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African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition

''List of Blacks recently brought from the United States of America and settled on the Windsor Road''
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List of Blacks recently brought from the United States of America
and Settled on the Windsor Road — viz.

Names of MenMenWomenChildrenTotal
Monday Gold1135
Dick Ford1135
Hoping Bowen1124
Jacob Gold1135
Charles Gray112
Widow at Boydville134
Samuel Johnston112
Moses Ohm1124
James Bruce1135
Richard Reeves1135
both very old —   George Smith11.2
Widow at Boydville123
Widow at Webbers112
George Carril1113
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Total11142651


Document shows head of household and makeup of refugee families who settled on the Halifax-Windsor Road. In a covering report at the end of 1815, William Sabatier gave the total number of Windsor Road settlers as "actually" 72.

Both Monday Gold and Jacob Gold subsequently spelled their name "Goler" and Moses Obin became Moses "Cobin"

Date: [1815]

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records  Nova Scotia Archives  RG 1 volume 420 number 133 (microfilm 15464)

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