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interference, but my exertions & perseverance to promote the welfare of 
this infant colony are the only sources of gratification that I look for— 
and when it is considered that the Crown Lands will be prodigiously 
benefited by having good & populous roads passing thro’ them I am 
inclined to feel confident that no difficulties will occur, especially as the 
equal quantity of land that I have reommended appropriated for the 
reserves that would have fallen on Talbot Roads thro’ Southwold should 
be placed in the Township of Deerham which is so situated as not to 
interfere with the convenience of Roads of communication thro’ this 
part of the Province—however to acquire a more perfect knowledge 
of the facts I will humbly request that you will have a conference with 
the Surveyor Genl. who can show to your satisfaction on the plan of the 
Province the propriety of my scheme—should nothing have been brought 
into Council relative to this subject before this reaches you, I humbly 
apprehend that there is not any occasion for it. 
Captain J. B. Glegg, A.D.C.,' to Talbot. 
Private. 
My Dear Sir. York 12th March 1812. 
I was favored with your letter a few days ago, and availed myself 
of the first opportunity that Mr. Burwell gave me, for presenting him 
to the General, who has in consequence of your introduction afforded 
him every facility in the accomplishment of his business—Agreeably 
to your request, I send you a few of the new supplementary Militia 
Bills, which came from the Press this morning, a circular letter will 
be addressed immediately to Officers commanding Corps calling upon 
them, to explain distinctly to their officers, and men, its different pro- 
visions— The General received a letter from Nicholls this morning, 
written I believe from the head of the Lake, and he reports that in 
consequence of efforts made by Wilcocks Mallory ? and others to create 

1 Captain Glegg was General Brock’s aide-de-camp. He lived to the age 
of 87, dying in 1861. He was successively Major and Lieutenant Colonel of 
the 43d Regiment in which he served for 39 vears. 
* Joseph Wilcocks, an ex-United Irishman, editor and publisher of the 
Upper Canada Guardian, “practically the first real organ of public opinion 
in Upper Canada,” M.P.P. for the East Riding of York, leader of the Oppo- 
sition. He fought under Brock at Queenston Heights, but afterwards went 
over to the enemy, and was killed in action at Fort Erie in August, 1814. 
(See page 111, Gore to Talbot, ‘“Joe’s Party ”’). Benajah Mallory, M.P.P. for 
Norfolk, Oxford and Middlesex (from 1804), born in the United States, went 
over to the enemy during the War. 



