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17.11.0
Serjeant at Arms to the Councill 16.10.0
Serjeant at Armes to the Assembly 15. 6.0
Hire of a Room for the Council 20. 0.0
Hire of a Room for the Assembly
30. 0.0
2038.17.0
To Sundry Payments from May 1740 to Nov! 1742 Viz! His Excellency Governour Morris Sundry Warrants . £1060. 0.0
Gentlemen of the Council
57.18.0
Gentlemen of the Assembly
437. 2.0
Chief Justice .
175. 0.0
Agent, Salary
£200.0.0
Ditto, Acct Disbursts . 88.14.10
288.14.10
Eastern Treasurer
80. 0.0
Second Judge
115. 0.0
Clerk of the Council
7.10.0
Attorney General
46. 0.0
Clerk of the Circuits
10. 0.0
Doorkeepers & Serjeants at Armes to the Council & Assembly 55.14.0
Clerk of the Assembly 65.12.0
Printer
46.14.0
Acctts of Expenses
43.12.0
Hire of a Room &c for ye Council
£3.15.0
Ditto for the Assembly
5. 0.0
8.15.0
An Error in a former Settlement
9. 0.0
Trustees for Victualling & Trans- porting the Forces Raised for His Majesty's Service on the Expedi-
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tion to the West Indies, pursuant to an Act of Assembly passed in 1740, £1000. 0.0
3506.11.10
To Sundry Payments from Nov! 1742 to Nov: 1744 Viz: His Excellency Governour Morris Sundry Warrts £1060. 0.0
Gentlemen of the Council
45.18.0
Gentlemen of the Assembly
385.10.0
Chief Justice
150. 0.0
Agents Salary
£180. 0.0
Ditto Acctt
34.19.8
214.19.8
Second Judge
67.10.0
Eastern Treasurer
90. 0.0
Clerk of the Assembly
64.16.0
Doorkeeper of the Council
9. 6.0
Doorkeeper & Serjeant at Armes to to the Assembly 18.12.0
Printer and bookbinder
50.16.0
Acctt of Expenses
34.13.6
Hire of a Room &c for the Council
6.15.0
Ditto for the Assembly .
9. 0.0
2207.16.2
To Sundry Payments from Nov! 1744 to Feb" 1747 Viz! Three months Salary from 23ª June to 23ª Sep! 1738, part to President Hamilton & Part to Gov' Morris J! Warrant, which was Omitted £125.00.0
Chief Justice # Warrant
25.00.0
Second Judge
7.10.0
The Agent
20.00.0
Eastern Treasurer
10.00.0
Printer's Acctt
6.16.0
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The Com's appointed to Purchase Pro- visions for His Majestys Subjects at Cape Breton £1000.00.0
The Com's for Victualling the Forces Raised for His Majestys Service In the Expedition against Canady .
1442.12.1}
Bounty money paid to three of ye Companys on sª Expedition, .
1800. 0.0
Subsistance of sª three Companys from the Day of Inlisting to the Day of Muster 308.14.9
The Commissioners for a Second Sup- ply of Provisions for the Forces 850. 0.0
The Com"s for a third Supply of Pro- visions 1000. 0.0
The Com's Appointed. for Arming & Cloathing the Forces 7750. 2.3
14345.15.1}
To Sundry Payments from Feb"y 1747 to Oct. 1751 Viz! Exe's of Collo. Hamilton late President
a Warrant £520. 0.0
His Excellency Gov' Belcher Sundry Warrants 1590. 0.0
Gentlemen of the Council . 214.16.0
Chief Justice . 363. 1.4
Gentlemen of the Assembly 1485. 0.0
Eastern Treasurer ·
195. 4.5
Money advanced for Subsistance of the Forces after the Day of Muster
to the time of Imbarkation for Albany 476. 5.0
Second Judge Sundry Warrants
156.17.0
Agent Salary . £270. 8.0
Ditto Acctt Disbt9 407. 7.5
677.15.5
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Clerk of the Councill
£123.18.4
Clerk of the Circuits
15. 0.0
Collo Schuylar for Provisions &c at Albany Supply'd the Forces, 623.17.8
Clerk of the Assembly 222.16.0
Doorkeepers & Serjeants at Armes 76.19.4
Hire of Councill Chambers &c 47. 7.9
Acctte of Expenses
48.17.3
His Excellency Gov !. Belcher more
Warrants 530. 0.0
Gentlemen of ye Councill
25.10.0
Eastern Treasurer
80. 0.0
7473. 5.6
Total Dr
. £32373. 0.0
Contra C!
By Sundry payments from Oct! 1734 to March 1738. Viz
A Tax Received from the Several Eastern County Collectors, for ye Year 1734 £540.13.0
Ditto Received for the Year 1735 . 541.10.6
£1082. 3.6
Interest money Arising from the Loan of Bills of Creditt In the Eastern Countys, by Virtue of an Act of Assembly passed in the year 1723 for Striking £40,000, payable, 1735 Ditto by Virtue of an Act pased in the year 1730 for making £20,000 508. 90
£14.19.4₺
Ditto payable in the year 1736 495. 4.3
Ditto payable in the year 1737 462.18.9 Ditto payable in the year 1738 . £462.18.9
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Ditto by Virtue of an Act pased in the year 1733 for Making £40,000 954.18.0
1417.16 9
2899. 8.1%
Part of the Deficiencies # Contra Re-
ceived 209.12.0
£4191. 3.72
By Sundry Payments from March 1738 to May 1740 Viz! Deficiences in the Tax for ye Year 1734 £0.17.6
Cash on Acctt of Sundry former Defi-
ciences in the Interest Money 262.15.8
Interest of the £20,000 & the last £40,000 payae from the Eastern Countys In 1739
1417.17.0
1681.10.2
By Sundry Payments from May 1740 to Nov! 1742. Viz! Part of a Ball: In the late Treasurers hands £466. 8.6
Part of Deficiences In former Interest 216.11.2
Interest payable from the Several Countys In the year 1740 1417.17.0
Ditto payable In 1741
1417.17.0
Ditto payable . 1742
1417.17.0
Cash from the Signers of the Bills of Credit Pursuant to an Act passed in 1740 1000. 0.0
5936.10.8
By Sundry Payments from Nov" 1742 to Nov". 1744 Viz! Balle in the late Treasurers hands £309. 6.4% 7
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Interest Money payable from the Eastern Countys in the year 1743 £1350. 3.4}
Ditto Payable 1744 1282. 9.9
2941.19.62
By Sundry Payments from Nov'. 1744 to Feb" 1747. Viz! Interest Money payable from the Sev-
eral Eastern Countys in the year 1745 £1214.16.1}
Ditto payable in the year 1746 1147. 2.6
Ditto payable 1747 . 944. 1.72
Cash Recd from the Signers of the Bills of Credit Ordered to be Signed for Victualling the Forces Raised for His Majesty's Service on the Expedit" against Canady by an Act passed in 1746 2000. 0.0 Cash recd from the Signers of the Bills Ordered for the Second Supply of Provisions . 850. 0.0
Cash Recd from the Signers of the Bills Ordered for the third Supply of Provisions 1000. 0.0
Repaid by the Victualling Com's be- ing a Balle in their Hands . 191. 0.8}
Cash Received from the
Signers of Bills to be Ap-
ply'd to Arming & Cloath-
ing ye Forces Raised for His Majesty's Service .£5000. 0.0
Ditto from the Western Treasury by ye hands of the Com".s 3475. 0.0
8475. 0.0
Cash Repaid by the Eastern Com's Appointed for Arming & Cloathing the
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Forces, being a balle in their hands £99. 2.3 Sundry Remnants of Cloath- ing &c 121.18.0
£221. 0.3
16043. 1.24
By Sundry Payments from feb"y 1747 to Oct' 1751 Viz! Interest Money payable from the Sev- eral Eastern Countys In the year 1748 741. 0.9
Ditto payable In the the year 1749 537.11.9
Ditto payable 1750 412. 9.0
A former Deficiency in Somerset County
18. 3.0
Interest Money payable 1751 277. 1.3
1986. 5.9
Total Cr . £32780.10.11
Be it remembered that on the second day of June 1752 Andrew Johnson Esq: Treasurer of the Eastern Division of New Jersey Appeared before me Robt Ogden Esq' and being duly Sworn Declares to the Best of his Knowledge that the above Account is a true State of the Receipts and payments by him from Octo! 1734 to Oct: 1751 Excepting that some Part of the Interest money for which he has Given Credit is Still Outstanding. AND. JOHNSTON
BOROUGH OF ELIZABETH SS.
Sworn the Day & year above written before me
ROBE OGDEN
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Letter from Governor Belcher to Rev. Dr. George Whitefield, England-upon religious subjects.
[From Belcher Papers in Library of N. J. Hist. Soc.]
ELIZ: TOWN (N J) June 23 1752
Dear Mr Whitefield & Worthy Sir
Your Excellently good and religious Letter of the 13th of Oct. 1750 came to my hands the May following and which I had Answered long before now But that your Sudden Motions from place to place made me quite at a loss how to get a Letter in safety to you and I now Cover this to the Care of our good Friend Mr Bradford of Phil for its better Conveyance.
Dr Sir how much have you disappointed great Numb's of your longing Friends by not making a Stride a Cross the Ocean from Carolina hither of which we were big with Expect" but we must Submit believing your great Master Steers & marks out your Paths so as shall best of all Contribute to the build up and Enlargement of His Kingdom of Grace here and thereby fitting Multitudes of Souls to be His Subjects in His Kingdom of Glory thro' the endless Ages of a Happy Eternity Amen.
I thank you tho' I am quite Ashamed that any thing of mine shou'd pass under the Correct Eye of the Ex- cellent & pious Countess of Huntingdon who is so Bright an Ornam! nay I may say a Constellation in the Church of Christ here & who will (I doubt not) hereafter Shine as the Stars for ever & Ev! & now thro' your kind interposition I presume to Address Her Ladyship by the Inclos'd which I leave open for you to read & then Clap to the Seal and deliver it and this is an honour I shou'd not venture to do my Self but that I depend upon your Goodness to obtain Her Ladyships Pardon for the trouble of this Nature.
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And before I go from this part of my Letter I wou'd say that I am told there is a Considerable intimacy between the last Dutchess Dowager of Somerset and Lady Huntingdon if so and you cou'd Conveniently mention it to Lady Huntingdon I wou'd venture to Congratulate the Dutchess of Somerset upon the Char- acter She so deservedly bears among those who are truly the Salt of the Earth I mean that Dutchess of Somerset who was not long since Countess of Hertford.
And now, Sir, let me thank you once more for your kind & generous Concern for the Welfare of the Infant College in this Province web I assure you creeps along with great difficulty-the Trustees chose M' Pember- ton the last Fall to take a Voyage to great Britain in favour of the College but when the thing came before his Church and Congregation they wou'd by no means be prevail'd upon to let him go.
And this Spring Mr President Burr was pitcht upon for the same purpose but his fear of the small Pox and the difficulty of finding a person to take the Care of the College in his absence have render'd a Second Attempt in this matter abortive however we intend at the next Meeting of the Trustees to try if some other person can't be found for this Service which seems to me must be the dernier resort for Encourageing and Establishing this New Seminary nor will I despair but Conclude with the great Pharisaical D' if it be of God it cannot be overthrown I heartily ask your Prayers for its prosperity.
O Sir as often as I read your ingenious & pious Let- ters they rejoice my Heart and refresh my Bowels and I am particularly glad to find that you were at good Lady Huntingdons with three other Clergy men that love aud preach Christ Jesus & that you can give me the pleasing Account of several Instances where the Sovereign Grace of God has taken place in the Hearts of Persons of High Degree how pleasing is the pros- pect when such are posting to the Celestial Canaan
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with their faces thitherward when it pleases God to set up His Kingdom in the Hearts of such he will Accomplish a great Tribute of praise and honour to his glorious Name.
Præcepta docent Exempla cogunt.
How sweet Sir must be your Meditation when your Soul rolls inward to Consider that you are Sincerely will" to spend and be spent in the Cause of your Blessed Lord & Master and may you still go on in His Strength to win many Souls to Righteousness every one of which will be a bright Gem in the glorious Crown with wch the Great God Man will wreathe your Temples in the great day of his appears Amen and Amen !
As to me your poor unworthy Sinfull Frd I abhor my Self in every view I can take and desire wth faith and prayer humbly to fly to the Blood of the great Atonemt to purge and Cleanse me from the Stains and guilt of Sin & that I may be Cloathed with the Spot- less Robe of the Righteousness of the Immaculate Lamb of God and at last be presented faultless before His Heavenly Father. I have more than Accomplish'd the measure of Human Life and daily find the decays of Nature thickning upon me let me then intreat & injoin you never to forget me when you more privately besiege the Throne of Grace that I may be Constantly hungering & thirsting after the Righteousness of Christ and may finally approve my Self one of those Wise Virgins that took Oil in their Vessels with their Lamps that so when the bridegroom came were ready & went in with him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb & thus my Friend wrestle with God for me and still more indear you to
Reverend & Good Sir
Your greatly Oblig'd Friend & Serv'
J. BELCHER
Mr Whitefield.
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF HUNTINGDON
Grace Mercy and peace be Multipl'd from God the Father & from the Lord Jesus Christ thro' the Influ- ences of the Holy Spirit.
Madam
While I take my Pen in hand and the freedom of Addressing your Ladyship to whom I am so much un- known it fills me with wonder & Surprize and yet when I consider the Account I have recd of your Humility and Condescending goodness to persons of Low degree I ask a thousand pardons and that you will Jet me depend upon your Ladyships goodness to for- give me indeed I shou'd not have presumd to have troubled your Ladyship with this Letter till I had thro' my Amiable Friend Mr Whitefield askd Your Lady- ships leave and the Errand of it is Chiefly to rejoice with your Ladyship in the account I have from many of my Friends in the abundant Measure of Grace with which it pleases God to favour and honour you in the Conduct of your whole life and which renders you so bright an Example and Ornament of the Christian Re- ligion & makes you so ready on all Occasions to es- pouse & Build up (as much as in you lies) the Kingdom and Interest of the Dear Redeemer This Madam dis- tinguishes you in the best and uncommon light being a Personage of such high Birth and Rank in the World for we are told Not many Mighty not many Noble are Chosen to be the Subjects of the Kingdom of Grace here and Heirs of the Kingdom of Glory hereafter- happy, therefore, thrice happy for your Ladyship that you have I doubt not secur'd the one thing needfull even an Interest in the saving Mercy of God thro' Jesus Christ.
Alass most Excellent Lady of how little value are
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the Riches and pleasures of this Transitory Life when set in Contrast to the durable Riches and the never ending Joys that flow at the right hand of God for ever more.
Allow me Honoured Madam to lay before you the Paragraph of a Letter I lately reced from a Serious Religious Friend it being I really believe some descrip- tion of your Ladyships Case in the Religious World the Words are these "But how much real joy & pleasure is to be Experienced in a Life of Communion with God here, which none relish or form any Idea of but the Soul Sanctyfyd by the Divine Spirit & when he leads the Soul into intimate Converse with the Holy God & clears up the Evidence of its Adoption in the Number of the Child" of God in such Interviews with Heaven how is the Soul elevated & rais'd above every thing here below and the Joys possessing the Soul at such a time is an earnest of that Happiness & Joye into wch the Believer enters at Death to be Compleated in the General Resurrection.
This is a real truth, the Life of a Christian is a hid- den Life, it is so from a vain World, & it is hid with Christ in God. How secure & happy then is the be- liever under all the Changes & Trials that can happen to him in this Life for the Covenant of Grace fixes him in this Attitude that Nothing can be otherways than for his best good according to the Divine promise and when we shall enter the Heavenly Mansions where the Immense Volumes of Providence shall be opened to his view he will then perceive the Beauty & Har- mony of all the Divine Dispensations and the Necessity thereof in Order to prepare him for that Blessed State and in the enlarged prospect of that Happiness he is now placed in the full possession of he will join the Heavenly Host in Ascriptions of praise to God & Christ for ever and ever.
God in His great mercy grant that your Ladyship
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may live to an extended Age free from pain and Sick- ness and when in Gods best time the hour of Death Approaches may it be to you only an easy Transition from this vain Transitory Life to the Substantial & never ending Joys of the Paradise of God above & thus I remain
Most Hond Lady Your Ladyships Most Obedient & Most Humble seryt
ELIZ: TOWN (N. J.) June 24: 1752 Lady Huntington.
J. BELCHER.
Letter from Governor Belcher to President Burr- complimenting him on his marriage.
[From Belcher Papers in Library of N. J. Hist. Soc.]
ELIZ: TOWN June 30 1752
MR PRESIDENT BURR Sir
I have just now reced from you the pleasing notice of your entring into the Honourable State of Marriage with the ingenious & virtuous Miss Edwards a Daugh- ter of my Worthy & much esteemd Frd Mr. Edwards of Stockbridge in which I wish you all the Joys & Sat- isfaction which kindred Souls may reasonably hope for in such a Change of Life & may you Sir live long together in much Health & ease & as Heirs of the Grace of Life & in this My Wife heartily joins with me as also in our best Respects to good Mrs. Edwards y" now Mother in Law.1
1 For particulars relating to this marriage see Stearns' First Church in Newark, p. 190, and letters from J. Shippen, Jun., to his father, in Proceedings N. J. Hist. Soc., Vol. V, p. 169.
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Whenever it Suits your Conveniency we shall be glad to see you at our little Cottage in the mean time if the Season will allow we shall take the pleasure of visiting you at Newark-I am
Revd Sir Your very good Frd
J. BELCHER
Report to the Lords of the Committee of Council upon the draft of a Commision, for inquiring into the grievances in New Jersey.
[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 15, P. 375.]
To the Right Honble the Lords of the Com- mittee of His Majesty's most Hon:ble Privy Council.
WHITEHALL July 234, 1752
My Lords
Pursuant to your Lordships Order, dated the 7th of May last, We have taken into Our Consideration a Report made to your Lordships by His Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor General upon considering sev- eral Papers referr'd to them, relative to the great Riots & Disturbances in His Majesty's Province of New Jersey, and also the Draught of a Commission pre- pared by them, for making Enquiry into the Causes of the Rise, Progress & Continuance of these Commo- tions, upon which your Lordships desire Our Opinion, and of the manner in which We conceive the said Commission may be most properly carried into Execu- tion: Whereupon We beg leave to acquaint your Lordships,
That We have in Our Report, dated the first of June 1750, fully stated to your Lordships not only the Rise & Progress of the Riots and Disturbances which have
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been committed in that Province, but also the particu- lar Grievances which are alledged, in the Papers trans- mitted to Us from the said Province, to have been the causes thereof, with the Nature of the Grievances themselves, and therefore We humbly apprehend that the Object and View of this Commission, which is merely to enquire into the said Grievances independent of any questions which have a relation to Property, is thereby fully answer'd and that our Report contains all the Information which can possibly be derived from it.
If however your Lordships should think it advise- able that such a Commission should be issued, We must beg leave to refer your Lordships to a Precedent of the like kind in the Colony of Virginia, upon Occa- sion of a Rebellion which broke out there in the year 1676, when it was thought advisable that a Commis- sion should be given to three Persons sent from Eng- land to enquire into the grievances which had given rise thereto; And altho' the Circumstances of that Case were not all similar to the present, yet the general view & object of the Commission was the same, and upon comparing the Commission for Virginia with the Commission now prepared by the Attorney and Sollicitor General, your Lordships will find the Regula- tions and Provisions of both to be nearly the same. As to the manner of carrying this Commission into Execution, We are of Opinion it must be by the Appointment of such Persons to be commissioners as shall be men of known Prudence, Temper & Abilities; that these Commissioners should be chosen out of some of the neighbouring Colonies or sent from hence, as your Lordships shall judge most proper, but We are inclined to think that Persons sent from hence would be the least liable to Suspicion of Interest, Prejudice or Partiality. As the Terms however of this Commission are very general, We would humbly pro- pose that proper Instructions should be given to the
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Commissioners, marking out to them the method in which they are to proceed in the discharge of their Trust, and the particular points to which it may be necessary they should direct their Enquiry.
As to the questions which have arisen concerning the Property of Lands, as no Judgment or Determina- tion has ever been given in the Courts of Law there upon any one point, it was not possible for Us to state the same in our aforemention'd Report with that pre- cision which might enable your Lordships to form an Opinion thereupon, and We submit to your Lordships whether the Method proposed by the Attorney and Solicitor General of bringing the particular Claims to a final Determination in a judicial way, is not a very prudent and effectual one, & whether it is not advise- able that Instructions should be sent to His Majesty's Governor of the said Province conformable thereto.
We are My Lords,
Your Lordships most Obedient and most humble Servants,
DUNK HALIFAX. CHARLES TOWNSHEND ANDREW STONE. JAMES OSWALD.
Exd
Letter from Governor Clinton, of New York, to Robert Hunter Morris, in England-leave of absence denied.
[From original in papers of R. H. Morris in Library of N. J. Hist. Soc., Vol. I, No. 45.]
The Honble Rob H: Morris Esq"
GREENWICH, 26 July 1752
To my great Surprize & disappointment, I received, by the Nebuchadnezar, a Letter from Lord Holder- nesse, signifying His Majesty's Commands (dated 30
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April) for me to remain in my Government, and a hint that my Leave which expired 1st Instant, would not be renewed. This you may imagine was a very great Shock to me, as all my Goods were on board the Cen- taur, and my time of sailing fixed to next Thursday, in Short, it laid me under such a Dilemma, that I was in doubt what to do, and believe I should have ven- tured to have gone away nevertheless, had not M" Alexander by his persuasions and arguments con- vinced me of the fatal Consequences of breaking the King's Orders, [tho I very much doubt His Majesty's knowing any thing of the matter. ]'
I am positively assured, that there must have been some clandestine dealings used, even to trick me out of my Leave, for from the 30th of April (the date of his Lordship's Letter) I had full two months before it ex- pired; and what gives me more Surprize is the keeping the Order so secret, that not one of my Friends gave me the least intimation of it, tho' it had been whis- pered about here for this Month or Six Weeks past. The Livingstons and others here, have Letters from their Correspondents that the Lords Loodon, Kinowl, Hume, Tankerville, as well as S' Thomas Robinson & Sr Peter Warren are all laying in to supersede me. So that the very best and the only prospect I have of get- ting home is to quit my Government and Company, and very probably to a Person, disagreeable to me and my Friends here.
It is not unlikely that the Ship, which brings over my Successor, may be ordered only to touch here to land him, and proceed on to the West Indies; [or some other service] What then can I do? divested of my Government, liable to the insults of a dareing Faction, and deprived of any means to get home, unless in a
1 The words within brackets were added in a duplicate letter bearing the same date .- ED.
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Merchantman much to the Discredit of His Majesty's Governor, my Family and the Rank I bear in the Navy.
Only please Sr, to reflect how much I am embar- rassed, and use your utmost endeavours jointly with all my Friends to extricate me, which I make not the least doubt you will do all in your power to accom- plish. I have wrote to M' Catherwood fully on this Subject, with whom you will be so good as to consult, what ways and means I may be relieved by.
Your Favour from Bath of 12th May I received and am Sorry for the occasion. I would have wrote this myself but am much indisposed.
I am with great Truth Sr
Your very humble Servant
G. CLINTON.
[The duplicate of this letter, with some additional matter, was received by Mr. Morris, in London, Oct. 21, 1752, and bears this endorsement in his own hand- writing: "Octo. 25. Dined with Pownall of Sedgeck. at Gov Shirleys-in the course of ye conversasion Pownall said there was an Affid: come to the Board, that M! Clinton had taken Money for an office & that M' Holland had forty pounds for managing the Matter." -ED. ]
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