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The bearer John Esson is [deserved?] of receiving the balance due him as a hired servant on Sable Island [illegible] from the 1st July to 27 August at the rate of 50p p month amounts to £4.15p as Mr Esson is about leaving town for [Picton?]
Halifax 23 Oct 1833
To the Comm of Sable Island