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Receipt for payment received from Mitchell for forty great coats, 1838. Receipt for payment received for thirty-seven great coats, 1837. Receipt for payment received for twenty-five pairs of blankets from R.G. Noble, 1837.
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T.W. James Esq.
[illegible] Deblois Mitchell
1837 [illegible] 28th 40 great coats [illegible] 3 £7 10 [illegible]
Received payment
Deblois Mitchell
for [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] 28th 1837
Date: 1837
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 34
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