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Petition from Black inhabitants of Hammonds Plains to the Lieutenant Governor, Sir James Kempt, praying for means to enable them to erect a place of worship
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pleased to extend towards them your accustomed benevolence, and bestow such assistance towards accomplishing the object they have in view, as in your Excellency's wisdom and goodness, you might consider they deserve.

George X Taylor
Newman X Brokenberry
Joseph X Grimes
[Saml?] X Cooper
Robt X Row
[?] X Cooper
James X Harrison
[illegible] X [?]
[illegible] X [illegible]
Gabriel X Jenkins
Nathan X Colvin
Jack X [Noysy?]
John X Cooper
Saml X Ellison
Issac X Grant
[?] X Wilson
Abrm X Smith
[?] X [LeVendee?]
John X Lively
[Jo??y?] X Cooper
Peter X [???]


Date: 18 August 1826

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 33

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