Invoice of Sugars shipped at ST. MARTINS, on board Sloop NEPTUNE, LEMUEL BROOKS Master, on proper risk of JOHN BROOKS, Esq. & Co., AUGUST, 1775.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, ss.

Then personally appeared Lemuel Brooks, master of the Sloop Neptune; Eleazer Scott, mate; and George Raymond, mariner; and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing account, or invoice.

Sworn before me:

JOSEPH PLATT, Justice of Peace.

Norwalk, December 13, A. D. 1775.

PROVINCE OF NOVA-SCOTIA, HALIFAX, ss:

To all whom it may concern, by this publick instrument of protest be it known and made manifest, That on the twen­tieth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, before me, James Brenton, Notary and Tabellion Publick, by Royal authority, admitted and sworn, and now dwelling at Halifax aforesaid, personally came Lemuel Brooks, late master of the Sloop Neptune, of, and be­longing to, Connecticut, and made this his protest, in manner and form following, viz:

That, some time in the month of May last, he sailed in said sloop from New-Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, bound to St. Martins, where he arrived and took on board a lading of sugars and of salt, from Saltertudas; that on the sixth of August last he sailed in said sloop from St. Martins with said cargo, bound to New-York; that on the sixth of September, being off Montauk-Point, on Long-Island, which bore from north about four leagues distance, he was boarded by two sloops, or tenders, belonging to his Majesty’s Ships Rose, James Wallis, Esq., commander, and Glasgow, Captain Howe, commander, who took out his mate, and all his hands, which they removed on board the tenders; and the next day carried the said sloop into Newport, Rhode-Island, where this protestor was ordered on board the Rose, and examined in regard to his cargo, of which he gave a full account. That this protestor requested leave of Captain Wallis that he might be permitted to go on shore, which was absolutely refused him, and he was, thereupon, ordered on board his own sloop, where he was detained a prisoner until the eleventh, following, when he was forcibly taken out and put on board a schooner which had been seized, and was ordered to Boston; that, on the 12th of September, being in Boston Bay, in said schooner, the protestor was ordered and taken on board his Majesty’s Sloop Hunter, Captain McKenzie, then bound to Halifax, where this protestor arrived on the twentieth instant, and was soon after his arrival allowed his liberty by said Captain McKenzie, and came on shore at Halifax, where the protestor now is; of all which the said Lemuel Brooks, the said protestor, hath desired me to make a publick act.

Wherefore, I, the said Notary, at the request aforesaid, have, and do hereby, solemnly protest against the said James Wallis and Howe, Captains of said Ships Rose and Glasgow, and all concerned in the seizing, taking, and de­taining the said Sloop Neptune and her cargo, and for all unlawful restraint of the liberty of said protestor, and for all costs, damages, and expenses, that have or may accrue for and by reason thereof.

Thus done and protested at Halifax aforesaid, the day and year first above-mentioned, the said protestor making solemn oath to the truth of the premises.

J. BRENTON, Notary Publick.

LEMUEL BROOKS, [L. S.]

The above and foregoing is a true copy of the original Protest made by Lemuel Brooks, master of the Sloop Neptune, before James Brenton, Notary Publick.

Compared by me.

Stonington, March, 1776.

SIR: Being appointed by the honourable General As­sembly of the Colony of Connecticut, holden at New-Haven, (by special order of your Honour,) on the 14th of December, 1775, to procure a just and well authenticated account of the hostilities committed by the Ministerial Troops or Navy, whereby any damage has been done to the property of any person or persons in this Colony since March last, together with the proper evidence of the facts related, the number and value of the vessels, whether inward or outward bound, which have been seized by them since that period, and, as near as may be, their value, with their car­goes on board when taken, and make return thereof to your Honour; beg leave to report, that Mr. Nathaniel Shaw, of New-London, merchant, has lost a vessel and cargo, outward bound, estimated at one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven pounds fifteen shillings and five pence; and that Messrs. William Coit, Jabez Perkins, Joseph Williams, and Levi Huntington, of Norwich, in a vessel bound from New-York to New-London, have lost goods to the value of three hundred and seventy-six pounds four shillings and six and three-fourths pence; and that the damage done the buildings and goods by the attack from Captain James Wallace, at Stonington, Long-Point, amounts to thirty-three pounds lawful money; to which, if I may add the expense of one thousand of the Minute and Militiamen which attended the alarm, two days each, at one shilling and four pence per day, and travel, one with another, at one shilling and four pence, and one shilling and six pence per day for board of each man, we shall find it to be three hundred and fifty-three pounds two shillings and six pence; which believe to be less than the real expense amounted to; exclusive of twelve pounds four shillings and six pence, allowed by the General Assembly to Jonathan Weaver, Jun., for his support and expenses for doctors while confined with the wounds he received from the enemy at said attack; together with account of damage sustained by Mr. Brown, of Fisher’s Island, in the Province of New-York, which then amounted to seven hundred and five pounds thirteen shillings and one pence, lawful money; accounts of all which, with affidavits thereto, I enclose; and am, with great respect, your Honour’s most obedient humble servant,

NATHANIEL MINOR.

To Governour Trumbull.

Account of Stock taken from Mr. BENJAMIN BROWN, of FISHER’s ISLAND, in the Province of NEW-YORK, by Captain JAMES WALLACE, of the Ship ROSE, and other