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Halifax Nova Scotia (48)
Government.
Theaphilus Chamberlain D.
To the following Services done by order of His Excellency Sir J. C. Sherbrooke JCB. for the use of the Refugee Negroes at Preston next.
1816.
T list V
Currency
27 March To Truckage of 43" 9" 2 Provisions from Dartmouth to Preston, at 27/6 per Ton 59 15 6
a.gr
" " " [with?] 8" 2 Nails, and Implements of Husbandry at 27/6 per Ton " 11 8
" " " my allowance for Superintending the Spring Provisions for 13 weeks at 12 p. per Week 4 16 0
" " " Storage of Provisions at Preston, and heir of a white Labourer, assisting to receive, and [spue?], the Provisions 11 8 6
79" 11" 8
Received Payment of Tray Fawson Esquire, Deputy of Thomas Nicholson Jeffery Esq, Collector of His Majesty's Customs at this Port
Witness.
[G Thomas?]
T Chamberlain