Secretary of State and Board of Trade : correspondence, reports and despatches, 1710-1728.
| Uniform Title: | Colonial America (Marlborough, England)
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| Language: | English |
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Marlborough, England :
Adam Matthew Digital,
[2015], ©2015.
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| Series: | Colonial America (Marlborough, England)
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| Physical Description: | 31 items. |
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Correspondence, reports and despatches, 1710-1728 |
| Format: | Electronic |
Contents:
- Account of English imports and exports
- Account of tar and pitch imported from the plantations for use as naval stores
- Board of Trade recommendations regarding the duties to be placed on iron and steel manufactured in America and related letters
- Board of Trade report concerning two instances of assemblies in the plantations attempting addresses to the Crown separately from their governors and councils
- Board of Trade report on removing duties from American timber products, with an account of the gross duties payable on wood imported into England and related papers and correspondence
- Complaints from agents and factors at Providence and the Carolinas against the arbitrary conduct of Governor Nicholson seizing their vessels, searching their cargoes and making them swear oaths of allegiance
- Draft letter concerning trade contracts and certificates
- Index to Board of Trade reports
- Instructions to colonial governors directing them not to send British subjects to Britain as prisoners without first transmitting full proof of their guilt
- Instructions to the governors of plantations to levy arms and muster to raise forces to protect against invasion
- Letter about the printing of laws and acts relating to the colonies rather than relying upon bundles of parchment
- Letter concerning instructions for Colonel Moody, requesting a sloop and garrison, repairs to fortifications at Placentia and the need for a survey of the French parts of Newfoundland for the benefit of fishing vessels
- Letter concerning instructions for Mr Methuen
- Letter from the Board of Trade about new seals for the colonies
- Letter from Mr Popple to Robert Pringle requesting copies of patents for government offices in the West Indies
- Letter requesting notifications of colonial appointments as lieutenant-generals and lieutenant-governors
- Letter to Col. Selwyn
- Letters about drafts of warrants appointing governors for New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, New Jersey and Bermuda
- Letters and Board of Trade report on petitions for patents to cure sturgeon in North America
- Letters and papers concerning naval stores
- Letters concerning appointments
- List of Board of Trade reports
- List of letters and reports from the Secretary of War
- List of licences of absence given to officers in America, 1702-1711
- Memorial of John Bridger, late Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods in America, concerning naval stores
- Mr Bladen's proposal for simplifying the administration of the plantations in America
- Order in Council appointing Richard Fitzwilliam, Surveyor-General for Customs for South America, to the councils of Virginia, South Carolina and Jamaica
- Petition of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, for the land grant of some small islands off the coasts of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
- Petition of merchants of London and others trading and interested in the British colonies of America complaining about Spanish privateers operating off the coast of North America
- Powers of Colonel Bladen regarding the implementation of the Treaty of Utrecht
- Report of Council of Trade on naval stores imported from America.