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Invoice of sundries shipped on board the Schooner Martha Joseph Darby Master, for the use of the Settlement on Sable Island

7 July 1812. — 2 pages : 30 x 47 cm.

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Invoice of Sundries ship'd by order of His Excellency Sir John Sherbrooke K:B: Lieut. Governor, on board the Schooner Martha Joseph Darby Master for the use of the Settlement on Sable Island

2 Barrels best Irish Mess Pork @7/ 14 .. ..
5 Barrels Ship Biscuit @ 35/ 8 .. ..
1 Barrel Rice cu 2.1.0 hH @ 30/ 3. 7. 6
2 Barrels Rye Flour @ 50/ 5. .. ..
2 ditto Indian Meal @ 40/ 4. .. ..
1 chaldron Coal @ 47/6 2 7 6
one thousand large sized bricks & truckage 3 15 ..
1 half Hhd white lime 1 .. ..
1 Barrel ditto .. .7 .6
4 pair Rose Blankets @16/ 3 .4 ..
wrapper .. .1 .3
25 ft Iron pipe for Stove 1 .5 ..
1 doz Tin[possingers] .. .5 ..
1 doz yellow Crockery Bowls .. .8 ..
2 iron shovels @6/6 .. 13 ..
1 iron pot 3/4 @4 .. 11 .4
1 [??] cart boxy 1/8 12 handsaw files 4/ .. 10 .8
6 y cut saw files 4/6. 2 rasps 4/ .. 8. 6
6 spike [Gimblets] 3/ - 1 saw [JiH] 10 .. 3.10
2 frying pans 10/6 - 2 sieve bottoms 2/6 .. 13 ..
4 oz Camphire .. 5 ..
A Bay draught Horse 22.10. ..
paid John Brown for empty tierces and Barrels for coal, lime
etc and cooperage .2. 6. ..
Truckage .. 2 ..
E.E. Halifax 7 July 1812 £ 75 19 1
MW

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2 pages 30 x 47 cm

Date: 7 July 1812

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 31 series 120 volume 2 number 241

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