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Had it not been for his exertions it is probable the Americans would have lost their outpost at Machias, and it is possible that the English would then have held the country as far west as the River Kennebeck. In the year 1775 armed vessels were fitted out in several of the ports of New England to prey on the commerce of Nova Scotia.
The English claimed as far west as the St. Croix, while France asserted her right to the whole country east of the Kennebeck. These claims remained unsettled; and were mingled with other differences of more importance, which soon occasioned the re-commencement of hostilities. The whole weight of the war in America fell on New England.
Similar addresses were sent to him from about the same number of men in New York, from supporters in Newburyport, Medford, Kennebeck River, Philadelphia, the Detroit Common Council, Manchester, New Hampshire, and "the neighbors" in Salisbury. His old Boston Congressional district triumphantly elected Eliot, one of Webster's most loyal supporters, by a vote of 2,355 against 473 for Charles Sumner.
On the ninth of July the Fame fell in with the brig Dromero, Captain Perkins, who landed the two sufferers in Kennebeck. The narrative from which we gather these details ends in the following words: "It is natural to inquire how they could float such a vast distance, upon the most frequented part of the Atlantic, and not be discovered all this time.
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