Petition of Elson Tozer, 4 September 1841, Northumberland County. Transcription.
Digital facsimile of "Petition of Elson Tozer, 4 September 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.
This version published online 25 March 2010.
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c. 1841
To His Excellency Colonel Sir William
MacBean George Colebrook Lieutenant Governor
and Commander in Chief of the Province of
New Brunswick K.H. &c. &c. &c.
MacBean George Colebrook Lieutenant Governor
and Commander in Chief of the Province of
New Brunswick K.H. &c. &c. &c.
The humble petition of Elson
Tozer a native of St. John[s] and is now
living on the Indian Reserve County of
Northumberland and parish of North Esk
under Lease for one year having Thirty
Rods in front and paying Barnaby Julian
Indian for the upper ten rods the Sum of
Twelve pounds twelve shillings and six pence
the other twenty got from John Gibbons
with a house thereon and cleared about
three acres of Land that your Excellency in
your consideration may do whatever in
your Wisdom may seem best
Tozer a native of St. John[s] and is now
living on the Indian Reserve County of
Northumberland and parish of North Esk
under Lease for one year having Thirty
Rods in front and paying Barnaby Julian
Indian for the upper ten rods the Sum of
Twelve pounds twelve shillings and six pence
the other twenty got from John Gibbons
with a house thereon and cleared about
three acres of Land that your Excellency in
your consideration may do whatever in
your Wisdom may seem best
and your petitioner as in duty bound will
ever pray
ever pray
Elson Tozer
Miramichi
September 4 1841
present
John Gibbons
John Gibbons
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Elzon Tozer
Elzon Tozer