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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28.
Halifax Nova Scotia
Government
To Alexander Wallace Dr
To the undermentioned Articles Supplier
for the use of the Refugee Negroes at Hammonds
Plains [location?]
1816 Currency
February 1st A Lancet ____________________ £ " 6 0
"______"___ 1 doz Cathartic Powders_________ " 6 0
"______"___ A key instrument for extract'g Teeth 1 5 0
"______"___ A box of ointment_______________ " 1 0
March 22. 1 Doz Cathartic Powders_________ " 6 0
April 2. 1 1/2 doz [Cinetic Au?]___________ " 18 0
"______"___ 2 Ozs Salts____________________ " 5 0
"______"___ 4 Ozs Camphire________________ " 6 0
"______"___ 4 Ozs blistering plaster___________ " 6 0
L 3" 19 0
Received Payment of Thomas N. Jeffery Esq
Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port
Witness,
John H. Noonan Alex Wallace
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 28