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Footprints in the Sand

Pre‐1867 Government Records for Sable Island

Letter to the Commissioner's for the affairs of Sable Island at Halifax from Joseph Darby regarding the schooner Fulton

1848. — 4 pages : 30 x 41 cm.

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Inventory of Materials Saved from the Sch.r Fulton
[illegible due to tear in paper, probably Speights], Master, wrecked on Sable Island Feb.y 14th 1848

To Say

[first column, on left]
x 26 small Coils of Running Rigging
X 12 Loose Blocks
11 Pieces of Standing Rigging
Wheel & Standards
1 Fish Hook
1 Winch & Handles
2 Pair of [illegible] Hooks
1 Pair of Box Hooks
1 Claw Stopper
1 Cambouse
2 Chains Bow Sprit Shrouds
6 Pieces of Chain Cable 1 Inch
about 140 or 150 fathoms,
one Boat, one Foresail,
one Jib, one Flying Jib,
one Gaff, TopSail
one Square Sail
2 [illegible] Makers
x 19 Loose Blocks
x 2 Pieces of Standing Rigging
[4?] Doors with hinges
8 Iron Stanchions
1 Hatch Bar
a Lot of Cutt Standing Rigging
4 Water Casks

[second column, on right]
8 Shutters
8 Sashes
12 Gilded Cups
1 Cabin Table
12 Stools

124 [or 127] Boxes of [Sugars?]
belonging to the Cargo

[signature at bottom right]
J T Speights


4 pages 30 x 41 cm

Date: 1848

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 425 number 52l

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