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Description of the land relinquished by Theophilus Chamberlain for the accommodation of the Blacks settling in Preston.

A certain Tract lott or parcel of land situate in Preston described as Lott Letter H in the general plan of Maroon lands in Preston containing one hundred and fifty acres more or less, being part of two hundred and fifty acres of land purchased for the Maroons of Francis Joshua Mulock, also another lott Tract or parcel of land situate in Preston described as lott letter J on the said general plan containing one hundred acres more or less , being part of one hundred and seventeen Acres of land purchased for the use of the Maroons of Tobias Millar. The above two lotts of land having been purchased by said Theo. Chamberlain at the general sale of the Maroon lands and granted to him by Government under the Seal of the Province bearing date the 30th Nov. 1802. Also another tract or parcel of land situate in said Preston called and known by lott no 14 letter E on the general plan of Preston containing one hundred Acres more or less being the whole right of Land granted to Kenny Morris in the Township of Preston and purchased of him by the said Theos. Chamberlain. The first of the above lotts forms all the middle part of the settlement opposite to [Wooddmans?] and is equal in goodness of soil and growth of lumber to any of the lands in Preston with a stream of Water in front abounding in small Fish, and the last of the lotts bounding on [Big?] Salmon River is one of the best of four lotts of an hundred Acres eache to the eastward of said River where a settlement of Blacks is now farming. Considering that this land lies part of it but little more than two miles from me and the rest