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 [illegible] the Earl of Dalhousie [illegible])
To William Beeby [illegible],
For [Pay?] due him as [Issues?] of Provisions to the Refugee Negroes from [the 1st?] June to 31st August 1818 Inclusive
92 Days............
Receiver from Mr. Richard Inglis the sum of
Six hundred eighteen shillings Currency in payment
of the above account for which {?} Liquid three
receipts of the same times and date to serve as one
Halifax 25th November 1818
Mm Beeley
Witness O.E. Smith
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 422 number 12