The Early History of the Colonial Post-OfficeWoolley, Mary Emma
History
The Early History of the Colonial Post-Office
Woolley, Mary Emma
Postal service -- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
dureing the said Terme of Twenty one yeares and Wee doe hereby also for
us our heires and successors strictly prohibit and forbid all and every
person and persons whatsoever (other then the said Thomas Neale his
executors administrators and assignes and such person or persons as he
or they shall nominate as aforesaid) to sett up exercise or execute the
like Office or Offices within the Iselands Colonys and Plantations
aforesaid or any of them at any time or times within or during the
continuance of the said Terme of one and Twenty yeares hereby granted
provided alwaies that nothing in these p’sents contained shall extend or
be construed to extend to restreyne any merchants masters or others
from sending any letters or pacquetts to or from the said Plantations or
Colonys or any of them by any masters of Ships or other vessells or by
any other person or persons which such merchants masters or others will
specially imploy or intrust for the carriage of the same according to
their respective direc̄c̄ons And the said Thomas Neale Doth for himselfe
his executors administrators and assignes covenant promise and grant to
and with us our heires and successors by these presents that he the said
Thomas Neale his executors administrators or assignes or such person or
persons as he or they shall nominate as aforesaid shall and will from
time to time upon his or their receipt or receipts of any letters or
Pacquetts which shall be directed into the said Iselands Colonyes and
Plantations or any of them from England or any other parts or from any
parts or places within the said Iselands Colonyes or Plantations to any
other parts or places within the same cause the said letters or
Pacquetts to be forthwith dispersed carried and delivered in the
severall parts of the said Iselands Colonies and Plantations as they
shall be directed and from time to time as he they or any of them shall
collect or receive any letters or Pacquetts to be sent from the said
Plantations Islands or Colonyes or any of them for England shall
dispatch and send away the same by the first Ship that shall be bound
for any Port of England to be there delivered to the next Deputy
Postmaster as aforesaid and where any letters or Pacquetts shall be
directed from any of the said Colonies Islands or Plantations to some
other of them that he or they shall dispatch and send away the same
according to the respective direc̄c̄ons by the first conveniency of
carriage or conveyance thereof and that these services shall be
performed with care and without any neglect or delay at the rates before
mentioned And the said Thomas Neale doth further for himselfe his
executors administrators and assignes covenant promise and grant to and
with us our heires and successors by these presents That he the said
Thomas Neale his executors administrators or assignes shall and will at
his and their own costs and charges keep accounts in bookes fairely
written of all the sum̄es of money and profitts whatsoever ariseing in
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