[COYNE] THE TALBOT PAPERS 89 



Hillier to Talbot. 



Government House 



York Februaiy 1, 1824. 

 Sir 



By Command of His Excellency the Lt. (ïovernor I have the Honor 

 to enclose to you Copy of the proceeding in Council on the Petition of 

 Wm. Henderson and I have to request you will signify to the present 

 locatee in Bayham the necessity of his speedily making out his Patent as 

 the only means of refunding the original locatee. 

 I have the Honor to be 

 Sir 

 Your most obedient 



Humble Servant 

 The Hon. G. Hillier. 



Thomas Talbot 



Port 'Talbot 



Petition of William Henderson to Sir Peregrine Maitland Lieutenant 



Governor. 

 Copy 



To Sir Peregrine Maitland Lieutenant Governor of the Province 



of Upper Canada &c. &c. &c. 



The Petition of William Henderson of Charlotteville in the District 

 of London, Yeoman, 



Humbly Sheweth, 



That Your Petitioner is the only Son and Heir of the late 

 Robert Henderson, deceased. That the said Robert Henderson did 

 on the Year 1812 pay to Col. Robert Nichol as Agent for Govern- 

 ment, the Pees on 200 acres of Land in Bayham which said Land 

 was afterwards taken from Your Petitioner's Father by Col. Talbot, 

 but that neither Your Petitioner's Father nor Your Petitioner has 

 ever been able to obtain the fees paid on the said Land. Wherefore 

 Your Petitioner humbly prays that Your Excellency will be pleased 

 to order the said Money to be repaid to Your Petitioner, or allowed 

 in his account for the Rents of Reserve Lot Number 23 in the 3rd 

 Concession of Charlotteville aforesaid. 



And Your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray, 

 signed Wm. Henderson 



by his Attorney 



G. Ryerson. 



