Catalogue description Papers (with a few letters) relating to the government of the North American Settlements...

Papers (with a few letters) relating to the government of the North American Settlements and Plantations during the time Sir T. Thynne Lord Weymouth was one of the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations.

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1. Address to Rt. Hon. Edward [Hyde] Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor from Francis Moryson "in the behalf of Virginia. Undated. Signed. f.1.

2. "A trwe and humble Representation of the management of Virginias concerns seince committed to the Representors Care". Signed "Francis Moryson" Undated. Autogr. f.3.

3. Extracts from Records "of his Majesties Instruccons to the Governor" of Virginia. Temp. Charles II. f.5.

4. "A brief Narrative of the Proceedings of William Penn" Undated. f.10.

5. "Reasons of State concerning Maryland". n.d. f.12.

6. "A letter from New England": Boston, Nov. 1. 1694. Printed. f.14.

7. The accounts of "his Excellency the late [Richard Cooke] Earl of Bellomont ... of her Maties Forces in the Province of New yorke with the pay office in England": 1697-1701. ff. 18-49.

8. Proclamation for erecting the Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. 1701. Printed. f.50.

9. "Governor Capt. John Nanfan's accompt of Subsistence, etc. for the forces in New York: 1701-2. ff.52-72.

Admiralty Suit v. Thomas Weaver esq. Collector for Province of New York etc. and W. Atwood concerning certain mal-practices etc. at New York, ending with their suspension: 1701-2. ff.74,104-165,210,217.

11. A Conference between Edward [Hyde] Viscount Cornbury, Capt. General and Governor in Chief of New York, held at Albany with "the Indians of the five Nations in Alience with the Crown of England and other Far Indians and also with some French Indians from Canada", 9 July,- 19 Aug. 1702. f.81.

12. "Minutes and Orders of the Council of the Province of New York" passed in Jan. - May 1701-2. f.166.

13. Addresses to Viscount Cornbury, Gov. of New York in 1702 from (a) the Justices of Peace and Military Officers of the County of Suffolk [Nassau]. ff.188,221: (b) Freeholders, etc. of King's County on Nassau Island, f.190: (c) Mayor, Aldermen etc. of the City of New York, f.194: (d) Freeholders, etc. of Queen's County, N.Y. f.196: (e) Freeholders of the County of West Chester, f.198: (f) Freeholders of County of Albany. f.200: (g) Richmond County, f.202: (h) County of Ulster. f.204,206: (i) the Ministers, etc. of the French Church of New York. f.208: (k) City or Albany, with names of Mayor and Corporation. f.211: (1) the Quakers of N. York. f.219: (m) the Province of New York. f.223: (n) the Rectors, Churchwardens etc. of Trinity Church N. York with names. f.225.

14. Speech of Col. Francis Nicholson, Governor of the Virginia Isles to the Assembly at Williamsburgh: 14 Aug. 1702.

With Journal of the Assembly in Virginia, 1703. ff.227-236.

15. "An Account of the Value of all East India Goods exported from England to other Countrys in Distinct years from Xmas 1698 to Xmas 1702": for Lord Weymouth. f.237.

16. Letters from John Ulster, Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire to Lord Weymouth, and the other Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, complaining of disobedience of certain of the Forces: Dec. 1703. ff.244-248.

17. Report on New England, headed "New England all under Charter Government Excepting New Hampshire" n.d. f.250.

18. Minutes of the Board of Trade and Plantations relating to various New England settlements, 1704. ff.258 264,267,272,282,287,297,300,302,305.

19. Abstract of letter from Col. Seymour, Governor of Maryland to the Board of Trade, etc. 23 May, 1704. f.271.

20. Abstract of letter from Sir Bevill Granville, Governor of Barbadoes to the Board of Trade, etc. 24 May, 1704. f.275.

21. Abstract of letter from Col. Nicholson, Governor of Virginia to the Board: 31 May, 1704. f.276.

22. [Edward Hyde, Lord] Cornbury, to the Lords Commissioners of Trade, etc. New York, 19 Feb. 1704[5]. f.313.

23. An Account of the Invasion of South Carolina by the French and Spaniards in August, 1706. f.315.

24. Loyal Addresses to King [William III.] and the Parliament from his "Protestant subjects in your Plantation of New York", with several hundred names arranged under Counties Undated. ff.320-326.