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Footprints in the Sand

Pre‐1867 Government Records for Sable Island

Letter from Joseph Darby, superintendant of Sable Island, to the Right Honorable Lucius Bentinck, Viscount Falkland

1843. — 5 pages : 30 x 39 cm.

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Claims for boat building and cart making
Has made 9 two wheel and one 4 wheel waggon
Built 2 large boats, copper fastened - besides expenses 7 on S cart away which were sent to Halifax and sold

[Recrested?] more than 30 useful buildings, have beem [word?[ with only a few nails and bricks
Has also built a new life boat worth [pound sterling symbol] 60 for which he is promised [word?] [pound sterling symbol] 25


5 pages 30 x 39 cm

Date: 1843

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 425 number 8

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