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decent & comfortable houses (such as you have given them) since wood axes have been supplied them & their improvement will both be widely extended, & I am confident if they are allowed provisions for the same period as was offered to the Loyalist immigrants & [illegible] soldiers at the close of the last revolution in America - they will be [?] become useful settlers living in comfort and affecting a very considerable supply of provisions for this market - His [illegible], that with them as with all other types [?] of peoples of the same numbers, theirs will be found