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place," Paine was allowed to take up another tract, " into CHAr. IV. which passage may be found for transportation overland."*
The visit of Paine to New York, however, gave rise to another claim of territory. IIe had bought Prudence Isl- about P'tit- dence Ist-
1672. Question
and, in Narragansett Bay, from the representatives of Wil- and, in liams and Winthrop, and was astonished to find that Love- Fiand. Rhode lace claimed it as belonging to New York under the duke's patent. The pretension was as absurd as that of Massa- chusetts to any part of the Valley of the Hudson. Never- theless, Paine thought it best to take a patent for his isl- and from Lovelace, who readily gave it, in consideration of liberal contributions to the repair of Fort James. By Lovelace's patent, Prudence Island was made a free town- 23 July. ship, under the name of "Sophy Manor," of which Paine was appointed governor for his life, subordinate to the 7 August. jurisdiction of New York. . But Rhode Island, very prop- erly resenting Lovelace's usurpation, arrested the unfortu- G Soptem. nate Paine; who, not long afterward, was convicted of at- 23 octobre ? Septem, tempting to introduce a foreign jurisdiction.t
29 October.
In New Jersey, disaffection had meanwhile grown so strong that those who desired to escape paying the pro- prietors' quit-rents sent deputies to an anarchical assembly at Elizabethtown, which deposed Governor Philip Carte- 14 May. ret, and appointed in his place his newly-arrived cousin, teret a. Captain James Carteret, the "weak and dissolute," but le- govern. gitimate younger son of Sir George. Lovelace and his Ser Jo- council did their best to reconcile the dispute; but the injen- usurper rejected the friendly offices of New York, and claimed that he was justified by the instructions of the usaa. proprietors of New Jersey. Philip Carteret therefore ap- 1 July. pointed Captain John Berry to be his deputy, and sailed for :) July. Guernsey under a passport from Lovelace, accompanied by 15 septeta. Secretary James Bollen, to state the case at London. Aft- er Philip Carteret's departure, James, who usurped his of- 12 (keter fice, corresponded with Lovelace; but without any result.+ 13 oct.txt
Jane's C'at-
· Ante, 163, 182; vol. i., 655, 671, 672; Col. Doc., vi., 143, 159; vii., 224, 334, 563, 564, 50G, 597 ; vill. , 671, 439; Hutch., i., 150, 160; Gen. Ent., iv., 177, 178, 179 ; Col. MAS., xxii., 157, 149; Mass. Rec., iv. (i.), 395, 396 (ii.), 548, 553, 570; Mass. II. S. Coll., xxxvii., 512. The Western Railroad from Springfield to Albany now triumphandy surmounts this " hill of a rast extent."
* T'atenta, iv., S6 00; Col. MISS., xxii., 138, 130; R. I. Col. Rec., i., 45, 46 ; Arnold, i., $;, : 5,602, 303; Palfrey, ilt., 100.
; Commeil Min., ii., 101; Gen. Ent., is., 142-14', 171, 207, 208, 215; Eliz. Dill in Chas.
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1672. 1 July. 12 August. Maryland rebuked by
CHAP. IV. Fresh troubles now occurred on the Delaware. A party of Marylanders came to the Hoarkill, and, assisted by Daniel Brown, a planter, assaulted the magistrates, and carried off all the plunder they could. Brown was after- ward sent a prisoner to New York, where he was tried and convicted, but was released on promise of amendment. Lovelace quickly rebuked Calvert for allowing his people truculence to commit, for a second time, such outrages in the Duke New York. of York's territories " in these portending troublous times, wherein all truc-hearted Englishmen are buckling on their armour," and required him to punish the offenders. The New York governor's prompt intervention saved Delaware from " the imminent peril of being absorbed in Maryland." The Duke of York was soon advised of the truculence of Lord Baltimore's agents; and Carr was directed to guard against the Maryland people, who, following up "their former violent action" in 1669, had again invaded a de- pendency of New York, " after so long quiet possession of those parts by His Royal Highness's deputies under His Majesty's obedience, and by other nations before that, sev- eral years before the date of the Lord Baltimore's patent, whom they never disturbed by arms, and whose right is now devolved upon the Duke.""
7 October.
A memorable event of this year was the visit of the En- glish Quaker, George Fox, to America. Sailing to Barba- does, he spent several months there with Lewis Morris and other "Friends." Early in 1672 he went to Jamaica, and thence to Maryland. Passing through Newcastle, Fox traversed the wilderness of New Jersey to Middletown,
March.
April.
cery, 35; N. J. H. S. Proc., i. (ii.), 23, 30; Douglas, ii., 269, 271, 272; Chalmers, i., 616 ; S. Smith, 68; Gor lon, 20; Bancroft, ii., 319; Whitehead, 55-57; Collins's Peerage, iv., 213; ante, 177. James Carteret seems to have enjoyed the genial society of New York during the winter, as he was married, by license from Lovelace, on 15 April, 1673, to Frances, daughter of Counselor Themas Delavall : Gen. Ent., iv., 277 ; N. Y. Marriages (1960), 65, 105. llc appears to have been a sad rake, and "a very profligate person," but of "a good under- standing." He was afterward separated from his wife and allowed an annuity by his fa- ther, who would not "acknowledge him as his son, as before:" ser Dankers's and Sluyter's Journal (1967), 137, 136. See also Hist. Mag., x., 157, for a notice of the descendants of James Carteret and Frances Delavall. There is no reason for the brand of illegitimacy which Whitehead. 55, and Mulford. 152, have endeavored to stamp on James Carteret : compare Fliz. Bill, 25; Collins's Peerage, iv .. 213; Douglas, il., 272; Chalmers, i., 616, 625. " Natural," as used by Chalmers, does not mean " illegitimate ;" Hist. Mag., ii. (iii.), 110.
* Conneil Min .. iii .. 110; Gen. Ent., iv., 188, 189, 211-913; S. Smith. 72-76; Hazard's Ann. Penn., 397-402, 465: Bancroft, if., 239, 319, 220; Proud, i., 131, 132; Col. MSS., xx .. 37. 38; Col. Dec., iii .. 166; ante, 164. Yet Chalmers, i., 361, 034, affirms that Calvert took possession of the country around Cape Henlopen, which the Dutch "had relinquish- ed;" and Grahame repeats Chalmers's falsehood.
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and went from there to Gravesend, on Long Island. At Cuar. IV. Oyster Bay he calined the quarrels of the "Friends." At Rhode Island he met several Connecticut Quakers. From 1672. there he crossed over to Shelter Island, accompanied by June. Visit of George several " Friends," one of whom was "John Jay, a planter Fox to America. in Barbadocs." He visited Oyster Bay, Flushing, and Ja- August. maica again, and held several "precious meetings." On his return through New Jersey, Fox came near losing his companion, Jay, who was thrown from his horse, but was restored by the skill of the Quaker apostle. At Newcastle, Fox was lodged by Carr in his own house, where the first Quaker meeting in Delaware was held. After revisiting Maryland, Fox passed on to Virginia and North Carolina, Septem. and in the spring of the following year sailed from the Chesapeake for England."
There were, at this time, seven Jesuit missionaries among Jesuit mis. the five Iroquois nations. Bruyas, the superior, remained sionatics among the with Boniface among the Mohawks, who still kept on their Iroquois. guard against their old enemies, the Mahicans. At Oneida, Millet found the savages as obdurate as the rock from which they derived their name. John de Lamberville, at Onondaga, aided by the active zeal of Garakontie, had better hopes. +
Carheil, now cured of his disease, returned to the Cayu- gas, and Raffcix was transferred to assist Garnier among the Senecas. In a letter to Dablon, Raffeix described Ca- : 4 June. yuga as " the most beautiful country I have seen in Ameri- decuptess ca. It is situated in latitude 42 degrees and a half, and the needle dips there scarcely more than ten degrees. It lies between two lakes, and is not more than four leagues wide, with almost continuous plains, while the woods which border them are very beautiful. Mohawk is a narrow val- ley, often very stony, and always covered with fogs. The mountains which enclose it seem to me to be of very poor soil. Oneida and Onondaga appear to be a very rugged country, and little adapted to hunting. The same is true of Seneca. Every year they kill more than a thousand
· Tox's Journal (Phil. ed.), 435-464; Sewell, 500-512; Col. Doc., ii., G19: Arnold, i., 200, 201 : Thompson, it, 82, 83 ; Hazard's Reg. Penn., vi., 151; Palfrey, iii., 106-103; Masz. H. Coll., xxxvii., 288 ; ante, vol. i., 635. Fox returned to Bristol on the 28th of June, 1673. t 1.dlation, 1672, 18-92; 1072-3, 83-39; Douniol, i., 4 8; Charlevoix, ii., 222, 201, 102; : Lea, 139, 268, 281-283 ; ante, 181.
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CHAP. IV. deer in the neighborhood of Cayuga. Fishing is as abun- 1672. dant here as at Onondaga, as well for salmon as for cels and other fishes. Four leagues from here I saw, on the brink of a River, within quite a small space, eight or ten very fine salt springs. It is there that they spread num- bers of nets to catch pigeons, of which they often take seven or eight hundred at one haul. The Lake of Tiohero [Cayuga], one of the two which border on our village, is fourteen leagues long, by one or two wide. Swans and bustards abound there all the winter; and, in the spring, one sees nothing but continual clouds of all sorts of game. The River of Ochoueguen [Oswego], which flows out of this Lake, divides itself at its beginning into several chan- nels surrounded by prairies, with here and there very pleasant and pretty deep bays, where the wild fowl resort. I find the inhabitants of Cayuga more tractable and less fierce than the Onondagas and Oneidas; and, if God had humiliated them as much as the Mohawks, I believe that the faith would be established there more easily than in any one of the Iroquois nations. They reckon more than three hundred warriors among them, and a prodigious multitude of small children.""
From Seneca, Garnier sent his superior a discouraging account of the three missions of Conception, Saint Michael, and Saint James. The expedition of Courcelles to Lake Ontario, which at first had been thought to be an intended invasion, retarded conversions ; and an ill feeling arose against the " black robes," who were charged with being sorcerers and spies to report every thing to Onnontio. With great joy, Garnier welcomed Raffeix to assist him among the Senecas, who now numbered from twelve to thirteen thousand souls.t
The war against the Andastes was still carried on, chief- ly by the Cayugas and the Senecas. During the summer,
* Relation, 1672, 22, 23 ; Col. Doc., iii., 251. The salt springs which Raffeix describes are those at Montezumn.
Relation, 1672, 13, 24-26; 1672-2, 103; Col. Doc., ix., 97, note; Shea, 392; ante, 170. The Annual Relations of the Jesnits were not printed later than this year at Paris, owing to the request of Courcelles: Faillon, ili., 312. Dablon, however, who remained superior general, at Quebec, until 1693, compiled several others. Two of these, for 1672-1673, and 1073-1679, have been published from the originals at Quebec, by Mr. John G. Shea. Mr. James Lenox has likewise printed the Relation for 1676-1677. Charles Douniol, of Paris, also published two volumes in 1501, entitled "Mission du Carada," containing the Rela- tions from 1672 to 1079, copied from the originals at Quebec and at Rome.
20 July. Garnier's account of Seneca. 31 July.
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an Iroquois party descending the Susquehanna River were Cuar. IV. attacked and routed by sixty young Susquehannas. The 1672. sympathies of the French missionaries were with the latter. The war
" God preserve the Andastes, who have only three hundred the Iro- warriors, and bless their arms to humiliate the Iroquois and quois and preserve to us peace and our missions," wrote Raffeix to Andastes. Dablon, his superior general, at Quebec .*
Courcelles's expedition the last year to Lake Ontario so affected his health that he asked to be relieved; and the king appointed in his place Louis de Buade, Count 6 April. Courcelles of Frontenac, a veteran lieutenant general in the French recalled, and Fron- nac ap- pointed governor of
army. Frontenac was quick, firm, penetrating, domineer- ing, and a scholar. He was instructed, among other things, to keep his government prepared to repel, and, if necessary, to attack the Iroquois ; to favor " contiguous clearances" rather than scattered settlements; and to coun- terbalance the influence of the Jesuits by encouraging the Sulpitians and Recollets.t
Canada.
April.
The summer before Frontenac reached Canada, a con- press was held at Montreal, to which more than five hun- July. dred red men came in one hundred and fifty canoes. A new treaty of peace was confirmed in the presence of Cour- August. celles. At the same time, the governor invited the princi- pal Iroquois chiefs to meet him at Cataracouy, on the north- Courcelles ern shore of Lake Ontario. Having assembled there, Cour- fort at Ca. prijects a celles flattered them by presents, and got their consent to er King .. taracous. build a fort at that place, where they might come to trade with the French. They did not perceive that the object of the Canadian governor was really " to hold them in check." after they should have ended their war with the Susque- hannas, and provide an entrepôt for himself. The work was at once projected by Courcelles ; but its completion was left to other hands.#
On his return to Quebec, Courcelles met Frontenac, who Septem. had just arrived, and easily convinced him of the impor- tance of the enterprise he had begun on Lake Ontario.
* Relation, 1672, 20, 24. It has been supposed by Charlevoix, ii., 244, that the Susque- 1.a.bar. cr Andaster, were subjugated by the Iroquois in 1672. But this event does not 'ta to have happened until 1675: see Douniol, i, 207; ii., 44, 00; Hist. Mag., il , 197; % % {tr .. ix .. 110, 111. 227; ante, 100, note.
! ( 1. Dxc., ix., 83-58, 791; Charlevoix, ii., 191, 247 ; Garneau, i., 201, 205, 207; Sparks'4 la main. 15, 16; Faillon, iii., 416-419; ante, 191.
: Lxladen, 1672, 21; Charlevoix, ii., 244, 945; Shea, 252; Garneau, i., 206. IL-X
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1672. 17 Septem. Frontenac governor of Canada. 2 Novem.
CHAP. IV. Frontenac's first act was to publish his king's declaration of war against the Dutch. In his dispatches to France, he approved of Courcelles's projected fort at Cataracouy "to prevent the Iroquois carrying to the Dutch the peltries, for which they go to the Ottawas ;" and as it might strengthen the mission at Quinte Bay, he promised to go there him- self the next spring."
Courcelles soon afterward returned to France, accom- panied by Talon, in a new ship of five hundred tons bur- then, which had been built at Quebec. As the Mississippi was supposed to empty into the Gulf of California, Talon recommended to Frontenac that its exploration should be Jolliet sent intrusted to Lonis Jolliet, of Quebec, an "aspirant to the to explore the Missis- rippi with Marquette Ministry," who had accompanied Saint Lusson the year be- fore to Lake Superior, and who had "already been alnost at that great river, the mouth of which he promises to see." Jolliet was accordingly dispatched to Michilimackinac, with orders to Marquette to join the expedition. On the feast 8 Decem. of the Immaculate Conception he reached the Jesuit mis- sionary, who longed to visit the Mississippi ; and the win- ter was spent in preparations for their journey.t
13 July. Schenecta- dy affairs.
While Lovelace was at Albany the last year, he regu- lated the Indian trade at Schenectady as the frontier. The people of that town now bought from the Mohawks the land on both sides of the river, as far as "Kinaquari- ones," where the last battle was fought between the Mo- hawks and Mahicans in 1669. A separate court was soon afterward established at Schenectady .;
6 Septem.
Prosperity of Fsopus.
Under the new arrangements at Esopus, its three villages prospered abundantly, and twenty-five thousand " schepels" of corn were raised there this year. Not far from the vil- lage of Kingston, the land owned by Captain Chambers Fox Hall. was erected into a manor, with the usual privileges, and 16 October.
* Col. Doc., ix., 90-94, 701: Quebec MISS., ii. (ii.), 116; Charlevoix, ii., 245; Garnean, i., 207-210 ; Faillon, ill., 456, 457 ; ante, 149, 149.
Relation, 1672, 1, 2. 36; 1672-3, 146; Col. Doc., ix., $2, 92, 121, 66S, 793, S04; Charle- voix, il., 245, 246, 245, 254, 255 ; Bancroft, iii., 153, 155, 156; Garneau, i .. 205-207, 231, 232; La Potherie, ii., 130; Shea's Disc. Miss., xxvii., xxviii., lxv., Ixxix., 4, 5, 6; Hist. Mag., v., 237; Douniol, i., 193, 124; Faillon, iii., 260, 312, 417-421; ante, 170, 179.
+ Gen. Ent., iv., 90; Council Min., ill., 116; Col. MISS., xxii., 132 ; ante, 161. On the 27th of January, 1673. Anthonia van Curler, in consideration of her house and barns being de. stroyed, and of her husband, Arendt van Curler, being lost in the public service (ante, 121), was allowed to sell rum and lead, but not powder, to the Indians, for a year and two months: Council Min., iii., 120; Col. Doc., ii., 652.
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named " Fox Hall." Soon afterward Counselor Delavall CHAP. III. was authorized to build a store-house adjoining the redoubt at the Strand, near Kingston .* 1672.
The law of
New York
The provincial law, in cases of divorce, was now settled. 19 March. Daniel Denton, of Jamaica, who had gone to London to divorce in publish his work on New York, found, on his return, that his wife, Abigail, had been unfaithful during his absence. Hle applied to the Court of Sessions for a divorce; but that tribunal having no jurisdiction, he laid his case before the governor and council. Lovelace, observing that it was " conformable to the Laws of this Government, as well as to the practice of the civil law, and the laws of our nation of England," granted Denton a divorce from his wife. But 23 June. in this decision the governor seems to have followed the Dutch rather than the English law.|
At the autumn session of the Court of Assizes an inter- 2 October. esting case was heard on appeal from the court on the apped in Interesting Delaware. Amigart Pappegoya, the daughter of the for- of Assizes the Court mer Swedish Governor Printz, brought an action in eject- ment against Andrew Carr, to recover her patrimonial es- tate in the island of Tinicum. The plaintiff's attorney was John Sharpe, assisted by Samuel Edsall, and Jacob Milborne, who was specially admitted to plead. John Ri- 3 Octater. der appeared for the defendant. The writings in German were translated for the court by the Lutheran "Domine" Arensins, and those in Low Dutch by Nicholas Bayard. After a full hearing the case went to the jury, who brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, and judgment was given in + Cetetet. her favor.#
* Col. Doc., ii., 526; Lambrechtsen, 115; Gen. Ent., iv., 210, 273; O'Call., il., 204, 305; Val. Man., 1:53, 331.
+ Gen. Ent., iv., 153; Dunlap, ii., App. cxviii. ; Daly's Introd., 27. The Court of As- sizes, however, in the following October, allowed the divorced Abigail Denton to marry spain : Court of Assizes, ii., 317. In October, 1670, the Court of Assizes divorced Rebecca Leveridge from her husband, Eleazer, on account of his alleged impotence: Council Min., 111., 27 : Court of Assizes, ii., 456, 519-522, 607, 608; Thompson, i., 256. The governor and council, in October, 1672, divorced Thomas Petitt, of Newtown, from his wife Sarah, because cf ler adultery ; and Mary Cole from Daniel Sutton, because of his bigamy : Gen. Ent., iv., #13, 214, 215. The law, however, was afterward settled otherwise. Chancellor Kent ob- wives that " for more than one hundred years preceding the Revolution, no divoree tok place in the colony of New York ;" and that there was no way of dissolving a marriage in D., lifetime of the parties but by a special act of the Legislature. The Court of Chancery w RÅ uit authorized to grant divorces d vinculo until 1787, and then only for adultery : Rent's Commentaries, ii., 97, 99.
: Court of Assizee, ii., 203-300; Gen. Ent., iv., 260-262; Col. MISS., xx .. 26; S. Hazard ** Asa Penn., 400, 401, 404 ; ante, vol. i., 391, 557. Sharpe and Rider appear to have tora Mylor practitioners : Col. Doc., ii., 617, 700, 718; ffi., 202; Doc. Hist., Ili., 58, 00: More.
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CHAP. IV.
1672. 2 October to - 7 October. New laws euacted at the Court of Assizes.
Several important public measures were adopted at the same session of the Court of Assizes. As servants fre- quently ran away from their masters into other govern- ments, it was ordered that all strangers without passports should be liable to arrest. English weights and measures only were to be used throughout the province before the next Old Style New-year day, on the 25th of March. The laws as to parochial churches were to be duly observed, and " although divers persons may be of different judg- ments, yet all shall contribute to the minister established and allowed of, which is no way judged to be an infringe- ment of the liberty of conscience to the which they may pretend." The contributions for the renovation of the fort were to be sent to New York, or to " the Ferry," be- fore the next Christmas. It was also ordered that a Bos- ton shilling should pass for one shilling, and a good Spanish piece of eight, whether of Mexico, Seville, or a pillar piece, should be valued at six shillings in all New York transactions .*
10 Decem. Monthly England by Love- luce. Lovelace now issued a proclamation that, conformably Jost to New to the king's commands to promote correspondence, and established the advancement of commerce and general intelligence between his colonies, a monthly post should be establish- ed to go from New York to Boston; and that, according- ly, a sworn messenger would be dispatched on the first of the next January, to convey letters or small packets to Hartford, Boston, and other places on his way. All letters . were to be deposited in the secretary's office, and the post- age to be prepaid before the bag was closed. In a private 27 Decem. letter which Lovelace intended to dispatch by his pioneer post, he wrote to Winthrop: " I here present you with two rarities, a pacquett of the latest intelligence I could meet withal, and a Post. By the first, you will see what has
II. S. Coll., xxx., 10S. Edsall afterward Lecame quite prominent in colonial affairs: Col. Doc., ii., 576, 120 ; iil., 75, 569. 083, 789. Jacob Milborne, who became still more prominent, was a young Englishman, who had been convicted of clipping the king's coin, and sold as a servant in Barbado:s. Ile was afterward bought by a Hartford man; but because of his stubbornness and discbedience, was transferred several times from one master to another. Having finally get his liberty, he came to New York in 1008, being then twenty years old, and was employed by Counselor Thomas Delavall to keep his books and manage his affairs: in which service he remained until this year: Col. Doc., ill., 301, 621, 674, 727, 755, 750: Doc. Hist., ii., 23, 42 ; Col. MISS., xxvi., 139; Gen. Ent .. xxxii., 19.
* Court of A -- iz-A, IL., 323; Col. MISS., xxii., 9, 142 ; N. Y. H. S. Coll., i., 420-124: Thomp- son, i., 150. Frequent cases of the prohibition of the export of grain, either by order of the governor and council, or of the Court of Assizea, occurred from time to time in New York.
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been acted on the stage of Europe; by the latter you will Cuar. IV. meet with a monthly fresh supply; so that if it receive but the same ardent inclinations from you as first it hath from 1672. Lovelace's myself, by our monthly advisoes all publique occurrences postal rep. may be transmitted between us, together with severall oth- ulations. er great convenieneys of publique importance, consonant to the commands laid upon us by ITis sacred Majestie, who strictly injoins all his American subjects to enter into a close correspondency with each other. This I look upon as the most compendious means to beget a mutual under- standing ; and that it may receive all the countenance from you for its future duration, I shall acquaint you with the modell I have proposed ; and if you please but to make an addition to it, or substraction, or any other alteration, I shall be ready to comply with you. This person that has undertaken the imployment I conceaved most proper, be- ing both active, stout, and indefatigable. He is sworne as to his fidelity. I have affixt an annuall sallery on him, which, together with the advantage of his letters and other small portable packes, may afford him a handsome lively- hood. Hartford is the first stage I have designed him to change his horse, where constantly I expect he should have a fresh one lye, leger. All the letters outward shall be de- livered gratis, with a signification of Post Payd on the superscription ; and reciprocally, we expect all to us free. Each first Monday of the month he sets out from New York, and is to return within the month from Boston to us againe. The maile has divers baggs, according to the townes the letters are designed to; which are all sealed up `till their arrivement, with the seale of the Secretarie's Of- five, whose care it is on Saturday night to seale them up. Only by-letters are in an open bag, to dispense by the wayes. Thus you see the scheme I have drawne to pro- mote a happy correspondence. I shall only beg of yo your furtherance to so universall a good work; that is to afford him directions where, and to whom to make his ap- plication to upon his arrival at Boston ; as likewise to afford him what letters you can to establish him in that imploy- ment there. It would be much advantagious to our de- signe, if in the intervall you discoursed with some of the most able woodmen, to make out the best and most facile
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