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Receipt for a cannister of gunpowder carried to Antigonish and afterwards issued to Mi'kmaq
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Halifax 11th December 1800 Rec'd from Michael Wallace a Tin Cannister containing Twenty five pounds of Gunpowder which I promise to account to him for
Edward Irish
afterward issued to Indians
Date: 1800
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 43
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