remedy this hardship & by the consent too as I inform'd of Mr. Plant, have at a great expense built a comodious church in the Town & very conveniently located for all but a very few. They say Mr. Plant falls from his promises to their great Disappointment, but those will be proved to you from better hands. I shall only say that if the Society had a perfect knowledge of the situation of the affairs in that place, they would be convinced that their charity could not be better bestowed in any Town in New England. I need not tell you that Newbury is a large Trading seaport where are a great number of straingers continually, that the Church, where it now stands is of little or no service being 3 or four miles of - This you know. The people of the Town offer £20 per annum & the strangers contribution, if they should be so happy as to succeed in their application. I hope Providence will soon afford to send them a minister of religion & Learning. They all depend much upon your judgment & assistance & that they may not be disappointed is the hearty wishes of Sir, Yours. [Endorsed] Copy of a letter to Capt. Thomlinson about Church at Newbury. Cap' Phil Thomlinson 1743 [Atkinson to Thomlinson.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 121.] P ffebry 6 1743 Sr Inclosed you have the first of four Setts of Bills Drawn by Mr Brown on the Treasurer to the Society payable to me I have Indorsed them to you In hopes you would Send me on accot of those Bills Such goods are Contained in the memorandm Inclosed I Expect the goods will be bort according to the payment that will be made The reason of this Projection is, Mr Brown is got a little behinde hand in the Building his House in which he now Lives & tho Some of the Parish hath done Some thing Considerable yet in order to make the House Comfortable he hath been at a Considerable Expence I have paid of his Debts & Propose to give him the Profit of his goods & this way to reimburst my Self Now I can fore see no other risque but Death if this Should hapen I Expect you Charge any arrears to me the goods he Sends for he hath Provided Chaps to take on their arrival what I think would be ye most Vendable & fech the Best advance is 2 Chests of the Cheapest Bohea Tea abot 100w Each not Damaged 2 or 3 hundd of Pepper the remainder in Cotton & Cheap Silk handkerchifs & Cheap Callicoes of good bright Colers — Let me have these goods Shipd on Mr Browns Acco1 & Consigned to me And Let them be fully Ensured I would have an Equal Value of Cotton & Cheap Silk handkerchiffs I would put you once more in minde for Sending the nails I wrote for By Adams Voyage before Last & Pray Let me know at the Same time weither you recd the money for Capt Adams's note & the Master of the Deptford Store Ship on accot of Capt Greenleaff I must alsoe Desire you would Send me the following Peticulars. I Brass Kittle abt 30 gallons 1 Suit of Black Cloath Cloathes for my Self fine firm well Dyed Cloath 2 ps Cambrick thick fit for ruffling Linnen of 5/ & Ell 2 ps Coursers Cost abt 18 or 20/ Sterling ps I Case of Six rasors & p' of good sissors & Strap I would have them of the Best mettle I now alsoe Inclose my Diary from Lady Day Last to Christmas under the Scituation of our Imployment I know not who Else to write to & Desire that you would Put it into the right Channel & also receive my Sallary, that & my Sallary as you Judge most for my Interest you have Sufficient Power for this End I fear Poor Mitchell will be broken up I see nothing that can Prevent it if his Bills that have Lain Long in London are finaly Protested he Tells me he is out of Two years Sallary & that he has had no Accot from his friend in London on whom these bills were Drawn this 2 or 3 years So that he Is intirely in the Dark as to his affairs in Engld he has now a family & and such an affair is ye more Shocking I made no Doubt as he is very Deserving you'l do him any good office in your way I beg Leave once more to referr you to Gov' Wentworths Letters for Publick affairs and am your obleed Ser TA PS We now Inclose you our Joynt Letter which heretofore was Directed to Coll: Dunbar but as we Imagine he may be gon to his Governmt of St Hellena we have Derected it under ye Cover to the Comiss's Capt Darling & Duplicate Thomlinson with this adition Viz ΤΑ Portsm° ffebry 7 1743 Sr On the Other Side you have Copy of what goes Darling I have only to ad that this Incloses the 24 Bills the first of are mentioned above & Desire your Complyance in what I recomended to your Care relateing them My best regards to Mrs Thomlinson & Accept the Same your Self from Sr Your &c A [Thomlinson to Atkinson. Copy Adams.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 122.] Theodore Atkinson Esq' Londo 20 Feb 1743 Sr I have your Favour of the 26th Octo & I have not Received your Money of the Master of the Deptford Store Ship neither have I Seen him but Once & then he told me He was to send out Goods to the Amount of this Note you have recommended three Gentlemen to Me & tho its pretty plain that I am always willing to do any thing I can to serve your Country Men yet I have not Time to squander away in following them in such Wild schemes as they Generally are freighted with from your Country & when they bring with them Ever so slight a recommendation they generally take it for Granted that the person to whom they are recommended is under an obligation to assist them in all their Schemes I dont say this in order to reflect on Mr Wise or Mr Peagrum for if I had not been particularly Engaged I would have Endeavoured to have Servd Mr Wise as much as I Could & as for Mr Peagrum He has not troubled Me upon His affairs, but for what End such a Man as young Greenleaf could be Sent home I am at a Loss to know & without any Money or Credit or Capacity for Business that I know off, indeed His Father or Himself wrote me a Bombast Letter wherein I am desird to supply Him with any money He should Want & it should be Repaid Me but when or How I know not, but when I saw that you & His other Friends that had mentiond Him to me had avoided giving him any kind of Credit I did not Choose to do it. As you refer Me to what ye Gov' writes Me I must now for want of Time refer you to wt I have Wrote him by this Conveyance & Am with great Truth & Esteem S Sir your most hu' Servtt John Thomlinson [Thomlinson to Atkinson.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 124.] Theodore Atkinson Esq' London 18th March 1744 Sir I have here to Acknowledge your Favour of ye 16th of Novr and have agreeable thereto carryd the Ballance of M Peirce Longs Account to your Credet being £2. 3. o And as for the Memerandom you Mention you only referr to Some directions and paterns in A Bundle Sent by Capt Adams, But Capt Adams dos not know of Any Bundle he had from you he has indeed Sent up two Bundles of old Silk which he says Mr Yeomans Brought on Board And which Mr Yeomans remembers nothing about but there is not any directions or paterns in, Therefore Mrs Thomlinson Cannot tell who they belong to or what they are to be done with So if those Bundles belong to you, pray let me know and what they are to be done with As to the other part of your Letter I at present can Say little about for I am So much keepd at home with a great deal of Gout and Some Business that I have not an opportunity to run to the other End of the Town as I used to do or can I find my Account in it so much as keeping at home, As Soon as the Mast Ships Arrives And I have Letters from Govr Wentworth I shall put his and your affairs upon a right footing with Mr Jones, I am with great Esteem Sir Your hum1 Sertt John Thomlinson [Thomlinson to Atkinson. A Copy Phillips.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 125.] Theod Atkinson London 22 Mar 1743/4 Sir — Your favour of the 6 Feby Darling is before me & Note its Contents the Bills on Mr Tryon are left for Acceptance at his house, and I have ordered ye goods you write for to be got ready to Send you by Craigie, who will be in Boston I hope in a Short time I shall write you fully by him Intrem I am Sir your most hul Servtt PS Adams Note was passd to your Credit but ye master of ye Deptford store Ship would not pay his, Saying he had y' orders to Ship you ye Vallue London 12 April 1744 Sir You have here Inclosed Invoice & Bills of Lading for all the goods you was pleasd to order both on your own Acct & them for Mr Brown and which is all Included in one Invoice & bill of Lading, the reason of not Sending ym Seperate is because Mr Tryon would not Accept Mr Browns Bills, for he had just paid a Bill of Mr Browns, for this very Quarter at Lady day, So that Next midsomer one of them will be pd, & the rest in Cource and as Mr Tryon was out of Town when ye Bills was left for Acceptance his Clerks Said, that they would be good So that the goods were all agreed for money down, that he might have ye advantage of the Sale of them, So that when his Bills are paid your Acct Shall have C' for them the last bill will not be due before this time Twelve months So that you may let Mr Brown have ye goods or keep them your Self, as you Shall think proper. what was Intended for him is markt B, and you may Easly Calculate ye Charges on them & Insurance, and Intrest of money untill ye bills become due If you let him have ye goods, your dairy is given to Mr Jones, & he says he will be able to pay Some Money for your Account very Soon, my master Mr John Thomlinson is in ye Country recovering on a late fit of the Gout, No doubt you will hear before these reaches you that warr was declard here ye Last day of March against France So that m° from your place is 23 Ct & other voyages in proportion you See what is given on Craigie & we warrant with Convoy I am Sir your most Obet Servtt William Richardson [Captain Thomlinson's clerk.] [Atkinson to Thomlinson.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 126.] Portsmo May 19th 1744 Dr Sr I have yours of the 20th ffebry A Little Severe upon my recommending Several Persons to your ffavour without being more Explycit then I was it was their Seperate Desire that I would only mention y Names to you that in case they Should hapen upon a wrong Sent they might have your ffriendship Letting them know of it I knew Little of Either of their Schemes & only guessed at their aim as to giveing Mr Greenleeff Credt He never applyd to me in that Shape & I was told that his father had settled that point with Mr Rugg who I understood was his Patron & at whose request he went home & they neither of them could have any other Defence upon my Letter I am Sorry any of them Proved Trouble Some to you & more so if occasioned by my Letter now Let me Inform you that Gov' Wentworth the Sur Gen" hath Continued the Late Sur Generals Deputy Mr Mitchell & [illegible] at Present come in gratis M1 Slade & my Self Club our Salarys with the Sur Gen1 till the £2000 the Gr Pays is paid So I must Expect nothing but my Travel Till that matter is Ended I Want to know what Prospect there is of a Settlem of Robt |