Page from the 1783 “Book of Negroes” which accounted for those who became Loyalists and self-emancipated. Page lists Jemima Bull, formerly enslaved by Henry Bull, and her four children.

From Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester: Papers, The National Archives, Kew (PRO 30/55/100) 10427 pages 48-49, image courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives.