Sheweth,

That your Memorialists were formerly Inhabitants of the Provinces now stiled & Acknowledged the United States of America, where they respectively Attached themselves to the cause of their Sovereign and the British Government, & in the Course of the late Disturbances gave full & strong Proofs of such their Attachment.

In Consequence whereof your Memorialists have been obliged to take up their Residence in the wild and uncultivated parts of Nova Scotia after sacrificing in their Professions, Occupations & Properties to the Amount as follows vizt.

Your Memorialists therefore pray that their Cases may be taken into your Consideration, in order that your Memorialists may be enabled under your Report, to receive such Aid or Relief as their Loss and Services may be found to deserve.

N.B.- this meml. tied up with Mr. WALTERs Bundle but not entered in the list.

Mem.- The Proofs & Evidences of the above will be exhibited by the Revd. Mr. Wm. WALTER or his Substitute when required by the Honorable the Commissioners.

Portsmouth Street No. 3  }
Lincoln's Inn fields             }      6 March 1784

Great Britain, Public Record Office, Audit Office, Class 13, Volume 51, pages 622-624.

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