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Halifax 4th Sept.r 1802

Rec.d from the Commissioners for settling Isle Sable by the hands of Mich.l Wallace, Fifty Eight dollars which, with Twenty dollars rec.d from Cap.t Hooper is in full of my share of the proceeds of the wreck of ship Union as first mate —

[signature] Samuel Gardner