1801 Land grants Stanbridge

List of Loyalists petitioning for land circa 1783

List of Loyalists petitioning for land circa 1783

Clappertown or Clapper Settlement near Stainbridge centre

1802 Grantee List for Lands in Sutton Township and maps

This is a transcribed list of the grantees along with maps of the grants

1802 Grantee List for Lands in Sutton Township by Nancy on Scribd

List Of Lands Granted By The Crown In The Province Of Quebec From 1763 To 31st December 1890

"List Of Lands Granted By The Crown In The Province Of Quebec From 1763 To 31st December 1890." Quebec: cf Langlois, printed by Order of the Legislature, 1891.

List of Lands Granted by the Crown in the Province of Quebec From 1763 by Nancy on Scribd

Applications for free grants of land to families with 12 living children under the 1890 law : Missisquoi families

In 1890, the Honoré Mercier government, observing that it was "advisable, following the example of past centuries, to give marks of consideration for fruitfulness in the sacred bonds of matrimony", passed a law entitled An Act to confer a privilege upon fathers or mothers of families who have twelve children living (53 Vict., c. 26). The Act granted 100 acres of public lands free of charge to parents of 12 living children born in lawful wedlock. The measure harkens back the 17th century, when Louis XIV took measures to encourage births in Canada.

 In that era, inhabitants who managed to have 10 children living, born in lawful wedlock, excluding priests, monks and nuns, could receive an annual pension of 300 pounds. The pension was increased to 400 pounds if the number of children reached 12. To have the benefit of the law of 1890, an eligible father or mother had to present a petition to the Provincial Secretary, accompanied by his or her certificate of marriage, a certificate of birth of each of his or her children and a certificate sworn before a justice of the peace giving the number and names of the children. After examining the petition and certificates, the Provincial Secretary reported to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. If the latter granted the petition, an order was passed to that effect and a copy was sent to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, who had the duty of granting the petitioner the 100 acres he had selected.

Hébert	Joseph	Goyette	Julienne		Dunham
Thibault	Israël	Moquin	Solomée (Salomée)		Notre-Dame-des-Anges
Crandall	George William	Quebeck	Margaret Emeline		Dunham
Richard	Paschal	Goyette	Rosalie		Saint-Romuald-de-Farnham
Gaudreau	Dosithée	Gamache	Marie		Stanbridge
Comeau	Jean-Baptiste	Lambert	Ernestine		West Farnham
Stevenson	William Henry	Young	Melinda Elizabeth		Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville
Daudelin	Abraham	Tremblay	Sophie		Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge
Meunier	Pierre	Loisel	Esther		Saint-Romuald-de-Farnham
Déry	Narcisse	Hébert	Marie		Saint-Damien-de-Bedford
Stanley	Eleazer	Kraus	Sarah Catherine		Saint-Armand-Ouest
Guertin	Jules	Nolin	Delvina		North Stanbridge
Guillotte	Octave	Smith	Marie-Edwidge		North Stanbridge
Leduc	Damase	Denault	Eliza		Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville
Marchand	David	Mitchell	Virginie		Saint-Pierre-de-Vérone (Pike River)
Quintal	Albert	Paré	Marie		Bedford
Rocheleau	Louis	Molleur	Zénaïde		Saint-Pierre-de-Vérone (Pike River)
Lamothe	Jean	Tremblay	Mathilde		Saint-Pierre-de-Vérone (Pike River)
Trottier	Louis-Philippe	Bourassa	Marie-Edwidge		Bedford
Boucher	Jean-Baptiste	Roy	Marie-Louise		Sainte-Croix-de-Dunham
Duchesneau	Jean-Baptiste	Tremblay	Sophronie		Saint-Pierre
Brault	Alexis	Boucher	Sophie		Sainte-Croix-de-Dunham
Davignon	Solyme	Duquette	Malvina		Sainte-Sabine
Chevalier	Solyme	Bedford	Joséphine		Saint-Armand
Belisle	Edouard	Daigneau	Eudoxie		Saint-Armand
Hébert	Moïse (Fils)	Dubois	Delphine		Farnham
Renaud alias Reno	Michel	Ouimet	Marie		Saint-Armand (Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes)
Crandall	George William	Quebeck	Margaret Emeline		Dunham
Duval	Louis	Viens	Marie		Dunham
Baraby	Siméon	Geoffrion dit St-Jean	Virginie		Saint-Romuald-de-Farnham
Messier	Edouard	Julière	Delphine		Saint-Armand
Messier	Louis	Chevalier	Onésime		Saint-Armand
Piédalue	Damase	Quentin	Denise		Clarenceville (Saint-Jacques-de)
Fortin	Dosithée	Lécuyer	Marie		Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
Fortin	François-Xavier	Bisaillon	Aurélie		Saint-Armand

More information at Quebec Archives here

Land Record research in Archives

Dr David Ellis sent this last week...

Many of you, as well as myself, have had occasion to use and refer to the Lower Canada Land Records. The great majority of those that I've seen come from microfilms at Library and Archives Canada (or the copies in the Quebec Archives or the copies made by the LDS). That majority come from a collection referenced as RG1 L3L, many of which are now available online at the Library and Archives Canada web site.

To get to the point of this story, Mary Munch recently drew sent me a copy of a land petition that looked for all the world like it was from that same collect. I could not find it and upon closer investigation I found that it came from a completely different set held by Library and Archives Canada. I have just received a reply from Library and Archives Canada explaining why it was not in the data set RG1 L3L. A fascinating story but to cut to the chase it seems that there is a quite massive other set of land (and other) records known as the "S Series" covering 1760 to 1841. There are apparently 5760 volumes, bundles and portfolios in this set but only 131 have been microfilmed. The rest are paper documents on their shelves and there is no reliable index to them!
None are available online.

The description of what these records really are is in a five page Postscript file so I cannot post it to this list. If you are researching land records and would like to see the Postscript description please email me and I will forward you a copy.

Here is a copy David sent today ... thanks!

RG4A1-S-SeriesDescription

AS to search Davis discusses here is more on that

I believe most of us know that Library and Archives Canada has put the Land Petitions from RG1 L3L online. There is a good search engine provided with it but my own experience is that it fails to find quite a few known references, possible due to transcription errors or just omissions. The LAC does not provide a browse capability for these records. In order to supplement what they do provide I have added a viewer to Eastern Townships Archives (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qceastwn/archives.html).

The link to it is on that page at the bottom of the group called "Maps, Lists and Miscellaneous" (the "Land Petitions from RG1 L3L"). That link will provide a table that lists all of the pages that have been placed online by LAC. If you select any page group from that list it will popup a viewer page and will show each page in turn for 2 seconds - slide show style. When you see something that may be interesting, just click anywhere in the image and it will stop the slide show and allow you to navigate back and forth manually.

I have checked this on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and on Firefox. It probably works on Google's Chrome browser or any other full featured browser but I have not verified on those others.

Library and Archives Canada has added digitized images of Upper Canada land petitions

Library and Archives Canada has added digitized images of Upper Canada land petitions (357,831 new images in all) to its website. First search the index here (use the search link at the left; the one on the bottom didn't work for me) to find the microfilm number you need, then use the “microform digitization” research tool to you can browse the image page by page.

read on here 

Stanbridge 1801 Land Grant

Stanbridge 1801 Land Grant by Nancy

Ira Davis Land title Stanbridge East

Davis Land Title Stanbridge by Nancy

Alphabetical Index : of the names of the Grantees of Lands Granted by the Crown in the Province of Quebec from 1763 to the 31st of December 1890

Alphabetical Index : of the names of the Grantees of Lands Granted by the Crown in the Province of Quebec from 1763 to the 31st of December 1890

Search list here 

Field book 1790 Seigneury de Noyan

Field book 1790  Seigneury de Noyan

Field book 1790 Seigneury de Noyan - thanks to Douglas Macfie ( Field book 1790 Seigneury de Noyan opens excel doc.)

Lower Canada Land Petitions -Library and Archives Canada

When New France became a British colony in 1763, the land system changed. New lands were now granted as part of townships instead of seigneuries. Many early settlers, both military and civilian, submitted petitions to the Governor to obtain Crown land. The Lower Canada Land Petitions contain petitions for grants or leases of land and other administrative records. This research tool provides access to more than 95,000 references to individuals who lived in present-day Quebec between 1764 and 1841.

Search here : http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/lower-canada/index-e.html



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