Selected items from the Commissioner of Public Records collection relating to Blacks (free and enslaved) in Nova Scotia 1750 to 1783. — archival description
Letter from Governor Cornwallis about Captain Bloss and his enslaved Blacks
Date: 22 September 1750
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 35 number 25
Wentworth report on the Maroons
Date: 21 April 1797
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 number 41 pages 53-60
Letter from Sir John Wentworth to the Duke of Portland
Date: 23 June 1798
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 number 57 pages 186-189
Letter from Sir John Wentworth to Richard Molesworth
Date: 15 January 1800
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 pages 377-379
Admiral Cochrane's proclamation
Date: 2 April 1814
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 111 pages 99-100
Letter From Lord Dalhousie to Earl Bathurst about the black refugees
Date: 29 December 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 112 pages 6-9
Copy of Petition from Colin Campbell to Lord Glenelg, regarding the removal of Refugee Blacks to better lands
Date: 25 August 1837
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 115 pages 56-57
Certificates for Thomas Williams and his wife as "freeborn Blacks", 1 July 1781
Date: Late 1782 or early 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 333
Certificate of Ned, his wife and family as "free Negroes", 19 November 1779; passport of Ned, his wife and children, 14 October 1782
Date: 13 March 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 336
Passport of Phillis Thomas, a "free Black woman", 12 October 1782
Date: 14 March 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 338
Certificate of Michael Thomas as a "free Negro together with his wife and children", 24 July 1780
Date: 14 March 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 338
Passport and certificate of John Williams, 19 April 1783
Date: June or July 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 341
Certificate of manumission for 'James', a four month old "mulatto child"
Date: October or November 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 350
David George's lease and passports, 1779-1781
Date: Late 1782 or early 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 pages 332-333
Petition of Colored People at Preston
Date: 11 March 1841
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 197 page 486
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