Joshua Frost's letter to Sir John Wentworth about the distress of the Mi'kmaq at Cape Sable regarding the disruption of their hunting and fishing by "the white people."
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 71
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Letter to Watkeys to "let the bearer John J. Paul and his brother have each a gun and send the bill to ...M. Wallace."
Date: 1801
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 74
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Invoice from Henry Watkeys to M. Wallace for two guns for two Mi'kmaq brothers.
Date: 1801
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 75
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Receipt for payment of a gun for a Mi'kmaq. From Henry Watkeys.
Date: 1801
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 80
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Receipt from John Woodin for reimbursement for money for seed potatoes for Mi'kmaq at St. Margaret's Bay.
Date: 1801
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 82
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Letter from James Ratchford to George Henry Monk seeking relief for distressed Mi'kmaq remaining in the area to catch trout and muskrat, as the moose and caribou are very scarce.
Date: 1801
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 89
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Receipt acknowledging payment by the Commissioners of Indian Affairs for work stocking and repairing guns for two Mi'kmaq by order of John Wentworth. Signed Henry Watkeys.
Date: 1801
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 95
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Account of shot and powder furnished by order for the Mi'kmaq. (A receipt from Hartshorn and Boggs.)
Date: 1801
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 99
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Invoice from William Smith to Michael Wallace for supplies provided for Mi'kmaq relief. Also includes letter from Smith to Wallace noting that once the Mi'kmaq recovered from whooping cough, he advised them where game was located and the Mi'kmaq then had a successful hunt, killing several bears, one moose and wildcats.
Date: 1802
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 103
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Letter from McCondachie to Wallace regarding attempts to have the Mi'kmaq at Sheet Harbour plant seed potatoes, expressing doubt that the Mi'kmaq will ready the ground or plant the potatoes.
Date: 1802
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 115
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Letter from Wentworth to Commissioners for Indian Affairs ordering that Francois Michelle and ten other Mi'kmaq be given twelve dollars, twenty pounds pork, thirty of beef and fifty of biscuits, two guns, flints and powder for their return to New Brunswick.
Date: 1802
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 116
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Henry Watkey's account for stocking a gun to Bones, a Mi'kmaq. Paid 4 May 1803.
Date: 1803
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 132
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Negative copy of the petition of Daniel Toney on behalf of himself and 17 families of Mi'kmaq. Referred to the Surveyor General and annotated by J.C. S. (John Coape Sherbrooke)
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 148 1/3
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Letter from Alex. Campbell, Deputy Surveyor, to John S. Morris reporting that he has inspected the Mi'kmaq lands in Sydney County and found no cases od tresspasses except for some wood cut. Discusses the timber cutting and sawmill being erected on the land of Peter Batiste. Dated Antigonish.
Date: 1848
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 194
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Letter from S. Cowling to Sir R. George acknowledging receipt of money for purchase of seed for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1835
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 15
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