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 31st May 1816
Received of Jones Fawson Esquire Deputy of Thomas Nicholson Jeffery Esquire, Collector of His Majesty's Customs for this Port, One Sett of Exchange No. [Number] 20. Dated this day for the Sum of One hundred and Sixty two pounds Eight Shillings and Seven Pence Sterling at 5 /p.Cent [percent] Premium, being infull [in full] for Amount of the within Accounts, for which I have Signed triplicate Receipts of this tenor, and date,
Lewis deMolitor
Witness
I.H. Noonan
Date: April 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 46