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1884 - ? (Creation)
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5 cm of textual records (412 pages)
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Is a volume of extracts from a document among the Dorchester (British Headquarters) papers, formerly in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Includes the nominal roll of Black refugees registered and certified after having been inspected by the commissioners appointed by General Sir Guy Carleton (commander-in-chief of the British Army in America) on board the vessels in which they were embarked, previous to their sailing from New York for Nova Scotia between 23 April and 30 November 1783.
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Holograph (handwritten transcript). Pages 1 through 39 missing. Spine broken.
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From Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester: Papers, The National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/55/100) 10427
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The Nova Scotia Archives copy is a transcript and not the original. The original held at the National Archives has been digitized and is available online.
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For further information see Graham Russell Hodges, ed., The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution (New York and London 1996).