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in kindess for some of the severity he compelled me to use with him, with regard to the story of rope being made here and sent off, there never was any rope here belonging to the establishment, but I made some rope here out of materials belonging to myself, part of which was used on the Island and the remainder went on board the Government Schooner Sisters and was there used. It has been reported to your honour that the master of the [During?] took rope from here, for some vessel he was building and it had sand on it. This may be true, but if it is, it was after it was sold in Halifax and he became the purchaser, as he could not have got it in any other way, every sail, block, & piece of rope of every kind that has gone off here, has first been counted, and made into three inventories, all exactly alike one goes to the commissioners, signed by the owner or agent, and myself, the one master keeps signed by me, one I keep signed by the master, the commissioners, and agents in Halifax must receive the property as stated in those inventories, and it would be impossible to abstract any part of the materials of which they are composed without the knowledge and consent of the commissioners, and agents both, so that this statement of fraud cannot be true; it has been reported that there was horses from here landed at Popes Harbour. I do not know whether they were so landed or not, but if they were, it was no kit of mine, and must have been one by some higher authority. The tobacco was mine as has been acknowledged by one of the commissioners, and the other things of no value was given by me to a man that was serving the establishment in several ways.
My son being on the articles, as cook I could never have thought it wrong until I was told so by the commissioners, the duties were faithfully performed and during the time I had to employ a man to assist in baking ninety pounds of bread per day, which expense was borne by myself and there has been over twelve months that my family has done a mans work at it and received nothing. With regard to cooking for passengers in the way that it was done was not in the line of my duties, but was by mutual consent, and I paid them in money the full value of their clothing, and both were lawful [rits?]. With regard to my report made about the Fulton, it was a true report and whoever would have reported differently would have made a false report, such as Morash's statement of being able to save one hundred barrels a day, when there was but five days that she could be approached at all; The story of me and my family being the purchasers of the Levent, you have seen to be utterly false, and also Captn Reids statement about being prevented having the use of the buildings for cooking and other purposes