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 the 27th 1815
Received of the Honourable Thomas Nicholson Jeffrey, Collector His Majesty's Customs at this Port, the sum of thirteen pounds, seventeen shillings, and
nine pence currency, in full for my Pay as Turnkey to the Negroe Department, Between the 8th day of June and this date, for which I have signed duplicate Receipts of this tenor and date, --
£13.17.9 Currency W Kent
[barely visible markings: 50 | 12.10 | 1.7.9 || 57 [TMS?] today
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 27