[FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. POWNALL, Thomas (1722-1805), Governor of Massachusetts. Letter signed ("T Pownall") with 21-word autograph addition, to Captain John North, Boston, 14 April 1758. 1 page, folio, integral address leaf, part of address leaf defective. Pownall plans a military expedition up the Penobscot River. Writing to Captain North at Fort Temaquid, Pownall orders him to take a force and "proceed as far up Penobscot River as the Falls... observing what streams fall into it and how the Land lyes [sic] upon the Banks." Pownall adds an autograph postscript: "What narrows or passes there are thereon. If you can perform this at all I desire it may be done immediately." -- POWNALL. Letter signed ("T Pownall") to Robert Monckton, Boston, 15 April 175[8]. 1 page, folio, soiling on top edge. To Monckton, recently appointed Governor of Nova Scotia, Pownall warns that he must monitor sea traffic carefully "otherwise they will run away to the West Indies directly, or indirectly through those Ports, whose Embargo does not descend to Vessels of a burthen lower than 50 Tons." If he fails, the consequences will be severe "this Province will be cut off from the means of supplying your Province and the Troops there with Provisions." -- POWNALL. Letter signed ("T. Pownall") to Colonel John Thomas, Boston, 23 January 1760. 2 pages, 8vo, browning, minor fold separations. A letter documenting the key role the colonial militias played in the war. Pownall orders that a new levy of troops be called. Each man "who shall voluntarily inlist [sic] to serve another Campaign" should each receive £9 as well as provisions and equipment. Pownall notes that he hopes officers will also be compensated, "for they are going on & with a Spirit that does Honour to the Province & Service to the King & his Dominions." Closing, Pownall writes that he sent the information so "That they may know my Attention to them, my Desire to serve them...and my success in being thus able to serve them." -- MONCKTON, Robert (1726-1782). Governor of New York. Manuscript document signed ("Robt. Monckton"), New York, 29 November 1762. 1 page, folio, mounted on board, irregular tear from bottom margin affects signature. Monckton grants John Anderson 19½ acres of land in the county of Westchester on the East River. -- COLDEN, Cadwallader (1688-1776). Governor's Council of New York. Autograph letter signed ("Cadwallader Colden") to James Hamilton, New York, 31 March 1750. 1½ pages, 4to, damage to bottom edge with some loss. In a letter to the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, Colden candidly discusses the situation immediately following King George's War. Noting that General Shirley and two other generals have been appointed "for settling the lines on this continent between the English & French & certain other affairs which were left undetermin'd at the late Treaty" he asks Hamilton for information on agreements with the Five Nations of Iroquois, noting: "we have a formal submission to the Crown on record of all their lands on the South side of Lake Erie (called by the Indians Oswego) of Omagasa river & of Cadavaekri lake." Continued boundary disputes and questions of territorial ownership would be the direct cause of the French and Indian War. Together five items. (5)