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 Oder of His Excellency the Right Hon[ble]
the Earl of Dalhousie GCB
To John Shirry Dr.
For Rent of a store occupied as a Depot at Dartmouth
for Provisions for the use of the Refuge Negroes....19.0.0
from 1st June to 31st AUG 1818 - 3 months [illegible]
Carriages from Halifax to Dartmouth for Mr
Inglis and his [illegible] 38 at 8 each .........................1.5.4
Ditto for Mr Inglis's Horse at 12 at 2 each..................1.4.0
.................................................................................11.9.4
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 11