On the fifth instant the brigantine Paramarabo and sloop Wm. & Mary being at Liscoms Harbour aforesaid, the Indians call'd the men ashoar, and being come saluted them kindly, calling them Brothers, and then beckon'd to them to go back to their boat, and as soon as their backs were turn'd, they took up their guns that lay conceal'd in the bushes and fired on them and kill'd two outright, and wounded three more, two of whom it is thought will dy of their wounds.

I have these several facts well attested by the persons that were present; and they are such notorious breaches of the peace, and without the least provocation on the side of the English as I suppose no person can think they are tamely to be born by any Governm'. I am now using the easiest and most moderate methods that can be thought of to obtain satisfaction and reparation of these injuries, and to have the actors deliver'd up to justice; and shall inform you of the success.

I am, Sir,

Your very humble Servant,

BOSTON, Oct. 20, 1727.

WM. DUMMER.

I have sent one of your Packets to Lond. by Cap Hamerden: the duplicate will be sent by Capt Homans who is to sail next week. With this you'l receive a Packet w'ch came by the latter under cover to me the last week from the Secret'y of States office.

[Superscribed] Gov TALCOT.

LIEUT.-GOVERNOR DUMMER OF MASSACHUSETTS TO GOVERNOR TALCOTT.

BOSTON 11th Dec. 1727.

I received yours of the 13 past, inclosing one for your Agent Mr. Dummer which I deliver'd with my own to Capt. Crocker who sail'd for Lond last Saturday, and by the sd ship I remitted according to your desire, to the Agent £.178. 3, the invoice

whereof I now inclose you a copy of. I wrote him at the same time that it was your direction that the money be imploy'd in the defence of the Colony against Mr. Winthrop's Complaints.

I wrote my Bro' sometime since, that I received a letter from you of the 16th of Octobr wherein you acquainted me that you would draw out his Salary and send it me by the first opportunity, but your letters since make no mention thereof. We have 4 of the principal Indians of Penobscot and Norridgawack arrived here, in order to enter into measures for obtaining satisfaction of the Cape Sable Indians, to wh they seem well set.

I am Sr, Y' most humble Ser.

WM. DUMMER.

[Indorsed] Letter from G Dummer of Boston, Dec

11, 1727.

LIEUT.-GOVERNOR DUMMER OF MASSACHUSETTS TO GOVERNOR TALCOTT.

BOSTON, 31st Janu. 1727. S: I received the One hundred Pounds you sent me for your Agent the 29th of this month, of the bearer hereof, for wh I gave my receipt, and I shall by the first vessell for Lond'. acquaint the Agent thereof. My last accounts from my Brother were that he was much better, and finding the country air to be of

service to him he chose to be pretty much there, for wh reason he wrote to the Genr. Court of this Province either to dismiss him, or to joyne some person w him that might be alwayes in Towne. Accordingly they have desired Mr. Wilks to assist him in case of his indisposition. He never mention'd anything to me of quitting your Agency.

I am S',

Y most obd humble Sert.

WM. DUMMER.

Gov. TALCOTT.

[Indorsed] Gov'. Dummer Jan. 31. 172. Rec'ing Agents Salary.

COMMISSIONERS OF THE CUSTOMS TO GOVERNOR

TALCOTT.

Sir: Having by the inclosed letter to Mr. Stevens, Surveyor General of the Northern part of the Continent of America, acquainted him that we have issued forth a new Deputation to Mr. Shackmaple, Collector of Connecticut, and directed him to take care that the Bond inclosed therein be executed before proper Witnesses and returned to us. We desire in case Mr. Stevens is absent in the other parts of his Survey, that you will please to give directions that the said Bond be accordingly executed before proper Witnesses, and forwarded to Mr. Stevens together with his letter, in order to be returned by him to us.

CHARLES PEERS.

J. STANLEY.

G. WALKER.

CUSTOM HO. LONDON, 21 March, 1727.

[Superscribed] On His Majesty's Especial Service.

To HIS EXCELLENCY, The Governour and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut.

GOVERNOR JENCKS* OF RHODE ISLAND TO GOVERNOR TALCOTT.

NEWPORT 12th April 1728.

Sir Yours of the 19th of March came safe to my hand, but not till the Sixth currt. I have also had the sight of a letter directed to Mr. Richard Ward, in Newport, dated Hartford January 15th 1723, but from whom it came I am not certain, their being no name subscribed to it, but conclude that to be only a forgetful omission. The said letter informs that at that time you had not received any account from Great Britain of the Settlement of the Line between the Colonies &c. yet nevertheless, at the session of our Assembly in February last, many of the members thereof being desirous that the said Line might be settled according to his Majesty's determination, as well for preventing for the future such unreasonable destruction made upon their timber as for more than twenty years past has been made by Connecticut men, as for quieting men's possessions bounded by that Line, did obtain an Act for the proceeding on that work on the 15th of this instant April, (as Mr. Secretary Ward has informed your Honour,) hoping that before the said time you might receive from Great Britain a full account of his Majesty's determination. Indeed I must acknowledge that your Government's not being in a capacity, with

* Joseph Jencks, born 1656, died June 15, 1740. He was appointed agent of Rhode Island in England, on account of the refusal of Connecticut to accept the bounds between the two colonies, as settled by the commissioners of both at Stonington in 1703, and later he was one of the four commissioners appointed to run the line. Governor of Rhode Island, 1727-1732. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, 112-113.

out much trouble and charge, to choose a committee to join with ours until May next, was not so timely considered as it ought to have been. But that your Honour and the rest of the Gentlemen in your Government may be sensible that we have no desire that a matter of such consequence as the ascertaining the Boundary Line between the two Governments is, should be done ex Parte, I had by and with the advice of the General Council of this Colony, (before your letter came to hand,) put a stop to our committee's proceed thereon, in order to give you the opportunity of joining with us in that affair, as also hoping that your Government will have a greater regard to the determination of his Majesty in Council than they had to their own Agreement made with ours in the year 1703. I can heartily join with your Honour in saying a final issue of the unhappy controversy is that which I very much desire, and that such measures may be taken as may end in the most amicable and friendly manner, and I think may with great modesty say, that had our government been the aggressors in so unhappy a controversy, they would have had just cause to reflect blame upon themselves.

Sir, as to what you say about sending some Gentlemen with the account we have received, I dare not promise such a thing, it being what will lye with the Assembly to order, and to send you a full copy now of their Lordship's proceedings in that affair with the figures thereto annexed, as presented to his Majesty, will require considerable time as well as skill to draw it, but a copy of his Majesty's determination I send you herewith inclosed, and remain

Your Honour's very humble Servant,

J. JENCKS.

To the Honble JOS. TALCOTT, Esq'. Gov' of Connecticut.