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Several accounts and receipts for supplies to Black Refugees, with the following suppliers: Edward King, Robert Hodgers, William Kent, John H. Noonan, Winkworth Allan, Louis DeMolitor, William Anderson, William Sutherland, J. Howe, Son and Company, George Eaton, J. Clark, J. Young & Co, Tobin & Boyle, Doctors Hume and Pyke, William Philipps, Samuel Head, and Hartshorne & Boggs
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The Honourable Thomas N. Jeffery
on account of Negro Department
To William Anderson

1815 April 26th | To cash paid for truckage of Medical
& Purveyors Horses from the Genl
Hospital to the Kings Wharf bring
9 loads at [illegible] for
2nd do for removing Negroes and Bag-
gage from the Poor House If the
Kings Wharf bring [illegible] loads at [illegible]
8lb of white vitriol for whitewashing
the Apartments at Melville Island
for the use of the Negroes @ 3/
May 11 paid for truckage of Medicine
chest from Melville Island to the
Genl Hospital at Head Quarters
paid for a padlock has for & the
[illegible] for the Medl Store Room
[illegible] soft soap for the use of the
Negroes in health at [P.p.H.?]
truckage of [illegible] to Island
paid for Boat hire during the
quarter in visiting Negroes on
Board H.M. Ships Brune &
Ceylon

Received payment

William Anderson


Date: 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 23

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