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May 15, 2015

Corrected List of Contents on Heir & Devisee Commission H1140

Canadiana.Org has digitized 21 films of the Heir & Devisee Commission Papers (Heir & Devisee Commission papers 1797-1854, found in their Heritage Collection), and that's a good thing for genealogists. These records have valuable and informative genealogical documents.

But as mentioned in a previous blog post I wrote called Heir & Devisee Commission 1797-1854 on Canadiana.org - Listing Errors and a Workaround, the index and description of what is in each film, as provided on Canadiana.org,  is incorrect.
I have been slowly going through each film and noting the correct contents in detail.  My first set of detailed listings of the contents of film H1133 can be viewed at No Response from Canadiana.org so here are the Heir & Devisee Commission Film Details 

A complete and correct list of contents of film H1135 can be found on Olive Tree Genealogy website at Finding  Aid for Heir & Devisee Commission Online Films

H1140 Image 160
Here is a corrected list of contents for film H 1140
 
Does not contain what Canadiana.org has listed Image 24 V 38 1804 Commissioners Reports. I have not completed this film but here is the corrected list of contents from Image 14 to Image 431:
  • 14 starts the documents 9 June 1809 survey report
  • 15 to 19 List of claimants. Markham, York, Whitchurch, East Gwillumbury. Plus details
  • 20 Home District May 1804 survey general’s report
  • 24 minutes and reports to the executive Council volume 38 home district 1804
  • 25-27 list of claimants and details of claim 13 June 1804
  • 29-38 list of claimants and details of claim July 1804
  • 40-42 ditto
  • 44 ditto
  • 49-61 ditto
  • 62-93 1803 and four
  • 97-105 miscellaneous documents volume 39 home district 1816; 1821 to 1823 claimants
  • 106 notices with names and details 1812
  • 108-111 documents dated 1818
  • 112-114 documents dated 1817
  • 115-119 1821-1823
  • 120-121 large legal document
  • 122 Detroit 1787 petition of Jacob Arnes
  • 123 certificate re Daniel A----- dated 1797
  • 124 Malcolm Tulley 1802 land title search
  • 128 volume 40 Orders in Council 1797 - 1802 home district
  • 129 Conrad Hotrum Niagara October 1800 also Thomas Paige, Thomas Dickson and David Heron
  • 130 names and locations, 1803
  • 132-134 claims 1803
  • 135 claims 1804
  • 140-142 Gen. Benedict Arnold of the city of London England deceased and his widow Margaret also Sarah Fitch and Ann Fitch of Devonshire
  • 143-144 Eastern District claims 1799 heard in 1804
  • 145 claims Markham and Pickering
  • 146-147 claims Markham 1804
  • 148–154 claims home district 1804
  • 158 volume 41 location certificates alphabetical for home district
  • 159 Nassau District land certificates 1-15 1790 – 1792
  • 160  List of names Nassau District Land Certificates
  • 161– 211 land certificates for each person listed. Please see complete list of names and image numbers for their Land Certificates at An index to Niagara area Loyalists and their Land Certificates
  • 215-216 Home District land certificates 1 – 17, 1787 – 1795. List of names. Note that I will be adding the complete list of names and image numbers
  • 415– 416 Peter Robinson son of the late Christopher Robinson
  • 417 Solomon Ball, Pickering 1803
  • 418-419 Peter Robinson
  • 420 Angus McDonald of York
  • 421-424 Basil Rossiton of Elizabethtown, Samuel Heron of York
  • 425 George Cutter of town of York, Shoemaker.  Basil Rossiton
  • 426 Duncan Cameron
  • 427 John Schmeltzer of Markham
  • 428 John Nicholas Steffens Markham Township
  • 429-430 John Daniel Frederick Bush of Kingston in Frontenac County in Midland District baker, brother to delete John Christian William Bush of the town of York
  • 431 Birth Certificate written in German for Johann Christian Wilhelm 1767. There are other names and the year 1773 and a name Johann Daniel Friedrich but I cannot translate the rest

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