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Note. — Since the above abstract was put in print I have received 

 an interesting communication from Hon. E J, Barclay, Secretary of 

 State of Liberia. He gives gratifying information as to the progress 

 made and position taken by some of these people on the West Coast, 

 stating : " The only family that T have known to come direct from 

 the Dominion was Henry Rankin and wife, who came from a place 

 called Muskoka. They arrived in 1873 or '4. Mr. Kankin has 

 since died." . . As regards the " Loyal Negroes," yclept Nova 

 Scotians, on the coast, who were sent to Sierra Leone, and the 

 Maroons who followed, I have, through the kindness of Mr. Boyle, 

 Liberian Consul at Sierx-a Leone, heen furnished with a list of the 

 most prominent of these persons in the British West African 

 colonies : — 



Nova Scotians. — John B. Elliott, J.P., J. W. Elliott, and John 

 Priddy, of Sierra Leone ; Rev. S. Trotter Williams and Mr. Porter, 

 government contractor, of Waterloo; J. F. Eastman, M.D., Assistant 

 Colonial Surgeon, Gold Coast Colony. 



Maroons.— Dr. T. Spilbury, Colonial Surgeon, Gambia; J. Gabbi- 

 don. Commissariat clei'k ; and Hon. Francis Smith, Assistant Judge, 

 Gold Coast Colony; Nash H. Williams, B.L., of Freetown; and 

 Mr. Samuels, Trelawney Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone. 



There is a Maroon church at Freetown called St. John's, of which 

 the Rev. J. A. Cole — an able native African — is the pastor. It will 

 be noticed that the old home in Jamaica is remembered in the name 

 of a Freetown street. 



