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Preston 31st October 1820 18

Sir

The address to His Excellency with your note on it yesterday was handed to me last evening by a man of colour who laft in a sunning hurry without saying a word - I [illegible] to request you will say in my behalf to his Excele=lency that I am wholly at a loss as to th meaning of the state=ment in the address. I know of no lott ever having been granted to Jones except the one laid out in the first settlement of those people in Preston. The plan of the lands intended for their settlement was was [sitt?] off into lots by the Honorabe ~ surveyor general, with which plan I wanted on Sir John [Coap?] Sherbroke the then governor in company with the Hon M. Wallace, and Sir John having looked over the plan, direc=ted me to have it surveyd into lots according to it agree=able to which it was surveyd and Jones,s lot was made of