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Account for Indian Committee from Hartshome and Boggs for powder, shot, guns and supplies to Mi'kmaq
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Indian Committee
1800 To Hartshorne & Boggs D[elive]r
Septr 25th To 4 Lbls Shot 1/8 1 lb powder 3/6.....0.5.2
" a Gun for an Indian from H[enr]y Watkey.....1.5.0
Decr 10 " 25 lbs Gunpowder a lb 3/ & 2 Cannisters 5/.....4.0.0
1801
Jan.y 6 " 1 fowling piece 40/ 1 hatchet..... 2/6 2.2.6
23 " 1 Gun 40/ 2 lbs powder 7/ 8 lbs shot..... 3/4 2.10.4
Feb.y 11 " 1 d.o 30/ 1 lb powder 3/6. 4 lbs of shot 1/8.....1.15.2
21 " 4 lbs shot 1/8...1 lb powder 3/6.....0.5.2
March 7 " 1 Gun 30/ 2 lbs powder/. £.....2.0.4
" " 2 lbs powder 7/. 8 lbs shot 3/4.....0.10.4
30 " 1 lb powder 3/6...4lbs shot 1/8.....0.5.2
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£14.19.2
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H Sent to Antigonish by E. Irish 4. ___
disbursed here ______ 10.9.2
___________
14.19.2
Received payment from Michael Wallace
for Hartshorn & Boggs
Thomas Roby
Date: 1801
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 36
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