wherever they pleased, And Being at Tuskett Islands,[7] the said
Michell demandinge his hyre, telling them the time was expired that
was mentioned in the Charter Party, and that he desired to goe home to
looke after his familie and to pay his Merch'ts that had betrusted
him, And withall he forewarned them for weighing his Anchors for he
would stay noe longer in their service; But Richard Fowler,
threatninge that he would make a hole through his skinne if hee did
nott hold his tongue, went and, whether he would or nott, weighed his
Anchors and forced him to goe backe to Machias; The said Privateers by
their uncivill Carriage did make the said Michell soe weary of the
voyage that if he could have gotten an opportunity he would have come
away with his vessell and left them there, though he had lost all his
hire and what also he carried out with him; Now the Premisses beinge
considered by this Hon'ble Court, he hopes they will have soe much
Charitie for him as to conclude him nott guilty of those actions that
are laid to his Charge: The Just and Righteous determinations whereof
he Leaves to the Wisdome and Clemencie of this Hon'ble Court, and is
bound to subscribe Himself

Your Honours Most Humble Servt.,

THOMAS MITCHELL.

Boston, May the 24th, 1675.

[Footnote 2: Chignecto, Nova Scotia.]

[Footnote 3: Pemaquid, Maine, east of the mouth of the Damariscotta.
There was an English settlement there from 1626. As to the
jurisdiction, all this region east of the Kennebec had been included
in the Duke of York's patent of 1664, but his governor at New York
took no active steps to assume its government till 1677, and _de
facto_ Pemaquid in 1675 was in the jurisdiction of Massachusetts,
which in 1674 had organized the region east of the Kennebec as the
county of Devon.]

[Footnote 4: Lieut. Thomas Gardiner, resident at Pemaquid, was chief
military commander and treasurer of the county of Devon, and a county
magistrate.]

[Footnote 5: Near Sedgwick, Maine.]

[Footnote 6: William Stoughton, of the Court of Assistants, afterward
lieutenant-governor of the province; see document no. 70, _post_.]

[Footnote 7: Off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.]

_42. Declaration of Edward Youreing. May 24, 1675._[1]

[Footnote 1: Suffolk Court Files, no. 1390, paper 2. The name is more
often found with the spelling Uring.]

To the Hono'rd Court of Assistants Now Sitting in Boston The
Declaration of Edward Youring of Boston, Fisherman, Humbly S