August 2. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT 125

Notice of bills drawn against the grant of Parliament.

August 23. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT. 126

Sends a copy of the list of bills drawn.

September 12. THOMAS CUSHING to Jasper MAUDUIT 127

Rumors of his want of health and desire to have his

brother the agent. Objection raised. Should not publicly

express his intention to resign. Strength of Jackson.

September 23. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT 126

Schedule of bills drawn. Introduces Edmund Quincy.

October 28. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAUDUIT 130

The act of Parliament for improving his Majesty's rev-

enue from customs. Bollan would have sent information.
Act should be repealed. Who may be consulted on the
trade with the West Indies. Nature of this commerce.
The fishery. May take up manufactures. Advantage from
trade centering in Great Britain. Rate of duty on molasses
suggested.

November 10. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAUDUIT 135

Sends Bollan's statement of the controversy between the

sugar and the northern colonies. References to writers on

trade.

November II. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAU-

DUIT.

Seizure of a brigantine from France. An illustration of
effect if molasses act be enforced. Prorogation of the Gen-
eral Court. No revenue can be gained from a high duty.
Smuggling will be encouraged.

December 14. ROYAL WARRANT

Distribution of the grant by Parliament among the

American colonies.

136

139

1764

February 3. ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT. . 142

For Mauduit's charge of his agency.

February 6. THOMAS HUTCHINSON

BOLLAN

ΤΟ WILLIAM

Move to elect an agent to go to England. Was perplexed

by his own election. Have written to Lord Halifax for leave.

Will go only if he can serve the Province.

February 7. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT

Sends account of bills drawn. Reason for electing Hutch-

inson agent.

143

145

February 11. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAUDUIT 145

Instructions on the molasses act are being prepared.

Taxes should originate with the people. Measures of Par-
liament and the special agency. Hutchinson elected and
excused at his own request. A stamp tax. Bollan's and
his own accounts. Jackson's support. A fire at Harvard
College.

February 14. ISRAEL MAUDUIT to

Acknowledges tracts on Mayhew controversy.

March 29. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAUDUIT

150

151

Trusts he will come to no sudden determination on the

agency. His resignation would surprise his friends.

April 3. ANDREW OLIVER TO JASPER MAUDUIT

151

Sends papers and documents. Action of the General
Court on the agency. Sewall's opinion on Martyn's will.

April 5. JASPER MAUDUIT TO [SECRETARY OLIVER?] 153

Incloses his accounts. They follow in detail.

April 7. HARRISON GRAY TO JASPER MAUDUIT

An error in drawing bills.

157

May 12.

MAUDUIT'S ACCOUNTS

157

The memorial on the molasses duty. Instructions should
have been sent earlier. Effects of a duty of two pence. If
diverted from trade must live within themselves.

June 22. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAUDUIT

The instructions on molasses and stamp duties. Hutchin-
son and the agency. Question between Jackson and Mau-
duit's brother. His order for woolens. Introduces Thomas

Bromfield.

July 11. THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO

Injudicious conduct of the House of Representatives.

Their letter to their agent, and how it was adopted. Would

never have served under such instructions. Policy for the

colony to pursue.

October 4. THOMAS HUTCHINSON TO WILLiam Bol-

Not conscious of having neglected him. Have never had
a difference with Mr. Pownall. His accounts.

November 12. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAU-

DUIT.

160

163

Right of self-taxation asserted. Other colonies have

remonstrated. Question of the agency. The boundary

disputes.

November 17. THOMAS CUSHING TO JASPER MAU-

Introducing Bela Lincoln. Petition on the right of the

colonies to tax themselves.

November 28. THE GENERAL COURT TO JASPER

The molasses duty. Fees in the French islands. Diffi-

culty of paying for goods. Wine trade. Consequences of

enforcing the duty on molasses. Prices and revenue. The

timber trade. Benefits derived from the colonies.

171

Indignant over the resolution of the General Court, vot-

ing him his salary. His services and sacrifices. Appoint-
ment not of his seeking. The salary of a private steward.
Takes five hundred pounds for his compensation.