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Copy of affidavit of Kenneth Campbell regarding settlers on Mi'kmaq lands at Wagmatcook.
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Kenneth Campbell of Wagmatkook in the County of Cape Breton, Trader maketh oath and saith that he was born in Prince Edward Island and has Resided in Cape Breton for the last twenty four years or therabouts, that in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three Deponent purchased a shop, from James Broderick on the Indian Reserve at Wagmatkook and became tenant to the Indians at an Annual Rent of Thirty shillings, being the same Rent that the said James Broderick paid, that Deponent has paid the Indians said Rent by distributing it among them to their satisfaction __ That Deponent has lately commenced the erection of a larger store
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Date: 1837
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 30
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