . . . . ,  account  of,  1 3. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  imports  and  prices  of, 

25,  94,  94  i.,  m.,  248,  277,  709 
ix.,  855,  855  i.,  892  in. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  required  for,  531. 

,  .  . .  . ,  runaway,  539. 

, ,  tax  on,  583  xin. 

,    ,  trade  in,   134  i.,  228. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  trade,  petition  con- 
cerning, 892  in. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  trade,  with  Spaniards, 

210. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  trade  in,  with  Virginia, 

215,  215  i. 

,  Neptune,  case  of,  583  n. 

,  Paper  Bank,  project  con- 
cerning, 180  vm  (a). 

,  Paper  Money ;  see  under 

Act,  Paper. 

,  papers  relating  to,  presented 

to  Board  of  Trade,  219. 

,  Patent  Offices  in,  15,  88, 

210,  248,  467,  857  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  encroachments  on,  326. 

, ,  list  of,  96. 

,  Patent  Offices,  ;  and  see 

Gordon,  George. 

,  Pilgrim,  180  IT.,  274. 

,  possibilities  of,  597  T. 

,  powder,  895. 

,  powder  duty,  210. 

,  and  the  Prerogative  of  the 

Crown,  837. 

,  pressing  of  seamen,  248. 

,  privateers,  sufferings  from, 

540. 

,  prizes,  88,  180,  709  xi.,  748. 

,  .....  instructions  concerning, 

275. 

,  Proprietors  in,  letter  from, 

892  in. 

,  .  . .  . ,  deposition  of,  321. 

,  Provost  Marshal  of,  96, 

126  i.,  308..  360,  362-364,  684, 
709,  857  i.,  ;  and  see  Gordon, 
George. 

,  Provost  Marshall,  Deputy, 

907i. 

,  Provost  Marshal  of,  encroach- 
ments upon  office  of,  326. 

,  Receiver  General  of.  See 

Berwick,  Samuel. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


577 


Barbados — cont. 

,  Revenue  of,  844. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  accounts    of,    88,    709, 

895. 
,    Regiment    in,    Marshal    of, 

583  XLTI,  XLIII. 

,   Seal,  new,  for,   40,   815. 

,  Secretary  of,  248,  597  i. 

, ,  fees  of,  349,  369  ;  and  see 

Skene,  Alexander  ;  Baron,  T. 
,   ships   and   shipping  returns 

of,  10,  277,  583  xm. 

,  smallpox  m,  709. 

,  stores  of  war  of,  account  of, 

83,  396,   396  i.-m.,   709  xn., 

895. 

, request  for,  396,  396  i. 

,  sugar  crop,  96,  684,  709. 

,  supply,  vote  for,   396. 

,  trade,  decay  of,  583  xni, 

,  trade,  fleet  of,  96,  141,  141  iv., 

248,  684. 

,  trade,  illegal,  166,  186. 

,  trade  with  Carolina,  739. 

,  trade  with  Maryland,  197. 

,    trade    with    New    England, 

779. 
,    trade    with    Newfoundland, 

223  i. 
,  trade  with  New  York,    396, 

779. 
,    trade    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  n. 
,    trade    with    Spanish    West 

Indies,  134  i. 
,    trade    with    Virginia,     174, 

216  i.,   779. 

,  Treasurer  of,  141  in. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  and    the    Paper    Act, 

156;  and  see  Maycock,  Thomas. 

Vice -Admiralty  of,  857. 

,  windmills,  tax  on,  583  xm. 

Barbarie,     John,     document     signed 

by,  157  i. 
Barbottaine  (Barbollain),  John,  443 

n.,  487  n.,  597  i.,  589  xvi. 

deposition  of,  589  xiv. 

Barbuda.     See  Codrington,  Col. 

Bargus,  William,  890  m. 

Barillon,    M.,    French    Ambassador, 

554  i. 

Bark,  Edward,  Chief  Baron,  Barba- 
dos, 583  xxix-xxx. 
Barnes,  John,  150  in.,  443  i.,  IT. 

,  deposition  of,  484  vn. 

Barnet,  Richard,  letter  from,  243. 

Baron.     See  Barons. 

Baron,  Thomas,  Secretary,  Barbados, 

case  of,   126  i. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,   180  iv. 

(c),  (h). 
Barons  (Baron),  Samuel,  25,  117,  150, 

381,  532. 

,    ,  letter  from,    374. 

Barrett,  Abraham,   890  m.,   911  ix. 

Wt,  11522 


Barren,  — ,    Dep.   Clerk  of  Council, 

Barbados,  583. 
Barrott,    Abraham,    756. 
Barrow,  Thomas,  restored  to  practice, 

Jamaica,  142,  247. 
,  Harbour  of  (Newfoundland), 

554  i. 

Barwick,   Samuel.     See  Berwick. 
Bassett,  Thomas  Abell,  petition  of, 

report  upon,    279. 
Bate,  Raynes  (Barbados),  63,  126  i., 

180    iv.    (m),     583    vi.,     583 

XLVIII. 

Bate,  Richard,  letter  to,  892  in. 
Bates,  John,  228. 
Bath  Town,  424. 
Battyne,  William,  180  iv.  (i). 
Bawden,  Richard,  890  iii. 
Bay  of  Bulls,  inhabitants  of,  condi- 
tions of  ransom  of,  890  n.— rv. 
Bayard,    Nicholas,    memorial    from, 

554  i.,  x. 

Bayard,  Samuel,  767. 
Bayer,   Bastian    Otto,    150  in.,   443 

i.,  ii. 

, ,  arrest  o^,  459  I.,  852. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  charged  with  shooting 

Governor  Parke,  741. 

,  John  Otto.  443  i.,  TI.,  741. 

B.,  E.,  letter  signed  by,  831  i. 
Beach,  Capt.,  R.  N.,  554  i. 
Beaufort,    Duke    of.     See    Somerset, 

Henry. 

Beaulieu,  Henry,  487  IT. 
Beckford,  Peter,  174,  649. 

, character  of,  452  i. 

Beckles,  Thomas,   274,   502,   502  n., 

583  ii.,  in.,  857  iv.,  v. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  583  XL. 

Beckman,  J.,  10  i. 

,  document  signed  by,  157  i. 

Beeston,    Sir   W.,    late    Governor   of 

Jamaica,    142,   444,  525  i. 
Belcher.  Andrew,  391  i.,  ii. 
Bell,  Boaz,  411. 

,....,  deposition  of,  411  i. 

Bellomont,    Earl      of.      See     Coote, 

Richard. 

Benbow,  Vice-Admiral,  son  of,  620  I. 
Bendall,  Hopefor,  443  i.,  ii. 
Bendysh,  H.,  letter  from,  657,  737. 

' . , ,  letter  to,  667. 

Bendyshe,      Thomas,     letter      from, 

564. 
Benger,   Mrs.,  petition  of,  reply  to, 

158  vm. 

Benjers,  —  (Newfcl.),  890  n. 
Bennett,  Benjamin,  Lt. -Governor  of 

Bermuda,  870. 
,    charges    against,     72, 

101  i.,   201,   817. 

, , ,  reply  to  231 1.,  IT. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  complaint  by,   163. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  correspondence  of,  pre- 
cautions for,  389. 

C  P37 


578 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Bennett,   Benjamin,    correspondence 

of — cont. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  interception     of, 

389. 
,    ,    enclosures     to 

brother,    389. 
, ,  letter  to,  23,  163,  643, 

673,  728. 

Sir  John,  389,  508,  575. 

,    ,    letter   from,    18,   72- 

75,    176,    201,    389,    390,   411, 

472,  615,   755,   817. 
,    William,    document    signed 

by,  358  i. 

Benningen,  Sieur  van,  554  I. 
Bentiett,  Robert,  911  ix. 
Bentley,  Elizabeth  and  John,  petition 

of,  583  tvni.,  651  i. 

,   .  .  .  . ,   report  upon,  664. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  order  concerning.  681, 

695. 

Beresford,  Richard,  739. 
,  Rev.   Samuel,   Councillor   of 

Barbados,  352  i.,  583  ix. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  bribery  attempted  by, 

513  ix. 
,   . . . . ,  character  of,    180   n., 

VI. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  against,  reply 

to,  248. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  charges  against  Gov- 
ernor Crowe  etc.,  129,  178, 
224  i.,  320. 

,  ,  reply  to,  180 

iv.  (6). 

,  .  . .  . ,  depositions  concerning, 

857,  857  iv.-vn. 

,  .  . .  .,  letter  from,  126,  156, 

156  iv.,  178,  583. 

, petition  of,  222  in. 

,  ....,....,  representation  of, 

to  Governor  Crowe,  126  I., 
178,  179,  180  i. 

,    ,    ,  reply  to,  180  n. 

,  . . . . ,  removed  from  Com- 
mission of  Peace,  583  vi. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  restoration  of,  to  Coun- 
cil, 356,  370,  380. 

,  suspension  of,  from 

Council,  156,  178,  179,  317. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    reason  for,  324. 

,  .  . .  .  ;  and  see  Barbados, 

Councillors,  the  Three. 

Berkeley,  James,  Earl  of  Berkeley, 
Viscount  Dursley,  214. 

Bermingham,  John,  deposition  of, 
150  viii. 

BERMUDA  ;  and  see  Bennett,  Benja- 
min ;  Bennett,  Sir  John  ; 
Jones,  Edward. 

Acts  of,  389. 

.......  Act  for  building  ferry-house, 

390. 

for  regulating  Courts,  389. 

,  agents  of,  231,  643. 


Bermuda — cont. 

,  Assembly  of,  231  i.,  390. 

,  Attorney  General  of,  163. 

,  Collector  of  Customs  at,  176. 

,  Colony  from,  554  i. 

Council  of,  72,  389,  389  i. 

,  Council  and  Assembly  of, 

petition  of,  231,  231  in.,  iv. 

,  Councillors  of,  637,  643-648. 

,  Court  of  Admiralty  at,  pro- 
ceedings of,  176,  176  v. 

,  Daffy,  trial  of,  176,  176  in. 

,  defence  of,  411. 

fortifications  of,  817. 

,  Justices  of,  deposition  of, 

231  i. 

,  .  .  .  .,  remonstrance  of,  18. 

,  Lt. -Governor  of,  salary  of, 

5  ;  and  see  Bennett,  Benjamin. 

,  land  in,  impoverishment  of 

230  iv. 

,  Margaret  sloop,  case  of, 

176,  176  iv.,  v..  643. 

,  Newman,  Mathew,  case  of 

46. 

,  Naval  Officer's  lists,   176. 

,  negroes  in,  73. 

,  Orders  in  Council  concerning, 

,    Provost    Marshall    of.     See 

Jones,  Edward. 
,  ports,  restriction  of,  petition 

against,  231,  231  iv. 

,  Proprietors  of,  231  iv. 

,    St.    Georges,    harbour     of, 

231  iv. 

,  salt  ponds,  231  iv. 

,  seals,  new,  40. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  warrant  for  use  of,  815. 

Secretary  of,   389  ;    and  see 

Jones,  Edward. 

shipping  of,  231  TV. 

,   stores  of  war,   accounts  of, 

389,   390,  755,  817. 
,  tobacco,  planting  of  ceased, 

231  iv. 

,  trade  of,  231  iv. 

,    trade,    illegal    at,    176,    176 

iv.,  v. 

,  trade  with  Jamaica,  448. 

,    trade   with   Rhode     Island, 

230  n. 

,  trade  with  Virginia,   216  i. 

,  treasure  trove  in,  proceedings 

relating  to,  817,  817  i. 
Bernard.   Thomas,   petition   of,   525, 

525  i. 

Bernoe  (?  Peroneau),  411  n. 
Berwick     (Barwick),     Samuel,     179, 

180,     317,     324,     380,     934. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  petition  of,  656  i. 

Beverley,  Robert,  vineyards  of,  932. 
Bevon,  —  (Nevis),   187. 
Bickford,  William,  911  ix. 
Biggs,  Seth,  131. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


579 


Bignall,  William,  letter  from,  445  i. 

Bill,  Jacob,   228. 

Bill,  John,  174  ii. 

Bilton,    William,    Capt.,    letter    to, 

831  n. 

Bird,  William.     See  Byrd. 

Bishop,  John,  deposition  of,  589  xxv. 

Black,  Cuthbert,  487  n. 

Blackamore,  ship,   752. 

Blacke,  Patrick,  484  xxn. 

Blackman,  John  Lucy,  443  TI.,  597  I. 

Blackwater  Swamp  (Va.),  655. 

Blake,  Alexander,  150,  193,  487  IT. 

,  Jos.,  a  Lord  Proprietor  of 

Carolina,  document  signed  for, 
462,  479,  480,  509,  514,  544, 
554  vin.,  659,  713,  813. 

,  Mrs.,  deputy  appointed  by, 

S.  Carolina,  455. 

Blakiston,  Nathaniel,  agent  for  Vir- 
ginia, late  Governor  of  Mary- 
land, 258. 

, letter  to,  760. 

,  . . .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

811. 

Blathwayt,  William,  Auditor  General 
of  the  Plantations,  and  acting 
Clerk  of  the  Privy  Council, 
179. 

,  . .  .  . ,  documents  signed  by, 

34,  35,  59,  112,  206,  207,  211, 
399,  441,  443,  444.  858,  861, 
862. 

, ,  letter  from,   413,   827, 

832  i., 

,  letter  to,  414,  808,  823, 

824. 

Blenheim,  battle  of,  597  i. 
Blennac,'  Comte    de,    Governor    of 

Martinique,  554  i. 
Blizard,  Giles,  487  IT. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  junr.,  487  11. 

,  Jeremiah,  487  n. 

,  .  .  .  .,  junr.,  487  TI. 

,  Major,  sloop  of,  seized,  589  I. 

Block  Island,  defence  of,  230. 

Blomberg,  Baron,  554  i. 

Blondon,  John,  junr.,  487  n. 

Boden,  Richard,  756. 

Bodinot,   848. 

Bole,  William,  890  m. 

Bona venture,    M.,    Lt. -Governor    of 

Port  Royal,  60. 
Bonavista,  554  i. 
Bond,  Francis,  302. 

, testimonial  to,  302  i. 

Bon  Jcsu?,  ship,  908  n. 

Bonner,  John,  451  i. 

Bonnin,  Gousse,  487  n. 

Boon(e),  Joseph,  662. 

Borland,  John,  case  of,  391. 

Boston,    17,    19,    58,    196,    260,    261, 

604,  617. 

,  collector  at,  55. 

.,  conference  at,  794. 


Boston — cont. 

,  Fort  William,  391. 

,  accounts  of,  394  v. 

,  inhabitants  of,  address  from, 

794  in. 

,  negroes  in,  151. 

,  negroes,  imports  of,   151  T., 

228. 

,  post,  10. 

,  powder  magazine  at,  391. 

rendezvous  for  Canada  ex- 
pedition,   475-478,    497,    498, 

629,  666,  794. 

Bouvy,  Gabriel,  petition  of,  305. 
Bowden,  Mary,  Mrs.,  agreement  of, 

with  Governor  Parke,  117  TV., 

, ,  negroes  of,  194  in. 

,  . . .  . ,  petition   of,    117,    183, 

193,   381,  488. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  order  in  Council 

concerning,  505. 
, , ,  reply  to,  194,  194 

I.— VIII. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    representation 

concerning,  359. 

,  Richard,  890  n. 

Bowles,  Robert,  756. 

,  William,  756. 

Bowman,  John,  274,  583  xvn.,  857 

TIT. 
Bowne,  Andrew,  578. 

,  John,  Hi. 

Boyle,    Henry,    Secretary    of    State, 

221. 
,   ,  document   signed   by, 

676-678. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  letters,  references  from, 

14  i.,  76,  82,  85,  512,  552. 
, ,  letters,  representations 

to,  38,  71,  78,  89,  148,  183,  183 

i.,    367,    470,    488,    554,    602, 

892. 
Bradshaw,  Thomas,  reprieve  of,  451, 

451  i. 

Brady,  John,  487  n. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed    bv, 

150  m. 

Bramby,  John,  524  I. 
Brattle,    Edward,    Capt.,    document 

signed  by,  394  i.,  IT. 
Bray,  David,  216  in. 
Breda,   Treaty  of,    554  i.  ;     and  see 

Treaties. 
,  Treaty  of,  infractions  of  by 

the  French,   554  i.  ;    and  see 

French. 
Breholt,    John,    pirate,    557    I.,    908 

n.-v. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  proposed  expedition  to 

Madagascar,  575. 
Breton,  Cape,  60. 
Brett,  John,  487  n.,  597  i. 
, ,  deposition  of,  589  ix., 

XII.,   XVI.,   XXVII. 

Brew  Islands,  engagement  off,  56  u. 


580 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Bridge,  Sir  Tobias,  554  i. 

Bridger,  John,  Surveyor  General  of 

H.M.   Woods  in  America,  33, 

58,  896,  899,  914  i. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  affidavit  of,  118. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  appeal  by,  17,17  IT. 

,   application   for  allow- 
ances etc.,  24. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaints  against,  58. 

,  .  .  .  . ,    directions  for  support 

of,  30. 

.  .  .  . ,  instructions  by,  1 7  n. 

',    .....    instructions    to,    con- 
cerning masts,  24. 
,   letter  from,    17,    428, 

693. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  to,  24,  674. 

, protection  of,  391,  392. 

Bridges,  — ,    (New  York),  grants  of 

land  to,  848. 

,  Mrs.,  848. 

,    William,    Commissioner    of 

Ordnance,    document     signed 

by,  114,  306. 

Bridgwatter,  Thomas,  187. 
Bristol,  72,   107,   142,   150,   191,  255, 

852. 
,    Custom    House,   officers  of, 

return  by,  619,  619  i. 
,  merchants  of,  petition  against 

Governor  Parke,  465  i. 
,  and  Newfoundland  Fishery, 

619  i. 

,  (N.E.),  604. 

Bristol,  H.M.S.,  131,  322  m. 
Brodrick,  William,    142,   573. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  testimonial  to,  452. 

Bromfield,  Edward,  391  i. 
Bromley,  J.,  821. 
Bronsuns,  — ,  letter  to,  890  ix. 
Brooke,  Capt.,  collector  at  Bermuda, 

176. 
Broughton,    Edward,    835  i. 

, ,  petition  of,  525,  525  T. 

,  Sampson,  Attorney  General 

of  New  York,  35,  61  i. 
Thomas,    Surveyor   General 

of  S.  Carolina,  424,  739. 

,  warrant  to,   468,   829. 

Brouillan,    M.     St.    Ovide    de,    late 

Governor  of  Port  Royal,  890  v. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  appointed  Governor  bf 

St.  Johns,  890  IT. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  captures  St.  Johns,  859 

i.,  890  TI. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    holds  inhabitants   to 

ransom,  890,  890  in.,  iv. 

, ,  letter  to,  533  i. 

Brown,  Andrew,  921. 

,  Anthony,  443  i.,  TI. 

,      Jeremiah,      deposition     of, 

484  xxv. 

,  Joseph,  577. 

Browne,    Samuel,    document    signed 

bv,   187. 


Browne,  William,  391  I. 

Browning.  Christopher,  158  ix. 

Brunt,  van,  Cornelius,  document 
signed  by,  157  i. 

Bruster,  Thomas,  228. 

Buccaneers,  540. 

Bnckeridge,  Richard,  Collector  of 
Customs,  Antigua,  117,  478  n., 
597  i.,  852. 

,  .  . .  . ,  deposition  of,  589  xn., 

xv. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  suspended,  193. 

Buckshorn,  Joseph,  487  n. 

Buckworth,  Charles,  Judge  of  the 
Admiralty  Court,  Barbados, 
imprisonment  of,  126  i.,  180 
n.,  694,  583  XT,I.,  694. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  583  XLI. 

Bullard,  Benjamin,  583  vn. 

Bullen,   Thomas,  junr.,   583  T.VI. 

Buncombe,  Edward,  speaker  of 
Assembly  of  Montserrat,  docu- 
ment sisrned  by,  524  i. 

Buor,  Capt,,  487,  488,  531,  597  I. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

193  i. 

Burchall,  Robert,  deposition  of,  231  T. 

Burchett,  Josiab,  Secretary  of  the 
Admiralty,  10. 

, ,  letter  from,  214,  254, 

288  i.,  322,  338,  376,  382,  460, 
562  i.,  608,  660,  747,  831,  887, 
890. 

,  ,  letter  to,  47,  86,  213, 

253,  322  i.,  357,  461,  567,  607, 
635,  702,  731,  740,  894. 

Burlington,  10,  11,  11  i.  578. 

Burlington,  H.M.S.,  684,  709. 

Burner,  William,  180  TV.  (k). 

Burreau,  —  (Antigua),  484  xv. 

Burrell,  Henry,   117  TV.,  194  n. 

,    .  .  .  .,  deposition  of,   194  in. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

183  m. 

Burroughs,  Leonard,  487  IT. 

Burryan,  John.  9,  199. 

Burt,  William,  756. 

Burton,  Daniel,  1 94  TI. 

Burton,  John,  487  n. 

Burton,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  231  i. 

Bushel,  William,  Capt.,  affidavit  of, 
210,  709,  895. 

, ,  bond  of,  709  I. 

, ,  deposition  of,  709  I. 

Bushwick,  town  of,  848. 

Buss,  John,  65  vi. 

Bute,  — ,  554  i. 

Butler,  James,  756. 

Butler,  John,  junr.,  756. 

Buzzard's  Bay,  N.E.,  252. 

Byam,  Edward,  116  n. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

150  n. 

Samuel,  150,  381,  487  n., 

531,  590. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


581 


Byam — cont. 

William,  5,   116  n.,   150  n., 

200,  207,  209,  336,  531,  588, 

590,  852. 
Byerley,     Thomas,     Collector,     New 

York,  10,  51. 
, ,  letter  from,  404,  405, 

610,   706. 

, ,  letter  to,  52. 

, ,  petition  of,  850. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  restored  to  office,  405. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  suspension  of,  405,  848. 

Byng,  Sir  George,  Admiral,  80. 
Byrd,  William,  90,  98,  121,  216  m. 


Cabbage   Tree   Walk,    Plantation   in 

Barbados,  583  xxxiu. 
Cabinet,  Council,  the,  602. 
Cabot,  Sebastian,  554  i. 
Cachnawage,  Indian  Castle  at,  621  iv. 

(a),  (b). 

Cacho,  Company,  the,  331. 
Cadarachqua,  River,  621  iv.  (a). 
Cagnaquinny,  Indian  Sachem,  107. 
Caisson,  Abraham,  487  n. 
Calcot,  Samuel,  65  v. 
Cales,  411  n. 

Callahane,  Charles,  443  i.,  n. 
Caiman,  Alexander,  487  n. 
Calvert,    Charles,    Baron    Baltimore, 

Lord  Proprietor  of  Maryland. 
,    Act    concerning    agents    of, 

296. 
,   Act  empowering  fanners   of 

rents  of,  repealed,  296. 
,  boundary  dispute  with  Penn, 

173,  256,  410. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  of  concerning, 

289  i.,  298,  521. 

, , ,  dismissed,  596. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  order  concerning,  334. 

letter  from,  154. 

,    ,    to,    115    (1681),    289. 

n.,  in. 

,  patent  of,  565. 

,  Sir  George,  grant  of,  554  i. 

Campbell,    James,    letter  from,    348, 

548. 

, , ,  to,  348  i.,  519. 

,  petition  by,  558  i. 

Campeachy,  Bay  of,  174. 

,  logwood  from,  739. 

settlement  at,  proposed,  632. 

Campion,  John,  890  m. 


CANADA,  65  n.,  m.  ;  and  see  Indians  ; 
France  ;  Montreal  ;  Nova 
Scotia  ;  Quebec. 

,  account  of,  60,  107. 

,  acquisition  of  urged,  19,  609, 

794,  794  i.-m.,  797,  798,  803, 
806  ;  and  see  expedition 
against. 

,  attack  from  on  New  Eng- 
land, threatened,  196. 

,  expedition  against,  708,  819 

xi.,  888,  935  ;  and  see  Nichol- 
son, Francis  ;  Vetch,  Col. 

,  abandonment  of,  612, 

670,  794. 

,  . .  .  . ,  addresses,  petitions  for 

renewal  of,  794,  794  i.-ni., 
797,  798,  803,  806. 

, ,  arms  for,  387,  604. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  command  of,  196,  475- 

477,  794  ;  and  see  Nicholson, 
Francis. 

Commissariat  of,   387. 

, Congress  of  Governors, 

resolutions  of,  concerning,  794, 
794  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  address  of,  794  n. 

, ,  cost  of,  666,  794  n.-iv., 

803,  879. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Council  of  War  con- 
cerning, 497,  498. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Indians  and  the,  196, 

387,  604. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  reports  bv,  for, 

621  iv.,  629. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  instructions  concerning, 

387,  388,    475-478,    492,    497, 
498,  691,  794  i. 

,  ....  forces  for,  475-478. 

, Navy  and,  387,  794. 

, ,  pilots  for,  387. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  preparations  for,    604, 

605,  621  v.,  629,  666,  689,  691, 

794,  797,  803. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  proposals  for,  by  Lord 

Cornbury,   107,  235  ;    by  Col. 

Vetch    etc.,    58,    60,    85,    196, 

391,   602,  609. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  221, 

221  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  proclamation  for  en- 
couraging volunteers,  387,  604, 

629. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    quotas  for,  196,    387, 

388,  475-478,    497.    498,    621, 
666,  691,  794,  794  i.-ui. 

,  .  .  .  . ,   .  .  .  . ,  refused  by  New 

Jersey,  578,  604,  605. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  refused  by  Pen- 
nsylvania, 580,  604,  605. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   rendezvous  for,   387, 

388. 

, skirmishes  with  French, 

666. 


582 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Canada,  Commissariat  of — cont. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  success    of,    expected, 

602,  603,  617,  621,  691. 

, ,  transport  for,  387. 

fishery  of,  609,  794  in. 

,  forts,  217. 

,  French  in,  65  n.,  in.,  540, 

554  i.,  609. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  intermarriage  of,  with 

Indians,   217. 
, forces,  numbers  of,  107, 

217. 

,  fur  trade,  217,  794  II. 

Governor  of,    60  ;     and  see 

Vaudreuil,  M.  de  ;  Subercasse, 

M. 

grants  of  and  claims  to,  554  i. 

,  Indians,  intermarriage  with, 

217. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  numbers  of,  217. 

rewards  of,  for  scalps, 

391. 

Tntendant  of,  60. 

,  Naval  Stores  in,  609,  794  11. 

neutrality    agreement  with 

New  York,  554  i. 

,  resources  of,  60,  609. 

,  Surveyed  [?  by  Capt.  Vetch], 

60. 

,  trade  with,  617. 

,    trade   with   Newfoundland, 

859  TV. 

,  wheat,  609. 

River.    See  St.    Lawrence. 

Canawanego,    Indian    spy,     examin- 
ation of.  621  iv.  (a). 
Cape  St.  Mary's,  859  iv.,  890  v. 
Carbery,  Earl  of.  See  Vaughan,  John. 
Carbonear,  911  xv. 

,  Governor  of,  756. 

Cardro,  Mrs.     See  Hastings. 

Careless,  William,  451  i. 

Carew,  Col.,  554  i. 

Carey,  Benjamin,  391  iv. 

,  Richard,  Agent  for  Antigua, 

182. 
,   . . . . ,    . . . . ,  instructions  to, 

116,  116  m. 

, letter  to,  150  n. 

Caribs,  the,  709. 

,  conveyance  of  Sta.  Lucia  by, 

554  i. 

,  of  Dominico  by,  554  i. 

,  cruelties  of,  539. 

Carkesse,  Charles,  Secretary  to  Com- 
missioners of  Customs,  letter 

from,  49. 
Carlisle,  Earl  of.     See  Hay,  James : 

Howard,  Charles. 

Francis,  443  i. 

,  . . . . ,  arrest  of,  459  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  deposition  of,  624  (a). 

Carlisle,  pirate  ship,  908  n. 
Carmarthen,       Marquis      of.          See 

Osborne,  Peregrine. 


Carolina,  908  n.  ;    and  see  Johnson, 

Sir  N.  :   Nairne,  Thomas. 

,  Acts  of,  424. 

,  Acts,    confirmation   of,   455. 

,  Act  to  rectify  abuses  concern- 
ing Indians,  662. 

laying  duty  on  furs,  682. 

,  . . . . ,  regulating  Militia,  739. 

,  encouraging  the  settle- 
ment of,  repealed,  296,  655. 
,  ....  for  establishing  religious 

worship,  repealed,  662. 
,  Acts  of  Parliament,  validity 

of,  662. 

accounts  of,  424. 

,  Admiralty  Court,   Judge  of 

the,  398. 

,  Assembly  of,  424,  632. 

,   address  of,  662,    870. 

,  ....,   instructions    to,    455, 

456. 
,  S.,  Attorney  and  Advocate 

General  of,  233,  238,  342,  752. 

,  barony  in,  purchase  of,  464. 

,  boundary  dispute  with  Vir- 
ginia, 216  i.,  285,  295,  554  i., 

655,  765. 
,     Commissioners      to 

settle,  285,  297,  333,  402,  412, 

678,  771,  813,  828. 
Charlestown,  411  i.,  424,  632, 

662. 

,  fortification  of,  739. 

,  S.,  Chief  Justice  of,  240. 

,  S.,  cost  of  living  in,  752. 

,  N.,  Council  of,   137. 

, ,  President  of,  137. 

,  S.,  Council  of,  752. 

,  S.,  Council  and  Assembly  of, 

419. 

, ,  letter  to,  455. 

,  Cox,  Rebecca,  case  of,  424. 

,  debtors  protected  in,  216  i., 

655. 

debts  of,  739. 

,  defence  of,  424. 

,     . . . . ,    neglected    by    Lord 

Proprietors,  870. 
,  S.,  Deputies  and  Council  of, 

letter  to,  455. 
,    S.,    deputy    appointed    by 

Mrs.  Blake,  rejected,  455. 
,    N.,    Deputy    Governor    of, 

letter  to,   675. 

,  dismissal  of,  137. 

N.,  disturbances  in,  137,  744. 

,  duties  on  goods,  682,  739. 

,  exports  of,  739. 

factions  in,  662. 

,  French  defeat  of,  739. 

,  French  design  against,  411, 

411  i.,  n.,  615,  632,  643,  673, 

840. 
,    French    encroachments   on, 

632. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


583 


Carol  ina — cont. 

,  German  Protestant  refugees, 

offer  to  set.tle  in,  687,  719, 
743,  744,  829. 

,  Governor  of,  295,  455,  456  ; 

and  see  Johnson.  Sir  Nathaniel; 
Tynte,  Edward. 

,  ,  instructions  of,  368, 

368  i.,  424. 

,  Governor  and  Council  of, 

letter  from,  739. 

,  S.,  Governor,  Deputies  and 

Assembly  of,  letter  to,  456. 

N.,  Governor,  Council  and 

Assembly  of,  letter  to,  744. 

,  immigration  to,  from  Mary- 
land, encouragement  of,  131. 

, from  Virginia,  216,  216 

i.,  765. 

,  imports  of,  739. 

,  Indians,  632. 

,  Appallachy,  defeat  of. 

739. 

, danger  from,  609. 

'.  ..,  described,  739. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  instruction  concerning, 

424. 

,  ....  (Choctaws),  peace  with, 

632. 

slave  trade  in,  662. 

, slaves  in,  739. 

trade  with,  554  i., 

632,  655,  739  ;  and  see  Vir- 
ginian traders. 

, ,  war  with,  662. 

,  inhabitants,  numbers  of,  739. 

,  invasion  of,  by  French 

and  Spaniards,  designed,  411, 
411  i.,  ii.,  615,  632,  643,  673, 
840,  870. 

,  Landgrave  of,  424. 

,    . . .  . ,  created,   675. 

,  lands  in,  grants  of,  241, 

425,  569,  659,  719. 

S.,  lands  in,  grants  of,  in- 
struction concerning,  424,  455. 

,  Lords  Proprietors  of,  137, 

233,  295-297,  368,  509,  510, 
514,  515,655;  and  see  Craven ; 
Carteret  :  Ashley ;  Blake  ; 
Colleton  ;  Danson  ;  Granville. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  address  to,  870. 

, ,  Charter  of,  828. 

, grants  of  land  etc.  by, 

424-426,569,719,735. 

,  letter  from,  342,  398, 

402,  455,  544,  675,  682,  687, 
743,  744. 

, ,  letter  to,  189,  333,  752. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  warrants,  commissions 

by,  464,  468,  469,  479,  480. 

,  S.,  manufactures  in,  instruc- 
tions concerning,  455. 

,  manufactures  (woollen  etc.) 

in,  739. 


Carolina — cont. 

,  Militia  of,  739. 

,    S.,    Naval    Officer   of.     See 

Hyrne,  Edward. 

,  Naval  Stores  in,  739. 

,  negroes,  imports  of,  73. 

,  ....  in,  numbers  of,  739. 

, required  for,  331. 

petition  to  be  resumed  by 

the  Crown,  870. 
,   privateers,   commissions  to, 

831  ii. 

,  produce  of,  739. 

,  proposal  to  reduce  Mobile, 

632. 

,  N.,  Quakers  in,  137. 

,  quit-rents  of,   424. 

,    N.,    Receiver    General    of. 

See     Dansoii,     John ;      Gale, 

Christopher. 
,  S.,  Receiver  General  of,  239  ; 

and  see  Ashley,  — ,  Sale,  N. 
,  Receiver  General,  warrant  to, 

426. 

,  S.,  Registrar  of,  752. 

,  S.,  rice,  284,  455. 

,    St.    Augustine,    expedition 

against,  739. 

, .  settlers,  need  of,  739. 

,  shipping  of,  739. 

,  Secretary    of.      See   Craven, 

Charles  ;   Wiginton,  Henry. 

,  servants,  white  in,  739. 

,  S.,  silk,  455. 

,  Spaniards,  defeat  of,  739. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  design  of,  against,  673. 

,  stores  of  war  for,  needed,  739. 

,    N.,    Surveyor    General    of. 

See  Lawson,  John. 
S.,    Surveyor    General    of. 

See  Broughton,  Thomas. 
,    S.,    Surveyors    of,    security 

required  from,  455. 

,  N.,  town  plundered,  571. 

,  S.,  trade  of,  456. 

,  trade,  fur,  24,  739. 

,    trade,    illegal    in,    216    n., 

268,  284,  739. 

,  trade  with  Bermuda,  231  iv. 

,  trade  with  Curasao,  216  n., 

739. 

,  trade  with  Indians,  632,  739. 

,  trade  with  Jamaica,  448. 

,  trade  with  Madeira,  739. 

,    trade    with    Massachusetts, 

739. 

,  trade  with  New  York,  739. 

,     trade    with    Pennsylvania, 

739. 
,  trade  with  Portugal,  257,  268, 

284. 
,    trade    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  n.,   739. 
,  trade  with  St.  Thomas,  216 

n.,  739. 


584 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Carolina — cont. 

trade  with  Virginia,  216  i., 

739. 

,  trade  with  the  West  Indies, 

739. 

,  S.,  Trott  Col.,  case  of,  455. 

N.,  unsettled  state  of,  216  i. 

,  Virginian  Indian  traders' 

goods  seized  by,  189,  216,  216 
i.,  ii.,  295,  341,  342,  682,  765, 
765  i.,  771. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  order  concerning,  750, 

760. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  716. 

,  Vice-Admiraltv,  judge  of, 

420. 

,  whale-fishery  of,  424. 

Carpenter,  Joseph,  document  signed 
by,  391  iv. 

Cartagena,  56,  69,  451,  463,  525  i. 

,  Governor  of,  449  I.,  785. 

,  French  squadron  reported 

at,  542. 

,  Spanish  galleon  at,  56,  68, 

483,  542,  649,  785,  912. 

Carter  (?Richard),  Barbados,  94, 
180  iv.  (m). 

,  Thomas,  890  in. 

Carteret,  John,  Lord,  a  Lord  Pro- 
prietor of  Carolina,  document 
signed  for,  462,  479,  480,  509, 
514,  544,  554,  554  vm.,  659, 
713,  813. 

Carver,  John,  453,  466. 

Cary,  Col.  [?Thomas,  Lt. -Governor  of 
N.  Carolina],  complaints  from, 
744. 

Cary,  Miles,  216  m. 

Casco  Bay,  Fort,  391. 

Cassa,  El  Conde  de,  69. 

Castillo,  Sir  James  de  I,.',  Factor 
for  the  Assiento,  525  i. 

Castleman,  —  (Bermuda),  72,  74. 

Catherine,  ship,  410. 

Catoo,  Fra,  Bath.,  letter  from,  720  I. 

Certomanche,  M.,   60. 

Chalmers,  William,  surgeon,  195. 

Chamberlain,  Butler,  wife  of  Man- 
asses  Gilligan  and  relict  of 
Sir  Willoughby  Chamberlain, 
case  of,  126  I./272  i.,  308,  583 
xiv-xvin.,  694. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  of,  180  iv.  (*). 

,  Dorothy,  case  of,   583  xx., 

XXI. 

,    deposition    of,    583, 

XXXVI. 

John  (Antigua),  487  n. 

,  Middleton,  case  of,  380,  583 

XX.,    XXI. 

Peter,  Capt.  R.N..  47,  48. 

,  Sir  Willoughby,  estate  of, 

180  ii.,  583  xiv.- xvni.  ;  and 
see  Chamberlain,  Butler. 

Chamberlen,  S.,  158  x. 


Chamberlayne,  John,  Agent  of  the 
Massachusetts  Bay,  30,  58, 
691. 

,  letter  from,  538. 

Chambly  (Shambley)  Fort,  60,  604, 
621  iv.  (a). 

state  of.  621  iv.  (&). 

Chapel    Plantation,    Barbados,    583 

XXXVII. 

Chaplain, ,     Deputy    Receiver 

General,  Jamaica,  649. 
Chaplin,    Charles,    document    signed 

by,  827  i. 
Chapman,    William,    deposition    of. 

484  xxiv. 
Chardon,  P.,  411  i. 
Charles   I.,    of   England,    grants   of, 

554  i. 

II.,  of  England,  331,  554  I. 

IIL,  of  Spain,  53. 

Charlestown,     Carolina.     See    under 

Carolina. 

(Mass.).  33  in. 

(Nevis),  250. 

Charles  Straits,  60. 

Chasse,  John,  890  in. 

Cheseldyne,  Kenchin,  290. 

Chester,  H.M.S.,  798. 

Chester,   Edward,   senior,   Agent  for 

Royal   African   Co.,    Antigua, 

150,  484  vm.,  XT.,  589  i. 
, ,  account   of,    109,    109 

in. 
,    . . .  . ,  briberv    bv,    alleged, 

443  i.,  532. 

,  case  of,  443  i. 

,  .....  charges     by,     against 

Governor  Parke,  589  xix. 

,  . .  . . , reply  to,  116. 

, ,  deposition  of,  484  xxni. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  document    signed   by, 

443  i.,  ii. 

,  .  . . . ,  letter  from,  484  XL. 

,     .  . . . ,    maintenance      order 

against,  484  xn. 
,    murder    by,    alleged, 

531,  597  i.,  589  iv.",  v. 
,  riot  at  house  of,    150, 

150     m.- xix.,     459     i.,     484 

xxxi.,  589  ii. 
,    ,   sales   of  negroes    by, 

25,  109,  109  m.,  589  ix.,  597  i. 
,    . . . . ,  sloop  of,  condemned, 

117,  589  i.,  484  xv. 
,    trade,  illegal,  by,  117, 

150,    182,    193,    484  xv.,    589 

xn.,  597  i. 
,  Edward,  iunr.,  150  m.,  443 

i.,  n. 
,     .  . .  . ,     deposition    of,     484 

XXVI. 

,  Robert,  117,  321. 

, ,  letter  to,  484  XL. 

,    William,    senior,    583    xx., 

XXI. 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


585 


Chewan,  424. 

Chichester,  sailings  from,  62. 

Child,    James,    662. 

Chirbury,     Lord     Herbert     of.     See 

Herbert. 

Chnacknawago,   217. 
Chochtakuchy,  River,  739. 
Cholwell,  John,  10  i. 
Christian,  Hugh,  583  u. 
Church,  Col.,  604. 

,  Joseph,  391  I. 

Churchill,     John,     Duke     of     Marl- 
borough,     victories    at    Mons 

etc.,  congratulations  from  the 

Colonies    upon,    65    iv.,     142, 

329,  597  I.,  852. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    Patron    of    Governor 

Parke,  150,  488,  597  i.,  852. 
,     Sarah,     Duchess    of    Marl- 
borough,  443  11. 
Clair,  M.  du,  529  in. 

Clark, (Jamaica),  649. 

,  — ,  Deputy  Auditor  of  New 

York,   10. 
,  John,  Speaker  of  the  "House 

of      Representatives,      Mass., 

documents  signed  by,  806,  860. 

,  Mrs.,   St.  Kitts,  case  of,  625. 

Clarke,  — ,  Clerk  of   the   Council   of 

New  York,   10. 
,    Robert,   Capt.,   R.N.,   shot 

at  in  Antigua,   529  in.,   741, 

852. 
,     Samuel,     Commissioner    of 

Customs,  document  signed  by, 

27  v. 

Cleland,  John,  180  TV.  (i). 
,  William,  126  i.,  180  n.,  vm. 

(a). 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

180  vm.  (b). 

Clerk,  John  Buxton,  487  u. 
Clifton,  Capt.,  R.N.,  letter  from,  794 

vm. 

,  . .  . . ,  ....  to,  794  v.,  vi.,  ix. 

Clough,    John,    deposition    of,    908, 

in. 

Coaker,  Charles,  756. 
Coal,   663. 
,  in  Nova  Scotia,  609  ;  and  see 

Mines. 
Cochran,  Richard,  443  i.,  n. 

,  deposition  of,  623. 

Cock,  John,  756,  890  m. 
Cockeril,  — ,  440,  847,  848. 
Cockerill,  Thomas,  621. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  617. 

Codrington,  Christopher,  senior,  the 

late,    116,    150. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  late  Governor  of  the 

Leeward  Islands,    5,    180    iv. 

(m),   274,    381,    502,    590. 
....-..,   .  .  .  . ,  charges  against,  532. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed   by, 

554  i.,  LXI. 


Codrington,  Christopher — cont. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  grievances  of,  625. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  interest  of,  with  Lord 

Peterborough,  597  T. 
,   .....  letter   from,    583   r,v., 

tx. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  money  due  from,    116. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   party  of,  intrigues  of, 

116,    117,   150,   182,   183,   193, 

194,  487,  488,  505,  532,  852. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  money  sent  home  by, 

182,    183,    183  m.,    488,    597. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  title  to  Barbuda,  443 

IT.,  484  TX.,  589  i.,  597  i. 
,    Thomas,    document    signed 

bv,  157  i. 

/William,   116  u. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  document   signed   by, 

150  u.,  588.  589,  589  u. 
Coffin,  Robert,  65  v.,  260  i. 
Coinage,    currency,     157.    229,    375, 

391,  399,  663,  879,  880;    and 

see  Plantations,  the,  and  under 

each  Colony. 
,  Act  for  ascertaining  rates  of, 

157  i.,  192,  296. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  ignored,  621  ;  and  see 

Acts  of  Parliament. 
,    ....  concerning  (N.Y.),  157, 

375. 
(Barbados),    156, 

156  i.,  u. 

,  clipping  of,  10. 

Colby,  Thomas,  letter  from,   527  I., 

801. 
,    .  .  .  . ,   document  signed  by, 

801  i. 

Cole,  Gregory,  890  m. 
,  Sir  Michael,  grant  to,  Mont- 

serrat,  459  i. 

,  Richard,  890  u. 

,  Thomas,  letter  from,  49  I. 

Coleby, ,  expedition  of,  100. 

Colesworthy,  Richard,  890  in.,  iv. 
Colleton,     John,     case     of,     126     i., 

583  xxm.,  616. 
,  Sir  John,  a  Lord  Proprietor 

of  Carolina,  case  of  (Barbados) 

583  xxm. 

,    ,  caveat  by,  616. 

,   . . .  . ,  grant  of   lands,   Caro- 
lina, 241. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document    signed   by, 

233,   237-241,   342,   398,    402, 

424-426,    454-456,    462,   464, 

468,  469,  479,  480,  509,  514, 

515,  554  vm..  569,  659,  675, 

682,  687,   713,  719,  735,  743, 

744,  813,  828,  829. 

,  Peter,  464. 

Collin,  Pancras,  890  m. 

Collins,  Francis,  contractor  for  Masts, 

N.E.,  complaints  against,  693. 
, licence  of,  17,  44,  58. 


586 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Collins  (Collin),  John,  Governor  of 
St.  Johns,  Commander  in 
Chief,  Newfoundland,  com- 
mission etc.  of,  756,  756  (h), 
859  T.,  890  ii.,  911  xv. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  account  of  taking  of 

St.  Johns  by,  911  ix. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  documents  signed  by, 

911  xiii.,  xiv. 

, ,  letter  from,  833. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  prisoner  at  Placentia, 

890  iv. 

,  .  . .  . ,  report  upon  Placentia, 

628,  890  iv.,  890  v. 

Colonies,  the.     See  Plantations. 

Columbus,  Christopher,  554  i. 

Commissioners  for  staging  arrears, 
letter  to,  144. 

Commons,  House  of,  memorial  to, 
concerning  pirates,  908. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  orders,  resolutions  of, 

316.  351,365,  892 1.,  908 1.,  910. 

,  petition  to,  892  in. 

,  . . .  . ,  representations,  re- 
ports, letters  to,  330,  331,  361, 
373,  913. 

Compere,  Leonard,  Receiver  General 
of  Jamaica,  56  i.t  799,  827, 
835i. 

, ,  letter  to,  783. 

Conception  Bay,  859  i. 

Connecticut,  391. 

,  Act  of  Union  proclaimed  in, 

323. 

,  Acts,  printing  of,  323. 

.......  Assembly  of,  604. 

,  boundary  dispute  with  the 

Massachusetts  Bay,  691. 

,  Canada  Expedition,  instruc- 
tions for.  See  Governor. 

,  preparations  for,  604, 

617. 

,  quota  for,  1 96,  387, 

475-478,  691,  794,  794  i.,  jr., 
p.  50. 

,  coins,  currency  of,  157  i. 

,  Council  of,  604. 

,  Courts  of,  323. 

Customs  Officer,  10. 

,  damages  caused  by  French, 

60. 

defence  of,  p.  48. 

,  exports  of,  323. 

,  frontier  scouts,  196. 

,  Governor  of.  See  Saltons- 

stall,  G. 

, ,  at  Boston,  794. 

,  ,  instructions  to,  con- 
cerning expedition  to  Canada 
and  Newfoundland,  387,  475- 
478,  604. 

t  Governor  and  Council  of, 

letter  from,  323,  328. 

,  inhabitants  of,  numbers  of, 

323. 


Connecti  cut — cont. 

,    manufacture,    woollen,    in, 

323. 

Militia  of,   10,  323. 
Naval  Officer,  of,  323. 
Naval  stores  in,  60. 
negroes  in,  323,  328. 
Press,  lack  of  in,  323. 
produce  of,  323. 
Secretary  of,  323. 
shipping  of,  323. 
trade,  illegal,  in,  10,  323. 
trade  with  Mass.,   323. 

, with  New  York,    323. 

,     ....     with    Rhode    Island, 

230  ii. 

,    ....  with  West  Indies,  323. 

Conningham,  Mr.  (Barbados),  577. 
Conte,  Peter  le,  411  i. 
Contee,  John,  131. 
Convoys,    3,    5,    26,    56,    60,    68,    80, 
131,   137,   142,  247,  248,  253, 
254,    288   i.,    296,    322   T.-JII., 
346,    355,    396,    417,    445    T., 
542,  562  i.,  566  i.,  567  I.,  571, 
573,   684,   720,    852,   890  vu. 
recommended,  216  I. 
permits    for    ships     to   sail 
without,  280. 
demanded,  95,  96. 
French,  339,  451. 
Spanish,  339. 
Cook,  Sir  Thomas,  109. 
Cooke,  Giles,  deposition  of,  386  in., 
583  XT.VII. 

,  Sir  John,  Advocate  General, 

letter  from,    302,    395. 

,  .  .  .  .,  ....  to,  383. 

Coop'er  River,  241. 

Coote,  Richard,  Earl  of  Bellomont, 
late  Governor  of  New  York, 
118,  554  i.,  802. 
Copping,  Thomas,  625. 
Copp(s),  William,  583  xix. 
Corbm,  Gawen,  216  in. 
Corbin,  Mr.,  letter  to,  432. 

,  Thomas,  letter  to,  355. 

Corlaer's  Lake,  60,  621  iv.  (a). 
Cornbury,  Lord.     See  Hyde,  Edward. 
Corrotuck,  plundered,   571. 
Cortlandt,    J.    V.,   document  signed 

by,  157  i. 

Corwin,  Jonathan,  391  I. 
Cosens,    Barne,    late    Clerk    of    the 

Council  of  New  York,  10. 
Cossly,  John,  453,  466. 
Costebelle,     M.     de,     Governor     of 
Placentia,  890  iv. 

, ,  letter  from,  195  I. 

Cotton,  packet,  156,  301,  312. 
Cotton,  Sir  Robert,  758,  835  I. 

,....,  letter  to,  760,  770,  776. 

,  —  grandson  of  Sir  R.,  Pro- 
prietor of  Lynch  Island,  704, 
758,  762,  799. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


587 


Cotton — cont. 

,  John,  65  vi. 

,  Theophilus,  65  vi. 

,  Thomas,  56  I. 

, ,  letter  from,  770,    776. 

Couchran,  Richard.     See  Cochran. 
Council,  Cabinet,  602. 
Courland,  Duke  of,  554  I. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  grant  of,  554  i. 

Coursey,  William,  707. 
Coventry,  H.M.S.,  capture  of,  679. 

,  recaptured,  451. 

Covetto,  Fort,  217. 

Coward,  William,  657  i. 

Cowes,  collector  of,  letter  from,  49  i. 

Cowper  River,  464. 

Cowse,  James,  126  i.,  583  xvm. 

,  case  of,  583  xxxm. 

Cox,  Charles,  132,  160. 

,  Rebecca,  424. 

,  Samuel,  Naval  Officer,  Bar- 
bados, 39,  126  i.,  132,  513, 

582  ii.,  583  viii.,  ix.,  XLVIII., 
694. 

,  .  . .  . ,  document    signed    by, 

709  tx. 

letter  from,  95,  503. 

, letter  to,  intercepted, 

583  n. 

,  patent  of,  160. 

,  protest  of,  179. 

Coxe,  Daniel,  4,  921. 

,   . . . . ,  charges  against,    876. 

,  document  signed  by, 

819  i. 

Crabb,  Lawrence,  5,  116  n.,  117. 

,  ,  document  signed  by, 

150  n. 

Cradock,  James,  158  ix. 

Craggs,  James,  Commissioner  of 
Ordnance,  document  signed 
by,  114,  746. 

Cranston,  John,  230. 

,  Samuel,  Governor  of  Rhode 

Island,  document  signed  by, 
794  i.,  n.,  922  n. 

,    ,  letter  from,    228-230. 

,  letter  to,  922  i.  ;  and 

see  Rhode  Island. 

Craven,  Charles,  Secretary  of  S. 
Carolina,  Commission  and 
instructions  of,  713. 

,  William,  Baron,  a  Lord  Pro- 
prietor of  Carolina,  document 
signed  by  233,  237-241,  342, 
398,  402,  424-426,  454-456, 
462,  464,  468,  469,  479.  480, 
509,  514,  515,  544,  554  vm., 
569,  659,  675,  682,  687,  713, 
719,  735,  743,  744,  813,  828, 
829. 

Crawley,  David,  deposition  of,  765  I. 

Crevecour,  Fort,  60. 

Crisafi,  Marquis  de,  p.  44. 

Crisp,  Col.,  (St.  Kitts),  6,  200,  531. 


Crofts,  John,  letter  from,  448. 

Cromwell,  Oliver,  seizes  Nova  Scotia, 
554  i. 

Crooke,  Clement,  182,  531. 

Crowe,  Mitford,  Governor  of  Barba- 
dos, 15,  132,  147,  180  iv.  (I)., 
597  i.  ;  and  see  Barbados, 
Councillors  ;  Courts  of  ;  Cham- 
berlain, Butler ;  Gordon, 
George  ;  Mackasgell,  N.  ; 
Pilgrim,  Thomas  ;  Skene.  A. 

,  .  . . . ,  Act,  Paper,  projected, 

156,  179,  180  ;  and  see  Barba- 
dos, Acts. 

,  . . . . ,  Act,  suspended  by,  88, 

126  i.,  180  ii.  ;  and  see  Holder, 
John. 

addresses,  petitions, 

representations  to,  96  i.,  178, 
179,  180  i.,  n.,  iv.  (6),  iv. 
(j),  180  v.,  210,  222  i.,  m.-v., 
248,  502,  502  n.,  vi.,  513  j., 
vi.,  577.  583,  583  n.,  in.,  v., 

XIII.,  XXV.,  XXXIII.,  XXXIV., 
XLIV.,  LVI.,  I,VII1.,  LXI.,  599, 

857  i. 

,  ,  reply  to,  180 

ii.,  502  in.,  583  iv. 

,  . . . . ,  Assembly,  speech  etc . 

of,  to,  141,  156  in.,  513  i.  (a), 
709,  857  n.,  m. 

, , ,  reply  to,  513  i. 

(&)• 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  addresses  to,  by, 

180  n.,  180  TV.,  (j),  857  i. 

,  bribery  of,  alleged, 

126  i.,  583  XXXVI.-XL.,  513 
vn.-rx.,  694. 

,  .  . . . ,  certificate  by,  180  in. 

,  . . . . ,  charges,  complaints, 

against,  124,  126,  126  i., 
156,  178,  179,  180  i.,  210, 
248,  272  i.,  317,  352  i.,  386, 
386  i.-m.,  441  i.,  467,  496, 
502,  583,  583  n.,  //.,  653  I., 
n.,  698  i.,  764,  852. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  enquiry  into,  379, 

380. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  delay  in  answer- 
ing, 317. 

, ,  ,  reply  to,  96  i., 

129,  141,  141  i.-m.,  180,  180 
ii.,  iv.  (6).,  210,  248,  267,  513, 
513  i.-ix.,  892,  895, 

,  .  . . . ,  reply  to,  de- 
manded, 320. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  224 

i.,  694,  700. 

,  complaints,  charges 

by,  180,  180  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  against  Custom 

House  Officers,  325. 

,  ,  . .  . . ,  .  .  . . ,  against 

Naval  Commanders,  895. 


588 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Crowe,  Mitford — cont. 

, Councillors,  suspended 

by,  156,  178,  179,  180  i.,  324, 
352  i.,  583,  599. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  delay  in 

restoring,  179,  380. 

, ,  .  .  .  . , ,  order  con- 
cerning, 857  iv.-vu.  ;  and  see 
Barbados,  Councillors,  the 
Three. 

,  ,  Courts,  conduct  of, 

cases  in,  179,  180  n.,  583  xiv., 
xxiv.,  //.,  664,  681,  677  ;  and 
see  Barbados,  Courts. 

,  .  . .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

892  i. 

,  . .  .  . ,  Envoy  to  Spain,  180  n. 

, ,  Grand  Jury,  210. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  hoiise-rent  etc.  of.,  126 

i.,  210,  274,  583  xi. 

,  instructions  of,  317, 

582. 

,  .  .  .  .,  justices  changed  bv, 

583,  583  vi.,  vii.,  698  i. 

,  letter  from,  13,  94-96, 

124,  129,  141,  180,  324,  396, 
396  i.,  496,  513,  586,  684,  709, 
748,  749,  857,  892. 

, ,  letter  to,  63,  88,  164, 

210,  248,  370,  379,  380,  494, 
502,  583  LIX.,  LX.,  618,  642, 
729,  895. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Militia,  changes  in,  by, 

179,  180  ii.,  694,  698  i 

, Naval  Officer,  appoint- 
ment of,  39,  39  i.,  ii. 

,  .  . .  . ,  complaint  by, 

concerning,  895. 

,  . . .  . ,  orders,  warrants  etc. 

by,  583  xiv.,  xvi.,  xun., 

LVI.,   LVIir. 

, , ,  to,  153,  317,320, 

.  502,  582. 

,  Ordinary,  illegal  con- 
duct as,  126  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  packet  detained  by, 

513. 

, ,  presents  by,  124,  248, 

583  xi. 

, , ,  ,to,  502,  895. 

,  . .  .  . ,  recall  of,  694,  696,  723, 

764,  857. 

,  reprimanded,  88,  380, 

618,  642,  677,  837,  895. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Oriana,  wife  of  preced- 
ing, 694, 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  bribery  of,  583 

xxxvi. ;  and  see  Chamberlain, 
Butler  ;  Willoughby. 

Crown,  William,  554  i. 

Crown,  H.M.S.,  720,  785. 

Crump,  Nathaniel,  443  i.,  n. 

Cryer,  Benjamin,  513  vn. 

,  Isabella,  deposition  of,  513 

VII.,  VIII. 


Cuba,  542. 

,  flag  of  truce,  from,  227. 

,  Governors  of,  785. 

Cullyford,  William,  66. 

Cummings,  Archibald,  348  i. 

Customs  Officer,  Newfoundland,  119, 
348  i. 

Cunditt,  Elias,  890  in. 

Cunnitt,  Nicholas,  890  in. 

Cura$oa,  116,  230  ii.,  279,  411,  4)1 1., 
ii.,  484  xxn. 

,  trade  with,  10,  117.  150, 

216  ii.,  230,  589  i.,  597  i., 
625,  739,  831  n.,  872. 

Cushing,  John,  391  i. 

Cussate  River,  632. 

Cussy,  M.  de,  Governor  of  Hispaniola, 
554  i. 

Custom  House,  the,  5,  24. 

Customs,  H.M.,  5,  55,  58,  331. 

,  disputes  concerning,  in 

Jamaica,  720,  872. 

,  Officers,  collectors  of,  10. 

,  .....  complaints  against, 

320,  720. 

, Mass.,  391. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  New  Jersey,  11. 

,  Rhode  Island,  230. 

,    ,  return  by,   283. 

,  Commissioners  of,  176,  296, 

489,  643,  896,  898,  899  ;  and 
see  Carkesse,  Charles.  ;  Sav- 
age, Richard. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  appointments  by,  180. 

,  .  .  . . ,  letter,  report,  from, 

27  v.,  661. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    return    by,    27    vi. 

Cutts,  John,  65  v. 

Czar.     See  Russia. 


Daffy,  Samuel  (Bermuda),  trial  of, 
72,  176,  176  in.,  643. 

Daly,  Denis,  524  i. 

,  John,  524  i. 

Dam,  Rip  van,  849. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

157i. 

Danes,  trade  with,    150,    182. 

,    ....     Leeward  Islands,  484 

XXI      XXII. 

,   ..'. .    Montserrat,   192,   193. 

Dann,  Stephen,  756. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


589 


Danson,  John,  a  Lord  Proprietor 
of  Carolina,  document  signed 
by,  233,  237-241,  342,  398, 
402,  424-426,  454-456,  462, 
464,  468,  469,  479,  480,  509, 
514,  515,  544,  554  vm.,  569, 
675,  682,  687,  713,  719,  735, 
743,  744,  813,  828,  829. 

,  John,  Receiver  General, 

N.  Carolina,  Commission  of, 
514. 

,....,  .  .  .  . ,  instructions  of, 

515. 

Dariell,  720  i. 

Darien,   60. 

Darrell,  George,  deposition  of,  231  i. 

Darroch,  Archibald,  document  signed 
by,  583  xxix.,  xxx. 

Dartmouth,  Mass.,  assessors  of,  im- 
prisoned, 391. 

Baron.     See  Legge,  William. 

Davenant,  Charles,  Dr.,  letter  to, 
418,  427. 

Davenport,  Francis,  578,  921. 

Davidson,  Patrick,  583  XLVI. 

Davis,  Charles,    152. 

,  James,  573  II. 

,  Richard,  Capt.  R.N.,  letter 

to,  794  ix. 

Deacon,  Ann,  583  xxv. 

Deacon,  George,  921. 

Dean,  Christopher,  194  n. 

Dearlove,  Peter,  pirate,  trick  of, 
908  ii. 

Dearsfoot,  Indian,  632. 

Deble,  Thomas,  756. 

Decosty,  Jean,  487  n. 

Dee,  Duncan,  junr.,  741. 

Deerfield,  391  ;  attack  on,  621  iv.  (c). 

Delafaye,  C.,  letter  from,  842. 

Delamaine,  Worth,  142. 

De  Lancey,  (Stephen),  10  i. 

Delanedy,  Stephen,  document  signed 
by,  157  i. 

Delaranza,  Pedro  Joseph,  letter  from, 
720  i.  (6). 

Delaware,  River,   11,   391. 

Delaware,  the  Three  Lower  Counties, 
32. 

Demaschault,  M.,  Governor  of  the 
French  Leeward  Islands,  909  i. 

Denmark.     ^ee'Danes. 

,  Prince  George  of,  Lord 

High  Admiral.  See  Admiral, 
Lord  High. 

, ,  reported  death  of,  396. 

Dennett,  Robert,  document  signed 
by,  27  in.,  iv. 

Dennis,  Larron,  Capt.,  890  n. 

Denys,  M.,  letter  from.  554  i.,  vii. 

De  Peyster,  Abraham,  Treasurer  of 
New  York,  10  i.,  617,  802. 

Deptford,  H.M.S.,  33,  391. 

Deputies,  r.  Patent  Offices. 

Detroit  (Le  Destroit),  107, 


Dewitt,  Thomas,  487  n. 

Diamond,  H.M.S.,  741,  852,  865. 

Diamond,  Richard,  242  i. 

Dickinson,  John,  231  i. 

Diharoe,  Peter,  petition  of,  305, 
372  i.,  406. 

Dikes,  William,  arrest  of,  459  T. 

Dockwra,  William,  letter  and  petition 
from,  819. 

,  document  signed  by, 

819  vii. 

Dodson,  Capt.,  privateer,  commission 
of,  597  i. 

Dolphin,  H.M.S.,  396. 

,  sloop,  411  ii. 

Dominica,  709. 

,  allegiance  of,  396. 

,  conveyance  of,  554  i. 

English  claim  to,  539,  554  i. 

,  negroes,  runaway  at,  539. 

,  neutrality  of,  suggested, 

554  i. 

,  raided  by  Jamaican  priva- 
teer, 597  i. 

,  representation  concerning, 

554  i. 

Donovan(t)  (Dunavan)  Darby,  Capt., 
484  xxi.,  597  I.,  625.' 

Dome,  John,  583  vii. 

Douglas,  James,  Duke  of  Queens- 
berry,  Duke  of  Dover,  602. 

Douglas,  James,  Earl  of  Morton,  pro- 
posal for  reducing  pirates  at 
Madagascar,  575,  620,  620  i. 

Dover  (N.H.),  19. 

Dover,  Duke  of.  See  Douglas, 
James. 

Dowding,  Thomas,   583  xxvni. 

Downes,  Richard,  Speaker  of 
Assembly,  and  Judge,  Barba- 
dos, 96  i.,  141  in.,  179,  180  n., 
222  i.,  274,  583  T.VI.-LVIII. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaint  against, 

907  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  180  iv. 

(m). 

, ,  dismissal  of,  664,  681, 

695,  892. 

,  .  . .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

502. 

,  .  . .  . ,  imprisoned  for  high 

treason,  180  IT. 

,    ....,  petition  of,  651  i. 

Doyly,  Capt.,  597  i. 

D'Oyly,  Cope,  650  i. 

,  Robert,  petition  of,  650  i., 

654,  726. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  692. 

Dragon,  H.M.S.,  476,  604,  794  x., 
xii.,  798,  803. 

Drew,  John,  890  in. 

Drift,  Adrian,  417. 

Ducasse,  Mons.,  56,  68.  87,  96,  540, 
597  i.,  852. 


590 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Dudley,  Joseph,  Governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bav  and  New  Hamp- 
shire, 2,  2  "i.,  17,  17  IT.,  24, 
65  in.,  123.  185,  230,  260,  260 
I.,  284,  533  i.,  794  ix.,  914  i.  ; 
and  see  Bridger,  J. 

,   ....,  address  against,    391. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  in  favour  of,  65 

IV.-VT. 

, Assembly,  Mass. 

reply  to  grievances  of,  33,  33 
in. 

,  .....  Bahamas,    instruction 

concerning,  744. 

,     Canada     and     Port 

Royal,  expedition  against,  391, 
498 ;  and  see  Canada  expe- 
dition. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  instructions  con- 
cerning, 387,  476-478. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  Canada,  Governor  of, 

remonstrance  with,  391. 

,   case  of  Col.  Vetch  and 

Borland,  391. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaints  against,  33, 

33  in.,  58,  65  iv.,  422,  663. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  correspondence  of,  151, 

391,  417. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instructions  con- 
cerning, 58. 

, document   signed   by, 

392  i.,  794  i.,  ii.,  860,  922  IT. 

,  duties  of,  391. 

,   . .  .  . ,  instructions    to,    387, 

391,  476-478,  794. 

,    ,   letter    from,    33,    55, 

79,  151,  155,  266,  391,  392, 
394,  417,  689,  691,  794,  794, 
v.-vn.,  ix.,  x.,  797,  798. 

,  letter  to,    30,    58,  260 

i.,  292,  354,  430,  431,  670, 
794  vmM  XL,  xii.,  922  i. 

,  praise  of,    from   N.H., 

458. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  proclamations  by,  391 

VI.-VTII. 

,  ,  proposal  by,  for  Scot- 
tish settlement,  391,  392. 

,....,  proposal  by,  for  settling 

Nova  Scotia,  392. 

,  Rhode  Island,  relations 

with,  391. 

,     . .  .  . ,    warrant    signed    by, 

17  i. 

,  Sir  Matthew,   Commissioner 

of  Customs,  document  signed 
by,  27  v.'  661. 

,  Theophilus,  65  v. 

Duer,  John,  443  i.,  n. 
Du  Gue,  M.,  Admiral,  80. 

Dumma, ,  25,  150. 

Dummer,  — — — ,  memorial  by,   100. 
Dummer,   Edward,   letter  from,    69, 
445,  679,  722. 

, ,  letter  to,  445  i. 


Dummer,  Edward — cont. 

,  his  service  of  West 

India  packet  boats,  135,  255, 
301,  312,  589  xxvii.  ;  and 
see  packet  boats. 

Dummer,  Thomas,  letter  from,  683. 

Dunavan,  Derby,  Capt.  See  Dono- 
vant. 

Duncomb,  Geffrey,  484  xi.,  623. 

, ,  deposition  of,  484  xix. 

Duning,  Robert,  443  i.,  11. 

Dunkirk's  prize,  H.M.S.,  68. 

,  capture  by,  174. 

,  wreck  of,   174. 

Dunkley,  ship,  752. 

Dunn,  Alexander,  487  11. 

,  . . . . ,  deposition  of,  150  xm. 

Duport,  (?F.)>  187. 

Dursley,  galley,  922. 

Dursley,  Lord.     See  Berkeley,  James. 

Du  Southsay,  Mrs.  (St.  Kitts),  626. 

Dutch.     See  Holland. 

Dutch  West  India  Company, 
Directors  of,  letter  to,  246, 
281,  281  i.,  n.,  403,  600. 

,  at  Tobago,  554  i. 

Dyer,  William,  17  n. 


Eastern  Country,  the,  p.  49. 

Edgley,  Capt.,  72. 

Edwards,  Henry,  756. 

Egerton,  Charles,  Hon.,  575,  583  vi. 

,     proposal     of,      for 

reducing  pirates,  620  i. 
Egginton,   John,   case   of,    583   xx., 

XXI. 

E.,  H.  (Newfoundland),  letter  from, 

348  i. 
Elbridge,    John,    letter    from,     619, 

619  i. 
Elding,  Col.,  Bahamas,  870. 

,  Mrs.  Read,    murder  of,  448. 

Eleat,  John,   756. 

Eleuthera,  Isle  of,  raid  on,  448. 

Elizabeth,  galley,  107. 

Elizabeth,  Queen,  554  i. 

Elleis,  Robert,  9,  335. 

Elliott,  John,  487  n.,  890  n.,  in. 

Emerson,  John,  65  vi. 

Emery,  James,   17  n. 

Emra,  James,  grievance  of,  625. 

Enfield,  boundary  dispute,  691. 

Ennalls,  Thomas,  290,  707. 

Enterprize,  H.M.S.,  660,  794,  794  xi. 

Epes,  Daniel,  391  i. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


591 


Erie,  Thomas,  Commissioner  of 
Ordnance,  document  signed 
by,  306. 

Esopus,  10  i. 

Esquimeaux,  the,   60. 

Estree,  Comte  de,  554  i. 

Estridge,  Joseph,   9,   319. 

Evance,  Stephen,  Governor  of  the 
Hudson's  Bay  Company,  letter 
from,  500. 

Evans,  Evan,  document  signed  by, 
27  ii. 

Evans,  John,  Lt. -Governor  of  Penn- 
sylvania, 717. 

Evans,  Jos.,  document  signed  by, 
27  ii. 

Exeter,  19. 

Exuma,  176  i. 

,  French  at,  870. 

,  raid  on,  448. 

,  Spaniards  at,  870. 

Eyre,  R.,  Solicitor  General  (Oct. 
1708),  letters,  reports  from, 
177,  507,  507  i,  550,  553,  692, 
747  v.,  753,  851,  867. 

, letters,  references,  war- 
rants to,  170,  177  i.,  218,  344, 
549,  654,  740,  751,  818,  856, 
926. 

Eyton,  Richard,  693. 


Fairfax,  Thomas,  Baron,  908  n. 
Falmouth,  H.M.S.,  391,  416,  803. 
Fal  mouth  Harbour,  Antigua,  443  n. 
Fancy,  John,  756. 
Fane,  George,  Capt.  R.N.,  complaints 

against,  10,  86,  88. 
Farmer,  John,  case  of,  126  I.,  180  n., 

583  XXXTII. 

Farmer, ,  Col.,  629. 

Farmer,  William,  petition  of,  302. 
Fauconnier,  P.,  letter  from,  847. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  grants  of  lands  to,  848. 

Fawler,    J.,    Assistant    Secretary    at 

the    Admiralty,    letter    from, 

48. 
Feild,  James,  Minister,  Antigua,  182. 

,  .  . . . ,  case  of,  484  xin. 

,    . . .  . ,   charges   etc.   against, 

741,  852. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  623. 

Fermose,  Harbour  of,  Newfoundland, 

554  i. 

Ferryland,  859  i.,  911  xv. 
,    fishing    admirals    of,    certi- 
ficate by,  ]  58  ix. 
. . ,  Governor  of,  756. 


Ferryland — cont. 

,   Port   of,   attack  upon,    554 

i.,  890  IT. 

Fiall,  Island,  230  n.,  323,  908  n. 
Fidele,  French  man  of  war,  859  iv., 

890  IT. 

Field,  James.     See  Feild. 
Finch,  William,  524  i. 
Finney,  John,  document  signed  by, 

27  n. 
Fisher,   Benjamin,  document  signed 

by,  283,  283  i. 
Fiske,    John,    Rev.,   warrant    issued 

against,  391,  391  iv. 
Fitzhugh,  William,  216  in. 
Five  Nations,  the.     See  Indians. 
Flanders,  lines  in,  597  i. 
Fletcher,  Henry,  484  xxxn. 

,    . . .  . ,   case  of,   589  vni. 

.......    John,     deposition    of,     157 

VIII. 

Florida,  632. 

,  Gulf  of,  270  i.,  411  ii. 

Florida,  Count  de  Bega,  Spanish 
Rear  Admiral,  56  n. 

Floyer,  Charles,  Lt.-Col.,  193. 

, ,  petition  of,  591. 

Flushing,  N.Y.,  252. 

Ford,  Thomas,  890  in. 

Forster,  George,  583  vn. 

Forster,  Thomas,  321. 

Fort  Ann,  N.Y.,  604. 

Louis,  60,  217. 

,  William  and  Mary.  See 

under  New  Hampshire. 

Foster,  John,  391  i. 

Foulerton,  Thomas,  deposition  of, 
364. 

Fowler, ,  (Nevis),  187. 

Fox,  Edward,  formerly  Lt. -General 
of  the  Leeward  Islands,  836. 

France  and  the  French,  19,  56,  249, 
279,  340,  387,  388,  391.  424; 
and  see  Canada  ;  Ducasse  ; 
Hispaniola  ;  Indians  ;  Lee- 
ward Islands  ;  Martinique  ; 
Mississippi  ;  Montreal  ;  New- 
foundland ;  Nova  Scotia  ; 
Placentia;  Port  Royal:  Treaty. 

,  attack  by,  from  Canada, 

threatened,  33,  196,  615. 

,  attack  by,  upon  Carolina, 

designed,  411,  411  i.,  n., 
615,  632,  643,  673,  840,  870. 

,  attack  Ferryland,  890  n. 

,  attack  Isle  of  Boys,  859  i. 

,  attack  by,  upon  Jamaica, 

designed,  142,  227,  382,  720, 
872. 

,  attack  by,  upon  Leeward  Is- 
lands, expected,  873. 

,  attack  New    England,   260, 

391,  533  i. 

,  attack  New  Hampshire,  60, 

392,  393, 


592 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


France  and  the  French — cont. 
,    attack    by,    upon   Virginia, 

threatened, '421. 
,  attack  upon,  proposed,   19, 

58  ;    and  see  Vetch,  Col. 
,  in  the  Bahama  Islands,  615, 

643,  794  ix.,  870. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  cruelty  of,  448,  472. 

,  raid  on,  448,  606. 

,  captures  by  and  from,  500, 

512,  519,  520,  522,  546. 

,  cartel  with,  116. 

,  convoys,  68,  339,  451. 

,  at  Cuba,  785. 

,   damages   claimed   from,   by 

Hudson's  Bay  Company,  500, 

520,  522,  523. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  caused  by  in  America, 

60,  221  i. 

,  defeat  of,  Carolina,  739. 

,  deserters,  107. 

,  at  Dominica,  539. 

,  encroachments  and  captures 

by,   500,    512,   516,    517,   519, 

520,    522,    523,    540,   546-548, 

554  i. 

,  fishery  of,  60. 

,  flags  of  truce,  589  xiv.,  xvi. 

flag  of  truce  seized,  909  i. 

,  forces  in  Canada,  107,  p.  45. 

,  General,  60. 

,  Indians  of  Carolina,  attempts 

to  seduce  by,  632. 
Indians,    Five    Nations    of, 

seduced  by,  60. 
,  Indians,  intermarriage  with, 

217  ;    and  see  Indians. 

and   Jacobites,    116    iv. 

,  Mississippi  settlements,  544. 

,  Mowila  Bay,  settlement  at, 

632. 

,  Naval   Squadron,   at  Carta- 
gena,.  542. 

,   at  Martinique,  443  IT. 

,   .  . .  . ,  engagement   with,    off 

Porto  Rico,  451. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  movements  of,  68,  80, 

785,  912. 
,  Navy,  195  ';    and  see  Fidele  ; 

Galliard  ;    Valeur. 
,  negroes,  runaway,  harboured 

by,  539. 
,    neutrality    agreement    with 

New  York,  458. 
,    and    New    Hampshire,    60, 

65  iv.,  185,  392,  393. 

,  numbers  of,  in  America,  60. 

,   Peace  Negotiations,  claims, 

etc.,    534,    535,    535    i.,    539, 

540,     544,     546  548.     554    i., 

632,  794  ii.,  in.,  806. 
,  pirates,  offers  of  pardon  to, 

785. 
,    at    Placentia,    account    of, 

859  iv.  ;   and  see  Placentia. 


France  and  the  French — cont. 
,  of  Port  Royal,  65  n.  ;    and 

see  Nova  Scotia,  Port  Royal. 

,  prisoners,  673. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  in  Newfoundland,  859 

i. 
,   ,  exchange  of,  195,   195 

i.,  909  i. 
,   privateers,    10,    19,    26,    33, 

56,  60,  116,  123,227,  339,421, 

451,    533    i.,    534,    535,    540, 

597  i.,  609,  667  i.,  691,  720, 

803,  873,  890  n.,  912. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  burnt,  56  n. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  captures  by,  174,  255, 

870. 
,     .  .  . . ,     English,     complaint 

against,  195  i. 
,     ,    cruelties    of    at     the 

Bahamas,  176,  176  i.,  n. 

,  driven  to  America  421. 

,  .  . .  . ,  losses  inflicted  by,  451, 

720,  720  i.,  794  n.,  in. 
,  prizes  taken  by,  10,  174,  255, 

339,  339  T.,  870. 

Protestants,    at    Newfound- 
land,  223  i. 
,  rewards  given  for  scalps  by, 

19,  30,  391. 
,    St.    Eustatia,    captured   by, 

865,  873. 
,  St.  Johns,  captured  by,  259, 

345,  348  i.,  461,  859  i.,  890  n.  ; 

and  see  Newfoundland. 

,  in  St.  Kitts,  540. 

,  at  Sta.  Lucia,  539. 

,  shipping,  duty  on,  535. 

,    ship    taken,    88,    174,    180, 

396,  542,  597  i.,  649,  748,  872. 
,    tobacco,    import    of,    freed, 

295. 

,  at  Tobago,  539,  554  i. 

,  trade  with,  60,  181,  182,  391. 

,  trade,  illegal  with,  116,  148, 

150,   193,  532. 

,  trade  with  Albany,  617. 

, Ireland,  5,  209. 

,  ....  Jamaica,  649. 

South  Seas,  56. 

,  ....  Spaniards,  632,  872. 

,    ....    Spanish  West    Indies, 

174,  174  i.,  573. 

, West  Indies,  381. 

,     Treaty     of     Ryswick,     in- 
fractions of,  by,  522,  523. 
,  Turks  Islands,  captured  by, 

448. 
Frankland,  packet  boat,  301,  586,  722. 

Freame, ,  908  IT. 

Freeman,  Arthur,  563. 

, letter  from,  541. 

,  Mary,  869. 

,  Robert,  541. 

,    ,  case  of,  869. 

,  petition  of,  869,  869  i. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


593 


French,    the.     See    France    and    the 

French. 

,   Jer.    487   ii. 

,  John,  193. 

, ,  deposition  of,  484  xxn. 

,   Joseph,   deposition   of,    589 

x.,  xxn.,  597  i. 

Frere,  John,  244,  273,  287,  380. 
,   .  .  .  . ,    document  signed  by, 

513  m.,  v.,  583  xvn. 

,   .  . .  . ,  letter  from,  242. 

,   . . .  . ,  testimonial  to,  242  i. 

,  Tobias,  father  of  preceding, 

210,  242. 

Friends  Islands,  engagement  off,  56  ii. 
Frontenac,  Fort,  60. 
Frost,  Charles,  17  n. 
Fry,  John,  443  I.,  ii. 
Frye,  Samuel,  443  i.,  n. 
Fry,  Col.  (Montserrat),  109. 
Frye,  William  (Montserrat),  524  i. 
Fullerton,  Thomas,  286. 

,  letter  to,  892  m. 

Fur  trade,  the,  655,  794  ii  ;    and  see 

Trade. 
Fuss,  James,  890  in. 


Galdy,  Lawrence,  657  I. 

Gale,  Christopher,  Receiver  General 

of  N.  Carolina,  instructions  to, 

743. 

Galleons.     See  under  Spain. 
Oalliard,  French  man  of  war,  890  n. 
Gallifait,  M.,   Lt.-Governor  of  Mon- 
treal, 60. 

Gamble,  George,  116  i.,  589  i.,  597. 
,    document    signed  by, 

588,  589,  589  n. 
,   .  .  .  .,  deposition  of,  589  in., 

xxi.,  597  i. 
Gambling,  B.,  65  v. 
Gandy,  — ,  445  i. 
Gardner,  John,  583  xxvni. 
Gardner,    Robert,    Capt.,    agent    for 

Regiment    at    Jamaica,    451, 

872. 

, letter  from,  8. 

,  Thomas,  578,  924  i.,  930. 

Garland,  George,  756. 

Garland,  H.M.S.,  137,  253,  261,  295, 

608,  655. 
Garnet,  Rowland,  Dr.,  484  xv. 

,  John,  194  ii. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

183  in. 

Garrett,  Amos,    131. 
Gaschet,  Daniel,  petition  of,  909  i. 
Wt.  11522. 


Gateward  (Gate wood),  Thomas,   150 

in.,  459  i.,  589  i.,  624  (a). 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  150  v. 

,   . . .  . ,  document    signed    by, 

487  ii. 

Gazette,    the,    142. 
George,     Prince    of    Denmark.     See 

Denmark,  Prince  George  of. 
German  Protestant    Refugees,    from 

the  Palatinate,  1,  14,  120.  366, 

470,  841-843. 
,    accounts,    receipts    of,    42, 

581. 

,  arrivals  of,  527  i. 

,  distress  of,  491,  495,  495  i., 

527  i. 
,  Minister    of,    provision    for, 

38  ;    and  see  Kocherthal. 
,  naturalization  of,   704,   705, 

835  i. 
,  names  and  numbers  of,  495 

ii.,  537,  551,  592. 
,   provision  for,    1,    184,    501, 

504,  536,  538  i.,  561,  572,  593, 

594,  680,  742,   743,  744,  754, 

842  i. 
,  settlement  of,  Commissioners 

for,  657,  667  i.,  680,  737  i. 
,    settlement   of,    proposed   in 

Carolina,   687,   719,   743,   744, 

829. 
, ,  in  England,  485,  511, 

527,   527  i.,  549,   550,  552  i., 

570  i.,  ii.,  574,  585,  685  i. 

,  in  mines,  526,  552  i.,  595. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  553. 

,   settlement  of,   proposed,   in 

Jamaica,     657    i.,     665,     699, 

704,  737  i.-vi.,  742,  754,  758, 

762,   763,  770,  775,  776,  783, 

788,  799,  801,  801  i.,  822,  823, 

824,    826,    827,    835,    835    i., 

ii.,  872. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  667  i. 

,    settlement   of   proposed,   in 

New  York,  1,    705,   710,   881, 

882,  885,  891  I. 
, ,  contract  of,  915-918  i., 

923. 

,  voyage  of,  to  New  York,  252. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  estimate  of  transport 

of,  1. 
,    settlement   of   proposed,    in 

Virginia,   705. 

Germans,  in  Pennsylvania,  932. 
Germany,     potash    and    pearl      ash 

export,  27  vi. 
Gerrard,  Sir  Samuel,  letter  from,  484 

XXXI. 

Gcrrish,  Richard,  65  v. 

,  W.,  524  i. 

Gibbes,  Robert,  case  of,   126  i.,   180 

iv.  (h],  694,  739. 
,      bribery      by,      583 

XXXVII.-XL. 

CP  38. 


594 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


-,  sloop  of,  870. 


Gibbins, 

Gibbs,    Robert,    Chief  Justice  of  S. 
Carolina,  commission  of,  240. 
Gibbs,  Stephen,  583  xxvm. 
Gibson  (Barbados),  583  XLII. 
Gifford,  Anthony,  911  ix. 
Gig(g)les,  William,  deposition  of,  554 
i.,  v. 

Gilbert,  Allen,  443  i.,  n. 

Sir  Humphrey,  554  i. 

,  Richard,  deposition  of,  231  i. 

Gilleber, .,  letter  from,  411  i. 

Gilles  (—Gulch— Hilg),  470. 

,  petition  of,  171 1. 

,  wife  of,  184. 

Gillibrand, ,  222. 

Gilligan  (Gillingham),  Manuel  Man- 
asses,  126  i.,  134  i.,  242  i., 
694,  892  ;  and  see  Chamber- 
lain, Butler. 

, ,  petition  of,  180  rv.  (i), 

677. 

Gillison,  Nicholas,  17  n. 

Gillman,  Henry,  65  v. 

,  James,  65  v. 

John,  65  v. 

Givehene,  H.,  443  i. 

Glanville  (Glanuch),  William,  443  i., 
n.,  531,  589  TV.,  597  i. 

Glanuch,  W.     See  Glanville. 

Globe,  ship,  252. 

Glover,   ,    137. 

,  complaints  from,  relating  to 

Carolina,  744. 

Goar,  Thomas,  9,   187. 

Godfrey,  Thomas,  126  i.,  583  XLV. 

,  deposition  of,  180  iv.  (c). 

Godman,  Wm.,  deposition  of,  108 
iv.  (c). 

Godolphin,  Sidney,  Baron  Godolphin 
of  Rialton,  Lord  High  Treas- 
urer, 142  ;  and  see  Treasurer, 
Lord  High. 

,   . . . . ,  letters,  reports  to,  21, 

27  v.,  161,  304,  437,  527  i., 
553,  560,  594,  613,  661,  685  i., 
704,  705,  720,  774,  822. 

,    patron    of    Governor 

Parke,  488. 

,  .-...,  report  by,  59. 

,  warrant  signed  by,  44, 

561,  572. 

Goodbed,  Richard,  890  m. 

Gookin,  Charles,  Capt.,  Lt. -Governor 
of  Pennsylvania,  37,  888  ; 
and  see  Canada  expedition ; 
Pennsylvania. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  H.M.  Approbation  of, 

12  i.,  32. 

,    ,  attends  Conference  at 

New  York,  604. 

,  .  . .  . ,  letter  from,  580. 

, letter  to,  796,  839,  843. 

, security  given  by,  31, 

32. 


Gordon,  George,  Provost  Marshal 
of  Barbados,  338,  559,  568, 
857  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  leave  of  absence,  1 53. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  order  concerning,  568, 

582 

petition  of,   326,   423, 

907  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  Thomas,  Chief  Justice 

of  New  Jersey,    400,    924   i., 
930. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  document   signed    by, 

440. 

,   letter  from,   935. 

, ,  suspension  of,  935. 

Gore,  Capt.   R.N.,    131. 

Goree,  Giles,  890  in. 

Gosling,  Thomas,  350. 

Goss,  Charles,  487  n. 

Goss,  Giles,  756. 

Gosse,  John,  487  n. 

Goswill,  Isaac,  document  signed  by, 

349. 

Gough, ,  agent  for  Lord  Love- 
lace, 401. 

Governeur,  Abraham,   802. 
Governors  of  Plantations  ;    see  under 
Plantations,    and   under   each 
Colony. 

Grace,  William,  Clerk  of  Assembly, 
Barbados,  96  i.,  857  i. 

,  document    signed    by, 

518  i.,  583  x. 
Gracedieu,  Sir  Bartholomew,  452  i., 

540,  657  i.,  667  i. 
Grachy,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  911 

x. 

Graffenried,  Christopher  de,  Land- 
grave, Carolina,  743. 

, ,  grant  of  lands  to,  659, 

675,  719. 

, ,  letter  from,  639. 

petition  of,  601  n. 

Grant,  William,  274,  502. 
Granville,  Sir  Bevil,  late  Governor  of 
Barbados,   180  n.,   513  i  (6), 
iv.,  viii.,  597  i. 

,    charges  against,  96  i.. 

141  m.,  248. 

,  .  .  . . ,  house-rent  of,  274. 

Granville,  Lord,  late  Lord  Palatine  of 
Carolina,  510. 

,  Lady,  510. 

Graves,  John,  letter  to,  448,  606. 
Gray,  Sir  James,  575. 

,  Mathew,  583  xxx. 

Grear,  William,  487  n. 

, ,  case  of,  589  VITI. 

Great  Britain,  sloop,  case  of,  484  xv., 

XXXVIII. 

Green,  Alexander,  890  in. 

Isaac,  65  v. 

,  Jacob,  65  v. 

Capt.  (N.H.),  260  i. 

Greenberry,  Charles,  707. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


595 


Greenfeild,  Thomas,    131,   707. 
Green  way,  John,  case  of,  484  xm. 
Katherine  (Waller),  case  of, 

484  xm. 
Greenwich,   H.M.S.,    180,    684. 

,  prize  taken  by,  88. 

Greeny,  Thomas,  890  ni.,  iv. 

Gremot,  Peter,  673. 

Grevill,  Sylvanus,  107. 

Grey,  Henry   de,   Marquis    of  Kent, 

proposal  for  settling   German 

Protestants,  570  i.,  11.,  585. 

,   ,  Agent  of,  574. 

Grey,  Ralph,  Baron  of  Werke,  late 

Governor  of  Barbados,  554  i. 
Grey,  Capt.,  R.N.,  597  i.,  909  i. 
,  (Barbados),  case  of,    126  i., 

180  ii. 
,    Thomas,  Earl  of  Stamford, 

Commissioner  of  Trade,    348, 

350,  440,  847,  848. 

, letter  to,  179. 

, ,  salary  of,  877,  884. 

Gross,  John,  890  ii. 

Grove,  John,  911  ix. 

Guadeloupe,    150,   540,   597   i.,   865, 

909  i. 

,  illegal  trade  with,  193. 

Guajaquil,     English     privateers     at, 

720  i. 
Gualtier,  Nicholas,  petition  of,  report 

upon,  279. 

Guardland,  H.M.S.     See  Garland. 
Gubbaile,  Nathaniel,  trial  of,  17  n. 
Guernsey,  H.M.S.,  322  i.,  666,  794  x., 

XIT.,  798. 
Guinea,    73. 

,  negroes  from,  10. 

Gully,  Timothy,  223  xv. 
Guy,  John,  554  i. 


H 


Haddon,  John,  487  n. 

Haford,   Jeff.,   document  signed  by, 

283,  283  i. 

Haggarth,  Othniel,  583  VTI. 
Hall,  Hugh,  deposition  of,  583  XLV. 

,  John,  131,  258,  707. 

,     Joseph,     Capt. ,     privateer, 

commission  of,  597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  484  xx. 

,  William,  921. 

Hallett,   John,    108,    136,    147,    180, 

210,  513  in.,  577,  892  ii. 
,    document  signed   by, 

513  TIL,  v. 


Ham,  John,  killing  of  Spaniards  by, 

443  u.,  589  i.,  597  i. 
Hamburgh,  trade  of,  391. 
Hamilton,     Lord     George,    Earl     of 

Orkney,  Governor  of  Virginia, 

Commission   and  Instructions 

of,  897,  920,  920  i.,  926. 

,  John,  116  n., 

,   .  .  .  . ,  document    signed    by, 

150  n.,  588,  589,  589  n. 

,  Marquis  of,  grant  of,  554  i. 

,     Walter,     Lt. -Governor     of 

Nevis,  petition  of,  to  be  Lt.- 

General       of      the      Leeward 

Islands,  736  i. 

,  .  . .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  836. 

,    ....,  testimonial,  811. 

,  William,  arrest  of,  459  i. 

Hampton  (N.H.),  19,  260  I. 
Hancock,  William,  890  in. 
Handaspd,  Thomas,  Brigadier, 

Governor  of  Jamaica,  139,  146, 

357,  452,  781. 
,  . . . . ,  address,  report  to,  279, 

451  i. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  commended  by  Sunder  - 

land,  167. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  escheats,    instructions 

to,    concerning,    67,    87,    103, 

385,    408  ;    and  see  Jamaica  ; 

Whitchurch. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  additional  instructions 

to,  573,  858. 
, ,  letter  from,  56,  57,  68, 

78,  81,  142,  143,  174,  202,  213, 

227,    339,    451,    452    i.,    453, 

483,  499,  542,  543,  573,  635, 

636,  649,   720,   731,  785,  845, 

871,  900,  912. 
, ,  letter  to,   53,   87,    111, 

133,  142  i.,  167,  208,  247,  378, 

382,  408,  447,  471,  473,  640, 

669,  727,  872. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  perquisites  of,  720. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  regiment  of.     See  Ja- 
maica. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  relief   of,    request  for, 

227,  451,  649,  785,  912. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  salary  of,    arrears    of, 

720. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  secret  service  paid  for 

by,  142  ;    and  see  Jamaica. 
, seizure  of  ambergris  by, 

845. 
,   .  . . . ,  suspends     Totterdale, 

142  ;  and  see  Totterdale. 
Handen,    Henrv,    document    signed 

by,  157  i. 

Handes, ,  831  n. 

Handlers  (traders),  617. 
Hannay,  George,  362-364. 

*  James,  362,  363. 

Hannis,  Joseph,  583  vn. 
Hansen,  H.,  621  iv.  (a). 
Hanth,  Thomas.  See  Trant, 


596 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Hantenaas,  Hans,  letter  from,   246. 

Harbin, ,  94. 

Harbour  Grace  Island,  756. 
Harcourt,      Sir      Simon,      Attorney 

General     (1708),     report    by, 

131. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  letters,  references,  in- 
structions   to,    169,    173,    218, 

344. 

Harford,  Capt,  (Bermuda),  389. 
Harland,  Robert,  158  x. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

158  vn. 
Harley,  Robert,  Secretary  of  State, 

597. 
Harmsworth,  Robert,  63. 

Harris, ,  H.M.  seal -cutter,  40. 

,  Richard,  657  i. 

, ,  letter  from,  540. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  Memorial  by,  554  xiv. 

,  .  .  .  .,  letter  to,  787.  « 

,  Rupert,  890  IIT. 

,  Thomas,  911  ix. 

Harrison,  John,  4,   104. 

,      .  .  .  . ,     complaint     against, 

819  x. 
Harrox,  William,  deposition  of,   150 

xv. 

Harry, ,  master  of  ship,  741,  852. 

Hertford,  Isaac,  443  i.,  IT. 
Hartnoth,  Richard,   158  ix. 
Hartt,  John,  524  i. 

,  Samuel,  65  v. 

Harvey,   Samuel,  deposition  of,    176 

ii. 

Harwood,  William,  529  in. 
Hasings.     See  Hastings. 
Haskett,  Col.,  908  n. 
Hastings  (Hasings,  Cardro),  case  of, 

116,  367  ;   and  see  Parke. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  484  x. 

Hathorne,  John,  391  i. 

Havana,  the,   68,   87,   202,   339,   411 

ii.,  449  i.,  473,  483,  542,  649, 

785,  912. 

,  Governor  of,  785. 

,  Spanish  galleons  at,  451. 

Haverhill  (Mass.),  attack  upon,  391, 

391  vi. 

Havers,  Robert,  321. 
Hawdon,  Michael,  document  signed 

by,  157  i. 

Hawkins,  Thomas,  756. 
Hay,  James,  Earl  of  Carlisle,    grant 

of,  554  i. 

Hay,  George,  583  LVI. 
Hay,  Rebecca,  petition  of,  583  LVI. 
Hayman,    Henry,    letter    from,    890 

VII. 

, letter  to,  890  ix. 

Hays,  George,  Deputy  Marshal,  Bar- 
bados, 362-364. 
Hearl.     See  Heart. 
Hearle,  John,  trial  of,  17  n. 
,  John,  junr.,  trial  of,  17  n. 


Heart,     Digor,     or     Hearl,     Digori, 

890  n. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  description  of   Placen- 

tia  by,  890  vi. 
Heathcote,  Caleb,  letter  from,  70. 

,  John,  754. 

Hector,  H.M.S.,  5,  625,  684,  709. 

,  prize    of,    597    i.,    909  I. 

Hedges,    Charles,    Deputy    Secretary 

of    the    Leeward    Islands,    5, 

590. 
,    Sir    Charles,    Secretary    of 

the  Leeward  Islands,   5,   531, 

590,  864,  878. 
Helden,  John,  193,  194  vi. 

, ,  deposition   of,   194  vi. 

Hemp,    cultivation    of.     See    Naval 

Stores. 

Hendly,  Samuel,  890  in. 
Hendrix,  421. 
Henry  VII.,  King,  554  i. 

VIII.,  King,  554  i. 

Henteyne,  Anthony,   487  n. 
Herbert,  Katherine,  petition  of,   126 

i.,   180  iv.  (g),  585    xxxm. 
Herbert,  Henry,  Baron    Herbert  of 

Chirbury,      Commissioner     of 

Trade,  350. 

,  Samuel,  583  xxxm. 

,  Thomas,  Earl  of  Pembroke 

and  Montgomery,  Lord  High 

Admiral.     See    Admiral,     the 

Lord  High. 

Hessen,  John,  deposition  of,  554  i. 
Hewes,  Samuel,  487  n. 
Heysham,  Robert,   94,  242  T. 
,  William,  agent  for  Barbados, 

94,  219,  364,  502. 
Heywood,    Peter,    Chief    Justice    of 

Jamaica,  451  i. 

Hide,  Thomas,  deposition  of,  892  n. 
Higginson,  John,  391  T., 

,    .  .  .  . ,  memorial  of,  609. 

Hilg,  M.     See  Gilles. 

Hill,  Edward,  216  in..  890  in. 

,  Nath.,  65  v. 

,      Thomas,      formerly      Lt.- 

General   of   Leeward    Islands, 

836. 

Hillgrove,  Nicholas,  228. 
Hilton,  John,  817  i. 
,  Winthrop,  30,  65  v.,  260  i., 

292,  392. 

Hinton,  John,  583  XLVIII. 
Hispaniola,   174,  339,  473. 
French  settlements  in,  540, 

554  i. 

,  Governor  of,  554  i. 

,     raids    from,     on     Jamaica, 

554  i.,  667  i. 

Hix,  Robert,  deposition  of,  765  T. 
Hobart,  Daniel,  487  n. 
Hobby,  Sir  Charles,  604. 
,   document  signed  by, 

794  m, 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


597 


Hodder,  William,  158  ix. 

Hoddy,  Hugh,  921. 

Hodges,    Anthony,    Lt.- Governor    of 

Moiitserrat,     150,     182,     484 

xxx.,  597  i. 

,   . .  .  . ,  charge  against,    459  i. 

,  deposition  of,  484  xxix. 

, ,  letter  to,  484  xxi. 

,    Thomas,    Attorney   General 

of  Barbados,  96,   180,  180  ir., 

396,  583  XLVI. 
,   .  .  .  .  £  document   signed    by, 

583  xvin. 

,  . . . . ,  leave  of  absence  of,  446. 

,     Sir    William,    petition    of, 

449  i. 
Holder,   John,    126  i.,    180  11.,  vm. 

(a,  b),  222  v. 
,    charges    by,    against 

Walker,  A.,  180  iv.  (/). 
,  .  . . . ,  deposition   of,    180  iv. 

(c). 

, ,  petition  of,  180  iv.  (h). 

,   .  .  .  . ,  execution  against,  sus- 
pended, 88. 

Holdsworth,  Arthur,  158  x. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document   signed    by, 

911  xiri.,  xiv. 

, ,  letter  from  890  vu. 

Holland,  and  the  Dutch,  279  ;    and 

see ,  Dutch   West   India   Com- 
pany. 
,     Penobscot     destroyed     by, 

554  i. 
...-...,  potash  exports  from,  27  vi. 

,  privateers,  223  i.,  339. 

,  in  Tobago,  554  i. 

,   trade   with,    148,    150,    182, 

391,  484  xxii.,  532. 

Holland, ,  191. 

William,  707. 

Holman,  Andrew,  890  in. 

Holmes,  Edward,  deposition  of,  472, 

733. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  tortured    in    the    Ba- 
hama Islands,  472,    733,  870. 
,     Mrs.,     wife     of     preceding, 

torture  of,  472,  733,  870. 
Holt,  Lord  Chief  Justice,  597  i. 
,  H.,  document  signed  by, 

811. 
,  Peter,  bills  signed  by,  831, 

831  ii. 

,  Peter,  letter  from,  831  n. 

Holy   Ghost,    the,    French   privateer, 

56  n. 

Hoogland, ,  848. 

Hooper,  Daniel,  583  vu. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  583  T.JI. 

,  Robert  Lettice  (Lottis),  583 

VII.,    I.TI. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  583  LIII. 

Hopegootl,  Anne,  444. 

Hopkins,  Thomas,  letter  to,  124,  262. 

Hore,  Nehemiah,  890  m. 


Horekills,  plundered,  571. 

Home,  Thomas,  187,  502. 

Hoskins,  John,  487  n. 

Hotchkyn(s),  Robert,  Attorney- 
General,  Jamaica,  56  i.,  106, 
451,  451  n. 

Hothersall,  John,  case  of,  583  xxxm. 

How,  Benjamin,  17  IT. 

Howard,  Charles,  Earl  of  Carlisle,  575. 

Huddy, (N.J.),  11  i. 

H;idson('s)  Bay  Company,  claim  for 
damages,  500,  522,  523,  554 
i.,  554  i.  (a). 

,  memorial,  petition  of,  522, 

522  i.,  523,  554  n. 

, ,  report  upon,  554  i. 

,  fur  trade  of,  522,  554  I. 

,  whale  fishery,  554  i. 

,  Governor  of,  letter  from,  500. 

,  letter  to,  520. 

Hudson's  River,  settlement  on,  pro- 
posed, 705. 

Huffam, (Nevis),  187. 

Hughes,  Clement,  65  v. 

Humphrey,  Nathaniel,  487  n. 

Hunkins,  Mark,  415,  439. 

Hunt,  Ephraim,  391  i. 

,  Josiah,  document  signed  by, 

157  i. 

Hunter,  Captain  of  Independent 
Company,  Warrant  for,  493. 

,  Robert,  Governor  of  New 

York  ;  New  Jersey ;  Vir- 
ginia. 

,  .  . .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  New  Jersey,  Com- 
mission of,  721,  732. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  instructions 

of,  721,  753,  819,  921,  924,  924 
i.-m.,  925,  927,  931. 

, Governor  of  New  York, 

771,  816 ;  and  see  Canada 
expedition  ;  New  York. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Commission  of,  721, 

732..  751. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Governor  of  New  York, 

instructions  of,  721,  753,  924, 
924  i.-m.,  925,  927,  929. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  concerning  offi- 
cers' fees,  903,  929. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  789. 

,   ,  letter  to,  933. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  proposal  of,  for  settling 

German  Protestants  in  New 
York,  881,  882,  885,  891  i., 
915-918  i. 

,  . .  .  . ,  Governor  of  Virginia, 

295,  383. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  instruction  to,  concern- 
ing grants  of  lands,  346  i.,  724. 

,  .  .  .  .,  letter  to,  678. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  prisoner  in  France, 

295. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  loss  of  equipment, 

compensation  for,  137. 

, ,  salary  of,  137. 


598 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Huntinton,  John,  Commodore,  R.N., 
131,  137. 

,     complaints    against, 

253,  254,  296. 

, , ,  reply  to,  322,  322 

i.-iu. 

, ,  letter  from,  322  11.,  in. 

Husbands,  Samuel,  502,  857  m. 

Hutchins,  Capt.  R.N.,  720. 

,      engagement      with 

French,  451. 

Hutchinson,  Elisha,  391  i. 

Eliakim,  391  i. 

Jedidiah,  194  vn. 

,    ,    deposition    of,     194, 

vin.,  625,  626. 

,  John,  573  n. 

Huyghue,  J.,  487  n. 

Hyde,  Edward,  Viscount  Cornbury, 
late  Governor  of  New  York 
and  New  Jersey,  4,  400,  400  i., 
405,  621,  769,  850,  876. 

,     Canada,     expedition 

against,  proposed  by,  107,  235. 

,  .  . .  . ,  neutrality  agree- 
ment with,  by,  554  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    Conference    of,    with 

Indians  at  Albany,  107. 

, ,  customs,  universal  for 

Plantations,  proposed  by,   10. 

,    . .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

157  i. 

,  French  deserters  ex- 
amined by,  107. 

,  . . . . ,  grants  of  land  in  New 

York,  by,  848. 

,  . .  . . ,  instructions  of,  11. 

,   . . . . ,  letters  etc.  from,    10, 

10  i.,  11,  11  i.,  107,  157,  819 
xm. 

,    letters    to,     819    x., 

863. 

, ,  New  Jersey,  Assem- 
bly, 440. 

,  .  .  . . ,  Newfoundland,  reduc- 
tion of,  proposed  by,  107. 

New  York,  Chief  Jus- 
tice of,  suspended  by,  545. 

, papers  of,  847. 

,  . . . . ,  representation  concern- 
ing, 375. 

, salary  of,  706. 

,  Cornbury,  Lady,   848. 

Hyrne,  Edward,  Naval  Officer,  S. 
Carolina,  237,  752. 

,  .  . . . ,  Commission  and  in- 
structions of,  237,  454,  462, 
464,  468,  469. 


Iberville,  Mons.  d',  60. 

Hethera.     See  Eleuthera  Island. 

Indian    Affairs,    Commissioners    for, 
10,  107,  196. 

Indians,  the,  60. 

,  danger  from,  17. 

;   and  see  Dominica. 

,  Appallachv,  defeat  of,  632, 

739. 

Attalbamees,  739. 

,  barbarities  of,  533  i.,  554  i., 

p.  49. 

,    Canada    or    Eastern,    609, 

794  m. 

, ,   attack  on  New  Eng- 
land by,  260,   391,   621  rv. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  and  the  Canada  expe- 
dition, 604,  629. 

, ,  war  with,  533  I. 

,    ,   barbarities    of, 

554  i. 

,  Canada,  intermarriage,  with 

French,  217,  705. 

,  Neutrality  agreement 

of,  554  i. 

,  . . . . ,  numbers  of,  217. 

,    rewards    for    scalps, 

19,  30,  391. 

,    reports  upon,  621  iv. 

,   Carolina,   632. 

,    French   attempts    to 

seduce,  632. 

. . . . ,    instruction  concern- 
ing, 424. 

,     slave  trade  in,  662. 

,    ,  trade  with,  655  ;   and 

see  Carolina. 

, ,  war  in,  662. 

,  Cherokees,    632,    662,    739. 

,  Chickysaws  (Checasas),  632. 

739. 

,    Choctaws    (Chactas),    peace 

with,  632. 

Dionondades,  the,   107. 

,    Far    Nations    of,    Twicht- 

wichts,  Dionondades  etc.,  107. 

Five     Nations     (Cayugas, 

Onondagas,  Oneidas,  Mohawks 
or  Maquas,  Senecas),  60,  185, 
217,  554  ix.-xi.,  609,  621  rv. 
(6). 

, ,  and  expedition  against 

Canada,  196,  387,  475,  477, 
604,  794,  794  i.,  m.,  p.  50. 

,    . . . . ,   Conference  with.    10, 

107. 

, French  claim  to  sove- 
reignty over,  554  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  French  intrigues  with, 

666,  p.  47. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


599 


Indians,    the,    Five    Nations    the — 
cont. 

,   .  . . . ,  Neutrality    agreement 

of,  458,  554  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  objection  to,  19, 

533  i. 

,    ,  presents  for,   10,  107, 

666. 

,  French,  107. 

,  Illinois  (Ilianoes),  217,  632. 

,  incursions  of,  260,  391,  392, 

393,  428. 

Iroquois,   632. 

,  lands  purchased  from,  65  in. 

,  from  Long  Island,  629. 

,   Maherine,   trade  with,   pro- 
hibited, 765  ii. 

,  Mexico,  war  with  Spaniards, 

632. 

,  Mississippi,  60. 

,  Newfoundland,  890  n. 

,    New    Hampshire    attacked 

by  etc.,  65  iv.,  185,  392,  393. 

,  New  York,  lands  of,  848. 

-. . ,  Nochees,  632. 

,  Nottaway,  trade  with,  pro- 
hibited, 765  ii. 

,  Ottawawas,  217. 

,  Paleachuckles,  739. 

,     River,     and     the     Canada 

expedition,  387,  475,  477. 

,  Saponies,  lands  granted  to, 

295. 

,    . .  . . ,  taken    under    protec- 
tion by  Virginia,  765  n. 

,  Savannas,  739. 

,  slave  trade,   632,  739. 

,  slaves  in  Carolina,  739. 

,  slaves  punishment  of,  Act  for, 

repealed,  778,  792. 

spies,  for  Canada  expedition, 

reports  by,  621  iv.,  629. 

Talapoosies,  632,  739. 

,  Tassas,  632. 

,  trade  with  Carolina,  632. 

,  trade  with  French,  391. 

,  trade  with  Massachusets,  391. 

,  Tuscoruro,  trade  with,  pro- 
hibited, 765  n. 

.......     Virginia     (Tuscoruro     etc.), 

26,  189,  216,  216  i.,  295,  341, 
342  ;  and  see  Virginia,  Indian 
traders. 

,   murder  by,  137. 

,    trade  with,  655. 

,  Western,  554  i. 

, trade  with,  554  i.,  716. 

.  . ,  Yamasees,  739. 

,  Yassas,  632. 

Indigo,  Act  concerning,  391,  392. 
Ingoldesby,     Richard,    Lt. -Governor 
of  New  York  and  New  Jersey, 
assumes   Government,    621. 

,     Canada    expedition, 

604,  666,  819  xi. 


Ingoldesby,  Richard — cont. 

,  Commission  of,  re- 
voked, 711,  714,  738,  800,  814, 
840. 

,  . . . . ,  complaints  against, 

706. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

819  i. 

,  ,  endeavours  to  detain 

Lady  Lovelace,  712. 

,  ..'..,  letter  from,  578,  621, 

701,  702,  747  r. 

,   ,  letter  to,  794  vn. 

,  .  . .  . ,  partisan  of  Lord  Corn- 
bury,  610. 

,  .....  salary  of,  578. 

,  suspends  Lewis  Morris, 

578,  924  i. 

,  Fort,  794  i. 

Ireland,   potash   export,    27   vi. 

,  trade  with  Newfoundland, 

223  i. 

,  trade  with  Spanish  West 

Indies,  305. 

,  trade  with  West  Indies,  766. 

,  trade  illegal,  with  Cura9oa, 

831  n. 

trade  illegal,  with  French 

West  Indies,  166,  186,  209. 

Isle  of  Boys,  French  attack,  859  i. 

,  Governor  of,  756. 

,  inhabitants  of  Mainland,  re- 
moved to,  859  i. 

Isle  des  Vaches.     See  Ash,  Isle  of. 

Ivy,  .     See  Joy. 


Jackson,  Christopher,  180  iv.  (I). 
Jacobites,  the,  116  iv.,  852. 
Jaffrey(s),  George,  391,  392. 
'. ,    ,  document  signed  by, 

65  v. 
JAMAICA,  597  i.,  688,  870  ;    and  see 

Handasyd,  Thomas  ;     France 

and    the    French  ;      Kingston 

galley  ;    Lynch  Island. 

,  Acts  of,  483,  542,  670. 

,  Act  of,  for  additional  duty, 

451. 
,    ,  for  settling  fees,   339, 

473,  781,  783. 
, ,  petition  against, 

812  i. 
,    . .  .  . ,    concerning     estate    of 

George    Joy,    543J    856,    867, 

872. 


600 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Jamaica,  Act  of — cont. 

,  .  . .  . ,  for  further  Quieting 

possessions,  339,  473/784. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  objections  to, 

834. 

,  ,  ,  repeal  of,  858, 

872. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  report  on,  807, 

807  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  for  prevention  of  law- 
suits, 834. 

,  . . .  . ,  for  quartering  Regiment, 

.  174,  339,  451. 

,  for  Revenue,  1 12. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  concerning  white  ser- 
vants, 704,  835  i. 

,  Act  of  Parliament,  to  en- 
courage trade  to  America,  142. 

,  Agent  of,  837. 

,  ambergris,  seizure  of,  573, 

573  ii.,  868,  872. 

,  appeal  from,  413. 

.Assembly  of,  139  i.,  142, 

174,  247,  339,  382,  451,  483, 
667  i.,  835  i. 

,  ,  Journals  of,  87,  208, 

451,  483,  542. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  report  by,  upon  case 

of  Mr.  Gualtier,  279. 

,  Attorney  General  of,  227, 

247,  339,  451,  451  n.,  573, 
912  ;  and  see  Hotchkyn, 
Robert. 

,  . . .  . ,  salary  of,  56  i. 

,  Barrow,  case  of,  247. 

,  Chief  Justice  of,   167. 

,  . . .  . ,  and  Judges  of,  ad- 
dress from,  451  i. 

,  clerks  of,  salaries  of,  56  i. 

,  coin,  currency  of,  Act  relating 

to,  142. 

,  convoys,  56,  68,  80,  142,  247, 

445  i.,  542,  573,  720. 

,  Council  of,  87,  339,  408,  846, 

912. 

,    .  . .  . ,  appeal  to,   444. 

,  Council  and  Assembly  of, 

704. 

Council,  Minutes  of,  339, 

451,  473,  483,  542. 

,  Councillors  of,  102,  106,  110, 

122,  138,  139  i.,  142,  146,  167, 
172,  208,  247,  413,  414,  452, 
•  452  i.,  453,  466,  573. 

, Factors  for  Royal  Afri- 
can Co.,  forbidden  to  act  as, 
87,  174,  382,  444,  453,  466, 
471,  473,  649,  872,  912  ;  and 
see  Royal  African  Company. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  number  of,  453. 

, ,  privileges  of,  56,  208. 

,  Court  of  Admiralty,  pro- 
ceedings of,  111,  174,  174 
n.,  383. 


Jamaica — cont. 

Courts  of,  451,  451  i.,  451 

n. 

,  . . . . ,  special  verdict  refused 

by,  573,  868. 

,  Customs,  Collectors  of,  dis- 
putes with,  720,  872. 

,  defence  of,  208,  699,  704, 

720. 

,  earthquake  at,  202. 

,  embargo  at,  227. 

,  ,  instruction  concern- 
ing, 382. 

,  escheats  in,  81,  142,  385, 

573,  573  i.,  872. 

, ,  instruction  concerning, 

67  i.,  87,  103,  408. 

,  Flag  of  truce  at,  382,  573, 

872. 

,  fortifications  of,  208,  542, 

872. 

French,  attacks  by,  threat- 
ened, 142,  227,  382,  554  i., 
720,  872. 

,  German  Protestant  Refugees, 

proposal  to  settle  in,  657  i., 
665,  699,  704,  737  i.-vi.,  742, 
758,  762,  763,  770,  775,  776, 
783,  788,  799,  801,  822-824, 
826,  827,  835,  835  T.,  872. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  .  . .  . ,  report  on,  667  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  naturalization  of,  835  I. 

,  Governor  of,  376  ;  and  see 

Beeston  Sir  W.,  Handasyd, 
Thomas,  Brigadier. 

,  Governors  of,  abstracts  of 

letters  from,  278. 

,  Governor  and  Council  of, 

appeals  to,  order  concern- 
ing, 444. 

,  . . . .,  instructions  to,  835  i. 

,  Guardships  for,  208,  573, 

871,  872;  and  see  Naval 
Squadron  at. 

,  health  of,  174,  451,  483,  542, 

785. 

,  imports  of  beef  and  grain, 

766. 

Jones,  Samuel,  case  of,  447, 

720,  872. 

,  lands  in,  grants  of,  699, 

704,  808,  810,  856. 

,  ,  proviso  recom- 
mended, 835  i. 

,  Linch's  Island.  See  Linch's 

Island. 

,   Lloyd,  Richard,  case  of,  81. 

,  magazine,  56. 

,  Marlborough's  Victories,  142. 

,  merchants  trading  to,  letter 

to,  220. 

,  merchants  of,  petition  of, 

270  i. 

,  migration  to,  from  St.  Kitts 

etc.,  573. 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


601 


Jamaica — cont. 

,  Naval  Officer,  seizure  etc., 

by,  167,  174,  174  n.,  202,  218, 
227,  451,  451  n.,  635,  640  ; 
and  see  Norris,  William. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  salary  of,  56  i. 

,  Naval  Squadron  at,  56, 

214,  227,  339,  720,  872  ;  and 
see  Baker  ;  Wager ;  Guard- 
ships. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  manned  by  soldiers,  56, 

68,  174,  376,  473,  542,  649, 
912. 

, ,  recruits  for,  376,  872. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  sailors,  lack  of,  376, 

382,  451,  473.  542,  640,  649, 
720,  731,  912. 

, ,  sickness  in,  68,  912. 

,  negro,  murderer,  appeal  for 

pardon,  of,  474  i. 

,  negroes  in,  67  i.,  81,  142,  151, 

347. 

, ,  accounts  of,  208. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  imports  and  prices  of, 

142,  142  in.,  243,  247,  855, 
855  i. 

,  ,  numbers  needed  for, 

331,  573. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  concerning, 

525,  525  i. -vi. 

, ,  trade  in,  56,  243,  542. 

,  patent  offices  in,  87,  218, 

247,  573. 

, ,  list  of,  56,  56  i. 

,  pirates,  785,  872,  900. 

, ,  pardon  for,  912. 

,  Port  Royal,  fort  and  fortifi- 
cations of,  208,  542. 

Prerogative  of  the  Crown  in, 

649. 

,  pressing  at,  376. 

,  prisoners,  exchange  of,  227, 

382,  483,  573. 

,  privateer,  raids  Dominico, 

597  i. 

privateer  without  com- 
mission, seizure  by,  174,  174 
II.,  202,  227,  247,  383,  451, 
451  n.,  473  ;  and  see  Kingston 
galley. 

,  privateers,  56,  69,  87,  142, 

202,  339,  382,  383,  395,  408, 
597  i.,  667  i.,  679,  683,  785, 
831  IT.,  871,  872. 

, ,  captures  by,  174,  202, 

227,  451,  573,  649. 

,   .  . .  . ,  commissions  for,   649. 

, ,  French,  56,  174,  227, 

339. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  instruction  concern- 
ing, 111. 

, instructions  of,   473. 

,   . . .  . ,  losses  from,  912. 

,  . . . . ,  regulations  of,  100, 

445,  445  i.,  473. 


Jamaica,  privateers — cont. 

, ,  on  Spanish  coast,  87. 

,  prizes,  accounts  of  etc.,  Ill, 

142,  142  n.,  174,  208,  227,  339, 
339  i.,  451,  473,  573,  649,  720, 
720  i.,  785,  872. 

produce  of,  699. 

,   Provost     Marshal     of.     See 

Rigby,  Richard. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  salary  of,  56  I. 

,  Quit  rents,  142,  167,  657  i., 

699,  720,  808,  822,  823,   824, 

827,  832  i.,  872. 

,  . . . . ,  account  of,  827  i. 

,   raids   on,   from   Hispaniola, 

667  i. 
,    Receiver    General    of.     See 

Compere. 

,   . . .  . ,  salary  of,  56  i. 

,  deputy  of.     See  Chap- 
lain. 
,  H.M.   Regiment  at,   8,   208, 

339,  378. 

, ,  losses  of,  56,  872,  912. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    mans    fleet,    56,    68, 

174,  451,  473,  542,  649,  872, 

912. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  quartering  of,  382. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  recruits  for,   56,    142, 

143,  174,  227,  542,  785,  912. 
,  ....,  relief  of,  227,  382,  451, 

452,  649,  785,  912. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Serjeant  of,  reprieve  of, 

451,  451  i.,  636,  640,  669. 

,  Revenue  of,  167,  174,  339. 

,   accounts  of,  649,  872. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  deficiency  of,   142. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  increase  of,   142. 

,  Rio  Grande,  657  I. 

,  Secretary  of.  See  Baber, 

John. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  salary  of,  56  i. 

,  Scrivener,  Benjamin,  priva- 
teer without  commission.  See 
Kingston  galley. 

,  Seat  for,  40. 

,  Secret  Service  of,  247,  573, 

872. 

,  ships  of,  10,  936. 

,  .  .  . . ,  captured,  411  n., 

448. 

sickness  in,  142,  222,  649, 

720,  722,  912. 

,  Spanish  neighbour,  5,  142. 

Stores  of  War,  accounts  of, 

227,  382,  542,  542  i.,  n. 

,  sugar,  duties  on,  699. 

,  trade  of,  56. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  hindered  by  Hispan- 
iola, 540. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  with  Bermuda,   448. 

, ,  with  Carolina,  448,  739. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  with  Continent,  540, 

606. 

, with  French,  649. 


602 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Jamaica,  trade  of — cont. 

, ,  with  Maryland,  197. 

, ,  with    New    York,    10, 

448. 
, with  Rhode  Island,  230 

n. 
,  with  Spaniards,  56,  68, 

87,    100,    111,    174,    227,    301, 

339,    382,    445,    445    i.,    451, 

540,  542,  573,  649,  679,  683, 

872. 
,  trade  fleet,  142,  174,  21 3,  214, 

220,  247,  542,  720,  722. 
,  Whitchurch,  James,  petition 

of,  reply  to,  142,  142  i. 
Jamain,  Elias,  487  n. 
James,  I.,  King,  grants  of,  554  I. 

,  II.,  King,  554  i. 

River,  Va.,  765  n. 

Jane,  Gilbert,  756,  890  in. 

Jans,  Thomas,  letter  etc.  from,  358, 

358  i. 

Janurirde,  John,  65  v. 
Jeane,  Gilbert.    See  Jane. 
Jeffry,  Henry,  890  in. 
Jeffrys,  Alderman,  215. 

,  Sir  Jeffry,  215. 

,     .  . .  . ,     ship    belonging    to, 

852. 
Jekyll,   John,   document  signed  by, 

151  i. 
Jenings,  Edmund,   President  of  the 

Council,      Lt. -Governor      and 

Commander      in      Chief       of 

Virginia,  216  11.,  261,  322  in., 

355. 
, ,   instructions    of,    215, 

295,  409. 
, ,  letter  from,    137,    181, 

186,   189,  215,  216,  253,  421, 

571,  607,  765,  765  i. 
, letter  to,  26,  165,  295, 

409,  431,  432,  655,  668,  771, 

772,  793,  866. 
,  .  . .  . ,  Proclamations  by,  765, 

765  n. 
Jenkins,  Francis,  131,  290. 

,  John,  756. 

Jennings,    Samuel,    charges   against, 

819  in. 
Jersey,  H.M.S.,  339. 

,  . .  .  . ,  prize  of,  473. 

Jesuits,  the,  60,  410. 

Jodrell,  Paul,  clerk  of  the  House  of 

Commons,    document    signed 

by,  316,  575,  910. 
Johnson,  Dr.  (N.J.),  11. 

B.,  487  ii. 

,  John,  late  Lt.-Governor  of 

Antigua,  116,  597  i. 

, ,  gratuity  of,  597  I. 

,  . . . .,  murder  of,  531. 

Sir  Nathaniel,   Governor  of 

Carolina,  411,  739,  752. 
.......    . . .  . ,   charges  against,   662. 


Johnson,  Sir  Nathaniel — cont. 

, ,  letter  to,  765  i. 

, ,  presents  to,  662. 

,  Thomas,  890  in. 

,  William,  911  ix. 

Jones,  Ensign,  191. 

, (master  of  ship),  10. 

,  Amerigo,   204. 

,  Edward,  Secretary  and 

Provost  Marshal  of  Bermuda, 
18,  72. 

,  .  . . . ,  complaints  against, 

817. 

,    ,  complaints  by,  817. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  and  case  of, 

101  i.,  201,  506,  507,  507  I., 
508,  643. 

,  petition  for  removal  of, 

231,  231  m. 

,  Francis,  deposition  of,  231  I. 

,  James,  Colonel  of  H.M. 

Regiment,  Leeward  Islands, 
5,  76  i.,  192,  194,  591,  597. 

, ,  letter  from,  125. 

,  Joshua,  443  i.,  n. 

,  Robert,  484  xxii.,  625. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  589  xxvi. 

,  Samuel,  Capt..  lands  of  in 

Jamaica,  720,  872. 

, ,  order  concerning,  447. 

,  (?Samuel),  Capt.,  proposal 

of,  for  settling  German  Pro- 
testant Refugees  in  Jamaica, 
657  i.,  737  i.,  742,  754,  763, 
799,  835,  835  i. 

,  Samuel,  master  of  ship.  268. 

Thomas  (N.Y.),  10  i. 

Jonson,  Daniel,  deposition  of,  231  i. 

Jordan,  — ,  (Antigua),  case  of,  597  I. 

Jorrens,  B.,  document  signed  by, 
193  i. 

Jory,  Jos.,  document  signed  by,  811. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  546. 

Joy,  George,  Act  concerning.  See 
Jamaica,  Act. 

Joyce,  Capt.,  870. 

Judge,  Major,  Governor  of  Sta. 
Lucia,  554  i. 

Jukes,  Edward,  Landgrave  of  Caro- 
lina, patent  of,  462. 

,  grant  of  land  to,  469. 

Julian,  John,  756. 

Jurdine,  Richard,  petition  of,  564  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  recommended 

to  Governor  Parke,  631. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


603 


K 


Kallahan,  Charles,  arrest  of,  459  i. 
Keble,    John,    proposal   for   making 

potash  and  salt,  27,  27  i.,  28. 
, reports  upon,  27 

ii.-vi.,  43. 
Keen,  William,  Journal  of,  capture  of 

St.  John's,  890  n. 
, ,  hostage  at  Placentia, 

890  n.,  iv. 

Kennebec,  River,  554  i. 
,     .  .  . . ,    settlement    on,    pro- 
posed, 882. 
Kent,  Marqtiis  of.     See  Grey,  Henry 

de. 
,  John,  document  signed  by, 

193  i. 
Kerby,   Thomas,   deposition  of,   589 

XIII.,    XVIII. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  document   signed    by, 

589  vin. 

Kerr,  William,  Commodore,  R.N.,  87. 
Ketelbey,  Abel,  Landgrave,  424. 
,  grant  of  lands  to,  425, 

569. 

Ketelhuyn,  Daniel,  621  iv.  (c). 
Keynell,  Mathew,  583  vi. 
Kimberly,  Eleazar,  323. 
,  document  signed  by, 

328. 
King,     Gregory,     Commissioner    for 

stating  arrears,   877. 

,  Sir  Peter,  508. 

Kingsland,  ,  Hi. 

Kingston  galley,  case  of,  174,  174  n., 

382,   383,   395,  408  ;    and  see 

Jamaica,     privateer     without 

commission. 

Kingston,  William,  573  n. 
Kingstown  (N.H.),  19. 
King  William,  packet,  135. 
Kinsale,  H.M.S.,   158  ix.,  252,   621, 

794  v.,  vii.,  vin. 

Kirke,    Sir   David,    grant    of,    New- 
foundland, 554  i. 

,  Sir  Lewis,  grant  of,  554  i. 

,  Philip,  158  ix. 

Kirwan,  Joseph,  524  i. 

,  Walter,  487  n. 

Kittery,  bounds  of,   17  n.,  260  i. 
Knight,  Christopher,  487  IT. 

,  John,  65  v. 

Knill,  Joseph,  890  in. 

Kocherthal,     Joshua,     Minister     of 

German  Protestant  Refugees, 

document  signed  by,  710. 

,  letter  from,  366,  932. 

,  . . . . ,  maintenance  and  grant 

of  glebe  of,   38,   82,   932  i. 

,    . . . . ,  petition  from,   14. 

, ,  receipts  by,  42,  120. 

vine     growing     in 

America,  report  upon,  by,  932. 
Kunasoro,  Indian  Sachem,   107. 


Labrador,  60. 

La  Coste  de  Sta.  Domingo,  540. 

Lafertey,    Samuel    Picart,    487    n., 

852. 
Lakeman,        Abraham,        document 

signed  by,    157  i. 
Lambert,    Michael,    Lt.-Governor   of 

St.  Kitts,   117  iv.,   194  n. 

affidavit  of,   194  ni. 

,    . . . . ,  document  signed   by, 

183  in. 

Lampson  (Tobago),  554  i. 
La  Nalleere  (Newfoundland),  890  n. 
Lang,  Oliver,  756. 
Langdon,  Tobias,  65  v. 
Langley,  Nicholas,  890  in. 
Langmavd,   William,   890  in. 
Langstaf  (N.H.),  case  of,  663. 
Laplarie,  Fort  at,  621  iv.  (a). 
Lapoterie,  M.,  909  i. 
Larke,  H.M.S.,  684,  709. 
La  Ronde,  Denis,  890  n. 

Lartice. ,  French  officer,    890  II. 

La  Salle,  design  of,  632. 
Lascelles,  Edward,  242  i.,  321. 
Latimer,  Robert,  case  of,  484  xm. 
Laudley,  George,  890  in. 
Laurel,  ship,  210,  709  i. 
Laurence,  Sir  Thomas,  Secretary  of 

Maryland,   131. 
,    . . . . ,   address  of   Assembly 

concerning,  290. 

, ,  claim  of,  rejected,  290. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaints  of,  replv  to, 

410. 

,    letter  from,  265. 

, ,  losses  of,  265  i. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  reply  of,  296. 

Lavington,  William,  443  i.,  TI. 
Law(e)s,  Col.,  letter  to,  688. 

, ,  memorial  from,  699. 

Lawson,    John,    Surveyor    General, 

N.    Carolina,    and     Boundary 

Commissioner,  402,  813. 

,    . . . . ,  Commission    of,    479. 

,    ,  instructions    of,    480, 

QOQ 

letter  to,   675. 

Leavitt,  Moses,  65  v. 

Lee,  Francis,  29. 

,  John,  890  xm. 

,  Thomas,  524  i. 

William.  911   ix. 

Leeds, (N.J.),  5"8. 

LEEWARD  ISLANDS,  the,  210.  ;  and 
see  Anguilla  ;  Antigua  ;  Mont- 
serrat  ;  Nevis  ;  St.  Kitts  ; 
Johnson,  John  ;  Parke, 
Daniel  ;  Chester,  Edward  ; 
Hamilton,  Walter  ;  Codring- 
ton,  Christopher. 


604 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Leeward  Islands — cont. 

,  Acts  of,  192,  878. 

,  Act  to  enable  Robert  Freeman, 

541. 
,  ....  for  establishing   Courts, 

25,  84,  99,  209,  264. 
,     ,    repealed,    269, 

311. 
,   ....  for  regulating  coin,  116, 

192. 

,  addresses  from,  25,  524,  524  i. 

,  Assembly  of,   113,  264,  532. 

, design  to  summon,  873. 

,  Attorney    General    of.      See 

Pember,   Herbert. 
,    citron    water,    presents    of, 

183. 
,    Codrington,    party    of,    5  ; 

and   see   Codrington,    Christo- 
pher. 

,     communications     of,     diffi- 
culty of,  192. 

,  convoys,  5,  852. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  request  for,  80. 

,  Council  of,  addresses  of,  488. 

, Minutes  of,  25. 

Council    and    Assembly    of, 

5. 

,     .  .  .  . ,  address  of,  532. 

,  credit  of,  fallen,  855. 

Customs,  Officers  in,   ]  93. 

,  debts,  payment  of  in,    209, 

381. 

,  defence  of,  5. 

,  flags  of  truce,  5,  597  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  French,  seized,  909  i. 

,   4£   per  cent,   duty  in,    193, 

597  i. 

,  frauds  in,  532. 

,    French,   attack   by,    threat- 
ened, 852,  865,  873. 
,     Governor    of.     See    Parke, 

Daniel. 
,    guardships    needed    for,    5, 

192,    193,    597    i.,    865;     and 

see  Adventure,  H.M.S. 
,  imports  and  exports  of,  25, 

766,  779. 
,  inhabitants  of,  decrease  of, 

182. 

,  large  landowners  in,  182. 

,     Lt.       Governor      of.       See 

Hamilton,    Walter  ;   Johnson, 

John. 
,  money  raised  for  superseding 

Parke,  193,  194. 

,  Naval  Officer,  5. 

, ,  profits  of,  531. 

,  negroes  in,   151. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  captured  in,  532. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  imports  and  prices  of, 

25,  109  i.-ni.,  245,  855,  855  i. 

,    ,  accounts  of,   25,   209. 

, ,  required  for,  331,  531. 

,  . . . .,  trade  in,  193,  484  XL. 


Leeward  Islands — cont. 

,  Patent  Offices  in,  5,  245,  531. 

,  .  .  . . ,  account  of,  demanded; 

209. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  powder  duty  in,  532. 

589  i. 
,    prerogative    of   the    Crown, 

209. 

,  prisoners,  exchange  of,  909  i. 

,    privateers,    150,    192,    193, 

534,  589  i.,  XXIIT. 

,  prizes,  484  xx.,  xxi. 

Provost  Marshal  of,  5,  531  ; 

and  see  Perrie,  John. 
,   public   papers,   difficulty  in 

obtaining  copies,  209. 
,   Seal,  new,  warrant  for  use 

of,  40,  815. 
,  Secretary  of,  5,  590,  597  I.  ; 

and  see  Hedges,  Sir  C. 

,   .  .  .  .,  profits  of,  531. 

, ,  Deputy  of,  25,  597  i., 

878. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaint  against,  864. 

H.M.   Regiment  at,   5,    117, 

125,  191-193,  367,  591;     and 

see  Buor,  Capt. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    employment    of,    by 

Governor  Parke,  193,  193  i. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    muster-rolls    of,    im- 
perfect, 191. 
,    . . .  . ,  officers  of,  absentees, 

5,  191,  209,  488. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  testimonials  in  favour 

of  Parke,  193  i.,  487  i. 

, ,  pay  of,  5,  191,  487,  878. 

,      .  .  .  . ,     quartering     of,     by 

Antigua,  refused,    191,    193  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  recruits  for,   191. 

,  ships  of.  1 0. 

,   stores  of  war,  accounts  of, 

25,   192,  381. 

,  trade  with  Curacoa,  597  i. 

>    ,  French,   181,   193. 

, ,  New  England,  779. 

, ,  New  York,  779. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  Virginia,   779. 

,   trade,  illegal  by,    150,    181, 

182,  193,  353,  381,  532,  597  i. 

,  trade  fleet  of,  182,  852,  865. 

,    the    French,    Governor    of, 

See  Demaschanlt. 
Legay,-  John,    case   of,    583   xxxiv., 

XXXV. 

,     Sarah,     assault     on,      583 

xxxiv.,   xxxv. 
Legge,  Capt.  R.N.,  396,  487. 

,  ....-,  complaint  against,  709. 

,  present  to,  597  i. 

,  William,  Baron  Dartmouth, 

a  Commissioner  of  Trade,  350. 
Legoss,  Isaac,  756. 
Leighfoot,  John,  443  i.,  n. 
Lemon,    Thomas,    document    signed 

by,  349. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


605 


Le  Mieta,  Spanish  ship,  56  n. 

Leslie,  William,  274. 

Levans,  David,  65  v. 

Liddell,  George,  524  i. 

Lillingston,  Luke,  Col.  of  H.M. 
Regiment  in  Leeward  Islands, 
117,  125,  183,  193,  488. 

,  George  (Barbados),  892  11. 

, case  of,  96  i.,  141  in., 

180  n.,  222  T.,  396,  396  TV., 
513  i.  (6),  518  i.,  633. 

,  ,  document  signed  by, 

513  ni.,  v. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  deposition   of,  396  iv. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  imprisonment  of,  1 80  n. 

, ,  petition  of,  633. 

,  ....,....,  order  concerning, 

634. 

, ,  son  of ,  642. 

Lilly,  Christian,  Col.,  engineer,  report 
by,  589  vi.,  597  T. 

Lima,  French  trade  with,  56. 

Linch,  Sir  Thomas,  667  i.,  704,  770, 
827. 

Linch's  Island  (Jamaica),  657  i., 
667  i.,  699,  704,  754,  758,  762, 
770,  776,  799,  835  i. 

Linen  manufactures  in  the  Planta- 
tions, 249. 

Lisbon,  80. 

Litchell,  James,  573  n. 

Litch/ield,  H.M.S.,  562  i.,  756,  859  i., 
911  xm. 

Little  Bell  Island,  756. 

Little  Boar's  Head  (N.H.),  663. 

Little  Harbour  (N.H.),  19. 

Littleton,  Edward,  attestation  of, 
554  i. 

Liverpool,  137. 

Livingston,,  Robert,  Secretary  for 
the  Indian  Affairs,  N.Y.,  604, 
621  iv. 

Lloyd, (Antigua),  182. 

,  Edward,  707. 

,  John,  letter  from,  268,  284. 

, , ,  to,  257. 

,  Richard,  Col.,  835  t. 

, ,  letter  from,  81. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  of,  474  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  proposal  for  settling 

German  Protestant  Refugees 
in  Jamaica,  665,  667  I. 

,  Thomas,  Major  (Newfound- 
land), 223  ix. 

,  .  .  . . ,  capture  of  St.  Johns 

from,  345,  890  11.,  911  ix.-xn. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  treachery  of  at,  ru- 
moured, 348  i. 

,  ....  ,complaints  against,  158. 

,  .  . . . ,  . . . . ,  reply  to,  1 58  in.— 

IX. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  1 58 

x. 
,    .  .  .  . ,   document  signed  by, 

223  xv. 


Lloyd,  Thomas — cont. 

, ,  letter  from,  158,  195, 

314,  584,  800  ix. 

,  . . .  . ,  . . .  . ,  intercepted,  158. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  soldiers  enlisted  by, 

152,  282. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  ,  hired  out  by, 

911  ix.,  xi. 

Locke,  John,  Commissioner  of  Coun- 
cil of  Trade,  salary  of,  877,  884. 

Lodwick,  Col.,  letter  to,  517. 

Logan, ,   191. 

Lone,  Thomas,  487  n. 

Long,  (?Charles),  87,  414,  835  i. 

,  (?Thomas),  597  i. 

Longfield, ,  11  i. 

Long  Island,   10,  252. 

,  illegal  trade  in,  10. 

,  Indians  in,  629. 

,  grants  of  land  in,  848. 

,  whales  and  train  oil,   10. 

Looby,  Basil,  443  i.,  11. 

.Looe/ H.M.S.,  223. 

Lord  High  Admiral.  See  Denmark, 
Prince  George  of, 

Lord  High  Treasurer.  See  Godol- 
phin,  Sidney. 

Lords,  Hoiise  of,  address  to,  662. 

Lovelace,   John,   Baron  Lovelace  of 

.      Hurley,     Governor     of     New 

York  and  New  Jersey,  36-38, 

52,  71,  89,  371,  440,  493,  666, 

848,  888,  935. 

,  . . .  . ,  addresses  to  (N. J.), 

819  i.,  xii.,  847  ii.,  m. 

,    .  . . . ,  agent  of,  401. 

,   .  . . . ,  arrival    of,    252,    266. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  and  the  Canada  expe- 
dition, 475,  477,  498. 

, ,  death  of,  578,  604,  610, 

617,  691. 

,  disbursements  of,  401, 

710,  712 ;  and  see  German 
Protestant  Refugees. 

,  .  .  .  .,  instructions  of,  20  I., 

578. 

,  . . . . ,  .  .  . . ,  concerning  grants 

of  lands,  20  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  Lewis  Morris, 

105. 

,  .  . . . ,  .  . . . ,  New  Jersey,  578. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  Canada  expe- 
dition, 475,  477. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  400,    401. 

, ,  letter  to,  64,  82,  128, 

429,  819  i.,  847,  849. 

,   restores  Byerley,    405. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  speech  of,  to  the  As- 
sembly of  New  Jersey,  847 
n.,  ill. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  voyage  of,  252  ;  and 

see  Canada  expedition. 

,  Lady,  578. 

,  ...„*,  complaints  of,  against 

Lt.-Governor  Ingoldesby,  712. 


606 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Lovelace,  Lady — cont. 

,    . . . . ,   money   due   to,    617, 

710,  712. 

,  return  of,  571. 

,  sons  of,  death  of,  617. 

Low, (Jamaica),  87. 

,  John,  65  v. 

Lowestoft,    H.M.S.,    deserters    from, 

924  i.,  925. 
Lowndes,  William,  Secretary  to  the 

Treasury,  letter  from,  27,  171, 

490,  823,  832. 
,  letter  to,    1,    43,    51, 

55,    66,    184,    310,    353,    489, 

499,  701,  706,  832  i. 
Lowther,    Robert,    Commissioner   of 

Ordnance,    document     signed 

by,  242  i.,  306. 

Loyal  Johnston,  ship,  342,  448,  682. 
Loyd,  Charles,  443  I.,  n. 
Luff,  John,  911  ix. 
Lundy,  James,  deposition  of,  765  i. 
Lusitania,  ship,  124,  349. 
Lutherans.     See  German  Protestant 

Refugees. 

Lyell,  William,  487  n. 
Lyme  Regis,  358  i. 
Lynde,  Joseph,  391  I. 
Lynes,  Philip,  13],  258,  315. 
Lyon,  sloop,  72. 
Lyons,  Henry,  5,  531,  590. 
Lyte,  Col.  (Barbados),  126  i.,  583  ui. 


M 


McArthur,  Guillias,  625. 
Machelmore,  Dennis,  487  II. 
Mackarlye,  Timothy,  152. 
Mackasgell,   Norman,   deputy   clerk, 

Barbados,  63. 
,    ,   deposition  of,  386  n., 

583  XLVI.,  XLVII. 

, ,  petition  of,  386,  698  I. 

,  .  . .  . ,  ....    order  concerning, 

386,  386  i.,'  893. 
Mackinnen  (Mackennen),  Daniel,  Dr. 

(Antigua),  182,  443  T.,  n.,  531, 

597  i.,  852. 

Mackenzie, (Barbados),  180  n. 

(rEnsign),  191. 

Madagascar,    pirates    at,    expedition 

against,  proposed,  557  I.,  575, 

620  i.,  622,  908,  908  i.-vi. 
Madeira,  96:  230  n.,  323. 
,  trade  with  the  Plantations, 

739,  779. 

Maddox,  Daniel,  152.. 
Maidstone,  H.M.S.,  621,  794  v.,  vn., 

VIII. 


Maine,  Province  of,  391. 

,  attack  upon  feared,  p.  49. 

Mallary,  Capt.,  625. 

Mallett, (Antigua),  597  i. 

Mattamoro,  204. 

Manchester,  Earl  of.     See  Montague, 

Charles. 

Manier,  Paul,  deposition  of,  583  XLIV. 
Map,  of  Mississippi,  632. 
Marblehead,  Fort   at,    33   in.,    391, 

394  i.,  n. 

Marcum,  Capt.,  grievance  of,  625. 
Margaret,  sloop,  case  of,  176,  176  iv., 

v.,  643. 
Marlborough,  Duke  and  Duchess  of. 

See  Churchill,  John  and  Sarah. 
Markand,  John,  583  xui,  XLIII. 
Marquez,  Mr.  (Portugal),  761. 
Marshall,  John,  756,  890  in. 

,  .....  deposition  of,  911  xii. 

,  Joseph,  petition  of,  850. 

Martell,  Captain  of  French  privateer, 

cruelty  of,  472. 
Martin,    Adrian,    deposition    of,    583 

XXVII. 

,  Andrew,  case  of,  182,  597  i. 

,  Jason,  deposition  of,  150  xrv. 

,  John,  756,  890  in. 

,  Rowland,  756,  890  11. 

Martine,  George,  Capt.  R.N.,  letter 
from,  794  xn. 

, ,  letter  to,  794  x. 

Martinique  (Martineco),  10,  116, 
180,  196,  396,  529  in.,  540, 
597  i.,  649,  865,  909  i. 

,  flags  of  truce,  597  i.,  625. 

,  French  fleet  at,  443  n. 

,  hostages  from  Nevis  at, 

546. 

,  inhabitants  of,  487  iv.,  709, 

709  x. 

,  property  of,  709  x. 

,  privateers,  421,  794  n. 

,  prisoners  of  war  at,  583  XLI. 

,  stores  at,  487  iv. 

trade  of,  181. 

, with  Barbados,  166. 

, with  Ireland,  5,  166. 

,  trade,  illegal  with,  186, 

589  xiv. 

Martin's  Vineyard,  230. 

Marygalant,  116,  597  I. 

Maryland,  752  ;  and  see  Annapolis  ; 
Seymour,  John. 

,  accounts  of,  410  in. 

,  Acts  of,  131,  154,  410,  410  11. 

, ^repealed,  131. 

for  advancement  of  na- 
tives, ill  effects  of,  410. 

, of  Bankruptcy,  290,  296. 

,  ....  ascertaining  damages 

on  protested  bills,  290. 

,  objection  to,  745. 

,   ,  report  on,  880. 

,  repeal  of,  905. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


607 


Maryland,  Acts  of — cont. 

,  ....  concerning  Lord  Balti- 
more's Agents,  objections  to, 
296. 

....*..,  ....  empowering  farmers  of 
rents,  repeal  of,  203,  211,  296. 

,  Act  for  encouragement  of 

learning,  296. 

,  ....  for  regulating  Militia, 

410,  888. 

,  ....  for  limiting  officers'  fees, 

410,  888,  889. 

,  ....  for  relief  of  poor  debtors, 

528,  745,  773,  795,  820. 

,  for  erecting  ports  and 

towns,  863. 

, ,  objection  to,  745. 

, ,  report  upon,  883. 

, repeal  of,  904. 

,  ....  for  raising  a  revenue, 

410. 

,  ....  to  make  a  Sessions,  888. 

,  ....  for  providing  servants 

with  guns,  etc.,  296. 

for  punishing  false  news 

proposed,  290. 

,  ....  for  guage  of  tobacco 

hogsheads,  repeal  of,  290. 

, ,  reasons  for  rejec- 
tion of  new,  290. 

,  ....  for  support  of  the 

Government,  290. 

,  Annapolis,  charter  of,  dis- 
puted, 290,  410  i. 

,  Assembly  of,  296,  671,  745. 

, ,  Address  of,  290,  410. 

, ,  described,  410. 

,  .  . . . ,  factious  behaviour  of, 

290. 

dissolution  of,  290. 

, ,  re-election  of,  290. 

, ,  Journal  of,  410,  410  m. 

,  how  chosen,  290. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  proceedings  of,  888. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  speaker  of,  290. 

,  boundaries  of,  115,  256,  410, 

450,  671  ;  and  see  Calvert, 
Charles,  Lord  Baltimore. 

,  . . .  . ,  (Pa.),  case  of  Duke  of 

York,  293. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  dispute  with  Pennsyl- 
vania, 168,  289,  289  i.-m., 
293,  298. 

,  Carolina,  Act  of,  complaint 

against,  296. 

,  Clark,  punishment  of,  296. 

,  coinage,  currency  of,  880. 

,  convoys,  131,  253.  254,  296, 

322  i.-m. 

,  Council  of,  290,  707. 

, ,  letter  from.  919. 

,     .'...,    President    of,   888. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   proceedings   of,  888. 

Council  and  Assembly  of, 

Minutes  of,  131,  290. 


Maryland — cont. 

Councillors    of,     131,     258, 

290,  315,  337. 

,  country-born,  party  of,  410. 

,  Courts  of,  410. 

,  Courts,  County,  of,  671. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  .  . .  . ,  justices  of,  410. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  regulation  of,  296. 

,  emigration  from,  290,  296. 

, to  Carolina,  131. 

,  factions  in,  888. 

,  Governor  of,  258,  632  ;    and 

see  Seymour,  John. 

,  guardship  required  for,  168. 

,  Jesuits  in,  410. 

,    Grand    Juries,    charges    to, 

410. 

,  Justices  of,  410. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    Itinerant,    provision 

for,  290,  410,  671. 
,  Lt. -Governor  and  Council  of, 

address  of,  131  n. 
,    Lord    Proprietor    of,    410; 

and  see  Calvert,  Charles,  Lord 

Baltimore. 

,  losses  of,  through  war,  290. 

,  manufactures  in,   249,   745, 

883. 

, ,  discouraged,  296. 

,  merchants  of,  complaints  of, 

745. 

,  Militia  of,  296,  410. 

,  negroes  in,  745. 

,   ..'..,    imports    of,    10,   197, 

197  I.,  n. 

, prices  of,  197. 

.......  .  .  .  .,  numbers  required  for, 

331. 
,    ordinary    licences    in,     131, 

131  n.,  265,  265  i.,  290,  296. 
,  patent  officers  in,   deputies 

of,  296. 
,   Prerogative   of  the    Crown, 

410. 

priests  in,  intrigues  of,  410. 

,  revenue  of,  197. 

, ,  Acts  of,  410. 

,  Roman  Catholics,  party  of, 

in,   290,   410,   671. 

, ,  list  of,  131  m.,  296. 

, ,  favour  the  Pretender, 

131. 

,  Seal,  new,  for,  40. 

,  Secretary  of.     See  Laurence, 

Sir  T. 

,  shipping  of,  197. 

stores   of   war,    account   of, 

290,  296. 

tobacco,  296,  745,  883. 

,    . . . . ,  hogsheads,  guage  of, 

410. 

,  low  price  of,  290. 

,    . . . . ,    trade,    depression   in 

the,  249,  290,  745. 
,  trade  with  Barbados,  197. 


608 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Maryland,  trade  with — cont. 

, ,  Bermuda,  231  iv. 

,  ....  Jamaica,  197. 

,  ....  Rhode  Island,  230  n. 

,    trade,    illegal,    measures    to 

prevent,   190,  296. 
,  trade  fleet  of,  253,  254,  296, 

322  i.-m.,  571. 
,  Union  Act  of,  published  in, 

131. 

,  woollen  and  linen  manufac- 
tures in,  249. 
Mascoll,  Peter,  583  vi. 
Mason,  John,  title  of,  to  New  Hamp- 
shire, 65  in.,  212,  663,  663  i. 
,     Joseph,     document    signed 

by,  391  iv. 
Massachusetts    Bay,    the,    19  ;     and 

see  Addington,  Isaac  ;  Dudley, 

Joseph  ;  Bridger,  J.  ;  Boston  ; 

New  England. 
,     Act,     ascertaining     foreign 

coins,  published  in,   391. 
for   encouraging    trade 

to  America,  published  in,  391, 

391  vm. 
,  ....  for  support  of  Ministers, 

391. 
for    laying    duly     on 

negroes,  292. 
,     ....    for    preserving    mast 

trees,   proposed   and   rejected, 

17,   30,   33,   33  iv.,   292,   391, 

392,  428,  430,  670,  914  i. 
,  ....  far  public  Thanksgiving, 

391  vi. 
,  .  .  .  .    of  Union,  published  in, 

79,  391. 
,    addresses    from,    33,    33    i., 

391,  533  i.,  554  iv.,  794  in. 
,    Anabaptists    in,    action    of, 

391,  391  iv. 
,  Assembly  of,   17,  30,  33,  33 

i.-iv.,    292,    604,    666,    670. 

, ,  address  by,  33,  33  i. 

,  . . .  . ,  . . .  . ,  against  Governor 

Dudley,  391. 

, ,  election  of,  33. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  grievances  of,  33,  33  in. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   Journals    of,    803. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  resolution  of,  806. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  sittings  of,  391.  . 

,   .  . .  . ,  speaker  of,  533  i. 

,  boundary  dispute  with  Con- 
necticut,   391,    691. 
,   Canada  expedition,  address 

concerning,  794  in. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  cost  of,  794  iv. 

,    ....,    quota   for,    387,  691, 

794,     794     i.,     n.  ;      and    see 

Canada  expedition. 
,  Charter  of,   17,  30,  33,  292, 

391,  392,  670,  914  i. 
,    coins,    currency    in,    157  I., 

375,  391, 


Massachusetts  Bay — cont. 

,  College,  President  of  the, 

33  in. 

,  Commissioners  from,  to  New 

York,  604. 

,  convoys,  417. 

Council  of,  33,  33  i.,  m.,  iv. 

, ,  address  of,  33,  33  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  election  of,  method  of, 

33,  391. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  minutes  of,  391. 

, ,  sittings  of,  391. 

,  .  .  . . ,  reply  to  Assembly,  33, 

33  in. 

,  Council  and  Assembly  of, 

address  of,  concerning  Port 
Royal,  533  i.,  554  iv. 

, ,  Memorial  of,  691. 

, Minutes  of,  33  i. 

,  Council  Chamber,  illumin- 
ation of,  33  in. 

,  Councillors  of,  391  i. 

,  Courts  of  Law,  causes  in, 

391  v. 

,  Court  Martial,  33  in. 

,  Custom  house  officers,   391. 

,  Customs,  Collector  of,  Com- 
mission of,  55,  58. 

,  defence  of,  33  m.,  58,  292, 

391,  533  i. 

,  deserters  in,  391  vin. 

,  HVM.  Engineer  in,  391. 

,  Excise,  391. 

,  Exports  of,  391. 

,  Fast  in,  391  vn. 

,  Fishery  of,  391,  533  i., 

554  i. 

,  Fiske,  John,  case  of,  391, 

391  iv. 

,  forts,  fortifications  of,   391. 

, ,  accounts  of,  266,  391, 

394  i.-v. 

,    Governor   of.     See  Dudley, 


. ,  Governor  of,  salary  of,  33, 
33  n. 

. ,  Governor  and  Council, 
address  of,  604. 

. ,  Governor,  Council  and 
Assembly  of,  address  of,  con- 
cerning Port  Royal  etc.,  860. 

. ,  Governor  and  Council  of  ; 
and  see  Canada  expedition. 

. ,  imports  of,  391. 

. ,  Indian  warfare,  horrors  of, 
533  i. 

. ,  Indians,  58. 

. .    ,   danger  from,   609. 

,, ,  incursions  of,  391,  428. 

, ,   ,.  .  .,   .  .  .  .,  losses  from,  533 


. ,  . . .  . ,  objection  to  neutrality 
of  Five  Nations  of,  533  I. 

., ,  trade  with,  391  ;  and 

see  Indians. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


609 


Massachusetts  Bay — cont. 

,  inhabitants  of,  numbers  of, 

391. 

,  . . . .,  emigration  of,  391. 

,      Lt. -Governor      of.         See 

Stoughton. 
,  Manufactures  (woollen  etc.), 

391. 

,  Militia  of,  391. 

,    Ministers    of,    maintenance 

of,  391. 
,   Naval   Stores   in,    292,   391, 

428,    430,    554    I.,    670;     and 

see  Woods  in. 

negroes,  duty  on,   151,  292. 

,     imports    and    prices 

of,    151. 

,    ,   not  wanted   in,    292. 

,   Nova  Scotia,   grant  of,   to, 

554  i. 

,   Port  Royal,  addresses  con- 
cerning,  533  i.,   554  iv.,   860. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  attack  upon,  proposed, 

794  i. 

post,  10. 

,   powder  duty  in,   391. 

,    powder   magazine,    391. 

,    Prerogative   of   the   Crown, 

391. 

,  privateers,  danger  from,  666. 

, ,  French,  33. 

,    Proclamations   in,    391   vi.- 

VIII. 

,  products  of,  391. 

,  public  papers  of,  416,  417. 

,    Quakers   in,    imprisoned   as 

assessors,    391. 

,  Revenue  of,  continued,  391. 

,      Rehoboth,      Congress      of 

Governors  at,  922  i.,  11. 

,  Seal,  new,  for,  40,  815. 

,   Secretary    of.    See    Ad  ding - 

ton,  I. 

,  shipping  of,  391. 

,  shipbuilding  in,  391. 

,  soldiers  from,  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, 260  i. 

,   stores  of  war,   accounts  of, 

391,  391  ii.,  m.,  394  i.-v. 

, for,  185,  292,  354. 

,  supply,  grant  of,  391. 

,  taxation  of,  391. 

,  Thanksgiving  in,  391  vi. 

,  trade  with  Carolina,  739.      - 

, Connecticut,  323. 

,  ....  Indians,  391. 

,     Rhode     Island,    229, 

230  m. 

, Virginia,  391. 

, West  Indies,  151,  391. 

,  trade,  illegal  in,  391. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  methods  of  pre- 
vention, 391. 

,    .  .  .  .,  lumber,  391. 

, ,  woollen,  391. 

Wt.  11522. 


Massachusetts  Bay — cont. 

,  trade  fleet,  417. 

,  train  oil,  391. 

,  Treasurer  of,  salary  of,   33, 

33  ii. 

War,  cost  of,  391. 

,  woods  in,  waste  of,  17,  17  I., 

24,  33,  58,  391,  392,  428,  430. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    Act    for    preserving. 

See  Act  of. 
Matanas,    Indian    spy,    examination 

of,  621  iv.  (ft).' 

Mathews, (Carolina),  752. 

Mathews,  Sir  William,  late  Governor 

of  the  Leeward  Islands,  590, 

p.  78. 

Matthews,  Capt.   (Antigua),  741. 
Matthews,  Thomas,  R.N.,  letter  to, 

794  ix. 

Matson,  Mathew,  242  i. 
Maxwell,   Thomas,    180  iv.   (m),  502, 

583  i,ii.,  i,v. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by. 

274,  857  m. 

Maycock,  Thomas,  Treasurer  of  Bar- 
bados, 274,  502. 
,    ....,   charges  against,   577, 

577  i. 
Mayne,  Covill,  158  x. 

,  Jos.,  242  i. 

Meadows,    Sir    Philip,  Commissioner 

of  trade,  350. 
Medcalfe,  Capt.,  487. 
Meddon,  William,  158  ix. 
Mein,  Patrick,   180,  225  i.,  321,  583 

XLIV. 

, ,  deposition  of,  363. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  to,  892  m. 

Merionethshire,  Mines  of,  526. 
Meriwether,  George,  document  signed 

by,  187. 

Merkin,  Peter,  756. 
Merrett,  Solomon,  letter  from,  535. 
Merrimack,  River,  19. 

Michll, (Newfoundland),  911  ix. 

Michell.    Francois    Luis,    settlement 

of,  in  Virginia,  601  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  grant  of  land  to,  735. 

, ,  letter  from,   639. 

,  petition  of,  601  ii. 

Mico,  John,  trial  of,  391. 

,  bond  of,   24. 

Mill,    Mary,    wife    of    Mill,    William, 

Capt.,  583  XLI. 
Miller,   Richard,    890  in. 
Milles,  John,  583  vni.,  ix.,  xxn. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    document  signed    by, 

513,  513  m.,  v. 

Milner, ,  letter  to,  243. 

Milward,    10  i.,   848. 

Mines,  coal,  N.E.,  260. 

Royal,    United    Society    of 

London      for,      proposal      for 

settling     German     Protestant 

Refugees,  526,  552  i.,   595. 
C  P  39. 


610 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Mines — cont. 

,  Spanish,  632. 

Minis,  60. 

Minors,   Charles,   deposition  of,   231 

n. 
,   . . . . ,  document  signed   by, 

187. 
Mississippi,   French   settlements   on, 

60,  544,  554  I. 

Governor  of.  60. 

,  map  and  report  concerning, 

632. 
Mitchell,    John,    Commodore,    R.N., 

152,  223  x.,  890  m. 

, ,  address  to,  158  in. 

,   . . . . ,  document  signed   by, 

223  xv. 
,   . . . . ,  letters,  reports,  from, 

158  VT.,  x.,  223,  223  i. 

,  letter  to,  195 1.,  223  vn. 

Mitchell,  Thomas,  letter  from,  243. 
Mitford,   Cuthbert,   case   of,    126   i., 

180  iv.  (*.,  Z),  583  xxrv. 
,    . . .  . ,  warrant  for  arrest  of, 

180  iv.  (e). 

Mobile,  French  fort  at,  632. 
Modyford,  Sir  Thomas,  827. 
Molasses,  Act  concerning,  391,  392. 
Mombasa,    expedition    against    pro- 
posed, 908  i. 
Mompesson,  Roger,  876. 
,     Councillor    of    New 

Jersey,  921. 
,    Chief  Justice  of  New 

Jersey,    400,  935. 
,    . . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

819  i. 
, opinion  of,  on  pressing 

of    seamen,  621,  621    i.,    747 

III. ,    IV. 

,  petition  of,  627. 

Monckton,  Robert,  Commissioner  of 
Trade,  350. 

Moniack,  M.,  60. 

Monk's  Hill ;    see  under  Antigua. 

Mons,  r.  Churchill. 

Montague,  Charles,  Earl  of  Manches- 
ter, 597  i. 

Montegroe,  (Antigua),  116. 

Montour, ,  report  by,   107. 

Montreal,  217,  602. 

,  attack  upon,  proposed,  196. 

defences  of,  621  iv.  (a). 

,  description  of,  60. 

,  expedition  against,  387,  475- 

478. 

Governor  of,  60,  107,  621  iv. 

(a). 

,  Lt. -Governor  of,  60. 

Town  Major  of,  60. 

MONTSERRAT,  116,  182,  909  i.; 
and  see  Hodges,  Anthony ; 
Leeward  Islands 

,  Assembly  of,  Journal  of,  6. 

, ,  Speaker  of,  524  i. 


Montserrat — cont, 

Council  of,  clerk  of,  484  xxx. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Minutes  of,  5. 

,  Council  and  Assembly  of, 

address  of,  524  i. 

,  minutes  of,  209. 

,  Lt. -Governor  of,  109,  150; 

and  see  Hodges,  Anthony. 

naval  action  off,  529  m. 

,  negroes  in,  25,  109,  150, 

484  xxi. 

, ,  imports  of,  192,  192  i. 

,  Papists  in,   150. 

,  stores  of  war,  account  of, 

529  i. 

,  trade  with  Carolina,  739. 

,  trade  with  New  York,  10. 

,  trade  with  Rhode  Island,  230 

n. 

,  trade,  illegal  at,  150,  192, 

193,  484  xxi.,  xxii.,  597  i. 

Moody,  John,  Capt.,  Commander  of 
Garrison,  St.  Johns,  New- 
foundland, 554  T.,  666. 

.- .  . ,  commendation  •  of, 

158  n.,  rv. 

,  . . . . ,  complaints  against, 

158  iv. 

, ,  letter  from,  794  vn., 

ix.,  x.,  798,  922  i. 

,   .  .  .  .,  memorial  by,  794  i. 

,  . . . . ,  proposals  by,  for 

Government  of  Newfound- 
land, 486. 

, proposal  by,  to  attack 

Placentia  etc.,  922  i. 

, report  upon  Newfound- 
land, 922. 

,  . . . . ,  returns  to  England, 

797. 

Moore,  late  Governor  of  Carolina,  739. 

,  Robert,  321. 

,  W.  A.,  deposition  of,  180  iv. 

(o). 

Mordaunt,  Charles,  Earl  of  Peter- 
borough, 852. 

Morgan, ,  privateer  (Antigua), 

445  i.,  597  i. 

Morgon,  Edward,  487  n. 

Jacob,  443  i.,  n. 

Morris, ,  letter  to,  243. 

,  Lewis,  Councillor  of  New 

Jersey,  11,  921. 

,  address  of,  819  xn. 

,  ,  charges  against,  819 

in. 

,  ....,  restored  to  Council, 

4,  104,  105,  924  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  Satires  by,  and  on. 

819  xn. 

,  suspended  from 

Council,  578,  819  xm.,  924  i., 
930. 

,  Thomas  (Antigua),  116  n., 

150  m.,  459  i, 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


611 


Morris,  Thomas — cont. 

, ,  case  of,  484  xiv.,  589  i., 

597  i. 

, ,  deposition  of,  150  ix. 

589  vii. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

150  IT.,  588,  589,  589  n. 

Mors,  Obediah,  65  v. 

Morton,  Earl  of.  See  Douglas,  James. 

Moseley,  Edward,  Boundary  Com- 
missioner, Carolina,  402,  813. 

,   instruction   to,  828. 

Mountague,  Sir  James,  Solicitor- 
General  (1708),  letter,  reports 
from,  39,  99,  154,  169. 

,....,  .  .  .  . ,  letter,  reference 

to,  84,  113. 

,  . . . . ,  Attorney  General 

(1709),  264,  740,  915. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letters,  reports  from, 

545,  550,  553. 

,  . . .  . ,  letters,  references, 

warrants  to,  549,  686,  751, 
784,  825,  845,  917,  926. 

opinions,  reports  by, 

250,  703,  747  iv.,  753,  807, 
807  i.,  830,  868. 

Mowila  Bay,  French  settlement  in, 
632/ 

Moxom, ,  letter  to,  890  DC. 

Mulberry  Plantation,    Carolina,  241. 

Mumbee,  Col.,  573. 

Mumby,  Humphrey,  573  11. 

,  Valentine,  110,  138,  145, 

208. 

Murray,  Andrew,  443  I.,  n.,  741. 

Muscovy.     See  Russia. 

Musgrave,  Christopher,  Clerk  of  the 
Privy  Council,  documents 
signed  by,  97,  98,  101-104, 
114,  269-272,  474,  698,  736, 
750,  901-907,  909,  927  -931. 

,  C.,  Commissioner  of  Ord- 
nance, document  signed  bv, 
306,  746. 

Mutton.  Capt.,  case  of,  597  T. 

Muy,  M.  du,  60. 


N 


Nairne,  Sir  David,  575. 

,    Thomas,     charges    against, 

662. 

letter  from,  632,  662. 

,   opposition  of,    662. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  persecution  of,  662. 

Nanfan,  Eliza,  case  of,  583  xx.,  xxi. 
Napper,  George,  487  n. 


Naturalization.     See     German     Pro- 
testant Refugees. 
Naumkege.     See  Salem. 
Naval       Officers,       appointed       by 

Governors,   39. 

Naval  Stores  (masts,  pitch,  tar, 
hemp,  flax  etc.),  in  the  Plant- 
ations, 10,  17,  17  i.-in.,  19, 
20  i.,  30,  33,  33  iv.,  44,  58, 
60,  65  in.,  185,  292,  391- 
393,  533  i.,  554  i.,  609,  670, 
705,  739,  794  IT.,  891  i.,  914  i. 

,  imports  of,  from  the  Plant- 
ations, 418,  427,  438. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  premium  on,  24,  428- 

430,  886,  898. 

,      ,     encouragement     of, 

Acts   for   etc.,    24,    392,    429, 
430,  914  i.,  n.    * 
Navigation,    Acts    of.     See  Acts   of 

Parliament. 

NAVY,  the  Royal,  5,  11.  19,  26,  192, 
216  i.,  253,  254,  261,  421, 
432,  586,  890  n  ;  and  see 
Canada  expedition  ;  Convoys  ; 
Jamaica,  Naval  Squadron  ; 
Naval  Stores  ;  Prizes. 

,     and     the     Bahama 

Islands,  658,  660 ;  and  see 
Bahama  Islands. 

,....,  complaints  against,  895. 

,       .  .  .  . ,      engagement      with 

French,  451. 

,  of?  Friends'Islands 

See  Wager. 

,     .  .  .  . ,     with    Spanish 

galleons,  alleged  cowardice  in, 
56. 

,    ,  Courts  Martial,  56. 

,    . .  .  . ,    manned   by   soldiers, 

56,  376,  451  ;  and  see 
Jamaica. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  mortal  it  v  in  Jamaica, 

68. 

,  movements  of.  339. 

,  Officers  of.    See  Baker  ; 

Fane  ;  Gore  ;  Huntingdon  ; 
Mitchell  ;  Norbury  ;  Smith  ; 
Stucley  ;  Taylor  ;  *  Wager. 

,   . . . . , ',  trial  of,  56,  68, 

135. 

, Port  Royal,  refusal  to 

co-operate  against,  794  ;  and 
see  Nova  Scotia,  Port  Royal. 

...-...,  .  .  .  . ,  sailors,  lack  of,  357, 
382,  640,  649,  720,  731. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    .  .  .  . ,   pressing  of,  in 

the  Plantations,  68,  96,  248, 
376,  621,  621  i.-m.,  702,  740, 
747  i.-v.,  753. 

,  H.M.  ships.     See  : — 

Adventure. 
Advice. 
Bristol. 
Burlington. 


612 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Navy,  the  Royal,  H.M.  ships — cont. 
Chester. 
Coventry. 
Crown. 
Deptjord. 
Diamond, 
Dolphin. 
Dragon. 

Dunkirk's  prize. 
Enterprize. 
Falmouth. 
Garland. 
Greenwich. 
Guernsey. 
Hector. 
Jersey. 
Kinsale. 
Larke. 
Litchfield. 
Looe. 
Lowesfoft. 
Maidstone. 
Nightingale. 
Norwich. 
Portland. 
Portsmouth. 
Roebuck. 
Rye. 

Scarborough. 
Severn. 

Triton's  prize. 
Valeur. 
Warwick. 
Weymouth. 
Winchelsea. 
Windsor. 

,       .  .  .  . ,      Spanish      galleons, 

search  for,  68. 

, ,  tobacco  for,  295. 

,  H.M.  Commissioners  of, 

470,  898. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    contracts    with,    24  ; 

and  see  Collins,  Francis. 
Neal,  Thomas,  274,  502. 
Needham,  Henry,  56.  i. 
Negro,  shoots  Governor  Parke,  741. 
852. 

,  murderer,  appeal  for  pardon 

of.  474  T. 

Negroes,  10,  13,  25,  56,  116,  117  TV., 
150,  328,  421,  445  '!.,  540, 
583  xiii.,  xvii.,  589  n.,  ix., 
657  i.,  786,  787;  and  see 
African  Company  ;  African 
Trade. 

,  agents  for  sale  of,   912. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    forbidden  to   act    as 

Councillors,  453,  466,  471,  473. 

,  Assiento  trade,  134  i.,  226  i.; 

and  see  Assiento. 

(Antigua),  150,  150  in.,  597  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    barbarous    treatment 

of,  in,  852. 

,  imports  and  prices  of,    109, 

109  i.-in.,  855  i. 


Negroes — con  I. 

,  Barbados,  126  i.,  228,  709  x., 

855,  855  i.,  892  m. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  imports  of,  into,  248, 

277. 

,  Bermuda,  73. 

,   Carolina.    73,    331,    739. 

,   Connecticut,   323,    328. 

,  imports  of,  into  the  Plant- 
ations,    328,    330,    331,     855, 

855  i. 

,  imports  of,  report  upon,  331. 

,    Jamaica,    67    i.,    81,     142, 

142   in.,    151,    208,    243,    247, 

331,  347,  573,  855,  855  i. 
Leeward  Islands,    151,    193, 

194    m.,    209,    484    XL.,    532, 

855,  855  i. 
,    .  .  .  . ,   imports  of,   into,   25, 

109,  109  i.-m.,  245,  855,  855  i. 
,    .  .  .  . ,   numbers  needed   for, 

331,  531. 

,  Martinique,  487  iv.,  709  x. 

,  Maryland,   745. 

,    imports    of,    10,    197, 

197  i.,  n. 
....-..,   numbers  required  for, 

331. 
,  Massachusetts  Bay,  imports 

of,   151,  292. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  import  duty  on,  292. 

,    Montserrat,    25,    109,     150, 

484  xxi. 

imports  of,  192,  192  i. 

,  Nevis,  25,  109,  331. 

New   England,   not  wanted 

in,  292. 

,  New  Hampshire,    155. 

,  New  Jersey,  punishment  of, 

in,  821. 
,  New  York,  imports  of,    10, 

400. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  numbers  required  for, 

331. 
,     numbers    needed    for    the 

Plantations,   331. 
,  not  profitable  in  the  Northern 

Plantations,    151,    292. 
,  price  of,  25,  331,  855,  855  i., 

892  n. 
,    punishment    of,    821,    778, 

792,    821. 
, ,  Act  for,  repealed,  778, 

792. 

,  Rhode  Island,  228,  230  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  imports  of,  228. 

,  runaway,  539. 

,    Spanish    West    Indies,    im- 
ports of  into,  525  i. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    tax    upon    imported, 

151. 
,  Trade,  the,  73,  94,  94  i.-m., 

134  i.,    193,    328,    331,     855, 

855 1. 
,  .  .  .  .,  from  Boston,  151  i. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


613 


Negroes,  Traae — com. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    return    of,    required, 

347,  910. 

, ,  Barbados,  228. 

,      .  .  .  . ,    Jamaica,    243,    247, 

542. 
,    ,  Leeward  Islands,  484 

XL. 

,     .  .  .  . ,     .  .  .  . ,    petition    con- 
cerning,  892  in. 

, ,  with  Spaniards,  210. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    Scotland,    243  ;     and 

see     Assiento  ;    African     Co.  ; 

Traders,  Separate. 
,    Virginia,    73,    216,    216    i., 

421,  855,  855  i. 
,   .  .  .  . ,  imports  and  prices  of, 

10,  215,  215  i.,  ii.,  655,  855, 

855  i. 
, ,  numbers  required  for, 

331. 

Nelson,  Capt.,  72. 
Neptune,  sloop,  case  of,  583  n. 
Nesbit,  James,  443  n. 
Netheway,  Thomas,  158  ix. 
Neutrality,  Treaty  of,  554  i. 
Nevine.     See  Nivine. 
NEVIS,    182,   505  ;    and  see  Leeward 

Islands  ;     Parke,   Daniel. 

,  Acts  of,  530. 

, .repealed,  269,  311,  531. 

,  Act  for  establishing  Courts, 

113,  169,  530. 

, ,  report  upon,  250,  264. 

,  repealed,   269,   311. 

,    Act   to   oblige   settlement   of 

debts  etc.,  187,  188. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  directions  concerning, 

209. 

, ,  opposition  to,  187,  188. 

,  Act  for  stopping  proceedings 

of  Courts,  187,  188. 

,  address  from,  487. 

,   and  the  African  Company, 

25. 

Assembly  of,  187,  264. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  Journal  of,  5. 

, ,  seat  of,  250. 

, ,  General  at,  84,  99. 

,  Charles  Town,  250. 

,  Council  of,  9. 

,  minutes  of,  5,  187. 

,  Commissioners  for,  Secretary 

of,   251. 
,    Council    and   Assembly    of, 

127,  487. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  address  from,  187. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    complaints    against, 

187. 
,  Councillors  of,  34,  198,  335, 

531,  878. 

,  Courts  of,  187,  264. 

,  defence  of,  597  i. 

,    emigration    from,    to    New 

York    and    Philadelphia,     10. 


Nevis — cord. 

,  exports  and  imports  of,  192. 

,    grant    of   provisions    to,    in 

aid  of,  127,  130,  487,  878. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  embezzlement  of,  sus- 
pected, 130. 

,  hostages  of,  546. 

,   hurricane  in,    209. 

Lt. -Governor  of,  letter  from, 

597,  865. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  and  Council  of,  531  ; 

and  see  Hamilton,   Walter. 

,  losses  of,  5. 

,   Merchants   of,   letter   from, 

187. 

,  Naval  Officer  of,   192. 

,  Negroes  in,  25,  109,  331. 

,  Provost  Marshal  of,  264. 

raid  on,  25,  331,  597  i.,  855. 

,  Secretary  of,  250. 

,  sickness  at,  487. 

trade  of,  554  i. 

,    ,  with  Carolina,  739. 

, ,  with  New  York,  10. 

,    . . .  . ,    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  11. 

Newark,  819  x. 

Newbold,  — ,  11  i. 

New  Castle.  See  New  Hampshire, 
Fort  William  and  Mary. 

Newell,  Thomas,  Capt.,  459  i.,  597  i. 

,  deposition  of,  150  xvi., 

589  xxiv. 

NEW  ENGLAND,  597  i..  748 ;  and 
see  Dudley,  Joseph  ;  Massa- 
chusetts Bay ;  New  Hamp- 
shire ;  Canada  Expedition. 

,  Boundaries  of,  554  i. 

,    Canada   Expedition,    quota 

for,    196,    387,    475-478,    604, 
666,  691,  p.  50. 

, ,  pa}'  of,  666. 

, popularity  of,  663. 

, ,  preparations  for,  617, 

691. 

,  Canada,  attack  from,  ex- 
pected, 196. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  proposal  for  reduc- 
tion of,  609. 

,  coal  for,  663. 

coins,  clipping  of,  in,    10. 
defence  of,  670,  922  11. 
embargo  in,  604. 
exports  of  corn,  10,  779. 
....  of  potash,  27  vi. 
fishery,  60,  803,  p.  49. 
fortifications  of,  266. 
French,  damages  caused  by, 
60,  691. 

frontier  scouts,  196. 
Governor   of.     See   Dudley, 
Joseph  ;    Canada  Expedition. 
. ,     .  .  .  . ,    instructions    to,    for 
recovery      of      the      Bahama 
Islands,   658,   660. 


614 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


New  England — cont. 

,  guardship  for,  798. 

,  Indians,  attack  by,  621  IV. 

,  Eastern,  frontier 

warfare  with,  554  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  objection  to  neutra- 
lity of  the  Five  Nations  of, 
554  i. 

,  mast  fleet,  10,  266,  797. 

,  masts  in,  licence  to  cut,  44. 

passes  for,  372  T. 

,  Port  Royal,  attacks  upon, 

60,  p.  49. 

privateers,  890  n. 

,  losses  from,  19,  691, 

803. 

,  resources  of,  60. 

,  shipping  of,  608,  655. 

,  stores  of  war  for,  1 14. 

trade  of,  10,  60,  p.  49. 

, with  Barbados,  779. 

, with  Bermuda,  231  rv. 

,  with  Leeward  Islands, 

779. 

,  with  Newfoundland, 

859  i. 

,  . . . . ,  with  New  York,  10. 

,  with  Portugal,  pro- 
posed, 761. 

,  with  Virginia,  216  i. 

,  trade,  illegal,  in,  10. 

,  woods,  waste  of,  in,  609, 

663,  693. 

New  Englanders  at  Newfoundland, 
223  i. 

,  carry  off  Newfoundland 

seamen,  859  i. 

NEWFOUNDLAND,  60,  348,  666  ;  and 
see  Benger,  Mrs.;  Campbell, 
James  ;  Cummings  A.,  Ferry- 
land  ;  Lloyd,  Major  :  Moody, 
John.  Capt.  ;  Placentia. 

,  Admiraltv,  Coxirt  of,  pro- 
posed for,  119. 

convoy  for,  288  i.,  562, 

562  i.,  566  i.,  567  i.,  890  VH. 

,  .  . .  . ,  Commodore  of,  158  n., 

461  ;  and  see  Mitchell,  John  ; 
Taylor,  Joseph. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  instructions  to, 

158. 

,  expedition  against,  602-604. 

,  abandoned,  612. 

forces  for,  475-478. 

,  instructions  concern- 
ing 387,  475-478,  492,  497, 
498,  794  x.,  xii. 

,  . . . . ,  proposal  by  Lord 

Cornbury  for,  107. 

,  exports  of,  859  in. 

Fishery  of,  49  i.,  619  i. 

,  . .  . . ,  account  of,  158,  554  i. 

859  in. 

,    history  of,   554  i. 

importance  of,  535    i. 


Newfoundland,  Fishery   of — cont. 

, report  on,  223  i.-vi. 

,  .  .  .  .,  sailings  for,  62,  283  I., 

358  i. 
Fishing     Admirals    of,    158 

IX.,   X. 

,  certificate  by,  158  ix. 

.......  Fleet  expected  at,  890  n. 

,  French  in,  history  of,  554  i. 

,     .  .  .  . ,     encroachments     by, 

519,  535  i.,  548. 

,  .  . .  . ,  losses  from,  548. 

,    ,  prisoners  in,  859  T. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  554  i. 

French,  Indians  in,  890  11. 

garrison  at,   158,   158  n. 

,  . .  .  . ,  let  out  to  hire,  158  n., 

158  x. 
,  Governors  commissioned  by 

Commodore  Taylor,   756   (6)., 

91 1  xv. 
,  Great  Bank,  French   fishery 

at  the,  554  i. 

,  harbours  of,  223  n. 

,  Heads  of  Enquiry  for,  460, 

461. 
,   Independant   Company    at, 

supplies  for,  300,  309,  329. 
, Agent  of.     See  Thurs- 

ton,  J. 

Indians,  French,  890  n. 

,  inhabitants  of,  223  n.,  iv. 

,  addresses  of,  158  ii.-vi. 

,  complaints  of,  against 

Major  Lloyd,  158  n.,  223. 
,    .  . . . ,   petition   of,   for  pro- 
tection, 922. 
,    ,   ransom   of,    890   in., 

iv.,  922. 

,  .  . . . ,  resettlement  of,  922. 

,  Lloyd, Major,  charges  against, 

158    n.,    223,    911    ix.  ;     and 

see  Lloyd,  Thomas. 
merchants      trading      to, 

memorial  by,  535  I. 
,    Minister,    maintenance    of, 

158  x. 

New  Englanders  at,  223  i. 

,    .  . .  . ,    carry    away   seamen, 

859  i. 

Officers  list  of,  859  n. 

,    Officers     commissioned     by 

Commodore  Taylor,  756  (6). 

,  papers  concerning,  894. 

,  passes  for,  372  i. 

,  Placentia,  Governor  of.     See 

Subercasse,  M. 

,   prisoners,    604. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  exchange  of,  195,  195  I. 

, ,  at  Placentia,  922. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    returned   by  French, 

195. 

,  Proclamation  concerning,  47. 

,    reports    upon,    223,  223  I., 

859,  859  i.,  922. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


615 


Newfoundland — cont. 

,  St.  Johns,  158  x..  223,  223  i., 

260,  497  ;  and  see  Brouillan. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  appeal  for  pro- 
tection from,  890  vn. 

,     boom    for,    223     i., 

VII.,  VIII. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  capture  of,  by  the 

French,  259,  345,  348  i., 

461,  554  i.,  604,  859  i.,  890  ix. 
,   . . . . ,    . . . . ,  account  of,  890 

ii.,   911  ix.-xn.,   922. 
,     ,    ,    attributed    to 

Lloyd's  neglect,  911  ix. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  condition   of,  859  i. 

,      . . . . ,     defence     of,     1 95, 

558  i.,  833. 
,  .....  Fort  William,  accounts 

of,  223  ix. 
,    . . . . ,  destruction  of, 

890  ii.,  922. 
, ,  plan  of  887,  890 

i. 
,     .  . .  . ,    .  .  .  . ,    rebuilding     of 

859  i.,  922. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    .  .  .  . ,  materials 

for,  911  xiii.,  xiv, 

,   French  attacks,   833. 

,      .  . . . ,     garrison      of,      223 

rx.-xv.,  833. 
, ,  .....  hiring  of,  91 1  ix., 

XI. 

,    . . . . ,    . . .  . ,   Governor,  and 

Commander  in    Chief  of,  756 

(b) ;     and   see    Collins,  John. 

, , ,  history  of,  554  i. 

,  hostages  taken  from, 

890  ii. 

,     inhabitants    of,   195. 

,  .....  .  .  .  . ,  killed  at  capture 

of,   911  ix. 
,    . . .  . ,    ,  ransom  of,  859 

i.,  890  ii.-iv.,  vi. 
,  .....  Minister  of,   salary  of, 

911  xi. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  prisoners  from,  859  i., 

890  ii. 
,  .  .  .  . , provisions  needed 

for;  833,  859  i. 

,  .  .  . .,  state  of,  158. 

,     stores    of     war     at, 

accounts  of,  223  x.-xiv.,  756, 

859  ii. 
,    ,    ,  for,  288,  288  i., 

329,  890  vin. 

, ,  trade  of,  890  vn. 

,  seamen  carried  off  by  New 

England  sloops,   859  i. 
,    soldiers    enlisted    at,     152, 

158,  282. 

,  Spanish  ship  at,  223  I. 

,  trade  of,  158,  223  i.,  859  in. 

trade  with  Canada,  859  iv. 

trade    with    New    England, 

859  i. 


Newfoundland — cont. 

,  trade  with  Spain,  223  i. 

,  trade,  illegal,  at,  118. 

Newham,  Jos.,  756. 

NEW     HAMPSHIRE,     60 ;      and     see 

Dudley,        Joseph    ;        Allen, 

Thomas    ;       Usher,       John    ; 

Vaughan,   George  :  New  Eng- 
land. 

,  Acts  of,  391. 

,  Act  of,  for  encouraging  making 

of  tar  and  Naval  stores,   292, 

392. 
,     . . .  . ,    concerning    molasses 

and  indiqo,   392. 
,   .  . . . ,  for  preservation  of  mast 

trees,  2,  17,  17  m.,  391,  428, 

914  i. 
,  Act  of  Parliament,  ignored 

in,  663. 
,  Acts  of  Parliament,  published 

in,  392. 
,    Agent    of.     See    Vaughan, 

George. 
,    addresses   from,    65    n.-vi., 

260. 
,    Allen,    Thomas,    case    and 

claim  of,   2,  58,   65  in.,   391, 

392 
,  Assembly  of,  2,  2  i.,  19,  123, 

392. 
,  .....  address  of,  19,  65  in., 

393. 
,  .  . . . ,  Agent  of.  See  Vaughan, 

George. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    Journal   of,   2. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  sittings  of,  391. 

,  . . .  . ,  Speaker  of,  65  n. 

,   Canada,  Expedition  against, 

604  ;  and  see  Canada  Expedi- 
tion. 

,  .  . . . ,  cost  of,  794  TV. 

,    quota   for,    196,  691, 

794,  794  i. 

,  Canada,  proposal  for  reduc- 
tion of,  19. 
,    Castle.     See    Fort    William 

and  Mary,  infra. 
,    coins,  'currency   of,    157   i., 

663. 

,  Collector  in,  123. 

,  Council  of,  260,  260  i. 

, ,  minutes  of,  2,  2  i.,  391. 

,  Councillors  of,  30,  266,  292, 

392  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  appointed  for,  439. 

, proposed  for,  391,  392, 

415. 

,  warrants  for,  391,  392. 

,    Council    and    Assembly    of, 

17. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  addresses  of,  65  n.,  iv. 

,    Courts   of,    causes   in,    391, 

392  n. 
,  proceedings  of,  663. 


616 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


New  Hampshire — cant. 
,  defence  of,  2,  19,  65  n.,    iv., 

123,  292,  392,  393,  458. 

, ,  neglect  of,  260,  260  i. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  proposals  for,   185. 

,    .  .  .  .,  distress  in,   19,  65  n., 

in. 

,  embargo  laid  in,  260  i. 

,  enumerated  commodities  in, 

392. 

,  export  of  timber,  118. 

fishery  of,  19. 

,     Fort    William     and    Mary 

(Castle),    19,    65    n.,    260    i., 

306,    307,    391-394,    394   vi., 

VII. 

,    construction  of,   1 85. 

fortifications  of,  accounts  of, 

266. 

,  forts  of,  report  upon,  123. 

,  French,  frontiers,  defence 

'  of,  60,  65  ii.-iv.,  260,  260  i., 
458. 

,  garrison,  petition  for,  19, 

392,  393. 

,  guardships,  petition  for,  19. 

,  Indian  warfare,  17,  19. 

,  Indians,  incursions  etc.  by, 

30,  65  n.-iv.,  392,  393,  428, 
609. 

protest  against  neu- 
trality of  Five  Nations,  19. 

,  inhabitants  of,  numbers  of, 

392. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  emigration  of,  393. 

,  Justices  of,  address  from, 

65  v. 

,  lands  in,  grants  of,  663. 

,  lands  purchased  from  In- 
dians, 65  in. 

,  Lt.- Governor  of.  See  Usher, 

John. 

,  losses  of,  185. 

.......  loyalty  of,  392. 

,  Mason,  claim  of,   65  in. 

,  Ministers  of,  address  from, 

65  vi. 

,  manufactures  in,  663. 

,  Massachusetts  Bay  Govern- 
ment and,  19. 

,  Militia  of,  123,  260. 

,  Naval  Stores  in,  2,  19,  60, 

65  m.,  185,  292,  392,  393, 
428,  430,  458. 

,  negroes  in,  155. 

,  packet  boats,  request  for,  19. 

population  of,   19. 

,  Port  Royal,  proposal  for 

reduction  of,  19,  794  i. 

,  powder  duty,  185,  391. 

,  Proprietor  of.  See  Allen, 

Thomas. 

,  quit-rents  in,  Lt.  Governor 

Usher's  proposal  for,  663, 
663  i. 


New  Hampshire — cont. 

resources  of,   19. 
Revenue  of,  continued,  391. 
Seal,  new,  for,  40,  815. 
shipbuilding  in,   392. 
shipping  of,  392. 
,  soldiers  from  Massachusetts, 

260  i. 
,   stores   of  war   for,    92,    93, 

114,    114    i.,    185,    205,    332, 

354,  797. 
accounts  of,    123   n., 

306,  307,  391,  392,  394  vi.,  vn. 
,     . . . . ,    petitions     etc.     for, 

19,  45,  54,  65  n.,  123,  123  i., 

392,  393. 
,    supplies    granted    for    war, 

391. 

,  towns  of,  19. 

trade  of,  19,  65  m.,  392. 

,     . . . . ,    with    Massachusetts 

Bay,  19. 

,    .  . . . ,   with  Spain  and  Por- 
tugal, 118. 

, ,  with  West  Indies,  19. 

, ,  illegal,  in,  19. 

Treasurer  of,  2,  2  i.,  260,  392. 

,  Union,  Act  of,  published  in, 

79,  392. 
,  . . .  . ,    . . . . ,   congratulations 

on,  65  iv. 
•.,  woods,  H.M.,  waste  of,  m, 

17,  24,  58,  428,  430. 
, ,  protection  of,  428,  430, 

458. 
,    woollen    manufactures    in, 

663. 

Newhaven  (Conn.),  604. 
NEW  JERSEY,   293  ;    and  see  Hyde, 

Edward  ;  Morris,  Lewis  ;    In- 

golaesby,    Richard  ;    Hunter, 

Robert. 

,  Acts  of,  621,  819xi. 

,  Act  of,  for  bills  for  £3,000, 

621. 
Act    for   encouragement    of 

volunteers,  621. 
,  ....  regulating  negroes,  778, 

792,   821. 
,  ....  of  Parliament  ignored, 

621. 

,  Auditor,  deputy,  of,   11. 

;  Canada  Expedition,  the,  196, 

604,   617,   629,   819  XL,   935; 

and  see  Canada  Expedition. 

,  quota  for,  387,  p.  50. 

,  ...., ,  refused,  578,  604, 

605. 
,    .....  money    for,    refused, 

617. 

, , ,  voted,  617,  621. 

,  Assembly  of,  400,  440,  578, 

617,  847  n.,  m., 
,  address  by,  440,  819  n., 

935. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


617 


New  Jersey,  Assembly  of — cant. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaints  against, 

64,  440,  819  i.,  in. 

,  ....,  Journal  of,  11,  400, 

819  v. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  lovalty  of,  affirmed  by. 

440. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    proceedings   of,    62 1 . 

, ,  Quakers  in,  440. 

,  ,  qualification  of  mem- 
bers of,  11. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  quarrel  with  Council, 

604,  921. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  instruction  con- 
cerning, 924  i. 

,  .  . .  . ,  revenue  and  militia 

refused  by,  11. 

revenue  appropriated 

by,  621. 

,   .  .  . . ,  speech  to,  847  n.,  in. 

,  attractions  of,  10. 

,  census  of,  11. 

,  Chief  Justice  of.  See  Gordon, 

Thomas  ;  Mompesson,  Roger. 

,  coinage,  currency  of,  157  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Act  for  ascertaining 

rates  of  foreign,  ignored,  621. 

,  Council  of,  4,  11,  11 1.,  621. 

,  . . .  . ,  minutes  of,  11,  400, 

578,  819  xiv. 

,  .  .  . . ,  President  and,  letter 

to,  800,  820,  821,  839,  840. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  quarrel  with  Assembly 

of,  604,  921. 

,  . . . . ,  . .  . . ,  instruction  con- 
cerning, 924  i. 

,  Councillors  of,  11,  11  i., 

104,  105,  578,  819,  819  vm., 
876,  921,  924  i.,  930. 

,  Custom  house  Officers,  11. 

,  damages  caused  by  French, 

60. 

,  defence  of,  819  in.,  p.  47. 

exports  of,  11. 

,  factions  in,  924  i. 

,  ,  instructions  concern- 
ing, 921. 

,  Freeholders  of  Middlesex, 

petition  of,  876  i. 

,  Governor  of.  See  Lovelace, 

Lord  ;  Hyde,  Edward  ; 
Hunter,  Robert. 

,  Governor  of,  instructions  to 

concerning  Canada  Expe- 
dition, 604. 

,  Indians,  danger  from,  609. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  the  Five  Nations  of, 

60. 

,  Lt.- Governor  of.  See  Iii- 

goldesby,  Richard. 

, ,  salary  of,  440. 

,  Lt.-Governor  and  Council 

of,  address  from,  440,  819  I., 

III.,    IV.,    VI. 

,  .."..,  enquiry  concerning,  64. 

,  .....  letter  from,  819  I. 


New  Jersey — cont. 

,     manufactures,     linen     and 

woollen,  in,  11. 

,  Militia  of,  10,  11,  819  in. 

,  Naval  Stores  in,  429. 

,  Negroes,  punishment  of,  in, 

821. 
,    prerogative    of   the    Crown, 

440. 
,     proclamation     for     raising 

volunteers  in,  629. 
,  Proprietors  of.  memorial  of, 

819  ix..  876. 
,    Quakers    in,   11,    440,    578, 

604,  605,  819  ra.,  vi. 

,     ,     exclusion    of,    from 

Government     proposed,     604, 

605,  617,   621. 

,     . . . . ,    oppose    grants    and 

quotas  for  Canada  Expedition, 

617,  621. 
,   quit   rents,   refusal   to  pay, 

819  x. 
,  revenue  of,  11,  440,  578,  621, 

819  m. 
,  accounts  of,   11,  400, 

847,   847  i. 

,  salaries  owing  in,  847. 

,  Seal,  new,  for,  40,  815. 

,  Secretary  of,  621. 

,  ships,  11. 

,    ships   entered   and   cleared, 

400. 

,  ship  building,   11. 

,  trade -of,  with  Barbados,  11. 

, ,  with  New  York,  11. 

,  with  Pennsylvania,  11. 

,    .  .  . . ,    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  ii. 

, , illegal  in,  11. 

,  Union,  Act  of,  published  in, 

11. 

,  woollen  manufactures  in,  11. 

New  London  (Conn.),  10. 

Newman,   Michael,    letter   from,    22. 

New  Mexico,  632. 

Newnam,  Mathew,   case  of,    18,   46. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  fine  of,  remitted, 

576. 
Newport,  230  ;  and  see  Rhode  Island. 

,  G.,  letter  from,  577. 

, ,  deposition  of,  577  T. 

,  T.,  Commissioner  of  Customs, 

document  signed  by,  27  v. 
New     Providence.        See      Bahama 

Islands. 

Newton, ,  lands  of,  848. 

NEW  YORK,  290,  293,  410,  411,  421  ; 

and  see  Albany  ;   Fane,  Capt.  ; 

Hyde,       Edward  ;       Indians, 

Five    Nations    of ;      Hunter, 

Robert   ;      Livingston,      Col.; 

Lovelace,      Lord  ;     Norbury, 

Capt. 
Acts  of,  621,  879. 


618 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


New  York,  Acts  of — cont. 

, ,  confirmed,  902. 

,  Act  of,  concerning  bolting,  10. 

,  .  . .  . .  for  preventing  corrup- 
tion of  current  coin,  157,  157  i., 
375. 

,  repeal  of,  399,  429,  621. 

,  ....  for  ascertaining  officers' 

fees,  objections  to,  621,  888. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  aoamst,  768, 

769. 

,  repeal   of,   901. 

, ,  report  on,  879. 

, ,  instructions  con- 
cerning, 903,  924  ii.,  929. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  concerning  Militia,  10. 

to  enable  the  City  to  raise 

£600,  repealed,  901. 

, ,  report  upon.  879. 

,  ....  for  levying  £4,000,  report 

upon,  879. 

, for  levying  £6,000,  901. 

, ,  report  upon,  879. 

, for  bills  of  credit.  901. 

, ,  report  upon,  879. 

for  the  easier  partition 

of  lands,  818,  851. 

,  ....  to  relieve  from  divers 

irregularities,  621,  818,  851. 

, ,  repeal  of,  901. 

, report  upon,  879. 

, ,  Revenue,  848. 

,....,....,  expiration  of,  621. 

,  ....  of  Parliament,  ignored 

in,  621. 

,  address  from,  708. 

,  Assembly  of,  10,  20  i., 

107,  157,  578,  604,  621,  768, 
769  ;  and  see  Canada  Expedi- 
tion. 

,  .  . .  . ,  adjournment  of,  from 

New  Jersey,  10. 

,  Journal  of,  10,  400, 

587,  621  v. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  country  and  town 

members  ot,  10. 

,  proceedings  of,  888. 

,  .  . .  . ,  Revenue  appropriated 

by,  621. 

,  Attorney  General  of,  10, 

11,  35,  36,  66  ;  and  see 
Rayner,  John  ;  Broughton, 
S. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  enquiry  concerning,  61. 

,  . . . . ,  leave  of  absence  of, 

621. 

,  opinion  of,  on  pressing, 

621,  621  n. 

,  salary  of,  621. 

,  Auditor,  Deputy  of,   10. 

,  Canada  Expedition,  address 

concerning,  708. 

,  . . .  . ,  Conference  concerning, 

at,  604. 

,  . . . .,  cost  of,  879. 


New  York,  Canada  Expedition — cont. 
,    ,    failure    of,    to   assist, 

498,   794. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  interests  divided,  617. 

, instructions  to  Gover- 
nor of,  concerning,  387,   388, 

498,   604. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  preparations  for,  604, 

617,  621,  629,  666. 
,    quota    for,    196,   387, 

388,   498,   666,   691,  794,   794 

i.,  ii.,  p.    50. 

,  census  of,   10. 

Chief  Justice  of,  opinion  of, 

on  pressing,  621.  621  i. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    400  ;    and   see  Mom- 

pesson,  R.  ;  Atwood,  William. 

,  City  Regiment  of,  387. 

,    coinage,    currency    of,     10, 

157,  375,  399,  879. 

,  .  . . . ,  rates  of,  768. 

,     Act    concerning,    re- 
pealed, 621. 
, for  ascertaining  rates  of 

foreign,  ignored,  621. 
,    Collectors    of    Customs    in, 

10,  20  i. 
,     Commissioners      to,     from 

Mass.  Bay,  604. 
,    Commissioners    for    Indian 

affairs,  107,  621  iv. 

,  convoys,  396,  571. 

,  Coroners,  election  of,  621. 

,  Council  of,  429,  604,  621,  768, 

796,  842  i.,  888,  903. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  address  of,  847  n.,  in. 

, ,  Clerk  of,  10. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  grants  of  land,  848. 

, ,  minutes  of,  10,  400,  578. 

,  .  . .  . ,  opinion  of,  on  pressing, 

621,  621  m. 

, ,  President  of,  604,  796. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  President  and,  796. 

,  .  .  .  .,  instruction  to,  816. 

, ,  letter  to,  838,  839,  841, 

842,  842  i.,  843,  866. 
,    Council    and    Assembly    of, 

minutes  of,  107. 
,  Councillors  of,  10,  10  I.,  610, 

617,  849,  850,  924  i. 

,  cruisers  proposed  for,   10. 

,  damages  caused  by  French, 

60. 

,  defence  of,  10,  705,  p.  47. 

,   deserters  from  H.M.   ships, 

924,  925. 

,  embargo  in,  604. 

emigration  from,  10. 

English  title  to,  554  I. 

,  exports  of,  10,  779. 

factions  in,  802. 

,  fees  of  officers,  lawyers  etc. 

in,  851,  879  ;    and  see  Act  for 

ascertaining. 
fishery  of,  10. 


GENEKAL  INDEX. 


619 


New  York— con*. 

,  flour  trade,  and  bolting,  1 0, 

779. 

Fort  St.  Anne,  849,  849  i. 

,  fortifications,  tax  for,  10. 

,    French    encroachments    in, 

517. 

,  French  Minister's  salary,  38. 

,  frontier  scouts,  196. 

,  German  Protestant  Refugees, 

settlement  of,  in,  171  i.,  401, 

881,  882,  885,  891  i. 
, contract    of,     915-918 

i.,  923. 
,    ....,    provision    for,     710; 

and  see  Kocherthal,  J. 
,  Governor  of,   632  ;    and  see 

Andross,  Sir  Edward  ;    Hyde, 

Edward  ;      Hunter,     Robert  ; 

Indians  ;    Lovelace,  Lord. 

,  . . . . ,  instructions  to,  794  ix. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    . . . . ,  for  recovery  of 

Bahama    Islands,     658,     660, 

794  ;   and  see  Hunter,  Robert. 
.- ,   .  . . . ,  journey  of,  to  Albany, 

848. 
Governor,      Council      and 

Assembly  of,  address  of,  157, 

157  i. 
,  Independent  Companies  at, 

128,  387,  493. 

,  Indians,  danger  from,  609. 

,    ,  Five  Nations,  the,  10, 

60  ;  and  see  Indians. 

inhabitants  of  Nevis  at,  10. 

lands  in,  grants  of,  81,  848. 

, instruction  concerning, 

20  i. 

lawyers  of,  petition  of,  768. 

,   . . . . ,   fees  of.      See  Act  for 

ascertaining. 
,  Lt.-Governor  of,   768;    and 

see  Ingoldesby,  Richard. 

,   . . .  . ,  salary  of,  440. 

,  manufactures  in,   10,  70. 

,  Mayor  of,  924  i. 

". ,  prosecution  or,  ordered, 

925. 

,  Militia  of,  10. 

,  Minister  at,  salary  and  house 

rent  of,  621,  701. 
naval  stores  in,  17,  70,  429, 

705,   891    i. 

,  preservation  of,  20  i. 

,  negroes  imported,  10,  400. 

,  ....  required  for,  331. 

,    neutrality    agreement    with 

Canada,  554  r. 

, complaints  against,458. 

,     officers    of,    provision   for, 

insufficient,   621. 
,    . . . . ,    fees    of,    instructions 

concerning,  903,  924  n.,  929  ; 

and   see   Act  for   ascertaining 

officers'  fees. 


New  York — cont. 

,  patents  in,  records  of,  lost, 

621. 

,  post,  10. 

,  pressing  of  sailors  for  navy, 

621,  621  T.-III.,  702,  740,    747 

i.-v.,  753. 

,  privateers  of,  10. 

,  qiiit  rents,  20  I.,  621. 

,  Receiver  General  of,  848. 

,  Revenue  of,  621,  848. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  accounts  of,  10,  400. 

Seals,  new,  for,  40,  815. 

,  Secretary  of,  20  i.,  578. 

,  shipbuilding  in,  10. 

,  ships  belonging  to,  10. 

ships  entered  and  cleared  in, 

400. 

stores  of  war  in,  604. 

,   .  . . . ,  accounts  of,  400,  849, 

849   i. 

,  Surveyor  General  of,  20  i. 

,  tar  manufacture  in,    17. 

,  trade,  decay  of,  10. 

,   trade   with   Barbados,    396, 

779. 

, Bermuda,  231  iv. 

Canada,  617. 

, Carolina,  739. 

,  ....  Connecticut,  323. 

Curacoa,  10. 

, Great  Britain,  157  i. 

, Jamaica,  448. 

,   ....  Leeward    Islands,  779. 

,   ....  New  Jersey,   1 1 . 

, Portugal,  proposed,  761. 

Rhode  Island,  230    n. 

Surinam,  10. 

, St.  Thomas,  10. 

,    Virginia,  216  i. 

West  Indies,  10,  157  i. 

,  trade,  illegal,  in,   10,  66. 

,  Treasurer  of,   879 ;    and  see 

Depeyster,  Col. 
,  Union,  Act  of,  published  in, 

10. 
,  woods    in,    preservation   of, 

429. 

, ,  waste  of,  20  i. 

,  woollen    and     linen     manu- 
factures, 10. 
Nicholl,    W.,    document    signed    by, 

157  T. 
Nicholls,  John,  911  rs. 

William,  890  ii.-iv. 

Nicholson,  Fort,  794  i. 

,  Francis,  Col.,  498.  578,  621, 

663,  670,  794  i.,  u.  ;   and  see 

Canada  Expedition. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  appointed  Commander 

in   Chief,  Canada  Expedition, 

604,  617,  629,  691. 

address  to,  81 9  xi. 

,   . .  .  . ,  arrival  of,  at  Boston, 

604,  691. 


620 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Nicholson,  Francis — cont. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  arrival  of,  at  New  York, 

p.  402. 
,  commendation  of,  794 

m.,  798,  806. 
, ,  document    signed    by, 

794  i.,  ii.,  819  vi.,  922  u. 

, expences  of,  604. 

.    .  .  .  . ,  instructions     to,     for 

Canada  Expedition,  387,  388. 
, ,  letter  from,   604,    605, 

629,  794,  794  vn.,  ix.,  x. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  letter     to,    580,     838, 

922  i. 
,  .  . .  . ,  return  of,  to  England, 

797,   803,   888. 

,  visits  Albany,  666. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  ....  New    Jersey,    p. 

404. 
,     . . .  . ,    Rhode  Island, 

604. 

Nicks,  Samuel,  756,  890  in. 
Nightingale,  H.M.S.,  223. 
Nisbett    (Nisbitt),    James,    487    u., 

597  i. 
Nivine,  William,   183  in.,   193,  377, 

381,  459  i.,  531,  532,  589  n., 

in.,  viii.,  597  ;   and  see  Parke. 

Daniel. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    charges     of,     against 

Governor  Parke,  116,  148,  150, 

194,  484  xxxm..   625. 

, ,  letter  from,  484. 

petition   of,  730,  873. 

, ,  supposed  loss  of,  852. 

,    . . . . ,     taken     prisoner     to 

France,  741. 
Norbury,  Capt.  R.N.,  10, 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaint  against,  709. 

Norden,  Nathaniel,  391  i. 

Norris,  Richard,  document  signed  by, 

443   m. 

Robert,  720. 

,    William,    Naval    Officer   at 

Jamaica,  56  i.,  167. 
,  seizure  by,  451,  451  n.,  573, 

573  ii. 

Northoner,  Robert,  529  m. 
Norton,  Henry,  487  n. 
Nwwich,  H.M.S.,  684. 
Norwood,    John,    Commissioner     of 

Customs,     Nevis,     193,     531, 

878. 
Nott,     Edward,     late    Governor    of 

Virginia,    instructions  to,  216 

i.,    883. 

Nova  Francia,  554  i. 
Nova  Scotia  and  Port  Royal,  60. 
,  acquisition  of,  urged,  554  i., 

609,  794  n.,  m.,  806,  860. 
,  Alden,   Capt. ,  memorial  of, 

concerning,  554  in. 

,  boundaries  of,  60,  554  i. 

,  claims  of  English  and  French 

to,  report  upon,  554  i. 


Nova  Scotia  and  Port  Royal — cont, 

coal  in,  609,  663. 

,  Cromwell  seizes,  554  i. 

,     Expedition    against,     com- 
mand of,  798. 
,    ,     proposed,     794,    794 

i. -xii.,  798,  922  n. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  abandoned,  798. 

,  miscarriage  of,  33  in. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Navy  refuses  to  join, 

794,   794  I.-IIL,  v.-xii. 
,    ,   New    York    fails    to 

assist,  794. 

, ,  quotas  for,  794,  794  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   petitions  for  renewal 

of,   794,   794  i.-m.,  798,  803, 

806,  860. 

,  fishery  of,   609,   794  n. 

, ,  French  claim  to,  554  i. 

,    .  .  . .,    French,  the,  sale    of, 

to,  60. 

,  French  Governor  of,  554  i. 

,  fur  trade  of,  794  11. 

,  Naval  stores  in,  554  i.,  609, 

794  ii. 
,  Port  Royal,  "  the  American 

Dunkirk/    609,  794,  798,   803. 

,  privateers,  794  11.,  m.,  803. 

,  settlement  of,  proposed,  392. 

Nowlan,  A.,  deposition  of,  573  n. 
Nuestra  Senora  de   Begonn,   Spanish 

ship,  372  i. 
Nusum,    John,    deposition    of,    583 

XXXVII. 


Ochasee,  River,  739. 

Ockman,  W.,   158  x. 

Odiorn,  859  iv. 

Odlin,  John,  65  vi. 

Oesterman,  Thomas,  443  i.,  ii. 

Oglethorp,  Richard,  487  n. 

Oldfield,  Francis,  142,  167,  172,  208, 

247,  452,  453,  466. 

,   . . .  . ,  petition  of,  139  i. 

Oliver,  Richard,  145. 

,  document  signed  by,  487  IT. 

588,  589,  589  ii. 
,  Thomas,  speaker  of  Assembly 

of    the    Massachusetts    Bay, 

document  signed  by,    33  in., 

533  i. 

Oneides,  Sachem  of,  107. 
Oneyade,  Fort  at,  621  TV.  (a),  (c). 
Onondagas,  Sachem  of,  107  ;   and  see 

Indians,  Five  Nations  of. 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


621 


Onslow,  Thomas,  document  signed 
by,  361,  365. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  petition  of,  525  i. 

(?  Thomas),  proposal  by  for 

settling  Palatines  in  Jamaica, 
665,  667  i. 

Oporto,  284. 

Orby,  Sir  Charles,  appeal  of,  444. 

Ordnance,  Commissioners  of  H.M., 
185,  205,  227,  266,  290,  332, 
381,  387,  391,  392,  396,  421, 
542,  597  i.,  604. 

,  .  . .  . ,  accounts  for,  59. 

,  ,  letter  from,  1 14,  306, 

746. 

,  letter  to,  83,  93,  307, 

396  i.,  757. 

Orkney,  Earl  of,  Governor  of  Virginia. 
See  Hamilton,  Lord  George. 

Orleans,    Island    of,    196. 

Ormston,  John,   11. 

Osborn,  Humphrey,  487  n. 

Osborne,  Peregrine,  Marquis  of  Car- 
marthen, proposal  of,  for 
reduction  of  pirates  at  Mada- 
gascar, 557  i.,  908  i.,  vi. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  proposal  of,  for  taking 

Mombasa  etc.,  908  i. 

, ,  letter  to,  622. 

Otis,  John,  391  i. 

Otto,  852.     See  Bayer. 

Outerbridge,  Samuel,  637,  644. 

William,  deposition  of,  231  I. 


Packer,  Thomas,  415,  439. 

Packet  boats  for  West  Indies,  255, 

505,   513,   531,   532,   586,   589 

xxvii.,    679,    683,    722,    749, 

912. 

,  capture  of,  10. 

need    of,    10,    19;     and   see 

Dummer,  E. 

Paence, ,  letter  to,  890  ix. 

Page,  John,  216  in. 

-Page,  Richard,  890  iv. 

Paggen,  Peter,  document  signed  by. 

855. 
Palatines.     See    German    Protestant 

Refugees. 

Pamunkey  Neck  (Va.),  655. 
Panama,  '720  i. 

,  Governors  of,  525  i. 

Panton,  J.,  194  n.,  597  i. 

Papists,  131,  131  in.,  150,  290,  296; 

and  see  Roman  Catholics. 
Paradise,  Little,  859  iv. 


Parke,  Daniel,  Governor  of  Leeward 
Islands,  9,  145,  367  iv.,  541  ; 
and  see  Chester,  Edward ; 
Codrington.  Christopher  ;  Lee- 
ward Islands  ;  Antigua  ; 
Nivine,  W.  ;  Dominico. 

,  ....,  address  to,  116  n., 

150  i.,  187,  531,  532,  597  I. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  in  favour  of,  116, 

313,  487  ii.,  488,  524,  638,  641. 

,  Admiralty  tenths,  484 

xx.,  xxi.  ;  and  see  privateers. 

,  .  . . . ,  assassination  attempted 

of,  741,  852. 

, ,  quoted  by  Gover- 
nor Crowe,  748. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  bribery  of,  attempted, 

5,  150,  193,  531,  532,  597  i. 

,  ,  Blenheim,  battle  of, 

herald  of  news  of,  597  i. 

,  .  .  . . ,  Chancery  Court, 

decrees  etc.  of,  in,  182,  531, 
532,  597  i. 

,  ,  charges,  complaints 

against,  91,  148,  150,  182, 
183,  187,  245,  359,  367,  381, 
443  T.-III.,  459  i.  465  i.,  484 
I.-XL.,  488,  623-626,  741  ; 
and  see  Bowden,  Mrs.,  Nivine, 
W. 

,  . .  .  . ,  hearing  of,  672, 

730,  874. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  order  concerning, 

630,  730. 

,....,....,  prepared  secretly, 

116  i.,  n. 

,  replies  to,  91, 

116,  116  i.-m.,  150,  150  n., 
182,  183,  183  i.-m.,  193, 
505,  531,  532,  590,  597,  597 
i.,  598,  852,  874,  875,  878. 

,  ,  by  the 

Council  of  Antigua,  116,  116 
i. -in.,  587-589  n. 

,  .  . . . , , ,  by  officers 

of  H.M.  Regiment,  487  I. 

, , , ordered,  630. 

,  . . . . , report  upon,  367. 

,  ....,  Codrington,  Col.,  in- 
trigues of,  against.  See  Cod 
rington,  Christopher. 

,  .  .  .  . ,   .  .  .  . ,  order  to,  by,  484 

IX. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  commended  by  Council 

of  Trade,  209,  367. 

,   commission  of,  264. 

,  Commissions  of  Peace, 

changes  in,  by,  589  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaint  by,  864. 

, correspondence  of,  leak- 
age in,  193,  563. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Council,  acts  with,  117. 

, document  signed  by, 

116  iv. 

,   . . .  . ,  exactions  by,  443  n. 


622 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Parke,  Daniel — cont. 

, ,  fees  of,  443  n.,  597  i. 

,    . .  . . ,  hospital    in    Antigua, 

established  by,  193  I. 

,  . . . . ,  house  rent  of,  5,   117, 

193,  209,  589  i. 

,  Act  for,  not  laid 

before  H.M.,  625. 

, ,  refused,    487. 

,    instructions  of,  5,  25, 

192,  193,  878. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   letters  etc. ,  from,    6— 

7,  25,  109,  116,  117,  148-150, 
181,  182,  191-193,  484  xxi., 
487,  488,  505,  524,  529-532, 
597,  852,  865,  869,  873-875. 

, letters,  orders,  etc.,  to, 

91,  127,  130,  166,  182,  183, 
183  n.,  209.  245,  311,  374, 
377,  563,  589  vi.,  631,  672, 
730,  878. 

,  Maryborough,  duke  of, 

his  patron,  150,  488,  597  I., 
852. 

, ,  money    sent    home    to 

procure  removal  of,  193. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  negroes  purchased  by, 

25,  589  ix. 

, ,  Nevis  visited  by,    187, 

505. 

,  .  . .  . ,  orders,  warrants,  de- 
crees by,  182,  484  xn.-xvi., 
xxxi.,  xxxii.,  531,  532,  589 
i.,  XL,  xvii.,  597  i. 

,  .  . .  . ,  patrons  of,    150,    488, 

597  i.,  852. 

,    .  .  . . ,  petition     against,    by 

Col. Ward,  484  xxxiv.-xxxvu. 

,  .  . . . ,  .  .  .  . ,  by  London  Mer- 
chants, 532. 

,...., , to,  186,  187. 

,    . .  .  . ,  plantation    of,   in  St. 

Kitts,   116. 

,    powder  duty  remitted 

by,  589  i.,  xvii.,  597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  present  offered  to,  487, 

531,  597  i. 

, and  the  Pretender,  597  I. 

,   privateers  of,  116,  150, 

192,  193,  589  i. 

,    , ,    "  tenths  "  paid 

by,  589  xxiii.,  597  i. 

,  ....  and  Queen  Anne,  532. 

, ,  reprimanded,  209,  878. 

riot  at  St.  Johns,  150, 

150  in.— xix ;  and  see  An- 
tigua, St.  Johns. 

,    salary  of,  5,  150,  193, 

209,   597,  597  i. 

,  overdue,  531. 

,  suspends  Barry  Tan- 
kard from  Council  of  Antigua, 
5. 

,    . . . . ,  testimonial  in  favour 

of,  193  i, 


Parke,  Daniel — cont. 

trade,  Acts  of,  alleged 

breaches  of,  by,  116,  353,  443 

n.,  625. 
Parker,  Henry,  756. 

Sir  Thomas,  508. 

Parkhurst,  ,   116. 

Parliament,    Acts   of.     See    Acts   of 

Parliament. 
,    report    to,    bv    Council    of 

Trade,  294. 
Parlican,   inhabitants   of,   conditions 

of  ransom  of,  890  in.,  iv. 
Parrott,  William,  657  I. 
Parry,  John,  487  n. 

,  Samuel,  487  n. 

Parsons,  William,  756. 

Partridge,  Samuel,  391  I.,  621  iv.  (c). 

,  William,  118. 

Pasqueau,  Capt.,  870. 

Passes,    for    ships    to    sail     without 

convoy,     3,     280 ;      and    see 

Convoys. 
,  for  Spanish  ships  to  trade, 

134  i.,  170,  177,  223  i.,  226  I., 

372,  372  i.,  449  I.,  463. 
Passmor,  Abraham,  158  x. 
Patent   offices,    in    the   Plantations, 

5,  39,  56,    87,    88,    160,    209, 

210,  218,  245,  247,  248,  251, 

326,  467,  531,  569,  573,  676, 

857  i. 

,  held  by  deputies,  5,  153,  296. 

,    ,  order  concerning,    15. 

Patuxent,  131. 

Patta,  expedition  against,  proposed, 

908  i. 

Payne,  Stephen,   117  iv.,   194  11. 
,   affidavits  of,   194  in., 

IV. 

,    .  . .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

183  m. 

Paynter,  John,  443  i.,  IT. 
Payton,  Charles,  583  xxxii. 
Peace     negotiations,     with     France, 

632,  806,  860  ;  and  see  France; 

Canada ;     Nova    Scotia ;    St. 

Christophers. 
Pearden,  Henry,  158  rx. 

, ,  letter  to,  890  ix. 

Pearl,  packet,  679. 
Pearne,  Mary,  869. 
Peartree,  William,  Councillor  of  New 

York,  10  i.,  928. 

,  . . . . ,  charges  against,  924  i. 

,  . . . . ,  prosecution  of,  ordered, 

925. 

.William,  443  i.,  n. 

Peasly,  John,  637,   645. 
Peck.     See  Peeke,  John. 

,  Thomas,  756. 

Pecks,  Israel,  391  iv. 

Peeke,  John,  87,  102,  122,  142,  573. 

Peers,  Henry,  274. 

Peirce,  Josh.,  65  v, 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Pemaquid,  391. 

,  fort  of,  taken,  554  I. 

Pember,  Herbert,  Attorney  General 
of  the  Leeward  Islands  etc., 
487  ii.,  589  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Judge  of  the  Admir- 
alty, Antigua,  597  I. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

150  m. 

Pembroke,  Earl  of,  Lord  High  Ad- 
miral. See  Herbert,  Thomas. 

Pentagoet,  554  i. 

Pen,  Chevalier,  de,  890  11. 

Penlyn,  manor  of,  552  i. 

Penn,  William,  Proprietor  and 
Governor  of  Pennsylvania, 
115,  256,  717  ;  and  see  Penn- 
sylvania. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Acts,  sanction  of,  725. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  boxmdary  dispute  with 

Lord  Baltimore,  289  i.-ni., 
293,  410,  450,  521,  565  ;  and 
see  Calvert,  Charles. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  declaration  of,  relating 

to  the  Three  Lower  Counties, 
12  i.,  32. 

,  ....  document  signed  by,  27 

n. 

, ,  instructions  for,  relating 

to  Acts  of  Trade,  32. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  concerning  sub- 
mission of  Laws,  791. 

, letter  from,  12,  289  in., 

450,  565,  725. 

, ,  letter  to,  256,  298,  718, 

734,  809. 

,    ,  petition  of,  334. 

, ,  records,  copies  of,  re- 
quested by,  579. 

,  surrender  of  Govern- 
ment by,  urged,  888. 

Pennant,  Ed.,  451  i. 

PENNSYLVANIA,  789  ;  and  see  Penn, 
William  ;  Gookin,  Charles. 

,  Acts  of,  481,  686,  703,  718. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  instruction  concerning, 

791. 

, repealed,   790,   809. 

,  report  upon,  717. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  time  limit  for  Royal 

Approbation  of,  686,  717,  725, 
734,  777. 

,  Act  of,  declaring  allegiance, 

proposed,  717. 

,  securing  the  administra- 
tion of,  717. 

,  ,  instruction  con- 
cerning, 791. 

Act  for  recording  deeds,  717. 

,  ....  limiting  presentments, 

717. 

renouncing  the  Pretender, 

recommended,  741. 

,  directing  the  qualifica- 
tion of  magistrates,  717. 


Pennsylvania,  Act — zont. 

,     . . . . ,    concerning    rates    of 

money,  717. 

,    . .  .  . ,  against  riotous  sports, 

717. 

,  .  . .  . ,  revenue,  580. 

,  Assembly  of,  604. 

,     .  . . . ,    extravagant    preten- 

tions  of,  888. 

,      .  . .  . ,     refuse     quota     and 

measures  of  defence,  580. 

,  boundaries  of,  dispute  with 

Maryland,  115,  168,  256,  289, 
289*1. -m.,  293,  298,  450. 

,    Canada    Expedition,    quota 

•     for,   196,  387,  475-478. 

.  . , ,  refused,  580,  604,  605. 

,   . . . . ,  volunteers  for,  629. 

,    coins,    currency     in,    rates 

of,  375,  717. 

,   Council  of,   580,   604,   888. 

,  Counties,  the  Three  Lower, 

declaration  concerning,  12  I., 
32. 

defence    of,    measures    for, 

refused,  580. 

,  embargo  in,  604. 

,  flour,  10. 

,  Germans  in,  932. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Governor  of,  instruc- 
tions of,  concerning  expedi- 
tion against  Canada  and  New- 
foundland, 387,  475-478,  604 ; 
and  see  Penn,  William. 

,   Deputy  Governor  of,  H.M. 

approbation  of,   12  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  instructions  concerning 

Canada  Expedition,  604  ;  and 
see  Gookin,  Charles, 
immigration  to,  296. 
Indians,    danger  from,   609. 
potash  in,  27,  27  i.-vi.,  43. 
proclamation      for      raising 
volunteers  in,  629. 

Quakers   in,   580,   604,   605. 
salt,  proposal  for  making,  in, 
28,  43. 

,  Secretary  of,  888. 

,  shipping  of,  216. 

,  trade  of,  with  Bermuda,  231 

IV. 

,    ,    with     Carolina,    739. 

,  with  New  Jersey,  11. 

,        .  .  .  . ,       with        Portugal, 

proposed,   761. 
,    ,    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  n. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  with   Virginia,    216  I. 

,  vine-growing  in,  932. 

Penobscot,  554  i. 

Pensacola,  632. 

Pensance, (Newfoundland),  890 

n. 

Pensions,  351,  361. 
Percy,  J.,  158  x, 


624 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Peroneau,  Samuel,  letter  to,  411  i., 

ii. 
Perrie,     Edward,     Commissioner    of 

Customs,  Antigua,  116,  116  i., 

117,  193,  245,  443  i.,  n.,  532, 

589  xxiii.,  597  i. 

,  letter  to,  484  xxxi. 

,    John,    Provost   Marshall   of 

the  Leeward  Islands,   5,   209. 
,   leave   of  absence   of, 

117,   676. 
Perry,  Micajah,  merchant,  agent  to 

Governor  Parke,   1,  528,  532, 

597,  730,  852,  878. 
,  . . .  . ,  document    signed    by, 

745. 

, ,  letter  to,  261,  789,  863. 

, ,  petition  of,  850. 

Perth  Amboy,  11,  604. 

Peru,  632. 

Pery,  John,  Secretary  to  the  African 

Company,     document     signed 

by,   327,'  347. 

, letter  to,  330,  786. 

Peterborough,     Earl     of.     See    Mor- 

daunt,  Charles. 
Peters,  John,   9,   319. 
Petit  Guavas,  573. 
Petty  Harbour  (Newfoundland),  554 

i.,  859  i. 
inhabitants  of,  conditions  of 

ransom  of,   890  in.,  iv. 
Peuch.     See  Pouch,  Francis. 
Philadelphia,   10,   11. 
,    inhabitants    of    Nevis    at, 

10. 

,  Minister  of,  57  n. 

Philips,  C.  (N.Y.),  10,  849. 

,  Samuel,  443  i.,  IT. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  484  xvm. 

Philipps,  Lt.  (Newfoundland),  890  n. 
Philiptes,   Adrian,   document  signed 

by,  157  i. 

Phillips,  John  (Mass.),  391  i. 
Philotas,   document   signed   by,    180 

viii   (a). 

Phips,  Thomas  (N.H.),  65  v.,  260  i. 
Phipps,  Constantine,  memorial  from, 

547. 
,    Francis,    Councillor    of    St. 

Kitts,  6,   200,   206,   209,   236. 
,   Sir  William,   expedition  of, 

554  i. 
Pickerin,   John,    17   n.,    65   n.,    260, 

260  i. 

Pickering,  Capt.,  604.     " 
Piffton,  John,  158  ix. 
Pike,  John,  65  vi. 

Pilgrim  (Barbados),  Governor's  resi- 
dence,    502,     583,     583     XL, 

XXVIII. 

,  John,  Councillor  of  Barbados, 

126  i.,  299,  380,  513,  857  in. 

, complaints  of,  against 

Governor  Crowe,  179,  694. 


Pilgrim,  John — cont. 

, ,  letter  from,  317,  503. 

,   Thomas,   petition  and  case 

of,  272  i.,  n. 

,  . . . . ,  . . . . ,  report  upon,  308. 

, ,  letter  to,  286. 

Pinckerman,    Capt.    (Jamaica),   649. 
Pindar,  Thomas,  187,  321. 

, ,  petition  of,  134  I.,  210. 

, , ,  report  upon,  170, 

226  i. 

Pinhorn,  William,  819  i.,  876,  921. 
Pirates,  66,  540,  831  n.,  872,  900 ;  and 

see  Breholt,  John ;  Ham,  John. 

,   increase   of,    785. 

,  pardons  for,  785,  912. 

, ,  petition  for,  620  n. 

,   the  outcome  of  privateers, 

301,  445,  445  i. 
,  at  Madagascar,  proposal  for 

reduction     of     etc.,     557     i., 

575,  620  i.,  622,  908,  908  i.-vi, 
Piscataqua,  391,  797. 
,  rendezvous  for  English  fleet, 

196. 

,  river,  19,  185. 

Pitch,  v.  Naval  Stores. 

Pittman,    John,    deposition    of,    180 

iv.  (c). 

Pitts,  ,  268. 

Placentia,  833,  859  i.,  890  11. 
,    attack    upon,     instructions 

for,  497. 

, ,  proposed,  196,  922  i. 

,    rejected,  922  n. 

,  description  of,   195,   195  n.; 

628,  859  iv.,  890  n.,  v.,  vi. 
,    English   prisoners   detained 

at,  890  n.,  922. 
,  fortifications  of,  account  of, 

890  n.,  v.,  vi. 
,  French  at,  number  of,  223  I. 

314. 

,  garrison  of,  60. 

,  Governor  of,  890  n.  ;  and  see 

•     Costebelle,  M.  de  ;  Subercasse. 

ships  of,  890  n. 

,  trade  of,  859  iv. 

,  Little,  859  TV. 

Plaisted,  Ichabod,  65  iv.,  391  i. 

,    ;...,  contract  of,  24. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  458. 

, ,  trial  of,  428  ;    and  see 

Bridger,  J. 

,  John,  complaint  against,  17. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  17  n. 

PLANTATIONS,    The,    411,    440;    and 

see  Acts  of  Parliament ;  Coin- 
age ;  Naval  stores  ;    Negroes  ; 

Trade  etc. 
..-....,  Acts  repealed  in,  instruction 

concerning,  791. 

,  appeals  from,  413. 

,    Auditor    General    of.      See 

Blathwayt,  William. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


625 


Plantations,  The — cont. 

,   corn,   export  of,    779;     and 

see  the  several  Colonies. 
,      Councillors     recommended 

for,  list  of,  937. 

,  common  defence  of,  632. 

,   French  and  English  claims 

and    captures    in,    512,    516, 

517,  519,  520,  522,  523,  534, 

535,  535  i.,  539,  540,  544,  546- 

548,  554  i.,  632. 
,  Governors  of,  Circular  letters 

to,  41,  59,  77. 
,  losses  caused  by  the  French 

to,  221  i. 
,  manufactures,  woollen  etc., 

in,   651,   705,   739,    745,   883  ; 

and  see  the  several  Colonies. 

Naval  Officers  in,  39. 

,    packet    boats    needed    for, 

10  ;    and  see  Dummer,  E. 
,     Seals,     warrants     etc.,    for 

use  of  new,   16,  40,   50,   805, 

815  ;    and  see  Roos,   John. 

,  stores  of  war  for,  746,  757. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  accounts   of,  59  ;    and 

see  the  several  Colonies. 
,  Surveyor  of  H.M.  Woods  in, 

See  Bridger,  J. 

,  trade  with  Madeira,  779. 

,    trade   with    Portugal,    761f 

779  ;    and  see  Trade. 
,   waste   of   H.M.    Woods   in, 

19,  24  ;    and  see  Bridger,  J.  ; 

Massachusetts      Bay ;       New 

Hampshire. 

Plattell,  San  Jacob,  42. 
Plymouth,  Council  of,  554  I. 
Poach,  John,  487  II. 
Podivinie,  Samuel,  487  n. 
Pog(g)son,    John,    murder    of    Col. 

Johnson,  by,  531. 

,  case  of,  597  I. 

Point   Morant,    699,    704,    776,    799, 

808,    835    i.  ;     and    see    Port 

Morant. 
Poland,  249. 
Pontchartrain,  Fort,  60. 
Poo^l  Plantation,  Newfoundland,  158 

IX. 

Pool,  Sir  William,  554  i. 

Popple,  William,  junr.,  Secretary 
of  the  Board  of  Trade  and 
Plantations,  10,  433  ;  and 
see  German  Protestant  Refu- 
gees. 

,  house  for,  433. 

, ,  receipts  by,  42,  120. 

,  salary  of,  304,  350,  433, 

433  i. 

, .letters  etc., from,  1708:— 

1,    43,    47-49,    51-53,    66,    84. 
86,  92,  113,  115,  144,  162,  169, 
170,  173,  177  i.,  184,  190,  213, 
220,  253,  256,  257,  261. 
Wt.  11522. 


Popple,  William,  letters  from — cont. 

,  ...., 1709:— 282,  286, 

298,  310,  325,  330,  353,  355, 
357,  383,  407,  414,  418.  427, 
438,  461,  489,  499,  516,  517, 
519,  520,  536,  567,  607,  622, 
635,  654,  667,  685,  686,  688, 
692  i.,  701,  702,  706,  718,  727- 
731,  734,  740,  754,  758,  760, 
762,  776,  781,  783,  784,  786, 
787,  788,  793,  796,  800,  803, 
808,  809,  810,  818,  824-826, 
838,  840,  843,  844,  851  i., 
854,  856,  863,  864,  866,  886, 
894,  896,  917,  933. 

, ,  letters  etc.,  to,  1708  : — 

8,  10,  13,  27,  61,  69,  74,  75, 
79,  99,  106,  118,  119,  132, 
135,  154,  171,  201,  214,  223, 
254,  255,  268. 

,      ,      1709  :— 283, 

301,  312.  322,  347,  348,  358, 
376,  404,  411,  413,  416,  417, 
431,  432,  445,  460,  490,  527, 
534,  535,  538-540,  549,  562, 
564,  565,  570,  577,  608,  617, 
660,  679,  683,  691,  722,  725, 
737,  747,  755,  759,  766,  789, 
801,  807,  812,  823,  827,  831, 
832,  841,  842,  874,  877,  889, 
890,  898,  899. 

Porcio,    Don    Francisco,    Factor    for 
the  Assiento,  525  I.,  525  n. 

Porter,  Robert,  487  n. 

Portland,  H.M.S.,  prize  of,  483,  542, 
679,  872. 

engagement  of,  451,   542. 

Port  Louis,  890  n. 

Port  Morant,   657  i.,   699,    704,;  and 
see  Point  Morant. 

Port  Nelson,  60. 

Porto  Bello,  56,  68,  525  i. 

,  engagement  off,  451. 

Porto  Prince,  483. 

Porto  Rico,  68,  174. 

Spanish  ships  at,  56. 

Port  Royal,  Jamaica,  279. 

,  .  . . . ,  magazine  at,  56  ;    and 

see  under  Jamaica.  - 

Nova    Scotia,    French    at, 

60,  65  n.,  185,  195,  260,  458  ; 
and  see  Nova  Scotia. 

,  attack  upon,  60. 

,    . . .  . ,  capture  of,  554  i. 

,     .  . .  . ,     expedition    against, 

230,  p.  49. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  Governor  of,  60  ;  and 

see  Brouillan  ;  Subercasse  ; 
Bonaventure. 

,   importance  of,  533  i., 

666,  691. 

,    . . . . ,  privateers  of,   533  i., 

666,  691. 

,    ,    reduction    of,    urged, 

19,  58,  260,  391,  533,  533  i. 
C  P  40. 


626 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Port  St.  Antonio,  657  i.,  667  i., 
699,  846. 

Portsmouth,  H.M.S.,  649,  720. 

Portsmouth,  N.H.,  19. 

,  defence  of,  260  i. 

Portugal,  convoys  to,  request  for, 
80. 

,  Queen  of,  80. 

,  trade  with,  118,  761,  779. 

,  trade  of,  with  Carolina,  257, 

268,  284. 

,  trade  with  Rhode  Island,  268. 

Cove,  inhabitants  of,  condi- 
tions of  ransom  of,  890  in., 

IV. 

Portuguese  (Cacho  Company),  331. 

,  document  in,  204. 

Post,  in  American  Colonies,  10. 

Postmaster  General,  679. 

Potash,  imports  and  exports  of, 
27  vi. 

,  in  America,  43. 

,  .  .  . . ,  good  quality  of,  27  in. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  proposals  for  making, 

27,  27-L-vi. 

Potomac,  R.,  proposed  settlement  on, 
652,  724. 

Pouch,  Francis,  116,  487  11. 

, ,  petition  of,  909  I. 

Povey,  John,  clerk  of  the  Privy 
Council,  documents  signed  by, 
136,  138,  273,  356,  434,  435, 
439,  442,  482,  557,  558,  569, 
576,  596,  634,  644-648,  650, 
651,  653,  681,  696,  697,  714, 
715,  790,  791,  792,  795. 

Prerogative,  the,  of  the  Crown,  in 
the  Plantations,  5,  33,  167, 
209,  391,  410,  440,  549,  550, 
573,  597  i.,  649,  747  v.,  837, 
856. 

Pressing,  of  seamen,  Act  concerning, 
376  ;  and  see  under  New  York. 

Pretender,  the,  116  iv.,  131,  131  i., 
597  i.,  662. 

,  Act  renouncing,  recom- 
mended, 791. 

Preu,  Marquis  de,  449  i. 

Prideaux,  Thomas,  583  vn. 

Pringle,  Robert,  Secretary  to  the 
Earl  of  Sunderland,  letter 
from,  562,  570,  841. 

Prior,  Matthew,  Commissioner  of 
Trade  and  Plantations,  salary 
of,  884. 

Prius,  Richard,  158  x. 

Privateers,  10,  19,  26,  60,  69,  87, 
100,  111,  137,  142,  150,  174, 
192,  193,  202,  216  i.,  227,  230, 
339,  382,  395,  408,  443  n., 
451,  473,  484  xx.,  xxi.,  533 
i.,  573,  589  xxm.,  597  I., 
666,  667  i.,  679,  683,  765,  785, 
794  ii.,  in.,  803,  831  n.,  870- 
873,  890  n.,  912. 


Privateers — cont. 

,  Act  for  encouraging,  in  the 

West  Indies,  589  i.,  597  I. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  complaints  against,  301. 

,    Act    concerning    proposed, 

100,   111. 

,   Commissions  for,    100,   649. 

,  Dutch,  223  i.,  339. 

,    English,  complaints  against, 

195   i. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  in    the     South     Seas, 

720,  720  i. 
French,  26,  56,  56  n.,   116, 

123,   174,  227,  255,  421,  472, 

534,  535,  540,  609,  691. 
,    cruelties    of,    at    the 

Bahamas,    176,    176  i.,   n. 
.......  f  .  .  .  . ,  at  Jamaica,  339. 

,    without    commission,    case 

of  (Jamaica),  174,  174  n.,  227. 

,  regulations  of,  100,  473. 

turn  pirates,  301,  445  i. 

,     ruin    trade    with     Spanish 

West  Indies,  301. 

,  "  tenths,"  589  I. 

Privy   Council,   the,   Clerk  of,  letter 

to,     228     i.,     407  ;      and     see 

Blathwayt,   William   ;      Mus- 

grave,  Christopher  ;      Povey, 

John  ;      Southwell,    Edward  ; 

Anne,    Queen. 
,    Committee    of,    for   hearing 

appeals,  58,  413. 
,  Lord  President  of,  letter  to, 

777. 
Prizes,    88,    111,    142,    142    n.,    208, 

339,  339  i.,  451,  473,  484  xx., 

xxi.,  499,  649,    709   XL,    720, 

720 1.,  748,  872  ;  and  see  under 

several  Colonies. 

,  accounts  of,  649. 

,  Act  concerning,  87. 

Proctor,  Samuel,  487  n.,  597  i. 
Proprietary  Governments,  915. 
,  protection  of  foreign  debtors 

by,  216  i. 

Prosser,  James,  756. 
Protestant  Refugees.  See  German  and 

Swiss  Protestant  Refugees. 
Providence,  Isle  of,  deserted  state  of, 

340. 
,     raid     on,     448;      and     see 

Bahama  Islands. 
Province,  galley,  794  ix. 
Puckle,  William,  142. 

letter  from,  142  i. 

Pulteney,     John,     Commissioner     of 

Trade    and    Plantations,    350, 

826. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  to,  887. 

Puttman,  Capt.,  260  i. 
Pynn,  Robert,  756. 

,  William,  756. 

,   .  . .  .,  junr.,  756. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


627 


Quakers,  the,  in  the  Plantations, 
11,  391,  440,  578,  597  i., 
604,  605,  819  m.,  vi. 

,  exclusion  of,  from  Govern- 
ments proposed,  604,  605,  617, 
621  ;  and  see  under  the  several 
Colonies. 

Quary,  Robert,  10,  10  i.,  n.,  921. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

819  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  888. 

, ,  letter  to,  771. 

Quebec,  33,  60,  217,  554  i.  ;  and  see 
Canada  Expedition. 

,  attack  upon,  proposed,  196, 

391. 

description  of,  60. 

,  expedition  against,  387,  475- 

478. 

,  fortifications  of,  60,  107, 

621  iv.  (a),  (6). 

,  Governor  of,  60,  621  iv. 

(a)  ;  and  see  Vaudreuil. 

,  Lt.-Governor  of,  60. 

,  privateers,  60. 

Queen's  Remembrancer.   See  Stevens, 

Queensberry,  Duke  of.     See  Douglas, 

James. 
Queriso,  632. 
Quidi  Vidi,  859  i. 
,  inhabitants  of,  conditions  of 

ransom  of,  890  in.,  iv. 


Race,  Cape,  554  I. 

Ramsay,    M.     de,     Lt.-Governor    of 

Montreal,  60,  107. 
,     Gilbert,     Rev.,     deposition 

of,  513  ix. 

,  Willaim,  857  in. 

Ramsey,     Barbara,     deposition     of, 

908  iv. 

Randolph,  William,  216  m. 
Ranes,  Daniel,  756. 
Ravell,  Anthony,  524  i. 
Rawleigh,  Caleb,  116,  117  iv. 
Rawleigh,  James,  117  iv. 


Rayner,  John,  Attorney  General  of 
New    York,    35,    36,    61    i. 

, leave  for  England,  629. 

, ,  letter  to,  767. 

,  .  . .  . ,  memorandum  by,  768, 

804. 

,   opinion   of,    621,   621 

n.,  747  n.,  iv. 

,  Eleanor,  case  of,  583  xix. 

,  William,  case  of,  583  xix. 

Read,    Lawrence,    document    signed 

by,  157  T. 

Read,  Mary,  petition  of,  420  n. 
Reade,  James,  443  i.,  n.,  597  i. 
Redknap.  J.,  Col.,  engineer,  19,  123, 

391,   604. 

Redwood,  Abraham,  487  n. 
Reeves,  William,  756. 
Refugees.       See  German  Protestant  ; 

Swiss  Protestant. 
Rehoboth,     Congress    of    Governors 

at,  794  n.,  922  i.,  n. 
Renselaer,    K.v.,    Commissioner    for 
Indian   Affairs,    604,    621   iv., 
Resolution,  packet,  174,  679. 

Revell, (N.J.),  578. 

Rex,  Henry,  756. 

,  John,  890  in. 

Reyly,  Lt.,  597  i. 

Reynardson,    J.,    letter    from,    619, 

619  I. 

Reynolds,  John,  487  n. 
Reze,  P.  Vanderheyden,  letter  from, 

281,  403,  600. 
Rhett,  William,  448. 

,   case  of,  662. 

,  Col.,  letters  to,  870. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    wife     of     preceding, 

letters  from,  870. 
RHODE  ISLAND,  58,  597  i. 

,  Acts  of.  printing  of,  230. 

,     Act  for     registering    ships, 

230. 

,  Assembly  of,  230,  604. 

,    ,   address  of,    604. 

,  Canada  Expedition,  address 

concerning,  794  n. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  cost  of,  794  iv. 

,    .  .  .  .,  preparations  for,  617, 

p.  401. 

,    ....,    quota  for,    196,    387, 

475-478,    604,    666,    691,    794, 
794  i.,  ii. 

,  coinage,  currency  of,  157  i., 

229. 

Council   of,    229,    230,    604. 

,  Courts  of,  230. 

,    Customs,    Collector    of,    in, 

230. 

defence  of,  230. 

,     exports     and     imports     of, 

230,  230  i. 

fort  of,  230. 

,  Governor  of.  at  Boston,  794  ; 

and  see  Cranston,  Samuel. 


628 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Rhode  Island,  Governor  of — cont. 
,    .  . .  . ,  instructions  for,  con- 
cerning    Canada     and     New- 
foundland   Expeditions,     387, 

475-478,  604. 
,     inhabitants,     numbers     of, 

230,  230  i. 

,  Militia,  230,  230  i. 

Naval  Officer  in,  230. 

,  negroes,  imports  and  prices 

of,  228. 
, servants  preferred   to, 

228. 
,       Newport,       Congress       of 

Governors  at,  794  v. 
,    Port    Royal,    attack   upon, 

proposed,  794  i. 

,  . . . . ,  expedition  against,  230. 

,        privateers,         expedition 

against,  230. 

shipping  of,  230,  230  n. 

trade  of,  230,  230  n. 

,  trade  with  Boston,  229. 

,  trade  with  Carolina,  739. 

trade  with  Portugal,  268. 

,  trade,  illegal,  of,  230,  268. 

,  Union,  Act  of,  published  in, 

230. 
Rhodes,    Christopher,    Secretary    of 

Commission      for     losses     at 

Nevis,  5,  531. 
,     . . . . ,    recommendation    of, 

251. 
Rice,    an     enumerated    commodity, 

284. 
Richardson,  John,  9,  198,  756. 

,  Roger,  affidavit  of,  210. 

Riddell,  Capt.  R.N.,  391,  392,  417. 
Ridot,  M.,  Intendant  of  Canada,  p. 

50. 
Rigby,    Richard,    Provost    Marshall, 

Jamaica,  56  I.,  142. 
,  leave  of  absence  for, 

133. 

Riggs,  John,  recommendation  of,  128. 
Rio  Grande,  699,  704,  776,  799,  808, 

835   i. 

Ritter,  George,  petition  of,  601  i. 
Rivers,  Earl.     See  Savage,  Richard. 
Roach,  John,  Capt.,  116,  532. 
,    ,  deposition  of,   589  I., 

xix.,  xxiii.,  597  i. 
Roanoke,  231  iv. 
Robinson,  James,  487  n. 

,  deposition  of,  150  x. 

,  John,  583  XLVI. 

Rock,  John,  443  n. 

Rodeney,  Caesar,  487  n. 

Rodot,  M.,  Intendant  of  Canada,  217. 

Roebuck,  H.M.S.,  445  i.,  785. 

,    ,  prize  of,   279,    542. 

Roberts,  Nicholas,  761. 

,  Richard,  756. 

,  Thomas,  756,  890  in. 

,  Timothy,  583  LVI. 


Roberts — cont. 

,  William,  96,  274,  396,  577, 

583  LVIII.,  756,  890  in. 
Rogers,  Francis,  443  11.,   487  11. 
,  deposition  of,  589  XX., 

597  i. 

,  Nathaniel,  65  vi. 

Roman  Catholics,  in  Maryland,  131, 

131    m.,    410,    671  ;     and  see 

Papists. 

Rome,  Thomas,  487  n. 
Romer,  W.,  Col.,  engineer,   19,  391. 

, ,  letter  from,  123. 

, ,  letter  to,  92. 

,    report  by,    185,    306, 

307. 

Romvich, ,  621  iv.  (a). 

Roope,    Nicholas,    document    signed 

by,  801. 
Roos,  John,  H.M.  Seal-cutter,  805. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  warrant  for,  50. 

Rose,  John,  443  i.,  n.,  597  i. 
Roulston,  Thomas,  583  vn. 
Rowstiffe,  Phillip,  158  ix. 
Royall,  Isaac,  487  n. 
Royle,  Agent  of  Barbados,  219,  502. 
Rupert,  Ann,  deposition  of,  908  iv. 
Ruperti,  George  Andrew,  551. 
,    . . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

581. 
,  letter  from,  495,  501, 

593. 

Rusenell,  John,  911  ix. 
Rushworth,  John,  583  vi.,  xvn. 
Russell,  James,  391  I. 
,    Griffith,   deposition   of,    158 

VIII. 

,  Thomas,  890  n.,  iv. 

Russia,  43,  249. 

,  potash  export,  27  vi.,  43. 

Rye,  H.M.S.,  859  i.,  890  vn. 
Rynders,  Bareht,  10  I. 
Ryswick,  Treaty  of,  554  i. 
,  infractions  of,  522,  523. 


S 


Saco,  Fort,  391. 

Sadler,  Charles,  87. 

Sailors,  wages  of,  p.  48. 

St.  Antonio,  Port  (Jam.),   704,  762, 

835  i. 
St.  Augustine,  411  i. 

,  expedition  against,   739. 

, ,  state  of,  682. 

St.  Christopher's.     See  St.  Kitts. 
St.  Costine,  Mons.,  554  i, 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


St.  Croix,  River,  60. 

,    boundary   of   Nova   Scotia, 

554  i. 
St.  Croy,  Marquis  de,  French  General, 

60. 

Sta.  Cruz,  Spanish  ship,  56  IT. 
St.  Estienne,  Sir  Charles  de,  554  i. 
St.  Eustatius,  taken  by  the  French, 

865,   873. 

St.  Francis,  fort,  217. 
St.  George,  river,  554  i. 
St.  Joachim,  Spanish  ship,  56  n. 
St.  John  Baptist,  flag  of  truce,  case 

of,  909  i. 

St.  Johns,  Antigua.     See  Antigua. 
,    Newfoundland.     See    New- 
foundland. 

St.  Joseph,  Spanish  ship,  56  n. 
St.  Kitts  (St.  Christophers),  5,   116, 

367   m.,   484  xxxiv.,   589  i., 

597  ;    and  see  Parke,  Daniel  ; 

Bowden,  Mary. 
,  Act  for  establishing  Courts, 

209,  381. 
,  address  from,  175,  182,  183, 

183  m.,  209,  313,  381,  641. 

,  Admiralty.     See  Courts. 

,  Assembly  of,  182,  381,  597  i. 

,  charges  against  Gover- 
nor  Parke,    625    (b)  ;   and  see 

Parke,  Daniel. 

,  . . . . ,  Journal  of,  5. 

,  speaker   of,  625. 

,  Colonv  from,  554  I. 

Council   of,    6,    9,    193,488, 

597  i. 
,    . . . . ,  message  in  favour  of 

Governor  Parke,   625   (a). 
,  minutes  of,  5,    193  IT., 

367  i. 
,  . . .  . ,  and  Assembly  of,  127, 

589  i. 

,   minutes  of,  6. 

,  Councillors  of,  34,  199,  200, 

206,  209,  236,  319,  531. 
Court    of    Admiralty,    484 

xv. 
,    .  .  .  . ,   proceedings   in,     484 

XXXVIII. 

Court  of  Chancery,  484  xiv. 
debts  in,  payment  of,  381. 
defence  of,  597  i. 
emigration  from,  554  i.,  573. 
English  claim  to,  534,  546, 
547,  554  i. 

fees,  regulation  of,  597  i. 
flag  of  truce,  625. 
French  in,  540. 
.....  history  of,  554  i. 
French   part   of,   grievances 
concerning,   625,   626. 
. ,  .  .  .  . ,  desirability  of  retaining, 

554  T. 

,,     Governor    of.     See    Parke, 
Daniel ;   Warner,  Sir  Thomas. 


St.  Kitts— font. 

..'....,  Governor,  Council  and 
Assembly  of,  209. 

,  grant  in  aid  of,  487,  878. 

,  ....,  distribution  of,  127, 

130. 

,  history  of,  554  i. 

,  Lt.- Governor  of.  See  Lam- 
bert, Michael. 

,  Lt.-Governor  and  Council 

of,  183;  and  see  Bowden, 
Mrs. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  address  from,  182, 

183,  183  m. 

negroes,  25,  109,  117  iv., 

331  ;  and  see  African  Com- 
pany. 

,  Parke  visits,  597  T. 

,  poverty  of,  5. 

,  privateers,   484  xx.,  xxi. 

,  prize  condemned  in,   150. 

,  proceedings  relating  to,  554 

XII. 

,  provisions  for,  878. 

,  raid  on,  331,  597  i. 

,  Salt  Ponds  at,  554  i. 

stores   of   war,   account   of, 

529  n. 

,  trade,  illegal  at,  484  xxn. 

,  trade,  with  Carolina,  739. 

,  trade,  illegal,  with  Curasao, 

589  i.,   625. 

,  trade  with  New  York,  10. 

,    trade    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  n. 
St.  Lawrence,  River,  60. 

,    ,  French  on,  554  i. 

St.  Loe,  Capt.  R.N.,  29. 
St.  Lucia,  709. 

,  conveyance  of,  554  i. 

English  title  to,  539. 

,  report  upon,  554 1.,  556. 

,  French     and     English     in, 

pp.  357-359. 
St.  Mary's  Harbour,  Newfoundland, 

859  iv. 

St.  Nicholas,  brigantine,  case  of,  279. 
St.  Peters  Island,  plundered,  859  iv. 
St.  Thomas,  421,  597  i.,  831  n. 
trade  with  Carolina,  216  n., 

739. 

,  New  York,  10. 

Spain,  872. 

St.  Vincent,  396,  709. 

,  English  title  to,  554  i. 

,    runaway    negroes    at,    539. 

Sale,  Nathaniel,  Receiver  General  of 

S.   Carolina,   424. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  commission  and  in- 
structions of,  239. 

,  accounts  of,  752. 

, ,  letter  from,  752. 

Salem,   11,  33  m.,  663. 

,  Fort  Anne,  391. 

,  . . . . ,  accounts  of,  394  in. 


630 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Salmon,  Joseph,  583  vii. 

Salt  Tertudas,  411. 

,    trade    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  ii. 

Salt  Ponds,  231  iv. 
Salt,  448  ;    and  see  Keble,  John. 
Salt  Savanna,  573  n. 
Salter,  George,  487  n. 
Timothy,    180,   225  i.,   380, 

442,  457. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  x>f,  180  n. 

Saltonstall,     Gurdon,     Governor     of 

Connecticut,     691  ;      and    see 

Connecticut. 
,    .....  document  signed  by, 

794  i.,  n.,  922  n. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  371. 

letter  to,  922  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    re-elected    Governor, 

604. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  visits  New  York,  604. 

Sandford,  John,  126  i.,  583  vn. 

,  William,  819  i.,  876,  921. 

Sandiford,  Thomas,  583  vi. 

,  Richard,  274,  583  vi. 

Salvage,  Harbour  of  (Newfoundland), 

554  i. 
Sandwich,    Custom    House    Officers, 

return  by,  283,  283  i. 
,   sailings   for  Newfoundland, 

283  i. 

Sandy  Hook,  10,  11,  252. 
Santee,   739. 
Santiago,  382. 
Saratoga,  196. 
Saunders,  William,  Attorney  General 

of  S.  Carolina,  752. 
,  commission  and  instructions 

of,  238. 

Savage,  Richard,  Earl  Rivers,  908  n. 
,     .  .  .  . ,     Secretary    to    Com- 
missioners of  H.M.   Customs, 

190,  325,  438. 
,  .  .  .  .,  letter  from,    118,  119, 

898,  899. 
,    ,    letter    to,    162,    190, 

325,   438,   886,   896. 
Savanna,  River,  739. 
Savoy,  the,  German  Lutheran  Church 

in,  495. 
Sawcolt,  John,  487  n. 

,  Thomas,  487  11. 

Sawyer  (Va.),   murder  of,  531, 

589  iv.,  v. 
Scalps,    rewards    for,    19 ;     and   see 

Indians. 

Scarborough,  H.M.S.,   542. 
Scheurman,  Peter,  arrest  of,  459  i. 
Schennectade,  621  iv.  (a),  (6). 
Schuneman.       Herman,       document 

signed  by,  120,  710. 
Schuyler,    Peter,    Commissioner   for 

Indian  Affairs,   196. 
,  . . .  . ,  and  the  Canada  Expedi- 
tion, 475,  477,  604. 


Schuyler,  Peter — cont. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

157  i. 
Scot,  Capt.,  587. 

,  Richard,  Col.,  242,  244,  273. 

,  .  .  . . ,  letter  to,  892  in. 

Scotland,  and  Scottish,  the,  proposed 

Colony    by,    391,    392;     and 

see  Negroes,  the  ;  Union,  the. 
Scott,  Susanna,  583  XLI. 
,  . . . . ,  deposition   of,  180  iv. 

(c). 
Scrivener,   Benjamin,    case   of,    174, 

174  n.,  451,  451  n.  ;    and  see 

Jamaica,     privateer     without 

commission ;    Kingston  galley. 
Seqflower,  brigantine,  228,  765  n. 
Sealey,  William,  583  LVI. 
Seals,  new,  for  the  Plantations,   16, 

40  ;    and  see  Roos,  John. 

warrant  for,  50,  815. 

Seawee  Bay,   870. 

Sebeiingh,       Cornelius,       document 

signed  by,   157  I. 
Sellman,  Robert,  890  in. 
Semblers,  the,  912. 
Semple,    William,    document   signed 

by,  187. 
Separate  traders,  the,  655,  786,  787, 

892     in  ;      and    see    African 

Company  ;    Negroes. 

,  .  . . . ,  report  upon,  913. 

,  imports  of  negroes  by,  142, 

142  in.,  150,  151,  192,  192   i., 

197    i.,    n.,    215   i.,    n.,    228, 

243. 

Sergeant,  Peter,  391  i. 
Sermain,  Don  Pietro  Marino,  53. 
Severn,  H.M.S.,  542. 

,  prize  of,  174. 

Severn,  River  (Ma.),  131. 

Sewall,  Samuel,  391  i. 

Stephen,    Capt.,    document 

signed  by,  394  in. 

Seymour,  John,  Governor  of   Mary- 
land, 410  11. 

,  . .  . . ,  charges  against,  888. 

,    . . . . ,    complaint  of,  against 

Capt,    Huntinton,    253,     254, 

296,    322  i. 

,   ,  death  of,  707. 

,  instruction  to,  919. 

,    . . . . ,   letters    of,    detained, 

168. 

, lost,  290,  296. 

,   ,  letter  from,  131,   190, 

197,   253,  265,  290,  410. 
letter    to,    168,  296, 

322  ii.,  in.,  431,  671,  820. 
Shales,   John,   Capt.   R.N.,   Commo- 
dore of  Newfoundland  Convoy, 

letter  to,  890  vn. 
,  documents  signed  by, 

911  xiii.,  xiv. 
Shambly  (Chambly),  60,  604,  621  iv. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


631 


Sharpe,  John,  180  vm  (a). 

,  Richard,  487  n. 

,  .  .  . . ,  deposition  of,  484  xv. 

,    appeal    of,    484   xv. 

(a). 

' ,  William,  Councillor  of  Bar- 
bados, 180  vm.  (a),  352  i., 
396,  583  vm.,  ix.  ;  and  see 
Barbados,  Councillors.  The 
Three. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  charges  against,  reply 

to,  248.  583  MX. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  charges  against  Gover- 
nor Crowe,  126  i.,  129,  178, 
179,  180  i.,  224  i.,  320,  857  v., 

VII. 

,    .  .  .  . ,     reply    to,    180 

n.,   180  iv.  (6). 
,     ,     debts    of,     180    11., 

180  iv.  (k). 
,  .  .  .  . ,  depositions  concerning, 

857,  857  iv.-vii. 
,  letter  from,   126,  156, 

156  iv.,  178,   583. 
letter  to,  intercepted, 

583  n. 

. . , ,  petition  of,  222  m. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    removed    from   Com- 
mission of  Peace,  583  vi. 
:,    .  .  .  . ,    restored    to    Council, 

356,  370,  379,  380. 
,       .  .  .  . ,       suspended       from 

Council,    156,    178,    179,   317, 

324. 
Shatterdon,     Constance,     Barbados, 

case  of,   126  i.,  583  xxn. 
Sheafe,  Sampson,  65  v. 
Shelley,  Walter,  487  n. 
Sheppard,  Edward,  Lt. -Governor  of 

Newfoundland,    756    (6),    890 

in. 
Sherborough,  frigate,  case  of,   126  i., 

180  n. 
Sherlock,  Samuel,  637,  648. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  231  i. 

Sherburn,  John,  65  v. 

Sherrard,    George,   Lieut.,    150,    193, 

597  i. 
Sherry,  negro  murderer,   appeal  for 

pardon  of,  474  i. 
Shetterden.     See  Shatterdon. 
Shiliver,  Adam,  890  in. 

Short, ,  letter  to,  890  ix. 

,  Sarah,  890  in. 

Shrewbury  (N.J.),   10. 

Shuller,  William,  deposition  of,   180 

iv.  (c). 
Shute,  J.,  661. 

,  Zachary,  583  vn. 

Singin,  Timothy,  487  n. 
Skene,  Alexander,  Secretary  of  Bar- 
bados, 695. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  acquittal  of,   318. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  bribery  and  exactions 

by,  29. 


Skene,  Alexander — cortt. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    charges    against,    29, 

180  n.,  262. 
,      .  .  .  . ,     .  .  . . ,     reconsidered, 

140. 
,   .  .  .  . ,   .  . .  . ,  report  upon,  29, 

467. 
.  j .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  in  favour  of, 

321. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  dismissal  of,  97. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   document  signed  by, 

386  T.,  502  vi.,  583  vm.,  rx., 

XL  vm.,  892  n.,  893. 
, ,  petition  of,  140  i.,  441 

i. 
,     restored     to     office, 

482,  494. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    testimonial    to,    263, 

263  i. 
,     .  .  . . ,    warrant    appointing, 

397,  441  11. 

Slave  trade,  the.     See  African  Com- 
pany ;     Indians  ;     Negroes. 
Slingesby,    Arthur,    case   of,    126   i., 

180  ii.;  694. 
, ,   deposition   of,  180  iv. 

(c). 
,  .  .  .  . ,  petition  of,  583  xxxiv., 

xxxv. 
,    Susannah,    petition   of,    583 

xxxiv.,  xxxv. 
Small,  William,  126  i. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  committal  of,  583  xui., 

XL11I. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  583  XLII. 

Smith,  Daniel,  St.  Kitts,  625. 

,  George  (Carolina),  739. 

,  John  (Antigua),  487  n. 

,  John  (Barbados),  583  xxxi. 

,    Joseph    (N.H.),    30,    65    v., 

260  i.,  266,  292. 
,  Michael,  Councillor  of  Nevis, 

9,  198,  531. 
,  Nicholas,   Capt.   R.N.,   660, 

826. 

, ,  letter  from,  794  xi. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  to,  794  ix. 

,  Richard  (Antigua),  arrest  of, 

459  i. 

,  Samuel,  Bermuda,  637,  646. 

Snagg,  Daniel,   152. 

Snow,  John,  756. 

Sober,  John,  deposition  of,  653  n. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  petition  of,  653  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  order  concerning,  715, 

723. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  700. 

Society,  French  flag  of  truce,  seized, 

909  i. 
Solicitor    General,    the.     See    Moun- 

tague,  Sir  James  ;    and  Eyre, 

R. 

Somers, ,    See  Summers,  John. 

Sommers,  John,   Baron  Sommers  of 

Evesham,  602. 


632 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Somerset,  Henry,  Duke  of  Beaufort, 
a  Lord  Proprietor  of  Carolina, 
597  i. 

,  deputation  by,  419. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

233,  237-241,  342,  398,  402, 
424-426,  454-456,  462,  464, 
468,  469,  479,  480,  509,  514, 
515,  544,  554  vm.,  569,  659, 
675,  682,  687,  713,  719,  735, 
743,  744,  813,  828,  829. 

Sonmans,  Peter,  Councillor  of  New 
Jersey,  4, 11,  819  vin.,  876, 921. 

,  charges  against,  876, 

876  I. 

, ,  reply  to,  819  n. 

, complaint  by,  819  x. 

,  . . . . ,  petition  of,  819  vn. 

,  testimonial  to,  819  rx. 

Sophia,  packet  boat,  683.  912. 

Sorrel,  60,  621  TV.  (6). 

Southack,  Cyprian,  Capt.,  387,  417, 
476. 

, ,  pay  of,  33  in. 

Southard,  Nicholas,  911  ix. 

Southmayd,  Allen,  890  n.,  rv. 

, ,  deposition  of,  911  xi. 

,  ,  report  by,  upon  Pla- 

centia,  628,  890  v. 

South  Seas,  the,  trade  to,  56. 

Southwark,  Capt.     See  Southack. 

Southwell,  Edward,  Clerk  of  the 
Privy  Council,  document 
signed  by,  289,  297.  329,  332, 
334,  48 f,  518. 

SPAIN,  and  the  Spaniards,  in  the 
West  Indies,  53,  69,  331,  340, 
424  ;  and  see  Hispaniola. 

Assiento  trade,  226  i.  ;  and 

see  Assiento  ;  Negroes. 

,  Bahama  Islands,  in  the, 

615,  870. 

, ,  cruelty  of,  in  the,  448. 

, ,  raided  by,  448,  606. 

,  . . . . ,  settlement  by,  feared, 

270  i. 

,    Carolina,    defeat   by,  739. 

,  . . . . ,  design  against,  41 1, 

411  i.,  n.,  615,  632,  870. 

,  coin,  in  the  Plantations,  157. 

,  convoys,  339. 

,  Fleet,  Almirante,  the,  451. 

,  . . . . ,  engagement  with  Com- 
modore Wager,  68,  69,  135, 
785. 

, ,  movements  of,  649,  912. 

,  at  Vera  Cruz,  542,  872. 

,  Indians,  war  with,  632. 

,  losses  inflicted  on,  451,  720, 

720  i. 

Marlborough's  victories  an- 
nounced to,  142. 

,  mines,  632. 

,  murder  of,  alleged,  443  ir., 

597  i. 


Spain— con*. 

,  negroes  trade  in,  542. 

,  with  Barbados,  210  ; 

and  see  Assiento,  The. 

pirates,  offer  of  pardon  to, 

785. 

,  prisoners,  exchange  of,  227, 

382,  483,  573. 

,  privateers,  87,  111,  667  i., 

912. 

,  . . . . ,  ships  and  galleons  of, 

at  Carthagena,  56,  68,  483, 
649,  785,  912. 

ships  and  galleons  of, 

capture  of,  56,  56  n.,  174,  174 
ii.,  339,  339  i.,  382,  383,  395, 
408,  445  i.,  451,  451  n.,  473, 
483,  490,  499,  542,  573,  785. 

,  French  convoys,   451. 

,  engagement  with,  68  ; 

and  see  Wager. 

,  . . . . ,  sail  from  Havana,  68. 

passes  for,  210,  223  i., 

226  i.,  372  i.,  449  i.,  463. 

, ,  petition  for,  305. 

, ,  refused,  210. 

,  at  Porto  Rico,  56. 

,  trade  with,  87,  118,  134  i., 

301,  339,  391,  449  i. 

,   trade   with   Curacao,    872. 

,  trade  with  French,  573, 

632,  872. 

,  contract  for,  174. 

,  trade  with  Ireland,  305. 

,  trade  with  Jamaica,  56,  68, 

100,  142,  174,  227,  382,  445, 
445  i.,  451,  540,  542,  649,  679, 
683,  720,  872. 

trade  with  Newfoundland, 

223  i. 

trade  with  St.  Thomas,  872. 

Spanish  Admiral,  blown  up,  56,  56 
n.,  69. 

Town,  597  I. 

Spencer,  Charles,  Earl  of  Sunderland, 
Secretary  of  State,  71,  382, 
473,  545,  602. 

,  .  . . . ,  documents  signed  by, 

36,  50,  121,  122,  127,  145- 
147,  198,  199,  280,  305  I., 
315,  320,  326  i.,  370,  446,  457, 
471,  493,  494,  618,  723,  738, 
751,  764,  814-816. 

,  letters,  instructions, 

references,  etc.,  from,  1708  : — 
16,  53,  63,  64,  65,  128,  130, 
134,  139,  163-168,  181,  231, 
305  i. 

,  ,  1709  :— 326  I., 

372,  377-379,  409,  449,  452, 
465,  475,  476,  478,  485,  487, 
491,  504,  525,  533,  570  i., 
601,  656,  658,  668-674,  691, 
721,  759,  761,  782,  794  i.,  841- 
843,  881,  897,  911,  915,  934. 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


633 


Spencer,  Charles — cont. 
,  .  . . . ,  letters,  petitions,  repre- 
sentations, etc.,  to.,  1708  : — 4, 
15,  20,  37,  40,  46,  54,  57,  67, 
95,  124,  125,  142,  143,  172, 
175,  186,  191,  221,  224-226, 
232,  235,  251. 

, ,  1709:— 284,  294, 

313,  314,  317,  324,  346,  352, 
359,  368,  406,  433,  452  i.,  463, 
500,  507  i.,  508,  511,  553,  562, 
562  i.,  566,  574,  584,  602,  603, 
606,  615,  629,  632,  636,  641, 
652,  656  i.,  662,  666,  689, 
708,  720,  732,  733,  753,  794, 
799,  805,  835,  859  i.,  871,  875, 
891,  900,  914,  919,  920,  923, 
924. 

,   memoranda    of,    612. 

, lands  of,  848. 

Spencer,  Humphry,   17  n. 

Squarry,  Thomas,  756,  911  rx. 

Squarry,  William,  hostage  at  Pla- 
centia,  756,  890  n.,  iv. 

Staats,  Samuel,  Councillor  of  New 
York,  617,  802,  924  i.,  928. 

, lands  of,  848. 

Stamford,  Thomas,  Earl  of.  See 
Grey,  Thomas,  Earl  of  Stam- 
ford. 

Stanley,  Sir  J.,  Commissioner  of 
Customs,  27  v.,  661. 

,  Sir  John,  house  of,  433. 

Starr,  Josias,  Dr.,  72. 

Staten  Island,  848. 

Stede,  Col.,  Lt. -Governor  of  Bar- 
bados, instructions  etc.  to., 
554  i. 

Steel,  Serjeant  (Newfoundland),  911 
rx. 

Steele,  Richard,  321. 

Stephens,  Edward,  756. 

,  George,  158  rx. 

Sterling,  Earl  of.  See  Alexander, 
Sir  W. 

Stevens,  Henry,  Deputy  Queen's 
Remembrancer,  document 
signed  by,  31,  343. 

Stewart,  Robert,  Col.,  180  vm  (a), 
321,  893. 

,  letter  to,  892  in. 

.,  Capt.,  R.N.,  137,  322  i. 

,   Thomas,   Agent    for    Royal 

African     Company,    583   vn., 

XL  VIII. 

Stillwell,  Jno.,  document  signed  by, 

157  i. 
Stodard,   Christopher,   grievance   of, 

625. 

Stone,  Capt.,  73,  831  ir. 
Stoner,  Daniel,  194  n. 
Stoodly,  C.,  487  n. 
Story,  Charles,  65  n. 
Stoughton,     Lt. -Governor     of     the 

Massachusetts  Bay,  554  i.,  vi. 


Stringer,   Moses,   Dr.,   proposal    by, 

526,  595. 

Stripling,  John,  890  in. 
Stroude,    Mrs.,    deposition    of,    176, 

176  i. 

Stuckey,  Philip,  890  in. 
Stucley,    Capt.,    R.N.,   commended, 

58. 

Studley,  John,  890  in. 
Subercasse,     M.     de,     Governor     of 

Placentia,    and    Port    Royal, 

60,  391,  554  i, 

Suffield,   boundary  dispute,   691. 
Sullivan,   Kate,   deposition   of,   how 

obtained,   532. 

Sumers,  Lord.      See  Sommers,  John. 
Summers,   John,    (Somers),    case   of, 

126    i.,    180   n.,    iv.   (/),  583 

xxv.,  694. 
Sunderland,    Earl    of,   Secretary    of 

State.     See  Spencer,  Charles. 
Supply,  ship,  797. 
Surinam,  230  n. 
,  Government  of,  letter  from, 

583  11. 
trade  of,  with    New    York 

10. 
Surveyor   General   of   H.M.    Woods, 

See  Bridger. 

Sutton,  Edmund,  274,  502. 
Swaine,  Joseph,  180  iv.  (e). 
Swansey,  Mass.,  391. 
,  warrant  by   select  men  of, 

391  iv. 
Swasey,  John,  deposition  of,  554  I., 

'  v. 
Sweden,  249. 

,  potash  export  of,  27  vi. 

Swettenham,  John,  arrest  of,  459  I. 
Swiss    Protestants,    proposal    by,    to 

settle  in  Virginia,  601  i.,  n., 

639,  652,  697,  724. 
Symes,  Henry,  443  i.,  11. 
Sym(e)s,  Lancaster,  848. 
Symms,  Benj.,  870. 
Symon,  N.,  487  ir. 
Symonds,  James,  187. 
Rachel,  affidavit  of,  194  v. 


Tadousack,  60. 

Tanis,  Don  Joseph,  56  n. 

Tankard,  Barry,  116,  117,  336,  443  i., 

n.,  532,  589  n. 

,  arrest  of,  623. 

removed  from  Council 

of  Antigua,  5,  200,  207,  209, 

531. 


634 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Tapley,  Richard,  756,  890  in. 

Tar,  manufacture  of.  See  Naval 
Stores. 

Tar  Bay,  inhabitants  of,  condi- 
tions of  ransom  of,  890  in., 

IV. 

Tarleton,    Capt.    (Liverpool),    137. 
Tate,    Mathew,    Capt.,    R.N.,    letter 

to,  794  ix. 
Taverner,  Abraham,  examination  of, 

158  vn. 
Taylor,  Edward,  487  n. 

,  John,  warrant  of,   1 7  n. 

Joseph,  Capt.  R.N.,  Com- 
modore for  Newfoundland, 

756,  887,  922. 
,  document  signed  by, 

756,  890  vin.,  911  xm.-xv. 
,     .  . .  . ,     Commission    of,     to 

command    at    land,     562    i., 

566  I. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  Commissions  given  by, 

756   (6). 
,    .  .  .  . ,  instructions,  heads  of 

enquiry,  for,  562,  567,  567  i. 
,....,  xeBprt  upon  Newfound  - 

land,  by785ir,  859  i. 

,  William,  216  m.,  604. 

Taylour,    John,    Assistant   Secretary 

to  the  Treasury,  66. 
,  letter  from,    61,   527, 


, letter  to,  536,  685. 

Tebbetts,  Thomas,  65  v. 

Teller,  William,  deposition  of,  554  i. 

Temple,  Capt.,  R.N.,  554  i. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  554  T. 

Tench,   John,   document  signed  by, 

350. 

Terrill,  William,  274,  502,  577. 
Tetherly,  William,  158  ix. 
Thacker,  William,  756. 
Thatcher,  Thomas,  268. 
Thera,  Isle  of.     See  Eleuthera. 
Thibon,    Jacob,    deposition    of,    150 

xi.,  484  xxvin. 
Thing,  Jonathan,  65  v. 
Thomas,  -  -  (Antigua),  inquest 

on,  443  ii.,  597  i. 

,  Col.  (Barbados),  381. 

,  James,  document  signed  by, 

27  ii. 

,  William,   Councillor    of    An- 
tigua, 117,  145,  852. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

443  i.,  ii. 
,    ,  sloop  of,  seized,   589 

xv. 

Thom(p)son,  Patrick  583  xxxvin. 
deposition  of,  180  iv. 

(c) 
Thompson,  Col.   (Jamaica),  case  of, 

202,  227,  649. 

,  John,  trial  of,  17  n. 

Thorns,  Josiah,  receipt  by,  772. 


Thurston,  John,  Agent  for  the 
Company  at  Newfoundland, 
152,  158,  191. 

, ,  letter  from,  300. 

, ,  letter  to,  282. 

Ticonnondadiha,      Indian      deserter, 

report  by,  621  iv.  (c). 
Tiger,  ship,  542. 
Tilden,  Richard,  242  i. 
Tiverton,    Mass.,    assessors    of,    im- 
prisoned, 391. 

Tobacco,  export  of,  to  France,  freod, 
249,  295. 
guage  of,  410. 

low   price    of,    216,    216    i., 
290,  883. 

market,  the,  216  I. 
trade,  the,  331,  651,  745,  913. 
.  . .  . ,  depression  in,  249. 
.  .  .  . ,  measures  to  improve, 
295,  655. 

,  in  the  Navy,  295. 

Tobacco  Plantations,  the,  present  state 

of,  (pamphlet),  249. 
Tobago,  Dutch  in,  554  i. 

,  English  title  to,  539,  554  i., 

555. 

,  French  claim  to,  report  upon, 

554  i. 

Tod,  Joseph,  583  vi. 
Tolson,  Robert,  letter  from,  620. 
Tomlinson,  John,  arrest  of,  459  i. 
Totterdale,  Hugh,  247. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

451,  451  n. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  suspension  of,  142. 

Tour,  Claude  de  la,  554  i. 
Townley,  Richard,  819  i.,  876,  921. 
Townsend,  Mr.  (Barbados),  577. 
TRADE,  39,  60,  606  ;    and  see  Naval 

Stores. 

,  African.  See  African  Com- 
pany. 

,  with  Danes,  150. 

with   French,    617,    649. 

, in  South  Seas  56  ;    and 

see  France. 

,  fur,  the,  60,  705,  739,   765. 

,  .  . .  . ,  duty  on,  632. 

,    illegal,    in   the   Plantations, 

5,  10,  11,  19,66,  116,  117,  148, 
150,  186,  190,  192,  193,  209, 
216  n.,  230,  257,  268,  284,  296, 
323,  353,  381,  391,  484  xxi., 
xxii.,  532,  589  i.,  xi.-xvi., 
597  i.,  625,  655,  831  n  ;  and 
see  under  the  several  Colonies. 

,    ,   methods   to  prevent, 

489. 

with  Indians,  655  ;     and  see 

Indians. 

,  lumber,  391. 

Mexican,  the,  632. 

,    negro,    the.     See    Negroes  ; 

African  Company. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


635 


Trade— cont. 

Peruvian,  the,  632. 

,  with  Portugal,  761,  779. 

,  with  Spain  and  Spanish 

West  Indies,  301,  445,  445  i., 
449  I.,  649  ;  and  see  Spain. 

,  privateers,  effect  of,  on, 

445  i.  ;  and  see  Pirates  ; 
Privateers. 

,  sugar,  the,  913. 

,  tobacco,  the,  745  ;  and  see 

tobacco. 

between  West  Indies  and 

the  Continent,  60,  396,  448. 

woollen,  the,  391,  428, 

445  i.,  522,  542,  554  T. 

and  Navigation,  Acts  of,  32, 

39,  39  ii.,  41,  87,  331,  343, 
368,  368  i.,  391,  406,  421,  424, 
652  ;  and  see  Acts  of  Parlia- 
ment. 

, ,  breaches  of.  443  n. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  instructions  concerning 

41,  368,  368  i. 

TRADE  and  Plantations,  Council  of, 
15,  61,  66,  126  i.,  140  I.,  150 
n.,  154,  164-171,  282,  286, 
298,  383,  490,  674,  688,  854; 
and  see  Popple,  William ; 
German  Protestant  Refugees. 

,  office  of,  433. 

,  office  accounts  of,  21, 

159,  161,  303,  304,  436,  437, 
613,  614,  774,  780,  877. 

,  Commission  of,  350, 

373. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  enquiry  concern- 
ing, 365. 

, ,  reply  to,  373. 

, , ,  establishment  of, 

350,  365,  373. 

,  Commissioners  of,  350. 

,  ......  pensions  of,  en- 
quiry concerning,  351,  361. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  quorum  of,  to 

remain  in  town,  782. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  wanting, 

759. 

,    ,  records  of,   433. 

,....,  representations  of, 

request  for  decisions  on,  294. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  salaries  of,  350, 

365,  373,  437,  560. 

,  . .  . . ,  . .  . . ,  arrears  of, 

144,  877. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  summoned  to 

town,  759. 

,  ,  Secretary  of, 

salary  of,  433,  433  i.,  437  ; 
and  see  Popple,  W. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  house  for, 

433. 

,  circular  letter  from, 

concerning  Acts  of  Trade,  41. 
..Stores  of  War,  77. 


Trade   and  Plantations-  -co nt. 

,    letters,    instructions , 

representations  etc.  from,   15, 
20,  21,  23,  24,  26,  30,  37,  38, 
333,  341,  346,   352,  354,  380, 
381,  382,  878. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    concerning  : — 

the  African  Company  and 
Trade,  330,  331,  913. 

Antigua,   232. 

the  Assiento  trade,  226  i. 

Ash,  Isle  of,  554  i. 

Bahama  Islands,  291,  340, 
606,  615,  733. 

Barbados,  29,  83,  88,  108, 
210,  224,  224  i.,  225,  225 
i.,  226,  226  i.,  244,  248, 
308,  317,  324,  352  i.,  369, 
423,  467,  559,  642,  664, 
694,  700,  837,  844,  895. 

Bermuda,  46,  637,  643. 

Canada  Expedition,  71.  89, 
221,  221  i.,  235,  554  i., 
708. 

Carolina,  189,  284,  285, 
333,  368,  412,  554  i.,  vin., 
716. 

Governor  Crowe,  352  i. 

Dominico,  554  i. 

Five  Nations,  the,  554  ix. 

French  encroachments,  512, 
516,  517,  519,  520,  554, 
554  i. 

GermanProtestantRefugees, 
38,  470,  501,  511,  553, 
574,  594,  667  i.,  685  i., 
704,  705,  799,  822,  835, 
835  i.,  891,  891  I.,  923. 

Hudson  Bay,    554  I. 

Jamaica,  57,  67.  78,  87, 
110,  111,  172,  208,  247, 
408,  453,  473,  554  i., 
636,  640,  667  i.,  775,  776, 
799,  822,  834,  835,  835  T., 
871,  872,  900. 

Leeward  Islands,  91,  186, 
191,  200,  209,  245,  311, 
359,  367,  459,  563,  630, 
631,  641,  836. 

Maryland,  197,  203,  258, 
296,  773,  820,  880,  883, 
919. 

Massachusetts  Bay,  58,  292, 
430,  914,  914  i. 

Naval  Stores,  429,  430,  914 

Nevis,  9,  264. 
Newfoundland,     309,     314, 

554  i.,  566,  584. 
New    Hampshire,     54,     58, 

93,    185,    292,    307,    415, 

430. 
New    Jersey,    4,    732,    753, 

778,  820,  821. 


636 


GENEBAL  INDEX. 


Trade  and  Plantations,  letters,  etc. 
from,  concerning — cord. 

New  York,  375,  400  i.,  429, 
544  i.,  711,  712,  732,  753, 
879,  891,  891  i.,  923,  924, 
924  i. 

Nova  Scotia,  554  i. 

office  expenses,  161,  304, 
774. 

Governor  Parke,   359,    367. 

their  proceedings,  to  Parlia- 
ment, 294. 

passes  for  Spanish  ships, 
463. 

pensions,  361,  406. 

Pennsylvania,  32,  717,  777. 

Portugal,  779. 

Mr.  Rhodes,  251. 

St.  Kitts,  9,  175,  313,  554  i. 

St.  Vincent,  554  i. 

Sta.  Lucia,  554  i. 

Office  salaries,   437,   560. 

Seals  for  the  Plantations, 
40. 

Secretary's  house,  433. 

Stores  of  War,  59,  77,  757. 

Swiss  Protestant  settlers, 
652. 

tobacco  trade,  encourage- 
ment of,  249. 

Tobago,  554  i. 

trade,  illegal,  284,  489. 

Treaty  of  Neutrality,  554  i. 

Virginia,  90,  186,  285,  295, 
409,  412,  652,  655,  716, 
771,  883,  920. 

,  letters,  addresses,  in- 
structions, memorials,  orders, 
petitions,  references  to,  con- 
cerning : — 

African  Trade,  316,  327, 
910. 

Antigua,  25,  117,  443,  638, 
741. 

Bahama  Islands,   270. 

Barbados,  39,  94,  96,  126, 
129,  134,  140,  141,  156, 
180,  222,  242,  262,  263, 
272,  302,  346,  441,  484, 
496,  502,  503,  513,  518, 
518  i.,  583,  586,  651,  651 1. 
653,  656,  656  i.,  684,  698, 
709,  748,  749,  830,  853, 
857,  907,  934. 

Bermuda,  18,  22,  72,  73, 
101,  176,  231,  389,  390, 
506,  507,  507  i.,  508, 
817. 

Canada  Expedition,  85,  217, 
605. 

Carolina,  233,  271,  297, 
342,  402,  682,  687,  739. 

Connecticut,  323,  328,  371. 

French  encroachments,  544, 
546-548. 


Trade  and  Plantations,  letters,  etc. 
to,  concerning — cont. 

GermanProtestantRefugees, 
14  i.,  366,  485,  491,  495, 
504,  526,  527,  550,  552, 
570  i.,  II.,  593,  595,  657, 
665,  680,  699,  742,  881, 
882,  915,  918. 

Gordon,  George,  338. 

Jamaica,  56,  68,  81,  139, 
139  i.,  142,  174,  202,  227, 
339,  395,  444,  451,  452, 
474,  483,  525,  525  i., 
542,  543,  573,  649,  657, 
665,  699,  720,  737  I.,  742, 
763,  785,  812  i.,  867, 
868,  912. 

Leeward  Islands,  5,  25, 
109,  116,  149,  150,  181, 
182,  192,  193,  194,  465, 
487,  505,  524,  529-532, 
541,  587-591,  597,  736, 
852,  869,  873,  909. 

Maryland,  131,  265,  289, 
290,  410,  671,  707,  745. 

Massachusetts  Bay,  17,  33, 
151,  391-394. 

Naval  Officers,  39. 

Naval  Stores.    17,   70,   428. 

Nevis,  7,  25,  250,  546,  547, 
693. 

Newfoundland,  49  I.,  158, 
158  ii.,  v.,  VI.,  195,  288, 
300,  345,  486,  535  I., 
548,  558,  558  i.,  619,  859, 
859  i.,  911,  922. 

New  Hampshire,  2,  17,  19, 
65,  114,  123,  155,  212, 
260,  306,  391-394,  422, 
458,  663,  693. 

New  Jersey,  400,  578,  621, 
721,  819,  819  ix.,  876. 

New  York,  10,  11,  107,  157, 
252,  400,  405,  545,  578, 
621,  627,  721,  768,  802, 
804,  850,  851,  881,  882, 
903,  915,  918,  932. 

Pennsylvania,  12,  289,  450, 
481,  579,  703. 

passes  for  Spanish  ships, 
177,  305 1.,  372,  449,  449 1. 

pensions,  351. 

pirates,  557,  557  i.,  620, 
620  i. 

Portugal,  trade  with,  761. 

Port  Royal,  533,  533  i. 

Rhode  Island,  228-230. 

St.  Kitts,  6,  25,  484  xxxiv., 
546,  547. 

Seals  for  the  Plantations, 
16,  805. 

Stores  of  War  for  the  Plant- 
ations, 746. 

Swiss  Protestants,  settle- 
ment of,  601,  639. 


OENEBAL  INDEX. 


637 


Trade  and  Plantations,  letters,  etc. 
to  concerning — cont. 

Virginia,  137,  181,  215,  216, 
216  i.,  297,  421,  571,  601, 
650,  650  I.,  692,  726,  765, 
897. 

Traders,  separate.  See  African  Co.  ; 
Negroes. 

Transport,  Commissioners  of,  801. 

, ,  letters  to,  788. 

Trant   (Hanth),  Thomas,   443  I.,   n. 

Trapham,  Dr.,  573  n. 

Treasurer,  The  Lord  High,  43,  51, 
55,  58,  61,  61  i.,  107,  116,  119, 
171,  353,  380,  381,  443  n., 
602,  649,  666,  671,  680,  693, 
799,  823,  826,  872  ;  and  see 
Godolphin,  Sidney  ;  Lowndes, 
William ;  Taylour,  John ; 
Customs,  H.M.  Commissioners 
of. 

Treasury,  the,  5. 

Treaty  of  Breda,  554  i. 

of  Peace  and  Neutrality,  544 

i.,  554  xin. 

of  Ryswick,  522,  523,  554  i. 

Trepasty,  Harbour  of  (Newfound- 
land), 554  i. 

Tribbeko,  John,  551,  592. 

,    .  . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

581. 

,   .  . . . ,  letter  from,  495,  501, 

593. 

Trimingham,  John,  72. 

Triton's  prize,  H.M.S.,  10. 

, deserters  from,  924  I., 

925. 

,   ship  taken  by,  396. 

Trois  Rivieres.  60,  196,  217,  602, 
621  iv.  (6). 

Trot(t),  Perrion  (Perient  or  Periham), 
wife  of,  murdered,  870. 

, ,  Deputy  Naval  Officer, 

S.  Carolina,  752. 

(?Nicholas),  Proprietor,  Caro- 
lina, case  of,  455. 

Troy  River.     See  Trois  Rivieres. 

Tryon,    Rowland,    13,    124,    321. 

,    ,  letter  from,  534,  539, 

766. 

letter  to,  516. 

William,  321, 

Tucker,  Capt.  (Bermuda),  72. 

,  Henry,  deposition  of,  231  i. 

,  John,  158  ix.,  756,  890  in. 

,  William,  deposition  of,  231  i. 

Turberville,  Fortescue,  419. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Commission  of  (Caro- 
lina), 509. 

Turbill,  John,  398,  420. 

Turks  Islands,  taken  by  French,  448. 

trade    with    Rhode    Island, 

230  n. 

Turner,  Sir  Charles,  Commissioner  of 
Trade,  350. 


Turtola,  597  i. 

Turton,  Gervas,  443  i.,  n. 

Tuthill,   Zee.,  document  signed  by, 

394  v. 

Tuttle,  John,  65  v. 
Twichtwichts,  the,  107. 
Tynte,  Edward,  Major,  Governor  of 

Carolina,      752. 
,   .  . .  . ,  H.M.  approbation  of, 

271. 

,  commission  of,  234. 

,    .  .  . . ,   instructions   of,    368, 

368  i.,  424,  744. 

, ,  grants  to.  426,  468. 

,  security  given  by,  271, 

343. 
,  warrant  to,  464,  469, 

829. 
Tyrwhitt,     George,     deposition     of, 

583  xxxvin. 
Tyson,  Margaret,  194  n. 


U 


Ubanks,  Daniel,  deposition  of,  176 
iv: 

Union,  sloop,  case  of,  484  xxxrx. 

Union,  Act  of,  publication  and  wel- 
come of,  in  the  Plantations, 
10,  11,  16,  33,  33  i.,  65  iv., 
79,  131,  230,  243,  323,  391, 
392,  443  i. 

Unity,  ship,  252. 

Upton,  Arthur,  deposition  of,  190 
iv.  (c).  857  v.-vn. 

Urven,  Nathaniel,  765  I. 

Usher,  John,  Lt. -Governor  of  New 
Hampshire,  58. 

, claim  of,  663. 

,  complaints  by,  260, 

260  i.,  422. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  by,  118. 

, ,  letter  from,  2,  260,  260 

i.,  422,  663. 

,  . .  . . ,  salary  of,  unpaid,  260, 

663. 


Val,  Peter  du,  554  i. 
Valeur,    La,    French    man    of    war, 
engagement  of,  529  in. 

H.M.S.,  195. 

Vanbell,  625. 


638 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Vanbrugh,     William,     Commissioner 

for  stating  arrears,  877. 
Vanderesse,  M.,  433. 
Vane,  E.,  Capt.,  engineer,  Newfound- 
land, 890  ii.,  911  ix. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  letter  from,  223  vn. 

Varazonus,  John,  554  i. 

Vassall,  Samuel,  451  i. 

Vaudreuil,     Marquis     de,     Governor 

General  of  Canada,  Governor 

of  Quebec,  60,    107,  391. 
,     .  .  .  . ,     letter    from,     inter- 
cepted, 533  i. 
,     .  .  .  . ,     offers     rewards     for 

scalps,   30. 
.......    .  .  .  . ,  prepares  attack  upon 

New  England,  391. 
Vaughan,    George,    Agent    for    New 

Hampshire,    2,    2    i.,    n.,    30, 

58,  260,  391,  392,  663. 
,     .  .  .  . ,    complaints    against, 

422. 

,    document  signed  by, 

•  45,  65  v. 

,    .  .  .  . ,   letter  from,    19,   393. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  memorial  of,  54,  65  i. 

Vaughan,  James,   180  vm.   (6),  274, 

502. 
,     John,     Earl     of     Carbery, 

(Lord  Vaughan),  822,  823,  827, 

835  i. 

,  letter  to,  775,  810,  826. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    proposal   for    settling 

German  Refugees,  832  n. 
,  .  . .  . ,  surrender    of   lands    in 

Jamaica  by,  846,  846  i. 

Robert,  583  vn. 

Venus,  French  man  of  war,  890  IT. 
Vera  Cruz,  339,  411  i.,  451,  473,  483, 

632,  785. 
,    French    and    Spanish    fleets 

at,    174,   542,    649,    872,    912. 
Vetch,  Samuel,  Col.,  498,   578,  621, 

670,  794  i.,  n. 
,    ,   at  Boston,    604,   617, 

629,  694. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  at  New  Jersey,  p.  404. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  at  New  York,  578,  p. 

402. 

, ,  at  Rhode  Island,  604. 

,    .  .  .  . ,    "  Canada   Survey'd," 

memorial  by,  60. 
,      Canada    Expedition 

against,  proposal  for,  60,    71, 

71  i.,  85,  196,  235. 
,  .  .  .  . , report  upon,  89, 

221,  221  i. 
,    ....,....,  instructions  for, 

387,   388,  475,  476,  794  i. 
,  .  .  .  . , preparations  for, 

report  upon  by,  666. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  sails  on,  476. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  Canada,  request  to  be 

appointed  Commander  in  Chief 

of,  602, 


Vetch,  Samuel — cont. 

, case  of,  391. 

,    ,  document  signed  by, 

794  i.,  n.,  819  vi.,  922  11. 
, letter  from,  217,  602- 

605,  794,  794  vn.,  ix.,  x.,  798. 
,  . . . . ,  letter  to,  580,  612,  922 

i. 
, reward  of,  petition  for, 

602,   666. 
Villa  Nova,  Don  Michael  de,  Spanish 

Vice  Admiral,  56,  56  n. 
Villebon,  M.   de,   Governor  of  Nova 

Scotia,  554  i. 

,  .  .  . . ,  letter  from,  554  vi. 

Vineens,  John,  487  n. 
Vincent,  Anne,  484  xn. 

,  .  . .  . ,  petition  of,  484  xn. 

,  John,  484  xn. 

Virgin  Islands,  trade  with  Carolina, 

739. 
Virginia,  10,  131,  531,  726  ;    and  see 

Byrd,        William ;        Hunter, 

Robert ;        Nott,       Edward  ; 

Orkney,  Earl  of. 
,  Act  for  ascertaining  rates  of 

coin  etc.,  published  in,  765  n. 
,    Act    to    encourage   trade   in 

America,    published    in,    421, 

765  n. 
,    Act    concerning    hogsheads, 

confirmed,  765  n. 

,  Act  for  settling  Militia,  216. 

,  Act  regarding  orphans,  692. 

Act    for    establishing    ports 

and  towns,  489,   863. 

, repeal  of,  906, 

,  .  .  .  . ,  report  upon,  661,  883. 

,  Act,  the  Revenue,  repealed, 

765  n. 
Acts   of   Trade,   instruction 

concerning,  421. 

Agent  of.    See  Blakiston,  Col. 

Assembly  of,  137,  295,  421, 

888. 

,  Auditor  General  of,  765. 

,  Blackwater  Swamp,  216  i. 

,  boundaries  of,  dispute  with 

Carolina,  216  i.,  285,  295,  402, 

412,  434,  655,  765,  771,    813, 

828. 

,  . . . . ,  Commissioners  to  set- 
tle, 285,  297,  655,  678. 

,  . .  . . ,  payment  of,  435. 

British  goods,  demand  for, 

in,    165. 
,  College  of  William  and  Mary, 

216,  216  n. 

, revenue  of,  216,  216  n, 

,  trustees  of,  address  of, 

216   n. 

,   Convoys  for,    60,    137,    254, 

261,  346,  355,  571. 
, ,  recommended  for,  216 

i. 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Virginia,  Convoys  for — cont. 

,  requested  for,   80. 

,  corn,  embargo  on,  765,  765 

ii. 

,   .  .  .  . ,  export  of,  779. 

,    Council    of,    90,    98,      137, 

295,  409,  451,  571,  765. 
,    .  .  .  . ,  minutes  of,   137,  216, 

216  ii.,  765. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  replies  of,  216  i.,   655. 

,  Councillors  of,  121,  216,  216 

in. 
,    debtors    of,    harboured    in 

Proprietary  Governments,  216 

i.,  655. 
defence  of,  26,   137,  216  i., 

261,  421,  571,   655,  668,  765. 

,  drought  in,  765. 

,   embargo   in,    604,    765,    765 

ii. 
,  emigration  from,  to  Carolina, 

216,   216  i.,   765. 
,  exports  and  imports  of,  216 

i.,  295,  655,  765,  779. 

,  fast  proclaimed  in,  765  n. 

,    French    attack    upon,    421. 

,  German  Protestant  Refugees, 

settlement  of,  proposed,   705. 
,  Governor  of,  137,  771,  888  ; 

and  see  Hunter,  Robert ;  Nott, 

Edward  ;    Orkney,  Earl  of. 
,    instructions   to,    384, 

652. 
,    .  .  .  . ,    for    recovering 

Bahama  Islands,   658,  660. 

,  Governor  and  Council  of,  412. 

,  Governor's  house,  137,  295. 

,  guardships  of,  137,  253,  254, 

295,   571,   655,   668,   765,    794 

XI. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  demanded  for,  137, 

165,  216  i.,  261,  421,  607. 

, hired  for,  421. 

, ,  ordered  for,  432,  608. 

,  Lt.-Governor  of.  See  Jen- 
ings,  Edmund. 

,  Lt.-Governor  and  Council 

of,  address  to,  216  n. 

,  Indian  murderer,  reprieve  of, 

186,  295. 

,  Indians,  the,  26,  165. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  danger  from,  609. 

,   .  . . . ,  Saponies,  the,  137. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  grant  of  lands 

to,  295. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  taken  under  pro- 
tection, 765  ii. 

,  trade  with,  181,  655, 

771. 

traders,  goods  of, 

seized  by  Carolina,  165,  189, 
216,  216  i.,  n.,  295,  341,  342, 
682,  765,  765  I. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  .  .  .  . ,  order  concerning, 

750,  760. 


Virginia,  Indian  traders — cont. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  . . .  . ,  report  upon,  716. 

, ,  the  Tuscoruro,  295. 

,  .  .  . . , murder  by,  137. 

,  .....  .  . .  . ,  trade  with,  pro- 
hibited, 137,  765  n. 

,  . .  .  . ,  Western,  trade  with, 

716. 

,  inhabitants  of,  216. 

,  lands  of  in,  grants  of,  in- 
struction concerning,  346  i., 
384,  409,  652,  655,  765. 

,  lands  in,  reversal  to  old 

method  of  granting  urged, 
216  i.,  285,  297. 

,  .  .  .  .,  want  of,  216  i. 

,  Maherine  River,  137. 

,  manufactures,  linen,  woollen 

etc.,  in,  165,  216  i.,  249,  295, 

651,  883. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  discouraged,  655. 

,  merchants  trading  to,   261. 

,    Militia    of,    421. 

,  list  of,  216  iv. 

,  Naval  Stores  in,   216  i. 

Negroes,     73,    216,    216    i., 

421. 
,  .  .  .  . ,  imports  and  prices  of, 

10,  215,  215  i.,  n.,  655,  855, 

855  i. 
,  numbers  required  for, 

331. 

,  Pamunkey  Neck,  216. 

,   peaceful   condition   of,    765, 

888. 

,  pitch  and  tar,  216  i. 

ports  of,  216  i. 

,  post,  10. 

,  privateers  of,   137,  765. 

,     . . .  . ,    enemy,    losses   from, 

26,    216    i.,    421,   691,  794  ii. 
,     Proclamations     issued     in, 

765,  765  n. 
quit  rents,  137  ;    amount  of, 

295. 

Receiver  General  of,  765. 

Revenue   of,    421,    435. 

,   accounts  of,  137,  295, 

765. 

Seal,  new,  for,  40. 

,  seamen,  desertions  by,   765 

11. 

,  shipping,  216. 

,  sickness  in,  1 37,  765  n. 

,  stores  of  war  in,  accounts  of, 

421, 
Swiss  Protestants,  settlement 

of,   proposed,   601  i.,  n.,   639, 

652,  697,  724. 
,  tobacco  crop,  765. 

,     .....    exports    of,    216    I., 

655. 
,  hogsheads,  guage  of, 

290. 
,  . .  .  . ,  production  of,  216  i. 


640 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


Virginia,  tobacco  crop — cont. 
,  low  price  of,  216,  216 

i.,  249,  883. 
trade,  the,  137,  216  i., 

651. 
,    effect    of    depression 

in,  249. 
,  . . . . ,  measures  to  encourage, 

295,  655. 
trade  of,  216  i.,  421,   651; 

and  see  Virginia  tobacco. 
trade  with   Barbados,    174, 

216  i.,  779. 
,    trade   with    Bermuda,    231 

IV. 

trade  with  Carolina,  739. 

,  trade  fleets,  10,  107,  216  i., 

233,  254,  261,  295,  571,  655, 

765. 

,  trade,  illegal  in,  655. 

,    trade,    illegal,    measures    to 

prevent,  216  i.,  489. 
,  trade  with  Indians,  216  i.  ; 

and  see  Virginia,  Indians. 
,  trade  with  Leeward  Islands, 

779. 
,    trade    with     Massachusetts 

Bay,  391. 

trade  of,  with  other  Plant- 
ations, 216  i. 
trade   with    Rhode    Island, 

230  ii. 

vines,  cultivation  of,  705. 

vineyards  in,   932. 

,     Williamsburgh,    Rector  of, 

650  i. 

Virgin  Queen,  privateer,   484  xx. 
Virnon,  Capt.,  143. 
Vollard,  Petre,  487  n. 


W 


Wager,  Rear  Admiral,  339,  376,  451, 

473,  649. 
,       . . . . ,      engagement      and 

capture  of  Spanish  galleons  by, 

56,  56  ii.,  68,  69,  87,  135,  167, 

174  ii.,  208,  490,  499. 

,  . . . . ,  commendation  of,  208. 

,    ,  leaves  Jamaica,   214, 

720,  722. 

, letter  to,  227. 

,     search    for    Spanish 

ships  by,   56. 
,    trial  of  Captains  of, 

135. 
Wagrasshse,  Indian  spy,  examination 

of,  621  iv.  (a). 
Wakem,  John,  890  in. 


Waldron,    Lawrence,    deposition    of, 

908  ii.,  in. 
,  Richard  (N.H.),  2,  30,  65  v., 

260,  292,  663. 
Walker,    Alexander,     180   vm.     (a), 

352  i.,  749  ;  and  see  Barbados, 

Councillors,  the  Three. 
, bribery  attempted  by, 

513  vm. 
, ,  case  of,  396,  396  iv., 

583  xxxm. 
,    ,    charge    against,    141 

m.,  180  iv.  (j),  222,  222  v. 
,...., ,  reply  to,  222,  222 

i.-v.,  248. 
,    . . .  . ,    charges    by,    against 

Crowe,   129,   178,  224  i.,  320. 
,    ,    ,    reply   to,    180 

iv.    (6). 
, depositions  concerning, 

857,  857  iv.-vn. 
,    letter  from,  126,  156, 

156  iv.,  178,  583. 

petition  of,  222  i.,  in. 

,    proceedings  against, 

642. 
,    removed  from   '"     -i- 

mission  of  Peace,  583  vi, 
,  representation  of,  Ii; 

i.,  178,  179,  180  i. 
,     . . . . ,    restoration    of,    356, 

370,  379,  380. 
,  summons  against,  180 

iv.  (g). 
,    suspension    of,    from 

Council,    156,    178,    179,    317, 

583  vm.,  ix. 

, ,  reasons  for,  §24. 

, ,    ,  reply    to, 

180    n. 

John,  65  v. 

Mathew,  152. 

Samuel,   deposition  of,    150 

xii.,  484  xxvii.,  624  (a). 

,  William,  180  n.,  690. 

,  . . . . ,  bribery  attempted  by, 

513  vn. 
,     memorial     of,     180 

vm.    (a),    (6). 

,   . . .  . ,  petition  of,  222  i. 

,    . . . . ,    proceedings    against, 

396,  396  iv.,  642. 

,  . . . . ,  trial  of,  evaded,  518  i. 

Waller,  Leonard,  484  xin.,  589  i. 

Wallis,  John,  890  in. 

Walter,  John,  document  signed  by, 

321  (and  see  Watter). 
Walter,    Mrs.,    Barbados,    case    of, 

126  i.,  180  ii.,  180  iv.  (h). 
Walters,  Robert,   10  i.,  802,   924  i., 

928. 

Walton,  Shadrach,  65  v.,  260  i. 
,   .  .  . . ,  documents  signed  by, 

394  vi.,  vn. 
Wanton,  William,  Col.,  230,  604. 


GENERAL  INDEX. 


641 


Ward,    Edmund,    document    signed 

by,  157  i. 
John,  speaker  of  Assembly, 

St.   Kitts,   597  i. 
,  petition  and  case  of, 

against   Governor  Parke,  484 

xxxiv.-xxxvij.,  625. 
Warner,     Jonathan,     clerk     of     the 

Council,  Mountserrat,  deposi- 
tion of,  484  xxx. 

,  Philip,  Col.,  554  i. 

,  Sir  Thomas,  Governor  of  St. 

Kitts,  554  i. 
,      Thomas,       Col.,      Deputy 

Governor  of  Dominico,  554  i. 

,   Thomas    (Carib),    554   i. 

Warren     ( ?Christopher),     Barbados, 

180. 

Warters,  J.,  deposition  of,  360. 
Warwick,  H.M.S.,   195. 
Washington,       Thomas,       document 

signed  by,  187. 
Waterman,   Humphry,   case   of,   126 

i.,  180  ii.,  180  iv.  (h),  694. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  583  xxvi. 

Tatkins    (Wattkins),    Samuel,    Chief 

Justice,  Antigua,   150,  443  i., 

ii.,  531,  532. 

, ,  case  of,  484  xin.,  589  i. 

,  .  . . . ,  character  of,  182. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  484  xvn. 

,     .  .  .  . ,    mandamus    to,    484 

XXXII. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  murder  by,  597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  resignation  of,  597  i. 

,  warrant  to,  484  xvi. 

Vatkins,  Giles,  443  i.,   ii.,  484  xiv., 

589  i.,   in.,   vii.,  597  i. 
•'atkinson,  Edmund,  657  i. 
,   atlington,  John,  487  n. 
Watter,  John,  321,  583  xxxm. 
Way,  Benjamin,  657  i.,  737  i.,  742. 

, ,  letter  from,  106. 

, ,  petition  of,  525,  525  I. 

Weatherill,  John,  487  ii. 
Weatherly,  Capt.  (Antigua),  murder 

of,  597  i. 
Webber,  Bartholomew,  890  in. 

,  Jona.,  756. 

Weeks,  Edward,  890  in. 
Weir,  Robert,  487  IT. 
Wells,   391. 

,  bounds  of,  17  n. 

Wenham,    Thomas,    Col.,    Councillor 

of  New  York,  848,  849,  924  i., 

928. 

, death  of,  767. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  document  signed  by, 

157  i. 

,    .  .  .  . ,  petition  against,   850. 

Wentworth,  John,  Capt.,  124. 

, deposition  of,  349. 

Werden,  Sir  John,  Commissioner  of 

Customs,  document  signed  by, 

27  v.,  661. 


West  Indies,  the.     See  Plantations, 

the. 

,    corn    imported    into,     779. 

,  defence  of,  421. 

,    dependent    upon    Northern 

Plantations,  221  i. 
,       Expedition,       the.          See 

Canada  ;  Newfoundland. 
,    French    encroachments    in, 

512,  516  ;  and  see  France. 
,  packet  boats  for.     See  Dum- 

mer,    E.  ;     packet    boats. 

,  the  Spanish,  69,  331. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  negroes  imported  into, 

525  i.  ;    and  see  Spain. 
,    trade    with    America,     60, 

396,  448. 

,  trade  with  Connecticut,  323. 

trade  with  French,  382. 

,  trade  with  Ireland,  766. 

,    trade    with    Massachusetts 

Bay,  391. 
,  trade    with    New    England, 

151. 
,  trade  with  New  Hampshire, 

19. 
,   trade  with  New  York,    10, 

157  i. 
,  trade  with  Spanish,  134  i.  ; 

and  see  Spain. 

,  wages  of  sailors  for,  p.   48. 

Westmore,  James,  487  n. 
Weymouth,    H.M.S.,    396,    487,    505, 

597  i.,  684,  709. 
Whale  boats,  use  of,  604. 

,  fishery,  522,  554  i. 

Wheeler, (N.J.),  11  i. 

Wheelwright,  John,  391  i. 
Whetham,  Thomas,  Brigadier,  Com- 
mander    in     Chief,     Canada 

Expedition,     instructions    to, 

492,  497,  498. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  regiment  of,  194. 

Whetstone,  Lt.-Col.  (Barbados),  583 

LII. 
Whitchurch,  James,  737  i.,  742,  799, 

835,  835  i. 

,  . .  . .,  case  of,  81. 

document  signed  by, 

657  i. 

, ,  letter  from,  763. 

, ,  letter  to,  754. 

,  petition  of,  247. 

,    ....,    ,   reply    to,    142, 

142  i. 

White,  Arthur  (Newfoundland),  756. 
,    Leonard,    Councillor,    Ber- 
muda, 72,  637,  647. 
Whitehall,  Sir  J.  Stanley's   house  in 

433. 
Whitehead,      Jonathan,      document 

signed  by,  157  I. 
Whitington   (Whittington),  William, 

Councillor,      Maryland,      131, 

258,  337. 

CP41. 


642 


GENEEAL  INDEX. 


Wibird    (Wiberd),    R.,    affidavit    of, 

118,  162. 
,  document  signed  by, 

65  v. 
Wickham,  John,  487  n. 

Samuel,  487  n.,  589  iv. 

,    deposition  of,   1 16  i., 

150  vii.,  589  v. 
Wickley,  John,  158  ix. 
Wiginton,  [?Henry],  Secretary  of 

Carolina,  233,  342,  424. 
Wilcox,  Lt.,  complaint  against,  163. 
Wilkinson,  John,  Master,  R.N.,  529 

in. 
Willett,  John,  Councillor,  St.  Kitts, 

9,  319,  531. 

Willett,    William,    10  i. 
,    document    signed   by, 

157  i. 
William    TIT.,  King,  33,  433,  554  I.  ; 

and  see  Arrears. 
William,  Edward,  381. 
Williams,  Richard,  petition  of,  180 

iv.  (/),  583  xxv. 
,    Rowland,     Councillor    and 

Naval     Officer,     Antigua,     5, 

443  i.,  n.,  531,  597  i. 
,    Thomas    (Newfoundland), 

756. 

(Antigua),  443  i.,  n. 

,  Capt.,  marooned,  870. 

Williamsburgh,  432. 

Va.,  Rector  of,  650  i. 

Williamson,  Edmund,  Commissioner 

for  stating  arrears,  877. 
Willicot,  Robert,  756. 
Willoughby,  Francis,  Lord,  554  I. 
,  William,  Lord,  instruction  to, 

554  i. 
Willson,  Adrean,  870. 

,  Richard,  890  in. 

Wilson  [?Ebenezer],  N.Y.,  10  i. 

" grant  to,  848. 

,  Thomas  (N.H.),  65  v. 

William  (Va.),  216  in. 

Wiltshire,  Richard,  587  vn. 
Winchen, (Newfoundland),  911 

IX. 

Winchdsea,  H.M.S.,  223. 
Windmill  Point  (Carolina),  739. 
Windsor,  H.M.S.,  396. 
Windsor,  boundary  dispute,  691. 

,  Samuel,  890  in. 

,  Thomas,  151,  228. 

Winget,  Joshua,  65  v. 
Winslow,  Isaac,  391  i. 
Winthrop,  Wait,  391  i. 
Witham,  John,  Sir,  180  iv.  (i). 

, ,  estate  of,  583  xv. 

Withywood,    573. 
Wiwanda,  848. 
Woodbridge,    11. 


Woodbridge, — cont. 

,  Dudley,  Judge  of  the  Admir- 
alty Court,  Barbados,  etc., 
857. 

,  . . .  . ,  deposition  of,  318,  321, 

362. 

Woodcock,  ^Jamaica),  667  i. 

Wood  Creek,  Fort  at,  666,  69 1,  794, 
794  i. 

,  .  . .  . ,  preparations  at,  for 

Canada  Expedition,  387,  604, 
629,  666,  691. 

Woodmason,  William,  890  in. 

Woods,  H.M.,  in  America,  pre- 
servation and  waste  of.  See 
Bridger,  J.  ;  Massachusetts 
Bay  ;  New  Hampshire. 

Woodstock,  Elizabeth,  deposition  of, 
908  iv. 

Woodward,  John,  account  of  Pla- 
centia  by,  195,  195  n. 

Woollen,  manufactures,  883. 

,  in  the  Plantations,  216  I., 

249,  295,  323,  651,  663;  and 
see  under  the  several  Colonies. 

Woollen  trade,  the,  522,  542,  554  i.  ; 
and  see  Trade. 

Wren,  Capt.,  R.N.,  554  i. 

Wyke,  George,  484  xxx. 

Wright,  John,  487  n.,  589  iv. 

,  . . . . ,  document  signed  by, 

487  n. 

,  Mrs.,  wife  of  preceding,  597  i. 

,  .  .  .  . ,  deposition  of,  589  iv. 

Wynter,  Arthur,  56  i. 


Yeamans,     John,     Lt. -Governor     of 

Antigua,  5,  116  11. 
,    . . .  . ,  charges  against,  590, 

878. 
,    reply   to,    588, 

598. 
,    document  signed  by, 

150  ii.,  589,  589  n. 

,   Robert,    274. 

,  William,  487  n. 

York  (N.E.),  bounds  of,  17,  17  n. 

,  Duke  of,  case  of,  293. 

River,  Va.,  137. 

Young,  ,  master  of  ship,  10. 

,  Samuel,  131,  707. 

Thomas,    affidavit    of,    194 

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