Waterloo Township map with names of early property owners
Description
- Creator
- Ellis Little, Artist
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Drawings
- Description
- Hand drawn maps of early Waterloo township with the names of property owners and approximate dates of ownership. Red line running across middle of map from bottom to top is modern day Plains Road.
- Notes
- These maps are hand drawn by Ellis Little and outline over 90000 acres of land granted (Block 2, Waterloo Township) to the Six Nations Indians by the British Crown in 1784 and sold in 1798 to Richard Beasley, James Wilson and John Baptist Rousseaux who looked to resell the land in small parcels. German Company tract became Waterloo township.
Modern streets not always identified; geographic location is approximate. Names of property owners on reverse.
See also: "Historical Atlas of Waterloo & Wellington Counties, 1877-1881; Waterloo Historical Society jounral 1965 for 1805 Waterloo township/German Company tract lot map with owners' names. - Dimensions
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Width: 20 cm
Height: 25 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 20cm
Image Height: 25cm
- Subject(s)
- Snider, C.W
Moyer, William
German Company Tract (Waterloo, Ont.)
Jantz, Nicholas
Eschelman, S.
Eby, Benjamin
Scollick, William
Hillborn, Joseph
Weaver, David
Erb, Jacob
Brubacher, Henry
Fordney, Jacob
Heistand, David
Bechtel Tract (Waterloo, Ont.)
Bean's Tract (Waterloo, Ont.)
Kinsey, Dilman
Biehn, John Jr.
Rosenberger, Benjamin
Bean, Abraham
Stauffer, Abraham
Hamacher, Peter
Stegman, David
Bean, Catherine
Hillborn, Thomas
Long, Jacob
Lyons, Polly
Eschelman, Samuel
Bean, John Jr.
Wildfong, Joseph
Keeny, Barbara
Stauffer, Biddy
Herstand, D.
Herner, F.
Beasley's New Survey (Waterloo, Ont.)
Beasley, Richard
Reesor, Christian
Brubacher, Jacob
Lang, Mary
Lang, Jacob - Local identifier
- ELP50 34
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Latitude: 43.366498 Longitude: -80.491848
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- Contact
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