Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Accounts against Government for Black Refugees up to 26 December 1816, with the following suppliers: Seth Coleman, Theophilus Chamberlain, John H. Noonan, J. Howe and Son, George Eaton, Thomas Johnson, Henry Maxner, Sergeant William Beebey, Sergeant W. Cooper, William Strath, Timothy Crain, John Skerry, Lieutenant Keith, Richard Inglis, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Swan, Henry H. Cogswell, William Morris, J. Mackesy, William Philips, and WB. Almon
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Halifax Nova Scotia
Government, By Order of the Right Honorable the Earl of Dalhousie GCB,
To Serjeant Beebey & a Party of the 62nd[?] Regiment[?] Employed at Sackville__ Dr__
1817
January 26
To Amount of Allowance for Superintending the Landing & Issuing Provisions at Sackville for the use of the American Refugee Negroes located on Lands at Hammonds Plains, from the 23rd November 1816 to this date inclusive, being [65?] Days @ 17[?] P Diem, A party of Eight Men Employed on the above mentioned Service, 6 Days each, @ 11 per Diem.
Currency
£ 3 5 0
2 8 0
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£ 5. 13. 0.
Received Payment of Thomas N Jeffery Esqr. Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port.
Witness
J H Noonan [signature]
Wm Beebey [signature]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 72