Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Accounts against Government for supplies, etc, for American Black Refugees, with the following suppliers: David Jearrad, Surgeon, John H. Noonan, Robert Hodgers, Lewis DeMolitor, George Eaton, Theophilus Chamberlain, J & D Starr, Wallace & Russell, John Skerry, John Liddell and Hartshorne, and Boggs & Company
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Halifax Nova Scotia
Government
To David Jearrad (illegible)
1816
Currency
April 26 To Amount of the Pay as Surgeon to the Refuge Negroes at Melville Island, Between the 27th January and 26th April 1816, inclusive, at being 91 days at the rate of (illegible) Army Stirling per Deim, Equal to £18 13 9.
Received payment of J. Fawson Esquire Deputy of Thomas (?) Jeffery Esquire Collector of His Magestys Customs.
(illegible signature)
David Jearrad Surgeon
J. H. Noonan
Date: April 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 41