[Docket, upper right: Complt on / behalf of [undecipherable] / dated [undecipherable] / Justice [of] the Peace / of Nova Scotia] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] To All Persons to whom these Presents may come Know ye that we hearby Certify that John McGown did in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventysix Join with others under the Command of Colonel Jonathan Eddy in attempting to Seaze on the Fort in Cumberland and take Possession of the same for the United States of America; and that being Overpowered by a superior Number of Brittish Forces, the said John McGown Was Compelled to quit the Country; and as we understand & believe that he took Refuge within the United States; and that During the whole Contest Between Great Britton and America after 1776 And frequently heard he was Employed from time to time in the service of the said United States N.B. the said John McGown was Intitled to a Considerable Property Real & Personal Which he the said John has lost on the said account Nappan Nov 12. 1779 [undecipherable: W. Di—?] Cumberland } [undecipherable: John Stuart?] D[undecipherable] Novoscotia } William Freeman J.P. [seal]