Provincial and State Papers

or high Treasurer or by the honorable the Commissioners of his Majestys Customs for the time being.

I do hereby nominate constitute & appoint you ye said Richd Wibird to be Collector & Searcher within the Province of New Hampshire afore said the late Province of Main (now County of York) and Port of Newbery & any of ye Creeks and Havens thereto belonging & by virtue of these presents you are to collect all the rates dutys & impositions arising & growing due to his Majesty within this destrict. aforesaid untill further order & you have hereby power to enter into any ships bottom boat or other vessel as allso into any shop house warehouse hostery or other place whatsoever, to make diligent search into any chest pack case truss or any other parcell or package whatsoever for aney goods wares or Merchandize prohibited to be imported or exported or whereof ye Customs or other dutys have not been duly paid & ye same to seize for his Majestys use allso to put in execution all other lawfull powers and authoritys for ye better managing or Collecting ye said dutys & I do hereby authorize & empower you ye said Rich Wibird to be ye receiver of Greenwich Hospitall money directing that you demand and receive according to ye act of Parliament in that case made and provided and that you account for and pay ye same pursuant to ye said act & further I do hereby authorize & impower you to make a Deputy or Deputys as occation may require the person or persons whom you shall appoint Deputy being a man or men of loyalty experience diligence & fidelity & for whom you shall be answerable and whosoever you shall so depute shall have full power to exercise all ye powers & authoritys contained in this Commission to you. And you are to proceed in all things as ye law directs and all his Majestys officers & all others whome it may concerne are hereby required to be aiding & assisting to you in all things as becomethGiven under my hand and seal ye fourth day of August Anno Domini 1731 Annoq: Rni Ris Georgis Secundi quinto.

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J. Belcher

[Richard Wibird's bond in five hundred pounds sterling, for the faithful performance of his duty in the office of collector. Signed by Jotham Odiorne as surety, and witnessed by Eleazer Russell and R. Wibird, Jr. — ED.]

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[Copy of commission to Ellis Huske to be naval officer for the same territory as is embraced in the foregoing commission to Mr. Wibird. Dated August 4, 1731.- ED.]

[3-15] [Letter from Secretary Waldron to Secretary Willard.]

Sir I am Commanded by His Excellency wth the advice of the Board to send you the inclosed Copy of a Vote of our General Assembly Pass'd this day It is desired that the same may be immediately on the receipt of it laid before His Hon' the L' Gov' and Council of your Province, and that we may know by tuesday noon or night (by an Express) whether the Massa Committee will meet ours at ye time and place in the vote mentioned.

I am Sir your most obed' humble Servt

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Manuscript Document Endorsed "The Governor's Coming into ye Province-printed Sept. 14: 1731."]

Province of New Hampshire Sept 14: 1731.

This day came hither His Excellency Our Governor whose arrival amongst us had been for some weeks very much wished for: His entrance was attended with all possible demonstrations of joy & satisfaction being met on the Borders, & ushered into the Province by seventy horse besides the blew troops (& exclusive of the Gentlemen, who waited on him, from his other Goverment) which was a handsome appearance for so poor & little a Province, the like whereof has hardly ever been seen here wch loudly speaks the affection of the People, and the heartiness of his Excellency's welcome to this Goverm

The evening preceeding his Excellencys arrival His Hon' Or Lt Govr departed ye prov., his motion was sudden, he imbark'd on board a fishing schooner, Turned out of ye river, & is generally supposed to be gone to Pemaquid

[A feud existed between Governor Belcher and Lieutenant-Governor Dunbar, which may account for the departure of the latter from the Province on the eve of the arrival of the Governor. See Vol. IV., p. 599. ED.]

[3-19] [King's Instructions to Governor Belcher, 1732.]

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Additional Instruction to our Trusty and welbeloved Jonathan Belcher Esq Our Governour and Commander in Chief in and over Our Province of New Hampshire in New England in America or to the Commander in Chief of Our Said Province for the time being. Given at Our Court at St James's the 5th day of May 1732 in the fifth year of Our Reign

George R

Whereas Complaint hath been made unto Us, by the Merchants of Our City of London, in behalf of themselves, and of Several others of our Good subjects of Great Britain trading to our Plantations in America, that greater dutys and impositions are laid on their Ships and goods than on the Ships and goods of Persons who are Natives and inhabitants of the Said Plantations It is therefore Our Will and Pleasure That you do not upon any pretence whatsoever on pain of Our highest displeasure give your assent For the future, to any law wherein the Natives or inhabitants of the Province of New Hampshire under your Government, are put on a more advantageous footing than those of this Kingdom It is further Our Will and Pleasure that you do pay due Obedience to the Instructions already given you, whereby you are expressly forbid to pass any Law by which the Trade or Navigation of this Kingdom may be any ways affected, hereby declaring it to be our Royal Intention that no duties shall be laid in the Province of New Hampshire under your Government, upon British Shipping or upon the product or manufactures of Great Britain. upon any pretence whatsoever

True Copy

R Waldron Secry

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[Benjamin Gambling's Mandamus, 1732.]

GEORGE R. Trusty and wellbeloved we greet you well. Whereas it has been humbly Represented unto us by our Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, that there were four vacancies in our Councel of our Province of New Hampshire in America, occasioned by the death of John Wentworth, Mark Hunkins Archibald MacPhedris and Samuel Penhallow Esqs and at the same time proposed that our Trusty and wellbeloved Benjamin Gamblin Esq might be appointed to supply one of the said vacancies, he haveing been recommended to them as a Person every way qualified for that trust

which Representation being laid before us in Council we have thought fit to approve thereof; Our will and Pleasure therefore is, that forthwith upon Receipt hereof you swear and admit him the said Benjamin Gamblin (of whose Loyalty, Integrity and ability we are well satisfyed) to be one of our Council of our said province of New Hampshire in the room and place of any one of the four persons above named, and for so doing this shall be your warrant and so we bid you farewell Given at our Court at St James's the Fourth day of April 1732 in the fifth year of our reign

By His Majesty's Command

Holles New Castle

July 31 1732 Benja Gambling Esq' Sworn & admitted a Councill and this Copy taken from the original mandamus

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[Proceedings in Council, May, 1732.]

Portsmo in New Hampshire May ult. 1732. This day His Majtys Council being convened Pursuant to His Excelleys ord to ye president at the House of B. Gambling Esq' in this Town (who is not capable of going to the Council House by reason of bodily Indisposition) His Majestys Royal Mandamus under his Majestys signet & sign manual bearing date at St James's ye 4 day of April last To His Excellency the Gov for admitting Rich Waldron Esq & the said Benja Gambling Esq to be of His Majtys Council within the sd Province was opened & read in the sd Council whereupon the said Waldron & Gambling being readmitted and confirmed members thereof pursuant to a form' Instrum1 Took ye proper oaths & resumed their places.

Those Gentlemen were of ye Board before at yt time by ye immediate appointm' of His Excellency (Pursuant to a former Instruction) to make up the number of Councellors seven.

[The foregoing is in Secretary Waldron's hand. Only a small portion of the Council records from 1722 to 1742 were found by the editor of Vol. IV., consequently all authentic scraps containing minutes of Council proceedings between those dates, that are now being found, will be printed in this volume. - ED.]

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[Theodore Atkinson's Account of Powder Money.]

An Acco1 of Powder money reced By Theodore Atkinson according to an act of the Generall Assembly In May 1727 –

1727 To Cash pd Mr Bens Wentworth for Powder. £60.
To do pd Treasurer Jaffrey for do.

To do pd Sam' Stevens for one bb' Powder
To do pd Leiut Gov' Wentworth

To do pd Joseph Jackson

To do pd Gillbert Macphedris Twice

To do pd Willm Wentworth

To 230lb powder deld the Gunner by Coll
Sherburne being for Capt Burrows

To Cash pd Coll Walton

To Comissions @ 5ct on £278. 19. —