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Sir I am very much obliged to you for your kind Letter of the 29th ult. p Lambert, which was intercepted and demanded with my other Letters &c at Brunswick by Samuel Thompson of that place and broke open, Copies of which have been industriously circulated thro' the Country by the different Committee men &c, several parts thereof being misconstrued or misunderstood by the illiterate ー I...
Date: 10 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I reced your favor of the 29th April by Lambert, which was intercepted by Thompson and broke open with my other Letters ー I should have answered Capt Mowats kind Letter, but did not know how to convey it sooner ー I beg you will deliver him the inclosed ー I suppose you have heard of my being in Thompson's Clutches The Letter to Capt Mowat mentions the particulars ー my best Complimts to Mrs Tyng...
Date: 10 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
I beg leave to lay before you that Mr Samuel Thompson of Brunswick one of the Delegates of your Congress has attended by about Forty or upwards of His Minute Men &c Armed, restrained me from following my lawful Occupation, and has detained me here, and compelled a Bond to be given the 4th instant with two Securities for me in the penal Sum of £2,000. lawful money payable to you or the Heads...
Date: 10 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the Hon'ble Provincial Congress of the Massachusets Bay convened and Assembled at Watertown
The Petition of Edward Parry Agent to the Contractor for Masts, Humbly Sheweth
That your Petitioner has been detained in his Occupation of shipping a small quantity of Masts and Lumber he was providing for his Majesty's Dock yard in Nova Scotia on the beginning of May last at George Town in Kennebeck...
Date: 8 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1