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Memorial of Dr. Samuel G.A. McKeen, Victoria County, to the Executive Council regarding services rendered to Mi'kmaq in Victoria and neighbouring counties. Account of McKeen.
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Province of Nova Scotia
To SGA McKeen MD [illegible]
1860
Sept 10 To visit. $1 Medicine $1 Indian woman
Called Mary. [illegible]. $2.00
12th vis $1.00. Med. 1.75 Mary. 2.75
18th vis 1.00 medicine 1.25. 2.25
Oct 25 medicine Peter. [Newell?] of Whysosomah $1.90
Nov 12th. Med. Peter[Newell?]. $2.50
Decr. 3rd. ". ". ". ". ". $2.50
". 9th vis & medicine Peter Newell's wife. "
Indian woman of Whysosomah. 3.50
$17.40
BaddickC.B. Jany 15th 1861
Date: 1861
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 431 number 120
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