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- From Rainham Township Papers
P.000116
P. 571/51
The Late John Miller held a Deed for the front 200 acres of this Lot on which he settled in 1809. He also held a deed for the rear 100 acres from Phillip Bender of Stamford which deed describes it as having been granted to Charles Seguin by Letters Patent dated May 7th 1802 recorded October 18th 1802 Liber L Folio # 356. Said John Miller Deeded this 100 acres to Isaac Miller his Grandson who now resides thereon and has some 40 acres cleared has sold and deeded several Village Lots on which good frame buildings are erected among them One Methodist and one Baptist Church. The Village being irregularly laid out and the parties holding them being from home I could not obtain a description of them so as to insert them in my Map.
The said John Miller also Deeded the front 200 acres to his Son John Miller the present occupant and also gives him a quit claim deed for the present overplus none of which is cleared.
Isaac Miller pretends to claim part of the overplus tho he does not pretend to have any other claim than that of residing upon the adjacent part of the Lot.
Edmd DeCew
PLS
To The Honorable ? Commissioner
Of Crown Lands
Toronto
P.000125
Rainham May 13th 1852
Mr W L mackinse Esq
Dear Sir
I pray the to close our affair if it can be Don for Mr John Miller is taking the timber from my part of the overplus they pass there own for they fear they will not get my part of the overplus now they want to strip the timber from it for they got Mr Hon John Rolph letter and I have nothing to show but A letter from you and I don't know as that will restrain them from the place for I have advertised it forbidding anaone to trepas on it this was done 22 of april and they still keep on then I took two men with me and forbid them to make more or to remove the rales they have made, they took they rales and now are making more now I think you can see that they are determined to rong me out of the last cent if they could and Mr Smith would help them for he is use to such tricks. I pray they to close it for I would as life loose the land as the timber.
I want you to send this to Qebec the Crownland office that I may get some satisfaction if you cant, write back to me if you pleas, that I can write down
P.000126
For necsity will oblige me to write to the govt office for I cannot put up with there intrution and that with out delay for it is of no use to say anymore to them for there is nothing that will make them stop with out applying to Justis for it is the laws of the land that restrains them from inguring me
I believe that Mr John Miller and Mr Smith wrote gust on purpus to you to give A chance for to strip the timber from the land that if they get not the land that they will have the timber for they said themselvs they did not believ they would get my part of the overplus at that same time but they said they would do all they could do.
Isaac Miller
P.000132
I must acquaint you that my Father staid at home and worked for his Folks betwene fore or five years after he was twenty one, and the money that was paid for my land and the forty dollars wich he recived of his Father and the one read ange and gears to weave would not by half paid my Fathers labour, acording to Justis I should have the whole of the overplus for my Fathers labour for he got nothing else this mention is all he got but govent devides the overplus for that reason I never applide for more than one half of our overplus, my Father Deceased before I was one year old he left us in 1814 and I had no one to see to it and know Mr John Miller wants to wrong me out of the whole of the overplus after my Father beinge the oldest of the family and I the only heir.
Now this is to certify that this above statement is the truth concerning Isaac Millers Father where unto we are witness
I. M. [Isaac Miller}
her
Fanna X Hoover
mark
Johannes Horst senier
? Horst
P.000136
Rainhamcentre August 12th 1852
Hon John Rolph Esq MPP
I wish to acquaint you that I have ben informed that Mr John Miller has again tride to throw the order in council away Now for my parte I was satisfied with the petition for to have the overplus lands devided and I was satisfide with the order in council, but by Mr John Miller there is no satisfaction Now I wish to know wheather I could purches the whole of the lot No 12 in the 1 cons of Rainham in the behalf of my Father for his wages as it is stated in my letter dated the 10 of June and I understand that he wants to cast me by a verble bargen that I should have the half of the overplus which he denies now and sais he was to have the overplus land for to suport his Father there was provisens made in 1840 when the property was all devided for at that time there was nothing said or don about the overplus but he was to sell the luse property and dvide it with the rest and he did not do it and kept it all the rest of the family has devided there overplus lands which is adjacent to there land that they got by heirship but Mr John Miller wants to wronge me out of my Fathers portion, and land
P.000137
Therefore I am advised to try to get the whole of the overplus that I will get some of my due portion back for it seams that he cant be satisfide for he would take the last itum I have got these is the reason I ask the whole for there is no pease with him I would not hav mention these things but gust to show you the reason whie I want the whole of the overplus and I hope if he should cause anothe councle about this that he might be charged with the cost for I would not have complaind I would have ben satisfied with it if I would not had my gust due if I would had peas with him and there will bee no pease with Mr john Miller until I get my deed My Aunt Mr John Miller sister told me this day that he did not know that he would have any of the overplus if he could not get the whole of it
I am Sir
Your Obedient friend
Isaac Miller
Mr Hon
John Rolph
MPP
Quebec
P.000142
Rainham Centre January 27th 1853
Hon John Rolph comr of crownland
Sir
I have to inform you that I have ben informed that there has ben an order in council on the 17 of Janur 1853 of the surplus land of lot No 12 in Concession
From:
Wills - London District Surrogate Registry 1800 - 1839, #1 - 120, MF 1154, Elgin County Library, C 1, Will No. 31:
The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoover (Lot 18, Con. 1, Rainham, "Lower Rainham Henry")
The within Last Will and Testament was duly Registered this Eighth day of July 1811...
Upper Canada
District of London
In the Surrogate Court Personally Appeared before me Philip Sovereign Esquire Surrogate of theDistrict of Aforesaid John Miller of the Township of Rainham in the District aforesaid Yeoman Who being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God maketh Oath and Saith that he was personally present when the within named Testator Henry Hoover Signed Sealed and Executed the aforegoing Instrument as his the said Henry Hoover's last Will and Testament and further deposeth and Saith that Jacob Fiet of Rainham aforesaid Yeoman and Henry Miller of Rainham aforesaid Yeoman….. were also present when the said last Will and Testament was Signed Sealed and executed by the said Testator Henry Hoover as aforesaid, Another the said Jacob Fiet and Henry Miller and this deponent did then and there Subscribe their Names as Witnesses to the said Last Will and Testament in the presence of the said Testator and in the presence of each other and further this Deponent Saith not
John Miller
Sworn Before me this
Eighth day of July 1811
Philip Sovereign Surrogate
N.B. - The Henry Miller in this document is probably Isaac's father, who Isaac says stayed at home and worked for his parents for five years after he was twenty one. The five years would be from the time they settled on Lot 12, Con. 1, Rainham in 1809 until his death, as Isaac says, his father left us in 1814 when he was one year old. Makes Isaac's birhtdate c1813.
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