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Order to Pay John Stone and Wm Grow.

York Nov 10th 1781

Please to pay Cap' John Stone & Capt W" Grow two of the Committy of York the Sum of three pounds thirteen Shillings & Six pence Lawf' Mony it being for Vallue Rec in the following articles for the use of the Prisoners on board the Carteel Penobscot - Vizt

John Hopkins Esq' Dept' Commissary of Prisoners at Boston

Deposition of Joseph Hibbert.

The Deposition of Joseph Hibbert master of the Schooner Penobscot a Carteal bound from Boston to Penobscot with forty odd British Prisoners on Board and Edward Prince and Robert Perry Sailers on board saild from Boston the 28th of Oct last and the Wind heading them were Oblig'd to put in to Cape Ann the 29th where they by occasion of the Contrary Winds lay till the 8th of Nov" instant and then came to Sale with the Wind at about West North West but the Wind shifting the same Day were Oblig'd to put in to York Harb the same day at about 4 o'Clock afternoon where by Contrary Winds they have been Obliged to lay

ever since and being out of Provisions applied to Capt John Stone one of the Comtee of Correspondence there, who accordingly supplied us.

York Nov 10th 1781

Joseph Hibbert

Robert Perry Lieut of the

Edwd Prince Master of the Packet Comet

York in New England Nov" 10th 1781

Then the above named Joseph Hibbert Robert Perry & Edwd Prince who sign the above Deposition personally appearing and after due caution made oath to the truth of the truth-before me

Dan' Moulton

Jus Peace

Memorial of George Stillman.

To The Honble Senate & Honble House of Representatives May it Please your Honors The Memorial of George Stillman, in behalf of himself and several others Humbly Sheweth, that your memorialist has on Board a Quantity of Publick Stores for the Garison at Machias, which is at this time Intirely distitute of any kind of Supplys, and having had the Promise of being Conveyed by the States Sloop Commanded by Captain Little In consequence of which your memorialist has been waiting some Considerable time for said Sloop, the like has been the Case with the Vessell bound with Publick Stores to Kenebunk we likewise are Inform'd the Said Sloop has been Some time Ready for Sea, & By the best account from the eastward we are able to obtain the Coast is Clear at the eastward except from Small Cruisers, a number of other Vessell are now waiting to take the Benefit of her Convoy. Your Memorialist humbly Prays your Honors to take the matter under your Consideration &

Point out such Steps as you in your Wisdom may think Proper, & your Memorialist as in Duty Bounds, &c

Boston June 15th 1782

George Stillman

Petition of Inhabts of Sterlingtown.

June 1782

To the Honble Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of a Plantation called Sterlingtown in the County of Lincoln Humbly Sheweth That this Plantation is very new, began in the year 1776 by one Family; in the year 1777 two more were added; and has since increased so that the whole number of Families and Settlers (including several single men) are now Fourteen the whole number of male Inhabitants above the age of sixteen doth not exceed twenty ¶That we are scituate in the Wilderness at a great Distance from any other Settlements, tho' bordering on incorporated Towns, through which we have not as yet been able to obtain any Roads so as to get any of our Lumber or other Effects to market but with the greatest Difficulty- That in December 1778 a large barn belonging to Philip Robbins was consumed by Fire with almost all the grain raised that year by all the Settlers in the Place, together with a large Quantity of Hay, which flung the Inhabitants into great Distress, and occasioned the loss of ten Head of Cattle in the Winter That in the Year 1779 several of our Settlers turned out at the Siege of Majorbagaduce as Volunteers without any Pay; and in the Summer following by Advice of Gen' Wadsworth we kept a Watch & Scouting Party at our own Expence

That several Persons formerly Settlers here have left their Habitations on account of the Difficulties in the East

ward, and several of those now here, have been drove from their Farms on the Island, and other places by the Eenemy. That in the year 1779 We were assessed by the Town of Warren as adjacent Inhabitants, & their Constable took by Distress some of our most necessary farming Tools. That in the Year 1780 We petitioned the Honble the General Court setting forth some of our Distresses and praying to be exempted from paying Taxes; in Consequence whereof the Honble Court in 1781 ordered that we should be exempted; and that the articles taken by Warren should be returned; which Order has never been comply'd with, though often sought for and Requested, the same Reasons still Remain for our being excused from paying Taxes, which were set forth in that Petition, only that the Town of Waldoborough has granted us a Road to be laid out to their Settlement, but is not yet laid out nor opened

Wherefore your Petitioners humbly pray your Excellency and Honors, that we may be excused from paying Taxes until we are in Circumstances of Ability equal with our Brethren in the Commonwealth, and then we will most readily pay our Proportion And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c

Petition of Inhabts Fryeburg and Other Towns.

To The General Court of Massachusetts

The Memorial and Petition of the Committees of Fryeburg, Bridgton and Sudbury, Cannada, in the County's of York and Cumberland. Humbly Sheweth. that whereas

the Indians Did on the third and fourth days of august last make an assault on the Inhabitants of Sudbury cannada. and Places adjoining on and near Androscoggin River. and Did Kill Sculp Carry Captive and Plunder some of the Inhabitants. The Season is now come, that the Fronteers of the County of York and Cumberland are Exposed to the Depredations of those Saveges. The Large Lakes and Rivers that lay between Sudbury, Cannada and Qebeck. admits the Indians to have an Easy access to that Place. and that being almost the only avenue by which they can have access on the back Settlements of the County of York and Cumberland. and if Sudbury, Cannada is left by its Inhabitants to the Fronteer from Fryeburg to Brunswick will be Exposed and Sudbury, Cannada become a Lurking Place for the Savages. to the great Distress of these back Settlements being thus Exposed and momently Expecting those merciless Savages. to fall on us or our neighbour. Our humble Petition and Request. to the honorable Court. is that a Compeny of men might be imeadeatly raised and stationed at Sudbury, cannada to gaurd and Scout on the fronteers of the Countys aforesaid- We as in Duty bound shall Ever Pray

Resolves on Petition of David Strout et als.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

House of Representatives June 17th 1782

On the Petition of David Strout and others, Matrosses at Cape Elizabeth and Falmouth under the Command of