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List of Slaves belonging to British subjects, captured on board of British vessels during the late war, brought into Charleston, South Carolina, as prisoners and detained by order of the Government of the United States
Date: 5 March 1815
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 57
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