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That your Petitioner fix'd out a small Schooner called the Hannah & Molly as a Privateer to Distress the Enemy's of the United Colonies, said Schooner Mounted Eight Swivell Gunns and carried Fourteen Men, and has since she was fix'd out, taken two loops Employ'd in carrying Provissions to the Enemy, both which Sloops are now Libeled at the Court appointed to Try the Captures of such Vessels,...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
That your Memorialist would Set forth to Your Honors that there was a Proclamation Issued out at Hallifax the 17th October 1775 to Encourage persons to take Shelter in the Province of Nova Scotia and that there are Numbers who Resort there for the Sake of their Trade, and many of Our profess'd Enemies that belong to that Government are known to be Supplying them. Your Memorialist Prays that in...
Date: 4 August 1776
Volume: Volume 6