Text of Sarah (Lake) Ward Land Petition - 31 May 1802 at Ernestown Township

Transcribed from the image of the original and the Library and Archives of Canada web site (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.02-e.php?q2=29&q3=2651&sqn=945&tt=1282&PHPSESSID=npfo6qij0n1rpue06msk2mqnj1), which is also included in my tree on Ancestry at http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/ac22e252-2190-4cb9-9300-6c6efdc5bbcc/12001386/420014169363

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To His Excellency Peter Hunter Estr. Lieutenant Governor

of the Province of Upper Canada and Lieutenant General

Commanding His Majestys Forces in the Provinces of Upper

and Lower Canada, In Council

                  The petition of Sarah Ward

Daughte of Christopher Lake UE: of Ernestown Midland District

of this Province - humbly sheweth that your petitioner is

now of Age and is married to James Ward of said town & a

District Yeoman. Therefore your petitioner humbly pray

your Excellency would order that she be allowed two hun=

dred acres of Land, and your petitioner will as in Duty

bound every pray

                                            her

                                   Sarah  x  Ward                                  

                                          mark

        I do hereby Certify that I was present when Sarah

Ward, the above named petitioner signed the foregoing petiti

=on, and I do furhter Certify that the petitioner is the person

she Describers herself to be, and that she is Married to James -

Ward, and that She never has to my knowledge and Belief

received and Land or order for Land from the Crown

          Daniel Frazer C:P.

                    Personally appeared Sarah Ward before

me Daniel Fraser one of His Majesty's Justices of the

                                                               Peace

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peace for the Midland Distric, who being Duly sworn

upon the Holy Evangelist maketh Oath and saith that she

is now of Age and married to James Ward, and that she never

received Land nor Order for Lands from the Crown --

Sworn before me at Ernestown \

this    Dy of May 1802            /

      Daniel Frazer C:P.

Page 2 - Additional 2-Column Document Perpendicular to first but on same paper

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Sarah Ward's

   Petition

Recd. 31 May

     1802

Read 13th July 1802

Recommended for 200 Acres

as the Daughter on an

U. E.

v. 23. J Helmsley Chairman

approved -

P. Hunter Lt. Govr: -

Entered in Land Book

No. 5. Page 42.

          ________________

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page 42           W 12

Sarah Ward of Ernest=

=Town, Wife of James

Ward, and daughter of

Christopher Lake, U.E.

recd. of Mr. Cottier

   12 July 1802.

______________________

The name of Christopher

Lake appears on the

U.E. List. And it does not

appear by the Council

Books that Sarah Ward

has ever received any

Lands.

12.            J. ?Small?

______________________

  ?L???? Offices

      York 13th - July 1802

?Referred? to the Executive

Council -

      By Order of the ?????

          James Green Secy

Turn over

[WESLEY JOHNSTON TRANSCRIPTION NOTE: The second column appears to have been the outermost when folded, so that it was written first, which is why it reads "Turn over" at the bottom, since it continued into the first column.]