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Letter from Rev. E.W. Morris to Lt. Gov. Maitland regarding the condition of several Mi'kmaq families living near Rawdon. Also encloses a petition from Louis Benjamin Paul Pominout requesting relief for the 200 Mi'kmaq encamped at Winsdor, Newport, Kennetcook and Rawdon, for whom he is Chief. Noted that the petition was answered.
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it necessary to assure him that his feelings shall be neither injured or insulted.
Mrs. G has no other motive in requesting this interview than to do herself that justice she
is entitled to, and her feelings being now agitated she feels she can say farewell now
better than when that agitation has ceased.
[page ripped, part missing] Church Lane
Date: 1831
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 176
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