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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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Halifax 12 January 1837
Thomas James Esq
for the Indians [illegible] of R. Noble
25 pairs of damaged blankets
@5/0 £6.17.6
Received payment
R. G. Noble
for R. Noble
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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