Petition of Parker for land in Douglas, westward of the Mi'kmaq grant. Was approved for 200 acres.
Date: 1821
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Parker Abraham
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Return of survey and plan for 100 acres northward of the Mi'kmaq reserve at Whycocomagh.
Date: 1845
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Patterson James
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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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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.
Date: 1819
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Luxey Joseph & Four Other Indians
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Documents concerning land for Samuel, Francis and Goram Paul on behalf of eleven families of Mi'kmaq and 100 acres of land in Wentworth.
Date: 1807
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Paul Samuel & Others
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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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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.
Date: 1827
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - River Denis Basin
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Return of survey and plan for 234 1/2 acres on the western side of the Mi'kmaq reserve near St. Peter's.
Date: 1844
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Robinson William
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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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