Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Diaspora
Edward and Robert Hughes to the Crown. Relinquishment of certain lands at Preston for the use of the Black Refugees
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9 October 1818
Know all men by these presents that I Edward Hughes of Preston in the County of Halifax and Province of Nova Scotia Carpenter for and in consideration of an afsurance and promise made [word?] by His Excellence
Date: 9 October 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 114