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 NS
Government by order of His Excellency
Sir John Cope Sherbrooke G.C.B
To Hartshorne Boggs Co
For the undermentioned articles delivered for
the use of the Refugee Negroes at Hammond Plains
1816 Currency
To 1 Broad axe 7lb at [illegible] 0/8/2
1 Hatchet a 2lb }omitted 1 [illegible] 0/2/6
June 5 To 1 Chopping Axe 6 lb a 1/ 3 0/7/6
10 To 150 Hoes a 2/ 15/0/0
21 To 2 [illegible] Cords a 2/6 0/5/0
L 16/3/2
Received payment in full of Thomas
N Jeffery Esquire. Collector of His Majesty's
Customs at this Port ________
Hartshorne Boggs & Co
Witness
Richd Best
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 30