CONTENTS

PREFACE, by Charles G. Washburn

1760

July 14. THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO WILLIAM BOLLAN

Sends accounts and declarations. Explanation of pay-

rolls. Seamen and special winter service at Louisburg and

Nova Scotia. Special grant should be made.

1761

January 8. MILITARY ACCOUNTS FOR 1759

May 8. WILLIAM BOLLAN TO THE SPEAKER.

Hearing by the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plan-

tations on the Fee act. Lotteries disapproved. A suspend-
ing clause in acts. Decision postponed.

June 6. THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO WILLIAM Bollan

BOLLAN

Sends the Military accounts for 1759. Comments on the
figures.

June 17. ANDREW OLIVER TO WILLIAM BOLLAN .

Finds no letter from Amherst or Durell. Documents

transmitted.

December 19. THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO WILLIAM

BOLLAN

Sends certificate by General Amherst. Burden of pay

and bounty assumed by the province. Numbers of men

in service.

1762

February 12. WILLIAM BOLLAN TO ANDREW OLiver

Parliamentary grant for service in 1761. Loan to the

province by General Shirley. Time of paying exchequer

orders. A suspending clause in acts. Has no power to

receive grant for 1760. The parliamentary order.

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Examination of titles, rights and liberties of the colonists.
Sends first part of such a work - Coloniae Angliae Illus-

tratae.

April 23. JAMES OTIS, JR., TO JASPER MAUDUIT.

Informs him of his election as agent of the province.

American episcopalians and dissenters. Manner of his

election. Some of his friends.

April 24. THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO WILLIAM BOllan

Mauduit has been chosen agent. Declined to serve on

the committee to prepare instructions.

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April 24. ANDREW OLIVER TO JASPER MAUDUIT. 33

Notification of his election. Parliamentary grants and

bills of exchange drawn against them. The special allow-

ance for special service. Papers from Bollan.

April 24. ANDREW OLIVER TO JASPER MAUDUIT.

Use of his letter on his health. Richard Jackson to

assist him.

April 26. JONATHAN MAYHEW TO JASPER MAUDUIT

Congratulations on his election. Bollan's character and

abilities. Prays for his health.

The natural rights of the colonists. Political and civil

rights. Liberty and allegiance. Equal privileges with British

subjects. Increase of Great Britain in numbers and wealth.

Connection between Britain and her colonies. What Massa-

chusetts has done. Power of legislation under the charter.

Reasons against a suspending clause.

June 21. SAMUEL MARTIN TO JASPER MAUDUIT.

Parliamentary grant for 1761 will be distributed, if the

agents of the colonies can agree.

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July 8. NOTE BY WILLIAM BOLLAN

On advising Mauduit.

July 9. TREASURY MINUTE

Order for distributing the parliamentary grant.

July 15. EDMUnd Trowbridge TO WILLIAM BOLLan

On managing Bollan's investment in the province's debt.
Measures taken to carry out his wishes. Shipment of gold
and silver. The election of Mauduit. Hopes to see him
soon in America.

October 12. THOMAS CUSHING to Jasper Mauduit .

Contributed to secure his election. Sending of public

letters. The grant of Mt. Desert to Bernard. Issue of
charters by the Governor.

October 12. CHARLES CHAUNCY TO JASPER Mauduit

Bernard and the charter for a new college. Wishes him

success as agent. A note from Bollan. Sends a sermon.
October 27. JASPER MAUDUIT TO HARRISON Gray.
Conversion of the Indians and the new society.

October 28. JAMES OTIS TO JASPER MAUDUIT.

Is pleased by his election to the agency. Difficulties in

the way of appointing his brother. Bollan's career and con-
nections. Hutchinson's pretensions to the agency. Ber-
nard's position. Address of letters. Oliver and the college
charter. Advises frequent communications.

November 2. ANDREW OLIVER TO JASPER MAU-

DUIT.

Sends accounts of expenses for 1761. A word of explana-
tion. Amherst's certificate.

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Is anxious about his health. His brother as associate

agent. Cause of the protestant dissenters. His brother

not elected. Sends a sermon.

December 8. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT

Sends schedules of bills of exchange.

December 20. ANDREW OLIVER TO JASPER Mauduit

Sends documents on the winter service, and extracts

from General Amherst's letter, with his certificate.

House approves his conduct and gives vote of thanks.

Documents to be transmitted. Economy prevents appoint-

ment of his brother.

February 7. ANDREW OLIVER TO JASPER MAUDUIT

House approves what he has done on the parliamentary

grants. General Amherst's certificate and further evidence
of service. His brother's employment by the Province.
February 14. JAMES OTIS TO JASPER MAUDUIT .

Efforts to secure engagement for Israel Mauduit. Jack-
son will never be agent. Goldthwait's attack and a
newspaper controversy. Weakness of the present admin-
istration. Influence of the Lieutenant Governor.

February 19. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT

Bills of exchange drawn upon him.

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Bollan's accounts and stoppages.

April 8. JASPER MAUDUIT TO THE SPEAKER.

On the stoppage of £10,000 from the parliamentary grant.
Why he cannot petition the Board of Treasury and Parlia-
ment. Duty on French molasses postponed.

April 25. MAUDUIT'S ACCOUNTS

May 3. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT

Mayhew's observations on the charter of Society for the

propagation of the Gospel. A correction.

DR. MAYHEW'S OBSERVATIONS.

[Note by the Editor.]

May 4. CHARLES CHAUNCY TO JASPER MAUDUIT

Offer of service. Reasons for preferring him to Jackson.

Opposition of the English Society to an American Society

for converting the Indians. Quality of incorporators. Delay

will cause embarrassment. Will receive a letter from the

associated pastors.

May 6. CHARLES CHAUNCY TO JASPER MAUDuit

Pastors have decided against sending a letter.

June 1. ANDREW ELIOT TO JASPER MAUDUIT

Thanking him for his interest in the college. Great con-

cern over the opposition to the charter for American Society.

June 8. PETITION OF SAMUEL HARNDEN

On recovering Mehitabel Preble, a captive of the Indians,

and now in France.

June 30. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAUDUIT

On associating Israel Mauduit in the agency. Bernard

acting in Jackson's favor. Will be policy to wait. Desires
to trade in woolen goods.

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