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List of Supplys Shipped by the Commissioner for the Affairs of Sable Island on board of the Schooner Harriet for the use of the Establishment there

[Column 1]
6 Barrels Beef
3 *do Pork *do=ditto
5 do Fine Flour
3 do Rye do
3 do Indian Meal
10 Bags Biscuit
1 Barrel Sugar
1 do Rice
8 do Salt
1 Cask Molasses
1 do Rum
10 do Potatoes
1 Keg Port Wine
1 Barrel Oat Meal
8 Empty Porter Hhds

[Column 2]
1 Box containing 40 lbs Souchong Tea, 1 dozen Rag Stones, 6 lbs Brimstone, 4 oz camphor, 4 lbs Salts, 6 Bottles British Oil, 1/2 doz. cross Cut Sawfiles, 1/2 lbs Cotton Wick.
Also loose 4 Lamps, 2 Shovels, 2 Devonshire - [do] 1 large Dutch oven 6 Joints Stovepipe & 2 Elbows, 2 Milk Kettles, 1 Milk Straner, 1 hand Saw 1 Jar S. of Turpentine & 1 Tin [Cullender?]

I acknowledge to have received on board of the Schooner Harriet all the foregoing enumerated articles in good order which I promise to deliver in the like condition/ the dangers of the seas excepted/ unto Mr Edward Hodgson at Sable Island Freight for the same being paid here.
Halifax 19th June 1823
Joseph Darby