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Guysboro County Sydney 20 Novr. 1801

Your Excellency, Sir John Wentworth Bart.

Sir
I have to inform you Since a Number of Emigrants have arrived from Scotland. at Pictou and its Vicinity and bringing with them the Small Pox Measels & Hooping Cough the Indians who were Situated near that Place for fear of those Disorders have fled and are now Situated at the head of Guysboro River to the amounts of forty or fifty Familys and are in a Very wretched Situation for want of Clothes Provisions and Other necessarys - and its Doubly hard upon those Poor Creatures they being deprived of comeing Last Year to Halifax on account of the Small Pox so that they have been deprived of releif [relief] for upwards of two years - if Your Excellency will be Pleased to grant those poor beings any releif it will be an act of the Greatest Humanity

I have the Honor to be Your
Excellencys Very Hble Servt.
Wm. Nixon