NOTICE is hereby given, that the Townships of DEREHAM & Norwich, in the Western District of this province, are to be sold in Lots of three thousand acres each, exclusive of the Crown and Clergy reserves. There are sixteen blocks in each township, numbered from one to sixteen. The lands are of excellent quality, and lie between the River La Tanche and Lake Erie. Persons inclined to purchase are to give in their proposals in writing to this office, ..

York: Printed by Wm. Waters & Titus G. Simons. 1799. folio, single sheet, 31x 19cm, on laid paper, watermarked, old horizontal unobtrusive folds, clean and in fine condition.(ho4.2). No auction records or listing located. This broadside offers land for sale in the Townships of Dereham & Norwich, in the Western District. print signed at the base, in the text: John Small, C.E.C. Tremaine Supplement, Fleming & Alston, 1146. See also Tremaine 1144, citing a broadside printed in York, July 3rd, 1799, which announced the imminent sale of these same lands. John Small (1746-1831).. came to Canada in 1792 and in 1793 he was appointed clerk of the Executive Council of Upper Canada. This position he held at York, until his death in 1831. cf. D.C.B. "... Small is best known for the duel on 3 Jan. 1800 in which he mortally wounded John White*, the attorney general. Mrs Small had publicly snubbed the notoriously quarrelsome Mrs White. White reacted by questioning the legality of Small's marriage and the morals of his wife in a letter to David William Smith*, which was communicated to Chief Justice John Elmsley* and received credence in York society. Small insisted upon immediate satisfaction, without determining how much of the gossip had actually come from White. He was acquitted on a charge of murder after a brief trial, despite the hostility of the presiding judge, Henry Allcock*. The affair ruined both Mrs Small's reputation and the connection that Small had formed with the Russells, Macaulays, and Macdonells of Collachie. Peter Russell*, who at Newark in May 1795 had defended Small against an anonymous libel, was White's friend and executor. When Small sought election to the House of Assembly in July 1800 he was defeated; and in a second attempt at a by-election a year later he was crushed, 112 votes to 32, by Angus Macdonell* (Collachie). Of his former friends, Joseph Willcocks* and the elder Robert Baldwin voted for him. On New Year's Day 1806 Elizabeth Russell would still acknowledge him only by "a distant curtsey." Two years later, Mrs Small's invitation to a governor's levee occasioned resentment. As clerk of the council, Small was paid œ100 a year less than an unskilled labourer and only slightly more than the senior of his two clerks besides being entitled to about one-fifteenth of land fees. He had inherited property in Gloucestershire which he disposed of some time before the end of 1795. Forbidden in 1797 to collect fees from loyalists and unsuccessful in petitions for a higher stipend, he was able to establish his family by speculating in land at York. One of the first officials to buy a house there, in August 1795, he had accumulated over 2,500 acres before beginning to sell lots in 1797 and he continued to acquire and sell land. By the 1820s the rise in York land prices had made him prosperous. He also regained a position in York society. An active churchman (his brother was prebendary of Gloucester Cathedral), he was a trustee of the York District grammar school by 1811 and soon after found a patron in John Strachan* Small even achieved some political influence under Administrator Samuel Smith, to whom Strachan thought him "a considerable Adviser." He launched one son, James Edward*, on a successful career as a lawyer and reform politician; the youngest, Charles Coxwell, succeeded him in the clerkship of the crown and pleas as well as in his militia commission. His house at York, handsomely rebuilt by Charles Coxwell, stood until 1925."." D.C.B. VI- by S. R. Mealing.