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The articles stated in the foregoing account [illegible] furnished the people of Colour at Preston by my order under the verbal authority of his Excellency Sir J.C. Sherbrooke K, B, on my representation of the urgent [merefsity?] of each man being supplied with a good axe to fell wood for fuel for his family the then approaching winter - their huts being cold and unfinished, and the people exposed to the severity of the weather and in want of cloathing - The articles were delivered by my order, and most of them in my presence and the rest in presence of my Servants, which I am ready to attest to.

Charles Morris
Surv Genl