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Surveyor General's plan of lands laid out for the Black Refugees at Beech Hill (Beechville), by order of Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant Governor. Certified by Surveyor General
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Shiers Grant
| 1 Edward Allen 10 acres
North 19 West 50 chains | 2 Pomfrey Cooper 10 acres
| 3 Benjamen Roberts 10 acres
Road from Halifax | 4 Joseph Butler 10 acres
-------------------------------- | 5 William Roberts 10 acres
to the Settlement | 6 Robert Hamilton 10 acres
| 7 Hendrick Hamilton 10 acres
Beech Hill | 8 Aron Wheeler 10 acres
| 9 Charles Lovett Sr
| 10 Charles Lovett Jr
| | Barrans ?? Lakes
| | North -------------South
| | Scale 10 chains to an inch
| | Christian Brehm. DS
| | June 17, 1816
Shiers Grant / --------------------------------------------
/ South 71 W 20 chains
South 40 West /
/ Land of Henry Hemlleman.Grant and others
/
Charles Morris
L Gen'l G.M 48


Date: June 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 28

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