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 Nova Scotia
July 27th 1815
Received of the Honble Thomas Nicholson Jeffery Collector [illegible] of HM Customs at this Port, the sum of Thirty four pounds two shillings and six pence currency, in full for my pay as Turnkey to the Negroe Department at Melville Island. Between the 27th April and this date, having signed Duplicate Receipts of the tenor and Date.
£34..2..6 Curry
Robert Hodgers
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 26