| Description | Observations on the desirability of erecting the territory of Sagadahoc into a separate government and placing it immediately under the King, especially as the inhabitants object to the Massachusetts government and that province is now in rebellion, the population of Sagadahoc is not fewer than 20000 and would increase, advantages that would accrue to Britain if this measure is adopted, it would be a resort for the persecuted royalists of New England, a place for the exercise of the fishery and for supplying goods now brought from the West Indies, will gladly give his Lordship further information if needed on this subject |