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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Government, Halifax Nova Scotia (47)
to George Eaton Jr
1816
Febr 3rd
Currency
To 50 [quills?] for the use of the Negroe Establishments " 4 6
" 10" 2 bottles Ink " .3 0.
March 26 " 2 [quivers?] foolscap @ 3/. "60
"29 " 1/2 {quivers?] large paper "39.
April 3. " 1/2 ditto Bills of Exchange @ 12/6 " 6.3.
"26 " 1 [1/2?]ditto foolscap "30
" " " [1/2] ditto blotting Paper "20.
" " " 1/2 ditto long demi[?] "39
£1.15.3
Received Payment of Jones Fawson Esquire
Deputy of Thomas Nicholson Jeffery Esq
Collector of HM Customs at the Port
Witness, W Reynolds (signed)
Geo. Eaton (signed)
Date: April 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 47