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To His Excellency Sir Colin Campbell
[Bant:] Lieutennant [Lieutenant] Governor, and Commander in Chief
in and over his Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia
and its Dependencies &c &c

The Memorial of Maltel Sapier
Chief, and other Indians
Most Humbly Sheweth

That your Memorialists are
native Aborigines of the British Colonial Province
of Nova Scotia, over which Your Excellency at present
Presides, and reside in the County of Pictou, the place
of their nativity. _ Your Memorialists beg leave to
[express] their gratified acknowledgements, for the munificent
assistance afforded to them by your Excellency last
Year, and beg leave to solicit the benevolent hand of
your Excellency would be streatched [stretched] out to them, in again
administering to their necessities and wants; There are
thirty seven of us, who are almost destitute of all the
necessaries of life, especially of Blankets and coats, and
Good Muskets and ammunition, and as the crops failed
much last season in this quarter, particularly the
Potatoe crop, Your Memorialists suffer much privation
in provisions, Your Memorialists therefore, most
Humbly and most earnestly Supplicate that your
Excellency will be pleased to consider and commisserate [commiserate]
their destitute condition, and the [privations] they experience,
and order them to receive Such Supplies as Your Excellency
may, in your Benevolence, think proper. __

and Your Memorialists as in duty
Bound will ever pray &c
Maltel Sapier X his mark
for himself and his
other Indian Brothers

Pictou 14th. Janr. 1837