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Letter from Crawley to George regarding the last tracts of Mi'kmaq land ordered to be surveyed. Identified only as "Island."
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Dear Sirs
In this Packet you will find
Plots and a Description of the last of the
Indians Lands, ordered to be surveyed;
reduced from an extensive Tract, before
I could interfere to any purpose in
their behalf to barely 50 Acres, and
even of this small space a squatter
has, in spite of all [recrimination? OR circumstances] and
threats, taken possession of about
four Acres. I feel however
great satisfaction at having made
one step towards the security of
the remaining possessions of the poor
Aborigines of this Island. If the
Legislature should, in its Wisdom,
see fit to put the finishing hand
to this work of Charity, a number of
Date: 1834
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 6
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