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Show 234. APPENDIX. same. And that you m•y be enabled to live honestly among men, we have given you our East End plantation in Fathog Bay, with every thing thereunto belonging, which we will endeavor to have secured to you by all lawful ways and means, that none may deprive you nor your offspring of it, but that you may freely cultivate and improve it, to your own benefit and advantage, and thereby be provided with a sufficient subsistence to live comfortably together in all friendliness and cordiality, assisting each other, that those more advanced in years may advise the younger, and these submit to the council of the elder, so that good order and harmony may be preserved among you, which will assuredly draw down the blessing of the Most High. But if you have not wherewithal to cultivate and improve the plantation yourselves, we advise you to hire yourselves for a season, to whom you please, as also the plantation, if you think it necessary, till you acquire a sufficiency to go on yourselves : but in every step you take of 'this kind, always remember the good of the whole. And as soon as you can make a beginning on the plantation yourselves, with cotton and provisions, we by all means would have you to do it, that you may not be scattered and too much divided, but endeavor to dwell together, and be content with food and raiment, and a blessing will certainly attend you, under the influence of such a disposition. Tell Dorcas Vanterpool we are much obliged to her for her friendly care and attendance of poor John Venture and Harry, during their sickness. We shall be pleased to hear how you go on by any opportunity, and that you cautiously maintain a good report among the neighbors, live in love among yourselves : and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding will assuredly be with you and yours, which we earnestly desire and pray for, being your sincere friends and well-wishers. SAMUEL NoT1'INGHAM, MARY NoT'l'INGHA)I. APPENDIX B. Letter from Dr. Davy, Custos of Manchester, addressed to S. W. Grant, Stipendiary Magistrate. Devon Penn, August 20th, 1839. " Sm,-You ask my opinion as to the state of things at the expiration of the first year of freedom. I give it with much satisfaction, because I, from the first, had favorable anticipations; the result, so far as my observation and experience extend, has issued in a far greater measure of success than I hoped, or considered possible. " When I consider how general the impression was, that during the first year nothing would be done by the laborersthat, in fact, the crops would be lost; when I remember with what confidence, confusion and outrage were predicted, and thefis and all kinds of crime were anticipated; when I contrast these impressions and these anticipations of evil, with the actual state of things at the present moment, I feel justified in asserting, that whether it be tested by the best hopes of the most sanguine, or by the worst fears of the most desponding, an unexpected measure of success has attended the first year of freedom. " I speak of circumstances which have come under my own observation, and I am bound to say that the conduct of the peasantry has been most exemplary-their demeanor is most respectful- and their moral improvement most striking. " The records of our local courts, and of our courts of quarter sessions, prove an extraordinary diminution of crime. "In my intercourse with them, I find them honest in their |