Whereas I, Robert Carter, of Limpston, in the county of Devon, merchant, together with some others, in the year 1754, seized, carried away, and sold, from a ship's room in Newfoundland, belonging to Mess. Smith and Applebee, 112 quintals of dry bank fish, under a pretence we had an authority so to do, to satisfy some demands for wages ...
Subtitle: witness my hand this 17th day of February, 1755
By: Robert Carter ; witnesses, James Escott, Elias Pitts
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1755
Place of publication: Exeter? England
Language: eng
Notes: Not in O'Dea; no other sources found.

Carter, having paid £78. for the fish, together with the costs of the prosecution, requests that Smith & Applebee stay proceedings against him, asks pardon of Thomas Whitborne, Junr., as agent for Smith & Applebee, and authorises publication of his confession and request for pardon.

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