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Receipt from James Balcom [?] for sundries sent by him to Sheet Harbour for relief of Mi'kmaq.
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Halifax. 4th January 1802.
Recd. from The Commissioner for settling & relieving distressed Indians by the hands of Michael Wallace, Four Barrels of Indian Meal, one bundle Containing six pair of blankets - also four pounds of Powder & sixteen pounds of [illegible], which I promise to deliver to Mr Peter McCondachie at Sheet Harbour for the relief of Indians near that settlement.
James Balcom
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Date: 1802
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 106
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