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 Honourable the Earl of Dalhousie. [GCB]
To John S Kerry Dr.

1814 Currency

For Storage of Provisions at Dartmouth for the [illegible] for the use of the American Refugee Negroes settled at Preston from the 2nd day of July to this date inclusive, being six months, at the rate of 6 [of?] Currency [for?] addendum

Received payment of Thomas N. Jeffery Esq. Collector of his majesty’s customs at this port.

John S Kerry

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 76