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| Samuel Holland 1728-1801 |
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In 1764 Captain Samuel Holland was appointed by the British government to survey St John's Island. The survey he conducted divided the Island into sixty-seven townships, or lots, consisting of around 20,000 acres each. On the 23rd July 1767 the British government held a lottery in London in order to distribute the grants of land to those it felt were deserving of recognition for public or military service. Those receiving land were required to populate their townships within a ten year period at the rate of one tenant per 200 acres. The grant also stipulated that all settlers to the Island should be non-British and Protestant in origin. In reality, very few landowners brought tenants to the Island, and of those that did, nearly all recruited settlers from the British Isles.
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