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 Honorable the Earl of Dalhousie [illegible]
To Lieut. Keith Dr
1817 Currency
January 26
The amount of allowance for the
Superintending for the landing of [illegible] Provisions at Sackville for the use of the American Refugee Negroes settled at Hammonds plains from the 22nd day of November 1816 to this date inclusive - being 66 days at the rate of 5f currency per diem. 16.10 0
[16.10.0 Pds]
Received payment of Thomas N. Geffery Esquire
Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port.
[illegible signature]
for Lieut. Keith
[illegible signature]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 77