municate any thing material to your honor from this place or the Castle where they are—save Mr. Temple, who certainly hath weighty interest at the Treasury. He lives in this town. Mr. Robinson[1] is after Mr. Sewall's appointment. Franklyn, Sir, Lieut. Governor of N. Scotia, married Mrs. Eobinson's only sister—Ladies of Fortune.[2]
May I beg the favor of my Respects to your Lady and for Mr. Ingersoll.
I am with all possible deference,
Letter of Judge Augustus Johnston.
Dear Sir
Your favour of the 8ᵗʰ. Instant I did not receive timely to send you an answer last post, as I was not in Town. Whatever may be the Fate of some other Things, that the People clamour about, I can't think the Admiralty Courts upon the late Plan will be abolished. I lately recᵈ. a Letter from Dummer Andrews Esqʳ, from London, dated at the Navy Office the 5ᵗʰ. June last, who is appointed Register of the Court established at Charlestown, Sᵒ. Carolina, enclosing me a Blank Deputation, desiring me to appoint some proper Person to act in his Behalf, & to agree with him respecting the Terms, as I find he is to reside in England. He writes me that he delayed sending it
- ↑ Hon. John Robinson, former Commissioner of Customs.
- ↑ Michael Francklin, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia in 1766, married in 1762 Susannah, daughter of James Boutineau, of Boston; Mr. Robinson married her sister Anne in 1769.
- ↑ Arodi Thayer, bom in Braintree, Mass., in 1743, was the Marshal of the Massachusetts District of the Vice-Admiralty Court, as well as of Judge Ingersoll's District.
