Portsmouth New-Hampshire, Decem. 27. 1733. : Whereas Paul Gerrish Esq; being imployed and licensed to cut white pine trees, for masts, yards and bowsprits, for the use of the Royal Navy, and having accordingly cut some ... some evil disposed person and disaffected to His Majesty, has about the 14th instant, cut and render'd unfit four of the said trees ..

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods in America.

Contributor:

Dunbar, David.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 3715.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gerrish, Paul, 1674-1743.

Gerrish, Paul.

Gulston, Ralph.

Forests and forestry--Maine.

Forests and forestry.

Timber--Maine--York County.

Timber.

Offenses against property--Maine.

Offenses against property.

Bounties--New England.

Bounties.

New England.

Maine.

Maine--York County.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1733]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Offering a reward of forty pounds, New-England money, for identifying proof of the perpetrator. The trees were felled on land claimed by James Ferguson, in Berwick township, York County, Maine.

Followed by: Copy of a paragraph of His Majesty's license to Mr. Ralph Gulston, for providing masts, yards and bowsprits for the Royal Navy, above referr'd to.

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Evans 3715

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 638

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