• The Commissioners for Trade and Plantations was a body formed by the British Crown on 15 May 1696 to promote trade and to inspect and improve the plantations...
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  • had gained a more stable form. It was replaced by the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations in 1696. The following people were appointed on 12 March...
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    of) Governor Murray's Letter, March 2 1765 to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations," C002/A1 Administration, Province of Quebec 1763-1798...
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    appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, but is commonly known as the Board of Trade, and formerly known...
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    Indies: Volume 45, 1739. (See rationale for Six Nations presents in "522 Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to Committee of Privy Council") Accessed...
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    Yarak, Asante and the Dutch, 1744–1873 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), 133–172. Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, Vol. 9 (London:...
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    in Halifax, and even more so in small unprotected settlements With Anglo-French hostilities ended, Commissioners for Trade and Plantations find it "neither...
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  • Richard Jackson (colonial agent) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    Official Solicitor or counsel of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, owner of lands in New England, and colonial agent of Connecticut. Jackson...
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  • letter to the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on February 22, 1737, requesting them to consider Wimble's petition for compensation for the losses...
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    or plantation in America, may, from time to time, be put under the management and direction of such commissioners, to reside in the said plantations, as...
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  • act of Parliament, and during the Long Parliament, movement began in that direction. The Ordinance for Free Trade with the plantations in New England was...
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    Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 38, 1731. Accessed 19 May 2021 "87 Representation of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to the House of...
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    until 1909. Slavery and slave trade existed in the Zanzibar Archipelago for thousands of years. When clove and coconut plantations became a big industry...
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    molasses trade. Merchants purchased raw sugar (often in its liquid form, molasses) from plantations in the Caribbean and shipped it to New England and Europe...
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    the Seven Years' War in 1758. The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (or simply the Board of Trade) in London through much of the 1750s pressured...
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    Quarterly. 61 (4): 295–307. JSTOR 40580411. Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations From January 1764 to December 1767. London: His Majesty's...
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  • copy of Salling's journal to the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations in London, together with a draft of Fry and Jefferson's map. Geographer John...
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    Thomas Walpole (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Ashburton)
    of the Marquis of Rockingham and his contemporaries, 149-151 Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations on the petition of the Honourable...
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    Maxwell Lyte, Henry Churchill (1920). Journal of the commissioners for trade and plantations... H.M.S.O. Maxwell Lyte, Henry Churchill (1920). The Book...
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    William Gerard Hamilton (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    Irish parliament. In 1756 he was appointed one of the commissioners for trade and plantations, and in 1761 he became chief secretary to Lord Halifax, the...
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    with representatives of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. The majority of slaves imported were between 10 and 24 years old, 14 percent were...
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    The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the...
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    for improvements to the colony's fortifications to the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. Beginning in 1701, Crowe pursued a political career, being...
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    (1772), pgs. 50-7. Accessed 7 June 2022 "Report of Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations Relative to the State of the Province of Quebec" (July...
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  • Daniel Pulteney (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    Customs, and Lucy Colville. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1699. He was one of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations between...
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    to the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations. In proprietary colonies, the judges were appointed by colonial governors and thus represented the royal...
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    Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall)
    Cornwall. From 1760 until 1776, Edward was one of the eight Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, and in 1775 he again became Receiver General of the Duchy...
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    standing. In his petitions to the Board of Trade and Plantations for the settlement of Nova Scotia plantations, for instance, he demonstrated an ability to...
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  • JSTOR 23529537. Journal of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations 1704-82, Volume 6, p136. William L. Saunders (ed); Colonial and State Records of North...
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    Lords Commissioner for Trade and Plantations', so an alternative scheme offered by 'The Board of Trade' was taken up, late in 1764, and in revision came...
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