Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Lot 62 is a township in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is part of St. John's Parish. Lot 62 was awarded to Richard Spry, Esquire in the 1767 Land Lottery. Richard Spry, Esquire, was then Commodore, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Mediterranean (Gibraltar 1766-1769). Becoming an owner, he would be familiar with St John’s Island, having come out to North America in 1754, blockading Ile Royal and Louisbourg in 1756, seeing its reduction in 1758, and serving off Quebec and in the St. Lawrence in 1759. In 1762, he returned to Halifax as Commander-in-Chief at North American (1762-1763), and after a full thirty-five years on active service, as then Sir Richard Spry, Rear-Admiral of The Red, he died unmarried, on 25 Nov 1775, at Place House, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall.His estate passed to his sister Mary and her son Thomas Davy, (Captain RN), they, as coheirs assuming proprietorship of Lot 62. As an estate heir, he became Captain Thomas Spry, in April 1779, taking on the surname and arms of Spry, and remained in active service until 1783. While serving as a county magistrate and standing as a reserved list Vice-Admiral of the Blue, in 1799, their Lot 62, amongst many, was noted, for the third time, as the subject of no effort to satisfy the 1767 Lottery conditions of settlement: "nothing done, not one settler thereon"."@en }
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- Lot_62,_Prince_Edward_Island abstract "Lot 62 is a township in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is part of St. John's Parish. Lot 62 was awarded to Richard Spry, Esquire in the 1767 Land Lottery. Richard Spry, Esquire, was then Commodore, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Mediterranean (Gibraltar 1766-1769). Becoming an owner, he would be familiar with St John’s Island, having come out to North America in 1754, blockading Ile Royal and Louisbourg in 1756, seeing its reduction in 1758, and serving off Quebec and in the St. Lawrence in 1759. In 1762, he returned to Halifax as Commander-in-Chief at North American (1762-1763), and after a full thirty-five years on active service, as then Sir Richard Spry, Rear-Admiral of The Red, he died unmarried, on 25 Nov 1775, at Place House, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall.His estate passed to his sister Mary and her son Thomas Davy, (Captain RN), they, as coheirs assuming proprietorship of Lot 62. As an estate heir, he became Captain Thomas Spry, in April 1779, taking on the surname and arms of Spry, and remained in active service until 1783. While serving as a county magistrate and standing as a reserved list Vice-Admiral of the Blue, in 1799, their Lot 62, amongst many, was noted, for the third time, as the subject of no effort to satisfy the 1767 Lottery conditions of settlement: "nothing done, not one settler thereon".".