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5th Mº or May 12 1756 To Cash then Sunk ac- cording to Law
CR 507.18.0
Nov 18 1755 By Cash of Alex' Moore Col- lector of Cumberland in full of their Quota to the Tax due the 21st Inst 54.03.10₺
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19 By Cash of Jacob Ford Esq Collector of Morris in full of their Quota to the Tax due ye 21* Inst . 85.00.03}
22 By Cash of Jeremiah Leaming Col- lector of Cape May (by Josiah Hand) in full of their Quota of the 21st Inst 25.11.05%
26 By Cash of Wilson Hunt Collector of Hunterdon In full of theirs of the 21st Inst 216.11.11%
Decem" 1 1755 By Cash of Thos Scatter- good Collector of Burlington In full of their Quota to the 21st of last Month 191.15.01}
1' Mº 13 1756 By Cash of Edwª Keasbey Collector of Salem in full of their Quota to the 21st Nov' 1755
106.16.11₺
16 By Cash of Eben" Hopkins Collector of Gloster in part of their Quota of last Year 17.04.00₺ · & by ditto in full of their quota due ye 21st Nov 1755 119.11.08₺
Province of New Jersey in the first Expedition Money 1755 DE
Novr 8 1755 To Abe Hewlings & D Smith Jun" for signing £15 each 30.00.0
2 m 16 1756 To Jos Yard & Jos Hollinshead Esq's in part of Commissions 30.00.0
4th M 5 1756 To Cash pd Hendrick Fisher & Jacob Deharts Order for fitting out the Forces (by Minne Fisher) 530.12.0
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By Cash return' by Abra Hewlings Esq . 612.10.0
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Province of New Jersey in the Second Expedi- tion Money 1755
DE
Dec' 5 1755 To Jacob Spicer Esq for sup- plies of Provisions 573.15.0
To my own Wages as Signer 15.00.0
17 To Jacob Spicer Esq for Supplies for the Forces 554.00.6
1 M or Jany 19 1756 To Col Schuylers Order for Pay of his Regiment by Lieutt Ward 1000.00.0
3 m 5 1756 To Jacob Spicer Esq to pay for Tents, Kettles &c 526.10.0
19 to Col Schuyler order for Pay of his Regi- ment by Lieuten May 2500.00.0
3 m 24 1756 To Hendk Fisher's order paid to his Son 337.13.0
29 Jacob Spicers Order pd J Carty 25.00.0
5th Mº 4 1756 To Jacob Spicer Esq for Lead &c 100.00.0
Province of New Jersey in the Exchange Money made Currant in 1756.
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8th Mº 1756 Received of Hugh. Hartshorne
one of the Signers 1749. 1.6
Province of New Jersey in Money made Cur_ rent for Building Block Houses &c on the Frontiers.
DR. 1st m or Jany 9 1756 To John Wetherill Esq for paying off the Provincial forces on the Frontiers 1002. 0.0
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3 Mº 18 1756 To Jonathan Hamton's Order by Jos Yard 500. 0.0 . & to Jos Yard one of the Signers 10. 0.0
16 To John Wetherill Commissary for pay- ing the Troops on the Frontiers (by his Son) . 1500. 0.0
4 M 10 To Jonathan Hamton's order in favour of Jas Yard Jun" for Pay of Provisions &c 1000. 0.0
5 M 8 1756 To Jona Hamptons order in favour of Jos Yard pª to Ch Pettit 600. 0.0 6 M 9 1756 To Jona Hamtons Order in favour of Jos Yard Esq 374. 3.0
9 To Jos Hollinshead Esq for signing in part He having reciev'd the Remaining £6. 3. of Jos Yard Esq" 3. 17.0
By Cash of Jos Hollinshead Esq one of the Signers . 5000. 0.0
Province of New Jersey in the £17,500 Money of 1756
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7th Mº or July 20th 1756 To Nicholas Gibbon one of the Commis's to pay for Cloath- ing
540. 0.0
6 m 6 1756 To John Allen for Pay of the Forces 1692. 0.0
Sepr 1st 1756 To Hugh Hartshorne for Sign- ing the Bills & Inspecting the Press . 27. 0.0 1st-To Jos Hollinshead for Signing the 17,500 17.10.0
- To myself for signing the Exch Money 3.10.0 Sepr 4 1756 To John Allen for Pay of the Forces on the Frontiers . 600. 0.0
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Octo 5. To Nicholas Gibbons ord in Favour of Ch Read 19. 0.0
6. To John Allen Esq for Pay of the Forces on the Frontiers 1000. 0.0
By Cash of Hugh Hartshorne and Jos Hol- linshead the Signers 8711.11.6
By Ditto of Ditto 38. 8.0
£8749.19.6
Province of New Jersey for Support of Govern- ment.
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Nov. 8 1755 To Judge Nevill his Warrt N 381 100.00.0
To Cash pª an Express for Councellor Kem- ble by order of Assembly To Richd Saltar Esq his Warts N
0. 7.6
356
£ 6.5.0
D° 386. 14.8.0
D° 367 6.5.0
26.18.0
To Jos Yard Esq in full of his Certif.
8. 2.0
To the Gov's Warts N 392 Dº 393 265.00.0
To Wm Bradford his Wart N 401 Ditto an- other 373 70.15.0
To John Ladd Esq his Certif
8.14.0
To Anth Elton his Wart 402 & N 374
5.00.0
285. 5.4
To Rd Partridge Esq his Wart N 383 To Ch Read Esq his War' N 375 is
£9. 4.0
Ditto Another 371
7.10.0
D.º
342
7.10.0
D.º
360
7.10.0
D.º 399
7.10.0
39. 4.0
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To my own Warts N 368 & N 358 & 396
30.00.0
To Wm Hancock Esq his Certif 8. 8.0
To Ditto Another 9.18.0
To Eben" Miller Esq his Certif. 10. 4.0
To Sam1 Clement Esq his Certif
8. 8.0
To Henry Paxson Esq his Certif
7. 4.0
To Courtland Skinner Esq his Warts N 339. 370. 333 22.10.0
To Wm Hancock Esq his Certif.
5. 8.0
To Sam1 Clement Esq his Certif.
4.16.0
To Jos Yard Esq his Certif.
3.18.0
To Jacob Spicer Esq In full of two Certifs
15.00.0
To Aaron Leaming Esq his Certif
3.12.0
To my own Certif
4. 4.0
To Rd Saltar Esq his Wart N 408
6. 5.0
To Ch Read Esq his Wart N 412
7.10.0
To Ditto his Certif
4. 4.0
To my own War N 409 10.00.0
To Henry Paxson Esq. 4. 4.0
To Anth Elton his Wart N 414 2.10.0
To Barzillai Newbold Esq. his Certif 7. 4.0
To Anth Elton Esq his Wart N 362
2.10.0
To Rd Saltar Esq his Wart N 395
6. 5.0
To Jos Yard Esq his Certif
6.18.0
To my own Certif
7. 4.0
To Wm Cook Esq his Certif
11.14.0
To John Ladd Esq his Certif.
4.16.0
To Barzillai Newbold Esq his Certif
4. 4.0
To Aaron Leaming Esq his Certif.
5.14.0
To W" Hancock Esq his Certif
7. 4.0
To Eben! Miller Esq his Certif
5.14.0
To Ditto Another
7.10.0
To Aaron Leaming Esq his Certif
6.12.0
To the Govrs Wart N 417 & N 418
265.00.0
To Jacob Spicer Esq his Certif. 7.16.0
To Jos Yard Esq his Certif.
5.14.0
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To John Smythes 5 Warts N 331. 372. 343. 361. & 378 pd C Read 24.12.7
To Judge Nevills 2 War's N 419. 433 26. 5.0
To Ch Reads Wart N 424 & his Certif 13.10.0
To Do his Wart N 432
69.3.11
To Lewis M Ashfield Esq his Wart N 296
7.10.0
To my own Certif
4.16.0
To Henry Paxson Esq his Certif
4.16.0
To Josh Bisphams Wart N 437
6.00.0
To Anth Eltons Wart N 426
2.10.0
To James Holmes Esq his Certif D° Another
7.16.0
Do
5. 8.0
18.18.0
To John Ladd Esq his Certif.
6.12.0
To Barzillai Newbold Esq his Certif.
4.16.0
To John Ladd Esq his Certif
3.18.0
To Eb! Miller Esq his Certif
5. 2.0
To Barzillai Newbold Esq his Certif
3.12.0
To Jacob Spicer Esq his Certif.
5. 2.0
To Henry Paxson Esq his Certif.
3.12.0
To my own Certif.
3.12.0
To John Smyth Esq his Wart N. 400
5.00.0
To Courtland Skinner Esq his Wart N 398
7.10.0
To Ch Read Esq his Certif.
3.12.0
To my own Wart N 421
10.00.0
To Rd Saltar Esq his Wart N 420
6. 5.0
To Do Another 429
12.12.0
To Benja Biles his Wart 434
6. 2.8
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Nov 18 1755 By Cash of Alex' Moore Col- lector of Cumberland in part of their Quota to the Tax due ye 21 Inst . 100.17. 1}
By Cash the same day which is in full 5. 8.00
19 By Cash of Jacob Ford Collector of Mor- ris in full of their Quota due the 21st Ins . 111. 2. 6
£5.14.0
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22 By Cash of Jeremiah Leaming Collector of Cape May in full 50. 2. 6 22 By Cash of Thos Woolverton Collector of Sussex in part of their Quota 53.13. 8 26 By Cash of Wilson Hunt Collector of Hunterdon In full 425. 6. 6 Decem™ 1st 1755 By Cash of Thomas Scatter- good Collector of Burlington in Part 362. 9. 62
1 m 9 1756 By Cash of Thos Woolverton in full of the remainder of Sussex Quota 1.17.10
13 By Cash of Wm Keasley Collector of Sa- lem In full of their Tax due ye 21 Nov! 209.11. 3 .
16 By Cash of Eben" Hopkins Collector of Gloucester in full of their Tax due ye 21st Nov' last . 234.10. 9
3ª m 18 1756 By Cash of Thos Scattergood in full of Burlington Deficiency of Nov" 21st Last 12.11. 7 · BURLINGTON SS
Personally appeared before me Joseph Noble Esq one of the King's Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Samuel Smith Esq Treasurer of the Western Division of the Province of New Jersey and on his solemn Affirmation according to Law did declare that these two Sheets of Paper contain a just & true state of his Accounts as Treasurer from the fifth day of No- vember 1755 to this present Eleventh of October 1756. SAM SMITH
Affirmed to the day & year above before JOSEPH NOBLE
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Letter from Governor Belcher to the Lords of Trade- nominating Samuel Woodruff for the Council, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of John Rod- ·man.
[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 8, I. 37.]
ELIZA TOWN (N J) Nov! 19: 1756
TO THE LORDS OF TRADE
My Lords,
I did myself the Honour of writing Your Lordships the 30. of the last Month, covering the Publick Papers relating to this Province, which went via New York by the Packet, & the Duplicate by one Cap' Cooper, since which nothing new has occurr'd relating to this Province.
But I am now to inform Your Lordships, that a few Months ago died John Rodman Esq! late of his Maj- estys Council of this Province, & I wou'd now in Obe- dience to His Majesty's 6th Royal Instruction, nominate to Your Lordships Samuel Woodruff Esq' for filling up this Vacancy, & I do with all Freedom recommend him to Your Lordships, as a Gentleman of strict Vir- tue of good Ability, & of a good Estate; He is & has been for several Years Mayor of this Town, and one of the Judges of the County Court; of great Loyalty and Zeal for advancing His Majesty's Interest & Honour, at all Times, nor do I know a more worthy Person to supply the said Place.' M' Woodruff writes M! Part- ridge to wait on Your Lordships on this Occasion, and I have the honour to be with great Respect and Defer- ence, My Lords, Your Lordships
most obedient & most humble Servant
J BELCHER
1 Under date of March 1st there was issued an order of Council appointing Mr. Woodruff to the position.
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Proclamation of Governor Belcher-relating to the ex- portation of provisions.
[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 8, I. 42.]
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
JONATHAN BELCHER, EsQ ; Captain General, Governor and Commder in Chief, in and over his Majesty's Province of Novæ- Cæsaræ, or New Jersey, and Territories thereon depending in America, Chancellor, and Vice Admiral in the same.
A PROCLAMATION.
HEREAS it hath been represented to his Majesty, that the several Islands and Colonies belong- ing to the French in America, have, in Times of War, been frequently supplied with Provisions of various Kinds, by Means of the Trade carried on from his Maj- esty's Islands and Colonies, to the Colonies and Settle- ments belonging to the Dutch, and other neutral Powers ; and thereupon, it is his Majesty's Royal Order that an Embargo be immediately laid, during his Majesty's Pleasure, upon all Ships and Vessels clearing out with Provisions from any Port or Place within this Government, except those as shall carry Provisions to any other of his Majesty's Islands and Plantations: In Obedience therefore to his Majesty's Royal Order, as aforesaid, I have thought fit, by and
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with the advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council of this Colony, to lay, and I Do hereby lay a Prohibition and Embargo, during his Majesty's Pleasure, on all Ships and Vessels laden or to be, laden, with Provisions (except such, and so much, as shall be absolutely nec- essary for the Use of such Vessel, and the Maintenance of her Crew, during her intended Voyage) and clear- ing out of any of the Ports or Places of New Jersey, agreeable to the Directions and Instructions by me re- ceived from his Majesty for that Purpose: And I do hereby order and direct, the Collectors of his Majesty's Customs, and naval Officers of the several Ports and Places within this Government, not to clear out any Ships or Vessels, laden with Provisions, from any Port or Place within this said Government, except those which shall be employed, in carrying Provisions, to any other of his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations, or shall be employed by the Government for the Sup- ply of his Majesty's Army and Fleet which shall be allowed to sail from Time to Time; Provided, That such Master and Masters, or Owner and Owners, of all and every such Ships and Vessels, so excepted as aforesaid, shall and do, before they are permitted to take any Provisions on board, enter into Bonds (with two Sure- ties of known Residence within this Colony, and of Ability to Answer the Penalty) with the Collector of the Customs of the Ports or Places from whence such Ships or Vessels shall set sail, in the Penalty of One Thousand Pounds, if the Ship be of less burthen than One Hundred Tons; and in the Penalty of Two Thou- sand Pounds, if above that Burthen; the Conditions of which said Bonds, shall be, That the Cargoes of such Ships or Vessels (the Particulars whereof are to be ex- pressed in the Bonds) shall not be landed in any other Ports or Places, than such as belong to his Majesty, or are in the Possession of his Subjects: And that they will, within Twelve Months after the date thereof,
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(the Danger of the Seas excepted) produce Certificates, under the Hands and Seals of the principal Officers of the Customs at such Ports or Places for which such Ships or Vessels are cleared out, that the said Cargoes (the Particulars whereof shall be expressed in such Certificates) have actually been landed at the said Ports and Places for which the said Ships or Vessels were so cleared out as aforesaid. And if there shall be Cause to suspect, that any of the Certificates as aforesaid, are false and counterfeit, the said several Collectors as aforesaid, are hereby further ordered and directed, to take especial Care that such Security or Bond be not cancelled or vacated, until Information can be had from such principal Officers of the Customs, as afore- said, that the Contents of the said Certificates are just and true; and the said several Collectors as aforesaid, are hereby further ordered and directed, that no Person be admitted to be Security for another, who hath any Bond or Bonds standing out undischarged, unless he the said Bondsman shall be esteemed respon- sable for more than the Bonds so entered, or to be entered into as aforesaid. And in order more fully to answer his Majesty's Intention, of distressing the Enemy, and to render his Orders herein the more ef- fectual, I do hereby further order and direct, the several Collectors and Naval Officers as aforesaid, to take Care, that in Case the Masters or Owners of any such Ships or Vessels having cleared out from the Colony as aforesaid, laden with Provisions, for any of his majestys Colonies, Islands, Army or Fleet, as aforesaid, shall be detected of causing collusive Cap- tures to be made of such Cargoes, the said Collectors and naval Officers, do forthwith transmit to me, a full Account of every such Discovery and Detection, with the Proofs thereof, that every such Offender or Of- fenders, may be immediately prosecuted for the same, and the several Penalties inflicted upon him or them, that the Laws will in such Cases admit of.
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And every Collector of his Majesty's Customs, and naval Officer in this Colony, is hereby strictly charged and commanded, to take especial care, that this Prohi- bition and Embargo, and every Clause or Title, and thing herein contained, be punctually observed, and put in Execution, until his Majesty's Pleasure herein, shall be further known: And also that the Laws be put in Force against all and every such Master and Masters, Owner and Owners, of such Ships or Vessels, who shall break or violate any of the Laws of Trade, or any Ways offend in the Premises.
And all his Majesty's, liege Subjects, are hereby strictly charged, enjoined, and commanded to be aid- ing and assisting to the Collectors of his Majesty's Cus- toms, and naval Officers of this Colony, in the Discharge of their respective Duties. And I do hereby request all his Majesty's liege Subjects within this Govern- ment, who shall or may discover any Ship or Vessel, privately or clandestinely, loading or unloading in any of the Out-Bays, Creeks, or Rivers within the same, or thereto adjacent, and against the Purport of this Pro- hibition and Embargo, to give immediate Information thereof, to the Officers of his Majesty's Customs, that the Offender or Offenders may be dealt with according to law.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at the Borough of Elizabeth, this 13th day of January, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Seven.
J. BELCHER
By His Excellency's Command,
CHARLES READ, Secretary
GOD SAVE THE KING.
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Circular Letter from Secretary W. Pitt to the Gover- nors of the Northern Provinces in America, urging the raising of additional troops.
[From New York Col. Documents, Vol. VII, p. 216.]
WHITEHALL Feb' 4, 1757
Sir
The King having nothing more at heart, than the preservation of his good subjects & Colonies of N. America, has come to a resolution of acting with the greatest vigor in those parts, the ensuing campaign, and all necessary preparations are making for sending a considerable reinforcements of Troops, together with a strong squadron of Ships, for that purpose, and in order to act offensively against the French in Canada.
It is His Majty's pleasure, that you shall forthwith call together your Council & Assembly, and press them in the strongest manner to raise, with the utmost ex- pedition, a number of provincial Troops, at least equal to those raised the last Year, for the service of the en- suing Campaign, over and above what they shall judge necessary for the immediate defence of their own province; and that the Troops, so raised, do act in such Parts, as the Earl of Loudoun or the Com- mander in Chief of His Majty's forces for the time being, shall judge most conducive to the service in general; and the King doubts not but that the several Provees truly sensible of his Paternal care, in sending so large a force for their security, will exert their ut- most endeavours to second, and strengthen, such offensive operations against the French, as the Earl of Loudoun, or the Commander in Chief for the time being shall judge expedient, and will not clogg the enlist- ments of the men or the raising of the money for their pay ettc, with such limitations, as have been hitherto
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found to render their service difficult and ineffectual, and as a further encouragement, I am to acquaint you, that the raising of the Men, their pay, arms and cloath- ing will be all, that will be required on the part of the several provinces; measures having been already taken for laying up Magazines of Stores and provisions of all kinds at the expence of the Crown.
I cannot too strongly recommend it to you, to use all your influence with your Council and Assembly for the punctual and immediate execution of these His Majty's commands
I am ettc. W PITT
[Similar letters were sent to New Hampshire, Mas- sachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey.]
Memorandum received by William Alexander from Ferdinand John Paris as to the character of the Commissioners to determine the boundaries be- tween New York and New Jersey.
[From N. J. Manuscript of W. A. Whitehead, Vol. 1, No. 89.]
9th Feb' 1757
The last Request which M' Paris made to the late M' Alexander and which seems necessary now to be attended to, was
To have a short Affidavit or Affidavits, from some proper persons, specifying what Objections the Pro- prietors of New Jersey have to the Councillors of any particular Province in America, Or to any particular Members of any one such Council, against their acting as Commissioners to settle the Boundaries between New Jersey and New York.
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And that such Affidavits should be return'd under the Great Seal of some Colony.
If the persons making the Affidavits can with truth go so far as to say, that they verily believe in their Consciences, that the Councillors in such and such Provinces, or the particular Members of any particular Council, so objected to, will not, for the particular Rea- sons assigned, be even, equal and indifferent Judges between New Jersey and New York in the Dispute re- lating to their Boundaries, it ought by no means to be omitted in the Affidavits
[Enclosed in letter to Robert Hunter Morris Feb. 12, 1757, which see .- ED.]
Letter from William Alexander to Robert Hunter Morris-relating to the boundary difficulties be- tween New York and New Jersey.
[From original among N. J. Manuscripts of W. A. Whitehead, Vol. I, No. 88.]
LONDON feb: 12, 1757.
The Honble Robert Hunter Morris Esq' or the President of the Council of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey
Dear Sir
I would before this time have wrote to you on the affairs of the Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, and informed you of the progress of their Petition for a Temporary Line, but waited in hopes of giving you some account of its Effect, which I now have the pleasure of doing. Some few Days after my Arrival in England, the Petition was delivered in to
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his Majesty in Council; On the 19th of Nov! it was re- ferred to the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs, who took it into Consideration on the 24th of that month, which is the only Day that Committee has sat since August last: They referred it to the Lords of Trade who appointed the 21st of Dec' for a hearing on it at their Board, and Notice was given of it to M' Paris and M' Charles. here we expected to meet with the long practized Opposition and Eva- sions on the part of New York, and therefore prepared for them, by determining to make our Offers so ample and fair, as to put it out of their power to make any Objections to the doing something or other effectual. After reading over the Petition, and proving the De- livery of a Copy of it to the President of the Council of New York; we told their Lordships that if they had any Objections to the granting the prayer of the peti- tion for a Temporary Line, and chose rather to have the Matter determined by a Commission for running the final Line: And as the only Objection that now remained to the issuing such Commission, was, that the Province of New York had not provided for their Moiety of the Expence, we would advance the Money necessary for the whole Expence of seeing out the Commission and carrying it into Execution, provided their Lordships would advise that in the Commission it might be ordered that the Commission should award one half of the Expence to be repaid by the Province of New York to the Proprietors of East Jersey. These we thought we might venture to offer, rather than leave them the least pretence for any further Delay; and it had the effect we wished; for it convinced their Lordships that the proprietors were honestly disposed to put an End to the Contest. M' Charles had noth- ing of Consequence to object, but declared to their Lord- ships that he had never before heard of this petition; that he had no Instructions relating to it, but was in
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hopes he should have by the next packet, and therefore prayed for time 'till after the Holydays. We replyed, that several Months had passed since the Copy of the petition had been served on the province of New York; that they had had time enough to instruct him, if they had thought that proper; that perhaps they did not intend to send him any Instructions about it; and that it would be very hard that we should be put off with Expectations of Mr Charles, which had no foun- dation. However their Lordships thought Reasonable to give him some time to consider of the petition and agreed to put the Matter off till after the Holy days, but told M' Charles, that if he then had no Instruc- tions from New York, he was not to expect that would be allowed a pretence for any further Delay.
After the Holy days we got the 18th of Jan! ap- pointed for a hearing, which notwithstanding what had passed at the Board of Trade the last hearing, Mª Charles had the Modesty to request it should be put off on pretence of his expecting a Ship every Moment from New York; And I believe their Lordships would have again complyed with his Request, had not M. Paris's Answer to it shamed them. Accordingly a hear- ing was had on the 18th M" Paris and M' Forrester attending in behalf of the proprietors, and M' Charles in Behalf of New York; the Latter had nothing to ob- ject that was, to the purpose; he said he had no Instructions from his principals relating to this peti- tion, but that he was confident ou a full Enquiry into the Matter it would be found that the Mouth of the West Branch was the true Station on Delaware &c. &c. However their Lordships saw the Necessity there was of restoring Peace between the two Provinces at this time and the reasonableness and fitness of our Re- quest for that End, in so strong a Light, that they determined to delay the Matter no longer: And ac- cordingly on the 27th made their Report to the Lords
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