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His Excellency
Sir John C. Sherbrooke

Clare January the 3rd. 1814
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Mart Allan [as] 25 Mic [left side edge]

May it Please Your Excellency

The inclosed is the Bill of the [?expense], I made for the Indians from January 1813 to January 1814, which I humbly Submit to the inspection & generosity of your Excellency. Provisions here have been very Scarce & dear last year; [Thus] we have been & are Still obliged to be [sparing]. If it be your good pleasure order the amount to be paid In the hands of Mr. Charles McCarthy the bearer.

Some old decrepite Indians in these parts have requested me to beg of your Excellency Some Blankets for the Winter.

I also take the Liberty to recommand [recommend] for his liberation an old French prisoner by name Pierre