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 P. [Winckwath?] Allan H. Dr
For the undermentioned Articles, Supplied for the use of the Refugee Negroes Located on the N. W. of Melville Island by order of His Excellence Sir John Cape Sherbrooke G C B
1816
[Valef?]
13
S. IX Cut Saw 40/. I Whip Say 30/.
'' 9 Axes 42/. 3+ Pick Axes 34/6.
" 9 Field Lives 45/. 9 Garden Spades 58/6
" 6 [Grunion?] Steel Land Saws 12/6.
" 1 [Cassian?] Ditto D.
" 3 Nail [Lassmenss?] 2/
" 24 [illegible] Shingle Nails 1/2
" 24 [illegible] 10 def Ditto 9
" 4 [Gimblets?] 3/6 6 Files 3/
" 2 [Drawef?] knives 2/6
" 2 Saw [Fetts?] 2/6 2 pair [Campafis?] 2/6
4.10 "
5.9.6
3.15 "
" 5 "
" 6 "
1.11.6
1. [11?]. 3
" 6.6
" 5 "
" 5 "
= 22.17.3
Received Payment of [illegible], Jeffery Esq.
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 25