Cape Breton Land Petitions 1787-1843

Petition to Ainslie: Petitioner emigrated from Ireland three years before. He asks a grant of a lot on the N.W. Arm of Sydney River which he has purchased from William Watson; also a lot occupied by his wife's late husband for twenty years, but of which he can now obtain only thirty or forty acres. Report of Crawley to Crowdy: 350 acres on the N.W. Arm of Sydney River; to be called "Clonmel". Plan.

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• License to Occupy
• Surveyor's Report
• Map

Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands - Cape Breton land petitions and other material Nova Scotia Archives RG 20 Series B number 2047

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