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Duplicate abstract of accounts for supplies to Black Refugees, for the quarter ending 26 October 1815. (RG 1 vol. 419 no. 62)

Date: 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 63


Abstract of the American Black Refugees victualled at Melville Island between 27 July and 26 October 1815

Date: 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 64



Abstract of expenses for providing for Black Refugees at Melville Island between 27 July and 26 October 1815

Date: 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 66


Return of American Black Refugees at Melville Island, with statement of the condition of their clothing

Date: 20 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 67


Letter from Lewis DeMolitor to Thomas N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, with proposal to supply Black Refugees at Melville Island

Date: 21 July 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 68


Tender from William Sutherland for supplying the Black Refugees at Melville Island

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 69


Tender from Dr. Samuel Head for supplies to Black Refugees

Date: 20 July 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 70


Letter from Lewis DeMolitor toThomas N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, regarding supplies for Black Refugees

Date: 21 July 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 71


Letter from William Philipps toThomas N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, with tender for supplies for Black Refugees

Date: 21 July 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 72


Tender from George Thompson for supplies to Black Refugees

Date: 21 July 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 73



Certificate from Rufus Fairbank regarding John Lynch and other Black Refugees settled on his land at Lake Porter

Date: 30 October 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 75



A return of Black Refugees to whom land has been conveyed by Rufus Fairbanks

Date: 30 October 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 77


Lewis DeMolitor to Richard Best, Acting Collector of Customs regarding supplies to Black Refugees

Date: 2 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 78



Report by Richard Best to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, on the Black Refugee establishment at Melville Island

Date: 9 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 80


Report of Committee of Council on the accounts for providing for the Black Refugees

Date: 16 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 81


Richard Best to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, on the reduction of the establishment at Melville Island

Date: 23 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 82


Richard Best to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, on the state of the clothing of the Black Refugees

Date: 27 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 83


Lewis DeMolitor's contract for victualling Black Refugees

Date: 16 December 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 84


Richard Best to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, relating to contract for supplies

Date: 2 December 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 85


Richard Best to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, regarding clothing at Melville Island having been stolen

Date: 7 December 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 86



Richard Best to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, regarding contracts

Date: 9 December 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 88


Abstract of returns of provisions issued to the Black Refugees, beginning 2 October 1815

Date: 22 December 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 89


Memo of provisions issued to Black Refugees at Hammonds Plains to 17 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 90


Note from John Lawson to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, concerning supplies for Black Refugees

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 91


Return of Black Refugees at Hammonds Plains entitled to rations by order of Lieutenant Governor Sir JC. Sherbrooke

Date: 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 92


Names of Black Refugees who are settled upon lands conveyed to them by Henry H. Cogswell at the head of the North West Arm, Halifax

Date: 2 November 1815

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 93


Sundry accounts against Government for supplies for Black Refugees to December 1815 and 16 January 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 94


Sundry accounts against Government for supplies for Black Refugees to December 1815 and 16 January 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 95


Sundry accounts against Government for supplies for Black Refugees to December 1815 and 16 January 1816

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 96


               

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