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Grant, Land
- Museum / Archive
- Aylmer-Malahide Museum and Archives
- Date Range From
- 12/28/1846
- Material
- Paper, wood, glass
- Museum / Archive
- Aylmer-Malahide Museum and Archives
- Collection
- Framed Art Collection
- Number of Artifacts
- 1
- Description
- A land grant presented to John McIntosh of Malahide Township. Signed by the Right Honourable Charles Murray, Earl Cathcart, Governor General of British North America on December 28th, 1846. At the top of the grant are the words "PROVINCE OF CANADA" in a decorative font. At the upper left hand of the frame is an embossed crest on a separate piece of paper. The grant is displayed with a white or cream-coloured matting in a wooden frame and overlaid with glass. The wood of the frame is stained a dark brown.
Full text: "Cathcart. Province of Canada. Victoria, by the Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, QUEEN Defender of the Faith: - To all whom these Presents shall come - GREETING. Know ye, that We, of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere motion have GIVEN and GRANTED, and by these Presents do Give and Grant unto John McIntosh, of the Township of Malahide, in the County of Middlesex, in the District of London, Yeoman, a Settler located by Colonel Tablot, his heirs and assigns for ever, ALL that PARCEL or TRACT of LAND, situate [sic.] in the Township of Malahide, in the county of Middlesex, in the District of London in Our said Province, containing by admeasurement fifty acres be the same more or less, being composed of the North East Part of Lot Number Nineteen in the Ninth Concession of the said Township of Malahide, that is to say, Commencing in the limit between Lots Numbers Twenty and Nineteen at the distance of fifty chains on a course of North from South East Angle of the said Lot Number Nineteen then West ten chains more or less to the Centre of the said Lot then North forty eight chains more or less, to the allowance for Road on the Northern Boundary of the Township then North seventy eight degrees thirty minutes East more or less to the aforesaid limit between Lots Numbers Nineteen and twenty then South Fifty chains more or less to the place of beginning TOGETHER WITH all the Woods and Waters thereon lying and being, under the reservations, limitations and conditions, hereinafter expressed: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Parcel or Tract of Land, hereby given and granted to him the said John McIntosh, his heirs and assigns for ever: saving, nevertheless, to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, all Mines of Gold and Silver that shall or may be hereafter found on any part of the said Parcel or Tract of Land, hereby given and granted as aforesaid; and saving and reserving to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, all White Pine Trees that shall or may now or hereafter grow, or be growing, on any part of the said Parcel or Tract of Land hereby granted as aforesaid. PROVIDED ALWAYS, that no part of the Parcel or Tract of Land hereby given and granted to the said John McIntosh and his heirs, be within any reservation heretofore made and marked for Us, 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 John McIntosh and his heirs for ever, as aforesaid, and which shall, upon a survey thereof being made, be found within any such reservation, shall be null and void, and of none effect, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Given under the Great Seal of Our Province of Canada: Witness, Our Right Trusty and Right Well-Beloved Cousin, Lieutenant General The Right Honorable CHARLES MURRAY, EARL CATHCART, of Cathcart, in the County of Renfrew, K.C.B., Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over Our Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswich, and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, and Commander of Our Forces in British North America, &c. &c. &c. : At Montreal this twenty eighth day of December in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six and in the tenth year of Our Reign. ['1846' added here in blue pen.] By Command of His Excellency in Council, 4th Dec. '46. [Signature, illegible.]"
- Material
- Paper, wood, glass
- Category
- Communication Artifacts
- Sub-category
- Documentary Artifact
- Subject of Image
- Government
- Accession Number
- 2019-029-0002
- Date Range From
- 12/28/1846
- Length
- 45
- Width
- 37.6
- Height
- 2.3
- Units
- cm
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