Extract from a letter from Rev. David Bostwick to Rev. Joseph Bellamy-Death of Rev. Samuel Davies, fourth President of the College of New Jersey. [Presbyterian Hist. Soc. Papers, Phila.] [After having declined the appointment of President of the College of New Jersey, tendered to him on the 16th of August, 1758, Mr. Davies was finally induced to accept it, having been a second time elected, May 9, 1759. He died, however, a little more than eighteen months afterward, February 4, 1761, at the early age of thirty-six. Mr. Bostwick in his letter to Mr. Bellamy, dated at New York, March 37, 1761, says:] Mr Davies death has struck us with astonishment, and spread a gloom over the whole Country. The loss cannot be expressed. I believe there never was a College happier in its President, or in a more flourishing State. He far exceeded the expectations of his best friends. As you were not personally acquainted, you can hardly conceive what prodigious uncommon gifts the God of Heaven had bestowed upon that man to render him useful to the world. * * * His Sermon on the death of his late Majesty I purpose to Send you with this; the first impression tho' 1000, is gone; a Second is in the press. It was the last work of a public nature he ever did: The people of Philadelphia have Collected £95 per annum for five years, to Support his three sons at College, and Philadelphia and New York have raised between four and five hundred pounds for the widow and two daughters, for he left very little Estate. * * Order of Council approving of the proposition from the Lords of Trade proposing that Josiah Hardy be appointed Governor of New Jersey. L. S. [From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 9, K. 6.] AT THE COURT AT ST JAMES'S THE 20: PRESENT The King's most Excellent Majesty in Council Upon reading this day at the Board a Representation from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and plantations dated the 17th instant proposing that Josiah Hardy Esq may be appointed Captain General and Governor in Chief of His Majesty's Province of New Jersey in the room of Thomas Boone Esq! His Majesty in Council approving thereof, is pleased to Order as it is hereby Ordered, That the said Josiah Hardy be constituted and appointed Captain General and Governor in Chief of his Majestys said Province of New Jersey in the room of the said Thomas Boone Esq! And that the said Lords Commissioners do prepare a Draught of a Commission and likewise a Warrant for passing such Commission under the Great Seal, And that they do also prepare Draughts of Instruction for the said Josiah Hardy, and lay the same before His Majesty at this Board for His Royal Approbation. W. SHARPE Letter from Governor Boone to the Lords of Trade informing them as to what had been done in New Jersey toward raising an additional number of men for the service of the year 1761 and as to other matters. My Lords [From P. R. O. B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 9, K. 13.] P. AMBOY April 8th 1761 I have the honour to Acquaint you that last night I passed and Act for the Raising Six Hundred Effective Volunteers to Act under his Majesty's Commander in Chief, being as the Assembly deem it two Thirds of the Number raised in this Province last Year, but their Regiment was or ought to have been a Thousand, I used Repeated Efforts to Obtain the trifling additional Number but a Report prevailing that the New York Assembly had voted less than the Kings Requisition, my Endeavours were Unsuccessful; This Deficiency has Occasioned my declining to Concur with them in an address to his Majesty upon his Accession which has been Customary; I thought it a little Inconsistent, to have his Majesty's first Requisition from this Province through me denied in Part & yet to Express my Satisfaction at their Conduct by Joining them in their address, it appears to me necessary to Mention this to your Lordships, that whilst I resent this Want of deference to the Crown I might not be Supposed backward in Professing my Duty to his Majesty; I must however do the Province this Justice to Say that they are in general in extreme good Temper, & I have promised to Set their Conduct in as favorable a light as I can consistently with Truth. I have also passed another act to Obviate Doubts that might arise about the Validity of our Acts passed since the Demise of his late Majesty, to Continue the Assembly for Six Months upon such an Event, & to render the Ordinance for the Establishment of Courts durable, unless abolished by proper Authority. Your Lordships will I hope find this Act Carefully drawn, you are too well Acquainted with our Debt in this Province, & the Manner of Raising Money for the Kings Service, for me to dwell on this Subject I must beg your Lordships however to Recollect, that every Shilling given by Parliament to this Colony or to be given, was appropriated before my arrival here, I flatter myself you will think I have done well, in having the Money now Voted laid upon the five years the least loaded, & approve of my having Strenuously opposed, & positively refused their Proposal of protracting the time for their sinking this Debt beyond the Term I found their other Debts Extended to. Your Lordships shall have these several Acts as soon as possible. I have the honour to be My Lords Your most Obedt & most Humble Servant THO: BOONE Letter from Governor Boone to Secretary Pitt-relating to the action of the Assembly of New Jersey. Sir [From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol 73.] PERTH AMBOY New Jersey April 8th 1761 Immediately on the Receipt of your Triplicate of the 17th of Dec! I called together the Assembly of this Province, & Communicated to them his Majesties Commands, & I now have the Honour to Acquaint you that they have granted Six Hundred Effective Men as two thirds of the Number they Raised last year, but their Regiment last year was or ought to have been a Thousand, I used Repeated Efforts to Obtain the trifling additional Number without Avail; What has been done was with Chearfulness, & though I thought it Inconsistent to Concur with them in an address to his Majesty as they have not fully come up to the Kings Requisition, I have dismissed them in good humor 1 have the Honour to be Sir with the greatest Respect & deference your most Obedient & most Humble Servant THO: BOONE Order in Council approving a Commission for Josiah Hardy, Esq., to be Governor of New Jersey. L. 8. [From P. R. O., America and West Indies, Vol. 105.] AT THE COURT AT ST JAMES'S THE 14TH PRESENT The King's most Excellent Majesty in Council Whereas the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations have this day laid before His Majesty at this Board (pursuant to His Majestys Order for that purpose) a Draught of a Commission prepared by them for Josiah Hardy Esq; to be Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of New Jersey, together with a Warrant for His Majestys Royal Signature for passing the said Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain.-Which Draught of a Commission being in the usual form.-His Majesty was pleased with the |