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May 1727, 1-15
May 13.
Virginia.
552. iii. Proclamations by President Carter (i) 1st Feb., 1726(7), proroguing the Assembly to 11th May and (ii) 21st April, 1727, proroguing Assembly to 6th Sept. (iii) 21st April, 1727, for keeping a day of fasting, humiliation and intercession on 10th May, it having “pleased Almighty God for the punishment of our sins to afflict this Colony with a long and violent sickness and grievous mortality” etc. (iv) 26th April, 1727, offering reward of £10 for the apprehension of John Prowse, who last November at a horse-race on Maherine River did assault a Saponie Indian, setting fire to his cloths whilst he was asleep, so that he died etc. Signed, Robert Carter. Same endorsement. 2 ¾ large pp. [C.O. 5, 1320. ff. 153157v., 158v., 159, 160, 161, l6lv.]
From: ‘America and West Indies: May 1727, 1-15’, Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: 1726-1727, volume 35 (1936), pp. 271-286.
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