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To His Excellency the Lieutenant General
Sir John Harvey Knight Commander of
the Order of the Bath and Knight...
Commander of the Royal Hanoverian
Guelphic Order Lieutenant Govenor and
Commander in Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia and
its Depencies. etc. etc. etc
The Petition of David LeBlanc of Arichat in
the County of Richmond and Isalnd of Cape
Breton mariner
Most Humbly [illegible

That Petitioner is owner of a certain Schooner
called the Sarah Livingston that on the eighteenth
day of June cast with cargo of flour he was standing
into Halifax harbour the wind was blowing west south
west and Petitioner was a course close to the wind the
night was clear and the Government Schooner
Daring Captain Joseph W.E Darby was
approaching from the windward [illegible]
free and appeared to be steering directly
down upon Petitioners vessel that he hailed
the said Schooner and called to them to
keep their cuff but received no answer the watch