LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

BIELER
other spellings:
BELL?, BELLER?, PEAL?, PEALER, PEEL?, PEELER, PETER, PEYTER, PHELER?, PIELER

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
not in "Nova Scotia Immigrants"
"Planters & Pioneers" p 243 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 288 [FP2]
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 441 [HL2]
Birth Records [DS2]
Marriage Records [DS2]
Death Records [DS2]
SSGS Cemetery Inscriptions [CI2]
Probated Will(s) [PW1]
Halifax Obits 1962-92 [HO2]
on 1864 AF Church & Co Map [CM1]
not in Census of 1871
in "Bell's Notes" [BN2]

Adam
not found , occupation not found , left Hesse-Darmstadt Germany [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Ann the summer of 1750 [PL2]
He appeared on the Lunenburg Victualling List of 1756 [VL2]
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LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
not searched
Town Lot Registry of 1762
Zouberbuhler's Div C-8 [TR1]
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
1st Div A-9 (vacant; September 1762;
land reverted to A WIEDERHOLT (Crown?) ) [GL1]
a 30 Acre Farm Lot Assigned in 1753
not searched
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
not found
a 300 Acre Forest Lot Assigned
in one of five draws 1763-6
3rd Div E-8 [300A1] (his children)
In 1784, these various grants were consolidated
into a formal Township Grant of
not found

Details on Individuals in the first generation of the family
will appear here later.

This page was last modified 30 January 1999.

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