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Letter from Joseph Marshall to Michael Wallace reporting that fourteen Mi'kmaq families have lately moved to the Guysborough area from Antigonish where they are inoculating for the small pox virus. Seeks relief. Mentions Salmon River encampment.
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appeared to be the case, as the young children seemed almost naked. Their numbers on an average will be about five in every family.
I hope Sir, you will excuse the liberty I have taken, in mentioning these circumstances to you, not doubting but upon representation to His Excellency (which I hope you'll make) he will in his humanity order a supply of blankets, [strouding?] and Indian corn, to relieve the extreme wants of about one hundred Indians, that I have every reason to think will winter in or near this settlement, on account of the small pox being in the neighbourhood of Antigonish.
I am Sir
your most Humble Servt.
Joseph Marshall
Michl. Wallace Esquire
Date: 1801
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 86
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