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(133.
List of Blacks recently brought from the United States of America
and Settled on the Windsor Road — viz.
Names of Men | Men | Women | Children | Total | |
Monday Gold | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
Dick Ford | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
Hoping Bowen | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
Jacob Gold | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
Charles Gray | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Widow at Boydville | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
Samuel Johnston | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Moses Ohm | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
James Bruce | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
Richard Reeves | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
both very old — | George Smith | 1 | 1 | . | 2 |
Widow at Boydville | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
Widow at Webbers | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
George Carril | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
___ | ___ | ___ | ___ | ||
Total | 11 | 14 | 26 | 51 |
Document shows head of household and makeup of refugee families who settled on the Halifax-Windsor Road. In a covering report at the end of 1815, William Sabatier gave the total number of Windsor Road settlers as "actually" 72.
Both Monday Gold and Jacob Gold subsequently spelled their name "Goler" and Moses Obin became Moses "Cobin"
Date: [1815]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 133 (microfilm 15464)
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/Africanns/archives/?ID=74
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