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 33
Government
To Thomas Johnson Dr.
1816 [July?] Currency
To my service as officer
of provisions to the refugee
Negroes settler Hammonds
Plains, from the 26th day
of April, to this date, [Inclusive?]
being 92 days, at recurring
perdiem --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 4 0
Storage of provisions
of Hammonds Plains, during
the above period, at
recurring perdiem ------------------------------------------------------------- 4 12 0
€ 13,, 16.. 0
received payment [from?]
Thomas A Jeffery esquire collection
of his majesty customs at [this?] [port?]
[witness?]
Thomas Johnson
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 33