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The Public Archives of Nova Scotia has an alphabetical file of draft land grants and petitions for land. This file covers the years from 1763 onward. There are indexes for 1784–1877. Petitions often mention a petitioner's name, country of origin, date of arrival in Nova Scotia, and other information. | The Public Archives of Nova Scotia has an alphabetical file of draft land grants and petitions for land. This file covers the years from 1763 onward. There are indexes for 1784–1877. Petitions often mention a petitioner's name, country of origin, date of arrival in Nova Scotia, and other information. | ||
Nova Scotia. Department of Crown Lands. ''Land Records, 1763–1914'' Index, 1784–1877. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983–1984. (On 95 | Nova Scotia. Department of Crown Lands. ''Land Records, 1763–1914'' Index, 1784–1877. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983–1984. (On 95 Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=82415&disp=Land+records%2C+1763-1914%3B+index%2C+++ films beginning with 1378554]; films are not always in sequence.) | ||
Nova Scotia. Department of Crown Lands. ''Crown Land Grants, 1854–1967.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968. (On 14 | Nova Scotia. Department of Crown Lands. ''Crown Land Grants, 1854–1967.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968. (On 14 Family History library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=25139&disp=Crown+land+grants%2C+1854-1967++ films beginning with 465201]; index on [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=25139&disp=Crown+land+grants%2C+1854-1967++ film 466413].) | ||
There is also a land record book containing 3,300 petitions for Cape Breton entitled, ''Cape Breton Land Papers and Index, 1787–1843, and Miscellaneous Land Papers, 1820–1864.''( | There is also a land record book containing 3,300 petitions for Cape Breton entitled, ''Cape Breton Land Papers and Index, 1787–1843, and Miscellaneous Land Papers, 1820–1864.''(Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=391860&disp=Cape+Breton+land+papers+and+index%2C+178++ film 1378276].) The land papers are on 13 Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=391860&disp=Cape+Breton+land+papers+and+index%2C+178++ films beginning with 1378277]. These records are at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. | ||
A list of the Americans who received land as refugees from the American Revolution is found in: | A list of the Americans who received land as refugees from the American Revolution is found in: | ||
Smith, Clifford Neal. ''Whereabouts of Some American Refugees, 1784–1800: the Nova Scotian Land Grants.''7 vols. McNeal, Arizona: Vestland Publications, 1992. ( | Smith, Clifford Neal. ''Whereabouts of Some American Refugees, 1784–1800: the Nova Scotian Land Grants.''7 vols. McNeal, Arizona: Vestland Publications, 1992. (Family History library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=629166&disp=Whereabouts+of+some+American+refugees%2C%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 971.6 R2S].) | ||
[[Category:Nova_Scotia]] | [[Category:Nova_Scotia]] | ||