Nova Scotia Archives
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians
Sundry accounts against Government for supplies for Black Refugees from 1 March to 31 August 1818 with the following suppliers: Henry Maxner, Austen and Stairs, John Skerry, Leonard Romkey, Charles Hill and Company, Robert Wilson, and William Beeby
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Halifax Nova Scotia
Government, By order of His Excellency the Right Hon'ble the Earl of Dalhousie [G?]. C. B.
To Austen & Stairs.... [Dr?]
To Rent of a store occupied in a [Depot?], at Halifax for [cloathing?], provisions be for the use of the Refugee Negroes from the 1st March to the 31st May 1818 is three months at £17.10 [illegible]......
Received from W: Richard Inglis the sum of four Pounds. Seven Shillings and sixpence in payment of the above account for which we have signed three receipts to serve as one, Halifax 25 Nov in 1818
Austen & Stairs
Witness
Henry [Wiswith?]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 2