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Account of Hartshorne and Boggs for gunpowder supplied to the Indian Committee, 1802-1803.
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Hartshorne Boggs'
Accot. of Powder, Shott
&c for Indians, from the
10th March 1802___to the
23rd May 1803_____&
to 10th June
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£ 25 9.11½
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1..0..6
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£ 26.10.5 ½

No.28


Date: 1802

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 135

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