Stranded in Boston 1762

Information from Lloyd Brown:

Selectmen's Minutes, City Document No. 147, Vol. 19, (Boston) 1762.

[97] At a Meeting of the Selectmen, October 21, 1762.-:

Present		Thomas Cushing Esq.
		John Scollay Esq.
		Benjamin Austin Esq.
		Samuel Sewall Esq.
		Mr. Sam P. Savage.
		Ezekiel Lewis Esq.

The Honourable Thomas Hubbard & Thomas Hancock Esq. be a Committee from the Honble His 
Majesty's Council. Represented, that Mr. George Morley and a great number of other 
Persons, lately come into this place from Newfoundland, had apply'd to the Governor and 
Council to help them, to a passage for themselves and Familys to New foundland being very
desirous of returning there again the Committee therefore desired that the Select men 
would make enquiry into the Circumstances of those People, and Report the same as soon as
may be.  

The Selectmen accordingly made enquiry into this matter and having examined the said 
George Morley and others, find that there is about Nineteen Familys of the Newfoundlanders 
making in all Ninety three Souls; that they are in [98] Necessitous Circumstances,
and not able to procure Employs that will support them, and consequently must be
a great charge to the Province unless the Assistance they require should be 
afforded them - whereupon.  

Voted, that a Memorial be drawn up and preferred to His Excellency Governor Bernard & 
the Honble. His Majestys Councill, respecting the Newfoundland Familys which was 
accordingly done, and is as follows - Viz:



Province of the Massachusetts Bay.

To His Excellency Francis Bernard Esq. Capt. General and Commander in Chief, in and over said 
Province, and to the Honourable His Majestys Council.  The Memorial of the Subscribers, Selectmen
of the Town of Boston. Humbly sheweth:

That the Honourable Thomas Hubbard Esq. and Thomas Hancock Esq. a Committee from the 
Honourable Board have desired your Memorialists to enquire into the Circumstances of
George Morley [99]. And others, who lately came from Newfoundland Your Memorialists have
accordingly made the enquiry and find they are truly necessitous Persons, and as they 
cannot meet with employ here are desirous to return but are not able to pay the passage 
of themselves and Familys, they therefore request some Assistance, which Assistance if 
not afforded them and they continue here during the Winter, great charge will thereby 
accrue to the Province; all which is humbly submitted to your Excellency and Honours wise
consideration.


Signed by the six Selectmen above and also by Samuels Hews.



Boston October 25, 1762.

His Excellency Francis Bernard Esq.

At a Meeting of the Selectmen, October 25, 1762, PM.
Present (as above but excluding John Scollay).

[102]. Memo. of the Familys now in this Town who came from ye Land, with their 
Circumstances as taken from George Morley, the twenty second of this Inst. October.  

	George Morley, his wife & five children, not able to pay their passage to the Land.
	Henry Radford, his wife & 6 children.
	Walter Degrave, and sister.
	Morgan Murphey, wife and 3 children.
	James Winter, wife, father & Mother and a child.
	John Marshall, his father & mother & 2 children.
	James Clark, his wife & 8 children.
	Joseph Pottells, his wife and 7 children.
	Mary Greenlace, and four children.
	James Howell, wife and 7 children (very poor).
	Mary Worth, and two children (very poor).
	William Pulling, and Wife.
	William Stone, his wife and one child, not able to pay their passage to the Land.
	Patrick Connell, and Wife.
	Edward Freeman, and 3 children.
	Joseph Newell, his wife and a child.
	Andrew Murphey, and wife.
	George Wood, his wife and 2 children.
	William Whiting, his wife and 4 children.

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