Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Names of Black Refugees who are settled upon lands conveyed to them by Henry H. Cogswell at the head of the North West Arm, Halifax
Also a return dated 5 October, 1816, with the same heading as at the top of sheet. Jacob Parker written on the original - Anthony Williams penciled in.
Date: 2 November 1815
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 93
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