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Messrs. Hazen & White, Merchants at Fort Howe.

Gentlemen,—Since I wrote to you by John Hart giving you an account of the badness of the Pine Timber back of Saint Anns, I sent three hands up Nashwalk to try the timber in that place & find timber to be small near the water side. Upon Davidson's understanding I was determined to try that place he immediately sent a party of French up that river commanded by Israel Perley to cut all the timber that fell in his way. * * He sent another party back of Thomas Langin's upon the growth of Pine that Mr. Hayes^[1] had pitched upon, and has his small party sallying out upon all quarters and bids defiance to any Proprietors stopping him from such proceedings. Tomorrow morning I am going with 8 or 10 hands to cut some fine trees up Oromocto near where Davidson is steering his course, as he should be paid in his own coin * *. I hope one of you will come up soon and reside a few days for, as I mentioned to you in my last letter, it is very difficult for me to procure hands at suitable times as I am in the woods the chief of the time, and at present there is no prospect of the business being in one place as we expected when Mr. Francklin left this place. * * There is some that pretended to ingage to get us some sticks, by what I can learn has ingaged them to Davidson, especially that scoundrel John T———, although he gave Mr. Francklin good encouragement, as I thought, that he should have all the sticks he could procure.