Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Commissioner of Public Records
Selected items from the Commissioner of Public Records collection relating to Blacks (free and enslaved) in Nova Scotia 1750 to 1783. — archival description
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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