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and if driven from their present farms will be separated from their relations and friends, be reduced to poverty, and forfeit the labour of many years. -- That they have not interfered with the Indians nor encroached on their improvements, from which they are far distant being settled near the north boundary of the said Indian Reserve; and there remains more land than will, in the nature of things, be cultivated at any time by the Indians. That deponent has visited the [illegible] at this inclement Season of the year, in consequence of writs of intrusion having been Served on the Settlers above named, to bring their Case before the Executive that they are too indigent to give or promise to him any remuneration beyond putting a man to take charge of Deponents farm during his absence. --
Signed,
Donald McRae Junr:

Sworn to before me this
18th day of January 1837
Signed
Will: [Hill]