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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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English settlements on St. Vincent's island are advancing with vigor, producing over 100 hhds. of sugar last season and expecting ten times more next year. Commissioners are selling remaining Crown lands at varying prices per acre. New plantations are improving, and a civil government has been established similar to other English islands.
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Above 100 hhds. of sugar have been made on it this last season, and it is supposed above ten times as much will be produced next year.
That the commissioners for disposing of the Crown lands in the new ceded islands, having finished that business at Dominica, had come down to St. Vincent's a short time before Capt. Darrell left it, and were upon disposing of the remainder of the land that was left unsold before.
Lands near the chief town had last year sold at above 50l. sterling an acre; the best of those in the remote parts of the island now sold at about 25l. an acre; and the rocky and mountainous parts, with nothing but woods and stones on them, sold from about 3 to 5l. an acre, according to the situation thereof; and great numbers of new plantations were every day improving, with all possible diligence.
A civil government was lately established there, in the same manner as it has heretofore been in the other English islands, and every measure taken to render the inhabitants as secure and free as any other of his Majesty's subjects.
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St. Vincent's
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over 100 hhds. of sugar produced last season, expected to increase tenfold next year; lands sold at 50l. to 5l. per acre; new plantations improving; civil government established for security and freedom.
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English settlements on St. Vincent's proceed with life and vigour, bidding fair to be one of the most flourishing islands in the West Indies. Commissioners finished business at Dominica and arrived at St. Vincent's to dispose of remaining unsold Crown lands. Great numbers of new plantations improving daily.