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Reports of Black people drawing rations at Preston, 1815. (Weekly reports)
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[illegible]-horte of people of colour who drew rations in Preston from the 8th to the 14th of December 1815 both days included

Names Men Women Children Names Men Women Children
Peter Platon / / / Brought Forward 38 35 65
Terry Gardner / / 5 Samual Jones / / 2
Robert Haynes / Feilding Johnson / / /
Nat Crawley / / 2 Jacob Hudling / /
Loren Winder / / [illegble] Delaware / /
Geroge Winder / / / John Parker / / 3
Isaac Jones / / 4 Joseph Warren / / /
Henry Biskers / William Bundy / 2 /
Henry Taylor / / / William Ralph / 2 1
James Doumour / / 2 [illegible] Henderson / / /
Geo Tuner / / Jane [illegible] / /
Septimus Clarke / / 4 John Robarts / / /
Joseph Claton / / / Willaim Homes /
Stephen Johns / / 2 Samual Johnson / / 2
Pritch Baley / / / [illegible] Wilson / / 3
Geo Smith / / 4 [illegible] Johnson / / 2
Pritch Grant / / 5 William Brown /
Joseph Smith / Jarred Turner / / /
Jacob Wise / Solomon Gundy / / 3
Daniel Muse / / / Ben Johnson / /
Abram Brown / / / Henry Becket / / 4
Phillimore Hawkins / Daniel Driger / / /
Henry Lee / / 4 Gabriel Johnson / /
Solomon Crawley / / 2 Esam Bowels / /
William Wise / 2 Robert Robertson /
Joseph Fox / / 4 Jack Johnson / /
Geo Brown / / 4 James Burton /
Nat Leyton / / 3 Thomas Johnson / /
Robert Flood / / Issac James / /
[illegible] Rolins / / / John Elson / /
Jack Thompson / / / Winston Sparkes /
What Brown / / / Isaiah Butler / / /
James Slaughter / / 2 Jacob Silince / / /
Thomas Carter / 2 / John Staton /
Daniel Claton / / / Geo Gibson /
Daniel Johnson / / 3 Ralph Fortune / / 3
Daniel Grof / / 3 Plesent Hardin /
Jerry Page / / John Gardner / 3 3

Carried over 38 35 65 Carried Over 73 69 105






Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 73

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