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Certificate in favor of Benjamin Roberts, a Black Refugee at Refugee Hill near Halifax
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68.
I certify that Benjamin Roberts the Bearer here of, a Blackman is a decent industrious man, That he occupies a piece of land obtained from Government on Refugee Hill near Halifax upon which he has built a house. and made home improvements and that he has a wife and three sons / the eldest about twelve years of age / whom he maintains.
Halifax 5th Oct 1816 [I.W. Nutting]


Date: 5 October 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 68

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