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Copy of a memorandum from M. Tonge to Rev. W.C. King, Rector of Windsor describing the development of the community of Windsor, Nova Scotia

11 January 1814. — 4 pages : 30 x 50 cm.

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residents in Halifax. Douglas and Rawdon were granted to
and first settled by disbanded soldiers and Loyal refugees
at the Conclusion of the American war 1783.
If anything in these minutes can throw light on the
subject of your inquiry I shall be happy to have had it
in my power to afford it. - they may perhaps lend your
[illegible] to such publick documents as will afford you
more clear authentic information I see I have
insensibly run into some matter foreign to the question
but I will not obliterate as your curiosity may
find some gratification from the different recollections
of narrations old age.
I am with perfect respect and Esteem
Your obliging servant
January 11th 1814 M : Tonge.

I have since inclosed the foregoing found in
a tripartite agreement for the division of land between
Scotts and Tonges dated 1761 referring to the Grant dated
August 1760 and specifying the land to lay in this
Township of Falmouth on the River St. Croix within Kings County.
The first work for the Election a representative for this
Town of Windsor was issued at May 1782.


Reference: Isaac Deschamps Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 258 item 11 – pages 28-31

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