Cornwallis, to prevent the French and Wabanaki…
October 1749 CE
His proclamation bans the Mi'kmaq from peninsular Nova Scotia.
Within this proclamation, he offers a bounty on the head of every Mi'kmaq.
Prior to Cornwallis, there had been a long history of Massachusetts Governors issuing bounties for the scalps of native men, women, and children in response to the Wabanaki raids on British settlers on the border between New England and Acadia.
Cornwallis follows New England's example, setting the amount paid to the New England rangers at the same rate that the Mi'kmaq receive from the French military for British scalps.
To carry out this task, Cornwallis raises two companies of rangers, one led by Major Gilman and the other by Captain William Clapham.
These two companies serve alongside that of John Gorham's company.
The three companies scour the land around Halifax looking for Mi'kmaq.
Cornwallis also stations thirty men guarding the saw mill over the following winter with two armed vessels.
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Groups
Abenaki people (Amerind tribe)
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Maliseet, or Wolastoqiyik, people (Amerind tribe)
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Mi'kmaq people (Amerind tribe)
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Christians, Roman Catholic
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Wabanaki Confederacy
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Passamaquoddy (Amerind tribe)
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New France (French Colony)
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Anglicans (Episcopal Church of England)
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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
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Massachusetts, Province of (English Crown Colony)
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Britain, Kingdom of Great
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Nova Scotia (British Colony)
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