Land grant application of Rebecca LaRue

As the daughter of a Loyalist, Rebecca was entitled to receive land.  Below is her application since it is a form of proof that her father Hendrick really was a Loyalist.  You will see from other posts that Hendrick himself has made understanding complicated as he applies, many years later and when again living in the USA, for a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War.   Leaves one to doubt which side he was on.  All of this also leaves me to wonder what the criteria were for being “Loyalist”.  I haven’t yet seen Henry LaRue’s land grant application but in others from that date, those who were not fighting for the King, only had to say they wished to be loyal to the King on arrival in Canada.  Was that enough to become a Loyalist?

I have now learned that the land Rebecca was granted was located on the site of what is now the City of Ottawa.  When did she, and her husband Nathaniel Powers, sell?

Petition of Rebecca LaRue for land as the daughter of an United Empire Loyalist.

To his Excellency Francois Gore Esq. Lieutenant Governor of the province of  Upper Canada.

In Council
The petition of Rebecca LaRue of the township of Younge humbly herewith showeth that your petitioner is the daughter of Henry LaRue of the township of Younge in the county of Leeds, a UE loyalist, that she is married to Nathaniel Powers and has never received lands or order for lands from the Crown.

Wherefore your petitioner prays your excellency may be (pleased?) to grant her 200 acres of the waste lands of the Crown and permit Thomas Hamilton of the town of York to be her agent to locate the same and take out the deed when completed.
Township of Younge.                signed by Rebecca Powers
May 1810

Rebecca Powers, maketh oath and sayeth that she is the person she describes herself to be in the within petition that she is married to Nathaniel Powers and has never received any land or order for land from the Crown.  Rebecca Powers
Sworn before me at Elizabeth town of the province of Upper Canada in Elizabethtown, district of (Johnston and Bay?).  May 1810.    signed

I certify that Rebecca Powers signed the within petition in my presence and she is the person she therein describes herself to be and has never received any land or order for land from the Crown to the best of my knowledge and belief.  Witness my hand at Young, county of Leeds.  13 day of May 1810   John oilyea ? district of Johnstown?

Rebecca Powers.  Received July 20 from Thomas Hamilton – the name of Henry LaRue appears on the UE list.  Petitioner has had no land by order in council.  Signed by four people.
Lieutenant Governor’s office, York, August 1810.  Referred to the executive  council by order of the Lieutenant Governor.  (signed William Halton).
Entered in land book UE page.

Read in council 16th August 1810.
The petitioner recommended for 200 acres of land as the daughter of a UE loyalist.  Signed.

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