|
Nov. 13.
Boston. |
1444. Mr. Addington to Mr. Popple. Capt. Carey and the
cannon for Castle William have arrived. Signed, Isa. Addington. Endorsed, Recd. 31 Dec., Read Jan. 23, 1705(6).
Addressed. Sealed. ½ p. [C.O. 5, 864. No. 2; and 5, 912.
p. 104.] |
| Nov. 13. |
1445. Copy of Affidavit by R. Sampson, Nov. 13, 1705,
that Mr. Colin Campbell endeavoured to suborn him to swear
falsely against Capt. Lloyd and Solomon Merret. Signed, Richard
Sampson. 1 p. Annexed, |
|
1445. i. Copy of affidavit against Mr. Merret and Capt. Lloyd,
which Mr. Campbell endeavoured to make Sampson
sign. The whole endorsed, Recd. Read Jan. 3, 1705/6
1 p. [C.O. 194, 3. Nos. 87, 87.i.] |
| Nov. 13. |
1446. (a) An account of goods imported from Pennsylvania
from Christmas, 1699—Christmas, 1700. |
|
Quantity. |
Customs. |
|
cwt. |
qrs. |
lb. |
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
Ginger, dry |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
|
Melasses |
177 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
4 |
2 |
|
Rice |
7 |
1 |
13 |
1 |
7 |
10½ |
|
Sugar, Brown |
4 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
13 |
7 |
|
Indico |
130 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
|
Shruff |
4 |
2 |
21 |
1 |
7 |
10 |
|
Skins |
Bear, Black |
452 |
64 |
2 |
7 |
|
Beaver |
121 |
5 |
14 |
5 |
|
Buck in hair |
516 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
|
Catt |
826 |
2 |
6 |
10 |
|
Elk |
14 |
0 |
19 |
11 |
|
Fisher |
96 |
3 |
8 |
1 |
|
Fox |
1,322 |
12 |
10 |
4½ |
|
Mink |
783 |
8 |
6 |
8 |
|
Musquash |
2,163 |
7 |
13 |
5½ |
|
Otter |
116 |
3 |
2 |
3½ |
|
Raccoon |
4,721 |
16 |
16 |
11 |
|
Wolf, untaw'd |
173 |
26 |
4 |
6 |
|
Tobacco |
64,791lb. |
1,414 |
6 |
6½ |
|
Whale finns |
5cwt. |
7 |
3 |
1½ |
|
Wood, braziletto |
5 ton 5cwt. |
10 |
4 |
4 |
|
Cow Hornes |
700 at 2l. 10s. 0d. |
0 |
7 |
1½ |
|
Skins, Buck, ½ drest |
550 at 69l. 6s. 0d. |
9 |
16 |
9½ |
|
|
Total |
1,619 |
0 |
1 |
|
Signed, Walter Cox. Endorsed, communicated by Mr. Penn.
Recd. Read Nov. 13, 1705. 1 p. |
|
(b) Imports from Pennsylvania, Christmas, 1700–1701. |
|
Quantity. |
Customs. |
|
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
Cochcncal |
6lb. |
0 |
1 |
11 |
|
Lignum vitæ. |
3t. 3qrs. |
2 |
19 |
6½ |
|
Spermacæti, coarse |
12lb. |
0 |
0 |
9½ |
|
Sugar, Brown |
22cwt. 1qr. |
3 |
3 |
5 |
|
" White |
2qrs. |
0 |
4 |
9 |
|
Oyle, traine |
1t. 12galls. |
0 |
11 |
5 |
|
Shruff |
3cwt. |
0 |
17 |
1 |
|
Skins |
Buck in hair |
791 |
14 |
0 |
6½ |
|
" drest |
29 |
1 |
0 |
5½ |
|
Bear, black |
932 |
132 |
4 |
7 |
|
Beaver |
547 |
25 |
17 |
4½ |
|
Cat |
799 |
2 |
5 |
5 |
|
Elk |
28 |
1 |
19 |
8½ |
|
Fox |
3,811 |
36 |
11 |
0 |
|
Fisher |
42 |
1 |
9 |
9 |
|
Mink, untaw'd |
1,062 |
11 |
6 |
0½ |
|
Martron |
21 |
0 |
14 |
8 |
|
Musquash |
158 |
0 |
10 |
11½ |
|
Musk Ratt |
194 |
0 |
13 |
9½ |
|
Otter |
261 |
9 |
5 |
2 |
|
Raccoon |
5,525 |
19 |
11 |
10 |
|
Wolf, untaw'd |
100 |
16 |
6 |
4 |
|
Tobacco |
269,698lb. |
5,937 |
5 |
7½ |
|
Logwood |
60 ton. |
285 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Total |
£6,503 |
12 |
1 |
|
Signed and endorsed as preceding. 1 p. |
|
(c) Pennsylvania Exports, Christmas, 1701—Nov. 14, 1702. |
|
Quantity. |
Customs. |
|
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
Sassafrass |
3cwt. |
0 |
5 |
8 |
|
Shruff |
5 " |
|
|
|
|
Staves Pipe |
10 " |
|
|
|
|
Skins |
Buck in haire |
1,056 |
|
|
|
|
Bear, black |
799 |
|
|
|
|
Beaver |
188 |
8 |
17 |
10 |
|
Catt |
492 |
1 |
7 |
8½ |
|
Elk |
14 |
0 |
19 |
11 |
|
Fox |
1,479 |
13 |
19 |
9 |
|
Fisher |
717 |
25 |
8 |
7½ |
|
Mink, untaw'd |
966 |
10 |
5 |
7 |
|
Martron |
4 |
0 |
2 |
10 |
|
Musquash |
438 |
1 |
11 |
1 |
|
Otter |
188 |
6 |
13 |
4½ |
|
Raccoone |
4,687 |
16 |
12 |
6 |
|
Wolf, untaw'd |
147 |
23 |
19 |
8 |
|
Tobacco |
368,439lb. |
8,042 |
14 |
4 |
|
Logwood |
43. 14. 2. 0. |
207 |
13 |
10½ |
|
Cow Hornes |
12qrs. at 3l. |
0 |
8 |
5½ |
|
Chocolate |
45lb. at 7l. 2s. 6d. |
3 |
5 |
2 |
|
Cocoa Nuts |
124lb. at 9l. 4s. 0d. |
4 |
8 |
1½ |
|
Skinns, Buck, ½ drest |
232 at 34l. 16s. 0d. |
4 |
18 |
8½ |
|
|
Total |
£8,505 |
9 |
9 |
|
Signed and endorsed as preceding. 1 p. [C.O. 5, 1263.
Nos. 39–41; and 5, 1291. pp. 226–228.] |
Nov. 14.
Whitehall. |
1447. Council of Trade and Plantations to Mr. Secretary
Hedges. Enclose following to be laid before H.M. |
|
1447. i. Council of Trade and Plantations to the Queen. Upon
the petition of Nov. 8, we humbly represent that it may
very much tend to the promoting the production of Naval
Stores in the Plantations, that a Surveyor General of
the Woods be appointed (that place being now vacant)
with such powers and instructions for preserving the
woods from spoil as shall be thought fit, and with
directions to instruct the inhabitants as suggested Nov. 8.
Propose John Bridger as a fit person to be commissioned
with a salary not exceeding 200l. sterl. per annum.
[C.O. 5, 911. pp. 476–478.] |
Nov. 14.
New Yorke. |
1448. Mr. Heathcote to Mr. Secretary Hedges. Encloses
duplicate of Nov. 9, with further explanations. Signed, Caleb
Heathcote. Endorsed, R. Feb. 8. 2 pp. [C.O. 5, 1084. Nos.
32, 32.i.] |
| Nov. 14. |
1449. Proprietors of West New Jersey to Council of Trade
and Plantations. Repeat part of Memorial of April 17, q.v.
With Additions:— An Assembly having been chosen in 1703,
pursuant to your Lordships' Instructions, prepar'd Bills for
settling the rights of the Proprietors and Planters, and for raising
a revenue of 13,000l. per annum for 3 years (which they knew
was the utmost the country could bear) for the support of the
Government; but H.E. requiring a greater summe, several
persons our constant enemies, and invaders of our propertys,
and who therefore oppos'd the Bill for settling our rights, undertook to procure an Assembly more obedient to H.E. demands;
and by that and other arguments, which out of regard to his
Honour, we choose to wave the mention of, prevail'd upon him
to dissolve that Assembly, and to call another to sit in Nov. last.
The writs were issued and the elections directed to be made in
such haste that in one of the writs the qualifications of the person
to be elected was omitted, and the Sheriff of one County not
sworn till 3 days before the election, and many of the towns
had not any (much less due) notice of the day of election etc.
Add to the account of the exclusion of the 3 members:—This attempt
was seconded by another trick of Revell and Leeds, who
immediately sent the following note to the House of
Representatives: "Gentlemen, We underwritten, supposing we
had good reason to charge 3 of the persons return'd to serve
as Representatives in this General Assembly, but upon due
consideration find it difficult to come to a true determination
thereof until we can by further enquiry find the truth of what
we have been informed of; we therefore humbly desire 14 days'
time further, that we may be able more fully to inform this House
therein, which we humbly suppose at present cannot reasonably
be expected from us. We subscribe ourselves your humble
suppliants, Tho. Revell, Dan. Leeds. Nov. 15, 1704." The
Counties for which they were chosen to serve express'd a great
dissatisfaction at the exclusion of their Members, and these and
several other Representatives delivered an Address to H.E. for
having them admitted to their right, which met with no other
reception than being call'd a piece of insolence and ill manners.
By this exclusion of 3 Members and the contempt of the Address
for their admission, the undertakers gain'd a majority by one in
the House of Representatives, who adjourn'd the hearing of this
case until they had reap'd the fruits of their iniquity, and
accomplished the ends for which it was contriv'd. For whilst
this case was depending, a Bill for taking away the qualifications
of the electors and the elected and placing the right of choosing
and being chosen in the freeholders generally, without any express
value of their estates, was pass'd, wherein there is this remarkable
and self-condemning declaration of H.E.'s proceedings, viz., That
the Representatives met in General Assemblies are and shall be the
judges of the qualifications of their own Members. After this and
one other Act were pass'd, a day of hearing was allow'd to the
3 excluded Members, and notice of it given to Revell and Leeds,
who would not vouchsafe to appear, but having already obtain'd
their ends, graciously signify'd by a message their mistake in
their objection to those Members. The House proceeded in
their enquiry, and by deeds and other authentick proofs was so
fully safisfy'd of the estates of those excluded Members, and
that Revell and Leeds had been convinc'd thereof at the time
of their elections, that the House unanimously declar'd them
duly qualify'd, and sent two of their body to acquaint H.E. of
it, and to pray they might be sworn. But H.E. (whether out
of a desire of assuming the glory of this arbitrary proceeding
wholly to himself, or of making the country sensible that notwithstanding the Act so lately passed, declaring the House judges
of their own Members, he was resolved to exercise that power for
the future, or for what other reason, we know not) told those
messengers he must be satisfy'd of their qualifications as well
as the House, and still keeps them out of the Assembly. If he
can at his pleasure reject 3 Representatives he may reject all,
and make what laws he thinks fit, without the formality of an
Assembly. Objections to the Bill for taxing all lands without
distinction:— There is no other Colony in America, wherein
uncultivated lands are taxed, and as this Act was intended, so
none more effectual could have been contriv'd to prejudice the
country in general and the Proprietors in particular. For if
any man who has 1,000 or more acres of land, which he can
neither manure nor sell (as most of the first Planters have), he
must pay a tax for this land which may eat up the greatest part
of the profit of what he can and does cultivate; or he must
desert the whole; and if we who have great tracts of land of many
thousand acres to sell, let or settle but a few acres to maintain
our agents or servants, we must pay a tax for all the residue,
which yields us nothing. In consequence of this Act, several
persons who had agreed with our Agent for land, have renounced
their bargains, and remov'd into other countries, where they
can purchase great tracts of land, and preserve them for their
posterity to settle on, and we, unless reliev'd from this oppression,
must deliver up our lands or our purses. This tax is impos'd
by the Act passed in the Assembly for raising a revenue of 2,000l.
per annum for 2 years for the support of H.M. Government within
that Province. And we have great reason to believe it to be
part of the return promised by the undertakers to H.E., for
his dissolving the former Assembly and curtailing the last of
3 Members. It is a matter of some wonder to us that after so
many Acts of despotick power, H.E. did not assume to himself,
or obtain from the last Assembly, an authority of licencing any
persons to purchase lands from the Indians, but condescends
to apply to your Lordships for an alteration of his Instructions
in that particular. There wants only the breach of this Instruction
to compleat the ruine of our interests in New Jersey, and we
humbly hope your Lordships will not enable him to give that
finishing stroke. This Instruction founded upon the right which
the Crown of England claims by the law of nations to all countries
discovered by English subjects, was intended to assert that
right against the pretences of many Planters, who set up the
Indians' title in competition with it, and if that right be taken
from the grantees of the Crown, all patents and grants of the
whole main land of North America have been only Royal Frauds,
under the sanction of the Great Seal of England, and no man
will ever after purchase lands under that title. H.E. was lately
so full satisfy'd of the policy and reasonableness of asserting this
right to the Crown and its grantees, that in 1703 he recommended
and assented to an Act of Assembly for restraining all persons
besides the Proprietors from purchasing lands of the Indians,
under great penalties, and for vacating all such purchases formerly
made, unless the purchasers took a fresh grant from the
Proprietors, of which Act we humbly pray your Lordships' perusal.
We are purchasers for ready money, under a grant from Charles II,
and are willing to sell our lands and the Indians' title to it at
reasonable rates, according to the goodness of their soil and
situation, and ought not to be compell'd to accept a quit-rent
(much less a quit-rent to be set by other persons than ourselves,
as H.E. proposes), instead of selling for ready money, nor ought
our properties to be at the disposal of a Governor. 'Tis not the
want of a power in the Planters to purchase lands from the
Indians, but the taxing of uncultivated lands, and overturning
the Constitution for Assembly-men, that has occasioned those
persons mention'd by H.E. to remove to Pennsylvania and other
Colonies. The usage we have received from H.E. is so contrary
to the terms of our surrender of Government, to the assurances
we had from your Lordships of the due observance of them, and
to the plain Instructions given by your Lordships to H.E., that
we humbly hope it will not be thought any immodesty or want
of duty in us to protest, as we do protest, against all the proceedings of the last Assembly, wherein by the arbitrary exclusion
of 3 Members without any just exception, the country was not
duely represented, and to beg your Lordships' intercession with
H.M. that the Acts pass'd in that Assembly may not be confirmed
by her royal assent. We further pray that Coll. Lewis Morris,
who has been a second time suspended from his place in Council
by H.E., only for using the freedom which every Member of the
Council is entituled to, and ought to exercise, of opposing any
Bill brought before them, if he conceives it prejudicial to the
interest either of the country in general or of any particular
persons, may be restored, and that your Lordships will please
to place in the rooms of such as are dead, some of the persons
following: Miles Foster, Richard Townley, Hugh Hoddy, Wm.
Hall, and John Harrison, who are men of known integrity and
estates, and as a further security of our estates there, [and] that
no persons may at any time be admitted of the Governor's Council
or to be in the Commission of the Peace, or of the Militia, but
such who have real estates in the Province, suitable to their
stations, and who reside there. Signed, Tho. Lane, Paul
Docminique, Jno. Bridges, Rob. Michel, Tho. Burrow, Fra. Michel,
Eben. Jones, Jos. Brooksbank, Jno. Norton, Jno. Bennett, E.
Richier, Tho. Skinner, Richard Greenaway, Jos. Collyer, Cha.
Michel, Jos. Micklethwait, Tho. Lewes, Wm. Snelling, Michael
Watts. Endorsed, Recd. Sept. 1, Read Nov. 14, 1705. 16 pp.
[C.O. 5, 970. No. 32; and 5, 994.A. pp. 232–249.] |
| Nov. 14. |
1450. Observations of the Council of Trade and Plantations
upon preceding. Embodied in Letter to Lord Cornbury Feb. 4,
1706, q.v. 5¼ pp. [C.O. 5, 970. No. 33; and. 5, 994.A.
pp. 250–252.] |
Nov. 15.
Boston. |
1451. Governor Dudley to Mr. Popple. Since my packetts
were sealed, I received the inclosed papers. Col. Hutchinson etc.
are a Committee of the Proprietors of lands in the Naraganset
Country. They have laboured long enough to be convinced
that they can have no right from that Goverment of Road
Island, who against the express command of K. Charles II have
entered upon those lands and disposed them. I humbly offer
them to the Board. I am very sensible the petitioners will ask
nothing if that Goverment of Road Island be altered, being well
assured they shall have justice done them, but if not they will
be very glad if they may have a proper Court appointed for that
end. Signed, J. Dudley. Endorsed, Recd. Dec. 31, 1705. Read
Jan. 23, 1705/6. Holograph. Addressed. 1 p. Enclosed, |
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1451. i. Associated Proprietors of the Mortgaged Lands of the
Narragansett Countrey to Governor Dudley. It is
upon oppressions from the Governmt. of Rhode Island
to the last degree that necessitates this Address. That
Government, if it hath not encouraged it hath at least
connived at the most unjust and disorderly invasions
upon rights and properties made by a great number of
fugitives and persons of no fortunes. When we have
attempted to make some orderly settlements upon
our lands aforesaid, we have been opposed by the
intruders, with threatenings as riotous persons; when
we have applyed to the Court of Tryals in Rhode Island,
we could not obtain justice; when we have addressed
the General Court with the greatest modesty and submission, our Addresses have been by some in that
Governmt. termed scurrillous, and if others have been
more reasonably inclined to do us right, all that could
be obtained was that our petitions should be referred
to another Assembly, which, when that came, would
have no regard to our Memorials. Some in that Government behold the partiality of the great part with regret,
and they as well as we must despair of having things
better whilst the Freemen of that Colony are increased
by the greatest disorders, to maintain a faction that
neither fear God nor regard man, that will treat the
most sacred attestations of the Crown, the Great Seal
of England with ignominy and contempt etc.
Recapitulate. history of the Narragansett Country and
Mortgaged Lands, 1660, etc. The Government of Rhode
Island have rejected the settlement and constitution
made by your Excellency (1686), and have let in and
countenanced a great number of lewd and dissolute
persons, fugitives and such as the Governor and
Magistrates in that Colony have of late themselves
called vagabonds, who have intruded upon our lands;
and particularly the Government hath taken upon
it to grant townships and allowed persons that have
no right to lay out lotts and settle upon the same within
the lands purchased by the Proprietors. Refer to
settlement of French Refugees by your Excellency
and the attacks of the inhabitants of Greenwich. (See
C.S.P., 1699, Nos. 975, 975.xx., etc.) The Proprietors
have, since a settlement of the jurisdiction of the
Narraganset Countrey by agreement between Rhode
Island and Connecticot, brought writs of ejectment
against some of the intruders upon their lands, in one
of which they with much difficulty obtained a judgment,
but have bin since defeated in others by the obstinate
partiality of the Jurys. We can have no hopes of any
fair trials in Rhode Island. The Assembly rejects all
our applications for a fair trial, and when certain
gentlemen of that Colony, who are well ascertained of
the right of the Proprietors, having treated with them
for the purchase of a tract of land in order to a regular
settlement of a town in the Narragansett Country,
petitioned the Assembly to grant a township to them
with rights and priviledges according to their usual
form, the Deputies of Rhode Island, after several debates
and messages between themselves and the Magistrates
of the Colony, have finally voted that no tax shall be
granted until the Proprietors are wholly outed their
lands, and the lands divided amongst such as they call
Freemen of that Colony, many of which are made of
such as the Governor and Magistrates the last year
called vagabonds etc. Pray H.E. to intercede with
H.M. that they may have justice done them. Signed,
Elisha Hutchinson, Jno. Saffin, for himself and
Capt. Andrew Willet, Benja. Lynde, J. Leverett,
Committee for the Proprietors. Endorsed, I received
this address yesterday etc. Signed, J. Dudley, Nov. 14,
1705. Recd. 31st Dec., 1705. 9¾ pp. |
|
1451. ii. Copies of papers in confirmation of above. (a) Bounds
of the grants from the Council from Plymouth in Devon
to Wm. Bradford etc. for New Plymouth in N. England,
Jan. 13, 1629. (b) Bounds of the grant from the same
to Lord Say and Seale, March 19, 1631. Signed, Elisha
Hutchinson. 1 p. |
|
1451. iii. Copy of the Deed of Mortgage of the Narragansett
lands, Sept. 29, 1660. We the Sachems of the
Naragansets, in consideration of 595 fathom of wampom,
required of us by ye Commissioners to be paid within
4 months, do firmly mortgage unto the Commissioners
of the united Colonies all our whole country, etc., always
provided that in case we shall pay or cause to be paid
to the Governor of Connecticut 595 fathom of wanpom,
within four months, with the charge of the five messengers
sent unto us by the Commissioners, then this mortgage
shall be void. Signed, Quissoquons, Neneglad, Scattup,
Narraganset Sachems. Their marks. Signed in the
presence of Richard Smith, Samuel M. Eldred, Newcom
ye Indian, Awashous. Hartford, Sept. 7, 1664 [sic].
Recorded in ye 26 page of ye old Court Book, as attest
John Allyn, Secry. 1 p. |
|
1451. iv. Copy of receipt by John Winthrop, Nov. 16, 1660.
I have received this day of Capt. Edwd. Hutchinson
by the appointment of Major Humphry Atherton and
Co., for and by the appointment of Quiscoquons, Neneglad
and Scuttup, 735 fathom of wampom peage, in full
discharge of the above contract. Signed, John Winthrop.
Recorded in the 27th page of the old Court Book,
Hartford, Sept. 7, 1664. Attested, John Allen, Secy.
A true copy, Nathl. Coddington, Assist. 1 p. |
|
1451. v. Secretary of Connecticut to Major Atherton.
Hartford, Oct. 13, 1660. Upon consideration of your
desires respecting the wampom to be paid by the
Narragansets, the General Court decided that the sum
of wampam imposed by the Commissioners shalbe
accordingly performed unto our Governor here, as also
140 fathom for the charges of the Messengers. Upon
payment whereof the agreement is to be surrendered.
Signed, Danl. Clark, Secr. A true copy, N. Coddington.
1 p. |
|
1451. vi. Grant of the Narraganset Country, except that part
already alienated, to Major Humphrey Atherton and
his Associates upon condition that they pay the above
charge of 600 fathom of wampom peag, always providing
that if within 6 months we pay them back, this writing
shall be void etc. Oct. 13, 1660. Signed, Suckquanish,
Nenagrat, Scuttup, and Scuttup for his brother,
Wequakanuit. Indian witnesses:— Pawatuck, John.
English witnesses:—Valentine Whitman, Reuben Willis.
Recorded in the old Court books at Hartford, Sept. 7,
1664, per John Allyn, Secretary. Vall. Whitman made
oath that he saw the Sachems sign the above. Aug. 20,
1683, before me, Danl. Smith, Assist. A true copy,
N. Coddington. 1¾ pp. |
|
1451. vii. Deposition of J. Button and others that this spring
Scuttup, in presence of 2 or 300 Indians in behalf of
himself and friends delivered possession by turf and
twigg of ye land at Petaquamscott and the country
thereabout to Capt. Edw. Hutchinson, Capt. Willm.
Hudson and Richard Smith, jr., etc., declaring the land
to be already sold by deed by the rest of the Sagamores
as well as by himself to Capt. Hutchinson and Co.
Signed, John Button, John Rhodes, Wm. Cotton,
Ambros Leach. Sworn before me, Sept. 22, 1662,
Jo. Endicott, Govr. Acknowledged by the first three,
Aug. 29, 1664. Attested, Edwd. Rawson, Sec. True
copy, N. Coddington. 1 p. |
|
1451. viii. Declaration of Scuttup and the other Narraganset
Sachems. Dec. 28, 1664. Whereas we made over
all our lands to Major Atherton (as in Nos. vi. and vii.),
and whereas I, Scuttup, of my own voluntary mind
sent Wiskhunk and Sepewampshe, two of my Councellors,
and John Indian for an interpreter unto Boston, to
desire of Capt. Hutchinson and Co., that I, in regard of
my sickness, as they have bin always friends to me,
so they will continue to be to my sister, after me, and
to all the Indians under me, etc. In sure confidence of
their love to us, I together with my sister and Councellours in behalf of the rest of the Indians, do hereby
declare that we do all so well approve of ye Government
and manners of the English that we voluntarily desire to
be governed by their Laws and Governors, and desire to
be no longer under the Indian Government etc., and
therefore have made choice of our own accord of our
loving friends, John Winthrop, Govr. of Connecticot,
Capt. Thomas Willet of Plimouth Colony, Capt. Edw.
Hutchinson of Massachuset Colony and the rest of the
Company concerned with them, to settle us and our people
under the Government of such English within the United
Colonies as they themselves shall make choice on etc.
Signed, Scuttup, alias Mehomer, Queneniquis, Wiskwowk,
Councelor, Sepowond, Councelor, Mokey, John Indian,
Joseph Dallaware, Lowidwick Updicke. (With totem
marks.) Copy. 1½ pp. |
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1451. ix. Deposition of Joseph Dallawar (or Dollewar). On
Dec. 28, 1664, Scuttup, in presence of a great number of
Indians and of Thomas Staunton of Stonington and
Richard Smith of Narraganset etc., confirmed the above
sale of lands to Major Atherton and delivery to
Capt. Hutchinson as in preceding. I witnessed the
preceding deed. Signed, Joseph Dollewar. Kingstown,
Feb. 16, 170¾. Copy. 1 p. |
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1451. x. Copy of Agreement between the Agents of Connecticut
and Rhode Island. (See C.S.P., 1663, No. 433.)
1½ pp. |
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1451. xi. Extract of Report of the Commissioners upon the
Claims to the Narraganset Country, Oct. 20, 1683.
(C.S.P., 1683, No. 1986.) 1 p. |
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1451. xii. Minutes of President and Council of New England
in King's Province, New England. Rochester, June 23,
1686. Joseph Dudley, President. (Cf. C.S.P., 1686,
p. 261.) Justices sworn. Ordered that the 3 towns be
called Rochester (formerly Kingston), Feversham (commonly called Westerly), Dedford (formerly Greenwich),
etc. Forasmuch as sundry persons have been deluded,
and whilst no Government was settled upon the place,
have been encouraged without licence from the
Proprietors to build and make improvement upon the
Mortgage Lands, to the end that they may have seasonable time to make their composition, that so they may
either upon purchases, rents or other good agreements
enjoy their improvements etc., ordered that no possessor
of any such lands be molested before Aug. 20; and in
case, upon treaty with the Proprietors, they receive
not satisfaction, their complaints shall be heard by the
President and Council at Boston etc. Copy. 2 pp. |
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1451. xiii. Act of Rhode Island. Oct. 30, 1672. (See C.S.P.,
1672, No. 951.) Copy. 1 p. |
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1451. xiv. King's Commissioners to the Magistrates of Rhode
Island. Sept. 15, 1665. (See C.S.P., 1665, No. 1033.)
Copy. ½ p. |
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1451. xv. K. Charles II to the Governor and Magistrates of
Rhode Island, Feb. 12, 1678/9. (See C.S.P., 1679. No. 890.)
Extract. ½ p. |
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1451. xvi. General Assembly of Rhode Island to Lt. Gov.
Cranfield. Desire to see his Commission etc. Warwick,
Aug. 21, 1683. The letter referred to C.S.P., 1683.
No. 1253. Copy. 1 p. |
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1451. xvii. Governor Sandford to Governor Cranfield. Newport,
Nov. 11, 1682. Express their submission to H.M. letter of
June 5, 1682, (C.S.P., 1682. No. 539), and their
congratulations on his appointment etc. Copy. 1 p. |
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1451. xviii. H.M. Commissioners to the Assembly of Rhode
Island, Narragansett, Aug. 22, 1683. Reply to No. xvi.
We cannot but wonder that you doubt of H.M. Commission, etc., intimation of wch. you have already
received from H.M. and us, with our design of meeting
here, where H.M. Commission hath this day been read,
but found not that respect from ye Messengers of your
letter as to be heard read, though Civilly desired etc. If
you send any persons in whom you can repose any
trust, they may see and take a copy of it. Signed, Wm.
Wharton, Regr. Copy. 1 p. |
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1451. xix. Proprietors of the Narraganset Mortgage lands to
the Governor Cranston, Council and Assembly of Rhode
Island. Feb. 16, 1704 (5). Repeat complaints of the
hardships they meet with in the Court of Trials and
appeal for redress (see No. 1 supra). Signed, on behalf
of the Proprietors, Wait Winthrop, Elisha Hutchinson,
John Saffin, J. Leverett, Nathl. Coddington. On back,
It is the opinion of the House that this petition be
referred to the next Assembly etc. And at the setting
of the next Assembly not called for. Copy. 3¼ pp. |
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1451. xx. J. Sheffeild and C. Arnold to the Governor, Council
and Assembly of Rhode Island. May 5, 1705. Pray
to be allowed to settle a township in the Narraganset
Country, towards which they have already made some
progress. Signed, Joseph Sheffeild, Caleb Arnold. On back,
Referred to next Assembly etc. 1¼ pp. |
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1451. xxi. Assembly of Rhode Island, June 19, 1705. Vote
sent up, that the petition of Capt. Arnold and
Capt. Sheffeild (preceding) be answered, they paying
200l. into the Treasury, and Mr. Whiple and partners
shall have 20,000 acres adjoyning on the south side of
the land petitioned for by Arnold and Sheffeild, they
paying 200l., always provided that it infringe not on
the land of Ninecraft, or the land of Westerly, or any
other lawful purchase, and also to raise a tax of 600
to be paid by the last of November. Passed to the
House of Magestrates. Subscribed, This House agree
etc. Past to the House of Deputies. On back, To the
House of Representatives. Our opinion is that the
petitions of Arnold, Shieffield, and Whipple be referred
to ye Assembly in October. Past to the House of
Deputies. It is the opinion of this House that the
raising of money be referred to Oct. next also. Past
from the House of Dept. to ye House of Magestr.
2 pp. |
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1451. xxii. House of Magistrates of Rhode Island to the
House of Deputies. May 3, 1704. Whereas in time of
differences between Conecticut and Rhode Island about
boundarys etc., many things have been done by many
persons on the Narraganset Country by making settlements on the said lands, having no rights to the same,
and contrary to the Acts of Assembly of the Colony,
and whereas many persons in said country within the
Colony and some of the other Colonys challenge clame
in said country of soyle, all wch. have made great
contests etc., it is therefore proposed that there might
be some persons chosen to order the boundarys of
Greenwich be settled of the land granted by ye Colony
etc., and to inspect the several claims in the Narraganset
Country and propose what may be for the ending of all
controversies etc. Past to the House of Deputies and
by them flung out. Copy. 2 pp. |
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1451. xxiii. Queries put by Governor Cranston to the Assembly
of Rhode Island, June 19, 1705, which were returned
without answer from the House of Deputies. What
right hath the Colony to the Mortgaged lands, and
should they make a disposition of them, etc., etc. Copy.
1 p. |
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1451. xxiv. Act of Assembly of Rhode Island. Every town
at their town-meeting hath power to make such men
freemen of their towns as they judge may be meet etc.,
and all such persons shall have votes for ye choice of all
officers in ye town where they dwell, and ye names of all
such freemen being presented to ye Assembly, if they
pass by vote to allow them freemen of ye Colony, then
shall they have their votes of electing general officers att
the times of election. Copy. 1 p. |
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1451. xxv. Copy of Governor Cranston's Warrant to Joseph
Crandall, Espetiall Constable, Dec. 2, 1699, to arrest
certain men of Westerly who have obstructed the
meeting of the justices there, by remonstrating
against the choosing of rate-makers, according to an
Assembly Act at Warwick, Oct. 25, 1699, etc. Copy.
1 p. |
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1451. xxvi. Remonstrance of the Westerly men (referred to
in preceding), Nov. 22, 1699. Lord Bellomont has
advised to forbear distraining for taxes until the
controversy betwixt Connecticut and Rhode Island be
decided. Wherefore we desire to have no trouble
from Rhode Island for rate money, and hereby positively
refuse to doe anything in order to making a rate or
paying any money until things are settled and it be
determined who we of right belong to etc. Signed,
James Pendleton, Joseph Pemberton, Georg Denison,
Joseph Staunton, John Lewis, Daniell Crum, John
Babcock, Edward Wilcock, Joseph Pendleton, Edward
Bleuen, Roger Larkin, James Lewis, Israell Lewis,
Joseph Babcock. Copy. 1 p. |
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1451. xxvii. Capt. Fones' evidence as to Pierre Ayrault.
July 23, 1700. (Cf. C.S.P., 1699, No. 975. xx.) Signed,
John Fones. Copy. 2¾ pp. |
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1451. xxviii. P. Ayrault's Remonstrance against some
irregularities and inhumanities committed against him
by inhabitants of East Greenwich, in Naragansett,
July 23, 1700. I was dragged to Court late at night by
force on a warrant they refused to read to me, and my
wife struck and flung on the pavement. Samuel Davis
and Abner Spencer siezed my son, Daniel, without any
cause and flung him on the stones, etc. Aug. 7, 1700.
Copy. 1¼ pp. |
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1451. xxix. P. Ayrault to [? Governor Dudley]. Repeats his
complaint and asks for redress. Signed, Pierre Ayrault.
3 pp. |
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1451. xxx. Copy of agreement (referred to in preceding) between
Richard Wharton, Elisha Hutchinson and John Saffin
on the one side and Ezekiel Carre and Peter Berton,
French Gentlemen, and their associates on the other
for settling a town in the Narraganset Country. Nov. 4,
1686. Copy. 1½ pp. |
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1451. xxxi. Map of the French settlement in Narraganset
referred to above, and list of the 51 families of French
settlers turned out by the Rhode Islanders. 1 large p.
[C.O. 5, 864. Nos. 9–40; and (without enclosures) 5,
912. pp. 106–110.] |
| [? Nov. 15.] |
1452. Memorandum of a proposal [? by Francis Farnandoe,
see Nov. 24] for H.M. to fit out 2 ships one of 50 guns and one of
30, to intercept the Spanish fleet with war chest etc. ½ p.
[C.O. 137, 45. No. 69.] |
| Nov. 15. |
1453. Further proposals for the same expedition. Endorsed,
R. Nov. 15, 1705. 2 pp. [C.O. 137, 45. No. 70.] |
