Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning
Documents
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
Petition of Theophilus Chamberlain and Other Inhabitants of Dartmouth and Preston
Date: 13 February 1811
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 17 number 15
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
Petition of Theophilus Chamberlain and Other Inhabitants of Dartmouth and Preston
Date: 13 February 1811
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 17 number 15
Account of Elizabeth Easson with shoemaker Frederick Buckler
Date: 1811-April 1813
Reference: Easson family fonds Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 3478 number A199
List of American Black Refugees, deserters from the enemy on board HMS sloop Rifleman
Date: 28 September 1813
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 1
A return of American Black Refugees brought into Halifax and landed from HMS Marlborough
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 2
Letter from H. Hotham, Captain of the Fleet, to the Governor of Nova Scotia, regarding landing the Black Refugees from the Chesapeake Bay area. Written on board Ship San Domingo in Halifax Harbour
Date: 1 October 1813
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 3
A list of American Black Refugees on board HMS Ganon
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 4
Report of American Black Refugees brought from the Chesapeake by His Majesty's Ship Mariner
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 5
List of American Black Refugees landed from HMS Fox
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 6
A list of American Black Refugees on board HMS Diomede
Date: 2 September 1813
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 7
A list of American Black Refugees on board HMS Diadem
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 8
Return of men of colour settling in Preston
Date: 1813
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88 number 169
No. of lots in Hammonds Plains
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88 number 185
Return of men of colour settling in Preston
Date: 1813
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88 number 169
No. of lots in Hammonds Plains
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88 number 185
Admiral Cochrane's proclamation
Date: 2 April 1814
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 111 pages 99-100
Letter from Admiral Sir Alexander Cochran to Sir J. C. Sherbrooke regarding the condition of Black Refugees recently brought from Virginia
Date: 5 October 1814
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 10
Abstract of sundries supplied to the Blacks in the Poor House at Halifax from 2 September 1814 to 2 March 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 12
Description of lands laid out at Chezzetcook Harbour
Date: 15 April 1814
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88