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The Case of Phillip Callbeck late commander in Chief of the Island St John and Thomas Wright one of the Council, Justice of the peace, and Surveyor General of said Island: ー Addressed to His Excellency General Washington ー
That on Friday the 17th of November two armed Schooners or Privateers arrived at Charlotte Town the Capital of the said Island, immediately after Captain Broughton and Selmon...
Date: 7 December 1775
Volume: Volume 2
The distressed situation that I left my Family in has determined me at the hazard of my life immediately to proceed to the Island of Saint John ー preparatory thereto I am obliged to goe to Beverly where I shall be detained the whole day which debars me from waiting on you in order to request your indulgence to be permitted to Ship on Board a Vessel which I have hired to goe from Beverly to Winter...
Date: 13 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
Sir, I should but ill deserve the generous treatment Your Excellency has been pleased to shew me had I not gratitude to acknowledge so great a favor ー I cannot ascribe any part of it to my own merit but must impute the whole to the philanthropy and humane disposition that so truly characterizes General Washington ー Be so obliging therefore to accept of the only return in my power that of my most...
Date: 24 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
I did myself the Honor by My dispatch dated, as well as I can recollect, the 3d of August last, to inform Your Lordship of Governor Paterson's having sailed, the day before, from the Island of St John for England, & that I had, as the eldest Councellor, in his absence, taken upon me the Command of the Island. ー Shortly after, General Gage sent a recruiting Party to the Island, & I thought...
Date: 5 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3
I beg Leave to acquaint you, that on the Seventeenth November last, two Privateers belonging to Beverly, one of them Armed with Six Six Pounders, the other four Six Pounders, and each of them with a number of Swivels, and Seventy five Men, Arrived at Charlotte Town, the Capital of His Majesty's Island of St John (where I reside as Commander in Chief, the Governor being absent on Leave:) and...
Date: 10 January 1776
Volume: Volume 3