[72] C.O. 23, 2.

[73] C.O. 23, 2.

[74] C.O. 24, 1.

[75] C.O. 23, 2.

[76] Just a year after his death, an Order in Council directed the Treasury to complete the bargain for the purchase of the Proprietors and Lessees’ rights (C.O. 23, 3).

[77] C.O. 23, 3.

[78] Ibid.

[79] Ibid.

[80] About this time Rogers transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of Trade “A general account and description of the Bahamas,” a most important document, occupying 14 folio pages, which is still preserved among the Colonial Records in the Public Record Office (C.O. 23, 3).

[81] CO. 23, 3.