The claim of Richard B. Holbrook for the robbery of his store on Lummi Island, 1854

His claim as the Secretary of the Interior sent it to Congress in February 1885, printed in the Serial Set, from the Commissioner’s report (the Secretary’s covering letter is at the foot of p. 14) to the Indian agent’s of 1881. Page 1 has the Commissioner’s list of everything taken, $1,378.20 in all; page 2, his letter of 1 June 1854 to the acting governor (“my house was broken open and robbed, by a party of Indians, of my goods, tools, provisions, and clothing”); page 3, his own list, with the Whatcom County justice’s certificate and the start of his sworn statement of 1881, which ends on page 4, followed by the affidavits of A. M. Poe and Henry Roeder; page 5, Samuel D. Howe’s and the start of Eli Hatheway’s, his neighbour on the island, which runs on to page 6 (“I have always regarded Mr. Holbrook as an honorable gentleman”), followed there by Lafayette Balch’s; page 7 is the Indian agent R. H. Milroy’s report.