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Draft of Report of Committee who Presented Address on Negroes
Date: 3 April 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 4
Letter from Seth Coleman to William Sabatier re. Vaccinations
Date: 6 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 5
Letter from William Sabatier to Lieutenant Governor re. Provisions for Negroes
Date: December 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 6
Return of Black People at Halifax arrive from the Chesapeake
Date: December 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 7
Draft of Resolutions of House of Assembly in Preparation for Address
Date: 31 March 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 8
Return of black residents in Preston, Dartmouth, South-east Passage and Cow Bay
Date: 6 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 18
Message from Lieutenant Governor to House of Assembly
Date: 18 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 32
Extract of letter from Bathurst to Sherbrooke
Date: 10 May 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 50
Two Resolutions for Granting Sums to Seth Coleman
Date: 20 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 21 number 44
Letter from Seth Coleman to William Sabatier
Date: 23 March 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 21 number 84
Letter from William Sabatier to the Lieutenant Governor
Date: 23 March 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 21 number 85
Message of Lieutenant Governor to House of Assembly
Date: 23 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 2
Draft of Address of House of Assembly to Lieutenant Governor
Date: 1 April 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 3
Draft of Report of Committee who Presented Address on Negroes
Date: 3 April 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 4
Letter from Seth Coleman to William Sabatier re. Vaccinations
Date: 6 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 5
Letter from William Sabatier to Lieutenant Governor re. Provisions for Negroes
Date: December 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 6
Return of Black People at Halifax arrive from the Chesapeake
Date: December 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 7
Draft of Resolutions of House of Assembly in Preparation for Address
Date: 31 March 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 8
Return of black residents in Preston, Dartmouth, South-east Passage and Cow Bay
Date: 6 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 18
Message from Lieutenant Governor to House of Assembly
Date: 18 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 32
Extract of letter from Bathurst to Sherbrooke
Date: 10 May 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 50
Two Resolutions for Granting Sums to Seth Coleman
Date: 20 February 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 21 number 44
Letter from Seth Coleman to William Sabatier
Date: 23 March 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 21 number 84
Letter from William Sabatier to the Lieutenant Governor
Date: 23 March 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series A volume 21 number 85
Letter From Lord Dalhousie to Earl Bathurst about the black refugees
Date: 29 December 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 112 pages 6-9
Theophilus Chamberlain's plan. Certain lands in Preston originally laid out to E. Handeside, now owned by W. Lawson
Date: 25 September 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 26
Theophilus Chamberlain's plan of certain lands at Preston originally laid out to Robert Lemont
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 27
Surveyor General's plan of lands laid out for the Black Refugees at Beech Hill (Beechville), by order of Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant Governor. Certified by Surveyor General
Date: June 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 28
A large sketch plan without signature of Black Refugee lands at Preston, 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 29
Plan of the Black settlement at Hammonds Plains, with names of settlers, but not signed or authenticated and without date
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 30
Certificate of two Black families having settled on Dr. James C. Cochran's lands. Signed by Cochran
Date: 2 February 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 44
Letter from Theophilus Chamberlain to Charles Morris, Surveyor General, concerning rations for Black Refugees, etc
Date: 4 January 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 46
Doctor Samuel Head's report on Black families settled at Preston
Date: 1 February 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 47
Certificate from Dr. James C. Cochran stating that John Griffin, a Black Refugee, and his family had settled on his land
Date: 14 February 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 50