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A letter to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, concerning the advantage of Gilbraltar to the trade of Great-Britain. With some proposals to render that place more useful. By a Turkey merchant. To which is prefix'd, a chart of the Mediterranean Sea.
Beaver, John.Date: [1720]
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The defence of Robert Hodgson, Esq. late superintendant, agent, and commander in chief of the Mosquito shore. Humbly addressed to the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade and Plantations. In answer to the complaints against him from sundry Inhabitants of the British Settlement there.
Hodgson, Robert, 1714 or 1715-1793.Date: Printed in the Year 1779
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Copies and extracts of several news papers printed in New England, in the months of September, October, and November, 1765, and referred to in the letters transmitted from Francis Bernard, Esq; governor of the Massachusett's Bay, to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
Date: 1765]
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An historical discourse on the civil and religious affairs of the Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations in New-England in America. From the first settlement in 1638, to the end of the first century. By John Callender, A.M. [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Callender, John, 1706-1748.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]
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We the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.
United States.Date: 1787]
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To the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade and Plantations. The reply of His Majesty's subjects, the principal inhabitants of the Mosquito-shore, in America, for themselves, and on behalf of all others residing there, ... to the printed pamphlet, intitled, "The defence of Robert Hodgson, ...
White, Robert, active 1781-1793.Date: 1780
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The representaion and memorial of the council of the island of Jamaica, to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. Together with the addresses of the governor and council, and town of Kingston; and association of the principal inhabitants. With a preface, by Mr. Wood.
Jamaica. Legislature. Legislative Council.Date: 1716
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To the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade and Plantations. Supplement to the reply of his Majesty's subjects, the principal inhabitants of the Mosquito-Shore, in America, for themselves, and on behalf of all others, residing there, ... To the printed pamphlet, intitled, "The defence of Robert Hodgson, ...
White, Robert, active 1781-1793.Date: 1780]
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A short answer to an elaborate pamphlet, entitled, The Importance of the sugar plantations, &c. Compos'd of many Words, much Malice, very little Argument, and abundance of False Reasoning. Shewing, That the Bill now depending for Prohibiting the Commerce carried on between our Northern Colonies, and the Foreign Sugar Plantations, tends to the impoverishing and ruin of those Colonies; the weakening of the Power of the English Empire in those Parts; and the Damage and Loss of Great Britain; and would put it in the power of our Sugar Plantations to make us pay them what Price they please for their Sugars. In a letter to a noble peer.
Date: M.DCC.XXXI. [1731]
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February, 1800. At the General Assembly of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment at Providence, within and for the state aforesaid, on the last Monday in February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and in th twenty-fourth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1800]
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June, 1800. At the General Assembly of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden by adjournment at Newport, within and for the state aforesaid, on the second Monday in June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and in the twenty-fourth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1800]
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Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates; for a grant of lands on the River Ohio, in North America; for the purpose of erecting a new government. With observations and remarks.
Great Britain. Board of Trade.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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A concise view of England; describing the situation, extent, boundaries, circumference, soil, product, chief rivers, hundreds, boroughs, and parishes, of the several Counties of England and Wales: together with a descriptive catalogue of their most remarkable Antiquities, Remains of Palaces, Monasteries, Castles, Houses, Parks, Plantations, Scenes, and delightful Situations, worthy a traveller's notice, Pointing out the Curiosities both of Art and Nature.
Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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Directions for raising flax: originally published by order of the Commissioners and Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures, and Improvements, in Scotland; and now re-printed by order of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, For the Benefit and Instruction of Those Farmers who may cultivate Flax, And Become Intitled to the Bounties granted on that Article, By a Late Act of Parliament.
Great Britain. Commissioners and Trustees for Improving Fisheries and Manufactures in Scotland.Date: 1781
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February, 1779. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden (by adjournment) at East-Greenwich, within and for the state aforesaid, on the last Monday in February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1779]
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The universal gardener and botanist: or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in Botanical Arrangement, according to the Linnaean System, The various Genera and Species of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, and Fruits, that merit Culture for Use, Ornament and Variety, in the different Departments of Gardening, Plantations, Shrubberies, Nursery, Green-House, Hot-House or Stove, Forcing-House, Hot-Walls, and Hot-Beds: describing the Botanic Classes, Orders, and Characters of the Genera, with General and Specific Descriptions of the Species of each Genus; their respective and general Uses, different Methods of Propagation, and General Culture, in their several Departments. Comprising accurate Directions, according to real Practice, for the Management of the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Nursery, Plantations, Green-House, Hot-House, or Stove, Hot-Beds, Forcing-Frames, Hot-Walls, and Forcing in general. Describing the General Plans and Formation of the several Gardening Districts and Departments, as above; with distinct Arrangements, and general Descriptions of the various tribes of Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Fruits, adapted to each different Department; and Explanations of the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, Composts, various Garden Materials, and principal Utensils; together with full Directions for performing all the Practical Operations of Gardening in general, both in the various Methods of Propagation and Culture of the numerous Plants, and in the Management of every Garden District, and the various relative Plantations. By Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1797
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May, 1784. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden at Newport, within and for the state aforesaid, on the first Wednesday in May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and in the eighth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1784?]
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October, 1780. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations, begun and holden at Providence, within and for the state aforesaid, on the fourth Monday in October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and in the fifth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1789]
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May, 1796. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations, begun and holden at Newport, within and for the state aforesaid, on the first Wedneday in May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and in the twentieth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: 1796]
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October, 1779. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, begun and holden at South-Kingstown, within and for the state aforesaid, on the last Monday in October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, and in the fourth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1782]
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May, 1783. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden at Newport, within and for the state aforesaid, on the first Wednesday in May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and in the seventh year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1785]
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October, 1784. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden at Providence, within and for the state aforesaid, on the last Monday in October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and in the ninth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1784]
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May, 1780. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, begun and holden at Providence, within and for the state aforesaid, on the first Wednesday in May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred an eighty, and in the fourth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1784?]
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July, 1780. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the state of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, begun and holden (by adjournment) at Providence, within and for the state aforesaid, on the first Monday in July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and in the fourth year of independence. ...
Rhode Island. General Assembly.Date: [1785]
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Representation of the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the consideration of All Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, upon the present state of the laws for regulating the importation and exportation of corn: And submitting to His Majesty's Consideration some further Provisions, which are wanting to amend and improve the said Laws.
Great Britain. Board of Trade.Date: [illegible] [1790]