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Letter from Chearnley to Howe reporting the number of Mi'kmaq resident in Guysborough.
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111
Private
14th Decr
[?Dr] Mr. Howe
I thank you
for the perusal
of the enclosed note
I cannot fancy
what makes [Mr]
[?McQuinan] volunteer
information respecting
Indians in Guysboro
County.
Last season I recall
a letter from a [Mr]
[Franchville] Guysboro
County in [among]
no less a [No] than
sixty-six men
women & children
in and about Guysboro
if my memory serves
me dated Decr [59].
Date: 1860
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 111
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