Michael E. Vance - Imperial Immigrants: The Scottish Settlers of the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815-1840

Rideau Purchase Supplement

Return showing the present scale of Annual Presents made to Chiefs of the Mississauga tribes of Bay of Quinty and Kingston and additional proposed to be made in account of the surrender of land agreed for in 1819 and commonly called the Rideau purchase.

List of Mississauga leaders appended to the final Rideau Purchase Treaty November 28, 1822.

Sergeant Simon Grays Discharge Papers

THESE are to certify, that Simon Gray Sergeant in Captain John Jenkins Company in the Regiment aforesaid: born in the Parish of Inverness in, or near the Town of Inverness in the Country of Inverness hath served in the said Regiment for the Space of four Years and one hundred twenty three Days, as likewise in other Corps, according to the following Statement, but in consequence of the Battalion being ordered to be disbounded~Being wounded in action is Right hand & Leg in the island of Grenada W.I. 8th April 1795~and is desirous of residing in Canada until the decision of the Commissioners of Chelsea is known .

is considered unfit for further Service Abroad, and is proposed to be discharged; and has been ordered to remain in Quebec Canada until his case may be finally determined on, having first received all just Demands of Pay, Clothing, &c. from his entry into the said Regiment, to the Date if this Discharge, as appears by the Receipt on the Back hereof, [except*] and that he has no Claims, whatever one the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion

And to prevent any improper Use being made of this Discharge, by its failing into other Hands, the following is a Description of the said Simon Gray He is about Sixty One Years of Age, is five Feet Inches in height, Brown Hair, Grey Eyes, Swarthy Complexion, and by Trade a Labourer .

*Any Claims reserved for Investigation at Home, are to be here specified; if none. Care must be taken that the Blank is filled up with the following Words, viz. and that he has no Claim whatever upon the Regiment.

STATEMENT OF SERVICE

Given under my Hand and Seal of the Regiment at Quebec the Seventh Day of January 1817

Wllm Macpherson Commanding Officer

Lt. Col (late 4th R. V. Bn)

I certify that the above mentioned ____________ is unfit for further Service.
___ Day of ________ 18___

In Consquence of the above, ____________ is hereby Discharged.
___ Day of ________ 18___ Commandant.

I Simon Gray do acknowledge I have received all my Clothing, Pay, Arrears of Pay, and all just Demands whatsoever, from the Time of my enlisting in the Regiment mentioned on the other side, to this Day of my Discharge, / vide / 24th September 1816,

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Simon X Gray

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As witness my Hand this Seventh Day of January 1817

Witness Saml Brazier

Segt Major 4 R.V.Bn.

I do hereby certify that the Cause of which has rendered it necessary to discharge the within-mentioned Sergeant Simon Gray as stated on the opposite side, has not arisen from Vice of Misconduct, and that he is not, to my Knowledge, incapacitated by the sentence of a General Court Martial from receiving his Pension. His General Character is very good & is highly Recommended

Surgeon Wllm Macpherson Commanding Officer

Lt. Col (late 4th R. V. Bn)

N.B. When a Soldier has lost an Eye of Limb, or has been wounded or disabled in the Service; the Discharge must particularly express the Cause from whence proceeding, as when, where, and how it took place. Should any mark remain in consequence, it is to be noticed in the Mans description; the Surgeon, or Assistant Surgeon in his absence, will sign his Name in the Margin, opposite the Cause assigned for the Discharge being granted, which will be considered the Commanding Officers Certificate above. The Period of Service in the Body of Discharge , is to filled up in Words at length, and in Figures . Service prior to the Age of Eighteen, is not to be included in the within Statement .