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 Austin & Stairs
To rent of a store occupied as a Deport at Halifax
for cloathing, ... for the use of the Rufugee
.... from the 1 March to 31 August 1818....
month at ...
Received from W. Richard Ingis the sum of Four Pounds, seven shillings and six pence in payment of the above account for while we have signed three receipts to serve as one, Halifax 25 Nov 1818
Austen & Stairs
Witness [signature]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 10