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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The articles stated in the foregoing account [illegible] furnished the people of Colour at Preston by my order under the verbal authority of his Excellency Sir J.C. Sherbrooke K, B, on my representation of the urgent [merefsity?] of each man being supplied with a good axe to fell wood for fuel for his family the then approaching winter - their huts being cold and unfinished, and the people exposed to the severity of the weather and in want of cloathing - The articles were delivered by my order, and most of them in my presence and the rest in presence of my Servants, which I am ready to attest to.
Charles Morris
Surv Genl
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 22