You have doubtless heard of the death of Edward Hutchinson, Esq., judge of the probate of wills for the County of Suffolk, and justice of the common pleas for said County, and yesterday his honor put Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., his nephew into those posts and also made him a justice throughout the province. Thus he provides for his creatures, and if it had laid in his power would have made him Treasurer of Harvard College too, which post the deceased Mr. Hutchinson also had. But the Corporation had elected Mr. speaker Hubbard their Treasurer.-His honor has likewise in honor to his relation Thomas Palmer, Esq., who lately died in Scotland, called a town in the province by the name of Palmer Town, and out of gratitude to his patron, called a District in Salem, Danvers, a very cheap and easy way of being grateful.

Please to pay Mrs. Royall's and my compliments to your lady and Capt. Waldron, and Mr. Henry Sherburne, and accept of them in sincerity from, Sir,

Your most obliged and

very humble Servant,

ISAAC ROYALL.

Hon. RICHARD WALDRON, Esq.

Petition addressed to Gov. John Wentworth, against the location of Dartmouth College at Hanover. Found among the Belknap Papers. Sir,

Finding by the public papers that Dartmouth College, an Institution worthy your Excellency's patronage, is to be placed in Hanover, I beg liberty (although I must secrete my name) to suggest

a few things to your Excellency's consideration, which I am moved to from a hearty desire, that learning may flourish in your Province, and that the good ends you had in view in giving a charter on the most generous and Catholic plan may be answered, which I am persuaded no other Governor on the Continent would have done, by which I, (and I am not alone in opinion,) think, you have in conjunction with the other Trustees in your Province the sole right in equity to determine at what particular Town the College shall be fixed in, without the intermeddling of any of the Trustees in Connecticut, who, (were they not of the clerical order which alone is enough to determine them unfit to that service,) can't be supposed to be sufficiently acquainted with your

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vince, to determine on the place-and altho' I have little acquaintance with the Doctor, who I understand is appointed President, and of whom from his public character I have a good opinion, yet he is liable to be imposed on, and, from designing men may be, and I doubt not has been wretchedly imposed on in this affair. However, whether the Doctor has been imposed on or not, 'tis generally said that the Province and the publick are for a more unpleasant spot on Connecticut River, within the Province, cannot be found than Hanover, both in point of soil or prospect, it being horridly broken on the river; and in the back part of the town, very muddy and scarce a running stream upon it, and but one within the limits of the town, that can in any measure answer for mills, and 'tis thought by many who have viewed that stream, that it is not sufficient for one mill. As to my own knowledge I can say that I have travelled thro' said town twice, and am satisfied that my informers are not mistaken, and altho' I live at a good distance from the Doctor, yet as I happened to get an acquaintance, last winter, with Col.

Phelps, he was so good as to shew me his instructions and power of agency from the Doctor, which was as ample a power as could be to enable him to act with regard to the place of fixing the college, and the Doctor will now own that he verily thought the place was fixed, and your Excellency and the other Trustees living in New-Hampshire, "then expressly gave in writing that it should not be placed below Haverhill or Orford, but it is ev⚫ident that some of the craft, that has plagued the state this thousand years, has been used, or sure I am and so is every indifferent man, who is acquainted with Hanover, much mistaken; a town if they had water to grind for the few poor inhabitants who live there, they never did, and 'tis said by judicious men that for years to come, they will not be able to raise their own bread.-I would therefore in behalf of the public, humbly pray your Excellency by yourself or by an indifferent committee, to review or rather view Hanover and its circumstances, for the Doctor and his attendant did not view it, that in justice to your Excellency, to the Province, and the College, it would be placed further up the river, in justice to your Excellency, as the eye of the public is to you, your honor must suffer, as it must be judged ill-placed. In justice to the province, as certain it is that the trade from Hanover will never be to Portsmouth but to Newbury. But from Haverhill or Orford the trade will be to Portsmouth. Further, numbers in the province in which I live, as well as in Connecticut, as I hear, who proposed to remove and settle near the College, expecting the College would have been placed in a good town, are, as the case now stands, determined not to move into the province. Your Excellency has the best right, as every one judges, to determine that matter, and as the Doctor has once passed by his engagement, in point of fixing it, your Excellency's honor

can't be exposed in reviewing the matter.--Surely the extraordinary cost must be great to build and support a College in a town where boards canExcelnot be sawed and bread raised. I beg your lency's pardon for this trouble; a number of the judicious urged me to write, and as a word is sufficient, I am your Excellency's most humble Servant, PUBLICUS. July 19, 1770.

Province of Massachusetts Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 26, 1774. Resolved, that the Committee of Correspondence be, and they hereby are, directed to write to the Committees of Correspondence of all the British colonies on this continent, inclosing a copy of an unprecedented act of the British Parliament for shutting up the port of Boston and otherwise punishing the inhabitants of that town: and desire their immediate attention to an act designed to suppress the spirit of liberty in America.

A true copy, Attest,

SAM'L ADAMS, Clerk.

Province of Massachusetts Bay,

GENTLEMEN,

May 28, 1774.

By order of the House of Representatives of this Province, we enclose you an act passed in the late session of the British Parliament, entitled "an act to discontinue in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of goods,

wares, and merchandize at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America."

We think, the archives of Constantinople might be in vain searched for a parallel.-To reason upon such an act would be idleness. You will, doubtless, judge every American Colony deeply concerned in it, and contemplate and determine upon it accordingly.

We are, with great regard, your friends and Fellow Countrymen,

To the Gentlemen of the Committee of correspondence, appointed by the House of Representatives of the Province of New-Hampshire.*

Gentlemen,

Boston, June 4, 1774.

We take the earliest opportunities to enclose you copies of two bills brought into Parliament, and before this time probably enacted, which we have but just received by a vessel in thirty six days from Bristol. It is also confidently reported, that a third bill is to be brought into Parliament for the better regulating the government of the other provinces in North America. These edicts, cruel and oppressive as they are, we consider as but bare specimens of what the continent are to expect from a Parliament, who claim

*This Committee of Correspondence was appointed by the House of RepresentaLives at a meeting of the Assembly, 10 May, 1774.-Records.