product of the land in such a summ as may incourage their Husbandry and especially their building of a meeting House, and that they may be duly invested with town Priviledges by Royal Authority, And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever Pray &c. David Cargill John Senter James Nesmith Samuel Moor Alex Nickels Williame Nikels John Barnet Andrew Todd William Humphry : Arch Clendinen Allen Andrews David Morison Will. Aiken John Bell Will John Barnet John Blair James Blair Robt McKeen Jo: Bar Gabral? Bar Hugh Montgumery Abraham Homs John Blair James Morison James Moore Andrew Spavid ? John Shilder Beniamin Kidder John Goffe John Goffe, Jr John Cromey John McConochey? I PROVINCIAL OATHS. Do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithfull and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the second. I Do swear that I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical that damnable doctrine & position that princes Excomunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the see of Rome may be deposed or muther'd by their Subjects or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign Prince Person prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction power authority preeminence or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual within the realm of Great Brittain. I So help me God. do truly and sincerely acknowledge profess Testify & declare in my conscience before God and the world, That our Sovereign Lord King George the second is lawful & rightfull King of the realm of Great Britain and all other His Majties Dominions and Countrys thereunto belonging, And I do solemnly and sincerely declare that I do believe in my conscience, that the Person pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James, and since his decease pretending to be and taking upon himself the Stile & title of King of England by yr names of James the third or of Scotland by ye names of James ye eighth or the stile & title of King of Great Britain hath not any right or title whatsoever to the crown of the realm of Great Britain or any other the Dominions thereto belonging. And I do renounce refuse and Abjure any Allegiance or obedience to him. And I do swear that I will bear faith and true allegiance to His Majesty King George the second and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his Person Crown or Dignity: And I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his majesty and his successors all treasons & traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be agst him or any of them, And I do faithfully promise to the utmost of my power to support maintain and defend the succession of the crown agt him the sd James and all other Persons whatsoever, which succession by an act Entitled an act for ye further limitation of the crown and better securing the rights and liberties of ye subjects is and stands limited to ye Princess Sophia Electress & Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants, and all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to ye plain & common sense and understanding of the same words without any Equivocations mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition acknowledgmt, abjuration renunciation and promise heartily willing and truly upon ye true faith of a Christian. Alexander Macneall Thomas Mackelme Robtt Wear Archiball Clendenin William Moor John Barnet Archibald Mac Murphy Robert Kennedy Moses Barnett Samuel Morison James Blair James Taggart Petter Cochran James Gillmor Robt Morison John Cromey John Gregg James Nesmith John Neale? mark his John McClourg Rus. Buron Robt Thomson Gab: Bar James Rueys Nathaniel Aiken Jon. Hollms Hugh Wilson Robert Arbuckel Samuel Allison William Gillmor James Andrews John Craig William Eayrs James Willson Robert Gillmore Samuell Gregg Angus Brown his Willm X Adams mark Benjamin Kidder Thomas Bogall Benjamin Willson John Anderson Abraham Holme The severall persons above mentioned took their oaths according to act of Parliament. RELATIVE TO BOUNDARY DISPUTE. House of Representative. Wednesday May the 10th A. D. 1732. The Committee bro't in an Answer to his Excell's Speech, which was read & voted, accepted and sent up in the words following, viz. May it please your Excellency We beg leave to assure your Excelly, that we are now met to attend his Majties service in this Sessions and to do every thing that may tend to his Majties service and the Prosperity of his good subjects within this Province whom we represent; and this we shall do with chearefullness, and hope with unanimity, having no sinister ends or double views, and hope there will be no strugles nor contentions. As to the affaire of the Lines, we apprehend this Govermt has done every reasonable thing to accomodate that matter in a Peace between the two Govermts, and in order to do this have exceeded his Majties Instruction to your Excelly in that affair; tho' this House thinks it absolutely necessary that something should be speedily done in compassion to the Poore People that inhabit neare the controversy; for sundry suits have been commenced agt the People of Londonderry and Kingstown, and the people carried into the county of Essex in the Massa Govermt to be tried for Trespass comitted at least twelve miles north from Merrimack, and this at their last Court at |