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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15. Halifax Nova Scotia
Government ___ By Order of His Excellency Sir John Coape Sherbrooke GCB___ To Thomas N. Jeffery D. To the undermentioned Potatoes purchased for the use of the refugee negroes [visit?]___
1816 5th June To 261 Bushels seed Potatoes purchased for the use of the Negroes at Preston from Mr. [Moira?] a [4/6?]___. Currency 54. 4. [6?]
[illegible] " 187 Bushels [illegible] purchased of Martin Gates for D__ at [4/6?] p ___40.16.6.
13th " 250 Bushels [illegible] purchased of Nicholas [Vap?] for the use of the Negroes at Hammonds Plains at 4/3 p. Bushel____ 53.2.6
[$ British pound sign]148..1..6
Received the above amount
Witness [signature]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 15