Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Names of Black Refugees who are settled upon lands conveyed to them by Henry H. Cogswell at the head of the North West Arm, Halifax
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(93)
£.17.6
1.15
2.2.6
His Excellency
Sir John Coape Sherbrooke;
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the Provinces of Nova-Scotia Lower-Canada Upper-Canada, New-Brunswick, and the Islands of Prince Edward and Cape Breton, and their several Dependencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, and Commander of all His Majesty’s Forces in the said Provinces of Nova-Scotia, Lower-Canada, Upper Canada and New-Brunswick, and their several Dependencies and in the Islands of Newfoundland Prince Edward Cape Breton and Bermuda, &c. &c. &c.
Also a return dated 5 October, 1816, with the same heading as at the top of sheet. Jacob Parker written on the original - Anthony Williams penciled in.
Date: 2 November 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 93