Unknown [Penobscot Expedition: Approval of request to retrieve Americans in enemy territory]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.159 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Townsend Type: Manuscript document Date: 12 September 1779 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 24.3 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy
Written by an unknown commander during the Revolutionary War giving permission to Thomas Nutting and Charles Hutchings to raise a party to "fetch off the families of the friends of America" at "Majabagaduce" (now Castine, Maine). They are given permission to raise a party of men not already in the service and to take prisoners; they are not to commit any "inhuman action" along the way. Townsend is now Boothbay Harbor. Verso of document has a waxy backing, which appears to have been added to provide stability to the paper.
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