Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Petition from Black inhabitants of Hammonds Plains to the Lieutenant Governor, Sir James Kempt, praying for means to enable them to erect a place of worship
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[first line covered by green tape and illegible]
People at Hammond Plains.
Praying for assistance
to build a Church
recd 4th August 1826
Referred to the Right
Rev [illegible]
Bishop of Nova Scotia
By command
[signature] R.D. George
10th August 1826
Believing that the place
of worship for which [aid?]
is solicited is not [illegible]
a Church [illegible]
with the Established [illegible]
I am unable to make a
report respecting it
August 18 1826 [illegible]
Date: 18 August 1826
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 33