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Halifax 3d July 1811
Rec.d from Michael Wallace by an order on Mess.rs Hill + Co. One hundred + seventy five pounds being in full for the hire of my schooner the Hercules going to Sable Island + back
£175.0.0

[signature] Caleb Seely

[written in red ink in a different hand]
With property saved from the wreck of
Brig Hard times of Philadelphia