England from any people who setle here, I shall dispose of yo" effects to them, As for yo' servants Servts all ther tymes are out (except the glazier, painter & two boyes) & happy it is for you it is so. The painter being a slovenlie idle boy & constantly sicklie & so & drinking idly I sold him his tym last winter for 9 lib ster. he drawes upon his mother & sends a letter of advice, if it is payed its wel, if not, yov loose nothing but a gainer to be quit Splbe Glazier 2 boyes old Smith of him. The glasier is a great Rascall a great lyar & wold steal the teeth out of a mans head, & therefor will be forced to turn him of at any rate if I can get his own bond at 10 or 12 lib for the year y', he has yet to serve, you are wel quit of him (for none will be bound for him) he is so well known. Old Smith I keep doeing jobs vp & down to reimburse what he owes you, & the two boyes are reallie Naughtie boys, great lyars and not honest, you have certainly had the worst luck to servants of any man, I will be forced to dispose of them, y' if you have no profit in the Country you may be at as little expense. As for Spybee it had been better you had accepted of the 10 lib. than any thing you can make of him here (his mother writs that you wold not accept under 15 lib) . obligation of Killingworth is only such That if the 10 lib is not payed in England Spibe to hold got a wise bargain .... obliges himaccot what he self That Spybee shall hold acc" for what he has wrought dureing the tym, to Wm Dockwra or his order. Now last yearwas a very sickly year & the fellow for the most part sick so that besides That it will amount to litle we must take the work vpon his own word being impossible for any to trace him out. He offers me tickets of peoabout 12 lbs. pel for whom he has wrought to the value of about 12 lib, tho I will . . . . . that to the highest. But then it is in Country pay in which there will be p'haps 20 p t loss between [that] & silver pay, so that tickets 10 Is at home better Tankyn Tankyns lot. I wish you would secure the money at home. As to what Concerns Tankins I judge you have mistoke what I wrot, you seem to understand it That I aggreed for 40 lib for his tym of which he has wrought for 30: but if so my sense was That tho he had wrought jobs to the value of 30 lib yet declare he was to pay 40 lib, of which he has payed a steer in pairt pay: I design to take a mortgage on his house & lot or otherwyse secure the rent, he had the lot granted him befor I came to the Country, to encouradge him as a tradsman to setle in the place. as for Carington: the sickly year Key in A. H. and R Jones not sending down has hinbut of what? deed the acco" to be made up with him is there no ac- But he can imbezill nothing, I having charge A. H. taking the key of the ware house in my Carington of Custody. as for his house I protest I what was ta- know nothing of it, it being reared when I was at York with La Neil. I was very severe vpon them for it. But I do really find yt a great pairt was done for services she did to the Qu. Why is not people when they were sick, & the rest he owes. The house cannot run away, & they are in a fair way to hold count to and discharge ken,into Ham iltons sion. the acco posses made that Carrington's ..may be Cole secure as ble but never made cven pay any thing arise of a ballance; as for Cole if I Crushed him at first he had Certainly run away but now he is in a way to get money & far as possi- be sure I will see to secure you, how farr is possible As to yo" pattents of a groat but run Sec: Reg': & Tr you will certainly loose on till all lost. the tryall, & besides there is not a fitting man to be got here for y' place, & now when we Secr & Regr have so much to do, so many titles of land no fitting man to try wth the planters & the best of that Dep'ty besides office being already over, I thought it not worth while blow a coale & not to prevail, & therfor we might (at least) let it sleep a little till a to be got for &c more Convenient tyme. ffor that of Treas: a receiver Gen. it is not worth yo" Counting, a man is a beggar that undertakes the Collecting of it at 10 p at 5 p ct being oblidged to run through all the Corners of the province & forced to take things for the most pairt in County pay, which is a great risk in. . . . no land to give quit Ld Neil £26. 2. 0 so y' if W. H. could keep good his intromissions, I should never wish any friend to Court the office; however he lykewyse stands vpon his patent, & I W Haige to doubt we have no other way, but either to give him a piece of land to be guit of him or bring him often to aco, as now we have ordered him to make vp his accotts As to La N's acco I am sorry he should be so mean; however I refer you to Mr Carringtons adimadversions upon them which will give you a great sight. As to Gibbon at last I have secured yo' money & have got it payed in this day being 26 lib.. 2a York money But how in the world to remitt as I am truie I know not, if the species be sent over you will loose : & ther will this year be at least 50 pr et loss upon oyl, this is the first of yo" money Gibbons the I have seen since I came to the Country First money after near two so ill is it to be raised. I have taken all imaginable pains to Encouradge Mr Stancliffs designs because his designes seem to be reallie honorable, in alloting his propriety as a refuge to poor banished protestants & besides I am sensible it will prove a great good to the Country. I have placed him vpon Mylston river as a place convenient for such a design, but remember I had ane eye by that Neighbourhood to make Mr D years Stancliff land more valuable There is a gushet of 2000 acres about 2000 acres a rear of your uppermost lots, which I design to take up for you, being good land; so I think by farr you will be the best landWillocks & An- stead of any concerned in the province, as till about their to Geo. Willocks & M Antil I must take two lots of Land at Rari- tym to it & not be too hasty lest they overtan, that is now rate Le Cout has sett vp his powder Myl nothing I have John Hanton's NB Survivorship Peter Sonman that of Wil at York but Mr Stancliff has preingadged locks already him first to view his land, & if he does not pleas that then he shall view yoS One word of Jo: Hantons plantation at Changerora. I wold fain have you to have it. In the first place because it is a good plantation to setle on, & will always be Saleable 24 I think I can sett you vpon a way to purchase it viz: if not released the benefit of survivorship, which I keep as a seNB cret, unwilling to start. Then if you purchase R. B & the other of Melfort, Perth, Tarbets (now Ld Neils) & R Burnets. The § & of Aren Sonmans & the between GL & Gordons of Cluny will fall into you: so you are master of the whole. But in caise you have released the survivorship, yet I have thus transacted w Peter Sonmans That you procureing to him & & Į in the plantations at Amboy in Exchange he will transfer to you & of the plantations at Changeroras. Now the whole plantation at Amboy is not worth 300 300 lib Amboy lib, & y' at Changeroras wel worth 600 lib: 600 Change: It is my opinion if you can do it Conveniently to purchase the rest out & then you have none to deal with but of G L, & for that I question not if you transfer to him in exchange in the farm at Amboy he will procure GL in the farm at Changeroras. Which farm with yo' 1000 acres is richly worth 800 lib It is now tyme I were thanking Mrs Dockwra for her present, and you for wifes present yo's Pray pleas to procure Mr Gibsons receit to G. L. yt, I may get vp mine I was a great losser in drawing. since mine is so ill to be remitted from hence, she owes me I think 1 mine & my .... ; lib sion, but it is not worth speaking of. 6s. for Commis As to what G. Keith wrot you concerning. no Copper a... be good and . it, it looks like a piece of indigo I judge nothing but a sort of a . it short it can be good for nothing being lighter then the bulk of so much old clay. It is now tym I were taking leave & therfor wh my humble servise to MaTM Dockwra, Mrs Mary & the rest of the family till another opportunity I subscribe myself Sr The weelwisher of yo' family [The foregoing letter is endorsed in Dockwra's handwriting Capt Hamilton "date May 26° 88 "rec" July 24° and among other mem" the following, written it is presumed at least twenty years afterward, when the letter was sent to his then agent-] "vide How about our Interest in the land taken up in the fund of £950 call'd the Scotch Prop's stock What is said about the Lands at Changarora In John Hantons possession and the Lands at Amboy In John Reids possession--both being servants to vs the particular Proprietors of that land belonging to our Stock. And all the 950 b is sunk & gone upon the Expectation of improveing two profitable Plantations but we have lost all our Capitall & about 25 years Interest which is above two thousand Pounds. And haveing nothing left for so much money but the bare land. |