(CANADA) Family correspondence and land records of an Americ

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(CANADA.) Family correspondence and land records of an American Loyalist relocated to Nova Scotia. 8 letters, 1789-1823; 3 receipts, 1798-1821; 30 deeds and property records for land in New York and Canada, 1763-1813; heavy wear and separation at folds to some deeds. (MRS) Vp, 1763-1823

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Joshua Temple de St. Croix (1730-1805) was a New York mariner who sided with the Crown during the Revolution. He forfeited his property in 1783 and settled in Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Disputes over his New York land continued well into the next century, and were carried on by his son Peter after his death. This collection relates almost exclusively to the Temple de St. Croix property, including Peter's 1823 petition to the Crown explaining that his father "was an active loyalist in the American Revolutionary War, and on that account had all his property, which was very extensive, confiscated, for which no remuneration was ever made by Government."