Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Letter from Newton of Liverpool acknowledging James' letter of December and 20 pairs of blankets that were distributed to poor Mi'kmaq of the county.
note: transcription publicly contributed - please contact us with comments, errors or omisions
26
Queens County
Liverpool 2d March 1836.
Dear Sir/
I acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 9th December [last?], accompanied by 20 pair of Blankets. We distributed among the Poorer Indians in this County. by directions from His Excellency the Lt. Governor; and as I wish to give an account of my Stewardship, inclosed you have the [?mode] of distribution; they were received with apparent thankfulness, as a very timely relief:-- there was [?some] other applicants, but they could not all be supplied. --
I have the honor to be,
Dear Sir
Your very obt Servant
[?Joshua] [Newton]
Tho[ma]s W. James Esq.
D[eput]y. Provincial Secretary --
Date: 1836
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 26
Questions to Consider
- When do you think the document was written?
- Who do you think wrote the document?
- Why do you think the document was written
- Who do you think received the document?
- Who do you think this document was written for?
- What information do you think this document provides? What do you think it tells us about the past?
- How do you think the document reflects the attitudes and values of the time period in which it was written?
- What impact do you think the document had at the time it was written?
- Do you think those were different impacts for different people?