Nova Scotia Archives

Footprints in the Sand

Pre‐1867 Government Records for Sable Island

Patrick Murphy receipt of payment for food and board for seven men

22 October 1839. — 2 pages : 30 x 19 cm.

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Received Halifax Oct 12 1839 of Edw'd Duckett clerk to com's (Commissioners) Isle Sable the sum of One pound seventeen Shillings and Six pence being for board of seven men [illegible] in the Barque Maria lately cast away at Sable Island

[Pound sterling] 1.17.6

Received payment
Patrick Murphy

2 pages 30 x 19 cm

Date: 22 October 1839

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 31 series 120 volume 2 number 1241