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To His Honor Michael Wallace Esquire
President and Commander in Chief in and
over His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia
and its Dependencies &c &c &c ---

May it please Your Honor,
I beg to return my thanks for
your kindness in submitting to my perusal, the
letter of the Rev'd Mr. Trotter, under dates of the 5th
Instant with the accompanying papers relative
to my lands at Pomquet. The statements contained
in these papers are so much at variance with the
information which I received when I visited the
Land last year, and with the observations which
I made up on the spot, as to [induce] a strong, belief
that inadvertence or design have given a colouring
to the information upon which the Reverend
Gentleman founded his Report. When the land
was granted to me I paid the Surveyor an extraordinary
price to run the lines (with chainmen)
entirely round the tract to guard against the possibility
of my interferring with the claims of
others. He returned it free from claims and I
was the more readily induced to believe it
from the fact that the Royal inhibition to grant