Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America: From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, Volume 1P. Force, 1836 - Bermuda Islands |
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... Pounds Sterling per Tun , but we will reduce it to Twenty , for Arguments Sake , tho ' such a Fall is improbable for such a Commodity , ( Some of our own English Ashes , which have not a 4th Part good Potash , yielding that Price or ...
... Pounds Sterling per Tun , but we will reduce it to Twenty , for Arguments Sake , tho ' such a Fall is improbable for such a Commodity , ( Some of our own English Ashes , which have not a 4th Part good Potash , yielding that Price or ...
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... Sterling ; and a Wild Turkey of Forty Pound weight , for the Value of Two - pence .'- In Page 32 , the Author when ... Pounds Sterling per Annum , and this abstracted from Silk , Wine , & c - Page 41 , ' Now this very Family in Georgia ...
... Sterling ; and a Wild Turkey of Forty Pound weight , for the Value of Two - pence .'- In Page 32 , the Author when ... Pounds Sterling per Annum , and this abstracted from Silk , Wine , & c - Page 41 , ' Now this very Family in Georgia ...
Page 27
... Pounds Sterling , for three Years without Inter- est , that he would employ the said Sum , with a further Stock of his own , in sending to Portugal , and bringing over Vines and Vinerons ; and that he should be bound to repay the Money ...
... Pounds Sterling , for three Years without Inter- est , that he would employ the said Sum , with a further Stock of his own , in sending to Portugal , and bringing over Vines and Vinerons ; and that he should be bound to repay the Money ...
Page 70
... Pounds Ster- ling , from charitable Persons for that express Purpose . 2dly , Opposite to the Court - House stands ... Sterling . * In August , 1740 , a new Foundation was begun . 6th , A Publick Mill for grinding Corn , was 70.
... Pounds Ster- ling , from charitable Persons for that express Purpose . 2dly , Opposite to the Court - House stands ... Sterling . * In August , 1740 , a new Foundation was begun . 6th , A Publick Mill for grinding Corn , was 70.
Page 73
... Pounds Sterling ; and it is now uninhabited , and very much decayed . Next below that is the Five hundred Acre Tract belonging to Dr. Patrick Tail- fer ; which was settled , but found impracticable to proceed upon , by Reason of the ...
... Pounds Sterling ; and it is now uninhabited , and very much decayed . Next below that is the Five hundred Acre Tract belonging to Dr. Patrick Tail- fer ; which was settled , but found impracticable to proceed upon , by Reason of the ...
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Accomack Account aduentures aforesaid amongst appointed Bacon Benefit better Capt Carolina Causton Coll Colony of Georgia command Common Council Corn Corporation Country Court Creek Cultivation eather England English Establishing the Colony Estate euery Expence Frederica French Generall Gentlemen Georgia in America Gloster govern'r Governour Grant hand hath haue Heirs and Successors hereby honour House howse Indians Ingram Inhabitants James James Oglethorpe Jamestown John Desborough King Labour Land Laws Letters Patent likewise live Lord Majesty Majesty's meanes Miles Money Name Nation Negroes Number oath Oglethorpe PETER FORCE Place Plantations planted Planters poor Pounds Pounds Sterling present Province of Carolina Province of Georgia Provisions Publick Purchasers Reason River Savannah sent Servants setled settled Settlement shew Ships Silk sort soulders South-Carolina Spaniards Subjects Tail Male thing Thomas Thomas Christie Thousand tion Town Trade tryall Twenty unto Virginia vpon whereof William Woods York River
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