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Halifax 8 November 1815 (39

Received from Richard Manby Esq. Deputy
Commissary General - Three Hundred Bags Biscuit
each Containing One Hundred and twelve pounds
for the use of the Blacks at Presten [Preston]

Jones's Shallop 180 Bags
Burks '' 120 ''
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300
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Rec' 300 bags of
from the government Shallops
Bread John Skerry