GRAVES in Lower Canada (Quebec)

H-1161
Lower Canada Land Petitions 1637 - 1842

Lower Canada Land Index for the land Petitions in HG1, L3
QUEBEC and LOWER CANADA land petitions and related records 1637-1842

Volumes 1-210

Petitions for land grants submitted to the Land Comitte of the Executive Council in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1841, together with related and supporting documentations, 1637-1842, form a relatively unified series. Included are many reports and schedules prepared by the Surveyor General, documents relating to the administration of the Jesuit Estates, draft and duplicate minutes and reports of the land Committee, and regulations of the land granting office, 1780-1840. Petitions submitted after 1841 are to be found in series L3. The land Books (series L1) generally give only a brief mention of the decision taken on the application for land. Thus they have very limited value for genealogical and biographical research.

The original order of the petitions has not been preserved. The petitions (volumes 29-209) were reorganized into an alphabetic sequence by name of petitioner or group leader in the early 1960's. Acess is to be had through the Index.

FINDING AIDS
The nominal card index in the Reference Room provides the name of individuals and the pages of the petitions which refer to each. In the case of group petitions, the page references are to the whole file and not to mentions of specific individuals.

The original arrangement of the petitions was essentially geographic, by the township in which the grant or lease was made. Finding Aid 619 provides lists according to the original order, alphabetically arranged by township and by name within each township. It can be used in conjunction with the nominal index to obtain page reference for all settlers ina specific township.

Finding Aid 876 is a copy of the "list of Lands Grnated by the Crown in ... Quebec", 1763-1890, for which the records are held by the Service de l'enregistrement des documents de l'Etat at Quebec. The published list is in two parts, arranged alphabetically by township and by name of grantee.

USE OF THE INDEX

1. Consult the Index under all possible Variant spellings of the names of interest. Note page numbers given there.
2. Consult the shelf list to determine the microfilm reel on wich the pages will appear. RESEARCHERS MUST USE THE MICROFILM.
3. Consult the microfilm in the Self-Service Reading room. The reels may also be borrowed through the inter-library loan arrangement.

MICROFILM

The complete series has been microfilmed. Reel numbers are given in the Slef List which follows this description. An earlier version of this shelf list was microfilmed (as reel C-623). The nominal card index will be microfilmed in 1981.

PHOTOCOPIES

Since the series has been withdrawn from circulation for conservation purposes, xerox copies cannot be made. Reader printer copies will be supplied at the standard charge of rxerox. When special cpies are required for pulication or exhibition, photographs can be supplied at the standard charge for such copies. Please specify the reel number as well as page numbers w3hen ordering photocopies.

CITATIONS

The recomended format is as follows:

PAC, RG 1, L3L vol. 201, pages 94801-94802; on reel C-2568

or

PAC, Lower Canada Land Petitions, vol. 201 pp 94801-802; reel C-2568

1822-1828
Graves, ---
Lower Canada Land
23846-23863
Shelf list 23765-24265 C-2511 (Bowen Hugh - Breyner, David) No dates

1792
Graves, Abner
Lower Canada Land
pp46314-46326
Shelf list 45933-46403 C-2529 (Gilman, Moses - Gongere, Joseph) No dates

1792
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
3206-3211
shelf list 3108-3336 C-2495 (Minutes & reports of the land committee: drafts and extracts of minutes etc) 1792

1792-1797
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp 47576-47588
shelf list 47246-47656 C-2530 (Grant, Donald - Grant, Thomina) no dates

1792-1821
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp. 46771-46834
shelf list 46404-46866 C-2529 (Goodfellow, Robert - Goupille, Louis) no dates

1797
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
p. 406
shelf list 374-449 C-2493 (Lists of petitons for land: Petitions &c for land and reference to the land committee with index) 1796-1799

1799
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp. 58-64
shelf list 58-64 C-2493 (List of petions laid before Council) 1799

1799
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp. 4522-4527
shelf list 4493-4706 C-2496 (Minutes & Reports of the land committee drafts and extracts of minutes) 1798-1800

1801-1802
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp. 35733-35788
shelf list 35645-35916 C-2521 (Davidson, James - Desjarlais, Marie J.) no dates

1802-03
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp. 756-759
shelf list 629-787 C-2493 (Lists of applicants who had taken the oath of allegiance) 1795-1806

1802-1825
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
p. 1540
shelf list 1410-1616 C-2494 (lists of the Patentees in the Townships for which Patents have been issued) 1802-1825

1805-1806
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp. 16603-16610
shelf list 16312-16931 C-2505 (Allsopp, James - Antrobus, John) no dates

1806
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
p. 1309
shelf list 1239-1409 C-2494 (List of Patentees... Book 1 duplicates pp 1217-1264) no dates (1809)

1806
Graves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
p. 2118
shelf list 1962-2299 C-2494 (scrip book listing grants with index) 1796-1832

1792
Graves, Adam & others
Lower Canada Land
pp. 170
shelf list 141-273 C-2493 (Memorials &c for land and references to the land committee with dates of warrants of survey) 1792-1793

1787-1829
Graves, George
Lower Canada Land
pp. 24766-24769
shelf list 24511-24777 C-2512 (Briand, Thomas - Brooks, John) no dates

Other GRAVES names like Agnes & Edward, John, John Jr, Josiah, Levinah, Lydia, Martha, Mary, Nancy, Nathaniel, Randel, Peres, Richard, William also but I'm not sure how or where they might fit in the family tree.

1792
Greaves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
pp 11-26
shelf list 11-26 C-2493 (orders for specific quantities of lands in Sundry Township) 1792

1801
Greaves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
p. 1651
shelf list 1617-1738 C-2494 (orders of the govenor in council specific quanties of land with index) 1801

1799
Greaves, Adam
Lower Canada Land
2352-59
shelf list 2345-2365 C-2494 (lists of names of grantees proposed to be published in the Gazette) 1799

1800
Greaves, Adam & Others
Lower Canada Land
47807-47810
shelf list 47657-48227 C-2530 (Grant, William - Green, James) no dates

1837
Groves, George
Lower Canada Land
pp. 48659-48666
48546-48666 C-2531 (Green, John - Groves, George) no dates

no other Groves (this one doesn't match the year I'm looking for)