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Government Dr.

                    To John Wilkinson ...

To 49,420 feet of Boards at 90/
                                                      222.7.9

96.319 Shingles 17/6                      84.5.7     306.13.4

Sydney, November 10^th, 1785

Received from his Excellency Governor Des Barres the above Sums of of Three hundred and Six Pounds 13/4 Halifax Currency ... two hundred and seventy six pounds Sterling being in full for the above quality of Boards & Shingles ... for which I have signed these Receipts ... /Signed John Wilkinson ...

Henry W. Perry ...

Pub: Acc^ts.      £ 276.0.0 Sterls. ...

Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, Original Correspondence (CO 217), Colonial Office, Cape Breton "A", DesBarres, 1786, M.G. 11, C.B., Vol. 2, November 10, 1785, p. 176

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C-11530

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Short Statement of Lieutenant Governor Des Barres Accounts...

[f. 138]

In November 1785 he drew a Bill for £ 276 for timber purchased [f. 139] purchased for all the Loyalists in Cape Breton.

This Bill was paid on Account but he was directed to send further Vouchers as before ...

Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, Original Correspondence (CO 217), Colonial Office, Cape Breton "A", Macarmick, 1787, M.G. 11, C.B., Vol. 4, c.1787-c.1790, pp. 138-139

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