GENERAL SKEIN, } To Service. 
GENERAL MURRAY. }

SIR GUY CARLETON, } To Loyalty. 
BROOK WATSON. }

(Here follows the signature of the petitioner.)

  No. 2 Pratt Street, Lambeth.

As far as can be gathered from documentary evidence, and what information could be obtained otherwise, no relief was ever granted to Captain Godfrey or his family by the Commission of Losses and Services of the American Loyalists.  Mrs. Godfrey, whose many trials, hardships, disappointments and sorrows, have been sketched in the foregoing chapters, was living in London as late as 1805.  A letter written by the old lady to her son Charlie’s wife, then living in Nova Scotia, was for a few hours in the possession of the writer of these chapters.  In this letter she states her many difficulties and the numerous applications on her part to various Lords and other authorities seeking relief in her distress.  Many portions of the long, well written letter are touching indeed.

The persistency of the grand old lady in doing her utmost to force the rulers of the country to a settlement of her husband’s claims is greatly to be admired.  Her letter cannot be read by any colonist without feelings of pity and shame.  In one part of the letter she says Councillor Brand[8] has given in my memorial to the treasury and I have to wait till he gets an answer, and I pray God it will be a happy one, but God knows what is best, and will, if we put all our trust in him, guide us aright.  The cursed Duke of Richmond is not dead yet.[9]

[Footnote 8:  It will be remembered that Mrs. Godfrey was an Irish woman.]

[Footnote 9:  What was the cause of her animosity to this noble Duke, the writer does not know.]

Mrs. Godfrey must have been near eighty years of age when this letter was written.  Thirty-five years had elapsed since her husband’s first loss in the colony, and nearly thirty years since he was driven out by rebels and Indians.

Titles and pensions have been freely bestowed by English kings and parliaments on men who have been daring and successful in Britain’s cause.  If Captain Godfrey had performed no deeds worthy of a title or a pension, he at least deserved to be reimbursed in part or in whole for the losses he had sustained at the hands of rebels and savages.  And it is probable there were men and women in England who were styled Dukes and Duchesses,—­who wore orders on their breasts that covered less brave and no more loyal hearts than those of Capt. and Margaret Godfrey.  She firmly supported and assisted her husband in his strict adherence to King George the Third’s cause, and faced the rebels like a Spartan and defeated them in their designs at Grimross.  Her tact, skill, courage and cool determination in the midst of imminent danger were truly admirable.  She displayed the qualities of a born leader time and time again.  In a situation where she could seek no support she