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Catalogue reference: CO 137/111
Date: 1804 Jan-June
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Decision to delay sentence of Henry Gordon, a free 'mulatto', on trial for murder;...
Catalogue reference: CO 137/81/18
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- 1781 Sept 30
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Decision to delay sentence of Henry Gordon, a free 'mulatto', on trial for murder; Dalling requests assistance on decision whether to execute Gordon. Enclosed: trial report, including affidavits of Nancy Morgan and Johanna Fraser.
John Dalling, Governor of Jamaica, unnumbered separate despatch, Folios 145-152.
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