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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Return of 70 African immigrants who claimed return passage to Sierra Leone onboard...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/356/25
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- CO 137/356/25
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1861 Aug 21
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Return of 70 African immigrants who claimed return passage to Sierra Leone onboard Clarendon; local government invited all claimants of return passages to come forward. Out of applicants, 109 forfeited return passage for sum of money. Enclosed: report by agent general of immigration, includes list of immigrants onboard [70 names supplied, include: James Cole, John Thomas, Sally Davis, Jonas Thomas, Lucy Thomas, Nancy George, David Jones, Hannah Thomas, William Lambert, William Campbell].
Charles Henry Darling, Governor of Jamaica, Jamaica No.122, Folios 182-191.
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- 8197/1861
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