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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















Return of clothing issued to Black Refugees from 1 June to 31 August 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 14


Receipt from Mr. George Child, Deputy Storekeeper, to Richard Inglis, Commissary for Black Refugees

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 15


Account of current expenses for Black Refugees between 1 December 1817 and 31 August 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 16


Report of His Majesty's Council on the accounts for providing for the Black Refugees

Date: November 1818

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 17


Letter from Theophilus Chamberlain to Secretary Rupert George regarding the settlement of Black Refugees at Preston. (See RG 1 vol. 422 no. 415)

Date: 31 October 1820

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 18


               

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