Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Diaspora
Accounts against Government for supplies, etc, for American Black Refugees, with the following suppliers: David Jearrad, Surgeon, John H. Noonan, Robert Hodgers, Lewis DeMolitor, George Eaton, Theophilus Chamberlain, J & D Starr, Wallace & Russell, John Skerry, John Liddell and Hartshorne, and Boggs & Company
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46 Halifax Nova Scotia
Government
To Lewis deMotefor? [Dn]
1816
April 26 For 14/45 Rations Issued to
Men, 19/14 ditto___ditto to
Women, and 1216 ditto ditto to
Children of colour at
Mobeille Island, Between
the 27. January and this date, 172,19.0 in righthand column
inclusive, Equal to 3459,
fall rations at 1/. Sterling
per Ration, as per Contract
date 15th December 1815,
Exchange 11g_1944
Currency £192.34
(ink very light here) ?
£189.10..0.
Halifax Nova Scotia
26th April 1816
Lewis deMolitor
Date: April 1816
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 46