Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Appendix 3: 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: Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 93