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Nicholas Cover Family Collection
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1798 (Creation)
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Physical description
1 ms.: 1 seal in pendant format; 43 x 56 cm + accompanying family Bible, typescript description of the patent and Cober family genealogy
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Custodial history
Nicholas Cover, of Pennsylvannia Deutsch background, emigrated to Upper Canada in 1796 from Somerset County, Pennsylvania; Cover settled in Vaughan Township, York County in 1798 with his wife Eve (nee' Fisher). Shortly after settling in Vaughan adopted surname convention Cober. An inscription in the Cober Burying Ground, a pioneer cemetery in the City of Vaughan, notes of the Cobers that "of the first settlers on Yonge Street they were the fifth family".
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File consists of a crown deed. Patent provides legal description of land deeded and bears signature of Upper Canada Administrator Peter Russell; accompanying Bible is in the German, and is inscribed 1831.
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- Bay 5, Sh. 27 (Bible)
- Bay 18, Sh. 15 (Deed)
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- Cober, Eve (1779-1859) (Subject)
- Cober (family) (Subject)
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- English