for the same, & for so doing this shall by your Warrant, Given at our To the Commissioners of our Treasury H. Pelham J. Campbell [Thomlinson and Trecothick to Atkinson. Copy Bruce.] The Atkinson Esq' London 20th Septem1 1751 Sir Our last was of the 14th Aug Hallowell, since which we are favour'd with yours 26th July, & 2d Augt & note your Directions about the Ballance of your Acco', which we hope to render you the next Conveyance as the Settlement with Mr Killby is now compleated the Ballance shall be laid out in Stock as you desire - Our J. T. has been at the Custom House on your affairs, & has sent your Power of Attorney - your Sallery will be reced very soon as it only waits for the Comptroller's Examination of your Accounts The Bills for £20-in favour Wm Pearson, & for £18. 10/ drawn by Hinox & Co. of Madeira are paid, & plac'd to your Acco The Sundrys you order are getting ready and shall be shipt you by Cap" Winslow, who we Expect will sail in about 10 or 14 Days The New Hampshire Accots are dayly expected from Barbadoes, when they come to hand, shall Immediately render Cap" Pike's Acco'. the Papers Inclos'd relating to Jona Greens Prize Money shall be taken due care of - There is a Ballance of £2. 10. 2 due to Cap Davis which shall be shipt him with your Goods agreable to his Order - We are very sorry to find that the Disorders in your Government still subsist, but are not without hopes that some Measures will be taken soon to put an End to them We are with great Respect, Sir, Your most hume Servants, Thomlinson & Trecothick Sir The Bearer Capt Winslow having filled his Ship before your small Articles could possibly be got ready, we can only inclose your Invo & Bill Lading for three Casks Nails by him and £23,, 2,, 3d the Box conts the remainder of your Order is ready, & will be shipp'd you on the four Brothers Capt Smith, who we hope will sail very soon, as he is to take in all the Goods shut out of this Ship - we shall then write you again, interim we remain very respectfully Sir your most Humble Servts Thomlinson & Trecothick 8th OctTM we have prevailed on the Capt to take your Box & have included it in the Bill Lading-in it are 4 doz Gloves for Cap" Thos Davis, also a p' Stays & a Scale for Colle Meserve, who are to pay you their proportion of the Charge on yo1 Box [Thomlinson to Atkinson.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 161.] London ye 21st of Sept 1750 Sir Since my last I have not Any of your Favs to Acknowledge, or have I time by this conveyance to do more than only tell you, that I am now well assured that the Money granted for the intended Expedition Against Canada, will be Issu'd in all the next month, when I shall receive what is due to you And the other officers of Your Regiment, Your Accounts will have Credit for the Same, And shall not fail to advise you thereof, And Am with great truth & Esteem Sir Your most hum' Ser John Thomlinson [Thomlinson to Atkinson. Copy Oliver.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 163.] Theodore Atkinson Esq East Barnet 19th July 1751 Sir I have your ffavour of the 10th April here with me, & tho' I have wrote you in C° with Mr Trecothick, yet I have some things to mention to you that are not Compting House affairs: All your Papers were lost that were sent by Mr Solly, so I hope you will send Duplicates as well as the Papers Mr Paris & I have wrote for, respecting the Dispute of Fort Dummer, or Authenticated Proofs that they are deny'd you by the Government of the Massachusetts Bay - The gov. ernment here will have nothing further to do with any Dispute abt the money granted, & paid on Acco' the affairs of Canada & Louisburg. I apply'd to the Treasury for their Lordships Directions (to send to your Province) how the Money shou'd be apply'd for sinking the Paper Money of your Province: I was given to understand that it was Expected it shoud be apply'd by the Province to the calling in, & sinking the Paper Money of the Province, but they wou'd not give me any Directions about it: I told Mr Secritary West that the Parliament in the Granting the said Money, have given the Lords of the Treasury a Discretionary Power, & therefore I begg'd to have some Directions how it was to be apply'd: he answer'd: they had paid me the Money, & wou'd have nothing further to do with it, thus the Case stands, & as I wrote you the Province has now near £30,000 Neat Money (all ffees & Commissions paid) laying dead; lock'd up in the Bank, & if your Government won't agree to do what is here expected from them, that is, to do Justice by calling in and sinking your Paper Money; They shou'd consider the Province's Intrest so ffar as not to let a Sum of Money lay dead but give orders that it may be Invested in some Government Fund, here, as it will bring in an Interest of near £900 Ann. Sterling: I dare not Venture to lay out a Farthing of it without an Act of the Legislature of your Province, & that cannot be done neither till the other Members are admitted, for I find if the Governer attempts to transact any kind of Business with the House, untill those Members be admitted, it must be at his Peril and as this Money lays Entirely at my Disposal, I wonder my ffriends in your Province are not affraid of my running away [with] it, however if the House of Representatives wou'd be so wise as to admitt the new Members (as they must be oblig'd to do, & I think, now before long) & proceed to Business Properly; I shou'd think they wou'd chuse a comittee to be join'd to a Committee of his Majesty's Councill, & call in, and sink the Paper Money, and give the Possessors thereof Bills of Excha for the Respective Sums so bro't in by them, at the rate of Exchange as the Massachusetts have done, and advise me properly of such Sums drawn on me, & they shall be paid punctually, or if they think proper to order me to buy Silver, & send it over, I shall readily do it: but the former Method will be saving Freight, Insurance, and other charges - An Act has pass'd this Session of Parliament for regulating and Restraining the Paper Money in N E: I have herewith sent you the same: It is not (in my Opinion) so perfect as was design'd, but it was the best, & all we cou'd get, & I hope it will be strictly observ'd, & whatever you, and others, knowing in Money Affairs, shall find wanting in this Law, Pray let me know before the next Sessions of Parliament The West India Planters and Merchants attempted at the Board of Trade & House of Commons to obtain a Prohibition of all Trade between the Northern Collonys & the French & Dutch Sugar Collonys: ffor my Part: that tho' a West India Merch I saw this Attempt in such a Light, that in Spite of all Connections with the Sugar Islands, and the large Property I have therein, I oppos'd it Openly with all the power and Interest I was Master of and declar'd I did it out of Principle, & as a Private Merch tho I was oblig'd to attend it as an Agent, but as an Agent I was oblig'd to do as the others did, that is, to ask for time to be Instructed from my Principal and upon that Point we got it put off for this year, and I was in hopes the WestIndians, from what they met with in this Application, would not have had any ffurther thoughts of applying, but last Week I was serv'd with a Notice that they design to apply next Sessessions that we may want no proper Instructions from our respective Provinces, therefore have sent you a Copy of said Notice (as Secretary) and I hope you & all the other Provinces will send proper Directions to their Respective Agents to be here in Octo' next. and I shou'd be glad that you and the other Gentlemen of your Province wou'd get me an Acco. how many Ships & Vessels have gone (in a year ffor 6 or 7 years back, distinguishing each year) directly from your Place to our own Sugar Islands, and come back directly from thence with Sugar Rum, and Molasses, and (as near as you can) the full Quantitys they have brought with them from thence of those Commoditys. and I wou'd also have you send me (as you have it from Mr Wentworth's, Mr Odiorne's, Mr Moffatt's and Mr Warner's Books) the low Price that their Lumber & Fish have sold for in our West India Islands these two last years, and the high Prices they have been oblig'd to pay for their Sugar, Rum, & Molasses in our Sugar Collonys, & also let me know if the Masters of these Ships cou'd have so much Molasses as they wanted in any of our own Sugar Islands, and let me have all these Papers properly Authenticated & they will be of great use in this affair, and you must also send me a Particular Accot of all the Various Uses Molasses are put to in your Fishery, in your Shipping, and Trade and by the Artificer, Farmer, Mast Cutters Labourer, & Soldier, and the fatal Effect it must have upon N E in Generall, and upon your Province in Particular to be prevented from being supply'd with a proper Quantity of Molasses, & at as cheap a Rate as possible and that our own Sugar Collonys cannot supply you with the Quantity you want, or will they let you have any if they can avoid it, therefore if you shou'd be restrain'd from having it from the French, and Dutch in your own Navigation, & in return ffor your Lumber, and refuse Fish, the French will not only supply their own, & the Dutch Sugar Collonys with Lumber, and Fish in their Navigation, and cannot be prevented, as the Coasts of N E. are of such vast Extent, and full of Creeks, and Bays, of good Arbours, & so near Cape Breton: I think all Partys, and every body concerned in Trade, or in the Wellfare of the Northern Collonys, and not only in your Province but in every Province of North America, shou'd apply strictly to the Providing these Accots & whatever Matters, and things they may think will be of service in preventing this evil design'd them, and supply their Agents therewith properly, & in time, & [Torn.] your Province will not be wanting in doing what I here advise [Torn.] else you may think needfull and for my Part I shall not be wanting in making the best use of them in my Power - My Books will now very soon be settled to the 1st this Month, the time of the Commencement of my Partnership with Mr Trecothick, and then you, and every body else I have dealings with will have your Accounts. When I wrote you by the first Spring Ships I then told you that you shou'd soon have all the Officer's Accots belonging to your Regiment, and also the Province Accounts, and you shou'd have had long since, only here is Mr Killby and some others, who have Demands, and tho' they might have settled with me, & had their Money any time since the Ist Nov' yet have not done it: I want very much to settle those Matters, and get rid of the Money, and have all Accots finish'd and am very Truely Sir your most humble Servant John Thomlinson [Page 165, Atkinson to Thomlinson, concerning Mason's purchase, is printed in Vol. VI., p. 893. — ED.] [Depositions relative to Trade and Commerce between New Hampshire and the West India Islands, 1751.] [Copied from Hibbard Collections, Vol. III., pp. 172-3.] The Deposition of Philip Reed and David Horney both of Portsmouth in the Province of New Hampshire in New England mariners who Testify that they have been masters of vessells, the said Reed for more than twenty & the said Horney for near thirty years last past and have been well acquainted with the Trade between the Northern Colonies and the West India English Islands & especially from New Hamp' aforesaid that there are more than Six Vessells now Trading from this Place to the West Indies that return directly back here again for one that there was when these Depon's first were |