Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

It appears by a late Bahama paper, that an armed transport having arrived at Dominica with distressed Loyalists from East Florida, Governor Ord had granted a supply of provisions for their present subsistence, and allotted lands for them to settle on, part of which had been cleared but abandoned for the want of funds to prosecute their cultivation; and that his Excellency having recommended these Refugees to the attention of the Council and Assembly, an exemption from taxes for 15 years had been agreed to, likewise to furnish tools and materials, for their building houses on the lands granted to them, to the amount of one thousand six hundred and fifty pounds currency. Governor Ord in his letter to Governor Tonyn on this occasion mentions, that he cannot recommend to these new settlers the cultivation of the sugar cane, as requiring too large a capital; that indigo does not thrive there, and they have too much wet for cotton; but those who have begun on a moderate plan with coffee and provisions, have in general found their expectation fully answered.