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Jul 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/9/96

Some more names, this time from Bermuda and the PRO record
CO 37/3.

Thomas Burton to the Council of Trade and Plantations.

The Bermuda Islands have been very healthy since 1692, in which
year a violent and malignant fever took away more than one fourth
part of the people, but it is now very populous, I think more
than ever. There are now in the Island by the lists I have taken near
4000 souls. In the town, the guns lie dismounted for want of a
platform, the Sessions House, prison and Marshall's House ready to
tumble down, and no house for the Governor to live in. There are now
seven members of the Council:

Gilbert Nelson, Wm Outerbridge, Samuel Sherlocke, Richard
Peniston, John Brooke, Michael Burrowes, and Robert White.

Nine Justices of the Peace:

Thomas Burton, Gilbert Nelson, Wm Outerbridge, Samuel Sherlocke,
John Brooke, Samuel Harvey, William Tucker William Keele and
Thomas Forster.

The Island decays yearly and were it not for
fish of which there is an abundance, the Island could not subsist.

Thomas Burton was the Solicitor General in 1700.

Regards to all
Bob

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