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Letter from John Woodin to Wallace regarding bushells of "purtators" distributed among Mi'kmaq families at St. Margaret's Bay
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John Woodin
Margarets Bay 6. June [1801?]
advising that he had distributed
Potatoes among the
Indians
[written vertically]
Michael Wallace Esqr.
Halifax
Date: 1781
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 26
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