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To the Honourable the Congress of the Province of the MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, assembled at WATERTOWN:
The Petition of JOHN BOICE and HUGH MCLEAN, of MILTON, humbly sheweth:
That your petitioners carry on the business of manufacturers of Paper at Milton, which has been deemed of great utility to the publick; that John Salter, James Calder,
JOHN BOICE,
HUGH MCLEAN.
May 15, 1775.
Petition of John Boice and Hugh M' Lean
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William Durant, and William Pierse, now enlisted soldiers in the Provincial service, were all of them apprentices to your petitioners, and have attained so great a knowledge in the art of paper making, that their attendance on that business is absolutely necessary to its being carried on; that they have done the principal part of the work at your petitioners' mills for two years past; and unless they are released from the service they are now in, it is impossible for your petitioners to continue this so useful and necessary branch of American manufactures. Wherefore, the petitioners pray that the said John Salter, James Colder, William Durant, and William Pierse, may be, by order of this honourable Congress, dismissed as soon as may be from the service of the Provincial Army. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.