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Receipt acknowledging payment by the Commissioners of Indian Affairs for work stocking and repairing guns for two Mi'kmaq by order of John Wentworth. Signed Henry Watkeys.
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For stocking & mending
Guns to Indians ~
£3.9.6
Rec'd 20 March 1802
No.12
Date: 1801
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 95
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