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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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Joseph [page torn - Mar]shall
Guysboro [illegible] October 1801
reporting the state of
Indians in that quarter
Michl. Wallace Esquire
[Honored] by Mr.
John Newton Junr. } Halifax
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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