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Dear Sir
I acknowledge the receipt of your note dated 14th. March with the Commission for examining Plots. Also that of the 23rd. March announcing His Excellency's decision in favor of the Widow [?Brian], with which she has [good] [reason] to be satisfied.

I am right glad that my [illegible] of the Reservations for Indians have had the good fortune to attract your attention. With much regret I had given up all hopes of anything being done for our unfortunate and Brethren _ [Though] sorry for their disappointment, I have been more [concerned] on account of the [impression] which [an] apparent want of faith must [make] on their minds _ I should be ashamed to [meet] any of their old men to whom I understood the most [unrestrained] promise of a Grant was made _ The promise however not being performed. I wrote to our friend [?Hill] the 21st, Decr. and begged him to [propose] to His Excellency that the boundary lines of the Indians Reservations should be traced by a Surveyor to [?reserve], at least some [pretext] for [?plundering] their [?Timbers]; to which I do not find any