hend ye body of the Sd Benja Rust if he may be found within yo Precinct and him bring before The Honble the Council board to be Exam'd in yo Premises and Dealt with according to his deserts for which This Shall be yo' Warrant, and make return of yo' Doings. herein together with this warrt Dated at ye Council Chamber in Portsm the 24th of Jany 1727.8 annoq Regni Regis Georgii Secundi primo R Waldron Cler Cou Pro of To the Goal Keeper of His Majties Goal in Portsm° within N. Hamp the Province aforesd Greeting Benja Rust of Portsm° being Convened before His Hon' The Lt Gov' and Council to answer for a Vile and Scandalous abuse of them as Such on or abt ye 16th Instant as in ye Warrt is at large Exprest. You are therefore hereby required in His Majties name Pursuant to an ord' of His Hon' The Lieut Gov' & Council To receive ye Sa Benja Rust into ye Sd Goal and him Safely keep and there detain til Delivered by order of this board. Dated at ye Council board in Portsm° ye 24th of Jan'y 1727.8 annoq Rni Ris Georg: Secund Primo R Waldron Cler Cou [2-165] [Copy of Letter to Lieutenant-Governor Dummer - Boundary-Line Troubles In Handwriting of Richard Waldron, 1728.] Sir I recd Yors in relation to the process agst Mr Peasly which I laid before His Majties Council here who werre of Advice that forasmuch as ye affair of ye partition line of ye Two provinces is before His Majtie In Coun1 & ye Determination thereof dayly Expected, and In Complyance with yor request The Same Should be Continued til Our next Term, and It is done accordingly. I heartily Wish Yo' Gen1 Assemy had not been so forwd In Sending a band of armed men into the bowels of this Goverm' to drive and hale our People wth force & arms into yo' Province wch was ye Ground of this pres' dispute, Indeed I could hardly Think Such an unprecedendal proceeding could have been Countenanced much less Commanded but I hope these will be ye last Complaints concerning that matter-As To ye Settlem1 of Haverhil bounds upwd of 50 years agoe by ye Gen1 Assem3 whereof ye represen, of NH were a part, To Infer from these that an under Sher may Come Eleven miles on this Side Merrimack & Execute a Warr (from a Justice in Essex) because wthin ye so settled bounds of ye Town is strange I Conceive It may be as well Argued that he may come into Dover or portsmo their boundarys being determined for ye bounds of Those Towns were Settled at or about ye Same time & by ye Same authority yo' Gen' Assem. when N-Hamp' rep. were a part and Then Sir To what purpose is ye Kings Commission for this Province, but not to multiply words in an affair wch we may hourly Expect to have Our Masters Royal resolution upon, I therefore onely add that as I have Interposed in this matter at yo' desire & ye Case is Continued, you will be pleased to favour me in ye like request & for ye like reason & Cause a Stop to be put to a process now on foot agst Some of Our people which is to be bro't forwd at yo' next Court In Essex and am [2-169] [Petition from Sarah, Widow of Rev. N. Rogers, 1729.] Province of To his Excellency William Burnet Esq' Cap' Generall New Hampsh' S & Commander in chief in & over Sd Province & to the Honble the Council & Representatives now conven'd in Generall Assembly The Petition of Sarah Rogers Relict widow & administratrix to the Estate of the Revd Mr Nath" Rogers late of Portsm° in y° Pro: aforesaid deceas'd Sheweth That ye Sd Mr Nath" Rogers in the Spring & Fall of Sundry years whilst Coll" Dudley was Governour of this Province did entertain the Sd Governour Dudley at his house during the respective Times of his continuance in the Province at the Instance & request of the Goverment amounting in all to eleven Sessions of the Gen" Court - yet So it is that neither the Sd Nath" Rogers in his life time nor your Petitioner Since his Decease have receiv'd any Satisfaction or Allowance for the Same altho' allowances have been always usual in Such Cases Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that yr Excellency & the Honble the Councill & Representatives would be pleas'd to consider her hard Case & make her such an Allowance as Shall to you Seem most just & reasonable & your Petitioner Shall always pray &c Portsm° May 6th 1729 Sarah Rogers Read & ordered to lye for Consideration til yo next Session In the house of Representatives Xr ye 18th 1729 Read & ordered to lye for Consideration till the Spring Session, and that the Clerk of the ass Endeavor in the mean time to get Information from the Late Treas' Penhallows accounts how Gov' Dudley was Subsisted Dureing his Goverm1James Jeffry Clr assm [In General Assembly, April 30, 1731, the foregoing claim was "voted to be dismiss'd."- ED.] [2-170] [Petition of John and Tamson Tibbetts, relative to two of their Chil dren who were taken Prisoners by the Indians, 1729.] To his Exelcie William Burnet Esq' Capt Gen" & Commander in Chief in and over his Majties Province of New hampshire in New England, & To the honble the Councill, & House of Representatives Conven'd in Gen" Assembly The Humble Petition of John Tibbets, & Tamson Tibbets his wife Most humbly Sheweth That your Petitioners hath been at a Verry great Expence besides their Trouble & Travel in Going to Canada for the Redemption of Two of the Children of yo' Petitioner Tamsen Tibbets, (formerly Tamsen Bam) That were taken Captives by the Indians in the late Warr, and Sold to the French, And whereas your Petitioners Did formerly Petition the honble the liut Govornor Wentworth for a Brief: And the Good People of this Province were so Kind that there was given one hundred and Eleven Pounds, or very neare it: Yet so it is That your Petitioners being verry Poore; and there Remaines yet to be paid for the Ransom of their Children the sum of two hundred & fifty pounds this Money, which they are unable to pay, If they should sell all they have in the world, And therefore they Most humbly Pray help and Relief: in the premises as yo' Excellency & honors in Wisdome shall see Most meet: (the accompt of our Charge & Expence being Ready to be shown if Desired.) And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall Ever Pray &c — aprill the 30th 1729 In the house of Representatives the above Petition Was Read: and voted that it be Dismis'd May 2d 1729:- for that ye Pet' has had a Brief* allready : & the accompt is verry Extravagant · James Jeffrey Classm [2-171] A Count of my Charges of a Jurny Canade 1727 April 30 To my Charg from home to albany. To my Charg 6 Days at albeny of Thatt money To my Whole Charg of Going ovr ye Lake and mons To Ransom of our Two Children from The Indans 1270 Livres * License to collect contributions for a specified purpose. 2. Chambley. Prove of New) Mr Jno Tibbetts & his wife Mrs Tamson Tibbetts Hampsh personaly appering made oath that Thay had advanced the Several Sums above mentioned, on there Jorny to Caniday for the Redemption of Two of There Children as allso for the Ransom of The Same apr1 30: 1729 [2-176] R Wibird Just p [Jonathan Belcher's Commission as Governor of New Hampshire, January 20, 1730.] George The Second By the Grace of God of Great Brittain France & Ireland King, Defender of the Faith &c. To our trusty & welbeloved Jonathan Belcher Esq' Greeting Know you that wee reposing Especial Trust & confidence in the Prudence Courage & Loyalty of you the Said Jonathan Belcher of our Especial Grace certain knowledge and meer motion Have thought fit to constitute and appoint and by these presents Do constitute and appoint you The Said Jonathan Belcher To be our Governor & Commander in Chief of our Province of New Hampshire within our Dominion of New England in America During our will and Pleasure and Wee do hereby Require & command you to do and Execute all things in due manner that shall belong unto Your said command and the trust wee have reposed in you according to the Several powers and Directions granted or appointed you by this present commission and the Instructions & authorities herewith given you or by Such Further Powers instructions and Authorities as shall at any time hereaft' be granted or appointed you under our Signet and Sign Manual or by our order in our Privy Council and according to Such reasonable Laws and Statutes as are now in Force or hereafter shall be made and Agreed upon by you with the advice and consent of our council and the Assembly of our Said Province and Plantation under your Government in Such manner & Form as is hereafter Expressed And our will & Pleasure is that you the said Jonathan Belcher (after the Publication of these our Letters Patents) do in the first Place take the oaths appointed To be taken by an act passed in the first year of the Reign of our Late Royal Father King George the first Entituled (an act for the Farther Security of his Majestys person & Government and the Succession of the crown in the heirs of the Late Princes. . . . Sophia being Protestants and for Extinguishing the Hopes of the Pretended Prince of Wales and his open and Secret Abettors) As also that you make and Subscribe the Declaration mentioned in an act of Parliament made in |