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Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 14



The British Indian Department and the Frontier in North America, 1755-1830

by Robert S. Allen

Appendix B. Indian Stores, Michilimackinac, 1814.

Invoice of Sundry Indian Stores delivered Robert Dickson Esqr. Agent & Superintendent of the Western Nations by order of Lieut. Coln. McDouall, Comdg Michilimackinac,1

Arm BandsPairsThirty
ButtonsdozTwenty four
BeadsPoundsThirty
BroochesNoEighteen hundred and 74
Ball & ShotlbsFive thousand & 460
Blankets
     1 pointNoOne hundred & seventy nine
     1-1/2 do"Ninety
     2 do"One hundred & ninety seven
     2-1/2 do"Eleven hundred & three
     3 do"Two hundred & ninety five
Cotton stripedYardsFour hundred & eight
Cloth Broad"One hundred & fifty one
Candle weekBallsSix
Ear bobsPairsTwelve hundred & fifty
EpauletsNoTen
Flints"Four thousand five hundred
Feathers"Ten
Files & Rasps"Eighteen
Gorgets"Forty
GarnetsBunchesFifteen
GarteringGro.Eleven
Guns
     MusketsNoFive
     Common"One hundred & five
     Chiefs & fine"One hundred & thirty eight
Gun powderlbs.Three thousand nine hundred & 33
Hats LacedNoTwenty seven
Handfs
     Silk"Four hundred & sixteen
     Cotton"Fifty
Hangers"Eighteen
Hooks Cod"Two hundred
IronPoundsOne hundred & two
Knives butcherNoFive hundred & sixty six
Kettles Tin"Sixty
Lace BrocadeYardsTwo hundred
MoltonYardsTwo hundred
NeedlesNoThree thousand five hundred
Pistols"Six
RibbonYdsNine hundred
Skins deerNoFifty
Silk SewingPoundsOne
Steel
     fireNoSeventeen hundred and thirty two
     GermanlbsForty two
Sheeting RussiaYdsSeventy five
Saches silkNoFive
Lines Cod"Fourteen
StroudsYdsEighteen hundred & twenty
FlourlbsFour thousand
Thread
     SewinglbsForty eight
     Net"Eighteen
Twine"Twenty eight
Tommyhawks PipeNoFour
VermillionlbsFifty eight
Wampum collarsNoNine
Worms GunGro.Two

Indian Department Michilimackinac
29th Octr 1814
Jno Askin



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