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Halifax July 10th 1802
Sir
Please supply Francois Michelle and ten other Indians. Twelve dollars -- Twenty pounds pork -- 30lb beef -- 50 lb biscuit -- Two Guns -- 2 lb Powder -- 8 lb Shot -- 1/2 doz.n flints -- to provide for their return to New Brunswick ___
yours [etc?]
Wentworth.
NB. Please give each man his dividend of the money -- W. The other things they may divide themselves
To Michael Wallace Esq.
Commis[sioner] for Indian Affairs
Cash as above . ------ £3.0.0
Leather for mocosuns [21/?] -- 1.1.0
[Mac?] Cash ------------- [2/6?] -- 2.6
Pork, Beef, Biscuit, Shott, flnts,
& Powder etc ------------------------2.13.3
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£6:16:9
M.W.
Does not mention names of ten other Mi'kmaq, but indiciates the request was fulfilled.
Date: 1802
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 116
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/mikmaq/archives/?ID=123
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