Whidby Island's subscription for the wounded soldiers, 1862

“The following persons, citizens of Whidby Island, have paid the sums opposite their names, and requested me to send the same to Amory Holbrook, Esq., for the benefit of our wounded soldiers,” wrote B. C. Lippincott; Amory Holbrook of Portland collected for the U.S. Sanitary Commission. On the list, with his neighbours Capt. Coupe, S. Libby and the Crocketts: “R B Holbrook, 5 00.”