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Letter, George Manning, Fort Howe

Manning has sent beaver and "caster" pelts, now will sell him oxen at a certain price, and "The next time the Packett sails for Annapolis I will send you seven bushels of peas." [Fort Howe was a small military and trade outpost located at the mouth of the Saint John River.]  1 May 1779.  1 page : 30 x 26 cm.   Easson family Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 vol. 3478 A/114

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