Plaque du lieutenant-colonel Mahlon Burwell

LIEUT.-COL. MAHLON BURWELL
1783-1846

Born of Loyalist parents, Burwell became a deputy-surveyor
in 1809 and was instructed to lay out the Talbot Road for
settlement. He was granted 600 acres of land in southwold
Township where he settled in 1815. A close associate of
Col. Thomas Talbot. Burwell carried out extensive surveys
in southwestern Upper Canada which prepared the way for
settlement. He served in the War of 1812 as lieutenant-colonel of the 1st middlesex Militia, was a justice of the
peace, and for some 20 years represented this area in the
legislative assembly. This community named in his honour
was laid out by Burwell in 1830.

Erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.