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Letter from William Hendry of Brookfield to Joseph Howe regarding the Mi'kmaq reserve lands at Brookfield. Requests trade of lans to be included in the reserve.
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farm. Therefore if it is in your power to do anything to assist me by persuading the Indians to relinquish about one hundred acres and take it in another place adjoining or elsewhere on the River, which they can do without any detriment to themselves, and will be remembered with heartfelt gratitude by
Your most devoted and humble sert.
Wm. Hendry.
N.B. I have opened a waggon road to the above named placed, being a distance of two miles -- for further particulars please enquire of W. Freeman Esq. W.H.
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To W. Hendry, -- answer to above.
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Dear Sir
I have not yet received W. Freeman's Report and Plans of the Indian Reserve at Brookfield -- when I do I will certainly be disposed to give a fair consideration to your claim.
Yours truly
Joseph Howe
Wm. Hendry
Date: 1842
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 432 pp. 123-124
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