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We the Subscribers Testify and Say, that on the 29th day of May 1775 Captain [John] Linsey Commander of a Ship of war then at Tarpaulin Cove: Came with a Number of armed men and landed on one of the Elizabeth Islands called Reskatemeth and came to the place where the men that oned part of the Stock on Said Island were Sheering their Sheep and demanded the Sheep Saying and promising that he would...
Date: 31 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I make no doubt but your Honour long Before this, hath been apprizd of our being Prisoners in New York — That our present Situation is most wretched your Honr need not doubt, which I Likewise hope you will Soon be assured of from men of Undoubted Veracity — There are more than two Hundred and fifty prisoners of us on board this Ship (Some of which are Sick and without the least assistance from...
Date: 9 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7