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Itemized account of G.H. and William Leslie for supplies to the Mi'kmaq at Spry Harbour. Also includes letter in support of the Leslie account testifying to the weakened condition of the Mi'kmaq even after the epidemic passed and that only two men were left alive.
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117
Spry Harbour
Indians
To G.H. & W. Leslie [?afr]
1861
Jany 24 } To 265 feet [M] Lumber $ 12 " 15 . 10
26 " 1/4 [Cent] Hard Bread " 7 . 0
28 " 2 [Glns] Molasses 2/3 4/6 . 1lb [Teas] 3/3 " 7 . 9
31 " 50 feet [M] Lumber [$/2] 3/. 1 pr Mittens 1/3 " 4 . 3
Feby 1 " 1 [Ble] Flour 35/_ 1 . 15 . 0
6 " 1 lb Tea 3/3 1lb Tobacco 2/_ " 5 . 3
" 1/2 lb [Powder] 1/_ Thread p6 " 1 . 6
" 2 1/2 [Glns] Molasses 2/6 6/3 1 Keg 1/6 " 7 . 9
16 " 6 lb P. Pork p9 4/6 Tobacco p4 " 4 . 10
" 4 pr Mocassins 1/3 5/_ 4 1/2 Glns Molasses 2/6 11/3 " 16 . 3
" 1 [Ble] Flour 38/9 1 [Ble] Herrings 17/6 2 . 16 . 3
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£ 8 . 1 . 8

Personally appeared before me one of Her Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the County of Halifax the
undersigned William Leslie and maketh oath that
the foregoing acct is correct.

Joseph [Browner] J.P.
Sheet Harbour 22nd February, 1861

William Leslie


Epidemic probably small pox.

Date: 1861

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 117

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