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directing that I should not for the present allow settlers to occupy Lots 
on a Road which Lt. Govr. Gore gave orders for the Survey of under 
my direction (for actual settlers) to connect Talbot Road with the Road 
thro’ Westminster—which survey was performed during the last sum- 
mer, and feeling confident that no difficulty would occur, I was induced 

by the application of several persons who had come from Nova Scotia 
and the lower parts of this Province to allow them to go on the Road 
referred to, who have done a considerable of labour on the lots they 
cecupy—lI had the honor to recommend to Lt. Governor Gore, that such 
a communication was absolutely necessary for the good of this part of 
the Province, as the route of transportation by Land from Westminster 
was a distance of above eighty miles and by the Road that has been 
surveyed under my directions, it does not exceed 24 miles to Port Talbot, 
from whence the produce of the country can be sent in vessels. Lt. 
Governor Gore in the first instance without any solicitation whatsoever 
on my part, proposed that I should undertake the settlement of Talbot 
Roads. I complied soly, for the benefit of this part of the country, 
in order to prevent improper characters from getting possession of the 
Crown Lands and to see that each lot should be occupied by an actual 
settler, having been aware of the serious injury that many points of this 
Province has sustained in consequence of Individuals holding grants of 
large tracts, who never intended to be actual settlers & by which means 
the extents they owned remains unimproved, so that Roads, a primary 
object of importance, can not be. worked to any general advantage—I 
had the honor to recommend to Lt. Govr. Gore (who was pleased to 
assent) that an appropriation of an equal quantity of land which the 
Talbot Roads took from? the Townships of Southwold shd. be made in 
the Township of Deerham whose situation would not interfere with the 
convenience of Roads of communication through this District, as from 
the manner in which this particular part of the Province was shut up 
before I settled at Port Talbot, by reserving whole Townships pro- 
tracted the population and consequent improvement of this most excel- 
lent tract of territory, at the same time by opening roads that Govern- 
ment was insuring those whenever it might be the pleasure of the Crown 
to dispose of the lands that were reserved for the establishment of 
Seminaries, they would acquire by the acquisition of these well settled 
Roads traversing them, very great additional value. 
I have thus far, done myself the honor of observing upon the 
particular situation of this part of the Province, trusting that from 


In the letter as sent appear the words, “ the reserves through,” between 
“from” and “the.’ These words are necessary to complete the meaning. 

