A reply by Prendergas t.

Yeo continues to cut timber

without authority.

Another agent for Lot 70?

Agents for other Stewart lots.

[’ADVERTISEMENT’l—Sir, In your paper of the 23d [sic] of September last, there is an advertisement signed ”James Yeo”, who says he has authority for any abstraction of timber from Lot 10, that he has been guilty of. I do assure you, that he never received permission from the proprietors, D. and R. Stewart, Esquires, to make any such freedom with their property as what he has been in the habit of, nor from any person deputed by the proprietors. What species of authority is it, then, that he is possessed of? Why, it is self-assumed authority, and nothing more nor less. He has also the temerity to say... that I told him I had no authority over Lot 10. It is a most impudent, audacious, barefaced assertion, for I never told him. Mr. James Yeo says, in his advertisement, that he is ready to pay for any hay or timber of Lot 10, that he is implicated in. This, certainly, is as fair as any honest, well-disposed man could say. But how is the quantity to be ascertained? Is it by his own conscientious return, or by the weight of evidence to be adduced? I think, by the latter mode will be by far the fairest way. But why did not Mr. James Yeo pay before? or, if he really means to do so peaceably, let him now come forward and pay £20, to meet the Land Tax, as a proof that he is well-disposed to discharge the remainder of the claim on him in some reasonable time after, without putting the proprietors to any more trouble. John Prendergast, November 10th, 1834. [Royal Gazette, 18 Nov. 1834, p. 3, cols. 3—4.]

A PUBLIC NOTICE: And whereas I have been credibly informed that a man, commonly known by the name of "Jemmy Yeo”, has told certain Frenchmen of Lot 6, and others also, to go into the woods of Lots 10 and 12, and cut down, square and haul away Pine and other valuable Timber therefrom, as usual, without now or ever having the smallest shadow of authority from the proprietors, D. & R. Stewart, Esquires, or any one deputed by them, to do so: This is, therefore, to caution the public not to be led any longer astray by a man who has already been abstracting property from these gentleman’s estates to a very serious amount, and never yet paid one fraction for it, notwithstanding that he has enforced payment for stumpage from every man who has been implicated in the cutting down, squaring and hauling away of Timber from Lots 10 and 12 heretofore; John Prendergast, January 5, 1835. [Royal Gazette, 13 Jan. 1835, p. 3, col. 3 — further placements on 20 & 27 Jan.]

[Advertisement]: All persons are hereby required to refrain from committing trespasses on Lot or Township No. 10, and the Northern half of Lot 12, the property of David Stewart, Esq. by felling Timber, or carrying away Hay from the same, without written authority, as they will be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law.

W. Forgan

Agent of David Stewart, Esq. for that property. [Royal Gazette, 13 Jan. 1835, p. 3, col. 3 — further placements to at least April]

[Advertisement]: All persons are cautioned against trespassing upon Lots 7, 30, the southern moiety of 12 & Lennox Island, the property of David Stewart Esq. as the Subscribers have received instructions to prosecute such persons with the utmost rigour of the Law; and all those who may be indebted to Mr. Stewart, for Stumpage, or Hay cut on either of the aforesaid Lots, are desired to make immediate payment to the Solicitor General.

Robert Hodgson, John Lawson

Mr. David Stewart’s Agents for the above land. [Royal Gazette, 21 April 1835, p. 3, col. 4.]

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