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in a Criminal Court tried for Perjury being
indicted for swaring before the Magistrates on the night of the 26 Jany that
McArthur had eloped from his custody -
weather the court had prejudged
his case I will not venture 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 whom by
who helped as a clerk in drawing up 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 fore-
bore -

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 re-
spective 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

# And notwithstanding the sentence in the Proclamation
which informed us "that no Free Man shall be disposessed of his house
&c  but by the Law" Yet we find that Major Johnston about six
weeks ago ordered the Rev Fulton out of his own house without
apigned no reason for this act - Although Mr Fulton had his
first permission just after the Revolution to purchase it he
being driven out of his Chaplains house a for this accommodation of Mr
Bayley