Request by Dorey for certain lot on the west side of St. Margaret's Bay. Must not interfere with any Mi'kmaq claims.
Date: 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Dorey George
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.
Date: 1823
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Elexey John; Joseph & Other Indians
Regarding the land of the Frasers at Middle River, Pictou. "Their neighbours were Indians."
Date: 1812
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Fraser Alexander & William
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.
Date: 1840
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Gloade Charles & Other Indians
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.
Date: 1845
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Glode Charles
Regarding Widow Thibaud, a Mi'kmaq woman - 400 acres.
Date: 1819
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Guiddery Frederick & Others
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
Petition for land in Pictou by Hadley, who served as interpreter to the Mi'kmaq for two years and eight months.
Date: 1817
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hadley Henry
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.
Date: 1823
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hammond Thomas
Warrant to survey Chapel Island for a chapel for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1818
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Kavanaugh Lawrence; McEachern Rev. Eneas & Dollard Rev. William
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.
Date: 1821
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hennery William
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
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
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.
Date: 1825
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McDiarmid Ronald
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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