Person:Nancy Brouse (1)

Nancy Ault was granted 200 acres of land in Canada because she was daughter of George Brouse, who died in military service for the British during the American Revolution.^[2][1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Ault, Garnet Walter. The Ault Genealogy. (Washington [District of Columbia]: G. W. Ault, c1980)
   257, 266.

   "Nancy Ann Brouse, the daughter of the Loyalist soldier, George Brouse, was born in 1763."
   "The epitaph on her gravestone was legible in 1978 and it read as follows: — Nancy (wife of Michael Ault, died Feb 12 1829, age 72 years 26 days) died Aug 15, 1851."

2. ↑ Minutes and records of the Land Boards accumulated by the Executive Council Office (RG 1 L4), roll C-14027 http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c14027/904?r=0&s=5
   v.9 p.230 (image 904).

   "Matilda 3 May 1791" ... "Received a Petition from Nancy Ault, Daughter of George Brouse, who serv'd as a private Soldier during the late War, in Sir John Johnsons Regiment. She informs the Board that her Father died in the service before the Instructions of the Year 1783, but subsequent to that period her Mother Reciev'd one hundred acres of land in virtue of the pretensions of the Deces'd. The Board being satisfied of the truth of these particulars, have notwithstanding a doubt about the propriety of granting the prayer of this Petition. by reason of her Father not having improved under the Instructions of the Year 1783. But conceive she is equally entitled to the same and beg leave to Recommend her to Lord Dorchester for a grant of 200 Acres of Land."