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Guysboro 15th October 1801
Sir
I am informed by Mr John Newton that there are lately come within the vicinity of this settlement fourteen families of Indians chiefly from Antigonish, as the people of that settlement are inoculating for the small pox, and I have every reason to believe there will be as many more families of Indians, in and near this settlement all the ensuing winter. I went out to Salmon River a few days ago and saw there five wigwams crowded with old looking Indians, young children, and the wives of the younger men that were out hunting; and in taking a proper view of their Huts, I could see very little in them to subsist upon, and as little on their persons to shelter them from the inclemency of the weather.
I asked them several questions, but could get very little information from them but what would end with saying they were very poor, which really