Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Bill of sale for slave named 'Dinah'
Reverend Breynton of St Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax, sold his slave, 'Dinah', to Peter Shey. Dinah was in her mid-twenties.
Date: 19 November 1776
Reference Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 113 number 51 (microfilm 15169)
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