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
Certificate of the receipt of funds for payment of the foregoing expenses for victualling Black Refugees between 27 July and 26 October 1815. (RG 1 vol. 420 no. 64)
Date: 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 65
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
List of names of Black Refugees located on lands conveyed to them by the Collector of Customs,Thomas N. Jeffery, Collector of Customs, 17 October 1815. With the Collector's certificate of their being on the lands
Date: 17 October 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 74
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
Letter from Hon. Charles Morris, Surveyor General, to the Lieutenant Governor JC. Sherbrooke, regarding the settlement of the Black Refugees and the best location for that purpose
Date: 6 September 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 76
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
Letter from Richard Best, Acting Collector of Customs, to Henry H. Cogswell, Deputy Provincial Secretary, regarding the contractors supplying sugar instead of molasses
Date: 3 November 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 79
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
Proceeding of a Court of Inquiry held, by order of Major General Gosselin, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the detachment of troops stationed at Melville Island was connected in a robbery alluded to in report from Deputy Collector of Customs to the Lieutenant Governor
Date: 9 December 1815
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 420 number 87
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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