62 In 1755 was appointed Fourth Lieut, to the Battalion of the 60th Regiment ; soon after joined Lord Loudon then Commander in Chief in America, was introduced by Govr. Pownall to his Lordship who directed your Mem. to survey (& compile a Map of) the Province of New York and was promoted by his Lordship to a Captain Lieutenancy and attended his Lordship to Halifax , from thence to and Albany was ordered on scouting parties by the late Lord Howe reconnoitred Ticondoroga and took a sketch of the Fort and Environs. In 1758 your Memst. served at the Siege of Louisbourg as Engineer, when Genl. Wolfe did him the Honor to admit him as one of his family, the General entrusted your Memst. with carrying on the attack from the Harbour to the when the Town capitulated. Your Mem. made the Campaign of 1759 under General Wolfe , who after the affair of Montmorancy promoted your Memorialist on the 31 July to a Comp'y for his behaviour then, and during the Siege of Louis¬ bourg, and in the Battle on the 13th of September your Memst. lost his protector whilst holding his wounded hand at the time he expired, who for reasons (best known to Mr. West the Painter) your Memorialist was not admitted amongst the group represented by that artist as being attendant on the General in glorious exit but others are exhibited in that painting who never were in battle. Your Memst. was entrusted with the outposts in Canada during the ensuing Winter under the command of General Murray . In the Battle of the 20th of April, 1760, when Major McKellar was dangerously wounded, your Memst. acted as Chief Engineer and defended the Town of Quebec in that capacity until it was relieved. In Sept. 1762 your Memorialist embarked from Canada for England with a view of obtaining leave to serve in Portugal, but Genl. Wolfe's favorable Representations of your Memst. while serving under him at the Siege of Louisbourg, as well as His Grace, the Duke of Richmond 's and General Murray 's Reports of your Memst. to the late Mr. Secretary Pitt , together with your Memst. Maps and Plans of the settled parts of Canada , which he had the honor of presenting to the King, induced His Majesty to appoint your Memst. Surveyor Genl. of the Province of Quebec soon after your Memst. was recommended to His Majesty by the late Lords of Trade and w'as appointed Survr. Genl. of the of . Your Memst. with every possible diligence applied himself to the execution of such commands as the late Lords of Trade honored him with, and completed the survey of many large Islands and extensive Districts which service your Memst. commenced in 1762 and proceeded therein with no other emolument but the salary of Surveyor Genl. of Quebec until the troubles in America compelled him to desist, and after refusing with indignation and contempt offers of Military Command made him by the first leader of the then infant Revolution your Memst. in November 1775 returned to England . The various representations made at different times to His Majesty by the late Board of Trade on the labours and exertions of your Memst. in the hazardous employment of Surveyor General of the of will appear Mattering Testimonials of your Memst. having most favorably performed his Duty, w^hich added to his Military Employments he trusts it will appear that his Loyalty and public services stand so fair as to merit every approba¬ tion services so performed can be entitled to. Your Memst. begs leave to represent the losses he has sustained in consequence of his attachment and loyalty to the British Government a Schedule of State whereof is hereunto annexed; the original Bonds and other Documents on which these losses are founded are in posses¬ sion of your Memst. now at Quebec, it being a hazard too great to trust them on the Seas and there being not time sufficient to send authenticated copies by this conveyance your Memst. therefore trusts the affidavits annexed to the schedule will sufficiently ascertain the property lost; But as your Memst. has it not in his power to ascertain accurately the value of the lost Lands, inserted at the latter part of the said schedule, he humbly begs such estimation may be made of their value as lands lost by other persons in the same provinces have been valued at. Letter to Mr. Hunter , Secretary to the Office of American Claims — by Holland. Sir: I have the honor to enclose a Duplicate of the Losses sustained by me in Consequence of the Unhappy Dissentions in America, as Transmitted by me in November 1783 to Mr. William Roberts , my agent in London; and given in by him to the Lords Commissioners appointed to receive those Claims, &c. I have now taken the Liberty to inclose a plan of a Tract of Land situated between the Townships of Romney and Campton in the Province of New Hampshire , containing 3105 acres, it being the overplus of what those two Townships had a right to claim. His Excellency, Governor Wentworth , was pleased to make me a Grant thereof after I had obtained the Votes of those Two Townships in my favour. On conditions that I should pay or satisfy the several Claimants under either of the Townships, which I performed to the satisfaction of all parties, by not only paying them for the Lands they Claimed & the improvements they