At a generall Courte at Boston
the 6th of the 3th mo 1646
The Cort considringe ye necessity of raising such manifactures of
engins of mils to go by water for speedy dispatch of much worke wth
few hands, F.r being sufficiently informed of ye ability of ye
petitionr to
pforme such workes grant his petition (yt no othr pson shall set up,
or use any such new invention, or trade for fourteen yeares w'hout ye
licence of him ye said Joseph Jenkes) so farr as concernes any such new invention, & so as it shalbe alwayes in
ye powr of this Corte to restrain ye exportation of
such manifactures, & ye prizes of them to moderation if occasion so require.
A few added notes on Mr. Jenkes (submitted by Joanne Lahr-Kreischer, accompanying the above text):
JOSEPH JENKES [see his page in the WhippleGenWeb], of Hounslow, Middlesex [now in Greater London], England; settled at Lynn, Mass., in 1643, where he died in 1683, aged 81 years.
"A man of great genius," he made the dies for coining the first money; also built the first fire engine in America.
His son, Joseph, was Governor's assistant of Rhode Island in 1681, and built a large iron foundry near Providence.
His grandson, Joseph, was Governor of Rhode Island, 1727-1732.