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Negative copy of a letter from James Walker respecting the claims of a Mi'kmaq named Philip on lands through which a road passes, asking for compensation for Philip, for the harm the road has done him.
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himself, and then came to them demanding satisfaction against their Hogs, I am certain a Bushel would have been the utmost of the Crop this year on the spot complaind of, I should be sorry to injure the old Indian but the beggarly character of the Indians are too well known to require any remarks from me and hearing this old Indian wellspoken of enduced me to think of making him some enumeration for the [illegible] injury the Road had done him he has abundance of a good Land as any in St Margarets Bay if he will only Fence and improve it. This Sir is a brief a statement of the Injury the Indian as I can give you and of the [recomp?] I intended to make him if he had complained to me but as the case now stands I shall await his Excellencys directions. Most obedient humble Servant James Walker
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Date: 1815
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 155
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