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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108.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Government
By order of His Excellency the Right Hon..ble the Earl of Dalhousie G. C. B -
To Henry Maxner Dr
For Rent of a Store at Sackville occupied for the use of the Refugee Negroes Provisions from the 1st June to the 31st August 1817 Inclusive -
Three months £3. per month £ 9 .0.0
Amounting to Nine pounds Currency
Received from W. Richard Inglis the sum of Nine pounds Currency in payment of the above Account for which I have signed three Receipts to serve as one Halifax 8th October 1817
Henry Mixner
Witness
John Tobin
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 108