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 Stratford, 23d September, nA^. 
 
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 M^, ^ • Ia»t night completed my taking notes from tlie 
 
 sotSrs, as you requested me v I travelled thrt)ugh a part of North 
 Eaathope and in South Easthope, and took notes from those wlu, 
 I considered would make a fair statement, such as to shew. th« 
 general progress and succesi of an industrious emigrant. They 
 are, 
 
 AVDREW RipDELt, JUO. 
 
 Tl|^^Y Wallack, 
 
 Ja^ HABTINOb, V 
 
 John KEtLY, , 
 
 , AlJDHEW RlDDELL,rf8Cn. 
 
 John Crerau, ' 
 
 Robert Fraser,- and 
 JojiN Stewart, sen. 
 And I also went into the back concessions of Downie, &nA took 
 
 the satae from " 
 
 ■" George Wood, and 
 
 William Dunn, 
 
 having, of couree, on the spot taken notes only (some of them 
 
 taken in the harvest fieW, as the settlers were all very busy at the 
 
 time saving grain.) 
 
 lam, respectfully, 
 
 ■..- .•^. . ■ -; . • , .. Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) John J. E. L. 
 
 T. M. Jones, Esq. 
 
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 STATEMENT DY ANDREW IttDDEM, J„k,„.. 
 
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 Smtlli Eatthiipe, Hmrm Trael, 
 , , „ )9M Stpt. 1842. 
 
 I cm, from B.rwick.h,„, in S««l«d. f™» „„, ,h. u,w„ of 
 
 «T ; . '" "•" '""""'■'P '" "" •"■»"••' «' 1832. when 
 
 . *» ""l 'h. .^i.ininff fc,„„.hip b.g«, ,„ b. «„W. Thir. w.r, 
 bu, few ,nd«d h.d ..ig„,«, to .hi. ,^^, p^^,,^, ^ .^ 
 
 «<i .f I i«,ll.c, well, ,h. main ro«l ,. Goderich between .he« 
 t.,„.l.,p. w.. onry begun to-be c«. „„., ,w„ y„„ before .hi.. 
 At .njr ™te « w., not .Itogether (inUhed in 1832, for I wa. em- 
 
 .™cl«lo„., bnt the main ™.d I „fer U, i. .i«,..i, L. wide! 
 
 h.ul«i off the ro«l. .„d cro»...,, „,.de with log., where there 
 were^et .pet.. Thi. roed i. in length fron. the e-t end of 'the 
 Huron Tmct to Goderioh .bout fifty-eight niil«i 
 I h«l ne fcmily then, except my wife, (I h.« now .,, children,) 
 
 b..»g^a .n,dl ho«« MU of iVg., „d notch«I d,wn .t the cemerl 
 "d h™.j« . .hed-roof. or a roof .loping on. w«, only. I „„|ed' 
 
 .ng theWd above mendoned, and co,Jainfcg\lOo acre. e.ch 
 «ulj.ar.^ a good cre ek (,r ■■ burn," a. we cal\ it in Scptlandi 
 n.nm„g though .,»,t of t^e lot.. The price of thi. land w«, l( 
 
JuNiun. 
 
 act, 
 
 ept. 1842, 
 
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 18^2, when 
 
 Th^re wero . 
 
 to th^s year,, 
 ctween these 
 B before this. 
 •r I was em- 
 in previously 
 ix ieet wide. 
 i burned or 
 where there 
 
 end of the 
 
 X children,) 
 a Shanty," *■ 
 the corners, 
 • I settled 
 ship, front- 
 acres each, 
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 dollar per acre. I, began to chop and clear the ground for spring 
 crops. My means Mrorc but icant, for the money I had being <)0 
 dollars, I paid on the Ipts t<;f the Canada Company ; and what wd 
 required for provisions, till I had my own crops, I obuined by my 
 \ labour. When the above main road was tarnpiked in 1836, I 
 wrought on It alid saved money, as did many others of my neigh- 
 hours. There is, therefore, now since that year a good road all « 
 
 the way to Ooderich.' 
 
 I have now about forty-five acres of cleared land, which product 
 good crops, and I am clearing four acres more this year. I hara 
 built a log-house, the logs of which are all hewed, or " flatted," 
 and the roof is covered with shingles. I buJU, alpo. a log-bam, 
 but this year 1 have got raised, and expect to have completed - 
 before winter, a large frame-barn, 62 by 40 feet. It is now so. 
 ^N^r finished that my crops, as far as' yet saved, are in it. It is an 
 ^vantage to have a large barn, and, if possible, a frame one, to 
 hold all the crops. They are generally constructed to includft in 
 the building a place for horses and cattle, and if raised on a slope, 
 (as mine is,) and where part of the ground can be excavated, so • 
 . much the better, as the divisions for cattle, &c. can be all under 
 whore the grain is, and also under the thrashing floor. This barn 
 when finished I can safely value at 500 dollars, but to me, and to 
 others who are farmer»{ who perform part of the work, it will not 
 cost this in cash, as the excavations, and many things ^connected 
 with the building, I have done myself ; but the value above slated 
 
 I think is correct. 
 
 My crops this year consist of fall and spring wheat, oats, peas, 
 barley, potatoes, and turnips. My crops are good, and the field 
 of oats I am now saving is a fair sample. At a moderate estimate 
 the viilue of my crops may be 240 dollars, and in this I hpe not 
 included the hay grown on eighteen acres. My land I would not 
 , sell for lees than 2500 dollars, and it is worth it, for the situalibn 
 is good, and it is well watered. I havff paid to account of the 
 price of the land to the Canada Company, since the first payment, 
 about 160 dollars, which makes 220 in all. My stock of cattle 
 at p Ye s ent conwiHtB exactly, of the following: — 5 milch ipws. 
 
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 ■teers, 1 bull, 2 heifera (rising throe years,) 2 ditto (rising ivio 
 years,) 1 5 sheep. 1 year old steer, and 4 calves of this year, be- 
 sides hogs. I have occasionally sold off some cattle. I have a 
 waggon, faniing-mill, and other articles required to carry on the 
 operations of a farm. , 
 
 I have been asked, would I advise Emigrants to come to this 
 country, or t^his tract, and my reply is, most certainly I would. 
 It may be said or thought that my success is not to be generally 
 seen in others. I reply, « visit my neighbour," and the extent 
 of their clearances, and stocks of cattle, will very plainly shew 
 that mj case is a very common one. In many cases Emigrants 
 With families, defer leaving the place of their birth, where, it may 
 be true, many and tender associations endear it, but where there 
 18 no prospect of provjdihg safely, and to some extent, -for their 
 families; fAw country is before them. I have advised my father 
 (who lived a year or two before he, left, near Melrose and Gala- 
 shiels) to come here, and he came with his family ; and when ho 
 arrived^ at my then humble abode, he had not. I know, (and - 
 which^e has often said to others,) •« a shilling ;" but his success 
 18 far beyond mine. . My father-in-law, Robert Patterson, (also 
 from near Lauder,) came, acting o^n my advice, and his success is 
 beyond either my father's or mine. Many others followed. In 
 advising any to emigrate, I allude to the industrious, sober, and 
 persevering.- 
 
 (Signed) ANDREW RIDDELL, JUH. 
 
 
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 come to this 
 ainly I would. 
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 ' plainly siiew 
 B8 Emigrants, 
 where, it may 
 t where there 
 mt, .for their 
 led my father 
 se and Gala< 
 and when ho 
 
 know, (and 
 t his success 
 terson, (also 
 tis success is 
 >llowed. In 
 , sober, and 
 
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 STATEMENT BY TIMOTHY WALLACE. 
 
 - ^' l^orth Edsthope, Huron Tract, 
 
 -' 19//t Sept. 184-3. '' 
 
 I am a*^ native of America, and came to reside on the^t I live . 
 on, being No. 1 in the third concession of this township of North 
 Easthope, in April 1836, a few days after I was married. I had 
 lived at St. Catherine's, at the head of Lake Ontario, some time 
 previous to 1834. In this year (1834) I got this Lot, and I 
 began myself, b^ing a single man, in the summer of that year to 
 ohop and clear ten and a half acres, which I accomplished, and I 
 put in that fall a crop of fall wheat. I had hired a man for two 
 lAonths, and another for five days, to help me. My personal pro- 
 perty, or property exclusive of the land, was then about the value 
 of seventy dollars, after paying my debts, and in this property is 
 included a yoke of oxpn, which I afterwards sold. 
 
 I went out to work the following year, 1835, having previously 
 sold thecrop^'of growing wheat on the ten and a half acres. I, 
 however, got sick, and being some time unwell, the expense 
 attending this sickness was as much as I gained. 
 
 In March, 1836, I niarrie<l, and removed to my lot of land 
 shortly aftfr, as I have stated in the outset, i 1 had then the loan 
 of a yoke of oxei) and a cow. I gave out A job of chopping and 
 clearing about fourteen acres, and I boarded the men, and this 
 assistance, with what 1 have first mentioned, is all the help I have 
 
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 got in clearing my land, and I have now fifty-eight acres cleared, 
 besides about two acres to log up. By perseverance and by hard 
 labour, and from the produce of the farm, I have " got along" 
 very well. My health, too, and that of my farnily, has-been good, 
 for this place is healthy. • ' 
 
 In logging land, that is, putting the cut timber together in 
 heaps to burn, four men are required, a;»d sometimes where possi- 
 ble to be got, five. Three men or four put up the logs, and one 
 drives the oxen. From a desire to do all myself, and to save m 
 much as I could, I have without any help but a yoke of oxen 
 under my own charge, logged together many an acre, though Jt 
 isliard work for one man to manage. I am averse to incur any 
 debt I possibly can avoid, and I have endeavoured to pay all my 
 outlays from the sale of farm produce and cattle. I have now a 
 • span of horses, 3 cows, 2 steers (rising three years,) 3 yearling 
 heifers, 3 spring calves, and 14 sheep. My dwelling-house is a 
 comfortable log building, and my barn is built of logs also, as well 
 as other small buildings, 
 
 I have paid all the l^nd up to the Canada Copipany, except 
 about 72 dollars, including interest. I would ndt sellmy farm 
 and stock for less than 1500 dollars, which is but a moderate 
 estimate. I do not include in this my house furniture or farming 
 , implements, such as fanning-mill, plough, &c., or my crops. 
 My crops this year are 9 acres of wheat, 5 acres of oafs, 
 2 acres of peas, and I acre of potatoes, and about 12 acres in 
 hay. The rest of my cleared land is in pasture and fallow. I 
 am now, having got all my crops saved, finishing the ploughing 
 of the first field I cleared, above ten acres, in which I intend to 
 sow fall wheat. All the stumps I have nearly got out of it. My 
 land is really good, not flat or level land either, but undulating or 
 rather' slightly hilly. My neighbours are all doing well, and 
 when health is granted to an industripus and sober man, there is . 
 nothing to hinder him to succeed in this country. My land is in 
 the eastern part of the Huron Tract, and the township of Wilmot 
 Vunds it on the east. ' ' 2 
 
 •\ (Signed) • TIMOTHY WALLACE. 
 
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 ce and by hard 
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 has .been good, 
 
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 and to save as 
 
 yoke of oxen 
 
 ;re, though it 
 
 to incur any 
 
 to pay all my 
 
 I have now a 
 
 9,) 3 yearling 
 
 Dg- house is a 
 
 8 also, an well 
 
 ipany, except 
 sell my farm 
 t a moderate 
 re or farming 
 ny crops, 
 cres of oats, 
 it 12 acres in 
 ad fallow. I 
 he ploughing 
 >i I intend to 
 t of it. My 
 indnlating or 
 g well, and 
 ian, there is . 
 fy land is in 
 ip of Wilmot ' 
 
 LLLACE. 
 
 STATEMENT BY JAMES HASTINGS. 
 
 North Eaithope, Huron District, 
 
 19 th. Sept. 1842. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 In accordance with your request that I would 
 state how I have succeeded in this country, I think the best way 
 for me to convey to you a just idea of my success and prospects is 
 to state, though briefly, the following facts :^ 
 
 I emigrated from Dumfriesshire in Scotland, irifl836, having 
 had a farm there on lease in the parish of Qlencairn, and Minni- 
 hive being the nearest post town. In July of that year I came to 
 this Tract, and 1 considered then, that I would buy a lot of land 
 
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 with some improvements on it. J bought out the right'and Inte- 
 rest of the holder of this lot I live on, being No. 7 in the second 
 concession of this township, consisting of 100 acres, and he had 
 then about ten acres of cleared land and a small log- house (covered 
 with bark) on it The land had been taken up from the Canada 
 Company some years previous, at Jhe rate of 1 J dollar per acre, 
 and I paid the holder of^t%T his interest 86| dollars, and I also 
 paid to the Company onVinstalment, which, with the legal inte- 
 rest at 6 per cent, on the whole, due up to the above period, 
 amounted to 60 dollars. I had then as much money left as bought 
 me a yoke of working oxen and two cows. What I have stated 
 shews the amount of funds I had. 
 
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 My imt)ro(voinent8 on the lot now nro ns^^follows : I have rather 
 above forty acres of cleared land, and I have besides ten acres 
 more chopped, brush burned, and about half of it now ready for a 
 crop of fall wheftt to be put in at this time, the rest of it when . 
 cleared will be put in, if I am spared, in crops next spring. I 
 have this year crops of fall and spring wheat, oats, peas, barley 
 potatoes, and turnips, besides about fourteen acres ita hay, which 
 I think will fully average a ton of hay per acre, and«Bo^t five 
 acresUn ^pasture. My stock consists of 3 hTJTSes and a colt, cows, . 
 1 yoke of working oxen, 3 yokes of steerS of diflferent ages, 
 heifers, calves, and 20 sheep, with 9 very large hogs,* and 21 
 less in size. The log-house I have enlarged, making some addi- 
 -V **0"* to »t» and covered it with shingles, and I have bfuilt a log-* 
 
 barn 62 x 30, and covered also with shingles, (shingles are thin 
 pieces of split pine laid on the roof, similar to, and as a substitute 
 for §htis, as in the old country,) and I have some out-buildings. 
 With my family's help I have cleared for some of my neighbours 
 about twenty-five acres of land, which enabled me to furnish many 
 articles whiclj I needed, as well as provisions, when we required 
 euc|i till the land produced thdm* As I have alluded to my family, 
 I may state that we had seven children when we came, and two 
 since, and the eldest is now about twenty-one years of age, and 
 is working this season, as h6 has been before, out at the harvest. 
 I hand you herewith a specimenf of the cloth my wife got woven 
 last year from our own wool, and this year she has carded above 
 66 lbs. of wool, from which she expects sixty yards of good com- 
 mon cloth, all woollen, without any mixture, and it will be striped 
 and checked, the yarn having been dyed. 
 
 The land I have is good and well watered, there bei^g a creek 
 and springs on it. I have succeeded aa well as I expected, and I 
 consider the value of my stock and farm, at a moderate calcula- 
 tion, above 1400 dollars, in which is not included my crops or 
 
 • In the part of the country I came from, sheep were called hogs, and ^ 
 I thought it odd at first to hear the name of hogs in this, part given to 
 swine. ... 1 
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 ;sideB ten acres 
 now ready for a 
 ) rest of it when . 
 next spring. I 
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 !S its hay, which 
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 nd a colt, cows, . 
 dififerent ages, 
 J hogs,* and 21 
 (ing some addi- 
 ave bfuilt a^log-* 
 bingles are thin 
 1 as a substitute 
 B out-buildings, 
 my neighbours 
 furnish many 
 len we required 
 d to my family, 
 came, and two 
 wa of age, and 
 at the harvest, 
 wife got woven 
 
 8 carded above 
 
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 will be striped 
 
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 [pected, and I 
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 the farming implements, such as fanning-mill, plough, &fe., and 
 also many other things, which of course cost money or labour 
 when they are required. We have all enjoyed good health, for 
 this place is healthy, and there is not a doubt but an emigrant 
 will (ailowing him to be industrious) succeed here as a farmer, 
 and p?irti9ularly so if he has been previously accustomed to farm- 
 ing, or indeed to any labour, whether mechanical or agricultural. 
 Hoping the above particulars will be satisfactory, and I might 
 have added to them, if time permitted, 
 I remain. Sir, 
 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 
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 STATEMENT BY JOHN KELLY. 
 
 North Emthope^ Huron District, 
 _ \ "^">>^ 20//i Sept. 1842. 
 
 Being desirous to give in as concise and plain a manner as I 
 possibly, can, the information which has been reqaeatedof me, I 
 beg to oflFer the following. j ' • . ^ ' ^^%^ 
 
 I emigrated from Scotland in I83I1 to Canada, arriving in^Juty^ 
 of that year. I came from the parish of Stow, in the shirft,of 
 Edinburgh, being ^ steward or overseer there for Mr.' Hastie.'- It 
 was near Dalkeith knd Stow where I was, being ten miles from 
 the former, and about eight from the latter place. I was then, 
 and till about three y^ars ago unmarried, and I.wrought for some 
 months in this country before I settled on land. I then applied 
 for and got the Lot I live on, beini No. \5 in the third conces- 
 sion of this township, and a young man a ne%h boor joined with 
 me, and we got No. 16 in the same concession between us, he 
 also having another Lot, No. 1 7, alongside of it. I have therefore 
 150 acres. I may state that this young man, Alexander Hamil- 
 ton, jun. afterwards returned to Scotland, and took out his father 
 and some relations, who are all settled in this neighbourhood. 
 They are from Gattenside, near Melrose. 
 
 I commenced to improve- on my land (it being then a perfect 
 wilderness, travelled only by the Indian) late in the fall of 1834. 
 The snow was on the trees then I recollect well, for, on beginning 
 to chop down some trees to build my small " shanty" with, the 
 snow at the stroke of the axe would be fallihg down upon me. I 
 however got the shanty finished and moyed into it. Ti,is w^^ t he 
 
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 istrict, 
 Sept. 1842. 
 & manner as I 
 istedtof me, I 
 
 •I'^ving in JuTy^ 
 D \the shirQ, of 
 r. Hastie." It 
 en miles from 
 I was then, 
 ught for some 
 I then applied 
 third conces- 
 rr joined with 
 Jtween us, he 
 iave therefore 
 ander Hamil- 
 out his father 
 iighbourhood. 
 
 hen a. perfect 
 fall of 1834. 
 on beginning 
 y" with, the 
 upon me. I 
 This was the — 
 
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 first beginning of what, as will be seen in the sequel, has turned 
 out to be a state of prosperity. I had then about 250 dollars, 
 including what wages I earned in the country before I settled in 
 the bush. I was then single, and depended solely, as I do stttf, 
 on my own exertions. I chopppd during that winter, ahd when 
 the spring came I got my chopping logged up, and sowed four 
 bushels of spring wheat, and other crops, and planted »ome pota- 
 toes. About new year's day, 1835, I bought a cow for eighteen 
 dollars, and a yoke of working oxen for sixty, and this same yoke 
 1 continued to work with for five years, and then solJthem M 
 eighty dollars. I paid an instalment in J835 on the 150 acr«8, 
 .which was about seventy-five dolfars, l)eing at the rate of 2 J 
 dollars per acre. I Have now the land all paid for, except about 
 twenty-two dollars and soine interest. 
 
 In the summer and f^ill of 1835 the Canada Company got the 
 main foad to Goderich tumpiked, and I wrought on it for neat 
 four months, and saved money by the job. I still kept what is 
 familiarly called « bachelor's hall," and 1 milked my own cows. 
 The ca^e ii^altered somewhat, for the cares of a married man, be- 
 sides those attendant on an improving farm^ are, upon me, but my 
 comforts are increased, and I a^n happier, and* I manage matters 
 so that I have generally my crops sowed and reaped, and in the 
 barn as soon, and I may say, without any praise to myself, if not 
 Booner than my neighbours, and they, ta^e them their due 
 credit, are not idle, but industrious. \ 
 
 I have now near oft about fifty acres of cleared land, an4 it^w 
 all laid out in fields of 6^ acres ; and availing myself of the run^ 
 ning water or creek on my farm, I have it in all my fields, except 
 one! and that one is not destitute of water eithei;. I must say 
 that my land is good, but there is as good land on my neighbours' 
 farms. In the above clearance is included above five acres of 
 neiyly cleared land, which is sometimes also called "fallow," (a 
 term applied 4ilso to old' land broke up, and made ready to sow 
 fall crops in,) on which I have already sowed my fall wheat for 
 
 next year. 
 
 My crops this year consist of fall and spring wheat, oats, barley, 
 
 twenty acres in ha y, and pasture 
 
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 thirteen acrefcMjrcrops are good. While on this Bubject I may 
 "y that I ejij«ift an average of thirty bushela per acre from my 
 fall wheat, and the bufhel weighs sixty lbs. It would have been 
 a little more I think, bbt there was a frost this season in May and 
 nning of June, wKich affected it a little. I have had in 1 840 
 rate of thirty-6ve bushels of fall wheat to the acre, and in 
 thirty-two bushels. This I ascertained from actual obser- 
 vation. The average crop however of fall wheat in this part of the 
 country I may state at twenty.five bushels per acre, that is, when 
 '*'« ^^'he^t » sown in time and well harrowed in a husband-like 
 inel-, apd taken care of in the harvesting, and this too on land 
 with thestumpe remaining in it. I cannot say from experience 
 what the average would binder a like careful tillage when the 
 ■tumps are out, and the fields having the evea and unbroken ap. 
 pearancp which is to be seen in good farms in Scotland. The 
 average crop per acre of spring wheat I consider to be about eigh- 
 teen bushels, oats thlrty-five to forty bushels, barley about thirty 
 bushels, and potato^ about 300 bushels. I state these averages, 
 from my own experience, if the crops are put in as above-men- 
 tioned they should be. I consider it of greater advantage to a 
 farmer to put an extent of crops in which he can manage with 
 care ; for then the labour is less, the return more sura and certain, 
 firming is done on.a " system." and there is less cause, if any. 
 ioT grumbling against bad weather, if any should come, and ifso] 
 Buch a farmer is pre/ared to meet it, but not the farmer who is 
 engaged in husbanding crops of an extent beyond the labour he 
 can command. My attention has been directed a good deal to 
 this, and a great part of my success in farming and raising heavy 
 crops, J^may say is owing to my acUng on the observations I now 
 make. I have seen farmers, as good farmers as myself, and pro- 
 bably better, struggling hard to get in large crops in the ground, 
 some of which put in in proper time and others out of time, but 
 hurriedly, and perhaps slovenly put in, and then the harvest, when 
 it came, brought its o^rn difficulUes, owing to the extent, in com- 
 parison with the labour ready to meet it, even though the cradle 
 scythe be used in cutting down. The proper time for Bomng/all 
 w h eat is from the 1st to the 15th September, the sooner the better 
 
 
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 ould have been 
 ison in May and 
 >ve had in 1 840 
 he acre, and in 
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 i, that is, when 
 a husband-like 
 this too on land 
 rom experience 
 Jlla^e when the 
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 Scotland. The 
 
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 ey about thirty 
 these averages, 
 as above-men- 
 idvantage to a 
 a manage with 
 re and certain, 
 I cause, if any, 
 Dme, and if so, 
 farmer who is 
 I the labour he 
 1 good deal to 
 
 raising heavy 
 rvations I now 
 yself, and pro- 
 in the ground, 
 t of time, but 
 harvest, when 
 (tent, in com- 
 igh the cradle 
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 >ner the better 
 
 after the Ist, whclhor on now or old land. I mean by new, land 
 that is recently cleared and has never been cropped ; and by oW, 
 land which has been cropped, then seeded down with grass, and 
 afterwards ploughed up. Spring wheat shoiild be put in from the 
 20th' April to 15th May, and it is ready to be cut and harvested 
 after the fall wheat is cut and saved. As regards crops, I may, in 
 concluding this part, say that my neighbour Robert Patterson, jun. 
 (there if another neighbour of the same name, though no relation, 
 who is senior) has an extraordinary crop of oats this year. Ho 
 calculates on having sixty bushels or above that per acre, and 
 though this is a high estimate, yet the crop is the best I have seen, 
 and he has nine acres of th^m. He is an industrious farmer, and 
 has his place in good order. 
 
 My stock of cattle at present consists of two horses and a colt, 
 one yoke of working oxen, three cows, three yokes of steers, of 
 ages from three to one' year, three young cattle, fourteen sheep, 
 and some hogs. I have a well-finished log-house, lathed and 
 plaistered in the inside, with a brick chimney, the house containing ^ f 
 a kitchen and two rooms, besides the upstairs. My garden is at /' 
 the side of it, surrounded by a picket fence. My barn is built of 
 good logs, which, with a new addition to it, is ninety-six feet long 
 by twenty-six wide, covered with shingles, and contains my stable. 
 I have let out small jobs of chopping and clearing land at different 
 timea, and paid tliese always from the produce of my farm. I have 
 cliopped and cleared about eighteen acres myself. 
 
 The situation my land and the neighbouring farms are in 1 con- 
 sider to be a very fine one, for from the nature of the ground it 
 commands a fine view, and there is a good expanse of clearances 
 te be seen all well fenced, and here and there marked with the 
 comfortable " farm steadings" of my neighbour^/ What a con- 
 trast there is between the appe^|BBe of the place |^he time when 
 the snowihras falKng down "upon me when I w^cKopping my 
 " shaptty-' logs, and what has been iaccomplished in the few years 
 ^ by the industry and perseverance of my neighbours. 
 
 As it may be expected I should state what the probable value of 
 
 * my property is now, I liflve made a moderate calculation (exclusive 
 
 of my crops and farming implements, and household furnishing) 
 
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 nnd it amounts to about 2500 dollars. Tin's sum I t^ould by no 
 means take for it though counted down in cash on th<t table before 
 me. 
 
 The neighbour I have rof«rred to as having the jfood crop of 
 oats settled hero in 1 8^8, and had no money when he settled. He 
 has a wife and six children. Since he settled, his fatLr and bro- 
 thers and sisters have come out from Scotland and settled near 
 him. They came from L;ddesd«le, about nine miles /from Ung- 
 holm, in Scotland. ^ My near neighbour, Robert Pat^rson, senior, 
 sotUcd here late in the fall of! 833; one of hissonS, Walter (who 
 married a few years ago), is on a separate farm from the old man's, 
 and his brothers, Henry and John, have each farms with houses 
 and clearances, and their brother George has also a lot of land. 
 The old man has a large clearance, good dwelling house and barn, 
 and the extent of his clearance w|th his sons Walter and Henry, 
 who adjoin him, may be about 140 acres. They emigrated from 
 near Lauder, in Berwickshire. I merely mention the above fami- 
 lies of Patterson's as instances of settlers who have succeeded as 
 well, if not rather better than myself, and there are'many others 
 around me who have done as well. Some hundreds of acres of 
 cleared land can be seen from the rising ground east of my house, 
 and the view as 1 have before observed isli good one. 
 
 (Signed) JOHN KELLY. 
 
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 th^ table before 
 
 le (;ood crop of 
 heMttled. He 
 I fattier and bro- 
 ind {settled near 
 
 ilea /from Lang- 
 att^rson, senior, 
 rt, Walter (who 
 (1 the old man's, 
 ms with houses 
 a lot of land. 
 Iiouse and barn, 
 Iter and Henry, 
 emigrated from 
 the above fami- 
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 re many others 
 ids of acres of 
 t of my house, 
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 ABSTaACT OF STATEMENT 
 
 BY . , , 
 
 ANDREW RIDDELL, Sen. 
 
 jVorM Easthope, 
 
 20th Sept. 1842. 
 Andrew Riddell, Sen., lives on Lot No. 19, on the third 
 concession in this township, containing 100 acres. He has 
 Lot No. 18 also. He emigrated from Scotland in 1833, from 
 Roxburghshire, near Melrose and Galashiels^ He was a farm- 
 servant there with Mr. Church. Ho lived there only about two 
 years, having come originally from near Lauder, in Berwickshire, 
 where he was also a farm-servant. 
 
 ^is son Andrew (Junior) was in Canada before him, and settled 
 in^ South Easthope, on the Canada Company's Tract, from which 
 place he wrote home to his father and also to his wife's father, . 
 (Robert Patterson, Senior,) and on his suggestions and repre- 
 sentations th^y left Scotland and came here. His family con- 
 sisted of his wife, son (James), and three daughters, but one of 
 the latter died on the way, and the other two have married since 
 he came here. His son James lives with hira.X ' 
 
 He settled on the land in October, 1833, having built a shanty 
 on it, and commenced immediately to chop the trees down. 
 When the teamster which brought his luggage and family up 
 was paid, he had not any money left, or, as he says in his own 
 words, " no, not a shilling." 
 
 The land is particularly good, high and dry, and there are two 
 small hills behind his house, from which there is a good view of 
 the country round about. He has about 67 acres of land cleared 
 
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 and cultivated. His crops this year consist of fall and spring 
 
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 13 acrM in hay and 18 in paituro. Ha ia finiahing 
 
 now land for fall wheat, about 6* acrea. Hi* atwk of ca 
 
 ia aa follow. :~two horac, ona yoke of working oxenf vj«pipi 
 
 of .tear.. 4 y.<>ar. old* tl»rM yokea of .toera, from^fi yaarTtTl 
 
 >e.r. aix cowi, one btfll, iight head of young caUle, eight aheen. 
 
 and aljout thirty hoga. - 
 
 In 1834. he had a job of turnplking and fixing the main road 
 to the eaatward of the Huron Tract; and in 1835. when that 
 road wa. turnpiked th? wliole diataoce of near fifty-eight milea to 
 Godench, ho took a larger job of turnpiking, and he and hi. .on 
 worked at it. Twiiork paid him very well, and a part of the 
 money made he p^a on hi. land. He ha. paid the whole of Lot 
 No. 19, and a part of the purchaw-money of Lot 18. The price 
 to bo paid the Canada Company for No. 19 wa. 1 j dollar per acre, 
 and the other lot two dollar.. The land wa. at firat IJ dollar, 
 but a. It increa.ed in value the price wa. also progrewively riwn, 
 but It I. now, and hn. been for «,me time, at 2} dollar, per acre 
 in the back concewion. of thi. town.hip. The land i. all .old 
 in hi. neighbourhood, and a'flouri.hing a^eij|nt it ia, 
 
 Tl.i. Maaon. ear|||,though it be, he^KjCLe thra^^ 
 machine at hia tam, and thraahed ofBPPKis falilCat 
 ^ of (lij. year-, crop, and wld near forty bu.hel. of it for «eed, 
 ,^,y--^^^ fall, at one dollar per bushel ; the bu.hel weigh, .ixty 
 ^;k/ «<»«»*'»• 't ia a very great convenience and advantage to a 
 ^^'^^ ^'''r* moveable thraahing-machines ; thoy are w^ugl.t 
 * F^"' ^ *''®y ***""*» °"* ''""y 100 bu.hel. per day. They 
 a"endqp^.Ti certain number of men, one or two to throw 
 ^6 gram to the per^n who feed., and the feeder ha. enough to 
 do to keep .heave. ^ the machine, and there are ^me who 
 attend to the taking away of the grain, Ac. These machine, 
 can be carried about from one port bf the .cttlement to the other, 
 but there are a good man^ now in the.e four^ownship.. - ' 
 
 The bar^ he ho. i. a large frame one. a The! value of this 
 buildmg, moderately estimated, is^jElOO = 40rdollar., and if the 
 stables were under ground it would" co . t mor e . His dwelliug- 
 houw IS a comfortable log-house, very well finished^ He has 
 
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 135, when tliat 
 l^-eight milea to 
 he and his son 
 id a part of the 
 a whole of Lot 
 18. The price 
 dollar per acre, 
 first 1 1 dollar, 
 rossively risen, 
 lollars per acre 
 land is all sold 
 it is. 
 
 Ais fall wheat 
 >f it for seed, 
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 Ivantage. to a 
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 r land and Improvomonts, willr the alwvo luitn mid his 
 ck of caltle »nd*this year's crops, at 3000 dollars, niid, as hi 
 J|s. "W Mould t«ke nothing loss." In this ostlmalo i«^iK)t 
 ^eluded his farming utensils, such as a. waggon which cost 80 
 «dollars, fannlng-niill, plough, Ac. ' 
 
 From one of tho sinnll hills btiliind his houno, as bcftiro-misn- 
 tioncd, there i» a view of eleven farms, from Lots 14 to 24, ^ 
 clearances on all wliich are above ."iOO acres ; and tlW buili- 
 ings of another farm (Mr. BcH's) are aUo seen ; the cloaUl Ian4 
 of all tho ^wqlve fiirnis being nearly GOO acres ; tho valiiol of tlift 
 cleared land, with the crops and cattle on tho whole (not includlnfT" 
 the uncleared land, with other additions, such m farming iin- t 
 picmonts and house furnishing* Sic.) is not far under '20,000 
 
 dollars. 
 
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 JOHN CRERAR. 
 
 He emigrated from Glenquaich. in Perthshire. Scotland in 
 1833. having the Glen in June, and arriving in North Easthope 
 in the month of August following. He was aYarmer, on a lease 
 of a small farm of eight acres, with the right of pasture on the' 
 h.11 for cattle. The " holdings'' of all his neighbours mio-ht 
 avemge from srx to fifteen acres. . ° 
 
 He took- up 300 acres of land, thr^ee lots, one of which ho 
 paid when he came, and he had as much money left as bought a 
 yoke of oxen for.70 dollars and two cows at 20 dollars each, and 
 as bought what provisions were needed by the family till the crops 
 came off the ground in 1834. He had no other money. 
 
 He commenced first by clearing a small spot, where he raised 
 his house, or "shanty." and afterwards contiqued chopping during 
 the winter, having the help of hfs two boys, who are now twenty- 
 one and eighteen years of age. He has two girls besides. When, 
 the spring came he clear|d the chopped land and put his crops in. 
 He mcreased his clearance ever^^ year, working hard, and each 
 year his boys were more able to help and assist him. He is fifty- 
 five years of age. , * 
 
 His cleared land how extends to about eighty acres, and besides 
 he is harrowing in his fall wheat on a new piece of twelve acres. 
 His crops this year are ten acres of fall wheat, four of spring 
 wheat, ten of oats, andabout seven in other crops, with twenty- 
 
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 I^orth Easthope 
 ler, ona lease, 
 )asture on the 
 jhbours might 
 
 B of which ho 
 sft as bought a 
 ars each, and 
 7 till the crops 
 tney. 
 
 here he raised 
 opping during 
 J now twenty- 
 jsides. When, 
 his crops in. 
 ird, and eacij 
 He is fifty- 
 
 five acres of hay, and his pasture is also twenty-five acres. His 
 stock of cattle is one span of horses, one yoke of oxen, three 
 steers, six milch cows, four heifers, six yearling steers, and five 
 calves, twenty-nine sheep, and eighteen hogs. He sold in the 
 spring of this year two yokes of oxen. 
 
 He has paid another of the lots and part of the third. The 
 most of the land in his immediate neighbourhood is now settled 
 upon, and all the settlers are doing better than he can describe, 
 or a person not acquainted with the country would believe. Their 
 stocks of cattle and clearances in many instances are equal to if 
 not above hU.' There is a saw-mill to the'north of his land, 
 which is a great benefit to the settlers in sawing up lumber or . 
 boards, and along the side road, from south to north for thirteen 
 concessions,, there are settlers now living, and that withm these 
 
 three years past. .i^' <f .1 
 
 The setUers generally, after the first few years they are settled, 
 endeavour to provide their own clothing by rearing sheep. Th.8 
 year he expects to have eighty yards of home-made cloth, and last 
 year he had M same quantity. It is mixed in niost instances 
 with cotton, yarn, and also with flax, although, wholly with 
 woollen yarn is preferable, and which, as it is made, after being 
 
 " fulled," is good cloth. 
 
 He has no inclination to dispose of his land and improvements, 
 which he considers worth 4000 dollars. Indeed he says he would 
 not accept of that sum in money, if offered to him. -^ 
 
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 He settled in North Easthope the same year as John Crerar, in 
 1833 ; he also came from Glenquaich; he has four sons, all able 
 ^ to a^ist in farming and in clearing land. He says his was the 
 first family which moved into the back lots oflf the main or Gode- 
 rich road. He applied for and settled on lots twenty-three and 
 twenty-four in the third concession, and also lots twenty-four and 
 twenty-five in the second. 
 
 The farm which he occupied in Glenquaich was a smairorio. 
 being three acres of arablf land and five of meadow, with the' 
 same right as the rest of his neighbours to a portion of the " hill 
 pasture." He considers his situation now as far different, having 
 about ninety acres of cleared lancfon his lots, and ten acres chopped/ 
 His barn with additions, built of logs, is 104 x 24 on lot 25,'* 
 and he has another barn 75 x 28- on lot 23. both covered with 
 shingles. _J^ 
 
 When he removed to his land in the bLsh, and when the many 
 difficulties of a new settler were before h m, he had only in money 
 £20 or 80 dollars, and part of this monet he paid on the land. 
 
 As before mentioned, his improvement^ in cleared land consist 
 of nmety acres, and ten acres ready for bi!^rning off, all which has 
 been effected by the persevering industry W his sons. He is an 
 old man, about eighty years of age, and ^nly three of his boys 
 were able to work and assist when he first settled. He has in 
 
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 dttle one yoke of oxen, one span of horses, and a yearling colt^ 
 two yoke of steers, four years old, one yoke of two-year olds, four 
 yearling steers, one bull, one two-year old steer, eight milch cows, 
 six calves, six heifers; fifty sheep, aifd forty hogs. He has of 
 crops this harvest, fourteen acres of w)ieat, six acres of oats, and 
 nine acres of other crops, with ab^ thirty acres of hay, and about 
 
 twenty-six of pasturfe. 
 
 His sons took a job of turtfpiking the main road, and saved 
 money by it, fhich was a help, 'in addition to the sales of flour, 
 Yheat, and cuttle from the farm, fle would not take now »3500. 
 or even mor(j, for his improvement. His land is well watered, 
 the river Avon passing through part of it 
 
 He is an elder in the Scotch Presbyterian church. In his 
 neighbourhood the setUers have a meeting-house, and are in con- 
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 He came from Turrerich, in Glenquaich, in 1832. having left 
 
 , ^e glen that year about the middle of June, and arrived at North 
 
 Easthope on the Ist of September; eight families from the same 
 
 place emigrated and travelled together and settled in this town- 
 
 ship and in the adjoining one, South Easthope. -^ 
 
 This settlement was only then beginning, for in the distance 
 of twelve miles and a half between Stratford, (called then the 
 Little Thames,) and the easternmost part of the tract bordering; on 
 Wilmot, there wore only three houses or « shantieV occupied by 
 Mr. HeJmore, Mr. FryfoglS^, and Mr. Sargint; one dther settler, 
 Mr. D. Bell, had jiist arriVed, but he had no house up. These 
 settlers were on the road ^de, for it was in 1833 and 1834 when 
 settlers moved to lots of 14nd oflf the main road. 
 
 The farm which he Ic/ased in Glenquaich was a small one, a 
 few acres, t^th a priviWe of pasture on aii adjoining hill. His 
 neighbours were simila/ly placed, possessing only what may bo 
 called " small holdings f' from five to fifteen acres each. 
 
 His family then word six in number, but not of age to assist in 
 
 chopping and clearing but very little. There are three of them 
 
 now well able to help, Ud they perform the most of the work. 
 
 He applied to the Canada Company for three lots of' land, 100 
 
 „acreseach, 8it^ated on the road side, and the following ' year 
 
 he also applied for thi three^ lots in the rear, in all 600 acres 
 
 of land. H» commenced at once to chop and clear tlie land, and' 
 
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 buHt a small house. XhexQ wera.so few settlers at that tiiB|[>;^; 
 that the houses though small took no little , trouble to put up, but 
 the same difficulty was not experienced next year, as the settle- 
 ment increased rapidly. When ho came he paid and go^adeed 
 for one of the lots, and paid part on the other two, an instalment ; 
 since that time he has paid money on the five lots. • 
 
 When the spring came, or rather towards the commencement 
 of summer, his money was exhausted, but the provisions bought "V^ 
 were suffioiept till the Crops were ready. From the crops of oats : 
 and potatoes this season he made some money, and particularly as I 
 they were scarce, and a brisk demand by increased emigration and 
 traffic by the . main road. The land since that time has yielded 
 sufficient, not only for support but for sale. His family have been 
 industrious, and he has managed to be economical in every thing. 
 
 He has now a good stock of cattle: they had the first winter " 
 one cow, which gave milk till spring, when he bought another, 
 and at the same time a yoke of working oxen. He has now one 
 span of horse*, one colt two years old, and another one year^ld, 
 two yoke of working oxen, one yoke of five-year old steers, two 
 yoke of two-year olds, three steers, seven cowSj six' calyes, forty- - 
 six sheep, fi\^ year old heifers. He sold two cows ih^ other day, , 
 and has during these some years past soljl a good many (fattle. 
 . He has about' 102 acres of cleared « [land. He had this year 
 forty acres in hay, tvrenty in pasture, i^eventeen acres in wheat, 
 fourteen acres in crops of oats, barlejl, &c., and ten acres in 
 fallow. He has nearly ten acres of ne^ land cleared this season 
 fpr wheat. His home-made clothing [ or cloth last year was 
 ^ 06 yards, being woollen, cotton and wool, and flax, and expects 
 ^his year to have 100 yards. He has a waggon and a cart, 
 ^rse-sleigh and harness, fanning mill and other farming imple- 
 ments. His barn is a log one 74 X 26, stable 40 X 23, and 
 other sn^^ll buildings. His house is a two story log building 
 with a brick chimney. 
 
 He states that all his neighbours have succeeded well. Many ^ 
 have emigrated this season from Glenquaich, and expects that/ 
 next year nearly all his old friends in the glen will be in CanadA, 
 and in this tract. A brother-in-law, who has been settled for 
 
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 of land in the>4joining township of South Easthope, to which he 
 intendu removing in the winter or spring. 
 , He would not accept of «4000 for his land, buildings, and 
 impfovements, (not including cattle or crop.) and justly believes 
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 STATEMENT BY GEORGE WOOD. 
 
 Township of Downie, 
 . Huron District (Canada), 
 
 *l2d September, IBA2. 
 
 I emigrated ^ this country in 1835, in the month of July, 
 with my wife ind five children. The eldest, a boy, then ten 
 years old. I have now eight children. I came from the parish 
 of Rolhbury, in Northutoberland (England). I was steward or 
 overseer to William Redhead, Esq. of Ryehill, neaV Rothbury. 
 
 My father-in-law, John Gibb, who was a shepherd at Rjrehill, 
 and his son George, came to this country, and this township, the 
 year before, in 1834, and they wrote home to me about the state 
 of the country, and a brother-in-law, William Dunn, (who is also 
 married to a daughter of J. Gibb,) and myself emigrated. 
 
 IJocated myself and family on Ut No.. 12, in the fourth con- 
 "certion of this Township of Downie, containing 100 acres. I 
 built a log-house and afterwards a logibarn upon this lot, and 
 have cleared thirty acres of land on it. I afterwards,' in 1840, 
 \vben my means increased, bought the right and interest of a 
 neighbour in Lot 12 on the fifth concession, being opposite the 
 lot I then lived on. There were ten acres of cleared land on it 
 and fenced, with a log house and barn, for all whigh I paid 260 
 
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 Part of the «ummer I came here I wrought out at the harvest, 
 and also the second, which enabled mo to save some money, my 
 wife and family remaining at home. I waB enabled also to save 
 my own crops of 1836. _ 
 
 -After 1 bought the interest in the above lot in the fifth conces- 
 sion, I removed to it, and have now rather above thirty acres of 
 cleared land on it, having above sixty acrea cleared on both the 
 lots, My stock of cattle consists of one yoke of working oxen, 
 three yokes of steers from two years to four years old (in pairs), 
 three steers, six cows, four heifers in calf,, five spring calves 
 (calves of this year), one fat ox, two fat cows, thirty-fi»e sheep, 
 young and old, and thirteen large hogs (that is, swine), and some 
 email ones. ' My crops this year consist of eight acres of fall 
 wheat, seven acres of spring wheat, four acres of oats, two acres 
 of peas, and three acres of potatoes. I have "about twelve tons 
 of hay, and also a field of seVen acres in pasture. The hay crop 
 • this year was not so heavy as has been in other years. We iad 
 forty prds of woollen and drugget cloth made last year from our 
 own wool, and this year I think there will be dghty yards. The 
 wool this year is about eighty lbs. 
 
 I have all the farming implements required for a farmer, such 
 
 as a plough, drag (or harrow), ,fanning-mill, &c., and a waggon. 
 
 Besides clearing land on my own lo^, I have' assisted in jobs. 
 
 taken by ^y father-in-law and me, to clear twenty-seven acres of 
 
 ; land for two settlers, and I have chopped and cleared also by myself 
 
 and family ten acres for a neighbour. The first year or two I was 
 
 here my family could not give me much help, but n^v I have 
 
 /three of them well able to assist me; and, besides, we aH have 
 
 enjoyed good health, for the climate of this part of Canada is 
 
 remarkably healthy. 
 
 1 consider that the change by emiggiting here is to my ad van- 
 tage, and that of niy family. I am quite in a different situation 
 now in this. country as regardl^cquired property from xVl.at I 
 would have been in had 1 remained in the old rniin«.y ; and, 
 though ] cannot say but that 1 was Hi homo, U others Avere, com- 
 
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 fortaWe in one rctpott, and nUo as haying a goo«l master in Mr. 
 Redhead; still by adopting' this country as the/uture home of 
 myself and family. I am noy^ ^ matter, where I could never well 
 expect otherwise than to see myself and my family as fcrmntt. 
 The facility of acquiring property here is great, and any man, 
 single or married, qf .sober, economical, industrious, and per- 
 severing habits is sure to.da well. That this is a general remark 
 I am well\aware; but I consider my own case, as above detailed, 
 a favourable and further proof of the correctness -6f the obser- 
 
 vation. , 
 
 A stronger proof is yet to be stated, and that is in the com- 
 parison of my meims when I arrived and what they are now. 
 When I arrived at the village of Stratford (which is very prettily 
 placed at the coraer of these four Townships of Downio, Ellice, 
 North and South Easthopc), I had sixteen sovereigns, which, at 
 five dollars each,* is eighty dollars, artd I had assisted my brother- 
 in-law. William Dunn, on the way here to the extent of seventy- 
 five dollars, botfc sums equal|rto*l55 dollars. This was the 
 amount of all nvy means. My present stock of cattle, &c.' I value 
 at 600 dollars, and my land with the improvements is well worth 
 2,800 dollars,' which sum, in money, I wouH not take for it. 
 Besides, 1 have not valued in the above my farming implements 
 and houseV furnishing, or mjr crops of this year. I -have aho 
 more than 100 dollars owing to me by several persons, and 1 4iave 
 paid on account of my land to the Canada Company, and in buy- 
 in- tlie interest of the former holder of the lot on the fifth con- 
 "^^osaioii 4^0 dollars. 1 am owing, it is true, the Canada Corn- 
 pan^ a balance on both the lots; but^if spared in health as 
 ' liithertp I have been, and the same measure of success as a farmer 
 I have enjoyed, meted out to me, I expect to be able next year to 
 pay my land. It is certainly in my opinion an advantage to be on 
 the Company's land ; and they hold the lands of this Tract, now 
 a District; for a settler may have five years to pay the land by 
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 rent ; and when (he imtalments ih the onJb case, oi- yearly rents 
 Jn the other, are paid, a free fleed is grafted. The Company, 
 Indeed, have given longer time than the period spe^stged to pay 
 instalments, they charging only 6 per cent, interest jljld there is 
 no instance here which I recollect of where the^llve acted 
 harshly, or otherwise than shewing much favour to tile settlers in 
 the paying of their lands. 
 
 To conclude, I may add that my relations, .John Gibb and his 
 son George, and my brother-in-law, William Dunn, are all doing 
 well; and they dan also bear evidence^, their own success, to 
 my statement; shewing that thoi-e is," jpSierally speaking, a de- 
 cjded advantage in emigrating to this country.* 
 
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 STATEMENT BY WIIJ.IAM DUNN. 
 
 Townthip of Doxinie, Huron District, 
 
 12nd Sept. 1842. ' 
 I emigrated to Canada in 1835, having come from the County 
 of Northumberland, in England. I lived near Rothbury in that 
 county, but latterly I waa in the employ of Mr. Joseph Hopper, 
 merchant and miller, Squirrel Mills, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; I was 
 in this gentleman's employment when 1 left My family only 
 consisted of my wife, but I have four children since I came here. 
 My father-in-law, John Gibb, (who also lived near Rothbury) with 
 his son George, emigrated to Canada in 1834, and settled in this 
 township, and they wrote home to me and his son-in-law George 
 Wood, giving a description of the country, and particularly of this 
 place, and we resolved to follow them. 
 
 When I arrived at the village of Stratford (which is about two* 
 miles from my farm) I had not a cent, but I was owing George 
 Wood seventy-five dollars for advances made to me, but this 
 sum I have long since pa'id. Being a farm- servant and labourer 
 at home, and understanding a little of the milling business, I soon 
 found profitable employment here (for I did not locate myself on 
 land when I came) and at the grist and saw mill at Stratford. 
 In the fall of 1837, 1 bought out the interest of a settler in lot No. 
 5 in the s e cond conc e ssion of thi s township , con s isting of lOQ 
 
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 boHlde. interest. I paid alxty dollar, in one payment to the Com.' 
 
 pony, and Bome money aincc. I did not remove to »vo on the lot 
 
 till tho.prlngof 1838, but in the fall and winter of 1837-38. I 
 
 chopped on it, and that .pring I put up a •• shanty" (a .mall h,g 
 
 houw) and cK-nrtd land for spring ^rops. The first crop. Ihad 
 
 were in the harvest of 1838. I have now a good log house with 
 
 a log burn and <.Uier additions, and about \hirty.five acres of 
 
 cleared land, and well fenced. This land I have cidaretl all myself 
 
 except one acre, which I pajd for. \ 
 
 My land is exceedingly well Watered, for tho rlvcr^votf posse, 
 through my lot. This" is tho stream which goes through the 
 abdve village, and on which tho Stratford mills are built. This 
 village is situated at the corner of this township, and the adjoining 
 throe townships. l(iy crops this year are of fall and spring wheat, 
 ottts. barley, peas, and potatoes. My sto<;k of cattle consists of one 
 yoke of working dken, one yoke of two yoftr old steers, and two 
 steers one year old, four cows, two heifers in calf, three calves, 
 wventepn sheep, and twenty, hogs. I sold a yoke of working 
 cattle lately. The waggon which I have cdst me seventy-five 
 doUors, and I have other necessary articles for a farm,' as a fanning 
 mill, plough, &c. iT 
 
 I am not inclined ti over-estimate my property, but I wiiuld 
 not accept-of 1506 dollars for my farm and stock ; but I /bel so 
 comfortably^ placed, that this sum woujd not tompt me X sell 
 We have been blessed with good health, end considering that 
 (saving our luggage, which held our clothing) when wo arrived as 
 before observed at this place, our means were small and I was in 
 debt, my success as a settler ha.s been progressively advancing. 
 Many emigrants in this towm.hip con verify my statement in their 
 own experience, for my prosperity is not singular. An emigrant 
 needs to be watchful and industrious, and with sober habits there 
 is the same (and perhaps a better) prospect than mine before him. 
 
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