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.ble the Earl of Dalhousie G.C.B.
To William Beebe Dr
For Pay due him as Issuer of Provisions & to the Refugee Negroes from the 1st June to the 31st Aug. 1817 Inclusive
92 Days ………….@ 1/6 Cy per day £ 6 .. 18. 0
Amounting to Six pounds eighteen shillings Currency
Received from Mr. Richard Inglis the Sum of Six pounds eighteen Shillings Currency in payment of the above Account for which I have signed three Receipts to serve as one.
Witness John Tobin
Wm Beebe
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 110