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my son and apprentice with hopes of their doing well and agreeable to my plan settling the land i have bought at Country Harbour please give him advice and money sufficient to carry on the business on my account. i am sorry to say the sow is left at Country Harbour soon as Darby arrived there from Halifax and before i saw him broke out of the pen and swam on shore. I immediately alarmed the inhabitants who cheerfully assisted in the search the tracks was found but not the animal. the hogs on the island i am informed are in good order have several young. i shall take care to shelter and with any means in my power for the [illegible] and strive otherwise to ease the Public expense. i wish they knew my heart in that but the time may come to make manifest my admiration [illegible] and regard for the humane [infiltration?]i hope this new legislature will consider and grant money for roads to humanity with as much [illegible] as the old Body did for road through the woods