Honour will still afford us that Protection and Favour which we may reasonably expect from that Candor and Generosity which will always move you to do good to those who are committed to your Care. Perth Amboy September 24th 1757 Gentlemen, [ANSWER.] Your Gratefull Sense of my Endeavors to do my Duty towards ye Province cannot but be very agreable to me & I am oblig'd to you for your kind Congratulations. Tho' ye Necessity of His Majesty's Service in my Government of Massachusetts-bay will remove my Residence from amongt you, yet nothing shall ever remove my attention from ye Interest & Welfare of ye Province of New Jersey. And I will alway stand ready to give my Personal Attendance in the Province whenever any matter shall arise that may require it. T. POWNALL Letter from William Skinner to his father at Perth Amboy-Had received a Commission as Lieutenant in the Regular Army in Cornwallis's Regiment. [From MSS. of Wm. A. Whitehead, in possession of N. J. Hist. Soc.] LONDON 7th October 1757 Dear Sir I have the pleasure to acquaint you that I rece'd a letter from my Lord Barrington yesterday in which he told me that I was appointed a Lieut in Generall Cornwallis Regiment, and take place of all the Lieutts appointed in Consequence of the present augmentation, which is an additional Lieut to every Company in his Majesty's Service. General Cornwallis' Regiment Consists of two Battallions. The first is gone upon this Secret Expedition, the other is quartered at Gosport. I consulted with my friends whether I should accept of it or not, who all advised me to take it. The Duke of Grafton, my Lord Harford, and many others tryed to get me a Company before they went out of Town, but there were so many trying for Companys (who had a better right to expect it than I had) and were obliged to accept of Lieut', that I thought it better to accept of my Lord Barrington's offer, and trust to the Interest I have for my farther promotion. There Came advise yesterday that our fleet had taken an Island near Rochfort, and also Island Aye near Bourdeaux with little opposition, and that they are now upon their way back, but I Cant say it of a certainty, for there are different acccounts every day. *** All the officers and men of Coll. Schuyler's Regiment are arrived at Plymouth excepting Coll. Schuyler and Doctor Stakes who are kept at Quebeck for reasons unknown to every body. Before the people landed at Plymouth, I had applyed to my Lord Barrington, Secretary of War, and told him that part of the New Jersey Regiment were taken at Oswego, and expected that they would be sent to Plymouth or Portsmouth, in the next exchange from France and should be obliged to his Lordship if he would order them to be subsisted as soon as they landed. His answer was that he had nothing to do with the Provincial Troops, but advised me to write to Mr. Pitt, Secretary of State, which I did, and Mr. Pitt wrote to Mr. Partridge, Agent for the Province of New Jersey, who wrote Mr. Pitt that he could do nothing for them without orders from the Province, upon which I wrote another letter to the Secretary of State, and told him that it was very cruel that so many fine fellows who had served their Country for two years past should be so neglected by their Mother Country as to want Common necessarys of life, and at the same time told him that if the Government of England would not subsist them and send them back to America upon their expence, I did not doubt but the Province of New Jersey would pay it, upon which I got an order for their subsistence and also to send them to America. -*- * * Affectionately &c WM SKINNER. Return of Stores at Schenectady, New York, made by Col. John Parker, 1757. [From the Original, among the MSS. of G. D. W. Vroom.] N. B. I think the men had better have pouches instead of powder horns as they are always loosing the ball they have in their pockets. The pouches if approved of to be made after the form of the Royal Americans John Barkers. 1 John Parker, the son of John Parker, a member of Governor Burnet's Council, 1719-1732, was born November 7, 1729, received a mercantile education, served as midshipman, 1745-50, and was at sea during the next four years. In the campaigns Order of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs, referring to this Board a [From P. R. O B. T. New Jersey, Vol. 8, I. 46.] AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBER WHITEHALL THE 16TH OF NOVEMBER 1757. L. S. By the Right Honourable the Lords of of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs. His Majesty having been pleased, by His Order in Council of the 9th of this Instant, to referr unto this Committee the humble Petition of Richard Partridge, Agent for and in behalf of the House of Representatives of the Colony of New Jersey in America, humbly Praying, for the Reasons therein contained, That His Majesty will be graciously pleased to signify His Royal Pleasure to the Governor or Commander in Chief of the said Colony, for the time being, to give his Assent to a Bill prepared by the said House of Representatives, in March last, Entituled "An Act for making "Current Sixty Thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit, "to be emitted on Loan within the Colony of New of 1755-6 against the French he commanded a company in the fourth battalion of the Royal Americans, and after Col. Schuyler's capture at Oswego succeeded to the command of the New Jersey troops who had escaped capture. In July, 1757, he was at Fort William Henry, with the rank of colonel, and in seeking to attack the advance guard of the French at Ticonderoga, with three hundred and fifty men, was ambushed, losing all but about eighty of his party. He died 1762, at Port Royal, in the West Indies, where he had engaged in active service against the French.-Whitehead's History of Perth Amboy, etc., 130–133; Gordon's History of New Jersey, 127–8.--W. N. "Jersey, The Interest whereof to sink the further Sum "of Twenty Nine Thousand Pounds, to be also made "Current for the Immediate Service of the Crown, if "the same should be needed, otherwise for the Relief "of the said Colony." The Lords of the Committee this day took the same into their Consideration, and are hereby pleased to referr the said Petition (a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed) to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, to consider thereof, and Report their Opinion thereupon to this Committee. W. SHARPE TO GEORGE THE SECOND KING OF GREAT BRITAIN &CA IN COUNCIL. THE PETITION of Richard Partridge Agent for and in behalf of the House of Representatives of the Colony of New Jersey in America. Humbly Sheweth That the said House of Representatives in General Assembly met, have represented that the continued Distresses of this the Kings dutiful and loyal Colony oblige them to renew their Application, That the King would be graciously pleased to accept of the little Assistance they are capable of giving, towards carrying on the War against the Common Enemy in those Parts, in a Manner that will best promote the End, and at the same time considerably lighten the Burthen of the King's willing Subjects. That the Paper Currency within this Colony has ever preserved its Credit, and, when emitted on Loan, has been of the greatest Advantage to Our Settlers, having enabled many Hundreds of them to begin, and go on with Improvements, that might otherwise have been either ruined in a Goal, or in a great Measure |