Assessor’s Return for the Township of Puslinch

(from the Guelph Mercury newspaper for July 9th 1850.)

 

Dwelling houses occupied

545

Dwelling houses unoccupied

2

Town halls

1

Churches

6

Schools

8

Inns

5

Merchants’ shops

1

Proprietors of real estate

127

Non proprietors of real estate

441

Inhabitants

3221

Strangers

140

Absent

36

Males

1759

Females

1602

Coloured persons -  males

6

Coloured persons - females

6

Attending school - males

142

Attending schools - females

101

Lunatics - males

0

Lunatics – females

1

Deaf and Dumb - males

0

Deaf and Dumb - females

0

Births in 1849 - males

71

Births in 1849 - females

44

Married in 1849 - males

2

Married in 1849 - females

3

Deaths in 1849 - males

9

Deaths in 1849 - females

9

Professional persons

3

Commercial persons

6

Agricultural persons

515

Labourers

58

Artisans

22

Employed in factories

0

Employed in lumber trade

5

Employed in navigation or fisheries

1

 

Natives of England

406

Natives of Scotland

1073

Natives of Ireland

579

Natives of Canada (French)

11

Natives of Canada (British)

991

Natives of Germany

208

Natives of the United States

64

Natives of other countries

29

 

Religion

Church of England

331

Church of Scotland

201

Church of Rome

744

Free Presbyterian

1263

United Presbyterian

139

British Wesleyans

57

Canadian Wesleyans

25

Wesleyans (Now Connection)

56

Episcopal Methodists

7

Other Methodists

111

Baptists

24

Lutherans

73

Independents

6

Quakers

6

Universalists

0

Unitarians

0

Menonists

18

Other denominations

53

No creed

14

 

Farm servants - male

9

Domestic servants - male

1

Domestic servants - female

6

 

Number of acres occupied

56576

Number of acres under cultivation

10009

Number of acres under pasture

6045

Number of acres in wood or wild

34522

Number of acres unfit for cultivation

6156

 

Average value per acre

Cleared land

59 shillings 3 pence

Wild land

14 shillings

 

Number of acres in wheat

5219

Wheat produced, in bushels

75423

Number of acres in barley

97

Barley produced, in bushels

1407

Number of acres in rye

236

Rye produced, in bushels

2705

Number of acres in oats

2478

Oats produced, in bushels

61512

Number of acres in peas

656

Peas produced, in bushels

12164

Number of acres in maize

38.75

Maize produced, in bushels

813

Number of acres in potatoes

416

Potatoes produced, in bushels

49243

Quantity of buckwheat

256

Bushels of beans

1

Bushels of turnips

52591

Tons of hay

2581

Barrels of apples

41

Pounds of maple sugar

32495

Pounds of wool

15209

Pounds of flax

0

Yards of fulled cloth

3153

Yards of linen

0

Yards of flannel

7669

Pounds of cheese for market

3185

Pounds of butter for market

19524

Barrels of beef or pork

359

Meat cattle

3897

Horses

725

Sheep

5176

Hogs

2375

Grist mills

0

Run of stones

0

Oat and barley mills

0

Saw mills

7

Quantity of lumber in 1000 feet

2800

Distilleries

0

Quantity in hhds. of 60 gallons

0

Tanneries

0

 

 

The average produce of wheat in Puslinch is 14.5 bushels per acre.  It will be noticed that while in other townships in the county the number of non-proprietors comprise but a small proportion of the inhabitants, in Puslinch, nearly three-fourths of the occupants of property are in that condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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