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From: "Jack Peltier" <>
Subject: Jacob Serviss - Loyalist???
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:36:57 -0600


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Marilyn Jackson and I have been puzzling over information in a number of Land Petitions which she extracted some weeks ago.

The following two Petitions from John Servis and Thomas Servis both dated 5-5-1800 are particularly perplexing to me. Does anyone have any idea who this Jacob was and who his parents were? He is described as having been a Private in the Kings Royal Regiment of New York. Both Petitioners declare they were from Matilda Cty, Ontario Both Petitioners are described as being in a position not to cultivate the land. What does that mean? Were they physically handicapped or were they otherwise disposed?

Presumably this Jacob would have had to have been the son of Capt Peter (Johannes Peter), Wilhelmus or Frederick Wilhelmus. The sons of Christopher Thomas appear to be accounted for unless this Jacob is the same person as John Servos, son of Christopher Thomas, who was reported to have settled in Dundas.

If anyone would like a copy of a transcription of the Land Petitions please let me know. Perhaps some fresh minds can shed light on the many mysteries and apparent contradictions contained in them.

Jack Peltier

5-5-1800: UCLP "S" Bundle 5, 1799-1802 (RG 1, L 3, Vol 452): John Servis of Matilda, s/o Jacob Servis, late Private in King’s Royal Regiment of New York: That your Petitioner begs to represent to your Excellency in Council that he is the son of Jacob Servis who served during the war in Sir John Johnson’s Regiment and that he humbly conceives himself entitled to two hundred acres of land in virtue of his being the son of a Loyalist and soldier and that he is now of age and desirous to settle and improve, therefore prays it may be granted to him etc. Signed John Servis, Dundas. An entry dated 5-7-1800 says: Petitioner is not in circumstances to cultivate land.
5-5-1800: UCLP "S" Bundle 5, 1799-1802 (RG 1, L 3, Vol 452): Thomas Servis, s/o Jacob Servis, late Private soldier in the King’s Royal Regiment of New York: That your Petitioner begs to represent to your Excellency in Council that he is the son of the aforesaid Jacob Servis who served in Sir John Johnson’s Regiment during the war and that he humbly conceives himself entitled to two hundred acres of land by virtue of his being the son of a Loyalist and a soldier and that your Petitioner is now of age and desirous to settle and improve therefore prays etc. Signed Thomas Servis, Dundas. An entry dated 5-7-1800 states: Petitioner is not in circumstances to cultivate land.


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