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118
Halifax Nova Scotia,
Government
To Hartshome Boggs & Company - Dr [Debtor]
For the undermentioned Articles supplied for the use of the Refugee Negroes settled at Hammonds Plains, by Order of His Excellency Sir John C. Sherbrooke G.C.B.
[Along Left side of Page] November the 9th to December the 31st. 1815.
To 21 Broad Axes... a [at] 7/. - £8.8.8
To 9 Whipsaws... a 50/. - 22.10.0
To 9 X [Cross] Cut Saws... a 35/. - 15.15.0
To 13 Common Steel Handsaws... a 10/. - 5.10.0
To 2 Cast Steel Handsaws...a 11/ - 1.2.0
--- 54.5.0
To 26 Whipsaw files...a 1/ - 1.6.0
To 28 X [Cross] Cut files...a 9d - 1.1.0
To 24 Handsaw files... a 7d - 0.14.0
To 14 Carpenters Adzes...a 3/6 - 2.9.0
To 4 Push Axes...a 5/6 - 1.2.0
--- 6.12.0
To 5 Chalk Lines...a 7 1/2 - 0.3.1 1/2
To 15 Drawing Knives...a 3/3 - 1.10.0
To 10 Bright Pod Augers...a 3/ - 1.10.0
To 4 Screw Pod Augers...a 4/ - 0.16.0
To 78 Gimblets (Sorted)...1.10.3
To 2 Grindstones...a6/ - 0.12.0
--- 7.0.1 1/2
To 1 Smoothing Plane...0.4.0
To 1 [Stock?] Lock...0.9.0
To 4 Chisels...a 1/3 - 0.5.0
To 8 lb [pounds] 8 d [pence] Clasp Nails... a 11 - 0.8.0
To 18 lb 10 d Clasp Nails...a 8d - 0.12.0
To 12 lb 20 d Clasp Nails...a 7 1/2 - 0.7.6
---2.5.6
To 5 Masons Hammers...a 5/ - 1.5.0
To 5 Brush Trowels...a 2/ - 0.10.0
To 6 Spades... a 6/ - 1.16.0
To 3 Shovels...a 6/ - 0.18.0
--- 4.9.0
Carried over - £74.11.7 1/2
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 118
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