Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Message from Sir John Wentworth, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to the House of Assembly, in answer to certain resolutions regarding the Jamaican Blacks called the Maroons
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which affords great hopes of happy success.
I have not any papers or documents
which I have permission to communicate
on this subject.
Wentworth
Date: 29 June 1797
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 19