Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources

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was made, there was no way of Ascertaining the Western or Eastern Boundaries of the Reserved Lands, and Deponent verily believes they all thought they were taking lands beyond and Outside of the Indian Reserve, and were complying with the requisition of the Surveyor General, and not intruding on the [illegible] of such Indians. -- That Deponent owns and lives on a lot beyond the Indian Reserve aforesaid, for which he holds a grant from Government, and has frquent opportunities of seeing the Indian Reserve [scratched out] settlement, and ascertaining their number, tha on the whole tract there are not many Indian families, and the number of adults does not exceed sixteen, that the improvement of the Indians is near the mouth of the River, and it is a rare instance for any of them to plant Crops or Cultivate the Soil. -- That the persons before named in this Deposition, as having settled on the said lands, have families, the precise numbers deponent can not state, but think they average from five to six each; are extremely poor, depending entirely on Agriculture for maintenance,
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