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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On May 18, report from Salem: Nova Scotia's Governor published an Act pardoning British subjects who aided the American colonies' rebellion, releasing them from all related treasons and penalties.
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The Governor of Nova Scotia has lately ordered an Act to be published, whereby "all and every his (Britannic) Majesty's subjects of that Province, and their heirs and every of them, are acquitted, pardoned, released and discharged, against the King's Majesty and his successors, of all manner of treasons, misprision of treasons, treasonable and seditious words, libels or correspondence by them or any of them committed or done, in aiding, countenancing or assisting his Majesty's late subjects in the Thirteen Colonies, during their rebellion, and from all pains, penalties, forfeitures, pains of death, and pains corporal, which may have been incurred or forfeited, by them, or any of them (before the passing this act) by reason or means of the said premises."
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Nova Scotia
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Lately
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all subjects acquitted, pardoned, released, and discharged from treasons, misprisions, seditious words, libels, or correspondence aiding the thirteen colonies during their rebellion, including all pains, penalties, forfeitures, and corporal punishments incurred before the act.
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The Governor of Nova Scotia ordered publication of an Act granting pardon to his Britannic Majesty's subjects in the province and their heirs for aiding, countenancing, or assisting the Thirteen Colonies during their rebellion.