African Nova Scotian Teaching and Learning

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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