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Certificate from Dr. James C. Cochran regarding certain Black people having settled on his land
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I hereby certify, that the following Refugee Blacks, with their families as undermentioned still remain on Doctor Cochrans land on the Windsor Road (illegible)
Isaac Hitchet, his wife & three children.
Sergant Pilotte, his wife, three children.


Given under my Hand
at Halifax, 27, May, 1816.
Ja. C. Cochran


Date: 27 May 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 52

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