Diary of Rev Henry Lind 
Seal's Rocks - small settlement of Micmac Indians - chiefly from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - having the mixed blood of the Indians and French. sgibnl.ca/traditional-si…
" a poor woman of the French and Indian mixture"
"This day I visited several persons, among whom was the Jack-a-tar woman..."
"Two men, "Jack-a-tars", came to tell Butler and some of them requested me to give some medicine to his wife. He, having brought her to her mother's in French town that I might visit her."
"This morning, a young woman, a Jack-a-tar, came to me for medicine to heal her sickness which "is sore"."
" I am sorry to see so much distress among the poor Jack-a-tars..."
"... walked across the ice to see a family of Jack-a-tars ..."
"A Jack-a-tar called for something to relieve his uncle, another Jack-a-tar who has broken his breast-bone."
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