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Weekly ration reports, Preston, from 5 January to 1 August 1816
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Report of People of Colour who drew rations in Preston from the 1st to the 7th March 1816 both days included

[Column One]
Names Men Woman Children
Jacob Allen 1 2
Philip Alexander 1 1
Ben Bowers 1 1 1
Friday Bush 1 2 2
George Brown 1 1 4
Henry Bisker 1
Josiah Butler 1 1 1
James Bush 1 1 3
[Leuke?] Bowers 1 1 1
[Moles?] Ball 1 1 2
[Meram?] Brown 1 1 1
[Ean?] Bowles 1 1
Robert Bush 1 1 2
Suther Blair 1 1 2
Spencer Boyd 1 1 4
Richard Baley 1 1 1
William Brown 1
[What?] Brown 1 1 1
William Bundy 1 2 1
George [Balm?] 1
Henry Becket 1 1 5
James Burton 1
[Baiel?] [Croud?] 1 1 3
John Collins 1 1 1
James Cooke 1 1 1
Lewis Connex 1 1 2
Jacob Claton 1 1 1
Nat Crawley 1 1 3
Peter Claton 1 1 1
Bray Cooker 3 1
Peter Craney 1
[Septimus?] Clarke 1 1 4
Solomon Crawley 1 1 2
Carried over 35 30 50

[Column 2]

Brought forward 35 30 50
Thomas Carter 1 1 1
Daniel Claton 1 1 1
Colonel Cooper 1
Joseph Cox 1 1 3
Henry Clarke 1 1
Joseph Cooper 1
[Silroy?] Claton 1
[Illegible] Cotts 1
Thomas [Drive?] 1 1 2
James Doronin 1 1 2
[Mushak?] Delawar 1 1
Daniel [Driger?] 1 1 1
Charles Dunmore 1 2 2
William Dear 1 1
Peter Duncan 1 1 2
Peter Duncan 2nd 1 1
John Elson 1 1
Peter Emerson 1 1
Samuel Evens 1 2
Benjermin Fuller 1 1 3
Robert Flood 1 1
William Fisher 1
Isaac Fletcher 1 3
Isaac Fletcher 1
John Floyd 1 2 2
Jerry Gardner 1 1 5
Richard Grant 1 1 5
Daniel [Grofs?] 1 2 3
Solomon Gundy 1 1 3
George Gibson 1 1
[Illegible] Gardner 1 1 3
Henry [Grofs?] 1 2 5
Carried over 66 61 95


Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 88

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