_September 18, 1837_.
His Excellency MARTIN VAN BUREN,
_President of the United States_.
SIR: I lose no time in advising Your Excellency that Ebenezer S. Greely,
esq., a citizen of this State, while employed within its limits and
under its authority in taking an enumeration of the inhabitants of the
county of Penobscot residing north of the surveyed and located
townships, has been arrested a second time by the provincial authorities
of New Brunswick, and is now in confinement in the jail of Frederickton.
It becomes my duty to request that prompt measures be adopted by the
Government of the United States to effect the release of Mr. Greely.