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Letter from Jennings, MD, to Chearnley, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, reporting on his visit to the Mi'kmaq encampment northeast of the road between Sackville and Scots House, Truro Road. He found there four wigwams with residents suffering from varying degrees of typhus. Includes list of supplies, amounts of money due, a letter from Joseph Taylor, a Shubenacadie carpenter, regarding the completion of the Chief's house.
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[?Capt Chearnley - right edge torn]
respecting disease
amongst Indians
[illegible] Sackville
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[Capt.} Chearnley
referred to
[Mr] [illegible]
3 May 1853
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Capt Chearnley
&c &c &c
Gottingen Street


Mentions names and ages of inhabitants of Mi'kmaq encampment.

Date: 1855

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 86

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