Black Community Files
Black Loyalist History
Birchtown Plaque
Black Loyalist Heritage Society
(External link)
We have available family files for:
Bell
Bennett
Blue (Blew)
Berriman
Blucke
Clyke
Dearing
Farmer |
George
Goosly
Guy
Hagen
Harris
Hartley
Herbert
Jolly |
Kelling
King
Lawrence
Marrant
Morrison
Nickerson
Robinson
Saunders |
Scott
Shepard
Stephens (Stevens)
Tasco
Warrington
Wesley
York |
Along with community files including the following:
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Land Grants
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Birchtown Archaeology
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First Black Magazine
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Black Clergy
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Black Settlement in Digby
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List of those Travelling to Sierra Leone
We also have other valuable resources:
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Carleton's Book of Negros, 3 volumes
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Muster Book of Free Blacks, Settlement of Bichtown, 1784.
Compiled by Mark Scott.
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The Black Battalion, 1916 - 1920: Canada's Best Kept Military
Secret. Calvin W. Ruck
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The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile
after the American Revolution. Edited by Graham Russel Hodges.
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Birchtown Archaelogical Survey (1993): The Black Loyalist
Settlement of Shelburne Co., NS, Canada. Compiled by Laird Niven. Sponsored
by the Shelburne County Cultural Awareness Society.
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The Mirgration of Carolina and Georgia Loyalists to Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick. Troxler Georgia Carole W, Degree date: 1974.
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Stephen Blucke: The Peril of Being a "White Negro" in
Loyalist Nova Scotia. Barry Cahill: Nova Scotia Historical Review. Volume
11, #1.
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Fire on Water: An anthology of Black Nova Scotia Writing.
George Elliott Clark: Includes writings of David George, John Marrant,
and Boston King. All were early residents of Shelburne.
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Clarkson's mission to American 1791 - 1792. A journal
of Clarkson's travels to Nova Scotia and accounts of people he met in the
Shelburne area. Includes list of Blacks going to Sierra Leone.
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Black Immigrants to Nova Scotia. John Grant
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Black Nova Scotians. John Grant
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An Unclouded Day. A brief account of Black Loyalists.
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David George: Black Loyalist. Kathleen Tudor. A former
slave, an educated man, a Black Loyalist, a Baptist Minister was an influential
man in the early days of Shelburne.
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The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised land in
Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone 1783 - 1870. James W. St. G. Walker. Includes
establishment at Birchtown.
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Last modified May 16, 2002.