Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Diaspora
Letter from several owners of land at Preston to Hon. T. N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, regarding the relinquishment of portions of the lands at Preston to be allotted to the Black Refugees. With endorsement thereon by the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Dalhousie
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96.
Halifax 12th October 1818
Sir
In answer to your application, writing us to relinquish the several Grants of Land agreeably to the accompanying Plan, and requiring on what grounds such relinquishment will be made.
As we have been at considerable Expense in Improving and settling the said Lands to prevent it from [escheat?], and considering were we to receive other Grants.
[?] Honble
Thomas N. Jeffrey E[sqre?]
in
Date: 12 October 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 96