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Pay Rolls of the several Regiments vizt.

805 Colo. Hoar's Regiment

926 Colo. Saltonstal's Regiment 1052 Colo. Thwing's Regiment

Pay Roll of a Company of Invalids left
at Crown Point under Ensign Byram
from 20 Novem'r 1761 to 10 March
1762

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Province of Massachusetts Bay

The foregoing Pages contain the Account of the Province aforesaid for the Charge of the Forces raised by the said Province under the General and Commander in Chief of his Majestys Forces in North America for the Year 1761 amounting to Seventy two thousand eight hundred and seventy eight pounds nineteen shillings and one half peny. And I do hereby certify that Warrants have been drawn on the Treasury by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Council for the whole Amount of the foregoing Account. For the Sums charged by the Commissary General, distinct Warrants were not drawn; but they are contained in his Account, and he hereby discharges himself of the monies advanced to him out of the Treasury upon Warrants from the Governor with the Advice and consent of the Council.

BOSTON, 2d November, 1762.

HARRISON GRAY, Treasr.

JONATHAN MAYHEW TO JASPER MAUDUIT

BOSTON, Nov. 17, 1762.

HON'D SIR,I lately received the favor of yours of July 31st, by which I understand you had received mine of April 26th. I am glad you do not wholly decline the business of an Agent; as I doubt not your Ability, by what I have heard (and particularly by what Thomas Hollis, Esq. lately wrote to me concerning your activity, connexion, etc.) to do great service to my country in that capacity. And as for the sincerity of your inclinations for it, I have not the least doubt in that respect. I am, however, very sorry to understand, that your health is so imperfect and precarious, that you are under some discouragement on that account. I pray God to restore and confirm it to you.

I have had some conversation with several Gentlemen of his Majesty's council of this Province, respecting what you wrote to others as well as to me (and, as I understand, to the Government here also) about associating your worthy brother with you in the Agency. Those gentlemen will, I am pretty sure, be favourers of this proposal, when our General Court meets. But, by what I can learn, this is likely to meet with great opposition, from those who were against Mr. Bollan's dismission; and probably from some others, thro' an apprehension, that if your brother were join'd with you, it would occasion a very considerable additional expence to the Province.

It is said amongst us, that He was the Author of the Considerations on the German War, etc. If it be so, I cannot but say that I should be very glad, that you had for an Assistant in the Agency, a Gentleman of such superior Abilities: taking it for granted that his connexions and sentiments in other respects, are such as you have represented them. But time only will fully discover the inclination of the major part of our general Assembly.

I rejoice to hear that the tedious cause of the Protestant Dissenters is at length determined in their favor. And wish there was reason to consider this as a favourable Omen of the removal of all obstructions in the way to their participating in those civil advantages and honors, which, as good loyal subjects, and in all other respects, they have so much ground to think their natural right. But I fear Diana, once so great at Ephesus, is still much too great in England, to expect any such turn of affairs. What you wrote some time since to my very worthy and good friend Dr. Chauncy of this Town, has superseded the occasion for my writing to you about a certain affair, as I otherwise intended. I am, Sir, with very great Respect, and sincere

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wishes for your health and prosperity, Your most Obedient Humble Servant,

JONATHAN MAYHEW.

P. S. Feb. 21, 1763. Sir, This has been waiting ever since the former Date, for a convenient Opportunity of Conveyance. Before you receive it, you will probably have heard, that tho' our lower House of Assembly chose your Brother as your Assistant in the Agency, the Vote was non-concurr'd by the Council, thro' the influence of the G -r. Together with this, I send you two Sermons which I lately published, to the Care of Thos. Hollis, Esq: of which I beg your kind acceptance.1 I also send a Copy of the same to your learned Brother; and am, Sir, both Your and His Very Humble Servant,

J. MAYHEW.

HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT

BOSTON, December 8th, 1762.

SIR, -I wrote you by Capt. Davis inclosing you an Account of the Bills of Exchange I had then drawn on you by Order of Government amounting to £42,162 Sterling since which I have not been favoured with any from you.

I now inclose you a schedule of Bills I have drawn on you since that Time to the Amount of £10,558, which the possessors have remitted to their respective Correspondence by different conveyances, hope they have met with due honour, notwithstanding you have had no Advice from me, the Act of Government and the Tenour of the Bills not requiring that I should advise you of my Draughts previous to your paying them, however as such advice can do

1 Two Sermons on the Nature, Extent and Perfection of the Divine Goodness. Delivered December 9, 1762, on the annual thanksgiving of the Province.

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