[Atkinson to Trecothick & Thomlinson, 1759.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 173.] Portsm° October the 27th 1759 Sr In mine of the 25th August 1758 I Desired you would invest what money you then had of mine in your hands, in some of the Funds that I might have interest for it as I imagined the Stocks were pritty Low and a good Time to Purchass in to this I have not been favourd with your answer I hope notwithstanding tis done pray what Sum soever I may have in your hands Let be Laid out in that manner keeping £100 a Little more or Less in your Custody for my Accot I want much to have Capt Pikes Accot somehow Settled & those other affairs of the Canada Expedition Perticularly what the Ballance of Lt Coll John Wentworths & Insign Hugh Hall Wentworths Ballances Are My Son has wrote Mr Inman for a Suit of Cloathes Pray Pay him for them when he Calls upon you - Inclosed is a Letter to Mr Jones with my Diary to Micaelmass Last Pray forward it - I now inclose you a memorand which Pray Ship me the first in the Spring Insured to Piscataqua The Takeing of Quebeck gives New Spirits tis a Glorious Conquest Gen" Wolfe is much & Deservedly Lamented if the Weather Should force Gen" Amherst into Winter Quarters too soon to accomplish the reduction of the whole Contry it must be an Easey Conquest the next Year tho" I am not without hopes of its being happly finished this fall the Gen" is Parted Some time from Crown Point, & with his Naval force has Demolished Two of the four French Vells of fore that were in that Lake & has taken a third the one remaining will not tis tho' Attempt Any Opposition to the Gen" Progress a Little Time will inform us of the Consequence of his Attempt I am Gentlemen Your most Obedient Humble St To Mess Trecothick Apthorp & Thomlinson ΤΑ Mr Inman will call on & Deliver you with my Sons Cloath a Suit for my Self which Pray Pay him for Send me also 21 best green Tea in Canisters also hair Covers for I Dozen Chairs 2 of which are arm Chairs Put them up in a round Port mantle Trunk made Strong & Covered with Seal Skins I would have the Trunk just big enough to Pack up these Perticulars 2 Suits Cloaths 2ll Green Tea Copymast fleet 12 Chair Bottoms I Trunk Portsm° December 26 1759 Gen"men the above is Copy the Mast Ships which I hope has reach your hands before this & that you have Executed the Contents I have nothing further to add but that I am with much respect Your Obleedged Humble Servt his Majtys Ship the Boston [5-16] [Concerning Isaac Towle, 1759.] These may Sertefy that Isaac Towl as he Says was a Soldier under the Command of Capt Alexander Tod of Lundon Darry in Co1 Goofs Rigement the Sd Towl Says he was Sick at Blanford with the mesa's he Came to my house July ye 1 - 1759 and was Sick at my house Seven weeks with a pleurisi feaver and the Slow feaver folowing after it ( me Lenester Nov y Thomas Green MD 18 1759 [5-17] [Account of the Canada Expedition Committee, 1759.] The Accompt of Richard Wibird Esq' Chairman of the Committee for the Expedition Against Canada, 1759, The Said Accomptant Charges Himself with the Several Sums Received as follows 1759 The Ballance due to the Province in 1758 Accot Brot forward — Receiv'd of the Treasurer pr the Governours Warrent Bills for £311,, 14/ in favour of Rob' Saunders Esq' his do Ditto. of Palatiah Russell Sterling £39,, 13" 800,, 0,, 8 200,, 311,, 14, 250,, 14,, 2,, 7 2,, 12 13,, 14,, 8 13,, 15,, 8 9,, 15,, 21 2,, 8,, is 62,, 6,, 5 Provisions Dld into the Kings Stores by the Commis sary in the year 1756— A Ballance Rendred outstanding in John Knight Esq's hands £45,, 10 N T is 7,, 5, 71 £2001,, 17,, 91 The Said Accomptant Discharges himself from the Aforesaid Sums. by the following payments 1759 Paid Joseph Sherburne his Acc° for Blankets &ca Do Solomon Loud's Bill 31,, Do John Nelson do do do Do Mark HWentworth Esq'd. Do Samuel Rankins Do John Griffeth Do Samuel Tripe do do do Do Dr Joshua Bracket do Do Noah Lovewell an Express 14,, 12,, IO 5,, IO,, 5 I,, 18,, 5 4,, 16,, 8,,10 37,, 8,, 5 52,, 19,, 4 21,, 21,, II,, Do Robert Saunders Esq' of Albany for Supplys for the Regiment pr the Colo Draft Do John Carkins Acc° 7/ Seth Johnson d° 24/ Do John Penhallows Acco 12,, Do Henry Sherburne Esq' for Blankets Stocks & ca do A Ballance Outstanding in m' Zebulon Giddings hand - . Paid Andrew Clarkson for Copies &ca 60/ A Bill of Exchange Drawn by Mr Kilby, 10th Ballance due The Province. Errors Excepted Province of } Portsmouth December 19th 1760 pr R Wibird Chairman of the Committee N. Hampsr Portsm° Feb: 18th 1761 We being a Committee appointed by the General Assembly to Examine the Accounts of the Committe for Transacting affairs relating to the Expedition against Canada have carefully Examined this Account of Richard Wibird Esqr Chairman of said Committe for the Year 1759 & find the Same well vouch'd & right cast and that there is a Ballance thereon in favour of the Province of two hundred Seventy nine pounds ten Shillings & five pence Sterling to be carried forward to ye Acco for the Year 1760 £279,, 10-5 Jos: Newmarch Committee Province of New Hamps' In the house of Representatives Feby 18th 1761 Voted That this Accot be Accepted & Allowed, that the Committee be discharged from the Respective Sums therein Charged Against them, & that the Ballance be Carried Forward to their Sterls Accot for the Year 1760 A Clarkson Clerk In Council Febry 19 1761 read & Concurrd Consented to Theodore Atkinson SecTMy B Wentworth [Petition of Susanna Johnson, 1760.] [Copied from Hibbard Collection, Vol. III., p. 178.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governor and 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 the 2d of Feb 1760 The Humble Petition of Susanna Johnson Widow Relict of James Johnson Late of Charles Town in said Province Gent. Deceas'd Shews That your Petition' with sentiments of the Highest Gratitude woud Remember & acknowledge the Bounty of the Assembly of this Province in the year 1755 to the Deceas'd granted for the Redemption of his Family then in Captivity which by the Deceit & Perfidy of the French did not attain the Good End Proposd. But how that money was applied and what was the Event of that affair, has been laid before the Committee of War and may appear by Papers now in the Secretary's Office That your Petition' was afterward separated from her Husband after a whole years Imprisonment in a close & Loathsome Jail & sent to England with two of her children & a sister as Prisoners, to be exchanged, while her Husband & two other of her children remaind in Canada - That while your Petition' was in England He found means of obtaining his Liberty & Returnd to New England as she also did after passing thro' a variety of Scenes and many misfortunes. But two of their children Remaind Prisoners in Canada. That as the greatest calamity of all to your Petition" Mr Johnson Fell in that unhappy attack on Ticonderoga under General Abercromy. Since which Col° Schuyler has Redeemd her son who was |