African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

Lease to David George ("a free Negro man") of property at Savannah, Georgia, 11 December 1779. Also passports for George signed by various Georgia officials, 1 January 1780, 9 November 1781; one of these includes his wife Phyllis and their three children, Jesse, David and Ginny, also free. George, a Loyalist who afterwards emigrated to Sierra Leone, was the founder of the African Baptist Church in Nova Scotia.

Date: Recorded in orderly book at Halifax, late 1782 or early 1783

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives  RG 1 volume 170 pages 332-3 (microfilm 15282)