West Indies into your hands, however he will be so far as that sum accountable to you & had I known of this ship being so near saleing would have wrote you as he will pr. next, - My Brother Sam1 now orders the like Sum which you will herewith receive. Now as to my self tho' I have lately made sum large purchases, (large for me) & shall want money, yet I am content you charge me in case it should be wanting, one hundred pounds. I take the affair in this Light that Brother Benning & the whole family would be under this additional obligation that you must advance that sum for him, & that as 'tis highly reasonable you ought to be made secure, we should all of us gladly have done something of this sort before now, but I really tho't he had some disposition of his affairs in Spain so as not to have needed anything of this sort, however something in your Letter seems to hint as if the want of some orders from hence would detain him till you heard from home. I hope that will not be the case, if it should Mr. Wentworth is Exceedingly to Blaim. in not giveing us Timely advice; you know my Inclinations by Letters I formerly wrote you when he was in Spain to serve him in any shape. I hope what I now write will be sufficient.

[Endorsed] Copy to Capt. Thomlinson.

[Another letter, dated July 13, 1741, of the same import, is signed THEODORE ATKINSON. ED.]

[Thomlinson to Atkinson. Pr. Capt. Jones.]

[Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 103.]

Theodore Atkinson, Esq.

London, 13 July 1741.

I have here to Inclose you Bill of Lading & Invoice for the Drugs you wrote for, which I hope will please the Doctor, I have been so long without any from you that I have not any thing to say, only I cannot help telling you that I have got Benning Wentworths Commission finished & lock'd up in a fine Case in my Desk. you may see the very words of the alteration we have made in my Letter to Mrs. Rindge from whence you may reflect what little reason you had to be frightened at the ridiculous suggestions of Mr. Belcher about your Southern Boundarys, the Instructions to your Governor will now be very soon finished, and then I hope he will soon be with his Family

& Friends. I suppose he writes you by this conveyance, therefore for want of Time I must refer you to him for History.

& am, Sir, your most hum1 Servt

John Thomlinson.

[Atkinson to Thomlinson.]

[Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 109.]

Portsm° May 19. 1742

Sir I have your ffavrs of the 27th November & 18 of March Last Duplycated before me - in answer I must beg leave to refer you to Gov Wentworths Letters who I know writes you fully upon Publick affairs & shall only say that I hope if any Little odd Votes about our adress is under your Just Censor we shall grow wiser as we grow older & shall not always hurry things as has some time been the Practice - I observe you send my memorandm by Capt Godfrey which is agreeable I never had any Dependence upon ffriend Whitocts [?] estate but have been latly told & I think tis agreeable to what I have heard him say that a was taken out against him but he paid every Body 20 shillings for a pound & that in order to this he mortegaged some parte of estate which wd revert to him in about seven this occasioned my writeings to you years - I must now Desire you would send me a Coat of a Drab Cloth made with a snug sleave for riding in I would have a Cloth not apt to spot or fade - and a scarlet rochlet these are for my own ware the measure I send enclosed - and three pair of shoes for my son the length of his foot is the line drawn on the other side his foot is slim I would have the heel pretty high for our streets are muddy -you have alsoe Inclosed Charles Mackees note for £5: 17: Ster. he is master of the Deptford Store Ship the money is due to Capt Stephen Greenlieff & he desires you would Ship him the nt Proceeds in nails 20d 10d & Shingle equal value of of each so that if you send me a cask of each of these sorts of nails you may charge them to my acco1 & give me Credt for the note deducting your charge which Please to advise me of when you send the nails — I have at last got my acco1 from Mr Jones & finde in June last the balle in my fav' was £116. 18. which I hope you have recd I sent my Diary to Lady Day last, by the Deptford Capt ffawler which will amot to about £70. I some time since wrote you to ship as you thot Proper when you were in cash for me but I desire you would not but when you have my Directions

I have but one thing more to recommend to your consideration &

that is your good offices to Mr. Brown. (') you know he has a large family, having 8 children, & necessity hath put him upon building a house, & tho' some of his Parish has promised to assist him in this undertaking yet he will be oblidged to be at considerable cost before he can get into it. I am in hopes with your recommendat" he may have liberty to draw on the Society (2) for something that will help him, — besides, this year has been Exceeding expensive, Provisions of all kinds haveing advanced near one hundred pr Ct. Pork has been at 20d & 2s pr lb. beef at 15d, Indian corn 18s pr bushell and every thing in this proportion.

You have now a Letter from Mr Mitchell Desiring your assistance in the settlement of his accot & recieving his money of Mr Jones I imagine there will not be much Truble in the affair as you recieve mine & I shall esteem it a favour don me if you serve him if his Proposal is not Inconsistant with your Inclination Mr Jones in his last acco articles the money as recd from the Coll which he did not use to do but used to receive it at the navy office and accot with us in that man' all the Deputys accots are in this form & we are at a loss to know why the stile is altered - I thot this hint not amiss to you My best regards to good Mrs Thomlinson & tell her I beg she would Intercede with Capt Thomlinson to be more on horse back & less in the stinking Cyty of London - I rejoyce with you both in the recovery of your health & am Sr

[From retained copy, no signature.]

May 234 Since above Capt Greenlieff Brot me Capt Adams's note for £5. 18. 11 which is for Purchasing the nails above mentioned wod have a cask of each of those sorts sent me alsoe Pray let me have a p' of Britches with my Coat I wd not have a Darke Couller

Capt Adams

['Rev. Arthur Browne, rector of the Episcopal church in Portsmouth, 2 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign ED.]

Parts.

[Atkinson to Thomlinson.]

[Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 111.]

Portsmouth July 19th 1743

Sir The foregoing is a Copy of what I wrote you by Capt Adams I now Inclose you the Duplycate of Mackees note he gave 2 notes of

same Ten' & Date for the same sum so that if either of them is satisfyed the other must be Cancelled in which please to observe my Directions in my last I am to acknowledge the rect of the box ffoster which came to hand in good order & well liked of but there is not the whole I wrote for I desired sundry books Particularly Stanhopes Thomas a Kempis a book I am Indebted here for & they are not to be purchased & I must Desire you to send me a bundle of ab 8 score Iron Hoops fit for Cask ab 34 gallons these I would beg you would not forget for our hoops will not stand the year round in my Cellar that I often loose the best of my Cyder I must once more beg leave to refer you to Gov' Wentworth for Provincial news and am with regards to your good spouse & self

Pr Cap Darling

Yours &C

ΤΑ

[Atkinson to Thomlinson.]

[Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 112.]

Portsmo May 26th 1742

was ledd

the

S-Better hands than mine gives you the State of Publick affairs, you have a long letter from Gov Wentworth therefore nothing I hope will be expected from me you will give me leave to recommend a packet of Papers from Capt Walker with a Power to use your endeavours in getting his Maj'ys asent to an act passed here in his favour abt an Explanation of Coll Vaughans Will he poor into the Scrape by Mr Wm Vaughan & hath paid Dearly for it papers will speak for themselves only observe there was was an appeal granted from the Sup' Court of Judicature to the Gov' & Council where he had Judgment agst him for the money but the Sec'rys house was burnt & all records &c Consumed no copys could be obtained but an Execution was Issued & I when Sheriff served it upon Capt Walker & got the money & paid Mr. Weeks & Apthorp after this the land. was Delivered to Capt Walker by Mr Wm Vaughan & when Capt Walker was about to sell some of the Land it was suggested that the Premises was Intailed so no Purchas's appeared

Capt Walker Petitioned the Gen' Court in Gov' Burnetts Days as you'l see by a copy from the Clerk of the assembly but he dying soon after Put a stop to the Proceedings Gov Belcher was Brother to Coll Vaughan whose first wife was Gov Belchers Sister this togeather with a little Personall Disagreement Mr Walker being of the

assembly & not exactly sustaining the Gov' Prevented his renewing his Petition till Gov' Wentworth came

you'l see there were several hearings & notifications &c so that the matter was not suddenly don he Desires your Intrest in the affair & will reimburst any charge you Please to make for which I'll be answerable & will upon your sending the acco1 remit the money.

I expect a state of the Case from the Law's to Send but tis Possible it may not be Exceeding correct which you are by the Power of attorney to rectify as you think Proper

I have heard nothing from Mr Jones for 18 months past, neither have I time to draw out my Diary by the ship but shall forward it by Bickford who will sail in a little [while]

I have now sent you two mem which I desire you would forward so as to be here this fall one of them is for my sister Shurtleff as you'l see by the Pilgrims Progress the other is for my self & Mrs Atkinson I am Sr with great Esteen Yours

Cap' Darling in Mast ship

[From retained copy, no signature.]

[Endorsed] Copy to Capt Thomlinson Capt Darling in ye Willmington 1742

[Thomlinson to Atkinson.]

[Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 114.]

Theodore Atkinson Esq.

London, 14 July 1742

Sir I have not yet had any of your favours. Therefore I don't know what to say to you, or have I heard any thing from any of my friends of your Province, since the Governor's arrival, except a short letter or two from the Gov' and letters on my business from Mark Wentworth; and I should be very glad to hear that you go on right. I congratulate you on your promotion, and I hope you will Inherit some of the virtues of your predecessor, as well as his post, particularly his attention to, and assiduity in Business. I fear that you and Mr. Brown & N. Sherborne are become followers of Mr. Whitfield.* This news had no other effect on me than to make me Laugh. I assure you that it did not surprise me when I first heard it in the New England Coffee house, or has it since given me much concern, as I [* Rev. George Whitfield was at Portsmouth at this time. - ED.]