Shillings & Nine pence New Tenor & paid to Thoms Bell Esq' or his order out of money In the Treasury £229,, 3,, 9 N Tenor In Council May 29 1762 read & Concurrd Consented to A Clarkson Clerk Theodore Atkinson Jun' Secry B Wentworth [Atkinson to Thomlinson.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 178.] Portsm° July 24-1762 Sr I am to acknowledge the rect of your favour of the last Enclosing Your Letter to the Comittee doubt not but we here Shall follow your Directions injoyning Your Son in the Agency with you as I am perswaded the Province will not willingly Part with you & therefore hope you will prevail on him I have been often Importned to Desire your recomendation of my Son for one of his majestys Council here but have heither to Deferrd it til the Govern' Mentioned it he if he does not forget will write you on that head I think he is full Young for that preferment but I percieve that is not A Material objection on your Side the waters in favour of this Solicitation I woud remind you that what Estate he has is chieffly in this Pro - he is also Secretary & of Course must Attend the Council in their Meetings & be privy to all their Transactions & Determinations & therefore its very convenient for the Secretary to be also of the Council I mentioned this affair for your Consideration & if you have not Some Material objection I should be glad you would Prevail so far as to me a Mandamus for his admission I should be glad and Esteem it a favour if you would Let me know the Amo of Fees &ca of a Pattent for Secretary of this Province & whether a Mandate by Prevy Seal Directed to the Governour here to make out a Patent here under yo Pro Seal will not be as Effectual as if under the Broad Seal of England Mr Fisher our Present Naval officer brot such an order under the Seal & Sign Manel & a Pattent Issued here by which he now acts the reason I Desire this favour is because I have thots thro' you of applying for a Pattent to Establish him in the Secretarys office that he may not be moved at the Pleasure of another Governour Pray S Let me have your advice on this Affair or Act in it as you may think adviseable & for my Sons Interest I wish with you & as Sincerly for Peace Pray God Send one that may be Honble & Lasting this Concluds me with much Esteem Your most obleidged &a forwarded by TA Portsm° May 13 — 1763 — Via Boston or N York Srs I duly recd your ffavour of the 11 Novemb' last and Acknowledge your kindness relative to the Applycation & recommendations of my Son as Secretary & for a Mandamus to a Seat at the Council Board here & hope soon to have a result of Both I Still think the Privy Seal to the Govern' here would be A Saving of much Expence & would be as Effectual for the Secretarys office as the Broad Seal in that Case would be but that I must leave to your better Judgment & Pray the Continuance of your favour of y' Prossicution to obtain both those Posts I mention this because I am apprehensive there will soon be Some applycation to fill up that Council from other Persons & I should be Sorry My Son should Miss a Seat there & therefore I must once more Interseed with you to Push those affairs as to your Interest in Masons Propriety that you mention in your Letter you know you are Entituled to a Share by a Deed we Purchased of M Mason which letts you into one 30th part of the whole Purchase & I always thot (& it was so determined) that your Deed from Maj' Mason was to have been for one whole Share or one fifteenth Part of the whole but he had before I or any of your friends here knew of it Conveyd one half to other Persons Since that came to our knowledge we have constantly voted you in all our Grants a whole Share so that in those Townships you have a full right & a half right which upon the whole will make your Interest at least equal to any one Proprietors this Interest Mr Wentworth & my Self Agreable to your Letter of attorny & agency constantly take care of as of our own & Shall Continue So to do the thing is now worth much of your Notice & is of Value & growing more So I Should therefore be sorry to hear you had Parted with it I wish your Health & Happyness & Am with much Sincerity Yours Portsmo New Hamp' July 20th 1762 We duly recd yours of 20th Jany by Jacobson which Informs us of your recieving Abt £15000-for this Province Proportion of his Majtys Bounty [Atkinson to Thomlinson.] [Belknap Papers, Vol. I., p. 177.] Portsm° [Torn] 1763 Sr I am indebted for your Favour of the 4th November last Enclosing a Letter to the Comtee which has been communicated & from whom you will soon have dispatches - I am obleidged for your favour relative to my Sons recomendation hope you will have no reason to regret My Son by this Ship forwards the Vote And Act of Assembly Appointing your Son joyint Agent with you with Power to Act Seperatly in case this Vote with the House was with Difficulty obtaind the Members Apprehensions were that it would be disagreable to you this occasioned the Comtee to lay before them your Letters approving such Appointment-there is a Commission made Out for your Son but as that is matter of Form only & adds no Force Or Power but the Vote & the Act Speaks for them Selves & his Power & Assurance will be Complete without other formality Your Part of Masons Propriety is worth your regards & agreable to your Letter of Attorney Brother M - H-Wentworth & my Self Shall take all necessary care of your Interest therein Gov' Wentworth for Two months Past has by the Gout been de prived of the use of his Limbs & confindd to the Bedd he is now on the recovery & I hope will soon be Able to write you [5-71] [Petition of Nathaniel Porter.] To his Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Captain Gen" Governour & Commander in chief of his Majestys Province of New Hampshire - The Honorable his Majesty's Counsel, and House of Representatives The Petition of Nath' Porter Humbly Sheweth That whereas your Honours Petitioner did in year 1761, Supply a number of the Soldiers, belonging to this Province with goods & Refreshments at Crown. Point, agreable to Major Emerys desire, he then being Commanding Officer of said Soldiers, many of whom have continu'd in the Service ever since, and so dispos'd of their wages, that your Honours Petitioner has ben kept out of his Just dues & demands, which is greatly to his disadvantage & loss, he therefore prays that he may have a Stoppage in the pay Rolls for the last Campaigs, or some other way found Out, as your Honors in their great Wisdom shall think fit, so that he may have his Just dues from said Soldiers, and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray — Portsmouth Jany 5th 1763 Nath1 Porter In Council Janty 14th 1763 Read & Order'd to be sent down to the Honble Assembly T Atkinson Jun' Sec1y [5-72] [Sutler's Account against Various Men, 1761.] A List of mens Names & the Sums Who Are Indebted to MessTMs Porter & Caldwell, Sutlers, Who Supplyed them In the Year 1761, with Necessarys &c - Viz In Capt Samuel Gerrishes Company John Martain Sterlg £7,, 16,, Jona Murry Sterlg 4,, 14,, 9 I,, IO,, 4 3,, 9,, I I,, I,, 8 Amos Roe John Gilman 2,, 5,, 4 I,, 6,, 3 4 Robert Gilman John Critchett John Jones I,, 3,, 5 ,, OI,, 2 Thomas George Richd Ransom In Captain Neha Lovewells Company - Vizt Benjamin Davis I,, 0,, 7 George Berry 2,, 5 Committee for Exs muster Rolls } Province of In the House of Representatives Feby 1st 1763 New Hamps' The foregoing Accot being Read & Mr Porters petition Relative thereto, & he being Admitted into the house to Inforce the prayer thereof the house took the matter under Consideration & the prayer thereof Appearing Reasionable therefore Voted That the prayer thereof be granted So far that the Treasurer be & he is hereby Impowered to make the Several Stopages as mentioned In the within. list Amounting to Sixty two pounds Seventeen Shillings Sterlg if due on the Rolls for 1762 for & On Accot of Messrs Porter & Caldwell, & Whereas the Said Porter & Caldwell did In the Said Year 1761 Supply many Others with Necessaries Whose 'Names Are Not in the foregoing List & whom they Settled with & took their orders for their Respective Ballances on the Treasurer, which Rolls were paid off & Nothing Stoped for sd Orders it is therefore further Voted that the said Porter and Caldwell be Allowed to Lodge Said orders with the Treasurer In order to be Stoped Out of their Respective Ballances due them on the Rolls for 1762 & the Treasurer is hereby Authorized & Impowered to make Such Stopages the Vote on Said Rolls Notwithstanding Sixty two pounds Seventeen £62,, 17. Sterl In Council Febry 4th 1763 Read & Concurr'd A Clarkson Clerk T Atkinson Jun' Secry [5-73] [Petition of Richard Bartlett.] To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq' Governour & Commander In Chief In and Over his Majesties province of New Hampse the Honble his Majestie's Council & house of Representatives In Genral Assembly Convened Feby 1st 1763 — The Humble Petition of Richard Bartlet of Shews That your petitioner has been In the Service & pay of this Governm1, for more than two years last past, In which time he Acted as Docters Mate or as an Assistant In Said Capacity to the Regimt & Always was made up on the Rolls as a private Soldier & Never Received Any Other Pay for Sd Services, & In the year 1761 he was made up as Such to the 15th day of Nov1 & by Lieut Co" Bayleys Orders was left at Crown Point as an Assistant to take Care of the Sick belonging to the New Hampshire Regiment, the Docts Mate being Returned home & by said Bayley was promised a Gratuity for Said |