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Thomas Breedon's falling-out with Col. Temple
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John Brandon
Re: Thomas Breedon's falling-out with Col. Temple
The main evidence of Capt. Breedon's wily dealing is a letter from
Temple found in _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series: America
and West Indies, 1669-1674_, p. 8:
[Item 24. Mar. 2, 1669. Boston, N.E.] Sir Thomas Temple to Sec. Lord
Arlington. His last two letters were sent by Captains John
Fayreweather and John Long, with a map of Nova Scotia, the best he
could get. ... Has fully informed his Lordship of his sad condition,
unless His Majesty, in case Nova Scotia be surrendered to the French,
should make provision with the French Ambassador to reimburse Temple
what he paid M. De La Tour for the purchase of his lands in Nova Scotia
and Acadia, extending about 1,000 miles along the sea coast. Beseeches
him to be a means to His Majesty that he may be heard in his defence as
to anything Mr. Elliott hath to object against Temple. The country
never yieled above 900l. per annum in furs and elk skins, and Elliott
receives 600l. [from Temple]. Has had to pay merchants 180l. yearly to
remit it. Has already paid 2,600l. to Elliott in London and 700l. more
to merchants here for returning it to Elliott there in old English
money. Thos. Breedon, who Temple employed in England to make his
addressed to His Majesty, on his return from Breda worked so craftily
with Elliott and the Lord Chancellor that this part of the country,
which is propriety and Temple's purchase confirmed under the Great
Seale of England, was given to Elliott, 'under the pretence that I was
a delinquent and a great Cromwellist; though I made it appear to his
Majesty at my arrival into England, by old Mr. George Kirke, then
Master of
Whitehall, that the true reason of coming into these parts was to fly
Cromwell's fury, for having laid a design for his late Majesty's escape
when he was at his trial; which Mr. Kirke, if he be alive, will inform
your Lordship I have very near effected, having made a brother of mine,
Col. Edmund Temple, captain of the guard for one night of his Majesty's
person; it coming to Cromwell's ears I was privately advised by the
then Lord Fiens (in great favour with Cromwell) to absent myself till
the times might be more propitious, he [Fiennes] being my kinsman; and
my old Lord Say, my very good friend, and my uncle advised and assisted
me in making this purchase, which, as I have declared, was thus
injuriously and unjustly given to Mr. Thos. Elliott, who gave the
government to Captain Breedon, he indenting to pay fine 600l. yearly.
So soon as I was informed of the treachery I repaired into England, and
finding Mr. Kirke alive he very nobly informed his Majesty of the
truth, who very graciously gave me the government [of Nova Scotia]
again; but finding the Chancellor then so great in favour, and Mr.
Elliott, their power being too great for me to struggle with, I
consented to give Mr. Elliott the 600l. Breedon promised him, and
performed it until the war, and then also he pressing for his rent as
he termed it, I sent him a ship with 40,000 lbs. weight of sugar and
500l. bills, which was unfortunately taken in sight of Barbadoes by a
Zealander, which great loss I was never able to repair, the ship being
wholly my own, and indeed all I ever had in my life.'"
But see _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660_, p. 471:
"[27 Dec. 1658. Boston. New England.] 58. Col. Thos. Temple to [Lord
Fienes and Company]. ... Nova Scotia very considerable to England, from
the staple commodities it may produce; the chief, fishing. Furs, all
sorts of mines, timber, excellent coals, and oil fishing in great
abundance. Refers them to the instructions he has given Capt. Breedon,
one of the chief of the New England merchants; has empowered him to
contract with the Company on his part. Has concluded with Col. Crowne
for a portion of land that formerly belonged to the Plymouth patent;
paid the New England merchants 5,000l.; also Capt. Leverett and the
State, as bound by articles to the Lord Protector, 2,300l.; and Mons.
Delatour, the twentieth skin, as by agreement. Concerning Capt. Rea's
200l. per annum, Capt. Breedon has orders to treat with him about it.
...."
Its seems Breedon and Col. Temple were on decent terms at this time
(1658), as Breedon was to act as Temple's emissary to England. (Capt.
Rea of the "200l. per annum" was the husband of Jerusha Gibbons,
daughter of Maj. Edward Gibbons of Boston, to whose widow Temple owed
several thousand pounds [£3,379, to be exact]. Temple's annual
payments of £200 to Mrs. Margaret Gibbons transferred to Capt. Rea
after Margaret's death. It is uncertain whether the Gibbons
descendants ever made up these losses, as Temple gave orders in Dec.
1659 to "buy out Mr. Rea with 500l." [_Calendar of State Papers,
Colonial Series, 1574-1660_, p. 478]. Possibly Temple had an uneasy
conscience over this transaction--or series of transactions--as
Anderson, in the GMB sketch of Gibbons, notes that "Sir Thomas Temple
gave £100 to Love Gibbons, daughter of Jotham Gibbons, in the hands of
Capt. Samuel Scarlett about 1663, and William Prout, Love's husband,
pursued it from Scarlett's executors.")
Breedon's treachery must have occurred between 1658 and ca. 1662, as
_Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series: America and West Indies,
1661-1668_, p. 79, shows the following two items:
[Item 247. 1662 ?] Petition of Col. Thomas Temple, Governor of Nova
Scotia, to the King. Thos. Breedon has fraudently obtained a
commission for the government and trade of Nova Scotia. Apprehends
that as Breedon is now returning thither, he will seize upon the
petitioner's trading houses, vessels, and goods. Prays for a warrant
to prohibit Breedon from doing anything to the petitioner's prejudice.
[Item 248. Feb. 28, 1662. Whitehall.] The King's warrant suspending
Thos. Breedon from the office of Governor of Nova Scotia, who "did
lately by surprise and indirectly obtain from us our Letter Patent and
Commission, to the wrong and prejudice of Thos. Temple, Esq., who is in
present possession of the same."
_Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay_ shows a
similar shift over time in their relations, from cordial to embittered.
Vol. 4, part 1, p. 342:
[26 May 1658.] On the motion of Capt Breedon in behalfe of Colonel Tho
Temple, it is ordered, yt ye surveyor generall deliuer to the sd
Colonell Thomas Temple, or his order, three hundred weight of minion
shott, wch the Court lends to him on his promise to repay ye same in
like good shott.
Vol. 4, part 2, p. 69:
[8 Oct. 1662.] Itt is ordered, that Capt Tho Breden shall be sent for,
and acquainted that the Court hath tooke notice of his contemptuous
carriage in the Court in the forenoon, & his vsurping authority ouer
this gouermt, by comanding the Generall Court, as in his warrant
appeares, shall stand comitted to prison till the Court take further
order.
It was voted by the whole Court, mett together, that there
should be a millitary watch this night, & till this Court shall take
further order, each of the fower capts to send two files each night.
This Court, hauing considered of the insolencjes & contempt of
Capt Thomas Breden against this Court, in the face of the country,
tending to mutiny, sedition, & subuertion of the gouernmt here
established by his majtys letters pattents, doe sentence the sajd
Thomas Breden to giue two hundred pound bonnd, wth sufficjent suretjes
for his good behauiour, and also that he pay a fine to the countrje of
two hundred pounds, and that he stand comitted till he performe this
judgmt.
Vol. 4, part 2, p. 75:
[27 May 1663.] Vpon the request of Sr Thomas Temple, seconded by Mr
John Winthrop, Gouernor of Conecticut, this Court doeth remjtt the fine
of two hundred pounds imposed on Capt Bredon to the sajd Sr Thomas, to
be disposed of at his pleasure. [marginal note: "Capt Breedons fine
remitted & giuen to Sr Tho. Temple to dispose, &c."]
I assume this means that Breedon was to pay the fine to Temple himself,
rather than to the Massachusetts Bay government.
When the royal commissioners (Nicolls, Carr, Cartwright, and Maverick)
came over in 1665 they held their hearings, on at least one occasion
(24 May 1665), "at the house of Capt Thomas Breaden" (_Records of the
Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay_, Vol. 4, part 2, p.
208), which shows that Maverick and Breedon probably thought of
themselves as having "common cause" at least this late.
Temple found in _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series: America
and West Indies, 1669-1674_, p. 8:
[Item 24. Mar. 2, 1669. Boston, N.E.] Sir Thomas Temple to Sec. Lord
Arlington. His last two letters were sent by Captains John
Fayreweather and John Long, with a map of Nova Scotia, the best he
could get. ... Has fully informed his Lordship of his sad condition,
unless His Majesty, in case Nova Scotia be surrendered to the French,
should make provision with the French Ambassador to reimburse Temple
what he paid M. De La Tour for the purchase of his lands in Nova Scotia
and Acadia, extending about 1,000 miles along the sea coast. Beseeches
him to be a means to His Majesty that he may be heard in his defence as
to anything Mr. Elliott hath to object against Temple. The country
never yieled above 900l. per annum in furs and elk skins, and Elliott
receives 600l. [from Temple]. Has had to pay merchants 180l. yearly to
remit it. Has already paid 2,600l. to Elliott in London and 700l. more
to merchants here for returning it to Elliott there in old English
money. Thos. Breedon, who Temple employed in England to make his
addressed to His Majesty, on his return from Breda worked so craftily
with Elliott and the Lord Chancellor that this part of the country,
which is propriety and Temple's purchase confirmed under the Great
Seale of England, was given to Elliott, 'under the pretence that I was
a delinquent and a great Cromwellist; though I made it appear to his
Majesty at my arrival into England, by old Mr. George Kirke, then
Master of
Whitehall, that the true reason of coming into these parts was to fly
Cromwell's fury, for having laid a design for his late Majesty's escape
when he was at his trial; which Mr. Kirke, if he be alive, will inform
your Lordship I have very near effected, having made a brother of mine,
Col. Edmund Temple, captain of the guard for one night of his Majesty's
person; it coming to Cromwell's ears I was privately advised by the
then Lord Fiens (in great favour with Cromwell) to absent myself till
the times might be more propitious, he [Fiennes] being my kinsman; and
my old Lord Say, my very good friend, and my uncle advised and assisted
me in making this purchase, which, as I have declared, was thus
injuriously and unjustly given to Mr. Thos. Elliott, who gave the
government to Captain Breedon, he indenting to pay fine 600l. yearly.
So soon as I was informed of the treachery I repaired into England, and
finding Mr. Kirke alive he very nobly informed his Majesty of the
truth, who very graciously gave me the government [of Nova Scotia]
again; but finding the Chancellor then so great in favour, and Mr.
Elliott, their power being too great for me to struggle with, I
consented to give Mr. Elliott the 600l. Breedon promised him, and
performed it until the war, and then also he pressing for his rent as
he termed it, I sent him a ship with 40,000 lbs. weight of sugar and
500l. bills, which was unfortunately taken in sight of Barbadoes by a
Zealander, which great loss I was never able to repair, the ship being
wholly my own, and indeed all I ever had in my life.'"
But see _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660_, p. 471:
"[27 Dec. 1658. Boston. New England.] 58. Col. Thos. Temple to [Lord
Fienes and Company]. ... Nova Scotia very considerable to England, from
the staple commodities it may produce; the chief, fishing. Furs, all
sorts of mines, timber, excellent coals, and oil fishing in great
abundance. Refers them to the instructions he has given Capt. Breedon,
one of the chief of the New England merchants; has empowered him to
contract with the Company on his part. Has concluded with Col. Crowne
for a portion of land that formerly belonged to the Plymouth patent;
paid the New England merchants 5,000l.; also Capt. Leverett and the
State, as bound by articles to the Lord Protector, 2,300l.; and Mons.
Delatour, the twentieth skin, as by agreement. Concerning Capt. Rea's
200l. per annum, Capt. Breedon has orders to treat with him about it.
...."
Its seems Breedon and Col. Temple were on decent terms at this time
(1658), as Breedon was to act as Temple's emissary to England. (Capt.
Rea of the "200l. per annum" was the husband of Jerusha Gibbons,
daughter of Maj. Edward Gibbons of Boston, to whose widow Temple owed
several thousand pounds [£3,379, to be exact]. Temple's annual
payments of £200 to Mrs. Margaret Gibbons transferred to Capt. Rea
after Margaret's death. It is uncertain whether the Gibbons
descendants ever made up these losses, as Temple gave orders in Dec.
1659 to "buy out Mr. Rea with 500l." [_Calendar of State Papers,
Colonial Series, 1574-1660_, p. 478]. Possibly Temple had an uneasy
conscience over this transaction--or series of transactions--as
Anderson, in the GMB sketch of Gibbons, notes that "Sir Thomas Temple
gave £100 to Love Gibbons, daughter of Jotham Gibbons, in the hands of
Capt. Samuel Scarlett about 1663, and William Prout, Love's husband,
pursued it from Scarlett's executors.")
Breedon's treachery must have occurred between 1658 and ca. 1662, as
_Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series: America and West Indies,
1661-1668_, p. 79, shows the following two items:
[Item 247. 1662 ?] Petition of Col. Thomas Temple, Governor of Nova
Scotia, to the King. Thos. Breedon has fraudently obtained a
commission for the government and trade of Nova Scotia. Apprehends
that as Breedon is now returning thither, he will seize upon the
petitioner's trading houses, vessels, and goods. Prays for a warrant
to prohibit Breedon from doing anything to the petitioner's prejudice.
[Item 248. Feb. 28, 1662. Whitehall.] The King's warrant suspending
Thos. Breedon from the office of Governor of Nova Scotia, who "did
lately by surprise and indirectly obtain from us our Letter Patent and
Commission, to the wrong and prejudice of Thos. Temple, Esq., who is in
present possession of the same."
_Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay_ shows a
similar shift over time in their relations, from cordial to embittered.
Vol. 4, part 1, p. 342:
[26 May 1658.] On the motion of Capt Breedon in behalfe of Colonel Tho
Temple, it is ordered, yt ye surveyor generall deliuer to the sd
Colonell Thomas Temple, or his order, three hundred weight of minion
shott, wch the Court lends to him on his promise to repay ye same in
like good shott.
Vol. 4, part 2, p. 69:
[8 Oct. 1662.] Itt is ordered, that Capt Tho Breden shall be sent for,
and acquainted that the Court hath tooke notice of his contemptuous
carriage in the Court in the forenoon, & his vsurping authority ouer
this gouermt, by comanding the Generall Court, as in his warrant
appeares, shall stand comitted to prison till the Court take further
order.
It was voted by the whole Court, mett together, that there
should be a millitary watch this night, & till this Court shall take
further order, each of the fower capts to send two files each night.
This Court, hauing considered of the insolencjes & contempt of
Capt Thomas Breden against this Court, in the face of the country,
tending to mutiny, sedition, & subuertion of the gouernmt here
established by his majtys letters pattents, doe sentence the sajd
Thomas Breden to giue two hundred pound bonnd, wth sufficjent suretjes
for his good behauiour, and also that he pay a fine to the countrje of
two hundred pounds, and that he stand comitted till he performe this
judgmt.
Vol. 4, part 2, p. 75:
[27 May 1663.] Vpon the request of Sr Thomas Temple, seconded by Mr
John Winthrop, Gouernor of Conecticut, this Court doeth remjtt the fine
of two hundred pounds imposed on Capt Bredon to the sajd Sr Thomas, to
be disposed of at his pleasure. [marginal note: "Capt Breedons fine
remitted & giuen to Sr Tho. Temple to dispose, &c."]
I assume this means that Breedon was to pay the fine to Temple himself,
rather than to the Massachusetts Bay government.
When the royal commissioners (Nicolls, Carr, Cartwright, and Maverick)
came over in 1665 they held their hearings, on at least one occasion
(24 May 1665), "at the house of Capt Thomas Breaden" (_Records of the
Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay_, Vol. 4, part 2, p.
208), which shows that Maverick and Breedon probably thought of
themselves as having "common cause" at least this late.
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John Brandon
Re: Thomas Breedon's falling-out with Col. Temple
_Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society_, 3rd series, vol.
7 (1838): 120:
XIX. Letter from Mr. Thomas Lake, in Boston, to Captain John Leverett,
Merchant in London. Dated Sept. 2, 1657.
EXTRACT.
"The 29th of August, Mr. Scottow tendered L210 for Monsieur La
Tour, and demanded two original Deeds, which he said are by contract to
be delivered upon payment of the L210, and would not pay anything
without the receipt of the Deeds. Now I shall inform Captain Breaden
fully, of the whole action; and Mr. Usher, when he comes, will inform
you, so as at present I shall not trouble you further with."
"How matters are at the Fort, I suppose Captain Breaden will
inform. Col. Temple saith he is resolved to comply with Col. Crowne on
some terms, to have his interest. Col. Temple was honourably received
ashore by the Governour and Company's soldiers. He hath a noble
spirit, answering what you wrote of him in Mr. Brown's letter, to whose
house he went at Sudbury. I fear his noble spirit will not suit with
Acadie, or at least the profit of Acadie will not maintain his post.
Myself and some other friends, have spoken seriously to him for a
frugal management of the same. He accepts of advice and saith he will
by degrees clear himself of the unnecessary charge, which he is at by
many servants, that he brought over, who will be as drones to eat up
all the honey, that others labour for, and that he will have but two at
most, to wait upon himself."
7 (1838): 120:
XIX. Letter from Mr. Thomas Lake, in Boston, to Captain John Leverett,
Merchant in London. Dated Sept. 2, 1657.
EXTRACT.
"The 29th of August, Mr. Scottow tendered L210 for Monsieur La
Tour, and demanded two original Deeds, which he said are by contract to
be delivered upon payment of the L210, and would not pay anything
without the receipt of the Deeds. Now I shall inform Captain Breaden
fully, of the whole action; and Mr. Usher, when he comes, will inform
you, so as at present I shall not trouble you further with."
"How matters are at the Fort, I suppose Captain Breaden will
inform. Col. Temple saith he is resolved to comply with Col. Crowne on
some terms, to have his interest. Col. Temple was honourably received
ashore by the Governour and Company's soldiers. He hath a noble
spirit, answering what you wrote of him in Mr. Brown's letter, to whose
house he went at Sudbury. I fear his noble spirit will not suit with
Acadie, or at least the profit of Acadie will not maintain his post.
Myself and some other friends, have spoken seriously to him for a
frugal management of the same. He accepts of advice and saith he will
by degrees clear himself of the unnecessary charge, which he is at by
many servants, that he brought over, who will be as drones to eat up
all the honey, that others labour for, and that he will have but two at
most, to wait upon himself."
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John Brandon
Re: Thomas Breedon's falling-out with Col. Temple
It's interesting to see that Capt. Breedon had placed a Mr. Gladman
governor of the fort ...
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John Brandon wrote:
governor of the fort ...
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John Brandon wrote:
_Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society_, 3rd series, vol.
7 (1838): 120:
XIX. Letter from Mr. Thomas Lake, in Boston, to Captain John Leverett,
Merchant in London. Dated Sept. 2, 1657.
EXTRACT.
"The 29th of August, Mr. Scottow tendered L210 for Monsieur La
Tour, and demanded two original Deeds, which he said are by contract to
be delivered upon payment of the L210, and would not pay anything
without the receipt of the Deeds. Now I shall inform Captain Breaden
fully, of the whole action; and Mr. Usher, when he comes, will inform
you, so as at present I shall not trouble you further with."
"How matters are at the Fort, I suppose Captain Breaden will
inform. Col. Temple saith he is resolved to comply with Col. Crowne on
some terms, to have his interest. Col. Temple was honourably received
ashore by the Governour and Company's soldiers. He hath a noble
spirit, answering what you wrote of him in Mr. Brown's letter, to whose
house he went at Sudbury. I fear his noble spirit will not suit with
Acadie, or at least the profit of Acadie will not maintain his post.
Myself and some other friends, have spoken seriously to him for a
frugal management of the same. He accepts of advice and saith he will
by degrees clear himself of the unnecessary charge, which he is at by
many servants, that he brought over, who will be as drones to eat up
all the honey, that others labour for, and that he will have but two at
most, to wait upon himself."