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William Vesey Munnings was Chief Justice of the Bahamas in the early nineteenth-century. [1]

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References

  1. Adderley, Rosanne Marion (14 June 2019). "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean. Indiana University Press. ISBN   978-0253347039 via Google Books.