LUNENBURG FOUNDING FAMILIES

CROSS / GRASS
other spellings:
CRASS, CRISS, CROS, GLASS, GRAAFF?, GRAFF?, GRAEFF, GRAESS, GRASS, GRASSE, GRAUSS, GROSS, KRASS?

SOME DOCUMENTS WHERE THIS FAMILY NAME HAS BEEN CITED
"Nova Scotia Immigrants" p 63, 130, 324 [NS2]
"Planters & Pioneers" p 141 [PP2]
"The Foreign Protestants" p 290 [FP2]
"History of the County of Lunenburg" p 70, 275, 446, 456 [HL2]
Birth Records [DS2]
Marriage Records [DS2]
Death Records [DS2]
SSGS Cemetery Inscriptions [CI2]
Probated Cross Grass Will(s) [PW1]
Halifax Obits 1962-92 [HO2]
on 1864 AF Church & Co Map [CM1]
in Census 1871 [CC2]
in "Bell's Notes" [BN2]

Conrad
aged 25 , occupation a Farmer , left Switzerland [PL2]
and sailed from Rotterdam, Holland on the Ship Betty the summer of 1752 [PL2]
He did not appear on the Lunenburg Victualling List of 1756 [VL2]
LAND GRANTS WERE GIVEN OUT AS FOLLOWS
a Town Lot assigned in 1753
Zouberbuhler's Div C-2 [BN2]
Town Lot Registry of 1762
Zouberbuhler's Div C-2 [TR1]
a Garden Lot assigned about 1753
and Registered in 1762
3rd Div F-16 [GL1]
a 30 Acre Farm Lot Assigned in 1753
Center A-4 [BN2]
30 Acre Farm Lot Registered in 1760
North West Range A-48 (GRAEFF crossed out)
Center B-4 [30A1]
a 300 Acre Forest Lot Assigned
in one of five draws 1763-6
3rd Div G-13 [300A1]
In 1784, these various grants were consolidated
into a formal Township Grant of
345 Acres[TG1]

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

For more information on the CROSS/GRASS family see
Martha Farrar's and Angela Pearl-Findlay's Web Pages.

This page was last modified 8 Feb 2000.

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