OF THE

PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

VOL. II

1718--1740

STATE PAPERS SERIES

VOL. 32.

HENRY HARRISON METCALF

Editor of State Papers

OTIS GRANT HAMMOND

Assistant

BRISTOL, N. H.

R. W. MUSGROVE, PRINTER

1914

JOINT RESOLUTION relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the early state and provincial records and other state papers 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 personand fix his compensation, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not other. wise 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 the state, one copy to such of the public libraries in the state as the Governor may designate, fifty 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 by other states.

Approved August 4, 1881.

Albert S. Batchellor, Editor of State Papers:

You are hereby authorized to arrange, transcribe, and superintend the publication of such abstracts of the early records of wills and probates of persons and estates relating to the provincial period of New Hampshire as are available, the material being so prepared as to avoid the transcription and publication of merely formal and immaterial parts of documents, and arranged in a chronological order, beginning with the earliest accessible papers and records.

You will also cause such explanatory notes, citations, tables of contents, and indexes as you may deem useful to be prepared and made a part of this work. This I deem proper to be done, and these directions are given in accordance with the authority vested in me as Governor by the provisions of the joint resolution relating to the preservation and publication of portions of the state and provincial records and other state papers of New Hampshire approved August 4, 1881.

Given under my hand at Concord this 2nd day of January, 1897.

CHARLES A. BUSIEL, Governor.

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THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

To Henry H. Metcalf, Esquire, Greeting:

KNOW YOU, That we, reposing especial trust and confidence in your Fidelity and Ability, have constituted and appointed you Editor and Compiler of Early

(L. S.)

Samuel D. Felker,

Governor.

Province and State Papers, Hereby giving and granting
unto you, the said Henry H. Metcalf, all the power
and authority given and granted by the Constitution
and Laws of our State to an Editor and Compiler of
said Papers, TO HAVE AND TO hold the said Office,
With all the powers, privileges, and immunities to the
same belonging, for the term of
years, from and
after July 11, 1913, provided you are of good behavior
during said term.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused our seal to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS, Samuel D. Felker, Governor of our State, at Concord, this 11th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty eighth.

By his Excellency the Governor, with advice of the Council.

EDWARD N. PEARSON, Secretary of State.

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

MERRIMACK SS.

July 14, 1913.

Then the said Henry H. Metcalf took and subscribed the Oath of Office as Editor and Compiler as prescribed by law.

Before us,

EDWARD N. PEARSON, Justices of the Peace.
ARTHUR L. WILLIS,
Quorum Unus.