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 Coape Sherbrooke GCB "[illegible]"
To George Eaton Dr.
1816 [in British pounds] Currency
May 7th To 1 quire foolscap paper for the use of the negroe department 3 0
" " " 1 quire folio post for "[@ ea.?]" 6 0
" 14th " 1 piece Indian rubber 2 6
" 17th " 2 pencils, "[illegible]" paper ink powder 2 9
" 20th " 1 Hundred quills 15 0
" " " 2 quires foolscap paper @ of 6 0
June 24th " 1 penknife 5 0
" " " 2 quires foolscap paper @ of 6 0
" " " 1 piece "[paste?]" 4 6
[British pound symbol] 2,,|10| 9
Received payment of Thomas N Jeffery Esq collector of His Majesty's
customs at this port
Witness George Eaton [signature]
John H Noonan [signature]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 26