[AX N°. 1 Boston 25 March 1800 John Torrey inclosing his Memorial as a Refugee from Canada [seal] A.d 1 April 1800] Boston 25. March 1800. Sir My present residence, being in the Country, near Thirty Miles from the Metro-polis, which, with a Slender Constitution; not able to bear the fatigue, even, of so small a Journey, have been the Means of keeping me Ignorant of the near approach of the period, for the Canadian Refugees, to make application to Congress, for such Compensation, as they may think proper according to our past Services. — I must therefore, now, beg your kindness, in presenting, the. — Memorial, herewith — which will confer a great Obligation, on Sir — Your Most Hum. Serv^t Jno. Torrey James McHenry Esq^t The Memorial of John Torry, late of the City of Montreal, Province of Canada, Trader; but now resident in Franklin, in the County of Norfolk, in the State of Massachusetts Bay, in New England. Respectfully represents that after residing more than two years in Canada, with a Family of Eight persons, was Scarried from Boston to Montreal, in Order to avoid the Insults of the British Troops in that Town. — that, in the Summer after his arrival in Montreal, General Montgomery besieged St Johns, in consequence of that Siege; Gen^l Carlton order the Inhabitants of Montreal, to arm, and appear on the Parade — Mr. Ethan Allen came about the same time, and attacked the City. I being on the Parade, was, with the others, urged to go out, and fight Mr. Allen; which Order, myself, with Twenty two others, absolutely refused; for which refusal, we were directly sent under Guard to the Hospital, untill the affray, with Allen was decided — We then, had the Liberty of the City, but restrained from going out of the Gates. — In this Situation, I was detained, until Gen^l Montgomary, had subdued the Fort at St Johns, and took possession of Montreal. — I then undertook for Mess^rs Price & Haywood, Commissaries for Our Troops, to bake & brew for the Army, in which occupation, I continued, untill all the Flour, taken on the Lakes, and all they could procure, was expended. — I then was diligently employed, in purchasing Beef & Spirits &c. by Request of the Commissaries — with my own hard Money — which, with the addition of One hundred half Joannes, which I advanced them — in all, amounting to about four hundred pounds of this States Currency — for which they obliged me to take paper Money at par; when it was going at a depreciated value of three or four for One. — I also, lent General Hazen, four Hundred Dollars, in Specie, when he Commanded at Montreal, in the absence of Gen^l Wooster, to Quebec. — And when the Spring 1776. opened, and General Burgoyne obliged our Troops to retreat, I being then on Business and for a few days before — at Albany — my late Brother — Major Joseph Torry, of Hazen's Regiment — Mr. Jonas Clark, [undecipherable] and And some others of my Friends, brought off my Family, from Montreal to Albany — where I mett them, and had them conveyed to my former & natural Home, in Boston. — I was during the Revolution, Acting Commissary to Col. Hazen's Regiment, on the Regiment being ordered, to clear a Road from Coos to Canada. — I was also Director of a Company of Bakers in Gen^l Washington's Army, on white Plains, in the Year 1778. and Deputy Quarter-Master, at the Post at Springfield, under Col. Tubig Hatch — who was deputed by Col. Pickering then Quarter Master General — to the end of the War — my losses and suffering I submit to the Consideration of Congress, through the Secretary at War, praying such relief as I may be thought worthy of, under the Act for the relief of the Refugees from the British Provinces of Canada & Nova Scotia, or any other law or principles of Equity. — And as in duty bound shall ever pray J° Torrey [seal] United States District of Massachusetts March the 25.^th 1800 Then John Torrey made Oath that the Facts set forth in the foregoing Memorial are all true — J. Lowell Judge of the District Court of Mass^a District —