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
Government,
By order of His Excellency the Right Honble the Earl of Dalhousie G. C.B.
To Samuel Phillips Dr.
For numbering 184 Houses occupied by Refugee Negroes at Preston finding Paint and Brushes.
£ 4 " 6 " 8
Accounting to Four pounds Six Shillings and eight pence Currency.
Received from W. Richard Inglis the sum of Four pounds Six Shillings and eight pence Currency in payment of the above Account for which I have signed three [ill.] to serve as one:
Halifax 8th October 1814
Witness John Tobin Sam Phillips
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 112