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List of Articles sent in the Schooner Martha Joseph Darby master, to Sable Island, for the use of the settlement there.

2 barrels mess pork
5 Barrels hard Biscuit 2 plundered by Privateer
10 casks containing - 1 Chaldron of coal
1 half Hhd
1 Barrel } Lime
1 thousand Bricks
4 pair Rose Blankets plundered
10 joints of pipe for a stove
1 doz Tin pine [surge]
1 doz crockery bowls
2 Iron shovels
1 Iron pot
1 hH cart boxes
1 doz handsaw files
1/2 doz y cutt [symbol?]
2 iron rasps
6 spike Gimbles
2 frying pans, 1 saw hH.
2 sieve bottoms 4 oz camphire
[Listed on right side of above list]
one bay horse
2 Barrels Rye flour
2 Barrels Indian meal
1 Barrel rice
Halifax 4 July 1812
Received from Michael Wallace, Commifsioner for the affiars of Sable Island. all the above enumerated articles in good order, on board my schooner the Martha, which I promise to deliver in like condition unto Mr. Edward Hodgson at Sable Island, danger of Seas and Enemeys Excepted.
Joseph Darby

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