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Account of blankets and shot sent to the Mi'kmaq of Antigonish
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Halifax N.S.
(32.)
Mich[ae]l Wallace Esq
for Committee for Indian Affairs
To Forsyth Smith & Co D[elive]r
1800
Dec 8 To 1 pr [illegible] 2 1/2 point Blankets @ 14/ 7 1/2 } £ 7.6.3
1 pr stript Blanketing 5.5..
15 Blankets
2 [?] & Lead shot 40/ 4.0..
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£16.11.3
Received payment in full this 1 April 1801
For Forsyth Smith
Alex Smithe
Date: 1800
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 32
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