African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning

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A plan of certain lots at Hammonds Plains in the handwriting of Richard Morris, Surveyor General's clerk, but neither signed nor dated

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 34

Plan of Black settlement at Preston, showing Frog Lake lots and those at Partridge River, but neither signed or dated

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 35

Preston residents request assistance

Date: 8 June 1832

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 7 number 15

Preston residents request assistance

Date: 8 June 1832

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 7 number 15

Titus Smith's account for surveys at Preston

Date: June 1833

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 56

Titus Smith's accounts for surveying lands for Black people at Hammonds Plains and Preston, 28 June 1833 and 18 November 1835

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 59

Description of lands at Preston relinquished by individuals to accommodate Black settlers

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 60

Petition from Richard Preston and others concerning the African Baptist Church

Date: 25 February 1833

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 42 number 51

Petition from Richard Preston and others concerning the African Baptist Church

Date: 25 February 1833

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 42 number 51

Copy of a land grant to William Day and a number of other Black Refugees at Hammonds Plains. (Marked duplicate grant and signed by Governor)

Date: 20 October 1834

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 120

Petition of Richard Preston for money to pay for a teacher

Date: 15 February 1834

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 72 number 44

Petition of Richard Preston for money to pay for a teacher

Date: 15 February 1834

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 72 number 44

Mr. Titus Smith's plan of the tract of 1696 acres surveyed for Black people at Preston

Date: 18 November 1835

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 20

Surveyor General's plan of several tracts of lands occupied by Black people at Preston, attached to a grant thereof from the Crown or intended to be so attached. Certified by Surveyor General, John Spry Morris

Date: 11 January 1836

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 21

Unfinished sketch of two or three tracts of land. Coloured plan, no date or names. Hammonds Plains

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 22

Surveyor General's account for surveys for Black Refugees

Date: 26 April 1836

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 61

Surveyor General's account of office fees relating to land grants to Black people at Hammonds Plains. 126 allotments containing 1323 acres

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 62

Memorial of William McLaughlin of Preston

Date: 14 February 1836

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 52 number 45

Memorial of William McLaughlin of Preston

Date: 14 February 1836

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series P volume 52 number 45

Copy of Petition from Colin Campbell to Lord Glenelg, regarding the removal of Refugee Blacks to better lands

Date: 25 August 1837

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 115 pages 56-57

Petition from Black settlers at Hammonds Plains to Thomas N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, praying for relief, as they are in a state of destitution

Date: 22 January 1837

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 42

Letter from Edward H. Lowe and Dr. Thomas B. Desbrisay to Sir Rupert D. George, Provincial Secretary. Report regarding the condition of Black people at Preston

Date: 9 March 1837

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 43

Letter from Robert Thomson to Sir Rupert D. George, Provincial Secretary, regarding the condition of Black people at Hammonds Plains

Date: 24 March 1837

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 44

Account of provisions served out to Black people at Hammonds Plains in March 1837, accompanying Robert Thomson's letter

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 45

Petition from Black settlers at Preston to the House of Assembly praying for a grant of the land they occupied by licence

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 46

Names of Black settlers wishing to move to the Guysborough Road

Date: 26 March 1837

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 47

Letter from Joseph Howe to Sir Rupert D. George, Provincial Secretary, with names of Black people at Preston willing to remove to any more desirable settlements

Date: 12 June 1837

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 48

Copy of a letter from Lord Glenelg to the Lieutenant Governor, Sir Colin Campbell, regarding the removal of Refugee Blacks to better lands

Date: 25 October 1837

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 50

Letter regarding black families in Preston and Hammonds Plains

Date: 4 July 1837

Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88

Letter regarding black families in Preston and Hammonds Plains

Date: 4 July 1837

Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 88

Petition of John Chamberlain and others to the Lieutenant Governor, Sir Colin Campbell, on behalf of Black people at Preston

Date: 8 June 1838

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 49

Letter from the administrator of the Government at Trinidad to the Governor of Nova Scotia, recommending a Mr. Burnley of Trinidad who has proceeded to Halifax to obtain Black laborers to move to that Island

Date: 24 April 1839

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 51

Printed copy of an ordinance of the Island of Trinidad for the encouragement of immigration to that Island

Date: 19 April 1839

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 52

Letter from Mr. Burnley to the Lieutenant Governor, Sir Colin Campbell, on the ordinance of the Island of Trinidad for the encouragement of immigration to that Island

Date: 3 August 1839

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 53