Court records and legal documents of Thomas Fraser Hearns
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To His Excellency Sir ? Maitland H.C. Lieut Governor of the Province of Upper Canada etc, etc, etc. The Petition of Thomas F. Herns of the Township of Fredericksburg in the Midland District, Province of Upper Canada, Humbly Sheweth, That your Petitioner is the son of Gilbert Herns of the township of Fredericksburgh in the Midland District, a U.E.Loyalist: that your Petitioner has attained the age of twenty one years and has taken the oath of allegiance, as appears by the annexed certificate; and has never received any Land or order for Land from the Crown: Your Petitioner, therefore prays that your Excellency will be pleased to grant unto him two hundred acres of the waste Lands of the Crown, and permit David Edger to be his Agent to locate, same and receive the Patent when completed. And as in duty bound will ever pray. |
| . | Thomas "X" F. Herns mark |
| Janry Sessions, 1822 | Thomas F. Herns maketh Oath and saith, that he is the person he describes himself to be in the foregoing Petition; that he has attained the age of twenty-one years: and has not heretofore received any Land or order for Land from the Crown. |
| Sworn in open sessions before me this twenty second day of January 1822- | Thomas "X" F. Herns mark |
| Alex Fisher Chairman | . |
| Janry Sessions 1822 | David Edger maketh Oath and saith, that he was present and saw Thomas F. Herns sign the foregoing Petition; that he is the person he therein describes himself to be; that he has attained the age of twenty-one years, 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 twenty second day of January 1822. | |
Chairman |
(Upper Canada Land Petitions "H" Bundle 13, 1821-1823 RG 1, L3, Vol. 230 [a]) Public Archives
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