NS Patent: NS-25
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| Potato digger
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Patentee:
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| Alexander Anderson (exact or similar names) - Markham, ON Canada |
| Manufacturer: |
| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Nov. 30, 1855 |
| Granted: |
Oct. 17, 1856 |
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Jeff Joslin
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Description: |
| Nova Scotia (NS) patents were issued between 1834 and 1867, when they joined with Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick to form the Dominion of Canada.From the September/October 1995 "Toronto Tree", Volume 26 Issue 5, a publication of the Ontario Genealogical Society, page 43. "Patents of Nova Scotia submitted by Freda Withrow from a list compiled in 1980 by Gordon G. Phillips. The list is written exactly as the inventions were recorded. No. 25—Alexander ANDERSON late of the Township of Markham in the County of York and now of the City of London in the County of Middlesex in the Province of Canada, carpenter, for a potato digger, 17 Oct. 1856. (See drawing page 15)"Petition to "8—Toronto 30 Nov 1855."Oath sworn before Jno. (E—), Judge of Middlesex County court, London, 23 Sep. 1856. Specifications (with drawings) an axle between two large wheels has suspended therefrom a wide flat pointed shovel the rear portion of which has slots to allow movement therethrough of tines that are mounted for rotation on a shaft mounted transversely of the plow—rotation is in the opposite direction to the land wheels and driven by gears from a land wheel. Witness: Frederick EKHART."Assignment—to Frederick EKHART for the sum of 100 pounds of lawful money of Canada—William Houghton BELL of Toronto before Thomas BELL, J.P."A search for information on Frederick Eckhart from nothing except for this mention. There was a Frederick Eckert who was involved in a settlement near Kitchener, Ontario 40 or 50 years earlier, and that was the closest hit we could find. |
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