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
note: transcription publicly contributed - please contact us with comments, errors or omisions
40
Government for the use of the Blacks To Hartshome Boggs & Co. [Company]. [Debtor?]
1815
May - To 60 Pick Axes 427 [symbols?] @ 1/d... 16.0.3
To [39?] Hoes @ 2/6 ...3.12.6
To 25 Wood Axes 175 [symbols?] @ 1/...8.15 ,,
To 1 Garden Spade... ,,7.6
To 2 Devonshire Shovels @ 3/9... ,,7.6
---
£29.2.9
===
In council Halifax 8th September 1815.
I certify that the above mentioned Articles were furnished to Sundry Black Refugees at Dartmouth by order of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor Henry H. [Cogswill?] By [Pros?] [Licy?] & Clerk of the Council.
Received from The Honourable Thomas N. Jeffery the Sum of Twenty nine pounds two shillings & nine pence in full for the above Account.
[signed] Hartshome Boggs & Co.
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 40