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clothing and other necessary stores in exchange for their furs, and other commodities. In witness whereof, we the above mentioned have interchangeably set our hands, and Seals at Windsor, in Nova Scotia, this Twenty Second day of September 1779
Done in presence of these Allen McDonald Capt: 84th Regt: Commanding Fort Edward Lauchl: McLean Lieut: 84 Regt: Hector McLean Adjt of 84 Regt: Joseph Fernette George Deshamps | John Julien his + mark 1st Chief Francis Julien + 2nd Chief Antoine Ameau + Captain Thomas Demagonische + Councillor Augustine Michel + 1st Chief Francs Joseph Arimph + 2nd Chief Augustine Cobaise + Captain Antoines + Councillor Guiaume Gabelier + Councillor Thomas Tanas + Son and Representative of the Chief of Jedyiec Michl Francklin Superintendant of Indian Affairs in the Province Nova Scotia In Mr. Maniklzny of 22 Sept 1779 | of Mirimichy and Acting for Pogmeso and Restigousche of Richebouctou |
Signed at Windsor, NS, 22 September 1779 by John Julien, Chief, and others representing the "Mirimichy", as well as representatives from the "Pogmousche, Restigouche... Richebouctou... and Jedyac," and others together representing those and "all others residing between Cape Tormentine and the Bay DeChaleurs," and Michael Francklin, the King's Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Nova Scotia.
The document was certified as a true copy by Francklin and enclosed in a packet of documents sent from Halifax on 10 October 1779 by Lieutenant Governor Richard Hughes to George Germain, Secretary of State for the American Department at the Colonial Office in London. The Nova Scotia Archives has a photostatic copy of this document, the original of which was received in London on 13 November 1779, and is now in the National Archives (London UK) in the Colonial Office Papers as CO 217, Vol. 54, Item 254.
Transcript is from W. E. Daugherty, Maritime Indian treaties in historical perspective (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981); Treaty of 1761 (Merimichi tribe) in that publication.
Date: 1779
Retrieval no.: Peace and Friendship Treaties Nova Scotia Archives O/S number 516
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