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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Halifax Nova Scotia
106
Government
By order of His Excellency the Right Honble the Earl of Dalhousie [GCB?]
To Charter Hill [word?]
For the undermentioned articles supplied for the use of the Refugee Negroes between 1st June to 31st August 1817 Inclusive:
1 fishing Nett Complete . . . . 9 .. 19.. 8.
6 bushels barley -------------3/6 -- 1,,1, 0
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£ 11,,0,,8
Amounting to Eleven pounds & 8 pence Currency
Received from Mr Richard Inglis the sum of Eleven pounds & 8 pence Currency in payment of the above account for which we have signed three receipts to serve as one Halifax
10th October 1817
Charles Hill & Co
Witness M Russell [?]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 106