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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
Memo regrading Dr. James C. Cochran's land, from John McMonagle, Justice of the Peace at Windsor
Date: 4 February 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 51
Certificate from Dr. James C. Cochran regarding certain Black people having settled on his land
Date: 27 May 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 52
Names of 5 Black Refugee families settled at Refugee Hill near the North West Arm, lands formerly granted but to be escheated
Date: 3 June 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 53
Order for Benjamin Roberts, 3 month's rations
Date: 15 May 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 54
List of 15 Black prisoners, received from James H. (___), Wilmington, North Carolina
Date: 1 July 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 55
Certificate of John Griffin, relinquishing his claim to a portion of Dr. James C. Cochran's land
Date: 4 June 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 56
Health Officer's certificate, Brig Ceres from Charleston, South Carolina
Date: 23 August 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 58
Dr. William Phillips' Health Officers report, brig Ceres
Date: 23 August 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 59
Note on death of William Simson, a Black Refugee, one of the prisoners received at Charleston, who died of dropsy (edema) after two days at sea
Date: 11 August 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 60
List of Slaves belonging to British subjects, detained by order of the United States Government (Duplicate RG 1 vol. 419 no. 57)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 61
Certificate of discharge of John Thomas and Samuel Jenkins, Black Refugees, from hospital
Date: 13 August 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 62
Orders and certificates for provisions, etc, for Black Refugees
Date: August 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 63
List of Black Refugees located on lands on the Prospect Road, Township of Halifax
Date: 1 July 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 64
List of Black Refugees located North West of Melville Island
Date: 12 July 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 65
A list of Black Refugees received into the Poor House at Halifax from the Military Hospital and Melville Island
Date: 24 September 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 66