The Memorial of the following Indians
with their familys Natives of the River Tabusintack;
Humbly Sheweth
That your Memorialists, have
remained with the greatest impatiance these
several years past, and allowed the English to
settle an the lower end of Tabusintack, on Lands
which your Memorialists, forefathers possessed
and as the English are now becoming too numerous
and about to encroach upon the ground or part
of the River from which your Memorialists draw
[their only Subsistance] for more than [One Hundred]
year and having no right to any of the North
West. Eeling ground licenced to the Miramichi
Indians: Your Memorialists, therefore most
Humbly prays, that your Excellency and Honor,
will be pleased to grant or allow us a permanent
Licence of Occupation, of a Tract of Land, on
both sides of the River to secure our Eeling ground
to Commence at a place commonly called the Red
June Brook, or [Cowasegits], and to Extend five
Miles up the River, and your Memorialists prays
that your Excellency [H] Honors will grant such
an answer as to you in your Wisdom shall
seem meet, and your Memorialists as in
duty bound, will ever pray
Miramichi 26th September 1801.
Thoma Gonish
x
[Piere Glonor]
x
Louie Thoma Gonish
x
[illegible] Glonor
x
Ekean Thoma Gonish
x Indian Marks
Joseph Glonor
x Indian Marks
Francis Joseph Gonish
x
Francis Glonor
x
Thoma [Seth] Gonish
x
Joseph Mally
x
Newell Thoma Gonish
x
Francis Sabia
x
[illegible]
x
Antwen Sabia
x
Indians settled on the
River Tabusintack _
The tract petitioned for
to be reserved for the
use of the tribe.
9th. October 1801
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