I. Major Willards house Built by ye province a Cannon Mounted in it. 3. Lieut Butlers house. 4. Coll" Willards house. 5. Province house a Cannon mounted in it. 6. Citydale. [14% feet square.] 7. Colla Willards house 8. Coll Willards house. 9. Sam' Ashleys house. 10. Coll Willards house. Built by ye province. Fort Dummer M: Patten- August 26: 1749 August 30: 1749 N. 38 W. Beginning at the S. W. Corner of the fort running Sun wise 22 feet Bredth of Coll" Willards house 4 feet notch then the same point 68 feet to Majr Willards house - The Maj's house parelel with the Colls 22 feet - true [?] angle at the Corner of the Maj house 173 feet 43 Squar inward then E: 38: N: 40 feet 7 feet notch inward Squar then E: 30: N: 78 feet 2 feet 9 inches Squar outward then E 36 N. 22 feet to the N: E: Corner — then S. 36 E. 18 feet W. 36 S. 111 S. 23 E. 67 feet. From Coll" Willards E. 35 N: 108 feet 42 feet from Coll" Willards house to the Gate South Side - 24 feet Back from Maj' Willards house to the West Gate Coll Willards house 32 feet in Length [Matthew Patten and John Goffe were residents of Bedford. They were probably sent to Fort Dummer by the Governor or Legislature. In the original the descriptions, I to II, are written on the plan. — ED.] [Wentworth to Shirley.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. II., p. 274.] Portsmouth, August 27, 1749. Sir- By his Majestys Instructions I am commanded upon Extraordinary Emergencies in my Government to consult and advise with the King's Governors in the neighboring Provinces; and as your Excy is bound for Great Britain it will be highly necessary & for his Majestys immediate service, that before your departure, you should be fully acquainted with the dispute subsisting between the Assembly of this Province & the King's Gov' inasmuch as the Dispute principly relates to the Establishing the King's Authority in my Government. In obedience therefore to His Majesty's Commands I must insist on an Interview with your Excellency before your Embarking for Great Britain, at Portsmouth or any other place you may think more proper, but as I have many records of the General Assembly to lay before you, & many more you may Occasion to call for, it can't be so well attended at any other place. I shall hope for your answer by the return of my Express, & to have the exact time of your being on the lines of this Government. I am, Sir Your Excellency's most obedt & humbe servt [Answer to the Foregoing.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. II., p. 275.] B. Wentworth. Boston, Augst 28, 1749. Sir I am sorry your Exc' should imagine I could sail for Eng land without giving you timely notice to favour me with your com mands, and I hope you are persuaded yt it will be a singular pleasure to me to have it in my power to do you any good offices, which I shall not fail in doing when it is. Your letter will be in time, I believe, to reach me by the next Sunday come Sen'night, altho' it would be safest to have sent it by next post: But the service of my own Governm1 and my short stay make it absolutely impossible for me to have an interview wth you before the Man of Warr sails; and I find as things turn out, if I lose my passage in that, I shall lose it for this year; therefore hope your Excy will excuse me; and yt your commands may be communicated to me in a letter. Wishing you all health and happiness, I am with great regard and esteem, Sir, Your Excys most faithfull and obedient servant His Excy Govt Wentworth. My service to Col. Atkinson and your Bro. Mark. W. Shirley. [Copy of Warrant, 1749.] Province of New Hampshire [Belknap Papers, Vol. II., p. 276.] To Jotham Odiorne Nath' Meserve, & Henry Wallace in Seal Portsmouth. The Hon the Commissioners of His Majestys Navy, haveing by their letter to Mess's Apthorp Wentworth & Co bearing date Navy office 19th Novr 1748; Signified their desire that the said Apthorp Wentworth & Co should Supply His Majestys Navy Stationd at Antigua, under the Command of Capt Francis Holbourn, with Such Naval Stores, as the Storekeeper should give orders for, & Inasmuch as Capt Holbourn has by His letter to Said Gentlemen dated on board His Majestys Ship the Tavistock, in Carlile Bay at Barbados. July the 20th 1749, given orders, for Sundry Masts & other Naval Stores You the said Jotham Odiorne, Nath' Meserve & Henry Wallace are hereby desired, to Inspect the Accoants, that shall be laid before You by the said Apthorp Wentworth & C° of the Cost & Charges of the Said Naval Stores, Represented to Me to be Shipt on board the Snow Lorrain George Meserve Master for English Harbour on the Island of Antigua and report to me whether the Cost & Charges are Just & Reasonable, according to the prices paid in this place for the Same Species of goods, allso to settle & adjust the frt for the said Naval Stores and the usual & Customary Exchange between this place & Great Brittain in order to the Said Apthorp Wentworth & Co being reimbursed the amount of their Account, by bills on The Hon1e the Com's of His Majestys Navy, & report to me your doings hereon Given under my hand & Seal at Portsmouth Oct° the 10th 1749 B Wentworth. [Report of Committee Named in the Foregoing, 1749.] Pursuant to your Excellencys Order of 10th Oct° Having examined, the foregoing Mess's Apthorp Wentworth & Cos Accs of Navall stores purchased by them for His Majestys Service On board the Snow Lor rain George Meserve Master for English Harbour in Antegua, as appears by the bills Laiding and Invoice Exhibited to us - Do find the whole to be just and reasonable — Charged, according to the rates and prices, such goods were at Amounting to One thousand, three hundred thirty one pounds Seventeen shillings & five pence Old tenor, and that two hundred pounds Antegua Currency, is no more than the Just pay for the height of said goods - We Judge it Just and equal, that the Bills to be drawn On the Honble the Commissioners of His Majestys Navy, be at the rate of Nine hundred & fifty pounds Old tenor for One hundred pounds sterling. the same making thereby One Hundred & forty pounds, three shillings and Eleven pence Sterling — Witness Our hands-Dated att Portsmouth October 18th 1749. J Odiorne [4-73] [Proclamation relative to Peace with the Indians, 1749.] Province of By his Excelency Benning Wentworth Esqr CapNew Hamp tain General Governour & Commander in Chieff of his Majesties Province of New Hampshire aforesd A Proclamation Whereas at the request of the Indians of the Ponobscot Noridgwolk Arrasagontacook & Wowenoch and other Tribes of Indians Inhabiting within his Majesties Territorys of New England who have Lately been at war with this Province- A Treaty was begon & held at Casco bay upon the fourteenth of October Last between Comissioners by me Appointed and Impowered for that Purpose and the Indian Chieffs & Deligates & other Indians of & from the afore Said Tribes and upon the 16th of the Said month Articles of Peace & friendship between this Government and the Said Indians were Agreed upon & finally Settled I have therefore thot fit with the Advice of his Majesties Council to Issue this Proclamation that all Persons within this Government may be Duely Informed of the Peace concluded as aforesd hereby Strictly Commanding all his Majesties Loveing Subjects to Observe Inviolably the Said Treaty of Peace & friendship and not to Comit any Acts of Violence, or Hostilities against the Said Indians or give them any Trouble, or mollestation but on the Contrary afford them all necessary Comfort and Assistance as Occasion may require — Dated at the Council Chamber in Portsmo the 13th Day of November Annoq Domini 1749 B Wentworth By his Excelencys Comand with advice of Council Theodore Atkinson Secry God Save the King [Copied from the original. ED.] [4-74] [Lieutenant-Governor Phips, relative to Exchange of Prisoners.] Boston Novem' 9th 1749. Sir, I am informed that his Excellency Governour Shirley had setled an Agreement with the Governour of Canada so far as related to this Government that the Charge of transporting English Prisoners should be defrayed by the English Governments and the charge of transporting French Prisoners by their Government, and that upon his Excys informing the Governours of the neighboring Colonies, the most of them had signified their approbation of this method, I am likewise informed that in the Year 1746 there were brought into this province in a Flagg of Truce sent by the Governour of Canada called the La vierge de Grace a great number of English Captures some of them being Europeans but the most of them belonging to the English Province's and Colonies in America, and that about the same time. |