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Letter from Howe to David Dimock of Gold River regarding the supervision of expenditure for installation of a chimney and windows in John Pennall's house.
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pounds. You will oblige me by occasionally dropping me a line to say how the Settlement gets along.
Yours truly
Joseph Howe
David Dimock Esq.
(Joe Penall - raised new house of old barn. James Pinall hauled stuff for Barn, will not be ready to build till Spring.)
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Date: 1842
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 122-123
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