Location
The County of Elgin - Bayham
In Port Burwell, on the NW corner of Pitt Street and Erieus Street, 1 block east of County Road 19
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Photographer
Alan L Brown
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Posted
August 28, 2004
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Text from the Plaque
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.
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