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

A large sketch plan without signature of Black Refugee lands at Preston, 1816
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[plan at Preston]
[starting at top left-hand page]
[vertical] Mr Wallace [horizontal] Road
[vertical] Church
[horizontal] Moses Wilson 10 acres
A. Huncule 10 acres
[vertical] F Smith
[vertical] Mrs Murray
[horizontal] This Lot belongs to Mary Hatfield and was [Once] proposed to be given up but refused
A
[left-hand column]
Major [illegible] ardson [triangle]
2 Isaac [illegible] lins
William Mitchel [triangle]
4 [illegible] [missing] rron [triangle]
5 Jacob Clayton [triangle]
6 Stephen Johns [triangle]
7 Jacob [Illse?] [triangle]
8 Robert Young [triangle]
9 Joseph Stewart [triangle]
10 Daniel Muse [triangle]
11 Daniel Thomas [triangle]
12 Robert Haynes [triangle]
13 William Gilmore [triangle]

[middle column]
John Ward 27 [triangle]
Joseph Smith 26 [triangle]
William Robertson 25 [triangle]
Daniel [Clayton?] [24?] [triangle]
Peter Clayton 23 [triangle]
George Smith 22 [triangle]
Joseph Warren 21 [triangle]
George Turner 20 [triangle]
Peter Craney 19 [triangle]
Jacob Silence 18 [triangle]
Henry Quary 17 [triangle]
Sam Jones 16 [triangle]
Richard Baby 15 [triangle]
Peter Emmerson 14 [triangle]

[above right-hand column]

Mrs Hadfield

[right-hand column]

B
[triangle] N. 1 George Winder
[triangle] 2 George Savage
[triangle] 3 William Wise
[triangle] 4 Richard Smothers
[triangle] 5 Charles Smothers
[triangle] 6 Richard Grant
[triangle] 7 Naill Johnson
[triangle] 8 James Downing
[triangle] 9 Salomon [Crawley?]
[triangle] 10 Spencer [illegible]
[triangle] 11 [Adam?] [illegible]
[triangle] 12 Isaac Jone[s?]
13 John [Hatt?]
[triangle] 14 Henry Sayer
[triangle] 15 Jerry Gardiner
[triangle] 16 John Robertson
[triangle] 17 Ben Johnson
[triangle] 18 Fielding Johnson
[triangle] 19 Solomon Gundy





Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 29

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