Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

10 July 1804

Petition of Andrew Miller and other inhabitants living on the Windsor Road. They have lived on their tracts of land nearly thirty years, and have improved them but not wholly complied with the terms of grants. Having been present at a court where a tract of land was escheated for non-performance of the conditions, the petitioners "being aware that the whole of the Lands upon the said Road are equally Liable to be Escheated should the same be prosecuted, whereby your Petitioners might be Reduced to distress and beggary, as it is Impossible to perform the Conditions upon which the same were granted Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray this Honourable House to take the Precarious Situations of your Petitioners into the considerations and afford them such Relief as…shall seem meet." Signed with 13 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 11 number 42