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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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9)
Halifax Nova Scotia
By Order of His Excellency the Right
Hon ble the Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.B.
To Henry Maxner Dr
Fr Rent of a [Stove]? occupied as a [Depot?] at Sackville
for Provisions for the use of the Refugee Negroed
from the 1st June to the 31st August 1818.

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3 Months {cost]

Received from Mr Bertrand Inglis the sum of
Nine pounds Currency in payment of the above
account for which I have signed three receipts
of the same tenor and date to serve as one.

Halifax 25th November 1818
[illegible]
[O Smith?].
Henry [Mixnar?]


Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 9

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