Jean Tache, author of the first Canadian poem "Tableau de la Mer" (ancestor of Sir E. Tache). It became known as the Holland farm, and here Major Holland, according to Le Moine, lived in affluence for many years, subsequent to the close of the War, and in the exercise of open hospitality. The farm is now known as Spencer Grange. He was a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils and died in 1801. His son, Samuel Holland, was killed in a duel at Montreal by Major Ward, of the 60th Regiment. Father and son were buried at Quebec.

Jamuel Holland

The name of Sir John Johnson is overshadowed by the greater name of Sir William Johnson, his father. Yet his own services were many and important. He joined the Army as a volunteer in the Revolutionary War, and operated largely among the Mohawk Indians. He raised and commanded a regiment of two battalions in Canada, named the Royal Greens. He defeated Herkimer in 1777 at Fort Stanwix, and suffered defeat in 1780 at Fox's Mill. He was knighted by the king at London in 1765. After the war he was appointed Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in British North America, Colonel-in-Chief of the six battalions of the militia of the Eastern Townships, and a member of the Legislative Council. He resided in Montreal. He married Mary, daughter of John Watts president of the Council, New York, and had one son William, a colonel in the British Army, killed at Waterloo. Sir John died at Montreal in 1822.

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John Johnson

Deputy Surveyor-General John Collins was actively engaged in the earliest surveys of Ontario. He operated at Kingston in 1783, and westward of it, in the townships of Ernestown, Fredericksburg, Adolphustown and Marysburgh, in the following year. He accompanied Sir John Johnson in 1784 with the party of U. E. Loyalists under Captain Michael Grass and assisted in their settlement, administering the oath of allegiance to them under a Special Commission. But he had been connected with Canadian surveys long previously, having received an appointment from Major Holland as early as the 8th September 1764 as Deputy Surveyor-General. Sharp differences of opinion occasionally arose between Major Holland and Mr. Collins, as, for instance in the laying out and settlement of Kingston and in these disputes he seems to have had influence enough with the GovernorGeneral to enable him to prevail, probably by the backing of Sir John John

son.

Outside of his professional life very little has come down to us about him. He was an ardent Freemason and in 1787 founded St. James Lodge in the King's Rangers at Cataraqui.

The Hon. Hugh Finlay was an active member of the Legislative Council for many years, and was chairman of the Land Committee at Quebec. He acted also in other important official capacities and was Deputy Postmaster-General. He died at Quebec on the 26th December, 1801.

Hugh Finlay

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Jenkin Williams, Secretary of the Executive and Privy Council of Canada, 1775.

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Henry Motz, Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada.

REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ARCHIVES.

SECTION C.—LAND BOARD MINUTES, ETC.

The District Land Boards preserved minutes of their transactions and transmitted reports regularly to the Governor General-in-Council at Quebec. But the Ontario Archives possesses only those of the Board for the District of Hesse, and a fragment of those for the District of Nassau. It is hoped that those of the Boards for Mecklenburg and Lunenburg are still recoverable, and that such invaluable records as they would be may not be lost to the Province to which they belong. Even in the case of the District of Hesse the Land Board documents are far from complete. In demitting the office of Secretary to the Board, on the 8th of June 1792, Mr. D. W. Smith, makes a note of "three registers, and nineteen attendant ones thereon; besides all the other papers which are sorted and classed." The nineteen office registers and the papers have disappeared, but it is unlikley that they have all been destroyed, and therefore may yield to search. The three registers mentioned are in the Archives and are in fair state of preservation, although the tooth of time has not spared them. Their contents are given in full in this Section, with a detailed general index.

The minutes of the Land Board for the District of Nassau must have comprised several books, but only a thin volume can be found. It, with other Nassau papers, are given in this Section; as well as the book of instructions to the land surveyors of Upper Canada, a book of surveyors' letters, lists of settlers, miscellaneous papers bearing on the settlement of land, and a statement of the papers in the Surveyor-General's office in 1807.

As first constituted, three members formed a quorum of each Board. From the 1st of May, 1791, on account of the increase of public business, the quorum was raised to five and additional members selected from U. E. Loyalists were appointed. Accordingly, at the meeting of the Board for Hesse held on the 20th May, 1791 (p. 133), three new members were in attendance: John Askin, George Leith and Montigny de Louvigny. Those added to the Board for Nassau were: Gilbert Tice, John Burch, John Warren, Robert Kerr and John McNab. To that for Mecklenburg were added James McDonnel and Hector McLean; and to that for Lunenburg, Malcolm McMartin.

The first Secretary of the Board for Hesse was Thomas Smith, who became one of the members of the second Legislature of Upper Canada for the County of Kent. He was succeeded as Secretary by David William Smith, who was one of the members of the first Legislature for Upper Canada for the County of Kent. The third Secretary of the Board was Edward James O'Brien, who continued in that office until the dissolution of the Board.

In connection with the Schedules and Index of the Two Connected Townships given on pp. 76-80, and the Heads of Inquiry previous to granting lots in the Two Connected Townships given on pp. 269-291, it may be explained that they are the townships of Colchester and Gosfield, lying on Lake Erie east of the township of Malden in the angle of Lake Erie and Detroit River. They consist of a block of land given by the Indians, who then owned it, to a number of men whose names have been, from the commencement of British settlement in the County of Essex, closely and prominently associated with the Detroit District, Alexander McKee, William Caldwell, Charles McCormack, Robin Emphleet, Anthony St. Martin, Matthew Elliott, Henry Bird, Thomas McKee and Simon Girty. But the British Government did not recognize purchases by private individuals from the Indians, the rule being that all Indian land should