TOWNSHIP OF TUSCARORA.
This township comprises 42,000 acres, and forms part of the Indian Reserve. The original tracts of lands have been surrendered and sold, with the exception of over 50,000 acres, which now form their Reserves. The money received from the lands sold is invested by Government, which is the Trustee of all the Indian tribes in Canada. The amount at the credit of the Six Nations is about $800,000, while the moneys yet to be paid on lands, together with the value of surrendered lands unsold, will make a total Of over one million of dollars. The first payment of interest money by the previous Superintendent, the late Mr. Thorburn, was in 1855, when $27,364 was divided among 2,383 persons, equal to $11 1/2 per head, while this past year $35,678 has been distributed between 2,737, or $13 1/4 per head ; they had thus an increase in nine years of $8,314 of interest, and in population 354. These facts are an evidence of a large addition to the funds, and of their prosperity, as many other Indian bands are on the decrease.
The Mississagua of the New Credit, a small band of Indians, over 200 in number, occupy a part of the lands in Tuscarora and adjoining township of Oneida, in the County of Haldimand. These Indians are separate from, and unconnected with the Six Nations. In this township, the Six Nation Indians have lately erected a council house, a neat and commodious building, at a cost of over $1,000. A number of schools are established, under the care and superintendence of the New England Society and the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, and also several churches and meeting-houses.
This township is exclusively an Indian Reserve without municipal institutions or taxation.
CENSUS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF TUSCARORA, 1861.
BY ORIGIN.
Total population, 2,144.-England and Wales, 189 ; Scotland, 91 Ireland, 121 ; natives of Canada, not of French origin, 1,665 ; United States, 54 ; Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, 2 ; New Brunswick, 3 Prussia, German States, and Holland, 19 ; Indians, 1,040.
CENSUS BY RELIGION,
Church of England, 824 ; Church of Rome, I ; Free Church of Scotland, 3; United Presbyterians, 10 ; Wesleyan Methodist, 648 ; Episcopal Methodist, 57; Baptists, 246; Quakers, 1 ; no religion, 347; no creed given, 7.
RETURN OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE, LANDS HELD, OCUPIERs OF
LAND, &C., FOR THE TOWNSHIP OF TUSCARORA
Total occupiers of land, 385; occupiers of ten acres and under, 7; occupiers of ten to twenty acres, 4 ; occupiers of twenty to fifty acres, 109 ; occupiers of fifty to one hundred acres, 245 ; occupiers of one hundred to two hundred acres, 17 ; upwards of two hundred acres, 3 amount held in acres, 33,333 ; under cultivation, 8,396 ; under crops, 4,665 ; under pasture, 3,710; under gardens and orchards, 21 ; wood and wild lands, 24,936 ; cash value of farms, $184,241; cash value of farming implements, $9,899; produce of gardens and orchards, $444; under fall wheat, 854 acres; bushels of fall wheat, 13,454 ; acres under barley, 131 ; bushels of baley, 3,097 ; acres under rye, 14 ; bushels of rye, 139 ; acres under peas, 339 ; bushels of peas, 7,888 ; acres under oats, 487 ; bushels of oats, 13,144 ; acres under buckwheat, 133 ; bushels of buckwheat, 2,1 1 0 ; acres under Indian corn, 413 ; bushels of Indian corn, 10,136 ; acres under potatoes, 244 ; bushels of potatoes, 13,774 ;acres under turnips, 8 bushels of turnips, 357 ; bushels of carrots, 211; bushels of beans, 558 tons of hay, 675 ; maple sugar, 33,934 lbs. ; wool,64 lbs. ; fulled cloth, 47 yards; flannel, 15 yards, ; number of bulls, oxen and steers, 183 ; inilcli cows, 373 ; calves and heifers, 407 ; horses over three years old, 260 ; value of same, $19,869; colts and fillies, 114; sheep, 48; pigs, 1,362 ; total value of live stock, $37,051 butter, 21,885 lbs. ; cheese, 220 lbs. ; beef, in barrels of 200 lbs., 20 pork, in barrels of 200 lbs., 274; carriages kept for pleasure, 17 ; value of same, $1,195.
No further information contained in original publication, for Tuscarora township.
END of TUSCARORA Township
In County of Brant
