Talk:28.5
update 7.27.2023
elizabeth clench property found on burwell 1833 map when working on treaty 30, Geo.C. Tremaine map of brantford 1859 shows the clench tract aswell as the ruggles stewart tract. ON GeoHub lot fabric also has stewart and ruggles and clench tracts. The tracts in the above maps dont quite line up with the metes and bounds description of the source doc.
the polygon in this map is loosely following the metes and bounds description but there are a number of lots at the south west of the polygon that seem to interfere with a number of lots in the ON GeoHub data and the Geo C Tremaine map. The tremaine map is from 1859 and this treaty 28.5 is from 1826 so those changes in the lot boundaries could have happened between then...
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Noticing that references to Haldimand Tract in these documents often references the 1784 Instrument. Why reference this if the Tract was resurveyed and confirmed in later instruments
Will need to know where Elizabeth Clench's property is to be able to follow directions.
History of Brant book 1920 mentions Chief Clench on page 56 "The Corner Store" http://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/cbpl/CBPL0831291T.PDF "Miss Clench" mentioned on page 206 "Noteable event on Mt. Pleasant" "Ralph Clench" mentioned on pg 330
Elizabeth and Ralfe Clench and their children, Jemima Stewart and her husband and children mentioned many times in these searchable records (also includes interesting chapter on german superstitions ): https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ontario-History-1901-v3.pdf
Haldimand County historic map with property owner names, can't find Clench property https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/hgis/countymaps/haldimand/Haldimand_merge.jpg
Ralfe clench Biography http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/clench_ralfe_6E.html
Cultural impact assesment of 241 Johnson street talks about the "Clench House", but this is in Niagara on the lake https://www.notl.com/sites/default/files/2023-01/241%20Johnson%20Street%20-%20Cultural%20Heritage%20Impact%20Assessment.pdf
Clenches mentioned here:https://www.ontariogenealogy.com/uppercanadanewspapernotices.html Says Ralfe Clench died 1828, and Mrs. Ralfe (nee Johnson) died 1850
Ralfe Clench Wiki page talks about Elizabeth, but Clench house is in Niagara not Grand River, Elizabeth is daught of William Johnson and Molly Brant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralfe_Clench
Joseph Brant Clench Biography page http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/clench_joseph_brant_8E.html, mentions mother Elizabeth
Parsed Metes and Bounds Table
| Text | Directional Bearing | Distance (Gunter's Chains) | Distance (Meters) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| commencing on the south side of the said river at the easterly angle of lands owned by Elizabeth Clench at the water’s edge | ||||
| then south sixty-five degrees west one hundred and six chains | S 65° W | 106 | 2132.40 | |
| then south twenty-seven degrees west one hundred and sixty chains | S 27° W | 160 | 3218.68 | |
| then south sixty-two degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and twenty chains | S 62° 30' E | 120 | 2414.02 | |
| then north twenty-seven degrees and thirty minutes east one hundred and sixty chains | N 27° 30' E | 160 | 3218.68 | |
| then north sixty-five degrees east sixty-two chains, more or less, to the said Grand River | N 65° E | 62 | 1247.26 | |
| then up the said river against the stream, its several courses and windings, to the place of beginning |