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To Henry H. Cogswell Esquire D'y Sur'yr [&ca?] 54

The Bearer Benjamin Roberts, one of the Negros brought to Halifax from Saint Mary's with a wife and five children, has been for a year past in the service of the Chief Justice, has lately received an order from the Surveyor General of Lands to be located on land adjoining to a tract occupied by the Settlers under a grant made to the late Mathew Lounder near the North West Arm to which location he is desirous of removing with his Wife and three children, but cannot do so, unless he can be allowed to receive the allowance of provisions from His Majesty's bounty. He therefore humbly prays that he may receive an order on the proper officer for the rations of provisions granted to other Black people in his situation and as in duty bound will ever pray.


Halifax May 15 1816 [illegible, possibly JW Morris]