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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians

A list of Black Refugees at Beech Hill (Beechville) settlement who wished to go to Trinidad. No date
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Beech Hill - Blacks who wish to go to Trinidad 20
Beech Hill

Charles Lovett 45 wife and 1 son aged 24
Preston
Samuel Johnson 60 wife and one daughter 13
(BH)
John Baxtay 50 wife and one child 2 years
Granwell Benes
(P) William Lacy 38 Wife and 4 children 2 more than 12
(HP) Baiston Baring 67 Wife and 1 child 12
Charles Rantham 21
Mark Young 35 Wife
James Mitchell 40 Wife, under 12
April Cooper 40 Wife 2 d
(P) Anthony Baker 55 Wife, 2 Children under 12
(HP) Mark Cooper 60 Single
(HP) Joseph Terry 25 Wife (crossed out)
(HP) And. King 50 Wife and son more than 12
(HP) James Rogers 60
Isaac Butler (crossed out) 50 Wife 4 children more than 12 and 1 under
(all crossed out)
Cochran Ross(?) 45
(??) 60 Wife and 3 children under 12
And. Harrison
Melina(?) Hampton under 12



Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 20

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