Peasley, Daniel *
Volume: F, page 11, Grant number 562
Original province of registration: New Brunswick
New Brunswick registration date: 1812/02/07
Accompanying plan: n
Acreage: 270 acres
Place and County: Pleasent Ridge, Charlotte County
Comments: 15 others
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Daniel Peasley Grant
Thos. Wyer Junior and 15 others
Maguaguadavic Charlotte.
New Brunswick George the third by the Grace Of God of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland king Defender of the Faith
‘ To all to whom These presents shall come
Greeting: Know Ye that We, of our special Grace, certain Knowledge
and mere Motion, have given and granted And we do by these presents for
us our heirs and Successors give and grant unto Thomas Wyer Junior,
John Davidson, Moses Estey, Alexander Thompson, Dougald
Thompson,
John Athison; Nathan Niblock, Daniel Peasley, David
Basset, David William Jack, David Thompson, William
Thompson, William Stewart, Revd Samuel Andrews, John
Campbell and Alexander Forbes Milne in severalty that is
unto each of them and unto each and every of their several and respective
heirs and assigns in and by the several divisions quantities, lots, pieces
and parcels herein after mentioned nineteen lots or Plantations of land
containing in the whole Five Thousand and fifty Acres more or less with
the usual allowance of ten per cent for roads and waste that is to say
unto the said Thomas Wyer Junior lot number seven in the first Division
containing three hundred acres; unto the said John Davidson lot
number one in the first Division containing two hundred and ten Acres;
and Lot A in the second Division containing one hundred Acres; unto the
said Moses Estey Lot number two in the first division containing
three hundred acres; and lot B in the second division containing
one hundred acres, unto the said Alexander Thompson Lot number four
in the first Division containing two hundred and seventy Acres; unto the
said Dougald Thompson Lot number six in the first division containing
two hundred and seventy acres; unto the said John Athison Lot number
eight in the first division containing two hundred and seventy acres; unto
the said Nathan Niblock Lot number nine in the first division containing
three hundred Acres; unto the said Daniel Peasley Lot number ten
in the first division containing two hundred and seventy Acres, unto the
said David Basset Lot number eleven in the first division containing
three hundred Acres; unto the said David William Jack Lot number
thirteen in the first Division containing three hundred acres; unto the
said David Thompson Lot number fifteen in the first Division containing
three hundred Acres; unto the said William Thompson Lot number sixteen
in the first division containing three hundred acres; unto the said William
Stewart
Lot number seventeen in the first division containing three hundred Acres;
unto the said Reverent Samuel Andrews Lot number eighteen and Lot
number nineteen in the first Division containing together five hundred
Acres; unto the said John Campbell Lot number one in the third division
containing three hundred and fifty Acres; and unto the said Alexander Forbes
Milne Lot number two in the third division containing three hundred
and ten Acres; The said nineteen Lots being comprehended with these certain
Tracts of Land situate lying and being on Maguaguadavic River at the Junction
or discharge of Peskehegan River, and on the Adjacent Ridge of Land commonly
called Pleasent Ridge within the County of Charlotte; the said three Tracts
being abutted and bounded as follows to wit; the first tract beginning
at a marked Spruce Tree standing on or near the South westerly Shore of
the Maguaguadavic River opposite the mouth or entrance of Peskehegan River
aforesaid thence or from the said Shore running by the Magnetic needle
South sixty Degrees West one hundred and eighteen chains of four poles
each or to marked Birch Tree, thence north thirty degrees west thirty seven
chains, thence South sixty degrees West one hundred and twenty five chains,
or to meet the Southwesterly line Lot number thirteen in the Tract, thence
north thirty degrees west along the said line of the said Lot and along
the Southwesterly Line of the Lot number twelve in the middle tier of Lot
in this Tract two hundred and fifty four chains or to a marked Beech Tree
at the Southwesterly corner of the said Lot number twelve, thence South
sixty degrees west seventeen chains to the South easterly corner of the
Lot number nineteen in the third tier of Lots in the Tract thence north
thirty Degrees West along the Southwesterly line of the said lot number
nineteen one hundred and thirty two chains thence north sixty degrees East
one hundred and forty two chains or until it meets the Prolongation of
the Southwesterly or rear line of the Lot number three in this Tract granted
in a former Grant to George Von Gereau Esquire thence along the said prolonged
Line South thirty degrees East three hundred and twenty five chains or
until it meets the North westerly line of the said Lot number three, thence
along the said North westerly Line North sixty degrees East until it meets
the Southwesterly Shore of Maguaguadavic River aforesaid thence follow
the several Courses of the said Shore down Stream until it meets the Spruce
Tree at the first described bounds of this first Track or Division or Line
running north sixty degrees East then of main which division is divided
into thirteen lots or Plantations numbered from number one to number nineteen
all included in the Grant except the Lot number three already granted as
aforesaid and the Lots number five, number twelve and number fourteen which
remain Vacant; the Second Tract or Division beginning where a line running
north sixty degrees East from the marked Spruce Tree at the first Bound
of the first division as above described ( across the Maguaguadavic River
aforesaid) meets the north Easterly Shore there of at the mouth of the
Peskehegan River above mentioned thence running sixty Degrees East
seventy seven chains thence South thirty degrees East fifteen chains thence
north sixty degrees East sixty chains, thence South sixty degrees West
sixty chains crossing the said River Peskehegan in that
extent thence north thirty degrees west twenty chains and thence South
Sixty degrees west until it meets the northeasterly Shore of the Maguaguadavic
River above mentioned crossing the Peskehegan River aforesaid in that extent
thence following the several courses of the said Shore up Stream and crossing
the mouth of the said Peskehegan River to the first described
bounds of this second Tract or Division which is divided into two lots
or plantations described by the letter A and B being both included in this
Grant as the Third Tract or Division begins on the Northeasterly Shore
of Maguaguadavic River aforesaid of the first Bounds of the second Division
as above described thence running along the said second Division north
sixty degrees East seventy seven chains, thence South thirty Degrees East
fifteen chains and thence north Sixty degrees East until it meets the northwestern
by Shore of Peskehegan River above mentioned thence north thirty degrees
west seventy five chains thence South sixty degrees west until it meets
the Northeasterly Shore of the Maguaguadavic River above mentioned thence
following the several courses of the said Shore down Stream to the first
described bounds of their third Tract or Division which is divided
into two lots or Plantations numbered one and two both included in the
Grant, the whole being in part improved and in part wilderness land and
in particularly described and marked out on the Plot or Plan of Survey
hereunto annexed, together with all profits, commodities, hereditaments
and appurtenances whatsoever there unto belonging or in any wise appertaining;
except and reserved, never the less out of this present Grant, to us: our
heirs and Successors, all costs and also all Gold and Silver and other
mines and minerals: To have and to hold the said nineteen several lots,
pieces and parcels of land, and all and singular the premises hereby granted,
with their and every of their appurtenances (except before excepted)
unto the said several grantees above named severally and respectively,
and unto their several and respective heirs and assigns in severalty, that
is to say in by and according to the several Divisions, quantities, Lots,
pieces and parcels above described and granted: they the said several Grantees
their several and respective heirs and assigns Yielding and Paying, therefore
yearly and every year forever unto all, our heirs and successors, at the
office of our receiver General of our Quit Rents in New Brunswick, or to
such other person as shall be appointed to receive the same the yearly
rent or sum of two Shillings Sterling for every hundred acres of the said
several Lots, pieces and parcels of Land to Him severally and respectively
hereby granted and so in proportion, according to the number of Acres,
to commence on the Midsummer day after the expiration of two years from
the date of the Grant, and to be paid yearly and every year on every midsummer
day forever, and in default of the said payment is if it shall happen the
afore said if only rent at any time to be behind or unpaid in part or in
all by the space of thirty days next over or after any of the said midsummer
days or times whereon the same ought to be paid as aforesaid, that then
and from thence forth this Grant, for and so far as it respects all and
were if such Lot and Lots, pieces or parcels of Land hereby granted of
which the said rent shall so behind and unpaid shall immediately cease
and determine and be void and of none effect, and such Lot and Lots, pieces
or parcels of Land and premises last aforesaid shall revert to and revert
in Us: our heirs and Successors. Provided also and this present grant
is upon condition, that the same Grant be registered in the Secretary's
Office of our said Province, to which registry shall be attached a duplicate
of the Plan here unto annexed, and that a docket there of be entered in
our Auditors Office, and also in the Office of our receiver General of
Quit Rents, within three months after signing the same otherwise the said
Grant shall be void and of none effect Provided also and upon condition
and our will and pleasure is, that for every fifty Acres of their said
several and respective Lots, pieces and parcels of Land aforesaid, accounted
plantable, the said several Grantees, or their several and respective heirs
and assigns, shall and do with in five years from the date of this Grant
clear and work three acres at the least, in that part of the said Land
which they shall respectively judge most convenient, or else clear and
drain three acres of Swampy or sunken ground or drain three acres of Marsh
if any such be within the Bounds thereof and that for every fifty acres
accounted Barren, the said Grantees, their heirs and assigns, severally
and respectively, shall and do put and keep on their said Lots of Land
within three years after the said date of this Grant, three meat cattle
and continue the same number of meat cattle on the same land, until three
acres of every fifty acres of the improvable land aforesaid, be fully cleared
and improved, and in case there be no part of their said respective lands
fit for present cultivation that then the said several Grantees their heirs
and assigns respectively, shall and do erect there upon, within the said
term of three years a habitable dwelling house and also put on their said
land the like number of three meat cattle for every fifty acres and if
the said Land be so rocky or stony as not to be fit for culture of pasture
then the said several Grantees their several and respective heirs and assigns
employing with a reasonable time
from the date of this Grant, and continuing to employ for the space
of three years thence next ..., one able hand for every hundred acres,
in cutting wood, clearing the Land, or in digging any stone quarry therein,
it shall be deemed a sufficient cultivation. And it is our will and
pleasure, and we do by these presents, grant and declare, that when the
said several grantees, their several and respective heirs and assigns,
or any of them shall have settled, planted, cultivated, or improved their
said several lots, pieces and parcels of land, or any part there of according
to the directions and conditions above mentioned, such person or persons
may make proof of such seeding, planting, cultivation and improvement,
in the General Court or Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and of
the County or district where the said Lands lie, and such proof shall be
certified by the Judges and Foreman of the Grand Jury of such ?Court to
the Register's Office, and be there entered with the record of this Grant
or Patent a copy of which shall be admitted on any trial to prove the reading
and planting of the same Land and every three acres which shall be Certified
to be cleared and worked as aforesaid, shall be accounted a sufficient
sealing, planting, cultivation and improvement, to save from forfeiture
fifty acres of land in any part of the said Lots, pieces and parcels of
Land respectively contained within this same Grant or Patent. And
it is our further will and pleasure, and we do hereby in reply ordain and
declare, that in case the said several Grantees, and their several heirs
and assigns, shall not or do not, within the said space of five years from
the date hereof fulfill and have fulfilled the several terms and conditions
herein before prescribed, then this present grant for, and so far as it
respects the Lot or Lots, pieces or parcels of Land respectively of such
deficient Grantee or Grantees, his or their heirs and assigns respectively,
shall be void and of none effect, and the same lots, pieces and parcels
of Land hereby intended to be granted, shall revert to Us, our heirs and
Successors. Provided also, and this Grant is upon this condition,
that no part of the said several Lots, pieces or parcels of Land hereby
granted to the said several Grantees above named, and their heirs respectively
be within any reservation heretofore made and marked forth, our heirs and
successors, by our Surveyor General of Woods or his lawful deputy in which
case this our grant for such part of the Land hereby given and granted
to the said several afore named grantees, and their several and respective
heirs for ever as aforesaid which shall upon a Survey their of being made,
be found written any such resignation shall be null and void and of none
effect, anything herein contained to the contrary not withstanding Provided
also and it is our further will and pleasure that if any part of the said
Lots, pieces and parcels of Land aforesaid be fit for the production of
Hemp and Flax then the said several grantees, their heirs and assigns respectively
shall be obliged annually to sow a proportionable part of each ground with
Hemp or Flax seed.
Given under the great Seal of our Province of New Brunswick
WITNESS our trusty and well beloved. Martin Hunter Esquire, President
of
our Council and Commander in Chief of our said Province at Fredericton,
the fourth day of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twelve and in the fifty second
By command of the President in Council
Jon ~ Odell
N. 562
Registered the 7th of February 1812
Jon ~ Odell