Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
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.
Does not mention names of ten other Mi'kmaq, but indiciates the request was fulfilled.
Date: 1802
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 116
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