Page and Number [A List of the French Canadian names in Col. Moses Hazen's Regiment — continued.] The Original Names. The Probable Names. Pronunciation. pyèr kanar, shamar zhozèf duplèsi, duplé zhozef broevil, brival martan fôsé ôgustan groenyé Number Page and The Original Names. [A List of the French Canadian names in Col. Moses Hazen's Regiment — concluded.] The Probable Names. Pronunciation. [The editor is indebted for the following papers to Hon. Frank W. Hackett, of Washington, D. C., who has spent much time and labor in securing these copies. His letter is self-explanatory. · - ED.] WASHINGTON, D. C., October 2, 1889. Isaac W. Hammond, Esq., Editor and Compiler of State Papers, Concord, N. H.: MY DEAR MR. HAMMOND, While at Portsmouth, in the summer of 1883, I had an opportunity to copy certain old papers (about the region of 1680), which are valuable in our state history, as well as to people of New Hampshire descent. I take pleasure in inclosing herewith transcripts of many of these copies that I have prepared with much care to have them accurate. You are at liberty to use them, in whole or in part as you shall think proper, in editing the State Papers. They have never before been printed, so far as I know, save that I furnished a few of them a few years ago to the columns of the "New Hampshire Gazette," at Portsmouth. The originals I found in an old wooden box (marked "First Parish") in the attic of the vestry of the North Church, along with books of early records of that parish. They were in loose packages, bearing no marks of ever having been arranged in order. Many of them, it is plain to see, properly belong to the files of the town, and some are of considerable interest aside from the circumstance of their age. By the courtesy of the church authorities I was allowed to take the copies, and I believe that my work can be relied upon as very nearly exact in the matter of names and dates; at least I tried to make it so. These papers ought, in my judgment, to be printed so as to become in this form accessible to the many interested parties who will from time to time wish to consult them; and I know of no place so fit for their preservation as in the State Papers which, permit me to say, you are editing so faithfully and so ably. 1676 Yours truly, [Rev. Joshua Moody's Account.*] To haleing and pileing ye Bricks for ye Chimney * In Mr. Moody's hand, small, neat, and legible. KETT 00-16-00 05-07-06 To nailes for ye scaffold, shingles & nailes 00-08-06 To silver for makeing ye chimneys & some work ov1 & above 06-08-00 To Help about ye chimneys, Diet & wages To Lime, mantle Tree, planks to lay under Mantle Trees 07-16-00 02-10-00 02-05-06 To Joyners work & carpenters, makes up stairs yt ws pulled down & ptitions in ye House . . . covering ye Roofe Boards & nailes, Boards also for ye Barn wth some work done to ye Cellar, wages & Diet 09-02-00 1678 To new hinges for Doores & new Cellar door, staires into ye dairy & new glasse 00-16-02 3 mo 24 To new Raile for ye Porch & staires p F. Mercer 00-15-06 Mem Great part of this acc° was silver out of my purse most of ye remaind' as Money £35-11-2 Elias Stileman Com [Endorsed] Mr Moodys Accopt about his house p: 1678 [Rates for Great Island, 1677.] The Ministers Rate for ye year 1677 James Robinson's* Rate for ye Minister 1677 Rate e ** for ye minister the 28 Nov 1677 In Portsm° by ye selectmen * James Robinson was constable for Great Island in that year; Edward Melcher for Strawberry Bank. ** Word illegible, possibly "levie.” |