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 L1 Vol. 18. LAC mf C-100. PP.
106-110.
Quebec
Land Books; Lord Dorchester’s Proclamation; [Half
way through the microfilm reel, Quebec Land Book starts Feb 1787-Dec 1791.] [Council Chambers Quebec and the granting of
lands to Sons and Daughters of UE Loyalists and Mark of Honour – Unity of the
Empire]
Council Chambers, Quebec City
Monday 9th November 1789
[First
page of minutes for November 9, 1789]Present
His
Excellency The Right Honourable Lord Dorchester
The
Honourable William Smith Esquire Chief Justice
Hugh
Finlay William Grant
Thomas
Dunn Francis BabyEdward Harrison Henry Caldwell
John Collins Charles De La Naudiere
Adam Mabane and
J G C Delery Le Cte Dupré Esquires
George Pownall
[Last
page of minutes for November 9, 1789]
Sons and Daughters of UE Loyalists
His
Lordship intimated to the Council, that it remained a question, upon the late
regulation for the disposition of the waste lands of the Crown, whether the
Boards constituted for that purpose, were authorized to make locations to the
Sons of Loyalists, on their coming to full age; and that it was his wish to put
a mark of honour upon the families who had adhered to the Unity of the Empire,
and joined the Royal Standard in America before the Treaty of Separation in the
year 1783.
The
Council concurring with his Lordship it is accordingly ordered that the several
Land Boards take course for preserving a Registry of the names of all person
falling under the description aforementioned, to the end that this posterity
may be discriminated from future Settlers, in the Parish Registers and Rolls of
the Militia of their respective Districts and other public Remembrances of the
Province, as proper objects, by their persevering in the fidelity and conduct
so honorable to their Ancestors, for distinguished benefits and privileges.
And
it is also ordered, that the said Land Boards may, in every such case, provide
not only for the Sons of those Loyalists as they arrive to full age, but
for their Daughters also, of that age, or on their marriage, assigning
to each a Lot of two hundred Acres more or less, provided nevertheless that
they respectively comply with the general regulations, and that it shall
satisfactorily appear that there has been no default in the due cultivation and
improvement of the Lands already assigned to the head of the family of which
they are members.
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