Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Diaspora
Accounts against Government for Black Refugees up to 26 December 1816, with the following suppliers: Seth Coleman, Theophilus Chamberlain, John H. Noonan, J. Howe and Son, George Eaton, Thomas Johnson, Henry Maxner, Sergeant William Beebey, Sergeant W. Cooper, William Strath, Timothy Crain, John Skerry, Lieutenant Keith, Richard Inglis, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Swan, Henry H. Cogswell, William Morris, J. Mackesy, William Philips, and WB. Almon
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Halifax Nova Scotia
Government by order of his excellency the Rt Honble the Earl of Dalhousie
GCB, Commander in Chief To John Skerry Dr.---
1817 Canning
To storage of Provisions for the (illegible) American refugee Negroes Sealed at Preston from the 3rd day of January 1814 to this date inclusive, being four months and twenty seven days at the rate of (illegible) per
(illegible)
(illegible)
Received payment of Thomas at Jeffery
(Esq?) (illegible) Collector of His Majesty Customs
At this (point?)
(illegible) (Norman?)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 82