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to flight, and saue his calfe-Tire wind serveing fitt to cary the report of the musketts to Rocksbury, 3 miles of at such a time; the inhabitants there tooke an alarme beate vpp their drume, armed themselues, and sent in post to vs to Boston to raise vs allsoe. Soe in the morninge the calfe beeinge found safe, the wolues affrighted, and our danger past, wee went merrily to breakefast.

I thought to have ended before, but the stay of the shipp and my desire to informe your honr. of all I canne, hath caused this additon, and every one haueinge warninge to prepare for the shipps departure tomorrow, I am now this 28th of March, 1631, sealing my Ires.

Journey of Governor Shute from Boston to Portsmouth October, 1716.

[Copied from an ancient paper for the Collections by CYRUS P. BRADLEY]

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On Monday last, his Excellency our Governor proceeded [on] his journey to New Hampshire, being attended out of town by several of his Majesty's Council, the sheriff of the county, with other gentlemen and officers, and at Cambridge was first received by several of his Majesty's justices, with the sheriff of the county Middlesex, and a troop of horse of Col. Phips' Regiment. At the college, his Excellency was waited on by the President, Fellows and students into the hall, and there saluted with an oration by Mr. Foxcroft,* one of the Masters of Art of that house. At Lewis's, his Excellency was met

*[Probably Francis Foxcroft who was graduated at Harvard in 1712.]

by the several gentlemen of the Council from Salem, and one of the sheriffs, and a troop of horse of Col. Brown's regiment; at Salem, his Excellency was entertained at Col. Brown's, where as well, the ministers of that and the neighbouring towns, as the Gentlemen and officers, civil and military, congratulated his Excellency's safe arrival to his Government.

On Tuesday, the Governor was received on the road towards Wenham by Capt. Heink's troop of horse, and at Wenham by the other sheriff of the county of Essex and a troop of horse belonging to Col. Appleton's regiment.A Tuesday night, his Excellency lodged at the Hon. the Lieut, Governor's,* and the next morning, was attended by a troop of horse belonging to Col. Noyes' regiment, with the gentlemen and others from Newbury. At Salisbury, near the line between the two provinces, his Excellency was met by the Honorable the Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire, several of his Majesty's Council, the sheriff with a number of gentlemen and others, of the Province of New. Hampshire, being guarded with a troop of horse from Hampton, and after that, met by a troop of. horse from Exeter, and at Hampton Town, four companies of foot were drawn up upon the Common before Capt. Winget's where the Governor dined.

Portsmouth. New Hampshire. Wednesday, 17th October. This day, about 5 o'clock, P. M. his Excellency Saml. Shute Esq. our Governor arrived at this place being brought to town by the Hon'ble our Lieut. Governor, Council, a great number of our gentle

*[This, most likely at Newbury, where William Partridge, the then late Lieut, Governor, resided.]

men and officers, as well as some [from] the neighboring Province, and welcomed by the discharge of the cannon of our castle and the ships in the [harbor]-our regiment was under arms flanked with two troops of horse. His Excellency went directly up to our Council House and there published his commission, after which the regiment discharged their volleys, and the people their huzzas, in token of their great and unfeigned joy upon this, so happy an occasion.His Excellency lodges at Mr. Penhallow's

Speech of his Excellency Richard, Earl of Bellomont, Governor of Massachusetts and N. Hampshire, to the Council and Assembly of the Province of New Hampshire, 7 August, 1699.* Gentlemen,

I have called you together at this time to give you an opportunity of serving the common interest of your country by redressing the grievances this Province lies under, and by making such laws as may, by the blessing of God, establish you in safety and happiness for the time to come.

I am very sensible of the great sufferings you sustained all this last war, by this Province being frontier towards the Eastern Indians,-a cruel and perfidious enemy in their own nature, but taught and encouraged to be more so by the Jesuits and other Popish Missionaries from France, who were not more industrious during the war to instigate their Indian disciples and proselytes (as they are pleased to call them) to kill your people treacherously, than they have been since the

*Governor Bellomont arrived in N. Hampshire and published his commission on the last day of July, 1699. It is believed that he did not afterwards come into the Province. He died at New York, 5 March, 1701.

the peace, to debauch those Indians from former subjections to the Crown of England: insomuch as at present they seem to have departed from their allegiance to the Crown, and revolted to the French. I have taken such measures as 'quickly to find out whether those Indians will return to their obedience to the Crown or not If they do not, and that they commit any hostility upon you, I doubt not but to find an easy way of subduing them.

Upon the report of his Majesty's engineer, whom I sent to view the fort on the Great Island and the harbor of this town, I find the situation is naturally well disposed; but the fort so very weak and unable that it requireth the building a new substantial one to secure you in time of war. You will do well to take this matter into consideration as soon as may be. This Province is well seated for trade, and your harbor here on Piscataqua River so very good, that a fort to secure it would invite people to come and settle among you, and as you grow in number, so will your trade advance and flourish and you will be useful to England, which you ought to covet above all things, not only as it is your duty but as it will also be for your glory and interest.— Such a King as God hath blessed us with at present, and such a nation as that of England ought to excite in us a noble ambition to be religiously faithful to the first, and zealously subservient to the interest of the latter.

I recommend to you, Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, the providing for the necessary support of the government;-You being able to judge what the charge will be, and it belongeth to you of right to provide the means to. defray that charge.

Petitions of Persons of Rumford, &c. 253

GENTLEMEN,-You will do well to think of every thing that may conduce to your own happiness and advantage, wherein you may depend on my concurrence with you; for I have all the disposition imaginable to do the King and this country the best service I am capable of.

On the 8 of August, the House chose the Speaker, who was Samuel Penhallow, and Mr. John Plaisted to deliver a congratulatory address to his Excellency, and on the same day, voted that the Speaker, with Mr. John Plaisted, Capt. Henry Dow and Theodore Atkinson be a committee to draw up an answer to his Excellency's Speech. [From the Assembly Records.]

Petition of sundry Persons of Rumford, Canterbury and Contoocook. 1748.

To his Excellency BENNING WENTWORTH, Esquire, Captain General, and Governor of his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire.

To the Honourable His Majesty's Council and Assembly of said Province.

The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Rumford, Canterbury and Contoocook, Humbly Sheweth,

That we especially at the two last mentioned places are greatly distressed for want of suitable gristmills; that Mr. Henry Lovejoy has at great expense erected a good mill at a place the most advantageously situated to accomodate the three Towns. That it is the only mill in all the three Towns that stands under the command of the guns of the Garrison.*.

*[This mill was on Rattlesnake brook, near the same spot where Dr. Peter Renton has erected a valuable mill.]

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