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| [1679.] |
1247. State of the Narragansett country as to Government and
Propriety. Narragansett is country situated between Pocatack or
Narragansett river and Narragansett bay on the borders of Rhode
Island and Connecticut. In 1644 the Sachems, owners of this
country, surrendered themselves to the late King's protection; in
1662 letters patents of corporation were granted to Connecticut,
whose bounds are described to be between Hudson's river and
Narragansett bay, which include the Narragansett country. In
1663 another charter of corporation was granted to Rhode Island,
likewise including the Narragansett country by a clause mentioning
the consent of the Connecticut agents to the straightening of their
bounds in favour of Rhode Island by the exclusion of the
Narragansett country. Differences arising between the several
colonies, Commissioners were sent over in 1665 with powers to hear
and determine appeals and to decide disputes concerning boundaries,
on whose arrival two sachems of the Narragansett country
surrendered themselves to the King's protection, delivering the
deed made in 1644; whereupon the Commissioners entered on the
province in the King's name and called it the King's Province,
ordering the Rhode Island magistrates to be justices of the peace
till the King's pleasure should be further known. Matters rested
thus till 1676, when the Indians making war on the English were
totally destroyed, whereupon several persons of divers colonies
laid claim to the propriety of several parcels of land in the
Narragansett country, as purchased or conquered of the Indians,
and Connecticut took the government on itself. On complaints
made to the King in 1678 in behalf of Rhode Island, the King in
February 1678/9 wrote letters to the several colonies commanding
that all things relating to the King's province should be left in the
same state they then were until further order, and that all
pretenders to the soil or government should send over agents to
make their right appear to the King. In answer to these letters
the Joint Deputies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Connecticut
replied that the Narragansett country is included in the charter of
Connecticut and so regularly under that government, and represent
the difficulties in making out the claim of private persons. A
petition has been received from the inhabitants of the Narragansett
country beseeching that an end may be put to the differences
about the Government and complaining of the usages of both
Connecticut and Rhode Island. It is therefore proposed that a
Commission be sent of fit and impartial persons empowering them
to examine and report on the respective titles of His Majesty and
the two colonies. The next clause is noted in the margin as
"left out" in the fair copy. All which will more at large appear
by the letters and papers sent to Mr. Attorney and SolicitorGeneral by the Committee for Plantations and by their report
thereon. Draft, with a few corrections. 3 pp. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XLIII., No. 183.] |
| [1679.] |
1248. Letter of the King to New England appointing Daniel
Whitfield, Collector of Customs, and directing the observance of
the Navigation Acts. Endorsed, This letter was not sent nor the
officer named in it. 3 pp. [Col. Papers, Vol. XLIII., No. 184.] |
|
1249. Abstract of the records of all grants of land that have
been made in South Carolina in the year 1679 in continuation of
those abstracted in 1678 (see ante, No. 857). |
|
Persons Names to whom granted. |
Number of Acres. |
In what County, Parish, or Township, or in what River or Creek situated. |
Date of Grant. |
|
Richard Medlin |
200 |
|
4 June 1679. |
|
Sir Peter Collecton |
4,423 |
|
6 September 1679. |
|
William Page |
200 |
On Ashley River |
6 September 1670. |
|
Mary Benson |
270 |
On Ashley River |
8 March 1679. |
|
Edward Mayoe |
750 |
On Ashley River |
9 August 1679. |
|
John Pristo, Samuel Trott,
and Pryant (Perient)
Trott |
770 |
On Stono River |
14 August 1679. |
|
John Stephens |
80 |
On Wappoe River |
2 April 1679. |
|
Thomas Buttler |
450 |
On Ashley River |
31 January 1679. |
|
Benjamin Andrews and
Elizabeth Brunt |
270 |
On Ashley River |
14 June 1679. |
|
[Col. Entry Bk., Vol. XXIII., pp. 1–4.] |
| [1679.] |
1250. Abstract of Commission and Instructions given to Lord
Carlisle as Governor of Jamaica (see ante, No. 618), stating wherein
they differ from those given to Lord Vaughan. [Col. Papers,
Vol. XLIII., No. 185.] |
1679.
Barbadoes. |
1251. Account of the receipts of His Majesty's Customs for six
months from July to December 1679, with the time of the ships
entrings and time and place of their clearings. Certified by Edwyn
Stede, Collector, and signed by Archibald Carmichael, SurveyorGeneral and Comptroller, 20th March 1680. Endorsed, "Rec
3 June 1680." [Col. Entry Bk., Vol. IX., No. 2.] |
