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Receipt for supplies received out of the stores brought in the sloop Massachusetts for the "Tribe of Indians assembled here to treat"
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Fort St. George 24th. August 1751

Receiv'd out of the Stores brought in the Sloop Massachussetts
Thomas Saunders commander, for accts. of the Province of
Nova Scotia being for the subsisting of the Tribes of Indians
assembled here to treat, and to be distributed to them on
their returning home as a present from his Excellency Edward
Cornwallis Esqr. Governour of Nova Scotia, in behalf of
that Government; the following species and quantities of
Stores and Provisions (viz) Two hhds. of Bread, on [one] Box
of Short pipes, one barrell of Tobacco, Six barrells of GingerBread,
Two pipes of Cyder, One pipe of Fyall, one barrell
of Pork, One piece of blew [blue] Strouds and One Ox; part of
which are already deliver'd and the rest Shall be faithfully
deliver'd by me for the said use pursuant to the Instructions
of Col. Paul Mascarene Commissioner att this Treaty
for the Province of Nova Scotia -

Witness
Ezekiel Price Jabes Bradbury

A true Copie
Mascarene


Date: 1751

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 1

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