Oath of allegiance, January 14, 1741
- Title:
- Oath of allegiance, January 14, 1741
- Accession / Call Number:
- M 1973-031 (V)
- Object ID:
- M 1973-031 (V)
- Date:
- 1741/01/14
- Physical Description:
- 1 doc. framed.
- Scope and Content:
- Oath of allegiance to George II, against the pretensions of James III; a long text with 59 signatures beginning with Andrew Wiggin, left; B. Wentworth and council on right.The oath mentioned in an Act pass'd in the first Year of Our Reign, entitled an act for the further security of his majesty's person & government & the succession to the crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants, & for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales & his open & secret abettors: (May 10, 1716; commission of Governor Samuel Shute, Laws of New Hampshire, edited by A.S. Batchellor (1913), II:210) The commission of Gov. Benning Wentworth also required the same oath to be taken, himself, assemblymen, council, Ibid, 601, 602, 609.N. Bouton, in Provincial Papers of N.H., vol. IV, pp. 20-21 prints a copy of the oath with signatures of 1728, taken from N.H. Historical Collections, vol. IV, p. 85. The original not found by the editior. This is the time of Benning Wentworth, probably 1st session.
- Locations:
- New Hampshire History 1600-1775, Colonial period.
- Level Description:
- Item
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