shipps

And when those shipps were a little way in the Sea, they cast their anchors, and there remained.

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Province Island, where the River is obstructed again, and the only Passage for shipps is commanded by a Fort of 18. 18.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 8 June 1777 1963

_ -- This cytty is compassed almost cleane round with the sea, which makes severall safe harbours for hundreds of shipps.

Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

At the same time there does exist a list of "shipps set forth and payde upon ye charge of ye city of London, anno 1588" (that is to say, the ships furnished by the city for that whole year), and that list contains the names of thirty ships, with the number of men on board each vessel and the names of the commanders. —

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She also speaks of Starcross, on the farther side of the river, 'where the Great shipps ride, and there they build some shipps.'

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

In this fleet, to our remembrance, arrived sixtie cowes and some swine; it was his care to dispatch those shipps and carvills fraighted (as aforesaid) to the neglect of workes of greater importance.

Colonial Records of Virginia Various

I do therefore humblie pray yow to deal withe my Lord Admirale for a letter to make seasure of all that which is come to London, either by his Lordship's octoretye or by the Judge: because I have a patent that all shipps and goods are confiscate that shall trade their without my leve.

Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina O. M. McPherson 1915

And this I the rather hint unto you, because the like, though in another waye, is sometimes practised in the king's shipps, when, in desperate cases, they blowe up the same.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

There remain some eight Regiments to be disbanded, but those all horse in a manner, and some seauenteen shipps to be payd of, that haue laid so long upon charge in the harbour, beside fourscore shipps which are reckoned to us for this Winter guard.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

Samboles, was very willing to goe upp with their shipps, so all concluded to goe upp to capt Lessones Carreeneing Key.

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898