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An Appeal, Addressed to a Candid Public: And to the Feeling of Those Whose Upright Sentiments and Discerning Minds, Enable Them to 'Weigh It in the Balance of the Sanctuary'
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An Appeal, Addressed to a Candid Public: And to the Feeling of Those Whose Upright Sentiments and Discerning Minds, Enable Them to 'Weigh It in the Balance of the Sanctuary'
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The Massachusetts-born author was a Montreal tavern keeper who had settled in Lower Canada in 1792. Four years later, he informed colonial authorities that he had been approached in his tavern by David McLane, an American spy for Napoleonic France, and of the the French "plan for the extirpation of the English" in Lower Canada. Promised an entire township for his evidence, Cushing swore a deposition describing the activities of David McLane. McLane was arrested in Quebec City in May 1797, convicted of treason in July, and on July 21st was hanged, beheaded, and disembowelled as an example to others. Shipton Township, in the Eastern Townships, was granted to Cushing on December 4, 1801.
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Stanstead, QC
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Printed for the author by S.H. Dickerson
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1826
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en
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Book's subtitle: "Wherein is displayed the singular history of the author: together with that the other Americans, settled in the province of Lower-Canada." |
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Cushing, Elmer. An Appeal, Addressed to a Candid Public: And to the Feeling of Those Whose Upright Sentiments and Discerning Minds, Enable Them to “Weigh It in the Balance of the Sanctuary.” Stanstead, QC: Printed for the author by S.H. Dickerson, 1826. https://archive.org/stream/cihm_21197#page/n5/mode/2up.
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