His Hon' laid before ye Board from his Hon' Lt. Gov. Dummer, signifying that ye Gov of ye Mass had delivered up the Indus Captives within that Province, to several Cheifs of ye Indus late at Boston, & then Bound to Piscat: to desire any Captives in this Province, which Lt. Gov' Dummer in sa letter earnestly press'd to have D1 up to ye sd Chiefs, &c. The said Chiefs being sent for to ye board & attending, & Capt. Jos. Bane interpreter being present:

[P. 32.] Aryomuct: Lt. Govt Dummer told us there was an Indian Captive here wch Govr Wentworth would deliver to them, & they desired ye sd Captive.

Lt. Govr: You told us at Casco, at ye ratification, that there was 5 Ind" captives at St. Francis & promised they should be Da to ye English; 2 of the 5 were return'd, & desire to know where the others are & have y- Da up.

Indn: The Indus that had y Captives as soon as yy heard of ye Peace sold them to ye French, & then they were out of our reach. There is not now one captive in ye hands of ye Indians, but all ye English y were ever taken are with ye French.

Lt. Gorr: We here there is an English captive or two now at Amuskeag wth ye Indns or thereab'.

Indn: We know nothing of it and have nothing to say to it; but desire to know whether we shall have ye captive or not. Lt. Govr: I have the same affection.

His Excellency WILLIAM BURNET, Esq. Produced and laid before the Board his Majesties Royal Commission, constitu[ting] and appointing him to be Govr and Command' in Chief of this his

(1) In the second year of the reign of King George II.

Majesties Province of New Hampshire; which being opened and Published in the presence of most of the Principal officers and gentlemen of the Government [P. 34.] & many others, the same was succeeded by a round of the Cannon at his Majesties Fort William & Mary, and on board several Merch ships in the Harbour; and by three vollys of smal arms of a troop of Horse, and five foot companys of Militia drawn up before the Council Chamber on the occasion. Then his Excellency was pleased to communicate to the board the names and order of the Persons appointed to be his Majesties Councils of the sd Province of New Hampshire, as they stand placed in his Instructions, viz:

John Wentworth

Arch Macpheadris

John Frost

Shada Walton

Geo. Jaffrey

Thos. Westbrook

Richd Wibird

Joth" Odiorne

Hen: Sherburne

Sam' Penhallow (1).

After which his Excellency proceeded to take the oaths required by his Commission, viz: the Oaths appointed to be taken by an Act passed in the first year of his late Majesties reign, Entituled an Act for ye further security of his Majties Person and Government, and ye succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, & for extinguishing ye hopes of ye pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors. He also made & subscribed the Declaration, mentioned in an Act of Parliament, made in ye twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the second, Entituled an Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants; and further

(1) Saml Penhallow, Councilor, died December 2, 1726, aged sixty-one. He was born at St. Mabon, in the County of Cornwall, in England, July 2, 1665. Being bred a Puritan, he came to this country with the Rev. Charles Morton, of Charlestown, Mass., in 1686. Mr. Penhallow's intention was to devote himself to the ministry; but finding affairs in this country in a more unsettled state than he expected, he removed to Portsmouth and engaged in trade. He married the daughter of the late President John Cutt, and in her right inherited a large estate. He held many important offices in the Government; was distinguished as a magistrate; was deacon in the Congregational Church. He was appointed Councilor in 1702; was Recorder of Deeds, Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature, Chief Justice of the same, and Treasurer of the Province. Possessed of a strong mind, cultivated by education, and influenced by principles of religion, he discharged the duties of these several offices with integrity. He was the author of "The History of the Wars of New England with the Eastern Indians," from August 10, 1703, to July, 1713; & from the 25th of July, 1722, to December, 1725. He was exemplary, charitable to the poor and hospitable to strangers. Naturally of a warm and sanguine disposition, his firmness had the appearance of obstinacy; rigid in his principles, he was unwilling to make due allowances for those who differed from him in sentiment. [See Ad. Ann. Portsmouth, pp. 149, 150, and "Memoir" prefixed to the "Narrative of Indian Wars," Cincinnati, 1859.—ED.]

took ye usual oath for y due Execution of the office and Trust [P. 35.] of Govt & Commander-in-Chief, as well with regard to y due and impartial administration of Justice as otherwise; and also another oath required to be taken by Governours of Plantations, to do their utmost that ye several laws relating to trade and ye Plantations be observed. Then those of the Council who were present, namely, the Honble John Wentworth, Esq., Shad. Walton, Esq., George Jaffrey, Esq., Rich" Wibird, Esq., Jotham Odiorne, Esq., and Henry Sherburne, Esq., took the oaths required by the sd Commission, by them to be taken, viz: The oaths appointed by the s Act, Entituled an Act for ye further security of his Majesties Person and Goverm' and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of ye late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; and for Extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret abettors. They also made & subscribed the forementioned Declaration, and took ye oaths for ye due Executions of their place and trust. Then his Excellency proposed the Issuing of a Proclamation for continuing all officers, &c., wch ye Coun1 advised to.

Ordered, That a Proclamation be prepared accordingly and published on Monday next, by beat of Drum, which is as follows -vide on file.

His Excellency was pleased to communicate to ye board an Instruction agst striking & Emitting Bills of Credit, &c., as follows:

NOTE. The Council Records here abruptly end, and there remains a chasm till 1742.

The following is the form of Oaths taken by the Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical officers in New Hampshire, on the accession of George II., A. D. 1727.

I,

[Hist. Coll. N. H., Vol. IV, pp. 83-87.]

do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his Majesty King George the Second. So help me God.

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do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest, abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murthered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever: and I do declare, that no foreign Prince, Person or Prelate, State or Potentate, hath or ought to have jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or

authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within the realm of Great Britain. So help me God.

I

do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare in my conscience before God and the world, that our Sovereign Lord, King George the Second, is lawful and rightful King of the realm of Great Britain, and all other his Majesty's Dominions and countries thereunto belonging; and I do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I do believe in my conscience, that the person pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James, and since his decease, pretending to be, and taking upon himself the style and title of King of England, by the name of James the Third, King of Great Britain, hath not any right or title whatsoever to the Crown of the realm of Great Britain, or any other of the dominions thereto belonging. And I do renounce, refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him. And I do swear that I will bear faith and true allegiance to his Majesty, King George the Second, and him will defend to the utmost of my power, against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against his person, crown and dignity. And I will do my utmost endeavor to disclose and make known to his Majesty and his successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be against him, or any of them; and I do faithfully promise to the utmost of my power, to support, maintain, and defend the succession of the Crown against him, the said James, and all other persons whatsoever; which succession by an Act entitled an Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject is, and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to their express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation, mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever. And I do make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation and promise heartily, willingly and truly, upon the . true faith of a christian. So help me God."

[The foregoing oaths were subscribed by the following persons. Their names are copied in the order in which they stand in the original and are according to their autographs (1).-See N. II. Hist. Coll., IV., p. 85.]

(1) The "original" here referred to has not been found by the EDITOR.