sack, Cartooch Box & Cloaths all Lost to the value of Thirty Seven pounds four Shills That Your Petitioner is a poor helpless widow & Nothing but her hands to gether Living, She therefore prays the Consideration of Your Excellency & Honours & humbly hopes for a Suitable Satisfaction for So great a Loss & Your Petitioner Shall ever pray as in Duty Bound [Petition of John Ladd relative to his Son, Jonathan Ladd, Louisbourg Soldier.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Govornour and Commander in Chief in and over his Majties Province of Newhampshire, in New England, And to His Majties Council for Said Province and House of Representatives Now Convened in General Assembly John Lad humbly Sheweth That his Son Jonathan Lad went to Louisbourg in his Majties Service in the Capacity of a Physitian and in his Return was taken Sick of the Distemper that Reign'd at Louisbourge, and was Landed at Portsmouth in a verry weak and low condition, not being capeable of going any farther, where your Petitioner was oblidged to be at Considerable charges Extraordinary while he Lived and after his Death for his Burial Your Petitioner humbly Prays your Excelly and this Honble Court for Some allowance towards the Charge and Expence that he has been at, as in Your Wisdome Shall Seem meet So prays your humble Petitioner &ca. August the 2d 1746 John Lad. In Council Augst the 2d 1746 read & Ordred to be Sent Down to ye Honble House Theod' Atkinson Sey allowed £5,, O,, O [4-19] [Memorial of Thomas Card, of New Castle, Louisbourg soldier, for allowance for back rations. Ed.] [4-20] [Memorial of Spencer Colby, Louisbourg Mariner.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Capt General Governor & Commander in Chief in & Over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire the Honble His Majesty's Council & House of Representatives in General Assembly Convened August 11th 1746The Humble Petition of Spencer Coleby Mariner Shews That your Petitioner went in the Late Expedition to Louisbourge a Mariner on Board the Sloop Abigail Capt Jn° Furnald Commander- and Soon after our Arrival there your Petitioner went on Shoar with leave of his Said Commander to Assist in working & fighting with the Cannon at the Batteries Your Petitioner having been before used to the Managem' of those Instruments of War and to the utmost of his power Servd in that Station at the first the third & Light House Batteris from the time aforesd to the time of the Surrender of the City That as men Skilld in the Managem1 & proper use of that part of the Artillery were but few Your Petitioner Apprehends that his Service in the Said Station was of much more Consequence & advantage to the Business then in hand, than that of a Mariner only & as he discharg'd his duty with Care & fidelity Humbly Conceives he his Services Claim a Greater Reward than a Mere Mariner — Wherefore he Humbly Prays that he may have an Additional Allowance in Consideration of his Said Services having had only Mariners Wages & he Shall as in duty Bound Ever pray &c Spencer Colby Your Petitioner begs leave to add that thro' a Mistake in the payment he has Receivd only twenty five Shills per Month as will appear upon Examination Spencer Colby We the Subscribers Certify that we know that the above named Spencer Coleby was at the above named Batteries Assisting as a Gunner in which Art he had the Reputation of being Well Skilld in which Station he behaved very Well & was very Serviceable & Shew himself to be a Man of Skill Courage & Fidelity & we are humbly of Opinion that his Merit in the Said Expedition justly deserves a farther Consideration & Reward than that of a Mariner only [Petition of Caleb Sanborn, of Hampton Falls, dated August 12, 1746, who states that his apprentice, James Lowell, was at Louisbourg, and came home sick. He was allowed £2. — ED.] [4-23] [Petition of Adjutant John Eyre, of Portsmouth, dated August 20, 1746. He wanted an additional allowance, and also pay for recruiting men for the Cuba expedition in 1740. Augt 23d 1746 Voted Dismiss'd."- ED.] [4-24] [Certificate of Dr. Benjamin Row.] In the year 1746 In June & July I Benja Row was Employd as a Physician for John the Son of Joshua Prescutt the next day upon his Return from Cape Breton he Came home Ill Contracted his Illness I Imagine at Cape Breton and after Some time Removing the Disease from his Bowels it Settled in his hips and there Remaind while the fall and then it gatherd forward and formd it Self into an abcess i was again Consulted and did not Care to open it but advisd to Send for Doct' Hale to advise with me and he Came and Insisted upon his being Carried to newbury and accordingly he was Carried over and there died-for what i did first In June & July i was payd out of the province Treasury and afterwards not applying anything only my advice the young man Being poor i askt him nothing for it Benjamin Row physician & Chirugeon [4-25] Province of N Hampsh' In the House of Representatives Augt 12th 1746 Whereas ye following Persons Voluntiers in ye late Expedition against Louisbourg have Petitioned ye General Court for some Allowances in Consideration of their Losses Sickness &c Suffer'd in Sa Expedition as represented in their respective Petitions on File Voted That there be allow'd to Sd Persons ye Sums as carried off to each Man's Name following Vizt To Geo Huntress Portsmo Henry Sleeper Portsmo Michael Martyn Portsm° Zachh Foss Portsm Benjamin Kimmings Exeter for Sickness & Gun Benj Thomas of Hampton instead of a Pension Joseph Lamson Exeter in full for Doctors Bill &c William Fullerton Brentwood in full for Nursing Capt Jon Ladd of Kingston for Expence of the Solomon Pinkum Dover in full for his Petition Israel Hodgsden Newington In Council August 22d 1746 — read & Concurrd Eodm Die Assented to [4-27] £229 - IO 44 D Peirce Clk Theodore Atkinson Sery [Petition of Walter Warren, of Portsmouth, gunsmith, who asked pay for tools lost in the service at Louisbourg. He presented a bill as follows, and was allowed £2. 1. 9, May 29, 1746. — Ed.] |