Chapter 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.