Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Documents
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
Certificates for Thomas Williams and his wife as "freeborn Blacks", 1 July 1781
Date: 1 July 1781
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 333
Passport and certificate of John Williams, 19 April 1783
Date: 19 April 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 341
Certificate of manumission for 'James', a four month old "mulatto child"
Date: October or November 1783
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 170 page 350
Passport for Cato Ramsay to emigrate to Nova Scotia
Date: 21 April 1783
Reference: Gideon White family fonds Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 948 number 196 (microfilm 14960)
Petition on behalf of the Black Pioneers
Date: 20 August 1784
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 359 number 65
Fortune — A Free Negro
Date: 30 July 1784
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 376 pages 52-53
Return of Negroes and their families mustered in Annapolis County between the 28th day of May and the 30th day of June 1784
Date: 28 May 1784
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 376 pages 73-77
Land petition from black settlers of Manchester
Date: 7 October 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 17
Bill of sale for slave 'Sambo', recorded at the Pictou County Registry of Deeds
Date: 19 August 1786
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Pictou County register of deeds volume 1A page 223 (microfilm 18475)