Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Letter from Alexander Howe to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, regarding Black people in the County of Annapolis willing to move to Sierra Leone. The latter part of the letter refers to the history of one Gautier, a Frenchman who had been engaged in opposing the British Authorities in the province
Date: 28 October 1791
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 3
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