posing alterations to be made in the List of Commissioners for settling the Boundary Line between that Province and the Province of New York, I am directed by your Lordships to desire your attention at their Board on that Day at eleven O'Clock in the forenoon. I am, Sir, Your most obedient and humble Servant J. POWNALL.

Representation from the Lords of Trade approving the alterations proposed for New Jersey in the list of Commissioners for settling the boundary line between that Province and New York.

[From P. R. O. B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 17, p. 196.]

WHITEHALL June 39 1767.

To the Rt Hon'ble the Lords of the Committee of His Majesty's most Hon'ble Privy Council for Plantation Affiairs.

My Lords

Pursuant to Your Lordships Order of the 2a of April last we have taken into our consideration the humble Petition of Hen: Wilmot Esq! appointed by the Assembly of New Jersey to Sollicit the Affairs of that Colony, praying, for reasons therein contained, that certain persons recommended by this Board to be Commissioners for the purpose of finally settling the Boundary Line between the Provinces of New York and New Jersey may be omitted in the List annexed to Our Representation to His Majesty dated July 20th 1764 and we having upon this occasion been attended by the Petitioner and also by M' Charles acting as Agent for the Affairs of New York, we beg leave herewith

to lay before your Lordships a List of the Names of such Commissioners, as, upon Consideration of what is setforth in M Wilmots Petition, appears to Us to be proper, and to which both Parties have agreed.

We are, My Lords,

Your Lordships most obedient and

List of Persons to be appointed Commissioners for Deciding the Controvercy concerning the Boundary or Partition Line between the Provinces of New York and New Jersey.

John Temple Esq! Surveyor General of the Customs. for the Northern District of America.

Peter Randolph Esq Surveyor General of the Customs for the Southern District of America.

Charles Stewart Esq! Surveyor General of His Majesty's Customs for the District of Quebec.

Andrew Elliott Esq! Receiver General of His Majesty's Quit Rents in the Province of New York.

Chambers Russel Esq! Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty for the province of Massachusets Bay

William Allen Esq! Chief Justice of the Province of pennsylvania

Samuel Holland Esq! Surveyor General of Lands for the northern District of America.

William De Brahm Esq: Surveyor General of Lands for the Southern District of America.

Andrew Oliver Esq Secretary of the Province of Massachusets Bay.

Charles Morris Esq! Surveyor of Lands and one of the Council of the Province of Nova Scotia.

Payton Randolph Esq! Attorney General and one of the Council of Virginia.

Benjamin Franklin Esq! of the Province of Pennsylvania

Jare'd Ingersoll Esq; of the Colony of Connecticut.

Letter from Governor Franklin to Benjamin Franklin.

[From "Letters to Benjamin Franklin, from his Family and Friends, 1751-1790,” New York, C. Benjamin Richardson, 1859, pp. 32-5.]

Hon'd Father:

BURL'N, June 10, 1767.

I have before me your two favours, of March 19 and April 11, which came by the Packet.

Your remarks on the report of the Board of Trade have been printed, and never anything met with more general approbation. Even the Prop'y party are warm in its praises. Alexander Houston, I am told, has acknowledged that he did not believe that all the writers on his side of the question put together could produce anything equal to it. Our friend Samuel Smith,' of this town, says that he thinks all the provinces in North America ought to join to make it worth your while to reside in England as long [as] you live. The people of this province are much pleased with your having mentioned New Jersey as one of the Colonies which have guarded against the excess in paper currency. They have no tidings of any thing's being done by their own agent in this or any other American affair, and the Assembly having some resentment for their being surprised into the appointment of him, will probably remove him at this sessions; but whom they will appoint in his stead, I cannot guess.

1 The historian of New Jersey.

The clamour in England against the Colonies has alarmed the people here in general. The New York Assembly, I'm told, have voted £3,000 for supplying the King's troops with necessaries, which is to be put into the hands of persons who are to provide the same articles as are required by Act of Parliament, without taking any more notice of that Act than if it had never existed. Our Assembly, which is now sitting, will I believe, act nearly on the same plan. They had, indeed, provided in the last Act all the necessaries mentioned in the Act of Parliament except cider, or rum in lieu thereof; but they at the same time provided some other things which were not required by that Act, and the officers and soldiers quartered in this province have acknowledged themselves well satisfied. There are several letters from England which mention Gov. Moore's impudent letter's being read in the House of Lords, and I hear 'tis likely to occasion some uneasiness between him and the people at New York. I wish, however, that the Assembly there had done at their last sitting what they have now done, as it would have saved their friends in the ministry a great deal of trouble; and they might, too, have done it very consistently, if, as you say, they had considered the Act in the light of a requisition. As to the Boston Assembly, there seems to be no hopes of any temperate proceedings from that quarter, unless Governor Barnard was removed or Otis was to die.

You may depend that your Mahogany Press' will not be used, and I fancy they have avoided meddling with the letter, but I shall inquire. When Mr. Parker' comes this way I will get him to fix a value on that and the old press.

I am much obliged to you for procuring the Collec

torship for my friend Kollock. I have wrote him that it was obtained by a friend of mine to whom I had applied in his behalf; and have taken pains to inculcate among our friends your aversion to engage in such applications while you continue Agent. The reasons you urge for its not being known that you had any hand in the affair are undoubtedly of great weight, and I have contrived it so that it is generally suspected that I obtained it through Mr. Cooper, with whom many here have heard that I was acquainted in England. The David Hall you mention is a Member of the Assembly for Sussex, and had the Prop'y interest to procure the office. As the Proprietor has failed in his application, I suppose the party would, if they thought his want of success was owing to you, make such another outcry as they did when they were disappointed in getting the Collectorship of New Castle for one Morris, in whose behalf they had greatly interested themselves. Morris's friends and the Proprietor wrote over that you had got the office for Walker (I think his name is), and that they were so informed at the Treasury. This was generally believed to be truth, and you were much abused for using your interest for a drunken fellow and a stranger when you might have got it for some man of character on this side of the water, or let the Proprietor have procured it for some such; that your not doing this was making a wanton use of your interest, merely with a view of thwarting the Proprietor, &c., &c. But when the man arrived and heard these reports, he declared that he was not even known to you, and, I have [heard], told many that he owed his place to Mr. Trecothic, as you wrote me. But the Propr'y party, notwithstanding, persevere in declaring that you got it for him, and that they have letters which mention it. I suppose the Proprietor had heard of the application you made for that office in behalf of some friend, and concluded, when the appointment was made, that Walker was the man