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To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay assembled at Watertown the 19th Day of July A D 1775.
The Petition of Benjn Foster & Jeremiah Obrian in behalf of the Inhabitants of Machias
Humbly Sheweth. that whereas your Petitioners have been at Great Expence in fixing a Privateer for the Defence of the Place, and its Situation is Such that it...
Date: 19 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives Assembled at Watertown, the 19th of July AD 1775
The Petition of the Subscribers in Behalf of the Inhabitants of Machias in the County of Lincoln and Province of Massachusetts Bayー
Humbly Sheweth, that your Petitioners in the Present unhappy Times, have been at Great Expence in guarding the Coast at Machias, by Which means the inhabitants...
Date: 19 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Petition of Jeremiah Obrian for Himself & the Machias Liberty Crew ー Humbly Sheweth, that your Petitioner with the above Crew hath been Employ'd in the Colony Service since the first day of February last, & have not receiv'd any Pay therefore the Chief of the Men being Almost Naked, & have no other dependance but the Money Allow'd by the Honble Court ー which Court through false...
Date: 18 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
by ord[er]s of Court I am ordrd to Cruise Six weeks in Latt 35:00 if the tryal between r Haz and my self: John Lambert and our two Companys Should be mentioned for tryall and we absent in the Colony Service Should take it as a favour as I Look on you to be a frind to mankind in General to Selicit the Court in our behalf for a Continuance untill we can be heard according to Commong Law and Reason...
Date: 30 July 1776
Volume: Volume 5
The Petition of Jeremiah O'Brian Humbly Sheweth ー
that your Petitioner has been in the Colony Service since the Twenty first Day of August last as Commr in Chief of the Sloop Machias Liberty & Schooner Diligent [Diligence] which two Vessels [now at] Newbury compleatly Equipt for Sea, with about fifty Men on board them Ready for any Service the Honorable Court shall think fit to employ them in...
Date: 2 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3