386 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. 



memorialists respectfully request that some prompt and efficient 

 measures may be adopted by our Government to protect us in our 

 rights and pursuits, and that our fishermen may not be molested, nor 

 our shores invaded with impunity by the subjects of any foreign 



power, 



Aaron Hayden, John Davis, 



John Btjrgin, Bucknam & Gunnison, 



Sa MUEI. W 1 1 EELER, DANIEL KlLTY, 



George Hobbs, Samuel Sturns, 



Elijah D. Green, O. S. Livermore, 



Joseph C. Noyes, Edward Baker, 



N. F. Deering, G. Lamprey, 



H. T. Emery, Benjamin B. Leavitt, 



Lorenzo Sabing, James M. Lincoln, 



Jonathan Buck, John T. Jones, 



Ezekiel Prince, Nathan Bucknam, 



Isaac Hobbs, Thomas Green, 



John Webster, Benjamin Bucknam, 



Edward Ilsley, John Shaw, 



John Norton, Caleb Chace, 



Charles Brooks, W. Eustis, 



Jerry Bunain, William M. Brooks. 



Abel Stephens, 



July 27, 1824. 



[Inclosure 1 in Memorial No. 1.] 



Eastport, July 27, 182b. 



I, Robert Small, master of the schooner Reindeer, of Lubec, do 

 testify, declare, and say: That I sailed from Lubec, in the State of 

 Maine, in the above schooner, on July 22, 1824, on a fishing voyage 

 in the Bay of Fundy. On Sunday, July 25, finding our water very 

 bad, went into a harbor in an uninhabited place called " Two Islands," 

 near Grand Menan, for the purpose of procuring a fresh supply of 

 wood and water. That we picked up about one cord of drift wood 

 from off the beach of said island and filled two barrels of water from 

 a spring or brook on said island. And on Monday morning follow- 

 ing, about four o'clock, got under way and towed out of the harbor, 

 it being calm ; and when from one to two miles from the shore we were 

 boarded by a barge from the British man-of-war brig Dotterel, con- 

 taining nine men with arms, &c, commanded by an officer from said 

 brig of the name of Jones, who took possession of my vessel and 

 paper-, and brought her to anchor, menacing myself and crew with 

 violence, threatening our lives, &c. They then took out all our crew 

 with the exception of myself, put them on board the schooner Friend, 

 gins of Lubec. which vessel they also captured and made a cartel 

 of, as they termed it, manned my vessel and ordered her for St. 

 Andrew's, New Brunswick. 



While on our voyage we had caught no fish within from six to 

 eighteen miles from shore. We had no goods or merchandise on 

 board, nor did we go into a harbor for any other purpose than to pro- 

 cure wood and water. 



Robert Small. 



