Nova Scotia Archives
Footprints in the Sand
Pre‐1867 Government Records for Sable Island
Lawson Jones receipt for payment of passage money for the thirty-four people from the wrecked Barque Maria
22 October 1839. — 2 pages : 30 x 21 cm.
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Halifax Oct 22 1839
Mr. Edward Duckett
Sir,
Please pay [bob?] Jones [word?]Acadian
the sum of Sixty-three pounds ten shillings -
being for [illegible] money of thirty four individuals wrecked
in March [illegible] Maria bound from I Sable to New York
your obd Ser'nt
Mr. Lawson Jones
1248
2 pages 30 x 21 cm
Date: 22 October 1839
Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 31 series 120 volume 2 number 1248