1785/86 New Brunswick Land Petition of Caleb PAUL -- Pennfield, Charlotte County
F1028 Land Petition of Caleb Paul (with William Harrison) 1785
The His Excellency in Council
The Memorial of Caleb Paul of Pennfield, in the County of Charlotte humbly sheweth
That your Memorialist in partnership with William Harrison, erected a Sawmill on a stream called Waswaswiniwick in the parish of Pennfield in the year 1785.
That twenty acres of land were at the time surveyed and returned by Samuel Fairlamb, deputy surveyor, as an allotment to your Memorialist and the said William Harrison including the Seat of the said Sawmill.
That your Memorialist in the year 1786 purchased the share of the land and Mill of the said Harrison, for which he paid the sum of seventy five pounds supposing the same would be included in the grant of allotments in that District, but it remains yet ungranted.
That your Memorialist has continued to reside on the premises, has cleared the whole quantity of twenty acres and kept the Sawmill in repair - And as a tract of wilderness and ungranted land lies adjacent thereunto – He prays to have a grant of the premises, with the addition of such quantity of the adjacent land as to your Excellency he shall appear to be intitled.
And as in duty bound &e
Caleb Paul
This Indenture made this tenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty six between William Harrison of the township of Pennfield in the County of Charlotte and Province of New Brunswick of the one part and Caleb Paul of the same place of the other part.
Witnesseth that the aforesaid William Harrison for and in consideration of seventy five pounds current lawfull money of this province afforesaid to him in hand paid by the afforesaid Caleb Paul the receipt whereof is hereby acknowdedged hath for him self his heirs Executors Administrators is Granted bargained and sold and doth by these presents grant bargain and sell unto the afforesaid Caleb Paul his heirs executors administrators and assigns one equal half part of the saw mill which the afforesaid Caleb Paul and William Harrison Built in Copartnership on Waswaswiniwick Creek at the head of Beaver Harbour with twenty acres of land thereunto belonging which the afforesaid Harrison and Paul Purchased of the company of friends settled at Beaver Harbour with this Previso that the afforesaid Caleb Paul shall pay all debts dues and demands which are justly due against said Copartnership for the Building of said mill and the purchase of the mill privileges to have and to hold all and singular the ways roads water water causes tenements buildings rights privileges and appurtinances whatsoever to him the afforesaid Caleb Paul his heirs Executors Administrators and assigns for ever and further the Afforesaid William Harrison doth hereby engage to Warrant and defend the Afforesaid Premises and every part thereof to the Afforsaid Caleb Paul his heirs Executores Administrators and assigns against any Person or persons who shall make any claim thereunto in Whitness whereof the afforesaid William Harrison hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year above written.
Signed sealed and Delivered in the presence of Samuel Fairlamb John Gilly
William Harrison
These documents are from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. The Indenture document is very difficult to read.