170 MEETING, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 



of St. Lawrence, for the purpose of intercepting some 

 ordnance store ships, then sijpposed to be on their way to 

 Quebec. Having failed in that object, they paid Char- 

 lottetown a hostile visit, where their crews landed and 

 carried off as prisoners, Mr. Callbeck, the President of 

 Council and Attorney General then acting as Admin- 

 istrator of the Government in the absence of the Gov- 

 ernor and two other officers of government. These 

 gentlemen were taken before General Washington at his 

 camp at Cambridge, who ordered their release and the 

 restoration of all the property taken when they were 

 captured. In doing so he expressed his regret for their 

 capture, and Mr. Callbeck bears testimony to his courtesy 

 to the prisoners in a letter of thanks to be found in Irv- 

 ing's Life of Washington. 



Some of the Public Records of the Colony were carried 

 away at the same time, which have never since been re- 

 turned. We would be glad to recover these records or 

 obtain copies of them, if they are still in existence. 



Our second Governor, General Edmund Fanning, was, 

 during the war, a colonel in the King's American Regi- 

 ment and received his appointment as Governor in 

 acknowledgment of services claimed to have been ren- 

 dered by him to the Royalist Cause in North Carolina 

 and afterwards in New York, under Governor Tryon. He 

 is the subject of frequent allusion in Bancroft's History. 



The facts in our possession relating to the capture and 

 release of Mr. Callbeck and the other government offi- 

 cials are somewhat meagre, and we shall be pleased to re- 

 ceive any information within your reach bearing on this 

 subject, or on any other of an. historical character which 

 you may see fit to furnish us. 



I remain, sir, 

 Yours respectfully, 



GEORGE ALLEY. 



