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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

Certificate from John Rule, stating that Aaron Williams and Richard McArthur, two Black Refugees, have made certain improvements on their lands

Date: 30 September 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 67

Certificate in favor of Benjamin Roberts, a Black Refugee at Refugee Hill near Halifax

Date: 5 October 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 68

Surveyor General's objections to John Chamberlain's charges for surveying of land. Also includes certificate from John Chamberlain, on behalf of Moses (S___), dated 17 May 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 69

Governor's order for the removal of certain Black Refugees from Melville Island to Preston, from Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, to Charles Morris, Surveyor General

Date: 18 March 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 70

Draft of Charles Morris' proposals for settling Black Refugees

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 72

Copy of draft proposal signed by Charles Morris (RG 1 vol. 419 no. 72), but as is the case with most of his papers and plans, it is not dated

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 73