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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
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Hartshorne & Boggs Rec'd.
of powder, shots, Guns &
supply'd Indians by order of
the Committee at Halifax
£14.19.2 1800 &1801
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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