Records of the truckhouse at Fort Halifax, Me., 1779-1784.

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Records of the truckhouse at Fort Halifax, Me., 1779-1784.

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Series consists of a 1779 Board of War letter authorizing funds for Col. Josiah Brewer to procure space for a truckhouse at Fort Halifax, Brewer's accounts of supplies and furs traded as submitted to the commissary general, and related records for 1779-1780 located in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Massachusetts archives collection ((M-Ar)45X), v. 157, p. 589, 601-603.

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