Letter to the Editor...
[after
thanking the editor for the recent article on the history of Norfolk
County, the author continues...] Allow me to call attention to
the third column on second page in that issue, where the following
appears,--"The first crown grant in Norfolk bore the date June 22nd,
1796 and gave to Hohnson Butler and his heirs lot 15 in the 14th
concession of Windham. Colonel Butler was the first legal owner of real
property in Norfolk."
Six years before the above
mentioned date Thomas Bowlby received from King George the Third, the deed
for,--"four hundred acres of lands comprised of lots No. 4 in the
range between the front and 2nd concessions and No. 4 in 2nd concession of
Woodhouse."
This deed bears the date
October the twenty-fourth, one thousand and seven hundred and ninety; and
is witnessed by the Honorable Peter Russell.
The homestead founded by
Thomas Bowlby in the year 1790 has for one hundred and five years been
resided upon by his successive descendants and the "crown deed"
is considered by them as one of their most treasured possessions.
[After
another paragraph, the letter is signed...]
Annie
L. Bowlby
Port Dover
