Charles Callahan late of said Pownalborough, Miane
Sprague' Journal of Maine History
Vol. VII
May June July 1919
No. 1
pages 34

To the Hon. Jonathan Bowman, Esq., Judge of Probate of Wills, & c., for 
the County of Lincoln, &c.:

Sir--We the Subscribers being the major part of the Selectmen of Pownalboro 
hereby Certify your Honor that Charles Callahan late of said Pownalborough 
Gent. has absented himself for more than tree Months from his habitation & 
and has left Estate Real and personal to the value of more than Twenty 
pounds within said Town and from the best Intelligence we can obtain we 
verily believe the said Charles Callahan went voluntarily to our Enemies 
and is still absent from his usual place of abode & without his State with 
our Enemies---Given under our hands this 26 day of October A D 1777.

EDMUND BRIDGE,
ASA SMITH, Selectmen of Pownalboro.

A true Copy att. ROL. CUSHNG, Reg.
From Documentary History of Maine (Baxter Mss. Vol. XV, page 269).

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