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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 1, 1574-1660. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1860.

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December 1633



Dec. 2.	Minutes of a Court for Providence Island. Mr. Ball admitted an adventurer. Letters read from Association from Capt. Camock, of 3rd Oct. last, and from Capt. Hilton. Various debts ordered to be paid. Mr. Treasurer being sued by the Attorney Gen. for remaining in town, ordered that the Company petition the King for tho Treasurer's stay in London, as their affairs would be greatly prejudiced should he be forced to remove to the country. Thos. Dew, accused by Capt. Hilton of mutiny in Association, directed to prepare his answer against next meeting. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 118–19.]
Dec. 6.	88. Minute of the Council for New England. Division of part of the lands comprised in the patent of Piscataqua agreed to.
Dec. 6.	Minutes of a Court for Providence Island. A day appointed, upon Dr. Rand's application, for examination of Mr. Hart's account of goods received from Capt. Hilton. Payment to Mr. Craven, one of the owners of the Charity, for wages due to Wil. Craven, a mariner. Thos. Dew denied Capt. Hilton's accusation of an intention to run away from Association; 500lbs. of tobacco, brought by him in the Dainty, ordered to be given up to him upon certain conditions. [Colonial Entry Bk., Vol. III., pp. 119–20.]
1633?	89. Answer of Thomas Babb, merchant, to the Bill of Complaint of George Rolfe. That he took over Barbara Rolfe to New England at her father's request, because by no fair means could she be persuaded to follow a civil and orderly course of life. Rolfe refuses to pay him the expenses incurred on her behalf, including 27s. disbursed by one Trelawny, for the necessary occasions of Barbara, whose loose behaviour in New England forced him to be at the charge of transporting her to another plantation.