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JULIAN, NICHOLAS (1783-1868)

JULIAN, NICHOLAS, Micmac Indian chief; b. Miramichi, c1783, s/o John Julian; brother of Andrew Julian; m. 1806, Marie J. Ganish, of Miramichi; d. Eel Ground, 9 Jul 1868.

The earliest record pertaining to Nicholas Julian is from 1803 when he and his brother Andrew were brought before the County Court of Sessions on minor charges unspecified in the minutes. The next record is of his marriage in 1806, which was entered as follows in the Neguac church register by Father Rémi-Pierre Joyer, the missionary priest of the Caraquet district:

Le trent un juillet mil huit cent six, je soussigné ai marié Nicholas, fils majeur de Jean ey de Bridgette, sauvages, avec Marie Josephte, fille mineure de Thomas Ganieche et de Henriette, sauvages de la mission, en présence et du consentement de la mère du garcon et du père de la fille, de François Julien et de Barnabé Julien, oncles du garçon.

Nicholas Julian was chief of the Eel Ground band in 1841 when, in an effort to strip Barnaby Julian of Red Bank of his 'kingship', Moses Perley presented him with a splendid certificate in which he was designated as "Chief of the Julien Tribe of Micmacs resident on the Northwest Miramichi." The Red Bank Indians were disinclined to see Barnaby Julian removed, but from that date onward Perley dealt with Nicholas Julian as if he were chief over all and completely ignored Barnaby and his band. For his part, Nicholas made no attempt to interfere in the affairs of the Red Bank Indians, but he and his family interpreted the document which he received from Perley as giving them hereditary rights to the chiefship at Eel Ground.

When it was shown in 1853 that the "old chiefs" of the Miramichi (Nicholas Julian of Eel Ground and Noel Brio of Burnt Church) were living in dire poverty, miserly annual allowances of £5 were authorized for them by the Indian commissioners. Nicholas lived for another fifteen years, but he was elderly and feeble, and his son John N. Julian acted as his deputy.

Sources

[m] Hamilton (JT) [d] Freeman 18 Jul 1868

Remarques

See Thomas Maltby.


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