Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Amherstburg In 1800



Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, Circa 1800 (Source*)

*"[Major John Richardson's] Personal Memoirs were published this year. During the winter he made preparations to take up his residence at Amherstburg. On his arrival there he is disappointed in the place. The charms that it possessed in his youth have all departed."

"And where in other days a half regiment of regulars and a battery of artillery enlivened the town, now, but a single company remains, to garrison a fort,--but a mere shadow of its former greatness. Although the town appeared to have every mark of decay, yet Richardson could not hire a vacant house. The quartering of the regulars and militia there in consequence of the rebellion, had increased the population so quickly that all the houses were occupied. He then went to Sandwich, where he made his home in a small brick house 'gable end to the street.'"



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