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[illegible] 20th[July] 1861
Dear sir
As the Representatives of [?therein]
County _ The people residing on the Indian
reserves have requested me to inform
You and Mr. [?Gemmall] of their [present]
position You doubtless are aware that
Mr. Hendry an agent of the Gov has
[Given] them notice to quit their [possessions]

These people I believe about [fourteen]
in number being [with] one or two exceptions
Your warm and zealous supporters [?consider]
they have a peculiar claim upon Your
sympathy _ Can you do nothing for
them in their [pursuit] emerging for I
must say their case is peculiarly a [most]
[painful] one to contemplate Fourteen
men with their [helpless] Families cast
out upon [the] [?Winter] after labouring
hard several Years and enduring every
privation to make a Home in this
Wilderness. About three years ago Mr.
Fairbanks