Petition of Thomas Hammond for land where he will not be inconvenienced by white people. He had a lot in Shubenacadie but married a woman of Gold River who would not leave that locality. The land is not sufficient to support the fourteen persons who live there. He asks for other land. An order for 50 acres is sent to T. Crandle.
Date: 1823
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hammond Thomas
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Warrant to survey Chapel Island for a chapel for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1818
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Kavanaugh Lawrence; McEachern Rev. Eneas & Dollard Rev. William
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Petition for Hennery for a lot at Tracadie between lands laid off for the Mi'kmaq and the settlement on the east side of Manchester Road.
Date: 1821
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hennery William
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Petition by Hutt for land in lieu of lands at Chester relinquished for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1812
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hutt Francis
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Petition of John Campbell asking for land east of the Mi'kmaq chapel on Chapel Island.
Date: 1842
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McGrigor John & Others
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Petition of Marvin for the lot adjoining his 100 acres of land at Chester. Part of the land he prays for is claimed by the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1816
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Marvin William
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Documents regarding John Mehlman, Jr. of New Dublin Township, who is 35, Mi'kmaq, and has five children. His oldest is a son who is 10-years-old. Mehlmar's signature is 'Fosorunr Maslmaun.'
Date: 1811
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Mehlman John & Others
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Petition of Morgan asking for a lot of land between the land belonging to his father, Edward Morgan, and the Mi'kmaq band at Clements [?].
Date: 1825
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Morgan Thomas
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Petition for Murphy for a lot on the eastern side of Lake Porter [Potter?] that is reserved for the Mi'kmaq.
Date: 1826
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Murphy Lawrence
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Petition of Parker for land in Douglas, westward of the Mi'kmaq grant. Was approved for 200 acres.
Date: 1821
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Parker Abraham
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Memorial of Benjamin Labradore and Paul Nowel, Mi'kmaq born in Lunenburg and living in Mush Mush, for a licence for 300-400 acres for themselves and their families. Noted: "The land applied for by the petitioners lies within the township of Lunenburg and has been granted to the proprietors - whose extensive improvements on the first division of their lots entitles them to favourable consideration. C. Morris."
Date: 1809
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Labradore & Nowel
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Petition of Joseph Luxey and four other Mi'kmaq men who are permanent settlers at Roseway River, Long Island, Shelburne County. They have lived in one location for the past 25 years and are the fathers of 24 children. They ask a grant of the Island. Licence of Occupation granted for 200 acres.
Date: 1819
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Luxey Joseph & Four Other Indians
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Documents concerning land for Samuel, Francis and Goram Paul on behalf of eleven families of Mi'kmaq and 100 acres of land in Wentworth.
Date: 1807
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Paul Samuel & Others
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Draft of Grant of 950 acres in the eastern side of the entrance to St. Marys River. Noted: "Selling out of this grant, two acres for the use of the Mi'kmaq as a burying ground at Indian Point."
Date: 1811
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Pride Elisha & Others
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Plan of the east end of the River Denis Basin. Indicates site of Mi'kmaq apple trees, old Mi'kmaq cemetary, Mi'kmaq claims, Mi'kmaq winter huts and clearings. Also shows a shipyard where Kavanaugh and Martin are building a ship.
Date: 1827
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - River Denis Basin
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