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Plan and description by Thomas Holland, Surveyor, of lots at Hammonds Plains
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To [S.T.?] Morris Esquire Commissioner of Crown Lands The Lot marked A has been partly laid of for Casper [Bezanson?] and Lachlan Leitch, Beginning at a small Pine 6 Rods in direct Angles from the North east Line of Amos Melvins Grant which was left vacant for the purpose of avoiding any improvements the coloured People might have made, the Line was then run according to the Course mentioned in the Plan 8 Chains over Barrens where we came to a Fence put up by the coloured People, we then continued 25 Chains farther which was across Lands that had been partly cut down by them but all the wood Large and small which they thought unserviceable had been left Standing a great many of which have since fell down and the same Land altogether grown over with Bushes, this chopping had been made by a Man of the name of Arnold and Taylor who are now living on a part of Amos Melvin's grant we then continued 20 chains farther through standing wood where we came to another Clear made by a coloured Man of the name of Abram Smith, and running 5 Chains farther we got across that Clear which cut off about half an Acre of stumpy Land which appeared to be clear cut, we had then got past all the Lands which the Coloured People had cut upon, - - and the Land cut by Arnold and Taylor is only [spoild?] being far worse to bring into cultivation then if the whole of the wood had been left standing. Thos. Holland 12th Jany 1831

Rear of the Windsor Road Lots.
1000 Acres of Land formerly granted to Nicholas Floyd and Joseph Webber afterwards purchased by Amos Melvin
Vacant originally Veith's Lot N60º-E?
28.5 Ch
South 34º E 145 Chains
400 Acres laid off for Casper [Brzanson] and Lachlan Leitch
28.5 Ch
S60º West
Barren Vacant
250 Acres Granted to Amos Melvin
New Anapolis Road
Beginning
small river
new line of Hammonds Plains Lots [No] 25 lately surveyed by [Wm] Brehm
Hammonds Plains
Scale 40 Chains to 1 inch


Date: 12 January 1832

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records — Black Refugees series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 419 number 33

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