Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Several accounts and receipts for supplies to Black Refugees, with the following suppliers: Edward King, Robert Hodgers, William Kent, John H. Noonan, Winkworth Allan, Louis DeMolitor, William Anderson, William Sutherland, J. Howe, Son and Company, George Eaton, J. Clark, J. Young & Co, Tobin & Boyle, Doctors Hume and Pyke, William Philipps, Samuel Head, and Hartshorne & Boggs
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Amount brought over...37.2.4
June 2 | To 28 lbs 10 dy Nails... 10d | 1.3.4
5 | To 1 Files 7 1/2. Saw Sett 1/10..,,2.5 1/2
8 | To 2 lb Chalk...4d | ,, ,, 8
21 | To 2 hanks herring twin[e?] ...2/6 | ,, 5 ,,
23 | To 2 lb Spikes... 7d | ,,1.2
July 19 | To 10 lb 10 dy Nails...10d | ,,8.4
19 | To 2 lb Fine 4 dy Ditto ... 1/4 | ,,2.8
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2.3.7[?]
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[illegible] 39.3[page torn]
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Halifax 28th July 1815, Received payment for [signatures] Winckworth Allan, Thomas C. Allan
NB The Soap, Sugar, and Flour supplied on the 13th of May were not articles included in any Contract, and distributed only such Women & Children out of Hospital by my order,
Tho N Jeffrey
Coll'r of H.M. Customs
in Charge of the Refugee Negroes
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 21