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upon those who had received grants to surrender the Deeds, for Lands 
elsewhere. Genl. Brock assured me that he was unacquainted with 
the circumstances of the lands having been placed under my charge, 
adding at the same time, a censure upon his Predecessor for transferring 
the most essential prerogative of the person administering the Govern- 
ment. I then addressed a letter to Ridout, requiring his reasons for 
recommending locations in the Townships of Bayham & Malahide 
without consulting me, as he was in possession of your Exceltency’s 
orders on their subject, in reply Ridout, boldly declared that he had 
never received any instructions from you, placing such lands under my 
care. You may easily imagine my indignation at the humiliating situa- 
tion in which I found myself innocently involved with the poor people 
that I had induced to settle on the land and who had expended their 
time, labour and property in performing the duties attached to each lot. 
Wherefore I humbly and earnestly entreat that you will contrive to re- 
lieve my anxiety by having the goodness to transmit to me, with as little 
delay as possible an authority for the steps I have taken in placing 
settlers in Malahide and Bayham. ‘The particular situation of those 
Townships cannot so soon have escaped your recollection, and that the 
first proposal actually came from you, that I should take charge and 
watch over the settlement of that Part of the Province likewise that 
I did not derive the smallest emolument from the power given to me, 
but on the contrary incurred much expense and trouble, by having my 
house constantly filled with applicants for Land. Should your superior 
Judgment not conceive it incompatible it strikes me as a judicious 
measure, for your Excellency to explain to the Secretary of State for 
the Colonial Department, the motives that induced you to entrust me 
with the settlement of the Tract in question, proceeding from the 
injurious system of your Predecessors in burdening the most delightful 
and valuable part of the Province, with all the reservations, that the 
Government found expedient to lay apart for the establishment of 
Seminaries &c. &c. and that 
Captain J. B. Glegg to Talbot. 
Burlington Heights, 
Dear Colonel 30 Mch. 1813. 
During the last two days I have been so much indisposed as to be 
incapable of doing anything, the application of a blister to my chest 
has relieved me a good deal, and will I hope equal Doctor Kerr’s 
