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Plan of the Township of Caradoc, County of Middlesex - F 501-1-0-0-4
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Archives of Ontario - Thomas Talbot fonds, F 501
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- cartographic material
- Date Range
- 1821
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Archives of Ontario - Thomas Talbot fonds, F 501
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- F 501-1-0-0-4
- GMD
- cartographic material
- Date Range
- 1821
- Series
- Archives of Ontario - Thomas Talbot fonds, F 501 - Plans of the Talbot Tract series, F 501-1
- Physical Description
- 1 plan ; 97 x 66 cm
- Scale
- 1 inch equals 40 chains
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Scope and Content
- Digitized copy of an original survey plan of the Township of Caradoc, County of Middlesex, registered July 16, 1821, Deputy Surveyor's Office, Port Talbot, Mahlon Burwell, Deputy Surveyor. Plan also includes the notation "Township of Caradoc, Surveyed by Order from the Surveyor General's Office,bearing date the 19th day of January 1820; containing 77,497 Acres." Scale 1 inch equals 40 chains. Plan includes annotations dated 1824-1837. Various lots shown in the plan are colour in gray and red ink, signifying Clergy (gray) and Crown (red) reserves; or are marked, to the same purpose, "Cn" (Crown) and "Cy" (Clergy). Several lots are marked as reserved for or granted to Mahlon Burwell. The future site of the Town of Strathroy is shown (as yet unnamed and not separated or laid out). Named geographic and cultural features shown in this plan include the Thames River, Base Line (road), the "Road Through the Long Woods", two "mill seat" sites, sites marked "Colliers" and "Turkeys", as well as two first nations village sites designated "Lower Village" and "Upper Village" in an area later reserved for Chippewa and Muncey First Nations.
- Name Access
- Archives of Ontario
- Talbot, Thomas
- Middlesex (Ont. : County)
- Caradoc (Ont. : Township)
- Burwell, Mahlon, 1783-1846
- Subject Access
- Maps
- Surveying
- First Nations
- Mills
- Repro Restriction
- The records digitized and made accessible through this site remain the exclusive property of the Archives of Ontario. Use of these records is for research and private study only. Requests for reproduction of the records presented on this site must be directed to the Archives of Ontario: reference@ontario.ca
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