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Gentlemen; We, the faithful & distressed inhabitants of Machias, beg leave, once more, in the most respectful manner, to approach your presence, & spread before you a just and full representation of our very critical situation.
On the 2d instant Capt Ichabod Jones arrived in this River with two sloops, accompanied with one of the Kings Tenders:2 On the 3d instant, a paper was...
Date: 14 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
...I shall venture to give your Excellency my sentiments of the necessity & importance of an immediate expedition against Nova Scotia, in as few words as I can.
If our late intelligence from Great Britain can be relied on, I apprehend none of our troops in Canada can be spared, whether Quebeck is, or is not, in our hands. Nova Scotia has heared of our intention to reduce that Province, as...
Date: 16 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I earnestly request you to send one of your frigates, or two or three of your ablest privateers to take the ship that infests our coasts, & clear the way for fishermen & coasters; & then perhaps some generous persons may be disposed to send us bread & take some of our lumber. I ask for a small army to subdue Nova Scotia, or at least that some person or persons, may have leave to...
Date: 1 September 1776
Volume: Volume 6
I think it my Duty to remind you, as you have doubtly been informed of what we have [done that w]e generously, perhaps too generously, gave the officers taken in the Schooner Diligent, all their pr[ivate pr]operty, & among other things all the plans of this Continent, in their possession, which oversight we greatly regret & for which we can make no apology but our distress & confusion...
Date: 19 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3