. Papers and records of the Wentworth Historical Society . red and registered in thesurveyor generals office. The boundaries were duly fixed andmarked, but only one or two concessions were subdivided intolots with fixed metes and bounds. As these were taken up forsettlement, other concessions were surveyed in detail, roadsopened, and the lots assigned to those coming in as , however, the land jobber or speculator applied for andreceived large grants, one person alone having no less than6,600 acres in the township of Ancaster, with smaller quantitiesin other parts of the county. Mr
. Papers and records of the Wentworth Historical Society . red and registered in thesurveyor generals office. The boundaries were duly fixed andmarked, but only one or two concessions were subdivided intolots with fixed metes and bounds. As these were taken up forsettlement, other concessions were surveyed in detail, roadsopened, and the lots assigned to those coming in as , however, the land jobber or speculator applied for andreceived large grants, one person alone having no less than6,600 acres in the township of Ancaster, with smaller quantitiesin other parts of the county. Mr. A. Jones was the surveyorselected to fix the metes and bounds of the townships in Went-worth, and to prepare the necessary plans for the surveyorgeneral. Other surveyors were employed to complete certain 72 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE parts of the work, originally planned by Mr. Jones. Amongthe earliest of these are Messrs. Iredale, Stegman, Law, Philps,Whelock and Grant. These surveys were practically com-pleted about the close of the eighteenth COUNTY OK WKNTWOKTII, 73 CHAPTER VII. Roads — Dundas Street—Kings Landing Place—Second Divisioninto Counties — Gore District Formed — Representatives in theFirst District Council — Brant Separated from Wentworth — Hal-ton Separated — Wentworth «is now Constituted — Wardens Elec-ted— County Treasurers—County Clerks—P. S. Inspectors —County Councils—Act of 1896 — Commissioners Appointed — Re-port of Commissioners—Members of the New County Council —Warden Elected. Building roads and opening up ways of communicationin these early days necessarily involved a great amount of had to be felled, underbrush cut and cleared away, cor-duroy bridges made over low and wet places, and the smallerstumps and other obstacles removed. At first these roads weremerely paths through the forest, and frequently followed theIndian trails. These paths were widened into roads as occa-sion required, so tha
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