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Virginia to the Board of Trade, 1720-1726 [electronic resource], 1710-1725

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Virginia
Published
Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
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59 items
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Virginia. Council, Great Britain. Board of Trade, National Archives (Great Britain), and Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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Account of His Majesty's revenue from the 25th April 1721 to the 25th April 1722 -- Affidavit of Alexander Bradford, Chief Mate of the 'Callabar Merchant', relating to that ship's being plundered by pirates -- Affidavit of Captain Thomas Kennedy of the 'Callabar Merchant' relating to the ship's being plundered by pirates, certified by the Mayor of Bristol -- Anonymous proposal for planting hemp in Virginia etc. for sending over foreign Protestants for that purpose -- Copy of a commission for Hugh Drysdale Esq., to be Lieutenant Governor of Virginia -- Copy of a letter from Major Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, complaining of several exorbitant grants of land by Colonel Spotswood -- Copy of a letter from Virginia to a merchant at Bristol relating to the conduct of Colonel Spotswood in taking great quantity of lands to himself, where there are iron mines -- Copy of Mr Auditor Walpole's objections against an act passed in Virginia in 1720 for discovering and securing His Majesty's quitrents -- Copy of Mr. Jones', Mr. Clayton's and Mr. Hickman's patent in trust for Colonel Spotswood, for 40,000 acres of land in Spotsylvania County -- Copy of an order in Council referring a report from this Board upon an address of the Council and Burgesses of Virginia to a committee of Council -- Extract of an act passed at Virginia in 1710, entitled an act for settling the titles and bounds of lands, and for preventing unlawful shooting and ranging thereupon -- Extract of His Majesty's commission and instructions to the Earl of Orkney for the government of Virginia -- Extract of a letter from Colonel Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, to Mr. Secretary Craggs, in behalf of Captain Kennedy, Commander of the ship 'Callabar Merchant' of Bristol, which had been plundered by pirates, and brought some Negroes to Virginia, where they were seized -- Extract of a letter from Virginia to Mr Richard Harris -- Letter from Captain Hyde and several other merchants in relation to the building a lighthouse at Cape Henry in Virginia -- Letter from Colonel Spotswood recommending Mr. John Carter, a barrister of law in the Middle Temple and a native of Virginia, to be solicitor for the colony in the room of Colonel Blakiston deceased -- Letter from Colonel Spotswood, late Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, enclosing a copy of a letter to the deputy auditor of His Majesty's revenues in Virginia -- Letter from Colonel Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, to the Board, enclosing addresses to the King and Governor -- Letter from Colonel Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, with an account of quitrents and His Majesty's revenue -- Letter from Colonel Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, with a copy of a bill prepared for explaining and amending the act for regulating the election of burgesses -- Letter from Colonel Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, with a copy of a bill prepared for explaining and amending the act for regulating the election of burgesses, speeches at the opening and conclusion of the session of General Assembly, and accounts of His Majesty's quitrents --, Letter from the Earl of Orkney, Governor of Virginia, recommending Mr. John Carter to be of the Council there in the room of Colonel Bassett deceased -- Letter from Hugh Drysdale, enclosing accounts of His Majesty's revenue, reasons for the better securing the frontier of Virginia, and three proclamations from 1722 -- Letter from Hugh Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, enclosing the Governor's speech to the Assembly and the Council and Assembly's addresses to the Governor -- Letter from the Lord Carteret referring to the Board an address from the Council and burgesses of Virginia -- Letter from the Lord Carteret referring to the Board the extract of a letter from Colonel Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, relating to the ship 'Callabar Merchant', which had been plundered by pirates and brought some Negros given by the said pirates into Virginia, where they were seized -- Letter from the Lord Orkney recommending John Grymes Esq, Receiver General of Virginia, to be of Council there -- Letter from Major Drysdale complaining of several exorbitant grants of land by Colonel Spotswood, enclosing an extract of the journal of Council relating to land licensed to be taken up in Spotsylvania County, a patent for 40,000 acres of land in Spotsylvania County and lists of land both granted by and belonging to Colonel Spotswood -- Letter from Major Drysdale, enclosing articles of peace made by Colonel Spotswood in 1722 with the Five Nations of Indians -- Letter from Major Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (17 Nov. 1725) -- Letter from Major Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, enclosing accounts and two proclamations proroguing the General Assembly and repealing an act for the better government of convicts etc. -- Letter from Major Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, enclosing accounts of His Majesty's revenue, four proclamations and an account of tobacco in Virginia -- Letter from Major Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, enclosing accounts of the revenue on tobacco, the produce of some pirates effects and quit rents, and copies of two proclamations proroguing the Assembly and prohibiting the exportation of corn -- Letter from Major Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, enclosing accounts of the revenue, three proclamations and depositions relating to pirates -- Letter from Mr Attorney General regarding several papers from Major Drysdale relating to several grants of land in Virginia to Colonel Spotswood -- Letter from Mr Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, to the Board, enclosing a list of papers, the address of the Council and Assembly regarding a conspiracy, and an account of the revenue of quitrents -- Letter from Mr Leheup, Agent from Virginia, desiring the confirmation of a Virginia act for the better improving the stable of tobacco -- Letter from Mr. Forward to the Secretary desiring the repeal of an act passed at Virginia in 1722 entitled An Act for Amending the Act Concerning Servants and Slaves and for the Better Government of Convicts --, and Letter from Mr. H. Walpole desiring a copy of an act of Assembly relating to the settling of two new counties in Virginia -- Letter from Mr. Harris in relation to an act of Virginia for laying a duty on liquors and slaves -- Letter from Mr. Lynn, Secretary to the African Company, desiring to be heard against an act of Virginia laying a duty on liquors and slaves -- Letter from Mr. Lynn, Secretary to the African Company, relating to a Virginia act for laying a duty on liquors and slaves -- Letter from Mr. Stanhope, one of the secretaries to the Lords of the Treasury, referring to this Board the memorial of the owners of the ship 'Callabar Merchant' of Bristol, representing that several of their Negros have been seized by Colonel Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia -- Lords Justices in Council concerning the rights and quitrents of the two new erected counties in Virginia -- Memorial from several Bristol merchants trading to Africa in relation to the Virginia act laying a duty on liquors and slaves -- Memorial of several merchants trading to Virginia and Africa against an act of Virginia for laying a duty on liquors and slaves -- Memorial of several merchants trading to Virginia in favour of a bill lately passed in that colony for laying a duty upon liquors and forty shilling a head upon slaves imported there -- Mr Attorney General's report upon several queries from Major Drysdale, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, in relation to some extravagant grants of land there -- Mr West's report upon three acts passed at Virginia in November 1720 -- Mr West's report upon two acts passed in Virginia for laying a duty on liquors and slaves and improving the staple of tobacco -- Mr. West's report upon an act passed in June 1722 for amending the act concerning servants and slaves and for the better government of convicts imported etc. -- Order in Council for Mr John Robinson to be in the Council in Virginia -- Order of a committee of Council referring to the Treasury the affair remitting the quitrents and purchasing of rights in two new counties -- Order of Council of the 29th January 1725 referring to the Board a petition from sea merchants of Bristol and the petition of Samuel Jacob -- Order of Peter Beverly Esq., to be of the Council in Virginia -- Orders of the Council for encouraging the settling of two new counties, repealing an act for the better discovery and security of the quit rents and repealing an act relating to servants and slaves and convicts imported -- Orders of Council proposing Mr Carter to be of the Council of that colony in the room of Mr Basset deceased, repealing the act laying a duty on liquors and slaves -- Petition from the Mayor etc. of Liverpool against an act of Virginia for laying a duty on Negroes -- Queries offered by Major Drysdale, for the better explaining the order of the Lords Justices concerning the lands in the new erected counties of Brunswick and Spotsylvania in Virginia.
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Volume title from publisher's website (resource viewed on 7 Oct. 2015)
Volume reference no.: CO 5/1319.
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The National Archives
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