Nova Scotia Archives

African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition


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Address of the House of Assembly to Lieutenant Governor Sherbrooke opposing black refugee immigration

Date: 1 April 1815

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Journal of the House of Assembly 1815 page 107 (microfilm 3528)


Contract between Lewis DeMolitor and the collector of customs for the port of Halifax to supply provisions for black refugees

Date: 1 May 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 17 (microfilm 15464)


Indenture of David Dize

Date: 18 May 1815

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 770A number 57


"Names of men of colour who are settled upon lands conveyed to them by Henry H. Cogswell...at the Head of the North West Arm"

Date: 2 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 93 (microfilm 15464)


"Dr Head's report respecting black families settled at Preston"

Date: 1 February 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 47 (microfilm 15460)


"Report of lands cleared by the people of colour in the settlement of Preston..."

Date: 9 May 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 3 (microfilm 15464)


Plot plan of lands at Preston

Date: 19 November 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 29


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 (microfilm 15262)


"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)


"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)


"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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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