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.
Date: 1834
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Salome Catherine (widow) & Children of Catherine & Hippolyte Salome
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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 for a grant of land by Symonds at Little River, Sydney County, on what is known as the Mi'kmaq reserve.
Date: 1823
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Symonds Joseph
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Petition for some of the Mi'kmaq land at the rear of Little River.
Date: 1823
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Symonds Mary
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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.
Date: 1810
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Umlock John
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Request for a grant by Whellan for 100 acres near the Mi'kmaq reserve at Whycocomagh.
Date: 1846
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Whellan Nancy
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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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Letter from Rupert D. George, Provincial Secretary's Office, to George Edward Jean regarding a report on the state of the Mi'kmaq in Richmond County.
Date: 1841
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 8A number 14A
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Petition of George Edward Jean for remuneration for expenses suffered when undertaking to report on the state of the Mi'kmaq at Richmond County in 1841.
Date: 1841
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 8A number 14
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Account of the Mi'kmaq living within the County of Richmond as taken on the 26th July 1841 at the Mi'kmaq Chapel in Bras d'Or Lake, the anniversary of St. Ann's Day.
Date: 1841
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 8A number 14B
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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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