The law-officers of the crown at first tried to insert a condition that the government must reside in England, but the grantees with skilful argument succeeding in preventing this.
As far as we can judge either another session of that Parliament or a new one would have banished the favourites and begun the Bill anew with the addition of obliging the grantees to refund all the mesne profits.
His meaning could only have been that it would not be just to the grantees to resume their property in order to apply it to public uses.
But whilst this opinion was firmly held, still, the Sovereign having repeatedly confirmed the original grants, it was impossible to treat the grantees in any other manner than as the lawful possessors of the soil.
Each acted on his own responsibility, and while a few showed energy in the work, the great body of the grantees did nothing.
One of these grantees was the William Willcocks above mentioned, who was a man of much enterprise and philanthropy.
Whole townships were in some cases conferred, upon condition that the grantees would settle the same with a certain number of colonists within a reasonable time.
It is his ancestor, the original pensioner, that has laid up this inexhaustible fund of merit, which makes his Grace so very delicate and exceptious about the merit of all other grantees of the crown.
Since the new grantees have war made on them by the old, and that the word of the sovereign is not to be taken, let us turn our eyes to history, in which great men have always a pleasure in contemplating the heroic origin of their house.
The names of Jesse and John Bent are found on the list of grantees for the township of Cumberland in 1763, to which reference has previously been made.
Shortly after this he came to Cumberland, and his name is on the list of the first grantees of Cumberland Township, in 1763.
Nehemiah was one of the first grantees of Cumberland.
Thomas Dickson's name is on the list of the first grantees of Cumberland Township, and he received a grant of a large block of land about a mile above Point de Bute Corner, on which he afterward settled.
Secondly, What right could the grantees derive from a royal grant of lands in America?
Grantees of abbey lands in Ireland, as in England, Catholics though they might be, held fast their prey.
Spenser was one of the grantees of the Crown and settlers on the conquered land.
Restoration to the Church of the abbey lands, of the grantees of which they were the heirs, was by no means to their mind.
Instead of sending out colonists, they granted lands with the condition that the grantees should furnish a certain number of settlers to clear and till them, and these were to be credited to the Company.
The granteestook the land, but rarely fulfilled the condition.
There is in the original grant of this ranch the following clause: "The grantees will leave free and undisturbed the agricultural lands which the Indians of San Diego are actually occupying.
The lot had been drawn by Edward Coy, one of the original grantees of the township, who took up his residence in Gagetown, but afterwards removed to Maugerville.
It is manifestly impossible to follow the history of every family represented in the grantees of Maugerville.
Many of the original grantees were related by blood or marriage and the association was in its way a "family compact.
Not all of the grantees of the Township of Maugerville were actual settlers.
The names of the majority of the Maugerville grantees appear in the account books kept by Simonds and White at their store at Portland Point and a lot of interesting family history might be gleaned from the old faded pages.
Edward Coy was one of the original grantees of Maugerville, his lot being opposite the head of Gilbert's Island, but for some years he lived at Gagetown, where his daughter Mary was born in 1771.
The names of nearly all the captains of the companies of Loyalists, who sailed in the fleet are found amongst the grantees of Parrtown.
It must be admitted that as the first adventurers to settle in an exposed and at times perilous situation the first grantees of the lands at the mouth of the River St. John were entitled to special consideration.
The names of Richard, Samuel, Stephen and Oliver Peabody appear in the list of Maugerville grantees of 1765.
Several persons of this name were grantees of Maugerville, including Elisha, Jabez, Phinehas and Samuel.
Two other non-resident grantees were men of influence and in their day made sufficient stir in the world to claim further notice.
Giles Tidmarsh lived for a while at Maugerville and was one of the original grantees of the township.
For the more effectual settling of the lands within the province the grantees shall settle on every five hundred acres one family at least with proper stock and materials for improvement of the said lands within two years of date of grant.
This deed of conveyance is made upon the following express trusts and conditions which the said grantees by accepting this deed agree and covenant for themselves and their successors in office to fully perform and fulfil.
To Have and to Hold the above granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereon belonging to said grantees and their successors in office to the uses and trusts above described forever.
Eddy, this property is conveyed on the further trusts that no new Tenet or By-Law shall be adopted, nor any Tenet or By-Law amended or annulled by the grantees unless the written consent of said Mary Baker G.
Said grantees shall be known as the "Christian Science Board of Directors," and shall constitute a perpetual body or corporation under and in accordance with section one, Chapter 39 of the Public Statutes of Massachusetts.
Without fixing territorial limits, the new grant allowed a hundred acres to be taken up for every emigrant, with fifteen hundred acres for public buildings, and empowered the grantees to make laws and set up a government.
The first step taken by Clarendon was the purchase of the title conveyed to the Earl of Stirling in 1635 by the grantees of the New England patent.
In the royal charter to Gorges, whose grant extended from Piscataqua to Sagadahoc, the rights of previous grantees were reserved to them, they relinquishing or laying down their jura regalia.
In June of 1733 these grantees met on Boston Common for the purpose of making a division of the lands thus appropriated, but twenty veterans of the Narragansett War being then living.
Zechariah Chandler of Roxbury, who was among the grantees of Souhegan-East in the right of his wife, the daughter of a soldier in King Philip's War.
As a rule the granteessold their claims to others.
In the fifteen Roxbury grantees was Zechariah Chandler, who was one of the few who personally took up land under the grant and settled upon it one of his own family.
The most important of these was the company of Canada, chartered in 1628 on the plans of Champlain, and intended to take the place of all earlier companies and individual grantees having privileges in that region.
The original grantees and their legal heirs or successors made up the commoners or proprietors.
The grantees agreed to build a fort on the Ohio and within seven years to settle a hundred families on their lands.
Of the grantees of the West Branch, those designated from Inverness, were from the parish of Urquhart and served in the 84th, as did also those so specified.
Each of Henry's feudal grantees in Ireland held and exercised these functions.
The motive alleged in this case is, to remunerate the grantees for a benefit conferred by them on the public.
It is such as the legislature sees fit to give, and the grantees to accept.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grantees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
