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coming in from the American States." It was not, however, until 

 a year later that the Garrison Line was run from the hollow above 

 Navy Hall to Four Mile Creek, whence it followed the creek down to 

 Lake Ontario. The late arrival of the surveyor had permitted settle- 

 ment to go on in many localities in the Niagara Peninsula in advance 

 of the running of lines. This was particularly true of townships 

 Nos. 1 and 2, afterwards known as Niagara and Stamford, the survey 

 of which was not completed until June, 1787. In transmitting the 

 plans of these townships, together with the first concessions in Stam- 

 ford, Frey took occasion to remark that the person employed previous 

 to himself had made few and very erroneous surveys, having laid 

 out only a small number of lots for certain persons. He added that 

 inasmuch as Brigadier General Hope expected him to finish the survey 

 of the Crown lands by the winter of 1787-88, or by the end of the ensu- 

 ing winter at latest, he would need two able assistants. These were 

 supplied him in January, 1788, by the appointment of Jesse Pawling 

 and Augustus Jones, and the work of locating the Loyalists and others, 

 who were being admitted to citizenship in the Niagara Peninsula, 

 was further expedited by giving Frey the authority to receive claims 

 and applications for lands in this region.^ In the following July, the 

 surveyor found it necessary to carry on his surveys in those localities 

 where the people were actually settling, in order to establish lot lines 

 before considerable improvements were made, instead of undertaking 

 the survey of a whole township in which only a few families had taken 

 up their residence. Despite the economy of time thus secured and 

 the help of two assistants, the work of surveying the settlement on 

 the southern, or Lake Erie, side of the Peninsula had progressed 

 by the middle of October, 1788, only to Sugar Loaf Hill, an eminence 

 standing 17 miles west of the Niagara. The settlers had naturally 

 chosen their locations along the shores of the Peninsula or on the navi- 

 gable streams in the interior, often refusing to content themselves with 

 a single lot in these desirable localities. The surveyor complained of 

 this, because it prevented the compactness of the various communities; 

 and he also complained of the frequency of changes, three or four 

 occurring every week.^ By 1790 the surveys in the northern part of 

 the Peninsula stretched from the Niagara to the head of Lake Ontario, 

 being most extensive between the Garrison Line and the Falls, where 

 the concessions were from nine to thirteen rows deep. At the head of 

 the Lake the surveys ran back ten concessions, and between these 

 two localities they narrowed down to two or four concessions. (See 

 the accompanying map.) 



1 Third Report, Bureau of Archives, Ont., 1905, 307-310. 

 Mbid., 312-314. 



