Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819 to General Brooks
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.703 Author/Creator: Strong, Caleb, 1745-1819 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1814/09/19 Pagination: 1 p. ; 24 x 19.5 cm. Order a Copy
The recipient was probably Micah Brooks. Explains that the government will not be able to grant the request of the Selectmen of Belfast to send troops to expel the British from Fort Castine on the Penobscot Bay, which they recently came to occupy. He does not think it wise to keep troops in Belfast, Maine, where the former defenders of Castine will go if no reinforcements are forthcoming.
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