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[Published minutes reference Samuel Holland's survey plan and account of St. John's Island and order that a representation be sent to the Privy Council regarding Holland's plan and papers]

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Author: Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

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[Minutes note the presence of Indigenous peoples near Lunenbourg and along the Saint John River and states that recently many had 'retired to the Island of St. Peter [St. Pierre] near Newfoundland, where some priests from old France have assembled']

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Author: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

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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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[List of 'Presents to the Indians' who had assembled into a 'large body' during the surveying of the coasts of Nova Scotia]

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Author: Government of Nova Scotia

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A Plan of the Island of St. John in the province of Nova Scotia. As surveyed agreable to the Order, and Instructions of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade, and Plantations

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Author: Holland, Samuel

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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

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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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A Description of the Island of St. John's

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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

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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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