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Abstract of expenses for receiving and providing for the Black Refugees at Melville Island between 27 October 1815 and 26 January 1816
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Date To whom paid, or due, and for what No. for Vouchers / Currency

1816
Nov 18th W. Sutherland Steward to the Establishment ______1 6 / 9
" " William Kent Turnkey to ditto___________________2 6 / 9
" 21st Gaspere Salsman for Straw, ___________________ 3 2 8 0
1816
Jany. 8th Chote Noonan for Horsehere ___________________4 9 0
" 26th David [?]arrard Surgeon to the Establishment _______5 18 17
" " John Hyacinth Noonan Clk to Ditto _______________6 13 10 7
" " Robert Hodgerd TurnKey to Ditto ________________7 34 10
" " Ditto Account of Expenses incurred ______________8 19 51 1/2
" " Geo Eaton for Stationary ______________________9 2 9 0
" " [Williams? or W. Minns?] for Blank Bills of Exchange __10 " 15 6
" " [Ch? Hamilton?] & Co for Printing __________________11 2 18 0
" " [illegible] for Rations issued to the
Negroes at Melville Island [illegilbe] in heatlh,________12 473.0.0
" " David Jearrad for Rations to Negroes in Hospital _____13 62 4 / 1/2
" " Cho [illegible] for Wood and Coals, omitted having
been tendered in the yr. End J 26th July 1815 ________14 13 10 0
" " Winckworth Ellan for Sundries Supplied for the
use of Negroes at Melville Island ___________________15 2 11 6
" " Ditto for Sundries for the use of Negroes at Preston ____16 30 6 0
" " James Scott for Coffins _________________________17 3 10 0
731.11 8
" " Theophilus Chamberlain for Surveying Lands
for the use of Negroes Settled in Preston 18 30 7 6
" " Theo. Chamberlain for TrucKage for Ditto __________19 86 15 4
" " Wallace & Russell for Ironmongery for [illegible]
" " I, & D, Starr for ditto _________ditto _______ _______21 24 0 0
" " H, H, Coadwell for drafting Contract, & Bond, 22 2 6 8
I, Allison for Interment of a Negroe
who died on the Henderson Road ________________23 5 6 7
" " I, Liddell & Co, for Sundries for the
use of Negroes Settled at Hammonds Plains _______ 24 31 10 4 1/2
" " Hartshorne Boggs & Co.. for ditto, ditto ____________25 79 15 1/2
" " I, & D Starr for ditto ___ ditto ____________________26 63 10 3
" " Thos. Johnston Ifsuer of Revisions to ditto 27 7 16 0
" " J W Pke for Truckage for ditto 28 115 18 6 1/2
" " I, Anderson for Ditto ditto ______________________29 41 5 "
" " G. P, Brehm for Surveying Lands for ditto 30 30 " "
L 1,326.1.1
Custom House, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
26th January 1816
Errors & Omissions Excepting
Thos N. Jeffery Cott
[?] in Customs
& by Rich Best
his Deputy



Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 130

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