{"id":4395,"date":"2019-08-30T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2019-08-30T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T17:40:21","slug":"land-petitions-of-protestant-emigrants-1819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/historical-records\/land-petitions-of-protestant-emigrants-1819\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Petitions of Protestant Emigrants (1819)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> Document Date: September 21, 1819<br> Transaction Type: Petition<br> Quebec Archives #E21 S64 SS5 SSS6 D1041 <br> Transcriber: Gerry Neville<br> Surnames Mentioned: Abraham, Roark (Rourke), Bethel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>List of Protestant Emigrants from Ireland<\/strong>  <strong>who are desirous of taking up Concessions<\/strong> \n<strong>in the Seigniory of St. Gabriel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<strong>21st September 1819<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThomas Abraham, Farmer, aged 30 prays for\nLot No. 10 in the 4th Concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nJohn Abraham, Farmer, aged 24 prays for Lot\nNo. 9 in the 4th Concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nJames Abraham, Farmer, aged 28 prays for\nLot No. 8 in the same concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nNicholas Abraham, Farmer, and Father of the\nabove, aged 55 and having five sons and six daughters, the youngest of his\nchildren being 12 years of age, prays for Lot No. 7 in the same concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nJoseph Abraham, Farmer, Mason, Carpenter,\nTaylor, and Shoemaker aged 32 prays for Lot No. 6 in the same Concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nJames Roark, son in law to N. Abraham,\nFarmer, Mason, Wheelwright and Carpenter having a wife and four children prays\nfor Lot No. 5 in the same concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nWilliam Bethel, Senior, Brother in law to\nN. Abraham, having three sons and two nieces grown up, and residing with him\nprays for Lot No. 4 in the same concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nN.B. They are all used to farming and are\nexcellent shoemakers as the shoes they have made for me will testify. William.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nWilliam Bethel Junior, 21 years of age,\nFarmer and Shoemaker, prays for Lot. No. 3 in the 4th Concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nTo the above persons, I beg leave to add a\nman named J. Henry who has for some time just been employed on Lands conceded to\nMr. Stuart. He appears to be a very intelligent Scotch Farmer and at his request\nI have put his name down for Lots No. 1 and 2 in the aforesaid 4th Concession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nQuebec 21st September 1819<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nB. W. Ryland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nTo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThe Commissioners for managing and\nimproving the estates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nheretofore belonging to the late order of\nJesuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Document Date: September 21, 1819 Transaction Type: Petition Quebec Archives #E21 S64 SS5 SSS6 D1041 Transcriber: Gerry Neville Surnames Mentioned: Abraham, Roark (Rourke), Bethel List of Protestant Emigrants from Ireland who are desirous of taking up Concessions in the Seigniory of St. Gabriel 21st September 1819 Thomas Abraham, Farmer, aged 30 prays for Lot No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVLnF-18T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}