Crown Land Grant Index

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Crown Land Grant Index

Burin Peninsula Region - Grand Bank District

Grand Bank Town and Vicinity

The information was transcribed by CHERYL McGREGOR ~ November 2001. While I have tried to be careful, there may be errors - my errors, interpretive errors or errors existing in the actual document.

The index and document file was rebuilt after many records were destroyed in the great St. John's fire in the 1890's. Some records are missing completely and others are duplicated. The Re-reg. and Orig-reg. notes in the info column refer to this. Look at all the records in a District or Region as many of these landowners had pieces of land in several areas, not just the town you know your family came from.

Sample Portion of Crown Land Grant

The address for copies of the actual Crown Land Grants is:

Department of Gov't Services and Lands

Lands Branch

POB 8700

St. John's, Nfld. A1B 4J6

Tel: (709) 729-3085

In. P# - Index Page; Ac. = Acres; R. = ?; P. = ? (appear to be surveyor codes)
See Table at end of document

In.		Register		Date	Name	Area
P#	No.	Vol	Fol			Ac.	R.	P.	Plan	Loc. or Other Info
	775	1	62	8/4/1849	George Hunter	1	1	7
	868	1	76	8/12/1850	William Pennell	3	2	4
	971	2	94	2/27/1851	Rev. Ed. Bottereli	0	1	8
	1026	3	46	10/24/1851	John Hickman	0	2	2
	1025	3	47	10/24/1851	John Hickman	2	0	35
4	1027	3	48	10/24/1851	John Hickman	1	1	32
	1024	3	49	10/24/1851	Henry Nicolle	2	3	34
	1023	3	50	10/24/1851	Henry Nicolle	0	1	21
	1065	3	84	5/26/1852	George Hunter	10	0	12
	1124	4	51	3/22/1853	Rev. Ed. Botterel	2	1	21
	1162	4	85	9/21/1853	James Hickman	0	2	17
	1163	4	86	9/21/1853	James Hickman	3	3	30
	1169	4	91	10/20/1853	Jonathan Hickman	1	0	13
	1168	4	92	10/20/1853	Jonathan Hickman	2	2	15
	1170	4	93	10/21/1853	Jonathan Hickman	0	2	38
	1224	4	150	11/6/1854	George Forsey	0	2	23
	1289	5	33	3/22/1855	Jonathan Snook	8	3	22
	1286	5	34	3/23/1855	James Hamblin	5	3	4		New Road
	1290	5	37	3/23/1855	Robert Forsey	3	3	2
	1464	6	45	11/2/1857	Henry Nicholl	4	1	8
	1482?	6	47	11/2/1857	Edward Nicoll	0	3	1		Re-reg . Vol 63 Fol 105
	1505	6	86	9/30/1858	Thos Newman, Thos. N. Hunt, & Thos. H. Newman	3	3	26		Re-reg. Vol. 77 Fol 75
	1504	6	87	9/30/1858	Thos Newman, Thos. N. Hunt, & Thos. H. Newman	1	0	30		Re-reg. Vol. 77 Fol 74
	1594	7	51	11/28/1859	Joseph Forsey	0	0	35
	1595	7	52	11/28/1859	Joseph Forsey	0	2	22
	1596	7	53	11/28/1859	Joseph Forsey	0	1	9
	1628	7	74	5/31/1860	Joseph Blackburn	0	2	18		Re-reg. Vol 63 Fol 43
	1578	7	78	9/16/1860	Wilson Lorswell
		7	79		Robert Forsey	0	0	33		Re-reg. Vol 55 Fol 24
	1744	8	83	8/18/1862	Jonathan Hickman	7	3	7		Two Lots
	1981	10	8	4/11/1864	William Buffett, Sr.	0	0	17		Re-reg. Vol 63 Fol 40
	1978	10	9	4/11/1864	Aaron Forsey	1	1	33
	1979	10	10	4/11/1864	Francis Kendell	1	1	2
	1977	10	11	4/4/1864	Joseph Matthews	0	0	14.5
	1980	10	12	4/11/1864	William Buffett	1	0	37.5
	1993	10	13	4/16/1864	William George Evans	0	0	2.75
	1992	10	14	4/16/1864	Wilson Lovell	2	2	15
	2051	10	117	10/8/1864	Samuel Tibbo	0	0	3.5
	2052	10	119	10/10/1864	Morgan Foot	0	1	20.5
	2068	10	120	11/2/1864	Ambrose Forward	1	0	20
	2057	10	122	10/10/1864	Joseph Bragg Forsey	4	3	20
	2059	10	123	10/13/1864	Philip Nicholle	0	0	21.5
	2064	10	124	11/4/1864	Rt. Rev. Dr. Feild	1	1	38
	2058	10	132	10/12/1864	John Forsey	2	0	28
	2078	10	137	12/7/1864	William Bond	1	1	9
	2077	10	138	12/7/1864	John Butt	2	0	32
	2080	10	141	12/10/1864	Robert R. Stoodley	4	0	30
	2081?	10	143	12/14/1864	Henry Riggs	2	0	31.5
	2094	11	6	2/28/1865	William Lee	0	3	38		Re-reg. Vol 63 Fol 41
	2095	11	7	2/27/1865	John French	1	3	20		Re-reg. Vol 63 Fol 71
	2107	11	14	3/22/1865	Benjamin Lovelle	6	2	34
	2106	11	15	3/22/1865	Charles Williams	5	1	18
	2152	11	62	11/24/1865	Emma Hickman	3	0	8		Re-reg. Vol 79 Fol 183
	2151	11	63	11/7/1865	Joseph Francis	1	1	4
	2150	11	64	11/23/1865	Joseph J. Squires	39	2	16
	2155	11	66	11/23/1865	Jonathan Rose	1	1	19
	2153	11	73	12/12/1865	John Forcey	1	0	31		Re-reg. Vol 68 Fol 39
	2156	11	74	12/13/1865	Joseph Evans	2	0	31
	2181?	11	76	12/14/1865	Benjamin Lawrence	4	2	6
	2179	11	77	12/13/1865	James Thornhill	1	0	1
5	2178	11	78	9/14/1865	Eleanor Chilcott	0	0	6		Re-reg. Vol 99 Fol 95
	2192	11	89	12/15/1865	George Osmond	0	0	15.25
	2190	11	90	12/15/1865	Thomas Riggs	1	0	7
	2154	11	92	12/21/1865	Josiah Hiscock	2	0	38
	2191	11	93	9/18/1865	Samuel Bradley	2	0	25
	2204	11	111	1/25/1866	Aaron Grandy	2	2	16
	2203	11	112	1/26/1866	Robert Hickman	0	0	26
	2202	11	113	1/24/1866	William Riggs	0	0	11		Re-reg. Vol 63 Fol 76
	2214	11	124	1/27/1866	George F. Bell	0	0	33
	2221	11	132	2/16/1866	Edward Patten	3	2	3.5		Re-reg. Vol 63 Fol 77
	2251	12	21	5/28/1866	Ann Forsey	0	3	36		Re-reg. Vol 63 Fol 47
	2250	12	22	5/28/1866	Ann Forsey	27	0	16
	2319	12	84	10/13/1866	Benjamin Wood	2	0	17
	2318	12	85	10/13/1866	John Patten	2	2	39
	1660	12	95	10/9/1860	Henry Hickman	1	2	30
	2537	13	47	8/16/1867	George Squires	2	1	32
	2536	13	53	8/16/1867	John Patten	4	3	28
	2551	13	75	9/5/1867	John Grant	3	3	9
	2550	13	76	9/5/1867	John Pardy	0	0	23
	2552	13	77	9/5/1867	Emma Hickman	0	2	17
	2549	13	78	9/5/1867	Robert Hickman	0	3	4
	2547	13	87	8/30/1867	Jane Forsey (Wife of Joseph)	0	0	0.67		(area two-thirds of a Perch)
	2548	13	88	8/30/1867	Henry Hickman, Jr.	0	1	2
	2546	13	89	8/30/1867	Henry Trim	4	0	34
	2569	13	102	10/10/1867	Ambrose C. Forward	0	1	25
	2568	13	104	10/10/1867	Cyrus V. Wood	19	0	0
	2584	13	108	10/21/1867	Mark Poor	0	1	0
	2628	14	17	3/28/1868	George Tibbo	1	0	31
	2629	14	19	3/27/1868	Josiah Hiscock, Jr.	1	2	32
	2820	15	14	3/1/1869	Charles Patten	1	1	19
	2819	15	19	3/1/1869	William Tibbo	0	0	25
	2847	15	83	5/28/1869	Thomas Walsh	0	1	1.5
	3002	16	17	7/26/1869	Edward Evans	3	2	20
	3000	16	18	7/23/1869	Edward Evans	1	0	26
	3011	16	20	12/14/1868	George Rose	3	1	24
	3001	16	22	7/24/1869	Samuel G. Hickman	3	1	7
	3578	20	41	7/3/1874	Lydia Courtney	2	1	18
	3751	21	61	4/21/1876	Benjamin Francis	1	3	5
	4035	24	21	12/2/1878	Lionel T. Chancey, St. John's in trust for George L. Christian & William Logan Christian	11	3	12
	4045	24	33	12/13/1878	Edward Nicholle	2	1	13
	4201	25	54	12/4/1879	James Rose of Jonathan	2	1	3
	4214	25	94	12/16/1879	George Manuel Forsey	7	3	37		Near road to Fortune
	4251	25	96	2/18/1880	Samuel Rose of Jonathan	2	1	13
	4252	25	97	2/18/1880	Jonathan Tibbo	0	0	5.25
	4339	26	22	3/29/1881	Samuel Kelley Belle	0	0	14
	4343	26	24	4/5/1881	James Mellis Christian	11	2	1		Christmas Road
	4378	26	95	7/7/1881	James Hillier Morgan	1	3	5
	4376	26	97	7/7/1881	James Scott	0	2	1
	4379	26	99	7/7/1881	Robert Chilcott Forsey					Grant not registered in full
	4448	26	123	11/25/1881	Richard Keating	2	0	14		Road to Fortune
	4393	26	125	7/7/1881	Rev. Thos. Harris & George Simms J.P.	0	3	2		Four Lots.
	4377	26	132	7/7/1881	Henry Trim, Sr.	2	0	3
	4462	27	1	12/5/1881	John Camp	6	2	35
	4449	27	4	11/25/1881	Thomas Alexander Hickman	1	0	36		Two Lots
	4480	27	20	1/25/1882	George Camp?	4	1	?		Lanse Paul Cove?
6	4492	27	23	1/25/1882	George Ambrose Hickman	12	2	16		1 Mile West of Grand Bank
	4481	27	24	1/25/1882	Thomas Alex Hickman	18	0	0		Road to Fortune
	4503	27	41	2/21/1882	Joseph Evans	6	3	13
	4502	27	42	2/21/1882	Mary Ann Thornhill	4	3	8
	4526	27	43	2/27/1882	Benjamin Matthews	8	3	4		Two Lots
	4507	27	46	2/21/1882	Samuel Harris	18	0	16		Road to Fortune
	4999	27	50	1/25/1882	John Hiscock	2	1	30		Road to Fortune
	4498	27	52	1/25/1882	Henry William Lucas	0	0	26		Two Lots
	4496	27	54	2/21/1882	John Forsey of George	4	1	37
	4522	27	58	4/6/1882	Charles Patten Forsey	34	2	38		Road to Fortune
	4533	27	66	4/6/1882	Thomas J. Murphy, St. John's	25	0	31		Road to Fortune
	4552	27	70	4/6/1882	Henry William Lucas	20	0	0		Road to Garnish
	4551	27	74	4/6/1882	Albert McGregor	4	0	0		Road to Garnish
	4553	27	84	4/6/1882	George Aaron Buffett	12	2	16
	4550	27	97	4/6/1882	James Scott	6	2	16
	4489	27	100	1/25/1882	Simeon Noel Tibbo	0	0	15
	4629	28	43	8/29/1882	C. P. Forcey	0	3	16
	4712	28	60	4/12/1883	George Hiscock	3	0	1
	4711	28	56	4/12/1883	Jonathan Tibbo (of Wilson)	5	0	0		Re-reg. Vol 77 Fol 110
	4707	28	80	4/12/1883	Lydia Courtney	1	0	16
	4726	28	121	6/11/1883	Charles Dodman	26	3	27
	4817	28	138	10/27/1883	Thomas Tibbo, Sr.	8	0	5
	4761	28	171	10/18/1883	Simeon N. Tibbo	3	0	13
	4829	30	16	12/24/1883	Frank Stoodley	4	3	16
	4869	30	46	3/12/1884	Thomas Stoodley	9	0	16		Road to Fortune
	4877	30	50	3/12/1884	Louisa Lovell	0	3	34		Three Lots
		30	139	2/11/1884	Mray Hiscock	17	1	3		Road to Fortune
	5346	32	100	8/9/1886	Josiah Hiscock, Sr.	0	0	9
	5409	32	141	11/13/1886	Thomas Foote	36	1	14		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	5321	32	158	7/9/1886	John Bever	5	3	7		Two Lots
	5411	33	16	11/13/1886	Charles B. Forsey	0	1	36
	5504	35	37	5/17/1887	Wilson Rose	1	3	38
	5674	35	42	11/24/1887	John Robert Rose	1	0	26
	5507	35	52	5/17/1887	Charles Pardy	1	1	19
	5914	36	79	2/1/1889	Joseph Francis	0	0	3.5		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6344	36	153	8/29/1890	Kesia Foot	6	1	24		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6282	36	170	8/29/1890	George Buffett	0	0	4		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6284	36	173	8/29/1890	William Riggs	6	2	8		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6266	36	181	8/29/1890	John Matthews	0	0	8.75		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	5915	37	12	2/1/1889	George Butt	0	0	5		Two Lots Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6232	37	180	7/3/1890	Richard Keating	3	1	6		Near Fortune Road. Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6233	41	1	7/3/1890	James Milliton	0	0	12		Barrisway Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6278	41	121	8/29/1890	Samuel Harris	0	0	7.5		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6658	42	175	6/26/1891	John Patten	1	2	16		Cove Brook Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	6799	43	5	10/8/1891	The Newfoundland Conference	14	1	25
	6912	46	5	1/21/1892	Thomas Ramsay	2	0	22		Two Lots, Deep Water Cove, Sec 12/84
	6954	46	57	2/9/1892	Allen Hudson	1	0	39		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	7133	46	111	4/20/1893	Frederick Forsey of John	3	0	19		Burnt Hill Brook
	7167	46	114	4/20/1893	William Bonson	0	3	16
	7159	46	130	4/20/1893	Michael Handigan	5	1	27		Four Lots, Wild Bay Shore
	7203	46	148	8/3/1893	Eli Harris	6	2	34		Road to Fortune
	7189	46	181	8/3/1893	Henry H. Matthews	10	0	0		Garnish Road
	7101	52	5	2/13/1893	John Rose, Sr.	9	3	2		Main Road, 1.5 Mls East of Grand Bank
	7162	52	39	4/20/1893	Kesiah Foote (widow)	8	1	19
	7347	53	23	6/9/1894	Simeon N. Tibbo	3	2	10
	7710	54	11	2/1/1895	Robert Rose of George	7	2	19		Garnish Road, Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	7692	54	112	2/1/1895	Robert Chillcote Rose	1	2	0		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
7	7691	54	121	2/1/1895	George Simms Evans	2	1	2		Road to Fortune, Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	7684	54	126	2/1/1895	James Belbin, Sr.	4	3	3		Main Brook, Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
		55	24		Robert Forsey	0	0	33		Orig. Reg. Vol 7. Fol 79
	7687	55	27	2/1/1895	James W. Belbin, Jr.	1	0	3		Main Brook, Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	7856	55	111	5/27/1895	John T. Patten	15	0	14		Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884, Two Lots
	7956	57	15	10/23/1895	Charles Lawrence	5	2	10		Road to Fortune
	8003	57	43	2/20/1896	George B. Hickman	0	3	5		Two Lots
	8175	57	151	1/20/1897	Mary Hartling in trust for five others	10	0	0		S. E. of Grand Bank. Sec. 12 C.L.A. 1884
	8051	58	10	2/25/1896	Richard Noseworthy	2	0	12		Garnish Road
	8251	58	86	8/18/18897	Morgan Parsons	0	0	10
	8596	58	172	10/14/1898	Charles Pardy	3	2	30
	8583	60	155	9/15/1898	Christopher Stone	4	1	28
	9003	61	250	6/25/1900	Thomas Foote	5	1	20
	9108	62	70	6/4/1901	Lionel B. Clarke	17	0	0		Grand Bank Brook
	9351	62	277	4/23/1902	Ann Pardy	0	1	30
	9420	64	19	6/23/1902	Robert A. Forsey (of Aaron)	4	3	4		Two Lots
	9373	64	57	5/2/1902	George A. Buffett	0	0	8.5
	9536	64	79	9/30/1902	Henry T. D. Haddon	0	1	11
	9748	64	199	10/3/1903	John H. Grant	6	0	0		N. W. of Grand Bank
	9591	64A	41	1/20/1903	Robert Rose of George	0	1	2
	9621	64A	42	4/27/1903	Benjamin John Weymouth	15	3	37
	9847	64A	174	10/27/1903	Levi Downey	3	3	16		Inland
	9781	65	8	10/14/1903	Ellen Evans	4	0	0
	9793	65	10	10/14/1903	James Thornhill of George	4	0	0
	10257	66	46	4/2/1904	Thomas Abbott	8	0	0
	10557	68	125	3/21/1905	Elias Harris	8	2	0		Garnish Road
	10581	69	2	4/5/1905	Jacob H. Matthews	3	3	33		Two Lots
	10577	69	16	4/5/1905	John R. Matthews	3	1	10		Two Lots
	10676	69	46	6/8/1905	George A. Buffett	0	0	12
	10794	69	77	12/11/1905	William Dicks	3	0	33
	10995	72	193	6/19/1906	John R. Riggs of Robert	5	2	2		Three Lots
	12121	75	196	4/24/1904	Philip Bennett	1	3	6		1 Mile South of Gut
	12008	76	69	2/23/1909	Mary E. Riggs	1	0	23
	12010	76	71	2/23/1909	John Hickman Matthews	0	3	0
	12218	77	1	2/17/1910	George Forward	7	0	24
	1504	77	74	9/30/1858	Thos. Newman, Thos. Newman Hunt, & Thos. Holdsworth Newman, Hr. Breton F.B.	1	0	30		Three Lots. Orig. Reg. Vol 6 Fol 87
	1505	77	75	9/30/1858	Thos. Newman & Others as above	3	3	26		Three Lots. Orig. Reg. Vol 6 Fol 86
	12372	78	25	10/15/1910	Corbit White	8	0	0
	12337	79	1	9/5/1910	Frederick T. Coxworthy	10	3	24
	12713	79	93	11/20/1911	Benjamin Matthews	0	1	8
	2152	79	183	11/24/1865	Emma Hickman	3	0	8		Two Lots Orig. reg. Vol. 11 Fol. 62
	12866	80	50	4/25/1912	George C. Harris	17	2	16
	12956	80	94	9/5/1912	Benjamin Matthews	0	0	2
	12940	82	7	9/5/1912	Albert Loveless	0	1	2
	13466	83	183	8/4/913	Robert R. Hatcher	2	1	1
	13492	84	2	9/30/1913	Samuel Harris	2	1	3
	14418	88	45	11/18/1916	John Brown	6	2	14
	15139	91	78	9/29/1919	Edward Riggs	5	1	5
	15327	91	162	3/4/1920	Robert R. Matthews	0	1	0
	15217	93	38	12/19/1919	Roy M. Clarke	4	2	8		Main Brook
	15418	93	128	7/17/1920	Charles Cumden	19	0	0		Road to Molliers
	15472	94	17	11/29/1920	Sarah Patten	5	3	3		Road to Fortune
	16066	96	89	6/27/1924	John Welsh	2	3	14
	19243	97	6	6/5/1925	Ambrose Foot	0	2	10
	19367	97	124	2/19/1926	Charles Butler	7	0	4		Cross Brook
	2178	99	95	12/13/1865	Eleanor Chilcott	0	0	6 or 8?		Orig. Reg. Vol. 11 Fol 78?

Sample Portion of Map of a Crown Land Grant

E R R A T A

Name in Record Error or Addition My Name

Ac. = Acres; R. = ?; P. = ? You say Ac = Acres but don't know what the others are. It is probable that they stand for ROOD and PERCH (or POLE - the 2 terms mean the same thing).
A ROD (sic) was a measure of 16.5 feet.
A PERCH (or POLE) was 1 ROD square, ie 272.25 square feet.
A ROOD was 40 RODS square which is equivalent to 1 FURLONG x 1 ROD or 10,890 square feet.
An ACRE was 160 RODS square which is equivalent to 1 FURLONG x 1 CHAIN or 43,560 square feet. Brenda Jolley

E R R A T A
Name in Record	Error or Addition	My Name
Ac. = Acres; R. = ?; P. = ?	You say Ac = Acres but don't know what the others are. It is probable that they stand for ROOD and PERCH (or POLE - the 2 terms mean the same thing). A ROD (sic) was a measure of 16.5 feet. A PERCH (or POLE) was 1 ROD square, ie 272.25 square feet. A ROOD was 40 RODS square which is equivalent to 1 FURLONG x 1 ROD or 10,890 square feet. An ACRE was 160 RODS square which is equivalent to 1 FURLONG x 1 CHAIN or 43,560 square feet.	Brenda Jolley