The Memorial of Arthur Dobbs Esquire Governor &c of North Carolina humbly Sheweth—

That your Memorialist having applied to the Assembly of this Province in April 1762 for an Aid to his Majesty, as well as to raise the Complement of Men demanded from this Province to recruit his Majestys Forces, by his Excellency Sir Jeffry Amherst, as to raise a Regiment or Body of Troops to join his Forces in America upon the Commencement of the War enter'd into with the King of Spain, who had enterd into an Alliance with France against Britain; and that Demand having been rejected by the Assembly. Your Memorialist upon Account of their undutiful Behaviour, thought it proper with the Concurrence of the Council to dissolve the Assembly; and as they had by a Resolution in which they desired the Council's and your Memorialist upon Account of their undutiful Behaviour, thought it proper with the Concurrence of the Council to dissolve the Assembly; and as they had by a Resolution in which they desired the Council's and your Memorialist's Concurrence allow'd only 25 Men and a Commission Officer to gaurd fort Johnston upon this River Cape Fear, and alike Number to Garrison fort Granville near Ocacock Bar, notwithstanding of a dangerous Spanish war, and as your Memorialist found the Number destined for Fort Johnston in which the greatest Part of his Majestys Artillery and Ordance Stores were kept too small: upon the Dissolution he thot. it proper to advise with his Majesty's Council upon it, as well as upon the Propriety and Expediency of Endeavouring to Raise the Number of Recruits demanded by Sir Jeffry Amherst, upon his Majesty's Commands to your Memorialist, by Lord Egremonts Letter, as appears by a Copy of the Minutes of the Council in which they unanimously concurred; as hereunto Annexed will appear—

Your Memorialist thinking it for his Majesty's Service and the Safety of this Province to endeavour to raise the Recruits demanded and to add to the Garison of Fort Johnston; appointed a proper Commander with Captains pay and 15 Soldiers so as to have 40 Men in Garison, and gave Orders to a proper Officer to raise the Recruits demanded or any Number under which he could raise in the Time proposed, and advanced to them for that Purpose £400 Sterling out of my private Fortune to expedite the Service; and as there was then no Assembly Subsisting, drew two Seperate Bills upon the Agents at London each of £200 to be paid to your Memorialists Order to reimburse him for the Sums advanced here, out of the Money granted by Parliament for the Use of this Province; which Bills the Agents have refused to Honour, as by their Orders from your Lordships, they were only to pay it to the Order of the Governor Council and Assembly, by which Means your Memorialist has not been reimbursed the said Sum laid out for his Majesty's Service and the Safety of this Province, which the ensuing Assembly refused to allow to your Memorialist

That your Memorialists Letters to Lord Egremont having been lost in the New York Packet; his Lordship had only Notice of it from Sir Jeffry Amherst to whom your Memorialist had inclos'd his Letters open for his Persual; as appears by the Copy of Lord Egremonts letter directed to your memorialist dated the 27th Novr. 1762 hereunto annexed, wherein it appears how highly his Majesty resented the Behaviour of that Assembly, by Ordering your Memorialist to reprimand them for it; and his approbation of your Memorialist's Conduct in Endeavouring to Raise the Recruits demanded notwithstanding the Assembly's Refusal to grant the Number required—

Your Memorialist having laid the said Letter before the present Assembly, and having applyd to them to Reimburse him the Sum Expended which he had drawn for, as he had sent as many Recruits to General Amherst as could be raised in a proper Time; or to join him and the Council to draw upon the Agents in London for an equal Sum; they instead of Complying never Returned him an answer to his Message hereunto annex'd.

Your Memorialist therefore humbly hopes that Your Lordships will order him to be repaid the Money he advanced, by the Agents in whose Hands the Money granted by Parliamt. for the Benefit of this Province is lodged; or to Answer the Bills already drawn upon them, and pay them to his order, or to give your Memorialist such other Reimbursement as to your Lordships in your Wisdom shall seem meet—