Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...
Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...
Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...
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•?)••'!>.XXXIVAPPENDIX.I-hliver without his permission. Mr. Cameron told deponentthat he could not go till <strong>the</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> colonywent toge<strong>the</strong>r, for as he had been ordered to leave <strong>the</strong>country, he was determined to drive out all <strong>the</strong> settlers,and when <strong>the</strong>y were gone, he would not leave a stick <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> buildings one upon <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r. Deponent was<strong>the</strong>refore forced to fly from his house and lands, andleft behind him one rood <strong>of</strong> land prepared for turnipseed, produce <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> crop valued at - - £3 QBufta V vvo. valued ' at - - - - 10One fc '^er lc»d and household^2furniture, valuta at - - - ^Land prepared for potatoes, pro- ^duce <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> crop valued at - j8W':45'...Sit(Signed)Sworn at Winnipic <strong>Settlement</strong>, Hudson'sBay Company's Territories, this 5th day£Q3PATRICK M'NOLTY.<strong>of</strong> August, 1815, before me,ARCHIBALD MACDONALD,WitnessC Colin Robertson,^ James White, Surgeon.[ p- ]Deposition <strong>of</strong> Alexander McLean.ICounsellor,Mr. Alexander M'Lean, late settler. Red River,saith, that Mr. Duncan Cameron told him that any <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> settlers, who would go to Canada, should have from<strong>the</strong> North- West Company two hundred acres <strong>of</strong> land,twelve ijiouths provisions gratis, and a free passage.i-^:
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