Manuscript Document, Signed, dated Charlottetown (Charlotton), Nov. 2, 1786, to the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Chief Justice of the Island Saint John.
Published by Charlottetown: 1786.
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one-page folio. (horizontal folds, paper lightly embrowned). matted & framed (size of frame: 31.8 x 20.3 cm. x 36.8 cm.; 12.5 x 8 inches). Memorial of Lieut. Col. Thomas Desbrisay relating to an unpaid debt owed to Dan Grandin, a court lawyer who acted on his behalf in cases against two of his tenants. Desbrisay was a major land speculator in the colony, buying up large tracts of land even before taking up his office ten years after his appointment as Lieutenant-Governor. He first attempted to recruit settlers in Ireland before the British government forbade the practice in 1773. Despite charges by the Governor, Walter Patterson, that he had attempted to interfere in the proper allocation of colonial funds and was unfit to hold office, and the fact that he had swindled prospective settlers by selling them land he had mortgaged, he was not removed from office. Once arrived in St. John’s, he granted some 400 crown lots in Charlottetown Royalty, including many to himself and his family. Still he remained Lieutenant-Governor even after he and the others were forced to surrender land to the Crown. With the reorganization of the colonial administration in 1784 the office of governor of StJohn’s Island was eliminated, and Patterson replaced Desbrisay as Lieutenant Governor. …
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- Title
- Manuscript Document, Signed, dated Charlottetown (Charlotton), Nov. 2, 1786, to the Commissioners for Executing the Office of Chief Justice of the Island Saint John.
- Author
- DESBRISAY, Thomas [1732 or 1733-1819] [Colonial Official, First Lieutenant Governor of StJohn’s (Prince Edward) Island (1769-1784].
- Publisher
- Charlottetown: 1786.
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