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Letter from Rev. E.W. Morris to Lt. Gov. Maitland regarding the condition of several Mi'kmaq families living near Rawdon. Also encloses a petition from Louis Benjamin Paul Pominout requesting relief for the 200 Mi'kmaq encamped at Winsdor, Newport, Kennetcook and Rawdon, for whom he is Chief. Noted that the petition was answered.
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Mrs. [Gittins?] begs to present her kind regards to Mr. Echlin and is ashamed to trouble
him with this, but as she is to see him only once more she earnestly solicits he will
pay her that visit this evening it being the only favour she has to request of
Mr. Echlin she flatters herself he cannot refuse her at the same [page ripped and part missing]


Date: 1831

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 176

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