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.
This map shows part of northwest Waterloo south of the settlement of Erbsville. - 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.The German Company Tract became Waterloo township.
Modern streets not always identified; maps are not to scale and geographic locations are approximate. Names of property owners on reverse.
See also: "Historical Atlas of Waterloo & Wellington Counties, 1877-1881"; Waterloo Historical Society 1965, pp 44-45 for 1805 Waterloo Township (German Company Tract) lot map with property owner's names; and Waterloo Regional Museum website for further information.
- 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)
- Bricker, Jacob
Eby, David B.
Snider, Elizabeth
German Company Tract (Waterloo, Ont.)
Wideman, Martin
Eby, John
Eby, Benjamin
Erb, Jacob
Stauffer, Abraham
Snider, Christian
Bricker, John
Snyder, Christian
Eby, Samuel
Eby, Christian
Erb, Peter
Eby, Elias
Eby, George
Erb, Samuel
Erbsville (Waterloo, Ont.)
Erb, Peter Jr.
Hechendon, Jacob
Cornell, Joseph
Beaty, John
Burkholder, Christian
Schaffer, Charles
Bamberger, Peter
Falt, Michael
Hergott, Anthony
House, John
Bisch, Augustin
Kraft, George
Steele, Frank
Bamberger, Christian - Local identifier
- ELP 50 58
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Latitude: 43.45161 Longitude: -80.57004
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- Contact
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