[5-109] [Petition of James Hudson, Salt Manufacturer.] Province of New Hampshire To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Governor & Commander in Chief of the Province aforesaid to the honourable his Majesty's Council & House of Representatives the Petition of James Hudson humbly sheweth that for a number of Years your Petitioner has been much employ'd in prepareing the way to Manufacture Salt in this Country that in England he has been at Expence of time & Money in acquainting himselfe with that Art that he has erected very large & Commodious Buildings for carrying on the said buisness that he has for more than two Years been immediately engaged in the Buisness & has made considerable Progress therein in somuch that he has been able to supply a great number of the Inhabitants of New Hampshire as well as the Massachusetts with their Salt which is in great Estimation that he is detirmind to pursue his plan & if possible to enlarge his Works which he apprehends must prove very beneficial to the Province of New Hampshire as he is quite contiguous thereto Wherefore he humbly Prays your Excellency & Honours will favour his undertaking & grant him such assistance as in your Wisdom shall seem Meet and as in duty bound will ever pray James Hudson In Council Jan 19, 1769 Read & orderd to be sent down to the Honble House recommended Geo: King D Secy [Endorsed] Dismiss'd [5-110] [Proclamation in Regard to Deserters.] Province of New } By his Excellency John Wentworth Esq: CapHampshire-tain General Governor and Commander in chief in and over His Majesty's Province aforesaid in New England and Vice Admiral of the same A Proclamation Forasmuch as I have received a Complaint from his Excellency Major General Gage, commander in chief of all his Majesty's Troops in America, and from Brigadier General Pomroy, commanding his Majesty's regular Troops now station'd at Boston, that sundry Private Soldiers belonging to the Regiments under his Command, had deserted therefrom, and made their Escape; and had been concealed & entertain❜d in some parts of this Province, particularly in and about Londonderry, which being a direct violation of the Law, and greatly prejudicial to his Majesty's Service- to prevent which evil and unlawful practice I have thought fit, by and with the advice of his Majesty's Council to issue this Proclamation, hereby prohibiting all Persons, within this Province concealing, harboring or entertaining any of the said Soldiers, as they would avoid Prosecution, and the penalty prescrib'd by the Law in such Cases, also hereby strictly enjoining and requiring all officers Civil and Military and all other his Majesty's Subjects within this Province to use their utmost endeavors to apprehend any and every Deserter from his Majesty's Troops that are or may be concealed within this Province - And that no Person may be ignorant of the Law, I have orderd and directed that the clauses of the Act of Parliament for punishing Mutiny and Desertion - be printed and Published with these Presents. Given at the Council Chamber at Portsmo the 23rd day of March in the Ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &ca and in the year of our Lord Christ 1769 By his Excellency's Command with advice of Council. J. Wentworth T Atkinson Jun Secry God save the King. [5-111] [Petition of Samuel Hall of Portsmouth, for Damages.] To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Governor & Commander in Chief in & over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire, the Honble his Majesty's Council & House of Representatives for said Province, in General Assembly conven'd the 15th Day of March 1769 The humble Petition of Samuel Hall of Portsmouth in said Province Truckman. - Sheweth-that Your Petitioner hires & improves the Land where & near the Gallows was erected on which Ruth Blay was executed & had the Year past made a considerable Quantity of new fence & Stone Wall, that by Reason of the great Crowd of People & Dirtiness & Wetness of the Season his fence was broken to Pieces, & Stone Wall thrown down, his Meadow Ground Poached & trod to pieces by the Horses, & great Damage done by Reason of the said Execution to the said Lands & fences not less than ten Pounds That it is a great Hardship that your Petitioner Should be a Sufferer by the Execution of a Criminal, the Charge of which is defrayed by the Public - Wherefore he humbly prays that his Case may be considered & Damages allowed him as aforesaid. Province of } New Hamp In Council March 29th 1769 Samuel Hall Read & Order'd to be sent down to the Honble House Province of T: Atkinson Jun Sec. New Hamps In the House of Representatives Api 4th 1769 [5-112] [Petition About Boundary Lines for Counties.] To the Governor, Council and Assembly of the province of new Hampshire We Inhabitants of part of the Society Lands Hillsborough & Heneca in said Province Are Humbly of Opinion that fixing the boundaries of the second County so call'd in this Province, was the Effect of Great Prudence & consultation they agreeing Extreemly well with Nature We therefore Pray that there may not be one Town Annexed to this County as We are conscious that such a thing if Done will be Attended with sundry Inconveniences - We as in Duty bound will Dated April 10th 1769 ever pray Amos Goold Noah Gile Johnson Gile John Boman [Petition of Dr. Hall Jackson of Portsmouth for Allowance for Money Expended for a Sick Soldier.] To his Excellency John Wentworth Esq' Captain General, Governor, and Commander in cheif, in and over his Majestys Province of New Hampshire and Vice Admiral of the same - And to the Honorable his Majestys Council of said Province The Petition of Hall Jackson of Portsmouth in the Province of New Hampshire Physician, humbly sheweth, that on or about the sixth Day of May last past, one James Killpartric (formerly a soldier in his Majestys 77th Regiment but discharged for being under sized as appear'd by certificat from Colo: Armiger) came to the house of your Petitioner in his way to the Eastward, in a most pitifull and necessitous condition, having several large and deep Abscesses on different parts of his Body, and an African worm of several feet in length in each of his Legs, attended with a continual Fever, that he was absolutely incapable of proceeding any further on his Journey, and must have perished in the street (the weather being very Stormy) had not your Patitioner with the advice of the Honble Theodore Atkinson Esq put him to some lodgings, as no person would entertain him on his own Account, that your Petitioner provided him a place at Mr Alixander Hunter's, That during his stay, he was confined to his Bed for the most part of the time with a continual, and violent Fever, all of which time your Petitioner attended him as a Surgeon opened his Abscesses, extracted the worms from his Legs, provided him with Medicines, and compleated his cure so that he departed the Province in perfect health tho' incapable of paying one farthing of the expence; whereby the whole charge of his Sickness has fell on your petitioner, as he was obliged by his promise to pay the said Hunter for his nursing and Diet, That your Petitioner is advised by a Law inserted in the new edition of the Province Laws, page (195), that such expence shall be paid out of the Province Treasury, by warrants from your Excellency, & Honours; Your Petitioner therefore, most humbly prays that your Excellency and Honors would take this into your consideration, and grant such relief as in your wisdom you shall think meet — Hall Jackson 1769 Doct' Hall Jackson to Alixander Hunter Dr May To 7 Weeks nursing and Dieting one James Killpartrick a June stranger, by his desire and request @ 12/ &c Portsmouth November 30th 1769 Errors Excepted James Killpartrick to Hall Jackson Dr lawfull Money £4-4 Alex' Hunter To 7 Weeks Attendance and Medicines &c £1,, 10,, o L My Portsmouth Nov 30 1769 Errors Excepted 38 Hall Jackson |