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Proceeding of a Court of Inquiry held, by order of Major General Gosselin, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the detachment of troops stationed at Melville Island was connected in a robbery alluded to in report from Deputy Collector of Customs to the Lieutenant Governor
Date: 9 December 1815
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 87
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