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To His Excellency [?] Campbell KCB Leutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia- The humble petition of Charles Glode the Chief of the Micmac Tribe of Indians in the Western part of the Province of Nova Scotia [ sheweth?] on behalf of himself and Tribe- That your Petitioners have settled on [ Sands?] on the new road leading from Annapolis to Liverpool where they have several clearings. that of your humble Petitioners being about twenty acres and others of Six acres and more- Your Petitioners most humbly represent that from the extreme scarcity of money they are unable to provide themselves with Potatoes for seed for the ensuing Year- and therefore pray that Your Excellency will graciously pleased to grant them a small sum of money to enable them to purchase seed for planting - which they cannot procure in any other way- And as [in?] duty bound will ever pray- Charles Glode [X his mark ] for himself & other Indians