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Respects Friend

Inclosed is a list of the Blacks in general, on this Side the water, many of those for want of imployment, I find, are becoming needy, and in want of some assistance, for the last month or Six week, (not having anything in my possession of Publick allowance,) I have contributed out of my own Store, to the [illegible] of the Sick and Infirm, but not being Authorised, have not Administered, to those in Health, except for the destitute Widow, who was in immediate distress, their wants, have not become so general, until now, as for the most part, they have found some imployment among the inhabitants, in cuting of wood, but at present their services, in those respect, are nearly at an end, they now being in a state of idleness, may be an inducement to them to take measures, to supply their [illegible] that otherwise might not have persued, a recent robery has been commited, at Coal Harbour, by two of those people, perhaps prompted by necessity by such an unlawfull measure, and altho there are many complants in Halifax, of these kinds, from my general knowledge and