tion in the Prayers for the Royal Family, We herewith humbly lay before Your Majesty the Draughts of such Instructions as We conceive proper on this Occasion for Your Majesty's Royal Signature. Which is most humbly submitted Sept 16: 1761 SANDYS ED: THOMAS Instruction to Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Arthur Dobbs Esquire Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Province of North Carolina in America.1 Given at Our Court at St James the day of 1761 in the Year of Our Reign. Whereas we have been pleased by Our Order in Council of the 11th Day of Sept! instant, to declare Our Pleasure, that in the Morning & Evening Prayers in the Litany & in all other Parts of the publick Service as well in the occasional Offices as in the Book of Common Prayer where the Royal Family is appointed to be particularly pray'd for, the following Form of Words should be used viz' Our Gracious Queen Charlotte Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales and all the Royal Family Our Will and Pleasure therefore is, that in all the Prayers Litanys & Collects where the Royal Family is prayed for, and which are used within Our Province of North Carolina under 1 A like instruction was sent to the Governors of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvauia, Maryland, Nova Scotia, Barbadoes, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Bermuda, Bahamas, Quebec, Montreal, Cape Breton, Guadaloupe. Your Government the same Form and Order of Words be used as follows viz Our Gracious Queen Charlotte Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales and all the Royal Family And for the better Notice hereof in Our said Province, It is Our further Will & Pleasure that you cause the same to be forthwith published in the several Parish Churches and other Places of Divine Worship within our said Province, and that you take Care that due Obedience be paid thereto accordingly. Letter from Governor Boone to the Secretary of State -Congratulations on the King's intended marriage. Sir [From P. R. O. America and West Indies, Vol. 73.] P. AMBOY N. Jersey Sept 21st 1761. I have this day the Honour of Receiving your Notification of his Majesty's Resolution to Demand in Marriage the Princess Charlotte Sister of the Duke of Mecklenburg, & the Extraordinary Gazette published on that Occasion; I beg leave Sir to Join my Congratulations to you, with those of the most Dutifull of his Majesty's Subjects, upon this Joyfull Event, and I have the honour to be with the Utmost Respect Sir Your most Obedient & most Humble Servant THO: BOONE. Letter from Governor Boone to the Lords of Trade, informing them that he had received leave of absence before proceeding to South Carolina but would not avail himself of it at present. [From P. R. O. B. T., New Jersey, Vol. 9, K. 19.] N. YORK Nov! 24th 1761 Original Oct. 20th from The Jerseys My Lords I have the honour to Acquaint your Lordships that though it is two months since I received his Majesty's leave of Absence, yet my Inclination to deliver this Government to my Successor in its Present State of Harmony, & the doubtfull Situation of So Carolina to which the King has been most graciously pleased to promote me, have Prompted me Entirely to wave making use of his Majestys Permission to go to Europe however detrimental this resolution may be to my private affairs: My Zeal for his Majesty's Service will not, I hope be unacceptable to your Lordships & I presume to promise myself your favourable Interposition, if hereafter in less troublesome times my health or private Business should render a second application for his Majesty's Indulgence Necessary I have the Honour to be with the greatest Respect, My Lords Your Lordships most Obedient The Lds Commissioners for Trade & Letter from Secretary Pownall to James West, Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, enclosing a copy of Governor Boone's letter of August 30, relating to the seizure of a vessel engaged in illicit trade. [From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol 17, p. 120.] WHITEHALL Nov 13: 1761 To James West Esq Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. Sir, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations, to send you the inclosed Copy of a Letter, which their Lordships have received from Thomas Boone Esq late Governor of New Jersey, dated the 30th of August 1761,' containing an Account of the Prosecution and Condemnation of a Vessel in the Admiralty Court of that Province, for illicit Trade, and I am to desire you will be pleased to lay the said Letter before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. Their Lordships do not take upon them to Judge of the propriety of M' Boone's request, that His Majesty would be graciously pleased, to grant him the Crown's share, of the Produce of the said forfeiture, but they think it incumbent upon them in Justice to M: Boone, to give it as their Opinion, that his relinquishing his own Share of the forfeiture, in order to induce a greater facility in the Condemnation of the Vessel and Cargo, 1 See ante, page 300.-ED. is such an Example of disinterested regard to the Publick, in a case of very great importance to the Trade of this Country, and its Colony's, as justly entitles him to His Majesty's favour' I am Sir Your most Obed: humb Servant JOHN POWNALL 'Nothing has been discovered in the matter of legislation during Gov. Boone's brief authority in New Jersey upon which to base an enlightened estimate of his qualifications, or from which to gather correct information respecting his political sentiments. It is evident, however, that his capacity for business, his character and disposition were such as to attach the people to him. The Assembly's last address, presented July 7, 1761, thus concludes: "If common report may be credited, this is likely to be our last address to your Excellency. Unsolicited by any applications, it may be unexpected, yet permit us to remark, that as we asked nothing of you unbecoming his Majesty's representative to grant, you have refused us nothing we have asked. If it is honorable to distinguish an administration, not only unsullied but publicly kind and benevolent, such an administration as yours demands our grateful acknowledgements. The shortness of the time you have been among us is an objection not in our power to remedy. On your successor, therefore, must remain our hop es, whom we shall be happy to find equally succeeding to our wishes." The Corporation of Perth Amboy thus addressed him on the day before the arrival of his successor: "It has ever been the custom to address Governors on their first arrival, to enumerate their virtues and good qualities, and to extol their abilities for government, and oftentimes upon no better foundation than the authority of common fame; hence it too often happens, that, upon a better acquaintance, they are ready to unsay all they said and to show the greater joy upon a change or removal. But with respect to you, Sir, every day has given us fresh proofs of your Excellency's abilities and upright intentions, and demands our sincerest acknowledgments. No selfish or lucrative schemes have appeared in your conduct, or sullied your administration; on the contrary, all your measures have been dictated by generous and benevolent principles, and your Excellency in public life has maintained that good character you so justly and universally acquired in private."-N. Y. Gazette. Such language from the authorities of the place where he resided-his personal associates and neighbors must be considered indicative of more than common feelings of satisfaction. Governor Boone was present on the arrival and installation of his successor, and did not sail from New York for South Carolina until December 3, entering upon his duties as Governor of that Colony early in January, 1762. He left there in May, 1764, being recalled in consequence of differences with the Assembly.-N. Y. Mercury, June 18th, 1764. After his return to England, Mr. Boone received an appointment as a Commissioner of the Customs, which he held for several years. He resigned it in September, 1805, and retired to Lee Place, Kent. In 1771, his first wife, whom he had married in South Carolina, having died or been divorced, he married a Mrs. Ponnereau of South Carolina, who died at his residence in Kent in April, 1812. The time of his own death has not been ascertained. See Hampton's Hist. Aut., p. 8; Gates Papers, N. Y. Hist. Soc. Library.-Contributions to the Early Histry of Perth Amboy, p. 176. |