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Custom House Halifax
10th June 1816

Sir.
I beg leave to acquaint you that Harriet Hamilton, one of the Refugee Negroes Located on Mr. Jeffery's Lands has been for some time past laboring under extreme pain, occasioned by a swelling on the knee, which her Husband is apprehensive will be the means...