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Land Petitions
Upper Canada
Land Book C

Transcribed and Compiled
by: Linda Herman

The Land petitions in the following pages have been transcribed from the Nineteenth Report of the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario, 1930 and the Twentieth Report of the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario, 1931 by Alexander Fraser, LL.D. which were printed By Order of The Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

Originally the land petitions compiled by Alexander Fraser were in reports Seventeen to Twenty of the Public Records and Archives of Ontario. In this series they are compiled into four volumes as follows:

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The petitions have been arranged by month, alphabetized, cross referenced and indexed.

The original records were handwritten, and therefore mistakes in transcription are always possible (by the land clerk, by the original transcriber or by the present compiler). As well spelling varied greatly and you may find individuals you are looking for under a variety of spellings. If in doubt, you will need to consult the original records.

You may also notice some none traditional spellings in this volume such as "serjeant" rather than "sergeant". I have retained the spellings that were used by Alexander Fraser in the reports for the Department of Public Records and Archives of Ontario.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the compiler.

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	Petitions - 29^th June, 1796
	
Petitions - 4^th July, 1796
        
Index of Names from 1797 Petitions
	
Petitions - 11^th April, 1797 – 25^th April, 1797                           1
	
Petitions – 2^nd May, 1797 – 16^th May, 1797                                8
	
Petitions – 5^th June, 1797 -  30^th June, 1797                             26

Young Street, York                                             56

Township of Cramahe                                            57

Township of Haldimand                                          58

Township of Hamilton                                           59

Township of Hope                                               61

Township of Percey                                             62
Petitions – 1^st July – 31^st July, 1797                                    63

Petition – 1^st August, 1797 – 30^th August, 1797                           89

Town of Sandwich                                               108
Petitions – 1^st September, 1797 – 2^nd, September, 1797                    110

     Township of Cramahe                                       121

     Township of Haldimand                                     123

     Township of Hamilton                                      125

     Township of Piercy                                        127
Petitions – 7^th November, 1797 – 18^th, November, 1797                     128

Petitions – 20^th December, 1797                                          165

Conditions of  Land Settlement                                           167

*Note – In the original Upper Canada Land Books , June 30, 1796 and July 4^th 1796 were included in Book C. In this series the petitions from these two dates have been included in Land Book B which contains Petitions from 1796.

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