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Return of present state of the Black Refugees settled at Melville Island

Date: 6 May 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 1


Report of land cleared by Black Refugees at Preston

Date: 9 May 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 3


Letter from Jones Fawson, Acting Collector of Customs, to Mr. Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, regarding supplies to Black Refugees

Date: 30 March 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 4


Letter to Jones Fawson from Mr. Addison, Military Secretary, regarding supplies for Black Refugees

Date: 20 June 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 5


Petition from James Barrow [Barron?], a Black Refugee, to the Administrator of the Government, regarding his house which had been destroyed by fire

Date: 4 July 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 6



Jones Fawson to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, relating to Harriet Hamilton, a Black Refugee

Date: 10 June 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 8


Return of Black Refugees settled at Hammonds Plains

Date: 8 June 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 9


Account of supplies issued to Black Refugees by Robert Leslie, under order of Sir John Coape Sherbrooke

Date: August 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 10


























Thomas N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, to Thomas Johnston at Hammonds Plains regarding Black Refugees

Date: 8 October 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 35


               

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