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Petition of Charles Gloade, Chief of Mi'kmaq in the western part of the province, to Lt. Gov. Campbell, requesting money for purchase of seed potatoes for Mi'kmaq settled on land on Annapolis-Liverpool Road. Received in Halifax.
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To His Excellency [?] Campbell KCB Leutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia- The humble petition of Charles Glode the Chief of the Micmac Tribe of Indians in the Western part of the Province of Nova Scotia [ sheweth?] on behalf of himself and Tribe- That your Petitioners have settled on [ Sands?] on the new road leading from Annapolis to Liverpool where they have several clearings. that of your humble Petitioners being about twenty acres and others of Six acres and more- Your Petitioners most humbly represent that from the extreme scarcity of money they are unable to provide themselves with Potatoes for seed for the ensuing Year- and therefore pray that Your Excellency will graciously pleased to grant them a small sum of money to enable them to purchase seed for planting - which they cannot procure in any other way- And as [in?] duty bound will ever pray- Charles Glode [X his mark ] for himself & other Indians
Date: 1835
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 17
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