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Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series
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Memo from John Chamberlain to Charles Morris, Surveyor General, requesting a lot in Preston for himself and his father, Theophilus Chamberlain
Date: August 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 91
List of Black people settled on Block Letter A, Preston (?)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 92
A list of Black Refugees willing to settle on lands at Preston
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 93
Copy of the foregoing list of Black Refugees willing to settle on lands at Preston. (RG 1 vol. 419 no. 33)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 94
Letter from John Chamberlain to Surveyor General Charles Morris, enclosing his account for surveying Black Refugee lands
Date: 12 August 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 95
Letter from several owners of land at Preston to Hon. T. N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, regarding the relinquishment of portions of the lands at Preston to be allotted to the Black Refugees. With endorsement thereon by the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Dalhousie
Date: 12 October 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 96
Descriptions of certain lands at Preston relinquished for the use of Black Refugees, in the handwriting of Surveyor General Charles Morris
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 97
A further statement of lots relinquished to Government by individuals for the use of the American Black Refugees settled at Preston. Signed by Theophilus Chamberlain
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 98
A further description of lots in Preston, relinquished by the proprietors for the use of the Black Refugees. Signed by Surveyor General Charles Morris
Date: 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 99
A list of warrants of survey in favour of persons who have relinquished lots at Preston
Date: 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 100
Letter from Theophilus Chamberlain to Surveyor General Charles Morris regarding land relinquished at Preston for the use of the Black Refugees and lands to be granted in compensation
Date: 16 November 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 101
Report of His Majesty's Council on lands to be relinquished at Preston
Date: 11 December 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 102
Plan of certain lands at Lake Porter (without signature or date)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 103
Relinquishment from Michael Wallace to Government of certain lands in Preston for the use of the Black Refugees. Contains a relinquishment of dower but has no certificate of having been recorded
Date: 30 April 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 104
Deed from Hon. TN. Jeffery to Tobie Maxfield and other Black Refugees - not recorded
Date: 2 September 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 105