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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#33
1 Copy Halifax Nova Scotia
2nd November 1815
Received from Mr. Richard Best Deputy of Thomas Nicholson Jeffery Collector of H M Customs for this port, for the use of the Refugee Negroes at Dartmouth [Viz?]
Number Contents
9084
9085 Two Bales double Blankets, each cont.g. 25 pair
9182
9183
9184
9186 Four Bales Single Blankets, each containing 5 pieces
34021 One Bale Men’s Dutch[Caps? capes?], Containing 200 No.
4989 One Bale Women’s Hose, Containing 200 pair
129053 One Bale children’s Hose Containing 500 pair
20848
20849 Two Bales Men’s Hose each Containing 200 pair
For which I have Signed Triplicate Receipts of this tenor, and date,
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 33