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29 Halifax, N.S
Government By order of his Excellency Sir J C Sherbrooke To J V B Starr
For the under mentioned articles delivered for the use of the Refugee Negroes at Hammond Plains
1816 May 4 [to?] 2 wood axes [ ] 1 of laying [one?] [ditto?] 5/8 currency 1.5
29 1 ax 1 of h1 hammer 3 lb 3 pounds 9.4
1 auger 2 of 6 [to?] nails [illegible] 6
July 10 [illegible] to nails at 10 1 hammer 2/6 2 lb pound 9.2
To gimblets 1 broad ax 12 lb 12 pound 13.6
1 carpenters [adze] 1 of 1 hand saw 9/ 19
1 hammer 3/ 1 peele ax 1 of. 13
1 spade 6/ 1 wood ax 1 of 1 hoe 5/. 1 1
[L] 6. 9 6

Received payment in full of Thomas N Jeffery [Lign?]
Collector of his Majesty’s Customs at this port Joseph Davis Starr