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Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
An Event Chronology Based on Louisbourg Accounts Not Available in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, By Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, 2004 - Present
1781
May 7, 1781
Petitpas presented the following petition to the Senate and House of Representatives at Massachustts:
The petition of
Lewis Benjamin Petitpas of ChesirCook harbour in the Province of Nova Scotia -
merchant - Humbly shews
That he was originally an inhabitant of Louisbourg formerly within the
jurisdiction of the King of France but since the Conquest of the Country has
lived at the English Settlements in Canada but lately in Nova Scotia where his
Father's family removed; All persons of this description in that Country and
Commonly called French Neutrals are Considered Enemies to the British Government
and oppressed with the most intollerable taxes. -
Your petitioner unwilling to submit to the Oppression and desirious of becoming
a Subject of a Nation in Alliance with his own, prays that this Honourable Court
would grant him a permit to withdraw his property from Nova Scotia into this
Commonwealth and a passport to proceed on his business with Security from
Capture by American Cruisers... And as in Dutybound will ever pray - Louis
Benjamin Petitpas.