Indian Commissioner Samuel P. Fairbanks annual report. Lists a "Rev. Thos. Sears" at Pictou as receiving 62 blankets and 10 great coats for Indians in Pictou County in 1864. Also reported that $401.25 was spent to purchase Fisher's Grant IR no. 24 in 1864.
Samuel P. Fairbanks, Indian Commissioner, to Provincial Secretary, in Journal and Votes of the House of Assembly for the Province of Nova Scotia, 1865 Session, Appendix No. 19, pg. 1-4.