. Report [and] proceedings . osed to expend large sums of money onthis property, and as they had recently been called upon to com-pensate parties where titles were found defective, they declined toclose the bargain for the lands until the matter in dispute hadbeen cleared up, and the writer was called upon to investigate andreport. Enquiries and searches at the Crown Lands Office, Toronto,failed to discover the original plans or field notes of the first, second,third, fourth, or fifth concessions in Augusta and in Edwards-burgh, or of the boundary line between the townships. It thenbecame nece
. Report [and] proceedings . osed to expend large sums of money onthis property, and as they had recently been called upon to com-pensate parties where titles were found defective, they declined toclose the bargain for the lands until the matter in dispute hadbeen cleared up, and the writer was called upon to investigate andreport. Enquiries and searches at the Crown Lands Office, Toronto,failed to discover the original plans or field notes of the first, second,third, fourth, or fifth concessions in Augusta and in Edwards-burgh, or of the boundary line between the townships. It thenbecame necessary to collect and study such fragmentary notes anddata as were available from many sources, but chiefly those in 132 ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO LAND SURVEYORS Scale 40 Chs. to an Inch. This line was run in August, 1791, by J Pinnoyer, I I 11 11 ~ 1 Plan of the outlines of the Township o! Edwards-bur? in the District of Luneburg as investigatedby order of the land board of said District in theyear 1791, by J. Pinaoyer D. P. PAPERS READ 133 Crown Lands records. Local histories were read and field notes anddiaries of surveyors, not on file at the Crown Lands Office, whichwere in the possession of the writer, were consulted. The last-mentioned data included surveys by Reuben Sherwood, John Booth,Jas. West, and John Burchill, who ran out many of the side linesin Augusta and Edwardsburgh. The first survey made in the Province of Ontario was that ofthe River St. Lawrence, which was commenced in 1776 and com-pleted to the Galops Rapids in 1781. In 1789 the Post Roadfrom Montreal to Kingston was surveyed, and cedar posts plantedat each mile, these posts being numbered consecutively from eastto west. In 1786 William Chewett was appointed Deputy Surveyor-General and took charge of surveys in what was then known as theDistrict of Lunenburgh in the Province of Quebec, this district com-prising that portion of Upper Canada lying eastward of a linedrawn due north of the mouth of the River
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