Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Diaspora
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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Halifax Nova Scotia
July 27th 1815
Received from the Hon~ble [Honourable] Thomas Nicholson Jeffery Collector of H.M. Customs etc at the Post, the Sum of Twenty five Pounds five shillings & six pence 1/2 Currency in full for my Pay as Steward to the Negroe Department at Melville Island Between the 27th April + this date having signed duplicate receipts of this [tenor] and date,
£25.5.6 1/2 Curr.Y [Currency] Wm Sutherland
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 25