| Note: The following was all handwritten. |
| George the Fourth by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and ?land King, Defender of the faith and To all to whom these presents shall come Greetings. |
| Know Ye that we of our special grace certain knowledge and mere motion have ? give and grant unto William John, Robert Bird, James Bird, Samuel Bird, William John Junior and James John in severally what is with each of them and to each and every of their several and respective him and assigns in and by the several divisions quantities lots prices and parcels herein after mentioned Six several Lots or pieces and parcels of Land situate lying and being in the Parish of Douglas in the County of York in our Province of New Brunswick what is to say unto the said WILLIAM JOHN his heirs and assigns the Lot in the Tract described on the plan hereunto assigned as the first Tract designated by the number one and containing Two hundred acres more on lots with an allowance of ten per cent for Roads and waste which same first Tract is bounded as follows, to wit Beginning at a marked Birch tree standing on the western side of the Cardigan Road at the Southeastern angle of the Lot number two allotted to JONATHAN GEORGE the said Birch Tree being one chain of four poles distant from the Southwestern angle of the Lot number two on the Eastern side of said Road granted to DAVID DAVIS in the Grant to RICHARD WILLIAMS and associates on a course by the magnetic needle North eighty-eight degrees and thirty minutes West; Thence running North eighty-eight degrees and thirty minutes West one hundred and ten chains; thence North one degree and thirty minutes East twenty-five chains; thence North eighty-eight degrees and thirty minutes West seventy-three chains and fifty links to a Lake; thence South one degree and thirty minutes West seventy-five chains to a marked Birch tree; thence South eighty-eight degrees and thirty minutes East eighty-five chains; thence North seventeen degrees West thirty one chains; thence South eighty-eight degrees and thirty minutes East one hundred and ten chains to a Lake standing on the said side of the Road; and thence along the line of the same North one degree and thirty minutes East twenty chains to the place of beginning. |
| Unto the said ROBERT BIRD his heirs and assigns the Lot described in the said first Tract also assigned by the number one and containing one hundred acres more on lots south an allowance of ten per cent for Road and waste. |
| Unto the said JAMES BIRD his heirs and assigns the Lot designated in the said first Tract by the number two and containing one hundred acres more on lots with an allowance of ten percent for Roads and waste. |
| Unto the said SAMUEL BIRD his heirs and assigns the Lot in the said first Tract designated by the number three and containing two hundred acres more on lots with an allowance of ten percent for Roads and waste. |
| Unto the said WILLIAM JOHN Junior his heirs and assigns the Lot in the same Tract designated by the number four and containing one hundred acres more on lots with an allowance of ten percent for Roads and waste. |
| Unto the said JAMES JOHN his heirs and assigns the Lot described on the said plan as the second Tract and half of number one, containing one hundred acres more on lots with an allowance of ten percent for Roads and waste which said second Tract is bounded as follows; |
| to wit Beginning at a marked Birch tree standing on the Eastern side of the said Tract? one chain assigned from the Southeast an angle of the Lot number one herein granted to the said WILLIAM JOHN in the first Tract of this Grant in the prolongation of the Southern boundary One said Lot; thence North seventy-one degrees and thirty minutes East on hundred and seventeen chains; thence North one degree and thirty minutes East ten chains; thence South seventy-one degrees and thirty minutes West one hundred and seventeen chains to a Lake standing on the said side of said Road and thence along the line of the same South ? and thirty minutes West ten chains to the place of beginning. |
| And also particularly described and marked out on the plot or plan of Survey hereunto annexed, together with all probis?, commodities; heredi?aments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining; except and reserved, nevertheless, out of this present Grant, to Us, our Heirs and Successors, all Coals, and also all Gold and Silver and other mines and minerals; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the said Six (several lots, pieces and parcels) of Land, and all and singular the premises hereby granted, with their and every of their appurtenances, (except before excepted) unto the said WILLIAM JOHN, ROBERT BIRD, JAMES BIRD, SAMUEL BIRD, WILLIAM JOHN Junior, and JAMES JOHN. |
| GIVEN under the Great Seal of our Province of New Brunswick, ----WITNESS, our trusty and well beloved six, Howard Douglas Baronet, our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Province at Fredericton the -- Ninth --- day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine and in the Tenth year of our Reign. |
| By Command of His Excellency in Council - Wm. F. Odell |
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No. 2429 Registered the 10th day of February 1829 signed: Wm. F. Odell Reg. |