Nova Scotia Archives
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Distribution list of sundries sent to Sheet Harbour for relief of the Mi'kmaq residing at that place, i.e. Lewis Paul's family, "Able Wise wife and two children," Francis Cope and two grown up boys, and Inasine [?] and his wife.
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Indian Distribution List
16th January 1802
Sheet Harbour.
Date: 1802
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 107
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