Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
"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
"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)
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)
"A New Map of Nova Scotia, compiled...for the Historical & Statistical Account of Nova Scotia"
Date: 1829
Publisher: [Joseph Howe?]
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection
Memorial of George Winder of New Road (Cherry Brook)
Date: 9 November 1829
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 57 number 82 (microfilm 9941)
"Province House, Hollis Street, Halifax"
Date: published by Colburn & Bentley, London 1830
Artist: J. Clark
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives William Moorsom, Letters From Nova Scotia: Comprising Sketches of a Young Country (London, 1830), page 10 opposite (F100 / M78) (microfilm 3870)
"A Black Article" (introductory paragraph)
Date: 27 June 1832
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Novascotian 27 June 1832 page 1 (microfilm 8069)
Petition from Richard Preston and others concerning the African Baptist Church
Date: 25 February 1833
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 42 number 51 (microfilm 9782)
"Return of the distribution of twenty-five pounds granted by the...House of Assembly for relief of poor coloured people at Preston"
Date: 16 March 1833
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 9 number 56 (microfilm 15108)
Petition of Richard Preston for money to pay for a teacher
Date: 15 February 1834
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 72 number 44 (microfilm 9957)