* Hendrick Hendricksen Kip
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Jacob Hendricksen Kip
(May 16, 1631 - Dec 24, 1690)
Maria De La Montagne
(Jan 25, 1636/37 - Aug 25, 1711)
Married Mar 8, 1653/54
|
Johannes Ryckman
(Abt 1671 - Abt Mar 1733/34)
* Catharina Kip
(Jan 25, 1670/71 - After 1711)
Married Jul 11, 1697
|
* Tobias Ryckman
(Jun 1711 - After 1773)
Cornelia Daly
(1718 - After 1773)
Married Nov 9, 1749
|
Jacobus James Kip
(Dec 20, 1750 - Nov 19, 1834)
* Cornelia Ryckman
(1757 - Nov 9, 1802)
Married Mar 10, 1774
|
* Benjamin Haight Kip
(Apr 22, 1797 - Bef 1850)
Esther Miller
(Apr 27, 1803 - )
Married Feb 23, 1823
|
Jerome J Dean
(Mar 22, 1831 - Sep 16, 1882)
* Adeline M Kip
(Dec 20, 1830 - Oct 13, 1867)
|
* James Delevan Dean
(Feb 14, 1860 - Jan 15, 1911)
Anna L Buss
(Sep 27, 1861 - Jun 5, 1940)
|
* Frank Dean
(1882 - )
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Upper Canada: Land Board Minutes and Records, 1765-1804. - October 22, 1788
Documents
relating to the granting of lands to Loyalists in the Province of Quebec
(includes present day Quebec and Ontario).
Transcriber:
Edward Kipp
January
2011Source: Library and Archives Canada
RG1 L4 Vol. 2. Upper Canada: Land Board
Minutes and Records, 1765-1804. LAC mf C-14026. PP. 203-206.
[P. 1]
Wednesday
22nd October 1788
Present
His
Excellency The Right Honorable Lord DorchesterThe Honorable William Smith Esquire, Chief Justice
Hugh
Finlay George
Pownall
Thomas
Dunn Henry
CaldwellEwd Harrison William Grant
John Collins Francis Baby
Adam Mabane Chas De La Naudiere
J G C DeLery Le Comte Dupré, Esquires
His
Lordship ordered to be read the 41st Article of His Majesty’s
Instructions in favour of the Corps, late the 84th Regiment, in the
Words following, Viz
[Margin] Granting Lands to the Corps, late the 84th
Regt
“And
Whereas upon the raising and Establishing the Corps Late the 84th
Regt of foot, We did promise and declare that the Officers and privates of the
same Corps should when reduced be entitled to, and receive grants for certain
allotments of Lands in proportion to their respective ranks therein, it is our
will & pleasure that you do in manner as herein before directed Grant
Warrants of allotment and survey to such of the Officers and privates of the
said late 84th Regiment of foot, non reduced, who shall be willing
to settle and become Inhabitants of our province of Quebec and shall apply for
the same for such quantities of Land as the shall be respectively entitled to,
in consequence of our said promise and declaration contained in our
Instructions to our Governors of New York and North Carolina, dated the 3d
April 1775. That is to say
To
[P.2]
To
Field Officers
5,000 AcresTo Captains 3,000
To Subalterns 2,000
To Non Commissioned Officers 200
To Privates 50
And
that the surveys be made and Grants for the same delivered to them respectively
free of expence as herein before is directed, provided nevertheless that every
Commissioned and Non Commissioned Officer or private belonging to the said late
84th Regt of foot, who shall claim and apply for Lands in
our province of Quebec as aforesaid, shall declare upon oath that no land has
been obtained by him in any of our other provinces in America under our Royal
declaration as a aforesaid.”
Read
also a Petition from Sir John Johnson Baronet, and a memorial of Lieutenant
Colonel Butler, and others, as follows. Viz.
“To
His Excellency the Right Honorable Guy Lord Dorchester Captain General and
Governor in Chief of the Colonies of Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and
their dependencies, Vice Admiral of the same General and Commander in Chief of
all His Majesty forces in the said Colonies and the Island of Newfoundland & etc. & etc. & etc.”
Sir
John Johnson Baronet}
“The
Memorial of Sir John Johnson Bart Lieut Colonel Commander
of His Majesty’s late provincial regiment called the King’s Royal Regiment of
New York.
Humbly
Sheweth,
That
your Memorialist and the Officers of his said Regt very early earned their
Loyalty and attachment to His Majesty’s person and Government, and that having
served faithfully & Zealously & shared equally in the dangers and
fatigues from the commencement to the conclusion of the late unhappy war; they
humbly submittheir
[P.3]
their
pretentions to your Lordships consideration and although they cannot claim a
right, they hope they may be considered to have equally mounted the same bounty
and indulgence that is granted to the Officers of the late 84th
Regiment by his Majesty’s instruction to your Lordship dated the 23d
of August 1788.”
“Your
Memorialist therefore in behalf of the Officers of his Regiment prays that the
same proportion of Land may be Granted to them that is ordered by the aforesaid
Instructions for the Officers of the said 84th Regt and your
Memorialist as in Duty bound will ever pray & etc. & etc. & etc.”
Montreal
23d Sept 1788 [signed]
John Johnson
Lieut Col. Butler}
“To
His Excellency the Right Honorable Guy Lord Dorchester Captain General and
Governor in Chief of the province of Quebec & etc. & etc. & etc.
The
Memorial of Lieutt Colonel John Butler and the Officers of the late
Corps of Rangers and Indian Department at Niagara.
Humbly
Sheweth,
That
your Lordship’s Memorialists having left their families and properties, at the
commencement of the late troubles in America and served faithfully during the
War and now settled at Niagara, do humbly beg that your Lordship will be
pleased to consider their services, and allow the Officers & Non
Commissioned officers such additional Quantity of Lands, as the 84th
Regiment has received. And Your Memorialists as in Duty bound shall ever pray.”
Signed John Butler, Lieut, CollPeter Tenbrook, Captain
Andrew Bradt, Captain
Jacob Ball, Lieut.
Th Ball, Lieut.
The opinion of the Board being desired by his lordship, the Council concurred with his Lordship in granting the prayer of the petition and Memorial in favour of all such Officers as have improved the Lands already granted to them as reduced officers since the peace of 1783.
And
it is referred to the Surveyor General or Deputy Surveyor General to make
returns of the locations of the petitioners; and He is directed to give them
certificates thereof under his hand as further testimonials of the faith of
Government for issuing the patents pursuant to His Majestys instructions if they
shall apply for their several locations in the course of one year to be completed
from the first day of May next.
But
it is to be understood that Deductions are to be made of all such tracts as
have been already granted to any of the Objects of this Order, that upon the
whole they may receive equivalents with the Corps of the 84th
Regiment.
Signed William C C
[P.5]
22nd
October 1788. Order of His Excellency Lord Dorchester in Council. No. 10.
Hesse.Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 8th Great-Grandfather of Stanley Vernon De Forest
* Hendrick Hendricksen Kip
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Isaac Hendricksen Kip
(Jan 1626/27 - Jul 1678)
Catalyntje Hendricks Snyers
(Abt 1632 - Bef Sep 26, 1675)
Married Feb 8, 1652/53
|
Philip De Foreest
(Jan 28, 1651/52 - Aug 18, 1727)
* Tryntie Kip
(Sep 1656 - Aug 28, 1727)
Married Jan 5, 1675/76
|
* David De Forest
(1700 - )
Abigail Van Alstyne
(1696 - )
Married Nov 8, 1717
|
* Martin De Forest
(May 1724 - 12 par 1802)
Tanneke Winne
(1718 - Jan 11, 1823)
Married Apr 4, 1751
|
* Peter De Forest
(Apr 15, 1753 - Mar 23, 1812)
Pieterche Van Alstine
Married Jun 4, 1775
|
* Jacob Peter De Forest
(Dec 2, 1791 - Mar 10, 1854)
Eliza Eddy
(Cir 1790 - )
|
* Gilbert Eddy De Forest
(Jan 5, 1817 - Sep 3, 1883)
Millicent Hart
(Mar 5, 1825 - Nov 9, 1888)
Married Nov 4, 1849
|
* Jacob Peter De Forest
(Jun 9, 1853 - May 15, 1929)
Sarah Elizabeth Tracy
(Mar 6, 1861 - 1928)
Married Dec 29, 1881
|
* Gilbert Culvin De Forest
(Sep 18, 1889 - Jan 25, 1951)
Meda Verone Everhardt
(Oct 6, 1889 - )
|
* Stanley Vernon De Forest
(Oct 6, 1912 - Jan 2, 1979)
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Isaac Hendricksen Kip
(Jan 1626/27 - Jul 1678)
Catalyntje Hendricks Snyers
(Abt 1632 - Bef Sep 26, 1675)
Married Feb 8, 1652/53
|
Philip De Foreest
(Jan 28, 1651/52 - Aug 18, 1727)
* Tryntie Kip
(Sep 1656 - Aug 28, 1727)
Married Jan 5, 1675/76
|
* David De Forest
(1700 - )
Abigail Van Alstyne
(1696 - )
Married Nov 8, 1717
|
* Martin De Forest
(May 1724 - 12 par 1802)
Tanneke Winne
(1718 - Jan 11, 1823)
Married Apr 4, 1751
|
* Peter De Forest
(Apr 15, 1753 - Mar 23, 1812)
Pieterche Van Alstine
Married Jun 4, 1775
|
* Jacob Peter De Forest
(Dec 2, 1791 - Mar 10, 1854)
Eliza Eddy
(Cir 1790 - )
|
* Gilbert Eddy De Forest
(Jan 5, 1817 - Sep 3, 1883)
Millicent Hart
(Mar 5, 1825 - Nov 9, 1888)
Married Nov 4, 1849
|
* Jacob Peter De Forest
(Jun 9, 1853 - May 15, 1929)
Sarah Elizabeth Tracy
(Mar 6, 1861 - 1928)
Married Dec 29, 1881
|
* Gilbert Culvin De Forest
(Sep 18, 1889 - Jan 25, 1951)
Meda Verone Everhardt
(Oct 6, 1889 - )
|
* Stanley Vernon De Forest
(Oct 6, 1912 - Jan 2, 1979)
Labels:
De Foreest,
De Forest,
Eddy,
Everhardt,
Hart,
Kip,
Lubberts,
Snyers,
Tracy,
Van Alstine,
Van Alstyne,
Winne
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 7th Great-Grandfather of Rowland N Davies
* Hendrick Hendricksen Kip
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Jacob Hendricksen Kip
(May 16, 1631 - Dec 24, 1690)
Maria De La Montagne
(Jan 25, 1636/37 - Aug 25, 1711)
Married Mar 8, 1653/54
|
* Jesse Kip
(Dec 16, 1660 - Apr 1722)
Maria Stevenson
(1674 - Jun 2, 1724)
Married Sep 30, 1695
|
* Benjamin Kip
(1714 - May 24, 1782)
Dorothy Davenport
(1715 - Feb 3, 1807)
Married 1733
|
* William Kipp
(Dec 23, 1748 - Oct 19, 1800)
Mary Merritt
(May 18, 1752 - Jan 31, 1827)
Married Dec 3, 1770
|
* Isaac Kipp
(Aug 18, 1774 - Nov 7, 1861)
Mary Washburn
(1784 - 1840)
Married 1797
|
* Reuben Kipp
(Mar 31, 1814 - Jan 1, 1874)
Ann Casselman
(Jun 17, 1818 - Dec 19, 1882)
Married Apr 27, 1843
|
* Norman Edward Washburn Kipp
(Nov 10, 1854 - Jan 17, 1902)
Martha Adiela Schoonover
(Dec 12, 1867 - Mar 7, 1942)
Married Oct 28, 1883
|
Roland Forrest Davies
(Oct 27, 1873 - Apr 21, 1939)
* Henrietta Golda Kipp
(Oct 24, 1887 - Feb 29, 1968)
Married Jun 2, 1907
|
* Rowland N Davies
(1909 - )
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Jacob Hendricksen Kip
(May 16, 1631 - Dec 24, 1690)
Maria De La Montagne
(Jan 25, 1636/37 - Aug 25, 1711)
Married Mar 8, 1653/54
|
* Jesse Kip
(Dec 16, 1660 - Apr 1722)
Maria Stevenson
(1674 - Jun 2, 1724)
Married Sep 30, 1695
|
* Benjamin Kip
(1714 - May 24, 1782)
Dorothy Davenport
(1715 - Feb 3, 1807)
Married 1733
|
* William Kipp
(Dec 23, 1748 - Oct 19, 1800)
Mary Merritt
(May 18, 1752 - Jan 31, 1827)
Married Dec 3, 1770
|
* Isaac Kipp
(Aug 18, 1774 - Nov 7, 1861)
Mary Washburn
(1784 - 1840)
Married 1797
|
* Reuben Kipp
(Mar 31, 1814 - Jan 1, 1874)
Ann Casselman
(Jun 17, 1818 - Dec 19, 1882)
Married Apr 27, 1843
|
* Norman Edward Washburn Kipp
(Nov 10, 1854 - Jan 17, 1902)
Martha Adiela Schoonover
(Dec 12, 1867 - Mar 7, 1942)
Married Oct 28, 1883
|
Roland Forrest Davies
(Oct 27, 1873 - Apr 21, 1939)
* Henrietta Golda Kipp
(Oct 24, 1887 - Feb 29, 1968)
Married Jun 2, 1907
|
* Rowland N Davies
(1909 - )
Labels:
Casselman,
Davenport,
Davies,
De La Montagne,
Kip,
Kipp,
Lubberts,
Merritt,
Schoonover,
Stevenson,
Washburn
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Instructions to governors for Quebec, Lower Canada and Upper Canada - Aug. 7, 1783
Documents relating to the granting of
lands to Loyalists in the Province of Quebec (includes present day Quebec and
Ontario).
Transcriber:
Edward Kipp
January
2011Source: Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
MG40 B8: Instructions to governors for
Quebec, Lower Canada and Upper Canada.
LAC mf H-2952. File 2 and File 4. PP
80-83.
[P.1]
Additional Instruction of 7th
Aug. 1783. Recd 17th Novr
over Land from Halfx.Concerning the allotment of lands to the Officers of the Provincial Troops
[P.2] Public Archives Canada stamp
[P.3]
George
R[seal]
Additional
Instruction to Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Frederick Haldimand Esqre Our
Captain General and Governor in Chief of Our Province of Quebec in America, or
to the Commander in Chief of the said Province for the time being. Given at Our
Court at St. James the Seventh day of August 1783. In the Twenty Third Year of
Our Reign.
Whereas
by Our additional Instruction to you bearing date the 16th day of
July last you are authorized and impowered to allot certain portions of Land
within the Seigneuries to be surveyed and laid out in the Province of Quebec by
virtue of the said Instruction, and to remain vested in Us, Our Heirs and
Successors, to such of the non-commissioned Officers and Privates of Our
Forces, who should be reduced in Our said Province. And whereas we are desirous
of[P. 4]
of testifying Our entire approbation of the Loyalty, Sufferings and Services of the Commissioned Officers of Our Provincial troops who may be so reduced. It is therefore Our Will and Pleasure that upon application of such of the said Commissioned Officers who shall be willing immediately to settle and improve Lands in Our said Province, you do allot such part of the Seigneuries to be surveyed and laid out as aforesaid in the following proportions, that is to say
To
every Field Officer 1000
acres
To
every Captain 700
acresTo every Subaltern, Staff 500 acres
or Warrant Officer
exclusive
of fifty acres for each person of which the family of such Officer shall
consist, to be held of Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, Seigneurs, upon the same
terms, acknowledgements, Services, reserved Rents and Remissions as in the said
recited additional Instruction are mentioned and expressed.
And
it is Our Will and Pleasure that where the same is practicable that the
Allottments of the non-commissioned Officers and Privates of each Provincial
Corps to be reduced in Our said Province under Our said additional Instruction
shall be in the same Seigneuries, and as contiguous as may be, and that the
Allottments to the Commissioned Officers by virtue of this Our Instruction
shall be interspersed therein, that the several Settlements may be thereby
strengthened and united, and in case of attack be defended by
those
[P. 5]
those
who have been accustomed to bear Arms and serve together.
And
whereas many of Our Loyal and deserving Subjects have taken arms and associated
themselves in the Provinces, now the United States of America, for the support
of Our Government and Authority under the name of associated Loyalists without
being put upon any particular Establishment, many of whom may take refuge in
Our Province of Quebec. It is Our Will and Pleasure that the Commissioned and
Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the said associated Loyalists shall
be in every respect entitled to the same Allottments of Land and every
Encouragement intended and given by Our said and recited additional Instruction
to the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of Our Forces who shall be
reduced in Our said Province and by this Our Instruction to the Commissioned
Officers of Our Provincial Force who shall be so reduced.
GR
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 7th Great-Grandfather of Sgt Ira Alexander Kipp
* Hendrick Hendricksen Kip
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Jacob Hendricksen Kip
(May 16, 1631 - Dec 24, 1690)
Maria De La Montagne
(Jan 25, 1636/37 - Aug 25, 1711)
Married Mar 8, 1653/54
|
* Jesse Kip
(Dec 16, 1660 - Apr 1722)
Maria Stevenson
(1674 - Jun 2, 1724)
Married Sep 30, 1695
|
* Benjamin Kip
(1714 - May 24, 1782)
Dorothy Davenport
(1715 - Feb 3, 1807)
Married 1733
|
* Jesse Kipp
(Feb 23, 1739/40 - Jan 1, 1780)
Ann Haight
(Apr 18, 1745 - Jul 13, 1811)
Married Abt 1763
|
* Gilbert Kipp
(Dec 10, 1765 - Jan 17, 1857)
Hannah Searles
(Sep 4, 1767 - Dec 20, 1856)
Married 1790
|
* Willet Kipp
(Jul 23, 1793 - Sep 10, 1853)
Mary Carpenter
(Jun 18, 1793 - Apr 16, 1849)
Married Jan 17, 1816
|
* Ira (Asa) Kipp
(Dec 29, 1822 - Dec 20, 1863)
Sarah Ellis Whitson
(Jan 28, 1829 - Aug 11, 1910)
Married Mar 19, 1855
|
* Joseph Whitson Kipp
(Dec 7, 1857 - Apr 27, 1931)
Loretta Jane Hannah
(Jun 26, 1859 - Mar 17, 1947)
Married Sep 7, 1879
|
* Sgt Ira Alexander Kipp
(Jan 31, 1881 - May 8, 1963)
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Jacob Hendricksen Kip
(May 16, 1631 - Dec 24, 1690)
Maria De La Montagne
(Jan 25, 1636/37 - Aug 25, 1711)
Married Mar 8, 1653/54
|
* Jesse Kip
(Dec 16, 1660 - Apr 1722)
Maria Stevenson
(1674 - Jun 2, 1724)
Married Sep 30, 1695
|
* Benjamin Kip
(1714 - May 24, 1782)
Dorothy Davenport
(1715 - Feb 3, 1807)
Married 1733
|
* Jesse Kipp
(Feb 23, 1739/40 - Jan 1, 1780)
Ann Haight
(Apr 18, 1745 - Jul 13, 1811)
Married Abt 1763
|
* Gilbert Kipp
(Dec 10, 1765 - Jan 17, 1857)
Hannah Searles
(Sep 4, 1767 - Dec 20, 1856)
Married 1790
|
* Willet Kipp
(Jul 23, 1793 - Sep 10, 1853)
Mary Carpenter
(Jun 18, 1793 - Apr 16, 1849)
Married Jan 17, 1816
|
* Ira (Asa) Kipp
(Dec 29, 1822 - Dec 20, 1863)
Sarah Ellis Whitson
(Jan 28, 1829 - Aug 11, 1910)
Married Mar 19, 1855
|
* Joseph Whitson Kipp
(Dec 7, 1857 - Apr 27, 1931)
Loretta Jane Hannah
(Jun 26, 1859 - Mar 17, 1947)
Married Sep 7, 1879
|
* Sgt Ira Alexander Kipp
(Jan 31, 1881 - May 8, 1963)
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 7th Great-Grandfather of Sheldon K Dale
* Hendrick Hendricksen Kip
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Jacob Hendricksen Kip
(May 16, 1631 - Dec 24, 1690)
Maria De La Montagne
(Jan 25, 1636/37 - Aug 25, 1711)
Married Mar 8, 1653/54
|
* Jesse Kip
(Dec 16, 1660 - Apr 1722)
Maria Stevenson
(1674 - Jun 2, 1724)
Married Sep 30, 1695
|
* Benjamin Kip
(1714 - May 24, 1782)
Dorothy Davenport
(1715 - Feb 3, 1807)
Married 1733
|
* Jesse Kipp
(Feb 23, 1739/40 - Jan 1, 1780)
Ann Haight
(Apr 18, 1745 - Jul 13, 1811)
Married Abt 1763
|
* Gilbert Kipp
(Dec 10, 1765 - Jan 17, 1857)
Hannah Searles
(Sep 4, 1767 - Dec 20, 1856)
Married 1790
|
* Willet Kipp
(Jul 23, 1793 - Sep 10, 1853)
Mary Carpenter
(Jun 18, 1793 - Apr 16, 1849)
Married Jan 17, 1816
|
* Ira (Asa) Kipp
(Dec 29, 1822 - Dec 20, 1863)
Sarah Ellis Whitson
(Jan 28, 1829 - Aug 11, 1910)
Married Mar 19, 1855
|
Joseph C Dale
(Mar 12, 1863 - Feb 3, 1918)
* Jennie Whitson Kipp
(Jun 14, 1864 - Aug 20, 1945)
Married Oct 9, 1899
|
* Sheldon K Dale
(Aug 19, 1891 - Feb 20, 1900)
(Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
* Tryntje Lubberts
(Cir 1599 - After 1665)
Married May 5, 1624
|
* Jacob Hendricksen Kip
(May 16, 1631 - Dec 24, 1690)
Maria De La Montagne
(Jan 25, 1636/37 - Aug 25, 1711)
Married Mar 8, 1653/54
|
* Jesse Kip
(Dec 16, 1660 - Apr 1722)
Maria Stevenson
(1674 - Jun 2, 1724)
Married Sep 30, 1695
|
* Benjamin Kip
(1714 - May 24, 1782)
Dorothy Davenport
(1715 - Feb 3, 1807)
Married 1733
|
* Jesse Kipp
(Feb 23, 1739/40 - Jan 1, 1780)
Ann Haight
(Apr 18, 1745 - Jul 13, 1811)
Married Abt 1763
|
* Gilbert Kipp
(Dec 10, 1765 - Jan 17, 1857)
Hannah Searles
(Sep 4, 1767 - Dec 20, 1856)
Married 1790
|
* Willet Kipp
(Jul 23, 1793 - Sep 10, 1853)
Mary Carpenter
(Jun 18, 1793 - Apr 16, 1849)
Married Jan 17, 1816
|
* Ira (Asa) Kipp
(Dec 29, 1822 - Dec 20, 1863)
Sarah Ellis Whitson
(Jan 28, 1829 - Aug 11, 1910)
Married Mar 19, 1855
|
Joseph C Dale
(Mar 12, 1863 - Feb 3, 1918)
* Jennie Whitson Kipp
(Jun 14, 1864 - Aug 20, 1945)
Married Oct 9, 1899
|
* Sheldon K Dale
(Aug 19, 1891 - Feb 20, 1900)
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Instructions to governors for Quebec, Lower Canada and Upper Canada - July 16, 1783
Documents relating to the granting of
lands to Loyalists in the Province of Quebec (includes present day Quebec and
Ontario).
Transcriber:
Edward Kipp
January
2011Source: Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
MG40 B8: Instructions to governors for
Quebec, Lower Canada and Upper Canada.
LAC mf H-2952. File 2 and File 4. PP. 72-79.
[P. 1]
Additional Instructions 16th
July 1783
Recd 17th Novr
over Land from Halfx.Concerning the settlement of the Loyalist, and of non-commissioned officers and Privates of the King’s Forces which may have been reduced.
[P. 2]
George
RAdditional Instruction to our Trusty and Wellbeloved Frederick Haldimand Esquire and Captain General and Governor in chief of our Province of Quebec in America or to the Commander in Chief of the said Province for the time being. Given at our Court at St. James the Sixteenth day of July 1783 In the Twenty third year of our Reign.
Whereas
many of our Loyal Subjects Inhabitants of the Colonies and Provinces, now the
United States of America are desirous of retaining their allegiance to Us, and
of living in our Dominions and for this purpose are disposed to take up and
improve Lands in our Province of Quebec, and We being desirous to encourage our
said Loyal Subjects in such
their
[P.3]
their
Intentions, and to testify our approbation of their Loyalty to us and obedience
to our Government, by allotting Lands for them in our said Province, and
whereas We are also desirous of testifying our approbation of the Bravery and
Loyalty of our Forces serving in our said Province, and who may be reduced
there by allowing a certain Quantity of land to such of the non Commissioned
Officers and private Men of our said Forces, who are inclined to become
settlers therein. It is our Will and pleasure that immediately after you shall
receive this our Instruction you do direct our Surveyor General of Lands for
our said Province of Quebec to admeasure and lay out such a Quantity of Land as
you with the advice of our Council shall deem necessary and convenient for the
Settlement of our said Loyal Subjects, and the non commissioned Officers and
Private Men of our Forces which may be reduced in our said Province, who shall
be desirous of becoming Settlers therein; such Lands to be divided into
distinct Seigneuries of Fiefs, to extend from two to four Leagues in front, and
from three to five leagues in depth. If situated upon a navigable River,
otherwise to be run square, or in such shape and in such Quantities, as shall
be convenient and practicable and in each Seigneurie a Glebe to be reserved and
laid out in the most convenient spot, to contain not less than 300 nor more
than 500 Acres; the property
[P.4]
property
of which Seigneuries or Fiefs shall be and reinvested in Us, our Heirs and
Successors, and you shall Allow such parts of the same as shall be applied for
by any of our said Loyal Subjects non Commissioned Officers and Private Men of
our Forces reduced as aforesaid, in the following proportions; that is to say
To
every Master of a Family, one Hundred Acres and Fifty Acres for each person of
which his Family shall consist.
To
every single Man Fifty AcresTo every Non Commissioned Officer of our Forces reduced in Quebec Two Hundred Acres
To every Private Man reduced as aforesaid, One Hundred Acres
And for every Person in their family Fifty Acres
The said Lands to be held under Us, our Heirs and Successors, Seigneurs of the Seigneurie or Fief in which the same shall be situated upon the same terms, acknowledgements and Services, as Lands are held in our said Province under the respective Seigneurs, holdg and possessing Seigneuries or Fiefs
therein
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therein;
and reserving to us our Heirs and Successors, from and after the expiration of
Ten Years from the Admission of the respective Tenants, a Quit Rent of one half
penny per Acre.
It
is our further Will and pleasure, that every Person within the meaning of this
our Instruction, upon their making application for Land, shall take the oaths
directed by Law before you or our Commander in Chief for the time being, or
some Person by you or him authorized for that purpose, and shall also at the
same time make and subscribe the following declaration, viz “I, A.B. do promise
and declare that I will maintain and defend to the utmost of my power the
authority of the King in his Parliament as the supreme Legislature of this
Province,” which Oaths and declaration shall also be taken, made and subscribed
by every future Tenant before his, her or their Admission, upon alienation,
descent, Marriage or any otherwise however, and upon refusal, the Lands to
become revested in Us our Heirs and Successors. And it is our further will
& pleasure that the expence of laying out & surveying as well the Seigneuries
or Fiefs aforesaid as the several allotments within the same, and of the
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Deed of admission shall be paid by the Receiver General of our Revenue in the said Province of Quebec out of such Monies as shall be in his hands, upon a Certificate from you or our Commander in Chief for the time being in Council, oath being made by our Surveyor General to the amount of such Expence; Provided however that only one half of the usual and accustomed Fees of Office shall be allowed to our said Surveyor General or any other of our Officers in the said Province entitled thereunto upon any survey or allotment made, or upon admission into any Lands by virtue of this our Instruction.
And
whereas we have some time since purchased the Siegneurie of Sorel from the then
proprietors, the Lands of which are particularly well adapted for Improvement
and Cultivation, and the local situation of the said Siegneurie makes it
expedient that he same should be settled by as considerable a number of
Inhabitants of approved Loyalty as can be accommodated therein with all
possible dispatch.
It
is therefore our Will and pleasure that you do cause all such Lands within the
same as are undisposed of, to be run out into small allotments, and that you do
alott the same to such of the Non Commissioned Officers and private Men of our
Forces, which may be reduced in our said Province or such other of our Loyal
subjects as may be inclined to settle and improve the same, in such proportions
as you may Judge the most condusive to their Interest and the more speedy
settlement of our said Seignuerie. The Lands so allotted to be held of Us our
Heirs and Successors, Seigneurs of Sorel upon the same conditions and under the
same reserved term
at
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at
the expiration of ten years, as the other Tenants of the Seigneurie now hold
their Lands and pay to Us, and also of taking the oaths and making and
subscribing the declaration as herein before is mentioned and directed. The
Expence of making the said allotments and admissions thereunto to be also paid
and defrayed in like manner as those in the Seigneuries directed to be laid out
by this our Instruction.
And
it is our Will and pleasure that a record be kept in the Office of the Receiver
General of our Revenue of every admission into Lands as well by virtue of this
our Instruction, as in cases of future admission by alienation or otherwise, a
Docquet of which shall be transmitted yearly to Us thro one of our principal
Secretaries of State, and also a Duplicate thereof to our High Treasurer or the
Commissioner of our Treasury for the time being.
GR
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