Nova Scotia Lands and Forests records accumulated from 1719 to 1851 document the granting and licencing of Crown lands to early settlers in Nova Scotia. Included among these records are various descriptions of land licenced to individual African Nova Scotian persons and families, warrants authorizing such occupation, and original petitions by Blacks illustrating the conflict of inherent African Nova Scotian title with the British system of freehold tenure. — archival description
Land petition from black settlers of Manchester
Date: 7 October 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 17
Petition of Christopher Wagner and Jack Langille of Petite Riviere
Date: 14 August 1821
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 85
Memorial of Levin Winder
Date: 13 March 1821
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 85
Memorial of William Deer, John Collins, Nath. Leach and Henry Broad
Date: 4 October 1824
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 90
Memorial of Gabriel Hall of Preston
Date: 7 December 1824
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 90
Province of Nova Scotia: Land Grants - Preston, Coloured people of
Date: 1842
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 129
Petition of Colored People at Preston
Date: 1841
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 31
"A list of proprietors of the township of Liverpool with their number in family respectively"
Date: ca. 1764
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 43 number 1
Letter containing description of lands granted in Preston
Date: 22 January 1822
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88
Sketch of Captain Allans' Grant - Chezzetcooke
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88
Chamberlains plans of John Charles, Lake William - Preston
Date: 1809
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88
Letter regarding black families in Preston and Hammonds Plains
Date: 4 July 4 1837
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88
Description of lands laid out at Chezzetcook Harbour
Date: 15 April 1814
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88
Return of men of colour settling in Preston
Date: 1813
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88 number 169
No. of lots in Hammonds Plains
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests - Crown Lands series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88 number 185
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