Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Regarding the land of Barnie McGie of the East River of Merigomish, some of which has been occupied by a Mi'kmaq clearing.Land grant registration books (1784) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - McGie Barney

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Regarding two tracts of land at Goose River (1720 acres), 970 acres of which the Seamans purchased from the Mi'kmaq at the mouth of River Philip. Both tracts are in the County of Cumberland.Land grant registration books (1797) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Seaman Jaramiah & Seaman Stephen

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Memorial of Tony and Nanny Vry, a Mi'kmaq family on behalf of themselves and ten children, and also on behalf of Captain Tony Vry Company, consisting of fifteen in number. They wish to have laid out to them 600 acres of land at or near Remsheg. On behalf of the company, they wish to have 4500 acres laid out at Merigomish in lieu of lands at or near Pictou. Noted by C.M.: "If His Excellency approves of it, I will write to one of my deputies to make the survey and on the return of it, His Excellency may grant what he sees fit."Land grant registration books (1793) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Vry Tony & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Memorial of a family of Mi'kmaq of eleven persons. They obtained with several other Mi'kmaq an order of survey for lands at the North Cape of the River Philip. They improved the land and it is now claimed by Mr. Stephen Seaman, but they did not sell it to him. They request a grant of 150 acres of land at this place. Noted: "The petitioners obtained the written order of survey by the authority of His Excellency the Governor - a return thereof should be made for His Excellency's final consideration and determination."Land grant registration books (1809) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Argimeau Lewis & Argimeau Nowel

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Warrant to survey Little Bras d'Or for Benwa [Benoit?] the Indian.Land grant registration books (1809) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Benwa the Indian

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Pierre Bernard asking for land for himself and his two nephews. He has lived by hunting and fishing along the Sissiboo River. Game is now scarce; he would like to 'plant.' A note by Abbe' Sigogne suggests that the grant be made restrictive so that the petitioners may not sell or part with the land, or that it may be given to some trusty person in the vicinity. Left to the Committee on Indian Affairs.Land grant registration books (1813) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Bernard Pierre

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Request by Bonnell for confirmation of 100 acres of land purchased in the Indian Grant. He was recommended for 350 acres but warned not to interfere in any way with the lands promised or licenced to the Mi'kmaq.Land grant registration books (1815) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Bonnell John

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Francis Coop, a 66 year old Mi'kmaq man with a wife and seven children. His principal residence has been at the head of Ship Harbour River, where he has cleared about five acres. He asks for this land. The magistrate states that Coop is a very industrious and peacable man and has preserved order and loyalty among the other Mi'kmaq, and is well deserving to have land given to him to settle on in his old age. Recommended 200 acres that cannot be transferred to any other than his children.Land grant registration books (1813) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Coop Francis

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Crandal for a grant of land as he relinquished a valuable part of his own land to the government for the use of the Mi'kmaq. Asks for land at Gold River and Oak Island. Granted: 500 acres at Gold River, Chester and Oak Island in lieu of land relinquished.Land grant registration books (1818) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Crandal David W.

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Regarding Stephen Seaman's purchase from the Mi'kmaq any claim they had to a tract of land at the Pugwash River in 1802.Land grant registration books (1809) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Crane James Noble & Crane William

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition for a licence of occupation by Crane and others. Some years ago the petitioners obtained leave to occupy a point of land at the northeast side of the mouth of the River Pugwash. People have protected it on behalf of the Mi'kmaq but the petitioners maintain they wish the Mi'kmaq there to cut lumber for them in exchange for rum. Request a more ample licence of occupation than that originally given them by Gov. John Wentworth. Noted: "The land applied for was by the appropriation of Sir John Wentworth reserved for the petitioners - but Jonathan Crane had received 1000 acres on River Philip. If the land be granted, the instructions within prevent dispute."Land grant registration books (1810) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Crane Jonathon & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Request by Dorey for certain lot on the west side of St. Margaret's Bay. Must not interfere with any Mi'kmaq claims.Land grant registration books (1815) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Dorey George

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition by John Elexey and other Mi'kmaq on behalf of themselves and twenty other Mi'kmaq families, asking a grant of land on which they have settled at Pubnico, twennty miles back from salt water. They have built a house, several huts and raised a hundred bushels of potatoes, Indian corn and garden stuff.Land grant registration books (1823) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Elexey John; Joseph & Other Indians

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Regarding the land of the Frasers at Middle River, Pictou. "Their neighbours were Indians."Land grant registration books (1812) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Fraser Alexander & William

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition, warrants, surveyor's report and draft, and recommendations regarding Charles Gloade and other Mi'kmaq. The petitioners are hunters. The new road now opening between Annapolis and Liverpool will pass through their hunting grounds and the result will be, in a short time, the Mi'kmaq will lose their means of subsistance. They ask for a portion of land they propose to cultivate. Recommended by Abbe' Sigogne and Commissioners. Approved for Charles, John and Francis Gloade and Malti Paul in 1823. Warrant to survey for John Gloade. Warrant to survey for Charles Gloade. Surveyor's Report and Draft Grant for 200 acres; laid off in 1824.Land grant registration books (1840) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Gloade Charles & Other Indians

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Charles Glode for a small grant of land. He resides on the road from Annapolis to Liverpool. See also RG 20 Ser. A - Gloade, Charles & Other Indians.Land grant registration books (1845) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Glode Charles

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Regarding Widow Thibaud, a Mi'kmaq woman - 400 acres.Land grant registration books (1819) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Guiddery Frederick & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Regarding a licence of occupation for Peter Tom, a Mi'kmaq man, for 200 acres in the Township of Clare.Land grant registration books (1807) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Guiddery Frederick & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition for land in Pictou by Hadley, who served as interpreter to the Mi'kmaq for two years and eight months.Land grant registration books (1817) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Hadley Henry

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Thomas Hammond for land where he will not be inconvenienced by white people. He had a lot in Shubenacadie but married a woman of Gold River who would not leave that locality. The land is not sufficient to support the fourteen persons who live there. He asks for other land. An order for 50 acres is sent to T. Crandle.Land grant registration books (1823) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Hammond Thomas

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Warrant to survey Chapel Island for a chapel for the Mi'kmaq.Land grant registration books (1818) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Kavanaugh Lawrence; McEachern Rev. Eneas & Dollard Rev. William

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition for Hennery for a lot at Tracadie between lands laid off for the Mi'kmaq and the settlement on the east side of Manchester Road.Land grant registration books (1821) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Hennery William

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition by Hutt for land in lieu of lands at Chester relinquished for the Mi'kmaq.Land grant registration books (1812) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Hutt Francis

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of eighteen Mi'kmaq families of Pomquet for 100 acres of Indian Point Cove where they have had gardens for 25 years. If they receive this, they will give up claims to the reserve in the woods that has been taken from them by white settlers and on which they have lived for the past 25 years. A separate slip of paper has a list of 10 names. Presented in the administration of James Kempt. Filed in 1822.Land grant registration books (1822) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Indians at Pomquet

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding a grant given to McDiarmid in 1811 that, at the time, had two acres reserved as a Mi'kmaq burial ground. There was an error in the grant and the reservation was found to occupy the most valuable part of the land; the part occupied by Acecus Rude's buildings.Land grant registration books (1825) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - McDiarmid Ronald

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding land given to Scottish immigrant Peter McChesney in Pomquet in 1810. The land surveyed for him in 1820 was found to encroach on the Mi'kmaq reserve.Land grant registration books (1827) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - McDonald John & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of John Campbell asking for land east of the Mi'kmaq chapel on Chapel Island.Land grant registration books (1842) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - McGrigor John & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Marvin for the lot adjoining his 100 acres of land at Chester. Part of the land he prays for is claimed by the Mi'kmaq.Land grant registration books (1816) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Marvin William

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding John Mehlman, Jr. of New Dublin Township, who is 35, Mi'kmaq, and has five children. His oldest is a son who is 10-years-old. Mehlmar's signature is 'Fosorunr Maslmaun.'Land grant registration books (1811) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Mehlman John & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Morgan asking for a lot of land between the land belonging to his father, Edward Morgan, and the Mi'kmaq band at Clements [?].Land grant registration books (1825) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Morgan Thomas

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition for Murphy for a lot on the eastern side of Lake Porter [Potter?] that is reserved for the Mi'kmaq.Land grant registration books (1826) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Murphy Lawrence

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Parker for land in Douglas, westward of the Mi'kmaq grant. Was approved for 200 acres.Land grant registration books (1821) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Parker Abraham

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Return of survey and plan for 100 acres northward of the Mi'kmaq reserve at Whycocomagh.Land grant registration books (1845) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Patterson James

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Memorial of Benjamin Labradore and Paul Nowel, Mi'kmaq born in Lunenburg and living in Mush Mush, for a licence for 300-400 acres for themselves and their families. Noted: "The land applied for by the petitioners lies within the township of Lunenburg and has been granted to the proprietors - whose extensive improvements on the first division of their lots entitles them to favourable consideration. C. Morris."Land grant registration books (1809) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Labradore & Nowel

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition of Joseph Luxey and four other Mi'kmaq men who are permanent settlers at Roseway River, Long Island, Shelburne County. They have lived in one location for the past 25 years and are the fathers of 24 children. They ask a grant of the Island. Licence of Occupation granted for 200 acres.Land grant registration books (1819) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Luxey Joseph & Four Other Indians

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents concerning land for Samuel, Francis and Goram Paul on behalf of eleven families of Mi'kmaq and 100 acres of land in Wentworth.Land grant registration books (1807) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Paul Samuel & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Draft of Grant of 950 acres in the eastern side of the entrance to St. Marys River. Noted: "Selling out of this grant, two acres for the use of the Mi'kmaq as a burying ground at Indian Point."Land grant registration books (1811) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Pride Elisha & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Plan of the east end of the River Denis Basin. Indicates site of Mi'kmaq apple trees, old Mi'kmaq cemetary, Mi'kmaq claims, Mi'kmaq winter huts and clearings. Also shows a shipyard where Kavanaugh and Martin are building a ship.Land grant registration books (1827) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - River Denis Basin

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Return of survey and plan for 234 1/2 acres on the western side of the Mi'kmaq reserve near St. Peter's.Land grant registration books (1844) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Robinson William

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition by widow and family of the late Paulette or Hippolyte Salome for 200 acres on the southwest branch of the Margaree River. Mentions Salome family members: Hippolyte, Francis, Christmas, Peter, Mary, Celeste, Elen and Anne.Land grant registration books (1834) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Salome Catherine (widow) & Children of Catherine & Hippolyte Salome

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition by Hezekiah and Stephen Seaman. About 1805, they purcased 600 acres from a Mi'kmaq named Tony on the River Philip. They called the tract Tony's Bay.Land grant registration books (1810) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Seaman Hezekiah & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding Stephen Seaman's purchase in 1800 of land from the Mi'kmaq. It was a tract the Mi'kmaq held by letter of licence situated on the east side of Pugwash Harbour.Land grant registration books (1807) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Seaman Stephen

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding Stephen Seaman, a loyalist from New York settled in Pugwash in 1783. In 1802, he purchased land for himself and Jonathan Crane of Horton from the Mi'kmaq on the east of Pugwash Harbour.Land grant registration books (1809) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Seaman Stephen & Crane Jonathan

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding Rude's grant, part of which was, in error, reserved for the Mi'kmaq. The grant concerns St. Mary's, Guysborough County and Sydney County.Land grant registration books (1831) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Sinclair William & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding John Corbet born in Truro and living on land in Stewiacke that he purchased from John Flake on a part of the Indian Grant. The story of the transfers include Paul Pemmenwick.Land grant registration books (1816) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - South George & Others

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition for a grant of land by Symonds at Little River, Sydney County, on what is known as the Mi'kmaq reserve.Land grant registration books (1823) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Symonds Joseph

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Petition for some of the Mi'kmaq land at the rear of Little River.Land grant registration books (1823) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Symonds Mary

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Documents regarding John Umlock who, during the American War, with himself and four other men - two of whom were Mi'kmaq - captured an American Privateer of Seven Guns and 24 men that was lying in Dover Harbour adjoining St. Margaret's Bay.Land grant registration books (1810) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Umlock John

Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests — Request for a grant by Whellan for 100 acres near the Mi'kmaq reserve at Whycocomagh.Land grant registration books (1846) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 20 Ser. A - Whellan Nancy

Nova Scotia House of Assembly — Petition of Andrew Mews on behalf of the Mi'kmaq people residing near the Gut of Annapolis, defending the right of the Mi'kmaq to hunt porpoise.Assembly petitions (1821) — Nova Scotia Archives Library RG 5 Series P volume 2 number 15