![]() ![]() ![]() Harvey Burk, I find that his uncle, Jessia Burk, was one of the persons then engaged in driving this stock. In an extract from a letter written to the Hon. Those in charge of the boats, having crossed the Niagara river into Canada, were received with great kindness by the Governor, who sent a man back to assist in bringing around the stock as far as York, now Toronto. Their families and effects were placed on board a Batteau (a large rude boat), which was coasted around the head of the lake, running into bays and inlets, in order to avoid storms, or for the purpose of cooking their meals, and camping during the night while the stock, which consisted of two cows and one horse, were driven around the shore on foot, having to cross swamps, marshes, lagoons, outlets, and rivers, as best they could. In their journey from the Susquehannah River, their former home, they met with innumerable difficulties, and many hardships. They were induced to come to this country, by a proclamation issued by Colonel John Greaves Simcoe, (then Lieutenant-Governor of Canada), that all males of the age of 18 years, who settled in the country, should be entitled to two hundred acres of land. They emigrated together, with their families, from the United States to Canada, in the year 1794, and on the 2nd day of October, they landed from their boats on the beach of Lake Ontario, one mile west of Barber's Creek, now Port Darlington. ![]() Trull, and Roger Conat, were the pioneers, and first settlers of this Township. In the early history of Darlington, we find that Mr. Darlington Township History Early Settlement and Pioneers of Darlington ![]()
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