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[Memorandum providing proposed instructions for granting and settlement of lands in Nova Scotia]

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Author: Dartmouth, the 2nd Earl of

Addressee: Privy Council, Government of Great Britain

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[Dispatch notes that the 'Indians of this Province have lately assembled from all parts to Place in the bay of Vert to meet a French Priest for the Celebration of Marriages and baptisms Amongst them, and to receive Absolution']

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Author: Wilmot, Montagu

Addressee: Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

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[Representation supporting a memorial from Archibald Montgomery requesting 20,000-acre grant of land in Nova Scotia, stipulating that the lands should not already be 'possessed or claimed by the Indians')

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Author: Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

Addressee: Privy Council, Government of Great Britain

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[Representation requesting authorization of grants in continental Nova Scotia to be laid out in townships of 20,000 acres each, with the stipulation that the lands should not already be 'possessed or claimed by the Indians']

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Author: Hillsborough, Lord

Addressee: Privy Council, Government of Great Britain

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[Dispatch refers to a peace treaty with the Mi'kmaq chiefs of Cape Breton and provides a list of supplies requested by these Mi'kmaq]

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Author: Thompson, Samuel

Addressee: Stephens, Philip

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[Dispatch provides instructions for the governance of Nova Scotia - which at this time included St. John's Island - including 'measures to be observed in respect to the Indians, and the regulation of our commerce with them']

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Author: Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

Addressee: Wilmot, Montagu

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[Dispatch notes that the Mi'kmaq of St. John's Island had requested that the government provide them with a Catholic priest and that some Mi'kmaq in Acadia had travelled to the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon for supplies]

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Author: Wilmot, Montagu

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[Dispatch instructs recipient to arrange for a survey of St. John's Island in order to ascertain 'the nature of the soil the rivers and harbours' and to 'protect all temporary establishments for carrying on the Fishery']

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Author: Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

Addressee: Wilmot, Montagu

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[Author encloses accounts related to expenditures from the provincial treasury (see Belcher's July 1763 brief entitled 'Remarks on the Indian Commerce')]

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Author: Belcher, Jonathan

Addressee: Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

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[Dispatch suggests looking into the 'nature of the pretentions of the Indians for any part of the lands within this province' and explains the rationale for the May 4, 1762 Proclamation 'injoining all persons against any molestation of the Indians in thei

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Author: Belcher, Jonathan

Addressee: Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

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LETTER/MEMO (CORRESPONDENCE)