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Letter from Howe regarding distribution to the Mi'kmaq around Sabin Lake of 20 bushels of seed potatoes.
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I have written to Mr Hamer to distribute 20 bushels
of seed potatoes among those who have land cleared
and fit to receive them

Yours Truly
Joe Howe

Dr Geddes, Barrington.

Halifax, May 8, 1843.

My Dear Hamer

There are two or three Indians who have clearings on the Sabin Lake - will you distribute among such of them as you are certain will plant and not eat them 20 Bushels of Potatoes for seed, and I will pay the Bill, when I know the amount

Yours Truly
Joe Howe


Date: 1843

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 173

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