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Sir

agreeable to your bill of lading I received all the articles in good order with an addition of two and half quintells codfish two cords of wood and twenty [smooth salmon?]. I am sorry that you did not send the bricks lime boards and nails which we are very much in want of as we had pull.d all the buildings down and moved them to the middle house [^before the vessel came] we will be bad of for a Chimney and some thin boards to break the [illegible: points? joints?] of the Roof of the house; we can make shift with the barn = the supplies you sent I think are sufficient both in Quantity and Quality = agreeable ^to your orders I have sent of John [Myres?] and family = the cattle are in good order but we get very little milk from ^them as we are abliedge [obliged?] to give the calves the greatest part of the milk in order to raise. for to get into a new breed of cattle as the old ones must all be kill.d, in the course of two or three years - that vessel that was cast a way on the North West bar - must belong to Mess.rs Piers Jacob Conrad Master as we found some of the boxes mark.d [T.L.P.?] I have no more to say at present
but remain your Obedient Humble Servant &c

Edward Hodgson

[address at lower left]
Sable Island 24 July 1814
Honourable Michael Wallace