Circular Letter from Henry Motz. Copies of Order in Council of November 9, 1789.

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. 291-292. Land Board Minutes and Records. Circular Letter from Henry Motz. Copies of Order in Council of November 9, 1789.

Circular

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Quebec 21^st January 1790

Gentlemen

I inclose a Copy of Lord Dorchester’s order in Council of the 9^th of November 1789 for making allotments of Lands to the Sons and Daughters of Loyalists, who have adhered to the Unity of the Empire, and joined the Royal Standard in America, before the Treaty of Separation in the year 1783 together with the form of the certificates of occupation to be issued under the said order for the guidance of the Board.

Fifty Copies of the said order in Council &

Fifty blank certificates for the use of the

Board are sent unsealed by this Conveyance.

I am Gentlemen

Your most Obedient

humble servant

Henry Motz

[In the margin]

Major Murray 60^th Reg^t

or Officer Com^g at Detroit

William D Powell

Alex^r McKee

Wm Robertson

Alex^r Grant

H Martin Adhemar,  Esqs  or any three of them.  District of Hesse.

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Circular

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H Motz Quebec 21 January 1790

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