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 10th Aug. 1815
I do hereby certify that the medicines in the annexed page, " were purchased for government; at the Prices as stated in the account; and [escpecided?] in the Hospital at Melville Island, for the use of the sick people of colour, on that establishment.
Thomas Duncan
Surgeon to the forces
RM.O
Miecy Esq [on edge of paper, partly cut off]

Date: 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 38