[4-106] Province of New Hamp June the 20th/ 1753 then Benjamin Folsom appeared & Made solomn oath that in the year 1748 he served a soldier Nineteen Days at Barrington in sd Pro: under Capt Clemons, and has Never had one Penny of the Country Wages for said Service : & at the same time he was servant to his Master Moore [4-108] Sworn before Moses Leavit - Jus : Peace [Deposition of John Hodgdon, Soldier, 1753.] The Depotition of John Hodgdon a solder at Rochister under Capt Jobe Clements Testifieath and saieth That I the Deponant was hiard by Capt John Newmarch at Portsmouth and Capt Sherborn of the plains to Sarve at ye above sd Rochister and a Cordingly I the Deponiant went from Portsmouth To Rochister may the fourth and faithfully atended the Dutey untell the Last Day of September Insuing John Hodgdon Province of New Hampshire Dover June the 6th 1753 his mark then mr John Hodgdon made solemn oath that the a bove written Depotition is Just and true and he the Deponiant being Cearfully Cautiond to Declare the truth [4-109] Coram John Gage Just Peace [Communication from the Selectmen of Northfield, Mass., concerning Title to Land.] Sr We Are Informed that Sundry Persons are Designing to Petition Your Excellency for Some Lands that We Apprehend we have a Legal & Just Right to as well as the Possession of, & are Included in Northfield Origenal Grant from the Gen' Court of the Province of the Massechusetts Bay, tho' upon the Late Running of the Line they happen to fall within the Province of New Hampshire - We Should have Prefer a Petition to your Excy for a Grant of those Lands could we have tho't it proper & Necessary. But the Grant of the Town of Northfield being made before the Vacation of the first Charter to the Province of the Massachusetts we Judg'd we had an Indisputable title to those Lands — But if We are Mistaken we hope & Desire Your Excellency to Inform us by the Bearer hereof. We are your Excy Humb Servts P: S: herewith is Inclosd a Coppy of the Grant of the Town of Northfd [Petition of Captain Phinehas Stevens for the Establishment of a Trading House, 1753.] [Hibbard MS. Collection, Vol. III., p. 171.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Capt General Governer and Commander In Chief in & over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, The Honorable His Majesty's Council & House of Representatives for Said Province in General Assembly Convened June 26th 1753 The Memorial of Phinehas Stevens of a Place called Number four in said Province Gent. Shews That your Memorialist being well acquainted with the Situation & Circumstances of the Western Frontiers of this Province the Great Difficulty & charge which would inevitably arise in Case of an Indian War, to Enable the Infant Settlements there to sustain the shock & maintain their Ground, and the Great Detriment it would be to the Province in General to have those Settlements broken up - Begs leave humbly to Suggest That your Memorialist is also well acquainted with the Genius Manners & Interest of the Indians who live near, hunt, or upon other occasions resort in & about those Parts- and has often Remark'd that a Present Interest & advantage has as great an Influence upon them, as upon any others of mankind and more firmly Attaches them than any other motive whatsoever That no means has been found so Effectually to dispose them to Friendship with the English, as the Establishing a Public Fair Trade with them at Houses appointed for that purpose, by the Government, supplied with sortable vendible goods among them, at such easy Rates as no Private Person can afford, under such Regulations as will create a confidence in them, that they are in no danger of Imposition; the Terms of Traffick being stated & known on both sides - which method has been Experienced in the Neighbouring Government, to answer such valuable ends as to be a sufficient Inducement to continue the Trade from the year 1726 to this Time, and tho' as they have stated it they make no Profit upon the Goods supplied the Indians, yet by the Profit made on the Goods Received this trade supports itself & Ballances all out sets. That a Truck House erected a little above the outmost Settlement in this Province on Connecticut River suitably Fortified Furnished & Regulated, as it would be of Singular advantage to all the new Settlements near so it would more Remotely be Beneficial to all the Frontiers, and the first Expence of it would not amount to the charge of Six months War; which would be all that would arise by it, for as said before the Ballance of the Trade would fall in favour of the Province. That amoung the many advantages which such a Trade would produce the Preventing war & Bloodshed ought not to be forgottenthere is this also which your Memorialist begs leave to observe; that it will Conciliate the minds of the Indians to the Extending the English Settlements farther into the Country, bring them to a Greater Familiarity, and Remove at least in some Good Measure those Groundless Jealousies which the French find it their Interest to Raise & Foment, and by Degrees may prove a means of uniting them to our Interest Intirely. But if there was nothing more than Lengthening out the Peace & giving a further opportunity of advancing the settlements it would be a sufficient motive to establish such a Trade as your Memorialist Concieves - all which he Humbly Submits to your Excellency's & Honours Wisdom and Begs leave to Subscribe himself Your Devoted Servant Phineas Stevens [Captain Phinehas Stevens was one of the grantees of the town of Charlestown, under the original grant from Massachusetts of December 31, 1735. He distinguished himself by his bravery in defending the fort there against an attack of the French and Indians, April 4, 1747. — ED.] [4-111] [Timothy Clement, relative to a Survey of the Lake, 1753.] To his Excelency Benning Wentworth Esq' and to the Honarble Councill and to the Rest of the Honbl Court In the Province of Newhamshier- Gentelmen The Potition of Timothy Clements Resident in Haverhill Humbley sheweth — That wheairas your Poor Potitioner Did in the Year 1744/5 in List under Leut John Chandler of Pennycook for to scout In the woods in his Majesties Sarvice for two month: and soon after Co1 Rolf Informs him that His Excelency with sum of the Horbl Councill Desired Him to goo him Self and Survay or take a Plan of winepesocky Pond and that He or whosoever should Goo should be honarably Paid for Doing the Same upon which account the sd Clements With the advice of Co1 Rolf thinking it might be of Greator Sarvice to the Province in many Respects To tak a Plan of the Pond than To goo as a solder the sd Clements Hired a man to goo in his Place and Stead In His Majesties sarvice and He himself went To sarve the Province and when he came to the place or Pond he agreed with Two Perticular Hands to Cary the Chain Round the whole of ye Pond So that He might be the more sartain of Rendring a True Plan to His Excelency or the Government and accordingly He Has Taken and Drawed it of and sent it to the Governour or Council by Co1 Rolf in ye year 1745 that is a True Plan of the Bignes of the Pond and of Each angle that it made from the merideon which Plan the sd Clements is Ready to make oath to at any time and he never Had any thing of the Province But Twenty four Days a Lowance which was a bout Equal to the money He Paid out so that He never Has yet had any thing for forty Days Sarvice that he Did Eaight years ago for the good of the Province as he thought By good advice (now If His Excelency and the Honarable Council with the Rest of the Honrable Court would Se cause to make him a just and Resonable alowance for so many Days Sarvice in Such an Imployment as Survaying and finding Him Self it would Greatly oblige Him who Has bin Your faithfull Sarvant an so Remains Timothy Clements Haverhill July ye 2d 1753 Prov N Hamp In Council July 11 1753 read & ordred to be Sent down to the honble the House of representa [4-112] Theodore Atkinson Sery ן Province of In the House of Representatives January the SevNew Hamp' Jenteenth 1754 Voted that there be paid unto Mr Timothy Clements the Sum of Twenty Pounds new Tenor out of that part of the Interest of the twenty five thousand Pounds Loan appropriated for Cutting Roads UNIV F CAL MISCELLANEOUS PROVINCIAL PAPERS. 423 Imploying proper persons to Search out and take Plans, in full for In Council Jany 26 Clerk Theodore Atkinson Sty B Wentworth [4-113 to 116] [Petition of Joshua Prescott, of Kingston, whose son John was taken sick at Louisbourg, and died after his return. He wanted Dr. Eliphalet Hale paid for attendance on his son. The petition was dismissed May 4, 1754. — ED.] [4-119] [Copy of Power of Attorney to John Thomlinson.] KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS That We Theodore Atkinson Richard Wibird Meshech Weare Esqrs and Henry Sherburne jun' as Trustees for the Province of New Hampshre and a Committee for this Purpose Specially Appointed Have made Ordained Constituted & Appointed and by these Presents Do make Ordain Constitute & Appoint John Thomlinson of London Esq' and in Case of his Decease his Executors or Administrators Our true & Lawful Attorney for us & in Our Names & trust aforesaid & on Our behalf for the use of Said Province to Accept all Such Annuities as he or they have or Shall Purchase with the Money belonging to Said Province for and to Cause the Same to be Enterd in the Transfer Books (or other Books and at Any Office or Place proper for the Same) to & in the Names of us the Said Theodore Atkinson Richard Wibird Meshech Weare & Henry Sherburne Jun' as Trustees for the Province aforesaid in Such Way and Manner as that it may Appear That the Said Annuities and all the Interest Profit & Advantage that Shall Arise thereby belongs to Said Province, Giving and hereby Granting unto the Said John Thomlinson full Power and Authority to Receive the Said Interest and dispose of & Apply the Same as We the Said Trustees or the Major part of us or Our Successors in the Said Trust Shall from time to time Direct him Pursuant to Such orders Relating to the Same as We Shall Receive from time to time from the General Assembly of Said Province, And to Do or Cause to be done all other Acts matters & things needful in the Premises as fully & amply in Every respect as if We were Personally Present. 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