Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians

Certificate was originally issued by Enoch Plummer, Lieutenant of the 69th Regiment of Foot. He has "manumitted, enfranchised and set at liberty" the infant son of his slave 'Rose', "in consideration of [her] faithful services...and other good causes and considerations..."

Date: October or November 1783

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 350