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Annapolis Royal, October the 28, 1791
Dear Sir,
William Clarke has joined me and we shall proceed in the further Execution of His Excellency, direction with regard to the Black People that may voluntarily choose to remove to Siera Leone. By this day week or fortnight at furthest, in Consequence of my adversity, (which I am happy to find are almost literally what is in the first part of His Excellency's in the paper) we shall be able to ascertain the number - provide tonnage & provision & send them off by the middle of November the 21st at farthest. After Monday the 31st [illegible] I shall dispatch Wm Clarke to Digby & join him myself as soon our count is over. We have wrote to Governor Carlton & sent him a transcript of our instructions as far as it relates to him.

Since my last I have made further inquiries with respect to Gautier and find that he was an old France man, married in his country to a daughter of an Acadian frenchman named Allyers and owned (I suppose by his marriage) that Tract of (con't next page)