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Pre‐1867 Government Records for Sable Island

Province of Nova Scotia on Account with Michael Wallace Commissioner for Sable Island

1819. — 2 pages : 30 x 25 cm.

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[Lt?] The Province of Nova Scotia in Accounts with Michael Wallace Commissioner for Sable Island [Cr?]
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1818 1819
Decr.|31| To.Balance of Accounts rendered to this date|| 17: |5: |4 |
1819
May | 10 | Invoice of supplys sent to the Island
in the Schooner Two Brothers . . . . || 126 | 19.| 8|
June |9 | " Paid Joeseph Darby for the hire of his || | | |
| | Schooner going to the Island with the above || | | |
| | supply's and bringing back oil & co . . . || 25: | " | " |
" |" | " Paid Black Forsyth & Co for a Barrel Tar || 1. | " | " |
|14| " James Appleton for assiting to bring up || | | |
| | a boat 7 Crew coming from the Island with || | | |
| | intelligence of a Number of passengers || | | |
| | having been landed on the Island from || | | |
| | the ship Asia . . . .. . . . || 2: | 10 | " |
|18| " Paid Joseph Darby the hire of his schooner|| | | |
| | dispatched to relieve the Island of the || | | |
| | Passengers landed from the Asia. || 25 | " | " |
| | " Invoice of supply's set to Schooner Two || | | |
| | Brothers at the time . . . . . . .|| | | |
July |25| " Paid hire of Schooner going to the || | | |
| | Island with above .. || 20 | " | " |
Decr |30| " Paid Joseph Darby for 10 chord fire wood || | | |
| | delivered on the Island || | | |
| | " Paid the wages that were due to the || | | |
| | Superintendant & Servants on the Island || | | |
| | up to the 31st: December 1818 Vojt || | | |
| | Edward Hodgson . .. .£60:" "|| | | |
| | Benjn Tenton . . .. 36:" " || | | |
| | Edward Hogson Jr. 14:3:4|| | | |
| | Michael Cochran .. . 7.10:"||131:| 16.| 8 |
| | Commissions || 23 | " | " |
| | " Balance in the hands of the Commissioner|| | | |
| | towards paying 12 months wages due to the || | | |
| | superintendant & Servants at this date .... || 35:|15:|11.|
£60 ____________
30 £ || 519:| 4 | 8 |
30} £ 180
30
30
July|3.| By proceeds of oil skins received from the Island|| 119.| 4| 8
Septr.|30 | received amount of the vote of assembly || | |
| | for this year . . ... . . . . .. || 400:| " | "
| | Errors and omissions Excepted || | |
| | Halifax N.S. 31 December 1819. || | |
| | Mich. Wallace || | |
Comm. || | |
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£|| 519:|4|8


Includes account of payment for wages and services, including the following: Joseph Darby for hire of his Schooner and carrying supplies, James Appleton for assisting to bring up a Boat and Crew from the Island after a wreck, and wages for Edward Hodgson, Benjamin Fenton, Edward Hodgson Jr, William Hodgson and Michael Cochran.

2 pages 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1819

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 31 series 120 volume 2 number 278

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