Petition for a licence of occupation by Crane and others. Some years ago the petitioners obtained leave to occupy a point of land at the northeast side of the mouth of the River Pugwash. People have protected it on behalf of the Mi'kmaq but the petitioners maintain they wish the Mi'kmaq there to cut lumber for them in exchange for rum. Request a more ample licence of occupation than that originally given them by Gov. John Wentworth. Noted: "The land applied for was by the appropriation of Sir John Wentworth reserved for the petitioners - but Jonathan Crane had received 1000 acres on River Philip. If the land be granted, the instructions within prevent dispute."
Date: 1810
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Crane Jonathon & Others
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Request by Dorey for certain lot on the west side of St. Margaret's Bay. Must not interfere with any Mi'kmaq claims.
Date: 1815
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Dorey George
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Regarding the land of the Frasers at Middle River, Pictou. "Their neighbours were Indians."
Date: 1812
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Fraser Alexander & William
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Petition for land in Pictou by Hadley, who served as interpreter to the Mi'kmaq for two years and eight months.
Date: 1817
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Hadley Henry
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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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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 eighteen Mi'kmaq families of Pomquet for 100 acres of Indian Point Cove where they have had gardens for 25 years. If they receive this, they will give up claims to the reserve in the woods that has been taken from them by white settlers and on which they have lived for the past 25 years. A separate slip of paper has a list of 10 names. Presented in the administration of James Kempt. Filed in 1822.
Date: 1822
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - Indians at Pomquet
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Documents regarding a grant given to McDiarmid in 1811 that, at the time, had two acres reserved as a Mi'kmaq burial ground. There was an error in the grant and the reservation was found to occupy the most valuable part of the land; the part occupied by Acecus Rude's buildings.
Date: 1825
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McDiarmid Ronald
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Documents regarding land given to Scottish immigrant Peter McChesney in Pomquet in 1810. The land surveyed for him in 1820 was found to encroach on the Mi'kmaq reserve.
Date: 1827
Reference: Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests - Land grant registration books series Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Ser. A - McDonald John & Others
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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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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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