KING LONG PETER, X his mark.
KING GOVERNOR, X his mark.
KING JIMMY, X his mark.
(Signed)
CAPTAIN ROBERT F. STOCKTON.
ELI AYRES, M.D.

Witness, (Signed)
JOHN S. MILL.
JOHN CRAIG.

AGREEMENT WITH J. S. MILL

I HEREBY CONTRACT, for the consideration of one barrel of Rum,
one tierce of Tobacco, one barrel of Bread, one barrel of Beef,
one barrel of Pork, and one piece of trade Cloth, to give to
Captain R. F. Stockton and Eli Ayres all my right and title to
the Houses situated on the Land bought by them on Cape Mesurado.

In Witness whereof, I have here unto signed my name, on this
sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred twenty-one.

(Signed) JOHN S. MILL.

Witness, (Signed)
CHARLES CAREY, X his mark.
WILLIAM RODGERS, X his mark.

We promise to present to Charles Carey, one Coat.
(Signed) R. F. STOCKTON.
ELI AYRES.

The Fifth Annual Report of the American Colonization Society, pp.
64-66.

L---- C----.

A black man, has been a member of this Colony since the beginning
of the year 1820. He made a profession of religion in America:
but never never since I knew him, either discharged its duties,
or evinced much of its spirit, till within the last ten months.
He was a man of good natural sense, but wretched in the extreme;
and the cause of equal wretchedness to his young family. His
wife, naturally of a mild and placid temper, failed in almost
every thing to please him, or prevent the constant outbreakings
of his morose and peevish humor. He was her tyrant--and so
instinct with malevolence, the vain conceit of superiority,
jealousy, and obstinate pride, as to resemble more an Arab of the
desert, or a person destitute of natural affection, than a person
by education and in name, a Christian. As a neighbor, his
feelings were so soured and narrow, as to render him disobliging,
suspicious, and equally an object of general dislike and neglect.
His heart was a moral desert--no kind affection see