The Nelles Settlement

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted August, 2004

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted September, 2010

Plaque Location

The County of Haldimand
In York, on the northeast corner of
Road 54 and Road 9 (Nelles Street)

Coordinates: N 43 01.439 W 79 53.432

Plaque Text

After receiving lands in the Grand River in 1784, the Six Nations Indians invited Captain Hendrick Nelles, a loyalist from the Mohawk Valley, to settle there with five of his sons. He and Robert, the eldest, established farms in what is now Seneca Township and built houses in which they lived until Captain Nelles's death in 1791 and Robert's removal to Grimsby. Their grants, confirmed in 1787, were later changed to 999-year leases and John Nelles leased 130 ha across the river. William, Warner and Abraham Nelles received Crown patents in 1836 for the original "Nelles Tract" in Seneca granted to their father and brother in 1787. The "Nelles Settlement" contained about thirty families in 1828.

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The Six Nations
Colonel Robert Nelles 1761-1842

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Posted August 16, 2011
my name is robert darrell featherstone my grandmother lillian featherstone maiden name nelles yes i grew up in york i still havnt been to musium but my cousin says its nice im interested in the painting gramma used to paint i have the one she did of abraham lincoln standing on the white house steps as you know they landed in us went d.c. on there way to upper canada the constuction in back ground shows the lincon memorial beeing built

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