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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[Gov]ernment Halifax Nova Scotia
By Order of His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Dalhousie G.C.B
To Joseph O'Brien Dr
For the undermentioned articles supplied for the use of the Refugee Negroes between 1st June & 31 Aug 1817 inclusive
To 104 Felling axes @10/ £52
" 33 Pick ditto 308 " 10 12. 17.1 [written above 16.8]
" 88 ditto ditto " 4/ 7.12.
" 18 Handles for ditto
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records collection Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 421 number 111