Source: The Southern Frontier (ID86)
Author: Crane, Verner (ID35)
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1706-04-19 - 1706-10-19
SC temporarily banned problem traders from entering Indian country
It was this affair [James Child trying to sell friendly Indians 1706], apparently, that led to the temporary act of April, 1706, to restrain traders charged with offenses from going into the Indian country, for the Commons promptly requested Johnson to apply the ban to Child. Similar charges against John Musgrove, John Pight, and Anthony Probat, traders, were ventilated in the assembly in 1706. The state of the trade had become notorious, and there were 'private whispers that the governor privately Encouraged these Kinds of Actions.'39 [Note 39: C.O. 5 :306, no. 4; JCHA, April 2, 9, November 23, December 20, 1706; Cooper (ed.), Statutes, II. 274 (act of April 19, 1706, enacted for six months).]
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