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,
By order of His Excellency for I, Sherbrooke GCB
To John S Kerry Dr
1916 April 2?
To Storage of Provisions at Dartmouth, for the use of the Negroes at Preston, between the 2 day of October, 1815, and this date inclusive, at the rate of [illegible] per Month. [British Pound symbol]18
Received payment of Jones [Tawson?] Esq.
Deputy of T.N. Jeffrey Esquire, Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port.
John S. Kerry
[signatures]
I do hereby Certify that I did engage the abovementioned Store, being safe and spacious, and from its proximity to the landing Wharf at Dartmouth, the most Convenient Building for placing the Provisions for the use of the Negroes at Preston and
Date: April 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 51