Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations

[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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Addressee: Privy Council, Government of Great Britain

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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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[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']

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[Published minutes reference a memorial for a land grant on St. John's Island]

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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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[Published minutes reference an application for a land grant on St. John's Island]

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[Published minutes reference an application for grant of a part of St. John's Island]

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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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[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']

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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

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Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations