1801

The Hatfield Grant was issued on January 29,1801 in order to settle land claims in what was then known as Annapolis County. The land in question had previously been granted under the “Botsford Grant” in 1784 but the grantees didn't fulfill the conditions of the grant and the property was forfeited to the Crown. The lands in question had been settled by other people who had made improvements and wanted to have legal title to their property. Many of those included as grantees were given their property as a reward for military services during the American Revolution or as compensation because their property in the US had been confiscated because they had remained loyal to England. The “Hatfield Grant” consisted of 91632 acres and was issued to 275 individuals and one Church. It is also known as the Grant of Confirmation. The area was designated by the name of the Township of Digby and was still part of the County of Annapolis.

There were conditions attached to the grant and they were strictly enforced. Each Grantee was required to:

1. Pay to the Receiver General two shillings per hundred acres. Payment was to be made on the Feast of St. Michael and was to start ten years from the date of the grant.

2. Agree to clear and work three acres of land for every 50 acres of plantable land granted or clear and drain 3 acres of swampy or sunken ground or drain 3 acres of marsh land within 3 years of the date of the grant

3. Keep three neat cattle upon each 50 acres of cleared land

4. Erect a dwelling house at least 20 feet in length and 16 feet in breadth

5. If the granted lands were stony or rocky ground and not fit for planting or pasture to operate a stone quarry and hire one able hand for every 50 acres

6. Swear an Oath of Loyalty to the King within 12 months of the grant

 

 

Last Name	First Name	Acres
Addington	William	150
Aikins	John	750
Amberman	Paul	385
Archibald	John	520
Archibald	John(Jr)	100
Armstrong	Francis	419
Armstrong	William	125
Arnold	Stephen	144
Baine	George	150
Barton	Joseph (Heirs of)	1250
Baxter	James	496
Baxter	William (Heirs of)	239
Bayeau	Thomas	345
Beeman	Joseph	100
Beeman	(Widow)	147
Betts	Hiram	100
Bishop	Leveritt	292
Black	George	200
Blacksford	Martin	50
Boise	Jacob	300
Bonnell	Isaac	801
Bowlsby	Abraham	100
Bowlsby	Richard	400
Brewer	Jacob	100
Brooks	Abraham	200
Brown	Eleanor	113
Budd	Elisha	800
Budd	Tamar	250
Budd	Betsey	250
Bull	Elizabeth	100
Burkett	John	541
Burns	William	200
Campbell	Mungo	111
Chryst	Jacob	200
Clark	William (Jr)	230
Colbourn	Charles	815
Colville	John	160
Conolly	Joseph	200
Cornwall	Jacob	380
Cornwell	Thomas	178
Cosman	James	500
Cosman	John	700
Cossaboom	Samuel	201
Cossaboom	David	278
Cossaboom	James	145
Cossins	Thomas	100
Covert	John	100
Covert	John (Jr)	100
Craig	James	509
Craig	John	100
Cronk	Joseph	300
Cross	William	100
Cunningham	Elizabeth	252
Cutler	Ebenezer	1442
Dakin	Thomas	216
Darling	Daniel	450
Delancey	Stephen	1200
Denniston	Patrick	63
Denton	Joseph	210
DesCourdres	Louis (Heirs of)	119
Dickson	Robert	400
Dillon	Amos	200
Ditmars	John	500
Dominic	Francis	200
Doucett	Peter	500
Dowling	Dennis	144
Drake	William	230
Duck & Dalton,	Peter & Daniel	230
Dunbar	Jabez Woodroofe	167
Dunbar	Joseph	687
Edison	John	500
Everitt	Catharine	10
Everitt	James	262
Faulkner	John	300
Fenwick	William	500
Ferguson	Charles	100
Fitzgerald	Daniel	119
Fitzgerald	James	68
Fitzgerald	William	394
Fitzrandolph	Robert	158
Fowler	Jonathan	735
Franklin	James Botineau	6157
Germain	Hugh	178
Gidney	John	300
Gidney	Joseph	985
Gilbert	Thomas (Heirs of)	1400
Gilbert	Peres	400
Gilbert	Thomas (Major)	200
Gilliland	Joseph	95
Goldsbury	Samuel	65
Grant	John	125
Grant	Sarah (Heirs of)	600
Grant	David	200
Griffin	Obadiah (Jr)	100
Griffin	Obadiah	200
Griffin	William	46
Grigg	John	500
Haines	Alexander	700
Hamilton	Henry	100
Hamilton	John	100
Hamilton	Archibald	100
Hamilton	Archibald (Heirs of)	100
Hankinson	Reuben	976
Hanselpiker	William	100
Harris	Samuel	200
Harris	Francis	100
Hatfield	Isaac	600
Hecht	Frederick William	300
Henderson	Joseph	382
Hewitt	John	300
Hill	John	188
Hill	Richard	280
Hill	Robert	60
Hines	Richard	100
Hinxman	Charles	67
Hockinhull	John	119
Holdsworth	James A	1294
Holdsworth	John	400
Hollingshead	George	100
Hoyt	Jessie	300
Huggerford	Thomas	100
Hughston	Hames	100
Hutchinson	Thomas	200
John	Peter	310
Johnson	Martin	300
Johnston	William	200
Jones	Benjamin	100
Jones	Cereno Upham	562
Jones	James	250
Jones	Josiah	950
Jones	Nathaniel	200
Jones	Simeon	625
Jones	Stephen (2nd)	200
Jones	Stephen	700
Keine	Jesse	367
Kelly	Mathias	100
Kerr	William	50
Ketchum	Jehiel	300
Lamberson	Tunis	146
Langford	James	143
LaRoy	Frances P	294
Lawrence	Benjamin	270
Lawson	John	125
Leonard	James (Heirs of)	144
Lewis	Thomas	200
Licit	Patrick	100
Littany	William H	150
Long	Alexander	144
Long	Peter	70
Longsworth	Isaac	200
Lovett	Phineas	150
Lowe	John	462
Lowe	William	421
Lumberson	John	162
Majoribanks	Thomas	150
Mann	Andrew	200
Marshall	Anthony James	500
McConnell	Benjamin	825
McDonald	William	135
McDormand	Robert	167
McDormand	William	517
McGhee	Samuel	240
McGrath	Dennis	100
McMullin	Peter	400
Mead	Jonas	200
Meager	James	200
Miller	Abraham	100
Millidge	Phineas	200
Millidge	Thomas	400
Mills	Hope	400
Moody	James	2258
Moody	John	500
Moore	Jeremiah	200
Moore	William	200
More	John	121
Morehouse	John	130
Morehouse	Jonathan	330
Morford & Stennager	Marjorie & Jane	212
Morgan	John	200
Muir	William	250
Mussels	William	250
Nicholls	John	200
Northrup	Joshua	200
Oaks	Jesse	270
Oaks	Phineas	100
Patterson	Alexander	144
Porter	Asa	200
Post	David	294
Post	Gilbert	400
Powell	Evan	200
Pritchard	Gaines	200
Purdy	Daniel	200
Purdy	Joseph	400
Purdy	Nathaniel	200
Ray	Robert	200
Raymond	Simeon	200
Reid	James	665
Remson	Rem	400
Rice	Ashbel	250
Ritchie	Andrew	100
Ritchie	John	100
Ritchie	Thomas	166
Robert & Turnbull,	George & William	225
Robertson	William	275
Robinson	James	90
Robinson	John	162
Robinson	Robert	147
Rolligan	John (Heirs of)	109
Rolls	Robert	350
Roope	John	100
Ross	Isabella	100
Rowe	John Peter	400
Rutherford	Henry	2782
Saunders	John	100
Saxton	George	200
Saxton	John	300
Seabans	Benjamin	125
Seabans	Jeremiah	325
Seabans	Willoughby	125
Seabury	David	284
Shaffner	Ferdinand	352
Sibley	David	300
Simond	Joseph	100
Simpson	Agnes	100
Sinclair	Arthur	100
Slocombe	John	310
Small	John Christian	240
Smith	Jacob	230
Smith	Jasper	100
Smith	Joshua	523
Sneeden	Stephen	450
Snodgrass	Andrew	320
Snodgrass	Eunice	182
Snook	David	125
Specht	Anthony	200
Stennagar	Henry	100
Street	Samuel	113
Sypher	Jacob	250
Taylor	Edward & William	397
Taylor	John	680
Thomas	William	750
Thompson	Alexander	144
Thorne	Edward	234
Tidd	Samuel (Heirs of)	550
Titus	Isaac	180
Titus	James	200
Tobias	Christian	290
Trinity Church	as a Glebe	669
Tucker	Reuben	1218
Turner	John	130
Tympany	Robert	853
VanEmburgh	Gilbert	200
VanTassel	Abraham	200
VanTassel	William	100
VanWelza	Daniel	400
VanWelza	John	100
Viets	Roger	237
Vroom	John	200
Walker	Adam	200
Warwick	John	302
Watt	Charles	121
Watt	Thomas	150
Welch	Morris	250
Wells	Francis (Heirs of)	100
William	Thomas (Esq)	709
Williams	Frederick	1119
Wilmot	James	150
Wilson	Abraham	200
Winchester	Josiah	224
Wiswall	Pelig	597
Wortman	Philip	190
Wright	John	100