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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 their claims']
1762
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minute expressing the Lords' disapproval of Nova Scotia Acting Governor Jonathan Belcher's proclamation recognizing the 'Indians…claim… to lands in the Province of Acadia,' especially the coasts which excluded settlers from 'settling or carrying on the fishery']
1762
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes record an order rejecting a proposal to provide land grants in St. John's Island to 'foreign Protestants' looking to settle there]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
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]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Author encloses accounts related to expenditures from the provincial treasury (see Belcher's July 1763 brief entitled 'Remarks on the Indian Commerce')]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference a memorial requesting 'a certain part of the Island of St. John… to make a settlement and carry on a fishery there']
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[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']
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference an application for grant of a part of St. John's Island]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference an application for a land grant on St. John's Island]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[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]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes reference a memorial for a land grant on St. John's Island]
1763
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Published minutes record an order related to a petition from military officers on St. John's Island 'for a grant of land on which they are settled' and a memorial from the Earl of Egmont requesting 'a grant of the whole Island of St. John']
1764
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch suggests that a few French missionaries be employed to influence the Indigenous population 'for public good']
1761
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch discusses Nova Scotia's statutory measure for 'carrying on the Indian trade']
1761
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive
[Dispatch provides text and account of peace and friendship treaties signed with chiefs of Mi'kmaq tribes from Shediac, Miramichi, Pokemouche and Cape Breton]
1761
Collection: Tku Atlasma'lit Digital Archive