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[top righthand corner, number 42]
The petition of the Black Settlers at Hammond Plains
To His Excellency The Honorable T N Jeffery Governor in and over the Province of Nova Scotia [etc etc?]
The Black Settlers of Hammond Plains has requested me to state to your Excellency that in consequence of the almost total failure of their potatoe crops last season they are in want for the common necessaries of life to support their bodies and also to petition your Excellency (should their be a possibility) to relieve them from their present wretched condition that they and their children may not die from want of food.
I am your Excellency's most Obediant Humble Servant Joseph Thomas
H. Plains [month illegible] 22nd 1833

We the undersigned your Humble petitioners will as in duty bound ever pray
[column 1]
Wm Days
Andrew Smith
[Samuel?] Brown
Abraham Smith
Charles Jackson
Lewis [?]
Edward Price
Phillip Hamilton
Hector Johnson
Joseph Holmes
Deal Mylie
Isaac [?ant]
Wm Arnold
Henry Baily
Charles Parker
Gabriel [Manago?]
[?ato Manago]
Henry Piles
Charles [Gizzly?]

[column 2]
Wm Mosman
Jesse Parker
John Hamilton
Reuben Hamilton
Reuben Davies
Frederick Davies
Thos Reys
Fred Hamilton
John Harries
Thos Brunt
Richd [illegible?]
Laurence Hamilton
Fred Baily
Edward Curry
[James Allison?]
[Jedick Ernesson?]
Israel Mott
Isaac Grant
John Ticen

[colum 3]
Joesph James
Ceaser Mylie
Wm March
July Cooper
Guffer Grey