Chapter XVI

The term Concession—First Concession of Land in Canada—The
Carignan Regiment—Seigniories—Disproportion of the sexes—Females
sent from France—Their appearance—Settling them—Marriage
allowance—The last seigniory—New Longeuil—Seigniory at
Frontenac—Grants to refugees—Officers and men—Scale of granting—
Free of expense—Squatting—Disbanded soldiers—Remote regions—A
wise and beneficent policy—Impostors—Very young officers—
Wholesale granting of land—Republicans coming over—Covetous—
False pretensions—Government had to discriminate—Rules and
regulations—Family lands—Bounty—Certificates—Selling claims—Rear
concessions—Transfer of location ticket—Land board—Tardiness in
obtaining titles to real estate—Transfer by bond—Jobbing—Sir Wm.
Pullency—Washington—Giving lands to favorites—Reserves—Evil
results—The Family Compact—Extract from Playter—Extract from
Lord Durham—From Gourlay—Recompense to Loyalists—Rations—Mode of
drawing land—Land agent—Broken front—Traitor Arnold—Tyendinaga 164

CHAPTER XVII.

Lines—Western Settlement, 1783—Population—Settlement upon St.
Lawrence and Bay—Number, 1784—Proclamation to Loyalists—Society
disturbed—Two kinds of Loyalists—St. Lawrence and Bay favorable
for settlement—Government provisions—State of the Loyalists—
Serving out rations—Clothes—Utensils for clearing and fencing—
The axe—Furniture—Attacking a last enemy—Tents—Waiting for their
lots—“Bees”—Size of dwellings—Mode of building—Exchanging work—
Bedsteads—Clearing—Fireing trees—Ignorance of pioneer life—
Disposing of the wood—No beast of burden—Logging—Determination—
All settlers on a common ground—Additional refugees—Advance—
Simcoe’s proclamation, 1792—Conditions of grants—The response—
Later settlers—Questionable Loyalists—Yankees longing for
Canada—Loyalty in 1812 181

DIVISION IV.

THE FIRST YEARS OF UPPER CANADA.