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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 11th to the 16th of May 1816 both Days Included

Names Men Woman Children
Jacob Allen 1 2
J Anderson 1 1 2
Niles Allexander 1 1
Phillip Allexander 1 1
Henry Barrington 1
Benjimin Bower 1 1 1
Friday Bush 1 2 2
Luke Bower 1
James Bush 1 1 3
Robert Bush 1 1 2
Geo Brown 1 1 [?]
Henry Birker 1 1
Isaiah Buttler 1 1 3
Moses Ball 1 1 2
Thomas Binkling 1
Abram Brown 1 1 1
[Earr?] Bowels 1 1


Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 97

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