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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
A plan of certain lots at Hammonds Plains in the handwriting of Richard Morris, Surveyor General's clerk, but neither signed nor dated
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 34
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
Licence of occupation from Lieutenant Governor Dalhousie for lots at Refugee Hill, Township of Halifax, to Pompey Cooper and others, with plan attached. Given under hand and seal at arms at Halifax
Date: 27 March 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 36
"A New Map of Nova Scotia, compiled...for the Historical & Statistical Account of Nova Scotia"
Date: 1829
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection
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
Letter from Governor Cornwallis about Captain Bloss and his enslaved Blacks
Date: 22 September 1750
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 35 number 25
"A list of settlers victual'd at this place [Halifax] between the eighteenth day of May & fourth day of June 1750..."
Date: 28 November 1750
Reference: Isaac Deschamps Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 258 number 12
Letter of Malachy Salter to his wife about a slave
Date: 2 September 1759
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 217 number 27f (microfilm 9667)
"A list of proprietors of the township of Liverpool with their number in family respectively"
Date: ca. 1764
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 43 number 1
"A general return of the several townships in the province of Nova Scotia the first day of January 1767"
Date: 16 December 1767
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 443 number 1 (microfilm 15479)
Deed from Barbary (Barbara) Cuffy to Robert Stevenson, Liverpool
Date: 7 March 1769
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Queens County deed registers volume 1 page 258 (microfilm 18606)
Entry about the marriage of Deborah Cuffy and John Carroll, Liverpool from Simeon Perkins's diary, vol. 1 (typed transcript)
Date: 4 May 1772
Reference: Simeon Perkins Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 749
Bill of sale for slave named 'Dinah'
Date: 19 November 1776
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 113 number 51 (microfilm 15169)
Certificate of Ned, his wife and family as "free Negroes", 19 November 1779; passport of Ned, his wife and children, 14 October 1782
Date: 19 November 1779
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 336
David George's lease and passports, 1779-1781
Date: 1779
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 pages 332-333
Sale of slave 'Mintur' by Joseph Northrup to John Palmer in Windsor
Date: 1779
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 14 number 113 (microfilm 794)
Watson alias Phillis v. Proud (judgement)
Date: 1779
Reference: Supreme Court of Nova Scotia — Halifax County judgement books Nova Scotia Archives RG 39 J Halifax County volume 6 page 103
Certificate of Michael Thomas as a "free Negro together with his wife and children", 24 July 1780
Date: 24 July 1780
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 338