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Letter from Jones Fawson, Acting Collector of Customs, to Lieutenant Governor JC. Sherbrooke, relating to Black Refugee accounts

Date: 20 March 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 56


Letter from John H. Noonan to Jones Fawson, Acting Collector of Customs, regarding the Clerk of the Black Refugee department

Date: 10 April 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 57


Winkworth Allan to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, regarding Black Refugees settled on Thomas N. Jeffery's land

Date: 10 April 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 58


List of Black Refugee families settled on Thomas N. Jeffery's land

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 59


List of Black Refugees received, discharged, etc, at Melville Island

Date: 26 April 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 60


Return of stores remaining on charge at Melville Island for use of the Black Refugees

Date: 8 June 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 61


Quarterly return of Collector of Custom's allowance for money per head for the Black Refugees

Date: 26 April 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 62


General abstract of Black Refugees at Melville Island

Date: 26 April 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 63


Abstract of Black Refugees daily victualled at Melville Island from 21 to 27 May 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 64



























               

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