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This is data of petitions made to government by individuals or groups of people seeking grants of Crown Land in early Nova Scotia, 1765-1800. The database contains 11,464 names of intending settlers, as identified in 1,890 surviving petitions; data fields also include year of each petition, location of land by county, brief description of land applied for, and notations concerning related documentation (e.g. warrants to survey, surveyor’s reports, licences to occupy, etc.).

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (CSV)	CSV		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD
Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (CSV Excel)	CSV		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true
Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (CSV Excel (EU))	CSV		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true&delimiter=%3B
Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (RDF)	RDF		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.rdf?accessType=DOWNLOAD
Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (RSS)	RSS		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.rss?accessType=DOWNLOAD
Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (TSV)	Unknown		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.tsv?accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true&delimiter=%3B
Nova Scotia Commissioner of Crown Lands (XML)	XML		https://data.novascotia.ca/api/views/pfje-8tuj/rows.xml?accessType=DOWNLOAD
Nova Scotia original metadata (https://data.novascotia.ca)	HTML		https://data.novascotia.ca/datasets/pfje-8tuj

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