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Therefore I wrote one after Seeing Mr Downes & they the Passamaquoddy Indians have Signed for me to be their Agent.

Also on the 1st of October, the first Indian council man & Two others came to me & wished me to attend a meeting at the Indian TownShip at Peter Dana's Point to be held on the 6th to witness and election of their Governor, & Lieutenant Governor, & Representative, and they chose Newell Neptune Governor, & Sockis [?] Francis Lieutenant Governor, & John Gabriel for their Representative by 8 [?] majority, but the Agent was not present, & therefore they had another election on the first day of November, & at that meeting Mr. Davis Agent, & Mr LW Smith, & Pat Welch, were present, and at that meeting I was called upon [inserted line] by the Indians [/] to attend, the Indians wished to vote, by casting their Hats down upon the floor for each candidate, in seperate places, but Mr Smith distributed printed votes among the Indians & Some of them refused to tally them. They not knowing how to read English, Therefore Mr Gaberiel asked me to write Some for them, & I wrote Some, & they took them & put them into Mr Davis' Hat as quick as they could, but before they had time to put all of them into the Hat was turned & Several votes were rejected, the Agent Saying that the polls were closed & it was to late. I calculate that about Ten votes were lost for Gaberiel, but thanks to the Lord, they had votes enough to elect him,