Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Draft of commission from Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, to John Clarkson, Lieutenant Royal Navy, to convey Black people to Sierra Leone
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the Health of the Passengers according to the Tenor of the Several Charter Parties. And further to do what shall appear to you necessary on any extraordinary Exigency which may Arise
Given Under my Hand & Seal at Halifax this Seventh day of January 1792 in the Thirty second Year of His Majesty's Reign [document torn and illegible]
By Order of the Commander in Chief [document torn and illegible]
one of His Maj' Secretaries
Date: 7 January 1792
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 17