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To the Honourable Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament for enquiring into the Losses and services of the American Loyalists. |
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The Memorial of Jared BELL late of Stanford in the Colony of Connecticut, now of Saint John in the Province of New Brunswick Humbly sheweth That at the Commencement of the late American War he took an active decided part in support of His Majesty’s Government and soon after the Kings Troops landed on Long Island he joined them and afterwards was employed in supplying the Garrison at New York where he remained until a few months previous to the Evacuation when he came to settle in this Province where he has remained ever since except when absent on Business as a mariner. That your memorialist has been uniformly loyal and in Consequence of that Loyalty, and from his Attachment to the British Government, has been compelled to leave his Estate in the hands of the Americans who have actually confiscated and sold the same all which is fairly and particularly stated in the Schedule hereunto annexed. Your Memorialist therefore prays that his Case may be taken into your Consideration, in order that your memorialist may be enabled under your Report to receive such Aid or Relief as his Losses and services should be found to deserve, and he as in Duty bound, will ever pray &c.
Jared BELL Great Britain, Public Record Office, Audit Office, Class 13, Volume 76, folio 13.
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