Context

Context of 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