| | | | non-commissioned officer in
| | | | 34th Regiment.
Q.M. |---- Dies |America | 7 yrs.|Farmer.
Surg. |R. Kerr |Scotland | 8 yrs.|Assistant Surgeon.[133]
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The officers and men of the First Battalion, with their families,
settled in a body in the first five townships west of the boundary line
of the Province of Quebec, being the present townships of Lancaster,
Charlottenburgh, Cornwall, Osnabruck and Williamsburgh; while those of
the Second Battalion went farther west to the Bay of Quinte, in the
counties of Lennox and Prince Edward. Each soldier received a
certificate entitling him to land; of which the following is a copy:

"His Majesty's Provincial Regiment, called the King's Royal Regiment
of New York, whereof Sir John Johnson, Knight and Baronet is
Lieutenant-Colonel, Commandant.

These are to certify that the Bearer hereof, Donald McDonell, soldier
in Capt. Angus McDonell's Company, of the aforesaid Regiment, born in
the Parish of Killmoneneoack, in the County of Inverness, aged
thirty-five years, has served honestly and faithfully in the said
regiment Seven Years; and in consequence of His Majesty's Order for
Disbanding the said Regiment, he is hereby discharged, is entitled,
by His Majesty's late Order, to the Portion of Land allotted to each
soldier of His Provincial Corps, who wishes to become a Settler in
this Province. He having first received all just demands of Pay,
Cloathing, &c., from his entry into the said Regiment, to the Date of
his Discharge, as appears from his Receipt on the back hereof.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Montreal, this twenty-fourth
Day of December, 1783.

John Johnson."

"I, Donald McDonell, private soldier, do acknowledge that I have
received all my Cloathing, Pay, Arrears of Pay, and all Demands
whatsoever, from the time of my Inlisting in the Regiment and Company
mentioned on the other Side to this present Day of my Discharge, as
witness my Hand this 24th day of December, 1783.

Donald McDonell."[134]

There appears to have been some difficulty in according to the men the
amount of land each should possess, as may be inferred from the petition
of Colonel John Butler on behalf of The Royal Greens and his corps of