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Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series
The Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to the administration of Mi'kmaw' affairs in Nova Scotia. Includes Joseph Howe's letter book as Commissioner for Indian Affairs, 1841-1843. — archival description
Receipt for supplies received out of the stores brought in the sloop Massachusetts for the "Tribe of Indians assembled here to treat"
Date: 1751
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 1
Printed Proclamation for the Treaty of 1752
Date: 1752
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 2
Ratification of former Treatys by the Norridgewolk Tribe at Casco Bay
Date: 2 July 1754
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 4 (O/S No.)
True copy of the 1754 Norridgewolk Ratification of the Treaty of 1725
Date: 1754
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 5 (O/S number 524)
True copy of the 1754 Penobscot Ratification of the Treaty of 1725
Date: 1754
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 6 (O/S number 525)
True copy of the 1754 Penobscot Ratification of the Treaty of 1725
Date: 1754
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 7 (O/S number 525)
Letter addressed to the King regarding relations and trade with "Indians"
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 8
Summaries of letters regarding Mi'kmaq from various areas of Nova Scotia
Date: 1808
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 9
Letter from W. Sherriff to Lawrence regarding staff and muster lists
Date: 1780
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 18
Act to prevent any private Trade or Commerce with the Indians and "An Act for Continuing an Act entitled an Act to revent any private Trade or Commerce with the Indians"
Date: 1760
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 19
Copy of the Brevet de Commission of the Indian Chief
Date: 1742
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 20
Copy of "Treaty of Peace and Friendship" between Jonathon Belcher and Francis Muis
Date: 1761
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 20a
Letter from Sigogne to John Cope Sherbrooke regarding Muis-Belcher Treaty, Maillard, the Mi'kmaq "Peace-Dance and ceremony of burying of war weapons"
Date: 1812
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 21
Permission to pass given to Ambroise St. Aubin, Chief of St. Johns River
Date: 1765
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 22
Northern District - Extract from the Minutes at a Conference with the Six Nations and Delawares at Johnson Hall
Date: 2 May 1765
Reference: Commissioner of Public Records - Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 22 1/2