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,
By Order of His Excellency
Sir John Coupe Sherbrooke G.C.B. etc.
To Robert Leslie Dr.
1816
May 28 -- To Amount of Pay as Medical Attendant to the Refugee Negroes at Melville Island, between the 27th April and this date inclusive, being 32 days, at 3/20 Army Sterling per Diem -- Equal to -- Currency: £6,,11,,5.
Received Payment of T.N. Jeffery Esquire collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port.
Robert Leslie
Hospital Assistant
Witness
I.H. Noonan
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 16