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To His Excellency Sir Colin Campbell HCB
Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over Her Majestys Province of Nova Scotia &c &c &c

The Petition of Charles Glode, an Indian, residing in the County of Annapolis

Most humbly showeth.

That your petitioner received about fifteen years since an order of location by command of Sir James Kempt to receive Two hundred acres of wilderness lands on the road leading from Annapolis to Liverpool; upon which your petitioner settled permanently about twelve years past.

That your petitioner in clearing and improving the said land, has made great exertions and has now twenty five acres of cleared land for pasture and crops and although the season was not so productive last year as usual, he raised One hundred and Ten bushels of potatoes and cut fifteen tons of hay. and your petitioner has upon the farm a comfortable camp, a framed Barn measuring thirty by twenty six feet, and his stock consists of six head of meat cattle -

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