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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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18 May 1814
Surveyor Generals
Report respecting
Indians.
Henry H Cogswell Esq
Secretary
[written vertically]
[Arithmetic addition in lower right corner]
[illegible]
1 3 5
11 5
__________
5 5 0
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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