Abbreviations used
Date December 30 1890
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Halifax, N.S., Dec. 29 - This morn., John SHAW, well known colored man, dropped dead by his bedside in the house where he lived. He escaped from slavery in the southern states early in the ecntury and came to Halifax.