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Symmer to Shelburne. Wishes to make Turks Island a free-port and forbid persons to...
Catalogue reference: CO 23/16/240
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1767 Aug 3
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Symmer to Shelburne. Wishes to make Turks Island a free-port and forbid persons to work on Salt ponds unless they have families settled on the island. For enclosures see. f. 235, 237, 239.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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