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UCLPetition3, 1824. To Lieut. Governor Peregrine Maitland.
Petition of Hugh McCutcheon, of the Town of York, Yeoman.
Your petitioner is a native of the Parish of Bangor, County Down, Ireland, from whence he imported to Quebec in April last [1823], with a wife & 4 children, has taken the Oath of Allegiance and received no land from the Crown.
Your petitioner is of the ability & desirous to settle on & improve a lot of 200 Acres of the waste lands.

Wherefore your petitioner humbly prays your Excellency will grant him 200 acres of the waste land and praying of fees.
Your petitioner will ever part, Signed, Samuel McCutcheon., York, 18 February, 1824.
Your petitioner brought out several Certificates but lost them on Board the Steam Boat lately General [Mem Jenbge?]
Note: Their ship sunk on the St. Lawrence River Rapids near Morrisburg, Ontario.

. Province of Upper Canada I certify that Samuel McCutcheon, Native of Ireland hath taken & subscribed the Oath of Allegiance required in the Home District [Toronto], this 17th day of February, 1824. Signed, Grant Power, Council.
. Envelope: Gov. Offices, 18th Feb, 1824. The subject is requested to report here here for the information of the Honorable Council. Signed, M Johnson.
I do not find hat the petitioner has received any lands or Order for land. Jno. Ridout, Survey Office.
In Council, 18 Feb., 1824, Recommended, Order issued 19th Feby, 1824.
Notes: It appears that Samuel was requested to return for further information & may have spoken at the Council himself. - PJA

.1824 Feb 18 - Upper Canada Land Books [C104, p98].
York Executive Council Chamber, Wednesday 18 Feb. 1824, Present. Chief Justice Wm. Drummer Powell, James Baby & Samuel Smith.
Samuel McCutcheon, M3, Praying for grant of 200 acres of land, praying for [free Survey] fees.
Granted.

. Granted on that day also were, Hugh McCutcheon, M3, Wm. McCutcheon, W4, of Lot 7 , Con 5, Erin & John McCutcheon, M5. -

Transcripts by P J Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Died:
Choked to death while eating dinner.

Samuel married Charlotte Letitia MORRISON. Charlotte was born in 1795 in County Down, Ireland; died on 19 May 1852 in Dufferin Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Samuel married Mrs. Elizabeth (Samuel) MCCUTCHEON in 1770 in Grey Abbey, County Down, Ireland. Mrs. was born in 1752 in Cotton, County Down, Ireland; died on 16 Mar 1827 in Grey Abbey, County Down, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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. Monument reads:
Erected by Samuel McCutcheon of Cotton in remembrance of his wife Elizabeth McCutcheon who departed this life 16th March 1817 age 65 years. Here lieth the body of Samuel McCutcheon who departed this life 22nd December 1825 age 73 years. 
[There is more inscription deeply buried]. - - -

Birth:
Barony of Lower Ards, Civil Parish of Bangor, PLU Newtownards..