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Saturday 1 of June 1816
Dear Sir
I have to request that you will take the earliest opportunity to Consult with Wm. Chamberlain, and say by way of a Reports, what equivalent in Wilderness Land in the interior I am entitled to, in lieu of the Lot in Preston which I relinquished to Government, for the accommodation of the Refugee Blacks -- I am desirous of obtaining a warrant of survey for whatever it may be -- I am Dear Sir Your obedient Servant Mich Wallace

The Honourable Charles Morris, Surveyor General of Lands