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Trout, Gaspereau, Eels, Perch which abound in the Lakes & Rivers by which these Lands are intersected — the facility of Supplying this Market, with, laths, shingles, hoop Poles, Brooms, axehelves, oar Rafters, Scantling, Clapboards will invite their industry and afford ample employment for all and means of supporting their Families, and it is a well known fact that the Blacks who were settled in and about Preston at the close of the late Revolutionary War in America had acquired the means of supporting themselves in comfort and became useful Setlers (sic), and continued to thrive until they were allured by offers and persuasions of the Sierra Leone company to quit this Country and embark for that Colony, and the Maroons, from Jamaica who succeeded them — would if they had not been dissuaded and discouraged (by others, from any attempt at cu1tivation or improvement) have lived in comfort, since the Wild Berries alone which they gathered and sold at this market during their short stay in this Country produced them many hundred pounds which they carried with them.

        I would propose that compact Lots be laid out so as to form a village — each Lot to contain about ten acres — and regularly drawn for in the usual manner and that a Reserve of Fifteen hundred acres be made as a Common to afford them fuel, fencing & Building materials when that on their own Lots is exhausted — and that no Land be confirmed to them by Grant — until they are actually settled and satisfactory proof afforded to your Excellency of their fixed determination to make a permanent Settlement — that some Provisions be allowed them in the proportion granted the Loyalists who retired from the States and made this Country an asylum at the close of