manner- no expenditures will be allowed unless accompanied by authentic vouchers. You must therefore take receipts for the arms clothing and every other supply as well as of the money advanced. You will introduce the best economy and discipline among the recruits in every department. Having formed your system of conduct and made proper arrangements for its execution in the first instance you will find an ease and harmony resulting therefrom which cannot be afterwards attained and established on a tolerated licentiousness among the recruits. And as it is presumed that every officer who now enters the service intends to elevate himself by a military behavior those only will be countenanced and encouraged who shall make the good of the service and the honor of their country the objects of their pursuits. As soon as his Excellency the President shall transmit to me official information of your appointments the Commissions for yourself and the other officers shall be forwarded to you. His Excellency the President will furnish you with the establishment of the pay, subsistence & forage allowed to the troops in service of the United States Given at the War Office This 21st day of October 1786 J Knox [7-102] [Petition of Benjamin Dearborn of Portsmouth, 1786.] State of New-Hampshire To The honorable Senate and House of Representatives convened at Portsmouth in said state, the second Wednesday in December 1786. The Petition of Benjamin Dearborn of Portsmouth aforesaid. Printer, humbly sheweth, That at a session of the honorable Court in February last your petitioner prayed to have secured unto him, his heirs and assigns, an exclusive right of making a certain Balance or Scales, by him invented; but as the Scales were not shewn to the Court, their final determination was not then given: Your petitioner, convinced of the readiness of this respectable Body to give every encouragement to usefull improvements, has also invented, at much expense of time and money, a Steelyard, and an. Engine for throwing Water, each on a new construction, and prays to have secured unto him and his heirs or assigns for the term of twenty-one years, the exclusive right of making and selling Scales, Steelyards, and Engines on the principles of those by him invented; the Engines with one or BRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA more barrels, and with or without condensed air, and each of the beforementioned articles with any improvements he may make on them, and that they be not allowed to be used in this State for the term aforesaid, without his Seal or Stamp. And your Petitioner further prays for leave to produce to this honorable Court the before-mentioned inventions, and that they will secure to him an exclusive right to the Privileges aforesaid, and that he may have leave to bring in a Bill accordingly. and your Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray [7-104] Benjamin Dearborn. [Major McGregore Recommended.] Londonderry 26th Dec2 1786 Sir Im informed that a Maj' takes the command of the Troops requir'd by Congress from this State - Wou'd inform your Excellency that Maj' David McGregore late a Captain in my Regiment has signify'd to me a desire of engaging in the Corps now to be raised if his present rank wou'd not be degraded thereby, Too much cannot be done for the worthy Officers and Soldiers who have distinguished themselves by their alertness Skill and Military knowledge in bringing about the late revolution of which the gentleman above Mentioned is undoubtedly one - As to his skill in military knowledge there is no doubt of it. his well known bravery I have Offten been witness to these added to his other aquirements and good qualitys are such as I have no doubt will render real service to his Countrey and do honor to the State to which he belongs. Shou'd he meet with your Excellencys approbation and have the appointment agreeably it wou'd add to the many Obligations you have laid me under I am with the highest Esteem Your Excellencys most Obed' Hble Servt His Excellency Jno Sullivan s [7-105] [W. Sargent to President Sullivan.] Geo. Reid Boston 28th of December 1786 I have the Honor Sir to forward you a Packet which was handed me at New York & at the same time take the Liberty of asking your Attention to one for the French Consul at Portsmouth Through the Influence of the Honorable Col Long & M1 Livermore (to whom I request you would be so obliging as to present my Respects) I was appointed a Surveyor of the federal Lands for the State of New Hampshire & it therefore is incumbent on me to inform your Excellency that there is Laid out & divided into Townships agreeably to the Ordinances of the honorable Congress upwards of eight hundred Thousand Acres of Land It was almost as late as September before we got to Business & on the 28th of October the Wyandote Nation prohibited our further Surveys, which with an Alarm that deprived us of nearly twenty Days Service will I hope account satisfactorily for the small Progress we have made — It will give me very great Pleasure to make any particular Communications to your Excellency relative to our Business, or to receive your Commands I have the Honor to be with very much Respect [7-106] [Protest of George Gains and Others.] We the subscribers beg leave to enter our protest against the passing the bill Entitled an Act to quiet all Bona fide purchasers of Lands between a line crossing over lands upon a straight course from the North extremity of the East Line of Mason's Patent being sixty miles from the Sea on a Straight Line and running to the extremity of the Western Side line of said Patent &c for the following reasons vizt because the first paragraph in the bill gives no security to any Grantees therein mentioned but seems to be calculated to quiet fears which the bill has a direct tendency excite-while many other Grantees of lands within said Lines entitled to the benefit of the bill, were any intended, are entirely omitted. 2d because the second paragraph of said bill, were it enacted would be a great encouragement to Trespassers and Intruders, as it gives them a preference to the honest peaceable subjects of the Statewhile it would endemnify them against all damages which otherwise might be recovered of them for trespassing on private propertyand because the said second paragraph takes it for granted that the lands therein mentioned belong to the State and is in effect and consequence a pre-adjudication of the Title to the same, in favor of the State, while the State sits as sole judge and arbiter in its own cause. 3d We protest against the third paragraph as its obvious tendency must be, to deprive the subject of many forcible arguments in support of his claim, alter the real, present circumstances of his cause, much to his prejudice, while it creates a prepossission in favor of the State and looks like preparing a Jury for the decision of the cause. In accord the subscribers protest against the bill in gross, the genius and tendency of which, they conceive, derogatory to the Legislature and subversive of the constitutional rights of the subject. George Gains John Sparhawk Charles Barret Amos Dakin [7-107] [Militia Arrangements for Cheshire County.] the Representatives for the County of Cheshire have met together and arangd the Rigiments in Sd County in the following manner and also have Nominated the Persons placed at the Wright hand of Said Rigiments for field officers of Sd Rigts Provided his Excellency and the Honourable Councell Should approve of them Rindge Fitzwilliam Dublin & Packerfield Names of Towns in Each Regiment Mgr Rand of Rindge Colo Jedediah Sango Lt Colo Jaffery Dont agree about the Rest it Said the Honourb' T Blood Esq' is well acquainted with Sd Regt Names of Towns in the Senior part of the Sixth Rig1 Winchester Richmond Swanzey Keen & Gilsom Reubin Alexander Colo winchester Josiah Richardson Keen Names of Towns in the Remainder of the Sixth Rigt [7-108] [Petition of James and William Sheaffe.] State of New To the honorable Senate and House of RepresentHampshire atives for said State in General Court conven'd at Portsmouth 2d Wednesday of Dec. 1786 Humbly shew James Sheafe and William Sheafe both of Portsmouth in the State of New Hampshire Merchants, that their Brig Jane & Elizabeth John Fraser Master saild from Portsmouth in said State on the 9th day of Feby A D 1786 with a Cargo of Lumber for the Island |