DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS RELATING TO THE PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, FROM 1738 TO 1749; CONTAINING VERY VALUABLE AND INTERESTING RECORDS AND PAPERS RELATING TO THE EXPEDITION AGAINST LOUISBOURG, 1745. Published by authority of the Legislature of New Hampshire. VOLUME V. COMPILED AND EDITED BY NATHANIEL BOUTON, D. D. Corresponding Secretary of the New Hampshire Historical Society. NASHUA: 1871. CORNELL NOTICE. JOINT RESOLUTION passed by the Legislature of New Hampshire. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Convened, That his Excellency the Governor be hereby authorized and empowered, with the advice and consent of the Council, to employ some suitable person and fix his compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to collect, arrange, transcribe and superintend the publication of such portions of the early State and Provincial Records, and other State Papers of New-Hampshire, as the Governor may deem proper; and that eight hundred copies of each volume of the same be printed by the State Printer and distributed as follows: namely, one copy to each City and Town in the State, one copy to such of the Public Libraries of this State as the Governor may designate, two hundred copies to the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody of the State Librarian, who is hereby authorized to exchange the same for similar publications issued by other States. Approved July 6, 1866. EDITOR'S PREFACE. This volume is one of great interest and historical value, as containing all the official records and documents found in the Secretary's office and elsewhere, relative to the part which New Hampshire took in the expedition against Louisbourg, 1745. Although Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts, must be acknowledged as a prime mover and most efficient promoter of the enterprise, yet Governor Benning Wentworth, also, and his Majesty's Council and Assembly of New 'Hampshire, most heartily joined in the common cause, and furnished a full quota of brave New Hampshire men, who acquitted themselves nobly in the capture of that strong-hold of the enemy. The attention of readers is also particularly invited to the documents contained in this volume relative to the final determination of the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and the very able papers drawn up by John Thomlinson, Esq., in the latter part of the volume. The “Miscellaneous Papers" herein contained, and the " Agreement" for the purchase of the Masonian claims; the incidents of Indian wartare; the failure of the intended expedition against Canada, 1746 and 1747, with many other inatters, will be found entertaining and instructive. The sixth volume, already in course of preparation, will contain all known official records and documents pertaining to the part which New Hampshire took in the expedition to Crown Point, and generally, in the French and Indian wars of that period. |