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The Petition of Edwd Gray in behalf of William Rotch & others as p Schedule annex'd Merchts & Inhabitants of Nantucket — Humbly sheweth — That, by an Act laying an Embargo upon all shipping, they are prevent'd procuring their summer Supply of salt, which is absolutely necessary for them to carry on their Fishery, the Whale fishery which was formerly their whole dependance being now...
Date: 17 February 1777
Volume: Volume 7