PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. 105 



No. Ill — (Continued). 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1653-54. 



1682 .. 



1686 

 1697 .. 

 1702 .. 



1753 

 1759 .. 



1765 .. 



Pettipolee, 

 (Continued). 



(2.) Dissolved (Bruce i, 484). 



(3.) Noted as existing, 21st July (Local 

 Records). 



(4.) Dissolved again (Bruce ii, 572). 



(5. Re-settled (Bruce ii, 206). 



(6.) 2nd July. — The factory is entered in 

 the " Quinque-partite Indenture of Con- 

 veyance of the Dead Stock of the two 

 East India Companies," but it was pro- 

 bably soon after dissolved, as there is 

 no further mention of it in the Local 

 Records. 



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the Nizam, as part of the Northern 

 Circars. 



(8.) 14th May. — As part of the Nizam- 

 patam Circar bestowed on the English 

 by Salabat Jang, Nizam (Aitchison, 

 vol. v, Treaties). ( Vide Acq. No. XXXI). 



(9.) August 12th. — Grant confirmed by 

 the Mogul's farman. 







No. IV. 



1621-22. 



1628 .. 



1632 .. 



1689 .. 



1690 .. 



Masulipatam, 

 Factory of. 



The chief town and port of the Kistna 

 District. 



(1.) Factory established (Bruce i, 239). 

 Note. — The first English vessel that 

 traded at Masulipatam alias Metclepat- 

 nam arrived there 31st August 1611 

 (vide Note (1) under Pettipolee). 



(2.) Removal to Armagon owing to exac- 

 tions of local Governor, one factor being 

 left behind to collect debts, 27th Sep- 

 tember (Bruce i, 291). 



(3.) November. — Factory re-established 

 under the " Golden Phurmaund" of the 

 King of Golconda. 



(4.) Factory seized by the local Governor 

 owing to the rupture between Aurangzeb 

 and the Company (Bruce ii, 650). 



(5.) Cowle for the factory renewed. — 

 Farmdn dated 28th December from 

 Zulfakar Khan, the Mogul General 

 (Local Records). 



Factory 

 only. 



Nil. 



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