Petition of Martin Kirwan, 21 June 1824, Northumberland County. Transcription.
Digital facsimile of "Petition of Martin Kirwan, 21 June 1824, Northumberland County," Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, RS108, reel F4197, 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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To His Honor John Murray Bliss
Esquire President and Commander in
Chief of the Province of New Brunswick
& c & c & c
Esquire President and Commander in
Chief of the Province of New Brunswick
& c & c & c
The Petition of Martin Kirwan
an Unmarried man and a British
Subject aged Twenty five Years
an Unmarried man and a British
Subject aged Twenty five Years
Humbly Sheweth
That he has resided in
the Colonies for these last five Years -
Never having obtained any Grant or
allotment of Land from the Crown, is
desirous to settle and improve a
Wilderness tract situated on the North
Side of the Richibucto River in the
Parish of Carleton County Northumberland -
being number forty two, agreeable to the
Survey of the Richibucto Indian Reserve -
It is his intention to cultivate and
improve the same agreeable to the Royal
Instructions, being fully of ability so to do
-He has not neither directly nor indirectly
bargained or agreed for the sale or transfer
of said Land to any person or persons
whatsoever.
Your Petitioner therefore
humbly prays Your Honor
will be graciously pleased
to grant him Lot Number
Forty two, to enable him to make
a suitable farm -
the Colonies for these last five Years -
Never having obtained any Grant or
allotment of Land from the Crown, is
desirous to settle and improve a
Wilderness tract situated on the North
Side of the Richibucto River in the
Parish of Carleton County Northumberland -
being number forty two, agreeable to the
Survey of the Richibucto Indian Reserve -
It is his intention to cultivate and
improve the same agreeable to the Royal
Instructions, being fully of ability so to do
-He has not neither directly nor indirectly
bargained or agreed for the sale or transfer
of said Land to any person or persons
whatsoever.
Your Petitioner therefore
humbly prays Your Honor
will be graciously pleased
to grant him Lot Number
Forty two, to enable him to make
a suitable farm -
and as in
duty bound shall ever pray
duty bound shall ever pray
Martin his x mark Kirwan
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Northumberland
&c&c
Before me this 21 st day of
June 1824 personally appeared Martin Kirwan
who made oath that the several matters
& things set forth in the annexed
Petition are just & true.
&c&c
Before me this 21 st day of
June 1824 personally appeared Martin Kirwan
who made oath that the several matters
& things set forth in the annexed
Petition are just & true.
Samuel M
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Kean, JPeace
Aug
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20
th
1824
The Situation herein described was
Surveyed for Noel Louis John an Indian, it
is Vacant and unapplied for Crown Land
The Situation herein described was
Surveyed for Noel Louis John an Indian, it
is Vacant and unapplied for Crown Land
Geo Shore
At Genl
At Genl
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