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Letter from the Justices in Sessions at Colchester representing the condition of Mi'kmaq in that district. requesting relief for forty Mi'kmaq living in or near Truro.
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Letter from The Justices in Sessions at Colchester representing the Condition of Indians in that district January 1803.
Mentions names of Mi'kmaq heads of families and numbers of family members and gives a brief description of their situation.
Date: 1803
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 125
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