Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 108
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