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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
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 121
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 122
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 123
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 124
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 125
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 126
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 127
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 128
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 129
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 130
Abstracts of vouchers for cash paid for contingencies on account of the Maroons between 1 July 1800 and May 1804
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 131
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 377-9 (microfilm 15238)
Petition of the Justices and Grand Jury of Cumberland County
Date: 29 June 1801
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 8 number 59
Petition of the Justices and Grand Jury of Cumberland County
Date: 29 June 1801
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 8 number 59
R. v. Andrews (indictment of Samuel Andrews Jr. for the murder of a "Negro woman of the name of Jude")
Date: 19 May 1801
Reference: Shelburne County Special Court of Oyer and Terminer Nova Scotia Archives RG 42 SH volume 1 file 4
Benjamin Belcher of Belcher Street (near Port Williams), estate inventory
Date: 1802
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives Kings County probate records estate case file B7 (microfilm 19779)
DeLancey v. Woodin (plaintiff's statement of claim against the defendant for harbouring 'Jack', a fugitive slave)
Date: 20 August 1803
Reference: Supreme Court of Nova Scotia — Annapolis County case files Nova Scotia Archives RG 39 C (AP) volume 1 file 2
Petition of Samuel Sheldon Pool of Shelburne
Date: 14 July 1804
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 11 number 52
Petition of Samuel Sheldon Pool of Shelburne
Date: 14 July 1804
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 11 number 52
Memorial of Theophilus Chamberlain of Preston
Date: 11 December 1805
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 12 number 25
Memorial of Theophilus Chamberlain of Preston
Date: 11 December 1805
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 12 number 25
Petition of John Taylor and Others of Annapolis County
Date: 3 December 1807
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 14 number 49
Petition of John Taylor and Others of Annapolis County
Date: 3 December 1807
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 14 number 49
Petition of John Taylor and other slaveholders
Date: 3 December 1807
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 14 number 49 (microfilm 15591)
Copy of a letter from Lord Castlereagh to the Governor or Commander of the forces in Nova Scotia, relating to the government provision for the American Black Refugees Enclosing orders in Council etc, relating to the slave trade and assigning the duty of managing and providing for ensalved Blacks captured or brought into Halifax to the Chief Officer of the Customs
Date: 10 April 1808
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 9
Commission to Silas Hardy of Granville as captain of a black militia company
Date: 17 November 1808
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives MG 100 volume 161 number 36a (microfilm 15201)
Chamberlains plans of John Charles, Lake William - Preston
Date: 1809
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88
Chamberlains plans of John Charles, Lake William - Preston
Date: 1809
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88
Petition of Theophilus Chamberlain and Other Inhabitants of Dartmouth and Preston
Date: 12 February 1811
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 17 number 14