Note 445 — Chapter II · (continued 3)

Cf. documents mentioned in Henry Stevens’s Catal. of books and pamphlets relating to New Hampshire (1885, p. 15), which documents were sold by him to the State of New Hampshire. Stevens says regarding these papers: “Dear fussy old Richard Hakluyt, the most learned geographer of his age, but with certain crude and warped notions of the South Sea ‘down the back side of Florida,’ which became worked into many of King James’s and King Charles’s charters, and the many grants that grew out of them, was the unconscious parent of many geographical puzzles.... All these are fully illustrated in the numerous papers cited in these cases.” The Thomlinson correspondence (1733-37) in the Belknap papers (Mass. Hist. Soc.), which is printed in the N. H. Prov. Papers, iv. 833, etc., relates to the bounds with Massachusetts, and chiefly consists of letters which passed between Theodore Atkinson, of Portsmouth, and Capt. John Thomlinson, the province agent in London. Cf. Hiland Hall’s Vermont, ch. iv.; Palfrey’s New England, iv. 554; Belknap, Farmer’s ed., p. 219; and the Report of the Committee on the name Kearsarge, in the N. H. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1876-84, p. 136. The journal of Richard Hazzen (1741), in running the bounds of Mass. and New Hampshire, is given in the N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., xxxiii. 323.