note: transcription publicly contributed - please contact us with comments, errors or omisions
24
Queens County
An Account of the distribution of Twenty pair of Blankets, sent by Her Excellency Sir [Colin?] Campbell for the poorer Indians in this County.
Names of the Indians Number in Family Blankets delivered
1. [Malti] Gloud 10 in Family 5 Blankets
2. Abraham Gloud 5 do. 3 "
3. Alexr. Davis 3 do. 3 "
4. Mallory Jeremy (Widow. 3 do. 3 "
5. John Meuse 11 do. 4 "
6. Francis Labradore 4 do. 3 "
7. Joseph Gloud 4 do. 3 "
8. John Meuse Junr 5 do. 3 "
9. Stephen Aukhart 3 do. 2 "
10. Abraham Peter 2 Wife Child 1 "
11. Francis Gloud 5 " 2 "
12. Paul Martin 3 " 2 "
13. [illegible]. Gloud Junr 3 " 2 "
14. Peter [?Bobbey] 3 " 2 "
15. James Foley 4 " 2 "
----- ----------
15 men - 68 - Total 40. Blankets
{women & children}
Liverpool 29th January 1836
[illegible]
Mentions names of heads of Mi'kmaq families and size of families.
Date: 1836
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 24
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/Mikmaq/archives/?ID=257
Crown copyright © 2024, Province of Nova Scotia.