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Menan, Jacob Winslow came on board of us from the schooner Pil- 

 grim to borrow an anchor, stating that they had lost their anchor; 

 having broken one anchor, could not lend him one. The next day the 

 Pilgrim, being at anchor about half a mile outside of us, and more 

 than nine miles from the land, soon got under way to go home and 

 obtain an anchor; and, having passed us nearly a mile toward the 

 land, a tender to the Dotterel came down upon her, and fired upon 

 her, and took possession of her, she then being eight miles to the 

 southeast of Grand Menan. The same day, about an hour after, the 

 tender took possession of the schooner Hero, of Dennisville, Clark 

 master, she being at the time about a mile outside of us, and ten miles 

 southeast of the island of Grand Menan. 



Herberd Hunt. 



Nehemiah Small. 



Daniel Joy, Jr. 



John Hunt. 

 Sworn to before — 



Ether Shepley. 



November 5, 1824. 



[Inclosure No. 4.] 



John G. Faxon, of Lubec, on oath, declares: That he was the owner 

 of the Galeon when she was captured by a barge of the brig Dotterel. 

 On or about the seventeenth day of July last, the Galeon having been 

 captured and lying in Snug Cove, in Campo Bello, I went on board 

 of her to learn the reasons of her capture. The master, Jones, in- 

 formed me that he had no other reason for the capture than finding 

 her in a British harbor in Grand Menan. I then asked him if he 

 was n"i aware that we had a right to go in for wood and water; he 

 said he knew we had that right, but his orders were such that he was 

 obliged to take all, whether in for that purpose or not. I asked if 

 he had known or suspected my vessel had fished near the land. He 

 said he never had. I then asked him if he had not reason to belief e 

 they were in want of wood and water when they went in. He 

 said he had, for the wood and water was on deck, not stowed away, 

 when he took' them. I then asked him how long he supposed they 

 had been lying at anchor. He said the men told him three-quarters 

 of an hour, and he had no reason to believe otherwise. I then 

 -aid. by your own statement you ought not to have taken her. He 

 -aid he should uol have taken the Galeon if he had not before 

 taken tin- William^ and should have let her go if he could have done 

 it v. ithouf excusing the WUUam. He then said, as I have them 

 thus far I mil I carry them to St. Andrew's, hut I give you my 



word your v '■! will not be detained two hours. I then rehearsed 



thai part of the treaty to him authorizing our vessels to go in for 

 wood and water. He Baid they wen- authorized to take all vessels 



within three miles of the land. I afterwards heard the orders given 



by the captain to Jones read: they directed him very nearly, and I 

 believe exactly, as follows : " You will consider your cruising ground 



to !«' the Menan i land . I ainpo Bello, and the inland of Lubec. You 



will take all American fishermen found within three miles of the 

 land, except in extreme cases of di tress, and carry them to St. An- 



