[243] Sabin, xv. 65,582.
[244] See post, ch. vii.
[245] See post, ch. vii.
[246] Of John Wentworth (b. 1672), lieut.-gov. of N. H. from 1717 to his death, in 1730, there is a portrait in the gallery of the Mass. Hist. Soc. Cf. Catal. Cabinet, Mass. Hist. Soc., no. 16; Proceedings, i. 124. Blackburn’s portrait of him is engraved in the Wentworth Genealogy, which gives a full account of the family, embracing the genealogical material earlier published in the N. E. H. & G. Reg., 1850, p. 321; 1863, p. 65; 1868, p. 120; also, 1878, p. 434.
[247] Cf. Caleb Heathcote’s charges (1719) on this point in R. I. Col. Rec., iv. 258; R. I. Hist. Mag., April, 1885, p. 270a.
[248] See Vol. III. p. 379.
[249] Papers relating to the governor’s memorial are noted in Brit. Mus. MSS., no. 15,486. The Report of the Lords of the Committee upon Governor Shute’s Memorial with his Majesty’s Order in Council thereupon, was printed in Boston in 1725. (Harv. Col. lib., 10352.4; Haven in Thomas, ii. p. 402.)
[250] It is spread on the Boston Records. Cf. Rec. Com. Rept., viii. 178.
[251] See Mass. Hist. Coll., i. 32.
[252] This document is in the Mass. State Archives. It was printed in Boston in 1725 (pp. 8), and has been since included in the several collections of Charters and Laws. The original parchment hangs in the office of the secretary of the commonwealth. Cf. Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts upon the Condition of the Records, Files, Papers and Documents in the Secretary’s Department, January, 1885, pp. 15, 16.