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George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and So Forth. : 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 ...
出版Anthony Henry, 1784
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jMo6zQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Forming a series of six [...] these land grants differ from others of that genre in printing the names of all the recipients of land on one document rather than providing spaces for completion in manuscript by each person. All record the settlement of Shelburne (formerly Port Roseway, earlier Port Razoir) when it was a Loyalist boom town with more than 10,000 inhabitants and three newspapers. [...] By the terms of this document 12,788 acres were granted to more than 200 men and one woman. They were required to take an oath of loyalty, to improve the land, and, after ten years, to pay each year on the Feast of St. Michael two shillings for every hundred acres."--Fleming and Alston, Tremaine supplement, 426A.