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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Minutes of the Board of Trade of England [Extract]
England. Board of Trade
June 29, 1702 - July 28, 1702
Volume 01, Pages 557-558

[B. P. R. O. B. T. Journals. Vol. 15. P. 109.]


Whitehall June 29th 1702

At a Meeting of H. M. Comrs for Trade & Plants
Present
Lord Visct Weymouth
Mr Cecil
Sir Ph. Meadows.
Mr Blathwayt
Mr Pollexfen
Mr Prior
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Whitehall July 28th 1702

Mr Archibald Hutcheson attending with Mr Johnson and acquainting the Board that the said Johnson is in present possession of an estate at Keeblesworth in the Bishoprick of Durham worth £200 per annum which Sir Nath. Johnson his father (who was only Tenant for life) has made over to him which he said was known to Mr William Bridges and Mr Overton and therefore he thought the said Johnson might be accepted as one of the sureties for his said father Sir Nathaniel And Mr Johnson offering Mr Thomas Carey a Carolina Merchant for the other They

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were acquainted that the security ought to be lodged in the Treasury and that as soon as the form of the Bond was agreed they should have notice of it.