The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-01-04
MEMOIR OF RHODE-IsLAND.


chosen.
WILLIAM GREENE, Governor.
JOSEPH WHIPPLE, Dep. Gov.
Assistants.
John Cranston, Araham Redwood,
John Comstock, Robert Gibbs,
Stephen Brownell, Robert Lawton,
James Arnold, Phillip Greene,
Daniel Coggeshall, Jeffry Watson.
James Martin, Secretary.
Daniel Updike, Attorney General.
John Gardner, Gen'rl Treasurer.
The Deputies from Newport were, Sam
uel Wickham, Peter Bours, Thomas Grams
ton, George Wanton, Jonathan Nichols and
James Sheffield.
The Colony sloop was ordered to cruise
off the coast until the lst of October.
Such was the depreciation of paper mon
ey, that the value of one estate to qualify a
freeman was raised TO G400.
The King in Council having awarded X.
Island the land east of the Bay, and also
the Gore, we here give the proceedings
which are as follows:
AT THE COURT AT KENSINGTON.
the 2Sth Day of May, l746.
Present.
THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
Arch Bishop of Canterbury
L. S. Lord President
- ! Lord Privy Seal
Lord Stewart
Lord Chamberlain
Duke of Bolton
Duke of Argyle
Duke of New Castle
Earl of Chesterfield
Earl of Cholmondey
Earl of Stair
Earl of Harrington
Viscount Torrington
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Bathurst
Lord Thobart
Lord Monsou
Lord Sandys
Mr.. Vice Chamberlain
Sir WIN. Yonge
Sir John Norris
VIM Pitt Esqr.
UPON reading at the Board Report
from the Right Honorable the Lords of the
Committee of Council for hearing Appeals
from the Plantations dated llth December
I744 in The words following wit
YOUR Majesty having been pleased by
your order in Council of Goth July l742 to
refer unto this Committee the Humble Pc
tition, ard Appeal of the Governor & Com.
pany of the English Colony of Rhode-Is-
land & Providence Plantations in New En-
gland in America, from several particular
parts of the determination Of the Commls-
sioners appointed by your Majesty to settle
the Boundarys of the said Colony East
wards with the Province of the Massachu-
sets Bay and humbly Praying, that the
particular parts of the said Commissioners
Determination appealed from may be re-
versed, and such other Determination made
in stead thereof as shall be agreeable to the
true construction Of the Boundarys contain
ed in the Royal Charter under which the
Petitioners claim-And your Majesty hav-
ing been also pleased by another Order in
Council of the 18th Sept. l742, to refer un-
to this Committee the humble petition and
appeal of your Mnjestys Province Of the
Massachusetts Bay in New England, from
every part Of the said determination Of the
said Commissioners, and hulnbly praying
that the same may be reversed and set aside.
and that instead thereof your Majesty will
be graciously pleased to give such judgment
and determination as shall be agreeable to
the petitioners claim exhibited before the
said Commissioners.
THE LORDS Of the Committee IN obe-
diencc to your Majesty's said orders OF ref
erencc, have met several times and taken
both the said petitions Of appeal into their
consideration, and having examined into
the procee lings Of the said Con- missioners,
do find that they pronounced their Judg-
ment or determination on the Both of june
lf4l, in the words following
Tho Court took into confederation tie