Nova Scotia Archives
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Note on death of William Simson, a Black Refugee, one of the prisoners received at Charleston, who died of dropsy (edema) after two days at sea
Date: 11 August 1816
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 60
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