Excerpt from A Jubilee Review of the First Baptist Church: Brantford 1833 to 1884 The land now occupied by the now city of Brantford was originally owned by the Six Nation Indians, but was, on the lgth day of April, 1830, surrendered by them to the government. The first lot sold by the govern ment was to William Muirhead, on the 15th October, 1830, being lot eight, on the north side of Colborne street, now owned by Bradford G. Tisdale, Esq. The next one sold was number sixteen on the same side of the same street, to Jedediah Jackson, who proved himself a great friend to the First Baptist Church, and to the Rev. William Rees, its first Pastor. It was in an unfinished frame building on the east part of this lot that the church was first organized. The council was composed of ministerial and lay delegates from the churches in the neighborhood. This part of the lot is now owned by Geo. Foster and Wm. Buck, two staunch Baptists. For several years a school house, situate where the town hall now stands, was the only public building in the village, and it was used for all manner of public and religious purposes. Smith's Canadian Gazetteer of 1846 reports thus Brantford is a place of considerable business. It contains seven churches and chapels, namely: Episcopalian, Presby terian, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist and Congregational. Population nearly When, in 1833, the Baptist Church was formed, there would be a population of about 400 or 500 - not more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.