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ORIGIN OF THE NAME OREGON 113

gone in Consequence, to the officers of the Garrison, and afterwards to General Gage, and Governor Bernard, and was Examined by them respectively, and had the honor of their promises to use their Endeavours to serve your petitioner, to whose Reports your petitioner humbly begs leave to refer, and also to his own Journals and Plans, ready to be produced to Your Majesty, which Your petitioner humbly hopes may be of great publick Utility.

Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays your Majesty to take this hard Case into Your Royal Consideration for such his Services, and the great Expences he has been put to in this very perilous undertaking. Your petitioner submitting not only to be examined as Your Majesty shall direct but to produce all his Journals plans and Charts of the several Discoveries he has made

And Your Majestys petitioner shall ever pray &ca.

JONATHAN CARVER* Copied and compared by Henry John Brown.

CARVER'S OTHER PETITION

From P. R. O. Colonial Office, Class 5, Vol. 115, p. 17. Most Gracious Sovereign

With the Deepest Humility, I most Humbly beg leave to prostrate myself at Your Majestys Feet, and pray that my unhappy case, set forth in my Memorial Humbly Delivered to Your Majesty the Eleaventh of August, May at this time, so far meet with Your Royal indulgence, as not to be thought to Trespass too far on Your Royal Goodness. Dread Sire, permit me, Most Humbly to assure Your Majesty, That, Tho I Ex- perience in many Respects, the utmost Distress that want can produce, Yet it can hardly equal, the Pain I feel in Giving so much inquietude to the Royal Repose; Yet Necessity, and

6 This petition was referred to a committee of the Council on Mar jrd, 1769. and by that committee on June aist to the Board of Trade for consideration and report, and reported back by them NOT. 20. 1760. Capt. Carver sailed from Massa- chusetts for England on Feb. aand, 1769. Major Rogers arrived in England in June or July, 1769.