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Letter from T. Chamberlain to Wentworth recommending the bearer of the letter, the widow of Mi'kmaq Francis Paul, requesting that she be given a little meal and a tin kettle and any other relief thought proper.
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The Bearer, Widow of the Indian Francis Paul who died four years ago at Preston, being destitute, her son Peter on whom she depended sick and having none to help her toward supporting herself and two children, humbly requests your Excellency to, order her a little Meal and a Tin Kettle, or any other ways grant her releaf [relief] as your Excellency shall think proper
Having some knowledge of the [?Keavery] familly [family] I believe the above to be true,
T. Chamberlain
Preston 4th Feb. 1803
Date: 1803
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 126
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