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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

Deed of sale of a slave child

Date: 14 July 1796

Reference: Chesley family fonds Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 177 number 75

Wentworth report on the Maroons

Date: 21 April 1797

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 number 41 pages 53-60

Message from Sir John Wentworth, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, to the House of Assembly, in answer to certain resolutions regarding the Jamaican Blacks called the Maroons

Date: 29 June 1797

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 19

Letter from Sir John Wentworth to the Duke of Portland

Date: 23 June 1798

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 number 57 pages 186-189

Letter from Sir John Wentworth to Richard Molesworth

Date: 15 January 1800

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 52 pages 377-379