Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
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105.
Halifax Nova Scotia
Government
By Order of His Excellency the Right Hon ble the Earl of Dalhousie G C. B.
To Hartshorne Boggs & Co Dr.
For the undermentioned Seed supplied for the use of the Refugee Negroes between 1st June and 31st August 1817 Inclusive_
14 lbs Turnip Seed. . . . . . @4/lb £2.16.0
Amounting to Two pounds Sixteen Shillings Currency
Received from Mr. Richard Inglis the Sum of Two pounds Sixteen Shillings Currency in payment of the above Account for which I have signed Three Receipts to serve as one_
Halifax 10th October 1817
Hartshorne Boggs & Co
Witness John Robertson
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 105