Court records and legal documents of Margaret Hearns
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| The Petition of Margaret Hernes (word stroked through) Bell of the Township of Fredericksburgh in the Midland District, Province of Upper Canada, Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner is the Daughter of Gilbert Harnes of the township of Fredericksburgh in the Midland District, a U.E. Loyalist, that she is married (to William Bell) and has never received any Land or order for Land from the Crown: Your Petitioner, therefore, prays that your Excellency in Council will be pleased to grant her two hundred acres of the waste Lands of the Crown, and permit (?)Ward to be her Agent to locate the same, and to receive the Patent when completed. And as in duty bound will ever pray. |
| Adolphus Town 26 Jan. 1825 | Margaret X Bell mark |
| Midland District Sessions, | Margaret Bell maketh oath and saith, that she is the person she describes herself to be in the foregoing Petition; that she is married and has not heretofore received any Land or order for Land from the Crown. |
| Sworn in open sessions before me this 26 day of January 1825- | . |
Chairman Margaret X Bell mark |
| Midland District Sessions, | Gilbert Harns maketh Oath and saith, that he was present and saw Margaret Bill sign the foregoing Petition; that she is the person she therein describes herself to be; that she is married 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 26 day of January 1825. | |
Chairman | Gilbert X Harnes mark |
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