Dinsmore Documentation  presents  Classics of American Colonial History

Author: Guttridge, G. H.
Title: The Colonial Policy of William III in America and the West Indies
Citation: London: Cambridge University Press, 1922
Subdivision:Appendices
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Appendix A. Bibliography
Appendix B. The Despatch of Troops to New York, 1693-5
Appendix C. Population of Colonies, 1689

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APPENDIX A

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following are the principal authorities which have been found useful on the subject:

I. BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANDREWS, C. M. and DAVENPORT. Guide to the Material for American History in the British Museum, near London archives, and the Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge.

ANDREWS, C. M. and DAVENPORT. Guide to the Material for American History in the Public Record Office.

NEWTON, A. P. The Study of Colonial History.

II. CONTEMPORARY AUTHORITIES

[The list is here small, on account of the preponderating importance of the Colonial State Papers, which include the bulk of correspondence and records for the period.]

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Archives of Maryland (Maryland Historical Society Publications).

BACON. Essays.

BREWSTER, F. Essays on Trade.

BURNET. History of My Own Time. Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series (America and West Indies). (Ed. Fortescue and Headlam for 1685-1702.)

Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series.

CHILD, J. A New Discourse on Trade.

COBBETT. Parliamentary History of England.

HENING. Statutes of Virginia.

Journals of the House of Commons.

MOLL, HERMAN. Atlas.

MUN, T. England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade.

O’CALLAGHAN. Documentary History of New York.

SAMSON. Atlas Nouveau, 1696.

Select Tracts (1029 E 15 in British Museum Reading Room Catalogue).

Statutes at Large (Reign of William III).


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III. SECONDARY AUTHORITIES

(a) Works on various aspects of Colonial Policy

ANDREWS, C. M. The Colonial Period.

BEER, G. L. Origins of the British Colonial System.

BEER, G. L. Old Colonial System, 2 vols.

BEER, G. L. Commerical Policy of England towards the American Colonies.

CUNNINGHAM, W. Growth of English Industry and Commerce.

DICEY and RAIT. Thoughts on the Union between England and Scotland.

DICKERSON, O. M. American Colonial Government, 1696-1765.

EGERTON, H. E. A Short History of British Colonial Policy.

EGERTON, H. E. Colonial Administration of Crown Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (Royal Historical Society Transactions, 4th Series, Vol. I, pp. 190 et seq.).

GREENE, E. B. The Governor in the English Colonies in America.

GREENE, E. B. Provincial America.

LEROY-BEAULIEU. De la Colonisation chez les Peuples Modernes.

POWNALL, T. Administration of the Colonies.

SEELEY, J. R. Expansion of England.

SMITH, ADAM. Wealth of Nations.

(b) Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography is of use for members of the Councils of Trade, and for one or two outstanding characters such as Phips.

TOPPAN, R. N. Edward Randolph. (7 vols.)

(c) Histories of the Colonies generally and of separate Colonies

BARROW. Naval History of Great Britain.

BOWDEN, J. History of the Friends in America.

BRUCE, P. A. Economic History of Virginia. Institutional History of Virginia in the 17th Century (2 vols.).

Cambridge Modern History. Vol. vii.

CHANNING. History of the United States.

CLARKSON, T. Memoirs of William Penn.

CUNDALL, F. Studies in Jamaica History.

DOYLE, J. A. The English in America (3 vols.).

FISHER, S. G. Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times (2 vols.).

FISKE, J. Beginnings of New England.

FISKE, J. Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America.

FISKE, J. Old Virginia and her neighbours.

GARDNER, W. J. History of Jamaica.

HART, A. B. The American Nation: a History (especially ANDREWS, C. M. Colonial Self-Government).

HIGHAM, C. S. S. Development of the Leeward Islands (1660-1689).

HILDRETH. History of the United States.


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HUGHES, T. History of the Jesuits in North America (4 vols.).

HUTCHINSON, T. History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

JEFFREY, R. W. History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.

LATANÉ, J. H. Early Relations of Virginia and Maryland.

LONG, E. History of Jamaica (3 vols.).

LUCAS, C. P. The West Indies (Historical Geography of the British Colonies).

MACPHERSON. Annals of Commerce.

OLIVER, V. L. History of Antigua.

OSGOOD, H. L. The American Colonies in the 17th century (3 vols.).

PARKMAN. (‘The French in Canada’ series, especially Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV).

PENSON, L. M. The London West India Interest in the Eighteenth Century (Historical Review, July 1921).

PITMAN, F. W. Development of the British West Indies.

POLLARD, A. F. The British Empire.

RAPER, C. L. N. Carolina.

RICKMAN. Rhode Island (American Commonwealth Series).

SANBORN. New Hampshire (American Commonwealth Series).

SCHOMBURGK. History of Barbados.

SMITH, W. R. South Carolina as a Royal Province.

TYLER, L. G. The English in America.

VAN RENSSELAER. History of the City of New York.

WINSOR, J. History of America (7 vols.).

APPENDIX B

THE DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO NEW YORK 1693-5

An illustration of Administrative Method

(The references in brackets are to the Calendar of State Papers,
Colonial Series, 1693-6.)

1693.Dec. The King in Council orders 2 companies of 100 men each, and sufficient recruits to make the existing 2 companies up to 100 each, to be forthwith raised and sent to New York (754).
1694.April. A Warrant is obtained for the 4 Companies, and for a chaplain, surgeon, storekeeper, armourer and two matrosses to be maintained out of the surplusage due to the 30% difference between English and New York money. (Each company to consist of I Captain, 2 Lieutenants, 3 Sergeants, 3 Corporals, 2 Drummers, 100 Men.) (998.)
The King orders haste (1023).
May. Council of Trade inquire what shipping has been taken, and if it will be ready (1060).
The Admiralty direct the Navy Board to provide transport for 340 men (1063-4).
The Victualling Board ask for numbers (1069).
(By this time 50 men have been raised (1070)).


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June. The Ordnance Board is interviewed about bedding (1077-80). The Council of Trade now inquires how many men can be sent off at once, as if they wait for the full number, the convoying ships and the merchant fleet will have gone (1079).
A Certificate of Arms wanting is sent to the Ordnance Board (1104)
The question is now raised whether the troops will have to go by Boston (1170).
July. The Victualling Board has had no reply to its question how many men are to be provided for (1168).
A warrant is now issued for the Hope to take two companies (1171).
August. The troops on their way to the place of embarkation are quartered in Petersfield Church, and a quarrel arises about damages and defilement between the military authorities and the town (1190, 1218).
November. The companies return to England after three months of hardship, sickness and loss in engagement with French privateers at sea. Of the 152 soldiers and 21 hands, not 40 had escaped a ‘strange kind of illness, complaining much of their heads and backs’ (1470, 1524).
1695.June. The troops arrive in New York from Boston (1902).

APPENDIX C

The population of the various colonies at the time of the revolution (1689) was approximately as follows:

Massachusetts, Maine and Plymouth   48,000
Rhode Island5,000
New Hampshire6,000
Connecticut20,000
79,000
New York20,000
New Jersey10,000
Pennsylvania12,000
42,000
Maryland20,000
Virginia58,000
78,000
Carolina5,000
5,000
204,000

(See Channing, History of the United States, p. 222 n.)

Of the West Indian Islands:

Barbados had in 1683, 17,187 free persons and 46,602 slaves; in 1712-14, 12,538 free persons and 41,970 slaves. (See Pitman, Development of Brit. West Indies. Appendix.)

Jamaica had in 1673, 8,564 whites and 9,504 negroes; by 1703 the negroes had increased to 45,000. (See Long, History of Jamaica, 1, p. 370.)

The Leeward Islands had in 1678, 4,769 white men, 3,227 negroes. (See Higham, Development of Leeward Islands, p. 148.)


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