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Letter by Casper Wollenhaupt acknowledging payment received for potatoes supplied to Mi'kmaq.
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Halifax Nova Scotia
[illegible] Hon[oura]ble Michael Wallace
Commissioner for Indian Affairs
To Casper Wollenhaupt [Dr?]
for the following supplies to Indians viz
[illegible]z
[illegible] 31 20 Bushels potatoes @15 1.5.0
1 Hoe 4.0
[illegible]rull 11 Bushels potatoes @15 13.9
2 Hoes 7.0
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£2.9.9
Received payment
Casper Wollenhaupt
Date: 1802
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 114
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