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From: "Brenda Dougall Merriman, CGRS, CGL" <>
Subject: Re: [UEL] Family of UE petitions for land
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:29:47 -0500
References: <3E63884F.43E68C31@northcoast.com>


Sharilyn,

In my experience, I have never seen someone receive a Loyalist land grant as
both a Loyalist and the son of a Loyalist. In fact, some men did "qualify"
in both categories but it seems the prevailing policy was to make the grant
only once. It would be interesting to hear if anyone has found a situation
where this differs.

There are many, many instances where a husband and wife, both children of
different Loyalists, petitioned and received their SUE and DUE grants. So if
your wife was the daughter of a UE, she could have applied for her share.
There is the implication that she was not entitled (not a DUE) if she did
not petition, but possibly other reasons? Did you check the indexes under
both her birth and married names? All spelling variations? Did she die
before she could petition?

Brenda in Toronto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharilyn Whitaker" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: [UEL] Family of UE petitions for land


> What I know about Loyalist research you could put into a
> thimble, so bear with me please.
>
> I am involved in research where there are two people who may be
> unrecognized children of a UE Loyalist, born during a long gap
> in the records of their local church.
>
> One was married to a UE Loyalist, and one served as a UE
> Loyalist himself.
>
> The man received the usual grants of land for his service, and
> his daughters received grants of land based on his service, but
> he is not known to have petitioned as the son of a UE Loyalist.
> Would he have been expected to have done so? Would he also have
> been eligible for additional land as a son of a UE Loyalist
> himself, if indeed, such he was?
>
> The woman is not known to me to have petitioned for land as DUE,
> but her husband, of course received the land he was due, and
> their children theirs, based on the husband's UE service.
>
> Would she also have been eligible to petition for land as DUE,
> had, indeed she been the daughter
> of a UE Loyalist, as well as the wife of same, and since she
> apparently did not, does this infer that she probably was not
> the daughter of a UE Loyalist?
>
> Regards, and thank you,
>
> Sharilyn
>
>
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