Majestys interest to the discouragement of Industry and in many Instances to the apprehension of the Subject by the exaction of exorbitant & unreasonable fees. We are My Lords Your Lordships Most obedient and most humble Servants

I have received and laid before the King a Dispatch from Lord Dunmore of the 7th May N° 9

There is nothing in his Lordship's letter which requires any particular directions, but as he very properly urges the expediency of giving dispatch to the Consideration of the laws of the Colony, which he says would be a great satisfaction to his Majesty's subjects there, it is fit I should observe to you that the delay of which his Lordship seems to complain is principally to be attributed to the neglect of the proper Officers in the Colony in not preparing and transmitting in due time Transcripts of the laws under the seal; I must desire therefore that you will make a strict enquiry into the causes of this neglect & take such steps as you shall judge to be necessary for inducing a greater attention for the future in a matter of so great importance.

Inclosed I send you two orders of his Majesty in Council on the 7,b of last month, The one confirming and ratifying an Act passed in New York in January 1770, the other disallowing three Acts passed in the same session, and that you may know the reasons which have induced the disallowance of the said acts, I send you inclosed for your own information a Copy of the Representation of the Board of Trade thereupon

Governor of New York.

I am, &ca

HILLSBOROUGH.

THOMAS WHATELY, of the Inner Temple, was originally a protege of Mr. Grenvillc, who, when one of the Secretaries of State, appointed him his private secretary in 1762; and Joint Secretary of the Treasury in 1763, at which time he represented the borough of Ludgarshall, Wiltshire, iu Parliament. On the death of his patron, Mr. W. is accused of having gone over to Lord North; by the influence of Lord Suffolk, he was elected for the borough of Castle Rising, in Norfolk, and in January, 1771, was appointed one of the Lords of Trade. In January, 1772, he obtained the office of Keeper of the King's private roads, gates, bridges, and conductor of his person in all royal progresses; and when Lord Suffolk became Secretary of State for the Northern department, Mr. Whately was appointed one of the Under Secretaries. He died in June, 1772. Mr. Whately was a very profound politician as well as an industrious and very intelligent purveyor of news, as his numerous letters in the Grenville Papers show. In 1766, he published "Considerations on the Trade and Finances of this Kingdom, and on the measures of Administration with respect to those great National objects, since the Conclusion of the Peace." He was also author of a tract called, "Remarks on the Budget," in answer to Hartley's "Budget," and he wrote, besides, "An Essay on Design in Gardening." Chatham Correspondence; Grenville Paper). — Ed.

My Lord,

Earl of Dunmore to the Earl of Hillsborough.

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New York, the 9,h July 1771

Governor Tryon arrived here Yesterday and as he had not received my letter, which (in consequence of Your lordship's intimation) proposed the exchange between us. I made the offer to him in person, and communicated Your Lordship's letter upon that subject; he has not thought proper to acquiesce therein, but has taken upon him the Administration of this Government, and I shall with all diligence prepare myself to repair to that, which it has pleased his Majesty to appoint me, intreating that Your Lordship will represent to his Majesty that I should not have hesitated to pay immediate obedience to the Orders I received from Your Lordship, had I conceived that my services would prove more effectual in Virginia, than in New York; and I hope my zeal for his Majesty's service will enable me upon this, as well as on every future occasion, to give his Majesty the satisfaction which will ever be the object of my conduct, and I trust I shall be happy enough to secure to myself Your Lordships approbation, I am, My Lord,

To the Earl of Hillsborough.

Your Lordship's most obedient

humble Servant

DUNMORE

My Lord,

Governor Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborovgh.

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New York the 9th of July, 1771

In pursuance of his Majesty's Commands I embarked at Newbern in North Carolina the 30th of last Month and arrived in this Government the 7th Ins' The next morning I had the honour to receive his Majesty's Commission and Instructions from the Earl of Dunmore for my conduct and guidance in the Administration of the Government of New York, accordingly this morning I produced to his Lordship in Council, the said Commission and Instructions, took the oaths agreeable thereto, when his Lordship delivered me up the Great Seal of the Province.

The Gentlemen of the Council then present Qualified by taking the Oaths prescribed, after which I proceeded in procession to the Town Hall where my Commission was publickly read to a multitude of his Majesty's cheerfull and loyall Subjects.

I feel My Lord the warmest Gratitude for this fresh and most distinguished mark of my Sovereign's most gracious favor to me and shall endeavor to the utmost of my Abilities to deserve so highly honorable and important a Trust. I am, with the greatest respect, and regard,

My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient
humble Servant

Wm TRYON.

P. S. I had the satisfaction to meet Governor Martin1 in this Town who is recovering from a long indisposition. He sails in a few days for his Government of North Carolina.

Earl of Hillsborough.

No 2. My Lord,

Governor Tryon to the Earl of Hillsbormigh.

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Fort George, New York, the 5th August 1771

I have been honored with Your Lordship's dispatch, containing the Duplicate of N° 1 and original of No 2: the letter is now under the Consideration of the Gentlemen of the Council. Such of my General Instructions as I conceived affected the Council I ordered to be entered on the Minutes thereof. I have hitherto done no business of moment, receiving and returning the Civilities of the Country has been my chief employ. I herewith forward to Your Lordship the Addresses and Answers on the occasion of the honour his Majesty has done me in placing me in this part of his Dominions.

The following are the number of the public papers and letters of correspondence from your Lordship's Office which the Earl of Dunmore left under my care (1 had not the honor to see any that he wrote) Vidz

"Additional Instruction from his Majesty concerning the lands upon Lake Champlain bearing date 4,h December 1769.

Letter to Sir Henry Moore N° 33

Letters to Lieut. Governor Colden N° 38. 39. 40

Letter to Governor of New York N° 1

I purpose to meet the General Assembly in October next.

I thank Your Lordship for sending me the gratefull intelligence of her Majesty's Safe delivery of a Young prince, a circumstance very pleasing to his Majesty's Subjects in this Province. I am, my Lord, with the greatest respect, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Servant,

Wm Tryon.

■ Governor Josiah Mabtin was brother of Samuel Martin, M. P. for Camelford, Cornwall, England, who was Secretary of the Treasury in 1756, also Treasurer to the Princess Dowager of Wales, and who had distinguished himself by fighting a duel with, and wounding, the famous John Wilkes. Josiah entered the army in December, 1756, as Ensign of the 4th or King's own regiment of Foot. On the increase of the army in 1761 he was appointed Major in the 103d or Volunteer Hunters, and that regiment having been reduced soon after, he is afterwards found in the list of Lieutenant-Colonels until 1769. Army Lists. He entered on the administration of the affairs of North Carolina, on the 11th July, 1771, but unfortunately his predecessor had bequeathed him political difficulties in which he soon became involved, by the approach of the Revolution. In the fall of 1774, Governor Martin revisited New-York, and returned to North Carolina in February, 1775; a letter of his to General Gage, soliciting a supply of arms and ammunition, was shortly after intercepted, so finding himself suspected and insecure, he fled, on the 24th of April, 1775, to Fort Johnston, on the Cape Fear river. But the Whigs pursued, and drove him from the Fort, to the King's sloop of war, the Cruiser; from this ship, on the 8th of August, he issued a proclamation, which the Provincial Congress directed to be burnt by the common hangman. The battle of Moore's Creek, in which the Loyalists, under McDonald, were defeated and dispersed by Colonel Caswell, followed in February, 1776; and Governor Martin, embarking on board the fleet of Sir Peter Parker, arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, early in June of that year. He retired, subsequently, to New-York, and died at Rockaway, L. I., in November, 1778. His estate in North Carolina wos confiscated. Sabine; Martin't North Carolina. — ED.

P. S. The German Protestants (as appears by their address inclosed) are duly sensible of the honor done them by his Majesty's approbation of their offers to assist Government.

Earl Hillsborough.

N° 16. My Lord,

Sir William Johnson to the Earl of Hillsborough.

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Johnson Hall, August 9th 1771

I was lately honoured with Your Lordship's letter (N°16) which I delayed1 for some days that I might at the same time acquaint Your Lordship with the issue of a Congress I was then about to hold with the Six Nations which was occasioned by informations received by my Deputy at Fort Pitt from a Shawanese Indian and others. The substance of which was, that the Six Nations were concerned in exciting the Shawanese, Delawares, & many others to make war upon us, and altho this had been formerly propagated without any just grounds or foundation I judged it best policy to call the chiefs to a Congress thereon in order to show that such Designs, by whatsoever Nation carried on, could not be totally concealed from us, wch might prove a check on the Nation which first excited it, and render them suspicious of each other. The Cheifs only were summoned, but many more attending, to the number of 350, I opened the conference the 14th Ult" which held for several days.

I began by acquainting them with the obligation they were under to give me the earliest information that was anywise interesting and that I was surprised to hear from another quarter of some dangerous transactions which might prove the ruin of those concerned, adding that I expected to have the certain particulars from them. On their appearing ignorant of what I hinted at I gave them to understand that I had received an account of their being engaged in promoting a Rupture with the Indians, the event of which must have proved verry fatal to themselves. They gave me many assurances to the contrary and requested to know their accusers, on which I related to them what I thought sufficient to convince any that might have been privy thereto that no designs of any ill tendency could long remain a secret to the English: this produced many speeches on both sides the last of which being the most material I herewith inclose as I did not judge them of sufficient importance to give Your Lordship the trouble of perusing the whole. After this I told them that I could not think their answer satisfactory, until the Belts mentioned in their Speech were delivered up, which they promised to see strictly performed and after renewing the Covenant Chain the Congress ended.

On this Congress I have only to observe that altho there is some cause to doubt of the friendship of the Senecas on the Ohio and at Chenussio, for reasons formerly given. Yet I had not, neither have I, any reason to suspect the rest of the Senecas, or any other of the Confederate Nations. Besides I know it to have been before the practice of those Nations, more remote from us, and who are apprehensive of the Six Nations, to propagate stories much

to the disadvantage of the latter, with a view to exasperate us against them, and thereby draw them into their association, and I am confident that if an opportunity offered I could give a demonstrating proof of their fidelity, from the part they would take in our quarrels if required so to do.

I have always been entirely of Your Lordship's opinion with regard to the advantages we may expect from the jealousies subsisting between one nation and another, and I have more than once observed ye like to Your Lordship, I have been also always averse to entering into any of their private concerns. It would therefore give me great pain could I have the least reason to accuse myself of deviating from Your Lordships sentiments, and my own so repeatedly expressed, and I am persuaded it can be sufficiently made to appear that no part of my proceedings, if they have been justly expressed in my pacquets could have a tendency so contrary to the political practice I have always adopted. Indeed it is extremely necessary & gives the Indians a favourable idea of our justice & friendship to appear concerned at their private divisions or differences & desireous to see them composed, but I never interfere in any where his Majesty's interest and the public tranquility is not materially concerned, which was peculiarly the case in the affair of the Deputies sent to Sioto where the Cheifs of the most powerfull Nations on the continent were assembled for purposes that were too interesting to be overlooked, so that it appeared highly necessary to me that they should know we were not ignorant of their designs, & that they should be reprimanded for their past conduct, and cautioned against any future Undertakings and the means by which this was ordered to be effected, as well as the agents made use of were in my judgement the best calculated for that purpose, as well as for keeping up that jealousy which contributes so much to our security. Those Deputies are shortly expected home, when I shall transmit the result of their embassy and I flatter myself that my long experience in these matters, & zeal to acquit myself as an usefull servant to the Crown, will continue to me Your Lordship's favourable opinion. Could my authority extend to the redress of grievances in any thing material we should have much less apprehension from the Indians, but, as my authority cannot be so far extended, Your Lordship may rely on my doing everry thing in my power for the interests of the Crown and the public within the limits prescribed to me, and that faithfully according to the best of my judgement. I have the honor to be with the most perfect esteem, My Lord, Your Lordships most obedient

& most humble Servant W Johnson.

2 of my capacity for the office I have the honor to hold, as after a series of successful services, nothing could be a more sensible mortification to me than the thought of having incurred your Lordship's censure. Johnton Manuscripts. — Ed.