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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
Letter from James G. Barbadoes of Boston requesting information on behalf of Black people wishing to proceed to Trinidad. Addressed to Sir Rupert D. George, Provincial Secretary
Date: 31 November 1839
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 54
Petition of Colored People at Preston
Date: 11 March 1841
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 197 page 486
Petition of the Reverend Robert Willis, D.D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, on behalf of the Colored People in Halifax
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 292 number 134
Petition of the Reverend Robert Willis, D.D., Rector of St. Paul's Church on behalf of the Coloured People of Halifax
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 296 number 48
Petition of the Reverend Robert Willis, D.D., Rector of St. Paul's Church, in regard to the African School
Date: 1 March 1841
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 297 number 160
Petition of Colored People at Preston
Date: 1841
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 31
Petition of Colored People at Preston
Date: 1841
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series C volume 31
Province of Nova Scotia: Land Grants - Preston, Coloured people of
Date: 1842
Reference: Nova Scotia Lands and Forests Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 series A volume 129
Petition of 'people of collor' of Preston concerning famine in the area
Date: 1846
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 7 number 22
Request for pardon of Sarah Crowd, Preston, who has several children to support
Date: 4 November 1847
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 1 number 156
Petition from negroes of Preston and Meagher's Grant, seeking relief
Date: 14 February 1848
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 7 number 28
Petition, inhabitants of Lawrencetown and Preston, against John Robinson and William Anderson, Deputy Surveyors
Date: 14 February 1849
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 1 number 204
Petition from Moses Grant, asking that his wife, Mary be pardoned. Reside in Preston
Date: 9 December 1857
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 series GP volume 3 number 82
Information and complaint
Date: 8 November 1946
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 39 C volume 937 Supreme Court 13347
[Stipendiary] Magistrate's record of proceedings
Date: 9 November 1946
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 39 C volume 937 Supreme Court 13347