| Title: | Stewart, Thomas Alexander to Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, 1822 |
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| ID | 4809 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/91 |
| Year | 1822 |
| Sender | Stewart, Thomas Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | pioneer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | unknown |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | Governor of the Province of Upper Canada |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | unknown |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 339 |
| Genre | legal petition |
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| Transcript | The following is a full transcription of the "Land Grant for Thomas Alexander Stewart, York, 1822." To His Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada & Major General Commanding His Majesty's Forces therein &c &c &c In Council The Petition of Thomas Alexander Stewart now of York Humbly sheweth That your Petitioner is a native of Ireland, and emigrated from White Abbey in the County of Antrim, Ireland, in the month of June last, with his family of a wife, three children and two servants. That your Petitioner has been for many years employed in the Linen, Flour and Cotton Business, and is well acquainted with the Mechanism used in those trades, and with mechanicks in general. That your Petitioner emigrated to this Province with a full determination to establish himself thereon as an agriculturist, combined with any application of machinery he might find for his advantage, and has vested a great portion of his property in machinery and tools for every mechanical employment which he thought could be wanted in a new settlement, which, together with four years stock of made up wearing apparel he brought out with him, and with his ready money he estimates to be upwards of five hundred pounds sterling. That your Petitioner has taken the Oath of Allegiance (Certificate whereof inherto annexed). That your Petitioner is anxious to settle in one of the townships mentioned in the notice from the Office of the Hon'ble Executive Council of the 7th of November last as for grant to actual settlers on certain terms & conditions, and his means enabling him to make large improvements and it being his wish to do so, He humbly prays that your Excellency will be pleased to grant him Twelve Hundred Acres for location in one of the townships above referred to, and on the Terms & Conditions as to Fees & Settlement Duties as mentioned therein. And your Petitioner as in duty [ ] will ever pray Thomas Alex'r Stewart. York 3rd September 1822 |
