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Appointment of Robert Powell, Gideon Dupont,----Fisher,----Mowat, George Hooper, Ralph McNair, Maj. Simon Fraser, Capt. Thomas Da Costa, Capt. Alexander Sutherland, Capt. William Johnston, and Capt. Stephen Hoyt a commission to examine into the number and pretentions of such negroes as came in under various proclamations and served with the King's forces or otherwise exposed themselves to the severity of the rebel laws and the resentment of their former masters. Copy.

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Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Manuscripts and Archives Division. The New York Public Library

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