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Petition of John Ledyard (1783)

Source: Connecticut State Library: Manuscript (Colleges and Schools, 1661-1789), Series I, Vol. II, Document 149.

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Petition of John Ledyard (1783), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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embarked in that expedition.      In the year 1780
your Memorialist returned to London & after having
solicited the Earl of Sandwich in vain for his dis-
charge from the service he was obliged in October
1781 to take his tour of duty which was to Ame-
rica where he remained on board a British Frigate
many months before he could meet with an oppor-
tunity to reassume the Service & return to his
country - he has now affected it and if he has
acquired any merit by his conduct, his travels, or his
writings they are all due to his country, & much
more but your Memorialist having lost his
pecuniary assistance by his abrupt departure
from the British is thereby incapacitated to
move in a circle he could wish without the
Assistance of his friends & the patronage & recom-
mendations of the Government under which
he was born & whose favour & esteem he hopes
he has never forfeited: he therefore proposes
as a matter of consideration to your Excellency
and Council that he may be introduced into
some immediate employment wherein he
may as well be usefull to his country and himself
during the War.       He also humbly intreats the
honourable Assembly to take into consideration
a history of the memorialist's last voyage around
the world which he proposes to publish in a

    

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