Essa's First Settlers

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In 1826 George Dinwoody and his wife, the Thomas Duff family and Samuel McClain, all from County Monaghan, Ireland, walked from York via Yonge Street across the Great Swamp to Essa Township. They settled on this property, deeded to Dinwoody by the Crown, until Duff and McClain took up land in Concessions 9 and 8 immediately to the west. Their original log cabin, the birth place of William Dinwoody, the first white child born in Essa, subsequently served as a church, school, Orange lodge and council meeting-place. The first brick residence in the township, built on this farm in 1843, was destroyed by fire in 1906 and the present house was constructed on the same foundation the following year.


Concessions 8 & 9
Essa,  ON





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