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Minutes : 1789-1802.

Call Number:
HIL-MICL FC LPR .05C6S4M4M4
Category:
Ontario
Creator:
Upper Canada. Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Luneburgh, Eastern District).
Material Description:
1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
Background:

The Proclamation of Lord Dorchester, 24 July 1788, created four districts in which was to become Upper Canada. Luneburgh was the most easterly of the four original Districts. The other Districts were Mecklenburg, Nassau and Hesse. The Districts were all renamed in the opening session of the first Parliament of Upper Canada, 15 October 1792, and became the Eastern, Midland, Home and Western Districts.

Contents:

As in all the other Districts, the Minutes of the Sessions provide a record of decisions on all business which came before the Court, both judicial and administrative.

The volumes record the dates of the court sittings, names of the defendants, charges, pleas, lists of jurors sworn, verdicts and penalties. One of the volumes also contains marriage oaths, June 1789 - Jan. 1802 . (Law Society of Ontario)

Originals:

The original records are held by the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Archival Ref. No.:

Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace fonds, PF16.

Other With:

Microfilmed on the same reel with the Minutes of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Mecklenberg, Midland District) : 1789-1816, and shelved at MIC-Loyalist FC LPR .05C6S4M4M4.