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Excerpt From – Plan of the Township of Windsor from an Actual Survey by Wm.
Anson Deputy Surveyor

(Handwritten note reads "about 1820")

PANS V7/230 – 1820

(Copy) J.A. McCallum Dy (?) Surveyor 1893 –

Shows – J Clark Esq’s lands

Shows – Kings College Lands purchased from John Clark in 1789

Shows – Land owned by John Clark which he sold to T.C. Haliburton in 1833

Shows – Butler Estate, "Martock"

NOTE: Loomer, Leslie – Windsor, Nova Scotia, a journey in history –


Published by the West Hants Historic Society, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1996

HRL 971,635 L863w

Pg 124…

Spruce Grove Farm was the Isaac Deschamps property…

The merchant, Benjamin DeWolf bought the Grove…

Lord and Lady Dalhousie spent much of the summer at the Grove, which they had
leased. In 1822, William Anson, a deputy surveyor, demonstrated his superior
skill in penmanship and drawing to produce a large map of the grove properties
belonging to the Fraser boys…

Haliburton had Anson copy a map for use in his History. Haliburton referred
to him as "a beautiful draftsman"…