demand, or draw for his pay, I have wrote to Gov' Wentworth concerning Fort Dumer, And which I hope he will Emeadiatly Communicate to the Council, And Assembly, And I hope he and All of you will agree imeadiatly to do Every thing that I have there Advised, and whatever Else may Occurr to you, to prevent the Mischief aim'd at you You have by this Ship the Goods You order'd, I hope they will come Safe to hand and will be Agreeable, I Shall be glad to find they are so, and am wth Great Esteem Sir Your most hum1 Sert John Thomlinson Lett the Chaplain & Surgeon if Any, be included in the above List of officers [Mr. Thomlinson's letter of August 10, 1749, and Mr. Atkinson's of October 19, 1749, are printed in Vol. VI., pp. 886-7, and one from Mr. Thomlinson to Henry Sherburne, Jr., dated November 13, same year, on p. 888. — ED.] [Thomlinson to Atkinson. Copy Dowers.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 147.] Theo Atkinson Esq' London 27th Nov 1749 Sir— I am to acknowledge your favour of — And as the Canada & other American affairs are now auditing, & I have so many different concerns therein, I have not more time than to tell you, that I will do all in my power, to serve your Province & you & all concern'd in this affair to my utmost. I have sent to Governour Wentworth Mr Paris's directions for such Papers as will be necessary for your Government, to send properly authenticated, to extricate you from this load, which the Province of the Massachusetts Bay are about to Lay upon you, as you will see by those Papers sent you by Mr Paris, and if the assembly should not be in temper to act with the Governour & Councill, I shou'd think that the Governour & Councill shou'd expert themselves in this Important Crisis. That all those Paper Proofs may be here before it is too Late—I shall do all I can in this affair, if you do but send me the proper Materialls, & am wth great Esteem, Sir Yr humble Servant [P. 148.] Londo Feby 20th 1749 [1750 N. S.] S On the other Side is Copy of my Last, Since wch am favourd with yours of the 17 & 20th Octob' & have Shipt the things you Wrote for, as Inclosed Invoice & Bill of Lads Last M° I reced of Mr Jones £38. 16. 10 wch have Carried to yr Credit wch he Says is what was due to you to Mids' last, The Papers you Sent me on Mr French's Appeal, I have put into Mr Paris'es hands, with directions to retain the Attorney & Soll' General in the Cause, and which I understand he has done, and has Since Sent Me the Inclosed papers, to Shew you what is Necessary for you to do farther in this Case, and wch I would have you get done & Sent to me as Soon as possible, I am with great Esteem Sir Your most hum1 Sert [Thomlinson to Atkinson.] John Thomlinson [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 153.] Theodore Atkinson Esq London ye 4th of March 1750 Sir Since my last to you I have had your Sundry Favours of ye 18th, 28th, of Augt 3d Sep & 20th of June by Capt Hunking, and observe what you Say on your Governments affairs, I am sorry to find thing continue So that you must in the End Suffer for it, Tho the Government here has not yet taken into Consideration the State of your Province, and Some other Provinces in North America yet the time must come, and I think cannot be far off, And what can you Expect, When I am at the other End of the Town at any of the great offices, And only Mentions your Province, I am frequently told you are in a State of Rebelion, And This Winter I have been frequently calld up on behalf of your Province, & not only on Account of Fort Dummer & Frenches Appeal (and which I fear you will Suffer in, for want of the papers that Mr Paris has So long Since wrote for) But the West India Planters & Merchants have been pushing hard to Obtain a Law to prohibit all Commerce & Trade whatsoever, between the Brittish Northern Collonys, and all Foreign Sugar plantations, under the Sevearest penaltys, and whether or no they have yet done with it, I cannot tell, But Shall watch their Motion, And now there's a Bill ready to be Brought into parliament, for regulating & Restraining &c the paper Bills or Bills of Credit Subsisting and passing in Rhode Island, & the other three New England Governments have for this 10 or 14 days Been obliged to Attend upon that Affair, what the Act may Bee if this Bill pass into an Act, I cannot particularly Say, But at present it is to prevent the Making Issueing &c, any More paper Bill or Bills of Credet, without being Authorized thereto by his Majty &c and on Some other Stipulated Emergencys, And for the Calling in dischargeing & Sinking all paper Bills of Credet now Subsisting & passing, of what kind or denomination what Soever, at the periods Such Bills were to be called in By the Act by which they were Made & Issued, And to prevent any paper Bills of what kind Soever for the future from Being a Legal Tender - And that all payments Shall be Made in Silver Money at And after the rate of Six Shillings for a Sevill pillar or Mexico peice of Eight of Seventeen peney weight, and So in proportion for any Smaller peices of ye Same, or other Silver Coin, and how Specialtys Are to be paid &c &c,After the Merchants and others that were possessed of the Bills & Cirtificates drawn &c, for the Money Granted to the province of the Massachusett-Bay, had been long Solliciting the Lords of his Majtys Treasury for the payment of the Same, they were Told By their Lordships in Sept Last, that if I would take the Trouble of takeing the Money, and paying the Same, it Should be Issued to me in the Month of Oct', and notwithstanding the Trouble I then foresaw, and have Since Experienced, yet to oblige their Lordships, and the Merchts, I consented, and the latter End of Oct" the money Granted for the Massachusetts-Bay was paid me, And also what was granted to the Province of New Hampshire, I have now paid Away the greatest part of the Money granted to the Massachusetts-Bay, And have allso paid what demands has Appeard for the officers of your regiment, And shall before this Month is out, Send you All the papers And Accounts relating thereto, And also the province Acct Currant, that they May See what Cash they have here in My hands, And May Agree to Call in And sink their paper Bills, (as the other provinces has done) That would be the most Agreeable thing they could do, And Indeed it is here Expected that they will do it, But if your Assembly will not do it, I hope they will not let (about) £30000 Ster Lye Dead, But will Send proper directions and powers to Me to Lay it out in Some of the Funds, where it may Bring An Annual Income to the province, and not Lye dead as it otherwise must do, and Concequently be a Loss of £900 Sterling or thereabouts Annum I hope all partys will agree in Makeing So considerable a Saveing to the publick. I find that you have Sent to the Massachusetts Government for Authenticated paper, as Mr Paris had directed, relating to the dispute about Fort Dummer, And that you have been denighed them, altho you offerd to pay for the Same, for God Sake, why did not you demand them by a Notary publeck, and in Case of refusal he the Said Notary Should have properly Set forth his demand, And their refusal and you Should have Had the same properly Authenticated by ye Said Notary, & Sent directly, And that Should now be done with all Speed And sent here, or that affair will be heard, and what can be done without any proper Vouchers, for if you had sent Such proofs of the other provinces refuseing you those papers, as above, I should have gott an order of Council for them, and the Cause put off untill they had them, But a Bare Say in a Letter, that those papers were refused you, will not do, I can assure you I would do Every thing in My power to Serve the province, But I cannot do more than I can, And to tell you the truth, I am quite wiried, and disheartend in Every affair where I appear for your province, and I fear that must be the Case, untill your assembly complys with his Majestys Additional Instruction, your province used to Stand in a quite different Light, and I most heartily wish to See it do So again, And Am with great Truth Sir Your Most hum1 Sert John Thomlinson To Theodore Atkinson Esq' Secritary to his Majtys Province of New Hampshire [Thomlinson to Atkinson.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 154.] London ye 4th of March 1750 Sir I have Just now Wrote to you on Affairs relating to the Government, I am now to take notice of your own private affairs I find that when I settled with Mr Sherbourne for Mrs Pickerings pay, I have ommitted Stoping your demand of £5: 14: 0, when he came to Settle his own, And Mrs Pickerings, we were in a great hurry, So that neither I or any Body in the Counting house once tho't of your paper of demands on ye Several officers, As it was laid By with other papers till the Money Should be paid by the Government, neither did know of or Stope Either from Mr Sherborns or M' Pickerings one Cent for fees &c at the Offices, which we are obliged to Stop out of all the others, as you will See by the province Account wch I Shall Soon Send you, that the fees &c paid Amounts to that I have Settled with and paid, the Revd Mr Browne for himself and his Son, And he dont Chose to Allow you the £15 you Charge, But has had the Whole, and Says that he will Settle that affair with you, & he goes in this Ship, I think all the other Articles we Shall Carry to your Credit, Last Month Mr Jones paid me for your Acctt £146. 15. 2 which you have credit for, he desires me to tell you, that your & Mr Mitchells diary are And will Continue to be Stop'd, So long as you Swear to yours before Mr Mitchel, & he to his before you, I am Sorry you have no other justice in the province Capt Hunking is Saild for Antigua, and I have told him that if he draws on Me for £20 on your Account I shall pay it, You have herewith Bill of Loading for ye Goods you orderd for J Simpson But The Linins You order for Mr Simpson are on Board Capt Lewis, As Soon As these Ships are gone Your Account Shall be made out, And you Shall have it, And the province Account Also, I am with great Esteem London 29th Mar. 1750 Sir Since the above, am without any of yours, therefore have only to advise you, that the Parliament has voted the Money to be paid for the Canada Expedition, but when it will be Issued, Can't yet inform you, but hope it will soon, when shall write you again, Interim I am, Sir, Your hum1 Servant, John Thomlinson London ye 10th of May 1750 Sir The Money Granted by Parliament as Above is not yet Issued, Tho I Expect it daily to be done, and then I hope I Shall be able to get what is Voted to your Regement, as for what is Voted to the province, I Suppose it must lye in the Treasury as the Sum that was Voted for Louisbourg does, for want of my haveing proper powers to receive it, I find that Both the Provinces & Regiments Account Are greatly Shortned, but Cannot yet give you Acct in what particular, But the whole Granted to your province & Regement is only £21446,, 10,, 10, As Soon As the Money is Issued I possible may be Able to |