Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Jones Fawson to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, relating to Harriet Hamilton, a Black Refugee
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Custom House Halifax
10th June 1816
Sir.
I beg leave to acquaint you that Harriet Hamilton, one of the Refugee Negroes Located on Mr. Jeffery's Lands has been for some time past laboring under extreme pain, occasioned by a swelling on the knee, which her Husband is apprehensive will be the means...
Date: 10 June 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 8