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Providence Aug.14th 1789

Sir

I beg leave with sentiments of the greatest deference and respect to your Excellency and the Honorable Senate ; and House of Representatives of the United States to Submit the under written Transcript from my Memorial laid before the Honorable Congress of the United States in June 1786 to wit.

On the Fifteenth of June 1775 while Sir James Wallace with the Rose British Ship of War and a number of tenders lay in Naraganset Bay, I was appointed by the Legislature of the Colony of Rhode Island to the command of a Sloop of 12 Guns and a tender of Six, in order to clear the Bay of the Enemys Tenders and open a [-->page 2]

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