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Reply to a communication   

a letter received from the Colonial Secretary is addressed to Thomas Anstey Esq of Anstey Barton, Oatlands Eq that gentlemen observed Mr Anstey addressed the following letter to the Colonial Secretary
Oatlands 14th November 1828

Sir,

In compliance with the request of the Lieutenant Governor, expressed to me, at Jericho, yesterday, I have now the honor to inform you that I have found four men, well qualified for the service, who will readily undertake to lead Parties to the usual haunts of the natives in their recesses.

The names of the proposed guides are John Danvers (Convict) now a watchman at the Commissariat Store, Oatlands. 
James Hopkins (Ticket-of-Leave) a Fencer at the Bryant's Farm, Blue Hills
William Wakeman (Ticket-of-Leave) in the service of Mr John Earle, Eastern Marshes

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