ment in the Lower Courts cases are often Suspended and Continued for a long time for want of a Competent Court so that there really is a necessity for an additional Number of Councellors - The Acts that were recomended to your Care to get his Majtys Consent to the Appointmt of Jurors the Assembly are Dayly Enquireing after but have nothing from you on that head Tis Time Now to tell you that I am respectfully Your Most Oblidged Humble Servt Sent by Capt Nevin [Atkinson to Trecothick, Apthorp, and Thomlinson.] [Ibid., p. 173.] TA Portsm° August 25 1758 Srs I recievd yours of the 28 Feby by Capt Darling Enclosing Invoyce & Bill Lading for Sundrys (with Charges thereon) amos to £18: 12: 10 which your Accot has Cred' for Except this Letter tis Long I have been without any of Your favours neither have I had any from Mr Jones who I imagine has paid Sundry Sums Since I have had any accot but Expect the Ballce in my favour I would therefore Desire you would keep in your hands, to the Value of One hundred Pounds Sterling a little more or Less & what in your hand in my favour more than that Sum I would have Lend out in Purchasing the Value in Some Stock or fund I imagine they are now Low & tis a good time to Purchase in this is upon a Supposition that Capt Nevin has not recievd on my Accot any considerable Sum from you I hope by Smith I shall receive the Sundrys I Sent for by Capt Nevin &ca As I am now finishing all my old Accots Should be very Glad to have Capt Pikes accot in Some Sorte adjusted & those other things I have heretofore mentioned concerning the Canada Expedition accot with Mr Thomlinson - We have no News but what will be more Authentically handd you from the Proper officers than I can Pretend to & to which I beg Leave to refer you * & Am Gentlemen with great respect Your most Obedient Humble Servt Theodore Atkinson *We have in this Pro' done our utmost the Expedition we are concernd in has hitherto been very unfortunate which is greatly agrevated by our having spent more than our all and can do no more Treasure will not hold out to pay our Engagements We are still our willing but have not money nor Credit to Enter another Campaign Pray Send me the Perticulars in the Enclosed mem° & let my Interest be fully Insured so as to make me whole in case of a Loss I am Gents etc. Mess Trecothick Apthorp & Thomlinson Capt Darling P. S. I have Ventured to Desire Capt Darling to Diliver you a Packquet Directed to James Nevin Esq marked under the Seal Ño (1) if he should be stil in London Please to Deliver it to him in Case he Should be come off then Please to open it & Diliver those Papers that relate to the Custom House to his friend at that Board - and those that relate to the Hospital at Greenwhich to that Board and Pay there the Ballance of £6: 17: 4: Sterling which Charge me with this will greatly oblidge Gentlemen Your Humble Sert ΤΑ As I Expect Capt Nevin is in London I dont write the Several offices which will I hope Excuse me in case he Should become off which Please to acquaint the Boards off Gentlemen - Nov: 14th 1758 TA The above is a Copy of what I wrote Capt Darling Since which have recd the Sundrys You Ship'd me by Smith which were agreable Except the Worsted Hose Some of them much moth Eaten I must now Desire you would Send me the Perticulers in the Enclosed mem° haveing made Som Addition to what I wrote for 25 August Mr Frail now going home tells me there are frequent Opportunitys of Buying Carpets at Vendue much Cheaper than at a Warehouse & that he will Purchass me one if So he will advise you of it & in that case Please to pay him the Cost of one but dont miss Sending me one with the other things in the Spring I cant conclude with out mentioning the Loss of our much & Justly Esteemed friend M' Apthorp all which I grieve I am Gent" ΤΑ Yours Send ye Copy of what went by Darling in the Norwich & the Copy of that of the 14th November by Capt Grainger [4-175] [Commissary King's Certificate.] Portsmouth 22d Feby 1758 These Certify that the Effects which Serjt Grow of the New Hampshire Regiment died Possessed of at the Flatts, consisting of a Gun Blanket and some Cloathing, are not now to be found Nath1 Grow Geo: King [4-177] [Ebenezer Copp's Deposition, 1758.] The Deposition of Eben' Copp of full age who New Hampshire Testifys and Says that In the year 1755 he Inlisted under Capt Joseph Eastman and he took an Inlistment from Said Eastman to Inlist men for him and that he Inlisted John Goodwin and others and that he never gave Said Goodwin any Money as an Inlisted man nor never knew nor heard that he took any from Capt Eastman altho I was with Said Goodwin the most of the time he was In the Service which was about 6 weeks I also under Stood that Captn Eastman gave them leave to Return home from Rumford the deponent further Saith that he Received of Sa Eastman Money To Bear their Expences from Chester to Rumford which is all the money I Paid for him Ebenezer Copp Province of New Hampshire Hampstead March 22 — 1758 then the above named Ebenez' Copp made Solemn Oath to the truth of the above Deposition before John Johnson Just Peace New Hampshire Hampstead March 22: 1758 Then John Goodwin Made Solemn Oath before me the Subscriber: that he neiver Receivd any money of Capt Joseph Eastman as an Inlisted Soldier in the year anno Dom 1755: Either for bounty or advance pay as a Soldier before John Johnson Just Peace [4-178] [Soldiers' Petition, 1758.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Captain General Governor & Commander In Chief In & Over His Majestys province of New Hampshire the Honble his Majestys Council & house of Representatives In General Assembly Convened March 22d 1758 — The Humble Petition of Benjamin Glazier James Clement Reub Stevens Partrick Tobin and Michael Johnson In Said province, Shews, That Your petitioners were Enlisted Soldiers In this Governments Service Under ye Command of Capt Money & Bayley in the Last Years Expedition, & had the Misfortune After ye Capitulation of Fort Wm Henry to be made prisioners of Warr, & Carried to Canady, from thence was sent to Louisbourgh, from thence to Halifax, & So o Boston by which Misfortune, Your Petitioners Were greater Sufterers then their fellow Soldiers, Besides Our Loss of time for which they humbly Acknowledge to have Recd, a Gratuity for In Common with the Rest, Wee Lost Sundry Valuable Cloaths &c An Account of all Which You have herewith presented. Wherefore Your Petitioners humbly beg that you Will take their Case under Consideration, And Grant them An Allowance therefor, or Such Other Relief As You In Your great Wisdom Shall think proper, And Your petitioners As In Duty Bound Shall Ever pray &c Informa Pauperis Province of } New Hamps' In the House of Representatives March 24th 1758This petition & the Accounts therein mentioned being read Voted That there be Allowed as a Gratuity for their Loss & Sufferings to Each of the petitioners Eighteen pounds fifteen Shillings, Except to James Clement, & he to Receive Twenty two pounds Twelve Shillings & Tenpence halfpenny, (the Whole being Ninety Seven pound Twelve Shillings & Tenpence half penny & paid Out of money in the Treasury for the Last Years Expedition £97,, 12,, 10 Andrew Clarkson Clerk In Council March 24th 1758 read & Concurrd Consented to [4-180] Theod Atkinson Secry [Memorandum of losses by Jonathan Barker at Fort William Henry. He was taken prisoner and kept two months. - ED.] [4-181] [Power of attorney, Jacob Hancock, of Hampstead, to Jacob Bayley, dated March 29, 1758. - ED.] [4-182] Province of } [Allowance to Soldiers.] New Hamps In the House of Representatives April 20th 1758 Whereas Caleb Daulton, & Robert Kannady's Wages In Capt Richard Emarys Roll was Stoped, by Vote On Said Roll As being Deserters In former Expeditions, & it Appearing to the house that they were not Deserters, therefore-Voted That the Treasurer Pay the Said Daulton & Kannady or their Legal Representatives their Wages, as Carried off Against their Names In said Roll, Excepting five pounds five shillings to be Stoped Out of Michael Daultons Wages, it being for a former Bounty he Recd, & that he give the province Credit for the Same, Also Voted that the Treasurer Pay David Webster or His Legal Representative in Cap' Anthony Tools Muster Roll two pounds twelve Shillings & Six pence, it being for So much Stoped Out of his Wages In said Roll, Which ought not to have been. The Votes on said Rolls to the Contarary Notwithstanding. — Andrew Clarkson Clerk In Council 21 April 1758 read & Concurrd Consented to Theodore Atkinson Sery B Wentworth [4-183] [Soldiers' Petition, 1758.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governour & 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 Mar 31, 1758 The Petition of Jacob Bayley of Plastow In said Province, for & In behalf of himself as the Annexed Account Jacob Handcock, Josiah Heath and John Goodwen, All Soldiers In the Last Years Expedition, humbly Shews. That Jacob Hancock was an Enlisted Soldier in Capt Mooneys Company & after the Capitulation, was made prisoner & Carried to Cannady, from thence Sent to Louisbourgh, & from thence got home (by the way of Hellifax, & Boston,) In Jany Last-that Josiah Heath, was a Soldier in the Last year under my Command & had the misfortune, at the Siege of Fort William Henry to be Shot thro the foot, by wch Accident your petitioner has been a Very great Sufferer In Loss of time &c, John Goodween was Likewise a Soldier under my Command In the Last years Expedition, Who behaved himself Well But So it is that his Wages are now Stoped by Vote on the Roll, As a Deserter In Captain Eastmans Company In the Year 1755 & your petitioner thinks he Can make it Appear to Your Honours that he was not a Deserter, Wherefore Your Petitioner humbly Prayes, their Cases may |