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Island of Jamaica have also furnished a
very considerable sum of money to be applied
toward the settlement and maintenance
of the Maroons - who have behaved
orderly - peaceably and quietly since
their arrival. It cannot but afford
pleasure to every serious and humane
mind, to be informed, that means of instruction
are liberally provided for the
children, and diligently exercised, with
great success, as are also the most prudent
means for instructing all of them
in the Christian Religion where to they
pay a decent and interesting attention
Date: 29 June 1797
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 19
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/african-heritage/archives/?ID=41
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