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A list of Black Refugees received into the Poor House at Halifax from the Military Hospital and Melville Island
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66.
A List of Black refugees received into the Poor House Hospital at Halifax from the Military Hospital and Melville Island under the directions of the Commissioners of the Poor, which have not been furnished with Provisions from the Commissariat department, since their being received; I am to request as Acting Commissioner of the Poor, Your Honor the Administrator will be pleased to give directions that the rations may be furnished for the number of days annexed against each of their names to remunerate the Institution, and for their future subsistance.

COL HEADINGS =
When rec'd into the Hospital
Names
From / What time / To what time
Number of days
Full Rations for a Man

1816
May 29 Timothy Williams 29 May 24 Decemb 210 210
ditto Sabina Williams do do 210 140
June 26 John Thomas 26 June do 182 182
July 6 Thomas Butler 6 July 27 August died 53 53
July 16 Samuel Jenkins 16 July 24 Decemb 182 182
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Halifax September 24. 1816
John Lawson Actg Commissioner
I would by leave to promise that Thomas Butler was received into the Hospital on the 6th day of July and died on the 27th August also a refugee from Hamman plains and Victualled at said Hospital from the Institution, and that no provisions were ever received from Government for the said Thomas Butler. Halifax September 24. 1816
John Lawson Actg Commissioner


Date: 24 September 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 66

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