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Memo from John Chamberlain to Charles Morris, Surveyor General, requesting a lot in Preston for himself and his father, Theophilus Chamberlain
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91

[No | Letter | [acres?] ]

12 | F | 25
13 | F | 75
14 | F | 100
18 | F | 50
10 | F | 50
Half of 14 | H | 50

[side note]

} 350 Acres
John Chamberlain

[No | Letter | [acres?] ]

19 | F | 100
26 | F | 100
27 | F | 100
one half of 28 | F | 50
one half of 14 | H | 50
172 in the 2nd Division | 100

[side note]

} 500
T Chamberlain Esq.

Sir
The above lotts [lots] does not I think interfer [interfere] with any [promises?] of Government and is the lotts [lots] that my Father and me will put up with though much further back then we at first expected. [*?] the affair could be settled today it would be a favour to us all for I see they have come [over?] in that expectation

Your [illegible] Servant
John Chamberlain

[signature]
Honorable Charles Morris S. G.


Date: August 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 91

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