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Invoice of Edmund Ward for blankets and other supplies for Mi'kmaq relief.
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Acct: of Blankets for
Indians sent to Guysboro
under the care of Wm Nixon
8th December 1801
£7..5..0
No. 6.


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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