Record of Roads in the County of York : 1789-1862.

The reel contains reports from the Parish Commissioners of Highways to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace giving details of road construction within each parish. The dates include: 1789-90, 1792-93, 1798, 1800, 1802-3, 1809-10, 1812, 1814, 1817, 1822-36, 1838, 1840-62. The reports give precise information about the route the road will take, including the names of property owners, if any, along its course. Other information includes: the length and width of the road, the date and place the report was filed, and the signatures of all the commissioners, the great majority of whom are Loyalists.

Arrangement: No real organisation; probably written in the records when had the time.

Place and Dates in the Records (Note: This is not the arrangement!)

Brighton: 1832

Douglas: 1798* (area was Queensbury at time of recording); 1823; 1825; 1828; 1830; 1831; 1832; 1833; 1834; 1835; 1836; 1838; 1840; 1841; 1842; 1844; 1845; 1846; 1847; 1848; 1849; 1851; 1852; 1854; 1855; 1857; 1859; 1860; 1861

Dumfries: 1849

Fredericton: 1826; 1830**; 1831; 1838

Greenhill Settlement: 1860

Kingsclear: 1789; 1791; 1831; 1840; 1842; 1843; 1851; 1855; 1856; 1859; 1860; 1862

Madamkeswick: 1812; 1817

Nashwack: 1790;

Northampton: 1789; 1803; 1809; 1826

Pecagumie: 1831; 1832

Prince William: 1841; 1852; 1853; 1854** (includes map); 1858; 1859; 1862**

Queensbury: 1802; 1810; 1817; 1822; 1824; 1827; 1830; 1833; 1841; 1842; 1843; 1844; 1846; 1947; 1853; 1855; 1858

St. Marys : 1792; 1793; 1798; 1813; 1825; 1833; 1840; 1844; 1845; 1848; 1850; 1852; 1853; 1854**; 1856**; 1857; 1858; 1859; 1861; 1862

Stanley: 1862

Southampton: 1803; 1809; 1851

Wakefield: 1826; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831

Woodstock: 1812; 1816; 1817; 1828