At a Council holden at Halifax on the 23d November 1776
The Lieutenant Governor having taken under consideration the descent made at Cumberland by the Rebels from New England, and the Accounts lately received of their Numbers, Also the danger with which the interior parts of this Province is threatned, and Application having been made by the Lieutenant Governor to Captain Jacobs, Commander of His Majesty's Ship Amazon requesting that he would Order the Marines on board the Ship under his Command, to be landed, in Order that they may be sent as a further reinforcement to dislodge and disperse the Rebels —
In Answer to which Captain Jacobs having Answered by Letter, that he could not reconcile to. his duty a step that wou'd so materially incapacitate the Amazon from Executing any Service for which she may be destined by the Commander in Chief, on his Arrival at New York.
It was then Advised that Application be made to General Massey that if he should think it proper and Necessary, he would please to make the Above requisition of Captain Jacobs, as from the information of the Lieutenant Governor the Amazon had a considerable body more than her Complement by the Addition of the Company of His Majesty's Ship Savage lately lost at the Isle of Cape Breton. —
