The King Commissions Governor Jonathan Belcher

ST. JAMES’, DECEMB. 13.

His Majesty this day was pleased to sign a Commission, appointing Jonathan Belcher Esq., to be Governour and Commander in Chief of the Province of New-Hampshire in New-England in America; and also another Commission, appointing him to be Captain General and Governour in Chief of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England; both which Governments became void by the Death of William Burnet, Esq.

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LONDON FEB. 10

On Saturday last his Majesty’s Commission constituting the Hon. Jonathan Belcher Esq. Governour of the Provinces of the Massachusetts Bay and New-Hampshire in New-England, passed the Great Seal; and we hear his Excellency is making all possible Dispatch to set out for his said Governments.

— (From: The New-England Weekly Journal, No. 162, April 27, 1730.)

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