me send these again is yt I hear that you and Mr Parker have lately Licensed people to cut trees as last year which is not now in my power to do and your License will not save em upon Tryall. Therefore I desire you will give em Notice of y' mistake and recall yr License And I do hereby order and direct you and Mr Parker whom I deputed att North Yarmouth to seize and mark all loggs and boards at any mills without any exception & keep an acct thereof yt ye owners of such mills may prove such to have been cutt upon private proprietys which was so before 7th October 1690

If Mr Slade is in yr Neighborhood pray give him this and keep a coppy of it and give another to Mr Parker and desire him to examine at Mr Wyers Mill at North Yarmouth if ye 20 Loggs remains there which wear seized by my Brother and condemned at a court of Admiralty at Boston in Summer last I intend in a fortnight or 3 weeks to call at Casco and at ye Mills & see you and Mr Parker can do his Majesty any service I shall continue yr Deputations and reward you for it

I am Sr your most Humble Sert

David Dunbar

A true coppy of Coll. Dunbars Letter to one of his Surveyors Thos Jouxson

[See Vol. IV., p. 599, etc. — ED.]

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[Governor Belcher's Orders to Examine and Report the Condition of the Fort, 1730. From the Original.]

Jonathan Belcher Esq' Governor and Commander In Chief In and over His Majestys Prov. of New Hamp' In New England, To John Wentworth Esq Lieut Gov' of the said Province and Richd Wibird Esq John Frost Esq' and Theore Atkinson Esq'— You are hereby required with all convenient dispatch to repair to William and Mary Fort at New Castle, and to examine into the state and Circumstances of the said Garrison, & report to me what additions and repairs are necessary for the Honor and Service of His Majesty, and the benefit and advantage of the Province. You are alike required to make a particular inquiry into the stores of the said Garrison and report to me what guns powder and all other stores of war are now belonging & appertaining to the said Fort; and let me have your report within thirty days from the date hereof without fail - Given under my hand

at Portsmouth, the second day of December, in the fourth year of His Majestys Reign Annoq. Domini 1730 —

[The committee reported as follows. - ED.]

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J. Belcher

An Account of the Stores of Fort William and Mary, taken by order of His Excellency Jona Belcher Esq' Governour and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, this 17th Day of December 1730 — Viz.

8 Sakers 12 Field Pieces
I Half Ditto

2 Minion I Whole Bbl powd

I Half Ditto almost full 2 Ream & 8 quire of Brown paper 16 Quire of Cartridge Ditto 24 Crab Hand-Spikes

2 Ditto Broken 43 Leaden Aprons

8 Large Iron Crows 22 Coper Ladles

230 4lb Shot

28 Rammers and Spunges

763 Demi-Canon Shot

266 Culverin Ditto

II Worms

I Loggerhead 3 Chests containing 18 Boxes of Patridge Shot 13 Boxes and Some loose Shot

40lb Match 84b Sheet Lead

970lb of Iron

22lb Leather

Received of the Committee the above written Stores for which I am accountable.

me

Shad: Walton

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[Anthony Reynolds Appointed Collector of Customs at Piscataqua, 1731.]

To all People to whome These presents shall Come. We Seal the Commissioners for managing and Causing to be levyed and Collected His Majestys Custom subsidies and other Dutys in that Part of Great Britain called England send Greeting; Know Yee That we the said Commissioners have by virtue of an act of Parliament made in the twenty fifth year of the

reign of King Charles the second Entituled an act for the Encouragement of the Eastland and Greenland Trades, and for better securing the Plantation Trade; and in Pursuance of the authority aud directions to us given by the Right Honble The Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury Deputed and impowered; and do hereby Depute and impower Anthony Reynolds Esq to be Collector and Surveyor of all the rates and Dutys & impositions arising and Growing due to His Majesty at Piscataqua in N. Hamp' and the Dependencies thereon In America by virtue of the said act whereby he hath power to enter into any ship bottom boat or other vessel; as also into any Shop House Warehouse Hostery [?] or other place whatsoever to make diligent search into any Trunk Chest Pack Case Truss or any other parcel or package whatsoever for any goods wares or Merchandize prohibited to be imported or exported or whereof the Customs or other Dutys have not been duly paid, and the same to seize to his Majestys use, and also to put in Execution all other the lawfull powers and authoritys for the better managing or collecting the said Dutys in all things Proceeding as the law directs, hereby Praying and requiring all and every His Majestys officers and Ministers and all others whom it may concern to be aiding and assisting to him in all things as becometh. Given under our hands & seal at the Custome House London ye 31st day of March in ye 4th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George 2d Annoq Domini 1731

B. Fairfax
Charles Peers

Registered in ye Secretarys Nov' 15: 1731.

J. Evelyn
John Hill

R. Waldron Secry

These may Certify whom it may Concern, that on the fifteenth day of the present month Anthony Reynolds Esq at Portsm° within His Majtys Province of N. Hamp' was sworn into ye office of His Majtys Collector of & for the sd Province and ye dependencys thereon, as witness my hand ye nineteenth day of Nov 1731 in ye fifth year of His Majts reign Richd Waldron Secry

Copy of Certificate sent ye Govr ye day of ye date

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[Petition from the Quakers, 1731.]

Dover the 26th of ye 2d mo: 1731

To Jonathan Belcher Esq' Govener and Commander in Chief (under God) in and over ye provinces of ye Massachusetts Bay and New

hampshair in Newengland and to ye Councel and house of Representatives in Newhampshair aforesd

Whereas we ye people Comonly Called Quakers did in ye 2d mo 1729 offer a petition to ye Govener humbley Requesting that we might not be imposed upon when we are Chosen Counstables to gather the taxes or assesments that are from time to time assesed upon the inhabitants for ye support of ye prisbetrain minestry and did not mention the Councel and house of Representatives in sa petition for which Reason ye Gen1 Court would not act thereon - We do therefore humbly Crave that you would be pleased to consider of this matter for altho we are exempted in ye Law from paying any part or proportion of such taxes or assesments yet nevertheless we are Required when we are Chosen Counstables to Leve and Collect ye same of others which is contrary to our principles to pay such taxes neither can we gather ye same of others: whereupon we have been and are Likely to be under great sufferings notwithstanding we Refuse not neither do we desire to be excused from serving Counstables in any other part of the office whatsever - we desire that you would be pleased to pass an act by which we may be Released from being Compeled or Required to do that which is Contrary to our principles Relating to ye matter above mentioned which is the humble Request of your friends Comonly Called Quakers

Signed on behalf and by order of ye Society aforementioned

In Counc1 May 3d 1731 - The above Petition read and Voted, That in any Town wthin this Province where a Quaker shall be chosen a Constable another Person (not of that Denomination) shall be chosen a Collector of the Ministers Salary and that the Petitioners have leave to bring in a bill accordingly

Sent down for Concurrence.

Rich Waldron Secretary

In the house of Representatives May ye 4th 1731 P. M. the above vote Read and Concurred with this amendment - Viz' that another son be chose Constable instead of Collector

In Coun1 May 5th 1731.

James Jeffrey Cler. Assm Read and Concurred with the amendm1Richd Waldron Secretary

May 5th 1731 I assent to the votes on the other side

[The act is printed in Vol. IV., p. 597. ED.]

J. Belcher

[3-11] [Expenses of Committee on Boundary Line, 1731.]

Province of New Hamp' to the Comittee that went to Newbury on

the affair of the Lines

To Sundry Expences pd at Collings.

To Sundry Expences pd at Greenlieffs & ferriage
To Sundry Expences pd at Graves's

To Cash pd at Colling on return

To horse hire pd Mr Benja Rust for a Servant

To Cash pd By Henry Sherburn Esq at Collings's
To Coll Shurburne four Days at 10/

To Rich Waldron Esq

Dr

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2.

2.

2.

I. IO.

£21. 5. 10

Theodore Atkinson

in behalf of sd Committee

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[Commission from Governor Belcher to Richard Wibird, dated July 12, 1731, to be collector of customs at Portsmouth until further orders. ED.]

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Prov: of N. Hamp

[Richard Wibird's Commission, August, 1731.]

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By his Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq' Governor and Commander in Chief in & over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire aforesaid

To Rich Wibird Esq' Greeting - Pursuant to ye power & authority in and by his Majestys Royal instructions to me granted that in case of ye death or absence of ye Surveyor Generall of his Majestys Customs within this District, & the death of any Collector of ye said Customs within this Province I should make choice of any person of known loyalty experience diligence & fidelity to be employed in the room of such deceased Collector untill ye Surveyor Generall of his Majestys Customs shall be advised thereof and appoint another to succeed in his place or that further directions shall be given therein. by ye Right Honorable the Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury