[ABG^t1 annexed to AN AO Affidavit & AP L. F. Delesdernier] City of Philad^a S^s. On the 24^th day of February AD 1800. John McGown late of Nova Scotia upon the Continent of North America personally appeared before me John D[undecipherable] President of the Courts of Common Pleas in the 1^st District of the State of Pennsylvania, and being duly sworn on his Oath saith — That in the month of September one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, he the said John McGown was resident of the province of Nova Scotia near Fort Cumberland, at which time a certain Colonel Eddi did come with a party of Americans in order to attempt taking the said Fort. that a number of persons resident in the said province did join the said Colonel Eddi in the said undertaking; that amongst those persons thus resident in & inhabitants of Nova Scotia who did join with & give aid to the said party of Americans, was one named Lewis F. Delesdernier, who was at that time, as the deponent believes, employed in purchasing hay & provisions under a certain Day for the British Government. that the American party together with tho[strikethrough: se] inhabitants of Nova Scotia who had joined them, amongst whom was the said Lewis F. Delesdernier, were sometime in the month of December defeated & driven from the Province by the British forces; that amongst others the said Lewis F. Delesdernier did escape through the woods & arrived to Machias in the province of Maine. that sometime after the said Lewis F. Delesdernier did enter the service of the United States as a lieutenant of the Garrison at Machias, and as [undecipherable] under Col. John Allen Superintendent [undecipherable] thousand seven hundred & seventy nine the deponent being at Boston, saw the said Lewis F. Delesdernier arrive there in a cartel from Nova Scotia where he had been taken, as the deponent understood prisoner, & from his appearance & situation, had suffered much in person & property during his imprisonment. and that the said Lewis F. Delesdernier, both before & after his imprisonment was uniformly actively employed in his offices under the Government of the United States, and from his great activity, and knowledge of the Indians, and his being able to serve as an interpreter both for the French & Indian language, was, to the knowledge of the deponent, eminently useful in every service in which he was employed & principally in keeping the Indians, living on the frontiers of Maine & Nova Scotia, on good & friendly terms with the Americans. The deponent further deposes & says that sometime in the years one thousand seven hundred seventy nine & one thousand seven hundred and eighty, Gedeon Delesdernier, father to the said Lewis, & till then resident in Nova Scotia did together with his wife remove from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts on account, as the deponent understood, of their attachment to the American cause, & of the situation of their son. that they appeared to be in distressed situation, that another of their sons (whose name the deponent believes to have been John although he does not positively recollect) did enlist as a private soldier in the service of the United States from whence he never, to the knowledge of the deponent did return. that the seniors of the said Gedeon have for a number of years been impoverished & both he & his wife reduced to great poverty; & that during the greater [undecipherable] by the said Lewis F. Delesdernier, who has ever since resided & does now reside in the said province of Maine — And further the deponent saith not —— Sworn before me the day & year first above written John D[undecipherable] John McGown