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Petition of Joseph Paul to James Kempt on behalf of his elderly father, Peter Paul, Horton Corners, requesting relief. Includes a note that 1000 acres are reserved for Mi'kmaq in the rear of Horton township as well as a tract of several thousand acres in its vicinity on which the Mi'kmaq might be accomodated.

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To his Excellency Sir James Kempt, Lieut. Governor
of the Province of Nova Scotia, &c, &c, &c
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The Petition of Joseph Paul in behalf of his aged father
Peter Paul, Indians, residing at Horton Corner

Humbly Sheweth
That your Excellency's Petitioners
are very poor and miserable, having no other means of supporting themselves and their respective fami-
lies than by the precarious subsistence they obtain by shooting and fishing, which, in consequence of the in-
crease of the White Settlers, they are nearly de-
prived of this benefit, and have no other resource
left than to pray that your Excellency will be
graciously pleased to allow them some portion of
the ungranted lands contiguous to the above
Settlement; and they are inducted to make this request for the express purpose of cultivating
the same, as the only means of saving them
from actual starvation.

And your petitioners as in duty bound will
ever pray

Joseph Paul
his X mark

Date: 1825

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 161 1/2

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