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Footprints in the Sand

Pre‐1867 Government Records for Sable Island

Memos: of the wreck of Brig John & Mary sent to the Island by Schooner Eagle Capt. Darby, arrived at Halifax

1805. — 3 pages : 30 x 39 cm.

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Shipd on board the schooner Eagle
Joseph Darby Commander the following [illegible]
one new 12 Inch cable in Junks – one new 11 Inch cable in Junks
one stream 9 Inch cable in Junks spair sails 16 in number
8 coils new cordage one buoy rope [word?] laid a quantity
of blocks & some small rigging a twice of Pork & two boys [word?]
& 4 gallons rum for sea stores on the passage } From the
one bolt new canvis – a Cabin Stove & pipe } Brook Spring

Recvd from James Morris Superintendt on Isle Sable
all the articles above specified which I promise to deliver
In Halifax, soon as wind & weather permits, into the
Honorable the Commissioners for settling said Island
the Danger of the Seas and Enemys excepted.
Joseph Darby
Wm Warren Present
Rcvd [?] only as the above


3 pages 30 x 39 cm

Date: 1805

Reference: Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 424 number 52

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