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Annapolis Royal Dec:br 10:th 1760-

Sir
As you was so kind to Mention, in your Letter to Mr Harris, that if you could be of any service to us, you was both willing & ready to do it. we the underneath subscribers, send this and the inclos'd, to you expecting youl forward it & assist us, the New England people that come here to settle have drawn provision out of the stores ever since last Aug.st 13th & still do, expect we may have the same grant'd to us, form that time, as we have taken up lots, in the said Townships, and on the same conditions, as they to settle them. we have suffered very much by the Warr have kept gaurd when requir'd and our familys here without any expence of Exportation as our confidence we put in you hope it will succeed

Conclude
Sir
With Due Regard
Your Humble Servants
James Wilkie
John Frost
John Gray
Robert Walker
David X Grant
John Harris
Stephen Rodda
Thomas Harris
Pardon Sanders
John Linsley
John Davis
Philip Bertaux
Edward W Lee
George Davies
(Endorsed:)

To
Isaac Deschamps Esqr