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 N.S.
Government by order of His Excellency Sir John Cope Sherbrooke GCB to Hartshorne Boggs and Co for the undermentioned articles delivered for the use of the Refugee Negroes at Preston
1816 Currency
May 31 c/o 100 Hoes at 2/3 11 5 0
June 8 c/o 130 Hoes at 2/ 5 0 0
14 c/o 100 Hoes at 2/ 10 0 0
July 2 c/o 100 Devonshire shovels at 3/9 18 15 0
c/o 100 Pick Axes illegible 7.2.16 at 10 35 11 8
L 90.11.8
Received Payment in full of Thomas N Jeffrey Esquire Collector of Her Majestys Customs at this Port
Hartshorne Boggs Co
illegible
illegible [name] Bert
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 31