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Surveyor General C. Morris' report regarding request of Mi'kmaq at Shubenacadie for an additional tract of land of 100 acres containing the place of the old Mass House and burying ground on the western side of the Shubenacadie River and which was included in land granted to Col. Hamilton, 1763, and is now owned by another family.

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Land which His Excellency will authorize to be Granted in [exchange?] -- & I think 20 acres of Ground will be sufficient for their Burial Ground & for their Huts. [Sheds?] or Wigwams -- I have requested of these Indians to [procure?] a List of those of the Tribe who wish to join them -- preparatory to an arrangement for their being provided with Lands on the West side the Great Shubenacccadie Lake -- and I hope very shortly to be able to furnish the necessary Report & information required by your letter of the third Instant --

I am Sir --
Your obed[ient]
humble Servant
Charles Morris
[T. Paul?]

I will thank you to inform these Indians that they are not to look to me for pecuniary aid having already administered to their wants & my [illegible] is filled with them almost every day in the year. [Ollis?]

Henry H. Cogswell Esqr
Secy
[above deduced from next page]

D[ea]r Sir -- [?these] Indians want a Pass to go to [Passamaquoddy?] to be Signed by His Excell[enc]y the Gov[erno]r. which will give them [consequence] with the other tribes --

They also want a little Provisions to Support them until their Return -- but where this is to come from I know not -- I think however if it met His Excellencys approbation, twenty or thirty Dollars might be allowed them from the Province funds -- in this [juncture?]!

Mentions Mi'kmaq names.

Date: 1814

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 150

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