Thursday, June 22d [1775], ー Capt. Jabez Cobb arrives from Machias and reports a disturbance. The inhabitants took one of the King's ships,2 killed the captain, and one Robert Avery, of Norwich, being forced to stand the deck, on board of her, was killed by a ball in the head.
1. Harold A. Innis, ed., The Diary of Simeon Perkins, 1766-1780 (Toronto, 1948), p. 95. Hereafter referred to as Innis, ed., Perkins' Diary.
2. H.M.S. Margaretta.
