Excerpt from The Oxford Gazetteer: Containing a Complete History of the County of Oxford, From Its First Settlement; Together With a Full Abstract of Each Census, Carefully Copied From the Original Abstracts; To Which Is Added a Map of the County Although the Census of the County of Oxford has been taken at four different periods, and, with the exception Of the last, at a great expense to the County, no abstracts Of them have been published, for the information of those, at whose cost and expense they were taken, with the ...
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Excerpt from The Oxford Gazetteer: Containing a Complete History of the County of Oxford, From Its First Settlement; Together With a Full Abstract of Each Census, Carefully Copied From the Original Abstracts; To Which Is Added a Map of the County Although the Census of the County of Oxford has been taken at four different periods, and, with the exception Of the last, at a great expense to the County, no abstracts Of them have been published, for the information of those, at whose cost and expense they were taken, with the exception of very brief ones in almanacs, which only stated the number of inhabitants and a few matters appertaining to the County as a whole. But brief and meagre as was this information, since the recent topo'graphical change Of the County, these abstracts have become valueless, and should, from any cause, the solitary abstracts from these censuses, which are now in the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for this County, be lost or destroyed by fire or other casualties, there would be no possibility Of replacing them. This would be a most serious loss not only to the present, but to all future genera tions, for I am informed that the copies Of the abstracts which were filed in the Offices of Government were destroyed by the Vandalism of a Montreal mob in 1849. Having in my possession, as Census Commissioner, the entire Census of 1852, and the abstracts of the former ones being most kindly placed at my disposal by the Clerk of the Peace, and being, as an inhabitant, very much gratified at the rapid and uniform growth and improvement of the County and every municipality in it, I was induced to put them together in the form in which they now appear in this work, trusting the inhabitants of the County of Oxford, whose interest I have had in view, will not allow me to lose any thing more than my time and trouble, which I assure them has not been trifling. For most of the additional information, I am chiefly indebted to hon. F. Hrcs, M. P. P. For the County, james ingersoll, Esq, Regis trar County of Oxford, J. B. Askin, Esq, Clerk Of the Peace, County of Middlesex, col. G. W. Whitehead, of Woodstock, and the several Township Clerks; to all whom I take this method of returning my best thanks for the valuable assistance they have thus rendered me, in enabling me to obtain my information from the best and most authentic sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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