Nova Scotia Archives
Les Afro-Néo-Écossais à l'époque de l'esclavage et de l'abolition
« Liste des Noirs arrivés à Halifax sur le Chesapeake »
Return includes 375 names of refugees who arrived in the autumn of 1815. 39 women and 131 men came without families, as did 45 children between the ages of eight and thirteen. The remaining 160 came as families.
The total of 336 which appears on the document is wrong, since it omits the 39 women listed as coming on their own.
date: [1815]
numéro de référence: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 305 number 7 (microfilm 15387)