The Narrative of Elizabeth Dulany - Page 1 - Transcript
To the Commissioners appointed by Act
of Parliament for enquiring into the
Losses and Services of the American Loys
The Memorial of Elizth Dulany Wo
of Lloyd Dulany formly of Annapolis
Sheweth—
That your Memorialists Husband was
of a family which had long executed the Offices
of chief trust in the government of Maryland
and was possessed of very considerable property
and your Memorialist herself was the daur
of a Chief Justice of Maryland and was mistress
of a fortune deemed handsome in the Country,
that your Memorialists husband from the
commencement of the late American troubles
in no one instance departed from his—
allegiance but on the contrary set himself
vigorously in opposition to every movement
that tended to disturb the connection betwn
the parent state and the Colonies, and for
some time rendered considerable service to
the cause he espoused. In particular he drew
up and signed a protest agt a resolution
entered into at Annapolis, forbidding all
[Transcribed by Elizabeth Lilly]
