[siebert] loyalists AND SIX NATION INDIANS 105 



between the two provinces. Being unable to act in a civil or military 

 capacity until the arrival of further instructions and the coming of 

 the Queen's Rangers, Colonel Simcoe remained at Quebec until the 

 following June. Early in February, however, he published a procla- 

 mation announcing his authority to grant Crown lands by patent to 

 such persons as were desirous of settling in Upper Canada, on condition 

 that the recipients would take the usual oaths, clear not less than 5 

 acres, build a house, and open a road across the front of their lands 

 for a quarter of a mile. The grants were to be no more than 200 

 acres to each person, except in cases where the Lieutenant Governor 

 decided that the applicant was entitled to a larger quantity up to the 

 maximum of 1,000 acres. The proclamation also stated that town- 

 ships would be surveyed, of which one-seventh would be reserved for 

 the support of a Protestant church, another seventh for the future 

 disposition of the Crown, and the remainder thrown open for settle- 

 ment. Inland townships were to be 10 miles square, while those on 

 navigable waters were to have a frontage of 9 miles and a depth of 12.^ 



That conditions in the States were favorable to the continued 

 movement of settlers into Upper Canada is shown by the observations 

 of Mr. P. Campbell, who was now traveling through the Genesee 

 country, by the letters of Colonel Simcoe himself, and by the active 

 immigration that took place during the next few years. Mr. Camp- 

 bell found that some of those who had purchased lands on the Genesee 

 River wanted to sell and remove to Canada, on account of their great 

 distance from a market. He records in his interesting volume of 

 Travels that while Kentucky was attracting a large annual influx 

 from the Southern States, the Genesee from the Middle States, and 

 New Brunswick from the Northern States, settlers were flying from 

 the two latter to Upper Canada, "which is now deemed the paradise 

 of the New World. "2 



Almost at the same moment (February 16, 1793), Simcoe sent 

 a dispatch to Henry Dundas, secretary for war and the colonies, in 

 which he reported that he had learned from a correspondent in Penn- 

 sylvania that a number of persons were disposed to emigrate to Upper 

 Canada and he had encouraged them, and that he had seen people 

 from Connecticut who assured him that the ecclesiastical establish- 

 ment which he had already recommended to the minister would be 

 likely to promote emigration from that State, although he remarked 

 that the delay of Great Britain in giving a free constitution to the new 

 province had somewhat altered the disposition of Loyalists there. 



1 Caniff, Settlement of Upper Canada, 189; Niagara Hist. Soc, No. 26, 28, 29. 

 ^ Campbell, Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America,' 1791 

 and 1792, 218, 219, 224; Niagara Hist. Soc, No. 26, 26, 27. 



