Petition of Jacob Silliker, 4 October 1841, Northumberland County. Transcription.
Digital facsimile of "Petition of Jacob Silliker, 4 October 1841, Northumberland County," Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, RS108, reel F4255, Fredericton, New Brunswick. In "Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick, 1786-1878," Atlantic Canada Virtual Archives, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
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4-10-841
To His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel Sir William MacBean
George Colebrooke K H. Lieutenant Governor and Commander
in Chief of the Province of New Brunswick &c &c &c
George Colebrooke K H. Lieutenant Governor and Commander
in Chief of the Province of New Brunswick &c &c &c
The Petition of Jacob Silliker of Little South
West in the County of Northumberland Farmer
West in the County of Northumberland Farmer
Most Humbly Sheweth
That Ebenezer Samuel and Peter Traviss on the
twenty second of August in the year of our Lord one thousand and Eight hundred
and thirty Six obtained a Lease from Barnaby and Mitchell Julien
Indian Chiefs of the Little South West of a tract of the Indian Reserve
commencing at the lower line of a piece of the said Indian Allotment
in possession of one Daniel Eastey and extending down stream to the
Mill land of Jared Tozer Esquire, and in the rear to the full extent
of the Said reserve, on which a Rent of Four pounds per annum
was reserved in the said Care to the Indians
That the said Travisses for the Consideration of the
Sum of twenty pounds by Assignment on the Said Leace and duly
executed assigned transferred and made over the lands described therein
to the said Jared Tozer. And all their right title and interest and possession
therein and thereto
That Your Petitioner about the month of
June last purchased a part of the said described land from the
twenty second of August in the year of our Lord one thousand and Eight hundred
and thirty Six obtained a Lease from Barnaby and Mitchell Julien
Indian Chiefs of the Little South West of a tract of the Indian Reserve
commencing at the lower line of a piece of the said Indian Allotment
in possession of one Daniel Eastey and extending down stream to the
Mill land of Jared Tozer Esquire, and in the rear to the full extent
of the Said reserve, on which a Rent of Four pounds per annum
was reserved in the said Care to the Indians
That the said Travisses for the Consideration of the
Sum of twenty pounds by Assignment on the Said Leace and duly
executed assigned transferred and made over the lands described therein
to the said Jared Tozer. And all their right title and interest and possession
therein and thereto
That Your Petitioner about the month of
June last purchased a part of the said described land from the
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said Jared Tozer for the sum of thirty pounds Commencing at the
lower line of Donald Matthews land and extending down Stream Forty
rods and in the rear to the full extent of the Said Allotment
That the said Jared Tozer hath regularly paid the
Said Reserved Rent of the whole of the said tract to the said Indians
as Your Petitioner is informed by the said Jared Tozer and which
he verily believes to be true
That when Your Petitioner went into possession the
land was in a Wilderness State, no improvements having been
made thereon, and has since cleared about two acres, and has
made preparations to build a House, and has got a part of
the materials there to erect the same
That Your Petitioner is a British subject and wa
born in Prince Edward Island, and has a Wife, and is anxious to
have the title thus obtained from the Indians confirmed to him
Your Petitioner would therefore Humbly pray Your Excellency
to take his Case into Consideration, and order a Grant to issue
to him, or to do in the premises as Your Excellency in Your
wisdom may consider right, and on such terms as
may be within Your Petitioners power to Comply with
lower line of Donald Matthews land and extending down Stream Forty
rods and in the rear to the full extent of the Said Allotment
That the said Jared Tozer hath regularly paid the
Said Reserved Rent of the whole of the said tract to the said Indians
as Your Petitioner is informed by the said Jared Tozer and which
he verily believes to be true
That when Your Petitioner went into possession the
land was in a Wilderness State, no improvements having been
made thereon, and has since cleared about two acres, and has
made preparations to build a House, and has got a part of
the materials there to erect the same
That Your Petitioner is a British subject and wa
born in Prince Edward Island, and has a Wife, and is anxious to
have the title thus obtained from the Indians confirmed to him
Your Petitioner would therefore Humbly pray Your Excellency
to take his Case into Consideration, and order a Grant to issue
to him, or to do in the premises as Your Excellency in Your
wisdom may consider right, and on such terms as
may be within Your Petitioners power to Comply with
And as in duty bound Your Petitioner will ever pray &c
Jacob Silliker
North Esk
4th October 1841
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No 39.
Petition
Petition
Jacob Silliker