The 1832 land petition of Catharine Smith of Hungerford Township, Hastings County, Ontario
This petition is available online at the Library and Archives Canada website in the Upper Canada land petitions:
Catharine Smith, 1832, Hungerford, Vol. 469, Bundle S 18, petition 247, film C-2818, page 704
The Petition of Catharine Smith of the Township of Hungerford in the Midland District, Province of Upper Canada, humbly sheweth that your Petitioner is the daughter of Comfort Smith of the Township of Fredericksburg, in the Midland District, a U. E. LOYALIST. That your Petitioner has attained the age of twenty-one years, and has never received any Land or order for Land from the Crown. Your Petitioner therefore prays that Your Excellency will be pleased to grant unto her two hundred acres of the waste Lands of the Crown, and permit [blank] to be her Agent to locate the same, and to receive the Patent when completed.
And as in duty bound will ever pray.
her
Catharine X Smith
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Midland District,
April Sessions,
To wit.
Catharine Smith Maketh oath and saith that she is the person she describes herself to be in the foregoing Petition: that she has attained the age of twenty-one years, and has not heretofore received any Land or order for land from the Crown.
Sworn in open Sessions before me this her
twenty sixth day of April 1832 Catharine X Smith
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James Nickalls Jr
Clerk of the Peace
Midland District,
April Sessions,
To wit.
John Snook Maketh oath and saith that he was present and saw Catharine Smith sign the foregoing Petition, that she is the person she therein describes herself to be: that she has attained the age of twenty-one years, and has never received any land or order for land from the Crown, to the best of this Deponent's knowledge and belief.
Sworn in open Sessions before me this
twenty sixth day of April 1832 John Snook
James Nickalls Jr
Clerk of the Peace
Midland District,
April Sessions,
To wit.
We, John Macaulay Esqr Chairman, and James Nickalls Junior Esqr Clerk of the Peace, certify that Catharine Smith Personally appeared before the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the said District this day, and is recognized by the Magistrates to be the daughter of Comfort Smith who retained his loyalty during the late war without suspicion of aiding or assisting the enemy: and he has done his duty in defence of the Province during the late war.
Dated at the Court House in Kingston in the said District, this twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
James Nickalls Jr M
Macaulay
Clerk of the Peace Chairman