Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources

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Cloth them, but when their Expectations are [lost?] to any further supply their influence will subside, the Priests can only Effectually [?control OR constrain] them

5 The Indians generally go once a year to [Menudi?] on Memramcook in the County of Cumberland to Mr. Power or the Priest residing their for Absolution_

6 The Lands suitable for Indians to settle [illegible - crossed out] on in this County are principally on the Gaspereau River to the Eastward of the Great Lake about Three Miles South of where Benjamin Peck now lives._ The Lands are all Granted in this Township none of which I think is Subject to [Extreat?] but a few Hundred Acres may be purchased for the Indians, at a very moderate rate. there are now Roads and Settlers near the same. their Hunting Grounds are about the Lakes [&?] to the Southward towards Liverpool, the Land is generally good, &well Timber'd. Also at Parrsboro where they [illegible - crossed out] reside the Lands are good. but all Granted but may be purchased low.

7 There is plenty of Timber both in Horton and Parrsboro, where the Indians are now Settled for Staves, Hoops, Rafters, Hanspikes and laths, but not a