Section II., 1909. 67 Trans. R. S. C. 



IV. — The Walbot Papers. 

 By James H. Coyne, M.A. 



(Read May 27, 190S.O 



PAET II. 



Preface. 



Part I of the Talbot Papers brought them down to the end of the 

 War of 1812-1815. Part II includes those of later date. 



'A small memorandum book used by Talbot from 1794 until as late 

 as 1811 has recently come into the editor's hands. Many of the notes 

 do not mention the year or the precise date. The interest of some is but 

 slight. On account, however, of their relation to Talbot's movements 

 and the beginnings of his settlement, it has been thought well to err 

 rather on the side of inclusion than of exclusion. From this book, for 

 the first time, we learn his full name, Thomas Hans Talbot, and the 

 names of the four men who accompanied him, when he inaugurated the 

 settlement at Port Talbot on the 21st May, 1803; and it appears that 

 he was in New York in September, 1802, having probably spent fifteen 

 or sixteen months near Port Stanley, where he began his original clear- 

 ing in May 1801, before proceeding to England to ask for the township 

 of Yarmouth, which was his original preference. 



In the Appendix will be found some illustrative material. The 

 letter from Singleton Gardiner to Ilenry Coyne in 1816 is perhaps the 

 earliest existing letter from a Talbot settler. It furnishes a graphic pic- 

 ture pf the privations and perils of that hungry year. ther papers 

 show Talbot'a grants from the crown, his settlement with x^irey and his 

 will. The Talbot Documents in the Sessional Papers for 1836 (No. 22) 

 U. C. are so important, and their arrangement so confased, that the 

 Editor has furnished a chronological index, in order to make them more 

 intelligible. 



Part II may be roughly divided, according to the subject matter, 

 as follows : — 



(a) The institution of the Talbot Anniversary in 1817. 



(b) The settlement in the reserved townships of Dunwich and 



Aldborough, and Talbot's grants from the Crown of more 

 than 65,000 acres as his compensation. 



(c) The Talbot Dispensatory, the first medical college in Upper 



Canada, which appears to have had a brief existence at 

 St. Thomas in 1824. 



