DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS RELATING TO THE PROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, FROM 1692 TO 1722: BEING PART II. OF PAPERS RELATING TO THAT PERIOD. CONTAINING THE "JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY." PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. VOLUME III. COMPILED AND EDITED BY NATHANIEL BOUTON, D. D., Corresponding Secretary of the New-Hampshire Historical Society. MANCHESTER: JOHN B. CLARKE, STATE PRINTER. 1869. 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 compensation, 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 Governor 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 this State, one copy to such of the Public Libraries of this State as the Governor may designate, two hundred copies to the New-Hampshire 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. 1537 41-172 EDITOR'S PREFACE. ALTHOUGH this third volume of Provincial Papers covers nearly the same period as the preceding volume, yet it will be seen on examination that the contents of the volume are materially different from the former. The one contains the Records of the CoUNCIL, which was the Executive body in the Province, composed of the Governor and not less than five Councillors, who received their appointment and commission from the Crown. The ASSEMBLY was composed of men chosen by the freeholders of the respective towns, as their representatives or deputies, having authority to enact laws, lay taxes, &c., and constituted the Legislative branch of the government. All laws, acts and ordinances, however, passed by the Assembly, must be concurred in by the Council, approved by the Governor and finally be sanctioned by the King. The "Journal of the Council and Assembly" contained in this volume is a record of the joint transactions of the two bodies in relation to all business which appropriately belonged to the Sessions of the General Assembly. No Journal of the House separate from the joint Journal of the Council and Assembly is found till 1711, and that is very meagre and incomplete till 1722. Occasional extracts are made from it, to supplement or elucidate the Journal of the Council and Assembly, but the Editor has not deemed it necessary or expedient to publish it entire. In this volume, as in the preceding, will be found, in chronological order, many letters, papers, speeches and authentic facts, of much historical interest and value, which the Editor has gathered from every available and reliable source, and for which due credit is always given. His intention has been to publish every official paper and document that can be found on record or on file, that serves to throw light on our Provincial History. The Province Laws, in this volume, from 1692 to 1702, (only two or three of which have ever before been printed) indicate the state of the Province and the manners and customs of the times to which they relate. In this respect they are of much value and should be carefully examined. ว GENERAL CONTENTS. Estimates of cost of building a Fort at New Castle, 106-111 JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL AND ASSEMBLY RESUMED, Letter from Queen Anne respecting salaries, Col. Romer on repairs of Fort Wm. and Mary, Speech of Lt. Gov. Usher, and answer thereto, Samuel Allen's title to Province Lands, Gov. Joseph Dudley's speeches, |