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Loyalists taking refuge in Nova Scotia...
Loyalists taking refuge in Nova Scotia...
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December 10, 1785
PENNSYLVANIA PACKET & DAILY ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 1785
* Post Revolutionary War loyalists
Page 2 includes an address: "To the honorable col. Thomas Dundas...commissioners appointed by the British legislature to examine the claims of the loyalists in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, etc." which begins: "We, his majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects, being resident chiefly in this place, and part of their attachment to their sovereign, have taken refuge in this province from the United States of America..." with the signed response of the commissioners (see).
The front page features 16 illustrated ship ads. Four pages, great condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's