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
To David Howe Sr
1816 Currency
20 July
To lending a general
entry and abstract
books for the use of
the Refugee Negroe
Department at the
rate of [currency amount?] each ~ £ ,, 150
Received payment of
Thomas Jeffery Eugene Collector
of His Majestys Customs
this [illegible]
David Howe
Witness [name Sam?] Greenwood
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 32