Fryday, Sept. 2, 1737.

This day the Council non-concurred the Representatives vote dated 18 Augst last for signing of 500£ now blank in the Treasury.

A message to the Board by Mr. Boyes with the Presbyterian Petition of Chester voted in the House of Representatives to be dismissed, ordered in Council to lye for further consideration.

The petition of George Walton, jun. to the Gov' & Council praying for confirmation of a tract of land, this day read & ordered to lye for consideration.

The petition Robt Row and John Swain praying to be polled off to Kensington read and ordered to lye for further consideration.

[P. 152.] This day his Excellency was pleased to give his consent to a Bill for ascertaining the Bounds of Kensington & a Bill to Enlarge the powers of the Parish of New Market.

A motion being made & seconded that his Exc' would be pleased give y Gen1 Court a recess (the Court of Comiss being adjourned) & the whole Council joyning in ye request.

His Excellency was pleased to order that the General Assembly should be prorogued to Thursday the 13th Oct. next, 10 o'clock A. M. then to meet at the House of Moses Blake in Hampton Falls and the said Gen' Assembly was prorogued accordingly.

Prorogued to Thursday, Oct. 13, 1737.

Pro. N. Hamp1.

At a Gen' Assembly held at Hampton Falls by Prorogation Thursday Oct 13, 1737.

Court of Assembly adj. til Saturday, 10 A. M.

A message to his Excellency by Messrs Parker & Smith to inform that a Quorum of the House was convened: To

whom his Ex. replyed that if there was any busyness lying before the House he would have them proceed upon it.

A message to the Board by Messrs Rindge & Sanburn wth a vote for a Comitte to examine the accounts of y Comitte employed abt ye line wch was returnd by the Secretary & proposed that the Comitte should be authorized to Examine all accounts of claims & that the House should send up to the Board the accounts of the Comitte employed about the

lines.

Adjourned til tomorrow, 10 o'clock A. M.

[P. 153.] Oct. 14, 1737. [Met and adjourned.]

Oct. 15, 1737. [Met-]

Message to ye Board by one of the members with a vote for signing ye 500£ in ye Treasury.

Adjourned til Monday 10 o'clock A. M.

[P. 154.] Pro. N. Hamp'. At a General assembly held at Hampton Falls according to adjournment, Monday, Oct. 17, 1737.

A Message to the Board by Messrs Parker & Walton with a vote for striking off 1000£ in bills to carry on the affair of the lines, and another vote for Mr. Tomlinson to be agent, and desired to know whether the Council has passed upon the vote of the House for signing ye 500£ sent up Saturday & desired the accounts might be sent down.

A message to the Board by Mr. Clarkson with a vote. for setling accts with the Mass Comitte, &c.

A vote of Council was made upon the account Curr' of the Comitte for settling the loan & ordered to be sent down with accts, & ye particular acts of ye sd.

The vote of the House for signing the blank 500£ was non-concurred & ordered to be sent down.

The vote of the House for striking a 1000£ bills was nonconcurred and ordered to be sent down.

The vote for an agent was non-concurred (& yo reason given) and ordered to be sent down.

A vote of the Council to put 1500£ into the Treasury and for paying y Com's 308 pr day as N. Hamp' half of their recompense was made and ordered to be sent down for con

currence.

His Excellency asked the consent of the Board for Issuing his Warrts on the Treasury for paymt of his salary as ye same shall become due by law, to which they advise and consent.

Adjourned til tomorrow 9 o'clock A. M.

[P. 155.] Pro. N. Hamp'. At a Gen' Assembly held at Hampton Falls by adjournment Thursday Oct. 18, 1737. Present in Coun:

His Excellency Jona. Belcher, Esq. Gov

A message to the House by the Sec wth ye 5 votes last mentioned wch were ordered to be sent down yesterday. Adjourn'd til tomorrow 10 o'clock a. M.

Oct. 19, 1737. [Met according to adjournmt.]

A message to the Board by Mr. Parker with a vote for settling accounts wth Massa.

The Presbyterian Petition of Chester read & agreed & the opposite party heard & a vote made thereon & sent down by the Sec.

P. M. The petition of Hampton agst Rye read & both parties heard, and the petitions sent down by Capt. Huske. A message to the Board by one of the members with the vote of Council for putting 1500£ into the Treasury non

concurred.

[P. 156.] A message to the Board by one of the members

wth a vote for signing the 500£ in ye Treasury & striking 500 £ more.

Adjourned til tomorrow 10 o'clock a. M.

Thursday, Oct. 20, 1737.

Present in Council as before

A message to the Board by Mr. Boyes wth the Presbyte rian petition and votes thereon as follows.

The Council read & non-concurred the vote of the House sent up yesterday for settling accts with Mass wch was sent down by Mr. Dennet.

By him also was sent down a vote of Council for putting 500£ into the Treasury to pay the Com

A message to the Board by one of the House for striking 1000£.

A Vote of the House of ye 28 currt? (1) for signing yo 500£ in ye Treas & striking 500 more read & non-concurred.

By the unanimous request of the Council his Ex was pleased to prorogue ye Gen1 Assem. to Wednesday the first of March next at 10 o'clock a. M. then to meet at yo Court House at Portsm°.

[P. 157.] Pro. N. H. At a Council held at Hampton Falls, Thursday Oct. 20, 1737.

Present in Council

His Ex. Jona Belcher, Esq. Gov'

Geo. Jaffrey

H.. Sherburn

Rich Waldron

Eph Dennet

Esqs.

Jos. Sherburn Esqs.
Ellis Huske

Theo. Atkinson, Esq.

Mathew Livermore, Esq. Presented a Petition subscribed by about 50 persons praying for a Grant of Land within ye Province wch was read & ordered that the Petitioners have leave to prepare & present a Charter to the Board, which was done & the same was passed & ordered to be sealed.

His Excellency was pleased to acquaint the Board that he had lately received several complaints of Clandestine marriages consumated by virtue of Licenses granted within this Province & therefore proposed that to prevent the like for the future, an order sh'd be sent to the Prest not to grant any more licenses without his Excellency's permission which was as follows: vide file.

(1) 18 Aug't. ED.

THE THOMLINSON CORRESPONDENCE.

CORRESPONDENCE, chiefly between Theodore Atkinson, Esq., of Portsmouth, and Capt. John Thomlinson, agent of the Province in London, relating mostly to the settlement of the boundary lines between the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire: This Correspondence is of great historical value, and should be carefully examined. ED. [Copied from "Belknap Papers" in a MS. volume belonging to the Library of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, in Concord.]

No. 1.

[P. 1.] Letter from Theo. Atkinson, Esq. to Capt. John Thomlinson. Capt. Thomlinson—

Sir The last from you was by Capt. Ring, since which we have heard nothing from London but transiently by the Man of Warr who gave us some acct of the resentment of the House of Commons of Mr. Dunbars treatment, offered by the House of Representatives at Boston, & if a strict Enquiry should be made into that affair I am of oppinion his Excellency would be brought in for parte—which I believe Mr. Cook would Declare, having lately been displaced from the Judge's office of the Inferior Court by the Gov Influence. We are impatient till we hear what success the affair of the lines will meet with, tho' can't expect a determination till the Massa hath had time to answer, who Boast much of their Interest ag't New Hamp' which still we disbelieve this Govermt having never in one article disobeyed the Crown but have in every thing complyed with the King's Instructions, however the Dispute on the controverted Land will increase I suppose. Coll. Dunbarr who is now with us, & was an Eye witness of the Haverhill peoples behaviour the last week hath represented the affair home to the several Boards, how they came with fire arms &c. to take away grass at least Ten miles from the river—I wrote you how we Mr. Wentworth & myself were rejected by the Gov' upon showing him our Mandamus (1) which I think very Extraordinary he not assigning any reason when he took them 'tis impossable for me to say any more than that he hath disobeyed the King's positive comand, & I imagine will not receive thanks therefor, 'tis probable he will send home some reasons but must make them himself, otherways he would have Entered them with the Secretary which he never did and which his Instructions in case of a suspension of any [P. 2] member of that Board obleigidges him to do, however tis vic Volo sic Jubeo, however I never desire to sustain any post of that nature longer than I am determined to act & speak my oppinion which I am determined shall always be rectified by the dic(1) See p. 794, this volume. ED.