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if left to the Indians, and there is no certainty of Mockwoods being here in the spring.
I Remain Sir
Your Obt. Servt.
Willm Nicholls

The Hon. Joseph Howe

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Wm Nicholl to Jas Holdsworth Esq
Hillsburgh 4th March 1843

Sir,
There is likewise another subject to which I wish to call his attention which is the getting of Logs from off the 1000 acres which I mentioned to him in my letter of the 30th Dec'r, since which I find Mr Josiah Harris had purchased the Logs off one Lot, five or six years back of an Indian for which he supplied him with clothes, and other things to the value of Five Dollars, but this Indian not improving on the lot which He ought to have done within three years it became forfeited, and has since been given to another who has begun to clear on it, and Mr Harris has got a number of logs cut there this winter, and as soon as I was informed of it, I forbid him cutting anymore or taking what he had cut, until I should hear from Mr Howe on the subject, and I think to allow him to take them now would certainly tend to discourage the present occupier (who had forbidden him to cut them) and might occasion him to aban-