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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Halifax NS 27 Sept 1815
Received of Thomas N Jeffery Esq Collr
of [illegible] Customs at this Fort the sum of
Ten Thousand + Thirty five Pounds, seventeen
shillings + nine pence 1/4 Currency, in full for
the within account, agreeable to Contract
signed on the 1st May last, as approved by
His Esccellency Sir John Coape Sherbrooke
G.C.B in Council on the 6th day of May
One Thousand Eight Hundred + Fifteen,
for which I have signed Triplicate receipts
of this Tenor + date. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Louis DeMolitor
Witness-
[Illegible] Madden
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 22