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BOARD OF TRADE to LORD ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, Governor of

Jamaica.

1712, August 27. Whitehall.-(Lord Guilford, Ph. Meadows, Arthur Moore, and J. Hynde Cotton).

Copy. 1 page.

Endorsed :-Copy letter to Lord Archibald Hamilton, Governor of Jamaica, directing him not to send over any persons as prisoners without transmitting at the same time full proof of their guilt. Dated August 27th, 1712.

A memorandum on the same subject follows. These three papers are in a wrapper marked "Precedent in regard to persons sent over prisoners from the Plans."

page.

REVENUE in NEW YORK.

1713, May 4. St. James's.-Copy of an Order in Council. With regard to the complaints against the New York General Assembly made in a letter from the Lords of Trade to Earl Dartmouth, it is "Ordered that Draught of a Bill for granting a Revenue to Her Majesty in that Province' be recommended to the consideration of the House of Commons."

1 pages.

REGULATION of GOVERNMENTS in AMERICA.

N. D.-Copy of "A Bill for the better Regulation of Charter and Proprietary Governments in America, and for the Encouragement of the Trade of this Kingdom and of Her Majesty's Plantations."

4 pages.

INSTRUCTIONS to SAMUEL SHUTE.

1716.-Copy of the 27th Article of the General Instructions for Samuel Shute, Esq., His Majesty's Governor of the Massachusets Bay, in New England, 1716. "His Majesty particularly requires and commands that no Money or value of Money whatsoever be given or granted by any Act or Order of Assembly to any Governor, LieutenantGovernor, or Commander-in-Chief of the said Province, which shall not according to the Stile of Acts of Parliament in Great Britain be mentioned to be given and granted unto His Majesty."

13 pages. [The Instructions in full are in the Public Record Office, Board of Trade, New England, Vol. 43, fo. 418.]

CAROLINA.

1720, July 28. Thursday.-Extract from the journal of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. "Their Lordships then taking Notice to Mr. Ashley and Mr. Danson of a Report spread Abroad, as if the Lords Proprietors of Carolina had disposed of their Government and Property in Carolina, and recommending it to them, that His Majesty might have the Refusal thereof, they acknowledged that they were in Treaty for Disposing of it." Necessity for strengthening the Province with white people.

11 pages.

CAROLINA.

1720, September 27. Whitehall.-Order in Council.

Copy. 2 pages.

Endorsed:-Copy of an Order of Council, dated 27th September 1720, for bringing a Scire facias to resume the Carolina Charter.

VIRGINIA.

1728, December 10.-Francis Fane. Report to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations. Consideration of an Act passed in Virginia laying a duty on imported slaves and appointing a treasurer. "The first Act of this kind which met with an opposition from the Merchants of Great Britain was passed in the year 1723, and laid the same duty of 40s. a head upon all Negroes imported into Virginia." Its effects upon the trade of Virginia. Two reasons why this Act is not fit to be passed into law.

Copy. 5 pages.

Endorsed.-Copy of Mr. Fane's Report upon an Act passed in Virginia, 30th March 1728, for laying a duty on slaves imported, &c. (No. 1.)

Note.-Francis Fane, M.P. for Taunton 1728, 1734, Petersfield 1741, Ilchester 1747, a commissioner for trade; died member for Lyme Regis 28 May 1757 aged 59. His brother Thomas succeeded as eighth Earl of Westmoreland.

TRADE and MANUFACTURES in the COLONIES.

1734, Aprilis 5, Veneris.-Report, in the form of resolutions, of the Committee "appointed to Consider the Representation of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations laid before this House the 23rd of January last, relating to the Laws made, Manufactures set up, and Trade carried on in any of His Majesty's Colonies and plantations in America, which may have affected the Trade, Navigation, and Manufactures of this Kingdom."

MS. 2 pages.

Endorsed:-1734. Report Committee on Representation, Trade, and Plantations.

GREENWICH HOSPITAL CHArges.

1741-64.-Paper endorsed, "Money remitted from the several Ports in America towards the Support of Greenwich Hospital, being an Abatement out of Merchant Seamen's Wages, after the rate of sixpence a Man a Month."

1 page.

NEW YORK.

1746, March 3.-The King's Warrant for George Clarke, Esq., late Lieutenant-Governor of New York, to be paid the sum of 4,0007. (arising from the duty of 4 per cent. from Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands) for services rendered and losses sustained during the insurrection and burning of New York Fort in 1741 by Romish Priests and rebellious negroes.

Copy. 1 pages.

Endorsed:-King's Warrant, Geo. Clarke, Esq., 4,000l., out of 4 per cent., on a report from the Auditor of the Plantations. (Copy.)

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

1752, August 14.-D. Ryder and W. Murray, Attorney and Solicitor General. Opinion on the right of the Crown to resume lands in New Hampshire.

Copy. 2 pages. [The original signed paper is in the Public Record Office, Board of Trade, New Hampshire, Vol. 3, B. 47.]

APPEALS.

Three papers marked:-Instruction concerning Appeals before 1753. 7 pages in all.

NEW HAMPSHIRE MILITIA.

1755, February 5. Boston.-William Shirley, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of Massachusetts Bay. Commission to Robert Noble as Captain of the fifth Company of Foot in the Southern Regiment of Militia, county of New Hampshire, John Worthington, Colonel. Signed W. Shirley, and J. Willard, Secretary.

Original. 1 page. With seal.

1755, February 5.

Lieutenant.

Original. 1 page.

Boston. The same to Thomas Whitney as

With seal.

Memorandum on back :-To insist to have the people quieted till the matter can be dissided.

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MASSACHUSETTS BAY.

1755, April 26. Province of the Massachusetts Bay. -Report of the Committee appointed to consider the petition of William Joiner and others respecting the distressed circumstances of the people in the Province Lands, &c. Read in the House of Representatives 26 April, accepted and sent up for concurrence. Read in Council 2th April and sent down for concurrence. Read and concurred in the House of Representatives same day. Copy examined by Thomas Clarke, Deputy Secretary.

Copy certified. 2 pages.

Endorsed:-Committee's Report about Lands west of Sheffield.

Copy.

COLLEGE of PHILADELPHIA.

1755, May 14.-Copy of the additional charter of the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. The trustees to be capable of purchasing and taking lands or estates for the use of the College, &c. To have one public and one privy seal. Degrees to be granted to students. This charter to be good in the law. The estate, &c., of the corporation not to exceed 5,000l. sterling per

annum.

11 pages.

Endorsed:-Pennsylvania Charter.

INDIAN CONGRESS.

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1755, December 15-18. Augusta. Abstract of Proceedings at a Conference held at Augusta in the Colony of Georgia on Monday 15th December 1755, between William Little, Esq., a Commissioner on behalf of His Excellency John Reynolds, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of His Majesty's Colony of Georgia and Vice-Admiral of the same, and the head men and deputies of the Upper Creek nation of Indians.

4 pages.

Endorsed:-Mr. Levy.

SECRETARY H. Fox to COLONEL WEBB.

1756, March 31. Whitehall.-Marked secret. On his arrival in North America to "make the strictest inquiry, in conjunction with Sir Charles Hardy, into the author or authors of the two anonymous letters, lately intercepted from America, addressed to the Duc de Mirepoix." George Croghan supposed to be the author. Sends under flying seal his letter to recall Governor Shirley.

Copy. 13 pages.

Note.-A biographical notice of George Croghan, Deputy Agent for Indian affairs and an influential man among the Indians, is given in O'Callaghan's "Documents relative to the Colonial History of New York," VII., 982.

SECRETARY H. Fox to the EARL OF LOUDON.

1756, May 7. Whitehall.-Marked secret. Acquainting him of the steps taken with respect to the two anonymous intercepted letters from America addressed to the Duc de Mirepoix. Since the departure of Colonel Webb a duplicate of the second intercepted letter has been sent to Londonderry in Ireland by a person under the name of James Allen of Philadelphia under cover of the enclosed letter to Mr. Gamble of that place.

Copy. 1 pages.

DEED of SALE of LAND from the STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS.

1756, May 25.-For 2001. to Robert Noble, Thomas Whitney, Japhet Huut, and John McArthur. Hampshire, May 27th, 1756. Certified by Joseph Dwight, J.P., to be the free act and deed of the above-named Indians. Springfield, March 17th, 1757. Received and recorded in the Records for the County of Hampshire, Libro y folio 575, &c. &c. Examined by Edward Pynchon, Registrar.

Original signed (Indian marks) with six seals.

Endorsed :-A deed of the Stockbridg Ingems. To Robert Noble and others.

SPENCER TOWN LIBERTY of PURCHASE.

1756, Friday, August 27. Boston.-Massachusetts Bay House of Representatives. Order concerning the petition of Trueman Powell and others, empowering them to purchase land from the Stockbridge

Indians similar to that lately sold to Captain Robert Noble; also appointing Eldad Taylor to see that justice is done in the affair.

Copy certified by A. Oliver. 14 pages.

Endorsed :-Spencer Town Liberty of Purchase of the Indians.

DEED of SALE of LAND from the STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS.

1756, September 27.-To Truman Powell, Joseph Chillenden, Joel Spencer, and several others, for the sum of 2301., New York currency. Hampshire, Sheffield, September 27th, 1756. Acknowledged by the Indians before Timothy Woodbridge, J.P., to be their own act and deed. Received March 20th, 1760, and recorded from the original per Edward Pynchon, Registrar.

Copy certified. 2 pages.

Endorsed-Indian Deed to Truman Powell and others. Copy.

Note.-Timothy Woodbridge, schoolmaster in Stockbridge from 1734; a magistrate and counsellor; died 1774.

RHODE ISLAND.

1756-64.-Extracts from the proceedings of the Rhode Island Assembly, held at Newport on the fourth Monday in August 1756, 21st of September 1762, and at East Greenwich on the last Monday in February 1764. The first proceedings relate to the Act for calling in and sinking bills of credit emitted by this Colony, called Crown Point Bills; the second, to an Act for supplying the General Assembly with 8,0007., by levying a tax upon this Colony; the third, to “ An Act for the more Speedy calling in and sinking all the outstanding Bills of Credit, emitted by Verdict of an Act of the General Assembly of this Colony made and passed at their Session held by Adjournment at providence on the 18th Day of March A.D. 1750 (which is called the ninth Bank) and were let out upon Loan; And likewise for putting a final End to the name of Old Tenor, throught this Colony." Concludes with a rhyming protest against the last Act by James Barker, junior.

The

"N.B.-Mr. Barker was then a Member of the Lower House. foregoing Extracts were taken from printed Schedules published by Authority."

23 pages.

DEED OF SALE of LAND by the STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS.

1757, March 15.-For 2617., to John Halmbeck, William Halmbeck, Andrew Reas, and several others, amongst whom are Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Franklin, junior. Hampshire, March 16, 1757. Sworn to before Timothy Woodbridge, J.P., to be the free and voluntary act and deed of the said Indians. April 7th, 1768. Received and recorded from the original per Mark Hopkins, Registrar.

Copy certified. 13 pages.

Endorsed:-The Deed of Rawkawnuck.

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1758, November 22.--Another Deed of Sale of Land by the same Indians for 250l. to Samuel Robbins, Asa Douglass, and several others, amongst whom are Benjamin Willard and Andrew Stevens. Hamp

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