Chief Emigrant Agent’s Letter Book
Emigrant Office
Kingston February 1st 1842
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Sir,
[...] Very few Immigrants applied for free grants of land [...] they were not in possession of sufficient means to maintain themselves and families until the could get a crop from the land, and Immigrants of, small capital generally, and I think wisely, preferred purchasing partially improved farms in more settled parts of the Province to going upon wild land. [...]
I Have the Honor to be
(Signed) AB Hawke
Source: Public Archives of Ontario, Chief Emigrant Agent's Letter Book, RG11-1-0-2, MS6909, Unknown, Chief Emigrant Agent's Letter Book, February 1, 1842.