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[MS 246]

in a Criminal Court tried for Perjury being indicted for swearing before the Magistrate's Mr McArthur had eloped from his custody - weather the court had prejudged his case I will not presume to say - but the Court transported him to the Cole River / a government settlement - where the greatest "vagrants?" are sent to work - at the cole pits / for seven years - he has left a wife and four children in this colony who would be starved for want only for the humane support that Robt Campbell Esqr  alows them - 
an old Aterney named George Cropley [two indecipherable words inserted in margin] who helped in drawing p the indictment against McArthur - was brought before a Criminal Court and transported to the Cole River for seven years - # many other examples might be Brought forward but I forebore - The Settlers feel the weight of the revolution greatly as they cannot obtain from the new government any cash for the grain they grow upon their respective Farms which has disheartened the landholders so much that at a moderate calculation there is 2000 acres of wheat sowed this year but then there was no
 

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