Nova Scotia Archives
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Invoice of Edmund Ward for blankets and other supplies for Mi'kmaq relief.
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Halifax Nova Scotia
The Commissioners for the
[R]elief of distressed Indians
Bo of Edmund Wards
1801 [De]cember 8th 10 pair Blankets @ 14/ £7..~..~
5 1/4 yds Oznaburgs @ 1/ for wrapper £~..5..3
£7..5..3
Sent for W Nixon to Guysboro
Received payment from Michael Wallace
this 22d December 1801
Edmund Ward
Date: 1801
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 83
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