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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)
Land petition from black settlers of Manchester
Date: 7 October 1786
Reference: Commissioner of Crown Lands Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 17 (1786) (microfilm 15691)
Memorial of Thomas McMinn of Preston
Date: 19 November 1787
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 2 number 90
Bill to provincial government for surveying Birch Town
Date: 20 November 1787
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 256 number 30 (microfilm 21819)
Petition of Limmerick Isaac of Preston
Date: 17 April 1788
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 2 number 113
Memorial of Theophilus Chamberlain of Preston
Date: 10 February 1789
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 2 number 119
Declaration of the Sierra Leone Company of their readiness to receive into their Colony certain Free Blacks
Date: 2 August 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 1
Draft of Commission to Lieutenant John Clarkson to convey certain Free Blacks from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone at public expense
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 2
Letter from Alexander Howe to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, regarding Black people in the County of Annapolis willing to move to Sierra Leone. The latter part of the letter refers to the history of one Gautier, a Frenchman who had been engaged in opposing the British Authorities in the province
Date: 28 October 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 3
Memorial of Michael Wallace to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, requesting the sum of £1000 to enable him, as agent for removing the Blacks, to carry into effect the project entrusted to him
Date: 25 November 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 4
Memorandum from Michael Wallace regarding the Sierra Leone Expedition
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 5
Memorial of Michael Wallace, Commissioner for removing the Blacks to Sierra Leone, to Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, seeking authority to enter into agreements on behalf of Government
Date: 1 December 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 6
Memorandum from Michael Wallace suggesting a form for the minutes of Council regarding his petition
Date: 5 December 1791
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 7