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Copies of Papers accompanying Gov. Pownall's Letter.
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CAPE SABLES, September 15th, 1758.
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To His Excellency THOMAS POWNALL, Esq. and Honourable Council in Boston.
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DEAR SIRS, —
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We your humble petitioners have taken this opportunity to write to you these few lines, hoping they will obtain the happy end for which they are designed and we hope above all things that your Excellency and worthy Council will have compassion on us your poor distressed fellow creatures and grant to us this humble request that we earnestly implore of you and that it might please your Excellency and worthy Council to take us under your Excellencys Government, and if it might please your Excellency and Worthy Council to settle us here in this land where we now live we shall ever hold it our bounden duty to love and honour you with our last Breath, and We will assure your Excellency and worthy Council that we are heartily willing to do whatever you require of us as far as we are able to perform. We are also willing to pay to your Excellency's Government our Yearly Taxes we are also willing to support and maintain the War against the King of France as long as we live and if ever any damage should be done here on our Territories by the Savages it shall be required at our hands, we are in all about 40 families which consist of about 150 Souls the savages that live between here and Halifax do not exceed 20 men, and they are also willing to come under the same Government with us and to pay their yearly taxes to your Excellency's Government. And if we shall be so fortunate as to obtain so much friendship with your Excellency as to be received into your Excellency's Government, we will send in two men with a list of all our names and the Savages will send in two likewise with a list of their names and we will all submit to do whatever you require of us and if any others should desert from elsewhere Savages or French and come to us we will in no wise receive them unless they get from under your Excellency's hand liberty and now to conclude if we should be so unfortunate as to be denied this our humble request we will submit to your Excellency's goodness to do with us whatever may seem good in your sight only this we beg that if we may no longer stay here that we may be received into New England to live as the other Neutral French do for we had all rather die here than go to any
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