Regarding a licence of occupation for Peter Tom, a Mi'kmaq man, for 200 acres in the Township of Clare.
Date: 1807
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Guiddery Frederick & Others
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Petition by Hutt for land in lieu of lands at Chester relinquished for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1812
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hutt Francis
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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.
Date: 1822
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Indians at Pomquet
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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.
Date: 1827
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McDonald John & Others
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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.
Date: 1816
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Marvin William
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Petition for Murphy for a lot on the eastern side of Lake Porter [Potter?] that is reserved for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1826
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Murphy Lawrence
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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."
Date: 1809
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Labradore & Nowel
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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."
Date: 1811
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Pride Elisha & Others
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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.
Date: 1810
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Seaman Hezekiah & Others
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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.
Date: 1807
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Seaman Stephen
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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.
Date: 1809
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Seaman Stephen & Crane Jonathan
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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.
Date: 1831
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Sinclair William & Others
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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.
Date: 1816
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - South George & Others
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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.
Date: 1821
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 2 number 15
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Petition from Joseph Gloade and other Mi'kmaq of the County of Annapolis for a law to prevent the killing of moose in the month of March.
Date: 1844
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 8A number 93
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