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 July 27th 1815
Received of the honourable Thomas Nicholson lottery collector HM Customs, at this Port, the sum of fifty pounds sterling in [illegible] for my pay as clerk to the American Refugee Negro Department, at Melville Island between the 24th April, and thids date for which I have signed duplicate receipts of this tenor and date,
£55.22.12 [illegible]
JH Noonan
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 24