Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Petition of the Justices and Grand Jury of Cumberland County
Justices and Grand Jury of Cumberland County concerning a blind Negro man in the district of Minudi.
Date: 29 June 1801
Reference Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 8 number 59
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