Lieutenant-Colonel Mahlon Burwell 1783-1846

“Monday, 21st May 1827. Surveyed the line towards Lake Huron, Six Miles and thirty chains — were as industrious as possible, but were not able to make our way through a cedar, Black Ash, Pine and Hemlock Swamp, in the centre of which we encamped without shelter, and it rained in the night. One of the men caught a fever to day.”

Continue reading Mahlon Burwell
1st Regiment Middlesex Militia →