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| The Nova Scotia Archives (NSA) offices have extensive files on grants and petitions for land for Nova Scotia. '''The Registry of Deeds''' for each county has '''indexes''' to grantors and grantees for all the different types of transactions; mortgages, deeds, leases, releases, liens, sheriff’s deeds, court orders, and some wills involving real estate. | | The Nova Scotia Archives (NSA) offices have extensive files on grants and petitions for land for Nova Scotia. '''The Registry of Deeds''' for each county has '''indexes''' to grantors and grantees for all the different types of transactions; mortgages, deeds, leases, releases, liens, sheriff’s deeds, court orders, and some wills involving real estate. |
| med by the Genealogical Society of Utah and copies are available at the Nova Scotia Archives and on loan through any FamilySearch Center. | | med by the Genealogical Society of Utah and copies are available at the Nova Scotia Archives and on loan through any FamilySearch Center. |
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| *''Crown Land Grants, 1854-1967'' can be found on 14 FHL films {{FHL|25139|item|disp=beginning with film 465201}}, the index is on film 466413, again available through FamilySearch Centers.
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| *There is also a land record book containing 3,300 petitions for Cape Breton entitled,''Cape Breton Land Paper and Index, 1781-1843, and Miscellaneous Land Papers, 1820-1864''. These records are at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management and are also available through the FamilySearch Center on 14 films beginning with {{FHL|391860|item|disp=FHL film 1378276}}.
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| | '''County'''<br>
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| | '''History'''<br>
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| | Annapolis<br>
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| | Formed 1759 was Halifax<br>
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| | 1763-1910<br>
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| | Antigonish<br>
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| | Formed 1784 was Sydney County 1784-1836<br>
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| | 1785-1907<br>
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| | Cape Breton<br>
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| | Formed 1784 separate to 1820<br>
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| | 1785-1910<br>
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| | Colchester<br>
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| | Formed 1835 was Halifax<br>
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| | 1770-1903<br>
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| | Cumberland, Amherst<br>
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| | Formed 1759 was Halifax<br>
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| | 1764-1904<br>
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| | Cumberland, Parrsboro<br>
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| | Included in Kings County until 1840<br>
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| | 1789-1905<br>
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| | Digby<br>
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| | Formed 1837 was Annapolis<br>
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| | 1785-1910<br>
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| | Guysborough, Guysborough<br>
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| | Formed 1836 was Sydney County 1784-1836<br>
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| | 1785-1910<br>
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| | Guysborough, Sherbrooke<br>
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| | Formed 1836 western half of County<br>
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| | 1815-1910<br>
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| | Halifax<br>
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| | Formed 1749<br>
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| | 1749-1903<br>
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| | Hants
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| | Formed 1781 was part of Kings County<br>
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| | 1763-1906
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| | Inverness<br>
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| | Formed 1835 was part of Cape Breton County<br>
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| | 1763-1906<br>
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| | Kings Aylesford<br>
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| | Jurisdiction moved to Kentville<br>
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| | 1820-1843<br>
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| | Kings, Cornwallis<br>
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| | Formed 1759<br>
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| | 1764-1903<br>
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| | Kings, Horton<br>
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| | Jurisdiction moved to Kentville<br>
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| | 1766-1843<br>
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| | Lunenberg, Chester<br>
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| | Formed 1759 was part of Halifax<br>
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| | 1879-1908<br>
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| | Lunenberg, Lunenberg<br>
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| | Central and Western part of County<br>
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| | 1759-1912<br>
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| | Pictou<br>
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| | Formed 1845 was part of Halifax<br>
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| | 1771-1905<br>
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| | Queens<br>
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| | Formed 1762 was part of Lunenburg<br>
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| | 1764-1920<br>
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| | Richmond<br>
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| | Formed 1835 was part of Cape Breton County<br>
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| | 1821-1909<br>
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| | Shelburne, Barrington<br>
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| | Formed 1784 was part of Queens<br>
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| | 1854-1913<br>
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| | Shelburne, Shelburne<br>
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| | Eastern part of county<br>
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| | 1783-1921<br>
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| | Victoria<br>
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| | Formed 1851 was part of Breton County<br>
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| | 1851-1911<br>
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| | Yarmouth <br>
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| | Formed 1836 was part of Shelburne<br>
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| | 1766-1910<br>
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| *A list of the Americans who received land as refugees from the American Revolution is found in: ''Whereabouts of Some American Refugees, 1784-1800: the Nova Scotian Land Grants'', by Clifford Neal Smith. 7 vols. McNeal, Ariz: Vestland Publications, 1992. ({{FHL|629166|item|disp=FHL book 971.6 R2s}}). <br>
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| *Another source for Loyalist research is Marion Gilroy’s ''Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia'', reprint with index 1980. {{FHL|54088|item|disp=FHL online version of 1937 edition}}
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| === Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources === | | === Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources === |