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Letter from Abbe Segogne to Lt. Gov. Sherbrooke enclosing bill for expenses for relief of Mi'kmaq, 1813-1814. Also requests blankets and release of an old French prisoner named Pierre Clement.
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His Excellency
Sir John C. Sherbrooke
Clare January the 3rd. 1814
149 [top right corner]
Mart Allan [as] 25 Mic [left side edge]
May it Please Your Excellency
The inclosed is the Bill of the [?expense], I made for the Indians from January 1813 to January 1814, which I humbly Submit to the inspection & generosity of your Excellency. Provisions here have been very Scarce & dear last year; [Thus] we have been & are Still obliged to be [sparing]. If it be your good pleasure order the amount to be paid In the hands of Mr. Charles McCarthy the bearer.
Some old decrepite Indians in these parts have requested me to beg of your Excellency Some Blankets for the Winter.
I also take the Liberty to recommand [recommend] for his liberation an old French prisoner by name Pierre
Date: 1814
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 149
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