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Letter from Richard Best, Acting Collector of Customs, to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, regarding the contractors supplying sugar instead of molasses
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HM Service
To,
Henry H. Cogswell Esquire
Deputy Provincial Secretary
etc etc etc
Halifax
Custom House
9 November 1815
D'y Collector
Can the Contractor supply Sugar in place of Molasses
Date: 3 November 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 79