have any objection to administer them. Your condescension herein will lay me under the most lasting obligations.

I am, with the greatest respect, Sir, your Honour’s most obedient and most humble servant,

JAMES CURGENVEN.

The Hon. Jonathan TrumBull, Esq., Governour of His Majesty’s Colony of Connecticut, &c., &c., &c.

I, James Curgenven, do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to His Majesty George the Third. So help me God.

I, James Curgenven, do swear that I do, from my heart, abhor, detest, and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position that Princes, excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within the Realm of Great Britain. So help me God.

I, James Curgenven, do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do believe that in the Sacraments of the Lord’s Supper there is not any transubstantiation of the elements of bread and wine in the body and blood of Christ, at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, and that the invocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary, or any other Saint, and the sacrifice of the Mass, as they are now used in the Church of Rome, are superstitious and idolatrous. And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever, and without any dispensation already granted me for this purpose by the Pope, or any authority or per son whatsoever, or without any hope of any such dispensation from any authority or person whatsoever, or without thinking that I am or can be acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope or any other person or persons, or power whatsoever, should dispense with or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.

I, James Curgenven, do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, in my conscience, before God and the world, that our sovereign Lord, King George, is lawful and rightful King of this Realm, and all other His Majesty’s Dominions and Countries thereunto belonging. And I do solemnly declare, that I do believe, in my conscience, ’ that not any of the descendants of the person who pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James the Second, and since his decease, pretended to be, and, took upon himself the style and title of King of Eng land, by the name of James the Third, or of Scotland, by the name of James the Eighth, or the style or title of King of Great Britain, hath any right or title whatsoever to the Crown of this Realm, or any other Dominions thereunto belonging. And I do renounce, refuse, and abjure any allegiance or obedience to any of them; and I do swear that I will bear faith, and true allegiance to His Majesty King George, and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts what soever, which shall be made against his person, crown, or dignity. And I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty and his successor all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be against him or any of them. And I do faithfully promise, to the utmost of my power, to support, maintain, and defend the succession of the Crown against the defendants of the said James, and against all persons whatsoever, which succession, by an Act intituled “An Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the Subjects, ” is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electoress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to these express words by me spoken, according to the plain common sense and understanding of the same words, without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever. And I do now make this recognition, acknowledgment, abjuration, renunciation, and promise, heartily, willingly, and truly, upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God.

JAMES CURGENVEN.

June 9, 1775.

Camp Cambridge, June 5, 1775.

The Petition of the subscribers, Soldiers in the Company commanded by Captain DRURY, humbly showeth:

That your petitioners, with the utmost concern, find themselves shifted out of Colonel Nixen’s Regiment into that of Colonel Gardner’s, contrary to our inclination, and repugnant to the promise made us at our enlisting. We, therefore, beg that your Excellency would be pleased to continue us in the Regiment we engaged to serve in, and not to be removed for the future only to serve the malevolent disposition of our Captain; and, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

To his Excellency General Ward, &c.

To the Colony Congress of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, in NEW- ENGLAND:

We, the subscribers, Captains in the Regiment whereof JAMES SCAMMON, Esq., is Colonel, humbly showeth:

That whereas there is no provision made for the money that we, our subalterns, and soldiers, have advanced for their support, from the time of enlistment to their arrival at Cambridge, humbly pray, in behalf of ourselves, &c., that your Honours would, in your wisdom, contrive some way that is most agreeable for their being refunded the several sums they have advanced. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.

TOWN MEETING IN CONWAY, NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

At a legal meeting held by the inhabitants of Conway, on the fifth day of June, 1775, the following Votes were passed:

Voted, That Col. Andrew McMullen, Capt. Timothy Walker, Capt. David Page, Lieut James Osgood, and Ensign Joshua Heath, be a Committee at and in behalf of the Town, in any matter respecting the present time of difficulty.

Voted, That the Town will aid and assist the above Committee that is chosen in behalf of the Town to pre serve the peace and order of it, whenever the Committee shall judge occasion.

Voted, That this Committee be fully empowered to in quire touching any obnoxious person who may flee to this Town for an asylum, and that they shall judge whether it is expedient for any such refugee to reside here, or depart from it; and any inhabitant of this Town who shall be obnoxious, shall be only accountable to the Committee for their conduct.

Voted, That no other person but the Committee shall concern with any such refugees; but if any person shall know of any such obnoxious person corning into Town, the earliest notice thereof shall be given the Committee.

Voted, That the Committee be empowered to call be fore them, and upon proper evidence to pass upon any inhabitants of the Town, who shall dare to transgress any” of the preceding Votes, or in any manner to disturb the peace of the Town.

Voted, That the Committee shall make application to the Congress of this Province for arms and ammunition that are wanting in this Town, and for men for a scouting guard for our safety.

RICHARD EASTMAN, Town Clerk.