04 November 2019

Amos Lay In Quebec


Lower Canada, declarations of aliens : H-1154:

11 July 1794
Quebec

...the subscriber by profession a farmer residing at
West Haven County of Rutland
Sate of Vermont
arrived in this City yesterday, and lodges at
Pearce Ryan's Tavern Keeper 
comes in search of Crown Lands
*Amos Lay
Acknowledged before Wm. Lindsay

This Amos Lay who was a mapmaker and surveyor? *The Obscure Amos Lay: An Early Nineteenth-Century  American Cartographer, by David Y. Allen



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