Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Return of Black People at Halifax arrive from the Chesapeake
Return includes 375 names of refugees who arrived in the autumn of 1815. 39 women and 131 men came without families, as did 45 children between the ages of eight and thirteen. The remaining 160 came as families.
The total of 336 which appears on the document is wrong, since it omits the 39 women listed as coming on their own.
Enclosed in RG 1 volume 305 number 6.
Date: December 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Documents selected by the Records Commissioner series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 7