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Letter from John Starr addressed to Rupert D. George Esq. relating to a vessel to convey Black Refugees to Trinidad
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Halifax 8th December 1820

Rupert D. George Esq.
To Sir,
I hereby offer to convey in the good Brig Rachel Isaac Allen Master from hence to Trinidad any Number of Coloured People for which comfortable accommodations can be made, say one hundred, for the sum of seven pounds for each man or woman, and for children under twelve years is half price. The vessel shall be made comfortable for them, the women to have their accommodations in one part of the vessel, and the men in another, all to be supplied with a sufficiency of good wholesome provision, water to be put on board equal to one gallon per day, for each person calculating passage forty days, one pound each bread and meat or 1/2 [illegible] of fish per day. I shall also put on board the hundred bushels potatoes, seventy five bushels peas, fifty barrels fish, one cask molasses, ten barrels Indian Meal, a sufficient quantity of tea, sugar, coffee or chocolate, and rice


Date: 8 December 1820

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 24

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