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That your Petitioner is Daughter of the late [blank] Morden & of his wife Anne Morden, Loyalist U. E. and now is wife of Gilbert Field of the Township of Newark—That your Petitioner has never received the 200 acres of Land she presumes persons of her description are entitled to; humbly prays your Excellency will be pleased to grant her the said 200 acres, in any of the vacant Lands of the Province, and your Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray—[Signed] Eleanor Morden, alias Field” Received at the Executive Council Office on 2 Jul 1795 and read on 5 Jul. Ordered recommended for 200 acres as the Daughter of a Loyalist. [Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC “M” Bundle 2, Petition Number 70] |
