Belcher, Jonathan

[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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Remarks on the Indian Commerce carried on by the Government of Nova Scotia in the year 1760, 1761 & part of 1762 [enclosed with Belcher's July 8, 1763 dispatch]

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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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[Transcription of proclamation issued by Jonathan Belcher, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of Nova Scotia 'or Acadia']

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[Proclamation protects areas of Nova Scotia described as the 'possessions of the said Indians, for the more special purpose of hunting, fowling and fishing']

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[Dispatch provides text and account of peace and friendship treaties signed with chiefs of Mi'kmaq tribes from Shediac, Miramichi, Pokemouche and Cape Breton]

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[Dispatch discusses Nova Scotia's statutory measure for 'carrying on the Indian trade']

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[Dispatch suggests that a few French missionaries be employed to influence the Indigenous population 'for public good']

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[Author blamed a French priest named Manach for impeding peacemaking with the Mi'kmaq and had him arrested]

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Belcher, Jonathan