Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Circular Letter from Henry Motz, Quebec to Land Boards etc. concerning distribution of lands.



Documents relating to the granting of lands to Loyalists in the Province of Quebec (includes present day Quebec and Ontario).

Transcriber: Edward Kipp
January 2011
Source: Library and Archives Canada

RG1 L4 Vol. 3 LAC mf C-14026. PP. 280-287. Land Board Minutes and Records. Circular Letter from Henry Motz, Quebec to Land Boards etc. concerning distribution of lands.

Circular       Quebec 19th January 1790

[In the margin]
The Schedules of locations from the Surveyor General’s Office not being completed for transmission will be sent by the next conveyance H.M.

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Gentlemen
A Schedule of the locations, made in your district, by the Surveyor General’s office, is transmitted to you by this conveyance agreeable to the fifteenth Article of the Rules and Regulations for the conduct of the Land Office department of the 17th February last.

If the Board shall not have already received the report directed by the first article of the additional Rules and Regulations of the 25th of August last to be made to then by the Acting Surveyor of the district it is Lord Dorchester’s desire that they call upon him to render the same with all convenient speed in order to enable the Board to communicate such full information to His Lordship, in pursuance of the said Article as the interest of the district requires.

The Board will perceive that for this purpose their report should exhibit

1. An accurate map of the district or of such parts at least as are occupied or claimed by individuals under
any

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any pretence whatever, to be prepared, if not already done, by the Acting Surveyor of the district.
2. The names and descriptions of all the actual occupants, or claimants, of any Lands in the district.
3. The number of Acres occupied or claimed by each.
4. The situation and dimensions of all tracts occupied, or claimed, by letters and numbers of reference corresponding with the map.
5. The grounds of all such claims or pretensions, whether as reduced officers, or otherwise, under the King’s instructions of 1783, or under the order of the Governor in Council of the 22d October 1788, or under the Rules and Regulations for the conduct of the Land office department of the 7th of February and the 25th of August 1789, or any special order of the Governor in Council, or in any other way whatever, with the proofs of all such allegations, by documents, affidavits or otherwise, carried as high as the nature of the case will admit.
6. The authority by which all such occupants, or claimants have obtained possession of the respective tracts, whether by authority of special orders of the Governor in Council description of the spot and dimensions, by authority of certificates of location from the Surveyor General or Deputy Surveyor General of such a nature or by certificates of the Board and the Acting Surveyor in consequence thereof, or any authority
whatever



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whatever, specifying the dates of all such authorities and the period, at which the lands were taken possession of.
7. The actual state of the improvements made on all tracts occupied, or claimed, whether by any authority, or not, upon such satisfactory proof, as is required by the fifth article.

These particulars being fully spread before the government, with such further observations, as local knowledge, and experience, may suggest to the Board, will pave the way for a clear course, by legal grants, agreeable to the King’s instructions, to secure to all bona fide settlers, (whether located erroneously or in the regular mode, the fruits of their industry, upon lands, the possession of which they may reasonably expect to be confirmed to them, and on the other hand, to approve such whose pretentions shall be found in admissible of their precarious situation.

For the guidance of the Boards, in taking the necessary proofs required by the fifth and seventh articles aforementioned and forming accurate opinions and reports upon those cases respectively, I am to add the following observations.

The King’s instructions to the Governor in 1783 direct allotments of land to be made to Loyalists, and such officers of the Provincial Troops and to such non commissioned officers and privates of the King’s Forces in general, as may be reduced in the
province

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Province of Quebec, and shall be willing immediately to settle and improve the said lands, upon their application in the following proportions, that is to say,
To every Field Officer one thousand Acres,
To every Captain Seven hundred Acres,
To every Subaltern, Staff & Warrant Officer Five hundred Acres,
To every non commissioned Officer Two hundred Acres,
To every Private man one hundred Acres.
To every Loyalist being the master of a family one hundred Acres.
exclusive of Fifty Acres for each person, of which the family of such Officer, non commissioned Officer, private or Loyalist shall consist, and fifty acres for every single Loyalist.
Such Commissioned & Non Commissioned Officers and privates, of the Corps, known and distinguished by the name of the Corps of Associated Loyalist, as may take refuge in the Province of Quebec, are by the same Instructions to be in every respect entitled to the same allotments of land, and every encouragement intended and given by the said instructions, to the Commissioned Officers, non commissioned Officers and privates of the Provincial Forces, who shall be so reduced.

The King’s instructions to the Governor relative to the late 84th Regiment direct allotments to be made to them, in the following proportions, that is to say,
To Field Officers Five Thousand Acres
To Captains Three Thousand Acres
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To Subalterns Two Thousand Acres,
To Non Commissioned Officers Two hundred Acres,
To Privates Fifty Acres.

The Governor’s Order in Council of the 22d October 1788, upon certain petitions of reduced Provincial Officers, praying an equal bounty, in regard to allotments of lands, with the Officers of the late 84th regiment, is in favour of all such Officers, as have improved the lands already granted to then as reduced Officers since the peace of 1783, referring it to the Surveyor General, or Deputy Surveyor General, to make returns of their locations, and directing him to give them certificates thereof under his hand, as further testimonials of the faith of government for issuing the patents pursuant to His Majesty’s instructions, if they shall apply for their several locations, in the course of one year to be completed from the 1st day of May 1789, adding that 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.
The King’s Instructions aforementioned being in both instances addressed to the Governor it follows, that neither of them can be applied and executed, by any
Subordinate

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Subordinate Officer, without special authority for that purpose from the Governor, with the concurrence of the Council who are by the Royal Instructions, joined with him in the trust of disposing of the waste lands of the Crown, and the Governor’s Order in Council of the 22d October 1788 being directed to be executed by the Surveyor General or Deputy Surveyor General, is of course under the same predicament with regard to any other subordinate Officer.

I am further to observe upon this occasion that the Royal indulgence granted to all Loyalists settled under the King’s instruction of 1783, with regard to their obtaining patents for their allotments, free of any expense, is to be understood to extend not only to the patents for the lands so to be allotted to them under the aforementioned Instructions but also to those, for any subsequent allotments, by Provincial authority, whether the additional bounty of 1787, or under the Orders of the Governor in Council of the 22d October 1788, and the 9th November 1789, or otherwise.

The Boards are therefore to take care that the Clerks which they may find it necessary to employ under His Lordship’s directions, signified in my circular letter of the 2d April last, do not accept of any fees whatever, from any of the Loyalist, who have adhered to the Unity of The Empire, and joined the Royal Standard, before the treaty of Separation in
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the year 1783, or any of their children and their descendants by either Sex. But, whenever the emoluments, arising from such fees as may be taken under the aforementioned letter from all other settlers, shall in the opinion of the Boards, not amount to an adequate compensation for the services to be performed, by their Clerks, the Boards are to transmit the state of the actual receipts, and further reasonable claims of their Clerks, with the certificate and recommendation of the boards, for the consideration of the government.

His Lordship trusts the Boards will take the most effectual means to bring the Loyalists acquainted with this and every other article of which it is material to their general interest and comfort to be informed.

I am Gentlemen
your most obedient
humble Servant
Henry Motz

To Major Murray 60th Regt or
Officer Commandg at Detroit

Wm Dummer Powell
Duferon Baby
Alexander McKee
William Robertson
Alexander Grant
Lt. Martin Adhemar,   Esquires or any three of them. District of Hesse.

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Circular Letter from Henry Motz Quebec 19th Jany 1790
Entd by D W Smith.  Register Page 99.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 7th Great-Grandfather of Clara Agnes Wanser

                             * Hendrick Hendricksen Kip
                              (Cir 1600 - Sep 14, 1685)
                                 * Tryntje Lubberts
                               (Cir 1599 - After 1665)
                                 Married May 5, 1624
                                           |
                       Jan Janszen (Wanshaer) Van St. Obyn
                              (Sep 27, 1621 - 1674)
                                 * Beertjen Kip
                            (Mar 1628/29 - After 1702)
                             Married Jan 17, 1648/49
                                           |
                               * Abraham Wanshaer
                             (Nov 1649 -           )
                                           |
                               * Thomas W Wanshaer
                             (Abt 1735 -           )
                                           |
                                 * Thomas Wanser
                             (Abt 1778 -           )
                                           |
                                * Abraham Wanser
                                 Rebecca Raynor
                                           |
                                * Abraham Wanser
                               (1824 - Sep 4, 1908)
                                 Henrietta White
                              (1833 - Feb 14, 1897)
                                Married Abt 1852
                                           |
                              * Richard J Wanser Sr
                             (May 1852 - May 6, 1918)
                                 Mary Ellen Reed
                               (1859 -           )
                                  Married 1874
                                           |
                           * William Underwood Wanser
                                  (1876 - 1938)
                                   Mary Bishop
                              (1879 - May 11, 1904)
                                  Married 1896
                                           |
                              * Clara Agnes Wanser
                           (May 11, 1904 - Dec 7, 1982)

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Colonel By Day 2013


11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Monday, August 5, 2013         
at the Ottawa Locks, 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa

To learn more visit: www.choocopo.ca/english/cbday.html.

The Ottawa Branch OGS will have a table there. Come by and say hello.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Foote Family Reunion June 6-9, 2013


Foote Family Reunion June 6-9, 2013

My Foote connect is rather distant, going back to my 7th Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Foote (1654-1696), who married Daniel Belding (Belden) (1646-1731). This family had exceptional things happen in their lives. Daniel and Elizabeth were caught up in the Indian raid of Sept. 16, 1696 on Deerfield, Mass. Daniel was taken prisoner but Elizabeth was killed. Daniel and other members of the family who were not killed had a long trek ahead to Canada. One of their daughters Sarah (1682- ) managed to survive the attack by hiding under a pile of tobacco. Sarah and her husband Benjamin Burt were later involved in the French Indian raid on Deerfield, Mass., Feb. 29, 1704.

I decided to attend the reunion and meet some of the members of the Foote family. The reunion was held in South Burlington, Vermont.

First however, I should comment on our trip from Orleans to South Burlington. We took our usual route through Cornwall, Ontario and then across upper New York State, through Fort Covington, Westville, Constable, and Chateauguay to Ellensburg. At Ellensburg we stopped for lunch at the local deli (where route 190 leaves Highway 11) and were very pleasantly surprised. The food was great and it was prepared fresh as it was ordered. From there we followed Highway 11 to Champlain and then to Rouses Point where we crossed the bridge into Vermont at the top end of Lake Champlain where it meets the Richelieu River. We then travelled south through the Champlain Islands. The drive through the islands is very nice for views of Lake Champlain but it is a very slow drive. We decided this time to stop at Isle La Motte to visit Saint Anne’s Shrine. There were not many people around at this time of year so it was very quiet. We visited the gift shop and looked around. There is also a statue of Champlain and guide located there. This is also the site of Fort Ste. Anne, Vermont’s oldest settlement. After this stop we were on our way to our hotel in South Burlington.

The first order of business after arriving at our hotel and getting settled was to go to the family meeting room to check in and meet some of the Foote relatives. They were very friendly, and interested that we were from Canada. At the Friday night get together, we were introduced to the group and I had an opportunity to point out that I had Loyalist ancestors as well as ancestors on the other side. They also held part of their annual meeting on Friday evening.

Friday, the organizers arranged a group bus tour to the Shelburne Museum at Shelburne, about 20 minutes south of the hotel. In spite of the rainy weekend and the fact that the museum involved outside walking we had a great time. The museum is a collection of different collections that had been collected by Electra Havemeyer Wyeth (See Wikipedia). They were all very fascinating, and if one had a particular interest, this would be a great place to study in detail. The doll and carriage collections were extensive. The Circus Building with its miniature circus was outstanding. Also on site is the steamboat Ticonderoga which was hauled there from Lake Champlain by rail. They have a video showing how it was done.

On Saturday we attended two genealogy lectures given by members of the family. They were both very good. The afternoon was free so we got in the car and went to visit Shelburne Vineyard, Vermont Teddy Bear Factory and Lake Champlain Chocolates. At the Teddy Bear Factory we bought two bears and had a tour of the manufacturing area. The Lake Champlain Chocolates were excellent and we did bring some back with us. We even managed to fit in a bit of shopping at the University Mall, near the hotel.

In the evening, we all trouped off to the Burlington Harbor for a dinner cruise on the Spirit of Ethan Allen III on Lake Champlain. Everyone seemed to have a good time. We said our goodbyes, as we were off on our travels the next day.

I had decided to travel to my home town of Princeton, Ontario to plant flowers at the gravestones of my mother and grandparents. After leaving Burlington we headed back towards the Champlain Islands and took the ferry to Plattsburgh, New York and then headed across rural New York to the border crossing at Ogdensburg. We then headed west on the 401. While the day in Princeton was a bit wet we did manage to purchase geraniums at a local nursery and then plant them. We also found time to visit the new library facilities for the Oxford Branch and the Brant Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. These visit indicated that it was time to return to do some more research at each one.

On our arrival home the next day, our trip ended successfully!

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 6th Great-Grandfather of George N. Wallis

                             * 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
                                           |
                                  * Abraham Kip
                           (Mar 22, 1742/43 - Bef 1780)
                                  Phebe Haight
                           (Jun 5, 1747 - Jul 18, 1825)
                                Married Bef 1767
                                           |
                                 * Abraham Kipp
                           (Jan 5, 1767 - Oct 13, 1828)
                                Katherine Quimby
                          (Feb 23, 1767 - Apr 21, 1855)
                              Married Jan 27, 1791
                                           |
                              * Abraham Henry Kipp
                           (Mar 18, 1806 - Dec 2, 1880)
                                  Jerusha Lewis
                         (               - Mar 30, 1839)
                              Married Jul 25, 1835
                                           |
                               Daniel Boone Wallis
                          (Sep 29, 1831 - Jul 17, 1887)
                                * Jerusha L Kipp
                           (Mar 30, 1839 - Aug 5, 1922)
                               Married Apr 9, 1856
                                           |
                               * George N. Wallis
                          (Jun 12, 1857 - Mar 17, 1925)

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 6th Great-Grandfather of Daniel Mills Van Wagenen

                             * 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
                                           |
                                   * Jacob Kip
                         (Aug 25, 1666 - Feb 28, 1732/33)
                                Rachel Swartwout
                          (Apr 10, 1669 - Sep 17, 1746)
                                  Married 1695
                                           |
                                  * Roeloff Kip
                           (Oct 6, 1697 - Feb 14, 1785)
                                  Sarah Dumond
                           (Jul 28, 1694 - Apr 2, 1773)
                             Married Feb 9, 1720/21
                                           |
                               * John Baptist Kip
                         (Jan 29, 1724/25 - Dec 23, 1800)
                               Catherine Heermance
                          (Apr 24, 1728 - Aug 26, 1784)
                              Married Jun 25, 1757
                                           |
                               Gerrit Van Wagenen
                           (Sep 6, 1758 - Mar 31, 1830)
                                  * Neeltje Kip
                              (1759 - Jul 23, 1830)
                              Married Dec 18, 1785
                                           |
                          * Johannes Gerrit Van Wagenen
                          (Jul 30, 1788 - Apr 12, 1830)
                                  Lydia Sammons
                              (Sep 16, 1790 - 1870)
                                Married Cir 1815
                                           |
                         * Frederick Hubert Van Wagenen
                           (Feb 2, 1823 - Jan 16, 1888)
                                  Rebecca Lake
                           (Jul 7, 1820 - Apr 4, 1912)
                              Married Sep 18, 1845
                                           |
                           * Daniel Mills Van Wagenen
                                  (1857 - 1927)

Friday, July 19, 2013

Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 8th Great-Grandfather of Joseph Ewert McSweeney

                             * 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
                                           |
                                  * Abraham Kip
                           (Mar 22, 1742/43 - Bef 1780)
                                  Phebe Haight
                           (Jun 5, 1747 - Jul 18, 1825)
                                Married Bef 1767
                                           |
                                 * Abraham Kipp
                           (Jan 5, 1767 - Oct 13, 1828)
                                Katherine Quimby
                          (Feb 23, 1767 - Apr 21, 1855)
                              Married Jan 27, 1791
                                           |
                              * Abraham Henry Kipp
                           (Mar 18, 1806 - Dec 2, 1880)
                                   Jane Smith
                                (Abt 1820 - 1850)
                              Married Jul 12, 1841
                                           |
                                * John Henry Kipp
                          (Oct 25, 1842 - Jan 25, 1924)
                                 Mary E. Justice
                           (Dec 3, 1843 - Jul 3, 1908)
                               Married Jul 8, 1869
                                           |
                                * John Henry Kipp
                               (Aug 8, 1870 - 1941)
                               Norah Alice Settle
                           (Apr 9, 1877 - Jul 8, 1952)
                              Married Sep 29, 1895
                                           |
                              James Ewert McSweeney
                            (Sep 2, 1898 -           )
                              * Amanda Rosana Kipp
                           (Dec 23, 1898 -           )
                              Married Jun 25, 1922
                                           |
                            * Joseph Ewert McSweeney
                            (May 3, 1926 -           )

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Hendrick Hendricksen Kip is the 5th Great-Grandfather of Thomas Solon 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
                                           |
                                  * Abraham Kip
                           (Mar 22, 1742/43 - Bef 1780)
                                  Phebe Haight
                           (Jun 5, 1747 - Jul 18, 1825)
                                Married Bef 1767
                                           |
                                 * Abraham Kipp
                           (Jan 5, 1767 - Oct 13, 1828)
                                Katherine Quimby
                          (Feb 23, 1767 - Apr 21, 1855)
                              Married Jan 27, 1791
                                           |
                                  * Reuben Kipp
                          (Dec 20, 1791 - Sep 12, 1868)
                               Phebe S. Stringham
                           (Jan 6, 1799 - Jun 8, 1872)
                              Married Jan 24, 1822
                                           |
                               * Thomas Solon Kipp
                           (Feb 7, 1836 - Feb 18, 1924)