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must be groundless & proceed from artful wicked men, injurious to the Interest & diametricallyopposite to the public & private opinion and Desire of this Province.
I am extremely obliged, & will embrace the first Opporty, that the public Service will permit, toavail myself of the honor your Excellency does me in an Invitation to New York ; & shall receivevery great satisfaction if at any time I may have the pleasure of your company at Portsmouth ;being with the greatest Truth & regard. Sir
Your Excellency’s most obedient humble Servant
J. Wentworth.
His Excellency Governor Tryon.
At a Council held at Portsmouth , by his Excellency’s Summons on Thursday the 8 th day ofJanuary 1772.
Present
His Excellency JohnTheodore AtkinsonDaniel WarnerPeter LevinsJonathan WarnerDaniel Rindge
Wentworth Esq r Governor &c.
Daniel PeirceGeorge JeffreyDaniel RogersPeter GilmanTlio s West bk Waldron
of the Council.
His Excellency the Governour having laid before the Council for their advice, Two Letters fromhis ExcelRy Governor Tryon of New York dated Octob r 1771, and Decemb r 23 d 1771, the latterinclosing a proclamation—also Copj r of his Excellency’s Answer to the first Letter.
The premises being read, it is consider’d That by His Majesty’s Order in Council 20 th July 1764the Western Bank of Connecticut River was then commanded to be the West Bounds of thisProvince and that this Government has been & is intirely obedient thereto; Therefore the saidproclamation, relating wholly to matters and Things without the Boundaries of this Province ; it isadvised that the publication thereof, by authority of this Province would be Extra-Provincial,therefore in our opinion improper, and that his Excellency is further advised not to issue anyProclamation relating to the Premises.
Secondly. That it is not expedient for this Government in any wise to interfere with or concern inrunning the Lines between his Majesty’s Provinces of New York and Canada , which (by his ExcelpyGov 1 Tryon’s Letter of 23 rd Dec 1771) is already begun by Commissioner appointed for that Serviceagreeable to his Majesty’s Instructions, “ wherein it does not appear that this Provinces is refer’d toor mentioned.”
A True Copy from the Minutes of Council
Attest Geo : King Depy Sec r y.