394 HISTORY OF [BOOK. u. 



In the beginning of June 1796, his majesty's ship 

 the Dover, with two transports in company, having 

 on board the Trelawney Maroons, (in number a'bout 

 six hundred), provided with all manner of necessaries, 

 as well for their accommodation at sea, as for the 

 change of climate, sailed from Blue-fields in Jamaica, 

 for Halifax in North America. They were accom- 

 panied by William Dawes Quarrell, and Alexander 

 Ouchterlony, Esquires, commissioners appointed by 

 the assembly, with authority and instructions (subject 

 to his majesty's approbation and further orders) to 

 purchase lands in Nova Scotia, Lower Canada, or 

 where else his Majesty should please to appoint, 

 for the future establishment and subsistence of those 

 Maroons as a free people. The commissioners had 

 orders W T ithal, to provide them the means of a com- 

 fortable maintenance, until they were habituated to 

 the country and climate. The sum of ^,25,OOO was 

 allowed by the assembly for those purposes. They 

 arrived at Halifax in the month of July, and the 

 following letter from Sir John Wentworth, Bart, the 

 governor of the province, to a friend in London, 

 dated the 10th of November, 1796, will convey to 

 the reader, tbe clearest and most satisfactory account 

 of their reception in the province, and of the mea- 

 sures happily adopted for their future establishment 

 and improvement. With this letter, which I have 

 been permitted to copy from the original, I shall close 

 my account. 



11 The Maroons are now comfortably settled, and 

 their situation will be daily improving. They are 





