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Rice Lato to Peterborough, Pcterbotougli to Chemoiig Lake, Cheniong, through Smith, Ennisinore, Harvey, Verularn Ops, Cartwright, aiui Fenelon, Rice LaU to Heeiy's Fall iu Seymour, 13 Miles, Land Carriage 25 " by Steam-boat. 7 " Land ^'arriage. 81 Sft by Steam-boat, by Steam-boat. N im^m^mmmf^nwo A SCHEDULE m REAL. ESTATE IN THE NEWCASTLE DISTRICT TO BE DISPOSED OF l! AT PUBI«XO SAXill. ON THE "^^ DAY OF \UGUST, 18S3. BY JAMES GRAY BETHUNE, COBOURO, UPPER CANADA. OOBOTJRO, V.O. PRINTED BY ^?^^ ^^ R. D. CHATTERT«N. tP^V 1833, i-1 ^a^^*^ A »-. '■ SCHEDULE, &c, >•#•««.' To Capitalists and every description of Settlers who may emigrate to the Province of Upper Ca- nada during the ensuing season, the following splendid Schedule of Real Estate will be ofte/ed at Public Auction—- the whole free and unlimited —at Cobourg, in the District of Newcastle, U^ y per Canada, to commence on Thursday, thc^r day of August' 1883., and continued weekly by adjournment, until the whole be disposed of: — consisting of cultivated and uncultivated farms, in the most favorable situations in the settled townships ; also wild blocks of various extent, scattered over the different townships of this beautiful district,— comprising in the aggregate 54,000 acres of excellent land, in lots to suit the means and capabilities of almost every class of settlers. The cultivated farms will be sold for cash only :— the wild lands on the usual credit I msmr w-^'-\ A CULTIVATED AND of one fifth part paia down, and >^ ^^^ five instalments, at tl.c interval ot a year bet^vteu each, with interest ; viz ;— Acres. Lot, No. 6& 7. 9 Concession Hamilton ^^^ Ssi"iofs are delightfully 'situated on the JoS bank of the Rice Lake, between the vUWffes of Sully and Claverton. A fine In iurbrook, capable of turning l.ght .na- ch ne?y pasUs through the centre of the ?ots no improvements ; twelve miles from rlhourff • a steam-boat passes daily along fhe tVon' of these lots, on' her route to and from Peterborough. . West Half of Lots No. 13 & H > 3 Con, West part Do. ^z \ ^^^ ^SrSti^tS^S^^koftl^Ricel^ke, ^rtthiJty acres cultivatecl, with good log hoiise -, quality of soil middling. Lot No. 18, ) 12 Con. Otonabte, cont*g Sifuate on'thjmain road to Feterborough, ^^^"dist^nt fr'om that town 5 -il- ^ ^ch maple and oak land ot the best quality , np improvement, S W. 1 Lot S. 10 Con. Monaghan, con'g About 40 acres cleared, and well culm^^^^^^^ Cgood log house, barn, &c. on the lot , is 300 5Q 934 ic in veeii cres. 284 1* 30Q e, >g no (T a ; is 300 5Q rNCULTlVATEI) FARM3. — the soil of 934 ^00 Brovghtjortmrd, within 5 miles of Peterborough the very best quality. Lot No. 19, 7 Concession Smith, corit'g About 40 acres under improvement, with a locr house and barn. 1 his lot is within five nnles of the town of Peterborough ; tho quality of the land is unexceptionable, and is in the heart of a large settlement. S. ^ Lot, No. 25, 9 Con. Smith, containing 100 Small improvement ; good land. N. 1 Lot No. 9. 1 Con. Darlington, contV-.80 Fifty acres under cultivation : an excellent house, barn, and various other buildings on the premises ; within one mile of the impro- ving village of Bowmanville at the Darling- ton'^Mills. 1 Concession, Hamilton, - - 205 That beautiful property called Grange T arm, within two miles of Cob^urg, 100 acres im- proved, and under the very best management. A capital two story frame house, barn, and out-houses, all in good repair, a large bear- ing orchard, and a fine trout stream on the premises. Lot No, 29, 2 Con. Hope, containing, 200 One hundred acres under cultivation ; dwel- ling house and out-houses in good repair, situate on the York road, distant from Port- 934 Over, 1719 CULTIVATED AND Brought forward^ - - l'^^ Hope 4 miles. There is a large ordmrd on tl>is lot, and a living stream, capable of dri- ving any kind of machinery. Lot 12, 3 Con. Hope, containing - 230 One hundred and thirty acres cleared, with a frame house, two barns, and a valuable or- chard. Five small streams cross this lot. Distant from Port Hope three miles. Part of lot 33, 1 Con. > Hamilton, cont'g 101 With a frame house and garden ; situate on the mail road between Cobourg and Port- Hope. This is a very desirable residence ; the house is new and finished in a good style ; the garden is well stocked with fruit and shrubs. Lot No. 29, 5 Con. Hamilton, containing 100 Twenty acres improved, with a good frame bouse. N. i Lot 21, 3 Con. Cavan, containing 100 With a good log house, 20 acres cleared. This is the best settled township in the dis- trict, and produces the best wheat. S. ^ Lot. 3, 6 Con. Cavan containing 100 with a good log house— eight acres cleared. N.E. 1 N.Wp, Lot 22 Lot m 9 Con. Cavan, cont'ning 100 Over, 2440 UNCULTIVATED FARMS 230 100 100 100 Brouf^fit fortpard, - - 2440 With a j(oo(l log house, and sixteen acres of improv 11 Sc26 4 V 26— 5 > it 18 , 3f 19—8 ti 4-9 it S. w. h 23--7 if Total, 2720 Those part lots were purchased at the absen- tee sales , the remainder of each lot may be pur- chased by finding the absentee owner. 1 WILD LANDS. ASPHODEL. 15 Contains a population of 465 souls, principally Irish and Scotch. It is bounded on the front by the River Trent, navigated by steam vessels. There are two saw mills and one grist mill in the town- ship, and a small village, Kelso, is growing up. The land is generally of a middling quality; some part of the township is very good. East ^ Lot No. 7 in 5 Con. 9 5 10 6 East i Lot No. 14 > j. & No. 15 5 13&14 9 17 5 5 6 15 & 19 12 (( (( it it « (( Acres. 100 200 200 800 400 200 200 320 Total, 1920 ' DOURO. Contains a population of 771 souls, principally Irish, with the exception of some respectable English and Scotch families. This township i» connected on its south west corner with the town of Peterborough ; contains much good land. No. 14 Sf 18, 5 Concession, 8, 8 " 460 200 Total 660 f WILD LANDS. MARIPOSA. Commenced settling last season ; the very best land, and finely watered; contains about 400 souls. Acres. Lot No. 16, 2 Concession 200 OTONABIE Contains a population of 1062 souls— English Irish and Scotch. The Township, is bounded south by the Rice Lake, and west by the Otona- bie River ; both navigated by Stea.ners. There is one saw mill, and one grist mill in the town- ship, and a village, Keen, at Gilchrist's Mills.— The N. W. corner of Otonabie is connected with the flourishing town of Peterborough, by a bridge across the Otonabie River. The best encomium that can be passed on this township is, that the inhabitants are generally in good circumstances, owing to their industrious and sober habits, the good quality of their lands, and their proximity to the markets^ of Peterborough and Cobourg. West half No. 18 in 9 Con, 100 16 9 " 200 18 11 '* 200 1^ &, 15 12 " 400 20 15 " 200 13&17 16 " 400 Over, 1500 WILD LANDS. 17 Brotight forward, 26 2 11 4 13 14 It it it Total 1500 200 200 200 2100 EMILY. Cmitains a population of 1295 souls/principally protestant Irish ; excellent land. There are two saw-mills, and one grist-mill in the township. No. 20 — 14 Concession - 200 CARTWRIGHT. This township is unsettled from the circum- stance of a great part of the township having been granted to militia men, for their services during the late war. The sale of lands under the Absentee Act, will now throw the Township open to settlers ; and being well situated, having a water communication from Lake Bcugog, which takes its rise in the township, to Lake Che- moncr, within six miles of Peterborough, and as a ste°amer will ply on those waters next season, this township will undoubtedly have a great run. Acres. Part of No. 7, 2 Concession, 140 20,13 " 1^^ S.W. part 18, 1 " 1^5 Over, 415 ! I II I \V'1T,T) tANDS. Broil s;h t JorwavfJ, . 415 19, 1 (( 98 1G, 2 It 140 18, 2 (t 110 21, 2 (( 100 6>> 3 (t 120 7, 3 10 32, 34, 35, (< « 50 100 100 it 556 Total, 1556 WILD LAND. ors. 21 Commenced settling in 1830, contains a popu- lation ot 845 souls ; there is a first rate flouring mill in this township ; the steamer that is now building will ply through the centre of the town- ship on the Scugog river. The government lands are entirely taken up by settlers, and none lor sale in the township excepting the following lots. The soil of this township isijonsidcred equal to the flats on the Mississipi, and the German flats on the Mohawk in the United States. Acres. W.i, Lot No. 27.-7 Concession N.E.^, Lot No. 27,— 7 23,-8 24,-5 19,-3 19,-5 & 6 17,_6 & 7 16,-3 14,-3 13,-4 &, 5 8,-6 6,-1 1 5.-10 1,-1 it ti tt it i( it it l-OO 50 200 200 200 400 400 200 200 400 200 200 200 30 Total, DUMMER. 3000 Its p Opened for settlement in 1831. No return of opuiatiou lias UUCil ilittut- o vt i-' I ' ">-' ■" • p.: / n 22 WILD LAND. about 500 souls,— principally English, many of whom were sent out at the expense of the Mar- quis of Bath,— industrious and contented. The major part of the township is good land. Acres. I^ot No. 22,-2 29,-2 28,-2 14,-3 8 & 9,— 4 (( is it it it 200 200 200 200 400 1200 Total, CAVAN Contains a population of 2373 souls, principal !y protestant Irish, a very industrious, loyal, and respectable body of people, in good circu.nstances — the quality of the soil throughout this township is tested by the thousand of bushels of grain that annually flood the markets of Port Hope, Cobourg and Peterborough. There is a resident clergyman, and an Episcopal Church in this township. Acres. Lot No. 3, — 3 Concession, E-i Lot No. 12,-3 > ^. 13,-^3 5 N.E.|LotNo. 19,— 3 S.I. " 20,-4 5 & 6,-13 it it it 200 300 50 100 400 Over, 1050 WILD T,ANI>!5. 23 s.w.» Broiigkt foricard, Lot No. 1,-13 3,-13 I it it « 5,- 3,- -3 ■7 it tl it it Total, MONAGHAN. 1050 200 50 100 100 1500 Contains apopulation of 1050 souls, Irish, En- glish and Scotch ; is bounded south by the Rice Lake, and east by the Otonabie River, the town of Peterborough is situated on the N. E. corner of this township. The soil of Monaghan is gen- erally allowed to be of the very best quality. Acres. Lot No. 14, — 3 Concession, 200 18,-4 " 200 10,-11 " 200 Total, MANVERS. 600 This township has laboured under the sam« disadvantages, and for the same reasons, as Cart- wright. Its proximity to the flourishing settle- ments in Cavan has induced many settlers lo encounter its wilds, under every disadvantage, as the quality of the soil is of such a nature, as to insure the industrious emigrant a full return for his labour. 24 '-t, Part of WILD LANDS. Acres. Lot No. 8,-1 Concession 200 f 10,-1 (( . 175 14,-1 tf - 200 19, 4 it m 200 21, 4 a - 200 22,-7 tt - 75 1—8 n 3. 25 ed in front byLake Ontario -.-generally the very best of land, watered by hundreds of beautitul trout streams. The extensive mills of Bowman and Smart are centrically situated in this town- ship, where a village has commenced, and an Episcopal Church is about to be built. Acres. Part of Lot No 18, 4 Concession, 20, 22, 23, 12, 17, 80, 10, 11, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 34, 23, 28 &29, 1, 12 &. 13, fof lii^4,) 10,11,13,14 15$ 13 iV 15 5 8 5 7 7 8 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 (( it ii it a it it it (( it it it n a 31 \ 5J Total, 40 20 23 40 48 38 38 50 45 50 50 50 30 50 47 32 100 400 1700 2851 The part lots were purchased at the Absentee sales : the small portion of each 200 acre lot taken in payment of taxes, at the time when thousands of acres were offered throughout the province, under th« same act of the legislature, is the best I -^j w ^ WILD LANDS. proof that can be offered of the estimation in which the lands in Darlington were held. CRAMAHE. . Contains a population of 2,005 souls. Tho village of Colborne, in this township is rapidly increasing. it Lot No. 23, — 6 Concession, 4, 5,ife 6,-9 Lots 18 &. 20,-4 > 29,— 6 S Acres. 200 600 600 1400 it ALNWICK. Is totally unsettled, owing to absenteeism. A large portion of the Township lately sold for taxes, will open it for settlement. Ackos. Lot 2,-1 C( Dncession 1 190 6 & 7,-2 a 400 10. 12, &, 18,— 3 a - 600 E. i 13,-3 ti - 100 11, 13, 16 & 21,-4 (t . 800 18 &24,— 5 tt - 400 18, 23 «fe 24,-6 ti - 600 23, 7 a m 200 Total, 3290 NEWCASTLE DISTRICT. 27 n in Tho pidly . A d for GENERAL REMARKS. The district of Newcastle, deservedly called the favorite district of Upper Canada, is hounded on its southern frontier by the magnificent Lake Ontario, and in addition to this vast ad- vanta<^e, the front townships abound in numerous chrvstal streams, bursting from innumerable springs that take their rise along the chain of high lands that divide the waters of the interior from Ontario. Many of these beautiful streams are succesfully used in driving all kinds of mills and machinery. The waters of the interior are distant from - Cobourg, 12 miles, and may be navigated by steam-vessels, eastward as far as Ilcaly's Falls, in the township of Seymour, on the River Trent 36 miles ; and northward ascending the Otonabic River to the town of Peterborough, 25 miles. — The rapid waters of the Otonabie, north of Peter- borough, are avoided by a short carrying place of 6 miles, across the isthmus in Smith to Cliem- ong Lake ; — from whence there is an uninter- rupted steam navigation for 80 miles, on waters that pass the townships of Smith, Ennismore, Emily, Verulam, Harvey, Fenelon, Ops, Cart- wright, Eldon. and Mariposa : to this may be added a further navigation of several miles in the Home District, by a lock at Cameron Falls, in Fenelon, which would open a steam navigation to within a few miles of Lake Simcoe. The soil of Newcastle District is admitted to be generally equal to the best in the provinces, and it is allowed to be the most healthy part of Up- per Canada ; many respectable families have set- 1 1 28 KEWCASTLE DISTRICT. %\t i> ^ tied, previous and since 1825, in the neighbour- hood of Coboui-i? and Peterborough, to which last season has brought a large acce^^^sion of wealth and respectability. The emigration of British settlers to the Newcastle District commenced m 1817 &. 18, a number of families, (who probably unaware of the localities and situation of U. C. emiorated to the United States,) were humanely directed here by Mr. Buchanan, the British Con- sul at New- York ;— from that period to 1825, there was a small annual increase ; in the latter year about 2000 were settled in the neighbour- hood of Tetevborough by the Honorable Peter Robinson. For the last three years there has been an increase of from two to three thousand annually. Tlie Newcastle District in 1817 con- tained a populition of barely four thousand souls, and only two very small villages in the whole dis- trict • tiie census of the present year, 1833, will shew a population of nearly 30,000 souls —and the district now contains the following towns and villao-es, in a flourishing state of advancement; Cobourcr, Peterborough, Port-Hope, Grafton, Colborn°e, Brighton, Carrying-Place, and Trent ; —also just commenced Bewdley, Claverton, Sul- ly, Campbelton, Howard, Keen, and Kelso. Further particulars may be obtained and dia- grams of the District seen, by applying at the Office of the undersigned at Cobourg, J. G. BETHUNE. •fi..