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unproductive and useless for many years. Your Memorialist therefore 
humbly submits to your Excellency to grant Lots on each side of the 
intended Road in the same manner as Younge Street to grantees per- 
forming their settlement duty before their deeds are issued. 
The good effect already experienced by the adoption of this plan 
will (Your Memorialist hopes) induce Your Excellency to pursue it 
yet further as it must greatly add to the value of these reserved Town- 
ships and be a powerful means of gaining a considerable population 
in a part of the Province where there seems no other means of obtain- 
ing it. 

Thomas Clark to Colonel Talbot. 
Dear Sir, Queenston May 4th 1810. 
By the Governor’s two Canoes I have taken upon myself to send 
up your seine (in a cask) and two coils of Rope—should His Excellency 
find fault with my doing so, you must make the best appology for me 
that you can. 
I am, Dear Sir, 
Yours very truly, 
THOMAS CLARK. 
Col. Talbot. 
Addressed on back 
Thomas Talbot Esqr. 
Port Talbot. 

Robert Talbot? to Colonel Talbot. 
My Dear Thos. London Augst. 9, 1810. 
It is a painful reflection that two successive letters of mine to you 
should each of them have to announce the death of a brother or sister. 
You will probably have learnt from other quarters the fate of poor Neil 
before this can reach you. Nobody certainly could be more sincerely 
lamented by all who knew him both as an officer & a man. 
Henry Brand’s ? account of the affair is this—that the enemy having 
formed a hollow square, the Hussars attempted to break them, but could 
not make good their charge; upon which he led on one of his squadrons, 
and got in amongst them, when he received several shot in different 
*Robert Talbot, Barrister-at-Law, was the fifth son of Richard Talbot. 
Born, 1776. 
# i ey Brand, afterwards Lord Dacre, an early friend of Colonel Thomas 
albot. 
