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All persons within five miles of Halifax and Dartmouth, having the Prisoners of War in their service, from the Depot at Melville Island, are desired to send them to attend muster, on Monday, the 2d of August, at six o’clock in the morning; no excuse will be admitted for the non-attendance of any prisoner. N.B. In future all prisoners of war are desired to attend at a General muster on the first Monday in each month. William Miller, Agent for prisoners of war. Transport Office, July 31, 1813.

Acadian Recorder, 7 August 1813, Volume 1 Number 30. https://archives.novascotia.ca/newspapers/archives/?ID=782&Page=201113121

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