Draft of a letter to John Clarkson and Lawrence Hartshorne, agents for the Sierra Leone Company, from the Provincial Secretary, regarding the demand for an assistant surgeon to the expedition
Date: 2 January 1792
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 16
Draft of commission from Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, to John Clarkson, Lieutenant Royal Navy, to convey Black people to Sierra Leone
Date: 7 January 1792
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 17
Bill of fare, including list of food supplies, for victualling the Free Blacks on the voyage to Sierra Leone, submitted to the Lieutenant Governor
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 18
Message from Sir John Wentworth, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to the House of Assembly, in answer to certain resolutions regarding the Jamaican Blacks called the Maroons
Date: 29 June 1797
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 19
Mr. Titus Smith's plan of the tract of 1696 acres surveyed for Black people at Preston
Date: 18 November 1835
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 20
Surveyor General's plan of several tracts of lands occupied by Black people at Preston, attached to a grant thereof from the Crown or intended to be so attached. Certified by Surveyor General, John Spry Morris
Date: 11 January 1836
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 21
Unfinished sketch of two or three tracts of land. Coloured plan, no date or names. Hammonds Plains
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 22
John Chamberlain's sketch of lands in or near to Block Letter E on plan of Black settlement at Preston. Sampson Carter improvements
Date: 21 August 1822
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 23
Plan by George P. Brehm of lots occupied by Black people at Preston
Date: September and October 1827
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 24
Plan by George Brehm of lines settled between Butler and Hamilton at Hammonds Plains
Date: November 1823
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 25
Theophilus Chamberlain's plan. Certain lands in Preston originally laid out to E. Handeside, now owned by W. Lawson
Date: 25 September 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 26
Theophilus Chamberlain's plan of certain lands at Preston originally laid out to Robert Lemont
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 27
Surveyor General's plan of lands laid out for the Black Refugees at Beech Hill (Beechville), by order of Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant Governor. Certified by Surveyor General
Date: June 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 28
A large sketch plan without signature of Black Refugee lands at Preston, 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 29
Plan of the Black settlement at Hammonds Plains, with names of settlers, but not signed or authenticated and without date
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 419 no. 30
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