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Receipt for money for potatoes for distressed Mi'kmaq
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Jan 12th 1800
Then Rec[eive]d of George Dawkins
Seventeen shillings it being the price of seven bushaels of potatoes which I delivered to John Bathust and Frances Paul for the use of the Indians of [illegible] by order of George Dawkins Esquire.
Mich[ae]l Hindy
The Indians above mentioned reside commonly at Sheet Harbour and owing to their very [illegible] gave them an order on
Michael Hynds to the above amount
Geo Dawkins J.P.
Date: 1800
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 32 1/2
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