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216 REMINISCENCES OF OLD VICTORIA
What induced me to write this matter up was the resurrecting of a newspaper cutting, evidently from the Victoria Gazette, for which I am indebted to Mr. New-bury, collector of customs, and which is given verbatim :
"APPLICATION FOR CITIZENSHIP.
"We have copied the names and occupations of the persons who have made application to be admitted to the rights of British subjects within the past few days, and give them below. They foot up fifty-four in number?fifty-three are colored and one white.
"Victoria Town.
"George Henry Anderson, farmer.
William Isaacs, farmer. Fielding Spotts, cooper. James Samson, teamster. Richard Stokes, carrier.
John Thomas Dunlop, carman. Nathan Pointer, merchant. Augustus Christopher, porter. Isaac Gohiggin, teamster. William Alex. Scott, barber. Mifflin Wister Gibbs, merchant. William Miller, saloon-keeper. George H. Matthews, merchant.
Robert Abernethy, baker. Henry Perpero, gardener.
Thomas Palmer Freeman, storekeeper.
Stephen Anderson, miner. Edward A. Booth, water carrier.
William Grant, teamster.CAPTAIN "WILLIE" MITCHELL HON. DR. HELMCKEN
Of the Steamer Bearer. One of the pioneer Speaker Legislative Assembly,
navigators of the H. B. Co. 1858.
(:ON'. JOHN II. JOHNSON.
Of Minnesota, U.S.A.
SAMUEL BOOTH
One of the colored pioneers.
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