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Land Petitions
Upper Canada
Land Book C
Transcribed and Compiled
by: Linda Herman
The Land petitions in the following pages have been transcribed from the Nineteenth Report of the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario, 1930 and the Twentieth Report of the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario, 1931 by Alexander Fraser, LL.D. which were printed By Order of The Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Originally the land petitions compiled by Alexander Fraser were in reports Seventeen to Twenty of the Public Records and Archives of Ontario. In this series they are compiled into four volumes as follows:
Land Book A 17th February, 1787 - 25th June, 1790
Land Book B 25th August, 1790 - 7th April, 1797
Land Book C 11th April, 1797 20th December, 1797
Land Book D 22nd December, 1797 13th July, 1798
The petitions have been arranged by month, alphabetized, cross referenced and indexed.
The original records were handwritten, and therefore mistakes in transcription are always possible (by the land clerk, by the original transcriber or by the present compiler). As well spelling varied greatly and you may find individuals you are looking for under a variety of spellings. If in doubt, you will need to consult the original records.
You may also notice some none traditional spellings in this volume such as "serjeant" rather than "sergeant". I have retained the spellings that were used by Alexander Fraser in the reports for the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the compiler.
Linda Herman
1504 Birdwood Crt.,
Crofton, MD 21114
Table of Contents
Section Page
- Petitions - 29th June, 1796
- Petitions - 4th July, 1796
- Index of Names from 1797 Petitions
- Petitions - 11th April, 1797 25th April, 1797 1
- Petitions 2nd May, 1797 16th May, 1797 8
- Petitions 5th June, 1797 - 30th June, 1797 26
- Petitions 1st July 31st July, 1797 63
- Petition 1st August, 1797 30th August, 1797 89
- Petitions 1st September, 1797 2nd, September, 1797 110
- Petitions 7th November, 1797 18th, November, 1797 128
- Petitions 20th December, 1797 165
- Conditions of Land Settlement 167
*Note In the original Upper Canada Land Books , June 30, 1796 and July 4th 1796 were included in Book C. In this series the petitions from these two dates have been included in Land Book B which contains Petitions from 1796.
Bill Martin, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
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