PERIOD FROM 1818 TO 1836. 337 



State of Maine, Washington, ss. # 



Then personally appeared the said Robert Small, and made solemn 

 oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed was true. Be- 

 fore me, 



Frederick Hobbs, Justice of the Peace. 



[Inclosure 2 in Memorial No. 1.] 



Eastport, July 27, 1824. 



I, Elisha Small, of Lubec, Maine, on oath declare and say: That on 

 the 7th of July instant I left Lubec as master of the schooner Ruby, 

 on a fishing voyage in the Bay of Fundy ; and on the 25th of July, 

 being nearly destitute of wood and water, we made for the outer 

 islands lying near Grand Menan, and, finding the sea so heavy that 

 we could not land, we went into the harbor of the " Two Islands," so 

 called, to get a supply. We got in there between three and four 

 o'clock p. in., when I sent my boat and seven hands to fill water and 

 get wood. We got one boat load of drift wood and filled four barrels 

 of water, when daylight shut in and we had not time to get more. 

 The wind died away calm, and we could not get out of the harbor 

 again that night. The next morning we got under way with a very 

 light wind, and got out of the harbor, and it died away calm again. 

 We were then boarded by a barge belonging to the British armed brig 

 Dotterel, commanded by an officer of said brig by the name of Jones, 

 and having on board nine men armed with guns, cutlasses, dirks, and 

 pistols. Jones demanded my papers, which I delivered up, and or- 

 dered my crew forward; told his men to go down and search the 

 vessel: they found nothing but fish, and salt, and fishing gear. He 

 then told my crew 1" take their dunnage, ordered them on board the 

 fishing schooner Diligent, which had previously been taken, and sent 

 Captain Fickett of the Diligent to Lubec with the men. We had no 

 merchandise on board the said schooner Ruby; had not caught a fish 

 or attempted to catch one within five miles from the shore, nor had 

 we been into any harbor until the one above named. 



Elisha Small. 

 State of Maine, Washington, ss. 



Then personally appeared the said Elisha Small, and made oath 

 that the foregoing statement by him subscribed was true. Before me, 



Frederick Hobbs, Justice of the Peace. 



[Inclosure 3 In Memorial No. 1.] 



Eastport, Jvly 27, IS:!',. 



T. Elias Ficket, master of the schooner DUiaent, of Harrington, 

 Maine, <i<> testify, declare, and Bay: That on the sixteenth of .Inly, 

 eighteen hundred and twenty-four, I left Eastport, .Maine, in the 

 above achooner, for a fishing voyage in the Bay <>f FunoVj ; thai on 

 Sunday, the twenty fifth of .Inly, being nearly destitute of water, we 



repaired t<> a place called " Two Islands,"' lying to the southward of 

 Grand Menan about three fourths of a mile, and on which there are 



no inhabitants, and procured two barrels of water from a spring or 

 bron|< on said island. On Monday morning, got under way. and. the 



wind being Light, towed out of the harbor, and when about one and a 



