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Halifax 24th. July 1805
46 [encircled on top left corner]

Received from The Commissioner for settling
Isle Sable by the hands of Michael Wallace
Nine pounds ten shillings, bring the wages
due to me as Mate of the Brig. John & Mary
[?t] the time she was wreckd on that Island
the [illegible] January last-
£9..10.0

By order for
account of my son John
Pennile
Thomas Pinnel