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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

Letter from Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, to James Morden Esquire, directing him to issue certain Government stores for the expedition to Sierra Leone

Date: 8 December 1791

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 8

Copy of the foregoing letter (see RG 1 vol. 419 no. 8)

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 9

Memorial of Michael Wallace to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, stating that a number of Black people from elsewhere in the Province and from the Province of New Brunswick have arrived in Halifax to join the expedition to Sierra Leone and requesting a further supply of £1000 to meet expenses

Date: 17 December 1791

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 10

Letter from John Clarkson and Lawrence Hartshorne to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, requesting an assistant surgeon to be supplied by Government for the voyage to Sierra Leone

Date: 30 December 1791

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 11

Letter from John Clarkson to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, regarding the voyage to Sierra Leone

Date: 30 December 1791

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 12

John Clarkson's account of the story of Lydia Jackson

Date: 30 November 1791

Reference: John Clarkson Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 219 pages 197-201; published in Clarkson's Mission to America, 1791-1792 page 89-90 (Public Archives of Nova Scotia Publication number 11, 1971) (F90 /N85/ Ar2P number 11)

R. v. Gray (indictment of Jesse Gray for selling Mary Postell as a slave and kidnapping Flora Postell her daughter)

Date: April-November 1791

Reference: Shelburne County Court of General Sessions of the Peace Nova Scotia Archives RG 60 Shelburne County volume 1 file 49-4

Answer to John Clarkson's letter, with instructions regarding the expedition to Sierra Leone

Date: 2 January 1792

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 13

Memorial of Michael Wallace to Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, reporting that the whole expense of the expedition will amount to £6000 and requesting a further draft of £3000

Date: February 1792

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 14

Copy of a certificate to Michael Wallace for £3000 sterling

Date: 6 February 1792

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 15

Draft of a letter to John Clarkson and Lawrence Hartshorne, agents for the Sierra Leone Company, from the Provincial Secretary, regarding the demand for an assistant surgeon to the expedition

Date: 2 January 1792

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 16

Draft of commission from Honorable Richard Bulkeley, President of HM. Council, to John Clarkson, Lieutenant Royal Navy, to convey Black people to Sierra Leone

Date: 7 January 1792

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 17

Bill of fare, including list of food supplies, for victualling the Free Blacks on the voyage to Sierra Leone, submitted to the Lieutenant Governor

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 18

Case of a black boy carried off to the West Indies

Date: 22 April 1794

Reference: Shelburne County Court of General Sessions of the Peace Nova Scotia Archives RG 34-321 J 145