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Level	Item
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)	CMS/B/OMS/C A1 E5A/3
Title	9 October 1816: Leicester Mountain: Butscher to Pratt
Extent	1 doc.
Date	1816
Description	Many of the children ('Hebos') whom he recently received from a 'slave vessel' have died. Sickness spread in the vessel's cramped conditions and over half of the cargo of 500 enslaved people are now dead. He has begun work on a schoolhouse 100' x 26'. He finds relations with MacCarthy strained on the question of whether the Government or the Society should support the children.
Access Status	Open
Physical Description	E5-8: The numbers are all original numbers with minor amendments.

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