Complex sentence: Boston's British military leaders, Admiral Samuel Graves and General Thomas Gage, both had reason to do business with the people of Machias, a small coastal logging community located in what is now eastern Maine, but was then part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Split into simpler sentences: Boston's British military leaders, Admiral Samuel Graves and General Thomas Gage, both had reason to do business with the people of Machias. It is a small coastal logging community located in what is now eastern Maine, but was then part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.