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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 22nd to the 28th of March 1816 both days included
Names Men Women Children Jacob Allen 1 2 [Nilus?] Alexander 1 1 Philip Alexander 1 1 - Henry Brown 1 1 2 Ben Bowers 1 1 1 Friday Bush 1 2 2 George Brown 1 1 4 Henry Bisker 1 - - Isaiah Butler 1 1 1 James Bush 1 1 3 Luke Bowers 1 1 1 [Moses?] Ball 1 1 2 Abram Brown 1 1 1 Esau Bowels 1 1 - Robart Bush 1 1 1 Spencer Boyd 1 1 4 [Suther?] Blair 1 1 2 Richard Bailey 1 1 1 Wm [William] Brown 1 - - [What?] Brown 1 1 1 William Bunday 1 2 1 George Baum 1 - - Henry Becket 2 2 5 James Burton 1 - - Royal Carter 1 1 1 [Basil?] Croud 1 1 3 John Collins 1 1 1 James Cooke 1 1 1 Lewise [Conner?] 1 1 2 Jacob Claton 1 1 1 Nat Crawley 1 1 3 Peter Claton 1 1 1 Septimus Clarke 1 1 4 Solomon Crawley 1 1 2 Thomas Carter 2 1 1 Daniel Claton 1 1 1 Colonel Cooper 1 - - Joe Cox 1 1 3 Carried over 40 37 57
Names Men Women Children Brought forward 40 37 57 Henry Clarke 1 1 - [Nim?] Carter 1- - Joseph Cooper 1 1 2 [Sihy?] Claton - 1 1 John Cotts 1 - - Lewise Caste 1 - - Thomas Dine 1 1 2 James Downin 1 1 2 Meshak Delawar 1 1 - Danierl Driger 1 1 1 Charles Durmone 1 2 2 Wm [William] Dear 1 1 - Peter Duncan 1 1 2 Peter Duncan 1 1 - John Elson 1 1 - Peter Emerson 1 1 - Samuel Evens 1 2 - Ben Fuller 1 1 3 Robart Floud 1 1 - Wm [William] Fisher 1 - - Isaac Fletcher 1 - 3 Isaac Fletcher jr 1 - - John Floid 1 - - Jerry Gardner 1 1 5 Richard Grant 1 1 5 Daniel Gross 1 2 3 Solomon Gundy 1 1 3 George Gibson 1 1 - John Gardner 1 1 3 Hnery Gross 1 2 5 Richard Gross 1 - - William Greeno 1 1 1 Joseph [Glasyo?] 1 1 1 Robart [Glasyo?] 1 - - Jno [John] Grigory 1 - - Aaron Grant 1 - - Alexander Grant 1 3 2 Wm [William] Gilmore 1 1 1 Carried over 77 70 104






Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 91

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