Nova Scotia Archives
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Letter from Abbe Segogne to Lt. Gov. Sherbrooke enclosing bill for expenses for relief of Mi'kmaq, 1813-1814. Also requests blankets and release of an old French prisoner named Pierre Clement.
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Clement, who has been at the Service of the Revd _ [D.] John Inglis for about two years. He came in our Settlement with a licence & a certificate of good behaviour Signed by a justice. I have already made my report to the Agent's office. The old man has [thes] two months past kept School here & behaved himself well. He is part fifty.
With the greatest respect & Submission I have the Honor to be of
Your Excellency
The most humble & devoted
Servant. J.M. Sigogne
missionary
Date: 1814
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 149