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

Reports of Black people drawing rations at Preston, 1815. (Weekly reports)
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Names Men Woman Children
Brought Forward 65 61 97
isaac James
John Elson
Winslow Sharkes
Josiah Butter
Jacob Silence
John Staton
George Gibson
Ralph Toliver
Fanny Sanders
[ Plesent?] Hardin
John Grandmers
Thomas Yetting
Robt Cooper
Bray Cooper
Marada Stanley
Genl Taylor
Minn Carter
[Nesers?] Alexander
Samuel Leeke
Lewis Caste
{illegible]
Terry Paterson
North Johnson
Charle Yetting
Persmus Jackson
[Heazery?] Quarry
Henry Clarke
[Nasth] Leach
Gabriel Jones
[Miechiel] Johnson
Henry Pile
Andrea Williamson
[illegible] Fisher
Solomon Robertson
Carried over
Brought Forward
Charles Smother
Richard Smothers
John Collins
Geo More
[Millicim] Williams
Gabrial Johnson
Willm [McNeall?]


Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 66

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