MONTHLY MEETING OF THE TORONTO BRANCH OF THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS’ ASSOCIATION
David William Smith was Deputy Surveyor General and then Surveyor General for Upper Canada from 1792 to 1804, and before that clerk to the Hesse District Land Board. If your ancestor acquired (or attempted to acquire) land during this period, the correspondence almost certainly passed through D.W. Smith’s hands. When he left Upper Canada for England in 1802, Smith took a great quantity of documentation about land grants with him. Many years later those documents were brought back to the Toronto Public Library’s collection and include military papers from Smith’s service at Fort Niagara. This lecture will concentrate on the genealogical information about early Upper Canadians found in these papers.
For a taste of the treasures in the D.W. Smith papers, see these blog posts:
MONTHLY MEETING OF TORONTO BRANCH OGS
David William Smith was Deputy Surveyor General and then Surveyor General for Upper Canada from 1792 to 1804, and before that clerk to the Hesse District Land Board. If your ancestor acquired (or attempted to acquire) land during this period, the correspondence almost certainly passed through D.W. Smith’s hands. When he left Upper Canada for England in 1802, Smith took a great quantity of documentation about land grants with him. Many years later those documents were brought back to the Toronto Public Library’s collection and include military papers from Smith’s service at Fort Niagara. This lecture will concentrate on the genealogical information about early Upper Canadians found in these papers.
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For a taste of the treasures in the D.W. Smith papers, see these blog posts: