Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Community

This is to certify to whomfoever it may concern, that the Bearer hereof a Negro, reforted to the Britifh Lines, in con-fequence of the Proclamations of Sir William Howe, and Sir Henry Clinton, late Commanders in Chief in America; and that the faid Negro has hereby his Excellency Sir Guy Carleton's Permiffion to go to Nova-Scotia, or wherever elfe the may think proper.