migrated w t to Gen see Coun e o State here he married Laura Fo daughter ofElisha and Fo ) circa 1 1 . ccording to a laterLand Petition to Colonel Thomas Talbot the Ang r Famil ettled on 100 cres in Ba ham Town hip in 1 2 . Ho er b 182 rand his growing famil were livin b the\ eUand Ri er in V ainfieet

Yarmouth, Southlold, l>umrich,Al.dborough, and Delaware. "ondon lJ.iatrict was composed of Norfolk,Oxford and Middlesex. It vaa in180) that Colonel Thomas 'talbot came to this area,and tlle nearest aettl ent was at Long Point. Within a lev ,-ears ID&l17 settlers C&IDB to t.his area. I:n 18Sl. the townships

t y was James Fleming who settled on the river front or LOt 6, Aldborough Township in 1796 ())p . )6. Seven years later, on May 21 , 180), Colonel Thomas Talbot landed at (the now) Talbot Creek and be an settl m nt of Dunwich Township in earnest. Ennatinger, in his classic history "The Talbot Regime"

t y was James Fleming who settled on the river front or LOt 6, Aldborough Township in 1796 ())p . )6. Seven years later, on May 21 , 180), Colonel Thomas Talbot landed at (the now) Talbot Creek and be an settl m nt of Dunwich Township in earnest. Ennatinger, in his classic history "The Talbot Regime"

representative for West Middlesex, among those in attendance. Mr. Burwell is the great-grand-· son of Colonel Mahlon Burwell, contemporary of Colonel Thomas Talbot, founder of the Talbot Settlement, and the pioneer road- maker for whom Port Burwell was named. His father was the second Mahlon Burwell in

that she donated for the church and burial ground was deeded to the Bishop of Quebec. The first burial was that of Matthew Stuart in 1825. Colonel Thomas Talbot died on February 6, 1853, at eighty-three and was laid to rest among the settlers of the district. The good folk of the Methodist denomination

1877 with a feeling of bitterness about all the help that Colonel Bostwick received in the surveying and the opening of roads. "In 1804, the colonel (Thomas Talbot, czar of the Talbot settlement) had the grant of $1,000 from the government to make a road from Waterford to Port Talbot. He engaged John Bostwick

Imperial authorities for a large grant of land to form a settlement. Two years later be succeeded. Yannouth had been appropriated to others, and Colonel Thomas Talbot began his actual settlemeut in Dunwich. Iu the middle of the ceutury, or more accurately in the year 1853. he died. In the same year the separation

Institute 1895 Historical Atlas of Elgin County - 1877 H. H. Page & Co. Toronto Smiths' Canadian Gazetteer, Canada West William H. Smith 1846 Colonel Thomas Talbot: Lake Erie Baron Fred Coyne Hamil 1955 William & J. G. Greey - Illustrated General Catalogue of Mill Machinery and Supplies Toronto - 1901 edition