Entered & recorded according to the original Pattent under the Great Seal of Great Britain. NOTE. The original Commission is said to be in the Portsmouth Athenæum. ED. Commission of Governor Benning Wentworth to be Surveyor [Copied from "Commissions" in Secys office, 1747 to 1828.] GEORGE R. GEORGE the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c. To all to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING: KNOW YE, That We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in the skill Diligence and Integrity of our Trusty & well-beloved BENNING WENTWORTH, Esq. our Governor of New Hampshire in America in and for the Execution and performance of the service of Directing and Instructing our good subjects the Inhabitants of New England and other our Colonies and Plantations in America in the best method of making Tar, raising and cureing Hemp and producing and working all other Naval Stores and for rendring the several Acts of Parliament relating thereunto more effectual, as also for other good causes and considerations as hereunto moving of our especial Grace certain knowledge & mere motion, have nominated, constituted and appointed, and do hereby nominate, Constitute and appoint him the said Benning Wentworth, to be Surveyor General of all and singular our Woods within all & every our Colonies and Plantations on the Continent of America, now growing or being or which hereafter shall or may grow or be within our said Colonies or Plantations or any of them, in the room & place of David Dunbar, Esq, whose Commission for the same office We do hereby revoke and Determine: And We do, hereby direct, authorize and require him the said Benning Wentworth to instruct our loving subjects within our said Colonies & Plantations in making Pitch and Tar, raising & cureing of Hemp and in all other matters relat ing to the Production and manufacturing of Naval stores there, To Hold, Exercise and Perform the said office of Surveyor General and other the services abovementioned by himself or his sufficient Deputy or Deputies for & During our Pleasure; and for the encouragement of him the said Benning Wentworth diligently and faithfully to intend, attend, & Execute the said services, We have tho't to grant and allow unto him, the said Benning Wentworth a Salary or yearly sum of Two hundred Pounds Lawful money of Great Britain to be paid him or his assigns by the Treasurer of our Navy for the time being upon Bills for the same to be first made forth & signed by the Commissioners of our Navy for the time being or any three or more of them who are hereby directed and authorized to make forth & sign the said Bills, from time to time accordingly, the said Salary to commence from the Date hereof (to which Day exclusive the said David Dunbar is to be paid the said Salary and no further) and to be computed and paid by the Day to the 25th of December 1743; and from thence for the Quarterly by equal Portions, as the same from time to time shall incur and become due: And we do hereby Declare that these Presents or the Entry or Enrolment thereof with the Commissioners & Treasurer of our Navy, and also with the Auditors of our Imprests shall be as well to the said Commissioners of our Navy for making out the sa Bills as to the Treasurer for Payment and to the Auditors of 915 Imprests for allowing thereof from time to time upon account a sufficient Warrant, and we do hereby authorize and require him the said Benning Wentworth his Deputy or Deputies and every of them at all convenient Times and seasons in the year to view & survey all our said Woods, and also to mark such of the said Trees as now are or hereafter shall be fit & Proper to be taken for the use of our Navy and to keep a register of the same, transmitting half-yearly or oftener an acct of his Proceedings therein to our Commissioners for executing the office of high Admiral or our high Admiral of Great Britain for the Time being, to one of our Principal Secretary's of State, to our Commissioners of our Treasury or our High Treasurer of Great Britain for the time being, and to our Coinmissioners of Trade and Plantations, as also to observe & follow such orders & Directions as we have formerly signed or shall hereafter sign relating to the Execution of the said office and such others as he shall from time to time receive from us or from our said Commissioners for Executing the office of High Admiral of Great Britain for the time being, or our Commissioners of our Treasury or High Treasurer for the time being, from either of our Principal Secretarys of State or from our Commissioners for Trade & Plantations: And Lastly We will and require all our Governours, Lieutenant Governours, Justices of the Peace, Constables and all other our Civil officers within our said Colonies & Plantations in America to be aiding and assisting to and to Promote & Encourage the said Benning Wentworth his Deputy or Deputies in the due Execution of his & their Duty in all the matters aforementioned as they will answer the contrary. Given at our Court at St. James' this Twelfth Day of December, 1743, in the Seventeenth year of our Reign. By his Majesty's Command. H. PELHAM, Entred in the Treasurer of the Navy's office the 23d of December 1743. White Hall Treasury Chamber, 21 Feby 1743. Ja. Hubbard. I hereby certify this to be a true copy of the Entry of the original Warrant in the Books of his Majesty's Treasury as signed by the King & Countersigned by the Lord's Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy. Province of New Hampshire, Peter Lehenp. Recorded the 24 day of Jany, 1753. Pr. Theodore Atkinson, Secy. INDEX. NOTE.-The Index which follows is designed to contain the name of every person Address to his Majesty, committee to prepare, 83-89, 93. 99, 220, 223; to the Governor.. Affidavits 324 263 318 384 .525, 589, 594, 666 Albany. 278; the Flats, 429, 433, 447, 467, 481, 488, 489, 490; agents sent Alewives Alexander, Elias, 15, 20; Mr... Ashuelot, upper 20, 21; lower.... Samuel Assembly, prorogued, 3, 295, 353; mem- bers sworn to secresy, 355; dis- Astin, Abial. 272 ..30, 318 .390, 467 .500, 520 204 318 863 jun, Sec'y, 631; of the Council, €34, Wm. Allcock, John, Capt... John... Allen, Daniel Timothy, Rev.... Allord, James Amherst, Gen., 621, 690, 702, 705. 707. 718, 720, 729, 730 733, 735, 751. 796, Town....629. 733, 739, 777, 820, 866 880 Amoskeag Falls ..............221, 752, 788 AuBoeuf, river.... Austin, Joseph Samuel ..... 318 465 ............ 594 .165, 185 |