Nova Scotia Archives
African Nova Scotian Diaspora
Original receipts for articles for Black Refugees from Thomas Elder and John Lawson. Also accounts receipted: Robert Wilson, Hartshorne, Boggs and Company, Charles Hill, John Skerry, Henry Maxner, Winkworth Allan and Company, William Beebey, Joseph O'Brien, and Samuel Phillips, up to the end of August 1817
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Halifax 11th July 1817
Received from Mr Richard Inglis the sum of Eighty pounds and one pence half penny currency being in full for three hundred and seventy six and a half Bushels of seed potatoes for the use of the Refugee Negroes at 4/3 pr Bushel having signed three receipts to serve as one.
£80.0.1 1/2 Cury
Thomas Elder
Witness
S Rigby
Duplicate [written diagonally across upper left corner]
102. [written in upper right corner]
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 102