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Account of Benjamin Cossit for laying out Mi'kmaq lands at Eskasoni
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Government
To Benjamin Cossit [Dr.?]
Laying out the Indian land at Escasonick [Eskasoni]
4 days @ 15/ - - - £ 3 , , 0 . 0
2 days travelling @ 7/6 - 15 - 0
Plan and return of the same - 2 - 6
Provissions [sic] for the Indians who assisted
at the survey } 1 - 10 . 0
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£ 5 . 7 . 6
Benjamin Cossit maketh oath that the aforegoing
account amounting to Five Pounds seven shillings
[and - cut off] Six pence [ [illegible] is just and true
Sworn before me at Sydney
13th November 1832} B Cossit
[C] [S] [Leonard] [illegible]
Received the above amount of
£ 5 - 7 - 6 from Capt. Crawley
R. [N.] 17 Nov. 1832
B. Cossit
1 - 12 - 6 [faintly written on left bottom edge]
5 7 - 6
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7. 0 . 0
Date: 1832
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 1
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