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Letter from Lawrence Hartshorne to Mr. Secretary Rupert D. George, relating to the settlement of the Black Refugees
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["II" written across the top]
will know that without assistance of that kind my offer would be nugatory. - For People of this description cannot maintain themselves sooner, giving into the woods to settle.
i am in [offerit?]
Law. Hartshorne.

[written bottom left hand corner]
Rupert D. George Esq.
Dec 7 [illegible]


Date: 14 April 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 11

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