Irish Setters in America p232 Robert Harper

p232
January 9, 1763 – Petition of Robert Harper, showing “that having transmitted some favourable descriptions of this Proince to his friends in Ireland, he was in consequence applied to by between 70 and 100 famlies there, with their minister and schoolmaster, all protestants, and in order to encourage them to this Province he prays a grant of 1000 acres of land, free from quit rents for the first eight or ten years, for the accommodation of each family.” …