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, Nova Scotia
Government
By order of His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie G.C.B.
To John Skerry Dr.
For Rent of a Store at Dartmouth occupied for the use of the Refugee Negroes Provisions & from 1st June to the 31st August 1817 Inclusive -
Three months ….. £3 per month £9.0.0
Amounting to Nine pounds Currency
Received from Mr. Richard Inglis the sum of nine pounds currency in payment of the above Account for which I have signed three Receipts to serve as one Halifax 8 October 1817
John Skerry
Witness
John Tobin
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 107