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. 2. Upper Canada: Land Board
Minutes and Records, 1765-1804. LAC mf C-14026. PP. 203-206.
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Wednesday
22nd October 1788
Present
His
Excellency The Right Honorable Lord Dorchester
The
Honorable William Smith Esquire, Chief Justice
Hugh
Finlay George
Pownall
Thomas
Dunn Henry
Caldwell
Ewd
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
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To
Field Officers
5,000 Acres
To
Captains
3,000
To
Subalterns 2,000
To
Non Commissioned Officers
200
T
o
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 submit
their
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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, Coll
Peter Tenbrook, Captain
Andrew Bradt, Captain
Jacob Ball, Lieut.
Th Ball, Lieut.
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Order
on the foregoing Petitions}
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
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22nd
October 1788. Order of His Excellency Lord Dorchester in Council. No. 10.
Hesse.
