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Joshua Frost's letter to Sir John Wentworth about the distress of the Mi'kmaq at Cape Sable regarding the disruption of their hunting and fishing by "the white people."
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Joshua Frost's Letter
to Sir John Wentworth
about the distress of
Indians at Cape Sable
(71.
To His Excellency Sir John
Wentworth __ __ __
Bartlet [Elixe?] and Six Other Indians
has been to me Complaining that they
are very much Discommoded in their
Fishing and hunting by the white people
they wish your Excellency to [lot?] them
of a [?few OR five] acres of land at Salmon
River with a free Priveledge of fishing
but the land that they point
out is on the grant that was granted
to Henry Wilmot Esquire the Indians
is in a distressed condition and I beg
your Excellency would take there condition
in consideration and do for
them as you in your great Wisdom
shall think best __ __ __
Your
[?1807 OR 1851]
Sir John Wentworth [written vertically on left side of page]
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 71
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