Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands

Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands This is data of petitions made to government by individuals or groups of people seeking grants of Crown Land in early Nova Scotia, 1765-1800. The database contains 11,464 names of intending settlers, as identified in 1,890 surviving petitions; data fields also include year of each petition, location of land by county, brief description of land applied for, and notations concerning related documentation (e.g. warrants to survey, surveyor’s reports, licences to occupy, etc.). 2024-07-24 Government of Nova Scotia Arts, Music, Literatureland petitionsnamesdemography Nova Scotia original metadata (https://data.novascotia.ca)HTML https://data.novascotia.ca/datasets/pfje-8tuj Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (CSV)CSV https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (CSV Excel)CSV https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (CSV Excel (EU))CSV https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true&delimiter=%3B Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (TSV)other https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.tsv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true&delimiter=%3B Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (RDF)RDF https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.rdf?accessType=DOWNLOAD Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (RSS)RSS https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.rss?accessType=DOWNLOAD Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (XML)XML https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.xml?accessType=DOWNLOAD

This is data of petitions made to government by individuals or groups of people seeking grants of Crown Land in early Nova Scotia, 1765-1800. The database contains 11,464 names of intending settlers, as identified in 1,890 surviving petitions; data fields also include year of each petition, location of land by county, brief description of land applied for, and notations concerning related documentation (e.g. warrants to survey, surveyor’s reports, licences to occupy, etc.).

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