The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-12-13
DOMESTIC.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec 9.
II letter from the Collector of Peuc6scof 10
The Secretary Of the Treasury.
Collectors Office. District of
Peno6scot.
E, Nov. $50, 1915.
SIR,
On the evening of the 1st of Novem-
Der, had information, that an English YES.
sci had come up the Penobscot bav i'm the af-
ternoon, in such way that rendered her
very suspicious and that she had followed
small vessel twenty miles out of her wav,
and had come to an anchor under Long Is
land, about sunset, although she had a fair
wind and fine moon all night. went i'm
mediately after her, and found her in SNUG
harbour: She had a clearance from Ports
mouth, New-Hampshire, for Nova Scotia
and was undoubtedly after load of Mr..
Masters Hour-I made seizure of the YES
sci (and took her to Castine that night
under the ninth section of the EMBARGO act.
Bong sensible that there was plan form
ing at Buck 's-town and the Isle of Haut and
that they were determined to evade the laws
by force, l went to Buck 's-town, and pla-
ced an officer on shsre, and put an officer ON
board sloop that was loading under a per-
mlt-thc only suspicious vessel that was
there at that time. The officer on shore was
to give information to me by land, in case a.
ny violence should be offered to the officeron
board. L then proceeded to the Isle of Haut
and placed FIVE men there, with boar to
guard the Hour, &c. there, as Ihave preyi-
ously stated, their orders were to stop any
boat or vessel that should come past there
that appeared suspicious, and to see that the
flour, &c. was not taken away without Der-
mlt-they were armed to defend themselves,
ana theii' orders were to Commence no attack
but what was strictly their duty to do.
then went TO Castine and was preparing. TIE
small schooner to cruize from the Isle of
Haut to buck's-town, armed asI stated in
my iast-and am sensible that she will out
san any vessel that should attempt to make
their escape. On the 9Th inst on the Sab
bath night, the wind blew fresh at North,
my officer ct Buck 's-town had turned in a.
bout nine O'Clock and all things were peace
able, he was awole by five men, masked and
armed, coming into the cabin, and telling
him to be quet, or they would bind him; there
were then thirty or forty men who came
down on the wharf, blacked and dressed in
disguise, and put on board quantity of flour
and fish, and got her under way, and sent
her to sea, taking the officer on board with
them, whom they carried down the BAY "a
bout 40 miles, and landed him but at such
place that he could not get any assistance
at the same time these men came ON to the
wharf, there was thirteen men stationed on
the bridge, about two miles from Bucks
town, to prevent my officer on shore from
giving me information, and by the time had
received the information, she had got ten
hours start, and with as much wind as she
could carry sail to-
On the Same evening there came'in amongst
the islands, an English schooner from Nova
Scotia, with eight men on board armed with
inuSketS and cutlasses; and after cruizing
hve or six days amongst the Islands, they
were boarded by a boat from Buck 's-town,
with tive men armed with muskets, blunder-
buses and boarding pixies they then took
pilot from Mount Desert, and proceeded to
the Isle OF Haut, all on beard the schooner,
except two men i'll the boat, who towed the
schooner into the reach, not far from the
store that contained the -four, and came to an
anchor 1t was then about seven O'Clock i'm
the evening, and very dark the boat was
then ordered along side, and ten men armed
with nine muskets and pistol, all loaded
with ball, got into the boat. She was then
ordered to row on shore to the wharf, where
the Hour was, the boat was discovered by my
men, and they prepared themselves to stand
their own defence. The master of my reve-
nue. boat hailed the boat from the shore, as
she was Coming towards the wharf, and they
from Vinal-havcn, in this district.
The officer then ordered them to row on
shore. immediately they rowed up to h N,
sprung from the boat with their guns COCK
ed, took the officer prisoner at the bows of
The boat they then rushed on the rest OF
my men; Killed one man and took another
prisoner, took his gun from him ard let him
30; the other two made their escape they
look he revenue boat and all the other boats
On the Island, as they thought, and hauled
them up and secured them they then took
The man that was shot, and dragged him in
to the water, hauled the schooner into tho
wharf, and TOOK enc hundred ard sixty bar
rels OF flour and rice, and made sail for sea,
wi'h the master Of the revcnua boat on board
Inc two men that made their escape, very
luckily found boat on the back side Of the
siaud, and came to Castine and gave me in
/ sent immediately for the schoo- /!
ler that was ordered to cruize from Bucks
own to the Isle Of Haut, to report to me from
hc guard at each place. She was on her
way 90 BUCK town, / took thirteen men in /
he schooner with me, and put four men into ,
, small sail b 1t, to accompany us aud We ,
t"Tted for The Isle of Baut, as soou as pos
She, It was tben night, aud soon came on a ,
f;o.ent sglc Of wind, and the boat has not