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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



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







Edward and Robert Hughes to the Crown. Relinquishment of certain lands at Preston for the use of the Black Refugees

Date: 9 October 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 114


Relinquishment from William Lawson and his wife to the Crown of certain lands at Preston for the use of the Black Refugees - not recorded

Date: 17 October 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 115


Relinquishment from John Liddell and Samuel Butler, lands in Preston - not recorded

Date: November 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 116


Deed from Philip Tidmarsh to the Crown, certain lands in Preston - not recorded

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 117


Deed from John Gardiner Herbert and his wife to John Liddell, C. Baggs and JW. Pyke - Lands at Hammonds Plains - not recorded

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 118



Receipt for 3 months' rent for a store used as a depot for provisions for the Black Refugees, 1 March-31 May, 1818

Date: 25 November 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 125





               

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