200 Ancestor Hints (Shaky Leaves at Ancestry)

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200 Ancestor Hints (Shaky Leaves at Ancestry)
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New Brunswick Loyalists

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (NYGBR), Vol. 35, No. 1, Jan 1904.
Starting on p. 38 is a series titled:

New Brunswick Loyalists of the War of the American Revolution. Communicated by D. R. Jack, Historian of the New Brunswick Loyalists' Society, etc.

This series goes on for several issues of the NYGBR until it is completed in Vol. 40, No. 2. April 1909.

Johannes Schram (1759-1851) one of my 3 x great grandfathers

Johannes Schram, one of 3 x great grandfathers was born April 9, 1759 at Loonenburg, Greene, New York. He was baptised April 15, 1759 at Zion Lutheran Church, Loonenburg, Greene, New York. Died Sept. 17, 1851, Pelham, Lincoln County, Canada West.

He married Margaret Ann Darby, probably by 1785, at Loonenburg (now Athens), Greene County, New York.

The Old UEL List: Listed as One of Col. Eaton's Corps - a wife and 3 children.
Provision List Niagara 1785. Land Board Nassau 1794. Niagara Stamped Book.
United Empire Loyalist. UEL.

His name is found on early land maps of Grantham Townsip, Lincoln County for 1791 and 1794.

By December 1814 his name is no longer found on land maps of Grantham Township.

His grandfather Friedrich was part of the Palatine migration of 1709/1710 to New York.

1. Edward Kipp
2. Lorne Bernice Kipp (b Sep 3, 1901) - Gobles, Oxford Co. ON, Canada
3. William Henry Kipp (b Oct 1, 1862) - Burford Twp, Brant Co., Canada West
4. Elizabeth Force (b Mar 19, 1818) - Burford Twp, Brant Co., Upper Canada
5. Elizabeth Schram (b Aug 9, 1791) - Grantham Twp., Niagara, Province of Quebec
6. Johannes Schram (b Apr 9, 1759) - Loonenburg, New York
7. Johann Wilhelm Schram (b Jul 22, 1717) - West Camp, New York [UEL]
8. Friedrich Schramm (b Jun 12, 1695) - Wilnsdorf, Duchy of Siegen [Palatine Immigration of 1709/10 to New York]
9. Johnn Henrich Schramm (b Dec. 18, 1667) - Wilgersdorf, Duchy of Siegen
10. Tilmann Schramm (b 1633) - Wilgersdorf, Duchy of Siegen
11. Thomas Schramm (b 1590) - Wilgersdorf, Duchy of Siegen

Sources:
Elizabeth Schram (m Resiah Force)

Johannes Schram (m Margaret Ann Darby)
Baptismal Records of Zion Lutheran Church of Loonenburg, Now Athens, Greene County, New York. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Records. Vol. LXXXIV. No. 1.  Jan. 1953.

Atlas of Early Pioneers of Niagara Peninsula, by Corlene Dwyer Taylor. 2002. Grantham Township
1) Archives of Ontario Map No. 9. Oct. 25, 1791. John Schram Conc 3 Lot 16 and 13; Conc 2 lot 14; Conc 4 lot 15.
2) Ministry of Natural Resources Map No. A 14. Newark. Jan. 30, 1794 John Schram Conc 3 lot 16 and 13; Conc 2 lot 14; Conc 4 lot 15
3) Does not appear on Dec. 1814 map.

Upper Canada Land Petitions: RG 1, L 3, Vol. 446 (a) Bundle S 1783-1818.

Family Search Indexing Project Batch Number C51056-1.

The Loyalists of Ontario, by William D Reid. Genealogical Publishing Co. 1973. P. 276.

The Old United Empire Loyalists List, by Milton Rubincam. GPC. Baltimore. 1984.


Johann Wilhelm Schram (m Anna Catharina Lehman)
The Palatine Families of New York. A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, by Henry Z Jones. Picton Press. 1995.

Zion Lutheran Church of Loonenburg. Now Athens, Greene County, New York.
Marriage records. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Records. Vol. LXXIII. No. 1.  Jan. 1942

Zion Lutheran Church of Loonenburg. Now Athens, Greene County, New York.
Marriage records. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Records. Vol. LXXIII. No. 2.  April 1942

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, West Camp, New York. Church records.


Friedrich Wilhelm Schramm (m Ana Maria Kuester)
Naturalized Sept. 1715, Kingston, New York.


Johann Henrich Schramm (m Anna Elsa Kieffel)
Arrived in America, New York with the 1709/1710 Immigrants from the Palatinate.
Beekman's Land camp.

Hunter List #688.

The Simmendinger Register, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore. 1984.

Descendants of Paulus Von Horm Schram, by David L Schram. May 15, 2009.


Tilmann Schramm (m Anna Gross)
The Palatine Families of New York. A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, by Henry Z Jones. Picton Press. 1995.

Descendants of Paulus Von Horm Schram, by David L Schram. May 15, 2009. 76 pgs.


Thomas Schramm (m Maria)
Descendants of Paulus Von Horm Schram, by David L Schram. May 15, 2009.

Additional Instructions to Lord Dorchester concerning Oaths and Quakers. November 18, 1793.

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

MG40 B8: Instructions to governors for Quebec, Lower Canada and Upper Canada.

LAC mf H-2952. File 4. PP 38-45.

Additional Instructions to Lord Dorchester concerning Oaths and Quakers. November 18, 1793.

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Extract from His Majesty’s Instructions to Lord Dorchester 16^th September 1791

Variations on the Land Instructions Hugh Finlay

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George R

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Additional Instruction to Our Right Trusty and Wellbeloved Guy, Lord Dorchester, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Our Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over Our Province of Lower Canada in America. Given at Our Court at Saint James’s the Eighteenth day of November 1793. In the Thirty Fourth year of Our Reign.

Whereas Our Will and Pleasure has been signified in the 35^th Article of Our Instructions to you, as Our Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Province of Lower Canada, bearing date the 16^th day of September 1791. That no Warrant for surveying Lands be granted by you or the Lieutenant Governor, or

Persons

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Persons administering the Government for the time being, unless the Person, or Persons applying for the same, do, at the time of making such Application, besides taking the usual Oaths Directed by Law, also make and subscribe the following Declaration in your, or his Presence, or in the Presence of such Person or Persons, as shall by you or him, be appointed for that purpose. 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.”

And whereas there has been laid before Us a Petition, presented in your Absence to the Lieutenant Governor of Our said Province, in Canada, by certain of Our Subjects of the People called Quakers; praying, that as they conscientiously decline wearing and bearing Arms, and swearing in any base whatever, the Words, “I Swear and Defend” in the above Oath, may be dispensed with, in regard to Persons of their Society, applying for Grants of Lands; It is therefore Our Will and Pleasure, notwithstanding the aforesaid Article in Our Instructions to you as

aforesaid

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aforesaid, that in the Case of Quakers applying for Grants of Lands, it shall be sufficient, (if there be no other objection to making such Grants) that the Quakers so applying, do make and sign a Declaration, acknowledging the Authority of Us, Our Heirs and Successors, in Our Parliament of Great Britain, as the Supreme Legislature of Our Province of Lower Canada; and declaring that they will demean themselves as peaceable and loyal Subjects to Us, Our Heirs and Successors accordingly.

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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

Land Register No 1 Folio 115   D W S

Letter from Henry Motz to Land Boards concerning Indian purchases and cessions

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. 288-290. Land Board Minutes and Records.

Letter from Henry Motz to Land Boards concerning Indian purchases and cessions.

Copy

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Quebec 21^st January 1790

Gentlemen

I am commanded by Lord Dorchester to acknowledge the receipt of Your Report of the 17^th of October, and to signify to You, that a strong desire of exercising the high equity, liberality, and good faith towards the Indians, as well as the white people, which it is the duty of every servant of the Crown never to depart from, for the honour and dignity of the King’s government, was the leading principle of the restrictions contained in His Lordship’s Instructions to you of the 2^nd of September, but that His confidence in Your judgement & integrity, will always incline Him to hold You justified in the prudent exercise of such discretionary authority, as, on account of the remoteness of the district, it may be

necessary

[In the margin]

To Major Murray 60^th Regt or

Officer Commanding at Detroit

William Dummer Powell Esq^r

& The other Commissioners of

The Land Board for the District

of Hesse

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necessary for the Board to assume, for a more perfect discharge of their trust, under unforeseen circumstances, taking for granted, that a religious adherence to the same principle, which actuates His Lordship will be maintained by the Board, in all such cases.

Confined to the information hitherto obtained His Lordship perceives no ground to support that there is any pretence of equitable claims within any other Indian purchases or cessions, than that of June 1784, and consequently, that You will find scope for Your trust to operate in every other part of the district.  You will therefore be very particular in Your minutes if You shall see cause in the exercise of Your discretion to give hopes to persons that indulge expectations under such Indian Grants, as were not made agreeable to the Royal Instructions, nor have yet had the countenance or approbation of the government.

Wm McKees Memorial for a tract ceded by the Indians to the Crown, on the 15^th of May 1786, with the deed left herein his behalf, is inclosed for the consideration and proceeding of the Board, agreeable to their general instructions.

I am Gentlemen

Your most obedient

humble servant

(signed) Henry Motz

H. M.

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Letter from H Motz to the Land Board the 21^st January 1790

Read in Committee 30 Nov^r 1790.

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 19^th 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 17^th 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 25^th 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 22^d October 1788, or under the Rules and Regulations for the conduct of the Land office department of the 7^th of February and the 25^th 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 84^th 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

To

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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 84^th 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 1^st 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 84^th 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 22^d 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 22^d October 1788, and the 9^th 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 2^d 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 60^th Regt or

Officer Command^g 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 19^th Jany 1790

Ent^d by D W Smith.  Register Page 99.