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[See document next preceding. - ED. ]
[Petition of Benjamin Leavitt, Stratham, 1719.] [2-109]
Province of New Hampr 1 To his Excellency Sam1 Shute Esq' Govern' & Com- mander in Cheif in & over his Majesties sd Province & to the Honourable the Council
The Humble Petition of Benja Levit of Stratham, most Humbly Sheweth - That whereas yor Petitioner having some years last past by the hand of divine Providence lost his right arm whereby he is rendered utterly uncapable of any servile labour or handy work whereby he might procure subsistance for himself & family, & also having had Lycence for keeping a Tavern for some years past, & paid a considerable excise for the same, but yor Petitioners Family now increasing, & also several persons in the Town selling drink without
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Lycence, as yor Petitioner supposeth, which has almost taken away the custom of yo' Petitioner which formerly he had both of Towns people & strangers, which with what is before mentioned, renders yor Petitioner uncapable to pay any excise at all, yor Petitioner would therefore humbly request yor Excellency & Honours to consider his deplorable condition, & take off the excise formerly laid on him, & give him Liberty of selling what little he can without Excise, & so yor Petitioner shall ever pray as in duty bound &c.
Benja Leavitt
We the Subscribers ye Selectmen of the Town of Stratham do most humbly make our Application to yor Excellency and Honours for yor Granting the above requested favours to yor Petitioner, & humbly recommend him as a Sutable person to keep a Public House of Enter- tainment in ye Town of Stratham.
William Moor Wilam Seave [?] 1 Selectmen Benjman Talor
The wthin petition being read it was In Council April 29, 1719 Voted That Benja Leavitt of Stratham have license & is hereby Im- powered to keep a public house & sell drink without paying excise in sd town during his life provided no just Complaint be made agst him Richd Waldron Cler. Con.
In ye House of Representatives 29 Apr 1719 Read & voted a Con- currence Josh : Peirce Clr Assemb1
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[Letter from Massachusetts relating to the Boundary Line Contro- versy, 1719.]
Boston Decem' 7th : 1719 -
Sr The Secretary being Indisposed I am by order of the Gover- nour and Council, in answer to your Letter to advise you, That the General Assembly being yet sitting, and a Superior Court being. to sit at Salem for the County of Essex the next week, and some of the Commissioners being Judges of that court the Setling the Divisional Line between the two Provinces cant be attended by the Commis- sioners on the part of this Government till next Wednesday three weeks when they will not fail of meeting the Hampshire Gent. at the Place they have appointed - I am your humble Servant
Jos : Hiller # order
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[Answer.]
Portsmº Xbr [Dec.] 8, 1719 abt 8 oclock at night \
Sir - I have just now received M' Hillers letter by an Express from Boston in relation To ye putting of or suspending ye Settlemt of ye divisional line between ye two provinces of N. Hamp & Massa and have Communicated the same to His Hon' Lt Gov" Wentworth who has Commanded me to lett you know That ye affair on ye part of this province shall be suspended for ye present but withall if it be putt of for ye space of three weeks tis to be feared that then the badness of ye weather may #vent ye Compleating ye business and further That at ye return of the post this week he will write more fully as to ye time &c - I am Sir yor humble Servt R. W. Cler. Con.
[2-113] [Council's Letter to John Bridger, 1719.]
June 23 1719
M' Bridger - I am directed by the Honble ye L' Govr & Coun' to Inform you that Robt Armstrong Esq has laid before them in Coun- cil an Instrumt in writing appointing him the sd Armstrong to be Deputy Surveyor of His Majesties woods in America undr Charles Burmston Esq. whereupon they Desire to be advised by you whether you have recd a Quietus or are divested of the trust of Gen1 Survey" of ye woods that due care may [be] taken for ye servation of his Majts trees I am Sir yo", humble Servt
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[See Vol. III. p. 750.]
[2-115] Rules for Raising and Making Hemp.
THE Land should be moist, neither dry nor too wet, nor hilly : A black mellow Soil produceth the best HEMP, and will hold longest even to 30 or 40 Years, but must generally have two Ploughings after the HEMP is off, and then dung'd well with mellow Dung, 20 Loads to an Acre, and plough'd again before the Seed is sown ; tho some Lands especially where the Soil is deep will bear HEMP many Years with little or no Manure ; and if the Land is Weedy, it should be harrowed before the last Ploughing to take off the Weeds, but when fresh Land
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is broke up once Ploughing is sufficient. If the Ground fails it must be seasoned with Beans, or the like, and so it may be in case at any time the first Crop fails, especially if it happens for want of Seasoning. Rock Weed or Kelp is very good Manure for HEMP-Lands. A moist Summer not too wet produceth most HEMP. The Lands must be laid near a Level, not above 4 Foot broad, so that you may reach from the Furrows to weed or pull up the Fimble or Male HEMP. When your Seed is Sown, that which is scatter'd in the Furrows should be thrown with a Shovel on the Lands. To prove your Seed, Chew it, and if it has an agreeable Sweetness like Milk, and the Liquor look white, it is good, but if bitter and the Liquor of a reddish Colour 'tis bad ; or break it under your Finger on a Table, if 'tis good 'twill be moist, if bad dry and crumbling. The Seed should be Sown in a dry Season, in March or April, or in May if the first Crop fails, after Ploughing the Land again. When your Seed is Sown it must be har- row'd dry, and may be harrow'd again after a gentle Shower as soon as the Ground is dry, provided the HEMP be not Sprouted. Great Care must be taken to preserve the Seed by Flaps or otherwise from the Birds, and must be weeded if required. Two Bushels or two and a half will sow an Acre of Land.
THE Fimble or Male HEMP, such as is blasted, or that has met with any Accident, and won't produce Seed, will be Ripe about July, a Month before the good HEMP, as will appear by its yellow Colour, and must then be drawn.
WHEN the Seed (which grows in a small Cod) of the good HEMP is Ripe and ready to shed, 'twill be brown and hard, you must then draw the HEMP by Hand, and lay a beat (that is, about 6 Handfuls of Stalks together) for a Day or two upon the Ground, and then with a Whisk of Weeds, tye it up just below the Seeds, and set up four Beats together, opening the bottom of the Beats (a Shower of Rain does it good, but the Tops must not be cover'd, if you do it spoils the Seed) and if the Weather be good, it will be fit to Thrash in 10 or 14 Days, which is done upon the Ground (beat smooth for that purpose) with a Flail, then Riddle it with a coarse Corn Riddle in the Wind, and when 'tis well clean'd lay your Seed on a Floor and fan it before you use it.
AN Acre will produce 6 or 7 Coombs of Seed (at 4 Winchester Bushels to a Coomb) tho sometimes not above 3 or 4 (especially when disturb'd with high Winds, which are very pernicious when the Seed is Ripe) also 120 Stone of HEMP at 141. to the Stone.
FOR Curing the HEMP make the Stalks in Shocks, and carry it to a place proper to water it, lay it there with Timber or Turf, or some Weight upon it for 10 or 14 Days, but no longer than is absolutely
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necessary, which you will judge of by its pealing (some Water will prepare it sooner : River Water is best to preserve its Colour) then take it out of the Water and set it up on end in Shocks or Beats, open or loose, that it may be sooner dry'd; and when it's thoroughly dry House it, or Stack it, well secured at bottom and top.
A Kiln like a Malsters will dry the HEMP, and cause the Stalks to break much easier, and better free the HEMP from Stalks and Shivers, and will soon compensate the Charge of a Kiln.
You may peal off the HEMP at your leisure, by breaking the Stalk near the Root, and in several other Places, keeping the Root-end always one way upon your Middle Finger turn'd in, and draw the HEMP from the Stalk with your other Hand, repeating it 'till your Finger is full, then hang it on Peggs, or otherwise, and bind it up dry.
IF the HEMP be not dry'd on a Kiln, it must be Swingled, or dress'd with a Swingle-board, over the end of a Deal Board set end-ways, about 4 Foot high with an Edge to it, or by a Break or some other Engine, which may be moved by Water or otherwise.
THE Stalks of Coarse HEMP grows to 10 or 12 Foot high, but is commonly 7 Foot, and should not be less than 53 or 6 Foot high.
THE Premium allowed by Act of Parliament, for all HEMP Imported from Foreign Plantations is 61. per Tun.
Encouragement for Sowing Land with HEMP.
LAND in England, for Wheat worth 20s. an Acre, is worth for HEMP, from 40 to 5os ; and is so let for a Term of Years.
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AN Acre of Land Plough'd, Sow'd, and the HEMP come up, is gen- erally worth (at Soam in Cambridgeshirc) and Sold for 41. an Acre ; and if likely to prove well, for 5 1.
AN Acre of Land produces, as has been already observed, about 120 Stone ; and is Sold from 2s. to 4s. a Stone, that is from 161. to 321. a Tun. And the Seed from 8s. to 20s. and to 40s. a Coomb, according to its Goodness ; however at 20s. a Coomb, supposing an Acre to produce 5 Coombs is 51. and 120 Stone of Hemp at 3 1. a Stone, 18 1. which together is 23 1. the Medium or ordinary Produce of an Acre. .
THE best Seed is used for raising HEMP for making Linnen, which must be drawn before it produces Seed, and will make Cloth worth 2s. 6d. per. Yard, when whitened wears very Fine, and is vastly Strong.
SEED laid up dry will keep good several Years.
SEED makes good Oyle for the Soap boylers.
[The foregoing relates to one of the early industries of this State, long since abandoned. Many of the land grants made by Governor
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Wentworth required a certain number of acres in every one hundred to be cultivated with hemp, provided the land was suitable ; and other means were used to promote its production. The document cannot fail to be of interest to future generations. - ED.]
[2-118] [Relative to Burying an Indian, 1720.]
Voyage to A Rousack [Arrowsick ?] to Bury the Indian by appoint June the 29, 1720 -
To 2 men reffitting as putting in a bowsprit Ballasting ye Sloop &c. 2. 6. -
To boards Nayles &c for Bulk heads 7. 6
To 2 galls rum when ours was gone .
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To an Express to the Indians . 10. O
To a Blanket given an Indian Squaw one of Hannocks
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To men to Sayle the Sloop down and some small things
for the voyage 4. 12. 6
£10. 4. 0
Oct 25th 1720 In Councill ordered to be payd
# sent L' Gov' Wibird, Tailor, & Jaffrey
Province of New Hampshire John Gyles
1719 By order of Lieut Governor Wintworth to M' Sam11 Jurden & my self to treat with the Indians Cheiffs Concearning hannock an Indian supposed to be lost -
Charge in Provision & a Cup [?] to drinke our king & Govern' & Chiefs health is . 17. 10
Ditto to ye English is . 8. 8
to Mr Dennions Jurden 5 days one sd Sarvice 15. O 1719 Octr 8 by order of Lieut Gover' Wintworth Pd to Sabatis Indien 8. o
1720 June 8 to Exprece a messuage to naraugawock by order of Gover' Wintworth is charge . 5. O
June ye 19 to a measenger in answer to Goverr Went- worths Leter from naraugawock & to Exprece ye same to Capt" Moody at Casco 18. 8
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June ye 29 Charge in Provision to Exprece a mesuage to naraugawock to notifie ye Cheiff Indian that Gov- err Wintworth is a Rived to treat wth em is . I2. 6
1720 July ye I by order of Lieut Gover" Wintworth deliv- ered to Sabatis & brother 4 yds of Broadcloth at 18/ ¥ yd is
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to ditto & ye auther [?] Indians a Cup to wipe of tears FortGeorge July 8: 1720
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Errows Excepted # John Gyles
[See Vol. III. p. 787. - ED.]
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|Power of attorney from Jedediah and Abigail Fitch, and Jemima Coffin, "of Sherborn on the Island of Nantucket, to Ebenezer Gard- ner," relative to lands by them owned in New Hampshire. - ED.]
[2-120] [George Brownell's Petition, 1720.]
To his Excellency Sam" Shute Esqr Governour & Commander in chiefe in & over his Majties : Province of New Hampshire, to the Honble the Council & Representatives Sitting in Generall assembly at Portsmº within & for Said Province -
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The Humble petition of Geo. Brownell Humbly Sheweth
Whereas Geo : Whitehorn of Boston entered a complaint against yor Petitioner in his Majties Court of Assizes held at Portsmº the 9th day of this instant August - alledging against your Petitioner, in his complaint the abuse of his Son Richd Whitehorn your Petitioners Ap- prentice, wch was proceeded in & determined by the Honble Judges of Sª Court & your petitioners Apprentice discharged from him, wch is much to his prejudice & contrary to Law, because if he the Said Apprentice had at any time received any abuse, he ought to have complained to one or more of his Majesties Justices of the peace, & from thence to the Quarter sessions that so regular Justice might be administred, And not an apprentice to be discharged upon his Saying or Sweareing in the Court he was unhumanely beat, For there was nothing appeared in Court of any abuse, but his own Say So, & his telling it to others, & their Sweareing of it that he told them so, wch
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in point of Law was no Evidence at all, And his Said father, finding him fitt for business thought on this unusual method to deprive your Petitioner of his Apprentice, & reap the benefit of my charge & Epences of four Yeares & a half wch would have cost his father £200 for his board cloaths & Schooling to have done it by any other Master to that degree that I have done it, & the onely thing that encouraged nie to take so much paines was, that, this four Yeares & a halfe that he had Still to serve me would make your Petitioner asufficient amends, & he will now Save his father Seventy pound # annm by being his Clark, he haveing agreat deale of bussiness in keeping a woodmongers wharfe, Still house &c, & the last three months past he hath particularly behaved himself very undutifully, & hath beene encouraged thereto by his Relations, & beene guilty of lying, Swear- ing, cursing, telling of Secrets out of the house, neglecting all com- mands except compeled to it
Wherefore your petitioner humbly prayeth that In as much as ye Sd Court could not take Cognizance of ye Same but by an appeal from ye Sessions & yt therefor ye Sª Judgmt is Extra judicial he may have remedy in this affaire & not made so great a Sufferer And for aprofest Schoolmaster to have his Apprentice permitted so falsely to accuse him in the face of awhole cuntry, and not to be punished for it, must render him useless & unserviceable & your Pettitioner shall Ever pray &c Geo Brownell
[Endorsed] George Brownels petition Augst 1720. Minuted
[2-121] [Articles of Apprenticeship, 1715.]
This Indenture wittnesseth yt Richd Whitehorn son of George Whitehorn of Boston with the consent of his father & mother doth put & bind himself an Apprentice unto Geo: Brownell of Boston Schoolmaster, And with him & his wife after the manner of an Ap- prentice to Serve, from the tenth of January 1715/6 to the Yeare 1724/5 January at which time he will be the full age of twenty one Yeares wch time to be fully compleat & ended. Dureing all which time the Said Apprentice his said Master & Misteris faithfully shall serve, their Secrets keep close & lawfull commands everywhere gladly do, he shall do no damage to his Said Master or Misteris, nor see to be done of others but he to his power shall forthwith lett hin- der & make known to his Said Master he shall not wast nor spend the goods of his said master or Missteris nor contract matrimony within the Said term, At Cards dice or any unlawfull game he shall
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not play nor frequent taverns, nor absent himselfe from his Said Mas- ter or Misteris service by night or day but in all things as agood faithfull diligent & Obedient Servant shall behave himselfe towards his Said Master & Missteris dureing all the Said term
In Consideration whereof the Said Master doth Covenant & promise in behalfe of himselfe & his said wife to & with his Said Apprentice to teach him writeing reading Cyphering, & to cause him to be in- structed in the art & mistery of a Cooper, And any other thing belonging to any trade, or other art, or Science yt the Said Master or Misteris shall have amind to have him learn for his own accomplish- ment or advantage he the Said Richard as an Apprentice shall readily comply with, And the Said Master shall find unto his Said Appren- tice Suiteable & Sufficient meat drink apparel lodging washing & all other necessaries dureing the Said term & at the end & expiration thereof to dismiss the Said Servant his Said Apprentice with two Suites of Apparrel for all parts of his body to the true performance whereof the parties abovesaid have hereunto interchangeably set their hands & Seales this tenth day of January 1715/6 in the Second yeare of the reign of king George &c
Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of
Increase Gatchell Esther Maccarty
[Endorsed] The Coppy of Richd Whitehorn's Indenture
[2-122] [ Sheriff's Order to Arrest Several Men.]
Pro : of 1 To The Sherriff of the Said province And Und" Sher- N Hampr _ riff or Deputy greeting -
By ordr of His Excellency The Gov" you are hereby required in His Majties name forthwth on receipt hereof To Summon John pickerin' George Walker Epha Jackson Sam1 Banfeild Wm Hunking Stephen Greenleaf Peter Ball John Jackson Sen' Richd Shortridge Abraham Jones Charles Banfield Solloman Cotton. John Abbott or So many of Them as may be found wthin your #cincts To appear at ye Councill Chamber at four a clock afternoon To Answer for a Scandalous paper Signed by Them Directed & delivered To his Excellency the Govr wch Said paper contains open & vile reflections on ye legislature of This province fail not
Dated Augst 27 1720
Richd Waldron Cler Con
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Pro : N : Hampsh' 27th august 1720
In obedience to the within p'cept I have Sumoned John Pickerin Stephen Greenleafe Wm Hunking Solomon Cotton Sam1 Banfield abram Jones Peter Ball John Jackson Jolin abbot Richd Shortridge the rest I could not find
Benja Gambling Shr :
[Recantation. ]
We the Subscribers Do' by these Presents Declare That The paper we formerly Signed Directed To His Excellency The Govr by way of petition is a Scandalous reflection on the Goverment which we were unadvisedly prevailed upon to Sign, and are heartily Sorry for it & promise for the future to behave our Selves as Dutifull Subjects and not do the like again
Geo : walker Sam" Banfield Steph Greenleef
[See Vol. III. p. 794. - ED.]
- [2-123] [Instructions to Governor Shute, relative to Issuing Bills of Credit, 1720.]
By the Lords Justices
W Cant Parker Townshend Holles N. Castle Devonshire
Additional Instructions to Samuel Shute Esqr His Majestys Capt General and Govr in Cheif of His Majesty's Province of N. Hampr for the Time being.
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Whereas acts have been past in some of His Majestys plantations in America for striking bills of Creditts and Issuing out the same in lieu of money in order to discharge their publick debts and for other purposes from whence several inconveniencys have arose ; It is there- fore His Majesty's will and pleasure that for the future you do not give your assent to or pass any acts in His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire under your Goverment whereby bills of Creditt may be struck or Issued in lieu of mony or for payment of mony
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either to you the Governour or to the Command" in Cheif or to any of the members of His Majesty's Councill or of the Assembly of the said province of New Hampshire or to any other Person whatso- ever without a clause to be inserted in such act declaring that the same shall not take effect untill the sd act shall have been approved aud Confirmed by His Majesty Excepting acts for raising and Settling a publick revenue for defraying the necessary Charge of the Gover- ment of the said province of New Hampshire according to the Instruc- tion already given you
By Their Excellency's Command
Ch Delafaye
A True Copy from the original Examined Richd Waldron Cler. Con.
[Endorsed] Recd June 15, 1721
[2-124] [Conference with some Indians at Portsmouth.]
Mogg & Umbakeque
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Lt Gov' :
Q have you any Business with ye Govrmt :
In A. We take ye Occation of Comeing There are a People yt Live at Merremetting Bay yt we dont know nor dont Like - our ordrs are to tell ye Gov'mt yt ye Indians shall have something to Say at arowsick abt 40 days hence ---
L Govr - these People at Merrymetting are Subjects to ye king of Brittain who shall be supported there and Defended
Qt have you any thing Else to offer.
A - we are ordered say nothing more -
Q wt is ye Reason of yor Insulting ye English Contrary to ye Severall articles & Treaties -
A we know of no such thing -
Lt G - It is very true There are sundry Depositions to Prove it -
In It is possible it may be so we cant Deny it but it was done by Pirate Indians -
Ind" The Indians have bin much stulted [?] this summer for that many People have sd it must be Words they had Rather have Wars
L' G - they were foolish People much Like yor young men we have no Desire to make Wor - but will Support ye Estern Settlemtt
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In - if any Indian comes for ye future dont mind ym for yy comes on yt our heads - I am asagamore ye Second man among ye Cheifes and am Sent by ye tribe and if had heard of any thing of Damage done by the Indians I should not have come -
L' Gr you are Safe & should be on a Message if it were Wor -
L' Gr- the Disturbing People and killing ye Cattle is very unsup- portable - and not to be allowed of
In - It is very true -
I - wt is Left for me to Doe either Goe for Boston or back home -
L' Gov. A - Rest goc home & tell yt Commission's will meet ye Indians at Arrowsick ye first week in Oct":
In - some men are too Rash and threaten the Indians - vizt Sd Jos Dam who says blood must be shed before he shall be satisfyed -
Lt- He might had some Reason so to say so for that they had kild his Creators & threatened to be drive him of ye Land yt he & his Predecessors had Injoyed for a Long time but its not in ye Power of a single man to make war -
Qt have you any thing more to offer -
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you had best upon yr Return to have a Councill held and yor young men Cautioned that they Dont Committ any more Insults - for ye Consequences will be bad for them for ye English will not bear it any Longer -here are sundry Indians Lurking abt - its best for you to take Care & see who they are for if any Damage arises by ym it will occation a War with ym there is 400 men goeing und' Command of Collo Waller to Cover ye Settlements while ye People get yr hay & Corn and will not hurt any Indian Provided they behave ym Selves well & Peasably
Sr These are by ordr of ye Govern' to Direct you to send a mes- sage to ye Indians yt his Excellency
[Endorsed] Conference wth Indns at Portsmº 7br [September] 8th 1720 Mog & Ombagegoa - Minuted
[2-125] [Richard Waldron to Governor Shute, 1720.]
May it please yor Excellency
March Ioth 1720
I am Commanded by His Hon' the L' Gov' & Coun' to Inform you that notwithstanding yor Exceys orders Sent To Salisbury and the
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resolution of This Govermt to lett all things rest that have any rela- tion To ye divisional line between the two provinces till that affair is Determined at home The Constable of Salisbury by virtue of a warrant from the Select men for gathering the taxes of that town hathe imprisoned two men for refusing to pay rates There vizt Isaac Green and Edward west who lives more than a mile & half to the northward of that which has been generally reputed ye partition line of ye two provinces for thirty years last past and pray yor Excel- lencys interposition in The matter that right may be done I am may it pleace yor Excell
yor Excell most Obet humble Servt Richd Waldron Cler C
Portsmº March Ioth 1720/I To his Ex : Govr Shute
[Endorsed] Lettr to ye Govr March 9th 1720/1 abt Imprisoning 2 Hampton [men] at Salisbury
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[2-126] [ Waldron to Governor, March 14, 1720.]
May it Please yor Excellency
S' We advised you ye IIth That the Constable of Salsbury had Im- prisoned two Hampton men that Live above a mile & halfe within ye Line of this Province for Rates. We have now to Acquaint yor Excellency that they goe on in Such measures as may be of ill Con- sequence - as you'l see pr the Inclosed Lett" which just now came to hand. We Pray yor Excellency's Speedy interposition that further Confution may be avoyeded I am
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