Land grant
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Milne, Alexander Forbes
Volume: F, page 11, Grant number 562
Original province of registration: New Brunswick
New Brunswick registration date: 1812/02/07
Accompanying plan: n
Acreage: 310 acres
Place and County: Pleasent Ridge, Charlotte County
Comments: 15 others
Found on PANB film #F4173
To the Honorable Martin Hunter Esquire, President of His Majesty's Council, and Commander in Chief of the Province of New Brunswick &,&,&,--
The Memorial of Alexander Forbes Mylne of the Parish of Saint George in the County of Charlotte--
Humbly Sheweth--
That your memorialist was born in the Island of Jamaica, from which place he removed to this Country in the year 1786 where he resided ever since and followed farming.--That having a wife and several children for whom he is desirous to make a permanent provision, an object which he has not yet been able to accomplish having had no other land to work upon except what he leased from others he intends, with your Honor's permission, to settle upon some of the vacant lands some considerable distance up the main river Magaguadavick which he has explored for that purpose.--
He humbly begs leave tp report that upon the western side of the said river, between the Lots lately surveyed for Captain Gereau and John Davidson, there is a vacant tract of Land, a small part of which would accommodate him and his family with a tolerable settlement.-- Therefore respectfully requests your Honor will be pleased to Grant him two hundred acres adjoining to John Davidsons upper and northern boundary on the west side of the river Magaguadavic aforesaid and your memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray.
Alex_n F. Mylne
21.st January 1810
I hereby certify that the memorialist Alexn F. Mylne arrived at this
place from the Island of Jamaica in the year 1786-- and resided in this
settlement ever since; is a Sober and industrious man; a good
farmer and valuable settler, -- and that he is possessed of sufficient
means to settle the Lands he asks for.--
Hugh MacKay
24th Feby 1810 The situation applied for in this memorial is not vacant.
Geo. Sproule
The applicant applies for his lot next above the lot applied for by
John Campbell on the East side the Magaguadavic river above the Forks------vacant.
G. Sproule
1? March 1810
Map of Alexander
Forbes Mylne's grant
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