Provincial and State Papers

DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS

RELATING TO THE

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PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,

FROM 1749 TO 1763:

Containing very valuable and interesting Records and Papers relating to the Crown
Point Expedition, and the "Seven Years French and Indian Wars," 1755-1762.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

VOLUME VI.

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

NATHANIEL BOUTON, D. D.,
Corresponding Secretary of the New Hampshire-Historical Society.

MANCHESTER:

JAMES M. CAMPBELL, STATE PRINTER.

1872.

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HAR YARD COLLEGE 113NARY

GIFT OF

CHESTER NOYES GREENOUGH

JAN 15 1920

NOTICE.

JOINT RESOLUTION, passed by the Legislature of New-Hampshire.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, in
General Court convened, That his Excellency the Governor be
hereby authorized and empowered, with the advice and consent of
the Council, to employ some suitable person, and fix his compensa-
tion, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to collect, arrange, transcribe and superintend the
publication of such portions of the early State and Provincial
Records, and other State Papers of New-Hampshire, as the Gov-
ernor may deem proper; and that eight hundred copies of each
volume of the same be printed by the State Printer and distributed
as follows, namely: one copy to each City and Town in the State,
one copy to such of the Public Libraries of this State as the
Governor may designate, two hundred copies to the New-Hamp-
shire Historical Society, and the remainder placed in the custody
of the State Librarian, who is hereby authorized to exchange the
same for similar publications issued by other States.
Approved July 6, 1866.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

Most of the contents of this volume will be found of great historic interest and value. The controversy between the House of Representatives and his Excellency Benning Wentworth, on his right to negative their choice of a Speaker and to determine what towns were entitled to Representation; the conspiracy for his removal from office; the official proceedings of the Government and the part the Inhabitants of the Province took in the expedition against Crown Point, and in the long, expensive and bloody French and Indian wars; the extension and growth of settlements in the northern and western sections of the Province; the action of the government in favor of Rev. Eleazer Wheelock's plan for instructing the Indian tribes; and the very important and copious public documents interspersed through the volume-all these give it a special value, and entitle it to a careful perusal and to frequent reference, by all who wish to become well versed in our Provincial history.

Readers of this will please turn to page 320 and read the "Note by the Editor," explanatory of a change or modification of the plan heretofore pursued. But, all may be assured, that the portions of the Journal of the House which appear, were copied entire and exact. The "Records of the Council" are also complete; and the numerous letters, documents, &c., which are interspersed are meant to be a literal transcript of the original.

The VIIth and last volume of Provincial Papers will be one of more than ordinary interest and value, as it will embrace all records, papers and documents, to be found, relating to the ante-revolutionary period, with the administration of the last of the Royal Governors of the Province-His Excellency JOHN WENTWORTH, Esq.

GENERAL CONTENTS.

VOLUME VI.

PAGES.

ADMINISTRATION OF Gov. BENNING WENTWORTH-continued, 1749-1763

RECORDS OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL, 1750-1757

Order by the Governor, relating to Iron forge, &c.

Order of Court relating to an Indian .

CORRESPONDENCE-A conspiracy for the removal of Governor