"A list of people of colour settled at Preston"
Date: 26 August 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 90-91 (microfilm 15460)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Halifax List: Return of American Refugee Negroes who have been received into the Province of Nova Scotia from the United States of America between 27 April 1815 and 24 October 1818"
Date: [after 24 October 1818]
Reference: Department of State records relating to United States claims against Great Britain under the Treaty of Ghent and the Conventions of 1818, 1822 and 1826 Nova Scotia Archives National Archives and Records Administration (Washington DC) RG 76 Entry 185 GB 1814 number 51 G.B. 6 (microfilm 13577)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Return of the black American refugees residing at Hammonds Plains"
Date: [1820?]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 19 (microfilm 15463)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Preston schoolmaster's petition for a salary
Date: 11 November 1820
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 22 (microfilm 15463)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Memorial of Levin Winder
Date: 13 March 1821
Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 85 (1821) (microfilm 15733)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Petition of Christopher Wagner and Jack Langille of Petite Riviere
Date: 14 August 1821
Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 85 (1821) (microfilm 15733)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Marriage record of Aesop Moses and Margaret Prior, both of Annapolis
Date: 5 February 1824
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives St. Luke's Anglican Church, Annapolis Royal (microfilm 11199x)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Petition on behalf of the black people at Preston and Hammonds Plains
Date: 6 March 1824
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 80 number 32 (microfilm 9972)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Memorial of William Deer, John Collins, Nath. Leach and Henry Broad
Date: 4 October 1824
Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 90 (1824) (microfilm 15737)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Memorial of Gabriel Hall of Preston
Date: 7 December 1824
Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 90 (1824) (microfilm 15737)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Petition of black residents of Hammonds Plains for assistance to build a church
Date: 18 August 1826
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 33 (microfilm 15463)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
Government report concerning the scarlet fever outbreak in Hammonds Plains during the fall of 1826 and winter of 1827
Date: 15 January 1827
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 35 (microfilm 15463)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Petition of the coloured people settlers at Beech Hill near Halifax"
Date: 16 February 1827
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 92 number 83
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
"Half-yearly return of the school kept at Preston from 1st June to Ist day of November 1828"
Date: 1 November 1828
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 14 volume 23 number 82 1828 (microfilm 21877)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
British Army officer William Moorsom's conversation with a black refugee settler of Hammonds Plains
Date: [1829]
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives William Moorsom, Letters From Nova Scotia: Comprising Sketches of a Young Country (London, 1830), page 126 (F100 / M78) (microfilm 3870)
Theme: Black Refugees, 1813-1834
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