Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Accounts against Government for supplies for Black Refugees during the year 1816, with the following suppliers: John H. Noonan, Lewis DeMolitor, Robert Hodgers, John Skerry, Thomas N. Jeffery, Robert Leslie, Edward Randall, William Conroy, James Scott, Theophilus Chamberlain, Richard Munday, Wallace and Russell, Winkworth Allan, George Eaton, Samuel Head, Alexander Wallace, David Howe, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, J & D Starr and Thomas Johnson
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Halifax Nova Scotia
Government
To "[Robt?]" Hodgers Dr.
1816 Currency
20, June To my pay as turnkey to the American Refugee Negroe
Establishment at Melville Island from the 27. April to this
date inclusive, at the rate of "[7/6?] currency p diem ___
"[British pound symbol]" 20|12| "[illegible]"
Received payment of TN Jeffery Esquire Collector of his
Majesty's customs at this port.
Witness Robert Hodgers [signature]
"[illegible]" [signature]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 13