Part 3 - Settling the Durham Road (History DVD Ebook)

Earliest Locatees North of the Durham Road in Bentinck

Adlam, Alexander, Beagan, Black, Blakely, Botterell, Bratten, Brown, Buck, Bull, Burns, Cook, Davis, Dixon, Flewelling, Forman, Fullerton, Hatch, Huckle, Jacklin, Laidlaw, Marshall, McCormick, McGrade, Mighton, McKenna, Killingbeck, McDonald, McDougall, McGillivray, McParland, Mervyn, Patterson, Riley, Reay, Scoles, Smith, Sommerville, Waetman, Waldick, Whiteford

The Durham Road was surveyed about 1847. It met the Garafraxa Colony Road at Durham and extended westward to the Lake Huron Shore. Three pioneer lines were developed on the north [NDR] and south side [SDR] of the road. The road extended eastward through Priceville and crossed the Toronto-Sydenham Survey in Artemesia. By 1851 the pioneer lines of Glenelg had been taken by Scottish settlers predominately from Mull, Argyleshire, Scotland. Many had been renting farms in Vaughan Township while they waited for the Durham Road to be opened for Free Grants. There were two small pockets of Black settlers in Glenelg - one just west of Priceville [7 families with a population of 30] and one just east of Durham [8 families with a population of 25]. Most of the Blacks had come from the Peel-Wellesley Settlement near Elmira at the time the Durham Road opened. They had been petitioning the government for Land Grants near Elmira as late as 1847 and some had given up hope that the land grants would be realized. Consequently they moved north where Free Grants were becoming available on the Durham Road. There was also a colony of Black settlers living east of Priceville from Lot 7-30 north and south of the Durham Road in Artemesia. There were about 17 families with a total population of 105.

 

Earliest Locatees on the Durham Road in Artemesia

(by 1851)

Andrews, Averson, Black, Brown, Cousby, Crawford, Ferguson, Handy, Howard, Jackson, Johnson, Levi, Mason, Simons, Washington, Workman

Earliest Locatees North of the Durham Road in Glenelg

(by 1851)

Anderson Beaton Bell Black Butter Cameron Campbell Connor Craig Currie Davis Dickson Diggs Dunn Ferguson Flynn Graham Kennedy Hunter McArthur McCormick McCracken McDonald McFarlane McGillivray McInnes McKechnie McKinnon McLachlan McLeod McLean McMillan McNab McPhee Morrison O'Donnell Powell Pendleton Robertson Scott Washington Whitmore Wood

Earliest Locatees South of the Durham Road in Glenelg

(by 1851)

Bell Black Boyd Bray Burrows Cameron Chislett Craig Currie Diamond Dunn Ferguson Flanagan Flynn Gilchrist Hall Hare Harrison Hooper Jackson Kindre Lawrence Livingstone Loopman Mackay Marshall McArthur McCallum McCannell McColl McCuaig McDonald McDougall McEachern McFadden McFarlane McGillivray McGregor McKechnie McKinnon McLachlan McLean McPhail McPherson Morrison Purdy Reid Robertson Ross Tucker Sheridan Stevens Stewart Waters Whitmore

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Earliest Locatees South of The Durham Road in Bentinck

Ball, Bottrell, Campbell, Carrol, Donaghue, Fortney, Flintoff, Fursman, Hassenjagger, Hopps, Innes, Johnston, Kernahan, Lawrence, Lawson, Matthews, McCarte, McCartney, McCaul, McCallum, McDonald, McKnight, McLaughlin, McMahon, McTavish, Moffat, Morton, Neville, Park, Purves, Richardson, Robertson, Shup, Spiers, Stubbs, Wall, Wiggins, Wiley, Wilkinson, Willis, Wilson