Petition of Donald Matthews, 4 October 1841, Northumberland County. Transcription.
Digital facsimile of "Petition of Donald Matthews, 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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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 Donald Matthews of
Little South West in the County of North=
-umberland Farmer
Little South West in the County of North=
-umberland Farmer
Most Humbly Sheweth
That Ebenezer Samuel and Peter Traviss
on the Twenty second day of August One thousand Eight hundred
and thirty six obtained a Lease from Barnaby and Mitchell
Julian Indian Chiefs of the Little South West of a tract of
the Said Indian Reserve Commencing at the lower line of a piece of
the Indian allotment in possession of one Daniel
Eastey and extending down Stream to the Mill Lands of -
Jared Tozer Esqr and in the rear to the full extent of the said
Reserve on which a rent of four pounds per annum was -
reserved to the said Indians
That the said Travisses for the
Consideration of the sum of Twenty pounds by assignment
on the said Lease and duly executed assigned and made over
the same to the said Jared Tozer and all their rights title interest
and possession therein and thereto
That Your Petitioner about =
Three Years Since purchased a part of the said described Land
from the said Jared Tozer for the Sum of Thirty pounds Comm=
=encing at the Said lower line of Daniel Easteys possession
on the Twenty second day of August One thousand Eight hundred
and thirty six obtained a Lease from Barnaby and Mitchell
Julian Indian Chiefs of the Little South West of a tract of
the Said Indian Reserve Commencing at the lower line of a piece of
the Indian allotment in possession of one Daniel
Eastey and extending down Stream to the Mill Lands of -
Jared Tozer Esqr and in the rear to the full extent of the said
Reserve on which a rent of four pounds per annum was -
reserved to the said Indians
That the said Travisses for the
Consideration of the sum of Twenty pounds by assignment
on the said Lease and duly executed assigned and made over
the same to the said Jared Tozer and all their rights title interest
and possession therein and thereto
That Your Petitioner about =
Three Years Since purchased a part of the said described Land
from the said Jared Tozer for the Sum of Thirty pounds Comm=
=encing at the Said lower line of Daniel Easteys possession
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and to extend 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 rent of the Whole of the said tract to the said Indians
as your Petitioner is informed and verily believes
That when your Petitioner
went into possession the land was in a wilderness state no impro=
=vements whatever having been made thereon and since that time
Your Petitioner hath built a house and barn thereon and hath
cleared over Five acres of Land
That Your Petitioner is a British
Subject and was born in Prince Edward's Island and has a wife
and ten children and is anxious to have the title thus obtained from
the said Indians and in which your Petitioner has made so Valuable
Improvements, confirmed to him
Your Petitionr would therefore humbly pray
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
Just and Right and on such terms as may be within
Your Petitioner power to comply with
full extent of the said allotment
That the said Jared Tozer hath
regularly paid the rent of the Whole of the said tract to the said Indians
as your Petitioner is informed and verily believes
That when your Petitioner
went into possession the land was in a wilderness state no impro=
=vements whatever having been made thereon and since that time
Your Petitioner hath built a house and barn thereon and hath
cleared over Five acres of Land
That Your Petitioner is a British
Subject and was born in Prince Edward's Island and has a wife
and ten children and is anxious to have the title thus obtained from
the said Indians and in which your Petitioner has made so Valuable
Improvements, confirmed to him
Your Petitionr would therefore humbly pray
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
Just and Right and on such terms as may be within
Your Petitioner power to comply with
And as in duty bound Your Petitioner will ever pray
Northesk
4th October 1841
Donald Mathews
Donald Mathews
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Petition
Petition
Donald Matthews