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Halifax January 15th 1827
Sir,
I have the honor to acquaint your Excellency that in consequence of an apprehension [expected?] by the Attorney General that the Coloured people in the neighbourhood of Hammonds Plains were suffering from want and sickness, and his earnest wish that some [?] Clergyman might visit them, I requested Archdeacon [Millis?] to undertake this duty. He left [here?] accordingly on Friday Morning at Six OClock - went through the settlement; and returned at a late hour on the same night - [was?] to severe illness since his return he has not been able to make a report until this evening, and has now effected it with great difficulty in consequence of his illness.
He states his arrival at the settlement about 10 Oclock on Friday Morning, and with the help of the Schoolmaster, Mr Campbell, whom he found a valuable guide and assistant, he went through the greater part of it, on foot intending to visit every hut. But finding this physically impossible, he was obliged to confine himself to those where he was told the distress was most severe.
In most of thee huts he found fever or the remaining effects