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Description of "Land for Indians at Merimichi"
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Land for the Indian at
Merimichi -----
Situate laying and being beginning, below, the point, formed by the River called by the Inhabitants, Little South West River, and the Northwest Branch of the River Merimichi and thence to extend up that North West Branch Twenty miles measuring the several courses of the River, and back on each side the said Northwest Branch, one mile Equidistant from the River, containing twenty thousand acres more or less
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 29
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