Nova Scotia Archives
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Letter from John Clarkson and Lawrence Hartshorne to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, requesting an assistant surgeon to be supplied by Government for the voyage to Sierra Leone
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also fourteen women so far advanced in Pregnancy
that they expect to lye in during the Passage -- we therefore
submit it to your consideration whether such an appointment
is necessary or not, and remain with due respect
Your most humble Servants
Halifax 30th December 1791 John Clarkson} Agents for
Law. Hartshorne} I. O. Co.
Date: 30 December 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 11