Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 105
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 106
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 107
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 108
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 109
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 110
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 111
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 112
Abstract of expenses incurred in providing for American Black Refugees in the different settlements between 1 June and 31 August 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 113
Draft of certificate of accounts by Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary
Date: 30 December 1817
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 114
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 115
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 116
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 117
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 118
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 119
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 120
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 121
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 122
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 123
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 124
Sundry accounts up to November 1817 and February 1818 with the following suppliers: William Beebey, John Skerry, Austen and Stairs, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, Samuel Phillips, and Charles Hunt
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 125
Abstract of expenses incurred in providing for Black Refugees in the different settlements, between 1 September and 30 November 1817 with general account current
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 126
Abstract of expenses incurred in providing for Black Refugees in the different settlements, between 1 December 1817 and 28 February 1818 with general account current
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 127
George Brehm's plan of the Black settlement at Hammonds Plains
Date: 8 November 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 31
Mr. Titus Smith's plan of lots for Black people near Eagle Lake, Preston. Surveyed 15 August 1834
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 32
Licence of occupation from Lieutenant Governor Dalhousie for lots at Refugee Hill, Township of Halifax, to Pompey Cooper and others, with plan attached. Given under hand and seal at arms at Halifax
Date: 27 March 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 36
A list of the Black people settled at Preston, with the numbers of their lots. Inspected 24 to 26 August 1818
Date: 26 August 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 90
Memo from John Chamberlain to Charles Morris, Surveyor General, requesting a lot in Preston for himself and his father, Theophilus Chamberlain
Date: August 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 91
List of Black people settled on Block Letter A, Preston (?)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 92
A list of Black Refugees willing to settle on lands at Preston
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 93
Copy of the foregoing list of Black Refugees willing to settle on lands at Preston. (RG 1 vol. 419 no. 33)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 94
Letter from John Chamberlain to Surveyor General Charles Morris, enclosing his account for surveying Black Refugee lands
Date: 12 August 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 95
Letter from several owners of land at Preston to Hon. T. N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, regarding the relinquishment of portions of the lands at Preston to be allotted to the Black Refugees. With endorsement thereon by the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Dalhousie
Date: 12 October 1818
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 96
Descriptions of certain lands at Preston relinquished for the use of Black Refugees, in the handwriting of Surveyor General Charles Morris
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 97
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