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African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia 150th Anniversary Banquet

Date: 15 August 2003

Reference: Jones Clayton family Nova Scotia Archives 2022-028/007-8


Preston Letter A and Letter B

Date: 9 December 1786

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection: F/230 - 1786 African Nova Scotians


Preston Township

Date: 30 April 1791

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection: F/230 - 1791 African Nova Scotians


Dartmouth, Property on Road from Dartmouth to Preston

Date: 29 September 1814

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection: F/239 - 1814


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 Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 20



Unfinished sketch of two or three tracts of land. Coloured plan, no date or names. Hammonds Plains

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 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 Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 23


Plan by George P. Brehm of lots occupied by Black people at Preston

Date: September and October 1827

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 24


Plan by George Brehm of lines settled between Butler and Hamilton at Hammonds Plains

Date: November 1823

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 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 Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 26


Theophilus Chamberlain's plan of certain lands at Preston originally laid out to Robert Lemont

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 27



A large sketch plan without signature of Black Refugee lands at Preston, 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 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 Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 30


George Brehm's plan of the Black settlement at Hammonds Plains

Date: 8 November 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 31


Mr. Titus Smith's plan of lots for Black people near Eagle Lake, Preston. Surveyed 15 August 1834

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 32


Plan and description by Thomas Holland, Surveyor, of lots at Hammonds Plains

Date: 12 January 1832

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 33



Plan of Black settlement at Preston, showing Frog Lake lots and those at Partridge River, but neither signed or dated

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 35




Plan - Letters D and E at Preston. Surveyed to the Blacks

Date: 1829

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection: F/230 - 1829 African Nova Scotians


Sketch

Date: April 1842

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection: F/230 - 1842 African Nova Scotians


Preston Plan

Date: 1 March 1861

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection: F/230 - 1861 African Nova Scotians


Map detail showing Preston

Date: 1865

Reference: Topographical Township Map of Halifax County, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection


Map detail showing Birchtown

Date: 1882

Reference: Topographical Township Map of Shelburne County, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection


Page 12 - Base map of Nova Scotia

Date: July 1949

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library Brookbank 1990-191


Page 13 - Sketch map of Upper Hammond's Plains

Date: July 1949

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library Brookbank 1990-191


Page 30 - Sketch map of Africville

Date: July 1949

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library Brookbank 1990-191


Page 32 - Negro concentrations in Halifax (map)

Date: July 1949

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library Brookbank 1990-191


Page 33 - Reference maps of Halifax showing Negro concentrations in relation to other factors

Date: July 1949

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library Brookbank 1990-191


Appendix - Map No. 1 - Halifax, Preston, Lucasville, and Hammonds Plains

Date: surveyed 1920 reprinted 1946

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library Brookbank 1990-191


Appendix - Map No. 2 - Africville, Hammonds Plains, Lucasville, and Preston

Date: Reprinted 1945

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Library Brookbank 1990-191


               

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