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Jolin Collins, November 10, 1791, that both liis father and brother had 

 died in tlie previous month, A letter, dated at Quebec February, 1791, 

 from John Collins, " congratulates Augustus Jones, Esq., on his appoint- 

 ment to our department," and " gives him instructions for the business to 

 be done in the district." Surveyor Collins wrote that he had long since 

 asked Mr, Frey for a plan of the district with the proprietors' names 

 written on each plot, and he requests Mr, Jones now to furnish them. 

 The receipt of these plans is acknowledged by Mr, Collins, January 23, 

 1792. 



It seems that, although the reservation was nominally held for military 

 purposes, it was understood that Col. Butler and some other favourod 

 person of the Rangers should eventually possess the land, and doubtless 

 there was a minute of the executive council to that effect. Had such not 

 been the case Col. Butler and others would not have located themselves 

 in different parts of the reserve. This view is supported by a minute on 

 the original map (1787), Except the reserve of Navy Hall and Butler's 

 barracks, the other part of the military reservation had " been located to 

 Col. Butler and his rangers," The present military reserve seems to have 

 been surveyed by Frey, according to a footnote on the map^ " by order of 

 Major Campbell, June, 1787," 



Looking at the map of Niagara township it will be seen that the 

 land north of the east and west line (the old " military reservation ") 

 is laid out into lots which almost defy description. Indeed it is impossible 

 to conceive on what principle the division was made. The extraordinary 

 shape of the lots is shown in the enlarged map before you, taken fiom the 

 original in the Crown Land Department. It may, however, be supposed 

 that Col. Butler and others of his band located themselves as inclination 

 led them, and, from year to year, made improvements according to cir- 

 cumstances and convenience; and, when the time came to have a survey, 

 each one and all had the land so divided as to give to each one the benefit 

 of his labor and improvements, and continue the advantages he had en- 

 ioyed. The survey of the military reservation was made in 1794, but the 

 Town of Newark was surveyed in 1793. 



The following are " Field notes of the boundary line of the Town of 

 Newark, surveyed the 22nd of Novem!)er, 1793, by Lewis Grant, D.P.S," 



" Beffin at a white oak tree with a broad arrow on two sides, at three 

 chains distance from the River Niagara, and running west 77 chains to a 

 beech tree marked on two sides with a broad arrow, and then run north 

 (nearly) two miles 75 links to the banks of Lake Ontario ; three chains 50 

 links to the east of the inlet of the One Mile Pond, with a white oak post 

 on the top of the bank." 



