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U.E. rights Hist.

• 1 the land grant of 200 hundred acres to which all Loyalists on the U.E. list were entitled, including the rights of sons and daughters of grantees to claim that grant at a later date.

  See also: U.E. (def. 3)  U.E. grant  U.E. list  United Empire Rights  

  • 1835  It is the intention of the Government in granting the privileges commonly called U.E. Rights, to confer upon the children of those brave men, who during the American Revolution adhered to the Crown, a Lot of Land on which they might comfortably reside, as a mark of distinction for their Loyal Services.
  • 1837  All holders of U.E. Rights and other claims, who shall be willing actually to settle in the said Townships, shall, upon producing a certificate of their actual settlement . . . be entitled to locate their claims in the said settlement.
  • 1838  The allowance to Officers, duly certified at the Crown Lands Office, will be received in payment by the Agent, also U.E. and Militia, Military, and other Land Rights, on the production of Certificates of unlocated authorities from the Surveyor General's Office

• 2 the actual land or holding obtained under such a grant; also, the location ticket for such land.

  • 1833  (1926)  Besides this I have bought two U.E. rights of 200 acres each at 3/9; one of which I have resold at a profit of £12 10, and the other I have located immediately adjoining y other land but in the townshipof Verulam.
  • 1833  (1926)  . . . I am at present partly in treaty for certain U.E. rights, which I can procure at 3/9 to 5'-, and, if I come to any arrangement upon the subject the cost of my land will be materially diminished.
  • 1861  U.E. rights became a staple article of commerce, and were readily bought up by speculators, almost as fast as they came into the hands of the rising generation.